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What Carroll Must Do to Prepare Raiders for Round 2 vs. Broncos https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-pete-carroll-prepare-round-2-broncos

Pebble unveils Pebble Round 2 smart watch with a rounded screen and basic health and activity tracking but no heart rate monitor, shipping in May for $199 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/02/pebble-reboots-its-thinnest-…

Pebble reboots its thinnest smartwatch with the Pebble Round 2 | TechCrunch
Pebble launches a $199 smartwatch with rounded screen that can last up to 2 weeks on one charge.

Ravens acquire Titans LB Dre’Mont Jones for fifth-round pick: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6775103/2025/11/03/ravens-titans-trade-dremont-jones/

Raiders Sign Former First-Round Pick One Day After Being Released https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/jamin-davis-roster-signing-news/?adt_ei=[email]

Cowboys Willing to Trade Ex-First Round Pick Before Deadline: Insider https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/mazi-smith-available-trade/?adt_ei=[email]

Water pounded Santa Barbara’s coastline on November 6 for the first king tides of the year — flooding beaches and parking lots and jumping the walls of usually dry lookouts at places like Butterfly Beach and Campus Point. 
This weekend marks round two of these extraordinarily high tides,
which occur when the sun, moon, and Earth align, pulling the surf to extreme highs and lows.
They are typically at least one foot above the average high tide, according to the California Co…

An LLM generates a statistically typical response.
If you ask an LLM whether the world is round, it generates what would be a typical response to the question of whether the world is round. (It will probably be correct, because the typical answer to that question is the correct one.)
If you ask an LLM to provide examples of its own bias, it will generate what would be a typical response to a request to provide examples of bias.
In neither case is the LLM sharing any knowledge or insight other than what is typical.
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I usually find year-end top stories round-ups to be insipid and mediocre at best, but this one by @… is first-rate.
https://www.

The biggest cybersecurity and cyberattack stories of 2025
2025 was a big year for cybersecurity, with cyberattacks, data breaches, threat groups reaching new notoriety levels, and, of course, zero-day flaws exploited in breaches. Some stories, though, were more impactful or popular with our readers than others. This article explores 15 of the biggest cybersecurity stories of 2025.

I might just have ordered a #pebble round 2. I hope it will feel as awesome as the last one did back in 2015.

One Winning Draft Scenario Revealed For Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-one-winning-draft-scenario-revealed

Cowboys Trade Idea Swaps Osa Odighizuwa for Defensive Superstar https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/osa-odighizuwa-trade-swap-maxx-crosby/

A few pictures from yesterday night at the #39C3
(License: CC BY-SA 4.0)

Today's #Connections #webgame has a nice rainbow round (a gotcha/bonus category, unrelated to the true categories, which features one item from each group; this is my own term).
It's quite clever (and obscure—ConnectionsBot says it fooled 1% of all players and it's not in the top 30 erro…

Yesterday we devoured some sweets brought over from India 🇮🇳 by the fabulous grumpy @… 🤤

Minor kerfuffle with #evlife charging at my parents means it's going to be a two stop strategy getting home today. At least my policy of always having my #steamdeck when travelling pays off. To get to 80% charge is about one round of Vampire Survivors 😉

HBO is the perfect match for It: Welcome to Derry. The good news is I am not dead inside - two or three jump scares got me good 😀 I love the sixties setting.
#ItWelcometoDerry #TV

I just bought this rug, but it turns out to be very bitey. What should I do?

Bell with another round of layoffs. The r/bell thread seems to think 10% across the country. It’s can't actually remember a time when Bell announced they were 'hiring'.
How is this company one of the 'big’ telecoms and yet continues to offload people?
#Bell
https://flipboard.com/@dailyhive/daily-hive-vancouver-ar91atkoz/-/a-IvwInjurQyG1YqTyz8NjVg:a:3765800918-/0

One of our favorite year-end features is the #UniversityOfGeorgia photographers' round-up of their favorite photos of the past year. Even when our museum isn't in it, it's fun to see their great work and to read their thoughts on the combination of art and luck that makes for a great photo.

Structure of quantum measurements implementable with one round of classical communication
Arthur C. R. Dutra, Ties-A. Ohst, Hai-Chau Nguyen, Otfried G\"uhne
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09381

Structure of quantum measurements implementable with one round of classical communication
Measurements that can be implemented via local operations and classical communication (LOCC) constitute a class of operations that is available in future quantum networks in which parties share entangled resource states. We characterise the different classes of measurements implementable with LOCC, where communication is restricted to a single round with a fixed direction. In particular, using the framework of constrained separability problems, we provide a complete characterisation of the clas…

This applies to all of us #Researchers - why do we keep flying all around the world just to give (or watch) some talks that could have been given or watched online???
Yes, in-person conferences are slightly better for "networking"... but is this really worth destroying the planet?!
Quoting @…

One of life’s great struggles—how to both stay in your cozy heated bed and still see what’s going on in the room #catsofmastodon #caturday

Deblock, an app that lets users manage fiat and digital assets in one place by linking a bank account with a self-owned crypto wallet, raised a €30M Series A (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/11/19/deblock-secures-eur30m-series…

Deblock secures €30M Series A to expand on-chain banking in Europe
French crypto-banking startup Deblock has secured €30 million in Series A funding led by Speedinvest, alongside CommerzVentures and Latitude. Existing investors 20VC, Headline, Chalfen Ventures, and Kraken Ventures also participated in the round. Deblock offers a fully on-chain banking solution in Europe that combines features of a traditional bank account with on-chain self-custody. By linking a euro current account with a personal, self-owned crypto wallet, the platform allows users t…

Good Morning #Canada
Did you know that a Dodecahedron is a 12-letter name for any 12-sided shape. And did you also know that on this day in 1962, the Canadian Government decreed that our dodecahedron nickel was decadent and that round was right. Pre-1962 nickels are now pretty worth a nickel, but a coin in "mint condition" has been known to fetch a few pennies more.
Have you noticed there are more coin buying events in your neighbourhoods over the past few years? Some of that activity is driven by buyers taking advantage of people wanting to sell old jewelry, collectibles, or jars of coins that are sitting in the back of drawers or closets. But the rise of digital transactions, particularly increased during COVID when no one wanted to touch your infected money, has increased the collectible value of coins and, in some cases, the actual metal value exceeds the face value.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Numismatist
http://canadiancoinnews.com/otd-12-sided-five-cent-coin-becomes-round/

The Philippines just secured its first fixed-bottom offshore wind auctions—a major leap for clean energy in Asia.
The GEA-5 program targets 3.3 gigawatts of capacity, focusing on proven technology that can move to construction faster. This strategic approach positions the country as one of Asia's fastest-advancing offshore wind markets.

First Fixed-Bottom Offshore Wind Project Auctions In The Philippines Secured - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. At the 2025 APAC Wind Energy Summit of the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) last September, the Philippines made its strongest commitment yet to building a commercial offshore wind industry (OSW). This month, a breakthrough Green Energy Auction Program Round ... [continued]

One should not sympathize with or idolize anyone, but this person radicalized my views deeply; I cannot speak for others.
Anarchism and Anarcho-syndicalism
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/rocker-rudolf/misc/anarchism-anarcho-syn…

Antonio Pierce says Shedeur Sanders was one of Raiders 'top choices' before his firing https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6831151/2025/11/23/shedeur-sanders-raiders-browns-antonio-pierce/

The SAQ (Quebec's liquor monopoly) is doing a Spotify style year-end round-up this year. Some of it is a "fun" quiz. Zzzzz.
One of my questions was “did you buy more products from Canada or Sweden this year?”
Hanlon's Razor must have a corollary… right? I can't tell if this is AI slop or [a different kind of] incompetence.
(The SAQ carries 14 products from Sweden; 13 of which are different flavours of Absolut vodka. I did not purchase any of their prod…

Cowboys to open practice window for injured OL, sign 2nd-round WR to active roster https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/cowboys-open-practice-window-for-injured-ol-sign-2nd-round-wr-to-active-roster

So the correct answer is 5 rounding directions, though the last one was added in #C23:
FP_INT_UPWARD / ceil()
FP_INT_DOWNWARD / floor()
FP_INT_TOWARDZERO / trunc()
FP_INT_TONEARESTFROMZERO / round()
FP_INT_TONEAREST / roundeven() (C23)

Follow-the-Perturbed-Leader for Decoupled Bandits: Best-of-Both-Worlds and Practicality
Chaiwon Kim, Jongyeong Lee, Min-hwan Oh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12152 https://

Follow-the-Perturbed-Leader for Decoupled Bandits: Best-of-Both-Worlds and Practicality
We study the decoupled multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem, where the learner selects one arm for exploration and one arm for exploitation in each round. The loss of the explored arm is observed but not counted, while the loss of the exploited arm is incurred without being observed. We propose a policy within the Follow-the-Perturbed-Leader (FTPL) framework using Pareto perturbations. Our policy achieves (near-)optimal regret regardless of the environment, i.e., Best-of-Both-Worlds (BOBW): constan…

Moody Urbanity - TWO 2️⃣
情绪化城市 - 贰 2️⃣
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Matchmaking in games just isn't the same. Playing with strangers for one round and never seeing them again feels empty. Dedicated servers were a real place. It was like going to the pub where you saw the same regulars, jerks, and admins every day. You built a community. Without that, gaming feels pretty lonely. #gaming

Sometimes hacking a computer means a whole different thing...
In this use, I'm actually hacking (with a hacksaw) the case apart to add an I/O shield (custom made) so I can fit an older motherboard that was not designed for this case.
And thank you to Gateway for making me do this by not using a removable shield and instead stamping every hole they needed and covering them with a sticker if they weren't on this model. 🤦‍♂️

Give a round of applause to the Brevard County, FL deputy's office for almost immediately clawing back $1.7m stolen during a real estate transaction BEC scam.
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2025/10/14/hacke…

Hackers scammed Brevard County resident out of over $1.7M, sheriff says
A real estate scam nearly left one Brevard County resident out of over $1.7 million, according to the sheriff’s office on Tuesday.

Cowboys' pass rush has diamond in the rough in one of NFL's top rookie leaders https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-pass-rush-diamond-in-rough-one-of-nfl-top-rookie-leaders

Carson Schwesinger injury: Browns' leading tackler suffers high ankle sprain, to be reevaluated after bye week

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/carson-

Be careful out there... It's #Caturday

Beyond Revenue and Welfare: Counterfactual Analysis of Spectrum Auctions with Application to Canada's 3800MHz Allocation
Sara Jalili Shani, Kris Joseph, Michael B. McNally, James R. Wright
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08106 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.08106 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.08106
arXiv:2512.08106v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Spectrum auctions are the primary mechanism through which governments allocate scarce radio frequencies, with outcomes that shape competition, coverage, and innovation in telecommunications markets. While traditional models of spectrum auctions often rely on strong equilibrium assumptions, we take a more parsimonious approach by modeling bidders as myopic and straightforward: in each round, firms simply demand the bundle that maximizes their utility given current prices. Despite its simplicity, this model proves effective in predicting the outcomes of Canada's 2023 auction of 3800 MHz spectrum licenses. Using detailed round-by-round bidding data, we estimate bidders' valuations through a linear programming framework and validate that our model reproduces key features of the observed allocation and price evolution. We then use these estimated valuations to simulate a counterfactual auction under an alternative mechanism that incentivizes deployment in rural and remote regions, aligning with one of the key objectives set out in the Canadian Telecommunications Act. The results show that the proposed mechanism substantially improves population coverage in underserved areas. These findings demonstrate that a behavioral model with minimal assumptions is sufficient to generate reliable counterfactual predictions, making it a practical tool for policymakers to evaluate how alternative auction designs may influence future outcomes. In particular, our study demonstrates a method for counterfactual mechanism design, providing a framework to evaluate how alternative auction rules could advance policy goals such as equitable deployment across Canada.
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Chargers 1-Round Mock Draft: Selecting the pass rusher of the future https://raiderramble.com/2025/12/16/chargers-1-round-mock-draft-selecting-the-pass-rusher-of-the-future/

More than 1,000 staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention received layoff notices,
including in units that respond to infectious-disease outbreaks,
analyze science and health data to develop policy,
and monitor the safety of employees

Among those who initially received lay off notices were leaders of CDC’s response to the growing number of measles cases in the United States and abroad,
including one official who has more than 28 years experience ov…

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown
Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

#Gentoo #jobserver revealed another problem with steve in particular, and (I believe) the jobserver protocol in general: blocking clients are prioritized over polling clients.
The problem is simple: when handling blocking reads, steve can issue a job token immediately. When handling a poll, it merely indicates that a token is available, and the client must issue another read request to get it. So if tokens are scarce and there are both blocking and polling clients running, the former are likely to be taking all the incoming tokens.
My idea of working around this is to implement temporary reservations. If a client polls for a token, we reserve one for it. The reserved token can afterwards be only read by the same client. This way, both blocking and polling clients get a token — the former get it immediately, the latter get it reserved for them. And if there are no tokens available, both get into a single FIFO queue, for a poor man's round-robin (steve also throttles all reads to one token at a time).
However, polls technically don't guarantee that the client will eventually read the token, so we need to handle reservation expirations as well.

Cowboys Get Bad News on 6-foot-8, 327-Pound Former First Round Pick https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/bad-news-offensive-tackle-tyler-guyton/?adt_ei=[email]

Another #GlasgowByNight pic (the Bell tower of the university of Glasgow)
Taken yesterday by R. Grieves
#Glasgow #UniversityOfGlasgow

Antonio Pierce says Shedeur Sanders was one of Raiders 'top choices' before his firing https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6831151/2025/11/23/shedeur-sanders-raiders-browns-antonio-pierce/

Sources: Aaru, which uses AI to simulate user behavior, has raised a Series A led by Redpoint Ventures at multiple valuation tiers, including a $1B tier (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/05/ai-syntheti…

Sources: AI synthetic research startup Aaru raised a Series A at a $1B 'headline' valuation | TechCrunch
The one-year-old startup, which does market research on simulated populations, had a multi-tier valuation round, sources tell TechCrunch.

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.

Which NFC team has edge for No. 1 seed? Rams lead way but six teams have real shot to rise up

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfc-team-no-1-seed-rams-six-teams-nfl-playoffs/…

Was Cowboys 6th-round pick's performance a one-off flash in the pan, or a breakout? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/10/08/ryan-flournoy-dallas-cowboys-breakout-fluke-or-re…

Tyler Booker trending towards return for Cowboys, talks learning during rehab process https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/tyler-booker-trending-towards-return-for-cowboys-talks-learning-during-rehab-process

Raiders’ Pete Carroll Gives QB Update Ahead of Eagles Game https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/pete-carroll-starting-quarterback-update-eagles/?adt_ei=[email]

Butt Fumble Busted and other Week 5 news of former Cowboys https://insidethestar.com/butt-fumble-busted-and-other-week-5-news-of-former-cowboys

Raiders’ Kenny Pickett Gets Blunt Words Amid Geno Smith Injury https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/kenny-pickett-geno-smith-injury/?adt_ei=[email]