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Reality Labs lost $80B , but it still makes all of Meta's hardware, and reflects Mark Zuckerberg's desire to run a business without Google or Apple as middlemen (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-mark-zuckerber…

Meta and Mark Zuckerberg didn't lose $80 billion on the metaverse
In 2021, Zuckerberg said Facebook was becoming a metaverse company. He's stopped saying that — but he's still putting money into metaverse-y things.

Global cybercrime crackdown: over 373 000 dark web sites shut down
https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/global-cybercrime-crackdown-over-373-000-dark-web-sites-shut-down

Global cybercrime crackdown: over 373 000 dark web sites shut down – Authorities from 23 countries participate in the operation | Europol
On 9 March 2026, a global operation led by German authorities and supported by Europol was launched against one of the largest networks of fraudulent platforms in the dark web. The investigation began in mid-2021 against the dark web platform “Alice with Violence CP”. During the investigation, authorities discovered that the platform’s operator was running more than 373 000 fraudulent websites advertising child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and cybercrime-as-a-service (CaaS) offerings.

Indian edtech startup upGrad plans to acquire rival Unacademy in an all-stock deal; Unacademy was valued at less than $500M in 2025, down from $3.5B in 2021 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/15/unac

Unacademy to be acquired by upGrad in share-swap deal as India’s edtech sector consolidates | TechCrunch
The deal comes after Unacademy’s valuation plunged from $3.5B to under $500M, as India’s once-booming edtech sector struggles.

(2021) Eläköön ihmeellinen monimuotoisuus #luonto #monimuotoisuus

Eläköön ihmeellinen monimuotoisuus | Luonto-Suomi
Luonnon monimuotoisuus on maapallon arvokkain ja vähiten arvostettu ominaisuus, on biologi Edward Wilson todennut. Maailmassa on miljoonia eliölajeja, erityisesti hyönteisiä on hämmästyttävä määrä, ja uusia lajeja löydetään jatkuvasti. Samaan aikaan lajeja kuolee sukupuuttoon huolestuttavaa vauhtia. Miksi luontokadosta pitää olla huolissaan? Entä miten se voidaan pysäyttää? Kerro omia ajatuksiasi aiheesta: milloin olet pysähtynyt ihmettelemään luonnon monimuotoisuutta? M…

Sennheisers Kopfhörersparte sucht neuen Besitzer
Nach der Sennheiser-Übernahme im Jahr 2021 vollzieht der Schweizer Hörsystemspezialist Sonova eine Strategiewende und will sein Consumer-Geschäft veräußern.
https://www.

A private investigator testifies at the UK High Court that his 2021 admissions about phone tapping of Prince Harry and Elton John were a forged "pack of lies" (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar

from my link log —
Speculating the entire x86-64 instruction set in seconds with this one weird trick.
https://blog.can.ac/2021/03/22/speculating-x86-64-isa-with-one-weird-trick/
saved 2021-03-26

Speculating the entire x86-64 Instruction Set In Seconds with This One Weird Trick
As cheesy as the title sounds, I promise it cannot beat the cheesiness of the technique I’ll be telling you about in this post. The morning I saw Mark …

Bizarrely warm end of the winter, here in the Netherlands: average temperature in the last part of February (21-28/29) was more than a full degree higher than the previous record set just five years ago:
10.5°C, that's warmer than the already warmed 1991-2020 average for April!
Peak was above 17°C.

cofe: Collaboration in Financial Economics (2021)
Network of authors and commenters of papers in finantial economics, obtained from the acknowledgement sections of over 5,000 published research papers.
This network has 13967 nodes and 102039 edges.
Tags: Social, Directed, Weighted, Online, Collaboration
https://networks.ske…

Energy crisis coal switch increased emissions, illnesses and deaths across 6 countries #environment

Energy crisis coal switch increased emissions, illnesses and deaths across 6 countries
In addition to serious economic damage, the energy crisis of 2021/22 also had dramatic consequences for the environment and people's health. This is the conclusion reached by two researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) in a new study. Although the temporary switch from gas to coal for producing electricity was cheaper and contributed to securing the energy supply, in the six European countries featured in the study, it caused additional costs of around one billi…

Raiders name Mike Sullivan Quarterbacks Coach https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-name-mike-sullivan-quarterbacks-coach

Toronto-based quantum computing company Xanadu's stock closed up 15% in its trading debut on Nasdaq; it also began trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange (Josh Scott/BetaKit)
https://betakit.com/xanadu-begins-trading-on-the-tsx-and-nasdaq/

Xanadu begins trading on the TSX and Nasdaq | BetaKit
The debut makes the quantum company the first new Canadian tech firm to list on the TSX since 2021.