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Doom’s new expansion shows just what makes id Software special

The launch of a new expansion for Doom: The Dark Ages is marred by reports of mass layoffs at Xbox.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Out of Sight: Compression-Aware Content Protection against Agentic Crawlers

CAPE is a new framework that protects online content from AI agents by injecting invisible perturbations that cause information loss during agentic compression.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

LEEVLA: Seeing What Matters in Latent Environment Evolution for Vision-Language-Action

LEEVLA is a new VLA architecture that uses drift-guided dynamic prioritization to help robots focus on task-critical visual evidence.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Leveraging Color Naming for Image Enhancement

NamedCurves+ is an image enhancement approach that integrates color naming and tone curves for interpretable and interactive image retouching.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Open-ended Multi-agent Autocurricula via Visual Inspection of Policies with Multi-modal LLMs

VIP (Visual Inspection of Policies) leverages Video Language Models to generate effective autocurricula for reinforcement learning agents by analyzing episode videos.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

TMI: Text-to-Image Meets Image-to-Image for Complementary Data Synthesis to Boost Long-Tailed Instance Segmentation

TMI is a hybrid pipeline combining text-to-image and image-to-image editing to synthesize data for boosting long-tailed instance segmentation.

Other Hacker News

EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA

The EU Commission has found Instagram and Facebook to be in breach of the Digital Services Act (DSA) due to addictive design features.

Other Hacker News

80-year-old woman with Alzheimer's took mushrooms and started speaking again

A report describes an 80-year-old woman with Alzheimer's who regained the ability to speak after taking mushrooms.

Tech Business/VC The Verge

Polestar owners left ‘holding the bag’ after EV brand pulls out of the US

Polestar is exiting the US market starting with the 2027 model year after the US government denied authorization due to Chinese-made connected vehicle software.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

LDFE: Laplacian Decoupled Feature Enhancement Block for Dual-Stream CNN-based RGB-IR Object Detection

Researchers introduce LDFE, a Laplacian Decoupled Feature Enhancement block designed to improve RGB-IR object detection using dual-stream CNNs.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Deep Learning Method for Stationary Distribution of Reflected Brownian Motion

A new deep learning approach is proposed to learn the Laplace transform of high-dimensional Reflected Brownian Motion (RBM) for stochastic system analysis.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

PS4: Proxy-Supervised Joint Training for Real Target Speaker Extraction

The PS4 framework introduces proxy-supervised joint training and a large-scale corpus to improve target speaker extraction in real conversational mixtures.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

ICDAR 2026 HIPE-OCRepair Competition on LLM-Assisted OCR Post-Correction for Historical Documents

The HIPE-OCRepair-2026 competition evaluates the use of LLMs for post-correcting OCR errors in historical documents across multiple languages.

Cybersecurity arXiv cs.AI

Prismata: Confining Cross-Site Prompt Injection in Web Agents

Prismata is a defense mechanism for web agents that enforces contextual least privilege to prevent cross-site prompt injection attacks.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

LEXIC: Lightweight Eye-tracking eXtension via Injected Complexity

LEXIC proposes injecting word-level difficulty signals into gaze-only models to improve reading comprehension prediction from eye movements.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

ProsMAE: Multi-Source MAE Pretraining for ISUP Grade Classification

ProsMAE is a multi-source Masked Autoencoder framework designed for robust histopathology representation learning and ISUP grade classification.

Homelab/Self-Hosting Hacker News

Ditching Vagrant: VMs with KVM and Virsh on Debian

A discussion on replacing Vagrant with a combination of KVM and Virsh on Debian for managing virtual machines.

Tech Business/VC The Verge

Meta risks $12B EU fine over addictive Instagram and Facebook feeds

Meta faces a potential $12 billion EU fine due to investigations into the addictive design of Instagram and Facebook feeds under the Digital Services Act.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

PLURAL: A Global Dataset for Value Alignment

Introduction of PLURAL, a global preference dataset based on the Integrated Values Survey spanning 92 countries to improve cultural alignment in LLMs.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Aleena: Alignment Agent for Research Software Engineering Collaborations

Presentation of Aleena, an open-source agent designed to maintain stakeholder alignment and track project state in research software engineering using GitHub.