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Meta and TikTok challenge the EU's DSA supervisory fee, set at 0.05% of annual global net income, in the EU's General Court, arguing it is disproportionate (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-tikt

Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch says European companies and governments increasingly want non-US AI tools, and Mistral is on track to top $100M in annual revenue (Sam Schechner/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/…

Steps towards an Ecology for the Internet
Anil Madhavapeddy, Sam Reynolds, Alec P. Christie, David A. Coomes, Michael W. Dales, Patrick Ferris, Ryan Gibb, Hamed Haddadi, Sadiq Jaffer, Josh Millar, Cyrus Omar, William J. Sutherland, Jon Crowcroft
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06469

Steps towards an Ecology for the Internet
The Internet has grown from a humble set of protocols for end-to-end connectivity into a critical global system with no builtin "immune system". In the next decade the Internet will likely grow to a trillion nodes and need protection from threats ranging from floods of fake generative data to AI-driven malware. Unfortunately, growing centralisation has lead to the breakdown of mutualism across the network, with surveillance capitalism now the dominant business model. We take lessons from from b…

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.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says Democrats need to take a page from Donald Trump’s own playbook.
“Maybe it’s time for us to be a little meaner,” the former vice presidential hopeful said during a speech at the South Carolina Democratic Party’s annual convention in Columbia, South Carolina.
“Maybe it’s time for us to be a little more fierce because we have to ferociously push back on this.”
“When it’s a bully like Donald Trump, you bully the s--t out of him,” Walz added

Walz Tells Dems to ‘Bully the S**t’ Out of Trump or Risk Becoming ‘Roadkill’
The former vice presidential candidate doled out harsh words for both the president and his own party.

I've read this story a couple of times, though it's been many years. It's maybe not the first King story I'd have thought of making a movie from. And Mark Hamill as the Major? interesting choice.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10374610/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1

The Long Walk (2025) | Horror
The Long Walk: Directed by Francis Lawrence. With Garrett Wareing, Mark Hamill, Judy Greer, Charlie Plummer. A group of teenage boys compete in an annual contest known as "The Long Walk," where they must maintain a certain walking speed or get shot.

SEC filing: Paramount nominates three directors to its board and schedules its annual meeting for July 2; board member Judith McHale won't stand for re-election (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/para

Paramount Nominates Three New Board Members
With the Skydance deal pending, Paramount Global set a date for its 2025 annual meeting of stockholders and nominated three new board members.

Save the date!
The fourth annual End of Life Doula International Research Group symposium is online September 5-6. Global south inclusion is a focus, with a diversity of international practice approaches included.
Registration opens soon, stay tuned!
#EOLD #EOLDIRG

eu_procurements_alt: EU national procurement networks (2008-2016)
These 234 networks represent the annual national public procurement markets of 26 European countries from 2008-2016, inclusive. Data is sourced from Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), the official procurement portal of the European Union.
This network has 1770 nodes and 3997 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Weighted, Temporal

Beijing-based Kuaishou's stock climbs after the company said it expects its video-generation service Kling AI to hit $100M in annual revenue by February 2026 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…