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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-23 04:10:42

Sources: Fei-Fei Li's World Labs is in discussions with investors to raise hundreds of millions at a valuation of $5B; World Labs was last valued at $1B in 2024 (Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2026-01-23 16:00:50

"Bill Gates charity trust’s holdings in fossil fuel firms rise despite divestment claims"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Bill Gates charity trust’s holdings in fossil fuel firms rise despite divestment claims
Trust had $254m invested in companies such as Chevron, BP and Shell in 2024, a nine-year record, analysis shows

@jake4480@c.im
2026-01-24 16:51:22

UNEARTHLY RITES are from Finland and I think I was vaguely aware of them before- going through their debut 2024 LP now (
unearthlyrites.bandcamp.com/al) in anticipation of their new LP coming out in April, and whew, this is so promising, for the new one. This 2…

@cdarwin@c.im
2026-01-22 15:45:24

The state of New Mexico is accusing three Texas oil executives of
orchestrating “a fraudulent scheme” to pocket revenue from hundreds of oil and gas wells in New Mexico
and offload the cost of plugging and cleaning up the wells onto the state’s taxpayers.
The suit, filed in late December by the New Mexico attorney general’s office, is the latest salvo in the state’s fight against oil and gas executives accused of 💥foisting old wells onto the public.
The 72-page compla…

“A Fraudulent Scheme”: New Mexico Sues Texas Oil Companies for Walking Away From Their Leaking Wells
New Mexico’s lawsuit accuses three Texas oil executives of pocketing revenue from oil and gas wells and offloading cleanup costs to the public. An investigation in 2024 by ProPublica and Capital & Main uncovered some of these business dealings.

@benb@osintua.eu
2026-01-20 01:05:23

Ukraine's SBU captures Russian soldier suspected of executing 9 Ukrainian POWs in 2024: benborges.xyz/2026/01/20/ukrai

Tracking information about the Russian War against Ukraine — Modern art makes me want to rock out
A blog running on Micro.blog

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-20 13:01:19

Sensor Tower: Reels accounted for 50% of all Instagram ads in 2025, up from 35% in 2024; Reels accounted for 46% of time spent on Instagram in the US in 2025 (Zach Vallese/CNBC)
cnbc.com/2026/01/20/most-of-in

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-20 12:40:43

Sensor Tower: Reels accounted for 50% of all Instagram ads in 2025, up from 35% in 2024; Reels accounted for 46% of time spent on Instagram in the US in 2025 (Zach Vallese/CNBC)
cnbc.com/2026/01/20/most-of-in

Most of Instagram's ads ran on Reels in 2025, data shows
More than half of all ads on Meta's Instagram ran in the service's short-form video Reels product in 2025, up from 35% in 2024, according to Sensor Tower.

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-01-19 20:50:02

Hey, Denmark is a monarchy. Get His Maj Frederik, who’s a good-looking dude, to offer the orange one a Royal Duchy that comes with a cool golden crown or something like that if he’ll shut up about Greenland. Orange guy loves royalty.
kongehuset.dk/en/the-royal-fam

The King and Queen of Denmark

HM The King
Frederik André Henrik Christian, His Majesty The King, Count of Monpezat, King of Denmark since 14 January 2024. HM The King was born on 26 May 1968 as the son of HM Queen Margrethe II an...

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2026-01-20 05:06:43

Titans to hire 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh as head coach: Source nytimes.com/athletic/6981689/2

Titans to hire 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh as head coach: Source
Saleh gets another crack at a head-coaching job after going 20-36 in three-plus seasons with the Jets from 2021 to 2024.

@nemobis@mamot.fr
2026-01-19 13:19:16

Amid this news madness, I've thoroughly enjoyed being subscribed to the daily #CarbonBrief. Instead of compulsing the news, I try [and often fail] to focus on the most insightful items in my news feeds. This analysis of the latest UK auction for #WindPower was excellent:

Chart showing per capita emissions of 9.9 tCO2eq/year in China (not consumption based?) in 2024, barely changed from 2023. ---- Per capita greenhouse gas emissions Greenhouse gas emissions include carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide from all sources, including land-use change.They are measured in tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalents over a 100-year timescale. Data source: Jones et al. (2025); Population based on various sources (2024) – Learn more about this data Note: Land-use chang…
@cdarwin@c.im
2026-01-22 05:07:57

The first year of Donald Trump’s second term in office was marked by the rapid implementation of his far-right program.
From ICE to DOGE,
from anti-DEI to anti-antifa,
and from bombing boats to $400 million bribes,
Trump’s regime has turned out even more extreme than feared after he was elected to a second term in November 2024.
His words and actions as president have been covered extensively over the past year,
as have those of a number of internal advise…

The Far Right Is Quietly Building Power Under Trump
Extremist groups are some of the biggest winners of the second Trump administration.

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2026-01-20 14:20:41

The Linebacker Archetype the Cowboys Have Missed Since 2024 insidethestar.com/the-lineback

The Linebacker Archetype the Cowboys Have Missed Since 2024 » Inside The Star
Every time a linebacker comes up with the Dallas Cowboys, the conversation immediately turns to speed, upside, and highlight plays.

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-21 20:01:41

A Canadian federal court overturned a 2024 order that would have shuttered TikTok Canada's business operations over national security concerns (Mickey Djuric/Politico)
politico.com/news/2026/01/21/c

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-22 11:10:51

An analysis of 5,290 AI research papers at NeurIPS: 141, or ~3%, had US-China AI lab collaboration, up from 134 in 2024; Llama featured in 106 Chinese papers (Will Knight/Wired)
wired.com/story/us-china-colla

The US and China Are Collaborating More Closely on AI Than You Think
WIRED analyzed more than 5,000 papers from NeurIPS using OpenAI’s Codex to understand the areas where the US and China actually work together on AI research.

@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to
2026-01-19 07:43:21

"Where will the von Neumanns, the Einsteins, and the Gödels of our age migrate after the SCOTUS overrules democracy in 2024 and Gödel’s Loophole is proven to exist? At this time, the two major powers of our time, the United States and China seem unlikely locations for brains to settle and grow in the long term."
(Inadvertently and ironically published on July 4th, 2022)

William Aspray
There was a moment in which Kurt Gödel, Albert Einstein, and John von Neumann were all roaming the halls of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton at the same time. Let that information sink in. Humanity experiences such gatherings of brilliant minds in a remote location of the space-time continuum only every so often; maybe the ancient Greeks and the men of the Renaissance witnessed such periods in time, as did the IAS staff at the end of World War II. How much will we have to wait f…

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2026-01-19 13:00:44

"Solar accounted for 7.24 million jobs in 2024"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Solar accounted for 7.24 million jobs in 2024
The International Renewable Energy Agency’s annual review into employment finds solar held over 43% of global jobs in the renewable energy sector in 2024. 

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-20 15:20:51

Filings: Michael Saylor's Strategy has bought more than $3B in Bitcoin since January 5, marking its biggest two-week purchase since December 2024 (Melos Ambaye/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-01-17 10:48:25

"If the Scottish Government can’t close Prestwick, Wick or other Scottish airports they own to hostile or illegally operating US military traffic the way it did for Israeli military traffic in 2024 then officials there should do everything in their power to make it as difficult as possible for the US to use those facilities" -- does #ScotGov not now wholly own Prestwick,

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-20 20:20:45

Nielsen: Christmas Day 2025 set a record for US streaming usage with 55.1B minutes, or 54% of all TV viewing for the day, up by 3.9B minutes on Christmas 2024 (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)
hollywoodreporter.com/business

Christmas 2025 Was the Biggest Streaming Day Ever in the United States, Says Nielsen
The month of December also marked another all-time high for streaming usage.

@Dragofix@veganism.social
2026-01-15 00:54:01

Three Andean condor chicks hatch in Colombia as species nears local extinction news.mongabay.com/short-articl<…

Three Andean condor chicks hatch in Colombia as species nears local extinction
Since July 2024, three Andean condor chicks have hatched at an artificial incubation program located near Bogotá, Colombia’s capital city, contributor Christina Noriega reported for Mongabay. The artificial incubation program is run by the Jaime Duque Park Foundation, a Colombian conservation nonprofit that has worked since 2015 to counter the birds’ population decline. Globally, the […]

@tinoeberl@mastodon.online
2026-01-11 20:21:02

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von #Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.01.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Balkendiagramm zur monatlichen Anzahl der errichteten Balkonkraftwerke in Deutschland von 2018 bis 08.01.2026. Seit Mitte 2022 ist ein starker Anstieg zu erkennen, mit Spitzenwerten von über 60.000 Neuanlagen pro Monat im Jahr 2024. Der Zubau fällt 2025 etwas ab, bleibt aber auf hohem Niveau.
@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2026-01-21 17:40:32

Bills owner Terry Pegula: Coaching staff 'pushed to draft' WR Keon Coleman nfl.com/news/bills-owner-terry

Bills owner Terry Pegula: Coaching staff 'pushed to draft' WR Keon Coleman
Bills owner Terry Pegula raised eyebrows on Wednesday when he told reporters that the decision to select wide receiver Keon Coleman in the second round of the 2024 NFL Draft was "pushed" by the coaching staff.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-20 16:45:48

Setapp Mobile, one of the first alt iOS app stores launched in 2024 after the EU's DMA, plans to shut down, blaming "still-evolving and complex business terms" (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)
macrumors.com/2026/01/15/setap

MacPaw Pulls Plug on Setapp Mobile iOS Store, Citing 'Still-Evolving and Complex Business Terms' for...
Ukraine-based developer MacPaw is set to close Setapp Mobile, its alternative app store for iOS devices in the European Union, next month. The...

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2026-01-20 20:01:52

Cowboys Could Lose Coach to Dolphins After Jeff Hafley Hire heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-co

Cowboys Could Lose Coach to Dolphins After Jeff Hafley Hire
The Miami Dolphins‘ seemingly innocuous head-coaching hire could have an impact on the Dallas Cowboys coaching staff in 2026. After Miami reportedly set themselves on Jeff Hafley has head coach Monday, Dolphins reporter Chris Kouffman floated Cowboys quarterbacks coach Steve Shimko as their potential new offensive coordinator. Shimko has spent the past two seasons coaching the Cowboys offense under Brian Schottenheimer, moving from offensive assistant in 2024 to quarterbacks coach in 2025. Wi…

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-20 21:36:27

Netflix's ad revenue hit $1.5B in 2025, up by more than 2.5x vs. 2024, and viewing hours grew 2% YoY in H2, driven by a 9% rise in viewing of branded originals (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
deadline.com/2026/01/netflix-e

Netflix Edges Wall Street’s Q4 Estimates, Says Ad Revenue Topped $1.5B In 2025
Netflix's fourth-quarter results edged Wall Street analysts' estimates, and the company cited "great progress" in its nascent advertising business.

@cdarwin@c.im
2026-01-19 20:48:17

Congressional negotiators are expected to release a
bipartisan health care package
as soon as today
that revives major parts of a deal that was torpedoed in late 2024 by Elon Musk and then President-elect Trump.
The agreement would include long-stalled priorities like
— an overhaul of the business practices of pharmacy benefit managers — the "middlemen" between drug manufacturers and insurers
— and new controls on how hospitals bill for outpatien…

Scoop: Bipartisan health package likely moving forward
The agreement would include long-stalled priorities but no extension of Obamacare subsidies.

@burger_jaap@mastodon.social
2025-12-18 12:37:56

A 400 MW virtual power plant of decentralised energy sources, including rooftop solar panels, home batteries, EV chargers and heat pumps, for Germany. It's not quite the GWs envisaged earlier, but it's still an impressive achievement.
pv-magazine.de/…

Enpal erreicht 400 Megawatt Leistung mit virtuellem Kraftwerk
40.000 Kundinnen und Kunden mit insgesamt 100.000 Photovoltaik-Anlagen, Batteriespeichern, Wallboxen und anderen Einheiten sind Enpal zufolge inzwischen beim Ende 2024 gestarteten „Enpal.One+“ vernetzt. Vom angekündigten Ziel, der Bündelung von mehreren Gigawatt Leistung, ist man aber noch ein gutes Stück entfernt.

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2025-11-14 14:34:53

Advancing credibility and transparency in brain-to-image reconstruction research: Reanalysis of Koide-Majima, Nishimoto, and Majima arxiv.org/abs/2511.07960 by @… et al.;

Advancing credibility and transparency in brain-to-image reconstruction research: Reanalysis of Koide-Majima, Nishimoto, and Majima (Neural Networks, 2024)
A recent high-profile study by Koide-Majima et al. (2024) claimed a major advance in reconstructing visual imagery from brain activity using a novel variant of a generative AI-based method. However, our independent reanalysis reveals multiple methodological concerns that raise questions about the validity of their conclusions. Specifically, our evaluation demonstrates that: (1) the reconstruction results are biased by selective reporting of only the best-performing examples at multiple levels; …

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-20 13:20:47

Nielsen: Christmas Day 2025 set a record for US streaming usage with 55.1B minutes, or 54% of all TV viewing for the day, up by 3.9B minutes on Christmas 2024 (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)
hollywoodreporter.com/business

Christmas 2025 Was the Biggest Streaming Day Ever in the United States, Says Nielsen
The month of December also marked another all-time high for streaming usage.

@adresscomptoir@mastodon.social
2026-01-06 20:19:37

Wunsch nach #OpenAccess-Lektüre von mehr als 1500 Seiten zur Geschichte Niederösterreichs im 18. Jahrhundert? VoilŠ:
Hämmerle, Tobias u.a. (Hg.): Niederösterreich im 18. Jahrhundert. 2 Bände. St. Pölten: Verlag NÖ Institut für Landeskunde, 2024.
Band 1:

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-01-12 09:11:23

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #JazzTheatre
Max Roach:
🎵 Tears
#MaxRoach
maxroachmusic.bandcamp.com/tra

@carl@heath.social
2026-01-07 20:37:48

I september går Sverige till val. Musk intervenerar redan i val över hela Europa; Tyskland, Storbritannien, Italien, Frankrike. Nu Sverige: "Sweden is dying." Jag samlar mina tankar om X, algoritmer och demokrati i en längre text.
carlheath.se/sa-kan-elon-musk-

Så kan Elon Musk påverka det svenska valet
Den 20 december 2024 publicerade Elon Musk sex ord på X. “Only the AfD can save Germany.” En månad senare, två dagar före minnesdagen för förintelsens offer, talade han virtuellt vid AfD:s kampanjmöte…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-20 21:30:52

Netflix's ad revenue hit $1.5B in 2025, up by more than 2.5x vs. 2024, and viewing hours grew 2% YoY in H2, driven by a 9% rise in viewing of branded originals (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
deadline.com/2026/01/netflix-e

Netflix Edges Wall Street’s Q4 Estimates, Says Ad Revenue Topped $1.5B In 2025
Netflix's fourth-quarter results edged Wall Street analysts' estimates, and the company cited "great progress" in its nascent advertising business.

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2026-01-02 08:50:26

Guatemala’s eco defenders reel from surge in killings and persecution
news.mongabay.com/2026/01/guat

Guatemala’s eco defenders reel from surge in killings and persecution
Environmental and territorial defenders in Guatemala face a critical moment as violence targeting them increases across the country. In 2024, at least 20 such defenders were killed for their work, up from four in 2023, according to a report by advocacy NGO Global Witness. The country was second only to Colombia in the number of […]

@wraithe@mastodon.social
2026-01-10 18:20:47

How well have I been doing keeping my shit managed?
I just put up my “file it“ calendar for 2026, which is a calendar that consists of folders for receipts, expenses, etc.
It’s replacing my “file it” calendar for 2024.
Note to self: order 2025 calendar. 😂🤦🏻‍♀️

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2026-01-20 20:42:29

Second-Year WR Named Cowboys’ Most Underrated Impact Player si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/s

Second-Year WR Named Cowboys’ Most Underrated Impact Player
The Dallas Cowboys watched a late-round pick from 2024 develop into a legit weapon this year.

@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy
2026-01-04 21:25:26

From my Twitter archive. It took one year longer ;)
bbc.com/news/articles/cj9rjwpv

Screenshot showing tweet: Kees van der Leun @Sustainable2050 - Apr 19, 2024 Slightly speculative forecast: within this year, @BYDCompany will knock Tesla out of the international EV markets by further decreasing its prices and ensuring that increasing sales can immediately be met. Striking while Tesla is weak.
@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2026-01-04 17:03:55

It's January 4th and I've already got a few orders this year for my little hobby business.
One from the UK, one from Ireland, and one from Switzerland.
Last year we shipped close to 80% of the orders to the US and almost 20% to the UK, with a few other countries besides those two.
I do feel like I'm seeing fewer US sales since the beginning of 2024, file that as you will.
Overall sales were down a bit in 2024 but I did a few larger projects for folks that …

@shaun@mastodon.xyz
2026-01-06 16:25:27

Hundreds of false #DUI arrests in #Tennessee in 2024 alone. Hundreds!
“According to data released by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, 419 people across Tennessee were arrested for [DUI] in 2024 despite later blood tests showing no alcohol detected in their system: not trace amounts, not borderli…

More than 400 ‘sober DUI’ arrests in TN, data shows
According to data released by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, 419 people across Tennessee were arrested for driving under the influence in 2024 despite later blood tests showing no alcohol d…

@cjust@infosec.exchange
2025-11-22 03:16:01

#Shitposting #Shitpost #ShamelesslyStolenFromTheOtherSite #fallout4 …

oli - Civilfallout (UK) X @civilfallout This is the sort of thing you'll see in a Fallout terminal along with two skeletons nearby who died fighting each other @ Kevlar @CEOOfSIudge I have an alarm set every 37 minutes that emits a frequency only my neighbor Greg can hear | hate him so much 12:09 PM - Oct 27, 2024
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange
2026-01-02 23:00:15

Found an old power bill while cleaning up. In the end of 2018 I was paying 9.05 c/kWh for the first 600 kWh and 10.94 above.
Now it's 15.1 and 17.0.
The rate of increase was very much nonlinear though: from October 2018 to October 2024 (six years) the tier 1 rate only climbed by 27%.
It went up 10.5% in 2024 and 20.7% in 2025 alone.

@lilmikesf@c.im
2026-01-21 16:30:50

#Declining usage of #Oakland and #SJ #airports by approx 15% amidst sputtering regional

BUSINESS = ECONOMY - News San Jose, Oakland airports see further decline in passengers San Francisco Airport experienced upswing at outset of crucial travel season
The Mercury News San Francisco International Airport handled 54.58 million passengers over the 12 months that ended in November. That equated to an increase of 5.3% compared with the 51.85 million passengers during the one-year period ending in November 2024. Despite elevated heights for San Francisco, all three airports have yet to zoom back to their pre-pandemic economic altitudes in 2019. San Jose's one-year performance through November was 30.7% below the record-high 15.65 million passenge…
@chrisnelder@mastodon.energy
2026-01-03 18:58:30

Trump:
“I’ll avoid foreign military entanglements” ... “We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we end, and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.” - January 20, 2025
“I’m not going to start wars, I’m going to stop wars.” - November 6, 2024
“Great nations do not fight endless wars… As a candidate for president, I loudly pledged a new approach. Great nations do not fight endless wars.” - February 5, 2019

@davej@dice.camp
2025-12-31 15:08:07

In the last, guttering hours of the year, it’s tradition to look back on the last 12 months’ #TTRPG activity and reflect. You can read last year’s summary at dice.camp/@davej/1137476646998…

A pie chart, showing the breakdown of games I played in 2025 by percentage of total hours: Call of Cthulhu 7e: 16.5% Old School Essentials: 12.7% Traveller: 12.5% Dungeon Crawl Classics: 12.1% Shadowdark: 6.2% The One Ring: 6.1% Dungeons & Dragons 5e: 3.8% Monster of the Week: 3.7% Pendrqgon: 3.7% Dolmenwood 3.5% Realms of Peril: 2.9% 23 others: 16.4%
A column chart showing how many hours I played TTRPGs in each of the last several years (rounded to the nearest half-hour): 2020: 271 hours 2021: 540.5 hours 2022: 946.5 hours 2023: 578 hours 2024: 559.5 hours 2025: 742 hours
A column graph showing the number of new and previously played TTRPG systems I played in each of the last several years: 2020: 14 new systems / 5 previously played 2021: 24 new systems / 11 previously played 2022: 41 new systems / 20 previously played 2023: 31 new systems / 17 previously played 2024: 14 new systems / 15 previously played 2025: 14 new systems / 21 previously played
@jake4480@c.im
2026-01-01 11:14:37

For the first #ThursDeath of 2026, we have NEKUS from Marburg, Germany and their sophomore LP from 2024, 'Death Apophenia': sentientruin.bandcamp.com/albu

@Dragofix@veganism.social
2025-12-19 01:34:03

Met Office: 2026 will bring heat more than 1.4C above preindustrial levels theguardian.com/environment/20

Met Office: 2026 will bring heat more than 1.4C above preindustrial levels
Forecast is slightly cooler than the record 1.55C reached in 2024, but 2026 set to be among four hottest years since 1850

@pgogl@troet.cafe
2026-01-02 05:37:57

Elphi, Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg 2024
#FensterFreitag #windowfriday

Elbphilharmonie aus der seitlichen Perspektive von unten aus der Persepktive der Fußgänerbrücke aus. Die nach sußen gebogenen Glasfenster ziehen sich wie Augenlider über Augen, dabei ist die Form pro Fenster individuell in ihrer Größe. Die Glasfassade beginnt in ca. 30 Meter Höhe, darunter die alten Speicherbauten aus rotem Backstein.
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online
2026-01-10 13:14:26

🤪 #Deutschland darf bis 2031 nur 12 Gigawatt neue #Gaskraftwerke bauen, obwohl ursprünglich 20 Gigawatt geplant waren.
Die Einigung mit der #EU-Kommission entspricht dem bereits 2024 vereinba…

Reiche scheitert: EU genehmigt nur 12 Gigawatt bei Gaskraftwerken - Golem.de
Deutschland darf 12 Gigawatt an neuen Gaskraftwerken bauen, um die Abschaltung der Kohlekraftwerke zu kompensieren.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-11-29 01:20:55

Trump says he plans to pardon former Honduran President Hernandez for 2024 drug trafficking sentence (Associated Press)
apnews.com/article/trump-herna
memeorandum.com/251128/p65#a25

@mrjau@social.mrjeda.de
2026-01-02 16:35:21

LNG Terminal in Bremerhaven [2024]

@waidler@bayerwald.social
2025-11-01 08:20:39

Gruselgeschichten aus dem Bayerischen Wald
Sendung vom 04.04.2024 ∙ Capriccio ∙ BR
Geister, Wahrträume, Todesankündigungen. Der Heimatforscher Karl-Heinz Reimeier aus Grafenau hat zahlreiche Protokolle gesammelt von Menschen aus dem Bayerischen Wald, denen seltsame Dinge widerfahren sind.

Capriccio: Gruselgeschichten aus dem Bayerischen Wald - hier anschauen
Geister, Wahrträume, Todesankündigungen. Der Heimatforscher Karl-Heinz Reimeier aus Grafenau hat zahlreiche Protokolle gesammelt von Menschen aus dem Bayerischen Wald, denen seltsame Dinge widerfahren sind.

@adamhotep@infosec.exchange
2025-11-01 18:21:22

There are no US federal prohibitions on limiting campaign contributions at the state level, so twelve states actually permit unlimited financing. Other states have unfairly-high limits. Too bad I'm not a billionaire…
news.ballo…

Generally speaking, campaign finance laws regulate the sources and amounts of contributions to political candidates and campaigns, as well as the disclosure of information about campaign funds. These laws are a source of ongoing debate. Proponents of more stringent campaign finance laws claim that the current laws do not go far enough to mitigate corruption and the influence of undisclosed special interests. Opponents claim that strict disclosure requirements and donation limits impinge upon th…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-15 12:16:00

Spotify plans to raise its Premium subscription by $1 to $12.99/month for subscribers in the US, Estonia, and Latvia, in its first US hike since July 2024 (Molly Schuetz/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-13 04:01:28

Chinese chipmaker GigaDevice rose 54% in its Hong Kong debut after raising ~$600M in its IPO, and reported H1 2025 profit of ~$84M, up 14% from H2 2024 (Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@buercher@tooting.ch
2026-01-16 14:10:58

L'an dernier, les salles de cinéma ont perdu 8% de leur affluence par rapport Š 2024, un chute de 24% en comparaison Š 2019. En effet, c'est la suite de la tendance de diminution depuis 2010.
letemps.ch/culture/ecrans/les-

@tinoeberl@mastodon.online
2026-01-05 14:15:33

Der #Windpark Lumdatal in #Staufenberg zeigt trotz anfänglicher Technikprobleme eine positive Bilanz.
Die drei #Windräder erzielten 2024 knapp vier Millionen Euro Umsatz. Die Kommune …

»Ganz ordentliche Rendite«: Windpark Lumdatal trotzt Panne und macht Millionen Umsatz
Seit drei Jahren drehen sich die Windräder im Staufenberger Stadtwald. Trotz einer gravierenden Panne zu Beginn fällt die Zwischenbilanz positiv aus.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-14 05:41:00

Checkr, which offers employee background checks, says its revenue grew to $800M, up 14% from 2024, amid a surge in AI-generated CVs and fake financial documents (Iain Martin/Forbes)
forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/20

AI Fraud Has Exploded. This Background-Check Startup Is Cashing In.
San Francisco-based Checkr has seen its revenues jump 14% to $800 million as companies try to spot a flood of AI-generated CVs and faked financial documents.

@jake4480@c.im
2026-01-05 17:06:51

One I somehow missed last year and may have even made my top 20 because of how damn good it is, NYC punks KALEIDOSCOPE and their LP 'Cities of Fear' that was written and recorded in just a few days in 2024. Some KILLER, catchy, rough, angry hardcore punk the way it SHOULD be. ffo MDC, Poison Idea, Crucifix.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-15 12:05:52

Spotify plans to raise its Premium subscription by $1 to $12.99/month for subscribers in the US, Estonia, and Latvia, in its first US hike since July 2024 (Molly Schuetz/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2026-01-08 03:24:22

49ers LB Fred Warner and his wife Sydney welcome newborn daughter, Bella espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/475443

Fred Warner and wife, Sydney, announce birth of baby daughter - ESPN
The San Francisco 49ers linebacker and wife already have a baby boy, Beau, who was born in March 2024.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-15 13:35:41

BlackRock raises $12.5B as part of its Microsoft partnership to bankroll data centers and energy infrastructure, bringing it closer to its $30B goal from 2024 (Silla Brush/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@burger_jaap@mastodon.social
2025-10-31 12:20:50

De compagnie van Frans Banninck Cocq
🎗️
📷 #OTD 2024

De Nachtwacht van Rembrandt van Rijn (figuren van een schutterscompagnie met sjerpen) op de achtergrond, op de voorgrond op de rug gezien bezoekers met schuine banden van tassen over hun rug.
@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2025-12-30 20:38:45

Treasury removes sanctions for three executives tied to spyware maker Intellexa therecord.media/treasury-sanct

Treasury removes sanctions for three executives tied to spyware maker Intellexa
The Treasury Department on Tuesday took three people closely affiliated with the holding company behind Predator spyware off of a sanctions list, reversing their designation in 2024 by the Biden administration.

@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-01-01 04:47:21

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Maruja:
🎵 Zeitgeist (6 Music Session, 9 Apr 2024)
#Maruja
marujaofficial.bandcamp.com/tr
open.spotify.com/track/6ak2c5g

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-13 13:20:47

Crypto scams received $14B on-chain in 2025, up from 2024's $12B and potentially rising to $17B as more wallets are found; impersonation scams jumped 1,400% (Chainalysis)
chainalysis.com/blog/crypto-sc

2026 Crypto Crime Report: Scams
Record $17 billion estimated stolen in crypto scams and fraud in 2025 as impersonation tactics and AI enablement surge.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-10 20:30:55

Malwarebytes: a 2024 Instagram data breach exposed information on 17.5 million users, including emails, phone numbers, and physical addresses (Jackson Chen/Engadget)
engadget.com/cybersecurity/an-

An Instagram data breach reportedly exposed the personal info of 17.5 million users
The leak may be responsible for Instagram users receiving plenty of emails requesting a password reset.

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-12-12 18:06:01

Source: livestream shopping app Whatnot nears ~$1B in revenue for 2025; Whatnot says it has passed $6B in gross sales this year, more than doubling 2024's sales (Ann Gehan/The Information)
theinformation.com/briefings/l

Livestream Shopping App Whatnot Nears $1 Billion in 2025 Revenue
Livestream shopping app Whatnot is targeting close to $1 billion in revenue for 2025, according to a person with knowledge of the company’s finances. The six-year-old company has quietly grown into one of e-commerce’s hottest companies, raising more than $500 million in new funding this year and boosting its valuation to $11.5 billion. Whatnot originally started as a place for collectors of Funko

@wvmierlo@zirk.us
2026-01-02 16:20:13

Hathern (Charnwood, Leicestershire), June 2024
#photography #ukphotographer #documentingplace #documentingspace

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-03 00:20:35

Ilya Lichtenstein, sentenced in Nov. 2024 to five years in prison for hacking Bitfinex, has been released early due to First Step Act, Trump's prison-reform law (CNBC)
cnbc.com/2026/01/02/bitcoin-ha

Ilya Lichtenstein, Bitcoin hacker behind massive crypto theft, credits Trump for early prison release
Ilya Lichtenstein had been sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty and admitting to the hack of crypto assets valued in the billions of dollars.

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-05 09:35:27

Maoyan: China's box office reached $7.41B in 2025, up 20% YoY after a 23% drop in 2024, driven by animated films and IP franchises like Ne Zha 2 and Zootopia 2 (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
variety.com/2026/film/box-offi

'Ne Zha 2,' 'Zootopia 2' Lead 2025 China Box Office Past $7.4 Billion
China's theatrical market staged a robust recovery in 2025, with total box office reaching $7.41 billion and admissions climbing to 1.24 billion.

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-02 17:20:43

Hybe K-pop subsidiary Ador ends the contract of one member of NewJeans and sues her and Ador's former CEO after the group tried to leave the label in 2024 (Jon Blistein/Rolling Stone)
rollingstone.com/music/music-n

NewJeans’ Label Sues Ousted Member Danielle, ex-CEO for $30 Million
Ador, a subsidiary of K-pop giant HYBE, has filed a $30 million lawsuit against former NewJeans member Danielle and the label's ex-CEO Min Hee-jin.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-16 22:48:52

Sources: Waymo is in discussions to raise more than $15B at a valuation near $100B, in a round led by Alphabet; an October 2024 round valued Waymo at above $45B (Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2025-11-02 20:27:27

Cowboys 'trade secrets' may have potentially revealed WR move at NFL deadline si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/d

Dallas Cowboys 'trade secrets' may have potentially revealed WR move at NFL deadline
The Dallas Cowboys are expected to add defensive talent at the NFL trade deadline, but could they ship off the team's 2024 receiving TDs leader to make it happen?

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-11-28 13:51:01

A survey of 1,004 UK journalists in 2024: 56% use AI professionally at least weekly, 62% view AI as a threat to journalism, only 15% as an opportunity, and more (Reuters Institute)
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.a

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-11-30 11:50:31

Among the top 10K artists streamed in Australia from 2021 to 2024, Australian artists fell ~20% as algorithms make English-speaking artists compete globally (The Australia Institute)
australiainstitute.org.au/post

Drowned out in the stream. Australian music is in trouble and needs investment: new report
The algorithms of global music streaming services like Spotify, YouTube, Amazon and Apple are killing Australian music, according to a new report by a

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-27 20:01:22

Sources detail how Anduril's fast-moving approach with its defense tech led to setbacks; Ukraine stopped using Anduril's Altius drones in 2024 due to problems (Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/politics/national-secu