@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.”
@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:
@KlausBulle@nfdi.socialDas #bpkFotoarchiv der @… erprobt seit 2024 #KI-gestützte Erschließungsmethoden, um seine mehr als 12 Millionen Bildmotive besser zugänglich und nutzbar zu machen.
Ste…
@jom@social.kontrollapparat.de“Warum soll man sich bei Nachbarschaftsgrillen nicht über Steuergerechtigkeit unterhalten? … Das Steuergeheimnis schützt oft nur die, die keine Steuern bezahlen.“
Anne Brorhilker im Buch: Cum/Ex, Milliarden und Moral #finanzwende
@candide@vis.social
@cdarwin@c.imTexas Democrats taste victory,
then turn on each other
Texas Democrats rejoiced Saturday after they flipped a state Senate seat
in a district that Donald Trump carried in 2024 by 17 percentage points,
hailing it as a burst of momentum for the midterms in the historically red state.
But they received a stark reminder of their own divides days later
when former Democratic congressman #Colin
@benb@osintua.euLithuania says Russian military intelligence ordered 2024 attempted arson at factory supplying Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/17/lithuania-says-russian-military-intelligence.html
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeta say it has frozen its third-party Horizon OS headset program, announced in 2024 with Asus and Lenovo as the first partners to build headsets (Ben Lang/Road to VR)
https://www.roadtovr.com/meta-horizon-os-third-party-headset-cancelled-asus-lenovo/
@pixelcode@social.tchncs.deEvery dictator guilty of crimes against humanity¹ deserves to be arrested and sent directly to The Hague.
What makes the U.S.' arrest of #Maduro problematic is the potentially disproportionate military strike and the lack of an ICC warrant – the one that Argentina had demanded in 2024.² #Venezuela
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialHybe K-pop subsidiary Ador ends the contract of one member of NewJeans and sues her and Ador's former CEO after the group tried to leave the label in 2024 (Jon Blistein/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/ne…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz
@davej@dice.campIn the last, guttering hours of the year, it’s tradition to look back on the last 12 months’ #TTRPG activity and reflect. You can read last year’s summary at https://dice.camp/@davej/113747664699824381…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"If the Scottish Government can’t close Prestwick, Wick or other Scottish airports they own to hostile or illegally operating US military traffic the way it did for Israeli military traffic in 2024 then officials there should do everything in their power to make it as difficult as possible for the US to use those facilities" -- does #ScotGov not now wholly own Prestwick,
@lysander07@sigmoid.socialHave you ever wondered to what extend LLMs are used to support writing of scientific publications? Here is a chart indicating the fraction of LLM-modified sentences in scientific publications over time.
c.f. Liang et al, Mapping the Increasing Use of LLMs in Scientific Papers (2024)
https://arxiv.org/html/2404.01268v1
@jake4480@c.imMore rough, rowdy, noisy hardcore punk rock I've been playing a lot of lately (because one can never have enough) - it's WHO PAYS from Brooklyn and their ripping 2024 tape from last year, 'The Final Meal':
https://whopays.bandcamp.com/album/the-final-meal
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@mia@hcommons.socialEvaluating the multiplatform museum in an age of automation | by Indigo Holcombe-James | ACMI LABS (from 2024 - how are these questions shaping up in 2026?)
https://labs.acmi.net.au/evaluating-the-multiplatform-museum-in-an-age-of-a…
@mpsgoettingen@academiccloud.socialA „magnetic avalanche“ on the #Sun! At the end of 2024, ESA’s #SolarOrbiter was lucky to witness a strong solar #flare – and observed the events leading up to this firework with unpreceden…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOnePlus 15R review: the new $700 device is fast with a big battery and a vibrant 165Hz OLED, but one less camera than 2024's 13R and only four years of support (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphone
@cdarwin@c.imAfter courting coal miners during his campaign,
Trump has left a trail of broken promises.
Many miners in Appalachia thought they would finally see a commitment to solving the issue of black lung.
Last year, on April 18, 2024, the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) issued its final rule,
"Lowering Miners’ Exposure to Respirable Crystalline Silica and Improving Respiratory Protection",
which aimed to reduce miners’ exposure to an airborne co…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialLuminate 2025 report: the global music industry hit 5.1T streams, up 9.6% YoY and a single-year record; AI artist Xania Monet had 125M on-demand audio streams (Maria Sherman/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/music-listen…
@newsie@darktundra.xyzFCC spikes Biden-era cyber regulations prompted by Salt Typhoon telecom breaches https://therecord.media/fcc-removes-biden-era-cybersecurity-rules-telecoms-salt-typhoon
@cdarwin@c.imVideo shared by the USGS on social media shows mud spraying up and out from the murky hot spring just before 9.23am local time in Biscuit Basin.
Black Diamond Pool lies about midway between the famous Old Faithful geyser and Grand Prismatic Spring, the park’s largest spring.
A hydrothermal explosion at Black Diamond in July 2024 sent rocks and mud flying hundreds of feet high and damaged a boardwalk used by visitors, prompting the closure of the area
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSouth Korea, the EU, the UK, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and others aim to build "sovereign AI"; Gartner expects $1.5T in AI spending in 2025, up 50% from 2024 (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.
@vosje62@mastodon.nl/2
Der Flensburg Krimi - Staffel 1 - #ARD
#crimi #krimi #DonnerstagsKrimi
@vosje62@mastodon.nlDer Flensburg Krimi: Der Fall Lorenz – Der Flensburg-Krimi (3) - #ARD
#krimi #crimi #DonnerstagsKrimi
