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Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, named by Trump as the first US chief design officer, says he wants to update federal websites to an "Apple Store-like experience" (Mike Allen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/23/gebbia-chief-design-officer-airbnb

Scoop: Trump's new "Apple Store"
Gebbia, a co-founder of Airbnb, tells Axios he wants to update federal websites to be an "Apple Store-like experience."

Kellogg will travel to Kyiv for Ukraine's Independence Day: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/23/kellogg-will-travel-to-kyiv.html

Wie offen ist Metas VR-Plattform für Sideloading?
Meta entfernte eine App aus dem Horizon Store, die Sideloading-Beschränkungen umging. Ein Signal, dass Meta die Kontrolle nicht aus der Hand gibt.
https://www.

Last-minute attempt by the Trump regime to stop 700 MW of offshore wind power from flowing into the US grid. Denmark's Ørsted in the crosshairs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/climate

Trump Administration Orders Work Halted on Wind Farm That Is Nearly Built
The order to stop construction on Revolution Wind off the coast of Rhode Island is part of a campaign against renewable energy.

"The Scale of Russian Sabotage Operations Against Europe’s Critical Infrastructure" by IISS.
https://www.iiss.org/research-paper/2025/08/the-scale-of-russian--sabotage-operations--against-europes-critic…

The Scale of Russian Sabotage Operations Against Europe’s Critical Infrastructure
This IISS paper assesses Russia’s unconventional war on Europe, focusing on sabotage of critical infrastructure, from military sites and energy grids to communications and undersea cables, testing the resilience of European governments and societies and challenging NATO/EU deterrence.

Three small announcements:
1. RFC 9839, a guide to which Unicode characters you should never use: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9839.html
2. Blog piece with background and context, “RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode”:

Vibe kitty

The Piano Taking Center Stage at the 2025 Verbier Festival https://www.pianostreet.com/blog/articles/the-piano-taking-center-stage-at-the-2025-verbier-festival-13705/

The Piano Taking Center Stage at the 2025 Verbier Festival
PIANO NEWS: An article about The Piano Taking Center Stage at the 2025 Verbier Festival from the Piano Street Magazine.

Next Starship “launch” is coming up, wonder why he didn’t ask Mechahitler to fix the design issues

Epstein files released to Congress are mostly 'recycled' documents, Democrat says (Erin Doherty/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/23/jeffrey-epstein-ghislaine-maxwell-trump-doj.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250823/p51#a250823p51

So you teach your kids to respect revealed truths and not question authority and then wonder how sociopaths and malignant narcissists come to power and why you find yourself living under the yoke of fascism?
#microNonfiction

«Unicode is good. If you’re designing a data structure or protocol that has text fields, they should contain #Unicode characters encoded in #UTF8. There’s another question, though: “Which Unicode characters?” The answer is “Not all of them, please exclude some.”
This issue keeps coming up, so [

アナーキーでじたん

No bloody thank you, Peter Kyle. Strangely enough I can think for myself. Silly little boy
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/aug/23/uk-minister-peter-kyle-chatgpt-plus-openai-sam-altman

In der Bahn das Gespräch zweier junger Frauen mitgehört. Eine Mitschülerin hat einen Freund, der ist 26. Als sie "in der fünften" war, hatte sIe einen Feund, der war 31. Das beunruhigende: Das geschieht nicht heimlich, sondern "alle" (jedenfalls einige) wissen das und nehmen es hin.

In der Bahn das Gespräch zweier junger Frauen mitgehört. Eine Mitschülerin hat einen Freund, der ist 26. Als sie "in der fünften" war, hatte sIe einen Feund, der war 31. Das beunruhigende: Das geschieht nicht heimlich, sondern "alle" (jedenfalls einige) wissen das und nehmen es hin.

Recession specials could be the latest sign of deteriorating consumer sentiment
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/23/recession-specials-could-be-the-latest-sign-of-deteriorating-consumer-sentiment.html

Three things re this intriguing article from @…:
- I always treat health science news like this with extreme caution (“In mice” again!)
- but also I’m hopeful this might lead somewhere, have to pursue that chance, go go researchers!
- and this is exactly the kind of research that’s going to drain out of the US in coming years like water out of a canvas sack
https://wandering.shop/@adapalmer/115084815329503406

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.08.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1093815 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

TSMC's financial statement shows the company booked its first profit from its four-year-old Arizona subsidiary in H1 2025, reporting $150.1M in net profit (Lisa Wang/Taipei Times)
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2025/08/20/2003842323

TSMC Arizona posts first profit since launch

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,075,160 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/23/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

US-Behörde prüft: Tesla meldet Unfälle mit Autopilot zu langsam
Die US-Autosicherheitsbehörde beklagt, Tesla habe sie wiederholt viel zu spät über Crashs mit selbstfahrenden Autos informiert.
https://www.

It’s almost like it’s a grift idk

Watch out. There are cute snipers nearby 😳

Idiocracy didn’t go far enough.

@… このへんのまだ使えるからどうぞー

Pluralistic: Friction cannot be reduced, it can only be redistributed (23 Aug 2025) (Cory Doctorow/Pluralistic)
https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/23/become-unoptimizable/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250823/p35#a250823p35

Ecocidal Israeli Death Force uproots thousands of Palestinian olive trees in West Bank | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/23/israeli-military-uproots-thousan…

Israeli military uproots thousands of Palestinian olive trees in West Bank
Israeli destruction in al-Mughayyir near Ramallah is part of push to forcibly displace Palestinians, researcher says.

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

Ukrainian pilot dies in MiG-29 crash: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/23/ukrainian-pilot-dies-in-mig.html

OpenAI warns investors against "unauthorized opportunities" to gain exposure to its equity, including through special purpose vehicles (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/23/openai-warns-against-spvs-and-other-unaut…

OpenAI warns against SPVs and other ‘unauthorized’ investments | TechCrunch
OpenAI isn't the only AI company looking to crack down on SPVs.

Google und Meta rücken bei KI zusammen
Metas eigene Rechenzentren reichen Mark Zuckerberg nicht aus. Um KI-Dienste schneller an den Start zu bringen, will er Milliarden bei Google ausgeben.
https://www.

And why don’t we have a cure for cancer and materials for a space elevator yet?

Sleeping all day sure can be exhausting.
#Caturday

Israel is the moral failure of the West.

芋食いねえ

Mail-in voting backed by most Americans despite Trump push to end it (Lauren Floyd/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/23/mail-in-voting-trump-pew-poll
http://www.memeorandum.com/250823/p48#a250823p48

A look at FoundHer House, an all-female hacker house in San Francisco that has become a hot spot for dinners and panel discussions sponsored by a16z and others (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/busines

The All-Female Hacker House Trying to Break A.I.’s Glass Ceiling
FoundHer House, a home in San Francisco’s Glen Park neighborhood, is the rare all-female hacker house where residents are creating a supportive community to build their start-ups.

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Obsidian jetzt mit Datenbank-Funktion
https://www.heis…

Drone incidents reported in Moscow and St. Petersburg, dozens of flights disrupted: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/23/drone-incidents-reported-in-moscow.html

And if it worked so well, why isn’t it tasked to make better versions of itself?

Sources: in a meeting with UK Technology Secretary Peter Kyle, Sam Altman proposed giving ChatGPT Plus to everyone in the UK, a deal that would have cost £2B (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/aug/23/uk-minister-pet…

Stop. Israel. Now.
Stop this genocide.
Free Palestine. https://mstdn.ca/@atomicker/115074168224412569

atomicker (@atomicker@mstdn.ca)
Attached: 1 image 'The United Nations says famine has been confirmed in the Gaza Strip. Officials say at least 132,000 children under the age of five are at risk of dying from acute malnutrition' https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20250822_100/ #Gaza #Israel #Famine #WarCrimes #UnitedNations

Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Bank nimmt KI-Entlassungen zurück – Chatbot-Experiment gescheitert
…

Zelensky signs decrees imposing sanctions on Putin’s relatives, Kremlin allies: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/23/zelensky-signs-decrees-imposing-sanctions.html

そこはあなたのベッドではなく、アイロンをかける台なんですよ……（よくここで寝てる）
#chacha_cat #cat

As Troops Walk the Streets, Washington Restaurants Report a Slump (Korsha Wilson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/dining/washington-restaurants-national-guard.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250823/p42#a250823p42

So if AI worked so fantastically well, why don’t the owners of the AI companies keep it to themselves instead of selling it at a loss

Some lawyers and bankers say the Intel deal may face legal challenges as the CHIPS Act may not allow the US government to convert grants into equity (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/technology/trump-intel-stake.html

Intel Agrees to Sell U.S. a 10% Stake in Its Business
The deal is among the largest government interventions in a U.S. company since the rescue of the auto industry after the 2008 financial crisis.

EU delivers over 4 billion euros to Ukraine ahead of Independence Day: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/23/eu-delivers-over-billion-euros.html

ミックススパイスだねえ

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Browser: Ecosia will Verantwortung für Chrome, aber ohne dafür zu bezahlen

Justice Dept. Sent Congress Epstein Files That Were Already Public, Democrats Say (Catie Edmondson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/us/politics/congress-epstein-files-public.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250823/p41#a250823p41

The enemy only occupied 0.96% of Ukraine's territory — statistics are shocking #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/23/the-enemy-only-occupied-of.html

Men will generate emotional support tokens before going to therapy

Sources: Foxconn recalled ~300 Chinese engineers from its Indian plant making iPhone parts, replacing them with Taiwanese staff, its second such move in months (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-23/fo…

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Bank nimmt KI-Entlassungen zurück – Chatbot-Experiment gescheitert

MAGA World Is So Close to Getting It (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/gavin-newsom-social-media-trump/683968/?gift=otEsSHbRYKNfFYMngVFweGt5Ug8MQMozUndbz5-Yi9k&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250822/p148#a250822p148

Historic Ichkeria: Taking a Stand During Perestroika#shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/23/historic-ichkeria-taking-a-stand.html

Trump inside: Intel teilverstaatlicht
Intel wird ein teilstaatlicher Konzern. 9,9 Prozent der Aktien gehen an die USA, dafür darf Intel-Chef Tan seinen Job behalten.
https://www.heise.de/news/Trump-inside…

A look at Texas Instruments' new 300mm wafer fab in Sherman, Texas, a part of its $60B US investment megaproject where some chips for iPhones will be made (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/22/apple-will-make-chips-at-t…

Inside Texas Instruments' $60 billion U.S. megaproject, where Apple will make iPhone chips
Apple committed to making iPhone chips at Texas Instruments' new U.S. factories. CNBC got an exclusive first look inside TI's $60 billion megaproject.

Medion wird aufgespalten
Kurz nachdem Lenovo den Essener Elektronikändler komplett übernommen hat, kauft der Firmengründer einen Großteil des Unternehmens von den Chinesen zurück.
https://www.heise.de/news/Medion-wir…

Russia coses control: Ichkeria inspires the peoples of the Caucasus to fight for freedom: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/23/russia-coses-control-ichkeria-inspires.html

An interview with Alex Kachkine, who shook the art world in June with a research paper in Nature on restoring paintings using AI, as he works to refine the tech (Ephrat Livni/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/…

The Hobbyist Restorer Who Rocked the Art World With an A.I. Innovation
Alex Kachkine spends his days working on microchip research — a skill set surprisingly similar to that needed for restoration.

Transparenz bei Northvolt – SPD geht vors Verfassungsgericht
Hat die Regierung bei Aufnahme der Northvolt-Förderung Informationspflichten gegenüber dem Parlament verletzt? Das Landesverfassungsgericht soll entscheiden.

Massive Russian attacks on Donetsk region: Ukraine hold the line and deliver precise strikes: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/23/massive-russian-attacks-on-donetsk.html

India's move to ban online real-money games over addiction and money laundering concerns appears valid, but it may push users toward offshore crypto casinos (Andy Mukherjee/Bloomberg)

Ukraine marks flag day with symbolic action in Kursk region, regains control of Donetsk Oblast village: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/23/ukraine-marks-flag-day-with.html

Some experts say Trump's extraordinary intervention is unlikely to save Intel, which faces challenges with poor yields and competition from TSMC and Nvidia (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/did-trump-save-intel-not-really-2025-0…

France summons Italian ambassador over official's remarks on Macron’s Ukraine proposal, Reuters reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/23/france-summons-italian-ambassador-over.html

Hier etwas Nützliches 👇🏻
Unsere Meldungen gibt es natürlich per #RSS, aber wir haben viel mehr Feeds als hier aufgelistet:
https://www.heise.de/news-extern/news.html
So kann man zum Beispie…

Major real-money gaming platforms in India halted cash games after President Murmu signed the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025, into law (The Hindu)
https://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/real-money-gaming-fir…

The Kremlin against peace: agreements under threat! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/23/the-kremlin-against-peace-agreements.html

Microsoft Exchange: Bug verursacht "[EXTERN]" im Mail-Betreff
Microsoft hat offenbar an einer Exchange-Funktion geschraubt. Dadurch taucht in der Betreffzeile derzeit ein "[EXTERN]" auf.
https:/…

How AI is increasingly being used to replace human content moderators, who say that the tech is not yet capable of reliably identifying harmful content (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)

Fürs Militär? Größtes Bodeneffektfahrzeug seit Sowjetzeiten in China entdeckt
Bodeneffektfahrzeuge vereinen Eigenschaften von Schiffen und Flugzeugen, gegenüber beiden haben sie Vorteile. Womöglich will Chinas Militär das jetzt nutzen.

A surge in AI company valuations is driving the popularity of special purpose vehicles, but some involve high fees, opaque structures, and layers of middlemen (Business Insider)
https://africa.businessinsider.com/mar

Investors warn AI FOMO could be fueling a risky bubble in companies like OpenAI and Anthropic
As AI valuations soar into the hundreds of billions, a parallel market of temporary financial shells is proliferating to meet investor FOMO, and many investors are starting to sound the alarm bells that it portends a bubble in the AI gold rush

Ukraine, Canada sign joint defense production agreement: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/24/ukraine-canada-sign-joint-defense.html

Gute Nachrichten für alle, die in der IT-Branche arbeiten oder einen Einstieg planen! 💻 Laut aktuellen Zahlen der Bundesagentur für Arbeit sind die Gehälter im IT-Bereich 2024 um etwa 3,85% gestiegen und liegen damit über der Inflationsrate von 2,2%.
Zum Artikel: https://

FanDuel partners with CME Group to offer event-based contracts, letting users wager "yes" or "no" on financial events and benchmarks, starting later this year (Dean Seal/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

Illusion or Reality: What’s really behind the West’s promises?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/24/illusion-or-reality-whats-really.html

Bewegliche Mikrospiegel: Deutsches Start-up denkt AR-Displays neu
Das Karlsruher Start-up Gixel entwickelt ein AR-Display, das gängige Lösungen in zentralen Aspekten übertreffen soll.
https://www.

Sources: Nvidia has shown new versions of its Blackwell-based AI chips for Chinese customers to US officials, including one with ~80% of the peak performance (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/nvidias-roller-co

Zelensky doesn't have legitimacy to sign a peace deal, Russia's top diplomat claims: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/24/zelensky-doesnt-have-legitimacy-to.html

Drei chinesische Gruppen als Angreifer auf Sharepoint-Server identifiziert
Eine Analyse von Microsoft nennt drei verschiedene Gruppen aus China als Angreifer auf die jüngste Sharepoint-Lücke. Dabei dürfte es aber nicht bleiben.

Ukraine retakes three villages in Donetsk region as Syrskyi warns of challenging Pokrovsk axis: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/24/ukraine-retakes-three-villages-in.html

Istanbul-based stock and crypto brokerage Midas raised an $80M Series B led by QED Investors, valuing the company, sources say, at nearly $1B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-22/turkey-s-robinhood-s…

'The people of Ukraine have an unbreakable spirit' — Trump, world leaders mark Independence Day with messages of support to Kyiv: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/24/the-people-of-ukraine-have.html

An interview with Nick Clegg about Zuckerberg's "masculine energy", Silicon Valley's "cloying conformity" and "combination of machismo and self-pity", and more (Gaby Hinsliff/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics…

'Our flags are returning to where they belong' —Ukraine liberates Novomykhailivka in Donetsk Oblast, military intelligence reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/24/our-flags-are-returning-to.html

In an interview at the Federal Reserve, Sam Altman warns of an impending "fraud crisis" because of how AI could enable bad actors to impersonate other people (Clare Duffy/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/07/22/tech/openai-sam-altman-fraud-crisis

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns of an AI ‘fraud crisis’
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the world may be on the precipice of a “fraud crisis” because of how artificial intelligence could enable bad actors to impersonate other people.

🇺🇦 Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney saw the latest Ukrainian weapons! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/24/canadian-prime-minister-mark-carney.html

PayPal announces PayPal World, an upcoming platform designed to simplify cross-border payments via Venmo, India's UPI, Tencent's Tenpay, and Mercado Pago (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/22/payp

PayPal taps wallets from China and India to make cross-border payments easier for 2 billion people | TechCrunch
PayPal is partnering with global fintech companies to let users pay to different wallet systems cross border.

⚠ Russia wants to guarantee peace, but doesn't sign the agreement – is a compromise possible?#shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/24/russia-wants-to-guarantee-peace.html…

Q&A with David Luan, head of Amazon's AGI research lab, on leaving Adept in a reverse acquihire deal, why he believes progress on AI models has slowed, and more (Alex Heath/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-w

Amazon is betting on agents to win the AI race
David Luan, the head of Amazon’s AGI lab, on GPT-5, agents, and the path to winning the AI race.

⚡️ “Time to end the war” — Trump's greetings to Ukraine #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/24/time-to-end-the-war.html

Ukrainian drones reportedly target key logistics hub in southwestern Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/23/ukrainian-drones-reportedly-target-key.html

Lawmakers seek Constitutional Court review of law curtailing independence of Ukraine's anti-graft agencies: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/23/lawmakers-seek-constitutional-court-review.html

US approves sale of ERAM missiles to Ukraine, WSJ reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/24/us-approves-sale-of-eram.html

Russian strikes in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast kill 1, injure 9 others: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/24/russian-strikes-in-dnipropetrovsk-oblast.html