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I am not as pessimistic as the writer of this article, still an absolute must-read,
"AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself"
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-destroying-the-university-and-learning-itself

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

ChatGPT head says screenshots of ChatGPT ads are "either not real or not ads"; OpenAI's research head says "anything that feels like an ad" is now turned off (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/openai-insists

OpenAI insists its shopping suggestions shouldn't be seen as advertising
Paid ChatGPT users recently reported seeing a prompt labeled "Shop for home and groceries. Connect Target," which appeared to ask them to link their ChatGPT account to OpenAI's retail partner Target. For many users, the message looked like an ad.

💥 Ukrainian forces destroyed the "Shahed" base in Donetsk #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/06/ukrainian-forces-destroyed-the-quotshahedquot.html

🎤 Stethoscope, meet AI: Helping doctors hear hidden sounds to better diagnose disease
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-stethoscope-ai-doctors-hidden-disease.html

Stethoscope, meet AI: Helping doctors hear hidden sounds to better diagnose disease
When someone opens the door and enters a hospital room, wearing a stethoscope is a telltale sign that they're a clinician. This medical device has been around for more than 200 years and remains a staple in the clinic despite significant advances in medical diagnostics and technologies.

Surprise !
https://futurism.com/health-medicine/kim-kardashian-doctor-finds-holes-brain-low-activity

Statewide animal cruelty database goes online, listing animal abuse offenders online as newest phase of Dexter's Law https://baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2026/01/01/statewide-animal…

Animal cruelty database goes online, listing animal abuse offenders online
A statewide animal cruelty database is set to launch today as part of the newest phase of Dexter's Law. The part of the law requiring the State of Florida to create and maintain a public database of abusers goes into effect today.

On Cryptography and Distribution Verification, with Applications to Quantum Advantage
Bruno Cavalar, Eli Goldin, Matthew Gray, Taiga Hiroka, Tomoyuki Morimae
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05028

On Cryptography and Distribution Verification, with Applications to Quantum Advantage
One of the most fundamental problems in the field of hypothesis testing is the identity testing problem: whether samples from some unknown distribution $\mathcal{G}$ are actually from some explicit distribution $\mathcal{D}$. It is known that when the distribution $\mathcal{D}$ has support $[N]$, the optimal sample complexity for the identity testing problem is roughly $O(\sqrt{N})$. However, many distributions of interest, including those which can be sampled efficiently, have exponential supp…

No-reference Quality Assessment of Contrast-distorted Images using Contrast-enhanced Pseudo Reference
Mohammad-Ali Mahmoudpour, Saeed Mahmoudpour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05053

No-reference Quality Assessment of Contrast-distorted Images using Contrast-enhanced Pseudo Reference
Contrast change is an important factor that affects the quality of images. During image capturing, unfavorable lighting conditions can cause contrast change and visual quality loss. While various methods have been proposed to assess the quality of images under different distortions such as blur and noise, contrast distortion has been largely overlooked as its visual impact and properties are different from other conventional types of distortions. In this paper, we propose a no-reference image q…

St. Nicholas Day terror: Russia destroys gauze, bandages, medical splints in Dnipro warehouse strike - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/06/st-nicholas-day-terror-russia-destroys-gauze-bandages-medical-splints-in-dnipro-warehouse-strike/

Polymarket agrees to its first media partnership to supply Dow Jones outlets, including the WSJ and Barron's, with real-time prediction market trading data (Katherine Doherty/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Polymarket to Distribute Prediction Data to Dow Jones Outlets
Polymarket will supply Dow Jones with trading data under a new partnership, the latest in a string of deals between exchanges and media organizations that are putting prediction markets in front of a broader audience.