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Sekai, which lets users create mini apps through text prompts, raised a $20M Series A co-led by Khosla Ventures and Connect Ventures, after a $6M seed in 2025 (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/01/sekai-mini-app-startup-funding

Exclusive: Sekai raises $20M for AI app creation
CEO Lucky Zhang says he wants people to play and interact instead of doomscroll.

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

Why Hardened Images are Suddenly Everywhere
#docker

TüBus baut die #Ladeinfrastruktur für seine wachsende #EBus-Flotte aus.
In der Schaffhausenstraße entstehen 21 neue Bus-Ladeplätze. Bereits 27 Busse sind in #Tübingen rein elektrisch …

Ladeinfrastruktur für neue E-Busse: TüBus bereitet Einrichtung neuer Ladestandorte vor
Erste Arbeiten starten bald in der Schaffhausenstraße | TüBus gehört bundesweit zu den Vorreitern bei der Elektrifizierung seiner Busflotte. Insgesamt 27 Fahrzeuge des Tochterunternehmens der Stadtwerke Tübingen (swt) sind inzwischen rein elektrisch unterwegs. Ende 2025 lag ihr Anteil damit bei rund 25 Prozent. Bundesweit kommen in den Flotten der Verkehrsbetriebe nur etwa zehn Prozent Elektrobusse zum Einsatz. Mit der wachsenden E-Bus-Anzahl in Tübingen steigt auch der Ladebedarf. T�…

Free agent Raiders new regime let walk last year thriving in new role https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/06/01/former-raiders-free-agency-2025-panther…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#RoundMidnight
- Donovan Haffner in concert
In this Friday’s edition of ‘Round Midnight, Soweto presents music from London alto saxophonist Donovan Haffner and his quintet, recorded live at JPN 2025.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002vbnf

The FBI warns of rising cyber cargo theft, where attackers hack freight brokers' accounts and dupe carriers; 2025 cargo theft losses in N. America rose 60% YoY (Pierluigi Paganini/Security Affairs)
https://securityaffairs.com/191556/cyb

Digital attacks drive a new wave of cargo theft, FBI says
FBI warns of rising cyber cargo theft, with hackers targeting brokers and carriers. Digital attacks are replacing traditional cargo theft.

But first, needed to walk to nearby grocery store to buy a malbec. Opted for the San Uberto 2024 because it was the cheapest. But also got a bottle of Cordero Con Piel De Lobo 2025 for me, not the flies, because I liked the label. #wine #swarthmore #alcohol

Dak Prescott’s Caleb Downs Statement a Big Signal for Cowboys Defense https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/dak-prescott-caleb-downs/

Wer nicht mehr mitkommt, wo überall politisch und medial nach der #VDS gerufen wurde oder wird:
Unser fortlaufend aktualisierter Medienspiegel PRO #Vorratsdatenspeicherung stellt Euch eine Liste von Medienbeiträgen und konkreten Äußerungen bereit.
Gerne nehmen wir auch Hinweise üb…

PRO Vorratsdatenspeicherung Medienspiegel
Auf diesem kontinuierlich aktualisiertem Beitrag sammeln wir die wichtigsten Medienbeiträge und Äußerung, die sich FÜR eine neue Vorratsdatenspeicherung (auch unter dem Begriff "IP-Adressspeicherung") aussprechen oder in einem solchem Gesamtkontext unterstützend erfolgen.Wir führen ebenfalls einen Medienspiegel zur CONTRA-Position.Soweit möglich, verlinkten wir jeweils eine digitale Quelle (leider manchmal hinter Paywalls): 21.12.2025: Stefanie Hubig (SPD, Ministerin) stellt in [...]

Apropos Ryan Gosling/Der Astronaut - meine Kurzbesprechung zum zugrundeliegenden Buch ‚Project Hail Mary‘ von Andy Weir findet sich hier: https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2026/01/science-fiction-und-fantasy-winter-edition-2025-26/
Bin …

Science Fiction und Fantasy - Winter Edition 2025/26
Irgendwie hat sich nach meinen letzten Sammelrezensionen doch einiges angesammelt, was ich an SF und Fantasy gelesen und angeschaut habe. Innovativ fand ich Emily Teshs neuen Roman The Incandescent (2025). Tesh hat 2024 den Hugo für ihre antifaschistische Space Opera Some Desperate Glory bekomme

POL-H: Nachtragsmeldung: Seit August 2025 Vermisste aus Hannover-Südstadt ist wieder da Hannover (ots) - Eine seit mehreren Monaten Vermisste junge Frau aus Hannover ist wieder da. Die inzwischen 18-Jährige ist wohlauf. Die Polizei bedankt sich bei allen, die sich an der Suche nach ihr beteiligt haben. Die Fotos in der ursprünglichen ... https://www.…

The best bath towels of 2026 in the US, from fluffy to quick drying – tested
https://www.theguardian.com/thefilter-us/2025/oct/01/best-best-bath-towels-us

A profile of Valve, which PrivCo estimates generated $5.2B in revenue and $1.5B in net income in 2025, as lawsuits allege its Steam store abuses market power (Bloomberg)

I'm glad to finally see this:
#FreeBSD catching up another bit with

Brave New PKGBASE World
Let me put this into first sentence to make things clear – I like PKGBASE and I think it is improvement over freebsd-update(8) and base.txz and kernel.txz – what we currently have in Fr…

2025 waren 60 Prozent der neu zugelassenen #Stadtbusse in der EU #Zero-Emission, davon 56 Prozent batterieelektrisch und 4 Prozent mit #Brennstoffzelle.
2019 lag der Anteil bei 12 Prozent.…

2025 Topps Chrome Football odds analysis: Where to find the cards you're chasing https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7202063/2026/04/17/2025-topps-chrome-football-odds-analysis/

Multi-Sensor Trajectory Reconstruction of the 24 April 2025 Alaska #Fireball and Implications for Planetary Defense: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.22630 -> "On 24 April 2025 at 18:30:57 UTC, a bright daytime fireball over Southcentral Alaska was detected by 37 seismic stations, 16 single infrasound sensors, and four infrasound arrays, yielding 30 ballistic and multiple fragmentation arrivals. The unprecedented density of seismoacoustic coverage enabled detailed reconstruction of the event using acoustic signals, with fragmentation source locations further guiding the identification of Doppler weather radar signatures of a meteorite fall. Incorporation of a radar-derived terminal point yielded a final trajectory solution, which agreed closely with an independent optical trajectory solution from video analysis. [...] This uniquely well-recorded event demonstrates the capability of dense seismoacoustic networks to constrain bolide trajectories, energetics, and fragmentation, with radar and optical data providing critical confirmation and complementary perspectives."

"US installs record 18.9 GW of energy storage in 2025"
#US #USA #America #Energy

US installs record 18.9 GW of energy storage in 2025
The United States added 18.9 GW of energy storage capacity in 2025, a 52% increase year on year, according to Wood Mackenzie.

since 2021, Tomohiro Okazaki has been doing stop-motion animation of matchsticks, posting as oo_kk_aa on instagram. occasionally he posts collections to youtube. this is group 18, from 2025-02-01 to 2025-05-22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjls49EsCSE

Sources: Meta drew about $96B of orders from investors for a $25B bond sale it launched on Thursday; Meta sold $30B of corporate bonds in October 2025 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-30/meta-kicks-off…

Jährlich genehmigte #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Genehmigt bedeutet noch nicht gebaut oder in Betrieb. Nicht alle Anlagen benötigen eine Genehmigung.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/01/politics/elon-musk-2024-election-spending-millions

Elon Musk spent more than $290 million on the 2024 election, year-end FEC filings show
Elon Musk spent a total of more than $290 million on the 2024 election, new federal filings show, boosting President Donald Trump and Republicans in a staggering effort that has helped to secure unprecedented access for the world’s richest person in the new administration.

The Times and Sunday Times had 659,000 digital subscribers at the end of 2025, up 7% YoY; editor says digital subscribers now cover cost of 700-strong newsroom (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nationals/tony-gall…

Times editor says digital subs now cover cost of 700-strong newsroom
Times editor Tony Gallagher has revealed revenue from digital subscribers is covering the cost of the Times and Sunday Times newsrooms.

Stripe and Paradigm-backed startup Tempo launches the Machine Payments Protocol and its blockchain to facilitate autonomous AI agent transactions (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/03/18/stripe-tempo-paradigm-mpp-ai-payments-protocol/
…

Stripe-backed crypto startup Tempo releases AI payments protocol, launches blockchain
Tempo, incubated by Stripe and the venture firm Paradigm, raised $500 million at a $5 billion valuation in 2025.

"Analysis: India’s CO2 emissions in 2025 grew at slowest rate in two decades|
#India #Emissions #Climate #ClimateChange

Analysis: India’s CO2 emissions in 2025 grew at slowest rate in two decades - Carbon Brief
India’s C02 emissions grew by 0.5% in the second half of 2025 and by just 0.7% in the year as a whole, the slowest rate in over two decades.

Jaguars content to feel out draft without first-round pick after successful 2025 season https://www.nfl.com/news/jaguars-content-to-feel-out-draft-without-first-round-pick-after-successful-2025-season

Decide in advance whether you will unlock your device or provide the passcode for a search.
Your overall likelihood of experiencing a device search is low
(e.g., less than .01% of international travelers are selected),
but depending on what information you carry, the impact of a search may be quite high.
If you plan to unlock your device for a search or provide the passcode, ensure your devices are prepared:
☐ Upload any information you would like to keep in clo…

A Journalist Security Checklist: Preparing Devices for Travel Through a US Border
We wrote this checklist to help journalists prepare for transit through a U.S. port of entry while preserving the confidentiality of your most sensitive information, such as unpublished reporting materials or source contact information. It’s important to think about your strategy in advance, and begin planning which options in this checklist make sense for you.

Mubi, which raised $100M led by Sequoia in 2025, faced backlash over Sequoia's ties to Israeli defense tech startups, but has since rebuilt subscriber numbers (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/…

Former Cowboys starting defender announces retirement from NFL https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/former-cowboys-starting-defender-announces-retirement-nfl/255192b522cf44fa041543db

Raiders’ Treydan Stukes Gets Blunt on Klint Kubiak, Rob Leonard https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/treydan-stukes-klint-kubiak-rob-leonard/

NYC Health Hospitals says hackers accessed its network from Nov. 2025 to Feb. 2026, exposing personal data, medical records, and fingerprints of 1.8M people (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com…

NYC Health + Hospitals says hackers stole medical data and fingerprints during breach affecting at least 1.8 million people | TechCrunch
The New York public healthcare system said hackers stole personal and medical data, and scans of biometrics — including fingerprints — in one of the largest recorded breaches of 2026.

I can't tell you where the bananas went but I can show you where the banana peels ended up. 🍌
(Nov. 12, 2025. Shirooru Matha #Udupi #India. Fully-dried peels are burned to make "akshathe" for use in temple services.)
#photography #amateur #FotoMontag #PhotoMonday #food #fruit #bananas #Hindu

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:

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.