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The Spectator reports a pre-tax loss of £6.6M in 2024, up from a loss of £6.9M in 2023; its 15-month sale process cost the weekly news magazine £11.4M (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business…

Spectator made £6.6m loss in year Paul Marshall paid £100m for title
The 15-month sale process of The Spectator resulted in total costs to the weekly news magazine of £11.4m, new accounts show.

"Amazon wildfire emissions may be up to three times higher than estimated"
#Wildfires #AmazonRainforest #Emissions

Amazon wildfire emissions may be up to three times higher than estimated
Fires are a recurring phenomenon in central South America, often intensified by drought and deforestation. In 2024, wildfire activity reached its highest levels in 20 years, affecting vast areas of the Amazon rainforest and the Cerrado—the world's most biodiverse tropical savanna, stretching across one-fifth of Brazil and extending into Bolivia and Paraguay.

Toblinger Knoten / Torre di Toblin
(October 2024)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

Net als bij #Brexit blijft #NigelFarage te koop voor rijke lui https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/29/revealed-nigel-farage-was-given-undisclosed-5m-by-crypto-billionaire-in-2024?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Raiders sign fourth-round pick RB Mike Washington Jr. https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-sign-fourth-round-pick-mike-washington-jr-running-back-arkansas-football-2026-draft

Has anyone else noticed that procurement/supply chain people have gotten more aggressive in the past few years? I've had to deal with a string of mean ones since 2024. The one I'm currently dealing with reminds me of Lydia from Breaking Bad.

Ausrede hat wie erwartet nichts geholfen: Die Binnengrenzkontrollen von Bundesinnenminister Alexander Dobrindt sind nun erstmals auch auf Grundlage des 2024 geänderten Schengener Grenzkodexes von einem Gericht für rechtswidrig erklärt worden.
https://www.lto.de/…

VG: Juraprofessor klagt erfolgreich gegen Binnengrenzkontrolle
Die Bundespolizei kontrollierte einen Juraprofessor – ausgerechnet bei Schengen. Das VG Koblenz entschied: Auch diese Grenzkontrolle war rechtswidrig.

Raiders sign fourth-round pick RB Mike Washington Jr. https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-sign-fourth-round-pick-mike-washington-jr-running-back-arkansas-football-2026-draft

from my link log —
A 3D mouse with 3D printed flexures and PCB coils.
https://hackaday.com/2024/01/31/3d-mouse-with-3d-printed-flexures-and-pcb-coils/
saved 2024-02-03

3D Mouse With 3D Printed Flexures And PCB Coils
3D mice with six degrees of freedom (6DOF) motion are highly valued by professional CAD users. However, the entry-level versions typically cost upwards of $150 and are produced by a single manufact…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 17.02.2026.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

Analysis: the crypto industry has spent $288M on the 2026 US midterms so far, over double the 2024 cycle; crypto PAC Fairshake is the US' fifth most-funded PAC (Molly White/Citation Needed)
https://www.citationneeded.news/crypto-super-pacs-2026-midterms/

Crypto super PACs have hundreds of millions ready to spend on the midterms
With Trump faltering and their policy agenda incomplete, the crypto industry has moved at least $288 million toward the midterms in a desperate bid to keep Republicans in control of Congress

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 😂

Apropos Ryan Gosling/Der Astronaut - meine Kurzbesprechung zum zugrundeliegenden Buch ‚Project Hail Mary‘ von Andy Weir findet sich hier: https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2026/01/science-fiction-und-fantasy-winter-edition-2025-26/
Bin …

Science Fiction und Fantasy - Winter Edition 2025/26
Irgendwie hat sich nach meinen letzten Sammelrezensionen doch einiges angesammelt, was ich an SF und Fantasy gelesen und angeschaut habe. Innovativ fand ich Emily Teshs neuen Roman The Incandescent (2025). Tesh hat 2024 den Hugo für ihre antifaschistische Space Opera Some Desperate Glory bekomme

Accounting for the effects of year-to-year climate variation on population growth rate can substantially decrease the size of a species' expected geographic range— by an average of 22% in this simulation study with a new method for range modeling
https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.30.621023

Gerade eben habe ich mich an meine Begegnung mit Jürgen #Serke erinnert, 1987. Wir waren gemeinsam in kleiner, feuchtfröhlicher Runde unterwegs und hatten einen sehr unterhaltsamen, anregenden Abend. 2024 ist er gestorben.
Ihm verdanken wir "Die verbrannten Dichter" und die "Bömischen Dörfer"
Die Begegnung mit ihm hat mich sehr inspiriert. Leider bin ich ihm später nicht …

Das hat sich fein gezogen, aber es hat sich auch gelohnt. Ich habe den Sammelband am 24.11.24 begonnen und mir die 3 Bücher aufgeteilt. „Entscheidend aber bleibt die bedingungslose Absage des Autors an den Krieg, an die Unmenschlichkeit und an die Mächte des Chaos.“ Aufgezeichnet mit @…

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum #Energiesparen

It's finally Friday, but don't leave for the weekend before checking out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Microsoft bets $10 billion on Japan’s AI buildout and cyber defenses,
--EU pins EC attack on TeamPCP,
--Iowa AG sues UnitedHealth over 2024 attack,
--Residential proxies pose problems for IP reputation systems,
--Him & Hers report Feb. data breach,
--TA416 refocuses efforts back t…

Microsoft bets $10 billion on Japan’s AI buildout and cyber defenses
EU pins EC attack on TeamPCP, Iowa AG sues UnitedHealth over 2024 attack, Residential proxies pose problems for IP reputation systems, Him & Hers report Feb. data breach, TA416 refocuses efforts back to Europe, Former engineer admits to hacking employer in $750k extortion bid, much more

Leistung der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum #Energiesparen

The only border crossing that connects Gaza with Egypt
⭐️has opened for the first time in almost a year.
✅The step throws a lifeline to Palestinians who want to leave for medical care or return to homes and families after two years of war.
The passage, near the city of Rafah, in southern Gaza,
was seized by Israeli soldiers in May 2024
and had been mostly closed since then,
other than for a brief time during a temporary cease-fire last winter.
A long…

What to Know About the Rafah Border Crossing in Gaza
The only crossing that connects Gaza with Egypt has reopened after nearly a year of closures. The move will allow residents to leave for medical care or return to homes and families in the territory.

The Sun reports pre-tax losses of £53M in the year to July 2025, up from £18M in 2024; phone-hacking legal costs more than doubled to £36.7M (James Warrington/Telegraph)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/04/14/murdoch-loses-more…

Cowboys target Bain's draft stock could fall after deadly car crash revealed https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/04/12/fatal-crash-could-impact-cowboys-nfl-interes…

🛠️ Comparing C/C unity build with regular build on a large codebase (2024)
#programming

Raiders select DE Keyron Crawford at No. 67 in the 2026 NFL Draft https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-select-de-keyron-crawford-at-no-67-in-the-2026-nfl-draft

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:

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:

SEC complaint: a whistleblower alleges Google broke its ethics rules in 2024 to help an Israeli military contractor use AI to analyze drone surveillance video (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post)

Google helped Israeli military contractor with AI, whistleblower alleges
A whistleblower complaint filed with the SEC claims that Google breached its own ethics rules to help an Israeli contractor apply AI to drone surveillance video.

Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeicher​n pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Privatpersonen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.03.2026.
397 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.

And here the crappy external camera with the low data rate actually delivered: the #ZodiacalLight pyramid at the beginning of the #SolarEclipse for #ArtemisII - it stayed visible in the live feed for 10 minutes! Contrary to the NASA commentary this was not the first time such an observation had been made by humans in the vicinity of the Moon - the Apollo 11 crew made it on 19 July 1969: https://www.facebook.com/dan.fischer.393/posts/pfbid02mf6UK3L2j5SgPiQsJk9JVYmo6XvZwDDZ23BYpXwJPDszaSpUYzuinkMyHzh9RF8Rl -> https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2024/07/25/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-25-juli-2024/#Jul26

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

Donald Trump on Saturday appeared to link the massive attack he ordered against Iran to his persistent claims about his 2020 election loss to former president Joe Biden, in a social media post about allegations that Tehran’s government interfered in the US president elections.
“Iran tried to interfere in 2020, 2024 elections to stop Trump,” his Truth Social post said, “and now faces renewed war with United States”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/01/trump-iran-attack-2020-election-loss?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other