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heise jobs IT Tag am 11. November in Berlin
Finden Sie ihren IT-Traumjob und kommen Sie mit potenziellen Arbeitgebern in Kontakt!
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Spotify reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to €4.3B, above €4.23B est., subscribers up 12% YoY to 281M, MAUs up 11% YoY to 713M, and a €582M operating income (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-04/spoti…

Die Räntän sinn sischa. 🤪
#Altersrente

Altersvorsorge: Vertrauen in die Rente ist bei Mehrheit der Bevölkerung gering
Viele Menschen zweifeln daran, ob sie mit der gesetzlichen Rente ihren Lebensstandard halten können. Das zeigen die Ergebnisse des diesjährigen "Altersvorsorge-Reports".

"Greece still buries nearly 80% of its waste despite billions spent and bins everywhere"
#Greece #Environment

Why does Greece continues to bury its rubbish and recycle very little?
The waste problem is particularly critical in Athens and the wider area of the Greek capital.

Here we go again ... Jared #Isaacman has been nominated for NASA Administrator a second time: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/04/trump-nominates-isaacman-nasa-administrator-00636497 and
https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/trump-will-re-nominate-isaacman-for-nasa-administrator/. Also https://x.com/rookisaacman/status/1985796145017471442 = a looong statement by him about his leaked document (the 'Athena' plan) mentioned e.g. in https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/11/capitol-hill-is-abuzz-with-talk-of-the-athena-plan-for-nasa/ and https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/03/jared-isaacman-confidential-manifesto-nasa-00633858

I am super impressed with how Ohio newspapers and Ohio journalists in general report on cyber incidents. They've got game.
Cyberattack that crippled Middletown's systems shows how hackers target smaller cities
https://www.cinci…

Cyberattack that crippled Middletown's systems shows how hackers target smaller cities
Over 2 months after a cyberattack took the city's utility payments offline, Middletown can't charge locals. The hack is part of a growing trend.

Democrats win big on Election Night: Mamdani, Sherrill, Spanberger [and Prop 50]
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/04/democrats-trump-us-elections-mamdani-sherrill-spanberger.html

“They stood in a silence so heavy it seemed to bend the light around them.
Their smiles were hesitant — like doors that had forgotten how to open. And in that moment, I realized: freedom itself can be fragile.
We who survived war thought we had endured the worst — the bombs, the hunger, the endless waiting. But their stories shattered that belief.”
– @…

When I heard the prisoners were to be released, a fragile pulse stirred inside...
They stood in a silence so heavy it seemed to bend the light around them. Their smiles were hesitant — like doors that had forgotten how to open. And in that moment, I realized: freedom itself can be fragile. We who survived war thought we had endured the worst — the bombs, the hunger, the endless waiting. But their stories shattered that belief. They spoke of nights drenched in cold water while they slept, of wrists bound until flesh gave way, of blows that d...

YouTube confirms it removed 700 videos from three prominent Palestinian human rights groups in early October to comply with US State Department sanctions (The Intercept)
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/youtube-google-israel-palestine-human-ri…

YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations
The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.

NATO and the drones. This weekend, drones were flying spy missions over a Belgian Air Force base. Said the country's Defense Minister: "A helicopter and police vehicles chased the drone, but lost it after several kilometers.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/02/…

Drones spotted above Belgian airbase were ‘spying’ on military planes, defense minister says
Several drones spotted above a Belgian airbase over the weekend were there “to spy” on military fighter jets, the country’s defense minister said Sunday, at a time when European nations are on high alert for airspace intrusions.

How Europe plans to phase out Russian oil and gas, explained: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/how-europe-plans-to-phase.html

These are my emotional support cat ears.

For no reason, has anyone played this?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1261760/Democratic_Socialism_Simulator/

THIS. What @… said.
With your up-to-date hours, phone number, address, and menu. Right at the danged top where I can find them. That’s it. That is all I need.
And sure, put your carousel with food porn photos underneath if you really must. Whatever. I do not care.
https://mastodon.social/@Sadsquatch/115487996081932738

Last night was the second anniversary of the time that somebody hit-and-run -ed my house, destroying the gas main riser and sending me out in the pouring rain and dark, barefoot, to hold the roaring gas leak closed with my palm like that apocryphal Dutch kid and the dam.
https://westseattleb…

UPDATE: Gas-leak response after hit-run driver crashes into house
9:18 PM: Avoid the area of 37th/100th in Arbor Heights for a while - a driver hit a house and a natural-gas leak is reported to have resulted. Police have blocked off 37th. They are telling dispatch it's a hit-and-run - the driver subsequently took off. So far the vehicle is described only as

You use @… ? A mail account or a mailing list? Please help to keep it going:
"We ask that individuals with email accounts or owners of lists give monthly or yearly.
If you are broke, live in the global South, or live somewhere with a devalued currency, we don’t expect you to give. This means that those with money in the global North should contrib…

320.000 Jeeps wegen Feuergefahr zurückgerufen
Ein Fehler im Akku kann Pluginhybrid-Jeeps in Flammen aufgehen lassen. Eine Lösung für das Problem hat Chrysler bisher nicht.
https://www.heise.de/n…

YouTube confirms it removed 700 videos from three prominent Palestinian human rights groups in early October to comply with US State Department sanctions (The Intercept)
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/youtube-google-israel-palestine-human-ri…

YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations
The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.

So the city of Houston is blaming its firefighters for clicking on a link in an email the city sent to them that intended to share information about the firefighters’ promotion exam but instead linked to a bunch of social security numbers in the clear.
Houston data breach exposes firefighters’ personal info, union says they’re being blamed

Houston data breach exposes firefighters’ personal info, union says they’re being blamed
Houston firefighters say they’re being unfairly blamed after a city email exposed 7,500 Social Security numbers in a data breach.

Letters to the editor from writers using AI chatbots are flooding scientific journals, likely written by writers seeking to boost their number of citations (Gina Kolata/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/science/letters-to-the-editor-ai-chatb…

The Editor Got a Letter From ‘Dr. B.S.’ So Did a Lot of Other Editors.
The rise of artificial intelligence has produced serial writers to science and medical journals, most likely using chatbots to boost the number of citations they’ve published.

Folks: Aral, you’re such a natural speaker, your talks are so seamless…
Meanwhile, me, for the past few days, preparing to be a natural speaker: …

Belgium shuts down Brussels Airport due to suspicious drone sighting: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/belgium-shuts-down-brussels-airport.html

How to unload the washer machine when you're short

Decision Desk is calling it for Mamdani 3 minutes after polls closed...

Morgen geht's im #Digitalausschuss übrigens um den Haushalt des Ministeriums im nächsten Jahr, und um den #DigitalServicesCoordinator #DSC ( =Umsetzung des

Research: AI's ability to complete long and complex software engineering tasks doubles every 6-7 months, but there is a "messiness tax" for real-world tasks (Boaz Barak/Windows On Theory)
https://windowsontheory.org/2025/11/04/thoughts-by…

Thoughts by a non-economist on AI and economics
Crossposted on lesswrong Modern humans first emerged about 100,000 years ago. For the next 99,800 years or so, nothing happened. Well, not quite nothing. There were wars, political intrigue, the in…

arXiv ändert Regeln – KI-Studien zwischen Pre-Prints
arXiv.org muss sich gegen AI-Slop und Fake-Studien wehren. Künftig müssen Review-Artikel und Positionspapiere einen Peer-Review-Prozess durchlaufen haben.
https://www…

Spotify reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to €4.3B, above €4.23B est., subscribers up 12% YoY to 281M, MAUs up 11% YoY to 713M, and a €582M operating income (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-04/spoti…

Dick is dead.
#deadDick

War Criminal Dick Cheney Dead at 84, With Blood of Millions on His Hands
Cheney’s legacy more than outlives him; he reshaped the very structures of war and authoritarianism at home and abroad.

Ukrainian counterattacks around Pokrovsk blunt Russia’s advance: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/ukrainian-counterattacks-around-pokrovsk-blunt.html

How Portugal is investing ~4.6% of its GDP around the port of Sines, seeking to transform it from a tourism-dependent economy to a tech and industrial hub (Sofia Horta e Costa/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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Sehr (bitter) gelacht.
Die lange erwartete empirische Studie zu geschlechtsspezifischer Gewalt, die erste seit 2004, lässt weiter auf sich warten. 2023 hieß es "Erste Ergebnisse werden 2025 erwartet".
Aktuell will sich das Ministerium gar nicht mehr festlegen.
https://dserver.bundestag.de/btd/21/…

"Walk Me": Toyota zeigt laufenden Roboterstuhl
"Walk Me" soll Menschen auf vier Beinen transportieren, die nicht mehr so gut laufen können. Der Roboterstuhl funktioniert zwar, ist jedoch noch eine Studie.
ht…

Putin in shock: Romania gets weapons nearly free, Russians face tribunal: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/putin-in-shock-romania-gets.html

„Bereits als in der Schülerzeitung im Vorfeld des Besuchs zu Protest aufgerufen worden war, petzte die Schulleitung bei der #Bundeswehr.
Dann kam das Meme, eine Lehrerin holte Bentik aus dem Unterricht, drohte ihm mit Verweisen und der Schuldirektor wird gegen seinen eigenen Schüler vor Gericht aussagen.“
Protest gegen Bundeswehr an Schulen – Angell Gymnasium in

A profile of nonprofit Common Crawl, which scraped billions of web pages since 2013, including paywalled articles, to build an archive used by OpenAI and others (Alex Reisner/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/202

Common Crawl Is Doing the AI Industry’s Dirty Work
Common Crawl claims to provide a public benefit, but it lies to publishers about its activities.

Aluminium: Ein US-Startup will alte Dosen in Wärme und Wasserstoff verwandeln
Das Startup Found Energy meint, mit Aluminiumabfällen einen vielversprechenden Weg gefunden zu haben, industrielle Prozesse ohne Öl und Gas zu betreiben.

CLOSER TO THE EU! Ukraine is fighting for freedom on all fronts! | NEWS PULSE: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/closer-to-the-eu-ukraine.html

Super Micro reports Q1 revenue down 15% YoY to $5B, vs. $6.09B est., and forecasts Q2 profit below estimates; SMCI drops 9% after hours (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-04/super-micro-sh…

Way to go.
"The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has walked away from a $1.5 million government grant and you can blame the Trump administration's war on woke for effectively weakening some open source security."
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/pyt

Cyber-Resilienz im Fokus: IT-Sicherheitstag Gelsenkirchen
Am 18. November diskutieren Profis in Gelsenkirchen, wie Unternehmen ihre IT gegen immer intelligentere Cyberangriffe stärken können.
https://www.

Goldman Sachs: just 33 US counties accounted for 72% of all US data center capacity as of July; places like Umatilla have been transformed by an AWS build-out (David Uberti/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/w…

Russia ends seasonal draft model, moves to year-round conscription from 2026: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/russia-ends-seasonal-draft-model.html

„Das Unternehmen bestätigte Zahlen der „Süddeutschen Zeitung“, wonach nur knapp 52 Prozent aller Fernzüge ohne größere Verzögerungen ans Ziel kamen. Ein schlechterer Monatswert ist bisher nicht bekannt.“
Ich würde gern mit Ihnen darüber sprechen, ob Privatisierung (= Zwang, Profit zu machen) von Daseinsvorge wirklich so eine gute Idee ist

Rennen um autonomes Fahren: VW baut in China eigene KI-Chips
Sorgen vor ausbleibenden China-Chiplieferungen und Entwicklungsdruck bei autonomem Fahren plagen die Autoindustrie. VW kündigt nun einen eigenen Chip an.

Sources: WeRide is set to raise ~$308M in its Hong Kong listing, planning to price shares at ~$3.48, representing a ~4% discount to its Monday Nasdaq close (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-04/weride…

Returning home, photographer Yelena Yemchuk finds beauty in a country at war: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/returning-home-photographer-yelena-yemchuk.html

Australien: Reddit und Kick fallen unter Social-Media-Verbot für Kinder
Vor einem Jahr hat die australische Regierung ein Social-Media-Verbot für Kinder und Jugendliche eingeführt. Das hat sie jetzt auf mehr Dienste ausgeweitet.

AWS says it is developing the Fastnet subsea cable to connect Maryland and Ireland, aiming to launch by 2028 with a capacity of 320Tbps and buried ~1.5m deep (Emily Forlini/PCMag)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/amazon-equips-next-underwater-ca…

Explosions reported in Russia's Oryol Oblast — residents claim missile attack: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/05/explosions-reported-in-russias-oryol.html

Strickmaschine erstellt feste 3D-Strukturen ähnlich wie ein 3D-Drucker
Zwar sind mit 3D-Druck dreidimensionale Strukturen schnell erstellt. Warum sie aber nicht einfach stricken?
https://www.

Edge 70: Motorolas dünnes Smartphone mit 4800 mAh Akku
Nach Samsung und Apple hat jetzt auch Motorola mit dem Moto Edge 70 ein schlankes Smartphone vorgestellt. Dabei spart der Hersteller nicht beim Akku.
https://www…

"Russian Victory" – MYTH: Putin's illusions distort reality, Russia's losses are mounting: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/190049.html

Apple launches the App Store on the web, with dedicated pages for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, TV, Watch, and Vision (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/11/03/apple-launches-rich-new-web-interface-for-the-app-store/

Apple launches rich new web interface for the App Store - 9to5Mac
Apple has launched a dramatic new web interface for the App Store. You can now get the full App Store...

"Entlastungskabinett": Mehr als nur das offizielle Aus für DE-Mail
Die schwarz-rote Bundesregierung will den Alltag für Bürgerinnen und Bürger, aber auch für Unternehmen einfacher machen. Das soll Kosten und Aufwand sparen.

Ukrainian drones hit Russian refineries in Bashkortostan and Kstovo, sparking fires: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/ukrainian-drones-hit-russian-refineries.html

Perplexity AI accuses Amazon of "bullying" after receiving "an aggressive legal threat" demanding Comet not make purchases on users' behalf (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/04/perplexity-ai-amazon-bullying-comet-browser.html

Perplexity AI accuses Amazon of bullying with legal threat over Comet browser
Amazon wants Perplexity to prevent its users from using its AI browser called Comet to make purchases on their behalf.

Copernicus-Programm: Erdbeobachtungssatellit Sentinel-1D ins All gestartet
Er soll Daten über die Erde sammeln, zu Oberflächenänderungen, aber auch für den Katastrophenschutz: Ein weiterer Satellit des Copernicus-Programms ist im All.

Sequoia announces that Alfred Lin and Pat Grady will be elevated to firm stewards, succeeding Roelof Botha, who led Sequoia solo since 2022 (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/04/sequoia-capital-roelof-botha-pat-grady-alfred-lin

Sequoia Capital transitions to new leadership
Alfred Lin and Pat Grady will become Sequoia's new stewards.

Russia's seaborne oil exports see sharpest fall since early 2024 after new US sanctions: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/russias-seaborne-oil-exports-see.html

Pinterest shares dropped 20% on Wednesday after forecasting Q4 revenue below estimates as advertising took a hit from retailers dealing with tariffs (Jaures Yip/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/05/pinterest-stock-earnings-tariffs-ads.html

Pinterest plunges 20% after weak results as tariffs drag on ad revenue
Third-quarter sales in the U.S. and Canada came in at $786 million, missing analyst projections.

Ukraine’s military intelligence opens ground corridor in Pokrovsk to improve logistics: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/ukraines-military-intelligence-opens-ground.html

Palantir reports Q3 revenue up 63% YoY to $1.18B, vs. $1.09B est., US government revenue up 52% to $486M, and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/03/palantir-pltr-q3-earnings-2025.html

Palantir tops estimates, boosts fourth-quarter guidance on AI adoption
Palantir's earnings topped third-quarter results and the company issued strong guidance, attributing much of its rapid growth to artificial intelligence.

POKROVSK IS UNCONQUERED! Russia fails to break through Ukrainian defenses! | Map of the War: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/05/pokrovsk-is-unconquered-russia-fails.html

WhatsApp launches an Apple Watch companion app, letting users get call notifications, read full messages, and record and send voice messages (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/04/whatsapp-launches-long-awaited-apple-watch-app/…

WhatsApp launches long-awaited Apple Watch app | TechCrunch
For the first time, WhatsApp users will be able to use their Apple Watch to get call notifications, read full messages, record and send voice messages, and view media content more clearly.

Ukraine is moving towards EU membership faster than expected, according to EU Commission report: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/ukraine-is-moving-towards-eu.html

Wabi, a "YouTube for apps" launched by Replika founder Eugenia Kuyda to let users create and share mini apps without coding, raised a $20M pre-seed (TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/05/replika-founder-raises-20m-pre-seed…

Replika founder raises $20M pre-seed for Wabi, the ‘YouTube of apps’  | TechCrunch
Wabi, a startup from the founder of Replika, has just raised a $20 million pre-seed round. Wabi is like "YouTube for apps" -- a social platform where anyone can use prompts to instantly create mini apps and share them with friends.

Leaked documents reveal sanctions and tech shortages crippling Russia’s Su-57 and PAK DA programs: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/leaked-documents-reveal-sanctions-and.html

Pinterest reports Q3 revenue up 17% YoY to $1.05B, MAUs up 12% to 600M, vs. 590M est., but forecasts Q4 revenue below est.; PINS drops 13% after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/04/pinterest-pins-q3-earnings-report-2025.html

Pinterest shares plummet 15% on earnings miss, weak forecast
Pinterest shares tanked on Tuesday after the company reported third-quarter financial results that missed on earnings per share and provided weak guidance.

Ukrainian prosecutors accused of using force against operative amid conflict with anti-graft agency: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/ukrainian-prosecutors-accused-of-using.html

Giga, which develops voice-based AI agents for customer support, raised a $61M Series A led by Redpoint with participation from Y Combinator and Nexus (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/11/05/voice-ai-giga-raise-61-million-customer-serv…

Exclusive: Voice AI startup Giga raises $61 million to take on customer service automation
Voice AI has the potential to streamline a lot of businesses' customer service tasks, such as answering routine customer questions or scheduling appointments, without a human agent needing to step in.

Albatros-M warship burns in Sevastopol, one of only four in Russia’s Black Sea Fleet used to track drones: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/albatrosm-warship-burns-in-sevastopol.html

Shares of Asian AI-linked companies fall, tracking declines in US peers, as investors worry about stretched valuations; SoftBank falls 9% , Advantest 7% (Lee Ying Shan/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/05/softbank-ai-stocks-slide-on-valuation-jitters-.ht…

SoftBank shares plunge 10% as Asian AI-linked stocks slide on valuation jitters
The AI-led rally has pushed the S&P 500's forward P/E above 23—its highest since 2000, according to FactSet.

Video shows Russian drone killing white flag-waving civilians and dog, Ukraine opens war crimes investigation: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/video-shows-russian-drone-killing.html

Google Maps plans to replace Assistant with Gemini on Android and iOS, giving users a "hands-free, conversational driving experience", in the "coming weeks" (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/11/05/google-maps-gemini-navigation/

Google Maps gets Gemini for conversational navigation & traffic reporting on Android, iOS
In Google Maps, Gemini already exists in place listings, and it’s now coming to the navigation experience on Android and iOS.

Russia's Oreshnik missile enters serial production, Putin claims — nearly 1 year after promising to mass produce weapon: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/russias-oreshnik-missile-enters-serial.html

Armis, which helps businesses secure and manage IoT devices, raised $435M at a $6.1B valuation, up from $4.2B after raising a $200M Series D in October 2024 (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/05/armis-raises-435-million-at-6point1-bi…

Armis raises $435 million, valuing cybersecurity startup at $6.1 billion
The cybersecurity startup reaches a $6.1 billion valuation three months after topping $300 million in annual recurring revenues.

Spotify says it now has nearly 500K video podcasts and more than 390M users have now streamed a video podcast on its platform, up 54% YoY (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/04/spotify-now-has-half-a-mi…

Spotify now has half a million video podcasts, which nearly 400M users have watched | TechCrunch
Spotify says that users' time spent with video content on Spotify has also more than doubled year-over-year, largely driven by video podcasts.

❗️ZELENSKYY visited POKROVSK DIRECTION #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/zelenskyy-visited-pokrovsk-direction-shorts.html

Nintendo reports Q2 revenue of $3.7B, vs. ~$3B est., and net profit of ~$667M, vs. ~$412M est.; it now expects 19M Switch 2 sales by March 2026, up from 15M (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/04/nintendo-raises-switch-2-sales-fo…

Nintendo hikes Switch 2 sales forecast to 19 million units as flagship console momentum grows
Nintendo is riding a wave of momentum after launching its latest console called the Switch 2.

NATO's new plan: tanks will cross European borders without stopping! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/natos-new-plan-tanks-will.html

How ideology-driven AI chatbots like Grok and Gab's Arya position themselves as alternatives to mainstream chatbots accused of liberal bias (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/busines

Right-Wing Chatbots Turbocharge America’s Political and Cultural Wars
Once pitched as dispassionate tools to answer your questions, A.I. chatbots are now programmed to reflect the biases of their creators.

❗️ZELENSKYY: "The Russians would like to win, but that will never happen!" #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/zelenskyy-ampquotthe-russians-would-like.html

Switzerland-based Mimic Robotics, which is building AI models to enable human-like robotic hands to adapt to complex, high-precision tasks, raised a $16M seed (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/04/mimic-raises-16m-build-a…

Mimic raises $16M to build AI models for human-like robotic hands - SiliconANGLE
Mimic raises $16M to build AI models for human-like robotic hands - SiliconANGLE

💣 Putin threatens with nuclear weapons again – "Burevestnik" and "Poseidon" #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/putin-threatens-with-nuclear-weapons.html…

Apple says Live Translation on AirPods will expand to the EU next month; the first iOS 26.2 beta, seeded to developers on Tuesday, brings the feature to the EU (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/11/04/ios-26-2-expands-live-transl…

iOS 26.2 Expands Live Translation on AirPods to EU
The upcoming iOS 26.2 update for iPhone makes the Live Translation feature on select AirPods available in the EU, according to Apple. The news was...

🇺🇸 US Ambassador to NATO visits Kyiv: support for Ukraine and the path to peace #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/us-ambassador-to-nato-visits.html

Customer engagement service MoEngage raised a $100M Series F led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, bringing its total funding to $250M as it ramps up AI investment (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/04/goldm…

Goldman Sachs doubles down on MoEngage in new round to fuel global expansion | TechCrunch
MoEngage already has customers across 75 countries, with North America being its biggest business driver.

Qualcomm Ventures and six Indian VC firms join India Deep Tech Alliance with an additional $850M in commitments; Nvidia joins as a strategic technical adviser (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/04/nvid

NVIDIA, Qualcomm join U.S., Indian VCs to help build India's next deep tech startups | TechCrunch
Qualcomm Ventures has joined six Indian venture firms, collectively adding more than $850 million to boost India’s deep-tech ecosystem.

Australia broadens its social media ban for under-16s to include Reddit and Kick, which join Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Snapchat, TikTok, X, and YouTube (Clare Armstrong/ABC)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-04/reddit-and-kick-added-to-c…

Reddit and Kick added to child social media ban
Reddit and Kick will be included in the world-first social media ban for children under 16, which begins next month.

Google unveils Project Suncatcher to launch two solar-powered satellites, each with four TPUs, into low Earth orbit in 2027, as it seeks to scale AI compute (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/11/04/2025/google-wants-…

Google wants to build solar-powered data centers — in space
The tech giant released a paper Tuesday outlining plans to launch its AI chips into low-earth orbit, allowing them to run off solar power.

Sources detail a leadership vacuum and staff cuts at the NSA, eroding morale among its analysts and weakening the agency's long-term cyber capabilities (David DiMolfetta/Nextgov/FCW)
https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/11/lea

A leadership vacuum and staff cuts threaten NSA morale, operational strength
The signals intelligence giant has halted recruitment for its Legal Honors Program, two people familiar say, slowing inflow of top legal talent. Other long-term capabilities are at risk.

Bitcoin dropped below $100K for the first time since June on Tuesday; ETH also fell as much as 15% on Tuesday, and many altcoins are down 50% this year (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-04/bitc…

Bitcoin (BTC) Falls Below $100,000 With Risk Appetite Muted After Wipeout
Bitcoin has wiped out its summer rally, giving back gains made during Wall Street’s euphoric embrace and a surge in institutional buying.

A look at Bret Taylor's AI agent startup Sierra as it launches new products; source: Sierra is on track to exceed $100M in annualized revenue by January 2026 (Richard Nieva/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2025/11/05/sierra-bret-taylor-c…

How Two Silicon Valley A-Listers Became Billionaires By Remaking Customer Service With AI
Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor had leadership roles at the world's biggest tech companies. Now they’re in the startup trenches, using AI agents to help companies interact with their customers.

Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport says the US DOJ concluded its review of Google's planned $32B acquisition; the FTC website dated the early termination to October 24 (Josh Sisco/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-1…

Sources: the Chinese government issues guidance requiring new data center projects that have received any state funds to only use domestically-made AI chips (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-bans-foreign-ai-c…

Grab reports Q3 revenue up 22% YoY to $873M, vs. 869M est., and an adjusted EBITDA of $136M, helped by offerings like group food orders and cheaper shared rides (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Shopify reports Q3 revenue up 32% YoY to $2.84B, vs. $2.76B est., GMV up 32% YoY to $92B, and expects Q4 revenue up in the mid-to-high 20% range, vs. 23.4% est. (Deborah Sophia/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co

The UK's High Court rules against Getty in its lawsuit against Stability AI over its image generator; the judge calls the ruling "extremely limited in scope" (Sam Tobin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustaina…