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OpenAI fired an employee for insider trading on prediction markets like Polymarket; Unusual Whales has flagged 77 suspected insider trades around OpenAI events (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-fires-employee-insider-trading-polymarke…

OpenAI Fires an Employee for Prediction Market Insider Trading
Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi are big business, and some Big Tech employees are testing boundaries by making trades based on insider knowledge.

Meta plant kostenpflichtige Premiumabos für Facebook, Instagram und WhatsApp
Für Zusatzfunktionen auf Facebook, Instagram und WhatsApp plant Meta kostenpflichtige Abos. Details sind noch unbekannt und stehen wohl auch nicht fest.

CDash experiments update: Provisioned a VM (not yet reachable from the outside world) to tinker with it since it's been 10 years since I last used the platform.
How it's going so far: ran into https://github.com/Kitware/CDash/issues/3122
They're using npm and a who…

from my link log —
A woman's work: the inside story.
https://longreads.com/2019/04/26/a-womans-work-the-inside-story/
saved 2019-04-27

A Woman’s Work: The Inside Story
Carolita Johnson examines some of the inner workings of a woman’s body from puberty to menopause.

new_zealand_collab: New Zealand scientific collaborations (2015)
A network of scientific collaborations among institutions in New Zealand. Nodes are institutions (universities, organizations, etc.), and two nodes i,j are connected if Scopus lists at least one publication with authors at institutions i and j, in the period 2010-2015. Edges are weighted by the number of such collaborations. Nodes are annotated with the categorical type of institution.
This network has 1511 nodes an…

Today, the European Council approved the new version of the Measuring Instruments Directive. The Parliament had already approved the compromise reached.
48 months after publication (i.e. mid-2030), new EV charging points in the European Union must comply with the new, harmonised requirements.

Technical harmonisation: Council approves new requirements for car chargers and other measuring instruments
Council gives its final approval to the amended measuring instruments directive.

Instagram says it will alert parents if their teen repeatedly searches for terms related to self-harm or suicide in the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/885110/meta-instagram-parent-alert-teen-…

Instagram will alert parents if their kids ‘repeatedly’ search for self-harm topics
Starting next week, Instagram will notify parents to check on their teen searching for terms related to self-harm or suicide.

DJI verklagt Insta360 wegen Patentverletzung
Das mit 360-Grad-Kameras bekannt gewordene Unternehmen Insta360 wirft seinerseits DJI vor, seine Produkte abgekupfert zu haben.
https://www.heise.de/ne…

Meta says it will test new paid subscriptions that give people access to exclusive features on its apps and plans to scale Manus as part of those offerings (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/26/meta-to-test-premium…

Meta to test premium subscriptions on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp | TechCrunch
In the coming months, Meta is going to explore a premium experience on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp that gives users access to special features and more control over how they share and connect, while keeping the core experiences free. 

Undercover auf Facebook und Instagram ermittelt: Geldstrafe gegen Meta verhängt
New Mexico hat verdeckt auf Facebook und Instagram zum Jugendschutz ermittelt, die Ergebnisse verstören. Nun hat eine Jury eine Geldstrafe verhängt.