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Snappr, a visual content platform and a marketplace for professional photographers, raised a $28M Series B led by Foundry and expands to Europe (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/08/snappr-photographer-book-europe-launch

Exclusive: Photography service Snappr launches in Europe after raising $28M
The platform can also generate AI-enhanced images.

The third-party app store known as AltStore,
one of the first companies to offer an alternative app marketplace in the European Union,
is preparing to connect its platform with the open social web known as the fediverse.
The move would connect users on other open social apps,
like Mastodon or Meta’s Threads,
with updates from apps in a new way.
In addition, the startup is announcing its first funding round from outside investors,
with a $6 million Se…

Alternative app store AltStore raises $6M, connects with the fediverse | TechCrunch
The alternative app marketplace AltStore has raised $6 million and launched a Mastodon server.

https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/cybersecurity/hack-on-japan-brewer-asahi-claimed-by-qilin-ransomware-group
Hack on Japan brewer Asahi claimed by Qilin ransomware group

Hack on Japan brewer Asahi claimed by Qilin ransomware group
Platform allows users to carry out attacks in exchange for a percentage of extortion proceeds

We presented “Advancing Vulnerability Tracking and Disclosure Through an Open and Distributed Platform” at the excellent @…
#cve #vulnerability

“Web is losing” is returning to my mind more often than I’d like
https://infrequently.org/2024/10/platforms-are-competitions/

Platform Strategy and Its Discontents
Alex Russell on browsers, standards, and the process of progress.

A lot of the social fallout and collateral damage caused by #AI is actually rooted in unregulated platform capitalism and neoliberal ad-consumer-waste-cycles: social media as mass manipulation, intellectual property laws that haven't been updated to the internet at all, gig economy exploitation... but most importantly:
Tech monopolies that are allowed to program dark pattern mechanisms int…

Shopify joined Substack in October, the latest and the biggest company to do so and a sign that brands take Substack seriously as a marketing channel (Allison Smith/Modern Retail)
https://www.modernretail.co/marketing/shopify-jus…

Shopify just became the biggest company to launch a Substack newsletter
Shopify has launched a Substack newsletter called "In Stock," becoming the largest company on the platform.

cMPI: Using CXL Memory Sharing for MPI One-Sided and Two-Sided Inter-Node Communications
Xi Wang, Bin Ma, Jongryool Kim, Byungil Koh, Hoshik Kim, Dong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05476

cMPI: Using CXL Memory Sharing for MPI One-Sided and Two-Sided Inter-Node Communications
Message Passing Interface (MPI) is a foundational programming model for high-performance computing. MPI libraries traditionally employ network interconnects (e.g., Ethernet and InfiniBand) and network protocols (e.g., TCP and RoCE) with complex software stacks for cross-node communication. We present cMPI, the first work to optimize MPI point-to-point communication (both one-sided and two-sided) using CXL memory sharing on a real CXL platform, transforming cross-node communication into memory t…

Mastodon, the decentralized, open social network with over 8 million accounts and nearly 700,000 monthly active users,
is planning to introduce a new feature, called “Packs,”
which will make it easier for newcomers to discover curated collections of users to follow.
The idea is similar to a feature Bluesky, another open social platform, introduced last year.
Starter packs are designed to address the “cold start” problem of joining new social networks.
When you …

Mastodon is taking cues from Bluesky with plans for its own starter 'Packs' | TechCrunch
Mastodon is planning to make it easier for newcomers to discover curated collections of users to follow by launching a new starter packs feature.

Hi @… - I am currently working on new Intel firmware tooling ( https://github.com/platform-system-interface/intel_fw/ ) and would like to reference …

“This is not 'spicy'. This is illegal. This is appalling. This is disgusting.“
"The European Commission has announced it is looking into cases of sexually suggestive and explicit images of young girls generated by Grok, the AI chatbot integrated into social media platform X, following the introduction of a paid feature known as “Spicy Mode” last summer."

Evidence of Cognitive Biases in Capture-the-Flag Cybersecurity Competitions
Carolina Carreira, Anu Aggarwal, Alejandro Cuevas, Maria Jos\'e Ferreira, Hanan Hibshi, Cleotilde Gonzalez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05771

Evidence of Cognitive Biases in Capture-the-Flag Cybersecurity Competitions
Understanding how cognitive biases influence adversarial decision-making is essential for developing effective cyber defenses. Capture-the-Flag (CTF) competitions provide an ecologically valid testbed to study attacker behavior at scale, simulating real-world intrusion scenarios under pressure. We analyze over 500,000 submission logs from picoCTF, a large educational CTF platform, to identify behavioral signatures of cognitive biases with defensive implications. Focusing on availability bias an…

Added to the list of news articles I'd send back ten years in a time machine:
> Wager platform Polymarket not paying out on bets on US invasion of Venezuela
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/07…

Wager platform Polymarket not paying out on bets on US invasion of Venezuela
Gamblers who placed bets totalling $10.5m angered after capture of Nicolás Maduro deemed not to qualify

People Are Crashing Out Over Sora 2’s New Guardrails https://www.404media.co/sora-2-content-violation-guardrails-error/

London-based e-commerce logistics platform Swap raised a $100M Series C led by DST Global and Iconiq, after raising a $40M Series B in March 2025 (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/supply-chain-deals/2026/01/07/swap-100m-series-c-e-commer…

Swap raises $100M Series C for e-commerce operating system
The startup plans to expand beyond returns and cross-border logistics.

On 5 December, the European Commission ruled that the platform X was in breach of the Digital Services Act (DSA) and issued a penalty of 120 million EUR. One of the three rules that X was found in breach of was “Failure to provide researchers access to public data: X fails to meet its DSA obligations to provide researchers with access to the platform's public data (…).” This breach was fined 40 million EUR (Source:

Microwave electrometry with quantum-limited resolutions in a Rydberg atom array
Yao-Wen Zhang, De-Sheng Xiang, Ren Liao, Hao-Xiang Liu, Biao Xu, Peng Zhou, Yijia Zhou, Kuan Zhang, Lin Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05413 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.05413 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.05413
arXiv:2512.05413v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Microwave (MW) field sensing is foundational to modern technology, yet its evolution, reliant on classical antennas, is constrained by fundamental physical limits on field, temporal, and spatial resolutions. Here, we demonstrate an MW electrometry that simultaneously surpasses these constraints by using individual Rydberg atoms in an optical tweezer array as coherent sensors. This approach achieves a field sensitivity within 13% of the standard quantum limit, a response time that exceeds the Chu limit by more than 11 orders of magnitude, and in-situ near-field mapping with {\lambda}/3000 spatial resolution. This work establishes Rydberg-atom arrays as a powerful platform that unites quantum-limited sensitivity, nanosecond-scale response time, and sub-micrometer resolution, opening new avenues in quantum metrology and precision electromagnetic field imaging.
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On-chip room-temperature CW lasing from a III-V nanowire integrated with a Si photonic crystal platform
Masato Takiguchi, Takuro Fujii, Hisashi Sumikura, Akihiko Shinya, Shinji Matsuo, Masaya Notomi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05477

On-chip room-temperature CW lasing from a III-V nanowire integrated with a Si photonic crystal platform
We report the demonstration of continuous-wave (CW) lasing at room temperature from a III-V semiconductor nanowire integrated into a Si photonic crystal (PhC) cavity. Conventional hybrid nanowire lasers [M. Takiguchi. et.al., APL Photonics, 2, 046106 (2017)], which typically feature circular nanowire-cross-sections, suffer from a weak optical confinement, preventing CW lasing under ambient conditions. To overcome this limitation, we fabricated nanowires with rectangular cross-sections via dry e…

A fluorescence microscopy platform for time-resolved studies of spin-correlated radical pairs in biological systems
Noboru Ikeya, Jonathan R. Woodward
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05600

A fluorescence microscopy platform for time-resolved studies of spin-correlated radical pairs in biological systems
The importance of spin-correlated radical pairs in biology is increasingly recognized, with roles in biological effects of weak magnetic fields and emerging quantum spin-based biomedical applications. Fluorescence microscopy offers sufficient sensitivity to study magnetic field effects on radical pair reactions in living cells, but conventional techniques cannot directly resolve their dynamics because most biologically relevant radical pairs are non-emissive. To overcome this challenge, we intr…

Origin of trapped intralayer Wannier and charge-transfer excitons in moir\'e materials
Indrajit Maity, Johannes Lischner, Arash A. Mostofi, \'Angel Rubio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06137

Origin of trapped intralayer Wannier and charge-transfer excitons in moiré materials
Moiré materials offer a versatile platform for engineering excitons with unprecedented control, promising next-generation optoelectronic applications. While continuum models are widely used to study moiré excitons due to their computational efficiency, they often disagree with ab initio many-body approaches, as seen for intralayer excitons in WS$_2$/WSe$_2$ heterobilayers. Here, we resolve these discrepancies using an atomistic, quantum-mechanical framework based on the Bethe-Salpeter equatio…

Semiconductor Meta-Graphene and Valleytronics
Praveen Pai, Aron W. Cummings, Alexander Cerjan, Wei Pan, Fan Zhang, Catalin D. Spataru
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05250 https://…

Semiconductor Meta-Graphene and Valleytronics
Nano-patterned semiconductor interfaces offer a versatile platform for creating quantum metamaterials and exploring novel electronic phenomena. In this study, we illustrate this concept using artificial graphene--a metamaterial featuring distinctive properties including Dirac and saddle points. We demonstrate that introducing additional nano-patterning can open a Dirac band gap, giving rise to what we term artificial hexagonal boron nitride (AhBN). The calculated valley Chern number of AhBN ind…

Crosslisted article(s) found for physics.ins-det. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.ins-det/new
[1/1]:
- A fluorescence microscopy platform for time-resolved studies of spin-correlated radical pairs in ...
Noboru Ikeya, Jonathan R. Woodward

Field Free Spin-Orbit Torque Controlled Synapse and Stochastic Neuron Devices for Spintronic Boltzmann Neural Networks
Aijaz H. Lone, Meng Tang, Camelia Florica, Bin He, Jingkai Xu, Xixiang Zhang, Gianluca Setti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05616

Field Free Spin-Orbit Torque Controlled Synapse and Stochastic Neuron Devices for Spintronic Boltzmann Neural Networks
Spintronics offers a promising approach to energy efficient neuromorphic computing by integrating the functionalities of synapses and neurons within a single platform. A major challenge, however, is achieving field-free spin orbit torque SOT control over both synaptic and neuronal devices using an industry-adopted spintronic materials stack. In this study, we present field-free SOT spintronic synapses utilizing a CoFeB ferromagnetic thin film system, where asymmetrical device design and specifi…

Crypto infrastructure provider Fireblocks agrees to acquire accounting platform TRES Finance, sources say for $130M in cash and equity; TRES raised $11M in 2023 (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/01/07/fireblocks-tres-finance-acquisition-130-million/…

Exclusive: Fireblocks acquires crypto accounting platform TRES Finance for $130 million
This is the crypto infrastructure firm’s second acquisition over the past year.

bitcoin_alpha: Bitcoin Alpha trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin Alpha platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 3783 nodes and 24186 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Signed, Timestamps

NBCU partners with RPA and Newton Research to connect buy-side and sell-side agentic AI, automating real-time cross-platform video ad deals starting in Q1 2026 (Wayne Friedman/MediaPost)
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article…

NBCU, RPA Strike 'First' Live Agentic-To-Agentic Deal
NBCU and its sister company, ad server/tech company Freewheel, will offer sell-side agentic AI efforts, and Newton Research will design and start up buy-side agents with RPA.

Last week, I got to use my very old knowledge of MS-DOS virtualization of disk-drives and BAT programming.
Today I got to unlearn the old fact that ODBC is a "Windows First" platform.

When the oligarch-owned, reactionary-run "Minnesota Star Tribune" is the voice of reason in a news roundup, you know things are bad.
Amazing how these media can instantly make alleged fraud in social services a bigger story than a kidnapping ring funded with $165 billion of taxpayer money.

Corporate Media Advances Conservative Narrative About Minnesota Fraud
On Friday, November 21, as most Americans were prepping for Thanksgiving, President Trump went on a tirade on his Truth Social platform.

"Wertheimer argues that the famous Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act--which protects companies from liability for content posted by users to their websites--needs to be reinterpreted to exclude “platforms that actively promote content using reinforcement learning-based recommendation algorithms.”"
(Original title: Platform Temperance)

Platform Temperance
Notes on a new wave of the Techlash

Laat de feiten regeren. Word nu Vriend van Investico.
https://donaties.platform-investico.nl/?p=NAV
> Antidemocratische krachten en cynische politici zijn in opkomst. Feitenvrije politiek bedreigt onze vrijheid. Steun onafhankelijke onderzoeksjournalistiek en laat de feiten…

Switchable spin-photon coupling with hole spins in single-quantum dots
Carlos Sagaseta, Mar\'ia Jos\'e Calder\'on, Jos\'e Carlos Abadillo-Uriel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05301

Switchable spin-photon coupling with hole spins in single-quantum dots
Spin qubits in semiconductor quantum dots offer a gate-tunable platform for quantum information processing. While two-qubit interactions are typically realized through exchange coupling between neighboring spins, coupling spin qubits to photons via hybrid spin-cQED devices enables long-range interactions and integration with other cQED platforms. Here, we investigate hole spin-photon coupling in compact single quantum dot setups. By incorporating ubiquitous strain inhomogeneities to our theory,…

I think I made this shitpost in 2018 and it still true today.
When a closed, limited, explorative App Store is on an open platform it can’t compete. For some reason.

Amazon is testing an AI tool called Kindle Translate that automatically translates books into other languages, for authors that self-publish on the platform (Lawrence Bonk/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/amazon-is-test

Amazon is testing an AI tool that automatically translates books into other languages
Amazon is introducing an AI tool that will automatically translate books into other languages. This should be useful for authors who self publish.

🌞 Tiny engine runs hotter than the sun to probe the frontiers of thermodynamics
#physics

Tiny engine runs hotter than the sun to probe the frontiers of thermodynamics
Scientists have created the world's hottest engine running at temperatures hotter than those reached in the sun's core. The team from King's College London and collaborators believe their platform could provide an unparalleled understanding of the laws of thermodynamics on a small scale, and provide the foundation for a new, efficient way to compute how proteins fold—the subject of last year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

How to survive Instagram's algorithm as a creative
- "Instagram is wrecking my head. I have a fairly decent number of followers. But hardly anyone sees my work"
- "I have a completely organic audience, yet my posts don't reach most of my followers"
- "Instagram hides your posts unless you post a selfie or anything personal"
- "You have something new? Post it, leave and focus on more important things."
- "Do o…

How to survive Instagram's algorithm as a creative
Starting to feel invisible on Instagram? You're not alone. Here's how to protect your wellbeing while still getting some use out of the platform. Welcome to the latest in our agony aunt series, De...

Huawei just launched FusionSolar 9.0, and it's a game-changer for renewable energy grids.
The platform combines solar-plus-storage with AI-driven management and grid-forming inverters that actively support weak grids instead of just feeding into them. It includes real-time optimization and fault detection, transforming solar plants into stability assets for grids with high renewable penetration.

Huawei unveils FusionSolar 9.0 platform with AI, grid-forming tech
Huawei's FusionSolar 9.0 is a new integrated solar-plus-storage platform featuring smart inverters, AI-driven management, and grid-forming capabilities to turn solar plants into active grid-support assets. It boosts efficiency, reduces costs, and enhances stability in weak grids with high renewable penetration, according to the company.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Dilated Peoples:
🎵 The Platform
#DilatedPeoples
https://djdime.bandcamp.com/track/dilated-peoples-the-platform-remix-alchemist
https://open.spotify.com/track/1BbYPTXP9VwBWm44MqLyHK

„Gimme Groove“ by The Sarge
Platform: C64
Released: 29 November 2025
Note: 1st in the Transmission64 2025 Graphics competition
#GFX_The_Sarge #YR_2025 #PF_C64

Man detonates grenade on train platform in Ukraine's Zhytomyr Oblast, kills 4, including himself: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/24/man-detonates-grenade-on-train.html

Paperless-NGX has become the true successor to #DEVONthink 3 for me, which now focuses on AI and changed its payment model. The automatic document classification is impressively accurate. Container hosting makes self-hosting straightforward. If you want modern, intelligent document management that works cross-platform with full control,

Lionsgate reports Q2 revenue down 21% YoY to $475.1M, net loss of $113.5M, vs. $163.3M a year earlier, $276.4M in motion picture revenue, $198.7M in TV revenue (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/…

Lionsgate Shrinks Quarterly Loss After Starz Spin Off
The Hollywood major released its latest financial results as a standalone film and TV studios company after splitting from its Starz streaming platform.

Electron-Nerv: App zeigt, welche Programme mit macOS Tahoe Probleme machen
Slack, Discord und viele andere Cross-Platform-Apps nutzen das Electron-Framework. Das Problem: Ein Bug macht sie zu macOS 26 inkompatibel. Ein Prüftool hilft.

bitcoin_trust: Bitcoin OTC trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin OTC platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 5881 nodes and 35592 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Signed, Timestamps

Netherlands-based Nebius unveils Token Factory, a platform to let companies use open source AI models like GPT-oss, in a bid to compete with AWS and Azure (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-0…

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/media-giant-nikkei-reports-data-breach-impacting-17-000-people/
Media giant Nikkei reports data breach impacting 17,000 people

Media giant Nikkei reports data breach impacting 17,000 people
Japanese publishing giant Nikkei announced earlier today that its Slack messaging platform had been compromised, exposing the personal information of over 17,000 employees and business partners.

Replaced article(s) found for physics.atom-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.atom-ph/new
[1/1]:
- A Platform for Evanescently Trapping Rb-87 Using Silicon Nitride Strip Waveguides Buried in Silica
Sam J. Harding, Carrie Weidner

One does not simply parse IFWI.
https://github.com/platform-system-interface/intel_fw/issues/80

IFWI · Issue #80 · platform-system-interface/intel_fw
Integrated Firmware Image see https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/software-security-guidance/resources/key-usage-in-integrated-firmware-images.html document and sup...

From the neoclassical station entrance
— with its massive emerald-green sliding steel doors, pyramid-like roof and domed ceiling
— to the wide concrete staircases leading down to the cool, musty underground platform and tracks, the station exudes a peculiar mix of mystery and urban decay.
“Be careful, there’s iron dust, mud and oil everywhere,” says Mamoru Iwai,
Keisei Ueno Station’s stationmaster and my guide inside Hakubutsukan-Dobutsuen (Museum-Zoo) Station,

Inside Tokyo's 'phantom' stations — and the stories they tell
A sealed 1930s subway platform beneath Shimbashi Station still holds traces of what the capital looked like before the war.

Last week, I got to use my very old knowledge of MS-DOS virtualization of disk-drives and BAT programming.
Today I got to unlearn the old fact that ODBC is a "Windows First" platform.

How "porno-troll" Strike 3, owner of porn production company Vixen, made millions by filing copyright suits accusing users of illegally downloading its videos (Tarpley Hitt/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interact…

Idk who needs to hear this, but don't use Google's Chrome browser.
Some easy to use, fast and compatible alternatives are Firefox (cross-platform) or Safari on macOS/iOS.
Also more esoteric browsers based on Firefox like LibreWolf or the Tor Browser; I can't vouch for these as I don't use them personally.
(Whatever you do, don't use Brave, it's made by a bigot homophobe with money from Peter Thiel.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/10/21/phased-out-google-confirms-bad-news-for-all-3-billion-chrome-users/

How "porno-troll" Strike 3, owner of porn production company Vixen, made millions by filing copyright suits accusing users of illegally downloading its videos (Tarpley Hitt/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interact…

Sources: Charles Schwab is expected to announce a deal to acquire Forge Global, a leading platform for trading stakes in private startups, for as much as $600M (Sujeet Indap/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ffa0dabd-7e87-4327-b788-73e8fb598de3

So much happened over the weekend, so check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed, including
--Hackers who stole trove of sensitive UPenn data derides 'dog**** elitist institution',
--LLM giants are trying to stop indirect prompt injection attacks,
--Oz government warns of Cisco IOS XE flaws,
--Polish authorities probe cyberattack on online loan platform,
--Chinese President Xi Jinping joked about smar…

Hackers who stole trove of sensitive UPenn data derides 'dog**** elitist institution'
LLM giants are trying to stop indirect prompt injection attacks, Oz government warns of Cisco IOS XE flaws, Polish authorities probe cyberattack on online loan platform, Chinese President Xi Jinping joked about smartphone backdoors, Shiba Inu implements massive security upgrade, much more

For railway enthusiasts and ruin hunters alike,
these so-called "phantom stations" that have ceased service
offer a glimpse into Tokyo’s past.
Hidden from daily view and often closed to the public, they mark moments of transition in the capital’s transit history
— from the early years of railway and subway construction to the rapid postwar rebuild.
More than curiosities, they stand as weathered industrial records of how Tokyo has expanded, reconfigur…

Inside Tokyo's 'phantom' stations — and the stories they tell
A sealed 1930s subway platform beneath Shimbashi Station still holds traces of what the capital looked like before the war.

After a fun weekend and way too little sleep for whatever reason (lolsiez), I've already pushed out a bunch more PRs for https://github.com/platform-system-interface/intel_fw including docs.
I will probably get initial ME cleaning done and tag a new prerelease today. All…

GitHub - platform-system-interface/intel_fw: Modern Intel Firmware Tool and Library
Modern Intel Firmware Tool and Library. Contribute to platform-system-interface/intel_fw development by creating an account on GitHub.

Canva launches a foundational design model that generates editable layered designs, expands Canva AI, makes Affinity free for all users, and more (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/30/canva-launches-its-own-desig…

Canva launches its own design model, adds new AI features to the platform | TechCrunch
Canva is launching new features like Forms and email design, and it makes Affinity free for all users.

The New Yorker joins Substack, which it sees as a social platform for "cultivat[ing] a community of readers"; the newsletter will share one free article/week (Emily Sundberg/Feed Me)
https://www.readfeedme.com/p/why-did-the-new-yorker-join-substack

Why did The New Yorker join Substack?
"We’re approaching Substack as much as a social platform as a newsletter-delivery system."

academia_edu: Academica.edu (2011)
Snapshot of the follower relationships among users of academia.edu, a platform for academics to share research papers, scraped in 2011. Nodes are users and a directed edge (i,j) denotes that user i follows j.
This network has 200169 nodes and 1398063 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://

Replaced article(s) found for physics.atom-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.atom-ph/new
[1/1]:
- A Platform for Evanescently Trapping Rb-87 Using Silicon Nitride Strip Waveguides Buried in Silica
Sam J. Harding, Carrie Weidner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.01624 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsatomph_bot/115649278786929361
- Shell formation and two-dimensional nanofriction in three-dimensional ion Coulomb crystals
L. -A. R\"uffert, T. E. Mehlst\"aubler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.03833 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsatomph_bot/115660464251377360
- Classical and Quantum Beam Dynamics Simulation of the RF Photoinjector Test Bench at JINR
Dyatlov, Afanasyev, Kobets, Levichev, Maksimov, Nikiforov, Nozdrin, Sibiryakova, Yunenko, Karlovets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00732 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsaccph_bot/115139328955562484
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Omar Fateh,
the son of Somali immigrants and a democratic socialist,
is a leading candidate in the mayoral race in Minneapolis
and seeking to unseat incumbent Jacob Frey.
Fateh made history in 2020 by becoming the first Muslim and first Somali American to be elected to Minnesota’s state Senate.
Fateh has run for mayor on a platform advocating for rent stabilization,
raising the minimum wage
and reforming how the city handles public safety.
“…

“Mamdani of the Midwest”: Meet Omar Fateh. Could He Be the Next Mayor of Minneapolis?
Omar Fateh, the son of Somali immigrants and a democratic socialist, is a leading candidate in the mayoral race in Minneapolis and seeking to unseat incumbent Jacob Frey. Fateh made history in 2020 by becoming the first Muslim and first Somali American to be elected to Minnesota’s state Senate. Fateh has run for mayor on a platform advocating for rent stabilization, raising the minimum wage and reforming how the city handles public safety. “Minneapolis can have a different kind of politics,…

As announced, I have tagged a prerelease yesterday that oofers the basic me_cleaner capabilities.
Today, I have documented some architecture and design considerations:
https://github.com/platform-system-interface/intel_fw/pull/77
Testers welcome. If you ru…

document architecture and design considerations by orangecms · Pull Request #77 · platform-system-interface/intel_fw

The US CBP signs a two-year deal with AI logistics company Altana, and will use its platform for real-time trade enforcement, forced labor detection, and more (Mackenzie Weinger/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/31/cbp-altana-ai-trade

Exclusive: CBP taps Altana's AI for trade enforcement
Private firms and federal agencies are looking for ways to navigate supply-chain uncertainty.

Lachlan Murdoch says Tubi hit profitability for the first time during the past quarter, its revenue grew 27% YoY, and viewing time rose 18% YoY (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/10/fox-results-tubi-profitability-lachlan-murdoch-12366026…

Fox Streamer Tubi Turns Profit Earlier Than Expected, Lachlan Murdoch Reveals On First Results Call Since Family Settlement Drama
Today's Fox Q1 Results saw Tubi hit profit, Lachlan Murdoch reveals, which came earlier than expected for the AVoD platform.

Exploring vibronic dynamics near a sloped conical intersection with trapped Rydberg ions
Abdessamad Belfakir, Weibin Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04941 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.04941 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.04941
arXiv:2512.04941v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study spin-phonon coupled dynamics in the vicinity of a sloped conical intersection created by laser coupling the electronic (spin) and vibrational degrees of freedom of a pair of trapped Rydberg ions. We show that the shape of the potential energy surfaces can be engineered and controlled by exploiting the sideband transitions of the crystal vibration and dipole-dipole interactions between Rydberg ions in the Lamb-Dicke regime. Using the sideband transition, we realize a sloped conical intersection whose cone axis is only tilted along one spatial axis. When the phonon wavepacket is located in the potential minimum of the lower potential surface, the spin and phonon dynamics are largely frozen owing to the geometric phase effect. When starting from the upper potential surface, the electronic and phonon states tunnel to the lower potential surface, leading to a partial revival of the initial state. In contrast, the dynamics drastically change when the initial wavepackets are away from the conical intersection. The initial state is revived, and is almost entirely irrelevant to whether it is from the lower or upper potential surface. Complete Rabi oscillations of the adiabatic states are found when the wavepacket is initialized on the upper potential surface. The dynamics occur on the microsecond and nanometer scales, implying that Rydberg ions provide a platform for simulating nonadiabatic processes in the vicinity of a sloped conical intersection.
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Lettuce Financial, which offers an accounting, payroll, benefits, and tax compliance service for one-person businesses, raised $28M led by Zeev (Elaine Pofeldt/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/elainepo…

Lettuce Financial, A Fin-Tech Platform Targeting Solopreneurs, Raises $28 Million And Acquires A Benefits Startup
Lettuce is expanding its AI-powered operating system and expects to offer improved health benefits through the acquisition of Besolo.

Even before Microsoft Azure had a global failure this week,
Austria's Ministry of Economy had taken a decisive step toward digital sovereignty.
The Ministry is migrating 1,200 employees to a Nextcloud-based cloud and collaboration platform hosted on Austrian-based infrastructure
It's the latest move in a European trend to shift away from Big Tech.

European governments and agencies want to control sensitive data.

Another European agency shifts off Big Tech, as digital sovereignty movement gains steam
European Union states are increasingly shifting toward European-based companies that offer open-source solutions. Here's why.

Human Interest, a 401(k) platform for SMBs that aims to cut down on administrative work, raised $100M at a $3B post-money valuation, up from $1.3B in 2024 (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/31/401k-human-interest

Scoop: 401(k) platform Human Interest now worth $3 billion
The $100 million raise comes just days after HI sued rival Guideline.

Spotify says it now has nearly 500K video podcasts and more than 390M users have now streamed a video podcast on its platform, up 54% YoY (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/04/spotify-now-has-half-a-mi…

Spotify now has half a million video podcasts, which nearly 400M users have watched | TechCrunch
Spotify says that users' time spent with video content on Spotify has also more than doubled year-over-year, largely driven by video podcasts.

New York-based Kaizen, which provides a commerce platform for government agencies to offer services like utility billing, raised a $21M Series A led by NEA (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/202…

Exclusive: Govtech startup Kaizen raises $21M for commerce platform
NEA led the round.

DraftKings acquires predictions platform Railbird as it prepares to launch its mobile platform DraftKings Predictions in the coming months (Contessa Brewer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/21/draftkings-railbird-predictions-platform-acquisition.htm…

DraftKings acquires predictions platform Railbird
The sports betting giant is preparing to launch a new platform in the coming months called DraftKings Predictions.

IBM launches Digital Asset Haven, a digital assets platform built with crypto wallet provider Dfns for financial institutions, governments, and companies (Anna Irrera/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-2…

YouTube says it paid out $8B to the music industry in the 12 months to June 2025, up from $6B in 2022 and $4B in 2021 (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/23/youtube-paid-out-8b-to-the-music-industry-in-12-months/

YouTube paid out $8B to the music industry in 12 months | TechCrunch
The milestone marks a new record for the platform, as YouTube’s annual music industry payout increased by $2 billion since 2022.

EV maker Lucid partners with Nvidia to develop a fully autonomous vehicle platform, starting with building more ADAS tech for Lucid's existing Gravity SUV (Kara Carlson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

Some ad buyers say brands are increasingly spending on Reddit due to the site's prominence in AI-powered search results and its growing audience (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/reddit-advertisers-ai-search-visibility-deck/

Brands Rush to Reddit, Boosting Ad Spend and Gaming AI Search
A leaked deck shows paid ads on Reddit can boost AI search visibility as the platform becomes more relevant than ever.

WPP rolls out WPP Open Pro, a self-serve version of WPP Open, its AI-powered marketing platform that helps marketers build campaigns and develop creative assets (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/agencies/wpp-launch…

WPP Launches a Self-Serve Version of Its AI Platform To Court Small Biz Dollars
British advertising titan WPP is rolling out a self-serve version of WPP Open, its AI marketing platform. 

Q&A with Bill Ready, who became Pinterest's CEO in 2022, about changes during his tenure, winning over Gen Z, Pinterest's business model, AI content, and more (Jordyn Holman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/business/pinterest-s…

How Pinterest Is Courting Gen Z With ‘Safer’ Social Media
Bill Ready, the company’s chief executive, is shifting the virtual pinboard platform toward shopping and things that “make you feel better.”

Mark Zuckerberg says Threads has 150M DAUs, up from 100M in December 2024, and Meta has rolled out ads globally in the Threads feed with plans to add video ads (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/thre

Threads reaches 150 million daily users and is ramping up ads
Threads has grown to 150 million daily active users and is ramping up ads on the text-based platform.

Twilio reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to $1.3B vs. $1.25B est., forecasts Q4 sales above est., agrees to buy identity platform Stytch; TWLO jumps 8% after hours (Chris Ciaccia/Seeking Alpha)
https://seekingalpha.com/news/4511471-tw…

Twilio pops as it raises full-year forecast, aided by strong Q3 results
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Email: Indian crypto exchange WazirX plans to resume operations on October 24, following a court-approved restructuring, after hackers stole $230M in July 2024 (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/10/2

WazirX Latest News: Users Can Start Trading on Friday After $230M Hack Comes to Close
That was the final step in a process that began after a massive security breach last year froze assets, shuttered withdrawals, and effectively took India’s oldest crypto platform offline.

Copenhagen-based Formalize, whose compliance software serves organizations in 80 countries, raised a €30M Series B co-led by Acton Capital and Blackfin Tech (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/10/28/formalize-raises-eur30m-to-a…

Formalize raises €30M to advance compliance solutions across Europe
Copenhagen-based Formalize has raised €30 million in a Series B co-led by Acton Capital and Blackfin Tech, with participation from West Hill Capital and CIBC Innovation Banking. The company has raised €50 million to date.Across Europe, organisations face an increasingly complex, interconnected regulatory landscape, with evolving rules reshaping expectations for information security, resilience, and reporting across industries and regions. Formalize, addresses this with a single platform…

Glasgow-based Chemify, which combines AI with robotics and chemistry to rapidly make novel molecules for pharmaceutical companies, raised a $50M Series B (Alex Scott/Chemical & Engineering News)
https://cen.acs.org/business/informatics/AI-drug-…

AI drug synthesizer Chemify raises $50 million
Scottish firm will use the cash to advance its AI platform and robotics system to rapidly make novel molecules

Grammarly rebrands as Superhuman after its acquisitions of Superhuman Mail in June and Coda in December 2024; the standalone writing tool Grammarly still exists (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/808472/grammarly-superhuman-ai-rebrand-rel…

Grammarly is changing its name to Superhuman
Grammarly is rebranding to become Superhuman, an AI agent-powered work platform that combines its writing tool with Coda and Superhuman Mail.

Sublime Security, which uses AI agents to protect against phishing and other email threats, raised a $150M Series C, bringing its total funding to $240M (Eduard Kovacs/SecurityWeek)
https://www.securityweek.com/sublime-security-raises-150-millio…

A profile of eBay CEO Jamie Iannone, who said the platform was "too complacent" in 2020 and now focuses on its power users, boosting its stock by ~50% in 2025 (Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/09/2025

How Jamie Iannone made eBay an investor collectible
The e-commerce veteran is using AI and customer insights to reduce the “friction” that deters many buyers and sellers.

Campus, which is building an online alternative to community colleges, hires Meta's ex-VP of AI Jerome Pesenti as its CTO, and acquires his company Sizzle AI (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/sam-altman-college-startup-campus-meta-ai.htm…

Shaq, Sam Altman-backed college startup Campus taps former Meta AI head as CTO
As part of the deal, Campus will buy Pesenti's artificial intelligence learning platform Sizzle AI for an undisclosed amount.

Paris-based Upciti, which offers city operations software and hardware to over 150 municipalities in 17 countries, raised a $20M Series A led by Notion Capital (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/10/16/upciti-closes-20m-to-dr…

UPCITI closes $20M to drive global growth of its urban operating platform
UPCITI, a Paris-based company building an operating system for cities, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Notion Capital, with participation from Point Nine and Chalfen Ventures.UPCITI combines proprietary software with purpose-built hardware to help municipalities run critical operations, such as traffic flow, street management, and public safety, more efficiently and securely, with a clear ROI that simplifies adoption. By owning both the software an…

WhatsApp updates its Business API terms to ban general-purpose chatbots starting January 15, 2026, affecting WhatsApp assistants of OpenAI, Perplexity, others (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/whatssapp-…

WhatssApp changes its terms to bar general purpose chatbots from its platform | TechCrunch
WhatsApp is banning general purpose chatbots from using its Business API

Sources: Forge Global, a leading platform for trading stakes in private startups, is exploring a sale, after its stock fell 90% since its 2021 IPO (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/9e865858-c0eb-4c73-9185-db9f49ea9978

Truth Social launches Truth Predict, a prediction market platform in partnership with Crypto.com to let users trade on major current events like elections (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/485594b3-5a72-4ae1-aa93-8ee987be1569

Adobe unveils Project Moonlight, an AI agent on its Firefly platform designed to act as a creative director for social media campaigns via text prompts (The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/807457/adobe-ai-agent-project-moonlight

Adobe’s AI social media admin is here with ‘Project Moonlight’
Adobe announced Project Moonlight, an AI agent that uses other Adobe AI tools to create social media posts that match your tone and style.

GitHub plans to launch Agent HQ, a hub to let developers access third-party AI coding agents, including Claude and OpenAI's Codex, in the coming months (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/githubs-huge-agent-hq-…

GitHub's huge 'Agent HQ' upgrade brings Codex, Claude, and Jules together - here's how
The new agentic development platform integrates the most popular AI coding agents directly into GitHub.

Sources: Microsoft's next Xbox will run Windows, letting users play PlayStation titles on Steam and the full Xbox console library, without a multiplayer paywall (Jez Corden/Windows Central)
https://www.windowscentral.com/…

Microsoft's ambitious new Xbox: Your entire Xbox console library, the full power of Windows PC gaming, and no multiplayer paywall
The new Xbox platform is said to be a "premium" experience, and now we have some details on what it'll look like.

ChipAgents, which is developing an agentic AI platform to automate chip design and verification, raised a $21M Series A led by Bessemer (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/10/21/chipagents-scores-21m-transform-semicondu…

ChipAgents scores $21M to transform semiconductor design with agentic AI - SiliconANGLE
ChipAgents scores $21M to transform semiconductor design with agentic AI - SiliconANGLE

Crypto infrastructure provider Fireblocks acquires Dynamic, which streamlines crypto wallet setup, authentication, and onboarding for 50M accounts, for ~$90M (CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/s1zemqprel

Fireblocks acquires Dynamic, a16z-backed wallet platform, for $90 million
The Israeli digital asset firm, valued at $8 billion, broadens its platform amid industry-wide stablecoin momentum. 

Q&A with Zocdoc CEO Oliver Kharraz on the patient scheduling platform's telehealth expansion, its policy of not providing medical advice through AI, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/801767/zocdoc-ceo-oli…

Zocdoc CEO: ‘Dr. Google is going to be replaced by Dr. AI’
Zocdoc CEO Oliver Kharraz joins Decoder to discuss where AI really belongs in healthcare.

Nexos.ai, which helps companies adopt AI tools by acting as a middleman between employees and AI systems, raised a €30M Series A co-led by Index and Evantic (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/20/european-ai-ri…

European AI rising star Nexos.ai raises €30M to unlock enterprise AI adoption | TechCrunch
Nord Security co-founders have closed a €30 million Series A for their new startup, Nexos.ai, an orchestration platform aimed at helping companies adopt AI securely.

Japanese fintech JPYC launches a yen-pegged stablecoin, the country's first, and its issuance platform JPYC EX, targeting $65.4B in circulation in three years (Timmy Shen/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/376199/japan-jpyc-launches-yen-stablecoin

Coinbase agrees to acquire Echo, a blockchain platform to let crypto companies quickly raise capital, for ~$375M, marking Coinbase's 8th acquisition in 2025 (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/coin…