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Singapore-licensed dtcpay, which offers stablecoin payments across Europe, Hong Kong, Australia, and North America, raised a $25M Series A (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/09/18/sbi-group-backs-payments-firm-dtcp…

SBI Group backs payments firm dtcpay in $25 million funding round
Stablecoin payments company dtcpay completed a $25 million Series A funding round with a strategic investment from Japan’s SBI Group.

100 years ago #OTD the #planetarium in #Jena (Germany) opened to the public: it's the oldest one in the world srill operating in the same location! Scroll down on https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/07/18/die-leuchtenden-nachtwolken-sind-weiter-aktiv for some news coverage back then and the wider context.

"3 in 4 Britons (74%) concerned about climate change today following heatwave summer"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate

3 in 4 Britons (74%) concerned about climate change today following heatwave summer
London, UK. New polling data from Ipsos in the UK, conducted 31st July – 4th August 2026, reveals a significant shift in public concern following a summer of elevated temperatures.

This post gets regular inline updates:
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/04/what-you-can-do-as-a-web-builder-on-earth-day.html
Today I added a Nature article, the Web Sustainability Guidelines Impact Ratings, and the Carbon in Context calcula…

What You Can Do as a Web Builder on Earth Day
One easy thing you can do for the earth is not use “AI” tools. Consider this as a programmer, web developer, web designer, copywriter, webmaster, etc. The tools include anything branded as generative AI, LLMs, computer vision tools, Copilot, ChatGPT, Bard, Grok, Dall-e, Midjourney, and so on. If you are…

Reforma de Kast permitiría mantener nuevo estado de excepción hasta 240 días sin aprobación del Congreso
https://www.malaespinacheck.cl/politica/2026/08/18/reforma-de-kast-permitiria-…

«Cybercrime — Nordkoreanische Cyberkriminelle bestehlen IT-Fachleute auf Jobsuche:
Sicherheitsbehörden warnen vor einer Cybergruppe aus Nordkorea, die gezielt IT-Spezialisten angreift. Was hinter der Kampagne "Contagious Interview" steckt»
Das ist nicht neu aber intensiver, denn ua hat @… gestern (indirekt) darauf hingewiesen.
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Cybercrime: Nordkoreanische Cyberkriminelle bestehlen IT-Fachleute auf Jobsuche - Golem.de
Sicherheitsbehörden warnen vor einer Cybergruppe aus Nordkorea, die gezielt IT-Spezialisten angreift. Was hinter der Kampagne "Contagious Interview" steckt.

Some incredible shots in this year's International Aerial Photographer contest:
https://www.internationalaerialphotographer.com/
Awards book (preliminary):

The US Treasury sanctions Iranian crypto exchange BitBank, saying it sent hundreds of millions to the IRGC and helped Iran operate a Strait of Hormuz toll booth (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/09/18

BTC news: Iran's Strait of Hormuz toll booth has been settling in bitcoin since June
The U.S. Treasury sanctioned BitBank, a Tehran exchange it says moved hundreds of millions of dollars in bitcoin to the Revolutionary Guards and handled payments collected from ships buying passage through the world’s most important oil chokepoint.

Anthropic is partnering with Accenture to embed evaluators within Anthropic, including red teaming models and conducting alignment assessments (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/accenture-embedded-evaluation

Partnering with Accenture on embedded evaluation
We’re partnering with Accenture on independent evaluation of frontier AI—part of our recent commitment to embed evaluators at Anthropic. Both we and Accenture expect to invest at least $1 billion to build capacity in this area over the next five years.

Google Cloud is deploying context-creating AI agents within its tools to automate tasks handled by forward-deployed engineers; Google is hiring hundreds of FDEs (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-says-a…

Google Says Its AI Can Do the Work of Forward Deployed Engineers
Following the playbook Palantir pioneered, OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Amazon are investing billions of dollars to hire so-called forward deployed engineers to get newfangled AI to work in enterprises.Then there’s Google, which says AI can automate some of what these FDEs do.While Google ...