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Foxconn reports Q3 revenue of $66.3B, in line with estimates, net profit up 17% YoY to $1.86B, vs. $1.63B exp., says it expects significant YoY growth in Q4 (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/12/foxconn-hon-hai-third-quarter…

Nvidia supplier Foxconn third-quarter profit beats expectations, rising 17% on AI demand
Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics maker, reported Wednesday that its third-quarter profit jumped 17% from a year earlier.

eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.

What Trinity Rodman's next contract means for the NWSL | Full Time by The Athletic Full Time
#nwsl

🚨An email pops up: “Quick! Can you upload the contract here? My VPN’s down!”
It looks like your colleague. It feels urgent. But is it real? 👀
Smishing messages like these exploit trust and urgency, making us act before we think.
It’s easy to slip into autopilot when we’re busy.
But #digitalmindfulness means slowing down, even if for just a few seconds.
🔗 W…

Neros, which makes low-cost, military FPV drones in the US, raised $75M led by Sequoia, bringing its total funding to $121M, and won a US Army contract (Farah Stockman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/business/neros-military-drones.html

The 20-Somethings Who Raised $121 Million to Build Military Drones
Neros, a company founded in 2023 by former teenage drone racers, won a coveted Army contract and is gaining popularity in the defense sector.

Im Protokoll stand etwas von "Ten Year Contract", das Gespräch behandelte freilich den "Tenure Track".

Sources: Anderson Cooper has signed a new deal with CNN (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/anderson-cooper-cnn-new-contract-1236603476/

Anderson Cooper Will Stay at CNN After Striking New Deal
Anderson Cooper has renewed a deal to stay at CNN, a move that may not have been expected as news outlets scrutinize top anchor salaries

👿 How a ‘green gold rush’ in the Amazon led to dubious carbon deals on Indigenous lands
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/how-a-green-gold-rush-in-the-amazon-led-to-dubious-carbon-deals-on-indigenous-lands/

How a ‘green gold rush’ in the Amazon led to dubious carbon deals on Indigenous lands
BARCELONA — In December 2022, one of Brazil’s largest Indigenous territories and one of the smallest would each sign a 118-page, 10-year contract they would soon come to regret —as would faraway investors looking to capitalize on the billion-dollar carbon and biodiversity markets. In Brazil’s lush westernmost states of Amazonas and Acre, which border Peru, […]

US PE firm Haveli Investments agrees to acquire a majority stake in business contract software company Sirion; a source says the deal values Sirion at about $1B (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/haveli-buy-majority-stake-contract-…

Today will be my first full day of g.fast internet (installed yesterday). So far so good. I gave up waiting for FTTP as it's still going to be a few years yet. I went with iinet because they have a 6 months free deal and no lock-in contract. Installer Tristan was terrific.
#Internet #Gfast

"Brazil eyes April 2026 for first battery storage auction"
#Brazil #Batteries #Energy

Brazil eyes April 2026 for first battery storage auction
A 20-day public consultation is anticipated to open in November to define the guidelines for the auction, which aims to contract 2 GW of battery energy storage systems (BESS). The initiative could unlock around R$10 billion ($1.85 billion) in investments.

What a story...
#amazon

eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.

As Google's YouTube TV and Disney continue a contract dispute, customers have lost some access to DVR files and digital movie purchases via Movies Anywhere (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/1

YouTube TV’s Disney blackout reminds users that they don’t own what they stream
“This is a hard lesson for us all.”…

The Republicans are truly the party of greed, waste & corrupt misappropriation.
#trump #Republicans
From: @…

But there's money to be made in supporting the #NetanyahuAdmininstrations crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing and land theft. You want to let somebody else make that profit?

But there's money to be made in supporting the #NetanyahuAdmininstrations crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing and land theft. You want to let somebody else make that profit?

A 2006 contract between the Post Office and Fujitsu shows that both parties were aware of bugs in the Fujitsu’s Horizon accounting software, and also that Fujitsu could take control over the system, contradicting statements by the Post Office in its action against hundreds of sub-postmasters accused of fraud, some of whom took their own lives.

Secret contract proves Post Office and Fujitsu were aware of bugs in Horizon
A 2006 contract between the Post Office and Fujitsu shows that both parties were aware of bugs in the Fujitsu’s Horizon accounting software, and also ...

Trinity Rodman Contract Update! NWSLPA Exec Director, Meghann Burke, Breaks Down the Latest by The Women's Game
#nwsl

Scumbaggery ain't nothing new.
https://noc.social/@todayilearned/115378327700458180

Today I learned (@todayilearned@noc.social)
Attached: 1 image TIL Columbia Pictures president Harry Cohn actively prevented the Three Stooges from discovering how popular they were. Despite their films being in extremely high demand, Cohn made them believe they were always in danger of cancelation so they wouldn't negotiate a better contract. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Stooges#Moe,_Larry,_and_Curly_(1934%E2%80%931946) #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1o7a5po/til_columbia_pictures_presiden…

My bet is that this will turn into a fairly substantial copyright and contract case.
"Kristen Bell Is the Star of a New Fox Jesus Podcast. No One Told Her"
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/kristen-bel…

Kristen Bell Is the Star of a New Fox Jesus Podcast. No One Told Her
Fox's new Jesus podcast features Kristen Bell as the voice of Mary Magdalene. Bell, however, recorded the audio 15 years ago for a different project.

NPR Wins Back $36M Contract Yanked Due To Trump - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/11/npr-wins-back-36m-contract-yanked-due-to-trump/

Dynamic energy tariffs have grown steadily in the Netherlands over the past twelve months: 40%. 7% of all households now use such a contract.
https://www.acm.nl/nl/energie/energiemonitors

Polymarket is disputing that the US mission to capture Nicolšs Maduro constituted an "invasion", refusing to pay out bets on a contract with $10.5M in wagers (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/985ae542-1ab4-491e-8e6e-b30f6a3ab666

Dish files counterclaims against Disney and ESPN over the launch of limited-time passes for Sling TV and alleges antitrust violations and breach of contract (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/dish-countersues-disney-e…

Dish Countersues Disney, ESPN Over Sling TV Short-Term Passes
Dish Network is firing back at Disney and EPSN in a legal dispute over its launch of limited-time passes for Sling TV

Good news, European countries should buy European (or Canadian) where possible,
https://www.saab.com/newsroom/press-releases/2025/saab-receives-order-for-globaleye-from-france

Saab receives order for GlobalEye from France
Saab has today entered a contract with the French General Directorate of Armaments, direction générale de l'Armement (DGA), and received an order for two GlobalEye Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) aircraft, including ground equipment, training and support. The order value is approximately SEK 12.3 billion and deliveries will take place 2029-2032.  

The text file that runs the internet
https://www.theverge.com/24067997/robots-txt-ai-text-file-web-crawlers-spiders

Trump un-banned the use of no-click, smartphone Spyware for use by ICE against immigrants & PROTESTORS.
☑️ICE reactivates contract with previously banned spyware vendor
https://wapo.st/4httse1
(Archive:

ICE reactivates contract with previously banned spyware vendor
The Biden administration had barred Paragon Solutions from U.S. government use after finding that the company’s software had been used unethically elsewhere.

A US judge rules Google must renegotiate annually any contract that makes its search engine or AI app the default on smartphones and other devices (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-05/google-must-limit-d…

Paramount says Jon Stewart has renewed his contract to executive produce and partially host The Daily Show through 2026 (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jon-stewart-new-daily-show-deal-1236416716/

Jon Stewart Re-Ups ‘Daily Show’ Deal Through 2026
Monday nights will look the same.

eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.

Amazon Prime has a documentary "Code Is Law" - which was released in February, but has an updated end from June 2025.
It deals with the question about "smart contracts" - are actions that are permitted by the code/words of a contract acceptable, even if they were not intended to be. (Most of the opinions given on this are from people who lost large amounts of money due to bugs.)

"UK solar on track for record CfD deployment in 2026"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #SolarPower #Energy

UK solar on track for record CfD deployment in 2026
Total number of UK PV plants backed by contracts for difference (CfD) could more than double in 2026, if developers hit deadlines. Latest investment report from scheme contract company reveals solar holds the greatest number of contracts of any generating technology.

eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.

“Sometimes the decision making criteria that the leadership uses to make a decision is different than the decision making criteria that might be reflected in scoring, but that really gets to the heart of it,” he said. 
That sounds a lot like #RFKJr's reasoning - Don't trust experts, I'm the one that knows what the right answer.

Lurie doubles down on S.F. permitting contract despite questions of deputy’s impropriety 
Lurie’s policy chief Ned Segal awarded contract to preferred firm despite report finding it "shouldn’t be considered."

“Sometimes the decision making criteria that the leadership uses to make a decision is different than the decision making criteria that might be reflected in scoring, but that really gets to the heart of it,” he said. 
That sounds a lot like #RFKJr's reasoning - Don't trust experts, I'm the one that knows what the right answer.

Lurie doubles down on S.F. permitting contract despite questions of deputy’s impropriety 
Lurie’s policy chief Ned Segal awarded contract to preferred firm despite report finding it "shouldn’t be considered."

Hybe K-pop subsidiary Ador ends the contract of one member of NewJeans and sues her and Ador's former CEO after the group tried to leave the label in 2024 (Jon Blistein/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/ne…

NewJeans’ Label Sues Ousted Member Danielle, ex-CEO for $30 Million
Ador, a subsidiary of K-pop giant HYBE, has filed a $30 million lawsuit against former NewJeans member Danielle and the label's ex-CEO Min Hee-jin.

ICE Signs Contract To Employ Iris-Scanning Technology - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/10/ice-signs-contract-to-employ-iris-scanning-technology/

An arbitrator has found that Politico violated key safeguards for AI adoption that had been negotiated into a contract with its unionized journalists (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/politico-management-vio…

Politico management violated key AI adoption safeguards, arbitrator finds
The ruling marks one of the first major tests of an AI clause in a newsroom union contract.

🇳🇴 Norwegian #EV drivers in many areas can now earn a 'Ladebonus' for offering flexibility to the energy system, regardless of their energy supplier or contract. With the 'Norgespris' static low price removing incentives for smart home charging, this enables grid-friendly behaviour in a user-friendly way.

Call for Essays for Anthology Under Contract: Shirley Jackson
https://ift.tt/CXlzZLE
updated: Wednesday, December 17, 2025 - 3:24pmfull name / name of organization: Joseph Michael…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Foxconn plans to spend another $569M through 2029 to expand its Mount Pleasant, WI AI server manufacturing site, adding to $717M invested through 2024 (Joe Schulz/WPR)
https://www.wpr.org/news/foxconn-expansion-racine-county-wisconsin-jobs

Foxconn planning $569M expansion in Racine County that could create 1,300 jobs
Under the newest revision to Foxconn’s contract with the state, Foxconn could earn up to $96 million in state tax credits through 2029.

Sources: Gayle King, who has anchored CBS News' morning show for over a decade, is expected to leave the program next year; her existing contract expires in May (Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/gayle-king-cbs-mornings-anchor-out-1236565036/

Gayle King Expected to Depart as 'CBS Mornings' Anchor
Gayle King is expected to depart as 'CBS Mornings' anchor when her contract expires next spring. She may shift to a different role at CBS News.

“They’re behind schedule, and so the President wants to make sure we beat the Chinese,”
acting NASA coordinator Sean Duffy said of SpaceX.
"[Trump] wants to get there in his term. So I’m in the process of opening that contract up.
I think we’ll see companies like Blue [Origin] get involved, and maybe others.
We’re going to have a space race in regard to American companies competing to see who can actually lead us back to the Moon first.”
There are a coupl…

Why did NASA’s chief just shake up the agency’s plans to land on the Moon?
“The president wants to make sure we beat the Chinese.”…

eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.

Cowboys' legend Dez Bryant sends message to George Pickens https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/dez-bryant-george-pickens-message-cowboys-contract/c34ac76e19656e002c80a651

Sources say Vanity Fair and Condé Nast execs are unsettled by the allegations against Olivia Nuzzi and are likely to let her temporary contract expire (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/11/30/2025/vanity-fairs-editors-mull-what-to-d…

View: Vanity Fair’s editors mull what to do about Nuzzi
Just weeks after Vanity Fair published an excerpt of Olivia Nuzzi’s book, it’s increasingly unlikely she’ll be a fixture on its print masthead.

eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.

Lidar manufacturer Luminar files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and says it reached a deal to sell its semiconductor subsidiary to Quantum Computing Inc. for $110M (Reshmi Basu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Volvo Supplier Luminar Files Bankruptcy After Contract Dispute
Luminar Technologies Inc, which manufactures laser-based sensors for cars, filed for bankruptcy shortly after it lost a contract with Swedish carmaker Volvo AB.

Comcast extends Mike Cavanagh's contract through January 1, 2029, and grants a ~$35M performance-based stock package; he's set to become co-CEO in January 2026 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/comcast-…

Comcast Extends Michael Cavanagh Contract Through 2029, Gets $35M Stock Award
Michael Cavanagh, as he's set to assume the role of Comcast's co-CEO on Jan. 2, extended his employment contract with the cable and media conglomerate that runs through Jan. 1, 2029.

Five FaZe Clan influencers exit after failed contract talks with new management; Matt Kalish, who invested $10M, calls FaZe's current structure "unsustainable" (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)

The US DOD and the intelligence community awarded Enabled Intelligence a seven-year, up to $708M data labeling contract in September, beating out Scale AI (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-…

A federal judge sets a December date for a bench trial in NPR's lawsuit claiming the CPB yanked away a planned $36M contract under intense White House pressure (David Folkenflik/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/30/nx-s1-5590945/npr-cpb-lawsuit-trial-…

eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.

US CHIPS Act-funded SMART USA Institute, focused on digital twins for chipmaking, says the Department of Commerce will terminate its $285M five-year contract (Samuel K. Moore/IEEE Spectrum)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductor-digital-twins-funding

Digital Twins Center Faces Funding Cut
Why did the U.S. pull the plug on a $285M digital twin project for chip manufacturing?

An Alabama state board votes to keep its contract with PBS for now, rejecting an effort to become the first state to cut ties following federal budget cuts (Kim Chandler/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/alabama-pbs-2149809fa142c792fab0ca6e8730ee80

Alabama Public Television to keep PBS contract
The commission that oversees Alabama Public Television voted to continue paying its contract with PBS. The decision came after a public backlash to the idea of dropping PBS. The Alabama Educational Television Commission voted without dissent to continue paying the contract with PBS that runs until July. It also voted to create a committee to explore the future direction of Alabama Public Television. A proposal to take the first step toward severing ties failed when no commissioner seconded the …

Source: CNN quietly removed its stories from Apple News over the weekend, ending a contract to share content on the app; CNN and Apple are discussing a new deal (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/11/23/2025/cnn-drops-out-of-apple-news-feed

Exclusive: CNN drops out of Apple News feed, for now
The two companies are continuing to discuss a new deal that would restore CNN’s stories to Apple News.

A look at Tokyo-based neocloud provider Datasection, which sources say has a $1.2B contract giving Tencent access to a large share of its 15K Blackwell chips (Financial Times)

A look at the fight between NPR and the CPB over a $36M contract to operate a satellite distribution system for public radio stations (David Folkenflik/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/27/nx-s1-5586147/npr-cpb-lawsuit-political-pressure

Five FaZe Clan influencers exit after failed contract talks with new management; Matt Kalish, who invested $10M, calls FaZe's current structure "unsustainable" (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)

Sources: the MLS-Apple TV deal will end in 2029, three and a half years earlier than planned; compensation averages $250M for the three remaining full seasons (Sportico)
https://www.sportico.com/leagues/soccer/2025/apple-mls-streaming-contract-cha…

Apple TV MLS Streaming Deal Will End in 2029 Under Revised Terms
MLS and Apple's streaming rights agreement will now end three and half years early, letting the league explore new partners after the 2026 World Cup.

Hearst plans to lay off 26 people at The Dallas Morning News, outsourcing print page production; the Dallas News Guild says the action violates its contract (Rachel Behrndt/WFAA-TV)
https://www.wfaa.com/article/money/hearst-

WFAA
The official YouTube channel of WFAA-TV and WFAA.com.

MLB finalizes deals with NBC/Peacock, Netflix, and ESPN; sources: NBC/Peacock pays ~$200M/year, Netflix pays $50M/season, ESPN maintains $1.65B over three years (Andrew Marchand/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6820362/2025/11/19/mlb-t…

MLB lands new media deals with NBC, Netflix and ESPN as league restructures TV future: Sources
The three-year agreements were a direct result of ESPN opting out of the final three seasons of its contract in February.

NYT says it will not renew Larry Summers' contract as a contributing writer for its Opinion section, after the publication of his emails with Jeffrey Epstein (Emine Sinmaz/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/18/new-york-ti…

SAG-AFTRA announces a new agreement tailored for serialized microdramas, or "verticals", with budgets under $300K that it plans to circulate later this month (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

SAG-AFTRA Gets In the Verticals Game
The union will be circulating a new agreement for microdramas with budgets under $300,000 later this month.

The Los Angeles Times Guild reached a tentative agreement with management after more than three years of bargaining, averting a strike authorized by members (Tess Patton/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/los-angeles-times-guild-averts-strike-tentative-agree…

LA Times Guild Averts Strike With Tentative Agreement After 3 Years of Bargaining
The union of journalists will meet Monday to outline the proposed deal with management "on all outstanding issues in the contract"

CPB agrees to fulfill a $36M, multi-year contract with NPR, resolving litigation filed by NPR accusing CPB of illegally yielding to Trump's demands (David Folkenflik/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/17/nx-s1-5611103/npr-trump-cpb-lawsuit