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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.

Round and round the wheel of counties goes, where we’ll attack next no one knows, until grandpa shit his pants makes more horror, now we’re attacking in…Ecuador.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/us-launches-military-operations-ecuador-035059078.…

US launches military operations in Ecuador
The joint military operation with Ecuador targeted what the U.S. called "designated terrorist organizations" in the country.

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]

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

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.

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

Multi-round Desktop Linux distribution showdown.
The winner of this round will face nixOS on round two.
The distros were chosen based on their popularity from the results of a previous poll and its replies.
Please consider boosting to obtain a larger sample.
Round one: fight!
#poll #linux

NFL combine 2026: Grading Ty Simpson, Carson Beck and other top QB prospects during on-field workouts

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/nf…

StepFun, a Chinese AI startup that develops LLMs and has partnered with automaker Geely and smartphone brands like Oppo and Honor, raised a ~$717M Series B (Eudora Wang/DealStreetAsia)
https://www.dealstreetasia.com/stories/stepfun-series-b-round-470495/

Tencent-backed China LLM unicorn StepFun bags $720m in Series B+ round
StepFund expects to deploy its LLMs into over one million vehicles this year.

I wish to see the rest of this sticker.. #NYC

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…

One Mid-Round Option For Raiders to Consider in 2026 NFL Draft https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-one-mid-round-option-consider-in-2026-draft

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

Multi-round Desktop Linux distribution showdown.
The winner of this round will face Arch on round two.
The distros were chosen based on their popularity from the results of a previous poll and it's replies.
Please consider boosting to obtain a larger sample.
Round one: fight!
#poll #linux

How AI is used in journalism (yes, a serious application, that adds value, not possible on this scale before), https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/how-the-new-york-times-uses-a-custom-ai-tool-to-track-the-manosphere/

How The New York Times uses a custom AI tool to track the “manosphere”
The daily podcast round-up is just one way the Times is adopting in-house AI transcription and summarization tools.

Students at universities in Iran have held a third consecutive day of protest
just over a month after the violent suppression by security services of mass street demonstrations left thousands dead.
The protests came amid tensions between Iran and the US.
Washington has built up military forces and pressure in the Middle East as it negotiates with Tehran
– with the next round in Geneva on Thursday.
Donald Trump has warned “really bad things will happen” if there …

Round one of snow shoveling done.

Cowboys named best landing spot for former Steelers first-round bust in free agency https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-best-landing-spot-former-steelers-first-round-free-…

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 😉

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MidnightInAPerfectWorld
Smokey Robinson and The Miracles:
🎵 (Come Round Here) I’m the One You Need
#SmokeyRobinsonandTheMiracles
https://open.spotify.com/track/5YvokzRkNONpj5c0TIqTjQ

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.

Dieses Hühnersuppenrezept wäre mir denn doch etwas zu aufwändig, aber womöglich möchte sich ja jemand von Euch die Zeit nehmen. Mir reichen eineinhalb Stunden leichtes Blubbern. #nommention

Chicken Soup From Scratch Recipe (Gift Recipe)
Chicken soup is one of the most painless and pleasing recipes a home cook can master. This soup has all the classic flavors (celery, carrot, parsley) but has been updated for today's cooks, who can't easily buy the stewing hen and packet of soup vegetables that old-fashioned recipes used to call for. A whole bird provides the right combination of fat, salt and flavor. Don't be tempted to use all white meat, as the flavor won't be as round. Because making soup involves the bones and deep tissues…

Quite tempted to swap my beloved cat avatar for this one.. How can #HighlandCows look so stylish?
#Scotland

Friday Links 26-01
First round of links for 2026. Everything is bad, so have some links to cheer you up.

I really liked the article about visibility, the one about Friday deploys, and sitting alone in a café … which I can relate to.
I am a big fan of Bill Nighy's podcast, that certainly will improve your mood.

For some reason, the random section is full of cassette tape related links.

Friday Links 26-01
First round of links for 2026. Everything is bad, so have some links to cheer you up.   I really liked the article about visibility, the one...

I am not resting easy yet.
A bunch of people who are basically straight-up Nazis just got humiliated. They’re hurting, they’re angry, and they’re in my city.
And they’re pants-on-head dumbshits. (One of their posters bemoaned the “erogion [sic] of our rights.”) That’s not a comfort: sometimes that’s the most dangerous kind of right-winger. Their utter amateurishness means they have no sense of constraints and no sense of consequences. I don’t know what they’ll try to do next.
We remain wary and •highly• watchful. But I’m going to take the win on this round.
/end

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

ESPN to make Super Bowl year-round experience https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47897537/espn-year-super-bowl-year-round-experience

I went to the Australian Open tennis today to see Coco Gauff and Alex De Minaur ease their way into round 2. Gauff had problems with her serve and faced some spirited opposition from the unseeded Rakhimova.
Only blemish on the day was that I decided to remove my bicycle repair kit from the bike (bike parking was fairly crappy, stuck under a bridge) and that proved too much for the Security Theatre at bag check. I’m now down one very blunt multitool, which I asked the security people to…

Indiana pipeline fuels Raiders rebuild in latest 3-round mock draft https://raiderramble.com/2026/01/24/indiana-pipeline-fuels-raiders-rebuild-in-latest-3-round-mock-draft/

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…

Prototype of a split keyboard from around 1850 made by Sir Charles Wheatstone, inventor of the English concertina! 🪗
@…’s Shift Happens, pg 774
#MechanicalKeyboard

NYT's Zach Seward details the "Manosphere Report", an in-house LLM-powered tool that summarizes new episodes from about 80 podcasts with largely male audiences (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/how-the-

How The New York Times uses a custom AI tool to track the “manosphere”
The daily podcast round-up is just one way the Times is adopting in-house AI transcription and summarization tools.

Cowboys Tabbed to Cut Ties With Former 2nd-Round Pick https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/sam-williams-tabbed-to-cut-ties-with-former-2nd-round-pick/

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)

Monarchy is part of patriarchy, featuring trickle-down "honours" and make-believe authority.

Impressed (commendatory) that it takes until the fifth paragraph of this article to — still indirectly — identify *which* Canadian Olympic hockey team it's about. https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winter/hockey/canada-us-women…

In Gaziantep round when I was 8 I briefly had an old ipod and as a present mom bought me an itunes album with 100 different instrumental only video game songs but she didnt know anything it was actually all 90s sounding midi covers of the original songs and they deleted it off my ipod after looking up what "resident evil" was
i learned later the one for metal gear solid 3 main theme wasnt actually that, it was some whole other shit that genuinely had a strong melody. dont kno…

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

me: "🎶 up up and away in my beautiful my beautiful balloon 🎶"
me: *flies the laundry basket between my wife and her two laptops*
my wife: "OKAY! OKAY! I'LL GO TO BED!"
#CatsOfMastodon #AnnoyingHusbandsOfMastodon

One of our cats also gives off superb owl vibes! #superbowl

NFL wild-card round by the numbers: What to know about thrilling weekend of playoff games https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6965133/2026/01/13/nfl-wild-card-round-numbers-interesting-facts/

While I'm wittering on about #books, these are two of my to-read piles. One is in a bookcase as I knew I'd be a while getting round to them. I bought those for 50p a pop at a Christmas bazaar. They often have some mid-century gems but not this time. The other is by the bed, the Active Pile. The top three are proofs sent to a bookshop in town which offers them to

Sarah Höfflin losing a ski on the takeoff. She was fine, but the look on her face in mid air ... plus she still got the grab! #olympics #ski #skiing

Trenches take center stage in 3-round Raiders mock draft https://raiderramble.com/2026/01/20/trenches-take-center-stage-in-3-round-raiders-mock-draft/

It is always fun when somebody, when estimating something, does not round the estimation :-) From the other side, it is not that cool it means like hour and half of waiting :-(

Cowboys Predicted to Land Former 1st-Round LB, 125 Tackle Machine Free Agent https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-perfect-2026-nfl-free-agency-signing-super-bowl-champion-cb

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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Bucky Brooks 2026 NFL mock draft 2.0: Jets grab edge rusher, receiver; Rams double dip on DBs https://www.nfl.com/news/bucky-brooks-2026-nfl-mock-draft-2-0-jets-grab-edge-rusher-receiver-rams-double-dip-on-dbs

#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.

Draft Prediction Has Cowboys Make Shocking First Round Move https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/draft-prediction-trade-first-round-pick/

Printed a case for my Flipper Zero WiFi Board
#FlipperZero #3Dprint #3Dprinting #3Ddruck

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/

NFL playoff picks: Score predictions and matchup analysis for every Wild Card Round game https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-playoff-picks-wild-card-round-2025-nfl-season

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

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.

Unsplittable Transshipments
Srinwanti Debgupta, Sarah Morell, Martin Skutella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07230 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.07230 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.07230
arXiv:2602.07230v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We introduce the Unsplittable Transshipment Problem in directed graphs with multiple sources and sinks. An unsplittable transshipment routes given supplies and demands using at most one path for each source-sink pair. Although they are a natural generalization of single source unsplittable flows, unsplittable transshipments raise interesting new challenges and require novel algorithmic techniques. As our main contribution, we give a nontrivial generalization of a seminal result of Dinitz, Garg, and Goemans (1999) by showing how to efficiently turn a given transshipment $x$ into an unsplittable transshipment $y$ with $y_a<x_a d_{\max}$ for all arcs $a$, where $d_{\max}$ is the maximum demand (or supply) value. Further results include bounds on the number of rounds required to satisfy all demands, where each round consists of an unsplittable transshipment that routes a subset of the demands while respecting arc capacity constraints.
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'Best defense' steals show in Texans' wild-card win https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47596595/defense-carries-texans-steelers-divisional-round-vs-patriots

Has time run out on once-prized Raiders’ first round pick? https://raiderramble.com/2026/01/08/has-time-run-out-on-once-prized-raiders-first-round-pick/

Daniel Jeremiah 2026 NFL mock draft 2.0: Giants one of six teams to pick WR; Chiefs go RB https://www.nfl.com/news/daniel-jeremiah-2026-nfl-mock-draft-2-0

Cowboys’ Former 2nd Round Pick Receives High Praise From NFL Insiders https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/edge-rusher-sam-williams-high-praise/

Raiders grab a surging prospect in latest three-round mock draft https://raiderramble.com/2026/02/05/raiders-grab-a-surging-prospect-in-latest-three-round-mock-draft/

NFC championship staff predictions: Seahawks vs. Rams final score picks, odds for NFL playoff game

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfc-championship-cbs-sp…

Carnell Tate declares for NFL Draft: Ohio State WR projects as potential first-round pick

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/carnell-tate-dec…

Cowboys Urged to Trade Up in 2026 NFL Draft for Elite Pass Rusher https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-urged-to-trade-up-in-2026-nfl-draft-elite-pass-rusher

Charles Davis 2026 NFL mock draft 1.0: Jeremiyah Love slides; 49ers pluck TE https://www.nfl.com/news/charles-davis-2026-nfl-mock-draft-1-0

I got a #TRMNL e-ink display wotsit thingy (apologies for getting all technical there) not long ago, and now I'm getting round to setting it up.
One of the nice things is that as well as all the dashboards provided by the company, there are a load provided by the community that you can just load up, customise & use.
But I was shocked -- SHOCKED I tell you -- to discover that so far nobody has created a "When Is Bins?" dashboard.
I think I have found my latest project!
#TRMNL

Agent's Take: Texans should be all in with new Will Anderson Jr. contract, but tread lightly with C.J. Stroud

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/agents-take-texans-will-…

Cowboys 2026 NFL draft watch, Caleb Downs scouting report https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/cowboys-2026-nfl-draft-watch-caleb-downs-scouting-report

We're already looking ahead to the NFL divisional round, plus Texas' big win https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6962549/2026/01/12/nfl-wild-card-49ers-patriots-bills-the-pulse/

Cowboys 2026 NFL draft watch, Jermod McCoy scouting report https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/draft/cowboys-2026-nfl-draft-watch-jermod-mccoy-scouting-report

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/…

NFL wild-card round staff picks: 2 coin-flips, 5 close spreads, 2 historic rivalries https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6951123/2026/01/08/nfl-wild-card-staff-picks-playoffs-betting/

Mailbag: Two top 20 picks or four top 100? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-two-top-20-picks-or-four-top-100

Mailbag: Two top 20 picks or four top 100? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-two-top-20-picks-or-four-top-100

Bills-Jets takeaways: Buffalo gets one last win in Highmark Stadium https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6940369/2026/01/04/jets-bills-score-result-takeaways-nfl-week-18/

Cowboys Linebacker Delivers Powerful Response to Controversial Video https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-linebacker-delivers-powerful-response-to-controversial-video/

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]

Looking for QB answers this NFL offseason? Good luck ... it's a bad year to need a new signal-caller https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47876708/2026-nfl-offseason-quarterbacks-bad-market-teams-needs-free-agency-draft…

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]

NFL wild-card odds, spreads: Rams huge favorites; Packers-Bears and Bills-Jaguars nearly even https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6942325/2026/01/05/nfl-wild-card-week-odds-rams-packers-bears/