The Dallas Federal Reserve’s September Energy Survey noted that the energy business activity index, the broadest measure of energy firm conditions, remained clearly in negative territory.
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Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Time,
22 Oct. 2025
Coughlin hopes the index serves not only as a research paper but also as a movement and a call to action.
The company’s Amazon Web Services will launch a real-time bidding service for ad buyers and sellers called AWS RTB Fabric, with a goal of helping marketers and media outlets buy and sell digital commercial inventory through split-second auctions.
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Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
23 Oct. 2025
Blue Jay follows other recent robotics developments at Amazon, including the testing the humanoid robot Digit and the inventory processing Sequoia robotics system.
Government hiring data is on hold during the shutdown, but earlier this month a survey by payroll company ADP showed a surprising loss of 32,000 jobs in the private sector in September.
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Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
28 Oct. 2025
After trading away franchise slugger Rafael Devers, the Red Sox cleared some significant payroll and opened up the need for a big bat in the infield.
First published in 1950, Il Cucchiaio d'Argento, published in English by Phaidon as The Silver Spoon, is the ultimate compilation of traditional home-cooking Italian dishes.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Oct. 2025
Compiled by Steve Berkowitz and Sean Wilentz, the massive box (also available in a two-disc distillation for Dylanologists on a budget) includes a certain amount of material already available on previous Bootleg Series editions and other Dylan compilations.
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