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Sources: the tenure of Anastasia Nyrkovskaya, Fortune's outgoing CEO, was marked by turmoil over a clash with Victor Pang, a lawyer for the company's owner (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/fortune-ceo-anastasia-nyrkovskaya-exit/

EXCLUSIVE: Inside Fortune CEO Anastasia Nyrkovskaya’s Brief and Turbulent Reign
Financial shortfalls, a constrained role, and eroding morale left Nyrkovskaya with little real authority. She exited the CEO job after just 20 months.

Worked on some more #Gentoo global #jobserver goodies today.
Firstly, Portage jobserver support patch: #PyTest jobs will also be counted towards total job count.
Again, it's not a perfect solution, but it works reasonably. The plugin still starts -n jobs as specified by the arguments, but it acquired job tokens prior to executing every test, therefore delaying actual testing until tokens are available. It doesn't seem to cause noticeable overhead either.

Circle launches USDCx, a privacy-focused version of its USDC stablecoin on the Aleo blockchain, to give users "banking-level privacy" with a "compliance record" (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/09/circle-privacy-stablecoin-aleo-uds…

Exclusive: Circle stablecoin for ‘banking-level privacy’ to launch on Aleo blockchain
Blockchains make data public, but Aleo founder Howard Wu hopes to lure big banks and institutions to crypto through semi-private stablecoins.

I sincerely hope the 13 videos (covering 15 games) that I posted on YouTube in the last six weeks about "How to install FSR4 INT8 for RDNA3..." become completely obsolete today with the expected FSR Redstone drop AMD promised exclusively for the 9000 series graphics cards. Logic is overrated, cope is eternal 😄

TODO list of walks to take in my neighborhood (with room for combining):
- stay on Storrs St. the entire time (instead of taking detours)
- one-way portion of Perley St.
- up and down Downing St., zigzagging on side streets
- portion of Main St. between State St. and Hall St.
- Gulf St. and Teardrop Park
- the portion of Hall St. I skipped
- stay on Spring St. the entire time, thru Avon St.
- up to Fruit St.
- around more in the State Hospital Grounds
- around Memorial Field
- to Rundlett and back
- to Rollins Park and back
- the Warren St. and Federal St. block(s)

Metrics company, Clarivate, which runs Web of Science, is involved in very dubious awards in Iraq. They corrupt science.
https://retractionwatch.com/2025/10/31/exclusive-clarivate-web-of-science-involved-dubious-awards-iraq/…

Exclusive: Web of Science company involved in dubious awards in Iraq
Hayder A. Dhahad, Iraq’s deputy minister for scientific research affairs, speaks at an awards ceremony at the country’s Science Day celebration. Source: Instagram In the string of prestigious…

Scientists sound alarm on erosion of long-term environmental data #environment

Scientists sound alarm on erosion of long-term environmental data
A new Special Report published in the journal BioScience warns that long-term ecological and evolutionary research faces severe threats from lack of recurring funding and governmental/institutional support, to data manipulation and political interference, even as these studies become more crucial for addressing issues of broad societal importance, such as biodiversity loss and climate change.

Memo: Adam Mosseri asks Instagram US staff to return to office five days a week, starting February; sources: it's the first such RTO mandate for a big Meta unit (Alex Heath/Sources)

Instagram's return to office mandate
Read Adam Mosseri’s internal memo announcing a full return to the office five days a week, fewer meetings, and fewer decks.

Adam Mosseri says "maybe we'll need" premium longform video for Instagram, and that TikTok's US sale turmoil has given Meta time to retune algorithms (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/21/2025

Exclusive: Instagram’s Adam Mosseri on how to beat TikTok — on your phone and in your living room
Mosseri laid out Instagram’s vision for its role on television and the path for its next several years of growth.

Adam Mosseri says "maybe we'll need" premium longform video for Instagram, and that TikTok's US sale turmoil has given Meta time to retune algorithms (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/21/2025

Exclusive: Instagram’s Adam Mosseri on how to beat TikTok — on your phone and in your living room
Mosseri laid out Instagram’s vision for its role on television and the path for its next several years of growth.