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China bans TechInsights from working with or receiving data from Chinese entities, citing national security concerns, after a report on Huawei's Ascend AI chips (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/china-blac
China bans TechInsights from working with or receiving data from Chinese entities, citing national security concerns, after a report on Huawei's Ascend AI chips (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/china-blac
Part of Kyiv without power – Russia attacked Ukraine's electricity grid: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/10/part-of-kyiv-without-power.html
Healing Love - the best remedy for body and soul https://muz4now.com/2024/healing-love-the-best-remedy-for-body-and-soul/
The Privacy Paradox
Hadn’t realised that this short piece on privacy by Al Jazeera that I contributed to had aired. Apparently did mid August :)
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/aljazeerauntangles/2025/8/13/the-privacy-paradox
LOL right-Ctl no longer exists on Windows laptops, that’s now the CoPilot key.
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7381341532349661184
@… Das nenne ich mal perfekten Service, vielen Dank! 👌 Hab's auch gleich mal reserviert 😎
💭 : smarter schlagring
warum sollten kriminelle nicht auch ihre vitalparameter per app tracken wollen
#PhantastikPrompts 9.10.: "Does your protagonist believe in magic or something similar?"
Although she is a hereditary priestess and avatar of the God, Selchae starts the narrative as a shallow and vain unbeliever. As she gradually comes to inhabit her role, this changes. The God is capable of 'things similar to magic', but I don't think that even by the end of…
Trump's 'Compact' With Universities Is Badly Needed (Marc Rowan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/opinion/trump-compact-universities-rowan.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p25#a251010p25
Substak – Σφαῖρα
#ambient
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad
example.
-- La Rochefoucauld
"Scientists develop new floating box array for offshore PV"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
That’s almost certainly the better strategy for them, even if the cynical view is true and they really are an investment org and not an educational institution at heart. We know that caving to bullies just marks you as a target. We know that, as @… said, those who resist grow in stature, and those who capitulate emerge as shadows of themselves (https://www.theindex.media/p/donald-trump-can-t-make-cowards-of-us-all). If Harvard is a brand, well….
But investment is a fear-driven world, and there’s a lot of fear circulating.
5/
Wild to think that I’m still not done with my late August photo edits. Here’s a whole lot of them, though: #Photography
Even the funky slap bass can't rescue this dirge. #TOTP
Vielen Dank für die Auskunft! /ironisch
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#Stuttgart #Noafd #Solidarität
Open PhD/Junior Researcher Position in Neurosymbolic AI and Information Extraction on historical documents at FIZ Karlsruhe - Knowledge-driven AI research group (former ISE research group), starting at Jan 1, 2026.
Application Deadline: Oct 31, 2025
https://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/en/stellenan…
Der US-Senat hat Neil Jacobs als neuen Leiter der #NOAA trotz früherer ethischer Verstöße bestätigt.
Damals hatte er unter politischem Druck eine kritische Stellungnahme gegen #Wetterprognosen veröffentlicht, um Aussagen von Präsident Trump zu stützen.
Jacobs kündigte an, künftig a…
Cam Skattebo's big-bang breakout, DK Metcalf's excellence and more essential fantasy football news https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6706519/2025/10/10/fantasy-football-news-week-6-dart-skattebo-metcalf/
“Honestly, I feel like web developers are constantly being gaslit into thinking that complex over-engineered solutions are the only option. When the discourse is being dominated by people invested in frameworks and libraries, all our default thinking will involve frameworks and libraries. That’s not good for users, and I don’t think it’s good for us either.”
Mic drop by @…
back when i was still in school i asked a classmate sitting next to me what should i be calling my machines. being a reenactor (I think? or something adjacent at least, it's been too long) she suggested Elder Futhark runes.
it was at least 5-10 years that passed between that and a realization that someone looking at my DNS zone without context would probably go "hm... is she secretly a nazi". anyway I phased the naming scheme out
I've heard that some people are treating soup as a first dish, and then eat dinner proper.
I can't imagine how people can fit another meal after, say, a solid serving of pea soup.
Titre putaclique il n'y a rien sur le comment dans cet article
Armes, drogues et fichiers de police… Comment les douanes ont décapité les principales plates-formes du Darknet - Le Parisien
https://www…
Google is the first company to be designated with special status in the UK under new digital laws; the designation does not introduce any immediate requirements (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
Alternative Mobilitätslösungen in ländlichen Räumen: Eine Fallstudie
Dr. Julia Jarass
(Raum HG 0.19)
Ukraine, UK negotiating joint production of 2,000 interceptor drones monthly: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/10/ukraine-uk-negotiating-joint-production.html
Fehmarnsundtunnel: Wenig Gegenwind trotz Kostenexplosion
Der geplante Fehmarnsundtunnel, Hinterlandanbindung für den Fehmarnbelttunnel, stößt auf wenig Widerstand. Es gab nur 57 Einwendungen.
https://www.
Campus, which is building an online alternative to community colleges, hires Meta's ex-VP of AI Jerome Pesenti as its CTO, and acquires his company Sizzle AI (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/sam-altman-college-startup-campus-meta-ai.htm…
O rly? Given that Alberta & Ottawa united to shove the TMX pipeline down the throat of the BC & Vancouver governments and several indigenous nations. And given that Carney has been saying “build all the pipelines”. ?!?!?
If my cynicism is misplaced I heartily apologize and salute in the direction of Minister Hodgson.
How Trump's message to 'Pam' got exactly the results he wanted (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/10/trump-doj-prosecutions-comey-james-00601838
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p24#a251010p24
Venezuelan opposition politician María Corina Machado
has won the Nobel peace prize
for her dogged struggle to rescue the South American country from its fate as
“a brutal, authoritarian state”.
Machado, 58, a conservative often described as Venezuela’s Iron Lady,
has spent the last year living in hiding
after her political movement was widely believed to have beaten the country’s president, Nicolšs Maduro,
in the July 2024 presidential election.
@… is someone who has done more than most to help her compatriots in this dreadful #GazaGenocide. To see her express such despair breaks my heart.
There must be rebuilding.
There must be reparations.
Palestine must be free.
There is no pea…
US Senate approves $925 billion defense bill, proposes $500 million for Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/10/us-senate-approves-billion-defense.html
LG Hamburg: xAI darf Unwahrheiten nicht als Fakten verbreiten
Grok hatte eine unwahre Behauptung über eine Kampagnenorganisation aufgestellt – die wehrt sich juristisch.
https://www.
Just released v3.1 of my account.
Bug fixes:
• changed the surname from "⛰" (U 26F0 mountain) to "🏔" (U 1F3D4 snow capped mountain), as the Android font displays the former as a plain triangle, and I looked like an "on demand" stop in a timetable.
#Dooring: durch gefährliche Infrastrukturplanung verursachte Kollisionen von Auto- und Radverkehr mit oftmals tödlichem Ausgang.
Dooring gehört zu den am einfachsten zu vermeidenden Ursachen von Verkehrstoten.
Politik und Verwaltung sind Hauptverantwortlich.
wrt to “apolitical”
Even if DHH wasn’t a fascist, it’s still a political expression to sponsor a project in hopes it furthers market penetration of Linux.
Just as it is a political stance to start a company that tries to establish a right to repair for hardware.
The claim they’re “apolitical” is absurd.
Kalshi raised a $300M Series D at a $5B valuation, expands to 140 countries, and is on track for $50B in annualized trading volume, up from $300M in 2024 (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/business/dealb…
Symphony of Creation: Understanding What It Takes To Compose
#composing #CreativeProcess
https://
Trump promised not to let Israel break Gaza ceasefire to get deal (Barak Ravid/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/10/trump-gaza-israel-hamas-ceasefire-enforce
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p20#a251010p20
A new simulation from the European Central Bank shows that the digital euro could trigger a deposit outflow of up to €700B during a run on commercial banks (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/digital…
Judge to weigh blocking Trump on birthright citizenship despite supreme court ruling
A federal judge will consider today whether to prevent Donald Trump’s administration from enforcing his executive order limiting birthright citizenship -- after the US supreme court restricted the ability of judges to block his policies using nationwide injunctions.
American Civil Liberties Union lawyers are set to ask US district judge Joseph Laplante at a hearing in Concord, New Hampshire, to g…
On one hand, I feel that I should stay in the family house, because it'd be a waste to abandon it. On the other, living with neighbors regularly reminds me that I should live in the middle of a forest, separated from the nearest neighbor by at least 3 km of trees.
I really want to be optimistic but it’s soooo hard to believe that the ultra-racist wing of Bibi's govt will allow the assault on Gaza to stop or an actually meaningful withdrawal. And they have the whip hand; if they walk, Bibi falls and maybe goes to jail. Hoping I’m wrong and the firing really ceases.
https://www.…
Am Hauptbahnhof hängt ein riesiges Werbenanner von INSM mit Deutschlandfahne und ich möchte fragen, was diese moralverdorbenen Hetzer mit Milliardenerben mit Deutschland zu tun haben - kaum mehr als die rechtsextreme AfD mit der Demokaratie.
Europe faces 'significant risk' of major war if Russia starts mobilization, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/09/europe-faces-significant-risk-of.html
Sources: SoftBank is nearing a deal for a $5B margin loan secured by Arm shares in order to fund additional investment in OpenAI later this year (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-10/softbank-in-talks…
Why Trump wasn't awarded Nobel Peace Prize for Israel-Hamas cease-fire deal (Chris Nesi/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/10/10/us-news/why-trump-wasnt-awarded-nobel-peace-prize-for-israel-hamas-deal/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p31#a251010p31
One feels a disturbing fascination watching the Trump administration’s handling of U.S. foreign policy.
We have front-row seats to the greatest voluntary liquidation of a great power’s status and geopolitical influence in modern history:
The results are dramatic and alarming, but it’s almost impossible to look away.
And it’s been less than eight months
The Senate passes a measure requiring Nvidia and AMD to prioritize US customers over China for advanced AI chip sales, as part of a defense policy bill (Oma Seddiq/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-10/sena…
The existence of Świdwin implies the existence of Świdloss.
Marine Museum interior
#Photography #NovaScotia
Missing you #EC379
Gov. Phil Scott says Trump's national guard deployments are unconstitutional (Shaun Robinson/VTDigger)
https://vtdigger.org/2025/10/09/gov-phil-scott-says-trumps-national-guard-deployments-are-unconstitutional/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p37#a251010p37
Putin admits Russian air defense opened fire at Azerbaijani airliner in 2024: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/09/putin-admits-russian-air-defense.html
China opens an investigation into Qualcomm's acquisition of Autotalks, a chipmaker specializing in vehicle communications, over potential antitrust violations (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-1…
Ich hätte den #Deutschlandtakt lieber heute als nie, aber der Bundestag diskutiert in niedersächsischen Vorgärten, ob man nicht einfach drauf scheißen und Auto fahren soll, statt Fortschritt zu machen.
Immerhin fährt der einzige Zug von Berlin nach Cottbus stündlich und nicht nur einmal am Tag.
Republicans reject push to block Trump from using Qatari jet as Air Force One (Connor O'Brien/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/10/09/congress/republicans-reject-push-to-block-trump-from-using-qatari-jet-as-air-force-one-00601178
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p35#a251010p35
Ukraine's Security Service denies investigating top anti-graft prosecutor: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/09/ukraines-security-service-denies-investigating.html
FBI seizes all domains for a BreachForums variant operated by ShinyHunters; the hacker group says their Salesforce extortion campaign is unaffected (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/f…
Inside billionaire Peter Thiel's private lectures: Warnings of 'the Antichrist' and U.S. destruction (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/10/peter-thiel-antichrist-lectures-leaked/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzYwMDY4ODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzYxNDUxMTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NjAwNjg4MDAsImp0aSI6ImQxNzk4ZjkzLWIzODQtNDUyMS05NzA4LWFlYTRiNjMxMDdkMiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS90ZWNobm9sb2d5LzIwMjUvMTAvMTAvcGV0ZXItdGhpZWwtYW50aWNocmlzdC1sZWN0dXJlcy1sZWFrZWQvIn0.brxQFr7mdukp74gW6Q947iM4hxsExxwLCU-dYfUj8js&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p21#a251010p21
Zelensky holds first phone call with Czechia's populist leader since election win: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/09/zelensky-holds-first-phone-call.html
Becoming a member of Kyiv Independent just got easier – introducing PayPal payments and multicurrency support: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/09/becoming-a-member-of-kyiv.html
Quantum computing company IonQ raises $2B by selling 21.5M shares and pre-funded warrants to Heights Capital at $93 each, a 20% premium over October 9's close (David Morris/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Senate GOP mulls offering vote to Democrats in shutdown standoff (Burgess Everett/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/09/2025/senate-republicans-mull-making-democrats-an-offer-in-shutdown-standoff
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p28#a251010p28
Apple announces a "major evolution" of its Security Bounty program, doubling the top award to $2M for exploit chains that could be abused for spyware attacks (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-announces-2-million-bug-bounty-reward/
Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Missing Link: Zehn Jahre Landesverrat – Blogger im Zentrum einer Staatsaffäre
Hypocrisy behind a Ukrainian refugee’s murder: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/10/hypocrisy-behind-a-ukrainian-refugees.html
Memo: Vishal Shah, Meta's VP of Metaverse, tells his team to use AI to "go 5X faster" and expects 80% of them to integrate AI into their day-to-day by Q4 (Jason Koebler/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-mark-zuckerberg-ai-push-metaverse/
UPS is 'disposing of' U.S.-bound packages over customs paperwork problems (Kayla Steinberg/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/ups-delay-customs-tariffs-packages-destroyed-rcna236607
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p38#a251010p38
Palantir wehrt sich: Datenabfluss "technisch ausgeschlossen"
Sollten deutsche Polizeien eine Datenanalyse-Software aus den USA nutzen? Kritiker warnen vor Datenabfluss. Jetzt kontert Palantir.
https://w…
Poland shoots down Russian drones violating its airspace: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/10/poland-shoots-down-russian-drones.html
UK CMA designates Google with "strategic market status" in online search, but excludes Gemini; Google says potential interventions could slow product launches (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8cc9b094-698d-41d8-8399-b10dc3e57e70
Regarding the Compact -- The U.S. Department of Education recently sent MIT and eight ... (Sally Kornbluth/orgchart.mit.edu)
https://orgchart.mit.edu/letters/regarding-compact
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p39#a251010p39
Hours after flying drones into Poland, Russia condemns Israeli strike on Doha as ‘gross violation’: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/10/hours-after-flying-drones-into.html
Republicans Go All In on Anti-Trans Messaging (NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/2025-election/trans-messaging-virginia-north-carolina-maine
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p36#a251010p36
YouTube launches a pilot program to give terminated creators a "second chance" by letting them apply to create a new channel (Zach Vallese/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/09/youtube-banned-accounts-trump-misinformation.html
NATO jets scrambled as Poland reacts to suspected Russian drones during strikes on Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/10/nato-jets-scrambled-as-poland.html
The Insidious Effort to Rationalize Trump's Lawfare (William Kristol/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/insidious-effort-to-rationalize-trump-lawfare-letitia-james
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p34#a251010p34
CS grads struggle to land jobs as tech companies lay off workers and embrace AI; CS majors face a 6.1% unemployment rate in the US among grads aged 22 to 27 (Natasha Singer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/technol
Trump's Abuses of Power Show We Didn't Learn Much From the Nixon Era (Jill Lawrence/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-nixon-abuses-of-power-becoming-katharine-graham-review
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p33#a251010p33
'You think the end has come' — as Russian attacks on Ukraine escalate, Kyiv grapples with terrifying new normal: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/you-think-the-end-has.html
Agora, which offers a white-labeling service to let other companies launch their own, self-branded versions of its stablecoin, AUSD, raised a $50M Series A (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/07/10/exclu…
Israeli military says ceasefire takes effect in Gaza, raising hopes for ending the war (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/gaza-shelling-ceasefire-israel-c832ff32cf332805ffb50bffa35e8220
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p27#a251010p27
After Big Tech implemented a blackout on political advertising in the EU following a new law, the European Commission says it is in talks with Big Tech (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-political-ad-rules-google-meta-microsoft-big-tec…
Sources: Apple is testing upgraded App Intents with Uber, Temu, Amazon, YouTube, WhatsApp, and other apps to transform Siri into a true voice-first interface (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters
Prosecutors say the evidence against a man accused of starting what became the Pacific Palisades fire includes a ChatGPT-generated image of a burning city (Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-08/palisades-fire-arrest
The US NHTSA opens a probe into 2.88M FSD-enabled Tesla vehicles over 50 reports of traffic-safety violations like running red lights and a series of crashes (David Shepardson/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos…