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The End Of Unmeasured Exploitation: How A.S.M., C.A.S., And S.I.A. Challenge Digital Attention Capitalism, Delante Clark Oct 2026

The End Of Unmeasured Exploitation: How A.S.M., C.A.S., And S.I.A. Challenge Digital Attention Capitalism, Delante Clark

Graduate Scholarship and Creative Works

Digital attention capitalism generates value through the capture and monetization of human attention, yet it has historically lacked standardized mechanisms for measuring attention-related harm. This paper argues that the Attention Safeguard Models (A.S.M.), Cognitive Attentional Standards (C.A.S.), and Sociological Impact Assessment (S.I.A.) collectively challenge this system by introducing an integrated framework for classifying, measuring, and evaluating digital attention harm and its societal consequences. C.A.S. provides standardized measurement of digital attention harm, A.S.M. identifies and classifies patterns of attentional disruption and manipulation, and S.I.A. evaluates broader impacts on institutions, communities, civic engagement, education, social cohesion, and inequality. Together, these systems transform …

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New And Notes Oct 2026

New And Notes

Appalachia

Maine’s Barnard Forest is protected. Commercial logging goes forward in part of the White Mountain National Forest. A look back at Christine Woodside’s editorship of Appalachia. A tribute to outgoing longtime poetry editor Parkman Howe.

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Alpina Oct 2026

Alpina

Appalachia

Reports of mountaineering in the greater ranges of Patagonia, Nepal, Tibet, Saudi Arabia, North America, and Madagascar include a wintertime solo of Cerro Torre, an 86-year-old’s summit of Manaslu, and a discussion of climbing permits on Everest. Nepal tourism officials list eight more high points as 8,000-meter peaks. Two men from France climb Jannu East. American Jim Morrison skis down Everest. Chinese climbers scale peaks in the area known as East of the Himalaya. Sentencing of three criminals. First ascents in Saudi Arabia. And more.

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Accidents Oct 2026

Accidents

Appalachia

Reports of rescues and accidents in the White Mountains of New Hampshire from the warm seasons of 2025 opens with a note about “the eleventh essential,” which is “a “mind of winter.” New Hampshire Fish and Game officers rescue a man stranded in cold rain after wandering along the Garfield Ridge Trail. A hiker is stranded by early-May snow on the Kilkenny Ridge Trail. The Cog Railway assists in a rescue of a woman who had tried to reach Lakes of the Clouds Hut in cold June weather. Rescuers assist a sick man off the Franconia Ridge. A man takes …

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Letters Oct 2026

Letters

Appalachia

Praise for William Geller’s Winter/Spring 2026 piece, “Chesuncook, through the Life of Addie.”

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John Kelley: Runner And Conservationist., Steve Fagin Oct 2026

John Kelley: Runner And Conservationist., Steve Fagin

Appalachia

A runner pays homage to his long friendship with an Olympian.

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The Loss Of Guy Waterman, A Quarter-Century Later: Friends Climb Franconia Ridge To Remember Their Mountain Mentor, Doug Mayer Oct 2026

The Loss Of Guy Waterman, A Quarter-Century Later: Friends Climb Franconia Ridge To Remember Their Mountain Mentor, Doug Mayer

Appalachia

A man who helped recovered the body of his friend talks about his giant legacy.

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The Long Way Home: What The Appalachian Trail Taught Me About Real-Time Dispatches, Christine Woodside Oct 2026

The Long Way Home: What The Appalachian Trail Taught Me About Real-Time Dispatches, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

The outgoing editor-in-chief tells how she sent home dispatches for publication during the early weeks of her thru-hike, and then realized she didn’t need to tell everyone what she was doing.

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Appalachia Summer/Fall 2026: Complete Issue Oct 2026

Appalachia Summer/Fall 2026: Complete Issue

Appalachia

Summer/Fall 2026 - Volume LXXVII, Number 2 - Issue #262. Legacies.

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Three-Mode Audio-Selection Chip With Account-Level Viewer Opt-Out, Local Communities Management Company (D/B/A Horsenly) Oct 2026

Three-Mode Audio-Selection Chip With Account-Level Viewer Opt-Out, Local Communities Management Company (D/B/A Horsenly)

Defensive Publications Series

A user interface and method for adding audio to user-generated video in a content-sharing platform, in which the content creator selects only one of a small fixed set of audio modes — for example (1) keep original audio, (2) layer platform-provided music beneath the original audio, or (3) replace the original audio with platform-provided music — via a compact three-option control ("chip"), without browsing or selecting from an audio catalog; and in which a viewer may disable platform-provided audio across their experience via an account-level preference and/or a per-play toggle.

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Metric-Affine Engineering (Mag) And Complex Continuum Physics: Global Invention Portfolio, Xavier Pillet Oct 2026

Metric-Affine Engineering (Mag) And Complex Continuum Physics: Global Invention Portfolio, Xavier Pillet

Defensive Publications Series

This document, produced with the assistance of Gemini 3.6 Reasoning, is released under the Apache License 2.0. It is a voluntary defensive publication (prior art) and therefore enters the prior art upon release under the applicable patent statutes : EPC Art. 54(2) (European Patent Convention), French IPC Art. L 611-11 (French Intellectual Property Code), 35 U.S.C. §102(a) (United States Patent Act), Chinese Patent Law Art. 22(5) (中华人民共和国专利法), and Japanese Patent Act Art. 29(1) (特許法). This comprehensive portfolio discloses 48 enabling technical innovations derived from metric-affine engineering (MAG), covering odd-viscosity micropolar fluids, hyper-shear metamaterials, Weyl semimetals, quantum/cryogenic instrumentation, healthcare applications, software …

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The Incommensurability-Preserving Coupler: A Non-Purchasable Recognition Balance Sized Only From The Thank-You Message, Beside Money Gifts, Time Pledges And Prepaid Item Gift Codes, With The Merchant's Own Item Price As The Only Exchange Rate And One Payment Type Per Gift Message, Thon Ly Oct 2026

The Incommensurability-Preserving Coupler: A Non-Purchasable Recognition Balance Sized Only From The Thank-You Message, Beside Money Gifts, Time Pledges And Prepaid Item Gift Codes, With The Merchant's Own Item Price As The Only Exchange Rate And One Payment Type Per Gift Message, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

This defensive publication's revision adds a third gift cargo and claims 8–11 to a dual-currency gift system in which peer-to-peer money gifts and non-transferable, expiring time pledges run as one economy with no exchange rate. The system also carries prepaid item gift codes, bought at a shop's own price, beside per-person recognition balances that cannot be bought, transferred or cashed. Each thank-you message's recognition amount is computed only from the message (its words, a sender-chosen sentiment marker, its recorded length, the parties it names, and a model's refinement within a fixed band), never from any money amount, item, price, length …

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The B-Tag Recommendation Function: Privacy-Preserving Methodology For Ai-Mediated Commercial Tip Recommendation — Suggested Tip Amounts With Stated Reasons From Confidential Merchant Costs, Without Customer Tracking, Thon Ly Oct 2026

The B-Tag Recommendation Function: Privacy-Preserving Methodology For Ai-Mediated Commercial Tip Recommendation — Suggested Tip Amounts With Stated Reasons From Confidential Merchant Costs, Without Customer Tracking, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

This paper discloses a method by which an AI agent recommends a voluntary payment amount, a suggested tip in a pay-what-you-want sale, and shows it with stated reasons, without tracking the customer and without revealing the merchant's costs. Six components are specified. (1) The merchant confidentially discloses a cost breakdown by category (materials, labor, a skill premium, overhead, regulatory cost and margin) to the recommender; the customer never sees it. (2) The recommended amount is a non-binding anchor: paying it, more, less or nothing completes the sale, and whether a customer accepted or overrode past suggestions is not recorded. (3) …

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Autonomous Capability Acquisition For Decentralized Ai Agents, Gaurav Gupta Oct 2026

Autonomous Capability Acquisition For Decentralized Ai Agents, Gaurav Gupta

Defensive Publications Series

Systems and methods are described for the autonomous acquisition of procedural capabilities by decentralized artificial intelligence (AI) agents operating on client edge devices. For example, a hybrid hub-and-spoke architecture could be used, comprising a centralized platform functioning as a marketplace and decentralized agents on client devices, such as smartphones, wearable devices, or smart home appliances. An agent may identify a functional gap, discover a suitable capability on the platform via a standardized agent-to-agent communication protocol, and procure it using an agent-native payment protocol via cryptographically signed intent and cart mandates, potentially without human-in-the-loop confirmation. An acquired capability can then be …

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Discreteness, Adjacency And Order: A Structural Comparison Of The Theravāda Abhidhamma With Causal Sets And Loop Quantum Gravity — Partial Orders, Spin-Network Boundaries And Discrete Time In Buddhist Philosophy Of Matter, Thon Ly Oct 2026

Discreteness, Adjacency And Order: A Structural Comparison Of The Theravāda Abhidhamma With Causal Sets And Loop Quantum Gravity — Partial Orders, Spin-Network Boundaries And Discrete Time In Buddhist Philosophy Of Matter, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

This study compares the Theravāda Buddhist Abhidhamma with two discrete approaches to quantum gravity, causal set theory and loop quantum gravity, as formal structures, on three axes: order, adjacency and ratio. No row predicts a measurement, and none says that a Buddhist text anticipated a theory of quantum gravity. On order, the twenty-four conditioning relations of the Paṭṭhāna, taken whole, are not a partial order. The condition-modes that always run from earlier-arising to later-arising form an acyclic typed relation over which a strict order can be read: acyclic by selection, not yet a causal set, and ordering some moments of …

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Metric-Affine Engineering: Transverse Domains And Comprehensive Applicative Variants, Xavier Pillet Oct 2026

Metric-Affine Engineering: Transverse Domains And Comprehensive Applicative Variants, Xavier Pillet

Defensive Publications Series

This document, produced with the assistance of Gemini 3.6 Reasoning, is released under the Apache License 2.0. It is a voluntary defensive publication (prior art) and therefore enters the prior art upon release under the applicable patent statutes : EPC Art. 54(2) (European Patent Convention), French IPC Art. L 611-11 (French Intellectual Property Code), 35 U.S.C. §102(a) (United States Patent Act), Chinese Patent Law Art. 22(5) (中华人民共和国专利法), and Japanese Patent Act Art. 29(1) (特許法). This unified disclosure exhaustively compiles all 62 patentable concepts arising from the operational control of spacetime and hypermomentum, covering quantum propulsion, topological materials, hyper-shear medicine, and …

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Causal Set Theory, The Growing Block, And The Buddhist Debate On The Three Times: What The Earliest Vibhajjavādin Records Say — Presentism, Eternalism And Beginningless Time In Abhidharma Texts Compared With Sequential-Growth Models, Thon Ly Oct 2026

Causal Set Theory, The Growing Block, And The Buddhist Debate On The Three Times: What The Earliest Vibhajjavādin Records Say — Presentism, Eternalism And Beginningless Time In Abhidharma Texts Compared With Sequential-Growth Models, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

This study reads the Buddhist debate on whether past and future things exist (the "three times") against the growing-block view of time that causal set theory's sequential-growth models are offered to support. Rafael Sorkin (2007) remarked that the "accretive time" of these models seems close to C.D. Broad's and to the "Vibhajavadin" school's; Fay Dowker (2022) invited a scholar to determine that school's view of time from the earliest records. The records give no single view under the name. In the northern Abhidharma, the Vibhajyavādins hold that the present and past action whose fruit is not yet given exist, but …

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Machine-Checked Consistency Of A Buddhist Classification: Lean Theorems For The Abhidhamma's 89 And 121 Types Of Consciousness — Formal Verification Of A Class–Feature Incidence Structure Against Both Stated Projections, With Mutation Testing, Thon Ly Oct 2026

Machine-Checked Consistency Of A Buddhist Classification: Lean Theorems For The Abhidhamma's 89 And 121 Types Of Consciousness — Formal Verification Of A Class–Feature Incidence Structure Against Both Stated Projections, With Mutation Testing, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

This paper reports a machine-checked consistency test of a classification that its source states twice, once feature by feature and once class by class. The source is chapters 1–3 of the Abhidhammattha-saṅgaha, a standard manual of the Theravāda Buddhist Abhidhamma, which classifies consciousness into 89 types (121 when the supramundane types are reckoned by meditative absorption) and states which of 52 mental factors combine with each type. In the Lean 4 theorem prover, a nine-clause generator builds the types as a product of chapter 1's classification axes, and eighteen rules over those axes, none naming an individual type, assign each …

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Leaf Certificate Validation For High-Volume Services Using An Encrypted Device Mapping Token Carried In The Certificate Issuer Name, Aditya Sanjay Belsare, Vikram Gaur Oct 2026

Leaf Certificate Validation For High-Volume Services Using An Encrypted Device Mapping Token Carried In The Certificate Issuer Name, Aditya Sanjay Belsare, Vikram Gaur

Defensive Publications Series

A relying party that authenticates devices in the field ordinarily receives a full certificate chain and verifies a signature at each link up to a trusted root certificate.  Alternatively, individual certificate records from the chain may be preserved by the issuer, which may be queried by a relying party on each request.  The first approach consumes bandwidth and processor time, and the second adds latency and storage.  To address these deficiencies, this disclosure describes a certificate validation system that carries an encrypted token in the subject name of an intermediate certificate issued to a device.  A leaf certificate generated on …

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Fingerprint Enrollment Guidance Using Stitched-Island Outline Feedback And Dynamic Touch-Count Reduction For Narrow-Aspect Sensors, Justin Eltoft, Eddie Lan Oct 2026

Fingerprint Enrollment Guidance Using Stitched-Island Outline Feedback And Dynamic Touch-Count Reduction For Narrow-Aspect Sensors, Justin Eltoft, Eddie Lan

Defensive Publications Series

A fingerprint sensor with a narrow sensing area, for example a side-mounted sensor on a mobile device, images only a small slice of a finger with each touch, so an enrollment process stitches a series of touches into a composite template.  A user who repeatedly touches the sensor with the same part of the finger fills one region of the template while leaving other regions uncovered, which can cause authentication failures after enrollment.  This document describes an enrollment guidance method that receives per-touch stitching metadata from a fingerprint matcher and presents each contiguous stitched region on a display as an …

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Measuring The Lens Distortion Of A Fixed Tracking Camera From Operator-Traced Straight Lines, With Edge Snapping, An Uncertainty-Based Coverage Rating And Grid-Side Correction, Michel Honold, Paul Hermann Oct 2026

Measuring The Lens Distortion Of A Fixed Tracking Camera From Operator-Traced Straight Lines, With Edge Snapping, An Uncertainty-Based Coverage Rating And Grid-Side Correction, Michel Honold, Paul Hermann

Defensive Publications Series

A method measures the lens distortion of a camera that maps image positions onto a surface, such as a fixed camera tracking performers on a stage, without a calibration target. The operator indicates a feature that is straight in reality, for example a stage edge, tape, truss or LED-wall edge, by clicking its two ends. The software places sample points between the clicks and snaps each one across the line onto the strongest image edge, using one edge polarity for the whole line so that both edges of a strip of tape are never mixed. The operator can correct individual …

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Selectable Vocal-Isolated Audio Tracks For Video Content, Abdulrahman Alhazmi, Najeeb Jarrar Oct 2026

Selectable Vocal-Isolated Audio Tracks For Video Content, Abdulrahman Alhazmi, Najeeb Jarrar

Defensive Publications Series

Selectable vocal-isolated audio tracks are provided for video content. A media item including video content and audio content is obtained. One or more speech components and a set of musical components are extracted from the audio content. Modified audio content including the one or more speech components and a subset of the set of musical components is generated. A common media identifier is assigned to the video content, the audio content, and the modified audio content. Based on the common media identifier, the video content is provided for playback with the audio content and the modified audio content as selectable …

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Brand Identity As Architecture: The B-Heart Logo, B-Prefix Naming, Heartbeat Animation As Display Of A Proof-Of-Humanity Attestation, And Aura-Color Two-Ledger State Primitive — Rotated-Heart Bistable Logo, Single-Letter Product Prefix, Logo Animation Bound To Proof-Of-Personhood Attestation, And Avatar Ring Color From Balance Zero-Crossing Frequency, Thon Ly Oct 2026

Brand Identity As Architecture: The B-Heart Logo, B-Prefix Naming, Heartbeat Animation As Display Of A Proof-Of-Humanity Attestation, And Aura-Color Two-Ledger State Primitive — Rotated-Heart Bistable Logo, Single-Letter Product Prefix, Logo Animation Bound To Proof-Of-Personhood Attestation, And Avatar Ring Color From Balance Zero-Crossing Frequency, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

This paper discloses a brand-identity system in which each element of a logo does functional work beyond recognition. (I) A logo made by rotating an unmodified heart silhouette 45° clockwise, so that it reads at once as a heart and as the capital letter B — a reading that survives at favicon size because it depends on no internal whitespace. (II) A product-naming convention in which every product takes a one-letter prefix that is the logo's own letter reading, so the prefix cannot come apart from the mark. (III) A logo animation with a cardiac morphology — two pulses, the …

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Transparency As Enforcement: Anti-Abuse Without Legal Contract Machinery — Community Disclosure In Place Of Terms-Of-Service Enforcement, Limited To Incurred Obligations, Thon Ly Oct 2026

Transparency As Enforcement: Anti-Abuse Without Legal Contract Machinery — Community Disclosure In Place Of Terms-Of-Service Enforcement, Limited To Incurred Obligations, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

This paper discloses a design pattern for abuse prevention in online platforms and shared-fund applications that replaces terms-of-service enforcement, dispute resolution and account termination with disclosure: the conduct to be policed is made visible to the bounded community it affects, and that community's own response is the sanction. Three properties make disclosure work as enforcement: the visibility itself is the mechanism, the response is proportioned by the community rather than by a binary rule, and participants join knowing what will be visible. Two deployments are specified: disclosure to a family of every reward its steward receives from the family's shared …

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Ambient-Based Audio Adjustment Using Remote Control Sensors And Acoustic Response Modulation Using Audio Input Analysis, Nikita Agarwal Oct 2026

Ambient-Based Audio Adjustment Using Remote Control Sensors And Acoustic Response Modulation Using Audio Input Analysis, Nikita Agarwal

Defensive Publications Series

Systems and methods adjust audio presentation based on acoustic conditions detected near a user or characteristics of a voice command. A remote-control microphone can distinguish environmental sound from television audio and provide a control signal that causes temporary changes to volume, dialogue enhancement, or subtitle presentation. A voice-controlled device can analyze spectral characteristics of a command, classify a speaking condition such as whispering, and, in response to detecting whispering, switch an audio-response voice model or speech synthesizer to a whisper-specific profile that produces a breathy and softer voice, rather than merely reducing output volume. The selected voice model or synthesizer …

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Dependency-Aware Speculative Proxy Cache For Multi-Turn Llm Agentic Workflows, Rajkumar Baskaran, Ishani Basu, Sudhindra Desai Oct 2026

Dependency-Aware Speculative Proxy Cache For Multi-Turn Llm Agentic Workflows, Rajkumar Baskaran, Ishani Basu, Sudhindra Desai

Defensive Publications Series

Systems and methods are described for caching and processing requests associated with a multi-turn agentic workflow. A proxy between a client and a large language model (LLM) API receives a request associated with a turn of the multi-turn agentic workflow and determines a cache key based on input information associated with the turn and an index of the turn. The proxy determines whether a cache entry corresponding to the cache key is valid based on a dependency of the cache entry on one or more external resources and, when valid, provides a cached response to the client. The proxy further …

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Fractal Three-Level Architecture For Reciprocity Economies: Self-Similar Family-And-Global Layering With A Single Mental Model — A Shared Three-Level Account Hierarchy (Pooled Fund, Give-Forward Account, Individual Account) For Family And Peer-To-Peer Payments, Thon Ly Oct 2026

Fractal Three-Level Architecture For Reciprocity Economies: Self-Similar Family-And-Global Layering With A Single Mental Model — A Shared Three-Level Account Hierarchy (Pooled Fund, Give-Forward Account, Individual Account) For Family And Peer-To-Peer Payments, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

This paper discloses an account architecture for a reciprocity platform — software through which people give one another money as thanks — designed to operate at two scales, within families and between strangers peer to peer, with one three-level account hierarchy at both, so that a participant who has learned the family-scale system recognizes the planetary-scale one. The three node types are a pooled fund that aggregates contributions and disburses them under published rules; a give-forward account, whose balance can only be passed on to other people; and an individual's own account. Four transfer conventions apply identically at each scale: …

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Constraint-Preserving Ai Generation Of Network Test Procedures, Bharath Raj C, Mukund Anandan, Gourav Gourav Oct 2026

Constraint-Preserving Ai Generation Of Network Test Procedures, Bharath Raj C, Mukund Anandan, Gourav Gourav

Defensive Publications Series

A technique is proposed herein for converting artificial intelligence (AI)-generated network testcase intents and parameter combinations into detailed procedure structures through two independent reuse decisions. Technical-artifact applicability controls whether evidence may be shared, while execution compatibility controls whether an ordered procedure can be shared. A machine-readable row contract preserves testcase constraints for both decisions. One template is generated per compatible procedure family and is bound deterministically to row-specific values and a selected combination, retaining evidence authority, unresolved exact artifacts, and validation lineage. In a matched-input comparison of complete workflows, a working implementation reduced completed AI-agent turns, total tokens and input …

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System And Methods For Load And Service Level Agreement Aware Plan Selection, Pivoting, And Auditing Before Workflow Expansion, Sushmitha Vatsal, Ashwini S Kulkarni, Ghulam Ghaus Arshi, Priyanka Bansal, Vivek Kumar Singh Oct 2026

System And Methods For Load And Service Level Agreement Aware Plan Selection, Pivoting, And Auditing Before Workflow Expansion, Sushmitha Vatsal, Ashwini S Kulkarni, Ghulam Ghaus Arshi, Priyanka Bansal, Vivek Kumar Singh

Defensive Publications Series

A load-aware planning system is proposed herein for agentic artificial intelligence (AI) workflows that may amplify a single request into many subtasks, model calls, tool invocations, and agent-to-agent interactions. The system uses a Load-State Registry to obtain a unified view of current load, a Load-Aware Planner to select among Detailed, Balanced, Lightweight, Partial, Deferred, or Fallback plans, Plan Pivoting to adapt a plan when conditions change, and a Plan Decision Store to record the reasoning and audit trail. By selecting how much work to create before execution and adapting the plan during execution, the system addresses concurrent-load conditions that can …

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News Publishers And Platforms: Mandated Payment And Its Limits, Abhiram Nitin Oct 2026

News Publishers And Platforms: Mandated Payment And Its Limits, Abhiram Nitin

Indian Journal of Law and Technology

Falling advertising revenues of news media in the digital age have precipitated regulations that require payments by ‘Big Tech’ companies to news publishers for content. This paper reviews three approaches – the press publishers’ right in the European Union (‘EU’), Big Tech Regulation in Australia and Canada and the competition-enforcement proceedings in India. The experiences in the EU, Australia, and Canada reveal an incentive-incompatibility in mandating payments for news, owing to the asymmetric structural dependence of publishers on platforms – publishers cannot afford to lose platform traffic while platforms can drop news at little cost. Competition law, while subject to …

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