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🥴 Cops on ketamine? Largely unregulated mental health treatment faces hurdles
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-cops-ketamine-largely-unregulated-mental.html

Cops on ketamine? Largely unregulated mental health treatment faces hurdles
Combining psychotherapy with low-dose ketamine, a hallucinogenic drug long used as an anesthetic, is a relatively new approach to treating severe depression and post-traumatic stress, especially in populations with high trauma rates such as firefighters, police officers, and military members. Yet evidence of the efficacy and safety of ketamine for treatment of mental health conditions is still evolving, and the market remains widely unregulated.

It’s affordability, stupid:
Republicans pay price for Trump’s forgotten promise
Trump looks increasingly out of touch
and his disapproval rating is at an all-time high
– which largely explains Tuesday’s election results
https://www.

"Spain has broken the ruinous link between power prices and volatile fossil fuels, something its European neighbours are desperate to do. Spain risks sliding back into costly gas reliance amid post-blackout fears. Boosting grids and batteries will help Spain break free from fossil dependency for good."
It looks like the link is only partially broken, not through planning but due to scale.
Decoupled: how Spain cut the link between gas and power prices using

Decoupled: how Spain cut the link between gas and power prices using renewables | Ember
Spain has some of the lowest wholesale electricity prices in Europe, largely owing to the country’s strong solar and wind growth which reduced the influence of expensive coal and gas power on the electricity market.

Un nouveau directeur au #MILA
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2189881/hugo-larochelle-yoshua-bengio-directeur-scientifique-mila…

Hugo Larochelle occupera l’ancien rôle de Yoshua Bengio
L'ex-directeur du laboratoire de recherche en intelligence artificielle de Google à Montréal est le nouveau directeur scientifique du Mila.

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time
> The world generated almost a third more solar power in the first half of the year compared with the same period in 2024, meeting 83% of the global increase in electricity demand. Wind power grew by just over 7%, allowing renewables to displace fossil fuels for the first time.
> China and India were largely responsible for the surge in renewables, according to the Ember report, in contrast with the US and Eur…

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…

Evaluation Framework for Highlight Explanations of Context Utilisation in Language Models
Jingyi Sun, Pepa Atanasova, Sagnik Ray Choudhury, Sekh Mainul Islam, Isabelle Augenstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02629

Evaluation Framework for Highlight Explanations of Context Utilisation in Language Models
Context utilisation, the ability of Language Models (LMs) to incorporate relevant information from the provided context when generating responses, remains largely opaque to users, who cannot determine whether models draw from parametric memory or provided context, nor identify which specific context pieces inform the response. Highlight explanations (HEs) offer a natural solution as they can point the exact context pieces and tokens that influenced model outputs. However, no existing work evalu…

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said on X on Saturday that Trump’s threats
“are beneath the honor of our nation,
but the reality is that he wants to occupy our city and break our Constitution.”

“We must defend our democracy from this authoritarianism
by protecting each other and protecting Chicago from Donald Trump,” Johnson wrote.

Largely peaceful protests broke out across the city on Saturday,
with thousands of marchers taking over Michigan Avenue demandin…

Trump border czar warns sanctuary cities nationwide to ‘expect action’
The Trump administration plans federal action in cities with immigrant-friendly policies nationwide to support immigration enforcement, according to border czar Tom Homan.

Reasoning Riddles: How Explainability Reveals Cognitive Limits in Vision-Language Models
Prahitha Movva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02780 https://arxiv.org/…

Reasoning Riddles: How Explainability Reveals Cognitive Limits in Vision-Language Models
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) excel at many multimodal tasks, yet their cognitive processes remain opaque on complex lateral thinking challenges like rebus puzzles. While recent work has demonstrated these models struggle significantly with rebus puzzle solving, the underlying reasoning processes and failure patterns remain largely unexplored. We address this gap through a comprehensive explainability analysis that moves beyond performance metrics to understand how VLMs approach these complex l…

Beyond the Final Layer: Intermediate Representations for Better Multilingual Calibration in Large Language Models
Ej Zhou, Caiqi Zhang, Tiancheng Hu, Chengzu Li, Nigel Collier, Ivan Vuli\'c, Anna Korhonen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03136

Beyond the Final Layer: Intermediate Representations for Better Multilingual Calibration in Large Language Models
Confidence calibration, the alignment of a model's predicted confidence with its actual accuracy, is crucial for the reliable deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, this critical property remains largely under-explored in multilingual contexts. In this work, we conduct the first large-scale, systematic studies of multilingual calibration across six model families and over 100 languages, revealing that non-English languages suffer from systematically worse calibration. To diagnose …