@Techmeme@techhub.socialJapanese 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/
@cdarwin@c.imThe question Ronald Reagan asked on 28 October 1980, at the end of his televised debate against Jimmy Carter:
“Are you better off now than you were before this presidency?”
Unless you’re very, very rich, the answer is obviously:
“No, I’m worse off.”
https://www.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMicrosoft 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.
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social#silentsunday #RockyMountainNationalPark
Bear Lake. October 2014
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scotWell I discovered this week that I have SEVEN DAYS of leave available still this year. As I work for them three days a week that's two weeks plus. Looking at a week in October and another late November-early December, taking people up on their offers of spare rooms and returning the visits folk made to us when Mum was ill. Plus I'll get the dining room painted and sort out our new family business website. Not restful but not shoe-horned in either
@jae@mastodon.me.ukIt 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/
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deemail_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
@degrowthuk@mstdn.social
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyDutch state-owned gas transmission company Gasunie confirms that the Netherlands will not be able to meet its gas storage filling targets of 74% (EU commitment) or 80% (government goal) by October.
"But for a normal winter, it's sufficient".
Germany is also way behind, btw.
@doktrock@toad.social
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom 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…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
@AthanSpod@social.linux.pizzaSo, the UK energy "price cap" is going up again in October. Up by 4%.
I'm currently on a fixed price tariff with OVO, but it turns out they're actually *awful* at sourcing renewable energy, and this when I pay the extra for their "Greener" tariff! Ref: https://
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNYT pop culture writer Kyle Buchanan announces he has left the NYT and will launch a video podcast about Hollywood, The Kyle Buchanan Show, in mid-October (Marc Malkin/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/columns/new-york-times…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.defoursquare: 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
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz@… 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:
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAsus opens pre-orders for the standalone Xbox Ally X20 at $1,300 , with shipments from October 15; a $2,500 bundle includes the X20 and ROG Xreal R1 glasses (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/games/984139/the-oled-xbox-ally-x20-official…
@Ruhrnalist@mastodon.socialIch 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!
@cdarwin@c.imThe 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. …
@relcfp@mastodon.socialDigital Humanities and Global Inequalities, 8-9 October 2026
https://ift.tt/JIBYLGo
Call for Paper (CAA 2027 Annual Conference): From the Street to the Bedroom: Designing the Modern…
via Input 4 RELCFP
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.detopology: 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
@djghettoredneck@mastodon.djghettoredneck.comI'm watching Crime Beat 7x03 "Not Without Her Daughter" #CrimeBeat
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeHacker group RansomHouse claims responsibility for cyberattack on Nichirei
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/22/companies/nichirei-cyberattack-ransomhouse/
@raiders@darktundra.xyzPatriots to Honor Adam Vinatieri During Halftime Ceremony on Sunday, October 11 Against Raiders https://www.patriots.com/news/patriots-to-honor-adam-vinatieri-during-halftime-ceremony-on-sunday-october-11-against-raiders
@knurd42@social.linux.pizzaGo 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…
@detondev@social.linux.pizza🌇 🦅 🙏
I'ma escape my shitty parents to somewhere in-or-around Chicago in October. I'm a zoomer "artist", currently-closeted trans woman, who's only firm resume credential for getting hired is working at a retirement place cafe for roughly 1.75 years.
I'm doing a lot for the first time to make this happen. Abstract online research about a place I've never physically been's starting to give me psychosis. I'm making this public for the first tim…
@ncoca@social.coopAnother #Palestinian journalist killed by #Israel. Will any of them get justice?
https://www.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDocs: Meta plans to launch its version of OpenClaw, codenamed Hatch, in late August or early September and its latest AI model, Watermelon, in October (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-plans-launch-hatch-a…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialForbes and Shook Research suspend their joint rankings and events as they review a $6M payment from founder RJ Shook to former top editor Randall Lane (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/bu…
@seeingwithsound@mas.toIn October 2016, I was asked to help build Neuralink. I said no. https://bioniclab.substack.com/p/in-october-2016-i-was-asked-to-help "Why BCIs Fail series: looking beyond the season finale", by TK Kozai;
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngA Thousand Meters Above The Valley (2021)
(After this harsh summer, the grasses will probably start looking like this much sooner this year — back then it was late October...)
#ThrowbackThursday #LandscapePhotography
@Nathan@social.lostinok.com
@newsie@darktundra.xyzDetained For 300-Plus Days, Journalist Shot By ICE Could Lose Arm https://thedissenter.org/detained-for-300-plus-days-journalist-shot-by-ice-could-lose-arm/
@padraig@mastodon.ieFull 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
@NFL@darktundra.xyzBrowns fans boo Deshaun Watson during home preseason game vs. Bills https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7531745/2026/08/22/browns-fans-deshaun-watson-booed-bills/
@servelan@newsie.socialWhat 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
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzYesterday'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
@avstockhausen@fedihum.orgNew publication: Annette von Stockhausen, “Patristisches Textarchiv. Ein Open Access-Archiv Antiker Christlicher Texte” (Zenodo, 14 October 2022), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7199196.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deemail_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
@cdarwin@c.im"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 …
@jacob@mountaincommunity.coLooking forward to speaking at @… again this October! #HappyMonday
@Jyoti@mas.toJurassic 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.
@gscherer2@social.linux.pizzaSquirrel with an afternoon snack. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. October, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4. #laarboretum #squirrel #animal
@aral@mastodon.ar.alYou guys know what to do: report and block this genocide-complicit zionist hasbara account.
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing
@bici@mastodon.social2-for-1 FLASH SALE
For a limited time, tickets are just $200 each when you buy two or more. Bring a team member, a colleague, or someone you've been wanting to introduce to the EE community.
Sale ends August 12, 2026.
https://ti.to/eeca/eeconf-2026
@degrowthuk@mstdn.social
@kcase@mastodon.socialSeeing 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…
@stargazersmith@social.linux.pizzaChemistry 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
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.detopology: 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
@bourgwick@heads.social40 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.
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafeRE: 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…
@hippyjo@c.imNew music coming in October, "Contra ICE" a compilation of artists against ICE and supporting the community of resistance: https://www.theprp.com/2026/08/12/news/tom
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialXbox exclusive. Sorry PS5. Coming October 6, 2026.
▶️ Gears of War: E-Day | Gameplay Demo Reveal | XBOX Games Showcase 2026
#xbox
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngToblinger Knoten / Torre di Toblin (2024)
Another day, another view:
#LandscapePhotography
@jae@mastodon.me.ukWhy doesn’t anyone ever talk about the spilled coffee in Hunt for Red October?
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social#SilentSunday
#RockyMountainNationalPark
Sunrise, from Trail Ridge Road.
@NFL@darktundra.xyzPackers without Parsons until at least mid-October... https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48958480/packers-micah-parsons-return-least-mid-october
@degrowthuk@mstdn.socialIn case you've missed this, we are bringing together the #degrowth clans in the UK to build the movement.
Sheffield, 17 October.
Details and booking details.
Free!
https://degrow…
@cdarwin@c.imOn 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…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: 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…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialApple unveils new EU business terms from October 1, resolving disputes with the EU, including a new Core Technology Commission and App Store commission tiers (Apple)
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-announces-changes-for-apps-in-the-…
@cdarwin@c.imThe 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…
@gscherer2@social.linux.pizzaMoonstone Beach sunset. Moonstone Beach, Cambria, California, USA. October, 2025. Fujifilm X100VI. #moonstonebeach #cambria #sunset
@doktrock@toad.socialSelkirk Member of the Ordovician Red River Formation, aka Tyndall Stone commercially, as seen in Winnipeg, Canada.
Complex 3D burrows are interpreted as Thalassinoides; the color difference is due to dolomite vs calcite matrix. #FossilFriday urban #geology
@seeingwithsound@mas.to @toxi@mastodon.thi.ngThe 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
@cdarwin@c.imSince China offered a truce in the trade war last October following its threat to deprive the United States of rare-earth magnets,
the Trump administration has been happy to stop escalating.
After all, imports from China have been falling, down by 40% in the year to June, compared with the same period in 2024.
Best to declare victory and call it a day.
But the US hasn’t won this battle
– and there’s strong evidence to show it’s afraid to really try.
Last …
@degrowthuk@mstdn.socialEvent: October Sheffield.
"This one-day event will bring together those with an interest in working on degrowth in the UK. Together we will consider the potential for establishing the foundations of a degrowth movement in the UK, and planning for a UK presence at the International Degrowth Conference in 2027."
Degrowth Gathering – Building the UK movement – degrowthUK
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: David Ellison told execs he will move Paramount out of California if AG Rob Bonta doesn't negotiate a settlement of the WBD antitrust case by October 1 (Matthew Belloni/Puck)
https://puck.news/david-ellison-has-gamed-out-a-california-exit-plan/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBitcoin 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…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alIt’s ok, it’s not like we’re all going to die or anything (only billions, not everyone). @… https://slrpnk.net/post/39707961
@gscherer2@social.linux.pizzaSeagull, 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 …
@Techmeme@techhub.social @qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialSomething to help cool your brain.
#RockyMountainNationalPark #naturephotography #elkOfMastodon
@degrowthuk@mstdn.socialDegrowth Gathering – Building the UK movement
Saturday, 17 October, 9:30-5.00 Degrowth is both a transformative movement and a critical framework, aiming to ensure social justice and well-being for all, with human activities being in alignment with ecological limits. However, degrowth in the UK currently exists as an informal network rather than a cohesive movement. This one-day event will bring together those with an interest in working on degrowth in the UK.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: 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
@cdarwin@c.imQatar 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…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.defoursquare: 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
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIBM 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…
@cdarwin@c.imThe 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…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.detopology: 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
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Anthropic investors expect it to float at a $2T valuation after an October IPO and to hit $100B to $120B in annualized revenue by the end of 2026 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/840ac156-af1c-4a82-b260-ae791072fcfa
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.desp_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
@cdarwin@c.imBob Iger, Joshua Kushner to buy Lakers from Mark Walter’s ownership group for $12 billion
Less than a year after Dodgers owner Mark Walter bought the Lakers for a record-breaking sum,
L.A.’s iconic NBA franchise is now being sold to Joshua Kushner and Bob Iger for at least $12 billion,
-- $2 billion more than the reported number when Walter bought the team in October from the Buss family.
Joshua Kushner is the founder of venture capital firm Thrive Capital and younge…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialXbox 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/
@cdarwin@c.imThousands 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,&…
@cdarwin@c.imNew 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 …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialLivestream shopping app Whatnot raised a $545M Series G led by Iconiq, Lightspeed, and Avra at a $20B valuation, up from an $11.5B valuation in October 2025 (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/08/07/ai-obse…
@cdarwin@c.imQuebec is headed for an election in October -- and things are tightening.
A Parti Québécois victory would almost certainly reopen the constitutional question.
While the party has moderated some of its rhetoric, its raison d’être remains Quebec independence,
making the next election consequential well beyond provincial politics.
According to the latest poll from Pallas Data, the PQ holds the lead with 31 percent of support among decided and leaning voters across the…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnalysis: Grokipedia appears not to have updated any articles since April 24, when it stopped processing human-suggested edits; xAI launched it in October 2025 (Lawfare)
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/grokipedia-stopped-reviewing-…
@cdarwin@c.imRetired Major General Giora Eiland told Israel’s 103FM radio station on Sunday that
rebuilding Gaza would run against Israeli interests.
“Israel has no interest in Gaza being rebuilt,
it is better for us that it be destroyed for generations to come,” Eiland said.
“The greater the despair in Gaza and the greater the destruction,
and the greater the monument to what they did on October 7, years to come,
that is good" he added.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSoftBank'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
@cdarwin@c.imTennessee 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 …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Polymarket is in early talks with prospective investors to raise ~$1B at a $20B valuation, up from $15B in April 2026 and $9B in October 2025 (Todd Gillespie/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSupabase, 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…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialChina has revised regulations to tighten protection of chip layout designs, including punitive damages for serious infringement, taking effect on October 15 (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: 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…
