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Translation: Kaspersky forced to cut staff in France as the Russian antivirus software company continues to pay the price for the collateral damage of the war in Ukraine. Revenue at its French subsidiary fell from nearly €30m in 2021 to €22.4m in 2024, and the workforce was reduced by a fifth.

Antivirus : le russe Kaspersky contraint de tailler dans ses effectifs en France
L’éditeur de logiciels continue de subir les effets de la guerre en Ukraine. Il a perdu de nombreux clients dans les administrations et les grandes entreprises.

Spotify says artists from 75 countries made $500K in royalties in 2025, up from 66 in 2024; ~50% of an average artist's streams came from outside their country (Ethan Millman/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/mu…

Artists From 75 Different Countries Made at Least $500,000 On Spotify Last Year
"The takeaway here is that music has become increasingly borderless," Spotify's Joe Hadley says of the company's latest loud and clear report released Wednesday

I 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.

#Comet C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos) and #Galaxy NGC 55
Date: 11 02 2026 UT 18:39
Location: Farm Tivoli, #Namibia
Telescope: ASA Astrograph 12" f3.6
Camera: ZWO ASI 6200 MM Pro
Mount: ASA DDM 85
Exp.Time: LRGB 10/2/2/2 min.
Gerald Rhemann and Michael Jäger

Verschobene Siri: Apple will 250 Millionen US-Dollar an Kläger zahlen
Apples bereits im Sommer 2024 angekündigte verbesserte Sprachassistentin ist immer noch nicht umgesetzt. In einem US-Klageverfahren gibt es nun eine Einigung.

Verschobene Siri: Apple will 250 Millionen US-Dollar an Kläger zahlen
Apples bereits im Sommer 2024 angekündigte verbesserte Sprachassistentin ist immer noch nicht umgesetzt. In einem US-Klageverfahren gibt es nun eine Einigung.

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

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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

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von #Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

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.

"‘You Can’t Live Without Us’: How Big Oil Pivoted from Climate-friendly Messaging to Normalise Dependence on Fossil Fuels "
#Climate #ClimateChange #FossilFuels

'You Can’t Live Without Us': How Big Oil Pivoted from Climate-friendly Messaging to Normalise Dependence on Fossil Fuels  
Four of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies have spent the last four years systematically shifting away from climate-friendly advertising to push a new message: fossil fuels are here to stay, a report has found.  Campaign group Clean Creatives analysed 1,859 communications from BP, Shell, ExxonMobil, and Chevron published between 2020 and 2024, spanning paid advertisements on Facebook, YouTube, […]

"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.

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

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…

Joint statement on the 2nd anniversary of Alexei Navalny`s death
Joint likeminded statement on the occasion of the second anniversary of Alexei Navalny`s death on 16 February 2024.

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

B2B 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…

The technology news website hiring not firing with £11m turnover
Tech site Data Center Dynamics (DCD) has seen its traffic and turnover increase year on year following an AI boom and Covid.

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…

Exclusive: Binance fires top investigators who claim to have uncovered evidence of Iranian sanctions violations
Internal findings by the fired investigators reviewed by Fortune pointed to over $1 billion in Tether flowing through Binance to Iran-linked wallets.

The 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…

Forget the "MAGA split" on Iran. It's the independents and soft partisans that matter.
Plus, most "moderates" favor left-wing economic policies. Your weekly political data roundup for March 15, 2026.

"February 2026 was Earth’s fifth-warmest February on record"
#Climate #ClimateChange
ht…

February 2026 was Earth’s fifth-warmest February on record
Despite the lack of a planet-warming El Niño event, global ocean temperatures were the second-warmest on record in February, behind only the El Niño year of 2024.

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

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.

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.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
The Psychedelic Furs:
🎵 The Ghost In You
#ThePsychedelicFurs
https://glennlimbaga.bandcamp.com/track/the-psychedelic-furs-the-ghost-in-you-glenn-limbaga-2024-rework
https://open.spotify.com/track/04BQXS1HwzNpfZ2Wvw2RIy

"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.

Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten ersetzt, Sonderregelungen nach #Solarpaket…

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