Oracle wins a 10-year software contract with the Pentagon worth up to $7B; the contract covers the use of Oracle software in on-premises data centers (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/23/oracle-wins-10-year-pentagon-sof…
eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.
eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.
It's probably a positive sign when your contract supervisor says in your onboarding meeting, "I noticed that the client uses the serial comma, which I'm happy about."
I also had noticed that the client uses the serial comma, and I also am happy about that.
#amediting
Samsung announces a $200B contract to make chips for Broadcom through 2030, focusing on its 2nm and below process technologies for Broadcom's products (Hooyeon Kim/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-25/samsung…
Hiring a hit man is not a crime of violence -- even in cases where the killer fulfills his contract and his employer is convicted in the conspiracy, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week.
In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel vacated two felony convictions that stemmed from a pair of contract killings negotiated to settle an oil well dispute in North Dakota.
The court found that although trucking and drilling magnate James Henrikson had paid Timothy Suckow tens of…
A profile of French software maker ChapsVision, which won a contract to replace Palantir at France's domestic intel agency in June and targets an IPO by 2030 (Adrienne Klasa/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f4a1aa36-761b-4b5a-86a4-4be9abc5cd46
eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.
This website simplifies the manual scheduling of appliances such as washing machines and dishwashers, enabling users to take advantage of the cheapest hours under a dynamic energy contract.
Although it is focused on the Netherlands, it works for all European energy markets.
https://wanneeraanzetten.nl/
Classical Acceptance Is Not Hybrid Authentication: Measuring X.509 Verifier Semantics in Post-Quantum Migration
Taesung Kim, Boheung Chung, Keonwoo Kim, Yousung Kang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20800 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.20800 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.20800
arXiv:2607.20800v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: A relying party validating a hybrid X.509 certificate --- carrying both a classical and a post-quantum credential --- must distinguish whether its accepting judgment rests on the post-quantum evidence or only on the classical path. To preserve compatibility, the separable designs place that evidence where classical path validation may ignore it. A verifier can then validate the classical path and accept while the post-quantum evidence never bears on the decision --- a valid classical result silently promoted to a hybrid conclusion it did not establish. We measure this across eight path-validation stacks (seven independent codebases), in nine validation modes, over six certificate schemes. Under a hybrid-required policy, nearly every stack parsing a separable hybrid certificate accepts on the classical path without making the post-quantum evidence outcome-bearing; one enforcing mode instead fractures interoperability over a signature-input encoding not yet interoperably profiled; and stacks that verify post-quantum signatures still do not enforce the binding by default: the gap is structural, not explained by missing primitive capability alone. Under lifecycle desynchronization the downgrade is realized: when a bound post-quantum credential is revoked while the classical certificate stays valid, the default path still accepts, because the bound credential lies outside the decision's scope. Binding success is not authentication success. We contribute a specification-derived verifier model and an executable, policy-parametric reference contract --- what a verifier must recognize, verify, make outcome-bearing, and check before reporting a validation as hybrid --- with a diagnosis of why standards do not require it.
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Troubleshooting story. I sometimes get support requests from a former employer, which I gladly do as contract work.
All the people I worked with are gone but they still call me... it's cool.
I was passed on the info on one of their customers who soldered up a board but could not get it programmed. It's an old FTDI-style board. Annoying, of course.
So they mailed me the three boards to try to program.
I spent about 15 minutes trying all three, with no luck....…
Ramses must reach space by spring 2028 in order to rendezvous with the cruise-liner-sized Apophis asteroid as it passes Earth on Friday 13 April 2029, representing less than three and a half years from contract signing to lift-off.
The spacecraft’s Core Module, containing all its main electronics, is currently being assembled in the Milan cleanroom facility of OHB Italia. Key Ramses units have been mounted within the module’s U-shaped body, and then linked together via intricate cabling…
Nscale's S-1: Microsoft and Anthropic account for 85% of its $103B in total contract value, only $2.6B of contract value was active as of late August, and more (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…
Chainalysis sues the US government over ICE's $94.6M contract to buy forensic software and services from its competitor TRM Labs, calling the deal "arbitrary" (Ezra Reguerra/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/chainalysi…
"Overpaid" "It's Kirk Cousins' team": NFL fans react as Fernando Mendoza signs record-breaking $57,270,000 rookie contract https://www.sportskeeda.com/nfl/news-overpaid…
eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.
Kalshi Klear, the company's internal clearing house, files for CFTC approval to add margin trading as it seeks to attract institutional liquidity (Davis Giangiulio/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/22/kalshi-ask
eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.