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Analyzing the Raiders' Trajectory as the End Draws Near https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-analyzing-trajectory-end-draws-near

Emerging Technologies and Methods in Wide-Area Search for Nuclear Materials
L. E. Sinclair, D. A. McCormack
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00831 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.00831 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.00831
arXiv:2602.00831v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Canada, a Tier 1 nuclear nation involved in uranium mining and refining, operating nuclear power reactors, and with a Small Modular Reactor action plan, maintains a rigorous nuclear security infrastructure. The Nuclear Emergency Response team at Natural Resources Canada fulfills federal mandates in high-sensitivity air- and ground-based mobile survey for prevention, detection and response. A robust operational framework exists for deployment of traditional large-volume NaI(Tl)-based detection suites. At the same time, a research arm examines emerging non-nuclear technologies which can enhance the capabilities of the operational team. Herein, the potential for uncrewed mobile systems in nuclear security and emergency response operations is discussed. The impact of new technologies such as silicon photomultipliers, gamma imagers and self-shielding directional detectors is presented, and the use of high-performance computing in modelling of system response functions is discussed. Finally, a capability to extrapolate to the location of a source some distance away from a survey trajectory is shown. The extrapolation method includes propagation of the measurement error to the extrapolated region, essential information for nuclear response operators to know if a region is actually clear of radioactivity or not.
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Don't miss my latest CSO feature that examines how boards don't need more cyber metrics; they need risk signals so they can better understand the exposure, trajectory, and consequences of the threats their organizations face.
Thanks to Richard Bejtlich, Mike Hamilton, Wendy Nather, George Tsantes, and Bernard Brantley for their insights.

Boards don’t need cyber metrics — they need risk signals
Security teams have learned to measure activity. The harder task is turning those measurements into signals directors can use to govern risk.

ESPN places Cowboys' top 2 picks on All-Rookie team for 2025 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/30/tyler-booker-donovan-ezeiruaku-named-to-espns-2025-all-rookie-t…

#MPSGoettingen wishes you happy holidays and a healthy and successful New Year 2026!
Featuring prominently on our season's greetings card: the first images of the Sun's south pole 🛰️ ☀️
During its flyby of the Sun at the end of March this year, the Solar Orbiter space probe had its first clear view of our star's poles. Solar Orbiter's trajectory has recentl…

AI is McDonald’s. That Will Be Good, Bad, and Catalytic for Civil Rights Advocacy. | TechPolicy.Press https://techpolicy.press/ai-is-mcdonalds-that-will-be-good-bad-and-catalytic-for-civil-rights-advocacy

AI is McDonald’s. That Will Be Good, Bad, and Catalytic for Civil Rights Advocacy.
The current trajectory of AI may have similar effects on how people engage with computers as fast food has on how we engage with eating, writes David Brody.

Audrey Watters writes about how the #AI 'tsunami' in #edtech follows the same trajectory as all the previous technological hype cycles:
"There will be no “AI” tutor revolution just as there was no MOOC revolution just as there was no personalized learning revolution just as there was no computer-assisted instruction revolution just as there was no teaching machine revolution."
https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-broken-record/

The size of #3I/ATLAS from non-gravitational acceleration: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.18341 -> "we find diameters between 820 meters and 1050 meters [...] reliable estimates of the mass loss rate at other stages of the comet's trajectory will substantially reduce the systematic uncertainty in this estimate."

The Spectator has 113K subscribers, a record, print is its fastest-growing type of subscription, and it is offering its subscription service to external clients (Freddie Sayers/The Spectator)
https://spectator.com/article/the-spectators-record-subscriber-numbers/

The Spectator’s record subscriber numbers
Something remarkable is happening at the world’s oldest weekly magazine. After years of relatively flat subscriber numbers, The Spectator has surged past its Covid-era peak and now has more paying subscribers than at any point in its 198-year history. Today’s ABC circulation figures show that, while most of our competitors have been on a downward trajectory

If humans keep heating the planet with greenhouse gases, the climate swing could lock Earth into a hothouse trajectory, as parts of the system feed on their own momentum, even if emissions are reduced later.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11022026/e…

Accelerated Global Warming Could Lock Earth Into a Hothouse Future - Inside Climate News
Scientists say warming is increasing faster than at any time in at least 3 million years. There is no guide for what comes next.

"Governments must implement taxes on the super-rich now and prioritise reducing inequality. The world cannot continue on this obscene trajectory.”
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/21/mi…

Nearly 400 millionaires and billionaires call for higher taxes on super-rich
Mark Ruffalo, Brian Eno and Abigail Disney sign letter timed for WEF in Davos saying wealthy are buying political influence

SELAUR: Self Evolving LLM Agent via Uncertainty-aware Rewards
Dengjia Zhang, Xiaoou Liu, Lu Cheng, Yaqing Wang, Kenton Murray, Hua Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21158 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21158 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21158
arXiv:2602.21158v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as multi-step decision-making agents, where effective reward design is essential for guiding learning. Although recent work explores various forms of reward shaping and step-level credit assignment, a key signal remains largely overlooked: the intrinsic uncertainty of LLMs. Uncertainty reflects model confidence, reveals where exploration is needed, and offers valuable learning cues even in failed trajectories. We introduce SELAUR: Self Evolving LLM Agent via Uncertainty-aware Rewards, a reinforcement learning framework that incorporates uncertainty directly into the reward design. SELAUR integrates entropy-, least-confidence-, and margin-based metrics into a combined token-level uncertainty estimate, providing dense confidence-aligned supervision, and employs a failure-aware reward reshaping mechanism that injects these uncertainty signals into step- and trajectory-level rewards to improve exploration efficiency and learning stability. Experiments on two benchmarks, ALFWorld and WebShop, show that our method consistently improves success rates over strong baselines. Ablation studies further demonstrate how uncertainty signals enhance exploration and robustness.
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Single-Family Rental Investment Snapshot — January 2026
Arbor Realty Trust - January 21, 2026
"Although near-term considerations remain, the long-term trajectory for single-family rentals is underpinned by durable demand and a maturing institutional ecosystem."

“4% of GitHub public commits are being authored by Claude Code right now. At the current trajectory, we believe that Claude Code will be 20% of all daily commits by the end of 2026. While you blinked, AI consumed all of software development.”
Must-read article, even if you can disagree with the analysis

Claude Code is the Inflection Point
What It Is, How We Use It, Industry Repercussions, Microsoft's Dilemma, Why Anthropic Is Winning

Marx's Theory of Value at the Frontiers Classical Political Economics, Imperialism and Ecological Breakdown
By Güney Işıkara, Patrick Mokre
I'd be interested in reading this, but £116 for 200 pages?
The piss is being taken, along with the money.
Marx's Theory of Value at the Frontiers: Classical Political Economics

Marx's Theory of Value at the Frontiers: Classical Political Economics, Imperialism and Ecological Breakdown
Why do humans produce the things they do, in the way they do it?  As this book shows, the classical political economics approach to value and prices has fundamental implications for analyzing the historical trajectory of capitalism. It demonstrates that the classical political economists’ approach to value and prices, which finds its most advanced formulation in Marx, sheds light on the source of profits, exploitation, whether equivalents are exchanged in trade, dynamics of asymmetric and

nazis. i hate these guys. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/german-far-right-lawmaker-calls-us-german-nationalist-alliance-maga-gala-2025-12-14/

New US strategy document takes hard line on Europe's 'trajectory,' NATO expansion: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/05/new-us-strategy-document-takes.html

Cowboys legend on coaching trajectory that could lead back to Dallas https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/17/cowboys-jason-witten-potential-future-coach-sooners/88202706007/

Micah Parsons and Davante Adams injuries have opened up NFC; Seahawks, 49ers and Bears among the beneficiaries

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/micah-parsons-and…

Raiders Mock Draft 7.0: Spytek Goes All-In for Klint Kubiak https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/gm-report/rmock-draft-7-john-spytek-goes-all-in-las-vegas-klint-kubiak

I am trying to find a primary source for this, because if it's not wishful thinking it's pretty good.
(Seen on https://www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weekend-in-politics-bulletin-dfd)

The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory: #Climate May Go from Greenhouse to Hothouse: https://eos.org/articles/earths-climate-may-go-from-greenhouse-to-hothouse - uncertainty in climate models could mean Earth systems are perilously close to their tipping points, scientists warn.

China just crossed a stunning milestone: over half of all new vehicles sold are now electric or plug-in hybrids.
Could they hit 90% by 2030? Norway's trajectory suggests it's possible. With the world's most competitive EV market and rapid expansion continuing, China's electric revolution shows no signs of slowing down.

How Long Until China Is At 90% Plugin Vehicle Sales? - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. More than half of China’s new vehicle sales are plugin vehicle sales — 54% across the first 11 months of 2025 (33% BEVs alone). It seems like a blink of an eye from China crossing 20% plugin vehicle sales to ... [continued]

Bonsignore: Raiders should keep the No. 1 pick in the NFL draft https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/bonsignore-raiders-should-keep-the-no-1-pick-in-the-nfl-draft-3606435/

Weird.... it seems people in the UK do indeed want to buy EVs, especially if they are not made by Tesla!
#bullshit
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Tariffs #China #Canada #Cars #EV