@benb@osintua.eu2025-10-09 01:51:14
Pro-Trump US lawmaker to meet with Putin's envoy this month: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/09/protrump-us-lawmaker-to-meet.html
@benb@osintua.eu2025-10-09 01:51:14
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-09-10 10:01:00
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-09 01:10:59
The US FDA qualifies the first AI drug development tool, AIM-NASH, to help doctors assess a severe form of fatty liver disease in drug trials (Sahil Pandey/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcar
@timbray@cosocial.ca2025-10-09 03:30:20
Piketty with a refreshingly-different take on tariffs: https://www.lemonde.fr/blog/piketty/2025/10/07/rethinking-world-trade/
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-11-09 17:02:07
I wonder how many air traffic controllers will come back to work once they get paid again and how many people want to become air traffic controllers now that the government has shown utter disdain for them.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/09/flight-cancellations-government-shutdown
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2025-09-10 09:16:41
You remember when everyone (including AI firms) claimed that "Hallucinations" would soon be solved and I got so much shit for arguing that they are a structural property of LLMs?
Now OpenAI releases a paper stating the same and just gets to move on (with all its sycophants).
Really fucking annoys me.
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2025-09-10 18:50:56
I made some progress on mapping all the GPX files of my bikes rides for 2025... though it looks like I am still getting some walking data mixed in, so I'll need to fix that.
The cemetery paths are interesting! There are two paths I guess I never rode down in 2025. Weird.
#biking #bikeTooter
@zachleat@zachleat.com2025-09-10 19:24:01
@… I ran your answer through chatgpt and it checked out fine
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.social2025-12-09 01:16:26
We go to live footage of me enjoying a Toto neorest
@catsalad@infosec.exchange2025-10-09 00:58:25
What kind of fish is this?
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-09-10 19:41:01
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav says he expects the planned separation of the company to be completed by April 2026 (Jill Goldsmith/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/09/warner-bros-discovery-ceo-david-zaslav-separation-in-april-12…
@krispijn@social.sargasso.nl2025-09-10 07:26:01
Uit angst voor progressieve ‘coup’ bij media-imperium NewsCorp kopen Murdoch en zoon Lachlan familieleden uit https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/09/09/uit-angst-voor-progressieve-coup-…
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz2025-09-10 01:10:01
Content warning: NZPol Renationalising Electricity Gentailers
Amazingly, Shane Jones is saying what I've been saying since NZ's electricity producer retailers were privatised: that they should be renationalised. That said, Jones' purpose is different from mine. He's citing cost concerns affecting businesses. For me, the inevitable problem will be the lack of a profitable business model as local production (mostly solar) leads to under-maintained services, and ultimately disruption of supply. 1/2
@whitequark@mastodon.social2025-12-09 01:19:59
hot take: they should build a lot of commie blocks in the UK
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-09-10 13:01:42
Texas A&M fires instructor involved in viral video on gender teachings (Molly Hennessy-Fiske/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/09/09/texasam-gender-teachings/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250910/p31#a250910p31
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-09-10 01:39:15
Design is Apple’s passion https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115175730849930761
@macandi@social.heise.de2025-09-10 09:55:01
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-12-09 21:30:00
@benb@osintua.eu2025-10-09 08:34:01
Russian strikes kill 5, injure 19, hit port and energy infrastructure in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/09/russian-strikes-kill-injure-hit.html
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-09 10:01:44
Logitech tells users that it will end support for its Pop smart home switches, launched in August 2016, on October 15, as it moves on from its smart home plans (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/log…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-11-09 01:18:13
A home near us exploded today, most likely a gas tank?
😟
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2025-09-10 19:57:27
The current Some More News episode on "Toxic Nostalgia" and how it leads to fascism is a very good summary. It only slightly points at "generative AI" (which of course is very much connected to it) but it really illustrates the structures at play.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEddowzqOQE
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.social2025-10-09 19:15:23
This was a nice surprise!
@zachleat@zachleat.com2025-09-10 18:22:52
@… seeing some breaks with hyphens and some not (on the same word) is BOTHERING ME 😅
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2025-09-10 17:53:01
Attempting to map 275 GPX files wish me luck!
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-12-09 08:01:38
Premier League football club Brighton & Hove Albion bans Guardian reporters from its stadium after the Guardian reported on allegations against the club's owner (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/…
@whitequark@mastodon.social2025-10-09 21:01:47
oh, i should buy some perfluorocarbons that i need for vapor phase soldering before some asshole bans them
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-09-10 20:18:01
The pearl-clutching centrist crowd likes to imagine that shaming and shunning are the slippery slope that leads to political violence.
They have it backwards.
Shaming and shunning are the •alternative• to political violence. So is meaningful democracy. So is a free press that remains steadfastly grounded in reality. So is a judiciary that applies the law, however flawed, with actual judgement and justice.
5/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-09 21:51:01
Source: Trump allowed Nvidia to sell H200s to China after concluding the move carried a lower security risk as Huawei offers systems with comparable performance (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-09/t…
@benb@osintua.eu2025-10-09 01:51:18
'Massive' Russian attack in Sumy Oblast kills 3, injures 2: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/08/massive-russian-attack-in-sumy.html
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-10-09 01:55:07
It’s a great book. You should buy it.
https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/115341632582142049
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2025-09-10 13:39:18
Vielleicht weniger Bullshit Worthülsen raushauen und mal die eigenen Security-Issues konzeptionell und praktisch fixen, Gematik? Nee, das wäre richtig Arbeit und wer will das schon? Okay...
https://social.heise.de/@heiseonline/115180268444211551
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-11-10 08:23:01
Der Steam Store wird breiter
Valve hat erkannt, dass die wenigsten Nutzer noch auf Röhrenbildschirmen im 4:3-Format unterwegs sind – und passt den Steam Store auf breitere Monitore an.
https://www.heise.de/news/D…
@zachleat@zachleat.com2025-09-10 17:49:23
@… oh great test cases! I noticed the same behavior in English for dictionary words and gibberish too 🤔
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-09-10 01:20:57
Apple says the iPhone 17 lineup and iPhone Air come with Memory Integrity Enforcement, which provides "industry-first, always-on memory safety protection" (Richard Lawler/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/775234/iphone-17-air-…
@benb@osintua.eu2025-10-09 01:51:23
Russian stock market plummets to 3-year low after Kremlin statement on 'collapsing' US-Moscow relations: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/08/russian-stock-market-plummets-to.html
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-11-09 17:09:00
there's rumors that Apple wants to add touch screens to laptops
has everyone memory-holed the TouchBar?
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2025-09-10 08:13:36
"Voice commands" have been embedded into our vision of computing for a long time: Star Trek did it and it does the whole anthropomorphization thing that tech loves.
But from a practical standpoint it's a bad interface: Think of a handful of people sitting in an office yelling at their computers, it would be like working next to people having loud phone calls all day.
And who exactly wants every thing they do with their computer broadcasted around them?
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-11-10 08:20:01
Android Auto: Gemini ersetzt den Google Assistant
Google ersetzt den Google Assistant durch den neuen KI-Assistenten Gemini. Erste Nutzer können die Funktion bereits verwenden.
https://www.hei…
@zachleat@zachleat.com2025-09-10 17:42:59
@… I don’t think this is a bug (fwiw) but maybe an intentional choice, per https://front-end.social/@famulimas/115181215027069621
but it was a fun o…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-09-10 14:56:01
Larry Ellison becomes the world's richest person for the first time at $393B, overtaking Elon Musk's $385B, as Oracle jumps 40% after beating Q1 estimates (Anders Melin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@benb@osintua.eu2025-10-09 01:51:20
YEKATERINBURG IS ON FIRE! 🔥 Fire at the turbine factory! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/08/yekaterinburg-is-on-fire-fire.html
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2025-09-10 08:08:40
I keep using "thinner iPad" as my main example for the lack of vision and innovativeness of the tech sector. Not sure "thinner iPhone" hits as hard but I really love how Apple makes my case.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-12-09 20:52:31
Mmmmmh capacitor plague era. Anyone need a project P4 motherboard? Has AGP slot, onboard network and sound. Yours for price of shipping in US. DM me.
#retrocomputing
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-11-10 07:19:01
@zachleat@zachleat.com2025-09-10 17:40:51
@… I see your point, yeah! That they distinguish based on capitalization seems odd to me
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-09-10 05:01:55
The Trump administration's Big Tech courtship and its efforts to accelerate AI adoption across the US are alarming populists in the president's base (Joe Miller/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d6aac7f1-b955-4c76-a144-1fe8d909f70b
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-12-09 18:35:24
Logging on
@benb@osintua.eu2025-11-10 01:09:56
Ukraine is looking to order 27 Patriot air defense systems, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/10/ukraine-is-looking-to-order.html
@zachleat@zachleat.com2025-09-10 17:39:42
@… yeah, I noticed that! I think Safari’s behavior is more predictable here, fwiw
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-09-10 03:01:40
Memo: Apple's March update to its AI training guidelines for data annotators marked DEI as a "controversial" topic and removed intolerance as "harmful" behavior (Océane Herrero/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/apple-teac
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-12-09 15:51:47
It’s installers all the way down
@zachleat@zachleat.com2025-09-10 17:31:27
TIL `hyphens: auto` does not add hyphens for capitalized words (in English at least).
extraordinarily (wraps with hyphen)
Extraordinarily (no wrap no hyphen)
Adding `word-break: break-word` breaks the capitalized word, but still no hyphen 🤨
Demo (applies to Firefox and Chrome, working in Safari): https://codepen.io/zachl…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-09 01:56:08
Investment in subsea cable projects is expected to reach $13B between 2025 and 2027, almost 2x the amount invested between 2022 and 2024, driven by AI buildout (Magdalena Petrova/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/08/big-tech-ai-underwater-cables.html
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-12-09 15:42:18
Microsoft BlockType™
@zachleat@zachleat.com2025-09-10 16:52:57
@…
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please select all boxes that could be affiliated with racing
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-09 16:01:40
Stripe and Paradigm launch a public trial for their blockchain project Tempo, targeting real-world stablecoin payments, with Kalshi and UBS as new partners (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-12-09 15:39:32
“You can now do (if you purchase extra software) what every Mac can do out of the box!”
what
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-09 11:01:52
South Korean media: police raided Coupang's HQ, searching for evidence related to a historic data breach that compromised 30M people's personal information (Jane Lanhee Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@zachleat@zachleat.com2025-09-10 16:01:15
@… yeah, I don’t know exactly what happened internally there but a “red phone” for high download count maintainers might be a good short term solution until publish workflows are improved to further mitigate this style of attack
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-12-09 15:37:47
🤥
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-10 06:01:17
OpenAI says GPT‑5 instant and GPT‑5 thinking cut political bias by 30% from earlier models, and show greater robustness to charged prompts (Ashley Gold/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/09/openai-gpt-5-least-biased-model
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-12-09 15:34:04
🤔
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-09 16:01:27
The German government scales back financial aid for its semiconductor industry, cutting €3B from its previously planned €15B chip subsidies to fund road repairs (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-12-09 15:32:47
Finally XP setup has progressed to the graphical portion. PCs are so janky.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-09 17:01:45
An EssilorLuxottica independent board director says Meta now holds an "at least 3%" stake in the Ray-Ban maker, and possibly up to 5%, confirming media reports (Mathieu Rosemain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/e
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-12-09 15:26:26
I strongly think that government should be where they can reach people; especially for emergencies but also for boring normal civics and politics.
This includes websites, TV, radio, print media, social media and whatever the future brings.
(Do not confuse abuse of this, as currently practiced by some western governments, with it being inherently bad.)
https://mstdn.social/@Nickiquote/115689504321086580
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-09 01:55:46
Sources: after the Netflix-WBD deal was announced, Larry Ellison called President Trump about how the transaction would hurt competition (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/paramoun…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-12-09 14:56:56
I wonder if Apple shoehorning Liquid Glass in macOS didn't remember the last time a major computer OS tried to copy features from their mobile OS at any cost: Windows 8.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-12-09 14:44:00
Checked in XP earlier, looks basically identical to Windows 95, just also mentions Internet resources.
https://mastodon.online/@grumpy_website/115673036992705122
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-09 10:01:50
Tala Health, which plans to roll out AI agents to help clinicians improve patient care next year, raised a $100M seed led by Sofreh Capital (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/11/04/tala-health-raises-100-million-se…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-12-09 14:39:15
Hard mode
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-09 13:08:01
Intel unveils Panther Lake, or Intel Core Ultra Series 3, the first chip built on its 18A process, coming to laptops and handhelds in late 2025 and early 2026 (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/report/797146/intel-…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-12-09 14:36:08
And yes, part of the setup is text mode based
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-09 00:07:01
Filing: HashKey, Hong Kong's largest licensed crypto exchange, is aiming to raise up to ~$215M in its IPO in the city (Kumar Tanishk/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/hashkey-launches-hong-kong-ipo-seeking-up…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-12-09 14:33:40
Hosed my Windows XP laptop, and discovered the recovery partition is gone; luckily I have the recovery DVDs. 🤞
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-09 09:01:30
The Alpha Arena experiment gave six frontier models $10K each to trade crypto derivatives over two weeks: losses ranged from Qwen3 Max's $652 to GPT-5's $5,679 (Sebastian Pellejero/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/commentary/breakin
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-12-09 14:19:15
Man, this inflation
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-09 20:01:35
Adam Mosseri says Instagram is exploring building a TV app as part of a deeper push into video but isn't interested in licensing live sports or other content (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-09/instagra…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-10-09 18:28:09
I remember like 10 years ago when fascism and racism were seen by most people for what it is: criminal behavior, and not “political opinions”
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-09-10 00:30:54
Apple Watch's hypertension notifications and sleep score will come to some older models with watchOS 26; FDA clearance for the notifications is expected soon (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/775200/apple-watch-series-9-hyp…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-12-08 23:09:39
“But I can’t quit Spotify, how will I listen to music?”
Really need to hear yourself
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-09-10 14:01:50
Israeli chip monitoring startup ProteanTecs raised a $51M Series D led by IAG, with participation from Arm, Samsung, and more, taking its total funding to $250M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hjbpoqaqgg
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-09-10 19:01:51
Apple extends free access to satellite connectivity features for an additional year for existing iPhone 14 and iPhone 15 users (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/775309/apple-iphone-14-15-satellite-connectivity-free
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-10-09 17:21:04
CyberCat 2025
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-09 01:30:56
Discord estimates 70,000 users globally may have had government ID photos exposed in a September 20 third-party customer service data breach (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/797051/discord-government-ids-leaked-data-breach
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-11-09 21:57:12
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115521925373470883
Like calling them right now would be good, because there's reports that the might cave today—if they do the ACA subsidies will never come back.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-09 14:01:25
An interview with Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle on copyright lawsuits that threatened to bankrupt the nonprofit, fair use, IA's future, AI, and more (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-11-09 21:44:51
If they cave, the Democratic Party is done.
If you have Democratic senators, please, I urge you to call them and tell them to keep the pressure on Republicans going and not reopen the government until ACA subsidies are in place.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-09 22:01:47
Sources: Nvidia's H200 chips for China, mainly manufactured in Taiwan, will travel to the US for an unusual national security review before they are exported (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-09 13:01:40
Anthropic and Accenture sign a three-year deal to sell AI services to businesses; the deal makes Accenture one of Anthropic's top three enterprise clients (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-11-09 21:06:35
Bitte was für eine Röhre
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-09 00:01:59
MetaMask launches in-app perpetual futures trading powered by Hyperliquid, and plans to integrate Polymarket's prediction markets later this year (Danny Park/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/373302/metamask-rolls-out-perpet…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-09 18:01:11
Q&A with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on Gemini Enterprise, AI's labor implications, hype around AI agents, AI industry's circular investments, and more (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/google-cloud-ceo-thomas-kurian-on-ecd
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-09 22:21:01
Justin McLeod, founder and CEO of Hinge, steps down to launch Overtone, an "AI-driven" dating service backed by Match; Hinge promotes CMO Jackie Jantos to CEO (Yasmin Gagne/Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91456495/hinge-c…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-09 04:46:01
During a Mumbai trade visit, UK PM Keir Starmer hailed India's digital ID program, Aadhaar, as a "massive success" as the UK plans to introduce digital ID cards (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ce22e78c-4a0c-49ca-a658-f2167df7f31d
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-09 00:51:01
YZi Labs, formerly Binance Labs, announces a $1B Builder Fund to support long-term founders developing on BNB Chain in areas like trading, AI, and DeFi (Logan Hitchcock/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/343392/cz-family-office-kickstarts-1-billion-fund-bnb
…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-10 07:01:51
Chinese 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…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-09 15:36:07
Pebble unveils the Pebble Index 01, a $99 smart ring with an on-device LLM for processing voice notes, shipping in March 2026, initially for $75 (Julian Chokkattu/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/pebble-index-ring/
