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OpenStore is scaling back its e-commerce aggregation efforts, closing nearly all of its 40 Shopify stores and rebranding under its Jack Archer menswear label (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/openstore-demise-endga…

OpenStore’s demise marks endgame for once-booming e-commerce aggregator market
OpenStore is rebranding under its Jack Archer menswear label after shuttering many of the Shopify storefronts it acquired and laying off staffers.

Russian attacks across Ukraine kill 11, injure 75 over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/07/russian-attacks-across-ukraine-kill.html

Mini-Gehirne im Weltall: Deutsche Forschung für Langzeitmissionen
Wie sich Schwerelosigkeit auf die zentrale Schaltstelle im Gehirn auswirkt, wollen Forscher im All anhand von Hippocampus-Organoiden ermitteln.

Quantifying the Accuracy-Interpretability Trade-Off in Concept-Based Sidechannel Models
David Debot, Giuseppe Marra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05670 https://

Quantifying the Accuracy-Interpretability Trade-Off in Concept-Based Sidechannel Models
Concept Bottleneck Models (CBNMs) are deep learning models that provide interpretability by enforcing a bottleneck layer where predictions are based exclusively on human-understandable concepts. However, this constraint also restricts information flow and often results in reduced predictive accuracy. Concept Sidechannel Models (CSMs) address this limitation by introducing a sidechannel that bypasses the bottleneck and carry additional task-relevant information. While this improves accuracy, it …

Browns trade Joe Flacco to Bengals: Cincinnati acquires veteran QB from division rival in late-round pick swap

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/brown…

Source: Meta has acquired WaveForms AI, which is working on AI that understands and mimics emotion in audio and debuted in December with a $40M seed led by a16z (Kalley Huang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-acquires-ai-audio-star…

Meta Acquires AI Audio Startup WaveForms
Meta Platforms has acquired WaveForms AI, a small startup working on artificial intelligence capable of understanding emotion and mimicking it in audio form, according to a person with direct knowledge. The acquisition comes as Meta continues to overhaul its efforts in AI, after stumbles earlier ...

Causality-aware Graph Aggregation Weight Estimator for Popularity Debiasing in Top-K Recommendation
Yue Que, Yingyi Zhang, Xiangyu Zhao, Chen Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04502

Causality-aware Graph Aggregation Weight Estimator for Popularity Debiasing in Top-K Recommendation
Graph-based recommender systems leverage neighborhood aggregation to generate node representations, which is highly sensitive to popularity bias, resulting in an echo effect during information propagation. Existing graph-based debiasing solutions refine the aggregation process with attempts such as edge reconstruction or weight adjustment. However, these methods remain inadequate in fully alleviating popularity bias. Specifically, this is because 1) they provide no insights into graph aggregati…

Russian attacks kill 6, injure 21 across Ukraine, target energy infrastructure: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/08/russian-attacks-kill-injure-across.html

As of Wednesday, 38 large fires were burning across nine western states,
including Colorado’s #Lee Fire and California’s #Gifford Fire, which ballooned into the state’s largest this year.

What’s driving the explosive fires in the West?
As of Wednesday, 38 large fires were burning across nine western states, including Colorado’s Lee Fire and California’s Gifford Fire, which ballooned into the state’s largest this year.

Coupa, a Thoma Bravo-owned supply chain tech company, acquires procurement tech startup Scoutbee, with the deal expected to close by the end of October (Colin Campbell/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/supply-chain-dea

Exclusive: Thoma Bravo-backed supply chain tech firm Coupa acquires Scoutbee
Supply chain technology is increasingly consolidating as AI transforms firms' capabilities and draws additional investor interest.