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Rachel Tashjian, most recently the fashion critic for The Washington Post, joins CNN as a senior style reporter for a new digital product (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/cnn-rachel-tashjian-fashion-critic-washington-p…

CNN Hire Washington Post Fashioin Critic Rachel Tashjian
CNN hires Rachel Tashjian, who has been fashion critic at The Washington Post, as the Warner Bros. Discovery outlet seeks new digital presence

#Cortigent on their Orion brain implant: "Our goal is to help the profoundly blind regain visual perception" https://www.cortigent.com/orion Orion Visual Cortical Prosthesis System, based on Argus II retinal im…

❗️Russia strikes Ukraine again – critical infrastructure under attack! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/08/russia-strikes-ukraine-again-critical.html

CardiacFlow: 3D t Four-Chamber Cardiac Shape Completion and Generation via Flow Matching
Qiang Ma, Qingjie Meng, Mengyun Qiao, Paul M. Matthews, Declan P. O'Regan, Wenjia Bai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05754

CardiacFlow: 3D+t Four-Chamber Cardiac Shape Completion and Generation via Flow Matching
Learning 3D+t shape completion and generation from multi-view cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) images requires a large amount of high-resolution 3D whole-heart segmentations (WHS) to capture shape priors. In this work, we leverage flow matching techniques to learn deep generative flows for augmentation, completion, and generation of 3D+t shapes of four cardiac chambers represented implicitly by segmentations. Firstly, we introduce a latent rectified flow to generate 3D cardiac shapes for data a…

During the GPT-5 livestream, OpenAI showed two charts whose scales were all over the place, with Sam Altman later calling one "a mega chart screwup from us" (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/756444/openai-gpt-5-vibe-graphing-chart-crim…

OpenAI gets caught vibe graphing
During its big GPT-5 livestream, OpenAI showed off a few charts that seemed to have some big mistakes. CEO Sam Altman called one a “screwup.”

Critical Design Strategy: a Method for Heuristically Evaluating Visualisation Designs
Jonathan C. Roberts, Hanan Alnjar, Aron E. Owen, Panagiotis D. Ritsos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05325

Critical Design Strategy: a Method for Heuristically Evaluating Visualisation Designs
We present the Critical Design Strategy (CDS) - a structured method designed to facilitate the examination of visualisation designs through reflection and critical thought. The CDS helps designers think critically and make informed improvements using heuristic evaluation. When developing a visual tool or pioneering a novel visualisation approach, identifying areas for enhancement can be challenging. Critical thinking is particularly crucial for visualisation designers and tool developers, espec…

Do MLLMs Really Understand the Charts?
Xiao Zhang, Dongyuan Li, Liuyu Xiang, Yao Zhang, Cheng Zhong, Zhaofeng He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04457 https://a…

Do MLLMs Really Understand the Charts?
Although Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated increasingly impressive performance in chart understanding, most of them exhibit alarming hallucinations and significant performance degradation when handling non-annotated charts. Therefore, a question arises: Do MLLMs really understand the charts? Since a human is capable of understanding charts and estimating the values by visual reasoning, we first carefully establish a comprehensive Chart Reasoning Benchmark CRBench to rig…

Trump's Team of Cowards - CounterPunch.org
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/07/trumps-team-of-cowards/

Major outlets have cut or reassigned cultural criticism roles, amid industry contraction and the difficulty of stand-alone reviews generating traffic (Charlotte Klein/New York Magazine)
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/do-media-organiza…

Do Media Organizations Even Want Cultural Criticism?
Do reviews draw readers? Boost subscriptions? Sell ads? And if the answer is ‘no,’ what then? Charlotte Klein explores the precarious state of cultural criticism.

A profile of 6-year-old Ramp, which has grown to a $22.5B valuation as it expanded beyond corporate cards to tools for expense reporting, bill payment, and more (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/article/ramp-american-express-corp…

Ramp is taking aim at American Express by upending corporate credit cards. Can the $22.5 billion startup live up to the hype?
With $1 billion in revenue, Ramp has grown at hyperspeed amid the AI boom and corner-office financial anxiety.