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Filing: iRobot says its last potential buyer withdrew from the process and its financials remain dire, following Amazon abandoning a 2024 bid; IRBT drops 33% (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/27/irobot-stock-roomba.html

iRobot stock tumbles 33% after Roomba maker warns the search for a buyer has stalled
The Roomba maker's financial condition has worsened since Amazon abandoned its planned acquisition of the company in 2024.

The Quasi-Creature and the Uncanny Valley of Agency: A Synthesis of Theory and Evidence on User Interaction with Inconsistent Generative AI
Mauricio Manhaes, Christine Miller, Nicholas Schroeder
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18563

The Quasi-Creature and the Uncanny Valley of Agency: A Synthesis of Theory and Evidence on User Interaction with Inconsistent Generative AI
The user experience with large-scale generative AI is paradoxical: superhuman fluency meets absurd failures in common sense and consistency. This paper argues that the resulting potent frustration is an ontological problem, stemming from the "Quasi-Creature"-an entity simulating intelligence without embodiment or genuine understanding. Interaction with this entity precipitates the "Uncanny Valley of Agency," a framework where user comfort drops when highly agentic AI proves erratically unreliab…

Filing: Strava voluntarily dismissed its patent lawsuit against Garmin, for allegedly infringing its heat map and segments features, just 21 days after filing (Ray Maker/DC Rainmaker)
https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2025/10/strava-drops-voluntarily-lawsuit-again…

Strava Voluntarily Drops Lawsuit Against Garmin
 Strava’s multifaceted legal (and social media) attack on Garmin was short-lived. Just 21 days after filing the original patent infringement case, alongside a Reddit post from their executive team attacking Garmin, the company has decided to dismiss the case

Cowboys' Brian Schottenheimer praises CeeDee Lamb's work ethic following Week 1 drops https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/dallas-cowboys-brian-schottenheimer-praises-ceedee-lamb-work-ethic-following-week-1-drops…

Mass Loss and Subsequent Thermal Evolution of Surviving Helium White Dwarfs Shocked by Thermonuclear Supernovae
Tin Long Sunny Wong, Lars Bildsten
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12529

Mass Loss and Subsequent Thermal Evolution of Surviving Helium White Dwarfs Shocked by Thermonuclear Supernovae
Following a type Ia supernova (SN Ia) in a double white dwarf (WD) binary, a surviving WD companion leaves at its orbital velocity $\approx 1$,000 - 3,000 km/s. The Gaia mission has discovered seven such hypervelocity WDs with inflated radii indicative of shock heating by SN ejecta. We study the interaction between SN ejecta and Roche lobe-filling 0.08 - 0.45 $M_{\odot}$ helium WD companions using three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations with Athena++. Given the importance of the later ther…

Revealing Inherent Concurrency in Event Data: A Partial Order Approach to Process Discovery
Humam Kourani, Gyunam Park, Wil M. P. van der Aalst
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15346 …

Revealing Inherent Concurrency in Event Data: A Partial Order Approach to Process Discovery
Process discovery algorithms traditionally linearize events, failing to capture the inherent concurrency of real-world processes. While some techniques can handle partially ordered data, they often struggle with scalability on large event logs. We introduce a novel, scalable algorithm that directly leverages partial orders in process discovery. Our approach derives partially ordered traces from event data and aggregates them into a sound-by-construction, perfectly fitting process model. Our hie…

From empty to filled vortices in squeezed 39K Bose-Bose liquid drops
Ivan Popari\'c, Leandra Vranje\v{s} Marki\'c, Jordi Boronat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12390 https:/…

From empty to filled vortices in squeezed 39K Bose-Bose liquid drops
Using density functional theory, we have theoretically studied the formation and the stability of vortices in quantum liquid droplets composed of a mixture of hyperfine states of potassium. Following the experimental setup that produced quantum droplets for the first time, we work with squeezed drops that are compressed in one direction. By squeezing the drops even more, towards a quasi-two dimensional geometry, we study the minimum atom number able to show a stable vortex and obtain that this …

Been experimenting with Shortwave, a frontend to Gmail with serious AI capabilities. So far it impresses me and is able to do the things that Gmail Gemini was failing me at. Main drawback is it's fairly expensive for a consumer product.

SEC filing: Jeff Bezos discloses that he now owns 9% of Amazon's shares, down from 10.1% a year ago, after selling 100M shares over the course of the past year (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Jeff Bezos’ Ownership Stake in Amazon Drops Below 10 Percent as Tech Mogul Continued Stock Sell-Off
The Amazon founder has been selling off his shares at a regular cadence since stepping aside as CEO four years ago.

Filing: Lime's UK revenue rose 75% YoY to £111.3M in 2024, while its pre-tax profit fell to £1.71M, partly due to a £51.3M "reseller fee" paid to its US parent (Athena Browning/Zag Daily)
https://zagdaily.com/trends/limes-uk-revenue…