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"Arduino wasn’t valuable because it was just a microcontroller company. It was valuable because it was a commons. And you can’t apply enterprise legal frameworks to a commons without destroying it"
You also can't buy a #commons, at least without destroying it as a commons. The key point about a commons is that it isn't property.

Did Qualcomm kill Arduino for good? | Molecularist
The maker community worried Qualcomm would kill the Arduino ethos. New T&Cs confirm the community's worst fears. Here's what's at stake, what Qualcomm got wrong, and what might still be salvaged.

Anthropic says Claude's memory feature, initially available for Team and Enterprise users, is rolling out to Pro and Max subscribers (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/one-of-chatgpts-most-helpful-features-is-com…

One of ChatGPT's most helpful features is coming to Claude - here's who gets it
Anthropic's Memory feature aims to create a more personalized experience while prioritizing user control.

Mailbag: Should we have seen this coming? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-should-we-have-seen-this-coming

Trump Ally Pushing Conspiracy Case Says Grand Jury Review Coming (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-22/trump-ally-pushing-conspiracy-case-says-grand-jury-review-coming
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p39#a251022p39

Rest in Power Victor Grossman: An American Communist Like No Other
https://jacobin.com/2025/12/victor-grossman-obit
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An American Communist Like No Other
Victor Grossman died in Berlin, aged 97, last Wednesday. An American communist, his life was forever shaped by his defection to the Eastern Bloc at the height of the Cold War.

Dan Campbell's prophecy coming true as Lions take Ravens' best punch, deliver plenty of their own in 'MNF' win

https://www.cbssports.com/nf…

“The anonymous communications network, which included more than 100K SIM cards & 300 servers, could interfere with emergency response services and could be used to conduct encrypted communication.”
Cache of Devices Capable of Crashing Cell Network Is Found Near U.N.

Cache of Devices Capable of Crashing Cell Network Is Found Near U.N.
The Secret Service discovered more than 100,000 SIM cards and 300 servers, which could disable cellular towers or be used to conduct surveillance.

Community Covert Communication - Dynamic Mass Covert Communication Through Social Media
Eric Filiol
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17508 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Community Covert Communication - Dynamic Mass Covert Communication Through Social Media
Since the early 2010s, social network-based influence technologies have grown almost exponentially. Initiated by the U.S. Army's early OEV system in 2011, a number of companies specializing in this field have emerged. The most (in)famous cases are Bell Pottinger, Cambridge Analytica, Aggregate-IQ and, more recently, Team Jorge. In this paper, we consider the use-case of sock puppet master activities, which consist in creating hundreds or even thousands of avatars, in organizing them into comm…

The Federal Communications Commission voted 2-1 along party lines on Thursday
to scrap rules that required U.S. phone and internet giants to meet certain minimum cybersecurity requirements.
The FCC’s two Trump-appointed commissioners, chairman Brendan Carr and his Republican colleague Olivia Trusty,
voted to withdraw the rules that require telecommunications carriers to “secure their networks from unlawful access or interception of communications.”
The Biden administ…

Despite Chinese hacks, Trump's FCC votes to scrap cybersecurity rules for phone and internet companies | TechCrunch
Two Trump-appointed FCC officials voted to undo the telecom industry's cybersecurity rules. One Democratic commissioner dissented, saying the decision leaves the United States "less safe" at a time when threats are increasing.

Sources: Infinite Reality, rebranded as Napster, told staff that $3B in funding from an unnamed investor is not coming, calling itself a "victim of misconduct" (Phoebe Liu, Iain Martin/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/phoebeliu/202<…

Napster Said It Raised $3 Billion From A Mystery Investor. Now The ‘Investor’ And ‘Money’ Are Gone
Forbes raised questions about a massive funding round metaverse-turned-AI firm Napster supposedly raised in January. The money is never coming, the company said Thursday.