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Montag: Lithium & Co. im Abraum von Minen, Android-Apps in Windows 11 fortsetzen
Kritische Rohstoffe als Nebenprodukt Handy-Funktion für Windows 11 Medion zurück an Gründer Meta-Milliarden für Google-Cloud Technik der AR-Brille Metas

Ukraine, Hungary spat highlights tensions over pipeline attack: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/25/ukraine-hungary-spat-highlights-tensions.html

While the idea that war isn't endlessly circular, but rather can be overcome and cured like disease or famine, may to some appear naively hopeful, it makes our world seem one shade less dark.

Trump Organization scrubs the Trump Mobile site of language indicating the T1 Phone phone is to be made in the US, now says it is "brought to life" in the US (Anthony Robledo/USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2025/06/25/trump-cel…

Trump Mobile reiterates claims that new phones are 'made in America'
President Donald Trump's newly launched cellular service is defending its claims that its T1 cellphones are made in the U.S.

‼️Die #Petition
"Erhalt des freien Zugangs zur Psychotherapie vom 16.04.2025"
hat bisher 11548 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 18452 Unterschriften bis zum 23.07.2025.
https://

PSA: 🥵 Idk who needs to hear this, but in a heatwave for the love of science use air conditioning. If you don’t have air conditioning, get a portable unit as soon as possible.
The climate is going to get hotter and heat can very easily kill you or a loved one or a pet; or cause permanent disability.
Heat is a lot more dangerous than cold temperatures; even if you’re “young and healthy”.
The climate is already fucked and has long reached a tipping point as far as humans go—our only bet is large-scale CO2 extraction.
Sacrificing your health “to save energy*” for an imaginary fight that we have already lost is stupid. It’s also one of those “individual responsibility” mindfucks—the culprits for pollution are industry maximizing profits and governments that are not acting.
Anyway, stay cool.
*note that AC uses overall a lot less energy than heating does

from my link log —
Swarm testing data structures.
https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-04-23-swarm-testing-data-structures/
saved 2025-04-30

Swarm Testing Data Structures
Insights, updates, and technical deep dives on building a high-performance financial transactions database.

Sometimes democracy just works.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/nyregion/cuomo-mamdani-mayor-primary-nyc.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Rk8._dtb.J00ws4qd9RB2&smid=url-share

Mamdani Stuns Cuomo in New York Mayoral Primary
Zohran Mamdani appears poised to be the Democratic nominee for mayor, where he could face a contested race that will include Eric Adams and perhaps Andrew Cuomo.

The dispute has been fanned by nationalist sentiment,
compounded by a bitter feud between two powerful politicians:
Hun Sen, who ruled Cambodia with an iron fist for four decades before handing power to his son Hun Manet in 2023,
and Thaksin Shinawatra, the former populist leader of Thailand, whose daughter Paetongtarn Shinawatra became prime minister in 2024.
Both former leaders remain highly influential.
On Thursday night, Thaksin said on social media he had…

I meanwhile arived in Amsterdam for the Embedded Linux Conf Europe which I haven't been to in ages. Will present on FOSS eSIM integration into Embedded Linux devices #elce2025 #linux #esim

@… 😅 I was going to ask how you remember these ten year old talks but I remember some of yours too! barcamp at slowdown!!

Meta builds giant datacenter in rural Louisiana. Utility to add 2.3 GW of gas turbines to power it, if they can source the turbines in a sold-out global market.
And just to be sure, the Louisiana Legislature passed a new law that adds natural gas to the definition of green energy...
Climate anyone?
http…

Meta is sinking $10 billion into rural Louisiana to build the home of its wildest AI aspirations, setting the template for the nation’s grid buildout
The massive data center buildout is underway, requiring massive amounts of new power and, increasingly, more fossil fuels and gas plants.

Why 2025 became the summer of flash flooding in America #America

Why 2025 became the summer of flash flooding in America
The National Weather Service has already issued more than 3,600 flash flood warnings across the United States in 2025, and that number is increasing as torrential downpours continue in late July. There's a good chance the U.S. will exceed its yearly average of around 4,000 flash flood warnings soon.

"You put your nightmares up there, you put your dreams up there and people can see them better because they can stand outside of it and recognise themselves inside it."
-Holly Hunter
#acting #coaching

California lawmakers approve Gov. Gavin Newsom's plan to increase funding for the state's film and TV tax incentive program from $330M to $750M per year (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/california-750-million-fi…

California Lawmakers Agree on $750 Million for Film and TV Credit
California legislative leaders have accepted Gov. Gavin Newsom's proposal to more than double the film and TV credit, in a win for the industry.

The platform of 33 year-old Zohran Mamdani, the “Democatic Socialist" immigrant who just won the primary in New York City (setting himself up for Mayor's election in November)
free public buses 🚎
universal childcare 👶
freezing rent in subsidized units 🏚️
city-run grocery stores 🥖🥒🍎
all paid for by new taxes on the rich.🤑
Good people want these things. They are not complicated or extreme.
also:
"strong support of Palestinians and criticism of Israel”
#Socialist #CanPoli
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg6yg7x467o

UK’s Starmer faces mounting pressure to recognise Palestinian state | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/25/uks-starmer-faces-mounting-pressure-to-recognise-palestinia…

UK’s Starmer faces mounting pressure to recognise Palestinian state
As starvation grips Gaza, more than 200 UK lawmakers urge Prime Minister Keir Starmer to recognise Palestinian state.

Under Siege From Trump and Musk, a Top Liberal Group Falls Into Crisis (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/us/politics/media-matters-musk-crisis.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZE8.uS77.aCoRbTwphEFY&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p57#a250725p57

wilson wilson – Treebelly
#alternative

The loss of the #SSMIS satellite dataset as warned by @… will presumably also affect the #Greenland today melt maps over on NSIDC - I think we have AMSR2 for those somewhere too, but not exactly sure where..
Perhaps I should write that blog post I was talking abotu earlier 🤔
https://osi-saf.eumetsat.int/community/stories/implications-end-ssmis-data-osi-saf-products

I’m bummed I have to drive to work today. Hopefully I can bike the rest of the week.

Starting to do the Great American College Tours with my kid. Very fortunate that kid shares my deep cynicism so we can go have a good laugh at earnestness and BS. Refraining from posting observations because colleges prolly watch SM as carefully as ICE does.

In between other stuff I've been running sims to dial in the ARC6 connector launch to back-side diff pairs.
After sweeping lots of variations I've concluded it's impossible to get it matched using 0.45 / 0.25mm ViP. You can't get above about 90 ohm Zdiff no matter how far you pull back the ground planes, just because of coupling between the vias themselves.
Orange trace is a first test using 0.35 / 0.15mm ViP which seems much happier. Slightly overshot so I need a…

cooling out & conditioning my air with some live prairiewolf. https://archive.org/details/Prairiewolf2025-04-25

#ciddle 2025-08-25 (5)
1. ❌ ↖️ 393km
2. ✅
https://ciddle.winklerweb.net

Ciddle - A Daily City Riddle

American Jews Were Played — Now What? | Portside
https://portside.org/2025-07-24/american-jews-were-played-now-what

This is utterly unacceptable. The international Dance community must condemn this loudly and publicly.

#eID: The Bigger Picture. Wir schauen nochmals einige Nein-Argumente an und zeigen, unter welchen Voraussetzungen die E-ID datensparsam sein kann #dnip https://

Det här var rätt uppfriskande. https://www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/bokrecensioner/a/1M2z0e/recension-monique-flyr-av-edouard-louis

Skriv inte om mamma på det där viset, Édouard
Distansen gör klassresenären till en spion i den egna familjen

Hackers disrupt communications of dozens of Iranian oil and cargo ships
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202508226637

Hackers disrupt communications of dozens of Iranian oil and cargo ships
A hacker group said it disabled communications on more than 60 Iranian oil tankers and cargo ships, severing links between the vessels, their ports, and the outside world in one of the largest cyberattacks on the country’s maritime sector.

How do you feel sane in strange times? https://muz4now.com/2020/how-do-you-feel-sane-in-strange-times/

How do you feel sane in strange times?
How do you stay sane in these strange times? With so much grief and change, we will have to reach for new ways to stay okay.

The formation and evolution of dust in the colliding-wind binary Apep revealed by JWST: #binary Apep [...] reveal an intricate series of nested concentric dust shells that are abundant in detailed substructure. The striking regularity in these substructures between successive shells suggests an exactly repeating formation mechanism combined with a highly stable outflow that maintains a consistent morphology even after reaching 0.6 pc (assuming a distance of 2.4 kpc) into the interstellar medium." See also https://bsky.app/profile/landru79.bsky.social/post/3luqbnb2jmk25 for other processing experiments with the image, https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14610 for another paper and https://theconversation.com/swirling-nebula-of-two-dying-stars-revealed-in-spectacular-detail-in-new-webb-telescope-image-258314 for an article!

Yesterday, I got the server buttoned up but I still need to get an operating system installed on the new SSD. I also have a DMG image of the old SSD. I think that the plan is to sit somewhere comfortable with a laptop this week and get an operating system installed on it through my JetKVM.

Le long des nationales, la lente agonie des restos routiers
https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2025/06/25/le-long-des-nationales-la-lente-agonie-des-restos-routiers_6615713_3234.html

Le long des nationales, la lente agonie des restos routiers
Le nombre de restaurants routiers a été divisé par dix depuis les années 1960. En cause, l’arrivée sur les routes françaises de nombreux chauffeurs étrangers, moins bien payés, qui n’ont pas les moyens de s’y arrêter, et l’exclusion des camions des anciennes routes nationales et des villes.

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Bush (25) Joe Bonamassa (23) Soda Stereo (21) Lorde (18) Ozzy Osbourne (17). #myweekcounted 441 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…

Für @… sprach @… mit Friedrich Küppersbusch! Das verspricht Erkenntnisgewinn, und so kam es dann auch.
Übermedien: Holger ruft an ... wegen Late Night
Webseite der Episode:

Omg #XenobladeChronicles3 ! This is not good story telling in a game. Wtf.
#videogames

Freitag: Magdeburg-Fab Opfer der Intel-Krise, kurzzeitiger Ausfall von Starlink
Intels rigoroser Sparkurs Starlink-Ausfall wegen Software MediaMarktSaturn vor chinesischer Übernahme Amazons neue Kindle Colorsoft Datenschutz-Podcast

Russia has made 'significant concessions' amid Trump-led peace talks, Vance says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/25/russia-has-made-significant-concessions.html

In a letter to staff, CEO Eddie Wu says Alibaba is merging its food delivery platform Ele.me and online travel agency Fliggy into its core e-commerce business (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-t…

Alibaba folds delivery app and travel agency into e-commerce group
CEO Eddie Wu said the restructuring ‘marks a strategic upgrade from an e-commerce platform to a comprehensive consumer platform’.

‼️Die #Petition
"Verpflichtende Vorschriften zur Verwendung von Vogelschutzfolien an Glasfronten für Bestands- und Neubauten vom 28.04.2025"
hat bisher 179 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29821 Unterschriften bis zum 09.07.2025.

Front-line NATO ally Lithuania shares a border with Russia.
At risk, the country has plans for a fortified border aimed at severely hindering a potential Russian assault.
New images shared last week by Lithuania'sMinistry of National Defence show a defense in depth, around 30 miles of defenses meant to slow an invading army

Image shows NATO frontline country's plan to blunt invasion
Lithuania shared images of a new series of border defenses underway that are designed to stop a Russian advance into NATO.

Anyway, if you ever visit Tucson, the road up Mount Lemmon is a must. Incredibly beautiful and spectacular, and doesn’t matter which weather.

@… the takeaway I’m reading is that it’s a common problem for WordPress sites to need that ol’ Windows-machine-style reformat (for whatever reason)

Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month in a row.
Tesla 'has sustained brand and reputational damage in part due to CEO Elon Musk's incendiary rhetoric and political activity.'
That's politely put.
https://www.cnb…

Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs
The U.S. EV maker has sustained brand and reputational damage in part due to CEO Elon Musk's incendiary rhetoric and political activity.

"Come to work on time, know your lines and don't bump into the other actors."
-Spencer Tracy
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Oh well, better go and feed the family now I suppose, paper 2 will have to wait...

I recently briefly heard about the Indian rural telephone exchanges (RAX), which appear to go back all the way to electromechanical switches. They (C-DOT) even built a V5.2 Access Network called AN-RAX. Started to collect some documents at https://osmocom.org/projects/retronetwork…

Maatregelen rondom duurzaamheid en klimaatverandering sneuvelen her en der, tegelijk wordt de impact van klimaatverandering steeds duidelijker en concreter. Bizarre situatie.
https://www.knmi.nl/over-het-knmi/nieuws/knmi-klimaatbericht-marin…

Sri Lanka hit by plastic pollution after cargo ship sinks off Indian coast https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/07/sri-lanka-hit-by-plastic-pollution-after-cargo-ship-sinks-off-indian-coast/

Sri Lanka hit by plastic pollution after cargo ship sinks off Indian coast
Sri Lankan authorities, locals and environmentalists say they’re deeply concerned about the possible impacts on the country’s marine ecosystem and coastal communities from the sinking of a container ship off the southern coast of India in May, Mongabay contributor Malaka Rodrigo reported in June. The Liberia-flagged ship MSC Elsa 3 sank on May 25 about […]

Google URL Shortener Links Will Stop Working Next Month - Slashdot
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/24/2012243/google-url-shortener-links-will-stop-working-next-month

from my link log —
The story of ispc: Intel implicit SPMD single program multiple data compiler.
https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/30/ispc-all.html
saved 2025-06-08

Mittwoch: Anthropic mit Copyright-Teilerfolg, Google Earth bietet Rückblicke
Gericht zu KI-Training mit Büchern Google Earth mit alten Bildern Entlassungen bei Microsoft Bill Gates gegen Gesundheitskrise Transparenz bei Glasfaser

Ghislaine Maxwell received limited immunity during meetings with deputy attorney general: Sources (ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/deputy-ag-blanche-set-meet-2nd-day-ghislaine/story?id=124064062
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p106#a250725p106

Top Virtual Instruments for Songwriters and Composers
#MusicianTips #Sounds for #MusicMaking

Top Virtual Instruments for Songwriters and Composers
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Ukrainian MP, businessman Yaroslav Rushchyshyn dies in motorcycle accident: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/25/ukrainian-mp-businessman-yaroslav-rushchyshyn.html

Tether says it has ~250K Tether Gold tokens in circulation as of Q2 2025, backed 1:1 by a troy ounce of physical gold; the stablecoin was launched in Jan. 2020 (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/364232/250000

I burned pictures on a CD today! Inside the camera I was using to take the pictures!
Because the early 2000s had cool tech shit like that, unlike the endless barrage of mostly black surveillance rectangles of today.

France summoned the American ambassador Charles Kushner
after he wrote a letter to President Emmanuel Macron alleging France had failed to do enough to stem antisemitic violence
a French foreign ministry spokesperson said on Sunday.
Kushner, who is Jewish and whose son Jared is married to Donald Trump’s daughter, published the open letter in the Wall Street Journal amid deep divides between France and the US and Israel.
Kushner’s letter to Macron noted that Monday was…

Google: Pixel 10 unterstützt Satelliten-Sprach- und Videoanrufe über WhatsApp
Google bietet mit der neuen Pixel-10-Reihe ein zunächst exklusives Feature an: Sprach- und Videoanrufe mit WhatsApp über Satellit.

There is no petrol and there won't be any! Russians were told the truth on TV #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/25/there-is-no-petrol-and.html

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 539 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29461 Unterschriften bis zum 09.07.2025.

Oplossing voor het beschreven probleem is er al heel lang (polymorfe pseudoniemen). Het is de keuze van de wetgever deze wel/niet te hanteren in verschillende toepassingen.
"Manier waarop we BSN's gebruiken is 'onderwerp van discussie' na hack" https://www.

Manier waarop we BSN's gebruiken is 'onderwerp van discussie' na hack
Na de hack bij Clinical Diagnostics werden veel persoonlijke gegevens, waaronder burgerservicenummers, gestolen van mensen die meededen aan het bevolkingsonderzoek naar baarmoederhalskanker. "Het is nu onderwerp van discussie of we BSN's zo moeten blijven gebruiken", zegt het ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport tegen NU.nl.

Stay focused patriots, Epstein is just a distraction from Obama - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/07/24/stay-focused-patriots-epstein-is-just-a-distraction-from-obama/

Top court takes aim at fossil fuels in sweeping ruling #fossilfuel

Top court takes aim at fossil fuels in sweeping ruling
A historic climate ruling by the world's highest court could make it legally riskier for fossil fuel companies to do business and embolden lawsuits against oil and gas expansion, experts say.

Why do people think music needs to be saved?
#music
https://muz4now.com/2014/people-think-music-needs-saved/

Why do people think music needs to be saved?
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Imagen 4 is now available in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio, priced at $0.04 per image or $0.06 for "Ultra" mode that "precisely" follows user instructions (Google Developers Blog)
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/i

Imagen 4 is now available in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio- Google Developers Blog
Explore Imagen 4, Google's advanced text-to-image model, now in paid preview via Gemini API and Google AI Studio, offering improved text generation.

from my link log —
Lecture notes on the π-calculus and Concurrent ML.
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~fp/courses/15312-f04/handouts/26-picalc.pdf
saved 2025-07-26

Astronomie: Die Entstehung des Lebens beginnt wohl im All und nicht auf Planeten
Bislang war unklar, ob die Bedingungen um einen entstehenden Stern zu extrem sind, um die Entwicklung der Bausteine des Lebens zu erlauben: Das sind sie nicht.

From high above Eastern Europe, NATO's airborne surveillance crews
operating the alliance's E-3 Sentry planes
have tracked Russia's evolving air war since the start of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
In the early days, aircrews watched Russian warplanes fly bombing runs toward the front lines.
Now, aircraft are rarely crossing into Ukrainian airspace, having largely been replaced by standoff missile strikes and drone attacks
as both sides rely m…

How NATO surveillance jet saw Russian air war against Ukraine change
As the front lines froze, and air defenses got better, Russia and Ukraine pivoted away from close bombing runs to standoff attacks.

Sources: e-commerce startup OpenStore, co-founded by Keith Rabois, is raising a $15M Series C at a valuation of just $50M, down from $970M in September 2022 (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-0…

E-Commerce Startup OpenStore Cuts Valuation By 95%, Taps New CEO
E-commerce startup OpenStore is slashing its valuation from nearly $1 billion to just $50 million in a new round of funding as it prepares to narrow its focus to building up menswear brand Jack Archer.

Prima idee en nodig in deze turbulente tijd, een tussen kabinet.
"Oud-topambtenaar Ter Haar: 'Er gebeurt nu zoveel van cruciale betekenis voor de wereld, dat je het land niet kunt laten vertegenwoordigen door bewindspersonen zonder enig gezag.' Pleit voor een ander tussenkabinet bestaand uit mensen van verschillende partijen met veel politiek-bestuurlijke ervaring"

I'm with France.
U.S. slams France's plan to recognize Palestinian state in September
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/24/france-palestine-state-macron-abbas-israel

Central American countries most affected by plastic bottle pollution #America

Central American countries most affected by plastic bottle pollution
Most of the plastic bottles and caps that pollute the Pacific coasts of Latin American countries are of local origin, and are mainly produced by the multinational companies The Coca-Cola Company, Aje Group and PepsiCo. The countries most affected by these pollutants are those in Central America, probably due to high consumption of beverages in plastic containers, poor waste management and transport by ocean currents. On the island coasts, bottles of Asian origin are more abundant, probably dump…

Erster Trailer: In "Battlefield 6" geht es der NATO an den Kragen
EA hat den ersten Trailer zum kommenden "Battlefield 6" veröffentlicht, der wenig Zweifel am Eintritt des NATO-Bündnisfalls lässt. Die Erwartungen sind riesig.

Pure beauty. The nuance of sax and other instruments -- notably tablas which feature on several tracks. Moods these bring up in me range from touching to expectation.
Thanks for recording this!
And I'm looking forward to adding more from Richard to my collection. Favorite track: Anxiety Hides in my Dreams.
#saxophone

Chinesische JD.com verhandelt über Kauf von Media-Saturn
Der chinesische Online-Händler JD.com verhandelt mit Ceconomy über eine Übernahme. Ceconomy ist Eigentümer von Media Markt und Saturn.
https://www.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Wednesday that he is formally rescinding the use of thimerosal in vaccines distributed throughout the United States
— despite the fact that there is no evidence of harm from the ingredient.
The move was recommended by a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) committee last month.
-- Upon taking office earlier this year, Kennedy had dismissed the entirety of the existing board and replaced them with individuals harboring anti-va…

RFK Jr. Bans Thimerosal in Some Flu Vaccines, Despite Experts, Studies Noting Its Safety
“Banning vaccine ingredients without cause increases the perceived risk of vaccines,” one prominent health group said.

Sources detail Intel's two-week roller-coaster ride, from Trump demanding CEO Lip-Bu Tan step down to the US government becoming Intel's biggest shareholder (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/inside-intels-tri

Trump, Who Promised To Save TikTok, Threatens To Shut Down TikTok - Slashdot
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/24/2019225/trump-who-promised-to-save-tiktok-threatens-to-shut-down-tiktok

Healthy European peatlands require specific temperature and water level parameters #Europe

Healthy European peatlands require specific temperature and water level parameters
Efforts to enhance peat accumulation in European peatlands, which contain around half of Europe's soil carbon, will require a combination of warm temperatures and a specific depth of the water table, according to a study published in PLOS One by Graeme Swindles of Queen's University Belfast, U.K. and colleagues.

Anthropic kann Copyright-Klage von Buchautoren teilweise abwehren
Anthropic hat Bücher ohne Genehmigung kopiert und für LLM-Trainings genutzt. Die Zulässigkeit ist abhängig von der Beschaffungsweise, sagt ein US-Gericht.

Some 4chan users claim they breached Tea, the women's dating safety app that has topped the US App Store charts, exposing selfies and drivers' licenses (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/women-dating-safety-app-tea-breached-use…

Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan
“DRIVERS LICENSES AND FACE PICS! GET THE FUCK IN HERE BEFORE THEY SHUT IT DOWN!” the thread read before being deleted.

Small issue of standing, but whatever:
Kim Davis Petitions SCOTUS To Overturn Obergefell - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/07/kim-davis-petitions-scotus-to-overturn-obergefell/

The UK starts enforcing new online child safety laws, requiring websites that host porn, self-harm, suicide, and eating disorder content to verify users' age (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-age-checked-internet-has-arrived/

The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived
Starting today, UK adults will have to prove their age to access porn online. Experts warn that a global wave of age-check laws threatens to chill speech and ultimately harm children and adults alike.

Warum Microsoft mit Windows 95 den modernen PC definierte
Vor dreißig Jahren hatte Microsoft starke Konkurrenz und reagierte mit Werbung. Doch auch technisch war Windows 95 besser als sein heutiger Ruf.
htt…

Convicted [Triple] Murderer Freed by Trump in Venezuelan Prisoner Swap Is Free in U.S. - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/world/americas/trump-venezuela-convicted-murderer-swap.html

Kalshi raised $185M led by Paradigm at a $2B valuation; sources: Polymarket is completing a $200M investment led by Founders Fund at a ~$1B pre-money valuation (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Donnerstag: Texas mit Recht auf Reparatur, Bayern und Wien für KI-Gigafabriken
Republikaner für Reparaturen Buhlen um KI-Subventionen Streit um Online-Altersprüfungen Apple-Aus für Rosetta 2 Darknet-Admins verhaftet #heiseshow

FEMA chief would report directly to US president under new bill | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fema-chief-would-report-directly-us-president-under-new-bill-2025-07-24/

#heiseshow: KI und Sprache, Prozessorfälschungen, Magnetschwebebahnen
In der #heiseshow: KI verändert unseren Wortschatz, Schutz vor gefälschten Prozessoren und Chinas spektakuläre Magnetschwebebahn-Pläne.

Aylo, owner of Pornhub, YouPorn, and RedTube, will add "government approved age assurance methods" in the UK by July 25 to comply with the Online Safety Act (BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr5v2lz5vl6o

Pornhub to introduce 'government approved' UK age checks
Parent company Aylo hasn't spelt out what the age checking methods will be, but say they will be introduced within a month.

The Forest Service claims it’s fully staffed for fire season. Data shows thousands of unfilled jobs • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/07/24/the-forest-service-claims-its-fully-staffed-for-fire-season-data-shows-thousands-of-unfilled-jobs/

Amazon Music Unlimited: Abonnenten bekommen ein Hörbuch pro Monat
Abonnenten von Amazon Music Unlimited können künftig ein Audible-Hörbuch pro Monat hören. Damit folgt Amazon dem Spotify-Vorbild.

Sources: Ramp is in talks to raise $350M led by Iconiq at a ~$21B valuation, after raising $200M at a $16B valuation in June (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ramp-talks-raise-21-billion-valuation-30-june-financing

Ramp in Talks to Raise at $21 Billion Valuation, Up 30% From June Financing
Ramp, a six-year-old corporate card and expense management startup, is in discussions with investors to raise $350 million at a valuation of about $21 billion with the investment, according to three people with direct knowledge of the fundraising, just a month after raising at a $16 billion ...

9th Circuit sides with Oregon mother denied foster parent status over LGBTQ views - oregonlive.com
https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2025/07/9th-circuit-sides-with-oregon-mother-denied-foster-parent-status-over-lgbtq-views.html

Blackstone agrees to acquire a majority stake in NetBrain, valuing the Burlington, Massachusetts-based network operations and automation company at $750M (Ryan Gould/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-…

"There’s hell to pay when those who hyped the conspiracy have closed the books on the case”
Karl Rove on Trump, Epstein saga: 'There’s hell to pay'
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5419592-karl-rove-on-trump-epstein-saga-theres-hell-to-pay/

"The Trump administration has acknowledged that it's breaching a Biden-era settlement with the families, but claimed that a new president means it doesn't need to comply."
Feds must restart services to separated asylum-seeking families | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-must-restart-services-to-separated-asylum-seeking-families/