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Neue PC-Spiele im September 2025: "Borderlands 4" und "Silent Hill f"
Im September erscheint unter anderem das Horror-Survivalspiel "Silent Hill f". Außerdem geht der Loot-Shooter "Borderlands 4" an den Start.

Sources: Lambda is in talks for a funding round that could value the cloud services company between $4B and $5B ahead of a potential IPO by the end of 2025 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-14/nvidia-b…

A must-read with a great headline from @…
Pluralistic: "Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit (14 Aug 2025
https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/14/bel

Wait I thought it’s the future of humanity and close to AGI https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/759965/sam-altman-openai-ai-bubble-interview

27th Brigade Loses Rocket Status: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/15/th-brigade-loses-rocket-status.html

First steps in attempting to replace FreeType with CoreText in Godot.
At least it builds.

NASA satellites show surge in Indonesia hotspots as 2025 fires send smoke to Malaysia https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/nasa-satellites-show-surge-in-indonesia-hotspots-as-2025-fires-send-smoke-to-malaysia/

NASA satellites show surge in Indonesia hotspots as 2025 fires send smoke to Malaysia
JAKARTA — Indonesia’s 2025 fire season is spiraling into one of the worst in recent memory, with a sharp spike in hotspots and toxic haze already choking parts of Malaysia. Forest and peat fires, mostly caused by deliberate land clearing for agriculture, are an annual problem in Indonesia that strain relations with neighboring countries. July […]

The Official Voice of the US Government Is Cruel, Gross, and Weird.
What Is That Doing to Us? 
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize us
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/

The official voice of the US government Is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us? 
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.

I would love to come to your social event, but I have a busy day ahead of me...

Gannett is launching a morning newscast, Connecting America, on its USA Today streaming channel and on YouTube, on August 18; it will air weekdays 7am-9am ET (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/08/usa-today-morning-show-connecting-america/

USA Today to launch morning newscast on streaming channel
A new morning show called "Connecting America" will launch on USA Today's FAST channel, the company announced on Thursday.

Der Perito Moreno-#Gletscher in #Patagonien galt lange als stabil, verliert jedoch seit 2019 rasant an #Masse.
Messungen zeigen, dass er sich von einem Felsrücken, seinem „

Schmelzende Gletscher: Wenn der Ankerpunkt nicht mehr hält
Eines der eindrucksvollsten Naturschauspiele der Welt wird zu unseren Lebzeiten sehr wahrscheinlich nicht mehr zu sehen sein: Noch zwischen 1940 und 2011 schnitten die Eismassen des Perito-Moreno…

Yippee...
New national monument along Santa Cruz coast opens to the public for hiking, biking
https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/14/new-national-monument-along-santa-cruz-coast-opens-to-the-public-for-hiking-bi…

New national monument along Santa Cruz coast opens to the public for hiking, biking
The Cotoni-Coast Dairies property is five times the size of Golden Gate Park, along six miles of oceanfront.

Im Detail liegen die Abweichungen im Bereich der Fehlertoleranz. Wenn man zB die aggregierten Zahlen für eine Regierungsbeteiligung betrachtet, sieht es anders aus. Bei FGW haben CxU/SPD 42%, bei Forsa nur 37%.
Man könnte den Eindruck haben, hier wird mit Umfragen Politik gemacht.

So China's BYD has a €6,800 electric car on the Chinese market, with a 30 kWh battery and 300 km range. Amazing.
https://electrek.co/2025/04/08/byds-low-cost-seagull-ev-now-starts-under-8000-china/

A very stupid workaround (as explained in the article, this has to be done at the factory to make it an officially different product), with the only goal to make it live harder for EV drivers by not offering card payments.
https://www.electrive.com/2025/08/15…

Bypassing the payment terminal with 49.9 kW: TMH sells HYC49 from Alpitronic - electrive.com
The Mobility House offers the Alpitronic Hypercharger HYC49, a fast charger with a maximum charging capacity of 49.9 kW. The model is actually a HYC50, but it

from my link log —
Using LXCFS together with Podman.
https://www.die-welt.net/2025/06/using-lxcfs-together-with-podman/
saved 2025-06-25

'Inappropriately Aggressive': Fired Head Coach of Girls' Basketball Team Who Yanked Player's Hair In Viral Video Hit with New Allegations
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/08/15/fired-head-coach-of-girls-basketball-team-who-yanked-players-hair-in-viral-video/

Man charged for throwing sandwich at federal officer was a DOJ employee (Nicole Markus/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/14/dc-sandwich-arrest-trump-00509682
http://www.memeorandum.com/250814/p81#a250814p81

Using Protected Identity to Suppress History https://jacobin.com/2025/08/israel-anti-zionism-antisemitism-education-palestine/

Using Protected Identity to Suppress History
Legislation on protected identities is supposed to foster good intercommunal relations. When it’s used to protect Zionism, it means shielding a 19th-century nationalist ideology from criticism as if it were an innate characteristic of all Jews.

"Climate change-driven heat extremes are driving ‘staggering’ decline in tropical birds, study warns"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Birds

Extreme heat is driving a ‘staggering’ decline in tropical birds
Using climate attribution science, researchers have linked rising heat to declining bird populations around the world.

My comment on police frisks in the Washington Post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/15/dc-police-ice-national-guard-laws-rights/?commentID=04c04578-4c41-4ba4-a32d-3d43c909df96

As Trump takes over D.C.’s police, here’s what law enforcement can and cannot do
With federal and local officers on D.C.’s streets, here’s what to know about what law enforcement agencies can legally order you to do — and what they can’t.

Ehemaliger KGB-Agent betritt ehemaliges russisches Gebiet, um einen aktiven KGB-Agenten zu begrüßen.
#trump #putin

today, at last, the good ol’ #GratefulDead cast takes up residence at ace’s to begin going song by song through “blues for allah” (& more loosely, month by month through 1975) with session tapes, multitracks, lyric drafts, & a 3-ring circus of guests, starting with “help on the way”!

SCOTUS rejects NetChoice's emergency appeal to block a Mississippi law that requires age verification and parental consent for teens to join social networks (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/us…

Supreme Court Allows Mississippi Law on Children’s Use of Social Media, for Now
A trade group representing sites like Facebook and X said the law ran afoul of the First Amendment.

Because this is exactly where all this shit is going

The Ukrainian voices left out of Trump-Putin meeting: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/15/the-ukrainian-voices-left-out.html

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Ob zu Hause oder auf Reisen: Mehrheit zahlt bargeldlos
https://www.

Poland foiled cyberattack on big city's water supply, deputy PM says
https://www.reuters.com/en/poland-foiled-cyberattack-big-citys-water-supply-deputy-pm-says-2025-08-14/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

A look at anti-Trump podcast MeidasTouch, one of the few left-leaning video podcasts that at times dethrones Joe Rogan's top position on YouTube rankings (Bobby Allyn/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/14/nx-s1-5493541/meidastouch-rogan-trump-podcast-vide…

PBS Slashes Budget After GOP Claws Back Funding - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/08/pbs-slashes-budget-after-gop-claws-back-funding/

Veggie-flation strikes, with a warning for grocery prices (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/14/inflation-vegetables-ppi
http://www.memeorandum.com/250814/p84#a250814p84

Most carbon taxes are not designed to lower carbon emissions, study finds #carbon

Most carbon taxes are not designed to lower carbon emissions, study finds
Carbon taxes are widely seen as one of the most effective policy options for reducing emissions. However, the main rationale behind initially low carbon taxes is often not to reduce emissions but to generate tax revenues or meet international expectations, according to a study published in One Earth. As noted by the authors, the observations cast doubt on whether carbon taxes should always be viewed as climate policies.

It takes a long time, a lot of money, and a lot of people with under-appreciated skills to do a major preservation.
(I know this from personal experience preserving steam locomotives.)
The project below is worth supporting. (And a visit to the Rosie The Riveter National Park in Richmond, California is a worthwhile way to spend an afternoon.)

Volunteers sought for historic WWII ship restoration project in East Bay
Seasoned welders and people with experience working with power tools or trained in safety procedures are being sought out to support the Victory Ship Revival initiative in Richmond. 

Cohere hires Joelle Pineau, who previously led Meta's FAIR lab, as chief AI officer, to oversee AI strategy across Cohere's research, product, and policy teams (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/14/cohe

Cohere hires long-time Meta research head Joelle Pineau as its chief AI officer | TechCrunch
Cohere has hired Joelle Pineau, Meta's former VP of AI research who previously oversaw the tech giant's fundamental AI research (FAIR) lab. In her newly created Chief AI Officer role, Pineau will oversee AI strategy across Cohere's research, product and policy teams.

Can’t wait to rent a vibe HTML rendering engine for the low price of $1,999/month, 5 page renders included!

Zelensky says Ukraine making gains near Dobropillya: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/15/zelensky-says-ukraine-making-gains.html

Sprinten, Kämpfen, Siegen: Startschuss der World Humanoid Robot Games in China
In Peking beweisen humanoide Roboter ihr Können im Laufen, Kampfsport und anderen Disziplinen. Dabei liegen Staunen und Schmunzeln manchmal nah beieinander.

Merz urges Putin to hold Ukraine talks without preconditions: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/15/merz-urges-putin-to-hold.html

Overhaul global food systems to avert worsening land crisis, scientists urge #environment

Overhaul global food systems to avert worsening land crisis, scientists urge
In the journal Nature, 21 leading scientists prescribe ways to use food systems to halt and reverse land degradation, underlining that doing so must become a top global priority to mitigate climate change and stop biodiversity loss.

Fox CEO of DTC Pete Distad says Fox will consider bundling Fox One with other streamers and adding podcasts, and that profit projections are "aggressive" (Stephen Battaglio/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-a…

Fox's $20-a-month news and sports streamer launches next week. Here's what's on it
Fox's news and sports content will be available to stream for $19.99 a month.

Newsom calls for special November election to block Trump from 'rigging' 2026 midterms (Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-14/pro-redistricting-campaign-launch-newsom
http://www.memeorandum.com/250814/p121#a250814p121

Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
KI in der Medizin: Ärzte verlieren wohl schnell Fähigkeiten bei Krebsvorsorge

EU peeps, please sign this
https://crm.edri.org/stop-scanning-me

Researchers say they used generative AI algorithms to design novel antibiotics targeting drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae and MRSA (Anne Trafton/MIT News)
https://news.mit.edu/2025/using-generative-ai-researchers-design-compoun…

Using generative AI, researchers design compounds that can kill drug-resistant bacteria
With help from artificial intelligence, MIT researchers designed novel antibiotics that can combat a drug-resistant form of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and multi-drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).

Food for defenders – How nutrition works in the Ukrainian army: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/15/food-for-defenders-how-nutrition.html

Bei dieser Nachricht verschluckt sich jeder Italien-Urlauber am Aperol Spritz 😱: Ein massiver Datendiebstahl beschäftigt gerade die Hotelbranche in Italien.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10521928?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastod…

From back when billionaires didn’t try to make sand racist

Meta's standalone Meta AI app, launched in April 2025, offers an uneven experience, often hallucinating facts and failing to provide personalized responses (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-08-15/meta-ai-app-ha…

Brazil’s shark meat problem #AnimalRights

Brazil’s shark meat problem
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. The country best known for samba and soybeans has quietly become the world’s largest importer of shark meat. A recent investigation by Mongabay’s Philip Jacobson, Karla Mendes and Kuang Keng Kuek Ser reveals the extent to which this […]

Russian strike hits central Sumy just hours before Trump-Putin summit: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/15/russian-strike-hits-central-sumy.html

Spotify Basic-Tarif: Günstiger als Premium, aber nur für Bestandskunden
Der neue Basic-Tarif ist preislich unterhalb der frisch erhöhten Premium-Tarife angesiedelt. Er richtet sich jedoch nur an Bestandskunden.

RETVRN

Winklevoss twins' Gemini files for a US IPO and reports a $282.5M net loss on $67.9M revenue in H1 2025, vs. a $41.4M net loss on $73.5M revenue a year earlier (Monique Mulima/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

The 30-minute workout that could slash cancer cell growth by 30% #health

The 30-minute workout that could slash cancer cell growth by 30%
A vigorous workout can spark anti-cancer proteins, cut cancer cell growth, and help survivors fight recurrence by reducing inflammation and improving body composition.

The world is waiting – The day of Trump-Putin summit in Alaska | Wrap-Up Weekly: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/15/the-world-is-waiting-the.html

Bericht: Antisemitische Tiraden von Grok haben xAI Regierungsvertrag gekostet
Anfang Juli hat sich Grok plötzlich als "MechaHitler" bezeichnet. Das hat die verantwortliche KI-Firma xAI wohl einen Vertrag mit der US-Regierung gekostet.

The Trump administration of browser engines.

Opendoor CEO Carrie Wheeler steps down, with Shrisha Radhakrishna named president and interim CEO; OPEN jumps 8% (Norah Mulinda/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-15/opendoor-hunts-for-new-ceo-as-whee…

'He is still being tortured' — Ukrainian families plead for all-for-all prisoner swap ahead of Trump-Putin summit: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/15/he-is-still-being-tortured.html

Unprecedented climate shocks are changing the Great Lakes forever #environment

Unprecedented climate shocks are changing the Great Lakes forever
Extreme heat waves and cold spells on the Great Lakes have more than doubled since the late 1990s, coinciding with a major El Niño event. Using advanced ocean-style modeling adapted for the lakes, researchers traced temperature trends back to 1940, revealing alarming potential impacts on billion-dollar fishing industries, fragile ecosystems, and drinking water quality.

Globales Abkommen gegen Plastikmüll vorerst gescheitert
Über das Problem sind sich alle einig: Plastikabfall vermüllt die Welt und ist eine Gefahr für den Menschen. Bei den Lösungen scheiden sich aber die Geister.
…

Meeting at Google: “We haven’t fucked up the Web enough with our AMP shit, but the AI shit is doing pretty good work. What about if we also fuck up RSS?”
What an utterly shit company. I hope the AI hype destroys them.
(Just in case you think they're "just asking questions", they already opened a removal tracker before listening to replies: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/435623334)
https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523

Alaska waits: will there be peace? #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/15/alaska-waits-will-there-be.html

Sources: some N26 investors seek to replace its co-CEOs after German regulator Bafin identified new deficiencies in the digital bank's internal controls (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-15/n26-…

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Trumps anti-woke-Verordnung: Meta arbeitet mit rechtem Influencer

🍲 What are Ukrainian servicemen eating today? #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/15/what-are-ukrainian-servicemen-eating.html

A US district court judge temporarily blocks an FTC probe into Media Matters, part of an antitrust investigation into ad boycotts, calling the probe retaliatory (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-15/ft…

Wonder if my brain is starting to work better again. Before COVID I had ~120 wpm typing speed then it gradually went down to ~100 from long COVID. Today I've set a new personal best.

Intel: USA prüfen angeblich Staatsbeteiligung, Aktienkurs zieht weiter an
Nach dem Treffen von Donald Trump mit Intel-Chef Lip-Bu Tan hat die US-Regierung angeblich begonnen, einen staatlichen Einstieg zu prüfen. Die Aktie steigt.

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
KI in der Medizin: Ärzte verlieren wohl schnell Fähigkeiten bei Krebsvorsorge

Anyway, everything old is new

ASML reports Q2 net sales of €7.7B, net income of €2.29B, and net bookings of €5.5B vs. €4.19B est., with tariffs having a "less negative" impact than expected (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/16/asml-q2-2025-earnings-report.html

Chip giant ASML says it can't confirm that it will grow in 2026
ASML reported second-quarter earnings that beat estimates with the its key net bookings figure ahead of consensus.

Melania Trump wrote letter to Putin about kidnapped Ukrainian children, Reuters reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/16/melania-trump-wrote-letter-to.html

Zelensky, Trump to meet in Washington next week after US-Russia summit ends without agreement: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/16/zelensky-trump-to-meet-in.html

Roblox shares closed down 6.34% on Friday after the company was accused in two lawsuits of failing to sufficiently protect youngsters on its platform (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Reply with your guess of which year this ad is from! (Don't look it up!)
(Solution will be provided in a reply.)

Sources: current and former OpenAI employees plan to sell ~$6B in stock to Thrive Capital, SoftBank, and others in a secondary sale that values OpenAI at ~$500B (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

The year is 2027.
Google: "Should we remove HTML from the web platform?
You know it's kind of old and we have barely any resources to keep it running, and there's chatbots anyway."
People: "What?!"
Google: "Well, clearly you don't have anything to say." [deletes code]

CoreWeave's IPO lockup expires Friday for holders of 80% of its Class A shares; its stock plunged 33% in the two days after its Q2 earnings amid selloff fears (Carmen Reinicke/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Fun fact, ~64% of Americans use assistive technology to overcome a disability.
And that's just one single type of disability: issues with eyesight.
I think about this a lot when people deny they could ever been disabled, especially when claiming that illnesses and disabilities are "people's own fault".

Global oil prices rise as Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian energy sector escalate: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/15/global-oil-prices-rise-as.html

How facial recognition software rejects people with facial differences, who number an estimated 100M worldwide, blocking them from accessing essential services (Matt Burgess/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/when-face-recognition-doesnt-know-your-face-is-…

When Face Recognition Doesn’t Know Your Face Is a Face
An estimated 100 million people live with facial differences. As face recognition tech becomes widespread, some say they’re getting blocked from accessing essential systems and services.

Yes, this is a subtoot.

Some developers say GPT-5 excels at technical reasoning and planning coding tasks and is cost-effective, but Claude Opus and Sonnet still produce better code (Lauren Goode/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/gpt-5-coding-review-software-engineering/

Developers Say GPT-5 Is a Mixed Bag
Software engineers are finding that OpenAI’s new GPT-5 model is helping them think through coding problems—but isn’t much better at actual coding.

Calling Steve Jobs a grifter in one sentence with Elon Musk and Sam Altman is... quite a choice and I think a sign that someone needs to catch up on computing history.

CoreWeave investors sold more than $1B in shares as the IPO lockup ended; the stock held steady on Friday after dropping about 35% over the previous two days (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e1281a73-61bf-4161-bd00-2be6a53cf074

YouTube's creative ecosystem added over €7B to the EU's GDP in 2024 and supported 200K full-time equivalent jobs, according to advising firm Oxford Economics (David Wheeldon/YouTube Official Blog)
https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/2025-youtube-europe-impact-…

New report explores YouTube's growing impact in Europe
YouTube’s creative ecosystem added over €7B to the EU’s GDP in 2024, while supporting over 200,000 jobs.

Have you fucking tried asking people if they're in pain and not using a black-box biased phrenology algorithm that will only give white males the necessary meds

Huawei's key partners SiCarrier and Qiyunfang showcased chipmaking gear and EDA software at a Shenzhen expo; SiCarrier's gear competes with older US products (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-1…

PSA about common connectors on audio and phone equipment:
The "audio jack" on headphones etc. is called a "phone connector" (it was first used for phone switchboards all the way back in the 1800s).
The "phone jack" on telephones (looks like a smaller Ethernet jack) is called a "registered jack".
The "audio connector" on analog audio and video cables is called a "RCA plug".
Now you know jack shit.

Nvidia partners with startup Firmus on Project Southgate, a $2.9B initial undertaking to build renewable energy-powered AI data centers across Australia (Keira Wright/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-16/n…

Maybe weird question, but does anyone have a favorite moving blanket or tarp, ideally one with metal grommets?
I want something that can be tied down with straps when used to cover stuff like furniture on a pickup truck truckbed.
(Please only answer if you have direct experience and have a favorite product.)

TSMC reports Q3 net profit up 39% YoY to ~$14.8B, beating est., after previously reporting a 30% rise in revenue, the latest sign of robust spending on AI chips (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

What I don't get is why does DHH even need so much funding and sponsorships for open source projects. Tens of thousands from framework, cloudflare and god knows who else.
When I made the (then) probably most popular JavaScript open source framework I got zero funding and sponsorship and was doing fine?
I'm not saying that people shouldn't get paid for work, but that dude is a fucking multi-millionaire who drives race cars as a hobby.

imagine being a billionaire and getting off on tweeting stuff like this about other programmers to impress your incel basement dweller sycophants
I wonder if Shopify’s stock holders know that the CEO is lurking in alt-right X threads to occasionally insult people