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Since ChatGPT came out in late 2022, over *half a million* tech workers have been laid off. That fact, and their voices, aren't really shaping the conversation about AI, and what "AI" really means in culture. So I started to get into it: https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/06/500k-t

500,000 tech workers have been laid off since ChatGPT was released
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.01.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

Mobileye is acquiring Israeli humanoid robot startup Mentee Robotics in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $900M; Mentee was founded in 2022 and has raised $50M (Marissa Newman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…

from my link log —
I/O is no longer the bottleneck? (compared to AVX2 vectorized wc)
https://stoppels.ch/2022/11/27/io-is-no-longer-the-bottleneck.html
saved 2026-01-06

Since ChatGPT came out in late 2022, over *half a million* tech workers have been laid off. That fact, and their voices, aren't really shaping the conversation about AI, and what "AI" really means in culture. So I started to get into it: https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/06/500k-t

500,000 tech workers have been laid off since ChatGPT was released
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

$35M Cryptocurrency Theft Linked to LastPass Password Manager DataBreach
Blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs has traced over $35 million in stolen cryptocurrency to the 2022 LastPass breach, revealing a sophisticated Russian cybercriminal laundering operation that remains active into 2025. […]
⛓️‍💥 https://

$35M Cryptocurrency Theft Linked to LastPass Password Manager DataBreach
Over $35 million in stolen crypto tied to the 2022 LastPass breach, with the associated Russian cybercrime operation still active into 2025.

Ein paar Anmerkungen zum Markt für Elektroautos in 2025:
* Tesla schrumpft bereits zum 3. Mal in Folge. Inzwischen werden nur noch knapp 25% der Verkäufe aus 2022 erreicht.
* Nicht Smart war es, den KLeinwagen ForTwo gegen einen SUV auszutauschen.
*Für die Chinesen BYD erfüllen sich alle Träume: sie haben Tesla weltweit und auch in D abgehängt: 700% bei Steckerautos.
* D ist zweitgrößter Produzent von Steckerautos. Warum weiter Verbrenner bauen?
Mehr bei Golem:…

KBA-Statistik 2025: Rekordwert bei Zulassungen von Elektroautos - Golem.de
Im vergangenen Jahr sind so viele E-Autos wie noch nie in Deutschland zugelassen worden. Tesla verliert hingegen das dritte Jahr in Folge.

The ‍Baltic Sea region is on high alert after a string of power cable,
telecom link and gas pipeline outages since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, ‍
and the NATO military alliance has boosted its presence with frigates, aircraft and naval drones
The latest incident was made public five days after Finnish police seized a cargo vessel en route from Russia to Israel on suspicion of sabotaging ‌an undersea telecom cable running from Helsinki across the Gulf of Finland to Estoni…

The Hunga Volcanic Eruption Atmospheric Impacts Report: #Hunga volcano eruption: https://wmo.int/media/news/new-report-unveils-global-atmospheric-impacts-of-2022-hunga-volcano-eruption

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,239,590 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/31/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Home Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022) - A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady -…

Home Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022)
A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady

📸 Mémoire du 14 juin 2018
Sept ans ont passé depuis ce post.
Et pourtant, la justice n’a toujours pas terminé son travail.
En Belgique, le jugement définitif est tombé en 2022. Mais en 2025, certaines indemnisations sont encore bloquées. Des victimes attendent toujours que leur souffrance soit reconnue dans les faits, pas seulement dans les mots.
En France, l’affaire OKC/Spatz a été relancée en 2017, réouverte officiellement en 2021. Et aujourd’hui ? Toujours aucune mis…

Heute vor 9 Jahren: Am 8. Januar 2017 wurde im #Nuklearkomplex #Sellafield, UK, während eines Routineverfahrens die Hand eines Schichtleiters kontaminiert. Die geschätzte Dosis von knapp über 1 Sv überschreitet den gesetzlichen Jahresdosisgrenzwert für die Hand (500 mSv).

WTF with a burning marshmallow!!!
Here's a pair of stupid Cheeto appointed "judges" who wrote:
“The historical record makes unmistakably plain that open carry is part of this Nation’s history and tradition,”
These judges have absolutely no foundation for that statement.
The do not seem to comprehen that California was until 1822 part of Spain and until 1846 was a part of Mexico. Our traditions and legal history are quite different than that of the easte…

California's open carry ban unconstitutional, appeals court rules
Judge Lawrence VanDyke, a Trump appointee, said in the 2-1 decision that the state law could not stand under the Supreme Court’s 2022 landmark gun rights ruling.

Mein Vater war (guter) Kunde im Mitarbeiter-Shop des Unternehmens, bei dem er 2004 nach 35 Jahren Betriebszugehörigkeit in Rente ging. Zuletzt hat er dort 2018 oder 2019 eingekauft, im Januar 2023 ist er verstorben. Ich habe den Shop mehrfach darüber informiert. Kurz vor Weihnachten erneut Werbepost an die Adresse des im Frühjahr 2022 verkauften Elternhauses. Ich überlege jetzt, mal den Datenschutzzuständigen ausfindig zu machen und anzufragen, ob das da alles DSGVO-konform abläuft.

from my link log —
Async Rust in ScyllaDB: performance, pitfalls, profiling.
https://www.scylladb.com/2022/01/12/async-rust-in-practice-performance-pitfalls-profiling/
saved 2022-01-13

Async Rust in Practice: Performance, Pitfalls, Profiling
Learn how our developers used flamegraphs to diagnose and resolve performance issues in our Tokio framework based Rust driver.

Every single day, the whole debacle with Blake Lemoine feels so much more quaint than the mass delusions we’re uncovering now. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-ai-lamda-blake-lemoine/

The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life
The chorus of technologists who believe AI models may not be far off from achieving consciousness is getting bolder.

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Trotz Statistik-Effekten: Merz stellt telefonische Krankschreibung infrage

Global Net: three Chinese firms ranked among the world's top 20 chipmaking equipment manufacturers in 2025, up from one in 2022, with Naura Tech rising to fifth (Fumie Yaku/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/

China edges up with 3 of world's top 20 chipmaking gear suppliers
Local production shift fueled by US curbs puts AMEC, SMEE on list alongside Naura

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,233,020 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/24/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Es ist interessant, wie ein Song aus dem Jahr 2022, den ich erst 2025 zum ersten Mal bewusst gehört habe, mich jedes Mal aufs neue fasziniert: "Fahr mit mir (4x4)" von Kraftklub und Tokio Hotel.
Diese Fahrzeug-Huldigung der Backing Vocals ist phänomenal!

from my link log —
In-place construction for Rust.
https://y86-dev.github.io/blog/safe-pinned-initialization/in-place.html
saved 2022-10-06

NBCU says the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics averaged 23.5M viewers on its platforms for US afternoon and primetime periods, up 96% from the 2022 Beijing Olympics (Katie Campione/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/02/milan-cortina-2026-olympics…

Milan Cortina Olympics Deliver Most-Watched Winter Games Since 2014 Across NBCUniversal Platforms
The Milan Cortina Olympics struck gold for NBC, Peacock and the company's other platforms with the best audience for a Winter Games since 2014

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Warpaint:
🎵 Champion (6 Music Session, 4 May 2022)
#Warpaint
https://warpaint.bandcamp.com/track/champion
https://open.spotify.com/track/4PCOZeCLR4p8cvVBuGgfhm

Entropy, a decentralized crypto custodian that raised a $25M seed led by a16z in June 2022, is shutting down after "several pivots, and two rounds of layoffs" (Zack Abrams/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/386942/entro…

Entropy, a16z-backed decentralized custody startup, is winding down and returning capital to investors
Entropy's "anti-capitalist anarchist" founder is winding down the firm and returning capital to investors after failing to find a scalable business model.

from my link log —
Is wine fake?
https://asteriskmag.com/issues/1/is-wine-fake
saved 2022-11-21 https://dotat.at/:/G73NM.html

Micron breaks ground in New York for its memory manufacturing complex, announced in 2022, that it says will be the largest semiconductor facility in the US (Glenn Coin/Syracuse Post-Standard)
https://www.syracuse.com/micron/2026/01/mi

Micron breaks ground on massive chipmaking plant that could transform Central NY
The project could be the largest private investment in New York state history.