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From Translink
Pattullo Bridge closed northbound for a night
Closure necessary for repaving work near bridge deck in New Westminster
The Pattullo Bridge will be closed to vehicle traffic travelling northbound into New Westminster for one night, due to construction work for the Pattullo Bridge Replacement Project. The directional closure will take place overnight on the following date:
Thursday, October 30 (9 pm to 5am)
Southbound travel into Surrey & nb peds…

E.W. Scripps agrees to sell its Indianapolis ABC affiliate station WRTV to Circle City Broadcasting for $83M; Scripps agreed to sell WFTX for $40M in September (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/ew-scripps-wrtv-circle-city-broadcasting-sale/

E.W. Scripps to Sell Indianapolis ABC Affiliate WRTV to Circle City Broadcasting for $83 Million
The deal for the Indianapolis ABC affiliate station will close following receipt of regulatory and other customary approvals

1/2 In a piece about Canadian politics, probably not of interest to outsiders, I suspect this will amuse many:
“Trump’s [team] are every bit the … “Bad Boy” Detroit Pistons of the late 80s … Trump is peak Bill Laimbeer, sneering and fouling everything in sight. JD Vance is Dennis Rodman, an Energizer bunny clearing the boards. And Stephen Miller is Isaiah Thomas, the floor general weaving through defences and chirping at his opponents with an insouciant mug begging to be slapped.”

Betting buzz: Ravens swing from favorite to underdog amid Jackson injury rumors https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story/_/id/40159558/betting-buzz-latest-sports-betting-odds-updates-changes-line-moves-industry-…

Bloody Sunday: Government spent over £4m on Soldier F case
https://share.google/lI7OO5pkDz9xpi6eG
The British gov. has now spent 4M and 53 years defending a self-confessed killer for an atrocity it paid for, which it investigated and publicly announced as unjustified and unjustifiable.
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Bloody Sunday: Government spent over £4m on Soldier F case
David Johnstone says he found it "incredulous that there is this level of point scoring" following the trial.

How a focus on video helped News UK's Talksport transform from a radio station to a multi-platform sports brand, with 35M to 45M YouTube views per month (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

How Youtube revenue is fuelling Talksport's transformation into video brand
News UK's director of digital for broadcasting shared how Talksport's new studio has helped it progress in becoming a more video-based brand.

Feeding Two Birds or Favoring One? Adequacy-Fluency Tradeoffs in Evaluation and Meta-Evaluation of Machine Translation
Behzad Shayegh, Jan-Thorsten Peter, David Vilar, Tobias Domhan, Juraj Juraska, Markus Freitag, Lili Mou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20287

Feeding Two Birds or Favoring One? Adequacy-Fluency Tradeoffs in Evaluation and Meta-Evaluation of Machine Translation
We investigate the tradeoff between adequacy and fluency in machine translation. We show the severity of this tradeoff at the evaluation level and analyze where popular metrics fall within it. Essentially, current metrics generally lean toward adequacy, meaning that their scores correlate more strongly with the adequacy of translations than with fluency. More importantly, we find that this tradeoff also persists at the meta-evaluation level, and that the standard WMT meta-evaluation favors adeq…

Broadcom closes up 9.88% following the announcement of its custom chip deal with OpenAI; its stock is up over 50% in 2025 after more than doubling in 2024 (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/openai-partners-with-bro…

Broadcom stock pops 7% on OpenAI custom chip deal, adding to Nvidia and AMD agreements
OpenAI is teaming up with Broadcom to jointly develop and deploy 10 gigawatts of custom AI accelerators starting in 2026.

Betting buzz: Indianapolis Colts flying up odds boards amid hot start https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story/_/id/40159558/betting-buzz-latest-sports-betting-odds-updates-changes-line-moves-industry-intel