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Microsoft: Optimierungssoftware PC Manager wird Bestandteil von Windows 11
Länger war es still um die Optimierungssoftware PC Manager von Microsoft. Jetzt wird sie Bestandteil von Windows 11.

Google unveils new AI features for Chromebook Plus devices, says new Chromebook Plus users get a free year of Google One AI Premium, and updates old Chromebooks (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/28/google-adds-ai-powered-featur…

Google adds AI-powered features to Chromebook | TechCrunch
Google said today it's adding new AI-powered features such as a writing assistant and a wallpaper creator and providing easy access to Gemini chatbot to its Chromebook Plus line of devices.

In which I review a concert by the Tedeschi Trucks band (good!) discuss the sound and staging (excellent!) and challenge the whole touring-electric-band profession to do better: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/05/26/TTB

Tedeschi Trucks

Reintegration Ministry: 11-year-old boy returned home from Russian-occupied Donetsk Oblast: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/27/reintegration-ministry-yearold.html

damascus :Dream:

It’s so blatant https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/28/spying-hacking-intimidation-israel-war-icc-exposed

Conference attendance without Twitter is a bit weird. Like there is a hole where there used to be a common digital layer that everyone was a part of, where you could get a feel for the vibe and mood and who is there.

This is so evil: Far-right Israeli settlers step up attacks on aid trucks bound for #Gaza
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/05/26/west-bank-ai…

Far-right Israeli settlers step up attacks on aid trucks bound for Gaza
The settler groups use a web of publicly accessible WhatsApp groups to track the trucks and coordinate attacks, providing a window into their activities.

Just installing Fedora Silverblue and realised that if you boot into the USB disk in legacy mode, it does a legacy install. If you boot into it in UEFI, it does a UEFI install.
Wish this was made clear in the interface and you could actually choose what you wanted. I mean, I really think UEFI should be the default no matter what these days with the option to change it if you really want to, no?
#linux

あの百鬼夜行の面々は……

#TIL: "reindeer noir". https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2024/05/27/new-words-27-may-2024/

Francisco Mondaca: El bombero que prendió fuego a Viña del Mar | EL PAÍS Chile
«Francisco Mondaca, de 22 años, lanzó artefactos incendiarios por distintas rutas de la región costera, los que causaron 137 muertes»
https://elpais.com/chile/2024-05-28/el

He's back and this time he's really mad at the sceptics ..
😱 (Features the most frightening temperature reconstruction graphic I've ever seen).
https://fediscience.org/@micefearboggis/112508065779409287
micefearboggis - RTFM
There are differences between versions of datasets. We write papers to tell you why. Please read them.
https://diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2024/05/26/rtfm/

Sieh an, sieh an, manchmal scheinen AirTags & co doch nützlich zu sein.
Zürich 1: Dieb dank Tracker Ortung verhaftet https://www.zh.ch/de/news-uebersicht/medienmitteilungen/2024/05/240528k_zuerich1_dieb.html

Amnesty International: Israel/OPT: Israeli air strikes that killed 44 civilians further evidence of war crimes – new investigation.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/…

Israel/OPT: Israeli air strikes that killed 44 civilians further evidence of war crimes – new investigation
The International Criminal Court should investigate as war crimes three Israeli air strikes that killed 44 Palestinian civilians, including 32 children, in the occupied Gaza Strip last month, Amnesty International said today. The strikes – one on al-Maghazi on 16 April, and two on Rafah on 19 and 20 April 2024 – also injured at […]

As traffic from social media drops, nonprofit news outlets are experimenting with in-person outreach to distribute journalism to new and underserved audiences (Sarah Scire/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/05/postcard<…

Postcards and laundromat visits: The Texas Tribune audience team experiments with IRL distribution
As social platforms falter for news, a number of nonprofit outlets are rethinking distribution for impact and in-person engagement.

From https://chelseatroy.com/2024/05/26/how-does-ai-impact-my-job-as-a-programmer/
"already, the overwhelming majority of our time in the programming tools goes into tasks that require the investigative skill set rather than the buildi…

How does AI impact my job as a programmer?
Four ginever glasses with different flavors of liqueur sit on a mirrored table at Distilleerderij’t Nieuwe Diep in Fevopark, Amsterdam. Only one manufacturer makes these traditional glasses, …

You can't passive aggressively boost a toot!
*Boosts back to where it came from with same instance catsalad account* 👀

Google unveils new AI features for Chromebook Plus devices, says new Chromebook Plus users get a free year of Google One AI Premium, and updates old Chromebooks (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/28/google-adds-ai-powered-featur…

Google adds AI-powered features to Chromebook | TechCrunch
Google said today it's adding new AI-powered features such as a writing assistant and a wallpaper creator and providing easy access to Gemini chatbot to its Chromebook Plus line of devices.

Kyiv, Paris still discussing instructors' presence in Ukraine, Defense Ministry says: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/27/kyiv-paris-still.html

#Verpasstodon
Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Raspberry Pi 5: Mini-Tower-Gehäuse mit CPU-Kühler und RGB-Lüftern

if only there was a letter within the words “jesus chrisT” that looked like a cross

The Return to Monkey Island T-shirts are extremely cool, but...

スロークエリのことだけ考えていられる落ち着いた開発生活がしたい、などと意味不明なことを供述しており

“legally killed children” *shudder*
https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/112514252084219141

Aral Balkan (@aral@mastodon.ar.al)
Attached: 1 image How does genocide happen in 2024? It doesn’t, of course. As Graeme Wood from The Atlantic explains, there are only tens of thousands of legally killed children, that’s all. (Thanks, Graeme, we were all apparently very confused.) See, y’all were getting worked up for nothing. https://archive.is/sT6ne#selection-1057.275-1057.295 #israel #palestine #gaza #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #legallyKilledChild #TheAtlantic

The USian cost cutting disease and its consequences: Boeing and the Dark Age of American Manufacturing
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/boeing-corporate-america-manufacturing/678137/

Boeing and the Dark Age of American Manufacturing
Somewhere along the line, the plane maker lost interest in making its own planes. Can it rediscover its engineering soul?

Bradley Cooper, Eddie Vedder Cover Jason Isbell's 'A Star Is Born' Song - SPIN
https://www.spin.com/2024/05/bradley-cooper-eddie-vedder-cover-jason-isbells-ia-star-is-born-i-song/

As traffic from social media drops, nonprofit news outlets are experimenting with in-person outreach to distribute journalism to new and underserved audiences (Sarah Scire/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/05/postcard<…

Postcards and laundromat visits: The Texas Tribune audience team experiments with IRL distribution
As social platforms falter for news, a number of nonprofit outlets are rethinking distribution for impact and in-person engagement.

Safety sandwich

If you only took one thing from my talk let it be this https://chaos.social/@creohn/112514204013054765

Dealroom: in 2023, the combined enterprise value of Spanish startups surpassed €100B, and they raised €2.2B across 850 funding rounds (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/…

Spanish startups reached €100 billion in aggregated value in 2023, consolidating the country’s position as a midsize European tech ecosystem | TechCrunch
Venture investment into Spanish startups also held up quite well, with €2.2 billion raised across some 850 funding rounds.

General Staff: Russia has lost 502,340 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/27/general-staff-russia.html

Die einen kennen ihre Nummer noch, die anderen wussten gar nicht, dass es ICQ noch gibt. Jedenfalls ist es Zeit für #ICQ zu gehen, aber noch nicht für das Fax... 🫣🥲
ℹ️
Am 26. Juni 2024 heißt es Abschied nehmen, alter Freund - denn an diesem Tag wird ICQ abgeschaltet. 😢

damascus :Dream:

Americans, happy first 🍔 Summer Bookend Day!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4EFkspO5p4

@… Did phanpy change the shading or blending or something on “Trending”? Today it looks kind of foggy and dim. Or maybe it’s just my eyes getting old…

@… （文字と絵文字・絵文字同士の間にスペースを入れるのです……）

Revealed: Israeli spy chief ‘threatened’ ICC prosecutor over war crimes inquiry
Mossad director Yossi Cohen personally involved in secret plot to pressure Fatou Bensouda to drop Palestine investigation, sources say
https://www.theguardian.com/world…

Just saw that there is a talk that frames "Longtermism" as positive at #rp24. Luckily it's only on one of the smaller stages but holy cow how could that happen?

Data.ai: of the top 20 education apps in the US App Store, five are AI agents that help with school assignments, the two most popular of which are Chinese-owned (Rita Liao/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/25/ai-t

AI tutors are quietly changing how kids in the US study, and the leading apps are from China | TechCrunch
Evan, a high school sophomore from Houston, was stuck on a calculus problem. He pulled up Answer AI on his iPhone, snapped a photo of the problem from his

So you would still love me!
*happy worm noises*

Big Fund III: China pumpt weitere 44 Milliarden Euro in Halbleiter
Der chinesische Staatsfonds für Chipfirmen soll in eine dritte Runde gehen. Für China geht's aufgrund der Sanktionen ans Eingemachte.

How to pronounce Ukrainian cities in English: Odesa and Lviv: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/28/193055.html

I can't stand the woke in movies these days — why can't we produce non-political action movie classics like RoboCop, Star Trek, Dune, Terminator, Star Wars, Apocalypse Now,

I hate when that happens

Anthropic hires former OpenAI safety lead Jan Leike to head up a new "superalignment" team (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/28/anthropic-hires-former-openai-safety-lead-to-head-up-new-team/…

Anthropic hires former OpenAI safety lead to head up new team | TechCrunch
Jan Leike, a former OpenAI AI safety team lead, has joined Anthropic to spin up a new safety-focused team.

Me: I just don’t get the retro-computing thing. I like modern computers.
Spouse: No AIs. No ads. No trackers.
#retrocomputing

こんなところに寝落ちが仕掛けられている……

Spying, hacking and intimidation: Israel’s nine-year ‘war’ on the ICC exposed
Exclusive: Investigation reveals how intelligence agencies tried to derail war crimes prosecution, with Netanyahu ‘obsessed’ with intercepts https://www.theguardian.com/world/art…

At 10 at #rp24 @… and myself are gonna record an episode of Tech won't save us at the podcast booth. You can listen in live.

Studie: Radverkehr auf kürzeren Wegen könnte verdreifacht werden
Der Anteil der mit Fahrrädern zurückgelegten Wege unter 30 km beträgt 15 Prozent. Fraunhofer ISI zeigt in einer Studie, wie er gesteigert werden könnte.
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Russia Prepares a New Offensive? The Situation at the Border Intensifies: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/28/russia-prepares-a.html

like all people

Data compliance startup Transcend raised a $40M Series B round led by StepStone Group, bringing its total funding to nearly $90M (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/28/transcend-data-privacy-series-b-funding

Exclusive: Data privacy platform lands $40M
Transcend is positioning itself to take on legacy solutions from OneTrust and others.

TFW you discover you prepped an absolute banger post in another window and never hit Publish and now it's too out of date

Dear LazyWeb, Bit of a long shot here. I'm replacing a bog-standard 5T disk in my bog-standard Synology DS416j and seem to have lost the package of screws that came with the thing. Having trouble figuring out exactly what the right kind of replacement screws is required to fasten the disk in the tray. Thought I had, but it's not really locked down, and vibrates. Anyone know the right answer?

春は揚げ物

Zahlen, bitte! USAF-51-5712 – Flugzeug mit Atomkern an Bord
In den Pionierzeiten der Atomtechnik wollte man selbst Flugzeuge mit Atomkernen ausrüsten. Das stellte die Entwickler aber vor schwerwiegende Probleme.

Telegraph: Zelensky to learn Ukraine's NATO membership still on hold at upcoming summit: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/29/telegraph-zelensky-to.html

Des choses sont maintenant en mouvement qui ne peuvent être défaites.

YouTube's Playables, a collection of over 75 free games available on mobile and desktop, rolls out to all users (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/28/youtubes-free-games-catalog-playables-rolls-out-to-all-use…

YouTube's free games catalog 'Playables' rolls out to all users | TechCrunch
YouTube's free Playables don't directly challenge the app store model or break Apple's rules. However, they do compete with the App Store's free games.

Finally someone beat Super Mario 64 without pressing the A button (jumping) once, making it the best game ever in the “Run” genre https://youtu.be/pd5iofvLrIU?si=8Au0_ubq2zIj_Djp

Fast die Hälfte der Erdoberfläche von Lichtverschmutzung betroffen
Die Lichtverschmutzung auf der Welt nimmt zu. Um das Phänomen kontinuierlich messen zu können, fordert ein Forschungsteam bessere technische Mittel.
…

Update from Ukraine | France and other Allies approve strikes on Ruzzian Soil | Waiting for USA: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/29/update-from-ukraine.html

OpenAI begins training its new flagship AI model, a process that could take nine months or more, and creates a Safety and Security Committee to explore risks (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/technology/openai-gpt4-new-model.htm…

OpenAI Says It Has Begun Training a New Flagship A.I. Model
The advanced A.I. system would succeed GPT-4, which powers ChatGPT. The company has also created a new safety committee to address A.I.’s risks.

Using tiny CDs still feels like a future we have lost

Guinness-Rekord: Mitsubishi-Roboter löst Rubik’s Cube in etwa 0,3 Sekunden
Es geht immer noch ein bisschen schneller: Ein Roboter hat den bestehenden Rekord für das Lösen eines Rubik's Cube um knapp 0,8 Sekunden unterboten.

Private equity firm Bridgepoint buys a majority stake in LumApps, used by ~700 organizations to build and provision comms and workforce apps, in a $650M deal (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/28/luma

LumApps, the French 'intranet superapp,' sells majority stake to Bridgepoint in a $650M deal | TechCrunch
Big news today for LumApps, the French startup that has described itself as an “intranet superapp” with a platform for building and provisioning internal

I, uhm, really want that big laptop and the big phone but the small car 😅
https://norden.social/@hart/112427151323851917

Hart (@hart@norden.social)
Attached: 1 image Innovation macht sinnvolle Dinge kleiner - Überkonsum macht sie größer und sinnloser #Verbrenneraus schnellstens

Neues Outlook: Rückkehr zu klassischem Outlook soll weniger einfach werden
Microsoft bietet einen Schalter zum Test des neuen Outlook in der Titelleiste der App. Der Weg zurück soll etwas weniger einfach werden.

Abu Dhabi-based edtech startup Alef Education, which serves kindergarten to 12th grade, aims to raise up to $515M in an IPO, Abu Dhabi's first IPO of 2024 (Julia Fioretti/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Russian attacks against 4 Ukrainian regions kill 1, injure 14: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/27/russian-attacks-against.html

Gesichtserkennung in Großbritannien: Unschuldige verdächtigt
In London und Manchester wurden zwei Personen aufgrund einer Gesichtserkennungs-KI zu Unrecht wie Kriminelle behandelt. Das zieht Klagen nach sich.

It’s wild how many replyguys I still get on here.
Wonder if there’s a secret stash somewhere they get replenished from after blocking.

Abu Dhabi-based edtech startup Alef Education, which serves kindergarten to 12th grade, aims to raise up to $515M in an IPO, Abu Dhabi's first IPO of 2024 (Julia Fioretti/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Media: Rosatom's top manager arrested over suspicion of bribery: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/28/media-rosatoms-top.html

SpaceX: Riesenrakete Starship soll am 5. Juni zum nächsten Mal abheben
SpaceX hat eine Zusammenfassung der Analyse des dritten Starship-Starts vorgelegt und nennt einen Termin für den nächsten. Angepeilt wird die kommende Woche.

T-Mobile plans to acquire most of UScellular, including stores, some of the wireless operator's spectrum, and its customers, in a $4.4B deal, including $2B debt (Todd Haselton/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/28/t-mobile-t…

T-Mobile plans to acquire most of UScellular, including stores, some of the wireless operator's spectrum, and its customers, in a $4.4B deal, including $2B debt (Todd Haselton/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/28/t-mobile-t…

A US appeals court sets a fast-track schedule to consider legal challenges to the US law requiring a TikTok ban or sale, with oral arguments in September 2024 (David Shepardson/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-court-hear-c…

HubSpot shares jump 8% after CNBC's David Faber reported that Alphabet is in talks about an all-stock bid for the company (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/28/hubspot-shares-jump-on-talks-of-potential-google-deal-.h…

Defunct bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, which collapsed in 2014, moves 140K bitcoin, worth ~$9B, to an unknown address, likely part of a plan to repay creditors (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2024/05/2

Leaked letter: a US group representing Google, Amazon, and Apple asks India to rethink its DMA-like Digital Competition Bill, saying it could raise user costs (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-

Microsoft launches Copilot for Telegram in beta; the bot is limited to text-based requests and cannot generate images for now (Emilia David/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/28/24166451/telegram-copilot-microsoft-ai-chatbot

Microsoft launches Copilot for Telegram
The official Microsoft bot brings the Copilot AI assistant to Telegram, letting users write prompts directly on the messaging app.

Microsoft confirms Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will be available day one on Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass; Activision typically sells 20M copies of a COD game (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/28/24166053/call-of-duty-black…

Microsoft confirms Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is coming to Xbox Game Pass
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is officially coming to Xbox Game Pass. After months of internal debate at Microsoft, Activision’s big franchise will be on Game Pass day one.

Samsung's labor union said it will carry out its first ever strike after wage negotiations, which have been ongoing since the start of 2024, broke down (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Chinese government data: foreign-branded smartphone shipments, most of which are iPhones, rose 52% YoY to ~3.5M in April, after stabilizing in March 2024 (Yuan Gao/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Former OpenAI board member Helen Toner says the board didn't know about the company's 2022 launch of ChatGPT until learning about it on Twitter (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

How pro-Russian groups exploit Telegram, which has 41M MAUs in the EU, below the DSA's 45M threshold, to spread disinformation on Ukraine, immigration, and more (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

PayPal plans to build an ad sales business around data generated from users and tracking purchases, and hires ex-Uber ad boss Mark Grether as PayPal Ads SVP (Patrick Coffee/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

PayPal plans to build an ad sales business around data generated from users and tracking purchases, and hires ex-Uber ad boss Mark Grether as PayPal Ads SVP (Patrick Coffee/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

The Internet Archive says it has been under an intermittent DDoS attack for the last three days, making access inconsistent, however the collections remain safe (Kate Irwin/PCMag)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/internet-archive-hit-with-ddos-attack

Internet Archive Hit With DDoS Attacks
The California-based nonprofit that archives books and webpages online experiences distributed denial-of-service attacks, making it difficult for users to access the site.

The US Treasury sanctions three Chinese nationals and three Thailand-based companies linked to a botnet controlling residential proxy service "911 S5" (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.

How AI demand is driving a rally in old school stocks in the utilities, energy, and materials sectors, which are needed to make and operate AI products (Charley Grant/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

Lenovo plans to raise $2B by issuing convertible bonds to Alat, a subsidiary of Saudi Arabia's PIF, which would convert to ~12.1% of the company's issued shares (P.R. Venkat/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/lenovo-to-issue-2

How researchers recovered access to ~$2M worth of bitcoin stored in a software wallet, using a flaw in a decade-old version of the RoboForm password manager (Kim Zetter/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/roboform-password-3-million-dollar-crypto-walle…

A leak purports to show thousands of pages of internal API documentation for Google Search, some of which appear to contradict Google's public statements (Rand Fishkin/SparkToro)
https://sparktoro.com/blog/an-anon…

An Anonymous Source Shared Thousands of Leaked Google Search API Documents with Me; Everyone in SEO Should See Them - SparkToro
On Sunday, May 5th, I received an email from a person claiming to have access to a massive leak of API documentation from inside Google’s Search division.

The US will reactivate Trump-era tariffs on June 15 that apply to select imported goods from China, including graphics cards, motherboards, and desktop cases (Michael Kan/PCMag)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/us-tariffs-on-graphics-cards…

US Tariffs on Graphics Cards Imported From China Take Effect June 15
The tariffs, which will last at least until May 31, 2025, will also affect motherboards and PC desktop cases assembled in China, along with robot vacuums.

In a spat on X, Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun calls out Elon Musk for saying xAI will pursue "truth" as Musk spreads "crazy-ass conspiracy theories" on X (Maxwell Zeff/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-x-fights-meta-chi…

Elon Musk Is Fighting With Meta’s Chief AI Scientist
Yann LeCun and Elon Musk got into it on X this weekend, exposing key disagreements on AI risks dividing the tech world.

A US judge sentences former FTX executive Ryan Salame to 7.5 years after he pled guilty to criminal charges over political contributions and more in 2023 (Sarah Wynn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/297085/former