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Breath of fresh air to see how Gary McCoy’s public safety platform emphasizes mental health services and community violence prevention over the usual drumbeat of cops cops cops. 👏
https://www.garymccoysf.com/priorities

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…

In 2022 Larry Ellison gave Elon Musk $1 billion to help fund his purchase of Twitter (now X).
And last year Skydance Media merged with Paramount creating a conglomerate with almost unmatched reach.
While Larry’s son David runs Paramount on paper, it’s the father who actually owns the company.
This means that Larry Ellison owns a controlling stake in a broadcast network (CBS),
a major streaming platform (Paramount ),
multiple movie studios,
CBS News,

Larry Ellison’s quest to run the world
TikTok is the latest prize in the Silicon Valley billionaire’s second act as a media mogul.

Threats to the sustainability of Community Notes on X
Zahra Arjmandi-Lari, Alexios Mantzarlis, Tom Stafford
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00650 https://arxiv.…

Threats to the sustainability of Community Notes on X
Community Notes are emerging as an important option for content moderation. The Community Notes system pioneered by Twitter, now known as X, uses a bridging algorithm to identify user-generated context with upvotes across political divides, supposedly spinning consensual gold from partisan straw. It is important to understand the nature of the community behind Community Notes, especially as the feature has now been imitated by several billion-user platforms. We look for signs of stability and d…

Topology-Optimized Dielectric Cavities for Enhanced Excitonic Light Emission from $\rm WSe_{2}$
Owen Matthiessen, Brandon Triplett, Omer Yesilyurt, Davide Cassara, Karthik Pagadala, Morris M. Yang, Andres E. Llacsahuanga Allcca, Hamza Ather, Colton Fruhling, Abhishek Bharatbhai Solanki, Yong P. Chen, Hadiseh Alaeian, Alexander V. Kildishev, Vladimir M. Shalaev, Federico Capasso, Alexandra Boltasseva, Vahagn Mkhitaryan

Topology-Optimized Dielectric Cavities for Enhanced Excitonic Light Emission from $\rm WSe_{2}$
Photonic inverse design and, especially, topology optimization, enable dielectric cavities with deeply sub-diffraction mode volumes and high quality factors, thus offering a powerful platform for enhanced light-matter coupling. Here, we design and fabricate arrays of CMOS-compatible silicon cavities on sapphire with extreme subwavelength transverse mode sizes of only 30-40 nm ($\rm V\simλ^3/2500$). These cavities are engineered for deterministic coupling to a monolayer (or few-layer) excitonic…

ego_social: Ego networks in social media (2012)
Ego networks associated with a set of accounts of three social media platforms (Facebook, Google , and Twitter). Datasets include node features (profile metadata), circles, and ego networks, and were crawled from public sources in 2012.
This network has 3347 nodes and 172663 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

Q&A with ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger on the "decay" at Intel, the Chip Act's terrible execution, the irony of Lip-Bu Tan broadly following his strategy, and more (Michael Acton/Financial Times)

Former Intel chief Pat Gelsinger: ‘I’ve been called here for a purpose’
The executive on the ‘hideous’ implementation of the 2022 Chips Act, his new role heading up a Christian AI platform — and why quantum could upend computing

»Microsoft Teams kann ab Dezember Büroanwesenheit erfassen:
Microsoft Teams erschwert die Anwesenheitsfiktion im Homeoffice: Mit einem Update wird die Plattform den Standort eines Mitarbeiters übers Büro-WLAN verfolgen«
Abgesehen vom Datenschutz und Privatsphäre ist doch die Kommunikation im Pausenraum beim Kaffee doch die wirkliche Zusammenarbeit und nicht die Überwachung. Doch die Chefs wollen uns…
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Microsoft Teams kann ab Dezember Büroanwesenheit erfassen
Microsoft Teams erschwert die Anwesenheitsfiktion im Homeoffice: Mit einem Update wird die Plattform den Standort eines Mitarbeiters übers Büro-WLAN verfolgen.

A joint investigation by Canadian privacy authorities finds TikTok collected sensitive personal data from hundreds of thousands of Canadian children under 13 (Catharine Tunney/CBC News)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tiktok-privacy-commissioners-1.7640974…

Privacy commissioners find TikTok collected sensitive data from Canadian children | CBC News
TikTok's tools to keep children off its platform were largely ineffective and the immensely popular social media app was collecting sensitive information from underage users, a joint investigation from Canadian privacy authorities found.

Atlassian acquires developer productivity platform DX for $1B in cash and restricted stock; DX has 350 enterprise customers and raised less than $5M (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/18/atlassian-acquires-dx-a-devel…

Atlassian acquires DX, a developer productivity platform, for $1B | TechCrunch
Atlassian is making its largest acquisition yet by buying DX so it can offer a developer productivity tool.