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Full hybrid warfare by Russia against Europe. Polish article.
https://warszawa.wyborcza.pl/warszawa/7,54420,32291943,wyborcza-ujawnia-rosyjski-wywiad-materialy-wybuchowe-w-puszkach.html

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
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US pauses all immigration applications from 19 non-European countries (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-pauses-all-immigration-applications-immigrants-19-countries-new-york-times-2025-12-03/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p168#a251202p168

Cowboys Trade Pieces: 3 Players Dallas Should Move Before the Deadline https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-trade-pieces-3-players-dallas-should-move-before-the-deadline

Violating the Hatch Act carries penalties for pretty much every federal employee other than the president and VP.
https://osc.gov/Services/Pages/HatchAct-Federal.aspx

How Animaj, a startup in Disney's Accelerator Program, uses AI to drastically speed up the animation process, while also claiming to let artists stay in control (Corinne Reichert/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-sof…

300,000 AI-Animated Poses in an Instant: My Visit to Disney and the New Reality for Cartoons
Disney checked out "thousands of AI companies" before backing one that keeps animators in the driver's seat.

Probing the Critical Point (CritPt) of AI Reasoning: a Frontier Physics Research Benchmark
Minhui Zhu, Minyang Tian, Xiaocheng Yang, Tianci Zhou, Penghao Zhu, Eli Chertkov, Shengyan Liu, Yufeng Du, Lifan Yuan, Ziming Ji, Indranil Das, Junyi Cao, Yufeng Du, Jinchen He, Yifan Su, Jiabin Yu, Yikun Jiang, Yujie Zhang, Chang Liu, Ze-Min Huang, Weizhen Jia, Xinan Chen, Peixue Wu, Yunkai Wang, Juntai Zhou, Yong Zhao, Farshid Jafarpour, Jessie Shelton, Aaron Young, John Bartolotta, Wenchao Xu,…

Probing the Critical Point (CritPt) of AI Reasoning: a Frontier Physics Research Benchmark
While large language models (LLMs) with reasoning capabilities are progressing rapidly on high-school math competitions and coding, can they reason effectively through complex, open-ended challenges found in frontier physics research? And crucially, what kinds of reasoning tasks do physicists want LLMs to assist with? To address these questions, we present the CritPt (Complex Research using Integrated Thinking - Physics Test, pronounced "critical point"), the first benchmark designed to test LL…

Benchmarking Foundation Models with Retrieval-Augmented Generation in Olympic-Level Physics Problem Solving
Shunfeng Zheng, Yudi Zhang, Meng Fang, Zihan Zhang, Zhitan Wu, Mykola Pechenizkiy, Ling Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00919

Benchmarking Foundation Models with Retrieval-Augmented Generation in Olympic-Level Physics Problem Solving
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with foundation models has achieved strong performance across diverse tasks, but their capacity for expert-level reasoning-such as solving Olympiad-level physics problems-remains largely unexplored. Inspired by the way students prepare for competitions by reviewing past problems, we investigate the potential of RAG to enhance physics reasoning in foundation models. We introduce PhoPile, a high-quality multimodal dataset specifically designed for Olympiad-lev…

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
This n…