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Since the so-called ceasefire came into effect in Gaza on October 10,
Israel has been consolidating its control of over 50% of Gaza and
—according to new research by Forensic Architecture
—physically altering the geography of the land.
Through a combination of the construction of military infrastructure alongside the destruction of existing buildings,
Israel appears to be laying the groundwork to establish a permanent presence in the majority of the Gaza Strip.

YouTube's head of products for podcasts Steve McLendon says viewers streamed 700M hours of podcasts on TV in October, up from 400M hours in October 2024 (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

People Watched 700 Million Hours of YouTube Podcasts on TV in October
That’s up from 400 million hours a year ago as podcasts become the new late-night TV.

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

Do(n't) look down...
(View down into Oytal from a precarious section of the ridge path near Laufbacher Eck & Schneck, late October 2021)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography

YouTube dominates daytime TV streaming, with 6.3M viewers at 11am in October on average, above Netflix's 2.8M, per Nielsen; prime-time viewership is more even (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.c…

YouTube Has a Firm Grip on Daytime TV
YouTube’s big streaming lead over Netflix and other competitors stems in large part to its dominance during daylight hours.

When Meta released its new AI-enhanced smart glasses last October, many minds travelled back to Google Glass, the search giant’s abortive venture into the same territory a decade previously. A lot has changed in 10 years.
https://www.computing.co.…

When AI goes hands-free: The rise of smart glasses and humanoid robots
In the fourth part of our coverage of IT trends in 2026, we look at the return of smart glasses and the rise of humanoid ...

Elephant Seal resting on the beach. Piedras Blancas Elephant Seal Rookery, San Simeon, California, USA. October, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4.0 PRO MC14 #piedrasblancasrookery #sansimeon

Before you leave for the weekend (or maybe even a long holiday break), make sure you check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--The UK Foreign Office was hacked in October
--Delay in keystroke led Amazon to imposter discovery,
--A second suspect was arrested in an attempted Italian ferry malware attack,
--Denmark blames Russia for destructive cyberattacks,
--LongNosedGoblin is targeting SE Asian and Ja…

The UK Foreign Office was hacked in October
Delay in keystroke led Amazon to imposter discovery, A second suspect was arrested in an attempted Italian ferry malware attack, Denmark blames Russia for destructive cyberattacks, LongNosedGoblin is targeting SE Asian and Japanese governments, NHS tech company hit with cyber incident, much more

Browns will not activate Deshaun Watson to 53-man roster ahead of final two games https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6911626/2025/12/23/deshaun-watson-browns-pup-list-2025/

YouTube dominates daytime TV streaming, with 6.3M viewers at 11am in October on average, above Netflix's 2.8M, per Nielsen; prime-time viewership is more even (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.c…

YouTube Has a Firm Grip on Daytime TV
YouTube’s big streaming lead over Netflix and other competitors stems in large part to its dominance during daylight hours.

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

In the corridors of Washington, D.C., whispers of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s potential retirement have grown into a roar.
At 75 years old and marking 20 years on the bench, Alito’s upcoming book release on October 6, 2026,
just one day after the start of the Court’s new term,
has fueled intense speculation that he may step down to ensure his conservative legacy endures under Trump’s second term.
With Republicans holding the Senate majority ahead of the 202…

Supreme Court Shake-Up? Alito Exit Could Hand Trump Critical 2A Appointment
In the corridors of Washington, D.C., whispers of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's potential retirement have grown into a roar.

YouTube's head of products for podcasts Steve McLendon says viewers streamed 700M hours of podcasts on TV in October, up from 400M hours in October 2024 (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

People Watched 700 Million Hours of YouTube Podcasts on TV in October
That’s up from 400 million hours a year ago as podcasts become the new late-night TV.

Character.ai is cutting off access to ongoing chats for users under 18 over mental-health concerns, after adding a two-hour daily limit on October 29 (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/character-ai-t

Teens Are Saying Tearful Goodbyes to Their AI Companions
Chatbot maker Character.AI is cutting off access, citing mental-health concerns. Teens are distraught: ‘I cried over it for days.’

Flashback. I found a reminder of my July 2014 plan for a three-year transition away from Mac OS X.
From an October 2014 post:
― a screenshot of Apple bullshit in its revised Human Interface Guidelines.
＂… Safari … displays webpage titles in the URL bar …＂
#Apple #Safari

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

Month to Month: What we learned in October https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/month-to-month-what-we-learned-in-october-x7929

As US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents wreak havoc on American communities,
big tech companies have been making themselves indispensable to the increasingly tyrannical state.
Among them is Amazon subsidiary Ring,
the company behind those AI doorbell cameras that have exploded in popularity over the last few years.
Back in October, Ring announced that its devices would soon be looped into a network of Flock AI surveillance cameras.
That network, an inv…

Fury as Amazon Ring Cameras Are Hooked Up to ICE System
Online activists are telling owners of Ring Doorbell cameras that it's time to get rid of their devices, which can be used by ICE.

Browns win not activate Deshaun Watson to 53-man roster ahead of final two games https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6911626/2025/12/23/browns-win-not-activate-deshaun-watson-to-53-man-roster-ahead-of-final-two-game…

Here’s the underlying data source:
https://www.challengergray.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Challenger-Report-October-2025.pdf
A bit thin on methodology, shall we say, so take it as you will.
2/

Sources: India raises concerns about the misuse of Indian phone numbers on WhatsApp, which banned 9.8M Indian accounts per month on average in 2025 to October (Kiran Rathee/The Economic Times)
https://econom…

Concern over misuse extent even as WhatsApp bans 1 cr numbers a month
The Indian government is concerned about the widespread misuse of Indian mobile numbers on platforms like WhatsApp, with millions of accounts banned monthly for violations. Officials are discussing with WhatsApp how to curb this, as the platform's refusal to share banned numbers hinders efforts to combat cyber fraud and scams.

"what does the Kremlin brand as “traditional values”? While Putin denounces Western modernity as a moral threat, Russia itself contradicts its supposed ideals: children are abducted from occupied territories of Ukraine, domestic violence is normalized, religious minorities are persecuted, and soldiers’ lives are deemed expendable."
The Ugly Truth Behind the “Traditional Values” Russia Sells — UNITED24 Media [from October]
https://united24media.com/anti-fake/the-ugly-truth-behind-the-traditional-values-russia-sells-11690

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

#socialcoop So our Meet.Coop instance has been down for 3 weeks, and from what I see on https://forum.meet.coop/t/meet-coop-update-october-2025/1739/47, it's not clear w…

Meet.coop update October 2025
Me and Nick worked on the servers again today. Everything me and Nick have access to is now backed up now using encrypted backups (Restic and Borgbase). For anyone wondering this is the current plan with recordings: Can I recover my recordings despite service being down? - #3 by kawaiipunk Unfortunately we still don’t have all the access we need to complete our work. We are still missing: ssh/root access to ca.meet.coop Keycloak sso.meet.coop master realm access Hetzner account access - f…

Cyber spies use fake New Year concert invites to target Russian military https://therecord.media/cyber-spies-fake-new-year-concert-russian-phishing

"Uncertainties in the Archives" @…:
https://blog.sbb.berlin/uncertainties-in-the-archives/
"Over the course of …

Flame Skimmer Dragonfly hanging onto a branch with its mandibles. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. October 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4. #laarboretum #dragonfly #flameskimmer

Month to Month: What we learned in October https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/month-to-month-what-we-learned-in-october-x7929

4 Takeaways From the Chargers' Win Over the Cowboys https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/4-takeaways-from-chargers-win-over-cowboys

What we know is circumstantial for the most part, but we DO know this:
that on October 23rd, he formally abandoned fluxus-influenced deconstructivist cyberfeminist html4 net art forever, signing onto the ranks of the BigTop Anthropomorphic Circus under the new identity of Aypo da Chimpboy, the name that would catapult him to international Tiktok stardom, universal splendor, launch a unique signature line of Jeffree Star lip scrubs and accompanying chiffon bathing products, and spawn en…

AI finds 12 zero day exploits in OpenSSH.
Seems hard to argue with as evidence of productive AI use. Real-world use case, with plenty of humans looking for the same thing.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7aJwgbMEiKq5egQbd/…

AI found 12 of 12 OpenSSL zero-days (while curl cancelled its bug bounty) — LessWrong
This is a partial follow-up to AISLE discovered three new OpenSSL vulnerabilities from October 2025. …

Wanna see an amazing uninterrupted multi-day timelapse of the plasma tail of comet #Lemmon blowing the #SolarWind in October/November? It's happening in the #PUNCH video embedded in the press release https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/punch/2025/12/18/nasas-punch-releases-refined-images-of-eruptions-from-the-sun/ - and see also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Kk05oIEeJ0 for a version with constellation lines.

In The Garden Of Eden.
(From one of my favorite hikes last year, October 2025... a place of absolute solitude, harmony, peace and positive vibes, a feast for the eyes)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography

Labor market lost 41,000 jobs over October, November;
Unemployment rate is up
The October loss of more than 100,000 jobs was particularly striking,
-- the sharpest losses since the covid pandemic-era recession.
But economists expected losses in October
-- because the data reflected tens of thousands of federal workers who deferred resignation and officially parted ways with the federal government in October.
Federal government payrolls fell by 162,000 j…

Unemployment rate rises, signaling weakness in the economy
The labor market cool down continued this fall, according to new jobs numbers released on a delayed scheduled by the Labor Department.

TIL Chris Paul/CP3 hosted a Halloween party for players & staffers in his suite at Sofi (Rams) stadium in October.
Only 3 people showed.
▶️ Inside the ugly Chris Paul - LA Clippers divorce - ESPN
https://www.espn.com/nba/story…

Inside the turmoil at Thinking Machines; sources say Meta discussed buying TML, and CTO Barret Zoph had been in talks since October 2025 about an OpenAI return (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technology/thinking-machines-ai-startup-o…

The Drama at Thinking Machines, a New A.I. Start-Up, Is Riveting Silicon Valley
Defections, secret conversations, deal talks that fizzled and a battle for control: The turmoil at Thinking Machines Lab is the artificial intelligence industry’s latest drama.

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

Blue October's #song Hate Me may be the most painfully emotional song I've ever heard.
#music #alternative

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Okonski:
🎵 October –
#Okonski
https://open.spotify.com/track/2H5IEbMZnikxlbHki7m3Su

I really don't understand why, with no negotiations since October, Mayor Lurie and Congesswoman Pelosi believe that NOW is the time to urge for a 72 hr delay in a strike action. Maybe they could have offered constructive engagement earlier? The strike vote was no surprise.
("Negotiations between the San Francisco Unified School District and the United Educators of San Francisco started in March, but reached an impasse by October. The two sides only returned to the bargaining…

San Francisco teachers strike: Here’s where both sides stand
The teachers union and the school district still remain far apart on wages, healthcare, and special education.

I really don't understand why, with no negotiations since October, Mayor Lurie and Congesswoman Pelosi believe that NOW is the time to urge for a 72 hr delay in a strike action. Maybe they could have offered constructive engagement earlier? The strike vote was no surprise.
("Negotiations between the San Francisco Unified School District and the United Educators of San Francisco started in March, but reached an impasse by October. The two sides only returned to the bargaining…

San Francisco teachers strike: Here’s where both sides stand
The teachers union and the school district still remain far apart on wages, healthcare, and special education.

Sources: Amazon is planning a second round of job cuts next week as part of its goal of trimming 30,000 corporate workers, after cutting 14,000 jobs in October (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-

Check out my hallucinated 2025 #YouTubeMusicRecap
@… and I are exploring this mystery: I've never listened to this soundtrack, for a show that came out in December 2025, but YouTube Music thinks I listened to it 114 times going back…

Found an old power bill while cleaning up. In the end of 2018 I was paying 9.05 c/kWh for the first 600 kWh and 10.94 above.
Now it's 15.1 and 17.0.
The rate of increase was very much nonlinear though: from October 2018 to October 2024 (six years) the tier 1 rate only climbed by 27%.
It went up 10.5% in 2024 and 20.7% in 2025 alone.

Foggy afternoon on the boardwalk at Moonstone Beach, Cambria, California, USA. October, 2025. Fujifilm X100VI. #moonstonebeach #boardwalk #fog

TFW you notice that your Synology-local-backup to cloud-backup hasn't been working since you moved in October 2024 because you’d stupidly hardwired the Synology DNS to the former residence’s now-wrong 192.168. Would have been sad if the house burned down. Would have been nice if the Synology had complained.
Discovered this in the course of a search for a non-US (ideally Canadian) Synology-friendly cloud backup. Promising: eazyBackup and ionos.ca HiDrive.

"A National Audit Office investigation revealed in October last year that a staggering 98% of external insulation fitted under the previous government’s home-improvement schemes was installed so ineptly that it will have to be repaired or replaced."
Surprise, surprise.
Britain's building industry is unbelievably shoddy.

Morning hike in the Lechtal Alps (October 2024)
We seemingly had the valley all to ourselves, for the first few hours the valley floor still mostly frozen with crunchy hoarfrost until the sun was high enough in the sky. The cirque at the end of the valley already completely in deep winter. These transitions (often within just a few minutes) are so magical and unique to mountain regions...
#FootpathFriday

"The latest data showed that the economy created 64,000 net new jobs in November following a decline of 105,000 in October. The Journal's editors noted in a new editorial that the figure "sounds worse than it is because the net jobs decline was all in government jobs.""
'Some renaissance': WSJ editorial board roasts Trump's latest economic report - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/wall-street-journal-2674405810/

Long-billed Curlew (Sandpiper)and reflection strolling on the sand. Piedras Blancas Rookery, San Simeon, California, USA. October, 2025. OM System OM1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4 MC14. #sandpiper #curlew #longbilledcurlew

Palestinian journalists describe being systematically tortured, abused, beaten, and starved in Israel's prisons between October 2023 and January 2026 (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2026/02/palestinian-journalists-reco…

Palestinian journalists recount abuse in Israeli prisons, CPJ report finds  - Committee to Protect Journalists
International community must pursue accountability for Palestinian journalists harmed in Israeli custody Amman, February 19, 2026 — Palestinian journalists describe being systematically abused, beaten and starved in Israel prisons, according to a new report published by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).  The report, ‘We returned from hell’: Palestinian journalists recount torture in Israeli prisons,...

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

In October last year, US chip giant Qualcomm acquired Italian open source electronics and software pioneer Arduino. Not everyone was happy.
https://www.computing.co.uk/interview/2026/arduino-ceo-we-will-always-be-open-source

Arduino CEO: We will always be open source
In October last year, US chip giant Qualcomm acquired Italian open source electronics and software pioneer Arduino. Not everyone was happy.

Source: OpenAI's compute margin has jumped to about 70% in October from about 52% at the end of 2024 and roughly 35% in January 2024 (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-getting-efficient-running…

OpenAI Is Getting More Efficient at Running Its AI, Internal Financials Show
As OpenAI discusses raising an unprecedented investment round of up to $100 billion, it can crow about some key improvements to how it runs its business. While its total computing costs are still high as a percentage of revenue, it is wringing more revenue out of every dollar it spends to run ...

Cowboys' Trevon Diggs finally explains concussion; unsure of future with team https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/21/cowboys-trevon-diggs-explains-concussion-unsu…

OpenEvidence, which is building "ChatGPT for doctors", raised $250M led by Thrive and DST at a $12B valuation, up from $6B in October and $1B in February 2025 (Kate Rooney/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/21/openevidence-chatg…

OpenEvidence, the 'ChatGPT for doctors,' doubles valuation to $12 billion
OpenEvidence, based in Massachusetts, has topped a $12 billion valuation in a funding round led by Thrive and DST.

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

Google returns as a partner service for Movies Anywhere, after leaving the service during a feud with Disney in October and November (Will Sattelberg/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/12/18/google-youtube-return-movies-anywhere-how-to-re-…

Google and YouTube return to Movies Anywhere, here’s how to re-link your account
As promised, both Google Play and YouTube have returned to Movies Anywhere, here's how to restore your account link.

Western Gull scratching an itch. Moonstone Beach, Cambria, California,USA. October, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4 PRO. #moonstonebeach #cambriacalifornia #seagull…

"The Israeli narrative traditionally pivoted on moral high ground and strategic restraint. That image is now broken, buried, and forever finished. "
The ruptured Mirror: How 7 October broke the Israeli Narrative
https://www.juancole.com/2025/12/ruptured-october-narrative.html

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

Rosie McGee,
handcuffed to Bob Weir, front,
with other members of the 710 Ashbury collective being led out of the house after being arrested by police following a drug raid on the famous Grateful Dead house in Haight Ashbury on OCTOBER 2, 1967.
"By the time a paddy wagon arrived to take us down to the Hall of Justice, a crowd had gathered across the street.
Bob Weir and I were handcuffed together and as we came down the stairs, the crowd cheered.
A broad…

Sources: Applied Compute, which lets companies customize models with their own data, is in talks to raise funding at a $1.3B valuation, up from $500M in October (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/applied…

Applied Compute, Founded by Ex-OpenAI Researchers, in Talks for $1.3 Billion Valuation
Applied Compute, a startup founded by three former OpenAI researchers that helps companies customize models with their own data, is in talks to raise new funding at a $1.3 billion valuation, including the investment, according to four people with knowledge of the discussions. The funding would ...

A profile of Josh Woodward, the head of Google Labs who is credited with turning around the Gemini app, growing its MAUs from 350M in March to 650M by October (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/20/josh-woodward-google-gemini-ai-safety.html

Google was at risk of losing its dominance — until it promoted this AI executive
Josh Woodward, a 16-year Google veteran, is tasked with running the Gemini app and going head-to-head with OpenAI in the booming generative AI market.

Universal Music Group partners with music creation platform Splice to build "advanced commercial AI tools" for musical artists (Ethan Millman/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/mu

Universal Music Group and Splice Ink AI Partnership
The new pact is the latest AI music development for the world's largest music company after settling a lawsuit with Udio in October.

Bills activate DT Ed Oliver from injured reserve ahead of divisional playoff game https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6977785/2026/01/16/ed-oliver-buffalo-bills-activated-ir/

Western Gull looking around. Moonstone Beach, Cambria, California,USA. October, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4 PRO. #moonstonebeach #cambriacalifornia #seagull

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

US private payrolls unexpectedly declined in November, the ADP employment report showed on Wednesday.
Private employment decreased by 32,000 jobs last month
after an upwardly revised 47,000 increase in October.
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast private employment rising by 10,000 jobs after a previously reported 42,000 rebound in October.

Sources: UK officials believe China was behind the October cyber attack on the UK's Foreign Office, which aimed to access tens of thousands of sensitive files (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/fc7ebe87-8099-45f8-a8c2-2cf1c0b7dd83

Toblinger Knoten / Torre di Toblin
(October 2024)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

Sources: AI chipmaker Cerebras plans to file for a US IPO as soon as next week, targeting a Q2 2026 listing, after withdrawing its prior IPO filing in October (Echo Wang/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/ai-chip-firm-cerebras…

Over 100 people from Bay Area faith communities
🔥 shut down ICE’s San Francisco Field Office at 630 Sansome Street this morning,
chaining themselves across the two main entrances to stop ICE from kidnapping community members at their immigration check-ins.
 
Between May and October 2025, ICE arrested over 120 immigrants at the San Francisco ICE Field Office and San Francisco immigration court.
 
"We can no longer stand by and watch as our neighbors a…

Bay Area Faith Communities Shut Down ICE’s San Francisco Field Office : Indybay
Call for an End to ICE Kidnappings

Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners is exiting from Paramount's takeover bid for WBD, citing changed investment dynamics since it joined the bid in October (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-16/ku…

Sources: Amazon shut down Blue Jay, a multi-armed robotic system launched in October 2025 for same-day delivery warehouses, to focus on small modular warehouses (Eugene Kim/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-pulls-plug-blue-jay-warehous…

Amazon pulls the plug on 'Blue Jay' warehouse robot after only a few months
Amazon shutters Blue Jay robot as it transitions to Orbital, a new modular warehouse system enhancing same-day delivery capabilities.

Hey Bandcamp Fridays are fee-free!
The artist gets 100%, 12-12 PST.
Bandcamp Fridays will be continuing in 2026! Find the dates below, and mark your calendars:
February 6th
March 6th
May 1st
August 7th
September 4th
October 2nd
November 6th
December 4th.
-- Jay Peach
My bandcamp site is 👇
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Substack notifies users about a "limited" data breach in October 2025, found on February 3 and now patched; a threat actor leaked a database of ~697K records (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

Newsletter platform Substack notifies users of data breach
Newsletter platform Substack is notifying users of a data breach after attackers stole their email addresses and phone numbers in October 2025.

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

Sources: AI legal software startup Legora is in talks to raise $400M at a $5B valuation, after raising $150M in October 2025 at a $1.8B valuation (Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2026/02/17/legal-…

Legal AI Startup Legora Eyes $400 Million Raise At $5 Billion-Plus Valuation
As investors double down on the promise of automating legal work, the company is in talks to raise $400 million following two rounds in late 2025.

Pink Rosebud starting to open Descanso Gardens, La Canada Flintridge, California, USA. October, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4 PRO. #rose #rosebud #descansogardens

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

Temporal, which builds open-source software to ensure "durable execution" of code, raised a $300M Series D at a $5B valuation, up from $2.5B in October 2025 (Krystal Hu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Analysis: of the 8,808 global data centers in October 2025, ~7,000 are in areas outside the optimal 18C to 27C temperature range; 600 are in areas above 27C (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/data-center-heat-map/

We mapped the world’s hottest data centers
In 21 countries, all data centers are located in climates that are too hot.

Anthropic opens a Bengaluru office, its second in Asia, says its India run rate revenue doubled since October, and curates training data for 10 Indic languages (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/bengaluru-office-partnerships-across-india

Anthropic opens Bengaluru office and announces new partnerships across India
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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

Sources say Monzo CEO TS Anil, who announced his exit and handover to ex-Googler Diana Layfield in October, was pushed out by the board over an IPO timing clash (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5aa2f310-d023-441d-97e4-a23ba6ad0874

Sources: Waymo is in discussions to raise more than $15B at a valuation near $100B, in a round led by Alphabet; an October 2024 round valued Waymo at above $45B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-16/waymo-se…

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: OpenAI last fall set aside RSUs worth 10% of the company, which was valued in October at $500B; it has already awarded about $80B in vested equity (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-reserves-50-billion-sto…

OpenAI Reserves $50 Billion for Stock Grant Pool
OpenAI last fall set aside an employee stock grant pool worth 10% of the company, which was valued in October at $500 billion, according to two people with knowledge of the plans. The $50 billion pool of restricted stock units should last for roughly five years and should rise in value as the ...

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

Databricks is raising a $4B Series L at a $134B valuation, up from $100B in August and $62B in December 2024, and had a $4.8B annual revenue run rate in October (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/databricks…

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

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

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

The US urged UN members to take a tougher stance against North Korea IT worker scams and crypto thefts; an October 2025 report said 40 countries were affected (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
https://therecord.media/40-countries-impacted-nk-it-thefts-united-nations

More than 40 countries impacted by North Korea IT worker scams, crypto thefts
Eleven countries led a session at the UN headquarters in New York centered around a 140-page report released last fall that covered North Korea’s extensive cyber-focused efforts to fund its nuclear and ballistic weapons program.

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

OpenAI quietly adopted Anthropic's "skills" mechanism in ChatGPT and Codex; ChatGPT's skills include creating and modifying spreadsheets, docx files, and PDFs (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/12/openai-skills/

OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI
One of the things that most excited me about Anthropic’s new Skills mechanism back in October is how easy it looked for other platforms to implement. A skill is just …

Families of October 7 victims sue Binance and Changpeng Zhao in US federal court, alleging Binance facilitated millions in payments to Hamas after October 7 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/0aea27d8-89a8-4f33-8bfa-2441a16f2b4d

Sources: Bengaluru-based quick grocery delivery startup Zepto confidentially files for a ~$1.3B India IPO; Zepto raised $450M at a $7B valuation in October 2025 (Pranav Mukul/The Economic Times)
https://economi…

Zepto makes confidential filing with Sebi for $1.3 billion IPO: sources
The listing is planned for the July-September quarter of 2026. In October, the quick commerce major had closed a $450 million round, valuing it at $7 billion. As of late November, Zepto had around Rs 7,000 crore in cash, while competitors Eternal and Swiggy each have around Rs 17,000-18,000 crore on their books currently.

Adobe launches free ChatGPT-integrated apps for Photoshop, Acrobat, and Express on desktop, the web, and iOS, after OpenAI added app integrations in October (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/841369/chatgpt-apps-adobe-photoshop-acrobat…

ChatGPT can now use Adobe apps to edit your photos and PDFs for free
Adobe is giving ChatGPT users integrated apps for Photoshop, Acrobat, and Express for designing and editing their work without having to switch apps.