@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle rejected 1.75M policy-violating Android apps and blocked 80K developer accounts from Google Play in 2025, down from 2.36M apps and 158K accounts in 2024 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/19/google-says-its-ai…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAfter backlash, Microsoft deleted a blog post written in November 2024 that critics said encouraged developers to pirate Harry Potter books to train AI models (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20
@carloshr@lile.clWilliam Patrick Corgan Jr., conocido como Billy Corgam, el frontman y guitarrista de The Smashing Pumpkins, hoy cumple 59 años de edad.
La foto es de su presentación en Fauna Primavera el año 2024.
#BillyCorgan #CumpleañosRockero
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineJährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
@jby@ecoevo.socialAccounting for the effects of year-to-year climate variation on population growth rate can substantially decrease the size of a species' expected geographic range— by an average of 22% in this simulation study with a new method for range modeling
https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.30.621023
@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
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders name Matt Robinson Safeties Coach https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-name-matt-robinson-safeties-coach
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow the US government is adopting AI: NASA reports 420 AI use cases in 2025, up from 18 in 2024, HHS reports 398, Energy 325, DOJ 295, Interior 234, and DHS 205 (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/09/trump-administration-ai-p…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Italian tech holding company Bending Spoons, has developed a reputation for buying tech companies past their peak and aggressively cutting costs.
The firm acquired Evernote in 2022, followed by Meetup and WeTransfer in 2024, and AOL and Eventbrite in 2025.
Layoffs followed many of those deals. In September 2024, just months after being acquired by Bending Spoons, WeTransfer laid off 75% of its staff.
Just months after Bending Spoons bought Vimeo for $1.38 billion last ye…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioPrecedented, but not the same:
If ICE and CBP are basically the reincarnation of the KKK, it’s the KKK with a budget the size of Russia’s entire military.
Literally. In the literal sense of “literally.” The incoming ICE CBP budget is ~$140 billion.[1] Russia’s military budget is ~$145 billion.[2]
(If I’m misreading these numbers, please correct me.)
[1] https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/fy26_homeland_security_conference_bill_summary.pdf
[2] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-hikes-national-defence-spending-by-23-2025-2024-09-30/
12/
@nemobis@mamot.frAjit Niranjan writes about the supposed decoupling in #Romania.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/11/is-romania-blueprint-economic-g…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe US NLRB abandons its 2024 case accusing SpaceX of illegally firing eight engineers and signals it will steer clear of future cases against the company (Josh Eidelson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-09/us-nlrb-…
@StephenRees@mas.tothe BC Greens have reached a turning point.
When we signed the Cooperation and Responsible Government Accord (CARGA) with the BC NDP in 2024, we did so with a clear goal: to use our leverage in the legislature to force action on some of the issues that matter most to you—housing, healthcare, climate, and the cost-of-living crisis.
Today, I am announcing that the BC Greens will not renew that agreement.
@markhburton@mstdn.socialConcerns over "apparent move towards lifting the arms licences to Israel that it suspended in September 2024, and the reported transfer of new F-35 fighter jets from a British air base."
While the killing continues.
‘Frankly shameful’ | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/articl
@colinpurrington@flipping.rocksEarly spring is a great time to set out mosquito-killing buckets around your yard. They work, are cheap, and don't kill other wildlife. #mosquitoes https://colinpurrington.com/2024/08/bti-honeypot-traps/
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialSüdhessen bleibt zum 8. Mal in Folge sicherste Region in Hessen — 43.421 Straftaten, -6,7 % gegenüber 2024. Darmstadt als Großstadt liegt dabei über dem Regionsdurchschnitt, was für Städte typisch ist. Schattenseiten: Angriffe auf Polizisten 28 %, Cybercrime seit 2020 fast verdoppelt. Laut FR. #Darmstadt
@publicvoit@graz.socialI added a quote from the #TechOversightProject:
"The documents provide smoking-gun evidence that #Meta, #Google, #Snap
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social
@adresscomptoir@mastodon.socialDa sage eins, die Politik der BRD-Sozialdemokratie habe keine nachhaltige Wirkung: Der Schriftsteller Ken Merten, dessen in Rojava spielenden Roman "Ich glaube jetzt, dass das die Lösung ist" (XS-Verlag 2024, ISBN 978-3-944503-21-9) ich letztes Jahr sehr gerne gelesen habe, soll auf Grundlage des "Radikalenerlass" von 1972 an der Ausübung seines Brotberufs (Nachwächter in sozialen Einrichtungen) gehindert werden; Grund: Mitgliedschaft in der "DKB" {sic!}:
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland mit …
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- BBC Proms 2024: Mahler's Fifth Symphony
The Hallé family of orchestra and choirs perform James MacMillan’s Timotheus, Bacchus and Cecilia and Mahler’s life-affirming Fifth Symphony. Penny Gore presents.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qb5z
@cdarwin@c.imAfter 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…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Peter Alexander Jobson & Guy Garvey:
🎵 Just 'Cause I'm Dead (6 Music Session, 20 Nov 2024) (feat. Guy Garvey)
#PeterAlexanderJobson #GuyGarvey
@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.socialLa fraude aux allocations représente moins de 30% de l'ensemble de la fraude sociale.
#Belgique #fraudesociale
@gwire@mastodon.socialTelegraph has a story claiming that the UK gas reserves are about to run out:
> “The UK’s gas reserves have shrunk from 18,000 GWh worth last year to 6,700 GWh – enough for just 1.5 days of demand”
And that piece maybe could have used a graph? Based on data.nationalgas.com the difference is between the blue (last year) and green (this year) lines on the rightmost edge of this graph:
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow food delivery is reshaping US mealtimes, as some users spend thousands; NRA data shows nearly 75% of 2024 restaurant orders were not eaten in a restaurant (Priya Krishna/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/d…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSEC complaint: a whistleblower alleges Google broke its ethics rules in 2024 to help an Israeli military contractor use AI to analyze drone surveillance video (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post)
@cdarwin@c.imA good thing the republicans just gerrymandered texas assuming theyd keep the latino voters they picked up in 2024 forever!
https://bsky.app/profile/isilanor.bsky.social/post/3mdrjno2ngs2f
@krone@frawas.deDämpfer bei CO2, aber: - Österreicher fahren immer öfter elektrisch #News #Nachrichten
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Italy, Spain set solar records in March"
#Italy #Spain #SolarPower #Energy
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland mit …
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Lex Amor:
🎵 Beg (6 Music Session, 24 Sep 2024)
#LexAmor
https://lexamor.bandcamp.com/track/beg-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/1IPLicvitfuMtAaAka9XCV
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Lex Amor:
🎵 Beg (6 Music Session, 24 Sep 2024)
#LexAmor
https://lexamor.bandcamp.com/track/beg-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/1IPLicvitfuMtAaAka9XCV
