Tootfinder

SK Hynix reports Q2 revenue up 35% YoY to ~$16.2B vs. ~$14.9B est., operating profit up 68% to ~$6.7B vs. ~$6.5B est., and expects sustained HBM demand in 2025 (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/24/sk-hynix-second-quarter-earning…

Nvidia supplier SK Hynix second-quarter profit soars 69% to a record high, revenue also hits new highs
Revenue rose about 35% in the June quarter compared with the same period a year earlier, while operating profit rose 68%, year on year.

Ukrainian lawmaker's warning amid Zelensky’s anti-corruption crackdown: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/23/ukrainian-lawmakers-warning-amid-zelenskys.html

Since Microsoft is organising a European Sovereign Tech Fund, we should ask Lockheed Martin to put together a European Sovereign Defense Fund. There’s probably also opportunity here to bring Amazon in to advise on EU labour standards and have McDonald’s take the lead on food safety policy in the EU.
CC @…

Not enough petting!!1!

A few weeks ago, GDC'25 (https://globaldigitalcollaboration.org/agenda?day=2025-07-02) was hosted in Geneva, and we got together to discuss many different aspects of digital identity. I was very happy that consensus seems to converge on unlinkability as a non-negotiable…

Global Digital Collaboration Conference (GDC25)
Join the Global Digital Collaboration Conference (GDC25) on July 1-2, 2025 in Geneva, Switzerland. Uniting the world for the future of digital public infrastructure.

Georgia State University’s Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) Array is marking the 20th anniversary of its first scientific results, published in July 2005: #CHARA interferometer enabled the discoveries.

#Presseschau

Sources: the NFL is in talks to take a minority stake of up to 10% in ESPN, which would own NFL Network and RedZone rather than just hold a controlling stake (Alex Sherman/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/24/nfl-media-espn-equity-ownership-deal.html

NFL in talks to take a 10% stake in ESPN
ESPN would own all of NFL Network and NFL RedZone, rather than just a controlling stake, if the deal moves forward as currently constructed, CNBC has learned.

"I think my high-school acting career lasted a day."
-Dennis Farina
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Me, at lunch:
*walks into bodega with screaming fire alarm going off in building*
*shops for sandwich and Monster*
Clerk: “don’t worry about the alarm; it’s just a test.”
Me, dead-eyed, mid-cyber incident response: “I don’t care.”
*exits stage left, pursued by a Jira ticket.*
Yes, it really happened. I recommend the Knuckle Sandwich with pork and jam.

“Many State Offices are concerned that Starlink proposals may be the lowest bid and alternative proposals may not be within the 15% window for consideration. What this analysis presents is that across many geographic areas Starlink may not be a qualified bidder as it may be unable to attain the required 100/20 Mbps service level (and, in deploying Starlink services, may actually degrade pre-existing users’ services to the point that they no longer receive minimal broadband speeds).”
#Enshitification #StarLink
https://communitynetworks.org/content/new-research-starlink-unlikely-meet-bead-speed-needs-scale

@… we will outlive the burger king!!

Feds Criminalize Activism and Protests Against ICE
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/23/feds-criminalize-protests-masked-ice/

@… Kennst Du? https://youtube.com/shorts/z7cSi9civ5g?si=czkmnicQ8cIYKjqG

so we have started offering the white label version of #rageAgainstTheSlopMachine

"Conservation’s silent strain: Nature’s protectors face a mental health crisis"
#Conservation #Nature

Conservation’s silent strain: Nature’s protectors face a mental health crisis
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Amid the calls of gibbons and the whir of drones scanning forest canopies, a quieter crisis is unfolding within the ranks of those trying to save nature. Conservationists, often seen as tireless stewards of the planet’s dwindling biodiversity, […]

If #AI is allegedly so good for worker productivity and improving efficiency across organizations, why are the AI companies making their own employees work 72 hour workweeks?
If the tech actually helped them get more done faster, wouldn’t they have SHORTER workweeks? Why aren’t they using their own tools to help their employees?
Context: #Anthropic earlier this year, and they told me that this is a job with far longer work hours than any other place they’ve worked at.
They are also pulling 60 hour weeks there, they have zero tolerance for remote work, because the culture is “you don’t want to be left behind”. This person basically disappeared from social life once they took this job. I had never seen them so tired before.

Escape May Be An Option – Ritual Escape https://muz4now.com/2025/escape-may-be-an-option-ritual-escape

Escape May Be An Option - Ritual Escape
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

I endorse every single word of this. Yes, including the repetition of "extreme".
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/23/the-death-of-industrial-design-and-the-era-of-dull-electronics/

The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics
It’s often said that what’s inside matters more than one’s looks, but it’s hard to argue that a product’s looks and its physical user experience are what makes it inst…

#Westeuropa erlebte im Juni 2025 den wärmsten Juni seit Beginn der Aufzeichnungen.
Die Durchschnittstemperatur lag 2,81 °C über dem Mittel von 1991–2020.
#Hitzeperioden prägten den Monat in weiten Teilen Europas. EU-Daten zeigen auch global überdurchschnittliche Temperaturen, w…

Trump claimed that Joe Biden had “established toxic diversity, equity and inclusion ideology as a guiding principle of American AI development”.
“But the American people do not want woke Marxist lunacy in the AI models,” Trump said
Trump told assembled industry leaders that he wants them to “change the name” of artificial intelligence
and that they should not be forced to pay the authors of articles or books they use to train their large language models

So, gerade gezeichnet.
https://mastodon.social/@ak_text/114900970362032238

🧮 CBEX crypto scam: AI-hyped Ponzi scheme defrauds African investors
#scam

CBEX crypto scam: AI-hyped Ponzi scheme defrauds African investors
Embarrassed and in debt, Edwin was left reeling after losing $16,000 to CryptoBridge Exchange (CBEX), one of the crypto-trading platforms preying on investors in Africa.

Alan Friedman, who has toiled for years to make SBOM a reality, is leaving CISA.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/allanafried

I’ve already shared this with the CISA SBOM community, but wanted to post here as well: my time at CISA is coming to a close. | Allan Friedman, PhD
I’ve already shared this with the CISA SBOM community, but wanted to post here as well: my time at CISA is coming to a close. My last day will be July 31. It’s been an extraordinary chapter, made possible by brilliant colleagues at Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and an incredible global community who turned an ambitious idea into a meaningful shift in how we think about digital trust. I’ll have more to say soon in reflection and gratitude. In the meantime, I remain com…

2025 IDP rankings and draft strategy: The Travis Hunter dilemma and more https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6508990/2025/07/23/2025-idp-rankings-draft-strategy-hunter/

I am a kid, a boy, of the 80s and 90s. I remember the Hulkamania. I was part of it. It is too bad Terry Bollea, Hulk Hogan, became a real life villain...
He had every opportunity to pick a different path and truly become the hero kids like me wished he was.
He didn't.
#RIP anyway. But you could have been so much better.
#hulkhogan
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/hulk-hogan-dead-wrestler-1236328145/

[BLOG] Windows: Umwandlung einer BIOS/MBR-Installation zu EFI/GPT https://www.adlerweb.info/blog/2025/07/23/windows-umwandlung-einer-bios-mbr-installation-zu-efi-gpt/

AppleCare One: Apple bündelt Hardware-Versicherungen in einem Abo
Eine neue Apple-Zusatzversicherung richtet sich an Kunden, die gleich mehrere Produkte besitzen. Für Familiengeräte ist das aber nicht gedacht.

LegalOn, whose contract review tool uses AI to identify risks and suggest edits, raised a $50M Series C, bringing its total raised to $200M (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/24/softbank-backed-legalon-fuels-ai…

SoftBank-backed LegalOn lands $50M to streamline legal workflows with AI | TechCrunch
LegalOn, which provides AI-powered contract review software for legal teams, has raised $50 million in a Series C round.

Europe fights back against support for Russia – international tensions rise!: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/23/europe-fights-back-against-support.html

Imax says it delivered at least 10% of domestic US opening totals on seven consecutive "filmed for Imax" releases, with 20% shares for Sinners, M:I, and F1 (Jill Goldsmith/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/07/imax-sinners-fi-earnings-box-…

Imax Hits All-Time High Market Share For Summer Slate As Q2 Earnings Jump, Will Rerelease ‘F1’ In August
Imax saw Q2 global box office rise 19% and its highest grossing domestic quarter ever at $143 million. It will rerelease 'FI' in August. Shares popped.

"For me, our job as artists is to serve the story, serve the director, and serve the fellow actors. And if you do that, by osmosis you’re serving yourself because you’ll get the best out of yourself."
-David Oyelowo
#acting #coaching

The Epstein files give MAGA a post-Trump future - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/07/23/the-epstein-files-give-maga-a-post-trump-future/

Clouds and More from the Finger Lakes
#nature #photography
https://muz4now.com/2025/clouds-and-mo…

Clouds and More from the Finger Lakes
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

I'm not like other girls
(I'm a dinosaur 🦕)

Schön, dass die TAZ einen solchen Artikel veröffentlicht.
https://taz.de/Menschen-mit-Behinderung/!6092789/
Nachdem die TAZ aber in der Vergangenheit Behinderungen in Beiträgen als negative Metapher verwendete, die Begriffe auch nach Protest stehen ließ und auf Anschrift …

In #Lemgo entsteht ein 50 Meter hoher #Großwärmespeicher, der künftig zentrale Aufgabe in der klimaneutralen #Wärmeversorgung übernimmt.
Der Speicher nutzt erneuerba…

Spatenstich am Liemer Weg: Neuer Großwärmespeicher für Lemgo - Lippische Wochenzeitung - LWZ24.de
Lemgo. 50 Meter hoch und voller Energie: Mit dem symbolischen Spatenstich gaben Bürgermeister Markus Baier und Stadtwerke-Geschäftsführer Matthias Sasse den offiziellen Startschuss für den Bau eines Großwärmespeichers am Liemer Weg. Gemeinsam mit Projektleiter Uwe Weber und Georg Klene, Leiter der Eigenerzeugung, markierten sie den nächsten großen Meilenstein der nachhaltigen Wärmeversorgung…

A deep Search for Ethylene Glycol and Glycolonitrile in the V883 Ori #Protoplanetary Disk: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14905 (and two slightly older papers) -> The evolution of life may have its origins in outer space: https://www.mpia.de/news/science/2025-05-v881-ori - astronomers find signs of complex organic molecules (precursors to sugars and amino acids) in a planet-forming disc.

Trunk Tools, which provides AI services to organize construction documentation, raised a $40M Series B led by Insight, bringing its total funding to $70M (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/07/24/trunk-too…

Trunk Tools raises $40M to revolutionize how construction teams interact with project data - SiliconANGLE
Trunk Tools raises $40M to revolutionize how construction teams interact with project data - SiliconANGLE

I’m not saying it’s cold and wet in Berlin, but I’ve just switched back to red wine. Guess the next escalation would be mulled wine. 🤔

Kyiv Independent suffers DDoS attack after publishing criticism of anti-corruption rollback: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/23/kyiv-independent-suffers-ddos-attack.html

MLS commissioner Don Garber says matches on Apple TV's MLS Season Pass are averaging 120,000 unique viewers this season, a 50% increase from last year (Jon Lewis/Sports Media Watch)
https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2025/07/mls-viewership-apple-tv-announ…

MLS commissioner offers rare disclosure of Apple TV viewership
MLS commissioner Don Garber provided a rare window into the league's viewership on Apple TV, if light on specifics.

X is testing using Community Notes to highlight posts that are liked by users with different perspectives (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/24/x-to-test-using-community-notes-to-find-the-posts-everyone-likes/

X to test using Community Notes to find the posts everyone likes | TechCrunch
X is piloting a new feature that will help to identify the platform's best posts. The system is similar to how Community Notes fact-checking works.

Deportation Appeal Fees Soar From $110 To $1010 - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/07/deportation-appeal-fees-soar-from-110-to-1010/

Potus without the mostus.
As one time governor of Indiana Roger Branigin said, “I never argue with a man who buys ink by the barrel.”
And potus done done that.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Afetnw70S04

Von der Leyen raises 'strong concerns,' urges Zelensky to explain law weakening Ukraine's anti-graft bodies: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/23/von-der-leyen-raises-strong.html

Looooool.
Für die Dosis Über-Nerd-tum, heute:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY8T-p0ouB0

London-based stock trading app Lightyear, which operates in 25 European countries, raised $23M led by NordicNinja, sources say at a $200M-$300M valuation (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/24/european-robinhood-rival-lightyear-raises-23-…

Estonia's tech elite are getting behind a European challenger to Robinhood
A host of Estonia's top tech entrepreneurs — including ride-hailing unicorn Bolt's CEO Markus Villig — are investing in European trading app Lightyear.

Source: E! News, the long-running celebrity news show, will end on September 25; its digital brand will continue with a focus on social platforms (Peter White/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/07/e-news-nightly-show-canceled-1236467716/

‘E! News’ Nightly Show Axed As Versant Eyes Digital Future For Brand
The half-hour, which airs at 11:30pm, will have new episodes through to September 25.

Scientific studies on conversion therapy show its harms
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/conversion-therapy-studies-on-conversion-therapy-say/

“‘It’s obvious that you don’t respect Copyright Law and Artist Rights any more than you respect Habeas Corpus and Due Process rights, not to mention the separation of Church and State per the US Constitution. For the record, we hereby order dhsgov [US Department of Homeland Security] to cease and desist the use of our recording and demand that you immediately pull down your video.’”
“They added: ‘Oh, and go f… yourselves.’”

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club issue cease and desist to US Homeland Security over "improper" use of song in "propaganda video"
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club have issued a cease-and-desist notice to US Homeland Security over their use of the band’s music. 

The Laude Institute, a nonprofit that runs the K Prize multi-round AI coding challenge, says a Brazilian prompt engineer won with just 7.5% of the right answers (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/23/a-ne

A new AI coding challenge just published its first results – and they aren’t pretty | TechCrunch
A new AI coding challenge has revealed its first winner — and set a new bar for AI-powered software engineers.  On Wednesday at 5pm PST, the

No-Rehire Clauses Let Employers Retaliate Against Harassment Victims ... Legally - Ms. Magazine
https://msmagazine.com/2025/07/23/no-rehire-clause-retaliation-sexual-harassment-victims-work-women/

ITV reports H1 2025 adjusted EBITA down 31% YoY to £146M, ITV Studios revenue up 11% YoY to £632M, ITVX digital ad revenue up 12% YoY and MAUs reaching 16.4M (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/itv-half-yearly-profits-drop-1236468600/

ITV Half Yearly Profits Drop 31%
U.K. media giant ITV posted a 31% drop in group adjusted EBITA (Earnings before interest, taxes, and amortization) for the first half of 2025.

"Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances."
-Sanford Meisner
#acting #coaching #inspiration

YouTube has become a valuable resource for professional chefs and, in recent years, has helped skilled amateurs build culinary reputations and open restaurants (Kate Krader/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-21/how-y…

Community rallies in protest after local church calls for killing LGBTQ people - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/community-rallies-in-after-local-church-calls-for-lgbtq-people/

A profile of vibe coding startup Lovable, which became the fastest-growing software startup in history, reaching $100M in annualized revenue in eight months (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/20

Vibe Coding Unicorn Lovable Is The Fastest Growing Software Startup Ever
Stockholm-based Lovable hit over $100 million in annualized revenue in just eight months by using AI to enable millions of non-coders to instantly turn their ideas into websites, apps and online side hustles.

"I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you."
-Meryl Streep
#acting #coaching #inspiration…

Queer runner Caster Semenya wins legal victory against World Athletics' sports policy - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/queer-runner-caster-semenya-wins-legal-victory-against-world-athletics-sports-policy/

Microsoft says the "Storm-2603" group is now deploying ransomware via vulnerable SharePoint server versions, as the estimated number of victims hits 400 (Raphael Satter/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/…

Trans Rep. Sarah McBride passes first bill in Congress with unanimous bipartisan support - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/trans-rep-sarah-mcbride-passes-first-bill-in-congress-with-unanimous-bipartisan-support/

IBM reports Q2 revenue up 8% YoY to $16.98B, vs. $16.59B est., and software revenue up 10% to $7.39B, vs. $7.49B est.; IBM drops 5% after hours (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-23/ibm-po…

DOJ Did Not 'Adequately' Address Factors Required in Epstein Unsealing, Judges Say | Law.com
https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2025/07/22/doj-did-not-adequately-address-factors-required-in-epstein-unsealing-judges-say/

Amazon updates its color screen Kindle Colorsoft with a cheaper 16GB model for $250 and a kids-focused bundle with one year of Kids Plus for $270, available now (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/712765/amazon-kindle-colorsoft-16-gb-kids

Amazon is launching a cheaper color Kindle
Amazon is launching two new iterations of the Kindle Colorsoft: a cheaper model and one available in a kids-focused bundle.

AMD CEO Lisa Su says she expects TSMC's Arizona-made chips to cost "more than 5% but less than 20%" above TSMC's Taiwan-made chips, and to arrive by 2025's end (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/climate/epa-endangerment-finding-rescind.html

Sources: Adani Group has shelved plans for a consumer super app amid losses and internal turmoil, as Reliance and Tata also struggle to scale their platforms (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-2…

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says the USDT issuer is making plans to do business in the US after the passage of Genius Act, with a focus on institutional markets (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-…

Trump Signs Order Banning "Woke" AI Models [VIDEO] - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/07/trump-signs-order-banning-woke-ai-models-video/

Reichsminister für Volksaufklärung has The View in his sights - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/07/24/reichsminister-fur-volksaufklarung-has-the-view-in-his-sights/

Google will officially deprecate links generated with its goo.gl URL shortener on August 25, 2025; the company stopped generating goo.gl URLs in March 2019 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/713125/google-url-shortener-links-shutdown-deadlin…

Google’s shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month
Google will deprecate all links created with its URL shortener on August 25th, 2025. All links made with the tool will return a 404 error message after that date.

She survived abuse and left her faith. Now, she gives religious trauma survivors a voice on YouTube.
https://religionnews.com/2025/07/23/she-survived-abuse-and-left-her-faith-now-she-gives-religious-trauma-survivors-a-voice-on-youtube/

Tracxn: funding for Indian digital lending startups fell to $462M between January and August 2025 from $1.1B a year earlier, after RBI tightened lending norms (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t

Clock’s ticking for digital lenders as VC funding plunges 50% in 2025
Funding into digital lending startups slumped to $462 million between January and August 2025 from $1.1 billion a year earlier, according to data from market intelligence platform Tracxn. Only around 50 of the 154 fintech deals reported this year involved digital lenders, the data showed.

At an AI summit, President Trump says he considered breaking up Nvidia before aides told him that doing so was "very hard" and "I learned the facts here" (Annmarie Hordern/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

North Dakota urges Supreme Court to leave in place decision that could limit the power of the Voting Rights Act - SCOTUSblog
https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/07/north-dakota-urges-supreme-court-to-leave-in-place-decision-that-could-weaken-vra/

CISPE files a legal complaint in the EU, arguing that the bloc's approval of Broadcom's VMware buyout failed to impose conditions to prevent market power abuse (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

State Department investigates Harvard international exchange visa sponsorship
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/24/harvard-trump-state-department-visas

Source: OpenAI is planning to launch GPT-5 in early August, complete with mini and nano versions that will also be available through its API (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft-newsletter/712950/openai-gpt-5-m…

OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August
OpenAI is getting ready to launch its next-gen AI model. GPT-5 is tentatively scheduled to arrive in early August.

I don't think it's anti-semitic and I don't like the purist mindset that insists he refute something he never said
Josh Shapiro Says Zohran Mamdani Fails to Condemn ‘Blatantly Antisemitic’ Rhetoric - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/us/politics/josh-shapiro-zohran-mamdani.html

STMicro reports Q2 revenue down 14.4% YoY to $2.77B, with an operating loss of $133M, vs. $56.2M profit est., including $190M in impairment and other costs (Nathan Vifflin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/chipmak

"A Texas man is suing a California doctor over his girlfriend’s alleged abortion across state lines — the latest in a string of cases meant to test the laws that have helped people get care."
Telehealth abortion access could be challenged nationwide in Texas lawsuit
https://19thnews.org/2025/07/telehealth-abortion-texas-lawsuit-federal-court/

Pinterest is increasingly filled with AI interior design images, often featuring unrealistic or impossible details, complicating users' search for inspiration (Bethan Staton/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/6e3e4f8e-1d7f-4d30-bdc3-94c828d60b40

U.S. Olympic Officials Bar Transgender Women From Women’s Competitions - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/us/politics/us-olympics-trans-women-athletes-ban-trump.html

China's Qianfan, the third largest satellite broadband constellation with 90 operational satellites, remains far short of its goal of 648 by the end of 2025 (Ling Xin/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/ar

Exclusive | Trouble in orbit? China’s Starlink rival faces long delays amid rocket shortage
A shortage of rockets and competition for launch resources appear to be putting the mega-constellation’s targets in doubt.

‘You’re a Disgrace to the Constitution’: DeSantis-Appointed Court Upholds Map That Erased Majority-Black Florida District, Stripping Away Their Political Power
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/07/23/desantis-appointed-court-erased-majority-black-florida-district/

Women’s contributions and men’s racism erased from history of national monument
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/23/2334616/-Women-s-contributions-and-men-s-racism-erased-from-history-of-national-monument

In Yuga Labs vs. Ryder Ripps, an appeals court rules that NFTs are "goods" that can get trademark protection but sends the case back to a lower court (Zack Abrams/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/364012/nfts-q

Aid groups warn of ‘mass starvation’ in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/7/23/aid-groups-warn-of-mass-starvation-in-gaza?traffic_source=rss

Analysis and sources: $1B of Nvidia's AI chips were shipped to China in the three months after President Trump tightened chip export controls in May (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/6f806f6e-61c1-4b8d-9694-90d7328a7b54

Senate Confirms Judge Who Compares LGBTQ Rights To Pedophilia And Declares Christianity "Must Be Imposed" - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/07/senate-confirms-judge-who-compares-lgbtq-rights-to-pedophilia-and-says-christianity-must-be-imposed/

Indie open gaming marketplace Itch.io abruptly deindexes NSFW content from its browse and search pages after payment processors raised concerns, following Steam (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/712890/itch-removes-adult-nsfw…

Itch.io follows Steam in removing adult games
The indie-focused gaming marketplace Itch.io has abruptly deindexed adult content from its browse and search pages, bowing to demands from payment providers.

Interviews with 12 Tesla, Waymo, and Zoox executives and others show the challenges facing US robotaxis; Waymo operates 250K rides per week in five US cities (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d02bc635-4cec-451e-8619-080cfae8b020

"Bondi received at least 22 fraud complaints against Trump U. Her office announced she would consider joining a lawsuit initiated by the AG of NY involving potential tax fraud charges against Trump. 4 days later, And Justice for All, a political action committee established by Bondi to support her re-election, received a $25k donation from Trump. Bondi subsequently declined to join the lawsuit."
**Haunted by Epstein, Trump spirals further out of control**- Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/07/17/haunted-by-epstein-trump-spirals-further-out-of-control/

Google's AI Overviews, which a recent Pew study shows reduce clickthrough rates, are further eroding traffic to original publishers by linking to aggregators (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/googles-ai-is-destroying-search-the-inter…

Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain
Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.

Gamma Data: China's female-oriented gaming market surged 124% YoY to $1B in 2024, driven by mobile game Love and Deepspace, which earned $400M, per Sensor Tower (Wataru Suzuki/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Media-Entertain…

Women power China's $1bn romance gaming market
Fewer taboos for female gamers lead to hits like Love and Deepspace

Starlink says it's experiencing a network outage and is "implementing a solution"; NetBlocks reports that connectivity dropped to "16% of ordinary levels" (Richard Lawler/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/713359/starlink-down-ou…

Starlink satellite internet service is down everywhere
SpaceX’s satellite internet service, Starlink, is down globally, due to a “network outage.”