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Chicago-based Ocient, which provides hyperscale data warehouse and analytics software, raised a $49.4M Series B extension, bringing its total funding to $119M (Sean Michael Kerner/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/data-infrastru

Ocient raises $49.4M to grow hyperscale database capabilities
Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. Hyperscale data warehouse vendor Ocient is raising $49.4 million in new funding, it announced today, as the company looks to grow its capabilities for new industry use cases and continuing demand for artificial intelligence (AI). […]

🏈 @… #NFL
Wow!
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Chicago-based Ocient, which provides hyperscale data warehouse and analytics software, raised a $49.4M Series B extension, bringing its total funding to $119M (Sean Michael Kerner/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/data-infrastru

Ocient raises $49.4M to grow hyperscale database capabilities
Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. Hyperscale data warehouse vendor Ocient is raising $49.4 million in new funding, it announced today, as the company looks to grow its capabilities for new industry use cases and continuing demand for artificial intelligence (AI). […]

🔨 Court rules against Activision Blizzard in $23.4M patent dispute
#games #patents

Court rules against Activision Blizzard in $23.4M patent dispute
Activision plans appeal, says it uses different network tech in its games.

Grandmother wins $4M after cops using Find My iPhone mistakenly raid home
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/03/12/grandmother-denver-raid-find-my/

Grandmother wins $4M after cops using Find My iPhone mistakenly raid home
78-year-old Ruby Johnson’s home was ransacked by police who mistakenly believed she was involved in a theft because they misread Apple’s Find My iPhone app.

Argentina's far-right government claims to have found a $4M deficit in the INCAA film body's budget and pushes through controversial plans to cut state funding (Zac Ntim/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2024/03/incaa-argentina-javier-milei-v…

Argentina’s Far-Right Government Cuts State Funding To National Film Body INCAA
Javier Milei's government said it discovered a $4 million deficit partly funded by the Treasury.

Cowboys to release WR Michael Gallup, LB Leighton Vander Esch https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_to_release_wr_michael_gallup_lb_leighton_vander_esch/s1_14819_40115554

Cowboys to release WR Michael Gallup, LB Leighton Vander Esch
Less than a week after giving Michael Gallup permission to seek a trade, the Cowboys are moving on. They plan to release the veteran wide receiver, the Dallas Morning News’ Michael Gehlken reports. Gallup was due a $4M guarantee on Monday. This will end a six-year partnership, with Dallas initially selecting Gallup in the 2018 third round. The TCU alum was set to enter the third season of a five-year, $57.5M deal — one the Cowboys authorized in March 2022, as they traded Amari Cooper. The C…

#WaitWaitDontTellMe
This was the answer to a question on Wait! Wait! Don't Tel Me this week ...
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When performing at the Metropolitan Opera, Luciano Pavarotti would keep stashes of pasta in the wings to snack on between arias.

Raiders to sign veteran OL https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_to_sign_veteran_ol/s1_14819_40238731

Raiders to sign veteran OL
The Raiders have added a veteran presence along the offensive line ahead of the draft.  Cody Whitehair has agreed to a one-year deal with Las Vegas, Adam Caplan of Pro Football Network reports. Caplan notes that the agreement has a base value of $2.5M, and it can reach a maximum of $3M. Whitehair will collect $1.4M guaranteed in his first season spent outside of Chicago. The 31-year-old has been a mainstay along the Bears offensive line since his arrival in the NFL in 2016. Whitehair has start…

Bucs make safety Winfield NFL's highest-paid DB https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/40139300/buccaneers-make-safety-antoine-winfield-jr-nfl-highest-paid-db

Buccaneers, Antoine Winfield agree to 4-year, $81.4M contract - ESPN
The Buccaneers and Antoine Winfield Jr. have reached agreement on a four-year, $84.1 million deal, agent David Mulugheta told ESPN's Adam Schefter on Monday.

Voor de live @… podcast in de Arenberg vorige maand probeerde ik een 100% Ai-gegenereerde mini-aflevering te maken.
Het resultaat (4m): https://youtu.be/alfT7j2gJbA?si=J…

The spiders $S(4m 2,\,2m,\,1)$ are $e$-positivite
Davion Q. B. Tang, David G. L. Wang, Monica M. Y. Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04915 https://

The spiders $S(4m+2,\,2m,\,1)$ are $e$-positivite
We establish the $e$-positivity of spider graphs of the form $S(4m+2,\, 2m,\, 1)$, which was conjectured by Aliniaeifard, Wang and van Willigenburg. A key to our proof is the $e_I$-expansion formula of the chromatic symmetric function of paths due to Shareshian and Wachs, where the symbol~$I$ indicates integer compositions rather than partitions. Following the strategy of the divide-and-conquer technique, we pick out one or two positive $e_J$-terms for each negative $e_I$-term in an $e$-express…

This looks so... ridiculous?
#Fediverse #Threads

FediDB, Fediverse Network Statistics
FediDB is a cutting-edge service providing detailed statistics and insights into the Fediverse network.

4m 25s of #totality in Fredericksburg earlier today for the #eclipse, 1.02 magnitude. Was pretty cloudy here but the sun peeked through enough that what we saw was pretty awe-inspiring. Maybe @…

"Apple to pay up to $14.4M in iPhone throttling settlement approved by B.C. judge"
what a fiasco.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/apple-settlement-british-columbia-supreme-court-1.7098096

Apple to pay up to $14.4M in iPhone throttling settlement approved by B.C. judge | CBC News
A B.C. Supreme Court judge has approved a proposed maximum $14.4 million settlement from Apple to eligible members of a class-action lawsuit that accused the company of deliberately providing software updates that slowed its iPhone 6 and 7 models.

🏀 @… #CollegeBasketball #CBB
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Google paid out $10M to 632 bug bounty researchers in 2023 via its Vulnerability Reward Program, including $3.4M for Android bugs; the highest bounty was $113K (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/goog

GB News reports year to May 2023 revenue up 80% YoY to £6.7M, losses up 38% YoY to £42.4M, for £76M in losses since 2021, and 295 staff, up from 175 in May 2022 (Bron Maher/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/broadcast/gb-news-results-…

GB News losses up 38% to £42.4m giving channel total deficit of £76m since launch
GB News' operating losses grew 38% to £42.4m in the year to May 2023, the business has reported in its latest Companies House accounts.

dutch_school: Dutch school friendships (2003)
A series of snapshots of the friendships among freshmen at secondary school in The Netherlands, in 2003-2004. Friendship ties were surveyed four times, at three month intervals. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j. Missing data is coded as 0 or 10. Metadata includes sex, age, ethnicity, and religion.
This network has 26 nodes and 170 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata, Temp…

Let’s do some arithmetic. A company takes in $4 million in total revenue. To accomplish this, it spends $62 million.
Net loss: $58 million.
How much would you pay to buy this company? https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/112196716174826637

@… Since it was an open source emulator, I assume that it was nonprofit project, then from where will they take 2.4M as compensation for Nintendo?!

Jury awards Cozy Comfort nearly $15.4M in its design patent case against Top Brand:
https://www.scribd.com/document/728314543/Top-Brand-v-Cozy-Comfort-Verdict

sewage into rivers & sea
I'd like there to be a law where water companies aren't allowed to distribute any profits or dividends or whatever until all their sewage is being correctly treated. Until then, all that money should be getting spent on sorting out the system which isn't yet working adequately.
It can't count as "profit" if they haven't actually even done the job!
#sewage #UK

Seneca stablecoin hacker returns stolen funds after $6.4M exploit
https://cointelegraph.com/news/seneca-hacker-returns-stolen-funds-exploit

Tropic Haze, the developer of Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu, agrees to pay $2.4M to settle its lawsuit with Nintendo and will completely shut down the emulator (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/4/24090357/nintendo-yuzu-…

Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu will utterly fold and pay $2.4M to settle its lawsuit
Just over a week after getting sued by Nintendo for “facilitating piracy at a colossal scale,” the company behind the Yuzu emulator for Nintendo Switch appears to be settling.

It's starting to be happening guys... ✈✈✈ too bad this one concerns naZi ruZZia & its puppet of belaruZZia, but obviously skip can go in any direction 😅 so check the bands, from 6m to 4m to 3m aka FM, possibly up to 2m! The next 3-4 months will be HOT! 🥵🥵🥵 #fmdx #sporadicE

"LEGO Group signs long-term deal for Climeworks’ direct air capture carbon removal technology"
#Lego #CarbonCapture #Carbon

LEGO Group signs long-term deal for Climeworks’ direct air capture carbon removal technology
The LEGO Group has ringfenced $2.4m for carbon removals from direct air capture technology provided by Climeworks, as it strives ahead with efforts to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

Bad news: Flaky WiFi at my desk even w mesh satellite just 12ft (4m) away, and the satellite only 12ft from mesh router.
Good news: I can move ISP's modem-router combo where the mesh router is, get rid of mesh, and get better WiFi at my desk. Lower cable aesthetic per my wife but nothing some drywall work can't fix. 😉
The free ISP router is surprisingly good: 802.11ax, 2x 5GHz, 1x 2.4GHz, strong signal throughout home except 2 rooms upstairs at opposite end.

Palantir wins a US Army contract worth $178.4M to provide battlefield AI systems for the TITAN ground station, the Army's first "AI-defined vehicle" (Lindsay Clark/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/08/palantir_wins_us_army_contr…

Palantir wins US Army contract for battlefield AI
US spy-tech firm at center of UK health data systems applies its technology to altogether different ends

@… Since it was an open source emulator, I assume that it was nonprofit project, then from where will they take 2.4M as compensation for Nintendo?!

Cowboys decline $22.4M option on QB Trey Lance https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_decline_224m_option_on_qb_trey_lance/s1_17049_40316098

Cowboys decline $22.4M option on QB Trey Lance
The Dallas Cowboys declined the fifth-year team option that would have paid backup quarterback Trey Lance $22.4 million guaranteed in 2025. Lance is the QB2 behind Dak Prescott, who enters the final season of a four-year contract that disqualifies the Cowboys from using the franchise tag to retain him next spring. The Cowboys, who insist they will bring back Prescott with a new contract stretching beyond the upcoming season, acquired Lance from the San Francisco 49ers in August 2023 for a fourt…

Even for aficionados, this SF nimby story is way over the top.
Homeowner wants to raise roof 7.25 ft, add top story, put apt for parents on ground floor. Has spent $250,000 & doesn't have a permit yet.
4 neighbors appealed planners' OK to City Council.
One lives in a $7.4M 5,100-sq-ft glass-walled teardown. (Appeal says house is historic & should stay intact.)
Another, an ex-developer, doubled size of his own house next door 8 years ago, moved to Boston, n…

In San Francisco, a Home Renovation Can Become a Battle Royale
Neighbors have multiple opportunities to raise objections, and some disputes can only be resolved by the city’s top governing body.

Allegiant Stadium set quarterly attendance record while surpassing 4M total visitors https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/stadium/allegiant-stadium-set-quarterly-attendance-record-while-surpas…

Allegiant Stadium set quarterly attendance record while surpassing 4M total visitors
Allegiant Stadium has seen over 4 million fans attend events at the $2 billion, nearly four-year-old facility, according to Las Vegas Stadium Authority data.

Swift just joined Threads (https://www.threads.net/@taylornation)… One step away from the only person that really needs to enter the chat to make the Fediverse “relevant”….
cc:@…

Analysis: Temu and Shein are spending heavily on Facebook, X, and YouTube ads in the US; Temu placed ~1.4M ads globally on Google services in the past year (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/busines<…

Big American Tech Profits From Chinese Ad Spending Spree
Temu, Shein, and streaming and gaming apps looking to break into the U.S. market are spending huge sums to get their wares in front of American consumers.

H2RSVLM: Towards Helpful and Honest Remote Sensing Large Vision Language Model
Chao Pang, Jiang Wu, Jiayu Li, Yi Liu, Jiaxing Sun, Weijia Li, Xingxing Weng, Shuai Wang, Litong Feng, Gui-Song Xia, Conghui He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.20213

H2RSVLM: Towards Helpful and Honest Remote Sensing Large Vision Language Model
The generic large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) is rapidly developing, but still perform poorly in Remote Sensing (RS) domain, which is due to the unique and specialized nature of RS imagery and the comparatively limited spatial perception of current VLMs. Existing Remote Sensing specific Vision Language Models (RSVLMs) still have considerable potential for improvement, primarily owing to the lack of large-scale, high-quality RS vision-language datasets. We constructed HqDC-1.4M, the large scal…

Duolingo drops 10% after reporting DAUs up 55% YoY to 31.4M, above 31.1M est., gaining users at the slowest rate since Q3 2022, and revenue up 45% YoY to $168M (Gabriel Sanchez/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

It's starting to be happening guys... ✈✈✈ too bad this one concerns naZi ruZZia & its puppet of belaruZZia, but obviously skip can go in any direction 😅 so check the bands, from 6m to 4m to 3m aka FM, possibly up to 2m! The next 3-4 months will be HOT! 🥵🥵🥵 #fmdx #sporadicE

Bumble reports Q1 revenue up 10.2% YoY to $267.8M, vs. $265.5M est., total paying users of ~4M, up from 3.5M a year ago, and expects Q2 revenue below estimates (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/bumble-

Got a pre-run visit from the police, who saw my car in the school lot and came to investigate. He was surprised to find someone running at this late hour, having been looking around the school grounds when I called out to him. Nice guy, even if he thinks I’m a lunatic. He might be right!
🌙🦉🏃‍♂️#Running

dutch_school: Dutch school friendships (2003)
A series of snapshots of the friendships among freshmen at secondary school in The Netherlands, in 2003-2004. Friendship ties were surveyed four times, at three month intervals. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j. Missing data is coded as 0 or 10. Metadata includes sex, age, ethnicity, and religion.
This network has 26 nodes and 170 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata, Temp…

MoffettNathanson forecasts YouTube TV will have ~12.4M US subscribers by 2026's end, passing Comcast and Charter to become the country's biggest pay TV provider (Matthew Keys/The Desk)
https://thedesk.net/news/youtube-tv-surpass-charter-comcast-pay-tv/<…

YouTube TV on track to surpass cable as largest pay TV provider in U.S. by 2026
YouTube TV could become the largest pay TV provider in the U.S. by 2026 and achieve full profitability by then, according to an analyst.

#NoContextBrits
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Analysis: Temu and Shein are spending heavily on Facebook, X, and YouTube ads in the US; Temu placed ~1.4M ads globally on Google services in the past year (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/busines<…

Big American Tech Profits From Chinese Ad Spending Spree
Temu, Shein, and streaming and gaming apps looking to break into the U.S. market are spending huge sums to get their wares in front of American consumers.

Three hottest seats on the Dallas Cowboys https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/three_hottest_seats_on_the_dallas_cowboys/s1_13132_40056649

Three hottest seats on the Dallas Cowboys
Another year, another postseason loss. This time it was Green Bay pouring cold water on the Cowboys’ playoff hopes with a 48-32 home loss.  Even under the NFL’s new salary cap, Dallas is still $4M over the limit, meaning current players must do better. With that in mind, here are three Cowboys on the hottest seats in 2024.  Owner/GM Jerry Jones No stranger to the hot seat, Jones stepped into the fire with his comments at the Senior Bowl.  "I would anticipate, with looking ahead at our ke…

Cameras can be used for privacy violations.
That may sound like an old hat, but it's brand new research. And it turns the tables.
With a few hundred $ of equipment, you can see what another camera sees, by analyzing the electromagnetic radiation created *within* the camera, from the connections between the computer chips.
So, use any camera, potentially up to 4m away, and watch what it sees on your laptop screen. No need to hack or break any encryption.
#EMEye
https://news.northeastern.edu/2024/02/08/security-camera-privacy-hacking/

Got a pre-run visit from the police, who saw my car in the school lot and came to investigate. He was surprised to find someone running at this late hour, having been looking around the school grounds when I called out to him. Nice guy, even if he thinks I’m a lunatic. He might be right!
🌙🦉🏃‍♂️#Running

A profile of Samir Mezrahi, the ex-BuzzFeed social media director behind Zillow Gone Wild, which has 4M followers and a spin-off HGTV show debuting in May (Rachel Kurzius/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/home/2024/04/29/wild-rise-zillow-g…

The wild rise of Zillow Gone Wild
Samir Mezrahi blasted the first outrageous house of Zillow Gone Wild out to the internet four years ago. Now he has 4 million followers and an HGTV show.

#Parody #NYTimesPitchbot
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Just told my 10yo daughter about Kristi Noem’s dog. She had tears in her eyes. And then she did the Wakanda pose and said "

AT&T confirms that data dumped online appears to be from 2019 or earlier and contains personal data of 7.6M current and 65.4M former account holders (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/30/att-reset-account-passcodes-customer-…

AT&T resets account passcodes after millions of customer records leak online | TechCrunch
Security researcher told TechCrunch that leaked AT&T customer data contained encrypted account passcodes that can be easily unscrambled.

#Parody #NYTimesPitchbot
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Just told my 10yo daughter about Kristi Noem’s dog. She had tears in her eyes. And then she did the Wakanda pose and said "

Lithuanian second hand marketplace Vinted reports 2023 revenue up 61% YoY to €596.3M and a €17.8M net profit, up from a €20.4M loss in 2022 (Zosia Wanat/Sifted)
https://sifted.eu/articles/vinted-startup-lithuania-profit-news/

Vinted reaches profitability and reports 61% revenue growth last year
The Vilnius-based company is backed by some of the world’s leading VC firms, including Accel, Lightspeed, EQT and Insight Partners.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.11737 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

On the Congruency-Constrained Matroid Base
Consider a matroid where all elements are labeled with an element in $\mathbb{Z}$. We are interested in finding a base where the sum of the labels is congruent to $g \pmod m$. We show that this problem can be solved in $\tilde{O}(2^{4m} n r^{5/6})$ time for a matroid with $n$ elements and rank $r$, when $m$ is either the product of two primes or a prime power. The algorithm can be generalized to all moduli and, in fact, to all abelian groups if a classic additive combinatorics conjecture by Sch…

KQED, a Bay Area NPR and PBS affiliate, is initiating buyouts, and may have layoffs or a hiring freeze; in 2023, revenue hit $90.4M and expenses $100.9M (Amy Graff/SFGATE)
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/kqed-offers-buyout-packa…

The IRS says it spent $10.5M to develop and $2.4M to run its free tax filing website, used by 140K households in 12 states, and claims high user satisfaction (Julie Zauzmer Weil/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/04/26/irs-direct-fil…

Claiming high user satisfaction, IRS will decide on renewing free tax site
In the first year, more than 140,000 households in 12 states did their taxes with Direct File.

#Sports #NCAA
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schools that made the 2024 ncaa tournament:
men's/women's basketball & hockey

Bolt told investors that it had revenue of $19.4M for the nine months ending in October 2023, essentially flat YoY; Bolt's troubles grow with a Fanatics lawsuit (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/bolts-…

Bolt’s Fanatics Partnership Goes South, Adding to Growth Woes
Bolt, the checkout startup that rocketed to an $11 billion valuation during the pandemic e-commerce boom, is embroiled in another legal battle with a high-profile retail partner: sports apparel company Fanatics, which signed a deal in 2022 to offer Bolt’s speedy payment buttons across several of ...

"Raw sewage spills double to record 3.6m hours in 2023"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Sewage #Pollution

Raw sewage spills double to 3.6m hours in 2023
Environment Agency data also shows there were moer than 464,000 spills in 2023, up 54% from 301,000 the year before

Chinese government data: iPhone shipments in China fell ~33% YoY to ~2.4M units in February 2024, after dropping 39% YoY to ~5.5M units in January 2024 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-26/iph…

Apple (AAPL) iPhone China Shipments Fell About 33% in Feb., State Data Show
Apple Inc. iPhone shipments in China fell about 33% in February from a year earlier, according to official data, extending a slump in demand for the flagship device in its most important overseas market.

#Parody #NYTimesPitchbot
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At this Florida pickleball court, all the chatter is about seesawing prices. Insulin is down to $35 a month, yet the cost of paying Trump’s legal bills has never been higher.

⛳ @… #Golf
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Why adjustment to Dak Prescott's contract might be too late for Cowboys https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/why_adjustment_to_dak_prescotts_contract_might_be_too_late_for_cowboys/s1_13132_40127288…

Why adjustment to Dak Prescott's contract might be too late for Cowboys
On Sunday, the Dallas Cowboys adjusted quarterback Dak Prescott's contract to clear cap room. Per ESPN's Field Yates, the Cowboys converted Prescott's $5M roster bonus into a signing bonus, creating $4M in cap space. They also added two void years (2027 and 2028) to his deal. While Dallas has gained some financial flexibility, it comes during the second week of free agency. The franchise's brass should've revised Prescott's deal before many of the top players in the market were taken off the bo…

Meituan reports Q4 revenue up 23% YoY to ~$10.2B and a net income of ~$308.4M, both above estimates, as the food delivery giant plans international expansion (Jane Zhang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meituan’s Revenue Beats Estimates After Staving Off ByteDance
Meituan’s quarterly revenue climbed 23%, a sign that it’s making headway in efforts to fend off a challenge from ByteDance Ltd.’s Douyin in China’s meal delivery arena.

#Zoo
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nope don't like the sound of this one bit

🏀 @… #CollegeBasketball #CBB
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kate middleton should tweet out a bracket now