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European startups raised $24B in Q2, up 66% YoY and the strongest quarter in four years; UK startups raised $10.4B, above Germany's $3.2B, and France's $2.4B (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/data-funding-ai-ma-up-europe-q2-202…

Europe Posted Its Strongest Venture Funding Quarter In 4 Years As UK Gains, M&A Holds Up
In Q2, Europe posted its strongest quarter in four years for venture funding, Crunchbase data shows. All told, Europe-based startups raised $24 billion in the just-ended quarter, up around a third quarter over quarter and two-thirds higher than the $14.4 billion raised in Q2 2025.

In my latest article for Inquirer.net, I talk about @… and its 15-year history despite being only 1 year old. (I also talk a bit about data privacy and @….)

CoMaps and the right to fork
CoMaps, my favorite OpenStreetMap-based mobile app, is now one year old! This Google Maps alternative first became available on Google Play and the Apple App Store on July 3, 2025. What

Experian says 40% of the 5,000 data breaches it serviced in 2025 were AI-powered, and predicts agentic AI will be the leading cause of data breaches in 2026 (Jennah Haque/Bloomberg)

The United States Constitution puts control over elections in the hands of the states
and grants Congress the ability to pass federal election legislation.
It gives no explicit authority to the executive branch.
But in early February, Trump said he wanted the Republican-led federal government to “nationalize” or “take over” the running of elections.
“A state is an agent for the federal government in elections,” he said.
Trump had already, in March 2025, signed…

The Many Ways Trump Is Trying to Tip the Scales for the Midterms
Here’s how President Trump is using the powers of his office to try to reshape the rules governing the midterms and future elections.

Bruttospeicherleistung aktiver #Batteriespeicher je #Netzanschlussebene in #Deutschland ab 2012 mit Stand vom 30.06.2026.
Betrachtet werden Datensätze mit Betriebsstatus „a…

Crypto VC firm Paradigm raised $1.2B, its third fund, to invest in areas outside of crypto, including AI and robotics; Paradigm had $11.9B in AUM in 2025 (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

"Wildfires devastating richer areas but fewer hectares burned globally – study"
#Wildfires #Environment

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Planned Parenthood and other reproductive health clinics
regained access to Medicaid funding on Saturday
after a provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act defunding the organizations expired.
The provision depriving Planned Parenthood was touted as a major victory for the anti-abortion movement when the bill was signed on July 4, 2025,
but, due to Senate rules, the defunding only lasted for one year,
and Congress failed to renew it before their summer recess.

Planned Parenthood Can Access Medicaid Funds Again as Congress Lets Ban Expire | Common Dreams
​Reproductive healthcare advocates vowed to keep up the fight as conservative activists pressure Congress to make the funding ban permanent.

"Karen Hao says that in 2025 resistance to data centers stalled over a $100 billion worth of these centers... This is class struggle, just like smashing the conveyor belts on the assembly line."
https://jodi7768.substack.com/p/ai-is-capital

AI is Capital
Provisional thoughts on the repercussions of this idea

„Drei Jahre lang - von 2022 bis 2025 - hatten die Forscher das etwa 3.500 Quadratkilometer große Einzugsgebiet der Unteren Spree zwischen Spreewald und Berlin untersucht.
Laut dem Bericht zählt die Region zu den wasserärmsten Gebieten Deutschlands. Die Grundwasserstände seien lokal seit dem Jahr 2000 um bis zu drei Meter gesunken.“
Genau hier baut Schwarz-Digits ein riesiges #Rechenzentrum

Am 6. Juni ist wieder Fest der Kulturen bei der Deutschen Seemannsmission Brunsbüttel - von 12-17 Uhr mit Essen und Musik und Menschen aus verschiedenen Kulturen und Torten aus Dithmarschen .(Video von 2025)

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:

Digital i: YouTube overtakes Netflix in average daily viewing globally, rising from 87.2 minutes in 2024 to 99.1 in 2025, while Netflix fell from 100.5 to 93.4 (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

49ers WR Ricky Pearsall to be placed on season-ending IR with PCL injury https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7481316/2026/08/01/49ers-ricky-pearsall-season-ending-injury/

@… @… are you planning to support receiving Apple Passwords exports of Passkey into 1Password?

Donald Trump raked in more than
$1billion from his crypto businesses last year, a federal filing released Monday shows,
giving a substantial boost to his annual income.
In his second term, Trump and his family have heavily invested in digital money and various crypto businesses
with Trump announcing at the start of 2025 that he wanted the US to be the “crypto capital of the world”.
Trump’s crypto earnings are in addition to profit from his legal settlements, real…

Alarm bells over conflict of interest as filing shows Trump raked in $2bn in 2025
Crypto ventures eclipse much of property portfolio, with revenue also coming from Trump-branded products

Euch interessiert doch sicher auch brennend das Organigramm des Landratsamtes vom Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis. Ich habe es mal für euch heruntergeladen.
https://www.unstrut-hainich-kreis.de/fileadmin/images/Website/struktur_lra_2025-09-01.svg

🍮 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 2025/2026
Wird der Klimawandel im öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk ausreichend thematisiert? Eine umfassende Analyse zeigt Zahlen und Trends in der Berichterstattung.

Connie Chan Rocks. Thank you Nancy Pelosi-- good pick to endorse for your seat.
Connie Chan represents the Internet Archive district in San Francisco, and got unanimous support for: Digital Library Rights, and Internet Archive Day resolution in 2025, and got the Internet Archive Hero award in 2023!

Raiders see slight attendance increase in 2025, despite being tied for worst record https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-see-slight-attendance-increase-in-2025-despite-being-tied-for-worst-reco…

Filing: President Trump reports $1.4B in income from his family's crypto ventures in 2025, including $500M from WLF and $635M from the sale of his $TRUMP coin (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-reports-more-than-14-bi…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

Saw a photo of a doctor office with this image on a screen, and had to track it down.
( Image of someone in a orange/black/yellow leather pup mask, sunglasses, chain collar, with text "We're not a vet... but we treat pups!" )
This is by Equitas Health, a nonprofit lgbtq healthcare provider in Ohio
https://www.…

Equitas Health on Instagram: "Does your pup need a check-up? 😉🐶"
265 likes, 17 comments - equitas.health on January 15, 2025: "Does your pup need a check-up? 😉🐶".

Alarm bells over conflict of interest as filing shows Trump raked in $2bn in 2025 (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/30/trump-1bn-crypto-businesses-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/260701/p34#a260701p34

Cowboys' $91M star now gets to be center stage of defensive refresh https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/06/13/cowboys-player-profile-no-92-dt-quinnen-williams/90537073007/…

So the Canadian government is cracking down on anti-semitism (CBC: #israel #palestine #canada #cdnpoli #canpoli

A profile of Expedia CEO Ariane Gorin, who became CEO in 2024 and has overseen back-to-back years of revenue growth, with record gross bookings of $119B in 2025 (Brent Crane/Bloomberg)

"Trump’s income topped $2 billion in 2025, boosted by crypto, coin ventures" - Election Law Blog
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=157008

Ermittlungen beendet - Grazer Amoklauf: Einzeltäter-Theorie bestätigt #News #Nachrichten

Mercury, which provides banking services to startups, raised a $200M Series D led by TCV at a $5.2B valuation, up from $3.5B in March 2025 (Hugh Son/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/20/fintech-mercury-valuation-fundraise-bank-charter.html

Fintech firm Mercury hits $5.2 billion valuation after funding round, up 49% in 14 months
Mercury has emerged as one of a select group of fintech firms, like Ramp and Stripe, that continued to thrive after the collapse of pandemic-era valuations.

Raiders post hilarious video alongside 2026 schedule release https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/05/14/raiders-post-hilarious-video-alongside-2026-schedule-release/90088776007/…

Sources: Donald Trump Jr. got ~$300K in Kalshi equity after becoming a strategic adviser in 2025, when Kalshi was valued at ~$2B; now it's worth $22B (George Steer/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f70147b1-ee77-4d75-8587-707a49ddb605

Trump Made More Money Last Year Than During His Entire First Term (Bess Levin/New York Magazine)
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-made-more-money-2025-than-in-entire-first-term-usd-2-2-billion-crypto.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260701/p91#a260701p91

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Biffy Clyro:
🎵 Instant History (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2025)
#BiffyClyro
https://music.tombofry.co.uk/track/instant-history-biffy-clyro
https://open.spotify.com/track/05btNgoMmaTbNc5PSsYYxn

Sources: Fireworks AI, which helps companies run AI models, is in talks to raise funding at a $15B valuation after being valued at $4B in October 2025 (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-27/…

Apple says the App Store prevented over $2.2B in potentially fraudulent transactions in 2025, rejected over 2M problematic app submissions, and more (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/05/20/apple-gives-update-on-the-app-store-and-i…

Apple gives update on the App Store and its key protections - 9to5Mac
Ahead of WWDC, Apple has shared an update on how the App Store serves users and developers alike with numerous protections.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Biffy Clyro:
🎵 Bubbles (Glastonbury 2025)
#BiffyClyro
https://open.spotify.com/track/1aKNbn5AsDWydycvr1gYBa

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Biffy Clyro:
🎵 Bibilical (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2025)
#BiffyClyro
https://longdissonance.bandcamp.com/track/biffy-clyro-biblical
https://open.spotify.com/track/5o1SyGe6l3EKbw0KiTQH2m

"In January 2025, according to the court filing, a representative of the Betar "vigilante" group admitted to communications directly with Miller and Rubio to hand over a pre-selected list of Palestinian activists it wanted the Trump administration to arrest and deport."
'Sadistic savagery': Stephen Miller linked to 'vigilante force' in new court filing - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/stephen-miller-vigilante-conspiracy/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Biffy Clyro:
🎵 Re Arrange (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2025)
#BiffyClyro
https://open.spotify.com/track/3VAvS6hbvz0mjFT1TmLNdd

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Biffy Clyro:
🎵 A Little Love (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2025)
#BiffyClyro
https://open.spotify.com/track/31MkFKvAwHESUpmJz4haPw

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Biffy Clyro:
🎵 Black Chandelier (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2025)
#BiffyClyro
https://davefusano.bandcamp.com/track/black-chandelier
https://open.spotify.com/track/2LWFw1lxYO3uX3T1kGhJpp

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Biffy Clyro:
🎵 Wolves Of Winter (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2025)
#BiffyClyro
https://open.spotify.com/track/3n4r9HS59J2Utzr9wHbte4

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Biffy Clyro:
🎵 Tiny Indoor Fireworks (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2025)
#BiffyClyro
https://issolarian.bandcamp.com/track/tiny-indoor-fireworks-biffy-clyro
https://open.spotify.com/track/1ZUsnvMUqF0uJkhhjZlvcY

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Biffy Clyro:
🎵 Bibilical (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2025)
#BiffyClyro
https://open.spotify.com/track/1aKNbn5AsDWydycvr1gYBa

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GuyGarveysFinestHour
Momoko Gill, Mei Miyazaki Kirby, Ezekiel Ajie, Tamar Osborn, Miryam Solomon & Inês Loubet:
🎵 Ineffably (6 Music Session, 4 Feb 2025)
#MomokoGill #MeiMiyazakiKirby #EzekielAjie #TamarOsborn #MiryamSolomon #InêsLoubet

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Annahstasia:
🎵 Slow (6 Music Session, 29 Nov 2025)
#Annahstasia
https://annahstasia.bandcamp.com/track/slow-live-at-glasshaus
https://open.spotify.com/track/5i5Rt40zinWyID6QGp8gso