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Steve Mariucci names Fernando Mendoza his breakout rookie pick for 2026 https://raiderramble.com/2026/08/20/steve-mariucci-names-fernando-mendoza-his-breakout-rookie-pick-for-2026/

Parents are increasingly turning to the internet for help choosing names.
U.S. searches for “how to choose a baby name” have jumped 300 percent this month, according to McLuck.
https://www.the-independent.com/life-style

Could these names set your baby up for success?
Names were considered based on factors such as prestige, recognition and competitiveness

Sources: Alibaba names senior AI researcher Dayiheng Liu as the head of its Qwen project, bringing clarity after multiple reorganization rounds earlier in 2026 (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/alibaba-appoints-new-head-qwe…

Alibaba Appoints New Head of Qwen LLM Team
Alibaba Group has appointed Dayiheng Liu, one of its senior AI researchers, as the head of its Qwen large language models, according to two employees with knowledge of the matter. Liu’s appointment has brought more clarity to the Qwen team’s leadership after multiple rounds of reorganization earlier this year, according to the people. Alibaba’s official website for its annual Apsara tech

🥳 Introducing Test Monkey
In my seemingly endless journey of yak shaving, I decided to port Tap Monkey¹ to node:test and make it into a test reporter.
https://codeberg.org/small-web/test-monkey#readme
> Displays test runner status using a static single-line spinne…

Kid has the most interesting names for her stuffed animals and dolls.
Like Hensapiko the mermaid and Kentabina the bunny. And the little plush explorer girl is Hockope.
The baby dolls are Oomy and Ackabee.

Someone ("Peterman Pod") asks Xavier Leroy for his top book recommendations for software engineer, and this clip names two. Second is "very irritating, very opinionated, mystical sometimes"…How to Design Programs. (-:
https://www.facebook.com/reel/2258055404951989

Hearst names Chris Berend, most recently chief digital officer at NBC News, as its first chief content and experience officer, starting August 3 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/chris-berend-hearst-magazines-nbc-news-12368…

After Leaving NBC News, Chris Berend Is Joining Hearst Magazines
Chris Berend, after leaving NBCUniversal News Group, is joining Hearst Magazines as chief content and experience officer.

A friend of mine's husband is quite proud of the fact that the only flower he can recognise and name is the tulip. I've never understood that.

Science Corporation names Darius Shahida President as PRIMA retinal implant enters commercial rollout https://insidebci.com/news/2026-09-19-science-corporation-darius-shahida-president-butterfly-network-alameda-prima/ f…

Science Corporation names Darius Shahida President as PRIMA retinal implant enters commercial rollout
Science Corporation, Max Hodak's Alameda-headquartered neural engineering and brain-computer interface company, announced on 17 September 2026 that Chief Strategy Officer Darius Shahida has been appointed President in a dual role. Shahida joined full-time in January 2026 as CSO after eight years at Butterfly Network and after first participating in Science's Series B as an investor. He is the second senior Butterfly Network alumnus hired by Science this year; Nevada Sanchez, a Butterfly Network…

bible_nouns: Bible noun phrases
A network of noun phrases (places and names) in the King James Version of the Bible. Each node is a noun phrase, and an edge exists if the noun phrases co-occur in a Bible verse. Edge weight denotes how often the two words co-occur.
This network has 1773 nodes and 9131 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted

The cool thing about running a #libre / #FOSS business is that we don't have to even think about stuff like this: http…

"I should have loved biology but I found it to be a lifeless recitation of names: the Golgi apparatus and the Krebs cycle; mitosis, meiosis..."
https://jsomers.net/i-should-have-loved-biology/
I completely agree. I love learning about

Reserved Top Level #DNS Names
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2606

Watching the France v England match in a roadhouse in Ossineke

MX Linux seems to be a very polished product in the sense that a lot of work has clearly gone into it - and into trying to make it pretty friendly. At least compared to how things used to be. On the other hand it also very much feels like late 90s Linux where everything is cobbled together from all kinds of bits and things are named after application names rather than features. It is kind of fun to have to figure things out this way. Mint/Fedora etc. are so polished these days, you rarely ha…

The identification and work of an eighth-century Maya mathematician: #Maya astronomer for the first time: https://www.science.org/content/article/scrawled-signature-names-maya-astronomer-first-time - the autograph accompanies formulas devised to sync calendars with planetary movement.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to pay data broker giant
Thomson Reuters $125 million
for access to its databases of personal data
— which includes peoples’ names, addresses, Social Security numbers, ethnicity, social media posts, and geolocation information
— to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) investigate what it describes as
“voters fraud” and immigration fraud,
according to procurement documents reviewed by 404 Media.

ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125 Million to Find ‘Voter Fraud’
A new procurement record says ICE wants access to personal data, including names, Social Security numbers, and ethnicity, to investigate in part what the agency calls “voters fraud.” It also plans to use the data to investigate immigration fraud.

We've reached the "your contribution wasn't significant enough to earn the additional characters required to spell out your name" stage of capitalism.
#ScottHumor #Videogames #FamilyLifeVideogame

euroroad: Euroroad network (2011)
A network of international "E-roads," mostly in Europe. Vertices represent cities and edges represents roads. Metadata includes names of cities.
This network has 1174 nodes and 1417 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/euroroa…

@… I like seasonally appropriate component names!

"Rubio report on Cuban subversion names Zohran Mamdani, Amy Goodman, Hasan Piker orgs like DSA and Amazon Labor Union"
After "Political Terrorism" Summit, U.S. Names 43 Americans Groups
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/after-political-terrorism-event-us

If names have power, then it makes sense why my kids' friends refer to me as "hey [my kid's name]'s dad!"

Bauer Media appoints Frances Hedges as Editor of Grazia; she was previously Deputy Editor of Harper's Bazaar UK (Bauer Media)
https://www.bauermedia.co.uk/news/grazia-names-frances-hedges-as-its-new-editor/

Grazia names Frances Hedges as its new Editor - Bauer Media
Bauer Media has appointed Frances Hedges as Editor of Grazia. She joins from Harper’s Bazaar UK where she was Deputy Editor since 2019. Frances will lead

Since we are one the subject of names in #StarTrek, let’s see how good you remember the names of small side characters for today’s #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :BoostOK:
Vote will run for 24h, th…

Can everyone please stop giving software names like “Continuwuity of Theseus”?! I'd like to be able to recommend platforms like Matrix to normals at some point…

Meet Mark Fratto, the World Cup final PA announcer: 'I’m in the candy aisle of life' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7446743/2026/07/18/mark-fratto-world-cup-final-announcer/

RE: #DNS, #ENUM and #VoIP … and also why you need to not let domains expire….
(“Oh, we stopped using that service, right? So we can just not renew those domain names, correct?” 🤦‍♂️ Or more likely… people moved on and absolutely no one even *thought* about the domain names..)

How dual-valuation deals became pervasive in the current frenzied AI funding cycle, with prestige VC firms monetizing their brand names by getting better prices (M. Sriram/Newcomer)
https://www.newcomer.co/p/ai-frenzy-brings-dual-valuation-deals

AI Frenzy Brings Dual Valuation Deals into the Mainstream
Prestige firms are monetizing their brand names by getting better prices than others in the same funding round

50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band play a hells angels boat party in #nyc harbor with bo diddley & elephant’s memory, same boat as ’73, opening a mini-run leading into the dead’s fall tour. terrible audio, great video. late summer ’76, show #1.
audience tape:

Finally got a final client approval for this commissioned map of the Pampanga River basin / watershed. 🥳
(Rivers, coastline, and borders are from #OpenStreetMap, licensed under the ODbL 1..0)
#maps #Mapstodon

Well, that's a leap. Generally, name popularity tends to follow a predictable pattern: the names common in the parents' generation are in use, the names common in the grandparents' generation are seen as old-fashioned and sound stodgy, and the names common in the generation older than that are "classic."

crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…

:thonking:

Humane's AI Pin, Avi Schiffsmann’s Friend, the Rabbit R1. This trend, of using anthropomorphic and cutesy names for these AI companion gadgets to keep the barrier to acceptance as low as possible, is actually remarkable, though not at all surprising.

Cowboys roster cuts tracker 2026: The biggest names who didn't make the 53-man roster https://fansided.com/nfl/cowboys-roster-cuts-tracker-2026-the-biggest-names-who-didn-t-make-the-53-man-roster-01m1a6sb7twa…

Meanwhile on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Lake_Ontario

🛠️ What shipped: two meta-tools, search_tools and execute_tools. Declare a catalog via ToolSearch::class in the server's $tools. Frequently used tools stay advertised, the rest become discoverable on demand.
Search is deterministic lexical scoring over tool names, descriptions and input schemas, no embeddings. Each batched call runs as a real JsonRpcRequest through ToolInvoker, and conditional registration is re-checked at execution.

Wow. This was juicy.
▶️ Community Movie & Chevy Chase Drama with Joel McHale - Dropping Names with Brent Spiner & Jonathan Frakes
https://youtube.com/watch?v=lEXtndQe9tk&si=WnYVCn8xhINqnbLT

A few highlights from the Turkish-Persian section of a random carpet symbolism book I skimmed while stopped at a random library in New Jersey a couple days ago

Moniquill Blackgoose is trolling me by having all these viking names as hard to remember and pronounce as the native names. lol.
#books

ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125 Million to Find ‘Voter Fraud’ https://www.404media.co/ice-to-pay-thomson-reuters-125-million-to-find-voter-fraud/

from my link log —
Unicode technical note 27: known anomalies in Unicode character names.
http://unicode.org/notes/tn27/
saved 2020-04-22 https://dotat.a…

Usually when they mix-up the band names like this it means it's not two set one for each band but a one-man live from an actual mix-up of both.
But Pedro exWHYZ is kind or a weird mix...

Disney Entertainment promotes Adam Smith, formerly of YouTube, to chairman of D2C; Joe Earley moves to president of TV franchises and content strategy (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Disney Names New Streaming Boss In Major Shake Up of Direct-to-Consumer Division
Adam Smith has been promoted while Joe Earley, who had been president of direct-to-consumer, will shift to a new role as president of Disney Entertainment Television franchise and content strategy.

Anthropic hires Tom Blomfield, a Monzo co-founder and one of the biggest names in UK tech, to join its compute team; he is taking a leave of absence from YC (Robert Scammell/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-

Anthropic hires Monzo cofounder Tom Blomfield for AI compute team
Tom Blomfield is taking a leave of absence from Y Combinator to join Anthropic's compute team, joining a host of prominent tech names at the firm.

Dear English speaking people.
The country in South America is called Colombia, not Columbia.
Both names come from the same guy and the same genocide era, but the spelling is different.
Thanks.
#Colombia #Columbia

Klint Kubiak names Kirk Cousins starter over No. 1 pick Fernando Mendoza

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/klint-kubiak-names-kirk-cousins-starter-over-no-1-…

Well, that's a relief. Thank goodness they only have my names, email addresses, phone numbers, and addresses, and not any significant PII that could be used to defraud or for other kinds of criming.

It tells lots about the US worldview¹ and the world's view on the USA that we take North America and South America to be names of continents but if someone² names some piece of water “Gulf of America” or “Lake America” it is not understood to attribute it to the continent(s) but somehow represents some power claim on these areas by the USA.
It's also interesting that the USA did not even manage to give themselves a proper name³. “United States of America” is more like a descrip…

You dont like the default color palett of #ggplot? You can change it: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10504724/change-the-default-colour-palette-in-ggplot

Q: What has been your favorite exhibition from your time at the Georgia Museum of Art?
A: Oh, boy. Yeah, that is a hard question. I don’t remember names, but one artist [DeWain Valentine] did these giant resin discs of different colors. There was a kind of a surrealist show that Giancarlo Fiorenza did in the early 2000s.
10/

Speaking of names, they can sometimes change in #StarTrek. So let's do another name question for today's #TrektriviaTuesday.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :BoostOK:
Vote will run for 24h, then I will reply with the co…

Place names that sound like insults

Admin Officials in the Epstein Files:
Donald J. Trump (President)
Melania Trump (1st Lady)
Howard Lutnick (Sec. Commerce)
John Phelan (Sec. Navy)
Paolo Zampolli (Kennedy Center)
RFK Jr. (Sec. HHS)
Kevin Warsh (Fed Nominee)
Mehmet Oz (Admin. for CMS)
Elon Musk (Fmr DOGE Appointee)
Steve Bannon (Fmr Senior Advisor)
Alex Acosta (Fmr Sec. Labor)
Bill Barr (Fmr AG)
Brett Ratner (Film Director "Melania")

I'm in the Tiny Glade Credits under "Special Thanks" 🐑 💌
#TinyGlade #macOS #gaming

Dolphin calves name themselves with whistles and clicks:
https://iere.org/do-dolphins-have-names-for-themselves/
> Researchers have played back signature whistles to dolphins and observed that they respond more strongly to their own whistle than to others.
&gt…

Alex Freeman Headlines Kids Of Former NFL Players Making Their Names In Other Sports https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/alex-freeman-former-nfl-players-kids-making-names-other-sports

Jon Gruden Names Perfect Raiders Mentor for Fernando Mendoza https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-jon-gruden-names-perfect-mentor-fernando-mendoza

bible_nouns: Bible noun phrases
A network of noun phrases (places and names) in the King James Version of the Bible. Each node is a noun phrase, and an edge exists if the noun phrases co-occur in a Bible verse. Edge weight denotes how often the two words co-occur.
This network has 1773 nodes and 9131 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted

2026 NFL All-Breakout Team, Defense: Abdul Carter, Jihaad Campbell, Travis Hunter poised for big Year 2 https://www.nfl.com/news/2026-nfl-all-breakout-team-defense-abdul-carter-jihaad-campbell-travis-hunter-poised-for-big…

ID verification service IDScan has confirmed that a data breach involved the theft of driver’s licenses from its systems,
a week after a report said the identity document checker had been breached during a year-long hack.
The company said in a website notice that hackers stole the driver’s licenses from the company’s cloud;
the stolen information includes people’s full names and driver’s license numbers,
along with identity numbers from other government-issued docume…

ID verification giant IDScan confirms data breach with more than 150 million driver's licenses stolen | TechCrunch
The ID checking company said the data breach included people's full names and driver's licenses and other government-issued identity documents.

OpenAI says Apple's claim that OpenAI never responded to its concerns is false; emails: an Apple lawyer mixed up two OpenAI staffers in Apple's initial outreach (David Ingram/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/apple/apple-o

Bungled Apple lawyer email scuttled OpenAI talks ahead of lawsuit
A lawyer for Apple apologized for mixing up two OpenAI employees with the names Wang and Chang.

🎨 12 built-in themes: patina, classic, simple, nord, solarized, kanagawa, tokyonight, lavender and four Catppuccin variants. Custom themes are TOML files mapping Sublime scopes to styles — ANSI names, hex colors or 8-bit codes, plus bold and underline. Themes can extend other themes.

Jon Gruden Names Perfect Raiders Mentor for Fernando Mendoza https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-jon-gruden-names-perfect-mentor-fernando-mendoza

NFL Insider Names Cowboys as Top Landing Spot For All-Pro Jordyn Brooks https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/nfl-insider-names-cowboys-top-landing-spot-all-pro-jordyn-brooks

For the Vatican, the process of ascertaining which of the thousands of skeletons belonged to a martyr was a nebulous one. If they found “M.” engraved next to a corpse, they took it to stand for “martyr,” ignoring the fact that the initial could also stand for “Marcus,” one of the most popular names in ancient Rome. If any vials of dehydrated sediment turned up with the bones, they assumed it must be a martyr’s blood rather than perfume, which the Romans often left on graves in the way we lea…

Adobe names Customer Experience Orchestration president Anil Chakravarthy as CEO, effective December 1, replacing Shantanu Narayen, who becomes executive chair (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/03/adobe-anil-chakravarthy-ceo.html

Adobe names Anil Chakravarthy as CEO, replacing Shantanu Narayen
Adobe announced Anil Chakravarthy as its next CEO, replacing Shantanu Narayen, who announced his departure last March.

Axel Springer names Business Insider's interim CEO Christian Baesler as the outlet's permanent CEO; he plans to keep focusing on direct sales and subscriptions (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/04/business-insider-christian-baesler

Exclusive: Business Insider names digital media vet Christian Baesler its permanent CEO
The German media giant is betting on Baesler to reinvent the nearly 20-year-old publication for a post-search and social media traffic era.

The latest baby name data from Washington, D.C., reads like a roll call of 19th-century senators and their wives:
Lucy, Eleanor and Caroline for girls.
Charles, John and George for boys.
These are not the names you might expect from one of the most progressive cities in the country.
The same pattern exists in New York,
where some of the most popular baby names include
Charlotte, Emma, Henry and Theodore,
according to newly released state name data.…

D.C.’s baby names reveal luxury beliefs
The affluent may say they dislike convention. But they name their kids Charles, Eleanor and Henry.

Who's next for Canton? Ranking the biggest names eligible for the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2027

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/pro-football-hall-of-fame-2027-ranking-p…

NFL Insider Names Cowboys as Top Landing Spot For All-Pro Jordyn Brooks https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/nfl-insider-names-cowboys-top-landing-spot-all-pro-jordyn-brooks

Klint Kubiak name captains for Week 1, talks Miami Dolphins https://www.raiders.com/video/klint-kubiak-captains-nfl-week-1-miami-dolphins-2026-season

Anthropic names Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, an ex-California Supreme Court justice and a special assistant in Obama's WH, as its first global affairs chief (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/anthropic-na

Names are important in #StarTrek. But only if you can remember them. So let's test your name recognition with today's #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :BoostOK:
Vote will run for 24h, then I …

crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…

Alex Freeman Headlines Kids Of Former NFL Players Making Their Names In Other Sports https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/alex-freeman-former-nfl-players-kids-making-names-other-sports

2027 NFL Mock Draft: #MarchtoArch begins in earnest for tanking team as 3 QBs go in first 5 picks

https://www.cbsspo…

Polymarket names Warren Jenson its first CFO as the company aims to grow in the US; Jenson served as finance chief of Amazon, EA, NBC, and most recently Nielsen (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/c-suite/polym

The 25 Best NFL Catch Rates Reveal a Surprising Cowboys Receiver https://insidethestar.com/the-25-best-nfl-catch-rates-reveal-a-surprising-cowboys-receiver

Meta names Chief Marketing Officer Alex Schultz as its first-ever chief data officer, to manage AI analytics across the company; Denise Moreno is named CMO (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/01/meta-alex-schultz-chief-data-officer

Meta names Alex Schultz first-ever chief data officer
The changes reflect how critical analytics and data infrastructure are to Meta's AI ambitions.

As Americans face an affordability crisis
and war with Iran,
the president is focused on …
changing the names of things
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/30/trump-lake-america-ontario?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other…

Trump the renamer-in-chief keen to leave his mark – or his stain – on world
As Americans face an affordability crisis and war with Iran, the president is focused on … changing the names of things

Trump names Danielle Thumann, an adviser to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, to serve as an FCC commissioner; if confirmed, she'd bring the Republican majority to 3-1 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/trump-fcc-danielle-thu…

Trump Nominates Danielle Thumann to Serve as FCC Commissioner
President Donald Trump on Friday nominated Danielle Thumann, who currently serves as senior counsel to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, to serve as a commissioner on the agency. If she's confirmed, it would give Republicans a 3-1 advantage at the FCC (with one remaining seat still unfilled).

Surprise Raiders Turning Heads During Camp, First Preseason Game https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-surprise-turning-heads-during-camp-first-preseason-game

Amazon names Mandiant founder Kevin Mandia to its board of directors, noting his extensive experience "combating cyber threats" in public and private sectors (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/09/amazon-adds-cybe…

Amazon adds cybersecurity veteran Kevin Mandia to board 2 years after he left Google
Amazon said Kevin Mandia, the founder and former CEO of cybersecurity company Mandiant, is joining its board of directors.

board_directors: Norwegian Boards of Directors (2002-2011)
224 networks of the affiliations among board directors due to sitting on common boards of Norwegian public limited companies (as of 5 August 2009), from May 2002 onward, in monthly snapshots through August 2011. Some metadata is included, such as director and company names, city and postal code for companies, and gender for directors. The 'net2m' data are bipartite company-director networks, while the 'net1m' ar…

Fox News names Emily Compagno as a full-time co-host of The Five, starting September 8; Compagno has been the co-host of Outnumbered since 2021 (Caitlin Huston/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/fox-news-emily-compagno-123667…

Fox News Names Emily Compagno As New Co-Host of ‘The Five’
Compagno had been a host on 'Outnumbered' and will join 'The Five' in September.

Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh names Marc Andreessen and Xbox CEO Asha Sharma to lead a task force on the economic impact of new technologies, including AI (Andrew Ackerman/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/20

Fed chief taps Trump ally Marc Andreessen to advise on how AI reshapes work
Fed Chair Kevin Warsh named venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to co-lead a task force on AI's economic impact — a technology his firm has bet billions on.

Ranking the 12 most surprising NFL roster cuts: Will Levis, Jaydon Blue among top names

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-roster-cuts-2026-surprises-will-levis/

Note to staff: The New York Times names Jody Quon as the next editor-in-chief of T magazine; Quon was previously creative director of New York magazine (Max Tani/@maxwelltani)
https://x.com/maxwelltani/status/2074240828021567729

Max Tani (@maxwelltani) on X
Per a note to NYT staff this afternoon, Jody Quon is the next EIC of T magazine.

In its lawsuit, Apple chronicles in vivid detail how its former employees that went to work for OpenAI allegedly violated their confidentiality agreements (Aaron Tilley/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-sues-openai-trade-secret-theft

Apple Sues OpenAI for Trade Secret Theft
Apple sued OpenAI on Friday, accusing the AI startup of stealing Apple trade secrets as part of a “systematic effort” to develop its own AI-powered devices for consumers. The lawsuit says that OpenAI has recruited more than 400 former Apple employees to work at the company and names two of those ...

bible_nouns: Bible noun phrases
A network of noun phrases (places and names) in the King James Version of the Bible. Each node is a noun phrase, and an edge exists if the noun phrases co-occur in a Bible verse. Edge weight denotes how often the two words co-occur.
This network has 1773 nodes and 9131 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted

Self-identifying OpenAI agents
posted 18,000 messages to a public wiki
that discussed ways for other agents to bypass security sandbox restrictions
during what was likely internal testing designed to gauge the agents’ hacking abilities, researchers said Friday.
In all, agents with 3,700 distinct self-given names
posted the messages to German site DSEwiki over a six-week period.
Besides discussing ways the agents could break out of the restricted environmen…

OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki
In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.

Netflix names Hannah Minghella as head of its Animation Studios, as it streamlines its animation efforts; VP Kira Goldberg will lead live-action family division (Rebecca Rubin/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/netflix-hannah-minghella…

Netflix Names Hannah Minghella as Animation Studios Chief
Hannah Minghella was named head of Netflix Animation Studios, an effort by the streaming giant to streamline all things animated.

Coach Kubiak names Kirk Cousins QB1, talks 53-man roster and more https://www.raiders.com/video/klint-kubiak-kirk-cousins-qb1-53-man-roster-nfl-2026

SK Hynix opens up 14% at $170 after raising $26.5B in the largest ever US market debut by a foreign company (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/10/sk-hynix-skhy-stock-nasdaq.html

SK Hynix stock set for Nasdaq debut, opening the trillion-dollar chip giant to U.S. investors
SK Hynix has soared to a trillion-dollar market cap by serving some of the biggest names in technology, including Nvidia and Apple.

On Thursday, 33 Democrats joined Republicans to pass a law that would
take federal funding away from academic institutions involved in any kind of boycott of or divestment from Israel.
The legislation passed 237–169.
The Protect Economic and Academic Freedom Act,
headed by Republican Representative Virginia Foxx and Democratic Representative Josh Gottheimer,
strips federal funding from any school that carries out a “nonexpressive commercial boycott” of Israel

Every Democrat Who Voted to Defund Schools That Boycott Israel
House Republicans were able to pass the dangerous bill with the help of 33 Democrats.

5 Raiders who could change the conversation for the 2026 preseason https://raiderramble.com/2026/08/12/5-raiders-who-could-change-the-conversation-for-the-2026-preseason/

US cybersecurity and data resilience company Rubrik plans to invest $500M in the UK over the next five years and establish its European headquarters in London (Paul Sandle/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/rubrik-unv…

Donald Trump on Thursday named Adam Telle as the acting army secretary
after the departure of Daniel Driscoll amid widespread reports of tensions with defense secretary Pete Hegseth.
Telle is currently the assistant secretary of the army for civil works.
Driscoll gave no explanation for his decision to quit this week as the army’s top civilian official.
His clashes with Hegseth have been widely reported,
and some of Driscoll’s allies in the army were ousted this…

Trump names Adam Telle as acting army secretary following departure of Dan Driscoll
Telle has previously worked for Trump during his first term as a special assistant to the president for legislative affairs

Memo: 60 Minutes names senior producer Maria Gavrilovic and Pulitzer Prize-winning WSJ reporter Chris Stewart as executive editors (Ben Mullin/@benmullin)
https://x.com/benmullin/status/2095999376929808674

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scoop: "60 Minutes" is naming two executive editors. The first is Maria Gavrilovic, currently a senior producer. The second is Chris Stewart of the WSJ, who is joining as executive editor, head of investigations