2026-03-16 13:45:00
Das Fairphone 6 erhält Update auf Android 16
Eigentlich erst für April angekündigt, verteilt Fairphone das Update auf Android 16 für sein aktuelles Smartphone bereits ab dem 16. März schrittweise.
https://www.
Das Fairphone 6 erhält Update auf Android 16
Eigentlich erst für April angekündigt, verteilt Fairphone das Update auf Android 16 für sein aktuelles Smartphone bereits ab dem 16. März schrittweise.
https://www.
Apple acquires MotionVFX, a Polish company that develops plugins, visual effects, and motion graphics tools for Final Cut Pro (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/16/apple-acquires-motionvfx/
Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it ! https://rmendes.net/bookmarks/2026/02/16/anthropic-tries-to-hide-claudes
Czech President says Ukraine must make painful concessions for peace: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/16/czech-president-says-ukraine-must.html
@… the goat looks like a tapir
Trump speaks with Lebanese president amid Israel ceasefire push (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/16/lebanon-ceasefire-trump-aoun-israel-netanyahu
http://www.memeorandum.com/260416/p55#a260416p55
"The only way I can move past the absurdity of what I do, is to commit to the point of absurdity."
—Jake Gyllenhaal
#acting #coaching #inspiration
RE: https://discuss.systems/@kali/116239188630395950
So much winning.
Debates on Degrowth: what drives us to keep growing?
By @MargaMediavulla
"In this article I propose a Systemic Analysis of growth and use some System Dynamics diagrams to analyse the problem."
It's an excellent piece.
https://degrowthuk.org/2026/04/16/deb…
"Zettelkataloge der Stabi bleiben vorerst erhalten" als Ergebnis des wissenschaftlichen Fachgesprächs „Zettelkataloge. Unantastbares Kulturgut, aktiver Forschungsgegenstand oder substituierbares historisches Arbeitsmittel?“
https://www.
Warner Bros. won a record-tying 11 awards at the 98th Oscars, followed by Netflix's six; Apple, Disney, Focus, and Neon had one each, while Paramount had none (Catherine Shoard/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/m…
Stupid San Francisco question: what does the M in OMI stand for again?
Oceanview, M______, Ingleside. I can't think what fits in the blank. Maybe @… knows.
“Teaching” is just another word for running around, from A to B to A, and collecting things.*
*Or, how to walk 10 km at Ruhr-Uni Bochum.
from my link log —
Towards fearless macros.
https://lambdaland.org/posts/2023-10-17_fearless_macros/
saved 2026-02-15 https://
Deine Website sieht im Browser perfekt aus? Kool!
Google sieht sie vielleicht völlig anders. 👀
Wer Content per JavaScript nachlädt (React, Vue, Angular), riskiert dass Google den Inhalt schlicht nicht sieht. Der Bot rendert zwar JavaScript, aber zeitversetzt und mit begrenztem Budget.
Schneller Test: Rechtsklick − Seitenquelltext anzeigen. Wenn da kein Text steht, den Google indexieren soll = 🚨
Was der Browser zeigt und was Google liest, sind oft zwei verschiedene Wel…
"Au Royaume-Uni, l’impopularité du Brexit relance le débat sur les liens avec l’UE"
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2026/01/16/au-royaume-uni-l-impopularite-du-brexit-relance-le-debat-sur-les…
Wenn ihr euch in eurem Passwort Manager die Zugangsdaten zu einem Service notiert, schreibt euch auch gleich noch das dort hinterlegte Geburtsdatum auf 😉
#tipp
A rich man eats when he wishes
A poor man whenever he can
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rBZlouEoNU
#SmallWinButItsAllIGot I opened this packaging with my bare hands, clearly I am ready to take on a grizzly bear.
(I bent it in half across the top, then flexed it back and forth as fast as I could, thinking that if I could put enough heat into the bend it would weaken the plastic. I don't know if I generated that much heat. But it did weaken.)
Häufigkeiten für X in [Aa]lle[nm] X zum Trotz:
- Unkenrufen: 7.310
- Widrigkeiten: 2.415
- Widerständen: 1.057
- Warnungen: 915
- Beteuerungen: 714
- Schwierigkeiten: 563
- Gerüchten: 526
- Bemühungen: 482
- Dementis: 429
- Protesten: 359
(Gesamthäufigkeit aller X: 36.976 Tokens; Anzahl X: 5.962 Types; Korpusgröße: 21,6 Milliarden Tokens)
heise | heise Update vom 16. Januar 2025: Lesetipps zum Wochenende
Der Newsletter von heise : Wärmepumpen bei Frost, Glasfaser-Wechsel, Wikipedia-Jubiläum, Zweitdisplay und HBO Max im Test.
https://www.…
Halcyon, which uses AI to aggregate documents from public utility commissions, energy regulators, and more, raised a $21M Series A led by Energize Capital (Katie Fehrenbacher/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/climate-deals/2026/03/16/halcyon-funding-21-million
Court sets bail for Yulia Tymoshenko in alleged bribery case involving Verkhovna Rada deputies: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/16/court-sets-bail-for-yulia.html
Live updates: Israel and Lebanon agree to a 10-day ceasefire, Trump says (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/live/iran-war-israel-trump-04-16-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260416/p56#a260416p56
"Vomit first. Then try to make something pretty with it."
—Tatiana Maslany
#acting #coaching #inspiration
So what are the top murdertech companies at the moment? (The ones enabling mass murder of civilians through AI, surveillance,
etc.)
• Palantir
• Google
• Microsoft
• OpenAI
• Anthropic
• IBM
• …
… did I forget any? Feel free to reply and add to the list.
#murdertech
from my link log —
Where `rustc` spends its time.
https://wiki.alopex.li/WhereRustcSpendsItsTime
saved 2019-10-22 https://dotat.a…
Memo: Notus plans to "dramatically expand" its coverage of national politics with a "new version of NOTUS under a new name" and will double staff from 50 to 100 (Max Tani/@maxwelltani)
https://x.com/maxwelltani/status/2033566211083014208
#neu & #openaccess:
"AI and Image: Critical Perspectives on the Application of Technology on Art and Cultural Heritage"
https://
Religion, pouvoir et silence : le mythe bouddhiste occidental https://rmendes.net/articles/2026/02/16/religion-pouvoir-silence-mythe-bouddhiste-occidental
Ukraine eases curfew rules as energy crisis caused by Russian attacks deepens: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/16/ukraine-eases-curfew-rules-as.html
Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Tschechien: Oberster Gerichtshof kippt die anlasslose Vorratsdatenspeicherung
Anthropic says Opus 4.7 is "less broadly capable" than Claude Mythos Preview and that its "cyber capabilities are not as advanced" as those of Mythos Preview (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/16/anthropic-claude-opus-4-7-model-m…
"Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project."
—Alex Borstein
#acting #coaching #inspiration
RE: #microslop
Periodic reminder that I like cats :3
from my link log —
Unicode TOFU: detect changes to strings over time that might be spoofing.
https://github.com/begriffs/utofu
saved 2019-03-17 https://
Revealed: Mandelson failed vetting but Foreign Office overruled decision (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/16/revealed-mandelson-failed-vetting-but-foreign-office-overruled-decision
http://www.memeorandum.com/260416/p49#a260416p49
Debates on Degrowth: what drives us to keep growing?
Editors' note We are delighted to publish this article by Marga Mediavilla on a systems approach to degrowth. It serves to summarise a number of the issues in the Prospects for Degrowth series and also represents an echo of the methodology used in the report which was a major influence on degrowth thinking, the 1974 Limits to Growth report by Donella Meadows and colleagues.
Channel 4 Chief Content Officer Ian Katz plans to step down in October after nearly nine years, making him Channel 4's longest-serving programming head (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/apr/16/ian-katz-leave-role-c…
heise | Photoshop neu gedacht: Wie kostenlose KI Bilder in Ebenen zerlegt
Qwen-Image-Layered bringt Bild-Ebenen auf den eigenen Rechner. So zerlegen Sie mit der KI Plakate oder Grußkarten, um sie nach Belieben neu zu arrangieren.
TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 35.1% YoY to ~$35B, net income up 58.3% YoY to ~$18B, both above est., and says 7nm or smaller chips were ~74% of its wafer revenue (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/16/tsmc-q1-profit-58-percent-ai-chip-demand-reco…
RE: https://mstdn.social/@_L1vY_/116238109703472709
Donald Trump shat the bed and now he can’t find anyone to help him clean up his mess.
Poor baby.
Die, asshole.
Meowstodon :3
Justice Thomas: Progressives vs. the Declaration (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/justice-thomas-progressives-vs-the-declaration-50d5aea4?st=zYqRZg
http://www.memeorandum.com/260416/p54#a260416p54
Anthropic secures new London office space for 800 people, days after OpenAI unveiled its first London office; Anthropic currently has 200 London staff (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/16/anthropic-london-office-800-staff-openai-ex…
Ted Sarandos says that Netflix will maintain 45-day theater windows for movies after its acquisition of WBD closes, adding that he wants to "win" the box office (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/business/media/ted-sarand…
Oh I do love how you have your Kitten¹ app’s database in memory – thanks to Kitten’s built-in JavaScript Database (JSDB)² – and accessible via the Kitten Shell (REPL)³ during dev.
(If I do say so myself.) ;)
:kitten:💕
¹ https://kitten.small-web.org
²
Ukraine's GDP grew 2.2% in 2025, economy ministry says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/16/ukraines-gdp-grew-in-economy.html
Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, Adobe, and Match sign a voluntary pledge to share threat intelligence on scammers abusing their services (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/16/tech-companies-scam-accord-google-meta-amazon…
Justice Department settles with IBM over alleged DEI practices (Perry Stein/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/04/16/justice-department-settles-with-ibm-over-alleged-dei-practices/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260416/p46#a260416p46
RE: https://mstdn.social/@Powerfromspace1/116237234372521682
The habit is murdering Brown people.
Czech president visits Kyiv amid worsening energy crisis: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/16/czech-president-visits-kyiv-amid.html
Anthropic says Opus 4.7 uses an updated tokenizer that "improves how the model processes text", but "the tradeoff is that the same input can map to more tokens" (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/04/16/anthrop
Just once, I’d like to see one of these people fire back with “fuck you, lady, you’re a fucking fascist!”
https://www.rte.ie/news/us/2026/0116/1553395-white-house-press-briefing/
RFK Jr. will remake panel that determines which preventative services insurers must cover (Carmen Paun/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/04/16/congress/rfk-preventive-task-force-obamacare-insurance-00876202
http://www.memeorandum.com/260416/p48#a260416p48
Ukrainian delegation en route to US to meet Trump's team: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/16/ukrainian-delegation-en-route-to.html
Apple says a record 30% of material across all products it shipped in 2025 came from recycled content; all Apple-designed batteries now use 100% recycled cobalt (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/16/apple-hits-record-recycled-content/
Ex-Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax kills wife, shoots himself in murder-suicide at million-dollar home amid 'messy divorce,' cops say (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/04/16/us-news/ex-virginia-lt-gov-justin-fairfax-kills-wife-himself-in-murder-suicide-at-home-amid-messy-divorce-cops-say/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260416/p51#a260416p51
Inside Ukraine’s resistance under Russian occupation: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/16/inside-ukraines-resistance-under-russian.html
Q&A with Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos about the WBD bid, Trump's involvement in the deal, maintaining a 45-day theatrical window for WBD releases, and more (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/business/media/ted-sarandos-netfl…
Court sets Tymoshenko $760,000 bail amid bribery investigation: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/16/court-sets-tymoshenko-bail-amid.html
JD.com launches online marketplace Joybuy in the UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg, as it expands globally to challenge Amazon (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/jdcom-launches-joyb…
UK opposes French and Italian push to restart talks with Kremlin: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/16/uk-opposes-french-and-italian.html
President Trump accuses Iran of using AI as a "disinformation weapon" to make fake images of wartime successes against the US, saying "AI can be very dangerous" (Kenrick Cai/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel
France replaces US as main intelligence provider to Kyiv, Macron says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/16/france-replaces-us-as-main.html
Micron completes the $1.8B acquisition of Powerchip's DRAM fab in Taiwan, and plans a second fab of similar scale with construction starting by the end of FY26 (Wen-Yee Lee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific
China halts electricity imports from Russia, Russian media reports: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/16/china-halts-electricity-imports-from.html
Over half of Ukrainians support holding referendum on peace deal, poll shows: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/16/over-half-of-ukrainians-support.html
Navy confirms major damage to Russian drone factory after joint operation with SBU: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/16/navy-confirms-major-damage-to.html
Istanbul-based TaleMonster Games, the studio behind the puzzle game Match Valley, raised a $30M Series A led by Arcadia Gaming Partners and a16z (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/01/15/talemonster-games-closes-30m-series-a-round/
Residential building in Russia's Ryazan Oblast hit in drone attack, media reports: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/16/residential-building-in-russias-ryazan.html
Analysis: Colossus 2, one of the world's largest AI datacenters, will use as much water/year as 2.5 average In-N-Outs, assuming only drinkable water and burgers (SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/from-tokens-to-burgers-a-water-footprint
Putin pitches himself as mediator after calls with Israel, Iran amid regional tensions: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/16/putin-pitches-himself-as-mediator.html
Bubblemaps analysis: an anonymous Polymarket trader netted $316,346 in profits by correctly betting on Biden's pardons for Hunter Biden, Liz Cheney, and others (Bobby Allyn/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/16/nx-s1-5786580/a-polymar…
Zelensky sends Budanov and Umerov to the U.S. for peace talks on Ukraine’s peace plan: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/16/zelensky-sends-budanov-and-umerov.html
Alibaba's new Token Hub unit releases Happy Oyster, a new AI world model that can create 3D environments, interactive videos, films, video content, and games (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-16/al…
'Mass obstruction' — Draft officers injured in Odesa following confrontation with 'civilian group': https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/16/mass-obstruction-draft-officers-injured.html
DoorDash Chief Revenue Officer Lee Brown is departing the delivery app company after less than six months; long-term VP Shanna Prevé will become CRO (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-16/doord…
Ukraine war latest live: Ukrainians reject trading Donbas for Western security guarantees in new survey: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/16/ukraine-war-latest-live-ukrainians.html
X launches Cashtags, a feature that lets users view real-time financial data on stocks and crypto directly in their timelines, in the US and Canada (Timmy Shen/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/397470/x-rolls-out-cashtags
Venezuelan opposition leader Machado meets Trump at White House, gifts him her Nobel Peace Prize medal: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/16/venezuelan-opposition-leader-machado-meets.html
GovAI and Brookings: many of the people most at risk if AI transforms work are also the best placed to find new jobs, as researchers disagree over AI's impact (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2026/jobs-mo…
⚡ All UKRAINIAN power plants have been damaged by RUSSIA! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/16/all-ukrainian-power-plants-have.html
Google's and Accel's joint AI startup accelerator Atoms picked five Indian startups from 4K applications, saying ~70% of rejected applicants were AI "wrappers" (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/15/goog…
Q&A with Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana on accidents, why autonomous vehicles won't lead to job losses, plans to license Waymo tech to other companies, and more (Jordyn Holman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/business/waymo-ceo-robotaxi.html
Standard Kernel, which is making AI-powered GPU optimization software, raised a $20M seed led by Jump Capital, with General Catalyst and others participating (Clinton Nwachukwu/Ventureburn)
https://ventureburn.com/standard-kernel-raises-20m/
Foxconn reports Q4 revenue up 22% YoY to ~$81B, net profit down 2% YoY to ~$1.4B, below ~$1.9B est., due to a higher tax expense, and a 5.9% gross profit margin (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business…