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

Ja, tja.
https://www.golem.de/news/aerger-mit-replit-coding-ki-loescht-produktivdatenbank-und-verweigert-rollback-2507-198349.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!

#Presseschau

"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

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

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

A shallow mantle source for the Chang’e 5 lavas reveals how top-down heating prolonged lunar magmatism: #moon came from much shallower depths than previously thought, new study finds: https://news.ufl.edu/2025/07/molten-magma/

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

A must-read by Mark Jacob, Stop the Presses
Please, media, don’t turn the war into entertainment
#Journalism #Press

The 2025 Lovelace Report tells us that the cost of 40,000 to 60,000 women either switching tech jobs or deserting the sector altogether is estimated at £2 billion to £3.5 billion annually.
https://www.computing.co.uk/feature/2025/80-percent-women-in-tech-l…

80% of women working in tech are looking for the exit
The 2025 Lovelace Report sets out the cost to enterprise tech employers and to the wider digital economy of the broken pipeline of female tech ...

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…

50 years ago today, the #GratefulDead (or most of ‘em) at bob weir’s studio, a 1-song tape. https://archive.org/details/gd1975-07-23.140800.sbd.bershaw.flac1644
…

#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…

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The future of debate: get an LLM to generate your tirade, copy it to the world dog, have it spotted by an LLM spotter and rejected on that basis.
https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2025/07/msg00031.html

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/

[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/

Trump order pushes forcible hospitalization of homeless people (David Ovalle/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/07/24/trump-homeless-forced-hospitalization-executive-order/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250724/p111#a250724p111

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.

I used the acronym "LLMs" after the word "AI" in a school parents' meeting today and only one other parent ( my husband) knew what it was.
Is it just a bit of jargon? Completely unknown? Or am I out of touch?
jargon but also a word people use
not jargon but a bit obscure
No idea what you're talking about
I'm a techbro who wants to know what people think

"BP appoints new chair to oversee shift back to fossil fuels"
#FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange

Some of our internal builds have been building with Xcode 26 betas since WWDC, but yesterday evening I went ahead and switched over everything else that isn't on a release branch, so we now have 50 targets building with beta 4.
The most common build issue we've run into in our code is declaring the size of a C array using `const int`, which we now declare as an `enum` as a stronger compile-time guarantee of its constant value:
- const int OFXMLIDLength = 11;
enum {…

I listened to a podcast interview with #PeterThiel on #AI,

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

„So wohnten die Menschen deutschlandweit im Schnitt 1,4 Kilometer vom nächsten Geldautomaten oder Bankschalter entfernt.“
Für manche ältere Menschen ist das ein Problem.
Trend zum digitalen Bezahlen - Zahl der Geldautomaten in Deutschland fällt unter 50.000
https://www.

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

“‘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. 

Two Democrats Are Bolting From a Bipartisan Governors' Group (The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/07/national-governors-association-trump/683648/?gift=nHf7iWmpOKBdlkwz68mfUNcy74dTNylasUVvW3vWP9Y
http://www.memeorandum.com/250724/p45#a250724p45

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…

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. 🤔

"Mapped: 16 times extreme weather drove higher food prices since 2022"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Food

Mapped: 16 times extreme weather drove higher food prices since 2022 - Carbon Brief
UK potatoes, South Korean cabbage and west African cocoa became markedly more expensive after extreme weather events in recent years.

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

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/

"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…

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

Trump USDA will relocate most DC-area staff beyond the beltway (Leah Douglas/Reuters)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/24/trump-usda-agriculture-department-relocate-washington-dc/85356004007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250724/p44#a250724p44

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

can’t decide what’s funnier: Sleep Token II drumming their heart out on stage with a soft rock front kid in a suit or said kid working the crowd that to 90% could be his grandparents
and yet it’s an 11 on the epic 🤘 scale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJZmO5mByVY

Die chinesische Firma Gotion High-Tech hat mit der Produktion seiner 5MWh #Batteriespeicher in #Göttingen begonnen.
Ja, in Deutschland.🤪
Nach erfolgreicher #TÜV-Zertifizieru…

Gotion starts manufacturing 5MWh BESS in Germany following key certifications
Gotion High-Tech has launched manufacturing of its 5MWh BESS units at its manufacturing facility in Göttingen, Germany.

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.

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

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

Der Gatte meinte, weil Habilitationen unter Frauen überproportional gesunken seien, müsse ich das jetzt bis zu HabiI durchziehen.
*hysterisches Lachen*
Nein.
#SzenenEinerEhe #ProjektMaster

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/

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…

@… ist das informelle Treffen heute ausgefallen? War eine halbe Stunde verspätet und der Raum war abgeschlossen.

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.

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/

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

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

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/

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.

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

Sources and a document: China aims to build a national network to sell surplus computing power and address an oversupply caused by a three-year data center boom (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/china-plans…

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

‘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/

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.

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

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

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

"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/

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

Q&A with Stability AI CEO Prem Akkaraju on taking over from Emad Mostaque, his movie background, data and copyright, working with creative industries, and more (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/fc4cb659-bf01-4f68-a828-40ff98c24e51

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

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