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“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.

"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 🤷

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:

🪵 Nepal’s community forests sit on unsold timber
#nepal

Nepal’s community forests sit on unsold timber
KATHMANDU — The Khorthali Community Forest User Group in Dolakha, central Nepal, produced 1,189 cubic meters (42,000 cubic feet) of timber in 2025 — roughly 18 standard 40-foot shipping containers in volume. However, the group could not sell all of it. About 340 m3 (12,000 ft3) of wood still lies on the roadside. “Community members […]

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

Scoop: Red Seat Ventures builds premium membership for the ultra-wealthy
As consumer spending shifts to live experiences, Balfe and Fox Corp. see an opportunity to get ahead of that market.

Free link --> A Democrat for the Trump Era - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/07/jasmine-crockett-democrats/683652/?gift=7dKtnNrILXcLLty1b9gh3il9Yroz0IJ6lNuCh03g3o4 …

A Democrat for the Trump Era
Jasmine Crockett is testing out the coarse style of politics that the GOP has embraced.

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

The Type — 文字 / 设计 / 文化 — 字谈字畅 276：「它可以拓宽你的认知边界」

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…

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-…

Future share price plummets after warning Google traffic loss has worsened
Why Future share price is so low. CEO issues update to market about impact of falling Google referral traffic.

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…

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.

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…

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/

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.

New FTC Data Show People Have Lost Billions to Social Media Scams
New data from the Federal Trade Commission show that, 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 staggeri

RE: https://mastodon.social/@accesstive_/116131242683166202
Just a few months ago I found this company might have been fabricating reviews and ratings:

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…

Phony whistleblowers, fake journalists and cyber spies: ICIJ network targeted after China Targets probe  - ICIJ
Shortly after publication, a slew of fake ICIJ reporters approached journalists, Taiwanese officials, and human rights advocates seeking sensitive data. With Citizen Lab, we investigated

Should I Switch From #Git to #Jujutsu
https://etodd.io/2025/10/02/should-i-switch-from-gi…

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

A.I. Saved His Life by Discovering New Uses for Old Drugs
Scientists are using machine learning to find new treatments among thousands of old medicines.

RE: https://schach.social/@schachjugend/116025053117951046
Unser Jahresbericht 2025 - jetzt auch mit Haushaltsabschluss und zukünftiger Etatplanung:

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…

DHS, USCIS, DOGE Overhaul Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements Database | Homeland Security
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, alongside USCIS and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), announced a comprehensive optimization of the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database to ensure a single, reliable source for verifying non-citizen status nationwide.

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

Hakkuiden kokonaismäärä jäi vuonna 2025 edellisten vuosien tasolle

RE: https://bewegung.social/@lobbycontrol/116126317343802006
Falls ihr Euch wundert, warum die SPD bei dem irrsinnigen Heizungsgesetz mitmacht...
Meldung 2025:

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

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/

How Tim Cook sold out Steve Jobs
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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…

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/

PayPal im stationären Handel: 7,6 Millionen registrierte Nutzer in Deutschland
PayPal scheint mit kontaktlosem Bezahlen im stationären Handel erfolgreich zu sein. Erste Zahlen seit dem Start im Mai 2025 liegen vor.

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…

Roku launches a standalone app for Howdy, its $2.99 streaming service | TechCrunch
With this new app, Roku says subscribers can access Howdy's library of content on the go.

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/

Raiders’ Keyron Crawford Sends Strong Message to Maxx Crosby https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/keyron-crawford-strong-message-maxx-crosby/

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…

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/

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…

Inside OpenAI’s Scramble to Get Computing Power After Stargate Stalled
When President Donald Trump announced the $500 billion Stargate AI data center project in January 2025, the three companies charged with developing it promised to move with lightning speed, spending $100 billion almost immediately to start building 10 gigawatts of computing capacity. More than a ...

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

Dossier Presse 1997-2024
Beaucoup d'articles de presse ont été écris depuis 1997 sur OKC et Robert Spatz, mais malheureusement une partie de ces articles sont derrière des barr ...

POL-HI: Vorstellung der Verkehrsunfallstatistik 2025 des Polizeikommissariats Bad Salzdetfurth Hildesheim (ots) - BAD SALZDETFURTH (hei)- Das Polizeikommissariat Bad Salzdetfurth präsentiert die Verkehrsunfallstatistik für das Jahr 2025. Näheres bitten wir der Anlage zu entnehmen. Rückfragen bitte an: Polizeiinspektion Hildesheim ... https://www.

"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 ...

since 2021, Tomohiro Okazaki has been doing stop-motion animation of matchsticks, posting as oo_kk_aa on instagram. occasionally he posts collections to youtube. this is group 18, from 2025-02-01 to 2025-05-22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjls49EsCSE

lja Leonard Pfeijffer: 48 Kolumnen aus der belgischen Zeitung De Morgen über konstitutionelle und absolute Demokratie in Deutsch:
https://europa.blog/de/category/blogs/ilja-leonard-pfeijffer/

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer Archives - Europa Blog
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer / Foto: Stephan Vanfleteren Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer Der niederländische Schriftsteller Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer hat von Januar 2024 bis Dezember 2025 zwei Mal monatlich Essays zur Entwicklung von Demokratie und Rechtsstaat unter dem zunehmenden politischen Druck rechter Parteien in Europa und in den USA – dort vor allem durch Donald Trump und die MAGA-Bewegung – in der niederländischsprachigen belgischen Zeitung „De Morgen“ veröffentlicht. In den insgesamt 48 Essa…

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

Trotz steigendem #Stromverbrauch sind die globalen Emissionen 2025 leicht gesunken.
Laut #Ember wurde das Nachfrageplus vollständig durch #ErneuerbareEnergien gedeckt, vor allem d…

Weltweite Stromproduktion: Solarboom führt zu sinkenden Emissionen
2025 stieg der weltweite Stromverbrauch. Weil die Solarenergie in vielen Ländern aber noch schneller ausgebaut wurde, sanken die Stromemissionen.

"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 […]

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…

Anthropic outspends OpenAI in biggest-ever lobbying quarter
Both Anthropic and OpenAI posted their biggest-ever lobbying spends in the first quarter of 2026.

On the UK SSES 1st Phase ESA Regs (2026) - UK central government consulting to enable flexibility from domestic heat pumps etc #smartGrid #flexibleDemand #SSES

On the UK SSES 1st Phase ESA Regs (2026)
UK central government consulting to enable flexibility from domestic heat pumps etc #smartGrid #flexibleDemand #SSES #ESA #EHA

»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.

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...

New publication: Maxime Guénette, Annette von Stockhausen, and Mathilde Verstraete, “La reconnaissance automatique pour le grec ancien (preprint),” in Apprendre Š Lire aux Machines, ed. Alix Chagué, Thibault Clérice, and Ariane Pinche (HAL, 2025), 89–102, https://hal.science/hal-05163931.

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.

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

Glaciers rapidly declining, with extreme losses in 2025
Earth's glaciers are continuing to shrink at alarming rates, with new international research revealing that 2025 was among the worst years on record for global ice loss. Published in the Climate Chronicles collection of Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, the study provides the latest global assessment of glacier mass change, showing an accelerating trend driven by rising temperatures.

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:

POL-HI: Polizeikommissariat Alfeld - Verkehrsunfallstatistik 2025 Hildesheim (ots) - Alfeld (ni) - Das Polizeikommissariat Alfeld veröffentlicht die Verkehrsunfallstatistik 2025. Die Details sind der Anlage zu entnehmen. Rückfragen bitte an: Polizeiinspektion Hildesheim Schützenwiese 24 31137 Hildesheim ... https://www.p…

Raiders select DE Keyron Crawford at No. 67 in the 2026 NFL Draft https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-select-de-keyron-crawford-at-no-67-in-the-2026-nfl-draft

Anzahl der neuen #Windkraftanlagen je #Bundesland in #Deutschland im Jahr 2025 mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Die "Ausschließliche Wirtschaftszone" bedeutet

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-…

Comcast Co-CEOs Brian Roberts and Mike Cavanagh 2025 Pay Package Revealed
Comcast gave Brian Roberts a pay raise in 2025 -- but not nearly as much as his recently promoted co-CEO, Mike Cavanagh.

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…

Canva gets to $4B in revenue as LLM referral traffic rises | TechCrunch
The creative company's monthly active users increased 20%, growth that was partially propelled by adoption of its AI tools.

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

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.

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.…

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.

«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.

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:

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.

Raiders name Omar Young Running Backs Coach https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-name-omar-young-running-backs-coach

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.

‼️Die #Petition
"Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen ab dem Jahr 2030 vom 22.11.2025"
hat bisher 585 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29415 Unterschriften bis zum 10.03.2026.
https://

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.

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…

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:

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Gefahr im Schacht: Viele Aufzüge ohne Schutz gegen Hacker

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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…

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

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.

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

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 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.

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/
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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.

‼️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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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)

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…

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…

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

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-…

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

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.