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In which Sak Supple shares his experiments with using LLMs to transcribe 18th and 19th century playbills from the British Library - manicules, long 's' and all! 'blplaybills.org: better search results using LLMs' https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/blpl

blplaybills.org: better search results using LLMs
Search for, view and download 300 years of theatre posters from Great Britain and Ireland, 1600–1902.

RTL Group reports H1 revenue down 3% YoY to €2.78B, vs. €2.83B est., Fremantle revenue down 5% to €905M due to lower revenue from the US and "phasing effects" (Jesse Whittock/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/08/fremantle-rtl-h1-interim-ea…

Fremantle Sees Half-Year Revenue Fall 5.4% Due To U.S. Drop, As Streaming Shines For RTL In Mixed Results
Got Talent' producer Fremantle has seen H1 revenues fall 5.4%, as RTL posted interim results in which streaming shone but sales and profits fell.

Google announces Veo updates: support for vertical video and 1080p, lower pricing, and general availability of Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast in the Gemini API (Google Developers Blog)
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/veo-3-and-veo-3-…

Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast – new pricing, new configurations and better resolution- Google Developers Blog
Today, we’re launching three big Veo updates: support for vertical format outputs (9:16 aspect ratio...

amac at UMass: How do we regulate AI? (Ethan Zuckerman)
https://ethanzuckerman.com/2025/10/08/amac-at-umass-how-do-we-regulate-ai/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251008/p168#a251008p168

Towards Robust and Generalizable Continuous Space-Time Video Super-Resolution with Events
Shuoyan Wei, Feng Li, Shengeng Tang, Runmin Cong, Yao Zhao, Meng Wang, Huihui Bai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03833

Towards Robust and Generalizable Continuous Space-Time Video Super-Resolution with Events
Continuous space-time video super-resolution (C-STVSR) has garnered increasing interest for its capability to reconstruct high-resolution and high-frame-rate videos at arbitrary spatial and temporal scales. However, prevailing methods often generalize poorly, producing unsatisfactory results when applied to out-of-distribution (OOD) scales. To overcome this limitation, we present EvEnhancer, a novel approach that marries the unique properties of high temporal resolution and high dynamic range e…

McCarthy's former Cowboys assistants go 1-2 in NFL 2025 Week 1 scores and results https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/09/07/nfl-week-1-results-see-former-cowboys-co…

{purrr} has some lesser known functions that make handling of failing function calls easier: safely, quietly, possibly: #rstats

Wrap a function to capture errors — safely
Creates a modified version of .f that always succeeds. It returns a list with components result and error. If the function succeeds, result contains the returned value and error is NULL. If an error occurred, error is an error object and result is either NULL or otherwise.

Crypto exchange Gemini launches an Australian arm, Gemini Intergalactic Australia, to offer its services in the country after registering with regulator AUSTRAC (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-…

Assessing the Impact of Image Super Resolution on White Blood Cell Classification Accuracy
Tatwadarshi P. Nagarhalli, Shruti S. Pawar, Soham A. Dahanukar, Uday Aswalekar, Ashwini M. Save, Sanket D. Patil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03759

Assessing the Impact of Image Super Resolution on White Blood Cell Classification Accuracy
Accurately classifying white blood cells from microscopic images is essential to identify several illnesses and conditions in medical diagnostics. Many deep learning technologies are being employed to quickly and automatically classify images. However, most of the time, the resolution of these microscopic pictures is quite low, which might make it difficult to classify them correctly. Some picture improvement techniques, such as image super-resolution, are being utilized to improve the resoluti…

President Trump orders regulators to investigate banks for "politicized or unlawful debanking", echoing allegations from conservatives and the crypto industry (Joel Khalili/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/donald-trump-orders-crackdow…

Donald Trump Orders Crackdown on Politically-Motivated ‘Debanking’
In a new executive order, the US president has called on federal regulators to investigate and punish banks for alleged discrimination against conservatives and certain types of business.