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Deadline names Nellie Andreeva, its current Co-Editor-In-Chief and head of the TV department, as sole EIC; Mike Fleming Jr. will become Editor-at-Large (Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/deadline-mike-fleming-jr-editor-at-large-1236669667/

Deadline Co-Editor-In-Chief Mike Fleming Jr. Transitioning To Editor-At-Large; Nellie Andreeva Named Editor-In-Chief  
Mike Fleming Jr., Deadline's longtime Co-Editor-In-Chief, is transitioning to a new role as Editor-at-Large. Nellie Andreeva has been named sole EIC.

World Bank lowers Ukraine's 2026 GDP growth forecast: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/08/world-bank-lowers-ukraines-gdp.html

The Joe Flacco trade's many layers, plus which teams might trade next https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6700712/2025/10/08/the-joe-flacco-trades-many-layers-plus-which-teams-might-trade-next/

Actually amazing things don’t need large scale hype—and vice versa things that have large scale hype machinery behind them are never amazing.
(This is probably some kind of “razor” but not sure if it has a name.)

Why MAGA is outraged at Zach Bryan over ICE lyric (Herb Scribner/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/07/zach-bryan-bad-news-ice-song-lyrics-maga
http://www.memeorandum.com/251008/p2#a251008p2

A breakthrough for solar durability: UNSW researchers discovered that thicker aluminum oxide layers protect TOPCon solar cells from UV damage by blocking hydrogen migration.
The culprit? High-energy UV photons break chemical bonds, releasing hydrogen that degrades performance. But 7nm AlOx layers act as an effective barrier.

Thicker alumunium oxide layers can reduce ultraviolet-induced degradation in TOPCon solar cells
UNSW researchers developed an experimentally validated model linking UV-induced degradation in TOPCon solar cells to hydrogen transport, charge trapping, and permanent structural changes in the passivation stack. They show that thicker aluminum oxide layers significantly improve UV resilience by limiting hydrogen migration, offering clear guidance for more robust TOPCon designs.

Spotify lowers monetization eligibility for video podcasters to three episodes, 2,000 consumption hours, and 1,000 engaged audience members over a 30-day period (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/07/spotify-lowers-monetization-t…

Spotify lowers monetization threshold for video podcasts | TechCrunch
Spotify is dropping the minimum episode requirement to three, minimum consumption hours to 2,000, and engaged audience member threshold to 1,000 over the last 30 days.

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
This n…

Test Case Generation from Bug Reports via Large Language Models: A Cognitive Layered Evaluation Framework
Irtaza Sajid Qureshi (Jack), Zhen Ming (Jack), Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05365

Test Case Generation from Bug Reports via Large Language Models: A Cognitive Layered Evaluation Framework
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to automated software testing, yet their ability to generalize beyond memorized patterns and reason about natural language bug reports remains unclear. We present a systematic evaluation of LLM reasoning in test case generation, structured around the cognitive layers of Bloom's taxonomy: \textit{Remember}, \textit{Understand}, \textit{Apply}, \textit{Analyze}, \textit{Evaluate}, and \textit{Create}, which progressively assess higher levels o…

Large-scale peculiar velocities in the #universe: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05340 (207 pages!) -> "The observed large-scale peculiar-velocity fields are believed to have originated as weak peculiar-velocity perturbations soon after equipartition, which have subsequently grown by structure formation and by the increasing inhomogeneity of the post-recombination universe. However, the evolution and the implications of these bulk velocity fields remain poorly understood and they are still a matter of debate."