2026-03-17 22:40:55
Brian Lynch, Apple's senior director in charge of home devices since 2022, leaves for Oura, a setback for a unit already contending with product delays (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…
Brian Lynch, Apple's senior director in charge of home devices since 2022, leaves for Oura, a setback for a unit already contending with product delays (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…
Nielsen: the Oscars drew 17.86M viewers on ABC and Hulu, down about 9% from 2025; the show delivered a 3.92 rating among those 18-49, or about 5.34M viewers (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/oscars-2026-tv-rating…
Tom Brady would 'never say never' to competing in flag football at 2028 Olympics https://www.nfl.com/news/tom-brady-would-never-say-never-to-competing-in-flag-football-at-2028-olympics
A look at the meteorologists leaving broadcast news to become independent streamers; 19 meteorologists have joined the Digital Weather Network, founded in 2022 (Elizabeth Hewitt/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/feature/meteorologists
General Staff: Russia has lost around 1,271,350 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/06/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html
Nations not on track to meet UN 2030 pesticide risk reduction targets: Study https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/nations-not-on-track-to-meet-un-2030-pesticide-risk-reduction-targets-study/
After a volatile morning, European stock markets are still in the red – but off their earlier lows – after steep losses in Asia-Pacific markets overnight.
The oil price is still trading over the $100 mark, on track for its highest close since 2022.
Here’s the situation:
UK’s FTSE 100 share index: down 112 points or -1.1% at 10,172 points
Germany’s DAX share index: down 350 points or -1.5% at 23,241 points
France’s CAC share index: down 152 points or 1.9% at 7,840…
Rasheed Walker agrees to 1-year deal with Panthers: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7091578/2026/03/13/panthers-rasheed-walker-nfl-free-agency-2026/
On UK Central Heating Season (2022) - Home heating dates. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-survey-UK-central-heating-on-off-dates.html
(2022) Lukusuositus: "Tunteva tuote — Kuinka eläimistä tuli osa teollista tuotantoa?" - Taija Kaarlenkaski & Otto Latva
#eläinoikeudet #eläintuotanto #eläintehtaat
The EU is looking for short fixes to reduce gas demand and has failed to find any.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/03/23/eu-pushes-early-gas-refills-while-easing-storage-targets-on-iran-war
China is ex…
Das #MumAndDad am Kieler Ziegelteich ist der HotSpots für schöne Fahrräder. Das Publikum ist bunt.
Am 5. November 2022 kam es dort zu einem Messerangriff. Gegen drei Tatverdächtige wurde wegen gefährlicher Körperverletzung und gefährlicher Körperverletzung in Tateinheit mit versuchtem Totschlag ermittelt. Homophobie soll eine Rolle gespielt haben.
Nun hat die Staatsanwaltschaft Anklage…
According to Mandiant's latest threat data, the median time between an initial access event and the hand-off to a secondary threat group dropped from more than 8 hours in 2022 to only 22 seconds in 2025.
Check out my latest CSO report for more insights on how attacker dwell time rose, voice phishing topped email phishing, and threat actors increasingly targeted backup and identity systems.
Faster attacks and ‘recovery denial’ ransomware reshape threat landscape
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,273,290 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/08/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html
Between 2020-2022 a lot of open source projects died, due to:
1. Covid pandemic
2. The introduction of firing for shareholder value
3. ChatGPT
I've been wondering if "one-off rural housing" can be described as ultra-low density suburbanisation. I've been looking at data: Census Small Area statistics, in fact.
Result, this map:
Rural Census Small Areas with >40% of housing stock build in the period 2000-2022 (bulk in 2000-2008, 2nd phase of Celtic Tiger). Huge patterns of ultra-low density suburbanisation in some areas (Galway city environs) but not others. What's going on east of the M11, SE coa…
Die Schlangenölverkäufer wollen ihr Geld zurück #security https://www.golem.de/news/it-sicherheit-kaspersky-droht-bsi-mit-klage-in-millionenho…
Microsoft stock plunged 23% in Q1, a steeper drop than any of its tech peers or the Nasdaq, and its steepest quarterly drop since the 2008 financial crisis (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/31/microsofts-stock-closes-worst…
Solar PV Rent-a-Roof: A Renter View (2022) - How was the experience of using others' roof spaces to put up more solar PV after a decade? - https://www.earth.org.uk/solar-PV-roof-renting.html
Hey America, your President just spent $1 billion of your money in order to NOT get more energy from offshore wind.
TotalEnergies accepts $1B offshore wind buyout, pivots to oil and gas in US 😠 https://www.utilitydive.com/news/trump-administra…
Raiders in play as NFL to return to Mexico City, play first regular-season game in France https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-in-play-as-nfl-to-return-to-mexico-city-play-first-regular-s…
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!
Nothing has changed. -- Yet.
But we stand on the edge of inevitable economic cataclysm, such as not seen in our lifetimes.
It’s an odd, hold-your-breath moment,
waiting for what the International Energy Agency (IEA) says is now certain to happen:
an energy crisis so critical it will be the equivalent of the two oil crises in 1973 and 1979 and Russia’s 2022 full invasion of Ukraine, put together.
The IEA says it’s already too late to prevent this impending ener…
An internal email indicates the BBC plans to shut down its central regional investigations unit, launched in 2022, as part of new cuts to BBC Local (Kevin Stanley/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/broadcast/…
Von Miller seeks 'closure' with Broncos as he enters free agency, but is he a good fit?
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/von-miller-broncos-reunion-free-agency/
A US jury finds Elon Musk intentionally misled Twitter shareholders by disparaging the company in 2022 to buy it for a lower price than his original $44B bid (Isaiah Poritz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
On Website Technicals (2022-01) - Tech updates: sitemap timestamp changes, power system tweaks, RE Utils V1.1.12, Christmas dip, desktop page experience, not indexed. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-56.html
How often do splashy NFL free agent signings pan out? Why big money doesn't always mean stardom https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48259731/nfl-free-agency-barnwell-splash-signings-contract-pay-2013-2022
On UK Central Heating Season (2022) - Home heating dates. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-survey-UK-central-heating-on-off-dates.html
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Bonobo:
🎵 Shadows (6 Music Session, 23 May 2022)
#Bonobo
https://bonobomusic.bandcamp.com/track/shadows-feat-jordan-rakei
https://open.spotify.com/track/7aLYQgzGLy8duSSdTJa1ik