Tootfinder

“Just as Nazi Germany’s crimes could not have been committed without the technology IBM provided to track, round-up and murder Jews, Romani people and the disabled, Israel’s apartheid and genocide of the Palestinians would not be possible without Microsoft.”
https://thegrayzone.com/2025/05/23/mi…

How Microsoft became a hub for Israeli intelligence - The Grayzone
News and investigative journalism on empire

Counterpoint has revised its 2025 global smartphone shipment growth forecast to 1.9% YoY, down from 4.2%, citing "renewed uncertainties surrounding US tariffs" (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/04/apple-sams

Apple and Samsung smartphone growth to take hit from tariff uncertainty: Counterpoint Research
Counterpoint Research revised down its 2025 global smartphone shipment growth forecast to 1.9% year-on-year from 4.2%.

Salesforce und Co.: Wie viel Arbeit übernimmt die KI schon – und was heißt das?
Google, Salesforce und Microsoft prahlen mit KI-Effizienz. Doch wie viel Arbeit wird wirklich von KI übernommen und was bedeutet das für Beschäftigte?

You might want to fine-tune your notification settings:
“Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications” - https://www.404media.co/apple-gave-governments-data-on-thousands-of-push-notifications/

Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications
Push notification data can sometimes include the unencrypted content of notifications. Requests include from the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Israel.

Imagine how different the Disney parks Star Wars lands would have been if Andor had come out before they built those.

I’m quoted here regarding the ethics in not disclosing to students and defense contractors that their information may have been leaked in an Indiana University data breach. Still no word of a third party investigator being engaged. Dear Internet, do your thing.
https://www.

Administrator says IU will never explain IT security breach publicly
For more than three weeks, Indiana University websites have been down, disrupting and frustrating the university community.

A generation of scientific talent is at the brink of being lost to overseas competitors by the Trump administration’s dismantling of the National Science Foundation (NSF), with unprecedented political interference at the agency jeopardizing the future of US industries and economic growth, according to a Guardian investigation.
The gold standard peer-reviewed process used by the NSF to support cutting-edge, high-impact science is being undermined by the chaotic cuts to staff, programs a…

Death of top Russian oil executive fuels fresh scrutiny of elite's 'window falls': https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/04/death-of-top-russian-oil.html

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine verpflichtende Einführung des digitalen Euro vom 17.03.2025"
hat bisher 119 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29881 Unterschriften bis zum 08.07.2025.
https://

Best claw machine prizes ever! 🐈

やばいタグがサジェストされてるけど違うから！

Apropos of yet another conversation today, I’m a big fan of using automation in WCAG testing.
But I also know WCAG well enough to understand the limitations (and lies) the tools.
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/04/automated-wcag-testing-is-grrreat.htm…

Automated WCAG Testing Is Grrreat!
I’m a big fan of using automation in WCAG testing. I use bookmarklets, dev tools, browser features & reporting, and a pile of third-party products from assorted vendors. These save me time and effort, letting me focus on more tricky cases. But… Unfortunately, the marketing machines of some vendors seem…

„Right now, if you wanted to, you could place a bet that Jesus Christ will not return this year, and earn over $13,000 if you’re right.”
https://ericneyman.wordpress.com/2025/03/24/will-jesus-christ-return-in-an-election-year/

(Je n'ai pas accès, mais c'est une bonne question!)
"Le Monde – Dominique Méda : « Qu’est-ce qui explique la haine de l’écologie, qui sert de ciment en Europe et ailleurs ? »"
https://www.

Dominique Méda : « Qu’est-ce qui explique la haine de l’écologie, qui sert de ciment en Europe et ailleurs ? »
Comment des partis politiques, qui prétendent gouverner la France, ont-ils pu en arriver à une position aussi irresponsable que celle de proposer un moratoire sur les énergies renouvelables, se demande la sociologue dans sa chronique.

Jim Shooter, who revitalized the comics industry as the EIC of Marvel from 1978 to 1987, died at age 73 (Clay Risen/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/arts/jim-shooter-dead.html

Jim Shooter, Editor Who ‘Saved the Comics Industry,’ Dies at 73
He brought order and profits to Marvel in the 1980s and helped establish the genre as a popular-culture tent pole for decades to come.

this is the first IC i reballed successfully (as far as i recall)
rate me?

Sorcha - a Solar System Survey Simulator for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time: #Rubin Observatory will discover millions of solar system objects: https://www.geekwire.com/2025/sorcha-software-rubin-observatory-millions/

from my link log —
I Have No Constructor, and I Must Initialize.
https://consteval.ca/2024/07/03/initialization/
saved 2024-07-05

I Have No Constructor, and I Must Initialize | consteval

Soldiers Are Taking a Stand Against Trump’s Abuses | Portside
https://portside.org/2025-07-05/soldiers-are-taking-stand-against-trumps-abuses

Trump, White House aides signal a possible détente with Musk (Dasha Burns/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/05/trump-white-house-aides-signal-a-possible-detente-with-musk-00391502
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p156#a250605p156

If you continually give you will continually have.

Great blog post by @… on the Whatever machine. She talks about why crypto sucks, why LLMs suck, why hyped up clickbait sucks, and why calling writing and art 'content' sucks https://e…

The rise of Whatever
This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of events in recent history. Let me back up a bit.

The Red Wave: The 2025 Federal Election
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

«But I think the core of what pisses me off is that selling this magic machine requires selling the idea that doing things is worthless. Because if doing something has some value, then it must be somehow better than pushing a button and receiving Whatever for essentially no cost. If you’re some assclown like Sam Altman, whose graph-go-up depends on convincing you to replace all your employees with ChatGPT, you have to destroy that idea.»
https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/
/HT @…

Over half of Europe and Mediterranean basin hit by drought in mid-May #Europe

Over half of Europe and Mediterranean basin hit by drought in mid-May
More than half, or 53%, of land in Europe and the Mediterranean basin were hit by drought in mid-May, according to an AFP analysis of data from the European Drought Observatory (EDO) from May 11-20, 2025.

A comet the size of a small city... just passing by our neighborhood onto the next solar system in a few million years.
#astronomy #comet #interstellar
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/a11pl3z-discovery-interstellar-object-1.7575576

For all the German speakers in my network: my research on spatial layouts and communication has been featured in a lovely and detailed article in the weekly German newspaper Die Zeit discussing the manifold relations between architecture and social outcomes, ranging from political coalition negotiations to the mutiny on the Bounty, from team meetings in offices to places for living

Architektur: Wie Architekten Gespräche lenken – und Macht verteilen
Gute Architektur verbindet Menschen, schlechte trennt sie. Wer die Gesetze des Bauens kennt, kann Politiker zusammenbringen – und sogar den Lauf der Geschichte verändern.

Strengthening #Kotlin for Backend Development: A Strategic Partnership With #Spring
https://blo…

1/ Since it's open season on the Chinese in the US right now, I wanted to post about a remarkable Chinese-American experience that is one of the real gems of New England, making the region and country better in every way. It's about jazz and blues music. ↵

Unfortunately & conversely, this (below) is the same framing tech bros (and parts of the population) are finding so attractive to anthropomorphize LLMs: These are not machines, and them making mistakes is normal and expected... At the same time, the other card being played (by politics, military & law enforcement) is that AI-driven insights and decision making are _already_ considered superior, infallible and unchallengeable... in the middle of this two pronged rhetoric is the fate o…

A look at DeepSeek's impact on the AI model race and market share landscape, roughly 150 days after DeepSeek R1 shook stock markets and the Western AI world (SemiAnalysis)
https://semianalysis.com/2025/07/03/deepseek-debrief-128-days-later/

DeepSeek Debrief: >128 Days Later 
SemiAnalysis is hiring an analyst in New York City for Core Research, our world class research product for the finance industry. Please apply here It’s been a bit over 150 days since the launc…

Will Trump resume aid? Zelenskyy calls for action after new Russian attacks | News Pulse: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/04/will-trump-resume-aid-zelenskyy.html

When you’re busy in your typical work environment:

‼️Die #Petition
"Verkürzung der Übergangsfrist für das Verbot von Mikroplastik in Wasch-, Pflege- und Reinigungsmitteln vom 09.03.2025"
hat bisher 84 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29916 Unterschriften bis zum 08.07.2025.

のえるハウスはクロスだよ。
その昔、パソコン通信ホスト局をやってたときは、電柱から9本引き込まれていたので、いまはスマートだよね！

Why the Texas floods were so severe
Four months of rainfall came down in four hours.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/07/04/texas-flooding-extreme-rains/

Why the Texas floods were so severe
Flooding rains in and around Kerr County had brought a widespread 10 to 15 total inches by Friday morning. Four months of rainfall came down in four hours.

#UkPol #TheGuardian
"Jeremy Corbyn confirms talks about forming new party with Zarah Sultana"

Noem Blames "Ancient System" For Delayed Warnings - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/07/noem-blames-ancient-system-for-delayed-warnings/

Some creatives and academics are rejecting AI on environmental and ethical grounds, and describe the pressure they feel to use AI to "keep up" with others (Emine Saner/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

He's gonna kill millions
https://c.im/@cdarwin/114802320267318178

"Space: 2075": #Space2075

from my link log —
Displaying Korean text efficiently.
https://oberg.org/posts/hangul/
saved 2025-03-15 https://dotat.at/:/WF7T1.h…

"Eventually, I stopped responding to my body. I was responding instead to a dashboard." — @…
This is a great point and very much translates to so many other parts of life/work where people stop listening to their "body" (or to their org/product/offering), outsourcing/numbing/dumbing down their decision making based on dashboards of col…

Why I Gave Up My Smartwatch
Somewhere between the first time I tapped my wrist to skip a song and the three hundredth time I anxiously checked my resting heart rate, I started to hate my Apple Watch. The promise of the smartwatch was elegance, convenience, optimization. What I got was constant data drip, subtle panic,

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act expands Qualified Small Business Stock benefits for VCs, founders, and startup staff, raising tax-free gains from $10M to $15M (Robert Frank/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/03/trump-big-beautiful-…

Top five tax changes for the wealthy in Trump's 'big beautiful bill'
Taxpayers earning $1 million or more are expected to see a boost in after-tax income of about 3% under Trump's megabill.

'There will be 1,000 units per day' — Ukrainian commander warns of increased Russian Shahed drone attacks: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/04/there-will-be-units-per.html

O'Reilly: GenAI has adopted a colonialist business model.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/timo3_proud-of-the-cloudflare-team-working-to-build-activity-7345899260506271745-mlHS

If you want to understand why O'Reilly is a supporter of this announcement, and want to ask both me and Matthew Prince about it, join our July 14 conversation on Live with Tim O'Reilly. | Tim O'Reilly
If you want to understand why O'Reilly is a supporter of this announcement, and want to ask both me and Matthew Prince about it, join our July 14 conversation on Live with Tim O'Reilly. AI has adopted colonialism as its business model: Extract resources from others and use it to enrich yourself and your customers at the expense of those whose resources you have taken, without giving much back. It's high time we started developing new mechanisms to enable content monetization for creators, not …

@… リモート投稿へのリンクがあったら、クリップボードにコピーして、自分の所属サーバの検索欄にペーストし、検索をかけます。そうすると結果に対象の投稿が出てくるので、そこからいいねやブックマークできます。

As Russia wages its full-scale war against Ukraine, one of its most important missile plants is quietly expanding -- bypassing international sanctions.
The Votkinsk Plant, also known as the Votkinskiy Plant,
— a strategic, state-owned facility serving Russia’s nuclear forces
— has hired thousands of new workers,
added new buildings,
and brought in advanced machinery to significantly increase its missile production.
Ukrainians have felt it firsthand.
Is…

Investigation: Russia expands strategic plant producing ICBMs — with China’s help
Key findings: * Despite international sanctions, Russia's strategic missile plant was able to import complex machinery to dramatically increase missile production. * The Kyiv Independent has identified the equipment supplied to the plant, as well as the supply chains, mostly from China. * We located the plant's new premises, built to house the new machinery. * We obtained a document confirming that the plant received an order to produce intercontinental missiles capable of reaching the U.S.

Cluely says its ARR hit $7M after signing a public company; a startup called Pickle says it built Glass, an open source, free product similar to Cluely (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/03/clue

Cluely’s ARR doubled in a week to $7M, founder Roy Lee says. But rivals are coming. | TechCrunch
Cluely's rapid ascend may be challenged by free copycat products.

Kumulativer Zubau der #Windenergieleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Summe der Inbetriebnahmen minus Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erster Versuch einer #Datenanalyse. 😁 Hinweise gerne. Wünsch…

California National Guard Is Not Available For CA Wildfires | Crooks and Liars
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/07/california-national-guard-not-available-ca

#caturday napping
#atlas #catsofmastodon

from my link log —
SKIM: The implementation of functional languages using custom hardware.
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-81.html
saved 2025-03-22

Tel Aviv-based Qedma, which is developing an error mitigation software called QESEM for quantum computers, raised a $26M Series A led by Glilot Capital Partners (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/03/isra

Israeli quantum startup Qedma just raised $26 million, with IBM joining in | TechCrunch
Qedma specializes in error mitigation software. Its main piece of software, QESEM, standing for Quantum Error Suppression and Error Mitigation, analyzes noise patterns to suppress some classes of errors while the algorithm is running and mitigate others in post-processing.

私はSteamのゲームが面白すぎてそっちは遊んでる暇がないので、みんなに任せたよ！

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Rein numerische Zählung nach Inbetriebnahmejahr ohne Berücksichtigung des Betriebsstatus.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erster Versuch einer #Datenanalyse

Kristi Noem has repeatedly claimed that the U.S. government deported a cannibal that “ate other people”
and then, while on a flight from the U.S., became so “deranged” that he began to “eat himself.”
Noem first shared the dubious tale late last week during an interview with Fox News’s Jesse Watters.
The Cabinet secretary said that a U.S. marshal “off-handedly” told her about a cannibal on a “planeload of illegals.”
When Noem asked, “What do you mean he was a canniba…

Why Won’t ICE Comment on Kristi Noem’s Cannibal Stories?
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem repeated a story of ICE deporting a “cannibal,” despite no evidence to support it. This plays into centuries of racist fantasies.

'Meet to discuss': Elon Musk gets unlikely allies in effort to build new party - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/meet-cuban-musk-new-party/

MongoDB reports Q1 revenue up 22% YoY to $549M, vs. $527.5M est., net loss down 54% to $37.6M, and increases its full-year guidance; MDB up 14% after hours (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/04/mongodb-crus…

おお、もうSwitch 2だったり（Switch 2じゃないものだったり）が届いているのか。

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

The American president wrote, “Vladimir, STOP!” on his Truth Social account in April,
-- but the Russian president did not halt his offensive in eastern Ukraine.
The Ukrainian president called for an unconditional cease-fire in May,
-- but the Russians did not agree to stop attacking Ukrainian civilians from the air.
Donald Trump repeatedly promised, during his campaign, that he would end the war “in one day,”
-- but the war is not over.
He spoke to Vla…

America's Great Realignment Toward Putin
Donald Trump is giving Vladimir Putin every incentive to keep killing Ukrainians.

"the chief aim is to create a hive-mind of sorts among the federal workforce, in which staff members are mere extensions of the president’s will, rather than the People’s"
Trump Hiring Program: The Best Praise For The Administration Is Compulsory Praise | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/05/trump-hiring-program-the-best-praise-for-the-administration-is-compulsory-praise/

OatFi, whose APIs handle underwriting, origination, and capital deployment for B2B payment providers, raised a $24M Series A led by White Star Capital (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/06/03/oatfi-24-milliom-b2b-credit

Exclusive: OatFi nabs $24M for embedded B2B credit
Slow payment terms choke company cash flows across the $35 trillion B2B economy.

ZonePane Platinum

Texas parents frantically posted photos of their young daughters on social media with pleas for information as more than 20 campers from an all-girls summer camp were unaccounted for Friday after floods tore through the state’s south-central region.
At least 13 people were dead Friday and dozens missing after months worth of heavy rain fell in a matter of hours on Texas Hill Country, Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha said.
The flood-prone region is dotted with century-old summer …

Texas families plead for information on more than 20 girls missing from summer camp after floods
Texas parents frantically posted photos of their young daughters on social media with pleas for information as more than 20 campers from an all-girls summer camp were unaccounted for Friday after floo...

SEC filing: Uber appoints Palo Alto CEO Nikesh Arora to its board of directors following a broader executive shakeup this week (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/04/uber-board-palo-alto-nikesh-arora.html

Uber adds Palo Alto CEO Nikesh Arora to its board after executive shakeup
Nikesh Arora, the CEO of Palo Alto Networks, is joining the board of Uber. Prior, he was COO of Softbank and also held positions at Google and T-Mobile.

Jährlich genehmigte Windenergieleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Genehmigt bedeutet noch nicht gebaut oder in Betrieb. Nicht alle Anlagen benötigen eine Genehmigung.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erster Versuch einer #Datenanalyse. 😁 Hinweise gerne. Wünsche nur gegen Geld. 🤪

ここに、うまそうなカレーパンの写真があるじゃろ……？
あとでたべるんじゃよ……。
これ、近所の激ウマのカレー屋さんが、隣の美味しいパン屋さんの協力を得て、火曜と木曜に数量限定で売ってるやつで、中に入ってるのは本格的なポークビンダルーなんじゃよ……。 @…

Sources: Apple may announce new features for AirPods at WWDC, including iPhone camera control, new head gestures, and sleep detection for pausing playback (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/04/exclusive-airpods-ios-26-wwdc-features/…

Exclusive: AirPods to get camera control, sleep detection, new gestures - 9to5Mac
Today, we are sharing a five previously unreported AirPods features that may be announced as early as Monday, during the WWDC25 keynote.

Russian state media reported that during the Trump-Putin call, Putin reiterated his determination to continue pursuing the Kremlin's goals in Ukraine -- despite mounting international calls for a ceasefire.
Zelensky called on Ukraine's allies, particularly the United States,
to apply massive and immediate pressure on Russia.
"We need to ensure that for every such attack on people and lives, they (Russia) feel the corresponding sanctions and other blows to thei…

'Deliberately massive and cynical' — Russian attack on Ukraine began as Trump and Putin spoke, Zelensky says
"Patriots and their missiles are real defenders of life," President Volodymyr Zelensky said. "It is very important to maintain the support of partners in ballistic missile defense."

Entwicklung des Rotordurchmessers von Windkraftanlagen an Land in Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Der kleinste registrierte #Rotordurchmesser misst 0.2 m.
Der größte registrierte Rotordurchmesser misst 200.0 m.
Anmerkung: Erster Versuch einer #Datenanalyse. 😁 Hin…

Amazon is creating an AI team within its Lab126 hardware R&D unit that will help develop an agentic AI framework for use in its robotics operations (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/04/amazons-rd-lab-forms-new-agentic-ai-group.html…

Amazon's R&D lab forms new agentic AI group
The new group will help develop an agentic AI "framework" for use in its robotics operations, an application often referred to as "physical AI."

"Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom."
The announcement from Musk comes after Trump signed a tax-cut and spending bill into law on Friday, which the billionaire chief executive officer of Tesla fiercely opposed.
Musk said previously that he would start a new political party and spend money to unseat lawmakers who supported the bill.

Anzahl der #Windkraftanlagen je Hersteller in Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Ohne Berücksichtigung des Betriebsstatuses. Keine Berücksichtigung von M&A, es sei denn, Änderungen in der Firmierung werden im MaStR berücksichtigt.
Anmerkung: Erster Versuch einer #Datenanalyse

Chinese startups and tech giants are racing to create AI agents for both local and global consumers, following the popularity of Butterfly Effect's Manus (Caiwei Chen/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/05/1117958/china-ai-a…

Manus has kick-started an AI agent boom in China
A stampede of contenders and copycats has followed the launch of the general AI agent, but China’s internet restrictions have so far made it easier to cater to overseas users.

An interview with Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost on settling the proxy fight with Starboard Value, serving the "design and make" workforce, US reshoring, and more (Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/02/2025

Autodesk’s Andrew Anagnost on surviving an activist attack
The design software CEO says resolving an investor standoff starts with admitting which critiques are fair.

Entwicklung der #Nabenhöhen von Windkraftanlagen an Land in Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Die kleinste registrierte #Nabenhöhe misst 1.0 m.
Die größte registrierte Nabenhöhe misst 179.0 m.
Anmerkung: Erster Versuch einer

Celebrity haunt that made ‘Chinese chicken salad a household name’ to close this summer
Sweet-crunchy, crispy-wonton-laced Chinese chicken salad was most likely created by Madame Sylvia Wu at her Santa Monica restaurant Madame Wu’s Garden,
but a large share of the dish’s popularity across L.A. in the 1980s and ’90s can be credited to Chin Chin.
“Owner and founder Bob Mandler is the man responsible for making Chinese chicken salad a household name in Los Angeles County, …

West Hollywood's Chin Chin will serve its last Chinese chicken salad in July
The West Hollywood restaurant that helped popularize Chinese American cuisine will close in late July after more than 40 years in business.

Some creatives and academics are rejecting AI on environmental and ethical grounds, and describe the pressure they feel to use AI to "keep up" with others (Emine Saner/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

Anzahl der #Windkraftanlagen je #Bundesland in Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Die "Ausschließliche Wirtschaftszone" bedeutet Offshore-Standort.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erster Versuch einer

This is the kind of thing that does get fixed by making some noise about it.
https://bsky.app/profile/andycraig.bsky.social/post/3ltbemacdhc2g

Filing: OpenAI seeks to block a May 13 court order requiring it to preserve all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats, arguing it poses a risk to users' privacy (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats
OpenAI defends privacy of hundreds of millions of ChatGPT users.

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

As the AI talent wars reach a fever pitch,
Mark Zuckerberg is offering top tier recruits to Meta’s new superintelligence lab
pay packages of up to $300 million over four years,
with more than $100 million in total compensation for the first year.
https://bsky.app/profile/wired.com/pos

Im MaStR werden M&A anscheinend nicht berücksichtigt. Die könnten zwar die Referenzdaten aktualisieren, machen sie aber nicht. Ich habe mal versucht, etwas aufzuräumen.
Anzahl der #Windkraftanlagen für TOP30 Hersteller in Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Ohne Berücksichtigung des Betriebsstatuses.
Anmerkung: Zweiter Versuch einer

Document: Xiaohongshu, a TikTok alternative known in the US as Rednote, has surged to a $26B valuation based on recent market transactions via a GSR fund (Echo Wong/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth says the "tides have turned" in Silicon Valley, making it more acceptable for the tech industry to support the US military's efforts (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Two FCC commissioners announce they'll depart this week, creating three vacancies on the five-member panel amid a probe into EchoStar's 5G service obligations (Kelcee Griffis/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Source: Circle priced its upsized IPO at $31 per share, above marketed range of $27 to $28, raising nearly $1.1B and valuing the company at approximately $6.9B (Anthony Hughes/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sources: Chinese hackers breached a US telecom company in the summer of 2023, a year before US officials and cybersecurity firms detected the Salt Typhoon hacks (Jake Bleiberg/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

LumApps, which makes intranet software, agrees to merge with frontline staff communication app Beekeeper in a deal valuing the combined entity at about $1.1B (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace

Epic v. Apple: a US appeals court rejects Apple's request to pause key parts of a federal judge's order requiring it to open the App Store to more competition (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustain…

Over the past year, long-time Bitcoin whales have been selling off their holdings, leading to a reshaping of the market as institutions increase their buying (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Savvy Wealth, a digital wealth management service for financial advisors, raised a $72M Series B led by Industry Ventures, taking its total funding to $100M (Davis Janowski/Wealth Management)
https://www.wealthmanagement.com/ria-news/

Savvy Wealth Raises $72M, Adds Mark Casady to Board of Directors
Savvy Wealth, a technology platform provider to RIAs, announced the closing of a $72 million Series B funding round led by venture capital firm Industry Ventures.

Source: Amazon is developing software for humanoid robots to deliver packages and is near completion of an indoor "humanoid park" in San Francisco to test them (Rocket Drew/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/am

Amazon Prepares to Test Humanoid Robots for Delivering Packages
Amazon is developing software for humanoid robots that could eventually take the jobs of delivery workers, according to a person who has been involved in the effort. In doing so, Amazon is paving the way to automate a major part of its operation, the delivery of parcels around the world.

The US DOJ seized ~145 domains and crypto linked to BidenCash, a dark web market that made $17M in revenue since 2022 by selling stolen credit cards and more (Ionut Ilascu/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

Meta reveals more information about its research glasses Aria Gen 2, including their form factor, computer vision cameras, sensors, and on-device compute (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/679707/meta-aria-gen-2-upgrades-specs-ai

Here’s what’s inside Meta’s experimental new smart glasses
Meta has revealed the technical details about Aria Gen 2, the latest version of its experimental smart glasses designed for researchers.

Filing: CrowdStrike says the DOJ and SEC have requested information about the July 2024 outage caused by an update and about its revenue recognition practices (Connor Hart/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.