2026-02-10 03:37:32
Russian ArBat battalion commander 'Abrek' killed in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/10/russian-arbat-battalion-commander-abrek.html
Russian ArBat battalion commander 'Abrek' killed in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/10/russian-arbat-battalion-commander-abrek.html
Paris-based online corporate event booking marketplace Naboo raised a $70M Series B led by Lightspeed with participation from Notion Capital, ISAI, and Ternel (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/02/10/naboo-raises-70m-from-lightspe…
Eine aktuelle #Studie des Forschungsinstituts für #Nutztierbiologie zeigt, dass #Nanoplastik in Zellkulturen von Rindern und Schweinen aufgenommen wird.
Bereits geringe Konzentrationen…
RE: https://vmst.io/@vmstan/116200819973767850
A venture capitalist, you say? How surprising.
»Risiko durch KI-Brillen — Die US Air Force verbietet Smart Glasses:
Die US Air Force reagiert auf moderne Wearables und verbietet Soldaten ab sofort das Tragen von Smart Glasses mit Kamera- oder KI-Funktionen. Modelle wie die Ray-Ban Meta stellen laut den neuen Regeln ein zu großes Sicherheitsrisiko dar.«
Ich sage mal so, dies spricht für sich weshalb der KI nicht blind zu vertrauen ist.
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Tuesday is a scam
RE: https://mastodon.social/@annaecook/116202289359508737
It’s sports betting but the horses can bet
2026 NFL free agency: Top 10 remaining free agents include 2024 sacks leader, former No. 1 overall pick, more
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/top-10-remaining-2026-nfl-free-agents-m…
Y no fue por la historia.
Solo Margot Robbie logra salvarla del desastre total. Yo la nomino desde ya a peor película y peor dirección en los Razzies 2027
1½★ 👉🏻 #Cinemastodon
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #StreetSounds
Roc Marciano:
🎵 Better Know
#RocMarciano
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Xatl0mLRZvKbG0yTul2dE
A real “my shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt” sort of moment
#uspol
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/09/melania-trump-epstein-speech-puzzle
Dems weigh how hard to push in Virginia (Punchbowl News)
https://punchbowl.news/article/campaigns/dems-va-push/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p137#a260109p137
Accounting for the effects of year-to-year climate variation on population growth rate can substantially decrease the size of a species' expected geographic range— by an average of 22% in this simulation study with a new method for range modeling
https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.30.621023
In his rant on taking Greenland, Trump confirmed what Europe should have understood by now: Both Article 5 protection of NATO countries and US 'security guarantees' for Ukraine have zero value.
"As a country, you protect what you own, you do not protect treaties." Clear language.
https://nos.nl/l/2597599
The Department of Justice estimates that American police officers shoot 10,000 pet dogs in the line of duty each year.
It is impossible to ascertain a reliable number, however, because most law enforcement agencies do not maintain accurate records of animal killings.
The tally may be substantially higher, and some suggest it could reach six figures.
How did it get so late? I have achieved close to nothing today.
#wristCheck
Bizar, terwijl de discussie over afhankelijkheid en digitale soevereiniteit nog volop loopt, cruciale infrastructuur afhankelijk maken.
"Terwijl Europese overheden, bedrijven en organisaties juist streven naar digitale autonomie en minder afhankelijk proberen te worden van Amerikaanse techleveranciers, gunt NS het IT-contract aan een Nederlandse dochter van een Amerikaans bedrijf. "
Ok, this is pretty epic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_GFGA1amUU One person recreates the best 20ish minutes of music ever. The final Abby Road medley.... Crikey, impressive effort, Fathom.
I totally randomly found another Pocket Operator album after I got my stuff into Fairplayer and was checking out the site!
https://fairplayer.band/player/release/zero@music.ryanparsley.com
Some guy plays “Cavatina” on a piano for two elephants. They join in. Just what it says on the tin. https://youtu.be/_qsqNU4frAA?si=OKCUWHcQPeK12pwS
Bye bye Little Davey- don't let the door hit you on the way out
'Buggered' David Littleproud quits as Nationals leader
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/australian-politics/2026/03/10/david-littleproud-q…
“#AI” translations are ruining #Wikipedia
https://www.osnews.com/story/144567/ai-tra
After so many years being a front-end dev, I got to say that huge bulk of the work is just upgrading dependencies. It never ends.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Iain Ballamy:
🎵 Harmonique
#IainBallamy
https://open.spotify.com/track/2qZuc4lwUZy9DIpxXc0frI
"What is a nanopublication really?" – by Rohitha Ravinder
https://medium.com/@rohitha0112/what-is-a-nanopublication-really-413cac6da0dd
Pope Leo sends 80 generators, thousands of medicines to Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/10/pope-leo-sends-generators-thousands.html
📰 Forschung kann Leben retten oder verlängern – durch Warnungen vor #Risiken und Fortschritte in #Klimaanpassung, #Energiewende und
Sources: Apple made ~55M iPhones in India in 2025, up 53% YoY from 36M in 2024, ~25% of total iPhone production as it shifts away from China to avoid tariffs (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
I am once again asking to not take my shitposts (too) seriously.
I think it's pretty obvious when I seriouspost vs shitpost, no?
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #StreetSounds
Chris Crack:
🎵 My 2022 Girlfriend Was A Humiliation Ritual
#ChrisCrack
https://chriscrack.bandcamp.com/album/my-2022-girlfriend-was-a-humiliation-ritual
https://open.spotify.com/track/1zii3vujGihMblQQpZczXg
Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer under investigation for 'inappropriate' relationship with employee (Josh Christenson/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/01/09/us-news/labor-secretary-lori-chavez-deremer-under-investigation-for-inappropriate-relationship-with-employee/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p141#a260109p141
Tracy Scroggins, Lions' No. 3 sack leader, dies at 56 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7034931/2026/02/10/lions-tracy-scroggins-dead/
Ukraine says strike on Rostov drone depot destroyed about 6,000 Russian FPV drones: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/10/ukraine-says-strike-on-rostov.html
»ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says:
Discord, a messaging platform popular with gamers, says official ID photos of around 70,000 users have potentially been leaked after a cyber-attack.«
Discord wants to collect the data from you for "security" in order to evaluate you via ID. Now this, this shows how insecure data hunger is, especially in the age of BigTech.
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👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„Windräder trocknen das Land aus und führen zu #Dürren“.
#Windkraftanlagen
The timing of this exhibit feels resonant – and a bit ominous.
In January, news broke that Kerouac’s 37-metre-long first-draft scroll of
"On the Road" will be up for auction.
When it was last for sale in 2001, Carolyn Cassady
– Neal Cassady’s former wife
– denounced the auction as “blasphemy”, saying the scroll belonged in a library, not a private collection.
"Jack loved public libraries,” she said at the time, adding:
“If they auction…
#muddledMaunderings of a doddering fool. Caveat Lector. (1/5)
Goed artikel van NRC over Groenland,
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/01/09/groenland-waarom-grootmachten-azen-op-dit-stukje-poolgebie…
Cyberexperte fordert Aufklärungsvideos zu KI-Risiken
„Wir müssen Kinder aufs KI-Zeitalter vorbereiten“, sagt Cyberexperte Rüdiger. Er fordert Aufklärungsvideos bei Tiktok und Co. zu KI-Risiken.
https://www.
The two best feelings in the world are:
1. Helping another person
2. Learning something new
Interesting how both big tech with “AI” and “conservatives” do not want you to do either.
How "dark factories", powered by AI and robotics and requiring essentially no workers, are set to upend China's labor market, already stressed by tariffs (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20
Ukraine says no counteroffensive near Hulyaipole, debunks Russian front-line maps: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/10/ukraine-says-no-counteroffensive-near.html
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #StreetSounds
Babyfxce E:
🎵 PTP feat. Monaleo (Remix)
#BabyfxceE
https://open.spotify.com/track/5nZ73ycbCA2lkEyuM1K6zB
Trying out Mistral's Le Chat (chat.mistral.ai, French, but speaks English too ;) as AI Assistant now, as an alternative to the US Department of War partner, OpenAI's ChatGPT.
https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/
A scammer’s blueprint: How cybercriminals plot to rob a target in a week
😶🌫️ #scamm
Trump calls for a one-year 10% cap on credit card interest in a Truth Social post (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-calls-for-one-year-cap-on-credit-card-interest-2026-1
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p143#a260109p143
Wat is de NAVO waard als het grootste lid van het bondgenootschap aangeeft, grondgebied van een ander lid te gaan annexeren (met of zonder geweld), tegen de zin van dat land in?
Hard werken aan een NAVO/defensie organisatie zonder de VS lijkt me.
#groenland #vs
Intercepted call reveals Russian soldiers shot civilians near Pokrovsk, Ukrainian intelligence says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/10/intercepted-call-reveals-russian-soldiers.html
PitchBook: European VC investments rose 5% YoY to a post-pandemic high of €66B in 2025; AI-related deals accounted for 35% , or €23.5B, up from €17.7B in 2024 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/523ee7a9-489a-4f68-8aae-3f98c336b479
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #StreetSounds
MIKE:
🎵 Burning Desire (Tiny Desk Version)
#MIKE
https://mikelikesrap.bandcamp.com/track/burning-desire-tiny-desk-version
https://open.spotify.com/track/2KKrlVEhlXqfrLR1okapHp
Unable to help the Iranian regime in defending the country against the US-Israeli attacks, Russia can of course easily and cheaply make life miserable for oil & gas producers in the Gulf, by supporting an Iranian drone attack now and then. And it stands to gain a lot from the resulting high prices.
»Instagram Data Leak Exposes Sensitive Info of 17.5M Accounts:
A significant security breach has compromised approximately 17.5 million Instagram user accounts, exposing sensitive personal information that is now circulating on the dark web«
Which of you is surprised or even shocked - as you are not now? Unfortunately, many still naively believe that they have nothing to hide.
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My ADHD finds that phase of a hobby when you learn your way around extremely pleasing.
Soaking about the knowledge like a sponge reading books & articles & forum posts & old newspapers & research papers, watching videos, digesting the wisdom of people from many decades.
(Why would you deny yourself this by asking a chatbot?!)
Het valt te voorspellen dat mensen straks gaan zeggen dat Groenland toch al onafhankelijk wil worden (klopt) en dat we de VS niet tegen hoeven te houden. Maar onafhankelijk worden is heel want anders dan een land laten annexeren. Onafhankelijk kan Groenland ook lid zijn van de EU.
#groenland #vs <…
French President Emmanuel Macron says the US could retaliate against EU countries, including France and Spain, over plans to ban children from social media (Leila Abboud/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b5b248a4-c83b-45d9-b676-2dd2ee12597c
Safer Internet Day: Mehr Sicherheit mit wenigen Handgriffen
Der Aktionstag erinnert daran, wie wichtig ein bewusster Umgang mit dem Internet ist. Wir haben Tipps und weiterführende Artikel zusammengestellt.
https…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #StreetSounds
Mag!c:
🎵 Justswagup feat. Lil Novi
#Magc
https://open.spotify.com/track/0y0j1lRlV6OKLCsIgkEAbQ
Senior Russian official says Moscow needs 'security guarantees': https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/10/senior-russian-official-says-moscow.html
Dear @… and @… , can the EC please take tough measures against this member state for seizing money from and blackmailing a European partner country under attack by Russia?
[and, all others, reposting would be great]…
Das wifielste Argument ist es um M$ so wie deren E-Mail Client nicht zu nutzen?!?? Ach ja, niemensch hat ja was zu verbergen!1!!
»Microsoft bestätigt — #Update blockiert #Verschlüsselung in Outlook:
Nutzer von Outlook Classic stoßen derzeit auf ein Problem: Verschlüsselte
Alibaba led a ~$293M funding round for ShengShu, just two months after the creator of the Vidu AI video generator raised ~$88M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-10/alibaba-leads-300-million-bet-on-ai-vi…
"Natuurlijk kan zo’n Europese troepenmacht de Amerikaanse militaire macht niet weerstaan. Maar dat is het punt niet. Het doel is om de Amerikanen te tonen: jullie willen vazallen van ons maken, en wij pikken dat niet langer. Geen statements, maar daadkracht."
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #StreetSounds
Mag!c:
🎵 Justswagup
#Magc
https://open.spotify.com/track/0y0j1lRlV6OKLCsIgkEAbQ
IOC bars Ukrainian athlete’s helmet honoring athletes killed during war: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/10/ioc-bars-ukrainian-athletes-helmet.html
A court filing in the iyO-OpenAI trademark case reveals OpenAI won't use the name "io" for its AI device, which isn't expected to ship before February 2027 (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-drops-io-branding-hardware-devices/
Oil depot fire reported in Russia’s Volgograd Oblast following drone attack: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/10/oil-depot-fire-reported-in.html
How AI may disrupt venture capital, from making it easier and cheaper to start software companies, to agentic investors analyzing startup pitch decks and teams (Arielle Pardes/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-kill-venture-capital/
Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Werbung für digitale Behördengänge: Ärger für Kiel nach Clip zu Kirchenaustritt
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Technischer Fehler: AOK Bayern schließt tausende elektronische Patientenakten
Yann LeCun's Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs raised a $1.03B seed at a $3.5B pre-money valuation to work on world models, in Europe's largest ever seed round (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e5245ec3-1a58-4eff-ab58-480b6259aaf1…
Uber übernimmt Lieferdienst Getir in der Türkei
Abu Dhabi steigt beim Lieferdienst Getir aus und verkauft an den Beförderungsvermittler Uber. Dem gehört schon ein Konkurrent.
https://www.heis…
Deutsche Telekom erhöht DSL-Tarife für Bestandsverträge von vor April 2023
Die Deutsche Telekom hebt Preise an. Betroffen sind DSL-Verträge, die vor April 2023 geschlossen wurden.
https://www.
Sources: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed Chair Jerome Powell warned bank CEOs about Anthropic's Mythos model's risks at an urgent meeting Tuesday (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
VLC stopft diverse Sicherheitslecks
https://www.…
Meteoritenjäger stürmen nach Koblenz – Jagd auf Fragmente
Meteoritenjäger selbst aus Frankreich suchen in Koblenz nach dem Einschlag vom Wochenende nach winzigen Fragmenten. Was sie antreibt.
https://www.
Rheinmetall will jährlich Hunderte Drohnenboote bauen
Die unbemannten Boote sollen auf der Werft Blohm Voss im Hamburger Hafen gefertigt werden. Bei hoher Nachfrage ist eine Produktion im 3-Schichtbetrieb denkbar.
ht…
Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Schweizer Franken: Eidgenossen verankern Bargeld in der Verfassung
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Experten: Ohne mehr Klimaschutz drohen höhere Staatsschulden
Gericht: ChatGPT in der Schule ist auch ohne explizites Verbot eine Täuschung
Wer KI-generierte Texte als eigene Leistung ausgibt, riskiert die Note "ungenügend". Das gilt auch, wenn die Schulregeln das Werkzeug nicht namentlich erwähnen.
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Dell rudert zurück: Kunden ignorieren KI-Features bei PCs
https://www.