@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineđ» #Mythos zum #FrĂŒhstĂŒck: đ±
âErneuerbare Energien sind die teuerstenâ.
Eine Umfrage hat diesen Glauben in der deutschen Bevölkerung erst 2025 wieder gezeigt. Schauen wir uns die Kosten an. Wie schneiden
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI had to stop at a friend's house on Saturday to pick something up. I saw a large pothole in front of their place, took a few minutes to snap a photo and report it to the city, and... it just got filled in.
Reported on Saturday, fixed on Monday.
I don't know how to convince more people to do this.
https://
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzRE: https://mastodon.social/@europeanspaceflight/116182982779024614
Two tiny German satellites (PocketQubes) will be among the payloads, ERMINAZ-1U and ERMINAZ-1V: see https://forum.amsat-dl.org/index.php?thread/4540-erminaz-1v-and-erminaz-1u/ and https://destevez.net/2024/06/decoding-erminaz/ for details.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialShanghai-based MiniMax reports 2025 revenue up 159% YoY to $79M, above ~$71.4M est., and a $1.87B net loss, up from a ~$465.2M loss in 2024, after its IPO (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-02/china-aiâŠ
@cdarwin@c.imRepublican senator Thom Tillis spoke out in defense of Nato on Thursday,
joining Mitch McConnell and the Democrats,
after Donald Trump said that he was âabsolutelyâ considering withdrawing from the alliance after it refused to take part in the joint assault with Israel against Iran.
âNato stood by America when we were under attack and came to our aid after the September 11th attacks. Their soldiers fought and died alongside our troops in Afghanistan,â said Thom Tillis, a ReâŠ
@newsie@darktundra.xyzPhobos ransomware leader facing 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to hacking charges https://therecord.media/phobos-ransomware-leader-facing-20-years
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeSpanish police say four self-proclaimed members of Anonymous are in custody after allegedly carrying out several cyberattacks on public authorities in the wake of the 2024 DANA floods.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/23/anonymous_âŠ
@markhburton@mstdn.socialGorton and Denton - a rough vote analysis.
Green vote gain (10,200) was 2,000 short of Lib/Left reductions
Reform vote gain (5400) 3250 more than Tory reduction.
Suggests broadly that Greens got the Lib/Left votes and Reform the Tory ones, but some Labour went to Reform.
However the stay at homes likely to have been different population each time, with Greens mobilising former abstentions and Labour having more abstensions this time.
Very similar turnout 2024 and 2âŠ
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@…
Continuing the "gymnastics" theme:
â what sporty word can we use to describe the twenty-four month wait for FreeBSD documentation of a feature that was added in April 2024?
Cc @…
@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
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAfter backlash, Microsoft deleted a blog post written in November 2024 that critics said encouraged developers to pirate Harry Potter books to train AI models (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20
@hikingdude@mastodon.social'Eingefrorene Bewegung' #FotoVorschlag 'Frozen Movement'
Ah I almost didn't want to post a photo for this topic until this photo came to my mind. And it's a frozen motion even literally... right?
More about this day:
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDell stock closes up 22%, its biggest single-day gain since March 1, 2024, after the company gave an outlook for sales of its AI servers that exceeded estimates (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20âŠ
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Valenciaâs deadly flood still haunts Spain. Would it have happened in a fossil fuel-free world?"
#Spain #Valencia #FossilFuels
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Digital Technologies and Reading Habits of Students: A Scoping Review"
https://doi.org/10.1515/opis-2025-0040
"This scoping review aims to map the literature on the types of digital technologies and the purposes of using digital technologies by secondary school students."
@aardrian@toot.cafeMastodon doesnât 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 donât do that for reasons: https://adrianroselli.com/2024/04/long-alt.htmlâŠ
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialGoogle handed over a trove of personal data about a student and journalist to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in response to a subpoena that had not been approved by a judge, according to a report by The Intercept.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/gooâŠ
@nohillside@smnn.chĂhnlichkeiten mit dem Challenger-UnglĂŒck liegen auf der Hand.
NASA Chief Classifies Starliner Flight As 'Type A' Mishap, Says Agency Made Mistakes - Slashdot https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/0âŠ
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log â
Garbage collection without unsafe code in Rust.
http://fitzgeraldnick.com/2024/02/06/safe-gc.html
saved 2026-04-22 https://
@tagesschau_eil@mastodon.socialđą Merz mit 91,2 Prozent als CDU-Chef wiedergewĂ€hlt
Der CDU-Parteitag hat den Parteivorsitzenden Friedrich Merz erneut zum Parteichef gewĂ€hlt. Er erhielt 91,2 Prozent der gĂŒltigen Stimmen. Der Kanzler erzielte damit ein besseres Ergebnis als 2024.
âĄïž https://www.
@UP8@mastodon.social𫧠Shipping regulations to reduce pollution may have exacerbated Great Barrier Reef bleaching
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-shipping-pollution-exacerbated-great-barrier.html
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioHere is wisdom. I learned this too late in life, and am still not sure Iâve learned it well:
âDonât feel like you need to fix everything. A common response to bearing witness to anotherâs trauma is to try and fix it. We donât want others to suffer. That said, you may not be offering what the other person or group is clearly stating they need. If they need you to listen, and you choose to act but not listen, then you have both not supported them in their trauma and violated a boundary.â
https://community.hachyderm.io/blog/2024/08/12/hachyderms-introduction-to-mastodon-moderation-part-1/
@Europablog@mastodon.socialDie Essays von Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer zu den politischen Entwicklungen von der konstitutionellen zur absoluten Demokraite in den USA und in Europa (aus De Morgen 2024 und 2025) in deutschsprachiger Ăbersetzungen:
https://europa.blog/de/category/blogs/ilja-leonard-pfeijffer/
@presseportal_pol_NDS@frawas.dePOL-HI: Polizei stellt Einhandmesser bei Mann auf dem Marienfriedhof sicher Hildesheim (ots) - HILDESHEIM - (jpm) EinsatzkrĂ€fte der Polizei Hildesheim fĂŒhrten gestern Nachmittag (24.02.2026) im Zuge der seit Herbst 2024 verstĂ€rkten KontrollmaĂnahmen im Zusammenhang mit der Einstufung des Bahnhofsbereiches als ... https://www.
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeKorean police arrested two high school students for the 2024 hack of Seoulâs public bicycle service âTtareungyiâ
https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2026/02/23/X4AOVZXXORHNLI5P5BOHMRZQRY/
@rmdes@mstdn.socialPlonger dans le dossier de presse sur les affaires OKC qui s'Ă©tend de 1997- Š 2025 !
Comment nos sociétés traitent la question des dérives sectaires et la place des enfants mineurs dans ce genre de dérive ?
#PressKit #ChardonsBleus
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCoupang reports Q4 revenue up 11% YoY to $8.8B, below $8.9B est., and a net loss of $26M, versus $131M net profit in Q4 2024, hurt by fallout from a data breach (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co
@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 wiâŠ
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys Linked to Super Bowl Champion Cornerback https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/jamel-dean-dallas-linked-free-agent/
@cdarwin@c.imThe Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a measure establishing
public funding for charter schools is unconstitutional,
affirming that state funds âare for common schools and for nothing else.â
The 2022 measure was enacted by the stateâs Republican-dominated legislature over Democrat Gov. Andy Beshearâs veto.
It was struck down the next year by a lower court.
The stateâs high court ruled the âConstitution as it stands is clear that it does not permit funnelâŠ
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"The #Labour party won one third of the votes (34%) in an election in which under two thirds (60%) of the electorate voted. Only one in five (20.4%) registered electors in Britain support this government. It has no mandate to do anything. If it tries to do anything radical, then, as Thatcher did with the poll tax, it will find the difference between Westminster games and real politics.
TâŠ
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyNow the US has chosen an admirer of Putin as president, who subsequently halted aid to Ukraine, Europe stepped up, filling most of the gap.
https://www.kielinstitut.de/publications/news/ukraine-support-after-4-years-of-war-europe-steps-up/âŠ
@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.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialStarz reports Q4 revenue fell to $322.8M vs. $344.5M a year ago, net loss narrowed to $20.7M vs. $31.8M a year ago, and US streaming subs hit 12.7M, up 370K QoQ (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/starz-subscribersâŠ
@tokensane@mastodon.me.uk
@servelan@newsie.social"Doelâs feat wasnât just a display of ingenuity; it also highlighted a growing problemâspecifically, the mounting burden of landfill waste. According to a 2024 report by Wired, 137 billion pounds of e-waste, including vape pens, are generated each year. Only one quarter of that waste is recycled."
Man uses 500 disposable vape batteries to power up electric car - Good.is
https://www.good.is/british-engineer-uses-over-500-disposable-vape-batteries-to-power-up-an-electric-car/
@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.
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.ukđșđŠ #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
The Gits:
đ” Beauty of the Rose
#TheGits
https://thegits.bandcamp.com/track/beauty-of-the-rose-2024-remaster-1
https://open.spotify.com/track/7mIbOgXh41SMbQo13oobgc
@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/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe less voters knew, the more they liked Trump in 2024. Not Anymore (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost-low-info-voters
http://www.memeorandum.com/260212/p20#a260212p20
@nemobis@mamot.frAjit Niranjan writes about the supposed decoupling in #Romania.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/11/is-romania-blueprint-economic-gâŠ
@cdarwin@c.imThe idea for the program started back in 2021,
as severe drought conditions enveloped agricultural powerhouse states across the country.
The $400 million, according to Montaño Greene, was set to be distributed through the Commodity Credit Corporation,
a financial institution used to implement specific agricultural programs established by the federal government.
By the close of 2024,
she said the Biden administration had entered final agreements with selected râŠ
@Techmeme@techhub.socialeBay says it plans to cut ~800 jobs, or ~6% of its full-time employees, after laying off ~500 people in early 2023 and ~1,000 staff in early 2024 (Jo Constantz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-26/ebay-is-âŠ
@krone@frawas.deMit LĂ€cheln im Gesicht - Das erschĂŒtternde GestĂ€ndnis des Swift-AttentĂ€ters #News #Nachrichten âŠ
@BugatellyMartin@troet.cafe
@kosi2801@graz.socialUnd wieder ein Artikel auf #orfat zu #RepairCafe Initiativen in Ăsterreich đ
https://wien.orf.at/stories/3342166/âŠ
@vosje62@mastodon.nlGermany U-turns, Won't Intervene on Israel's Behalf in ICJ Gaza Genocide Case - @…
https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/2026-03-19/ty-article/germany-u-turns-wont-intervene-on-israels-behalf-in-icj-gaza-genocide-case/0000019d-05c2-d65b-abfd-95deeaff0000
Archive https://archive.ph/P3UBr
This marks a shift from Germany's January 2024 stance, when it backed Israel in the case. Berlin says its decision not to intervene stems from its own ICJ defense in a case accusing it of violating international law by supporting Israel's war in Gaza
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA record 129 press members were killed in 2025, the second consecutive YoY record; Israel was responsible for two-thirds of killings in 2025 and 2024 (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/special-reports/record-129âŠ
@arXiv_csDS_bot@mastoxiv.pageIncremental (k, z)-Clustering on Graphs
Emilio Cruciani, Sebastian Forster, Antonis Skarlatos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.08542 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.08542 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.08542
arXiv:2602.08542v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Given a weighted undirected graph, a number of clusters $k$, and an exponent $z$, the goal in the $(k, z)$-clustering problem on graphs is to select $k$ vertices as centers that minimize the sum of the distances raised to the power $z$ of each vertex to its closest center. In the dynamic setting, the graph is subject to adversarial edge updates, and the goal is to maintain explicitly an exact $(k, z)$-clustering solution in the induced shortest-path metric.
While efficient dynamic $k$-center approximation algorithms on graphs exist [Cruciani et al. SODA 2024], to the best of our knowledge, no prior work provides similar results for the dynamic $(k,z)$-clustering problem. As the main result of this paper, we develop a randomized incremental $(k, z)$-clustering algorithm that maintains with high probability a constant-factor approximation in a graph undergoing edge insertions with a total update time of $\tilde O(k m^{1 o(1)} k^{1 \frac{1}{\lambda}} m)$, where $\lambda \geq 1$ is an arbitrary fixed constant. Our incremental algorithm consists of two stages. In the first stage, we maintain a constant-factor bicriteria approximate solution of size $\tilde{O}(k)$ with a total update time of $m^{1 o(1)}$ over all adversarial edge insertions. This first stage is an intricate adaptation of the bicriteria approximation algorithm by Mettu and Plaxton [Machine Learning 2004] to incremental graphs. One of our key technical results is that the radii in their algorithm can be assumed to be non-decreasing while the approximation ratio remains constant, a property that may be of independent interest.
In the second stage, we maintain a constant-factor approximate $(k,z)$-clustering solution on a dynamic weighted instance induced by the bicriteria approximate solution. For this subproblem, we employ a dynamic spanner algorithm together with a static $(k,z)$-clustering algorithm.
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@mapto@qoto.org"The crew was hungry, the crew was angry, and we tried to survive only day-by-day."
"Back in 2016, 20 ships were abandoned around the world, according to the ITF. In 2025 the number had ballooned to 410, with 6,223 merchant seamen falling victim. Both of those figures for last year were up by almost a third on 2024."
https://www.âŠ
@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-indâŠ
@cdarwin@c.imThe U.S. economy is more distorted than ever.
The widening gap between corporate profits and average workers
â between capital and labor
â helps explain the disconnect between a buoyant economy and pessimistic households.
Consumer confidence is in the basement.
The gap was widening before Trump was elected. It explains in part the rise of MAGA and why Trump won in 2016 and again in 2024.
But Trump hasnât done a thing to alter these trends.
In fact, âŠ
@Dragofix@veganism.social2023â2024 El Niño triggered record-breaking sea level spike along African coastlines, study finds #Africa
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineZugebaute #BatteriespeicherkapazitÀt pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.03.2026.
397 DatensĂ€tze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefilâŠ
@smurthys@hachyderm.ioAug. 12 2024. IIRC I risked my life a bit taking this picture in #Ahmedabad #Gujarat #India. đ
#photography #amateur #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday
@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-aiâŠ
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAmnesty research: a government customer of spyware maker Intellexa hacked the iPhone of journalist Teixeira CĂąndido in Angola in 2024 via Predator spyware (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/inte
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders name Mike Sullivan Quarterbacks Coach https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-name-mike-sullivan-quarterbacks-coach
@cdarwin@c.imBe prepared for an onslaught of disinformation to come out of Rockbridge Network, Koch Network, and overseas straw donors.
-- @…
https://www.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe UK plans to update the Media Act 2024 to bring streaming platforms with 500K users under "enhanced" Ofcom regulation, giving it power to investigate them (K.J. Yossman/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/global/netflâŠ
@emd@cosocial.ca@… how come I see these in my feed? I suspect they have a âscienceâ hashtag, but I donât see it in the app.
https://reddthat.com/post/61631735
Anyway to show those?
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialRoku reported an $88.4M profit in 2025, after a $498M loss in 2022, a $709.6M loss in 2023, and a $129.4M loss in 2024, boosted by new ad deals and cost cutting (Mark Maurer/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.comâŠ
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineEine neue Untersuchung zeigt, dass sich weltweit die Zahl der Tage mit hohem #Waldbrandrisiko seit 1979 fast verdreifacht hat.
2023 und 2024 traten ĂŒber 60 solcher Tage auf. Forschende fĂŒhren mehr als die HĂ€lfte dieses Anstiegs auf die #ErderwĂ€rmung.
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz @Mediagazer@mstdn.socialTelevisaUnivision reports Q4 revenue down 2% YoY to $1.32B, US revenue down 7% YoY to $777M, and a net loss of $234.7M, down from an $809.7M loss in Q4 2024 (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/televisaunivsion-narrows-losses-q4-123667108âŠ
@buercher@tooting.chPour l'annĂ©e 2025, le dĂ©ficit commercial des Etats-Unis a atteint un chiffre record: la perte s'Ă©lĂšve Š 1,241 milliards de dollars, en augmentation par rapport Š 2024, indique le dĂ©partement du Commerce jeudi dans son rapport annuel.
Tariffs donât work. https://www.rts.ch/info/monde/2026/article/les-etats-unis-enregistrent-un-deficit-commercial-record-de-1241-milliards-29157568.html
@primonatura@mstdn.social"India expected to install about 42.5 GW of new solar capacity in 2026"
#India #Energy #Renewables #SolarPower
@mapto@qoto.org"Among those monitored were a Palestinian academic invited to give a guest lecture at Manchester Metropolitan University and a pro-Gaza PhD student at the London School of Economics, according to internal documents.
In October 2024, the University of Bristol provided the firm with a list of student protest groups it wished to receive alerts about, an internal university email suggests. It included pro-Palestinian and animal rights activists.
In total, 12 universities paid thâŠ
@cdarwin@c.im @Techmeme@techhub.socialSource: Benchmark's 2020 fund is now worth 10x and 2024 fund is 3x what investors put in, based on cash distributions and the paper value of its investments (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialPerplexity says it has no plans to further pursue advertising, which it introduced in 2024, phasing out ads late last year over fears it would erode user trust (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/6eec07a5-34a8-4f78-a9ed-93ab4263d43c
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCrypto transaction volume linked to suspected human trafficking, largely based in Southeast Asia, hit hundreds of millions of dollars in 2025, up 85% YoY (Chainalysis)
https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/crypto-human-trafficking-2026/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialKPMG citing PitchBook data: UK fintech investment totaled almost $11B in 2025 across 418 deals, down from ~$13.4B in 2024 across 527 deals; Revolut raised $4B (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20âŠ
@buercher@tooting.chEt piratage du fisc: En 2024, quelque 18 525 foyers disposant dâun patrimoine immobilier dâau moins 1,3 million dâeuros nâont payĂ© aucun impĂŽt sur le revenu. MĂȘme en excluant les personnes qui ne rĂ©sident pas fiscalement en France et celles dĂ©cĂ©dĂ©es en cours dâannĂ©e, le nombre de ces trĂšs riches qui Ă©chappent Š lâimpĂŽt commun reste Ă©tonnamment Ă©levĂ© 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
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPitchBook: European VC investments rose 5% YoY to a post-pandemic high of âŹ66B in 2025; AI-related deals accounted for 35% , or âŹ23.5B, up from âŹ17.7B in 2024 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/523ee7a9-489a-4f68-8aae-3f98c336b479
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: General Catalyst is in talks with investors to raise about $10B; it raised $8B in capital in 2024 and had more than $40B in AUM as of last summer (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
