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An analysis of nearly 50 Amazon purchases over six months in 2025: during the October 7-8 Prime Day sales, average savings were only 0.6% and some items went up (Geoffrey A. Fowler/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/09/amazon-prim…

I tracked Amazon’s Prime Day prices. We’ve been played.
Here’s what you should do to actually get a good deal on Amazon.

ParCzech4Speech: A New Speech Corpus Derived from Czech Parliamentary Data
Vladislav Stankov, Maty\'a\v{s} Kopp, Ond\v{r}ej Bojar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06675 https://…

ParCzech4Speech: A New Speech Corpus Derived from Czech Parliamentary Data
We introduce ParCzech4Speech 1.0, a processed version of the ParCzech 4.0 corpus, targeted at speech modeling tasks with the largest variant containing 2,695 hours. We combined the sound recordings of the Czech parliamentary speeches with the official transcripts. The recordings were processed with WhisperX and Wav2Vec 2.0 to extract automated audio-text alignment. Our processing pipeline improves upon the ParCzech 3.0 speech recognition version by extracting more data with higher alignment rel…

Synthesis of Sound and Precise Leakage Contracts for Open-Source RISC-V Processors
Zilong Wang, Gideon Mohr, Klaus von Gleissenthall, Jan Reineke, Marco Guarnieri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06509

Synthesis of Sound and Precise Leakage Contracts for Open-Source RISC-V Processors
Leakage contracts have been proposed as a new security abstraction at the instruction set architecture level. Leakage contracts aim to capture the information that processors may leak via microarchitectural side channels. Recently, the first tools have emerged to verify whether a processor satisfies a given contract. However, coming up with a contract that is both sound and precise for a given processor is challenging, time-consuming, and error-prone, as it requires in-depth knowledge of the ti…

7 drones, projectile fragment of unknown origin found in Poland after Russian incursion: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/10/drones-projectile-fragment-of-unknown.html

Le Sud global aux prises avec l’internationale « gen Z »
https://www.lemonde.fr/article-offert/29972fd91bd5-6652762/le-sud-global-aux-prises-avec-l-internationale-gen-z

Le Sud global aux prises avec l’internationale « gen Z »
Du Népal au Pérou en passant par Madagascar, la révolte de la jeunesse portée par des revendications socio-économiques a désarçonné les Etats. Mais son mode de mobilisation horizontal, issu de la culture numérique, handicape aujourd’hui ses débouchés politiques.

Meanwhile, in other "No shit, Sherlock" news:
☑️ Majority of companies hiking prices to cover tariffs: KPMG
https://www.newsweek.com/majority-companies-hiking-prices-cover-tariffs-kpmg-10840802

Majority of Companies Hiking Prices to Cover Tariffs: KPMG
KPMG LLP found that many companies are passing costs onto customers while adopting other strategic changes to cope with the duties.

bible_nouns: Bible noun phrases
A network of noun phrases (places and names) in the King James Version of the Bible. Each node is a noun phrase, and an edge exists if the noun phrases co-occur in a Bible verse. Edge weight denotes how often the two words co-occur.
This network has 1773 nodes and 9131 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted

Bridging Imperative Process Models and Process Data Queries-Translation and Relaxation
Abdur Rehman Anwar Qureshi, Adrian Rebmann, Timotheus Kampik, Matthias Weidlich, Mathias Weske
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06414

Bridging Imperative Process Models and Process Data Queries-Translation and Relaxation
Business process management is increasingly practiced using data-driven approaches. Still, classical imperative process models, which are typically formalized using Petri nets, are not straightforwardly applicable to the relational databases that contain much of the available structured process execution data. This creates a gap between the traditional world of process modeling and recent developments around data-driven process analysis, ultimately leading to the under-utilization of often read…

Jayden Daniels card prices going the way of C.J. Stroud's, but can they bounce back? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6790670/2025/11/09/jayden-daniels-card-prices-commanders/

Gyroscope measurements of the precession and nutation of Earth’s axis: #gyroscope detects Earth’s rotation with the highest precision yet: https://physicsworld.com/a/optical-gyroscope-detects-earths-rotation-with-the-highest-precision-yet/