2025-11-30 06:00:13
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Weg von Microsoft: Abgeordnete fordern digitale Souveränität im EU-Parlament
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Weg von Microsoft: Abgeordnete fordern digitale Souveränität im EU-Parlament
Chinese AI firms are leading a wave of IPOs in Hong Kong, where at least 25 companies debuted in December 2025, the busiest month for deals since November 2019 (Jeanny Yu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
Want that fresh 🎄 smell without buying a tree? Go pickup free tree clippings at the place that sells trees.
Here's my BEST ALBUMS OF 2025:
https://bzangygroink.co.uk/archives/2025/12/31/albums-of-the-year-2025/
And here's my other lists going back back to 2004:
Hey CoSocialists, we had our AGM yesterday and while there’ll be a blog post coming, now is the time for members to cast a vote on priorities and activities.
https://cosocial.ca/@coop/115469528965103864
Survey is at
RE: https://chaos.social/@karolherbst/115635491492141491
Wait I thought it's GNU/Linux, not MAGA/Linux
England is facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year.
Government and water companies are devising emergency plans for the worst water shortage in decades.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/20
Consequences of Undecidability in Physics on the #TheoryOfEverything: #universe is a #ComputerSiimulation: https://news.ok.ubc.ca/2025/10/30/ubco-study-debunks-the-idea-that-the-universe-is-a-computer-simulation/ - new study uses logic and physics to definitively answer one of science's biggest questions.
Zum beim #39C3 aufgenommenen Podcast "c’t uplink: Digitale Souveränität – sind Häcker:innen jetzt fürs Staatswohl verantwortlich?" gibt's jetzt auch das Video.
Es war mir eine Freude, den Begriff #DigitaleSouveränität aufs Neue zu zerpflücken, denn das ist ein…
«if you have to choose a “pedia” to trust, you might choose the one assembled by a bunch of pedantic nerds saying “well, ACTUALLY” to each other until the heat death of the universe, over the one assembled by an LLM controlled by an insecure Nazi salute-throwing billionaire»
A Review of Grokipedia, Using Myself as Test Subject | Whatever
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/30/a-review-of-grokipedia-using-myself-as-test-subject/
OpenAI is launching an AI agent to help developers find and verify bugs in their code.
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/30/openai-security-agent-code-threats
NATO may get 'more aggressive' in countering Russia’s hybrid attacks, top military official says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/01/nato-may-get-more-aggressive.html
It’s so yellow and ugly why do people like it I don’t get it.
At least the AI generated art on Pinterest blends in so well it’s hard to catch sometimes.
But the people making “illustrations” for business contexts don’t even try.
Het is een drama natuurlijk maar de foto is wel briljant als illustratie van hoe regels worden overtreden...die nog in veel presentaties gaat terugkomen.
#ajaxgroningen #vuurwerk
I should learn some #Malay songs.
Just so that the next time someone in #Indonesia sings a #Hindi song because they think I'll like that, I can sing my favorite "
@… なおしたよー
Ces expressions de la langue française dont on ignore l’origine
https://www.lemonde.fr/la-matinale/article/2025/11/30/ces-expressions-de-la-langue-francaise-dont-on-ignore-l-origine_6655413_4866763.html…
Error chaining in JavaScript: cleaner debugging with Error.cause
Error handling in JavaScript has always felt a bit chaotic. Throwing errors is easy, but tracing them back to the root cause? Not so much. That’s where the cause property comes in.
🧑💻 https://all…
#TIL Beim Schlampenfest im Fat Cat des Slutwalk in München gibt es Slutty Yoga, pussy eating Workshop, Slutty Lesung und Linoldruck.
Was ist denn #Linoldruck?
https://www.slutwalk-muenchen.de/
#TIL Beim Schlampenfest im Fat Cat des Slutwalk in München gibt es Slutty Yoga, pussy eating Workshop, Slutty Lesung und Linoldruck.
Was ist denn #Linoldruck?
https://www.slutwalk-muenchen.de/
Sharing the benefits of grid-scale batteries and solar/wind by trading in western US. The current 15 minute market in California Now going to day ahead market.
(I think made possible with recent massive grid-scale batteries allows evening out of renewables)
California now runs 5pm-8pm electricity use on batteries. Turn off more plants cuz can plan for a full day.
Thoughtful article on wholesale electricity grid coordination markets. Sounds dry, but cool:
"We need to be very open about [the fact] that it probably is only the beginning,” she said. “We need all Europeans to understand what is at stake and what’s going on. When there are drones or cyber attacks, the idea is to divide us. ”
warns Danish PM - https://on.ft.com/4nXNe3h
Gayle King Expected to Depart as 'CBS Mornings' Anchor Amid CBS News Overhaul (EXCLUSIVE) (Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/gayle-king-cbs-mornings-anchor-out-1236565036/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p141#a251030p141
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Dänemark verabschiedet sich überraschend von Plänen für die Chatkontrolle
Filing: Chinese chip designer OmniVision Integrated Circuits seeks to raise up to ~$617M in a Hong Kong IPO; HKEX: Hong Kong IPOs have raised ~$36B in 2025 (Sneha Kumar/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific
Oooh! New Aesop Rock dropped … again?!? Yesterday already…… 🤤🤩🎧
https://pitchfork.com/news/aesop-rock-drops-new-album-i-heard-its-a-mess-there-too-listen/
Is this vibe coding https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/115470164536564780
It's never too late to become kitty :3
'Zeroing out' — Russian troops carry out torture, executions in own ranks, media investigation finds: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/31/zeroing-out-russian-troops-carry.html
The Human Only Public License: #genAI
Indivisible Santa Barbara,
working with Artists for Democracy,
is planning an event for January,
"Art of the Resistance".
We are looking for signs and hand-painted protest art
to show in a gallery during the event.
Go to https://buff.ly/ZplE0qE
to submit your ori…
It seems that the #Telugu & #SouthIndian film wave hasn't reached #Indonesia?
When people refuse to accept me as an American, the Indian films/stars/songs they reference and I assume I know are a…
Reddit reports Q3 revenue up 68% YoY to $585M, vs. $546M est., and daily active uniques up 19% to 116M, vs. 114M est.; RDDT jumps 5% after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/30/reddit-rddt-q3-2025.html
Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Irland will EU-weite Identitätspflicht für Social Media einführen
It's so annoying that you can't add images to quote posts on Mastodon, this prevents a whole oeuvre of really funny shitposts
Left Poland – and became an FPV drone operator in Ukraine #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/01/left-poland-and-became-an.html
Chicago’s Militarized Immigration Raids
“Coming to Other Cities”
as Trump Plans 10,000-Bed Jails
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/31/immigration_aaron_reichlin_melnick
Trump Mobile delays plan to launch its gold-coloured smartphone, initially promised for August 2025, saying the recent US government shutdown delayed deliveries (Michael Acton/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/29fc1e75-7bec-4011-acc3-603e51cf9fe2
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
39C3: Konzerne ruinieren das Netz – Cory Doctorows Ideen gegen Enshittification
otoh i've been wrong before ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ofcom chief Melanie Dawes warns social media companies to prove their algorithms protect under-18s from seeing harmful content, or face enforcement action (Dan Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b45b35a1-d93b-44e7-ac4b-139bb20faab7
When you're a kid, you want to talk about things without your parents, teachers, principals, or (some of) your peers or siblings listening in.
You want to plan things without these people listening in, because they might try and stop you from doing them, or punish you if you succeed.
So, it's worth figuring out how to use new technologies, because the existing ones are riddled with censorship and surveillance back-doors ("parental controls") that can be deployed …
Weg von Microsoft: Abgeordnete fordern digitale Souveränität im EU-Parlament
Eine fraktionsübergreifende Gruppe von Volksvertretern appelliert ans EU-Parlament, die Nutzung von MS 365 zugunsten einer europäischen Alternative aufzugeben.
tbf with some patience, I'd expect these to show up for cheap on ebay next year as people who got one loose interest & want to get some of their money back with economy being hosed and all
Airbus-Update nach Zwischenfall – Airlines reagieren rasch
Plötzlicher Höhenverlust, Software-Alarm und schnelle Updates: Airlines und Behörden mussten nach einem Airbus-Vorfall schnell reagieren.
https://www.
Samsung says it's partnering with Nvidia to build an "AI Megafactory" and deploy over 50K of Nvidia's most advanced GPUs to embed AI in its chipmaking process (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/10/30/sa
(From: Struwwelhitler, a parody of Struwwelpeter, 1942.)
You can a full PDF here: https://parridigit.istitutoparri.eu/public/multimediale/1/Monografie/multimedia_source/STR/UW/STRUWWELHITLER.pdf
Missing Link: ChatGPT als Therapeut – Die Wirkung der Resonanzmaschine
Immer mehr Menschen vertrauen einer Maschine, die nichts fühlt, aber uns immer besser versteht. Welche Folgen hat es, wenn ChatGPT therapeutisch wirkt?
Japanese NAND flash memory maker Kioxia is up 500% in 2025 so far, outperforming all other MSCI World Index members, after its Tokyo IPO debut in December 2024 (Alice French/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Oh no I feel a desire to order a Commodore 64 Ultimate which makes no sense because I already have 4 OG Commodore 64's, the SX and a 128
SEC filing: Snowflake says an executive shared unauthorized financial guidance with an Instagram influencer; an Oct. 26 video interview features CRO Mike Gannon (Alice Tecotzky/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/influencer-inte…
Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Schäden an Startrampe russischer Raketen könnten Versorgung der ISS gefährden
This computer is kind of interesting actually. The floppies are from a Mindset workstation (the rest isn't).
Here's a cool video on it (no, not the one from the 2-bit guy): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcmwa0xCSnU
i am a kawaii potato
Shares of Seagate and Western Digital have sharply outperformed the broader market in 2025, surging ~200% on AI-related infrastructure demand for hard drives (Shashwat Chauhan/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/data-stor
Südkorea: Bei Onlinehändler Daten zu zwei Dritteln der Bevölkerung abgegriffen
Ein inzwischen nicht mehr Coupang arbeitender Angestellter soll bei Südkoreas größtem Onlinehändler Daten zur gesamten Kundschaft abgegriffen haben.
(Please don't add "AI" to Notepad 1.01, this is not a dare.)
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the 14,000-person layoffs were due to "culture" and "removing layers" from its internal structure, not really AI or financial factors (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/its-cultu…
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Weg von Microsoft: Abgeordnete fordern digitale Souveränität im EU-Parlament
Taiwan raises its 2025 GDP growth forecast to 7.37%, up from 4.45% forecasted in August, the fastest in 15 years, as AI demand boosts its electronics exports (Kathrin Hille/Financial Times)
Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Keep Android Open – Abwehr gegen Verbot anonymer Apps von Google
Filing: Chinese chipmaker GigaDevice aims to raise up to ~$600M in a Hong Kong IPO, offering 28.9M shares at up to ~$21 each (Nichiket Sunil/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-based-gigadev…
PSA: if you start watching The Hudsucker Proxy at 10:23:14pm the clock in the movie will strike midnight (New Year's Day 1959) exactly when it's your local midnight
Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Datentransfer in die USA: Klage gegen EU-Datenschutzrahmen geht vor den EuGH
Corporate travel and expense management software maker Navan's shares fell 20% to $20, valuing it at $5B, after raising $923.1M in its IPO at a $6.2B market cap (Subrat Patnaik/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Fire TV: Amazon sperrt künftig Piraterie-Apps
Auf Fire-TV-Geräten per Sideloading installierte Piraterie-Apps werden anhand einer Blacklist der Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment unbenutzbar gemacht.
https://www.
Vodafone agrees to acquire Skaylink, a German company specializing in managing cloud deployments on Microsoft Azure and AWS, for €175M from PE firm Waterland (Yamini Kalia/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/vodafone-buy-german-clo…
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Dänemark verabschiedet sich überraschend von Plänen für die Chatkontrolle
China's central bank reaffirmed its stance on crypto, calling virtual currency activity illegal and saying stablecoins fail KYC and anti-money-laundering rules (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa<…
Unzulässige Preiserhöhung: Amazons Berufung abgewiesen
Die Preiserhöhung bei Amazon Prime vom Herbst 2022 bleibt ungültig. Der Konzern hat auch beim OLG Düsseldorf verloren.
https://www.
Filing: Gloo, a developer of AI tools for Christian churches with ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger as its head of technology, seeks an $873.4M valuation in its US IPO (Pritam Biswas/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/gloo-wi
KI-Update kompakt: KI-Stethoskop, Alexa , Claude Sonnet 4.5, Apple
Das "KI-Update" liefert drei mal pro Woche eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www.
Großer Umbau im Google Home: Gemini hält Einzug – Support für viele Geräte
Google hat den Startschuss für seine nächste Smart-Home-Generation mit Gemini gegeben. Viele Nutzer brauchen nicht einmal neue Hardware dafür.
…
How the AI data center boom boosted Caterpillar's power and energy unit; generator sales are up 28% YoY through Sept. 2025, after growing 22% to $7.8B in 2024 (Bob Tita/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/caterpillar-generator-sales-…
Peloton bringt Fitnessgeräte mit KI-Anbindung
Peloton verspricht grundlegend neue Geräte, KI-gestütztes Personal Coaching und erweiterte Wellness-Inhalte. Parallel steigen die Abopreise für Neukunden.
https://www.
How Manus distanced itself from its Chinese roots to court US investors; a source says Meta's $2.5B deal includes a $500M retention pool for Manus' employees (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/…
Alibaba Technical Report: Qwen3-VL beats GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro on visual tasks and has 100% accuracy on "needle-in-a-haystack" tests for 30-minute videos (Jonathan Kemper/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/qwen3-vl-can-scan-two-hour-…
Amazon reports Q3 revenue up 13% YoY to $180.2B, a $21.2B net income vs. $15.3B in Q3 2024, and operating income flat at $17.4B; AMZN jumps 10% after hours (Amazon)
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251029099339/en/
Cognition releases SWE-1.5, a new coding model in Windsurf, saying it partnered with Cerebras to serve SWE-1.5 at speeds up to 13x faster than Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Cognition)
https://cognition.ai/blog/swe-1-5