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Palantir becomes the 20th most valuable US company, after its stock more than doubled in 2025, giving it a market cap of $375B (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/25/palantir-jumps-to-all-time-high-becomes-20th-most-valu…

Palantir joins list of 20 most valuable U.S. companies, with stock more than doubling in 2025
The provider of software for defense agencies jumped about 3% on Friday to a record, ranking the company among the top 20 U.S. firms by market value.

Jeg ville være interesseret i en lignende audit af min forskningsgruppe klimapåvirkningner. Jeg undrer mig hvis der er en der tilbyder det i Danmark? (Helst ikke mod betaling da jeg har ingen budget for det lige nu). #mastohjerne ?
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/114914987254079393
arstechnica@mastodon.social - Mistral’s new “environmental audit” shows how much AI is hurting the planet
Individual prompts don't cost much, but billions together can have aggregate impact.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/mistrals-new-environmental-audit-shows-how-much-ai-is-hurting-the-planet/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Digital Networks Act: Telco-CEOs machen Druck auf Brüssel
In einem offenen Brief an die Kommission sprechen sich die CEOs großer europäischer Telcos für grundlegende Reformen der Regulierung aus.
https://www.

i love that posts on other platforms have deliberate misinformation so people point that out in the comments which boosts the post's engagement. very normal for a social network to behave this way

JFC.
More info here: https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/us-diplomats-asked-if-non-whites-qualify-trump-refugee-program-south-africans-2025-07-25/ https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff/114915377308230793

#ADFC Rhein-Neckar und der A…

Archaeologists found a 1,700-year-old chamber at the largest Mayan site in Belize,
still holding a rare mosaic death mask and jadeite jewelry, shells from the Pacific and elaborate designs on pottery and bone.
https://www.nytimes…

Maya Ruler’s Tomb Is Unearthed in Belize, With Clues to His Ancient World
A rare mosaic death mask made of jadeite and vessels in the shapes of an owl, a monkey and coatimundi were found with the ruler.

#API #Standards ARE #Data Standards
https:…

L’art de se laisser rejoindre: https://blog.rmendes.net/2025/07/26/lart-de-se-laisser-rejoindre.html

ららさんの本がすごくてすごい

Docs and interviews: Media Matters is struggling to survive, having racked up ~$15M in legal fees to defend itself from lawsuits by Elon Musk, the FTC, and AGs (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/us/poli

Under Siege From Trump and Musk, a Top Liberal Group Falls Into Crisis
Scrambling to pay legal fees, Media Matters has dialed back its criticism, trimmed its staff and contemplated closing entirely.

Hupsi, wir haben vergessen zu feiern: 🥳
22.07.2025: 1 GWp registrierte Leistung von Balkonkraftwerken in Deutschland 😊
#Solarenergie #Balkonkraftwerk #Energiewende

are you excited for wasm-hosted wasm-targeting browser clang and lld, chat?

@… @… @… I see more callouts to how terrible ISO year-week is 😅

The growing impact of unintended #Starlink broadband emission on radio astronomy in the #SKA-Low frequency range: #Interference to astronomy the unintended consequence of faster internet: https://www.curtin.edu.au/news/media-release/interference-to-astronomy-the-unintended-consequence-of-faster-internet/

"Extreme Weather Events are the New Frontline of Online Climate Denial – Report"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Extreme Weather Events are the New Frontline of Online Climate Denial – Report
Climate science deniers are flooding social media with false claims during extreme weather events, drowning out reliable information and putting lives at risk. A new report by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), which researches and campaigns against online hatred and disinformation, finds that anti-climate figures are increasingly spreading false information about wildfires and hurricanes […]

Mark Zuckerberg announces that former OpenAI researcher Shengjia Zhao will be chief scientist at Meta's new superintelligence lab (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/25/mark-zuckerberg-details-metas-superintelligence-plans

Mark Zuckerberg details Meta's superintelligence plans
Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement on Threads.

Satelliten-Navigation: Russland stationiert mehr Jammer in der Nähe zu Estland
Systeme bei der russischen Stadt Kingisepp sollen Kommunikation stören, Radarsysteme ausschalten und Kontrolle über das elektromagnetische Spektrum erlangen.

Still not really excited to watch the new episodes, though.

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke je #Bundesland in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.07.2025.
Die Angaben zur Schweiz sind Sonderfälle, zum Beispiel in Kreuzlingen und Neuhausen am Rheinfa…

On Sunday, July 20, 2025, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez delivered the keynote speech at the national convention of the National Organization of Legal Services Workers (NOLSW), UAW Local 2320.
“I am here to report back to you from the front lines of struggle, without hesitation or hyperbole,
that we are at risk of losing everything,”
Alvarez told the crowd of union members.
“And so I am here not to extol the virtues of your union or the value of unions in …

What good is a union in Hell?
“Brothers, sisters, siblings, we stand here now on the precipice of oblivion… This isn't just about fighting for better wages and working conditions… This is about who is willing to fight for life itself?”

i've modified wasi-libc and wasi-sdk (PRs pending) so that you always have the concurrency APIs (pthread_*, thrd_*, <thread>, <mutex>, <atomic>) available to you, even in single-threaded targets. this makes porting applications (especially C ones) much, _much_ easier!
https://github.com/WebAssemb…

Refactor stub pthread library and enable unconditionally by whitequark · Pull Request #602 · WebAssembly/wasi-libc
This PR changes the layout of the stub pthread library to match that of libc-top-half: splits it into (mostly) one file per function, and ensures the same API is exposed from both libraries, adding...

@… @… since I have the benefit of comparing test output against other libraries, I can just generate random input and see what happens right 😅

NYC-based Courtyard, which sells "mystery packs" of collectible cards and comic books that customers can resell on its marketplace, raised a $30M Series A (Jason Del Rey/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/07/24/exclusi

Exclusive: Forerunner leads $30 million round in collectibles marketplace Courtyard
The NYC startup sells $50 million of Pokemon and sports cards a month.

I guess I should add that Firebase’s security model is still broken in the sense of being dangerously easy to mess up (despite its maintainers’ heroic efforts), that this is a problem that’s fundamentally baked into it the product’s whole value proposition of eliminating huge swaths of server-side development and is thus not readily solvable, and that these ongoing Firebase breaches are a classic case study in how far and how stubbornly the effects of abstraction choices can reach.

Six months into his second term,
Donald Trump’s job approval rating has dipped to 37%,
the lowest of this term and just slightly higher than his all-time worst rating of 34% at the end of his first term.
Trump’s rating has fallen 10 percentage points among U.S. adults since he began his second term in January,
including a 17-point decline among independents, to 29%,
matching his lowest rating with that group in either of his terms.

Independents Drive Trump's Approval to 37% Second-Term Low
President Donald Trump's job approval rating has fallen to 37%, the lowest of his second term as a result of a decrease among independents.

Kumulativer Zubau der #Windenergieleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 26.07.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen minus Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erster Versuch einer #Datenanalyse. 😁 Hinweise gerne. Wünsc…

Source: Yann LeCun will continue to work at Meta as chief scientist of the AI research group FAIR and will report to Alexandr Wang (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-25/meta-says-open-ai…

Meta Says Open AI Hire is Superintelligence Group Chief Scientist
Mark Zuckerberg has named Shengjia Zhao, an artificial intelligence researcher who joined Meta Platforms Inc. from OpenAI in June, as the chief scientist for the social media company’s new superintelligence AI group.

April, which provides tax tools that embed directly into financial apps, raised a $38M Series B led by QED Investors, bringing its total funding to $78M (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/07/23/embedded-tax-startup-april-…

Exclusive: Embedded tax startup April raises $38M
The QED-led round fuels API-driven tax tools for fintechs.

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in Deutschland mit Stand vom 26.07.2025.
Zählung der Anlagen mit Inbetriebnahmedatum. Der aktuelle Betriebsstatus wird nicht berücksichtigt.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erster Versuch einer #Datenanalyse

Trump has, for the fourth time, proposed eliminating the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB),
an independent body that investigates the causes of significant chemically related incidents and proposes ways accidents could be avoided.
The first three times were during Trump’s first administration,
but Congress refused to back his budget proposal to eliminate funding and instead voted to continue support for the board.
This time could be different, as th…

White House moves to kill chemical safety board, despite industry support
Citing duplication with OSHA and the EPA, President Trump’s administration is again proposing to eliminate the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, but others disagree

I’ve generally disliked South Park — not because it is rude and raunchy, but because it made it seem like being a cynical asshole is somehow brave and countercultural. It made the case that it’s OK to be carelessly hurtful as long as you hurt •everyone•. It tried to make a virtue out of disaffection. Its compulsion never to be caught actually •caring• about anything or anyone robbed it of its capacity to have insights or a moral center. It flirted with satire, but always ended up just being trolling.
But who knows? It feels like trolling the fascists might be what we need right now. Maybe the show finally has its moment.

Recent grads and PhDs are being recruited by AI companies like Handshake to provide specialized training data in fields like music and law for $30-$160 per hour (Emma Haidar/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-24/col…

College Grads Are Finding Jobs Training AI Models
Ever since he picked up a trombone in middle school, Jackson Spellman has wanted to pursue a career in music.“It's 100% going to be a part of my life for the rest of my life,” said the 22-year-old from Wellington, Florida, who graduated in June from Northwestern University with a double major in music and cognitive science.Along with his degree, Spellman finished school with a new gig to add to his resume: artificial intelligence trainer. In the weeks leading up to graduation, Spellman said…

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

DOGE built an AI tool to cut 50 percent of federal regulations
The U.S. DOGE Service is using a new artificial intelligence tool to slash federal regulations,
with the goal of eliminating half of Washington’s regulatory mandates by the first anniversary of Trump’s inauguration,

The tool, called the
“DOGE AI Deregulation Decision Tool,” is supposed to analyze roughly 200,000 federal regulations
to determine which can be eliminated as they are no longer required…

DOGE builds AI tool to cut 50 percent of federal regulations
The U.S. DOGE Service is using a new AI tool to eliminate federal regulations, aiming to cut 50 percent of rules by the first anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Here’s a link from @… to a good piece that expounds more on what I wrote in the OP. It’s more forgiving to the show than I am: it paints as a slow degradation what I think was a problem present from the very beginning. That’s a minor quibble, though. It’s a good article.
https://social.edist.ro/@CosmickTrigger/114922189489434052

Sources: Microsoft is investigating whether a leak in its early alert system for cybersecurity companies let Chinese hackers exploit SharePoint flaws (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07…

Microsoft SharePoint Hack: Probe on Whether Chinese Hackers Found Flaw Via Alert
Microsoft Corp. is investigating whether a leak from its early alert system for cybersecurity companies allowed Chinese hackers to exploit flaws in its SharePoint service before they were patched, according to people familiar with the matter.

A federal judge on Friday ordered the Justice Department to tell her more
about a deal struck between the Trump administration and President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador
to imprison immigrants deported from the United States in a Salvadoran maximum-security facility
in exchange for the return of top leaders of the MS-13 gang who are in U.S. custody.
The order by the judge, Joan M. Azrack,
came as she was considering a request by federal prosecutors on Long Island…

Judge Demands Answers About Deal to Return MS-13 Gang Leaders to El Salvador
Federal prosecutors are seeking to drop narco-terrorism charges against a man they have alleged is one of the gang’s leaders.

Jährlich genehmigte Windenergieleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 26.07.2025.
Genehmigt bedeutet noch nicht gebaut oder in Betrieb. Nicht alle Anlagen benötigen eine Genehmigung.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erster Versuch einer #Datenanalyse. 😁 Hinweise gerne. Wünsche nur gegen Geld. 🤪

Here @…’s answer is IMO the correct answer:
When a corporation demands personal data, oblige with bad data. Ask an intrusive question, get an obfuscatory answer.
https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/114915518256108559

Online platforms offering astrological advice are thriving in India, with the leading app Astrotalk claiming about 84% of its 70M users are under the age of 35 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-0…

Star Charts and Stock Tips: Venture Capital Bets on Financial Astrology
An age-old belief in astrology has snowballed into a $7 billion industry as a younger generation seeks celestial guidance.

If anyone’s curious about the e-bike, I wrote up a bunch of early impressions here:
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/113239134076318382
What I wrote still stands. The bike is a joy, one of the best changes I’ve made in my life in recent memory.

The NHTSA closes its 14-month investigation into a series of minor collisions and unexpected behavior from Waymo vehicles, and won't take further action (David Shepardson/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/u

There’s more: the e-bike means I’m not planning to replace my venerable old car when it finally dies; we’ll become a one-car family.
AFAICT from my research, this is even more important for climate / pollution concerns than the mileage. Just the sunk carbon emissions cost of manufacturing any new car, EV or otherwise, is roughly equivalent to another ~10 years of driving the venerable old gas-powered Civic. 10 years!
If you’re going to be buying a car, buying an EV is better. But unless you’re putting massive mileage on it, there’s a pretty good chance that not buying •any• new car ever — just running the existing one into the ground and shifting primary transportation mode — is the even better choice.

Sen. Alex Padilla grants the Internet Archive federal depository status, making it a part of a network of over 1,100 libraries that archive government documents (Morgan Sung/KQED)
https://www.kqed.org/news/12049420/sf-based…

SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean?
The Internet Archive, thanks to its designation by California Sen. Alex Padilla, joins a network of over 1,100 libraries that make government documents accessible to the public.

Eminently true for this new (almost one year!) e-bike owner!
In its first year, I’m on track to put ~2200 miles on the e-bike — and <1000 miles on the car. (In previous years, car mileage was ~3000-5000 mi/year.)
And per the study, I can say with confidence that I’m doing a whole lot of things on the e-bike that I would certainly have done on the car in the past: commuting, school transportation, groceries and errands — all theoretically bikable before, but mostly car-based in practice. Until now.
https://chaos.social/@lalonsander/114915153549041117

Intel plans to spin off its Network and Edge Group into a standalone company and says it will seek outside investment for the business unit (Dylan Martin/CRN)
https://www.crn.com/news/networking/2025/intel-reveals-plan-to-spin-off-networkin…

The English Premier League recently signed deals with Adobe and Microsoft to offer AI-powered tools to fans, including those playing the Fantasy Premier League (Josh Noble/Financial Times)

Some users are circumventing UK's age checks by using VPNs, providing fake AI-generated photo IDs, or using images of high-fidelity video game characters (Jackson Chen/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/cybersecurity/peo

People in the UK now have to take an age verification selfie to watch porn online
The UK will start checking compliance with its Online Safety Act, which requires strict age verification before users can access pornographic sites.

New York City-based cybersecurity company Axonius acquires Cynerio, which offers healthcare IoT cybersecurity and asset management services, for $180M (Golan Hazani/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hkek009mdle

Cyber unicorn Axonius acquires Cynerio in $180M deal to expand into healthcare security
Move expands company’s offerings amid growing threats to connected medical devices.

Indian software services provider Tata Consultancy Services plans to cut 2% of its global workforce, or about 12,000 employees, by March 31, 2026 (Moneycontrol)
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business

Alibaba releases its Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 reasoning LLM on Hugging Face, topping several benchmarks, as Alibaba moves away from hybrid reasoning models (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/its-qwens-s…

Tea says hackers accessed a database from more than two years ago, leaking 72,000 images, including 13,000 verification photos and images of government IDs (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/tea-app-hacked-13000-phot…

Tea app hacked: 13,000 photos leaked after 4chan call to action
Hackers have breached the Tea app, which went viral as a place for women to talk about men, and tens of thousands of women’s photos have now been leaked online.

Sources: Anthropic is in talks to raise $3B to $5B, including from Middle Eastern investors, in a round that could more than double its valuation to $150B (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3c8cf028-e49f-4ac3-8d95-6f6178cf2aac

Core Devices CEO says the company has recovered the Pebble trademark, allowing it to rename its new smartwatches as Pebble 2 Duo and Pebble Time 2 (Victoria Song/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/713931/pebble-smartwatch-name-trademark-recovered

Pebble is officially Pebble again
Core Devices CEO Eric Migicovsky says the company has regained the Pebble trademark so its forthcoming watches will “still” be Pebble watches.