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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-15 06:11:06

Filing: Oracle signed ~$150B of data center leases in the three months ending November 30, raising its total data center and cloud capacity commitments to $248B (Martin Peers/The Information)
theinformation.com/briefings/o

Oracle Strikes $150 Billion of Data Center Leases in November Quarter
Oracle struck about $150 billion worth of lease commitments on data centers in the three months ending November, it revealed in securities filing late last week, a sign it is preparing for the cloud deals that customers such as OpenAI have struck with Oracle. The filing showed that as of Nov. 30, Oracle had $248 billion of lease commitments “substantially all related to data centers and cloud

@benb@osintua.eu
2025-12-15 12:31:06

Zelensky, US envoys resume peace plan discussions in Berlin: benborges.xyz/2025/12/15/zelen

Tracking information about the Russian War against Ukraine — Modern art makes me want to rock out
A blog running on Micro.blog

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2025-12-15 06:42:25

Die bayerische Staatsregierung sorgt derzeit für ordentlich Wirbel: Sie plant, einen Rahmenvertrag mit Microsoft im Wert von schätzungsweise einer Milliarde Euro über die nächsten fünf Jahre abzuschließen – und das ohne vorherige Ausschreibung! 😮
Zum Artikel:

Auf dem Bild ist das Microsoft-Logo an einer Hauswand zu sehen. Im Bild steht: "Bayern plant Milliarden- auftrag an Microsoft ohne Ausschreibungr sicher" darunter steht: "Die bayerische Staatsregierung steht in der Kritik, weil sie einen Rahmenvertrag mit Microsoft im Wert von fast einer Milliarde Euro über fünf Jahre ohne Ausschreibung vergeben will."
@ErikUden@mastodon.de
2025-12-16 06:47:44

„Warum bist du so spät, Erik?”
Ich, mit gebrannten Mandeln in Hand und Haar, Zuckerwatte-Flecken auf meinem Hemd, eine Fahne riechend nach Kinderpunsch hinter mir her ziehend: die verdammte Deutsche Bahn wieder

@catsalad@infosec.exchange
2025-12-16 15:24:52

So how long until the Firefox logo becomes another AI company logo that looks like a butthole?
:firefox: theverge.com/tech/845216/mozil

The Verge Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox Anthony Enzor-DeMeo says he thinks there’s room for another browser, even an AI browser — as long as you can trust it. by David Pierce Dec 16, 2025, 1:15 PM GMT
@selea@social.linux.pizza
2025-12-15 14:06:40

I find it really amuzing that IT-departments around the world is just plainly copying the example DNS-records in my blog-posts about DMARC.
Resulting in me getting reports about their domain to my inbox
#dmarc #email

@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org
2025-12-16 06:13:29

"The very first question to be considered is the applicability of the Copyright Law to the Moon. "
Thinking ahead (in 1952) about interplanetary copyrights :). if aliens have "Two Heads, Two Authors?"
really fun, worth reading.

American Library Association. ALA Bulletin 1953-01: Vol 47 Iss 1 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
American Library Association. ALA Bulletin 1953-01: Volume 47, Issue 1.Digitized from IA1514523-07.Previous issue:...

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2025-12-16 12:50:18

In my rush to get out today's Metacurity early, I completely dropped the ball on this big OT development.
Venezuela Says Oil Export System Down After Weekend Cyberattack
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@kubikpixel@chaos.social
2025-12-16 06:45:02

»El Salvador — Weltweit erstes landesweites KI-Bildungsprogramm zusammen mit xAI:
Nayib Bukele und Elon Musk vereinbaren den Einsatz des KI-Chatbots Grok in El Salvadors öffentlichen Schulen. Andernorts ist Grok durchaus umstritten.«
Ach du meine Güte. Wenn dies nicht Musk's Propaganda dann den Kindern durch die KI Hirnwäsche durchgeführt wird, damit sie ihm unhinterfragt folgen?!
😬

El Salvador: Weltweit erstes landesweites KI-Bildungsprogramm zusammen mit xAI
Nayib Bukele und Elon Musk vereinbaren den Einsatz des KI-Chatbots Grok in El Salvadors öffentlichen Schulen. Andernorts ist Grok durchaus umstritten.

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-12-16 19:40:44

USAGM is relocating from its current offices in Washington, DC, to a building apparently used by NASA; source: the old building is to be demolished (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
thedesk.net/2025/12/usagm-relo

Scoop: Kari Lake says USAGM to vacate studios, relocate to NASA building
USAGM will vacate its Washington, D.C. headquarters and relocate to a NASA-used building under cost-cutting ordered by President Trump.

@degrowthuk@mstdn.social
2025-12-16 12:03:07

Decoupling …… again
A response to the recent article in the Guardian and the report from ECAU on which it is based.
degrowthuk.org/2025/12/16/deco

Decoupling …… again
An article appeared in The Guardian on Thursday, December 11th, entitled “Economic growth no longer linked to carbon emissions in most of the world, study finds” 1. The Guardian appears…

@Dragofix@veganism.social
2025-12-16 23:06:41

Anxiety and insomnia linked to sharp drops in key immune cells #health

Anxiety and insomnia linked to sharp drops in key immune cells
Natural killer cells act as the immune system’s rapid-response team, but the stress of anxiety and insomnia may be quietly thinning their ranks. A study of young women in Saudi Arabia found that both conditions were linked to significantly fewer NK cells—especially the circulating types responsible for destroying infected or abnormal cells. As anxiety severity increased, NK cell levels dropped even further, suggesting a stress-driven weakening of immune defenses.

@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org
2025-12-15 11:06:59

While I'm stuck in Cape Town I'm finalising the @… second 18 month report. And honestly, it's *awesome* what we have achieved.
Check out our publications on Google scholar:
scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=

@donelias@mastodon.cr
2025-12-15 06:24:13

Relatora de la ONU que denunció genocidio en Gaza pide a Costa Rica pausar ratificación de TLC con Israel
Francesca Albanese solicita una revisión de derechos humanos antes de avalar el acuerdo comercial.

Relatora de la ONU que denunció genocidio en Gaza pide a Costa Rica pausar ratificación de TLC con Israel
Francesca Albanese solicita una revisión de derechos humanos antes de avalar el acuerdo comercial.

@scott@carfree.city
2025-12-17 04:29:08

"'We do respect and appreciate the temporary activation but it’s time to start moving forward on the original purpose for this site,' Mahmood said, referring to affordable housing."
Ok good start, now do Parcel K in Hayes Valley. Or is this Mahmood's stance only in poor parts of his district?

S.F. moves to accelerate stalled housing at Tenderloin food hall site
San Francisco officials have changed course and committed to seek developers for the La Cocina site within the next two years.

@fgraver@hcommons.social
2025-12-15 11:47:37

Colonial Plunder Didn’t Create Capitalism jacobin.com/2025/12/colonialis

Colonial Plunder Didn’t Create Capitalism
Despite what you may have heard, colonial plunder didn’t give rise to capitalism. In an interview with Jacobin, Vivek Chibber discusses why the “colonialism-created-capitalism” argument fails, and why Marxism provides a better account of its emergence.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-15 12:40:40

Bondi Was Not a Surprise ... It was a shock, but it was not a surprise. (Jack Pinczewski/Quillette)
quillette.com/2025/12/15/bondi
memeorandum.com/251215/p30#a25

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-12-15 14:06:27

✊🏿 How One Black Labor Union Changed American History
#politics

How One Black Labor Union Changed American History
A century ago, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters launched a union drive against a railroad giant, changing the course of the 20th century and forever entwining the causes of labor and black civil rights.

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-12-16 12:00:06

"Plastics dominate UK litter as rural and outdoor spaces emerge as pollution hotspots"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Plastic #Plastics

Plastics dominate UK litter as rural and outdoor spaces emerge as pollution hotspots
A new study by the University of Portsmouth shows that plastic items make up more than seven in ten pieces of litter recorded across the UK, with countryside locations and public recreation areas carrying some of the heaviest burdens.

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-12-16 06:45:23

Gavin Newsom, the California governor,
announced the appointment of two prominent scientists
who left the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in recent months over conflicts with the Trump administration to state positions.
Dr Susan Monarez, the former director of the CDC, will lead California’s new public health initiative, the Public Health Network Innovation Exchange (PHNIX).
In August, Monarez was fired by the Trump administration less than a month in…

Newsom appoints ex-CDC officials to lead California’s new public health network
Dr Susan Monarez to head PHNIX, a response to Trump administration’s dismantling of public health safeguards

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-12-16 18:06:47

Meanwhile (you've seen this), stores are limiting cash usage at self-checkout and have signs saying 'pennies are in short supply, help us out'
Pennies From Final US Mint Batch Sell For $16.7M - Joe.My.God.
joemygod.com/2025/12/pennies-f

@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2025-12-15 06:49:20

Nieuwe kabinet heeft wat te repareren.
bnr.nl/nieuws/economie/1058974

@tinoeberl@mastodon.online
2025-12-16 14:45:06

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Senkung der Luftverkehrsteuer zum 01. Juli 2026 vom 24.11.2025"
hat bisher 475 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29525 Unterschriften bis zum 21.01.2026.

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2025-10-17 01:00:12

It's fascinating that we largely went from a network of personal computers processing data locally that could access an open hypertext system linking together millions of websites…
…to phones with proprietary closed apps that often largely are little more than little windows to timesharing mainframes.

@hikingdude@mastodon.social
2025-12-15 06:12:34

Good morning! Last week before vacations!
The end is near!

@jake4480@c.im
2025-12-16 17:06:12

Now playing some LOUD, raw, feedbacky d-beat punk rock from St. Louis' DRILL. This is their demo from May. Did I mention how insanely fucking raw and feedbacky it is? 😂 The vocalist's screams and screeches, some great riffage and such. You KNOW I love shit like this.
drill314.bandcamp.com/album/de

@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-12-16 06:55:33

Wow, loving our greenhouse - already have the first tomatoes turning red! Only a couple weeks into summer (not even proper summer, 22 Dec in Aotearoa, yet) Crazy! This is months before we've ever had ripening fruit pre-greenhouse.

Photo from near the ground in a garden patch inside a greenhouse, looking at a small group of tomatoes on a tomato bush, two of which are turning red. A number of other tomato plants are nearby, some with many still green tomatoes. In the foreground is a timber upright with wires going through it which run the length of the garden and are used to tie up the tomatoes in a row. The plants are tied to the steel wires with strips of old bicycle inner tubes. They work great!
@der_raddler@dresden.network
2025-12-16 06:12:36

Nach Rückzahlung der Fördermittel werden die beiden Zähler für die Stadt genauso teuer gewesen sein, wie alle 5 Standorte mit Förderung. Geld für irgendwelche Maßnahmen auf der Hauptstraße wird keins bleiben. Aber Hauptsache man hat dem Baubürgermeister eins reingewürgt! So geht ideologiegetriebene Verkehrspolitik.

Trotz Kritik an Verkehrsbürgermeister: Dresden baut weitere Radfahr-Zählstellen auf
Die umstrittenen Dresdner „Fahrradbarometer“ landeten im Schwarzbuch der Steuerzahler. Ein Stadtratsbeschluss dagegen wurde gefasst. Warum das Rathaus das Projekt trotzdem nur teilweise stoppt.

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2025-12-15 12:42:01

from my link log —
Do you really need Redis? PostgreSQL does queuing, locking, and pub/sub.
spin.atomicobject.com/2021/02/
saved 2021-06-12

Do You Need Redis? PostgreSQL Does Queuing, Locking, & Pub/Sub
It's a common architecture to have PostgreSQL and Redis serve as the backbone of your app, but PostgreSQL may be capable of everything you use Redis for.

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-12-15 10:25:24
Content warning:

Does this animal skin make me look thicc?
#BumDayMonday #GreekRomanArt

Hadrian-era Roman marble sculpture of Dionysos seen from the side, facing right. His bum is well visible, a plump curve to the left.
@axbom@axbom.me
2025-12-15 20:33:53
@… Haha, pretty much. But sometimes it's The Breakfast Club, Ladyhawke or Dead Poets Society, Depending on mood of the day :)
@mapto@qoto.org
2025-12-15 06:02:09

What does it tell us that AI scrapers are ignoring the more intelligent way of scraping data despite all the indications towards it?
shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/stop-
I don't think the answer is …

Stop crawling my HTML you dickheads - use the API!
One of the (many) depressing things about the "AI" future in which we're living, is that it exposes just how many people are willing to outsource their critical thinking. Brute force is preferred to thinking about how to efficiently tackle a problem. For some reason, my websites are regularly targetted by "scrapers" who want to gobble up all the HTML for their inscrutable purposes. The thing is, …

@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social
2025-12-15 08:51:01

"Wunder sollte man von Mistral 3 nicht erwarten. Für viele alltägliche Arbeiten dürfte das Modell aber passable bis gute Ergebnisse liefern. " Die Modelle von @MistralAI sind lokal nutzbar, anpassbar und liefern überraschend gute Ergebnisse – auch wenn sie keine Wunder vollbringen. Ein Fortschritt für alle, die ihre KI selbst in der Hand halten wollen. #KI

Künstliche Intelligenz: Für Google könnte es teuer werden
Die EU ermittelt gegen Google. Chatbots überzeugen, wenn sie mit falschen Fakten um sich werfen. Die französische KI-Hoffnung Mistral 3 ist da. Der KI-Newsletter

@david_colquhoun@mstdn.social
2025-12-15 17:06:20

Just had an elderly women neighbour in for tea. Cars came up, and I said we've been electric since 2017. She looked horrified and asked how we managed -they'll only go for 50 miles before the battery is flat!
I blame the Telegraph and the Daily Mail for poisoning the minds of little old ladies.

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2025-12-16 11:38:08

@borkdude, in your 'scittle with additional libraries' files, you have, for each file in the library, a line
SHADOW_ENV.evalLoad( <filename>, <boolean>, <???>);
where ??? is a string of JS source code with some punctuation replaced by hex codes.
The second last line appears to invoke the file itself (recursively!?!), and the last is always
SHADOW_ENV.evalLoad("shadow.module.<filename>.append.js", false, <???>);
Wha…

@AccordionBruce@Mastodon.social
2025-12-16 21:47:36

Six hours of weird #ChristmasMusic I put together for a friend of my kids
There’s some 🪗 in there over the decades, but mostly a wacky range of rock, pop, western swing, a couple of pretty tunes, RUN DMC make an appearance, along with the Berlin Philharmonic and Charlie Parker, both in modern remixes of holiday classics 🫣
If you’re tired of the same

Christmas 2025 for Lena.mp3
Shared with Dropbox

@mszll@datasci.social
2025-12-16 14:58:22

Trump has declared #fentanyl to be a "Weapon of mass destruction" because it kills ten thousands of people in the US every year. Guess what else kills so many people? #cars

Visualization of the largest death tolls from human wars compared to cars. Cars is second, just after WW2.
@wandklex@mastodon.art
2025-12-16 13:57:28

Wie ich panisch bei meiner Zahnfee angerufen hab (mit der ich ein wenig persönlicher verbunden bin, daher geht sowas klar) und dann erleichtert ein "Du hast Dein Fleißbildchen im Bonusheft dieses Jahr doch schon längst" höre.
Ich wussts echt nicht mehr.

@floheinstein@chaos.social
2025-12-16 06:39:54

Ran into a problem in prod?
Just generate a fake cloudflare error page and blame it on them - gives you time to fix.
#foss

Editor to generate a fake internal server error page complete with You, Cloud, Server in red and green
@Ruhrnalist@mastodon.social
2025-12-15 06:44:58

RE: mastodon.social/@tonline/11572
Jeder weiß, dass die Illusion weiter Verbrenner bauen zu können, allen schadet: der Autoindustrie, dem Klimaschutz und der Politik. Und trotzdem wird es diese Generation von Unionspolitikern vorantrei…

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2025-12-15 06:36:00

Hessen: Verfassungsschutz darf Staatstrojaner für Online-Durchsuchung einsetzen
Karlsruhe kippte das hessische Verfassungsschutzgesetz teils. Der Landtag hat eine Reform beschlossen, die dem Geheimdienst neue, weitgehende Befugnisse gibt.

Hessen: Verfassungsschutz darf Staatstrojaner für Online-Durchsuchung einsetzen
Karlsruhe kippte das hessische Verfassungsschutzgesetz teils. Der Landtag hat eine Reform beschlossen, die dem Geheimdienst neue, weitgehende Befugnisse gibt.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-15 12:06:01

AI drug discovery startup Chai Discovery raised a $130M Series B led by Oak HC/FT and General Catalyst at a $1.3B valuation, taking its total funding to $225M (Caroline Hyde/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@benb@osintua.eu
2025-12-16 14:06:35

Russia rejects Christmas truce as U.S. ramps up peace push: benborges.xyz/2025/12/16/russi

Tracking information about the Russian War against Ukraine — Modern art makes me want to rock out
A blog running on Micro.blog

@catsalad@infosec.exchange
2025-12-17 03:44:06

I like to label the important things :3

Photo of a cat looking at the camera with a label on its head that says cat. Kitty does not look very amused, but puts up with it for the food.
@kubikpixel@chaos.social
2025-12-16 06:25:31

Comic: Santa's Cookies
— by comicss.art
What is delicious on the website and what is not is explained in an understandable way by Santa Clous for everyone.
🎅 #santa

cartoon with two panels showing Santa Claus holding a cookie. In the first panel he looks happy and says 'This is how a web developer gets into the nice list!' and the code on the cookie is CSS: '#Santa .cookie { scale: 1.5 }'. In tthe second panel he looks angry and says '...And this is how they end in the naughty list!!' The cookie has some JS code: document.cookie = session_token=secretvalue;path=/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-12-16 18:55:52

The US threatens economic penalties against European companies like Spotify if the EU does not roll back regulations and lawsuits targeting US tech giants (New York Times)
nytimes.com/2025/12/16/busines

U.S. Threatens Penalties Against European Tech Firms Amid Regulatory Fight
The Trump administration singled out European tech firms by name and promised economic consequences Tuesday unless the E.U. rolls back tech regulation and lawsuits.

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2025-12-16 06:53:14

bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu
Uh oh
PornHub extorted after hackers steal Premium member activity data

PornHub extorted after hackers steal Premium member activity data
Adult video platform PornHub is being extorted by the ShinyHunters extortion gang after the search and watch history of its Premium members was reportedly stolen in a recent Mixpanel data breach.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-15 05:10:39

Erika Kirk to address assassination claims privately with Candace Owens (Tal Axelrod/Axios)
axios.com/2025/12/15/candace-o
memeorandum.com/251215/p3#a251

@Dragofix@veganism.social
2025-12-17 00:09:00

‘The worst is when the rubbish explodes’: the children living in Patagonia’s vast dumps theguardian.com/global-develop

‘The worst is when the rubbish explodes’: the children living in Patagonia’s vast dumps
In sprawling landfills, thousands of Argentinian families scavenge for survival amid toxic waste and government neglect, dreaming of steady jobs and escape

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-12-15 08:44:45
Content warning:

It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"For Hyperion wedded glorious Euryphaessa, his own sister, who bare him lovely children, rosy-armed Eos (Dawn) and rich-tressed Selene (the Moon)."
Homeric Hymn 31 to Helios
🏛️ Selene and Eos or Nyx, Attic red-figure pyxis, 430-410 BCE

Lid of a pyxis decorated with a red-figure vase painting of Selene and Eos or Nyx. Selene, a girlish figure in a tied Doric chiton, her hair knotted behind, with a radiated fillet, rides on a horse side-saddle to the right, looking downwards. Her right rests on the horse's crupper, her left is hidden by the horse's neck, but probably holds the reins. Behind her come the four horses of the chariot of Nyx, each one slightly behind the other, and Nyx driving them, a winged girlish figure with a ti…
@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-12-16 13:00:06

"Why global environmental negotiations keep failing—and what we can do about it"
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange

Why global environmental negotiations keep failing—and what we can do about it
In the past year alone, four major environmental negotiations have collapsed.

@fgraver@hcommons.social
2025-12-15 16:14:26

From Seinfeld to Shawshank, Rob Reiner changed Hollywood for ever theguardian.com/film/2025/dec/

From Seinfeld to Shawshank, Rob Reiner changed Hollywood for ever
Reiner’s own films reshaped modern comedy and drama with their intelligence, empathy and range. But through his company, Castle Rock, he paved the way for Seinfeld, Sorkin and many more

@scott@carfree.city
2025-12-16 05:37:13

Sometimes I don't warm to my favorite band's newest album until it's been succeeded and is only their second newest album. And so I'm finally getting into Deerhoof's Miracle-Level (2023) now that Noble and Godlike in Ruin (2025) is out.

@wandklex@mastodon.art
2025-12-16 13:05:42

Wasn Tag in der #wattpampa.

@tinoeberl@mastodon.online
2025-11-16 14:15:06

‼️Die #Petition
"Umsetzung eines verbindlichen Nationalen Sepsis-Plans vom 08.08.2025"
hat bisher 1202 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 28798 Unterschriften bis zum 09.12.2025.

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2025-12-15 06:15:07

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Solidarität in der KI-Ära: Das ethische Dilemma der Zivilgesellschaft

Solidarität in der KI-Ära: Das ethische Dilemma der Zivilgesellschaft
Eine Initiative für "demokratische KI" zeigt, wie gemeinwohlorientierte Organisationen dem von Tech-Giganten dominierten KI-Markt Werte entgegensetzen können.

@benb@osintua.eu
2025-12-16 16:06:51

Kremlin rejects Christmas truce in Ukraine as a temporary 'substitute' for peace: benborges.xyz/2025/12/16/kreml

Tracking information about the Russian War against Ukraine — Modern art makes me want to rock out
A blog running on Micro.blog

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-16 18:21:06

OpenAI updates ChatGPT Images to generate images up to 4x faster and edit more precisely, and adds a new section in ChatGPT's app and website for images (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@catsalad@infosec.exchange
2025-12-16 15:33:16

RE: hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/1157
I'm hungry send toot :huemanatee:

@kubikpixel@chaos.social
2025-12-16 06:05:11

»8 Million Users' AI Conversations Sold for Profit by "Privacy" Extensions«
WTF?! Now don't tell me that this surprises you. Why do so many people still naively think to keep their privacy over VPN's for data-hungry big corporations?
🤷 koi.ai/blo…

8 Million Users' AI Conversations Sold for Profit by "Privacy" Extensions | Koi Blog

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2025-12-16 12:37:27

Cybersecurity news is not slowing down ahead of the holidays, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Russia switches up tactics in cyberattacks on energy companies, Amazon,
--ShinyHunters stole search and watch history of PornHub's premium members,
--Contributor to DraftKings breach and data theft pleads guilty,
--Email outage at German Bundestag was not a cyberattack but doubts linger,
--Ha…

Russia switches up tactics in cyberattacks on energy companies, Amazon
ShinyHunters stole search and watch history of PornHub's premium members, Contributor to DraftKings breach and data theft pleads guilty, Email outage at German Bundestag was not a cyberattack but doubts linger, Handala group puts bounties on Israeli technicians' data, much more

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-12-16 19:20:43

Event software company Cvent acquires video content platform Goldcast; source: Cvent paid just under $300M to acquire Goldcast, which had raised around $38M (Dan Primack/Axios)
axios.com/pro/merger-deals/202

Scoop: Cvent paid nearly $300M for Goldcast
Boston-based Goldcast had raised around $38 million in venture capital.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-15 04:40:32

Live Updates: Police Release Man and Say They Are Still Searching for Shooter (New York Times)
nytimes.com/live/2025/12/14/us
memeorandum.com/251214/p59#a25

@Dragofix@veganism.social
2025-12-16 23:22:52

New UN report outlines economic pathways for tackling planetary crisis #environment

New UN report outlines economic pathways for tackling planetary crisis
A new global assessment of the planet's environmental health was unveiled this week at the seventh UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-7), with University of Portsmouth researchers playing a central role in shaping its economic blueprint for a sustainable future.

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2025-12-15 06:07:00

Tether will Juventus Turin kaufen: Unternehmerfamilie Agnelli lehnt ab
Der Geschäftsführer von Tether ist Italiener und Fan von Juventus Turin: Jetzt hat seine Firma ein Übernahmeangebot für den weltbekannten Verein vorgelegt.

Fußball: Familie Agnelli lehnt Kaufangebot für Juventus Turin von Tether ab
Der Geschäftsführer von Tether ist Italiener und Fan von Juventus Turin: Jetzt hat seine Firma ein Übernahmeangebot für den weltbekannten Verein vorgelegt.

@benb@osintua.eu
2025-12-16 14:06:28

Zelensky says Russia continues to demand all of Donbas, adding that Ukraine will not withdraw: benborges.xyz/2025/12/16/zelen

Tracking information about the Russian War against Ukraine — Modern art makes me want to rock out
A blog running on Micro.blog

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-12-16 11:00:06

"Study warns of major funding gap for 30×30 biodiversity goal"
#Environment #Nature #Biodiversity

Study warns of major funding gap for 30x30 biodiversity goal
A new report warns that international funding for the global 30x30 biodiversity goal is rising but still billions short. Despite a 150% increase since 2014, support for protected areas in developing nations remains far below the $6B annually needed by 2030, leaving major regional gaps and heavy reliance on a few donors.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-16 11:56:06

Sources and a memo: Amazon plans to cut 370 jobs, or ~8.5% of its 4,370 employees, at its European HQ in Luxembourg, the country's biggest layoffs in 20 years (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@catsalad@infosec.exchange
2025-12-16 13:47:55

Environmental storytelling 🐾

Photo of a tuxedo cat staring through the glass of a back door where a small loop of paw prints in fresh snow can be seen. Kitty saw the cold white stuff. Kitty is done on the cold white stuff.
@kubikpixel@chaos.social
2025-12-16 10:45:26

»Cyberkriminelle kopieren persönliche Daten von SoundCloud- und Pornhub-Nutzern:
SoundCloud und Pornhub haben unabhängig voneinander IT-Sicherheitsvorfälle gemeldet. Dabei konnten Angreifer auf interne Daten zugreifen.«
Wieder mal pop. Web-Dienstleister gehackt. Das ist das eine aber weshalb haben die nicht mal min. anonymisiert die Nutzerdaten auf ihren Web-Servern gespeichert?
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Cyberkriminelle kopieren persönliche Daten von SoundCloud- und Pornhub-Nutzern
SoundCloud und Pornhub haben unabhängig voneinander IT-Sicherheitsvorfälle gemeldet. Dabei konnten Angreifer auf interne Daten zugreifen.

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2025-12-15 16:45:06

Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Cloud: Zoff in Bayern wegen Milliardenauftrag an Microsoft ohne Ausschreibung

Cloud: Zoff in Bayern wegen Milliardenauftrag an Microsoft ohne Ausschreibung
Das Open-Source-Lager, Informatiker und IT-Wirtschaft warnen vor Verlust der digitalen Souveränität in Bayern und fordern den Stopp der Microsoft-Verhandlungen.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-15 05:01:00

U.S. Military Plane and JetBlue Flight Nearly Collided Over Caribbean, Radio Traffic Shows (Riley Mellen/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2025/12/14/world/a
memeorandum.com/251215/p1#a251

@benb@osintua.eu
2025-12-16 14:06:30

Ukraine war latest: Russia ramping up pressure on Myrnohrad as fight inside Pokrovsk outskirts continues: benborges.xyz/2025/12/16/ukrai

Tracking information about the Russian War against Ukraine — Modern art makes me want to rock out
A blog running on Micro.blog

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-12-16 00:40:42

President Trump files a $5B defamation lawsuit against the BBC, alleging it intentionally doctored a Panorama documentary to misrepresent his January 6 speech (Dan Mangan/CNBC)
cnbc.com/2025/12/16/trump-bbc-

@Dragofix@veganism.social
2025-12-16 22:46:20

Global warming amplifies extreme day-to-day temperature swings, study shows #environment

Global warming amplifies extreme day-to-day temperature swings, study shows
A new study has revealed that rapid, large-scale day-to-day temperature fluctuations have intensified amid global warming, representing a distinct climate hazard with impacts on human health. This growing volatility creates a weather pattern akin to a "climate roller coaster," exposing populations to more frequent and sharp shifts between temperature extremes.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-16 05:01:29

Shares in Chinese companies critical to AI infrastructure surged in 2025, with CATL up 45% and Sungrow up 130%, as exports boost margins despite Trump's tariffs (William Sandlund/Financial Times)
ft.com/content/ea276954-7dab-4

@benb@osintua.eu
2025-12-16 16:06:53

Russia launches massive drone attack on Ukraine, 57 drones downed as strikes hit Odesa and Zaporizhzhia: benborges.xyz/2025/12/16/russi

Tracking information about the Russian War against Ukraine — Modern art makes me want to rock out
A blog running on Micro.blog

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-15 06:10:34

Holocaust survivor, London-born rabbi and 10-year-old girl among victims of Bondi beach terror attack (The Guardian)
theguardian.com/australia-news
memeorandum.com/251215/p7#a251

@Dragofix@veganism.social
2025-12-16 23:39:50

Banned for years, dangerous pesticides persist in Nigerian farming news.mongabay.com/2025/12/bann

Banned for years, dangerous pesticides persist in Nigerian farming
The sun rises over lush farm fields of on the outskirts of Lagos. For more than 20 years, a farmer named Joe has tilled the land, coaxing life from the earth and reaping bountiful harvests. But here, beneath the surface of this idyllic scene, lies a complex web of challenges — chief among them, the […]

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-12-16 22:22:40

E.W. Scripps' board unanimously rejects Sinclair's unsolicited acquisition proposal of $7 per share in cash and stock, offered in November (Todd Spangler/Variety)
variety.com/2025/tv/news/scrip

Scripps Rejects Sinclair Unsolicited Acquisition Offer
The board of E.W. Scripps Co. unanimously rejected the unsolicited acquisition proposal submitted by Sinclair, the second-biggest U.S. TV station owner groups.

@kubikpixel@chaos.social
2025-12-15 06:10:32

»Mehrheit für Social-Media-Verbot für unter 16-Jährige:
In Australien gilt jetzt das weltweit erste Social-Media-Verbot für Kinder und Jugendliche unter 16 Jahren. Auch in Deutschland befürworten das viele.«
Verbote sind nicht die Lösung & wie sollen dann die Kits distanzierte Kommunikation über das Web lernen? Die nutzen die Dinge per Seiteneingang so oder so. Nehmt mal deren Produzenten zur Verantwortung.
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Mehrheit für Social-Media-Verbot für unter 16-Jährige
In Australien gilt jetzt das weltweit erste Social-Media-Verbot für Kinder und Jugendliche unter 16 Jahren. Auch in Deutschland befürworten das viele.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-16 05:55:45

Sources say Monzo CEO TS Anil, who announced his exit and handover to ex-Googler Diana Layfield in October, was pushed out by the board over an IPO timing clash (Financial Times)
ft.com/content/5aa2f310-d023-4

@Dragofix@veganism.social
2025-12-16 23:54:15

A new 'hypertropical' climate is emerging in the Amazon, exposing trees to deadly stress phys.org/news/2025-12-hypertro

A new 'hypertropical' climate is emerging in the Amazon, exposing trees to deadly stress
The Amazon rainforest is slowly transitioning to a new, hotter climate with more frequent and intense droughts—conditions that haven't been seen on Earth for tens of millions of years.

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-12-16 21:27:37

Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners is exiting from Paramount's takeover bid for WBD, citing changed investment dynamics since it joined the bid in October (Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-15 14:45:38

Trump's Diversity Rollback Ends Crucial Aid for Deafblind Children Like Annie Garner (New York Times)
nytimes.com/2025/12/15/us/trum
memeorandum.com/251215/p45#a25

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-16 03:15:43

CoreWeave's market value fell $33B in six weeks amid construction delays at its Denton, TX AI data center, criticism from short seller Jim Chanos, and more (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/tech/ai/coreweave-stoc

@Dragofix@veganism.social
2025-12-17 00:18:33

Illegal fishing, other maritime threats cost Western Indian Ocean $1b a year: Report news.mongabay.com/short-articl

Illegal fishing, other maritime threats cost Western Indian Ocean $1b a year: Report
Maritime threats in the Western Indian Ocean cost the region more than $1.1 billion annually, with illegal fishing, trafficking, piracy, migration and pollution undermining economies, ecosystems and coastal livelihoods, a new U.N. report finds.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-16 03:01:20

OpenAI's chief communications officer Hannah Wong will leave in January; Wong joined in 2021 and led PR during Sam Altman's brief ouster and return in 2023 (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
wired.com/story/openai-chief-c

OpenAI’s Chief Communications Officer Is Leaving the Company
Hannah Wong told staff she is moving on to her “next chapter.” The company will be running an executive search to find a replacement, according to a memo.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-15 15:50:38

Sophomore Ella Cook ID'd as first victim in Brown University shooting (Caitlin McCormack/New York Post)
nypost.com/2025/12/14/us-news/
memeorandum.com/251215/p49#a25

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-15 14:06:48

Nvidia launches Nemotron 3, a family of AI models using a hybrid mixture-of-experts architecture and the Mamba-Transformer design, in 30B, 100B, and ~500B sizes (Emilia David/VentureBeat)
venturebeat.com/ai/nvidia-debu

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-15 05:20:37

Rob Reiner, Legendary Comedic Actor and 'Princess Bride' Director, Found Dead in His Home (Chris Morris/Variety)
variety.com/2025/film/news/rob
memeorandum.com/251215/p6#a251

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-15 14:35:39

Texas universities deploy AI tools to review and rewrite how some courses discuss race and gender (Jessica Priest/The Texas Tribune)
texastribune.org/2025/12/15/te
memeorandum.com/251215/p43#a25

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-16 06:25:54

Sources: Vinted is exploring a share sale that could value the company at ~€8B; Vinted says it expects 2025 revenue to cross €1B , up from €813M in 2024 (Financial Times)
ft.com/content/76b8784e-438b-4

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-15 13:15:38

They Are Globalizing the Intifada -- For years, the left wing has been chanting "globalize the intifada." (David Strom/HotAir)
hotair.com/david-strom/2025/12
memeorandum.com/251215/p36#a25

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-15 14:35:39

Meta tolerates rampant ad fraud from China to safeguard billions in revenue (Reuters)
reuters.com/investigations/met
memeorandum.com/251215/p42#a25

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-15 13:15:38

One big difference between Trump 1.0 and Trump 2.0 (Washington Post)
washingtonpost.com/politics/20
memeorandum.com/251215/p35#a25

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-15 15:40:41

New details emerge in slaying of Rob Reiner, wife as police interview family member (Los Angeles Times)
latimes.com/california/story/2
memeorandum.com/251215/p47#a25

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-15 13:30:34

Trump's Promised Big Tax Tax Cuts Are Expected to Disappoint the Average Worker (Caitlin Reilly/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
memeorandum.com/251215/p40#a25

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-15 05:20:37

2 people found dead in home owned by Rob Reiner, AP source says (Associated Press)
apnews.com/article/rob-reiner-
memeorandum.com/251215/p5#a251

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-15 05:10:39

Rep. Ilhan Omar says her son was pulled over by ICE agents in Minnesota (Fiona Glisson/NBC News)
nbcnews.com/politics/congress/
memeorandum.com/251215/p2#a251