Tootfinder

License plate surveillance company Flock Safety faces bipartisan pressure from lawmakers and local organizers over its data handling and cybersecurity practices (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Flock haters cross political divides to remove error-prone cameras
Lawmakers’ calls for Flock probe may help kill local contracts, expert says.

Cry because your food touched your other food on the plate.

WBD plans to remove live CNN programming from HBO Max on November 17 as CNN prepares to launch a streaming service (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/cnn-pulled-hbo-max-streams-1236392501/…

CNN Live Stream to Be Pulled From HBO Max Next Month as News Channel Preps New Offering
The network is slated to launch its own direct-to-consumer offering later this year.

Partially paywalled but still lots of juicy data. “State of the software engineering job market in 2025”: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/state-of-the-tech-market-in-2025
From which:

State of the software engineering job market in 2025
A deepdive into today’s tech jobs market, with exclusive data on tech jobs, AI engineering, Big Tech recruitment, the growing importance of location, and more

Battle Bots

A Variant of Wythoff's Game Defined by Hofstadter's G-Sequence
Kahori Komak, Ryohei Miyadera, Aoi Murakami
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11767 https://

A Variant of Wythoff's Game Defined by Hofstadter's G-Sequence
In this paper, we study a variant of the classical Wythoff's game. The classical form is played with two piles of stones, from which two players take turns to remove stones from one or both piles. When removing stones from both piles, an equal number must be removed from each. The player who removes the last stone or stones is the winner. Equivalently, we consider a single chess queen placed somewhere on a large grid of squares. Each player can move the queen toward the upper-left corner of the…