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Chilling list reveals which US cities would be targeted first in WW3

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Kentucky mother and daughter turn down $26.5MILLION to sell their farms to secretive tech giant that wants to build data center there Horrifying next twist in the Alexander brothers case: MAUREEN CALLAHAN exposes an unthinkable perversion that's been hiding in plain sight Hollywood icon who starred in Psycho after Hitchcock dubbed her'my new Grace Kelly' looks incredible at 95 Kylie Jenner's total humiliation in Hollywood: Derogatory rumor leaves her boyfriend's peers'laughing at her' behind her back Tucker Carlson erupts at Trump adviser as she hurls'SLANDER' claim linking him to synagogue shooting Ben Affleck'scores $600m deal' with Netflix to sell his AI film start-up Long hair over 45 is ageing and try-hard. I've finally cut mine off. Alexander brothers' alleged HIGH SCHOOL rape video: Classmates speak out on sickening footage... as creepy unseen photos are exposed Heartbreaking video shows very elderly DoorDash driver shuffle down customer's driveway with coffee order because he is too poor to retire Amber Valletta, 52, was a '90s Vogue model who made movies with Sandra Bullock and Kate Hudson, see her now Model Cindy Crawford, 60, mocked for her'out of touch' morning routine: 'Nothing about this is normal' As the US and Israel continue striking targets across Iran, fears are growing that the escalating confrontation could spiral into a wider global conflict. European nations are already being reluctantly pulled into the crisis, deploying military assets to defend allies while trying to avoid direct involvement. Military analysts have warned that if the fighting expands and draws in Iran's powerful allies, including Russia and China, the risk of a catastrophic global war could rise dramatically.




How to tell time on Mars

Popular Science

Physicists finally know how much faster time moves on the Red Planet. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Tracking the first astronauts' visit to Mars won't be as simple as watching a clock or marking days off of a calendar. Thanks to relativity, time actually moves faster on the Red Planet than it does here on Earth. For years, scientists have wondered about the exact temporal difference between planets, but physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) finally have an answer.


RAG-targeted Adversarial Attack on LLM-based Threat Detection and Mitigation Framework

Ikbarieh, Seif, Aryal, Kshitiz, Gupta, Maanak

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Abstract--The rapid expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) is reshaping communication and operational practices across industries, but it also broadens the attack surface and increases susceptibility to security breaches. Artificial Intelligence has become a valuable solution in securing IoT networks, with Large Language Models (LLMs) enabling automated attack behavior analysis and mitigation suggestion in Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS). Despite advancements, the use of LLMs in such systems further expands the attack surface, putting entire networks at risk by introducing vulnerabilities such as prompt injection and data poisoning. In this work, we attack an LLM-based IoT attack analysis and mitigation framework to test its adversarial robustness. We construct an attack description dataset and use it in a targeted data poisoning attack that applies word-level, meaning-preserving perturbations to corrupt the Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) knowledge base of the framework. We then compare pre-attack and post-attack mitigation responses from the target model, ChatGPT -5 Thinking, to measure the impact of the attack on model performance, using an established evaluation rubric designed for human experts and judge LLMs. Our results show that small perturbations degrade LLM performance by weakening the linkage between observed network traffic features and attack behavior, and by reducing the specificity and practicality of recommended mitigations for resource-constrained devices. The Internet of Things (IoT) represents a rapidly expanding ecosystem of interconnected devices that communicate across networks to enable data-driven automation and control.


SM-based Semantics for Answer Set Programs Containing Conditional Literals and Arithmetic

Hansen, Zachary, Lierler, Yuliya

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Modern answer set programming solvers such as CLINGO support advanced language constructs that improve the expressivity and conciseness of logic programs. Conditional literals are one such construct. They form "subformulas" that behave as nested implications within the bodies of logic rules. Their inclusion brings the form of rules closer to the less restrictive syntax of first-order logic. These qualities make conditional literals useful tools for knowledge representation. In this paper, we propose a semantics for logic programs with conditional literals and arithmetic based on the SM operator. These semantics do not require grounding, unlike the established semantics for such programs that relies on a translation to infinitary propositional logic. The main result of this paper establishes the precise correspondence between the proposed and existing semantics.


Decision-focused Sensing and Forecasting for Adaptive and Rapid Flood Response: An Implicit Learning Approach

Sun, Qian, Hults, Graham, Xu, Susu

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Timely and reliable decision-making is vital for flood emergency response, yet it remains severely hindered by limited and imprecise situational awareness due to various budget and data accessibility constraints. Traditional flood management systems often rely on in-situ sensors to calibrate remote sensing-based large-scale flood depth forecasting models, and further take flood depth estimates to optimize flood response decisions. However, these approaches often take fixed, decision task-agnostic strategies to decide where to put in-situ sensors (e.g., maximize overall information gain) and train flood forecasting models (e.g., minimize average forecasting errors), but overlook that systems with the same sensing gain and average forecasting errors may lead to distinct decisions. To address this, we introduce a novel decision-focused framework that strategically selects locations for in-situ sensor placement and optimize spatio-temporal flood forecasting models to optimize downstream flood response decision regrets. Our end-to-end pipeline integrates four components: a contextual scoring network, a differentiable sensor selection module under hard budget constraints, a spatio-temporal flood reconstruction and forecasting model, and a differentiable decision layer tailored to task-specific objectives. Central to our approach is the incorporation of Implicit Maximum Likelihood Estimation (I-MLE) to enable gradient-based learning over discrete sensor configurations, and probabilistic decision heads to enable differentiable approximation to various constrained disaster response tasks.


A Community-driven vision for a new Knowledge Resource for AI

Chaudhri, Vinay K, Baru, Chaitan, Bennett, Brandon, Bhatt, Mehul, Cassel, Darion, Cohn, Anthony G, Dechter, Rina, Erdem, Esra, Ferrucci, Dave, Forbus, Ken, Gelfond, Gregory, Genesereth, Michael, Gordon, Andrew S., Grosof, Benjamin, Gupta, Gopal, Hendler, Jim, Israni, Sharat, Josephson, Tyler R., Kyllonen, Patrick, Lierler, Yuliya, Lifschitz, Vladimir, McFate, Clifton, McGinty, Hande K., Morgenstern, Leora, Oltramari, Alessandro, Paritosh, Praveen, Roth, Dan, Shepard, Blake, Shimzu, Cogan, Vrandečić, Denny, Whiting, Mark, Witbrock, Michael

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The Cyc project, started in 1984, created the first large-scale database of commonsense knowledge. The initiative continues to this day with its aim to provide a comprehensive ontology and knowledge base of commonsense knowledge to enable human-like reasoning for AI systems. In the concluding paragraph of his Communications of the Association of Computing Machinery (CACM) 1995 article A Large-Scale Investment in Knowledge Infrastructure [52], Cyc's founder Douglas B. Lenat wrote: Is Cyc necessary? How far would a user get with something simpler than Cyc but that lacks everyday commonsense knowledge? Nobody knows; the question will be settled empirically. Our guess is most of these applications will eventually tap the synergy in a suite of sources (including neural nets and decision theory), one of which will be Cyc. Although 30 years have passed since the above article was written, AI research community has not conclusively settled [10] the question "How far would a user get with something simpler than Cyc but that lacks everyday commonsense knowledge?" However, it is clear that significant strides have been made in addressing many of the tasks that were original Cyc use cases, including information retrieval, semi-automatically linking multiple heterogeneous external information sources, spelling and grammar correction, machine translation, natural language understanding and speech understanding.