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Israeli data security startup Cyera raised a $400M Series F led by Blackstone Growth at a $9B valuation, up from $6B after raising $540M in June 2025 (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/01/08/cyera-c

Exclusive: Cyera CEO Yotam Segev on raising $400 million and why the stakes in cybersecurity are getting higher
Just six months after fetching a $6 billion valuation, cyber startup Cyera has raised $400 million at a $9 billion valuation.

Die #Biodiversität im Vereinigten Königreich geht weiter zurück. Neue Daten für 2025 zeigen, dass viele #Ökosysteme sich verschlechtern oder unverändert schlecht bleiben.
Langfristig sind besonders

UK biodiversity continues to decline, 2025 bioindicators show
Wallingford scientists contributed to the 2025 indicators with analysis of animal and plant trends.

hmm, jachten van biljardairs bombarderen? Dat zou wel eens kunnen werken
https://theneedling.com/2025/12/01/venezuela-bombs-american-drug-yacht-wiping-out-entire-sackler-family-cartel/

2025 NFL All-Rookie Team highlighted by Jaxson Dart, TreVeyon Henderson https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6943216/2026/01/08/nfl-all-rookie-team-dart-henderson-mcmillan-warren/

Die #Zeit sammelt wagemutig zusammen, wie Leute stolz #ChatGPT nutzen: zur Sichtung von Protokollen, zur Berechnung von Maßen, für Blutergebnisse (!), Gesetze, Excel…
Genau hier ist die #KI systematisc…

12 Monate – 12 Blogbeiträge: Rein subjektiv ausgewählt #60sekunden - 2025 habe ich im Blog über vieles geschrieben: über unsere Beziehung zu den USA, über digitale Souveränität in Europa, über KI zwischen Hype und Realität, über Lernen, Arbeit und die Frage, was Technologie mit unserer Haltung macht, dazu einige ganze private Themen. Für den Jahresrückblick habe ich zwölf Texte ausgewählt – e…

Just sad to have to witness this, when these problems have been solved by designers for ages. I have not commented on the OS 26 releases, but I'm glad people took the time to put into words the horror from a design point of view.
https://eclecticlight.co/2025/12/28/la

Last Year on My Mac: Look back in disbelief
If someone had told me 12 months ago what was going to happen this past year, I wouldn’t have believed them. Skipping swiftly past all the political, economic and social turmoil, I come to th…

Sources: ESPN plans to cut ~30 jobs in the coming weeks, primarily in off-camera departments, partly due to a $100M loss tied to its 2025 YouTube TV dispute (John Ourand/Puck)
https://puck.news/espns-next-round-of-layoffs-is-almost-here/

LIVE: Player's Lounge Podcast | 1-08-26 | Dallas Cowboys 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRntPXtpyNQ

Geno Smith Gets Jets, Dolphins Take Amid Raiders Release News https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/geno-smith-jets-dolphins-release-news/

Sure, Andrew.

👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„Erneuerbare Energien sind die teuersten“.
Eine Umfrage hat diesen Glauben in der deutschen Bevölkerung erst 2025 wieder gezeigt. Schauen wir uns die Kosten an. Wie schneiden

Energiewende-Mythos: „Erneuerbare Energien sind die teuersten“
2024 stammt der meiste Strom in Deutschland aus erneuerbaren Energien – und sie sind günstiger als Kohle oder Gas. Fakten statt Mythen.

"More than 87m people impacted by climate-related disasters in 2025"
#Climate #ClimateChange

More than 87m people impacted by climate-related disasters in 2025
In 2025, more than 200 climate-related disasters affected more than 87.8 million people worldwide, according to preliminary figures from the International Disaster Database analyzed by Mongabay. The disasters include flash floods, landslides, severe storms, wildfires and droughts. Drought and food insecurity impacted the largest number of people. In Syria, which faced its worst drought in […]

UMG reports Q4 revenue up 4.8% YoY to €3.61B and paid listening up 2.4% YoY to €1.26B; UMG says it is not moving ahead with a US listing at this time (Dylan Smith/Digital Music News)
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/03/05/universal-music-stock-q4-2025/

Universal Music Reports Mixed Q4 '25 Financials, Halts U.S. Listing
Universal Music has reported mixed financials for Q4 2025 and moved to shelve its U.S. listing amid share-price uncertainty.

Strategy reports Q4 net loss grew to $12.4B from $671M a year earlier, as BTC trades below its ~$76K average purchase price; MSTR is down 68% in the past year (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/strategy-earnings-fourth-2025…

Just sad to have to witness this, when these problems have been solved by designers for ages. I have not commented on the OS 26 releases, but I'm glad people took the time to put into words the horror from a design point of view.
https://eclecticlight.co/2025/12/28/la

Precedented, but not the same:
If ICE and CBP are basically the reincarnation of the KKK, it’s the KKK with a budget the size of Russia’s entire military.
Literally. In the literal sense of “literally.” The incoming ICE CBP budget is ~$140 billion.[1] Russia’s military budget is ~$145 billion.[2]
(If I’m misreading these numbers, please correct me.)
[1] https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/fy26_homeland_security_conference_bill_summary.pdf
[2] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-hikes-national-defence-spending-by-23-2025-2024-09-30/
12/

The Kresšks’ diagram - Hyperbolic #meteoroid orbits and their confidence level: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/09/aa54274-25/aa54274-25.html -> Meteore interstellari - quando l’orbita inganna: https://www.media.inaf.it/2026/01/28/meteore-interstellari/

Marvelous & inspiring 1h set of analog synth tracks by Federico Chiesa aka OORA...
The Memoir — Page 168: OORA (2025)
#Music4Coding

Oha, also auch beim #DHM die Berlinische Dekade der Bauverzögerung: https://www.rbb24.de/kultur/beitrag/2026/01/berlin-deutsches-hist…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- 2025 Banff International String Quartet Competition
From the Romantic Round of the Banff International String Quartet Competition, quartets by Mendelssohn, Debussy and Brahms. Jonathan Swain presents.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qgzj

Sources: Sam Altman has excluded OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar from some key financial meetings; Friar began reporting to Fidji Simo instead of the CEO in August 2025 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-ceo-cfo-diverge-ipo-timing

OpenAI CEO and CFO Diverge on IPO Timing
Sam Altman has committed OpenAI to spend $600 billion in the next five years and privately said he wants to go public as soon as the fourth quarter despite expectations his company will burn more than $200 billion before it starts generating cash. Behind the scenes, Sarah Friar, his chief ...

I fucking hate KDE on Wayland. Entire evening wasted thanks to their goddamn fucking unnecessary hardcoded gestures. I am to the point of rebuilding kwin_wayland with the patch from the Arch AUR `kwin-without-gestures` package.
This was supposed to be getting fixed!
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/06/1…

March was the first month above 430 ppm atmospheric CO₂ of this year, and only the second in about 15 million years!
The first one was May 2025; many more to follow, unfortunately.
Based on daily values at Mauna Loa, the average was ~430.2 ppm, that's 2.0 ppm higher than last year.

#nowListening to https://soundcloud.com/kaelantondu/sets/psytrance-2025

"…the world needs to log off corporate-owned, centrally-controlled social media platforms & log on to a better way of being online. The world needs an open social web through the fediverse & Mastodon.
Calls for public institutions to invest in digital sovereignty are increasing across civil society. The term digital sovereignty means that an institution has autonomy & control over the critical digital infrastructure, data, & services that make up their online prese…

The world needs social sovereignty
The world needs to log off corporate-owned, centrally-controlled social media platforms and log on to a better way of being online. The world needs an open social web through the fediverse and Mastodon.

The "Board of Peace" was created as a result of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) adoption of Resolution 2803 on November 17, 2025,
which authorized the organization as a “transitional administration with international legal personality”
intended to “set the framework and coordinate funding for the redevelopment of Gaza.”
However, the organizational charter revealed in Davos is light on details and makes no mention of Gaza.
This has caused many to…

“Board of Peace” Trademark Filings Reveal Its Murky Legal Status
The “Board of Peace” trademarks are not owned by the organization itself, but by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, marking an unprecedented use of executive branch power to protect rights of an ambiguously defined supranational entity.

»Dass ich sogenannte Naturisten, Vegetarier u. andere Sektierer nicht ausstehen kann, liegt daran, dass sie aus einer Lebenshaltung, die jeder mit sich selbst abzumachen hat, eine öffentl. Angelegenheit machen u. alle, die nicht so leben wie sie, wenn nicht verachten, so doch für arme Irrende halten.«
Aus: Ré Soupalt – Kaffee mit Croissant in Avignon (1951/2025)

🧮 The Texas Instruments CC-40 invades Gopherspace (plus TI-74 BASICALC)
http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-texas-instruments-cc-40-invades.html
#calculator

The Texas Instruments CC-40 invades Gopherspace (plus TI-74 BASICALC)
I've mentioned on the blog several times the continuum that exists between handheld computers and pocket computers , battery powered devices...

ena creek midnight may 12 2025

from my link log —
ACME, a brief history of a protocol which has changed Internet security.
https://blog.brocas.org/2025/12/01/ACME-a-brief-history-of-one-of-the-protocols-which-has-changed-the-Internet-Security/

What is the Future Talent Programme (FTP) really like?
🎥 Hear directly from FTP 2025 participants, NREN mentors and programme organizers: Jiri Matousek (CESNET), Nelson Dias (FCCN), Davina Luyten (Belnet), Sarah Hughes (GÉANT), Aurora Vasconcelos, Oliver Gurka, Abdalla Alfaramawi, Richard Hyroš, and Mike De Decker.
There’s still one more week left to apply for the 2026 edition!
🔗 Apply at

It's only an hour. You can do it! But I wonder, given keiko is in her fifties today, and given I am more than thrice 22, is her story still relevant in 2025? Sion Sono has a knack for nailing his target.
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/807053292677021696/i-am-keiko-1997?source=share

Rund um den Chiemsee wandern 2025
#silentsunday

Outside Interactive, formerly Outside Media, which pivoted from ads to a recurring revenue model, reports 2025 revenue up 23% YoY to $125M and its first profit (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/outside-interactive-profit-transformation/

Outside Interactive Posted Its First Profit—But It’s No longer Just a Media Company
The platform brought in $125 million in 2025, over 60% of which came from recurring lines of revenue.

Why We've Tried to Replace #Developers Every Decade Since 1969
https://www.caimito.net/en/blog/2025/12/07/the-recurring-dream-of-replacing-develop…

Not sure why, but China is feeling the need to say that China is being attacked by Taiwan with cyber incidents rather than the other way around.
Mainland deals with almost 4,000 cyber attacks from Taiwan in 2025
http://english.scio.gov.cn/pressroom/2026-01/21/con…

POL-WL: Pressemitteilung der PI Harburg für den Zeitraum Freitag, 30.01.2025, 12 Uhr bis Sonntag, 01.02.2026, 12 Uhr Tostedt (ots) - Ohne Licht und unter Alkoholeinfluss mit dem E-Scooter unterwegs Am späten Freitagabend fiel einer Streifenwagenbesatzung im Tostedter Ortskern ein E-Scooter ohne Beleuchtung auf. Bei der Kontrolle konnte bei dem 18-jährigen ...

Polizei #Andernach feiert wieder, dass sie anlasslos Jugendliche gängeln. Puh.
https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/117712/6205267

The US FCC grants Starlink competitor Logos clearance to deploy up to 4,178 low Earth orbit broadband satellites by 2035; Logos raised a $50M Series A in 2025 (Jason Rainbow/SpaceNews)
https://spacenews.com/fcc-clears-logos-to-deploy-more-than-4000-broad…

FCC clears Logos to deploy more than 4,000 broadband satellites
Logos Space Services has secured U.S. regulatory approval to deploy up to 4,178 low Earth orbit broadband satellites.

"En 2025, l’électricité produite en Europe Š partir de l’éolien et du solaire a dépassé celle d’origine fossile"
https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2026/0…

En 2025, l’électricité produite en Europe à partir de l’éolien et du solaire a dépassé celle d’origine fossile
Le nucléaire reste la première source de production électrique dans l’Union européenne, selon le cercle de réflexion Ember. Le charbon poursuit son déclin, tandis que le solaire décolle.

"Author Name Disambiguation in Scholarly Research: A Bibliometric Perspective"
https://doi.org/10.1515/opis-2025-0035
"The rapid expansion of scholarly publishing has amplified the long-standing challenge of author name ambiguity in academic databases. This issue, manifesting a…

Communication, entertainment, everything in between - another great post by @… that will inspire you, offend you, educate you- all the things great writing should do. It'll make you think, challenge your assumptions- there are too many great quotable parts of this, I couldn't even pick one to use as a blurb here. Worth it to just read the full deal 🔥:

How We Lost Communication to Entertainment
How We Lost Communication to Entertainment par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

"Global Investment in Clean Tech Hit a New High Last Year"
#Energy #Renewables
https://e360.yale.edu/dige…

Global Investment in Clean Tech Hit a New High Last Year

Die monatliche #Energieerzeugung meiner #Kernfusionskollektoranlage im Vergleich zu Prognosedaten aus einer Simulation.
Gesamtleistung: 480 Wp
Ausrichtung: West
Anstellwinkel: 58 Grad
👉 So berechnest Du die Jahresertragsprognose:

Niners LB Dre Greenlaw admits 'I just wasn't happy' during 2025 season with Broncos https://www.nfl.com/news/niners-lb-dre-greenlaw-admits-i-just-wasn-t-happy-during-2025-season-with-broncos

The Italian tech holding company Bending Spoons, has developed a reputation for buying tech companies past their peak and aggressively cutting costs.
The firm acquired Evernote in 2022, followed by Meetup and WeTransfer in 2024, and AOL and Eventbrite in 2025.
Layoffs followed many of those deals. In September 2024, just months after being acquired by Bending Spoons, WeTransfer laid off 75% of its staff.
Just months after Bending Spoons bought Vimeo for $1.38 billion last ye…

Vimeo Lays Off 'Most' of Its Staff, Allegedly Includes 'the Entire Video Team'
Employees reported major job cuts this week, just months after the video hosting site was bought by Bending Spoons.

💪 How testosterone went from prostate cancer villain to potential ally
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-testosterone-prostate-cancer-villain-potential.html

How testosterone went from prostate cancer villain to potential ally
For more than 80 years, men have been told that testosterone helps prostate cancer grow. But a very different picture has emerged over the past two decades.

RE: #redshift measured spectroscopically hailed in this press release as well as in https://esawebb.org/news/weic2603/ and https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_gazes_further_back_in_time has been published in May 2025 as https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11263 (appearing on ArXiv counts as a publication in today's academic landscape) and made some headlines then, including by yours truly: https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2025/05/18/resiliences-mond-punch-fur-alle-pslv-versagt/ ("Neuer spektroskopischer Rotverschiebungs-Rekord: z=14.44").

Substack notifies users about a "limited" data breach in October 2025, found on February 3 and now patched; a threat actor leaked a database of ~697K records (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

‼️Die #Petition
"Änderung von § 3 Absatz 3 Nr. 2c StVO vom 26.12.2025"
hat bisher 240 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29760 Unterschriften bis zum 11.03.2026.
https://

"2025 was third-warmest year on record, research shows"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https:/…

2025 was third-warmest year on record, research shows
2025 was the third-warmest year on record, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The warmest year on record is still 2024, with 2023 coming in second. The global average surface temperature for 2025 was estimated to be 1.44° Celsius (2.59° Fahrenheit) higher than preindustrial levels. The last 11 years have been the warmest 11 years […]

Our favorite 60 stats entering Super Bowl 60: How Philip Rivers, Cam Little and others blew up 2025 NFL season

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/our-fa…

🎃 Carbon and charisma: How climate network CC35 tricked its way to the limelight
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/carbon-and-charisma-how-climate-network-cc35-tricked-its-way-to-the-limelight/

The rise of CC35 and the business behind its climate deals
This investigation was produced with support from the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ). Isabel Alarcón contributed reporting from Ecuador. BARCELONA — Covering more than 65 million hectares (160 million acres) across Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay, the Gran Chaco is South America’s second-largest forest after the Amazon Rainforest. Over the last decades, the dry forest […]

Die monatliche #Energieerzeugung meiner #Kernfusionskollektoranlage im Vergleich zu Prognosedaten aus einer Simulation.
Gesamtleistung: 480 Wp
Ausrichtung: West
Anstellwinkel: 58 Grad
👉 So berechnest Du die Jahresertragsprognose:

Bitcoin has fallen to ~$78K, down ~7% in 24 hours, over 12% in the past week, and down ~37% since its ATH in Oct. 2025; Ethereum dropped ~18% in the past week (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-31/bitcoi…

Comcast reports NBCU's Q4 revenue rose 5.5% YoY to $7.62B and an adjusted EBITDA loss of $122M; Peacock had a $552M loss on $1.6B in revenue and 44M subscribers (Lillian Rizzo/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/29/comcast-cmcsa-earnings-q4-2025.html

🍮 Wissen zum Nachtisch: 🍨
Retröt: Wie präsent ist der #Klimawandel im öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk?
Eine Analyse zeigt: Themen wie #Hitzeschutz, #Solarenergie und

Klimawandel im Fokus: Analyse der Berichterstattung im öffentlich-rechtlichen Fernsehen 2025
Wird der Klimawandel im öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk ausreichend thematisiert? Eine umfassende Analyse zeigt Zahlen und Trends in der Berichterstattung.

Vikings fire general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah after disappointing season: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6933813/2026/01/30/vikings-fire-gm-kwesi-adofo-mensah/

Samsung reports Q4 revenue up 24% YoY to ~$65.6B, vs. ~$65.28B est., and operating profit up 200% to ~$14.06B, driven by memory chip price surge and HBM demand (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/29/samsung-record-q4-2025-profit-…

Samsung profit triples, beating estimates as AI chip demand fuels memory shortage
Samsung Electronics reported an over three-fold surge in fourth-quarter profits, hitting a new record and beating analysts' estimates.

🥕 Mixing incentives and penalties found key to cutting carbon emissions long term
#carbon

Mixing incentives and penalties found key to cutting carbon emissions long term
A study from a team of researchers that includes faculty from the University of California San Diego and Princeton University shows how a mix of subsidies for clean energy and taxes on pollution can significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change.

Here is my round up of the best #PositiveNews that I shared in 2025 about the #Environment and #Climate

The Top Environmental Headlines From 2025
The media has an important role to play in combatting climate doom. Unlike our usual schedule, this blog is showcasing a curated selection of 2025's positivity. We hope this yearly news round up of positive environmental and climate change news, has sparked joy and shown that progress is being made.

‼️Die #Petition
"Änderung von § 3 Absatz 3 Nr. 2c StVO vom 26.12.2025"
hat bisher 60 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29940 Unterschriften bis zum 11.03.2026.
https://

Taiwan's GDP rose 12.68% in Q4 2025, its fastest quarterly growth since 1987; full-year GDP grew 8.63%, topping the 7.5% forecast on AI demand for tech products (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-30…

Broadcaster Sinclair reports Q4 revenue of $836M, down 17% YoY, and net income down 38% YoY to $109M, core advertising revenue up 14% to $354M (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/02/sinclair-q4-2025-earnings-report/

Sinclair logs financial loss during 2025, weak distribution fees weigh on Q4 revenue
Sinclair reported lower 2025 earnings as political ads cooled, but growth in core advertising and sports demand boosted its outlook for 2026.

🪵 Maritime archaeologists from the Viking Ship Museum in Denmark have announced the discovery of what they describe as the world’s largest cog
https://www.medievalists.net/2025/12/medieval-ship-discovered-copenhagen/

Medieval ship discovered off Copenhagen may be the world’s largest cog - Medievalists.net
A medieval cargo ship of extraordinary size has been found in the waters off Copenhagen. Built around 1410, Svælget 2 is being called the world’s largest cog, and its remarkably preserved remains are revealing new details about medieval shipbuilding and Northern European trade networks.

2025 NFL season's 25 biggest stories: Shedeur Sanders, Sam Darnold, stunning firings headline wild ride

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2025-nfl-season-25-biggest-stories/

🍮 Wissen zum Nachtisch: 🍨
Retröt: Wie präsent ist der #Klimawandel im öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk?
Eine Analyse zeigt: Themen wie #Hitzeschutz, #Solarenergie und

Klimawandel im Fokus: Analyse der Berichterstattung im öffentlich-rechtlichen Fernsehen 2025
Wird der Klimawandel im öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk ausreichend thematisiert? Eine umfassende Analyse zeigt Zahlen und Trends in der Berichterstattung.

Momentum Works: the GMV of the online food delivery market in Southeast Asia's six biggest economies grew 18% YoY to $22.7B in 2025, and Grab accounted for 55% (Dylan Loh/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/food-beverag…

Grab's ASEAN food delivery share rises to 55% in 2025: survey
Sea's ShopeeFood beats Foodpanda to No. 2 as rivalry sharpens

NFL betting wrapped: Seahawks-Patriots Super Bowl fitting end to 'off-the-charts' season https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story/_/id/47516244/nfl-2025-betting-wrapped-most-bet-teams-players-2026-outlook

Sensor Tower: Latin American downloads of the top 20 microdrama apps rose ~402% YoY in 2025; ReelShort and DramaBox led with 77M and 74M downloads, respectively (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/01/how-chinas-short-video-streamers-ar…

⭐ Promising new superconducting material discovered with the help of AI
#materials

Promising new superconducting material discovered with the help of AI
Tohoku University and Fujitsu Limited have successfully used AI to derive new insights into the superconductivity mechanism of a new superconducting material.

Amazon reported hundreds of thousands of pieces of potential CSAM in AI training data to NCMEC in 2025; child safety officials say Amazon didn't give the source (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-29/amazon-found…

🐺 Africa's rarest carnivore: The story of the first Ethiopian wolf ever captured, nursed and returned to the wild
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-africa-rarest-carnivore-story-ethiopian.html

Africa's rarest carnivore: The story of the first Ethiopian wolf ever captured, nursed and returned to the wild
What's the value of one animal? When a wild animal is found badly injured, the most humane option is often euthanasia to prevent further suffering. That's what usually happens, and often for good reason. Even when the resources to rescue one animal are available, a rehabilitated animal brought back into the wild might be rejected by its group, or struggle to find food or escape predators. If it does survive, it may fail to reproduce, and leave no lasting mark on the population.

Global Energy Monitor: over 97 GW of gas-fired power in the US pipeline were explicitly earmarked for data centers in 2025, compared with just 4 GW in 2024 (Molly Taft/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/data-centers-are-driving-a-us-gas-boom/

Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom
Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor.

Die Schweizer #Bahn erreichte 2025 mit 94,1 Prozent pünktlichen Zügen einen neuen Rekord.
Trotz Baustellen und Großereignissen blieb die #Pünktlichkeit auf hohem Niveau. In Deutschland lagen die Werte deutlich niedriger. Die Deutsche Bahn fällt vor allem im

Trotz Baustellen: Die Bahn war 2025 so pünktlich wie nie. In der Schweiz
Es ist ein Rekord: Rund 94 Prozent der Personenzüge im Schweizer Schienennetz erreichten 2025 planmäßig ihr Ziel. Die Deutsche Bahn verärgert hingegen auch die Eidgenossen.

Assessing Tyler Booker and Cowboys' 2025 rookie dr... https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47754790/nfl-dallas-cowboys-tyler-booker-rookies-draft-ezeiruaku-shavon-revel-jr-jaydon-blue

The Hill says it has "fortified" its breaking news team due to a "bonkers" US news cycle; Comscore says The Hill had 1.24B page views across 2025, up 7% YoY (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-ameri

The Hill is growing traffic in a declining market by investing in reporters
The Hill has “fortified” its breaking news team to make the most of a “bonkers” news cycle in US politics.

‼️ YES!
Der Internationale #Strafgerichtshof ersetzt #Microsoft durch #openDesk, eine Open-Source-Lösung aus

Sorge vor US-Sanktionen: Internationaler Strafgerichtshof kickt Microsoft aus seiner Verwaltung
Der Internationale Gerichtshof will sich von Microsoft unabhängig machen und schwenkt auf openDesk um, die Open-Source-Bürosoftware des Zentrums für Digitale Souveränität. Die Bundesregierung könnte sich daran ein Beispiel nehmen. Denn während openDesk bei europäischen Nachbarn gefragt ist, fremdelt die Bundesverwaltung noch immer damit.

🐜 Ant smuggling case highlights legal inconsistencies
#ants

Ant smuggling case highlights legal inconsistencies
Authors of a new study are calling for stronger protection of insects in wildlife law, after the conviction of four men in Kenya for smuggling rare ants out of the country highlighted the need for more effective deterrents for criminals.

Sensor Tower: Reels accounted for 50% of all Instagram ads in 2025, up from 35% in 2024; Reels accounted for 46% of time spent on Instagram in the US in 2025 (Zach Vallese/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/20/most-of-instagrams-ads-ran-on-reels-i…

Most of Instagram's ads ran on Reels in 2025, data shows
More than half of all ads on Meta's Instagram ran in the service's short-form video Reels product in 2025, up from 35% in 2024, according to Sensor Tower.

Sensor Tower: consumers spent $85B on apps globally in 2025, up 21% YoY, and, in a first, more money went on non-game mobile apps than on games, driven by GenAI (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/21/cons…

Consumers spent more on mobile apps than games in 2025, driven by AI app adoption | TechCrunch
Consumers spent more money in mobile apps than games in 2025, driven by AI app adoption.

🛰️ Satellite data reveals new insights into sustainable groundwater usage in the Hollywood Basin
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-satellite-reveals-insights-sustainable-groundwater.html

Satellite data reveals new insights into sustainable groundwater usage in the Hollywood Basin
Groundwater is a critical resource in Southern California, where long-term drought and climate change place increasing pressure on local aquifers. Some regions, like the Hollywood Basin (a small region in and around the West Hollywood neighborhood), are increasing their reliance on these aquifers in order to reduce the amount of water imported from elsewhere. A new Caltech-led study provides the most detailed picture to date of how the Hollywood Basin responds to groundwater usage, revealing th…

OpenEvidence, which is building "ChatGPT for doctors", raised $250M led by Thrive and DST at a $12B valuation, up from $6B in October and $1B in February 2025 (Kate Rooney/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/21/openevidence-chatg…

OpenEvidence, the 'ChatGPT for doctors,' doubles valuation to $12 billion
OpenEvidence, based in Massachusetts, has topped a $12 billion valuation in a funding round led by Thrive and DST.

😇 Taboo against harming strangler fig spirits protects forests in Indonesian Borneo
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/taboo-against-harming-strangler-fig-spirits-protects-forests-in-indonesian-borneo/

Taboo against harming strangler fig spirits protects forests in Indonesian Borneo
When a young boy went missing near his mother’s rice field in Indonesian Borneo, the entire village searched for him. After nearly a day, he was found near a large strangler fig tree. The boy insisted he hadn’t been hiding. Spirits living in the fig tree had called his name and lured him away, he […]

Osaka-based Capcom reports game sales up 13.5% to a record 34.64M from March to December 2025; the Street Fighter and Resident Evil maker's stock jumps 10% (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

🫗 The perfect polymer? Plant-based plastic is fully saltwater degradable and leaves behind zero microplastics
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-polymer-based-plastic-fully-saltwater.html

The perfect polymer? Plant-based plastic is fully saltwater degradable and leaves behind zero microplastics
Researchers led by Takuzo Aida at the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS) in Japan have one-upped themselves in their quest to solve our microplastic problem.

Jones Lang LaSalle projects Malaysia's operational data center capacity to increase from ~1,025 MW at the end of 2025 to ~2,100 MW by the end of 2026 (Norman Goh/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/malaysia-s-data…

Malaysia's data center capacity set to double by end-2026
Southern state of Johor to lead country's booming sector: JLL estimates

#Endometriose bleibt oft lange unerkannt. Betroffene leiden teils jahrelang unter starken #Schmerzen, besonders während der Periode.
Bis zur Diagnose vergehen im Schnitt bis zu zehn Jahre. Das erschwert eine frühzeitige

Endometriose: Warum die Behandlung so schwierig ist
Starke Schmerzen während der Periode können eine Begleiterscheinung von Endometriose sein. Von den ersten Schmerzen bis zur Diagnose dauert es im Schnitt siebeneinhalb bis zehn Jahre. Von Inka Zimmermann

💸 Why the price of coffee has skyrocketed: from Brazilian plantations to specialty coffee houses
https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-12-28/why-the-price-of-coffee-ha…

Why the price of coffee has skyrocketed: from Brazilian plantations to specialty coffee houses
Climate change, growing demand and the transformation of coffee into a commodity for speculation on the New York Stock Exchange have increased the value and the uncertainty around one of the most desirable products on the planet

CoinGecko: over 53% of the 20.2M crypto tokens launched since 2021 are now inactive, with 7.7M tokens failing in Q4 2025, after Oct. 10 "liquidation cascade" (Helene Braun/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/01/1

More than half of all crypto tokens have failed — and most died in 2025
Over 13.4 million tokens have been erased between mid-2021 and 2025, according to a new analysis by CoinGecko.

PayPal survey in October 2025: 40% of merchants already accept crypto, led by large enterprises, 85% expect crypto payments to be commonplace by 2030, and more (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/387280/crypto-…

Amazon plans to cut ~16,000 roles across the company as part of an ongoing effort to reduce organizational layers and bureaucracy, after cuts in October 2025 (Beth Galetti/About Amazon)
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-layoffs-corporate-jan…

Update on our organization
The following message was shared with Amazon employees earlier today.

Gallup: 12% of employed US adults reported using AI daily in their job in Q4 2025, compared to 10% in Q3 and 8% in Q2; 49% say they never use AI in their role (Andy Kemp/Gallup)
https://www.gallup.com/workplace/701195/frequent-workplace-continued-rise.aspx

Frequent Use of AI in the Workplace Continued to Rise in Q4
Frequent use of AI in the workplace has continued to rise, while overall use has remained level. Use varies widely by industry, role type and job level.

Google invests an undisclosed sum in Sakana AI, valued at $2.6B in November 2025, to boost Gemini's presence in Japan; Sakana AI gains access to Google's LLMs (Min-Jeong Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Global smartphone shipments rose 2% YoY in 2025, with Apple capturing the top position at a 20% share and 10% YoY growth, ahead of Samsung's 19% market share (Counterpoint Research)
https://counterpointresearch.com/en/insights/global-sm…

Circana: the Switch 2 ended December and 2025 as the US' best-selling video game hardware, offsetting declines among rivals to lift overall hardware spend by 9% (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20