Tootfinder

The UK's GB News reports revenue up 66% YoY to £26M in the year to May 2025, annual pre-tax losses down 34% YoY to £22M, and TV viewership up 18% YoY to 3.7M (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business/gb-news-losses-2025/

GB News grows revenue by two thirds to £26m as losses narrow
GB News losses fell in the year to May 2025 as it posted strong revenue growth. Total losses now stand at £131m+.

Iranian cryptoasset outflows reached ~$10.3M between February 28 and March 2 amid US and Israeli strikes; in 2025, Iran's crypto ecosystem was worth $7.8B (Chainalysis)
https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/iranian-crypto-outflows-spike-after-airstrikes/

Iranian Crypto Outflows Spike After Airstrikes
On-chain data shows a sharp increase in activity from major Iranian exchanges in the hours following the February 28, 2026 US-Israeli airstrikes.

Disappointing growth in EU biomethane production, growing by 'only' 12% from 'gas year' (Oct-Sep) 2023/24 to 2024/2025.
5 years to go to the REpowerEU target of 350 TWh; that would now require a 52% compound annual growth rate.
Tall order, but today's news shows how important it is to accelerate!

A clear detection of #comet C/2025 R3 (PANSTARRS) on the morning of March 2 "despite the 99% illuminated Moon, morning twilight and the comet at an altitude of 4.2 degrees": https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/message/34974 -> "The fact that the comet is showing this much detail under such bad conditions with such bad equipment and software bodes well for what we expect will be a very nice comet in the next few months."

It's so nice enjoying the weird music made from a new live coding community, this one in Taiwan https://www.instagram.com/p/DKtxk3Bxq32/?img_index=1

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ClassicalMixtape
- 24/10/2025
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002kr5k

J.J. McCarthy, Kevin O'Connell and the story behind the Vikings' disappointing 2025 season https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6929970/2025/12/31/vikings-2025-season-disappointing-jj-mccarthy-kevin-oconnell/

'Blacks Need Not Apply': U.S. Military's 'Racist' Decision to Stop Recruiting Service Members from Black Engineering Event Draws Backlash
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/02/12/u-s-militarys-decision-to-stop-recruiting-service-members-from-black-engineering-event-draws-backlash/

Cowboys' Jerry Jones admits letting this defender go in 2025 was mistake https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/03/02/cowboys-jerry-jones-jordan-lewis-mistake-nickel-cornerback/…

That UPenn breach affected only ten people.
A class action lawsuit against Penn over an October 2025 data breach at the Graduate School of Education will not proceed after a new court filing revealed on Monday that fewer than 10 people were affected by the incident.
https://www.

Penn GSE email hack impacted fewer than 10 individuals, according to new filing
In recent weeks, seven of the 18 Penn graduates in the originally consolidated case have withdrawn their claims.

Versant reports 2025 revenue fell 5% YoY to $6.69B and net income fell 32% to $930M; platform revenue hit $826M, up 3.9% YoY, the only segment with YoY growth (Lillian Rizzo/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/03/versant-vsnt-debut-earnings-report-digita…

Just updated our server's downtimes for 2025 and for all-time. Although datasci.social had a downtime of over 10 hours in 2025, our all-time uptime is still way above 99.9%. 🤓
https://community.datasci.social/docs/server/

In #Euskirchen errichtet #LichtBlick auf acht Hektar einen neuen #Solarpark mit über 10.000 Modulen.
Die Anlage soll jährlich rund acht Gigawattstunden

LichtBlick treibt Ausbau voran: Solarpark mit über 10.000 Modulen entsteht in NRW
Hamburg/Euskirchen (ots) - Nach der erfolgreichen Inbetriebnahme der Solarparks Ennigerloh-Oelde (https://www.lichtblick.de/presse/im-muensterland-neuer-solarpark-von-lichtblick-versorgt-benteler-mit-gruenstrom/)

#Letterboxd does this weird thing. It waits for the year to end before they make a big deal about the stats for that year. Or maybe the strange thing is that some services do this in early December.
They say I watched 377 movies last year and I say we are in a disagreement about what should be counted as a movie. I have a list over there of the 106 movies I saw at the cinema last yea…

"Sweden declares the famous Snowy Owl regionally extinct after a decade of ‘silence’"
#Sweden #Owls #Animals

Snowy Owl declared regionally extinct in Sweden. Will it ever return?
The Snowy Owl has vanished from Sweden, marking the first time in 20 years that the country has officially lost a bird species.

Nachdem gestern noch ein paar Besorgungen zu erledigen waren, ist mein #Frostpendeln Endstand für die Saison 2025/26 bei 1026km und damit ganze 477km mehr als letzte Saison.
Schade, dass die heutige Radtour durch's #Furttal und

Media Shied Away From Climate Coverage in 2025
Despite Increased Reader Interest
Mainstream media around the world last year drew back from reporting on climate change, according to new reports.
This drop occurred despite increasing reader interest in the topic,
while greenhouse gas emissions and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations continued to hit new historic highs.
According to a year-end analysis by the Media and Climate Change Observatory (MeCCO),

Media Shied Away From Climate Coverage in 2025 | Earth.Org
As temperatures and emissions rose in 2025, climate news coverage around the world took a dramatic plunge.

The Key Stats to Watch in the Raiders’ 2026 Futures Picture https://raiderramble.com/2026/03/02/the-key-stats-to-watch-in-the-raiders-2026-futures-picture/

Koralliriuttojen kuolema on nyt lähes varmaa – Yle sai suomalaistutkijalta kuvat ilmaston keikahduspisteen tuhoista #ympäristö

Koralliriuttojen kuolema on nyt lähes varmaa – Yle sai suomalaistutkijalta kuvat ilmaston keikahduspisteen tuhoista
Vuonna 2025 saavutettiin ensimmäinen ilmaston lämpenemisen aiheuttamista keikahduspisteistä. Korallien katoaminen vaikuttaa jopa miljardin ihmisen hyvinvointiin.

#opendesk oder Ähnliches

Der Armeechef stemmt sich gegen Microsoft
Thomas Süssli fordert von der Bundeskanzlei eine eigene IT-Infrastruktur für sensible Daten. Die Bundeskanzlei gibt sich unbeirrt.

Trump:
“I’ll avoid foreign military entanglements” ... “We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we end, and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.” - January 20, 2025
“I’m not going to start wars, I’m going to stop wars.” - November 6, 2024
“Great nations do not fight endless wars… As a candidate for president, I loudly pledged a new approach. Great nations do not fight endless wars.” - February 5, 2019

"Digital Technologies and Reading Habits of Students: A Scoping Review"
https://doi.org/10.1515/opis-2025-0040
"This scoping review aims to map the literature on the types of digital technologies and the purposes of using digital technologies by secondary school students."

Five 2026 NFL Draft prospects who tested themselves into the first round at the combine

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/nfl-draft-prospects-risers-first-round-combine/

👀💭 "Virginia Giuffre was called a liar. The other victims who testified to Palm Beach Police were called liars but what the documents also help to prove is that the system chose to protect the perpetrators instead of believing the victims.
That is what these January 2025 documents show. The question now is what we do about it."

Epstein Used Brett Ratner's Name to Recruit Woman for "Snow White" Photos. That Director Just Made Melania Trump's $40 Million Documentary
Meanwhile JPMorgan Executive Jes Staley Selected Victims by Character Name While His Bank Processed the Payments and New Emails Explain More...

L'IA Lucienne, la première vraie IA souveraine gauloise
https://versini.ovh/2025/11/ia-lucienne/

L'IA Lucienne, la première vraie IA souveraine gauloise
Ceci est un article parodique, si vous n’est pas équipé de sens de l’humour merci de ne pas lire cet article. Tous les contenus présentés ici sont faux. L’utilisation de noms de p…

🚀 Auf unserer Culture Knowledge Base ist kürzlich die 20. Handreichung erschienen!

In "Social-Media-Forschung zu Rechtsextremismus und Demokratie: Bestandsaufnahme, Leitlinien und infrastrukturelle Bedarfe (2025)" sammelte Vincent Fröhlich im Rahmen der Eventreihe "Show & Tell – Social Media-Daten in der Forschungspraxis" Antworten von drei Projekten auf sieben Leitfragen des Arbeitskreises „Social Media-Daten“, welche systematisch ausgewertet wurden.

A deep dive into co-packaged optics, long promised to transform data center connectivity, covering benefits, challenges, architecture, key companies, and more (Dylan Patel/SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/co-packaged-optics-cpo-book-scaling…

Co Packaged Optics (CPO) – Scaling with Light for the Next Wave of Interconnect
Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) has long promised to transform datacenter connectivity, but it has taken a long time for the technology to come to market, with tangible deployment-ready products only arriving in 2025.

»Mit dem Aufkommen des Walkman Anfang der 1980er-Jahre war die Selbstabschirmung von der Umgebung noch Teil aufgeregter kulturpessimistischer Diskurse. Die zugleich personalisierte, […] anhand der Kopfhörer nun aber auch in der Öffentlichkeit beobachtbare Mediennutzung wurde als Ausweis für Konsumismus und Gier, asozialen Isolationismus sowie Eskapismus einer narzisstischen und hedonistischen Generation gelesen.«
Aus: Christoph Engemann - Die Zukunft des Lesens (2025)

Reach reports 2025 revenue down 3.7% YoY to £518.4M, adjusted operating profit up 2.4% YoY to £104.7M, and Google Discover traffic down 46% YoY in H2 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business/plunging-goo…

Plunging Google Discover traffic hits Reach digital revenue
Major cost cuts at Reach helped keep profits up in 2025 despite falling revenue across both digital and print.

Notepad wurde zwischen Juni und Dezember 2025 Ziel eines Cyberangriffs.
Laut Entwickler Don Ho steckte vermutlich eine chinesische staatlich unterstützte Gruppe dahinter. Die Schadsoftware ermöglichte möglicherweise Fernzugriff auf Tastatureingaben.
Nutzer sollten dringend auf Version 8.8.9 oder höher aktualisieren.

Notepad++ updates got hijacked for months and could have spied for China
Updates for Notepad++ were being hijacked, allegedly by Chinese hackers, for six months last year, but the developer says the vulnerabilities have been resolved.

The *other* potentially quite interesting April #comet C/2025 R3 (PANSTARRS) has been recovered in morning twilight: https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/message/34973 - it "has brightened nicely since my last observation on February 9 when it was in evening twilight at magnitude 13.3, magnitude calculations on the mornings of February 27/28 found the comet at magnitude 11.1 and 10.7 but I am sure the coma is a lot bigger and not fully reflected in these magnitude measurements."

"Don’t eat meat or drive a car: Are lifestyle-targeted climate policies eroding our green values?"
#Climate #ClimateChange

‘Eroding green values’: How climate policies risk making us care less
Researchers warn that climate policies spurring people to change their behaviour may weaken their values and support for the environment.

🛡️ The project has been externally audited twice – the most recent audit in August 2025 found zero security vulnerabilities
⚠️ Critics argue asterisks reveal password length to 'shoulder surfers' – #Ubuntu marked the bug
report as 'Won't Fix', no rollback planned
⚙️ Disable the new behavior via: Defaults !pwfeedback in the sudoers configuration file
🔄…

Is Trey McBride NFL's top TE? Cardinals All-Pro weighs in https://www.nfl.com/news/is-trey-mcbride-nfl-s-top-te-cardinals-all-pro-weighs-in

Cowboys final 53-man roster of 2025, move 3 to IR, activate rookie RB https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/03/cowboys-53-man-roster-week-18-giants-practice-squad-elevations…

Raiders Next Head Coach Odds: Klint Kubiak, Kevin Stefanski, Joe Brady Lead List of Candidates https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-1-veteran-rb-believes-ashton-jeanty-has-the-goods

POL-EL: Herzlake - Öffentlichkeitsfahndung: Unbekannter Täter hebt mit gestohlener EC-Karte Bargeld ab Herzlake (ots) - Die Polizei Haselünne fahndet mit Foto nach einem unbekannten Mann, der im Verdacht steht, am 31. März 2025 mit einer zuvor entwendeten Bankkarte eine unberechtigte Abhebung vorgenommen und Bargeld erlangt zu haben. Die Polizei ...

"Butter made from air? This startup is spreading carbon-conscious innovation"
#Butter #Food

Butter made from air? This startup is spreading carbon-conscious innovation | The Optimist Daily
Savor’s butter, made from CO₂, hydrogen, and oxygen, offers a near-zero emissions alternative to dairy butter — and it tastes just like the real thing.

Wir haben #Karwoche und da gibt es von mir immer eine #Passionsandacht. Einige davon habe ich in meinem Blog dokumentiert, vielleicht kann sie jemand gebrauchen ...
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»Dass ich sogenannte Naturisten, Vegetarier u. andere Sektierer nicht ausstehen kann, liegt daran, dass sie aus einer Lebenshaltung, die jeder mit sich selbst abzumachen hat, eine öffentl. Angelegenheit machen u. alle, die nicht so leben wie sie, wenn nicht verachten, so doch für arme Irrende halten.«
Aus: Ré Soupalt – Kaffee mit Croissant in Avignon (1951/2025)

How Malik Willis revived his career with the Packers: 'I'd put him up against anybody' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6930221/2025/12/31/malik-willis-packers-backup-quarterback/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #JamzSupernova
ECHT!:
🎵 Boilerbeek (6 Music Session, 25 Apr 2025)
#ECHT!
https://echt.bandcamp.com/track/boilerbeek
https://open.spotify.com/track/0oUh43grCHV8BwrTlemF6X

🍮 Wissen zum Nachtisch: 🍨
Retröt: Wie präsent ist der #Klimawandel im öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk?
Eine Analyse zeigt: Themen wie #Hitzeschutz, #Solarenergie und

Klimawandel im Fokus: Analyse der Berichterstattung im öffentlich-rechtlichen Fernsehen 2025
Wird der Klimawandel im öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk ausreichend thematisiert? Eine umfassende Analyse zeigt Zahlen und Trends in der Berichterstattung.

Brandon Aubrey 'absolutely' wants to stay with Cowboys, have begun contracts talks https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/brandon-aubrey-absolutely-wants-to-stay-with-cowboys-have-begun-contracts-talks

AVFTCN 040 – Returning From A Hiatus, and Plans for 2026
I'm back. After a self-imposed hiatus for most of 2025, I'm returning to something I've been deeply missing... writing and speaking. If you've been following me for any length of time, you know that not writing or speaking is, for me, a kind of pressure that builds and builds until I am ready to explode. 🤯 So what happened? The short version: my role at the…

AVFTCN 040 – Returning From A Hiatus, and Plans for 2026
I’m back. After a self-imposed hiatus for most of 2025, I’m returning to something I’ve been deeply missing… writing and speaking. If you’ve been following me for any …

A la place des 156 millions de francs de déficit effectif, le budget 2025 tablait sur 303 millions. L’écart s’explique par une amélioration de 419 millions, due Š une sous-estimation des revenus ( 894 millions) mais aussi des charges ( 474 millions).
Quand le déficit de situe en-dessous de la marge d‘erreur sur les recettes et les dépenses, il y a de quoi Š questionner la pertinence des budgets présentés.
https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/vaud/le-canton-de-vaud-affiche-un-deficit-de-156-millions-de-francs-en-2025-mais-respecte-le-petit-equilibre

Vercel's CEO likes war criminals. Now he wants your code.
https://updates.techforpalestine.org/vercels-ceo-likes-war-criminals-now-he-wants-your-code/

Fahrradmarkt 2025: Branche hofft nach Umsatzrückgang auf „neues Normal“
Die deutsche Fahrradwirtschaft hofft nach einem schwachen Jahr 2025 auf bessere Geschäfte – und neue Chancen.
https://www.…

Late in 2024, Elon Musk endorsed Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland. We document that after this, Tesla sales rose by up to 30 percent in right-leaning districts relative to left-leaning ones [..] Divestment in second-hand markets shows no partisan differences, consistent with resale requiring a larger identity cost from Tesla’s image shock than non-purchase. Our lower bound-estimate for the overall loss in Tesla sales is [..] worth at least €241 million."

Es ist interessant, wie ein Song aus dem Jahr 2022, den ich erst 2025 zum ersten Mal bewusst gehört habe, mich jedes Mal aufs neue fasziniert: "Fahr mit mir (4x4)" von Kraftklub und Tokio Hotel.
Diese Fahrzeug-Huldigung der Backing Vocals ist phänomenal!

Bluesky thanks you for giving them the benefit of the doubt. That was all they needed. You may now get fucked.
#iToldYouSo

Bluesky's 2025 $100M Series B Lays Foundation for Open Social Web - Bluesky
In April 2025, Bluesky raised $100 million in Series B funding led by Bain Capital Crypto. Since our Series A, we've grown from 13 million to over 43 million global users.

Super disappointed that this was left undisclosed: https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-19-2026-series-b
I don’t see how you can build a VC-supported free product without slipping into the Torment Nexus which is to say AdTech.
I do believe the Bluesky people really do want…

Bluesky's 2025 $100M Series B Lays Foundation for Open Social Web - Bluesky
In April 2025, Bluesky raised $100 million in Series B funding led by Bain Capital Crypto. Since our Series A, we've grown from 13 million to over 43 million global users.

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

What #comet C/2025 R3 (PANSTARRS) - more pictures from the 28th in https://www.danilopivato.com/solar_system/comets/c2025_r3_panstarrs/2026.03.28.html and https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=34496897756622967 and https://x.com/hositosorekara/status/2037645491253780614 and https://www.facebook.com/groups/227002358661288/posts/1726756352019207 - may be up to brightness-wise and what the viewing geometry will be in central Europe: explanations in https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/03/26/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-26-marz-2026/#Mar29

Pete Carroll Speaks His Peace Ahead of Raiders' Season Finale https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-pete-carroll-speaks-peace-ahead-season-finale

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #JamzSupernova
ECHT!:
🎵 Boilerbeek (6 Music Session, 25 Apr 2025)
#ECHT!
https://echt.bandcamp.com/track/boilerbeek
https://open.spotify.com/track/0oUh43grCHV8BwrTlemF6X

We’re still just starting to fully understand NIH funding losses from 2025,
still worrying about whether 2026 funds will be disbursed,
and are already bracing for further attempts to cut the next budget.
One thing is very clear:
the cuts, clawback, and chaos are disproportionately impacting researchers who aren’t white men.
Now, a new analysis of grant terminationsin the first half of 2025 highlights the toll on women,
especially early career resea…

Year 2, Week 13
Mar 21-27, 2026 - work the problem

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Scissor Sisters:
🎵 Comfortably Numb
#NowPlaying #ScissorSisters
https://sohluk.bandcamp.com/track/scissor-sisters-comfortably-numb-sohls-2025-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/7yBO9ap6S5qLK8QGm8OXy9

Woodborough Hall (Gedling, Nottinghamshire), August 2025
#photography #documentingplace #documentingspace #nikon

Ranking the 9 Greatest Defenses in Super Bowl History https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/greatest-defenses-in-super-bowl-history

I'm putting together a Pecha Kucha session for code.talks - get funky and talk about anything you want to the tune of 20 slides of 20 seconds each!
It's a little hidden in the CfP - put "Undefined" for track and “Pecha Kucha" for Format.
https://cfp.codetalks.com/call-for-pap

Legal AI company Harvey raised $200M led by GIC and Sequoia at an $11B valuation, up from $8B in December 2025, and reports 100K users at 1,300 organizations (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/25/legal-ai-startup-harvey…

Legal AI startup Harvey valued at $11 billion in funding round, as VCs spread bets beyond model companies
Harvey will use its fresh capital to expand its AI agents and grow its embedded legal engineering teams.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #JamzSupernova
Oruã:
🎵 México Suite (6 Music Session, 24 Jul 2025)
#Oruã
https://orua.bandcamp.com/track/m-xico-suite
https://open.spotify.com/track/21Iukn3sB5YraZmYKizbfI

Certaines dépenses, connues et récurrentes, n’avaient pas été budgétisées. Jusqu’en 2022, Pascal Broulis, avait l’habitude de ne pas inscrire dans le budget certains coûts, pourtant effectifs, mais de les placer dans des annexes associées aux risques, tenues secrètes aux yeux de la majorité des élus du Grand Conseil alors qu’ils auraient dû en être informés pour pouvoir voter le budget en toute connaissance de cause.
https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/vaud/le-canton-de-vaud-affiche-un-deficit-de-156-millions-de-francs-en-2025-mais-respecte-le-petit-equilibre

Brandon Aubrey 'absolutely' wants to stay with Cowboys, have begun contracts talks https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/brandon-aubrey-absolutely-wants-to-stay-with-cowboys-have-begun-contracts-talks

Recent stories like #EpsteinIsland - #GoogleLens you are pointed to the 16th century fresco #Farnese in Caprarola (Italy) which had obviously served as the ceiling's inspiration: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Farnese about the Villa and the paper https://www.academia.edu/31614076/The_Decorative_Programme_of_Sala_Del_Mappamondo_The_Mural_Maps on the Sala, in particular pages 31-32.

Der Saugroboter ist noch da, aber seine Intelligenz wohnt leider nicht mehr hier. 🤤
Nachdem Vorwerk die Cloud-Plattform im Oktober 2025 abgeschaltet hat, fühlen sich viele Käufer im Stich gelassen.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11206147?wt_mc=sm.re

San Francisco has become a laboratory for police surveillance after early resistance; SFPD recorded 700 drone flights last month, up from 93 in February 2025 (Cyrus Farivar/The San Francisco Standard)
https://sfstandard.com/2026/03/25/sf-surveillance-state-…

San Francisco once led the fight against police surveillance. Now it’s a laboratory for it
Crime is down. Drones are up. And the city that once banned facial recognition has largely stopped asking questions about surveillance tech.

"Solar to occupy no more than 0.6% of UK farmland by 2030"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #SolarPower #Energy…

Solar to occupy no more than 0.6% of UK farmland by 2030
The UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) said in response to a recent Freedom of Information (FoI) request that even if all future solar projects under its solar roadmap were ground-mounted, they would occupy no more than 0.4% of the United Kingdom’s total land area.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #JamzSupernova
Oruã:
🎵 México Suite (6 Music Session, 24 Jul 2025)
#Oruã
https://orua.bandcamp.com/track/m-xico-suite
https://open.spotify.com/track/21Iukn3sB5YraZmYKizbfI

Raiders bring back former assistant with ties to 2025 No. 1 pick https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-bring-back-former-assistant-with-ties-to-2025-no-1-pick-3712985/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #JamzSupernova
Oruã:
🎵 Deus-Darš (6 Music Session, 24 Jul 2025)
#Oruã
https://orua.bandcamp.com/track/deus-dar
https://open.spotify.com/track/0wqaJOgslL6LBOGLkR2Ovq

Lots of fascinating detail in the plasma tail of #comet C/2025 R3 (PANSTARRS) this morning in an image by Christoph Gerhard with a 30-cm telescope: https://www.klostersternwarte.de/aktuelles/ein-überraschender-komet-c-2025-r3-panstarrs - this one will stay with us (Northerners) for another three week low before/at dawn before getting lost in the Sun's glare (when dust forward scattering could brighten it even more).

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco,
a Republican running for Governor of California, has
💥seized more than half a million ballots cast in a November special election from county election officials,
❌ saying he’s investigating a ballot count discrepancy.
County elections officials have disputed Bianco's claims
California Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat, called Bianco’s move unprecedented and says it is designed to sow distrust in elections

California sheriff running for governor seizes more than a half million ballots from 2025 election
California Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat, called Bianco's move unprecedented and says it is designed to sow distrust in elections.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #JamzSupernova
Oruã:
🎵 Deus-Darš (6 Music Session, 24 Jul 2025)
#Oruã
https://orua.bandcamp.com/track/deus-dar
https://open.spotify.com/track/0wqaJOgslL6LBOGLkR2Ovq

Mirage, formerly Captions, which develops an AI video editing and marketing suite, raised $75M from General Catalyst, after moving to a freemium model in 2025 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/24/mira…

Mirage raises $75M to continue building models for its AI video editing app Captions | TechCrunch
Mirage, the maker of video editing app Captions, has raised $75 million in growth financing from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund (CVF).

"Young Atlantic salmon seen in three English rivers for first time in a decade"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Salmon #Environment

The BBC names ex-Google executive Matt Brittin as its next director general, replacing Tim Davie, as the BBC negotiates its funding; Brittin left Google in 2025 (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #JamzSupernova
Annahstasia:
🎵 Stress Test (6 Music Session, 26 Nov 2025)
#Annahstasia
https://annahstasia.bandcamp.com/track/stress-test
https://open.spotify.com/track/0UehMLxaN4JAEhldH8VUFY

How do you keep people from looking at their phone or staring into space?
As a public speaking expert, I use one phrase that gets audiences to instantly perk up and pay attention.
It works every time:
“Imagine this scenario…”

'Highly engaging' people use this 3-word phrase to get people to listen, says public speaking expert
Given people's short attention spans, it's never been harder to get people engaged in what we have to say. Public speaking expert John Bowe shares the 3-word phrase that will instantly make people listen.

"Mushroom caskets offer an earth-friendly goodbye in North America’s first burial of its kind"
#US #USA #America #Mushrooms

Mushroom caskets offer an earth-friendly goodbye in North America’s first burial of its kind | The Optimist Daily
North America’s first mushroom casket burial signals a cultural shift toward sustainable funerals and green burial practices.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #JamzSupernova
Annahstasia:
🎵 Stress Test (6 Music Session, 26 Nov 2025)
#Annahstasia
https://annahstasia.bandcamp.com/track/stress-test
https://open.spotify.com/track/0UehMLxaN4JAEhldH8VUFY

Bertelsmann, owner of Penguin Random House, RTL, and BMG, reports 2025 after-tax profit of €1.01B, down from €1.04B in 2024, and revenue flat YoY at €18.96B (AdriŠ Calatayud/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/peng

"Michael Bloomberg steps up to fund UN climate body after U.S. withdrawal"
#UN #UnitedNations #Climate #ClimateChange

Michael Bloomberg steps up to fund UN climate body after U.S. withdrawal | The Optimist Daily
As federal support wanes, Bloomberg Philanthropies helps bridge the funding gap for global climate efforts.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #JamzSupernova
ECHT!:
🎵 Mtwk Part 3 & 4 (6 Music Session, 25 Apr 2025)
#ECHT!
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Pohgnhd46jYZXnpb83uNv

Reliving Brock Bowers’ brilliant one-handed TD in Week 13 vs. Chargers https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/03/25/reliving-brock-bowers-brilliant-one-handed-td-in-week-1…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #JamzSupernova
ECHT!:
🎵 Mtwk Part 3 & 4 (6 Music Session, 25 Apr 2025)
#ECHT!
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Pohgnhd46jYZXnpb83uNv

OpenAI hires Arvind KC as chief people officer, replacing Julia Villagra who left in August 2025; KC has held senior roles at Roblox, Google, Palantir, and Meta (Agnee Ghosh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

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.

Raiders' 2025 Draft Class Must Answer Critical Questions This Offseason https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-2025-draft-class-must-answer-critical-questions-this-offseason

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #JamzSupernova
ECHT!:
🎵 Mtwk Part 3 & 4 (6 Music Session, 25 Apr 2025)
#ECHT!
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Pohgnhd46jYZXnpb83uNv

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #JamzSupernova
Annahstasia:
🎵 Take Care Of Me (6 Music Session, 26 Nov 2025)
#Annahstasia
https://annahstasia.bandcamp.com/track/take-care-of-me
https://open.spotify.com/track/4yaLykONMz1l9e0bErOJuf

Jaxon Smith-Nijgba, Seahawks agree to 4-year, $168.6M extension: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7140621/2026/03/23/jaxon-smith-njigba-contract-extension-seahawks-nfl-news/

Shareholder letter: crypto exchange Gemini has cut ~30% of its staff since the beginning of 2026 and had 445 employees as of March 1; Gemini lost $500M in 2025 (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-…

"China commissions world’s largest 1 GW open-sea offshore solar project"
#China #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

China commissions world’s largest 1 GW open-sea offshore solar project
China has brought a 1 GW offshore solar power plant online off the coast of Dongying, Shandong province, combining PV with energy storage and aquaculture in what is now the world’s largest open-sea solar project in commercial operation.

Filing: Unitree, China's leading robot company, is aiming to raise ~$610M in its Shanghai IPO; it brought in ~$247M in revenue in 2025 and ~$41.6M in net profit (Jessica Sui/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Dealroom and NATO Innovation Fund: European defense, security, and resilience startup funding rose 55% YoY to a record $8.7B in 2025, with AI accounting for 44% (Ingrid Lunden/Resilience Media)
https://resiliencemedia.co/european-def…

European defence, security and resilience startups raised a record $8.7B in 2025
Ahead of the big Munich Security Conference later this week, the analysts at Dealroom teamed up with the NATO Innovation

"Netherlands hits record electricity production and exports in 2025"
#Netherlands #Energy #Renewables

Netherlands hits record electricity production and exports in 2025
The Netherlands set a record in 2025, generating 132 billion kWh of electricity, up 10% from 2024, with renewables supplying 49% of output and exports rising 25% to 30 billion kWh.

A US appeals court voids much of a March 2025 injunction blocking California's online child safety law, while keeping some of the law's provisions blocked (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-appeals-c

Swedish legal AI startup Legora raised a $550M Series D led by Accel, tripling its valuation to $5.55B since its October 2025 raise, as it expands in the US (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-1…