2025-11-11 15:51:44
A UK judge jails a Chinese woman to 11 years and 8 months in prison for laundering bitcoin linked to a £5B investment scheme in which UK seized 61K bitcoin (Upmanyu Trivedi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
A UK judge jails a Chinese woman to 11 years and 8 months in prison for laundering bitcoin linked to a £5B investment scheme in which UK seized 61K bitcoin (Upmanyu Trivedi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/11/china-co2-emissions-flat-or-falling-for-past-18-months-analysis-finds
Puck: Disney offered YouTube the same rates as major distributors at least for ESPN, but YouTube wants to pay less; Disney is losing $30M/week without YouTube (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/11/11/youtube-tv-rate-report-disney-losses/
Ok, here's my story pitch:
Unbeknownst to Bond, his brain was encased in a special capsule inside his skull by circa 1997 Q and survived the explosion.
Due to a series of hilarious mishaps, the brain capsule ends up in a new host made up of various body parts of his former nemesises, including the ears of Blofeld's cat.
„Aber China!”
China's CO2 Emissions Have Been Flat Or Falling For Past 18 Months, Analysis Finds - Slashdot https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/11/0119210/chinas-co2-emissions-have-been-flat-or-falling-fo…
#Artikelupdate
Ich habe schon lange darüber gegrübelt, aber jetzt habe ich die Methanproblematik ergänzt. Das läuft bereits seit mehreren Jahren und hört nicht auf. Die Quellen sind gemischt und gehen auch auf die #Erderwärmung zurück.
Insbesondere die starke Erwärmung der…
“In the dark times, should the stars also go out?”
— Steban, Disco Elysium
ICE thugs can't handle a little snow.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/us/gregory-bovino-border-patrol-agents-chicago
Retoote wenn du #Martin heißt und heute Namenstag hast oder schon mal einen Mantel geteilt hast oder heute an einem Martinsumzug teilnimmst
#fedikirche #stmartin
Report Card
Israel, age: 77½
Excels at:
✅ Genocide
✅ Ethnic cleansing
✅ Apartheid
✅ Racism
✅ Settler colonialism
Fails:
❌ Basic humanity https://freefree.ps/@faab64/115530516843421204
Russian oil rig in Caspian Sea halts production after Ukrainian drone strike, SBU source says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/11/russian-oil-rig-in-caspian.html
Bra stats idag
I solved today's #TiledWords puzzle!
🪱 “Worm”
🕒 3 minutes, 47 seconds
💡 0/3 reveals used
https://tiledwords.com/puzzles/2025-11-11
First the nucleus of #comet SWAN split - https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-2-november-2025/#Nov06 ("Der Kern des Kometen C/2025 R2 (SWAN) ist zerbrochen ...") - and now C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) has suffered the same fate: a 2-meter-telescope image from https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=17487 ("Multiple Fragmentation Observed"), also https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/topic/116216567 (several amateur observations) and https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=17488 (Hubble detections of more fragments, sadly no pictures included).
The #EV roaming system in Europe is increasingly being hit by hidden fees and absurd price discrimination.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaapburger_
Stay angry, and also have a dose of level-headedness.
❝We’re in a battle for at least the rest of this decade that will require a very different kind of Democratic Party — not one that is more right or left but one that is both comfortable using power and knows how to do it. So I’m going to take this big step in the right direction I’ve seen over the last month and pocket it and move on to the next battle. Meanwhile, keep purging all the folks who can’t get with the new program.❞ https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/115527953925050812
Updated NFL Draft Order for Week 11: Cowboys move up after Packers loss https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/11/11/updated-nfl-draft-order-in-week-11-cowboys-move-up-af…
On Website Technicals (2018-04) - Tech updates: reading time, jpegtran to jpegultrascan, Primitive, SVG, Save-Data, Sitebulb. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-11.html
I sure hope Nvidia is using their own chips to model when their bubble will burst and are informed about what to do when chip demand screeches to a near-halt…
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/11/softbank-sells-its-entire-stake-in-nvidia-for-5po…
"Republicans have voiced outrage that Jack Smith looked at G.O.P. lawmakers’ phone records surrounding the Jan. 6 attack. Legislation to reopen the government would allow them to sue for $500,000 each"
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/us/poli
OH: Brainstorming without a brain is a problem.
Oura CEO Tom Hale says the Finnish company expects "maybe close" to $2B in sales in 2026, up from $1B in 2025, and there is "no news on an IPO" (Tasmin Lockwood/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/11/smart-ring-maker-…
Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
GEMA vs. OpenAI: Niederlage für ChatGPT vor Münchner Gericht
Looking forward to seeing some of you at Defuse Dublin tonight at The Sugar Club.
Event is not ticketed (first come, first serve) and doors open at 7PM.
#DefuseDublin
In #Berlin ist erstmals ein #Bußgeldbescheid wegen #Mietwucher rechtskräftig geworden.
Laut der Linken-Politikerin Elif
Can you fund this already, there's two days left in the Kickstarter and it's over 90% funded.
Sorry that I'm annoying, I'll stop when it's funded.
#retrocomputing
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bzotto/go-computer-now-the-story-of-sphere
I've seen many posts about headmates and plural personalities on fedi, and I get it, but my personal experience is dozens of identical Cats (me) all talking at the same time.
Maybe it's just my ADHD, but for me it's like being possessed by yourself (if that makes sense). Brain is always going 200% speed just not always in the direction I want. 😹
President Trump asks SCOTUS to toss the $5M civil case that found he sexually abused and defamed E. Jean Carroll, after an appeals court denied review in June (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/politics/e-jean-carroll-trump-supreme-court
It is Judge Mark L. Wolf, who retired in protest, explaining why: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/federal-judge-resignation-trump/684845/?gift=Kjaw0NITl7f2TdiJgnhQhTU81T1TbxegoH4x33GvLqc
…
Amazon says ads on Prime Video reach 315M viewers across its series and films, live sports and events, and free, ad-supported live channels (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/amazon-prime-video-ad-supported-reach-315-million-…
Unerwartete Funkstille: NASA hat seit Tagen keinen Kontakt zu Marssonde Maven
Maven ist die jüngste NASA-Sonde im Orbit des Mars, dort aber auch schon seit 11 Jahren. Jetzt hat der Orbiter einfach aufgehört, sich zu melden.
James Bond writers can't find a way to resurrect fictional guy who has an agent for over 60 years, mostly getting younger, except in the early 80s
Wonder how the Nicole the Fediverse Chick is doing in her studies? Finals are fast approaching!
Trump threatens to sue the BBC over the Panorama edit, seeking "no less than $1B in damages" if he does not get a full retraction and an apology (Michael D. Shear/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/world/europe/trump-bbc-lawsuit-do…
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says his new superintelligence team will build "frontier-grade research capability" and Microsoft needs AI self-sufficiency (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-
Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Kieler Forscher entwickeln Rotorblätter für Kleinwindkraftanlagen aus Naturfaser
Sea reports Q3 revenue up 38% YoY to $6B, above $5.65B est., a $375M net income, below $433M est., and Shopee revenue up 35% YoY to $4.3B and GMV up 28% YoY (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…
Sources: the EU plans to designate WhatsApp's Channels as a Very Large Online Platform under the DSA, meaning it must meet moderation and transparency standards (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
MX Linux 25: Umstieg auf Debian-Trixie-Basis
MX Linux 25 aktualisiert den Unterbau auf Debian Trixie. Beim Download müssen Interessierte entscheiden, ob sie systemd oder sysVinit wollen.
https://www.
Microsoft plans to spend $10B to build a data center in the Portuguese town of Sines in partnership with Portuguese developer Start Campus and UK startup Nscale (Henrique Almeida/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
An investor group and AI developer Voltai plan to use AI to design, build, and run a 3GW data center in South Korea, set to cost up to $35B and open in 2028 (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/a-…
Mit Vodafone geht es wieder etwas aufwärts
Nach Verlust von 4 Millionen Fernsehkunden und sechs Quartalen Umsatzrückgang hat Vodafone Deutschland erstmals wieder ein Umsatzplus erzielt.
https://www.
Sources: Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave in the coming months to found his own startup; a source says he is in early talks to raise funds (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c586eb77-a16e-4363-ab0b-e877898b70de
Nebius signs a ~$3B, five-year deal to provide Meta with AI infrastructure and reports a $100M loss in Q3, up from a $39.7M loss in Q3 2024 (Deborah Sophia/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/ai-cloud-firm-…
Israeli startup Wonderful, which helps companies manage customer-facing AI agents across voice, chat, and email, raised $100M at a $700M valuation (Steven Scheer/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/israeli-ai-s…
Crypto exchange Gemini reports Q3 revenue up 106% YoY to $50.6M, vs. $46.2M est., net loss of $159.5M, up from $90.2M a year ago; GEMI drops 5% after hours (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…
Richterin erkennt keine Reue: 5 Jahre Haft für Krypto-Mixer
Milliardenprofite aus Verbrechen wurden über das Samourai Wallet verschleiert. Einer der beiden Gründer kennt nun sein Urteil.
https://www.
Volksrepublik China sperrt schwule Dating-Apps
Herzlos geht Peking neuerlich gegen Schwule vor. Diesmal werden Dating-Apps verboten.
https://www.heise.de/news/Volksrepublik-Ch
CoreWeave reports Q3 revenue up 134% YoY to $1.36B, vs. $1.29B est., and a net loss of $110M, down from $360M a year ago; CRWV is up 164% since its March IPO (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/10/coreweave-crwv-q3-earnings-report-2025.html…
Israeli startup Port, which offers a proprietary developer portal competitor to Spotify's open-source Backstage, raised a $100M Series C at an $800M valuation (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/11/port-raises-100m-at…
Die russische Regierung hat eine neue Sicherheitsmaßnahme eingeführt, die SIM-Karten für 24 Stunden nach der Einreise ins Land teilweise blockiert. Das Digitalministerium nennt es eine "Abkühlphase" und betrifft SIM-Karten, die aus dem Ausland kommen oder längere Zeit nicht aktiviert waren. 🕒
Zum Artikel:
Harness, which uses AI to automate code testing, verification, security, and governance, raised a $240M Series E led by Goldman Sachs at a $5.5B valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/11/harness-hits-5-5b-va…
GEMA vs. OpenAI: Niederlage für ChatGPT vor Münchner Gericht
Das Landgericht München hat gegen OpenAI entschieden. Geklagt hatte die GEMA – es geht um Liedtexte von Helene Fischer und mehr.
https://www.
Runware, which operates a developer tool platform that generates images, video, and audio in real-time, raised a $50M Series A, taking its total funding to $66M (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/11/runw
Apple's support page says AirPods' new Live Translation won't be available to users in the EU and with an EU-region Apple Account, likely due to EU regulations (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/09/11/airpods-live-translation-eu-r…
Financial documents show Anthropic expects to break even in 2028, while OpenAI projects ~$74B in operating losses that year before turning a profit in 2030 (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-anthropic-profitability-e9f5bcd6
Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine partner with ElevenLabs to create AI versions of their voices for its Iconic Voice Marketplace; McConaughey also invests (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/matthew-mcconau…
Kieler Forscher entwickeln 3D-Druckverfahren für Glas
Kieler Forscher haben ein laserbasiertes 3D-Druckverfahren für Glas entwickelt. Es vereinfacht den 3D-Druck mit Glas deutlich.
https://www.
Sony says the PlayStation 5 has sold a total of 84.2M units since launch, including 3.9M units sold in Q2, up from 3.8M a year ago (Steve Dent/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/gaming/playstation/sony-has-sold-842-million-play…
Google rolls out Nano Banana image editing upgrades in Photos, including a "help me edit" feature that lets users make edits using text or voice prompts (Elyse Betters Picaro/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/your-google-
BSI zur Cybersicherheit: Stabil unsicher
Das aktuelle BSI-Lagebild zeigt eklatante Probleme auf – während der zuständige Minister auf die Wirksamkeit neuer Maßnahmen hofft.
https://www.heise.de/news/BS…
Search and browser startup Brave says it has passed $100M in annualized revenue in Q1, and had 100M MAUs as of September, up from 77M at the end of 2024 (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/li
US-Start-up will die Kupferindustrie grün machen
Still Bright hat ein chemisches Verfahren entwickelt, das umweltschädigende Kupferschmelzanlagen ersetzen könnte.
https://www.heise.de/news/US…
Lighter, which operates an Ethereum Layer 2 network and a decentralized exchange to support perpetual futures contracts, raised $68M at a ~$1.5B valuation (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/378358/lighte
A Danish court sentences a man for sharing 347 copyrighted nude scenes on Reddit featuring 100 actresses and 25TB of pirated content via a torrent tracker (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)
https://torrentfreak.com/redditor-conv…
Source: Blue Owl's Digital Infrastructure funds are investing ~$3B in a New Mexico-based Stargate data center, set to consume 4.5GW, as Blue Owl expands into AI (Miles Kruppa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/open…
Samsung rolls out its Vision AI Companion, a generative AI-powered upgrade to its Bixby assistant, across its 2025 TV lineup, with support for 10 languages (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/818355/samsung-tvs-bixby-generative-ai-con…
Megaprojekt The Line ist wohl gescheitert
Der Bau an der 170 Kilometer langen Stadt The Line ist gestoppt. Von offizieller Seite wird aber an dem Megaprojekt festgehalten.
https://www.heise.de/news/M…
Philosoph: KI ist kein Werkzeug, sondern ein Machtinstrument
Experten warnen: KI ist kein neutrales Werkzeug, sondern ein sozioökonomisches Machtinstrument mit tiefgreifenden Folgen für Demokratie.
https://www.…
Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Montag: Digitaler Omnibus schwächt Datenschutz, Stop Killing Games hat Folgen
Endlich gibt es ein konkretes Datum für den digitalen Personalausweis! 📱 Bundesdigitalminister Karsten Wildberger hat in der ZDF-Sendung "Markus Lanz" verkündet, dass ab dem 2. Januar 2027 der Personalausweis aufs Smartphone kommt.
Zum Artikel: https://
Boston Dynamics erklärt merkwürdiges Aufstehen des humanoiden Atlas-Roboters
Der humanoide Atlas-Roboter unternimmt einige merkwürdige Verrenkungen, um aus einer liegenden Position aufzustehen. Eine Ingenieurin erläutert, warum.
Gmail-Störung: Wochenlange Probleme mit Exchange ActiveSync
Seit mehreren Wochen legen Updates der Gmail-App die Mail-Verarbeitung mit Exchange ActiveSync lahm. Google äußert sich nicht.
https://www.