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Supabase, an open-source rival to Google's Firebase, raised a $100M Series E led by Accel and Peak XV at a $5B valuation, bringing its total funding to $500M (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/10/03/exclusi

Exclusive: Supabase raises $100 million at $5 billion valuation as vibe coding soars
Supabase has raised a $100 million Series E at a $5 billion valuation. Accel and Peak XV led the round, Fortune can exclusively report.

10 million 🔋🚗🚛🚌vehicles on Europe's roads could become an important societal resource, if fit regulation is in place.
My new infographic for Regulatory Assistance Project offers recommendations to 🇪🇺 Member States on how to create a healthy ecosystem for #V2G to scale up.

How to scale V2G in Europe | Jaap Burger
New publication on vehicle-to-grid (#V2G)! Electric vehicles can do much more than just transport people or goods from one place to another. Through smart, bidirectional charging, EV batteries can become an important societal resource. With well over 10 million battery-electric cars, vans and buses already on Europe’s roads, the usable capacity of these mobile batteries is enormous. However, energy regulations are not always ready for these mobile batteries feeding in. Temporary deviations …

Sources: Microsoft is testing ad-supported games streaming internally, allowing employees to play select titles for free without a Game Pass subscription (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/report/791213/xbox-cloud-gaming-free-ad-supported-versi…

Microsoft is about to launch free Xbox Cloud Gaming with ads
Microsoft is getting ready to launch an ad-supported version of Xbox Cloud Gaming. The free streaming is being tested internally at Microsoft.

TIL Melania Trump once voiced the Aflac Duck.
▶️ Aflac - Experiment (2005, USA)
https://youtu.be/0iRgBhfBFUM?si=U8KzftxfEY_T6qTT
✅ Melania Trump's Aflac commercial unearthed after Donald Trump comments

Sonnet 018 - XVIII
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose posses…

Dame Patricia Routledge: The life of TV's magnificently snobby 'Hyacinth Bucket'
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c511ym2r2xpo

Dame Patricia Routledge obituary: The life of TV's magnificently snobby 'Hyacinth Bucket' - BBC News
A much-loved actress who became famous in the role of Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances.

Decoupling Bidirectional Geometric Representations of 4D cost volume with 2D convolution
Xiaobao Wei, Changyong Shu, Zhaokun Yue, Chang Huang, Weiwei Liu, Shuai Yang, Lirong Yang, Peng Gao, Wenbin Zhang, Gaochao Zhu, Chengxiang Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02415

Decoupling Bidirectional Geometric Representations of 4D cost volume with 2D convolution
High-performance real-time stereo matching methods invariably rely on 3D regularization of the cost volume, which is unfriendly to mobile devices. And 2D regularization based methods struggle in ill-posed regions. In this paper, we present a deployment-friendly 4D cost aggregation network DBStereo, which is based on pure 2D convolutions. Specifically, we first provide a thorough analysis of the decoupling characteristics of 4D cost volume. And design a lightweight bidirectional geometry aggrega…

Sources: Microsoft is testing ad-supported games streaming internally, allowing employees to play select titles for free without a Game Pass subscription (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/report/791213/xbox-cloud-gaming-free-ad-supported-versi…

Microsoft is about to launch free Xbox Cloud Gaming with ads
Microsoft is getting ready to launch an ad-supported version of Xbox Cloud Gaming. The free streaming is being tested internally at Microsoft.

How the Venezuelan government is using crypto and stablecoins like USDT to manage the downturn; Venezuela sells most of its oil to China and is paid in crypto (Anatoly Kurmanaev/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/20…

How Maduro Is Responding to Trump’s Pressure on Venezuela’s Economy
President Nicolás Maduro’s opponents hope a new period of economic pain will finally topple his government. He is using cryptocurrency to hold on.

Pack and Force Your Memory: Long-form and Consistent Video Generation
Xiaofei Wu, Guozhen Zhang, Zhiyong Xu, Yuan Zhou, Qinglin Lu, Xuming He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01784 ht…

Pack and Force Your Memory: Long-form and Consistent Video Generation
Long-form video generation presents a dual challenge: models must capture long-range dependencies while preventing the error accumulation inherent in autoregressive decoding. To address these challenges, we make two contributions. First, for dynamic context modeling, we propose MemoryPack, a learnable context-retrieval mechanism that leverages both textual and image information as global guidance to jointly model short- and long-term dependencies, achieving minute-level temporal consistency. Th…