2026-09-25 10:18:03
"Spain added 10.1 GW of solar in 2025"
#Spain #Energy #Renewables
Plaza Major, Salamanca, Spain, 2025
#fensterfreitag
thoughtful & sweet essay by court carney on bob dylan's friendships with jerry garcia & johnny cash & "the vulnerability of brotherhood" https://thedylanreview.org/2025/03/02/questions-on-masculinit…
Tencent's Hong Kong-listed shares fall ~7%, the most since April 2025, as investors worry over "rumors" of weaker earnings on August 12, and NetEase drops 5% (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
#MerriamWebster announces their new LLM. “There’s Artificial Intelligence, and then there’s Actual Intelligence.”
https://boingboing.net/2025/10/02/merriam-…
Broncos-Chiefs on 'Monday Night Football': What We Learned from Kansas City's 31-10 win https://www.nfl.com/news/broncos-chiefs-on-monday-night-football-what-we-learned-from-kansas-city-s-31-10-win
`Stephen Elop is your typical "successful CEO". "Successful" like in inheriting one of the biggest and most successful mobile phone makers and, in a couple of years, turning it into ashes. You can’t invent such "success".
During Elop's tenure, Nokia's stock price dropped 62%, their mobile phone market share was halved, their smartphone market share fell from 33% to 3%, and the company suffered a cumulative €4.9 billion loss`
Great read!
from my link log —
Earth rotation records spur October vote to avert negative leap second.
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/320185/20260711/earth-rotation-records-spur-october-vote-avert-negative-leap-second.h…
At the start of 2025,
Elon Musk looked as if he was going to become a permanent fixture in American politics.
Strutting across the stage,
giving the Sieg heil!,
the far-right mogul set up shop in the Trump administration’s DOGE dojo
and started chaotically pulling the load-bearing beams out of the civil service
and heisting the private data of an untold number of taxpayers.
In June of this year, however, Musk expressed regret over getting so caught…
After spending 2025 with Cowboys, former 3rd-round QB retires from NFL at age 31 https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/after-spending-2025-cowboys-former-3rd-round-qb-retires-nfl-a…
"The world is fast approaching temperature levels where insurers will no longer be able to offer cover for many climate risks, said Günther Thallinger, on the board of Allianz SE, one of the world’s biggest insurance companies. He said that without insurance, which is already being pulled in some places, many other financial services become unviable, from mortgages to investments."
#ClimateEmergency
I'm pulling an outdated Windows 10 machine up to current specs. It hasn't been updated in many years.
It'll probably take many more years before Windows Update completes the updates.
I cannot even begin to understand how the Windows updating process continues to be this horrifically stupid. It has been like this forever and never seems to improve.
We're installing the 2025 feature release! Think you're done? Lulz. Hold on while we download Mystery random…
Nielsen: Netflix's Sept. 10 49ers-Rams NFL game in Australia averaged 18.5M US viewers, matching YouTube's 2025 Brazil game, and 3.2M abroad, vs. YouTube's 1.2M (Eric Fisher/Front Office Sports)
https://frontofficesports.com/article/netflix-week-1…
"Künstliche Intelligenz in wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken. Einige Organisationsformen im Spannungsfeld universitärer Governance" @ Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis
https://doi.org/10.1515/bfp-2025-0061
Fast jeder dritte im August 2026 neu zugelassene Pkw in Deutschland war ein #Elektroauto.
Mit 68.930 Fahrzeugen erreichten vollelektrische Modelle einen Anteil von 32,4 Prozent. Gegenüber August 2025 stiegen die Neuzulassungen um 75,1 Prozent.
Gleichzeitig sank der durchschnittliche CO2-Ausstoß neuer Pkw um 18 Prozent. Die
New publication: Annette von Stockhausen, “TEI-Schema Für Das Patristische Textarchiv (PTA)” (Zenodo, 24 January 2025), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14734809.
Patentstreit: InterDigital fordert 101,7 Millionen Euro von Disney
InterDigital fordert von Disney 101,7 Millionen Euro Schadensersatz. Es geht um HDR-Streaming bei Disney von März 2020 bis Ende 2025.
htt…
LÁZ - “Kétség” (2025)
Hungarian band with a modernized “post punk sound”. They cite Saccharine Trust as an inspiration! Kids these days. I love when they say stuff like that.
I like the vocals, sure. But the guitar-centric music is the real draw for me. The sound is a mix of high energy staccato with the occasional jazzy no wave jam with starts and stops.
#music
South Africa Bullied by a protector
When Donald Trump returned to the US presidency in January 2025, South Africans were surprised to find themselves in his line of fire.
The false claim that white South African farmers are being murdered for their land has long been a staple conspiracy theory of the white far-right
(white farmers have been killed, but not at a higher rate than the thousands of other victims of South Africa’s high violent crime rate).
With Trump back i…
📰 „Einen Krieg in Europa werden wir nicht überleben“
#News
Uber startet Robotaxis in London – vor Waymo und Baidu
Uber bietet Fahrten mit Robotaxis von Wayve in London an. Damit überholt der US-Fahrdienst Waymo, der Ende 2025 ankündigte, Robotaxis nach London zu bringen.
https…
NFL execs rank AFC teams: Bills lead a jumble of contenders. Does anyone trust the Chiefs? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7560358/2026/09/03/afc-rankings-bills-chiefs-broncos-patriots-ravens/
New publication: Annette von Stockhausen, “TEI-Schema für das Patristische Textarchiv (PTA) (v.4.0)” (Zenodo, 24 January 2025), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14734809.
Is Cowboys Javonte Williams a top-10 RB? ESPN doesn't think he's close https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/07/06/is-cowboys-javonte-williams-a-top-10-rb-espn-doe…
Homeland security officials under the Trump administration
have quietly attempted to subject at least 10 hunger strikers in US immigrant detention to involuntary medical procedures,
including force-feeding, a Guardian investigation has found.
In 2025 and 2026, officials had definitely performed the procedures on at least three detained immigrants
and probably subjected two more to the forced treatment
– widely considered torture by human rights groups.
Th…
Analysis: Grokipedia appears not to have updated any articles since April 24, when it stopped processing human-suggested edits; xAI launched it in October 2025 (Lawfare)
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/grokipedia-stopped-reviewing-…
Stripe says thousands of solo operators on its service generate $1M in annual revenue, and those making $10M nearly tripled between 2023 and 2025, aided by AI (Te-Ping Chen/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/th…
Quinnen Williams: Cowboys defense is 'night and day' different under new DC Christian Parker https://www.nfl.com/news/quinnen-williams-cowboys-defense-night-and-day-different-dc-christian-parker
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Cymande:
🎵 Brothers on the Slide (6 Music Session, 30 Jan 2025)
#Cymande
https://kaobmusic.bandcamp.com/track/cymande-brothers-on-the-slide-ka-b-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6OKDxL7flqg9Rv7CbHaxmz
Mailbag: Expectations on fourth-down attempts? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-expectations-on-fourth-down-attempts
New York City, which has the largest Jewish population of any city outside Israel,
recorded 205 anti-Jewish hate crimes in the first seven months of 2026,
up from 189 during the same period in 2025.
More than half of all hate crimes in the city were anti-Jewish,
despite Jewish New Yorkers comprising 10% of the city’s population, according to the NYPD
Wilson's 2027 NFL Draft big board: Dante Moore over Arch Manning as eight QBs crack preseason top 50
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2027-nfl-draft-bi…
Mailbag: Expectations on fourth-down attempts? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-expectations-on-fourth-down-attempts
A US judge finds TikTok liable for lying about its safety standards and exposing minors to inappropriate content, in a 2025 lawsuit filed by Texas AG Ken Paxton (Christian Terry/Click2Houston.com)
https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2
Impacts of Mid-Latitude Ionospheric Dynamics on RF Applications During the November 2025 #Superstorm Event: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2026GL124645 -> A Solar Superstorm Caused a GPS Glitch Bad Enough to Crash Self-Driving Cars: https://gizmodo.com/a-solar-superstorm-caused-a-gps-glitch-bad-enough-to-crash-self-driving-cars-2000806428 - the massive eruption threw GPS readings off by more than 10 meters.
RE: #cybersecurity at a company and use Intune to manage your desktop/laptop fleet, propose a project for next year to start managing browser extensions. It’s a fair amount of work to get started, but once under management you can put in place processes for your help desk to handle requests for unallowed extensions.
https://msendpointmgr.com/2025/10/04/taming-browser-extensions-with-intune/
Why Dallas Cowboys Defense Might be Overhyped Entering 2026 https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/why-dallas-cowboys-defense-might-be-overhyped-2026-nfl-season
For generations, Saudi Arabia exported oil.
Now it wants to export one of the digital era’s most coveted resources:
computing power.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is seizing a chance to turn Saudi Arabia’s oil wealth into tech influence.
Few nations can match the kingdom’s cheap energy, deep pockets and open land
— the ingredients that tech firms need to operate the vast, power-hungry data centers that run modern A.I.
Already, Saudi Arabia has been neg…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
BIG SPECIAL:
🎵 Black Dog / White Horse (6 Music Session, 27 Jan 2025)
#BIGSPECIAL
https://open.spotify.com/track/1LD2SFCu4lmrTwxnA6TCqQ
I really like Simon Willison's "lethal trifecta"—which I'm most probably adding to both my fall semester courses—but I am amused at how AI is basically forcing people to re-discover long-established principles in security (in this case, OCaps).
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/the-lethal-trifecta/
Twin Impact Lunar Telescope network - #LunarImpact Flash observations of the 2025 #Geminids: #LIFs."
Iedereen geinteresseerd in onderwijs moet het PISA 2025 rapport tenminste doorbladeren, enorm veel interessante informatie, ook best schokkende, zoals dat na Zambia (!), in Nederland het grootste verschil is tussen scholen als het gaat om wetenschappelijke prestaties....
#Onderwijs #PISA2025 #Nederland #OECD
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Léa Sen:
🎵 lvl 10 - LOBBY BOY (6 Music Session, 27 May 2025)
#LéaSen
https://leasen.bandcamp.com/track/lvl-10-lobby-boy
https://open.spotify.com/track/1mIPrxHOq7IgAYdJrONGzl
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Lucy Rose:
🎵 Pale Blue Eyes (6 Music Session, 02 Jun 2025)
#LucyRose
https://open.spotify.com/track/4aK4bJInGOV0Skp8uYrWuE
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Joshua Idehen:
🎵 Could Be Forever (6 Music Session 22 Jan 2025)
#JoshuaIdehen
https://joshuaidehen.bandcamp.com/track/could-be-forever-prins-thomas-diskomiks
https://open.spotify.com/track/65RaK4ZQILvLlz16t7gI21