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Birla AI Labs Launches Yug-1, a Time Series Foundation Model Built in India
Yug-1 is built to analyse such time-dependent data and generate forecasts across multiple variables.
Rethinking the design space of Vanilla Pixel Diffusion Transformers
Pixel-space diffusion models have recently re-emerged as a compelling alternative to latent diffusion, avoiding the lossy latent bottleneck and separately trained autoencoder. JiT shows that a vanilla diffusion transformer can generate directly in pixel space by replacing the commonly used velocity prediction ($\boldsymbol{u}$-prediction) with clean image prediction ($\boldsymbol{x_0}$-prediction). In this work, we revisit this choice and introduce MFlow, an adaptive parameterization that learns
Autumn Paints Poland’s Bieszczady Mountains
Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Autumn Paints Poland’s… Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow & Ice Water More Content Collections Global Maps World of Change Articles Earth Matters Blog Blue Marble: Next Generation EO Kids Mission: Biomes About About Us Subscribe 🛜 RSS Contact Us Search As the air grows cooler and days shorter, brown bears prowl the Carpathian Mountains of southern Poland
Companies exploiting welfare system by using residents as 'cash cows,' BBC finds
Agents try to attract people on housing benefit by using social media videos that offer free rooms and holidays.
‘A bad call’: Greens rift deepens over Steele-John allegations
A dispute over whether Jordon Steele-John should take leave during an investigation has deepened a rift within the Greens over allegations about his behaviour towards women.
Qatar to unveil regional defence partnership
Qatar to unveil regional defence partnership
Companies waiting on AI will fall behind
I don’t believe that every company will survive the transition to artificial intelligence. Companies that learn how to use AI will move faster, make better decisions, and produce more with the same resources. Those that wait will create a gap with competitors so wide that it may become impossible to close. AI adoption is here. Are leaders ready to help their people start using it? The transition has been one of the hardest changes I’ve led at Geotab. Reshaping a company around a complet
Woman says she 'closed eyes and tried not to be there' during alleged Russell Brand rape
The 51-year-old faces three counts of rape, three charges of sexual assault and one of indecent assault.
The Democratic Party’s New Villain
The breakup with Big Tech is evident in dozens of campaign ads.
Redmi K100 with 10,000mAh battery and 6.83-inch display is launching next week
It is powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset. Xiaomi teased the arrival of the Redmi K100 in China last week. The company has now announced the phone’s...
Greek authorities say 12 migrants die in two incidents in Aegean Sea
At least 1,209 migrants have died or gone missing in the Mediterranean since the beginning of the year, according to the International Organisation for Migration. #EuropeNews
Equatorial Guinea is expanding an ambitious malaria elimination plan
Equatorial Guinea has tackled malaria with a successful strategy on Bioko Island
49ers vs. Commanders how to watch: 'Monday Night Football' time, channel, odds and prediction
San Francisco can improve to 6-0 and strengthen its NFC West lead, while Washington enters Levi's Stadium looking to pull off a sizable road upset
On Iran, Israel’s opposition is even more hawkish than Netanyahu
In rest of the world, the Israeli PM is often blamed for the Iran war. His opponents say he hasn't been tough enough.
Voters think politicians don’t listen. Could AI help?
The student who answers the door looks a little hungover, and she may well be. It’s late August at East Stroudsburg University, a midsize public college in northeast Pennsylvania, and students are soaking in the final days of summer. But Kim Allen is undeterred by the girl’s half-opened eyes. A 64-year-old middle school Spanish teacher from New York City, Allen is particularly immune to the sullen stares of youth. “Hi, my name is Kim,” she says cheerily. “I’m a volunteer with G
Varun Dhawan Celebrates Kanjak With Little Girls, Shares Heartwarming Navratri Picture
Varun Dhawan celebrated Kanjak during Navratri by spending time with little girls, sharing a picture of their drawing session and extending festive wishes to his fans.
New Sony Patent Hints At AI Frame Generation For PlayStation 6 - Lowyat.NET
Sony is exploring a new AI-powered frame generation technology that could make its way to the PlayStation 6 (PS6), according to a recently published patent.
Albania's PM refuses to quit with violent protests in sixth day
The unrest follows months of anti-government protests in the Balkan nation, initially sparked by a controversial resort development in an ecologically protected area linked to US President Donald Trump's family. #EuropeNews
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Stay informed about the latest advancements in military technology, defense strategies, and global conflicts. Explore the intersection of technology and the military world.
Lost Arctic sandpiper spotted in the Negev
A North American buff-breasted sandpiper has wound up in Israel, very far away from its route crossing the Americas. While it's probably a troubling sign of global warming, it might also be evolution at work
Giants have a QB controversy: J.J. McCarthy makes case to replace Jameis Winston
The Giants must decide whether to ride McCarthy's momentum immediately or give him the Week 8 bye to prepare for a potential change
Iran support for Houthis probed as Yemen war re-erupts and Saudi cities hit
There have been new reports of Iranian support for the Houthis in Yemen amid a wave of attacks on Saudi cities.
Why the grocery store of the future could have more mini cans and personal packs
The future of food packaging is petit. While warehouse stores offering food and household items in bulk will always have a draw among consumers looking for volume discounts, the grocery store of 2035 could look different from today’s, with tinier packaging on its shelves, according to a new report. Unlike stealth shrinkflation, which packs less product into the same sized package for the same price, the new era of smaller portions is part of the selling point. Traditional packaging s
‘Train to Busan’ Director Yeon Sang-ho’s ‘Paradise Lost’ Clinches 118-Country Sales Ahead of Hawai‘i Festival U.S. Bow
Yeon Sang-ho’s thriller ‘Paradise Lost’ has sold to 118 countries and will have its U.S. premiere at the Hawai‘i International Film Festival.
Anthropic commits 5% of its stock to a new 'public benefit' fund
Anthropic says it is committing 5% of its shares to a new “public benefit” fund, with the amount potentially increasing as its shares grow in value
Mother leaves children alone on Poland mountain trail for 'whining'
Conditions on the trail were poor with a thick fog over the area, prompting shocked tourists to take care of the young boys. #EuropeNews
Revisiting the Mass and Scale Dependence of the "Lensing is Low" Effect with DECADE
Galaxy-galaxy lensing (GGL) is a critical probe of cosmology and galaxy formation. However, predicted GGL amplitudes tend to be $\sim 20-40\%$ higher than observations, primarily on small scales, a tension called the lensing-is-low problem. If not resolved through astrophysics or measurement systematics, this discrepancy may indicate a tension in our cosmological standard model. J. U. Lange et al. (2021), using foreground galaxies from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) and lensi
Deep LLM layers expose passage-level context in EEG during silent reading
In a previous report we showed that a decoder can recover open-vocabulary word-level information from 19-channel EEG recorded during silent reading, by aligning short EEG windows with hidden-state embeddings of the presented word taken from a large language model (LLM). That analysis contrasted two of the model's 33 layers: the context-free input embedding and one mid-depth layer. Here we ask how EEG-decodable structure is distributed over the full depth of the language model. We trained one dec
Melita and I are sharing a beautiful chapter: 'Skeem Saam' star Hellen Motsuki pregnant with second child | The Citizen
Speaking to The Citizen, the award-winning actress opened up about motherhood, pregnancy and balancing her personal life with her career.
Indonesia battles worst forest fires and toxic haze in 11 years
Indonesia battles worst forest fires and toxic haze in 11 years
Harvard Business School’s former dean has studied CEOs for three decades. He says the role remains remarkably unchanged.
Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pages of Inc. and Fast Company. If you received this newsletter from a friend, you can sign up to get it yourself every Monday morning. Nitin Nohria has studied and educated CEOs for three decades. Since 1997, the former dean of Harvard B
Riteish Deshmukh To Make Telugu Debut With Ram Pothineni’s Psychological Action Thriller
Bollywood actor Riteish Deshmukh is making his Telugu debut in director and star Ram Pothineni's upcoming psychological action thriller #RAPO23.
Happy Dussehra 2026 Wishes: AI Prompts To Design Personalized Vijayadashami Greetings
From WhatsApp stickers to AI greetings and images, here’s how to generate wishes for your loved ones this festival season.
Stratospheric airship flew from US to Japan to test sky cell tower concept
Nearly 100 years after the dirigible Graf Zeppelin made the first nonstop airship journey across the Pacific Ocean, another airship has successfully completed a round-trip flight from New Mexico to Japan and back. But the significance of this modern feat was less about the journey's length and more about its purpose: demonstrating how a lighter-than-air platform can act as a cell phone tower in the sky. The trans-Pacific flight that took place over a month between August and September 2026 was the most notable milestone yet for Sceye, a US aerospace company based near Albuquerque, New Mexico.
EU seeks secure Arctic link to Asia via Greenland and Canada
Brussels wants to secure digital infrastructure in the Arctic as melting ice and growing geopolitical tensions turn the polar region into a strategic corridor for trade, communications and security. #EuropeNews
Distributional signatures of computation: inferring mechanisms from computation time distributions
Computational complexity theory provides a framework for analysing abstract models of computation, whereas computational systems operate as finite physical implementations whose behaviour is shaped by their architecture and physical substrate. In such systems, computational organisation cannot be directly characterised from algorithms or internal representations. Building on the use of reaction time distributions to constrain mechanisms in cognitive science, we introduce an empirical framework f
‘What the war has done to me inside’: Ukraine’s Svitolina announces separation from Monfils
The World No 6 opens up about the toll of Russia’s ongoing war and the breakup of her marriage with Monfils
Australian MP Helen Haines critically injured in ‘deliberate’ car ramming
Lawmaker was struck by a car outside her office in what Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called a 'deliberate act'.
Stop sanding down your brand
We’ve all seen it. Sometimes it’s subtle. Sometimes it’s three competitors using the same word in 48-point type. An entire category starts competing with itself instead of competing for the customer. The claim wars begin. More this. Less that. Faster, cleaner, smarter, better. Cruise control kicks in. Everyone benchmarks one another until they start looking like one another. Data must become the adult in the room. DATA AND COMFORT I like data. It shows us what people clicked, what th
You Can See Everything documentary stuns with huge box office debut
It shows fraudster Elizabeth Holmes invite a sceptical film into her home before she's sent to prison.
This smart refrigerator has a 9-inch screen with voice control and automatic doors, but that’s not even my favourite feature
Samsung’s AI Side-by-side refrigerator Family Hub offers some impressive features, especially for cocktail fans
Google's excellent Pixel Watch 4 LTE just hit its lowest-ever price
If the Pixel Watch 5 isn't a must-have, you can save big by getting the still brilliant Pixel Watch 4 at a bargain price
ENFR: Evidence Networks with Flow-Matched References for Amortized Simulation-Based Model Inference
The evidence, $\mathcal{Z} = p(x | \mathcal{M})$, of a data-generating model $\mathcal{M}$ is a powerful tool in Bayesian frameworks: it enables model inference, model misspecification tests, and goodness-of-fit assessment as an alternative to standard discrepancy statistics, e.g. $χ^2$. While versatile, the evidence is notoriously difficult to compute, even when the likelihood is available. In both likelihood-based and simulation-based inference, estimating $\mathcal{Z}$ provides an immediate s
Sydney opens US$4 billion second airport with few flights
Western Sydney International launches commercial operations with a sparse schedule as major airlines remain cautious.
Patterson hits 16th first-class ton
Kurtis Patterson reminds Aussie selectors of his ability with a Sheffield Shield ton.
Museum protesters in Colombia accuse gov’t of erasing history
Police used tear gas and water cannon to disperse protesters outside Colombia’s National Museum in Bogota.
Recognition is a talent strategy
When organizations talk about attracting and retaining talent, the conversation generally revolves around compensation, benefits, and workplace culture. Yet one of the most overlooked leadership practices is visibility: ensuring the people behind great work get recognized for their contributions. Recognition in this sense isn’t an empty accolade or “participation trophy,” but is about how strong organizations build trust, engage teams, and create environments where talented people wa
The Archers airs first-ever lesbian wedding in show's 75-year history – before shocking cliffhanger
Pip Archer and Stella Pryor got married in Sunday's episode.
iBase Solution targets AI data center EPC contracts with modular liquid cooling, energy storage expertise
Taiwan-based iBase Solution is expanding from industrial computers (IPCs) and energy storage into liquid-cooled prefabricated modular data centers, targeting AI infrastructure construction and engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contracts. The company aims to leverage its energy storage
Learning to Correct Geometry in Generated Videos
Generated videos often lose geometric consistency under camera motion: structures warp under viewpoint change, parallax becomes inconsistent, and smooth camera movement may collapse into shot-like transitions. We argue that this failure is largely a data problem. In web-scale video corpora, most visible motion comes from dynamic objects captured by static or weakly moving cameras, leaving only sparse supervision for viewpoint-induced appearance changes. To address this, we propose Video Geometry
Video. Latest news bulletin | October 19th, 2026 – Midday
Video. Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this October 19th, 2026 - latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel.
EEG Lempel-Ziv Complexity vis-à-vis Autocorrelation Function
Measures of signal complexity have become increasingly popular in electroencephalography (EEG), where they are often interpreted as indicators of neural information processing, dynamical richness, or conscious state. In contrast, classical measures of temporal dependence, such as the autocorrelation function (ACF), remain more directly linked to known physiological mechanisms and are easier to interpret. The present work revisits, for the EEG practicioner, the relation between normalized Lempel-
'Monday Night Football' prediction, odds, time: 49ers vs. Commanders picks by expert who's on 19-5 roll
Micah Roberts reveals his picks for Washington Commanders vs. San Francisco 49ers in the 2026 Week 6 'Monday Night Football' matchup
What’s wrong with schools in France?
Angry French students have blocked access to their schools for four weeks. AJLabs breaks down what they want and why.
Brands should lead with meaning instead of product details
Walk through New York City this fall and count the advertisements not selling artificial intelligence. Subway cars, bus shelters, billboards: Every surface pitches a model, an agent, a muse. And the images themselves are increasingly generated by AI rather than photographed. Every panel I have sat on this year has asked the same questions: How much AI should go into the work, and where? My brand consultancy firm, the bread and butter, spent months this year on a project where those questions
Selena Gomez says vaping has affected her voice
The 34-year-old says vaping nicotine "a lot" permanently affected her singing and speaking voice.
Lady Mayor: London can shape the global conversation on trusted AI
As the UK prepares to host the G20 presidency in 2027, it has an opportunity to shape the global conversation on trusted AI, writes Susan Langley.
Bad Diagnosis: Analyzing Consent and Data Collection Practices of Mobile Medical Apps
Mobile health (mHealth) apps collect personally-identifiable information while handling uniquely sensitive medical data, ranging from mental health records to real-time glucose or heart rate monitoring -- yet they remain poorly understood at scale. We present the first comprehensive analysis of consent and data collection practices across 10,000+ mHealth apps on the Google Play Store, combining static analysis and privacy policy examination. We develop a rigorous operational definition to distin
Ionic switching between supermagnetic states
Supermagnetic states are typically set during synthesis. Changing and retaining these states requires sustained external stimulus. Without resynthesis or continued stimulus, we show, for the first time, a reversible magneto-ionic switching between superferromagnetic (SFM) and superspin-glass (SSG) states using room-temperature Li-ion transport. We utilize the incomplete lithiation of NiO into nanoscale Ni and Li2O to switch between the states. Lithiation generates a fragmented nano-Ni network th
My mother killed herself. I wish assisted suicide had been an option
“Sometimes mental illness is terminal,” Torie Bosch writes in a personal essay about medical aid in dying for psychiatric reasons.
Break and Steal an Egg Halloween Part 1 update patch notes
The first Halloween update for Break and Steal an Egg has introduced multiple limited-time events.
Israeli police arrest 10 after settler attacks on journalist, diplomats
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said on X that the arrests were 'a very positive development'.
America can manufacture at cost-parity with China
In a recent NYSE interview, a reporter asked me if my focus on Made-in-America manufacturing makes me afraid of having to compete with the cost of China manufacturing goods. My response surprised her.“Not at all,” I said. “As a matter of fact, it is highly possible for Made-in-America pricing to be at parity or even lower than the cost of China-made goods.” Here’s why: Automation addresses an old competitive disadvantage while simultaneously creating a new advantage. THE NEW ADVANTAGE A
Why MKR team refuse to back down over pescatarian fallout
Lucy and Krysten delivered an outstanding cook, forcing gatecrasher Zoe to defend her controversial decision to skip the tasting.