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"No Kings protests across the world: in pictures" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2026/mar/28/no-kings-protests-across-the-world-in-pictures

No Kings protests across the world: in pictures
Global protests against Donald Trump took place on Saturday as millions of people vented fury over what they see as his authoritarian bent and cruel, law-trampling governance. It is the third time in less than a year that Americans will take to the streets as part of a grassroots movement called No Kings, the most vocal and visual conduit for opposition to Trump since he began his second term in January 2025

Domestic violence. It’s domestic violence. No need to bury the lede. https://rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds/116150265982998221

A study of websites created since 2022 found 1 in 3 are AI-generated text. And their characteristics follow my prediction that AI will act as compression algorithm on cultural heritage.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonippolito…

Investment in Austin-based startups grew to a record high of $7.19B in 2025, up from $4.37B in 2024 and topping a pandemic peak of $6.1B in 2021 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/all-time-high-f…

Austin's Star Is Still Shining Bright: Venture Funding To City's Startups Hits All-Time High
Austin’s startup scene is stronger than ever. That’s the consensus among investors in the city, and it’s borne out by Crunchbase data, which shows startups headquartered in the Lone Star State’s capital raised a record $7.19 billion in venture funding in 2025.

"The world added 605 GW of new PV capacity in 2025, says IEA"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

The world added 605 GW of new PV capacity in 2025, says IEA
Latest report from the International Energy Agency says last year's 600 TWh increase in solar PV was the largest-ever electricity generation increase by any source in one year, outside of periods of post-crisis recovery.

Raiders bring back former assistant with ties to 2025 No. 1 pick https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-bring-back-former-assistant-with-ties-to-2025-no-1-pick-3712985/

Broadcaster Sinclair reports Q4 revenue of $836M, down 17% YoY, and net income down 38% YoY to $109M, core advertising revenue up 14% to $354M (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/02/sinclair-q4-2025-earnings-report/

Sinclair logs financial loss during 2025, weak distribution fees weigh on Q4 revenue
Sinclair reported lower 2025 earnings as political ads cooled, but growth in core advertising and sports demand boosted its outlook for 2026.

‼️Die #Petition
"Änderung von § 3 Absatz 3 Nr. 2c StVO vom 26.12.2025"
hat bisher 237 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29763 Unterschriften bis zum 11.03.2026.
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“Overweighting the US has served global investors well the past 15 years,” Lisa Shalett, chief investment officer at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management said.
“That said, we believe shifting geopolitical, monetary and fiscal policy regimes amid technological upheaval and the constraints of developed world debt are creating a need for diversification beyond US stocks and bonds for long-term investors.”
“One of the biggest and most underappreciated surprises of 2025 has been the extr…

US stocks had a remarkable 2025. But international markets did much better
Heading into 2025, US stock valuations were already relatively expensive compared to the rest of the world, creating an incentive for investors to look for returns in different markets.

What #comet C/2025 R3 (PANSTARRS) - more pictures from the 28th in https://www.danilopivato.com/solar_system/comets/c2025_r3_panstarrs/2026.03.28.html and https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=34496897756622967 and https://x.com/hositosorekara/status/2037645491253780614 and https://www.facebook.com/groups/227002358661288/posts/1726756352019207 - may be up to brightness-wise and what the viewing geometry will be in central Europe: explanations in https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/03/26/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-26-marz-2026/#Mar29

In 2024, #Finland made some changes to financial support for students (mostly at #university level). Newspapers report on some financial outcomes:
https://yle.fi/a/74…

Australiens Social-Media-Bann für unter 16-Jährige ist seit Dezember 2025 in Kraft — und laut Golem weitgehend wirkungslos. Rund 70 % der betroffenen Jugendlichen sind weiterhin aktiv. Falsches Alter angeben reicht. Europa will das Modell trotzdem kopieren. Manchmal ist Politik eben Symbolpolitik. #Jugendschutz

"Jenseits des „Culture War“: Die Relevanz des typografischen Wechsels im US-Außenministerium" von @…
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U.S. Power-Plant Pollution Rose Sharply in 2025 (Kris Maher/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/climate-environment/u-s-power-plant-pollution-rose-sharply-in-2025-081779c0?st=PqHGSz
http://www.memeorandum.com/260226/p77#a260226p77

"European residential heat pump sales increased in 2025"
#Europe #HeatPumps #Energy

European residential heat pump sales increased in 2025
Analysis across 16 European countries finds an around 240,000 increase in the number of residential heat pump sales year-on-year. The European Heat Pump Association attributes the upward trend to governments stabilizing subsidy schemes.

‼️Die #Petition
"Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen ab dem Jahr 2030 vom 22.11.2025"
hat bisher 714 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29286 Unterschriften bis zum 10.03.2026.
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Analysis of profiles using 2025 Google ad auction data: an average US user generates $1,600 in annual ad value; the top 10% users generate 43% of all ad value (Edward Komenda/The Proton Blog)
https://proton.me/blog/what-is-your-data-worth-to-google

What Google thinks you're worth | Proton
Proton analyzed 54,000 profiles using real ad auction data to determine your worth to Google. How valuable is your data?

SpaceX's draft IPO filing: from 2023 to 2025, Starlink's individual subscribers rose from 2.3M to 8.9M, revenue grew from $3.9B to $11.4B, and ARPU fell 18% (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/spacexs-starli…

SpaceX’s Starlink Revenue Per User Fell 18% As Customers Quadrupled
SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service quadrupled its individual subscribers between 2023 and 2025—but the average revenue each subscriber brought in fell 18% to $81 a month in that period, a draft version of SpaceX’s initial public offering prospectus shows. The decline in Starlink’s ARPU ...

Jugendschutz 2025: Hoher Anstieg gemeldeter Missbrauchsdarstellungen im Netz
Die Jahresstatistik der FSM-Hotline zeigt eine besorgniserregende Zunahme illegaler Inhalte und Herausforderungen durch KI-generierte Missbrauchsdarstellungen.

As the Defense Department anticipates the wireless networks of the future for warfighting missions,
it has shifted its focus for research and development primarily to 6G wireless technologies,
Marlan Macklin, deputy principal director for the Pentagon’s FutureG Office, said Wednesday.
The DOD is looking to the next-generation wireless tech to further build on the improved speeds, latency and capacity it gained with 5G
and support the U.S. military’s use of new capabil…

DOD turns its focus to 6G with concept that could help sense drones
The Pentagon's FutureG Office has been experimenting with a concept called Integrated Sensing and Communication.

"Five ‘lost’ bird species rediscovered in 2025"
#Birds #Animals
https://ne…

Five 'lost' bird species rediscovered in 2025
In 2025, birders and scientists found five “lost” bird species that had gone undocumented for a decade or more.

In the 20-minutes interview #Artemis program was changed. And the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel Annual Report https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasas-aerospace-safety-advisory-panel-releases-2025-annual-report/ also has something to say.

Chinese photonic chipmaker Yuanjie reported 2025 revenue up 138.5% YoY to ~$86.99M, data center revenue up 719% to ~$56.89M, ahead of its April 1 Hong Kong IPO (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3348311/

What is Yuanjie, the Chinese chipmaker whose share price has soared nearly 900%?
Yuanjie’s rise underscores how China’s optical chip firms are riding the AI infrastructure boom, with data centre demand driving growth.

‼️Die #Petition
"Stärkere Einschränkung der Verfügbarkeit von Feuerwerkskörpern bzw. von Böllern um den Jahreswechsel vom 27.05.2025"
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Es fehlen noch 29860 Unterschriften bis zum 11.03.2026.

Patentrekord 2025: China stürmt in europäische Top 3 und treibt den KI-Wettlauf
Der Jahresindex des Europäischen Patentamts zeigt eine hohe Nachfrage nach Computertechnik und 6G. Deutschland verteidigt Spitzenstellung trotz China-Offensive.

Journalist Andrzej Poczobut, the 2025 Sakharov prize winner, is freed after five years in a Belarusian prison as part of a US-brokered multi-country swap deal (Jakub Krupa/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr

Climate disasters of 2025:
Hundreds of thousands of people around the world have been impacted by extreme weather and climate disasters in 2025
From Hurricane Melissa to Los Angeles wildfires
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/clim

Climate disasters of 2025: From Hurricane Melissa to Los Angeles wildfires
Hundreds of thousands of people around the world have been impacted by extreme weather and climate disasters in 2025

Apple shipped 71.6% of all smartphones with satellite connectivity in 2025; smartphones with satellite connectivity to reach 46% of global shipments by 2030 (Counterpoint Research)
https://counterpointresearch.com/en/in

Smartphones With Satellite Connectivity to Reach 46% of Global Shipments by 2030
Driven by premium devices from OEMs such as Apple, Samsung, Google and Huawei, satellite connectivity will reach 46% of the smartphones shipped globally in 2030. Proprietary solutions will drive the…

An analysis of Internet Archive data: by mid-2025, ~35% of newly published websites since ChatGPT's launch in November 2022 were AI-generated or AI-assisted (Matthew Gault/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/study-finds-a-third-of-new-websites-are-ai-generate…

Study Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-Generated
Researchers found the internet is becoming aggressively positive as AI-generated text floods the web.

2025 wurden so viele Solar- und Windkraftanlagen wie nie zuvor gebaut
Bei Wind- und Solarenergie wird weltweit weiterhin kräftig zugebaut. Im vergangenen Jahr wurden über 800 Gigawatt neu installiert.
h…

Seit 2015 ist die Zahl getöteter #Radfahrende im #Straßenverkehr um gut 20 Prozent gestiegen.
2025 starben 462 Menschen, fast die Hälfte davon mit #EBike. Besonders betroffen sind üb…

Daten zu tödlichem Radverkehr: Zu viele kommen unter die Räder
Seit 2015 ist die Zahl der im Straßenverkehr getöteten Fahrradfahrenden um 20 Prozent gestiegen. Dabei spielen E-Bikes eine zentrale Rolle.

Samsung's Lee family dynasty reached a combined ~$45.5B net worth in March, up from ~$20.1B in 2025, amid the AI boom; they are now Asia's third-richest family (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

We’re still just starting to fully understand NIH funding losses from 2025,
still worrying about whether 2026 funds will be disbursed,
and are already bracing for further attempts to cut the next budget.
One thing is very clear:
the cuts, clawback, and chaos are disproportionately impacting researchers who aren’t white men.
Now, a new analysis of grant terminationsin the first half of 2025 highlights the toll on women,
especially early career resea…

Year 2, Week 13
Mar 21-27, 2026 - work the problem

A MoffettNathanson chart showed Netflix delivered 48 cents of revenue per hour viewed in 2025, below competitors, giving it room for its price hike this week (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/why-netflix-hiked-prices-explained-char…

Why Netflix Hiked Prices, Explained in One Chart
Netflix feels confident raising U.S. prices because it generates low revenue per hour streamed — indicating it has room to increase subscription fees.

Total on-chain ransomware payments fell 8% YoY to $820M in 2025, despite a record 50% rise in claimed victims; the median payment grew 368% YoY to nearly $60K (Chainalysis)
https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/crypto-ransomware-2026/

Crypto Ransomware: 2026 Crypto Crime Report
In 2025, total on-chain ransomware payments fell by approximately 8% to $820 million in 2025, even as claimed attacks rose 50%.

Google: KI-Systeme blockten 2025 1,75 Millionen schädliche Apps
Google hat 2025 deutlich weniger Schadprogramme aus dem Play Store entfernen müssen – ein Erfolg verschärfter Sicherheitsmaßnahmen und KI-gestützter Kontrollen.

The Italian tech holding company Bending Spoons, has developed a reputation for buying tech companies past their peak and aggressively cutting costs.
The firm acquired Evernote in 2022, followed by Meetup and WeTransfer in 2024, and AOL and Eventbrite in 2025.
Layoffs followed many of those deals. In September 2024, just months after being acquired by Bending Spoons, WeTransfer laid off 75% of its staff.
Just months after Bending Spoons bought Vimeo for $1.38 billion last ye…

Vimeo Lays Off 'Most' of Its Staff, Allegedly Includes 'the Entire Video Team'
Employees reported major job cuts this week, just months after the video hosting site was bought by Bending Spoons.

Top English-language news publishers on YouTube averaged 16% subscriber growth since Jan. 2025; 28 news influencers with 1M followers grew subscribers by 20% (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/social_media/biggest-news-publishers-youtube/

News booms on Youtube: BBC goes top as leading publishers grow 16%
Biggest news publishers on Youtube in 2026. Ranking of the leading English-language news-based Youtube channels.

DeepSeek's chatbot suffered a major outage of over seven hours in China, its biggest outage since debut in 2025 and an unusual downtime for a globally used app (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-30…

Starting in less than ONE HOUR, our final webinar of this series:
"Report-Back from COP30, Reflections on Change-Making and Next Steps."
Register now to hear about COP30, the Peoples' Summit and the Indigenous Village.
We will also reflect on corporate capture of climate action.

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Report Back from COP30, Reflections on Change-Making and Next Steps. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
In November 2025, Seed the Commons participated in the People’s Summit Towards COP30. We presented a talk as part of the Just Transition axis, and the last day of the summit we marched with tens of thousands of other activists from around the world to demand real solutions to our climate crisis. Alongside organizations such as SEUI 1021 and the SF Labor Council, Seed the Commons co-organized a solidarity climate march on the same day in San Francisco. We merged it with a People Over Billionai…

Knight Frank: Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI companies have leased 1M square feet of London office space since the start of 2025, or ~7% of all lettings (Natasha Voase/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…

Netflix wird in den USA schon wieder teurer
In den USA wird Netflix schon wieder teurer – zum zweiten Mal seit Anfang 2025. Für Deutschland wurde noch keine Preiserhöhung angekündigt.
https://www.h…

Former FCC Commissioners and staffers ask a federal appeals court to require the FCC to vote on a November 2025 petition to repeal the News Distortion Policy (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/919536/former-fcc-officials-b…

Former FCC officials want to force a vote on the ‘weapon’ Brendan Carr has invoked against broadcasters
A bipartisan group of former Federal Communications Commission officials want a court to force the agency to vote on a petition to repeal the News Distortion Policy.

OpenLight, which designs custom application-specific photonic chips, raised $50M in a Series A extension, after raising $34M in August 2025 (Charlotte Trueman/DatacenterDynamics)
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news

People posing as ICIJ journalists or whistleblowers targeted Taiwanese officials and real reporters after a 2025 ICIJ investigation called China Targets (Scilla Alecci/ICIJ)
https://www.icij.org/investigations/china-targets/fake-journal…

Phony whistleblowers, fake journalists and cyber spies: ICIJ network targeted after China Targets probe  - ICIJ
Shortly after publication, a slew of fake ICIJ reporters approached journalists, Taiwanese officials, and human rights advocates seeking sensitive data. With Citizen Lab, we investigated

Space Force guardians provided critical support during high-profile U.S. military operations in Iran and Venezuela
— experience that underscores the need for additional resources to prepare the service for future conflicts,
a senior official told DefenseScoop in an exclusive interview Friday.
Operation Midnight Hammer and Operation Absolute Resolve were carried out by the joint force in June 2025 and January 2026, respectively.
Pentagon leadership have touted the rai…

EXCLUSIVE: Space Force’s role in Iran, Venezuela raids fueling push for more resources
Space Force guardians provided critical support during high-profile U.S. military operations in Iran and Venezuela — experience that underscores the need for additional resources to prepare the service for future conflicts, a senior official told DefenseScoop in an exclusive interview.

Alphabet reports YouTube's Q1 ad revenue rose 10.7% YoY to $9.88B, vs. $9.99B est., and Google's ad revenue reached $77.25B, up from $66.89B in Q1 2025 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/youtube-q1-2026-ad-revenu…

YouTube Pumps Up Ad Sales 10.7% to $9.9 Billion in Q1
Alphabet reported Q1 2026 earnings, which revealed YouTube continues to see a double-digit uptick in ad revenue.

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.

Analysis: Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon's combined capex hit a record $130B in Q1 and is projected to reach $725B in 2026, up 77% from $410B in 2025 (Financial Times)
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/6b9bc764-dc68-4f…

Filing: Paramount CEO David Ellison's 2025 compensation was $63.2M, CLO Makan Delrahim's package was $63.6M, and ex-president Jeff Shell's package was $60.7M (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/par

Paramount Skydance Discloses 2025 Pay for CEO David Ellison, Former President Jeff Shell
Paramount Skydance disclosed the 2025 compensation for CEO David Ellison and Jeff Shell, who resigned as Paramount's president earlier this month.

AWS revenue rose 28% YoY in Q1 to $37.6B, vs. $36.64B est., its fastest growth in 15 quarters, as capital expenditures rose to $44.2B, up from $25B in Q1 2025 (Quartz)
https://qz.com/amazon-q1-2026-earnings-aws-cloud-growth-042926

Hightouch, which uses AI to help marketers create and manage campaigns, raised $150M led by Goldman Sachs and Bain at a $2.75B valuation, up from $1.2B in 2025 (Patrick Coffee/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/cmo-today/goldman-sach

Sources: WaPo lost $100M in 2025, after losing ~$100M in 2024 and $77M in 2023; its publisher told staff that expenses surpassed revenue between 2022 and 2025 (Alexandra Bruell/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/m…

AAM: WaPo's average daily print circulation fell 21.2% YoY in the six months to September 30, 2025; LAT's fell 19.8%, WSJ's 12.9%, NYT's 8.6%, and NYP's 4.2% (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-ameri

US newspaper circulations 2025: Washington Post print declines 21% in a year
The average daily print circulation at 25 of the largest audited newspapers in the US fell by 12.5% in the year to the end of September 2025.

Midjourney CEO David Holz says the company's revenue "significantly surpassed" $200M in 2023, and has "gone up" since then, despite its declining web traffic (Jemima McEvoy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/mi

Midjourney Is Profitable and Chasing Hardware Dreams. But Can It Survive Google?
Over much of the past year, David Holz, the 37-year-old founder of Midjourney, has devoted himself to a single task: reassuring fans of his AI image-making tool that a new, significant update—version 8—would indeed arrive soon. Initially, Holz said it might come at the end of 2025. That date ...

Alphabet reports YouTube's Q1 ad revenue rose 10.7% YoY to $9.88B, vs. $9.99B est., and Google's ad revenue reached $77.25B, up from $66.89B in Q1 2025 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/youtube-q1-2026-ad-revenu…

YouTube Pumps Up Ad Sales 10.7% to $9.9 Billion in Q1
Alphabet reported Q1 2026 earnings, which revealed YouTube continues to see a double-digit uptick in ad revenue.

Hightouch, which uses AI to help marketers create and manage campaigns, raised $150M led by Goldman Sachs and Bain at a $2.75B valuation, up from $1.2B in 2025 (Patrick Coffee/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/cmo-today/goldman-sach

Sensor Tower: EA led all publishers in 2025 with 200M PC and console downloads, ahead of its $55B deal to go private; Fortnite had the top console player base (Payton Turkeltaub/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/gaming/news/electronic-arts-game-downloa…

Electronic Arts Leads 2025 Game Downloads, Finds Gaming Report
Video game publisher and developer Electronic Arts came out on top in 2025, according to Sensor Tower’s 2026 State of Gaming Report.