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A US district judge rules that Amazon must face a class action lawsuit involving 288M customers over claims it overcharged for products sold by third parties (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/a

Probabilities of Causation and Root Cause Analysis with Quasi-Markovian Models
Eduardo Rocha Laurentino, Fabio Gagliardi Cozman, Denis Deratani Maua, Daniel Angelo Esteves Lawand, Davi Goncalves Bezerra Coelho, Lucas Martins Marques
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02535

Probabilities of Causation and Root Cause Analysis with Quasi-Markovian Models
Probabilities of causation provide principled ways to assess causal relationships but face computational challenges due to partial identifiability and latent confounding. This paper introduces both algorithmic simplifications, significantly reducing the computational complexity of calculating tighter bounds for these probabilities, and a novel methodological framework for Root Cause Analysis that systematically employs these causal metrics to rank entire causal paths.

A look at newsletter platform Beehiiv, which has hit $30M in ARR and fees starting at $43/month for 1,000 subscribers, unlike Substack, which takes a 10% cut (Jessica Roy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/beehiiv-next-billion-doll…

Is Beehiiv the Next Billion-Dollar Newsletter Startup?
Last August, when CNN’s Oliver Darcy decided he wanted to leave the network and launchStatus, an email newsletter focused on the media industry, he cast about for a platform that would allow him to customize the look and feel of his new venture so it didn’t resemble every other media newsletter. ...

I live in a lovely neighbourhood. All my neighbours are interesting, kind, sane people. Except the madwoman across the road. Who came over to give me a serve about my fake furry spider hung in the carport and my basket of chocolates for the amazingly creatively costumed up kids who came calling. Cos apparently there was someone 100 years ago who weighed dying people and the lost 26 grams and that's the weight of a soul and my furry spider and chocolates were dooming mine and all those ki…

Dia light, trabalhei bem menos do que de costume e até terminei a noite jogando xenonauts por mais de uma hora. Me fez bem. Estou precisando de mais tempo de lazer na minha vida, mas isso é difícil.

Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
GINKA: [On screen] The first six have arrived, Madam.
SERVALAN: Get them out of those suits.
GINKA: Should I proceed with the scanning process first?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/329 B7B4

LinkedIn sues a company called ProAPIs for allegedly operating millions of fake accounts to scrape LinkedIn member data and selling it for ~$15,000 per month (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/linkedin-sues-data-scraping-company

LinkedIn sues software company allegedly scraping data from millions of profiles
ProAPIs, a software company, and its CEO Rahmat Alam allegedly run an operation which LinkedIn says charges customers up to $15,000 per month for scraped user data taken from the social media platform.

FailSafe: Reasoning and Recovery from Failures in Vision-Language-Action Models
Zijun Lin, Jiafei Duan, Haoquan Fang, Dieter Fox, Ranjay Krishna, Cheston Tan, Bihan Wen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01642

FailSafe: Reasoning and Recovery from Failures in Vision-Language-Action Models
Recent advances in robotic manipulation have integrated low-level robotic control into Vision-Language Models (VLMs), extending them into Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models. Although state-of-the-art VLAs achieve strong performance in downstream robotic applications, supported by large-scale crowd-sourced robot training data, they still inevitably encounter failures during execution. Enabling robots to reason about and recover from unpredictable and abrupt failures remains a critical challenge…

A look at newsletter platform Beehiiv, which has hit $30M in ARR and fees starting at $43/month for 1,000 subscribers, unlike Substack, which takes a 10% cut (Jessica Roy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/beehiiv-next-billion-doll…

Is Beehiiv the Next Billion-Dollar Newsletter Startup?
Last August, when CNN’s Oliver Darcy decided he wanted to leave the network and launchStatus, an email newsletter focused on the media industry, he cast about for a platform that would allow him to customize the look and feel of his new venture so it didn’t resemble every other media newsletter. ...

Fox warns customers that Fox News and other channels could be pulled from YouTube TV "unless Google engages in a meaningful way soon" in a carriage dispute (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bu…

Fox and Fox News at Risk of Being Pulled From YouTube TV in Carriage Dispute
Fox began warning customers Monday that its channels could be pulled from YouTube TV unless they reach a new deal soon.