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Missing Link: Gasversorgung – Zwischen echten Problemen und Panikmache
Die Deutschen schauen nicht mehr nur auf den Benzinpreis, sondern auch auf den Füllstand der Gasspeicher. Die sind leer wie nie – doch ist das ein Problem?

I used to live in Waukesha County and like others I never imagined it could turn blue but… there’s a chance.
https://www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/a-certain-shade-of-purple-can-these

A Certain Shade of Purple: Can these Democrats win local races in Waukesha County?
In Waukesha County's two largest cities, unabashed Democrats Mike Hallquist and Alicia Halvensleben are each running for mayor. A special feature story on the purpling of the former GOP stronghold.

The Wikimedia Foundation says Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral joined Wikimedia Enterprise to get "tuned" API access; Google is already a member (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/862109/wikip

Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon are paying up for ‘enterprise’ access to Wikipedia
The Wikimedia Foundation has announced that Microsoft, Meta, and Perplexity are paying to gain access to the nonprofit’s projects, allowing them to use Wikipedia for AI training.

GitHub führt Maßnahmen gegen KI-Slop ein – ohne das Problem klar zu benennen
Viele Open-Source-Projekte haben ein Problem: Sie ertrinken in Codeänderungen, die mithilfe von KI erstellt wurden. GitHub ergreift jetzt Maßnahmen.

Perplexity baut „Personal Computer“ auf Mac-mini-Basis
Perplexity Computer nennt sich Perplexitys persönlicher Assistent. Der soll im OpenClaw-Stil nun auf den Mac kommen. Derzeit gibt es eine Warteliste.
https://www.

Meta is putting a "Name Tag" feature in Ray-Bans
- facial recognition through the glasses' camera.
You look at someone, AI tells you who they are.
In an internal document, the company wrote that the timing is good
because civil society groups are busy with politics
and won't cause problems.

Lukasz Olejnik (@lukaszolejnik.bsky.social)
First they'll give it to blind people, because who's going to attack technology for the blind, or people with hearing problems (like me)? I admit that! Privacy risk review procedures have been loosened. 15, 10, 5 years ago this would have been a major controversy. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/meta-facial-recognition-smart-glasses.html

I have at least two more converts to The Story Graph in the last couple days, yanking them away from Amazon’s Good Reads.
I use it:
https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/aardrian
Not perfect but definitely *not* Amazon. Just sayin’.

The Wikimedia Foundation says Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral joined Wikimedia Enterprise to get "tuned" API access; Google is already a member (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/862109/wikip

Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon are paying up for ‘enterprise’ access to Wikipedia
The Wikimedia Foundation has announced that Microsoft, Meta, and Perplexity are paying to gain access to the nonprofit’s projects, allowing them to use Wikipedia for AI training.

I get a steady stream in my replies of meant-to-be-helpful advice of the form “You should use [complex F/OSS tech] to [do complex thing] that [solves a problem you don’t have but renders the process unusable for the people doing it]”
…when the real tech problems we’re facing on the ground here, both with Signal and other tools, are 99% just ground-level UX stuff:
- basic, basic usability glitches
- workflow friction
- problematic default settings
- reliability

Berlin-based Mirelo, whose AI models can interpret video content to add matching sound effects, raised a $41M seed led by Index and a16z, after a $3M pre-seed (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/15/mirelo-raises-41m…

Mirelo raises $41M from Index and a16z to solve AI video's silent problem | TechCrunch
Mirelo, a German startup that is building AI to add synced sound effects to videos, has raised a $41 million seed round led by Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.