Tootfinder

UK prosecutors say the ringleader of a 2024 arson attack on Ukraine-linked businesses in London discussed kidnapping Revolut's Russia-born CEO Nikolay Storonsky (Michael Holden/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/r

Dutch public broadcaster Nos quits X, citing the "amount of hateful responses and disinformation" on the site; The Guardian quit in 2024 and NPR in 2023 (Bart Meijer/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

"Dispensing false information in a confident tone, rather than offering no answer when none is readily available, is a major flaw of generative AI, experts say. An audit of the top 10 generative AI model... by the media literacy non-profit NewsGuard revealed that the non-response rates of chatbots went down from 31% in August 2024 to 0% in August 2025. At the same time, the chatbots’ likelihood of repeating false information almost doubled from 18% to 35%"

Großbritannien: Haftstrafen für Brandanschlag mit Russland-Bezug
Wegen ihrer Beteiligung an einem mutmaßlich von Russland aus orchestrierten Brandanschlag in London hat ein britisches Gericht fünf Männer zu langen Haftstrafen verurteilt. Richterin Bobbie Cheema-Grubb verhängte Gefängnisstrafen von sieben bis 17 Jahren.
Die Männer waren laut der Staatsanwaltschaft in ein Komplott verwickelt, bei dem im März 2024 ein Lagerhaus…
📑

Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Russischer Gesandter zu Gesprächen in den USA ++
Der russische Sondergesandte und Präsidentenberater Dmitrijew hält sich zu Gesprächen in den USA auf. In der Ukraine zündet ein Mann bei einer Personenkontrolle in einem Zug einen Sprengsatz. Vier Menschen sterben.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

Sources: Spotify plans to raise US subscription prices in Q1 2026, its first US price rise since July 2024, after increasing prices in other countries this year (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/fb490480-5d9a-495f-8c23-f34149bbcadb

Spotify to raise US prices in first quarter of next year
Increase will come as music-streaming company aims for continued profitability

#TLGBQIA2S

”It’s Time To Reshuffle This Acronym!” - FANE
An open letter to the greater queer community, haphazardly but passionately written by R.T. Ferent: a 40-something, married, gay, cisgender, white man with the absolute best of intentions in his heart. This is dedicated with all of my love to my fearless nephew, Remus, who is so much stronger than I ever was at his

Yea I can’t imagine why anyone thought this dipshit was defending rape…I mean aside from the over half a dozen posts where he defended rape as “not immoral”, literally said “No. In fact, the word "rape"…didn't even exist until the 1800s.” and arguing that being “owned”* wasn’t “horrific”
Complete mystery why people went after him, must be some weird BlueSky thing. 😂
JFC

TIL Insyde is apparently the biggest UEFI firmware vendor now, claiming more than 50% market share as of this year:
https://www.insyde.com/news/press-releases/insyde-software-achieves-record-high-rev…

Insyde® Software Achieves Record-High Revenue in 2024, Optimistic Outlook for Continued Growth in 2025

Leistung der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: #Energiewende

Email: Indian crypto exchange WazirX plans to resume operations on October 24, following a court-approved restructuring, after hackers stole $230M in July 2024 (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/10/2

WazirX Latest News: Users Can Start Trading on Friday After $230M Hack Comes to Close
That was the final step in a process that began after a massive security breach last year froze assets, shuttered withdrawals, and effectively took India’s oldest crypto platform offline.

Kesä 2024 oli Lapissa lämpimämpi kuin koskaan viimeisen 2 000 vuoden aikana #Lappi

Kesä 2024 oli Lapissa lämpimämpi kuin koskaan viimeisen 2 000 vuoden aikana
Lähelle vuoden 2024 kesän keskilämpötilaa on päästy viimeksi vuonna 1937 ja sitä ennen vuonna 34, lähes 2 000 vuotta sitten.

Bears, Patriots, Jaguars clinch playoff berths in stunning first-year coaching turnarounds https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/bears-patriots-jaguars-clinch-playoff-berths-in-stunning-firstyear-coaching-turnarounds

For weeks earlier this year, the Army’s top uniformed lawyer had been raising legal concerns inside the Pentagon about some of the new policies being rolled out dictating how the military can be used and staffed.
In late January, Lt. Gen. Joe Berger, who had taken the top posting in July 2024, was asked for his advice about the legality of using Texas National Guard soldiers for immigration enforcement.
Berger told Army chief of staff Gen. Randy George that he was skeptical and wa…

How the Pentagon sidelined lawyers while testing the legal limits of military action
For weeks earlier this year, the Army’s top uniformed lawyer had been raising legal concerns inside the Pentagon about some of the new policies being rolled out dictating how the military can be used and staffed.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Loeb, Caroline:
🎵 C'est la ouate
#NowPlaying #Loeb #Caroline
https://francescocofano.bandcamp.com/track/caroline-loeb-cest-la-ouate-francesco-cofano-remix-2024
https://open.spotify.com/track/1NzowVFBeKuGBEO3tGY6Jj

The Draghi Dilemma: The Right and the Wrong Way to Undertake GDPR Reform
https://fpf.org/blog/the-draghi-dilemma-the-right-and-the-wrong-way-to-undertake-gdpr-reform/
@…

Scott helpfully reminds us of the differences between technical purity, semantics, and what actually matters to users in the context of — yes, really — paragraphs:
https://www.scottohara.me/blog/2024/08/29/paragraphs.html

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@metacurity/115584342649529214
A district court judge dismissed most of the SEC’s claims in July 2024. SolarWinds and the SEC recently reached a settlement on the remaining charges.
The SEC's lawsuit was flimsy, …

UK filings: Paramount and Comcast invested $1B into European streamer SkyShowtime since 2022; SkyShowtime had a €543.7M operating loss in 2024, down 3% YoY (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/10/paramount-comcast-invest-1b-into-skyshowtime-…

Paramount & Comcast Sink $1B Into Loss-Making Euro Streamer SkyShowtime
Paramount and Comcast have invested at least $1B into SkyShowtime, but their joint-venture European streamer remains firmly in the red.

Regrading eight NFL trades from last year's deadline: Hindsight on Adams to the Jets, Cooper to the Bills https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46654966/regrading-deals-2024-nfl-trade-deadline-davante-adams-marshon-lattimore

Muss nicht in Haft - Pfarrer versuchte Meth zu kochen – aus Liebe … #News #Nachrichten

Kanzlei Liebling Kreuzberg - #ARD
Trailer:
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/kanzlei-liebling-kreuzberg/trailer-kanzlei-liebling-kreuzberg-bewaehrungsprobe/ard/Y3JpZDovL2Rhc2Vyc3RlLmRlL2JveHNldC1rYW56bGVpLWxpZWJsaW5nLWtyZXV6YmVyZy82NmM0NGM3Zi05OTY0LTQ3OWUtOWQ2Mi0xNzJhNzMyZTQ4YjA
Serie: (deel 1, 2)
https://www.ardmediathek.de/serie/bewaehrungsprobe-oder-folge-2/staffel-1/Y3JpZDovL2Rhc2Vyc3RlLmRlL2JveHNldC1rYW56bGVpLWxpZWJsaW5nLWtyZXV6YmVyZw/1
Vanavond deel 2 van deze serie (begon om 20:15 op DasErste)
Deel 1 was in 2024.

DLR untersucht Drohnenvorfälle an deutschen Flughäfen
2024 wurden dem Luftfahrt-Bundesamt 118 Drohnenvorfälle gemeldet. Das DLR hat diese unter anderem auf wirtschaftliche Schäden untersucht.
https://www.

UnifyApps, which lets companies build AI chatbots by connecting SaaS apps and data, raised a $50M Series B led by WestBridge, after a $20M Series A in 2024 (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2025/10…

Exclusive: UnifyApps raises $50M Series B led by WestBridge Capital
Siloed systems of record and data make it harder for enterprises to adopt AI.

Le Monde – L’ONU alerte sur une hausse record de CO₂ en 2024, Š la veille de la COP30
https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2025/10/15/climat-l-onu-alerte-sur-une-hausse-record-de-co-e…

L’ONU alerte sur une hausse record de CO₂ en 2024, à la veille de la COP30
Par rapport à 2023, la concentration moyenne mondiale de dioxyde de carbone a enregistré l’année dernière sa « plus forte hausse depuis le début des mesures modernes en 1957 », a précisé, mercredi, l’Organisation météorologique mondiale dans son 21ᵉ bulletin annuel.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Early
Mark Lanegan:
🎵 One Hundred Days
#MarkLanegan
https://marklanegan.bandcamp.com/track/one-hundred-days-2024-remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/4ZkOFujtamIynWGfo9PdGR

Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz
https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rfutation-des-affirmations.html

Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz - rMdes - a place to write and think freely
En tant que victime, survivant de la dérive sectaire Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC) et défenseur de la justice, des droits des enfants, des droits humains et de la …

Petit rappel utile (je savais que ça existait, mais il y a 48 heures, je me suis demandé comment il fallait faire)
Bookmarklet Š installer.
Lier un fragment de texte dans une page web – Le carnet de Joachim https://fourbi.eu/billet/2024-12-03-lier-un-fr…

Wo kommen wir denn da hin wenn die AfD an die Macht kommt und all ihre Forderungen bereits umgesetzt sind?

With this being the first Raspberry Pi 5 of the cluster, and since those are notorious for running hotter than the Pi 4. Which I did extensive testing on last year: https://blog.wyrihaximus.net/2024/12/building-a-kubernetes-homelab-w…

Here is the link to the #WMO report on rising #CO2 levels - Guardian can't be bothered to link it correctly, as usual.
Carbon dioxide levels increase by record amount to new highs in 2024

Carbon dioxide levels increase by record amount to new highs in 2024

"Amazon Rainforest hits record carbon emissions from 2024 forest fires"
#AmazonRainforest #Trees #Environment

Amazon Rainforest hits record carbon emissions from 2024 forest fires
In 2024, the Amazon Rainforest underwent its most devastating forest fire season in more than two decades. According to a new study by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, the fire-driven forest degradation released an estimated 791 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2024, a sevenfold increase compared with the previous two years. The […]

Our local (Savannah) cops have warned that wearing a costume that obscures identity at the No Kings rally Saturday could lead to arrest under a law originally written to stop the Ku Klux Klan from hiding under their sheets.
GA Code § 16-11-38 (2024)
https://law.justia.com/codes/ge…

Maps Show How Latinos Who Shifted Right in 2024 Snapped Back Left in 2025 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/us/politics/latino-voters-new-jersey.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251115/p53#a251115p53

Hier schrieb die Woche noch jemand, SoliPrepping sei Cringe.
Ihr lebt genau so in der Verdrängung wie der Rest der Gesellschaft.
https://www.tagesschau.de/wissen/klima/wmo-co2-ausstoss-100.html

This is an interesting study in how local conditions skew your perceptions, I'm actually surprised how *low* the numbers are, but I see in Denmark EVs are much higher than the rest of the EU, who also clearly have some catching up to do...
https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115354274303487490
EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu - 👋 Watt’s up, Europe?
 
The numbers of electric vehicles sold in Europe in 2024 are in:
 
⚡ 1.45 million new battery-only EVs registered
📈 32% growth in the total electric fleet
🚗 Nearly 6 million e-vehicles on the road
🔋 13.6% of all new car registrations are electric
 
Europe is accelerating full throttle to a clean future.  
 
Read more: https://link.europa.eu/cNKjkh

Erinnert ihr euch an die Grenzwächter, die in der Aktion "Knobli" im Vorarlberg Schweizer EInkaufstouristen beobachteten, die Hanfsamen und Anbauzubehör kauften?
Sie zogen ihren Strafbefehl wegen Verletzung fremder Gebietshoheit weiter ans Bundesstrafgericht in Bellinzona - und wurden freigesprochen, mit Entschädigung (rechtskräftig).
SK.2024.68 Urteil vom 7. Oktober 2025

China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months.
The rapid adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) saw CO2 emissions from transport fuel drop by 5% year-on-year, while there were also declines from cement and steel production.
While emissions from the power sector were flat year-on-year, a big rise in the chemical industry’s CO2 output offset reductions elsewhere.

Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months - Carbon Brief
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions were unchanged from a year earlier in the third quarter of 2025, extending a flat or falling trend that started in March 2024.

Interessant: #fahrradalltag

Tödliche Fahrradunfälle 2024: Ein lebloser Körper. Die Jacke seiner Frau erkennt er gleich.
Die Zahl der Fahrradtoten steigt, 446 Menschen starben 2024. Wen trifft es? Und wer ist schuld? Wir haben jeden einzelnen Unfall auf den Ort genau recherchiert.

Charles Snowden calls game with fourth-down sack vs. Browns https://www.raiders.com/video/charles-snowden-sack-browns-nfl-thrilling-moments

Two suspected Scattered Spider hackers plead not guilty over Transport for London cyberattack https://therecord.media/transport-for-london-hack-scattered-spider-suspects-plead-not-guilty

https://genxcollectibles.ca/2025/11/10/winnipeg-mega-train-show-2024/

Despite concerns, Labour MPs and other left-wing UK politicians stay active on X; the UK government says it stopped paid ads in 2024, after spending £9M in 2021 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5b0e3ea9-acc9-4dcc-85fe-2273ea8abb86

“How is it possible that a peace proposal ignores the International Court of Justice’s July 2024 Advisory Opinion, which reiterated that Israel’s occupation is illegal and must end?
How can it fail to mention the Palestinian’s right to self-determination?
Why are Palestinians, who have a right under international law to armed struggle against an occupying power, expected to disarm while Israel, the illegally occupying force, is not?”
And many more good questions.

Trump’s Sham Peace Plan
There will be no peace in Gaza. Only the temporary absence of war.

Which Word Orders Facilitate Length Generalization in LMs? An Investigation with GCG-Based Artificial Languages
Nadine El-Naggar, Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Ted Briscoe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12722

Which Word Orders Facilitate Length Generalization in LMs? An Investigation with GCG-Based Artificial Languages
Whether language models (LMs) have inductive biases that favor typologically frequent grammatical properties over rare, implausible ones has been investigated, typically using artificial languages (ALs) (White and Cotterell, 2021; Kuribayashi et al., 2024). In this paper, we extend these works from two perspectives. First, we extend their context-free AL formalization by adopting Generalized Categorial Grammar (GCG) (Wood, 2014), which allows ALs to cover attested but previously overlooked cons…

from my link log —
Experience report: it will never work in theory.
https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/so/2024/03/10424425/1Ulj1Qa8tJ6
saved 2025-11-09

Anrok, which helps software companies automate sales tax compliance, raised a $55M Series C at a $525M valuation, up from $250M after raising $30M in April 2024 (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year
By Diego Delso, CC-BY-SA
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2024/Results/All

Jag gör som @… och skriver under https://www.mittskifte.org/petitions/radda

Det er utroligt så meget "Institute for the Study of War" bliver citeret på TV2. Det er en amerikansk tænketank der beskrives som tilhŸrende "hŸgene", altså dem der hellere ser krig end fred og er iŸvrigt finansieret af amerikanske våbenfakrikanter.

Russiske styrker i strategisk "afvigelse", skriver tænketank

Hvad sker der? Hundredvis af ukrainske familier er blevet tvangsevakueret fra byen Kupiansk i Kharkiv-regionen, som Rusland har rettet en offensiv imod.

The Mall That Could Have Been: What Happened to Our Vision for SF Centre / Westfield Mall
https://www.kultivatelabs.org/blog/the-mall-that-could-have-been-what-happened-to-our-vision-for-sf-centre

> Die großen US-Technologiekonzerne geben in der #EU so viel Geld für #Lobbyarbeit aus wie nie zuvor. Laut einer aktuellen Untersuchung der Organisationen @… und…

#POTUS47 pledged in his 2024 campaign that there'd be no new wars. Anyone with any sense realized this was an empty promise.
Less than a year after taking office, it looks like he's at least posing to go to war with #Venezuela. I don't see anything remotely justifying a US war against…

Not sure if it'll be useful, but looks good 🤔
Too bad I can't add a Share/Download (image) button due to CORS issue (avatar image and header image). Possibly can fallback to just pure solid-color version but doesn't look as pretty 😆
For context, Mastodon Android app has this https://bl…

Revisiting the mental imagery debate: New evidence from aphantasia and neuroimaging https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010945225002539
"Montabes De La Cruz et al. (2024) observed reduced auditory-induced activation in early visual areas in…

🐛 Using nanotechnology to target crop-munching pests and spare beneficial bugs
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-nanotechnology-crop-munching-pests-beneficial.html

Using nanotechnology to target crop-munching pests and spare beneficial bugs
A bane of farmers' existence, it's estimated that plant-eating pests are responsible for the loss of up to 40% of pre-harvest yields globally. But a new generation of crop treatments that target only "bad" bugs could mean big gains for the Canadian agriculture sector, improving pest management tools in an industry that in 2024 generated over $142 billion.

I can't help but wonder if "...democracy-under-threat messaging might not work on voters in places such as the Central Valley. It hearkens back to 2024, when Democrats repeatedly — and unsuccessfully — warned that then-candidate Trump posed a risk to Democracy." is key to Democratic losses.
I have heard too few Democratic messages that clearly offer a meaningful message of how a #DemocraticParty

Will Prop. 50 burst state Dems’ bubble?
Advocates warn messaging that works in places like SF doesn’t cut it elsewhere.

thank goodness we had a peaceful transfer of power
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/11/07/president-biden-rose-garden-speech-trump-election/76108284007/

Biden says 'giving up is unforgivable,' assures peaceful transfer of power after Trump win
President Biden vowed Thursday to ensure a "peaceful transfer of power" following Donald Trump's decisive victory in 2024 election.

Cowboys LB DeMarvion Overshown returns from knee injury to boost D: 'It's only up from here' https://www.nfl.com/news/cowboys-lb-demarvion-overshown-returns-from-knee-injury-to-boost-d-it-s-only-up-from-here<…

"Marine life are thriving on Nazi missile debris in the Baltic Sea: Study"
#Oceans #Environment

Marine life are thriving on Nazi missile debris in the Baltic Sea: Study
As Germany demilitarized after World War II, it dumped massive amounts of its leftover munitions into the Baltic Sea. A recent study has found that some of those submerged weapons, which are still releasing toxic compounds, now host more marine organisms than the sediments around them. In October 2024, researchers used a remotely operated vehicle […]

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.10.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

Defector reports Year 5 revenue up 1% YoY to $4.65M, including $3.8M from subscriptions; all 19 original co-founders continue to work at the worker-owned outlet (Defector)
https://defector.com/defector-annual-report-year-five

Defector Annual Report, September 2024 – August 2025 | Defector
Published on November 19, 2025 Purpose of this report Defector celebrated our fifth birthday in September 2025. It is a great honor, and something of a burden, to be publishing a fifth Annual Report. The year-to-year story of our business is one of general stability—an incredible luxury in digital media—with incremental and hard-won improvements. But…

Alexander Smirnov, the ex–FBI informant who admitted to lying about the Biden-Burisma connection, has been released from prison just months into his six-year prison sentence.
In a plea deal in December 2024, Smirnov admitted to completely fabricating the conspiracy that became central to a Republican effort to impeach then-President Joe Biden.
Days later, the Russian asset pleaded guilty to four felony charges, including one count of obstruction, and was sentenced to six years in …

FBI Informant Who Lied About the Bidens Covertly Released From Jail
Alexander Smirnov pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and was sentenced to six years in jail.

Towards Inference-time Scaling for Continuous Space Reasoning
Minghan Wang, Thuy-Trang Vu, Ehsan Shareghi, Gholamreza Haffari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12167 https://

Towards Inference-time Scaling for Continuous Space Reasoning
Inference-time scaling through multiple sample generation in combination with Process- or Outcome-Reward Model (PRM or ORM) re-ranking has proven effective for text-based reasoning in large language models. This paper investigates whether such established techniques can be successfully adapted to reasoning in the continuous space, using COCONUT (Hao et al. 2024) continuous space reasoning LM as the backbone. We demonstrate the feasibility of generating diverse reasoning paths through dropout-ba…

China installiert 2024 mehr als die Hälfte aller Industrieroboter weltweit
Asien weist 2024 die meisten Roboterneuinstallationen auf. China allein hat sogar den größten Anteil weltweit. In Europa sinkt der Anteil dagegen.

from my link log —
A history of man pages.
https://abochannek.github.io/utilities/2024/12/08/man-pages.html
saved 2025-11-06 https://…

TIL: The Japanese Blind ICT Network (JBICT) runs AT surveys (kind of like WebAIM’s).
#accessibility

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.10.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1153689 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

AI music platform Suno raised $250M led by Menlo Ventures at a $2.45B valuation, up from ~$500M in 2024, and says its annual revenue has reached $200M (Katherine Sayre/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/ai-musi

🍼 Baker and wife Emily expecting baby No. 2 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47013637/baker-mayfield-wife-emily-expecting-second-child-tampa-bay-buccaneers

Atomico: European startups are on track to raise $44B in 2025, up from $41B in 2024; tech now makes up 15% of Europe's GDP, up from 4% in 2016 (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/Sifted)
https://sifted.eu/articles/state-european-tech-report-2025/

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

A look at Tsinghua University, which leads China's AI innovation, with 4,986 AI patents between 2005 and 2024, alumni behind startups like DeepSeek, and more (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

Heather Cox Richardson wrote on July 11, 2024
#Ivan #Raiklin, Trump’s
self-declared 👉“Secretary of Retribution”
has compiled a
💥“Deep State target list” 💥
of 350 people he wants to see arrested and punished for “treason”
The list includes Democratic and Republican elected officials,

July 11, 2024
Yesterday, Raw Story reported that Ivan Raiklin, Trump’s self-declared “Secretary of Retribution” has compiled a “Deep State target list” of 350 people he wants to see arrested and punished for “treason” if Trump is reelected.

Study: among the top 100 Spotify podcasts in the US in 2024, 64% were hosted by men, 77% of hosts were white, and 62.6% of 4K episodes had no woman guests (Adam Chitwood/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/usc-study-podcast-hosts-diversity-men-women-race/

Podcasting's Diversity Problem: 64% of Hosts Are Male, 77% Are White, USC Study Finds
The hosts of the top 100 podcasts of 2024 were overwhelmingly white and male, a new comprehensive study from USC reveals.

Oura raised $900M led by Fidelity at an "approximately" $11B valuation, up from $5.2B after raising $200M in December 2024, and has sold 5.5M smart rings total (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/14/smart-ring-maker-oura-raises-…

Smart ring maker Oura raises $900M from Fidelity | TechCrunch
Oura is raising new funding of $900 million as its valuation reaches nearly $11 billion

How the Broncos quickly overcame the Russell Wilson disaster to become a contender https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46616201/denver-broncos-build-contender-russell-wilson-trade-release-85-million-dead-money

Kalshi raised a $300M Series D at a $5B valuation, expands to 140 countries, and is on track for $50B in annualized trading volume, up from $300M in 2024 (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/business/dealb…

Kalshi, a Fast-Growing Prediction Market, Raises New Funds
The fund-raising round comes as online prediction marketplaces gain mainstream prominence.

Amazon says advertising reaches 315M viewers across its series and films, live sports and events, and free, ad-supported live channels on Prime Video (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/amazon-prime-video-ad-supported-reach-31…

Amazon Prime Video Ad-Supported Reach Hits 315M Monthly Viewers
Amazon says advertising on Prime Video now reaches 315 monthly viewers, up from 200 million in April 2024.

Parrot Analytics: movies made up ~50% of streaming revenue across Netflix, Prime Video, Disney , and WBD in 2024, up from ~27% in 2022, based on engagement data (Alejandro Rojas/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/b…

How Movies Increasingly Drive Streaming Revenue
A Parrot Analytics analysis of thousands of titles across Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, Netflix, and Max finds that movies deliver disproportionately high engagement relative to the volume of content hours they represent.

TSMC reports a 16.9% rise in October sales, the slowest pace since February 2024, highlighting uncertainty over the AI boom's sustainability; TSMC is up 37% YTD (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-…

Lions-Chiefs showdown, surging Jaguars, desperate Bengals lead NFL Week 6 storylines https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6703954/2025/10/12/nfl-week-6-storylines-chiefs-lions-bengals-jaguars/

Amid US public media funding cuts, a look at how the model of private donations can lead to an audience that's older, whiter, and richer than average Americans (Sarah Scire/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/funding-c…

Funding cuts may make public radio more reliant on old, rich, white donors
After years of interviews, research, and writing, Laura Garbes submitted the final draft of her book on public radio in December 2024. By the time Listeners Like Who? Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry published last month, a lot had changed. Following Trump’s election and fede…

2025 wird voraussichtlich eines der drei heißesten Jahre seit Beginn der #Wetteraufzeichnungen.
Der November lag global 1,54 Grad über dem vorindustriellen Niveau und damit über dem Ziel des #PariserAbkommens.
Zwischen 2023 und 2025 könnte erstmals ein Dreijahresze…

Klimawandel: 2025 wohl eines der drei wärmsten Jahre
Ganz so heiß wie das Negativ-Rekordjahr 2024 ist dieses Jahr global noch nicht – aber viel fehlt nicht. Das Klima heizt sich weiter auf. Der November war in Europa ungewöhnlich warm.

Filing: Lime's UK revenue rose 75% YoY to £111.3M in 2024, while its pre-tax profit fell to £1.71M, partly due to a £51.3M "reseller fee" paid to its US parent (Athena Browning/Zag Daily)
https://zagdaily.com/trends/limes-uk-revenue…

Amazon plans to hire 250K workers for the 2025 holiday season, the same as in 2023 and 2024, including full-time and part-time, and will pay $19/hour on average (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Trump Media reports Q3 net sales down 3.8% YoY to $972.9K and a net loss of $55M, up from $19M in Q3 2024; its stock is down 70% from a January high (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

London-based PolyAI, which makes call center AI voice assistants, raised an $86M Series D led by Georgian, Hedosophia, and Khosla, after raising $50M in 2024 (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/12/15/polyai-raises-86m/

PolyAI raises $86M
London-based AI startup PolyAI has raised $86m in a Series D funding round.The funding round in the AI assistant developer for call centres was co-led by existing investors Canadian B2B software investor Georgian, London-based investor Hedosophia and US VC firm Khosla Ventures.Additional investors were NVentures (Nvidia’s VC arm), Sands Capital, Squarepoint Ventures, Citi Ventures, Point72 Ventures and the British Business Bank, which invested £15m ($20.1m). The British Business Bank is also…

Filing: PA Media Group reports 2024 revenue up 3% YoY to £116.3M, its eighth consecutive year of revenue growth, but profit before tax declined by 4% to £8.6M (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_busines…

PA Media Group continues revenue growth for eighth year in a row
PA Media Group has grown its revenue for the eight year in a row, once again marking the highest in its 145-year history.

Investment in subsea cable projects is expected to reach $13B between 2025 and 2027, almost 2x the amount invested between 2022 and 2024, driven by AI buildout (Magdalena Petrova/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/08/big-tech-ai-underwater-cables.html

Underwater cables are a vital piece of the AI buildout and internet — investment is booming
Over 95% of international data and voice traffic travels through subsea telecom cables. Tech giants Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft are investing for AI.

Armis, which helps businesses secure and manage IoT devices, raised $435M at a $6.1B valuation, up from $4.2B after raising a $200M Series D in October 2024 (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/05/armis-raises-435-million-at-6point1-bi…

Armis raises $435 million, valuing cybersecurity startup at $6.1 billion
The cybersecurity startup reaches a $6.1 billion valuation three months after topping $300 million in annual recurring revenues.

Sources: German AI language platform DeepL held initial talks over a US IPO, and may seek an up to $5B valuation; DeepL raised $300M at a $2B valuation in 2024 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-02/google-tran…

ChatGPT was 2025's most downloaded free app in the US iOS App Store, up from No. 4 in 2024, followed by Threads, Google, TikTok, WhatsApp, and Instagram (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/chatgpt-is-apples-most-downloaded…

ChatGPT is Apple's most downloaded app of 2025 in the US | TechCrunch
This is ChatGPT's first year as the No. 1 app on the U.S. App Store by downloads.

A survey of UK adults in 2025: on average, they spend 4.5 hours per day online, up 10 minutes on 2024, and 50% of time is on Google- and Meta-owned services (Ofcom)
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/media-use-and-attitudes/online-h…

Anker paid users of its Eufy security cameras $2 per video of staged or real package and car thefts to train its AI systems from December 2024 to February 2025 (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/04/anke

Anker offered Eufy camera owners $2 per video for AI training | TechCrunch
Hundreds of Eufy customers have donated hundreds of thousands of videos to train the company’s AI systems.

Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan says the startup raised two undisclosed rounds: $55M at a $350M valuation in 2024 and $150M at a $1.2B valuation earlier in 2025 (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/373783/polyma