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Sources: India raises concerns about the misuse of Indian phone numbers on WhatsApp, which banned 9.8M Indian accounts per month on average in 2025 to October (Kiran Rathee/The Economic Times)
https://econom…

Concern over misuse extent even as WhatsApp bans 1 cr numbers a month
The Indian government is concerned about the widespread misuse of Indian mobile numbers on platforms like WhatsApp, with millions of accounts banned monthly for violations. Officials are discussing with WhatsApp how to curb this, as the platform's refusal to share banned numbers hinders efforts to combat cyber fraud and scams.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
The Walkmen:
🎵 Blue as Your Blood
#TheWalkmen
https://thewalkmen.bandcamp.com/track/blue-as-your-blood
https://open.spotify.com/track/6OvWXCKgZp5mJstOoi1xjK

Chicago Federal Judge Hauls Bovino in to Court (Josh Kovensky/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chicago-federal-judge-hauls-bovino-in-to-court
http://www.memeorandum.com/251024/p140#a251024p140

Talkin’ Cowboys: We Believe in Javonte https://www.dallascowboys.com/podcast/talkin-cowboys-we-believe-in-javonte

Just completed the disassembly of another two Siemens EWSD digital telephone exchanges, which are now in a truck on their way to the Telecom Museum Dresden (Fernmeldemuseum Dresden). Largest time sink was untangling the hundreds of cables (mostly with proprietary Siemens connectors).. #retronetworking #telecom

On stage now @mathewlowry.bsky.social talking through additional tooling of custom feeds to collaborate on sharing content across organizations.
#EuroSkyLive https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post

Talking Head Generation via AU-Guided Landmark Prediction
Shao-Yu Chang, Jingyi Xu, Hieu Le, Dimitris Samaras
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19749 https://arxi…

Talking Head Generation via AU-Guided Landmark Prediction
We propose a two-stage framework for audio-driven talking head generation with fine-grained expression control via facial Action Units (AUs). Unlike prior methods relying on emotion labels or implicit AU conditioning, our model explicitly maps AUs to 2D facial landmarks, enabling physically grounded, per-frame expression control. In the first stage, a variational motion generator predicts temporally coherent landmark sequences from audio and AU intensities. In the second stage, a diffusion-base…

A US judge says Meta lawyers told staff to block or remove parts of internal teen mental health research to limit liability; Meta says no findings were removed (Isaiah Poritz/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and

Meta Lawyers Advised Blocking Teen Harm Research to Avoid Suits
Meta Platforms Inc.'s lawyers advised employees to block or remove portions of internal research on teen mental health harm in order to reduce legal liability, a Washington, DC, court determined Thursday in a ruling that could ripple into the multi-district litigation faced by the tech company in California.

Talking With Erica Chenoweth (Paul Krugman)
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-with-erica-chenoweth
http://www.memeorandum.com/251025/p7#a251025p7

SynchroRaMa : Lip-Synchronized and Emotion-Aware Talking Face Generation via Multi-Modal Emotion Embedding
Phyo Thet Yee, Dimitrios Kollias, Sudeepta Mishra, Abhinav Dhall
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19965

SynchroRaMa : Lip-Synchronized and Emotion-Aware Talking Face Generation via Multi-Modal Emotion Embedding
Audio-driven talking face generation has received growing interest, particularly for applications requiring expressive and natural human-avatar interaction. However, most existing emotion-aware methods rely on a single modality (either audio or image) for emotion embedding, limiting their ability to capture nuanced affective cues. Additionally, most methods condition on a single reference image, restricting the model's ability to represent dynamic changes in actions or attributes across time. T…