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🍹 Herbs hit the sweet spot to extend shelf life of popular global drink
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Herbs hit the sweet spot to extend shelf life of popular global drink
A team of food scientists from Australia and Pakistan has discovered a natural way to significantly extend the shelf life of sugarcane juice, one of the world's most popular, but highly perishable, beverages.

Somewhere out there in the multiverse, there's a version of earth where it wasn't John Mastodon who wrote the most popular activitypub-using social networking site, but rather some guy named Fred.
The frediverse is real popular over there, with almost half a billion people on fredi.

Apple removes two of the most popular gay dating apps, Blued and Finka, from its App Store in China, citing orders from the country's Cyberspace Administration (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-removes-gay-dating-apps-china-app-store/

Apple Pulls China’s Top Gay Dating Apps After Government Order
The removal of Blued and Finka marks another setback for China’s marginalized LGBTQ+ community.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
LCD Soundsystem:
🎵 You Wanted a Hit
#LCDSoundsystem
https://mrlckmshp.bandcamp.com/track/lcd-surf-system-you-wanted-a-popular-hit-lcd-soundsystem-you-wanted-a-hit-keljet-remix-vs-nada-surf-popular
https://open.spotify.com/track/3fU0407Cls1hLW1ap5w2Lr

Forecasting the Buzz: Enriching Hashtag Popularity Prediction with LLM Reasoning
Yifei Xu, Jiaying Wu, Herun Wan, Yang Li, Zhen Hou, Min-Yen Kan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08481

Forecasting the Buzz: Enriching Hashtag Popularity Prediction with LLM Reasoning
Hashtag trends ignite campaigns, shift public opinion, and steer millions of dollars in advertising spend, yet forecasting which tag goes viral is elusive. Classical regressors digest surface features but ignore context, while large language models (LLMs) excel at contextual reasoning but misestimate numbers. We present BuzzProphet, a reasoning-augmented hashtag popularity prediction framework that (1) instructs an LLM to articulate a hashtag's topical virality, audience reach, and timing advan…

pokec: Pokec online social network (2012)
The online social network of Pokec, a popular OSN in Slovakia, from 2012. Date covers about 10 years and more than 1.6 million people. Profile data contains gender, age, hobbies, interest, education etc. Profile metadata are in Slovak language. Friendships in Pokec are oriented.
This network has 1632804 nodes and 30622564 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Metadata

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101 Grammatically Correct Popular Tunes Featuring:
(You Aren't Anything but a) Hound Dog
It Doesn't Mean a Thing If It Hasn't Got That Swing
I'm Not Misbehaving
And A Whole Lot More...

The Golden Globes' inaugural best podcast award nominations avoided controversy by passing on popular politics-related podcasts and personalities like Joe Rogan (Mark Kennedy/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/golden-globes-podcast-cat…

Golden Globes' inaugural best podcast award nominees avoid politics
The Golden Globes have introduced a best podcast category that's likely to spark conversations. On Monday, the Globes announced six nominees, including “Armchair Expert” and “SmartLess.” They represented a mix of news, advice and celebrity interviews. Notably absent are politically oriented podcasts like “The Joe Rogan Experience” and “Pod Save America.” Experts suggest the Globes aim to avoid controversy by focusing on entertainment. The selection process has raised questions, …

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says the company is "moving away" from r/popular, the default feed for new users, and will replace it with more personalized feeds (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/837780/reddit-r-popular-communit…

Reddit’s CEO says r/popular ‘sucks,’ and it’s going away
Reddit is “moving away” from r/popular in favor of “better, more relevant and personalized feeds,” CEO Steve Huffman says.

Bill Peebles, head of Sora at OpenAI, says the app hit 1M downloads less than five days after its launch, even faster than ChatGPT did (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/09/openais-sora-downloads.html

OpenAI's Sora hit 1 million downloads in less than five days
Sora reached 1 million downloads even faster than ChatGPT, OpenAI's popular AI chatbot that supports 800 million weekly active users.