Tootfinder

Mexico-based online used car dealer Kavak raised $300M led by a16z, the first Latin American deal for a16z's Growth fund, after raising $700M in September 2021 (Michael O'Boyle/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

foursquare_global: Foursquare global check-ins (2013)
A bipartite network of users and locations, representing check-in events worldwide on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. Metadata include country, city name, city type (e.g. national capital), and vender's latitude and longitude.
This network has 3935215 nodes and 22809624 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata, Timestamps

record changer, september 1946.

Mit dem Inkrafttreten des #HighSeasTreaty im September 2025 sollen künftig 30 Prozent der #Hochsee als #Meeresschutzgebiete ausgewiesen werden.
Bislang war nur 1 Prozent dieser …

Seven quiet wins for climate and nature in 2025
Here are the year's breakthroughs for the climate and nature you might have missed.

from my link log —
Bertrand Meyer remembers Tony Hoare.
https://bertrandmeyer.com/2026/03/16/celebrating-tony-hoares-mark-on-computer-science/
saved 2026-03-18

Celebrating Tony Hoare's mark on computer science - Bertrand Meyer's technology+ blog
Tony Hoare at the LASER summer school, September 2007 (All photographs in this article are by the author) Had they included just one of Tony Hoare’s major achievements, many scientific careers would be considered prestigious enough. His had a long list, which I am going to try to summarize, not pretending to get anywhere close ... Read more

The Writers Guild Staff Union calls a work stoppage, one month before the WGA begins AMPTP negotiations, accusing the WGA West of bad faith bargaining (Katie Campione/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/02/wga-west-staff-strike-ahead-of-amptp-negoti…

WGA West Staff Goes On Strike Ahead Of Writers Union’s AMPTP Negotiations
The WGA West staff has called a strike after negotiating its first contract with union management since September

Month to Month: What we learned in September https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/month-to-month-what-we-learned-in-september-x6384

I take it back. Linux's eternal September has already begun.

You.com appoints Saahil Jain as new CTO after co-founder Bryan McCann left to Anthropic; You.com, which began in consumer search, is targeting enterprise more (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/ai-st…

AI Startup You.com Appoints New CTO After Co-Founder Joins Anthropic
AI startup You.com, valued at $1.5 billion after a funding round in September, is changing its senior leadership as it focuses on helping businesses adopt AI. Bryan McCann, You.com’s CTO and co-founder, recently left to join Anthropic as a member of technical staff, according to his LinkedIn profile. Saahil Jain, one of the startup’s early engineering hires, has been promoted to CTO, said

foursquare_global: Foursquare global check-ins (2013)
A bipartite network of users and locations, representing check-in events worldwide on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. Metadata include country, city name, city type (e.g. national capital), and vender's latitude and longitude.
This network has 3935215 nodes and 22809624 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata, Timestamps

"After September 11, Denmark fought alongside its ally. The families of fallen soldiers have a message for Trump."
The Danes Who Died for America - The Atlantic
https://archive.ph/NXVnH

En Route To Fellaria
(This is just a tiny fragment, but it was one of the most memorable days and places I had a chance to visit in 2025... Surreal not just because of the many colors and textures at this time of year [late September], but also the vastness and traces of processes so much larger & older than life...)
#MountainMonday

Trump's DHS has shot 11 people during immigration enforcement operations since September (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-shootings-list-border-patrol-trump-immigration-operations-rcna254202
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p129#a260116p129

#silentSunday
Boulder Brook, #RockyMountainNationalPark September 2003

"‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record"
"He was arrested on September 9th, 2025, and has been in an Ice detention facility in Texas for nearly five months, despite having no criminal record, “not even a parking ticket”.

‘Absolute hell’: Irish man with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Olivia Dean:
🎵 Nice To Each Other (Radio Edit)
#NowPlaying #OliviaDean
https://dirtyneedlz.bandcamp.com/track/olivia-dean-nice-to-each-other-dirty-needlz-heartbroken-in-september-rework
https://open.spotify.com/track/7gKxCvTDWwV9wBhdeBbr3l

plant_pol_vazquez: Vazquez & Simberloff plant-pollinator webs
Eight bipartite networks of plants and pollinators, from the Nahuel Huapi National Park and surrounding areas in Rio Negro, Argentina, from September 1999 to Feburary 2000. Edge weights represent the frequency of species interaction, and there is a common set of vertices across all eight webs.
This network has 144 nodes and 42 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Weighted, Multilayer

Month to Month: What we learned in September https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/month-to-month-what-we-learned-in-september-x6384

"Vorher habe es keine Probleme mit Autofahrern auf der Fahrradstraße (Radler haben Vorrang) gegeben, berichten sie TAG24."
Es tut mir leid, aber da habe ich andere Erfahrungen.
"Das läuft hier wie auf der Autobahn", schildert Anwohnerin Brunhild Oehme (81). "Der Verkehr hat stark zugenommen, es ist richtig gefährlich geworden."
Als der Verkehr noch eine Straße weiter lief, war das egal, aber jetzt ist man selbst betroffen.
Wenn das alles…

Anwohner-Wut über das Verkehrs-Chaos in Dresden-Striesen: "Wie auf der Autobahn"
Seit September dürfen Autofahrer die Laubestraße in Striesen - Dresdens erste Fahrradstraße - nicht durchgängig befahren. Anwohner sind mit den Nerven am Ende.

Zalando schließt Standort Erfurt mit 2.700 Beschäftigten
Zalando schließt Ende September seinen 2012 eröffneten Logistikstandort in Erfurt mit 2.700 Beschäftigten. Grund: Umbau nach Übernahme von About You.
https…

LineageOS: what breaks? Banking. I have a fairly robust risk appetite, but rooting a device to install a closed-source fork of Magisk that hides itself well enough that I can spoof Play Integrity so my bank's app will run is a few steps too far in the wrong direction. So choose what you prefer: access to your money, or some amount of control over your digital leash.
I see no way forward after September that doesn't involve having two phones: one that mostly lives at home for th…

Ministers should face ICC probe over UK response to Gaza genocide – Corbyn
https://nation.cymru/news/ministers-should-face-icc-probe-over-uk-response-to-gaza-genocide-corbyn/

Ministers should face ICC probe over UK response to Gaza genocide – Corbyn
Ministers should face investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) over their response to Israel’s actions in Gaza, Jeremy Corbyn’s Gaza Tribunal has said. The former Labour leader’s investigation into the UK response to the conflict has reported back after it held a series of hearings in September. The tribunal was intended to “uncover the […]

Am 6. September wird in Sachsen-Anhalt gewählt.
"Im Falle einer Regierungsübernahme würde die extrem rechte Partei Sachsen-Anhalt binnen kurzem in ein Labor für den autoritären Umbau der Gesellschaft verwandeln.
Sie wird ausprobieren, wie weit man es auf Landesebene mit der Durchsetzung rechter Politik treiben kann." - David Begrich

We issued an RFP for the same hardware that we ordered in September 2025. The quoted price is 3.5 times higher than the previous price for the exact same hardware. In addition, the offer validity is now limited to only three days.
#memory #aibubble

Report: Cowboys' $92M CB facing possible surgery for familiar injury https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/18/report-cowboys-cb-daron-bland-possible-foot-surgery/87836500007/

Ambush at Wallbank https://edintone.com/ambush-at-wallbank/ On a dark Wednesday night in September 1769, the quiet road between Northampton and Kingst

Ambush at Wallbank - Miscellanea Edintone
On a dark Wednesday night in September 1769, violence erupted on the road to Wallbank, leading to a shocking end at the gallows.

The third edition of the Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities #COMHUM2026 will take place on September 9 and 10, 2026 at the University of Lausanne #UNIL.
We invite researchers to submit abstracts of 500 to 1000 words (excluding references).
• Special track: computation …

The third edition of the Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities #COMHUM2026 will take place on September 9 and 10, 2026 at the University of Lausanne #UNIL.
We invite researchers to submit abstracts of 500 to 1000 words (excluding references).
• Special track: computation …

The third edition of the Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities #COMHUM2026 will take place on September 9 and 10, 2026 at the University of Lausanne #UNIL.
We invite researchers to submit abstracts of 500 to 1000 words (excluding references).
• Special track: computation …

The Pentagon used a secret aircraft
💥 painted to look like a civilian plane
in its first attack on a boat that the Trump administration said was smuggling drugs, killing 11 people last September,
according to officials briefed on the matter.
The aircraft also
💥carried its munitions inside the fuselage,
rather than visibly under its wings, they said.
⭐️The nonmilitary appearance is significant,
according to legal specialists,
👉because the …

U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
Even accepting the Trump administration’s claim that there is an armed conflict with suspected drug runners, the laws of war bar “perfidy.”

@… she’s great. Saw her in September.

plant_pol_vazquez: Vazquez & Simberloff plant-pollinator webs
Eight bipartite networks of plants and pollinators, from the Nahuel Huapi National Park and surrounding areas in Rio Negro, Argentina, from September 1999 to Feburary 2000. Edge weights represent the frequency of species interaction, and there is a common set of vertices across all eight webs.
This network has 144 nodes and 164 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Weighted, Multilayer

Hoher Peißenberg (September 2024)
(From my series In The Lands Of Via Claudia Augusta, the ancient and most important Roman road through the Alps which connected the Po Valley in the south with Augsburg and the Danube as northern terminus)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

Trump und alle Autokraten dieser Welt sind nicht etwa abschreckendes Beispiel: Im Gegenteil, das Vorgehen Trumps beispielsweise wird für viele Ausdruck einer starken Regierung. Wenn nun das bei den Landtagswahlen im September passiert, was wahrscheinlich ist und „die SPD durch radikale Kräfte ersetzt wird, zahlen wir alle einen hohen Preis“, zitiert mich #Textrebell 🤦
Die Sehnsucht nach…

BPOLD-H: Bilanz der vorübergehend wiedereingeführten Binnengrenzkontrollen an der deutsch - niederländischen Grenze in Niedersachsen im Zeitraum vom 16.09.2024 bis einschließlich zum 28.02.2026 Hannover / Bad Bentheim (ots) - Seit dem 16. September 2024 kontrolliert die Bundespolizei in ganz Deutschland den grenzüberschreitenden Verkehr mit vorübergehend wiedereingeführten Binnengrenzkontrollen. Für Reisende zwischen Niedersachsen und ...

#OTD 2014 vanuit het net nieuwe TivoliVredenburg, #Utrecht. Ter vergelijking ongeveer zelfde uitzicht in september 2025. Dit ziet er over een jaar weer heel anders uit, nu het Smakkelaarsveld bebouwd wordt.

Darüber redete der Wedding von Juli bis September https://weddingweiser.de/darueber-redete-der-wedding-von-juli-bis-september/

#usenet

CFP: Conference "Old Ideas in New Minds: Strategies of 'Autonomy' from Antiquity to the Renaissance,” Jena (29.03.2026)
https://ift.tt/FXrtLz5
Slave subjectivities in the Iberian Worlds (15th- 20th centuries) Date: October 31,…
via Input 4 RELCFP

In the first attack on a speedboat in September 2025, Trump and Hegseth used a military plane made up to look civilian. That’s a war crime called “perfidy”. (Free link)
#uspol #usnavy #uscg

U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
Even accepting the Trump administration’s claim that there is an armed conflict with suspected drug runners, the laws of war bar “perfidy.”

Noticed only today, since moving my #Emacs environment over to the new laptop last November, all my #OrgRoam 'dailies' are not orgroam files, they are basic #OrgMode files 🥹 C-c n d d does resolve to the right org-roam command, but these files contain only a # title and nothing else.
It was likely naive of me to expect my .emacs to be relocatable.
I don't suppose there's a function to mass-convert org-files to org-roam? Well, that's what keystroke macros are for, I suppose!
On a positive note, my #Firefox kiosk issue was solved by MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=0 which is odd since I'm running Wayland and it had worked fine since September until I added and then removed /etc/firefox/policies/policy.json

terrorists_911: 9-11 terrorist network
Network of individuals and their known social associations, centered around the hijackers that carried out the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. Associations extracted after-the-fact from public data. Metadata labels say which plane a person was on, if any, on 9/11.
This network has 62 nodes and 152 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata

OSM Japan is bidding to host @… 2026 this September! 🇯🇵
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_of_the_Map_Asia_2026/Call_fo…

#TIL Windows 11 added system-wide shortcut key for typing em/en-dashes: ​:windows:​ Minus and ​:windows:​ ⇧ Minus.

Du interessierst dich für Natur- und #Umweltschutz, für Wildtiere und Artenschutz oder auch für Veranstaltungen und Haustechnik? Du bist gerne draußen, Wind und Wetter stören dich nicht, kannst auch mal spontan mit anpacken - dann wäre der Freiwilligendienst im Nationalpark #Schwarzwald gen…

Jetzt für den Freiwilligendienst bewerben
Sieben Stellen hat der Nationalpark zu vergeben: fünf für Bufdis und zwei fürs Freiwillige Ökologische Jahr. Das neue Jahr beginnt am 1. September.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Bangles:
🎵 September Gurls
#Bangles
https://open.spotify.com/track/5ccv6xLrPjyJlHB6Oq835h

Yet another #SuperbOwl. September 2023

Google verkürzt Versionszyklus des Chrome-Browsers von vier auf zwei Wochen
Ab September wird Googles Webbrowser zweiwöchentlich neue Versionen erhalten. Chrome soll damit schneller Leistungsverbesserungen und neue Funktionen bekommen.

I september går Sverige till val. Musk intervenerar redan i val över hela Europa; Tyskland, Storbritannien, Italien, Frankrike. Nu Sverige: "Sweden is dying." Jag samlar mina tankar om X, algoritmer och demokrati i en längre text.
https://carlheath.se/sa-kan-elon-musk-

As @… noticed, the study on how stalkers can exploit Tile tracking tags, which I noticed this past week and included in Metacurity's long reads issue today, was published last September, after which she wrote a piece in Wired about it. Mea culpa.

Tile Tracking Tags Can Be Exploited by Tech-Savvy Stalkers, Researchers Say
A team of researchers found that, by not encrypting the data broadcast by Tile tags, users could be vulnerable to having their location information exposed to malicious actors.

plant_pol_vazquez: Vazquez & Simberloff plant-pollinator webs
Eight bipartite networks of plants and pollinators, from the Nahuel Huapi National Park and surrounding areas in Rio Negro, Argentina, from September 1999 to Feburary 2000. Edge weights represent the frequency of species interaction, and there is a common set of vertices across all eight webs.
This network has 144 nodes and 42 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Weighted, Multilayer

Back in September in Anaheim at the House of Blues. Surreal to get to play those songs—I bought the album back in the day!
Let me know if the quote post works... I discovered that for the band's posts to share to fedi, you have to post directly in the Threads app, not share from a different Meta platform. Hopefully now I can share a bit more and Zuck can host heh heh
Yours truly on guitar (R), audio mix and video edit 😁 @…

Maggie Speaks (@maggiespeaksband) on Threads
Hi all! Today for #CelebritySitIn Sunday we're sharing some highlights from a show we did with the Gin Blossoms! In September we had the pleasure of playing the House of Blues in Anaheim with them. Such a pleasure to work with them! #90s #throwback #HeyJealousy #GinBlossoms

The end of Twitter and my choice of the fedi as the place I hang my virtual hat means that I only just now learned of the deaths in September and October 2025 of three seminal scholars in my field (the history Québec and Canada).
RIP Jim Miller, Tim Cook, and Alfred Dubuc.

Ambush at Wallbank https://edintone.com/ambush-at-wallbank/ On a dark Wednesday night in September 1769, the quiet road between Northampton and Kingsthorpe became the scene of a shocking act of violence that would end on the gallows.

Ambush at Wallbank - Miscellanea Edintone
On a dark Wednesday night in September 1769, violence erupted on the road to Wallbank, leading to a shocking end at the gallows.

2026, el año de ethernal-september en el escritorio

Am 8. September 1919 wurde Maria Eleonora Gregorc in einem Bauernhaus in Garzern in der Gemeinde Kappel am Krappfeld als uneheliches Kind geboren.

Looking forward to iPhone Neo this September.

Sources: AI chipmaker Cerebras is in talks to raise ~$1B, valuing the startup at $22B before the new investment, up from an $8.1B valuation in September 2025 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/chipmaker-cerebras-tal…

Chipmaker Cerebras in Talks to Raise $1 Billion at a $22 Billion Valuation
AI chip startup Cerebras Systems is in talks to raise about $1 billion, valuing the company at $22 billion before the new investment, as the chipmaker prepares to go public this year, according to people with knowledge of the discussions. That’s a big jump from its last private valuation of $8.1 ...

SUCKER -- My year as a degenerate gambler -- n a thursday evening in September ... (McKay Coppins/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/04/online-sports-betting-app-addiction/686061/?gift=4QfSWyPVV95tk3w2EN6hQsc9kQsU4eXHz9WJjypKRyA
http://www.memeorandum.com/260312/p71#a260312p71

Kostenvermeidung durch Bauen ist das eine, Miet-/Neben-Kostenfehler das andere.
September 2025 #dresden
https://video.dresden.network/w/exQwWwTpAtcGMi1fJsd9cY

"An analysis in October suggested that on just 27% of the vote (roughly in the middle of its polling over the past year), Reform UK would win 48% of the seats, allowing it to take power with a small coalition partner. If Reform UK forms the next government, it will be for one reason and one reason alone: our electoral system." -- George Monbiot, citing

First Past the Post could catapult Reform UK into government
A new YouGov MRP poll, published on 26 September 2025, provides another snapshot of the chaotic democratic outcomes being caused by First Past The Post (FPTP) in our era of multi-party p

I'm going to go and see @… in Winchester in September.
I've never been to a poetry reading and it might sound silly, but I'm not quite sure what to expect - I guess we'll go and see :)

The Defense Department burned through $93 billion in September alone, signing checks left and right
-- in order to dry up its congressionally allocated budget, according to a recent analysis by the government watchdog Open the Books.
There is pressure to spend:
If federal agencies don’t use the entirety of their budgets by the end of the fiscal year,
then they lose access to that cash forever,
potentially putting themselves in a situation where they have to requ…

Pete Hegseth Blew Billions on Fruit Basket Stands, Chairs, and Crab
The Defense Department went on a $93 billion spending spree in 2025.

The UK government drops plans for mandatory digital IDs to work in the country, marking a reversal from when the UK first announced the policy in September 2025 (BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3385zrrx73o

Government drops plans for mandatory digital ID to work in UK
There will still be digital checks on those starting a new job, but people will not need to hold a digital ID.

Noticed only today, since moving my #Emacs environment over to the new laptop last November, all my #OrgRoam 'dailies' are not orgroam files, they are basic #OrgMode files 🥹 C-c n d d does resolve to the right org-roam command, but these files contain only a # title and nothing else.
It was likely naive of me to expect my .emacs to be relocatable.
I don't suppose there's a function to mass-convert org-files to org-roam? Well, that's what keystroke macros are for, I suppose!
On a positive note, my #Firefox kiosk issue was solved by MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=0 which is odd since I'm running Wayland and it had worked fine since September until I added and then removed /etc/firefox/policies/policy.json

Butoh Symposium: Kingston University, 17-18th September, 2026 https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/28/butoh-symposium-kingston-university-17-18th-september-2026

terrorists_911: 9-11 terrorist network
Network of individuals and their known social associations, centered around the hijackers that carried out the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. Associations extracted after-the-fact from public data. Metadata labels say which plane a person was on, if any, on 9/11.
This network has 62 nodes and 152 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata

Pentagon Should Focus on Defense Priorities, not Lavish Dinners, After Historic $93.4B "Use-It-or-Lose-It" September (OpenTheBooks)
https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/pentagon-should-focus-on-defense
http://www.memeorandum.com/260310/p39#a260310p39

Der #SmartMeter-Rollout in Deutschland schreitet voran, aber viele kleinere #Netzbetreiber hinken hinterher.
Während bundesweit im Schnitt 20 Prozent der Pflichtfälle bis Ende September erfüllt wurden, lag die Quote bei rund 600 Stadtwerken mit weniger als 30.000 Messstellen bei nur 8…

Smart-Meter-Rollout: Hunderte Betreiber verpassen offenbar gesetzliches Ziel
Die Stromnetzbetreiber haben das erste Etappenziel beim Smart-Meter-Rollout erreicht – allerdings nur im Mittel. Hunderten Stadtwerken drohen nun Zwangsgelder.

Paris-based digital health insurance startup Alan raised €100M led by Index Ventures at a €5B valuation, up from €4B after raising €173M in September 2024 (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/11/health-insurance-startup-alan-reaches-e5b…

Health insurance startup Alan reaches €5B valuation | TechCrunch
French health insurance startup Alan is now valued at €5 billion — approximately $5.83 billion, up from $4.5 billion in 2024.

Butoh Symposium: Kingston University, 17-18th September, 2026 https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/28/butoh-symposium-kingston-university-17-18th-september-2026

Trump’s assault on the city of Chicago began in September, and it claimed its first casualty quickly.
As Reuters would later report, on September 12, Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez dropped his kids off at their school in the suburb of Franklin Park on his way to his job at a diner on the northwest side.
Villegas-Gonzalez had come to the United States in 2007 to flee the violence in his home state of Michoacšn, Mexico
—violence wrought by the Mexican government’s militarization o…

Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here
With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.

plant_pol_vazquez: Vazquez & Simberloff plant-pollinator webs
Eight bipartite networks of plants and pollinators, from the Nahuel Huapi National Park and surrounding areas in Rio Negro, Argentina, from September 1999 to Feburary 2000. Edge weights represent the frequency of species interaction, and there is a common set of vertices across all eight webs.
This network has 144 nodes and 31 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Weighted, Multilayer

Google plans to move Chrome to a two-week release cycle, instead of the current four, starting with the Chrome 153 stable release on September 8 (Thomas Ricker/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/888001/google-accelerates-chrome-releases-cut…

Google accelerates Chrome release cycle
The browser is moving from a four-week release cycle to two in September.

Butoh Symposium: Kingston University, 17-18th September, 2026 https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/28/butoh-symposium-kingston-university-17-18th-september-2026

Deadly Minneapolis Encounter Is the 9th ICE Shooting Since September (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/us/ice-shootings-minneapolis-other-cities.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p132#a260107p132

CFP: Conference "Old Ideas in New Minds: Strategies of 'Autonomy' from Antiquity to the Renaissance,” Jena (29.03.2026)
https://ift.tt/iBV5HRb
Slave subjectivities in the Iberian Worlds (15th- 20th centuries) Date: October 31,…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Waymo says it hopes to launch its London robotaxi service as soon as September, after an April pilot; the UK government plans to change regulations in H2 2026 (Zoe Kleinman/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czej9n578k9o

Driverless taxis set to launch in UK as soon as September
Waymo has laid out plans for a robotaxi service in London with a pilot scheme due to begin in April.

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-…

plant_pol_vazquez: Vazquez & Simberloff plant-pollinator webs
Eight bipartite networks of plants and pollinators, from the Nahuel Huapi National Park and surrounding areas in Rio Negro, Argentina, from September 1999 to Feburary 2000. Edge weights represent the frequency of species interaction, and there is a common set of vertices across all eight webs.
This network has 144 nodes and 43 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Weighted, Multilayer

SEC filing: Nvidia acquires Intel shares worth $5B, carrying out a transaction announced in September, buying 214.7M shares for $23.28 each (Arsheeya Bajwa/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/nvidia-takes-5…

Sources: OpenAI has been slow to expand in-app checkouts for ChatGPT as the startup and its partners Shopify and Stripe struggle to standardize merchant data (Ann Gehan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-shopping-ambitio…

OpenAI’s Shopping Ambitions Hit Messy Data Reality
OpenAI’s efforts to turn ChatGPT into a go-to personal shopper are off to a slow start. Challenges with wrangling product data mean in-app checkouts aren’t yet widely available to the millions of shops that OpenAI said in September would soon be coming to ChatGPT. OpenAI and its early partners, ...

foursquare_friendships: Foursquare global friendships (2013)
A network of user friendships on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. The 'old' and 'new' dataset correspond to two snapshots taken before and after the check-in data collection period.
This network has 114324 nodes and 363704 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Sources: Anthropic plans to raise $10B led by Singapore's GIC and Coatue Management at a $350B valuation before the new investment, up from $183B in September (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-ra…

foursquare_global: Foursquare global check-ins (2013)
A bipartite network of users and locations, representing check-in events worldwide on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. Metadata include country, city name, city type (e.g. national capital), and vender's latitude and longitude.
This network has 3935215 nodes and 22809624 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata, Timestamps

foursquare_friendships: Foursquare global friendships (2013)
A network of user friendships on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. The 'old' and 'new' dataset correspond to two snapshots taken before and after the check-in data collection period.
This network has 114324 nodes and 363704 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Google's Epic settlement term sheet prohibits Tim Sweeney from criticizing Google's app policies until at least September 2032 and mandates he praise them (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/889595/tim-sweeney…

Tim Sweeney signed away his right to criticize Google until 2032
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney signed away Epic’s rights to sue and disparage the company and his right to advocate for any further changes to Google’s app store polices.

foursquare_friendships: Foursquare global friendships (2013)
A network of user friendships on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. The 'old' and 'new' dataset correspond to two snapshots taken before and after the check-in data collection period.
This network has 114324 nodes and 363704 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Meituan agrees to buy Dingdong, a Chinese fresh grocery e-commerce company, for $717M in cash; Dingdong had 7M monthly transacting users as of September 2025 (Cao Li/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3342

Meituan snaps up Dingdong to deepen push into fresh grocery retail
The US$717 million Dingdong acquisition highlights Meituan’s long-term bet on grocery e-commerce and on-demand consumption in China.

terrorists_911: 9-11 terrorist network
Network of individuals and their known social associations, centered around the hijackers that carried out the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. Associations extracted after-the-fact from public data. Metadata labels say which plane a person was on, if any, on 9/11.
This network has 62 nodes and 152 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata

Meta confirms it is testing a standalone app for Vibes, its short-form video feed of AI videos, after "strong early traction", without sharing specific numbers (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/05/meta-tests-a-s…

Meta tests a standalone app for its AI-generated 'Vibes' videos | TechCrunch
Launched last September, Vibes lets you create and share short-form AI-generated videos and access a dedicated feed that displays AI videos from others.

AI Chipmaker Cerebras raised a $1B Series H led by Tiger Global at a $23B valuation, up from $8.1B in September 2025 (Ian King/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-04/cerebras-raises-1-billion-in-funding-at…

foursquare_global: Foursquare global check-ins (2013)
A bipartite network of users and locations, representing check-in events worldwide on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. Metadata include country, city name, city type (e.g. national capital), and vender's latitude and longitude.
This network has 3935215 nodes and 22809624 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata, Timestamps

US v. Google: the DOJ and a group of states will appeal the September 2025 ruling in the Search antitrust case in which Google dodged a forced sale of Chrome (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-03/googl…

plant_pol_vazquez: Vazquez & Simberloff plant-pollinator webs
Eight bipartite networks of plants and pollinators, from the Nahuel Huapi National Park and surrounding areas in Rio Negro, Argentina, from September 1999 to Feburary 2000. Edge weights represent the frequency of species interaction, and there is a common set of vertices across all eight webs.
This network has 144 nodes and 51 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Weighted, Multilayer

terrorists_911: 9-11 terrorist network
Network of individuals and their known social associations, centered around the hijackers that carried out the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. Associations extracted after-the-fact from public data. Metadata labels say which plane a person was on, if any, on 9/11.
This network has 62 nodes and 152 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata

foursquare_friendships: Foursquare global friendships (2013)
A network of user friendships on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. The 'old' and 'new' dataset correspond to two snapshots taken before and after the check-in data collection period.
This network has 114324 nodes and 363704 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

foursquare_global: Foursquare global check-ins (2013)
A bipartite network of users and locations, representing check-in events worldwide on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. Metadata include country, city name, city type (e.g. national capital), and vender's latitude and longitude.
This network has 3935215 nodes and 22809624 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata, Timestamps

foursquare_friendships: Foursquare global friendships (2013)
A network of user friendships on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. The 'old' and 'new' dataset correspond to two snapshots taken before and after the check-in data collection period.
This network has 114324 nodes and 363704 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted