@Techmeme@techhub.socialDocs: 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
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe 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…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzAnd 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
@pgogl@troet.cafeMeerjungfrau - Mermaid, Copenhagen, Denmark 2024 by me
#meermittwoch
@newsie@darktundra.xyzGoogle says 90 zero-days exploited in 2025 as commercial vendor activity grows https://therecord.media/google-says-90-zero-days-exploited-apt-spyware-vendors
@UP8@mastodon.social🛠️ Comparing C/C unity build with regular build on a large codebase (2024)
#programming
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyWind-solar-nuclear electricity production in China, 1992-2024
https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy/line_race_electricity_production_cn_1990-2024.html
@krispijn@social.sargasso.nlNet 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
@Techmeme@techhub.socialShanghai-based MiniMax reports 2025 revenue up 159% YoY to $79M, above ~$71.4M est., and a $1.87B net loss, up from a ~$465.2M loss in 2024, after its IPO (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-02/china-ai…
@krone@frawas.deZugriff in Rumänien - Promi-Wirt brutal überfallen: Räuber geht ins Netz #News #Nachrichten
@stephane_klein@social.coopAfter more than a year on @… I haven't received any reminder to renew my financial contribution. Is this normal? Is renewal simply left to members' own initiative?
My question on #Loomio :
@primonatura@mstdn.social
@cdarwin@c.imThe people who actually decide elections aren’t in the base
— and they’re turning.
Political independents and soft partisans — voters Trump converted in 2024 to beat Harris — are more loosely attached to Trump and support his policies less.
When political conditions deteriorate for the GOP, it’s these voters who are the first to leave.
What MAGA elites think might matter to other elites (people who have dinner with Steve Bannon),
-- but when it comes to electi…
@Speckdaene@nrw.socialAlisa Yurchenko https://krautreporter.de/109356-alisa-yurchenko von Kyiv Independent bei @…: Westliche Firmen sind noch in
@gscherer2@social.linux.pizzaYellow Rose. Mary and Joseph Retreat Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, California, USA. August, 2024. Fujifilm X100VI. #ranchopalosverdes #rose #rosegarden
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOfcom: 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
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineKumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…
@davidaugust@mastodon.online“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.”
@compfu@mograph.socialOur #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.
@Yogi77@hessen.social @Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA 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
@haayman@todon.nlIk vind zo'n winst van banken pervers. Waarom moet een bank zoveel winst maken? Dat betekent dat hun klanten minder waar voor hun geld krijgen. œf ze moeten teveel betalen voor een lening, óf ze krijgen te weinig rente op het spaargeld.
Bijna 5 miljard euro winst voor Rabobank, goede doelen profiteren mee
@NFL@darktundra.xyzBoye Mafe to help fill void in Bengals' post-Trey Hendrickson era https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48198524/boye-mafe-help-fill-void-bengals-post-trey-hendrickson-era
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
@johl@mastodon.xyzDiesen Film zum Thema Wirtschaftssysteme jenseits der gegenwärtigen politischen Ökonomie kann ich echt empfehlen: „Outgrow the System – Wirtschaft neu denken“ ist eine schwedische Dokumentation aus dem Jahr 2024, die gerade frisch in die Arte-Mediathek gepurzelt ist.
https://www.arte.…
@thijs_lucas@norden.socialÖffentlichkeitsfahndung 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.“
@cdarwin@c.imThe Republican former lieutenant governor of North Carolina,
Mark Robinson,
has admitted he "misled" voters during his unsuccessful 2024 gubernatorial campaign
when he denied posting racist and offensive comments on a pornography website
– suggesting he did so to protect Donald Trump’s successful presidential run.
Robinson, who worked in furniture manufacturing before entering politics in 2020, told the "After the Call" podcast on Thursday:
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialKatherina 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. @…
@joe@toot.worksI like the idea of a low-cost MacBook, but when you can get a 2024 MacBook Air with an M3 and 16GB of memory for the same money, I don't know why more people don't just do that.
@mapto@qoto.org"The crew was hungry, the crew was angry, and we tried to survive only day-by-day."
"Back in 2016, 20 ships were abandoned around the world, according to the ITF. In 2025 the number had ballooned to 410, with 6,223 merchant seamen falling victim. Both of those figures for last year were up by almost a third on 2024."
https://www.…
@gscherer2@social.linux.pizzaSquirrel sitting on the grass and wondering “Who is that strange man with a camera?” LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. April, 2024. OM Systems OM-1 M.Zuiko 40-150 F2.8 PRO MC14. #laarboretum #squirrels
@primonatura@mstdn.social"February 2026 was Earth’s fifth-warmest February on record"
#Climate #ClimateChange
ht…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialB2B media brand DatacenterDynamics says revenue rose 175% to £11M per year since 2020 amid the AI boom, and it hit 22.5M views in 2025, up from 2024's 17.3M (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/the-tec…
@presseportal_pol_NDS@frawas.deHZA-H: Zoll Hannover - Jahresstatistik 2025 der Finanzkontrolle Schwarzarbeit Hannover (ots) - 16,5 Millionen Euro Schadenssumme (2024: 7,2 Millionen Euro) ermittelte die Finanzkontrolle Schwarzarbeit des Hauptzollamts Hannover im Jahr 2025. "Die mehr als doppelt so hohe Schadenssumme ist nicht gleichzusetzen mit einer ... https://www.
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyNow the US has chosen an admirer of Putin as president, who subsequently halted aid to Ukraine, Europe stepped up, filling most of the gap.
https://www.kielinstitut.de/publications/news/ukraine-support-after-4-years-of-war-europe-steps-up/…
@cdarwin@c.imGoogle 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, according to a report by The Intercept.
The search and advertising tech giant provided ICE with the usernames, physical addresses, and an itemized list of services associated with the Google account of Amandla Thomas-Johnson,
a British student and journalist who briefly attended a pro-P…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialInvestigation: the US FedRAMP authorized Microsoft service GCC High to handle sensitive government data in 2024, despite years of concerns about its security (ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-cloud-fedramp-cybersecurity-government…
@cdarwin@c.imJoe Rogan, the influential podcast host, said on his show Tuesday that
the war in Iran was “crazy”
and had left Americans feeling “betrayed” by Trump,
describing the conflict as a sharp reversal from the policies that the president had campaigned on.
“It just seems so insane,”
said Mr. Rogan, who endorsed Trump in 2024 and said he still texted with him on occasion.
“He ran on no more wars:
End these stupid, senseless wars.
And then we have one …
@presseportal_pol_NDS@frawas.deBPOLD-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 ...
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe 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…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: 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…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk @presseportal_pol_NDS@frawas.dePOL-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.
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzJust 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.
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland mit …
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Gossip & Alison Moyet:
🎵 Situation (6 Music Festival 2024)
#Gossip #AlisonMoyet
