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Don't leave for the weekend without checking out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--CISA orders agencies to fix Cisco firewall zero day flaws by noon today,
--Microsoft terminates Israeli military access to surveillance system,
--Senate report documents DOGE's marauding ways,
--Dutch cops bust two teens for wi-fi sniffing,
--Hackers stole pics and info on 8,000 nursery school kids,
--Edge d…

CISA orders agencies to fix Cisco firewall zero day flaws by noon today
Microsoft terminates Israeli military access to surveillance system, Senate report documents DOGE's marauding ways, Dutch cops bust two teens for wi-fi sniffing, Hackers stole pics and info on 8,000 nursery school kids, Edge device-focused threat group RedNovember is aligned with China, much more

CISA issues an emergency directive ordering US federal agencies to secure their Cisco firewall devices against two flaws exploited in zero-day attacks (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

Video models are zero-shot learners and reasoners
Thadd\"aus Wiedemer, Yuxuan Li, Paul Vicol, Shixiang Shane Gu, Nick Matarese, Kevin Swersky, Been Kim, Priyank Jaini, Robert Geirhos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20328

Video models are zero-shot learners and reasoners
The remarkable zero-shot capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) have propelled natural language processing from task-specific models to unified, generalist foundation models. This transformation emerged from simple primitives: large, generative models trained on web-scale data. Curiously, the same primitives apply to today's generative video models. Could video models be on a trajectory towards general-purpose vision understanding, much like LLMs developed general-purpose language underst…

Finally checking out the 2016 Cabin Fever today- the 2002 one is one of my favorite flicks. I dug Patient Zero too, it had Sean Astin and was pretty wild. Eli Roth wrote this 2016 one, but didn't direct it. Apparently I also need to see Cabin Fever 2 from 2009, which wasn't written by Roth, just like Patient Zero wasn't.
https://boxd.it/9too…

Cabin Fever (2016)
While staying at a remote cabin for a week-long vacation, a group of five college friends succumb to an infectious, flesh-eating disease.

Zero to 100: The numbers behind Cowboys' 24-21 win over Eagles https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/zero-to-100-the-numbers-behind-cowboys-24-21-win-over-eagles

Confidentiality-Preserving Verifiable Business Processes through Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Jannis Kiesel, Jonathan Heiss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20300 https://

Confidentiality-Preserving Verifiable Business Processes through Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Ensuring the integrity of business processes without disclosing confidential business information is a major challenge in inter-organizational processes. This paper introduces a zero-knowledge proof (ZKP)-based approach for the verifiable execution of business processes while preserving confidentiality. We integrate ZK virtual machines (zkVMs) into business process management engines through a comprehensive system architecture and a prototypical implementation. Our approach supports chained ver…

Distillation of supersinglet states
Saeed Ahmad, Shuang Li, Jonathan Raghoonanan, Kaixuan Zhou, Valentin Ivannikov, Tim Byrnes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20962 https://

Distillation of supersinglet states
We introduce an entanglement distillation (purification) protocol for supersinglet states composed of N qubits. The supersinglet state we target is a total spin zero state with zero spin variance, and has a fully entangled structure involving all qubits. In our distillation protocol, three copies of an initial spin zero state are measured in the local total spin basis such that a higher fidelity supersinglet state is generated upon postselection. The initial state can be prepared using conventi…

Explicit zero-free regions for automorphic $L$-functions
Steven Creech, Alia Hamieh, Simran Khunger, Kaneenika Sinha, Jakob Streipel, Kin Ming Tsang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20873

Explicit zero-free regions for automorphic $L$-functions
Let $L(s,f)$ be the $L$-function associated with a newform $f$ of even weight $k$, squarefree level $N$ and trivial nebentypus. In this paper, we establish a new explicit zero-free region for $L(s,f)$. More precisely, we prove that $L(s,f)$ does not vanish in the region $\Re(s)\geq 1-\frac{1}{C\log(kN\max(1,|\Im(s)|))}$ with $C=16.7053$ if $|\Im(s)|\geq 1$ or $|\Im(s)|\leq \frac{0.30992}{\log(kN)}$ and $C=16.9309$ if $\frac{0.30992}{\log(kN)}<|\Im(s)|\leq…

CoMelSinger: Discrete Token-Based Zero-Shot Singing Synthesis With Structured Melody Control and Guidance
Junchuan Zhao, Wei Zeng, Tianle Lyu, Ye Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19883

CoMelSinger: Discrete Token-Based Zero-Shot Singing Synthesis With Structured Melody Control and Guidance
Singing Voice Synthesis (SVS) aims to generate expressive vocal performances from structured musical inputs such as lyrics and pitch sequences. While recent progress in discrete codec-based speech synthesis has enabled zero-shot generation via in-context learning, directly extending these techniques to SVS remains non-trivial due to the requirement for precise melody control. In particular, prompt-based generation often introduces prosody leakage, where pitch information is inadvertently entang…

A Novel Framework for Honey-X Deception in Zero-Sum Games
Brendan Gould, Kyriakos Vamvoudakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20329 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.2…

A Novel Framework for Honey-X Deception in Zero-Sum Games
In this paper, we present a novel, game-theoretic model of deception in two-player, zero-sum games. Our framework leverages an information asymmetry: one player (the deceiver) has access to accurate payoff information, while the other (the victim) observes a modified version of these payoffs due to the deception strategy employed. The deceiver's objective is to choose a deception-action pair that optimally exploits the victim's best response to the altered payoffs, subject to a constraint on th…

https://www.electrive.com/2025/10/08/netherlands-zero-emission-zones-lead-to-boom-in-electric-vans-and-trucks/

Netherlands: Zero-emission zones lead to boom in electric vans and trucks - electrive.com
A new analysis by Clean Cities examines the initial impact of the introduction of zero-emission zones for freight transport (ZEZ-F) in Dutch cities. One

EEG-Driven AR-Robot System for Zero-Touch Grasping Manipulation
Junzhe Wang, Jiarui Xie, Pengfei Hao, Zheng Li, Yi Cai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20656 https://

EEG-Driven AR-Robot System for Zero-Touch Grasping Manipulation
Reliable brain-computer interface (BCI) control of robots provides an intuitive and accessible means of human-robot interaction, particularly valuable for individuals with motor impairments. However, existing BCI-Robot systems face major limitations: electroencephalography (EEG) signals are noisy and unstable, target selection is often predefined and inflexible, and most studies remain restricted to simulation without closed-loop validation. These issues hinder real-world deployment in assistiv…

I finally understand #Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels
https://david.coffee/cloudflare-zero-trust-tunnels

A Novel Integrated Architecture for Intent Based Approach and Zero Touch Networks
Neelam Gupta, Dibakar Das, Tamizhelakkiya K, Uma Maheswari Natarajan, Sharvari Ravindran, Komal Sharma, Jyotsna Bapat, Debabrata Das
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21026

A Novel Integrated Architecture for Intent Based Approach and Zero Touch Networks
The transition to Sixth Generation (6G) networks presents challenges in managing quality of service (QoS) of diverse applications and achieving Service Level Agreements (SLAs) under varying network conditions. Hence, network management must be automated with the help of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to achieve real-time requirements. Zero touch network (ZTN) is one of the frameworks to automate network management with mechanisms such as closed loop control to ensure tha…

Strictly zero-dimensional biframes and Raney extensions
Anna Laura Suarez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20821 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.20821

Strictly zero-dimensional biframes and Raney extensions
Raney extensions and strictly zero-dimensional biframes both faithfully extend the dual of the category of $T_0$ spaces. We use tools from pointfree topology to look at the connection between the two. Raney extensions may be equivalently described as pairs $(L,\mathcal{F})$ where $L$ is a frame and $\mathcal{F}\subseteq \mathcal{S}_{o}(L)$ a subcolocale containing all open sublocales. Here, $\mathcal{S}_o(L)$ is the collection of all intersections of open sublocales of $L$. Similarly, a strictl…

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Scientists warn heatwaves will intensify for 1,000 years even after net zero #environment

Scientists warn heatwaves will intensify for 1,000 years even after net zero
New climate modeling shows that heatwaves will keep getting hotter, longer, and more frequent for centuries—even after the world hits net-zero emissions. Delays of just a few years dramatically increase the likelihood of extreme, once-rare heat disasters, especially for countries near the equator. The research reveals that even reaching net zero by mid-century won't reverse the trend, and some regions will continue to see worsening heatwaves for a thousand years.

I’ve been using Rails for close to 20 years. I use it for multiple active projects today. I rely on both its technical upkeep and the human infrastructure that makes that upkeep possible.
DHH needs to go. He is an albatross. He provides close to zero technical value at this point, and does a hell of a lot of human harm. Worse than deadweight: he’s a liability.

Towards Foundation Models for Zero-Shot Time Series Anomaly Detection: Leveraging Synthetic Data and Relative Context Discrepancy
Tian Lan, Hao Duong Le, Jinbo Li, Wenjun He, Meng Wang, Chenghao Liu, Chen Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21190

Towards Foundation Models for Zero-Shot Time Series Anomaly Detection: Leveraging Synthetic Data and Relative Context Discrepancy
Time series anomaly detection (TSAD) is a critical task, but developing models that generalize to unseen data in a zero-shot manner remains a major challenge. Prevailing foundation models for TSAD predominantly rely on reconstruction-based objectives, which suffer from a fundamental objective mismatch: they struggle to identify subtle anomalies while often misinterpreting complex normal patterns, leading to high rates of false negatives and positives. To overcome these limitations, we introduce…

"Darknet Diaries Deutsch": Zero Day-Forscherin Maddie
Maddie Stone ist Sicherheitsforscherin bei Googles Project Zero. In dieser Folge berichtet sie, wie sie Zero-Day-Sicherheitslücken entdeckt und bekämpft.
ht…

Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--The unlikely pair who pioneered RaaS,
--Lifting the lid on a global spyware operation,
--The teens who brought down Jaguar Land Rover,
--How a Log4j maintainer weathered a zero day crisis,
--Chinese spying could paralyze the UK

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 10/18/25
The unlikely pair who pioneered RaaS, Lifting the lid on a global spyware operation, The teens who brought down Jaguar Land Rover, How a Log4j maintainer weathered a zero day crisis, Chinese spying could paralyze the UK

Fox News reports DEI still ravaging US military - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/10/26/fox-news-reports-dei-still-ravaging-us-military/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@samaaron/115611644215508335
This just made my day/week... 🤩🥹 Thank you, Sam! Considering I've got almost zero clue/insight into what people are using various thi.ng packages for, it's so bloody great to hear that even …

Documentation Retrieval Improves Planning Language Generation
Renxiang Wang, Li Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19931 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19931

Documentation Retrieval Improves Planning Language Generation
Certain strong LLMs have shown promise for zero-shot formal planning by generating planning languages like PDDL. Yet, performance of most open-source models under 50B parameters has been reported to be close to zero due to the low-resource nature of these languages. We significantly improve their performance via a series of lightweight pipelines that integrates documentation retrieval with modular code generation and error refinement. With models like Llama-4-Maverick, our best pipeline improve…

Signatures of alternating group actions with non-zero quotient genus
Jennifer Paulhus, Aaron Wootton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19692 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Signatures of alternating group actions with non-zero quotient genus
We classify up to signature all the ways the alternating group $A_n$ can act on a compact Riemann surfaces when the quotient genus is greater than $0$. In particular, we prove that for $A_n$ with $n>6$ every potential signature for the group acting with quotient genus greater than $0$ is an actual signature. We also show that in the case of $n=5$, respectively $n=6$, the only failure is for $[1;2]$, respectively $[1;3]$. Along the way we also prove that for any finite simple non-abelian group, …

Zero to 100: The numbers behind Cowboys' 24-21 win over Eagles https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/zero-to-100-the-numbers-behind-cowboys-24-21-win-over-eagles

#Apple investiert in den kalifornischen Gualala River Forest, um CO₂ zu kompensieren und sein Ziel der #Klimaneutralität bis 2030 zu erreichen.
Der #Wald soll nachhaltig bewirtschaftet un…

Apple startet neues Waldschutzprojekt – Streit mit DUH um Greenwashing bleibt
Im Gualala River Forest soll der Wald nachhaltig bewirtschaftet werden und Apple bei "Net Zero" helfen. Doch genau das sehen einige Umweltschützer kritisch.

Zero-Shot Transferable Solution Method for Parametric Optimal Control Problems
Xingjian Li, Kelvin Kan, Deepanshu Verma, Krishna Kumar, Stanley Osher, J\'an Drgo\v{n}a
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18404

Finished "Count Zero" (1986) by @… and have to buy the sequel ebook, "Mona Lisa Overdrive". Just staggering works of #SciFi.
A) where's the fairest place to buy ebooks I can read on my phone;
B) dude was (is?) a literal prophet…

Measuring Prosody Diversity in Zero-Shot TTS: A New Metric, Benchmark, and Exploration
Yifan Yang, Bing Han, Hui Wang, Long Zhou, Wei Wang, Mingyu Cui, Xu Tan, Xie Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19928

Measuring Prosody Diversity in Zero-Shot TTS: A New Metric, Benchmark, and Exploration
Prosody diversity is essential for achieving naturalness and expressiveness in zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS). However, frequently used acoustic metrics capture only partial views of prosodic variation and correlate poorly with human perception, leaving the problem of reliably quantifying prosody diversity underexplored. To bridge this gap, we introduce ProsodyEval, a prosody diversity assessment dataset that provides Prosody Mean Opinion Score (PMOS) alongside conventional acoustic metrics. Pr…

@… There’s a second part to this:
Try to convince your emergency contacts to ever pick up if you were to call them from an unknown number 😅
If I ever called my wife from a jail phone, I have zero hope she’d pick up.

Gravitational waves from magnetorotational core-collapse supernovae using 3D GRMHD simulations: effect of rotation and magnetic fields
Sophia C. Schnauck, Swapnil Shankar, Philipp M\"osta, Roland Haas, Erik Schnetter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19424

Gravitational waves from magnetorotational core-collapse supernovae using 3D GRMHD simulations: effect of rotation and magnetic fields
We investigate the gravitational wave emission for 10 supernova progenitors from magnetorotational core-collapse to the supernova explosion using fully three-dimensional dynamical-spacetime general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics simulations with the GPU-accelerated code $\texttt{GRaM-X}$. We consider 2 progenitors of zero-age-main-sequence mass $25M_\odot$ and 8 with zero-age-main-sequence masses of $35M_\odot$. For these models, we explore a range of rotation rates between $0.0$ and $3.5 \m…

iFinder: Structured Zero-Shot Vision-Based LLM Grounding for Dash-Cam Video Reasoning
Manyi Yao, Bingbing Zhuang, Sparsh Garg, Amit Roy-Chowdhury, Christian Shelton, Manmohan Chandraker, Abhishek Aich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19552

iFinder: Structured Zero-Shot Vision-Based LLM Grounding for Dash-Cam Video Reasoning
Grounding large language models (LLMs) in domain-specific tasks like post-hoc dash-cam driving video analysis is challenging due to their general-purpose training and lack of structured inductive biases. As vision is often the sole modality available for such analysis (i.e., no LiDAR, GPS, etc.), existing video-based vision-language models (V-VLMs) struggle with spatial reasoning, causal inference, and explainability of events in the input video. To this end, we introduce iFinder, a structured …

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

Zero-field Anomalous Hall Effect in Bulk Single Crystal Mn3Ir
Xin Gu, Ruoqi Wang, Bo Zhao, Haofu Wen, Kunquan Hong, Shijun Yuan, Taishi Chen, Jinlan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18485

Zero-free sector of the Wronski map on the totally nonnegative Grassmannian
Steven N. Karp
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18478 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.1847…

Zero-free sector of the Wronski map on the totally nonnegative Grassmannian
A classical result states that if $f(z)$ is a polynomial of degree at most $n$ with nonnegative coefficients, then $f(z)$ has no zeros in the sector $|\arg(z)| < \fracπ{n}$ of the complex plane, and the bound $\fracπ{n}$ is tight. Motivated by the Shapiro--Shapiro conjecture and related problems in real Schubert calculus, we generalize this result to Wronskians of polynomials. Namely, let $f_1(z), \dots, f_k(z)$ be linearly independent polynomials of degree at most $n$ whose coeffic…

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Improving Zero-shot Sentence Decontextualisation with Content Selection and Planning
Zhenyun Deng, Yulong Chen, Andreas Vlachos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17921 https://

Improving Zero-shot Sentence Decontextualisation with Content Selection and Planning
Extracting individual sentences from a document as evidence or reasoning steps is commonly done in many NLP tasks. However, extracted sentences often lack context necessary to make them understood, e.g., coreference and background information. To this end, we propose a content selection and planning framework for zero-shot decontextualisation, which determines what content should be mentioned and in what order for a sentence to be understood out of context. Specifically, given a potentially amb…

DeMeco Ryans reveals C.J. Gardner-Johnson release was his decision: 'I know what's best' for Texans https://www.nfl.com/news/texans-demeco-ryans-cj-gardner-johnson-release-decision-i-know-whats-best

Orbital magnetization and magnetic susceptibility of interacting electrons
Jian Kang, Minxuan Wang, Oskar Vafek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20626 https://ar…

Orbital magnetization and magnetic susceptibility of interacting electrons
We present a rigorous derivation of the orbital magnetization formula for interacting electrons within the self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation. Our results are expressed entirely in terms of the self-consistent wavefunctions and the Hartree-Fock energy spectrum at zero magnetic field. We test the formula on an interacting Rashba model, finding an agreement with calculations performed at small but non-zero external magnetic field. Our method allows us to also derive formulas for the orbit…

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Shadow Escape 0-Click Attack in AI Assistants Puts Trillions of Records at Risk
Operant AI reveals Shadow Escape, a zero-click attack using the MCP flaw in ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude to secretly steal trillions of SSNs and financial data. Traditional security is blind to this new AI threat.
😶‍🌫️ https://

Shadow Escape 0-Click Attack in AI Assistants Puts Trillions of Records at Risk
Follow us on Bluesky, Twitter (X), Mastodon and Facebook at @Hackread

First-Extinction Law for Resampling Processes
Matteo Benati, Alessandro Londei, Denise Lanzieri, Vittorio Loreto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20101 https://a…

First-Extinction Law for Resampling Processes
Extinction times in resampling processes are fundamental yet often intractable, as previous formulas scale as $2^M$ with the number of states $M$ present in the initial probability distribution. We solve this by treating multinomial updates as independent square-root diffusions of zero drift, yielding a closed-form law for the first-extinction time. We prove that the mean coincides exactly with the Wright-Fisher result of Baxter et al., thereby replacing exponential-cost evaluations with a line…

"‘Damned if we do but completely stuffed if we don’t’: heatwaves will worsen longer net zero is delayed"
#NetZero #Climate #ClimateChange

Seniority-zero Linear Canonical Transformation Theory
Daniel F. Calero-Osorio, Paul W. Ayers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19085 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19…

Seniority-zero Linear Canonical Transformation Theory
We propose a method to solve the electronic Schrödinger equation for strongly correlated systems by applying a unitary transformation to reduce the complexity of the physical Hamiltonian. In particular, we seek a transformation that maps the Hamiltonian into the seniority-zero space, since such Hamiltonians are computationally more tractable while still capturing strong correlation within electron pairs. The unitary rotation is evaluated using the Baker--Campbell--Hausdorff (BCH) expansion, tr…

"In 1990, 943 million people [in China] lived on less than $3 a day measured in 2021 dollars – 83% of the population, according to the World Bank. By 2019, the number was brought down to zero. Unfortunately, the United States was not as successful. More than 4 million Americans – 1.25% of the population – must make ends meet with less than $3 a day, more than three times as many as 35 years ago."

Me reading some shit Elon Musk said recently: “this is indistinguishable from in-universe flavor text in Horizon Zero Dawn or Horizon Forbidden West, except that maybe they made Ted Faro a little too highbrow relative to his real-world inspirations”

Try to guess why Indiana MAGAchurch pastor's son was arrested - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/10/26/try-to-guess-why-indiana-magachurch-pastors-son-was-arrested/

Semigroup rings and algebraically independent sequences with respect to idempotents in commutative semigroups
Guoqing Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18724 https://

Semigroup rings and algebraically independent sequences with respect to idempotents in commutative semigroups
For any finite abelian group $G$ and commutative unitary ring $R$, by $R[G]$ we denote the group algebra over $R$. Let $T=(g_1,\ldots,g_{\ell})$ be a sequence over the group $G$. We say $T$ is algebraically zero-sum free over R if $\prod\limits_{i=1}^r(X^{g_i}-a_i)\neq 0\in R[G]$ for all $a_1,\ldots,a_{\ell}\in R\setminus \{0\}$. Let $d(G,R)={\rm sup}\{|T|: T \mbox{ is an algebraically zero-sum free sequence over } R \mbox{ of terms from }G\}.$ This invariant of the group algebra $R[G…

Crosslisted article(s) found for math.AG. https://arxiv.org/list/math.AG/new
[1/1]:
- Signatures of alternating group actions with non-zero quotient genus
Jennifer Paulhus, Aaron Wootton

Zero Waste-Wochen in der BHT https://weddingweiser.de/zero-waste-wochen-in-der-bht/

from my link log —
NVMM: NetBSD virtual machine manager.
http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/from_zero_to_nvmm
saved 2019-04-10 https://

During the #COP30 climate conference in Brazil, Australia's opposition party withdrew from the country's net-zero by 2050 target. It now sees net-zero as a potential 'welcome outcome' of using Australia's resources (coal, gas) plus new energy technologies. Reckless.

Liberal Party formally abandons net zero by 2050 climate target
The decision brings the party closer to the Nationals, which ditched its support for the target earlier this month amid internal turmoil over the Coalition's policy.

European countries proposed an alternative Ukraine peace plan on Sunday that omits some of the pro-Russia points made in the original US-backed document and calls for Kyiv’s sovereignty to be respected.
The counter-proposal emerged as US, Ukrainian and international negotiators met in Switzerland.
The 28-point US document leaked last week demands Ukraine hand over territory to Russia, limits the size of its army and agrees not to pursue the Kremlin for alleged war crimes.
A…

Replaced article(s) found for math-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/math-ph/new
[1/1]:
- The Ising Model Coupled to 2D Gravity: Genus Zero Partition Function
Maurice Duits, Nathan Hayford, Seung-Yeop Lee

A pretty blistering report on UK airport expansion - from the House of Commons Audit Committee.
-No evidence of net benefits.
-Will impair net zero.
-Decisions being taken without the benefit of updated policy.
Airport expansion and climate and nature targets https://

CryptPad: Zero-Knowledge Architecture
While Google Docs reads everything you type, CryptPad's XSalsa20-Poly1305 encryption and Nakamoto-style consensus protocol ensure the server never decrypts your documents.
https://www.sambent.com/cryptpad-zero-knowledge-architecture…

CryptPad: Zero-Knowledge Architecture
While Google Docs reads everything you type, CryptPad's XSalsa20-Poly1305 encryption and Nakamoto-style consensus protocol ensure the server never decrypts your documents.

"'When we spoke to executives, they would often say the internal [AI] tool was very successful,' said Challapally. 'But when we spoke to employees, we found zero usage.'"
https://www.ft.com/content/e93e56df-dd9b-40c1-b77a-dba1ca01e473

Non-overlap Average Treatment Effect Bounds
Herbert P. Susmann, Alec McClean, Iv\'an D\'iaz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20206 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Non-overlap Average Treatment Effect Bounds
The average treatment effect (ATE), the mean difference in potential outcomes under treatment and control, is a canonical causal effect. Overlap, which says that all subjects have non-zero probability of either treatment status, is necessary to identify and estimate the ATE. When overlap fails, the standard solution is to change the estimand, and target a trimmed effect in a subpopulation satisfying overlap; however, this no longer addresses the original goal of estimating the ATE. When the out…

Can Audio Large Language Models Verify Speaker Identity?
Yiming Ren, Xuenan Xu, Baoxiang Li, Shuai Wang, Chao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19755 https://

Can Audio Large Language Models Verify Speaker Identity?
This paper investigates adapting Audio Large Language Models (ALLMs) for speaker verification (SV). We reformulate SV as an audio question-answering task and conduct comprehensive zero-shot evaluations on public benchmarks, showing that current ALLMs have limited zero-shot SV capability and often struggle in diverse acoustic conditions. To address this challenge, we perform supervised fine-tuning on speaker verification data. A rule-based hard pair sampling strategy is proposed to construct mor…

Could regular primordial black holes be dark matter?
Mohsen Khodadi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20483 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.20483

Could regular primordial black holes be dark matter?
The recent proposal proposed by Paul Davies and colleagues [Phys. Rev. D \textbf{111} (2025) no.10, 103512] that regular primordial black holes (RPBHs) form stable, zero-temperature remnants and could thereby constitute dark matter is critically examined. While the introduction of a fundamental length scale indeed regulates the Hawking temperature, preventing its divergence, we show that the evaporation timescale for such RPBHs is infinite. This result holds generically for analytic regular bla…

Zero to 100: The numbers behind Cowboys' 33-16 win over Raiders https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/zero-to-100-the-numbers-behind-cowboys-33-16-win-over-raiders

On a zero mass Schr\"odinger-Bopp-Podolsky system: ground states, nonexistence results and asymptotic behaviour
Alessio Pomponio, Lianfeng Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17479

On a zero mass Schrödinger-Bopp-Podolsky system: ground states, nonexistence results and asymptotic behaviour
In this paper, we consider the following zero mass Schrödinger-Bopp-Podolsky system \[ \begin{cases} -Δu +q^2ϕu=|u|^{p-2}u, -Δϕ+a^2Δ^2ϕ=4πu^2, \end{cases} \text{ in } \mathbb{R}^3, \] where $a>0$ and $q\ne 0$. We complete the study initiated in [2], which relied on a perturbation argument to establish the existence of weak solutions. Here, in contrast, our approach, based on the Mountain Pass Theorem and the splitting lemma, directly yields a ground state solut…

😱 Sci-fi Meets Eldritch Horror in Deck Builder Chaos Zero Nightmare
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Thermal quarks and Polyakov loops in two-color dense QCD
Yugo Kurebayashi, Toru Kojo, Daiki Suenaga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20874 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Thermal quarks and Polyakov loops in two-color dense QCD
We study confinement and deconfinement in dense two color QCD by analyzing the dynamics of thermal quarks and gluons. The Polyakov loop is used as a probe of the relevant thermal excitations, distinguishing quark and hadron dominated regimes in dense matter. To describe the Polyakov loop, we adopt both lattice informed phenomenological models and the massive Yang Mills framework. After calibrating these models at zero density, we investigate in medium modifications of the Polyakov loops and glu…

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4 Simple Ways to Celebrate Zero Emissions Day All Year Long | Impact Collective
Celebrated worldwide, September 21 is Zero Emissions Day, and it aims to offer up a preview of what our world would be like without the emission of fossil fuels into our atmosphere. What started as a call for a ‘global moratorium on fossil fuel combustion’ in 2008 in Nova Scotia, Canada, has led to an annual day of awareness of the impact our daily emissions have on the world. This includes emissions from the cars we drive, the materials we use, and the way the products we buy are made.

Pressure shifts in large-amplitude pulsatile shear flow: A microfluidic method to probe the normal stress response of complex fluids
T. Rodrigues, F. J. Galindo-Rosales, L. Campo-Dea\~no
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20248

Pressure shifts in large-amplitude pulsatile shear flow: A microfluidic method to probe the normal stress response of complex fluids
A microfluidic approach to probing the first normal stress difference from single-point pressure measurements in pulsatile shear flows is presented. Using an original experimental design, we examine the near-zero-mean pulsatile flow of polymeric solutions in a straight, deformable microchannel at low Reynolds and Womersley numbers. An important aspect of this work is that the enhanced fluid elastic stresses can be efficiently determined via the pressure shift from pressure-controlled large-ampl…

Can Less Precise Be More Reliable? A Systematic Evaluation of Quantization's Impact on CLIP Beyond Accuracy
Aymen Bouguerra, Daniel Montoya, Alexandra Gomez-Villa, Fabio Arnez, Chokri Mraidha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21173

Can Less Precise Be More Reliable? A Systematic Evaluation of Quantization's Impact on CLIP Beyond Accuracy
The powerful zero-shot generalization capabilities of vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP have enabled new paradigms for safety-related tasks such as out-of-distribution (OOD) detection. However, additional aspects crucial for the computationally efficient and reliable deployment of CLIP are still overlooked. In particular, the impact of quantization on CLIP's performance beyond accuracy remains underexplored. This work presents a large-scale evaluation of quantization on CLIP models, asses…

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SPiDR: A Simple Approach for Zero-Shot Safety in Sim-to-Real Transfer
Yarden As, Chengrui Qu, Benjamin Unger, Dongho Kang, Max van der Hart, Laixi Shi, Stelian Coros, Adam Wierman, Andreas Krause
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18648

SPiDR: A Simple Approach for Zero-Shot Safety in Sim-to-Real Transfer
Safety remains a major concern for deploying reinforcement learning (RL) in real-world applications. Simulators provide safe, scalable training environments, but the inevitable sim-to-real gap introduces additional safety concerns, as policies must satisfy constraints in real-world conditions that differ from simulation. To address this challenge, robust safe RL techniques offer principled methods, but are often incompatible with standard scalable training pipelines. In contrast, domain randomi…

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Apono, which helps enterprises manage cloud permissions by eliminating standing privileges, raised a $34M Series B, bringing its total funding to $54M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
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Apono raises $34M to tackle cloud privilege sprawl with Zero Standing Privilege model - SiliconANGLE
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Sampling-Based Zero-Order Optimization Algorithms
Xicheng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18201 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.18201

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Global goal of zero deforestation by 2030 is severely off track
Global deforestation hasn’t slowed in any significant way in the four years since 127 countries pledged to halt and reverse forest loss and degradation by 2030. The newly published 2025 Forest Declaration Assessment shows that nations are 63% off track from meeting their zero-deforestation target. To be on track for that goal, deforestation was supposed […]

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- One-Embedding-Fits-All: Efficient Zero-Shot Time Series Forecasting by a Model Zoo
Hao-Nan Shi, Ting-Ji Huang, Lu Han, De-Chuan Zhan, Han-Jia Ye

Selective Classifier-free Guidance for Zero-shot Text-to-speech
John Zheng, Farhad Maleki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19668 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19668…

Selective Classifier-free Guidance for Zero-shot Text-to-speech
In zero-shot text-to-speech, achieving a balance between fidelity to the target speaker and adherence to text content remains a challenge. While classifier-free guidance (CFG) strategies have shown promising results in image generation, their application to speech synthesis are underexplored. Separating the conditions used for CFG enables trade-offs between different desired characteristics in speech synthesis. In this paper, we evaluate the adaptability of CFG strategies originally developed f…

A Simple Data Augmentation Strategy for Text-in-Image Scientific VQA
Belal Shoer, Yova Kementchedjhieva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20119 https://arxiv.org/…

A Simple Data Augmentation Strategy for Text-in-Image Scientific VQA
Scientific visual question answering poses significant challenges for vision-language models due to the complexity of scientific figures and their multimodal context. Traditional approaches treat the figure and accompanying text (e.g., questions and answer options) as separate inputs. EXAMS-V introduced a new paradigm by embedding both visual and textual content into a single image. However, even state-of-the-art proprietary models perform poorly on this setup in zero-shot settings, underscorin…

Tensor Spin Polarization Induced by Curved Freeze-Out Hypersurface
Zhong-Hua Zhang, Xu-Guang Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20200 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Tensor Spin Polarization Induced by Curved Freeze-Out Hypersurface
We investigate how the curvature of the freeze-out hypersurface polarizes massive vector bosons in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Starting from the Proca Lagrangian and using the Wigner function formalism, we perform a systematic gradient expansion to obtain a covariant spin-polarization tensor expressed in terms of hydrodynamic fields and the curvature tensor of the freeze-out hypersurface. Analytic results for Bjorken and Gubser flows show that curvature anisotropy generates a non-zero te…

Desclarizing the Wormhole to Black Hole with Negative Mass
Ze Li, Hai-Shan Liu, H. Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20755 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.20755

Desclarizing the Wormhole to Black Hole with Negative Mass
We construct new black holes using the curvature-induced scalarization mechanism in Einstein gravity coupled to a massless phantom scalar. We find that the general wormhole solutions with independent scalar charge become descalarized so that the resulting black hole scalar hair becomes secondary and a function of the mass only. The long-range force between the two identical black holes can be attractive, zero or repulsive, depending on the mass/scalar charge relation. Furthermore, the black hol…

Light-induced odd-parity altermagnets on dimerized lattices
Dongling Liu, Zheng-Yang Zhuang, Di Zhu, Zhigang Wu, Zhongbo Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18360 https://

Light-induced odd-parity altermagnets on dimerized lattices
Altermagnets are an emerging class of collinear magnets with momentum-dependent spin splitting and zero net magnetization. These materials can be broadly classified into two categories based on the behavior of spin splitting at time-reversal-related momenta: even-parity and odd-parity altermagnets. While even-parity altermagnets have been thoroughly investigated both theoretically and experimentally, the systems capable of hosting odd-parity altermagnetism remain largely unexplored. In this wor…

SERVAL: Surprisingly Effective Zero-Shot Visual Document Retrieval Powered by Large Vision and Language Models
Thong Nguyen, Yibin Lei, Jia-Huei Ju, Andrew Yates
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15432

SERVAL: Surprisingly Effective Zero-Shot Visual Document Retrieval Powered by Large Vision and Language Models
Visual Document Retrieval (VDR) typically operates as text-to-image retrieval using specialized bi-encoders trained to directly embed document images. We revisit a zero-shot generate-and-encode pipeline: a vision-language model first produces a detailed textual description of each document image, which is then embedded by a standard text encoder. On the ViDoRe-v2 benchmark, the method reaches 63.4% nDCG@5, surpassing the strongest specialised multi-vector visual document encoder. It also scales…

Former Washington coach Jay Gruden torches Cowboys defense after Week 3 loss https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/ex-washington-coach-jay-gruden-torches-dallas-cowboys-cover-zero-defense-after-week-3-loss

Generalist Robot Manipulation beyond Action Labeled Data
Alexander Spiridonov, Jan-Nico Zaech, Nikolay Nikolov, Luc Van Gool, Danda Pani Paudel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19958 …

Generalist Robot Manipulation beyond Action Labeled Data
Recent advances in generalist robot manipulation leverage pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and large-scale robot demonstrations to tackle diverse tasks in a zero-shot manner. A key challenge remains: scaling high-quality, action-labeled robot demonstration data, which existing methods rely on for robustness and generalization. To address this, we propose a method that benefits from videos without action labels - featuring humans and/or robots in action - enhancing open-vocabulary perfo…

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Sources and docs: the US DOJ charges Peter Williams, ex-director of zero-day vendor L3Harris' Trenchant, with stealing trade secrets to sell to a Russian buyer (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-2…

RobotDancing: Residual-Action Reinforcement Learning Enables Robust Long-Horizon Humanoid Motion Tracking
Zhenguo Sun, Yibo Peng, Yuan Meng, Xukun Li, Bo-Sheng Huang, Zhenshan Bing, Xinlong Wang, Alois Knoll
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20717

RobotDancing: Residual-Action Reinforcement Learning Enables Robust Long-Horizon Humanoid Motion Tracking
Long-horizon, high-dynamic motion tracking on humanoids remains brittle because absolute joint commands cannot compensate model-plant mismatch, leading to error accumulation. We propose RobotDancing, a simple, scalable framework that predicts residual joint targets to explicitly correct dynamics discrepancies. The pipeline is end-to-end--training, sim-to-sim validation, and zero-shot sim-to-real--and uses a single-stage reinforcement learning (RL) setup with a unified observation, reward, and h…

Intrinsic antiferromagnetic half-metal and topological phases in the ferrovalley states of the sliding bilayer altermagnets
Shihao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20687 https:/…

Intrinsic antiferromagnetic half-metal and topological phases in the ferrovalley states of the sliding bilayer altermagnets
Altermagnetism is characterized by non-relativistic spin splitting and zero total magnetic moments. In this work, intrinsic antiferromagnetic half-metallic and topological phases were discovered within the ferrovalley states of sliding bilayer altermagnets. We construct the bilayer system by utilizing altermagnet monolayers with a small bandgap. The inter-layer hopping phenomenon leads to a reduction in bandgaps, and sliding engineering induces ferrovalley states. Taking the V$_2$OSSe system fo…

New Hampshire MAGA gerrymander bricked - National Zero
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Diffusion-Based Impedance Learning for Contact-Rich Manipulation Tasks
Noah Geiger, Tamim Asfour, Neville Hogan, Johannes Lachner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19696 https://

Diffusion-Based Impedance Learning for Contact-Rich Manipulation Tasks
Learning methods excel at motion generation in the information domain but are not primarily designed for physical interaction in the energy domain. Impedance Control shapes physical interaction but requires task-aware tuning by selecting feasible impedance parameters. We present Diffusion-Based Impedance Learning, a framework that combines both domains. A Transformer-based Diffusion Model with cross-attention to external wrenches reconstructs a simulated Zero-Force Trajectory (sZFT). This captu…

Ivermectin claims the life of another patriot - National Zero
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Zero-Shot Multi-Spectral Learning: Reimagining a Generalist Multimodal Gemini 2.5 Model for Remote Sensing Applications
Ganesh Mallya, Yotam Gigi, Dahun Kim, Maxim Neumann, Genady Beryozkin, Tomer Shekel, Anelia Angelova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19087

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Zero-Shot Visual Grounding in 3D Gaussians via View Retrieval
Liwei Liao, Xufeng Li, Xiaoyun Zheng, Boning Liu, Feng Gao, Ronggang Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15871 https://…

Zero-Shot Visual Grounding in 3D Gaussians via View Retrieval
3D Visual Grounding (3DVG) aims to locate objects in 3D scenes based on text prompts, which is essential for applications such as robotics. However, existing 3DVG methods encounter two main challenges: first, they struggle to handle the implicit representation of spatial textures in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), making per-scene training indispensable; second, they typically require larges amounts of labeled data for effective training. To this end, we propose \underline{G}rounding via \underli…

Right-Side-Out: Learning Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Garment Reversal
Chang Yu, Siyu Ma, Wenxin Du, Zeshun Zong, Han Xue, Wendi Chen, Cewu Lu, Yin Yang, Xuchen Han, Joseph Masterjohn, Alejandro Castro, Chenfanfu Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15953

Right-Side-Out: Learning Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Garment Reversal
Turning garments right-side out is a challenging manipulation task: it is highly dynamic, entails rapid contact changes, and is subject to severe visual occlusion. We introduce Right-Side-Out, a zero-shot sim-to-real framework that effectively solves this challenge by exploiting task structures. We decompose the task into Drag/Fling to create and stabilize an access opening, followed by Insert&Pull to invert the garment. Each step uses a depth-inferred, keypoint-parameterized bimanual primitive…

Merz restrictions push German arms export approvals to Israel to zero
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Zero-Shot CFC: Fast Real-World Image Denoising based on Cross-Frequency Consistency
Yanlin Jiang, Yuchen Liu, Mingren Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12646 https://

Zero-Shot CFC: Fast Real-World Image Denoising based on Cross-Frequency Consistency
Zero-shot denoisers address the dataset dependency of deep-learning-based denoisers, enabling the denoising of unseen single images. Nonetheless, existing zero-shot methods suffer from long training times and rely on the assumption of noise independence and a zero-mean property, limiting their effectiveness in real-world denoising scenarios where noise characteristics are more complicated. This paper proposes an efficient and effective method for real-world denoising, the Zero-Shot denoiser bas…

Fat Hitler claims he's signing order to "dismantle terrorist networks" - National Zero
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