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A survey of US adults: 49% reported using chatbots in 2026, up from 33% in 2024, 24% said that they use chatbots on a daily basis, and 44% said they use ChatGPT (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/0…

Americans and AI 2026: Chatbots, Smart Devices and Views on Impact
More Americans are using chatbots, and some are adopting AI summaries and smart speakers. But views about AI and how fast it’s advancing tilt negative – even for younger adults.

Lijk uit de kast van Yesilgoz?
Rekenkamer: met duizenden aangiften van ernstige misdrijven gebeurde in 2024 niets https://nos.nl/l/2619197

Rekenkamer: met duizenden aangiften van ernstige misdrijven gebeurde in 2024 niets
Ook heeft de politie volgens de Rekenkamer te weinig zicht op waarom wel of niet op zaken wordt ingezet.

Between 2020 and 2024, no cervical cancer deaths were recorded in women aged 20 to 24
- the first time that had happened over a five-year period.
Without vaccination, around 23 deaths would have been expected.
"It's incredible to think that a single jab can almost eliminate a particular type of cancer,"
said Prof Peter Sasieni, the lead researcher at Queen Mary University of London.

Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine
A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.

Stephen Capus, president and CEO of RFE/RL since 2024, announces his resignation, effective September 15, and will be succeeded by Lisa Curtis (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
https://about.rferl.org/article/rfe-rl-launches-leadership-transition/

RFE/RL Launches Leadership Transition
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) President and CEO Stephen Capus has announced his resignation, effective September 15, 2026. Mr. Capus has led RFE/RL since January 1, 2024.

"Until now, the record for most spending per vote was held by Mayor Daniel Lurie, who paid $156.14 for each of his first-choice votes in the 2024 mayoral race. But there’s a big difference: Lurie won."
(He had much worse opposition! It was a terrible field.)
https://

$211 per vote: How Saikat Chakrabarti spent $8.8M on his congressional run
Connie Chan spent $25.09 per vote. Scott Wiener spent $61.24. Saikat Chakrabarti spent...a lot more than that.

from my link log —
Speed up your code: don't pass structs bigger than 16 bytes on AMD64.
https://gist.github.com/FeepingCreature/5dff669aad380a123b15659e195fb96c
saved 2024-01-05

Speed up your code: don't pass structs bigger than 16 bytes on AMD64
Speed up your code: don't pass structs bigger than 16 bytes on AMD64 - sixteen_bytes.md

Cowboys ink Raiders edge who was 'sleep, unresponsive' in 2024 arrest https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/06/18/cowboys-raiders-edge-charles-snowden-signing/90615532007/

Noam Shazeer leaves Google to join OpenAI as lead for architecture research; he rejoined Google in 2024 as part of the Character.AI deal and was Gemini co-lead (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/star-google-ai-researcher-shazeer-j…

Star Google AI Researcher Shazeer Joins OpenAI
Noam Shazeer, the Google DeepMind researcher whose work underpinned the generative AI boom, is joining OpenAI, the AI firm told some staff Wednesday. Shazeer, who left Google in 2021 to cofound a chatbot startup, Character.AI, rejoined Google’s AI team DeepMind in 2024 as part of a $2.7 billion ...

Is it too much to check that the dates of events occurred *after* July 2024 before blaming them on the policies of the current UK government?

On Tuesday, the Trump administration filed a motion to join a lawsuit attempting to
block the U.S.’s first and only reparations program.
The federal government is supporting a 2024 lawsuit by right-wing group Judicial Watch,
which argues that the Evanston, Illinois reparations program violates the rights of non-Black residents

Trump Administration Attempts to Stop Reparations to Black Community in Illinois
The motion is an “attack on the revived hope that Black communities have felt” from the program, said its architect.

China's National Data Administration says the country's daily AI token consumption hit 140T in March 2026, up from 100T in December 2025 and 100B in early 2024 (Minxiao Chang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/arti

Insert token: how China’s surging AI use is turning compute into currency
As the cost of running AI models continues to drop, the token economy is reshaping ecosystems far beyond corporate cubicles.

Texans WR Tank Dell is 'almost there' in return from 2024 injury: 'It's light at the end of the tunnel' https://www.nfl.com/news/texans-wr-tank-dell-is-almost-there-in-return-from-2024-injury-it-s-light…

Trump Megadonor Tim Dunn Has a Plan More Extreme Than Project 2025
The Texas fracking billionaire wants to rewrite the U.S. Constitution
to advance climate denial and other far-right priorities
https://www.desmog.com/2024/10/23/trump-pr…

Trump Megadonor Tim Dunn Has a Plan More Extreme Than Project 2025
The Texas fracking billionaire wants to rewrite the U.S. Constitution to advance climate denial and other far-right priorities.

ExxonMobil’s CEO called Venezuela “uninvestable” without changes to its legal system.
The head of ConocoPhillips wanted U.S. government financing.
But Jeffery Hildebrand, a major Trump donor whose wife had been named ambassador to Costa Rica, had already seen how loyalty could be rewarded.
Even though he had no notable operations outside the U.S., he hunched toward a microphone and said in a halting voice,
“Hilcorp is fully committed and ready to go to rebuilding the i…

Trump Plans to Protect Methane-Leaking Stripper Wells. This Billionaire Donor Will Benefit.
Oil tycoon Jeffery Hildebrand gave millions to Donald Trump’s 2024 election campaign. He is set to reap a financial windfall as the EPA moves to weaken restrictions on wells like his that produce very little energy but release vast amounts of methane.

Siempre es importante fiscalizar las obras públicas, cuestionar cuando no se cumplen cronogramas o presupuestos.
Pero hay que tener en cuenta que en todo el planeta las grandes obras públicas siempre enfrentan retos de todo tipo, especialmente cuando son obras de infraestructura o energía enormes.
Acš el medio de comunicación costarricense La Nación reporta sobre una nueva postergación en la fecha de entrega de un proyecto geotérmico, explica que hubo un atraso inicial en la perf…

Nicht nur in Deutschland werden Klimagelder in Klimaschädliches umgewidmet, auch in Frankreich, wenngleich in geringerem Maßstab: Der Petrochemie-Gigant Ineos hatte sich 2024 um ca. 300 Millionen € beworben. Nachdem die Anforderungen für eine Finanzierung durch die Klimaagentur Ademe nicht erfüllt waren, wurden 2025 die Anforderungen schnell noch geändert, sodass das Geld doch fließt.
https://disclose.ngo/fr/article/le-gouvernement-detourne-les-aides-de-lademe-pour-financer-lun-des-plus-gros-pollueurs-de-france
via https://mastodon.top/@D_cence/116771203960460161
In Deutschland liegt der Maßstab im Milliardenbereich: https://taz.de/Stromnetzfinanzierung-aus-KTF/!6108084/

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.06.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

POL-GÖ: (129/2026) Ermittlungen nach Überfall auf Schnellrestaurant in Göttingen-Grone im September 2024 gehen weiter - Polizei geht inzwischen von örtlichen Tätern aus Göttingen (ots) - Göttingen, Stadtteil Grone, Siekweg Donnerstag, 12. September 2024, gegen 02.35 Uhr GÖTTINGEN (jk) - Die Tat liegt schon länger zurück, die Ermittlungen zur Aufklärung aber gehen ohne Unterlass weiter. Im September 2024 ...

ITV says advertising revenues from the World Cup are about 30% higher than those from Euro 2024; Telemundo says it sold out of key World Cup ad inventory (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/48f2f704-74e0-40e0-b657-253d48e657f7

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)

Habe ich schonmal erzählt, dass die Jungs ein #Gokart gebastelt haben? Seit Anfang 2024 waren die Papa-Kind-Abende mit K2 voll mit Elektronik, Schaltplan, Konstruktion, Excel, Programmieren, Feilen, Sägen, Fräsen, Basteln...
K1 hat am Ende auch noch viel unterstützt.
Einiges ist kaputt gegangen (ein Laptop, ein DCDC Stepupregler, Schlüsselschalter, Sicherungen, Kabel, ...) aber …

Remember the disastrous way Columbus handled its breach two years ago? The city's IT director, who is partially responsible for the mess, is retiring and will be lauded by the city council.
https://www.wosu.org/politics-g…

Columbus' IT director retiring nearly two years after major cyber attack exposed citizens' data
Soon after the city first noticed something was wrong on July 18, 2024, officials shut down systems to thwart the attack. The action shut down the city's systems for months, leaving some systems not fully operational until 2025.

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.06.2026.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1401132 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

2024 NFL redraft: Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels or Drake Maye at No. 1?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2024-nfl-redraft-caleb-williams-jayden-daniels-drake-maye/

But first, needed to walk to nearby grocery store to buy a malbec. Opted for the San Uberto 2024 because it was the cheapest. But also got a bottle of Cordero Con Piel De Lobo 2025 for me, not the flies, because I liked the label. #wine #swarthmore #alcohol

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
mclusky:
🎵 She Will Only Bring You Happiness
#mclusky
https://mcluskymclusky.bandcamp.com/track/she-will-only-bring-you-happiness-2024-remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/6oA4rAGQZ2VLmzL4b6rZaZ

📅 Mi, 24.6. – 10:00 Uhr bis 12:00
Seminar: Erste Schritte auf dem Weg zur Erarbeitung eines Notfallplans
👉 Weitere Infos: https://nfdi4culture.de/id/E6826
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African Daisy. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. March 2024. Fujifilm X100VI. #laarboretum #daisy #flower

Amazon says its data centers used ~2.5B gallons of water in 2025, or 0.12 liters of water per kWh, and water use at sites it owns and operates fell 2% from 2024 (Anvee Bhutani/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/t…

With the death of the Belgian theoretical physicist François #Englert on 18 June at the age of 93 - https://home.cern/francois-englert-1932-2026/ - all three 'fathers' of the Brout-Englert-Higgs field have passed away: Englert's associate Robert Brout had died in 2011, its independent proposer Peter Higgs in 2024. Particles thus no longer have mass: hold them tight ...

Full Match | The Judgement Day (Finn Bšlor & JD McDonagh) vs Social Elite (Matthew Smyth & Sean Guinness) at OTT's 10th Year Anniversary show from 26th October 2024
#prowrestling #wwe #wrestling

NFL players who attended Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding, plus a 2024 redraft and the NFL's top duos

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/taylor-swift-travis…

from my link log —
Why writing correct software is hard.
https://pron.github.io/posts/correctness-and-complexity
saved 2024-05-18 https://

Why Writing Correct Software Is Hard
We try to understand the relationship between programs and correctness, and in particular, why writing correct programs must be hard. We will review results from computability theory and complexity theory, and see that programs and complete understanding – which is required for correctness – are fundamentally at odds.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
MJ Lenderman:
🎵 Wristwatch (6 Music Session, 10 Dec 2024)
#MJLenderman
https://mjlenderman.bandcamp.com/track/wristwatch
https://open.spotify.com/track/4j2DQgFAyVuKOBFpq4vEPR

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.06.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

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

Mit Lächeln im Gesicht - Das erschütternde Geständnis des Swift-Attentäters #News #Nachrichten …

Representative David #Valadao, an incumbent Republican who won his seat by seven percentagepoints in 2024,
is facing a competitive contest after California’s new maps created a tossup district that is estimated to have voted for Trump by only two points in 2024.
Valadao advanced to the general election by performing well in the nonpartisan primary, and he is waiting to find out who his opponent…

Who Is Ahead in California's 22nd Congressional District?
Track the latest polls in California's 22nd Congressional District.

Brandon Aiyuk delivers message in video post, calls 49ers 'little-a-- boys,' tells them to 'stop running from the bill' https://www.nfl.com/news/brandon-aiyuk-delivers-message-in-video-post-cal…

from my link log —
Smoothed asymptotics: from number theory to quantum field theory.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10981
saved 2024-02-18 https://dotat.at…

Smoothed asymptotics: from number theory to QFT
Inspired by the method of smoothed asymptotics developed by Terence Tao, we introduce a new ultra-violet regularisation scheme for loop integrals in quantum field theory which we call $η$ regularisation. This allows us to reveal a surprising connection between the elimination of divergences in divergent series of powers and the preservation of gauge invariance in the regularisation of loop integrals in quantum field theory. In particular, we note that a method for regularising the series of na…

Announcement: New Issue of Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary e-Journal
https://ift.tt/zvk4NLK
CALL FOR PAPERS: Modernizing Winter Sam White 05/20/2026 - 9:31pm Announcement Type …
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Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 30.06.2026.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

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

Google invests in independent movie studio A24 as part of a new AI partnership; sources say Google is investing $75M, equal to what Thrive invested in 2024 (Ben Fritz/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-investi

Have I Been Pwned: ShinyHunters' breach of ADT exposed the personal data of 5.5M people; ADT previously disclosed data breaches in August 2024 and October 2024 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

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.

Filing: TKO Group CEO Ari Emanuel's pay package in 2025 was $67.3M, up from $18.1M in 2024, and President Mark Shapiro's compensation hit $42.6M, up from $31.9M (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Ari Emanuel’s TKO Pay Rises to $67.3 Million
The owner of UFC and WWE released its annual proxy filing Thursday, with Dwayne Johnson also receiving $900,000 for the use of his 'Rock' IP.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GillesPeterson
Norma Winstone:
🎵 The Tunnel (Live at Maida Vale, 2024)
#NormaWinstone

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GillesPeterson
The Blackbyrds:
🎵 Do It Fluid (Live at Maida Vale, 2024)
#TheBlackbyrds
https://djchrisdiablo.bandcamp.com/track/donald-byrd-the-blackbyrds-do-it-fluid-dj-chris-diablo-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/3xYsb83PONJhW3geI4B6Ci

#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit …