Spotify changes Developer Mode to require a Premium subscription and reduces the number of test users per app from 25 to 5, to curb AI-aided or automated usage (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/06/spotif…
flixster: Flixster friendship network (2009)
A network of friendships among users of Flixster, an online social movie website that allows users to share movie ratings and to connect each other. Nodes represent users and an edge exists if two users are friends.
This network has 2523386 nodes and 7918801 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
That is a lot of mobile malware.
The nTrust anti-fraud system recorded 62,952 new types of mobile malware discovered in Vietnam in 2025
https://vietnamnet.vn/en/mobile-users-in-vietnam-face-surge-in-new-malware-attacks-2479643.html…
Smart glasses find purpose among blind users https://tribune.com.pk/story/2585783/smart-glasses-find-purpose-among-blind-users "If it's on your head, it's definitely a lot more intuitive."
Careless Whisper: Exploiting Silent Delivery Receipts to Monitor Users on Mobile Instant Messengers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11194
Super interesting work 😍
> "an attacker could extract private information such as the online and activity status of a victim, e.g., screen on/off. More…
“Windows Copilot Serves At Best Half an Answer to Screen Reading Users”
https://theideaplace.net/windows-copilot-serves-at-best-half-an-answer-to-screen-reading-users/
Kelly Ford is unintentionally describing when a pattern in a…
hyves: Hyves friendship network (2010)
A network of friendships among users of Hyves, an online social networking site in the Netherlands (comparable to Facebook at the time). Nodes represent users and an edge exists if two users are friends. These data were crawled in December 2010.
This network has 1402673 nodes and 2777419 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
GWI: LinkedIn's 2025 revenue rose to $17B from $7B in 2020 as users doubled to 1.3B; 4.7% of US users checked more than once per day in 2025, from 3.9% in 2020 (Stu Woo/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-te…
Spotify rolls out About the Song, swipeable stories in English, summarized from third-party sources to highlight song details, in beta for Premium users (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/06/spotifys-n…
google_plus: Google (2013)
Snapshot of connections among users of Google , collected in 2012. Nodes are users and a directed edge (i,j) represents user i added user j to i's circle.
This network has 211187 nodes and 1506896 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google_