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🔥 Pokrovsk stands firm — orcs fall by the hundreds!: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/21/pokrovsk-stands-firm-orcs-fall.html

law_firm: Lazega law firm network
Multiplex network with 3 edge types representing relationships (coworkers, friendship, advice) between partners and associates of a corporate law firm. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 71 nodes and 2571 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multilayer, Unweighted
https://net…

Illinois to Bondi: Sanctuary status stands firm - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/08/21/illinois-to-bondi-sanctuary-status-stands-firm-00517387

Pattern, an e-commerce firm that resells goods on online marketplaces, files for a US IPO, reporting net income of $32.1M on revenue of $1.1B for H1 2025 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-22/e-commerce-…

Arms manufacturer Pearson Engineering is chaired by Labour peer Lord Hutton and owned by Israel’s finance ministry, which is run by a far-right politician who is under UK sanctions. Makes sense??
https://www.declassifieduk.org/top-labour-official-…

Top Labour official married to lobbyist for Israeli arms firm
Pearson Engineering is owned by the Israeli government. Now, it has hired a lobbying firm run by the husband of Hollie Ridley, Labour’s general secretary.

US investment firm Carlyle agrees to acquire a majority stake in IT consultancy and services provider Adastra, sources say valuing it at $400M including debt (Swetha Gopinath/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

I am stunned that a digital accessibility firm is trotting out ‘vibe fixing’ as a solution to the accessibility barriers introduced by vibe coding.
Granted, I am not too surprised since the article is a pitch for its LLM product.
Utter disappointment.

law_firm: Lazega law firm network
Multiplex network with 3 edge types representing relationships (coworkers, friendship, advice) between partners and associates of a corporate law firm. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 71 nodes and 2571 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multilayer, Unweighted
https://net…

Amsterdam-listed firm Universal Music Group files confidentially for a US listing, which would fulfill the terms of a deal with Bill Ackman's Pershing Square (Anthony Hughes/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

God DAMMIT Nagios, how many times have I told you to stop picking up women on LinkedIn?

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
JENNA: Approach completed.
GAN: All vectors are matched and holding
CALLY: Power down..now.
JENNA: Switching to automatics.
ZEN: Confirm. All systems functioning. Status is firm.
https://…

Ex-NFLPA boss resigns role at equity firm Carlyle https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45790595/ex-nflpa-boss-howell-quits-role-consultant-carlyle-group

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/11/politics/chinese-hackers-suspected-law-firm-hack Chinese hackers hacked into the most powerful telecom and communications law firm in DC and maybe the world. Founded by former FCC chairman and true gentleman Dick Wiley.

Chinese hackers suspected in breach of powerful DC law firm
Suspected Chinese hackers have broken into the email accounts of attorneys and advisers at a powerful Washington, DC, law firm in an apparent intelligence-gathering operation, the firm, Wiley Rein, told clients this week in a memo reviewed by CNN.

Fairness for the People, by the People: Minority Collective Action
Omri Ben-Dov, Samira Samadi, Amartya Sanyal, Alexandru \c{T}ifrea
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15374 https://

Fairness for the People, by the People: Minority Collective Action
Machine learning models often preserve biases present in training data, leading to unfair treatment of certain minority groups. Despite an array of existing firm-side bias mitigation techniques, they typically incur utility costs and require organizational buy-in. Recognizing that many models rely on user-contributed data, end-users can induce fairness through the framework of Algorithmic Collective Action, where a coordinated minority group strategically relabels its own data to enhance fairne…

Not really sure about the concerns related to data. I'm of the opinion that government should be creating and opening *more* documents and data to all data users, including all AI companies.
(Obviously I don't mean private and meaningfully confidential data. I mean reports, minutes, procedures, basically any non-confidential document obtainable via FOIA.)

OpenAI and UK sign deal to use AI in public services
The US tech firm behind ChatGPT say it will work with the UK government to 'deliver prosperity for all'.

does anyone know if the recent supply chain attacks were exacerbated by DOGE defunding Mitre https://virginiabusiness.com/nova-govcon-firm-mitre-to-lay-off-442-employees-after-doge-cuts-contracts/

"Apple commits $500M to US-based rare-earth recycling firm MP Materials"
#Apple #Technology #Recycling

Apple commits $500M to U.S.-based rare earth recycling firm MP Materials | TechCrunch
The factory will develop a series of neodymium magnet manufacturing lines specifically designed for Apple products.

Tac2Motion: Contact-Aware Reinforcement Learning with Tactile Feedback for Robotic Hand Manipulation
Yitaek Kim, Casper Hewson Rask, Christoffer Sloth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17812

Tac2Motion: Contact-Aware Reinforcement Learning with Tactile Feedback for Robotic Hand Manipulation
This paper proposes Tac2Motion, a contact-aware reinforcement learning framework to facilitate the learning of contact-rich in-hand manipulation tasks, such as removing a lid. To this end, we propose tactile sensing-based reward shaping and incorporate the sensing into the observation space through embedding. The designed rewards encourage an agent to ensure firm grasping and smooth finger gaiting at the same time, leading to higher data efficiency and robust performance compared to the baselin…

Veteran anchor Chris Wallace has become a senior adviser for news and media investments at RedBird Capital Partners, a major Skydance investor (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/business/media/chris-wallace-redbird-cbs.html

Chris Wallace, a CBS News Scion, Is Advising Its New Owner
The longtime news anchor recently began working for a financial firm connected to CBS’s new parent company and has spoken with the network’s owner, David Ellison, several times.

Two-Sided Market Power in Firm-to-Firm Trade
Alviarez Vanessa, Fioretti Michele, Kikkawa Ken, Morlacco Monica
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12848 https://

Two-Sided Market Power in Firm-to-Firm Trade
This paper develops a theory of bargaining in firm-to-firm trade with two-sided market power. The framework accommodates flexible market structures, yielding analytical expressions for pair-specific markups and pass-through elasticities. In U.S. import data, we estimate strong importer bargaining power and an upward-sloping export supply curve, consistent with oligopsony power. Pass-through of the 2018 tariffs in firm-to-firm relationships is incomplete, in contrast to product-level studies, pr…

law_firm: Lazega law firm network
Multiplex network with 3 edge types representing relationships (coworkers, friendship, advice) between partners and associates of a corporate law firm. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 71 nodes and 2571 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multilayer, Unweighted
https://net…

Anthony Pompliano's ProCap raised $750M , including $235M in convertible debt, and is going public via a SPAC; the new firm aims to hold up to $1B in bitcoin (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/23/pompliano-procap-spac-bitcoin.html…

Pompliano’s ProCap raises over $750 million, goes public via SPAC as bitcoin treasury bubble grows
Led by investor and podcast host Anthony Pompliano, ProCap raised more than $750 million in its funding round, including $235 million in convertible debt.

Deep Reinforcement Learning in Factor Investment
Junlin Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16206 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.16206

Deep Reinforcement Learning in Factor Investment
Deep reinforcement learning has shown promise in trade execution, yet its use in low-frequency factor portfolio construction remains under-explored. A key obstacle is the high-dimensional, unbalanced state space created by stocks that enter and exit the investable universe. We introduce Conditional Auto-encoded Factor-based Portfolio Optimisation (CAFPO), which compresses stock-level returns into a small set of latent factors conditioned on 94 firm-specific characteristics. The factors feed a D…

Next-level recipe: the no recipe recipe. #nommention
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1023313-bulgogi-style-…

Bulgogi-Style Tofu Recipe (Gift Recipe)
This is a no-recipe recipe, a recipe without an ingredient list or steps. It invites you to improvise in the kitchen. Here's the prompt: bulgogi-style tofu. It’s simple. Press some firm tofu to extract as much liquid as you can. Make a marinade of soy sauce, brown sugar, sesame oil, minced garlic, grated ginger, a spoonful of gochujang, a splash of neutral oil, some sliced scallions and toasted sesame seeds. Slice the tofu into bite-size cubes, and slide them into the marinade. Let that sit …

Former Disney CEO thinks Disney and ABC messed up.
Because they did.
source: #USpol

Autocratic strategies in Cournot oligopoly game
Masahiko Ueda, Shoma Yagi, Genki Ichinose
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16038 https://ar…

Autocratic strategies in Cournot oligopoly game
An oligopoly is a market in which the price of a goods is controlled by a few firms. Cournot introduced the simplest game-theoretic model of oligopoly, where profit-maximizing behavior of each firm results in market failure. Furthermore, when the Cournot oligopoly game is infinitely repeated, firms can tacitly collude to monopolize the market. Such tacit collusion is realized by the same mechanism as direct reciprocity in the repeated prisoner's dilemma game, where mutual cooperation can be rea…

Hendrickson not budging in standoff with Bengals https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46011666/trey-hendrickson-standing-firm-bengals-contract-dispute

US firm sells innovative ODIN nuclear microreactor design to UK buyers for $6.2 million, focusing on safety and reliability. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

US firm sells unique ODIN nuclear microreactor design to UK buyers
US-based NANO Nuclear Energy has agreed to sell its ODIN microreactor design to the UK's Cambridge AtomWorks.

It is not wise to piss off your partners and allies.
The EU is starting an initiative to define an EU-specific technology stack. There is an impressive set of companies and organizations signing on. If you are a US technology firm you need to start tracking this and figure out a strategy. Caving in to autocrats has its downsides. More here:
https://…

In an interview, Brian Armstrong says Coinbase plans to become a financial super app that integrates its crypto offering with traditional banking services (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/09/20…

Coinbase News: Armstrong Outlines Vision for Firm to Evolve Into a Financial Super App
Brian Armstrong shared with Fox Business how Coinbase is navigating U.S. crypto regulation while laying out his vision to make the platform the primary account for everyday finance.

Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches.
A lucrative transaction involving the Trump family’s cryptocurrency firm and an agreement giving the Emiratis access to A.I. chips were connected in ways that have not been previously reported.

In Giant Deals, U.A.E. Got Chips, and Trump Team Got Crypto Riches
A lucrative transaction involving the Trump family’s cryptocurrency firm and an agreement giving the Emiratis access to A.I. chips were connected in ways that have not been previously reported.

The Quantum Method of Planes - Local Pressure Definitions for Machine Learning Potentials
E. R. Smith
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16257 https://arxiv.org/pd…

The Quantum Method of Planes - Local Pressure Definitions for Machine Learning Potentials
Stress or Pressure is a central quantity in engineering, and remains vital in molecular modelling. However, the commonly used virial stress tensor is not valid away from thermodynamic equilibrium, a common state required in fluid dynamics and non-equilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD) simulation. This is solved by using the method of planes (MoP), a mechanical form of pressure, simply interpreted as the force divided by area but derived from the firm foundations of statistical mechanics. We pres…

VC firm Insight Partners says thousands of staff and limited partners had personal data stolen in a ransomware attack
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/17/vc-giant-insight-partners-notifies-staff-and-limited-partners-after-data-b…

VC firm Insight Partners says thousands of staff and limited partners had personal data stolen in a ransomware attack | TechCrunch
The venture capital giant, behind cyber giants Wiz and Databricks, notified current and former employees, as well as the firm's limited partners, that their data was stolen in a January cyberattack.

3 key battles to watch in Cowboys-Falcons focus on roster spots up for grabs https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/08/21/cowboys-falcons-preseason-watch-for-roster-battles-ol-cb-d…

Don’t know what to do?
1. Cancel any Disney or Hulu subscriptions and let them know (look for corporate PR contacts, be polite but very firm and specific.)
2. Don’t buy anything else from them.
3. Stop talking about their franchises (like Star Wars).

Variable selection for minimum-variance portfolios
Guilherme V. Moura, Andr\'e P. Santos, Hudson S. Torrent
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14986 https://ar…

Variable selection for minimum-variance portfolios
Machine learning (ML) methods have been successfully employed in identifying variables that can predict the equity premium of individual stocks. In this paper, we investigate if ML can also be helpful in selecting variables relevant for optimal portfolio choice. To address this question, we parameterize minimum-variance portfolio weights as a function of a large pool of firm-level characteristics as well as their second-order and cross-product transformations, yielding a total of 4,610 predicto…

German Quantum Systems takes 10% ownership in Ukrainian defense robotics firm Frontline: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/german-quantum-systems-takes-ownership.html

Ouch
https://www.guitarworld.com/gear/effects-pedals/josh-scott-jhs-pedals-recovering-from-serious-cycling-accident

“Broken vertebrae, knee/shoulder damage and 29 face stitches”: JHS Pedals founder Josh Scott recovering after suffering serious cycling accident
The pedal specialist will be taking time away from his firm's YouTube channel while he recovers

Cloud security provider Netskope files for a US IPO, reports H1 FY 2026 revenue up 30.7% YoY to $328.5M; it is seeking to raise $500M at a $5B valuation (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecu…

New malware samples exfiltrate WhatsApp data to target Iran regime’s enemies https://therecord.media/malware-exfiltrates-whatsapp-iran-muddywater

law_firm: Lazega law firm network
Multiplex network with 3 edge types representing relationships (coworkers, friendship, advice) between partners and associates of a corporate law firm. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 71 nodes and 2571 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multilayer, Unweighted
https://net…

Whatever the situation is, I’ll stand fairly firm on this: it should not have been possible for any employer to put her in the situation as described, and the onus for preventing such situations must not fall to the individual.
/end

The Johnson Amendment is not exactly a difficult law to parse.
To keep their sweet tax-exempt status, religious groups can’t endorse political candidates.
But evangelicals want to have their cake and eat it too. -- They don’t want to pay taxes, but they do want ministers to be able to climb into the pulpit and tell their flock who to vote for.
The "Alliance Defending Freedom", the hard-right law firm with a truly staggering track record of getting the United St…

Goodbye, separation of church and state
Churches now have extra special speech rights, thanks to Trump.

From Cascadia Journal
Toxic #Vancouver mining firm Teck agrees to merger
CBC reports that Vancouver-based mining firm Teck has agreed to a merger with the British company Anglo American to create a massive multinational mining corporation known as Anglo Teck. Teck has been involved in multiple environmental disasters and billions of dollars of pollution impacts from its operations across Ca…

Vancouver mining firm Teck Resources agrees to merge with Anglo American | CBC News
Vancouver-based mining company Teck Resources has agreed to merge with British mining multinational Anglo American in one of the sector's largest-ever acquisitions.

The founder and driving force behind the #SaxaVord Spaceport is “stepping back but not down” from his role after receiving a terminal cancer diagnosis: https://www.shetnews.co.uk/2025/07/17/strang-step-back-spaceport-receiving/ - German company Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) is confident it could become the first to successfully launch a rocket from the UK’s only licensed vertical spaceport, with the firm planning another test flight during a five-week window at the end of the year.

Digital-GenAI-Enhanced HCI in DevOps as a Driver of Sustainable Innovation: An Empirical Framework
Jun Cui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13185 https://arxiv.o…

Digital-GenAI-Enhanced HCI in DevOps as a Driver of Sustainable Innovation: An Empirical Framework
This study examines the impact of Digital-GenAI-Enhanced Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) in DevOps on sustainable innovation performance among Chinese A-share internet technology firms. Using panel data from 2018-2024, we analyze 5,560 firm-year observations from CNRDS and CSMAR databases. Our empirical framework reveals significant positive associations between AI-enhanced HCI implementation and sustainable innovation outcomes. Results demonstrate that firms adopting advanced HCI technologies…

Should The Raiders Remain Firm With Their Rookie Wideouts? https://raiderramble.com/2025/07/05/should-the-raiders-remain-firm-with-their-rookie-wideouts/

VideoAmp names Peter Liguori as its CEO; he has been leading the company as executive chairman since 2023 (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/07/media-vet-peter-liguori-appointed-ceo-of-videoamp-ad-tech-1236460453/

Media Vet Peter Liguori Appointed CEO Of VideoAmp After Leading The Ad Tech Firm As Executive Chairman
Media industry veteran Peter Liguori has been named CEO of ad tech firm VideoAmp after running the ad tech firm as executive chairman since 2023.

Seon, which uses AI to detect and prevent fraud, raised an $80M Series C led by Sixth Street Growth, bringing its total funding to $187M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/09/16/fraud-prevention-firm-seon-r…

Fraud prevention firm SEON raises $80M to scale AI-driven compliance platform - SiliconANGLE
Fraud prevention firm SEON raises $80M to scale AI-driven compliance platform - SiliconANGLE

Optimal Regulation and Investment Incentives in Financial Networks
Matthew O. Jackson, Agathe Pernoud
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16648 https://

Optimal Regulation and Investment Incentives in Financial Networks
We examine optimal regulation of financial networks with debt interdependencies between financial firms. We first characterize when it is firms have an incentive to choose excessively risky portfolios and overly correlate their portfolios with those of their counterparties. We then characterize how optimal regulation depends on a firm's financial centrality and its available investment opportunities. In standard core-periphery networks, optimal regulation depends non-monotonically on the correl…

Now that the weekend is over, check out today's Metacurity for the top infosec developments you might have missed, including
--Suspected Chinese hackers breach top telco law firm,
--13 Romanians busted for phishing attacks on UK revenue & customs office,
--Hacker shares racist and antisemitic posts on Elmo's X account,
--Flaw can trigger train emergency break,
--DoJ tries to recoup Trump boosters' stolen crypto,
--Google Gemini for Workspace…

Suspected Chinese hackers breach top telco law firm
13 Romanians busted for phishing UK revenue & customs office, Hacker shares racist & antisemitic posts on Elmo's X account, Flaw can trigger train emergency break, DoJ tries to recoup Trump boosters' stolen crypto, Google Gemini for Workspace flaw enables malicious instructions, much more

eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.

Attorney General's Office Sues Investment Firm for Obstructing Access to Stable, Affordable Housing for Over 70 Manufactured Housing Units in Taunton | Mass.gov
https://www.mass.gov/news/attorney-generals-office-sues-investment-firm-for-obstructing-access-to-stable-affordable-housing-for-over-70-manufactured-housing-units-in-taunton

Accenture plans to acquire Australian cybersecurity company CyberCX from private equity firm BGH Capital; the deal reportedly values CyberCX at more than AU$1B (Mark Anderson/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-tel…

Accenture Acquires Australian Cybersecurity Firm CyberCX
Accenture Plc is buying Australian cybersecurity firm CyberCX, its largest acquisition to date in the sector that will boost operations in the Asia-Pacific region.

Source: NFLPA boss works for NFL-interested firm https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45705432/nflpa-head-works-firm-approved-invest-nfl

What emerged was not a diverse network of activists, but a concentrated ecosystem built to serve the firm at its center:
Mothership Strategies.
After subtracting these massive operational costs—the payments to Mothership, the fees for texting services, the cost of digital ads and list rentals—the final sum delivered to candidates and committees is vanishingly small. My analysis of the network's FEC disbursements reveals that, at most, $11 million of the $678 million raised fr…

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine
How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

Thoma Bravo agrees to buy HR software provider Dayforce for $12.3B at $70 per share, a 32% premium to Dayforce shares before reports of a possible deal (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/21/dayforce-hr-software-thoma-bravo

HR software firm Dayforce going private for $12.3 billion
It comes against the backdrop of a weakening U.S. labor market.

law_firm: Lazega law firm network
Multiplex network with 3 edge types representing relationships (coworkers, friendship, advice) between partners and associates of a corporate law firm. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 71 nodes and 2571 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multilayer, Unweighted
https://net…

Deciphering the global production network from cross-border firm transactions
Neave O'Clery, Ben Radcliffe-Brown, Thomas Spencer, Daniel Tarling-Hunter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12315

Deciphering the global production network from cross-border firm transactions
Critical for policy-making and business operations, the study of global supply chains has been severely hampered by a lack of detailed data. Here we harness global firm-level transaction data covering 20m global firms, and 1 billion cross-border transactions, to infer key inputs for over 1200 products. Transforming this data to a directed network, we find that products are clustered into three large groups including textiles, chemicals and food, and machinery and metals. European industrial nat…

Perplexity struggles to scale its shopping and ad businesses nearly a year after launching ad sales and in-app purchasing, frustrating marketers and merchants (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/perplexitys-commerce-ads-experim…

Perplexity’s Commerce and Ads Experiments Are Stuck in Neutral
Perplexity has drawn plenty of its headlines for its relentless fundraising—which recently valued the artificial intelligence search firm at $20 billion—and its penchant for declaring big-ticket acquisition targets like TikTok. But its efforts to build businesses in online shopping and ...

KKR acquires a significant minority in Swedish travel tech firm Etraveli, sources say valuing it at ~€2.7B; Etraveli sells plane tickets to ~50M users per year (Swetha Gopinath/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Cybersecurity firm Netskope eyes up to $6.5 billion valuation in US IPO
https://www.reuters.com/business/cybersecurity-firm-netskope-eyes-up-65-billion-valuation-us-ipo-2025-09-08/

law_firm: Lazega law firm network
Multiplex network with 3 edge types representing relationships (coworkers, friendship, advice) between partners and associates of a corporate law firm. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 71 nodes and 2571 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multilayer, Unweighted
https://net…

Filing: Insight Partners says a ransomware attack on its systems between October 2024 and January 2025 affected 12,600 people, including limited partners (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/17/vc-giant…

VC firm Insight Partners says thousands of staff and limited partners had personal data stolen in a ransomware attack | TechCrunch
The venture capital giant, behind cyber giants Wiz and Databricks, notified current and former employees, as well as the firm's limited partners, that their data was stolen in a January cyberattack.

"OpenAI patched a ChatGPT security flaw that could have allowed hackers to extract Gmail data from its users, according to researchers at cyber firm Radware."
https://www.

PE firm Advent International agrees to acquire U-blox, a SIX Swiss Exchange-listed wireless and positioning chipmaker, for about $1.3B via public tender offer (Andrea Figueras/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/de…

law_firm: Lazega law firm network
Multiplex network with 3 edge types representing relationships (coworkers, friendship, advice) between partners and associates of a corporate law firm. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 71 nodes and 2571 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multilayer, Unweighted
https://net…

Netflix used genAI for the first time in one of its TV shows, for a VFX sequence; Ted Sarandos says the VFX costs would have been too high otherwise (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jul/18/netflix-u…

Netskope opened up 21% at $23 per share in its Nasdaq debut, giving it a ~$8.79B market cap, after the cybersecurity company raised $908.2M in its IPO (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/cybersecurity-firm-netskope-v…

law_firm: Lazega law firm network
Multiplex network with 3 edge types representing relationships (coworkers, friendship, advice) between partners and associates of a corporate law firm. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 71 nodes and 2571 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multilayer, Unweighted
https://net…

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/leading-phone-repair-and-insurance-firm-collapses-after-paying-crippling-ransomware-demand…

Leading phone repair and insurance firm collapses after paying crippling ransomware demand – Cutting 100+ employees to just eight wasn’t enough
The Einhaus Group was once a familiar name, with its services available through 5,000 retail outlets in Germany and an annual revenue of around 70 million Euros.

law_firm: Lazega law firm network
Multiplex network with 3 edge types representing relationships (coworkers, friendship, advice) between partners and associates of a corporate law firm. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 71 nodes and 2571 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multilayer, Unweighted
https://net…

Crypto exchange BigONE confirms a $27M hack from a hot wallet exploit, plans to pay back users and is working with security firm SlowMist to trace stolen assets (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/07/1

Crypto Exchange BigONE Confirms $27M Hack, Vows Full User Compensation
BigONE is working with blockchain security firm SlowMist to track the stolen assets, with fund tracing already underway across Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tron, Solana, and BNB Chain.

Corporate travel and expense management service Navan, formerly known as TripActions, files for a US IPO, reporting a $99.9M net loss on $329.4M revenue in H1 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-19/trav…

BitGo's S-1 shows it had net income of $12.6M on revenue of $4.19B in H1 2025, compared with net income of $30.9M on revenue of $1.12B a year earlier (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

A satellite firm and an engineering firm that supply critical technology to Germany's military forces have been reportedly hacked by Russian hackers, although allegedly of the "hacktivist" kind.
https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/ndr…

Cyberattacken - Angriffe auf Bundeswehrzulieferer
Die Bundeswehr wird immer wieder zum Ziel von Cyberangriffen. Nach Informationen von WDR, NDR und SZ traf es zuletzt zwei Zulieferer. Erste Spuren weisen offenbar nach Russland, die Ermittlungen laufen.

Perplexity struggles to scale its shopping and ad businesses nearly a year after launching ad sales and in-app purchasing, frustrating marketers and merchants (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/perplexitys-commerce-ads-experim…

Perplexity’s Commerce and Ads Experiments Are Stuck in Neutral
Perplexity has drawn plenty of its headlines for its relentless fundraising—which recently valued the artificial intelligence search firm at $20 billion—and its penchant for declaring big-ticket acquisition targets like TikTok. But its efforts to build businesses in online shopping and ...

Vultron, which makes AI tools for federal contractors, raised $22M from investors including David Sacks' Craft Ventures, raising ethical questions (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/19/david-sacks-and-the-blurred-lines-of-…

David Sacks and the blurred lines of government service | TechCrunch
When Vultron announced its $22 million funding round earlier this week, the AI startup made sure to highlight a key investor: Craft Ventures, the firm

law_firm: Lazega law firm network
Multiplex network with 3 edge types representing relationships (coworkers, friendship, advice) between partners and associates of a corporate law firm. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 71 nodes and 2571 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multilayer, Unweighted
https://net…

South Korean AI chip design firm DeepX partners with Baidu on industrial AI projects, as sources say it is preparing to raise a round above its $79M Series C (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

AI Chip Firm DeepX Hires Morgan Stanley for Funding Before IPO
South Korean AI chip designer DeepX Co. has hired Morgan Stanley to assist with a round of capital-raising ahead of a potential initial public offering in 2027.

law_firm: Lazega law firm network
Multiplex network with 3 edge types representing relationships (coworkers, friendship, advice) between partners and associates of a corporate law firm. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 71 nodes and 2571 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multilayer, Unweighted
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CrowdStrike: DeepSeek refuses to write code or produces less-secure code when English prompts say the code will be used by groups or regions disfavored by China (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)

AI firm DeepSeek writes less-secure code for groups China disfavors
Research by a U.S. security firm points to the country’s leading player in AI providing higher-quality results for some purposes than others.

Crypto exchange Bullish raised $1.1B in its IPO, selling 30M shares at $37 per share, above its $32 to $33 marketed range, implying a $5.4B valuation (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-13/crypto-firm-…

Coindesk Owner Bullish Raises $1.1 Billion in IPO Priced Over Range
Bullish raised $1.1 billion in an initial public offering, pricing its shares above the marketed range.

Global smart glasses shipments grew 110% YoY in H1; Meta's share of the market rose to 73%; AI smart glasses accounted for 78% of shipments, up from 46% YoY (Counterpoint Research)
https://www.cou…

S&P Global says Block will join the S&P 500 on July 23, after announcing Monday that ad tech firm The Trade Desk will also be added; XYZ jumps 9% after hours (Ari Levy/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/18/block-shares-soar-on-entry-into-sp-500.html

Block shares soar 10% on entry into S&P 500
Block is joining the S&P 500, replacing Hess as of July 23.

How Shaun Maguire dragged Sequoia into culture wars; emails show senior partner Doug Leone defended Maguire in distinguishing between "Islamists" and "Muslims" (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/technology/sequoia-…

How a Sequoia Capital Partner’s Mamdani Posts Dragged the Firm Into Politics
Sequoia Capital, which backed Nvidia, Google and Apple when they were start-ups, has long stayed above the fray. But one partner’s post about Zohran Mamdani set off a chain reaction.

Mike Novogratz's Galaxy says it has secured $1.4B in debt financing to expand its Helios data center in West Texas, aiming to boost AI and HPC capabilities (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/08/15/galaxy-secur…

GLXY News: Galaxy Lands $1.4B for Helios Data Center Expansion as CoreWeave Commits to 800 MW
The firm, led by Mike Novogratz, projected its deal with AI cloud firm CoreWeave could generate $1 billion annual revenue over 15 years.

eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.

Tether hires Bo Hines, who stepped down as White House Crypto Council Executive Director earlier in August, as an adviser to help it expand in the US (Prakhar Srivastava/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/crypto-firm-tether-…

Netskope closes up 18.37% at $22.49 per share in its Nasdaq debut, giving it a $8.6B market value, after the cybersecurity company raised $908.2M in its IPO (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-18/cybersecu…

Interview with Trent Brunson, R&D director at cybersecurity firm Trail of Bits, which won $3M and 2nd place in DARPA's AI Cyber Challenge, behind Team Atlanta (Patrick Howell O'Neill/Bloomberg)

Netflix used AI tools for the first time in one of its TV shows, for a VFX sequence; Ted Sarandos says the VFX costs would have been too high otherwise (Osmond Chia/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9vr4rymlw9o

Netflix uses AI effects for first time to cut costs
The streaming firm says AI allowed The Eternaut to complete a sequence faster and cheaper.

A look at Chinese firm Hailanyun's $223M undersea data center, about six miles offshore from Shanghai, which uses tech pioneered by Microsoft's Project Natick (You Xiaoying/Scientific American)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chi…

China Powers AI Boom with Undersea Data Centers
China is pulling ahead of the rest of the world in sinking data centers that power AI into the ocean as an alternate way to keep them cool

Global premium smartphone sales rose 8% YoY in H1 2025, reaching the highest-ever mark for an H1; Apple grew 3% YoY, capturing 62% of the overall sales (Varun Mishra/Counterpoint Research)
https://www.counterpointresearch.com/en/in…

Swedish AI coding startup Lovable raised a $200M Series A led by Accel at a $1.8B valuation, making it Europe's newest unicorn (Jake Rudnitsky/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-17/swedish-vibe-coding-…

The team behind AI agent Manus has relocated its HQ to Singapore and started recruiting there, while parent company Butterfly Effect reportedly remains in China (Hannah Wang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-t…

Chinese start-up Manus AI relocates to Singapore amid US chip curbs
Manus AI has begun recruiting in the city state, offering positions such as data analyst and AI agent engineer.

Sources: Chinese AI startup MiniMax files confidentially for a Hong Kong IPO, targeting a $4B valuation and aiming to raise $510M , set to float by 2025's end (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

Filing: cloud cybersecurity software startup Netskope raised its IPO price range to $17-$19 per share, up from $15-$17, aiming to raise $908.2M, up from $812.6M (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20