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Paris-based Upciti, which offers city operations software and hardware to over 150 municipalities in 17 countries, raised a $20M Series A led by Notion Capital (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/10/16/upciti-closes-20m-to-dr…

UPCITI closes $20M to drive global growth of its urban operating platform
UPCITI, a Paris-based company building an operating system for cities, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Notion Capital, with participation from Point Nine and Chalfen Ventures.UPCITI combines proprietary software with purpose-built hardware to help municipalities run critical operations, such as traffic flow, street management, and public safety, more efficiently and securely, with a clear ROI that simplifies adoption. By owning both the software an…

US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement operation in LA, reports say (Dorothy Sedovic/KKTV-TV)
https://www.kktv.com/2025/10/21/us-marshal-shot-during-immigration-enforcement-operation-la-reports-say/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251021/p114#a251021p114

Bye week comes at opportune time for Raiders after 31-0 loss to Chiefs https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/bye-week-comes-at-opportune-time-for-raiders-after-310-loss-to-chiefs

Ubisoft has managed to get an offline mode for The Crew 2 before this bed.
https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/aws-crash-causes-2000-smart-beds-to-overheat-and-get-stuck-upright-3272251/

AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright
The AWS outage caused chaos for owners of Eight Sleep’s Pod3 mattresses as they had no offline mode and were stuck at high temperatures.

A distressing story less told about drug overdoses- and I can't help but wonder if wider adoption of the Zurich "Four Pillars" approach might help prevent these outcomes.
It's pretty clear that current policies related to #drugs and #addiction are not doing such a great job.
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A distressing story less told about drug overdoses- and I can't help but wonder if wider adoption of the Zurich "Four Pillars" approach might help prevent these outcomes.
It's pretty clear that current policies related to #drugs and #addiction are not doing such a great job.
…

ICE agent wounds deputy U.S. marshal, TikTok streamer during Los Angeles operation (Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-21/immigration-enforcement-hurt-operation-southla
http://www.memeorandum.com/251021/p144#a251021p144

Nexperia accuses ousted CEO Zhang Xuezheng of spreading "falsehoods" that the chipmaker is now operating independently in China and of "unauthorized actions" (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Nexperia’s China Unit Says Staff Can Defy Dutch Headquarters
The Chinese unit of chipmaker Nexperia said operations continue as normal and employees should follow the guidance of local leadership, highlighting tensions with the Dutch headquarters after the Netherlands government’s seizure of the company.

A look at UAE-based Khazna, a real estate company that builds and rents out data centers and controls 70% of the country's operational data center capacity (Divsha Bhat/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/khazna-data-center-uae/

The invisible backbone of the UAE’s AI superpower dreams
UAE's largest data center operator Khazna is challenging Western assumptions while building regional dominance.

Internal Amazon documents and sources: executives believe Amazon is on the cusp of replacing 500K jobs with robots and aims to automate 75% of its operations (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/technology/inside-amazons-…

Inside Amazon’s Plans to Replace Workers With Robots
Internal documents show the company that changed how people shop has a far-reaching plan to automate 75 percent of its operations.