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FilmLA: production days for film, TV, and commercials in Los Angeles fell 12.3% in Q4 2025 from Q3; for 2025 overall, production was about half of 2019's volume (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/los-angeles-production-no-rebound-12…

L.A. Production Shows No Sign of a Rebound Yet
L.A. production volume fell in the fourth quarter of 2025, continuing a downward trend that has been in place since 2022.

The 2025 Web Almanac mistook me.
I did *not* say LLMs provide better image descriptions. I cited SeeingAI and Be My Eyes as tools for undescribed IRL uses.
I said LLM-generated captions could be better than craptions. I mentioned abstracts / reading-level changes, which could be summaries?
But “better” image descriptions is right out.

Grade beim #Frostpendeln-Kilometer-Eintragen bemerkt, daß ich gestern mit dem #mdRnH die 600km seit 1. Nov. überschritten habe. 🎉
Es hatte gestern bis zu 7⁰C und ich bin deshalb nicht mit dem #BromptonElectricGLine

Betting: Broncos too much for Josh Allen to overcome? https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story/_/id/47589313/2025-nfl-playoffs-divisional-round-odds-lines-spread-betting-picks-d…

Indian edtech startup upGrad plans to acquire rival Unacademy in an all-stock deal; Unacademy was valued at less than $500M in 2025, down from $3.5B in 2021 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/15/unac

Unacademy to be acquired by upGrad in share-swap deal as India’s edtech sector consolidates | TechCrunch
The deal comes after Unacademy’s valuation plunged from $3.5B to under $500M, as India’s once-booming edtech sector struggles.

Former Guardian and Prospect EIC Alan Rusbridger has been appointed editor-at-large for The New World, which rebranded from The New European in mid-2025 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/magazines/al…

Alan Rusbridger joins The New World as editor-at-large
Former Guardian and Prospect editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger has joined The New World as editor-at-large writing essays and analysis.

Divisional round betting: Count on run game to lead Seahawks past 49ers https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story/_/id/47589608/2025-nfl-playoffs-divisional-round-odds-lines-spr…

Raiders QB Geno Smith Hit With Major Take Amid Vikings Rumor https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/geno-smith-major-take-vikings-rumor/

PitchBook: US growth and late-stage venture funds raised $23.6B YTD, up from $7.4B in 2025 and above the totals for any of the past 12 years, amid the AI boom (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/pro/venture-capital/ai

I’m at a spa trying to get my shit together in a 90ºC (~194ºF) sauna after my 2025 was beautiful madness but madness no less.
I’ve finally started to write a new newsletter & if you wanna know more about the madness or what’s coming up or a cute dog photo, sign up at https://buttondown.com/hynek

Hynek Did Something
Greetings friend! This is a list for those who’d like to be notified whenever I, Hynek Schlawack, do or publish something noteworthy, somewhere. Examples are new blog posts, YouTube videos, and talks, significant updates to existing work, or if I need to be bailed out of jail. It does not include announcements about new software releases. But it does usually include a cute dog photo. As a thank you for your trust, the emails aren’t just links to content. They contain a kind of “director's…

Government proposes yet another revision to the NPPF (Planning Framework) for England and Wales.
Here's what we said about the last one.
Open Letter about NPPF to GM Labour MPs | Steady State Manchester https://steadystatemanchester.net/2025/01/1…

Open Letter about NPPF to GM Labour MPs
This open letter has been sent to Greater Manchester labour MPs. It raises a series of concerns about the government’s planning reforms, as set out in the new National Planning Policy Framewo…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.03.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

Our guide to every NFL divisional round game: Previews, bold predictions and X factors https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/page/viewersguide47602151/nfl-divisional-predictions-schedule-odds-injuries-stats-2025-playoffs

L'an dernier, les salles de cinéma ont perdu 8% de leur affluence par rapport Š 2024, un chute de 24% en comparaison Š 2019. En effet, c'est la suite de la tendance de diminution depuis 2010.
https://www.letemps.ch/culture/ecrans/les-cinemas-suisses-ont-realise-moins-de-10-millions-d-entrees-en-2025-loin-des-chiffres-d-avant-pandemie

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/

How film companies contributed to war efforts. “What happens if we think of film not as part of the culture industry, but as part of the chemical industry?” Tales of a Militant Chemistry by Alice Lovejoy.
https://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/articles/202…

Not Your Idea of a Kodak Moment
A new book explores the photo industry’s dark past.

You'd think it would be easy to Not Do A Fascism, but state Dems keep falling over themselves to help Project 2025 along.
The latest example is from MA: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/202

Massachusetts House advances unconstitutional social media ban bill that will harm LGBTQ youth and human rights
The Massachusetts House has advanced H. 5349, a draconian and laughably unconstitutional bill that would ban minors from social media, force social media platforms to enable parental surveillance of teenagers’ online activity, and subject everyone to privacy-invading online ID checks in order to access information or speak out online. Dozens of civil liberties, racial justice, […]

Reminder that Trump's Defense Dept secretary is a raging, unmitigated racist.
Hegseth, told an audience of several hundred military people, “I think the single dumbest phrase in military history is ‘our diversity is our strength.’”
☑️ Pentagon's Hegseth: 'diversity is our strength' is dumbest phrase in military history | Reuters

Save the date! Our first meetup in the Rhein-Neckar metropolitan region for 2026 is just around the corner, taking place on February 26th, only two weeks from now.
Sign up here https://www.meetup.com/phpug-rhein-neckar/events/305478333/

PHPUGMRN 06/25, Thu, Dec 11, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup
**Agenda:** 19:00 CET - Doors open 19:30 CET - Intro 19:45 CET - Create reactive web applications with (almost) no JavaScript (HTMX), Thomas Bley 20:30 CET - Break 20:45 CE

SoftBank-owned Japanese payments app PayPay files for a US IPO, and reports a $675.47M profit on ~$1.82B revenue for nine months ending December 31, 2025 (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

PFF Makes Bold Prediction For Cowboys 2026 Draft https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-2026-draft-pro-football-focus/

"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 […]

RTL reports 2025 revenue down 3.8% YoY to €6.02B, adjusted EBITDA of €661M, paying streaming subscribers up 19% to 8.1M, and streaming revenue up 26% to €509M (Scott Roxborough/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

RTL Group Bets on Streaming Pivot as Sky Deal and HBO Max Partnership Reshape Business
RTL says its streaming platform RTL+, which now boasts more than 8 million subscribers, will cross into profitability later this year.

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/

🛌 Wissen fürs Kopfkissen: 📖
Die #Energiewende verstehen: Wichtige Fakten in Diagrammen
Wie verändert sich der globale #Energiemarkt durch den Zubau von #Windenergie und

Energiewende verstehen: Wichtigste Fakten in Diagrammen
Globale Energiewende: Erneuerbare verdrängen fossile Energien. 2025 stammen fast alle neuen Kraftwerke aus Solar & Wind.

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/

The U.S. under Donald Trump is seen as more of a threat than an ally,
according to a new POLITICO Pulse survey of six major EU countries.
Since returning to power in January 2025, Trump has questioned Washington’s commitment to NATO,
threatened to annex Greenland and Canada,
hit allies with tariffs
and launched a war with Iran that European countries refused to join.
Only 12 percent of those polled in March in Poland, Spain, Belgium, France, Germany and It…

Poll: More Europeans see US as threat than China
Washington outranks Beijing as a threat in Spain, Italy, Belgium and Germany, according to POLITICO Pulse survey.

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

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 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...

"…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.

POL-NI: Pilotprojekt zu Wildunfällen im Landkreis Nienburg erfolgreich abgeschlossen Landkreis Nienburg (ots) - Im Zeitraum vom 01.10. bis 31.12.2025 wurde im Landkreis Nienburg gemeinsam mit der Kreisjägerschaft Nienburg e. V. und der Polizei das Pilotprojekt "Nachweis über Wildunfallschäden" durchgeführt. Ziel des Projektes ... https://ww…

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

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…

"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.

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…

🔊 #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

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

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…

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

"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…

A US appeals court voids much of a March 2025 injunction blocking California's online child safety law, while keeping some of the law's provisions blocked (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-appeals-c

"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 […]

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:

🎃 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 […]

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").

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.

Nielsen: Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show averaged 128.2M viewers, above 124.9M for the game overall and down from 133.5M for Kendrick Lamar in 2025 (Selome Hailu/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime-ratings-123665…

Bad Bunny Super Bowl Halftime Ratings: 128.2 Million Viewers
Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Halftime Show ratings are in, attracting 128.2 million viewers.

Robinhood reports Q4 revenue up 27% YoY to $1.28B, below est., crypto revenue down 38% to $221M, below est., and net income down 34%; HOOD drops 5% after hours (Hannah Erin Lang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/robinh…

"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 #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://

🥕 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.

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.

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.

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.

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:

💪 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.

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

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://

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.

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.

🪵 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.

🍮 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.

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…

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

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.

🐜 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.

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/

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…

🍮 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.

⭐ 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.

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/

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

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/

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.

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.

🐺 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.

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…

‼️ 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.

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.

🛰️ 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…

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…

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.

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.

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 ...

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.