@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAmnesty research: a government customer of spyware maker Intellexa hacked the iPhone of journalist Teixeira Cândido in Angola in 2024 via Predator spyware (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/inte
@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…
@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
@tokensane@mastodon.me.uk
@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.
@rmdes@mstdn.socialPlonger dans le dossier de presse sur les affaires OKC qui s'étend 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
@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
@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
@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/goo…
@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…
@kosi2801@graz.socialUnd wieder ein Artikel auf #orfat zu #RepairCafe Initiativen in Österreich 😃
https://wien.orf.at/stories/3342166/…
@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/…
@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
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
@Dragofix@veganism.social2023–2024 El Niño triggered record-breaking sea level spike along African coastlines, study finds #Africa
@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.
T…
@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
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineAnzahl 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
@nemobis@mamot.frAjit Niranjan writes about the supposed decoupling in #Romania.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/11/is-romania-blueprint-economic-g…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump White House is changing the rules of our political system
through intimidation,
the distortion of information,
financial corruption,
and the dismantling of government offices.
In the final episode of this season, we examine whether the administration is also trying to change the rules of our elections.
Dawn Baldwin Gibson, a North Carolina pastor, tells us about how, in 2024,
her vote was challenged for reasons that still aren’t clear to …
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeRE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116029119008444453
I wrote a lot about these rules in 2024 and 2025
@BugatellyMartin@troet.cafe
@StephenRees@mas.tothe BC Greens have reached a turning point.
When we signed the Cooperation and Responsible Government Accord (CARGA) with the BC NDP in 2024, we did so with a clear goal: to use our leverage in the legislature to force action on some of the issues that matter most to you—housing, healthcare, climate, and the cost-of-living crisis.
Today, I am announcing that the BC Greens will not renew that agreement.
@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/
@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.…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social»Ransomware-Angriffe in der DACH-Region steigen deutlich:
Die Bedrohung durch Ransomware wächst weiter. Kaspersky registrierte 2025 in Deutschland 384 Angriffe – ein deutlicher Anstieg im Vergleich zu 233 im Jahr 2024.«
Betreffen kann dies uns alle aber das min die E-Mails kryptografisch signiert sind wenn nicht verschlüsselt, wäre ein Punkt mehr für mehr Sicherheit und setzt nicht blind ua auf Microschrott.
🔓
@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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@tante@tldr.nettime.orgSince the topic came up in the whole "I run models locally so it's all fine" conversation:
"Open Source AI" does not meaningfully exist. It's just openwashing proprietary shit
https://tante.cc/2024/10/16/does-open-source-ai-really-exist/…
@Cognessence@social.linux.pizzaBecause of a sense of urgency that came upon me (and the fact I wanted some things released while still actually alive) I've put out a fairly large amount of music since 2024. 🙂
I want to share some download codes for another release, on the off chance anyone is interested. It kind of got lost (like many). It is called 'Scattering Spectrum', and represents a subtler zone of composition I really love. The label who were originally going to put it out a few years ago found it…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzFrom No. 3 picks to Super Bowl LX: Redrafting the 2018 and 2024 top 10 as Sam Darnold, Drake Maye face off
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-redraft-2018-2024-sam-darnol…
@izzychambers@vivaldi.net@… I've lived in DC since 1989 {edit: since 1984, 1989 in this house] and find it heartbreaking. But I've felt that way since late 2024, so I'm getting used to it, sadly.
@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/
@emd@cosocial.ca@… how come I see these in my feed? I suspect they have a “science” hashtag, but I don’t see it in the app.
https://reddthat.com/post/61631735
Anyway to show those?
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe US NLRB abandons its 2024 case accusing SpaceX of illegally firing eight engineers and signals it will steer clear of future cases against the company (Josh Eidelson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-09/us-nlrb-…
@avalon@jazztodon.com#MarshallAllen interview (2024):
“the space age is here to stay,
there’s no place you can run away.
Run to the rock to hide your face,
rock cried out ‘no hiding place.’
@benb@osintua.euUkraine's SBU captures Russian soldier suspected of executing 9 Ukrainian POWs in 2024: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/20/ukraines-sbu-captures-russian-soldier.html
@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/…
@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:
@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…
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Valencia’s deadly flood still haunts Spain. Would it have happened in a fossil fuel-free world?"
#Spain #Valencia #FossilFuels
@pgogl@troet.cafeElphi, Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg 2024
#FensterFreitag #windowfriday
@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/20…
@tagesschau_eil@mastodon.social📢 Merz mit 91,2 Prozent als CDU-Chef wiedergewählt
Der CDU-Parteitag hat den Parteivorsitzenden Friedrich Merz erneut zum Parteichef gewählt. Er erhielt 91,2 Prozent der gültigen Stimmen. Der Kanzler erzielte damit ein besseres Ergebnis als 2024.
➡️ https://www.
@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."
@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 Übersetzungen:
https://europa.blog/de/category/blogs/ilja-leonard-pfeijffer/
@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_…
@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
@UP8@mastodon.social🫧 Shipping regulations to reduce pollution may have exacerbated Great Barrier Reef bleaching
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-shipping-pollution-exacerbated-great-barrier.html
@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
@presseportal_pol_NDS@frawas.dePOL-HI: Polizei stellt Einhandmesser bei Mann auf dem Marienfriedhof sicher Hildesheim (ots) - HILDESHEIM - (jpm) Einsatzkräfte der Polizei Hildesheim führten gestern Nachmittag (24.02.2026) im Zuge der seit Herbst 2024 verstärkten Kontrollmaßnahmen im Zusammenhang mit der Einstufung des Bahnhofsbereiches als ... https://www.
@cdarwin@c.imThe U.S. economy is more distorted than ever.
The widening gap between corporate profits and average workers
— between capital and labor
— 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 hasn’t done a thing to alter these trends.
In fact, …
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeFound 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.
@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.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
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialFrom the D-Day ceremony in Normandy, France on Jun 6, 2024, marking the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
A WWII veteran tried to kiss Zelensky’s hand. #Zelensky stopped and hugged him. “No, you saved Europe. You are our hero.”
A leader who has the humanity to respect & revere our veterans. Imagine that.
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„Erneuerbare Energien sind die teuersten“.
Eine Umfrage hat diesen Glauben in der deutschen Bevölkerung erst 2025 wieder gezeigt. Schauen wir uns die Kosten an. Wie schneiden
@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 2…
@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.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys Linked to Super Bowl Champion Cornerback https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/jamel-dean-dallas-linked-free-agent/
@NFL@darktundra.xyzComeback Player of the Year? How Christian McCaffrey bounced back in most impressive year yet https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47769168/san-francisco-49ers-christian-mccaffrey-comeback-player-year-candidate-2025…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPitchBook: European VC investments rose 5% YoY to a post-pandemic high of €66B in 2025; AI-related deals accounted for 35% , or €23.5B, up from €17.7B in 2024 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/523ee7a9-489a-4f68-8aae-3f98c336b479
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeKorean police arrested two high school students for the 2024 hack of Seoul’s public bicycle service “Ttareungyi”
https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2026/02/23/X4AOVZXXORHNLI5P5BOHMRZQRY/
@aardrian@toot.cafeNew testing on heading levels past 6:
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/05/level-setting-heading-levels.html#Update01
Chromia:
• will make invalid `aria-level` values on `<h#>` level 1 instead of the `<h#>` level, and
• invalid …
@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
@cdarwin@c.imThe Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a measure establishing
public funding for charter schools is unconstitutional,
affirming that state funds “are for common schools and for nothing else.”
The 2022 measure was enacted by the state’s Republican-dominated legislature over Democrat Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto.
It was struck down the next year by a lower court.
The state’s high court ruled the “Constitution as it stands is clear that it does not permit funnel…
@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.
toXiv_bot_toot
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBitcoin dived below the $73,000 mark on Tuesday, hitting its lowest price since November 2024 as heavy selling resumes amid mounting geopolitical concerns (Liz Napolitano/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/03/bitcoin-price-today.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/
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Shabaka Hutchings:
🎵 Living (6 Music Session, 11 May 2024)
#ShabakaHutchings
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialPublicis reports 2025 net profit of €1.65B, down from €1.66B in 2024, and total revenue up 8.5% YoY to €17.4B, but PUB falls 8% driven by AI fears (AdriŠ Calatayud/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/p…
@cdarwin@c.imA 5-year-old boy and his father must be released by Tuesday
from the Texas center where they’ve been held after being detained by immigration officers in Minnesota,
a federal judge ordered Saturday in a ruling that harshly criticized the Trump administration’s approach to enforcement.
Images of Liam Conejo Ramos, wearing a bunny hat and Spider-Man backpack,
being surrounded by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers
sparked even more outcry about the admini…
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
Yesterday my wife and I had to pay for a small renovation which necessitated some budget shuffling. Needless to say we didn't make the list of the Richest Canadians. The McLeans and Canadian Business 2025 ranking saw lots of new names, which is surprising because $4.8B only earns you a spot at #40. Tech, primarily AI and data centre related, and cryptocurrency pushed some fortunes upwards, while the usual group of staid family wealth looked on with disdain. The saying "the rich gets richer" holds true as the combined net worth of the 10 wealthiest people on the list is $310 billion, a nearly 20% increase over 2024. It's difficult to read the individual summaries and not be disappointed at the level of wealth disparity with the bottom 50% of Canadians. IMO Governments avoid higher taxes on the wealthy because they believe Capitalism drives the economy, not the people who work for capitalists.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Capitalism #TaxTheRich
The Rich List - Macleans.ca
https://macleans.ca/longforms/the-rich-list/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBitcoin fell below $70,000, its lowest level since President Trump's election in November 2024 and down 44% from its October 2025 peak, as global markets fall (Muyao Shen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialHybe 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)
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/ne…
@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 r…
@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 über 60 solcher Tage auf. Forschende führen mehr als die Hälfte dieses Anstiegs auf die #Erderwärmung.
@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/20…
@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-subscribers…
@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…
@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…
@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-129…
@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-ai…
@wvmierlo@zirk.usHathern (Charnwood, Leicestershire), June 2024
#photography #ukphotographer #documentingplace #documentingspace
@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
@smurthys@hachyderm.ioAug. 12 2024. IIRC I risked my life a bit taking this picture in #Ahmedabad #Gujarat #India. 😅
#photography #amateur #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday
@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.com…
@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/netfl…
@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-q4-123667108…
@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-…
@primonatura@mstdn.social"India expected to install about 42.5 GW of new solar capacity in 2026"
#India #Energy #Renewables #SolarPower
@buercher@tooting.chPour l'année 2025, le déficit commercial des Etats-Unis a atteint un chiffre record: la perte s'élève Š 1,241 milliards de dollars, en augmentation par rapport Š 2024, indique le département du Commerce jeudi dans son rapport annuel.
Tariffs don’t work. https://www.rts.ch/info/monde/2026/article/les-etats-unis-enregistrent-un-deficit-commercial-record-de-1241-milliards-29157568.html
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIlya 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)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/02/bitcoin-hacker-ilya-lichtenstein-bitfinex-razz…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk @Techmeme@techhub.socialShares of Insilico rose 45% in their Hong Kong trading debut after the AI drug discovery startup raised $293M in an IPO; Insilico reported $85M in 2024 revenue (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-30/a…
