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AG Pam Bondi announces 'all' Epstein files have been released, listing over 300 high-profile names (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/ag-pam-bondi-announces-all-epstein-files-released-listing-high-profile-names
http://www.memeorandum.com/260215/p9#a260215p9

Ukraine’s military intelligence names 14 suspects in cultural property thefts from occupied territories: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/12/ukraines-military-intelligence-names-suspects.html

Mamdani Names Out Trans Lawyer To Lead New York City's First Ever "Mayor's Office For LGBTQIA Affairs" - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/03/mamdani-names-out-trans-lawyer-to-lead-new-york-citys-first-ever-mayors-office-for-lgbtqia-affairs/

Yay cassettes. The tail-end one like the TDK CD POWER have silly names but are quite competent for recording.

"24 creatures get their first names and a shot at being protected"
#Animals #Nature
https://…

24 creatures get their first names and a shot at being protected | The Optimist Daily
In Poland, 16 scientists gave 24 deep-sea creatures their first formal identities. Until now, none of them could legally be discussed, conserved, or protected.

we have two black cats named hex and jinx but when they are in trouble their names become hexadecimal and jinxadecimal

Grammarly will keep using authors’ identities without permission unless they opt out https://www.theverge.com/tech/891822/grammarly-superhuman-expert-review-names-without-permission-opt-out-email

Q&A with New York Assembly member and ex-Palantir staffer Alex Bores on running for Congress, Palantir, opposition from super PAC Leading the Future, and more (Katie Drummond/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-new-…

Silicon Valley Is Spending Millions to Stop One of Its Own
Alex Bores, a former Palantir employee, helped pass one of the country’s toughest AI laws. Now Silicon Valley’s biggest names are trying to stop his rise to Congress.

Former Raider Names Next Player Vegas Could Trade Soon https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/aidan-oconnell-trade-rumors-lincoln-kennedy/

Trump regime wants social media sites to expose anti-ICE accounts.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/dhs-anti-ice-social-media.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Homeland Security Demands Social Media Sites Reveal Names Behind Anti-ICE Posts
The department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials and tech workers said.

Kim Gordon turns the present-day music industry upside down simply by reading out names of Spotify playlists on the title track of her new album.
“Play me!” she cries, and it sounds like an act of manipulation.
On the jazz-meets-club pop of "Dirty Tech" Gordon captures our complicity in the rise of AI with her plea
“Hey boss, terminate me!”
The trick is in her capturing the future with disdain.
“You want to go to Mars. Then what?”
She asks on…

Memo: Paramount names former Trump administration attorney Rene Augustine as its senior vice president of global public policy, amid a takeover battle for WBD (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/par

Paramount Hires Former Trump Lawyer Rene Augustine as Head of Global Public Policy
Paramount Skydance named Rene Augustine, a former attorney in Trump's White House and one-time deputy in the Justice Department's Antitrust Division, as SVP of global public policy.

Der Reisedienst #Bookingcom bestätigt einen #Datenzugriff durch Unbefugte.
Betroffen sind Namen, E-Mail-Adressen, Telefonnummern und Buchungsdetails von Kunden. Finanzinformationen wurden laut Unternehmen nicht eingesehen.
Hinweise deuten darauf hin, dass gestohlene Daten für

Booking.com confirms hackers accessed customers' data | TechCrunch
The travel giant notified customers that their personal data, including names, email addresses, and phone numbers, may have been accessed in a security incident.

Vor einem Monat liefen im Iran die Massaker an tausenden Protestierenden.
Und in dieser Lage schickte Trump diese Botschaft, die vielen die falsche Hoffnung vermittelte, die USA würden sie beschützen: "Help is on it's way"
Keine Hilfe kam. Bis heute nicht.
Man könnte urteilen, Trump hat die Iraner verraten.

U.S. Military Names 6 Service Members Killed in Crash of Refueling Tanker in Iraq (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/us/names-of-us-soliders-killed-tanker-crash.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260315/p36#a260315p36

NFL Analyst Names Cowboys' 3 Best Potential Trade Pieces https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/nfl-analyst-names-dallas-cowboys-3-best-potential-trade-pieces

The Names They Call Themselves
#uspol

The Names They Call Themselves
*Fascist* and *Nazi* weren’t slurs that were applied to the Italians and Germans by their political or military opponents. That’s what they called themselves. The job won’t be done, this era of madness will not end, until we make *the names Trump’s regime calls themselves* universally acknowledged slurs.

Landing spots for top remaining free agents: Examining perfect fits for Jauan Jennings and Joey Bosa

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/landing-spots-nfl-free-agents-best-fits-rumors/…

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

EV maker Lucid says Uber agreed to buy 35K additional Lucid vehicles for its robotaxi fleet and invest $200M, taking its total investments in Lucid to $500M (Connor Hart/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/b…

«mkcert: A simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates with any names you'd like.»
Does any of you use this and how good is it in WebDev production to use it for local tests etc.?
🔐 https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert

GitHub - FiloSottile/mkcert: A simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates with any names you'd like.
A simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates with any names you'd like. - FiloSottile/mkcert

Wow, just managed to fix a problem that has hounded me the last few days: after a reboot, one of my home servers (Ubuntu 24.04, 2 NVMEs with XFS filesystems) couldn't find its RAID 1 boot volume, claiming 'duplicate MD device names in conf file were found'. Gulp. Managed to find the solution here:

Video claims to show documents recovered from the car of fascist paramilitary invaders. Detailing names and contact info of people involved, instructions for transporting targets, and challenge coins with skulls on it. (01/14/26)
#politics #resistance

"24 creatures get their first names and a shot at being protected"
#Animals #Conservation

24 creatures get their first names and a shot at being protected | The Optimist Daily
In Poland, 16 scientists gave 24 deep-sea creatures their first formal identities. Until now, none of them could legally be discussed, conserved, or protected.

The IRS erroneously shared the taxpayer information of thousands of people with the Department of Homeland Security, as part of the agencies’ controversial agreement to share information on immigrants for the purpose of identifying and deporting people illegally in the US.
https://

Taxpayer data wrongly shared with DHS, court filing says
The IRS has erroneously shared the taxpayer information of thousands of people with the Department of Homeland Security, according to a new court filing. It was part of the agencies’ controversial agreement to share information on immigrants for the purpose of identifying and deporting people illegally in the U.S. A declaration filed Wednesday by IRS Chief Risk and Control Officer Dottie Romo stated that the IRS was only able to verify roughly 47,000 of the 1.28 million names requested by U.S…

she even names her furniture

Apple Maps is showing Lebanon as a depopulated place. All village names erased.
Compare Lebanon, Syria and Israel.
Guess nobody lives there, they will need to send Israeli settlers to make the mountains and coastal resort towns flourish.

Ukrainian Intelligence names 21 Russian drone makers, says over half remain unsanctioned: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/10/ukrainian-intelligence-names-russian-drone.html

This is your periodic reminder that Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein were running an extortion racket, not just peddling underage girls to rich perverts. Now the extortion power sits with the thoroughly crooked Trump administration, which is hiding the names.

The Independent names Barney Henderson, Newsweek's publishing director, as UK editor and Jacqui Merrington, Mail Metro Media's AI director, as executive editor (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/me

The Independent names new editors after Chloe Hubbard joins Mirror
Newsweek director of publishing Barney Henderson is new UK editor.

in '21 i was supposed 2 give a #workshop on #opsec for #NGOs. client was :( with my generic principles-based approach, they wanted 2 hear product names 2 sell/buy. things escalated & my boss gutted my pres &…

Started collecting some performance data on ngscopeclient filters as I go through and optimize/refactor.
This is nowhere near the entire filter suite, and a few rows are missing data right now.
8B/10B is still running on the CPU, as you can probably guess from the abysmal throughput, but I had it in one of my test filter graphs so I included the data.

I'm getting weird spam signups. They use nonsensical names, but email addresses with existing (if spammy) domains. They pass the captcha. And then they are registered and never do anything. Any ideas where these are coming from?

Unredacted Jeffrey Epstein files reveal sickening revelation about 9-year-old — as GOP lawmaker threatens to expose names
https://nypost.com/2026/02/10/us-news/unredacted-jeffrey-epstein-files-reveal-sickening-revelation-about-9-year-old-as-gop-lawmaker-threatens-to-expose-names/

CeeDee Lamb honestly names Cowboys' top offseason need https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-ceedee-lamb-honestly-names-top-offseason-need/8e9c2d6d52b2d543c53774bf

Well, that’s half of the two hard problems in computer science solved!
From W3C “Use of Large Language Models in Standards Work”
https://www.w3.org/TR/llms-standards/#brainstorming-names
Now LLMs just need to solve cache invalidation and off-by-one errors.

So Speak4 uses AI and apparently the names of real people to send comment letters. And "Speak4 was hired by the Bay Area Council – whose membership includes the Western States Petroleum Association, Chevron, and the Martinez Refinery Company."
There's a simple solution - treat any comments purporting to support the #FossilFool positions as bogus, astroturfed fakes unless prove…

So Speak4 uses AI and apparently the names of real people to send comment letters. And "Speak4 was hired by the Bay Area Council – whose membership includes the Western States Petroleum Association, Chevron, and the Martinez Refinery Company."
There's a simple solution - treat any comments purporting to support the #FossilFool positions as bogus, astroturfed fakes unless prove…

game_thrones: Game of Thrones coappearances
Network of coappearances of characters in the Game of Thrones series, by George R. R. Martin, and in particular coappearances in the book "A Storm of Swords." Nodes are unique characters, and edges are weighted by the number of times the two characters' names appeared within 15 words of each other in the text.
This network has 107 nodes and 352 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

Binance.US named Stephen Gregory as CEO, replacing Norman Reed; Gregory was previously CEO of Currency.com and held compliance roles at Gemini and CEX.IO (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/03/11/bina…

Binance.US picks a new leader to help it fight for dominance in a crowded market
The appointment of Stephen Gregory comes as U.S. crypto exchanges intensify competition and broaden offerings beyond digital assets.

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are accusing the Justice Department of
covering up the names of co-conspirators of the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
as fallout from the Epstein files grows across the globe.
Millions of pages remain unreleased.
As many prominent U.S. figures evade accountability following mentions in the Epstein files,
a number of European figures have resigned for their relationships with Epstein.
“The most extraordinary and worrying …

Protecting Pedophile Predators: Carole Cadwalladr on Jeffrey Epstein & the Elite’s Veil of Silence
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are accusing the Justice Department of covering up the names of co-conspirators of the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as fallout from the Epstein files grows across the globe. Millions of pages remain unreleased. As many prominent U.S. figures evade accountability following mentions in the Epstein files, a number of European figures have resigned for their relationships with Epstein. “The most extraordinary and worrying thing of what is going on in the United …

Iran names new Supreme Leader: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/08/iran-names-new-supreme-leader.html

Just added a bunch of names to @…, so now there are more than 280 ways to call potus names.
Useful for all the times you want to refer to him without using his name (every time).
#USpol

All this going so well, only to be foiled by the satellite phone 🙃 Name names, NASA!!!

One free agent every NFL team should make sure to keep: George Pickens, Kenneth Walker III among biggest names

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/free-agent-nfl-team-george-pic…

House Dem identifies 'wealthy, powerful men' DOJ redacted in Epstein files (Hailey Fuchs/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/02/10/congress/ro-khanna-names-names-00774551
http://www.memeorandum.com/260210/p101#a260210p101

Eagles Emerge as Good Fit for Potential Raiders Draft Target https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/eagles-good-fit-potential-draft-target/

So this is how they take away the vote from women:
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:we7sidyj3b5or2r7trtpfzt7/post/3membj2djjk23

Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.bsky.social)
7/ The new SAVE Act’s list of approved citizenship documentation is at the top. As before, marriage certificates are *not* included, effectively disenfranchising many of the 69M women whose last names don’t match their birth certificates (not an issue for those with passports or EDLs that do match)

For years, hacked Dutch telco Odido forwarded the names and MAC addresses of all devices on a home network to American AI-enabled Wi-Fi analytics firm Lifemote.
https://nltimes.nl/2026/03/11/odido-routers-forwarded-customers-personal-dat…

Odido routers forwarded customers' personal data to American AI company for years
For years, Odido forwarded sensitive data from customers' routers to the American AI company Lifemote without clearly disclosing this in its privacy statement, the Telegraaf reports. According to the newspaper, the telecom company seems to have stopped this practice after the newspaper’s questions about it.

After an online backlash, Superhuman says experts can now opt out of Grammarly's Expert Review feature by emailing a dedicated address, but fails to apologize (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/891822/gramm

Grammarly will keep using authors’ identities without permission unless they opt out
Grammarly has addressed the backlash against it appropriating authors’ names for its Expert Review feature. It will offer an opt-out email.

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…

Hey, remember when the W Bushies made that "Most wanted card deck"?
I wonder if the folks in Iran are making a similar deck - but with US faces and names on 'em?
I can guess who is the Ace of Spades, but who comes next? Hogsbreath/Whiskey Pete? JDV? Miller? Jarad K.? ??
https://

Most-wanted Iraqi playing cards - Wikipedia

After an online backlash, Superhuman says experts can now opt out of Grammarly's Expert Review feature by emailing a dedicated address, but fails to apologize (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/891822/gramm

Grammarly will keep using authors’ identities without permission unless they opt out
Grammarly has addressed the backlash against it appropriating authors’ names for its Expert Review feature. It will offer an opt out email.

Richard Kahn, and Epstein's long-serving lawyer Darren Indyke,
are the sole executors of Jeffrey Epstein's estate,
-- controlling all his wealth and possessions.
Although hardly household names,
the pair now hold control over compensation owed to survivors
and the secrets contained in the documents still held by the Epstein estate
- which, upon request, have been released to the House Oversight Committee.
As part of its investigation into Ep…

Epstein had two key aides - so why do they still control his money and secrets?
Richard Kahn and Darren Indyke administer Epstein’s estate - court filings allege complicity in his crimes.

#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromTumblr

Justice Department releases names of 3 people the FBI once called Jeffrey Epstein 'co-conspirators' (Dareh Gregorian/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/doj-names-3-people-fbi-once-called-jeffrey-epstein-co-conspirators-rcna258335
http://www.memeorandum.com/260210/p160#a260210p160

Draft Insider Names 2 Prospects Cowboys Could Trade Up For https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/draft/nfl-draft-insider-names-2-prospects-dallas-cowboys-could-trade-up-for

That's a new one. Upgraded my router from Debian bookworm to trixie and all of the sysctls (including rather important ones like ipv4 and ipv6 forwarding) that I had set in /etc/sysctl.conf no longer applied, the file was moved to a .bak but not migrated to whatever Debian is trying to force me onto instead.
But overall far from the most painful distro upgrade I've had. I was worried all of my NICs would change names (again) and I'd have to rebuild my whole firewall configu…

bag_of_words: Bag of words (2008)
Five text collections in the form of bags-of-words, i.e. a bipartite document–word network. Left nodes are documents and right nodes are words. Edge weights are multiplicities. .
This network has 67963 nodes and 3710420 edges.
Tags: Informational, Text, Bipartite, Weighted, Metadata
https://…

This past weekend was no holiday for the cybersecurity world, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the crucial infosec developments you might have missed, including
--Germany names alleged ‘UNKN’ kingpin behind GandCrab and REvil ransomware empire,
--Meta pauses work with Mercor indefinitely following breach,
--N. Ireland education IT system contractor hit by breach,
--First convicted spyware maker dodges jail time,
--N. Korea carried out a six-month op t…

Germany names alleged ‘UNKN’ kingpin behind GandCrab and REvil ransomware empire
Meta pauses work with Mercor indefinitely following breach, N. Ireland education IT system contractor hit by breach, First convicted spyware maker dodges jail time, N. Korea carried out six-month op to steal $270m from Drift, Y Combinator dumps Delve over compliance fabrications, much more

The Economist plans to launch Economist Play, featuring shows hosted by Economist correspondents alongside interviews and debates, in its app this summer (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/business/media/economist-magazine-vid…

The Economist Is Putting Names (and Faces) to Its Magazine
Nameless no more, writers for The Economist are mixing it up on video from its studio in London.

#DigitalAccessibilityEthics session at #CSUNATC.

Ohio State duo among 6 popular names for Cowboys from mock drafts https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/02/11/cowboys-mock-draft-early-favorites-styles-downs-delane-…

Trump names new head of VOA's parent agency after court ruling against Kari Lake (Abigail Williams/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/kari-lake-sarah-rogers-voice-of-america-us-agency-global-media-rcna263261
http://www.memeorandum.com/260312/p138#a260312p138

Ukraine names Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as terrorist organization: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/02/ukraine-names-irans-islamic-revolutionary.html

Raiders rumor names two Seahawks coaches as favorites to be Klint Kubiak's OC https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/raiders-rumor-two-seahawks-coaches-favorites-klint-kubiaks-…

Source: UK cyber security company Darktrace names Ed Jennings, who previously led work management platform Quickbase, as CEO, its third chief in 18 months (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/9689526b-42a9-48ca-990a-0d8152c952fa

Darktrace names third chief in 18 months amid US expansion drive
UK-based cyber security group hires Ed Jennings as private equity owners push for faster growth

Sources: CBS News has invited Pete Hegseth to sit at its WHCD table; Fox News plans to host Tulsi Gabbard and Sean Duffy, and NY Post will host Scott Bessent (Lachlan Cartwright/Breaker)
https://www.breakermedia.com/p/whcd-battle-for-big-names…

🔎 WHCD Battle For Big Names; NYT AI Fight; Air Puck’s Phishy Business
New Netflix Book; Talese’s Rare Read; Breaker Barometer

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…

If I am reading this correctly, Northern Ireland police, who just received compensation of £7,500 per officer for having their personal details published in error on the internet, were revictimized today when the Northern Ireland court system again published their personal details.

‘It defies belief’: Names of PSNI officers published on court website in new breach
Some PSNI officers who had their names released in a catastrophic data breach in 2023 have now had their details published on the NI Courts website.

Here's how many players are actually locks to go in the first round of the 2026 NFL Draft

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2026-nfl-draft-locks-to-go-in-the-first-round/…

USA Today names Jamie Stockwell, a former editor at WaPo and NYT, as its next top editor; she is the third person named to the job in the past three years (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/business/media/usa-today-…

USA Today Names Jamie Stockwell as Next Top Editor
Ms. Stockwell, who recently left The Washington Post, is the third person named to the job in the past three years.

Outing Lindsey Graham, but not for *that*
Republican names and shames top Trump ally for trashing president behind his back - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-lindsey-graham-2675255919/

Jacob Naimark, a law student at the University of Pennsylvania,
has worried ever since he learned that Trump administration investigators had demanded that his school
turn over the names of many Jewish people on campus.
“It was disturbing,” said Mr. Naimark,
a co-president of the school’s Jewish Law Students Association,
adding, “We know very well the history of governments assembling lists of Jews does not end well.”
On Tuesday, a federal judge in Philade…

Judge Is Skeptical of Penn’s Argument Against Trump Demand for List of Jews
A federal judge appeared receptive to the Trump administration’s demands for information about the University of Pennsylvania’s Jewish faculty and staff as the government pursues an antisemitism investigation.

Massie Threatens To Go ‘Nuclear’ And Reveal Epstein Client Names | Crooks and Liars
https://crooksandliars.com/2026/02/massie-threatens-go-nuclear-and-reveal

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

Superhuman says it has disabled Grammarly's Expert Review feature, which gave editing suggestions "inspired by" real writers without permission, after backlash (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int…

Grammarly says it will stop using AI to clone experts without permission
Superhuman is disabling Grammarly’s “expert review” AI feature that used real writers’ names and information to give AI-generated editing advice.

Insider Names Raiders as Landing Spot for Highly Sought-After DC https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/jim-schwartz-raiders-dc/

Trump nominates Sarah B. Rogers, a State Department official, as chief executive of USAGM, after a judge ruled Kari Lake has been illegally running the agency (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/03/12/trump-kari-lake-sarah-roger…

Trump names new head for VOA parent after court rebukes Kari Lake
Lake, who a federal judge recently said was running the Voice of America parent agency illegally, said she’ll stay at USAGM as deputy CEO.

Kansas zoo names baby rhino after Chiefs center Creed Humphrey https://www.nfl.com/news/creed-humphrey-kansas-zoo-names-baby-rhino-chiefs-center

Ukrainian Defense Minister Fedorov names Serhiy ‘Flash’ Beskrestnov defense technology adviser to strengthen EW and drones: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/26/ukrainian-defense-minister-fedorov-names.html

Pentagon releases names of first U.S. service members killed in Iran war (Melissa Gaffney/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/names-us-service-members-killed-iran-war-kuwait/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260303/p126#a260303p126

Simon & Schuster names ex-Amazon executive Greg Greeley as its new CEO, succeeding Jonathan Karp, who will launch a Simon & Schuster imprint called Simon Six (Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/simon-s

Massie hints at identities of alleged Epstein co-conspirators whose names were redacted - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/thomas-massie-epstein/

Mexico names new foreign secretary
Mexico’s president on Wednesday designated
Roberto Velasco,
the foreign ministry’s subsecretary for North America and a leading expert in bilateral relations with the U.S.,
as the country’s new foreign secretary during a critical time for Mexico-U.S. relations.
The previous minister, Juan Ramón de la Fuente,
a 74-year-old psychiatrist who has been a key member of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s administration, re…

Ranking NFL free agent quarterbacks: Kyler Murray, Malik Willis among top names as Geno Smith looms

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ranking-2026-nfl-free-agent-quarterbacks/…

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…

Adam Presser, previously TikTok's head of operations and trust and safety, will be the CEO of TikTok USDS Joint Venture; TikTok CEO Shou Chew will be a director (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/22/tiktok-forms-us-joint-venture-names-a-ceo…

TikTok forms U.S. joint venture, names a CEO
TikTok said Thursday that it officially formed a joint venture that will keep the video-sharing app operating in the United States.

Zelensky names Pavlo Yelizarov new Air Force deputy commander, calls for overhaul of Ukraine's air defenses: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/19/zelensky-names-pavlo-yelizarov-new.html

DOJ removes redactions from some Epstein files in response to Massie, Khanna's complaints co-conspirators' names were hidden (Victor Nava/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/02/10/us-news/doj-removes-redactions-from-some-epstein-files/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260210/p9#a260210p9

Superhuman says it has disabled Grammarly's Expert Review feature, which gave editing suggestions "inspired by" real writers without permission, after backlash (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int…

Grammarly says it will stop using AI to clone experts without permission
Superhuman is disabling Grammarly’s “expert review” AI feature that used real writers’ names and information to give AI-generated editing advice.

Memo: Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines Lab cofounder who rejoined OpenAI last week, will lead OpenAI's enterprise push, as part of a broader reorganization (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-names-former…

OpenAI Names Former TML Staffer Zoph to Oversee Enterprise Push
Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines Lab cofounder who rejoined OpenAI in a swirl of controversy last week, will lead the company’s push to sell AI products to businesses, as part of a broader reorganization across the company, OpenAI’s CEO of Applications Fidji Simo told staff on Wednesday. Brad ...

Memo: CNN CEO Mark Thompson names CNN's digital chief, Alex MacCallum, as COO, assuming responsibility for consumer strategy, performance tracking, and more (Oliver Darcy/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/cnn-alex-maccallum-mark-thompson-succession-plan

CNN’s Heir Apparent
In a little-noticed move, CNN boss Mark Thompson elevated Alex MacCallum to COO—quietly signaling his preferred succession plan at the network, Status has learned. The move is likely unwelcome news for others at CNN jockeying for the top position.

How AI is impacting the romance novel industry, with authors failing to disclose AI use and using pen names more, bogging down the publishing ecosystem (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/busin…

Piers Morgan's Uncensored names Rashida Jones, who left MSNBC in 2025, as CEO, and raises capital; the YouTube-based media company was reportedly seeking ~$30M (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business…

Piers Morgan Hires Former MSNBC Chief Rashida Jones to Lead Media Company
Morgan's company, Uncensored, also raised cash from Antenna Group, Raine Ventures, and Reuben Brothers.

Disney names Dana Walden, co-chairman of Disney Entertainment, as its president and chief creative officer, a newly created role, effective March 18 (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/02/disney-ceo-josh-damaro-bob-iger-1236707115/

Disney Names Josh D’Amaro CEO, Dana Walden President & Chief Creative Officer
Disney Experiences Chairman Josh D'Amaro has been elevated to CEO of the Walt Disney Co., capping a lengthy process of picking Bob Iger's successor.

Disney names Josh D'Amaro, head of its theme parks and consumer products division, as CEO, replacing Bob Iger; D'Amaro joined Disney in 1998 (Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/josh-damaro-disney-ceo-bob-iger-1236650641/

Disney Names Parks Chief Josh D'Amaro Next CEO, Replacing Bob Iger
The Walt Disney Co. has landed on its next CEO: Disney Experiences chairman Josh D'Amaro, who will take over the job from Bob Iger in 2026.