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YouTube responds to concerns about drops in views from creators, pointing out that ad blockers can "impact the accuracy of reported view counts" (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/09/16/youtube-lower-view-counts-ad-blockers/

YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers
In a new post, YouTube acknowledges creator complaints regarding lower view counts, which may be caused by ad blockers based on new data.

YouTube responds to concerns about drops in views from creators, pointing out that ad blockers can "impact the accuracy of reported view counts" (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/09/16/youtube-lower-view-counts-ad-blockers/

YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers
In a new post, YouTube acknowledges creator complaints regarding lower view counts, which may be caused by ad blockers based on new data.

sp_primary_school: Primary school dynamic contacts (2009)
Two temporal networks of contacts among students and teachers at a primary school in Lyon, France, on consecutive days of in October 2009. Each network accumulates all contacts over the course of a single day; contacts were sampled at 20-second intervals.
This network has 242 nodes and 125773 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

Even porn has a Code of Conduct now. Why doesn't your organization?
https://mashable.com/article/adult-studio-alliance-code-of-conduct

Adult industry leaders like Pornhub release code of conduct
The Adult Studio Alliance aims to standardize safety across the industry.

Neener neener. Go away, Candace. https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/far-right-us-influencer-candace-owens-loses-legal-fight-enter-australia-2025-10-15/

Coinbase invests in Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX to expand into India and the Middle East; CEO Sumit Gupta said the deal values CoinDCX at $2.45B post-money (Danny Park/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/374683/coinbase-invests-coindcx

Right-wing media is at war with itself as Tim Pool and others accuse Candace Owens of sabotaging MAGA with her conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk's killing (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/16/candace-…

She was MAGA’s favorite conspiracist. Then she dug into Charlie Kirk’s killing.
The right-wing firebrand rose to prominence as a pro-Trump conspiracy theorist. Her latest claims have infuriated some of her former allies.

SharpLink Gaming, the second-largest publicly traded ether treasury firm, raised $76.5M in a direct stock offering priced above market (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/10/16/sharplink-raises-usd76-5…

SharpLink Raises $76.5M in Premium-Priced Stock Deal to Expand Ether Holdings
The sale reflects "strong institutional confidence," the company said, with an unnamed investor also receiving an option to buy another 4.5 million shares

Over 20 ad tech companies including PubMatic, Optable, and Yahoo launch the Ad Context Protocol, a new open standard to support future agentic advertising (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/adcp-ad-context-protocol-agentic-advertising-sta…

Yahoo, PubMatic, and Others Launch New Standard for Agentic Advertising
Twenty ad tech firms launch the Ad Context Protocol to cut costs, boost transparency, and lay the groundwork for agentic advertising.

Ripple acquires GTreasury, a platform used by Fortune 500 companies for managing cash, foreign exchange, and risk, for $1B, set to close in the coming months (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/10/

Ripple News: Enters Corporate Treasury Business with $1B Acquisition of GTreasury
The deal, pending regulatory approvals, would give Ripple access to large enterprise clients as it is building out financial services around its digital asset business.