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A profile of Expedia CEO Ariane Gorin, who became CEO in 2024 and has overseen back-to-back years of revenue growth, with record gross bookings of $119B in 2025 (Brent Crane/Bloomberg)

#Steady #Klimacrew
Die Abos der Microsoft-Copiloten sind in Wirklichkeit Eintritt!
Schon relativ früh habe ich eines der Copilot-Derivate ausprobiert. Das war 2024 – glaube ich – und noch lange vor der Copilot-Inflation. Was ich aber nie wusste ist, dass es sich um

Die Abos der Microsoft-Copiloten sind in Wirklichkeit Eintritt!
KI-Tools für Profis – oder doch nur Spaß? Ein Blick in den Copilot-Disclaimer von Microsoft verleitet zum Schmunzeln.

Part of the Communications Act 2003 has come into force.
As a member of the public I'm confused as to why these laws don't automatically sunset if left unactivated. Certainly after more than 20 years, and significant changes in the makeup of Parliament.
(This change is just about classifying significant events, eg, sporting events.)

Antenna: bundles make up 33% of new major streaming service subscriptions in the US, and 28% of all subscriptions, up from just 10% of new subscriptions in 2024 (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/…

Streaming TV Bundles Grow in Popularity
Companies and their customers are embracing bundled streaming packages — but for different reasons.

In the central Netherlands, this was the 5th (or possibly 6th) warmest spring in the 126-year record. It was also sunny and dry.
Probably quite popular with many, but a clear sign of our changing climate. Personally, I've come to dislike hot weather in May; happy that it has cooled down now.

Jill Biden's Reaction to Biden's 2024 Debate: 'He's Having a Stroke' (Katie Rogers/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/us/politics/jill-biden-joe-biden-2024-debate.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260527/p117#a260527p117

Der Zürich-Krimi: Borchert und die Stadt in Angst (S01/E20 & E21)
Trailer:
#crimi #krimi

Analysis: the share of entry-level hiring in India's tech sector fell to ~15% in 2025 from 28% in 2024 as companies shifted focus to AI and automation roles (Tanya Pandey/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.i…

India’s tech sector grows with fewer freshers as AI reshapes hiring
The share of entry-level hiring in the sector has fallen to around 15% in 2025 from 28% in 2024 as companies focus more on AI, cloud, cybersecurity and automation-focused roles. Emerging technology roles account for nearly 52% of hiring demand and are expected to touch 60% by the end of 2026, signalling a broader shift away from campus-led pyramid hiring model, experts said.

Announcement: New Issue of Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary e-Journal
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Modernizing Winter Sam White 05/20/2026 - 9:31pm Announcement Type …
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Two kinds of robustness are not the same: disentangling fault tolerance and low-SNR robustness in multi-domain event detection on real data
Isao Kurosawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.29339 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.29339 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.29339
arXiv:2606.29339v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reliable event detection underpins induced-seismicity monitoring for Carbon dioxide Capture and Storage (CCS) and geothermal operations, distributed acoustic sensing (DAS), and industrial condition monitoring. In each setting a detector must stay reliable both when sensors fail and when the signal is buried in noise. These two failure modes are routinely conflated, and architectural complexity is often credited with robustness it may not deserve. We assemble a unified binary event-detection benchmark from three physically distinct real sources -- Hi-net seismic waveforms, Utah FORGE 2024 borehole DAS, and MAFAULDA industrial vibration -- each mapped to a common 8-channel, 256-sample representation, and evaluate a fault-tolerant detector (CEPHALON) trained with per-sample sensor-dropout against standard detectors (a 1D convolutional network, a temporal convolutional network, and a compact Transformer) trained with an identical recipe. On clean data every model is near-perfect (AUC ~ 0.99). Under progressive sensor loss, simple models with sensor-dropout are already robust and CEPHALON holds no advantage. Under additive noise, however, CEPHALON degrades far more gracefully: at -2.5 dB its overall AUC is 0.939 versus 0.532-0.572 for the convolutional baselines. Same-architecture ablations isolate the cause: disabling internal redundancy at inference reduces the low-SNR advantage only modestly, whereas removing sensor-dropout training collapses it (0.899 to 0.603 at -5 dB). The training recipe is therefore the dominant cause and parallel redundancy only secondary. We release a complete, numbered, reproducible pipeline so that every figure can be regenerated.
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POL-GÖ: (148/2026) Polizeiinspektion Göttingen startet "Aktionsmonat Fahrradsicherung" - Infostände und Präventionsvideos im Juni Göttingen (ots) - GÖTTINGEN (jk) - Im Jahr 2024 wurden in der Universitätsstadt Göttingen 2.803 Fahrraddiebstähle mit einem wirtschaftlichen Gesamtschaden von 4.753.246 Euro verzeichnet. Auf die steigenden Fallzahlen reagierte die Polizei mit ...

"Experts celebrate record-breaking start for sea turtle nesting season"
#Turtles #Animals
https://www.

Florida sea turtles are off to a record-breaking start for nesting season
A devastating hurricane season in 2024 meant low nest counts for sea turtles across Florida. So far, 2026 is proving to be a banner year for the endangered species.

art by Arthur França
#art #monsters #scifi #Godzilla #Gamera…

In case anyone wants to know what mosquito buckets are: https://colinpurrington.com/2024/08/bti-honeypot-traps/

Gibt es weitere Verzögerungen bei der Einführung der e-ID? Ankündigungen vom BAG zu Organspenden deuten darauf hin.
"Das erklärt zumindest teilweise die Verschiebungen bei der Widerspruchslösung: Mitte 2024 sollte sie ursprünglich in Kraft treten. Dann hiess es zweite Hälfte 2026, dann Anfang 2027, heute, laut Tages-Anzeiger, drittes Quartal 2027.
Im Raum steht also offenbar die erneute Verschiebung des E-ID-Termins."
… wettet @…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eunews/116608809666652889
This is the kind of house cleaning the US should have been doing 2021-2024. And yes, that means Biden, but I lay the blame at least equally on Congress (who are supposed to be the ones taking the lead on legislating, though few of us are old enough to remember) and the press (who should have made this a national conversation).

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 22.05.2026.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

Halb tot geprügelt - „Pedo Hunter“-Gruppe bestreitet Mordversuch #News #Nachrichten

Facing intense internal pressure, DNC releases postelection autopsy | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/democratic-national-committee-autopsy-2024-ken-martin-a4f67256b4c56ba076aece23c22728ad

„Überall, wo Bargeld nötig sei, stießen Geflüchtete schnell an Grenzen. Etwa auf dem Flohmarkt, im Second-Hand-Laden, an der Eisdiele – oder auch, wenn die Kinder Geld für Material oder Ausflüge mit in die Schule bringen müssten.
"Und der Sportverein hat kein Lesegerät, die Kita nicht, die Musikschule auch nicht", stellt Bartelt fest.“
Bilanz nach zwei Jahren. Was hat die Bezahlkarte Geflüchteten - und Brandenburg - gebracht?

University of California’s frontline workers have canceled the
system-wide strike originally planned to begin on Thursday after reaching a tentative agreement with the UC on Wednesday night. 
These 42,000 service and patient care workers
— represented by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 (AFSCME)
— have worked without a ratified contract since 2024, due to “stalled” negotiations with the UC, according to union leadership. 

Trade Desk's market cap fell ~70% from a December 2024 peak as it contends with frustrated agency partners, competition from Google, and a new entrant, Amazon (Patience Haggin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/bu…

The Economist says President Luke Bradley-Jones will become group CEO on August 1, as Lara Boro steps down after seven years; he became president in 2024 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/media-jobs-uk-news…

Economist president Luke Bradley-Jones to become group CEO
The Economist president Luke Bradley-Jones will become group CEO as Lara Boro steps down after seven years.

Nearly all climate claims by meat and dairy firms amount to greenwashing: Study https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/05/nearly-all-climate-claims-by-meat-and-dairy-firms-amount-to-greenwashing-study/…

Nearly all climate claims by meat and dairy firms amount to greenwashing: Study
Meat and dairy production are significant drivers of deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions. Many companies claim to be tackling this, but nearly all these claims, 98%, could be considered greenwashing, a recent study found. Researchers logged more than 1,200 environmental commitments made by 33 of the sector’s largest companies between 2021 and 2024. They found […]

The survey for the #ECB's banknote designs survey has a link to #Bluesky (ecb.europa.eu) which is on #WSocial.
They can't even bring themselves to label it "W" and just have it as BlueSky. 😂

Irgendwann mal schreibe ich selbst AGB, welche auf private Regelwerke verweisen, die nur kostenpflichtig verfügbar sind 🤬
So was wie "Für die Gültigkeit dieses Vertrags und der daraus entstehenden Pflichten gelten, sofern nicht schriftlich anders vereinbart, ausschliesslich die Regeln des Handbuchs DMG D&D 5e 2024 in der deutschen Fassung."
#Recht

Sharing stats from the UK's #InternationalMuseumDay #IMD2026 @icomuk.b…

Jill Biden says she was "frightened" by Joe Biden's 2024 debate performance, thought he was having a stroke (CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jill-biden-interview-joe-biden-debate-frightened-stroke/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260527/p107#a260527p107

Iphone 15 pro max żony padł... Podpięty pod kabel, patrzę po 2h - czarny ekran, zero odpowiedzi. Nie był gorący nic, termowizja pokazuje temperaturę otoczenia. Jeszcze mam miernik usb-c - niby pokazuje 30mA poboru, ale już kilka godzin tak i nic - na żadne "magiczne" kombinacje nie reaguje.

Kupiony kwiecień 2024, jest maj 2026 -.- No to już ostatni iPhone w naszym życiu. Żona weźmie moją 14stkę, ja potestuje Fairphonea.

Z wymiany MBP na Framework'a jestem bardzo zado…

Ireland has some excellent writers.
"It seems that losing colonial control of Egypt has not stopped Denial flowing through the British body politic." -- @…
#TLDR: #MorganMcSweeney

When was #Neuralink #Blindsight first announced, and wat verifiable results have been shown since then? (spoilers: 2024, nothing) https://

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A physical tool bar 😉
From the 2024 XOXO talk by @… about the artist Wes Cook.
https://xoxofest.com/2024/videos/cabel-sasser/

SpaceX filing: X's ad revenue was $1.8B in 2025, $1.7B in 2024, and $2.3B in 2023, below Twitter's $4B in 2021; X and Grok now have 6.3M active paid subscribers (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/busine…

Elon Musk’s Grandiose Media Ambitions Are Now a Real Threat to Some Major Players
SpaceX's IPO filing reveals ad revenue for X is still below what it was when Musk acquired Twitter, but it is growing again. Meanwhile, Grok is producing 2 billion AI videos per month, while SpaceX's nascent connectivity business threatens the likes of Comcast and AT&T.

Setting up remote access to Bambulab 3D printers that are on a different VLAN than yours is a pain in the ass.
Bambulab has chosen the wrong path. It might carve out a niche among users who aren't very tech-savvy when it comes to 3D printing (and who aren’t interested in learning either), but all of us nerds who have used their printers are going to tell them to go to hell.
By the way, if you're trying to set up remote access using pfSense or OPNsense, here's a great …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Sahra Halgan:
🎵 Sharaf (6 Music Session, 15 May 2024)
#SahraHalgan
https://sahrahalgan.bandcamp.com/track/sharaf
https://open.spotify.com/track/6a7b6cwzpNS1oA6AR4kvt1

#USpol #elections

One Elite Factor Could Solidify Marist Liufau's Spot On Dallas Cowboys Roster https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/one-elite-factor-could-solidify-marist-liufau-spot-on-dallas-cowboys-roster

Colorado Revises Its AI Act: What Changed and Why
https://fpf.org/blog/colorado-revises-its-ai-act-what-changed-and-why/
@…
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SpaceX filing: X's ad revenue was $1.8B in 2025, $1.7B in 2024, and $2.3B in 2023, below Twitter's $4B in 2021; X and Grok now have 6.3M active paid subscribers (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/busine…

Elon Musk’s Grandiose Media Ambitions Are Now a Real Threat to Some Major Players
SpaceX's IPO filing reveals ad revenue for X is still below what it was when Musk acquired Twitter, but it is growing again. Meanwhile, Grok is producing 2 billion AI videos per month, while SpaceX's nascent connectivity business threatens the likes of Comcast and AT&T.

Consciousness Explained Away: Daniel Dennett’s Illusionism and the Theory That Spends Its Own Foundation
When Daniel Dennett died on April 19, 2024, at the age of eighty-two, the philosophical world lost one of the last serious defenders of a position so counterintuitive that even sympathetic readers spent decades trying to talk themselves into it. Dennett argued, across more than fifty years of writing, that consciousness as we ordinarily understand it does not exist.…

Consciousness Explained Away: Daniel Dennett’s Illusionism and the Theory That Spends Its Own Foundation | David Boles, Blogs
When Daniel Dennett died on April 19, 2024, at the age of eighty-two, the philosophical world lost one of the last serious defenders of a position so counterintuitive that even sympathetic readers …

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.05.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

The real reason Democrats lost in 2024 (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-dnc-autopsy-omits-the-biggest
http://www.memeorandum.com/260522/p7#a260522p7

#Tatort: Diesmal ist es anders - #ARD #WDR
Trailer
#krimi #Sonntagskrimi #LeslieMalton

🐴 Firehorse superstition helps uncover why women's education may not drive Japan's fertility decline
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-firehorse-superstition-uncover-women-japan.html

Firehorse superstition helps uncover why women's education may not drive Japan's fertility decline
The rapidly declining marriage and fertility rates across developed East Asian societies strain pension and health care systems, threaten economic growth, and reshape entire societies. To tackle this issue, governments in Japan and across East Asia have invested heavily in pronatalist measures, but often with limited success. For instance, Japan's government has repeatedly expanded childcare subsidies and parental leave provisions, yet the total fertility rate hit a record low of 1.20 in 2024.

Bright red Indian shot flower (canna indica). Huntington Library, San Marino, California, USA. November, 2024. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4. #huntingtonlibrary #flowers #bloomscrolling

Got the official power numbers from my utility for the April billing cycle.
3572 kWh imported from grid, 200 kWh overproduction exported, for net 3372 kWh consumed/billed.
That is an all-time record for lowest power consumption (at least back to January 2024 which is the oldest bill I have easy access to).
Too bad it's also an all-time *high* for price per kWh - the effective price per kWh after taxes and fees hit 21.7 cents, a 15.4% increase since the start of the year…

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Filing: SpaceX reports 2025 revenue of $18.7B, up 33% YoY, a $4.9B loss, vs. a $791M profit in 2024, and $20.7B in capital expenditures, up from $11.2B (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/technol

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Pulls Back the Curtain on Its Finances
Mr. Musk’s rocket and satellite maker disclosed its financial performance for the first time, as it prepares to go public in what is set to be one of the largest offerings to date.

“Buildings are the single largest energy consumer in Europe. Transposition and implementation of the #EPBD is key to boosting the EU's current very low annual energy renovation rate (1%), reducing bills for citizens and businesses and the EU's dependence on imported fossil fuels, and achieving a zero-emission and fully decarbonised building stock by 2050.”

The Commission calls on EU countries to transpose the reinforced rules on the energy performance of buildings
The European Commission decided to open infringement procedures by sending letters of formal notice to all 27 EU Member States for failing to fully transpose into national law the provisions of the recast Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EU) 2024/1275.

from my link log —
International meteor organization / international fireball program: amateur data collection of meteor events.
https://www.imo.net/observations/fireballs/fireball-report-program/
saved 2024-05-12

Fireball Program | IMO
Since 2013, the IMO takes part of the International Fireball Program initiated by the American Meteor Society (AMS). Browse the fireball reports Browse the fireball events Fireball program stats Report a fireball You saw a fireball? If you saw a fireball in the night sky, you can report your sighting through our Fireball Report Form.…

Independents and 2024 non-voters have swung back left (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-05-19-indies-nonvoters-turned-on-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/260519/p20#a260519p20

POL-HM: Polizeioberrat Marc-Dennis Pülm verlässt das Polizeikommissariat Holzminden Holzminden (ots) - POR Marc-Dennis Pülm verlässt nach rund anderthalb Jahren das Polizeikommissariat Holzminden und übernimmt künftig eine neue Aufgabe an der Polizeiakademie Niedersachsen. Vom 1. November 2024 bis zum 30. April 2026 leitete ... https://www.

May 2026 was the second-warmest May on record globally, in between 2024 and 2025.
The global average temperature was 15.81°C, 0.55°C above the 1991-2020 average for May and 1.42°C above the estimated 1850-1900 pre-industrial average for the month.
https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-

During the first seven months of his presidency, the administration arrested the parents of at least 27,000 children.
During this period in 2025, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was deporting about twice as many parents each month compared with 2024.
The records do not detail how many of these children were detained or deported with their parents, and how many families were split up.
But the data provides one of the starkest views yet of how Trump’s mass depo…

The Mission voted against giving the SFPD drones by 20 points.
Now SFPD is flying more drones here than any other neighborhood.
This is an occupation.
Sources: https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/san-francisco-drones-22325281.php

Science just proved what we all suspected: the 2024 election was rigged - Alternet.org
https://archive.ph/1vrnD

Beloved Ex-Browns Star Tabbed to Sign With NFC Contender https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/nick-chubb-nfc-contender/

Canada's CRTC formalizes rules requiring streamers to contribute 15% of Canadian revenue to support domestic programming, up from a 5% baseline set in 2024 (Globe and Mail)
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/ar…

CRTC raises Canadian content funding requirement for streamers in move that could deepen U.S. rift
Framework comes three years after Ottawa introduced the Online Streaming Act; executive says regulator not involved in trade negotiations

Spectro Cloud, an AI infrastucture company helping manage token costs, raised a $100M Series D from AMD, LG, others at a $1B valuation, up from $750M in 2024 (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/all-deals/2026/07/15/spectro-cloud-b…

Exclusive: Spectro Cloud hits $1B valuation amid rising AI model switching
Companies that aim to drive down AI costs have attracted investors in 2026.

Le monde Š l’envers: la droite tessinoise est fâchée parce que l’Italie veut inciter les frontaliers de travailler de nouveau en Italie, donc réduire l’immigration du travail vers la Suisse.
https://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/2024/article/remous-autour-d-une-taxe-sur-la-sante-pour-les-frontaliers-italiens-28385749.html

In Deutschland wurden 2024 677114 Kinder geboren. Die Bundeswehr möchte auf 280000 wehrdienstleistende aufstocken. Der Wehrdienst dauert aber nur 6 Monate. Um also ganzjährig 280000 wehrdienstleistende zu haben müssen 560000 Menschen eines Geburtsjahrgangs Wehrdienst leisten. Wenn alle Männer Wehrdienst leisten, keiner verweigert, keiner ist untauglich, alle haben deutschen pass, keiner leistet als Doppelstaatler im Ausland (Israel, Ukraine) Wehrdienst, dann kann diese Zahl trotzdem nur erre…

Der Energieverbrauch von Google ist in einem Jahr, von 2024 bis 2025, von 31 auf 43 Terrawattstunden (TWh) gestiegen.
Der Effekt von generativer KI, also all den Chatbots, ChatGPT etc.
Wir sollten das nicht als unveränderbar hinnehmen.
https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/07…

Here's What I Told the DNC Autopsy (Rob Flaherty/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/heres-what-i-told-the-dnc-autopsy-biden-harris-2024-lessons-democrats-2028
http://www.memeorandum.com/260514/p37#a260514p37

Barret Zoph leaves OpenAI again five months after rejoining in January; Zoph initially left OpenAI in 2024 to serve as Thinking Machines Lab co-founder and CTO (Hayden Field/The Verge)

Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months
He rejoined the company in January after a stint as co-founder of Mira Murati’s competitor, Thinking Machines Lab.

Powdered & Dusted (2024)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography #Alps

US Bureau of Labor Statistics data: employment in 18 AI-exposed occupations fell 0.2% between May 2024 and May 2025, while the broader US labor market rose 0.8% (Matthew Boesler/Bloomberg)

#Podcast
Die Zahl der diagnostizierten #Endometriose-Fälle ist in den vergangenen 20 Jahren deutlich gestiegen.
Laut Schmerzforscherin Esther Pogatzki-Zahn deutet dies darauf hin, dass die Erkrankung häufiger und früher erkannt wird. Eine frühe Diagnose kann helfen, Beschwerden gezi…

Endometriose: „Frühe Diagnose ist entscheidend“
Die Zahl der Frauen mit der Diagnose Endometriose ist in den letzten 20 Jahren stark gestiegen – zwischen 2005 und 2024 von rund 230.000 auf gut 510.000. „Diese Zahlen sind ein Beleg dafür, dass die Symptome immer früher und häufiger diagnostiziert werden“, erklärt die Schmerzforscherin Prof. Dr. Esther Pogatzki-Zahn von der Universität Münster der neuen Folge des „Umdenken“-Podcasts. Darüber hinaus spricht sie Hausärzten bei der Diagnose der Krankheit eine wichtige Rolle zu u…

Bitcoin falls below $60K, its lowest level since October 2024, amid a record streak of bitcoin ETF outflows following Strategy's bitcoin sale (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/05/bitcoin-dismal-week-price-below-all-time-high-crypto-in…

Bitcoin cracks $60,000, sinking to lowest level since October 2024
The weeklong sell-off was exacerbated after a stronger-than-expected May jobs report Friday sent yields higher and pressured risk assets.

Still no place for Emily Thornberry in the new #Burnham cabinet? Has she got something in her background file that makes her a ministerial no-no? She seems like a major backbench talent, it was a big surprise that Starmer didn't give her a job in July 2024.

Musk v. Altman: in closing arguments, Musk's attorney doubled down on claims of Altman's untrustworthiness, while OpenAI's lawyer said Musk has no evidence (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/musk-sam-altman-ope…

Closing arguments begin in Musk-OpenAI trial that could shape AI’s future
Lawyers for Elon Musk and OpenAI began closing arguments Thursday in the landmark trial whose outcome could shape the future of artificial intelligence. Musk, the world’s richest man, was a co-founder of OpenAI, the company that launched in 2015 and went on to create ChatGPT. After Musk invested $38 million in its first years, his lawsuit filed in 2024 accused OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and his top deputy of shifting into a moneymaking mode behind his back.

Cowboys Trade Pickup Already Facing ‘Chopping Block’ https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/jonathan-mingo-chopping-block/

NJ Governor says a software error at DMV led to the improper voter registration of ~6,600 noncitizens between June 2023 and June 2024; 400 of those cast ballots (Tracey Tully/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/nyregion/noncitizen-voting-new…

D.M.V. Error Led to 400 Noncitizens Voting in New Jersey, Governor Says
A software glitch in 2023 at the New Jersey Department of Motor Vehicles led to roughly 6,600 noncitizens being registered to vote, Gov. Mikie Sherrill announced on Tuesday.

Sources: Reddit, Politico, and others mull cutting Google's access to their content for AI as traffic drops; Reddit signed a $60M/year deal with Google in 2024 (Alexandra Bruell/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/googl…

Chainalysis: addresses linked to Iran, Russia, North Korea, and other US-sanctioned entities received $100B in crypto last year, almost 8x the amount in 2024 (Patricia Kowsmann/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/cryptocurrency-sanctions-evasion-d02b…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Sahra Halgan:
🎵 Sharaf (6 Music Session, 15 May 2024)
#SahraHalgan
https://open.spotify.com/track/6a7b6cwzpNS1oA6AR4kvt1

Brian Schottenheimer has a decision to make on Jerry Jones’ former first-round pick https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/brian-schottenheimer-faces-call-jerry-jones-first-round-pick/a61…

#Tatort: Schweigen • #ARD
Trailer:
#crimi #krimi #DasErste

Seoul-based WIRobotics, which develops wearable and humanoid robots and is collaborating with Nvidia and AWS, raised a ~$68M Series B led by JB Investment (Lee Jaewoon/The Elec)
https://www.thelec.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=10507

WIRobotics Raises 95 Billion Won in Series B Funding
WIRobotics said on May 15 that it completed a 95 billion won Series B funding round.The humanoid robotics company said the financing marks a major follow-on investment secured about two years after its 13 billion won Series A round in March 2024, underscoring recognition of both its next-generation

Digital i: YouTube overtakes Netflix in average daily viewing globally, rising from 87.2 minutes in 2024 to 99.1 in 2025, while Netflix fell from 100.5 to 93.4 (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

FanDuel owner Flutter plans to delist its London shares on August 3, citing low trading and high costs; Flutter moved its primary listing to the US in 2024 (Lauren Almeida/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/…

Paddy Power owner Flutter to scrap listing on London Stock Exchange
Gambling business, which also owns Betfair, to focus on New York in latest high-profile blow to UK stock market

Trump administration live updates: Senate postpones ICE and Border Patrol funding vote; DNC releases 2024 autopsy report (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-nih-cdc-director-congress-budget-ballroom-funding-live-updates-rcna346230#rcrd110472
http://www.memeorandum.com/260521/p129#a260521p129

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„Die #Wärmepumpe ist zu teuer - die Leute kaufen #Gasheizungen

Mythos: „Die Wärmepumpe ist zu teuer - die Leute kaufen Gasheizungen“
Wärmepumpen auf dem Vormarsch: Warum der angebliche Einbruch 2024 in Wahrheit kein Rückgang war – Marktanteil im Faktencheck.

Wer ohne Schuld ist - #ARD #SWR
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#Tatort: Ich sehe dich - #ARD #BR
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#Tatort - XL-Trailer: Tatort – Unter Gärtnern - #ARD #DasErste
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