Meta says it has taken down around 10M Facebook profiles so far this year that were impersonating or repeatedly reusing content from large content producers (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/following-youtu…
Meta says it has taken down around 10M Facebook profiles so far this year that were impersonating or repeatedly reusing content from large content producers (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/following-youtu…
A small aside, during my vacation I finally started on writing a Metal backend for SwiftTerm.
It has a few missing features, so not worth comparing performance yet, but it is feeling great:
https://github.com/migueldeicaza/SwiftTerm/tree/metal-backend
Just received a friend request on Facebook by someone named Peter Waldmeier.
https://www.facebook.com/peter.waldmeier.865
He seemed such a nice person, I think he is a model in a Scandinavian country.
When I asked him why he was sending me a friend request he go…
Russia: 1,000 civilians missing after Ukrainian withdrawal from Kursk region: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/12/russia-civilians-missing-after-ukrainian.html
I watched the Disney, two season, series on the risk of Industrial Light and Magic (ILM).
It was interesting.
And last night I watched a Studio Ghibli film.
I am active in live theatre - living actors on a stage before a live audience.
It struck me that movie making a la ILM tends to glorify the scenery without necessarily adding to the impact of the story.
I can understand how filmmakers want to immerse the audience in a different reality. But I don't thin…
As usual we watched the "Stoertebekker" stage play at Ralswiek on Rügen Island. The stage setups and wardrobes were as awesome as always. They really try to improve on that every year and come up with clever mechanisms to transform the building for the various acts of the play. The script this year left room for desire ;) Nevertheless a happing worth attending
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Filing: Shein reports 2024 UK sales up 32.3% YoY to £2.05B, making the UK its third largest market after the US and Germany, as it works toward a Hong Kong IPO (Helen Reid/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co
AMD says it will restart shipments of its MI308 AI chips to China after the US Commerce Department said it would approve the sales, following Nvidia (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-…