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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.

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Cranelift progress report: a look back at 2021.
https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/cranelift-progress-2021
saved 2021-12-16

Cranelift Progress Report: A Look Back at 2021
The past year has been a productive one for the Cranelift project! Cranelift is the Bytecode Alliance’s native code compiler that serves as the foundation for the Wasmtime and Lucet WebAssembly virtual machines, and is used in other cont...

At a time when climate change, irreversible loss of biodiversity and socio-environmental crises are no longer questionable,
Using traditional political means to achieve social and climate justice will not be enough.
https://grondementsdesterres.org/programme-et-actualite/

“The transformation has been bewildering. It feels like the blink of an eye, though I guess it’s been about three years. The culture has changed immensely in that short time. When I identified with the programmer culture, it was about programming. Now programming is a means to an end ("let’s see how fast we can build a surveillance state!") or simply an unwanted chore to be avoided.”
https://ratfactor.com/tech-nope2

Polymarket is auditing its Builders Program, which gives up to $2.5M in grants, after concerns that some participating startups are facilitating insider trading (Michael Roddan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/polym…

Polymarket Reverses Course on Startups That Piggyback on Insider Trades
Polymarket was already under pressure to curb insider trading when it launched a program late last year to support startups that sent trades to its prediction market. Those companies quickly began handing suspected insider trading accounts to their own customers, letting them copy those trades. ...

Christian Parker Isn't Only Key to Dallas Cowboys' Defensive Revival in 2026 https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/christian-parker-isnt-only-key-dallas-cowboys-2026-defensive-revival

"When you behold the prompt file of a coder using A.I., you are viewing a record of the developer’s attempts to restrain the agents’ generally competent, but unpredictably deviant, actions."
Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It
https://www.

Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It
In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird.

eu_procurements_alt: EU national procurement networks (2008-2016)
These 234 networks represent the annual national public procurement markets of 26 European countries from 2008-2016, inclusive. Data is sourced from Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), the official procurement portal of the European Union.
This network has 17259 nodes and 20936 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Weighted, Temporal

A survey of US teens: ~90% say entertainment is a reason they use TikTok, Instagram, or Snapchat, 57% Snapchat message daily, and 37% say TikTok impacts sleep (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/04/15/teens-exper…

Teens’ Experiences on TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat | Pew Research Center
About this research This study is Pew Research Center’s latest effort to explore the landscape of teens and technology today. It focuses on social media and how the views and…

Stephen Jones says Cowboys are making 'good progress' in DC search https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/stephen-jones-says-cowboys-are-making-good-progress-in-dc-search