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I don’t ask for this often, but if you’re in the US please contact your representatives and demand that this immediately gets revoked. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/16/gaza-children-visas-medical-care-laura-loomer

Salesforce says it expects FY 2030 revenue of $60B , vs. $58.37B est., excluding impact from the $8B pending acquisition of data management company Informatica (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/15/salesforce-stock-jumps-a…

Salesforce stock jumps after company offers rosy forecast for 2030
Salesforce is counting on Agentforce artificial intelligence software to pull in more revenue from customers.

Sonnige Aussichten für alle Balkonkraftwerk-Fans! ☀️ Die lang erwartete Produktnorm DIN VDE V 0126-95 für Steckersolargeräte ist endlich veröffentlicht und bringt wichtige Klarheit: Schuko-Stecker sind jetzt offiziell für den Anschluss von Balkonkraftwerken zugelassen!
Zum Artikel: https:…

Coffee prices soaring after Trump's tariffs on Brazil. What to know
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/local/2025/08/14/coffee-prices-soaring-after-trumps-tariffs-on-brazil-what-to-know/85655792007/

ProTip: Floofy gamer cats help you get a better score!

#Mariners got the #BlueJays right where they want ’em.
#mlb

Bester Ort für erstes date in Berlin #MagazinRoyal https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Venus_Berlin_2025_084.png

Bester Ort für erstes date in Berlin #MagazinRoyal https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Venus_Berlin_2025_084.png

Do you ride your bike outdoors in the winter?
#bikeTooter #cycling

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/technology/crypto-exchanges-dirty-money.html
Even as the crypto industry gains mainstream acceptance, at least $28 billion tied to illicit activity has flowed into crypto exchanges over the last two years from hack…

The Crypto Industry’s $28 Billion in ‘Dirty Money’
As President Trump has championed crypto and the industry has gone mainstream, funds from scammers and other criminal groups have flowed onto major crypto exchanges.

The Chicago-Kent, Illinois Tech IP Program cordially invites you to: "What’s the Skinny? Drug Labels and Patent Infringement," Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 12-1 pm.
The panel is open to the public but please RSVP in advance here: https://

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Just checking: Hat sich Friedrich Merz für seine rassistischen Ausfälle über "Probleme im Stadtbild" wenigstens entschuldigt? Oder ist es jetzt einfach öffentlich akzeptiert, sich derart menschenfeindlich zu äußern?

U.S. Pauses Visitor Visas for Gazans After Right-Wing Outcry (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/us/politics/gaza-visitor-visas-medical-trump-loomer.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250816/p72#a250816p72

> Keep in mind that certain details differ between GitHub and Forgejo.
(page does not say a single word about what actually differs)

I wonder what happened this past January that could cause this?

@… someone at Microsoft has already escalated this internally!

One ESA #exoplanet observing spacecraft (CHEOPS) coming down - but hopefully not so soon - while with #PLATO the next one will launch soon and is promising a lot: slides from three #ag2025goerlitz talks this afternoon.

A US Federal Judge ordered the release of the people DHS now plans to hold anyway, illegally under both US and International Law.
15 of the people arrested at Broadview yesterday were clergy, peacefully protesting; bringing assistance to and advocating for the downtrodden quite literally _is_ their job.
But DHS/ICE/CBP brings only lawlessness and violence.
DHS and all its components and collaborators are a clear and present danger to the American People and the US Consti…

Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches.
A lucrative transaction involving the Trump family’s cryptocurrency firm and an agreement giving the Emiratis access to A.I. chips were connected in ways that have not been previously reported.

In Giant Deals, U.A.E. Got Chips, and Trump Team Got Crypto Riches
A lucrative transaction involving the Trump family’s cryptocurrency firm and an agreement giving the Emiratis access to A.I. chips were connected in ways that have not been previously reported.

BASED: “I hate git”
REBASED: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/115385750959184280

It is an honor to be invited as a keynote speaker to the ISWC - International Semantic Web Conference this year in Nara, Japan.
This is particularly exciting for me, because during my PhD research, ISWC has been my "home conference" - the prime conference in my research area, where the research community that I felt affiliated with was meeting.
#semanticweb

President Trump files a 40-page amended $15B defamation complaint against the NYT and others, after a judge initially dismissed it on Sept. 19 due to its length (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/16/trump-new-york-times-defam…

🏖️ Seaweed on sandy coastlines contributes to greenhouse gas emissions, study shows
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-seaweed-sandy-coastlines-contributes-greenhouse.html

Seaweed on sandy coastlines contributes to greenhouse gas emissions, study shows
A team of researchers from Monash University has made a discovery that could reshape our understanding of greenhouse gas emissions from coastal ecosystems. Published in Nature Geoscience, the study reveals sandy coastlines, which make up half the world's continental margins, are a previously overlooked source of methane.

Is dark energy evolving? Astrophysicists consider the possibilities
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-dark-energy-evolving-astrophysicists-possibilities.html

““We visited a dark factory producing some astronomical number of mobile phones,” recalls Greg Jackson, the boss of British energy supplier Octopus.
“The process was so heavily automated that there were no workers on the manufacturing side, just a small number who were there to ensure the plant was working.
“You get this sense of a change, where China’s competitiveness has gone from being about government subsidies and low wages to a tremendous number of highly skilled, educated engineers who are innovating like mad.””
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/10/12/why-western-executives-visit-china-coming-back-terrified/

ich freue mich schon so arg auf die 17te staffel "die bergretter" ich finde nämlich dass alle die da mitspielen hervorragende schauspieler sind und ich bewundere den typ mit den langen haaren weil ich könnte nicht jeden tag aufstehen und zur arbeit gehen wenn ich so viele menschen gesehen hätte die irgendwo runtergefallen sind ich hab davor großen respekt

Documents: Rhoda AI, which raised a $162.6M Series A in April, and Genesis AI, which raised a $105M seed earlier this year, have been developing humanoid robots (Anna Tong/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2025

Startups Rhoda AI And Genesis AI Are Building Humanoid Robots In Stealth
Flush with hundreds of millions of dollars in new funding, Rhoda AI and Genesis AI are developing humanoids they hope can go head-to-head with robots from Figure AI and Tesla.

Matz steals code so we steal code
(these repositories were stolen from their maintainers by Ruby Central)
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025/10/17/rubygems-repository-transition/

🕷️👖

Whole lotta Canadians swallowed their boycott-the-USA principles and may currently be found in Seattle.
#mlb

Ich habs: wir ziehen einfach zufällig die Bayern zum wehrdienst ein.

この子はFLAPPYのエビーラ
QT: https://fedibird.com/@noellabo/106684849712366240

Farmers in US midwest squeezed by Trump tariffs and climate crisis | Ohio | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/16/farmers-trump-tariffs-climate-change

now _this_ is a good docker container (it has two files inside) https://codeberg.org/git-pages/-/packages/container/git-pages-cli/latest

Live Updates: Former Trump Aide John Bolton Is Indicted Over Handling of Classified Information (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/16/us/trump-shutdown-news
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p158#a251016p158

trying not to read too much into microsoft.com using adobe experience manager

The U.S. government said Saturday it is suspending visitor visas for Gazans
after a far-right influencer with the ear of Donald Trump complained that wounded Palestinians had been allowed to seek medical treatment in the United States.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/…

U.S. suspends visas for Gazans after far-right influencer posts
The announcement came one day after a series of furious social media posts by Laura Loomer.

Sources: 18 employees at Nexstar-owned The Hill were either laid off or accepted buyout offers this week; six were editorial staffers represented by the CWA (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/09/nexstar-the-hill-layoffs/

Nexstar-owned The Hill issues pink slips
Nexstar has issued pink slips and offered buyouts to more than a dozen journalists at its political affairs publication The Hill.

“I’m so sorry for involving you by texting you but have no other reason to text you but to create a paper trail of my confession to you that makes no sense and serves no goal I could possibly have.”
Bondi and Patel are not good at things.
#USpol

Sources: CME Group plans to debut financial contracts tied to sports games and economic indicators by the end of 2025, including through its FanDuel partnership (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-16/cm…

Unless it’s a G5 PowerBook I’m not really interested #old

gluten free laundry detergent

テプラで貼ってあるやつが顧客が本当に必要としていたものだったりするので、テプラに学ぶと良い

PitchBook: 15.9% of VC-backed deals in 2025 so far have been down rounds, a 10-year high, with AI and ML startups accounting for 29.3% of the down rounds (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/08/14/startup-down-rounds-are-at…

Startup down rounds are at a 10 year high, according to PitchBook data
PitchBook data revealed that 15.9% of venture-backed deals in 2025 to date have been down rounds, marking a decade high.

@… now they say “ChatGPT told me…”

“I’m so sorry for involving you by texting you but have no other reason to text you but to create a paper trail of my confession to you that makes no sense and serves no goal I could possibly have.”
Bondi and Patel are not good at things.
#USpol

Please please please let the new CEO have taste and not be afraid of having fun

you can tell a lot about a lady by the way she sharpens her claws

A look at ByteDance's Doubao, which became China's most popular AI app in August, with over 157M MAUs, thanks in part to its deep integration with Douyin (Zeyi Yang/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/bytedance-doubao-chatbot-popularity/

How ByteDance Made China’s Most Popular AI Chatbot
An AI chatbot developed by TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, is now more popular than DeepSeek. The feat proves that user-friendly design often matters more than having the most advanced AI model.

@… this should be called a dislikicon

"If man were wholly ignorant of himself he would have no poetry in him, for one cannot describe what one does not conceive. If he saw himself clearly, his imagination would remain idle and would have nothing to add to the picture. But the nature of man is sufficiently revealed for him to know something of himself and sufficiently veiled to leave much impenetrable darkness, a darkness in which he ever gropes, forever in vain, trying to understand himself."
- Alexis de Tocquev…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/115556128212767313
He got my emails!!

The ratio of shitposting to doomposting has dramatically increased lately, and I'm loving it.

Campfire, an AI-powered ERP and accounting services provider, raised a $65M Series B co-led by Accel and Ribbit Capital, after raising a $35M Series A in June (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/ai-fintech-campfire-raise-…

Why Accel Led A Round For Fintech Startup Campfire For The Second Time In Under 4 Months
Campfire, a San Francisco-based AI-powered accounting startup, has raised $65 million in a Series B round just months after closing on its Series A.

@… ai could never!!

I wrote this this morning:
"Tomorrow, about 2,600 protests plan to peacefully show the world, the administration and themselves that the United States remains a nation predicated on having No Kings.
Can the president come down hard on these protests with the military?"
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/no-su…

No Surrender
No Soldiers in the Streets, No Kings in This Land For all the military violence there has been in the world during my life, my tactic for surviving it has taken me next to no effort: not being there at the time. By largely luck, I have not yet been

absolutely nothing you can 3D print with any sort of normal filament is food-safe or body-safe
this includes but is not limited to any sort of plates, bowls, containers, cutlery, straws, lids etc.
https://digipres.club/@foone/115561871115622606

Nothing raised a $200M Series C led by Tiger Global at a $1.3B valuation, taking the total funding to $450M , and says it had $1B in total sales in early 2025 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/15/nothing-cl…

Nothing closes $200M Series C led by Tiger Global, plans AI-first device launch | TechCrunch
Carl Pei's Nothing is raising $200 million in a Series C round from Tiger Global at a $1.3 billion valuation.

This #Silksong boss is hard!!!

@… I think we need at least two FAANG (sic) for consensus but to be clear I just do whatever meta does

My profession (software design, programming) makes me so sad currently.
A speedrun to rock bottom chasing non-existing sand sentience with ever more abstruse magical thinking while whole swaths of my peers are masturbating to fascism in hopes of striking it rich.
I hope after the bubble pops and the boomers are gone there will be a reckoning and a reset to making software that actually strives to make human lives better.

Microsoft announces a $30B investment in the UK over four years to support AI infrastructure and ongoing operations, including $15B to build a supercomputer (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/778881/microsoft-uk-investment-ai-supercomputer

Microsoft trumps Google with $30 billion investment in the UK
Microsoft is making a $30 billion investment in the UK

@… Yay! Thanks for making them!

A cat's killing by a Waymo robotaxi sparked outrage in San Francisco, as some questioned why deaths caused by human drivers don't get the same level of concern (Heather Knight/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/us/waymo-san-francisco-kit-kat.htm…

Waymo Was on a Roll in San Francisco. Then One of Its Driverless Cars Killed a Cat.
The self-driving taxis have become ubiquitous in the city, but an uproar ensued when one ran over a beloved feline.

The easiest way to do this would be to tax 100% above $5 million of assets of course

hmm — the favicon for microsoft.com has been broken for at least a week now

Ex-Intel engineer Varun Gupta was sentenced to two years' probation and a $34K fine for stealing trade secrets and sharing them with his new employer Microsoft (Maxine Bernstein/Oregonian)
https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2025/0

Former Intel engineer sentenced for stealing trade secrets for Microsoft
Varun Gupta, now 45, apologized to Intel and Microsoft, as well as the government for the time and resources it has spent “because of my bad decision.”

EvoluteIQ, which offers a low-code AI platform for companies to design, deploy, and scale business processes, raised $53M led by Baird Capital (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/09/17/evoluteiq-raises-53m-led-by-baird-capi…

EvoluteIQ raises $53M led by Baird Capital to scale its agentic AI platform
EvoluteIQ, a native AI platform, secured $53 million in minority growth capital from Baird Capital to accelerate global expansion and strengthen its leadership in enterprise-grade agentic AI automation. Baird Capital’s Daina Spedding and Mark Donnelly will join the EvoluteIQ Board of Directors.Founded in 2019, EvoluteIQ develops the EIQ platform for automating complex business processes. Built on its Agentic Mesh Architecture (aMa) and an AI Workbench, EIQ orchestrates end-to-end workflo…

How xAI is building Colossus 2, which is on track to be the world's first gigawatt-scale AI datacenter after reaching 200MW in six months (Jeremie Eliahou Ontiveros/SemiAnalysis)
https://semianalysis.com/2025/09/16/xais-colossus-2-first-gigawatt-datacenter/…

xAI’s Colossus 2 – First Gigawatt Datacenter In The World, Unique RL Methodology, Capital Raise
Much has been written about xAI’s Colossus 1. The Memphis build belongs in the history books: the largest AI training cluster, erected from scratch in 122 days. With roughly 200,000 H100/H200s and …

Sources: US FTC is probing if Ticketmaster does enough to stop bots from illegal resales, focusing on its compliance with a law against automated ticket resales (Josh Sisco/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

FTC Probes Whether Ticketmaster Does Enough to Stop Resale Bots
Live Nation Inc.’s Ticketmaster is being probed by the US Federal Trade Commission over whether it’s done enough to keep bots from illegally reselling tickets on its platform.

A profile of Song-Chun Zhu, an AI scientist and NSF and Pentagon grantee, who left the US after 28 years to lead China's state-backed AI institute BIGAI in 2020 (Chang Che/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/news/n…

Court hearing: UK prosecutors aim to confiscate ~$6.8B in bitcoin tied to a massive 2017 fraud in China and to pay back Chinese investors that were its victims (Upmanyu Trivedi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

UK Moves to Return $6.8 Billion in Bitcoin to Victims of China Fraud
UK prosecutors are looking to confiscate Bitcoin worth about $6.8 billion tied to a massive fraud in China uncovered at criminal trials, as they plan a victim compensation plan to repay duped investors.

Sources: F5's breach is blamed on China, whose hackers had infiltrated F5's network for at least 12 months using the Brickstorm malware to steal source code (Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple executive Ke Yang, who was appointed just weeks ago as head of a team developing AI-driven web search for Siri, is leaving for Meta (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Tencent and Baidu sold $3.3B combined in offshore bonds this year, the most ever for Chinese tech companies, as companies secure cheap financing for AI buildout (Janice Huang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

Lila Sciences, which uses AI to develop novel drugs and materials, raised $115M at a $1.3B valuation, bringing its Series A to $350M and total funding to $550M (Krystal Hu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/ai-lab-lil…

Huawei's key partners SiCarrier and Qiyunfang showcased chipmaking gear and EDA software at a Shenzhen expo; SiCarrier's gear competes with older US products (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-1…

Trump extends the deadline for ByteDance to divest TikTok's US operations until December 16, the fourth such extension; a deal is expected to be finalized soon (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-16…

Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Sundar Pichai are exploring future lunar and orbital AI data centers which could offer steady solar power with fewer regulations (Tim Higgins/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/now-tech-moguls-w

Steam hit a new record with over 41.6M concurrent users on October 12, a surge largely sparked by the release of Battlefield 6 (Kosta Andreadis/TweakTown)
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/108287/steam-just-broke-its-concurre…

Aboon, an AI-powered platform for financial advisers to help business owners launch and manage 401(k) plans, raised a $17.5M seed led by Bain Capital Ventures (Davis Janowski/WealthManagement.com)
https://www.wealthmanagement.com/advisor-s

Aboon Raises $17.5M to Streamline 401(k) Plans
AI-powered Aboon secures funding to help advisors create 401(k) plans for business clients in minutes instead of weeks.

AI data centers are building on-site power plants to bypass the overloaded grid and meet soaring electricity demand amid permitting and supply challenges (Jennifer Hiller/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

Google releases Cell2Sentence-Scale 27B (C2S-Scale), a 27B-parameter foundation model for single-cell analysis built on its Gemma family of open models (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemma-ai-cancer-therapy-discovery/

How a Gemma model helped discover a new potential cancer therapy pathway
We’re launching a new 27 billion parameter foundation model for single-cell analysis built on the Gemma family of open models.

Paxos says it "mistakenly minted" $300T worth of PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin on Wednesday and "burned" the tokens a little over 20 minutes later (Ryan S. Gladwin/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/344463/printing-money-paxos-mints-bur…

Printing Money: Paxos Mints, Then Burns $300 Trillion in PayPal Stablecoins
A fat-finger mistake, or a hack? Crypto traders are confounded after $300 trillion worth of PayPal's PYUSD was minted and then burned.

Honor unveils its flagships Magic8, with a 7,000mAh battery, and Magic8 Pro, with 7,200mAh, both featuring an AI button, launching in China for ~$630 and ~$800 (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/799808/honor-magic-8-pro-launch-chi…

Honor’s Magic 8 phones have huge batteries and oodles of AI
The Honor Magic 8 Pro fits in a 7,200mAh battery, but only in its Chinese release, with smaller batteries for international markets.

India's blueprint to displace China as the world's electronics workshop relies heavily on Chinese companies' technical expertise and manufacturing know-how (Manish Singh/India Dispatch)
https://indiadispatch.com/p/china-plus-one-was-just-china-all-along…

China-Plus-One Was Just China All Along
India's electronics manufacturing self-reliance strategy requires reliance on its biggest rival

XOPS, which uses AI and knowledge graphs to automate enterprise IT tasks, emerges from stealth with $40M in funding led by Activant Capital and FPV Ventures (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/it-…