Tootfinder

OpenAI and AMD announce a deal as part of which OpenAI could take a 10% stake in AMD and deploy up to 6GW of AMD Instinct GPUs over multiple years (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/06/openai-amd-chip-deal-ai.html

OpenAI looks to take 10% stake in AMD through AI chip deal worth billions
OpenAI will deploy up to 6 gigawatts of AMD Instinct GPUs over multiple years, beginning with a 1-gigawatt rollout in 2026.

Google "Find Hub": Nachbrenner durch Integration in Android-Einrichtung
Google bietet mit dem "Find Hub" eine Alternative zu Apples "Wo ist?". Nun lässt er sich im Android-Setup aktivieren.

Hague Court of Appeal rules it’s cool that the Netherlands is complicit in genocide.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/6/dutch-court-rejects-bid-to-halt-arms-exports-to-israel-over-gaza-war

Dutch court rejects bid to halt arms exports to Israel over Gaza war
Hague Court of Appeal says gov’t has ‘considerable discretion’ to determine foreign policy, national security issues.

not another shinzo abe :/

Zelenskyy: The Armed Forces are more than an army. They are Ukraine! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/06/zelenskyy-the-armed-forces-are.html

Eliza, is this good?
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/big-short-michael-burry-1-billion-ai-bubble

Off to dream about cats again... :neocat_flop:

No, it's not. I've been signed in for 21 years until you logged me out just now. But for some reason, almost every site I have a login for has decided I've logged out, on multiple unrelated machines even. Sure GMail/Google but also Apple, Mastodon, bluesky, GitHub, reddit, even some TV channels I stream. Not all at once, but over the last few days. Is this something I didn't hear about?

from my link log —
The state of SIMD in Rust in 2025.
https://shnatsel.medium.com/the-state-of-simd-in-rust-in-2025-32c263e5f53d
saved 2025-11-06

The state of SIMD in Rust in 2025
If you’re already familiar with SIMD, the table is all you need. And if you’re not, you will understand the table by the end of the…

It’s affordability, stupid:
Republicans pay price for Trump’s forgotten promise
Trump looks increasingly out of touch
and his disapproval rating is at an all-time high
– which largely explains Tuesday’s election results
https://www.

Writing software is hard, of course, and writing it for a diverse and demanding customer base is harder. The idea that CUNY-built software (much of it apparently vaporware for now) can serve the needs of a whole armada of educational stakeholders at once — well, that’s a hell of an uphill climb.
Then again…do current commercial ed tech offerings really serve needs all that well?
And as the article points out, the privacy and sovereignty benefits are •substantial•.
So: uphill climb, yes, and I for one am in favor of it.
2/2

Internal documents and insider communications obtained by CDG News reveal that 700Credit, one of the auto industry's largest credit reporting and identity verification providers, experienced a data breach on or around October 25, 2025
https://news.dealersh…

700Credit suffers data breach exposing consumer SSNs, documents show
700Credit discovered the breach after being "alerted to suspicious activity within our proprietary web-based application 700Dealer.com," according to an internal memo shared with CDG. (3 min. read)

Bari Weiss will report directly to David Ellison as CBS News EIC, not to CBS News president Tom Cibrowski; The Free Press will remain independent (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/06/paramount-skydance-acquires-the-free-press

Paramount Skydance acquires The Free Press for $150M
Bari Weiss' ascent has led to wide speculation about what it could mean for the direction of CBS' news coverage.

こういうとき、Pawooってメンテナンス中画像が大量にあって楽しかったんだけど、あれいまどうなってるかなー。
（昔、Pawoo運営が企画して、メンテナンス画像をみんなから募集したんですよ）

The new Mastodon quote feature can be found via the Boost-button in the web interface: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/introducing-quote-posts/
I would have expected this feature ...

South Africa Probes How Citizens Ended Up Fighting in Ukraine (Antony Sguazzin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-06/south-africa-probes-how-citizens-ended-up-fighting-in-ukraine
http://www.memeorandum.com/251106/p1#a251106p1

A new song from #Psychostick in the style of #Tool about all the sugar loaded eating that we are about to endure. As ever, nicely done, and they’ve re-recorded all their other Christmas songs into an album as well. Enjoy!

Trump's Terrorists - emptywheel
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/06/trumps-terrorists/

Those CunninLynguists put out The Heartstring Theory [Part 1] in 2024, and [Part 2] comes out next week.
And of course this first preview track is 🔥
https://cunninlynguists.bandcamp.com/album/the-heartstring-theory-part-two

"This is the last chance for Western countries to convince the rest of the world that they are capable of dialogue rather than monologue, consistency rather than double standards, and cooperation rather than domination."
Finland's Alexander Stubb in:
https://www.foreignaffairs.c…

The West’s Last Chance
How to build a new global order before it’s too late.

Microsoft built a simulated marketplace to test hundreds of AI agents, finding that businesses could manipulate agents into buying their products and more (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/05/microsoft-built-a-synthet…

Microsoft built a fake marketplace to test AI agents — they failed in surprising ways | TechCrunch
The research raises new questions about how well AI agents will perform when working unsupervised — and how quickly AI companies can make good on promises of an agentic future.

Windows 11 25H2: Weitere automatische Update-Verteilung
In der Nacht zum Freitag hat Microsoft mit der automatischen Verteilung des Windows-11-25H2-Updates auf 24H2-Maschinen begonnen.
https://www.

Scientific “Brotherhood”: Illusion or Troubling Reality?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/06/scientific-brotherhood-illusion-or-troubling.html

Weniger als ein Monat ist es her, dass mich die schreckliche Nachricht von @…'s Tod erreicht hat. Es war bereits Sonntag, Ich kam gerade von einer verwirrenden Sitzung. Ich las die Nachricht und konnte sie nicht verarbeiten, obwohl sie in klaren deutsch vor mir stand wollte sie keinen Sinn ergeben.
Noch wenige Tage zuvor war Ich mit der 19 jährigen Laura im Juge…

Cat that can teleport, but only bothers to teleport to warmer spots... like your face while you sleep.

Community-driven alternative to rubygems.org just dropped: #tuby #gems

As somebody who’s taking a break from his working on his absurdly custom bespoke static site generator for a course, I approve the (hand waving) grand general notion here.
1/2 https://hcommons.social/@zeblarson/115500289981846435

from my link log —
Imagining a language without booleans.
https://justinpombrio.net/2025/09/22/imagining-a-language-without-booleans.html
saved 2025-09-23

Concern for the poor and the planet rubs some the wrong way
Woke Pope Leo XIV is infuriating MAGA Catholics
https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/11/06/pope-leo-xiv-is-infuriating-maga-catholics

Trump orders overhaul of U.S. vaccine schedules (David Nather/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/06/trump-overhaul-rfk-jr-vaccine-schedules
http://www.memeorandum.com/251206/p4#a251206p4

7 deaths, hundreds of injuries linked to faulty Abbott glucose monitor : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/06/g-s1-101082/abbott-glucose-monitor-deaths-recall-freestyle-libre

Sony unveils the Fair Human-Centric Image Benchmark dataset to test the fairness of computer vision models, saying it was compiled in a fair and ethical manner (Thomas Claburn/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/05/sony_ai_vision_model_benchmark/…

Sony rolls out a standard way to measure bias in how AI describes what it 'sees'
: Images in the test dataset were all sourced with consent

Ingenieur baut Stromversorgung fürs Heim aus alten Einweg-E-Zigaretten
Mit alten Batterien aus Einweg-E-Zigaretten lässt sich eine leistungsstarke Stromversorgung für Heim und Werkstatt aufbauen.
htt…

Ukraine's deputy PM 'more than confident' partners will fund coming years: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/06/ukraines-deputy-pm-more-than.html

To all the new people from BlueSky. Welcome to Mastodon! 🦣
Hope you like cats :3

possibly spikey girl

Gerade fand eine Hausdurchsuchung vom SEK in meinem Haus statt, glücklicherweise nicht in meiner Wohnung. Doch um 23:00 Uhr zu hören „POLIZEI, GEHEN SIE VON DER TÜR WEG”, woraufhin eine Ramme die Eingangstür so schwerst aufgetreten hat, dass bei mir im dritten Stock die Wände wackelten, Vasen aus den Regalen und das Telefon der Gegensprechanlage aus dem Halter fiel, war sehr heftig.
Stellt sich heraus das die Person nach der sie suchen schon vor einiger Zeit ausgezogen war. Mein Vermie…

Here you go, PDF and SVG, print to your heart’s content:
https://innig.net/tmp/in-this-secure-house.pdf
https://innig.net/tmp/in-this-secure-house.svg

from my link log —
Temporal_rs is here! The datetime library powering JavaScript Temporal in Boa, Kiesel, and V8.
https://boajs.dev/blog/2025/09/24/temporal-release
saved 2025-09-30

“These are regulatory tariffs,”
D John Sauer, US solicitor general, assured the court.
“They are not revenue-raising tariffs. The fact that they raise revenue is only incidental.”
It was a curious, and more than a little confusing, explanation
– tariffs on goods from overseas might raise revenue, but are not revenue-raising
– designed to counter rulings by lower courts that set the stage for this test before the highest court in the land.

The Supreme Court gave Trump a big redistricting win. But the fight is just getting started. (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/05/trump-redistricting-fight-indiana-pressure-00678789
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p144#a251205p144

Shares of Pony.ai and WeRide fell as much as 15% in their Hong Kong trading debut; Pony.ai raised ~$863M in the secondary offering and WeRide raised ~$309M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-06/pony-wer…

heise | heise Expertentalk: Wann kommt das Verbrenner-Aus?
Das Verbrenner-Aus der EU ist für 2035 geplant. Ist das realistisch und zielführend? Im Live-Expertentalk beantworten wir Ihre Fragen dazu.
https://www.

found this spikey boy today

Gegen die Wehrpflicht und alle Zwangsdienste — immer und überall! 🚩

Some people are suggesting there's more than just Mastodon on the Fediverse, and this is true...
There's also Mastodon glitch :3

Sources: SoftBank explored a potential takeover of Marvell earlier this year to merge it with Arm, in what would have been the chip industry's largest-ever deal (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-…

Googles Android-PCs kommen offenbar auch mit Intel-Chips
Google will ab 2026 Notebooks auf Android-Basis auf den Markt bringen. Intel bereitet seine Prozessoren offenbar darauf vor.
https://www.

Driver was 4 minutes late lol

Nexperia says it suspended wafer supplies to its China factory because the local unit refused to make payments and has ignored global management's instructions (Sarah Jacob/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Umfrage: Zwei Drittel geben Steuererklärung elektronisch ab
65 Prozent der Steuerpflichtigen nutzen digitale Wege – erstmals liegt Elster vor kommerzieller Software. Viele fordern vorausgefüllte Formulare.
https…

You put a little boogie in it.

UPS driver has 0 seconds left

Projekt Lionheart soll mit Tiefenwärme auch deutsches Lithium fördern
Im Oberrheingraben sollen Geothermie-Anlagen Tiefenwasser fördern und daraus zugleich Lithium gewinnen. Das Geld für ein Milliardenprojekt steht bereit.
…

The AI boom is driving coordinated innovation in the US as it builds fabs and energy infrastructure that could have lasting value even if the bubble bursts (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2025/the-benefits-of-bubbles/

The Benefits of Bubbles
We are in an AI Bubble: the big question is if this bubble will worth it for the physical infrastructure and coordinated innovation that result?

A lot of eBay listing descriptions since they added the "generate with AI" feature have been completely useless.
I'm sure newer "AI" models will feed on these wrong descriptions and make things even wrongerer in the future!
I'm so happy for us.

Bundestag: Polizei darf mit Staatstrojanern Geldautomatensprenger jagen
Die Abgeordneten haben ein Gesetz zu Explosionsgefährdungen beschlossen. Strafverfolger dürfen damit eine Quellen-TKÜ bei Geldautomatensprengungen durchführen.

Short seller Grizzly shorts London-listed Trustpilot, alleging the review site pressures businesses to pay for subscriptions; Trustpilot refutes the claims (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-04/trustp…

Microsoft: "Souveräne Datenverarbeitung" für M365-Copilot kommt 2026
Bis Ende nächsten Jahres sollen auch Cloud-Kunden in Deutschland die Option bekommen, dass ihre Copilot-Daten die Landesgrenze nicht überschreiten.
…

Parties have split over less disastrous results, just saying

A profile of OpenAI President Greg Brockman and his role in the company's $1.4T infrastructure buildout that's required to reach AGI (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/11/05/openai-greg-brockman-ai-infrastructure-data-c…

Meet OpenAI’s master builder: Greg Brockman is steering a $1.4 trillion infrastructure surge with stakes that go far beyond AI
As OpenAI’s president, Brockman is focused on “completing the mission” of moving beyond AI to artificial general intelligence (AGI).

Russland: Riesiges Interesse an KI-generierten Videos gefallener Soldaten
Eine Russin generiert gegen Bezahlung mit KI-Hilfe Clips gefallener Soldaten, die in den Himmel aufsteigen. Das Interesse daran ist riesig, die Warteliste lang.

Sens. Mark Warner and Josh Hawley introduce a bipartisan bill that would require companies and US agencies to submit quarterly reports on AI-related job impacts (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/05/ai-jobs-act-warner-hawley.html

New bipartisan bill would require companies to report AI job losses
The AI-Related Job Impacts Clarity Act would require companies and federal agencies to submit quarterly reports of "AI-related job effects."

Asahi restarted production at six Japanese breweries on October 2 after a cyberattack forced it to halt production and shipments for days, and is investigating (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-06/a…

Source: Google is in early talks to deepen its strategic investment in Anthropic that could value the AI company at more than $350B (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-deepen-investment-in-ai-anthropic-2025-11

Google is in early discussions to deepen its investment in Anthropic
Google is in early discussions to deepen its investment in Anthropic. The two companies announced a massive cloud computing deal in October.

Ministerpräsidentenkonferenz: Mutige Staatsmodernisierung mit einigem Prüfbedarf
Auf der Ministerpräsidentenkonferenz wurden Beschlüsse gefasst, die den Staat modernisieren sollen. Es gibt jedoch in einigen Punkten noch Klärungsbedarf.

at least laminate that shit

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Nach Drohung gegen WhatsApp: Roblox, FaceTime und Snapchat in Russland blockiert

They're sparing no expense!*
*no expenses were made putting up three pieces of paper with godawful golden script font as signage at the White House

A look at various quirks in AI-generated prose, mainly influenced by "overfitting" in AI models, as humans increasingly mimic AI language in writing and speech (Sam Kriss/New York Times)
https://www.ny…

Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?
If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice.

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Berlin: Polizei darf Wohnungen zur Staatstrojaner-Installation heimlich betreten

License plate surveillance company Flock Safety faces bipartisan pressure from lawmakers and local organizers over its data handling and cybersecurity practices (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Flock haters cross political divides to remove error-prone cameras
Lawmakers’ calls for Flock probe may help kill local contracts, expert says.

Er war ein Mann der Frau'n /
Frau'n liebten seinen Punk

Parents are pressuring LA Unified, the second-largest US school district, to reduce mandatory student screen time on school-issued iPads and Chromebooks (Tyler Kingkade/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/la-parents-kid…

LA Parents say school-issued iPads and Chromebooks cause chaos
Los Angeles Unified is the first district of its size to face an organized campaign by parents demanding that schools pull back on mandatory screen time.

Making things really cool and then sucking all the water out of it

Source: Microsoft is in talks to design future custom chips with Broadcom, which would involve Microsoft switching its business from Marvell (Abram Brown/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/microsoft-discusses-custom-chips-broadcom

Microsoft Discusses Custom Chips With Broadcom
Microsoft is in talks to design future custom chips with Broadcom, which would involve Microsoft switching its business from Marvell, another maker of custom chips, according to one person involved in the discussions. Those discussions come amid intense demand for such chips as companies like Microsoft race to acquire more semiconductors and increase their AI products. Nvidia lords over the

Seeing more and more people using "AI" "art" for their blog posts and podcasts and it's so horrible.
Why would you advertise and adorn your hard work with reeking robot shit?

Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley's new startup Hopscotch Labs releases BeeBot, which combines AI, audio, and location-based social features, on the App Store (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/apps/the-foursqua

The Foursquare founder's new app is an AI-powered 'DJ' for neighborhood updates
Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley has unveiled his latest venture and yes, it's another location-based social app: an AI-powered "DJ" called BeeBot.

Unicorn barf PC is fully back into action!

For no reason, has anyone played this?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1261760/Democratic_Socialism_Simulator/

Sources, public records, and documents detail TuSimple's downfall, after it transferred autonomous driving IP to Chinese partners despite a 2022 CFIUS agreement (Kate O'Keeffe/Bloomberg)

Oh look, the people who constantly insist we shouldn't polarize are talking again about the "real America".

Customer engagement service MoEngage raised a $100M Series F led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, bringing its total funding to $250M as it ramps up AI investment (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/04/goldm…

Goldman Sachs doubles down on MoEngage in new round to fuel global expansion | TechCrunch
MoEngage already has customers across 75 countries, with North America being its biggest business driver.

Reminder we’re all in a “social media echo chamber” and none of what happened is actually real

Researchers used AI to design functional antibodies from scratch, suggesting that AI tools could speed up antibody discovery without the need for animal testing (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/328a3211-6f2f-471e-b7bd-eb3c1a768f1c

We now have 3 Kodak Charmeras, shitty photos will commence momentarily.
Prepare your body.

I grew up in a large city in a western democracy, with a socialist city government and it was fine.
There was basically no crime. People didn’t go hungry. Housing was affordable. Rent was regulated. Public transport was amazing. Education was free. Everyone had healthcare. Taxes were practically the same as in the US.
It was also much, much easier to start a business there than in the US. (Literally took an hour!)
People who wanted to get rich still could do it (there’s a few Austrian billionaires even).
I don’t understand how Americans got themselves so brainwashed that “socialism” is used as a term that sort of means “iworse than death”.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sources: Charles Schwab is expected to announce a deal to acquire Forge Global, a leading platform for trading stakes in private startups, for as much as $600M (Sujeet Indap/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ffa0dabd-7e87-4327-b788-73e8fb598de3

Inside Kalshi's NYC HQ on election night, as it handled ~$100M in trades on the mayoral race that day, calling it for Mamdani 36 minutes before any media outlet (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/election-night-at-kalshi-hq

Election night at Kalshi HQ
Inside Kalshi’s quiet Manhattan office on election night, co-founder Tarek Mansour showed how his fast-growing prediction market is calling races faster than the media.

Decision Desk is calling it for Mamdani 3 minutes after polls closed...

Sandbar introduces Stream Ring, an AI-powered smart ring for transcribing audio notes into text via an app, preorder now from $249 and shipping in summer 2026 (Julian Chokkattu/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/sandbar-stream-smart-ring/

Whisper Into This AI-Powered Smart Ring to Organize Your Thoughts
A new company called Sandbar has unveiled a smart wearable called Stream Ring, which uses a microphone to record your softly spoken thoughts. And it’s powered by—you guessed it—an AI chatbot.

People voted for him.
Despite leaked text messages that then then-Virginia House Speaker (a Republican) should be shot in the head twice.
This is how pissed off people are with Republicans.

Sources and docs: after Marc Andreessen donated $5M to Trump's 2024 campaign, most CFPB probes have stalled, including three into Andreessen-backed companies (Jake Pearson/ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cfpb-marc-andreessen-silicon-vall…

Tech Billionaire Marc Andreessen Bet Big on Trump. It’s Paying Off for Silicon Valley.
The Trump administration’s gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been good for venture capitalists like Andreessen, who previously accused the agency of “terrorizing” fintech startups and crypto companies.

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says an "IPO is not on the cards right now", and that OpenAI hopes the US government might backstop the financing of data center deals (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-isnt-yet-working-tow…

Similarweb: generative AI platforms were averaging ~7B monthly web visits as of September 2025, up 76% YoY, rivaling the traffic of major social networks (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/chatbots-are-now-riva…

Chatbots are now rivaling social networks as a core layer of internet infrastructure
New data from Similarweb reveals massive spikes in traffic and app downloads, while the user base expands to include older generations.

Google and Epic Games reached an agreement to settle Epic's 2020 antitrust lawsuit, with proposed changes to Android and Google Play pending court approval (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainabi…