Tootfinder

It’s ok, it’s not like we’re all going to die or anything (only billions, not everyone). @… https://slrpnk.net/post/39707961

Microsoft quietly extends the Extended Security Updates program for Windows 10 consumers by a year, letting eligible users get updates through October 12, 2027 (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
https://www.

Microsoft quietly extends Windows 10's extra security updates program for free: Users can now stay on Windows 10 until October 2027 securely
Windows 10's ESU program has been quietly extended by an extra year, now ending on October 12, 2027 instead of October 2026.

It looks like I'm going to have some downtime in The Netherlands in late September / early October due to airline pricing (staying an extra two days after the event I'm attending saves $1200 on airfare, cutting the ticket price by >50% and more than justifying the extra meal/hotel cost)
Anyone interested in a get-together Monday Sep 28th, Friday Oct 2, or Saturday Oct 3? Or have suggestions on things to do in the greater Gouda / Den Haag / Rotterdam area?

from my link log —
The financialization of the American elite.
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/08/the-financialization-of-the-american-elite/
saved 2019-08-21

The Financialization of the American Elite - American Affairs Journal
On October 1, 2018, the newly christened Klarman Hall opened to much acclaim on the campus of Harvard Business School. The stunning $120 million building houses a conference center as well as a gleaming auditorium built around a 32-million-pixel, 1,250-square-foot video wall and a state-of-the-art, modular design that seats up to a thousand attendees. To mark the opening, the school held a daylong series of speeches and lectures, headlined by the building’s namesake and one of the school’s …

Footage of a French aid worker describing a mass grave holding
300 bodies in Gaza,
including small children allegedly killed with their hands tied,
has gone viral, reigniting international calls for accountability amid documented evidence of similar conditions at multiple Gaza hospital sites.
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor,
a Geneva-based human rights organisation,
has been systematically documenting mass graves across Gaza since October 2023,
recordi…

Euro-Med Monitor: Children With Bound Hands in Gaza Mass Graves
The UN demands independent investigations as international pressure mounts for insight into mass graves found at Gaza hospitals.

YouTube launches the ad-free tier of Peacock on YouTube Primetime Channels, as part of a distribution agreement with NBCUniversal announced in October 2025 (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/06/peacock-launches-on-youtube-primetime-channel…

Peacock Ad-Free Tier Launches On YouTube Primetime Channels As Part Of 2025 Distribution Deal
YouTube has made good on a provision in a 2025 distribution agreement with NBCUniversal, launching the ad-free tier of Peacock on its channel store.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/116673510816883061
"Given Israel’s track record of targeting its own citizens on October 7 and misleading the public about it, the Israeli state might be holding on to as much video as possible to ensure no fur…

email_eu: Email network (EU research inst.)
An email network (anonymized) from a large European research institution, collected from October 2003 to May 2005 (18 months). Each node corresponds to an email address, and a directed edge exists between nodes i and j, if i sent at least one message to j.
This network has 265214 nodes and 420045 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted

It always bugs me how Jack Ryan mansplains turbulence to the flight attendant.
https://clip.cafe/the-hunt-red-october-1990/if-do-try-get-some-sleep/

FX Fighter Kurumi-chan TV PV
Premieres October 2026
#anime

60 years ago tonight (& last night), the grateful dead at the #vancouver trips festival, their 1st real trip out of the greater bay area for a purpose other than an acid test (despite the event’s name). the last shows/tapes of owsley’s original run as engineer (he returns in '68) & last recordings ’til october.
7/29:

James Comey's seashells photo trial set for October (Ryan J. Reilly/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/james-comeys-seashells-photo-trial-set-october-rcna346924
http://www.memeorandum.com/260526/p64#a260526p64

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #JarvisCockersSomedayService
Chris & Cosey:
🎵 October (Love Song)
#Chris #Cosey
https://stpetersburg.bandcamp.com/track/chris-cosey-october-love-song
https://open.spotify.com/track/797NG4piYx7pGUWCFUEqpO

#silentsunday #RockyMountainNationalPark
Bear Lake. October 2014

foursquare: Foursquare NYC restaurants (2012)
Two bipartite networks of users and restaurant locations in New York City on Foursquare, from 24 October 2011 to 20 February 2012. In one network, an edge denotes a check-in event of a user at a restaurant. In the other, an edge exists if a user left a tip/comment on a restaurant. Metadata include comments.
This network has 6410 nodes and 10377 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings agrees to acquire Bitbank, a top 10 Japanese crypto exchange by trading activity, for ~$289M, set to close in October (Jamie Crawley/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/06/

Japanese giant SBI Holdings to buy Bitbank for $289 million
SBI said the acquisition, which is subject to regulatory approval, is set to close in October.

Over the past year or two, companies have started using so-called artificial intelligence agents as bona fide “employees,”
even including them in their organizational charts.
Emma Wiles, a Boston University professor who studies how A.I. affects workers, stumbled onto this phenomenon in October,
at a conference where two human resources executives said that treating A.I. agents like real employees was a way to increase productivity and to put their companies on the cutting …

A.I. ‘Employees’ Might Disrupt Work in Unexpected Ways
Scholars say the “unknown unknowns” of using artificial intelligence in the workplace may be undermining the technology’s advertised benefits.

Parents of ex-Raiders player allege excessive force by police in wrongful death suit https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/parents-of-ex-raiders-player-allege-excessive-force-by-police-in-wrongful-dea…

sp_primary_school: Primary school dynamic contacts (2009)
Two temporal networks of contacts among students and teachers at a primary school in Lyon, France, on consecutive days of in October 2009. Each network accumulates all contacts over the course of a single day; contacts were sampled at 20-second intervals.
This network has 242 nodes and 125773 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

from my link log —
Earth rotation records spur October vote to avert negative leap second.
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/320185/20260711/earth-rotation-records-spur-october-vote-avert-negative-leap-second.h…

Earth Rotation Records Spur October Vote to Avert Negative Leap Second
Negative leap second risk is driving an October 2026 CGPM vote to replace the 54-year-old leap second with a leap hour. Earth set rotation speed records in 2024 and 2025, and timekeepers estimate a...

@… just took the time to listen to 2 (both?) of your SideSister albums just now. Wow, very creative, bouncy, quirky, unexpected, catchy, and even celebratory original songs, beautifully (obviously lovingly) performed, and very well recorded and produced! You two rock - full respect!
The link for others wanting to have a listen:

Ratcliffe-on-Soar | October 2024
#ukphotography #documentaryphotography #newtopographicsmovement #subjectivelyobjective

They are almost burning leadership positions and shareholder value at the same rate as they are burning the planet.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/bp-removes-chairman-albert-manifold-2026-05-26/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Broken Bells:
🎵 October
#BrokenBells
https://daleofshadows.bandcamp.com/track/heritage-verdant-kingdom-broken-bells-of-a-forgotten-shrine
https://open.spotify.com/track/09zDgbs5NQH1kKFXHppYhr

"It is the second time a fellow Trump official has accused Wax of threatening behavior in a signed document. Last October, Michael Bartels, a senior adviser at the Small Business Administration, signed a notarized affidavit saying Wax demanded he hand over a private Telegram chat log and threatened his professional standing when he refused, the Daily Mail reported. "
Trump 'retribution' official accused of assaulting Greenland envoy during elevator ride - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-gavin-wax/

An Associated Press investigation found that at least 10 ICE detainees,
all men, have died by suicide since Donald Trump took office in January 2025
-- a pace that far exceeds the growth in the detainee population, according to a review of ICE data, autopsy reports, coroners’ rulings and police records.
Since October, seven deaths have been classified as suicides,
a number that is already the most for any fiscal year in the agency’s history.
ICE has usually rec…

ICE detainees dying by suicide at 'alarming' rate, AP investigation finds
Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees are taking their own lives at a pace that’s unprecedented in the agency’s two-decade history, highlighting what experts call failures in care and oversight. An Associated Press investigation finds that at least 10 ICE detainees have died by suicide since President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025 and ordered ICE to increase arrests and deportations. That includes seven deaths since October, already the most in one fiscal year with…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SoundOfCinema
Basil Poledouris & Basil Poledouris:
🎵 Hymn To Red October: "Main Title"
#BasilPoledouris
https://open.spotify.com/track/0ieEH6nBmbgXUzV7sIqMdA

Ich plane Ende September die AnaEE Science Conference zu besuchen, eine europäische Fachkonferenz für Ökosystemforschung, experimentelle Ökologie und Klimafolgenforschung. Sie bringt Forscher und politische Entscheidungsträger zusammen, um Strategien für eine widerstandsfähige Zukunft von Ökosystemen zu entwickeln.
Falls ihr auch dort seid oder Eure Forschung dazu Bezug hat, freue ich mich über einen Tröt!

Another #Palestinian journalist killed by #Israel. Will any of them get justice?
https://www.

‘Kind, principled’: Colleagues remember Gaza journalist killed by Israel
Ahmed Wishah is the 12th Al Jazeera journalist killed by Israel in Gaza since October 2023.

Go and read "Klara and the Sun"[1] if you haven't yet, it's great.
Maybe the #TaikaWaititi movie based on it will be, too. We'll see in October, but you know the drill:
First read the book, then watch the movie.
https…

Hacker group RansomHouse claims responsibility for cyberattack on Nichirei
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/22/companies/nichirei-cyberattack-ransomhouse/

Hacker group RansomHouse claims responsibility for cyberattack on Nichirei
RansomHouse has previously claimed responsibility for attacks on several Japanese businesses, including a ransomware attack in October on office-supplies retailer Askul.

Sources: Airwallex raised new funding led by Lee Fixel's Addition at a ~$12B valuation, up from $8B late last year, and hit $1.5B in ARR, up from $1B in October (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2026/05/28/airwallex-addition-valuation

Scoop: Airwallex is now valued at $12 billion
The payments firm also hit $1.5 billion in ARR, per a source.

Stuibenfall, Tyrol's largest waterfall (October 2025)
A major landslide on the opposite side of the main Ötztal valley around 7000 years ago created a new 300-400 meter tall hill on this side, acting as a dam and causing a large lake to form in the higher up side valley. The water from that lake then slowly carved its way through the rocks, draining the lake and forming this amazing waterfall. The boundary of that ancient lake is still visible on the satellite view...
7000…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@xogot/116601839789786661
This is what we have been up to since October.

Full Match | The Judgement Day (Finn Bšlor & JD McDonagh) vs Social Elite (Matthew Smyth & Sean Guinness) at OTT's 10th Year Anniversary show from 26th October 2024
#prowrestling #wwe #wrestling

Core inflation rate hit 3.4% in May, highest since October 2023, Fed's preferred gauge shows (Jeff Cox/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/25/pce-inflation-report-may-2026-.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260625/p38#a260625p38

Elephant Seals having a conversation. San Simeon Elephant Seal Vista, San Simeon, California, USA. October, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4 MC14. #sansimeon #elephantseal #animal

Yesterday's mystery #cloud has been ID'd as #cirrocumulus (or perhaps altocumulus) but in any case of the rather rare #undulatus variety, with the waves caused by wind shear at different altitudes: https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/october-2023/ comes somewhat close; see https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/cloud-library/undulatus/ and https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/cloud-library/cirrocumulus/ for details. h/t https://scicomm.xyz/@drlucyrogers@mastodon.social

Packers without Parsons until at least mid-October... https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48958480/packers-micah-parsons-return-least-mid-october

New publication: Annette von Stockhausen, “Patristisches Textarchiv. Ein Open Access-Archiv Antiker Christlicher Texte” (Zenodo, 14 October 2022), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7199196.

#Upcoming 10th anniversary edition of Autechre’s “elseq 1–5” as a one-time, limited edition 5 × CD box set in an LP-sized case with 64-page booklet. Available via Warp, September/October. Final manufacturing quantity to be confirmed after June 10th. h…

Autechre - elseq 1-5. AE_STORE.
Buy elseq 1-5 by Autechre on AE_STORE.

Jurassic Park, Hunt For The Wilderpeople, Event Horizon, The Dish, In The Mouth Of Madness, The Hunt For Red October - how many actors have a CV as varied as #SamNeill?
And how many were as consistently brilliant across so many genres and roles, big or small?
I really am gonna miss him.

Sources: Fireworks AI, which helps companies run AI models, is in talks to raise funding at a $15B valuation after being valued at $4B in October 2025 (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-27/…

email_eu: Email network (EU research inst.)
An email network (anonymized) from a large European research institution, collected from October 2003 to May 2005 (18 months). Each node corresponds to an email address, and a directed edge exists between nodes i and j, if i sent at least one message to j.
This network has 265214 nodes and 420045 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted

U.S. national debt officially hits
$39 trillion
—adding approximately $5 billion a day since October
https://fortune.com/2026/05/20/us-national-debt-officially-hits-39-trillion-milestone/

U.S. national debt officially hits $39 trillion—adding approximately $5 billion a day since October
According to Treasury data, updated retrospectively for May 18, the debt landed at $39,008,999,901,378.68.

Seeing the new hourly check option in Safari on iOS 27 prompted me to wonder when we added that option to OmniWeb. Somewhere in the migration of our source code from CVS to subversion to git the information was lost, so I had to do a little spelunking back to the subversion repository, and found the commit from @… in October, 1995. (A lot has happened in those th…

News story on a significant earthquake in Uzbekistan, 50 years ago, May 17, 1976 (Fargo-Moorhead Forum archives). Mentions the Medvedev scale, apparently now the the MSK or MSK-64 scale. That scale is not mentioned in North American, physical geology textbooks I have seen, although it's apparently similar to the Mercalli scale.
Also, the first page of a scientific paper on it, from 1980. ⚒️🧪
#OTD

Chemistry Reveals the Origins of an Interstellar Comet - Universe Today
Chemistry Reveals the Origins of an Interstellar Comet - Universe Today https://www.universetoday.com/articles/chemistry-reveals-the-origins-of-an-interstellar-comet

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/116916873674213028
Why did I intentionally mash things up, in my October 2025 post to Reddit?
Because I wanted to ask something about AI.
I knew that what I truly wanted to post would be immedi…

foursquare: Foursquare NYC restaurants (2012)
Two bipartite networks of users and restaurant locations in New York City on Foursquare, from 24 October 2011 to 20 February 2012. In one network, an edge denotes a check-in event of a user at a restaurant. In the other, an edge exists if a user left a tip/comment on a restaurant. Metadata include comments.
This network has 6410 nodes and 10377 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

Xbox exclusive. Sorry PS5. Coming October 6, 2026.
▶️ Gears of War: E-Day | Gameplay Demo Reveal | XBOX Games Showcase 2026
#xbox

What Ceasefire? Israel Has Now Killed Over 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza Since October
https://zeteo.com/p/gaza-ceasefire-death-toll-1000-israel-palestinians-genocide

The Supreme Court term that began in October was once again dominated by Felon-President Trump’s boundary-pushing policies.
Over the next several days, the justices will decide major tests of presidential power in cases involving the administration that could have generational consequences.
In contrast to the temporary orders the Supreme Court issued on an emergency basis early in Trump’s term,
the decisions the court announces this spring and summer will be more lasting. …

Tracking Major Supreme Court Cases and Rulings in 2026
The Supreme Court is deciding a series of cases central to President Trump’s second-term agenda.

Magic Moment (when the view finally opens up)
(On the way to Drachensee, October 2023)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Alps

Why doesn’t anyone ever talk about the spilled coffee in Hunt for Red October?

Interesting to compare the author Neal Stephenson's profiles on X/twitter vs. Bluesky.
He has 89,4 K followers on X, where he still posts, but just under 10 K on Bluesky, where he doesn't post at all.
He has many fans on the fediverse who discuss his books, but he is not here.

"Another Wasted Life.”
That’s the name of a remarkable new song by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Grammy-winning artist
Rhiannon Giddens.
She released a video of the song on October 2 to mark International Wrongful Conviction Day.
The song was inspired by
Kalief Browder,
a Bronx resident who died by suicide in 2015 at the age of 22
after being detained at Rikers Island jail for nearly three years,
after being falsely accused at the age of …

“Another Wasted Life”: Rhiannon Giddens on How Death of Kalief Browder Inspired Her Song
“Another Wasted Life.” That’s the name of a remarkable new song by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Grammy-winning artist Rhiannon Giddens. She released a video of the song on October 2 to mark International Wrongful Conviction Day. The song was inspired by Kalief Browder, a Bronx resident who died by suicide in 2015 at the age of 22 after being detained at Rikers Island jail for nearly three years, after being falsely accused at the age of 16 of stealing a backpack. He was held in solitary co…

You guys know what to do: report and block this genocide-complicit zionist hasbara account.
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing

FOIA lawsuit documents show hackers who breached SolarWinds potentially had access to all "treasury.gov" email addresses from July 6, 2020 to October 12, 2020 (Jordan Robertson/Bloomberg)

Squirrel with an afternoon snack. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. October, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4. #laarboretum #squirrel #animal

topology: Internet AS graph (2004)
An integrated snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from multiple sources, including the RouteViews and RIPE BGP trace collectors, route servers, looking glasses, and the Internet Routing Registry databases. This snapshot was created around October 2004.
This network has 34761 nodes and 171403 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

Toblinger Knoten / Torre di Toblin (2024)
Another day, another view:
#LandscapePhotography

40 years ago this weekend, jerry garcia falls into a diabetic coma & nearly dies. in the hospital, his heart stops following an allergic reaction when doctors give him valium. the dead will cancel 30 dates through fall. he relearns to play guitar & is performing again by october.

Holy frijoles... Infinity Ward ain't playin' around: They're goin' straight at NORTH KOREA & the Korean DMZ! 😬
Buckle up, buttercups... coming October 23, 2026!
▶️ Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 | DMZ First Look | XBOX Games Showcase 2026
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Yl7TOzNE…

Something to help cool your brain.
#RockyMountainNationalPark #naturephotography #elkOfMastodon

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Earthless:
🎵 Equus October
#Earthless
https://open.spotify.com/track/3wECXuEvccdvl3Wai9u3DY

Sigh. Just apply the regular parking provisions (paid parking or permits). 'Low occupancy' of public charging (meaning a relatively low amount of kWh compared to the theoretical maximum of 24/7 charging at full speed) is not a bad thing; it's the starting point for using EVs to support the grid.
https://ww…

Brussels to fine EV charging point blockers - electrive.com
From October 1, the Belgian capital will introduce a rotation fee for EVs that remain connected to public charging stations for too long. This aims to improve

email_eu: Email network (EU research inst.)
An email network (anonymized) from a large European research institution, collected from October 2003 to May 2005 (18 months). Each node corresponds to an email address, and a directed edge exists between nodes i and j, if i sent at least one message to j.
This network has 265214 nodes and 420045 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted

RE: https://mastox.eu/@jeremycorbyn/116693363717331087
“The move follows Declassified’s investigation earlier this year which found more than 2,000 British citizens have served in the IDF since October 2023.
Yet the British government has failed to ke…

Versant invests in microdrama streaming app GammaTime's Series A to take a minority stake; GammaTime raised a $14M seed in October 2025 (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/versant-media-gammatime-microdramas-1236765109/

Versant Media Invests in Microdrama Distributor GammaTime
Versant Media Invests in Microdrama Distributor GammaTime

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SundayFeature
Ali Farka Touré:
🎵 Kadi Kadi (London, October 1987)
#AliFarkaTouré
https://open.spotify.com/track/1u68ufgdtQj6LCAcXzOJVG

The U.S. stock market had its worst day since October Friday
as a sell-off in big technology companies weighed down the broader market and a strong jobs report boosted expectations that the Federal Reserve will be forced to hike interest rates at some point this year.
The S&P 500 sank 2.6%,
its biggest one-day drop since October 10, when the Trump administration threatened to impose a 100% tariff on imported goods from China.
The losses helped push the benchmark in…

Stocks slump as Big Tech sinks and a strong May jobs report boosts odds for higher interest rates — The Associated Press
The U.S. stock market had its worst day since October as a sell-off in big technology companies weighed down the broader market.

Bitcoin falls below $60K, its lowest level since October 2024, amid a record streak of bitcoin ETF outflows following Strategy's bitcoin sale (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/05/bitcoin-dismal-week-price-below-all-time-high-crypto-in…

Bitcoin cracks $60,000, sinking to lowest level since October 2024
The weeklong sell-off was exacerbated after a stronger-than-expected May jobs report Friday sent yields higher and pressured risk assets.

Moonstone Beach sunset. Moonstone Beach, Cambria, California, USA. October, 2025. Fujifilm X100VI. #moonstonebeach #cambria #sunset

The End Of A Long Summer (2023)
(A last blip of intense summer heat before the first wave of winter descended into the valley just a couple of days later. The colors that day were just magical and created an unforgettable mood, maybe also because it was one of the last long hikes we did with our darling dog...)
#FootpathFriday

Sources: the US has held off adding DeepSeek, CXMT, and 100 other flagged companies to its Entity List, last updated in October, the longest gap in 10 years (Karen Freifeld/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-hol

On October 31, 1803 the frigate USS Philadelphia hit a reef and ran aground chasing Barbary pirates near Tripoli, Libya.
All 307 members of its crew were captured and held hostage by the Barbary states.
Rather than pay tribute to the pirates, U.S. President Thomas Jefferson sent U.S. frigates to intervene and free the hostages.
The first of two wars against the Barbary pirates, the scourge of shipping for decades, hastened the building of the U.S. Navy
and began a lon…

The Slow Death of the Global Commons
Hormuz is a sign of worse things to come.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
WITCH:
🎵 October Night
#WITCH
https://open.spotify.com/track/4jGqFia1YPQmmTGIUvibJl

Sources: Apple is prepping an iPad overhaul, including an iPad mini with an OLED screen by October and refreshed versions of entry-level iPad and Airs in 2027 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Seagull, standing on her favorite rock, looking at the ocean. Moonstone Beach, Cambria, California, USA. October, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4. #moonstonebeach #seagull #bird …

IBM stock fell 25% on Tuesday, sinking further than its previous worst day of October 19, 1987, after reporting preliminary Q2 results below estimates (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/14/ibm-warns-second-quarter-earnings-fell-short-of-exp…

IBM stock craters 23% after issuing second-quarter earnings warning
CEO blamed the shortfall on weakness in the software and infrastructure business because clients shifted money toward hardware purchases.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Track Star:
🎵 October-November
#TrackStar

Qatar and Iran are separated by the Persian Gulf, a body of water, at a distance of about 119 miles.
Trump had the audacity to claim otherwise even next to the country’s ruler,
and it’s not even the first time.
In October, Trump told reporters on Air Force One,
“They’re literally, you walk over from Iran to Qatar.
You can walk it in one second. You go ‘boom boom,’ and now you’re in Qatar, that’s tough territory”
—to much ridicule online.
Has no one bo…

Donald Trump Doesn’t Know Anything About Geography
Or the Middle East.

SoftBank reports Q4 net income up 3x to ~$11.6B, above ~$1.5B est., driven by a $25B gain in its OpenAI stake; by October, its OpenAI investment will hit $64.6B (David Keohane/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/85b9fe04-0d70-482e-bd27-9c87c1ebfc01

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
TAURO:
🎵 Early October
#TAURO
https://open.spotify.com/track/6LNXedB7YYQyfBWnuHurnj

The Space Development Agency(SDA) is a United States Space Force
direct-reporting unit
tasked with deploying disruptive space technology.
One of the technologies being worked on is space-based missile tracking using large global satellite constellations made up of
industry-procured low-cost satellites.
The SDA has been managed by the United States Space Force since October 2022.
By February 2024 the SDA had 38 satellites on orbit.
SDA intends to have…

Space Development Agency - Wikipedia

SAP invests in German workflow automation platform n8n at a $5.2B valuation, up from $2.5B after an October 2025 equity raise, and agrees to embed n8n's tools (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Amy Winehouse:
🎵 October Song
#AmyWinehouse
https://open.spotify.com/track/67wNhv0JobucCEtv1rrTUG

Sources: OpenAI facilitated a $6.6B secondary share sale in October 2025 for 600 current and ex-employees; over 75 people cashed out the maximum cap of $30M (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/openai-employee-s

Xbox chief strategy officer Matthew Ball said Game Pass lost "millions" of subscribers in the months following a 50% price hike announced in October 2025 (Eddie Makuch/GameSpot)
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/is-xbox-fixable/

Is Xbox Fixable?
At Summer Game Fest today, Xbox’s new chief strategy officer Matthew Ball spoke about some of the company’s big moves recently, including its strategy on exclusives and what’s next for the company in the hardware space with Project Helix. He made these comments at The Game Business Live. “Reliable pipeline” of exclusives On the subject...

Thousands of people remain missing or unaccounted for following the Rapid Support Forces' capture of El Fasher, according to new findings published by the UN Fact-Finding Mission for Sudan.
Following the takeover in late October 2025,
the International Organization for Migration estimated that more than 127,000 people were displaced from the city and surrounding villages.
The mission noted that humanitarian organizations later described El Fasher as a "ghost town,&…

Thousands remain missing after El Fasher takeover in Sudan | News.az
The report states that before the city's fall, El Fasher had an estimated population of about 260,000 people, News.az reports, citing reports of the U...

foursquare: Foursquare NYC restaurants (2012)
Two bipartite networks of users and restaurant locations in New York City on Foursquare, from 24 October 2011 to 20 February 2012. In one network, an edge denotes a check-in event of a user at a restaurant. In the other, an edge exists if a user left a tip/comment on a restaurant. Metadata include comments.
This network has 4936 nodes and 27149 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

New York City has adopted a new rule that bans companies from using deceptive subscriptions to trap customers into paying for gym memberships, streaming services and other recurring charges, the city’s consumer protection office said.
The new rule, which will start on 1 October, promises hefty fines and aggressive enforcement for violators.
Companies that do not provide a simple way to cancel could pay $525 per user subscription, back fees and additional fines.
The city is …

New York City seeks to implement ban on deceptive subscription practices
Rule from Mamdani administration would target streaming services, gym memberships and other recurring charges

sp_primary_school: Primary school dynamic contacts (2009)
Two temporal networks of contacts among students and teachers at a primary school in Lyon, France, on consecutive days of in October 2009. Each network accumulates all contacts over the course of a single day; contacts were sampled at 20-second intervals.
This network has 242 nodes and 125773 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

Meta challenges Ofcom in UK High Court over the Online Safety Act, which calculates levies based on global, not UK, revenue, in a case scheduled for October (Sam Tobin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-challenges-uk-med…

Tennessee authorities are investigating the 👉 second fatal shooting in four days by a member of the federal task force dedicated to confronting crime in Memphis.
The shootings are likely to further exacerbate tensions within the city, which has been torn over the presence of hundreds of federal agents since October and their aggressive approach to targeting crime.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said on Wednesday that the shooting involved a Drug Enforcement Administration …

Second Person in a Week Killed by Federal Task Force in Memphis
Tennessee authorities are investigating both shootings involving agents working with the task force in Memphis.

SoftBank's PayPay, Japan's dominant payments app, says it will take a 70.2% stake in T&D Financial Life Insurance for $840M, expected to close in October 2027 (Mayumi Negishi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Supabase, which provides backend tools for building AI apps, raised a $500M Series F led by GIC at a $10B pre-money valuation, up from $5B in October 2025 (CJ Haddad/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/04/database-startup-supabase-r…

Vibe-coding phenomenon lifts AI startup Supabase to $10.5 billion valuation
Database startup Supabase announced a $500 million funding round that values the company at $10.5 billion, including the fresh capital.

Sources: Crusoe is in active talks to raise ~$3B in a funding round expected to value the company in the ~$30B range, up from a ~$10B valuation in October (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-0…