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Progress-based https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2026/04/12/progress-based

Progress-based
My happiness and moods are often progress-based. And by this, I mean that when I complete tasks, my brain rewards me with a sense of accomplishment (I have to assume it’s dopamine or whatever…

Swap Processed Meat For Plant-Based Alternatives To Boost Fiber, Say Studies https://plantbasednews.org/news/alternative-protein/swap-processed-meat-plant-based-fiber/

Swap Processed Meat For Plant-Based Alternatives To Boost Fiber, Say Studies
Swapping processed meat for plant-based alternatives can significantly increase fiber intake and reduce salt and saturated fat consumptio

"Kids In Poland Are Now Guaranteed Access To Plant-Based School Meals"
#Poland #Food #Schools

Kids In Poland Are Now Guaranteed Access To Plant-Based School Meals
Children and young people in Poland are now guaranteed access to plant-based school meals for the first time ever

📉 Plant-based diets cut climate impact by more than half, randomized clinical trial shows
#climate

Plant-based diets cut climate impact by more than half, randomized clinical trial shows
As climate change accelerates and global temperatures continue to rise, a new randomized clinical trial provides compelling evidence that one of the most powerful climate solutions may be on our plates. A study published in Current Developments in Nutrition shows that adopting a low-fat vegan diet reduces diet-related greenhouse gas emissions by 55% and cumulative energy demand by 44%—dramatic reductions achieved in just 12 weeks.

Amazon unveils Dynamic TV Creative, which lets Prime Video advertisers automatically tailor their ads based on the viewer's previous exposure to the brand (Kathryn Lundstrom/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/commerce/prime-video-ads-can-now-…

Prime Video Ads Can Now Change Based on What Viewers Already Saw
Amazon is expanding its creative tools for advertisers.

An investigation details Webloc, an ad-based geo surveillance system providing access to a constantly updated stream of records from up to 500M mobile devices (The Citizen Lab)
https://citizenlab.ca/research/analysis-of-penlinks-ad-based-geolocatio…

Uncovering Webloc: An Analysis of Penlink’s Ad-based Geolocation Surveillance Tech - The Citizen Lab
Location data collected from mobile apps and digital advertising can reveal habits, interests and almost any other aspect of someone's life. In this report, we uncover how a geolocation surveillance system called Webloc uses ad-based data to monitor hundreds of millions of people across the globe.

LT6502: A 6502 based laptop design
https://github.com/TechPaula/LT6502

GitHub - TechPaula/LT6502: A 6502 based laptop design
A 6502 based laptop design. Contribute to TechPaula/LT6502 development by creating an account on GitHub.

Discover the power of property-based testing in R with the #quickcheck package! Seamlessly integrates with #testthat and offers a variety of generators for atomic vectors, lists, and tibbles. Perfect for ensuring your code's reliability. Check it out:

GitHub - armcn/quickcheck: Property Based Testing in R
Property Based Testing in R. Contribute to armcn/quickcheck development by creating an account on GitHub.

from my link log —
Capability-based computer systems. (1984)
https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~levy/capabook/
saved 2020-03-08 https://

Plant-based diets cut climate impact by more than half, randomized clinical trial shows #plantbased

Plant-based diets cut climate impact by more than half, randomized clinical trial shows
As climate change accelerates and global temperatures continue to rise, a new randomized clinical trial provides compelling evidence that one of the most powerful climate solutions may be on our plates. A study published in Current Developments in Nutrition shows that adopting a low-fat vegan diet reduces diet-related greenhouse gas emissions by 55% and cumulative energy demand by 44%—dramatic reductions achieved in just 12 weeks.

Webloc is a global geolocation surveillance system that monitors hundreds of millions of people based on data purchased from consumer apps and digital advertising.
It was developed by Cobwebs Technologies and is now sold by its successor Penlink.
In collaboration with the European investigative journalism platform VSquare, we reveal that Hungarian domestic intelligence has been using Webloc since at least 2022 and continues to use it as of today.
Webloc customers also in…

Uncovering Webloc: An Analysis of Penlink’s Ad-based Geolocation Surveillance Tech - The Citizen Lab
Location data collected from mobile apps and digital advertising can reveal habits, interests and almost any other aspect of someone's life. In this report, we uncover how a geolocation surveillance system called Webloc uses ad-based data to monitor hundreds of millions of people across the globe.

Adopting a #human developmental visual diet yields robust and shape-based #AI vision https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-026

Adopting a human developmental visual diet yields robust and shape-based AI vision - Nature Machine Intelligence
Lu, Thorat and colleagues report that training AI vision systems with a human-inspired developmental visual diet results in a stronger reliance on shape over texture features, enabling substantially more robust visual inference. This finding points to a resource-efficient path to robust vision.

"How green is your milk? We compare the environmental cost of dairy and plant-based options"
#Milk #Food #Environment

Tel Aviv-based Bold, which uses AI agents to secure enterprise devices like laptops from cyberattacks, emerges from stealth with $40M in funding (Robert Scammell/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/bold-cybersecurity-startup-funding…

This Israeli cyber startup is launching with $40 million in funding during the Iran war: 'It's part of our reality and part of our strength'
Tel-Aviv-based startup Bold is keenly familiar with both AI and war in the Middle East, two of the most disruptive forces for businesses.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116063916168328402
It should also be noted that LLMs do not write code.
They assemble code from bits and pieces of a tokenized text corpus based on how they are statistically interrelated.
LLMs do not think, anticipate, cognize, abstract or have any theory of mind; they do not currently and will not ever have this ability.

product_space: Atlas of Economic Complexity export network
Two networks of economic products, where a pair of products are connected if they are exported at similar rates by the same countries. The data are a projection from a bipartite network of nations and the products they export. Edges weights represent a similarity score (called "proximity"). Data based on UN Comtrade worldwide trade patterns. SITC network based on the Standard International Trade Classification and HS …

🦺 "Autonomous and safe": timely report by @… for Topsector Energie.
32 recommendations on how to make the Dutch and European energy system more robust, based on interviews with 22 energy experts, including yours truly.
💬Main message: Accelerate the energy transition!
⛽ One takeaway for immediate use: Do not use govern…

Autonoom en veilig
Nederland moet zijn energievoorziening versneld autonomer en weerbaarder maken. Dat stellen 22 experts op het gebied van energie en veiligheid in het rapport ‘Autonoom en veilig: hoe Nederland zijn energiepositie kan versterken’ van Topsector Energie met een voorwoord van admiraal b.d. Rob Bauer. In het rapport doen zij 32 concrete aanbevelingen om de energievoorziening beter bestand te maken tegen geopolitieke spanningen, verstoringen in internationale aanvoer en toenemende digitale dreigi…

Absolutely fascinated by this line of research, based on historical pollen records, suggesting human landscape management increased and maintained plant diversity across Europe over the Holocene— replacing, the authors suggest here, the activity of extinct megafauna
https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70166 …

Dass das DB Bordbistro weder Döner, noch Falafel, noch Plant Based X-Tra-Long Chili Cheese verkauft ist die wirkliche Tragödie.

Anybody know of a vendor that has dual socket Ice Lake server motherboards available? I can find uniprocessor ones without much trouble, but dual socket ones are in much shorter supply.
It's not *that* old a platform, there should still be some floating around...
EDIT: US based if at all possible to avoid import duties etc

This was tricky but not impossible
Block all ads on Android without root and without VPN
#Android #AdBlock
https://github.com/eyalm2000/…

GitHub - eyalm2000/adns: A DNS-based ad blocker for Android
A DNS-based ad blocker for Android. Contribute to eyalm2000/adns development by creating an account on GitHub.

An effort to remedy harm from a race-based kidney test helps Black patients seeking transplants | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/an-effort-to-remedy-harm-from-a-race-based-kidney-test-helps-black-patients-seeking-transplants/

in der #verschlagwortung diese woche: „Digital and internet-based research methods in applied linguistics“ (https://katalogplus.uni-muenster.de/permal…

Here’s a more nuanced perspective based on your observation

📌 Save the Date!
Seit 2022 beleuchtet @… im Rahmen von Events aktuelle Themen im Kontext von #3D.
🤝 Da es jedoch viele @NFDI-Konsortien in Deutschland gibt mit ähnlichen Interessen, bringen wir diese nun zusammen. Deshalb – Trommelwirbel 🥁 – veranstalten wir…

YouTube is launching an impersonation detection system based on the foundation of Content ID.
This couldn't possibly go wrong.

#Researchers or other professions who read articles for your work - which do you find better for focus, information processing and memorisation: reading on an electronic medium (computer, tablet, phone...) or on actual paper?
I thought I liked the electronic format but I'm wondering if it makes it harder to focus or remember things..
(This is only for work-based and not leisure…

Do you like geography? Trivia? Then this game is for you. I don’t normally play these kind of daily quick hit games, but this one is cool. #games

We are calling on ICE to immediately release journalist Estefany Rodriguez, who has covered immigration, including ICE actions, for the local Spanish-language news site Nashville Noticias.
Read the letter we signed with 40 other press freedom groups:
https://www.…

Coalition of 41 Press-Freedom Groups Calls for Immediate Release of Nashville-Based Journalist Arrested by ICE
A coalition of 41 press-freedom groups demanded that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) immediately release journalist Estefany Rodriguez.

For the umpteenth time... #Bebo is coming back.
https://bebo.com

#sigh - This is not what the world needs, let alone the Middle East - but delusions of grandeur based in religious nationalism and bigotry are far too common these days.
What Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli right really mean when they invoke ‘Greater Israel’

#sigh - This is not what the world needs, let alone the Middle East - but delusions of grandeur based in religious nationalism and bigotry are far too common these days.
What Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli right really mean when they invoke ‘Greater Israel’

I use Hetzner's Storage Share (a managed Nextcloud) combined with a Debian based backend.
https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/

Luis Miranda / SOMA NEU Vol. 6 Mix
Off the back of the 6th volume of the SOMA NEU series, Luis Miranda delivers a mix including his track from the compilation.
Luis Miranda is one of the rising names in the techno scene, with a vibrant sound. Born in Madrid and raised on Electro-pop and Acid House, he’s currently based in Los Angeles.

@…
1. I am enjoying the app so far. I’m still trying to figure out how to handle the different streams given each has their own volume which might led to missing RSS items among too many toots and blueskies.
2. Based on the few days experience, I feel the area where the app could improve is feed fetching: every refresh results in many, many errors, most of them cause by a 60s timeout.
2.1 Additionally, it's not clear if I should retry a refresh immediately, wait, leave the app do it later.
Thanks for the app!

What if you didn't need a cloud backend to run your AI workloads? Johannes Kolbe is joining hashtag#bbuzz26 to investigate Client-Side AI using WebGPU, ONNX Runtime, and Transformers.js and will explore the reality of hardware access, model size, and the 2026 trade-offs of browser based execution
Learn more about this session: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/escaping-the-cloud-high-performance-ai-in-your-browser/

in '21 i was supposed 2 give a #workshop on #opsec for #NGOs. client was :( with my generic principles-based approach, they wanted 2 hear product names 2 sell/buy. things escalated & my boss gutted my pres &…

A great way to boost your token use is to reply to any answer and ask it to explain in detail. It’s completely defendable as a way to understand what it is telling you, to help you determine if it’s based on reality, to see if there’s anything salvageable in the web of bullshit it heaped up for your review.
#OfficeWorkerGripes

A coalition of 41 press freedom groups writes an open letter condemning the arrest of Nashville journalist Estefany Rodriguez by ICE and urging her release (Free Press Action Fund Feed)
https://www.freepress.net/news/coalition-4

Coalition of 41 Press-Freedom Groups Calls for Immediate Release of Nashville-Based Journalist Arrested by ICE
A coalition of 41 press-freedom groups demanded that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) immediately release journalist Estefany Rodriguez.

Paris-based Lithosquare, which uses AI to speed the discovery of critical mineral and metal deposits, raised a $25M seed led by World Fund and Kindred Capital (Rahul Raj/EU-Startups)
https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/05/pa…

Paris-based Lithosquare raises €22 million to accelerate transition-critical mineral discovery with Geology AI | EU-Startups
Lithosquare, a Paris-based startup that deploys Geology AI and geologist-led intelligence to amplify and accelerate the discovery of transition-critical

Currently exploring Origami Linux. Bootc, Fedora Atomic, Cosmic, Cachy LTO kernel. Included tooling is all Rust based, even my friend Yazi is there. Very nice! Shoutout to @… for pointing me to this distro.
#origami

How A Plant-Based Diet Slows Aging From The Inside Out #nutrition

How A Plant-Based Diet Slows Aging From The Inside Out
A whole-food plant-based diet may support youthful skin by reducing inflammation, protecting collagen, and slowing cellular aging

🦺 "Autonomous and safe": timely report by @… for Topsector Energie
32 recommendations on how to make the Dutch and European energy system more robust, based on interviews with 22 energy experts, including yours truly.

Autonoom en veilig
Nederland moet zijn energievoorziening versneld autonomer en weerbaarder maken. Dat stellen 22 experts op het gebied van energie en veiligheid in het rapport ‘Autonoom en veilig: hoe Nederland zijn energiepositie kan versterken’ van Topsector Energie met een voorwoord van admiraal b.d. Rob Bauer. In het rapport doen zij 32 concrete aanbevelingen om de energievoorziening beter bestand te maken tegen geopolitieke spanningen, verstoringen in internationale aanvoer en toenemende digitale dreigi…

Tokensparsamkeit for coding assistants
Imagine two engineers finishing the same job with the same quality in the same timeframe. If the organization needs to let go of one, it will be the one that is more expensive. In the era of AI, it means the one who consumes more tokens.
In this post, I’d like to describe a couple of methods to limit token usage.

social_location: Location-based social networks
Two location-based online social networks, where nodes are accounts and edges are declared friendships. Networks includes checkins by these users.
This network has 196591 nodes and 1900654 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Spatial
https://networks.skewed.…

Do you need inspiration how to present a dataset in a clear figure and what package to use? Check out #rstats #dataviz

From data to Viz | Find the graphic you need
A classification of chart types based on their input data format.

Run your own local chat on your laptop. Plus add web search like Perplexity. I do this on my Mac to to save a few AI DC BTUs and to learn stuff based on real web pages rather than hallucinated LLMs.
•⁠ ⁠Run your own chat: https://carlosvaz.com/posts/running-ll

Over 200 Doctors And Nutrition Researchers Call For Return To Science-Based Dietary Guidelines https://plantbasednews.org/lifestyle/health/doctors-call-science-based-dietary-guidelines/

Over 200 Doctors And Nutrition Researchers Call For Science-Based Dietary Guidelines
Hundreds of doctors and nutrition researchers have called for a return to science-based recommendations in US dietary guidelines

"Upcycled Coffee Grounds Could Be The Secret To Enhancing Plant-Based Meat"
#Coffee #Food
https://…

Upcycled Coffee Grounds Could Be The Secret To Enhancing Plant-Based Meat
A biotech company has filed a global patent for upcycling coffee grounds into a flavor-enhancer that could improve plant-based meat

Boy, why don't our legislators understand that we can't get adequate profits if we don't exploit the workers? Why, the average REIT is barely paying investors a 7% return per year, and doing better than 12% is very rare. /s (Based on past 3 years data)
Friend turned foe? Travel industry faces off with Matt Haney over labor bill | The San Francisco Standard

Friend turned foe? Travel industry faces off with Matt Haney over labor bill
Investment trusts own hotels but don’t get to run them. A proposal by the assemblymember aims to ensure they can’t have it both ways.

Boy, why don't our legislators understand that we can't get adequate profits if we don't exploit the workers? Why, the average REIT is barely paying investors a 7% return per year, and doing better than 12% is very rare. /s (Based on past 3 years data)
Friend turned foe? Travel industry faces off with Matt Haney over labor bill | The San Francisco Standard

Friend turned foe? Travel industry faces off with Matt Haney over labor bill
Investment trusts own hotels but don’t get to run them. A proposal by the assemblymember aims to ensure they can’t have it both ways.

TIL a LLM-based simulation of a specific person (like Grammarly does without asking) is called a “sloppelgänger”
(Source: https://bsky.app/profile/lifewinning.com/post/3mgqaymhkf227)

from my link log —
Pointer-based data structures in SPARK Ada.
https://blog.adacore.com/pointer-based-data-structures-in-spark
saved 2019-10-12

Pointer Based Data-Structures in SPARK
As seen in a previous post, it is possible to use pointers (or access types) in SPARK provided the program abides by a strict memory ownership policy…

Connecticut Jewish leaders and synagogues have signed on to a national letter denouncing new prohibitions on recipients of a federal security grant,
which would ban nonprofits — including faith-based organizations — from conducting equity or “DEI” programming, staging some boycotts or helping undocumented immigrants.
The new language would also require such institutions to cooperate with immigration enforcement.
The letter was signed by Temple Beth El in Stamford, the Men…

CT Jewish leaders denounce new rules for federal security grants
Recipients of the nonprofit security grant will be prohibited from DEI programming, staging some boycotts or helping undocumented immigrants.

London-based blockchain analytics company Elliptic raised $120M led by One Peak Partners at a $670M valuation; the platform screens 1B transactions per week (Anna Irrera/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

✍️ Seltani: an online, shared, text-based, open-source fan project based on the Myst series of games
#games

Chicago-based restaurant software startup Chowbus raised an $81M Series E led by Prysm Capital and Left Lane Capital; it focuses primarily on Asian restaurants (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/all-deals/2026/03/11/chowbus-series-e-asian-re…

Exclusive: Chowbus raises $81M Series E
Chowbus specializes in tools for Asian and immigrant-owned restaurants.

Vinay Prasad, the Trump administration’s top vaccine regulator at the Food and Drug Administration,
single-handedly decided to refuse to review Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine,
overruling agency scientists, according to reports from Stat News and The Wall Street Journal.
Stat was first to report, based on unnamed FDA sources, that a team of career scientists at the agency was ready to review the vaccine
and that David Kaslow, a top career official who reviews vaccines, eve…

Trump official overruled FDA scientists to reject Moderna's flu shot
FDA's top vaccine regulator, Vinay Prasad, is known for overruling scientists.

Vancouver-based quantum computing startup Photonic raised an additional $70M after a $130M raise announced in January, giving it a $2B post-money valuation (Josh Scott/BetaKit)
https://betakit.com/photonic-secures-2-billion-usd-valuati…

Photonic secures $2-billion USD valuation after final close of $200-million financing | BetaKit
Bell, BDC, EDC, and InBC are backing the BC quantum firm’s continued push towards commercialization.

"Study maps tree-planting risks and rewards for climate and biodiversity"
#Biodiversity #Climate #ClimateChange

Study maps tree-planting risks and rewards for climate and biodiversity
Establishing forests can capture carbon and boost biodiversity — but some biomes are a better bet than others, a recent study finds. Forest restoration has emerged as a top nature-based solution to mitigate climate change, with numerous high-profile initiatives launched over the past few decades. And while there’s enthusiasm for replanting degraded forest areas, or […]

social_location: Location-based social networks
Two location-based online social networks, where nodes are accounts and edges are declared friendships. Networks includes checkins by these users.
This network has 58228 nodes and 428156 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Spatial
https://networks.skewed…

Stockholm-based AI coding startup Lovable reaches $400M in ARR, up from $300M in January; rival Cursor hit $2B in annualized revenue in February, per a source (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-12/vibe…

US-based politics newsletter Tangle Media reports $4.15M in annual revenue in 2025, with 85% coming from 71,000 paid subscriptions and $500,000 from ads (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/newsletters/p…

Politics newsletter makes nearly $4m in subs despite giving most content away
Tangle Media, a US politics newsletter, converts 16% of free newsletter subscribers to paid and recieves $4m in recurring revenue each year.

5 Ways To Protect Your Gut From Chronic Stress #nutrition

5 Ways To Protect Your Gut From Chronic Stress
Learn 5 evidence-based ways to protect your gut from chronic stress and support digestion, immunity, and overall health.

Sources: UK-based cloud provider Nscale is in talks to buy a major data center site in West Virginia; Amazon and Meta have also expressed interest in the site (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nv

Nvidia Cloud Ally Nscale in Talks to Buy a Major U.S. Data Center Site Ahead of IPO
Nscale, an upstart cloud provider heavily backed by Nvidia whose customers include OpenAI and Microsoft, is in talks to take control of one of the largest available sites for AI data centers in the U.S., according to people with knowledge of the talks and fundraising documents viewed by The ...

sp_colocation: Social co-locations (2018)
Network of colocations between peoople, based on the information on which RFID readers received information from the RFID tags. Namely, we define two individuals to be in co-presence if the same exact set of readers have received signals from both individuals during a 20s time window.
This network has 232 nodes and 1283194 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

Source: Anthropic is in advanced talks to acquire New York-based Stainless, which helps developers generate SDKs from APIs, for at least $300M (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-talks-buy-developer-tools-…

Anthropic in Talks to Buy Developer Tools Startup Used by OpenAI, Google
Anthropic is in advanced talks to acquire developer tools startup Stainless for at least $300 million, according to a person with knowledge of the deal. The four-year-old Stainless sells software to model makers including Anthropic, OpenAI and Google that helps developers, non-technical people ...

Pesto Cauliflower Bites #plantbased

Pesto Cauliflower Bites
These pesto cauliflower bites are an easy gluten-free and plant-based side that can easily be made into a full meal with grains and legumes

A look at Ohio-based media company Block Communications, now a divided family business, which has decided to cease publishing the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in May (Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/i-will-

The US' Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is testing ACCESS, an outcome-based payment model for AI-driven medical care, with 150 tech companies (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/medi

Medicare's new payment model is built for AI, and most of the tech world has no idea | TechCrunch
There is no governmental mechanism to pay for an AI agent that monitors a patient between visits, calls to check in, coordinates a housing referral, or makes sure someone picks up their medication. ACCESS creates that mechanism for the first time.

yeast_transcription: Yeast transcription network (2002)
Network of operons and their pairwise interactions, via transcription factor-based regulation, within the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
This network has 916 nodes and 1094 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Unweighted
https://networks.sk…

Avocado Sandwiches With Cherry Tomatoes And Feta Cheese #plantbased

Avocado Sandwiches With Cherry Tomatoes And Feta Cheese
Make these vegan avocado sandwiches with roasted cherry tomatoes and plant-based feta cheese for a tasty lunch

CME Group and Silicon Data announce a futures market for computing capacity, with contracts based on daily GPU benchmarks for on-demand rental rates (Tobias Burns/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/new-futures-market-for-semicond…

Traders will soon be able to bet on computer chip prices as AI drives costs skyward
Contracts can be used to hedge against rising GPU rental rates and other operational costs

Nuro says it has begun testing its self-driving tech on public roads in Tokyo, marking the US-based company's first international autonomous deployment (Akash Sriram/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

13 Chinese-Inspired Dishes That Are Vegan #plantbased

13 Chinese-Inspired Dishes That Are Vegan
Try 13 Chinese-inspired dishes that are vegan to get a taste for real Chinese cooking in a plant-based format

NBC plans a game show based on the NYT's Wordle, hosted by Today Show anchor Savannah Guthrie; NYT and Jimmy Fallon will be production partners (Michael M. Grynbaum/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/business/media/wordle-nbc-savannah-gu…

NBC to Turn Wordle Into a TV Game Show
The word puzzle published by The New York Times is the inspiration for a game show that will begin airing next year. Jimmy Fallon is a producer.

In a rare public criticism of a fellow member of the Supreme Court,
Justice Sonia Sotomayor criticized Justice Brett Kavanaugh
for his justification of racial profiling
in immigration-based stops of U.S. citizens.
“I had a colleague in that case who wrote, you know, these are only temporary stops,”
Sotomayor said at a University of Kansas School of Law event on Tuesday.
She was referring to the case of
"Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo",
in w…

Sonia Sotomayor Makes Rare But Damning Critique Of A Fellow Supreme Court Justice
The justice had rare public criticism for her colleague and his justification of racial profiling in immigration-based stops of U.S. citizens.

ecoli_transcription: E. coli transcription network (2002)
Network of operons and their pairwise interactions, via transcription factor-based regulation, within the bacteria Escherichia coli.
This network has 423 nodes and 578 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Unweighted
https://networks.s…

Thinking Machines Lab details interaction models, which can think and respond in real time, letting users and AI interact continuously for better collaboration (Thinking Machines Lab)
https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interaction-models/

Interaction Models: A Scalable Approach to Human-AI Collaboration
Interaction models move beyond turn-based AI interfaces by handling multimodal, real-time collaboration natively across audio, video, and text.

Luma AI debuts Uni-1, an image model that combines image understanding and generation in a single architecture, topping Nano Banana 2 on logic-based benchmarks (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/luma-ais-new-u

Luma AI's new Uni-1 image model tops Nano Banana 2 and GPT Image 1.5 on logic-based benchmarks
Luma AI takes on OpenAI and Google with Uni-1, a model that combines image understanding and generation in a single architecture and reasons through prompts as it creates.

hiv_transmission: HIV transmission network (1988-2001)
A set of networks of HIV transmissions between people through sexual, needle-sharing, or social connections, based on combining 8 datasets collected from 1988 to 2001. Metadata includes test results of several diseases, as well as demographic variables such as age, ethnicity, and gender. Networks come in two flavors: egodyads and altdyads. Egodyads are the network among study-participants and their direct partners. Altdyads are the…

Sources: after Google's $32B deal, each of Wiz's four co-founders is set to get $2B in post-tax cash; Index is set to net $4B, Insight $2.7B, and Sequoia $3B (Sofia Chierchio/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/sofiachierchi

Wiz’s Founders And Investors Cash Out As Google’s $32 Billion Takeover Closes
Two years after rejecting a $23 billion offer, Israel-based Wiz secured the largest acquisition in Google’s history and will deliver billion-dollar returns to its founders and investors.

UK Plant-Based Proteins on Track to Double Revenue by 2040, Report Finds https://vegconomist.com/studies-numbers/uk-plant-based-proteins-track-double-revenue-2040-report-finds/

UK Plant-Based Proteins on Track to Double Revenue by 2040, Report Finds - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
A report from consultancy Systemiq, commissioned by ProVeg International, projects that the UK plant-based protein sector is entering a sustained growth

WordPress debuts my.WordPress.net, which lets users run WordPress entirely in the browser to set up a private workspace not accessible from the public internet (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/11/word

WordPress debuts a private workspace that runs in your browser via a new service, my.WordPress.net | TechCrunch
WordPress’s new browser-based service lets users create private sites without hosting or signup, turning the platform into a personal workspace for writing, research, and AI tools.

qa_user: User interactions on Q&A websites (2016)
Networks of interactions among users from four online Q&A sites: Stack Overflow, Math Overflow, Super User, and Ask Ubuntu. A directed edge (i,j) indicates a user i responded to user j's post. Edges are timestamped. For each Q&A site, four differently defined networks are provided, based on the definition of an edge: (i) a user answered a question, (ii) a user commented on a question, (iii) a user commented on an answer…

A look at Higgsfield, an AI video startup that grew to $300M ARR within 11 months, as it faces a creator backlash over aggressive and shocking marketing tactics (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishriva…

Racist Videos And Payment Problems: The Dark Side Of This AI Startup’s Super-Fast Growth
Influencer marketing helped AI video company Higgsfield hit $300 million in annual revenue run rate in just 11 months. But misleading marketing tactics and a shock-based social media strategy has led to backlash.

Landmark Vote Positions Helsinki as a Plant-Based Policy Frontrunner https://vegconomist.com/gastronomy-food-service/food-service/landmark-vote-positions-helsinki-as-a-plant-based-policy-frontrunner/

Landmark Vote Positions Helsinki as a Plant-Based Policy Frontrunner - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
In a decisive move toward a more sustainable food system, the City Council of Helsinki has approved a landmark initiative to cut the city’s procurement of

10 Plant-Based Recipes That Aren’t Bowls Or Salads #plantbased

10 Plant-Based Recipes That Aren’t Bowls Or Salads
If you're tired of the typical go-tos in plant-based eating, then these recipes that aren't bowls or salads might just appeal to you

Lattice Semiconductor agrees to acquire AMI for $1.65B in cash and stock; Georgia-based AMI provides firmware and infrastructure manageability for cloud and AI (Mike Rogoway/Oregonian)
https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/

Oregon-based Lattice Semiconductor buys Georgia firm for $1.65 billion
Hillsboro-based Lattice is worth more than $17 billion thanks to a boom in demand for its chips from AI firm.

Paris-based digital health insurance startup Alan raised €100M led by Index Ventures at a €5B valuation, up from €4B after raising €173M in September 2024 (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/11/health-insurance-startup-alan-reaches-e5b…

Health insurance startup Alan reaches €5B valuation | TechCrunch
French health insurance startup Alan is now valued at €5 billion — approximately $5.83 billion, up from $4.5 billion in 2024.

Nvidia plans to invest $2B in Amsterdam-based Nebius as part of a partnership to build AI data centers and deploy 5GW of Nvidia systems by the end of 2030 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-11/nvidia-…

Sources: Cisco is in talks to acquire Tel Aviv-based Astrix Security, which sells software to monitor and secure AI agents, for between $250M and $350M (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/cisco-talks-buy-ai-security-s…

Cisco in Talks to Buy AI Security Startup Astrix for at Least $250 Million
Cisco Systems is in talks to acquire Astrix Security, a five-year-old Israeli cybersecurity startup that sells software to monitor and secure AI agents, for between $250 million and $350 million, according to people with knowledge of the deal. That would represent at least a 25% premium to the ...

Inside OpenAI's race to catch up with Claude Code, based on interviews with 30 sources; a source says Codex had $1B in annualized revenue by January's end (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-codex-race-claude-code/

Inside OpenAI’s Race to Catch Up to Claude Code
Why is the biggest name in AI late to the AI coding revolution?

Google's TIG reports the first confirmed instance of "prominent cybercrime threat actors" using AI to find and weaponize a zero-day in a web-based admin tool (Dustin Volz/New York Times)
https://www.nyti…

Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. to Find a Major Software Flaw
The company said that it had identified, for the first time, hackers using artificial intelligence to discover an unknown bug. The attempted attack represents “a taste of what’s to come,” one expert said.