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Samsung brings ads to US fridges

A software update rolling out to Samsung’s Family Hub refrigerators in the US is putting ads on the fridges for the first time. The “promotions and curated advertisements” are coming despite Samsung insisting to The Verge in April that it…

Rivian’s e-bike leaks ahead of next month’s announcement

Rivian’s heavily financed micromobilty spinoff Also is promising something on October 22nd. Also’s calling it “transcendent mobility,” which is a fancy way of saying e-bike after a poorly masked video leaked the rather unique design. While Also is a legally…

Open Practices for Architecture and AI Adoption

Andrea Magnorsky presented on Byte-Sized Architecture at Cloud Native Summit 2025, as a format for building shared understanding through small, recurrent workshops. Ahilan Ponnusamy and Andreas Grabner discussed the Technology Operating Model for AI adoption. Both approaches drew on the…

On the Rate of Gaussian Approximation for Linear Regression Problems

arXiv:2509.14039v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we consider the problem of Gaussian approximation for the online linear regression task. We derive the corresponding rates for the setting of a constant learning rate and study the explicit dependence of…

A transport approach to the cutoff phenomenon

arXiv:2509.08560v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Substantial progress has recently been made in the understanding of the cutoff phenomenon for Markov processes, using an information-theoretic statistics known as varentropy [Sal23; Sal24; Sal25a; PS25]. In the present paper, we propose an alternative…