2025-12-17 09:42:03
from my link log —
Optimization countermeasures: inline asm value barriers for constant-time cryptography.
https://mcyoung.xyz/2025/12/15/value-barriers/
saved 2025-12-16
from my link log —
Optimization countermeasures: inline asm value barriers for constant-time cryptography.
https://mcyoung.xyz/2025/12/15/value-barriers/
saved 2025-12-16
GPI SPHERE detection of a 6.1 MJup circumbinary #planet around HD 143811: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/10/aa57104-25/aa57104-25.html -> Rare image of Tatooine-like planet is closest to its twin stars yet: https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025/12/rare-image-of-tatooine-like-planet-is-closest-to-its-twin-stars-yet
Indian edtech startup upGrad plans to acquire rival Unacademy in an all-stock deal; Unacademy was valued at less than $500M in 2025, down from $3.5B in 2021 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/15/unac
Why don’t they capture these vessels and display what they were carrying?
Wouldn’t that be better PR?
Unless maybe it’s all a big scam.
-- @ambientheat.bsky.social
https://bsky.app/profile/ambientheat.bsky.social/post/3lyvo6edkrk27
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Still one of my favorite songs after 3 decades.
▶️ ERASURE - Love To Hate You [Rehearsal Video]
#erasure
En zonder te fietsen weer wat nieuws: voor het eerst de fietsbatterij opladen! #regel17 (echt?)
It's AWS Resilience Hub time at #12Clouds with Divya Balineni
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #WoPop
Obongjayar:
🎵 Sweet Danger
#Obongjayar
https://obongjayar.bandcamp.com/track/sweet-danger
https://open.spotify.com/track/4KtomzdHDbrwTApmqEaCc7
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 10.03.2026.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
Evaluation using in-situ observations from national governments and Citizen Scientists suggests nadir #altimeters can accurately measure water level changes regardless of lake area: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15481603.2025.2543521 -> Volunteers Help NASA Test Lake Monitoring From Space: https://science.nasa.gov/get-involved/citizen-science/how-small-is-too-small-volunteers-help-nasa-test-lake-monitoring-from-space/
Tom Brady's NFL Power Rankings: Pats, Packers Take Big Drops As Playoffs Loom https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/tom-bradys-nfl-power-rankings-week-16
Oh yesss! 🤩 The 2025 #Web #Almanac has just been released. Can’t wait to read a bit …
https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/202
This aged so well. For all the wrong reasons.
▶️ 'The Star Wars That I Used To Know' - Gotye 'Somebody That I Used To Know' Parody - teddiefilms
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qJlbPXZEpRE&si=BurO-dduJjGZfoKk
プリンタが壊れた! と思ったら、特定の Web ページが印刷できない現象だった。そのページはブラウザを変えても印刷できない。ネットワーク上、プリンタは疎通が確認でき、ユーティリティで操作もできるのに、何故だ? と思っていた。もう少しで新しいプリンタを探し始めるところだった。
Year-end reminder: Our Trust Us Ticket Sale is about to expire!
This is your last opportunity to save over 35% on your Berlin Buzzwords ticket. Get the best deal now and join us for the 17th edition of #bbuzz from 7–9 June: https://tickets.plainschwarz.com/bbuzz26/c/8Hvk0ZvJA/
Next up at #12Clouds: Pragya K talking about confidential computing in k8s
David Montgomery ready to prove himself again with Texans: 'I can do a lot of stuff that power backs don't do' https://www.nfl.com/news/david-montgomery-ready-to-prove-himself-again-with-texans-i-can-d…
NFL Legend Projects Raiders to Cut Ties With Leading Receiver From 2025 https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/tre-tucker-roster-cut-steve-smith/
On December 17, 2025 at 2:01 a.m. local time (5:01 UTC, 6:01 CET), Arianespace will launch #Galileo L14, a pair of satellites, with Ariane 6 from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana: at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho6lSJ0mOBU a webcast from 4:30 UTC, at https://www.esa.int/Applications/Satellite_navigation/Follow_the_Galileo_launch_L14_campaign some updates.
aktuelles #Wetter #Behrendorf #Wische 17-12-2025 04:00
Temperatur: (min: -0,8C) -0,7C (max: 0,5C)
Feuchte: 99%
Luftdruck: 1014,9 hPa (gleichbleibend)
Windrichtung: N/A Grad
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Anzahl der neuen #Windkraftanlagen je #Bundesland in #Deutschland im Jahr 2025 mit Stand vom 10.03.2026.
Die "Ausschließliche Wirtschaftszone" bedeutet
Sources: Apple partnered with Daily Mail in the UK soon after the Mail complained to the CMA in 2025 that Apple was stonewalling its attempts to join Apple News (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/02/15/2026/ap…
TIL Chris Paul/CP3 hosted a Halloween party for players & staffers in his suite at Sofi (Rams) stadium in October.
Only 3 people showed.
▶️ Inside the ugly Chris Paul - LA Clippers divorce - ESPN
https://www.espn.com/nba/story…
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.…
Pink Rosebud starting to open Descanso Gardens, La Canada Flintridge, California, USA. October, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4 PRO. #rose #rosebud #descansogardens
📢 Deutsche Wirtschaft 2025 leicht gewachsen
Die deutsche Wirtschaft ist 2025 nach zuvor zwei Rezessionsjahren in Folge erstmals wieder gewachsen. Das Bruttoinlandsprodukt stieg um 0,2 Prozent im Vergleich zum Vorjahr, wie das Statistische Bundesamt mitteilte. Ökonomen trauen Europas größter Volkswirtschaft im laufenden Jahr ein Wachstum von etwa einem Prozent zu - begünstigt von einer höheren Zahl von Arbeitstagen und steig…
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What the actual fuck?
The 13yo kept wanting to know if #Mamdani has seen K-pop Demon Hunters (don't ask me why, but he was bugging me to look it up all afternoon while we were out; I was discussing Mamdani w/ the family for other reasons:
Ruokavirasto ja Luonnonvarakeskus julkaisivat tietoa vuoden 2025 viljasadon laadusta ja määrästä https://www.ruokavirasto.fi/laboratoriopalvelut/kasvitu…
Long-term Monitoring of Scintillation in the #Pulsar J0332 5434: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ae485916-3549-4300-b44f-b009b2be98f4 -> SETI Institute Tracks ‘Twinkling’ Pulsar Signals to Sharpen Cosmic Clocks and Hunt for Alien Signals: https://thedebrief.org/seti-institute-tracks-twinkling-pulsar-signals-to-sharpen-cosmic-clocks-and-hunt-for-alien-signals/
POL-EL: Dörpen - Kabeldiebstahl aus Rohbau Dörpen (ots) - Zwischen Dienstag, 2. Dezember 2025, 16:00 Uhr, und Donnerstag, 6. März 2026, 16:00 Uhr, kam es in Dörpen an der Hermann-Schmitz-Straße zu einem Diebstahl auf einer Baustelle. Bislang unbekannte Täter entwendeten aus einem ... https://www.presseportal.de/blaulich…
Detection of Compton scattering in the jet of 3C 84: #BlackHole Jets Mystery: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/ixpe/nasa-ixpes-longest-observation-solves-black-hole-jets-mystery/
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…
Meine wichtigsten IT- und KI-Themen der vergangenen Tage – von Aleph Alpha bis Apple, von Microsoft bis Doc Sam, also ChatGPT Health. Dazu ein bissiger Kommentar zum Mythos KI als Heilsbringer. Diese Ausgabe von #Kuratiert. kbehandelt nur Themen aus #IT und
Deciphering the Nature of #Virgil - An Obscured Active Galactic Nucleus Lurking within an Apparently Normal Lyα Emitter during Cosmic Reionization: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae089c -> The monster hiding in plain sight - JWST reveals cosmic shapeshifter in the early universe: https://news.arizona.edu/news/monster-hiding-plain-sight-jwst-reveals-cosmic-shapeshifter-early-universe
Erst heute mitbekommen: „Bei den jüngsten Prüfungen an dem 1977 errichteten Bauwerk seien Schäden festgestellt worden, hieß es am Freitag. So biege sich die Brücke stark, wenn sie von schweren Fahrzeugen befahren wird. Zudem gebe es Hinweise auf Ermüdungsrisse von Schweißnähten der Längsträger an der unteren Seite des Bauwerks.“
Wie kaputt ist diese Stadt?!? Ein Wunder, dass bisher nichts passiert ist.
A carbon-rich atmosphere on a windy pulsar planet: #Exoplanet Whose Composition Defies Explanation: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-observes-exoplanet-whose-composition-defies-explanation/#hds-sidebar-nav-5
"US solar installations reach 43 GW in 2025 despite slowdown"
#US #USA #America #SolarPower
Jährlich genehmigte #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.03.2026.
Genehmigt bedeutet noch nicht gebaut oder in Betrieb. Nicht alle Anlagen benötigen eine Genehmigung.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
Dickes #Schneegestöber. 😊 Hach, schööööön.
Übrigens, der #Griesgletscher in der #Schweiz hat zwischen 2000 und 2023 rund 800 Meter an Länge verloren. Im Sommer 2025 sank seine
🧺 Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner
https://www.
Marktforschung: YouTube löst Disney als weltgrößten Medienkonzern ab
YouTube stößt Disney von Platz Eins der größten Medienkonzerne. Ein großer Teil ihrer Umsätze kommt dabei 2025 von Werbung.
https:/…
Zelensky shares new update on liberated Ukrainian territory, says Kyiv 'more positive' than at end of 2025: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/09/zelensky-shares-new-update-on.html
The EU’s Retreat on Corporate Accountability
The EU’s Retreat on Corporate Accountability: Growth, Imperial Extraction, and the Limits of Regulation by Alice Puerto* In the series Degrowth and Ecosocialism: the global picture In 2025, the European Union took what may prove to be a historic step backward. Under pressure from a consolidated right–far-right bloc in the European Parliament, led by the European People’s Party and allied with nationalist forces, the…
Cowboys 2025 vs. 2026 Spending Proves Jerry Jones Is Busting the Budget https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/cowboys-2025-vs-2026-spending-proves-jerry-jones-is-busting-the-budget
Old fishing nets converted into energy via "Green Plasma"
Last December, Italian scientists converted 200 kg of ghost nets recovered from the seabed into #syngas – a hydrogen-rich combustible gas that can generate electricity
Since spring 2025, Marche Polytechnic Univ. in Ancona has operated Green Plasma as Italy's first system for treating marine waste
Unsorted wa…
#Deutschland hat seine #Klimaziele 2025 nur knapp eingehalten.
Die #Treibhausgasemissionen sanken um lediglich 0,1 Prozent auf 649 Millionen Tonnen CO2-Äquivalente und lagen …
Raiders Need the 2025 Draft Class Now More Than Ever https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-need-2025-draft-class-now-more-than-ever
(Via @… )
Why o why did I surrender to curiosity and peek? ... It seems that five years metaphorically lying down in a darkened room isn't long enough for the fundamental impossibility of #infosec to change or evolve.
"This pa…
An interview I gave to Euronews six years ago. Interview is in English with Turkish subtitles.
You decide how it has aged.
https://tr.euronews.com/2019/03/08/teknoloji-sirketleri-insan-varligini-tehdit-ediyor-di…
#Polizeiruf110: Ablass • #ARD #BR
#trailer:
#crimi #krimi #Sonntagskrimi
On the 26th day of December I add a 26th item to the collection of advent calendars:
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/12/web-design-dev-advent-calendars-for-2025.html
Confirmed: the February average of atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa was 429.35 ppm, that's 2.26 ppm higher than last year.
#ClimateChange #co2
Roe Lane, Woodborough (Gedling, Nottinghamshire), August 2025
#photography #documentingplace #documentingspace #nikon
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
Cowboys 2025 vs. 2026 Spending Proves Jerry Jones Is Busting the Budget https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/cowboys-2025-vs-2026-spending-proves-jerry-jones-is-busting-the-budget
"A three-judge panel for the Ohio Tenth District Court of Appeals ruled that gender-affirming care for minors constitutes an essential medical treatment for trans youth and that the ban on gender-affirming care is in violation of a state constitutional amendment. "
Republicans passed an amendment to curtail Obamacare. It just backfired in a surprising way. - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/republicans-passed-an-amendment-to-curtail-obamacare-it-just-backfired-in-a-surprising-way/
EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch
Battlefield 6 was the best-selling game in the U.S. in 2025.
https://www.ign.com/articles/ea-lays-off-staff-acros…
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
5 unsung Cowboys who deserve Valentine's Day cards after 2025 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/02/14/5-unsung-cowboys-deserve-valentines-day-cards-2025/88663463007/
POL-NOM: Ältere Dame von Haushaltshilfe bestohlen Einbeck (ots) - Dassel, OT Hilwartshausen; (Kr.) 01.11.2025 - 28.01.2026 Im Sommer 2025 suchte eine 74jährige Dame aus Hilwartshausen per Annonce eine Haushaltshilfe. Daraufhin hatte sich eine 47jährige Frau mit griechischer Staatsbürgerschaft ... https://www.presseportal…
David Brooks calling for a general strike or nonviolent civil disobedience
was not on my bingo card.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/opinion/trump-harvard-law-firms.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Ampere Analysis: UK streaming subscribers on ad-supported tiers will reach 26.5M by the end of 2025, surpassing the 23.1M ad-free subscribers for the first time (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/dec/26/t…
from my link log —
Who invented the transistor?
https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/who-invented-the-transistor.html
saved 2025-12-31 h…
Online DTC luxury brand Quince raised a $500M Series E led by Iconiq at a $10.1B valuation; it recently launched in Canada and its revenue topped $1B in 2025 (James Manso/WWD)
https://wwd.com/business-news/financial/quince-10-1-billion-v…
Travis Kelce, Chiefs working to finalize 1-year deal worth up to $15 million: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6951456/2026/03/09/chiefs-travis-kelce-returning-2026/
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 12.01.2026.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
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…
FBI deploys more resources to
‘dismantle fraud schemes’
in Minnesota
Cash Patel said the FBI believes
“this is just the tip of a very large iceberg”.
Some of those involved in the alleged scheme are being
“referred to immigrations officials for possible further #denaturalization and deportation proceedings where eligible”.
The Trump administration has por…
‼️Die #Petition
"Stärkere Einschränkung der Verfügbarkeit von Feuerwerkskörpern bzw. von Böllern um den Jahreswechsel vom 27.05.2025"
hat bisher 104 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29896 Unterschriften bis zum 11.03.2026.
Open Access: Bibliothek der Association for Computing Machinery öffnet sich
Ab Januar 2026 sollen alle Publikationen der ACM Digital Library öffentlich zugänglich sein. Das soll Wissen zugänglicher machen und Innovation fördern.
ITV reports 2025 revenue up 1% YoY to £3.5B, ITV Studios revenue up 10% YoY to £2.13B, ITVX hit 16.5M MAUs and £540M in ad revenue, and confirms Sky talks (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/itv-2025-financial-results-1236680014/
Uzbek fintech and e-commerce company Uzum raised $131.5M led by Oman's sovereign funds, with $81.5M equity, at a $2.3B valuation, up from $1.5B in August 2025 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/uzbekistans-uzum-va…
The UK has spent more than £500K since 2024, including £350K by the Department for Education, on 215 influencers to promote government campaigns (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/dec/25/uk-government-spending-social-media-infl…
Every few years, Democrats try to convince themselves they’ve found the one
– a candidate who can finally speak fluent rural, who looks and sounds like the voters they’ve lost.
In 2024, that hope was pinned on #Tim #Walz, the flannel-wearing, “Midwestern nice” governor whose small-town roots were supposed to unlock …
Marktforscher: „Hohe Speicherpreise und Zölle töten den Grafikkartenmarkt“
Die Speicherkrise und US-Zölle verteuern Grafikkarten. Schon Ende 2025 sanken dadurch untypischerweise die Verkäufe.
https…
A profile of Pablo Torre, whose podcast "Pablo Torre Finds Out" became a 2025 phenomenon for aggressive reporting that uncovered seismic stories in US sports (Ben Strauss/Washington Post)
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
https://bsky.app/profi…
IDC: India's PC market had its strongest year on record in 2025, with shipments up 10.2% YoY to 15.9M units; commercial buyers accounted for 52.9% of shipments (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/06/india-pc-sh…
Samsung erklärt ausbleibende Google-Play-Dienstupdates
Seit einigen Wochen gibt es Verwunderung über ausbleibende Google-Play-Dienstupdates auf Samsung-Smartphones. Jetzt erklärt Samsung das.
https://www.
Big Tech got almost everything it wanted from President Trump, as he backs policies that allow the industry to grow unfettered, worrying some conservatives (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/technol<…
Analysis: since the end of 2025, Polymarket users have rarely bet large sums on US strikes the next day; before the Iran strikes, 150 accounts placed such bets (Amy Fan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/upshot/…
500 Millionen Euro? Ob es da nicht ein bisschen Einsparpotenzial gibt?
Die digitale Abhängigkeit des deutschen Staates von einem einzelnen Tech-Giganten nimmt besorgniserregende Ausmaße an: Fast 500 Millionen Euro hat die Bundesverwaltung allein im Jahr 2025 für Microsoft-Lizenzen ausgegeben! 😱
Zum Artikel:
Shares of Shenzhen-based OneRobotics opened flat in their HK debut after the Chinese home robotics maker raised $210M by selling 22M shares at about $9.50 each (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/markets/ipo/amazo…
‼️Die #Petition
"Stärkere Einschränkung der Verfügbarkeit von Feuerwerkskörpern bzw. von Böllern um den Jahreswechsel vom 27.05.2025"
hat bisher 170 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29830 Unterschriften bis zum 11.03.2026.
‼️Die #Petition
"Stärkere Einschränkung der Verfügbarkeit von Feuerwerkskörpern bzw. von Böllern um den Jahreswechsel vom 27.05.2025"
hat bisher 97 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29903 Unterschriften bis zum 11.03.2026.