2026-03-17 13:34:45
Qualcomm says it plans to buy back another $20B worth of shares and is raising its quarterly cash dividend, after unveiling a $15B buyback in November 2024 (Lynn Doan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-17…
Qualcomm says it plans to buy back another $20B worth of shares and is raising its quarterly cash dividend, after unveiling a $15B buyback in November 2024 (Lynn Doan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-17…
Na próxima terça-feira (17), o *Humanitas* recebe o neurocientista Miguel Nicolelis para a conferência:
“A Inteligência não é Artificial. Intenções humanas, extrativismo e o poder por tršs das mšquinas.”
💻 Na conversa, Nicolelis propõe um olhar crítico sobre o avanço da Inteligência Artificial e seus impactos sociais e ambientais. Em 2024, cerca de 300 bilhões de dólares foram investidos em empresas de IA, um crescimento que levanta questões urgentes sobre consumo de energia, šgu…
I'm shocked, shocked, that waiving the transfer tax on downtown office to residential conversions did not result in a single such conversion happening.
Well, not that shocked. (The real point of March 2024 Prop C was the sneaky provision letting the SFBOS reduce the transfer tax altogether without an election. Not to produce housing but to cut downtown landlords' taxes.)
James Talarico’s victory in the Democratic Senate primary race in Texas
was powered in part by a sizable advantage among Latino voters,
a sought-after group that Democrats are hoping to win back.
Latino voters, historically a Democratic-leaning group,
have been slowly shifting to the right, including a significant move toward Trump in 2024.
This year’s midterm elections will be closely watched to see whether these voters who were moved to support Republicans tw…
Funny they are looking into 2020 but not 2024 where there are some definate oddities in the results for House Represenitive races vs national and state wide race results for that district.
FBI subpoenas election records in Arizona, expanding 2020 inquiry https://ground.news/article/fbi-subpoenas-election-records-in-arizona-expanding-2020-inquiry_77e5cd
Spotify says artists from 75 countries made $500K in royalties in 2025, up from 66 in 2024; ~50% of an average artist's streams came from outside their country (Ethan Millman/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/mu…
Nein, liebe Spammer/Scammer/Phisher oder was auch immer ihr seid: *So* überzeugt ihr mich nicht. Weniger wäre mehr …
https://dnip.ch/2024/04/24/wie-viel-swissness-und-bitcoin-steckt-in-swissbitcoin-etf-betrug-erkennung/
@… 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?
Google's TIG documented 90 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in 2025, up from 78 in 2024; commercial spyware vendors and China-linked groups led the abuse (Jessica Lyons/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/05/zero_day_attacks_enterprise_tech…
Had a bucket list moment performing with him and his son (also a guitarist) in 2024. Lovely man, super cheery, and then just jaw-droppingly note perfect. RIP @… https://
👻 #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
Martian ionospheric response during the may 2024 solar #superstorm: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-69468-z -> ESA’s Mars orbiters watch solar superstorm hit the Red Planet: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/ESA_s_Mars_orbiters_watch_solar_superstorm_hit_the_Red_Planet
Robotik-Start-up entwickelt Universal-Industrieroboter in unter zwei Jahren
Noble Machines wurde erst 2024 gegründet. Doch ihr erster Industrieroboter ist schon bereit für seinen Einsatz.
https:/…
HZA-H: Zoll Hannover - Jahresstatistik 2025 der Finanzkontrolle Schwarzarbeit Hannover (ots) - 16,5 Millionen Euro Schadenssumme (2024: 7,2 Millionen Euro) ermittelte die Finanzkontrolle Schwarzarbeit des Hauptzollamts Hannover im Jahr 2025. "Die mehr als doppelt so hohe Schadenssumme ist nicht gleichzusetzen mit einer ... https://www.
Entering the wild canyon...
(May 2024, IIRC it was the same day @… happened to be there too [unknowingly to us]...)
#FootpathFriday #NaturePhotography
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
The Gits:
🎵 Whirlwind
#TheGits
https://thegits.bandcamp.com/track/whirlwind-2024-remaster
The Mutual Agreement Procedure (MAP) is a process by which a taxpayer can ask two states (or #tax authorities) to reach an amicable agreement to eliminate double taxation as required by bilateral treaties, where the normal processes have failed.
According to #OECD statistics, in 2016-2024 there were only 19 cases …
One of the saddest disbanding of 2024
I's "はっぴーえんどろーる"MUSIC VIDEO
Man pleads guilty in athlete home burglaries case https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/48104437/man-pleads-guilty-2024-athlete-home-burglaries-case
A Rome court deemed illegal (sent. 01/04/2026, n. 4993) some Netflix continuous price increases since 2017 and instructed to make reimbursements up to 500 euros per user.
"""
Netflix, per il tribunale illegittimi gli aumenti dal 2017 al 2024. Ora rimborsi fino a 500 euro
Un cliente premium che abbia pagato ininterrottamente dal 2017 ad oggi ha diritto alla restituzione di circa 500 euro, mentre un cliente standard alla restituzione di circa 250 euro
"…
Schon seit ein paar Wochen bin ich ein Album der Woche schuldig. Weil ich wegen anderer Dinge nicht so richtig Zeit fand zum bewussten Musikhören, rotierte »Really Good Terrible Things« von North Sea Echos (erschienen 2024) hier mehrere Wochen im Player. Alder/Matheos (früher Fates Warning) machen mal wieder ein eigenes Ding, sie haben sich dieses Mal aber der ruhigen Töne gewidmet. Mir zu langweilig. #rocknroll
Italian authorities confirm that Francesco Cancellato, director of news site Fanpage, had his phone hacked in December 2024 using spyware made by Paragon (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/ital
I generally hate buying new computing devices and try to make them last as long as possible. I bought a used/refurb iPad 5th Gen in 2022 for $199 and got 2 years of solid use before I upgraded to a 6th Gen in 2024 (for $170) so I could use an Apple Pencil.
I then put the old 5th Gen on my trainer bike as a video player and it still works great.
But sadly, two years in the 6th Gen now has dead spots on the screen. I may need to replace it.
1/n
Meerjungfrau - Mermaid, Copenhagen, Denmark 2024 by me
#meermittwoch
Google says 90 zero-days exploited in 2025 as commercial vendor activity grows https://therecord.media/google-says-90-zero-days-exploited-apt-spyware-vendors
Heute mal wieder eine Mediathekperle schauen mit @… in der Arte Mediathek
https://nexxtpress.de/mediathekperlen/lars-becker-heaven-can-wait-2024/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Les Amazones d’Afrique:
🎵 Flaws (6 Music Session, 4 Feb 2024)
#LesAmazonesdAfrique
https://lesamazonesdafrique.bandcamp.com/track/flaws-feat-mamani-ke-ta-fafa-ruffino
https://open.spotify.com/track/3AH8RIK78cByIoR211KTY3
Is It True That... - ...Hitler Invented the Autobahn? - Watch the full documentary | ARTE in English
https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/120854-008-A/is-it-true-that/ (2024, 24min)
Hat Hitler die Autobahn erfunden? - Stimmt es, dass ...? - Die ganze Doku | ARTE
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/120854-008-A/hat-hitler-die-autobahn-erfunden/ (2024, 24min)
Arte docu over propaganda.
De docu begint inderdaad on die periode en eindigt met de vraag wat AI ons gaat brengen.
Aanbevolen in dit moment van de geschiedenis.
Sources: OpenAI employees claim the DOD tested Microsoft's Azure version of OpenAI models before OpenAI lifted its blanket ban on military use in January 2024 (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-defense-department-ban-military-use-mic…
RE: #WikimediaCommons in 2024. Former Associat…
In 2024, Europe spent circa €375 billion on imports of fossil fuels. [consumptive: burn it, and only CO2 remains]
In stark contrast, investment in renewable power and grids remains comparatively low: Europe spent €100 billion on those in 2025. [delivering clean energy for decades, and avoiding CO2]
I remember reading cases of "wrongful birth" in which children sued their parents for withholding care (or using voodoo "natural' style medication) resulting in the child being damaged for life.
Seems like that notion - child's rights vs parents - ought to be expanded.
"It’s not just vaccines — parents are refusing other routine preventive care for newborns"
Sonos plant schon wieder eine komplett neue App. Die Nutzer tuen mir schon etwas leid. https://www.mobiflip.de/sonos-plant-schon-wieder-eine-komplett-neue-app/
I'm now blocking AI scrapers on my server using robots.txt and user agent rules
https://microblog.jackiejude.me/posts/202603272011/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Snoro/115980311563744273
In 2024, a study by the Institut national de santé publique du Québec concluded that
➡️ increased control of wood-burning stoves could prevent deaths.
In the province, wood heating kills three…
A look at Lisbon's Unicorn Factory, a startup hub where 300 businesses joined in 2025 vs. 250 in 2024; 17 unicorns have moved to Lisbon since hub's 2022 launch (Michael Dempsey/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5263ed8c-79dd-460a-b131-56a6fcefeb1e…
Temporary protected status for Haitians ends at 11:59 PM this upcoming Tuesday. There are around 30 thousand Haitian immigrants in central Ohio, about 2/3 of whom live in Springfield. This is the sane Springfield that became infamous during the 2024 election due to the spread of false rumors by JD Vance and Donald Trump that Haitian immigrants were eating people's pets and the ducks and geese from a local park. Vance and Trump both made sure to characterize the Haitian immigrate populati…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Violent Femmes:
🎵 Country Death Song
#ViolentFemmes
https://violentfemmes.bandcamp.com/track/country-death-song-remastered-2024
https://open.spotify.com/track/1kqBAV3R35lVIRvhYmSI6s
Sources: the legal team for Paramount President Jeff Shell has engaged in preliminary talks about a possible exit from the company, where he was hired in 2024 (Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/jeff-shell-negotiating-exit-…
UK's AI drive, touted since 2024 and featuring splashy NScale and CoreWeave deals, to build datacenters is riddled with phantom investments and shaky accounting (Aisha Down/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202
BPOLD-H: BPOLD-H: Bilanz der vorübergehend wiedereingeführten Binnengrenzkontrollen an der deutsch - niederländischen Grenze in Niedersachsen im Zeitraum vom 16.09.2024 bis einschließlich zum 31.03.2026 Hannover (ots) - Seit dem 16. September 2024 kontrolliert die Bundespolizei in ganz Deutschland den grenzüberschreitenden Verkehr mit vorübergehend wiedereingeführten Binnengrenzkontrollen. Für Reisende zwischen Niedersachsen und den ...
Ähnlichkeiten 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…
Phobos ransomware leader facing 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to hacking charges https://therecord.media/phobos-ransomware-leader-facing-20-years
Kamala 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…
Nur ein komplett vertrottelter Kapitalist würde zu #Ostern die Preise senken und den Marktpreisvorteil weitergeben, selbst wenn er es aufgrund interner Umstände/Einkauf/Lagermix bereits könnte. 🤪
#Schokolade
A $5$-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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"India expected to install about 42.5 GW of new solar capacity in 2026"
#India #Energy #Renewables #SolarPower
London-based Lawhive, whose lawyers and AI tools help individuals and SMBs automate legal tasks, raised a $60M Series B, after a $40M Series A in December 2024 (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/05/lawhive-ai-law-firm-startup-series-b-ventu…
IFG-Ablehnung #BMJV: Unterlagen zu #Quickfreeze aus 2024 dürfen nicht beauskunftet werden, denn
"Würden diese Positionen bekannt und die im BMJV und in der Bundesregierung Beteiligten öffentlich an diesen Positionen festgehalten, würde es im weiteren Verlauf der Beratungen erheblich erschwert,…
Bitcoin 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
Zugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.03.2026.
397 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…
European Audiovisual Observatory: global streaming platforms increased their share of spending on original European programming from 8% in 2020 to 24% in 2024 (Ed Meza/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/global/streaming-pay-tv-european-audio…
Aug. 12 2024. IIRC I risked my life a bit taking this picture in #Ahmedabad #Gujarat #India. 😅
#photography #amateur #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday
Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeichern pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Unternehmen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.03.2026.
397 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.
…
Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeichern pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Privatpersonen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.03.2026.
397 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #WoPop
Yagody:
🎵 Tsunamia
#Yagody
https://yagodyofficial.bandcamp.com/track/tsunamia-2024
https://open.spotify.com/track/0wWp37bN1WizYsJRnLCSFz
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Lynks:
🎵 USE IT OR LOSE IT (6 Music Session, 20 Feb 2024)
#Lynks
https://lynkslynkslynks.bandcamp.com/track/use-it-or-lose-it-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/72YhBiqyf312dbifU3yHbx
Investment in Austin-based startups grew to a record high of $7.19B in 2025, up from $4.37B in 2024 and topping a pandemic peak of $6.1B in 2021 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/all-time-high-f…
Bataille des chaînes régionales Š Bienne: TeleBielingue perd sa concession au profit de Canal B
Après une longue lutte commencée en 2024, le Tribunal administratif fédéral a rejeté le recours de TeleBielingue, accordant la concession pour la région Bienne, Jura bernois et Seeland Š Canal B
https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/bataille-des-chaines-regionales-a-bienne-telebielingue-perd-sa-concession-au-profit-de-canal-b
"Italy, Spain set solar records in March"
#Italy #Spain #SolarPower #Energy
Nielsen: ~32.6M viewers watched Trump's State of the Union address, not including people who watched via streaming; Fox News led with 9M viewers (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/bu…
Perplexity 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
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Wu-Lu:
🎵 Daylight Song (6 Music Session, 10 Jul 2024)
#WuLu
https://wu-lu.bandcamp.com/track/daylight-song
https://open.spotify.com/track/45DLA7sPqqGHG9NN3UPbRI
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Yard Act:
🎵 We Make Hits (6 Music Session, 4 Mar 2024)
#YardAct
https://open.spotify.com/track/7mYTcajvGEU4LZeHQ8V5w2
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Gruff Rhys:
🎵 Celestial Candyfloss (6 Music Session, 21 Feb 2024)
#GruffRhys
https://gruffrhys.bandcamp.com/track/celestial-candyfloss
https://open.spotify.com/track/0drFirwZCpz2frsJILGmzU