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@burger_jaap@mastodon.social
2026-05-19 09:05:52

TotalEnergies, the successful bidder for German North Sea and Baltic Sea offshore wind sites, may not end up building them. Following the withdrawal of US offshore wind projects under pressure from Trump, does this make the company the largest non-developer in the sector?
tagesschau.de/inves…

Energiewende: Riesigen Offshore-Projekten droht das Aus
Vor drei Jahren hat TotalEnergies Milliarden geboten, um große Windparks vor der deutschen Küste zu bauen. Nun will das Unternehmen nach Recherchen von NDR und SZ die Flächen offenbar zurückgeben - mit Folgen für den Netzausbau.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-06-18 16:41:06

Apple opens iOS to alternative app marketplaces in Brazil and changes App Store commission structure following a settlement with competition watchdog CADE (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
9to5mac.com/2026/06/18/apple-a

Apple announces major App Store changes for Brazil - 9to5Mac
App developers can now distribute apps through alternative app marketplaces in Brazil, as part of a broader set of changes in the country.

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2026-05-17 14:00:34

"European renewable projects with batteries to surge 450% by 2030"
#Europe #Batteries #Energy

European renewable projects with batteries to surge 450% by 2030
New research has revealed that European renewable projects paired with battery storage are expected to grow more than 450% by 2030 as developers respond to grid congestion, falling power prices and rising renewable curtailment.

@detondev@social.linux.pizza
2026-07-14 19:01:01

A few highlights from the Turkish-Persian section of a random carpet symbolism book I skimmed while stopped at a random library in New Jersey a couple days ago

Tree of life: one of the oldest and most universal symbols of mankind. It supports the sky, and provides a path from earth to heaven. In different cultures it is called by names such as haoma, asherak, yggdrasil, irminsu or asvattha. Thus, one often sees it in prayer rugs, as a reminder of the passage from this existence into a higher life.
Diamond or Lozenge: It has been conjectured that this omnipresent motif in Anatolian kilims is a male triangle attached to a female triangle, and thus signifies creation. There are doubtless many interpretations. A diamond surrounded by hooks is called in Turkish kirkbudatz, 'forty branches'. Among some semi-nomadic pastoral (terekme) tribes of Azerbaijan, a favourite symbol is a large diamond, signifying woman. Smaller diamonds within the large one signify a pregnant woman or her progeny. A …
Celestial creature: Recognizable because flames appear from flanks or shoulders.
Arabesque or Tendril: The basic unit of the arabesque, a favourite Islamic decorative theme, may be described as a split leaf seen in profile, called islimi in Persian. Derived from a Sassanian motif, it developed under the Abbasids in the ninth and tenth centuries, and matured under the Seljuks in the twelfth and thirteenth. It became central in Turkish and Persian carpet design only after the fifteenth century. In its fascinating fully developed form one sees interlaced lattice systems of sp…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2026-05-15 23:55:52

RE: hachyderm.io/@mitchellh/116580
Hearing the feelings in this rant, which does touch a nerve, I can’t help think about how different the developer community reaction to the LLM push might be if the focus were on quality instead of efficiency.
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@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2026-06-14 16:59:46

The Coordination Council of Iranian Banks announced that a widespread disruption in the services of four of the country’s banks -- Bank Melli, Bank Tejarat, Bank Saderat, and the Export Development Bank -- occurred following a “limited cyberattack.”
iranwire.com/en/news/153671-cy

Cyberattack on Four Iranian Banks
On the evening of Saturday, June 13, the Coordination Council of Iranian Banks announced that a widespread disruption in the services of ...

@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2026-07-15 16:03:25

From Sputnik to Starship - estimating the experience curve of #SpaceLaunch technology: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/art -> For more than 60 years, the cost of transporting payload into space has been falling: heise.de/en/news/Transport-of- - according to an analysis, there is no comparable development in history.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-06-16 10:44:56

SEC filing: SpaceX agrees to acquire Anysphere in a merger valuing the Cursor-developer at $60B, expected to close in Q3 2026 (Reuters)
reuters.com/legal/transactiona

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-07-09 13:30:38

Ollama, which helps developers run open-weight AI models locally, raised a $65M Series B led by Theory Venture, following a $15M Series A led by Benchmark (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/popu

Popular open source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M, grows to nearly 9M users | TechCrunch
Benchmark-backed Ollama has amassed 176,000 stars, and nearly 17,000 forks on GitHub by helping developers easily run AI on their PCs.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-06-11 08:13:03

Anthropic backtracks on covert limitations on Fable 5's ability to develop LLMs, says "requests will visibly fall back to Opus 4.8", following a backlash (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
wired.com/story/anthropic-resp

Anthropic Walks Back Policy That Could Have ‘Sabotaged’ AI Researchers Using Claude
The company changed course after researchers spoke out against the policy, which would have covertly limited Claude’s ability to develop competing AI models.