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My favorite 20 albums blog post will likely have to wait until at least the weekend of December 5, as I'm waiting for December 3 and 4 for the release of three records, all of which I'm pretty sure are gonna be on the list. It should be up fairly soon after that, on that weekend. I'll have the rest written by then and just finish those last couple blurbs after the records come out that Thursday and Friday 🙄😂

Stockholm-based AI coding startup Lovable raised $400M at a $13.3B valuation, up from $6.6B in December 2025, becoming one of Europe's most valuable startups (Ben Dummett/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.co…

Evening Standard reports pre-tax loss of £8.3M in the 15-months to December 31, 2025, its smallest loss in a decade, following the closure of its print edition (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business/print-closu…

Print closure helps Standard reduce losses to £8.3m
Losses at the Evening Standard reduced in 2025 after the closure of its daily print newspaper, plus revenue down 40%.

Damn, it looks like the big spending against the California billionaire tax might be working. Tell three people you know to vote yes on 40 and no on 41 and 42, the sneaky measures that cancel it out
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_California_Proposition_40#…

Here's a copy of the SN announcement to drop Listed:
As of December 31, 2026, we'll be retiring the Listed platform. For users who have used Listed, we wanted to let you know what this means for you.
- Your posts will remain privately stored in your Standard Notes account, so you'll still be able to access them.
- The website and your blog, including past posts and guestbook, will no longer be publicly accessible.
- The Listed interface, such as blog sett…

#TIL the #NittyGrittyDirtBand had two #accordion players scattering work through their discography!
More research is necessary

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band / Dirt Band
2nd version By Praguefrank, Michel Ruppli, Thieu Van De Vorst, Lennart Gustavsson, Tore Brennodden SESSIONS December 1966 poss. Ho...

Wow, Google must really be eating shit on their AI costs - one of my clients just got an “urgent“ email about their Google workspace renewal (in December) increasing prices 40%
BUT they’ll be happy to get the prices back to normal with an “AI subsidized” plan that adds Google Gemini.

OpenAI hires Dali Rajic, COO of Alphabet's Wiz, as chief revenue officer, replacing ex-Slack CEO Denise Dresser, who was hired in December 2025 and will leave (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

sp_high_school: High school temporal contacts (2013)
These data sets correspond to the contacts and friendship relations between students in a high school in Marseilles, France, in December 2013, as measured through several techniques.
This network has 329 nodes and 502 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

Disney strikes a multiyear deal to stream Formula E races on Disney and ESPN in the US and on Disney in most international markets starting in December (Sam Smith/The Race)
https://www.the-race.com/formula-e/formula-e-secures-major-disney-streaming-deal/

Formula E secures major Disney+ streaming deal
Formula E will be streamed live on Disney+ and ESPN channels from the start of the Gen4 era onwards later this year

CFP: Rutgers Rabbinics Conference, Spring 2027
https://ift.tt/OU8IGkQ
Call for Paper (CAA 2027 Annual Conference): From the Street to the Bedroom: Designing the Modern…
via Input 4 RELCFP ht…

Our third workshop in the series
National Emergency Briefing - what next?
has been added. 3 December, Manchester, Energy, Economy and National Security.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/national-emergency-briefings-what-next-3-tickets-199…

sp_high_school: High school temporal contacts (2013)
These data sets correspond to the contacts and friendship relations between students in a high school in Marseilles, France, in December 2013, as measured through several techniques.
This network has 329 nodes and 502 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

The US is facing worldwide condemnation over a “barbaric” plan to execute a disabled man by firing squad and livestream it to the public,
with critics comparing the Trump administration to dictatorships in Iran and Afghanistan.
The Pentagon confirmed on Thursday that the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan,
convicted of killing 13 people at a military base at Fort Hood in Texas in 2009,
would be livestreamed on 3 December.
The United Nations’ office of the high commi…

‘Medieval’ and ‘disturbing’: US plan to livestream execution elicits global condemnation
Pentagon said execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, would be broadcast live

#NowPlaying UFO or Die live at CBGB, December 23rd, 1991. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmWrvCIUKB8

DeMarcus Lawrence to play 13th NFL season, setting up December rematch vs Cowboys https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/08/07/cowboys-demarcus-lawrence-wont-retire-rematch-seatt…

sp_hospital: Hospital ward dynamic contacts (2010)
This dataset contains the temporal network of contacts between patients, patients and health-care workers (HCWs) and among HCWs in a hospital ward in Lyon, France, from Monday, December 6, 2010 at 1:00 pm to Friday, December 10, 2010 at 2:00 pm. The study included 46 HCWs and 29 patients.
This network has 75 nodes and 32424 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal, Metadata

"Renewable energy companies fuel Brazilian data center boom, investigation finds"
#Brazil #Energy #Renewables

Renewable energy companies fuel Brazilian data center boom, investigation finds
Renewable energy companies are driving most of Brazil’s plans for new data centers, according to a recent joint analysis by The Intercept Brasil and Mongabay. As of December 2025 there were 68 requests to connect data centers to Brazil’s national power grid with 65% registered by renewable energy companies, including wind and solar power plants, […]

MLive Media Group, owner of The Ann Arbor News, The Flint Journal, and six other newspapers, says it will print its final paper editions on December 6 (Danielle Salisbury/MLive.com)
https://www.mlive.com/news/2026/09/mlive-a

MLive announces full turn into digital formats, will end printed editions in December
The Michigan news organization will print and home-deliver its final printed editions on Sunday, Dec. 6, and the publications will continue afterward in online formats.

A single, devastating shark bite
was fatal for an ocean swimmer
whose body was found on a California beach in December,
a new autopsy report confirmed.
Erica Fox, 55, drowned
after that shark bite broke her pelvis
and severed a major artery,
according to the findings of the autopsy,
which were first reported on by California’s Monterey Herald newspaper.
The autopsy report contained the most complete account yet
about the circumstanc…

Single shark bite led to death of woman off California coast, autopsy shows
Erica Fox left Lovers Point near Monterey in December alongside group of swimmers but never made it back

Ook in de herhaling: de bussen van Malta.
#kamafotos

🚀 #PHPStan 2.3.0 is out and up to 7.5× faster than ten months ago. Analysing the #WordPress codebase dropped from 60.5s in December 2025 to 7.9s on an M1 Pro MacBook #PHP

Woman says she reported alleged 49ers impersonator to team in December https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/50009432/woman-says-reported-alleged-49ers-impersonator-team-december

“Evaluating a Success Criterion”
https://adrianroselli.com/2026/09/evaluating-a-success-criterion.html
My steps for getting the W3C’s most current (and soon-to-be-current) position on any SC. 470 words.

Evaluating a Success Criterion
Sidney Paget illustration of Sherlock Holmes from Strand Magazine, December 1892, p.646, but I added papers from his March 1893 (p.281 of Strand Magazine) illustration and then two versions of the W3C logo to the front page. When performing a WCAG evaluation (or review or audit), it’s easy to get…

hyves: Hyves friendship network (2010)
A network of friendships among users of Hyves, an online social networking site in the Netherlands (comparable to Facebook at the time). Nodes represent users and an edge exists if two users are friends. These data were crawled in December 2010.
This network has 1402673 nodes and 2777419 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Ok, the trailer for this kinda won me over:
“If you’re hearing this, it’s December 31st This is the last girl on earth, signing off…Happy Halloween”
https://youtu.be/ORjn6ox53_U
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wzbypqr7qphcrzkabwz34puq/post/3mxp2t7a7rs26

Back at Muskogee Library's Memory Lab for more scanning. December 63 to December 64 this round.

"An ICE supervisor seen brandishing a rifle after the high-profile shooting in New York on Oct 8 was also involved in a controversial arrest in Minneapolis in December in which agents knelt on and dragged a pregnant woman through the street."
ICE agent in New York shooting also involved in assault of pregnant woman | Donald Trump | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/10/11/ice-agent-in-new-york-shooting-also-involved-in-assault-of-pregnant-woman

wohoo! fick klartecken från min chef att gå en infosäk-kurs i samband med att jag blir ansvarig för min enhets arbete med dessa frågor. Så i december får jag hänga med @… ska bli kul!

The EU Commission charges Temu with failing to cooperate during a December 2025 raid on its Dublin HQ as part of a probe into the company's foreign subsidies (Inti Landauro/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co

Donald Trump was reportedly encouraged by Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, to carry out his illegal invasion of Venezuela during an hourslong session with the chatbot just weeks before the attack this January.
In December 2025, Trump asked Grok questions for hours during a secret visit to the White House by Musk, per new reporting by Time Magazine.
Trump asked about his legacy and presidency, and wanted the bot’s input on his planned kidnapping of then-Venezuelan President Nicolšs …

Report: Trump Used Grok to Help Talk Him Into Illegal Invasion of Venezuela
The president reportedly used the AI chatbot for hours when Elon Musk visited the White House last December.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr declines to say whether broadcasters should be allowed to air a live execution by DOD in December, saying he'll defer to Pete Hegseth (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/10/fcc-live-execution-pentagon-pete-hegseth-1…

FCC Chairman Declines To Say Whether Broadcast Outlets Should Be Allowed To Air Live Execution, But It’s Doubtful Networks Would Show It Anyway
It's doubtful that the networks would decide to air the execution, anyway.

Estimated Demand for Mega-Constellation Internet Service
Akhil Rao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.08851 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.08851 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.08851
arXiv:2608.08851v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The near-term growth of the commercial space economy and sustainability of the low-Earth orbit (LEO) environment depends on the commercial prospects of large LEO satellite telecommunications constellations (``mega-constellations''). If successful, mega-constellations can spur competition between launch providers, which may lead to lower launch prices. They may also demand orbital sustainability services and/or generate additional collision risk, which may in turn affect space sustainability interests. Consumer demand for mega-constellations' internet services is critical to their commercial success. This analysis presents a method to estimate consumer demand for mega-constellations' internet services, using SpaceX's Starlink over December 2021--November 2023 as an example. This analysis finds that Starlink users are highly concentrated in the wealthiest countries. It also finds that consumer demand for Starlink is growing more slowly than orbital capacity is being added and more slowly than demand for non-Starlink internet overall. Continuation of these trends may indicate that the market for mega-constellation internet is less lucrative than previous forecasts have indicated.
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Flights not included, huh. ;)
@… https://mastodon.social/@esoastronomy/117201902677257912

Boo. Jetzt auch hier die böse Mail angekommen, dass man die Preise bei immer schlechterer werdenden Leistung um 60% erhöht. Für den Preis kann ich mir das Meiste auch als Disc holen. Deutlich unpraktischer, aber dafür kommt nicht mittendrin die Info, dass man nur noch 2 Tage hat fertig zu schauen. Schade, dass man nach wie vor zahlende Kunden so gängelt.
#Netflix

Well I discovered this week that I have SEVEN DAYS of leave available still this year. As I work for them three days a week that's two weeks plus. Looking at a week in October and another late November-early December, taking people up on their offers of spare rooms and returning the visits folk made to us when Mum was ill. Plus I'll get the dining room painted and sort out our new family business website. Not restful but not shoe-horned in either

Drop by Drop Upon the Heart: On the Kennedy Center, the Kennedys’ Classics, and What a Nation Owes its Dead
On the afternoon of December 19, 2025, the board of the Kennedy Center voted to put a living president's name on a dead president's memorial....

October.
This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in.
The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June,
December, August, and February.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

As the peak of El Niño draws closer, scientists are growing increasingly concerned about its potential impacts.
According to several experts, California may be in for a particularly difficult winter.
The latest El Niño forecast shows this event peaking around 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit (4 degrees Celsius) in December,
which would obliterate the previous record and have major implications for West Coast weather and sea levels.
“We’re expecting likely the highest sea levels e…

This Super El Niño Could Trigger the Highest Sea Levels Ever Recorded on the California Coast
California is likely looking at a winter of storm surge and coastal flooding.

Since spring 2025, the Dorothy Alexander Roush Gallery has hosted the Georgia Museum of Art’s study gallery program, where faculty at the University of Georgia can request pieces to be shown throughout the semester as a teaching aid for their courses. Three professors have curated pieces for both their students and visitors of the museum to enjoy this fall semester, on view July 25 – December 6.
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Patriots Announce 2026 Throwback Game Dates! https://www.patriots.com/video/patriots-announce-2026-throwback-game-dates

Block announces its intention to explore the sale of The Toledo Blade's assets; if unsuccessful, the newspaper's final edition will be December 31 (Toledo Blade)
https://www.toledoblade.com/local/city/202

Possible final edition of Blade announced; company explores sale
Block Communications has announced its intention to explore a sale of The Blade’s assets, which, if unsuccessful, will result in the final edition of the ...

He's back! And he's back! And she's back! They're ALL back! And he's... OMG, where did he come from?
▶️ Avengers: Doomsday | Official Trailer | In Theaters December 18
https://youtube.com/watch?v=irVNGjRFZGk&si=gBMjvtrHyjsVkG5T

"Mark Zuckerberg said Meta’s new personal AI agent Muse has become the “centerpiece” (sic) of his AI vision..."
okay, I can stop reading, whatever this thing is is doomed. If only Mark could monetise his ability to kill things he thinks are the future.
https://arstechnica.com/…

Anthropic publishes a threat intelligence report on how it disrupted efforts to misuse Claude for cyberattacks, influence operations, surveillance, and more (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligence-report-september-2026

Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 / Anthropic
Case studies from threat actors disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026 across seven areas of harm, from cyber operations to biological misuse.

Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes appears on track to start Week 1 vs. Broncos https://www.nfl.com/news/chiefs-qb-patrick-mahomes-appears-on-track-to-start-week-1-vs-broncos

Senate approves bill to fund government into December, but House support remains uncertain (Faris Tanyos/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-funding-bill-continuing-resolution-approved/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260808/p3#a260808p3

The US House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a stopgap measure to head off a government shutdown until early December,
with its Republican leaders seeking to defuse a volatile issue in the run-up to the November midterm elections.
The continuing resolution authorizing government spending until 4 December passed by a vote of 220-205,
roughly along party lines.
It next heads to the Senate, where it will need to win bipartisan support to clear the chamber.
T…

House passes spending bill to head off government shutdown before midterms
Measure authorizes spending until 4 December as Republicans seek to avoid volatile issue in election season

Employees say the five-person editorial staff of Restart, a games site funded by Walmart and managed by marketing agency Moonrock, has been laid off (Aftermath)
https://aftermath.site/restart-layoff-walmart-moonrock/

Restart, Walmart's Gaming Site, Lays Off Entire Editorial Team
The site started in December 2024

Price Responses of Rwandan Tungsten Exports under Conflict Minerals Regulation
Haruka Nagamori, Kazuhiko Nishimura
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.08690 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.08690 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.08690
arXiv:2608.08690v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Section 1502 of the Dodd--Frank Act, enacted in 2010, requires U.S.-listed companies using tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold (3TG) from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and adjoining countries to disclose information on the minerals' origins. Concerns have been raised that the regulation may have induced a de facto embargo through avoidance of sourcing from the covered region. However, how the price responsiveness of mineral exports evolved under changing institutional and market conditions remains insufficiently understood. Since tungsten production in the covered region is concentrated almost entirely in Rwanda, this study examines the price responsiveness of Rwandan tungsten exports from January 2009 to December 2023.
Because missing export quantity data prevent continuous observation of export unit values, we apply the identification approach of Nakano and Nishimura (2025), combining monthly mirror trade data from UN Comtrade with exchange rates and a world average price. An importer fixed-effects model is estimated using export value as the dependent variable, with the sample divided into four periods according to changes in the institutional and market environment.
The results reveal substantial temporal variation in price responsiveness. A statistically significant negative price response is observed in Period 1 ($\eta=-20.814$, $p<0.01$), disappears in Period 2 ($\eta=1.814$, $p>0.10$), reappears in Period 3 ($\eta=-5.277$, $p<0.01$), and disappears again in Period 4 ($\eta=0.440$, $p>0.10$). Coefficient-difference tests confirm significant changes between Periods 1 and 2 ($p=0.0021$) and between Periods 3 and 4 ($p=0.0006$). These findings suggest that the price responsiveness of Rwandan tungsten exports varied substantially over time rather than following a uniform trajectory after the regulation.
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Unbelievably, we get one more Morphine LP, 'Cocoon', featuring archival recordings and some new baritone sax parts. Unreal. Hear the first single now, can't believe I have to wait til December to hear the rest 😂
Might as well hold a spot in my top 20 of 2026 for this, because it'll be in it.
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Adobe names Customer Experience Orchestration president Anil Chakravarthy as CEO, effective December 1, replacing Shantanu Narayen, who becomes executive chair (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/03/adobe-anil-chakravarthy-ceo.html

Adobe names Anil Chakravarthy as CEO, replacing Shantanu Narayen
Adobe announced Anil Chakravarthy as its next CEO, replacing Shantanu Narayen, who announced his departure last March.

sp_hospital: Hospital ward dynamic contacts (2010)
This dataset contains the temporal network of contacts between patients, patients and health-care workers (HCWs) and among HCWs in a hospital ward in Lyon, France, from Monday, December 6, 2010 at 1:00 pm to Friday, December 10, 2010 at 2:00 pm. The study included 46 HCWs and 29 patients.
This network has 75 nodes and 32424 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal, Metadata

Acer unveils the Swift Blade 14, an ultralight laptop weighing 1.76lbs with Intel Wildcat Lake processors, and the Swift Air 16, set to launch in December (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/987802/acer-swift-blade-14…

Acer’s new MacBook Air rival is nearly a pound lighter than Apple’s laptop
The Swift Blade 14 is a new ultra-light laptop from Acer, with 12GB of RAM and Intel Wildcat Lake. Acer is also announcing the larger Swift Air 16.

Red jerseys, few brakes: Maxx Crosby's return puts Raiders QBs on alert https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/red-jerseys-few-brakes-maxx-crosbys-return-puts-raiders-qbs-on-alert

sp_high_school: High school temporal contacts (2013)
These data sets correspond to the contacts and friendship relations between students in a high school in Marseilles, France, in December 2013, as measured through several techniques.
This network has 329 nodes and 502 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

When John Sayles, then a student at Williams College taking time off from his summer factory job,
was hitchhiking during the summer of 1970 in West Virginia,
it was often coalminers who picked him off the main interstate highways.
At the time, miners were amid the wake of a contentious union election within the United Mine Workers of America.
Fierce tensions had led to the murder of the union reform candidate Joseph Yablonskiand his wife in December 1969.
Miner…

‘A reminder of why we have unions’: Matewan writer and director on the film’s lessons for the labor movement
John Sayles’s 1987 film, which dramatizes a 1920 labor conflict, shows how class solidarity can overcome prejudice

Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash, three weeks after 3.7 Flash launch, for an introductory price of $0.75/1M input and $3.75/1M output tokens until December 31 (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/09/02/gemini-3-8-flash-launch/

Gemini 3.8 Flash rolling out three weeks after last release
After the last model release three weeks ago, Google today is rolling out Gemini 3.8 Flash. This marks the third Flash update...

Oh god. This doesn't look good for anyone.
▶️ Avengers: Doomsday | Special Look | In Theaters December 18
#marvel

A coalition of press freedom advocates urges G20 leaders to ensure that their summit in Miami in December allows impartial, transparent, and broad media access (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2026/09/cpj-rsf-and-partners-urge-g20-leade…

CPJ, RSF, and partners urge G20 leaders to uphold media access - Committee to Protect Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists, together with Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and 19 other organizations, experts, and news leaders, are calling on Group of 20 leaders to ensure that “journalists and news organizations will be able to freely cover deliberations by representatives of the world’s largest economies, whose decisions have broad ramifications around the world.”...

On December 19, she and her attorney met with a Fargo detective for the first time.
Read more 👉 #Innocence

Patrick Mahomes' status for Week 1 is still up in the air: Why Chiefs QB isn't a lock to play vs. the Broncos

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/patrick-mahomes-status-week-1-chiefs-…

House passes bill to avert a government shutdown ahead of midterm elections
The House passed a bill Tuesday to fund the government into December,
allowing lawmakers to circumvent a politically fraught battle and potential shutdown just weeks before the midterm elections.

The House voted 370-48 to pass the stopgap bill, also known as a continuing resolution.
It previously passed the Senate and will now go to Donald Trump’s desk to be signed into law,
funding …

House passes bill to avert a government shutdown ahead of midterm elections
The stopgap measure to fund the government through Dec. 11 now goes to President Donald Trump’s desk.

sp_high_school: High school temporal contacts (2013)
These data sets correspond to the contacts and friendship relations between students in a high school in Marseilles, France, in December 2013, as measured through several techniques.
This network has 329 nodes and 188508 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

Australia's online safety regulator says social media use among under-16s fell to 81.5% in March 2026, compared to 85.9% before ban took effect in December 2025 (Angus Whitley/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Epstein and Bannon exchanged messages beginning on December 31, 2018.
The messages document private political strategizing between Epstein and Bannon after Epstein’s 2008 conviction.
Epstein said he had spoken with Democratic contacts and described emotions as running high.

Bannon believed Democrats were preparing to attack Trump as soon as they took control of the House.
Bannon said the White House had no effective response plan.

Epstein question…

sp_hospital: Hospital ward dynamic contacts (2010)
This dataset contains the temporal network of contacts between patients, patients and health-care workers (HCWs) and among HCWs in a hospital ward in Lyon, France, from Monday, December 6, 2010 at 1:00 pm to Friday, December 10, 2010 at 2:00 pm. The study included 46 HCWs and 29 patients.
This network has 75 nodes and 32424 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal, Metadata

Australia's online safety regulator says social media use among under-16s fell to 81.5% in March 2026, compared to 85.9% before ban took effect in December 2025 (Angus Whitley/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Spyware maker Paragon Solutions
has long positioned itself as the good guy in an industry seemingly filled with bad ones,
vowing to never sell its mobile spyware to authoritarian regimes or ones with poor human rights records.
It also promises to cut off any customer caught misusing its products against journalists, dissidents, or other non-legitimate targets.
Yet in December 2024, weeks after then Israeli-owned Paragon was acquired by the US equity firm AE Industrial…

The Secrets of the US Spyware King
In an exclusive interview with WIRED, Paragon Solutions CEO Andrew Boyd reveals the limits of the company’s promise to keep bad actors from abusing its powerful espionage tool.

Packers RT Zach Bako-Bewele's season ends with torn patellar tendon https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7620721/2026/09/22/packers-bako-bewele-torn-patellar-tendon/

The Trump administration will soon announce
sharply lower vehicle fuel-economy standards,
reversing ‌a push by the prior administration to force automakers to build more fuel-efficient vehicles,
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said ⁠Monday.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in December
proposed significantly reducing fuel economy requirements
from model years 2022 to 2031,
requiring a fleetwide average 34.5 miles per gallon by 20…

Imax CEO Rich Gelfond signaled in December that the company was for sale, but no major suitors have appeared despite box office success and strong stock growth (Sarah Whitten/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/28/imax-sale-potential-buyers.html

hyves: Hyves friendship network (2010)
A network of friendships among users of Hyves, an online social networking site in the Netherlands (comparable to Facebook at the time). Nodes represent users and an edge exists if two users are friends. These data were crawled in December 2010.
This network has 1402673 nodes and 2777419 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Sources: Roxanna Scott, hired by ESPN in December 2025 to serve as the top editor across TV and digital, is out after a reorganization of ESPN's news division (Ryan Glasspiegel/Front Office Sports)
https://frontofficesports.com/roxanna-scott-out-espn-top-editor/…

Roxanna Scott Out As ESPN’s Top Editor After Less Than a Year
Roxanna Scott is out as ESPN’s top editor, less than 10 months after she was first hired to the role at the network.

sp_high_school: High school temporal contacts (2013)
These data sets correspond to the contacts and friendship relations between students in a high school in Marseilles, France, in December 2013, as measured through several techniques.
This network has 329 nodes and 1437 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

Amazon shutters its AGI Lab as part of layoffs in its AGI unit earlier this week; the lab's former head David Luan left in February (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/amazon-shuts-ai-agent-research-lab-agi-layoffs…

Amazon Shuts AI Agent Research Lab In AGI Layoffs
Amazon this week closed its AGI Lab, a San Francisco-based research and product team that was developing software to improve the usefulness of AI agents, according to an Amazon spokesperson. The lab was shuttered as part of Amazon’s layoffs in its artificial general intelligence unit earlier this week. AGI Lab was founded in December 2024 and initially included several dozen employees that

NBCUniversal plans to expand the sponsorship model it used for SNL's 50th anniversary in 2025 for the three-hour NBC 100th anniversary special on December 10 (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/nbc-100th-anni…

NBC Taps 100th Anniversary Special to Lure Advertisers to Big Events
NBC Taps 100th Anniversary Special to Hook More Advertisers to Tentpole Events

sp_hospital: Hospital ward dynamic contacts (2010)
This dataset contains the temporal network of contacts between patients, patients and health-care workers (HCWs) and among HCWs in a hospital ward in Lyon, France, from Monday, December 6, 2010 at 1:00 pm to Friday, December 10, 2010 at 2:00 pm. The study included 46 HCWs and 29 patients.
This network has 75 nodes and 32424 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal, Metadata

China's National Data Administration says the country's daily AI token consumption hit 140T in March 2026, up from 100T in December 2025 and 100B in early 2024 (Minxiao Chang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/arti

Insert token: how China’s surging AI use is turning compute into currency
As the cost of running AI models continues to drop, the token economy is reshaping ecosystems far beyond corporate cubicles.

sp_hospital: Hospital ward dynamic contacts (2010)
This dataset contains the temporal network of contacts between patients, patients and health-care workers (HCWs) and among HCWs in a hospital ward in Lyon, France, from Monday, December 6, 2010 at 1:00 pm to Friday, December 10, 2010 at 2:00 pm. The study included 46 HCWs and 29 patients.
This network has 75 nodes and 32424 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal, Metadata

Sources: Coatue is leading a $3B investment in Databricks that values the data analytics software company at $188B, a 40% increase from its December valuation (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/databricks-set-to-…

sp_hospital: Hospital ward dynamic contacts (2010)
This dataset contains the temporal network of contacts between patients, patients and health-care workers (HCWs) and among HCWs in a hospital ward in Lyon, France, from Monday, December 6, 2010 at 1:00 pm to Friday, December 10, 2010 at 2:00 pm. The study included 46 HCWs and 29 patients.
This network has 75 nodes and 32424 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal, Metadata

On her Pivot podcast, Kara Swisher says she has asked her agent to get her out of her CNN contract, which ends on December 31, citing the Paramount-WBD deal (Alex Griffing/Mediaite)
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/fck-these-…

‘F*ck These Guys!’ Kara Swisher Says She’s Leaving CNN Following Ellison Merger
"I thought like I was trying to figure out ways I could work with them in some like licensing way. But then I thought, f*ck these guys. I don't want to work for them."

Claudia Sheinbaum is handling out medals at the World Cup final,
next to the fat pedophile
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/claudia-sheinbaum-trump-carney-world-cup-final/

Mexican president to attend World Cup final at Trump's invitation amid trade tensions
It will be the first meeting between President Trump and Sheinbaum since December after months of verbal sparring. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is also expected to attend.

Study: social networks drove 5.7M visits to nudify sites between December 2025 and March 2026, with YouTube accounting for 1.82M and X for 1.3M visits (Ej Dickson/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/youtube-and-x-have-become-gateways-to-nudify-apps/

YouTube and X Have Become ‘Gateways’ to Nudify Apps
A new study found that social media platforms are referring people to sites where they can create nonconsensual, sexually explicit deepfakes for as little as $1 an image.

A US judge dismisses Google's lawsuit against web scraping service SerpApi, saying plain and aggregated search results are not protected under copyright law (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Roundtable)
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-lawsuit-serpapi-dismissed-41…

Google Lawsuit Against SerpApi Over Scraping Search Results Dismissed
Last December, Google sued SerpApi over scraping its search results, and now a court has granted SerpApi's motion to dismiss the case. U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers dismissed these claims

sp_high_school: High school temporal contacts (2013)
These data sets correspond to the contacts and friendship relations between students in a high school in Marseilles, France, in December 2013, as measured through several techniques.
This network has 329 nodes and 668 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@lproven/116935974212144392
Never mind not being a fork
– It's a rewrite of an early kernel from December 8, 1991
– just a few months after the initial release, Linux 0.01.

hyves: Hyves friendship network (2010)
A network of friendships among users of Hyves, an online social networking site in the Netherlands (comparable to Facebook at the time). Nodes represent users and an edge exists if two users are friends. These data were crawled in December 2010.
This network has 1402673 nodes and 2777419 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty on Friday in a federal case in relation to the killing of UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson in 2024.
Mangione confessed that he shot and killed Thompson outside a New York City hotel on 4 December 2024.
In his federal case, he faced stalking charges, after other charges, including murder, were dropped.
“I shot Mr Thompson in Manhattan and he died,” Mangione said towards the end of a hastily scheduled, 45-minute hearing.
He added: …

Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to causing UnitedHealthcare CEO’s death in federal case
Plea comes weeks before separate case is scheduled to start in New York, and could throw proceedings into disarray

Q&A with The New York Times editor David Shipley about plans to mark the newspaper's 175th anniversary with nearly 50 stories running through mid-December (Sarah Bahr/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/insider/new-york-times-175-annivers…

Reflecting on 175 Years of The New York Times
For dozens of editors and reporters, the anniversary of the first issue of The Times in 1851 has been a moment to look back.

sp_high_school: High school temporal contacts (2013)
These data sets correspond to the contacts and friendship relations between students in a high school in Marseilles, France, in December 2013, as measured through several techniques.
This network has 329 nodes and 502 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

sp_high_school: High school temporal contacts (2013)
These data sets correspond to the contacts and friendship relations between students in a high school in Marseilles, France, in December 2013, as measured through several techniques.
This network has 329 nodes and 502 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

sp_high_school: High school temporal contacts (2013)
These data sets correspond to the contacts and friendship relations between students in a high school in Marseilles, France, in December 2013, as measured through several techniques.
This network has 329 nodes and 668 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

sp_high_school: High school temporal contacts (2013)
These data sets correspond to the contacts and friendship relations between students in a high school in Marseilles, France, in December 2013, as measured through several techniques.
This network has 329 nodes and 188508 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

hyves: Hyves friendship network (2010)
A network of friendships among users of Hyves, an online social networking site in the Netherlands (comparable to Facebook at the time). Nodes represent users and an edge exists if two users are friends. These data were crawled in December 2010.
This network has 1402673 nodes and 2777419 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

hyves: Hyves friendship network (2010)
A network of friendships among users of Hyves, an online social networking site in the Netherlands (comparable to Facebook at the time). Nodes represent users and an edge exists if two users are friends. These data were crawled in December 2010.
This network has 1402673 nodes and 2777419 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

hyves: Hyves friendship network (2010)
A network of friendships among users of Hyves, an online social networking site in the Netherlands (comparable to Facebook at the time). Nodes represent users and an edge exists if two users are friends. These data were crawled in December 2010.
This network has 1402673 nodes and 2777419 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted