Tootfinder

Microsoft will increase prices for commercial Office subscriptions on July 1, 2026, including a 33% jump for front-line worker plans like Microsoft 365 F1 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/microsoft-will-raise-prices-of…

Microsoft will raise prices of commercial Office subscriptions in July
For the second time in five years, Microsoft is hiking prices for commercial customers of its widely used Office bundles.

Fucking yes… finally! Thank you, Ireland, Spain, and Netherlands!
“Ireland will not participate in next year’s Eurovision Song Contest, and it will not be broadcast on RTÉ, after organiser the European Broadcasting Union confirmed today that Israel will be allowed to take part … Spain’s national broadcaster RTVE and the Netherlands’ AvroTros also announced that they would boycott the contest.”
Maybe we should rename it to the Genocidevision Song Contest?
Now… any more Euro…

Donnerstag: Indien zieht App-Pflicht zurück, YouTube blockt Australiens Kinder
Sicherheits-App freiwillig YouTube-Verbot für Down-Under-Kids Display-Brille für 3D aus 2D Spiel-Update für mehr Speicher Winterfahrt im Hyundai Ioniq 6

But if AI is so userful and everyone wants it, why does Microsoft have to cut its AI sales targets in half?
(Original title: Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/mic<…

Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas
Report: Microsoft declared “the era of AI agents” in May, but enterprise customers aren’t buying.

Russian MiG-29 fighter jet destroyed in HUR drone attack on Crimea: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/04/russian-mig-fighter-jet-destroyed.html

Haha, sorry MAGA, turns out you can’t power all those aspirational AI data centers without renewables. Wow, if they built a bunch of renewable infra and then the bubble popped, that’d be just (*snicker*) terrible… https://www.

Guess that whole Metaverse idea didn’t have legs after all
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-04/meta-s-zuckerberg-plans-deep-cuts-for-metaverse-efforts

Besides the illegality and cruelty, China and Russia will probably enjoy how the US is destroying morale and credibility of it's military.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/us/poli

Second Strike Scrutiny Obscures Larger Question About Trump’s Boat Attacks
Congress is focusing on two deaths in one strike. But nine other people died in that same attack, and the United States has killed 87 in all. Were any of those killings legal?

#GitPages now implements an audit system that allows on-line, background processing of uploaded content to e.g. scan it for viruses, phishing, and other abusive material
I consider this table stakes for any service with open registration, so now I can finally say that git-pages is _almost_ done (it needs a GC and a few minor fixes to other functions)

If #Greenland has grasped that who operates your critical infrastructure is important, why not Europe?
Excellent interesting post by @cryopolitics.com as ever.
#DigitalSovereignty
https://www.cryopolitics.com/2025/12/04/as-greenland-rejects-starlink-china-and-russia-tighten-military-ties/

Chat, sommes-nous cuits?

Immigration activists and lawyers say Somali residents have been
🔥pulled over,
asked for their passports
and detained by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents this week
❌after Donald Trump called Minnesota’s Somali immigrants
“garbage” that should go back to Somalia.

“I have been getting calls all day and night from people who should not be at risk,”
said Cameron Geibnik,
a Minneapolis immigration attorney who described talking to n…

In Minneapolis, Somalis say they’ve been targeted since Trump called them ‘garbage’
Minnesota has been a magnet for Somali immigrants for decades and now has America’s largest population of people of Somali descent.

Yet another NeoPixel Bike Light...
#DIY

NeoPixel Bike Light V2
Yet another bike light with NeoPixels...

The NYT sues the Pentagon in Washington, DC, arguing that the US DOD's new reporting restrictions infringed on its journalists' constitutional rights (Erik Wemple/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/business/media/new-york-times-p…

New York Times Sues Pentagon Over First Amendment Rights
The company said in a lawsuit that the Defense Department’s new reporting restrictions infringed on the constitutional rights of journalists.

まあ、松井秀喜よね
#このタグを見た人は自分と同じ誕生日の人を1人言う

ACIP Meets To Decide If More Newborns Need To Catch Hepatitis B | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/04/acip-meets-to-decide-if-more-newborns-need-to-catch-hepatitis-b/

#Deutschland hat die Marke von zwei Millionen #Elektroautos erreicht.
Im November 2025 wurden über 55.000 neue vollelektrische Fahrzeuge zugelassen – ein Plus von 58,5 Prozent im Vergleich zum Vorjahr.
Der Anteil an den Gesamtzulassungen lag bei über 22 Prozent. Während Herstell…

Elektroautos: Die zweite Million ist wohl geschafft - Golem.de

First game that was assisted by Xogot!
Bug fixing on an iPad while commuting on the train:
https://krumelursoft.itch.io/cosmo-blue

Cosmo Blue - A Space Odor Mystery by René
A C64 retro style isometric adventure game.

Simultaneously NASA and ESA have published new spacecraft images of #3IATLAS, https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/3iatlas/2025/12/04/nasas-hubble-space-telescope-revisits-interstellar-comet/ from the Hubble Space Telescope on 30 November (just the inner coma with a central condensation) and https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/12/Comet_3I_ATLAS_shows_activity_in_Juice_navigation_camera_teaser from Juice's NavCam on 2 November with an early sighting of the plasma tail - more contributions to understanding the behavior of the interstellar visitor.

Delyan Peevski, le puissant oligarque qui met les Bulgares dans la rue
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/12/04/delyan-peevski-le-puissant-oligarque-qui-met-les-bulgares-dans-la-rue_…

Delyan Peevski, le puissant oligarque qui met les Bulgares dans la rue
Visé par des sanctions américaines, ce chef d’un petit parti représentant les minorités turque et rom est accusé de tirer les ficelles du pouvoir dans un pays miné par la corruption. Alors que la Bulgarie doit rejoindre la zone euro le 1ᵉʳ janvier 2026, l’opposition réclame la démission du gouvernement, soutenu par M. Peevski.

Jayapal, Smith Introduce Legislation to End Inhumane Immigration Detention Conditions (Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal)
https://jayapal.house.gov/2025/12/03/jayapal-smith-introduce-legislation-to-end-inhumane-immigration-detention-conditions/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251203/p146#a251203p146

Just learned I should be drinking 150oz of water a day. I might need a diaper.

The idea that propaganda's main effect is in what it makes normal keeps sticking with me. I see it everywhere now. And it's how so much media that doesn't set off alarm bells as trying to manipulate so effectively works as propaganda. Reject or accept the overt message, the covert normalization works either way.

"Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theatre, a piece of music or a book can make a difference. It can change the world."
—Alan Rickman
#acting #coaching #inspiration

hypothese: chatGPT et al bewirken ein vermehrtes auftreten des peter prinzips

#FF2025 handing over to #FF2026!

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/marquis-data-breach-impacts-over-74-us-banks-credit-unions/
Financial software provider Marquis Software Solutions is warning that it suffered a data breach that impacted doz…

Marquis data breach impacts over 74 US banks, credit unions
Financial software provider Marquis Software Solutions is warning that it suffered a data breach that impacted dozens of banks and credit unions across the US.

PFAS Ewigkeitschemikalien auf dem Frühstückstisch:
Die höchsten Werte wurden in irischen Frühstückscerealien festgestellt, gefolgt von belgischem Vollkornbrot, deutschem Vollkornbrot und französischem Baguette. Sie wurden in einer Vielzahl von Produkten gefunden, von Spaghett bis hin zu Lebkuchen. | The Guardian

High levels of ‘forever chemical’ found in cereal products across Europe – study
Pesticide Action Network Europe study finds average concentrations 100 times higher than in tap water

Lemurs are being eaten as an urban delicacy in Madagascar https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/lemurs-are-being-eaten-as-an-urban-delicacy-in-madagascar/

Lemurs are being eaten as an urban delicacy in Madagascar
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In Madagascar’s cities, a quiet but lucrative market is reshaping the future of one of the world’s most imperiled groups of animals. Lemurs—already the most threatened mammals on the planet—are being sold as a kind of urban delicacy, […]

Google Cloud partners with Replit to expand the use of Google's cloud offerings and AI models and to jointly support AI use cases for enterprise customers (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/google-replit-ai-vibe-coding-anthropic-cursor.html

Google taps AI vibe-coder Replit in challenge to Anthropic and Cursor
Replit will expand usage of Google Cloud services, add more of Google's models onto its platform, and support AI coding use cases for enterprise customers.

Lecanemab: Qualitätsinstitut nicht überzeugt von neuem Alzheimer-Medikament
Ein neues Medikament für Menschen, die an Alzheimer-Demenz erkrankt sind, ist seit 1. September in Deutschland verfügbar. Doch der Nutzen ist unklar.

Ukraine’s 2025 strikes on Russian oil refineries surpass 2022–24 total, with fires 2,000-6,000 km away: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/05/ukraines-strikes-on-russian-oil.html

You’re not an ally if your freedom/privacy/human rights/democracy event is sponsored by surveillance capitalists like Google that are complicit in Israel’s genocide and pose an existential threat to human rights and democracy.
#FOSDEM #etc

I used the Music app on macOS Tahoe for the first time today and I honestly thought it was broken.
[Joe Pesci voice]
The fucken media controls of the fucken app are on the bottom. Who fucken did that?

"It's not that any of the other streaming services are good, but Spotify is almost certainly the worst. Do not trust it. Do not let it turn your enjoyment of music into stats and algorithmic playlists."
(Original title: Spotify Haters Club)
https://knru.polin.ski/spotify-haters-

Spotify Haters Club
You know something that is absolutely worth considering? Planning an exit from the culture-destroying, weapons-investing, ICE-advertisement platform known as Spotify, a place where music is seen only as a tool to destroy people's imaginations and flatten art into a homogenised, AI-friendly, beige churn of endless content to immiserate us all.

"We are a higher court, but not a better one": Kagan rages at SCOTUS decision to allow Texas maps - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/12/04/we-are-a-higher-court-but-not-a-better-one-kagan-rages-at-scotus-decision-to-allow-texas-maps/

Sources: SoftBank agrees to sell a large portion of its stake in InMobi back to the Indian mobile ad company for ~$250M, reducing its holding to <10% from 30% (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-04/softbank…

Two sides of the same presidency played out simultaneously along the National Mall on Thursday afternoon.
At one end, Donald Trump was telling the world to give peace a chance at a meeting with African leaders.
It was possible, he said, “to begin healing old wounds and transcending past differences and creating a future where every child of God can live in dignity, prosperity and peace.”
At the other end of the mall, top officials from his Defense Department were being grill…

Trump Trumpets Peace in Africa Amid War on Drug Boats, in Day of Dissonance
President Trump presided over a Congo-Rwanda peace deal on the same day his administration was being questioned about potential war crimes.

‼️Die #Petition
"Weitere Erforschung der Augenerkrankung Glaukom sowie Entwicklung neuer Therapien vom 01.08.2025"
hat bisher 74 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29926 Unterschriften bis zum 09.12.2025.

Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated
Fa la la la la.

I'm starting to suspect that Trump is going to dumb his way into socialism and get some accidental wins. If he weren't outwardly racist and cruel, I'd take more of a “wait and see" approach. https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115662009320916894

Morbid thought: potus & kegseth want a war w/Venezuela partly to get lithium that is in Venezuela.
You know where else there’s lithium? In potus & kegseth. Each has between 2mg & 7mg of lithium in their bodies.
Like some communist nightmare they use it willy nilly internally. Shall we stop them?
#USpol

Justice Department urges judge to jail former Jan. 6 defendant after alarming return to DC (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/04/justice-department-urges-judge-to-jail-former-jan-6-defendant-after-alarming-return-to-dc-00678109
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p144#a251204p144

Apple says general counsel Kate Adams and policy chief Lisa Jackson will retire, and Jennifer Newstead, Meta's former chief legal officer, will replace Adams (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/apple-announces-departure-lisa-jackson-k…

Apple announces departure of general counsel and policy chief
The two executives previously reported to Apple CEO Tim Cook and represent the latest sign that Apple's senior leadership is seeing a slew of exits.

Bericht: US-Regierung verlangt Ablehnung von Visa-Bewerbern mit Zensur-Historie
Bewerber für ein US-Arbeitsvisum sollen strenger überprüft werden. Bei jeglicher Beteiligung an "Zensur" freier Meinungsäußerung sollen sie abgelehnt werden.

Quite rich of the USA to talk about narco states or whatnot when they’ve been dealing the worst drug of all, capitalism, that doesn’t just kill individuals but is also destroying our whole habitat.

US Congress has the power to help Ukraine. It’s time to use it: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/04/us-congress-has-the-power.html

For no reason at all I’m announcing that I’m the proud winner of this years Eero’s Prize, given for outstanding achievements in cat herding.

US Probes Reports Waymo Self-Driving Cars Illegally Passed School Buses 19 Times - Slashdot
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/12/04/2158221/us-probes-reports-waymo-self-driving-cars-illegally-passed-school-buses-19-times

Netflix will buy some of Warner Bros. Discovery’s most valuable media portfolio for nearly $83 billion in a cash-stock deal, the two companies said Friday.

The streaming giant will acquire some of WBD’s most valuable media properties,
including its film and TV studio,
HBO and HBO Max.
WBD’s cable networks, including the news giant CNN, are to be spun off in advance of the deal.
-- That plan was announced in June.
Two other companies
— Comcast and Pa…

Netflix to buy Warner Bros. Discovery in $83 billion cash-stock deal
Largest streaming network says it will purchase Warner Bros.’ studios and streaming assets after winning a bidding war with Comcast and Paramount. 

One of my top guilty Internet pleasures: Wonkette: #USpol

Jesse Watters Pretty Sure Going MAGA Makes Women Hotter
It's literally true if you consider that they look like melted Bratz dolls.

Sources: Atlas Obscura's co-founders were pushed out of the company amid clashes with CEO Louise Story, who has trimmed staff and changed editorial strategy (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/04/2025/staff-cut…

Exclusive: Staff cuts and strategy squabbles split Atlas Obscura leadership
The relationship between the company’s founders and some of its investors appears to have soured.

Paris-based CRM unicorn Brevo, formerly known as Sendinblue, raised €500M and says it surpassed €200M in ARR in 2025 (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/new-unicorn-brevo-raises-583m-to-challenge-crm-giants/

New unicorn Brevo raises $583M to challenge CRM giants | TechCrunch
Brevo, a customer relationship management company headquartered in Paris, is now a unicorn.

Anstieg der Schienenmaut gedämpft – Signal an Bahnkunden
Die Trassenpreise für das Schienennetz drohten deutlich zu steigen. Weil dadurch das Bahnfahren teurer geworden wäre, greift die Politik zu Gegenmaßnahmen.
ht…

Yours truly speaking at Defuse Dublin (IxDA) last month, where I presented on Gaza Verified and Small Tech/Small Web.
All photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/irq95gn1ncUJtL4W7 (apologies for Google/Alphabet, Inc. link)
All talks:

INDIA TOLERATES CRIMINALS: PUTIN arrives with propaganda statements: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/04/india-tolerates-criminals-putin-arrives.html

" If completed, it could provide enough power for 32,500 homes."
Large-scale solar farm in central WA gets green light from governor • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/12/04/large-scale-solar-farm-in-central-wa-gets-green-light-from-governor/

MIT: Mikro-Schlagflügelroboter fliegt so schnell und akrobatisch wie eine Biene
Einen winzigen Schlagflügelroboter schnell und akrobatisch wie eine Biene fliegen zu lassen, benötigt eine komplexe Flugsteuerung.

Driver was 4 minutes late lol

Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order.
Now he wants to sell you phone service
—without knowing almost anything about you.
https://www.wired.com/story/new-anonymous-phone-carrier-sign-up-wit…

A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code
Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you.

Micro1, which helps AI labs find experts for data annotation, says it has crossed $100M in annualized revenue and fielded investment offers at a $2.5B valuation (Anna Tong/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2025

This 24 Year Old Built A Multibillion-Dollar AI Training Empire In Eight Months
Ali Ansari’s decision to turn micro1’s AI recruitment assistant into a data labeling business spiked the company’s valuation from $80 million to $2.5 billion.

The Chicago Tribune sues Perplexity for copyright infringement, alleging Perplexity's platforms lift Tribune content verbatim and divert traffic from the paper (Robert Channick/Chicago Tribune)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/04/chic…

Ukraine merges military procurement agencies, defying previous NATO advice: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/04/ukraine-merges-military-procurement-agencies.html

KI-Modelle: New York Times klagt gegen Perplexity, Meta schließt Lizenzabkommen
Der Streit um Medieninhalte in KI-Modellen spitzt sich zu. OpenAI muss Chatprotokolle herausgeben, NYT klagt gegen Perplexity. Meta setzt auf Lizenzabkommen.

Apple replacing Alan Dye with Stephen Lemay may fix Jony Ive's mistake by restoring the Jobsian "design is how it works" ethos in Apple's UI design (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/bad_dye_job

Bad Dye Job
It might have made some sense to bring someone from the fashion/brand world to lead software design for Apple Watch, but it sure didn’t seem to make sense for the rest of Apple’s platforms. And the decade of Dye’s HI leadership has proven it.

UN General Assembly votes to demand Russia return deported Ukrainian children without conditions - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/04/un-general-assembly-votes-to-demand-russia-return-deported-ukrainian-children-without-conditions/

THE END OF THE WAR! Expert names the only way to force Russia to collapse from within: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/04/the-end-of-the-war.html

Some of the nation’s top health officials and Donald Trump have cast doubt on a vaccine that doctors call lifesaving.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly questioned whether babies should continue to receive the vaccine on their first day of life,
arguing that the disease is mainly transmitted through sexual contact and sharing needles.
But the virus can also pass from mother to child at birth.
In September, Mr. Trump said that he thought children …

Hepatitis B Vaccine, Once a Public Health Win, Is Under Threat From RFK Jr.
Rates of the disease have fallen since 1991, when all newborns began receiving the shot. An influential panel is scheduled to vote Thursday on eligibility for the vaccine.

Sources: WBD begins exclusive talks with Netflix to sell its film and TV studios and HBO Max; Netflix is offering a $5B breakup fee if the deal isn't approved (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-05/…

Cloudflare says it has fixed an issue that caused a 25 minute outage on Friday, following a major, hours-long outage last month (Rose Henderson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-05/cloudflare-says-it-f…

The Kremlin is in hysterics: UAF halt advance, destroy oil depots and command posts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/04/the-kremlin-is-in-hysterics.html

Republicans Drop Trump-Ordered Block On State AI Laws From Defense Bill - Slashdot
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/25/12/04/2228233/republicans-drop-trump-ordered-block-on-state-ai-laws-from-defense-bill

The conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court
has cleared the way for Texas to use a gerrymandered congressional map in next year’s midterm elections
that a lower court found racially discriminatory.
The 6-3 ruling is another political win for Donald Trump and his allies,
who have gotten a number of favorable rulings from the justices after being stymied by lower courts.
Trump has asked Republican-led states to redraw their maps
in order to preserv…

Rigging Democracy: Supreme Court Approves Racial Texas Gerrymander, Handing Trump Midterm Advantage
The conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the way for Texas to use a gerrymandered congressional map in next year’s midterm elections that a lower court found racially discriminatory. The 6-3 ruling is another political win for President Donald Trump and his allies, who have gotten a number of favorable rulings from the justices after being stymied by lower courts. Trump has asked Republican-led states to redraw their maps in order to preserve the narrow GOP majority in …

Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, and the Netherlands exit Eurovision after Israel received an all-clear to compete; the BBC and Germany's SWR plan to participate (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2

The EU says it is gathering information and feedback from ~200 stakeholders on Google's offer to fix alleged antitrust violations linked to its ad tech business (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-…

Unidentified drones reported near Zelensky's arrival route in Dublin, Irish media say: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/04/unidentified-drones-reported-near-zelenskys.html

Elon Musk Says Tesla FSD Now Lets Drivers Use Phone in Some Cases - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-fsd-full-self-driving-text-drive-iillegal-elon-musk-2025-12

She was allowed a phone call to her parents, who contacted a lawyer.
The next day, a federal judge issued an emergency order barring her removal from the US for at least 72 hours until her case could be reviewed.
But the next morning, she was shackled at her wrists, ankles and waist and deported to her native Honduras,
a country which she left at the age of seven and of which she has virtually no memory.

Seven Ukrainian children abducted to Russia returned in initiative backed by Melania Trump: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/04/seven-ukrainian-children-abducted-to.html

Docusign reports Q3 revenue up 8% YoY to $818.4M, vs. $807.1M est., and forecasts Q4 revenue below estimates; DOCU drops 6% after hours (Arvelisse Bonilla Ramos/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-04/do…

**Senate Dems to McMahon: Efforts to shift Education Department responsibilities illegal**
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5634520-education-department-program-breakup-criticized/

'The key to ending the war is in Brussels' — Ukrainians react to Belgium's Russian asset loan opposition: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/04/the-key-to-ending-the.html

In an interview, Dario Amodei suggests some AI companies are taking on too much risk by "YOLO-ing" and committing to spend hundreds of billions on data centers (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Exclusive: Finnish president warns Europe that US likely talked with Russia while negotiating with Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/04/exclusive-finnish-president-warns-europe.html

Two studies suggest AI chatbots can shift political views more effectively than TV campaign ads, especially by presenting many claims, regardless of accuracy (Will Oremus/Washington Post)

Voters’ minds are hard to change. AI chatbots are surprisingly good at it.
New research suggests AI chatbots can shift people’s political views more effectively than campaign ads on TV.

India and Russia discuss small nuclear reactors #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/04/india-and-russia-discuss-small.html

Chinese AI chipmaker Moore Threads raised ~$1.13B in the year's second-largest onshore IPO, valuing it at ~$7.6B, with the retail portion oversubscribed 2,750x (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Trump: The war in Ukraine is a tragedy that could have been avoided #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/04/trump-the-war-in-ukraine.html

Ukraine is ready for any scenario Putin may come up with, says Zelenskyy #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/04/ukraine-is-ready-for-any.html

Sources: the European Commission plans a new antitrust probe into Meta over its rollout of AI features in WhatsApp; the probe will not fall under the DMA (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/66f20eec-1734-4eea-9ca3-7ac1d88258ab

Delaying negotiations is a deliberate tactic by the Kremlin to put pressure on the US #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/04/delaying-negotiations-is-a-deliberate.html<…

The US CFTC announces that spot crypto asset contracts will begin trading for the first time on CFTC-registered futures exchanges (Shashwat Chauhan/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/spot-crypto-products-begin-t…

The NHTSA asks Waymo about its self-driving vehicles illegally passing school buses, including 19 times in Texas this year, as part of a probe opened in October (David Shepardson/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-probes

November: more than 81,000 Russian targets DESTROYED by Ukrainian strikes: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/06/november-more-than-russian-targets.html

TBPN signs a partnership with the NYSE, giving the video podcast the same on-floor access enjoyed by major financial networks such as CNBC (Sam Becker/Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91452867/insid

Inside the NYSE’s surprising partnership with TBPN, the LA-based video podcast dominating tech media
The podcast will gain access to events, executives, and IPO action in New York, while the exchange taps into TBPN’s fast-growing tech audience.

Google debuts Titans, an architecture combining RNN speed with transformer performance for real-time learning, able to scale effectively to a 2M context window (Google Research)
https://research.google/blog/titans-miras-helping-ai-have-long-term-memory/

Titans + MIRAS: Helping AI have long-term memory

Sources: Masayoshi Son plans with the White House to build "Trump Industrial Parks" in the US to produce AI infrastructure parts, funded by Japan's trade deal (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/trump-softbank-ma

US and Canadian authorities warn that Chinese hackers are using the Brickstorm malware to install backdoor access within unnamed government and IT entities (A.J. Vicens/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-…