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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/

The New Friend AI Pendant Can Now Talk Back to You
Avi Schiffmann has a new version of his controversial AI companion. It’s more expensive, and you can’t change its personality.

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

Ukraine update from Giorgio Provincialli.
The newspaper which has been providing the meager support for this reporting is ceasing operations. Please share and support if you can - this is one of the only true journalists actually on the ground in Ukraine.
Friend link bypasses the paywall and includes links to videos from Ukraine:

Four Sectors, One Single Signal: Is the Russian Front Breaking?
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

#Framed #1540
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https://framed.wtf

(2021) The Defensive Activation Theory: REM sleep as a mechanism to prevent takeover of the visual cortex https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2021.632853/full So we should disrupt REM sleep for better masteri…

Frontiers | The Defensive Activation Theory: REM Sleep as a Mechanism to Prevent Takeover of the Visual Cortex
Regions of the brain maintain their territory with continuous activity: if activity slows or stops (e.g., because of blindness), the territory tends to be ta...

➡️ Python f-string Tips & Cheat Sheets
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Python f-string tips & cheat sheets
Python's string formatting syntax is both powerful and complex. Let's break it down and then look at some cheat sheets.

The synthetic exercise world format now includes a nice map.
So no one can blame us when you conduct an exercise: everything is fictional ;-) Yes, we’ve had cases like this during threat intelligence exercises.
All Synthetic Exercise World - Self-contained fictional world dataset for cyber exercises and standards documents are available at

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…

Freehand Raises $75M Series B To Automate Fortune 500 Supply Chain Spend
Freehand has raised $75 million in Series B funding to scale autonomous AI agents that manage supply chain spend and back-office operations for enterprises.

A more detailled analysis of the OpenAI/Huggingface security incident by @… , not very reassuring, he notes:
"What's clear to me from this is that the very best frontier models, unencumbered by additional guardrails, will find an exploit if there is one to be found. The entire software industry needs to up its security game."

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