Alphabet's X is increasingly spinning out independent companies via a dedicated Series X Capital fund, which has raised $500M with a minority Alphabet stake (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/02/alph
Sources at CBS News say newsroom morale is extremely low ahead of Bari Weiss' imminent arrival, and employees worry about her lack of experience as layoffs loom (Justin Baragona/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a
Kyiv Independent documentary “Can You Hear Me?” to premiere in US: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/02/kyiv-independent-documentary-can-you.html
Tonight I'll be doing a bit of ambient sounds djing at the opening of a Ruth Orkin exhibition at Künstlerhaus Nürnberg, 7-10pm and today you got the chance to see her intense photography for free.
https://independent-photo.com/news/ruth-orkin/
Pete Hegseth endangered troops by sharing war plans in Signal chat, report says | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/pete-hegseth-war-plans-signal-b2877489.html
The odd independence number of graphs, II: Finite and infinite grids and chessboard graphs
Yair Caro, Mirko Petru\v{s}evski, Riste \v{S}krekovski, Zsolt Tuza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01897
New Jersey lawmaker wants to make UPS and FedEx porch package theft a federal crime | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/porch-pirate-law-federal-crime-b2877450.html
Gavin Newsom launches portal for California residents to snitch on federal agents who ‘abuse their authority’ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/gavin-newsom-california-ice-agents-illegal-b2877676.html
Hurricane Melissa deals another heavy blow to Jamaica's farmers and fishers | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/davis-jamaica-nicaragua-cuba-world-food-program-b2856843.html
Andrew will head into exile at King Charles' private and remote Sandringham estate | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/london-jeffrey-epstein-virginia-roberts-giuffre-sarah-ferguson-elizabeth-ii-b2856836.html