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Things I have read in major newspapers and cyber publications over the past week that are just really fiction, totally false, and yet have become conventional wisdom among cyber journos:
--TP-Link routers are a US security threat. (not more than any other router)
--The SEC's settlement with SolarWinds is evidence of how little Trump cares about cyber (utterly false -- fed judge pooped on the SEC's legality in 2024 and much more).
--Coinbase is playing fast and loose…

Another year in which we've been making the climate crisis worse faster. And the role of aviation continues to grow nastier: probably good for 1/6 of the increase this year, caused by a small minority of the global population.
https://news.m…

Record fossil fuel emissions in 2025 despite renewables buildout, report says
Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion are projected to reach a record 38.1 billion metric tons in 2025, an increase of 1.1% from 2024, according to the 2025 Global Carbon Budget. The report, now in its 20th edition, was released Nov. 13 as a preprint. It compiles national energy and emissions data from […]

„Polyman“ by Facet
Platform: Amiga
Released: 25 May 2024
Specification: 320x256px, 32 colors
Note: 3rd in the 68k Inside 2024 Graphics competition
#GFX_Facet #YR_2024 #PF_Amiga

South Korea, the EU, the UK, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and others aim to build "sovereign AI"; Gartner expects $1.5T in AI spending in 2025, up 50% from 2024 (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

‘Sovereign AI’ Takes Off as Countries Seek to Avoid Overreliance on Superpowers
South Korea and others believe their homegrown tech sectors are strong enough to build up their AI capabilities

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 26.10.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

Dutch public broadcaster Nos quits X, citing the "amount of hateful responses and disinformation" on the site; The Guardian quit in 2024 and NPR in 2023 (Bart Meijer/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

49ers sign veteran linebacker who ditched San Francisco for Cowboys in 2024 https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/san-francisco-49ers/news/49ers-sign-linebacker-who-ditched-san-francisco-cowboys-2024/8…

Check out this compelling rebuttal of Soteria International's claims regarding the OKC case. Get informed about the facts and perspectives presented in the article by visiting: https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rebuttal-of-soteria.html

2024 NFL Draft regrade: Who's already a star, who's stalled and what's changed 18 months later

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2024-nfl-draft-regrade-updated-g…

Pixelfed ist immer noch recht klein und ich vermisse noch etwas die professionellen Fotograf*innen und Künstler*innen… ganz besonders den *innen-Teil nehme ich noch wenig wahr und ich frage mich, wem Folgen. @… hat gleich eine Liste an Vorschlägen in ihrem Profil, auch wenn die (noch) nicht im Fediverse sein dürften.

Érine Delisle (@erine.delisle@pixelfed.social)
Série Mothers France, 2021 à 2024 #erinedelisle #mothers #mereetfils #mereetfille #amourmaternel #motherandchild #maternalbond #motherhood #noiretblanc #blackandwhite #monochrome #tendresse #tenderness #gestematernel #intimatemoments #silencepartage #lumierecrue #fineartphotography #artcontemporain #photographieartistique #parisintime #emergingartist #parisartscene

I was looking for something else when I discovered that Jean-Guy Meunier passed away last year:
https://philo.uqam.ca/babillard/nouvelles/hommage-a-jean-guy-meunier-1940-2024/
He was one of the reviewers I suggested for my tenure review, but a…

A bit of #mountainMonday ! I took this in January 2024.
I hiked that mountain and decided not just to hike to the summit but to spend some considerable time and try to capture some photos that express cold & #winter.
I layed down to the ground and waited for the wind to blow s…

AI sector minted 50 new billionaires in 2025; Crunchbase: investors poured $200B into AI startups in 2025, or about 50% of global funding, up from 34% in 2024 (Alicia Park/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/aliciapark/2025/12/25/ai-minted…

#BizimKiez kämpft gegen Gentrifizierung und andere Formen der #Verdrängung
Ein kleiner Kiezkrimi über Untermiete und Schikane

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 26.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Rechte und Förderung

"Kaarster Stern" für Jonas Greiner
Das Publikum wählte ihn mit deutlicher Mehrheit: Jonas Greiner wird als bester Nachwuchscomedian mit dem Kleinkunstpreis Kaarster Stern ausgezeichnet. Er bekommt den Preis im November 2026. - Am 27.11.25 wird der Kaarster Stern 2024 an Sven Garrecht verliehen.
https://www.

"...who campaigned on a promise to extricate the US from decades of “endless wars” during his 2024 run for president."
It'simportant to note these are airstrikes and bombings - and that's very different from wars. It avoids the distressful images of wounded and dead service members returning to the US, while using very expensive technology, thus providing purchase orders to very important business interests, and it provides the psycological benefit of violence to imp…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Orbital:
🎵 Spicy (Sofa Session, 15 May 2024)
#Orbital
https://darkenergyrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/spicy-crab-of-nighttime

I feel like this Stop Copaganda project from 2024 didn't get enough love. It certainly made me reflect on how I portray law enforcement. Particularly in Domestic Threats. Some police officers/agents are really trying to do the right thing and the system makes it hard. Some of them just do what they're told because they trust the system, without realizing they might be doing more harm than good. Some are more interested in getting status or power than worrying about morality. These st…

Documents: AI music startup Suno has spent $32M on compute power and $2,000 on data, such as music, to train its model since January 2024 (Kristin Robinson/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/suno-creates-spotify-catalog-music-two-weeks-pitch-deck/…

Suno Creates an Entire Spotify Catalog’s Worth of Music Every Two Weeks, Says Investor Pitch Deck for $250M Fundraise
Suno has raised $250 million in a quest to become a "verticalized" creation, social media and streaming service, according to an investor deck.

Le gouvernement vaudois a plongé le canton dans une situation paradoxale: le frein Š l’endettement est activé alors qu’il n’y a quasiment pas de dettes (0,71% de taux d’endettement en 2024), il connaît une crise politique profonde alors que sa situation financière est loin d’être problématique.
https://www.letemps.ch/opinions/y-a-t-il-un-pilote-dans-le-canton-de-vaud?shouldPreventPurchase=true&inAppView=3.19.0&didomiConfig.user.externalConsent.value={"purposes":{"consent":{"enabled":["abtesting-p6FL2BYL","audiencem-hJxaeGrR","cookies","create_ads_profile","create_content_profile","device_characteristics","geolocation_data","improve_products","market_research","measure_ad_performance","measure_content_performance","parselyne-Ya2EC4dG","select_basic_ads","select_personalized_ads","select_personalized_content","use_limited_data_to_select_content"],"disabled":[]},"legitimate_interest":{"enabled":[],"disabled":[]}},"vendors":{"consent":{"enabled":["amazon","c:aws-cloudfront","c:bannerwise-EeHwBjLT","c:chartbeat","c:cloudflare","c:echobox-GqD96L9K","c:forecast-ZRJPAUT7","c:googleana-4TXnJigR","c:hotjar","c:jsdelivr-xdD77X6w","c:jw-player","c:kameleoon-experiment","c:kameleoon-personalization","c:keycdn","c:linkedin","c:magnitein-ePEpbCQ7","c:meta-43HDmFRa","c:microsoft","c:nonli-jnWf8kqD","c:pianohybr-R3VKC2r4","c:pinterest","c:spyri-XAtBPx3i","c:tapadinc-VDTUUcKw","c:tiktok-KZAUQLZ9","c:unrulygro-nKyLqdKi","c:youtube","facebook","google","twitter",1,10,1020,1021,1028,1046,1069,108,109,11,1126,12,120,1269,128,13,130,131,1310,132,136,137,138,142,143,1449,154,156,16,164,202,209,21,211,23,238,24,241,243,25,253,264,28,284,290,30,301,32,36,39,4,412,422,45,469,475,493,50,519,52,559,58,61,612,617,68,684,69,73,76,77,783,790,793,80,81,811,84,85,855,898,91,92,95,965,98],"disabled":[]},"legitimate_interest":{"enabled":[],"disabled":[]}},"user_id":"36B03261-8BC8-4FB4-A026-0543FF748710","created":"2025-05-28T08:36:56.058Z","updated":"2025-11-08T21:05:15.048Z","source":{"type":"app","domain":"ch.letemps.LT"},"action":"webview"}

Documents: AI music startup Suno has spent $32M on compute power and $2,000 on data, such as music, to train its model since January 2024 (Kristin Robinson/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/suno-creates-spotify-catalog-music-two-weeks-pitch-deck/…

Suno Creates an Entire Spotify Catalog’s Worth of Music Every Two Weeks, Says Investor Pitch Deck for $250M Fundraise
Suno has raised $250 million in a quest to become a "verticalized" creation, social media and streaming service, according to an investor deck.

Trump may have just created the "kryptonite" that brings down his second administration,
according to a new report
Trump's MAGA movement coalition has started to crack in recent weeks over the administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files,
which Trump promised to release in full during his 2024 presidential campaign.
The administration has sought to withhold files from the public,
and the Justice Department has said it
"nee…

'End of the era': Trump just created the 'kryptonite' that could bring down his presidency
President Donald Trump may have just created the "kryptonite" that brings down his second administration, according to a new report. Trump's MAGA movement coalition has started to crack in recent weeks over the administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, which Trump promised to release i...

Großbritannien: Haftstrafen für Brandanschlag mit Russland-Bezug
Wegen ihrer Beteiligung an einem mutmaßlich von Russland aus orchestrierten Brandanschlag in London hat ein britisches Gericht fünf Männer zu langen Haftstrafen verurteilt. Richterin Bobbie Cheema-Grubb verhängte Gefängnisstrafen von sieben bis 17 Jahren.
Die Männer waren laut der Staatsanwaltschaft in ein Komplott verwickelt, bei dem im März 2024 ein Lagerhaus…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Russischer Gesandter zu Gesprächen in den USA ++
Der russische Sondergesandte und Präsidentenberater Dmitrijew hält sich zu Gesprächen in den USA auf. In der Ukraine zündet ein Mann bei einer Personenkontrolle in einem Zug einen Sprengsatz. Vier Menschen sterben.

🤝 NFDI4Culture kooperiert seit 2024 mit Blue Shield Deutschland Deutschland in Sachen Kulturgutschutz und Resilienz für Kulturerbe.
📣 Am 21.11., 11 –16.30 Uhr, findet die Blue Shield Jahrestagung 2025 in Berlin statt zum Thema „Schädigung von Kulturgut - Monitoring, Wissenstandund neue Aspekte“.
📍 Wo: Nicolaihaus (Brüderstraße 13, 10178 Berlin)
➡️ Weitere Infos zur Anmeldung, dem Programm und zur Veranstaltung:

while you are at Dublin mayors, maybe you could ask car drivers to turn on their lights as required by law in Ireland :-) ?!?! During my super brief time in Dublin in 2024 I saw a lot of cars with their lights off during a dark rainy afternoon.
https://mastodon.ie/@irishcycle/115583918846…

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En anders bij de WDR:
Tatort: Made in China (2024) - hier anschauen
#crimi #krimi

DLR untersucht Drohnenvorfälle an deutschen Flughäfen
2024 wurden dem Luftfahrt-Bundesamt 118 Drohnenvorfälle gemeldet. Das DLR hat diese unter anderem auf wirtschaftliche Schäden untersucht.
https://www.

The Draghi Dilemma: The Right and the Wrong Way to Undertake GDPR Reform
https://fpf.org/blog/the-draghi-dilemma-the-right-and-the-wrong-way-to-undertake-gdpr-reform/
@…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

#htmly CMS ist really nice & easy for little blogging projects. Just worked this evening joyfull on https://www.honorardozentenblues.de

Honorardozentenblues - Textspuren eines buchbaren Bildungsexperten
Blog & Clippings zum Problemfeld "Freiberuflichkeit in der deutschen Erwachsenenbildung" est.2024

PitchBook: crypto M&A hit $8.6B across 267 deals in 2025 vs. $2.17B in 2024; 11 crypto IPOs raised $14.6B worldwide, up from $310M from four IPOs in 2024 (Nikou Asgari/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b4d5e238-c34a-4602-91d0-4c7300b0006f

Sources: Spotify plans to raise US subscription prices in Q1 2026, its first US price rise since July 2024, after increasing prices in other countries this year (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/fb490480-5d9a-495f-8c23-f34149bbcadb

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Artemis201/115754645089453670
American voters in Nov 2024:

Wo kommen wir denn da hin wenn die AfD an die Macht kommt und all ihre Forderungen bereits umgesetzt sind?

This is an interesting study in how local conditions skew your perceptions, I'm actually surprised how *low* the numbers are, but I see in Denmark EVs are much higher than the rest of the EU, who also clearly have some catching up to do...
https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115354274303487490
EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu - 👋 Watt’s up, Europe?
 
The numbers of electric vehicles sold in Europe in 2024 are in:
 
⚡ 1.45 million new battery-only EVs registered
📈 32% growth in the total electric fleet
🚗 Nearly 6 million e-vehicles on the road
🔋 13.6% of all new car registrations are electric
 
Europe is accelerating full throttle to a clean future.  
 
Read more: https://link.europa.eu/cNKjkh

Erinnert ihr euch an die Grenzwächter, die in der Aktion "Knobli" im Vorarlberg Schweizer EInkaufstouristen beobachteten, die Hanfsamen und Anbauzubehör kauften?
Sie zogen ihren Strafbefehl wegen Verletzung fremder Gebietshoheit weiter ans Bundesstrafgericht in Bellinzona - und wurden freigesprochen, mit Entschädigung (rechtskräftig).
SK.2024.68 Urteil vom 7. Oktober 2025

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Early
Mark Lanegan:
🎵 One Hundred Days
#MarkLanegan
https://marklanegan.bandcamp.com/track/one-hundred-days-2024-remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/4ZkOFujtamIynWGfo9PdGR

Sources: Spotify plans to raise US subscription prices in Q1 2026, its first US price rise since July 2024, after increasing prices in other countries this year (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/fb490480-5d9a-495f-8c23-f34149bbcadb

Spotify to raise US prices in first quarter of next year
Increase will come as music-streaming company aims for continued profitability

> Die großen US-Technologiekonzerne geben in der #EU so viel Geld für #Lobbyarbeit aus wie nie zuvor. Laut einer aktuellen Untersuchung der Organisationen @… und…

"In a talk in November 2024, Starbase General Manager Kathy Lueders announced that SpaceX hoped to be able to catch a Starship upper stage sometime in the next 6 months and have as many as 25 launches in 2025.
This did not occur. Starship was launched just five times by mid-October, with no planned launches during the remaining months of 2025."
—Wikipedia Starship article
I've been pretty vocal about all of Starship being what's essentially a scam—yes, including the engineering behind it.
But there's always white knight tech people riding to the rescue of the Nazi billionaire even when it's obvious it's not working right.
I'm sure they'll reply to this post as well.

Leistung der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: #Energiewende

Understanding #Docker Internals: Building a Container Runtime in Python
https://muhammadraza.me/2024/building-container-runtime-python/

Urteil: Amazon darf Video-Kunden keine Werbung aufzwängen
Amazon Prime Video sendet seit 2024 Werbespots. Ein Gericht schreitet ein und untersagt dem US-Unternehmen, die Vertragsbedingungen einseitig zu ändern.
ht…

Ich hatte meiner Führungskraft beim Jahresgespräch 2024 gesagt, ich möchte 2025 nicht zum Geburtstag gratuliert bekommen (Standardset aus Karte mit pers. Text der direkten Vorgesetzten Unterschriften Gutschein). Sie kuckte sparsam
Sie ruft mich am Geburtstag an meinem arbeitsfreien Tag aufm Privathandy an zum Gratulieren. Heute dann aufm Pult Geburtstagskarte, unterschrieben von etlichen Leuten (hatte mich gewundert, warum mir immer mal wer gratuliert…) Gutschein
Was mach i…

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

Mai Kivelä: Hallitus auttaa suuryrityksiä karttamaan ympäristövastuuta globaalin hiilinielun jatkaessa rapistumista https://vasemmisto.fi/mai-kivela-hallitus-auttaa-suuryrityksia-karttamaan-ymparistovastu…

Mai Kivelä: Hallitus auttaa suuryrityksiä karttamaan ympäristövastuuta globaalin hiilinielun jatkaessa rapistumista
Metsäkatoasetus astui voimaan kesäkuussa 2023, ja siirtymäaikoineen toimeenpanon oli tarkoitus käynnistyä vuoden 2024 lopulla. Toimeenpanon alkua viivästytettiin sittemmin vuoden 2025 loppuun…

#30DayMapChallenge 🗺️ Day 3️⃣: Polygons
I went with a classic #choropleth map to keep things simple (and save my energy) and this one shows the population change of the 201 barangays (kinda like wards) of the city of Pasay in the

2025 on track to tie second hottest year on record: EU monitor #EU

2025 on track to tie second hottest year on record: EU monitor
The planet is on track to log its second hottest year on record in 2025, tied with 2023 after a historic high in 2024, Europe's global warming monitor said Tuesday.

From Keywords to Clusters: AI-Driven Analysis of YouTube Comments to Reveal Election Issue Salience in 2024
Raisa M. Simoes, Timoteo Kelly, Eduardo J. Simoes, Praveen Rao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07821

From Keywords to Clusters: AI-Driven Analysis of YouTube Comments to Reveal Election Issue Salience in 2024
This paper aims to explore two competing data science methodologies to attempt answering the question, "Which issues contributed most to voters' choice in the 2024 presidential election?" The methodologies involve novel empirical evidence driven by artificial intelligence (AI) techniques. By using two distinct methods based on natural language processing and clustering analysis to mine over eight thousand user comments on election-related YouTube videos from one right leaning journal, Wall Stre…

Bears, Patriots, Jaguars clinch playoff berths in stunning first-year coaching turnarounds https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/bears-patriots-jaguars-clinch-playoff-berths-in-stunning-firstyear-coaching-turnarounds

How can we make sustainability part of everything we do?
That question led to the creation of SIG-Sustainability, a new community space within the GÉANT Community Programme (GCP).
Launched in 2024, the group brings together members from across our community to exchange ideas and tools, from reducing carbon footprint to promoting inclusivity & climate adaptation.
📖 Read the full interview with the SIG-Sustainability Coordinator Judith Six (Jisc) in

Escape Simulator 2 完结

一大感想就是整个游戏里所有的中日韩翻译字体全都统一用思源黑，就很出戏

Escape Simulator 2 - Pine Studio

OMG my The Bear opinion isn't fringe 🥲
I LOVE S1. I've made SO many ppl watch it.
I also liked S2.
I absolutely HATED S3. It felt like the writers got too much artistic freedom after their (well-deserved!) success & I had to watch them artistically jerking-off on TV.
https://

The Bear Is Not a Good Show
When the series premiered on FX, it was smart and thoughtful television. Not anymore.

Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz
https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rfutation-des-affirmations.html

Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz - rMdes - a place to write and think freely
En tant que victime, survivant de la dérive sectaire Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC) et défenseur de la justice, des droits des enfants, des droits humains et de la …

WebKit Bug 277290 AX: Scrolling containers inoperable with keyboard (July 2024, critical):
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=277290
I’m betting if we can convince the Google Chrome team that this is preventing uptake of CSS carousels they’ll dispatch an engineer to fix i…

Elon Musk's $1 trillion Tesla pay plan wins shareholder approval -
That's paying Musk 9 times the total turnover of Tesla in 2024 (which was 1% higher than that in 2023). Sounds a bit over the top. It's also more than $100 for every person on earth. The combined result of the greediness of Musk and the craziness of Tesla's shareholders.

Cowboys LB DeMarvion Overshown returns from knee injury to boost D: 'It's only up from here' https://www.nfl.com/news/cowboys-lb-demarvion-overshown-returns-from-knee-injury-to-boost-d-it-s-only-up-from-here<…

🗡️ Landmines and violence in Colombian Amazon confine Indigenous Siona families
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/09/landmines-and-violence-in-colombian-amazon-confine-indigenous-siona-families/…

Landmines and violence in Colombian Amazon confine Indigenous Siona families
Siona Indigenous guards in southern Colombia are raising alarm that landmines and armed groups are cutting off their families from natural resources and trapping them in small portions of their territory. It’s been an ongoing problem for decades, Mongabay contributor Jose Guarnizo reported. In August 2024, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) expanded its […]

Last season’s updated vaccine provides significant protection against covid-19,
particularly against severe illness and death.
The results reaffirm the benefit of staying current with covid vaccination.

Researchers analyzed data from approximately 1.8 million Americans between August 2024 and April 2025,
of whom only about 13 percent received the 2024–2025 coronavirus shot.
They evaluated three clinical outcomes related to the disease: infections, emergency departm…

How long does covid booster protection last? A new study offers answers.
More evidence highlighting the benefit, and limitations, of covid-19 vaccines

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum #Energiesparen

Defector reports Year 5 revenue up 1% YoY to $4.65M, including $3.8M from subscriptions; all 19 original co-founders continue to work at the worker-owned outlet (Defector)
https://defector.com/defector-annual-report-year-five

Defector Annual Report, September 2024 – August 2025 | Defector
Published on November 19, 2025 Purpose of this report Defector celebrated our fifth birthday in September 2025. It is a great honor, and something of a burden, to be publishing a fifth Annual Report. The year-to-year story of our business is one of general stability—an incredible luxury in digital media—with incremental and hard-won improvements. But…

Revisiting the mental imagery debate: New evidence from aphantasia and neuroimaging https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010945225002539
"Montabes De La Cruz et al. (2024) observed reduced auditory-induced activation in early visual areas in…

Hackers are attacking Britain’s drinking water suppliers https://therecord.media/britain-water-supply-cybersecurity-incident-reports-dwi-nis

Amazon says ads on Prime Video reach 315M viewers across its series and films, live sports and events, and free, ad-supported live channels (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/amazon-prime-video-ad-supported-reach-315-million-…

Amazon Prime Video Ad-Supported Reach Hits 315M Monthly Viewers
Amazon says advertising on Prime Video now reaches 315 monthly viewers, up from 200 million in April 2024.

Problem mit Idealen - ESC-Gewinner Nemo gibt wegen Israel Trophäe zurück #News #Nachrichten

Nebius signs a ~$3B, five-year deal to provide Meta with AI infrastructure and reports a $100M loss in Q3, up from a $39.7M loss in Q3 2024 (Deborah Sophia/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/ai-cloud-firm-…

Search and browser startup Brave says it has passed $100M in annualized revenue in Q1, and had 100M MAUs as of September, up from 77M at the end of 2024 (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/li

The Little-Known Search and Browser Startup Generating $100 Million in Annualized Revenue
Consumer-focused AI developers such as OpenAI and Perplexity are jockeying for a share of the browser market, now dominated by Google’s Chrome. But before they have a chance of dethroning Chrome, they first have to surpass Brave.Brave has been around for a decade and passed $100 million in ...

Framing Unionization on Facebook: Communication around Representation Elections in the United States
Arianna Pera, Veronica Jude, Ceren Budak, Luca Maria Aiello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01757

Framing Unionization on Facebook: Communication around Representation Elections in the United States
Digital media have become central to how labor unions communicate, organize, and sustain collective action. Yet little is known about how unions' online discourse relates to concrete outcomes such as representation elections. This study addresses the gap by combining National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election data with 158k Facebook posts published by U.S. labor unions between 2015 and 2024. We focused on five discourse frames widely recognized in labor and social movement communication res…

Brandon Aiyuk put on reserve/left squad list; season, and likely 49ers tenure, over https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6887016/2025/12/13/brandon-aiyuk-49ers-season-over/

Data Center Watch: local opposition blocked or delayed 17 US data center projects worth $98B in Q2 2025, vs. 16 projects worth $64B from May 2024 to March 2025 (Molly Taft/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-data-center-resistance-has-arrived/

The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived
A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year.

Report: Cowboys' $92M CB facing possible surgery for familiar injury https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/18/report-cowboys-cb-daron-bland-possible-foot-surgery/87836500007/

Datasets for Valence and Arousal Inference: A Survey
Helen Schneider, Svetlana Pavlitska, Helen Gremmelmaier, J. Marius Z\"ollner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00738 https://

Datasets for Valence and Arousal Inference: A Survey
Understanding human affect can be used in robotics, marketing, education, human-computer interaction, healthcare, entertainment, autonomous driving, and psychology to enhance decision-making, personalize experiences, and improve emotional well-being. This work presents a comprehensive overview of affect inference datasets that utilize continuous valence and arousal labels. We reviewed 25 datasets published between 2008 and 2024, examining key factors such as dataset size, subject distribution, …

Sources: Vinted is exploring a share sale that could value the company at ~€8B; Vinted says it expects 2025 revenue to cross €1B , up from €813M in 2024 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/76b8784e-438b-49aa-b044-b1b590a5af0b

Chinese hackers scanning, exploiting Cisco ASA firewalls used by governments worldwide https://therecord.media/chinese-hackers-scan-exploit-firewalls-government

TSMC reports a 16.9% rise in October sales, the slowest pace since February 2024, highlighting uncertainty over the AI boom's sustainability; TSMC is up 37% YTD (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-…

Study: AI's 2025 power demand could hit 23GW, above 2024 Bitcoin mining levels, and AI carbon emissions could hit 32.6M to 79.7M tons, compared to NYC's 50M (Justine Calma/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/845831/ai-chips-data-center-power-water

AI’s water and electricity use soars in 2025
AI data centers are using growing amounts of electricity and water, research shows, although companies aren’t divulging many details.

Filing: PA Media Group reports 2024 revenue up 3% YoY to £116.3M, its eighth consecutive year of revenue growth, but profit before tax declined by 4% to £8.6M (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_busines…

PA Media Group continues revenue growth for eighth year in a row
PA Media Group has grown its revenue for the eight year in a row, once again marking the highest in its 145-year history.

Dune and Keyrock: bets placed on prediction markets rose from <$100M per month in early 2024 to $13B per month in November, as Polymarket and Kalshi compete (Jill R Shah/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/bc300579-4b19-4f82-b232-e537e992c310

IBM plans to cut "a low single-digit percentage" of its workforce in Q4, affecting thousands of staffers; it employed ~270K workers as of the end of 2024 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-04/ibm-…

Analysis: Tata, Infosys, and Cognizant are set to bear the brunt of Trump's $100K H-1B fee; from 2020 to 2024, 93% of Infosys' H-1B hires would have had to pay (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12…

Filing: Lime's UK revenue rose 75% YoY to £111.3M in 2024, while its pre-tax profit fell to £1.71M, partly due to a £51.3M "reseller fee" paid to its US parent (Athena Browning/Zag Daily)
https://zagdaily.com/trends/limes-uk-revenue…

PlayStation starts rolling out cloud streaming to the PlayStation Portal, after a beta in 2024, to let some users stream select titles without a PS5 connection (Ash Parrish/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/814078/playstation-portal-ps5-cloud-streaming

Cloud streaming finally arrives on the PlayStation Portal
Sony’s official launch of PS5 cloud streaming to the PlayStation Portal comes with refreshed menus, PlayStation Plus games, and 3D audio support.

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

London-based PolyAI, which makes call center AI voice assistants, raised an $86M Series D led by Georgian, Hedosophia, and Khosla, after raising $50M in 2024 (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/12/15/polyai-raises-86m/

PolyAI raises $86M
London-based AI startup PolyAI has raised $86m in a Series D funding round.The funding round in the AI assistant developer for call centres was co-led by existing investors Canadian B2B software investor Georgian, London-based investor Hedosophia and US VC firm Khosla Ventures.Additional investors were NVentures (Nvidia’s VC arm), Sands Capital, Squarepoint Ventures, Citi Ventures, Point72 Ventures and the British Business Bank, which invested £15m ($20.1m). The British Business Bank is also…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #AmyLamé
Les Amazones d’Afrique:
🎵 Flaws (6 Music Session, 4 Feb 2024)
#LesAmazonesdAfrique
https://lesamazonesdafrique.bandcamp.com/track/flaws-feat-mamani-ke-ta-fafa-ruffino
https://open.spotify.com/track/3AH8RIK78cByIoR211KTY3

Human Interest, a 401(k) platform for SMBs that aims to cut down on administrative work, raised $100M at a $3B post-money valuation, up from $1.3B in 2024 (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/31/401k-human-interest

Scoop: 401(k) platform Human Interest now worth $3 billion
The $100 million raise comes just days after HI sued rival Guideline.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Thee Sacred Souls:
🎵 Lucid Girl (6 Music Session, 17 Sep 2024)
#TheeSacredSouls
https://supapatselectah.bandcamp.com/track/thee-sacred-souls-lucid-girl
https://open.spotify.com/track/5TdnxXaZIqJjASZaJQrW2e

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…

PitchBook: Nvidia invested in 59 AI startups in 2025 so far, including 10 in the past two months, surpassing 55 investments in 2024 and 12 investments in 2022 (Emily Forgash/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-29…