The US DOJ says Peter Williams, former boss of L3Harris' Trenchant, stole and sold tools that can hack millions of computers worldwide to a Russian broker (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/…
The Thomson Reuters Foundation says its news brand, Context, will be "phased down", some staffers will lose jobs, and the site will remain up as an archive (Antonio Zappulla/Thomson Reuters Foundation)
https://www.trust.org/2026/02/12/statement-…
#Threema wechselt den Besitzer. Neu gehört Threema einer deutschen Kapitalgesellschaft, die laut Webseite bisher Erfahrungen mit Spielzeug für Haustiere und Fleischersatzprodukten hat.
Hoffen wir, dass das ein guter Schritt ist. (Auf der Threema-Webseite findet sich noch nichts.)
Health Canada: How new labels can help smart shoppers
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/canadas-new-food-labelling-system-extremely-effective-expert-says/
Kijk toch eens wat eenvoudig en duidelijk!
(Via @… )
OKC et le Bouddhisme Tibétain : Une Légitimité Bâtie sur le Silence des « Grands Maîtres »
et les promoteurs du Bouddhisme Tibétain sauce "plein conscience"
https://chardonsbleus.org/okc-et-le-bouddhisme-tibetain-…
dom: Animal dominance archive (2022)
Animal dominance interaction data published over a century of research. The archive contains 434 agonistic interaction datasets, totaling over 241,000 interactions. A directed edge (i,j) corresponds to an antagonist interaction between i (winner) and j (loser). If a 'weight' edge property map exists, it counts the number of such interactions.
This network has 12 nodes and 68 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
A drastic rise in the reported death toll came as Iranian authorities intensified their crackdown on the protests, now in their second week.
Rights groups were struggling to reach contacts within Iran due to a complete internet shutdown in the country, and warned that the death toll was likely to climb even further.
The brutal crackdown has raised the likelihood of US intervention, with Trump saying he would “rescue” protesters if the Iranian government killed them.
He rei…
I always wonder why public charging tenders in Germany are so contested yet useless. While in other mature markets, such as the Netherlands and Belgium, public tenders help to create a dense network with significantly lower prices for users, in Germany the process merely distributes semi-monopolies without offering any benefits to users.
VC fund a16z crypto says it is expanding to Asia and opening an office in Seoul, calling South Korea the world's second-largest crypto market (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/12/10/a16z-cryp…
Anthropic donates the Model Context Protocol to the Agentic AI Foundation and says there are now more than 10,000 active public MCP servers (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-the-model-context-protocol-and-esta…