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Mobile gaming company Scopely buys a majority stake in Istanbul-based studio Loom, maker of puzzle game Pixel Flow!; a source says the deal values Loom at $1B (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Mobile Gaming Firm Scopely Buys Majority Stake in Istanbul-Based Studio Behind ‘Pixel Flow!’
"It’s been a privilege to have a front row seat to the team’s rapid growth and success and see them become the latest Turkish startup to reach unicorn-level status," says previous investor Arcadia.

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…

AI bros are just loving open source — loving it to death... maybe quite literally! (Godot being latest popular example[1])
More and more projects are impacted by floods of bogus AI pull requests and resulting discussions, stealing precious time and nerves away from their maintainers doing actual productive work. More buggy and insecure software (incl. commercial offerings) due to slopcoding, more websites getting attacked daily by AI crawlers in desperate search for any new bits (liter…

Von der Leyen 5 months ago.
"Stability and predictability" 🤣
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/07/27/von-der-leyen-and-trump-strike-eu-us-trade-deal-to-avert-all-out-tariff-war

Von der Leyen and Trump strike EU-US deal with 15% tariff for the bloc
The trade deal will introduce a 15% tariff for the vast majority of EU products. But some will benefit from a "zero-for-zero" scheme. #EuropeNews

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…

At least a dozen people have died in Gaza
as winter storms batter displaced Palestinians
forced to shelter in makeshift tents
among the rubble of collapsing buildings
severely damaged by Israeli bombing.
That rubble is being eyed by
U.S.-based contractors,
who are already vying for
lucrative contracts to rebuild Gaza
under the Trump-backed ceasefire deal.
“People are lining up and treating this the way they they treated reconstruc…

From “Alligator Alcatraz” to Gaza: U.S. Companies Line Up for Lucrative Gaza Contracts Under Trump
At least a dozen people have died in Gaza as winter storms batter displaced Palestinians forced to shelter in makeshift tents among the rubble of collapsing buildings severely damaged by Israeli bombing. That rubble is being eyed by U.S.-based contractors, who are already vying for lucrative contracts to rebuild Gaza under the Trump-backed ceasefire deal. “People are lining up and treating this the way they they treated reconstruction in Iraq,” says Aram Roston, whose latest investigation f…

Dallas Cowboys DL has opportunity to shine vs Justin Herbert, Chargers' NFL worst OL https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-dl-opportunity-shine-justin-herbert-chargers-nfl-worst-ol

Wow, serious rite of passage: my younger son playing his first lp... On our turntable unused for a decade or two, with a just-replaced cartridge... These speakers are also getting their first airing despite me having had them for years (gifted by a mate as excess to requirements)...

Far from a lost year: Raiders developed some foundational pieces on O-line https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/far-from-a-lost-year-raiders-developed-some-foundational-pieces-on-o-line-3696094/

Oracle says final negotiations on an equity deal for its Michigan data center project are "on schedule" and Related Digital will be its development partner (Lynn Doan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Oracle Says Equity Deal on Michigan Data Center ‘On Schedule’
Oracle Corp. said final negotiations on an equity deal for the company’s data center project in Michigan is “on schedule” and going according to plan.