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Apple is lowering its commission for its mainland China App Store from 30% to 25%, starting on March 15, "following discussions with the Chinese regulator" (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Musk v. Altman filing: Sam Altman holds $2B in stakes in companies that have done business with OpenAI, including a $1.7B stake in fusion startup Helion Energy (Kenrick Cai/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/o
Krijgt GLPvdA gelijk, of de 50 lokale 'Pro-...' partijen? Wordt Pro landelijk mogelijk, dan blijft nog steeds een heel ongelukkige keuze voor die 50 gemeenten waar je twee Pro partijen zult krijgen.
Eigenlijk gewoon een flinke blunder (met een ook nog lelijke naam) wat mij betreft.
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Lokale 'Pro'-partijen willen bij rechter nieuwe naam GL-PvdA aanvechten
#politiek #pro
Got tired of forgetting to update #ClaudeCode and seeing it needs an update on launch.
Installed via #HomeBrew on my Mac, I wrote the following zsh function in my ~/.zshrc:
claude() {
local outdated
outdated=$(command brew outdated --greedy --quiet claude-code 2>/dev/null)
So the new #Kreutz #comet #MAPS is *still* following the constant rapid rise in brightness it has shown since discovery: a dumb extrapolation - https://cobs.si/analysis/?comet=2688&from_date=2026-01-15 00:00&to_date=2026-04-30 00:00&observation_type=V&observation_type=C&plot_x_value=1&plot_y_value=1&fit_option=1&exclude_faint=on&exclude_issue=on&observer=&association=&country=&compare_values=compare - has it get 10,000-times brighter than the Sun at its extremely close perihelion which makes so sense at all, of course, physically.
"It must therefore be assumed that this increase in activity will level off significantly in the near future," writes https://fg-kometen.vdsastro.de/koj_2026/c2026a1/26a1eaus.htm: "More likely are parameters m m0=12.0 mag / n=4 (or even lower), which would still result in a (very short-term) maximum brightness of about –9 mag (but this would probably still be significantly too bright) – always assuming that the comet survives its perihelion passage unscathed."
For other views see http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iau/cbet/005600/CBET005663.txt and https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17626 and https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10236580364221799 and https://cometografia.es/cometa-kreutz-2026-a1-maps-analisis/ - and the actual brightness is tracked at https://cobs.si/obs_list?id=2688 where it has reached ~11.5 mag. now.
Filing: Jensen Huang's foundation bought $108.3M worth of AI computing time from CoreWeave and is donating it to universities and other nonprofit institutes (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactiona
Google the price of oil, and you’ll most likely find two widely quoted prices for the commodity, one in the United States, the other in Europe.
These prices, which are constantly changing on electronic markets, suggest that although the war with Iran has made energy a lot more expensive, things are not nearly as bad as they were four years ago, after Russia invaded Ukraine.
But if you needed an actual tanker full of oil — and quickly — it would cost you dearly.
On Tuesday, …
Court filing: OpenAI says Elon Musk's recent amendments to his OpenAI lawsuit are a "legal ambush", calling them "legally improper and factually unsupported" (Robert Burnson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…