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Sources: Snowflake is in talks to buy app monitoring startup Observe for around $1B; Observe has raised more than $470M (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/snowflake-talks-buy-app-monitoring-startup-observe…

Snowflake in Talks to Buy App Monitoring Startup Observe Inc. For Around $1 Billion
Snowflake is in talks to buy app monitoring startup Observe Inc. for around $1 billion, which would likely be the biggest deal in Snowflake’s history, according to people with knowledge of the discussions. Observe, based in San Mateo, Calif., sells so-called observability tools that help ...

“We have archived around 86 million songs from Spotify, ordering by popularity descending. While this only represents 37% of songs, it represents around 99.6% of listens”
https://annas-archive.org/blog/backing-up-spotify.html

Backing up Spotify
We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens.

"Deep Research, Shallow Agency: What Academic Deep Research Can and Can't Do"
https://aarontay.substack.com/p/how-agentic-are-academic-deep-research

Trump Says U.S. 'Armada' Is Heading to Iran (Abdi Latif Dahir/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/world/middleeast/trump-armada-iran-naval-force.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p64#a260123p64

It’s going to be hard for the press to get their arms around everything going on. Honestly, it’s hard to get my head around it here on the ground: people are marching downtown, people are protesting at the airport, people are holding neighborhood protests, people are holding block parties out in the bitter cold…. It’s hard to even know where to be!
Good news is it will get up to -10°F / -23°C this afternoon.

The military project CORTISONE sounds like it's going to be some high-adrenaline Jason Statham action movie shit, but it's just digitising health records.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-digital-medical-records-to-speed-up-ar…

New digital medical records to speed up Armed Forces recruitment
New digital system - fully integrated with the NHS - will dramatically cut delays for those joining the Armed Forces, boosting readiness and recruitment.

In the US, men who smoke are around 21 times more likely to die from lung cancer than men who have never smoked.
But the damage doesn’t stop there:
smoking also increases the risk of other cancers,
including mouth, throat, bladder and pancreatic cancer,
in addition to other health conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD),
heart disease, and diabetes.
Why does one habit harm so many organs?
Cigarettes carry a mixture of carcinoge…

Smoking increases the risk of death from many causes
Most of us have heard that smoking damages the lungs. The chart drives this home: in the US, men who smoke are around 21 times more likely to die from lung cancer than men who have never smoked.

Quick Hits: Pete Carroll talks Ashton Jeanty's dynamic performance, all-around team effort versus Houston Texans https://www.raiders.com/news/quick-hits-pete-carroll-talks-ashton-jeanty-s-dynamic-perfor…

I don't have the money to buy the LED strips for the frosted top-windows at the moment, but I am the kind of person who has 5m of LED strips just lying around awaiting a use.
Which is coincidentally exactly the length the space around the dresser-mirrors/window-shutters need.
Looks quite pretty.
#diy #wled #ledStrip

Quick Hits: Pete Carroll talks Ashton Jeanty's dynamic performance, all-around team effort versus Houston Texans https://www.raiders.com/news/quick-hits-pete-carroll-talks-ashton-jeanty-s-dynamic-perfor…