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Chipmaker Cerebras withdraws its IPO, a little over a year after filing its IPO prospectus; it announced a $1.1B raise at a $8.1B valuation on September 30 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/03/cerebras-withdraws-ipo-ai.html

AI chipmaker Cerebras withdraws IPO
Days after announcing that it raised $1.1 billion in a financing round, Cerebras said it's pulling its IPO plans.

One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the “report a speed trap” function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people. https://www.theverge.com/news/791533/google-a…

Google removes ICE-spotting app following Apple’s ICEBlock crackdown
Google has removed Red Dot, an app people could use to report ICE sightings from Google Play, one day after Apple removed similar apps, including Red Dot and ICEBlock.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Film School:
🎵 11:11
#FilmSchool
https://filmschoolmusic.bandcamp.com/album/11-11
https://open.spotify.com/track/5uIGgu1uNou08EVpJcK9Jq

NATO and the drones. This weekend, drones were flying spy missions over a Belgian Air Force base. Said the country's Defense Minister: "A helicopter and police vehicles chased the drone, but lost it after several kilometers.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/02/…

Drones spotted above Belgian airbase were ‘spying’ on military planes, defense minister says
Several drones spotted above a Belgian airbase over the weekend were there “to spy” on military fighter jets, the country’s defense minister said Sunday, at a time when European nations are on high alert for airspace intrusions.

Having a real calm day today with a leisure walk.
(REALLY Calm this time)
#badtölz #tölzerland #bayern

Im using case_when() quite a lot, case_match() is new to me: #rstats

A general vectorised switch() — case_match
This function allows you to vectorise multiple switch() statements. Each case is evaluated sequentially and the first match for each element determines the corresponding value in the output vector. If no cases match, the .default is used. case_match() is an R equivalent of the SQL "simple" CASE WHEN statement. Connection to case_when() While case_when() uses logical expressions on the left-hand side of the formula, case_match() uses values to match against .x with. The following two statement…

A good account (bot) to follow, it reminds when I forget to add an alt-text to a picture and makes one,
https://fuzzies.wtf/@altbot

Altbot (@altbot@fuzzies.wtf)
129K Posts, 4.35K Following, 3.92K Followers · Hi! I'm Altbot™ your accessibility companion! I help make the Fediverse more inclusive by generating alt-text descriptions for images. Let me assist you! How to Use: > Mention me (@altbot) in a reply to any post with images! > Follow me and I'll follow back to help with your posts > I'll generate alt-text for images that need it Important Notes: Your media is processed locally on my own server and NOTHING is saved or used for training. Comple…

A joint Databroker Files investigation shows commercially traded mobile phone location data allows the tracking of millions of Europeans, including EU officials (netzpolitik.org)
https://netzpolitik.org/2025/databroker-files-targeting-the-eu/

Databroker Files: Targeting the EU
Precise locations and revealing movement patterns: the mobile phone location data of millions of people in the EU is up for sale. Collected supposedly only for advertising purposes, this data can also be used for espionage. European data protection is failing – even top EU officials in Brussels are affected. The EU Commission says: 'We are concerned.

Moonlake AI, which creates tools to "vibe code virtual worlds", including for gaming, animation, and filmmaking, comes out of stealth with a $28M seed (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivast

Gaming Worlds Could Be The Answer To AI’s Data Problem
Stanford PhDs Fan-Yun Sun and Sharon Lee cofounded AI research company Moonlake AI to help people "vibe code virtual worlds."