@timbray@cosocial.ca2025-07-15 16:07:45
Israeli strikes in Gaza kill 93 Palestinians, including several families, health officials say | AP News https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-07-15-2025-43e559363cba4eb99cd7238c00d1de12
@timbray@cosocial.ca2025-07-15 16:07:45
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2025-07-15 02:43:14
Okay! 3D printed sign handle for your protest sign to fight fascism is now available!
#3Dprinting
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-07-16 16:02:00
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-07-15 11:08:25
The Office of Management and Budget has drafted a memorandum that directs federal agencies to fully migrate to a post-quantum cryptographic standard,.
https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2025/07/omb-draft-memo-sets-agenc…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-07-16 09:02:14
A look at the Chile-led Latam-GPT project, which involves 30 Latin American and Caribbean institutions collaborating to release an open-source LLM in September (Cristišn Vera-Cruz/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/chatgpt-latin-america-alternative-latamgpt…
@robpike@hachyderm.io2025-07-16 02:08:23
Thanks for the pic.
@muz4now@mastodon.world2025-07-16 02:05:07
Too Big to Prosecute? Why AI’s Use of Search Data Demands Urgent Scrutiny by @HawleyMO https://musictechpolicy.com/2025/07/15/too-big-to-prosecute-why-ais-use-of-search-data-demands-urgent-scrutiny-by-hawleymo/
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2025-07-16 08:10:02
For those who care about that kind of stuff: The Mailing List Presale Code for the upcoming Deftones EU tour already works.
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2025-07-16 13:00:02
@cdarwin@c.im2025-07-16 02:41:51
Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republicans break with Trump on Epstein
Democrats are also seizing on an issue championed by the president’s base and nearly forced a vote Tuesday to take up the issue on the House floor.
Speaker Johnson said that Attorney General Pam Bondi
“needs to come forward and explain”
the confusion she has brewed after she said in interviews earlier this year that the
purported Epstein “client list” was sitting on her desk for review,
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2025-07-16 02:52:12
The Orange Menace’s Congresional lapdog has broken ranks with him over Epstein.
Taking away healthcare from millions, he’s a-ok with. Concealing the crimes of the Tangerine Fool? Not so much.
And you know just who is the lapdog I’m referring to too.
#USpol
@aardrian@toot.cafe2025-07-15 14:51:20
I need to dispel some table accessibility myths.
1. `<thead>` and `<tbody>` are not exposed to users. Using `<thead>` to wrap multiple header rows has no effect (and you shouldn’t have multiple header rows). Partial ref: https://adrianroselli.com/2022/02/colu
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz2025-07-15 02:46:35
Content warning: NZPol Regulatory Standards Bill submissions
While coding, been watching Regulator Standards Bill submissions. I note a scarce few (like 1-4 per session out of 17-18) pro-bill submissions. Most are emphatically against. I also note that, so far, all pro submitters are either white male individuals (many quite old), or Atlas Network affiliated think tanks like the New Zealand Initiative. This bill should fail spectacularly. If it doesn't, this gov't needs to go immediately.
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-07-15 02:25:41
Pam Bondi ousts ethics watchdog amid DOJ purge (Josephine Walker/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/14/pam-bondi-fires-ethics-chief-doj-purge
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p149#a250714p149
@mela@zusammenkunft.net2025-07-15 12:08:26
"Gesprächskreis Zeitgeschichte"
Was geplant war: aktuelle und relevante Literatur debattieren.
Was wir tun: den jeweils aktuellsten Fuck-Up im Bundestag analysieren.
#ProjektMaster
@servelan@newsie.social2025-07-15 02:39:03
Refugees from travel ban countries must be allowed to enter US, Seattle judge rules • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/07/14/refugees-from-travel-ban-countries-must-be-allowed-to-enter-us-seattle-judge-rules/
@publicvoit@graz.social2025-07-15 11:10:02
#Podcast von #DieZeit (insbes. #ZeitVerbrechen) waren mal hervorragend.
Nun senden sie eine Umfrag raus, wo's gar kein Freitextfeld für Feedback gibt. Es werden nur unsere konsumierten Medien Wer…
@qbi@freie-re.de2025-07-15 20:24:45
#Indonesien wollte bis zum Jahr 2040 komplett auf erneuerbare Energien umgestellt haben. Aber nun haben sie festgestellt, dass der Plan aufgeht. Stattdessen wollen sie schon 2035 zu 100% auf Erneuerbare setzen.
@tschfflr@fediscience.org2025-07-16 13:02:18
Ich organisiere eine sehr sehr große Sommerschule. #academicChatter
@laxsill@social.spejset.org2025-07-15 08:02:50
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2025-07-16 18:53:02
@lysander07@sigmoid.social2025-07-16 09:19:07
In the ISE2025 lecture today, our students learned about unsupervised learning on the example of k-Means clustering. One nice hands-on example is image colour reduction based on k-means clustering, as demonstrated in a colab notebook (based on the Python DataScience Handbook by Vanderplus)
colab notebook: https://…
@bourgwick@heads.social2025-07-15 02:00:50
woody guthrie's sole (& stark af) recording of "deportee," from 1951-1952, written a few years earlier. martin hoffman wrote the more familiar music later. from the cool new demos collection. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjlr-Rj9VwA
incidentally (or not), these demos exist…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-07-15 11:02:56
NFL's underrated and overrated teams in 2025: Bills, 49ers could tumble; Chargers looking up https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6438492/2025/07/15/nfl-2025-overrated-underrated-teams-bills-49ers-chargers/
@rmdes@mstdn.social2025-07-15 07:35:02
Podcast : Vers la liberté et l’amour de soi chez Horta avec Youdra Guerreiro. Tu peux écouter l'épisode sur https://chardonsbleus.org/podcast-vers-la-liberte-et-lamour-de-soi-chez-horta-avec-youdra-guerreiro/ 🎙️
@Peti_is@no-pony.farm2025-07-15 07:32:00
Die ePetition 183371 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Einkommensteuer mit dem Titel
Reform des Einkommensteuergesetzes im Hinblick auf die steuerliche Gleichbehandlung für alle wirtschaftlich verbundenen Partnerschaften
kann bis zum Dienstag 26. August 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Hiermit ersuche i…
@trochee@dair-community.social2025-07-15 02:56:12
Spouse (a psychotherapist) was forwarded this paper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18412
> Expressing stigma and inappropriate responses prevents LLMs from safely replacing mental health providers
which has caused us to spend a big chunk of after dinner lounging alternating among incredulous…
@fortune@social.linux.pizza2025-07-15 20:00:02
The new Linux anthem will be "He's an idiot, but he's ok", as performed by
Monthy Python. You'd better start practicing.
-- Linus Torvalds, announcing another kernel patch
@crell@phpc.social2025-07-16 13:11:02
Advanced PHPUnit Data Provider shenanigans. #PHP
Part 1: https://peakd.com/hive-168588/@crell/fun-with-phpunit-data-providers
Part 2:
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social2025-07-16 02:01:41
«So we can see that opposing fascism will require a solidary with hundreds of different sides against the sole murderous one. Perhaps that one murderous side will experience this solidarity as "polarization," but we don't need to agree with them about that, or "agree to disagree" about it. In fact, it is our moral imperative to disagree with them about that.»
https://www.the-reframe.com/be-bolder-not-a-boulder/
@stephane_klein@social.coop2025-07-15 16:02:13
Quelle est mon utilisation d'OpenRouter.ia ?
#OpenRoute #LLM
@jake4480@c.im2025-07-15 17:02:19
I rarely pre-order ANYTHING, much less a game, but sometimes I make exceptions. I've been wanting to grab Dezatopia on Switch for so long, it's literally the first thing I ever put on my Switch wishlist many years ago (which now has like, a couple hundred games on it). I was waiting for it to go on sale but it never really did. I'm glad I waited, really. I dig physical games, and now there's this combo that includes Mecha Ritz. GREAT bang for the buck. I'll of course post…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-07-16 02:45:48
Cloudflare starts blocking access to pirate sites in the UK; previously, blocking was almost entirely done by local ISPs (Andy Maxwell/TorrentFreak)
https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-starts-blocking-pirate-sites-for-uk-users-tha…
@awinkler@openbiblio.social2025-07-15 07:24:20
Later, I'll be giving a talk at #IANLS25 on some quantitative analyses of Latin book prodcution in Germany (and Italy in part) from 1500 through 1800. Slides, code and data can be found here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15878272
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-07-16 05:02:00
Porno-Streit in Frankreich: Betreiber kassiert Schlappe
Frankreich verlangt zum Jugendschutz eine strenge Alterskontrolle. Nicht allen Betreibern von Pornoseiten passt das. Legt ein Gerichtsentscheid den Streit bei?
…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-07-15 02:05:57
How Benchmark's investment in Chinese startup Manus has highlighted a philosophical divide in Silicon Valley over China, patriotism, and the pursuit of profit (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-1…
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2025-07-16 02:47:09
I built another game show buzzer system and wrote a post about it, and then noodled a few ideas for the next build so now I need to build another one.
https://rasterweb.net/raster/2025/07/15/game-show-buzzer-system-v3/
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-07-15 10:48:41
Damn.
Most of the Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy team that handles U.S. engagement with partner countries to prevent China from prevailing in AI and 5G wireless technologies, and in global data policy, were fired from the State Department.
https://www.washing…
@timbray@cosocial.ca2025-07-15 16:52:44
TIL about https://ground.news - not sure what to think tbh.
@robpike@hachyderm.io2025-07-16 01:04:36
@cdarwin@c.im2025-07-16 02:47:17
Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs,
the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people abroad who need it.
Nearly 500 metric tons of emergency food
—enough to feed about 1.5 million children for a week
—are set to expire tomorrow, according to current and former government employees with direct knowledge of the rations.
Within weeks, two of those sources told me, the food, meant for c…
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2025-07-15 22:29:02
Imagine you're president, and someone in prison awaiting trial had dirt on you, dies suspiciously. Then ~6 years later people clamor for info you'd kill to suppress to be released anyway.
Might make you post: people should "not waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about."
Rough Tuesday for Dopey McGropey.
His post from 3 days ago:
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-07-15 02:50:44
Behind Trump's Tough Russia Talk, Doubts and Missing Details (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/us/politics/trump-russia-ukraine-nato.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p151#a250714p151
@servelan@newsie.social2025-07-16 05:22:02
Federal government accuses nine Spokane protesters of violence against ICE
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/jul/15/spokane-ice-protesters-including-stuckart-arrested/
@fortune@social.linux.pizza2025-07-16 03:00:02
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2025-07-16 20:55:02
📰 Forschung kann Leben retten oder verlängern – durch Warnungen vor #Risiken und Fortschritte in #Klimaanpassung, #Energiewende und
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-07-15 02:55:41
Nvidia plans to resume H20 AI chip sales to China after Washington assured shipments will be approved, reversing an earlier Trump administration stance in April (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-07-15 11:58:59
Thousands of people are being relocated to the UK as part of a secret £850m scheme set up after a personal data leak of Afghans who supported British forces, it can now be reported.
https://www.
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2025-07-15 02:25:00
Another free laptop I got recently is a an HP 14-dq0005tg but there's no power supply and I don't have a power adapter that will fit. Reviews seem to suggest it's pretty crappy so I don't even want to bother with getting a power supply for it.
It's lightweight and slim, but the 14" screen seems to be just 1920x1080 and supposedly has "noisy cooling".
I may just see if I can send it to HP for recycling.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-07-16 16:02:25
The nomination of Emil Bove III to a federal appeals court
suggests that Donald Trump has a new prototype and a new agenda when it comes to the law:
Out with the eggheads and in with the street fighters.
His first-term judicial appointments transformed constitutional law on a range of subjects, like abortion and affirmative action.
In his first term, he served the conservative movement;
this time, the movement must serve him.
The president has staffed the…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-07-16 02:35:52
Hawley introduces bill to reverse Medicaid cuts he voted for (Sareen Habeshian/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/15/medicaid-cuts-hawley-trump-megabill-missouri
http://www.memeorandum.com/250715/p142#a250715p142
@servelan@newsie.social2025-07-16 22:05:02
'Rejection': Conservative GOP governor torpedoes 6 different far-right MAGA bills - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/kelly-ayotte-maga/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Jul.16.2025_8.38pm
@fortune@social.linux.pizza2025-07-15 12:00:02
If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-16 11:25:39
Amazon Ads and Roku sign a new ad initiative to give media buyers access to 80% of US connected-TV households, set to launch by Q4 2025, using Amazon's DSP (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/amazon-ads-roku-set…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-07-16 02:07:42
"Fuck this, don't die 4 the government"
Vandalised military billboard in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
https://todon.eu/@RadicalGraffiti/114860237711416123
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-07-15 20:56:17
National Guard hacked by Chinese ‘Salt Typhoon’ campaign for nearly a year, DHS memo says
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/national-guard-was-hacked-chinas-salt-typhoon-group-dhs-says-rcna218648
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-07-16 02:05:53
Kennedy Claims Doctors Profit Off Vaccines. In Fact, Many Lose Money on Them. (Teddy Rosenbluth/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/well/rfk-jr-doctors-vaccines-profit-fact-check.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250715/p140#a250715p140
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2025-07-16 14:03:02
I think I'll give OpenCore a try today...
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-07-16 02:01:23
Resume Builder survey of 1,342 managers in the US: 60% say they rely on AI to make personnel decisions, 78% of which use the tech in deciding raises (Radhika Rajkumar/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/60-of-managers-…
@fortune@social.linux.pizza2025-07-15 03:00:02
"What do you give a man who has everything?" the pretty teenager
asked her mother.
"Encouragement, dear," she replied.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-07-15 03:02:33
Jaime Alanís died a day after a frenzied immigration raid of Glass House Farms in Ventura county
where authorities arrested at least 200 workers.
The 57-year-old, who was from the town of Huajúmbaro in Michoacšn, Mexico, is the first known person to die during the Trump administration’s enhanced immigration enforcement operations in southern California.
The federal government’s ramped up enforcement activities have brought chaos across southern California as Ice agents des…
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-07-15 13:52:26
Don't miss today's packed Metacurity for a ton of critical infosec developments you should know, including
--UK to spend $1.1 billion relocating Afghan helpers following data breach
--DOGE worker published the private key for four dozen-plus LLMs,
--US gov't IT contractor to pay $14.75m fine for overstated cyber services,
--Italian cops arrest Romanian behind 'Diskstation' ransomware gang,
--OMB readies post-quantum standard,
--MSFT'…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-07-15 02:50:44
The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food (Hana Kiros/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/07/usaid-emergency-food-incinerate-trump/683532/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p152#a250714p152
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-16 13:06:35
WhatsApp rolls out ads in its Updates tab, a first for the app, and will collect some data to target the ads, but says it has no plans to put ads in chats (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/technology/whatsapp-ads.html
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-07-15 12:21:52
Really good piece from @derekbjohnson.bsky.social
Is XBOW’s success the beginning of the end of human-led bug hunting? Not yet.
https://cyberscoop.com/is-xbows-success-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-human-led-bug-hunting-not-yet/
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-07-16 02:15:47
Who is Omar Fateh? Minneapolis mayoral candidate condemns racist attacks (Anthony Robledo/USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/15/omar-fateh-minneapolis-mayor-race/85219261007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250715/p141#a250715p141
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-16 22:40:58
The US Defense Department awards a one-year $200M contract to OpenAI to develop AI tools for addressing challenges in "warfighting and enterprise domains" (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/16/openai-wins-200-million-us-defe…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-07-16 02:53:38
The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out
Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately
2 minutes and 53 seconds
were removed from one of two stitched-together clips.
The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
https://www.…
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-07-15 11:10:31
A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese Hackers
https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-digital-escorts-pentagon-defense-department-china-hackers
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-16 12:50:41
The Trump Organization teases the $499 "T1 Phone", a "sleek, gold" phone "designed and built" in the US, and Trump Mobile, based on AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/trum
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-07-15 02:55:39
'Help me!' Democrats decry 'vile' conditions at 'Alligator Alcatraz' immigrant prison (Phil Fernandez/USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/14/vile-conditions-alligator-alcatraz-migrant-prison/85196347007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p155#a250714p155
@cdarwin@c.im2025-07-15 14:02:45
The Trump administration on Monday took another step to make it harder to find major, legally mandated scientific assessments of how climate change is endangering the nation and its people.
Earlier this month, the official government websites that hosted the authoritative, peer-reviewed national climate assessments went dark.
Such sites tell state and local governments and the public what to expect in their backyards from a warming world and how best to adapt to it.
At the …
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-17 00:01:31
2025 Digital News Report: social media overtakes TV as the top news source in the US, with 54% accessing news via social media and video apps, vs. 50% for TV (Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/for-the-first-t…
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-07-16 16:02:26
https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/global-operation-targets-noname05716-pro-russian-cybercrime-network
Oh wow.
Global operation targets NoName057(16) pro-Russian cybercrime networ…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-07-16 16:16:02
The Military Occupied LA for 40 Days and All They Did Was Detain One Guy (Nick Turse/The Intercept)
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/16/federal-troops-la-doing-nothing/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250716/p82#a250716p82
@cdarwin@c.im2025-07-15 17:18:02
Shout Out Southern Arizona:
Polls open till 7pm
Vote!
https://bsky.app/profile/patti3333.bsky.social/post/3ltzenq3ces2x
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-16 05:30:35
Aspora, which makes financial tools like remittance services for the Indian diaspora, raised a $50M Series B co-led by Sequoia and Greylock at a $500M valuation (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/15/aspora-ge…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-07-16 16:16:02
Trump admin "disappeared" a gay stylist for propaganda. He hasn't been heard from since (Charles R. Davis/Salon)
https://www.salon.com/2025/07/16/trump-admin-disappeared-a-gay-stylist-for-propaganda-he-hasnt-been-heard-from-since/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250716/p83#a250716p83
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-16 14:45:41
Trump Media and Technology Group files an S-1 with the US SEC to launch a spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETF, allocating 75% to bitcoin and 25% to ether (Oliver Knight/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/06/16/d…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-07-16 16:16:02
Americans were following Trump's big legislative win closely -- and they say they don't support it (Nicole Markus/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/16/trump-law-new-poll-00455878
http://www.memeorandum.com/250716/p80#a250716p80
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-16 10:01:14
A survey of UK academic integrity violations finds nearly 7,000 proven AI cheating cases in 2023-24, or 5.1 per 1,000 students, up from 1.6 per 1,000 in 2022-23 (Michael Goodier/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.co…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-07-15 03:01:02
2 New Jersey Journalists Face Criminal Charges for Publishing Information From a Police Blotter (Jacob Sullum/Reason)
https://reason.com/2025/07/14/2-new-jersey-journalists-face-criminal-charges-for-publishing-information-from-a-police-blotter/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p156#a250714p156
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-16 21:55:40
The Meta AI app now shows a warning prompt before users share content to the public feed, after reports of users accidentally sharing chats with personal info (Katie Notopoulos/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-pu
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-07-16 02:05:53
NIH leader fired amid probe of contract used in attempt to hire spouse, officials say (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/07/15/nih-leader-fired-amid-contract-probe/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250715/p139#a250715p139
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-16 12:15:38
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-16 08:01:17
In March, New York added a checkbox to its WARN system for companies to show if "technological innovation or automation", like AI, was a reason for mass layoffs (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-16 09:40:54
TikTok rolls out new AI ad features, including the ability for marketers to use text or images to create AI-generated video, as part of its Symphony ad suite (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-16 18:10:58
Juniper Square, which offers investment management and fund administration tools for real estate, PE, VC firms, raised $130M led by Ribbit at a $1.1B valuation (Katie Roof/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-16 10:24:38
Chinese state media: researchers successfully implanted a brain-computer interface in a tetraplegia patient in March, the second country after the US to do so (Karoline Kan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-16 23:05:41
The US Senate's draft tax bill would raise the CHIPS Act's tax credit for semiconductor factories from 25% to 30% until the tax break expires at the end of 2026 (Alicia Diaz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-16 12:35:40
The UK CMA launches a probe into the planned $13.25B merger of ad giants Omnicom and Interpublic to assess potential competition reduction in the UK ad market (DhanushVignesh Babu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-16 20:19:47
Sources: OpenAI and Microsoft talks have become so fraught that OpenAI execs discussed accusing Microsoft of anticompetitive behavior before federal regulators (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tec…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-16 20:10:57
Sources: Meta's talks with Scale AI started in mid-April, with Zuckerberg floating a $5B investment in early May, which Alexandr Wang later countered with $20B (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-agreed-pay…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-16 19:10:51
PostHog, which offers dev tools to analyze, test, observe, and deploy new features, raised a $70M Series D led by Stripe at a $920M valuation (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/ai/startup-posthog-tweet-funding-round-stripe/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-16 18:35:41
EchoStar's stock jumps 45% after a report said EchoStar's chairman met Trump, a day after meeting FCC's Carr; EchoStar faces FCC spectrum license uncertainty (Monica Alleven/Fierce Network)
https://www.fierce-network.com/wireless/he
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-16 18:30:38
Threads plans to let users hide text or images that spoil a piece of entertainment, blurring the text or image that has been marked as a spoiler (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digita…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-16 17:01:21
Patreon plans to consolidate its Pro and Premium plans starting August 5, taking a 10% commission, rather than the current 8% for Pro and 12% for Premium users (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/687570/patreon-standard-pr…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-16 14:35:42
Europol, Germany, and more dismantle Archetyp Market, a darknet drug marketplace active since May 2020 with 612K users processing €250M in Monero transactions (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-16 13:55:40
AI is just another productivity tool and the productivity gains will be limited; for lasting economic expansion, AI must catalyze new industries and initiatives (Carl Benedikt Frey/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/55bc5876-254a-4daa-86f8-2cd0d939a866
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-16 12:40:52
Digital asset platform Tron plans to go public via a reverse merger with Nasdaq-listed SRM Entertainment, after the US paused a probe into founder Justin Sun (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/13a6cead-af71-4811-9b90-553f233ac45f
