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Source: the Pentagon is discussing plans to set up secure environments for AI companies to train military-specific versions of their models on classified data (James O'Donnell/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyr…

The Pentagon is planning for AI companies to train on classified data, defense official says
The generative AI models used in classified environments can answer questions but don't currently learn from the data they see. That could soon change.

Trump Admin Planning to Spend Over $38 Billion to Buy Warehouses and Convert Them into ICE Jails
https://bsky.app/profile/democracynow.org/post/3meyknueukp25

Democracy Now! (@democracynow.org)
Trump Admin Planning to Spend Over $38 Billion to Buy Warehouses and Convert Them into ICE Jails https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/16/headlines/trump_admin_planning_to_spend_over_38_billion_to_buy_warehouses_and_convert_them_into_ice_jails

Planning to fail -- Shortly after the start of the war in Iran on February 28 ... (Judd Legum/Popular Information)
https://popular.info/p/planning-to-fail
http://www.memeorandum.com/260317/p42#a260317p42

Scary Events (A Poem in Six Parts) by Brendan Reynolds
"The following poem was composed entirely using material found within Missing 411: Western U.S. and Canada by David Paulides and is dedicated to poet and cookbook author Ronald Johnson."
https://keep-planning.net/text/014

Wow! VERY cool tool to help with the initial planning of a network to bring #Internet access to a community with a community-centered focus:
https://locnet.io/
(look at "Quick Start Guide" in upper right…

"UK Government confirms plans to streamline environmental decision-making in planning regulations"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment

love to see this activated, but another bookstore 2 blocks from Dog Eared and a coffee shop 1/2 block from Ritual? 🤔
https://missionlocal.org/2026/01/sf-hibernia-bank-social-security-valencia-street/

Mysterious LLC wants to turn Mission’s old Social Security building into restaurant, bookstore and events space 
The new owners submitted an application with the Planning Department to turn the building into a restaurant, bookstore and event space.

Earwigs are among those animals that suffer from a kind of reputational inertia: once an idea lodges itself in cultural memory, it is hard to dislodge, even when it is wrong. The name carries a superstition - the medieval belief that these insects crawl into human ears. There is no evidence for this, and never has been. Earwigs are no more interested in ears than they are in theology or municipal planning.
Biologically, earwigs belong to the order Dermaptera, a name derived from Greek …

Maybe we should establish a "maintenance.md" practice just like "readme.md" or "LICENSE" where you just clearly outline the amount of maintenance the project/development team are planning to put into the code base and under which conditions.
I have seen that a few times but maybe it should be more of a standard.

Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 4.6 with improvements in coding, consistency, and more, for Free and Pro users; it features a 1M token context window in beta (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-6

Introducing Sonnet 4.6
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a full upgrade of the model’s skills across coding, computer use, long-reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design.

I just wrote this.
"In 2013…CBP…knew that their agents would sometimes '…intentionally put themselves into the exit path of the vehicle, thereby exposing themselves to additional risk and creating justification for the use of deadly force.'"
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/preme…

Premeditated State Violence Must End
Planning to kill is bad. In 2013, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) knew that their agents would sometimes “…intentionally put themselves into the exit path of the vehicle, thereby exposing themselves to additional risk and creating justification for the use of deadly force” (PDF from CBP web server). Jonathan

John Paulson, a hedge fund billionaire and one of Donald Trump’s earliest Wall Street backers,
is planning to offshore an Ohio manufacturing plant to China despite heavy pushback from employees.
Workers at the plant call the move “a slap in our face”,
after Paulson vocally defended domestic manufacturing, and are fighting to keep the plant open.
Conn Selmer, the largest US manufacturer of brass and orchestra instruments,
told the union it planned to offshore mos…

Government proposes yet another revision to the NPPF (Planning Framework) for England and Wales.
Here's what we said about the last one.
Open Letter about NPPF to GM Labour MPs | Steady State Manchester https://steadystatemanchester.net/2025/01/1…

Open Letter about NPPF to GM Labour MPs
This open letter has been sent to Greater Manchester labour MPs. It raises a series of concerns about the government’s planning reforms, as set out in the new National Planning Policy Framewo…

Planning a trip abroad. Today I checked out the CDC website, like I used to do. Sadly, I can't believe anything on it anymore.

Mike Tomlin not planning to coach in 2026, even amid interest from other teams, per reports

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/mike-tomlin-coaching-in-2026-rumors-interest-stee…

North Korea is planning further military campaigns abroad.
Because Russia by itself was too weak to conquer Ukraine, #NorthKorea supportd the criminal attack with its military. Too many soldiers have died that the regime could hide that from its own people.
So they call it "worthiest sacred #war

Iceland is Planning For the Possibility That Its Climate Could Become Uninhabitable - Slashdot
https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/02/10/2021208/iceland-is-planning-for-the-possibility-that-its-climate-could-become-uninhabitable

Netflix unveils its first two original video podcasts: The White House by Michael Irvin, launching January 19, and The Pete Davidson Show, launching January 30 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/861971/netflix-original-podcasts-pete…

Netflix’s first original podcasts star Pete Davidson and Michael Irvin
Netflix is planning to debut its first original video podcasts, featuring comedian Pete Davidson and former NFL star Michael Irvin.

So, is Wes Streetjng going to defect to Reform next week? Farage says some Labour MP is planning to and he seems most likely candidate.
#ukpolitics

If Apple is making cheap laptops now, that means they are already planning to introduce other revenue sources, like subscriptions. Mark my words.

Rare good news for now, but don't trust the Planning Inspectorate to uphold the rejection.
Scheme to build 2,150 homes in Greater Manchester countryside REJECTED - Manchester Evening News
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/scheme-build…

Scheme to build 2,150 homes in Greater Manchester countryside REJECTED
The controversial housing plan has been a point of contention ever since it was first touted almost a decade ago

Murder is not a crime of violence as a matter of federal law, a Brooklyn judge has ruled
— as he dismissed two charges in a possible death penalty case against a terrorism suspect.
Brooklyn Federal Court Judge Brian Cogan made the head-scratcher of a pre-trial rulingFeb. 6 in an international terrorism case
where the suspect is accused of planning a brutal November 2015 assault rifle and grenade attack on a hotel in Mali that killed 20 people, including a U.S. citizen.

Raiders Predicted to Land Top Offensive Coach After John Harbaugh News https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/klint-kubiak-head-coach-prediction-harbaugh/

Community Planning Alliance
Grey Belt Tracker
68,000 'grey belt' houses shown.
Of which 65% are at planning application, 14% at appeal and 17% in local plan review.
Sites are listed as mostly arable, meadow, pasture & paddock (plus 14 entries that are flood plain). Not a disused petrol station or car park in sight.
The three worst affected Green Belts are Metropolitan, North West and West Midlands.

Getting back into planning a whole week of meals. With having to be at work four days a week I need to plan. Wife is disabled and there is a limit on what she can do.
Tonight, chicken Kiev and spiced potatoes.
Sunday, macaroni casserole. Leftovers I put into containers for frozen lunches.
Monday, roast chicken, turnip, stuffing, mixed vegetables and I will make a pudding.
Tuesday and Wednesday are leftovers.
I still have to figure out Thursday and Friday.…

One for @…
I'm planning a visit in the near future
https://region.com.au/this-must-try-ba

This must-try Bánh Mì in Greenway is worth the drive - no matter where you're coming from | Region Canberra
There’s not much that can entice me onto the endless roundabouts of Isabella Drive, but the promise of a cracking…

"An amorphous extortion group called ShinyHunters contacted Bloomberg News this week claiming they were planning to release a large amount of data stolen from Telus in August in a 'supply chain attack.'"
Canadian Telecom Telus Says It’s Investigating Cyber Breach

Since we had temperatures of -15/-13℃ (5℉) the past few nights, I was planning to go on an early morning shoot of one of my favorite waterfalls, but decided against it due to severe black ice warnings and likely ensuing road chaos today... Hope there will be more cold nights this winter...
So instead, some close-up detail shots of ice structures at the same waterfall from exactly 364 morning ago. Enjoy!

This week, GÉANT hosted a delegation from the Ministry of Higher Education of Malaysia, MYREN, Universiti Sains Malaysia, and TIME dotCom at our Amsterdam office.
Discussions focused on our respective organisations, service offerings, capacity planning & the evolving landscape of EU–Asia submarine cable infrastructure.
We also looked ahead to how we can deepen cooperation through both EU–Asi@Connect & the GÉANT Community Programme.
👏 Thank you to our guests for t…

I’m actually shocked that folks I speak to here in Ireland are still planning holidays in the USA.
Here’s a testimonial you might not find on Tripadvisor:
“like a concentration camp, absolute hell” – Seamus Culleton
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/f

Source: at least two more TML employees are expected to join OpenAI soon; some AI researchers say they are exhausted by the constant drama in their industry (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-openai-raid-on-thinking-machines-lab/

Inside OpenAI’s Raid on Thinking Machines Lab
OpenAI is planning to bring over more researchers from Thinking Machines Lab after nabbing two cofounders, a source familiar with the situation says. Plus, the latest efforts to automate jobs with AI.

Travel planning with Google Gemini. It's astonishingly good at this. I give it an itinerary and it gives me detailed and personalized suggestions like "You have this reserved, but note it's 1.5km of walking over steep, uneven surfaces. As an alternative it's easy just to go into town and look around."
I love being able to throw an enormous amount of data at the LLM and have it make sense of it. In this case it doesn't matter if the answers are not 100% correct as long as they are close and the suggestions are verifiable.

Sources: 49ers not planning to trade QB Jones https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47870257/sources-49ers-not-planning-trade-qb-mac-jones-offseason

When we were planning the August edition of @protocolsforpublishers.com we knew that being in the US wasn’t going to work for a lot of people.
@chadkoh.com is running with it & now has set a date for London in early February.
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Boris (@bmann.ca)
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From Translink
#Vancouver #Tansit
🧵1/6
TransLink is looking for public feedback on the next stage of planning for Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) on King George Boulevard and between Langley Township and Maple Ridge along 200th Street.

This is a major milestone toward delivering new fast, fre…

Electrification of transport is essential to ensure Europe's energy resilience and achieve climate targets. This requires public #EV charging infrastructure in the right places, at the right time and at the right prices.
In this new Regulatory Assistance Project report we present 7 key building blocks:

San Franciscans: please take the new SFMTA budget survey! it's quick!
https://www.sfmta.com/projects/sfmta-budget-planning-fy-2026-27-and-fy-2027-28

SFMTA Budget Planning - FY 2026-27 and FY 2027-28

Russia planning large-scale attack against Ukraine, Kyiv warns: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/19/russia-planning-largescale-attack-against.html

RE: #OV #Nedersaksenlijn

User: Rovo, can JIRA be used for project planning?
Rovo: Yes, absolutely. It's actually best for that ... bla bla bla
User: How do I specify temporal dependencies between tasks and identify the critical path?
Rovo: Jira can't actually do that.
#WTF #AI

First stage of the STEP Fusion plant build consultation in the planning process they're intending to get it running in the 2040's; This is an old Coal power station site in West Burton they're reusing:
(I expect others to have got fusion working first, but still promising)
https://stepfusion.com/consultation/

STEP Fusion - Consultation
STEP Fusion’s first stage of public consultation runs from 14 January through to 11 March 2026

⚙️ Automatic model selection: haiku for trivial, sonnet for standard, opus for critical planning
🐳 Flexible isolation: #Docker containers, #git worktrees, or direct execution
💾 Built-in crash recovery via #SQLite

Sources: Meta plans sweeping layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company, amid mounting AI infrastructure costs; it had ~79,000 employees as of Dec. 31 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/meta-planning-swe…

Sources: Amazon is planning a marketplace where publishers can sell content to companies offering AI products; Microsoft has rolled out a similar service (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/amazon-discusses-ai-content-marketpla…

Amazon Discusses AI Content Marketplace With Publishers
Amazon has indicated to publishing industry executives that it is planning to launch a marketplace where publishers can sell their content to firms offering AI products, according to two people who spoke with Amazon about the project. Those discussions come as publishers and AI companies are ...

Marines, this ain’t a park in Los Angeles you’re trying to invade this time.
Iran is over half a million square miles (1.6 million square kilometers) and over 92 million Iranians, with mountains and terrain so fierce even the Romans avoided invading it, but 2,500 USMC soldiers (with planning by kegsbreath and the geriatric bone spur) are gonna move the needle. Right.
Building a graveyard isn’t good for anyone.

Blast near pro-government demonstration in Iran after Israeli warning
A large explosion rocked an area of Iran’s capital where thousands were gathered for an annual state-organized rally to support the Palestinians and call for Israel’s demise. Israel had warned earlier Friday that it would operate in the area in central Tehran. There were no immediate reports of casualties. But the decision to proceed with the mass demonstrations, and Israel’s threat to target the area, underscored the fierce determination on both sides nearly two weeks into a war that has…

New renderings released this week provide the most detailed vision yet of Donald Trump’s proposed $400m White House ballroom addition.
The renderings, submitted by the project’s architects and released on Friday by the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC), depict a vast sprawling structure, expected to be around 90,000sq ft, from multiple angles.
In the images, the proposed building stands level with the White House mansion.
The renderings appear in a 28-page documen…

Israel planning massive ground invasion of Lebanon, officials say (Barak Ravid/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/14/israel-lebanon-ground-invasion-hezbollah
http://www.memeorandum.com/260313/p126#a260313p126

Cowboys' Christian Parker Outlines Defensive Scheme and Expectations https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/cowboys-planning-role-change-for-promising-2026-breakout-candidate

Finally some research into the decision making processes for #cycling infrastructure!
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950105925000476

I'm planning to set up a music room for $SPOUSE. Neither of us are audiophiles.
Looking for recommendations for amps that support Airplay, and work well with #HomeAssistant.
Must haves:
- local control - I don't want something that will have issues if its mothership turns off servers, or even just because my internet is out.
- AirPlay support
- Works well with Home Assistant
- Supports unpowered speakers
- Doesn't require an app to configure it
Nice to have
- Streaming support
- IOS app for control
Also looking for disrecommendations for stuff that doesn't work well with HA.

I am planning on taking my nephew to Japan this summer as an early graduation gift. He hasn’t been out of the country before and I figure that experiencing new cultures is how you make sure that someone is a good world citizen. I miss Japan and I’m happy to go back but OMG, this is going to be expensive.

https://www.wired.com/story/john-solly-doge-operative-accused-social-security-data-leidos/
Somehow I think it’s fair game to dox anyone who worked for DOGE

John Solly Is the DOGE Operative Accused of Planning to Take Social Security Data to His New Job
A whistleblower complaint alleges John Solly claimed to have stored highly sensitive Social Security data on a thumb drive. Solly and Leidos, his current employer, strongly deny the allegations.

One problem with this chair is that the arms aren't long enough to embed the split keyboard into the arms as planned. So I've been mucking about trying to design a suitable arm-extender.
Made a prototype in corrugated plastic and a blender model carefully planning where the screws and straps should go. Looking promising.

Elon Musk's "X" allowed and enabled online prostitution/pornography, and you're surprised they are planning on making money off of deep fake porn?
This is the guy who offered to buy a physiotherapist a pony if she'd jack him off...

Hey #GearSquad you have *got* to check this out
#GuitarPedals #EffectPedals

Pedal Playground
PedalPlayground.com is an interactive planning tool for planning your guitar effects pedalboard.

Being targeted and punitive, they are bills of attainder and unconstitutional, every single one.
"Terrifying": GOP unleashes wave of anti-trans bills nationwide. Here's what they're planning… - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/03/terrifying-gop-unleashes-wave-of-anti-trans-bills-nationwide-heres-what-theyre-planning/

Rare Colours Blues III🔷🔷
稀有的色彩蓝 III🔷🔷
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Harman Phoenix 200 II (FF)
#filmphotography #Photography #Art

Linus on point as always.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/6/10/957
(yes it's old, but I just found it haha)

Yesterday, there were fewer trains in the Netherlands due to snow in the track switches. For today, NS Dutch Railways announced a reduced schedule.
Now, no trains are running at all, due to an IT failure in planning the reduced schedule...
https://nos.nl/l/2597127

Geen NS-treinen in heel Nederland tot zeker 10.00 uur, mede door IT-storing
Het is nog onduidelijk of er na 10.00 uur wel NS-treinen kunnen rijden. Andere treinvervoerders rijden wel.

@… do you have that "pro-littering" zine you shared at some point handy? Community cleanup coming up and i need extra grounding to try to radicalize (if possible?) the event during the planning or just share the zines at it 😂

Sources: Nvidia is pitching NemoClaw, an upcoming open-source AI agent platform for enterprises, and plans to offer security and privacy tools for it (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/nvidia-planning-ai-agent-platform-launch-open-source/

Nvidia Is Planning to Launch an Open-Source AI Agent Platform
Ahead of its annual developer conference, Nvidia is readying a new approach to software that embraces AI agents similar to OpenClaw.

Mandar obedeciendo* in Wales?
Why Plaid Cymru’s plan to 'make a plan' might not be a bad plan, after all
https://nation.cymru/opinion/why-plaid-cymrus-plan-to-make-a-plan-might-not-be-a-bad-plan-after-all/
Fro…

Why Plaid Cymru’s plan to 'make a plan' might not be a bad plan, after all
James Downs, Mental health campaigner One of the more predictable criticisms of Plaid Cymru’s programme for the Senedd election has been that there is too much in it about planning, consultation, and asking people what they think. The plan for the first 100 days of a Plaid government focuses explicitly on preparation and listening, rather […]

Steve Tisch, family planning to transfer Giants ownership stakes to children: Memo https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7108588/2026/03/11/steve-tisch-giants-ownership-stake-sell-children-epstein-files/

'I just love doing it': Meet the B.C. man winning international awards for his maps
Jeff Clark has made maps of Vancouver Island and the Sea-to-Sky, and is planning to explore more parts of B.C.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-col

Me: Let’s see how the FairPhone folks are doing… maybe I was overly harsh on them and they’ve used the time to wean themselves off of Google… what with being Waag and all…
Also me: fucking what the fuck now?
*sigh* 🤬

John Solly Is the DOGE Operative Accused of Planning to Take Social Security Data to His New Job (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/john-solly-doge-operative-accused-social-security-data-leidos/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260312/p107#a260312p107

Cowboys planning to franchise tag George Pickens, per report https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/02/07/george-pickens-franchise-tag-cowboys/88571654007/

The number of new software vulnerabilities discovered could top 100,000 in 2026, according to the latest forecast by FIRST. But that doesn't necessarily mean more cyberattacks. Check out my latest CSO piece on how CISOs might have to up their efforts to separate signal from noise as CVE volume soars.
Many thanks to Michael Roytman of Empirical Security, Éireann Leverett of FIRST, and Sasha Romanosky of Rand for their insights.

CISOs must separate signal from noise as CVE volume soars
FIRST forecasts a record surge in disclosed vulnerabilities in 2026, but security researchers say most will not translate into real-world attacks, forcing CISOs to rethink prioritization, automation, and capacity planning.

1. Prices have increased for what I am looking for.
2. Many models are not available.
3. Machines that are available have crap for specs.
https://flip.it/AEIYw9

Amazon files planning documents in Illinois to construct a 225,000 square foot big-box store, a return to a "Target-like" retail concept it previously shelved (Ann Gehan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/amazon-plans-big-box-retail…

Amazon Plans Big-Box Retail Store
Amazon has started laying the groundwork to open a big-box retail store in the Chicago suburbs, according to planning documents. That marks a return to similar plans for a Target-like store that Amazon shelved a few years ago. In recent weeks, Amazon has sought approval from the village of Orland Park, Ill., to construct a 225,000-square foot retail building that could be used for both in-store

Meta aims to introduce
facial recognition to its
smart glasses
while its biggest critics are distracted,
according to a report from The New York Times.
In an internal document reviewed by The Times, Meta says it will
💥launch the feature “during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
The document is from last May and reportedly describes …

Meta reportedly wants to add face recognition to smart glasses while privacy advocates are distracted
Meta is planning to add facial recognition technology to its smart glasses while critics are distracted by political events, according to a report from The New York Times.

I have a lot of credit cards ... too many credit cards. It is part of a medium-term strategy but I am planning to collapse them in, this year. One of them offers a $10 per month doordash credit on retail and I discovered that it works on sushi from Kroger. If you pair that with one of their regular "50% off $25 " deals, you can get $40 worth of mediocre sushi for $10.
It is truly mediocre sushi, but it's also only $10.

Here’s a half-block stretch in the Avenues with no trees.
Legislation by Mayor Lurie and Alan Wong made it harder to remove these driveways by allowing them to remain when garages are converted to housing.
Now the Lurie-Wong legislation to let developers not plant trees and limit tree removal appeals is going to Planning Commission tomorrow.
#sfpol

Bears GM Ryan Poles planning for eventual Caleb Williams extension https://www.nfl.com/news/bears-gm-ryan-poles-planning-for-eventual-caleb-williams-extension

Sources: activist investor Ancora Holdings has built a roughly $200M stake in WBD and is planning to oppose the Netflix-WBD deal, favoring a deal with Paramount (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com…

U.S. Steps Up Planning for Possible Action in Iran (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/major-trump-briefing-on-iran-options-planned-for-tuesday-5827429f
http://www.memeorandum.com/260111/p41#a260111p41

WR Horton (shin) unlikely to return for playoffs https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47487577/seahawks-not-planning-wr-tory-horton-return-year

It Can Now Be Plainly Said:
Trump Is Planning a November Coup d’État
During the campaign, it was kind of hard to picture the specifics of how Trump might pull such a thing off.
Alas, it’s getting less hypothetical by the week.
Back in 2024, Kamala Harris and the Democrats struggled to convince voters that a second Donald Trump term would constitute a serious threat to democracy.
We can debate the effectiveness of her, and their, rhetoric.
But on a cert…

It Can Now Be Plainly Said: Trump Is Planning a November Coup d’État
During the campaign, it was kind of hard to picture the specifics of how Trump might pull such a thing off. Alas, it’s getting less hypothetical by the week.

Sources: Meta aims to enter the stablecoin space in H2, with plans to integrate a vendor to administer stablecoin-backed payments and implement a new wallet (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/02/

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is planning stablecoin comeback in the second half amid U.S. regulatory shift
The Facebook owner’s stablecoin integration involves planning a third party vendor to help administer stablecoin-based payments and a new wallet to be implemented, sources said.

FBI warns of phishing attacks impersonating US city, county officials
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-warns-of-phishing-attacks-impersonating-us-city-county-officials/

FBI warns of phishing attacks impersonating US city, county officials
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns that criminals are impersonating U.S. officials in phishing attacks targeting businesses and individuals who request city and county planning and zoning permits.

Israeli startup DataRails, which offers financial planning and analytics tools, raised a $70M Series C led by One Peak at an estimated $600M to $700M valuation (Globes)
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-israeli-financial-planning-co-datarails…

Israeli financial planning co Datarails raises $70m
Datarails has developed a software for Excel users, which it claims, transforms the CFO’s office.

Panel led by Trump allies to consider White House ballroom approval (Megan Lebowitz/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-allies-planning-commission-white-house-ballrooom-approval-rcna261884
http://www.memeorandum.com/260305/p50#a260305p50

Republican Rep. Darrell Issa is not planning to seek reelection, according to people who have spoken to him directly.
The polarizing fixture of Southern California politics has not filed to run again, with less than an hour to go before the deadline.
Two people who were granted anonymity to discuss private conversations said Issa told them he was planning to step aside.
An ally of Donald Trump, Issa’s decision could help Democrats win his newly-competitive district in the …

Dak's 'pride' has him planning to play final game https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47413646/dak-prescott-pride-planning-play-final-game

Internal docs: Paramount is planning to add a heavy dose of short-form video to Paramount , initially from existing content, and host user-generated content (James Faris/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/paramount-short-fo…

Paramount+ is planning a major move into short-form video, leaked documents reveal
Paramount executives want to add short-form video and user-generated content to Paramount+, according to leaked emails and presentations.

Sources: Steelers plan to hire McCarthy as coach https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47715749/sources-steelers-planning-hire-mike-mccarthy-head-coach

The US-Israeli war on Iran created a massive hole in global airspace
Airlines are using long-readied contingency plans but bottlenecks have formed that no amount of planning can fix
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar…

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab signs a chip supply deal with Nvidia worth tens of billions of dollars, planning to deploy 1GW of next-gen Vera Rubin chips (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a8853057-c0a3-46f6-817f-7a23e79ea4e2

Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines strikes multibillion chip deal with Nvidia
Multiyear partnership includes a further ‘significant’ investment from Nvidia into one-year-old AI start-up

Donald Trump is planning to use his attack on Iran to justify a power grab over voting in the 2026 midterms.
The fact that the attack violates the Constitution won’t stop him from trying.
It is our job to expose this plot and ensure that it does not succeed. https://www.

Trump’s attack on Iran and the plot against your vote
Donald Trump is planning to use his attack on Iran to justify a power grab over voting in the 2026 midterms.

ESPN to make Super Bowl year-round experience https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47897537/espn-year-super-bowl-year-round-experience

2026 NFL schedule might include rare Wednesday game, possible Thanksgiving Eve matchup

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2026-nfl-schedule-thanksgiving-wednesday/

The race for the next mayor of Los Angeles has become even more intense as
Council Member Nithya Raman officially launched her campaign on Saturday.
Her announcement came just hours before the city’s filing deadline.
Nithya Raman said Los Angeles needs a leader who will take full responsibility for the challenges the city faces.
Raman represents District 4, which stretches from parts of the San Fernando Valley to neighborhoods like Los Feliz, the Hollywood Hills, and…

Who Is Nithya Raman? Meet The Latest Candidate In Los Angeles Mayor’s Race
Nithya Raman has officially joined the 2026 Los Angeles mayoral race just before the filing deadline. She brings experience in homelessness, housing, and community planning.

Razer plans to invest $600M in AI over "the next couple of years", as the gaming peripherals maker unveils new AI products like headphones with built-in cameras (Dana Wollman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Razer Dives Into AI for Consumers, Professionals and Gamers
The maker of gaming keyboards and mice is planning a $600 million AI push.

Chef Sam Kass recounts planning a meal consisting of food waste for heads of state like Xi Jingping and Angela Merkel.
Author of "The Last Supper,"
he provides his plan for making the food system more sustainable.
Watch this Sunday at 1 PM ET
on C-SPAN 2's Book TV.
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Seahawks not planning to tag Super Bowl MVP Kenneth Walker III: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7083834/2026/03/03/seahawks-franchise-transition-tag-kenneth-walker/

Tulsi Gabbard MIA on Venezuela operation amid tensions over Trump policy
Trump’s top national security advisers in recent days have outdone one another, publicly extolling his decision to launch the risky military raid that captured Venezuelan President Nicolšs Maduro.
But one key figure has been largely absent from public view:
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

Gabbard, an Iraq War veteran who for years has spoken out against costly U.S. intervention…

Gabbard MIA on Venezuela operation, amid tensions with Trump policy
The director of national intelligence was conspicuously absent among Trump’s top national security advisers during the planning for the Maduro mission.