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NFL forced Saquon Barkley to sell Polymarket stake, treating prediction markets as sportsbooks

Eagles running back Saquon Barkley sold his equity stake in Polymarket after NFL rules barred players from holding prediction-market investments. The case sets the league apart from the NBA and MLB, which have signed deals with the exchanges, as the NFL argues at the Supreme Court that sports event contracts are gambling. The post NFL forced Saquon Barkley to sell Polymarket stake, treating prediction markets as sportsbooks appeared first on ReadWrite .

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Illinois appeals Pacold injunction blocking its prediction-market licensing and tax regime

A federal judge has barred Illinois from licensing, taxing or prosecuting sports event contracts listed on CFTC-regulated exchanges. The state's appeal sends the fight to the Seventh Circuit, which already has prediction-market cases from Wisconsin. The post Illinois appeals Pacold injunction blocking its prediction-market licensing and tax regime appeared first on ReadWrite .

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The best early Black Friday drone deals have landed — save on DJI, Ruko, Antigravity, and more

As of Nov. 3, shop the best early drone deals you can buy right now.

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Best gift ideas for the woman in your life that are more than just another bathrobe

Shop home, tech, and beauty gifts for the lucky lady in your life.

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Best gifts for mom 2026: 60+ thoughtful gift ideas that are as special as she is

The best gifts for moms, including non-cliché gift ideas she'll love for Mother's Day, Christmas, or her birthday.

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Best gifts for your wife: 33 unique ideas for your leading lady

We've gathered the best gifts for wives for the holidays, her birthday, Valentine's Day, or just because. Impress her with a gift she really wants.

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Election Day 2026 results updates: See live election results trackers now

The 2026 U.S. midterm elections are here and millions of votes still need to be counted.

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AO3s outage has exposed a growing divide between fanfiction authors and readers

As AO3 remains offline, shared fanfiction archives are sparking controversy and raising questions about reader entitlement, author consent, and fandom culture.

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Another Owala holiday drop just landed — how to grab all 3 new limited-edition colorways

Owala's newest holiday drop is officially live. Here is how to shop the three new colorways across FreeSip 24oz, FreeSip Sway 30oz, and SmoothSip Slider 20oz before they sell out.

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Mogging is Collins Word of the Year. Heres what it means.

Collins named "mogging" its 2026 Word of the Year. Here's what the slang means, where it came from, and how it moved into mainstream conversation.

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Livestream: Scaling Agentic Development With Air Governance

Join us on November 18, from 4:00–5:00 pm CET, for a livestream with Viktor Kiselev and Guillaume Garnier from the JetBrains Air product team. Your developers want to use the best AI agents for the job. As an engineering leader, you need to know who has access, what’s being used, and what it costs. Air […]

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JetBrains Earns 180 G2 Badges in Fall 2026, Recognized for Enterprise Leadership, Usability, and Developer Experience

Discover how JetBrains products are recognized for enterprise leadership, developer experience, and ease of adoption, and why this matters for engineering teams looking to improve productivity and scale with confidence. In fall 2026, JetBrains earned 180 G2 badges across multiple award categories, including Enterprise Leadership, Best Usability, Best Relationship, Easiest Setup, and Easiest Admin. These […]

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DataGrip and Database Tools User Experience Survey #3 Results

Introduction Hello, DataGrip community! We’re back with the results of our third DataGrip and Database Tools User Experience Survey. A big thank you to everyone who took the time to participate! This year, 1,420 people shared their experiences with DataGrip and the built-in database tools in other JetBrains IDEs. As with our first and second […]

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Where Did the Saved Bytes Go? Compact Object Headers in IntelliJ IDEA

AI agents may make code faster to produce, but they don’t make it cheaper to run. In applications managing millions of objects, memory allocation and garbage collection still matter. The JVM has been addressing these costs on several fronts: ZGC targets garbage collection pauses, Project Leyden tackles startup and warmup, and Project Lilliput reduces the […]

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TeamCity 2026.2.2 and 2026.1.6 Updates

TeamCity On-Premises 2026.2.2 and 2026.1.6 bug-fix updates are now available. These updates resolve a significant number of issues, including security and performance issues, as well as the following bugs: As always, we strongly recommend installing these updates, as they address security vulnerabilities and help keep your TeamCity On-Premises instance protected against potential threats. See TeamCity […]

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The eMudhra Certificate Authority Compromise: What It Means for TeamCity

Summary In October 2026, the private keys of eight intermediate certificate authorities operated by eMudhra were found to be weak and recoverable from public data. According to eMudhra’s official statement, none of the affected intermediate CAs had issued end-entity (leaf) certificates, and eMudhra is not aware of evidence that the weak keys were recovered or exploited before the issue was disclosed. The […]

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Hear What Your IDE Is Doing: New Sound Cues in JetBrains IDEs

You can use the audio player below to listen to this blog post. With JetBrains IDEs 2026.3, we’re adding a new way to stay connected to your work: sound cues. A short sound can tell you if a build has finished successfully or failed, a breakpoint has been hit, or there’s something at the caret […]

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Use Your GitHub Copilot Plan in JetBrains Air – in Your IDE and in the Cloud

GitHub and JetBrains are bringing GitHub Copilot to JetBrains Air. Air lets you hand coding tasks to agents, run them in parallel, and review their changes in one place. You can now pick GitHub Copilot as the agent in Air – locally in your JetBrains IDE, and in the cloud with Air Teams. Tasks run […]

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Flexible Authentication: Reimagining authentication for millions of users at Airbnb

Rebuilding login and signup surfaced product insights, not just technical challenges. Here’s how we designed Flexible Authentication at the intersection of product intuition and technical architecture. By : Jose Santos , Mike Barry For Airbnb, logins at irregular intervals are normal. A guest books a trip in January and may not open the app again until summer. A host checks back only when a reservation comes in, and may be busy with other activities when it does. For a two-sided marketplace where a failed login means a lost booking, and lost revenue for both the guest and the host, long gaps b

The Airbnb Tech Blog - Medium · EN

How we knew COVID was over (and what our models had to unlearn)

When we retrain, when we rebuild, and when we leave a model alone. By: Harrison Katz A forecast that carries weight The Forecasting Data Science team at Airbnb produces many of the forecasts the rest of the company plans around: demand, bookings, cancellations, and a range of finer cuts by market and segment, refreshed continuously across thousands of markets. The targets differ, and the models differ, but they have one thing in common: Other teams build on top of them. This means a forecast that is casually wrong is not a clean miss, as it might be in an academic setting. That’s because a sma

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Project Lighthouse — Part 3: Introducing project-lighthouse-anonymize

Project Lighthouse — Part 3: Introducing project-lighthouse-anonymize The data in Project Lighthouse is powered by privacy-preserving anonymization code. We’ve put this code into open source, and published two new technical papers detailing the scalable algorithms and data quality frameworks behind it. By: Adam Bloomston Introduction In 2020, we launched Project Lighthouse, which we developed in partnership with leading civil rights and privacy organizations. As our 2020 announcement details, Project Lighthouse enables us to measure potential disparities in user experiences. This work uses per

The Airbnb Tech Blog - Medium · EN

Beyond the model: Engineering AI infra with scientific judgement

How Airbnb’s agent harness transforms unstructured data exploration by encoding scientific methodology into scalable, reproducible, and audit-ready infrastructure. By : Wren Dougherty Ask a coding agent to analyze 100,000 customer support conversations and within minutes you’ll have a polished taxonomy, precise prevalence numbers, and an executive-ready summary. What you can’t see is the investigation that produced them: the methods it chose, the evidence it weighed, how much to trust it, or whether a second request would agree. All that reaches you is the polish. The model is undeniably intel

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The guest journey, updated in real time: extending Airbnb’s sequence recommender with Chronon

How two new Chronon capabilities, Push Mode and NRT Model Transform, allows us to provide more relevant search results instantly as a guest explores, rather than waiting for the next batch run. By : Pengyu Hou , Yuli Han , Daochen Zha , Haozhen Ding , Xin Liu , Sophie Wang , Pallavi Adusumilli , Sherry Li , Henry Saputra , Chun How Tan , Huiji Gao , Yan Zhang , Stephanie Moyerman , Yi Li , and Sanjeev Katariya A guest’s interaction with Airbnb doesn’t pause to wait for a nightly batch job. Someone might browse a dozen listings on a Tuesday afternoon, run a new search that evening, and expect t

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Personalization without user identity

How Airbnb uses proximity signals to personalize without relying on individual user history. By : Wei Jiang , Bin Xu , Bharathi Thangamani , Weiwei Guo , Sundar Srinivasavaradhan , Tracy Yu , Huiji Gao , Swapnil Ghike , Michael Kinoti Great personalization starts with knowing your user. But what happens when the user is a stranger? A significant share of Airbnb users arrive without a login, without a recent search history, or without any prior booking — especially those landing from paid advertising or organic search. For these users, the ML models that power search ranking, destination recomm

The Airbnb Tech Blog - Medium · EN