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16 breathtaking images from the 2025 Ocean Photographer of the Year contest
https://www.popsci.com/environment/2025-ocean-photographer-of-the-year-finalists/?utm_source=flipboard&am…

16 breathtaking images from the 2025 Ocean Photographer of the Year contest
Zippy penguins, synchronized humpback whales, and a Komodo dragon trying to cool off.

Sources: Character.AI has recently discussed a sale with potential buyers and also talked with investors about raising a few hundred million at a $1B valuation (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/character-ai-talks-sell-…

Character.AI in Talks to Sell or Raise Money, a Year After Founders Depart
Character.AI, the chatbot maker whose founders Google hired as part of a $2.7 billion deal last August, has in recent weeks discussed a sale of the company with potential buyers, bankers and staff, according to three people who have spoken to its executives. The nearly four-year-old startup ...

Tesla Cybertruck Sales Fall Dramatically To Their Lowest Level In A Year. Only 4,306 sold in Q2, that's 50% less than the year before.
At this rate, it'll take until the year 2085 for Musk's "1 million reservations" to turn into sales. https://insideevs.com/news/766162…

Tesla Cybertruck Sales Fall Dramatically To Their Lowest Level In A Year
The controversial electric pickup was once a bestseller. Now it’s struggling to stay relevant.

Bears sign QB Bagent to 2-year, $10M extension https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46030016/bears-sign-backup-qb-tyson-bagent-two-year-extension

»Weak password allowed hackers to sink a 158-year-old company:
One password is believed to have been all it took for a ransomware gang to destroy a 158-year-old company and put 700 people out of work.«
When do superiors in companies take care of implementing IT safely in real terms? This seems to be too expensive. Structured password managers are a hassle but worth it.
🔓

Weak password allowed hackers to sink a 158-year-old company
Transport company KNP forced to shut down after international hacker gangs target thousands of UK businesses.

"Heatwaves caused more than 1,000 deaths in Australia over four-year period, study finds"
#Australia #Heatwave #Climate

Winners of the 2025 Ocean Photographer of the Year Contest #photography …

When is the last time OSU football lost to Tulsa? Golden Hurricane ends 27-year drought https://www.oklahoman.com/story/sports/college/cowboys/2025/09/20/tulsa-football-ends-27-year-drought-against-ok…

Researchers Solve 35-Year-Old Fusion Mystery With Bench-Top Reactor
https://gizmodo.com/researchers-solve-35-year-old-fusion-mystery-with-bench-top-reactor-2000645186

Raiders, Steelers, Saints and Browns named candidates to trade for 23-year-old quarterback https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/raiders-steelers-saints-browns-candidate…

There have been 1,295 cases of pertussis, also called whooping cough, in Florida, an 81 percent surge compared to the entirety of 2024. 
And nationwide, cases rose six-fold in 2024 compared to the year before, CDC figures show, a sign of waning immunity against a disease that once struck hundreds of thousands. 
#MakeAmericaHealthyAgain

Cases of Victorian-era whooping cough soar in Florida amid plummeting vaccine rates
Cases of a Victorian-era disease have soared in Florida over the past year amid state Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo's declaration to end all vaccine mandates for children.

What Makes A Happy New Year? Digging My Way Out #instrumental #music https://muz4now.com/2024/what-makes-a-

What Makes A Happy New Year? Digging My Way Out
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Most United Nations workers killed on duty last year were killed by Israel in Palestinian territories, 181 out of 383.
"(...)383 aid workers were confirmed killed in the line of duty last year(...)"
"The [Gaza] Strip saw 181 humanitarian workers killed in 2024, with 60 more fatalities in Sudan. More widely, violence against aid workers increased in 21 countries in 2024 compared to the previous year, with State actors the most common perpetrators".

World Humanitarian Day 2025: Aid workers mull record toll of their own
With the news on Tuesday that a record 383 aid workers were confirmed killed in the line of duty last year, one veteran UN aid worker based in Gaza reaffirmed the resolve of humanitarians everywhere to save lives and relieve suffering, no matter how challenging the situation.

Matt and Ross Duffer officially sign a four-year exclusive deal with Paramount for theatrical films, TV, and streaming projects, starting in April 2026 (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Duffer Brothers Officially Move to Paramount With Exclusive Four-Year Deal
The ‘Stranger Things’ creators will create movie, TV and streaming projects for the studio, with a focus on tentpole films.

By the end of the year, the Austrian postal service will deliver all mail in Vienna completely emission-free (locally), be it on foot, by e-bike or e-delivery van. This important step will certainly help the city regain its position as the world's most liveable city next year.

WIEN: POST-ZUSTELLUNG ERFOLGT BIS JAHRESENDE KOMPLETT MIT E-FAHRZEUGEN
700 E-FAHRZEUGE SCHON CO2-FREI IM EINSATZ – WIEN ALS VORREITERIN UNTER EUROPÄISCHEN METROPOLEN

"Intensive indigenous farming in #Michigan ’s Upper Peninsula, USA" #archaeology #lidar

My Oxford Year Quand l’amour, la perte, la poésie et le pardon se rencontrent: https://blog.rmendes.net/2025/08/17/my-oxford-year-quand-lamour.html

Ukraine ratifies historic 100-year partnership with UK: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/17/ukraine-ratifies-historic-year-partnership.html

Bears sign QB Tyson Bagent: Caleb Williams backup lands two-year deal, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bears-sign-qb-tyson-bagent-caleb-…

Happy Zero Emissions day!
#ZeroEmissionsDay #FossilFreeFuture https://

4 Simple Ways to Celebrate Zero Emissions Day All Year Long | Impact Collective
Celebrated worldwide, September 21 is Zero Emissions Day, and it aims to offer up a preview of what our world would be like without the emission of fossil fuels into our atmosphere. What started as a call for a ‘global moratorium on fossil fuel combustion’ in 2008 in Nova Scotia, Canada, has led to an annual day of awareness of the impact our daily emissions have on the world. This includes emissions from the cars we drive, the materials we use, and the way the products we buy are made.

I just had a video chat over Signal with Nabil (@…) and I’d like to welcome him to the Gaza Verified family.
Nabil is a 33-year-old software engineer and was the founder and CEO of his own company in Gaza before it was destroyed by Israel.
He is also a father struggling to keep his child alive in Israel’s ongoing genocide and the resulting famine…

Gaza Verified
I’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and I verify that their accounts are genuine. – Aral Balkan

What's your oldest thing on the Internet you still use with an account (use at least occasionally?).
I think for me it's my 22-year old MacRumors account.

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Cosmological constraints from second and third-order shear statistics
R. C. H. Gomes, S. Sugiyama, B. Jain, M. Jarvis, D. Anbajagane, A. Halder, G. A. Marques, S. Pandey, J. Marshall, A. Alarcon, A. Amon, K. Bechtol, M. Becker, G. Bernstein, A. Campos, R. Cawthon, C. Chang, R. Chen, A. Choi, J. Cordero, C. Davis, J. Derose, S. Dodelson, C. Doux, K. Eckert, F. Elsner, J. Elvin-Poole, S. Everett, A. Fert\'e, M. Gatti, G. Giannini, D. Gruen, I. Harri…

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Cosmological constraints from second and third-order shear statistics
We present a cosmological analysis of the third-order aperture mass statistic using Dark Energy Survey Year 3 (DES Y3) data. We perform a complete tomographic measurement of the three-point correlation function of the Y3 weak lensing shape catalog with the four fiducial source redshift bins. Building upon our companion methodology paper, we apply a pipeline that combines the two-point function $ξ_{\pm}$ with the mass aperture skewness statistic $\langle M_{\rm ap}^3\rangle$, which is an effici…

One of the best podcasts out there, Never Post, is doing a membership drive currently to become sustainable till the end of the year.
Those are some of the best 4 bucks a month you can spend on media.
Head over to https://www.neverpo.st/ and click "Become a member".
Really. The podcast is _…

Never Post
A Podcast About and For the Internet

Google announces Gemini for Home, a new voice assistant for Google Home, with support for Gemini Live, coming later this year and replacing Google Assistant (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/762370/googl

Gemini for Home is Google’s biggest smart home play in years
Gemini is finally, officially coming to Google Home. The all-new assistant will arrive on Nest smart speakers and displays later this year.

Fat Bear Week is coming early this year. The annual online competition that normally starts in early October will instead start on Sept. 23.

Examining Gender Differences in the Impact of Instructional Clarity on Year 9 Students' Mathematics Interest in New Zealand: A Multi-Group Comparison of 2019 TIMSS Data
Huayu Gao, Tanya Evans, Gavin T. L. Brown
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13502

Examining Gender Differences in the Impact of Instructional Clarity on Year 9 Students' Mathematics Interest in New Zealand: A Multi-Group Comparison of 2019 TIMSS Data
Grounded in Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT), this study explores how teacher instruction clarity impacts Year 9 students' mathematics interest through the mediating roles of confidence and value, with a focus on gender differences. Structural equation modelling applied to the 2019 New Zealand TIMSS dataset (2,594 girls and 2,651 boys) supports the SCCT framework. While confidence and value have similar mediating effects for boys, confidence plays a more pivotal role for girls. Gender diff…

I’ve worked over the past year to reduce the amount of noise in my consciousness on a daily basis.
By that I mean - information noise, not literal sounds “noise”. (That problem was solved long ago by some good earplugs and noise canceling earphones.)
I’ve gotten used to spending less time on social media, regularly blocking most apps on my devices (anything with a feed news, most work communication apps, etc.), putting my phone and other devices aside for extended periods of time. Often go to work places with my iPad explicitly having its WiFi turned off and selecting cafes that don’t offer WiFi at all.
Negotiated better boundaries at work and in personal life where I exchange messages with people less often but try to make those interactions more meaningful, and people rarely expect me to respond to requests in less than 24 hours. Spent a lot of time setting up custom notification settings on all apps that would allow it, so I get fewer pings. With software, choosing fewer cloud-based options and using tools that are simple and require as few interruptions as possible.
Accustomed myself to lower-tech versions of doing things I like to do: reading on paper, writing by hand, drawing in physical sketchbooks, got a typewriter for typing without a screen. Choosing to call people on audio more, trying to make more of an effort to see people in person. Going to museums to look at art instead of browsing Pinterest. Defaulting to the library when looking for information.
I’m commenting on this now for two reasons:
1. I am pretty proud of myself for how much I’ve actually managed to reduce the constant stream of modern life esp. as a remote worker in tech!
2. Now that I’ve reached a breaking point of reducing enough noise that it’s NOTICEABLE - I am struck by the silence. I don’t know what to do with it. I don’t know how to navigate it and fill it. I made this space to be able to read and write and think more deeply - for now I feel stuck in limbo where I’m just reacquainting myself with the concept of having any space in my mind at all.

un_migrations: UN migration stock (2015)
A network of migration between countries, collected by the United Nations. A directed edge gives the flow of migration, and an edge property gives the number of migrants, for each given year and sex. Estimates are presented for 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015 and are available for all countries and areas of the world. The estimates are based on official statistics on the foreign-born or the foreign population.
This network has 232 no…

So my other big piece of the day is an inside look at the struggle for the future of the CVE program that just went live at CyberScoop.
Many thanks to Jay Jacobs of Empirical Security, Nick Leiserson of the Institute for Security and Technology, Mitchel Herckis of Wiz, Brian Fox of Sonatype, Peter Allor of the CVE Foundation, Ben Edwards of Bitsight and a few experts who go unnamed for their insight.

An H1-B visa lasts 6 years. That means employers costs just increased by $17,000 a year per employee to hire non-U.S. persons.
I'm curious if this administration will go after outsourcing as well and try to tariff labor.
And if you say, "that's dumb", well yes this whole U.S. administration is dumb and hasn't stopped them from trying dumb things.

Beach Bunny - Year Of The Optimist (Official Lyric Video)
#music

Absolutely shocked that Trump is surrounding himself with corrupt pieces of shit! https://journa.host/@w7voa/115238854053618808

I saw a post where some guy was like "I need advice on what to eat! I started riding an ebike to work every day but now I've lost 10 pounds."
Meanwhile I've been trying to ride every day for the past year, and started commuting to work (on an ebike) a month ago and I weight the exact fucking same.

great taper history by @…. https://www.flaggingdown.com/p/how-a-macys-stock-boy-taped-four

How a Macy’s Stock Boy Taped Four Never-Heard 1960s Dylan Shows
Within a year Ray Anderson was a leading figure in the San Francisco counterculture

NFL Power Rankings: What Teams are Best Positioned to Win in 5 Years? https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/nfl-power-rankings-which-teams-have-best-5-year-outlooks

It's yet again the year of Linux on the Desktop™️ 🙂
Linux Just Hit a Big Milestone in the Desktop OS Race | PCMag
https://share.google/m67pgXqSL0y3zjznu

"Labour ministers met fossil fuel lobbyists 500 times in first year of power, analysis shows"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #FossilFuels

gonna be interesting over the next year seeing which celebs are giving holiday speeches at the trump youth rallies and which celebs are crawling through tunnels under san antonio with an army of transsexual resistlib guerrillas

“[S]top investigating low-level crimes where [Met] judged there was little prospect of catching the culprits”
meet: “Problems grow the size they need for them to be acknowledged.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/1…

London Became a Global Hub for Phone Theft. Now We Know Why.
About 80,000 phones were stolen in the British capital last year. The police are finally discovering where many of them went.

#FotoVorschlag 'gegenlicht'
I think this might the topic.
I took the photo in early march this year.
The summit wasn't very crowded as it was VERY windy and thus very cold up there. Most people weren't prepared for this much wind and went further down to seek shelter from the wind and sit cozy in the sun.
I dressed up and spend the time exposed to the …

Cowboys Activate 2nd-Year Cornerback After Trevon Diggs Injury https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/caelan-carson-added-active-roster/?adt_ei=[email]

Not an assault. Genocide.
One that the UK – for which the BBC is the propaganda channel – is complicit in.
#israel

Israeli military says first stages of assault on Gaza City have begun
Call-up letters have gone out to 60,000 reservists to bolster an operation which is expected to last until next year.

"Climate action could save 725,000 lives a year research finds"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https://www.

Cosmology from a joint analysis of second and third order shear statistics with Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam Year 3 data
Sunao Sugiyama, Rafael C. H. Gomes, Bhuvnesh Jain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14019

Cosmology from a joint analysis of second and third order shear statistics with Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam Year 3 data
We present a joint cosmological analysis of the two-point correlation function and the aperture-mass skewness measured from the Year 3 data of the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC-Y3). The aperture-mass skewness is a compressed representation of three-point shear information, designed to capture non-Gaussian features while keeping the data vector computationally tractable. We find that including the aperture-mass skewness improves the $S_8$-$Ω_m$ figure of merit by 80% compared …

3rd-year bubble player suffers concussion at most inopportune time for roster chances https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/08/21/cowboys-te-luke-schoonmaker-preseason-finale…

Russia’s military contract enlistment plunges to two-year low: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/18/russias-military-contract-enlistment-plunges.html

Apple and F1 announce a five-year US media rights deal that will bring all races to Apple TV beginning in 2026; sources: Apple is paying about $140M per year (Alex Sherman/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/17/apple-f1-media-deal-streaming.html

Apple and F1 reach 5-year media deal, bringing all races to Apple TV streaming in the U.S.
Apple and Formula 1 announced their long-awaited five-year U.S. media rights deal that will bring all U.S. televised races to Apple TV

Chandler Langevin, a Palm Bay council member elected last year,
claimed that Indians come to America to “drain our pockets” before returning to India,
“or worse … to stay”.
His remarks have sparked widespread anger.
Since 29 September, residents along with regional and national Indian American groups have crowded Palm Bay city council meetings and demanded that he step down.

Dan Quinn on Brian Robinson trade situation: 'A lot of moving parts this time of year' https://www.nfl.com/news/dan-quinn-on-brian-robinson-trade-situation-a-lot-of-moving-parts-this-time-of-year

email_company: Manufacturing company email (2010)
A network of emails among employee email addresses at a mid-sized manufacturing company. Each directed edge represents an email sent from address i to address j. Edges are timestamped, and occurred over a 6 month period in an unspecified year.
This network has 167 nodes and 82927 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

24-Year Marine Vet Pens Powerful Washington Post Op-Ed Saying He Resigned ‘Because of President Trump’
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/24-marine-vet-pens-powerful-175006319.html

UK sentences “serial hacker” of 3,000 sites to 20 months in prison
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/legal/uk-sentences-serial-hacker-of-3-000-sites-to-20-months-in-prison/

UK sentences “serial hacker” of 3,000 sites to 20 months in prison
A 26-year old in the UK who claimed to have hacked thousands of websites was sentenced to 20 months in prison after pleading guilty earlier this year.

Sources: CBS News is losing around $50M per year (Dylan Byers/Puck)
https://puck.news/newsletter_content/cbs-newss-50m-loss-msnow-hand-wringing-the-arguments-uphill-battle/

I guess a problem with not rebooting a laptop for a year and a half is that somehow the bios forgets the UEFI boot location? 🎉

2025 Ocean Photographer of the Year finalist photos 😍 #nature

Cowboys do secondary shuffle, activate second-year CB to replace Trevon Diggs https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-secondary-shuffle-activate-second-year-cb-replace-trevon-diggs

PitchBook: 15.9% of VC-backed deals in 2025 so far have been down rounds, a 10-year high, with AI and ML startups accounting for 29.3% of the down rounds (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/08/14/startup-down-rounds-are-at…

Startup down rounds are at a 10 year high, according to PitchBook data
PitchBook data revealed that 15.9% of venture-backed deals in 2025 to date have been down rounds, marking a decade high.

Dolphins expected to sign four-time Pro Bowl pass rusher Matt Judon to one-year deal for $6M max value https://www.nfl.com/news/dolphins-expected-to-sign-four-time-pro-bowl-pass-rusher-matt-judon-to-one-year-deal-for-6m…

Ukraine sees its EU membership bid advancing before the end of this year
thanks to “creative solutions” to overcome Hungary’s opposition,
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Taras Kachka told POLITICO.
EU leaders could sign off on opening as many as six negotiating “clusters”
— legal steps on the path to membership in the bloc
— in December as “political momentum” builds
and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbšn faces growing pressure to remove his veto, he sa…

Ukraine’s EU membership bid set for breakthrough in December, says deputy PM
Taras Kachka believes “creative solutions” will overcome Hungary’s opposition to Kyiv’s joining the EU.

email_company: Manufacturing company email (2010)
A network of emails among employee email addresses at a mid-sized manufacturing company. Each directed edge represents an email sent from address i to address j. Edges are timestamped, and occurred over a 6 month period in an unspecified year.
This network has 167 nodes and 82927 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

Zelensky wants a meeting. Putin wants to win: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/19/zelensky-wants-a-meeting-putin.html

2025 NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year odds: Tyler Warren, Ashton Jeanty Tied https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2025-nfl-offensive-rookie-year-odds

Perplexity struggles to scale its shopping and ad businesses nearly a year after launching ad sales and in-app purchasing, frustrating marketers and merchants (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/perplexitys-commerce-ads-experim…

Perplexity’s Commerce and Ads Experiments Are Stuck in Neutral
Perplexity has drawn plenty of its headlines for its relentless fundraising—which recently valued the artificial intelligence search firm at $20 billion—and its penchant for declaring big-ticket acquisition targets like TikTok. But its efforts to build businesses in online shopping and ...

NYC-based Protege, which prepares and sells real-world datasets like lab results and sports footage for AI training, raised a $25M Series A led by Footwork (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/one-year-old…

The One-Year-Old Startup Notching Data Deals For Model Makers
Companies like Scale AI and Surge have proven there’s a market for human-labeled data, like professionals’ answers to complex math or law questions, that AI research labs can use to train their models. Now, a young startup is tapping a similar opportunity, linking large model makers and AI ...

Cowboys Trade Pitch Lands 26-Year-Old Star Who is Expected to be Traded https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/trade-proposal-26-year-old-target/?adt_ei=[email]

Bears signing QB Tyson Bagent to 2-year, $10 million extension: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6565233/2025/08/20/bears-qb-tyson-bagent-contract-extension/

Nineteen-year-old Michael Donald was walking to a store in 1981
when two members of the United Klans of America abducted the Black youth,
beat him, cut his throat and hung his body from a tree on a residential street in Mobile, Alabama.
Angry that an interracial jury had failed to convict a Black man for killing a white police officer in Birmingham,
the Klansmen selected Donald at random
and lynched him to threaten the Black community.
On the same evening…

Donald v. United Klans of America
Michael Donald Lynching Case Shutting down the notorious United Klans Nineteen-year-old Michael Donald was walking to a store in 1981 when two members of the United Klans of America abducted the Black youth, beat him, cut his throat and hung his body from a tree on a residential street in Mobile, Alabama. Angry that an interracial jury had failed to convict a Black man for killing a white police officer in Birmingham, the Klansmen selected Donald at random and lynched him to threaten the B…

A profile of Epic Systems CEO Judy Faulkner, who has led the EHR software company for 46 years, building it into one of the largest US private tech companies (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/16/how-epics-82-year-old-ceo…

Bill Gates meets Willy Wonka: How Epic's 82-year-old billionaire CEO, Judy Faulkner, built her software factory
Judy Faulkner has run Epic Systems for 46 years and has a detailed plan for what happens when she's no longer the boss.

Do the Raiders Have the Next DROY? https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-eric-stokes-patrick-mahomes-bo-nix-darien-porter

Border guards detain priest attempting to smuggle draft-age man across Ukrainian border: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/20/border-guards-detain-priest-attempting.html

Apple and Formula One announce a five-year US media rights deal for all races starting in 2026; sources: Apple is paying $140M/year, up from ESPN's ~$85M/year (Alex Sherman/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/17/apple-f1-media-deal-streaming.html

"Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating"
#FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange

Terry McLaurin seeks $33 million per year from Commanders to match DK Metcalf's price, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/terry-m

Republican state legislators in California filed suit on Tuesday
to block a mid-year redistricting plan meant to counter Texas’s effort to redraw congressional district lines.
The emergency petition argues that the process being used in the California assembly violates laws requiring a 30-day period between the introduction of legislation and voting on it.

Miami Dolphins inch closer to learning what they have in 32-year-old TE Darren Waller https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/sports/nfl/dolphins/2025/08/19/miami-dolphins-darren-waller-mike-mcdaniel/85716042007/

Dolphins to sign former Falcons pass rusher Matt Judon to a one-year deal, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/dolphins-to-sign-former-…

Cowboys' second-year CB could be perfect Trevon Diggs replacement after concussion https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-second-year-cb-could-be-perfect-trevon-diggs-replacement

Perplexity struggles to scale its shopping and ad businesses nearly a year after launching ad sales and in-app purchasing, frustrating marketers and merchants (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/perplexitys-commerce-ads-experim…

Perplexity’s Commerce and Ads Experiments Are Stuck in Neutral
Perplexity has drawn plenty of its headlines for its relentless fundraising—which recently valued the artificial intelligence search firm at $20 billion—and its penchant for declaring big-ticket acquisition targets like TikTok. But its efforts to build businesses in online shopping and ...

Meta has used back-to-school pictures of schoolgirls
to advertise one of its social media platforms to a 37-year-old man,
in a move parents described as “outrageous” and “upsetting”.
The man noticed that posts encouraging him to “get Threads”,
Mark Zuckerberg’s rival to Elon Musk’s X,
were being dropped into his Instagram feed
❌ featuring embedded posts of uniformed girls as young as 13 with their faces visible and, in most cases, their names.
The ch…

Broncos HC Sean Payton on Troy Franklin making Year 2 jump: 'It's happening, and I'm excited' https://www.nfl.com/news/broncos-hc-sean-payton-on-troy-franklin-making-year-2-jump-it-s-happening-and-i-m-excited…

Brock Bowers injury update: Latest on Raiders TE for Week 3 Fantasy Football https://www.sportskeeda.com/nfl/brock-bowers-injury-update-latest-raiders-te-week-3-fantasy-football

Sources: Oracle is on the hook for tens of billions to build unprecedentedly large data centers, including $1B per year on a gas-powered megasite in West Texas (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

The Senate rejected dueling short-term government funding proposals Friday afternoon,
🔥leaving no clear off-ramp before the fiscal year ends and agencies shut down at midnight Sept. 30.
Despite the looming cliff, neither side appears ready to blink, and
💥lawmakers are set to spend at least the next nine days back home.
House Republicans are not set to return until after a shutdown is already underway, and the Senate is unlikely to vote again until less than 48 hours …

2025 NFL Comeback Player of the Year Odds: Christian McCaffrey New Favorite https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2025-26-nfl-comeback-player-year-odds

A profile of Noah Urban, who was a key member of the Scattered Spider group because of his social engineering skills and is serving a 10-year prison sentence (Margi Murphy/Bloomberg)

For the past three weeks, I’ve been attending protests at the Broadview ICE facility.
There’s been a vigil there for almost two decades at this point, but they started ramping up after three protesters were arrested four weeks ago.
Three weeks ago, we went, and it was very peaceful.
We ended up actually getting a car to turn around.
Last week, when we went, ICE assaulted a lot of us.
We went early because they changed their deportation time to around 6 a.m.

I’m a Congressional Candidate. I Was Assaulted by ICE.
An interview with Kat Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old Democratic House candidate in Illinois, who was violently thrown to the ground twice at a peaceful protest in Illinois on Friday morning.

BitGo's S-1 shows it had net income of $12.6M on revenue of $4.19B in H1 2025, compared with net income of $30.9M on revenue of $1.12B a year earlier (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

The FBI reportedly recorded Donald Trump’s border czar -- Tom Homan -- accepting $50,000 in cash from undercover agents who were posing as business contractors last year.
A new report from MSNBC on Saturday reveals that the agents recorded Homan, six weeks before the 2024 election,
allegedly promising to assist in securing government contracts across the border security industry during Trump’s second term.
Six sources familiar with the matter told MSNBC that the FBIand just…

OpenEvidence, which makes an ad-supported AI chatbot for medical practitioners, raised $200M at a $6B valuation, up from $3.5B after raising $210M in July (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/business/…

OpenEvidence Raises $200 Million for a ChatGPT for Medicine
The three-year-old artificial intelligence start-up has drawn investor attention, and money, as its use among doctors, nurses and others skyrockets.

AI code review startup CodeRabbit raised a $60M Series B led by Scale Venture Partners, valuing the company at $550M, and says it makes $15M in ARR (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/16/coderabbit-raises-6…

CodeRabbit raises $60M, valuing the 2-year-old AI code review startup at $550M  | TechCrunch
The round, which brought the two-year-old startup’s total funding to $88 million, was led by Scale Venture Partners.

For the first time in U.S. history, there are more Americans over 62 than under 18.
With the national workforce getting older every year, many economists argue that having people keep working longer than they used to would help maintain a robust labor market.
But it can be hard for many older adults to stay employed past the age of 62, the year they typically become eligible for early Social Security retirement benefits, even when their health is good.
In part, that’s becaus…

Trump administration ends a federal program helping older people get jobs since the 1960s
The White House left the program out of its proposed 2026 budget due to what it said was a failure at moving older workers into unsubsidized employment.

Amazon expands Multichannel Fulfillment to let Walmart sellers use Amazon's logistics network to deliver orders and announces support for Shein by year-end (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/sold-on-walmart-sent-by-amaz…

Ariel Emanuel's new company Mari acquires NYC- and London-based theater ticketing app TodayTix from PE firm Great Hill; TodayTix sells ~10M tickets per year (Michael Paulson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/theater/todaytix-broadway…

Ari Emanuel Buys TodayTix, Gaining Footing on Broadway and West End
The ticketing company is already a significant player in the two big theater markets of New York and London.

A profile of Credo, which makes active electrical cables to connect AI servers and whose stock price has more than doubled this year, after soaring 245% in 2024 (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/17/500-purple-cables-put-credo-in-middle-…

$500 purple cables put this little-known company in the middle of the AI boom
Credo's stock has more than doubled this year after soaring 245% in 2024 as the AI boom makes its way downstream.

KKR acquires a significant minority in Swedish travel tech firm Etraveli, sources say valuing it at ~€2.7B; Etraveli sells plane tickets to ~50M users per year (Swetha Gopinath/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Indian on-demand home services provider Urban Company surged 56% in its stock market debut after raising $215M in India's most oversubscribed major IPO of 2025 (Ashutosh Joshi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

India’s Most Popular Big IPO of the Year, Urban Co, Poised to Begin Trading
Urban Co. will begin trading in Mumbai on Wednesday after wrapping up India’s most oversubscribed major initial public offering this year.

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says the company hit its first $1B revenue month in July and that "the biggest thing we face is being constantly under compute" (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/20/openai-compute-ai.html

OpenAI logged its first $1 billion month but is still 'constantly under compute,' CFO says
OpenAI has ballooned in size since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022 and is expected to triple in revenue to $12.7 billion this year.

A profile of Edwin Chen, the CEO of Surge AI, a Scale AI rival that had $1.2B revenue in 2024, is profitable, and is reportedly raising $1B at a $30B valuation (Phoebe Liu/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/phoebeliu/2025/09/17/the-ai-billionaire-…

AI Founder Edwin Chen Shunned VC. Now He’s Worth $18 Billion
An alum of Google and Twitter, Edwin Chen built his data labeling company, Surge, in the shadows of the AI revolution. Now the 37-year-old wants to make his voice heard.

An interview with Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz, who expects a 2025 profit of $170M to $200M, about the company's $300M round that pushed its valuation above Rippling's (Matt Durot/Forbes)
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Deel Vs. Rippling: Alex Bouaziz On Deel’s Latest Fundraise And Why He’s Not Worried About Litigation
HR software rivals have accused each other of corporate espionage in lawsuits filed earlier this year. A funding round announced Thursday boosted Deel’s valuation just above Rippling’s for the first time since 2022.