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Madrid-based Orbio, which uses AI agents to help businesses interview, onboard, and manage frontline workers, raised a $21M Series A led by Dawn Capital (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/14/orbi…

Orbio raises $21 million to automate hiring and onboarding for frontline workers | TechCrunch
Orbio announces $21 Million Series A in round led by Dawn Capital.

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

Wife playing Switch, getting a friend request "Hu? Friend request? What's that? I don't want any friends"
Me: 🤨 okay..

Aldon Smith Cause of Death: Friend Reveals Ex-Cowboys Star’s Final Act https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/aldon-smith-final-act-friend-reveals/

Spatial transcriptomics on an expanded dataset at the brain-electrode interface: exploration of variability and identification of novel biomarkers https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2026.1852774/full "…

Frontiers | Spatial transcriptomics on an expanded dataset at the brain-electrode interface: exploration of variability and identification of novel biomarkers
The foreign body reaction to implanted electrodes in the brain has long been recognized as a major challenge impacting the performance and reliability of ind...

Kid2 has a friend over which is great, not only because of friends (yay!), but also because bits of improvised soap opera drift in now and then - a significant improvement on the tedious admin work I've got in front of me this morning.

Oh...my. Yikes.
https://www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/the-graph-that-should-be-front-page-news
Here in the US Midwest, we get much warmer winters in El Nino conditions. Looks like we are in for a very, very warm winter...

The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News
Every so often the Earth produces a signal that is impossible to ignore. This graph is one of them. It shows sea-surface temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific, one of the most important parts of the Earth's climate system. Each blue line represents a different year since 1982. The red line is this year. It doesn't just set a new record. It has departed entirely from the range of previous observations.If this graph represented stock market prices, a new Olympic record or…

Another reiteration from NCSC/DSIT that the existence of AI bug-hunting tools shouldn't be used to stop working in the open.
https://www.gov.uk/government/case-studies/when-ai-leaves-the-lab-testing-frontier-models-in-…

When AI Leaves the Lab: Testing Frontier Models in Government Cyber Defence
The Government Cyber Action Plan aims to boost cyber resilience across the UK public sector by using emerging technologies to manage risk. The Government Cyber Coordination Centre (GC3) - a partnership between the NCSC and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology - is leading this work, exploring how frontier AI can be applied safely to cyber defence across government.

OpenRouter debuts Fusion, a tool for prompting multiple AI models in parallel, claiming it can achieve "Fable-level intelligence at half the price" (Brian Thomas/OpenRouter Blog)
https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/fusion-beats-frontier/

residence_hall: ANU Residence Hall network
A network of friendships among students living in a residence hall at Australian National University (date unknown). Edge direction indicates that resident i named resident j as a friend, and edge weight indicates the level of friendship: 5 (best friend), 4 (close friend), 3 (friend), 2, 1.
This network has 217 nodes and 2672 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted