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Oil prices surpass $100 a barrel for first time since Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/09/oil-prices-surpass-a-barrel.html

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

The US' February jobs report shows the tech sector's post-2022 job losses are now outpacing past downturns in 2008 and 2020 (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-jobs-getting-demolished-great-recession-dot-com-era-2026…

Tech jobs are getting demolished in ways not seen since 2008 and the dot-com bust
It's a rough time to be looking for a tech job. Economist Joseph Politano said losses in the industry outpaced those in the last two recessions.

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,245,290 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/07/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

Just found out about the "take" command in Oh My Zsh, and oh my (pun intended) is it useful!
As the name suggests, it's a command that takes you where you want to be, combining multiple tools (e.g. mkdir cd) into one neat little command.
Found a nice article explaining what it does for anyone who's not familiar with it already:

from my link log —
execline: a small scripting language.
http://skarnet.org/software/execline/
saved 2022-07-28 https://dotat.at/:/P8BEY.html

A look at Lisbon's Unicorn Factory, a startup hub where 300 businesses joined in 2025 vs. 250 in 2024; 17 unicorns have moved to Lisbon since hub's 2022 launch (Michael Dempsey/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5263ed8c-79dd-460a-b131-56a6fcefeb1e…

Portugal welcomes start-ups seeking scale
Hubs in Lisbon, Porto and Braga nurture new businesses as they look to expand

DE #KritisDachgesetz
Däitschland huet hiert Gesetz fir d'Transpositioun vun der CER-Directive (2022/2557 fir d'Resilienz vu kriteschen Entitéiten) duerch.
Nom Bundestag gouf et gëschter och gréng Luucht vum Bundesrat.

Elon Musk defends his social media posts in a Twitter shareholder trial accusing him of misleading statements about the deal before acquiring Twitter in 2022 (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-lawsuit-share…

Elon Musk takes stand in shareholder trial in San Francisco over Twitter stock
A defiant Elon Musk on Wednesday took the stand in a jury trial to defend himself against accusations that he engaged in a pattern of deceptive behavior that misled investors as he attempted to back out of his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter before he finally completed the takeover. The civil trial in San Francisco centers on a class-action lawsuit filed just before Musk took control of Twitter in October 2022, six months after agreeing to buy the embattled company for $44 billion, or $54.20 pe…

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

Rusland is zorgvuldig bezig een aartsvijand voor eeuwen te creëren.
https://www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v/2026/oekraine-rusland-oorlog-luchtaanval-kyiv-stroomuitval~v2569234

Licht uit in Kyiv
Na recente Russische luchtaanvallen is Kyiv duisterder en kouder dan ooit. Volgens de burgemeester beleeft de hoofdstad van Oekraïne de zwaarste winter sinds het begin van de grootschalige invasie in februari 2022. Inwoners van Kyiv moeten letterlijk zoeken naar lichtpuntjes.

"A crisis emerges across the US as 'forever chemicals' quietly contaminate drinking water wells"
#US #USA #America #PFAS

A crisis emerges across the US as 'forever chemicals' quietly contaminate drinking water wells
Kristen Hanneman made a small decision in 2022 that would upend life for her entire town.

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1202874 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Heute vor 4 Jahren: Am 27.02.2022 versetzte Präsident Putin seine Nuklearstreitkräfte (Abschreckungskräfte) öffentlich in Alarmbereitschaft u. begründete diesen Schritt mit "aggressiven Äußerungen" von NATO-Mitgliedsstaaten als Reaktion auf den Einmarsch Russlands in die Ukraine.

Olha que coincidência engraçada. Eu estou ouvindo os episódios do #RPGuaxa em sequência e, como não tenho muito tempo para essas coisas, estou muito atrasado. E o que eu peguei pra ouvir agora é justamente um episódio especial de Natal, só que antigo (acho que é de 2022) rs.
Ališs, pra quem curte RPG eu recomendo muito seguir o podcast "Realidades Paralelas do Guaxinim" do

Milestone
2022

Good overview of hybrid warfare by Russia.
#AP

Russia wants to drain Europe's security resources with sabotage campaign, officials say | AP News
The Associated Press has tracked 145 cases of sabotage and disruption that Western officials blame on Russia since its 2022 invasion of Ukraine. They say Moscow wants to drain Europe’s investigative resources.

at_migrations: Austrian internal migrations (2002-2022)
A network of migrations between municipalities in Austria, from 2002 to 2022. A weighted directed link from source to target indicates a migration flow from these two municipalities. Edges are annotated with migration volume (number of people), nationality, sex, and year.
This network has 2115 nodes and 2908569 edges.
Tags: Social, Economic, Travel, Weighted, Politlcal, Timestamps, Metadata

FilmLA: production days for film, TV, and commercials in Los Angeles fell 12.3% in Q4 2025 from Q3; for 2025 overall, production was about half of 2019's volume (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/los-angeles-production-no-rebound-12…

L.A. Production Shows No Sign of a Rebound Yet
L.A. production volume fell in the fourth quarter of 2025, continuing a downward trend that has been in place since 2022.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Stooges:
🎵 1969
#TheStooges
https://lp-hovercraft.bandcamp.com/track/2022-cover-of-the-stooges-1969

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

TeamLease Digital: Global Capability Centers in India have grown tech headcount to ~2M from 1.2M in 2022, rising 18%-27% YoY, compared to 4%-6% at IT companies (Tanya Pandey/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t

Techtonic shift: GCCs hiring 4x faster than IT cos now
GCCs are expanding headcount by 18-27% year on year, compared with 4-6% for IT services, according to data from staffing firm TeamLease Digital. Together, they employ nearly 2 million people now, up from 1.2 million in 2022, creating about 300,000 jobs annually. In contrast, IT services have added only 25,000-40,000 employees a year on a net basis during this period.

from my link log —
Fuzzing an eBPF implementation in Rust.
https://secret.club/2022/05/11/fuzzing-solana.html
saved 2022-05-12 https://

Earn $200K by fuzzing for a weekend: Part 1
By applying well-known fuzzing techniques to a popular target, I found several bugs that in total yielded over $200K in bounties. In this article I will demonstrate how powerful fuzzing can be when applied to software which has not yet faced sufficient testing.

Pinterest agrees to acquire tvScientific, a CTV ad platform that automates and optimizes ad buying; tvScientific was founded in 2020 and has raised ~$60M (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/11/exclusive-pinterest-to-acquire-ctv-ad-co…

Exclusive: Pinterest to acquire CTV ad company tvScientific
It's Pinterest's first acquisition since 2022.

at_migrations: Austrian internal migrations (2002-2022)
A network of migrations between municipalities in Austria, from 2002 to 2022. A weighted directed link from source to target indicates a migration flow from these two municipalities. Edges are annotated with migration volume (number of people), nationality, sex, and year.
This network has 2115 nodes and 2908569 edges.
Tags: Social, Economic, Travel, Weighted, Politlcal, Timestamps, Metadata

An interview with LastPass CEO Karim Toubba on the company-wide changes after the 2022 data breach, new services such as controls to curb shadow SaaS, and more (Charlie Osborne/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/lastpass-2026-rebuilding-trust-ceo-interview/

Can you trust LastPass in 2026? Inside the multimillion-dollar quest to rebuild its security culture
After a string of high-profile breaches, the password manager's new CEO says security is now at the 'very heart' of what it does.