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How Facebook Dating, launched in 2019, has become a surprise hit with 21M daily users, vs. Hinge's ~15M, a sign of how Facebook has been reinventing itself (Eli Tan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/technology/facebook-dating-surprise-hit…

Facebook Dating Has Become a Surprise Hit for the Social Network
Facebook’s free dating service has 21 million users, more than the popular dating app Hinge, as the social network reinvents itself.

Mike Macdonald 'not surprised' by Sam Darnold's near-perfect play for 6-2 Seahawks https://www.nfl.com/news/mike-macdonald-not-surprised-by-sam-darnold-s-near-perfect-play-for-seahawks

Admissible set and squarefree-power-like function with applications to squarefree symbolic powers
Trung Chau, Kanoy Kumar Das, Amit Roy, Kamalesh Saha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01366

Admissible set and squarefree-power-like function with applications to squarefree symbolic powers
We introduce the abstract notion of squarefree-power-like functions, which unify the sequences of squarefree ordinary and symbolic powers of squarefree monomial ideals. By employing the Tor-vanishing criteria for mixed sums of ideals, we establish sharp lower bounds for their Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity in terms of what we call the admissible set of the associated hypergraph. As an application, we derive the first general combinatorial lower bound for the regularity of squarefree symbolic po…

Trump-backed Ciattarelli gets major campaign trail surprise on Election Eve (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-backed-ciattarelli-gets-major-campaign-trail-surprise-election-eve
http://www.memeorandum.com/251103/p87#a251103p87

Some ad industry executives express anger and disappointment at the US v. Google ruling, and say it will do little to alter Google's dominance of the ad market (Ronan Shields/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media-buying/angry

Angry and disappointed, if not surprised: The ad industry reacts to the Google search remedies ruling 
The industry reacts to the ruling that Google will not have to divest Android or Chrome in latest antitrust development

LSPFuzz: Hunting Bugs in Language Servers
Hengcheng Zhu, Songqiang Chen, Valerio Terragni, Lili Wei, Jiarong Wu, Yepang Liu, Shing-Chi Cheung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00532 ht…

LSPFuzz: Hunting Bugs in Language Servers
The Language Server Protocol (LSP) has revolutionized the integration of code intelligence in modern software development. There are approximately 300 LSP server implementations for various languages and 50 editors offering LSP integration. However, the reliability of LSP servers is a growing concern, as crashes can disable all code intelligence features and significantly impact productivity, while vulnerabilities can put developers at risk even when editing untrusted source code. Despite the w…

TIL that the behavior of the “sort” utility differs between MacOS and Debian Linux.
[UPDATE: See replies; the behavior depends on the LANG value in surprising and pernicious ways.]
/tmp> uname ; sort problem
Darwin
OS-X
OSCO
tbray.org /tmp/ 503> uname ; sort problem
Linux
OSCO
OS-X
Does anyone other than me find this surprising?
#Linux …

Colts' Playmaker Trending Upward While Two Surprises Surface https://www.si.com/nfl/colts/news/colts-playmaker-trending-upward-two-surprises-surface

Don't be surprised if ... Cook leads RBs in season scoring, Daniels is top-five QB https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/46466378/nfl-fantasy-football-rankings-predictions-surprises-week-5

Why have there been more blocked kicks this season? Cowboys address surprising trend

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/why-have-there-been-more-b…