2026-01-30 19:55:50
Revolutionizing Team Strategy: The Role of Sophisticated Analytics in NFL Team Development https://insidethestar.com/revolutionizing-team-strategy-the-role-of-sophisticated-analytics-in-nfl-team-development
Revolutionizing Team Strategy: The Role of Sophisticated Analytics in NFL Team Development https://insidethestar.com/revolutionizing-team-strategy-the-role-of-sophisticated-analytics-in-nfl-team-development
Super Bowl 60th anniversary all-time team: Tom Brady, Lawrence Taylor and others headline star-studded team
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/super-bowl-60th-ann…
What the Raiders Need More Than Any Other Team https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-what-need-more-than-any-other-team
Sebastiaan de With, co-founder of the iPhone camera app Halide who previously freelanced for Apple, says he has joined Apple's Human Interface Design team (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/01/28/halide-cofounder-sebastiaan-de-wi…
Xfwl4: Xfce soll eigenen Wayland-Compositor bekommen
Das Xfce-Team will eingesammelte Spendengelder in die Entwicklung des Wayland-Compositors xfwl4 stecken.
https://www.heise.de/news/Xfwl4…
To avert layoffs, WaPo's White House correspondents, not considered at risk, write a letter to Jeff Bezos highlighting collaborations among the paper's sections (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/01/29/2026
A phoenix rises from the ashes - WOH G64 is still a red #supergiant, for now: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/546/2/stag012/8416424?login=false -> Keele-led team reveals massive star WOH G64 is still a red supergiant: https://www.keele.ac.uk/about/news/2026/january/cosmic-mystery/keele-led-team-reveals-massive-star-woh-g64-is-still-a-red-supergiant-.php
The Italian tech holding company Bending Spoons, has developed a reputation for buying tech companies past their peak and aggressively cutting costs.
The firm acquired Evernote in 2022, followed by Meetup and WeTransfer in 2024, and AOL and Eventbrite in 2025.
Layoffs followed many of those deals. In September 2024, just months after being acquired by Bending Spoons, WeTransfer laid off 75% of its staff.
Just months after Bending Spoons bought Vimeo for $1.38 billion last ye…
Our 2025 NFL All-Rookie Team: We picked standout first-years at every single position https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47435284/2025-nfl-all-rookie-team-every-position-carson-schwesinger-cam-ward-tetairoa-mcmilla…
Brian Schottenheimer shares secret making Cowboys hottest team in NFL https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/brian-schottenheimer-secret-making-dallas-cowboys-hottest-team-nfl
Raiders’ Pete Carroll has no comment on future with team after loss to Giants https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-pete-carroll-has-no-comment-on-future-with-team-after-loss-to-giants-3601134/…
Why the Jacksonville Jaguars Are the Playoff Team the AFC Should Fear https://insidethestar.com/why-the-jacksonville-jaguars-are-the-playoff-team-the-afc-should-fear
NFL salary cap projected at $301.2 million to $305.7 million per team for 2026 season https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-salary-cap-projected-at-301-2-million-to-305-7-million-per-team-for-2026-season
Poetiq, which leverages existing LLMs to create "expert agents" for specific tasks, and spent just $40K to achieve high ARC-AGI-2 scores, raised a $45.8M seed (Ian Krietzberg/Puck)
https://puck.news/how-poetiqs-six-person-team-beat-google-at-ai/
Rangnicks „Wunschort“ - WM 2026: Hier schlägt das ÖFB-Team sein Camp auf #News #Nachrichten
The team at @oxide.computer have company docs on how they expect LLMs to be used https://semble.so/url?id=https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576
Pairs nicely (and links to) @bcantrill.bsky.social’s post on using LLMs to write for you on LinkedIn
2016: Figma auto-saves your work.
2026: Figma auto-steals your work.
Figma admins, take a look at the setting that Figma silently opted your entire team into, and think about whether the labor of your designers should be handed away for free, just so Figma can turn around and pitch AI powered layout creation to product managers.
I support sports team name accelerationism. Super Bowl LXXX Seattle Sodomizers vs. Kansas City Coprophiles
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/29/ransomware-negotiations-extortion-cyber-attacks
“S-RM now claims the UK’s largest cyber-incident response team. Its first-responder service is comprised of about 150 experts world…
Starting in January, the Trump administration says it will
garnish the wages of student loan borrowers who haven’t been able to make their payments for at least nine months.
“It’s cruel and hostile to working people to turn the system on before we’re sure that we can run it in a compliant manner,”
says Julia Barnard, higher education team lead at the Debt Collective and former student loan ombudsman at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
To student debtors fac…
from my link log —
Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/
saved 2025-11-30
#Mattermost drama... Self-hosted users discover a built-in message limit added to v11. There are work-arounds, but many are... annoyed and wondering about the future.
https://github.com/mattermost/mattermo
Carney says he expects U.S. to 'respect Canadian sovereignty' after Alberta separatists meet with Trump team (CBC News)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/livestory/carney-premiers-news-conference-9.7066716
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p118#a260129p118
Risky Business News
Regular cybersecurity news updates from the Risky Business team...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/risky-business-news/
Was looking at the Chaos Communications Congress agenda & this session caught my eye:
A cool civilian terrestrial backup for GPS Satellite that is interference resistant.
✅ Who cares about the Baltic Jammer?
https://
Inside the Raiders’ Present and Future: Updates Straight from Team Headquarters https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/inside-las-vegas-updates-pete-carroll-mark-davis-tom-brady-team-headquarters
It's Time To End Animal Cruelty #AnimalRights
the flip side of this is that of course you will get groupthink because Filipinos only recommend Filipinos etc etc :-) where Filipinos could be any group LOL
https://mastodon.cloud/@jasongorman/115631797677448363
3-time Super Bowl winner says Cowboys remind him of another championship team https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/3x-super-bowl-winner-dallas-cowboys-remind-him-another-championship-team
Emily Fox with a fun to read retrospective on what my team and a few other teams have done with post-quantum #cryptography at #RedHat and in #RHEL:
State AG's team up to troll #Shopify website for $elling vapes to unauthorized underage teens
https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/arizona-offi…
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Quoting Colin Percival (FreeBSD Primary Release Engineering Team Lead):
"… I'd love to talk to them about providing them with images as part of the release process rather than them only getting images a random time after the release when someone remembers they exist."
@…
📏 Superconducting detector captures hot spots with submicron resolution
#sensors
dbpedia_team: DBpedia athlete-team affiliations
Bipartite network of the affiliations (employment relations) between professional athletes and their teams, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 935627 nodes and 1366466 edges.
Tags: Economic, Employment, Unweighted
https://netwo…
Finished “Starman’s Saga” by Colin Alexander.
Leif Grettison, former combat veteran and current paramedic, is “chosen” by a rigged lottery to accompany a team of scientists on an interstellar mission of discovery. His cool head and decisiveness will be needed throughout varied mission crises.
Entertaining plot but flat characters and more than a bit cliché. I enjoyed it, even so.
3.5/5 stars, rounded up ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Yo creo que es imposible tener un mínimo conocimiento de lo que supone la investigación y exploración espacial y posicionarse a favor de la mamarrachada de los centros de datos en el espacio. https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea<…
From Evidence for Democracy
On 28 January 2025, Commissioner Marie-Josee Hogue held a press conference on the Foreign Interference Commission’s final report, where she identified misinformation as the single greatest existential threat to Canadian democracy. Our research team at Evidence for Democracy carried out a broad review of the state of misinformation in Canada, and what we can do to rebuild public trust in Canada’s democracy.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
L.A. Dream Team:
🎵 Kings of the West Coast
#LADreamTeam
NFL Week 13 overreactions: Matthew Stafford's MVP bid over? Texans new team to beat in the AFC South?
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-wee
Cowboys sign former First-Team All-ACC running back to practice squad https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/cowboys-sign-former-first-team-all-acc-running-back-to-practice-squad
The Hill says it has "fortified" its breaking news team due to a "bonkers" US news cycle; Comscore says The Hill had 1.24B page views across 2025, up 7% YoY (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-ameri
Latest Cowboys rumor indicates team is 'destined' to make much-needed change https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/latest-dallas-cowboys-rumor-indicates-team-destined-make-much-needed-change
Watchdog group demands answers after 'unbelievable security lapse' by Trump's Secret Service team (Geoff Earle/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/27/us-news/watchdog-group-demands-answers-after-unbelievable-security-lapse-by-trumps-secret-service-team/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251227/p38#a251227p38
A profile of the Digital Security Helpline, run by Access Now, which gives 24/7 help to reporters and others who suspect they are victims of government spyware (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/27/m…
NFL Week 18 playoff-clinching scenarios: Final seeding up for grabs https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6929467/2025/12/30/nfl-playoffs-scenarios-matchups-seed-team/
For more than a decade, dozens of journalists and human rights activists have been
🆘 targeted and hacked by governments all over the world.
Cops and spies in Ethiopia, Greece, Hungary, India, Mexico, Poland, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates, among others, have used sophisticated #spyware to compromise the phones of these victims, who at times have also faced real-world
🌳 AI helps find trees in a forest: Researchers achieve 3D forest reconstruction from remote sensing data
#trees
The Bonfire team have met their first “maintenance” fundraising goal. The next stretch goal is designing and shipping federated groups.
There is lots of good writing in this post about the needs of different types of groups.
https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/why-<…
Sources: OpenAI is laying the groundwork for a public listing in Q4 2026, holding informal talks with Wall Street banks and growing its finance team (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-ipo-anthropic-race-69f0…
Malcolm Jenkins on Eagles HOF, Jalen Hurts and team scrutiny https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47086276/philadelphia-eagles-malcolm-jenkins-hof-jalen-hurts-team-scrutiny
“The City of Goleta will serve as the official host city for one of this year’s World Cup contenders.
One international team
—which has yet to be revealed
—will stay at the Ritz-Carlton Bacara
and hold practices at UC Santa Barbara’s Harder Stadium
in preparation for the World Cup matches starting in June.”
#Goleta
ESPN places Cowboys' top 2 picks on All-Rookie team for 2025 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/30/tyler-booker-donovan-ezeiruaku-named-to-espns-2025-all-rookie-t…
ChatGPT nutzt Grokipedia – Musks Wikipedia-Konkurrent
Grokipedia ist eine KI-generierte Enzyklopädie, betreut von Elon Musks xAI-Team. ChatGPT greift auf die teils kruden Inhalte zu.
https://www.
Sunday Robotics, which debuted its Memo home robot on Nov. 19, hired at least 10 former Tesla employees, including engineers who worked on Autopilot and Optimus (Grace Kay/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-loses-ai-staff-startup-sund…
Insider Expects AFC Team to Make Blockbuster Trade Offer to Raiders https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/fernando-mendoza-jets-draft-trade-rumors/
It’s Ilhan. Last night, I was attacked at a town hall meeting.
A man rushed up to me and sprayed me with an unknown substance from a syringe. Thankfully, my security team acted quickly to take him down.
I’m okay. I’m not going to be intimidated from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win.
But this shows something important. Just a few days ago, I texted you to explain that Trump’s constant racist, hateful attacks and the far-right threats that they bring require me to hire …
Patriots are just fourth Super Bowl team ever to have this stunning loss on their regular-season schedule
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/super-bowl-patriots-make-history-shockin…
Former Highly-Paid Raiders Coach Officially Gets Hired by College Team https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/chip-kelly-northwestern-oc-news/
Alibaba's Cainiao logistics unit merges with Chinese robovan company Zelos, creating a business sources say valued at ~$2B with a fleet set to hit 20K vehicles (Jiahui Huang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com…
Senior Bowl Day 2 takeaways: If your team needs offensive playmakers, you won't love what's in Mobile
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2026-nfl-d…
The leading vaccine regulator at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a far stricter course for federal vaccine approvals,
following claims from his team that Covid vaccines were linked to the deaths of at least 10 children.
Experts suggest the announcement will make the vaccine approval process significantly more difficult.
Dr Vinay Prasad, whose vaccine policy direction has been supported by the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, told FDA staff that…
NFL Week 18 playoff-clinching scenarios: Final seeding up for grabs https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6929467/2025/12/30/nfl-playoffs-scenarios-matchups-seed-team/
Anthropic expands its agentic plugins, which let enterprise users automate department-specific workflows, from Claude Code to its new general-use tool Cowork (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/30/anthropic-brings-agentic-plugins-to-cowork/
Which NFL players are the best (and worst) locker-room DJs? What music do they play? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47097079/team-djs-nba-youngboy-lions-jets-breece-hall-49ers-jets-bills-josh-allen
NFL Week 18 playoff-clinching scenarios: Final seeding up for grabs https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6929467/2025/12/30/nfl-playoffs-scenarios-matchups-seed-team/
An FBI operation to capture former Olympian turned suspected cocaine trafficker Ryan Wedding in Mexico
has shaken relations between the U.S. and its southern neighbor.
⭐️Last week, the U.S. deployed the FBI’s "Hostage Rescue Team" to Mexico to capture Wedding,
who once was protected by the powerful #Sinaloa #cartel
2026 NFL Draft order: Raiders land No. 1 pick after loss to Giants; Browns fall out of top 5 after upset win
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2026-nfl-draft-order-updated-top-pic…
Lions' Frank Ragnow fails physical: Pro Bowl center will not rejoin team after coming out of retirement
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/detroit-lions-frank-ragnow-fails-p…
Six senators accused Deputy Attorney General #Todd #Blanche this week of having a "glaring" conflict of interest
when he shut down investigations into crypto companies, dealers and exchanges
and eliminated an enforcement team dedicated to looking for crypto-related fraud and money-laundering schemes.
Lions center Frank Ragnow fails physical, won't come out of retirement to rejoin team https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6847495/2025/11/29/frank-ragnow-lions-failed-physical-retirement-comeback/
Raiders Starter Has Fiery Response to Accusations That Team Is Tanking https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/eric-stokes-tank-draft-pick/
Diamonds,
particularly those with nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers,
are being used to create advanced quantum sensors
that can measure magnetic fields with high sensitivity.
To unlock the full potential of these sensors,
researchers need to understand the behavior of the material at the atomic level.
In a recent study conducted at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME),
Prof. David Awschalom’s team has developed a n…
An interview with OpenAI for Science head Kevin Weil on the team's mission, why LLMs can't come up with game-changing discoveries yet, and more (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/26/1131728/ins…
Two vulnerable NFL sack records: Tracking pace for Myles Garrett (22!), Broncos' D (64!) https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47100067/tracking-sacks-record-cleveland-browns-myles-garrett-denver-…
Popular Cowboys Coach Bolting for AFC Team Amid Shake-Up https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/popular-coach-bolting-team-amid-shake-up/
The UK government says it recruited a team of AI specialists to build AI tools to improve transport, public safety and defense, backed by Meta's funding (Sam Tabahriti/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-announces-meta-backed…
Cowboys' recent surge has Philadelphia looking in the rear view mirror https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-recent-surge-has-philadelphia-looking-in-the-rear-view-mirror/
Maxx Crosby’s anger further exposes a Raiders team at a crossroads https://raiderramble.com/2025/12/27/maxx-crosbys-anger-further-exposes-a-raiders-team-at-a-crossroads/
#AsgardArchaea team,
led by @archaeal.bsky.social from @texasscience.bsky.social
— sequencing the DNA collected from the mouth of Rio de la Plata to the continental shelf of Uruguay
to detect #Asgards,
a group of single-celled organisms
-- and our closest microbial relatives on the t…
Biggest looming free agent decisions for all 32 teams https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47734878/2026-nfl-free-agency-32-free-agents-decisions-every-team
AFC Playoff Team Going After Cowboys TE Coach Lunda Wells as OC https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/afc-playoff-team-interview-lunda-wells/
Unsung heroes of 2025 NFL season: One overlooked/surprise contributor from each AFC team https://www.nfl.com/news/unsung-heroes-of-2025-nfl-season-one-overlooked-surprise-contributor-from-each-afc-team
The 2025 Chiefs May Be the Most Complete Team in the NFL https://insidethestar.com/the-2025-chiefs-may-be-the-most-complete-team-in-the-nfl/
Cowboys Lose Key Defensive Assistant Coach to AFC Team https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/cowboys-lose-key-defensive-assistant-coach-to-afc-team
Why is Post Malone a Cowboys fan? Explaining how music star grew up rooting for Dallas' football team https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/post-malone-cowboys-fan-dallas-football-team/09d9d9c104914…
Tony Romo responds to the haters who think CBS should move him off No. 1 NFL team https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/tony-romo-responds-haters-think-cbs-should-move-1-nfl-team/e144ef1bd…
Niners' 'Mr. Reliable' Christian McCaffrey has 31 touches, 142 scrimmage yards in win against former team https://www.nfl.com/news/niners-mr-reliable-christian-mccaffrey-has-31-touches-142-scrimmage-yards-in-…
2025 NFL Simulator: Updated playoff picture and projected draft order after Week 13 results https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6513952/2025/11/30/2025-nfl-playoff-simulator-path-postseason/