@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Binance has fired its employees in late 2025 who uncovered evidence that Iran received $1B through Binance between March 2024 and August 2025 (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/13/binance-investigators-fired-iran-sanctions-potentia…
@timbray@cosocial.caJust an unsolicited product plug, if you’re in Western Canada. The house we bought in late 2024 has Vinyltek windows, installed during a 2010-12 renovation, and a few of them were a bit twisted out of shape or had dysfunctional open/close/lock controls. So we called up and their guy came by and fixed them all in less than an hour, no charge. https://www.vin…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeThe Federal Trade Commission sent letters to 13 data brokers warning them of their responsibility to comply with the Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act of 2024 (PADFAA).
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/pres…
@jby@ecoevo.socialAccounting 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
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafeRE: https://mastodon.social/@lobsters/115882407207303960
Good reads:
― the 2024 blog post
― the 2026 discussion in Lobsters.
Incidentally, I did stop using Discord. No regrets.
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump won AZ-06 by less than one point in 2024
– and I need your help to flip this seat blue.
It’s Jo Mendoza reaching out.
I know polling can be confusing. Everyone wants to convince you that their race is the most important for you to support,
and it can be hard to figure out which are actually the most critical.
So let’s talk about what the data says about my race:
There’s only been one poll so far, but it shows me beating my MAGA opponent by onl…
@DiverDoc@mstdn.ca2024-25 COVID vaccine 80% effective against death, CDC estimates:
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/2024-25-covid-vaccine-80-effective-against-death-cdc-estimates
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialKamala Harris rebrands and revives KamalaHQ as Headquarters, a "Gen-Z led progressive content hub", in partnership with People For the American Way (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/kamala-harris-kamalahq-he…
@janneke@todon.nl
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineHäufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten ersetzt, Sonderregelungen nach #Solarpaket…
@BraxtonDK@social.linux.pizza„Seamonster“ by Facet
Platform: Amiga
Released: 18 May 2024
Specification: 320x256px, 32 colors
Note: 2nd in the Decrunch 2024 Amiga Pixel GFX competition
#GFX_Facet #YR_2024 #PF_Amiga
@Dragofix@veganism.socialNational survey finds microplastic pollution around Britain's coastline could be double than previously recorded https://phys.org/news/2026-02-national-survey-microplastic-pollution-britain.html
@NFL@darktundra.xyzSaquon Barkley says Christian McCaffrey is 'one of the best to ever do it' ahead of Eagles-49ers https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6955944/2026/01/08/saquon-barkley-christian-mccaffrey-running-back-eagles-49ers/
@markhburton@mstdn.socialGuatemala’s eco defenders reel from surge in killings and persecution
https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/guatemalas-eco-defenders-reel-from-surge-in-killings-and-persecution/
@tagesschau_eil@mastodon.social📢 Lebenslange Haft für Südkoreas Ex-Präsident Yoon wegen Ausrufung des Kriegsrechts
Für die Ausrufung des Kriegsrechts im Dezember 2024 ist der damalige südkoreanische Präsident Yoon Suk Yeol zu lebenslanger Haft verurteilt worden. Das zentrale Bezirksgericht in Seoul sprach den 65-Jährigen schuldig, einen Aufstand angeführt und damit die Verfassung des Landes untergraben zu haben.
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@aardrian@toot.cafeMastodon doesn’t support closed caption files. Bluesky does, but the sizing is poop.
But you can use open captions _and_ link to a transcript.
Embedding a transcript as alt text instead of linking it? Probably don’t do that for reasons: https://adrianroselli.com/2024/04/long-alt.html…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz#Starliner Propulsion System Anomalies during the Crewed Flight Test - Investigation Report: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/nasa-report-with-redactions-021926.pdf -> Agency leaders are discussing the findings of investigations into the 2024 crewed test flight of Boeing Starliner to the International Space Station: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geneWmI9ZMY -> NASA Releases Report on Starliner Crewed Flight Test Investigation: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-releases-report-on-starliner-crewed-flight-test-investigation/
@nohillside@smnn.chÄhnlichkeiten mit dem Challenger-Unglück liegen auf der Hand.
NASA Chief Classifies Starliner Flight As 'Type A' Mishap, Says Agency Made Mistakes - Slashdot https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/0…
@jake4480@c.imGoing 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 😂
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys’ Dak Prescott Delivers New Health Update https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/dak-prescott-delivers-new-health-update/
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Valencia’s deadly flood still haunts Spain. Would it have happened in a fossil fuel-free world?"
#Spain #Valencia #FossilFuels
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDNC under fire for hiding autopsy report on 2024 election (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/19/dnc-2024-election-autopsy-backlash
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p13#a251219p13
@doktrock@toad.socialGermany's population is estimated to decline by 10% by 2070, from 83.5 to 74.7 million. One of the reasons is emigration; over 250,000 people per year leave #Deutschland.
https://www.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGeneral Catalyst plans to invest $5B in India over five years, an increase from the $500M to $1B previously announced, after merging with a local VC in 2024 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/19/general-catalyst-commits-5b-to-ind…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"Austria’s military has already dumped Microsoft and moved to open-source services hosted in Europe, and some German regional governments have done the same. Danish schools were told to abandon Google laptops by the Danish data protection authority in 2024. The new Dutch government says digital sovereignty will be a national priority"
#DigitalSovereignty
@raiders@darktundra.xyzNews Surfaces on Former Raiders Controversial DT Christian Wilkins https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/christian-wilkins-news-free-agency/
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeI 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…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineAnzahl 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:
@petaqui@masto.esDe acuerdo a los datos oficiales, en España se mataron mšs de 53 millones de cerdos en 2024, el 24% de los que se matan en toda Europa. Y los que mueren sin llegar a crecer, en condiciones pésimas... Échale un ojo a la investigación de #IgualdadAnimal y firma para que esto cambie
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
The Gits:
🎵 Beauty of the Rose
#TheGits
https://thegits.bandcamp.com/track/beauty-of-the-rose-2024-remaster-1
https://open.spotify.com/track/7mIbOgXh41SMbQo13oobgc
@tokensane@mastodon.me.uk
@gwire@mastodon.socialCrypto companies in 201x: "we believe that the rise of crypto-currencies will promote renewable energy production, actually, so your criticism is invalid."
Crypto company billionaires in 2024: providing campaign support to the anti-renewables presidential candidate.
@arXiv_csDS_bot@mastoxiv.pageA $5$-Approximation Analysis for the Cover Small Cuts Problem
Miles Simmons, Ishan Bansal, Joe Cheriyan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01462 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.01462 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.01462
arXiv:2602.01462v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In the Cover Small Cuts problem, we are given a capacitated (undirected) graph $G=(V,E,u)$ and a threshold value $\lambda$, as well as a set of links $L$ with end-nodes in $V$ and a non-negative cost for each link $\ell\in L$; the goal is to find a minimum-cost set of links such that each non-trivial cut of capacity less than $\lambda$ is covered by a link. Bansal, Cheriyan, Grout, and Ibrahimpur (arXiv:2209.11209, Algorithmica 2024) showed that the WGMV primal-dual algorithm, due to Williamson, Goemans, Mihail, and Vazirani (Combinatorica, 1995), achieves approximation ratio $16$ for the Cover Small Cuts problem; their analysis uses the notion of a pliable family of sets that satisfies a combinatorial property. Later, Bansal (arXiv:2308.15714v2, IPCO 2025) and then Nutov (arXiv:2504.03910, MFCS 2025) proved that the same algorithm achieves approximation ratio $6$. We show that the same algorithm achieves approximation ratio $5$, by using a stronger notion, namely, a pliable family of sets that satisfies symmetry and structural submodularity.
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@NFL@darktundra.xyzCommanders to release CB Marshon Lattimore, ending failed experiment https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7050478/2026/03/02/commanders-release-marshon-lattimore-nfl/
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump’s illegal war in Iran is so unpopular, his own former spokesperson is calling him out.
During an appearance on Fox News Monday night, #Caroline #Sunshine pointed to a statement from Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine,
who said that the United States could “expect to take additional los…
@kosi2801@graz.socialUnd wieder ein Artikel auf #orfat zu #RepairCafe Initiativen in Österreich 😃
https://wien.orf.at/stories/3342166/…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle rejected 1.75M policy-violating Android apps and blocked 80K developer accounts from Google Play in 2025, down from 2.36M apps and 158K accounts in 2024 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/19/google-says-its-ai…
@xtaran@chaos.socialMit dem heutigen #mdRzA — übrigens bei laut Wetterbericht "anhaltendem Schneeregen", aber da war leider nur "anhaltender Regen" — habe ich 700km beim #Frostpendeln erreicht. Deutlich mehr als meine letztjährige Frostpendeln-Gesamtstrecke von knapp 550km insgesamt. Vielleicht schaffe…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineAnzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von #Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der
@timbray@cosocial.caHey, 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.
https://www.kongehuset.dk/en/the-royal-family/…
@newsie@darktundra.xyzFed agencies ordered to patch Dell bug by Saturday after exploitation warning https://therecord.media/fed-agencies-ordered-to-patch-dell-bug-after-exploitation-warning
@cdarwin@c.imTo people who didn’t vote for Trump, his sweaty panic over the Epstein files is perplexing.
The president’s enthusiasm for sexual violence is no secret.
It’s been nine years since the release of the “Access Hollywood” video, in which he bragged about how he liked to “grab them by” the genitals.
In 2023 and 2024, two civil juries found that journalist E. Jean Carroll told the truth when she said Trump sexually assaulted her in the 1990s.
The president has also made …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCZ returned to the US for the first time since his release from prison in 2024, to attend a WLF event at Mar-a-Lago attended by Brian Armstrong and others (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/pardon…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineJährlicher 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:
@Techmeme@techhub.socialKlarna reports Q4 revenue up 38% YoY to $1.08B and a $26M net loss, down from a $40M profit in Q4 2024; KLAR is down 50% since its September 2025 NYSE IPO (Laith Al-Khalaf/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/dbe5de32-1274-4adc-9e14-c05823ca9d76
@jake4480@c.imStumbled across this great new d-beat band from Brisbane, EXIT-PLOOM. They just started in 2023, they rip, and their loud, noisy, rough tape 'Duck and Cover' from 2024 is here, to hear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmdj0BBjX_k
and here, to buy:
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineAnzahl 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
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNiners GM John Lynch: We've had 'good and substantive meetings' regarding Trent Williams' contract https://www.nfl.com/news/niners-gm-john-lynch-we-ve-had-good-and-substantive-meetings-regarding-trent-williams-…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineKumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzReport: Cowboys' $92M CB facing possible surgery for familiar injury https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/18/report-cowboys-cb-daron-bland-possible-foot-surgery/87836500007/
@buercher@tooting.chEt piratage du fisc: En 2024, quelque 18 525 foyers disposant d’un patrimoine immobilier d’au moins 1,3 million d’euros n’ont payé aucun impôt sur le revenu. Même en excluant les personnes qui ne résident pas fiscalement en France et celles décédées en cours d’année, le nombre de ces très riches qui échappent Š l’impôt commun reste étonnamment élevé et pose question : 13 335
https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2026/02/18/ces-13-335-millionnaires-qui-ne-paient-aucun-impot-sur-le-revenu_6667239_823448.html
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineHäufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten ersetzt, Sonderregelungen nach #Solarpaket…
@buercher@tooting.chDonald 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
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland mit …
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland mit …
