Tootfinder

Deploying U.S. marines to Chicago isn’t just stupid and illegal.
20 years later, the Marine Corps can still learn from Fallujah https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2024/11/07/20-years-later…

20 years later, the Marine Corps can still learn from Fallujah
History provides lessons for the next urban fight, but it may be much worse.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says the company expects to earn close to $15B in profit in 2025, up from around $13B in 2024 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-24/stablecoin-leader-tether-expect…

If you are planning anything in Denmark that is more long term than about 5 years, then you should definitely be using the Climate Atlas to check your climate adaptation impacts...
I wrote about it last year:
http://sternaparadisaea.net/2024/09/06/a-climate-atlas-is-discovered/
#NCKF25

Automattic files counterclaims against WP Engine's October 2024 lawsuit and alleges that WP Engine has been abusing the WordPress trademark (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/24/automa…

Automattic files counterclaims against WP Engine in WordPress lawsuit, alleging trademark misuse | TechCrunch
Automattic has filed counterclaims against WP Engine, alleging that the company — backed by private equity firm Silver Lake — misused WordPress and WooCommerce trademarks, misled users, and undermined the open source community.

I currently read “It can’t happen here” by Sinclair Lewis from 1935. It's about fictive events in the US in 1936: an election won by a senator turned dictator. It reads like a description of the US 2024/2025, except dear leader is Democrat, not Republican. I'm on page 90 (just finished chapter 11), almost 300 more to read, it really is hard!
As the Trump playbook follows Project 2025, are we completely sure that this is NOT just a rewrite of Lewis' novel?

Intel reports Q3 revenue up 3% YoY to $13.7B, vs. $13.2B est., and net income of $4.1B, vs. a net loss of $16.6B in Q3 2024; INTC jumps 5% after hours (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/23/intel-intc-earnings-report-q3-2025-.html

Intel beats on sales in first earnings report since U.S. government became top shareholder
Intel reported third-quarter results on Thursday in which sales beat analyst estimates, signaling that demand for its core x86 processors for PCs has recovered.

Trotz rückläufiger verbrannter Fläche stiegen die CO₂-Emissionen durch #Waldbrände 2024/25 auf über 8 Milliarden Tonnen – rund 10 % mehr als im langjährigen Schnitt.
Ursache sind vermehrte #Brände in kohlenstoffreichen

Global wildfires burned an area of land larger than India in 2024 - Carbon Brief
“Extreme” wildfires emitted more than 8bn tonnes of carbon dioxide during the 2024-25 “global fire season”, according to a new report.

There have been 1,295 cases of pertussis, also called whooping cough, in Florida, an 81 percent surge compared to the entirety of 2024. 
And nationwide, cases rose six-fold in 2024 compared to the year before, CDC figures show, a sign of waning immunity against a disease that once struck hundreds of thousands. 
#MakeAmericaHealthyAgain

Cases of Victorian-era whooping cough soar in Florida amid plummeting vaccine rates
Cases of a Victorian-era disease have soared in Florida over the past year amid state Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo's declaration to end all vaccine mandates for children.

Explore New Skills and Hobbies For Personal and Professional Growth #creativity #inspiration https://

Explore New Skills and Hobbies For Personal and Professional Growth
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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

Voting is under way in Georgia for two seats on the utilities regulatory commission. Current GOP members are totally in the pocket of the entities they're supposed to be regulating.
https://energyandpolicy.org/georgia-psc-in…

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…

Behind the scenes talk about how the English-language webcast of Japan's #SLIM landing on the Moon went: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxe3owbJr38#t=1h10m26s (from 1 hour 10 minutes 26 seconds) - see also https://cosmos.isas.jaxa.jp/landing-on-the-moon-behind-the-scenes-of-the-night-when-slim-made-history/ for a related article and https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2024/01/17/slim-vor-mond-landung-peregine-vor-erd-crash/ (from "Japans SLIM – mit zwei Extra-Vehikeln – vor der Mondlandung" in chronological order) for my live coverage back then, based on the JAXA webcast and direct reception of radio signals from the lander by radio amateurs with a 20 meter dish in my home town.

WATCH: Bears DC Dennis Allen gives fiery speech after win over Saints, the team that fired him in 2024

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/watch-b

Cowboys Trade Prediction Lands Them $36 Million Linebacker https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/logan-wilson-trade-prediction-bengals/?adt_ei=[email]

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #AmyLamé
Nilüfer Yanya:
🎵 Like I Say (I Runaway) (6 Music Session, 18 Sep 2024)
#NilüferYanya
https://niluferyanya.bandcamp.com/track/like-i-say-i-runaway
https://open.spotify.com/track/7f57Tz3uydJkSuVsQ7sj4l

OGH-Entscheidung: - Todesschuss in Kärntner Kaserne war ein Mord! #News #Nachrichten

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.

Die weltweite #Waldzerstörung nimmt weiter zu: 2024 gingen 8,3 Millionen Hektar verloren – deutlich mehr als im Vorjahr.
Besonders betroffen sind #Tropenwälder, oft durch gezielt gelegte #Brände

Waldzerstörung schreitet immer schneller voran
Eigentlich will die Staatengemeinschaft die Zerstörung des Waldes stoppen. Doch der Trend zeigt in die entgegengesetzte Richtung.

Pricempire: after Valve updated the exchange rate of Counter-Strike digital items, the market fell by $1.75B, or 25%, on October 23; in 2024, a gun sold for $1M (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

U.S. law already makes clear that America cannot and will not recognize Russia’s land grabs.
2024 Omnibus Bill, Section 7047 (extended into 2025 CR): Prohibits funding for any action recognizing Russian claims over Crimea or other occupied territory.
2019 NDAA, Section 1241 (reaffirmed annually, most recently in the 2025 NDAA, Section 1303): Bars any Defense Department funds from supporting recognition of Russian sovereignty over Crimea. 1/2

Institutional Research Computing Capabilities in Australia: 2024
Slava Kitaeff, Luc Betbeder-Matibet, Jake Carroll, Stephen Giugni, David Abramson, John Zaitseff, Sarah Walters, David Powell, Chris Bording, Trung Nguyen, Angus Macoustra, Fabien Voisin, Bowen Chen, Jarrod Hurley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17351

Institutional Research Computing Capabilities in Australia: 2024
Institutional research computing infrastructure plays a vital role in Australia's research ecosystem, complementing and extending national facilities. This paper analyses research computing capabilities across Australian universities and organisations, showing how institutional systems support research excellence through local compute resources, specialised hardware, and cluster solutions. Our study finds that nearly 112,258 CPU cores and 2,241 GPUs serve over 6,000 researchers as essential bri…

Roadblocks and Opportunities in Quantum Algorithms -- Insights from the National Quantum Initiative Joint Algorithms Workshop, May 20--22, 2024
Eliot Kapit, Peter Love, Jeffrey Larson, Andrew Sornborger, Eleanor Crane, Alexander Schuckert, Teague Tomesh, Frederic Chong, Sabre Kais
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13973

Roadblocks and Opportunities in Quantum Algorithms -- Insights from the National Quantum Initiative Joint Algorithms Workshop, May 20--22, 2024
The National Quantum Initiative Joint Algorithms Workshop brought together researchers across academia, national laboratories, and industry to assess the current landscape of quantum algorithms and discuss roadblocks to progress. The workshop featured discussions on emerging algorithmic techniques, resource constraints in near-term hardware, and opportunities for co-design across software and systems. Presented here are seven topics from the workshop, each highlighting a critical challenge or p…

Something for the #beer nerds this morning.
In March 2024 (on #Orval Day), we got 8 people together to taste my 14-year vertical collection of Orval, and I made everyone take notes. (I have 16 years collected, today.)
I've finally compiled those notes into a web site, and this is now maybe the biggest …

Digging My Way Out
#NowPlaying #OriginalMusic #MusicVideo

Digging My Way Out #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Democracy on the March... into the abyss...
In today's news, a rather small fish in the world of voting systems swallows a whale.
This reporter wonders: Who provided the funding for this acquisition?
"Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official"
htt…

Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official
Dominion is one of the biggest election equipment providers and was used by 27 states during the 2024 election.

(2024) Visual neuroprostheses for impaired human nervous system: State-of-the-art and future outlook #BCI

Beneath the Mask: Can Contribution Data Unveil Malicious Personas in Open-Source Projects?
Ruby Nealon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13453 https://arxiv.org/p…

Beneath the Mask: Can Contribution Data Unveil Malicious Personas in Open-Source Projects?
In February 2024, after building trust over two years with project maintainers by making a significant volume of legitimate contributions, GitHub user "JiaT75" self-merged a version of the XZ Utils project containing a highly sophisticated, well-disguised backdoor targeting sshd processes running on systems with the backdoored package installed. A month later, this package began to be distributed with popular Linux distributions until a Microsoft employee discovered the backdoor while investiga…

Suomessa kuoli yli 150 000 eläintä eläinkokeiden takia vuonna 2024 https://animaliamedia.fi/suomessa-kuoli-yli-150-000-elainta-elainkokeiden-takia-vuonna-2024/

Suomessa kuoli yli 150 000 eläintä eläinkokeiden takia vuonna 2024 | Animalia-media
Suomen yleisin koe-eläin on hiiri, joita on lähes puolet koe-eläimistä. Toiseksi eniten koe-eläiminä käytetään erilaisia kaloja.

RIVM update rioolwaarden en percentage positief Sars-Cov-2.
Ik begin vandaag met het percentage positief, omdat dat opnieuw fors gestegen is en inmiddels vrijwel even hoog is als de top van de herfstgolf in 2024.
Vorige week 1,27%, nu 1,53%.
#qp2t

Sources: Flipkart is investing $30M in its fintech unit Supermoney, after a $20M 2024 spin-off round; Supermoney disbursed $700M in loans via lending partners (Alex Gabriel Simon/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Italian chicken dishes, this wine, and The Naked Gun 2025
31st Anniversary was Wednesday
#FridayNightDateNight #wine #TheNakedGun

Orbital
Samantha Harvey
A single day in space. A quasi-journal from six character perspectives. Enjoyed the details about space: sleeping, cleaning, noise, routines, huge weather events...
Not sure I'm remember it in x amount of time.
#TheBookerPrize 2024
#SamanthaHarvey

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

Exordia (2024) by Seth Dickinson is a fun romp on trolley problems if your idea of fun includes "nuke Kurdistan or else we nuke the world". Obama is president, and an alien appears in Central Park to drag some broken people into a battle over an artifact that can change the universe. These aliens have actual Original Sin, and visibly so. Humans freak out at the alien wrongness, a metaphysical brand that shows the entire alien race is doomed from birth to go to a literal hell when t…

The Value of Finance Journals
Douglas Cumming
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14301 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14301

The Value of Finance Journals
I present data from SCImago, 1999-2024, on factors that affect the valuation of finance journals. The SCImago data show some interesting facts; for example, in 2024, Finance Research Letters, valued at \$16.5 million, was four times more valuable than the Journal of Financial Economics (\$4.1m), five times more valuable than the Review of Financial Studies (\$3.3m), and over seven times more valuable than the Journal of Finance (\$2.3m). The data show that quality, as proxied by citations, posi…

Bryce Young injury: Panthers QB (ankle) ruled out vs. Jets as Andy Dalton steps in

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bryce-young-injury-panthers-qb-an…

Strong spectral stabilities for $C_{2k 1}$-free graphs
Lantao Zou, Yongtao Li, Yuejian Peng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13643 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.136…

Strong spectral stabilities for $C_{2k+1}$-free graphs
A stability result due to Ren, Wang, Wang and Yang [SIAM J. Discrete Math. 38 (2024)] shows that if $3\le r \le 2k$ and $n\ge 318 (r-2)^2k$, and $G$ is a $C_{2k+1}$-free graph on $n$ vertices with $e(G)\ge \lfloor {(n-r+1)^2}/{4}\rfloor +{r \choose 2}$, then $G$ can be made bipartite by deleting at most $r-2$ vertices. Using a different method, we give a linear bound on $n$ in terms of $k$ and show a stronger structural result, which roughly says that $G$ can be obtained from a large bipartite …

Die #Energiewende ist auch eine soziale Frage. Wirtschaftsministerin #Reiche weiß das natürlich und sorgt aus reiner Ideologie und Klientelpolitik dafür, dass ohne Not Energie für alle teurer wird.
Würde man stattdessen noch für ein paar Jahre in den Ausbau erneuerbarer Energien investier…

If you're using #ForgeJo and are experiencing the error
`fatal: the remote end hung up unexpectedly` when doing "git push", the problem is the client buffer size for HTTP pushes. In my case I have just fixed it by doing the following:
`$ git config http.postBuffer 157286400`
I've found the solution here:

What Makes A Happy New Year? Digging My Way Out #instrumental #music https://muz4now.com/2024/what-makes-a-

What Makes A Happy New Year? Digging My Way Out
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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

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…

ResPlan: A Large-Scale Vector-Graph Dataset of 17,000 Residential Floor Plans
Mohamed Abouagour, Eleftherios Garyfallidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14006 https://

ResPlan: A Large-Scale Vector-Graph Dataset of 17,000 Residential Floor Plans
We introduce ResPlan, a large-scale dataset of 17,000 detailed, structurally rich, and realistic residential floor plans, created to advance spatial AI research. Each plan includes precise annotations of architectural elements (walls, doors, windows, balconies) and functional spaces (such as kitchens, bedrooms, and bathrooms). ResPlan addresses key limitations of existing datasets such as RPLAN (Wu et al., 2019) and MSD (van Engelenburg et al., 2024) by offering enhanced visual fidelity and gre…

An introduction to representations of p-adic groups
Jessica Fintzen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08692 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08692

An introduction to representations of p-adic groups
An explicit understanding of the (category of all smooth, complex) representations of p-adic groups provides an important tool not just within representation theory. It also has applications to number theory and other areas, and, in particular, it enables progress on various different forms of the Langlands program. In this write-up of the author's ECM 2024 colloquium-style talk, we will introduce p-adic groups and explain how the category of representations of p-adic groups decomposes into sub…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #JazzTheatre
Eddie Palmieri:
🎵 Comparsa de los locos
#EddiePalmieri
https://fania.bandcamp.com/track/comparsa-de-los-locos-remastered-2024-1
https://open.spotify.com/track/3rZ5GjrObnRNsDxC2zrFMx

Stable magnetic fields and changing starspots on Vega -- An ultra-deep decadal survey at Pic du Midi and OHP
T. B\"ohm, M. Holschneider, P. Petit, F. Ligni\`eres, F. Paletou, C. P. Folsom, M. Rainer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13348

Stable magnetic fields and changing starspots on Vega -- An ultra-deep decadal survey at Pic du Midi and OHP
Monitoring magnetic and activity variations in A- and B-type stars with ultra-weak magnetic fields is essential to understand the origin and evolution of these fields in this region of the HR diagram, with Vega standing as the prototype of this category. We collected high-resolution spectroscopic and spectropolarimetric data with SOPHIE (OHP, 2018) and with NARVAL/NEO-NARVAL (TBL, 2018, 2023, and 2024), yielding a total of 13108 individual spectra. Magnetic field maps were reconstructed using t…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 15.10.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum

Electrification is still marginal in the Netherlands. Dutch electricity consumption in the first half of 2025 was almost exactly the same as a decade ago, in the first half of 2015 ( 0.3%).
Efficiency gains compensated for the modest shares of electric cars and heat pumps that did enter the scene.
Source:

Meer elektriciteit uit fossiele bronnen
Nederland produceerde in het eerste halfjaar van 2025 64 miljard kWh elektriciteit. Dit is 7 procent meer dan in het eerste halfjaar van 2024. Met name de productie uit fossiele bronnen steeg, vooral uit kolen. De productie uit hernieuwbare bronnen was lager, vooral uit windenergie. De productie uit zonne-energie piekte in het tweede kwartaal. Het verbruik van elektriciteit bleef gelijk. Dit meldt het Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (CBS) op basis van voorlopige cijfers.

Indian digital payments giant PhonePe confidentially files for an IPO in India, seeking to raise $1.5B, sources say at a valuation of $15B (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/startup…

PhonePe files draft prospectus for $1.5 billion IPO with Sebi through confidential route
PhonePe, supported by Walmart, has confidentially filed its DRHP with SEBI. The digital payments platform reduced its net loss by 13.4% to Rs 1,727.4 crore in 2024-25, driven by a 40.4% surge in operating revenue to Rs 7,114.8 crore. Despite diversification into financial services, payments remain PhonePe's core business.

RSF says Chinese journalist Zhang Zhan, jailed from 2020 to 2024, has been sentenced to four more years on a charge of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-c…

Polymarket and Kalshi surpassed $2B in notional trading volume in the week ending Oct. 19, exceeding the previous peak during the 2024 US presidential election (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

"Trevor Milton and his wife donated $1.8 million to Trump in 2024"
Trump Pardoned Him. Now He Won't Have to Pay Back $660 Million
https://gizmodo.com/trump-pardoned-him-now-he-wont-have-to-pay-back-660-million-2000661542

No Words – #NoWords https://muz4now.com/2024/no-words-nowords/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=mu…

No Words - #NoWords
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

The PhD Prize at the #ag2025goerlitz meeting went to Jonah Wagenveld and a current cosmology mystery - described in ample detail in the paper Wideband continuum catalogues and a measurement of the cosmic radio dipole: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/10/aa50291-24/aa50291-24.html

Apple's Vision Pro with the M5 chip is assembled in Vietnam, according to labels on its packaging; the M2-based model, launched in 2024, was built in China (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-21/app…

Visual context affects the perceived timing of tactile sensations elicited through intra-cortical microstimulation: a case study of two participants https://journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/jn.00518.2024

#Steckersolargeräte, auch bekannt als #Balkonkraftwerke, gewinnen in #Deutschland weiter an Bedeutung.
Laut einer aktuellen Analyse erzeugten sie 2024 rund 1,7 TWh

Steckersolargeräte gewinnen zunehmend an Bedeutung
Steckersolargeräte, umgangssprachlich Balkonkraftwerke, werden immer beliebter. Durch sie kann man vergleichsweise preiswert und leicht Solarstrom erzeugen und selber nutzen. In einer aktuellen Studie wurde untersucht, wie hoch das Marktvolumen dieser Anlagen tatsächlich ist, wie viel Strom bereitgestellt wird und in welchem Umfang dieser PV-Strom selbst verbraucht oder ins Netz eingespeist wird.

Lagos-founded payments startup Moniepoint raised $90M at a $1B valuation, after raising $110M in October 2024, and says it processes $250B yearly transactions (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-21/visa-…

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…

LAT Media Group reports a net loss before taxes of $48.1M in 2024, up from $30M in 2023, with a $21.5M loss in H1 2025; 50% of revenue still came from print (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-america/los…

Los Angeles Times reveals $50m loss as it seeks $500m investment
The Los Angeles Times Media Group made a loss of almost $50m (£37m) in 2024, according to newly-published unaudited accounts.

UK filings: TikTok's revenue in the UK, Europe, and Latin America grew 38% YoY to $6.3B in 2024, up from $2.6B in 2022 (Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2025/08/22/tiktok-booms-in-europe-despite-threat-of-us-ban/…

TikTok Booms In Europe Despite Threat Of U.S. Ban
Revenue from Chinese giant ByteDance’s short video app leapt up 38% to $6.3 billion last year in Europe even as it faces the threat of being banned in the United States.

Zwischen 2018 und 2024 starben in #Berlin jährlich durchschnittlich 205 Menschen infolge von #Hitze.
In diesem Zeitraum wurden im Schnitt 21 sogenannte #Hitzetage pro Jahr gezählt, an denen die Tem…

Hitzeschutz Berlin - Berlin.de

Trey Hendrickson trade rumors: Breaking down whether 2024 NFL sack leader will play for Bengals in Week 1

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/trey-he

FieldAI, which is developing robot "brains", raised $405M at a $2B post-money valuation from Nvidia and others; FieldAI raised an initial $91M in late 2024 (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/20/fieldai-raises-over-400-million-to-…

FieldAI raises over $400 million to make robot "brains"
Investors include funds affiliated with Jeff Bezos and NVIDIA.

Healing Vibe - happy inspirations of all sorts
#inspiration #marimba
https://muz4now.com/2024/he…

Healing Vibe - happy inspirations of all sorts
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

YouTube's creative ecosystem added over €7B to the EU's GDP in 2024 and supported 200K full-time equivalent jobs, according to advising firm Oxford Economics (David Wheeldon/YouTube Official Blog)
https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/2025-youtube-europe-impact-…

New report explores YouTube's growing impact in Europe
YouTube’s creative ecosystem added over €7B to the EU’s GDP in 2024, while supporting over 200,000 jobs.

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.10.2025.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum #Energiesparen

Sources: smart ring maker Oura is raising an $875M Series E at a $10.9B valuation, up from $5B in November 2024, and has sold ~3M rings over the past year (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-22/oura-ri…

Oura Ring Maker to Become $11 Billion Company with Latest Raise
Oura Health Oy, the maker of the popular Oura health and fitness ring, is closing in on a roughly $11 billion valuation after selling about 3 million rings over the past year.

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

There's Nothing Fluffy About This Audio
#inspiration #Sounds4MusicMaking
https://muz4no…

There's Nothing Fluffy About This Audio
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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

Newsmax reports Q2 revenue of $46.4M, up 18.4% YoY, a net loss of $75.2M, compared with a $4.8M loss in Q2 2024, primarily due to settlement costs with Dominion (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/08/newsmax-q2-2025-earnings-report/

Newsmax revenue climbs to $46 million during Q2
August 19, 2025 - The company renewed its carriage deal with Comcast, inked a new talent agreement with Greta van Susteren and expanded its reach on Hulu with Live TV.

2024 starben 446 Menschen bei #Fahrradunfällen in Deutschland – über acht pro Woche.
Die Gründe reichen von Unachtsamkeit bis zu Verkehrsverstößen. Manche wurden Opfer von #Straftaten, andere verunglückten durch eigenes Fehlverhalten oder unglückliche Umstände. Eine umfassende …

Tödliche Fahrradunfälle 2024 • Z+ Empfehlung: 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.

Sources: Suno is in talks to raise $100M at a $2B valuation, quadrupling its previous valuation; it raised $125M in 2024 and is generating $100M in ARR (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-17/ai-musi…

Healing Harp - plucking the strings of my heart https://muz4now.com/2024/healing-harp-plucking-the-strings-of-my-heart/

Healing Harp - plucking the strings of my heart
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

State of the Climate in 2024 ist erschienen.
2024 war das wärmste Jahr seit Beginn der Aufzeichnungen. Die #CO2-Konzentration stieg auf 422,8 ppm – 52 % über dem vorindustriellen Niveau.
Extreme #Wetterlagen nahmen zu: schwere Überschwemmungen in

State of the Climate in 2024
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Have A Plan - 10 Tips for Boosting Productivity https://muz4now.com/2024/have-a-plan-10-tips-for-boosting-productivity/

Have A Plan - 10 Tips for Boosting Productivity
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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.

Mexico-based fintech Plata, approved for a banking license in December 2024, raised $250M at a $3.1B valuation, as it seeks to transition to a full-fledged bank (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-16/mexico…

Sources: Revolut is nearing the completion of a $3B fundraising round that values the company at $75B, up from $45B in a 2024 secondary share sale (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-17/revolut-backers-near-en…

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

Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten ersetzt, Sonderregelungen nach Solarpaket berücksichtigt.
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Broadcom closes up 9.88% following the announcement of its custom chip deal with OpenAI; its stock is up over 50% in 2025 after more than doubling in 2024 (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/openai-partners-with-bro…

Broadcom stock pops 7% on OpenAI custom chip deal, adding to Nvidia and AMD agreements
OpenAI is teaming up with Broadcom to jointly develop and deploy 10 gigawatts of custom AI accelerators starting in 2026.

China says Xiaomi will issue a software update for 115K SU7 EVs to fix assisted driving safety issues, its second recall-related fix since the 2024 launch (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/chinas-xiaomi-f…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in Deutschland. Stand: 09.08.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erste Versuche einer #Datenanalyse. 😁 Hinweise gerne. Wü…

Tencent is investing in shooting games, traditionally dominated by Western companies, after the 2024 success of Delta Force, which still has 30M players daily (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-12/tencen…

Next Generation
#HardRock #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2024/next-generation-nowp…

Next Generation #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Sources: crypto investor Roger Ver, aka "Bitcoin Jesus", has reached a tentative agreement with the US DOJ to pay ~$48M to end a 2024 criminal tax fraud case (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/technology/roger-ver-bitcoi…

Crypto Investor Known as ‘Bitcoin Jesus’ Reaches Deal With Prosecutors
In the Trump administration’s latest example of dialing back cryptocurrency enforcement, Roger Ver agreed to pay about $48 million to end a tax fraud case.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 04.10.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum

YouTube's creative ecosystem added over €7B to the EU's GDP in 2024 and supported 200K full-time equivalent jobs, according to advising firm Oxford Economics (David Wheeldon/YouTube Official Blog)
https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/2025-youtube-europe-impact-…

New report explores YouTube's growing impact in Europe
YouTube’s creative ecosystem added over €7B to the EU’s GDP in 2024, while supporting over 200,000 jobs.

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

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…

TechInsights: Huawei used components from TSMC, Samsung, and SK Hynix in some of its Ascend 910C chips; TSMC says the analyzed dies were made before Oct. 2024 (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

How Google, Meta, and Apple's pledges to spend billions on new Silicon Valley housing failed to meet expectations; Apple spent $1.6B by July 2024, the most (Nicole Friedman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/tech-compa…

ASML names Marco Pieters as its new CTO, replacing Martin van den Brink who left in 2024; Pieters was most recently EVP of ASML's Applications business (Sarah Jacob/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-1…

Sources: Chinese officials have urged the Trump administration to relax HBM chip export controls during trade talks, after the Biden administration ban in 2024 (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/19442dba-c724-4825-9388-26219a12cb8a

An analysis of 1,100 TikTok users' watch histories across six months in 2024 shows how effective TikTok is at getting even its heaviest users to watch more (Washington Post)

Spending hours on TikTok? Here’s how the app keeps you swiping.
Washington Post reporters analyzed data from over 800 TikTok users to learn how the app turns people into power users, some of whom spend hours per day scrolling.

Microsoft launches a $19.99 per month Microsoft 365 Premium subscription, bundling Copilot Pro and Microsoft 365 Family subscriptions along with cloud storage (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/01/microsoft-365-premium-bundle-ai-copilot.html

Microsoft launches AI and productivity software bundle for consumers
The software company introduced Copilot Pro at $20 per month in early 2024.