Tootfinder

"What’s ironic is that you have the leader of the Catholic church speaking out against war and against the way that immigrants are being treated. That shows this co-option of the Christian identity by Opus Dei to be a complete fallacy; it’s all for political expediency. It’s about these people’s own deeply authoritarian and conservative views about how the world should be run."
He spent years investigating Opus Dei, a Catholic group accused of a vast conspiracy of abuse. Then…

Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; it was last valued at $1.2B in 2024 (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rj000qzaowx

Cash-strapped AI chip startup Hailo sees valuation halved to under $500 million ahead of urgent IPO
Israeli firm seeks critical funding through a SPAC merger amid mounting market pressures.

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni settle their legal battle over the 2024 film It Ends With Us, avoiding a federal trial that was scheduled to begin in two weeks (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-sett…

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni Settle Epic Sex Harassment Lawsuit
Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni have settled their epic lawsuit over conduct on the set of 'It Ends With Us.

Man pleads guilty in athlete home burglaries case https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/48104437/man-pleads-guilty-2024-athlete-home-burglaries-case

Meerjungfrau - Mermaid, Copenhagen, Denmark 2024 by me
#meermittwoch

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

A look at Lisbon's Unicorn Factory, a startup hub where 300 businesses joined in 2025 vs. 250 in 2024; 17 unicorns have moved to Lisbon since hub's 2022 launch (Michael Dempsey/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5263ed8c-79dd-460a-b131-56a6fcefeb1e…

Portugal welcomes start-ups seeking scale
Hubs in Lisbon, Porto and Braga nurture new businesses as they look to expand

Cowboys Trade Pickup Already Facing ‘Chopping Block’ https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/jonathan-mingo-chopping-block/

🛠️ Comparing C/C unity build with regular build on a large codebase (2024)
#programming

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Hieronder een paar links voor verdere info.
Opvallend daarbij is dat sommige voorlichting al niet meer beschikbaar is (website is weg) of dat het enige en laatste nieuws uit 2020 😉
Slimme verkeerslichten: hoe werken ze?
#TalkingTraffic #iVRI #verkeer

"Translucent microsnail discovered in Cambodia: Photo of the week"
#Cambodia #Snails

Translucent microsnail discovered in Cambodia: Photo of the week
In 2024, scientists found a tiny new-to-science translucent microsnail in a cave of Banan Hill, a limestone hill that is part of the karst ecosystem of Battambang province in western Cambodia. The snail is less than 2 millimeters (0.1 inches) wide and long including its shell, about the size of a pinhead. The scientists behind […]

«Von 500 auf 5.000 MByte — Windows-Updates werden immer größer
Seit September 2024 sind Updates in Windows 11 um den Faktor 10 gewachsen. Das liegt am Betriebssystem selbst, aber auch an Microsofts KI.»
Sorry, wirklich nötig für ein Betriebssystem ist dies nun nicht aber dies für die unnötige Datenüberwachung (KI) die als nötig deklariert wird.
😒

Von 500 auf 5.000 MByte: Windows-Updates werden immer größer - Golem.de
Seit September 2024 sind Updates in Windows 11 um den Faktor 10 gewachsen. Das liegt am Betriebssystem selbst, aber auch an Microsofts KI.

Net als bij #Brexit blijft #NigelFarage te koop voor rijke lui https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/29/revealed-nigel-farage-was-given-undisclosed-5m-by-crypto-billionaire-in-2024?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

I really should get back into #astrophotography this year. Last year was marred by both bad weather and brainfog. Here's an image from 2024.

Was this real? Announcing things is cheap; building things matters🏗️
In 2025, it became clear that it is real.
4 industrial-scale Green Methanol plants are operational in China. In Europe? 1
In 2024, A.P. MŸller Holding (owners of Maersk🚢) created the startup VioNeo, with plans for a fossil-free plastics plant in Antwerp🇧🇪. In 2026, they changed plans & want to build "in China near green methanol supply"

Vedenalaisia niittyjä Helsingin edustalle? #Helsinki

Vedenalaisia niittyjä Helsingin edustalle?
Meriajokasistutukset antavat lisätietoa Itämeren luonnon ennallistamismahdollisuuksista. Tulokset vuosina 2024 ja 2025 tehdyistä istutuksista ovat varovaisen myönteisiä.

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.

Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeicher​n pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Privatpersonen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 21.04.2026.
412 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.

Ofcom: the share of adult UK social media users actively posting, sharing, or commenting falls to 49%, down from 61% in 2024, as users become more selective (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/apr

Our #VFXPipeline, database and renderfarm also supports shot numbers with emojis. Need to find my post about this from a few years ago 😁
Maybe I should test it again to make sure it still works. Back then, all I had to do was disable a regular expression that enforced alphanumeric characters.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/01/politics/elon-musk-2024-election-spending-millions

Elon Musk spent more than $290 million on the 2024 election, year-end FEC filings show
Elon Musk spent a total of more than $290 million on the 2024 election, new federal filings show, boosting President Donald Trump and Republicans in a staggering effort that has helped to secure unprecedented access for the world’s richest person in the new administration.

Alisa Yurchenko https://krautreporter.de/109356-alisa-yurchenko von Kyiv Independent bei @…: Westliche Firmen sind noch in

Alisa Yurchenko - Investigativjournalistin
Alisa arbeitet seit mehr als zehn Jahren als Investigativjournalistin und Redakteurin in der Ukraine. Seit 2024 ist sie bei der ukrainischen Zeitung „Kyiv Independent“. Zuvor war Alisa beim Anti-Korruptions-Projekt „Bihus.Info“ als Redakteurin, Journalistin und Moderatorin tätig. Sie wurde mit mehreren ukrainischen Preisen für investigativen Journalismus ausgezeichnet. Darüber hinaus arbeitet Alisa als Medientrainerin. Sie hat mehrere Kurse entwickelt, die Journalisten und zivilgesel…

A case study of using AI to aid election coverage at Bay City News, starting in 2024 and refining later, aiming to reduce journalists' manual, repetitive tasks (Ciara Zavala/Local News Matters)
https://localnewsmatters.org/2026/04/2

A Playbook for Newsrooms: Revolutionizing Election Coverage with AI Part II
Our Goal In the fast-evolving landscape of AI, we saw an opportunity to revolutionize local election coverage in our newsroom by reducing manual,

"Italy, Spain set solar records in March"
#Italy #Spain #SolarPower #Energy

Italy, Spain set solar records in March
AleaSoft Energy Forecasting finds the weekly average electricity price fell across most major European markets last week as gas prices dropped. Solar energy production increased in southern Europe, helping Portugal and Spain to record their lowest daily average prices since 2024 and 2013 respectively.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Lynks:
🎵 USE IT OR LOSE IT (6 Music Session, 20 Feb 2024)
#Lynks
https://lynkslynkslynks.bandcamp.com/track/use-it-or-lose-it-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/72YhBiqyf312dbifU3yHbx

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
The Three Degrees:
🎵 TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)
#TheThreeDegrees
https://kitremakes.bandcamp.com/track/mfsb-with-the-three-degrees-t-s-o-p-the-sound-of-philadelphia-dj-kit-remakes-2024-115bpm

Öffentlichkeitsfahndung nach mehrfacher Volksverhetzung
„Im Zeitraum vom 19. April 2024 bis 11. März 2025 wurden von einem bislang noch unbekannten Mann handgeschriebene Karten mit rassistischem und ausländerfeindlichem Inhalt in mehrere Briefkästen in Mehrparteienhäuser, überwiegend in den Ortsteilen Walle und Überseestadt, geworfen.“

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…

Klinkt nog als weinig voor de gruwelijkheden die hij beging.
10 jaar cel en tbs voor verkrachting en grootschalige seksuele online afpersing https://nos.nl/l/2609892

10 jaar cel en tbs voor verkrachting en grootschalige seksuele online afpersing
De 32-jarige Mark S. uit Borculo perste tussen 2011 en 2024 slachtoffers af door te dreigen seksueel getinte foto's en video's online plaatsen.

Democrats Pulled Off Their Biggest Shift Yet Among House Specials Since 2024 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/us/elections/georgia-house-special-shifts.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260408/p10#a260408p10

Vikings QB J.J. McCarthy marries longtime girlfrie... https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48624227/jj-mccarthy-katya-kuropas-wedding-cabo-minnesota-vikings

lja Leonard Pfeijffer: 48 Kolumnen aus der belgischen Zeitung De Morgen über konstitutionelle und absolute Demokratie in Deutsch:
https://europa.blog/de/category/blogs/ilja-leonard-pfeijffer/

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer Archives - Europa Blog
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer / Foto: Stephan Vanfleteren Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer Der niederländische Schriftsteller Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer hat von Januar 2024 bis Dezember 2025 zwei Mal monatlich Essays zur Entwicklung von Demokratie und Rechtsstaat unter dem zunehmenden politischen Druck rechter Parteien in Europa und in den USA – dort vor allem durch Donald Trump und die MAGA-Bewegung – in der niederländischsprachigen belgischen Zeitung „De Morgen“ veröffentlicht. In den insgesamt 48 Essa…

"Among those monitored were a Palestinian academic invited to give a guest lecture at Manchester Metropolitan University and a pro-Gaza PhD student at the London School of Economics, according to internal documents.
In October 2024, the University of Bristol provided the firm with a list of student protest groups it wished to receive alerts about, an internal university email suggests. It included pro-Palestinian and animal rights activists.
In total, 12 universities paid th…

British universities paid security firm to ‘spy’ on pro-Palestine students
Investigation reveals how Horus, a company led by ex-military intelligence officials, was hired during protest movement.

The dramatic transition of the extreme Red #Supergiant WOH G64 to a Yellow Hypergiant: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.19329 - this 2024 paper, already mentioned by me in connection with other observations of that star in https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2024/11/24/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-24-11-2024/ ("Die enge zirkumstellare Umgebung des Roten Überriesen WOH G64 ..."), has now been formally published: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-026-02789-7.epdf?sharing_token=7UR_XvTAZerqnMHPRyA0LtRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0N7FejDObMF3AkHA10E71tuouxDX6yP8bM1QCFKGVVZLl8bT37LMadR8u4ukhACilFI60-Zxl0e00Bc0v3qXkG29yIQr7uTE0sd644q7We4d6ay5Tblhxc-UABROlAnuDs=

Katherina Reiche: Berufen, weil sie „vom Fach" ist. Das Fach: Atomausstieg mitbeschlossen (2011), Netzausbau vergeigt (2009–2013), danach Lobbyistin für Netzbetreiber (2024), jetzt Ministerin die Netzausbau bremst. Das Wort „Batteriespeicher" kommt in ihrem FAZ-Gastbeitrag kein einziges Mal vor. „Fusionskraftwerk" zweimal. @…

After Fernando Mendoza at No. 1, the NFL draft's QB board could go quiet fast https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/after-fernando-mendoza-at-no-1-the-nfl-drafts-qb-board-could-go-quiet-fast

Kamala #Harris denkt über eine erneute Kandidatur nach. Dumm ist, wer einen Fehler ein zweites Mal wiederholt. Die Demokraten sollten eigentlich gelernt haben, dass Harris die US AmerikanerInnen nicht überzeugt.
Außerdem verärgert ihr politisches Schweigen zu Darth #Trump, nur um ihre Chancen für eine erneu…

US-Präsidentschaftswahl 2028: Kamala Harris denkt über Kandidatur nach
Versucht sie es noch einmal? Die Demokratin Kamala Harris verlor 2024 die Präsidentschaftswahlen in den USA gegen Donald Trump. Jetzt deutet sie eine Kandidatur für 2028 an.

Lithuania-based Vinted says it completed an ~€880M secondary share sale led by EQT, Teachers' Venture Growth, Schroders at an €8B valuation, up from €5B in 2024 (Ivan Levingston/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8410967c-c713-46d1-a5e6-42cfc3b6528c

"As Cuba’s grid fails, solar power becomes a lifeline"
#Cuba #Energy #Renewables

As Cuba’s grid fails, solar power becomes a lifeline
Ten percent of the Caribbean nation’s electricity was generated by renewable energy in 2025, up from 3.6% in 2024.

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
With the safe return of NASA's Artemis II, it is time to talk about plankton space #science 🛰. PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) is the latest advanced observing satellite launched Feb 2024 which carries the OCI Ocean Colour Instrument measuring hyp…

POL-BS: Verkehrsunfallstatistik der Polizeidirektion Braunschweig für das Jahr 2025 Braunschweig (ots) - Braunschweig, 14.04.2026 - Die Polizeidirektion Braunschweig veröffentlicht die Verkehrsunfallstatistik für das Jahr 2025: -Gesamtzahl der Verkehrsunfälle leicht gesunken -Nach Tiefstand 2024 wieder mehr Unfälle mit schweren ... https://www.

Eating Steak, potatoes, salad, this wine, and watching the Splashdown of Artemis II
#artemis2 #nasa #splashdown

Following California implementing a law raising its minimum wage to $20 for more than 500,000 fast-food workers in the state in 2024,
Christopher Thornberg, founding partner of research firm Beacon Economics, offered a warning about the state raising its minimum wage.
“California’s well-intended push to reduce income inequality via wage floors is beginning to have a significant negative impact on some of our most vulnerable workers
—our youth, particularly those from lower-i…

Economists warned California not to raise the minimum wage to $20. They were wrong in almost every way so far, another economist says
“The results are nowhere as dire as predicted,” Berkeley’s Michael Reich told Fortune.

Tutkimus: ilmaston 1,5 asteen raja ylittyi odotettua aiemmin #ilmasto

Tutkimus: ilmaston 1,5 asteen raja ylittyi odotettua aiemmin -
Maapallon keskilämpötila ylitti 1,5 celsiusasteen rajan jo vuonna 2024, mikä on jopa seitsemän vuotta aikaisemmin kuin useimmat ilmastomallit ennustivat. Tuore tutkimus osoittaa, että vain ne mallit,

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?

US child safety group NCMEC received 1.5M reports of suspected CSAM with ties to AI in 2025, a significant surge compared to 67,000 in 2024 and 4,700 in 2023 (Bloomberg)

Filing: Comcast CEO Brian Roberts' 2025 compensation rose 4% YoY to $35.15M, and new co-CEO Mike Cavanagh had a pay package of $71.76M, about 2.5x his 2024 pay (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/comcast-brian-…

Comcast Co-CEOs Brian Roberts and Mike Cavanagh 2025 Pay Package Revealed
Comcast gave Brian Roberts a pay raise in 2025 -- but not nearly as much as his recently promoted co-CEO, Mike Cavanagh.

Bolivian cities have become dramatically less Indigenous across the board between 2001 and 2024.

Beneath Democrats’ near-universal opposition to what they call the president’s “war of choice”
are simmering tensions about the way America should engage with the world,
especially when it comes to the Middle East.
Since losing to Trump and his America First agenda in 2024,
which promised not to start new wars, leading progressives have urged Democrats to reclaim the “anti-war” mantle.
“Voters, especially young people and working families, are exhausted by ‘for…

Sygaldry, which wants to design AI data center servers that integrate quantum hardware and classical chips, raised a $34M seed and a $105M Series A (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/04/14/exclusive-chad-rig…

Exclusive: Chad Rigetti’s Sygaldry raises $139 million to bring quantum hardware to AI data centers
Sygaldry is the company Chad Rigetti cofounded in 2024 after leaving Rigetti Computing.

POL-WL: Verkehrsunfallstatistik der Polizeiinspektion Harburg für das Jahr 2025 Buchholz (ots) - Verkehrsunfallstatistik der Polizeiinspektion Harburg für das Jahr 2025 Im Jahr 2025 erfasste die Polizei im Landkreis Harburg 6974 Verkehrsunfälle, das sind 56 Unfälle weniger als im Vorjahr (Vergleichszahlen des Vorjahres 2024 ... https://www.

The Sun reports pre-tax losses of £53M in the year to July 2025, up from £18M in 2024; phone-hacking legal costs more than doubled to £36.7M (James Warrington/Telegraph)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/04/14/murdoch-loses-more…

Sources: UK paraplegic athlete Claire Lomas was being filmed for Apple Vision Pro series Adventure when she crashed a microlight in Jordan and died in July 2024 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Raiders name Matt Robinson Safeties Coach https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-name-matt-robinson-safeties-coach

Will the 49ers trade, release or keep Brandon Aiyuk? Breaking down the options https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48414734/brandon-aiyuk-contract-trade-san-francisco-49ers-commanders

Microsoft raises prices for Surface PCs, with Laptop 7 and Pro 11 now $500 more expensive than at their 2024 launch, citing higher memory and component costs (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/s…

Microsoft reveals major price increases for all Surface PCs as RAM crisis continues: Flagships now $500 more expensive than at launch
Microsoft is raising prices on all its current Surface PC offerings, with the midrange devices now starting at above $1,000, and flagships starting at $1,500.

BPOLD-H: BPOLD-H: Bilanz der vorübergehend wiedereingeführten Binnengrenzkontrollen an der deutsch - niederländischen Grenze in Niedersachsen im Zeitraum vom 16.09.2024 bis einschließlich zum 31.03.2026 Hannover (ots) - Seit dem 16. September 2024 kontrolliert die Bundespolizei in ganz Deutschland den grenzüberschreitenden Verkehr mit vorübergehend wiedereingeführten Binnengrenzkontrollen. Für Reisende zwischen Niedersachsen und den ...

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
True Faith:
🎵 Take Me Away
#TrueFaith
https://glenhorsborough1.bandcamp.com/album/true-faith-take-me-away-glen-horsborough-2024-edit

POL-WHV: Zusammenfassung der Verkehrsunfallstatistik 2025 für das Polizeikommissariat Varel mit den an- geschlossenen Polizeistationen Bockhorn und Zetel Varel/Bockhorn/Zetel (ots) - Die Zahl der Verkehrsunfälle in Varel, Zetel und Bockhorn befindet sich weiterhin auf einem vergleichsweise niedrigen Niveau. Gegenüber dem Jahr 2024 gab es einen Anstieg der Verkehrsunfallzahlen 994 auf 1114( 120)). ...

#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit …

Israeli startup Onyx Security, which helps secure and manage AI agents' operational risks, raised a $35M Series A led by Conviction, after a $5M seed in 2024 (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hjmra11x911g

Cyber startup Onyx Security raises $35 million to control AI agents in organizations | CTech
The Israeli startup develops a platform to secure and manage AI systems as they become integral to business operations.

Just noted interesting parallels between #ArtemisII and Apollo 11 and 12, involving #SolarEclipses, either by the close Moon or by the Earth: during or after each of the three missions the astronauts described these events as their visual highlights. The Artemis II crew has done this several times - and in the post-flight press conference after #Apollo11 Neil Armstrong did it, too, in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz6nzutr7RU#t=42m19s in the segment from 42:20 (in the transcript https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED059051.pdf on PDF pages 21--22).
What he was describing is the eclipse just before arrival at the Moon of which I had re-processed the best image in 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 (and he is mistaking the zodiacal light they saw and photographed with the solar corona, the very same mistake made repeatedly during Artemis II).
Finally, a solar eclipse by the huge Earth observed from Apollo 12 just before splash-down was described by Alan Bean as "the most spectacular sight of the whole flight" while it happened: https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2019/11/24/eine-fette-sofi-fur-apollo-12-durch-die-erde/ (no images of totality were taken but Bean later painted the view from memory). The reason I had looked up the Apollo 11 presser was to see how this famously well-prepared post-lunar mission presentation looked like and when it happened: 19 days after their return.