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Cowboys Headlines: NFL world reacts to Micah Parsons news; is it 'worst trade ever'? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/08/29/news-headlines-august-28-2025-micah-par…

Good Morning #Canada
Today, while doing my morning Google thingy, I learned that Elon Musk has Canadian Citizenship. Now I need a shower.
Canada is pretty picky when we look for individuals who should be Canadian. Only 6 non-citizens have ever been recognized as Honorary Canadians, which takes an Act of Parliament to be designated with the honour. It provides zero rights or privileges but looks good on your resume. It is far more likely that non-citizens could be awarded the Order of Canada as they are eligible if they have made a significant contribution to Canadian society or had a positive impact on the world at large. As of August 2025, 8,647 people have been appointed to the order, an average of 150 per year since the honour was established in 1967. There is no list of non-Canadian recipients, as the government doesn't track them separately, but Queen Elizabeth II was awarded her Sovereign badge in 1970.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Welcome
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/who-are-the-honorary-canadians-1.1155903

Things are shitty out there. But not all the things. Here are three publications that focus on finding and delivering good news.
1. Reasons to be cheerful: https://reasonstobecheerful.world (founded by David Byrne, green focus)
2. Positive.news:

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A tonic for tumultuous times.

Everyone is completely shocked by this, right? Like we're all absolutely positive that the timing was just a coincidence, aren't we? #FirstAmendment #NewHampshire

New Hampshire town pulls plug on open forum after Satanists hoist flag
Somersworth allowed residents to apply for and erect their flags on a public space. That changed after Satanists got their turn.

MTG names her one positive to come from the shutdown: the end to ‘taxpayer-funded weather modification’ that isn’t really happening | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mtg-government-shutdown-weather-modification-b2847709.html

CommandSans: Securing AI Agents with Surgical Precision Prompt Sanitization
Debeshee Das, Luca Beurer-Kellner, Marc Fischer, Maximilian Baader
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08829 h…

CommandSans: Securing AI Agents with Surgical Precision Prompt Sanitization
The increasing adoption of LLM agents with access to numerous tools and sensitive data significantly widens the attack surface for indirect prompt injections. Due to the context-dependent nature of attacks, however, current defenses are often ill-calibrated as they cannot reliably differentiate malicious and benign instructions, leading to high false positive rates that prevent their real-world adoption. To address this, we present a novel approach inspired by the fundamental principle of compu…

The three-dimensional structure of population density in world cities
Ga\"etan Laziou, R\'emi Lemoy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06140 https://arxiv…

The three-dimensional structure of population density in world cities
A good understanding of cities is crucial to implement urban planning policies leading to social and economic sustainability and an efficient use of resources. While urban concentration has been associated with both positive and negative effects, echoing debates on compact cities, few studies have documented how density evolves with city size. We fill this gap by investigating how the population density radial structure changes across the urban hierarchy. Our results uncover strong regularities…

Opinions can be Incorrect! In our Opinion. On the accuracy principle in data protection law
Dara Hallinan, Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23848 https:/…

Opinions can be Incorrect! In our Opinion. On the accuracy principle in data protection law
The GDPR contains an accuracy principle, as most data privacy laws in the world do. In principle, data controllers must ensure that personal data they use are accurate. Some have argued that the accuracy principle does not apply to personal data in the form of opinions about data subjects. We argue, however, from a positive law perspective, that the accuracy principle does apply to opinions. We further argue, from a normative perspective, that the accuracy principle should apply to opinions.

COVID-BLUeS -- A Prospective Study on the Value of AI in Lung Ultrasound Analysis
Nina Wiedemann, Dianne de Korte-de Boer, Matthias Richter, Sjors van de Weijer, Charlotte Buhre, Franz A. M. Eggert, Sophie Aarnoudse, Lotte Grevendonk, Steffen R\"ober, Carlijn M. E. Remie, Wolfgang Buhre, Ronald Henry, Jannis Born
https://arxiv.org/abs…

COVID-BLUeS -- A Prospective Study on the Value of AI in Lung Ultrasound Analysis
As a lightweight and non-invasive imaging technique, lung ultrasound (LUS) has gained importance for assessing lung pathologies. The use of Artificial intelligence (AI) in medical decision support systems is promising due to the time- and expertise-intensive interpretation, however, due to the poor quality of existing data used for training AI models, their usability for real-world applications remains unclear. In a prospective study, we analyze data from 63 COVID-19 suspects (33 positive) coll…

Profit over Proxies: A Scalable Bayesian Decision Framework for Optimizing Multi-Variant Online Experiments
Srijesh Pillai, Rajesh Kumar Chandrawat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22677

Profit over Proxies: A Scalable Bayesian Decision Framework for Optimizing Multi-Variant Online Experiments
Online controlled experiments (A/B tests) are fundamental to data-driven decision-making in the digital economy. However, their real-world application is frequently compromised by two critical shortcomings: the use of statistically flawed heuristics like "p-value peeking", which inflates false positive rates, and an over-reliance on proxy metrics like conversion rates, which can lead to decisions that inadvertently harm core business profitability. This paper addresses these challenges by intro…