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A judge sentences Frank founder Charlie Javice to 85 months in prison for defrauding JPMorgan Chase by overstating how many customers the fintech company had (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/29/jpmorgan-chase-frank-charlie-javice-sentencing.html

Startup founder Charlie Javice sentenced to 7 years in prison for defrauding JPMorgan Chase
Charlie Javice, founder of college financial aid platform Frank, was arrested in 2023 on charges she defrauded JPMorgan Chase in the sale of the fintech firm.

Gute Karten für die Gema im Streit mit ChatGPT-Mutter OpenAI
Die Verwertungsgesellschaft beklagt die Nutzung von Liedtexten durch die KI. Gleich zu Beginn des Verfahrens gibt das Gericht eine vorläufige Einschätzung ab.

Hungary, Slovakia push back against EU plan to phase out Russian energy: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/29/hungary-slovakia-push-back-against.html

Pentagon readies contingency plans for government shutdown
https://breakingdefense.com/2025/09/pentagon-readies-contingency-plans-for-government-shutdown/

Pentagon readies contingency plans for government shutdown
The department’s 'highest priorities' will revolve around operations securing the US Southern border, operations in the Middle East, designing Golden Dome, depot maintenance, shipbuilding and critical munitions, according to the guidance.

What a picture/image!
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/09/28/ice-agents-spotted-downtown-on-michigan-avenue-along-chicago-river

Feds in military gear flood downtown Chicago; top border chief says people arrested based on ‘how they look’
The immigration agents made arrests in downtown Chicago and the River North neighborhood Sunday.

案内、もう一度あげとくね

@…

@…

Solution: Don't cough

Good riddance. "Six days a week, 24 hours a day, two police officers within it would be paid overtime, which comes out to time-and-a-half." Think what we could've done to actually help people with this money. https://missionlocal.org/2025/09/sfpd-

SFPD nixes 24/7 bus at 16th and Mission, offers varying rationales
The command unit was placed at the BART plaza to demonstrate the city’s commitment to addressing drug use and vending

spannender einblick in das thema #linolschnitt von leoni pfeiffer: https://blog.leonipfeiffer.de/2025/09/29/seminar-besuch-akademiefaber-castell-linol/

"ooh du spielst gitarre? wie cooool! spielst du mir was vor 😍 "
"hm ja ok"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_AJUtmkdCI

The AI coding trap
If you ever watch someone “coding”, you might see them spending far more time staring into space than typing on their keyboard. No, they (probably) aren’t slacking off. Software development is fundamentally a practice of problem-solving, and so, as with solving a tricky crossword, most of the work is done in your head. […]
🧑‍💻

The AI coding trap | Chris Loy
If you ever watch someone “coding”, you might see them spending far more time staring into space than typing on their keyboard.

It would seem that colonialism and imperialism are also features of late stage communism.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/09/28/china-draft-ethnic-unity-law-tightens-ideological-control

Over the weekend I came close to joining these two sections of where I've ridden my bike! The square on the bottom is where the bike shop is where I got my new bike a month ago. Might be a project for next weekend.
#biking #bikeTooter

@… 😅😅😅😅 this is the unfortunate feeling when you know *too* much about anything

@… I really thought I was already following you?! Oh well, retry, rebort, and refail!

"Labour must fight rightwing billionaires undermining net zero, says Ed Miliband"
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/29/labour-must-fight-right-wing-billionaires-undermining-net-zero-ed-miliband

Next step on the PIC12F683 project after the cross section will be a partial decap to show off the pinout, plus a bunch of bare dies for circuit analysis.

Study warns climate leadership falling short in New Zealand #NewZealand

Study warns climate leadership falling short in New Zealand
New Zealand leaders favor small, incremental changes in response to escalating climate impacts rather than the bold changes needed to make a real difference, according to research by University of Auckland academic Dr. Sasha Maher and Professor Brad Jackson (University of Waikato).

“Overwhelmingly, the reason people care is the belief that the Democrats [winning] control of the House of Representatives next year is the only possible meaningful impediment to Donald Trump’s implementation of his authoritarian agenda,”
said David Welch with the Democratic central committee of Butte county, where Chico is located.
Denney, who chairs the Democratic Action Club of Chico,
has been traveling to the far reaches of the district in north-eastern California to ta…

attrs will have a way to introspect the EFFECTIVE class build parameters in the next version. I swear to Cthulhu I thought this PR is gonna kill me (there's been A LOT more private hence and forth in the background), but I'm happy how it turned out: https://github.com/python-attrs/attrs/pu…

Expose effective class construction properties by hynek · Pull Request #1454 · python-attrs/attrs
ref #602 This is for now just private and the impact zone is limited. But I'm confident it can help us to simplify a bunch of code. I'm especially rather unhappy with the weird entanglement...

Permitted Trump-Epstein statue smashed and removed - Boing Boing
https://boingboing.net/2025/09/24/permitted-trump-epstein-statue-smashed-and-removed-without-notice.html

#bloomscrolling am #klexenhaus

🫦 Mouse study links chronic pain to disrupted sleep patterns
#pain

Mouse study links chronic pain to disrupted sleep patterns
Pain and sleep disturbances often go hand in hand—more than 30% of the U.S. population lives with pain, and a majority of those with pain also report sleep disorders—but the relationship between the two has remained largely unexplored.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane,
most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear
that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition
continuously until death do them part.
-- George Bernard Shaw

‼️Die #Petition
"Weitere Erforschung der Augenerkrankung Glaukom sowie Entwicklung neuer Therapien vom 01.08.2025"
hat bisher 66 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29934 Unterschriften bis zum 09.12.2025.

Updated macOS to 26.0.1
Did not perish.
#macOS

It's interesting to see Saudi Arabia acquiring Western cultural touchstones. I also saw they're building a "Casino City" in Saudi Arabia. I am so confused by the world right now. https://flipboard.com/@theverge/gaming-4oihgk74z/-/a-…

@… ich finde die sehen top aus! Wenn da mal Farbe drauf ist, werde die sehr stimmungsvoll sein! Hab hier auch schon ne Menge Styrodur verarbeitet 🫣

How Brazil's Pix digital payment system, adopted by 80% of citizens, became a target of the Trump administration, which says it unfairly undercuts US companies (Ana Ionova/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/world/americas/brazil-digital-pay…

Brazil’s Homegrown Payment System Is Target of Trump Administration
Brazil’s fast and free homegrown digital payment system, PIX, has become wildly popular. The Trump administration says it unfairly undercuts U.S. companies.

Fritzboxen & Co.: Fritz eröffnet im Oktober eigenen Onlineshop
Als Alternative zum Handel eröffnet Fritz seinen eigenen Onlineshop. Damit will der Hersteller vor allem seine Europapräsenz ausbauen.
https://w…

Batal Bigvava, commander of Russia’s 'Pyatnashka' assault company, killed in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/30/batal-bigvava-commander-of-russias.html

I'm so glad I never took up any of those Silicon Valley companies or VC-backed startups on their offers.
Probably I'd be rich, I guess.
But I prefer to have my conscience not flushed down the toilet.

I have red this blog again and i am thinking about it's implications. I think @… is right and i am someone who is optimistic about AI and it's technological capabilities....
Or are there any counter arguments?
Financial AI Armageddon is near...

A “widespread cybersecurity incident” at the Federal Emergency Management Agency occurred when hackers accessed Citrix virtual desktop infrastructure using compromised login credentials, and made off with employee data from both the disaster management office and CBP.

‘Widespread’ breach let hackers steal employee data from FEMA and CBP
A Citrix vulnerability — suspected to have led to firings of multiple FEMA technology staff — enabled the breach, which let hackers pilfer data from FEMA servers connected to states at the southern border.

In der Abschlußbemerkung von #hartAberFair (und vom Moderator unwiedersprochen) "Menschen sollen vor dem Geben eines Likes erstmal überlegen, ob der auch hilfreich ist und wenn das nicht der Fall ist, es einfach lassen". Nun, wenn der Post "ich habe heute Geburtstag" bereits "1K" Likes hat, dann ist ein weiterer nicht sinnvoll, weil unter der Anzeige Schwelle. Wenn der Post einer Bundesministerin bereits "1M" Likes hat, ist Ein weiterer like nicht hilfreich. Sinnvoll hingegen ist, wenn Plattfo…

In der Abschlußbemerkung von #hartAberFair (und vom Moderator unwiedersprochen) "Menschen sollen vor dem Geben eines Likes erstmal überlegen, ob der auch hilfreich ist und wenn das nicht der Fall ist, es einfach lassen". Nun, wenn der Post "ich habe heute Geburtstag" bereits "1K" Likes hat, dann ist ein weiterer nicht sinnvoll, weil unter der Anzeige Schwelle. Wenn der Post einer Bundesministerin bereits "1M" Likes hat, ist Ein weiterer like nicht hilfreich. Sinnvoll hingegen ist, wenn Plattfo…

@… hmm! we want ranges so every dependency doesn’t have their own ultra-specific version of chalk (or whatever commonly installed dep) installed, no?

OK, this from @… is good. It’s very good.
https://www.theindex.media/p/donald-trump-can-t-make-cowards-of-us-all

Washington folks: anybody know the history of WAC 308-330-500 and adjacent statutes? What was the rationale?
When did it stop being enforced? And why? It's clearly a dead law, I've never seen a bicycle license plate in the ten years I've lived here. Although I guess a cop in a bad mood could probably still ticket you for violating it if they really wanted to.

Why Gen X women can’t stop eating ultra-processed foods #nutrition

Why Gen X women can’t stop eating ultra-processed foods
Researchers found that middle-aged adults, especially women, are far more likely to be addicted to ultra-processed foods than older generations. Marketing of diet-focused processed foods in the 1980s may have played a major role. Food addiction was linked to poor health, weight issues, and social isolation, highlighting long-term risks. Experts warn that children today could face even higher addiction rates in the future.

Somewhere between my original vision for web 1.0 and the rise of social media as part of web 2.0,
we took the wrong path.
We’re now at a new crossroads,
one where we must decide if AI will be used for the betterment or to the detriment of society.
How can we learn from the mistakes of the past?
First of all, we must ensure policymakers do not end up playing the same decade-long game of catchup they have done over social media.
The time to decide the go…

Lindsey Graham Cites 'Golden Shower' Claim Against Trump To Defend Comey Indictment | Crooks and Liars
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/09/lindsey-graham-cites-golden-shower-claim

alle reden nur noch über die konzerte von howard carpendale aber niemand interessiert sich noch für seine expeditionen nach ägypten

My favorite part of this is when ChatGPT tells the Lurie staffer about Mayor Lurie's budget instructions to city departments on December 13, 2023. Lurie entered office in January 2025.
https://sfanonymous.substack.com/p/read-how-top-mayor-daniel-lur…

Read how top Mayor Daniel Lurie Official used ChatGPT to figure out how President Trump could convert Alcatraz to a prison and how to prepare for "tough questions" on Family Zoning
In response to a records request, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie’s team responded on September 23, 2025 with several ChatGPT logs.

Mit dem Smartphone kann man direkt im Laden #Kosmetikprodukte auf bedenkliche #Inhaltsstoffe prüfen. 📱Ist deine #Gesichtscreme unbedenklich? Beinhaltet dein Peeling

App CodeCheck - Direkt im Laden die Produkte auf bedenkliche Inhaltsstoffe prüfen
Die CodeCheck App ist meine Lieblings-App beim Kauf von Kosmetik und Lebensmitteln.Direkt über den Barcode auf dem Produkt prüft CodeCheck über das Internet, ob im Produkt bedenkliche Inhaltsstoffe enthalten sind.

Leaked document: a "widespread cybersecurity incident" at FEMA allowed hackers to steal employee data from both FEMA and US CBP through a Citrix vulnerability (David DiMolfetta/Nextgov/FCW)
https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2025

‘Widespread’ breach let hackers steal employee data from FEMA and CBP
A Citrix vulnerability — suspected to have led to firings of multiple FEMA technology staff — enabled the breach, which let hackers pilfer data from FEMA servers connected to states at the southern border.

Ukrainian military: Russian forces encircled near Dobropillya after overconfident push: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/30/ukrainian-military-russian-forces-encircled.html

hope for them that whatever they get paid is worth their souls

DHS released over the weekend its plans to deal with a government shutdown should that happen. CISA estimates 889 employees out of 2,540 total employees as the total number expected and estimated to be retained during a lapse in appropriations.
https://www.…

Merz: Werden an sturem Verbrennerverbot nicht festhalten
Der Kanzler fordert von der EU-Kommission ein Umdenken beim Verbrenner-Aus. Warum Merz Verbote für den falschen Weg hält und wie er auf den Klimawandel blickt.

So now Trump also actively supports the faster destruction of our planet. It will also worsen living conditions in the US. #coal #trump #climate

Trump Officials Offer $625 Million to Rescue Coal
The new effort, which includes opening 13.1 million acres of federal land for mining and eliminating pollution limits, aims to save an industry that has been declining for decades.

Anybody have a good picture of research posters hung up in a department building at a university that I can link somebody?
I'm specifically NOT looking for pictures of posters on display at a conference poster session, or examples of a good/bad poster, which is all I can find on google images.
I'm talking about posters hung up in front of department offices or labs in a random university building.

Second Cranswick Lincolnshire Pig Farm Exposed by Animal Justice Project https://veganfta.com/articles/2025/08/27/second-cranswick-lincolnshire-pig-farm-exposed-by-animal-justice-project/?utm_source=Mastodon

Second Cranswick Lincolnshire Pig Farm Exposed by Animal Justice Project
On the 16th of August 2025, animal rights activists from Animal Justice Project (AJP) released footage of “the worst cannibalism” they have ever witnessed at Somerby Top Farm, a pig-rearing facility…

Will Jim Comey's Prosecution Prove Kash Patel Lied to Senate Judiciary Committee? - emptywheel
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/28/will-jim-comeys-selective-prosecution-challenge-prove-kash-patel-committed-a-crime/

Automated financial advisor startup Wealthfront files publicly for an IPO and reports net income of $60.7M on revenue of $175.6M in H1 2025 (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-29/robo-a…

Ah yes, classic "important backstory" that turns out to be half-assed personal attacks against a OSS maintainer; meanwhile no syllable lost about a millionaire who is speedrunning racism.

Ukranian FPV drone destroys Russian Mi-28N helicopter, military says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/29/ukranian-fpv-drone-destroys-russian.html

You’ve probably heard of vibe coding
— novices writing apps by creating a simple AI prompt
— now Microsoft wants to introduce a similar thing for its Office apps.
The software maker is launching a new Agent Mode in Excel and Word that can generate complex spreadsheets and documents with just a prompt.
A new Office Agent in Copilot chat, powered by Anthropic models,
is also launching today that can create PowerPoint presentations and Word documents from a “vibe…

Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word
Microsoft is launching new AI tools in its Office apps. A new Agent Mode comes to Word and Excel, alongside an Office Agent in Copilot chat.

#vereinfachteSprache
Im Jahr 2023 waren die Ozeane so warm wie nie zuvor. Das hat große Folgen für die ganze Welt. Warme Meere bringen mehr Regen und #Stürme nach Europa, und in Amerika gibt es stärke

Was die Erwärmung der Ozeane für die Welt bedeutet (vereinfachte Sprache)
Erkunde die dramatischen Auswirkungen der Ozeanerwärmung und wie sie den Planeten verändert. Erfahre mehr über die Rekord-Meerestemperaturen und ihre Folgen.

So Bloomberg is confirming the scoop from @ddimolfetta.bsky.social
Hackers Stole FEMA, Customs and Border Protection Employee Data
https://www.bloomberg…

It is good to check this national directive from Trump ( called NSPM-7 ) which gives him broad powers to supress his political opponents.
#trump #fascism #NSPM7

Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence
NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE                THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Guess the price in today's dollars! (Solution in a reply.)
#retrocomputing

Sources: Huawei aims to produce ~600K of its marquee 910C Ascend chips in 2026, roughly double 2025's level, and raise its Ascend lineup output to 1.6M dies (Yuan Gao/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives.
After nearly 40 years, the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States will close Sept. 30,
a casualty of Donald Trump’s proposed budget cuts and his administration’s focus on using the Arctic as an outpost for national security and energy dominance
—and its push away from science.
As part of the overarching…

After Trump Cut the National Science Foundation by 56 Percent, a Venerable Arctic Research Center Closes Its Doors - Inside Climate News
After nearly 40 years, the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States will close Sept. 30, a casualty of President Donald Trump’s proposed budget cuts and his administration’s focus on using the Arctic as an outpost for national security and energy dominance—and its push away from science. As part of the overarching defunding of science […]

Next step in the PIC12F683 project, a partial decap.
Tried some new techniques that worked great, but let a bit of acid on the back that caused minor corrosion on the die attach paddle. I know how to prevent it next time though.

Always interesting to me when people react to something bad someone said and are quoting them and I realize I blocked that person ages ago because…
*drumroll*
…they had terrible opinions before.

South Korean AI chip maker Rebellions raised a $250M Series C at a $1.4B valuation; Arm joined the round as a strategic partner (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-29/ai-chip-startup-rebellio…

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@metacurity/115288119205396485
The most concerning part of the deal: Silver Lake, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, and Affinity Partners, which is founded and led by Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, will now …

Dutch liberal party overtakes far-right nationalists in snap parliamentary election: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/30/dutch-liberal-party-overtakes-farright.html

Sources: Saudi Arabia's PIF is the largest contributor to the $36B in equity used to finance the EA deal; it will roll over its $5B EA stake into the new entity (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-29/s…

It's like if the hospital fires your brain surgeon just before your surgery and is claiming it's safer that way

Wow.
Gaming giant Electronic Arts bought in unprecedented $55bn deal
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4w3jzx807o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

Gaming giant Electronic Arts bought in unprecedented $55bn deal
EA is known for making best-selling games such as EA FC, The Sims and Mass Effect.

Robinhood CEO Vladimir Tenev says Robinhood Prediction Markets crossed 4B event contracts traded all-time, with over 2B in Q3 alone; HOOD closes up 12.27% (Bernard Goyder/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

"Removing maintainers from their open source projects is good for those open source projects!"
Other maintainers: "This logic is impeccable and correct!"

Check out today's Metacurity for a solid round-up of the most critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--UK government bails out Jaguar Land Rover with $2 billion loan,
--Hackers contacted Harrods after 430K customer records were stolen,
--Hackers threaten to release more Kido nursery school records,
--Russia's undersea spying ops become more brazen,
--Unitree robots afflicted by a severe flaw,
--Akira attacks …

UK government bails out Jaguar Land Rover with $2 billion loan
Hackers contacted Harrods after 430K customer records were stolen, Hackers threaten to release more Kido nursery school records, Russia's undersea spying ops become more brazen, Unitree robots afflicted by severe flaw, Akira attacks on SonicWall VPNs evolve, RemoteCom spyware data leaked, much more

NetBlocks: Afghanistan is experiencing a "total internet blackout" as the Taliban imposes a telecom shutdown; an official says it will last until further notice (Anbarasan Ethirajan/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxqdy5nrlqo

Afghanistan hit by internet blackout as Taliban cuts fibre optic cables
Phone and internet connections are down nationwide after the Taliban cut fibre-optic connections to prevent "immorality".

Petition that git should ship an update that makes it impossible to create new repositories with a "master" branch or new branches called "master" in existing repositories

How Jared Kushner and Silver Lake co-CEO Egon Durban brokered the EA takeover using Kushner's deep Saudi Arabia ties; sources: Kushner's firm will own ~5% of EA (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/61cef75e-ceba-43ee-80e3-040756c6154f

I genuinely do not understand how small-minded these people are.
Honestly can't fathom this.

It’s a bit obscure, probably not too many people with opinions about it around

Internal memo: Microsoft is unifying its key Windows engineering teams under a single organization led by Windows chief Pavan Davuluri, reversing a 2018 split (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/report/787796/microsoft-windows-reorg-…

Microsoft is bringing its Windows engineering teams back together again
Microsoft has announced an internal reorg of its Windows teams. The server and client engineering teams are now under a single leader again.

for whatever I do in the future as open source I'll use "woke" as name for the main branch
like seriously, if you run an open source project, consider inclusive branch names, including ones that make fun of fucking nazis

Filing: YouTube will pay $24.5M to settle a 2021 Trump lawsuit over suspending his account after Jan. 6, the last Big Tech company to settle his lawsuits (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/youtube-to-pay-24-5-million-…

Caltech says it built the world's largest neutral-atom quantum computer, with 6,100 qubits, 13 second coherence, 10x longer than the past, and 99.98% accuracy (Jason Nelson/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/341716/caltech-builds-worlds-largest-neutral-atom…

Caltech Builds World’s Largest Neutral-Atom Quantum Computer
Researchers kept more than 6,000 qubits coherent while operating with 99.98% accuracy. Here's why that matters for quantum computing.

Sources: OpenAI plans a stand-alone social app powered by Sora 2, featuring a TikTok-like vertical feed with AI-generated videos and a recommendation page (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-launches-sora-2-tiktok-like-app/

OpenAI Is Preparing to Launch a Social App for AI-Generated Videos
The platform appears to closely resemble TikTok and is powered by Sora 2, OpenAI's latest video generation model.

Roblox reports Q3 revenue up 48% YoY to $1.36B, DAUs up 70% YoY to 151.5M, above 132.3M est., and bookings up 70% YoY to $1.9B, above $1.7B est. (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-1…

Sources: Meta Superintelligence Labs' leaders have discussed using Google or OpenAI's models to power Meta AI and other AI features in Meta's social media apps (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/metas-ai-lead…

Meta’s AI Leaders Discuss Using Google, OpenAI Models in Apps
Meta Platforms’ plans to improve the artificial intelligence features in its apps could lead the company to partner with Google or OpenAI, two of its biggest AI rivals. Leaders in Meta’s new AI organization, Meta Superintelligence Labs, have discussed using Google’s Gemini model to provide ...