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WhatsApp rolls out new group chat features: member tags that show user roles, text stickers generated from any word, and custom event reminders (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/07/whatsapp-rolls-out-new-group-chat-features-memb…

WhatsApp rolls out new group chat features, including member tags | TechCrunch
You can choose a tag that gives others in the group chat more context about who you are.

times new viking have apparently reunited! https://www.brooklynvegan.com/the-spits-times-new-viking-snooper-prison-affair-the-serfs-playing-outline-at-knockdown-center/

The Spits, Times New Viking, SNÕÕPER, Prison Affair & The Serfs playing Outline at Knockdown Center
This all-punk edition of Outline happens March 6 and will be Times New Viking's first NYC show since 2012.

NSA cyber directorate gets new acting leadership
https://therecord.media/nsa-cyber-directorate-new-acting-leadership

NSA cyber directorate gets new acting leadership
David Imbordino, a NSA senior executive who is currently serving as the directorate’s deputy chief, will take the reins in an acting capacity at the end of the month.

Today in bad tech journalism: "AI agents" generating a C compiler.
They didn't though. They created a piece of it that didn't work properly (because LLMs are trained on a lot of C compiler code).
(Original title: Sixteen Claude AI agents working together created a new C compiler)

Sixteen Claude AI agents working together created a new C compiler
The $20,000 experiment compiled a Linux kernel but needed deep human management.

✅ Settler colonialism
✅ Apartheid
✅ Ethnic cleansing
✅ Genocide
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/08/yellow-line-that-divides-gaza-under-trump-plan-is-new-border-for-israel-says…

New Commander Appointed to 39th Coastal Defense Brigade: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/07/new-commander-appointed-to-th.html

Sources: Anderson Cooper has signed a new deal with CNN (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/anderson-cooper-cnn-new-contract-1236603476/

Anderson Cooper Will Stay at CNN After Striking New Deal
Anderson Cooper has renewed a deal to stay at CNN, a move that may not have been expected as news outlets scrutinize top anchor salaries

From New York to New Mexico: new Epstein files shed light on his sprawling ranch outside Santa Fe (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/08/epstein-files-new-mexico-ranch
http://www.memeorandum.com/260208/p38#a260208p38

New Report on U.S. Pet Trade Reveals Harm to Global Wildlife, Imperiled Species https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/new-report-on-us-pet-trade-reveals-harm-to-global-wildlife-imperiled-…

New Report on U.S. Pet Trade Reveals Harm to Global Wildlife, Imperiled Species
Center for Biological Diversity: 27 Million Wild Animals Imported for Pet Market Each Year

"‘Rush’ for new coal in China hits record high in 2025 as climate deadline looms"
#China #Climate #ClimateChange

‘Rush’ for new coal in China hits record high in 2025 as climate deadline looms - Carbon Brief
Proposals to build coal-fired plants in China reached a record high in 2025, according to a new study by CREA.

Super Bowl LX inactives: Seattle Seahawks vs. New England Patriots https://www.nfl.com/news/super-bowl-lx-inactives-seattle-seahawks-vs-new-england-patriots

Looking to replace my home printer. This might be a good option.
https://www.xtool.com/products/xtool-apparel-printer-a-new-era-of-apparel-printings

xTool Apparel Printer: One Click DTF Printer, Effortless Customization for Business

What I want is less buggy updates, software that starts to run a bit faster and isn't a resource hog along with fixing those 'NOT RESPONDING' messages multiple times an hour. From what I see these updates are just putting a layer of lipstick on a bloated pig.
https://www.

from my link log —
C needs a new type qualifier: it’s time for null pointer safety.
https://itnext.io/why-c-needs-a-new-type-qualifier-61ad553cbe71
saved 2023-01-28

New Dietary Guidelines Abandon Longstanding Advice on Alcohol - Slashdot
https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/07/1848240/new-dietary-guidelines-abandon-longstanding-advice-on-alcohol

New Dallas Cowboys 2026 NFL mock draft lands team elite RB, star EDGE https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/draft/new-dallas-cowboys-2026-nfl-mock-draft-lands-elite-rb-star-edge

Rest in Peace
US Constitution
Effective March 4, 1789
Terminated January 8, 2026
On January 8, 2026 trump declared himself dictator (but avoided using that word):
'In a new interview with the New York Times, Trump said the only constraint to his power as president of the US is “my own morality, my own mind”.'
<…

2025 In Review: What’s New In Web Performance?
Slow websites continue to be a problem and a lot of work is being done so developers can measure performance more effectively and fix performance issues.
🧑‍💻 https://www.debugbear.com/blog/2025-in-web-performance

2025 In Review: What’s New In Web Performance? | DebugBear
Find out how web performance changed in 2025, and what changes are coming up in the future.

president participation trophy.
#uspol<…

FIFA gives its new peace prize to Trump
FIFA gives its new peace prize to President Donald Trump. It’s an unusual break from tradition for the sport-focused soccer organization, whose president has become a close ally of Trump. The ceremony happened Friday during the 2026 World Cup draw at the Kennedy Center in Washington. It comes after Trump had openly campaigned for the Nobel Peace Prize, which was awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado. FIFA president Gianni Infantino had said he thought Trump should have …

Leaked letter: Tiger Global launches Private Investment Partners 17, a new fund targeting a raise between $2B and $3B, signaling a pivot away from megafunds (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/tiger-global-new-fund-ai-valuations.html

Tiger Global launches new fund eyeing between $2 billion and $3 billion as it takes more disciplined approach
Tiger first invested in OpenAI in 2021 at a valuation of less than $16 billion and in Waymo that same year at $39 billion.

Read our new story by Timothy Cahill '16 M.A.R. on the recent clergy symposium co-hosted by the Center for Public Theology & Public Policy at YDS, exploring ethical possibilities of religion and faith amid rising #Authoritarianism.

New Indie Game Announced for 2026 Is Perfect for Fans of Hardcore Science Fiction https://share.google/2rOZ8cIjRyn3A7m91

A coalition of more than 230 environmental groups
has demanded a national moratorium
on new datacenters in the US,
the latest salvo in a growing backlash to a booming artificial intelligence industry
that has been blamed for escalating electricity bills and worsening the climate crisis.
The green groups, including
Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Food & Water Watch and dozens of local organizations,
have urged members of Congress to halt the pro…

A new #Nextcloud adventure: having installed the new Social refactoring and passed the webfinger and ssl tests, was still unable to load some profiles and no interactions went out or came in.
Then I noticed PullRequest-5 - not knowing at all what I was doing - so I installed gh, authorized it, did the pull, composer, run sequence, and while the existing open tab for Social continued as before, 'Social' was now gone from the NC admin and menu!
"app": "core",
"method": "GET",
"url": "/settings/apps/list",
"message": "Could not read app info file for app \"social\""
Google/DDG are mute on what or where an app info file might be, and NC docs only say you can register an app and maybe perhaps the tarball will contain one? Perhaps the PR munged it? 🤷
So a new adventure begins …

Ofcourse…. The US is better friends with Russia then with Europe.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/kremlin-says-new-us-security-strategy-accords-largely-with-russias-view-2025-12-07/

Bosie’s passionate plea for lover Oscar Wilde in Love Letters exhibition https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/bosies-passionate-plea-for-lover-oscar-wilde-in-new-exhibition/

Bosie’s passionate plea for lover Oscar Wilde in Love Letters exhibition - The National Archives
A passionate plea for clemency from Oscar Wilde’s lover Lord Alfred Douglas goes on show in The National Archives’ Love Letters exhibition, opening in January. The letter addressed to Queen Victoria on 25 June 1895 begs her to exercise her “power of pardon” in the case of the poet and dramatist who was beginning a […]

Was afraid the new old stock cassette I just recorded was defective (it’s about 45 years old), turns out there was a cat hair trapped in it in such a way that it caused occasional dropouts

An interesting social media datapoint: @… and I recently posted about our new research:

The US finally banned all, new, foreign-made consumer drones. Basically US drones are now frozen in time like Cuban cars.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/robots/a69937082/us-bans-new-foreign-made-drones/

The U.S. Government Just Followed Through on Its Ban of DJI Drones—and It’s So Much Worse Than We Thought
By the time you read this, the widespread embargo on every foreign-made consumer drone will be in effect. That’s essentially all of them.

Bonus #ThursDeath this week because the new STRANGULIATORIUS is fully up now to hear on Bandcamp. Stranguliatorius are from Vilnius, Lithuania. I'd heard some of their earlier stuff, which is okay, but their new LP here, 'Flies Don't Lie' is a MASTERPIECE of metal. There's barks and growls but also guttural vocals, dynamics, changes, really weird guitar - cool spots everywhere.

Revealing Raiders' New Clear Rooting Interest Moving Forward https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-revealing-new-clear-rooting-interest-moving-forward

The year starts with a new competition case re. public EV charging prices in Italy. The competition authority has decided to conduct a further investigation into A2A Mobility, as prices charged to others were higher than in their own app.
https://www.agcm.it/pubblicazioni/bolletti<…

new_zealand_collab: New Zealand scientific collaborations (2015)
A network of scientific collaborations among institutions in New Zealand. Nodes are institutions (universities, organizations, etc.), and two nodes i,j are connected if Scopus lists at least one publication with authors at institutions i and j, in the period 2010-2015. Edges are weighted by the number of such collaborations. Nodes are annotated with the categorical type of institution.
This network has 1511 nodes an…

Laurie Penny is very near the top of my list of favorite living writers. She has started a how-to-write-well series, entitled (for obvious reasons) “How to Write Like A Person”; intro here: https://open.substack.com/pub/lauriepenny/p/ho…

How to Write Like A Person
Announcing a new seminar for 2026.

Once again impressed by WiThings. Just bought a new Body Comp scale and it's a lovely new product experience. Their software quality is excellent. Just a great experience.
(And a big raspberry to InBody: did not like their comparable product.)

Hey everyone,
Gaza Verified is now open again for verification calls in 2026.
The new process for signing up for verification calls uses sign in with Mastodon and should remove the last remaining technical hurdle that was giving some of our friends in Gaza a hard time (adding the verification link to your Mastodon account is not intuitive in the current Mastodon interface). With this new flow, you won’t have to, we do it for you.

Zelensky's new inner circle: The power shift behind Ukraine's latest reset: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/08/zelenskys-new-inner-circle-the.html

These dogs eavesdrop on their owners to learn new words https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/01/these-dogs-eavesdrop-on-their-owners-to-learn-new-words/

These dogs eavesdrop on their owners to learn new words
“Under the right conditions, some dogs present behaviors strikingly similar to those of young children.”...

a beautifully weird mckenna-ish mystery: chinese mushrooms that reliably bring the little people, but don't seem to contain any psychoactive elements (& yet obviously do) https://nhmu.utah.edu/articles/experts-explore-new-mushroom-which-cau…

Experts Explore New Mushroom Which Causes Fairytale-Like Hallucinations
Between traditional folklore and modern biology, the wild forest floor and the sterile scientific laboratory, lies the story of the lilliputian mushroom.

NY Mayor Zohran Mamdani invited dozens of "new media" figures to City Hall for a tour and private news conference while excluding legacy media outlets like NY1 (Michael M. Grynbaum/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/busines

Mamdani Hosts Influencer Summit, Sidestepping Traditional Media
A friendly summit at New York’s City Hall with digital content creators and social media stars symbolized the new mayor’s attitude toward the changing news media.

Eagles WR A.J. Brown excited to see offense with new OC: 'Sometimes change is not a bad thing' https://www.nfl.com/news/eagles-wr-a-j-brown-excited-to-see-offense-with-new-oc-sometimes-change-is-not-a-bad-thing

New underwater acoustic camera identifies individual fish sounds, helping track threatened species
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/new-underwater-acoustic-camera-identifies-individual-fish-sounds-helping-track-threatened-species/

"Brazil fast-tracks paving controversial highway in Amazon with new licensing rule"
#Brazil #AmazonRainforest #Trees

Brazil fast-tracks paving controversial highway in Amazon with new licensing rule
Brazil’s Senate approved an environmental licensing bill that could expedite major infrastructure projects, including paving a highway that cuts through one of the most intact parts of the Amazon Rainforest in northwestern Brazil. The BR-319 highway runs through 885 kilometers (550 miles) of rainforest, connecting Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, with Rondônia state farther […]

Dallas Cowboys land star EDGE, national champion LB in new 2026 NFL mock draft https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/draft/dallas-cowboys-land-star-edge-national-champion-lb-new-2026-nfl-mock-draft

Kremlin says new US security strategy accords largely with Russia's view (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/kremlin-says-new-us-security-strategy-accords-largely-with-russias-view-2025-12-07/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251207/p50#a251207p50

Zelensky reveals candidates for new head of Ukraine's Presidential Office: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/08/zelensky-reveals-candidates-for-new.html

That is a lot of mobile malware.
The nTrust anti-fraud system recorded 62,952 new types of mobile malware discovered in Vietnam in 2025
https://vietnamnet.vn/en/mobile-users-in-vietnam-face-surge-in-new-malware-attacks-2479643.html…

Mobile users in Vietnam face surge in new malware attacks
National cybersecurity authorities reveal a troubling increase in sophisticated mobile threats, with nearly 63,000 new strains recorded.

92% of ICE Detainees
since Sept 2025 are Immigrants with No Criminal Convictions
ICE published new detention data today that brings the current population to a record-high of 68,990.
Plus: ICE records first detention death of 2026
https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/92

92% of ICE Detention Growth in FY 2026 Driven by Immigrants with No Criminal Convictions
ICE published new detention data today that brings the current population to a record-high of 68,990. Get the full breakdown below. Plus: ICE records first detention death of 2026.

Can right-wingers please find something new to hate instead of the private lives of other people?
How about potholes? Hate on potholes.

A look at Hamlet, a startup that uses AI to process local government meeting videos and which plans to provide the tool to local journalists for free (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/05/new-st…

New streaming channel launches to give viewers a peek into city council meetings | TechCrunch
Hamlet TV is a way to help keep citizens informed of what's happening inside local governments.

"Royal Mail has launched its first fleet of eight electric heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) at its Midlands and North West Parcel Hubs. The vehicles will operate 24 hours a day, handling ‘middle-mile deliveries between hubs and mail centres.
[..]
The company already operates the UK’s largest electric delivery fleet, with more than 7,000 vans charged on-site with renewable electricity."

Royal Mail launches new fleet of electric HGVs
Royal Mail has launched its first fleet of eight electric heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) at its Midlands and North West Parcel Hubs. The vehicles will operate 24 hours a day, handling ‘middle-mile deliveries between hubs and mail centres.

Carroll's Firing Leads to New Perspective on Raiders' Adams, Others https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-carroll-firing-leads-new-perspective-adams

Endangered Species Protection Sought for New Mexico Flower Threatened by Fossil Fuel Industry https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/endangered-species-protection-sought-f…

Endangered Species Protection Sought for New Mexico Flower Threatened by Fossil Fuel Industry
TUCSON, Ariz.— The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today to protect Allred’s flax under the Endangered Species Act.

Ukraine secures agreements for 250 new Gripen and Rafale fighter jets to bolster air power: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/09/ukraine-secures-agreements-for-new.html

Rivian spins off Mind Robotics as a new stand-alone industrial AI and robotics company; Mind Robotics raised a $115M seed led by Eclipse (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/04/rivian-creates-another-spinoff-company-called…

Rivian creates another spinoff company called Mind Robotics | TechCrunch
It's the second time this year Rivian has spun out a new company, after it created micromobility startup Also in March.

Sources: Falcons to cut Cousins before key date https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47860068/sources-falcons-expected-cut-kirk-cousins-new-league-year

New York Archdiocese to establish $300 million fund for sexual abuse victims | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/new-york-archdiocese-sexual-abuse-fund-b2880604.html

Exclusive: Centrist Dems strike back with new group (Holly Otterbein/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/08/centrist-democrats-new-group-abundance
http://www.memeorandum.com/260208/p56#a260208p56

Sources: micro-drama app DramaBox seeks to raise $100M from US backers at a $500M valuation; Disney had invested in the app via its accelerator program (Lucia Moses/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/dramabox-seeks-new-fu…

Disney-backed DramaBox is seeking new funding as it tries to win the micro drama race in the US
DramaBox, a top micro-drama app, is looking to raise fresh funding as the short-video format gains popularity.

Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City disciplined three nurses
who spoke to the media and to fellow staff about safety concerns
following an attempted shooting in the hospital’s emergency department last month
— a consequence their union calls unlawful.
The New York State Nurses Association alleges that Mount Sinai’s decision
to write up two nurses and suspend another the day after Thanksgiving for discussing the union’s safety proposals with fellow nurses

Three Nurses Disciplined After Speaking Out on Mount Sinai Shooting Scare
Weeks after a gunman threatened to open fire at the ER, and as they head into union negotiations, care providers say they need better safety protections.

Check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--77,000-plus IP addresses are vulnerable to maximum severity React2Shell flaw,
--NCSC warns prompt injection threats might be forever,
--Apple and Google issue new spyware warnings,
--Apache Tika critical flaw allows XXE injection attacks,
--Japanese high school student accused of using ChatGPT to attack internet cafe chain,
--US is…

77,000-plus IP addresses are vulnerable to maximum severity React2Shell flaw
NCSC warns prompt injection threats might be forever, Apple and Google issue new spyware warnings, Apache Tika critical flaw allows XXE injection attacks, Japanese high school student accused of using ChatGPT to attack internet cafe chain, US issues $10m reward for Iranian hackers, much more

Cowboys playoff chances spiral further as new odds paint harsh reality https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-nfl-playoff-chances-spiral-further-new-odds-paint-harsh-reality

"Canada may approve a new oil pipeline. First Nations tribes fear another ‘worst-case scenario’"
#Canada #FossilFuels #Energy

tfw when you discover the ridiculous dark corners of a new hobby

The US FCC exempts some new models of foreign-made drones and critical components from an import ban, announced in December 2025, until the end of 2026 (David Shepardson/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace

"AI is the world's most expensive and energy-intensive plagiarism machine....""
'Breaking Bad' Creator Hates AI, Promises New Show 'Pluribus' Was 'Made By Humans' - Slashdot
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/11/09/047221/breaking-bad-creator-hates-ai-promises-new-show-pluribus-was-made-by-humans

Trump says he won't pardon New Jersey's Bob Menendez (Natalie Fertig/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/08/trump-wont-pardon-new-jersey-bob-menendez-00718085
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p153#a260108p153

Zelensky says negotiations reach ‘new milestone,’ suggests war could end in first half of 2026: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/07/zelensky-says-negotiations-reach-new.html

The New York Times announces it has hired eight journalists with backgrounds in video production and has another 14 video-related roles open (Sarah Scire/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/the-new-york-times-is-staffing-up-in-video/

Mendoza vs. Moore: Why the CFP semifinals will have a big impact on the NFL draft https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47539191/new-york-jets-no-2-pick-cfp-fernando-mendoza-dante-moore

They Couldn’t Care Less About #Renee #Good’s Killing
A disdain for facts and the reflex to taint a dead woman crystallize a new level of impunity

They couldn’t care less about Renee Good’s killing
A disdain for facts and the reflex to taint a dead woman crystallize a new level of grotesqueness.

Light pollution could worsen allergy seasons, new study suggests https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/02/light-pollution-could-worsen-allergy-seasons-new-study-suggests/

Light pollution could worsen allergy seasons, new study suggests
Light pollution may do more than disrupt wildlife: new research finds it can extend pollen seasons, increasing allergy risks and public health costs.

"Wind and solar are booming in China. So why is it building so many new coal plants?"
#China #WindTurbines #SolarPower

'Staggering' rise in coal plants in China despite clean energy gains
More than 50 large coal units were commissioned in 2025, up from fewer than 20 a year over the previous decade.

New York lawmakers propose a bill to impose a three-year moratorium on data center development, making NY at least the sixth state to introduce such legislation (Molly Taft/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/new-york-is-the-latest-state-to-consider-a…

New York Is the Latest State to Consider a Data Center Pause
Red and blue states alike have introduced legislation in recent weeks that would halt data center development, citing concerns from climate to high energy prices.

The filibuster is the new MAGA litmus test (Adam Wren/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2025/11/08/the-trump-card-is-the-new-maga-litmus-test-00643732
http://www.memeorandum.com/251109/p1#a251109p1

"A New York Times report found that Lutnick and Epstein, who were next-door neighbors in New York City, interacted “regularly.”"
Epstein Files: Massie calls for Commerce Secretary Lutnick to resign
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/08/epstein-files-trump-lutnick-massie.html

How the insurance crisis overtook California
Insurance Commissioner Lara’s 2023 regulatory overhaul promised to ease California’s insurance crisis
but instead delivered major concessions to the industry.
Under Lara’s watch, the state’s insurer of last resort exploded
from 123,657 policies in 2019 to over 645,000,
leaving January wildfire victims underinsured.
Six of nine insurers filing under new rules
add zero new policies in high-risk zones
-…

How the insurance crisis overtook California
Insurance Commissioner Lara's 2023 regulatory overhaul promised to ease California's insurance crisis but instead delivered major concessions to the industry.

Independents Drive Approval of ACA to New High of 57% (Megan Brenan/Gallup)
https://news.gallup.com/poll/699449/independents-drive-approval-aca-new-high.aspx
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p31#a251208p31

The NYT's lawsuit against the DOD over its new journalism rules is on a fast track, heading to oral arguments on March 6, as both sides filed to skip discovery (Erik Wemple/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/business/media/new-york-t…

New York Times Case Against Pentagon Will Move Quickly
The lawsuit, over the Defense Department’s new rules for journalists, is headed for oral arguments in March.

Gas Prices Plunge to New Multi-Year Low -- and They're Trending Lower ⛽ (President Donald J. Trump/The White House)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/12/gas-prices-plunge-to-new-multi-year-low-and-trending-lower/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p98#a251208p98

Anthropic rolls out a fast mode for Claude Opus 4.6 in research preview, saying it offers the same model quality 2.5 times faster but costs six times more (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/7/claude-fast-mode/

NYT refers to her as Renee's 'partner' instead of spouse. : (
A Month After Renee Good’s Killing, Her Partner Makes First Public Appearance at Memorial - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/us/renee-good-partner-memorial-minneapolis.html

Mamdani Moves to 'Trump-Proof' New York as ICE Tensions Rise (Myles Miller/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-08/mamdani-moves-to-trump-proof-new-york-as-ice-tensions-rise
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p87#a251208p87

Asian streaming giant Viu launches Viu Shorts, a new vertical video section for microdramas on its app, featuring episodes that are one to three minutes long (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/asian-streamer-viu-v…

Asian Streamer Viu Launches Vertical Video Platform for Microdramas
Viu has expanded its content offerings with the debut of Viu Shorts, a new vertical video section featuring microdramas in multiple Asian languages.

Nvidia brings its G-Sync Pulsar tech to four monitors, which reduces motion blur by using a "rolling scan" scheme that briefly pulses the monitors' backlight (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/01

Nvidia’s new G-Sync Pulsar monitors target motion blur at the human retina level
Four new monitors promise "effective motion clarity of a theoretical 1,000 Hz monitor."

Former Trump lawyer Alina Habba resigns as New Jersey U.S. attorney after disqualification (Dan Mangan/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/trump-alina-habba-new-jersey-prosecutor.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p104#a251208p104

Excelsior Sciences, which aims to use AI and robots for small-molecule drug discovery and development, raised a $70M Series A from Khosla Ventures and others (Aayushi Pratap/Chemical & Engineering News)
https://cen.acs.org/physical-chemistry

New York AI chemistry start-up raises $95 million 
Excelsior Sciences cofounders say the company will make new molecules using robots and artificial intelligence

Former Trump attorney Alina Habba resigns as top federal prosecutor in New Jersey (Ryan Lucas/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/08/g-s1-101204/trump-attorney-new-jersey-habba
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p115#a251208p115

Sources: Nvidia delays the release of its incremental gaming GPU upgrade, codenamed Kicker, marking the first year in three decades without a new GPU for gaming (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-delay-new-gaming-chi…

Nvidia to Delay New Gaming Chip Due to Memory Chip Shortage
Nvidia won’t release a new graphics chip for gamers this year due to a deepening global shortage of memory chips, prompted by the AI boom, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter. It would be the first year in three decades that Nvidia hasn’t released a new graphics ...

Republican Bruce Blakeman planning to enter race for New York governor (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/08/republican-bruce-blakeman-planning-to-enter-race-for-new-york-governor-00681465
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p112#a251208p112

X unveils a new pay-per-use pricing model for its API, replacing the earlier pricing model that required developers to pay fixed monthly fees of $200 or $5,000 (Rohit Singh/MediaNama)
https://www.medianama.com/2026/02/223-x-developer-api-pricing-pay-per-use-m…

Former Trump personal lawyer Alina Habba resigns as acting US attorney for New Jersey (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/12/08/politics/alina-habba-resigns-acting-us-attorney-for-new-jersey
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p91#a251208p91

Woman killed by ICE agent in Minneapolis was a mother of 3, poet and new to the city (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/08/woman-killed-by-ice-agent-in-minneapolis-was-a-mother-of-3-poet-and-new-to-the-city-00715809
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p6#a260108p6

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Establishes New Department of Justice Division for National Fraud Enforcement (President Donald J. Trump/The White House)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/01/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-establishes-new-department-of-justice-division-for-national-fraud-enforcement/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p126#a260108p126