Tootfinder

Privacy-focused MVNO Cape raised a $100M Series C at a $900M valuation, and says its revenue grew from $4.5M in 2024 to $37M in 2025 (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/03/19/ex-p…

This Ex-Palantir Exec Built A $900 Million Privacy-First Cell Network
Cape cofounder and CEO John Doyle is seeing rapid revenue growth for his cell network, which deletes call logs and doesn’t collect social security numbers like AT&T and Verizon do.

RE: #WikimediaCommons in 2024. Former Associat…

Apropos Ryan Gosling/Der Astronaut - meine Kurzbesprechung zum zugrundeliegenden Buch ‚Project Hail Mary‘ von Andy Weir findet sich hier: https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2026/01/science-fiction-und-fantasy-winter-edition-2025-26/
Bin …

Science Fiction und Fantasy - Winter Edition 2025/26
Irgendwie hat sich nach meinen letzten Sammelrezensionen doch einiges angesammelt, was ich an SF und Fantasy gelesen und angeschaut habe. Innovativ fand ich Emily Teshs neuen Roman The Incandescent (2025). Tesh hat 2024 den Hugo für ihre antifaschistische Space Opera Some Desperate Glory bekomme

🎧 Unsere Podcast-Hörempfehlung zum Wochenende: "Tatort Kunst: Museumseinbrüche - Chinesische Beute", eine Produktion des Deutschlandfunks von 2024, moderiert von Rahel Klein und Stefan Koldehoff.
1️⃣ 2️⃣ 3️⃣ In drei Folgen beleuchtet das Team die Vorgehensweisen, mögliche Motive und Gegenmaßnahmen.
Stay safe and stay tuned!
🔗

So viel Entschädigung zahlte die Bahn 2025 an Reisende
Ist die Bahn verspätet, gibt es ab einer Stunde Wartezeit Entschädigung. 2025 zahlte die Bahn einen dreistelligen Millionenbetrag, aber weniger als 2024.
https:…

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von #Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.03.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Kuba Suder's blog:
How Bluesky works,
What works well and what doesn’t,
And also, what’s likely coming next.
https://mackuba.eu/2024/02/21/bluesky-guide/

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@metacurity/116186426545144965
“Between October 2024 and January 2025, Kliger's social media posts included controversial views and reposted content from figures such as white supremacist Nick Fuentes and self-described…

Entering the wild canyon...
(May 2024, IIRC it was the same day @… happened to be there too [unknowingly to us]...)
#FootpathFriday #NaturePhotography

RE: https://mastodon.social/@europeanspaceflight/116182982779024614
Two tiny German satellites (PocketQubes) will be among the payloads, ERMINAZ-1U and ERMINAZ-1V: see https://forum.amsat-dl.org/index.php?thread/4540-erminaz-1v-and-erminaz-1u/ and https://destevez.net/2024/06/decoding-erminaz/ for details.

Has anybody ever written a conversion tool from the #orgmode syntax by #logseq to a cleaner version of #orgmode syntax for Emacs?
Background: logseq has a unique interpretation of the

Bolivian cities have become dramatically less Indigenous across the board between 2001 and 2024.

Canada will allow TikTok to continue operating in the country under new security commitments, reversing a 2024 order to wind down TikTok's Canadian subsidiary (Thomas Seal/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music
Lynks:
🎵 USE IT OR LOSE IT (6 Music Session, 20 Feb 2024)
#Lynks
https://lynkslynkslynks.bandcamp.com/track/use-it-or-lose-it-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/72YhBiqyf312dbifU3yHbx

Patriots re-signing backup QB Tommy DeVito to 2-year deal: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7094254/2026/03/06/tommy-devito-patriots-nfl-free-agency-2026/

RIP - Sechsfacher Vater US-Schauspieler James Van Der Beek mit 48 Jahren gestorben
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien-und-film/dawsons-creek-schauspieler-james-van-der-beek-gestorben-200530534.html

Dawsons Creek Schauspieler James van der Beek gestorben
Seine Familie bestätigte den Todesfall auf Instagram. Die Kultserie „Dawson's Creek“ machte Van Der Beek bekannt. Seine Krebserkrankung hatte er 2024 öffentlich gemacht.

In an interview, EIC Jeffrey Goldberg says the Atlantic added 50 journalists in 2025, for a total of 200 , and has ~1.5M paying subscribers, up from 1M in 2024 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-america/the-atlantic-jeffrey-goldbe…

How The Atlantic won 'tortoise and hare' race versus digital news start-ups
The Atlantic is in a "virtue cycle" of making a product people will pay for and putting the profit back into the business, its editor said.

Nachdem gestern noch ein paar Besorgungen zu erledigen waren, ist mein #Frostpendeln Endstand für die Saison 2025/26 bei 1026km und damit ganze 477km mehr als letzte Saison.
Schade, dass die heutige Radtour durch's #Furttal und

A Rome court deemed illegal (sent. 01/04/2026, n. 4993) some Netflix continuous price increases since 2017 and instructed to make reimbursements up to 500 euros per user.
"""
Netflix, per il tribunale illegittimi gli aumenti dal 2017 al 2024. Ora rimborsi fino a 500 euro
Un cliente premium che abbia pagato ininterrottamente dal 2017 ad oggi ha diritto alla restituzione di circa 500 euro, mentre un cliente standard alla restituzione di circa 250 euro
&quot…

Netflix, per il tribunale illegittimi gli aumenti dal 2017 al 2024. Ora rimborsi fino a 500 euro
Un cliente premium che abbia pagato ininterrottamente dal 2017 ad oggi ha diritto alla restituzione di circa 500 euro, mentre un cliente standard alla restituz…

La fraude aux allocations représente moins de 30% de l'ensemble de la fraude sociale.
#Belgique #fraudesociale

from my link log —
A 3D mouse with 3D printed flexures and PCB coils.
https://hackaday.com/2024/01/31/3d-mouse-with-3d-printed-flexures-and-pcb-coils/
saved 2024-02-03

3D Mouse With 3D Printed Flexures And PCB Coils
3D mice with six degrees of freedom (6DOF) motion are highly valued by professional CAD users. However, the entry-level versions typically cost upwards of $150 and are produced by a single manufact…

Robotik-Start-up entwickelt Universal-Industrieroboter in unter zwei Jahren
Noble Machines wurde erst 2024 gegründet. Doch ihr erster Industrieroboter ist schon bereit für seinen Einsatz.
https:/…

Trump just attacked Tom Suozzi PERSONALLY and
endorsed his opponent in NY-03
The MAGA machine is coming.
Help Tom fight back
>> https://suozzi4congress.us

Suozzi for Congress - Let's Fix This!
Tom Suozzi is running for Congress in 2024 to take back the Third Congressional District of Long Island.

Google's TIG documented 90 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in 2025, up from 78 in 2024; commercial spyware vendors and China-linked groups led the abuse (Jessica Lyons/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/05/zero_day_attacks_enterprise_tech…

Google says spyware makers and China-linked groups dominated zero-day attacks last year
: Of the 90 zero-days GTIG tracked in 2025, 43 hit enterprise tech

"Digital Technologies and Reading Habits of Students: A Scoping Review"
https://doi.org/10.1515/opis-2025-0040
"This scoping review aims to map the literature on the types of digital technologies and the purposes of using digital technologies by secondary school students."

This looks like quite a cool project! Can't help wondering if Aotearoa NZ needs something like this... https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt/ - example

Heute erfuhr ich von dieser Steinway Playback-Technologie, das ist schon sehr geil.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/02/28/1088268/steinway-spirio-concert-pianos-performance-upgrade/

The world’s most famous concert pianos got a major tech upgrade
Steinway's Spirio pianos let you experience performances by piano virtuosos in your living room.

Martian ionospheric response during the may 2024 solar #superstorm: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-69468-z -> ESA’s Mars orbiters watch solar superstorm hit the Red Planet: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/ESA_s_Mars_orbiters_watch_solar_superstorm_hit_the_Red_Planet

"‘You Can’t Live Without Us’: How Big Oil Pivoted from Climate-friendly Messaging to Normalise Dependence on Fossil Fuels "
#Climate #ClimateChange #FossilFuels

'You Can’t Live Without Us': How Big Oil Pivoted from Climate-friendly Messaging to Normalise Dependence on Fossil Fuels  
Four of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies have spent the last four years systematically shifting away from climate-friendly advertising to push a new message: fossil fuels are here to stay, a report has found.  Campaign group Clean Creatives analysed 1,859 communications from BP, Shell, ExxonMobil, and Chevron published between 2020 and 2024, spanning paid advertisements on Facebook, YouTube, […]

Is It True That... - ...Hitler Invented the Autobahn? - Watch the full documentary | ARTE in English
https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/120854-008-A/is-it-true-that/ (2024, 24min)
Hat Hitler die Autobahn erfunden? - Stimmt es, dass ...? - Die ganze Doku | ARTE
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/120854-008-A/hat-hitler-die-autobahn-erfunden/ (2024, 24min)
Arte docu over propaganda.
De docu begint inderdaad on die periode en eindigt met de vraag wat AI ons gaat brengen.
Aanbevolen in dit moment van de geschiedenis.

Was this real? Announcing things is cheap; building things matters🏗️
In 2025, it became clear that it is real.
4 industrial-scale Green Methanol plants are operational in China. In Europe? 1
In 2024, A.P. MŸller Holding (owners of Maersk🚢) created the startup VioNeo, with plans for a fossil-free plastics plant in Antwerp🇧🇪. In 2026, they changed plans & want to build "in China near green methanol supply"

It Can Now Be Plainly Said:
Trump Is Planning a November Coup d’État
During the campaign, it was kind of hard to picture the specifics of how Trump might pull such a thing off.
Alas, it’s getting less hypothetical by the week.
Back in 2024, Kamala Harris and the Democrats struggled to convince voters that a second Donald Trump term would constitute a serious threat to democracy.
We can debate the effectiveness of her, and their, rhetoric.
But on a cert…

It Can Now Be Plainly Said: Trump Is Planning a November Coup d’État
During the campaign, it was kind of hard to picture the specifics of how Trump might pull such a thing off. Alas, it’s getting less hypothetical by the week.

I love it when a state gets something right.
https://reason.com/2026/04/03/colorado-becomes-first-state-to-protect-defendants-against-faulty-roadside-drug-tests/

Colorado becomes first state to protect defendants against faulty roadside drug tests
A 2024 study estimated that 30,000 people every year may be getting wrongly arrested due to unreliable roadside drug tests used by police.

Great talk by @… of #GNU #Hurd fame, in a packed room, selling the the Hurd really well (in my not entirely unbiased opinion, of course) and starting with
It'…

I Saw the TV Glow (2024) is streaming free on youtube. it's way too cool for me. I'm gonna pretend I never saw it. this isn't the Midnight Realm, Maddy. it's just the suburbs. 🎵 park that car, drop that phone, sleep on the floor, dream about me

An Wiener Gymnasium - Auf Video! Schüler bestellen Stripperin für Lehrer #News #Nachrichten

Source: the 2024 cyber-attack by the Scattered Spider group on Transport For London resulted in the theft of personal data of ~10M people (Joe Tidy/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz0ggkr2g77o

2024 TfL hack affected around 10 million people, BBC can reveal
TfL insists it has "kept customers informed throughout this incident and will continue to take all necessary action".

Publicis reports 2025 net profit of €1.65B, down from €1.66B in 2024, and total revenue up 8.5% YoY to €17.4B, but PUB falls 8% driven by AI fears (AdriŠ Calatayud/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/p…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #WoPop
Yagody:
🎵 Tsunamia
#Yagody
https://yagodyofficial.bandcamp.com/track/tsunamia-2024
https://open.spotify.com/track/0wWp37bN1WizYsJRnLCSFz

Will the 49ers trade, release or keep Brandon Aiyuk? Breaking down the options https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48414734/brandon-aiyuk-contract-trade-san-francisco-49ers-commanders

Flounder, Cole slaw, this wine, and Animal House
#FridayMovie #DateNight #AnimalHouse #flounder

„Keine Übung mehr, sondern Operation“ https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10289

Disney 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

Disney Settles Streaming Data Suit From CA Attorney General for $2.75 Million
Disney settled the streaming data suit brought about by California Attorney General Rob Bonta, with the entertainment conglomerate set to make a $2.75 million payout.

March 2024:
As rains continue to fill local lakes and reservoirs,
onlookers are eagerly anticipating seeing the water of Napa County’s Lake Berryessa overflow into its funnel-like spillway, dubbed
“the Glory Hole,”
which channels water 200 feet straight down near Monticello Dam and into Putah Creek on the other side.
During these overflows, the water flowing into the hole looks like the drain of a giant bathtub, or a wormhole to another dimension.
For those…

How Lake Berryessa’s ‘Glory Hole’ works and how it got its name
This story was originally published in March 2024As rains continue to fill local lakes and reservoirs, onlookers are eagerly anticipating seeing the water of Napa County’s Lake Berryessa overflow into its funnel-like spillway, dubbed…

A look at Lisbon's Unicorn Factory, a startup hub where 300 businesses joined in 2025 vs. 250 in 2024; 17 unicorns have moved to Lisbon since hub's 2022 launch (Michael Dempsey/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5263ed8c-79dd-460a-b131-56a6fcefeb1e…

Portugal welcomes start-ups seeking scale
Hubs in Lisbon, Porto and Braga nurture new businesses as they look to expand

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Les Amazones d’Afrique:
🎵 Flaws (6 Music Session, 4 Feb 2024)
#LesAmazonesdAfrique
https://lesamazonesdafrique.bandcamp.com/track/flaws-feat-mamani-ke-ta-fafa-ruffino
https://open.spotify.com/track/3AH8RIK78cByIoR211KTY3

Be prepared for an onslaught of disinformation to come out of Rockbridge Network, Koch Network, and overseas straw donors.
-- @…
https://www.

Koch Political Operation Spent Nearly $550 Million During 2024 Cycle
The huge sum shows that while the Koch network may not hold significant power at high levels of the Republican Party, it remains a financial juggernaut.

RE: #Schiphol #PFAS

The Radio-wave Observations at the Lunar Surface of the photoElectron Sheath (ROLSES) instrument onboard the #IntuitiveMachines-1 Mission to the Moon: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.22600 -> "This paper describes the design and operations of the ROLSES instrument and presents initial observations made during transit and surface operations in February 2024. We also describe next version of this instrument (ROLSES 2) currently under development."

„Habe alles versucht“ - Krankheit zwingt Ski-Routinier zum Karriereende #News #Nachrichten

Nielsen: ~32.6M viewers watched Trump's State of the Union address, not including people who watched via streaming; Fox News led with 9M viewers (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/bu…

32.6 Million Watched Trump’s State of the Union Address, Nielsen Says
The audience was roughly on par with former President Biden’s final State of the Union address in 2024.

Eagles center Cam Jurgens details brutal back injury: 'I don't know how I was playing' https://www.nfl.com/news/eagles-center-cam-jurgens-brutal-back-injury-i-dont-know-how-i-was-playing

After the Republican midterm disappointments of 2022,
Peter Thiel called for a party that could unite “the priest, the general, and the millionaire”
— a formula that reads, with hindsight, as a precise blueprint for Trump’s second administration:
Christian nationalism, military force deployed at home and abroad, and a financial oligarchy powerful enough to steer the state.
By the election of 2024, the gospel of nostalgia and the gospel of progress had concluded a shor…

The Rise of the Digital Oligarchy
AI has pushed society into a period of tumult and confusion. What comes next will determine if humanity remains the author of its own story.

Aug. 12 2024. IIRC I risked my life a bit taking this picture in #Ahmedabad #Gujarat #India. 😅
#photography #amateur #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals throws out a 2024 FTC order barring Intuit from advertising TurboTax products as "free" when many taxpayers are ineligible (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-appeals-c

Bataille des chaînes régionales Š Bienne: TeleBielingue perd sa concession au profit de Canal B
Après une longue lutte commencée en 2024, le Tribunal administratif fédéral a rejeté le recours de TeleBielingue, accordant la concession pour la région Bienne, Jura bernois et Seeland Š Canal B
https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/bataille-des-chaines-regionales-a-bienne-telebielingue-perd-sa-concession-au-profit-de-canal-b

London-based Revolut reports 2025 revenue up 46% YoY to £4.5B, a £1.7B pre-tax profit, up from £1.1B in 2024, and customers up 33%, as it moves to become a bank (Elena Vardon/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/bu…

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVwyC2sEXhq/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

CBS News on Instagram: "The latest lava fountaining episode of an erupting Hawaii volcano reached 1,000 feet high Tuesday, prompting temporary closures at a national park and part of an important highway because of falling glassy volcanic fragments, including ash. Kilauea, on Hawaii’s Big Island, has been dazzling residents and visitors for more than year with an on-and-off eruption that periodically sends fountains of lava soaring into the sky. The fountaining that began Tuesday morning marked the eruption’s 43rd episode since it began in December 2024."
99K likes, 1,454 comments - cbsnews on March 11, 2026: "The latest lava fountaining episode of an erupting Hawaii volcano reached 1,000 feet high Tuesday, prompting temporary closures at a national park and part of an important highway because of falling glassy volcanic fragments, including ash. Kilauea, on Hawaii’s Big Island, has been dazzling residents and visitors for more than year with an on-and-off eruption that periodically sends fountains of lava soaring into the sky. The fountaini…

Dubai, Cartier und Co. - Luxus trotz Insolvenz: „Mini-Benko“ verurteilt #News #Nachrichten

And here the crappy external camera with the low data rate actually delivered: the #ZodiacalLight pyramid at the beginning of the #SolarEclipse for #ArtemisII - it stayed visible in the live feed for 10 minutes! Contrary to the NASA commentary this was not the first time such an observation had been made by humans in the vicinity of the Moon - the Apollo 11 crew made it on 19 July 1969: https://www.facebook.com/dan.fischer.393/posts/pfbid02mf6UK3L2j5SgPiQsJk9JVYmo6XvZwDDZ23BYpXwJPDszaSpUYzuinkMyHzh9RF8Rl -> https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2024/07/25/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-25-juli-2024/#Jul26

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Wu-Lu:
🎵 Daylight Song (6 Music Session, 10 Jul 2024)
#WuLu
https://wu-lu.bandcamp.com/track/daylight-song
https://open.spotify.com/track/45DLA7sPqqGHG9NN3UPbRI