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Memo: Xbox President Sarah Bond, long thought to be Phil Spencer's heir, is leaving; Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty is promoted to Chief Content Officer (Ryan McCaffrey/IGN)
https://www.ign.com/articles/phil-spencer…

Phil Spencer Retiring, Sarah Bond Out, Matt Booty Promoted as Microsoft AI Exec Asha Sharma Named New Xbox Boss – EXCLUSIVE - IGN
Big changes are being made at the top of Microsoft's gaming division.

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 195 nodes and 4176 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

Shipping’s biofuel gamble could deepen Africa’s land squeeze and food insecurity (commentary)
https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/shippings-biofuel-gamble-could-deepen-africas-land-squeeze-and-food-insecurity-commentar…

Shipping’s biofuel gamble could deepen Africa’s land squeeze and food insecurity (commentary)
Africa’s future prosperity depends on how fast we can reduce emissions, especially from large polluting sectors like shipping. But using crops as fuel to cut emissions risks causing more harm than good. As countries gather at the UN’s International Maritime Organization (IMO) meeting in April to lay down the rules for future clean energy to […]

ICE Details a New Minnesota-Based Detention Network That Spans 5 States
Internal ICE planning documents propose spending up to $50 million on a privately run network capable of shipping immigrants in custody hundreds of miles across the Upper Midwest
https://www.wired.com/story/ice-detention-

ICE Details a New Minnesota-Based Detention Network That Spans 5 States
Internal ICE planning documents propose spending up to $50 million on a privately run network capable of shipping immigrants in custody hundreds of miles across the Upper Midwest.

MacBook Neo: Neuer Ansatz soll Nutzer vor Webcam-Spionage schützen
Damit Angreifer Webcam und Mikrofon nicht unbemerkt aktivieren, greift Apple zu verschiedenen Techniken. Das Neo setzt auf eine neue Variante.

Common cleaning sponge found to release trillions of microplastic fibers #environment

Common cleaning sponge found to release trillions of microplastic fibers
That “magic” sponge under your sink may be hiding an environmental downside. While melamine sponges are famous for effortlessly scrubbing away stubborn stains, they slowly break down as you use them—shedding tiny plastic fibers that wash into water systems. Researchers estimate that globally, these sponges could release over a trillion microplastic fibers every month, potentially entering the food chain and affecting wildlife.

Phil Spencer will retire after 38 years at Microsoft; Asha Sharma, the president of product in Microsoft's Core AI business, will become the CEO of gaming (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/20/microsoft-gaming-chief-phi…

Microsoft gaming chief Phil Spencer retires, replaced by ex-Instacart exec Asha Sharma
Phil Spencer is retiring from Microsoft after joining the software company 38 years ago, and will be replaced by Instacart's former COO.

The Supreme Court struck down Donald Trump’s far-reaching global tariffs on Friday,
handing him a significant loss on an issue crucial to his economic agenda.
The 6-3 decision centers on tariffs imposed under an emergency powers law -- including the sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs he levied on nearly every other country.

It’s the first major piece of Trump’s broad agenda to come squarely before the nation’s highest court,
which he helped shape with the appointment…

Supreme Court strikes down Trump's sweeping tariffs
The Supreme Court has struck down President Donald Trump’s far-reaching global tariffs, handing him a significant loss on an issue crucial to his economic agenda. Friday's 6-3 decision centers on tariffs he unilaterally imposed under an emergency powers law, including the sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs levied on nearly every other country. The Republican president has called the case one of the most important in U.S. history and said a ruling against him would be an economic body blow to t…

Walmart is embedding its own chatbot Sparky in ChatGPT after conversion rates via OpenAI's Instant Checkout were 3x lower than those requiring clicking out (Paresh Dave/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-lab-walmart-openai-shaking-up-agentic-shoppin…

Why Walmart and OpenAI Are Shaking Up Their Agentic Shopping Deal
After OpenAI’s Instant Checkout feature fell short, Walmart is instead embedding its Sparky chatbot directly into ChatGPT and Google Gemini.

Reddit is testing an AI search feature that takes community recommendations and shows matching products from its advertisers in the results (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/19/reddit-is-testing-a-new-ai-search-feature-for-shopp…

Reddit is testing a new AI search feature for shopping | TechCrunch
A small group of users in the U.S. will start to see search results that include interactive product carousels with pricing, images, and direct where-to-buy links.