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Inside the Multimillion-Dollar Gray Market for Video Game Cheats
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-multimillion-dollar-grey-market-for-video-game-cheats/

Inside the Multimillion-Dollar Gray Market for Video Game Cheats
Gaming cheats are the bane of the video game industry—and a hot commodity. A recent study found that cheat creators are making a fortune from gamers looking to gain a quick edge.

UK researchers: 80 game cheat-selling websites generate $12.8M to $73.2M annually, with 30,000 to 174,000 monthly buyers across North America and Europe alone (Matt Burgess/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-multimillion-dollar-grey-ma…

Inside the Multimillion-Dollar Gray Market for Video Game Cheats
Gaming cheats are the bane of the video game industry—and a hot commodity. A recent study found that cheat creators are making a fortune from gamers looking to gain a quick edge.

»The Job Market Is Hell:
Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.«
It is not about yours or a job, it is about feeding the AI ​​with data fully to have it presented as "varied & intelligent". The merciless exploitation of people and their privacy. Anyone who emphasizes that they have nothing to hide has not understood data theft.
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The Job Market Is Hell
Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.

Dual prototype attentive graph network for cross-market recommendation
Li Fan, Menglin Kong, Yang Xiang, Chong Zhang, Chengtao Ji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05969 https://

Dual prototype attentive graph network for cross-market recommendation
Cross-market recommender systems (CMRS) aim to utilize historical data from mature markets to promote multinational products in emerging markets. However, existing CMRS approaches often overlook the potential for shared preferences among users in different markets, focusing primarily on modeling specific preferences within each market. In this paper, we argue that incorporating both market-specific and market-shared insights can enhance the generalizability and robustness of CMRS. We propose a …

QB Stock Market Week 2: Is Jordan Love Making a Leap? Is Justin Fields For Real? https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/qb-stock-market-week-2-jordan-love-making-leap-justin-fields-real

MoCo's Multifamily Construction Market Disappears (Adam Pagnucco/Montgomery Perspective)
https://montgomeryperspective.com/2025/07/11/mocos-multifamily-construction-market-disappears/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250711/p113#a250711p113

Russia losing ground in the oil market: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/russia-losing-ground-in-the.html

New chatbot on Trump’s Truth Social platform keeps contradicting him
An “answer engine” on Trump’s social media site says
the 2020 election wasn’t stolen,
tariffs aren’t boosting the stock market
and Barack Obama is seen favorably

New chatbot on Trump’s Truth Social platform keeps contradicting him 
An “answer engine” on Trump’s social media site says the 2020 election wasn’t stolen, tariffs aren’t boosting the stock market and Barack Obama is seen favorably.

"Meat giant profits from carbon market without halting deforestation"
#Deforestation #Environment

Meat giant profits from carbon market without halting deforestation
Since the first scientific critiques of fossil fuels, oil companies have gone from being the “wealth of nations” to “destroyers of the planet.” In financial market terms, they have become environmental liabilities. It cannot be said, however, that they have also become economic liabilities. The global carbon credit market is heating up — quite like […]

This one sparks joy
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-market-share-us-drops-lowest-since-2017-competition-heats-up-2025-09-08/

Cowboys should target veteran DT still on the market https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-should-target-veteran-dt-still-on-the-market

Partially paywalled but still lots of juicy data. “State of the software engineering job market in 2025”: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/state-of-the-tech-market-in-2025
From which:

State of the software engineering job market in 2025
A deepdive into today’s tech jobs market, with exclusive data on tech jobs, AI engineering, Big Tech recruitment, the growing importance of location, and more

Extended Version: Market-Driven Equilibria for Distributed Solar Panel Investment
Mehdi Davoudi, Junjie Qin, Xiaojun Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07203 https://

Extended Version: Market-Driven Equilibria for Distributed Solar Panel Investment
This study investigates market-driven long-term investment decisions in distributed solar panels by individual investors. We consider a setting where investment decisions are driven by expected revenue from participating in short-term electricity markets over the panel's lifespan. These revenues depend on short-term markets equilibria, i.e., prices and allocations, which are influenced by aggregate invested panel capacity participating in the markets. We model the interactions among investors b…

Yeah, you'll easily get a $4T market cap when you sell your latest consumer graphics card for more money than sense!
https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/114823643634356944

Global premium smartphone sales rose 8% YoY in H1 2025, reaching the highest-ever mark for an H1; Apple grew 3% YoY, capturing 62% of the overall sales (Varun Mishra/Counterpoint Research)
https://www.counterpointresearch.com/en/in…

Reinforcement Learning for Trade Execution with Market Impact
Patrick Cheridito, Moritz Weiss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06345 https://

Reinforcement Learning for Trade Execution with Market Impact
In this paper, we introduce a novel reinforcement learning framework for optimal trade execution in a limit order book. We formulate the trade execution problem as a dynamic allocation task whose objective is the optimal placement of market and limit orders to maximize expected revenue. By employing multivariate logistic-normal distributions to model random allocations, the framework enables efficient training of the reinforcement learning algorithm. Numerical experiments show that the proposed…

⏰ London Stock Exchange considers 24-hour trading to stimulate market
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/21/london-stock-exchange-24-hour-trading-boost-market

Marcus Today Market Updates
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Capitalism / market economy in the US.... "In a highly unusual arrangement with President Trump, the companies are expected to kick 15 percent of what they make in China to the U.S. government."
https://www.

U.S. Government to Take Cut of Nvidia and AMD A.I. Chip Sales to China
In a highly unusual arrangement with President Trump, the companies are expected to kick 15 percent of what they make in China to the U.S. government.

Martin Sorrell's S4 says it is in early talks to combine with private equity-owned MSQ; S4 has a ~£130M market cap after its stock has declined ~35% in 2025 (Amy Thomson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

A machine learns how to bid in the day-ahead power market https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140988325005006 @…

Electricity Market Predictability: Virtues of Machine Learning and Links to the Macroeconomy
Jinbo Cai, Wenze Li, Wenjie Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07477

Electricity Market Predictability: Virtues of Machine Learning and Links to the Macroeconomy
With stakeholder-level in-market data, we conduct a comparative analysis of machine learning (ML) for forecasting electricity prices in Singapore, spanning 15 individual models and 4 ensemble approaches. Our empirical findings justify the three virtues of ML models: (1) the virtue of capturing non-linearity, (2) the complexity (Kelly et al., 2024) and (3) the l2-norm and bagging techniques in a weak factor environment (Shen and Xiu, 2024). Simulation also supports the first virtue. Penalizing p…

Delistings rise nearly 50% as home sellers quit the market
https://qz.com/delistings-up-realtor-com-housing-market-report

Portfolio optimization in incomplete markets and price constraints determined by maximum entropy in the mean
Argimiro Arratia, Henryk Gzyl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07053

Portfolio optimization in incomplete markets and price constraints determined by maximum entropy in the mean
A solution to a portfolio optimization problem is always conditioned by constraints on the initial capital and the price of the available market assets. If a risk neutral measure is known, then the price of each asset is the discounted expected value of the asset's price under this measure. But if the market is incomplete, the risk neutral measure is not unique, and there is a range of possible prices for each asset, which can be identified with bid-ask ranges. We present in this paper an effec…

Antiquité

"Mr. Market is counting on more TACO trade with Trump’s dissing of Canada and a score of other countries. The betting is his new deadline will come and go, or be paused, amended or ended. A Chinese government official said days ago that 47 changes his mind as often as his shoes. Seems about right. (By the way, those guys now have a lux EV that charges in five minutes. Suck that, Elon.)"
--Garth Turner

Nvidia hits a $4T market cap in intraday trading, the first company to do so, after passing a $2T market cap in February 2024 and $3T in June 2025 (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/09/nvidia-4-trillion.html

Nvidia hits $4 trillion market cap, first company to do so
Nvidia topped a $4 trillion market cap for the first time as investors scooped stock in the tech giant building the hardware for the generative AI boom.

Did you know Cisco IoT (#AS36180) was a thing?
https://social.bgp.tools/@transfers/statuses/01K4SREAKJZ8YPH8N8N07QZGP6

Post by IP/ASN Transfers, @transfers@bgp.tools
"T-Mobile USA, Inc." transferred 148.52.160.0/19 (Taken from 148.52.0.0 - 148.52.191.255) to "Cisco IoT" (Estimated Market Value: $262.14 K)

@… I hope you went to the farmers market!

It is unclear to what extent Wicab's BrainPort Vision Pro tongue display (sensory substitution device) is still on the market https://www.wicab.com/brainport-vision-pro because there has been very little news about it since around 2019, judging also from their own website. Note that the BrainPor…

Soll keiner sagen, dass das nicht auch im Rest von Europa möglich wäre. So man wollte …
Norway Reached 96.9% Market Share For EVs In June - Slashdot https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/03/2341234/norway-reached-969-market-share-fo…

The family owned business that invented the peameal bacon on a bun sandwich is retiring. I've only enjoyed their food a few times while visiting the St. Lawrence Market, but it was pretty much a given that was where we were going for lunch.
https://www.blogto.com/eat_drink/2025/07/family-behind-torontos-favourite-sandwich-bowing-out/

The EU is planning a new, graduated #tax on companies with more than 50 mio Euro revenue, the wires say.
I see a lost #opportunity. They should tax the market capitalization of companies, not their revenue. This would create a direct incentive to split up into smaller entities, rather than buy…

openAI's "Why language models hallucinate" is a pretty general argument: any model trained on pass/fail tests will learn to guess/bullshit, which is sometimes right, vs saying "IDK", which is always wrong.
I think this can be generalized beyond AI: humans sometimes have that problem. market/competitive systems too. it's sort of an offshoot of Goodhart's law.
the paper doesn't make that leap. its conclusion is "we should train models with t…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/10/truth-social-trump-ai-chatbot-perplexity/
🤣🤣🤣
New chatbot on Trump’s Truth Social platform keeps contradicting him;
An “answer engine” on Trump’s social media site says the…

New chatbot on Trump’s Truth Social platform keeps contradicting him 
An “answer engine” on Trump’s social media site says the 2020 election wasn’t stolen, tariffs aren’t boosting the stock market and Barack Obama is seen favorably.

Nice analysis of housing in Vienna. Back of the envelope calculation suggests rents are about 30% less than in San Francisco. Why aren't we hearing more about this from the "abundance" crowd? We know we won't get there with market driven housing production (I've had more than one developer explain that to me)

Nice analysis of housing in Vienna. Back of the envelope calculation suggests rents are about 30% less than in San Francisco. Why aren't we hearing more about this from the "abundance" crowd? We know we won't get there with market driven housing production (I've had more than one developer explain that to me)

Predicting Market Troughs: A Machine Learning Approach with Causal Interpretation
Peilin Rao, Randall R. Rojas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05922 https://arx…

Predicting Market Troughs: A Machine Learning Approach with Causal Interpretation
This paper provides robust, new evidence on the causal drivers of market troughs. We demonstrate that conclusions about these triggers are critically sensitive to model specification, moving beyond restrictive linear models with a flexible DML average partial effect causal machine learning framework. Our robust estimates identify the volatility of options-implied risk appetite and market liquidity as key causal drivers, relationships misrepresented or obscured by simpler models. These findings …

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…

“Personality vs. Personalization” in AI Systems: Responsible Design and Risk Management (Part 4)
https://fpf.org/blog/personality-vs-personalization-in-ai-systems-responsible-design-and-risk-management-part-4/

NFL Week 3 lookahead lines: Early best bets to get ahead of line movement based on Week 2's results

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-wee

Fairness-Aware Static and Dynamic Assortment Optimization: Optimal Selection with Balanced Market Share
Omar El Housni, Qing Feng, Huseyin Topaloglu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05606

Fairness-Aware Static and Dynamic Assortment Optimization: Optimal Selection with Balanced Market Share
Assortment optimization is a critical tool for online retailers aiming to maximize revenue. However, optimizing purely for revenue can lead to imbalanced sales across products, potentially causing supplier disengagement and reduced product diversity. To address these fairness concerns, we introduce a market share balancing constraint that limits the disparity in expected sales between any two offered products to a factor of a given parameter $α$. We study both static and dynamic assortment opt…

Also have “developers” CALLING me now wanting to do websites for my domains. I haven’t added any domains recently, and all of them redirect to a website, except for my mail server, which I added 15 years ago. Are things that bad in the IT job market?

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27. & 28. Oktober 2025, Wilhelm Büchner Hochschule, Darmstadt
Wir freuen uns über Minesoft als Silbersponsor der Jahrestagung sowie di…

US jobseekers describe a hellish job market, with young people using ChatGPT to write applications, HR using AI to read them, and few people getting hired (Annie Lowrey/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/

The Job Market Is Hell
Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.

Waiting for Trade in Markets with Aggregate Uncertainty
Justus Preusser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06132 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.06132

Waiting for Trade in Markets with Aggregate Uncertainty
This paper studies a market in which a patient long-lived seller offers prices to short-lived buyers. A hidden state determines whether the buyer's common value exceeds the seller's reservation value, and all players only have noisy signals. If the seller has commitment power, the seller waits for a buyer with the most favorable signal to arrive, and else exits the market. Using techniques for monotone decision problems, this waiting strategy is shown to be optimal for learning whether trade is…

Spotify market value fell $16.6 billion https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2025/07/spotify-market-value-fell-16-6-billion-dollars-tuesday.html

Spotify market value fell $16.6 billion yesterday
Spotify market value fell significantly as earnings disappointed investors. Discover the details behind this $16.6 billion drop.

Joint calibration of the volatility surface and variance term structure
Jiwook Yoo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08096 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08096…

Joint calibration of the volatility surface and variance term structure
This article proposes a calibration framework for complex option pricing models that jointly fits market option prices and the term structure of variance. Calibrated models under the conventional objective function, the sum of squared errors in Black-Scholes implied volatilities, can produce model-implied variance term structures with large errors relative to those observed in the market and implied by option prices. I show that this can occur even when the model-implied volatility surface clos…

A Game-Theoretic Foundation for Bitcoin's Price: A Security-Utility Equilibrium
Liang Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06071 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.…

A Game-Theoretic Foundation for Bitcoin's Price: A Security-Utility Equilibrium
This paper introduces a structural game-theoretic model to value decentralized digital assets like Bitcoin. Instead of relying on speculative beliefs, it frames the asset's price within a Rational-Expectations Security-Utility Nash Equilibrium (RESUNE). This equilibrium is a fixed point where the market-clearing price dictates the hash rate through a free-entry mining model, which in turn endogenously sets the network's security. The security, defined as one minus the probability of a 51% attac…

EU considering tougher Russian oil price cap as bloc aims to pass 18th sanctions package, Bloomberg reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/11/eu-considering-tougher-russian-oil.html

The White House has seen its share of shady deals.
Ulysses S. Grant’s brother-in-law used his family ties to engineer an insider-trading scheme that tanked the gold market.
Warren Harding’s secretary of the interior secretly leased land to oil barons, who paid a fortune for his troubles.
To bankroll Richard Nixon’s reelection, corporate executives sneaked suitcases full of cash into the capital.
But Americans have never witnessed anything like the corruption that Presi…

America Has Never Seen Corruption Like Trump's
Trump’s Qatari jet was just the beginning.

»How Do I Block an IP Address on My Linux server?
How do I block an IP address or subnet (CIDR) under Linux operating system?«
– by @…
I do not want to allow certain data swallowers that market the data for themselves again and these lists are now very long.
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HMD says it will "scale back" US operations, citing "a challenging geopolitical and economic environment", and appears to have stopped US sales of Nokia devices (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/705046/hmd-gl…

HMD is ‘scaling back’ in the US, killing Nokia all over again
HMD Global, which sells its own phones as well as Nokia ones, has stopped selling phones on its US site, and confirms it will ‘scale back’ its US operation.

In three of the four weeks since WWDC, the conversion rate for OmniFocus on visionOS has been above 71%. (In the other week it was still above 62%, so the overall conversion rate for the full period is above 70%.)
I'm not suggesting everyone run out and make visionOS apps today: the total market size is still small. But it's a good sign for customer enthusiasm on the platform.
(As a company who specialized in building NeXT apps, we're no strangers to tiny markets with…

Trump's Tariffs Blow Up the Copper Market (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-copper-tariffs-defense-china-ff3eefb1?st=FpjXfU&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/250710/p161#a250710p161

A broken housing market is driving inequality right across Europe – and fuelling the far right https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/26/broken-housing-market-inequality-europe-far-right?CMP=S…

Sources: Legendary Entertainment is considering acquiring Lionsgate Studios after Lionsgate finalized its split from Starz; Lionsgate has a market cap of $1.8B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-11/ap…

"Gold futures in New York declined as traders awaited clarification from the White House over its tariff policy, after a US government agency stunned the market last week by formally ruling that 100-ounce and one-kilogram bullion bars would be subject to duties."
US Gold Futures Slip as Traders Await Clarification on Tariffs | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/us-gold-futures-slip-as-traders-await-clarification-on-tariffs

Forex Trading Robot Using Fuzzy Logic
Mustafa Shabani, Alireza Nasiri, Hassan Nafardi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06383 https://arxiv.…

Forex Trading Robot Using Fuzzy Logic
In this study, we propose a fuzzy system for conducting short-term transactions in the forex market. The system is designed to enhance common strategies in the forex market using fuzzy logic, thereby improving the accuracy of transactions. Traditionally, technical strategies based on oscillator indicators have relied on predefined ranges for indicators such as Relative Strength Index (RSI), Commodity Channel Indicator (CCI), and Stochastic to determine entry points for trades. However, the use …

Following the expected mention of technology neutrality with regard to the 2035 review of CO₂ standards for cars, the automotive section of Von der Leyen's State of the Union speech ends on a positive note:
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/SPEECH…

"Backers argue the measure accomplishes two goals at once, boosting housing growth and encouraging the use of public transit."
If we aren't providing reliable , high frequency bus service that CONNECTS to serve all areas, it will not "encourage" the use of transit. And headways greater than 10- minutes are not a draw; headways of more than 20 minutes are a disincentive. But, with market rate housing (all we'll get without subsidies) it's a gift to TN…

State housing bill could clash with SF upzoning
The proposal preempts local zoning around transit hubs.

"Backers argue the measure accomplishes two goals at once, boosting housing growth and encouraging the use of public transit."
If we aren't providing reliable , high frequency bus service that CONNECTS to serve all areas, it will not "encourage" the use of transit. And headways greater than 10- minutes are not a draw; headways of more than 20 minutes are a disincentive. But, with market rate housing (all we'll get without subsidies) it's a gift to TN…

State housing bill could clash with SF upzoning
The proposal preempts local zoning around transit hubs.

Optimal Exit Time for Liquidity Providers in Automated Market Makers
Philippe Bergault, S\'ebastien Bieber, Leandro S\'anchez-Betancourt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06510

Optimal Exit Time for Liquidity Providers in Automated Market Makers
We study the problem of optimal liquidity withdrawal for a representative liquidity provider (LP) in an automated market maker (AMM). LPs earn fees from trading activity but are exposed to impermanent loss (IL) due to price fluctuations. While existing work has focused on static provision and exogenous exit strategies, we characterise the optimal exit time as the solution to a stochastic control problem with an endogenous stopping time. Mathematically, the LP's value function is shown to satisf…

Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch says sign-ups for streaming service Fox One exceed expectations, and a boost is expected in October when it's paired with ESPN Unlimited (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/09/lachlan-murdoch-fox-one-goldman-sachs/

Fox CEO says Fox One sign-ups exceeding expectations
Fox One is performing well in its first two weeks on the market, Fox's CEO said at a conference this week.

Shedeur Sanders odds: Will Browns rookie be Week 1 starter after NFL preseason debut?

https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/shedeur-sanders-o…

Exclusive: Tesla market share in US drops to lowest since 2017 as competition heats up (Abhirup Roy/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-market-share-us-drops-lowest-since-2017-competition-heats-up-2025-09-08/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250908/p51#a250908p51

How to enter Ukraine’s defense market: A short guide for foreign companies: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/08/how-to-enter-ukraines-defense.html

Raiders Have a Good Problem With Dylan Parham https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-dylan-parham-caleb-rogers-dj-glaze-jordan-meredith

GPU accelerated variant of Schroeppel-Shamir's algorithm for solving the market split problem
Nils-Christian Kempke, Thorsten Koch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05045

GPU accelerated variant of Schroeppel-Shamir's algorithm for solving the market split problem
The market split problem (MSP), introduced by Cornuejols and Dawande (1998), is a challenging binary optimization problem that performs poorly on state-of-the-art linear programming-based branch-and-cut solvers. We present a novel algorithm for solving the feasibility version of this problem, derived from Schroeppel-Shamir's algorithm for the one-dimensional subset sum problem. Our approach is based on exhaustively enumerating one-dimensional solutions of MSP and utilizing GPUs to evaluate cand…

US gold futures surge to record high
after Trump tariffs blindside global market
https://www.ft.com/content/5f5206ab-6557-4421-b977-83d396734616

US gold futures hit record high after Trump tariff blindsides global market
Unexpected levy from Trump administration could redraw trade in the metal, analysts and investors warn

Cowboys-Eagles Stock Market: Eagles Persevere Through Injury, Immaturity, And Lightning. https://www.si.com/nfl/eagles/news/cowboys-eagles-stock-market-eagles-persevere-through-injury-immaturity-and-lightning-01k4…

Netflix's 10-year worldwide exclusive licensing deals for original shows like House of Cards are starting to expire, allowing studios to reclaim and resell them (Lesley Goldberg/The Ankler)
https://theankler.com/p/netflixs-10-year-window-on-top-originals
…

Netflix’s 10-Year Window on Top Originals is Expiring. Studios Smell Blood
‘House of Cards,’ ‘Orange Is the New Black’ and 130+ shows are set to hit the market as FASTs, rival streamers and yes, cable, muscle in

Sea's Shopee is nearing a $100B market cap after its stock surged 300% since early 2024, driven by its in-house, community-based logistics network SPX Express (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

Trump warns courts against knocking down tariffs, says duties are 'huge positive' for stock market (Alex Harring/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/trump-warns-courts-against-knocking-down-tariffs-says-duties-are-huge-positive-for-stock-market.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250808/p64#a250808p64

Replaced article(s) found for q-fin.TR. https://arxiv.org/list/q-fin.TR/new
[1/1]:
- On the hidden costs of passive investing
Iro Tasitsiomi

Figure's shares opened up 44% at $44 in its Nasdaq debut, giving it a $7.62B market cap, after the company and some of its backers raised $787.5M in its IPO (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/blockchain-lender-figu…

What do tickets cost on the secondary market for Raiders home games? https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/what-do-tickets-cost-on-the-secondary-market-for-raiders-home-games-3438128/

Computational Methods and Verification Theorem for Portfolio-Consumption Optimization under Exponential O-U Dynamics
Zhaoxiang Zhong, Haiming Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06491

Computational Methods and Verification Theorem for Portfolio-Consumption Optimization under Exponential O-U Dynamics
In this paper, we focus on the problem of optimal portfolio-consumption policies in a multi-asset financial market, where the n risky assets follow Exponential Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes, along with one risk-free bond. The investor's preferences are modeled using Constant Relative Risk Aversion utility with state-dependent stochastic discounting. The problem can be formulated as a high-dimensional stochastic optimal control problem, wherein the associated value function satisfies a Hamilton-J…

Kraken opens trading of 60 tokenized US securities to its EU users, powered by Backed Finance's xStocks; rwa.xyz says tokenized shares' market value is ~$421M (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-0…

Private market investments, while not technically barred from 401(k) plans, are riskier than publicly traded stocks and bonds.
They have traditionally been seen as unfit for defined contribution plans.
Consumer groups, lawmakers and some investment advisers have raised alarm about the potential harm to everyday investors.
Those concerns have been front and center.
But observers say the private asset industry, which has lobbied hard for the opening, could also expose…

Private Equity in Your 401(k). What Could Go Wrong?
Critics say an executive order that clears the way for alternative assets to enter retirement accounts poses risks to everyday investors. It could also pose some for private fund managers.

Replaced article(s) found for q-fin.TR. https://arxiv.org/list/q-fin.TR/new
[1/1]:
- MM-DREX: Multimodal-Driven Dynamic Routing of LLM Experts for Financial Trading
Chen, Jiang, Ma, Cao, Keung, Kuang, Gan, Wu, Wu

OpenStore is scaling back its e-commerce aggregation efforts, closing nearly all of its 40 Shopify stores and rebranding under its Jack Archer menswear label (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/openstore-demise-endga…

OpenStore’s demise marks endgame for once-booming e-commerce aggregator market
OpenStore is rebranding under its Jack Archer menswear label after shuttering many of the Shopify storefronts it acquired and laying off staffers.

2026 NFL Mock Draft: 6 Teams Grab QBs in First Round https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2026-nfl-mock-draft-6-teams-grab-qbs-first-round-including-cowboys

Adobe reports Q3 revenue up 11% YoY to $5.99B, vs. $5.91B est., Digital Media revenue up 12% to $4.46B, and Digital Experience revenue up 9% to $1.48B (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/11/adobe-adbe-q3-2025-earnings-report.html

Adobe's stock gains on earnings, revenue beat
Adobe shares have dropped this year, badly underperforming the broader market.

Robust Competitive Ratio for Deterministic Monopoly Pricing
Tim S. G. van Eck, Pieter Kleer, Johan S. H. van Leeuwaarden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06619 https://

Robust Competitive Ratio for Deterministic Monopoly Pricing
We study deterministic monopoly pricing under partial knowledge of the market, where the seller has access only to summary statistics of the valuation distribution, such as the mean, dispersion, and maximum value. Using tools from distributionally robust optimization and max-min analysis, we evaluate pricing strategies based on their competitive ratio (CR). We characterize the worst-case market scenario consistent with the available information and provide a complete solution for minimizing the…

Adam Dorr concluded that the current AI wave will not just convulse -- but obliterate the labour market by 2045.
What cars did to horses and carts, and electricity to gas lamps, and digital cameras to Kodak, are templates for the coming shock, he says.
“Technology has a new target in its crosshairs – and that’s us. That’s our labour.”
Some sectors will have an interregnum during which humans can work effectively alongside robots
– just like the period when chess gr…

Sensor Tower: as of July 2025, Rapido had 50M MAUs on Android in India vs. Uber's 30M; in the four-wheeler cab segment, Rapido holds ~30% share vs. Uber's ~50% (Pranav Mukul/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t…

ETtech in-depth: Rapido races to the top, keeping Uber on edge
Bengaluru-based mobility company Rapido now has nearly half the share of overall ride-hailing market, with monthly active users at 50 million versus Uber’s 30 million in July. Not jus tthat, Rapido has now made significant inroads in four-wheeler cab hailing as well, grabbing nearly 30% share of that segment.

Chinese startup Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2, an open-source model that the company says has enhanced coding capabilities and excels at general agent tasks (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Source: Butterfly Effect, the startup behind Manus, has shut down its entire China-based team to minimize geopolitical risks associated with its ties to China (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/startup-behi…

Startup Behind Manus AI Agent Shuts Down China Team
The startup behind Manus, an artificial intelligence agent that went viral earlier this year and got financial backing from Benchmark, has shut down its entire China-based team, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. It’s the latest sign that Manus, whose biggest target market is the U.S., wants to minimize geopolitical risks associated with China ties. Butterfly Effect, the

Economists have been sounding the alarm about the elevated risks of a recession in 2025,
due both to contemporary economic strains caused by the administration's trade policies and long-term issues such as America's ballooning national debt.
Warning signals have recently surfaced in the form of weak data on consumer confidence,
as well as stagnant job growthand broader lab market difficulties.
Personal income and consumer spending have remained largely stable in…

Recession Probability Surges to 93%: UBS
The global financial services company said "hard data" was pointing to a prolonged period of difficulty for the U.S. economy.

US tech industry's eight companies valued at $1T gained a combined $420B in market cap this week, lifting their total value to $21T, led by a Google rally (Ari Levy/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/05/tech-megacaps-worth-market-cap.html

Google leads monster week for tech, pushing megacaps to combined $21 trillion in market cap
Tech's megacaps got bigger this week, and the eight trillion-dollar companies now make up a combined 36% of the S&P 500.

A deep dive into the state of the tech job market in 2025, including an increase in demand for AI engineers and a rising average tenure at Big Tech companies (Gergely Orosz/The Pragmatic Engineer)
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/state-of-the-tech-market…

State of the software engineering job market in 2025
A deepdive into today’s tech jobs market, with exclusive data on tech jobs, AI engineering, Big Tech recruitment, the growing importance of location, and more

Stat Counter: Windows 11 had a 50.9% share of the Windows market on July 4, ahead of Windows 10's 46.2%; the OS, released in 2021, only had a <10% share in 2022 (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
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Windows 11 is now the most popular desktop OS in the world — finally surpasses Windows 10 after 4 years
After four years on the market, Windows 11 has finally surpassed Windows 10 to become the most dominant desktop OS platform in the world.

Microsoft became the second company to surpass $4T in market cap, joining Nvidia, after shares jumped 8% in after-hours trading on better-than-expected results (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/30/microsoft-market-cap-tops-4-trillion-…

Microsoft tops $4 trillion in market cap after hours, joining Nvidia in exclusive club
Based on its post-market trading, Microsoft has become the world's second $4 trillion company following quarterly earnings.

Booking.com, Expedia, Airbnb, and others are preparing for AI agents, which could disrupt their booking platforms and upend the $1.6T global travel market (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/4d1acaff-07e4-4739-9ea4-5c6cba553e74

DJI, which is facing an end of 2025 deadline to keep its US business alive, says its lobbying efforts are struggling; DJI controls 70% of the US drone market (Jamie Tarabay/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Twilio Q2: revenue up 13% YoY to $1.23B, vs. $1.19B est., 349K active customer accounts, and Q3 earnings forecast below est.; TWLO falls 10% after hours (Brandon Evans/Seeking Alpha)
https://seekingalpha.com/news/4481722-twilio-sinks…

Twilio sinks as Q3 earnings forecast comes in weaker than expected
Twilio (NYSE:TWLO) shares sank more than 10% during early post-market trading Thursday after its second quarter fiscal 2025 financial results featured a third quarter earnings per share forecast that was weaker than the market expected.

A look at Changpeng Zhao's efforts to get a pardon from Trump for his money-laundering charges, including via lobbying and a business deal with the Trump family (New York Times)
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Flattery, Lobbyists and a Business Deal: Crypto’s Richest Man Campaigns for a Pardon
A sophisticated operation is pushing President Trump to forgive Changpeng Zhao, which would boost the chances for his company, Binance, to break into the U.S. market.

IDC: in Q1 2025, the world's top four robot vacuum makers, all from China, together accounted for 54.1% of shipments, as iRobot fell from first to fifth place (Wataru Suzuki/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/compa…

China's Roomba killers sweep up in vacuum market despite US tariffs
US robot pioneer on brink of default as Chinese brands expand rapidly

Philippines government data: online gambling revenue in the country overtook traditional casinos in H1 2025, generating ~$2B, or 53% of the industry's total (Ramon Royandoyan/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/marke

Rise of online gambling reshapes Philippine stock market, but risks emerge
Regulatory concerns bring volatility to internet casino operator DigiPlus