Qantas confirms it has been in contact with its ransomware attackers.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/07/qantas-contacted-by-suspected-cyber-criminal-but-airline-wont-confirm-if-ha…
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
Justin Sun-linked BiT Global dismisses with prejudice its lawsuit against Coinbase for delisting wBTC; the delisting followed Coinbase launching rival cbBTC (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/06/07…
Sculptor: Empowering LLMs with Cognitive Agency via Active Context Management
Mo Li, L. H. Xu, Qitai Tan, Ting Cao, Yunxin Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04664 https://
The UK's FCA plans to lift its ban on offering crypto exchange traded notes to retail investors "to support UK growth and competitiveness" (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/06/06/uk…
My best "rubber duck" is whatever public support fora exist for whatever I'm bloodying my forehead on. I rarely actually get useful responses, but just asking does something, sometimes.
e.g. https://forum.opennebula.io/t/debugging-domain-creation/14158/1
contact: Haggle human proximity network (2006)
A network of human proximities, as measured by carried wireless devices. Each node represents a person, and an edge denotes when two people were within a certain proximity of each other, as measured by a wireless protocol (Bluetooth or Wifi). The edges are timestamped.
This network has 274 nodes and 28244 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps
sp_high_school: High school temporal contacts (2013)
These data sets correspond to the contacts and friendship relations between students in a high school in Marseilles, France, in December 2013, as measured through several techniques.
This network has 329 nodes and 1437 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata
sp_kenyan_households: Kenyan households contacts (2012)
A network of proximity contacts measured between members of 5 households of rural Kenya, between April 24 and May 12, 2012.
This network has 47 nodes and 32643 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.…