Tootfinder

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/01/politics/elon-musk-2024-election-spending-millions

Elon Musk spent more than $290 million on the 2024 election, year-end FEC filings show
Elon Musk spent a total of more than $290 million on the 2024 election, new federal filings show, boosting President Donald Trump and Republicans in a staggering effort that has helped to secure unprecedented access for the world’s richest person in the new administration.

"The Holy See affirms its unwavering conviction that efforts to control, limit, reduce, and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons are not an unrealistic prospect, but a possibility and an urgent moral imperative." - Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, the Holy See’s Permanent Observer to UN, Oct. 21, 2025.

Holy See: Eliminating nuclear weapons is an urgent moral imperative - Vatican News
Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, the Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations, urges the international community to work towards preventing the ...

Erlebnispfade im Nationalpark #Schwarzwald begeistern die Gäste
Der #Lotharpfad ist seit langem einer der meistbesuchten Orte des Nationalparks. Rund jeder zweite Gast war bereits dort und auch die Wiederbesuchsrate ist sehr hoch. Seit 2024 wurde der Lotharpfad um den Spechtpfad erweite…

Erlebnispfade begeistern die Gäste
Ergebnis einer Befragung zum Naturerleben und zur Erlebnisqualität auf dem Lothar- und Spechtpfad im Nationalpark Schwarzwald

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.

Das sind die, die sich bei Rückkehr über #Fachkräftemangel beschweren:
In der deutschen #Automobilindustrie wurden 2025 erneut viele Stellen abgebaut. Laut #VDA sank die Zahl …

Viele ins Ausland verlagert: Automobilzulieferer bauten 2025 Tausende Stellen ab
Das Hoch in der Automobilbranche ist längst vorbei, mit der Corona-Zeit bricht der Markt ein. In Deutschland werden seitdem Zehntausende Jobs gestrichen, so auch im vergangenen Jahr. Teilweise werden die Stellen in anderen Ländern kompensiert.

The use of cryptocurrency in sales of human beings for prostitution
and scam compounds
nearly doubled in 2025,
according to a conservative estimate.
Many of the deals are happening in plain sight.
https://www.wired.com/story/crypto-funded-…

Crypto-Funded Human Trafficking Is Exploding
The use of cryptocurrency in sales of human beings for prostitution and scam compounds nearly doubled in 2025, according to a conservative estimate. Many of the deals are happening in plain sight.

Diese Woche wurde der Transparenzbericht 2025 von @… veröffentlicht.
Insgesamt gab es 74 Ersuchen:
- 72 von Strafverfolgungsbehorden, 2 durch #Nachrichtendienste .
- 56 Anfragen wurden beantwortet, 18 auf Grund von Mängeln abgewiese…

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…

When ghost nets can make energy
Last December, Italian scientists ran a successful experiment, converting 200 kilograms of ghost nets recovered from the seabed into enough energy to

Reminder that Trump's Defense Dept secretary is a raging, unmitigated racist.
Hegseth, told an audience of several hundred military people, “I think the single dumbest phrase in military history is ‘our diversity is our strength.’”
☑️ Pentagon's Hegseth: 'diversity is our strength' is dumbest phrase in military history | Reuters

«PDF öffnen reicht — Zero-Day-Lücke in Adobe Reader seit Monaten unter Beschuss:
Angreifer nutzen seit Ende 2025 eine Zero-Day-Lücke in Adobe Reader aus, um Daten abzugreifen und Schadcode einzuschleusen. Ein Forscher schlägt Alarm»
Jegliche Software kann schwere Sicherheitsprobleme haben und die meisten beheben dies rel. schnell. Adobe lebt wider mal in seiner eigenen Fantasiewelt.
😬

PDF öffnen reicht: Ungepatchte Lücke in Adobe Reader seit Monaten ausgenutzt - Golem.de
Angreifer nutzen seit Ende 2025 eine Zero-Day-Lücke in Adobe Reader aus, um Daten abzugreifen und Schadcode einzuschleusen. Ein Forscher schlägt Alarm.

Home Heat Pumps: 2-day Installation Open Letter (2025) - Distress winter replacements of a gas boiler with heat pump are possible and needed... #heatpump #netZero #winter -

Home Heat Pumps: 2-day Installation Open Letter (2025)
Distress winter replacements of a gas boiler with heat pump are possible and needed... #heatpump #netZero #winter

New report confirms 2025 among Hawai'i's driest, warmest on record #Hawaii

New report confirms 2025 among Hawai'i's driest, warmest on record
In 2025, Hawaiʻi experienced its second-driest year in more than a century, alongside persistently above-average temperatures throughout the year—a stark reality detailed in the inaugural Hawai'i Annual Climate Report 2025. Published by the University of Hawai'i Sea Grant College Program, this first-of-its-kind report uses plain language, along with easy-to-interpret maps and figures, to summarize statewide rainfall, temperature, and drought conditions over the past year.

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

Snap shares rise on fourth-quarter earnings that beat on sales
Snap released on Wednesday its fourth-quarter earnings that beat on sales but missed on revenue guidance.

POL-GÖ: (39/2026) Mutmaßlicher Holzdiebstahl bei Gleichen - Polizei sucht Zeugen nach Abtransport von mehreren Festmetern Industrieholz Göttingen (ots) - Gleichen, Gartestraße Zeitraum zwischen März und Oktober 2025 GLEICHEN (ab) - Im Zeitraum vom 25. März bis 27. Oktober 2025, ist es im Bereich der Gartestraße im Gleichener Ortsteil Rittmarshausen (Landkreis Göttingen) zu ...

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…

New York Times Added 1.4 Million Digital Subscribers in 2025
The company reported total revenue of $802.3 million for the fourth quarter of 2025, up 10.4 percent from a year earlier.

We ranked every Super Bowl champion, 1-60: How do the 2025 Seahawks stack up? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39416873/ranking-every-nfl-super-bowl-champion-history

250 Jahre westliche Ordnung. 1776. 1789. 1791. Aufklärung, Demokratie, Freihandel, universelle Menschenrechte. Und jetzt?
Dieter Schnaas schreibt im #Tauchsieder der #WiWo, dass 2025 und 2026 als Todesjahre dessen in die Geschichte eingehen werden, was wir 250 Jahre lang unter dem „freien West…

Vibe Coding: Empowering and Imprisoning - Anil Dash
https://www.anildash.com/2025/12/02/vibe-coding-empowering-and-imprisoning/

Vibe Coding: Empowering and Imprisoning
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

❤️ https://mackuba.eu/2026/02/04/pds-undockered/

Follow-up: a version of #1 for visibly-to-a-user already exists in at least one client:
https://pachli.app/pachli/2025/02/28/2.10.0-release.html#anti-harassment-controls-for-conversations-private-mentions
Having it happen at the server level where the post gets dropped would be better.
Thanks @… for the pointer to the fediverse ideas repository:
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediverse-ideas/issues

Western Gull, standing on a fence. Moonstone Beach, Cambria, California, USA. October, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 40-150mm F4 #moonstonebeach #seagull #bird

"More than 87m people impacted by climate-related disasters in 2025"
#Climate #ClimateChange

More than 87m people impacted by climate-related disasters in 2025
In 2025, more than 200 climate-related disasters affected more than 87.8 million people worldwide, according to preliminary figures from the International Disaster Database analyzed by Mongabay. The disasters include flash floods, landslides, severe storms, wildfires and droughts. Drought and food insecurity impacted the largest number of people. In Syria, which faced its worst drought in […]

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-

2025 LGBTQ+ State Safety Report Cards | SafeHome.org
Eight states got A's for LGBTQ+ safety, with Rhode Island topping the list. Florida ranked lowest, with a failing grade due to discriminatory laws.

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

The Digital Service’s Act Main Character: the EU Commission finally fines X
    Steve Peers , Professor of Law, Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit : Animated Heaven, via Wikimedia Commons   Intr...

Курсачом, написанным в LaTeX, уже вряд ли увидишь. А кто-нибудь пробовал написать работу со всеми требованиями к оформлению, используя roff(7)?
Если кто не знает, это язык разметки, на котором был написан оригинальный Unix Programmer's Manual, и который перешёл по наследству в man-страницы.
С наборами макросов (например, -me и -ms) roff подходит для академических работ:

The Swedish energy regulator has approved standardised definitions for flexibility products. This makes it easier for suppliers and aggregators to optimise customer devices for local grid needs. The more flexibility offered through these market mechanisms, the lower the costs for all energy system users.

Ei godkänner marknadsprodukter för flexibilitetstjänster
Energimarknadsinspektionen (Ei) godkände i december 2025 ansökningar om specifikationer för flexibilitets­tjänster och standardiserade marknads­produkter. Besluten innebär att de elnätsföretag som ansökt har möjlighet att använda gemensamma och harmoniserade produkter vid marknadsmässiga köp av flexibilitet – något som skapar tydlighet och bidrar till transparenta villkor för branschens aktörer.

from my link log —
Mobile carriers can get your GPS location.
https://an.dywa.ng/carrier-gnss.html
saved 2026-02-04 https://dotat.at/:/PXPC3.html…

"Not the AI we were promised"
Royal Society Michael Faraday Prize Lecture 2025 winner Prof Michael Wooldridge.

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…

La valse annuelle des bonnes surprises des comptes publics commence: Une nouvelle fois, les comptes de l’Etat de Genève seront meilleurs que prévu. Le Temps a appris qu’au lieu d’un déficit de 255,7 millions de francs, c’est un excédent d’environ 50 millions de francs que le canton a enregistré en 2025. https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/geneve/une-nouvelle-fois-les-comptes-de-l-etat-de-geneve-seront-meilleurs-que-prevus

POL-SZ: Pressemitteilung der Polizeiinspektion SZ/PE/WF vom 11.02.2026. Salzgitter (ots) - Polizei ermittelt wegen schweren Raubes und fahndet mit einem Lichtbild nach dem vermeintlichen Tatverdächtigen. Salzgitter, Chemnitzer Straße/Nähe In den Blumentriften, 20.12.2025 gegen 16:30 Uhr. Aufgrund der bisherigen ... https://www.

My talk from #QCon San Francisco 2025 is now public with video and transcript. Directing a Swarm of Agents for Fun and Profit. My #AI native approach to using #Claude to experiment and benchmark different approa…

Directing a Swarm of Agents for Fun and Profit
Adrian Cockcroft explains the transition from cloud-native to AI-native development. He shares his "director-level" approach to managing swarms of autonomous agents using tools like Cursor and Claude Flow. Discussing real-world experiments in BDD, MCP servers, and language porting, he discusses why the future of engineering lies in building platforms that orchestrate AI-driven development.

It is 2025 and projects want me to curl an url to install. #dontcurlthaturl

»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)

‼️Die #Petition
"Stärkere Einschränkung der Verfügbarkeit von Feuerwerkskörpern bzw. von Böllern um den Jahreswechsel vom 27.05.2025"
hat bisher 84 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29916 Unterschriften bis zum 11.03.2026.

"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 🤷

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

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.…

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. 🤔

Cowboys hire WR coach, dismiss Underwood in latest coaching shakeup https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/02/04/cowboys-make-surprise-wr-coaching-move-bringing-in-steph…

NFL playoffs top moments: From Caleb Williams' miracle TD to the Super Bowl MVP https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47841203/best-2025-nfl-postseason-superlatives-super-bowl

Jahresbericht veröffentlicht ✅ - Noch 6 Wochen bis zur Jugendversammlung, daher haben wir heute unser Berichtsheft veröffentlicht. Mit dabei:
- über 30 Seiten Jahresbericht 2025
- Kandidaturerklärungen
- 16 Anträge
- in Kürze: Jahresabschluss 25 & Etat 26/27
▶️ https://

@… https://www.jmail.world/

Jmail, logged in as jeevacation@gmail.com
You are logged into jeevacation@gmail.com, Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.

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 7% after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/04/snap-q4-earnings-report-2025.html

»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.
🔓

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.

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 Is Betting Its Robot-Training Gloves Will Usher In Robotics’ ChatGPT Moment
Generalist Bets Wearable “Data Hands” Could Spark Robotics’ ChatGPT Moment

👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„Erneuerbare Energien sind die teuersten“.
Eine Umfrage hat diesen Glauben in der deutschen Bevölkerung erst 2025 wieder gezeigt. Schauen wir uns die Kosten an. Wie schneiden

Energiewende-Mythos: „Erneuerbare Energien sind die teuersten“
2024 stammt der meiste Strom in Deutschland aus erneuerbaren Energien – und sie sind günstiger als Kohle oder Gas. Fakten statt Mythen.

Finally saw "Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning".
Not a fan.
It was like MI for Fast & Furious fans. Bad guys were stupidly over the top & the end seemed like Armageddon & MI:3 had a baby.
▶️ Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning | Official Trailer (2025 Movie...
https://

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/…

Infos zu den Schwarzwald CleanUp Days 2026
Auch in diesem Jahr finden die Schwarzwald CleanUp Days wieder im Nationalpark gemeinsam mit Nationalparkregion und Freundeskreis statt.

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…

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…

Y Combinator Was By Far The Most-Active Fintech Investor in 2025, Data Shows
All told, global venture funding to financial technology startups totaled $51.8 billion for 2025 compared to $40.8 billion in 2024, per Crunchbase data. The investors who provided all that capital included a mix of private equity and alternative investors, with venture capital firms and accelerators next in line.

Beong-Soo Kim will serve as USC’s 13th President, according to a community-wide email sent Wednesday.
Kim has served as USC’s interim president since July 2025.
The election by the Board of Trustees was unanimous.
A Feb. 5 email from Suzanne Nora Johnson, chair of the USC board of trustees, stated that Kim,
formerly general counsel and senior vice president at USC,
would not be a candidate for the presidency in order to “dedicate all of his efforts to being a fa…

Beong-Soo Kim to be USC’s next president - Daily Trojan
As interim president, Kim launched the USC Open Dialogue Project and oversaw USC layoffs and budget reductions.

Some light reading: notes on, and my response to, the UK government #SSES first phase #ESA regulations consultation!
https://www.…

On the UK SSES 1st Phase ESA Regs (2026)
UK central government consulted on frameworks to enable the untapped flexibility from small scale devices #smartGrid #SSES #ESA #EHA

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…

Next season already? Our way-too-early NFL Power Rankings stack all 32 teams for 2026 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47807175/nfl-way-too-early-power-rankings-poll-2026-offseason-three-words

Christian McCaffrey wins 2025 Salute to Service award for supporting military veterans https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/christian-mccaffrey-wins-2025-salute-to-service-award-for-supporting-military-veterans

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…

Memo: Bloomberg Media now has 707,000 paying subscribers, reports revenue up 6% YoY, subscriptions revenue up 10%, and advertising and sponsorship revenue up 5% (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/bloomberg-media-700000-subscribers-2025/
…

Bloomberg Media Tops 700,000 Subscribers as Revenue Rises 6% in 2025
According to a memo obtained by ADWEEK, the publisher posted gains across subscriptions, advertising, and live events.

Matthew Stafford wins 2025 AP NFL Most Valuable Player award https://www.nfl.com/news/matthew-stafford-rams-qb-most-valuable-player-2025

#Greenovative hat zum Jahreswechsel 2025/26 die Schwelle von 500 MWp installierter Leistung überschritten.
27 neue #Solarparks und #Batteriespeicher stärken das Portfolio. Künftig…

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…

How A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8 Billion Company
Who needs more than two employees when artificial intelligence can do so many corporate tasks? It’s super efficient — and a little bit lonely.

The State Leadership Initiative (SLI),
is a policy-focused organization that investigates and counters the influence of progressive ideologies
—specifically Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) standards
and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies
—within state-level bureaucracies and government,
particularly in conservative "red" states. 
🔸Focus on Policy Influence: SLI investigates how national associations and "shadow gov…

Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.bsky.social)
New pro-Trump group, the State Leadership Initiative (SLI), is “writing the blueprint for dismantling bureaucracy in every red state.” Nate Fischer—a founder of New Founding, which is backed by DOGE advisor Marc Andreessen—is an SLI co-founder. The board includes Heritage president Kevin Roberts. 1/ https://thefederalist.com/2025/02/19/meet-the-group-writing-the-blueprint-for-dismantling-bureaucracy-in-every-red-state/

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

Commanders LB Bobby Wagner named 2025 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year https://www.nfl.com/news/commanders-lb-bobby-wagner-named-2025-walter-payton-nfl-man-of-the-year

In #SachsenAnhalt wurden 2025 insgesamt 59 neue #Windräder und über 23.000 neue #Photovoltaikanlagen in Betrieb genommen.
Besonders stark wuchs der Zubau bei

Mehr Wind, mehr Sonne: Rekord beim Ökostrom-Ausbau in Sachsen-Anhalt
Sachsen-Anhalt setzt 2025 weiter auf Wind- und Solarenergie. Die Zahl der Anlagen und die Gesamtleistung erreichen Rekordwerte.

Alphabet reports YouTube's Q4 ad revenue rose 9% YoY to $11.38B, vs. $11.84B est., and YouTube's annual revenue surpassed $60B across ads and subscriptions (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/youtube-q4-2…

YouTube Ad Revenue Hits Record $11.38 Billion in Q4, but Falls Short of Expectations
YouTube had its biggest-ever ad sales to date for Q4 2025, but revenue of $11.38 billion came in under Wall Street forecasts.

Alphabet reports YouTube's Q4 ad revenue rose 9% YoY to $11.38B, vs. $11.84B est., and YouTube's annual revenue surpassed $60B across ads and subscriptions (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/youtube-q4-2…

YouTube Ad Revenue Hits Record $11.38 Billion in Q4, but Falls Short of Expectations
YouTube had its biggest-ever ad sales to date for Q4 2025, but revenue of $11.38 billion came in under Wall Street forecasts.

Alcatraz has been practically frozen in time since the day that the storied prison saw its last inmate 62 years ago.
When the federal government closed the facility, officials had deemed it a deteriorated relic that was insufficient for housing inmates.
Alcatraz closed in part because it was far more expensive to run a prison on an island than on the mainland since everything had to be shipped in.
The small number of prisoners made the extra expense even more questionable…

Trump’s Idea to Turn Alcatraz Back Into a Prison Draws Criticism From Tourists
At the beloved attraction in San Francisco Bay, visitors could scarcely believe President Trump had suggested turning Alcatraz back into a penitentiary.

Seahawks WR Jaxon Smith-Njigba named 2025 AP NFL Offensive Player of Year https://www.nfl.com/news/jaxon-smith-njigba-seahawks-wr-offensive-player-of-the-year-2025

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…

Japan's Renesas to sell timing solution segment to US-based SiTime for $3bn
Chipmaker divesting non-core businesses after seeing a loss in 1st 9 months of 2025

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…

Erneuerbare Energie aus dem Saalekreis: Batteriespeicher ergänzt künftig Agri-PV-Solarpark bei Krumpa
Krumpa/MZ. - Direkt neben dem Solarpark „Sonnenquelle Geiseltal“ südlich von Krumpa entsteht derzeit ein neuer Batteriespeicherpark auf dem ehemaligen Gelände „Schrott-Linde“. Das Projekt ergänzt den dieses Jahr in Betrieb gegangenen ersten Abschnitt der Agri-Photovoltaik-Anlage auf 60 Hektar...

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/

Fubo CEO says Comcast severed talks on NBC deal in January
NBC Universal stopped negotiating with Fubo in early January, Fubo CEO David Gandler said on Tuesday.

SIA: chip sales hit $791.7B in 2025, up 25.6% YoY, with Nvidia, AMD, and Intel accounting for $301.9B, up 40%; SIA expects sales to reach $1T in 2026 (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/global-chip-sal…

In #Talheim ist eine neue #Photovoltaik-#Freiflächenanlage mit 3,8 MWp Leistung in Betrieb gegangen.
Auf 4,8 Hektar erzeugen über 7.000 Module rund 4,1 GWh Strom jährlich. Ein …

PV-Freiflächenanlage in Talheim erfolgreich in Betrieb genommen
Mit der Inbetriebnahme der Photovoltaik-Freiflächenanlage im Gewann „Obere und Untere Neckarhalde“ wurde Ende 2025 ein bedeutendes Projekt für die...

Panthers agree to deal with Devin Lloyd, the top linebacker available https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7083934/2026/03/09/devin-lloyd-panthers-nfl-free-agency-2026/

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…

TV Ratings: Grammys Draw 14.4 Million Viewers, Decline in Final Year on CBS
The audience for the awards falls by about 6 percent from 2025.

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/

Eight Sleep raises $50M at $1.5B valuation | TechCrunch
Eight Sleep said it was free-cash-flow positive in 2025, and plans to use the new funding for new products, global expansions, and clinical validation.

“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…

US stocks had a remarkable 2025. But international markets did much better
Heading into 2025, US stock valuations were already relatively expensive compared to the rest of the world, creating an incentive for investors to look for returns in different markets.

How to watch NFL Honors: MVP headlines 2025 season's player, coach awards set to be announced

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/how-to-watch-nfl-honors-2025-season/

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

Fox reports Q2 revenue up 2% YoY to $5.18B, a profit of $247M, down from $388M in Q2 2025, cable revenue up 5% YoY to $2.28B, and ad revenue up 1% YoY to $2.46B (Elias Schisgall/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/fox-revenue-…

49ers' McCaffrey honored for support of military https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47826119/49ers-christian-mccaffrey-wins-2025-salute-service-award

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/

AMD rakes in $390m from AI chip sales to China but warns of uncertainty
Company sees $100m more revenue from China as Beijing weighs rules on Nvidia, other foreign chips

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

How Democracy for Sale is making investigative journalism pay on Substack
Peter Geoghegan's investigative news outlet Democracy for Sale has "more than tripled" in terms of both revenue and subscribers in a year.

AI voice startup ElevenLabs raised a $500M Series D led by Sequoia at an $11B valuation, taking its total funding to nearly $800M, and reports $330M in 2025 ARR (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/voice-ai-start

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)

Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2025 Results (Alphabet)
https://s206.q4cdn.com/479360582/files/doc_financials/2025/q4/2025q4-alphabet-earnings-release.pdf

Where Seahawks' Jaxon Smith-Njigba lands on 2025 wide receiver rankings, any Patriots make list?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/seahawks-jaxon-smi…

Anthropic signs an agreement with Google and Broadcom for multiple GWs of TPU capacity, and says run-rate revenue has crossed $30B, up from ~$9B at 2025's end (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/google-broadcom-partnership-compute

Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of next-generation compute
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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/

Wired pulls plug on UK print edition as it focuses on global subscriber growth
Wired will not put out a print magazine in the UK in 2026 as it focuses on global subscriber growth, Katie Drummond reveals.

Comeback Player of the Year? How Christian McCaffr... https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47769168/san-francisco-49ers-christian-mccaffrey-comeback-player-year-candidate-2025

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

The Media Trust report: online ads surpassed email as the primary malware channel in 2025, accounting for 60% of all observed malware and phishing campaigns (Lara O'Reilly/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/programmat

Online ads just became the internet's biggest malware machine, report says
Ads accounted for more than 60% of the malware and phishing campaigns observed by digital safety company The Media Trust in 2025, per a new report.

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…

Alphabet reports Q4 revenue up 18% YoY to $113.8B, Google Cloud revenue up 48% to $17.7B, Google Services revenue up 14% to $95.9B, net income up 30% to $34.46B (Alphabet)
https://s206.q4cdn.com/479360582/files/doc_financials/2025/q4/2025q4-…

Bitcoin fell below $70,000, its lowest level since President Trump's election in November 2024 and down 44% from its October 2025 peak, as global markets fall (Muyao Shen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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 Media Trust report: online ads surpassed email as the primary malware channel in 2025, accounting for 60% of all observed malware and phishing campaigns (Lara O'Reilly/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/programmat

Online ads just became the internet's biggest malware machine, report says
Ads accounted for more than 60% of the malware and phishing campaigns observed by digital safety company The Media Trust in 2025, per a new report.

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…

Database Startup Supabase in Talks to Double Valuation to $10 Billion
Singapore’s GIC is in talks to lead an investment in database startup Supabase at a valuation of about $10 billion, double the level it raised at last fall, according to two people with direct knowledge of the discussions. Supabase is aiming to raise about $500 million in the fundraising round, ...

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…

India's AI boom pushes firms to trade near-term revenue for users | TechCrunch
ChatGPT and rivals are testing whether India's massive AI user boom can translate into paying customers as free offers wind down.