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Generalist, which raised $140M at a $440M valuation in 2025, releases GEN-1, an AI model to help robots handle high-dexterity tasks typically done by humans (Anna Tong/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026
Generalist, which raised $140M at a $440M valuation in 2025, releases GEN-1, an AI model to help robots handle high-dexterity tasks typically done by humans (Anna Tong/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026
NYT reports adding 450K digital subscribers in Q4 and 1.4M in 2025 for 12.78M in total, putting it on a pace to reach its stated goal of 15M by the end of 2027 (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/business/media/new-york-times-ear…
"More than 87m people impacted by climate-related disasters in 2025"
#Climate #ClimateChange
»Ransomware-Angriffe in der DACH-Region steigen deutlich:
Die Bedrohung durch Ransomware wächst weiter. Kaspersky registrierte 2025 in Deutschland 384 Angriffe – ein deutlicher Anstieg im Vergleich zu 233 im Jahr 2024.«
Betreffen kann dies uns alle aber das min die E-Mails kryptografisch signiert sind wenn nicht verschlüsselt, wäre ein Punkt mehr für mehr Sicherheit und setzt nicht blind ua auf Microschrott.
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A comprehensive piece on X and the Digital Services Act, born on the same day.
http://eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-digital-services-act-main-character.html
Neben dem 60 Hektar großen #AgriPV-Solarpark bei #Krumpa, der 2025 in Betrieb gegangen ist, entsteht ein #Batteriespeicher auf dem ehemaligen Gelände „Schrott-Linde“.
Die Anlage soll übersc…
»Menschen, die in das Konzert der Wissensgenese und -vermittlung einsteigen wollen, bietet sich an, anstatt vorrangig zu schreiben und auf Leser:innen zu hoffen, Sprecher:innen zu werden. Zugleich bildet diese neue Oralitätsformation Computer und Menschen zu einem auditiven Publikum aus.«
Aus: Christoph Engemann - Die Zukunft des Lesens (2025)
Global fintech VC funding rose 27% YoY in 2025 to $51.8B; Y Combinator was the most active investor in the space, participating in 151 deals, up 24.8% YoY (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/most-active-fintech-inve…
Quite interesting that I got a #hibp notice for #Crunchyroll for a breach that they had last month.
Even though I submitted a GPDR request to have my data deleted back in August 2025. 🤔
Pleased to live in a place where this is true (enough):
Eight states received “A” grades for LGBTQ safety based on their comprehensive pro-equality laws and low rates of hate crimes against LGBTQ people. **Only Rhode Island nabbed an A mark.**
https://www.safehome.org/data-lgbtq-state-
US v. Google: the DOJ and a group of states will appeal the September 2025 ruling in the Search antitrust case in which Google dodged a forced sale of Chrome (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-03/googl…
POL-OS: Polizeiinspektion Osnabrück veröffentlicht die Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik 2025 Osnabrück (ots) - Die Polizeiinspektion Osnabrück hat die Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik (PKS) für das Jahr 2025 vorgestellt. Mit 32.191 registrierten Straftaten bewegt sich die Kriminalität trotz eines leichten Anstiegs weiterhin auf dem Niveau ... https://ww…
Alle sind herzlich eingeladen, sich an der schwarzwaldweiten Aufräumaktion zu beteiligen und die Wanderwege von Müll und Unrat zu befreien. Jede helfende Hand zählt!
https://www.nationalpark-schwarzwald.de/nationalpark/blog/2025/…
Fernando Mendoza’s QB Coach Lands With NFC Team After Raiders Rumors https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/fernando-mendoza-coach-chandler-whitmer-bucs/
Video: Multifaith Mondays: Moral Witness for Democracy (March 23, 2026)
I was honored to be able to offer a small reflection at this event. Since March 3, 2025, Multifaith Monday vigils have served as a sacred space for collective lament, prophetic resistance, and multifaith community-building in a time of deep division and threat to America’s democratic values. Every Monday, New Yorkers come together — rain or shine, hot or cold — to draw strength from each other, and…
Global renewable power capacity crossed the 5 TW (that's 5,000,000,000,000 Watts) mark last year!
It grew by 15.5 % within one year, driven by solar PV and wind.
From IRENA:
https://www.irena.org/News/pressreleases/2
Die #Armut in #Deutschland steigt weiter. Das Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Institut (WSI) warnt: Wenn immer mehr Menschen das Gefühl haben, abgehängt zu werden, leidet nicht nur der gesellschaftliche Zusammenhalt – sondern auch das Vertrauen in die Demokratie.
Die
Wer was zahlt - Wie die NoVA die Preise für Neuwagen hochtreibt #News #Nachrichten
A new data release from Eurostat shows just how much the public #EV charging network in Europe has improved in recent years. A single charging point doesn’t make spring, but a network certainly does. More and more Europeans now have five or more charging points within a relatively short distance.
In much of north-western Europe, even within 3 kilometres. Coverage with multiple charging points i…
Sources: Tokyo-based chipmaker Renesas agrees to sell its clocks and timing device business to Nasdaq-listed chip design company SiTime for ~$3B (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/business-deals/japan-s-re…
Gawd, Tub-o-tax has been getting ever worse. I think that the 2025 version was Vibe coded.
I've found undefined variables, sudden errors far after the program claims "checked everything", phantom inputs that it imagined, places where it says "must be equal or greater than X" but it really wants "greater than X", error messages that refer to a 1099 document without indicating which of the dozens and dozens of 1099s it is complaining about - and then di…
Niners LB Dre Greenlaw admits 'I just wasn't happy' during 2025 season with Broncos https://www.nfl.com/news/niners-lb-dre-greenlaw-admits-i-just-wasn-t-happy-during-2025-season-with-broncos
Fubo's CEO says NBCUniversal has been unwilling to restart carriage talks with Fubo; NBCUniversal channels have been unavailable on Fubo since November 2025 (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/02/fubo-comcast-nbc-discussions-stall/
Cowboys ‘Excited’ to Get Struggling Rookie Back Under New Coach https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-excited-to-get-struggling-rookie-back-under-new-coach/
"Wie konnte das passieren? Vor zwei Jahren hat die Landeshauptstadt Dresden noch einen Millionenüberschuss erwirtschaftet. Jetzt prognostiziert Ober- und Finanzbürgermeister Dirk Hilbert (FDP) für 2025 ein Minus von 64 Millionen Euro, für 2026 sogar von 171,8 Millionen Euro."
Seit etwa 3 Jahren ist Hilbert Finanzbürgermeister. #justsaying 🤷
The National Hurricane Center's #NHC Forecast Verification Report for the 2025 #Hurricane Season is published. https://www.n…
LinkedIn job posting data: companies added 640K AI-related jobs from 2023 to 2025 in the US, including 225K "head of AI" jobs, up 49% from the prior four years (Te-Ping Chen/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/wanted-head-of
The NYT reports Q4 revenue up 10.4% YoY to $802.3M, subscription revenue up 13.9% YoY to $381.5M, and operating profit up 10.2% YoY to $161.6M (The New York Times Company)
https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2026/02/Q4-2025-Earnings-Release.pdf
Video: Multifaith Mondays: Moral Witness for Democracy (March 23, 2026)
https://youtu.be/LPHrJRglnd4?t=403
I was honored to be able to offer a small reflection at this event.
Since March 3, 2025, Multifaith Monday vigils have served as a sacred space for collective lament, prophetic resist…
“Overweighting the US has served global investors well the past 15 years,” Lisa Shalett, chief investment officer at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management said.
“That said, we believe shifting geopolitical, monetary and fiscal policy regimes amid technological upheaval and the constraints of developed world debt are creating a need for diversification beyond US stocks and bonds for long-term investors.”
“One of the biggest and most underappreciated surprises of 2025 has been the extr…
POL-AUR: Terminänderung Einladung: Pressetermin zur Vorstellung der Polizeilichen Kriminalstatistik (PKS) 2025 der Polizeiinspektion Aurich/Wittmund Aurich/Wittmund (ots) - Terminänderung Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, die Polizeiinspektion Aurich/Wittmund stellt die Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik (PKS) 2025 vor. Aus diesem Anlass laden wir Vertreterinnen und Vertreter von Redaktionen ein ...
Hey @Codeberg, what's up with your services? https://status.codeberg.org/status/codeberg shows the downtime, but the latest news to the incidents is from November 2025...
Anyhow, i hope you get your
Eight Sleep, which sells smart mattress accessories to track sleep patterns and adjust temperatures, raised $50M at a $1.5B valuation, up from $500M in 2021 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/04/eight-sleep-raises-50m-at-1-5b-valuation/
And is it trickling down?
CEO pay soared in 2025, 20 times faster than workers’ pay
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/01/ceo-pay-workers-minimum-wages?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
🪵 Nepal’s community forests sit on unsold timber
#nepal
Nielsen: CBS' Grammy broadcast averaged 14.41M viewers, down 6% from 15.4M in 2025 and a 17.09M post-pandemic high in 2024; Disney will broadcast it from 2027 (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/2026-gra…
Recon: the US market share of Copilot as paid users' first choice fell from 18.8% in July 2025 to 11.5% in January 2026, while Gemini's rose from 12.8% to 15.7% (Sebastian Herrera/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/microsofts-piv
In 2025, nearly 30% of people who reported losing money to a scam said that it started on social media, with reported losses reaching a staggering $2.1 billion.
New FTC Data Show People Have Lost Billions to Social Media Scams
https://www.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
The Last Dinner Party:
🎵 This Is The Killer Speaking (6 Music Session, 3 Dec 2025)
#TheLastDinnerParty
https://open.spotify.com/track/62ZspgOi379ykrVuC3GRBJ
AMD reports $390M in revenue from MI308 AI chip sales in China in Q4; CEO Lisa Su says orders were "from very early in 2025" but shipped in Q4 after US approval (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/
Free link --> A Democrat for the Trump Era - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/07/jasmine-crockett-democrats/683652/?gift=7dKtnNrILXcLLty1b9gh3il9Yroz0IJ6lNuCh03g3o4 …
要不是这周的《字谈字畅》我都不知道 text-autospace: normal 已经 Baseline 2025 Newly Available 了。可惜 text-autospace: replace 还没有浏览器在做。
#CSS
added some excellent handbills/posters to the modern lovers chronology, courtesy of gary johnson of rockaway records. (labelle cancelled at my father's place, replaced by screamin' jay hawkins, which makes mildly more sense.) https://jessejarnow.com/2025/12/the-modern-lovers-1…
Die monatliche #Energieerzeugung meiner #Kernfusionskollektoranlage im Vergleich zu Prognosedaten aus einer Simulation.
Gesamtleistung: 480 Wp
Ausrichtung: West
Anstellwinkel: 58 Grad
👉 So berechnest Du die Jahresertragsprognose:
Wired ends its UK print edition, after reducing from six to four issues per year at the end of 2024; seven London-based journalists left at the end of 2025 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/
POL-WHV: Selbstanzeige nach Verkehrsunfallflucht in Jever Jever (ots) - Am 03.02.2025 erschien ein 82-jähriger Fahrzeugführer auf der Dienststelle der Polizei Jever und zeigte sich selbst wegen eines zurückliegenden Verkehrsunfalls an. Nach eigenen Angaben habe ihn seit dem Vorfall ein schlechtes ... https://www.pressepo…
A profile of Obsidian, a game studio Microsoft acquired in 2018, as it seeks to expedite game development and reduce costs after releasing three titles in 2025 (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)
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/
"Solar power soared last year — and it’s not slowing down"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
Substack-based investigative outlet Democracy for Sale says it now has nearly 50,000 subscribers and 1,500 paying readers; its stories had 3M views in 2025 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/newsletters
A study of websites created since 2022 found 1 in 3 are AI-generated text. And their characteristics follow my prediction that AI will act as compression algorithm on cultural heritage.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonippolito…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@accesstive_/116131242683166202
Just a few months ago I found this company might have been fabricating reviews and ratings:
The abstract capacity to consciously predict, simulate, and actively prepare for an uncertain future can be argued to be humanity’s primary adaptive strength. However, and perhaps uniquely, it also carries with it the existential certainty of inevitable mortality...
Dor-Ziderman Y, Schweitzer Y, Nave O, Trautwein F-M, Fulder S, Lutz A, et al. (2025): Training the embodied self in its impermanence: meditators evidence neurophysiological markers of death acceptance. Neuroscience of Consc…
Hakkuiden kokonaismäärä jäi vuonna 2025 edellisten vuosien tasolle https://www.luke.fi/fi/uutiset/hakkuiden-kokonaismaara-jai-vuonna-2025-edellisten-vuosien-tasolle
Yhä suurempi osa puun kuiva-aineesta päätyy energiaksi
Should I Switch From #Git to #Jujutsu
https://etodd.io/2025/10/02/should-i-switch-from-gi…
How AI helped Medvi, a telehealth provider of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs with just two full-time employees, hit $401M in 2025 sales, as it tracks for $1.8B in 2026 (Erin Griffith/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/technology/ai-billion-dollar-c…
RE: https://bewegung.social/@lobbycontrol/116126317343802006
Falls ihr Euch wundert, warum die SPD bei dem irrsinnigen Heizungsgesetz mitmacht...
Meldung 2025:
If you're thinking of Tim Cook's legacy, this piece from last September: How Tim Cook sold out Steve Jobs. https://www.anildash.com/2025/09/09/how-tim-cook-sold-out-steve-jobs/
Governor Ron DeSantis Announces Proposal to Protect Puppies in Florida https://www.flgov.com/eog/news/press/2025/governor-ron-desantis-announces-proposal-protect-puppies-florida
RE: https://schach.social/@schachjugend/116025053117951046
Unser Jahresbericht 2025 - jetzt auch mit Haushaltsabschluss und zukünftiger Etatplanung:
Sources: Supabase is in talks to raise ~$500M at a ~$10B valuation, roughly doubling its October 2025 valuation; GIC is expected to lead the funding round (Katie Roof/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/database-startup…
from my link log —
ACME, a brief history of a protocol which has changed Internet security.
https://blog.brocas.org/2025/12/01/ACME-a-brief-history-of-one-of-the-protocols-which-has-changed-the-Internet-Security/
Here’s the underlying data source:
https://www.challengergray.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Challenger-Report-October-2025.pdf
A bit thin on methodology, shall we say, so take it as you will.
2/
When DHS, USCIS, and DOGE announced the overhaul of the SAVE program,
they explicitly linked the effort to a campaign to combat the “taint” of noncitizen voter fraud,
a long-standing claim tied to the lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
By all appearances, the administration is poised to use the SAVE program to prop up these false claims,
and sympathetic local officials may deploy SAVE to concoct evidence.
This move poses serious risks to vo…
An article about using "AI" for drug discovery (that fails to distinguish ML from LLMs from…), but nicely profiles Matt Might's work!
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/well/ai-drug-repurposing.html
IDC: Chinese GPU and AI chipmakers captured ~41% of China's AI server market in 2025, significantly eroding Nvidia's share, which stood at 55% with ~2.2M cards (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chines
Plonger dans le dossier de presse sur les affaires OKC qui s'étend de 1997- Š 2025 !
Comment nos sociétés traitent la question des dérives sectaires et la place des enfants mineurs dans ce genre de dérive ?
#PressKit #ChardonsBleus
I didn't know the Radiacode iOS app has a Watch output (since Sep 2025), which previously felt like the sort of affordance you'd get in a video game.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Radiacode/comments/1suydsv/spicy_patient_at_work/
Der #Tagesspiegel Berlin berichtet von Schäden durch Waschbären. Die sind schon lange in der Hauptstadt & sind gekommen um zu bleiben. Was ich noch nicht wusste, ist, dass die Tiere hier ganzjährig gejagt werden dürfen. Zwischen 2020-2025 wurden 83 Tiere getötet. Zur Populationsregulation wird das nicht beitragen, weil die Geburtenrate bei Jagddruck steigt. Ziel sind lediglich einzelne P…
C/2025 R3: Komet am nächtlichen Morgenhimmel zu sehen
Mit einem herkömmlichen Fernglas lässt sich derzeit am Morgen bei klarer Sicht ein Komet beobachten, der der Erde vergleichsweise nah kommt.
https://www.
Glaciers rapidly declining, with extreme losses in 2025 #environment
Raiders’ Keyron Crawford Sends Strong Message to Maxx Crosby https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/keyron-crawford-strong-message-maxx-crosby/
Podcasting company Red Seat Ventures, bought by Fox Corp. in 2025, is building a membership program for the ultra-wealthy, focused on hospitality and events (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/31/red-seat-ventures-membership
Both `caret-color` and `caret-shape` getting some attention:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2DSNiSKd-Y
In my role as CSS buzzkill, however, I try to give more context on use, risks, user prefs, CSSWG dismissiveness, etc:
Future says Google traffic fell 20% in the six months to March 31, a sharp acceleration on the year to September 2025; FUTR falls 25% to its lowest since 2017 (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/magazines/why-future-share-…
Trotz steigendem #Stromverbrauch sind die globalen Emissionen 2025 leicht gesunken.
Laut #Ember wurde das Nachfrageplus vollständig durch #ErneuerbareEnergien gedeckt, vor allem d…
Sources: Meta drew about $96B of orders from investors for a $25B bond sale it launched on Thursday; Meta sold $30B of corporate bonds in October 2025 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-30/meta-kicks-off…
AMD knackt erstmals 10 Milliarden US-Dollar Quartalsumsatz
Das Jahr 2025 lief für AMD erfreulich, unter anderem mit einem Verkaufsrekord von Ryzen-CPUs. Die Aktie fällt trotzdem um über zehn Prozent.
https://www.…
People posing as ICIJ journalists or whistleblowers targeted Taiwanese officials and real reporters after a 2025 ICIJ investigation called China Targets (Scilla Alecci/ICIJ)
https://www.icij.org/investigations/china-targets/fake-journal…
New report confirms 2025 among Hawai'i's driest, warmest on record #Hawaii
Anzahl der neuen #Windkraftanlagen je #Bundesland in #Deutschland im Jahr 2025 mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Die "Ausschließliche Wirtschaftszone" bedeutet
Netflix feels comfortable raising prices knowing customers can downgrade to its ad tier; in 2026, Netflix is on track to double 2025's $1.5B in ad sales (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026…
Sensor Tower: India was the largest market for GenAI app downloads in 2025, surging 207% YoY; India accounts for 20% of global installs but 1% of in-app revenue (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/24/india-ai-boom-pushe…
Roku launches a standalone app for Howdy, its $2.99/month ad-free streaming service with ~10K hours of content, in the US; Howdy debuted in August 2025 (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/31/roku-launches-a-standalone…
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 15.04.2026.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
Filing: Comcast CEO Brian Roberts' 2025 compensation rose 4% YoY to $35.15M, and new co-CEO Mike Cavanagh had a pay package of $71.76M, about 2.5x his 2024 pay (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/comcast-brian-…
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
Filing: Anthropic spent $1.6M and OpenAI $1M on lobbying in Q1, vs. $360K and $560K in Q1 2025, respectively; Meta topped Big Tech lobbying spending with $7.1M (Ashley Gold/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/21/anthropic-outspends-openai-biggest-lobbyin…
Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von #Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der
OpenAI scrambled for compute power after the Stargate project stalled; sources: OpenAI still plans to build its own data centers, but not in the near future (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-op…
Canva COO Cliff Obrecht says the company hit $4B in ARR at the end of 2025, had 265M MAUs and 31M paid users, and expects to IPO in the next "couple of years" (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/canva-gets-to-4b-i…
Snap reports Q4 revenue up 10% YoY to $1.72B, vs. $1.7B est., DAUs up 5% to 474M, vs. 478M est., and announces a $500M share buyback; SNAP jumps 5% after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/04/snap-q4-earnings-report-2025.html
AI Chipmaker Cerebras raised a $1B Series H led by Tiger Global at a $23B valuation, up from $8.1B in September 2025 (Ian King/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-04/cerebras-raises-1-billion-in-funding-at…
Adobe ramped up its ads in 2025, spending $1.4B amid AI competition and Wall Street skepticism, representing a significantly higher share of sales than rivals (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…