Tootfinder

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

Microsoft bringt Cloud-Gaming auf Infotainment-Systeme von LG
Microsoft erschließt eine neue Plattform für sein Cloud-Gaming-System: Künftig soll man auch auf den Infotainment-Systemen von LG im Auto zocken können.

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

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

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

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.

We go to live footage of me enjoying a Toto neorest

What kind of fish is this?

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-…

Uit angst voor progressieve ‘coup’ bij media-imperium NewsCorp kopen Murdoch en zoon Lachlan familieleden uit
Mediafamilie: Met de beslechting van een familievete blijft de rechts-conservatieve koers binnen het Murdoch-media-imperium gewaarborgd, ook na Ruperts dood. NewsCorp-baas Lachlan Murdoch gaat over de toekomst, nadat drie progressievere kinderen zijn uitgekocht.

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

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

Design is Apple’s passion https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115175730849930761

eSIM-only: In diesen Ländern hat das iPhone 17 keine physische SIM mehr
Den vollständigen Umstieg auf die eSIM hat es dann doch nicht gegeben: Apple teilt mit, welche Länder bei physischen SIMs bleiben.

Reale Schlagzeile 2025: Norwegen macht sich Sorgen, welche Racheaktionen es erwarten muss, falls Trump morgen keinen Nobelpreis bekommt. Sagt eigentlich alles über unsere Gegenwart aus.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct

It's 2025 and the Finder still occasionally does things I would consider to be bugs.

ALMA Reveals an Eccentricity Gradient in the #Fomalhaut Debris Disk: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adfadc -> A Planet Carving the Fomalhaut Debris Disk? https://aasnova.org/2025/12/09/michelangelo-in-space-a-planet-carving-the-fomalhaut-debris-disk/

Reduced to the Max: Pebble-Ring für Sprachnotizen hat nur einen Knopf
Ein Mikrofon am Zeigefinger springt nur an, wenn der Daumen den Knopf drückt. Der Pebble Index 01 dient zunächst für Sprachnotizen und Musiksteuerung.

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

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.

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

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

This was a nice surprise!

oh, i should buy some perfluorocarbons that i need for vapor phase soldering before some asshole bans them

I really want to be optimistic but it’s soooo hard to believe that the ultra-racist wing of Bibi's govt will allow the assault on Gaza to stop or an actually meaningful withdrawal. And they have the whip hand; if they walk, Bibi falls and maybe goes to jail. Hoping I’m wrong and the firing really ceases.
https://www.…

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…

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

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

"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?

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…

I like kitties :3

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-…

Apple says the iPhone 17 comes with a massive security upgrade
Apple explains iPhone 17 Memory Integrity Enforcement and Enhanced Memory Tagging Extension security updates.

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

there's rumors that Apple wants to add touch screens to laptops
has everyone memory-holed the TouchBar?

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.

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…

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

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

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

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

Studie: Auch Menschen können über Fernberührungsfähigkeiten verfügen
Können Menschen Objekte taktil erspüren, ohne sie physisch zu berühren? Zumindest im Sand soll das funktionieren, sagen Wissenschaftler.

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

Logging on

Ukraine is looking to order 27 Patriot air defense systems, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/10/ukraine-is-looking-to-order.html

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

Apple is teaching its artificial intelligence to adapt to the Trump era
Apple policy documents enacted by a subcontractor show how the company shifted its approach to fine-tuning its AI in March, two months after the U.S. president was inaugurated.

It’s installers all the way down

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.

Microsoft BlockType™

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…

“You can now do (if you purchase extra software) what every Mac can do out of the box!”
what

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

🤥

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

OpenAI says GPT-5 is its least biased model yet
New findings from OpenAI researchers found that "charged" prompts produced the most biased results.

🤔

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

Finally XP setup has progressed to the graphical portion. PCs are so janky.

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

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

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…

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.

Checked in XP earlier, looks basically identical to Windows 95, just also mentions Internet resources.
https://mastodon.online/@grumpy_website/115673036992705122

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.

Hard mode

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.

And yes, part of the setup is text mode based

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…

Hosed my Windows XP laptop, and discovered the recovery partition is gone; luckily I have the recovery DVDs. 🤞

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

Man, this inflation

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…

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”

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…

Apple’s newest health-tracking features are coming to older watches
Apple is bringing some of its new health tracking features to older watches, with hypertension notifications, live translation, and a wrist flick gesture coming to the Watch Series 9 and up.

“But I can’t quit Spotify, how will I listen to music?”
Really need to hear yourself

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

Chip monitoring startup proteanTecs raises $51M with backing from Arm, Samsung, and Siemens
The Israeli company has now raised more than $250M, expanding global footprint across automotive, cloud, and telecom.

CyberCat 2025

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.

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.

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…

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.

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…

Bitte was für eine Röhre

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…

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

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on Gemini Enterprise, AI's Labor Implications, Investment Frenzy
What's going wrong in the AI enterprise rollout, and what fundamentals are needed to make it work, according to the Google Cloud chief.

Find someone who looks at you like Republicans look at ways to torture children
https://apnews.com/article/snap-benefits-trump-administration-demands-undo-states-d433f20df4d461db506e0d327a58d3c1

my vote is clear

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…

Exclusive: Hinge CEO Justin McLeod steps down
McLeod grew his app into a standout for the dating industry and Match Group. Jackie Jantos—Hinge president and CMO—now succeeds him as CEO.

good morning

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.

Always funny when I watch a 1970s movie and instead of a happy ending it gets darker and darker a then the movie is over with no resolution.
They should do this more these days.

Or another feature: you could hook e.g. your record player into it and stream it to your whole house

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…

Chinese chipmaker Hygon calls off merger with top shareholder
Shares fall as companies blame 'market environment' for change of plan

Fwiw the SoundTouch stuff is so much nicer than the shit they have now. You could even get devices which played physical media, gasp.

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.

Just what today needed

Software is political.
Hardware is political.
These things do not exist outside society and are, whether on purpose or not, influencing society.
Get over it.