Tootfinder

'Treat them like you’re treating Washington' — Democrat tells Trump to toughen stance on Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/26/treat-them-like-youre-treating.html

YouTube launches an AI Overviews-like carousel for searches related to shopping, places, and things to do in a specific place, for Premium users in the US (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/26/youtube-adds-an-ai-ove…

YouTube adds an AI Overviews-like search results carousel | TechCrunch
YouTube is rolling out new AI-powered features to help users find content and information more easily, the company announced on Thursday.

Dienstag: Klage gegen Apple und OpenAI, Löschung inaktiver BundID-Nutzerkonten
Streit wegen App-Store-Ranking Rückschlag bei Digitalisierung der Verwaltung Botnet-Kampagne JD.com in Deutschland aktiv Umbau beim iPhone geplant

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/26/student-allegedly-hacked-western-sydney-university-to-get-discounted-parking-and-alter-academic-results-ntwnfb

WTF
#trump

Trump administration to deport Abrego Garcia again
There was no timeline for the removal.

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

On several input channels I’m seeing rage about the new Android Phone and Contacts apps, big redesigns with no warning. If there are people for whom you provide tech support, e.g. elderly relatives, you'd better get in touch and teach them how to answer a phone call, because tapping the green button doesn’t work any more. Also it’s hard to find call history, and more.
Some Product Manager needed a promotion. As usual, when doing cost/benefit analysis, the pain inflicted on users w…

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.

私のAIの使い方のひとつ。
--
【速報】障害者の解雇最多9千人|47NEWS（よんななニュース）
https://www.47news.jp/12772119.html
↓
速報はわかったが背景がわからん。調べてみよう（おもむろにPerplexityに調査を投げる）
↓
このニュースについて、背景や実態を調査してください。きっかけとなる制度改正などはありましたか？

Why Sing In A Choir?
#singing #community
https://muz4now.com/2025/why-sing-in-a-cho…

Why Sing In A Choir?
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

wake up babe, new biological side channel dropped https://m.youtube.com/shorts/Q40vd8oRCO8

From Epstein to Obama, Trump's Washington Is Consumed by Competing Conspiracies (Peter Baker/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/us/politics/trump-epstein-obama-conspiracies.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250726/p11#a250726p11

FCC filing: Larry Ellison will hold a minority voting interest of ~35.5% in the combined Paramount-Skydance company, without any veto or special voting rights (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/larry-ellison-paramount-skydance-merger-voting-right…

Larry Ellison to Hold 35.5% of Family's Voting Rights in New Paramount, National Amusements After Skydance Merger Closes
The Oracle chairman will not have any "veto rights, or any special or outsized voting rights," per an amendment filed with the FCC

They said Mongo had the hots for Sheriff Bart.
#WhyCharactersGotMad #HashTagGames

Ein letztes #FotoDerWoche von meiner österlichen Italienreise - hier ein Abstecher von Florenz ans Mittelmeer bei Livorno.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/index

Photo of the week: Livorno, port area - XI
Ein letztes Foto von der Florenz-Reise, aber eben nicht aus Florenz, sondern aus Livorno. Die Hafenstadt liegt etwas siebzig Kilometer westlich von Florenz. Nachdem ich auf einer Karte gesehen hatte, dass das Mittelmeer gar nicht so weit entfernt ist, habe ich kurzentschlossen einen nachmittäglichen

The entire excuse for shutting out the UN and starving Gaza was a lie.
"No Proof Hamas Routinely Stole U.N. Aid, Israeli Military Officials Say" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/world/middleeast/hamas-un-aid-theft.html?smid=n…

No Proof Hamas Routinely Stole U.N. Aid, Israeli Military Officials Say
Israel has long restricted aid to Gaza on the argument that Hamas steals it to use as a weapon of control over the population. On Saturday, the Israeli military announced new airdrops of aid.

En Syrie, quatre mariages pour une réconciliation
https://www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/article/2025/06/26/en-syrie-quatre-mariages-pour-une-reconciliation_6615936_4500055.html

En Syrie, quatre mariages pour une réconciliation
A Lattaquié, sur le littoral syrien, théâtre de tueries visant la minorité alaouite dont est issu le clan Assad, quatre couples de confession sunnite et chiite se sont unis lors d’un mariage collectif. Une façon de lutter contre les divisions communautaires qui déchirent le pays, comme vient encore de le montrer l’attentat du 22 juin contre une église à Damas.

Vor knapp 90 Jahren wurden in Deutschland Juden aus ihren Wohnungen geholt und "in den Osten umgesiedelt". Viele Menschen in Deutschland, die natürlich bis 1945 nichts "von Lagern und Massenmord wussten" haben Einrichtungsgegenstände aus den verlassenen Wohnungen ganz offiziell billig gekauft oder unter der hand eingesteckt.
Und heute erlebe ich die menschen um mich herum, dass sie sich benehmen, wie die Profiteure vor 90 jahren. Die Frisörin, die Kassiererin im Sup…

Vor knapp 90 Jahren wurden in Deutschland Juden aus ihren Wohnungen geholt und "in den Osten umgesiedelt". Viele Menschen in Deutschland, die natürlich bis 1945 nichts "von Lagern und Massenmord wussten" haben Einrichtungsgegenstände aus den verlassenen Wohnungen ganz offiziell billig gekauft oder unter der hand eingesteckt.
Und heute erlebe ich die menschen um mich herum, dass sie sich benehmen, wie die Profiteure vor 90 jahren. Die Frisörin, die Kassiererin im Sup…

"To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication."
-Marlon Brando
#acting #coaching #inspiration …

No Proof Hamas Routinely Stole U.N. Aid, Israeli Military Officials Say - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/world/middleeast/hamas-un-aid-theft.html

If any @… people are reading this: @… is trying to put together an in-person London (UK) area meetup/conf/etc. If you're interested, let him know! I'd be jealous (and would visit when I can).

Tipp: Seitenvorschau in Safari auf dem Mac nutzen
Eine nützliche iOS-Funktion zur Vorschau von Websites funktioniert auch unter macOS. Wir zeigen, wie Sie vorgehen.
https://www.heise.de/ra…

The Trump administration
illegally withheld funding
from the federal child care program, according to congressional investigators.
It’s the third time this year that
investigators from the Government Accountability Office
have determined the administration
defied Congress on spending.

Trump Administration Illegally Withheld Head Start Funds, Watchdog Finds
It’s the third time this year that investigators from the Government Accountability Office have determined the administration defied Congress on spending.

@… 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)

Quick test board for STM32H750 UFBGA240 25 paired with the Trion T20 BGA256 FPGA devkit.
Goals:
* Validate my KiCAD symbol for STM32H750 in TFBGA240 25
* Bring up a basic BSP and stm32-cpp support for the STM32H750 (should be straightforward with most stuff very similar to the H735)
* Play with the H7 QUADSPI and see how it works for both XIP and copy-code-to-SRAM use cases
* Add QUADSPI flash driver for microkvs (which currently only supports internal flash)
*…

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke je Bundesland pro 10000 Einwohner in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.06.2025.
#Balkonkraftwerk

Ich kenne inzwischen mehrere Unternehmen, die wegen #Cyberattacken beinahe in die Pleite gegangen wären. Inzwischen sind die Bedrohungen überall, weil Sicherheit schlampig oder zögerlich umgesetzt wird und mit Cyberangriffen und Erpressung viel Geld verdient wird.
Trotzdem bekommt es die Bundesregierung auch nach 3 Jahren nicht hin, die

Umsetzung der NIS-2-Richtlinie: Bundestag muss Gesetz zur Cybersicherheit nachbessern
Deutschland hat die EU-Richtlinie zur Cybersicherheit nicht umgesetzt, obwohl die Frist längst verstrichen ist. Vor zwei Wochen hat das Bundeskabinett ein Gesetz auf den Weg gebracht. Der Entwurf hat jedoch erheblichen Nachbesserungsbedarf, zum Beispiel beim staatlichen Umgang mit Sicherheitslücken.

cars are emerging as a political fault line all over the country, from Prop K in SF to the NYC mayoral primary. which side are you on? https://www.jalopnik.com/1895759/nyc-mayor-election-zohran-mamdani-won-non-car-owners/

NYC's Upset Election Was Drawn Along An Odd Line: Car Ownership
Car ownership and transit ridership serve as a shorthand for someone's entire living situation — and, apparently, their politics.

Memphis women ain’t playing around
https://wreg.com/news/local/car-catches-fire-after-crashing-into-front-yard/

The #Axiom4 crew has reached the ISS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byE5Kol94xI and https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2025/06/26/axiom-mission-4-astronauts-enter-station-begin-research-mission/ and https://www.esa.int/Newsroom/Press_Releases/Ignis_First_Polish_space_mission_with_ESA_s_Slawosz_Uznanski-Wisniewski_begins

In a burst of planning, I just booked a RT flight to SFO to attend the NFS 40th birthday celebration at MSST 2025 next month a hotel room in Santa Clara for a couple nights another night near SFO so I can go visit a buddy in Oakland for a day. I'll book DTW bus tix later.
https://www.msstconference.org/

@… @… I prefer “people”, because cats are also people.

I'm currently reading the second book of the DAEMON (German: Darknet, English: Freedom), a techno thriller from Daniel Suarez.
Pretty cool I think.
But what's even cooler: I just checked his homepage ( https://daniel-suarez.com/daemon10thsynopsis.html ) and saw a Ma…

@… kannte ich gar nicht, das sieht praktisch aus! Danke!

"by April of 2024 Gaza had already suffered more than 70,000 tonnes of bombing. To put that in perspective, that is more than the combined bomb tonnage dropped on Dresden, Hamburg, and London in World War II. Now more than a year later, that bombing has only increased. It is no surprise, therefore, that UN Humanitarian Chief Martin Griffiths declared Gaza “uninhabitable” due to the bombing, destruction, blockades, and subsequent famines"

NYT Whitewashes Genocide, Again
In an OpEd, Columnist Bret Stephens takes a sledgehammer to truth & humanity to justify a live streamed genocide—we rebuke his propaganda in full

"French Car Brand Renault To Go Completely Leather-Free By The End Of 2025"
#Renault #Cars #Vehicles

French Car Brand Renault To Go Completely Leather-Free By The End Of 2025
Renault has said that all of its cars will be completely leather-free by the end of 2025, following discussions with PETA France

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Goat:
🎵 Disco Fever
#Goat
https://goat.bandcamp.com/track/disco-fever-3
https://open.spotify.com/track/5plmGfodqCo1Vf0KP4U5t1

Yet More Enphase AC Battery Home Storage (2025-04-17) - And then there were five! #storage #grid #selfConsumption -

Yet More Enphase AC Battery Home Storage (2025-04-17)
And then there were five! #storage #grid #selfConsumption

Karsten Hilse postet ein Video vom traditionellen Forstfestumzug in Kamenz und sein blaunes Völkchen dreht im den Kommentaren durch, weil es die Flagge der Oberlausitz für die ukrainische Flagge hält. 🤭
Aber was macht der Typ auf der Ehrentribühne?

"FBi Radio is regarded by the industry as a cornerstone of the Australian music scene." FBi Radio is also home to some of Australia's great podcasts including *All The Best*, *Back Chat*, and *Race Matters* https://www.

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

Air pollution raises risk of dementia, say Cambridge scientists https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/24/air-pollution-raises-risk-of-dementia-say-cambridge-scientists

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

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.

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.

Every company or government should think about this, prepare exit and contingency plans. Also for other dependencies.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/26/cost_of_microsoft_dependency/

What if Microsoft just turned you off? Security pro counts the cost of dependency
Comment: Czech researcher lays out a business case for reducing reliance on Redmond

Elon Musk is threatening to put third-party candidates on the ballot. Democrats are giddy. (Jacob Wendler/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/26/elon-musk-america-party-swing-states-00477177
http://www.memeorandum.com/250726/p31#a250726p31

Trump is now trying to remove a member of the independent Federal Reserve (US central bank) Board of Governors. Unsurprisingly, she's a Black woman.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx275n8gx0ro.amp

Trump orders removal of Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook - BBC News
Cook says the US president "has no authority to do so" in defiance of Trump's escalatory move against the central bank.

Clouds and More from the Finger Lakes
(Did anyone notice the bit about the Moog synthesizer?)
https://muz4now.com/2025/clouds-and-more-from-the-finger-lakes

Clouds and More from the Finger Lakes
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

"Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul."
-Annette Bening
#acting #coaching #inspiration

This Democrat Wants Cognitive Standards in Congress. Her Colleagues Disagree. - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/us/politics/age-cognitive-standards-congress.html

Webinarserie: Apple-Support auf Expertenniveau – mit Blick auf Zertifizierung
Erlernen Sie alle Feinheiten von macOS, iOS und iPadOS. Werden Sie zum Apple-Support-Profi und bereiten sich optional auf die Zertifizierung durch Apple vor.

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.

How much energy does your AI prompt use? It depends.
“[…]grid operators are freaking out. Tech companies can’t just keep doing this. Things are going to start going south.”
www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-energy-carbon-emissions-chatgpt mobile_share=true
#ai #aienergyconsumption

Au Pakistan, la fin du paradis perdu de la Hunza : « En Š peine vingt ans, tout notre environnement a changé »
https://www.lemonde.fr/climat/article/2025/06/2…

Au Pakistan, la fin du paradis perdu de la Hunza : « En à peine vingt ans, tout notre environnement a changé »
« L’Himalaya en surchauffe » (3/6). Dans le nord du pays, les habitants de villages restés isolés du monde extérieur durant des siècles subissent les effets conjugués du raccordement au reste du territoire et du réchauffement climatique, à l’origine de diverses catastrophes.

@… 😜 https://buecher.pnpde.social/user/D3

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.

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

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-…

Digitale Abhängigkeit: Plattner betont Umweg zu Souveränität
Ein Großteil der IT ist US-geprägt. Diese Abhängigkeit hat zuletzt sogar noch zugenommen. Das BSI plant eine Doppelstrategie.
https://www.

Taiwan votes in major recall election closely watched by China (Yimou Lee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/taiwan-votes-major-recall-election-closely-watched-by-china-2025-07-26/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p129#a250725p129

50.5°C in Turkey yesterday!
First time ever above 50°C in the country.
Unprecedented, there's that word again.
Via @… on Bluesky.

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.

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.

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.

FCC Chairman: President Trump is fundamentally reshaping the media landscape (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2025/07/25/fcc-chairman-president-trump-is-fundamentally-reshaping-the-media-landscape.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250726/p1#a250726p1

A US judge sentences an Arizona woman to 8.5 years in prison for running a "laptop farm" that enabled North Korean workers to secure IT jobs at 309 US companies (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
https://therecord.media/arizona-woman-sentenced-north-korean-laptop-…

Arizona woman sentenced to 8.5 years for running North Korean laptop farm
Prosecutors said Chapman helped the North Korean IT workers obtain jobs at 309 companies, including a major television network, a car maker, a media company, a Silicon Valley technology company and more.

Affaire de Bétharram : en 1998, les ratés de la justice face aux agresseurs présumés
https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2025/06/25/affaire-de-betharram-en-1998-les-rates-de-la-…

Affaire de Bétharram : en 1998, les ratés de la justice face aux agresseurs présumés
Le dossier judiciaire de l’époque mettant en cause le père Silviet-Carricart, auquel « Le Monde » a eu accès, relève deux défaillances majeures dans la procédure. La première concerne cet ancien directeur de l’établissement scolaire privé, la seconde l’ex-surveillant Damien S., aujourd’hui mis en cause dans une centaine de plaintes.

Gefahr in der Luft: 🎧🚨 Forscher haben eine kritische Sicherheitslücke aufgedeckt, die Millionen drahtlose Kopfhörer in potenzielle Abhörgeräte verwandeln könnte.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10457857?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.…

Democratic candidates are posting weightlifting videos in search of a midterm lift (David Wright/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/26/politics/democrats-weightlifting-videos
http://www.memeorandum.com/250726/p39#a250726p39

China's premier Li Qiang proposes creating an organization for global cooperation in AI and says "bottlenecks" in chip supplies are hindering AI innovation (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/de06e1ac-6a12-45a4-a31c-0dfecea4343e

Après l'électricité hier soir, c'est le réseau mobile ce matin
Screenshot (26 juin 2025 06:57:20)

Chinese automaker Geely's ride-hailing arm CaoCao raised $236M in a Hong Kong IPO, listing 19% below its offer price; its market cap was $2.42B as of Wednesday (Kensaku Ihara/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Marke

China ride-hail app CaoCao raises $236m in Hong Kong debut
Geely-backed service seeks to challenge market leader Didi

Musk sought to stoke the Trump-Epstein scandal. Mission accomplished. (Cat Zakrzewski/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/26/trump-epstein-musk-controversy/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250726/p43#a250726p43

Sources: Meta has poached three OpenAI researchers, Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai, for its superintelligence efforts (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-poaches-t

Utah judge tosses Legislature's gerrymandered congressional maps, orders new ones be redrawn (Salt Lake Tribune)
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2025/08/25/utah-judge-orders-new-non/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250826/p1#a250826p1

Google pilots a new language practice feature on Google Translate with tailored listening and practicing sessions, and also adds AI-powered live conversations (Steve Dent/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/apps/google-translates-latest-fe…

Google Translate's latest feature is its take on Duolingo
Considering its popularity, Google Translate sure hasn't received a lot of attention lately -- but that just changed with a big new update.

Ethics panel orders AOC to pay additional $3,000 for 2021 Met Gala (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/25/ethics-panel-orders-aoc-to-pay-additional-3000-for-2021-met-gala
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p128#a250725p128

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…

After Ghislaine Maxwell Interview, Concerns Mount Over Possibility of Pardon (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/us/politics/ghislaine-maxwell-trump-pardon.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p118#a250725p118

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.

Two Democratic Governors Say if Texas Redraws Congressional Maps, They May Too (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/us/politics/texas-democrats-redistricting.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p122#a250725p122

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 ...

Where Is Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei? (Farnaz Fassihi/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/world/middleeast/where-is-khamenei-iran-supreme-leader.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250626/p1#a250626p1

Sources: CoreWeave is in talks to acquire bitcoin miner Core Scientific, which has a market value of ~$3.7B; Core Scientific rejected CoreWeave's bid in 2024 (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/coreweave-in-talks-to-bu…

Venezuelan Little League team denied entry into US amid Trump travel ban (Aaron Pellish/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/25/trump-travel-ban-little-league-00477894
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p125#a250725p125

Workers at Google, TikTok, Adobe, Dropbox, CrowdStrike, and other tech firms recount how managers used AI to justify firing them, speed up their work, and more (Brian Merchant/Blood in the Machine)
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-ai-is-killing-jo…

AI Killed My Job: Tech workers
Tech workers at TikTok, Google, and across the industry share stories about how AI is changing, ruining, or replacing their jobs.

Academic with history of incendiary remarks to lead US Institute of Peace (Jacob Wendler/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/25/darren-beattie-institute-of-peace-00478133
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p126#a250725p126

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.

Fired Speechwriter From First Trump Term Appointed to Lead the Institute of Peace (Aishvarya Kavi/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/admin/darren-beattie-institute-of-peace.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p127#a250725p127

Exclusive: 'A more vulnerable nation': FEMA memos lay out risks of plan to cut $1B in disaster and security grants (Gabe Cohen/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/25/politics/fema-propose-cuts-disaster-security-grants
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p131#a250725p131

New Reports on Russian Interference Don't Show What Trump Says They Do (Charlie Savage/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/us/trump-obama-russia.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZU8.G1XD.fcxqFuw9_3i-&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p119#a250725p119

Amid starvation scenes in Gaza, Trump administration hardens tone on Hamas (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/25/gaza-hunger-trump-hamas-ceasefire/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p121#a250725p121

Sen. Rick Scott to fly banner urging New Yorkers who 'hate socialism' to move to Florida: 'We have better beaches' (Victor Nava/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/07/25/us-news/sen-rick-scott-to-fly-banner-urging-new-yorkers-who-hate-socialism-to-move-to-florida/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p116#a250725p116

Democrats Get Lowest Rating From Voters in 35 Years, WSJ Poll Finds (Aaron Zitner/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/democratic-party-poll-voter-confidence-july-2025-9db38021
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p130#a250725p130

AOC broke House rules to attend Met Gala with beau Riley Roberts, is told to pay additional $2,700 for 'Tax The Rich' gown, other accessories (Josh Christenson/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/07/25/us-news/aoc-broke-house-rules-to-attend-met-gala-with-beau-riley-roberts-told-to-pay-additional-2700-for-tax-the-rich-gown-other-accessories/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p124#a250725p124

Two Southwest flight attendants injured after jet moved to avoid another aircraft (David Shepardson/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/two-southwest-flight-attendants-injured-after-jet-moved-avoid-another-aircraft-2025-07-25/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p115#a250725p115