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Opwarming aarde schiet verder door: 2025 eindigt, zonder El Niño, in top 3 warmste jaren | de Volkskrant
https://archive.ph/cyXGb
Opwarming aarde schiet verder door: 2025 eindigt, zonder El Niño, in top 3 warmste jaren | de Volkskrant
https://archive.ph/cyXGb
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:
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
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/
Best Super Bowl-era team for every NFL franchise: 2025 Seahawks or the Legion of Boom?
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/best-nfl-team-every-franchise-super-bowl-era/
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
EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch
Battlefield 6 was the best-selling game in the U.S. in 2025.
https://www.ign.com/articles/ea-lays-off-staff-acros…
Personal bankruptcies in Russia soar 31% to nearly 568,000 in 2025, Ukrainian intelligence says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/01/personal-bankruptcies-in-russia-soar.html
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…
"2025 was third-warmest year on record, research shows"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https:/…
150 GW in a year: record new wind power capacity installed globally in 2025! Not really evenly spread over the world ;)
China 100 GW (that country where Trump couldn't find a single wind turbine :)
Europe 17 GW
US 7 GW
India 6 GW
Rest of the World 20 GW
<…
USCP Threat Assessment Cases for 2025 (United States Capitol Police)
https://www.uscp.gov/media-center/press-releases/uscp-threat-assessment-cases-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/260128/p89#a260128p89
Martin Stransky highlights some recent major achievements for #Firefox on Linux: ""HDR video playback support, reworked rendering for fractionally scaled displays, and asynchronous rendering implementation. All this progress was enabled by advances in the Wayland compositor ecosystem, with new features implemented by Mutter and KWin.
[…]
And there are even more challenge…
The just published timelapse #aurora as it was seen from Germany: note the green splotches appearing briefly all over the place, the nature of which - most likely RAGDA - is discussed in https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/01/25/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-25-januar-2025/#Jan25 ("Das war das Polarlicht vom 19. Januar ...") with links to several relevant papers.
Oha, also auch beim #DHM die Berlinische Dekade der Bauverzögerung: https://www.rbb24.de/kultur/beitrag/2026/01/berlin-deutsches-hist…
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 hard to believe, but Ukrainian activists have had to write explainers for a global audience,
reminding them who the true dictator is,
that it was not Ukrainethat started the war with Russia
and that we are actually just trying to defend what is ours.
And, you know, to survive a little bit.
These past three years of our lives have been referred to in many ways:
Putin’s war,
the Russo-Ukrainian war,
the full-scale invasion,
the conflic…
Mit dem heutigen #mdRzA — übrigens bei laut Wetterbericht "anhaltendem Schneeregen", aber da war leider nur "anhaltender Regen" — habe ich 700km beim #Frostpendeln erreicht. Deutlich mehr als meine letztjährige Frostpendeln-Gesamtstrecke von knapp 550km insgesamt. Vielleicht schaffe…
Overall Higher Education enrollment in the US trended slightly up for 2025; international down.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/2026/01/15/fall-enrollment-increased-1-international-students-declined<…
Windkraft-Rekord: Die Branche liefert, doch das Netz wird zum Flaschenhals
Mit einem historischen Genehmigungsplus und starkem Zubau hat die Onshore-Windenergie 2025 die Erwartungen übertroffen. Es drohen mehr Infrastrukturlücken.
Niederländisch ist doch eine wundervolle Sprache.
Bei @… gab es in der Vergangenheit auch schöne Beispiele.
https://speld.nl/2025/03/06/wie-is-j-d
One of those news days that will confuse some people: China's coal "output" (mining) grew 1.2% y/y to a record high in 2025, but "output at coal plants" (burning it in power plants) fell 1%, so stockpiles grew and prices fell.
Geno Smith Gets Jets, Dolphins Take Amid Raiders Release News https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/geno-smith-jets-dolphins-release-news/
Shorts sind im Trend: YouTube nähert sich 30 Milliarden Videos | Laut einer neuen Analyse von Omdia waren im Dezember 2025 auf YouTube 29 Milliarden Videos verfügbar. Das Wachstum werde durch Shorts, KI-generierte Inhalte und die Expansion in Märkten wie Indien vorangetrieben. Die am meisten gesehenen 1 Prozent der Videos generierten 91 % der Betrachtungszeit, so #Horizont
Huuuh, jeg kommer lige fra biografen hvor vi har set en særforevisning af den franske film “13 dage, 13 nætter” som handler om Kabuls fald i 2021, og hvordan den franske ambassade fik evakueret over tusind mennesker i en vanvittigt anspændt situation. Den er gribende og meget anbefalelsesværdig!
Se evt. mere her:
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt…
UK Government Plans to Ban Small Hen Cages and All Pig Crates in England by 2030 https://veganfta.com/articles/2025/12/26/uk-government-plans-to-ban-small-hen-cages-and-all-pig-crates-in-england-by-2030/…
« En 2025, 243 termes recommandés par la Commission d'enrichissement de la langue française sont parus au Journal officiel. Nous en avons présélectionné dix mais, maintenant, c'est Š vous de choisir votre terme préféré ! »
https://www.culture.fr/franceterme/Actuali
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 …
Wikimedia data puts iOS 26 adoption at ~50% in January vs. iOS 18's 72% in 2025 as Apple slows auto-updates; Statcounter showed 15% after missing Safari changes (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/ios_26_adoption_rate_is_not_bizar…
https://bsky.app/profile/gabrielmalor.bsky.social/post/3mihfravp5426
SCotUS birthright citizenship argument transcript as an untagged PDF:
🛰️ 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
Dallas Cowboys 'Unsung Hero' of 2025 Perfectly Rounds Out Elite NFL Unit https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-unsung-hero-2025-perfectly-rounds-out-elite-nfl-unit
Rund um den Chiemsee wandern 2025
#silentsunday
Russia sold 2 million tons of Ukrainian grain as its own in 2025—intelligence - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/01/17/russia-sold-2-million-tons-of-ukrainian-grain-as-its-own-in-2025-intelligence/
Opinion: The events of 2025 exposed the enemy within our own borders - El Paso Matters https://elpasomatters.org/2025/12/29/opinion-2025-america-democracy-moral-collapse/
Amid this news madness, I've thoroughly enjoyed being subscribed to the daily #CarbonBrief. Instead of compulsing the news, I try [and often fail] to focus on the most insightful items in my news feeds. This analysis of the latest UK auction for #WindPower was excellent:
Das mag ich ja!
Larkin Poe - Baloise Session 2025 - ARTE Concert
#einekleinenachtmusik #larkinpoe
https://
So yeah, uhh, I guess I’ve been daily driving #Linux
There is a #Trump proclamation (few months old) that imposes an additional fine ($100k) for applying to a new H1-B visa (the type that is used a lot by researchers).
Does anyone know for sure (with a source please) if this applies to those who are already in the US (for any reason, e.g. you were on a different visa or you are in the grace period of a visa)?
The original pro…
Hey, WILTY fans. After a year off they started a new season, #19, with a Christmas 2025 show. They’re up to S19E03 as of this past Friday. And Bob Mortimer was on E02. Does not disappoint. https://youtu.be/cHB1iSNAvG4?si=d-5nwiaaIhMslgor
Europa Erlesen Marchfeld wurde für das WeinviertelBücher-Blog von Helga Dieberger rezensiert, was für eine schöne Conclusio: "Ein wunderbares und uneingeschränkt empfehlenswertes Buch für Marchfelder*innen, Marchfeldinteressierte und alle, denen das Marchfeld bisher egal war." https://
Four fast, weird songs on this EP from 2025 via Buffalo's synth punk freaks HAVANA SYNDROME. Love the guy's voice, he sounds totally unhinged. I love singers that sound unhinged. 😂
https://swimmingfaithrecords.bandcamp.com/album/kill-your-brain
I find this . . . entertaining
Ref:
Forbes article on AI coding at Microsoft
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2025/07/08/microsoft-makes-ai-mandatory-for-employees-what-it-means-for-your-career/…
Study: local broadcast TV supported 1.5M US jobs in 2025 and had a $748B annual GDP impact, with advertising accounting for the largest share at $628B (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/01/broadcast-tv-economic-contributions-2025/
From abandonment to adoption: advancing assistive technologies for blindness and low vision in the AI era https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/digital-health/articles/10.3389/fdgth.2025.1719746/full
Voittoja luonnon puolesta vuodelta 2025 #luonto
Die öffentlich-rechtlichen #Fernsehsender haben 2β0β2β5β eine Menge zum Thema #Klimawandel und verwandte Themen ausgestrahlt. Insbesondere im #Regionalfernsehen werden die Themen in …
Bills promote GM Brandon Beane despite turbulent 2025 season, checkered draft record https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6983482/2026/01/19/brandon-beane-promoted-bills-gm-draft-record/
Apple's iPhone 16 was the world's best-selling smartphone in 2025, followed by the 16 Pro Max and 16 Pro; Apple took 7 of the top 10 spots and Samsung took 3 (Counterpoint Research)
https://counterpointresearch.com/en/in
Here is my round up of the best #PositiveNews that I shared in 2025 about the #Environment and #Climate
As the government continues to pursue mass deportations, Section 111 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code has become a favored tool of the Justice Department for painting opposition to immigration enforcement as a corrosive, lawless force.
The Departments of Justice and Homeland Security often describe these cases in exaggerated language, even referring to defendants as “domestic terrorists,”
though the law has nothing to do with terrorism.
Across the country, prosecutors have ch…
Von der Leyen 5 months ago.
"Stability and predictability" 🤣
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/07/27/von-der-leyen-and-trump-strike-eu-us-trade-deal-to-avert-all-out-tariff-war
China's economy grows 5% in 2025, buoyed by strong exports despite Trump's tariffs (Chan Ho-him/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/china-economy-exports-trump-tariffs-6b3f53af8f22692bcd4d276c0695b1fc
http://www.memeorandum.com/260118/p94#a260118p94
The Media Trust report: online ads surpassed email as the primary malware channel in 2025, accounting for 60% of all observed malware and phishing campaigns (Lara O'Reilly/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/programmat
"Wie lernt man eigentlich mit den Fingern zu lesen? Zum Weltbrailletag am 4. Januar"
https://blog.dzblesen.de/2025/12/19/wie-lernt-man-eigentlich-mit-den-fingern-zu-lesen/
Chinese smartphone shipments fell 1.6% YoY in Q4 2025 and 0.6% YoY for 2025 due to weak demand, rising prices, and memory shortages; iPhone shipments rose 28% (Counterpoint Research)
https://counterpointresearch.com/en/insights/China-Smartphone-Shipments-Q4-20…
Kshamenk, Argentina’s Last Captive Orca, Dies After Decades in Tiny Tank https://veganfta.com/articles/2025/12/18/kshamenk-argentinas-last-captive-orca-dies-after-decades-in-tiny-tank/?utm_source=Mastodon
🦀 Discovery turns household plastic recycling into anti-cancer medication
#materials
Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator - Capping-Credit-Card-Rates.pdf https://cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-URL/wp-content/uploads/sites/412/2025/09/03183755/Capping-Credit-Card-Rates.pdf
Cowboys PFF Grades Highlight Dak Prescott's Superhero Effort in 2025 https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-pff-grades-highlight-dak-prescott-superhero-effort-2025
"European residential heat pump sales increased in 2025"
#Europe #HeatPumps #Energy
Las Vegas Raiders reinforce Commitment to Excellence with 2025 Impact Playbook https://www.raiders.com/news/las-vegas-raiders-reinforce-commitment-to-excellence-with-2025-impact-playbook
“Overweighting the US has served global investors well the past 15 years,” Lisa Shalett, chief investment officer at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management said.
“That said, we believe shifting geopolitical, monetary and fiscal policy regimes amid technological upheaval and the constraints of developed world debt are creating a need for diversification beyond US stocks and bonds for long-term investors.”
“One of the biggest and most underappreciated surprises of 2025 has been the extr…
Unsung heroes of 2025 NFL season: One overlooked/surprise contributor from each AFC team https://www.nfl.com/news/unsung-heroes-of-2025-nfl-season-one-overlooked-surprise-contributor-from-each-afc-team
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
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…
💗 Do marathons damage your heart? Decade-long study shows no long-term cardiac harm
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-marathons-heart-decade-term-cardiac.html
Ende Dezember 2025 lieferten #Windräder in Österreich Spitzenwerte von über 80 GWh pro Tag.
Am 31. Dezember deckte #Windenergie 46 Prozent des Strombedarfs. Der Oktober 2025 war mit über 1.000 GWh der bisher stärkste Monat. Zwei Drittel der
Cowboys’ tight end room was one of its best in 2025 https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-tight-end-room-was-one-of-its-best-in-2025
Sources: Anthropic's revenue run rate hit $9B at the end of 2025, up from $4B in July 2025; Iconiq, Lightspeed, and Menlo are set to join its new funding round (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-21/an…
Human Rights groups warn an immigration detention camp at Fort Bliss has reached a “breaking point”
Human rights experts are sounding the alarm about living conditions at the immigration detention camp that houses hundreds of people.
“Fort Bliss is a human and civil rights disaster,”
said Eunice Cho Senior Counsel for the American Civil Liberty Union’s prison program.
The ACLU and other organizations allege physical abuse,
unsanitary conditions and medical negle…
Dutch far-right leader Wilders is losing ground. After his failed government coalition, followed by an election defeat for his PVV (going from 37 seats in 2023 to 26 in 2025), 7 out of his 26 MPs are now jumping ship. That leaves 19, half the number of 2.5 years ago.
https://nos.nl…
Chris LaCivita, a Trump campaign manager in 2024, settles his libel lawsuit against The Daily Beast, filed in March 2025; The Beast says he received no payment (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/business/media…
Justin Jefferson: 'I definitely feel like we would have done better' if Vikings kept Sam Darnold
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/justin-jefferson-sam-darnold-vikings/
Inside the turmoil at Thinking Machines; sources say Meta discussed buying TML, and CTO Barret Zoph had been in talks since October 2025 about an OpenAI return (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technology/thinking-machines-ai-startup-o…
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In wie vielen #Fernsehsendungen des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks wurde im Jβaβnβuβaβrβ β2β0β2β6β über den #Klimawandel, dessen Drumherum sowie den
Sources: Apple expanded the job of hardware chief John Ternus to manage design teams at the end of 2025, solidifying his status as a leading CEO candidate (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Trump is addicted to military force.
Congress should act to curb him
Even before the raid to seize Nicolšs Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, on Jan. 3,
Trump had already attacked as many countries (seven) in 2025 as he did during his entire first term.
After the Maduro operation, which Trump said he watched “like ... a television show,”
he has threatened to take military action in many more places,
including Iran, Colombia, Mexico, Cuba, Greenland — and no…
Tracking NFL head coach changes: Bill fire Sean McDermott, Dolphins hiring Jeff Hafley https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46437226/2025-nfl-coaching-changes-latest-news-rumors-firings-hires
Luminate 2025 report: the global music industry hit 5.1T streams, up 9.6% YoY and a single-year record; AI artist Xania Monet had 125M on-demand audio streams (Maria Sherman/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/music-listen…
IFPI: global recorded music revenues hit $31.7B in 2025, up 6.4% YoY, total streaming revenue surpassed $22B, and users of paid music subscriptions reached 837M (Murray Stassen/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.musicbusin…
Nothing brings tech titans together like taxes.
This week, as the specter of a California “#billionaire #tax” ballot initiative gained momentum,
the moguls grew furious.
The outrage reached a fever pitch on X,
where the following scenarios were predicted, should the initiative be approved in Nov…
Patriots are just fourth Super Bowl team ever to have this stunning loss on their regular-season schedule
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/super-bowl-patriots-make-history-shockin…
Sources: internal Google data shows Gemini API calls surged from 35B in March 2025 to 85B in August 2025; Google says Gemini Enterprise hit 8M subscribers (Erin Woo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/googles-gemini-sees-skyrocketi…
Anzahl der neuen #Windkraftanlagen je #Bundesland in #Deutschland im Jahr 2025 mit Stand vom 12.01.2026.
Die "Ausschließliche Wirtschaftszone" bedeutet
Netflix reports Q4 revenue up 18% YoY to $12B vs. $11.97B est., 325M paid subs, 2025 revenue up 16% to $45.2B, plans to increase content spend by 10% in 2026 (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…
Call your reps! https://5calls.org/issue/dhs-budget-ice-defund/
Demand that they block any DHS appropriations bill or Continuing Resolution (CR) that maintains funding for ICE.
This lawless and violent agency must be defunded and dissolved for good.
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says the company's compute grew from 0.2 GW in 2023 to ~1.9 GW in 2025 and annualized revenue grew from $2B in 2023 to $20B in 2025 (Sarah Friar/OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/a-business-that-scales-with-the-value-of-intelligence
Ubisoft cancels six games and delays others amid a restructuring into five genre-specific "creative houses"; it expects net bookings of ~€1.5B for FY 2025-2026 (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Netflix reports Q4 revenue up 18% YoY to $12B vs. $11.97B est., 325M paid subs, 2025 revenue up 16% to $45.2B, plans to increase content spend by 10% in 2026 (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…
Anthropic's Claude Cowork launch has revived fears about disruption that weighed on SaaS stocks in 2025; Morgan Stanley SaaS index is down 15% so far in 2026 (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Similarweb: Claude's web audience more than doubled in December 2025 compared with December 2024, as many coders spent their holiday breaks on a "Claude bender" (Bradley Olson/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-claude-code-ai-7a46…
Waymo says its fleet hit 170M miles as of December 2025, and its Waymo Driver system was involved in 92% fewer serious-injury crashes than human drivers (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/transportation/896837/waymo-170-mill…
Sources: Apple now needs to fight for TSMC production capacity amid the AI boom; Nvidia was likely TSMC's top customer in at least one or two quarters in 2025 (Tim Culpan/Culpium)
https://www.culpium.com/p/exclusiveapple-is-fighting-for-tsmc