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Nvidia is aggressively opposing Republican-led proposals to limit AI chip sales to China, labeling supporters as "AI doomers", an unconventional lobbying blitz (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/technology/nvidia-china-chip-s…

Nvidia Accuses Rivals of Being A.I. Doomers as US Debates Sale of Chips to China
Rankling national security experts, the chipmaker has stepped up attacks on lawmakers who are pushing restrictions.

400 Wissenschaftler sprechen sich gegen Chatkontrolle aus
Forscher aus 33 Ländern Europas protestieren gegen die massenhafte Überwachung auf Endgeräten. Sie bringe wenig und gefährde die Sicherheit aller, mahnen sie.

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Orban claims Ukraine will be divided into three parts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/09/orban-claims-ukraine-will-be.html

Mitte Oktober endet der Support für Windows 10. Dass Microsoft seine Kundschaft dazu auffordert, Millionen von funktionierenden Computern wegzuwerfen, ist ein gigantisches Umweltverbrechen.
Wenn Microsoft kein Windows 11 auf deinem Windows-10-Laptop laufen lassen will, dann nutze die Gelegenheit doch, mal Linux auszuprobieren!
Ich freue mich schon auf die Linux-Install-Party m…

Lachlan Murdoch will take control of the Murdoch media empire, ensuring that it will retain its conservative bias, even after Rupert Murdoch’s death.
The deal, valued at $3.3 billion, ensures that Fox News, The New York Post and The Wall Street Journal, will remain conservative

Lachlan Murdoch Secures Control of Fox and News Corp, Ending Succession Fight
Lachlan Murdoch will take control of a new family trust in a deal worth $3.3 billion, ensuring that his father’s media empire will retain its conservative slant.

Wow, what a list!
The #CVE databases keep growing as I ecpected them to.
https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/2025-09-01

https://www.404media.co/its-just-a-mess-23-people-explain-how-tariffs-have-suddenly-ruined-their-hobby/

Piketty with a refreshingly-different take on tariffs: https://www.lemonde.fr/blog/piketty/2025/10/07/rethinking-world-trade/

Bill Clinton, who was impeached for committing perjury about sex, may have committed a crime related to sex?
Wait, next are you gonna tell me water is wet?
Sex criminals should be prosecuted. Full stop.
#USpol

I put my name on my bike...

Trump's private sector intervention causes heartburn on right
https://rollcall.com/2025/09/05/trump-intel-socialism-republicans-economy/

Mamdani, Facing Mistrust Within the N.Y.P.D., Reaches Out to Officers (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/nyregion/mamdani-nypd.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250908/p149#a250908p149

We go to live footage of me enjoying a Toto neorest

@… your quincuncial posts from may just turned up in my feed reader for some reason
when you wrote “I was just kidding about the name of the quince, which actually has nothing to do with any of this. It is a coincidence.”
i read it to rhyme with quinicidence
i hope that’s what you intended :-)

Happy 33rd birthday, @…!

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/…

hot take: they should build a lot of commie blocks in the UK

As huge companies, giant universities, and $billionaire race to kiss the orange ass, I increasing am losing faith that existing legal, Constitutional, or peaceful procedures are going to end our national nightmare.

"These “prediction markets” take Zuckerberg’s “here are 12 photographs of eggs” philosophy to its logical endpoint. A way to capture one of the few parts of the human experience they haven’t been able to ingest into their mega-platforms. Here are 12 photographs of opinions, bet on which ones will come true."
(Original title: Here are 12 photographs of eggs... you can bet on)

Here are 12 photographs of eggs... you can bet on
Read to the end for the only place you should go when your wife becomes a sex addict and starts cheating on you with everybody

Ben Johnson is officially a Chicago Bears coach after disastrous opener https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6612333/2025/09/09/bears-vikings-ben-johnson-debut-monday-night-loss/

Brüsseler Straße

#SAP meldet, dass die Beschäftigten ab 2026 nur noch E-Autos als #Firmenwagen bestellen können.
Insbesondere sind Plugin-Hybride ausgeschlossen. Nach meiner Beobachtung kaufen gerade viele Firmen solche Mogelpackungen. Da ist es gut, dass SAP auf

Everyone is selling innovation and none of it works. What if I started an agency that sold denovation. We'll build you a last-gen project that actually works.
It'll cost twice as much up front, but you won't have to pay to get it fixed once a year forever.

"Volume Two: Thank You For Your Patience" is one of my recent favorite albums. Milwaukee's the Beat Index clearly had a blast making "an album of on-hold music for automated phone systems." You really need to listen to the whole album - it's sonically on point, damn catchy, and brutally funny (the endlessly repeating tri-tone at the end of the full album "Telesthesia Mix" makes me wanna cry every time).
"Caught in a Lie (Hotline Mix)" (20…

Kleiner Verbrauchertest Hotelbuchung: wenn ein Vermittler dazwischen ist, kann es deutlich teurer werden. Das verrückte: nicht immer, einige sind tatsächlich günstiger über einen Refererlink. Die Preise für gleiche Unterkünfte schwanken teils um bis zu 10€/Nacht oder ~25%.
Fazit: Es ist für Verbraucher völlig unübersichtlich.

Irgendwas muss in seiner letzten Wurst gewesen sein. Anders ist dieser Realitätsverlust nicht erklärbar.
#Söder #Wurstfluencer #opnv

🌴 Commentary: Prepare to say a frond farewell to Los Angeles' palm trees
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-10/prepare-to-say-farewell-to-los-angeles-palm-trees
🆓

Commentary: Prepare to say a frond farewell to Los Angeles’ palm trees
Palms are freeloader trees: They suck down water like camels, but give back barely enough leafiness to shade a Hula-Hoop.

200gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

Fertig #Sommer, hallo #Herbst

Kritisch zijn op overheid wordt steeds moeilijker in Nederland, waarschuwt College voor de Rechten van de Mens https://nos.nl/artikel/2581667-kritisch-zijn-op-overheid-steeds-moeilijker-waarschuwt-college-voor-de-…

Kritisch zijn op overheid steeds moeilijker, waarschuwt College voor de Rechten van de Mens
Het college ziet 'zorgelijke signalen' die doen denken aan ontwikkelingen in landen waar de democratie onder druk staat, zoals Hongarije.

Sources: Nasdaq is set to acquire $50M in shares of the Winklevoss twins' Gemini crypto exchange in a private placement at the time of the IPO this week (Echo Wang/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Spicy body pillow... 😳

Pro-Trump US lawmaker to meet with Putin's envoy this month: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/09/protrump-us-lawmaker-to-meet.html

In a stinging dissent joined by her two liberal colleagues,
Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote:
“Countless people in the Los Angeles area have been grabbed, thrown to the ground, and handcuffed
simply because of their looks, their accents, and the fact they make a living by doing manual labor.
Today, the Court needlessly subjects countless more to these exact same indignities.”
Department of Homeland Security attorneys have said immigration officers target people bas…

Democratic Voters Want their Leaders to Stop Running From Zohran Mamdani – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/zohran-mamdani-new-york-city-mayor-bernie-sanders-fight-oligarchy/

A home near us exploded today, most likely a gas tank?
😟

ICE launches 'Operation Midway Blitz' targeting immigrants in Chicago (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/09/08/ice-midway-blitz-chicago-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250908/p151#a250908p151

Nach Netflix-Deal: Paramount bietet 108 Milliarden US-Dollar für Warner Bros.
Netflix und Warner Bros. haben sich auf eine Übernahme geeinigt. Nun schaltet sich Paramount ein – und bietet mehr.
…

Definitely not the future.
https://mastodon.social/@harrymccracken/115341019007992956

Duolingo launches a five-episode anime series in collaboration with Titmouse, premiering October 13 on YouTube, as a marketing campaign (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/duolingo-anime-series-final-test-…

Why Duolingo Is Launching Its Own Anime Series 'The Final Test'
Duolingo has cast Duo, its lovable and plucky owl mascot, as the star of the company's first-ever anime series, '最後の決戦 (The Final Test).

How VC firm 1789 Capital grew to $1B in assets with Donald Trump Jr. as a partner; its recent deals include investments in xAI, Neuralink, and Perplexity (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/trump-linked-venture-fun…

You have entered the Ice Agt
The largest-ever single-site immigration raid in U.S. history unfolded Thursday
when federal agents arrested nearly 500 workers at a Hyundai facility in Georgia.
Most workers were Korean nationals who were building an electric vehicle battery plant.
Hyundai is investing over $12 billion in a record-setting economic development deal with the state,
and the South Korean government recently agreed to invest hundreds of billions more in t…

ICE Conducts Largest-Ever Raid at Georgia Hyundai Plant: 475 Arrested, Mostly Korean
We get an update on the largest-ever single-site immigration raid in U.S. history that unfolded Thursday when federal agents arrested nearly 500 workers at a Hyundai facility in Georgia. Most workers were Korean nationals who were building an electric vehicle battery plant. Hyundai is investing over $12 billion in a record-setting economic development deal with the state, and the South Korean government recently agreed to invest hundreds of billions more in the U.S. in exchange for lower tariff…

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

It’s a great book. You should buy it.
https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/115341632582142049

WhatsApp: Funktion in Beta vereinfacht Schutz vor Cyberangriffen
In der aktuellen Beta-Version des beliebten Messengers Whatsapp können erste Nutzer erweiterte Sicherheitseinstellungen mit einem Klick aktivieren.

Ukrainian refugee killed in North Carolina gets dragged into political messaging war (Jacob Wendler/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/08/trump-blames-democrats-murder-ukrainian-refugee-00551419
http://www.memeorandum.com/250909/p6#a250909p6

What kind of fish is this?

Sources: OpenAI execs fear rising political scrutiny in California could hinder its for-profit plans and have discussed moving out of the state as a last resort (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-for-profit-conversion-opposition-0…

"In a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) opinion piece published Sunday, the founder/CEO of investment behemoth Citadel criticized Trump's attacks on the Federal Reserve and challenged the credibility of economic data used by the administration to justify the firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics."
'Shame on the administration': Top GOP megadonor rallies investors against Trump - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/gop-megadonor-trump/

Looks like the FCC is getting serious about robocalling? https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-415059A1.pdf
The subject line in the mailing list where I saw this is “For those of you who follow this kind of stuff” which turns out to mean that any knowledgeable discu…

New video footage shows there was more to the skirmish last week between a protester and Rep. Tim Burchett -- which ended with the Tennessee Republican forcefully shoving the man.
Burchett characterized the encounter at the time as a heated verbal exchange that grew physical when the demonstrator got in the lawmaker’s face and “bumped” him.
But a recording of the incident, reviewed by POLITICO, shows that prior to the two of them coming face to face, Burchett taunted the man, say…

'Massive' Russian attack in Sumy Oblast kills 3, injures 2: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/08/massive-russian-attack-in-sumy.html

The UK Electoral Commission says it took three years and over £250K to recover from an August 2021 hack that exposed private data of 40M voters to Chinese spies (Joe Tidy/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c80gl8yvj9go

Elections watchdog admits 'painful lessons learned' after Chinese hack
In the first interview about the hack, the commission's new boss admits that huge mistakes were made, but says the organisation is now secure.

What the immigration raids are about -- WHAT THE IMMIGRATION RAIDS ARE ABOUT. (Byron York/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/3798172/what-the-immigration-raids-are-about/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250908/p156#a250908p156

my vote is clear

'Irreconcilable with our constitutional guarantees': Sotomayor slams SCOTUS in stunning dissent - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-sotomayor/

Five weeks after Trump fired the chief of the agency that gathers the country’s labor and price data,
his advisers are preparing a report fuming over imagined shortcomings of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ jobs data
The latest jobs report points to a labor market that's faltering,
but the slowdown may have begun much earlier.
Economists expect the Bureau of Labor Statistics tomorrow to issue a major downward revision,
showing the nation added hundreds of th…

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

Hands-on with AI startup Friend's $129 always-listening pendant: feels like a beefy AirTag, runs Gemini 2.5, gives unhelpful commentary, and makes others uneasy (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/i-hate-my-ai-friend/

I Hate My AI Friend
The chatbot-enabled Friend necklace eavesdrops on your life and provides a running commentary that’s snarky and unhelpful. Worse, it can also make the people around you uneasy.

good morning

I like kitties :3

'Now this is bromance': Social media erupts over Trump's 'explicit love letter' to Epstein - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-epstein-letter/

YEKATERINBURG IS ON FIRE! 🔥 Fire at the turbine factory! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/08/yekaterinburg-is-on-fire-fire.html

White House Melts Down Over Proof of Trump's Gross Letter to Epstein (Edith Olmsted/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/post/200168/trump-letter-epstein-white-house-melts-down
http://www.memeorandum.com/250908/p150#a250908p150

Coinbase reopens app registration in India after an over-two-year pause, letting users make crypto-to-crypto trades, and plans to open up crypto buying in 2026 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/07/coin

Coinbase starts onboarding users again in India, plans for fiat on-ramp next year | TechCrunch
Coinbase is exploring expansion into India with a staggered relaunch and hiring for different roles.

I am happy to be included in any starter packs. I have cat propaganda to spread! :3

**How Trump Broke the Economy: 32 ways Trump is making us poorer and destroying our future**
https://unprecedented.ghost.io/archive/how-trump-broke-the-economy/?ref=unprecedented-newsletter

"It was a kidnapping." David Remnick introduces Jonathan Blitzer's reporting on how the Trump Administration declared war on Venezuelan migrants in the U.S. Plus: (David Remnick/New Yorker)
https://link.newyorker.com/view/5bda42982ddf9c506361c5a7oot7f.20dq/6d2f7f88
http://www.memeorandum.com/250908/p148#a250908p148

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

'Friendly note' to MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell used to sink Trump's Epstein defense - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-epstein-2673975227/

EU approves new defense program, opens path for Ukraine's industry integration: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/08/eu-approves-new-defense-program.html

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…

Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15
Logitech’s interest in the smart home has appeared to wane in recent years.

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/09/zohran-mamdani-ally-challenge-hakeem-jeffries
http://www.memeorandum.com/251008/p153#a251008p153

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

Underwater cables are a vital piece of the AI buildout and internet — investment is booming
Over 95% of international data and voice traffic travels through subsea telecom cables. Tech giants Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft are investing for AI.

Senate Republicans embrace Trump’s call – from his Florida golf course – to replace Obamacare | US federal government shutdown 2025 | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/08/senate-republicans-trump-obamacare

Senate rejects effort to curb Trump's power to target alleged drug boats (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/09/war-powers-act-vote-senate-venezuela
http://www.memeorandum.com/251008/p162#a251008p162

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

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

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…

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…

Tala Health raises $100 million seed round, as Ritankar Das seeks to build a holding company for the AI era
Titan Holdings has launched a new operating company, Tala Health, Fortune has exclusively learned.

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-…

Here is Panther Lake, Intel’s 2026 laptop chip with next-gen graphics
Intel’s Panther Lake, built on its 18A process, is the foundation of its next Intel Core Ultra Series 3 laptop chips. Here’s what we know.

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…

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

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

Discord says 70,000 users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach
Discord says that approximately 70,000 users may have had their government ID photos exposed as part of a data breach of a third-party service.

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

Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
“We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.

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…

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…

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

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
…

CZ Family Office Kickstarts $1 Billion Builder Fund on BNB
Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao's family office is setting aside $1 billion for long-term builders on BNB Chain.

How Pathway, a startup developing an alternative to the transformer, aims to use its Dragon Hatchling architecture to create a new class of adaptive AI systems (Steven Rosenbush/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/an-ai…

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/

Pebble Index: Everything You Need to Know About the $75 Smart Ring
You can speak into the Pebble Index to have it remember things or set reminders, timers, and tasks. No cloud processing, no subscription, and best of all, no charging.

David AI, which sells audio data sets for AI training, raised a $50M Series B, sources say at a $500M valuation, up from ~$100M from its $25M Series A in May (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Israel-based RAAAM, whose "GCRAM" on-chip memory tech aims to deliver up to 10x power savings relative to high-density SRAM, raised a $17M Series A led by NXP (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/sjjv3pp1bg

Chip giant NXP leads $17.5M Series A for Israeli startup tackling AI’s memory bottleneck
RAAAM Memory Technologies’ “GCRAM” promises denser, lower-power on-chip memory as the semiconductor industry races to support next-generation AI processors.