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Matthew Tkachuk continues to chase Team USA Hockey dominance as 2026 IIHF World Championship begins

FOX News

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Hiker stumbles on 6th century gold sword scabbard under fallen tree

Popular Science

'The odds of finding something like this are minimal.' More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Heavy wear suggests the scabbard's original sword wasn't ceremonial, but frequently wielded. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. A hiker who paused to examine an old, uprooted tree found something much rarer than roots during a recent walk in the hills of Norway.


Apple to pay iPhone owners 250 million settlement over claims of false advertising... see if you qualify

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Doctor's awful mistake led to five days of agony, amputation and eventual death for promising young high school graduate, 18, $100m lawsuit alleges I was so fat I needed two plane seats. Then I lost 208lbs and kept it off for 10 YEARS using'nature's Ozempic' supplement. It was so effortlessly effective... and I could even still eat chocolate! I've discovered the perfect'type' of man that'll drive any woman crazy. The sex is so good, it's ruined every other guy for me: JANA HOCKING Leaked CIA Iran war dossier shreds Trump's boasts... as chilling intel reveals vast missile arsenal Young family were beaming picture of happiness... then affair scandal erupted and three of them were found dead Apple to pay iPhone owners $250 million settlement over claims of false advertising... see if you qualify Why this photo of Princess Charlotte has left Harry'very sad': Friends tell RICHARD EDEN all about his plan for Archie and Lili... and why Meghan has become a'challenge' Panic over SIX Americans who returned to US from deadly rat virus ship... as health officials scramble to find infected all over the world Trump's bombshell private admission sends grim warning to Netanyahu as Israel braces for reckoning Deeply personal reason Aaron Rodgers may have to suddenly retire from NFL... and forgo $15 million for mystery wife Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni's battle continues as she demands he pay legal fees for his failed defamation lawsuit days after their shock settlement Billionaire, 70, settles bitter yearslong divorce with ex-wife after shacking up with new fiancée who's almost half his age I survived hantavirus that's spreading on the cruise ship.


Google Ditches the Screen With the New Fitbit Air (2026)

WIRED

Powered by Gemini and designed around simplicity, the new Fitbit Air could be a compelling fitness tracker alternative to Whoop. Five years after acquiring Fitbit, and three years since it released the Charge 6, Google is finally expanding into a new phase of fitness tracking . With its screen-free design, the new Fitbit Air could be the first device to threaten Whoop's grip on this category, thanks in large part to Google's intuitive, user-friendly software. The Fitbit Air is Google's most minimalist wearable yet. There's no AMOLED display, no haptic side button, and none of the visual feedback loops that have defined Fitbit devices (and most fitness trackers) for years.


Actress sues Avatar director for 'theft' of facial features

BBC News

Film-maker James Cameron and Disney are being sued by an actress who has accused the director of using her likeness as the basis for one of the lead characters in his hit film series Avatar. German-born US actress Q'orianka Kilcher, who is of indigenous Peruvian descent, alleged that in 2005 - when she was 14 - Cameron extracted her facial features from a photograph of her portraying Pocahontas in another film, The New World. In court documents filed on Tuesday in California, her team claimed Cameron directed his design team to use it as the foundation for the character of Neytiri, depicted on screen by Zoe Saldaña. BBC News has contacted Cameron and Disney for a comment. The Avatar movies contain a hybrid of live-action performance mixed with computer-generated characters.


This Reggae Band Is in a Nightmare Battle Against AI Slop Remixes

WIRED

When Stick Figure's six-year-old song shot up the charts, the band was thrilled. But its viral moment was spurred by unauthorized AI remixes. The California-based reggae band Stick Figure has been around for 20 years, eight albums, and countless hours on the road, but lead vocalist and guitarist Scott Woodruff has never seen a track take off like "Angels Above Me" did this past week. The six-year-old song hit number one on the iTunes sales charts in six different countries, including the United Kingdom, Austria, and Canada, skyrocketing "out of nowhere," according to Woodruff. Stick Figure has had plenty of thrilling milestones before, with albums repeatedly hitting number one in the reggae category, and hit singles amassing hundreds of millions of streams.


'No one has done this in the wild': study observes AI replicate itself

The Guardian

Cybersecurity experts said the research was interesting, though not alarming at this stage. Cybersecurity experts said the research was interesting, though not alarming at this stage. 'No one has done this in the wild': study observes AI replicate itself It's the stuff of science fiction cinema, or particularly breathless AI company blogposts: new research finds recent AI systems can independently copy themselves on to other computers. In the doom scenario, this means that when the superintelligent AI goes rogue, it will escape shutdown by seeding itself across the world wide web, lurking outside the reach of frantic IT professionals and continuing to plot world domination or paving over the world with solar panels . "We're rapidly approaching the point where no one would be able to shut down a rogue AI, because it would be able to self-exfiltrate its weights and copy itself to thousands of computers around the world," said Jeffrey Ladish, the director of Palisade research, a Berkeley-based organisation which did the study.


Just one night without sleep can cause brain damage similar to Alzheimer's disease, study reveals

Daily Mail - Science & tech

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Entropic Riemannian Neural Optimal Transport

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Many machine learning problems involve data supported on curved spaces such as spheres, rotation groups, hyperbolic spaces, and general Riemannian manifolds, where Euclidean geometry can distort distances, averages, and the resulting optimal transport (OT) problem. Existing manifold OT methods have pursued amortized out-of-sample maps, while entropic regularization has made discrete OT more scalable, but these advantages have remained largely disjoint. We propose Entropic Riemannian Neural Optimal Transport (Entropic RNOT), a unified framework that combines intrinsic entropic OT with amortized out-of-sample evaluation on Riemannian manifolds. Our method learns a single target-side Schrödinger potential through a neural pullback parameterization, recovers the induced Gibbs coupling, and uses the resulting conditional laws to construct intrinsic transport surrogates. These include barycentric projections on Cartan-Hadamard manifolds and heat-smoothed conditional surrogates on stochastically complete manifolds, the latter turning possibly atomic target laws into absolutely continuous ones. For fixed regularization $\varepsilon>0$, we prove that the proposed hypothesis class recovers the entropic optimal coupling in strong probabilistic metrics. As consequences, barycentric surrogates converge in $L^2$, while heat-smoothed surrogates are stable at fixed heat time and asymptotically unbiased as the heat time vanishes. The guarantees hold for compactly supported data on possibly noncompact manifolds. Empirically, our method matches or improves over Euclidean, tangent-space, and log-Euclidean baselines on benchmarks over $\mathbb{S}^2$, $\mathrm{SO}(3)$, $\mathrm{SPD}(3)$, $\mathrm{SE}(3)$, and $\mathbb{H}^2$, scales favorably relative to discrete manifold Sinkhorn, and in a protein-ligand docking application, refines poses on $\mathrm{SE}(3)$ without retraining or per-instance optimization.


Explaining and Preventing Alignment Collapse in Iterative RLHF

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) typically assumes a static or non-strategic reward model (RM). In iterative deployment, however, the policy generates the data on which the RM is retrained, creating a feedback loop. Building on the Stackelberg game formulation of this interaction, we derive an analytical decomposition of the policy's true optimization gradient into a standard policy gradient and a parameter-steering term that captures the policy's influence on the RM's future parameters. We show that standard iterative RLHF, which drops this steering term entirely, suffers from alignment collapse: the policy systematically exploits the RM's blind spots, producing low-quality, high-reward outputs whose feedback reinforces the very errors it exploits. To mitigate this, we propose foresighted policy optimization (FPO), a mechanism-design intervention that restores the missing steering term by regularizing the policy's parameter-steering effect on RM updates. We instantiate FPO via a scalable first-order approximation and demonstrate that it prevents alignment collapse on both controlled environments and an LLM alignment pipeline using Llama-3.2-1B.