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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.

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

In October, ice agents “smashed the car windows and detained all seven occupants” of a van that they thought suspicious because people in it were going to work together. Carpooling. Carpooling is foreign and unintelligible to the brilliant and diligent ice agent who testified as JB. The concept of carpooling is beyond JB’s comprehension. 🤦‍♂️
The intellect on JB could be studied (but might make anyone studying it dumber).

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

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...

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.

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.

🇺🇦 #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

A reminder for those in Ottawa and Ontario...
Upcoming municipal elections will be October 26, 2026.
You can check to see if you are on the voter list. It takes at most 2 minutes.
The last election it took us maybe 10 minutes and they made sure handicapped voters had everything they needed.
If you don't vote then DON'T BITCH!

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.

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

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

The new emojis are out - at least the ones Apple includes in the next iOS update:
Distorted Face, Fight Cloud, Hairy Creature, Ballet Dancer, Orca, Landslide, Trombone, Treasure Chest
Another emoji originally was on the list for Unicode 17, then postponed to 18, and in October 25, it was removed from the draft. Probably because a certain company in the consortium took offense to it.
U 1FADD

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

🇺🇦 #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

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 […]

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

#Israel will elect a new government on 27th October 2026.
These days we tend to ascribe the #Holocaust to 'the Nazis', not 'the Germans'; and that's reasonable because not all Germans supported the Nazis -- despite the fact that

Beeston Weir, Nottingham, October 2025
#photography #documentaryphotography #documentingspace #banalphotography

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

I just looked through my email, and there was an offer from a #TTRPG #Patreon account I follow, giving me 50% off my first month should I upgrade to a paid membership.
An account, incidentally, that hasn’t posted since October, and whose last Kickstarter I backed is more than six years overdue.
Needle…

#EECONF is coming to Toronto!
Two Days. One Community. Real-World Insight.
October 7-8, 2026
Secure your spot with an Extra Early Bird (EE-Bird) Ticket.
On sale now, and just like the best seats in the house, they won't last long.
!! Ya Toronto !!
htt…

EECONF 2026
Join us in Toronto this October 7-8, 2026 for EECONF — great sessions, great community, and Canada’s beautiful capital city 😉. Buy your tickets today!

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

CFP: Loss and Melancholy in Early Modern Europe (Sixteenth Century Society, Chicago, 29-31 October 2026)
https://ift.tt/vKlatD2
updated: Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - 4:36pmfull name / name of organization: Hayley Cotter, University…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Seahawks bringing back WR Rashid Shaheed on 3-year deal: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7088251/2026/03/09/rashid-shaheed-seahawks-nfl-free-agency-2026/

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…

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

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

Shot ...and chaser (and it's only Tuesday): Two new 8x6" prints done over the weekend, from one of my fave repeat hikes in the Allgäuer Alps...
Alpsee and view into the Lechtal Alps (November 2021)
Himmeleck mountain pass with Großer Wilder (October 2023)
I find the aesthetics of the Kallitype process are so nicely complementing the timelessness of these places...
For some of the next prints I will be switching to Rochelle salt as developer for supposedly even…

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.

It's the deadliest year for those in immigration detention in more than two decades.
More people have died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody since October — 23 — than died in the whole prior fiscal year.
The most recent death was of a 56-year-old Haitian man held at an immigration detention center in Arizona. He died in a hospital after going into septic shock.
The increase in deaths comes as nearly 70,000 people are in ICE detention, the highest number in sev…

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/

Amazing Stories vol. 24, no. 10 (October 1950), by ed. Howard Browne
Entire issue from here: https://zirk.us/@SFFMagazineCovers/116196673150408723

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.

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

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

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…

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://infosec.exchange/@metacurity/116186426545144965
“Between October 2024 and January 2025, Kliger's social media posts included controversial views and reposted content from figures such as white supremacist Nick Fuentes and self-described…

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

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

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

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.

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.

Swedish legal AI startup Legora raised a $550M Series D led by Accel, tripling its valuation to $5.55B since its October 2025 raise, as it expands in the US (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-1…

Apropos of Denim Dan Lurie's tax break for rich real estate investors... The mayor's brother is a luxury real estate agent, and he told the Chronicle in October that the problem with SF housing was a "mansion shortage."
https://www.sfchronicle.com/reale…

ICE detention facilities in FY 2026.
Colors are by type of contract, though many of the "jails" are themselves state facilities operated by private prison corporations, Bolded names indicate facilities opened or reactivated since October 1, 2024.
#ICE #immigrationdetention

"Justice" (SCLA, October 29-31 2026, Austin TX)
https://ift.tt/wbEI1mt
updated: Tuesday, February 24, 2026 - 5:02pmfull name / name of organization: Society for…
via Input 4 RELCFP

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.

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

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

Bergrücken
(From the same October morning as the previous image...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

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

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

Sleepy Seagull. Moonstone Beach, Cambria, California, USA. October, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4 MC14. #moonstonebeach #cambria #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

Russell Wilson explains reaction to Sean Payton comments: 'Just don't disrespect me' https://www.nfl.com/news/russell-wilson-explains-reaction-to-sean-payton-comments-just-don-t-disrespect-me

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…

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

Early morning in Ötztal
(A sleepy and peaceful Sunday morning in October 2025, the view south-west over Längenfeld towards Hoher Kogel, 3296m)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

Beeston Weir, Nottingham, October 2025
#photography #documentaryphotography #documentingspace #banalphotography

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
girl in red:
🎵 we fell in love in october
#girlinred
https://open.spotify.com/track/6IPwKM3fUUzlElbvKw2sKl

Sources: AI chipmaker Cerebras could raise ~$2B in its IPO as soon as April; it withdrew its previous IPO registration in October, nearly a year after filing (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-06/ai-c…

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

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

Apple TV will offer Season 8 of Netflix's Drive to Survive F1 docuseries in the US; in turn, Netflix will air Apple TV's Canadian Grand Prix coverage in the US (Madeline Coleman/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7072759/2026/02/26…

Season eight of Netflix’s ‘Drive to Survive’ to be shown on Apple TV in the U.S.
In October, Apple TV agreed a deal to become Formula One's exclusive U.S. broadcaster.

A look at SpaceX's IPO, reportedly aiming to raise up to $50B at a $1.75T valuation, more than seven times higher than its ~$200B valuation in October 2024 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5bf1fe0c-1593-49b7-aaf1-18e7da9b36ed

SpaceX: the final frontier of IPOs
Can Elon Musk’s moonshot deliver the mooted $1.75tn valuation?

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

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: Kalshi and Polymarket are each eyeing valuations of ~$20B in fundraising talks; Kalshi was valued at $11B in December and Polymarket at $9B in October (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/kalshi-a…

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…

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

China's Hang Seng Tech Index, which includes Chinese tech giants like Tencent and Alibaba, is down 28% since October 2025, shedding nearly $600B in market value (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-…

Beeston Weir, Nottingham, October 2025
#photography #documentaryphotography #documentingspace #banalphotography

Sources: Walmart-backed PhonePe targets an up to $10.5B valuation in its Indian IPO; PhonePe raised $600M from General Atlantic at a $14.5B valuation in October (Jaspreet Kalra/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/walmar

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Model Rockets:
🎵 May Is October
#TheModelRockets
https://open.spotify.com/track/5i4VLoFrWojgYUcJuT65Jn

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DV6Us8pMwpy/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

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…

Elon Musk defends his social media posts in a Twitter shareholder trial accusing him of misleading statements about the deal before acquiring Twitter in 2022 (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-lawsuit-share…

Elon Musk takes stand in shareholder trial in San Francisco over Twitter stock
A defiant Elon Musk on Wednesday took the stand in a jury trial to defend himself against accusations that he engaged in a pattern of deceptive behavior that misled investors as he attempted to back out of his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter before he finally completed the takeover. The civil trial in San Francisco centers on a class-action lawsuit filed just before Musk took control of Twitter in October 2022, six months after agreeing to buy the embattled company for $44 billion, or $54.20 pe…

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, ...

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,
red…

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.

Sources: Reflection AI, which is developing open foundation models, seeks to raise $2B at a $20B valuation, after raising $2B at an $8B valuation in October (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/07073c8f-7176-471c-ac69-ef1458845fb2

The government of California is implementing a law that requires operating system providers to implement some form of age verification into their account setup procedures.
Assembly Bill No. 1043 was approved by California governor Gavin Newsom in October of last year, and becomes active on January 1, 2027 (via The Lunduke Journal).
The bill states, among other factors, that "An operating system provider shall do all of the following:"
"(1) Provide an accessib…

A new California law says all operating systems, including Linux, need to have some form of age verification at account setup
It's basic, and by the looks of it, near unenforceable.

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

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…

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.

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.

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: US semiconductor companies face worsening rare earth shortages, as shipments still rarely make it to the US despite an October 2025 detente with China (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace

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

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.

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

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

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

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.