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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

Amazon’s next Prime Day sale is happening on October 7th
Amazon’s October Prime Day 2025 will kick off on Tuesday, October 7th through October 9th. Here’s everything you need to know about the two-day event.

Amazon Prime Day: Diese Angebote lohnen sich für Apple-Nutzer
Macs, Zubehör, Apple Watch: Amazon hat einige interessante Deals für Apple-User zu den Prime-Day-Tagen parat. Allerdings sollte man vorher vergleichen.

Adobe Analytics: Prime Day's four-day event drove over $24B in US e-commerce sales, up 30.3% YoY; traffic from generative AI sources was up 3,300% YoY (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/prime-day…

Prime Day event drove over $24B in U.S. e-commerce sales, gen AI traffic was up 3,300% | TechCrunch
Amazon's Prime Day, which leads to an overall boost to U.S. e-commerce thanks to competitive sales, saw a significant increase in retail traffic driven by

- The Verge's top 10 prime day deals
- The Verge's top 10 prime day deals you clicked on
- The Verge's top 10 prime day deals you didn't click on
- The Verge's top 10 prime day deals we would love to get a commission on

VR-Brillen zum Kampfpreis auf Amazon: Welche Geräte lohnen sich?
Zum Prime Day lockt Amazon mit Rabatten auf drei aktuelle VR-Brillen – Meta Quest 3S, Pico 4 Ultra und Pimax Crystal Light. Wer sollte zuschlagen?

Never Forget.

lmao. lol

We knew what he was going to do before Starmer himself did.
https://mstdn.social/@markhburton/115180353409585265
Being US ambassador 'privilege of my life', Mandelson says, after being sacked over Epstein emails - BBC News

Keir Starmer sacks Peter Mandelson as US ambassador over emails to Jeffrey Epstein
A statement says he was fired "in light of additional information", a day after the prime minister backed him in the Commons.

Reinventing himself?
"In one he represented one of the men found guilty of murder for beating Indigenous teenager Cassius Turvey to death with a pole as he walked home from school. In the other, he represented a man embroiled in a sophisticated money-laundering scheme"

Christian Porter: from attorney-general to scandal to $7000-a-day barrister
Once touted as a potential prime minister, the former federal attorney-general has quietly built a new life.

Amazon says it now offers same-day grocery delivery in 1,000 cities and plans to bring it to 2,300 more by the end of 2025; Prime subscribers get it free (Dana Wollman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-…

Did you know a movie I'm in is free to watch (with your Amazon Prime)?
It's Dependent's Day: she takes him as a dependent on her taxes and hilarity ensues.
Watch it here: #RomaticComedy

Trump said Monday that
he would impose additional sanctions on Russia
before a previously announced 50-day deadline
if Russia does not reach a ceasefire in its war with Ukraine.
Trump said the new deadline
would be in 10 to 12 days.
He made his comments during a meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at Trump’s golf resort in Turnberry, Scotland.

Live updates: Trump meeting with British prime minister in Scotland with trade, Gaza on the agenda
Get the latest news on President Donald Trump’s second term and the Republican-led Congress.

Additional JWST/NIRSpec Transits of the Rocky M Dwarf Exoplanet GJ 1132 b Reveal a Featureless Spectrum
Katherine A. Bennett, Ryan J. MacDonald, Sarah Peacock, Junellie Perez, E. M. May, Sarah E. Moran, Lili Alderson, Jacob Lustig-Yaeger, Hannah R. Wakeford, David K. Sing, Kevin B. Stevenson, Natasha E. Batalha, Mercedes L\'opez-Morales, Munazza K. Alam, Joshua D. Lothringer, Guangwei Fu, James Kirk, Jeff A. Valenti, L. C. Mayorga, Kristin S. Sotzen

Additional JWST/NIRSpec Transits of the Rocky M Dwarf Exoplanet GJ 1132 b Reveal a Featureless Spectrum
As an archetypal M-dwarf rocky exoplanet, GJ 1132 b has a varied history of atmospheric measurements. At 1.13 $\rm R_{\oplus}$, 1.66 $\rm M_{\oplus}$, and 580 K, it orbits a bright, slowly rotating M dwarf in a 1.6-day period, making it a prime target for characterization. In this study, we combine two JWST NIRSpec/G395H transits previously reported by May and MacDonald et al. 2023 with two new NIRSpec/G395M transits to constrain the presence of an atmosphere. This marks the first time the G395…

Internal data: Amazon registered 5.4M US Prime sign-ups over the 21-day run-up to Prime Day and the four-day event, ~116K less than 2024 and 106K below its goal (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co

Der Amazon Prime Day bietet mir mal wieder die Möglichkeit meine SD Karten der ganzen Kameras günstig zu erneuern, da diese teilweise um 30% günstiger angeboten werden.
Falls Ihr auch gerade welche braucht. Es gibt z.B.
Lexar Silver Pro 128GB SDXC UHS-II für 32,99- €
https://amzn.to/4kulmSi
SanD…

As Amazon Prime Day begins, some merchants say they can't afford to offer discounts due to Trump's tariffs; Adobe expects $23.8B in sales across the four days (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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…

Ukraine, Canada sign joint defense production agreement
The deal will make it easier to establish Ukrainian defense companies in Canada and provide Kyiv "with modern weapons and military equipment in the long term," Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal said.

The modern Magnificent Seven movie starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt is still on Amazon Prime for a few days -- at least here in Germany.
We did some VFX for it. Back in the day I was still doing comp and comp supervision. My shot that I'm most proud of is the knife action on the straw dummy. Our company's showreel of that movie starts with a breakdown of it:

Prime Day gibts bei mir im Klexshop keinen, weil ihr ohnehin alle immer Prime-Kundschaft für mich seid. <3 Aber ich kann Euch den #buntfug Seestern am Bande verleihen :D
Alles handgemalter #wandklexschmuck, zu finden unter folgender Shop-Suche #miniaturepainting #art #artShop #fediArt #mastoArt #creativeToots

The dispute has been fanned by nationalist sentiment,
compounded by a bitter feud between two powerful politicians:
Hun Sen, who ruled Cambodia with an iron fist for four decades before handing power to his son Hun Manet in 2023,
and Thaksin Shinawatra, the former populist leader of Thailand, whose daughter Paetongtarn Shinawatra became prime minister in 2024.
Both former leaders remain highly influential.
On Thursday night, Thaksin said on social media he had…