2026-02-19 12:42:16
From Proposal to Passage: Enacted U.S. AI Laws, 2023–2025
https://fpf.org/blog/from-proposal-to-passage-enacted-u-s-ai-laws-2023-2025/
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From Proposal to Passage: Enacted U.S. AI Laws, 2023–2025
https://fpf.org/blog/from-proposal-to-passage-enacted-u-s-ai-laws-2023-2025/
@…
Voyage rocambolesque ou bienvenu en Mongolie
https://ludovic.hirlimann.net/2023/02/voyage-rocambolesque-ou-bienvenu-en.html
"Amazon rainforest flipped to carbon source during 2023 extreme drought, study shows"
#AmazonRainforest #Environment
#vereinfachteSprache
#Deutschland erlebte 2023 viel #Regen und hohe Temperaturen.
Der Deutsche Wetterdienst sagt, dass 2023 das wärmste Jahr seit 1881 war. Es gab 20 Prozent me…
#silentSunday
Cormorant. July 2023
RE: https://nexxtpress.de/mediathekperlen/chris-kraus-15-jahre-2023/
Der Film '15 Jahre' ist ein irrer Ritt zwischen Rache, Musiktalent und Castingshow. So etwas habt ihr nicht gesehen. Tolles Drehbuch, tolle Inszenierung, tolle Schaus…
fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…
Digital savings startup Vestwell raised a $385M Series E co-led by Blue Owl and Sixth Street, after a $125M Series D in 2023, taking its total funding to $660M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/fintech/digital-savin…
The unusual electronic and optical properties of #perovskites have long been touted as useful for improving solar cells and television screens,
but these materials have never quite hit the big time.
Existing approaches have hoovered up all the investment and attention, and perovskites remain confined to specialist applications.
Now researchers at Empa, ETH Zurich and the Politecnico…
Microsoft Corporation KEK CA 2023
New Study: Evidence shows how X’s algorithmic feed is radicalizing its users toward the Right. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10098-2
from my link log —
Towards fearless macros.
https://lambdaland.org/posts/2023-10-17_fearless_macros/
saved 2026-02-15 https://
Going back to listen to some of my favorite records from 2023 and 2024 and wow. Hell yeah. Haven't heard this stuff in years now and it holds up 😂
The political effects of X’s feed algorithm
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10098-2
Comics platform GlobalComix raised $13M, following a $6.5M raise in 2023, and acquires digital manga platform INKR, adding 200K volumes of Asian comics (Rob Salkowitz/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robsalkowitz/
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Gelukkig hebben ze ook nog een lekker stukje muziek in t archief zitten...
Bardentreffen Nürnberg: London Afrobeat Collective beim Bardentreffen 2023
#nowPlaying
Deutsche Telekom erhöht DSL-Tarife für Bestandsverträge von vor April 2023
Die Deutsche Telekom hebt Preise an. Betroffen sind DSL-Verträge, die vor April 2023 geschlossen wurden.
https://www.
Call for Participation für den transform_D Summit (18. bis 19. Juni 2026 in Berlin)
Der transform_D Summit 2026 lädt Innovator:innen der Zivilgesellschaft ein, eigene Impulse einzubringen. Ob Digitalisierung, gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt oder Klimaschutz – auf der Bühne habt ihr die Chance, Akzente zu setzen und eure Themen mit nachhaltigen Lösungen in einem 60-minütigen Format zu präsentieren.
Bewerbungsphase bis zum 23. 01. 2026
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Boston Symphony Orchestra at the 2023 BBC Proms
Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins the eminent orchestra for Gershwin's Piano Concerto plus music by Stravinsky, Ravel & Carlos Simon. John Shea presents.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002r4fn
'Fly, Eagle Fly': Jonathan Jones flies himself to Philadelphia to sign contract https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7129866/2026/03/18/eagles-cb-jonathan-jones-pilot/
https://xeiaso.net/blog/alvis/
It's kind of hilarious that Xe wrote this in 2023, I read it then and thought it was too far fetched because no IT dept would ever trust an AI to *talk to customers* for them, let alone have access to the database and other things to try to fix problems on its own, and n…
spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 195 nodes and 4176 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish
Bluesky raised a $100M Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto in April 2025, following a $15M Series A in 2024 and an $8M seed in 2023; it now has over 43M users (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/bluesky-announces-100m-series-b-af…
MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH: AFU recaptures hundreds of square kilometers! First time since 2023!: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/major-breakthrough-afu-recaptures-hundreds.html
The FBI has resumed purchasing reams of Americans’ data and location histories to aid federal investigations, the agency’s director, Kash Patel, testified to lawmakers on Wednesday.
This is the first time since 2023 that the FBI has confirmed it was buying access to people’s data collected from data brokers, who source much of their information
— including location data
— from ordinary consumer phone apps and games, per Politico.
At the time, then-FBI director Christ…
Palestinian journalists describe being systematically tortured, abused, beaten, and starved in Israel's prisons between October 2023 and January 2026 (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2026/02/palestinian-journalists-reco…
Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1228115 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der
Saving Electricity and Gas (2023) - Meter readings at home. #4kWhDHWClub - https://www.earth.org.uk/saving-electricity-2023.html
from my link log —
57 different scripts descended from Egyptian hieroglyphs.
https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/the-abcd-family-tree-by-starkey-comics
saved 2023-06-22
Predator spyware used to infect phone belonging to Angolan journalist, report says https://therecord.media/predator-spyware-used-to-infect-phone-angola-journalist
The First Quantitative Study of #Cometary Tail Regrowth following a Coronal Mass Ejection-driven Disconnection Event: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae3bdb -> Watching C/2023 P1 Regrow Its Tail: https://aasnova.org/2026/04/13/comets-are-lizards-watching-c-2023-p1-regrow-its-tail/
Exclusive: Foreign hacker in 2023 compromised Epstein files held by FBI, source and documents show
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/foreign-hacker-2023-compromised-epstein-files-held-by-fbi-source-do…
Surprise, pas de surprise: «le président et la vice-présidente de Crans-Montana étaient au courant de dysfonctionnements au sein des services communaux.»
https://www.rts.ch/info/regions/valais/2026…
I hate how rapidly Intel EOL's CPUs.
Like, my office workstation has a pair of Skylake-SP's (Xeon Scalable Gold 6144) which were launched in Q3 17 and hit end of support in December 2023. That's only six years.
And Vtune 2024.x is the last version that supports it. I have to pin an old version of VTune to be able to do profiling now.
I know it's getting on in years now, but it's still a pretty decent processor (CPUMark per-core performance competitive wi…
The differences are stark. Cyber security strategies:
Biden 2023: https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/National-Cybersecurity-Strategy-2023.pdf
Trump 2026:
EverPass says it will be the exclusive commercial option for the NFL Sunday Ticket package for the upcoming season, after sharing rights with DirecTV since 2023 (Jacob Feldman/Sportico)
https://www.sportico.com/leagues/football/
We are fucked.
#AMOC #ClimateChange
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.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
¡OMG! Mis súplicas fueron escuchadas: Pulp vuelve a Chile en 2026 🤩
Los britšnicos liderados por Jarvis Cocker agendaron fecha el 8 de Junio en Movistar Arena. Vuelven después de la gran presentación que tuvieron en Fauna Primavera 2023. La venta de entrada comienza el viernes 20 de febrero por puntoticket.
Mšs info: https://www.pu…
Nochmal ein kurzer Reminder für heute um 14 Uhr: https://events.gwdg.de/event/1351/page/406-1822026-fair-netzen
In der zweiten Sitzung des @…
Back-to-back Amazon droughts trigger record forest stress #Amazon
Remember when AIs were so dangerous they couldn’t be released? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/17/technology/openai-sam-altman-ousted.html?unlocked_article_code=1.aFA.LLDZ.2WLXSWsTMLuP&smid=nyt…
Traders placed over $1 billion in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war.
On the night of 27 February, the day before the US and Israel would carry out strikes on Iran, an unusual influx of about 150 accounts on Polymarket placed bets that the US would strike Iran the next day.
A New York Times analysis found the bets totaled $855,000, with 16 accounts pocketing more than $100,000 each.
Soon after, a single anonymous Polymarket user, under an account named “Magamyman”, made o…
Hier mein Versuch einer Rezension zu Ian McDonalds Buch Hopeland (2023) (climate fiction meets hopepunk meets near future SF meets magischen Realismus).
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2026/03/versuch-einer-rezension-zu-ian-mcdonald-hopeland-2…
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.comAnzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
Raiders Receive Massive Bengals Take Amid Maxx Crosby Rumors https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/troubling-bengals-take-maxx-crosby-rumors/
Social media algorithms prioritize right-wing content and influence the political views and behavior of real users. This is the finding of the recent study “The political effects of X’s feed algorithm”: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10098-2
👀
„Auch Claudia Roth (Grüne), Weimers Amtsvorgängerin, soll sich in der Vorbereitung des Buchhandlungspreises einmal beim Verfassungsschutz abgesichert haben. Allerdings nur in einem einzigen Fall, in dem sie dazu einen Anlass sah, 2023.“
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik…
Ajit Niranjan writes about the supposed decoupling in #Romania.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/11/is-romania-blueprint-economic-g…
Documents and a source: a foreign hacker compromised files relating to the FBI's Jeffrey Epstein investigation in 2023; the FBI confirms a "cyber incident" (Raphael Satter/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/foreign-h
Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…
Die deutsche Industrie verschwendet Unmengen an Energie: 40 % ihres Energiebedarfs könnte sie einsparen. Das zeigt eine Studie im Auftrag des Umweltinstitut.org . Durch thermische Isolierungen, moderne Motoren, effiziente Kühltechnik und andere Methoden ließen sich jedes Jahr 29 Milliarden Euro an Energiekosten vermeiden, bei einmaligen Investitionen in Höhe von ca. 100 Milliarden Euro.
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
from my link log —
SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes.
https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
saved 2023-05-29 https://dotat.at/:/CQDLU.html
Kumulativer Zubau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen minus Stilllegungen.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Wie Solarparks Biodiversität fördern können
Half of the world's coral reefs suffered major bleaching during the 2014–2017 global heat wave, estimates suggest https://phys.org/news/2026-02-world-coral-reefs-major-global.html
The infosec news machine is blinking tilt and it's only Wednesday, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the critical developments you should know, including
--DOGE engineer stole hundreds of millions of US taxpayers' data, whistleblower,
--Meta unveils new fraud protections as an international operation disrupts scam compound activity,
--China bans OpenClaw apps on security grounds,
--Foreign hacker accessed Epstein files in 2023,
--Rudd confirmed…
#silentSunday
Bee leaving flower. July 2023
spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 291 nodes and 5535 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish
A look at the continued success of Korean content on Netflix, where subscribers watched 51B hours of Korean movies and TV shows between 2023 and 2025 (Janko Roettgers/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/column/913101/netflix-korean-movies-tv-shows
On Website Technicals (2023-02) - Tech updates: Apache scripts, FOSDEM energy and Java, GraalVM AOT. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-69.html
from my link log —
Interesting JavaScript bugs caught by no-constant-binary-expression in ESLint.
https://eslint.org/blog/2022/07/interesting-bugs-caught-by-no-constant-binary-expression/
saved 2023-11-09
EU countries introduce sanctions on hacking groups, including Iran's Emennet Pasargad, which hacked magazine Charlie Hebdo in 2023, and two Chinese companies (Sam Clark/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-sanctions-iran-group-hacked-charlie-hebdo/…
Trump’s Memphis Crime Task Force Arrested Over 800 Immigrants, Records Show.
💥Only 2% of the Arrests Were for Violent Crimes.
Trump ordered a law enforcement surge in Memphis to end violent crime. -- But crime in the city has fallen steadily since 2023, hitting a 25-year low before the surge began.
The vast majority of the more than 5,200 arrests made by the Memphis Safe Task Force in its first four months have been for nonviolent crimes.
Of the task force’s 800 imm…
spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 238 nodes and 3755 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish
from my link log —
SIEVE is simpler than LRU.
https://cachemon.github.io/SIEVE-website/blog/2023/12/17/sieve-is-simpler-than-lru/
saved 2024-01-03
Boye Mafe to help fill void in Bengals' post-Trey Hendrickson era https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48198524/boye-mafe-help-fill-void-bengals-post-trey-hendrickson-era
Home Insulation Works: Barriers to Installation (2023) - Doing the right thing is hard, and insurers do not help! #insulation #netZero #futureReady -
Cryptocurrency supporters in Washington
have spent the last four years working to rinse the stench of Sam Bankman-Friedoff of legislative efforts that could legitimize digital assets.
Now, as the convicted former crypto tycoon publicly vies for a pardon,
the industry’s leading cheerleaders in Congress are urging Donald Trump not to take the bait.
Bankman-Fried,
who was convicted in 2023 on fraud charges after his FTX crypto exchange collapsed,
has been hea…
EU countries introduce sanctions on hacking groups, including Iran's Emennet Pasargad, which hacked magazine Charlie Hebdo in 2023, and two Chinese companies (Sam Clark/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-sanctions-iran-group-hacked-charlie-hebdo/…
Survey: only 35% of Virginia voters are comfortable with new data center construction, down from 69% in 2023, and just 37% support data center tax breaks (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/04/15/data-centers-poll-virginia/…
Tracking fifth-year options for 2023 first-rounders: Who will return in 2027? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48358999/fifth-year-option-tracker-nfl-players-2023-first-round-draft-class
from my link log —
Reducing Raspberry Pi 5's power consumption by 140x.
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/reducing-raspberry-pi-5s-power-consumption-140x
saved 2023-11-07
Former Mercor staffers describe "operational mishaps" at the $10B startup, including employee fraud, a security breach, and suspected North Korean infiltration (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
https://www.forbe…
A foreign hacker compromised files relating to the FBI’s investigation of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
during a break-in at the bureau’s New York Field Office three years ago,
according to a source familiar with the matter and recently published Justice Department documents reviewed by Reuters.
The details of who accessed a server at the FBI’s New York Field Office, including the allegation that a foreign hacker was involved, are being reported here for the first …
Wie haben die verheerenden #Waldbrände in den borealen Wäldern 2023 unsere Umwelt beeinflusst? 🔥🌲
Die Feuer in #Kanada setzten rekordverdächtige Mengen an #Kohlenstoff frei und beeinträ…
spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 409 nodes and 8557 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish
from my link log —
Mac keyboard layout configuration with hidutil.
https://amitp.blogspot.com/2023/04/mac-keyboard-with-hidutil.html
saved 2023-04-13
Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1290226 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der
Global smartphone shipments fell 4.1% YoY in Q1, the first decline since 2023, amid a memory chip crunch; Samsung's shipments grew 3.6% and Apple's grew 3.3% (IDC)
https://www.idc.com/resource-center/press-releases/1q26-mpt-top5/
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
In January 2023, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti announced in a memo to staffthat the company was making a hard pivot to AI — years before the word “slop” was added to the public lexicon.
In the memo, which was published roughly two months after OpenAI unveiled its groundbreaking ChatGPT chatbot, Peretti said BuzzFeed would be using the software to enhance the company’s infamous quizzes by generating personalized responses.
The company’s stock price jumped aggressively, from around $3 …
A look at the dearth of media coverage of Sudan's civil war, started in 2023; report: 32 journalists have been killed and 90% of outlets damaged or destroyed (Isma'il Kushkush/Nieman Reports)
https://niemanreports.org/sudan-civil-war…
Nvidia stock rose 18% over the past ten days, its longest winning streak since 2023; Jensen Huang said in March that Nvidia has $1T of GPU orders through 2027 (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/14/nvidia-stock-nvda-ai-streak.html
Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…
Sources: Microsoft ended production of its Surface Hub 3 collaborative touch displays and scrapped plans for a Hub 4; Hub 3 debuted in 2023 in 50" and 85" sizes (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
https://www.windowscen…
from my link log —
The future of Clang-based tooling.
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2023/07/28/the-future-of-clang-based-tooling/
saved 2023-07-28
Analysis: nearly 90 schools and 600 students globally have been impacted by AI-generated deepfake nudes; North America had nearly 30 reported cases since 2023 (Matt Burgess/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/deepfake-nudify-schools-global-crisis/
Kumulativer Zubau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.03.2026.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen minus Stilllegungen.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Wie Solarparks Biodiversität fördern können