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Filing: iRobot says its last potential buyer withdrew from the process and its financials remain dire, following Amazon abandoning a 2024 bid; IRBT drops 33% (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/27/irobot-stock-roomba.html

iRobot stock tumbles 33% after Roomba maker warns the search for a buyer has stalled
The Roomba maker's financial condition has worsened since Amazon abandoned its planned acquisition of the company in 2024.

Trump, 79, Gets Confused Explaining Water to the Navy (Ewan Palmer/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-gets-confused-explaining-water-to-the-navy/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p35#a251028p35

I found MAKE celebrating Palmer Luckey to be disgusting, and I let them know it.
I never thought I would see MAKE celebrating evil people like him.
Feel free to let dale@make.co know if you're not a fan of this sort of thing.
https://makethings.make.co/p/what-a-luckey-man

What a Luckey Man
A controversial but intriguing maker is making the podcast rounds; Maker Faires are happening all around the world

🏮 'Chinese lantern' structure shifts into more than a dozen shapes for various applications
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-chinese-lantern-shifts-dozen-applications.html

'Chinese lantern' structure shifts into more than a dozen shapes for various applications
Researchers have created a polymer "Chinese lantern" that can snap into more than a dozen curved, three-dimensional shapes by compressing or twisting the original structure. This rapid shape-shifting behavior can be controlled remotely using a magnetic field, allowing the structure to be used for a variety of applications.

It's frustrating to see such high turnover in the city planning office. I encourage the city to take the complaints of its exiting planners more seriously and put greater effort into their retention. It shouldn't be taking this long to get form-based zoning in place. We could have hundreds more units in place by now if our planners were allowed to simply do their jobs.
#NHPolitics #NHHousing

Would love to get more folks to vote up this ticket to add this car to A Better Route Planner
#cars

Sources: David Ellison will keep WBD mostly intact in a possible Paramount merger, merge HBO Max into Paramount , keep creative teams, and target 30 films/year (Christopher Palmeri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sources: Polymarket plans to return to the US with a focus on sports betting; initial trading is likely by the end of November, but won't be broadly available (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-28…

Mountaintop Guru: You see it's All Clear! You were meant to be here.
Emerson: Even with all the ear hair?
Lake: Yeah. What about that?
Palmer: I'm not with those guys.

As startups flood the market with AI shopping agents, Amazon is playing defense by blocking agents' access to its site and investing heavily in its own tools (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/24/amazon-faces-a-dilemma-fight…

Amazon faces 'leader's dilemma' — fight AI shopping bots or join them
Agents like OpenAI's Instant Checkout and Perplexity's Instant Buy threaten to reshape the e-commerce landscape.