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Aided by AI, young people in China launched 7M one-person startups in 2025 to escape a bleak job market, up ~42% from 2024, as they face fierce competition (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj…

ZeroHeight readers should be aware AudioEye is a litigious company that sues detractors:
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/01/audioeye-has-dropped-its-suit-against-me.html
They should also know its overlay never worked, a signal its services are p…

#AudioEye Has Dropped Its Suit Against Me
AudioEye has dropped its lawsuit against me as part of a settlement agreement. The specific legal details are at the end of this post. Index for this post: Joint Statement Impact, Abridged SLAPP Everybody Lost Legal Details Wrap-up Related CAO Hire: 8 February 2024 Talk References (Added 7 July 2024)…

The US DOJ and TikTok reach a $400M settlement to resolve allegations TikTok violated COPPA; the DOJ filed the lawsuit in 2024 (Ashley Gold/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/21/doj-tiktok-biden-lawsuit-settlement

Scoop: DOJ, TikTok settle for $400 million in children's privacy suit
The settlement ends a lawsuit filed by the Biden administration.

Four million users of Seoul's public bike-sharing service Ttareungi who had their data stolen in a breach will receive a 30-day pass worth a measly $3.40.
https://www.koreajoongangdaily.com/korea/seoul-to-compensate-4-mi…

Seoul Ttareungi data breach: 4 million users to get free 30-day bike pass
Seoul’s Ttareungi bike-sharing service will give a free 30-day pass to about 4 million users affected by a 2024 data breach. The leak exposed personal information of roughly 4.62 million users, city officials said.

Singapore-based Ant International, a payments company which spun out of Ant Group in 2024, raised $1.2B from investors including Ant Group and Alibaba (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/ant-international-raise…

This post gets regular inline updates:
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/04/what-you-can-do-as-a-web-builder-on-earth-day.html
Today I added a Nature article, the Web Sustainability Guidelines Impact Ratings, and the Carbon in Context calcula…

What You Can Do as a Web Builder on Earth Day
One easy thing you can do for the earth is not use “AI” tools. Consider this as a programmer, web developer, web designer, copywriter, webmaster, etc. The tools include anything branded as generative AI, LLMs, computer vision tools, Copilot, ChatGPT, Bard, Grok, Dall-e, Midjourney, and so on. If you are…

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Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Putin for two years, says report
Alleged talks between the billionaire and Russian president could have enormous security implications
“If people like Musk get Trump re-elected, they’ll expect all kinds of regulatory gifts in their favour,”
said Fiona Hill,
who is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, the chancellor of Durham University and a defence adviser to the UK governm…

Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Putin for two years, says report
Alleged talks between billionaire and Russian president could have enormous security implications

African defense tech company Terra Industries, founded in 2024, raised a $52M seed round from 8VC and others, and says it's on track to book $100M in contracts (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/terr

Terra Industries closes $52M seed round to build defense infrastructure for the Global South | TechCrunch
African defense tech company Terra Industries announced an additional $18 million in funding, bringing its seed round to $52 million.

Inducing lucid dreaming with multisensory stimulation: a preregistered multi-center study #SSILD

> "Ich kann Politikerinnen und Politikern nichts mehr beibringen, die wissen alles, da gibt es keinen Beratungsbedarf mehr. Sie handeln wider besseren Wissens."
> Zitat Prof. Mojib Latif, Klimawissenschaftler, GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum
Bin gerade drauf gestoßen und fand das Originalzitat hier:

MONITOR am 05.12.2024 | Klimajahr 2024: Die angeheizte Katastrophe
Dürre, Hochwasser, Waldbrände – in allen Teilen der Welt zeigt sich 2024 das zerstörerische Ausmaß der Klimakrise, tausende Menschen sterben, ein Rekord jagt den nächsten: Noch nie war es auf der Erde so heiß wie 2024, noch nie wurden mehr CO2-Emissionen ausgestoßen – und noch nie waren Klimaskeptiker so mächtig. MONITOR schaut auf ein Jahr, das für die Zukunft nichts Gutes verheißt.

🛌 Wissen fürs Kopfkissen: 📖
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
SPRINTS:
🎵 Shadow Of A Doubt (6 Music Session, 8 Jan 2024)
#SPRINTS
https://sprintsmusic.bandcamp.com/track/shadow-of-a-doubt
https://open.spotify.com/track/1ztIebjhmfFdYPhH4m6ORE

Titans waive QB Will Levis, ending 3-year tenure with franchise: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7550710/2026/08/30/will-levis-titans-waive-nfl/

S&P and IBM: 22% of global cyberattacks in 2024 hit Japan, the most targeted country, as it scrambles to improve its substandard systems against AI threats (Catherine Thorbecke/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-06-2…

RunPod, which rents access to non-Nvidia servers, raised $100M led by Summit Partners at a $1B valuation, a source says up from $100M after its seed in 2024 (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/cl

Cloud Startup Runpod Raises $100 Million, Says It Turned Down Buyout Offers
By some accounts, the compute crunch of 2026 has become even more dire than the chip crunch of 2023, which saw even venture capital firms becoming quasi-cloud providers temporarily. That’s good news for a subclass of firms that popped up to rent out computing power and help developers run ...

Angie Craig is a data center cheerleader:
#Minnesota #mnpol

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
La Luz:
🎵 Poppies (6 Music Session, 29th August 2024)
#LaLuz
https://bearboneslaylow.bandcamp.com/track/crystal-poppies
https://open.spotify.com/track/4oiZ494M5fJgMhdqew0n8p