Friend announces an AI pendant with a speaker for spoken replies for $249, up from its original necklace's $129 price, with an optional $10 monthly subscription (Boone Ashworth/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-friend-2-necklace-can-talk-back-to-you-now/
Friends Don't Let Friends Make Bad Graphs! Do you agree with the examples of bad graphs and the alternatives Chenxin Li (@chenxinli2.bsky.social) lists at #RStats
foursquare_friendships: Foursquare global friendships (2013)
A network of user friendships on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. The 'old' and 'new' dataset correspond to two snapshots taken before and after the check-in data collection period.
This network has 114324 nodes and 363704 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
Sources: Roxanna Scott, hired by ESPN in December 2025 to serve as the top editor across TV and digital, is out after a reorganization of ESPN's news division (Ryan Glasspiegel/Front Office Sports)
https://frontofficesports.com/roxanna-scott-out-espn-top-editor/…
OpenTRV Protocol Discussions Part 2 (2014-11) - MQTT, JSON, UCUM: OpenTRV archival data format, radio/wire comms format, and other issues. - https://www.earth.org.uk/OpenTRV-protocol-discussions-201411-2.html
Distributed implantable microchips as wireless networks for neural sensing and stimulation https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2026.1855768/full neural dust, neural motes;
Freehand, which builds AI agents to manage supply chain spend and operations for Fortune 500 companies, raised a $75M Series B, after a $25M Series A in 2024 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/transportat…
facebook_friends: Maier Facebook friends (2014)
A small anonymized Facebook ego network, from April 2014. Nodes are Facebook profiles, and an edge exists if the two profiles are "friends" on Facebook. Metadata gives the social context for the relationship between ego and alter.
This network has 362 nodes and 1988 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata
facebook_friends: Maier Facebook friends (2014)
A small anonymized Facebook ego network, from April 2014. Nodes are Facebook profiles, and an edge exists if the two profiles are "friends" on Facebook. Metadata gives the social context for the relationship between ego and alter.
This network has 362 nodes and 1988 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata
OpenAI is adopting a structured "safety case" documentation framework modeled after industries like aviation and nuclear power to govern frontier RL training (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/towards-safety-cases-for-frontier-ai-training/