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Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg https://www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/bill-gates-donated-climate-denier-bjorn-lomborg-copenhagen-consensus-center/

Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg 
Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.

copenhagen: Copenhagen Networks Study
A network of social interactions among university students within the Copenhagen Networks Study, over a period of four weeks, sampled every 5 minutes. Interactions include physical proximity (undirected), phone calls (directed, weighted), text messages (directed), and information about Facebook friendships (undirected). Nodes include some metadata, including gender.
This network has 568 nodes and 24333 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unwe…

Coupang is facing scrutiny after a data leak revealed that major portions of its Korean-language service were built and maintained by Chinese devs--the main suspect in its recent breach is a former Chinese employee who worked on the company’s authentication systems.
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Coupang Data Breach Raises Scrutiny of Foreign Developer Hiring, Including Large China-Based Teams - Be Korea-savvy
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang is facing intensifying scrutiny after a major data leak revealed …

The return of the night train?
Copenhagen Prague via Berlin and Copenhagen -Basel both starting next year! 🎉🚄🚅🛤️🎉
And the EU is pushing for fast trains between all European capitals.
(Though that's definitely going to take longer). 🇪🇺🛤️🎉🇪🇺
https://www.zetland.dk/historie/s08iwB5C-moGnNy6v-ff4d0

Up to 5,000 Cubans fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine, Reuters reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/05/up-to-cubans-fighting-alongside.html

Michael Burry,
who famously shorted the US housing market before its collapse in 2008,
has bet over $1 billion that the share prices of AI chipmaker Nvidia and software company Palantir will fall
— making a similar play, in other words, on the prediction that
the AI industry will collapse.

The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops
Michael Burry, who shorted the housing market in 2008, has bet over $1 billion that the shares of AI companies Nvidia and Palantir will fall.

China is allowing Nexperia to export chips again, according to officials from several auto companies; shares in Wingtech, Nexperia's Chinese parent, surged 10% (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-07…

Nexperia Spat Eases as Chip Flows Open Door to Dutch Reversal
China is allowing Dutch chipmaker Nexperia to export again, setting the stage for the Netherlands to suspend its powers over the Chinese-owned company.

So Coupang didn't know it had been breached until one of its customers reported it to them.
This customer, surnamed Park, was informed of the breach by a stranger via email, who showed Park's 15 most recent emails with the retailer.
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A customer reported a suspicious email to Coupang. Then the platform announced a breach.
A suspicious email with the subject line “Your personal information may have been leaked” pushed Park, a software developer, into a decision he still describes as surreal: he reported it to Coupang.

Sources: the Netherlands is prepared to drop the ministerial order that gave it control of Nexperia if China allows exports of its critical chips again (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-07/dutch-ready…

Dutch Ready to Drop Control of Nexperia If Chip Supply Resumes
The Netherlands is prepared to suspend a so-called ministerial order that gave it control over Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia in a move that would de-escalate a fight with Beijing that threatens to disrupt automotive production around the world.

As part of the OpenAI-AMD deal, OpenAI will receive the first GW worth of AMD's Instinct MI450 chip in H2 2026, when the new chip is scheduled for deployment (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/06/amd-

AMD to supply 6GW of compute capacity to OpenAI in chip deal worth tens of billions | TechCrunch
AMD has signed a multi-year chip supply deal with OpenAI that could generate tens of billions in revenue for the chipmaker, helping accelerate its momentum in the AI industry.