Visa says its stablecoin settlement pilot supports nine networks, including Base, Polygon, Canton Network, Arc, and Tempo, and has hit a $7B annualized run rate (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/04/
We are now deep into the weeds of the cyber news work week, so check out today's Metacurity for the most crucial developments you should know, including
--Centcom: US war zone troops were targeted through commercial location data,
--Canada signals flexibility as tech giants fight surveillance bill,
--Canadian sentenced to 30 years for years-long child sextortion scheme,
--Romanian sentenced to 56 months for Oregon gov't, other hacks,
--Germany and France fig…
sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 180 nodes and 45047 edges.
Tags: Soc…
Becerra leads governor's race, with Hilton and Steyer in tight contest for second spot, poll finds (Seema Mehta/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-05-28/becerra-leads-governors-race-hilton-steyer-in-tight-contest-for-second-spot
http://www.memeorandum.com/260529/p46#a260529p46
Rooney explains rationale behind Rodgers tender https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48632458/rooney-says-steelers-remain-regular-contact-rodgers
Die Chemnitzer Linuxtage sind toll, und auch Karl-Marx-Stadt hat mir gefallen. Vielen Dank an alle Helfenden! Und an die feine Bäckerei Voigt am Campus der TU Chemnitz, die gestern extra aufgemacht hat.
Nicht nur der Unibuchhandlung möchte ich diese Kopiervorlage ans Herz legen. Vibecoding ist alles andere als souverän und führt nur in Sackgassen:
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cintestinalis: Tadpole larva brain (C. intestinalis)
Entire connectivity matrix for the complete brain of a larva of Ciona intestinalis. Each directed edge represents a synaptic connection from pre-synaptic cell i to post-synaptic cell j (may not be a neuron). Edge weights represent the cumulative depth of presynaptic contacts in µm.
This network has 205 nodes and 2903 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted
The CFTC files alongside Gemini to nullify Gemini's $5M settlement in January 2025, arguing that the agency's current management wouldn't have pursued the case (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/05/27
sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…
Study: only ~3% of Polymarket accounts drove most price discovery in 2023-2025, suggesting market accuracy comes from an informed minority, not crowd wisdom (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/04/2