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I got a Thinkpad x270 at a great price a few months ago, and the Arch Linux & i3wm combo makes it work great.
Their reputation for working well with GNU/Linux systems is well deserved.
If you are looking for alternatives for your computer equipment, the second-hand market offers this and other classic models at a very good price in almost every corner of the globe. And when the second wave of equipment arrives thanks to Windows 11, this is going to be amazing.

Snappr, a visual content platform and a marketplace for professional photographers, raised a $28M Series B led by Foundry and expands to Europe (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/08/snappr-photographer-book-europe-launch

Exclusive: Photography service Snappr launches in Europe after raising $28M
The platform can also generate AI-enhanced images.

Query Expansion in the Age of Pre-trained and Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Survey
Minghan Li, Xinxuan Lv, Junjie Zou, Tongna Chen, Chao Zhang, Suchao An, Ercong Nie, Guodong Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07794

Query Expansion in the Age of Pre-trained and Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Survey
Modern information retrieval (IR) must bridge short, ambiguous queries and ever more diverse, rapidly evolving corpora. Query Expansion (QE) remains a key mechanism for mitigating vocabulary mismatch, but the design space has shifted markedly with pre-trained language models (PLMs) and large language models (LLMs). This survey synthesizes the field from three angles: (i) a four-dimensional framework of query expansion - from the point of injection (explicit vs. implicit QE), through grounding a…

"Spain has broken the ruinous link between power prices and volatile fossil fuels, something its European neighbours are desperate to do. Spain risks sliding back into costly gas reliance amid post-blackout fears. Boosting grids and batteries will help Spain break free from fossil dependency for good."
It looks like the link is only partially broken, not through planning but due to scale.
Decoupled: how Spain cut the link between gas and power prices using

Decoupled: how Spain cut the link between gas and power prices using renewables | Ember
Spain has some of the lowest wholesale electricity prices in Europe, largely owing to the country’s strong solar and wind growth which reduced the influence of expensive coal and gas power on the electricity market.

Ontology-Aligned Embeddings for Data-Driven Labour Market Analytics
Heinke Hihn, Dennis A. V. Dittrich, Carl Jeske, Cayo Costa Sobral, Helio Pais, Timm Lochmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04942

Ontology-Aligned Embeddings for Data-Driven Labour Market Analytics
The limited ability to reason across occupational data from different sources is a long-standing bottleneck for data-driven labour market analytics. Previous research has relied on hand-crafted ontologies that allow such reasoning but are computationally expensive and require careful maintenance by human experts. The rise of language processing machine learning models offers a scalable alternative by learning shared semantic spaces that bridge diverse occupational vocabularies without extensive…

A look at China's AI toy boom, which builds on decades of consumer electronics designed for children, as AI toy companies expand into the US and other markets (Caiwei Chen/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/07/1125191/ai-toys-in-china/…

AI toys are all the rage in China—and now they’re appearing on shelves in the US too
Competition is heating up, with Mattel and OpenAI expected to launch a product for kids this year.

Robinhood is expanding aggressively in the UK, releasing low-cost investment products and seeking to launch its prediction market products in the country (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3ca60707-fa26-4391-94c1-e065b581564b

CSRM-LLM: Embracing Multilingual LLMs for Cold-Start Relevance Matching in Emerging E-commerce Markets
Yujing Wang, Yiren Chen, Huoran Li, Chunxu Xu, Yuchong Luo, Xianghui Mao, Cong Li, Lun Du, Chunyang Ma, Qiqi Jiang, Yin Wang, Fan Gao, Wenting Mo, Pei Wen, Shantanu Kumar, Taejin Park, Yiwei Song, Vijay Rajaram, Tao Cheng, Sonu Durgia, Pranam Kolari
https://…

CSRM-LLM: Embracing Multilingual LLMs for Cold-Start Relevance Matching in Emerging E-commerce Markets
As global e-commerce platforms continue to expand, companies are entering new markets where they encounter cold-start challenges due to limited human labels and user behaviors. In this paper, we share our experiences in Coupang to provide a competitive cold-start performance of relevance matching for emerging e-commerce markets. Specifically, we present a Cold-Start Relevance Matching (CSRM) framework, utilizing a multilingual Large Language Model (LLM) to address three challenges: (1) activati…

Nonlinear Evidence of Investor Heterogeneity: Retail Cash Flows as Drivers of Market Dynamics
Gabjin Oh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20426 https://arxiv.org/…

Nonlinear Evidence of Investor Heterogeneity: Retail Cash Flows as Drivers of Market Dynamics
This study measures the long memory of investor-segregated cash flows within the Korean equity market from 2015 to 2024. Applying detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) to BUY, SELL, and NET aggregates, we estimate the Hurst exponent ($H$) using both a static specification and a 250-day rolling window. All series exhibit heavy tails, with complementary cumulative distribution exponents ranging from approximately 2 to 3. As a control, time-shuffled series yield $H \approx 0.5$, confirming that the…

Australia-based Morse Micro, which develops ultra-low power Wi-Fi HaLow chips, raised a ~$38M Series C, bringing its total raised to ~$125M (ComputerWeekly.com)
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366631616/Morse-Micro-secures-59m-fun…

Morse Micro secures $59m funding to lead the next era of IoT
Fresh capital to accelerate Morse Micro’s expansion into international markets, scale production of its Wi-Fi HaLow chips and support the ecosystem shift toward IoT 2.0, characterised by high-throughput, long-range, scalable connectivity