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US child safety group NCMEC received 1.5M reports of suspected CSAM with ties to AI in 2025, a significant surge compared to 67,000 in 2024 and 4,700 in 2023 (Bloomberg)

#DDA "Seltene #Vögel in Deutschland 2023" ist erschienen und kann bestellt werden, "Seltene Vögel in Deutschland 2022" gratis als pdf.

Time says revenue from events is on pace to make up over 50% of total revenue, up from 28% in 2023; it hosted 11 events in 2022 and plans to host 40 this year (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/time-events-revenue-driver/

How Time Turned Events Into Its Biggest Revenue Driver
The business is on pace to generate more than 50% of its total revenue in 2026 

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…

FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms | TechCrunch
FBI director Kash Patel told lawmakers that the agency is actively purchasing commercially available location data, which can track Americans without needing a warrant.

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'`,…

Ravens restructure Lamar Jackson's contract, create salary-cap relief: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7108061/2026/03/11/ravens-lamar-jackson-contract-restructure/

EssilorLuxottica says it sold over 7M Meta AI glasses in 2025, up from the 2M that the company sold in 2023 and 2024 combined (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/11/ray-ban-maker-essilorluxottica-triples-sales-of-meta-ai-gla…

Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica says it more than tripled Meta AI glasses sales in 2025
The France-based eyewear brand has been working on smart glasses with the social media company since 2019.

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:

Nach der #Flughafen-Blockade im Juli 2023 hat das #Amtsgericht Hamburg einen 21-jährigen #Klimaaktivist verwarnt.
Er wurde unter anderem wegen

Flughafen-Blockade: Klimaaktivist wegen Blockade des Hamburger Flughafens verwarnt
Zum Beginn der Sommerferien 2023 blockierten zehn Klimaaktivisten stundenlang den Hamburger Flughafen. Gegen einen von ihnen fällte das Amtsgericht nun ein mildes Urteil.

My today's #footpathFriday is one from the archives. I was really bad prepared that day, but luckily everything turned out well -- and I got this fantastic, dramatic shot!
more about that day: http…

Docs: a Labour thinktank run by a current UK minister hired a PR firm in 2023 to investigate journalists from the Guardian and other outlets to ID their sources (Democracy for Sale)
https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusiv…

BREAKING: McSweeney’s think tank paid PR firm to investigate journalists
Labour Together put private investigators onto journalists writing about its funding. Starmer's right-hand man knew.

China's Green Methanol Industry is racing ahead 🇨🇳🌱⚗️🏎️
Many expect that Green Methanol is the future clean shipping fuel🚢⛽, as well as a promising feedstock for sustainable aviation fuels✈️ & fossil-free plastics🧴
In 2023, something happened in China🇨🇳.
Suddenly, announcements for Green Methanol production plants started appearing. They had one thing in common: they were huge💪. 500,000 tons here, a million tons there🏭🏭🏭

In a wide-ranging live conversation, MIT President Sally Kornbluth joined Jim Braude and Margery Eagan live in studio for GBH’s Boston Public Radio on Thursday, February 5.
They talked about MIT, the pressures facing America’s research enterprise, the importance of science, that Congressional hearing on antisemitism in 2023, and more
With new financial pressures facing universities,
increased competition for talented students and scholars from outside the U.S.,
as we…

“This is science!” – MIT president talks about the importance of America’s research enterprise on GBH’s Boston Public Radio
MIT faculty join The Curiosity Desk to discuss football, math, Olympic figure skating, AI and the quest to cure ovarian cancer.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
BC Camplight:
🎵 The Last Rotation of Earth (6 Music Session, 11 May 2023)
#BCCamplight
https://bc-camplight.bandcamp.com/album/the-last-rotation-of-earth
https://open.spotify.com/track/07MmMkkxvMpcc9uvfjj46i

Basel-Stadt hatte auch schon 2023 eine Panne bei e-Voting
https://steigerlegal.ch/2023/12/11/e-voting-panne-kanton-basel-stadt-post/