
2025-06-18 15:42:30
Investigation: healthcare exchanges in Nevada, Maine, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island share sensitive data with Google, LinkedIn, and Snapchat via web trackers (The Markup)
https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2025/06/17/w…
I think that "chatbot" is a bad design paradigm for most problems. It's actually the refusal to to design work.
https://tante.cc/2025/06/19/chatbot-is-bad-design/
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/mastodon-updates-its-terms-to-prohibit-ai-model-training/
Mastodon updates its terms to prohibit AI model training
Respekt.
„Schüler und Eltern sind am vergangenen Wochenende Zeugen der Angriffe auf das Vielfalt-Fest in #BadFreienwalde geworden. Von einer Aktionswoche wollten sie sich deshalb aber nicht abbringen lassen.“
„Elternsprecher Wolfram Schwelgin hat eigenen Angaben zufolge selbst einen Faustschlag von einem Angreifer abbekommen. Deshalb an der Schule die Pride Week abzusagen, sei…
Friedrich Merz has such a boner for the murder of Brown people. Poor chap was clearly born a few decades too late to enjoy partaking in his own genocide and must live vicariously through israel’s atrocities.
#friedrichMerz #germany
I shop at the Petco there and can confirm it's incredibly dangerous... to make the left turn into the parking lot on your bike. Somehow that's not what this article is about, though.
https://missionlocal.org/2025/06/sf-potrero-center-drugs-16th-missi…
How Docs-as-Code Helped #Pinterest Improve #Documentation Quality
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/06…
Trump says Iran deal ‘could still happen’ and claims Tehran was ‘a few weeks away’ from nuclear weapon – Israel-Iran conflict live
Trump undecided on joining war on Iran as Khamenei warns him not to attack
Trump says that he will attend a meeting in an hour on the evacuation of US citizens from Israel, Reuters reports
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This Barbara Kruger Mural from 1990 Has Become the Year’s Most Poignant Artwork
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/barbara-kruger-untitled-questio…
ich würde auch gerne das lamm gottes durchs berchtesgardener land führen
In einer Stadt leben, in der die Möglichkeiten zum Abstellen von Fahrrädern rund um ein Großevent wie die #KielerWoche einen Artikel in der Lokalzeitung bekommen, weil es ein solches Event gibt, weil es ein breites Angebot mit Fahrradabstellanlagen gibt, weil es Leute gibt, die sich dafür verantwortlich fühlen und gute Arbeit machen, weil es Leute gibt, die Fahrrad fahren und das brauchen...
Piketty on the need for a wealth tax, with a fairly hilarious French Revolution analogy – Le blog de Thomas Piketty https://www.lemonde.fr/blog/piketty/2025/06/17/the-senate-beside-the-story/
Ultra-wealthy, the Senate beside the story
By opposing the 2% minimum wealth tax on the 1,800 French people whose net worth exceeds €100 million, after the measure was adopted by France's Assemblée nationale (lower house of Parliament), the upper house, the Sénat, has shown just how disconnected it is from the issues of our time. This is nothing new. Between 1896 …
Continuer la lecture Google rolls out the ability to upload videos in the Gemini app for both free and paid accounts across Android and iOS; the feature is not yet live on the web (Abner Li/9to5Google) @Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-18 03:15:53
https://9to5google.com/2025/06/17/gemini-app-video-upload/
„In dieses Ungarn haben deutsche Behörden eine deutsche Staatsbürgerin wissentlich ausgeliefert. Wo bleibt die Empörung? Warum gibt es keine breite Mobilisierung der Öffentlichkeit? Warum setzt sich kein Spitzenpolitiker, kein Vertreter der Regierung für Maja T. ein?“
https://www.
Suspected Israeli hackers claim to destroy data at Iran's Bank Sepah
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/suspected-israeli-hackers-claim-destroy-data-irans-bank-sepah-2025-06-17/
After nuclear weapons testing began in 1945, atmospheric radiation contaminated new steel production worldwide.
For decades, scientists needing radiation-free metal for sensitive instruments had to salvage steel from pre-war shipwrecks.
Scientists called this steel
"low-background steel."
Graham-Cumming sees a parallel with today's web, where AI-generated content increasingly mingles with human-created material and contaminates it.
With the advent o…
Well, it doesn't look like much but I just switched my infra from Apache to Caddy.
Sometimes doing some admin work is good for the soul.
(Also a preparation to install an AI scraper poison service)
@… 大きなところでリレーがあります。公開投稿は結構たくさんのサーバに届きます。
で、フォロワーがいる方が、いないより削除リクエストが確実に届きます。
A look at seven UX issues in the Fediverse web experience, including complex onboarding, the lack of a dedicated DM UI wrapper, and fragmented user discovery (Tim Chambers)
https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/18/113327.html
Things are happening in the C2PA world; here are a couple of useful steps forward, plus cheers and boos for Adobe. Plus a live working C2PA demo you can try out: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/06/17/More-C2PA
Die Bahn ist so ein Saftladen. (Aktuelle Verspätung noch vor Abfahrt: 35 Min.)
Mir erzählte neulich eine Person, die da arbeitet, dass jetzt prioritär Trassen saniert werden, die im Kriegsfall für Truppentransporte benutzt werden.
Dazu würde ich auch gern mal eine Recherche sehen.
Miscalculation by Spanish power grid operator REE led to massive blackout, report finds
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/investigation-into-spains-april-28-blackout-shows-no-evidence-cyberattack-2025-06-17/…
Electrolyzers, machines that split water and separate hydrogen from oxygen, are emerging as the new battleground in green technology between the EU and China.
Can the EU stay competitive?
https://www.dw.com/en/can-the-eu-keep-up-wit…
Ten current and former Samsung semiconductor engineers say many are leaving for SK Hynix and other rivals due to long hours, heavy workloads, and lower bonuses (Michelle Kim/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/samsung-electronics-chip-division-d…
Bram Cohen on algorithms for determining the winner in ranked-choice voting: More complicated than you might think.
https://bramcohen.com/p/variants-on-instant-runoff
„Die größten Mietsteigerungen gab es nach Berlin (plus 107 Prozent) in Leipzig (plus 67,7 Prozent) und in Bremen (plus 57 Prozent).“
„Einer Auswertung des Bauministeriums zufolge stiegen die Angebotsmieten in den 14 größten kreisfreien Städten seit 2015 durchschnittlich um fast 50 Prozent.“
Die '#Mietpreisbremse', das einzige, was CDUCSUSPD gegen hohe Mieten machen wo…
AWS says Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 launched on its Trainium2 GPUs, and Project Rainier, AWS' supercomputer built for Anthropic, uses 500K Trainium2 chips (Kristina Partsinevelos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/17/aws-chips-nvidia-ai.html
Microsoft plant Streichung von tausenden Jobs im Vertrieb
Microsoft plant laut Medienberichten zufolge die Streichung tausender Jobs insbesondere im Vertrieb, um die Belegschaft zu verschlanken.
https:/…
“It is likely that Ukraine will suffer the greatest military and political damage in this situation,
apart from Iran itself, of course.
A new war in the Middle East will not only distract the world’s attention from the [conflict in Ukraine]
but will also, apparently, contribute to the final reorientation of the US towards providing military assistance to Israel.”
But while these may offer short-term gains, the long-term picture is far more precarious for Russia, anal…
#Vancouver folks: They’ve renamed Trutch St (thank goodness, Trutch was an asshole), its new name translated into English is “Musqueamview”. In Musqueam that’s “šxʷməθkʷəyΓəmasəm” which, it turns out, sounds like “sh-musqueam-awesome” to my ears. I think it’d be cool if we were all saying sh-musqueam-awesome to each other.
The NAACP intends to sue xAI over the natural gas turbines at its Memphis data center, which it claims are polluting nearby predominantly Black neighborhoods (Hiroko Tabuchi/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.…
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Matrix statt MJP, ZBP & Co: Ist bald Schluss mit dem staatlichen Postfach-Chaos?
Israel is counting on Trump to join the operation against Iran, now that the risks of failure and downed planes have been minimised.
“The whole operation is premised on the fact that the US will join at some point,” an Israeli official told CNN.
“We are waiting for the decision of the president,” another senior official told the network.
Israel has yet to attack Iran’s most secure enrichment facility, at Fordow, which is built into a mountain with up to 100 metres of rock abo…
The US Senate confirms Olivia Trusty to the FCC, giving Republicans a 2-1 majority after the recent departures of two members (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/trump-fcc-majority-olivia-trusty-senate-1236436125/
Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Trump Mobile: Neuer US-Mobilfunker ist kein Preisbrecher
Somehow I got myself on this mailing list, every month or 3 they send a list of used printing equipment in Europe. I actually enjoy glancing at it, definitely a Heavy Metal vibe, for example this thing, made in 2011, has printed 137M impressions, and can be yours for a mere 420,000€. Free shipping probably not available.
The prospect of imminent US involvement in an Israeli bombing campaign,
which is suggested to be in pursuit of regime change,
has laid bare deep divides in Iran’s population -- even among the opposition.
Many are deeply suspicious of the US’s intentions in Iran, which has a bitter history of foreign adventurism gone awry.
Others do not care who is the one to topple the government.
A large portion of Iran’s population is bitterly opposed to the government,
…
The US Senate passes the Genius Act, which establishes a regulatory framework for stablecoins; the bill now heads to the House (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/17/genius-stablecoin-bill-crypto.html
Mastodon updates its terms to prohibit AI model training starting July 1, and enforces a new age limit of 16 for users globally (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/mastodon-updates-its-terms-to-prohibit-ai-model-tra…
Nippon Steel’s $14.9bn acquisition of US Steel closed on Wednesday,
confirming an unusual degree of power for the Trump administration after the Japanese company’s 18-month struggle to close the purchase.
Under the deal terms, Nippon bought 100% of US Steel shares at $55 a share, as it first laid out in its December 2023 offer for the well-known and struggling steelmaker.
A press release on the filing also discloses details of a national security agreement inked with the Tr…
Sources: Meta and EssilorLuxottica plan AI-powered smart glasses under Oakley and Prada brands; they will be aimed at athletes, and the Oakleys may cost ~$360 (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/17/meta-oakley-prada-smart-glasses-luxottica.html
Foreign students will be required to unlock their social media profiles
to allow US diplomats to review their online activity
before receiving educational and exchange visas, the state department has announced.
Those who fail to do so will be suspected of hiding that activity from US officials.
The new guidance, unveiled by the state department on Wednesday, directs US diplomats to conduct an online presence review to look for
“any indications of hostility towa…
President Trump plans to sign an executive order this week to grant TikTok a 90-day extension in enforcement of the sale-or-ban law, marking his third extension (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/17/tech/tiktok-trump-ban-delay?Date=202506…
Apple's Journal app is coming to iPad and Mac in iPadOS 26 and macOS Tahoe and gains features like multiple journals, map view, inline images, and more (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/17/apples-journal-app-i…
Klarna launches a $40/month unlimited mobile plan in the US via a partnership with telecom services startup Gigs, following similar offerings by Revolut and N26 (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/18/klarna-ceo-outlines-plan-to…
Facebook renames its Videos tab as the Reels tab and says all videos on its platform will soon be shared as reels, regardless of their length or orientation (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/face
Fleet, which offers open-source device management tools for OSes, various networks, VPNs, and more, raised a $27M Series B led by Ten Eleven Ventures (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/17/27m-fundin…
5-Sekunden-Videos: Midjourney animiert Bilder
Midjourney hat sein erstes Videomodell vorgestellt. Damit lassen sich Bilder in fünfsekündige Videos umwandeln.
https://www.heise.de/news/…
On a podcast, Sam Altman said Meta made "giant offers to a lot of people on our team", like $100M signing bonuses, and "none of our best people" have accepted (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/sam-
heise | Wie Sie eine Bilanz lesen
Bilanzen sind ein wichtigstes Instrument, um die finanzielle Lage eines Unternehmens einzuschätzen. Wir erklären die wichtigsten Begriffe und Kennziffern.
https://www.
Commure, which provides ambient AI, revenue cycle management, and workflow automation tools for healthcare providers, raised $200M from General Catalyst (Erin Brodwin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2025/06/19/commure-…
Microsoft will den Vertrag mit OpenAI bis 2030 aussitzen
Streit um die Beteiligung bei Umstrukturierung: Microsoft soll sich auf Plan B vorbereiten, falls die Verhandlungen mit OpenAI scheitern.
https:/…
Bitmain, Canaan and MicroBT, which build 90% of crypto mining rigs, are setting up US manufacturing footholds as Trump's tariff war reshapes the supply chain (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/domina
Endlich Licht ins Dunkel: Wie Spaniens Vizeregierungschefin Sara Aagesen jetzt bekannt gab, war eine Überspannung im Netz der Auslöser für den stundenlangen Blackout. 💡
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10450730?wt_mc=sm.re
How Walmart plans to leverage its $2.3B Vizio acquisition to push shoppable TV experiences; Walmart's ad business had just $4.4B of sales in FY 2025 (Jaewon Kang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Luxembourg-based Tadaweb, an open-source intelligence platform, raised $20M led by Arsenal Growth and ForgePoint, taking its total funding to $40M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software…
Q&A with Pavel Durov on his arrest in France, Macron, Russia, the FBI, the fight for Telegram, leaving his wealth to the 100 children he fathered, and more (Guillaume Grallet/Le Point)
https://www.
Netflix überträgt in Frankreich lineares Fernsehen
Gemeinsam mit der Mediengesellschaft TF1 will Netflix in Frankreich bald lineares Fernsehen im Stream anbieten. Die Inhalte kommen ins normale Abo.
https://…
X sues New York, claiming a law requiring social media companies to disclose how they deal with hate speech and disinformation violates the US Constitution (Bob Van Voris/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Iran weitgehend offline
https://www.heise.de/news…
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Malvertising: Bösartige Werbung schiebt Anbieterseiten falsche Nummern unter
Sports data company Teamworks raised a $235M Series F led by Dragoneer at a $1B valuation; its tech is used by 6.5K sports teams including all NFL teams (Randall Williams/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
A look at the Catholic Church's decade-long dialogue with Silicon Valley on AI, as Pope Leo prepares to make AI's potential threat to humanity a signature issue (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/pope-leo-ai-te
Sources: lobbyists for Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta back a campaign for a 10-year US state AI regulation ban, a move dividing the AI industry and the GOP (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/52ae52f1-531e-462f-898f-e9f86b3b1869
US appeals court rules in Apple's favor by throwing out a $300M verdict that found it infringed on Optis' wireless tech patents, sending the case to a new trial (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/a
An MIT study of 54 ChatGPT users: using it for SAT essays led to the lowest brain engagement and poorer neural performance than using Google or writing unaided (Andrew R. Chow/Time)
https://time.com/7295195/ai-chatgpt-google-learning-school/
A look at China's efforts to grow its "low-altitude economy", or airspace below 1,000 meters, by leveraging its strengths in drone production and R&D (William Langley/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/65e4bb30-b04c-4f0e-8686-effb96398999…
The European Court of Justice's advocate-general says the EU's €4.12B fine against Google over its dominance of Android should be upheld, a major blow to Google (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/cd63dd58-37a6-4af8-8050-40b7405da2bb
Netflix signs a landmark deal with French network TF1 to show linear TV for the first time; TF1 will broadcast all five channels, showing live sports and more (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/4dc9accc-0024-46b6-bf33-a4125239e238
Source: OpenAI is changing ChatGPT Enterprise's pricing structure to include a credits system, moving from a fixed price, to give companies more leeway (Kimberley Kao/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/…
The Iranian government says it has restricted internet access in response to Israeli cyberattacks; some Western communication apps have reportedly been blocked (Kevin Collier/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/iran-pl…
A cyberattack claimed by the pro-Israel hacktivist group Predatory Sparrow has reportedly disrupted services at Iran's state-owned Bank Sepah (Matt Kapko/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/iran-bank-sepah-cyberattack/
Sources: Substack is pitching investors on a round between $50M and $100M that would value it above its ~$700M last round price, and is generating ~$45M in ARR (Eric Newcomer/Newcomer)
https://www.newcomer.co/p/scoop-substack-in-talks-to-raise
Pano AI, which uses AI and computer vision to offer active wildfire detection, raised a $44M Series B led by Giant Ventures, bringing its total funding to $89M (Marc Vartabedian/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/article…
In a memo to employees, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says AI "will reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains" over time (Steve Kopack/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-
Microsoft and AMD announce a "strategic, multi-year partnership" to design custom silicon for a number of devices, including next-generation Xbox consoles (Jez Corden/Windows Central)
https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox