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Predicting Rounds 1-2 of the NFL draft: Yates finds landing spots for 64 top prospects https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2026/story/_/id/48259253/2026-nfl-mock-draft-two-rounds-64-picks-field-yates

Projecting What the Raiders' First Three Rounds May Look Like https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-projecting-what-first-three-rounds-may-look-like

Entropy, a decentralized crypto custodian that raised a $25M seed led by a16z in June 2022, is shutting down after "several pivots, and two rounds of layoffs" (Zack Abrams/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/386942/entro…

Entropy, a16z-backed decentralized custody startup, is winding down and returning capital to investors
Entropy's "anti-capitalist anarchist" founder is winding down the firm and returning capital to investors after failing to find a scalable business model.

I am just wondering if the US can keep all current military assets in theatre for a longer time, if the next rounds of talks with Iran take weeks/months, or is there some practical limit? In other words is Trump in some hurry to strike or not?
#Iran #USA

VM server going down for the third attempt at updating to xcp-ng 8.3 after two previous failures resulted in rollbacks and changes to my SR configuration to hopefully be compatible with 8.3.
Also doing the first of two rounds of hardware upgrades after I scored a bunch of nice stuff from some servers that were headed to the scrapyard.

Cowboys, Lions and Browns named possible landing spots for 30-TD quarterback prospect https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-lions-browns-possible-landing-spots-30-td-qu…

“We have not heard from the people responsible. I want them to appear before the ICC and hear what on earth was in their mind when they ordered 120mm tank rounds to be fired into an ambulance. Justice is first of all bringing the light of attention into this crime and secondly seeing the persons responsible being accountable for their actions.”
#GazaGenocide

‘Substantial evidence’ of double-tap strike in killing of Gaza’s Hind Rajab
Avaaz analyses the timeline of events to conclude that violations show Israel systematically kills first responders.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fesshole/116153883462428890
As that NYT article about employers requiring AI usage at work is making the rounds, I just want to bring attention back to this banger.

The group stage in sporting competitions are the best part. In the knock-out rounds, results often award teams that don't play any better than their opponents. In the group stage, on the other hand, everyone gets to play and, on paper at least, anything is possible.

This article is rightly making the rounds, but somewhat misses the point. The Guardian annoys you because you aren't paying. What is really off here—and the article completely fails to talk about—is what they do to *subscribers*. I'm already PAYING!
https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit

The 49MB Web Page
A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #LateJunction
Alice Coltrane:
🎵 Spring Rounds from Rite of Spring
#AliceColtrane
https://open.spotify.com/track/17urdRIY5iBZWBoG07st3a

If reading about the underpinnings of the new world order gets tedious, I can recommend just looking at the pictures here to get yourself going: https://www.thenerve.news/p/us-government-nazi-racism-fascist-meme-propaganda-homeland-secur…

Raiders Get Brutally Honest Take Amid Fernando Mendoza Speculation https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/brutally-honest-take-fernando-mendoza-speculation/

Updated 2026 NFL Draft order: First two rounds set after Super Bowl LX https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7031103/2026/02/09/nfl-draft-order-2026-rounds-1-2/

a16z's Matt Bornstein and others talk adding $1.7B to its $1.25B AI infrastructure fund, focusing on early rounds; Ben Horowitz calls it "one of the best funds" (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

On Oct. 4, Marimar Martinez, a teacher’s assistant at a Montessori school, was driving in Chicago when she observed federal immigration agents on patrol.
She had begun to honk her horn to warn her neighbors about their presence when she collided with a Border Patrol vehicle.
Moments later, the agent in the vehicle, Charles Exum, fired multiple shots into Martinez’s car, hitting her again and again.
(Later, Exum bragged to colleagues that he had “fired 5 rounds and she had 7…

Opinion | We Have to Face What ICE Has Done to Us
Any serious push to account for the actions of this government must include recompense and repair for its victims.

RE: https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/116072967306047224
So, essentially, LLMs are trashing their users’ capacity to use them well. Maybe users’ first rounds go well because the LLM is working on something the user understands and can properly gui…

Updated 2026 NFL Draft order: First two rounds set after Super Bowl LX https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7031103/2026/02/08/nfl-draft-order-2026-rounds-1-2/

Cowboys replace Osa, trade for edge, add 2 LBs in new 7-rd mock draft https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/03/13/cowboys-mock-draft-trade-free-agency-7-rounds/89133801007/

Pune-based supply chain robotics startup Unbox Robotics raised a $28M Series B in a mix of primary and secondary capital, after raising $15M in earlier rounds (Anjali Jain/Inc42 Media)
https://inc42.com/buzz/automation-startup-unbox-robotics-r…

Automation Startup Unbox Robotics Raises $28 Mn To Expand Global Presence
Deeptech startup Unbox Robotics has raised $28 Mn (about INR 243 Cr) in its Series B round in a mix of primary and secondary capital.

lol, i missed this happening last month: https://futurism.com/future-society/replica-statue-liberty-hellscape

Replica Statue of Liberty Topples in Urban Hellscape
A video making the rounds on social media shows a giant replica of the Statue of Liberty toppling over in a Brazilian parking lot.

…if we’re watching for a mass turn in popular sentiment against a would-be authoritarian, then it’s the vibes that matter. The guts lead and the facts follow later, if at all.
It’s significant that a mainstream (if salacious) news outlet is running this story at all. It’s significant that it’s making the rounds in my fairly fact-focused TL. I’m interested in who’s repeating this, who’s joking about it, whether it becomes an acceptable SNL gag, whether centrist pundits feel the need to start refuting it.
Vibes.
6/

A fascist paramilitary invader aimed a grenade launcher inches from a protester’s face, at this range, "less-lethal" rounds can be deadly. (Los Angeles, CA - 2/13/26)
Outside the Metropolitan Detention Center (535 Alameda St) in downtown Los Angeles at 10:09 pm
Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1r50n30

MARCH (Bike Lane Obstruction) MADNESS!
“Fill out the bracket and make your predictions of which cities will report the most bike lane obstructions.”
https://www.bikelaneuprising.com/post/march-bike-lane-obstruction-madness-2026

MARCH Bike Lane Obstruction MADNESS - 2026
Fill out our bracket and make your predictions of which cities will report the most bike lane obstructions.Updated 3/1/2026RULES1. Submission timeframes for rounds listed at the top of the bracket 2. The city with the most bike lane obstructions reported to our database within the round timeframe will advance to the next round. 3. If neither city report bike lane obstructions during the round, both cities are eliminated. 4. If a city does not have an opponent, they automatically advance to

DraftKings DFS cheat sheet: Rams duo tops their positions in value https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/47610881/draftkings-nfl-dfs-values-divisional-playoff-rounds

Man, this was thrilling! 😅
▶️ Perfect 200-point Fast Money rounds on Family Feud!
#familyfeud

Austin-based Circuit, which is building an AI platform for manufacturing and service enterprises, raised $30M from a group of angel investors (Karoline Leonard/Austin American-Statesman)
https://www.statesman.com/business/technol

Former Silicon Labs CEO Tyson Tuttle raises $30M for Austin AI startup
Former Silicon Labs CEO Tyson Tuttle’s Austin startup Circuit raised $30 million in one of Texas’ largest angel rounds to address manufacturing labor shortages.

I see this is doing the rounds
https://cybernews.com/cybercrime/winrar-flaw-ukraine-global-cybercrime-google/
To be clear this is a security flaw that WinRAR patched in July last year.
Why is it a problem now? Because WinRAR, like 7-Zip …

Watching Mixed team #curling was pretty awesome. Afterwards/Yesterday I have seen CAN-GER men teams compete and I have to say:
That many ends (rounds) with that many stones is just ridiculous. Game took about 3 hours. That is way too long if this sport wants to gain popularity.
#olympics2026

Silicon Valley, drunk on exponential curves and both terrified and entranced by endless funding rounds,
has given us the "Hero Developer":
a figure who ships features at midnight,
who “moves fast and breaks things,”
who transforms whiteboard scribbles into billion-dollar unicorns through sheer caffeinated will.
We celebrate this person constantly.
They're on the front page of TechCrunch et al.
They keynote conferences.
Their G…

The Rime of the Ancient Maintainer
Every culture produces heroes that reflect its deepest anxieties. The Greeks, terrified of both mortality and immortality, gave us Achilles. The Victorians, haunted by social mobility, gave us the self-made industrialist. And Silicon Valley, drunk on exponential curves and both terrified and entranced by endless funding rounds, has given us

Big event at work today has left me with so much adrenaline to spare that I completely destroyed partner teen at cards tonight 🫣 I think I played twice as many rounds as they did combined #skat
(I was also lucky with the cards)

This made it through multiple levels and multiple rounds of design and marketing approval.
At no point did anyone stop and think?
Really? This is the design we're going with?
Not one person who had any rudimentary internet skills.
Not one hero in one meeting had even the one ounce of temerity or one gram of courage to stand up and say
HEY - THE HAND ON THE LEFT IS SUPPOSED TO BE WEARING A RING.

With all the Epstein stuff making the rounds one thing I’m continually reminded of is that I wonder if we can even find a Hell deep enough for these fuckers that would be Justice.
But we should definitely try.

2026 NFL three-round mock draft: How free agency reshaped the first 100 picks

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2026-nfl-mock-draft-3-rounds-post-free-agency/…

#Meshtastic community: is it rude to have an automated system publish events to a private (unencrypted) channel (on the order of averaging one every 5 minutes, maximum) if the radio channel utilization on my local mesh is really low (currently rounds to 0%)?

Raiders 7-Round Mock Draft: 10 picks, zero wasted selections https://raiderramble.com/2026/03/20/raiders-7-round-mock-draft-10-picks-zero-wasted-selections/

Dallas Cowboys 'Unsung Hero' of 2025 Perfectly Rounds Out Elite NFL Unit https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-unsung-hero-2025-perfectly-rounds-out-elite-nfl-unit

Now running IPv6 from my desktops - I'm using internal ULA addresses with masquerading, partly to spite IPv6 people, but mostly so in theory I can flip to a backup connection easily.
That does mean I've had to change /etc/gai.conf to label the ULA range ( fc00::/7 ) the same as generic routing - i.e. a label of 1
(It also assumes my ISPs - YouFibre - IPv6 routing holds together..it took 4 rounds with support to get them to fix it, and others have complained about IPv6 i…

Palo Alto Networks agrees to acquire Israeli endpoint security company Koi Security, sources say for ~$400M; Koi raised $48M across two rounds, per PitchBook (Assaf Gilead/Globes)
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-palo-alto-networks-to-buy-isr…

Reid's new two-round NFL mock draft: Which prospects are rising after the combine? https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2026/story/_/id/48053564/2026-nfl-mock-draft-two-rounds-64-picks-jordan-reid-combine

Sources: AI legal software startup Legora is in talks to raise $400M at a $5B valuation, after raising $150M in October 2025 at a $1.8B valuation (Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2026/02/17/legal-…

Legal AI Startup Legora Eyes $400 Million Raise At $5 Billion-Plus Valuation
As investors double down on the promise of automating legal work, the company is in talks to raise $400 million following two rounds in late 2025.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NewMusicFix
KAVARI:
🎵 Ash Rounds (Vulture)
#KAVARI
https://herrensauna.bandcamp.com/track/kavari-ash-rounds-vulture
https://open.spotify.com/track/15bQp9IulzSC8CHmCJlqId

I have no doubt the US can do several rounds of strikes and probably/hopefully Iran can't do anything meaningful striking back. But if the strikes are done, what's next... Hoping Iranian protestors take over government?
#iran #usa

Miller's two-round 2026 NFL mock draft: Which Seni... https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2026/story/_/id/47756543/2026-nfl-mock-draft-two-rounds-64-picks-matt-miller-senior-bowl

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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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NewMusicShow
Magda Drozd, Magda Drozd & Rai Tateishi:
🎵 Rounds
#MagdaDrozd #RaiTateishi
https://open.spotify.com/track/0USA8Ejfm3aqjrqqzYBhFE

A look at Anti Fund, a small VC firm cofounded by YouTuber Jake Paul that has gained access to hot rounds in startups like OpenAI, Anduril, Polymarket, and Ramp (Jake Angelo/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/14/who-is-jake-paul-venture-capital-a…

Jake Paul and his $65 million fortune are gaining influence in Silicon Valley
“We’re going to do amazing things in 2026,” said Steve Han, a partner at Paul's Anti Fund, told Fortune. “And then hopefully we'll show it over YouTube.”

With the eight week improv course ending last week, I timed it well to start a new group with a new set of eight sessions this week.
The Free Association seem more serious than Hoopla. They have 50% longer classes for a start. Three hours rather than two.
More instruction and notes rather than just positive encouragement. Clearer aim even from the early levels. More like a classroom than a playground.
First couple of sets of eight at Hoopla are just aimed at getting you to lose your decorum and allow yourself to be free and spontaneous. All really short form games, lightning rounds. Parlor games rather than theater.
But the Free Association's aim from the start is to get you building scenes and then stories. Their first set of lessons is titled "intro to long form". This one "Scene work".
Not so much the one minute parlor games, more focus on acting and characters and drama.
In vague terms at early stages that is. I mean, they have more in common than different. Plenty of short games in warm-up at FA and I just finished a whole set on drama and story with Hoopla.
Three hours is pretty long though. Starts half an hour earlier, ends half an hour later. Good thing it's also much much closer for me. Ten minute walk instead of 40 minutes on the bus.
We did lots and lots of first-scene head-to-head, mostly concentrating on trying to get specific. Check that after two minutes the audience knows where you are and who you are and how you know each other and what you're doing and none of the players are unsure either. Make it all specific as soon as possible, ambiguity is the enemy.
And everyone got that and exercised it pretty much flawlessly right away. So good group.
#theFreeAssociation #improv #london

The more than 5,000 agents who surged into Minneapolis last month
came stocked with some
⚠️35,000 weapons,
including more than 1,100 riot control gas grenades,
and thousands of less-than-lethal munitions rounds.
Independent journalist Ken Klippenstein shared the list with a homeland security official who described it as ⭐️"overkill."

Leaked munitions list for Trump's Minnesota crackdown horrifies DHS official: 'Overkill'
A leaked list of the munitions that President Donald Trump's immigration agents took with them to Minneapolis during Operation Metro Surge appalled one Department of Homeland Security official on Wednesday, according to a report. Independent journalist Ken Klippenstein reported on a security munitio...

Singapore-based MetaComp, which bridges traditional fiat payment rails and stablecoin settlement infrastructure, raised $35M across two pre-Series A rounds (Timmy Shen/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/393509/metacomp-raises-35-million-alibaba

Mailbag: Effects of ‘middle-heavy’ draft? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-effects-of-middle-heavy-draft

2026 NFL Mock Draft: After Super Bowl LX, how might first three rounds look? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7021113/2026/02/09/nfl-mock-draft-2026-fernando-mendoza-quarterbacks/

Mailbag: Effects of ‘middle-heavy’ draft? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-effects-of-middle-heavy-draft

Sources: UK-based cloud provider Nscale is in talks to raise about $2B, after raising more than $1.5B across a pair of rounds in September and October (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-…

Four-Round Raiders Mock Draft Following Maxx Crosby Trade https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-four-round-mock-draft-following-maxx-crosby-trade

Mailbag: Why isn’t safety a higher priority? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-why-isn-t-safety-a-higher-priority

Replaced article(s) found for cs.DS. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.DS/new
[1/1]:
- Optimal Hardness of Online Algorithms for Large Independent Sets
David Gamarnik, Eren C. K{\i}z{\i}lda\u{g}, Lutz Warnke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.11450 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/114346418465357434
- An Approximation Algorithm for Monotone Submodular Cost Allocation
Ryuhei Mizutani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.00470 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/115490466535056736
- Expected Cost of Greedy Online Facility Assignment on Regular Polygons (v3)
Md. Rawha Siddiqi Riad, Md. Tanzeem Rahat, Md. Manzurul Hasan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.00506 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/115648910775471187
- Nested and outlier embeddings into trees
Shuchi Chawla, Kristin Sheridan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.15470 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/115943420904659985
- Bankrupting DoS Attackers
Trisha Chakraborty, Abir Islam, Valerie King, Daniel Rayborn, Jared Saia, Maxwell Young
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.08287
- An Algorithm for Fast and Correct Computation of Reeb Spaces for PL Bivariate Fields
Amit Chattopadhyay, Yashwanth Ramamurthi, Osamu Saeki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06564 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCG_bot/112081476174323525
- On Densest $k$-Subgraph Mining and Diagonal Loading: Optimization Landscape and Finite-Step Exact...
Qiheng Lu, Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos, Aritra Konar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.07388 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSI_bot/113287589348257824
- A New Quantum Linear System Algorithm Beyond the Condition Number and Its Application to Solving ...
Jianqiang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05588 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/115337999786748703
- On Purely Private Covariance Estimation
Tommaso d'Orsi, Gleb Novikov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26717 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115468358153466988
- The Query Complexity of Local Search in Rounds on General Graphs
Simina Br\^anzei, Ioannis Panageas, Dimitris Paparas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.13266 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCC_bot/115932039505257286
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2026 NFL mock draft, Rounds 1 and 2: Fernando Mendoza to Raiders, Ty Simpson to Jets https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7001655/2026/01/29/nfl-mock-draft-2026-mendoza-simpson-qbs/

Sources: Cisco is in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity company Axonius for $2B; Axonius has raised ~$700M and was valued at $2.6B during earlier rounds (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/bjxge1de11l

Cisco in advanced talks to acquire cyber startup Axonius for $2 billion
Exclusive: The deal would follow a string of major acquisitions as Cisco strengthens its enterprise security portfolio.

Mailbag: Why isn’t safety a higher priority? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-why-isn-t-safety-a-higher-priority

Projecting What the Raiders' First Three Rounds May Look Like https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-more-mock-drafts-promise-offer-no-shocks

PitchBook: the biggest US private startups raised $150B in 2025, surpassing the previous high of $92B in 2021, boosted by large funding rounds by AI startups (George Hammond/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7f989b72-0722-4b0a-9a50-876417abc06f

Las Vegas Raiders’ New Vision Is Taking Shape — Here’s What We’re Learning https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/how-las-vegas-beef-up-defense-interior-latest-mock

Tracxn: VC funding for Indian startups fell 17% YoY to $10.5B in 2025 across 1,518 deals, down ~39% YoY; AI startups raised $643M, up 4% YoY, across 100 deals (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/27/india-startu…

India startup funding hits $11B in 2025 as investors grow more selective | TechCrunch
Startup funding rounds in India fell sharply in 2025 as investors concentrated capital into fewer companies.

NFL playoff schedule, projected bracket: Here's what to know in both conferences https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47440678/nfl-playoff-schedule-bracket-afc-nfc-tv-dates-locations-2026