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Heute nach Wochen mal wieder zu einer etwas längeren #Radtour #rausgeschafft: 25km bei um den Gefrierpunkt fürs #Frostpendeln-Konto, und 124hm fürs Ego, wenn auch die meiste Zeit mit dem elektrischen …

"Le Monde – En France, une transition climatique laissée pour compte"
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2025/10/27/en-france-une-transition-climatique-laissee-pour-compte_6649812_3232.html

En France, une transition climatique laissée pour compte
Avec une planification écologique à l’arrêt depuis 2023, le personnel politique accrédite l’idée qu’il est incapable de penser le long terme, même sur des enjeux aussi importants que ceux du changement climatique et de l’effondrement de la biodiversité.

Microsoft 365 and Azure suffer outages; users report problems accessing sites and services, and the company says it is investigating (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/29/microsoft-hit-with-azure-365-outage-ahead-of-quarte…

Microsoft hit with Azure, 365 outage ahead of quarterly earnings report
Microsoft users reported outages for Azure and 365 services a week after many customers of Amazon Web Services suffered hours of downtime.

Somehow I don’t see this going so well. I understand the desire to charge to fund local content… but it will be interesting to see if the global streaming platforms agree to this.. or just decide to leave Australia. 🤔
https://deadline.com/2025/11/australia-…

Australia’s Streaming Quotas Become Law: “A Landmark Day For Screen Storytelling”
Australia's streaming quotas have become law, with Netflix and others now required to spend on original local content.

Jordan Bardella se pose en homme providentiel dans un livre supposé prendre le pouls du pays « réel »
https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2025/10/29/jordan-bardella-…

Jordan Bardella se pose en homme providentiel dans un livre supposé prendre le pouls du pays « réel »
Un an à peine après la sortie de son premier ouvrage, le président du Rassemblement national fait mine de céder la parole à vingt Français pour asseoir ses ambitions personnelles. Un livre qui acte aussi son émancipation face à Marine Le Pen.

I agree with @… , and I think this is at root of much of the managerial mania for LLMs.
Having their terrible ideas go unchecked by underlings with expertise is basically crack cocaine for bad org leadership.
1/ https://mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/115792431499413784

OpenAI-Microsoft deal: Microsoft gets a 27% stake, access to its AI models until 2032, including AGI-level models, and OpenAI will buy $250B of Azure services (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-1…

China's SMIC plans to acquire the remaining 49% stake in its SMNC unit for ~$5.8B, making the unit wholly owned, per a Shanghai Stock Exchange filing (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/chinas-smic-take-full-…

Sources: Francisco Partners is in talks to acquire Jamf, which provides remote device management tools, taking it private; Jamf has a market cap of ~$1.5B (Milana Vinn/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/francisco-partners-buy-jamf…

SoftBank agrees to acquire NYSE-listed DigitalBridge, a private equity firm that invests in data centers and digital infrastructure operators, for $4B in cash (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-29/softba…