@nemobis@mamot.frAmid this news madness, I've thoroughly enjoyed being subscribed to the daily #CarbonBrief. Instead of compulsing the news, I try [and often fail] to focus on the most insightful items in my news feeds. This analysis of the latest UK auction for #WindPower was excellent:
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialYouTube's head of products for podcasts Steve McLendon says viewers streamed 700M hours of podcasts on TV in October, up from 400M hours in October 2024 (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@petaqui@masto.esDe acuerdo a los datos oficiales, en España se mataron mšs de 53 millones de cerdos en 2024, el 24% de los que se matan en toda Europa. Y los que mueren sin llegar a crecer, en condiciones pésimas... Échale un ojo a la investigación de #IgualdadAnimal y firma para que esto cambie
@cdarwin@c.imThe Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupted on Sunday,
sending lava fountains, ash and smoke into the air.
The US Geological Survey said it was the 42nd episode of lava fountains since the current series of intermittent eruptions began in December 2024.
The plume from the latest eruption reached more than 10,000 metres (35,000 feet), according to the National Weather Service
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialChris LaCivita, a Trump campaign manager in 2024, settles his libel lawsuit against The Daily Beast, filed in March 2025; The Beast says he received no payment (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/business/media…
@gwire@mastodon.socialHow is government still spending tens-of-millions on software development with nothing to show for it?
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/feb/17/uk-frictionless-post-brexit-trade-border-project
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at iRobot, founded in 1990, and its slow collapse after regulatory pressure killed Amazon's $1.7B acquisition in 2024, and the rising Chinese competition (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/14/how-irobot-lost-its-way-home/
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Bat for Lashes:
🎵 Home (6 Music Session, 4 Jun 2024)
#BatforLashes
https://batforlashes.bandcamp.com/album/livestream-at-home-los-angeles-2021
https://open.spotify.com/track/4gXSQjrANdHYBxJpJO8Gcv
@jake4480@c.imThose CunninLynguists put out The Heartstring Theory [Part 1] in 2024, and [Part 2] comes out next week.
And of course this first preview track is 🔥
https://cunninlynguists.bandcamp.com/album/the-heartstring-theory-part-two
@davidaugust@mastodon.online“Google 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…”
“…latest example of how the U.S. government is using a controversial type of legal request, called an administrative subpoena, to demand that tech companies turn over the private data of individuals who have been critical of the Trump administration.”
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks.
https://loriemerson.net/2024/08/31/a-brief-history-of-barbed-wire-fence-telephone-networks/
saved 2026-02-12
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineLiveübertragung: Donnerstag, 26. Februar, 15.05 Uhr
Der #Bundestag berät ein Gesetz zum Schutz von #Journalisten und anderen öffentlich tätigen Personen vor missbräuchlichen #SLAPP Klagen. …
@usul@piaille.fr @gwire@mastodon.socialThe use of backticks in place of possessive apostrophes suggests this statement wasn't checked by a native-english speaker before being put on the website. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/joint-statement-on-the-2nd-anniversary-of-alexei-na…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyConfirmed: Another big jump in atmospheric CO2, (still) measured at Mauna Loa: the November average was ~426.5 ppm, that's 2.6 ppm higher than last year!
@Kingu@sakurajima.moeOut of nowhere, I'm in a deep Migma Shelter melancholia this week :floofSad:
MIGMA SHELTER ”Romeo Is Sleeping” 2024.06.02
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe Front-Runner ... G, avin newsom has a 30-page file of reasons the Democrats lost the 2024 presidential election. (Helen Lewis/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/gavin-newsom-feature/685410/?gift=6kW-3kpyH7tV4NcHqyTUk3BPAaTCFSpGNyaGHEgyKs8
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p97#a260106p97
@seeingwithsound@mas.to(2024) Rapid desensitization to retinally stabilized flickering stimuli https://iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2797077 To the extent that mechanisms for perceptual fading are in the brain it could have consequences for visual cortical prostheses.
@shaun@mastodon.xyzHundreds of false #DUI arrests in #Tennessee in 2024 alone. Hundreds!
“According to data released by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, 419 people across Tennessee were arrested for [DUI] in 2024 despite later blood tests showing no alcohol detected in their system: not trace amounts, not borderli…
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialNever been as scared watching a movie as I was in the final 10min of "Arthur the King".
Dog lovers, this was a great dog movie... but terrifying.
▶️ Arthur the King (2024) Official Trailer - Mark Wahlberg, Simu Liu, Julie Rylance, Nathalie Emmanuel
https://youtube.com/watch?v=wjDJNEPg…
@timbray@cosocial.caTFW you notice that your Synology-local-backup to cloud-backup hasn't been working since you moved in October 2024 because you’d stupidly hardwired the Synology DNS to the former residence’s now-wrong 192.168. Would have been sad if the house burned down. Would have been nice if the Synology had complained.
Discovered this in the course of a search for a non-US (ideally Canadian) Synology-friendly cloud backup. Promising: eazyBackup and ionos.ca HiDrive.
@adlerweb@social.adlerweb.infoBei @… wurde berichtet, dass die #Nextcloud der #CDU seit 2024 kein Update mehr gesehen hat.
Naja, das
@nohillside@smnn.chMorgen dann: SBB prüft Rückkehr zum Dampflok-Betrieb.
UKW bleibt: SRG ändert Pläne für Radioprogramme https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/nach-abschaltung-2024-srg-plant-nach-parlamentsentscheid-ukw-comeback
@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
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: crypto exchange Kraken has fired its CFO Stephanie Lemmerman ahead of its long-awaited IPO; Lemmerman joined Kraken from Dapper Labs in November 2024 (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/02/
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys must let 2024 leading WR walk in free agency, commit to breakout star https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-must-let-2024-leading-wr-walk-nfl-free-agency-commit-breakout-star
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
That British mid-century signage font is called “Festive”.
https://precastreinforced.co.uk/2024/04/22/that-mysterious-font-is-festive-not-stymie/
saved 2026-02-12
@juer@juergenklute@digitalcourage.socialRaoul Hedebouw ist Vorsitzender der belgischen Partei PTB/PVDA (Parti du Travail de Belgique/Partij van de Arbeid). Sie hat sich in den letzten Jahren einen bemerkenswerten Platz in der belgischen Politik erarbeitet – sowohl auf föderaler, regionaler und kommunaler Ebene. Im September 2024 hat die belgische Zeitung De Morgen ein Interview mit Hedebouw veröffentlicht. nd-aktuell hat das Interview nun auch in einer deutschsprachigen Übersetzung für deutschsprachige Leserinnen und Leser zugängl…
@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…
@adresscomptoir@mastodon.socialWunsch nach #OpenAccess-Lektüre von mehr als 1500 Seiten zur Geschichte Niederösterreichs im 18. Jahrhundert? VoilŠ:
Hämmerle, Tobias u.a. (Hg.): Niederösterreich im 18. Jahrhundert. 2 Bände. St. Pölten: Verlag NÖ Institut für Landeskunde, 2024.
Band 1:
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioAmy Klobuchar couldn’t get a majority of the DFL straw poll vote in South Minneapolis — a measly 30% — and she is •running unopposed•.
Shades of 2024 when a strong “uncommitted” primary vote for unopposed Biden presaged electoral disaster.
Minnesotans, use this to light a fire under her. Harangue her office. And hey…maybe field a primary opponent. Freak her campaign and the State DFL the absolute fuck out.
It’s a win if we get a better nominee •or• if we get her to show a little more fight again ICE and Trump.
https://minnesotareformer.com/briefs/klobuchar-overwhelmingly-wins-dfl-caucus-straw-poll-but-many-submit-protest-votes/
@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.…
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafeRE: https://mastodon.social/@lobsters/115882407207303960
Good reads:
― the 2024 blog post
― the 2026 discussion in Lobsters.
Incidentally, I did stop using Discord. No regrets.
@bthalpin@mastodon.socialTotal Cohort Fertility Rate and Total Period Fertility Rate for Ireland, using birth data up to end 2024. Consistent downward trend in both, the relative pause in the middle of the TPFR decline is associated with large net in-migration (including of young women) during the Celtic Tiger.
#mastodaoine
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeFollowing law enforcement’s disruption of two high-profile ransomware groups, ransomware incidents reported to FinCEN decreased in 2024, with 1,476 incidents, reflecting $734 million in the aggregate value of reported payments in BSA reports.
https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-rele…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialOver Wiersma (gratis te lezen),
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/12/05/schrappen-vertragen-blokkeren-h…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzCharacteristics of temporal and spatial variation of the electron density in the plasmasphere and ionosphere during the May 2024 super #GeomagneticStorm: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40623-025-02317-3 -> How superstorm Gannon squeezed Earth’s plasmasphere to one-fifth its size: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1106633 - new study shows how a major space storm dramatically shrank Earth’s protective plasma layer and slowed its recovery, helping improve solar storm forecasts and protect space infrastructure we rely on.
@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 …
@pgogl@troet.cafeLaptop meiner Frau Ende 2024 mit einer neuen Windowsinstallation versehen. Der Fehler in der Updateverwaltung dieser Version zieht sich immer noch durch bis heute.
Jetzt bekommt der LP eine spezielle von MS angebotene Reparaturinstallation.
Ey #Microsoft - WTHFUGG läuft da verkehrt?
@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.’
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Steve Cropper:
🎵 Crop Dustin’
#SteveCropper
https://stevecropper.bandcamp.com/track/crop-dustin-remastered-2024
https://open.spotify.com/track/2BSNxsAu2ocf4TQ9Wt79yg
@newsie@darktundra.xyzEU threatens TikTok with massive fine over addictive design features https://therecord.media/eu-threatens-tiktok-with-fine-over-addictive-features
@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.
@Europablog@mastodon.socialFoto-Story vom Robert-Schuman-Platz Brüssel von Hanna Penzer.
#brussels
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDisney agrees to pay $2.75M to settle California AG Rob Bonta's 2024 lawsuit alleging Disney violated CCPA by failing to honor consumers' data opt-out requests (Alyssa Ray/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/publ
@janneke@todon.nl @Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyLast Wednesday, the village of Grazalema (southern Spain, 900 m altitude) received 577 mm of rain in one day: the second highest ever recorded in Spain, only behind the deadly downpour in the Valencia region of 29 October 2024. https://malagaldia.es/2026/0…
@cdarwin@c.imI really hate to play the “age card,” folks, but back in my day (2023 and 2024), I distinctly recall that a president with apparent mental infirmities was nigh unto scandalous.
For a press so dedicated to sanewashing the Trump administration’s open sewer of corruption, the kid gloves treatment still seems the order of the day.
This week, The Atlantic’s Jonathan Lemire published a lengthy exegesis of the “President Trump is increasingly isolated” variety, titled “The Bubble-Wrapp…
@johnm@social.tchncs.deApple bestätigt: Google Gemini wird neue Siri! Was das bedeutet
#Apple
@roland@devdilettante.comThe anti-alarmists e.g. Ezra Klein, Matt Yglesias, Bret Stephens, Corey Robin, Jon Stewart, David Brooks, William Watson, John Harris, Simon Jenkins, Zachary Karabell, Josh Barro, and Noah Feldman — scolded & derided the Cassandras. Going forward, we should be skeptical of giving them & others like them our attention when they pooh pooh people fighting against obvious racism, fascism, and kleptocracy etc etc yup <-- read the whole thing
@chiraag@mastodon.online @Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSiriusXM reported Q4 net income of $99M vs. $287M a year ago, rev. of $2.19B vs. $2.17B est., and "robust" guidance including an in-car audio focus; SIRI up 9% (Adam Jacobson/Radio & Television Business Report)
https://rbr.com/sirius-xm-shares-soar-on-earnings-st…
@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
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgI was looking for something else when I discovered that Jean-Guy Meunier passed away last year:
https://philo.uqam.ca/babillard/nouvelles/hommage-a-jean-guy-meunier-1940-2024/
He was one of the reviewers I suggested for my tenure review, but a…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyCrows in the Cemetery on a Hot June Afternoon (2024-06) - Corvids chatting in a green space between a suburban recycling centre and a building site under airport flight path #fieldRecording #London #crows
@nakatsubyjna@socel.net
@seav@en.osm.townOne of the biggest political scandals in the #Philippines 🇵🇭 in 2024 was the accusation that Alice Guo, the elected town mayor of Bamban was not actually a Filipino citizen and instead was a Chinese spy that engaged in trafficking of Chinese nationals for illegal online gambling operations.
Following her recent conviction of human trafficking last November 20,
@schachjugend@schach.socialVon den Siegern 2024 zum Start der DVM 2025
Heute geht es wieder los!
#dvm25
@Techmeme@techhub.socialEssilorLuxottica says it sold over 7M Meta AI glasses in 2025, up from the 2M that the company sold in 2023 and 2024 combined (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/11/ray-ban-maker-essilorluxottica-triples-sales-of-meta-ai-gla…
@exil_inselette@norden.socialWarum arbeiten Menschen Teilzeit? Wie geht es Beschäftigten in den einzelnen Bereichen?
Dazu gab es zwei Studien von ver.di (2020 und 2024). Von einem Kanzler, der die Bezeichnung und das Amt verdient, würde ich erwarten, dass er selbst oder jemand aus seinem Team die 40seitige Broschüre liest und ihn, den Kanzler dazu berät.
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Raspberry Pi Reliability: how to reduce writes to your SD card.
https://www.dzombak.com/blog/2024/04/pi-reliability-reduce-writes-to-your-sd-card/
saved 2026-01-05
@publicvoit@graz.socialI added a quote from the #TechOversightProject:
"The documents provide smoking-gun evidence that #Meta, #Google, #Snap
@jake4480@c.imOne I somehow missed last year and may have even made my top 20 because of how damn good it is, NYC punks KALEIDOSCOPE and their LP 'Cities of Fear' that was written and recorded in just a few days in 2024. Some KILLER, catchy, rough, angry hardcore punk the way it SHOULD be. ffo MDC, Poison Idea, Crucifix.
https://
@metacurity@infosec.exchangehttps://www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/politics/hacking-disinformation-election-security
Secret US cyber operations shielded 2024 election from foreign trolls, but now the Trump admin has gutted protections
@krone@frawas.deZum Umwelt-Gipfel 2024 - So klimaUNfreundlich reiste Ministerin Gewessler #News #Nachrichten
@jswright61@ruby.socialRE: #TimWalz said during the 2024 Presidential Campaign “You don’t win elections to bank political capital …
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSource: livestream shopping app Whatnot nears ~$1B in revenue for 2025; Whatnot says it has passed $6B in gross sales this year, more than doubling 2024's sales (Ann Gehan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/live…
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.usWith this being the first Raspberry Pi 5 of the cluster, and since those are notorious for running hotter than the Pi 4. Which I did extensive testing on last year: https://blog.wyrihaximus.net/2024/12/building-a-kubernetes-homelab-w…
@gfp@mastodon.trueten.de„Keine Übung mehr, sondern Operation“ https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10289
@cdarwin@c.imGoogle 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.
The search and advertising tech giant provided ICE with the usernames, physical addresses, and an itemized list of services associated with the Google account of Amandla Thomas-Johnson,
a British student and journalist who briefly attended a pro-P…
@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
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk @Techmeme@techhub.socialHow President Trump's tariffs ended China's monopoly on making US game consoles, boosting Vietnam, whose exports jumped from $30M/month in 2024 to $400M in May (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-trump-tariffs-vietnam-china-video-…
@bthalpin@mastodon.socialInteresting article on fertility in Ireland
https://www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2026/01/29/the-economic-forces-behind-older-motherhood-and-what-makes-ireland-different/
Since I have the data to h…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFilings: X's UK revenue fell 58.3% YoY from £69.1M in 2023 to £28.9M in 2024; pre-tax profits fell from £2.2M in 2023 to £767,000 in 2024 (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202
@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
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk @Techmeme@techhub.socialLondon-based AI video startup Synthesia says its ARR reached $100M by April 2025, after reporting 2024 revenue up 82% YoY to $58M and a pre-tax loss of $59M (Nicholas Fearn/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/215df8da-717b-4e5f-ac66-c02e142e6ad6
@jake4480@c.im15 great games you could play on a Mac Performa 575 in 1994 https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2024/11/30/15-great-games-you-could-play-on-a-mac-performa-575-in-1994
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineJährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.01.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPitchBook-NVCA: global VC investments hit $512B in 2025 with AI accounting for 50% ; VC fundraising fell to a 10-year low of $118.6B, ~$100B less than in 2024 (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/01/07/pitch…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA look at the First Amendment Watch's SLAPP Back Initiative, a US SLAPP tracker; in 2024, 69 of 500 cases involved the media, of which 46 were dismissed (Liam Scott/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/slapp-lawsuit-p…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialLondon-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…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk @jake4480@c.imUNEARTHLY RITES are from Finland and I think I was vaguely aware of them before- going through their debut 2024 LP now (
https://unearthlyrites.bandcamp.com/album/ecdysis) in anticipation of their new LP coming out in April, and whew, this is so promising, for the new one. This 2…
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump won AZ-06 by less than one point in 2024
– and I need your help to flip this seat blue.
It’s Jo Mendoza reaching out.
I know polling can be confusing. Everyone wants to convince you that their race is the most important for you to support,
and it can be hard to figure out which are actually the most critical.
So let’s talk about what the data says about my race:
There’s only been one poll so far, but it shows me beating my MAGA opponent by onl…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineNur 32 #Energieunternehmen waren 2024 für die Hälfte der weltweiten #CO2-Emissionen verantwortlich.
Besonders staatlich kontrollierte Produzenten wie #SaudiAramco blockierten beim Klim…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialJapanese NAND flash memory maker Kioxia is up 500% in 2025 so far, outperforming all other MSCI World Index members, after its Tokyo IPO debut in December 2024 (Alice French/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineJährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 22.12.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow the AI data center boom boosted Caterpillar's power and energy unit; generator sales are up 28% YoY through Sept. 2025, after growing 22% to $7.8B in 2024 (Bob Tita/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/caterpillar-generator-sales-…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online @Techmeme@techhub.socialSource: OpenAI's compute margin has jumped to about 70% in October from about 52% at the end of 2024 and roughly 35% in January 2024 (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-getting-efficient-running…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online @Techmeme@techhub.socialDespite concerns, Labour MPs and other left-wing UK politicians stay active on X; the UK government says it stopped paid ads on X in 2024, down from £9M in 2021 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5b0e3ea9-acc9-4dcc-85fe-2273ea8abb86
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online @Techmeme@techhub.socialShipments of AI servers from Taiwan to the US are set to double in 2025 vs. 2024, as Foxconn, Quanta, and Wistron ramp up production to meet demand (Hideaki Ryugen/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/taiwan-s-top-a…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialItaly's competition authority closes its July 2024 probe into Google's alleged unfair practices over users' personal data after Google adopted remedies (Gianluca Semeraro/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialYouTube's head of products for podcasts Steve McLendon says viewers streamed 700M hours of podcasts on TV in October, up from 400M hours in October 2024 (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
