
2025-07-17 09:20:00
Roboterwettbewerb RoboCup 2025 in Brasilien startet mit Live-Streams
Der RoboCup 2025 in Brasilien beginnt. Wettbewerbe sollen live gestreamt werden.
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Roboterwettbewerb RoboCup 2025 in Brasilien startet mit Live-Streams
Der RoboCup 2025 in Brasilien beginnt. Wettbewerbe sollen live gestreamt werden.
https://www.heise.de…
Visited my 95-year-old Mom in Saskatchewan and came away with Prairie pictures and thoughts on memory and topography and Google color science and healthcare economics. https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/07/09/Saskatchewan
„“I think [Bluesky CEO] Jay [Graber] is great. I think the team is great,” Dorsey told Henshaw-Plath, “but the structure is what I disagree with…I want to push the energy in a different direction, which is more like Bitcoin, which is completely open and not owned by anyone from a protocol layer.“
Jack Dorsey pumps $10 million into a nonprofit focused on open-source social media | TechCrunch
Activist investor Elliott announces a $2B stake in Workday and says the company's new multi-year plan will drive "substantial long-term value creation" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/17/workday-stock-elliott-activist.html
Lizzy Schubert, die neuste Nachrückerin von den MdBs von Die Linke, hat der vorherig jüngsten MdB (Luke Hoß, auch von Die Linke) diesen Platz gestohlen.
Witzig mit wem man damals alles vor wenigen Monaten noch auf Kuba war und wer davon dann heute im Bundestag sitzt.
Bravo 👏 https://…
3rd Tank Brigade Reformed as Heavy Mechanized Unit: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/18/rd-tank-brigade-reformed-as.html
Trump calls own supporters 'weaklings' as MAGA's Epstein backlash grows
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-17/trump-calls-own-supporters-weaklings-over-epstein/105540430
Dear American friends,
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/07/09/Saskatchewan by @… contains a lesson on
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Faster Rust builds on Mac.
https://nnethercote.github.io/2025/09/04/faster-rust-builds-on-mac.html
saved 2025-09-04
@… こちらからどうぞー
https://fedibird.com/invite/aMoksX2y…
Not linking to this shit, but this is one of the worst purposefully for evil deliberate propaganda “just asking” mangling of logic I’ve ever seen.
You fucking piece of shit, we have longer life expectancy because of science (that is getting defunded) giving us antibiotics, vaccines, food safety, curing cancers and so much more.
Interesting insight via @… on the cultural shifts in these communities:
https://scalie.zone/@aks/115219522857171503
50 years ago #OTD at 16:09 UTC #Soyuz 19 and the final #Apollo spacecraft docked in orbit in the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project or Экспериментальный полёт «Союз»–«Аполлон» (the Americans and Soviets never agreed on which s/c comes first): https://www.nasa.gov/apollo-soyuz-test-project/ = various NASA materials, https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/astp.htm = many links, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/sp-4209.pdf = a biiiig book, https://www.facebook.com/AstroDrewMorgan/posts/pfbid0wcN12LcAfRYYTmiWS71GQ47P42jukXVhd2QWA7eBzgg1wbdZAKq8LXVGTC9o7tKtl and https://www.facebook.com/ralf.heckel1/posts/pfbid02jcFp85PRy2UBUs4JVhPQcBnmddC8sQbPL3Vx26XoFMvbbsToNJmpLMDrRfce98HPl and https://www.facebook.com/groups/176051159106442/posts/24331420949809459 and https://www.facebook.com/groups/48800622850/posts/10162318303047851 = more visuals, https://www.youtube.com/live/Mu7iEyaOmDM = an online event, https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/07/not-that-into-peace-doves-the-apollo-soyuz-patch-nasa-rejected/ and https://www.spacerockethistory.com/2025/02/space-rocket-history-457-apollo-soyuz-test-project-soviet-concerns-with-apollo/ and http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-071425a-apollo-soyuz-test-project-astp-official-flight-kit-ofk-apk.html and https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/science/apollo-soyuz-test-project-1975-anniversary.html?smid=bs-share = articles and https://scicomm.xyz/@Nick_Stevens_graphics@mastodon.art/114858897568849751 = a contemporary cartoon.
OH: aerosolized retrovirus to OTA update all the plants
The Nepalese “government on Monday declared those who died in the recent Gen Z uprising as martyrs, and decided to provide cash relief to their families. From now on, the deceased will be called Gen Z martyrs, according to the government’s decision.”
https://kathmandupost.…
Niemand hat soviel dafür getan, die Richtër der deutschen Bundesgerichte so sehr gegen die Bundesregierung einzunehmen, wie #Dobrindt. #Merz und #Klingbeil können sich schon auf bemerkenswerte Urteile der Bundesgerichte freuen.
Niemand hat soviel dafür getan, die Richtër der deutschen Bundesgerichte so sehr gegen die Bundesregierung einzunehmen, wie #Dobrindt. #Merz und #Klingbeil können sich schon auf bemerkenswerte Urteile der Bundesgerichte freuen.
Demonstranten worden geframed als schuldig aan het geweld dat juist gepleegd wordt door agenten…
https://www.groene.nl/arti…
1. akt: ich bin im supermarkt und sehe käse von milram mit verpackung in der "design edition". denke mir "hä warum sollte ich mir käse in der design edition kaufen mir doch egal wie die verpackung vom käse aussieht"
2. akt: ist offenbar doch nicht egal, denn die nationalsozialisten drehen am rad weil ihnen der käse zu divers ist
Nun weiss ich was mein nächstes Buch sein wird und sicherlich nach dem lesen auch weiter gebe.
»Künstliche Intelligenz und der neue Faschismus: Worum es Technokraten und „Populisten“ tatsächlich geht«
– vom @… im @…
Netskope priced its IPO at $19 per share, at the top of its targeted range, valuing the company at $7.3B, and raised $908.2M in the offering (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/17/netskope-seeks-7point3-billion-valuation-…
Ukrainian drones reportedly attack Moscow for second night in a row: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/18/ukrainian-drones-reportedly-attack-moscow.html
Dutch MP - of Baudet's far-right FvD - has video call with Putin's ruling party to discuss a Russia-led alternative to NATO.
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/07/16/baude
South Africa to reopen Steve Biko case 48 years after death in police custody
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/10/south-africa-to-reopen-steve-biko-inquest-48-years-after-dea…
:sonnamonohanai:
Meta rolls out Hyperscape Capture in early access, letting developers and creators use Quest 3 devices to scan a room and turn it into a VR space in minutes (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/17/meta-launches-hyper…
EU envoys reportedly agree on 18th package of Russia sanctions after Slovakia lifts veto: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/18/eu-envoys-reportedly-agree-on.html
@… kmyblue、想定外の動作(バグ)の可能性あるなー。
Meta announces the Oakley Meta Vanguard, with a 12MP wide-angle camera, Garmin and Strava integrations, and immersive audio, launching on October 21 for $499 (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/17/meta-unveils-its-ne…
Ukraine raises flags in villages near Dnipropetrovsk Oblast's borders, refuting Russia's claims of capture: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/18/ukraine-raises-flags-in-villages.html
Der KI-Boom sorgt für massive Engpässe bei Serverfestplatten! Laut dem Marktbeobachter Trendforce müssen Unternehmen, die jetzt größere Mengen an Nearline-Festplatten bestellen wollen, mit Wartezeiten von bis zu einem Jahr rechnen. 😱
Zum Artikel: https://heise…
why is the department of defense immediately interested in grok right after the “mechahitler” scandal?? is this modern day project paperclip?
Google says India has emerged as the No. 1 country for Nano Banana model usage, making Gemini the top free app on both the App Store and Google Play in India (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/17/india-leads-the…
@… Misskey側でキャンセルしたらその分は消えるハズだけど、どうだろうねえ
7 killed, 49 injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/16/killed-injured-in-russian-attacks.html
Upscale AI, which is building a suite of open standards-based networking tools for AI infrastructure, raised a $100M seed led by Mayfield and Maverick Silicon (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/09/17/up
ディルバート?
Youtube stellt Weichen für mehr KI in Videos
In Kurzvideos bei Youtube dürfte es bald mehr KI geben. Die Google-Plattform bindet bei Youtube Shorts Software ein, die Videos aus Textvorgaben erzeugt.
https://www.
Ex-defense minister appointed secretary of Ukraine's Security Council: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/18/exdefense-minister-appointed-secretary-of.html
A live blog of Meta Connect 2025, where "Hypernova" smart glasses with a display, new Meta Ray-Ban glasses, Meta AI updates, and more are expected (Devindra Hardawar/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ar-vr/meta-connec
Unter Androhung von Geldstrafen hat das russische Parlament den Zugang zu Informationen im Netz massiv eingeschränkt. Bisher war nur die Erstellung und Verbreitung "extremistischer Inhalte" verboten, nun aber auch die bloße Suche danach. 🖥️
Zum Artikel: https://
Polish defense minister arrives in Kyiv week after Russian drone incursion: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/18/polish-defense-minister-arrives-in.html
Survey: 50% of US adults are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life; 53% say AI will harm people's ability to think creatively (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2025/09/17/…
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,039,830 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/18/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html
Russian strikes hit Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia oblasts — 5 injured, homes damaged: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/18/russian-strikes-hit-kharkiv-zaporizhzhia.html
A profile of Song-Chun Zhu, an AI scientist and NSF and Pentagon grantee, who left the US after 28 years to lead China's state-backed AI institute BIGAI in 2020 (Chang Che/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/news/n…
Spotify: 15 Stunden mehr Hörbuch für 9 Euro im Monat
Im Spotify-Abo bekommt man seit einigen Monaten auch zwölf Stunden fürs Hörbuch-Hören im Monat. Eine neue Abo-Option fügt für 9 Euro monatlich 15 Stunden dazu.
http…
Russian attacks kill 7, injure 25 in Ukraine over past day; train hit in drone strike: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/18/russian-attacks-kill-injure-in.html
Meta unveils the Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 2), with extended 8-hour battery life and 3K Ultra HD video capture for up to three minutes, available today starting at $329 (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/780012/meta-ray-ban-gen-2-smart-glasses-con…
Magic Leap: Wie der Traum von der Wunder-AR-Brille platzte
Zwischen Vision, Hype und Restrukturierung: Wie ein Augmented-Reality-Start-up mit Milliardenkapital beinahe kollabierte und heute neue Wege geht.
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Russian attacks kill 3, injure 22 in Ukraine over past day, railway infrastructure hit overnight: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/18/russian-attacks-kill-injure-in.html
Meta unveils Meta Ray-Ban Display, with a screen in the right lens and the Meta Neural Band, a wristband that detects hand gestures, on sale Sept. 30 for $799 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
Kellogg 'in the ascendancy lately' as Trump shifts toward tougher Russia stance, Telegraph reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/17/kellogg-in-the-ascendancy-lately.html
A US district judge rules Amazon violated consumer law by collecting Prime subscribers' billing info before disclosing terms, handing the FTC a partial win (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/us-ftc-wins-key…
Pro-Ukraine partisans sabotage railway, disrupt Russian logistics 1,600 km from border, group claims: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/17/proukraine-partisans-sabotage-railway-disrupt.html
Sources: several xAI execs left after clashing with two of Musk's closest advisers over concerns about unrealistic financial projections and xAI's management (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/elon-musk-xai-executives-advisers-clash-eac3913…
Russia becomes third-largest gas supplier to EU: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/russia-becomes-thirdlargest-gas-supplier.html
URGENT! THE US SENDS PATRIOT MISSILES TO UKRAINE: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/urgent-the-us-sends-patriot.html
A livestream of Meta Connect 2025 (Meta on YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80s0chTOsK0
http://www.techmeme.com/250…
US general says NATO could seize Russia's Kaliningrad 'unheard of' fast: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/17/us-general-says-nato-could.html
Meta upgrades Horizon Worlds with Meta Horizon Studio, letting creators use AI prompts to build worlds, powered by its new "built from scratch" virtual engine (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/780256/meta-horizon-worlds-engine-studio…
Russian authorities call for urgent tax increase to save national budget: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/russian-authorities-call-for-urgent.html
Kennt ihr das auch? Der Bus kommt nicht, die U-Bahn fällt aus oder die S-Bahn hat mal wieder Verspätung? 🚇 Was in anderen Ländern die Ausnahme ist, scheint in Deutschland mittlerweile der Normalzustand zu sein.
Zum Kommentar: https://heise.de/-10538584?wt_mc=s…
"No one has been briefed" — Europe blindsided by Trump's Ukraine weapons deal: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/17/no-one-has-been-briefed.html
Anthropic details three infrastructure bugs that intermittently degraded Claude's responses between August and early September, and explains how they were fixed (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/a-postmortem-of-three-recent-issues
Russia cancels major public events amid rising threats from Ukrainian drones: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/russia-cancels-major-public-events.html
OpenAI and Apollo Research trained o3 and o4-mini versions to not engage in "scheming", or secretly pursuing undesirable goals, reducing "covert actions" ~30X (Radhika Rajkumar/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-models-kn
Russian double-tap attack injures 5, including emergency workers, in Nikopol: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/17/russian-doubletap-attack-injures-including.html
Sources: China drops antitrust probe into Google, opened in February over Android dominance and its impact on Chinese phonemakers, amid US-China trade talks (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/069e1e62-748f-43d1-9559-18767ec53a48
Russia drops 500-kg bomb on shopping center in Donetsk Oblast — killing 2, injuring 27: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/russia-drops-kg-bomb-on.html
EU faces internal divisions as Slovakia and Malta block 18th sanctions package against Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/eu-faces-internal-divisions-as.html
ShinyHunters claims it stole 1.5B Salesforce records from 760 companies using compromised Salesloft Drift OAuth tokens; a source says the figures are accurate (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu
The Kremlin is panicking: Europe and the US send new air defense systems and missiles to Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/the-kremlin-is-panicking-europe.html
CrowdStrike agrees to acquire Pangea, which protects companies from prompt injection attacks by monitoring AI interactions with users and software, for ~$260M (James Rundle/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/crowdstrike-to-buy-ai-security-co…
Ukraine war latest: Mass attack hits cities overnight as Ukrainians brace for 50 more days of Russian terror: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/ukraine-war-latest-mass-attack.html
Hands-on with Meta Ray-Ban Display and Neural Band: small display adds new functionality, useful real-time translation, Neural Band seems the ideal input method (Ben Lang/Road to VR)
https://www.roadtovr.com/hands-on-meta-ray-b…
'I'd talk to the Devil himself' — Belarus' opposition torn on whether to reengage with dictator Lukashenko to save political prisoners: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/17/id-talk-to-the-devil.html
Meta rolls out Horizon TV for Quest headsets, with apps including Disney and ESPN, and partners with Universal and Blumhouse to let users watch 3D movies (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/780492/meta-quest-headset-horizon-tv-streaming
Lenovo Legion Go S review: SteamOS is a huge improvement over Windows, but battery life falls behind Windows-based handhelds and its touchpad is nearly useless (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/reviews/704903/lenovo-legion-go-s-st…
Samsung Electronics Chair Jay Y. Lee wins a full reprieval from South Korea's Supreme Court in a protracted fight over fraud and stock manipulation allegations (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/south-…
The US FCC aims to introduce a ban on companies that use certain Chinese tech and equipment from building submarine communication cables connecting to the US (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8ac34fb9-6a51-4343-bfe4-fea566b4fa8c
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