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Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma says she is committed to "the return of Xbox" and that the company won't "flood our ecosystem with soulless AI slop" (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/games/882326/read-microsoft…

Read Microsoft gaming CEO Asha Sharma’s first memo on the future of Xbox
Asha Sharma, formerly head of development for Microsoft’s AI enterprise teams, will lead Microsoft Xbox and gaming. Here’s her first full memo.

Patriots looking for first postseason victory in Denver in franchise history: 'No tricks' to winning at altitude https://www.nfl.com/news/patriots-looking-first-postseason-victory-in-denver-no-tricks-to-winning-at-altitude

Watch: Highlights of Broncos QB Jarrett Stidham 3 TD first career start https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/01/20/watch-highlights-broncos-qb-jarrett-stidham-first-ca…

Much more so than in his first four years in office,
Trump has begun his second term with what amounts to an all-out assault on many of the institutions and policy paradigms that have long been seen by leaders of both major political parties as the foundations of American economic strength.
He has sought to undermine the independence of the Federal Reserve,
fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, an agency that collects key economic data,
and cut funding to …

Trump’s First Year Could Have Lasting Economic Consequences
President Trump’s policies have so far done little to change the overall state of the American economy, but economists warn they will ultimately weaken the United States.

Falcons make veteran line coach Bill Callahan the first offensive assistant on Stefanski's staff https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/falcons-make-veteran-line-coach-bill-callahan-the-first-offensive-assis…

158 Giant Endangered Tortoises Released on Galšpagos Island Where They’d Been Extinct for 180 Years https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/158-giant-endangered-tortoises-released-on-galapagos-island-for-first-time-in-180-years/

158 Giant Endangered Tortoises Released on Galápagos Island Where They’d Been Extinct for 180 Years
For the first time in 180 years, giant tortoises walk again on Floreana Island—in largest restoration effort ever undertaken in Galápagos.

"First Solar Power Plant in Kyrgyzstan Will Save 120,000 Tons of Carbon Emissions Every Year"
#Kyrgyzstan #SolarPower #Energy

First Solar Power Plant in Kyrgyzstan Will Save 120,000 Tons of Carbon Emissions Every Year
The 100MW installation will generate 210 million kWh of clean electricity annually, and represented one of the largest foreign investments.

Wieder was gelernt mit diesem Post. @… beispielsweise ermöglicht zwar das Posten auf Pixelfed-Instanzen, aber lässt nur mastodon-like 4 Fotos pro Post zu.
Und alle, die von Mastodon aus folgen, werden wohl nur die ersten 4 Fotos sehen, auch wenn ich jetzt alle neun im Post habe.
Aber ich finde es lohnt sich. Die Weihnachtsdeko an den Rädern muss man ges…

A list of times the Trump administration tested the limits of the First Amendment during his second term, stoking alarm among civil rights experts and critics (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/politics/free-speech-trump-timeline-vis

Trump tests the First Amendment: A timeline
Within weeks of retaking the White House, President Donald Trump boasted that he had “brought free speech back to America.” But since then, he has tested the limits of the First Amendment time and again.

OpenAI: Erstes Hardwareprodukt „auf Kurs“
OpenAI hat ein kleines Statusupdate zu seinem ersten Hardwareprodukt gegeben. Man sei „auf Kurs“. Zudem kursieren Gerüchte über ein Audio-First-Gerät.
https://www.

'No real choice at all': First Amendment group uses Trump admin's own filing against itself to demand SCOTUS overturn 'gag orders' on immigration judges | Law & Crime
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/no-real-choice-at-all-first-amendment-group-uses-trump-admins-own-filing-against-itself-to-demand-scotus-overturn-gag-orders-on-immigration-judges/

Trump's First Year Could Have Lasting Economic Consequences (Ben Casselman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/business/trump-first-year-economy.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p23#a260120p23

First steps towards #Codeberg
https://dev.to/tkuenneth/first-steps-towards-codeberg-48hl

That's a beautiful aircraft.
Here's a picture from its first flight October 28, 2025, which was subsonic.
The idea is supersonic flight with no sonic booms.

A Physics Informed Neural Network for Deriving MHD State Vectors from Global Active Regions Observations: #SpaceWeather: https://www.swri.org/newsroom/press-releases/new-research-takes-first-step-toward-advance-warnings-of-space-weather

Hungary signs first contracts to import Russian oil via Croatia after Druzhba pipeline halt: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/19/hungary-signs-first-contracts-to.html

All you folks doing computer-generated music better check your settings. https://boingboing.net/2026/03/19/the-first-recording-of-computer-music-was-playing-at-the-wrong-pitch-for-decades.html

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Tyler Ballgame:
🎵 For The First Time, Again
#NowPlaying #TylerBallgame
https://tylerballgame.bandcamp.com/album/for-the-first-time-again
https://open.spotify.com/track/3U6hRsB4wRDjsg2pEsJWhA

Remember the first time you wrote $(document).ready()?
It’s hard to believe it has been 20 years since John Resig first introduced a Javascript library called jQuery. It completely changed the way we approached the DOM and standardized the web for a generation of developers.
A few days ago, the jQuery team announced the release of jQuery 4.0.0! 🚀

Satellite data reconstruct 2025 LA fires, showing rapid spread in first day #LosAngeles …

Satellite data reconstruct 2025 LA fires, showing rapid spread in first day
A severe drought, powerful Santa Ana winds and a not-fully-extinguished brushfire combined to create the most destructive wildfire in the history of Los Angeles in early 2025. The Palisades Fire, which fully ignited on Jan. 7, destroyed Los Angeles' Pacific Palisades neighborhood, killing 12 people and burning 6,800 homes and buildings.

Bears All-Pro safety Kevin Byard: 'First choice' in free agency is to remain in Chicago https://www.nfl.com/news/bears-all-pro-safety-kevin-byard-first-choice-in-free-agency-is-to-remain-in-chicago

War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength.
#resist

Major European allies decline to join first meeting of Trump’s Board of Peace
Dozens of world leaders head to Washington for what White House says will largely be a fundraiser on Thursday

I am old enough to have played #Doom in my childhood, but young enough not to have played it thorough back then. Since then, I've played through the remake of the first episode on Doom 3 engine, Classic Doom, and played a bit via Doomsday.
Finally, I've started replaying them all. I've decided to go with crispy-doom, which gives makes them quite accurate, with minimal improvements. And I'm playing on gamepad, which turns out just the right choice for an old game with partial autoaim.
So far I've finished Ultimate Doom and #Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders. And I have to say that these games are much better than I remembered.
Doom is just great, though I have to say that the fourth episode (the one added in Ultimate Doom) is a bit uneven; it's still great, but it's start with a very hard first map and then seems to become progressively easier.
But Heretic is even better. And I have to say that all five episodes (two being expansions) are great.
#games

Big milestone for Australia's energy transition: Hanwha Energy just got approval for a massive 100 MW battery in southeast Queensland.
This isn't just storage—it'll capture surplus solar, power 15,000 homes during peak demand, and provide critical grid stability services.
A major step toward a more resilient, renewable-powered grid.

Korean company secures grid connection approval for its first big battery in Australia
A two-hour, 100 megawatt battery energy storage system has received approval to connect to the south-east Queensland grid and help stabilise it.

You'd think this must be AI, but apparently it is BI (Bovine Intelligence).
Watch Veronika the brown cow pick up a rake to scratch herself—a scientific first | National Geographic https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/cow-using-tools

Watch Veronika the brown cow pick up a rake to scratch herself—a scientific first
Veronika the cow has learned to scratch herself with deck brushes and other tools. Scientists took note.

So.. folks interested in "local-first" software and apps, I could use your help!
I created a Wikipedia article about local-first software: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local-first_software
A few weeks ago I noticed there wasn't one, so I started doing some…

Their first TV, in 1960.
Just a few years later in 1968 they launched their Trinitron technology and made the best TVs for decades to come, selling hundreds of millions of chonky CRTs.

Wow, serious rite of passage: my younger son playing his first lp... On our turntable unused for a decade or two, with a just-replaced cartridge... These speakers are also getting their first airing despite me having had them for years (gifted by a mate as excess to requirements)...

I made Chicken Tikka masala at home for the first time ever, and ordered take out as a backup for the family.
It was very good, and hit the flavor ballpark - but comparing notes, it had like half the spice power.

NYC first lady Rama Duwaji deletes old X account after posts praising Palestinian terrorists resurface (Anna Young/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/03/19/us-news/nyc-first-lady-rama-duwaji-deletes-old-x-account-after-posts-praising-palestinian-terrorists-using-n-word-resurface/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260320/p63#a260320p63

Jets get bad news on possible trade-up with Raiders for first overall pick https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/new-york-jets/news/jets-get-bad-news-possible-trade-raiders-first-overall-pick/b8bf4967d5f8f8d6…

Elon Musk Admits xAI ‘Wasn’t Built Right’ as only 2 Co-Founders Remain and Its Biggest AI Bet Stalls Out https://ground.news/article/elon-musk-says-xai-was-not-properly-built-for-the-first-time

Bluesky integrates Germ DM, an E2E encrypted messaging app built on AT Protocol, making it the first private messenger natively available in the Bluesky app (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/a-st

A startup called Germ becomes the first private messenger that launches directly from Bluesky's app | TechCrunch
Social network Bluesky now offers private messaging by integrating the startup Germ's E2E encrypted messenger natively in its app.

First day without prednisone and I’ve been in pain all day. Not sure if that’s a coincidence. Took a gummy and been out of it all afternoon, fell asleep, and everything is a little wobbly.

baseball: Baseball steroid use (2008)
Two networks representing steroid use among baseball players. First, a bipartite network of players and their steroid providers (of illegal performance-enhancing substances). Second, a one-mode projection of players, which are linked if they have a common supplier.
This network has 84 nodes and 84 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Projection

Missed the first peak of tonight's show because I was busy showing my wife from the front steps and didn't get my camera set up, lol.
Got a few nice shots from the park before it slowed down too much but got cold and didn't want to be out too late. If it picks up again I might pop outside.

This piece makes the interesting case that accountants can be a first line of defense against cyber threats.
Research reveals a surprising line of defence against cyber attacks: accountants
https://theconversation.com/research-r

Research reveals a surprising line of defence against cyber attacks: accountants
Researchers found auditors who had dealt with one cyber-breached client became more likely to spot serious weaknesses in systems and controls elsewhere.

UK's Hinkley Point C new nuclear plant delayed to 2030 as costs climb to €56 billion*, i.e. €17,500 per kW.
EDF said the first reactor at the site in Somerset will begin operations in 2030, a year later than in the last update – almost 13 years after construction work began – after a series of delays to the project.

Matt Ryan excited by Michael Penix's ability to 'spin the football,' says Falcons QB must 'get healthy first' https://www.nfl.com/news/falcons-matt-ryan-excited-michael-penix-jr-qb-must-first-get-healthy

The first time Donald Trump publicly said the U.S. had already “won” the war with Iran was on March 11, 2026.
At a rally in Hebron, Kentucky that day, he said:
“We won… in the first hour it was over.”
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202603117812?utm_source=chatgpt.c…

NYT launches Crossplay, its first two-player competitive word game, as a standalone iOS and Android app, as it seeks a bigger share of the mobile gaming market (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

The New York Times Is Launching Its First Two-Player Word Game: Crossplay (Exclusive)
The game will be familiar to Scrabble or Words with Friends players, but the Times is adding a few twists of its own.

Trump Marks First Year In Office With Unhinged Racist Rant Targeting 'Very Low IQ' Somalis (Hunter Walker/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-marks-first-year-iin-office-with-unhinged-racist-rant-targeting-very-low-iq-somalis
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p117#a260120p117

Mailbag: Should Cowboys trade first-round pick? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-should-cowboys-trade-first-round-pick

Stidham set to join Staubach, Reich and 4 other QBs to make first start of season in playoffs https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/stidham-set-to-join-staubach-reich-and-4-other-qbs-to-make-first-start-of-season-…

At Davos, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth says Superintelligence Labs delivered its first high-profile AI models internally this month and the models are "very good" (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/metas-n<…

"World’s First Vertical Floating Solar Technology Plant Begins Operation in Germany"
#Germany #SolarPower #Energy

We got our first Sony TV in 1990, it was amazing.
It was this one.

New poll shows Melania is the second least popular first lady - here is who America hates more | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/melania-first-lady-popularity-poll-b2922955.html

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DV6Us8pMwpy/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Yuval Noah Harari on Instagram: "The past few decades have been the first time in human history that states have consistently spent more on their citizens’ health than on war. With the threats to Greenland and Taiwan, and the wars in Ukraine and Iran, are we entering a new imperial era where countries must again focus their resources on weapons? From Building Trust in the Age of Disinformation – What Future Awaits Us? With Prof. Marijana Grbeša in October 2025. Watch the whole thing via link in bio. #YuvalNoahHarari #NewWorldOrder #Iran #Israel #Ukraine"
13K likes, 272 comments - yuval_noah_harari on March 15, 2026: "The past few decades have been the first time in human history that states have consistently spent more on their citizens’ health than on war. With the threats to Greenland and Taiwan, and the wars in Ukraine and Iran, are we entering a new imperial era where countries must again focus their resources on weapons? From Building Trust in the Age of Disinformation – What Future Awaits Us? With Prof. Marijana Grbeša in October 20…

"This is First Amendment Activity": Keith Ellison Denounces the Investigation of Church Protesters (JONATHAN TURLEY)
https://jonathanturley.org/2026/01/20/this-is-first-amendment-activity-minnesota-attorney-general-keith-ellison-denounces-the-investigation-of-protesters-for-disrupting-church-services/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p133#a260120p133

JWST Reveals a Candidate #JellyfishGalaxy at z = 1.156: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae3824 -> Scientists observe distant jellyfish galaxy for first time: https://uwaterloo.ca/news/media/scientists-observe-distant-jellyfish-galaxy-first-time - new astronomical find is 8.5 billion years old and reshapes our understanding of early cosmic evolution.

A district court judge rules in favor of the NYT in its suit challenging rules that limited press access to the Pentagon, citing the First and Fifth amendments (Scott Nover/@scottnover)
https://x.com/scottnover/status/2035098180489023807

Scott Nover (@ScottNover) on X
BREAKING: A federal judge ruled in favor of the New York Times, finding that the Pentagon's press policy violated its First and Fifth Amendment rights, and that of reporter Julian E. Barnes:

European VC funding rose 9% YoY to hit $58B in 2025, below North America's 46% YoY rise; AI led with $17.5B, followed by biotech's $13.4B and hardware's $10.8B (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/european-funding-nudged…

European Venture Funding Nudged Higher In 2025, While AI Led For The First Time
Venture funding to Europe-based startups last year gained only slightly, around 9% year over year, reaching $58 billion, with AI emerging as the region’s leading sector for startup investment for the first time, an analysis of Crunchbase data shows. 

2026 NFL Mock Draft: Mendoza Goes First; Jets Go Defense with Dante Moore Returning https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2026-nfl-mock-draft-mendoza-goes-first-jets-go-defense-with-dante-moore-returning

sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 180 nodes and 45047 edges.
Tags: Soc…

Packers' sideline heaters malfunction during first half in Chicago https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6907546/2025/12/20/packers-bench-heaters-malfunction-bears/

Judge warns revival of suit against Black Lives Matter organizer 'imperils' First Amendment (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/judge-warns-revival-suit-black-lives-matter-organizer-imperils-first-a-rcna264347
http://www.memeorandum.com/260320/p76#a260320p76

Trump’s intensifying standoff with European leaders over the fate of Greenland
prompted a sharp response from investors Tuesday morning,
with the value of U.S. stocks, dollar and government bonds all falling.
The S&P 500 dropped over 1 percent
as investors reacted to Trump’s increasing threat of higher tariffs on European allies unless they supported his plans for America to take control of Greenland.
Tuesday morning’s decline was first time the index has st…

Stocks and Bonds Fall on Trump’s Greenland Threats
The S&P 500 dropped over 1 percent Tuesday morning, its lowest decline at the start of the trading day since April, when President Trump first announced his sweeping tariffs.

MAKING AMERICA SAFE: DHS Arrested 7,000 Gang Members from American Streets in First Year of Trump Administration (Department of Homeland Security)
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/01/20/making-america-safe-dhs-arrested-7000-gang-members-american-streets-first-year
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p115#a260120p115

2026 NFL mock draft: Every team makes a pick -- even those without a first-rounder

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2026-nfl-mock-draft-all-32-teams-first-picks/

2026 NFL Mock Draft: Mendoza Goes First; Jets Go Defense with Dante Moore Returning https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2026-nfl-mock-draft-mendoza-goes-first-jets-go-defense-with-dante-moore-returning

COVID may have killed significantly more people in the U.S. in the first two years of the pandemic than official records indicate, with as many as one overlooked death for every five recorded ones. That brings the total to nearly one million deaths just in 2020 and 2021.
That calculation comes from research published today in Science Advances that seeks to understand how many COVID deaths fell through the cracks of official reporting systems. The untallied cases show the burden of the …

COVID probably killed 150,000 more people in its first two years than official U.S. tolls show
We have severely undercounted the number of COVID deaths, scientists say

Mediahuis is experimenting with AI agents for commissioning, writing, and more to "automate first line news", which is reviewed by humans prior to publication (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers…

Mediahuis trials use of AI agents to carry out 'first-line' news reporting
Belgium-based news publisher Mediahuis is experimenting with automating the production of its “first-line” news using AI agents.

My first bet: Back Kayshon Boutte, Seahawks for NFL conference championship weekend https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story/_/id/47653949/2025-nfl-playoffs-afc-nfc-championship-odds-first-bets

NFL.com mock sends 2 usual suspects to needy Cowboys defense in first round https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/02/20/cowboys-mansoor-delane-akheem-mesidor-nfl-mock-draft/88781214007/

Setapp Mobile, one of the first alt iOS app stores launched in 2024 after the EU's DMA, plans to shut down, blaming "still-evolving and complex business terms" (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/15/setapp-mobile-eu-app…

MacPaw Pulls Plug on Setapp Mobile iOS Store, Citing 'Still-Evolving and Complex Business Terms' for...
Ukraine-based developer MacPaw is set to close Setapp Mobile, its alternative app store for iOS devices in the European Union, next month. The...

2026 NFL Free Agency: Where All 32 NFL Teams Stand After the First Wave https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/where-all-32-nfl-teams-stand-after-first-wave-free-agency

Islamic Scholar’s Post-Sept. 11 Convictions Are Tossed on Free Speech Grounds
Federal judges ruled that an Islamic teacher’s statements goading men in Virginia to join an overseas militant group were protected by the First Amendment.

Islamic Scholar’s Post-Sept. 11 Convictions Are Tossed on Free Speech Grounds
Federal judges ruled that an Islamic teacher’s statements goading men in Virginia to join an overseas militant group were protected by the First Amendment.

Trump Exhaustion Syndrome (Ashley Parker/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/trump-first-year-democracy/685658/?gift=c_badRqhhaNnVNIbhIguYyfAN5rKnDXToAAOqzEVoCM
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p87#a260120p87

Vurt, a mobile-first vertical streaming platform designed for indie filmmakers to upload their micro series or feature films, launches with 100 episodes (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/17/vurt-mobile-first-v…

Meet Vurt, the mobile-first streaming platform for indie filmmakers embracing vertical video | TechCrunch
Micro-drama apps make billions in consumer spending, so VURT launched its streaming app to allow indie filmmakers to capitalize on the vertical video trend.

CZ returned to the US for the first time since his release from prison in 2024, to attend a WLF event at Mar-a-Lago attended by Brian Armstrong and others (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/pardon…

Raiders Mailbag: What areas of need remain after first wave of free agency? https://www.raiders.com/news/mailbag/raiders-mailbag-what-areas-of-need-remain-after-first-wave-of-free-agency

Fallers after the first wave of NFL free agency, including Dolphins, Cardinals https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7132365/2026/03/19/nfl-free-agency-fallers-dolphins/

Trump vows $10 billion from U.S. for his 'Board of Peace,' as he leans into global role (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/gaza/trump-board-of-peace-first-meeting-gaza-un-israel-rcna259509
http://www.memeorandum.com/260219/p89#a260219p89

The government has largely won its first case bringing
🆘 "material-support-for-terrorism" charges against protesters
alleged to belong to “antifa,”
-- which Donald Trump designated as a domestic terror group in 2025
👉despite the fact that no such organized group exists
⚠️ and the president has no legal authority to designate organizations as domestic terror groups.
A federal jury in Fort Worth, Texas agreed on Friday
to convict eight people…

‘Serious threat to the First Amendment’ as Trump admin wins first antifa terror charge
“A case like this helps the government kind of see how far they can go in criminalizing constitutionally protected protest,” one legal advocate said.

Raiders Mailbag: What areas of need remain after first wave of free agency? https://www.raiders.com/news/mailbag/raiders-mailbag-what-areas-of-need-remain-after-first-wave-of-free-agency

March Madness first round begins; Brackets lock soon; NFL Power Rankings after free agency

https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/march-ma…

OpenAI executive Chris Lehane says the company is "on track" to unveil its first device in the "latter part" of 2026; reports suggest it will be a wearable (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/19/openai-device-2026-lehane-jony-ive

Exclusive: OpenAI aims to debut first device in 2026
Lehane listed "devices" as one of the big coming attractions for OpenAI in 2026.

Ranking all NFL teams after first week of free agency, plus QB matchmaker and our NFL March Madness winner

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ranking

Sensor Tower: consumers spent $85B on apps globally in 2025, up 21% YoY, and, in a first, more money went on non-game mobile apps than on games, driven by GenAI (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/21/cons…

Consumers spent more on mobile apps than games in 2025, driven by AI app adoption | TechCrunch
Consumers spent more money in mobile apps than games in 2025, driven by AI app adoption.

Dozens of world leaders and national delegations will meet in Washington DC on Thursday for the inaugural meeting of Donald Trump’s Board of Peace,
-- as major European allies declined to join the group and criticised the organisation’s murky funding and political mandate.
The White House has indicated that the summit for his new ad hoc council at the renamed Donald J Trump Institute of Peace will heavily function as a fundraising round,
with Trump announcing on social medi…

Major European allies decline to join first meeting of Trump's Board of Peace (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/18/trump-board-of-peace-first-meeting
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p107#a260218p107

Rams vs. Seahawks NFC Championship: Five trends from first two meetings and how they could impact Part 3

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/rams-vs-seahawks-nfc-championship-five-trend…

Micron introduces the first mass-produced PCIe 6.0 SSDs, with read speeds up to 28GB/s, double that of PCIe 5.0 SSDs, optimized for AI/data center deployments (Aaron Klotz/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.

First PCIe 6.0 SSD enters mass production with 28GB/s speeds, 5.5 million IOPS, and liquid cooling — Micron 9650 Series SSDs support air and liquid cooling
Micron's new drive is so fast that it fully benefits from liquid cooling, but air cooling is still supported

Center left wins Portugal presidential election first round, exit poll says (Aitor Hernšndez-Morales/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/far-right-wins-portugal-presidential-election-first-round-exit-poll-says/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260118/p67#a260118p67

2026 NFL mock draft: Projecting all 32 first-round picks after Seahawks' Super Bowl win

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2026-nfl-mock-draft-first-round-proj…

Sources: AMD agrees to backstop a $300M loan from Goldman Sachs for Crusoe to buy AMD AI chips, the first known case of AMD chips used as debt collateral (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/amd-backstop-300-million-…

AMD to Backstop $300 Million Crusoe Loan, Following Nvidia Playbook
Chipmaker AMD is pursuing the same growth-driving strategy that has boosted sales at rival Nvidia: lending its financial support to upstart cloud providers buying its chips. AMD will effectively guarantee a $300 million loan for data center and cloud startup Crusoe to purchase AMD’s AI chips and ...

COVID probably killed 150,000 more people in its first two years than official U.S. tolls show (Meghan Bartels/Scientific American)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-killed-150-000-more-people-in-its-first-two-years-than-official-toll/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260318/p136#a260318p136

Kenny Pickett joins Dave Canales' Panthers hoping to be latest first-round QB to rejuvenate his career https://www.nfl.com/news/kenny-pickett-dave-canales-panthers-first-round-qb-rejuvenate-career-bryce-young

LinkedIn signs The Trade Desk as its first DSP partner for connected TV ads, allowing ad buyers to layer in LinkedIn data to reach target audiences (Lara O'Reilly/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/linkedin-partners-with-the-trade-d…

LinkedIn is making a big play for streaming TV ad dollars
LinkedIn wants a bigger chunk of the streaming TV ad business. The Trade Desk will be its first demand-side platform partner for connected-TV ads.

A judge issues an order requiring Kalshi to temporarily halt sports and election contracts in Nevada, the first US state to force Kalshi to cease operations (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/nevada-bans-kalshi-prediction-market/

Kalshi Has Been Temporarily Banned in Nevada
A judge ordered Kalshi to immediately halt sports and election contracts in the state, intensifying a growing regulatory battle over prediction markets.

Gennaro Filice 2026 NFL mock draft 1.0: Jeremiyah Love cracks top five; Chiefs take WR Jordyn Tyson https://www.nfl.com/news/gennaro-filice-2026-nfl-mock-draft-1-0-jeremiyah-love-cracks-top-five-chiefs-take-wr-jordyn-tyson

Mistral buys Paris-based Koyeb, which simplifies AI app deployment at scale and manages AI infrastructure, in its first acquisition; Koyeb raised $8.6M to date (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/mistral-ai-buys-k…

Mistral AI buys Koyeb in first acquisition to back its cloud ambitions | TechCrunch
Mistral AI has agreed to buy Koyeb, a Paris-based startup that simplifies AI app deployment at scale and manages the infrastructure behind it.

Snap reaches an agreement to settle a social media addiction lawsuit, a week before the start of a trial in the first of several social media addiction lawsuits (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026…

Snap Settles Lawsuit on Social Media Addiction, Avoiding a Landmark Trial
The settlement means Snap will avoid a trial where plaintiffs had planned to argue that social media platforms are inherently defective and subject to personal injury liability.

Sources: Amazon's ZeroOne team is developing "Transformer", a phone that syncs up with Alexa; it would be Amazon's first smartphone since its 2014 Fire Phone (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazon-

Cardinals OC Nathaniel Hackett aims to help first-year HC Mike LaFleur 'be the best version of himself' https://www.nfl.com/news/cardinals-oc-nathaniel-hackett-aims-to-help-first-year-hc-mike-lafleur-be-the-best…

Sources: UK and Chinese security officials set up a forum to discuss cyberattacks after hacking accusations, the first of its kind, to help prevent escalation (Alex Wickham/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…

RunSybil, whose AI agent runs continuous autonomous penetration testing on live apps to find and document vulnerabilities, raised $40M led by Khosla Ventures (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/03/18/e…

Exclusive: AI cybersecurity startup RunSybil, founded by OpenAI’s first security hire, raises $40 million led by Khosla Ventures
RunSybil was cofounded by security researchers who worked at OpenAI and Meta. It automates penetration testing.

Crypto lending firm Ledn sold $188M in securitized bonds backed by bitcoin loans, making it the first deal of its kind in the market for asset-backed debt (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-18/crypto-…

Pinterest users, especially artists, says the platform has gotten worse in the past year due to AI moderation, AI-generated art, and AI features (Matthew Gault/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/pinterest-is-drowning-in-a-sea-of-ai-slop-and-auto-moderat…

Pinterest Is Drowning in a Sea of AI Slop and Auto-Moderation
Users are exhausted fighting AI moderation, AI-generated art, and AI-first features.