2025-12-04 09:04:00
KI-Lösungen in der EU - Wie Sie KI in Europa betreiben können
Das Webinar erklärt, wie sich KI-Lösungen erfolgreich innerhalb Europas betreiben lassen.
https://www.heise.de/news/K…
KI-Lösungen in der EU - Wie Sie KI in Europa betreiben können
Das Webinar erklärt, wie sich KI-Lösungen erfolgreich innerhalb Europas betreiben lassen.
https://www.heise.de/news/K…
Ukraine eyes Modi–Putin talks as test of Russia’s oil lifeline: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/04/ukraine-eyes-modiputin-talks-as.html
2025 PA.
PITTSBURGH MAYOR
91% of votes counted
Democrat Corey O'Connor wins.
AP race call at. 5:26 p.m.
on Nov. 4, 2025
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/results/2025/11/04/p…
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
‼️Die #Petition
"Mehr Verbraucherschutz vor versteckter Preiserhöhung (sog. Shrinkflation) vom 29.09.2025"
hat bisher 176 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29824 Unterschriften bis zum 10.12.2025.
Hmm I had 10 of these. Some are still around somewhere.
https://mastodon.social/@BasicAppleGuy/115582711438367134
The EU says it is gathering info 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/2025-12-04/goog…
Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas - @…
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/microsoft-slashes-ai-sales-growth-targets-as-customers-resist-unproven-agents/
There we go ...
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(Via @… & @… )
@… I do love me some “new book smell” but somehow I think that might be unrelated to an author’s smell 😅
Today we welcome both in-person and online participants to the first full day of #FF2025!
Check out the full programme at
https://www.conftool.org/fantastic-futures-…
First game that was assisted by Xogot!
Bug fixing on an iPad while commuting on the train:
https://krumelursoft.itch.io/cosmo-blue
The Anatomy of a #macOS App: https://eclecticlight.co/2025/12/04/the-anatomy-of-a-macos-app/
Nach zwei Doppelstunden sind die #Octostudio Projekte meiner Schüler:innen fertig und können hier https://blogs.rpi-virtuell.de/relidigita…
Updated https://adrianroselli.com/2025/10/openai-aria-and-seo-making-the-web-worse.html to link to a post from Stephanie Stimac that I missed, Simon Willison on prompt injection attacks, a sample attack from Brave, and Chris Coyier’s surprisingly long lis…
from my link log —
It's not always icache: performance of inline functions.
https://matklad.github.io/2021/07/10/its-not-always-icache.html
saved 2025-12-03
Russian scientist sentenced to 21 years on treason, cyber sabotage charges
https://therecord.media/russia-sentences-physicist-treason-ddos-attacks
Kast en el país del “depende"
#Kast
Senate Republican warns about potential interruptions to federal worker health care (Benjamin Guggenheim/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/11/03/congress/senate-republican-warns-about-potential-interruptions-to-federal-worker-health-care-00633775
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p3#a251104p3
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/
»Tiktok und Instagram — Schweizer Lehrer setzen auf Elternkurse - statt auf Tiktok-Verbote für die Kinder:
Der Verband der Lehrkräfte glaubt nicht, dass ein Bann der Netzwerke für Kinder und Jugendliche funktioniert. Stattdessen sollen Mütter und Väter dazulernen. Und zwar obligatorisch.«
Nicht dass die Lehrer unrecht haben aber werden die Eltern nicht auch in die TikTok-Sucht herein fallen?
🤨
wait, the "Love" in "Love Canal" is a _surname_?!
Awwww. #AstronomicalLoveStory
Managing Side Effects: A #JavaScript #EffectSystem in 30 Lines or Less
https://
In a way it is very simple, seize the assets or let the european taxpayers pay the bill. Ukraine losing the war is much more expensive....
I understand there are good arguments against seizing russian assets but then we have to accept the "pain" of providing those funds ourselves.
http…
Just learned I should be drinking 150oz of water a day. I might need a diaper.
Heyo, I want to share this #photo from a walk in June near #Ebersberg. It's been quite a nice walk, yet no SUPER photos. But maybe enough to bring a smile on your face :)
I agree with the storyteller: the experience of having a slave is abhorrent, simulated or not, and this story is a window into something •deep• about the present moment. Even without having slaves, we are all in danger of having a •slaver mindset•. It’s a disease that’s running rampant now in billionaire-shaped techno-utopian circles.
I wrote this thread on the topic earlier:
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/113295613785073188
…and even having written that, it’s still shocking — not surprising, exactly, but shocking — to hear those thoughts expressed so baldly by the colleague in the story above.
Ukraine war latest live: Kyiv struck over 50 Russian strategic targets in autumn 2025, satellite images shows: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/04/ukraine-war-latest-live-kyiv.html
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…
heise | Comet für Android: Wie Perplexitys KI-Browser die Google-Suche ersetzen will
Comet von Perplexity gibt es nun auch für Android: Der KI-Browser klickt sich „agentisch“ durchs Web, beantwortet Fragen und E-Mails. Da ist Vertrauen gefragt.
The number of rattlesnakes I’ve found today who are inside my house and just hibernating is non-zero
‼️Die #Petition
"Maßnahmen zum Schutz von Mietern vom 25.08.2025"
hat bisher 76 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29924 Unterschriften bis zum 25.12.2025.
https://ep…
#Merz: völlig inakzeptabel, wenn das Parlament anders entscheidet, als ich will.
Brüssel. Friedrich Merz (CDU) ließ seinem Unmut freien Lauf. Das „Nein“ des Europaparlaments zur Reform der Lieferkettenrichtlinie sei „inakzeptabel“ und eine „fatale Fehlentscheidung, die korrigiert werden muss“, schimpfte der Bundeskanzler beim EU-Gipfel vergangene Woche in Brüssel. „Wir müssen jetzt mit den Fraktionen im Parlament reden und sehen, wie das geht, aber das kann so nicht blei…
2025 MAINE 2 - TEMPORARY RESTRICTIONS ON DANGEROUS WEAPONS POSSESSION
GENERAL
BALLOT MEASURE
estimates
73% of votes counted
Yes. wins.
AP race call at
6:55 p.m. on. Nov. 4, 2025.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/r
8 y/o thought it was the “new york times best spelling author” and you know what, that’s what I’ll be calling it from here on out
Letter: Paramount expresses concern to WBD about the "fairness and adequacy" of the sales process, accusing WBD of favoring Netflix's offer (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/paramount-questions-warner-bros-discovery-sale-p…
#Merz: völlig inakzeptabel, wenn das Parlament anders entscheidet, als ich will.
Brüssel. Friedrich Merz (CDU) ließ seinem Unmut freien Lauf. Das „Nein“ des Europaparlaments zur Reform der Lieferkettenrichtlinie sei „inakzeptabel“ und eine „fatale Fehlentscheidung, die korrigiert werden muss“, schimpfte der Bundeskanzler beim EU-Gipfel vergangene Woche in Brüssel. „Wir müssen jetzt mit den Fraktionen im Parlament reden und sehen, wie das geht, aber das kann so nicht blei…
Texas exodus underscores the state's fading relevance in the House GOP (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/04/texas-house-republicans-power-fading-00676389
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p5#a251204p5
existence of TransCanada Corporation implies the existence of CisCanada Corporation
This years ‘tile’ pattern is last year’s ‘card’ pattern, which is the prior year’s ‘block’ pattern, which is just a reformulation of the ‘slide’ that was yanked from the ‘slider’ that didn’t slide and it was always and still is a pile of nested fucking `<div>`s with an event handler on an `<a href="#">`.
Well done, design system monkeys. Well done.
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
Rusland verhoogt de druk op België lijkt...
Drones teisteren Belgische luchthavens, luchtverkeer op meerdere plekken stilgelegd https://www.nu.nl/buitenland/6374811/drones-teisteren-belgische-luchthavens-luchtverkeer…
❝It was *impossible* for me or anyone else present to get him to understand that *we don't want slaves, simulated or otherwise*.
I've thought about that a lot in the days since.❞
4/
BNP Paribas says it is joining nine other European banks including ING, UniCredit, and CaixaBank developing a euro-pegged stablecoin in a JV called Qivalis (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/12/02/bnp…
Draft officer fatally stabbed in Lviv during papers check: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/04/draft-officer-fatally-stabbed-in.html
Can I get some applause, instead of writing a long-winded reply to someone who was subtly wrong I just muted them and I'm moving on with my doomscrolling
A UPS cargo plane crashed shortly after take off,
erupting into a massive fireball
near the Louisville Muhammad Ali international airport in Kentucky,
leaving at least seven dead and 11 injured
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025…
Chrome: Google bohrt automatische Ausfüllfunktion auf
Google erweitert die Autofill-Funktion im Chrome-Browser. Neben Daten wie Name und Adresse sollen Nutzer weitere Informationen nicht mehr eintippen müssen.
https:/…
Spotify Wrapped's Listening Ages sparks widespread social media discussion and follows in Spotify's tradition of issuing gimmicky, loosely data-backed offerings (Madison Malone Kircher/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/style/spotify-wrappe…
UN calls for return of Russia-abducted Ukrainian children in US-backed vote: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/04/un-calls-for-return-of.html
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…
My work days feel more and more like people outwardly employing Pascal’s Wager when talking about genAI, LLMs, agentic whatever fake-AI silliness. Saying the words for their bosses but not feeling it otherwise.
PAIscal’s Wager? Pascal’s wAIger? PascaLLM’s wager?
Stefanik spars with House speaker as she seeks GOP nod for N.Y. governor (Kadia Goba/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/04/elise-stefanik-mike-johnson-feud-governor/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p3#a251204p3
❝He was completely unable to understand why. He kept arguing that since the LLM isn't an actual conscious person (which is correct), it ought to be treated like a slave, and that the arc of technology is to give everyone access to their own virtual slaves.❞
3/
Czech POW sentenced to 13 years in jail by Russian court for fighting for Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/04/czech-pow-sentenced-to-years.html
‼️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.
Sources: Meta plans deep budget cuts to its metaverse efforts in 2026, potentially as high as 30% and most likely including layoffs as early as January (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-04/meta-s…
Three liberal justices won another 10-year term on the Pennsylvania supreme court,
giving Democrats a key victory and allowing them to maintain their 5-2 advantage on a vital body that could issue important rulings on abortion and voting rights in an important battleground state in the coming years.
Taiwan's interior ministry announces a one-year ban on access to Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu, aka RedNote, citing 1,700 fraud cases since 2024 (Ben Blanchard/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/tai…
The shifting responses of Hegseth, Trump and others on the lethal boat strikes (Maegan Vazquez/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/04/trump-hegseth-responses-boat-strikes/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p4#a251204p4
Cyprus's president meets Zelensky in Kyiv as Nicosia prepares to chair EU Council: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/04/cypruss-president-meets-zelensky-in.html
I grew up in a large city in a western democracy, with a socialist city government and it was fine.
There was basically no crime. People didn’t go hungry. Housing was affordable. Rent was regulated. Public transport was amazing. Education was free. Everyone had healthcare. Taxes were practically the same as in the US.
It was also much, much easier to start a business there than in the US. (Literally took an hour!)
People who wanted to get rich still could do it (there’s a few Austrian billionaires even).
I don’t understand how Americans got themselves so brainwashed that “socialism” is used as a term that sort of means “iworse than death”.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
‼️Die #Petition
"Gesetzlich verankerter Maßnahmeplan zur Einhaltung der Pariser Klimaziele bis spätestens 2035 vom 14.08.2025"
hat bisher 123 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29877 Unterschriften bis zum 07.01.2026.
How ideology-driven AI chatbots like Grok and Gab's Arya position themselves as alternatives to mainstream chatbots accused of liberal bias (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/busines
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 …
Starlink & Co. werden fast alle Bilder künftiger Weltraumteleskope kontaminieren
Die stark wachsende Zahl von Satelliten stört nicht nur erdgebundene Astronomie, sondern auch Weltraumteleskope. Die Folgen wurden jetzt quantifiziert.
Jimmy Wales says Wikimedia is working with Big Tech on AI deals similar to Google and reader donations are "not to subsidize OpenAI costing us a ton of money" (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel
Can AI Help Ukraine’s Mental Health Crisis? New Evidence on Digital Support During War: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/04/can-ai-help-ukraines-mental.html
Customer engagement service MoEngage raised a $100M Series F led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, bringing its total funding to $250M as it ramps up AI investment (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/04/goldm…
Driver was 4 minutes late lol
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😃Seit September 2023 immer falsch geraten. 😛
In wie vielen #Fernsehsendungen des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks wurde im September 2025 über den #Klimawandel, dessen Drumherum sowie den
Rapper verklagt Spotify wegen Bot-Streams
Wenn Bots rund um die Uhr auf Spotify "Musik hören", gehen anderen Künstlern Einnahmen verloren. Spotify dulde das, wirft ein Rapper dem Streaming-Dienst vor.
https://www.
a colonoscopy
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
Die #Wärmepumpe ist 2025 zum meistverkauften #Heizsystem in Deutschland geworden.
Rund 300.000 Geräte wurden verkauft. Trotz politischer Debatten stabilisiert sich der Markt wieder.
Der Bundesverband Wärmepumpe sieht in ihr eine zentrale Technologie für
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.
Source: Google is in early talks to deepen its strategic investment in Anthropic that could value the AI company at more than $350B (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-deepen-investment-in-ai-anthropic-2025-11
#Satellitendaten zeigen einen drastischen Rückgang der #Süßwasserreserven in Süd-, Ost- und Mitteleuropa. Auch #Deutschland ist betroffen.
Ursachen sind veränderte …
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.
How "porno-troll" Strike 3, owner of porn production company Vixen, made millions by filing copyright suits accusing users of illegally downloading its videos (Tarpley Hitt/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interact…
Ab 2027 will die niederländische Regierung große #Photovoltaik-Anlagen über zweiseitige #Differenzverträge fördern.
Entwickler erhalten einen festen Vergütungspreis. Liegt der #Strompreis
Google DeepMind's mechanistic interpretability team details why it shifted from fully reverse-engineering neural nets to a focus on "pragmatic interpretability" (AI Alignment Forum)
https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/StENzDcD3kpf…
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)
Short seller Grizzly shorts London-listed Trustpilot, alleging the review site pressures businesses to pay for subscriptions; Trustpilot refutes the claims (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-04/trustp…
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…
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
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
Sources: Charles Schwab is expected to announce a deal to acquire Forge Global, a leading platform for trading stakes in private startups, for as much as $600M (Sujeet Indap/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ffa0dabd-7e87-4327-b788-73e8fb598de3