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European alternatives for digital products
#Europe #sovereignty

I've never been fashionable or timely, but I matched the theme today at Bad Bunny's halftime show wearing my #TWLOHA shirt.
https://store.twloha.com/products/still-shirt

Still Shirt

epinions: Epinions product ratings (2005)
A bipartite network of users and the products they rated on the website Epinions.com. A user connects to all products on which that user entered a rating. Edge weight represents the rating score, and edges are timestamped.
This network has 876252 nodes and 13668320 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Timestamps, Weighted

Brands complain Amazon's "Buy for Me" AI-powered shopping tool features their products on Amazon without permission and shows descriptions with errors (Allison Smith/Modern Retail)
https://www.modernretail.co/technology/bra

Brands are upset that ‘Buy For Me’ is featuring their products on Amazon without permission
Online merchants say Amazon’s “Buy for Me” AI tool listed their products without permission, forcing them to opt out after the fact.

I know studded bike tires for winter are a thing, but I saw these straps... Only one company seems to make them for one style of bike. Any reason these are not more common?
https://bakcou.com/products/fat-tire-snow-straps

Dog food accounts for 1% of UK greenhouse gas emissions, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/jan/08/dog-food-accounts-for-1-of-uk-greenhouse-gas-emissions-study-finds

Looking to replace my home printer. This might be a good option.
https://www.xtool.com/products/xtool-apparel-printer-a-new-era-of-apparel-printings

xTool Apparel Printer: One Click DTF Printer, Effortless Customization for Business

This rumour just in: after 60 years, Steve's Music Store is closing? #Toronto
https://stevesmusic.com/

#superbOwl #owlMask

Q&A with YouTube VP of Subscription Products Christian Oestlien on YouTube TV's future, the NFL and Oscars deals, its friendly rivalry with Netflix, and more (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

Nike quietly sold its digital products subsidiary RTFKT on December 16 for an undisclosed sum, roughly one year after Nike shuttered the NFT unit (Matthew Kish/Oregonian)
https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2026/01/n…

Nike sells RTFKT: Digital products subsidiary quietly offloaded in December
The sale comes as CEO Elliott Hill refocuses Nike on sports and questions persist about Converse’s future after a 30% sales drop.

Ikea knows the way to my heart. Our new kitchen counter surface looks and feels like untreated wood, but is actually completely fake and waterproof.
And yes, I know Ikea probably isn't the most sustainable source for wooden products, but please give me a break. I can't go full ADD hyperfocus on every single purchase.

FDA Makes It Easier for Food Products To Be Labeled ‘No Artificial Dyes’ | Civil Eats
https://civileats.com/2026/02/06/fda-makes-it-easier-for-food-products-to-be-labeled-no-artificial-dyes/

I keep wondering: Is a set of companies who produce products the market neither particularly wants nor pays for even "an industry"?

Diesel price in US is almost a dollar more than a week ago, I'm sure this is totally fine wrt to costs for consumer products etc.

epinions: Epinions product ratings (2005)
A bipartite network of users and the products they rated on the website Epinions.com. A user connects to all products on which that user entered a rating. Edge weight represents the rating score, and edges are timestamped.
This network has 876252 nodes and 13668320 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Timestamps, Weighted

Good job Bose! Open sourcing EOL products should be a universal law.
We could save so many products from landfills.
https://vger.to/lemmy.world/post/41308380

✍️ New post: Weis­sKlang L1 – Punch­ing Above Its Weight
#audio #recording #microphones

WeissKlang L1 – Punching Above Its Weight · Matthias Ott
Web design engineer, UX designer, teacher, and speaker – helping teams build websites and digital products with a focus on CSS, accessibility, and performance.

It's not even annoying anymore. As usual, the open-source gods have stepped in and support these abandoned hardware products. The difference this time is one of the lines of abandoned hardware products launched a little over 3 years ago, and the other isn't obsolete within the scope of the usecase.
I'm Annoyed At AMD's Latest Radeon Blunder - Hardware Unboxed

Microsoft plans to keep Anthropic's tools embedded in client products, after its lawyers determine the DOD's designation doesn't apply to non-defense projects (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/05/microsoft-…

Microsoft says Anthropic’s products remain available to customers after Pentagon blacklist
Microsoft is the first major company to say it will keep using Anthropic models in its products.

We were trying to import and add as source the vulnerability database of GitLab into vulnerability-lookup as a new feed.
But we discovered the license terms
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security-products/gemnasium-db/-/blob/master/LICENSE.md

LICENSE.md · master · GitLab.org / security-products / advisory-database · GitLab
The GitLab Advisory Database, used in GitLab Ultimate Dependency Scanning and Container Scanning.

Shopify launches Product Network, an ad tool that lets merchants recommend and advertise products on other merchants' storefronts (Lauren Johnson/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/commerce/shopify-product-network-merchant-ads/

Shopify Rolls Out Ad Network for Millions of Merchants
The e-commerce giant is opening up search and post-checkout ads in storefronts.

It’s not something I need but damn I sure do love the form factor.
https://www.campsnapphoto.com/products/cs8

CS-8 Digital Video Camera

fao_trade: FAO Multiplex Trade Network
Multiplex network representing trade relationships between countries from the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. Countries are nodes and edge types represent import/export of varying products. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 214 nodes and 318346 edges.
Tags: Economic, Trade, Weighted, Multilayer

What a great report by the Norwegian Consumer Council on how digital products and services are getting worse (enshittification)!
Lots of good explanations and examples, but also very actionable with policy recommendations.
https://www.forbr…

Digital products and services are getting worse – but the trend can be reversed
A new report from the Norwegian Consumer Council shows how enshittification affects both consumers and society at large. Luckily, it‘s possible to turn the tide.

Q&A with YouTube VP of Subscription Products Christian Oestlien on YouTube TV's future, the NFL and Oscars deals, its friendly rivalry with Netflix, and more (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

Why did none of you tell me about this? https://shop.mattel.com/products/matchbox-toy-cars-trucks-4-pack-jhb37

Matchbox Mattel 80th Anniversary 4-Pack Of Die-Cast 1:64 Scale Toy Cars & Trucks With Moving Parts

Perfect timing for the March for Billionaires tomorrow, which lists Bezos as one of the good ones.
https://universeodon.com/@jaykuo/116026776153656984

Jay Kuo (@jaykuo@universeodon.com)
Attached: 1 image Jeff Bezos could have saved this paper with pocket change from his vast wealth. Instead he’s letting it die because that makes Trump happy. Coward. Enemy of democracy.

There are many, many kinds of faux insurance products out there.
There’s short-term plans.
But more importantly, there’s also a thing called
❌ "healthcare sharing ministries",
which many people are critical of because they pose as insurance products,
when they’re really not there.
They promise a network of doctors and that you can access that network,
but often they don’t cover drugs.
Those doctors may or may not really participa…

Over 20M Americans Set to Lose Healthcare Coverage Jan. 1 After Congress Goes on Recess
Tens of millions of Americans are set to see their health insurance costs soar when subsidies under the Affordable Care Act expire at the end of this year. Health insurance premiums are expected to more than double or even triple for some 20 million people, pricing many out of healthcare coverage entirely. “We’ve done nothing as a country to control healthcare costs,” says Elisabeth Benjamin, vice president of health initiatives at the Community Service Society of New York and member of N…

"Nearly Half of All Germans Now Consume Plant-Based Milk Products, According to New Survey"
#Germany #Food #Dairy

Nearly Half of All Germans Now Consume Plant-Based Milk Products, According to New Survey
Nearly half of German adults now drink plant-based milk alternatives, as dairy-free products break out of their niche to become mainstream

Shopify launches Product Network, an ad tool that lets merchants recommend and advertise products on other merchants' storefronts (Lauren Johnson/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/commerce/shopify-product-network-merchant-ads/

Shopify Rolls Out Ad Network for Millions of Merchants
The e-commerce giant is opening up search and post-checkout ads in storefronts.

I wrote about @… on the Official Swift Blog https://www.swift.org/blog/building-privacy-first-analytics-with-swift/…

Swift at scale: building the TelemetryDeck analytics service
TelemetryDeck is an app analytics service specifically for developers, designed to manage usage analytics that are anonymized, privacy-focused, and really easy to use. TelemetryDeck is managing the data of over 16 million people every month, helping thousands of app publishers improve their products, and we’re doing it all with a Swift-based infrastructure.

product_space: Atlas of Economic Complexity export network
Two networks of economic products, where a pair of products are connected if they are exported at similar rates by the same countries. The data are a projection from a bipartite network of nations and the products they export. Edges weights represent a similarity score (called "proximity"). Data based on UN Comtrade worldwide trade patterns. SITC network based on the Standard International Trade Classification and HS …

Trump is labeling Anthropic a “supply chain risk,” a label heretofore normally associated with foreign adversaries’ tech products, such as telecom gear made by China’s Huawei.
My piece that was published across several publications last evening.
https://www.

Trump administration bans Anthropic, escalating clash over military use of AI
The move to designate the AI firm a “supply chain risk” forces a six-month Pentagon transition from its products and reshapes competition among OpenAI, Google, and xAI.

«L’attitude du gouvernement, et principalement de Christelle Luisier, est très problématique. Nous constatons qu’il n’y a aucune ouverture et que les négociations ne sont pas possibles. Dans ce cas, on ne voit pas pourquoi on soutiendrait un deuxième débat immédiat.»
https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/vaud/nous-ne-pouvons-pas-continuer-a-ce-rythme-l-heure-de-verite-approche-pour-le-budget-vaudois?shouldPreventPurchase=true&inAppView=3.19.0&didomiConfig.user.externalConsent.value={"purposes":{"consent":{"enabled":["abtesting-p6FL2BYL","audiencem-hJxaeGrR","cookies","create_ads_profile","create_content_profile","device_characteristics","geolocation_data","improve_products","market_research","measure_ad_performance","measure_content_performance","parselyne-Ya2EC4dG","select_basic_ads","select_personalized_ads","select_personalized_content","use_limited_data_to_select_content"],"disabled":[]},"legitimate_interest":{"enabled":[],"disabled":[]}},"vendors":{"consent":{"enabled":["amazon","c:aws-cloudfront","c:bannerwise-EeHwBjLT","c:chartbeat","c:cloudflare","c:echobox-GqD96L9K","c:forecast-ZRJPAUT7","c:googleana-4TXnJigR","c:hotjar","c:jsdelivr-xdD77X6w","c:jw-player","c:kameleoon-experiment","c:kameleoon-personalization","c:keycdn","c:linkedin","c:magnitein-ePEpbCQ7","c:meta-43HDmFRa","c:microsoft","c:nonli-jnWf8kqD","c:pianohybr-R3VKC2r4","c:pinterest","c:spyri-XAtBPx3i","c:tapadinc-VDTUUcKw","c:tiktok-KZAUQLZ9","c:unrulygro-nKyLqdKi","c:youtube","facebook","google","twitter",1,10,1020,1021,1028,1046,1069,108,109,11,1126,12,120,1269,128,13,130,131,1310,132,136,137,138,142,143,1449,154,156,16,164,202,209,21,211,23,238,24,241,243,25,253,264,28,284,290,30,301,32,36,39,4,412,422,45,469,475,493,50,519,52,559,58,61,612,617,68,684,69,73,76,77,783,790,793,80,81,811,84,85,855,898,91,92,95,965,98],"disabled":[]},"legitimate_interest":{"enabled":[],"disabled":[]}},"user_id":"36B03261-8BC8-4FB4-A026-0543FF748710","created":"2025-05-28T08:36:56.058Z","updated":"2025-11-08T21:05:15.048Z","source":{"type":"app","domain":"ch.letemps.LT"},"action":"webview"}

One of our products uses a document prep tool that is available only on Windoz. It's a good tool, which is why I didn't take the effort to move stuff over to LibreOffice or something I can run on Linux.
Anyway, we have no Windows machines - but we have some M.2 NVME sticks that contain Windows 11 that we pulled from some new boxes that we then used for Linux or FreeBsd.
So I stuffed one of those M.2 sticks into a machine and fired up Windows 11.
Then I ran into Win…

I hope...wherever he is, that Vic Gundotra ('Father' of Google ) is having a nice day!
It was probably one of the last 'good' Google products.
#google #googleplus #noxp

🌴 Designer enzyme enables yeast to produce custom fatty acids, reducing need for palm oil
#biotech

Designer enzyme enables yeast to produce custom fatty acids, reducing need for palm oil
Whether they are laundry detergents, mascara, or Christmas chocolate, many everyday products contain fatty acids from palm oil or coconut oil. However, the extraction of these raw materials is associated with massive environmental issues: Rainforests are cleared, habitats for endangered species are destroyed, and traditional farmers lose their livelihoods.

from my link log —
API design: Understanding gRPC, OpenAPI and REST and when to use them.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/api-management/understanding-grpc-openapi-and-rest-and-when-to-use-them
saved…

gRPC vs REST: Understanding gRPC, OpenAPI and REST and when to use them in API design | Google Cloud Blog
When designing a modern API, learn when to use RPC (gRPC), OpenAPI or REST.

Zenlayer (#AS4229 and others):
"[...] new pricing policy for public IPv4 addresses will take effect on March 31, 2026, reflecting rising IPv4 costs [...]"
"All compute products will no longer include complimentary public IPv4 addresses by default."
"Customers are strongly encouraged to accelerate IPv6 adoption to support a sustainable long-term network architecture."

Heads-up, pretty serious food and drug recall in Indiana, Minnesota and North Dakota for a bunch of products including Cheerios, Kellogg’s stuff, Pringles, Coca-Cola, Gatorade, Heinz ketchup, Crisco, pet foods, beauty products etc because of literal rat shit at a distributor
The PDF with products is 44 pages long
https://people.com/thousands-of-gold-star-items-recalled-for-exposure-to-rodent-waste-11894824

My SLP spouse has a T-shirt that says “langauge,” and it gets a lot of appreciation.
Every profession that involved any sort of typing has these words, I suspect.
https://peachiespeechie.com/products/misspelled-langauge-classic-tee-t-shirts-tops-peachie-speechie

If you didn't get the Pip-Boy 3000 MkV, you can now get the Fallout 3/New Vegas edition of the Pip-Boy 3000.
▶️ Fallout Pip-Boy 3000 Replica – Official Bethesda Gear Store
https://gear.bethesda.net/products/fallout-pip-boy-3000-replica

Fallout Pip-Boy 3000 Replica

I want a high quality metal fidget toy. It keeps me from opening a browser tab the second I have to wait for anything to load.
I want it to be somewhat precisely manufactured and made out of safe materials, preferrably metal.
I know about https://lautie.com, but I was wondering if there was anything decent inbe…

Picked this up. Seems like it'll be useful to have wah/vol/exp in one pedal. And one can tweak the wah sound so should be able to make it work easily.
#guitar #GearSquad

I finally found it, Bloom filters being used in the wild in actual products (that I have to deal with) 😍
https://developers.google.com/nearby/fast-pair/specifications/service/provider#AccountKeyFilter
I thought this day would ne…

@… thanks, that's genuinely interesting (although I stopped using Parallels many years ago (and then abandoned Apple products)).
I had no idea that an alliance with Corel had formed!

Wow. I know store brands still exist, but I can remember mixing gallons and gallons of frozen orange juice growing up.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2026/02/05/minute-maid-frozen-orange-juice-discontinued/88528218007/…

Minute Maid is discontinuing frozen juices after 80 years
Minute Maid is discontinuing its frozen products, which include orange juice and lemonade.

"While this book discusses a specific Reserve Unit during WWII, the general argument Browning makes is that most people succumb to the pressures of a group setting and commit actions they would never do of their own volition."
It feels somehow worse that we have WW2 as a cautionary tale and yet are here now anyway.

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution

I’m pretty sure the tech broligarchs supported Trump because they thought he would make it easier for them to become even richer. I wonder how the discussions between them are as they see Trumps illegal and insane international «incursions» are going to cost them markets and profits as the rest of the world turns away from US-based products and services…

Boy this sentiment is really starting to pick up speed, lol. This random dude's vid has nearly 10k more views than he has subs already after just 13 hours. M$ doing the best Linux PR.
"Microsoft have lost their minds
A rant about Microsoft's product naming and does anyone know what their products are called at this point? From the company that killed Windows, now you can have Microsoft 365 Copilot app instead of Office... cause who doesn't want that?"
<…

Walmart Precision Bombing
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNJlzKWSKob/

The UK's countrywide ban on TV junk food ads before the 9pm watershed and an online ban for high fat and sugar products officially takes effect (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jan/05/ban-tv-junk-food-advertis…

“non-irritating” pepper spray.
How does that work exactly? @… https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app

Andy Carvin (@acarv.in)
"Our products are formulated with the highest quality, non-toxic ingredients that are non-irritating and non-staining. With our advanced technology and rigorous testing standards, you can trust Zarc for all your correctional facility needs." https://www.zarc.com/t-zarc-professional-pepper-sprays/professional-products-66/category/professional-products-vexor-professional-corrections-72

Interesting, a not android/iOS smartphone.
#smartphone

Jolla Phone Pre-order Voucher

"Even if #OpenAI was run by decent, ethical, friendly, trustworthy people (which would then of course make them not work on the products OpenAI has, but it’s just a thought experiment) their products would need to be criticized for what they are and what they do." — @…

Acting ethical in an imperfect world
Live is complicated. Regardless of what your beliefs or politics or ethics are, the way that we set up our society and economy will often force you to act against them: You might not want to fly somewhere but your employer will not accept another mode of transportation, you want to eat vegan but are […]

https://bici.cc/products/cafe-du-cycliste-mens-rosie-bib-tight <-- it's hilarious and sad (do these people actually bicycle in Vancouver winter rain? Serious question!!!) that a Vancouver company sells $CAD400 "winter" bicycling tights that aren't wa…

The Swedish energy regulator has approved standardised definitions for flexibility products. This makes it easier for suppliers and aggregators to optimise customer devices for local grid needs. The more flexibility offered through these market mechanisms, the lower the costs for all energy system users.

Ei godkänner marknadsprodukter för flexibilitetstjänster
Energimarknadsinspektionen (Ei) godkände i december 2025 ansökningar om specifikationer för flexibilitets­tjänster och standardiserade marknads­produkter. Besluten innebär att de elnätsföretag som ansökt har möjlighet att använda gemensamma och harmoniserade produkter vid marknadsmässiga köp av flexibilitet – något som skapar tydlighet och bidrar till transparenta villkor för branschens aktörer.

Thoughts on MacBook Neo, as Apple also expands its superpremium tier via "Ultra" products; sources: Apple wants to use aluminum 3D-printing for Watch and iPhone (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsle…

Samsung says Ballie, a robot announced six years ago but never released, is an "active innovation platform" within the company helping inform other products (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116165215922836572
Their makers also do not want you to be able to understand. It's about turning the means of understanding and sensemaking into externalized products to rent.

Two kinds of #AI #users are emerging. The gap between them is astonishing.
https://martinalderson.com/posts/two-k

#MAHA: "Trump administration lawyers told Supreme Court justices on Tuesday that they should rule in favor of the chemical company Bayer in an upcoming case that could prevent individuals from suing pesticide companies over claims their products cause cancer and other illnesses."
Trump Administration Affirms Support for Bayer in Glyphosate Case | Civil Eats
https://civileats.com/2026/03/03/trump-administration-affirms-support-for-bayer-in-glyphosate-case/

"Success! EU Microplastic Ban Regulation Drives Innovation in Biodegradable Alternatives"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Plastic

Success! EU Microplastic Ban Regulation Drives Innovation in Biodegradable Alternatives | Happy Eco News
EU microplastic ban regulations introduced through REACH in 2023 are transforming how industries use plastics. The comprehensive rules phase out microplastics from cosmetics, detergents, and agricultural products by 2035, pushing companies to develop biodegradable alternatives. Major corporations and startups are responding with innovative solutions that break down naturally while maintaining performance.

Astronomers identified 26 new bacterial species in NASA's clean rooms where the Phoenix Martian lander was assembled and tested.
Among the most sterile environments on Earth, #extremophilic #bacteria resistant to chemical cleaning products and UV rays have been found there.
These particularly res…

Des bactéries inconnues résistent aux salles blanches de la NASA : 26 nouvelles espèces identifiées
Trust me, I'm Science

Even if you just wanna use it as an excuse not to drive the the shopping center, lol
https://boycott-usproducts.eu/
https://

product_space: Atlas of Economic Complexity export network
Two networks of economic products, where a pair of products are connected if they are exported at similar rates by the same countries. The data are a projection from a bipartite network of nations and the products they export. Edges weights represent a similarity score (called "proximity"). Data based on UN Comtrade worldwide trade patterns. SITC network based on the Standard International Trade Classification and HS …

Samsung says it expects memory chip supply shortages to raise prices across the electronics industry, including potentially among its own consumer products (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-07/samsung…

Infant formula sector rocked by massive recalls of Lactalis and Nestlé products contaminated by the same toxin
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2026/01/22/infant-formula-sector-rocked-by-massive-recalls-of-lactalis-and-nestle-products-contaminated-by-the-same-toxin_6749673_19.html

product_space: Atlas of Economic Complexity export network
Two networks of economic products, where a pair of products are connected if they are exported at similar rates by the same countries. The data are a projection from a bipartite network of nations and the products they export. Edges weights represent a similarity score (called "proximity"). Data based on UN Comtrade worldwide trade patterns. SITC network based on the Standard International Trade Classification and HS …

"Grasslands are vanishing nearly four times faster than forests, global study finds"
#Grasslands #Environment
https://…

Grasslands are vanishing nearly four times faster than forests, global study finds
Along with forests, grasslands and wetlands are also being converted to cropland and pasture at an increasing rate around the world—often for livestock farming and the export of agricultural products. An international team of researchers, including Martin Persson from Chalmers, has now analyzed for the first time where, for what purpose, and how quickly natural non-forest ecosystems are being converted into agricultural land on a global scale. The results show that these ecologically highly v…

The US Treasury Department, State Department, and federal housing agency are ending use of Anthropic products; State Department says it will switch to OpenAI (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/us-treasury-ending-all-use-anthropi…

epinions: Epinions product ratings (2005)
A bipartite network of users and the products they rated on the website Epinions.com. A user connects to all products on which that user entered a rating. Edge weight represents the rating score, and edges are timestamped.
This network has 876252 nodes and 13668320 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Timestamps, Weighted

Google is testing a new ad format in AI Mode that displays retailers selling the products a user is searching for in a Sponsored box (Vidhya Srinivasan/Google Ads & Commerce Blog)
https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/agentic-commerce…

New tech and tools for retailers to succeed in an agentic shopping era
An overview of Google’s new open standard for agentic commerce and AI tools to help retailers connect with shoppers and drive sales.

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.

"UK ‘risks becoming dumping ground’ for products linked to modern slavery
#UK #UnitedKingdom
https://www.

Disney names Josh D'Amaro, head of its theme parks and consumer products division, as CEO, replacing Bob Iger; D'Amaro joined Disney in 1998 (Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/josh-damaro-disney-ceo-bob-iger-1236650641/

Disney Names Parks Chief Josh D'Amaro Next CEO, Replacing Bob Iger
The Walt Disney Co. has landed on its next CEO: Disney Experiences chairman Josh D'Amaro, who will take over the job from Bob Iger in 2026.

Google rolls out Lyria 3, a generative music model that can make 30-second tracks with Nano Banana cover art, in beta in the Gemini app in eight languages (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/lyria-3/

A new way to express yourself: Gemini can now create music
Lyria 3 is now available in the Gemini app. Create custom, high-quality 30-second tracks from text and images.

fao_trade: FAO Multiplex Trade Network
Multiplex network representing trade relationships between countries from the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. Countries are nodes and edge types represent import/export of varying products. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 214 nodes and 318346 edges.
Tags: Economic, Trade, Weighted, Multilayer

A senior defense official says Pentagon has formally notified Anthropic that the company and its products are deemed a supply chain risk (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-05/pentagon-s…

Sources: HP, Dell, Acer, and Asus are considering sourcing memory chips from Chinese chipmakers; HP and Dell are currently qualifying DRAM products from CXMT (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/supply-chain/h…

HP, Dell, Acer and Asus mull using Chinese memory chips amid supply crunch
Shortage a golden opportunity for China's memory chipmakers and electronics manufacturers

Sources: Nvidia has reallocated manufacturing capacity at TSMC away from making H200 chips intended for Chinese market to its latest Vera Rubin products (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/47f1cf56-209f-46fb-a437-f769b9ccb2cb

product_space: Atlas of Economic Complexity export network
Two networks of economic products, where a pair of products are connected if they are exported at similar rates by the same countries. The data are a projection from a bipartite network of nations and the products they export. Edges weights represent a similarity score (called "proximity"). Data based on UN Comtrade worldwide trade patterns. SITC network based on the Standard International Trade Classification and HS …

Meta says it will continue to operate and sell the Manus service, and Manus' talent will join Meta to deliver agents across Meta products, including Meta AI (Meta)
https://www.facebook.com/business/news/manus-joins-meta-accelerating-ai-in…

Manus Joins Meta: Accelerating AI Innovation for Businesses
We are excited to announce that Manus is joining Meta to bring a leading agent to billions of people and unlock opportunities for businesses across our products.

product_space: Atlas of Economic Complexity export network
Two networks of economic products, where a pair of products are connected if they are exported at similar rates by the same countries. The data are a projection from a bipartite network of nations and the products they export. Edges weights represent a similarity score (called "proximity"). Data based on UN Comtrade worldwide trade patterns. SITC network based on the Standard International Trade Classification and HS …

Eight Sleep, which sells smart mattress accessories to track sleep patterns and adjust temperatures, raised $50M at a $1.5B valuation, up from $500M in 2021 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/04/eight-sleep-raises-50m-at-1-5b-valuation/

Eight Sleep raises $50M at $1.5B valuation | TechCrunch
Eight Sleep said it was free-cash-flow positive in 2025, and plans to use the new funding for new products, global expansions, and clinical validation.

Sources: Amazon and OpenAI are discussing a deal that could require OpenAI to dedicate researchers and engineers to developing customized models for Amazon (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/amazon-discusses-getting-special-a…

Amazon Discusses Getting Special Access to OpenAI Tech
As Amazon weighs an equity investment of tens of billions of dollars in OpenAI, the companies are also discussing a commercial agreement that could require OpenAI to dedicate its own researchers and engineers to developing customized models for powering Amazon’s own AI products, according to a ...

product_space: Atlas of Economic Complexity export network
Two networks of economic products, where a pair of products are connected if they are exported at similar rates by the same countries. The data are a projection from a bipartite network of nations and the products they export. Edges weights represent a similarity score (called "proximity"). Data based on UN Comtrade worldwide trade patterns. SITC network based on the Standard International Trade Classification and HS …

Google rolls out Lyria 3, a generative music model that can make 30-second tracks with Nano Banana cover art, in beta in the Gemini app in eight languages (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/lyria-3/

A new way to express yourself: Gemini can now create music
Lyria 3 is now available in the Gemini app. Create custom, high-quality 30-second tracks from text and images.

epinions: Epinions product ratings (2005)
A bipartite network of users and the products they rated on the website Epinions.com. A user connects to all products on which that user entered a rating. Edge weight represents the rating score, and edges are timestamped.
This network has 876252 nodes and 13668320 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Timestamps, Weighted

A deep dive into co-packaged optics, long promised to transform data center connectivity, covering benefits, challenges, architecture, key companies, and more (Dylan Patel/SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/co-packaged-optics-cpo-book-scaling…

Co Packaged Optics (CPO) – Scaling with Light for the Next Wave of Interconnect
Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) has long promised to transform datacenter connectivity, but it has taken a long time for the technology to come to market, with tangible deployment-ready products only arriving in 2025.

Source: OpenAI mulls new tools to help business users understand the financial benefits of using its products and has made changes to its sales force strategy (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-aims-lure-businesses-anthropic<…

OpenAI Aims to Lure Businesses From Anthropic
Some of OpenAI’s most attention-grabbing efforts over the past year have involved products for consumers, from a social app to an AI-powered device it plans to announce later this year. Last week, though, the company’s CEO, Sam Altman, gathered Disney CEO Bob Iger and other corporate executives ...

Gemini 3 Flash is priced at $0.50 per 1M input tokens and $3 per 1M output tokens, compared to Gemini 2.5 Flash's $0.30 per 1M input and $2.5 per 1M output (Tulsee Doshi/The Keyword)
https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-3-flash/

Gemini 3 Flash: frontier intelligence built for speed
Gemini 3 Flash offers frontier intelligence built for speed at a fraction of the cost.

Sources: at Apple's request, Google investigated hosting servers inside its data centers to run a Gemini-based Siri while adhering to Apple's privacy standards (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-discus…

Apple Discusses Google Hosting New Siri as Need for Cloud Help Grows
In January, when Apple announced an agreement to use Google’s Gemini models in Apple products, it was an admission that the iPhone maker hasn’t been able to compete in AI on its own over the past couple years. But the deal also showed that Apple is again relying on an outside company to help it ...

Tech startups have started to offer nicotine pouches as a free perk to employees, as some claim the products help them focus despite health hazards (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/tech-star…

President Trump calls Anthropic a "radical left, woke company" and says he is directing every federal agency in the US to stop using its products (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/27/anthropic-pentagon-supply-chain-risk-claude

Pentagon blacklists Anthropic, labels AI company "supply chain risk"
The penalty is usually reserved for companies from adversarial countries, like China's Huawei.

Sources: DeepSeek plans to release its multimodal model V4 next week and worked with Huawei and Chinese AI chipmaker Cambricon to optimize V4 for their products (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e3366881-0622-40a7-9c34-a0d82e3d573e

Taiwan's GDP rose 12.68% in Q4 2025, its fastest quarterly growth since 1987; full-year GDP grew 8.63%, topping the 7.5% forecast on AI demand for tech products (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-30…