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Amazon partners with FanDuel to allow viewers to track their NBA wagers in real time during NBA games on Prime Video (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/30/amazon-prime-fanduel-real-time-nba-betting-updates.html
OLG bestätigt: Preiserhöhung bei Amazon Prime ist unwirksam | heise online
https://heise.de/-10965289
Modular curves of prime-power level with infinitely many quadratic points
Michael Cerchia, Rakvi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22895 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…
Amazon partners with FanDuel to allow viewers to track their NBA bets in real-time during NBA games on Prime Video and adds shoppable NBA merch to the games (Kurt Schlosser/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/amazons-nba-
Dynamical Architectures of S-type Transiting Planets in Binaries II: A Dichotomy in Orbital Alignment of Small Planets in Close Binary Systems
Jingwen Zhang, Daniel Huber, Michael Bottom, Lauren M. Weiss, Jerry W. Xuan, Adam L. Kraus, Chih-Chun Hsu, Jason J. Wang, Fei Dai, Katelyn Horstman, Ashley Baker, Randall Bartos, Benjamin Calvin, Sylvain Cetre, Catherine A. Clark, David R. Ciardi, Jacques-Robert Delorme, Gregory W. Doppmann, Daniel Echeverri, Luke Finnerty, Michael P. Fitzgerald…
PRIME: Planning and Retrieval-Integrated Memory for Enhanced Reasoning
Hieu Tran, Zonghai Yao, Nguyen Luong Tran, Zhichao Yang, Feiyun Ouyang, Shuo Han, Razieh Rahimi, Hong Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22315
Dolphins vs. Jets prediction: Which of these AFC East teams can avoid an 0-4 start in prime time?
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/dolphin
A pair of monads in Topology
Ando Razafindrakoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23403 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.23403
Bummer. I was looking forward to discovery.
“Amazon to pay $2.5 billion to settle FTC allegations it duped customers into enrolling in Prime”
https://apnews.com/article/amazon-prime-ftc-bezos-online-shopping-a3aa849de1279e3675a162ec6815…
Spectrality of Prime Size Tiles
Weiqi Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23752 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.23752
Unzulässige Preiserhöhung: Amazons Berufung abgewiesen
Die Preiserhöhung bei Amazon Prime vom Herbst 2022 bleibt ungültig. Der Konzern hat auch beim OLG Düsseldorf verloren.
https://www.
Israeli airstrike kills Houthi rebel prime minister in Yemeni capital Sanaa (Samy Magdy/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/yemen-houthis-israeli-strike-494d91b05e04a5dbaeda0205ef349a39
http://www.memeorandum.com/250831/p5#a250831p5
NBCUniversal and Amazon reach distribution deals for Prime Video, Peacock, Fire TV, and Xfinity X1, including offering Peacock Premium Plus on Prime Video (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/amazon-nbcu-peacock-availa…
Keir Starmer has announced an "online hospital" initiative to transform how outpatient care is delivered in England.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/pm-unveils-online-hospital-plan
PRIME: Pseudo-Random Integrated Multi-Part Entropy for Adaptive Packet Spraying in AI/ML Data centers
Ashkan Sobhani, Sogand Sadrhaghighi, Xingjun Chu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23012
Ouste! (Yes it's a French word)
"French prime minister to face potential ousting in high-stakes confidence vote"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/25/francois-bayrou-france-prime-minister-confidence-vote
In fairness, I wouldn't take his calls either.
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/pm-modi-refused-donald-trump-calls-four-times-in-recent-weeks-german-newspaper-frankfurt…
Testing Non-Standard Neutrinos in Purely Leptonic Lepton Decays
Han Zhang, Bai-Cian Ke, Yao Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21374 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.…
The Hourglass-shaped Magnetic Fields and Dust Filaments in the HH 211 Protostellar Envelope
Youngwoo Choi, Woojin Kwon, Leslie W. Looney, Ian W. Stephens, Zhi-Yun Li, Floris F. S. van der Tak, John J. Tobin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25764
🇺🇦 Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney saw the latest Ukrainian weapons! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/24/canadian-prime-minister-mark-carney.html
In the Netherlands, the strongest party has less than 20% of all seats.
That is not a problem if you move beyond the typical "government must have majority" idea.
Get good managers to run the gov departments. Let the Parliament do it's job: pass laws so the gov departments know what to do.
But it takes discipline. Don't fire the prime minister just because they say something stupid or have friends you don't like. Treat them like the employee they are.…
The REDTOP experiment: a $\eta/\eta^{\prime}$ factory to explore dark matter and physics beyond the Standard Model
Marcin Zielinski, Corrado Gatto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26552
Normally, I'd be a bit more paranoid with my 9950X, but looking at the build, the mounting of the Noctua NH-U9S, and the mainboard involved makes this more worry significantly less.
Issues with the GMP build:
1. The thermal paste (likely NT-H1 or NT-H2, good paste) is wedge shaped in application and distribution. This looks like uneven pressure across the contact patch and is Not A Good Thing(tm).
2. The Asus Prime B650M-A WIFI II is a shitty board. Just because ASUS p…
CCAT: Mod-Cam Cryogenic Performance and its Impact on 280 GHz KID Array Noise
Lawrence T. Lin (Matt), Eve M. Vavagiakis (Matt), Jason E. Austermann (Matt), James R. Burgoyne (Matt), Scott Chapman (Matt), Steve K. Choi (Matt), Abigail T. Crites (Matt), Cody J. Duell (Matt), Rodrigo G. Freundt (Matt), Eliza Gazda (Matt), Christopher Groppi (Matt), Anthony I. Huber (Matt), Zachary B. Huber (Matt), Johannes Hubmayr (Matt), Ben Keller (Matt), Philip Mauskopf (Matt), Alicia Middleton (Matt),…
Hardware is weird sometimes
Julien's random thoughts: Corsair CMK32GX4M2D3600 RAM Micron single-rank kit vs CMK32GX4M2D3600 Nunya dual-rank RAM kit vs Asus Prime X570 Pro motherboard
https://blog.madbrain.com/2022/12/corsair-cmk32gx4m2d3600-ram-micron.…
Amazon announces new features ahead of its NBA on Prime streams, starting October 24: multiview, AI-powered Rapid Recaps and Key Moments showing important plays (Kurt Schlosser/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/amazons-nba-
Amazon reports Q3 ad revenue up 24% YoY to $17.7B and subscription services revenue up 11% YoY to $12.6B (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/amazon-earnings-q3-2025/
Amazon to refund Prime subscribers $1.5 billion in FTC settlement - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/09/25/amazon-refund-billion-prime-ftc/
Amazing elections in the Netherlands (I am a member of the D66 party).
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/29/exit-poll-suggests-progressive-d66-party-will-become-largest-in-dutch-parliament
…
Ravens vs. Dolphins: Three must-know storylines for Thursday's Week 9 prime-time game https://www.nfl.com/news/ravens-vs-dolphins-three-must-know-storylines-week-9-tnf
Indiana governor Mike Braun announced today that he is calling a special session to consider redrawing congressional districts in the state, the latest Republican state to work on its maps ahead of 2026.
Indiana is one of several Republican-led states that the Trump administration has pressured to undertake mid-decade redistricting to favor Republicans,
-- which began with a push in Texas to redraw lines to add Republican seats.
“I am calling a special legislative session to…
It takes a surprising amount of work (and time) to prime and paint a new horse trough.
(And I've got six of 'em that need to be painted. And they need to be carried down sixty stair steps.)
I am sore.
I've got three more to do later in the year.
Dolphins Announce Ex-Raiders Executive Will Serve as Interim GM https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/dolphins-interim-gm-champ-kelly/?adt_ei=[email]
Ukraine’s digital chief pushes for AI-first state amid war and cyber threats https://therecord.media/ukraine-ai-state-digital
Trump, 79, Wanders Off While Meeting Japanese Prime Minister (Hafiz Rashid/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/post/202339/trump-79-wanders-off-meeting-japanese-prime-minister
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p85#a251028p85
DynaMark: A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Dynamic Watermarking in Industrial Machine Tool Controllers
Navid Aftabi, Abhishek Hanchate, Satish Bukkapatnam, Dan Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21797
Latin quandles of size $16p$
Marco Bonatto, Filippo Spaggiari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22145 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.22145
Satellite Operations and $\theta$
Rob McConkey, Luke J Seaton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22939 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.22939
On the structure of length sets with maximal elasticity
Doniyor Yazdonov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21383 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21383
The Quantum Compass Mechanism in Cryptochromes
Zou Chengye, Liu Ya-jun, Wang Beibei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21350 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21350
A Combinatorial Technique for the Wedderburn Decomposition of Rational Group Algebras of Nested GVZ $p$-groups
Ram Karan Choudhary, Sunil Kumar Prajapati
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23349
Stacking-Controlled Magnetic Exchange and Magnetoelectric Coupling in Bilayer CrI$_2$
B. Vald\'es-Toro, I. Ferreira-Araya, R. A. Gallardo, J. W. Gonz\'alez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22827
"175 researchers urge UK Prime Minister to stand up to President Trump on climate change"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate
Charge-localization-driven metal-insulator phase transition in layered molecular conductors
Savita Priya, Maxim Wenzel, Olga Iakutkina, Marvin Schmidt, Christian Prange, Dieter Schweitzer, Yohei Saito, Reizo Kato, Koichi Hiraki, Martin Dressel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24518
Quick review of Omi. I’ve had it for about a week now, and spent more time trying to get it to work than having it work. Definitely not ready for prime time, though it looks interesting. See discord for details https://www.omi.me/
"Starmer continues to pin all his hopes on economic growth driven by the City. In this he follows every prime minister since the 2008 crash who have all banked the future on a revival of the system that imploded globally then."
Labour is neither listening nor learning | Morning Star
https://
Small Prime Primitive Roots in Arithmetic Progressions
N. A. Carella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19309 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19309
Amazon reaches $2.5 billion settlement with FTC over 'deceptive' Prime program
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/25/amazon-ftc-prime-settlement.html
Polish prime minister rejects Hungary as venue for potential Zelensky-Putin talks: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/20/polish-prime-minister-rejects-hungary.html
There is no prime functional digraph: Seifert's proof revisited
Adrien Richard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19940 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19940…
On the $p$-adic transcendence of $\sum_{k=1}^\infty p^{-1/p^k}$
Shanwen Wang, Yijun Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24609 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.24609
“Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday he will join Italy in sending a military warship to protect an international flotilla seeking to deliver aid to Gaza after it was attacked by drones off Greece.”
Finally! Thank you!
This is what we need. This is the only language Israel understands.
Now, let’s start talking about a UN peacekeeping mission to Palestine. Or, if the UN is no longer fit for purpose, a coalition of countries that will use military inter…
Spain's Prime Minister Sanchez says he will send warship to protect Gaza aid flotilla, after (probably Israeli) drone attacks near Crete.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/spains-pm-says-he-will-send-wa…
Amazon reports Q3 ad revenue up 24% YoY to $17.7B and subscription services revenue up 11% YoY to $12.6B (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/amazon-earnings-q3-2025/
Raiders’ Maxx Crosby Sends Strong Message Amid Trade Rumors https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/maxx-crosby-strong-message-trade-rumors/?adt_ei=[email]
Electric, thermal and thermoelectric response of a hot pion gas in a time dependent background magnetic field
Ankit Kumar, Gowthama K K, Vinod Chandra, Sadhana Dash
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23283
'Monday Night Football' doubleheader: Why are there two games in Week 4? Where to watch, live stream each
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/monday-
Products of strictly hyperbolic conjugacy classes in symplectic groups
Klaus Nielsen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26237 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.26237
Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme chips for PCs, offering up to 18 cores, and says the latter is the first Arm chip to hit 5GHz (Andrew E. Freedman/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.
NBCUniversal and Amazon reach distribution deals for Prime Video, Peacock, Fire TV, and Xfinity X1, including offering Peacock Premium Plus on Prime Video (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/amazon-nbcu-peacock-availa…
On 1-absorbing prime and weakly 1-absorbing prime subsemimodules
Mohammad adarbeh, Mohammad Saleh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15398 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…
Study of the $\chi_{cJ}\rightarrow\Lambda\bar{\Lambda}\eta^\prime$ decays
BESIII Collaboration, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18761 https://arxiv.org/p…
CCAT: Mod-Cam Readout Overview and Flexible Stripline Performance
Ben Keller (Matt), Rodrigo Freundt (Matt), James R. Burgoyne (Matt), Scott Chapman (Matt), Steve Choi (Matt), Cody J. Duell (Matt), Christopher Groppi (Matt), Caleb Humphreys (Matt), Lawrence T. Lin (Matt), Alicia Middleton (Matt), Michael D. Niemack (Matt), Darshan Patel (Matt), Eve Vavagiakis (Matt), Samantha Walker (Matt), Yuhan Wang (Matt), Ruixuan (Matt), Xie
Selmer groups of families of elliptic curves with an $\ell$-isogeny
Stephanie Chan, Matteo Verzobio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21406 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…
Ukraine and Canada have signed an agreement on the joint production of defense equipment,
Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal announced on Aug. 24.
The announcement coincides with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's first official visit to Kyiv.
The prime minister arrived in the capital on Aug. 24 to celebrate Ukraine's Independence Day and announced a military aid package worth over $700 million.
"The agreement aims to deepen bilateral defense and industr…
The Prime Focus Infrared Microlensing Experiment (PRIME): First Results
Takahiro Sumi, David A. H. Buckley, Alexander S. Kutyrev, Motohide Tamura, David P. Bennett, Ian A. Bond, Giuseppe Cataldo, Joseph M. Durbak, S. Bradley Cenko, Dale Fixsen, Orion Guiffreda, Ryusei Hamada, Yuki Hirao, Asahi Idei, Dan Kelly, Markus Loose, Gennadiy N. Lotkin, Eric I. Lyness, Stephen Maher, Shuma Makida, Noriyuki Matsunaga, Shota Miyazaki, Gregory Mosby, Samuel H. Moseley, Tutumi Nagai, Togo Nagano, Se…
Amazon plans to hold its 2025 Prime Big Deal Days from October 7 at 12:01am PT through October 8, exclusive to Prime subscribers (Brandon Russell/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/774151/amazon-october-prime-day-fall-dates-2025
My grandmother would always ask every German the question "You knew what was happening, why did you not do something?" The question was about the Nazi concentration and death camps. And it was a valid question.
Today we know about what ICE and DHS are doing, we know our country is going fascist and is trying to create Gulags and concentration camps and the kind of social fear that would be the pride of the East German STASI.
Here's a prime example - California Cit…
Modular analogs of character formulas and minimal lifts of modular forms
Patrick B. Allen, Preston Wake
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21426 https://arxiv.org/…
Rings with uniformly S-w-Noetherian Sspectrum
Xiaolei Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21403 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21403
TrackFormers Part 2: Enhanced Transformer-Based Models for High-Energy Physics Track Reconstruction
Sascha Caron, Nadezhda Dobreva, Maarten Kimpel, Uraz Odyurt, Slav Pshenov, Roberto Ruiz de Austri Bazan, Eugene Shalugin, Zef Wolffs, Yue Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26411
Lions vs. Ravens: Three must-know storylines for Monday's Week 3 prime-time game https://www.nfl.com/news/lions-vs-ravens-three-must-know-storylines-for-monday-s-week-3-prime-time-game
A note on conductors of Frey representations at $2$
Imin Chen, Lucas Villagra Torcomian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23540 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.23540…
A proposed class action suit against Amazon filed August 22 claims it misleads customers, who think they own content they bought when they only have a license (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
Ukraine appoints new ambassador to US: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/27/ukraine-appoints-new-ambassador-to.html
On the Foundations of Approximate Algebra: Axioms, Extensions, and Geometric Structures
Dang Vo Phuc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25212 https://arxiv.org/pdf…
Japan's New Prime Minister Has an Advantage in Winning Over Trump (Javier C. Hernšndez/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/world/asia/japan-trump-takaichi.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251027/p73#a251027p73
Faltings elliptic curves in twisted $\mathbb Q$-isogeny classes
Enrique Gonz\'alez-Jim\'enez, Joan-C. Lario
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23283 https://
Seahawks vs. Cardinals: Three must-know storylines for Thursday's Week 4 prime-time game https://www.nfl.com/news/seahawks-cardinals-2025-nfl-season-three-storylines-tnf-week-4
Dold-Gauss Congruences, Norm Descent, and Rational Rigidity
Hartosh Singh Bal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25038 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.25038
Putin, Kim Jong Un to attend China's military parade in September: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/28/putin-kim-jong-un-to.html
$p$-adic hypoerbolicity for Shimura varieties and period images
Benjamin Bakker, Abhishek Oswal, Ananth N. Shankar, Zijian Yao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25461 https://
The FTC's 2023 lawsuit against Amazon goes to trial this week, alleging it used misleading tactics to entice people into Prime and made cancellation difficult (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/is-amazon-pri
Ukraine developing 'careful' policy on sharing 'priceless' wartime data, minister tells Reuters: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/27/ukraine-developing-careful-policy-on.html
Amazon Prime Vision's latest feature gives new perspective on QB protection https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6636637/2025/09/18/nfl-amazon-prime-vision-pocket-health/
Amazon plans to end the ability for Prime members to share free shipping benefits with individuals outside their household, starting on October 1 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/769051/amazon-prime-free-shipping-benefit-sharing-endin…
Divisibility properties of weighted $k$ regular partitions
Debika Banerjee, Ben Kane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20573 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.20573
Digital functions along Squares of Prime Numbers
Michael Drmota, Jo\"el Rivat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17474 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.17474…