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Source: Fal, a GenAI model hosting service, is in talks to raise $300M to $350M at an $8B valuation; annualized revenue has hit $400M, up from $200M in October (Katie Roof/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/video-hosti…

Video Hosting Startup Fal in Funding Talks at $8 Billion Valuation
Fal, a fast-growing cloud service for accessing and storing AI models that generate images, video, and audio, is in talks to raise $300 million to $350 million, according to a person with direct knowledge of the fundraise. The deal, which would nearly double the company’s paper valuation to ...

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

looking forward to this never-heard october '66 zappa/mothers session! https://www.jambase.com/article/frank-zappa-vaulternative-records-returns-1966-live-recordings

Frank Zappa Vaulternative Archive Series Relaunches With Unreleased 1966 Recordings
Vaulternative Records, an archival series dedicated to releasing Frank Zappa's unexpected recordings from the vault, returns in 2026 after nearly a decade with 'Zappa ’66: Vol. 1 – Live At TTG Studios' out first.

Hackers leak the entire upcoming Avatar movie ahead of October release
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Hackers-leak-the-entire-upcoming-Avatar-movie-ahead-of-October-release.1272688.0.html

Hackers leak the entire upcoming Avatar movie ahead of October release
A major leak for Avatar Aang, The Last Airbender reveals a full recasting of the original characters and a big strategy shift from a theatrical release to a Paramount+ debut on October 9, 2026. Paramount has not yet commented on the matter.

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

Democratic Representative Dan Goldman revealed an unredacted file from the government’s Jeffrey Epstein files on the House floor Wednesday,
saying that it directly contradicts Donald Trump’s account of his relationship with the billionaire sex offender.
The document is an October 2009 email containing information about a conversation between one of Epstein’s attorneys, Jack Goldberger, and an attorney for Trump, Alan Garten.
The email was initially released to the public in…

Democrat Reveals Epstein File That Blows Huge Hole in Trump’s Story
Democratic Representative Dan Goldman shared a previously redacted email that contradicts Trump’s story on how he stopped being friends with the sexual predator.

That's a beautiful aircraft.
Here's a picture from its first flight October 28, 2025, which was subsonic.
The idea is supersonic flight with no sonic booms.

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

@… sorry, I mean the trickery was not recent; "… The RSAC Research Lab disclosed this attack to Apple on October 15, 2025, …".

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NewMusicFix
Tony Bontana:
🎵 October Fallacy
#TonyBontana
https://tonybontana.bandcamp.com/track/october-fallacy
https://open.spotify.com/track/0BPwMgKjZGnjmYfNgYF2dS

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

#TIL that Patriarch Mar Awa III of the Assyrian Church of the East is born in Chicago and is a fan of the Chicago Cubs. In a bit of good-natured trolling while visiting the Vatican last October, he gifted Pope Leo XIV with a custom Cubs jersey with “Leo” and “14” on the back. The Pope is a noted fan of the rival Chicago White Sox. ⚾️

Pope Leo Gets Cubs Jersey from Mar Awa III
Mar Awa III gifts Pope Leo XIV a Cubs jersey, poking fun at the pontiff’s loyalty to White Sox. Baseball meets Vatican diplomacy.

Mexican cactus fly resting on a sunflower. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. October, 2025. OM system OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4. #laarboretum #sunflower #insect

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

Looks like no McDonald’s for awhile . . . Small town drama.
#guthrie
Guthrie McDonald’s to close June 26 for complete remodel, reopening planned for October https://

Channel 4 Chief Content Officer Ian Katz plans to step down in October after nearly nine years, making him Channel 4's longest-serving programming head (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/apr/16/ian-katz-leave-role-c…

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

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

CFP: Religion, Politics, and Cognitive Warfare
https://ift.tt/GeImHqK
Third Symposium on Dance, Music, and Performing Arts of the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia,…
via Input 4 RELCFP

So my code seems to be working. Each night (in theory, while I am sleeping) a script will run pulling all the bookmarks from my local instance of Linkding and dropping them into a SQLite database...
And then another script runs to post a link here with a "bookmarks" hashtag.
There are some (potential) issues. Since I am posting one per day starting about last October, I may run out at some point, if I don't keep adding more bookmarks...

Last October when I pruned my fig tree I threw the clippings into a moist bin in my basement in case some of them rooted. Which they did. Now I have to unload them on neighbors and passersby. "Hey, pssst: want a fig tree?" #figs #ficus #gardening

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.

Analysis: global Chartbeat clients' traffic from Twitter/X has fallen 70% since Elon Musk's October 2022 acquisition; Facebook traffic has also declined sharply (Laura Hazard Owen/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/social-t

Social traffic kinda stinks for news publishers now, in 3 charts
Globally, Chartbeat clients' traffic from Twitter has fallen by 70% since 2022, when Elon Musk acquired the platform.

Beeston, Weir Fields, Nottingham, October 2025
#photography #documentaryphotography #documentingspace #landscapephotography

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Dmitry Shostakovich, John Storgårds & BBC Philharmonic Orchestra:
🎵 We marched, we asked for work and bread (Symphony No. 2 in B Major "To October" mvt 4)
https://open.spotify.com/track/1FNcowkcxjJnCqtSw9XNW1

I bought those very same memory sticks for €130 in October 2024. Now they are being sold for €510. The motherboard that I ordered alongside this RAM cost €212, the same motherboard now being sold for €174.
One other thing that annoys me to no end is that AMD recently worked with Sony to bring FSR 4.1 INT8 to PlayStation, but also AMD won't even acknowledge the existence of FSR 4.0.2 INT8, let alone deliver it officially, for PC GPUs that they released 2-3 years ago.

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

Viktor Orbšn told Putin ‘I am at your service’ in October phone call | Viktor Orbšn | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/07/viktor-orban-told-putin-i-am-at-your-service-in-october-phonecall

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

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…

The FCC grants Netgear a conditional approval to import its future consumer routers, cable modems, and cable gateways into the US through October 1, 2027 (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/911888/netgear-router-ban-conditional-approval

The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious reason
Netgear is the first consumer router manufacturer granted conditional approval to avoid the US foreign router ban, though it has not committed to US manufacturing.

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

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

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Dekker:
🎵 Maybe October
#NowPlaying #Dekker
https://dekkermusic.bandcamp.com/track/maybe-october-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/6cMXzJAqj1EWhxSkeCIK7q

Beeston, Weir Fields, Nottingham, October 2025
#photography #documentaryphotography #documentingspace #landscapephotography

Maryland passed a bill directing half of the state government's ad money to local news outlets, with a few exceptions; it is slated to take effect October 1 (Rebuild Local News)
https://www.rebuildlocalnews.org/maryland-

Maryland Legislature Passes the Nation’s First State Advertising Set-Aside for Local Newsrooms
The legislation, backed by bipartisan support, will require state agencies to direct 50 percent of their advertising budgets to eligible local news outlets and mandate public reporting of their ad spending.

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.

Important Note!
#Roku is forcing us to update our minimum device firmware targets by October 1, 2026. Currently we support old Roku OS versions going back into Roku OS 12, but they are forcing us to change the minimum to Roku OS 15.1.
Releases will be blocked if we do not make this change.
Y'all on older devices that are no longer updated or y'all who block automatic Ro…

She sat in a Tennessee jail for four months before Fargo officers picked her up on October 30.
Read more 👉 #Innocence

Wrongful Conviction, Qualified Immunity, and the Cost of Being Forgotten – Bob Mueller
Wrongful conviction, AI misidentification, and qualified immunity collide in a system that fails the innocent—and rarely makes them whole.

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

The California Values Act (SB 54) ensures that no state and local resources are used to assist federal immigration enforcement and that our schools, our hospitals, and our courthouses are safe spaces for everyone in our community.
SB 54 was signed into law on October 5, 2017 and went into effect January 1, 2018.
POLICE AND SHERIFFS:
Cannot ask about your immigration status.
Cannot arrest you only for having a deportation order or for most other immigration violations.

California Values Act (SB 54) - ACLU of Socal
The California Values Act (SB 54) ensures that no state and local resources are used to assist federal immigration enforcement and that our schools, our hospitals, and our courthouses are safe spaces for everyone in our community. SB 54 was signed into law on October 5, 2017 and went into effect January 1, 2018. POLICE […]

Students presented their work in my Canadian history grad seminar today: 2 papers on hockey (obviously) - QC and ON pro women's hockey in WWI and 1900-20s men's hockey in BC (refrigerated rinks); a venerable QC cookbook (La cuisine raisonnée); women in the RCAF and (un)sanctioned leisure in the 1950s; the RC Harris Water Treatment Plant (the best building in Toronto?); police repression post-October Crisis; currency in BC mining towns; and Heritage Minutes (burnt toast!). 3 hours of …

RE: https://techhub.social/@ironicbadger/116326155409620757
alt: Github historic uptime showing 100% from August 2016 to November 2018, marked by Microsoft acquisition; from there uptime starts to drop, hitting 100% for the last time in October 2019 an…

I'd be very disappointed if the phone has anything of interest on it - it was fleet managed and would (should?) have been remotely wiped the moment it was reported stolen.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpvp48x2d70o

Man arrested for selling Morgan McSweeney's stolen phone
McSweeney was the prime minister's chief of staff in October 2025 when his government phone was stolen in London.

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

2018 - 2026
Founded in 1918, Cusack’s Furniture is one of the longest-running continuous businesses in the Canberra region and has remained family-owned throughout its history. Closing end of October 2026.
#Canberra #History

One of Canberra's oldest businesses to close | Canberra Daily
After more than a century serving the Canberra community, Cusack’s Furniture has announced the business will close later this year.

Nuclear AI Startup Fermi Promised Land and Ample Power. But It Couldn't Sign a Single Client

The pitch ticked so many boxes — artificial intelligence, nuclear energy, political connections — that some investors found it irresistible. Fermi went public in October worth more than $19 billion in market value, despite reporting no revenue or signed customers.
Now, the startup’s board has fired its top executive, Toby Neugebauer, after months of negotiations failed to s…

Nuclear AI Startup Fermi Promised Land and Ample Power. But It Couldn't Sign a Single Client
Now the ex-CEO is waging a battle for Fermi’s future and its vision of atomic-powered data centers in the Texas panhandle.

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

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Prolapse:
🎵 The Fall of Cashline (6 Music Session, 29 October 2025)
#Prolapse
https://prolapse2.bandcamp.com/track/the-fall-of-cashline-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/3U70k15eIos3wRMoWFapNc

Parking enforcement is on duty! Western Seagull. Moonstone Beach, Cambria, California, USA. October, 2026. Fujifilm X100VI. #moonstonebeach #seagull #bird

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…

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.

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

After spending nearly half her life in the United States,
41-year-old Brazilian Amanda Ungaro was deported from the country last October.
She endured three hellish months in a detention center until she was expelled,
like more than 600,000 immigrants since Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025 and set out to carry out “the largest deportation in history.”
What is unusual in the case of this former model who worked at the United Nations is that,

Amanda Ungaro: From sharing soirées with the Trumps to being deported by ICE
The former Brazilian model and ex-ambassador to the United Nations speaks in an interview about her expulsion from the United States, which she attributes to maneuvers by her former partner, and about a flight on Epstein’s plane

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

Beeston, Weir Fields, Nottingham, October 2025
#photography #documentaryphotography #documentingspace #landscapephotography

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

Western Gull, standing on a fence. Moonstone Beach, Cambria, California, USA. October, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 40-150mm F4 #moonstonebeach #seagull #bird

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

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

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

Sources: Japanese news aggregation app operator SmartNews considers a Tokyo IPO listing as soon as October; its valuation may fall from $2B after a 2021 raise (Yasutaka Tamura/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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

Critics wonder if this is America’s “Suez moment,”
when a leading power signals the start of its international decline.
The Suez crisis took place in October 1956, when Britain, France and Israel attacked Egypt to force open the Suez Canal.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower, with an election days away, ordered them to stop.
Prime Minister Anthony Eden of Britain resigned.
President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt became a hero of anti-colonialism.
Suez became …

A Cease-Fire for Now in Iran, but a Blow to American Credibility
Critics wonder if this is America’s “Suez moment,” when a leading power signals the start of its international decline.

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...

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #SteveLamacq
Billy Bragg:
🎵 A13, Trunk Road to the Sea
#BillyBragg
https://billybragg.bandcamp.com/track/a13-trunk-road-to-the-sea-saturday-live-13th-october-1984
https://open.spotify.com/track/7MthAx0ivlTNM1yZ2L0rnD

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

People come to the Fediverse to connect with others around communities and topics of interest.
We’ve seen people enjoy their time on Mastodon the most, when they can follow and engage with individuals and organisations that have interesting things to share.
We want to help those who are new to the Fediverse discover these communities more easily.
Back in October 2025, we shared our initial ideas about a new feature that’s coming in Mastodon 4.6, that we’re calling "Coll…

Designing Collections
A new way to share and discover accounts on Mastodon

Beeston, Weir Fields, Nottingham, October 2025
#photography #documentaryphotography #documentingspace #landscapephotography

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Kissing Tigers:
🎵 October 17th, 1989
#KissingTigers

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

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…

Over two days in October 2025, up to 10,000 people are believed to have been massacred;
a further 40,000 civilians from the Sudanese city are still unaccounted for.
Heroism, horror and the ‘pits of hell’: inside the last days of El Fasher
This is the story of what happened

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
girl in red:
🎵 we fell in love in october
#girlinred
https://open.spotify.com/track/6IPwKM3fUUzlElbvKw2sKl

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

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…

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
American School Of Warsaw:
🎵 One God Awful Day In October
#AmericanSchoolOfWarsaw
https://open.spotify.com/track/5NtaSwCZmlfB35IxKihe1y

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

This is the photo that kicked off the Iran-Contra affair.
In October 1986, a Nicaraguan soldier shot down a cargo plane carrying military supplies to the rightwing rebel forces known as the Contras.
Pictured is the crash’s lone survivor, American ex-marine gunrunner Eugene Hasenfus.
His capture led to the revelation that the CIA was covertly supporting the Contras in their guerrilla war against Nicaragua’s socialist Sandinista government
– and Ronald Reagan’s governm…

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.

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.

Sources: Supabase is in talks to raise ~$500M at a ~$10B valuation, roughly doubling its October 2025 valuation; GIC is expected to lead the funding round (Katie Roof/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/database-startup…

Database Startup Supabase in Talks to Double Valuation to $10 Billion
Singapore’s GIC is in talks to lead an investment in database startup Supabase at a valuation of about $10 billion, double the level it raised at last fall, according to two people with direct knowledge of the discussions. Supabase is aiming to raise about $500 million in the fundraising round, ...

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

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Alphabet's stock climbed 10% on Thursday and 34% in April, its best month since 2004; Meta's stock plunged 8.5% on Thursday, its steepest drop since October (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/30/alphabet-meta-stock-ai-capex-spend.html

Meta tanks 9%, Alphabet climbs 7% as each company raises capex spend
Both Alphabet and Meta said they expect their capital expenditures to keep growing this year, but investors sent Alphabet's shares up, while Meta's stock slid.

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

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Yuval Noah Harari on Instagram: "The past few decades have been the first time in human history that states have consistently spent more on their citizens’ health than on war. With the threats to Greenland and Taiwan, and the wars in Ukraine and Iran, are we entering a new imperial era where countries must again focus their resources on weapons? From Building Trust in the Age of Disinformation – What Future Awaits Us? With Prof. Marijana Grbeša in October 2025. Watch the whole thing via link in bio. #YuvalNoahHarari #NewWorldOrder #Iran #Israel #Ukraine"
13K likes, 272 comments - yuval_noah_harari on March 15, 2026: "The past few decades have been the first time in human history that states have consistently spent more on their citizens’ health than on war. With the threats to Greenland and Taiwan, and the wars in Ukraine and Iran, are we entering a new imperial era where countries must again focus their resources on weapons? From Building Trust in the Age of Disinformation – What Future Awaits Us? With Prof. Marijana Grbeša in October 20…

Sources: Meta drew about $96B of orders from investors for a $25B bond sale it launched on Thursday; Meta sold $30B of corporate bonds in October 2025 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-30/meta-kicks-off…

Since October, an intelligence battalion in the 82nd Airborne Division has been using home-grown AI tools that unit leaders say reduce staff work and make it easier to support the “All American” requirement of being able to deploy anywhere across the globe within 18 hours.
Officials told DefenseScoop in a recent interview that they’ve used the capabilities — created in Maven Smart System — to aggregate personnel, equipment and property management information across the unit,
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An 82nd Airborne unit built its own AI tools as the Army pushes a ‘safe playground’ for soldiers to experiment with the tech
The Army is inviting soldiers to its "safe playground" for AI experimentation. A unit in the 82nd Airborne Division created its own AI tools.

Bengaluru-based Snabbit, an on-demand home services startup, raised a $56M Series D, a source says at a ~$350M valuation, up from $180M in October 2025 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/27/indi

India's Snabbit closes $56M round as investor interest in on-demand home services heats up | TechCrunch
Snabbit now processes over 40,000 daily jobs and has cut costs sharply as it expands across cities and services.

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.

Have I Been Pwned: ShinyHunters' breach of ADT exposed the personal data of 5.5M people; ADT previously disclosed data breaches in August 2024 and October 2024 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

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/…

Intel stock closes up 23.6%, its best performance since October 1987, as Intel shows signs of renewed growth amid the AI boom; the stock is up 124% YTD (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/24/intel-stock-soars-more-than-20perce…

Intel's stock soars more than 20% as chipmaker shows signs of a turnaround
Shares of Intel have more than doubled this year on optimism that backing from the government will help the company's position in AI.

Nvidia stock jumps 4.3% to close at a record for the first time since Oct., pushing Nvidia's market cap past $5T, as a rally in Intel pushed chipmakers higher (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/24/nvidia-stock-closes-at-…

Nvidia stock closes at record, pushing market cap past $5 trillion
Nvidia's stock closed at its first record since October, as a rally in Intel pushed chipmakers higher.