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Russia’s propaganda from the 1939 Winter War is now strangely familiar
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5610121-russias-propaganda-from-the-1939-winter-war-is-now-strangely-familiar/

Pete Carroll, Raiders Facing This Familiar Hurdle in Week 13 https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-pete-carroll-facing-this-familiar-hurdle-week-13

The White House pressed U.S. Navy officials to launch 2,000-pound live bombs instead of dummy explosives during an elaborate military demonstration for the service’s 250th anniversary celebration that Donald Trump attended,
Original planning for what the Navy dubbed the Titans of the Sea Presidential Review called for military personnel to use dummies and not live bombs
One person familiar with the planning said White House officials insisted to Navy planners that Trump “needed t…

Why the White House wanted live bombs, not dummies, for Navy celebration
The White House pressed Navy officials to launch 2,000-pound live bombs instead of dummy explosives during a recent military demonstration for the service’s 250th anniversary celebration that President Donald Trump attended. That's according to two people familiar with planning for the event. One of the people familiar with the planning said White House officials insisted to Navy planners that Trump “needed to see explosions” instead of just a “big splash.” This comes as the administr…

“My body is here, but my soul never left the place that once held my laughter, my silence, my peace.
I miss the warmth of my home — the sunlight spilling through familiar windows, and the small joys I once took for granted: quiet mornings, fleeting smiles, the fragile moments that made life whole.”
– @…

Every morning, the wind circles my tent like a restless ghost, tearing me from...
My body is here, but my soul never left the place that once held my laughter, my silence, my peace. I miss the warmth of my home — the sunlight spilling through familiar windows, and the small joys I once took for granted: quiet mornings, fleeting smiles, the fragile moments that made life whole. Each gust of wind reminds me of what we lost, and each night the cold carves its way into my bones, as if searching for the warmth it once knew. Yet ...

"are you familiar with microaggressions?"
"I learned about microaggressions like this one while you were in the womb"

This BART sign is not colorblind friendly. If you have full color vision you know this is a Red Line to Richmond but if colorblind and not familiar with the system map you don't know it's Red. Considering many apps use the color, BART should fix this by spelling it out!

@… @… thanks … it took a few minutes for me to realise why the style was vaguely familiar.
Found in Zotero:
The Controlled Detonation Of My Anonymity — Ludicity —

One of my daughters spent 5 years in gymnastics and I cringe every time I hear a story like this, grateful that we dodged this bullet.
https://apnews.com/article/nassar-gardner-safesport-usa-gymnastics-olympics-abuse-b370cec…

AP sources: Internal dysfunction kept abuse watchdog from closing case against gymnastics coach
Young gymnasts were sounding warnings about a coach as far back as 2017. That's the same year the U.S. Center for SafeSport was created in the wake of the Larry Nassar sexual-abuse scandal. People familiar with the case involving Sean Gardner told The Associated Press he had agreed to a permanent ban from coaching early this year but the center never closed the deal. The people spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation by SafeSport and said Gardner's case got tangled in office pol…

Plenty of billionaire deals going on, but:
"A person familiar with Witkoff’s thinking said the envoy is confident that any settlement with Russia would benefit America broadly, not just a handful of investors."
https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/russia-u-

67: The none-sensical viral phrase that Gen Alpha can’t stop saying
And now, its seems to be taking over OpenAI as well.
“GPT-6 will be renamed GPT-6-7, you’re welcome,”
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted to X on Friday.
Altman’s announcement comes just a couple of days after Dictionary.com named the slang 2025’s word of the year.
For those lucky enough to not be familiar with the term,
the Gen Alpha slang can be traced back to hip hop artist Skrilla’s late 20…

Did Sam Altman Just Figure out What 6-7 Means?
The OpenAI CEO announced it will rename GPT-6 to GPT-6-7 referencing the viral Gen Alpha slang. We don't know if he is kidding.

I had a dream last night that folks started using drones to track ICE, which then forced them to roll out jammers before raids, which then allowed people to use radio triangulation to find out where ICE was going to raid... which all makes me think that I may need to stop watching Civ Div videos before bed.
Edit:
...for anyone not familiar with Civ Div: https://youtube.com/@civdiv

The experience @… describes here is deeply familiar to me: advertisers keep shoving in front of me ads in which I have •negative• interest.
Does the massive adtech surveillance apparatus actually work on someone out there? Because it’s sure failing to target me. https://wandering.shop/@Violinknitter/115624133826239199

Having used VScode and Positron for the past year instead of RStudio, I wanted some familiar shortcuts for Zotero to quickly toggle side panels. Unfortunately, Zotero does not allows this easily, but there are hacks. I stored brief instructions here https://github.com/e-kotov/zotero-hacks . You will ne…

I made the familiar point yesterday during a panel discussion that even if AI were approaching human intelligence, we're nowhere near human power efficiency (in "intelligence per watt")
But is that actually true anymore? We need huge power to train models, but once we have them trained, distilled and quantized, what do we have?
The human brain draws abt 20 Watts. An M4 doing local inference on a heavily quantized LLM won't draw more than 40 Watts.

A familiar Dodgers face, an actress and an ex-NFL QB: Thanksgiving with the Peetes https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6827962/2025/11/27/rj-peete-thanksgiving-dodgers-lions-cowboys-autism/

Geno Smith Doesn’t Hold Back on Tyler Lockett Coming to Raiders https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/geno-smith-reacts-tyler-lockett/?adt_ei=[email]

The Stakeholder Engagement Division, the Infrastructure Security Division, and likely the Integrated Operations Division are believed to have been impacted.
Multiple CISA divisions targeted in shutdown layoffs, people familiar say
https://www.

Multiple CISA divisions targeted in shutdown layoffs, people familiar say
CISA units including its Stakeholder Engagement division are believed to have been hit. A DHS spokesperson said that the RIFs are meant to help get CISA “back on mission.”

"Emperor... will free our hands in all manners of surveillance, search & seizure."
"Why can't they just leave us in peace?"
"It's going on everywhere."
Sounds familiar.
▶️ Andor: The Death of Truth
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q4cVBVSS9f

Amazon to announce largest layoffs in company history, source says
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/27/amazon-to-announce-sweeping-corporate-job-cuts-starting-tuesday.html

Amazon to announce largest layoffs in company history, source says
The layoffs will amount to the largest cuts to Amazon's corporate workforce in the company's history, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Stell dir vor, deine Armee macht ein paar Tage Pause weil du das Service-Abo nicht rechtzeitig bezahlt hast 🤦‍♂️
Defense Contractors Lobby To Kill Military Right-to-Repair, Push Pay-Per-Use Data Model - Slashdot https://tech.slashdot.or…

Ich habe bei Flora Food Group nachgefragt, ob “Rama sooo buttrig” in Zukunft tierische Butter enthalten wird. Das haben sie bestätigt. Lediglich der Block und die Version mit zugesetztem B12 (grüner Deckel) sind weiterhin #vegan. #rama

OK, I think the STM32MP2 x Kintex-7 test board is ready for design review.
I'll be running through my checklist but would love some other eyes on it, especially by people familiar with such stuff.
https://github.com/azonenberg/stm32mp2-baremetal-t…

Three powerful businessmen
—two Americans and a Russian
—hunched over a laptop in Miami Beach last month, ostensibly to draw up a plan to end Russia’s long and deadly war with Ukraine.
But the full scope of their project went much further, according to people familiar with the talks.
They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold
—with American businesses first in line to beat European competitors to the dividends.
…

I’m helping put together a campaign for municipal #socialHousing here in San Francisco. If you’re already familiar with social housing, how would you define it? If you’re newer to the idea, what’s a question you have about social housing, or something you hope it can achieve?

Espero que hayan tenido muy lindas celebraciones navideñas, querido fediverso 🙌🏻🎅
La mía ha sido muy familiar y con mucha comida 🐷
#Navidad #nx

#NowPlaying - test driving the new old turntable with an album i couldn't possibly be more familiar with at the moment. @…

Happy #ExtremeMaskingDay, fellow freaks and geeks.
Let's all take a deep breath and visualise something calming and familiar.
Could be a line of 6502 assembler, could be the scratchy pots on a beloved but decrepit Moog Rogue, whatever works for you.

Brett Harrison, the former president of FTX US, raised $35M for his new global exchange AX, which offers perpetual futures, a source says at a $187M valuation (Yueqi Yang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/former-ftx-head-raises-…

Former FTX US Head Raises $35 Million for New Exchange
Brett Harrison, the former president of FTX US, has raised $35 million for his startup Architect Financial Technologies, which offers a global perpetual futures exchange. The round, led by Miami International and Tioga Capital, values the company at $187 million, according to a person familiar with the fundraising. The exchange, AX, offers perpetual futures on traditional assets such as stocks

Colts turn to familiar face at kicker, Michael Badgley signed to replace injured Spencer Shrader, pre report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/colts-t

I'm old enough to remember the unraveling of the Watergate cover-up, and the Epstein story has a very familiar stench. #USpol

Familiar story: Cost estimate for the first 6 new #nuclear reactors in France up by 40% in three years. And that's 13 years before the first one would be completed (not accounting for delays).
Btw, that €73 billion is in Euros of 2020; better known as €85 billion now.

> This mod adds mainly one thing with vast ramifications: a system for calculating the stress-strain curve of metals in the game. If you arent familiar with stress-strain curves consider getting a Materials Science Engineering degree or looking at this wikipedia article (whichever one is cheaper and less soul draining).
i love vintage story mods

Anyone using UTM/QEMU with a NT 3.51 VM?
I’m looking for correct network settings. It detects NE2000 ISA and assigns an IP but I can’t ping anything.
UTM mentions to set IRQ to 9 but that’s not an option I see (it’s set to 2).
Mainly I want to access a FTP server on the host computer to transfer files.
👉 I know how to use search engines, therefore please only make suggestions if you are personally familiar with this, thank you. 👈

Great RadioLab interview with Ella al-Shamahi, about her journey from religious anti-evolutionism into evolutionary biology. New perspective but also familiar if you (like me) grew up among Christian creationists; really moving on what faith, even "denialist" faith, means to people
#science #evolution

"The most reliable predictor of future conflict in a place is past conflict in that place. In large part, this is because of unresolved injustices. Resentments over past crimes simmer. Then, they boil over.
In other words, 'they got away with mass murder' is not a great way to build a lasting peace" -- @…

Justice vs Peace
As the world watches the shaky ceasefire in Gaza, the issues of peace and justice intermingle, strain, and collide. For those who work on conflicts, these are familiar tensions, but the underlying debates rarely get wider attention. The basic issue is this: to get any kind of peace deal in

Gutierrez: Raiders collapse in KC raises familiar questions https://www.raiders.com/news/gutierrez-raiders-collapse-to-chiefs-raises-familiar-questions

Sources: VF's article by Chris Whipple featuring quotes from White House chief of staff Susie Wiles led to VF's biggest subscription signup day since 2016 (Natalie Korach/@nataliekorach)
https://x.com/nataliekorach/status/2001849419155837288

Natalie Korach (@NatalieKorach) on X
Scoop: Vanity Fair’s bombshell Chris Whipple story including extensive interviews with Susie Wiles led to the biggest subscription signup day for the mag since 2016, according to people familiar, marking the first major win for editorial director Mark Guiducci

I say it again: they need to keep the dementia patient busy, so they give him something familiar to play with
https://mastodon.sdf.org/@AmandaMarcotte/115746731024779684

«The truth is, I believe, far simpler, more sinister and depressingly familiar. Milei never really broke with Argentina’s sad oligarchic practices of the past. He merely rebranded a type of heist practised by a long succession of his predecessors»
Javier Milei is no libertarian - UnHerd
https://unherd.com/2025/10/javier-milei-is-no-libertarian/

Sonnet 086 - LXXXVI
Was it the proud full sail of his great verse,
Bound for the prize of all too precious you,
That did my ripe thoughts in my brain inhearse,
Making their tomb the womb wherein they grew?
Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write
Above a mortal pitch, that struck me dead?
No, neither he, nor his compeers by night
Giving him aid, my verse astonished.
He, nor that affable familiar ghost
Which nightly gulls him wi…

Savvy people are readying themselves for BlueSky's demise
https://bsky.app/profile/dmandl.bsky.social/post/3m6va6ntuws2g

Dave Mandl (@dmandl.bsky.social)
I'm on Bluesky but also on Mastodon. I hate to say it, but from past experience I'm not confident that Bluesky will remain the paradise that it is forever. It's not a bad idea to get familiar with Mastodon and least establish a presence there. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

MockK: Under the cover
#Kotlin

I ditched Office 365 and switched to LibreOffice a few weeks ago.
I had to switch the user interface setting from "standard toolbar" to "tabs" to feel familiar, but I am quite happy now.

Source: Kalshi raised $1B led by Sequoia and CapitalG at a $11B valuation, less than two months after it announced a $300M fundraise at a $5B valuation (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/20/source-kalshis-valuatio…

Source: Kalshi's valuation jumps to $11B after raising massive $1B round | TechCrunch
The quickly growing prediction betting market raised fresh capital from Sequoia and CapitalG, according to someone familiar with the deal.

We're happy to be teaming up with the Athenaeum at the Lamar Dodd School of Art (#UniversityOfGeorgia), on a pair of exhibitions focusing on #BeverlyBuchanan. Known nationally as a bold experimental artist who worked in land art and video as well as more familiar forms, she lived in Athe…

My talk about #Thunderbird was accepted at @…
it's a talk from a community perspective and I will share my personal story (not so much) and some aspects you wont find anywhere else:

Thunderbird (a community angle) OpenAlt 2025
I am a [community](https://pontoon.mozilla.org/contributors/bogomil/) [contributor](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/user_profile?user_id=359734) and a long-time user of [Thunderbird](https://www.thunderbird.net/). I want to share with you my vision of what Thunderbird was, is, and will be in the future. Many people are familiar with the interface and the fact that it allows you to manage your email, but this is not why I decided to spend time improving it. I'll cover topics like: - What can any …

Access a fully-functioning email box for searching & reading Epstein's emails at "JMAIL.WORLD".
✅ Pranksters Recreated a Working Version of Jeffrey Epstein’s Gmail Inbox | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/pranksters-rec

Pranksters Recreated a Working Version of Jeffrey Epstein’s Gmail Inbox
Using Jmail, you can read thousands of Jeffrey Epstein's emails in a familiar format. Use the star function to highlight notable finds.

Raiders’ Offense Faces a Familiar Problem This Week https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-offense-faces-familiar-problem-this-week

Five Big Questions (and Zero Predictions) for the U.S. Privacy and AI Landscape in 2026
https://fpf.org/blog/five-big-questions-and-zero-predictions-for-the-u-s-privacy-and-ai-landscape-in-2026/

Anybody familiar with the details of how thread local storage on aarch64 is implemented abi wise?
Like if I'm working on a bare metal embedded platform with two cores and i want some data to be private per core using gcc thread local attributes how do i actually make that work so accesses to that data get a pointer to a per core context object and look it up as an offset into it etc?

Report: Cowboys' $92M CB facing possible surgery for familiar injury https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/18/report-cowboys-cb-daron-bland-possible-foot-surgery/87836500007/

"However, international justice can seem like a faith-based community. We believe in it, but proof of its existence is rare, and almost miraculous when it happens" -- @…
Let's all pray for a miracle, then.

Justice vs Peace
As the world watches the shaky ceasefire in Gaza, the issues of peace and justice intermingle, strain, and collide. For those who work on conflicts, these are familiar tensions, but the underlying debates rarely get wider attention. The basic issue is this: to get any kind of peace deal in

Trump’s recent claims that the US should keep Venezuelan oil from seized tankers
are part of a broader belief in rightwing “resource imperialism”, experts say.
In recent weeks, the Trump administration has escalated pressure on Venezuela, invoking drug-trafficking claims.
This month, the US intercepted two tankers carrying Venezuelan oil and began pursuing a third,
while intensifying its campaign against the country’s president, Nicolšs Maduro.
Critics have comp…

Trump’s death squads are darkly familiar - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-drugs-2674295897/

Sources: Coinbase is preparing to launch a prediction market powered by Kalshi to allow its clients to bet on events such as elections and sports (Yueqi Yang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/coinbase-launch-prediction-market-po…

Coinbase to Launch Prediction Market Powered by Kalshi
Coinbase is preparing to launch a prediction market to allow its crypto clients to bet on events such as elections and sports, according to two people familiar with the matter. The market will be powered by prediction market company Kalshi and will put Coinbase in a booming but increasingly ...

Steelers QB Aaron Rodgers (left wrist) questionable to play vs. Bears on Sunday https://www.nfl.com/news/steelers-qb-aaron-rodgers-left-wrist-questionable-to-play-bears-week-12

"The victims of war-time atrocities on all sides also have something in common. They are cut out of the top-down deal. Civilians were bombed, children were starved, and prisoners were tortured, yet the perpetrators escape punishment. War criminals continue ruling and enjoying the perks of power. Survivors and their families are denied justice" -- @…

Justice vs Peace
As the world watches the shaky ceasefire in Gaza, the issues of peace and justice intermingle, strain, and collide. For those who work on conflicts, these are familiar tensions, but the underlying debates rarely get wider attention. The basic issue is this: to get any kind of peace deal in

A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA.
The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium.
It shows no signs of resistance so far, offering hope in the fight against drug-resistant infections and paving the way for new approaches to antibiotic discovery.

Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It shows no signs of resistance so far, offering hope in the fight against drug-resistant infections and paving the way for new approaches to antibiotic discovery.

Army Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd, an Army officer with Indo-Pacific experience but no digital warfare experience, emerges as potential Cyber Command, NSA pick
https://therecord.media/cyber-command-nsa-potential-pick-lt-gen-joshua-rudd

Army officer with Indo-Pacific experience emerges as potential Cyber Command, NSA pick
Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd, the No. 2 at U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, has emerged as a potential pick to lead U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, multiple people familiar with the search told Recorded Future News.

Tyler Lockett Breaks Silence After Signing With Raiders https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/tyler-lockett-breaks-silence-after-signing/?adt_ei=[email]

Sources: Resolve AI, which is developing an autonomous site reliability engineering tool, raised a Series A at multiple valuation tiers, including at $1B (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/19/ex-splunk-execs-…

Ex-Splunk execs' startup Resolve AI hits $1 billion valuation with Series A | TechCrunch
The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, according to people familiar with the deal.

Big Picture: 10 Dallas-Washington Storylines https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/big-picture-10-dallas-washington-storylines

President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him, according to people familiar with the matter,
who added that any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit.
The situation has no parallel in American history, as Trump, a presidential candidate, was pursued by federal law enforcement and eventually won the election,
ta…

Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases
Senior department officials who were defense lawyers for the president and those in his orbit are now in jobs that typically must approve any such payout, underscoring potential ethical conflicts.

Big Picture: 10 Dallas-Washington Storylines https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/big-picture-10-dallas-washington-storylines

Report: Raiders Sign Former Seahawks Star Before Jaguars Game https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/report-sign-former-seahawks-star/?adt_ei=[email]

Sources: Pinduoduo and Temu owner PDD fires dozens following a fistfight between employees and Chinese officials probing fraudulent deliveries on its platform (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-17/pd…

PDD Fires Dozens of Workers After Fistfight With China Officials
PDD Holdings Inc. fired a government relations team in Shanghai following a fistfight between employees and Chinese regulators who were performing checks at the e-commerce company, according to people familiar with the matter.

Cowboys' Dak Prescott makes bold claim following franchise's disappointing year https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-dak-prescott-makes-bold-claim-following-franchise-disappointing-year

Sources: Amazon is in talks to invest $10B in OpenAI at a $500B valuation, with OpenAI using AWS Trainium chips; Microsoft keeps rights to sell OpenAI models (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-talks-raise-least-1…

OpenAI in Talks to Raise At Least $10 Billion From Amazon and Use Its AI Chips
Amazon is in talks to invest $10 billion or more in OpenAI, according to three people familiar with the discussions. The valuation would be higher than $500 billion, one of the people said. The Amazon investment would help OpenAI afford some of the commitments it has made to rent servers from ...

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) plans to force a vote Wednesday censuring
Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.)
and removing him from several committees, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Democrats have repeatedly threatened such a move against the embattled Florida Republican,
but only as a retaliatory tactic to quash GOP censure measures. Mace wants to do it for real

Republican to force vote on ousting GOP Rep. Cory Mills from committees
Republicans have fumed as Democrats have repeatedly withdrawn their censure measures against the embattled Floridian.

Raiders name interim offensive coordinator after Chip Kelly’s firing https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-name-interim-offensive-coordinator-after-chip-kellys-firing-3586222/

Cowboys' Dak Prescott makes bold claim following franchise's disappointing year https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-dak-prescott-makes-bold-claim-following-franchise-disappointing-year

The Raiders stay in-house for interim OC to replace Chip Kelly https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/11/24/greg-olson-named-raiders-interim-offensive-coordinator-fire-c…

In a tense meeting at the White House on Friday,
Trump tossed aside maps of the front line,
and urged Kyiv to concede its entire Donbas region to Russia to clinch a deal
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is rallying the support of his European partners
after the bruising meeting with Trump,
in which he was told to make concessions to end the war or risk facing destruction at the hands of Russia.


After tense Trump meeting, Zelensky seeks European support
In an often fraught encounter, Trump told Zelensky to accept Putin’s latest deal or face destruction at Russian hands, according to those familiar with events.

Sources: Apptronik, a humanoid robot maker backed by Google, is in the process of raising at least $400M led by B Capital at a $5B pre-money valuation (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-backed-apptronik-tal…

Google-Backed Apptronik in Talks to Raise Funding at $5 Billion Valuation
Apptronik, a humanoid robot maker backed by Google, is in the process of raising at least $400 million at a $5 billion valuation not including the new money, according to two people familiar with the discussions. The new round,led by B Capital, would at least triple the startup’s valuation from ...

Protesters and agents have clashed outside an ICE detention facility in Broadview,
where residents have become familiar with the burning sensation of tear gas on their skin.
A single father with no known history of violence was fatally shot by an ICE agent who said the man was trying to run him over.
The sight of agents chasing people and loading them into unmarked vehicles has become common throughout Chicago.
With no immediate regard for citizenshipor legal status…

Fast Start, Familiar Finish | Girls Talk, 'Boys Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJspTSVMXkc

Sources: OneTrust, which sells privacy and compliance software and was last valued at $4.5B in 2023, is exploring a sale, possibly to private equity buyers (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/onetrus…

OneTrust, Privacy Startup Last Valued at $4.5 Billion, Discusses Private Equity Sale
OneTrust, a nine-year-old startup that benefited from a wave of European and U.S. laws regulating how companies collect and share website data, is exploring a sale—possibly to private equity buyers, according to people familiar with the discussions. The Atlanta-based startup, which sells privacy ...

Sources: Raymond Zage and James Lu, who control most of Grindr, are in talks to take it private after a Temasek unit sold shares pledged for personal loans (Liz Hoffman/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/13/2025/grindr-explor…

Grindr explores take-private after lender calls insiders’ loans
Dating app’s controlling shareholders are discussing buyout financing with Fortress Investment Group for a deal that would likely have national-security implications, people familiar with the matter said.

Inside the Raiders' History With Their Next Familiar Foe https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-denver-broncos-sean-payton-drew-brees

The Trump administration plans to allow new oil and gas drilling off the California coast for the first time in roughly four decades
The proposed lease sales in the Pacific Ocean would primarily be off Santa Barbara County, Calif.,
where a small amount of drilling is already occurring, according to two of the people familiar with the Interior Department’s draft plan

Trump Is Said to Propose Opening California Coast to Oil Drilling
Gov. Gavin Newsom, a chief critic of the president and an opponent of oil exploration in the Pacific, called the proposal “dead on arrival.”

FBI Director Kash Patel granted waivers to Deputy Director
Dan Bongino and two other newly hired senior FBI staff members,
exempting them from passing polygraph exams normally required to gain access to America’s most sensitive classified information.
People familiar with the matter say his ascent to his position without passing a standard FBI background check was unprecedented.
Bongino was selected for the role at the FBI although he, like Patel, had no prior exper…

FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff
As the FBI’s deputy director, Bongino receives some of the country’s most sensitive secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief. His ascent to that position without passing a standard bureau background check is unprecedented, insiders say.

US companies are gathering for the spoils.
One contender, the Guardian has learned, is Gothams LLC, a politically connected contractor that won a $33m contract to help run the notorious south Florida detention center nicknamed
“Alligator Alcatraz”,
where immigrants are housed in tents and trailers.
Documents and three people familiar with the plans say that the contractor had an “inside track” to secure what might be the most lucrative contract it’s ever had.
Bu…