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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,254,450 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/16/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Data analytics company Fractal, which became India's first AI unicorn in 2022, raised $313M in its Mumbai IPO; its shares fell 5% amid a weak Indian IPO market (Rajesh Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Die neue 51 Meter lange BVG-Tram „Urbanliner“ darf vorerst in #Berlin nicht starten.
Die Aufsichtsbehörde verweigert die Zulassung, weil noch Prüfungen und Nachberechnungen fehlen. Offenbar geht es auch um Bremswege. Dabei sollten die Züge alte Bahnen ersetzen und für mehr Platz sorgen. Seit 2022 verzögert sich das Projekt immer weiter. Für Fahrgäste heißt das: weiter warten auf Entlastung …

Länger Warten auf die extralange Tram
Lang, länger, Urbanliner. Das bezieht sich nicht nur auf die Dimension der fast 51 Meter langen Straßenbahnwagen. Sondern auch auf den Liefer- und Zulassungsprozess.

Dolphins to release veteran pass rusher Bradley Chubb, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/dolphins-bradley-chubb/

Heute vor 61 Jahren: Am 16.02.1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die 30. Atombombe "Merlin". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

I'm exploring Irish census data to try to understand more about one-off "rural" housing, and have accidentally discovered that the most densely-populated small-area in Ireland is in Limerick's Dock Rd, where 255 people live in apartments with a ground area of 2,500m2.
One-off houses in the country are typically on "half-acre" plots, i.e., 2,000m2.

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,253,270 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/15/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Candle Media sells a majority stake in ATTN: back to ATTN:'s founders and others; the digital media company was valued at $150M when Candle bought it in 2022 (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/10/candle-media-sells-attn

Exclusive: Candle Media sells ATTN: back to its co-founders
ATTN:'s co-founders Matthew Segal and Jarrett Moreno said they plan to incubate new digital brands.

RE: https://mastodon.nl/@nrc_nl/116046787301973216
'De aandelen van Kyndryl zijn met 55 procent ingestort tot het laagste niveau voor het bedrijf sinds 2022. Naast de financiële topman legde ook het hoofd juridische zaken zijn taken neer. De senior vicepresident en tevens hoofd financiële administratie nam een andere rol binnen het bedrijf aan.'
Nou ... Gewoon maar niet doen dan?
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UK's FCA adds Blockchain.com to its registry of licensed crypto companies; the company withdrew its initial application in 2022 to pivot operations to Lithuania (Jamie Crawley/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/02/10

Blockchain.com wins UK registration nearly four years after abandoning FCA process
The London-based company elected to withdraw its application for FCA licensing in March 2022 having not won approval ahead of an impending deadline.

Liebe @….
Warum macht ihr es euren Kritiker:innen so einfach?

👉Die britische Regierung erklärt die Biodiversitätskrise zum Problem der nationalen Sicherheit. 🧨
(Spätestens nach der #COP15 2022 sollte das eigentlich jeder Regierung klargeworden sein. Betonung liegt auf "sollte"...)
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Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.03.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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A web-based LibreOffice could be interesting!
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/24/libreoffice-online-a-fresh-start/

LibreOffice Online: a fresh start - TDF Community Blog
LibreOffice is a desktop application, but we get many requests for a web-based version of the suite that users can deploy on their own infrastructure. Several years ago, project members started to develop LibreOffice Online, but in 2022 the Board of Directors at The Document Foundation voted to freeze the project and put it in the “attic”, for reasons that have now been superseded. Earlier this month, the current Board of Directors decided to revoke those votes to give new life to the proje…

A few months after handing in my thesis and receiving my Master of Science degree in 2022, ChatGPT was released. Essentially, nothing about how I solve problems has changed since then, but I had to continuously observe the brain drain around me. It's weird how the majority of people suddenly treat anything an LLM spits out as truth while I stick to good old search engines (with the additional hurdle of now having to filter LLM garbage from my search results).

It's probably a lost cause and also too short notice, but I'm still thinking about #AlgoApril, which I proposed back in 2022, but it's an incomplete list of prompts and sadly never took off...
https://github.com/alg…

Cortical Labs, the Australian #biotech company that grew 800,000 human neurons on a chip and taught them to play #Pong in 2022, has answered the internet's oldest hardware question: Can it run #Doom? It can. The c…

Mazda quietly returns to Russian market despite 2022 'exit,' report says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/09/mazda-quietly-returns-to-russian.html

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:

The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a measure establishing
public funding for charter schools is unconstitutional,
affirming that state funds “are for common schools and for nothing else.”
The 2022 measure was enacted by the state’s Republican-dominated legislature over Democrat Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto.
It was struck down the next year by a lower court.
The state’s high court ruled the “Constitution as it stands is clear that it does not permit funnel…

Kentucky Supreme Court rules charter school funding unconstitutional
The Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled that a measure establishing public funding for charter schools is unconstitutional. The high court ruled that state funds “are for common schools and for nothing else.” The Republican-backed measure was struck down by a lower court in 2023. In an opinion released Thursday, the Kentucky Supreme Court wrote that the Constitution "does not permit funneling public education funds outside the common public school system.” In 2024, Kentucky voters rejected a…

Reaching the End of the ICEV Domination: 35 Years of Battery Electric Vehicles in Norway
#EV

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.03.2026.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1244930 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Heute vor 61 Jahren: Am 14. April 1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die 37. Atombombe "Palanquin". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

🫧 Shipping regulations to reduce pollution may have exacerbated Great Barrier Reef bleaching
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-shipping-pollution-exacerbated-great-barrier.html

Shipping regulations to reduce pollution may have exacerbated Great Barrier Reef bleaching
Rising ocean temperatures have been implicated in mass coral bleaching events affecting the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). These events have been increasingly frequent, with major events occurring in 2016, 2017, 2020, 2022, 2024, and 2025. Now, in an unexpected turn of events, it appears that regulations introduced in 2020 to reduce ship fuel pollution may have actually increased the solar radiation that leads to increased coral bleaching, according to a study published in Nature Communications Eart…

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

In a joint filing, Elon Musk and the US SEC say they are ready to move toward a trial over Musk's alleged failure to disclose his Twitter stake in 2022 (Nicola M White/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Jets agree to trade Jermaine Johnson to Titans for T’Vondre Sweat: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7072657/2026/02/26/jermaine-johnson-tvondre-sweat-jets-titans-trade/

Good news for Dean Gillispie in Ohio. He was #wrongfullyconvicted of 3 1991 rapes & exonerated in 2017. He sued the township and won a $45 million verdict in 2022. The township has been fighting it ever since, and SCOTUS just denied its appeal.

US Supreme Court denies request from Ohio township facing $45M settlement
The U.S. Supreme Court denied an Ohio township's last-ditch effort to avoid paying a $45 million settlement to Dean Gillispie.

"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.

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,265,130 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/27/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

AWS plans to invest an additional €18B in Aragon, Spain, taking its total investment to €33.7B; its Aragon facilities have used 100% renewable energy since 2022 (Cristina Cueto/DatacenterDynamics)
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news

Snap says its direct revenue business has reached a $1B ARR, driven primarily by Snapchat surpassing 25M subscribers since its 2022 launch (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/snapchat-tops-25m-subscribers-driv…

Snapchat+ tops 25M subscribers, driving company's direct revenue ARR to $1B | TechCrunch
The revenue milestone comes as Snap has added additional paid offerings outside of its core Snapchat+ subscription over the past year to diversify its revenue streams.

Me, 2021, on Max Verstappen: Pfft. Crashstappen is a valid name.
Me, 2022-2024, on Max: He’s good, but… he knows people are scared
Me, 2025, on Max: A Goat. He’s on another level
Me, 2026, on Max: can he be in every racing series? dudes got skills.

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,262,490 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/25/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von #Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Are there other countries in the world, apart from the US, where legislative disputes actually shut down public functions and hold pay hostage, not just theoretically?
(They changed the law in the UK in September 2011 that would make a shudown possible, but repealed it in March 2022.)

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.

Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten ersetzt, Sonderregelungen nach #Solarpaket…

Heute vor 4 Jahren: Am 26. Februar 2022, dem dritten Tag der Invasion, wurde bei #Kampfhandlungen ein Lager für radioaktive Abfälle in #Charkiw des Staatsunternehmens #RADON getroffen. Es wurden k…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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Netflix hat seinen Kampf um Warner Bros. Discovery aufgegeben – und damit den Weg freigemacht für eine Übernahme durch Paramount, dessen Chef David Ellison als enger Vertrauter von Präsident Donald Trump gilt. Das berichten mehrere US-Medien. Damit könnte CNN, einer von Trumps liebsten Medien-Feindbildern, unter die Kontrolle des Trump-Lagers geraten. CNN gilt politisch als Mitte links und gehört seit 2022 zum Medienkonzern Warner Bros. Discovery.
https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/ticker-usa-unter-donald-trump-ice-minnesota-6-854403701512

Heute vor 61 Jahren: Am 19.02.1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die 32. Atombombe "Seersucker". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit …

#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit …