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FROM THE PRIMARY RECORDWordPress WordPress Core contains a time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition vulnerability that could allow unauthenticated attackers to execute code on the server during the upgrade window. This is due to predictable, web-accessible staging paths used during full-package core upgrades.
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FROM THE PRIMARY RECORDLanguage models in customer-facing products must be continually updated, since the data they serve shifts over time. As retraining on the full accumulated data is impractical, each update should instead run on a small set of examples carrying the training signal of all data seen so far.
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FROM THE PRIMARY RECORDThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration today issued final guidance for manufacturers of cellular and gene therapy (CGT) products to implement a comprehensive, science- and risk-based plan for making sure their products meet potency standards.
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FROM THE PRIMARY RECORDTwo machines can each recognize an object well and still fail together. We study classifiers that see different parts of one object and send short messages to a receiver that identifies its class. Coordination asks how to design messages together; cooperation asks whether the team outperforms one sender given the whole budget.
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FROM THE PRIMARY RECORDWith the popularization of livestreaming applications, automatic camera tuning has become indispensable for ordinary users to enjoy high Quality of Experience (QoE). However, the existing Image Quality Assessment (IQA) methods face two challenges in camera tuning. First, they struggle to identify subtle quality difference between images, which is common in camera tuning.
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FROM THE PRIMARY RECORDLanguage model agents increasingly act on users' behalf by manipulating external environments through tools, often from high-level instructions that leave critical task- and environment-specific context unstated. To prevent resulting misaligned actions, recent work verifies proposed actions before execution, largely by establishing whether the conditions supporting them hold.
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FROM THE PRIMARY RECORDBridges are critical transportation infrastructure, and reliable operation and maintenance (O&M) is essential for traffic safety and long-term structural performance. However, bridge O&M faces key bottlenecks: no unified architecture coordinates heterogeneous resources; model inferences lack clear links to physical-mechanical laws; and experts' tacit knowledge remains difficult to formalize.
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FROM THE PRIMARY RECORDConclusions in power-system research require a clear evidential basis. Researchers need to understand the data sources, modelling assumptions, and solution procedures to assess the conditions under which a conclusion holds.
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FROM THE PRIMARY RECORDAn indirect prompt injection can affect a search-augmented large language model only after its carrier page reaches model context. SearchInject controls this admission decision with a joint score combining retrieval relevance, search-abuse cues, instruction likelihood, and two relevance interactions. A quarantine threshold is selected under an empirical 0.5% clean-candidate false-quarantine constraint on a calibration split.
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