Tootfinder

An inside look at a Myanmar online scam center that opened in 2024 with 3,500 workers from ~30 countries and closed in November 2025 after rebels captured it (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/world/a

At This Office Park, Scamming the World Was the Business
Times journalists got a rare look inside one of the compounds where the online fraud industry makes its billions. Inspirational slogans (“Keep going”) were just the start.

In an interview with CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil, President Trump criticizes Kamala Harris and says "You wouldn't have a job right now, if she got in" (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/trump-cbs-news-tony-dokoupil-1236682222/

Donald Trump Tells CBS News’ Tony Dokoupil That If Kamala Harris Won In 2024, “You Probably Wouldn’t Have A Job Right Now”
Tony Dokoupil interviewed the president in Detroit.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.03.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

I wrote https://jws.news/2024/hp-z4-g4-workstation/ two years ago about buying an old workstation off eBay to try running local LLM models. It didn't go as well as I had hoped, but between tariffs, hardware shortages, and my own lack of cash, I think that it is going to be another two years before I get to try again.

ITALERI FACTORY VISIT And It Was Awesome! How model plastic are made.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVeTk1P1AG0

ITALERI FACTORY VISIT And It Was Awesome!
In August 2024 I was in Bologna and visited the Italeri Factory and had a tour, the place where scale model kits are made! I had a blast and was allowed to m...

Accounting 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

from my link log —
SIEVE is simpler than LRU.
https://cachemon.github.io/SIEVE-website/blog/2023/12/17/sieve-is-simpler-than-lru/
saved 2024-01-03

E.W. Scripps is expected to make layoffs in the near future as it seeks to grow adjusted earnings by up to $150M over three years; in 2024, it had 5K staff (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/scripps-layoffs-cos…

Scripps Layoffs Loom as Local TV Company Sets Cost-Cutting Plan
E.W. Scripps is expecting to make layoffs in the near future as the company, which operates more than 60 local TV stations in the U.S., has embarked on a plan aimed at boosting adjusted earnings by up to $150 million over the next three years.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- BBC Proms 2024: Beethoven, Bruckner and Tüür
Yunchan Lim makes his Proms debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, performing Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ concerto. Bookending the Prom are Bruckner’s First Symphony and Tüür’s Aditus.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qqxs

This is genuinely important and good news: as I expected, no British jury is going to convict #PalestineAction activists of non-violent protest.
Of course, this is why the UK government is trying to get rid of jury trials, but ...
Will the proscription of Palestine Action as a 'terrorist organisation'(!) also fall?

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.
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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…

US envoys to Israel blocked early warning of 'Apocalyptic Wasteland' in Gaza | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/early-warning-apocalyptic-wasteland-gaza-blocked-by-us-envoys-israel-2026-01-30/ (3:38min video)
Diplomaten van de VS in Israel hielden in januari 2024 ambtsberichten tegen omdat de beschreven omstandigheden om Gaza niet 'gebalanceerd genoeg' waren.
Maar de regering Biden en de Democraten hadden al moeite hoe met Gaza om te gaan.

It's finally Friday, but don't leave for the weekend before checking out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Microsoft bets $10 billion on Japan’s AI buildout and cyber defenses,
--EU pins EC attack on TeamPCP,
--Iowa AG sues UnitedHealth over 2024 attack,
--Residential proxies pose problems for IP reputation systems,
--Him & Hers report Feb. data breach,
--TA416 refocuses efforts back t…

Microsoft bets $10 billion on Japan’s AI buildout and cyber defenses
EU pins EC attack on TeamPCP, Iowa AG sues UnitedHealth over 2024 attack, Residential proxies pose problems for IP reputation systems, Him & Hers report Feb. data breach, TA416 refocuses efforts back to Europe, Former engineer admits to hacking employer in $750k extortion bid, much more

👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„Die #Wärmepumpe ist zu teuer - die Leute kaufen #Gasheizungen

Mythos: „Die Wärmepumpe ist zu teuer - die Leute kaufen Gasheizungen“
Wärmepumpen auf dem Vormarsch: Warum der angebliche Einbruch 2024 in Wahrheit kein Rückgang war – Marktanteil im Faktencheck.

Interesting article on fertility in Ireland
https://www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2026/01/29/the-economic-forces-behind-older-motherhood-and-what-makes-ireland-different/
Since I have the data to h…

A profile of Nscale founder Josh Payne, a former coal miner in Australia who moved to London and started the data center developer in 2024 amid the AI boom (Adam Satariano/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/business/nscale-ai-data-center-boom.html

The Former Coal Miner in the Middle of the A.I. Data Center Boom
Josh Payne, the chief executive of Nscale, raised $2 billion from investors. Sheryl Sandberg, the former Facebook executive, is joining his board.

Stephon Gilmore retires: Ex-Patriots CB, former Defensive Player of the Year last played in 2024

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/stephon-gilmore-retires-patriots/

Some 10,109 doctoral-trained experts in science and related fields left their jobs last year
as Donald Trump dramatically shrank the overall federal workforce.
That exodus was only 3% of the 335,192 federal workers who exited last year
but represents 14% of the total number of Ph.D.s in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) or health fields employed at the end of 2024 as then-President Joe Biden prepared to leave office.
The numbers come from employment da…

"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."

Not surprising at all, but first time I'm seeing an example of reaction diffusion patterns in granite:
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gl3xultyaxwitlx5r5qmlxvq/post/3miqqqfvyzs27

Mineralogical Society of America (@mineralsocamerica.bsky.social)
American Mineralogist: Myrmekite and antiperthite formation in deformed granite: Chemical and crystallographic constraints on formation mechanisms Yueting Song, Thomas A. Griffiths, Shanrong Zhao, and Rainer Abart https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2024-9715

"‘Wrong side of history’: Report ties top polluters to countries blocking fossil fuel phaseout"
#Climate #ClimateChange #FossilFuels

Top polluters controlled by nations that blocked fossil fuel phaseout
Many state-owned fossil fuel firms that emitted the highest levels of pollution in 2024 went on to block a phaseout roadmap at COP30.

"..the climate system is in a pincer grip. First, emissions of planet-warming gases remain stubbornly high, and second, natural carbon sinks are weakening. The result is an accelerating rise in atmospheric concentrations of CO2. 2024 saw the biggest jump ever."
https://e360.yale.edu/features/1.5-deg

Overshoot: The World Is Hitting Point of No Return on Climate
With warming set to pass the critical 1.5-degree limit, scientists are warning that the world is on course to trigger tipping points that would lead to cascading consequences — from the melting of ice sheets to the death of the Amazon rainforest — that could not be reversed.

With record-tying 10 openings, NFL hires zero Black head coaches https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7014495/2026/02/01/nfl-head-coaching-hires-black-coaches/

What is a #platform after all?
In our case it’s a part of the www having one owner and many users usually not affiliated otherwise. The owner being the sole source of rules and execution thereof, covering financial loss or benefit. Usually without a democratic process, but arbitrary, self-invented rules and policing.
They have in common a

Buddhist Anarchism: Theory and Practice | The Anarchist Library
#Buddhism

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/115962508398912420
Wow. The last time I visited the US was 2024, and I guess will be for a while.

Internal documents from 2025: Microsoft expects its annual water consumption to reach 28B liters by 2030, up from 7.9B liters in 2020 and 10.4B liters in 2024 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/technology/microsoft-water-ai-data-centers.htm…

Microsoft Pledged to Save Water. In the A.I. Era, It Expects Water Use to Soar.
Driven by the artificial intelligence frenzy, Microsoft is internally projecting that water use at its data centers will more than double by 2030 from 2020, including in places that face shortages.

Civil war is now a possibility in the US. All thanks to Trump
"We ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is exactly how they start | Claire Finkelstein" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/21/ice-minnesota-trump…

We ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is exactly how they start
Developments in Minnesota closely mirror a scenario explored in a 2024 exercise conducted at the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, which I direct

Plonger dans le dossier de presse sur les affaires OKC qui s'étend de 1997- Š 2025 !
Comment nos sociétés traitent la question des dérives sectaires et la place des enfants mineurs dans ce genre de dérive ?
#PressKit #ChardonsBleus

Dossier Presse 1997-2024
Beaucoup d'articles de presse ont été écris depuis 1997 sur OKC et Robert Spatz, mais malheureusement une partie de ces articles sont derrière des barr ...

Bargeld rocks!
- Inklusion
- (Un)Abhängigkeit vom Stromnetz
- (Un)Abhängigkeit von Visa/Mastercard
Europe is Rediscovering the Virtues of Cash - Slashdot https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/14/1436212/europe-is-rediscovering-the-v…

Amid this news madness, I've thoroughly enjoyed being subscribed to the daily #CarbonBrief. Instead of compulsing the news, I try [and often fail] to focus on the most insightful items in my news feeds. This analysis of the latest UK auction for #WindPower was excellent:

It's What's Inside (2024) - Eight friends with somewhat messy relationships spend a night screwing around with mind swaps (or body swaps). It's cleverly constructed, and it does a lot to help you keep track of who's who, but I still got confused at a few points (mild face blindness doesn't help). It did all make sense on 2nd viewing.
Thrash pointed out that fursuiters can actually do this type of identity swap, but this movie does a few things that does need the mag…

The Linebacker Archetype the Cowboys Have Missed Since 2024 https://insidethestar.com/the-linebacker-archetype-the-cowboys-have-missed-since-2024

Südhessen 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

Des nouvelles concernant l’effondrement de l'échafaudage Š #PrillyMalley. Les parallèles avec Crans-Montana sont choquants: selon le rapport des experts, aucune règle n’était respectée, et la question n'était pas de savoir «si» cela arriverait, mais «quand».

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
microcurrent:
🎵 Argue
#microcurrent
https://microcurrent.bandcamp.com/track/argue-live-at-abf-2024
https://open.spotify.com/track/05TtgMyPseN5HyCmhwsfhL

With record-tying 10 openings, NFL hires zero Black head coaches https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7014495/2026/02/01/nfl-head-coaching-hires-black-coaches/

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Mark Lanegan feat. PJ Harvey:
🎵 Hit The City
#NowPlaying #MarkLanegan #PJHarvey
https://marklanegan.bandcamp.com/track/hit-the-city-2024-remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/3OXX5hy8YPQP9QYgzqaY2f

🔊 #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

Tether says it generated over $10B in net profits in 2025, down from $13B in 2024, and says it holds $193B in assets backing the $186B USDT in circulation (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/387908/tether-rakes-10-bill…

Toblinger Knoten / Torre di Toblin
(October 2024)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

Roast Pork, a few pierogies, Southwestern cabbage salad, this wine, and Freebie and the Bean
#FridayMovieAndDinner

The Spectator reports a pre-tax loss of £6.6M in 2024, up from a loss of £6.9M in 2023; its 15-month sale process cost the weekly news magazine £11.4M (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business…

Spectator made £6.6m loss in year Paul Marshall paid £100m for title
The 15-month sale process of The Spectator resulted in total costs to the weekly news magazine of £11.4m, new accounts show.

Nifty Gateway, the NFT trading platform which had facilitated $300M in sales by mid-2021, enters withdrawal-only mode and plans to shut down on Feb. 23, 2026 (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/01/

One of the oldest NFT trading platform which facilitated over $300 million in sales at its peak shuts down
The platform, which once facilitated over $300 million in sales, had shifted its focus to building onchain creative projects in 2024, but will now close.

Von 2,9 auf 3,6 % - Vergleich zeigt: 2025 brachte satte Teuerungsrunde #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

"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,

IFG-Ablehnung #BMJV: Unterlagen zu #Quickfreeze aus 2024 dürfen nicht beauskunftet werden, denn
"Würden diese Positionen bekannt und die im BMJV und in der Bundesregierung Beteiligten öffentlich an diesen Positionen festgehalten, würde es im weiteren Verlauf der Beratungen erheblich erschwert,…

Cowboys Could Lose Coach to Dolphins After Jeff Hafley Hire https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/steve-shimko-qb-coach-dolphins-jeff-hafley-connection/

Yupp, which raised a $33M seed led by a16z crypto in 2024 for a crowdsourced AI model picker, shuts down, saying it didn't reach strong product-market fit (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/31/yupp-ai-shuts-down-33m-a16z-crypto-chris-…

Yupp shuts down after raising $33M from a16z crypto's Chris Dixon | TechCrunch
Less than a year after launching, with checks from some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, crowdsourced AI model feedback startup Yupp is closing its business, the company said Tuesday.

Vikings fire GM Kwesi Adofo-Mensah: What does the future now hold for J.J. McCarthy, Minnesota's future at QB?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/what-do

Das hat sich fein gezogen, aber es hat sich auch gelohnt. Ich habe den Sammelband am 24.11.24 begonnen und mir die 3 Bücher aufgeteilt. „Entscheidend aber bleibt die bedingungslose Absage des Autors an den Krieg, an die Unmenschlichkeit und an die Mächte des Chaos.“ Aufgezeichnet mit @…

Counterpoint: India smartphone shipments were flat YoY at ~153M; Apple shipped 14M iPhones, raising its share of shipments to a record 9%, up from 7% in 2024 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/appl

Apple iPhone just had its best year in India as the smartphone market stays broadly flat | TechCrunch
Apple shipped a record 14 million iPhones in India in 2025 and gained market share.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 17.02.2026.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

RunPod, an AI app hosting service launched four years ago that raised a $20M seed in May 2024, says it has reached a $120M annual revenue run rate (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/16/ai-cloud-startup-runpod-h…

AI cloud startup Runpod hits $120M in ARR — and it started with a Reddit post   | TechCrunch
Their startup journey is a wild example of how if you build it well and the timing is lucky, they will definitely come.

Second-Year WR Named Cowboys’ Most Underrated Impact Player https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/second-year-wr-named-dallas-cowboys-most-underrated-impact-player

Commanders to release CB Marshon Lattimore, ending failed experiment https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7050478/2026/03/02/commanders-release-marshon-lattimore-nfl/

Spotify plans to raise its Premium subscription by $1 to $12.99/month for subscribers in the US, Estonia, and Latvia, in its first US hike since July 2024 (Molly Schuetz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01…

Sources: Fei-Fei Li's World Labs is in discussions with investors to raise hundreds of millions at a valuation of $5B; World Labs was last valued at $1B in 2024 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum #Energiesparen

Gross, stark und erst noch viel zu grosszügig, das sind die USA und ihre Wirtschaft – wenn es nach dem Präsidenten geht. In Tat und Wahrheit zahlen wir ihre Defizite und all die Rekorde an der Wall Street werden weggefressen vom Wertzerfall des Dollars.
Wer in der Schweiz 100 Franken anlegte, der hat heute 111. Wer dasselbe in den USA tat, hat heute nur gerade 102.
Rechnet man das BIP in Franken, so schrumpfte die US-Wirtschaft im Vergleich zu 2024 um über 9 Prozent.
https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/trump-in-davos-usa-leben-auf-kosten-der-schweiz-682776061961

Luminate's 2025 report: the global music industry hit 5.1T streams, up 9.6% YoY; on-demand US streams hit 1.4T, up 4.6% YoY; Christian/gospel music grew 18.5% (Maria Sherman/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/music-liste

Global music streams hit 5 trillion in 2025
The global music industry hit 5.1 trillion streams in 2025. That’s a new single-year record, up 9.6% from 2024. That’s according to a 2025 Year-End Report from Luminate. They are an industry data and analytics company that provides insight into changing behaviors across music listenership. In the U.S., on-demand audio streams hit 1.4 trillion. That’s a 4.6% increase from last year. But attention is on older music. Less than half all U.S. on-demand audio streams were from tracks released i…

Austin-based Coder, which helps developers build and run code from local devices to the cloud, raised a $90M Series C led by KKR, after raising $35M in 2024 (Julia Hornstein/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclusive-coder-raises-90…

Exclusive: Coder Raises $90 Million Led by KKR
Coder, a startup making software for developers to build and run code from local devices to the cloud, raised $90 million in a Series C funding round led by private equity firm KKR, the company said Wednesday. Qube Research and Technologies, a London-based quantitative investment firm, and Uncork Capital, a seed-stage venture firm, also participated in the round alongside existing investors.

Leistung der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum #Energiesparen

An analysis of 5,290 AI research papers at NeurIPS: 141, or ~3%, had US-China AI lab collaboration, up from 134 in 2024; Llama featured in 106 Chinese papers (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/us-china-collaboration-neurips-papers/

The US and China Are Collaborating More Closely on AI Than You Think
WIRED analyzed more than 5,000 papers from NeurIPS using OpenAI’s Codex to understand the areas where the US and China actually work together on AI research.

Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeicher​n pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Unternehmen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.03.2026.
397 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.
…

Similarweb: Claude's web audience more than doubled in December 2025 compared with December 2024, as many coders spent their holiday breaks on a "Claude bender" (Bradley Olson/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-claude-code-ai-7a46…

Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeicher​n pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Privatpersonen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.03.2026.
397 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.

L'an dernier, les salles de cinéma ont perdu 8% de leur affluence par rapport Š 2024, un chute de 24% en comparaison Š 2019. En effet, c'est la suite de la tendance de diminution depuis 2010.
https://www.letemps.ch/culture/ecrans/les-cinemas-suisses-ont-realise-moins-de-10-millions-d-entrees-en-2025-loin-des-chiffres-d-avant-pandemie

Analysis: the crypto industry has spent $288M on the 2026 US midterms so far, over double the 2024 cycle; crypto PAC Fairshake is the US' fifth most-funded PAC (Molly White/Citation Needed)
https://www.citationneeded.news/crypto-super-pacs-2026-midterms/

Crypto super PACs have hundreds of millions ready to spend on the midterms
With Trump faltering and their policy agenda incomplete, the crypto industry has moved at least $288 million toward the midterms in a desperate bid to keep Republicans in control of Congress

Eine neue Untersuchung zeigt, dass sich weltweit die Zahl der Tage mit hohem #Waldbrandrisiko seit 1979 fast verdreifacht hat.
2023 und 2024 traten über 60 solcher Tage auf. Forschende führen mehr als die Hälfte dieses Anstiegs auf die #Erderwärmung.