Nielsen: in May, Americans watched more TV on streaming than on cable and broadcast networks combined, the first time that has happened over a full month (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/business/media/streaming…
Cool. Korting bij het crematorium.
Galactic seismology: can the Gaia 'phase spiral' co-exist with a clumpy, turbulent interstellar medium?
Thor Tepper-Garc\'ia, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Timothy R. Bedding, Christoph Federrath, Oscar Agertz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15059
Rheinmetall und US-Ausrüster Anduril wollen Drohnen "made in Europe" bauen
Die Rüstungsfirma Rheinmetall hat mit Anduril eine Kooperation vereinbart, um europäische Varianten der autonomen Kampfsysteme Barracuda und Fury zu entwickeln.
AI-powered virtual physical therapy startup Sword Health raised $40M led by General Catalyst at a $4B valuation, up from its $3B valuation from June 2024 (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/sword-h…
Abendsonne im Bahnhof Gesundbrunnen
Landgenoten en mede-aardbewoners, was het niet heerlijk om in de rode mensenmassa te lopen gisteren?
#rodelijn
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Mapping the Excitation Mechanisms in the LINER I Active Galactic Nucleus NGC 5005: Positive Feedback and a Thin LINER Cocoon
Anna Trindade Falc\~ao, G. Fabbiano, M. Elvis, P. Zhu, S. Kraemer, W. P. Maksym, R. Middei, D. L. Kr\'ol
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14931
Israeli observability startup Coralogix raised a $115M Series E led by NewView Capital at a $1B valuation, and plans to invest ~$100M in India over five years (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/obse
Kassenärzte starten Informationskampagne für IT-Sicherheit in Arztpraxen
Die Kassenärztliche Bundesvereinigung startet Anfang Juli eine Informationsoffensive, die für mehr IT-Sicherheit sorgen soll.
The MUSE view of the Sculptor galaxy: survey overview and the planetary nebulae luminosity function
E. Congiu, F. Scheuermann, K. Kreckel, A. Leroy, E. Emsellem, F. Belfiore, J. Hartke, G. Anand, O. V. Egorov, B. Groves, T. Kravtsov, D. Thilker, C. Tovo, F. Bigiel, G. A. Blanc, A. D. Bolatto, S. A. Cronin, D. A. Dale, R. McClain, J. E. M\'endez-Delgado, E. K. Oakes, R. S. Klessen, E. Schinnerer, T. G. Williams
Grow a Garden, a simple farming simulator game made within Roblox, hit 16.4M active players on June 14, surpassing other popular games' peak concurrent users (Kieran Press-Reynolds/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/arts/grow-garden-roblo…
Warum humanoide Roboter ihre eigenen Sicherheitsregeln brauchen
Roboter, die direkt neben Menschen arbeiten, bergen einzigartige Sicherheitsrisiken. Daher fordert ein Gremium jetzt neue Standards für die Humanoiden.
Fleet, which offers open-source device management tools for OSes, various networks, VPNs, and more, raised a $27M Series B led by Ten Eleven Ventures (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/17/27m-fundin…
Magnetic Fields in the Pillars of Creation
Adwitiya Sarkar, Leslie W. Looney, Marc W. Pound, Zhi-Yun Li, Ian W. Stephens, Manuel Fernandez Lopez, Simon Coude, Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin, Haifeng Yang, Reid Faistl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14902
heise | Photovoltaik-Überblick für Einsteiger: Von Balkonkraftwerk bis Zukunftstrends
Planung, Speicher, Förderung und Pflichten, nächste Solarzellengeneration: Die wichtigsten Informationen für den Einstieg in die Photovoltaik.
Miami-based Payabli, which provides software companies with an embedded payments platform, raised a $28M Series B led by Fika Ventures and QED Investors (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/06/17/payabli-28-millio…
Overmassive Black holes live in compact galaxies in the early Universe
Yuxuan Wu, Tao Wang, Daizhong Liu, Qinghua Tan, Luis C. Ho, Zhiyu Zhang, Yong Shi, Ke Xu, Kotaro Kohno, Ran Wang, Takuma Izumi, Zhaozhou Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14896
Milan-based Jet HR, which provides all-in-one payroll and HR services to SMBs, raised €25M led by Base10 Partners, bringing its total funding to about €42M (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/06/17/base10-25-million-…
heise | Web-Notizbuch ohne Cloud: Mit TiddlyWiki Wissen in einer HTML-Datei organisieren
Notizen, Ideen und Nischenwissen: TiddlyWiki hilft, ein persönliches Wiki aufzubauen. Das System ist flexibel, maximal anpassbar – und herrlich nerdig.
Truncations in the X-ray Halos of Early-Type Galaxies as a Tracer of Feedback and Mergers
Nushkia Chamba, Pamela M. Marcum, Alejandro S. Borlaff, Pasquale Temi, Aneta Siemiginowska
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14884
Climate Station ausprobiert: Mit PSVR 2 durch die Klimageschichte
Sonys kostenlose PS5-App "Climate Station" visualisiert den Klimawandel. Wir haben sie ausprobiert und klären, welchen Mehrwert Playstation VR 2 bringt.
Dissecting the nanoHz gravitational wave sky: frequency-correlated anisotropy induced by eccentric supermassive black hole binaries
Beatrice Eleonora Moreschi, Serena Valtolina, Alberto Sesana, Golam Shaifullah, Mikel Falxa, Lorenzo Speri, David Izquierdo-Villalba, Aurelien Chalumeau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14882
Eigen Labs raised $70M via a token purchase by a16z and launched EigenCloud, which helps developers cryptographically prove what happens in off-chain apps (Liam Wright/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-asset
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Vor dem zehnten Testflug: Starship explodiert am Boden
Bei einem Triebwerkstest in Texas ist eine Starship-Oberstufe von SpaceX explodiert. Der Vorfall ereignete sich kurz vor einem geplanten Static-Fire-Test.
Threads launches a fediverse feed and a way to search for fediverse users, with support for Mastodon and others, for users who turned on fediverse sharing (David Pierce/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/688267/threads-fediverse-feed-search
Gemini für Android unterstützt jetzt geplante Aktionen
Googles Gemini für Android unterstützt jetzt die Funktion "Geplante Aktionen". Mit diesem Feature soll der KI-Assistent proaktiver genutzt werden können.
Salesforce says it will increase prices on many products in August, including Slack; major product lines will see a 6% increase on average (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-17/salesf…
19.000 Kilometer dichter dran: US-Startup will GPS-Alternative liefern
Das US-Startup Xona Space Systems plant eine erdnahe GPS-Alternative. 258 Satelliten sollen präzisere und störungsresistentere Navigationsdaten liefern.
The US Senate passes the Genius Act, which establishes a regulatory framework for stablecoins; the bill now heads to the House (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/17/genius-stablecoin-bill-crypto.html
President Trump plans to sign an executive order this week to grant TikTok a 90-day extension in enforcement of the sale-or-ban law, marking his third extension (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/17/tech/tiktok-trump-ban-delay?Date=202506…
Apple's Journal app is coming to iPad and Mac in iPadOS 26 and macOS Tahoe and gains features like multiple journals, map view, inline images, and more (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/17/apples-journal-app-i…
Facebook renames its Videos tab as the Reels tab and says all videos on its platform will soon be shared as reels, regardless of their length or orientation (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/face
On a podcast, Sam Altman said Meta made "giant offers to a lot of people on our team", like $100M signing bonuses, and "none of our best people" have accepted (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/sam-
Sources: Elon Musk's xAI is in talks to raise $4.3B via an equity investment on top of the $5B it has recently been trying to borrow from debt investors (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-17…
China's MiniMax open sources MiniMax-M1, a model to handle complicated productivity tasks that supports 1M input tokens and it says surpasses DeepSeek's R1-0528 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Self-driving simulation software maker Applied Intuition raised $600M co-led by BlackRock and Kleiner Perkins at a $15B valuation, up from $6B in March 2024 (Katie Roof/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Sky, ITV, and Channel 4 plan to provide streaming ad space in one marketplace, letting advertisers run campaigns simultaneously, to combat Google and Meta (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jun