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eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.

So my other big piece of the day is an inside look at the struggle for the future of the CVE program that just went live at CyberScoop.
Many thanks to Jay Jacobs of Empirical Security, Nick Leiserson of the Institute for Security and Technology, Mitchel Herckis of Wiz, Brian Fox of Sonatype, Peter Allor of the CVE Foundation, Ben Edwards of Bitsight and a few experts who go unnamed for their insight.

As Tomahawk pressure vanishes, Russia escalating strikes on Ukraine's energy sector, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/21/as-tomahawk-pressure-vanishes-russia.html

"Disney is under siege from all sides.
Within 48 hours of its decision to pull late-night host Jimmy Kimmel off the air indefinitely, the parent company of ABC has once again found itself at the center of a bitter political battle. The company now faces protests outside its studios, celebrities threatening to break ties and political pressure from Republicans and Democrats."

Pressure mounts on Disney over Kimmel suspension as some boycott calls spread
Within 48 hours of its decision to pull late-night host Jimmy Kimmel off the air indefinitely, Disney has once again found itself at the center of a bitter political battle.

Polizeiruf 110: Sie sind unter uns • #ARD #MDR
https://www.ardmediathek.de/tv-programm/689b13ef…

Oura launches a redesigned app with a new metric to show a weekly overview of stress management and says it is working with the US FDA on a blood pressure study (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/802527/oura-ring-stress-blood-pres…

Oura redesigns app with expanded stress tracking
The company is launching a study that uses ring data to detect ‘early signs of hypertension.’

On a practical level, I think the UK should immediately revert to the pre-2021 proscription of Hamas (between 2001 and 2021 a distinction was made between militant operations and civil administration).
(Separately I also think that Palestine Action should be de-proscribed until the government is prepared to make a public case.)
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Proscribed terrorist groups or organisations
List of terrorist groups or organisations banned under UK law, and details of proscription criteria.

DeepThink3D: Enhancing Large Language Models with Programmatic Reasoning in Complex 3D Situated Reasoning Tasks
Jiayi Song, Rui Wan, Lipeng Ma, Weidong Yang, Qingyuan Zhou, Yixuan Li, Ben Fei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15548

DeepThink3D: Enhancing Large Language Models with Programmatic Reasoning in Complex 3D Situated Reasoning Tasks
This work enhances the ability of large language models (LLMs) to perform complex reasoning in 3D scenes. Recent work has addressed the 3D situated reasoning task by invoking tool usage through large language models. Large language models call tools via APIs and integrate the generated programs through a chain of thought to solve problems based on the program results. However, due to the simplicity of the questions in the dataset, the generated program reasoning chains are relatively short. To …

Russia should have been pressured back in 2014, says Tenzer #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/21/russia-should-have-been-pressured.html

🌍 The EU is putting pressure on Russia: the 19th package of sanctions is on its way! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/20/the-eu-is-putting-pressure.html