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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
Nielsen: CBS' Grammy broadcast averaged 14.41M viewers, down 6% from 15.4M in 2025 and a 17.09M post-pandemic high in 2024; Disney will broadcast it from 2027 (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/2026-gra…
Every 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
Found an old power bill while cleaning up. In the end of 2018 I was paying 9.05 c/kWh for the first 600 kWh and 10.94 above.
Now it's 15.1 and 17.0.
The rate of increase was very much nonlinear though: from October 2018 to October 2024 (six years) the tier 1 rate only climbed by 27%.
It went up 10.5% in 2024 and 20.7% in 2025 alone.
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.
Toblinger Knoten / Torre di Toblin
(October 2024)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography
Since the topic came up in the whole "I run models locally so it's all fine" conversation:
"Open Source AI" does not meaningfully exist. It's just openwashing proprietary shit
https://tante.cc/2024/10/16/does-open-source-ai-really-exist/…
A nice obituary from December 31, 2024 about my Great Uncle Herman Neufeld (my mom's Uncle).
I never really knew him as I grew up 4000km away... but he had a positive impact on people, especially Jamaican workers, in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
"Herman, who died Dec. 31, became very involved in the Niagara Workers Welcome services and other outreach programs. He considered the farmworkers his friends and neighbours, and treated them as such."
#Friendship #welcome #mennonite
https://www.notllocal.com/local-news/remembering-herman-neufeld-10060084
Der #Bundesverband #Solarwirtschaft warnt vor einer Abschwächung zentraler Reformen und betont die Bedeutung von #Solarenergie für eine bezahlbare Strom- und
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
Nearly $900 Million Flowed in Secret to Help Harris and Trump in 2024 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/us/politics/harris-trump-dark-money-democrats-republicans.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p109#a251217p109
Australian teen first person in world known to have died of meat allergy triggered by tick bite | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/feb/26/teenager-jeremy-webb-died-tick-bite-meat-allergy
The Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupted on Sunday,
sending lava fountains, ash and smoke into the air.
The US Geological Survey said it was the 42nd episode of lava fountains since the current series of intermittent eruptions began in December 2024.
The plume from the latest eruption reached more than 10,000 metres (35,000 feet), according to the National Weather Service
How 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
"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,
📢 Merz mit 91,2 Prozent als CDU-Chef wiedergewählt
Der CDU-Parteitag hat den Parteivorsitzenden Friedrich Merz erneut zum Parteichef gewählt. Er erhielt 91,2 Prozent der gültigen Stimmen. Der Kanzler erzielte damit ein besseres Ergebnis als 2024.
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Source: Benchmark's 2020 fund is now worth 10x and 2024 fund is 3x what investors put in, based on cash distributions and the paper value of its investments (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Dear #Business. Here's a reminder to you who rely on #OpenSource in your software and services.
Your digital infrastructure is cheap because you CAN get it for almost no cost.
How cheap?
Look at the Harvard Business Review study from 2024: The ROI of Open Source is 2000 ×.
…
Pelican is putting out a 12" EP 'Ascending' on January 9 with Flickering Resonance era tracks. The last two had a limited release in 2024, and the title track was left off Flickering Resonance as they felt it was more its own thing. Didn't know if I was gonna like Geoff Rickly's (from Thursday) vocals on the 'vocal version' of 'Cascading Crescent', but it rips: <…
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
“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.”
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:
UCLA study: among the most-watched streaming series in 2024, 80% of lead actors were white and white men accounted for 79% of all show creators, vs. 77% in 2023 (Payton Turkeltaub/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/streaming/news/hollywood-diversi…
Meta 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/
I hate how rapidly Intel EOL's CPUs.
Like, my office workstation has a pair of Skylake-SP's (Xeon Scalable Gold 6144) which were launched in Q3 17 and hit end of support in December 2023. That's only six years.
And Vtune 2024.x is the last version that supports it. I have to pin an old version of VTune to be able to do profiling now.
I know it's getting on in years now, but it's still a pretty decent processor (CPUMark per-core performance competitive wi…
Roast Pork, a few pierogies, Southwestern cabbage salad, this wine, and Freebie and the Bean
#FridayMovieAndDinner
«C’est peut-être un peu surprenant sur le plan de la gestion.» Eh ben, oui.
https://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/2025/article/la-ssr-revient-sur-la-fm-apres-la-decision-du-parlement-de-maintenir-la-bande-2908795…
Das #bpkFotoarchiv der @… erprobt seit 2024 #KI-gestützte Erschließungsmethoden, um seine mehr als 12 Millionen Bildmotive besser zugänglich und nutzbar zu machen.
Ste…
Re-doing a #MusicWomenWednesday from 2024, as the video I'd linked to disappeared and I had to grab a new one.
When I was a kid in the 90s, I had a Wax Trax video compilation on VHS that had this great cover of Patsy Cline's "Walking After Midnight" done by Los Angeles' BRAINDEAD SOUND MACHINE. This was the first way I ever heard this song, and I'm crazy about th…
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
A 400 MW virtual power plant of decentralised energy sources, including rooftop solar panels, home batteries, EV chargers and heat pumps, for Germany. It's not quite the GWs envisaged earlier, but it's still an impressive achievement.
https://www.pv-magazine.de/…
OnePlus 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
The use of backticks in place of possessive apostrophes suggests this statement wasn't checked by a native-english speaker before being put on the website. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/joint-statement-on-the-2nd-anniversary-of-alexei-na…
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
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…
Malwarebytes: a 2024 Instagram data breach exposed information on 17.5 million users, including emails, phone numbers, and physical addresses (Jackson Chen/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/cybersecurity/an-
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…
Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
Google is shutting down its dark web monitoring tool, launched in 2024 to alert users when their personal info is detected on the dark web, on February 16, 2026 (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/12/15/google-dark-web-report-shutting-down/<…
Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1228115 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der
Sources: Waymo is in discussions to raise more than $15B at a valuation near $100B, in a round led by Alphabet; an October 2024 round valued Waymo at above $45B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-16/waymo-se…
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Der Flensburg Krimi - Staffel 1 - #ARD
#crimi #krimi #DonnerstagsKrimi
Sources: Binance has fired its employees in late 2025 who uncovered evidence that Iran received $1B through Binance between March 2024 and August 2025 (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/13/binance-investigators-fired-iran-sanctions-potentia…
Der Flensburg Krimi: Der Fall Lorenz – Der Flensburg-Krimi (3) - #ARD
#krimi #crimi #DonnerstagsKrimi