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Fox acquires Caliente TV, a Mexican sports broadcasting platform, and appoints longtime industry exec Carlos Martinez to oversee its broadcast strategy in LatAm (Melissa Repko/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/19/fox-acquires-sports-bro…

Fox acquires sports broadcasting platform Caliente TV
The media company is bulking up its sports offerings to better compete with other streaming services.

Mac mini mit M5: Apple angeblich bereits fleißig am Testen
M3 und M3 Pro hatte Apple beim Mac mini übersprungen. Beim M5 und M5 Pro soll das offenbar nicht passieren, untermauert jetzt ein neuer Bericht.
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https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/de/2025/05/20/ausweitung-des-abpumpverbots-in-westflandern-es-ist-bereits-so/

Ausweitung des Abpumpverbots in Westflandern: "Es ist bereits so trocken wie im legendären Sommer 1976" | VRT NWS: nachrichten
Das Abpumpverbot in Westflandern wird ausgeweitet. Landwirte dürfen auch aus den Flüssen Mandel, Hertsbergebeek und aus dem Trinkwasser-Reservebecken Blankaart kein Wasser mehr abpumpen. In vier weiteren Einzugsgebieten ist dies bereits seit über einer Woche der Fall. Auch das Wasser aus dem Yser (Ijzer in NL) darf vorerst nicht mehr zur Trinkwassergewinnung genutzt werden, weil die Qualität aufgrund von „enormer Versalzung“ nicht ausreicht.

Microsoft stellt Film- und Serienangebot ein
Kurzfristig hat Microsoft den Vertrieb von Serien und Filmen eingestellt. Im Support erklärt das Unternehmen, wie es mit bereits erworbenen Inhalten weitergeht.
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A British surgeon in Gaza has claimed medical workers are seeing “clear patterns of injury”, suggesting IDF soldiers are deliberately shooting Gazan children in different body parts depending on the day of the week. | Independent TV
https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/israel-gaza-war-children-british-doctor-video-b2791687.html

#Orwell wrote about the #JustTransition in 1947 ("Toward European Unity"):
«The European peoples, and especially the British, have long owed their high standard of life to direct or indirect exploitation of the coloured peoples. [...] But it is by no means certain that we can afford these th…

The collected essays, journalism, and letters of George Orwell : Orwell, George, 1903-1950 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Includes bibliographical references and index

The US Senate voted to rescind two years' worth of funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB),
-- delivering a blow to public radio and television stations around the country.
The CPB is a publicly funded nonprofit corporation that supports NPR and PBS stations.
The 51-48 vote today on President Trump's rescissions package would eliminate $1.1 billion that was allocated to public broadcasting
. The $1.1 billion includes $60 million for "cos…

Senate votes to kill entire public broadcasting budget in blow to NPR and PBS
Senate votes to rescind $1.1 billion from Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

I just got sucked into the anachronism of the mention of an 'electric car' in a song about an 1890 bar fight and eventually found this page which has the best explanation:
https://territorialimperatives.com/2013/12/01/duncan-and-bradys-electri…

Duncan and Brady’s Electric Car
The album Classic African-American Ballads, from Smithsonian Folkways, contains a track entitled “Duncan and Brady” by the late Dave Van Ronk, whose story is told in the new film Inside…

In a letter to CEO Aravind Srinivas, the BBC says it has evidence Perplexity's default model used its content and seeks "a proposal for financial compensation" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b743d401-dc5d-44b8-9987-825a4ffcf4ca

BBC threatens legal action against AI start-up Perplexity over content scraping
British broadcaster makes first move to clamp down on alleged infringement of copyright by tech groups

#heiseshow: OpenAI vs. Microsoft, Instant-Apps, EU für Atomkraftausbau
In der #heiseshow: OpenAI und Microsoft droht das Zerwürfnis, Google beerdigt seine Instant Apps und die EU-Kommission rechnet fest mit mehr Atomstrom.