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Shutdown forces Medicare patients off popular telehealth and hospital-at-home programs • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/10/11/repub/shutdown-forces-medicare-patients-off-popular-telehealth-and-hospital-at-home-programs/

Had this lock company just let it go, I would've never learned that:
▫️They bullied a YouTuber
▫️Their CEO is a 3x felon
▫️Their lock is shimmed in seconds
#streisandeffect
▶️ 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea. - Ars Technica

10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea.
It’s still legal to pick locks, even when you swing your legs.

Kalshi integrates its event trading platform into the popular crypto wallet Phantom; Dune: in November, Kalshi's trading volume hit $5.8B vs. Polymarket's $3.7B (Nina Bambysheva/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.co…

Kalshi Challenges Polymarket’s Crypto Connections, Launching Tokenized Event Trading Via Phantom Wallet
As Kalshi’s trading volume surpasses Polymarket’s, it will now offer prediction market access to Phantom’s 15 million users on Solana.

🍹 Herbs hit the sweet spot to extend shelf life of popular global drink
#food

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.

These charts will shock you I am sure.
Travel to the United States for Europeans appears much less popular year-over-year.
Financial Times shows the steep drop (paywalled) since the new administration began.
https://flowingdata.com/2025/04/15/decline-in…

Decline in European travelers to U.S.
These charts will shock you I am sure. Travel to the United States for Europeans appears much less popular year-over-year. Financial Times shows the steep drop (paywalled) since the new administrat…

"Fuentes’ recent surge in popularity did not come from organic grassroots support, but a coordinated campaign among his followers, foreign engagement farms, anonymous bot networks, and targeted “raid” tactics aimed at gaming the algorithms on X."
**Nick Fuentes Seems Popular—Until You See Where His Clicks Come From**
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/12/09/inside-the-social-media-operation-behind-nick-fuentes-and-the-groyper-movement-n2667546

An analysis of 47,000 publicly shared ChatGPT conversations: ~10% related to emotional or mental health, ChatGPT exhibits a "default to yes" behavior, and more (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/11/12/how-people-use-ch…

We analyzed 47,000 ChatGPT conversations. Here’s what people really use it for.
What do people ask the popular chatbot? We analyzed thousands of chats to identify common topics discussed by users and patterns in ChatGPT’s responses.

Israeli startup Port, which offers a proprietary developer portal competitor to Spotify's open-source Backstage, raised a $100M Series C at an $800M valuation (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/11/port-raises-100m-at…

Port raises $100M at $800M valuation to take on Spotify’s Backstage | TechCrunch
Port offers a proprietary alternative to Spotify's popular devtool catalog Backstage, but with a valuable addition: it can be used to manage AI agents, too.

Sources: in recent months, Tencent aggressively hired AI researchers from ByteDance, including offering to double their salaries, and reorganized its AI team (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tencent-poaches-bytedance-…

Tencent Poaches ByteDance Researchers as China AI Race Heats Up
Throughout the past couple of years, as AI fever swept China’s technology sector, one giant—Tencent—seemed to mostly be sitting on the sidelines. The company, which owns the hugely popular WeChat app, didn’t seem enthusiastic to win a fierce race in the country to develop cutting-edge AI models, ...

Uber launches its B2B logistics service Uber Direct in India with ONDC integration, starting in Bengaluru with grocery deliveries for Zepto and KPN Farm Fresh (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatime…

Uber enters B2B logistics with Uber Direct on ONDC, onboards Zepto, KPN Farm fresh
Uber is broadening its B2B logistics portfolio in India with the introduction of Uber Direct, in partnership with ONDC. Kicking off with grocery deliveries for allies like Zepto, the service plans to branch out to popular food chains, including KFC and Burger King.