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Disney and Webtoon strike a deal that brings about 100 Disney comics titles to Webtoon, with characters from Disney, Marvel, 20th Century Studios, and Star Wars (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/webtoon-disney…

Disney Webtoon Deal: 100 Marvel, Star Wars & More Titles Coming to App
About 100 webcomics featuring characters from Disney, Marvel, Star Wars and 20th Century Studios will be available in Webtoon under a multiyear deal.

me n my dad r once again making the trip to his parents in maryland, to entertain myself i hopped on archive.org and picked a buncha random zines with titles and covers that caught my eye. for now:
this one seems to be the stories of some "queer femme" bruce springsteen stans
https://arc…

The legal system did.
From: @…
https://twitter.com/MenInBlazers/status/1956765140893999276

Men in Blazers (@MenInBlazers) on X
Did everyone forget about the team who've won six of the last eight Premier League titles? 😬

MCP-Orchestrated Multi-Agent System for Automated Disinformation Detection
Alexandru-Andrei Avram, Adrian Groza, Alexandru Lecu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10143 https://

MCP-Orchestrated Multi-Agent System for Automated Disinformation Detection
The large spread of disinformation across digital platforms creates significant challenges to information integrity. This paper presents a multi-agent system that uses relation extraction to detect disinformation in news articles, focusing on titles and short text snippets. The proposed Agentic AI system combines four agents: (i) a machine learning agent (logistic regression), (ii) a Wikipedia knowledge check agent (which relies on named entity recognition), (iii) a coherence detection agent (u…

Bridging Modality Gaps in e-Commerce Products via Vision-Language Alignment
Yipeng Zhang, Hongju Yu, Aritra Mandal, Canran Xu, Qunzhi Zhou, Zhe Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10116

Bridging Modality Gaps in e-Commerce Products via Vision-Language Alignment
Item information, such as titles and attributes, is essential for effective user engagement in e-commerce. However, manual or semi-manual entry of structured item specifics often produces inconsistent quality, errors, and slow turnaround, especially for Customer-to-Customer sellers. Generating accurate descriptions directly from item images offers a promising alternative. Existing retrieval-based solutions address some of these issues but often miss fine-grained visual details and struggle with…

Spotify says audiobook listeners grew by 36% in the second year since the service's launch, hours streamed grew 37%, and its catalog tripled to 500,000 titles (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)

@… I wish it had a keyword or tag :-(
(Meaningless YouTube and webpage titles always turn me off … sorry.)

And at least here in #NYC, I see evidence of people #reading all the time.
1 - Bookstores all over the city have customers at any time of day - they are often full, I struggle to get through to certain shelves at times.
2 - Every time I ride the subway i see someone reading a paper book on the train. Same thing with most times I go to any park or most cafes (at least ones where people sit alone).
3 - I have a friend who works at a major book #publisher and she’s been telling me all year that their sales are some of the best they’ve ever been. They’ve had multiple instances of needing to urgently order more books printed because of certain titles getting way more demand than expected. Those aren’t all celebrity memoirs or newest trendy fantasy either - it often happens with older titles, across genres.
4 - Nearly every acquaintance I have in the city (not just my friends) reads on a regular basis. I hear about books people have read and see them pulling books out all the time - most of the people I know read at least a book a month.

Vision Language Models: A Survey of 26K Papers
Fengming Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09586 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09586

Vision Language Models: A Survey of 26K Papers
We present a transparent, reproducible measurement of research trends across 26,104 accepted papers from CVPR, ICLR, and NeurIPS spanning 2023-2025. Titles and abstracts are normalized, phrase-protected, and matched against a hand-crafted lexicon to assign up to 35 topical labels and mine fine-grained cues about tasks, architectures, training regimes, objectives, datasets, and co-mentioned modalities. The analysis quantifies three macro shifts: (1) a sharp rise of multimodal vision-language-LLM…

I really like the #Murderbot opening titles! CGI made to look like 3D-printed plastic puppets. Made by Elastic (elastic.tv).
https://motionographer.com/quickie/ela

This is one of the many reasons I use #Bandcamp and #Qobuz.
I actually own my #music, no corporate algorithm deciding what I “should” like, no invisible hand yanking albums away because some…

There is a #Murderbot And More #ebook bundle at humblebundle for the next 12 hours. Plenty of #MarthaWells titles.

NEIL YOUNG TO RELEASE OFFICIAL RELEASE SERIES (ORS) VOLUME 6 - DISCS 26, 27, 28 & 29 FEATURING FOUR CLASSIC TITLES HARVEST MOON, UNPLUGGED, SLEEPS WITH ANGELS AND MIRROR BALL
Available on vinyl and CD numbered box sets on October 24th.

Generating Query-Relevant Document Summaries via Reinforcement Learning
Nitin Yadav, Changsung Kang, Hongwei Shang, Ming Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08404 https://

Generating Query-Relevant Document Summaries via Reinforcement Learning
E-commerce search engines often rely solely on product titles as input for ranking models with latency constraints. However, this approach can result in suboptimal relevance predictions, as product titles often lack sufficient detail to capture query intent. While product descriptions provide richer information, their verbosity and length make them unsuitable for real-time ranking, particularly for computationally expensive architectures like cross-encoder ranking models. To address this challe…

Brian Schottenheimer: Titles Should Be Earned | Dallas Cowboys 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdFpaCNSbsY

Crunchyroll partners with Delta Airlines to offer over 2,000 anime titles on more than 169,000 seatback screens later in 2025 (Raquel 'Rocky' Harris/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/crunchyroll-delta-airlines-anime-partnership/

Crunchyroll Partners With Delta Airlines to Offer In-Flight Anime Viewing | Exclusive
Customers boarding Delta flights will have access to a selection of over 2,000 titles from the anime streamer.

"Seeing No Red Flags: Why Do Authors Ignore Journal Titles?" https://doi.org/10.1080/19322909.2025.2530958 [closed access 🙄]
"Publication scams have plagued academia for decades, with fraudulent journals impersonating legitimate ones to deceive authors. Compounding the…

lolwut wow #TIL #HTML #WebDev

Had a lot of fun last night, compiling a little playlist of some of my fave old #NinjaTune tracks. So many outstanding artists, tracks, so much variety and also humor (in titles, samples, production)... mementos and signs from a more optimistic era!

Roku launches Howdy, an ad-free streaming service for $2.99 per month, initially only on Roku devices, with content from Lionsgate, WBD, FilmRise, and more (Kelly Lawler/USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment…

Exclusive: Roku launches Howdy, a cheap, ad-free streaming service
Amid rising subscription fees for most streaming services, Roku is launching Howdy, a $3 per month streamer with thousands of titles and no ads.

New Order -- Confusion (Pump Panel Reconstruction Mix, Blade Edit)
By @… "I removed the movie titles and overlayed a clean copy of the song while preserving some of the sound effects."
https://youtu.be/dA6eaz8t…

New Order -- Confusion (Pump Panel Reconstruction Mix, Blade Edit)
I removed the movie titles and overlayed a clean copy of the song while preserving some of the sound effects.

Today I'm fixing about a gazillion little issues with our website, mostly for SEO reasons:
- All pages should now have a semantically relevant H1 Tag
- Found the last few page titles that didn't make sense and fixed them
- Our logo had no ALT attribute
- The font in the Survey Chart Tooltips was wrong
- Generally survey charts had wayyy to many decimals
- OpenGraph tags are weird but whatever
Keeping technical debt down is like brushing your teeth…

I'm going to make a bold prediction for kinds of future blog post titles you'll see in the next few years:
- I increased production performance 100x by ditching AI Agents
- I reduced my cloud bills 10x by coding algorithmically instead of using AI.
- I improved customer retention after abandoning my chat bot fantasies
Bookmark this post and send me posts from the future please. 🔮

AISysRev -- LLM-based Tool for Title-abstract Screening
Aleksi Huotala, Miikka Kuutila, Olli-Pekka Turtio, Mika M\"antyl\"a
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06708 https://…

AISysRev - LLM-based Tool for Title-abstract Screening
Systematic reviews are a standard practice for summarizing the state of evidence in software engineering. Conducting systematic reviews is laborious, especially during the screening or study selection phase, where the number of papers can be overwhelming. During this phase, papers are assessed against inclusion and exclusion criteria based on their titles and abstracts. Recent research has demonstrated that large language models (LLMs) can perform title-abstract screening at a level comparable …

Spotify launches a Big on BookTok hub in collaboration with TikTok; the US-only pilot project spotlights trending titles and authors and updates every two weeks (BOOK RIOT)
https://bookriot.com/spotify-big-on-booktok-audiobook-hub/

Meet Spotify's New "Big on BookTok" Audiobook Hub
Spotify has collaborated with TikTok to create the Big on BookTok hub, which spotlights the trending titles and authors on BookTok right now.

Searching the Title of Practical Work of the Informatics Engineering Bachelor Program with the Case Base Reasoning Method
Agung Sukrisna Jaya, Osvari Arsalan, Danny Matthew Saputra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20442

Searching the Title of Practical Work of the Informatics Engineering Bachelor Program with the Case Base Reasoning Method
Case Base Reasoning (CBR) is a case solving technique based on experience in cases that have occurred before with the highest similarity. CBR is used to search for practical work titles. TF-IDF is applied to process the vectorization of each practical work title word and Cosine Similarity for the calculation of similarity values. This system can search either in the form of titles or keywords. The output of the system is the title of practical work and the match value of each title. Based on th…

Texas Fury Texans and Jaguars Elite win titles at NFL Flag Championships https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/texas-fury-texans-and-jaguars-elite-win-titles-at-nfl-flag-championships

The more I'm exposed to AAA games, the more I'm encouraged to check out Indie games and revisit offline titles that I already own.
In AAA, there's barely anything new that excites me that hasn't already been done tbh. It's all iterative.
#Gaming #VideoGames

This is awesome https://mastodon.social/@tvaziri/114863892514559699

Usually, clickbait titles repel me as a reader/viewer. I tend to skip.
Occasionally, though, I do click on them. Maybe what's behing the clickbait is actually interesting?
I does happen. Sometimes I don't regret clicking (but I hardly ever share).
Most often, though, I do.

what's your most-listened to track?
(this is the Main Titles from Blade Runner, it isn't my highest, but up there)

How to tell a vibe coder of lying when they say they check their code.
People who will admit to using LLMs to write code will usually claim that they "carefully check" the output since we all know that LLM code has a lot of errors in it. This is insufficient to address several problems that LLMs cause, including labor issues, digital commons stress/pollution, license violation, and environmental issues, but at least it's they are checking their code carefully we shouldn't assume that it's any worse quality-wise than human-authored code, right?
Well, from principles alone we can expect it to be worse, since checking code the AI wrote is a much more boring task than writing code yourself, so anyone who has ever studied human-computer interaction even a little bit can predict people will quickly slack off, stating to trust the AI way too much, because it's less work. I'm a different domain, the journalist who published an entire "summer reading list" full of nonexistent titles is a great example of this. I'm sure he also intended to carefully check the AI output, but then got lazy. Clearly he did not have a good grasp of the likely failure modes of the tool he was using.
But for vibe coders, there's one easy tell we can look for, at least in some cases: coding in Python without type hints. To be clear, this doesn't apply to novice coders, who might not be aware that type hints are an option. But any serious Python software engineer, whether they used type hints before or not, would know that they're an option. And if you know they're an option, you also know they're an excellent tool for catching code defects, with a very low effort:reward ratio, especially if we assume an LLM generates them. Of the cases where adding types requires any thought at all, 95% of them offer chances to improve your code design and make it more robust. Knowing about but not using type hints in Python is a great sign that you don't care very much about code quality. That's totally fine in many cases: I've got a few demos or jam games in Python with no type hints, and it's okay that they're buggy. I was never going to debug them to a polished level anyways. But if we're talking about a vibe coder who claims that they're taking extra care to check for the (frequent) LLM-induced errors, that's not the situation.
Note that this shouldn't be read as an endorsement of vibe coding for demos or other rough-is-acceptable code: the other ethical issues I skipped past at the start still make it unethical to use in all but a few cases (for example, I have my students use it for a single assignment so they can see for themselves how it's not all it's cracked up to be, and even then they have an option to observe a pre-recorded prompt session instead).

Sources: Microsoft is testing ad-supported games streaming internally, allowing employees to play select titles for free without a Game Pass subscription (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/report/791213/xbox-cloud-gaming-free-ad-supported-versi…

Microsoft is about to launch free Xbox Cloud Gaming with ads
Microsoft is getting ready to launch an ad-supported version of Xbox Cloud Gaming. The free streaming is being tested internally at Microsoft.

Hey #Jellyfin for #Roku peeps, we're trying something new this round.
We have a 3.0.7 release candidate ready and are asking for testers!
You can find the RC-1 zip file, the source code, and the release notes at

Many people associate themselves with a profession or group in vague terms such as "researcher" (as I am guilty of doing). In a past life, I'd often hear criticisms of the title network engineer, but at least it was qualified.
Increasingly when I see people refer to themselves with seemingly prestigious, but vague titles, I think of a appropriate qualifier. In a world where 240 characters or less rule, nuance is hard and rare, but necessary to maintain an often needed s…

I'm increasingly hesitant to click on recommended videos with intriguing-sounding titles on YouTube, especially science, lifehack, or celebrity oriented. It takes a while to realise the narrator's voice sounds off, the title was a clickbait, or that the video doesn't tell anything with substance. Then you check the channel page and you see that some poor devil with a get-rich-quick scheme in mind has churned out 85 AI(-aided) videos in the last month, amassing tens of thousands o…

Accelerating Scientific Discovery with Multi-Document Summarization of Impact-Ranked Papers
Paris Koloveas, Serafeim Chatzopoulos, Dionysis Diamantis, Christos Tryfonopoulos, Thanasis Vergoulis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03962

Accelerating Scientific Discovery with Multi-Document Summarization of Impact-Ranked Papers
The growing volume of scientific literature makes it challenging for scientists to move from a list of papers to a synthesized understanding of a topic. Because of the constant influx of new papers on a daily basis, even if a scientist identifies a promising set of papers, they still face the tedious task of individually reading through dozens of titles and abstracts to make sense of occasionally conflicting findings. To address this critical bottleneck in the research workflow, we introduce a …

Parrot Analytics: movies made up ~50% of streaming revenue across Netflix, Prime Video, Disney , and WBD in 2024, up from ~27% in 2022, based on engagement data (Alejandro Rojas/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/b…

How Movies Increasingly Drive Streaming Revenue
A Parrot Analytics analysis of thousands of titles across Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, Netflix, and Max finds that movies deliver disproportionately high engagement relative to the volume of content hours they represent.

$Music Makes My World Go Round!
Please checkout my #Vinyl & CD Collection ... I hit a fiscal brick wall of bills and may be up to part with some choice titles...
My loss is yer gain ..See Something Suitable?
OK Mastodon #makemeanoffer !

We’re in the digital decadence era, where you can apparently buy whole companies to skip all that actual hard work.
The challenge will be teasing out strategy from the culture and transplanting it to a new host.
https://www.theverge.com/openai/769325/ope

OpenAI starts building out its app team
ChatGPT maker OepnAI has acquired the product analytics firm Statsig, and rearranged several executive’s titles.

Steelers, Dolphins are stuck in NFL purgatory, and they aren't alone https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6571145/2025/08/27/steelers-dolphins-colts-jaguars-cardinals-nfl/

Does anyone here _not_ skip the titles after the first episode?

Source: Xbox gave up more than $300M in Call of Duty sales on consoles and PCs last year after its decision to put some of its top titles on Game Pass (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)

Brilliant!

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #BBCProms
Vangelis:
🎵 Blade Runner (Main Titles)
#Vangelis
https://open.spotify.com/track/1u1ATklwZesAvq1whHsI8Z

You would think Google Drive app would have basic search that finds all document titles containing search words. You would be wrong. Actually Apple Files/iCloud search is much better. The more I work with Google apps, the more mediocre they seem. The main thing that stops me from getting folks to use iCloud web apps is the unnecessary 2 modal dialogs to open every doc.

"Hitler personally had more German generals executed than all the Allies combined managed to kill during the entire war. That’s not micromanagement; that’s murder as a management style."
Very interesting thread!
https://infosec.exchange/@masek/115266663243424953

Fairport hopeful for third state title run https://www.democratandchronicle.com/videos/sports/high-school/2025/08/27/fairport-hopeful-for-third-state-title-run/85843619007/

Belichick’s scrap with the Krafts feels a lot like Dallas’ Johnson-Jones breakup https://insidethestar.com/belichicks-scrap-with-the-krafts-feels-a-lot-like-dallas-johnson-jones-breakup

Switched from #goodreads to https://thestorygraph.com/ . It's not bound to Amazon, the company is UK based, the UI is way cleaner and more snappy (both their app and the website), I can add missing titles easily,…

The StoryGraph
We'll help you track your reading and choose your next book.

OpenAI acquires product analytics company Statsig for $1.1B and shuffles executive roles, with Statsig CEO Vijaye Raji becoming OpenAI's CTO of Applications (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/openai/769325/openai-statsig-acquisition-execut…

OpenAI starts building out its app team
ChatGPT maker OepnAI has acquired the product analytics firm Statsig, and rearranged several executive’s titles.

Thanks for this @…
This is just about how I remember raving in the 90s in Germany.
https://youtu.be/dA6eaz8tFYA

New Order -- Confusion (Pump Panel Reconstruction Mix, Blade Edit)
I removed the movie titles and overlayed a clean copy of the song while preserving some of the sound effects.

Ampere: in July, 39% of all TV seasons and movies on US streaming platforms appeared on 2 services, while 21% of titles were on 3 services, up from 9% in 2020 (Erik Gruenwedel/Media Play News)
https://www.mediaplaynews.com/ampere-u-s-streamers-pushing-non-…

Ampere: U.S. Streamers Pushing Non-Exclusive Content - Media Play News
There’s a reason you can stream episodes of “Young Sheldon,” “NCIS” and “Suits” across multiple platforms. U.S. streamers are increasingly sharing content catalogs across third-party services. In July, 39% of domestic titles appeared on two or more services, compared with 13% in the U.K. and 8% in France over the same period, according to new … Continue reading "Ampere: U.S. Streamers Pushing Non-Exclusive Content"

SemanticShield: LLM-Powered Audits Expose Shilling Attacks in Recommender Systems
Kaihong Li, Huichi Zhou, Bin Ma, Fangjun Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24961 https://…

SemanticShield: LLM-Powered Audits Expose Shilling Attacks in Recommender Systems
Recommender systems (RS) are widely used in e-commerce for personalized suggestions, yet their openness makes them susceptible to shilling attacks, where adversaries inject fake behaviors to manipulate recommendations. Most existing defenses emphasize user-side behaviors while overlooking item-side features such as titles and descriptions that can expose malicious intent. To address this gap, we propose a two-stage detection framework that integrates item-side semantics via large language model…

Seeing talk titles at #ic2s2 I can't be the only one, when reading LLM or AI, having to react with "oh, yet another one 🙄"? No disrespect to colleague's work, but the topic feels overhyped.. Not *everything* needs an LLM angle. #grinchmoment

'I bust my (expletive)': Jerry Jones defends Cowboys' marketing over winning https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/columnist/bell/2025/08/21/cowboys-jerry-jones-super-bowl-titles/85750299007/

Games industry trade organizations and gamers are speaking out against censorship campaigns that have forced Steam and Itch.io to mass deindex NSFW content (Megan Farokhmanesh/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/gamers-are-furious-ab…

Gamers Are Furious About the Censorship of NSFW Games—and They’re Fighting Back
As industry groups decry censorship, players are flooding Visa and Mastercard with complaints and sharing the titles of delisted NSFW games to support developers.

Universal Pictures has started adding a legal warning at the end credits of its films stating that their titles "may not be used to train AI" (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Universal Pictures to Big Tech: We’ll Sue If You Steal Our Movies For AI
The studio is getting more aggressive about protecting its films from companies pirating them.

PreprintToPaper dataset: connecting bioRxiv preprints with journal publications
Fidan Badalova, Julian Sienkiewicz, Philipp Mayr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01783 https://…

PreprintToPaper dataset: connecting bioRxiv preprints with journal publications
The PreprintToPaper dataset connects bioRxiv preprints with their corresponding journal publications, enabling large-scale analysis of the preprint-to-publication process. It comprises metadata for 145,517 preprints from two periods, 2016-2018 (pre-pandemic) and 2020-2022 (pandemic), retrieved via the bioRxiv and Crossref APIs. Each record includes bibliographic information such as titles, abstracts, authors, institutions, submission dates, licenses, and subject categories, alongside enriched p…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
Rachel Portman, John Lenehan, Studio Orchestra & David Snell:
🎵 Main Titles (From "The Cider House Rules" Score)
#RachelPortman #JohnLenehan #StudioOrchestra #DavidSnell

#humor #comedy #music #rock

The Lions roar back into the NFL's elite, plus two MLB collapses to watch https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6652265/2025/09/23/lions-ravens-nfl-the-pulse/

MetaSynth: Multi-Agent Metadata Generation from Implicit Feedback in Black-Box Systems
Shreeranjani Srirangamsridharan, Ali Abavisani, Reza Yousefi Maragheh, Ramin Giahi, Kai Zhao, Jason Cho, Sushant Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01523

MetaSynth: Multi-Agent Metadata Generation from Implicit Feedback in Black-Box Systems
Meta titles and descriptions strongly shape engagement in search and recommendation platforms, yet optimizing them remains challenging. Search engine ranking models are black box environments, explicit labels are unavailable, and feedback such as click-through rate (CTR) arrives only post-deployment. Existing template, LLM, and retrieval-augmented approaches either lack diversity, hallucinate attributes, or ignore whether candidate phrasing has historically succeeded in ranking. This leaves a g…

EA's buyout talks highlight the slowdown and consolidation trends in the $178B global gaming market after the COVID boom, as gamers are sticking to old titles (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Multilingual JobBERT for Cross-Lingual Job Title Matching
Jens-Joris Decorte, Matthias De Lange, Jeroen Van Hautte
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21609 https://

Multilingual JobBERT for Cross-Lingual Job Title Matching
We introduce JobBERT-V3, a contrastive learning-based model for cross-lingual job title matching. Building on the state-of-the-art monolingual JobBERT-V2, our approach extends support to English, German, Spanish, and Chinese by leveraging synthetic translations and a balanced multilingual dataset of over 21 million job titles. The model retains the efficiency-focused architecture of its predecessor while enabling robust alignment across languages without requiring task-specific supervision. Ext…

Roku launches Howdy, an ad-free streaming service for $2.99 per month, initially only on Roku devices, with content from Lionsgate, WBD, FilmRise, and more (Kelly Lawler/USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment…

Exclusive: Roku launches Howdy, a cheap, ad-free streaming service
Amid rising subscription fees for most streaming services, Roku is launching Howdy, a $3 per month streamer with thousands of titles and no ads.

Manchester-based Mill Media names ex-WaPo Managing Editor Cameron Barr as investigations editor; Mill Media has 21 staff and 11K paying subs across six titles (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/me

From Washington Post to Manchester's Mill Media for new investigations editor
Ex-Washington Post managing editor Cameron Barr hopes to help "restore and revive investigative accountability" at Manchester-based Mill Media

Sources: Microsoft is testing ad-supported games streaming internally, allowing employees to play select titles for free without a Game Pass subscription (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/report/791213/xbox-cloud-gaming-free-ad-supported-versi…

Microsoft is about to launch free Xbox Cloud Gaming with ads
Microsoft is getting ready to launch an ad-supported version of Xbox Cloud Gaming. The free streaming is being tested internally at Microsoft.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CerysMatthews
Ennio Morricone:
🎵 A Fistful of Dollars - Titles
#EnnioMorricone
https://open.spotify.com/track/1PYfwHh6gmZWh4Prf8q5IC

SemSR: Semantics aware robust Session-based Recommendations
Jyoti Narwariya, Priyanka Gupta, Muskan Gupta, Jyotsana Khatri, Lovekesh Vig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20587 https:/…

SemSR: Semantics aware robust Session-based Recommendations
Session-based recommendation (SR) models aim to recommend items to anonymous users based on their behavior during the current session. While various SR models in the literature utilize item sequences to predict the next item, they often fail to leverage semantic information from item titles or descriptions impeding session intent identification and interpretability. Recent research has explored Large Language Models (LLMs) as promising approaches to enhance session-based recommendations, with b…

PEN America warns that book bans in public schools have become "rampant and common", with 3,750 titles banned in 87 districts during the 2024-25 school year (Elizabeth A. Harris/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/books/book-bans-pen-america.html…

‘Rampant’ Book Bans Are Now Taken for Granted, Free Speech Group Warns
A new report from PEN America tracks restrictions on school books across 45 states.

Measuring Gender Bias in Job Title Matching for Grammatical Gender Languages
Laura Garc\'ia-Sardi\~na, Hermenegildo Fabregat, Daniel Deniz, Rabih Zbib
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13803

Measuring Gender Bias in Job Title Matching for Grammatical Gender Languages
This work sets the ground for studying how explicit grammatical gender assignment in job titles can affect the results of automatic job ranking systems. We propose the usage of metrics for ranking comparison controlling for gender to evaluate gender bias in job title ranking systems, in particular RBO (Rank-Biased Overlap). We generate and share test sets for a job title matching task in four grammatical gender languages, including occupations in masculine and feminine form and annotated by gen…

Let's Use ChatGPT To Write Our Paper! Benchmarking LLMs To Write the Introduction of a Research Paper
Krishna Garg, Firoz Shaikh, Sambaran Bandyopadhyay, Cornelia Caragea
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14273

Let's Use ChatGPT To Write Our Paper! Benchmarking LLMs To Write the Introduction of a Research Paper
As researchers increasingly adopt LLMs as writing assistants, generating high-quality research paper introductions remains both challenging and essential. We introduce Scientific Introduction Generation (SciIG), a task that evaluates LLMs' ability to produce coherent introductions from titles, abstracts, and related works. Curating new datasets from NAACL 2025 and ICLR 2025 papers, we assess five state-of-the-art models, including both open-source (DeepSeek-v3, Gemma-3-12B, LLaMA 4-Maverick, Mi…

Optimizing Product Deduplication in E-Commerce with Multimodal Embeddings
Aysenur Kulunk, Berk Taskin, M. Furkan Eseoglu, H. Bahadir Sahin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15858 https…

Optimizing Product Deduplication in E-Commerce with Multimodal Embeddings
In large scale e-commerce marketplaces, duplicate product listings frequently cause consumer confusion and operational inefficiencies, degrading trust on the platform and increasing costs. Traditional keyword-based search methodologies falter in accurately identifying duplicates due to their reliance on exact textual matches, neglecting semantic similarities inherent in product titles. To address these challenges, we introduce a scalable, multimodal product deduplication designed specifically f…

Studios are rereleasing old films in theaters, helping them pad out thin slates; Universal has 12 rereleases on its 2025 slate, vs. four in 2024 and two in 2023 (Esther Zuckerman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/movies/rereleases-black-swan-…

Why ‘Black Swan,’ ‘Jaws’ and ‘Clue’ Are Coming Back to Theaters
The multiplex is awash in titles that are 15, 20, even 60 years old. Nostalgia is a factor but economics play a big part, too.

Two years after launch, Reach's US project is profitable, has a 70-person team, and one editor-in-chief for all three US titles, Mirror, Express, and Irish Star (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-america/reach-in-t…

Reach in the US: 70-strong team is turning a profit with more growth planned
A “methodical” approach to building audiences for Reach brands Mirror, Express and Irish Star in the US has “proven they can wash their own face”.

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