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Report: at an xAI meeting, Elon Musk and his executives said the Grok chatbot has 64M monthly users; OpenAI said in August that ChatGPT had 700M weekly users (Theo Wayt/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/elon-musks-xai-says-gr…

Elon Musk’s xAI Says Grok Has 64 Million Monthly Users
Elon Musk’s xAI told staff this week that its Grok chatbot has 64 million monthly users, the New York Times reported on Thursday. By contrast, OpenAI said in August that ChatGPT had hit 700 million weekly users, while Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in July that its Gemini app had 450 million monthly users. xAI also has a much smaller enterprise business than OpenAI or Google. Musk pushed

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

“Yikes”: Internal emails reveal Ticketmaster helped scalpers jack up prices, FTC says - Ars Technica https://share.google/ukrEc6jZFaKueb6N6

“Yikes”: Internal emails reveal Ticketmaster helped scalpers jack up prices, FTC says
FTC sued Ticketmaster and Live Nation for turning “blind eye” to scalpers.

Use of Bicivia bike lanes up 21% in five years, with 75,600 daily users in 2024
Use of bicycles up 29% and scooters by 92% in Barcelona metropolitan area
https://www.catalannews.com/society-science/item/use-of…

Use of Bicivia bike lanes up 21% in five years, with 75,600 daily users in 2024
Use of bicycles up 29% and scooters by 92% in Barcelona metropolitan area

https://www.osnews.com/story/141941/microsoft-accidentally-cares-about-its-users-releases-update-that-unintentionally-deletes-copilot-from-windows/
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https://www.osnews.com/story/141941/microsoft-accidentally-cares-about-its-users-releases-update-that-unintentionally-deletes-copilot-from-windows/
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Investigating VR Accessibility Reviews for Users with Disabilities: A Qualitative Analysis
Yi Wang, Chetan Arora, Xiao Liu, Thuong Hoang, ZHengxin Zhang, Henry Been Lirn Duh, John Grundy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13051

Investigating VR Accessibility Reviews for Users with Disabilities: A Qualitative Analysis
Accessibility reviews provide valuable insights into both the limitations and benefits experienced by users with disabilities when using virtual reality (VR) applications. However, a comprehensive investigation into VR accessibility for users with disabilities is still lacking. To fill this gap, this study analyzes user reviews from the Meta and Steam stores of VR apps, focusing on the reported issues affecting users with disabilities. We applied selection criteria to 1,367,419 reviews from the…

At least he understood the location and extent of our problem. Not great on the solution side, but we will be workshopping that... https://bird.makeup/users/macfarlanenews/statuses/1969117630578540785

Scott MacFarlane
ALERT: Justice Dept will seek minimum 30-year prison term for Nicholas Roske, the California man who pleaded guilty in attempt to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanugh Feds argue Roske was targeting UP TO THREE justices for assassination COURT FILING: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.514255/gov.uscourts.mdd.514255.98.0.pdf

A US judge temporarily orders Meta not to respond to DHS subpoenas seeking Instagram users' info after their accounts posted an ICE agent's name (Alfred Ng/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/19/judge-te…

X is testing a new way of opening links without fully covering an X post, allowing users to see the Like, Repost, and other buttons, starting on iOS (Cheyenne MacDonald/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/x-is-testing-a-new-way-of…

X is testing a new way of opening links in posts to improve engagement
The new link popups will allow the reaction buttons to remain visible so users can interact with the post while reading.