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Trump Files to Cancel Approval of Maryland Offshore Wind Farm | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/trump-files-to-cancel-approval-of-maryland-offshore-wind-farm

having to explain to a customer support rep what mail is was NOT on my 2025 bingo card 😭

Bias-Aware AI Chatbot for Engineering Advising at the University of Maryland A. James Clark School of Engineering
Prarthana P. Kartholy, Thandi M. Labor, Neil N. Panchal, Sean H. Wang, Hillary N. Owusu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09636

Bias-Aware AI Chatbot for Engineering Advising at the University of Maryland A. James Clark School of Engineering
Selecting a college major is a difficult decision for many incoming freshmen. Traditional academic advising is often hindered by long wait times, intimidating environments, and limited personalization. AI Chatbots present an opportunity to address these challenges. However, AI systems also have the potential to generate biased responses, prejudices related to race, gender, socioeconomic status, and disability. These biases risk turning away potential students and undermining reliability of AI s…

MERLIN: Multi-Stage Curriculum Alignment for Multilingual Encoder and LLM Fusion
Kosei Uemura, David Guzm\'an, Quang Phuoc Nguyen, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, En-shiun Annie Lee, David Ifeoluwa Adelani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08105

MERLIN: Multi-Stage Curriculum Alignment for Multilingual Encoder and LLM Fusion
Large language models excel in English but still struggle with complex reasoning in many low-resource languages (LRLs). Existing encoder-plus-decoder methods such as LangBridge and MindMerger raise accuracy on mid and high-resource languages, yet they leave a large gap on LRLs. We present MERLIN, a two-stage model-stacking framework that applies a curriculum learning strategy -- from general bilingual bitext to task-specific data -- and adapts only a small set of DoRA weights. On the AfriMGSM b…

Controlled Personalization in Legacy Media Online Services: A Case Study in News Recommendation
Marlene Holzleitner, Stephan Leitner, Hanna Lind Jorgensen, Christoph Schmitz, Jacob Welander, Dietmar Jannach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09136

Controlled Personalization in Legacy Media Online Services: A Case Study in News Recommendation
Personalized news recommendations have become a standard feature of large news aggregation services, optimizing user engagement through automated content selection. In contrast, legacy news media often approach personalization cautiously, striving to balance technological innovation with core editorial values. As a result, online platforms of traditional news outlets typically combine editorially curated content with algorithmically selected articles - a strategy we term controlled personalizat…

Just bought Club tix to the Maryland Terrapins @ #UCLA Bruins #football game.
Gonna grill burgers with my ol' PAC-12 tailgate friends who decided after beating Penn State & Michigan State...
...we have a product on the field worth buying $24 Rose Bowl nachos for. 🤪

The Brady rule, named after *Brady v. Maryland*, requires prosecutors to disclose material, exculpatory information in the government's possession to the defense.
'A huge problem': DOJ may have withheld evidence suggesting Letitia James’ innocence - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/lindsey-halligan-letitia-james/