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Kuaishou reports Q2 revenue flat at ~$5.2B, meeting est., net income down 36% YoY to ~$467M, the biggest drop since 2021, and Kling AI sales up 200% (Rachel Yeo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-19/kuai…

Survey: 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excited about increased AI use in daily life, up from 37% in 2021, including 55% of those under 30 (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20

Young adults in the U.S. are increasingly wary of AI, concerned it will take jobs
About half of Americans say they're more concerned than excited about AI, and young adults' concern is rising.

Pornhub's parent company, Aylo, will pay $120M to settle two 2021 class action lawsuits in California and Alabama alleging it profited from child abuse material (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/pornhubs-parent-com…

Pornhub's Parent Company to Pay $120 Million to Settle Child Sexual Abuse Lawsuits
The deal settles class action lawsuits claiming Mindgeek's sites hosted and profited from abuse videos of minors.

from my link log —
strcpy: a niche function you don't need.
https://nullprogram.com/blog/2021/07/30/
saved 2021-07-31 https://dotat…

Drei/drei der Bücher von Claire North, die ich gelesen habe, fand ich extrem beeindruckend - und alle drei, auch wenn es einen Hauch gemeinsamer Themen gibt (Hybris v.a.) sehr unterschiedlich. Gelesen habe ich Harry August (2014/lit fic mystery), Notes from the Burning Age (2021/dystopia/clifi) und Slow Gods (2025/~space opera).

Avohakkuut voivat lisätä tulvariskiä todella paljon.
New study finds clear‑cut logging can dramatically increase flood risk #luonto

New study finds clear‑cut logging can dramatically increase flood risk
In the past 30 years, floods have affected more than 2.8 billion people worldwide and caused more than 500,000 deaths. In Canada, flooding has caused significant damage and disruption to communities across the country. The 2021 floods in British Columbia's Fraser Valley cost an estimated $14 billion in damages.

AfD-MdB Reinhard Mixl zitiert eine Fauci-SMS von Januar 2021: Fieber nach der zweiten Dosis könne „theoretisch" mit Fehlgeburten in den ersten drei Schwangerschaftsmonaten zusammenhängen. Mixl lässt das Wort „theoretisch" weg und macht daraus Vertuschung.
Was tatsächlich geschah: Die Vermutung wurde geprüft. Metaanalyse in Human Reproduction – 21 Studien, 149.685 Frauen, kein erhöhtes Fehlgeburtsrisiko (RR 1,07; KI 0,89–1,28).
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Airtable sold for over a billion dollar
I don't imagine they will keep this generous free plan for a very long time now..
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/bending-spoons-to-buy-airtable-for-1-28b/

In a change that could obscure the full human cost of the Trump administration’s mass detention policies,
🔥Immigration and Customs Enforcement will no longer report deaths of detainees who have recently been released from its custody
The move rescinds a 2021 policy implemented by the Biden administration that required ICE to report to Congress and investigate deaths of detainees that occur within 30 days of their release.
The goal of the 2021 policy was to ensure that ICE cou…

ICE will no longer report deaths of detainees after release from custody
Immigration and Customs Enforcement will no longer report the deaths of detainees who have been released from custody, in a change that could obscure the human cost of the Trump administration's mass detention policies. The move rescinds a 2021 policy that required ICE to publicly report and investigate deaths of detainees within 30 days of their release. This was to ensure that ICE doesn't avoid accountability for deaths by releasing severely ill people from custody. Health experts who have in…

Netflix is closing game studios Night School Studio, which it acquired in 2021, and Moonloot, and is also cutting jobs from its internal games team (Stephen Totilo/Game File)
https://www.gamefile.news/p/netflix-closes-ni…

BREAKING: Netflix to shut down two more game studios
Oxenfree Night School and Moonloot closing, as streaming giant continues to shrink internal game studio operation

San Diego-based Self Inspection, which uses AI to assess body damage on a car with as little tech as a smartphone camera, raised $10M led by Sheryl Sandberg (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/16/sher

Exclusive: Sheryl Sandberg leads $10 million investment in AI-powered vehicle inspection service | TechCrunch
The startup, founded in 2021, lets enterprise customers use smartphones to scan and spot vehicle damage.

from my link log —
Inko: Friendship ended with the garbage collector.
https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/friendship-ended-with-the-garbage-collector/
saved 2021-08-26

African e-commerce company Jumia raised $50M, including $25M from the World Bank's IFC; Jumia's US-listed shares have fallen from $60 in 2021 to $6 now (Loni Prinsloo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

from my link log —
B-tree path hints.
https://github.com/tidwall/btree/blob/master/PATH_HINT.md
saved 2021-07-30 https://

btree/PATH_HINT.md at master · tidwall/btree
B-tree implementation for Go. Contribute to tidwall/btree development by creating an account on GitHub.

Capital One bank has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit from the Trump Organization over the closure of hundreds of bank accounts back in 2021,
arguing in new papers that the shutdowns were the product of a monthslong anti-money-laundering review
— not retaliation for the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, as the Trump family businesses have claimed.
In a motion to dismiss the case filed Friday in a Florida federal court,
Capital One's lawyers wrote that the bank's …

Google-backed nuclear fusion company Commonwealth Fusion Systems raised $1B, after raising a $1.8B Series B in 2021 and $863M in 2025, and plans a 2030s launch (Zachary Skidmore/DatacenterDynamics)
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news

Google-backed fusion firm CFS raises $1bn in equity financing
Has now raised $4bn, the most of any fusion company

from my link log —
Pink Floyd’s Young Lust telephone signalling explained.
https://telephoneworld.org/landline-telephone-history/pink-floyds-young-lust-explained-and-demystified/
saved 2021-10-16

"Maine's first 'turtle tunnels' help endangered reptiles cross a 'highway of death'"
#US #USA #America #Maine

Maine's 'turtle tunnels' help save endangered reptiles from 'highway of death'
Installed in 2021, local officials now say that there has been a “substantial reduction” in casualties for the endangered species.