@Techmeme@techhub.socialPresident Trump signs an executive order aimed at preempting a growing number of state AI laws, saying "we want to have one central source of approval" (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-says-he-will-sign-order-curbing-state-…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de@… danke für den Hinweis! Das haben wir angepasst ;)
@anildash@me.dmZooey Deschanel, explaining how Prince ended up on "New Girl". I know she's telling the story very accurately, because she says that Prince's manager's email started with "I'm manager to legendary artist Prince...", which is exactly how her messages did start. https://youtu.be/_pMdUxAztjw
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online‼️Die #Petition
"Weitere Erforschung der Augenerkrankung Glaukom sowie Entwicklung neuer Therapien vom 01.08.2025"
hat bisher 84 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29916 Unterschriften bis zum 09.12.2025.
@rasterweb@mastodon.social@… If I have 3 4B drives on my TrueNAS server and want to add 3 more 4TB drives how simple is that?
Do I create a new VDEV with the 3 new drives then add that VDEV to the pool?
Or is it better to create a new pool?
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioGuessing from the current RAM price increases we'll be back at 1976 prices in a few months!
16,384 bytes for $795 adjusted for inflation is $4,527, which is about 28¢ per byte.
32GB of memory would therefore be roughly 9.5 billion dollars.
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeVPS ⩵ Very Pimportant Sperson
@benb@osintua.euUS House approves defense bill granting Ukraine $400 million a year in military aid through 2027: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/11/us-house-approves-defense-bill.html
@cdarwin@c.imThe Department of Homeland Security has signed a nearly
$140m contract to purchase six Boeing 737 planes
-- for deportation operations.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/10/us-signs-boeing-trump-deportation-d…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA look at Netflix's funding plan for WBD: $59B of debt financing via Wall Street banks, to be eventually replaced with bonds, term loans, and revolving credit (Emily Graffeo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Dragofix@veganism.social2025 on track to tie second hottest year on record: EU monitor #EU
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDeal to end US shutdown would also allow some Republican senators to seek $500,000 for January 6 probe (David Shepardson/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/deal-end-us-shutdown-would-also-allow-some-republican-senators-seek-500000-2025-11-11/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p107#a251111p107
@stefan@gardenstate.social
@zachleat@zachleat.com@… the best idea I have right now (and it’s not good) might be a script to help manage package.json overrides at the app code level.
(also I agree with your take. I’d also accept a dep with an extra CLI that uses Node’s arg parser)
@hashtaggames@oldfriends.liveTime For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
#SandwichASong
#HashTagGames
@rperezrosario@mastodon.socialWhich one do you use the most, while not at work, but in your free personal time?
Please consider boosting for a larger sample size. Thank you.
#poll #computing #fediverse
@primonatura@mstdn.social"From concrete walls to living edges, here’s how riverside habitats are being restored along the Thames"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment
@eichkat3r@hessen.socialbei mir auf arbeit wird jetzt anonym geschrottwichtelt
was würde stromberg jetzt tun
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeCheck out my latest CSO piece, which provides the key takeaways from the 2026 NDAA compromise bill released earlier this week, chief among which are provisions that protect the mobile communications of top brass and requirements to safeguard AI systems from digital threats.
https://www.
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caabsolutely insane that he brags about piracy
https://mastodon.world/@maddad/115698263426061992
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzHah. Fascinating to watch this guy evaluating his Xiomi SU7 EV, musing about what would happen to the US car industry if it was available in the US. #Cooked…
@servelan@newsie.socialFDA To "Investigate" Whether COVID Vax Killed Adults - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/12/fda-to-investigate-whether-covid-vax-killed-adults/
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.socialThe kind of inspiration I need in a gym
@hynek@mastodon.socialI think my body is telling me to get back to Hawaii
@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ieNew Gist: Waving the Ban Hammer
Patrick O'Donovan has proposed a National ID system, a Meta-endorsed regulation model and a mass surveillance machine, all in one.
It's government by Dunning-Kruger.
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-waving-the-ban-hammer/<…
@malik@Mastodon.SocialWe have a Bandcamp − https://darkk.band/bandcamp
@axbom@axbom.me
@roelgrif@mstdn.social
@bourgwick@heads.social60 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead (& bill graham's) 1st fillmore auditorium gig, at the #sanfrancisco mime troupe’s appeal II, maybe the 1st actual time the dead name was used. not in ads (“formerly the warlocks” was january), no tape.
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.socialRE: https://mastodon.social/@scalzi/115697840922836462
Scalzi defines paradigm shift
@publicvoit@graz.socialIn 2025, the top 5 known exploited vulnerability (#KEV) vendors as of https://cyble.com/blog/cisa-kev-2025-exploited-vulnerabilities-growth/ were:
Microsoft (39)
<…
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.social9 horas. Foi o tempo que isto levou a chegar cš.
(Provavelmente por ter estado inativo tanto tempo. Julgo eu)
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://lampadamagica.blogspot.com/2025/12/e-se.html
@datascience@genomic.socialAdd highlighting to your quarto presentation using the RoughNotation library: #rstats
@adulau@infosec.exchangeIf you want a quick way to install misp-modules, the installation via ‘uv’ is super easy.
#misp #cti #opensource
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialBroadcom CEO Hock Tan reveals that Anthropic placed a $10B order for Google's Ironwood TPU racks in Q3 and says it placed an additional $11B order in Q4 (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/11/broadcom-reveals-its-mystery-10-billion-custo…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioWell, as a quick W after the satellite pro issues I've uploaded some archived software to archive.org
https://archive.org/details/QVLINKMAC
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI had not noticed that Affinity shut down their forums but of course they did.
"THESE FORUMS ARE NOW READ-ONLY"
Okay, not "shut down" but they now prevent their users from talking to each other and tell you to fill out a form to get support.
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/
@catsalad@infosec.exchange @benb@osintua.eu"YOU WILL ALL ROT": Kremlin propaganda OFF THE LEASH! USA and Europe in crosshairs: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/10/ampquotyou-will-all-rotampquot-kremlin.html
@cdarwin@c.imIn considering the extent and timing of additional adjustments to the target range for the federal funds rate,
the Committee will carefully assess incoming data, the evolving outlook, and the balance of risks.
The Committee is strongly committed to supporting maximum employment and returning inflation to its 2 percent objective.
@hashtaggames@oldfriends.liveTime For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
#SandwichASong
#HashTagGames
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialTwo representatives on the US House Financial Services Committee warn WBD CEO David Zaslav of national security concerns about the financiers of Paramount's bid (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/democrats-warner-bros-discovery-sa…
@eichkat3r@hessen.socialjemand ne idee wo man etwas zur geschichte der deutschen amphibolin werke im zeitraum '33 - '45 finden könnte?
damit könnte man den wikipedia artikel vervollständigen:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Amphibolin-Werke
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeThere is never a dull day in cybersecurity, so check out today's Metacurity for the most exciting developments you should know today, including
--Coupang CEO resigns as cops raid the company's HQ for a second time,
--Man pleads guilty amid DOJ take-down of Social Engineering Enterprise gang,
--DOJ files more charges against Cyber Army of Russia Reborn member,
--Spanish cops bust teen hacker for stealing 64m records,
--Ukraine cyber corps claims attack on …
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe U.S. stock market lags behind dozens of countries, even in a year of record highs (Steve Kopack/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/markets/sp500-stocks-lags-dozens-countries-rcna243088
http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p108#a251111p108
@servelan@newsie.socialDOJ Withheld Proof They Knew Their Assault of LaMonica McIver Was "Bad" before They Charged Her - emptywheel
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/09/doj-withheld-proof-they-knew-their-assault-of-lamonica-mciver-was-bad-before-they-charged-her/
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online‼️Die #Petition
"Gesetzlich verankerter Maßnahmeplan zur Einhaltung der Pariser Klimaziele bis spätestens 2035 vom 14.08.2025"
hat bisher 182 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29818 Unterschriften bis zum 07.01.2026.
@axbom@axbom.me @Dragofix@veganism.socialNew mapping reveals hidden mining boom in Laos that threatens the Mekong https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/new-mapping-reveals-hidden-mining-boom-in-laos-that-threatens-the-mekong/
@roelgrif@mstdn.social @bourgwick@heads.socialnew lambchop song on this comp, plus contributions from a bunch of other heavies. but, to reiterate: new lambchop song! https://westernvinyl.bandcamp.com/album/passages-artists-in-solidarity-with-immigrants-refugees-and-asylum-seek…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSei partners with Xiaomi to pre-install its crypto wallet and discovery app on all new Xiaomi phones sold outside mainland China and the US, starting in 2026 (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/12/0…
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeHow do you spell color/colour?
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialGoogle tests AI-powered overviews on some publications' Google News pages; publishers like Der Spiegel, El País, and WaPo in commercial partnerships get paid (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/goog
@benb@osintua.eu @rasterweb@mastodon.socialSomething broke (changed) in Inkscape where I can no longer export a DXF file at the correct size for our laser cutter software. The DXF Export also seems to mangle the file a bit.
Time to try the "export every combo of options until I find what works" thing again. (Which I last did maybe 8 years ago, so I had a good run.)
#inkscape
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe OpenAI deal gives Disney a fair amount of oversight and control over how its IP is used, including a joint steering committee to monitor user creations (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/11/openai-disney-sora
@cdarwin@c.imLast night was a very good night to be among fellow Democrats from across the county. Here is what we did:
Eileen Higgins blew out the Miami Mayor’s race, winning by 19 points, 59.5%-40.5%.
In the last two years we’ve flipped Florida’s two largest cities, Jacksonville and Miami, and Mayor-Elect Higgins will be the first Dem in this office in almost 30 years
In a Georgia state house special election our candidate Eric Gisler flipped a Trump 12 district, 51%-49%
Albuque…
@servelan@newsie.socialHustle, muscle and grift: How the manosphere has grown into a money-making machine
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-hustle-muscle-grift-manosphere-grown.html
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDecember 10, 2025 -- Today is Human Rights Day, celebrated internationally in honor ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-10-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p32#a251211p32
@axbom@axbom.me @Dragofix@veganism.socialWhy ultra-processed foods make teens eat more when they aren’t hungry #nutrition
@Techmeme@techhub.socialReddit starts a limited test of verified profiles, an opt-in feature that places a gray checkmark beside the usernames of notable people or businesses (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/reddit-is-testing-verification-badges/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe OpenAI deal gives Disney a fair amount of oversight and control over how its IP is used, including a joint steering committee to monitor user creations (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/11/openai-disney-sora
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialMadison Bikes sent me an email about winter biking that said:
"Please at least have a studded front tire, especially if you bike on streets. Traction and control are well worth the $50 investment."
So I replied and asked where the heck they are seeing studded tires for $50 USD because they are twice that price everywhere I look.
#biking
@cdarwin@c.imThe 2026 military funding bill released this week would
require the U.S. to assess Israel’s weapons arsenal
and suggest ways to undo any “gaps” that may be caused by arms embargoes imposed by other countries protesting Israel’s violence.
This remarkable measure comes as a response to at least two dozen countries that have restricted or ended weapons transfers to Israel since its genocide began on October 7, 2023.
It also comes after countless experts, including watch…
@servelan@newsie.social‘Like wastelands’: Sri Lanka tea plantations suffer Cyclone Ditwah’s wrath | Agriculture News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/10/like-wastelands-sri-lanka-tea-plantations-suffer-cyclone-ditwahs-wrath?traffic_source=rss
@memeorandum@universeodon.comShapiro shreds Trump's economy (Adam Wren/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/09/trump-interview-economy-shapiro-00683823
http://www.memeorandum.com/251209/p137#a251209p137
@Dragofix@veganism.socialCaribbean reefs have lost 48% of hard coral since 1980, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/09/caribbean-reefs-have-lost-48-of-hard-coral-since-1980-study-finds
@Techmeme@techhub.socialInternal memo: Google is naming Amin Vahdat, who leads the company's AI and infrastructure team, to the new role of chief technologist for AI infrastructure (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/10/2025/google-names-n…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialDisney sends Google a cease-and-desist, accusing Google of copyright infringement on a "massive scale" and using AI to "exploit and distribute" the content (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI know studded bike tires for winter are a thing, but I saw these straps... Only one company seems to make them for one style of bike. Any reason these are not more common?
https://bakcou.com/products/fat-tire-snow-straps
@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump administration is reportedly trying to strongarm the International Criminal Court (ICC) into changing its founding document
to carve out an exception for Donald Trump and his top officials
ensuring that they are never prosecuted by the court for potential war crimes.
The administration is threatening the ICC with yet more sanctions
if they do not amend the Rome Statute, which established the court in 2002,
to ensure Trump and his administration’s top …
@memeorandum@universeodon.comCanada's DC envoy to exit as US trade talks stall (Mike Blanchfield/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/09/canada-dc-envoy-trade-00683971
http://www.memeorandum.com/251209/p133#a251209p133
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA survey of UK adults in 2025: on average, they spend 4.5 hours per day online, up 10 minutes on 2024, and 50% of time is on Google- and Meta-owned services (Ofcom)
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/media-use-and-attitudes/online-h…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialDemocrats warn that their party, when it returns to power, may attempt to block or unravel any Paramount acquisition of WBD due to national security concerns (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/10/2025
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHundreds Quarantined in South Carolina as Measles Spreads (Teddy Rosenbluth/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/well/measles-cases-outbreak-south-carolina.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p138#a251211p138
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA group of state AGs sent a letter to Meta, Microsoft, Google, Apple, and others warning their chatbots' "delusional outputs" could be violating state laws (Courtney Rozen/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comIndiana Senate Republicans Reject Trump's Redistricting Effort (Mitch Smith/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/us/indiana-senate-redistricting-republicans.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p140#a251211p140
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTim Cook met with US lawmakers in a closed-door meeting to lobby against provisions in pending legislation that would require app stores to verify users' ages (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-10…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comStephen Miller's Stock Sale Raises Questions, Ethics Experts Say (Ana Swanson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/us/politics/stephen-miller-minerals-stake-ethics.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251209/p135#a251209p135
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOn OpenAI's 10th anniversary, Sam Altman reflects on "a decade of breakthroughs, learnings, and the path toward AGI that benefits all of humanity" (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/ten-years/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: China added AI chips from Chinese groups to its government-approved list of suppliers for the first time, before Trump's move to allow Nvidia exports (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/83c6521e-fe42-49e2-a9fe-eda97168b316
@memeorandum@universeodon.comWhy Alaska's GOP senators broke party lines on Obamacare (Robert King/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/12/11/congress/why-alaskas-gop-senators-broke-party-lines-on-obamacare-00687949
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p135#a251211p135
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: at a November meeting in the Oval Office, Jensen Huang told President Trump that a flurry of state AI laws could cause the US to lose the AI race (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-silicon-va
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHow Many Members Does Antifa Have? Where Is Its Headquarters? The FBI Has No Answers. (Matt Sledge/The Intercept)
https://theintercept.com/2025/12/11/fbi-antifa-terrorist-location/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p134#a251211p134
@Techmeme@techhub.socialChinese state-backed chipmaker Hygon, which makes server CPUs, calls off merger with its top shareholder and server maker Sugon; the merger was announced in May (Wataru Suzuki/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/c…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comMiami elects first woman mayor, ends GOP's 28-year control of City Hall (Kimberly Leonard/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/09/miami-elects-first-woman-mayor-ends-gops-28-year-control-of-city-hall-00683878
http://www.memeorandum.com/251209/p134#a251209p134
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Blue Origin has worked for over a year on tech for orbital AI data centers; SpaceX plans to use upgraded Starlink satellites for AI computing payloads (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/bezos-and-musk-ra
@memeorandum@universeodon.comOfficers at Texas immigration detention facility accused of beatings and sexual abuse (Lorena Figueroa/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/09/texas-ice-camp-abuse-immigration
http://www.memeorandum.com/251209/p138#a251209p138
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of Grubhub parent Wonder, which has raised about $2B and is rolling out robotic meal-assembly tech acquired from Sweetgreen for $186M in November 2025 (Joshua Brustein/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20
@memeorandum@universeodon.comJudge Suggests Prosecutor on Comey and James Cases Should Resign as U.S. Attorney (Devlin Barrett/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/us/politics/comey-james-halligan.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7U8.vZG7.QwKJMHVnV-na&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251209/p136#a251209p136
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHouse passes bill to restore collective bargaining for federal employees (Drew Friedman/Federal News Network)
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/congress/2025/12/house-passes-bill-to-restore-collective-bargaining-for-federal-employees/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p137#a251211p137
@memeorandum@universeodon.comEnsuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence (President Donald J. Trump/The White House)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/12/eliminating-state-law-obstruction-of-national-artificial-intelligence-policy/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p143#a251211p143
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at the global AI adoption in 2025; use in the global north grew nearly twice as fast as the south; the UAE leads with 64% of working-age adults using AI (Microsoft Corporate Responsibility)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-
@memeorandum@universeodon.comInside Kristi Noem's bitter feud with Trump's border czar (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/11/trump-kristi-noem-tom-homan-feud-immigration
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p9#a251211p9
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnalysis: global AI-related companies drove ~40% of benchmark convertible bond index returns in 2025, pushing the amount raised to $166.5B, the most since 2001 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-08/ai-…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHow Trump changes the world (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2025/12/11/how-trump-changes-the-world-00686274
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p12#a251211p12
