Sources: Apple plans to launch Apple Intelligence in China in December via iOS 27.3, with features first rolled out in 2024; the launch won't include Siri AI (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty on Friday in a federal case in relation to the killing of UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson in 2024.
Mangione confessed that he shot and killed Thompson outside a New York City hotel on 4 December 2024.
In his federal case, he faced stalking charges, after other charges, including murder, were dropped.
“I shot Mr Thompson in Manhattan and he died,” Mangione said towards the end of a hastily scheduled, 45-minute hearing.
He added: …
He won't declare actions for an #EmergencyBrake though. Because 'growth'.
Headline: Andy Burnham to chair emergency Cobra meeting amid extreme heat.
https://gettingreal.org.uk/2024/05/02/
Doch wieder kostenlos: Der PIN-Rücksetzdienst für Online-Ausweis ist zurück
Wer die PIN für den E-Perso verlegt hat, konnte die seit 2024 nicht mehr zurücksetzen lassen, ohne ins Bürgeramt zu gehen. Das ist jetzt wieder möglich.
August 2026 was the hottest on record globally, followed by 2023, 2024, and 2025.
The temperature was well over 1.5°C above pre-industrial.
From Copernicus ECMWF
#globalwarming #ClimateChange
Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.08.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten vor 2018 durch Registrierungsdatum ersetzt. Sonderregelungen nach
With Senate majority up for grabs, candidates fight for independent voters
A set of New York Times/Siena polls reported last week showed Democratic candidates for the Senate ahead in Texas, Michigan, Alaska and Ohio
and neck-and-neck in Kansas and Iowa
— all states Trump carried in 2024.
Republicans, meanwhile, are feeling increasingly bullish about their chances in Maine, New Hampshire and Minnesota,
all states that went blue in the last presidential elect…
Free to good home:
2 x medium women's BSides Canberra T-shirts (2020 & 2024).
Available for free pickup in Canberra or pay for postage.
#BSidesCBR #BSides #Free
A look at Alpha, an invite-only Discord server of ~30 mostly Gen Z Polymarket traders who pool research and capital and have made an estimated $40M since 2024 (Niamh Rowe/Financial Times)
https://app.ft.com/content/ac1f4db2-54fe-4a36-b3db-bb96675231f5
#TIL Das Hörbuch "Die Brandstifter" von Annika Brockschmidt gibt es 2x auf #Spotify: Einmal als Hörbuch und nochmal als Album. Das Album ist das ungekürzte Hörbuch und ist ohne Hörbuchguthaben hörbar.
Study: Palantir's European units made €440.5M in 2024 revenue but reported sharply lower margins than its US operations, helping cut its European tax bill (Antoaneta Roussi/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/palantir-funnels-earnings-us-avoids-e…
Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten vor 2018 durch Registrierungsdatum ersetzt. Sonderregelungen nach
PhD Research Plan Sketch (2024) - An outline plan for research into optimising UK domestic wet heating system retrofit. #PhD #heating #research -
Finally caught up with this two-year-old archive (🫣).
It'sage isn't relevant, as it talks about things that are unlikely to change: Your data is only yours if you also have it on physical media in your possession. (And stored there in open formats.)
Because services will come and go, promises will be forgotten, data loss will not cause more than a shy "sorry". Especially for free online services, but it also happens for paid services.
ArXiv limits preprint submissions to two per month per submitter, as AI access fuels a record 40,363 submissions in September 2026, vs. 20,569 in September 2024 (Kat Boboris/arXiv)
https://blog.arxiv.org/2026/10/01/updated-rate-limit-policy/
👻 #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
On May 2, 2024, Arizona governor Katie Hobbs signed a bill to repeal a near-total abortion ban from 1864 that the Arizona Supreme Court had reinstated on April 9, 2024.
The ban was not enforced by Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, and the repeal took effect on September 14, 2024.
As a result of 2024 Arizona Proposition 139, the Arizona constitution codifies legal abortion up to the point of fetal viability
Canadian national Connor Moucka pleads guilty to participating in the 2024 Snowflake hacks involving data theft from at least 165 companies, including AT&T (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
https://therecord.media/guilty-plea-snowflake-hack-connor-riley-moucka…
My wife corrects me. The last time we could travel through Germany without cancellations or major delays and without having to change several times was from Amsterdam to Landquart in Switzerland in early 2024. Since then we faced major delays and/or cancellations every single time. To Switzerland, Vienna, and even to Berlin and Bonn.
Data centres in the Netherlands used 4.6% of all electricity in 2024, and transmission system operator TenneT expects this to double or triple to 10-15% by 2030!
That means that the next 6-11 TWh/year of renewables that will be completed, will go straight to the growth of data centres.
73 Prozent der Deutschen sorgen sich vor allem um steigende Preise. Dabei waren die realen Einkommensverluste Ende 2024 aufgeholt – sagt ausgerechnet das gewerkschaftsnahe IMK. Die Tankstelle siehst du jeden Tag, deine Gehaltsabrechnung einmal im Monat. Dazu kommt die Verlustangst. Mich ärgert: Statt Klartext kauft sich die Regierung mit Tankrabatt Ruhe. #Inflation #Tankrabatt #Verhaltensökonomie https://www.faz.net/podcasts/loehr-pennekamp/inflation-in-deutschland-warum-fuehlen-wir-uns-aermer-201280620.html
Organizational Technology Ladders: Remote Work and Generative AI Adoption
Gregor Schubert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11626 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.11626 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.11626
arXiv:2608.11626v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This study proposes that firms move along an "organizational technology ladder": adopting one technology transforms hiring and work processes and builds skills and organizational capital that change the cost of adopting subsequent technologies. I study how firms' adoption of remote work technology during the COVID-19 period shaped later uptake of generative AI. Using U.S. job-posting data and an instrumental-variables strategy based on predicted differences in labor-market pressure to offer remote work, I estimate that a 10 percentage point increase in remote hiring in 2021-2022 increases the share of job postings mentioning generative AI in 2023-2024 by 0.4 percentage points across firms and 0.7 percentage points across occupations within firms. I provide evidence on mechanisms consistent with a technology-ladder channel: remote work adoption shifts hiring toward technical and managerial capabilities that predict faster conversion of generative AI exposure into adoption. Firms with return-to-office mandates---interpreted as revealing low remote productivity---exhibit a substantially larger response of generative AI adoption to remote work, consistent with an organizational frictions channel.
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On Website Technicals (2024-03) - Tech updates: METERCHANGE, micro-optimisation, podcast WebVTT transcript, CORS, Opus 16kbps, 429, time cues, mp3L, auto dark mode, lite-only text. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-82.html
RE: https://flipboard.com/@futurism/future-society-q9o43qrjz/-/a-JQ-OSf9hRTqZqL0-1NesGw:a:1737388686-/0
I haven't patronized a McDonald's since October 20, 2024, and they keep giving me more reasons to continue staying away.
A Home-heat Carol (2024-12) - Low-carbon heating at home with solar diversion and storage and heat pump. #heating #DHW #storage -
In 2024, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping "pay-to-play" investigation examining interactions between Sen. Susan Collins and a top donor, records and emails show.
Confession: The donor, an ex-defense contractor, told agents his company won millions in federal contracts by bankrolling campaigns of powerful politicians.
Shutdown: After Donald Trump returned to office, the investigation died, a casualty of his purge of the FBI.
Its closure shut a poten…
Structure and Dynamics of the Inner #Corona Measured from the DEB Initiative 2024 #Eclipse Image Sequence: #CitizenScience and Solar Structure: https://aasnova.org/2026/08/03/featured-image-citizen-science-and-solar-structure/
from my link log —
How to include Git version information in a Golang binary.
https://blog.carlana.net/post/2023/golang-git-hash-how-to/
saved 2024-05-13