Tootfinder

All these dinosaur costumes make me want to watch…
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…Super Mario Bros. (1993)

Urban Domicile 🏠
城市聚落 🏠
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

“You tried to get me fired in September – it didn’t work, Mr. President! […] How about this: I’ll go when you, okay? Let’s ride off into the sunset like Butch Cassidy and the sun-tanned kid. And until then, if I may borrow a phrase from you … quiet, piggy!“
Jimmy Kimmel is invincible now🔥😂👏
https://youtu.be/LHCQ5BW…

Attn Ben @… https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6whhyf3gbvpxwoualahojb3l/post/3majwot6ye22x<…

Rail enthusiast wife Daria (@dariaphoebe.com)
Amazing work from whoever was up in N6914W over Ohio … https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/N6914W

Kopfschütteln: Ein großer Unternehmer entfernt eigenmächtig Elemente zur Straßenberuhigung, die die Gemeinde aufgestellt hat und lässt sie auf das Firmengelände verfrachten.
"Aus Sicht der Staatsanwaltschaft gibt es bislang keine ausreichenden Hinweise darauf, dass […] einen strafbaren Diebstahl begangen haben. Entscheidend dafür ist […], dass die Kübel nicht dauerhaft der Gemeinde vorenthalten werden sollten und der Aufenthaltsort […] bekannt war"

Happy #Solstice ! For those of us in the northern hemisphere where I live, this is #WinterSolstice … the shortest day of the year and therefore the darkest in terms of light. We all know that the days only get longer from here on out… and we are excited!
For my friends in the southern …

December solstice - Wikipedia

been faffing around with 3d geometry in build123d recently, and failing to get the cad kernel to produce geometric objects that do what i want
so i sat down to do some algebra
it’s annoying that the usual material about conic sections explains how ellipses and parabolas and hyperbolas work … but not how to derive them given a cone and a plane
so i worked it out for my particular problem, and happily things cancelled out very nicely, making the result nice and simple
(…

Now this was a gorgeous cycling loop. Temperature was around freezing but luckily just few wind. As you see, the weather was ace. Clouds and fog stayed in the north 🌞
Also tried Knee warmers, which was just right! A very good buy!
I just need a solution against freezing toes. @… ,I bought neoprene toe warmer! The shoes are just a bit tight then, …

⭐ ⚽ "… auf seiner #Homepage bekannt gegeben …"
https://w…

@… setting a password in single user mode can be … ahem … entertaining, if your keyboard is not the United States standard.
<https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
VARON: Perhaps they should have.
MAJA: What do you mean?
VARON: I don't know. Perhaps Blake is guilty. Even so it's... too perfect.
MAJA: Where're you going?
VARON: The Public Records computer.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/259…

KI-Update kompakt: Atlas-Browser, Projekt Mercury, KI im Militär, Sort A Brick
Das "KI-Update" liefert drei mal pro Woche eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://…

Oh look, and Signal has just told me that Jack Dorsey has joined Signal.
(a) Signal telling people on your contacts that they’ve joined Signal is a privacy violation.
(b) When the fuck did I add Jack Dorsey’s number to my contacts? Must’ve been ages ago; don’t even remember meeting him back in the day but it’s possible I guess.
🤷‍♂️
CC @…@…

Immer verrückter … - TV-Irrsinn! Fußballfans brauchen fünf (!) Abos #News #Nachrichten

Robust Vision-Language Models via Tensor Decomposition: A Defense Against Adversarial Attacks
Het Patel, Muzammil Allie, Qian Zhang, Jia Chen, Evangelos E. Papalexakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16163 …

Robust Vision-Language Models via Tensor Decomposition: A Defense Against Adversarial Attacks
Vision language models (VLMs) excel in multimodal understanding but are prone to adversarial attacks. Existing defenses often demand costly retraining or significant architecture changes. We introduce a lightweight defense using tensor decomposition suitable for any pre-trained VLM, requiring no retraining. By decomposing and reconstructing vision encoder representations, it filters adversarial noise while preserving meaning. Experiments with CLIP on COCO and Flickr30K show improved robustness.…

First impressions of ChatGPT Atlas, as browser agents remain confusing, with insurmountable security and privacy risks including prompt injection attacks (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/21/introducing-chatgpt-atlas/

Introducing ChatGPT Atlas
Last year OpenAI hired Chrome engineer Darin Fisher, which sparked speculation they might have their own browser in the pipeline. Today it arrived. ChatGPT Atlas is a Mac-only web browser …

One early stunner among the NFL's undefeated, plus an incredible catch https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6650195/2025/09/22/nfl-undefeated-teams-the-pulse/

Hier, bitte ⤵️
Bevor das nächste Mal wieder alle entsetzt sind über die Zustände im Osten: Das wird nicht besser, wenn denen niemand hilft, die den Rasssismus, die Behindertenfeindlichkeit, die Nazi-Gewalt abkriegen.
Bitte nehmt Euch die paar Minuten.
https://links.potsda.mn/@opferperspekt<…

Localmax dynamics for attention in transformers and its asymptotic behavior
Henri Cimeti\`ere, Maria Teresa Chiri, Bahman Gharesifard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15958 https://…

Localmax dynamics for attention in transformers and its asymptotic behavior
We introduce a new discrete-time attention model, termed the localmax dynamics, which interpolates between the classic softmax dynamics and the hardmax dynamics, where only the tokens that maximize the influence toward a given token have a positive weight. As in hardmax, uniform weights are determined by a parameter controlling neighbor influence, but the key extension lies in relaxing neighborhood interactions through an alignment-sensitivity parameter, which allows controlled deviations from …

Mark Zuckerberg and other executives will pay $190M to the company in a settlement with shareholders who brought suit to recover damages from the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal that reverberated out of Trump’s first term. Ensures that he, Sandberg, Andressen, Thiel, et al shielded from deposition, trial. https://<…

Zuckerberg, Meta directors agree to $190 million settlement of shareholder privacy case
WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) -Mark Zuckerberg and current and former leaders of Meta Platforms agreed to pay the company $190 million to resolve...

On The Road - To Xi’An/ Beings II 👁️‍🗨️
在路上 - 去西安/ 灵 II 👁️‍🗨️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Kodak Double-X 5222
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Der amerikanische Gesundheitsminister RFK Jr.: »A fetus is inside the placenta.«
Das ist doch alles nicht auszuhalten …

me: it's good code!
them: *look inside*
them: it's incomprehensible regular expressions!

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Flying Drones to Locate Cyber-Attackers in LoRaWAN Metropolitan Networks
Matteo Repetto, Enrico Cambiaso, Fabio Patrone, Sandro Zappatore
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15725 https:…

Flying Drones to Locate Cyber-Attackers in LoRaWAN Metropolitan Networks
Today, many critical services and industrial systems rely on wireless networks for interaction with the IoT, hence becoming vulnerable to a broad number of cyber-threats. While detecting this kind of attacks is not difficult with common cyber-security tools, and even trivial for jamming, finding their origin and identifying culprits is almost impossible today, yet indispensable to stop them, especially when attacks are generated with portable or self-made devices that continuously move around. …

Frequency shifts due to relativistic effects and retardation in continuous variable quantum key distribution
Emanuel Schlake, Jan P. Hackstein, Roy Barzel, Eva Hackmann, Dennis R\"atzel, Claus L\"ammerzahl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16164

Frequency shifts due to relativistic effects and retardation in continuous variable quantum key distribution
Space-based quantum communication naturally involves satellites and ground stations exchanging optical signals at high altitudes and large relative velocities. Starting from general relativistic considerations, we systematically separate the frequency shift into longitudinal Doppler contributions, relativistic corrections, and corrections from the propagation delay (retardation). We find the relativistic corrections to the Keplerian satellite orbits to be negligible on the considered timescale,…

Einen Tag vor unserer letzten Show dieses Jahr musste unser Schlagzeuger Max ins Krankenhaus. Wir haben die Show mit seinen Aufnahmen als Play-back gespielt … und das Konzert auf Twitch gestreamt, damit er sich das im Krankenhaus live angucken kann. Hat funktioniert!

… I love those lyrics.
I trap you so much!
Yes, I want you to be happy
But don't threaten my happiness
Can't you see I'm walking this threadbare tightrope?
Made out of dental floss stitched
Together with strands of tobacco and dog hair
And it stretches between two precious fantasies, my fantasy of me
And my fantasy of you
#KaeTempest #Music

#Ignorierempfehlung (sollte man viel öfters geben):
Die Debatte zu Klimabewegung und Nahostkonflikt ist wirklich auf beiden Seiten derart verfälscht, dass es sich leider nicht mal lohnt, sie auf Feuilletonniveau zu verfolgen (es mag akademische Bereiche geben, die noch sinnvoll darüber argumentieren, aber diese hier sind es nicht).
Gestern war in der SZ ein Artikel von …

"Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people."
—Adam Driver
#acting #coaching #inspiration

The cybersecurity news machine is cranking at high levels this week, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the crucial developments you should know, including
--JLR cyberattack is the most economically damaging in UK history,
--CISA warns of Oracle E-Business Suite flaw,
--Spyware developer was targeted by spyware,
--Salt Typhoon attacked a European telco,
--TikTok could be sharing your data with the US government,
--UN Cybercrime Convention slated …

JLR cyberattack is the most economically damaging in UK history
CISA warns of Oracle E-Business Suite flaw, Spyware developer was targeted by spyware, Salt Typhoon attacked a European telco, TikTok could be sharing your data with the US government, UN Cybercrime Convention slated for weekend signoff, UK won't probe Afghan data breach, much more

"Hey, ich höre Aussagen, die ich nicht hören will (die aber wichtig sind). Schalt die mal auf Stumm, bitte" ist ja schon, äh, …
Gibt es jetzt dann eine Republikaner-Edition von Bose?
https://bsky.app/profile/zamosta.bsky.social/post/3m644opvk3s2g

Je verdienmodel voor een belangrijk deel baseren op boetes en dan zielig gaan doen als er te weinig geld binnenkomt … bizar!
Eerste elektronische tolweg is financieel fiasco: geen winst, maar miljoenenverlies
https://www.rtl.nl/nieuws/onderzoek/artike…

Donkerrode cijfers voor eerste elektronische tolweg in Nederland: boetegolf blijft uit
De eerste elektronische tolweg van ons land blijkt een financieel drama. De Blankenburgverbinding (A24) in Zuid-Holland levert veel minder tolgeld op dan de overheid had verwacht, mede doordat er ten onrechte gerekend was op een enorme boetegolf. Het ministerie gaat nu zelfs uit van een verlies van 10 miljoen euro, ontdekte RTL Nieuws.

Once limited to policing the nation’s boundaries,
the Border Patrol has built a surveillance system stretching into the country’s interior
that can monitor ordinary Americans’ daily actions and connections for anomalies instead of simply targeting wanted suspects.
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious, The Associated Press has found.
The …

Border Patrol monitors US drivers and detains Americans for ‘suspicious’ travel
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious. The Associated Press has found that the predictive intelligence program has resulted in people being stopped, searched, and in some cases arrested. A network of cameras scans and records vehicle license plate information, and an algorithm flags vehicles deemed suspicious based on where they came from, where they were going, …

Pixel-"Superfans" dürfen neue Top-Smartphones schon früher testen
Google lädt eine kleine Gruppe seiner treuesten Pixel-Nutzer ein, das kommende Pixel 11 vor der offiziellen Markteinführung zu testen und Feedback zu geben.

Fuck every country supporting Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people. And yes, that includes the UK.
Look at the state of these genocidal fascists… arresting a British-Palestinian NHS doctor for speaking out against Israel’s genocide.
History sees. History remembers.
👇
#UK #israel

Generalized Deep Multi-view Clustering via Causal Learning with Partially Aligned Cross-view Correspondence
Xihong Yang, Siwei Wang, Jiaqi Jin, Fangdi Wang, Tianrui Liu, Yueming Jin, Xinwang Liu, En Zhu, Kunlun He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16022

Generalized Deep Multi-view Clustering via Causal Learning with Partially Aligned Cross-view Correspondence
Multi-view clustering (MVC) aims to explore the common clustering structure across multiple views. Many existing MVC methods heavily rely on the assumption of view consistency, where alignments for corresponding samples across different views are ordered in advance. However, real-world scenarios often present a challenge as only partial data is consistently aligned across different views, restricting the overall clustering performance. In this work, we consider the model performance decreasing …

Google's TPUs and Gemini are competitive but Nvidia's and OpenAI's first-mover advantage makes their lead seem durable, and Google faces the innovator's dilemma (SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/21/nvidia-maintains-moat-gemini-…

Why Nvidia maintains its moat and Gemini won’t kill OpenAI - SiliconANGLE
Why Nvidia maintains its moat and Gemini won’t kill OpenAI - SiliconANGLE

Moody Urbanity - TWO II 2️⃣
情绪化城市 - 贰 II 2️⃣
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Quantum Generative Adversarial Autoencoders: Learning latent representations for quantum data generation
Naipunnya Raj, Rajiv Sangle, Avinash Singh, Krishna Kumar Sabapathy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16186

Quantum Generative Adversarial Autoencoders: Learning latent representations for quantum data generation
In this work, we introduce the Quantum Generative Adversarial Autoencoder (QGAA), a quantum model for generation of quantum data. The QGAA consists of two components: (a) Quantum Autoencoder (QAE) to compress quantum states, and (b) Quantum Generative Adversarial Network (QGAN) to learn the latent space of the trained QAE. This approach imparts the QAE with generative capabilities. The utility of QGAA is demonstrated in two representative scenarios: (a) generation of pure entangled states, and …

"Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theatre, a piece of music or a book can make a difference. It can change the world."
—Alan Rickman
#acting #coaching #inspiration

The wicked never rest, and that's why we're all weary, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--European airports are still suffering from a weekend attack on third-party system
--Jaguar Land Rover still incapacitated three weeks after ransomware attack,
--Chrysler parent company hit by third-party hack,
--Everest group claims attack on BMW Group,
--Vegas cops bust teen suspected of …

European airports are still suffering from a weekend attack on third-party system
Jaguar Land Rover still incapacitated three weeks after ransomware attack, Chrysler parent company hit by third-party hack, Everest group claims attack on BMW Group, Vegas cops bust teen suspected of casino hacks, Crypto.com denies suppressing hack news, much more

Flugtaxi der Boeing-Tochter Wisk Aero absolviert Erstflug
Die Boeing-Tochter Wisk Aero hat ihr elektrisches Fluggerät erstmals starten lassen. Es soll künftig als autonomes Flugtaxi eingesetzt werden.
https://www.…

Anyone out there able to help Nadeen out at the last minute so she can pay her (and her sister’s) tuition to continue their studies? You would be gifting the world two new dentists for the low price of $2,000.
The last day for them to register is tomorrow.
Please share donate if you can.
💕
#academia

CoPAD : Multi-source Trajectory Fusion and Cooperative Trajectory Prediction with Anchor-oriented Decoder in V2X Scenarios
Kangyu Wu, Jiaqi Qiao, Ya Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15984

CoPAD : Multi-source Trajectory Fusion and Cooperative Trajectory Prediction with Anchor-oriented Decoder in V2X Scenarios
Recently, data-driven trajectory prediction methods have achieved remarkable results, significantly advancing the development of autonomous driving. However, the instability of single-vehicle perception introduces certain limitations to trajectory prediction. In this paper, a novel lightweight framework for cooperative trajectory prediction, CoPAD, is proposed. This framework incorporates a fusion module based on the Hungarian algorithm and Kalman filtering, along with the Past Time Attention (…

Italy's competition authority closes its July 2024 probe into Google's alleged unfair practices over users' personal data after Google adopted remedies (Gianluca Semeraro/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/…

Anthropic launched Claude Code for web 20th October 2025
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/20/claude-code-for-web/
It’s an asynchronous coding agent
—their answer to
OpenAI’s Codex Cloud

Claude Code for web—a new asynchronous coding agent from Anthropic
Anthropic launched Claude Code for web this morning. It’s an asynchronous coding agent—their answer to OpenAI’s Codex Cloud and Google’s Jules, and has a very similar shape. I had preview …

"To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication."
—Marlon Brando
#acting #coaching #inspiration …

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@metacurity/115584342649529214
A district court judge dismissed most of the SEC’s claims in July 2024. SolarWinds and the SEC recently reached a settlement on the remaining charges.
The SEC's lawsuit was flimsy, …

heise | heise Update vom 21. November 2025: Lesetipps fürs Wochenende
Der wöchentliche Newsletter von heise dieses Mal mit Kreditkartenbetrug, VR-Brillen, Quantenphysik, E-Auto-Akkus und Fotobüchern.
https:/…

Just added Web Reachability API (at least that’s what I’m calling it) support to https://ip.small-web.org.
It’s for testing the reachability of your Small Web servers (using a domain or, more importantly, an IPv4/IPv6 address). I’m using it to implement Web Numbers¹ support in Auto Encrypt² and Kitten³.
…

Sources: Trump's team recently discussed letting Nvidia sell H200 chips to China, a major departure from the administration's earlier public stances (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-…

Moody Urbanity - ONE 1️⃣
情绪化城市 - 壹 1️⃣
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

KI-Update Deep-Dive: Besser texten mit KI
KI kann beim Schreiben helfen, doch oft ist das Ergebnis mittelmäßig. Wie man zu besseren Texten kommt, erklärt Anne-Kathrin Gerstlauer.
https://www.heise.de/…

💬Readers added context they thought people might want to know…
“Europe is hurtling toward digital vassalage. Under Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, EU laws to tackle tech giants have been either not applied or delayed, for fear of offending Donald Trump. Now leaked documents reveal that the European Commission plans to gut a central part of Europe’s digital rulebook. This will hurt Europe’s innovators and hand the future of Europe’s tech sovereignty to US firms.…

Working on a project that‘s still in development (creative development) and today I wrote up my recommendations for where it might register its domain names, since the project may not be to the current US presidential administration’s liking.
It is odd that that’s a reasonable concern.
Without a massive (and expensive) site reliability engineering (SRE) team, figuring out what might make things more resilient affordably is a nice way to try to find some control amid the chaos. …

Google launches new features for its Google AI Studio developer platform, including a revamped "Build" tab to vibe code AI apps (Alexey Shabanov/TestingCatalog)
https://www.testingcatalog.com/google-revamps-ai-studio-with-new-features-for-…

Google revamps AI Studio with new features for vibe coding
Google debuts a revamped AI Studio "Build" interface that cuts technical barriers for AI app prototyping with one-click Cloud Run publishing.

Bahn zieht Reißleine: Cargo-Chefin Nikutta muss gehen
Seit 2020 hat Sigrid Nikutta versucht, DB Cargo zu sanieren. Nach Kritik der Gewerkschaft und einem verheerenden Gutachten zieht der Konzern Konsequenzen.
https://…

City Random Manners ✴️
城市随机行为 ✴️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

2026 soll Gerichtsentscheidung über Google Werbegeschäft kommen
Die letzten Anhörungen sind abgehalten, nun will eine US-Richterin entscheiden: Muss Google sein Werbegeschäft verkaufen?
https://www.…

General Atlantic purchases a $96M minority stake in Japanese HR software unicorn SmartHR, marking the PE firm's first growth equity investment in Japan (Lisa Du/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-…

Moody Urbanity - Manmade Confinements 🏗️
情绪化城市 - 人造禁锢 🏗️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Kentmere Pan 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Amazon Web Services: AWS wieder im Normalbetrieb
Am Montag legte ein Fehler Amazons Web Services und damit diverse Internet-Dienste lahm. Amazon erklärt die Probleme.
https://www.heise.de/news/…

The EU Commission is considering tweaking rules to simplify users' cookie preference settings, after its 2009 rule plastered the internet with consent banners (Ellen O'Regan/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-cookie-…

Europe’s cookie law messed up the internet. Brussels wants to fix it.
The European Commission wants to take a bite out of privacy rules that force websites to run cookie banners.

Bundeskartellamt verhängt 2025 weniger Bußgelder
Das Bundeskartellamt hat 2025 weniger Bußgelder wegen Kartellverfahren verhängt – deutlich weniger als im Vorjahr.
https://www.heise.de/news/…

S&P Global: data center deals hit $61B globally in 2025; debt issuance nearly doubled YoY to $182B, with Meta raising $62B debt since 2022, ~50% of that in 2025 (April Roach/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/19/data-center-deals-…

Data center deals hit record $61 billion in 2025 as AI valuation risks and funding concerns grip investors
Hyperscalers are increasingly turning to outside capital in the form of debt to fund the energy-intensive infrastructure.

Claude Code: Neue Web-Version bringt mehrere Vorteile für Entwickler mit sich
Anthropic bietet Claude Code ab sofort eine neue Plattform. Künftig ist die Coding-KI auch im Web nutzbar.
https://…

Chinese AI chipmaker Biren Technology plans to raise up to ~$623M in a Hong Kong IPO, pricing shares at ~$2.19 to ~$2.52, and expects trading to start January 2 (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/…

Zattoo verlinkt Inhalte der ARD-Mediathek
Die IPTV-Plattform Zattoo zeigt nun auch Inhalte der ARD-Mediathek an. Filme, Serien und Dokus der ARD werden als Link in die Zattoo-Oberfläche integriert.
https://www.

TikTok pushes merchants to use a new ad-buying tool that promotes videos linking to TikTok Shop rather than merchants' own sites, frustrating some merchants (Ann Gehan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tiktok-shops-new-…

TikTok Shop’s New Ad Policy Risks Alienating Merchants
As TikTok readies itself for the expected sale of its U.S. business to a new venture controlled by American investors, the company is trying to boost its commerce business, TikTok Shop. But the measures it has taken risk alienating merchants who sell on the shopping service. TikTok Shop in ...

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Zahl der Fahrgäste in Bussen und Bahnen steigt kaum noch
https:/…

Mittwoch: Amazon-Einsparungen mit Robotern, Google-Bestellungen eines 7-Jährigen
Stellenkürzungen durch Roboter Haftung für Spielkind Samsungs Mixed-Reality-Headset GM ohne Elektro-Lkw Autobauer in Nexperia-Chipkrise Bit-Rauschen

Sources: Chinese chipmaker YMTC considers an IPO in China at an up to ~$40B valuation as soon as 2026, in what could be one of China's biggest IPOs in years (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-22/…

Die Vorratsdatenspeicherung ist zurück auf der politischen Agenda! 📱💾 Bundesjustizministerin Stefanie Hubig (SPD) hat einen Gesetzentwurf vorgelegt, der vorsieht, dass Internetanbieter IP-Adressen künftig für drei Monate speichern sollen.
Zum Artikel: https://…

A US judge is expected to rule next year on breaking up Google's ad tech monopoly, after the DOJ and Google delivered closing arguments in a remedies hearing (David McCabe/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/technology/google-ad-tech-closing.html<…

The Fate of Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly Is Now in a Judge’s Hands
A judge queried lawyers about whether a breakup made sense during closing arguments on how to fix the tech giant’s dominance in online advertising.

Australien: Todesfälle nach stundenlangem Notruf-Ausfall wegen Firewall-Upgrade
Der australische Provider Optus macht schon wieder mit Problemen auf sich aufmerksam. Diesmal steht der Ausfall des Notrufs mit vier Todesfällen in Verbindung.

To secure vast compute for OpenAI, Sam Altman's deal spree pits Silicon Valley giants against each other as they race to cash in, making OpenAI too big to fail (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-altman-ope

Strava lässt Klage gegen Garmin fallen
Nur wenige Wochen nach Einreichung hat die Fitnessplattform Strava ihre Klage gegen Garmin fallen gelassen – die Hintergründe der Entscheidung sind noch unklar.
https://www.

A survey of US adults on social media: 84% use YouTube, 71% use Facebook, 50% use Instagram, 37% use TikTok, 32% use WhatsApp, 26% use Reddit, and 21% use X (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/11/20/americans-social-media-use-2025/…

Americans’ Social Media Use 2025
YouTube remains the most popular, but adults are increasingly using Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp and Reddit. Use of some platforms varies by age, gender, and race and ethnicity.

Europäische Rundfunkunion: KI-Systeme geben Nachrichteninhalte oft falsch wider
Im Rahmen einer Studie interpretierten ChatGPT & Co. in 45 Prozent der Fälle Nachrichteninhalte fehlerhaft – unabhängig von Sprache, Region oder Plattform.

GE HealthCare acquires Intelerad, which sells cloud imaging software and digital workflow tools primarily to outpatient and ambulatory sites, for $2.3B (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2025/11/20/ge-healthcare-…

GE HealthCare to buy Intelerad for $2.3B
The move expands GE HealthCare into outpatient enterprise imaging.

CFexpress Typ B: Biwin hat die erste zertifizierte VPG800-Speicherkarte
Der chinesische Hersteller Biwin hat die erste CFexpress-Typ-B-Speicherkarte mit VPG800-Zertifizierung. Sie ist für RAW-Videoaufnahmen in hohen Auflösungen.

Analyse: Fossile Förderpläne widersprechen Klimazielen
Anspruch trifft Wirklichkeit: Auch ein Jahrzehnt nach dem umfassenden Pariser Klimaabkommen rückt die Welt nicht schnell genug von Kohle, Öl und Gas ab.
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Archetype, which builds AI to interpret sensor data from the physical world, raised a $35M Series A and launches tools to build and deploy physical agents (Grace Priscilla Teo/Tech in Asia)
https://www.techinasia.com/news/samsung-joins-35m-series-a-for-…

A look at military tech startup Shield AI, recently valued at $5.6B, and its new CEO Gary Steele, who aims to grow annual revenue from $300M to $1B by 2028 (Jessica Mathews/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/21/shield-ai-ukraine-defense-tech-gary-steele/

Shield AI took its drones from the ‘Batcave’ to the battlefield. Now the $5.6 billion defense-tech startup’s new CEO says it’s at an inflection point
After eight months spent tweaking its surveillance drone in Ukraine, demand for Shield AI’s V-BAT is ramping up in Europe and Asia.

Some experts in the human-computer interaction field say making AI chatbots act humanlike creates cognitive dissonance for users over how much to trust them (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/technol<…

Why Do A.I. Chatbots Use ‘I’?
A.I. chatbots have been designed to behave in a humanlike way. Some experts think that’s a terrible idea.

Google says its Willow quantum chip using a new Quantum Echoes algorithm ran computations 13,000x faster than supercomputers, aiding drug and materials research (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/technology/googles-quantum-computer-…

Google’s Quantum Computer Makes a Big Technical Leap
Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer.

YouTube now lets mobile users set a customizable daily limit to restrict how long they can scroll Shorts feeds; the limit notifications are dismissible (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/804113/youtube-shorts-time-limit-pause-feeds…

YouTube will help you quit watching Shorts
YouTube users on mobile can now set a customizable daily limit that restricts how long they can scroll Shorts feeds.

Insight Partners-owned Veeam agrees to acquire Securiti AI, which makes data security tools, for ~$1.73B in cash and stock, set to close first week of December (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

Lagos-founded payments startup Moniepoint raised $90M at a $1B valuation, after raising $110M in October 2024, and says it processes $250B yearly transactions (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-21/visa-…

Internal Amazon documents and sources: executives believe Amazon is on the cusp of replacing 500K jobs with robots and aims to automate 75% of its operations (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/technology/inside-amazons-…

Inside Amazon’s Plans to Replace Workers With Robots
Internal documents show the company that changed how people shop has a far-reaching plan to automate 75 percent of its operations.

Google Fi plans an AI call quality feature to filter out background sounds like wind next month, and will bring full RCS support on the web in December (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/google-…

Google Fi is getting enhanced web calls and messaging, AI bill summaries
Google’s MVNO gets better web support, clearer audio, and yes, more AI.

AppZen, which builds AI-powered tools to automate finance functions, raised a $180M Series D led by Riverwood Capital, bringing its total funding to $290M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/fintech/agentic-ai-startup-appzen-seriesd/…

With Amazon And Salesforce As Customers, Agentic AI Startup AppZen Lands $180M To ‘Transform’ Finance...
AppZen, which has built an agentic AI platform for finance teams, has raised $180 million in a Series D round, the company told Crunchbase News. Riverwood Capital led the growth financing round.

Scale AI launches SEAL Showdown, a public AI benchmarking system that relies on votes from contributors in 100 countries to gauge everyday usability of models (Agnee Ghosh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

A White House official says the US will not hold a golden share or equity in TikTok US and the new board will not have a member selected by the US government (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-22/no-golden-…

Low prices, available land, and cooler weather are driving the data center boom in the Nordics, which have 1.5 GW of capacity live and 7.5 GW in the pipeline (Maggie Shiltagh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta removes an AI video designed to look like RTÉ news bulletin that falsely showed Irish presidential candidate Catherine Connolly withdrawing from the race (œrla Ryan/The Irish Times)
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/1…

Deepfake AI video depicting Catherine Connolly quitting presidential race removed by Meta
Deepfake video designed to look like RTÉ news bulletin was viewed almost 30,000 times

Threat intel company Dataminr plans to acquire cybersecurity threat intel provider ThreatConnect for $290M; Dataminr raised $85M in convertible funding in March (Greg Otto/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/dataminr-threatconnect-acquisition/

Dataminr to acquire cybersecurity firm ThreatConnect for $290 million
Dataminr, a New York-based company specializing in real-time threat intelligence, announced plans Tuesday to acquire ThreatConnect, a cybersecurity threat intelligence provider, for $290 million. The acquisition will combine Dataminr’s AI-powered analysis of public data with ThreatConnect’s internal threat management capabilities, creating what the companies describe as “Client-Tailored intelligence” that adapts to individual customer needs. The […]