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Sources: Nelson Peltz's Trian plans to publish its recommendations for Disney, including bundling ESPN with a larger player interested in sports, like Netflix (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Disney (DIS) Should Bundle ESPN+ With Netflix (NFLX), According to Nelson Peltz
Activist investor Nelson Peltz believes Walt Disney Co. can achieve profitability in streaming by bundling its ESPN+ online service with a larger player interested in sports, such as Netflix Inc., according to people familiar with the matter.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/technology/tiktok-ban-ukraine-israel-aid.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
House Moves Toward Bundling TikTok Bill With Aid to Ukraine and Israel

CIRP: Cross-Item Relational Pre-training for Multimodal Product Bundling
Yunshan Ma, Yingzhi He, Wenjun Zhong, Xiang Wang, Roger Zimmermann, Tat-Seng Chua
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01735

CIRP: Cross-Item Relational Pre-training for Multimodal Product Bundling
Product bundling has been a prevailing marketing strategy that is beneficial in the online shopping scenario. Effective product bundling methods depend on high-quality item representations, which need to capture both the individual items' semantics and cross-item relations. However, previous item representation learning methods, either feature fusion or graph learning, suffer from inadequate cross-modal alignment and struggle to capture the cross-item relations for cold-start items. Multimodal …

CIRP: Cross-Item Relational Pre-training for Multimodal Product Bundling
Yunshan Ma, Yingzhi He, Wenjun Zhong, Xiang Wang, Roger Zimmermann, Tat-Seng Chua
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01735

CIRP: Cross-Item Relational Pre-training for Multimodal Product Bundling
Product bundling has been a prevailing marketing strategy that is beneficial in the online shopping scenario. Effective product bundling methods depend on high-quality item representations, which need to capture both the individual items' semantics and cross-item relations. However, previous item representation learning methods, either feature fusion or graph learning, suffer from inadequate cross-modal alignment and struggle to capture the cross-item relations for cold-start items. Multimodal …

📉 Climate change policies found to lose popularity when combined with pausing regulations or social justice
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-climate-policies-popularity-combined-social.html

Climate change policies found to lose popularity when combined with pausing regulations or social justice
Legislators love bundling things together. It lets them accomplish more with less hassle and attempt to make legislation more appealing to a broader group. But a new study in the journal Climatic Change suggests that this can sometimes backfire. The authors found that pairing climate policies with other policies does not necessarily increase their popular appeal, and can actually reduce public support.

I opened my first lua-based PR, and of course I had to blog about it
https://blog.lanzani.nl/2024/docker_isbg/

Docker_isbg · Technical inconsistencies blog
I recently started using docker_isbg, a container bundling isbg and imapfilter to filter out spam from a remote IMAP server. Getting started is relatively straightforward and relies mostly on a JSON configuration file such as { "server": "mail.somewhere.com", "username": "somebody@somewhere.com", "password": "Password", "isGmail": "no", //Optional; Default = no "spamSubject": "[SPAM?]", //Optional; "report": "yes", //Optional; Default = no "spamLifetime": 30, //Optional; "folders": { "spam": "…

Cross-Market Mergers with Common Customers: When (and Why) Do They Increase Negotiated Prices?
Enrique Ide
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12575 https://…

Cross-Market Mergers with Common Customers: When (and Why) Do They Increase Negotiated Prices?
I examine the implications of cross-market mergers of suppliers to intermediaries that bundle products for consumers. These mergers are controversial. Some argue that suppliers' products will be substitutes for intermediaries, despite not being substitutes for consumers. Others contend that because bundling makes products complements for consumers, products must be complements for intermediaries. I contribute to this debate by showing that two products can be complements for consumers but subst…

Fuzzing BusyBox: Leveraging LLM and Crash Reuse for Embedded Bug Unearthing
Asmita, Yaroslav Oliinyk, Michael Scott, Ryan Tsang, Chongzhou Fang, Houman Homayoun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03897

Fuzzing BusyBox: Leveraging LLM and Crash Reuse for Embedded Bug Unearthing
BusyBox, an open-source software bundling over 300 essential Linux commands into a single executable, is ubiquitous in Linux-based embedded devices. Vulnerabilities in BusyBox can have far-reaching consequences, affecting a wide array of devices. This research, driven by the extensive use of BusyBox, delved into its analysis. The study revealed the prevalence of older BusyBox versions in real-world embedded products, prompting us to conduct fuzz testing on BusyBox. Fuzzing, a pivotal software t…

📉 Climate change policies found to lose popularity when combined with pausing regulations or social justice
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-climate-policies-popularity-combined-social.html

Climate change policies found to lose popularity when combined with pausing regulations or social justice
Legislators love bundling things together. It lets them accomplish more with less hassle and attempt to make legislation more appealing to a broader group. But a new study in the journal Climatic Change suggests that this can sometimes backfire. The authors found that pairing climate policies with other policies does not necessarily increase their popular appeal, and can actually reduce public support.