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Spotify adds new features for free users globally, allowing them to search for and play any song they want; the company reported 433M ad-supported MAUs in Q2 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/15/spotify-will-now-let-free-users-pic…

Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch
On Monday, the company announced that free users globally will now be able to search and play any song they want or play a song shared by a friend or an artist they follow on social media.

Digital 2026: Internet users pass 6 billion, social media users become a 'supermajority', and AI use tops 1 billion | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/globe-newswire/digital-2026-internet-users-pass-6-billion-social-media-users-become-a-supermajority-and-ai-use-tops-1-billion

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

Congress Works For You.
Here’s How to Be a Better Boss:
https://www.propublica.org/series/a-users-guide-to-democracy

A User’s Guide to Democracy
From understanding political ads to seeing what your representatives are actually doing (or not doing), these short guides will help you become a more informed, more engaged, more confident voter.

One of the top stories on Hacker News today was a post arguing that Mozilla shouldn't accommodate any usage of AI in Firefox because (understandably) people were mad at Big AI companies for all the horrible things they've done to users and the internet and society. But I think people are ignoring the reality that *hundreds of millions of users* are using LLMs today, and they need to have tools from platforms that will look out for their interests.

I know you don’t want them to want AI, but…
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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

PayPal launches PayPal Links, which lets users create a personalized, one-time link to send or request payment to other PayPal users (Lance Whitney/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/paypal-links-lets-you-send-and-receive-money-much-f…

PayPal Links lets you send and receive money much faster now - even crypto
With the new PayPal Links option, you can create and share personalized links to send or request payment from other individuals. Here's how.

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

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

A new study of 6,554 children aged 9 to 10 found that social media users scored lower on reading, vocabulary, and memory tests two years later than non-users (Rhitu Chatterjee/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news…