
2025-09-19 14:40:52
Report: OpenAI has considered building glasses, a digital voice recorder, and a pin and signed a deal with Luxshare to assemble at least one of its devices (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/09/19/openai-and-jony-…
Report: OpenAI has considered building glasses, a digital voice recorder, and a pin and signed a deal with Luxshare to assemble at least one of its devices (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/09/19/openai-and-jony-…
New missile parts found in Poland, drone debris in Latvia after Russian drone incursion: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/19/new-missile-parts-found-in.html
"For Russians Like Me, Silencing Jimmy Kimmel Looks Dangerously Familiar"
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/09/19/for-russians-like-me-silencing-jimmy-kimmel-looks-dangerously-familiar-a90567
Horrifying story on a torrent of right-wing disinformation aimed at FEMA when it was trying to help out with catastrophic Florida/Carolina hurricanes. How do these people live with themselves? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
Opa die in verzet zat tegen nazi’s blijkt lid te zijn geweest van terroristische organisatie - @…
https://speld.nl/2025…
October 18. Mass protests.
Block it off on your calendar now.
Kamala Harris wrote a memoir...
At least she didn't shoot a dog
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/18/kamala-harris-leading-democrats-memoir-00572544
I think that "chatbot" is a bad design paradigm for most problems. It's actually the refusal to to design work.
https://tante.cc/2025/06/19/chatbot-is-bad-design/
haha, the united states once worked on a nuclear bomb that could wipe out the entirety of france (sundial, a 10,000 megaton bomb) very glad we came up with this instead of building houses for homeless
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/18/ice-unit-signs-new-3-million-contract-for-phone-hacking-tech/
ICE unit signs new $3M contract for phone-hacking tech
Gut so, dass es Aufregung um Pressefreiheit und Drohungen gegen Journalist*innen gibt: Mehr davon!
Wer schon viel länger, heftiger, gefährlicher, unsichtbarer bedroht wird: Alle, die nicht weiß, die queer, obdachlos, behindert sind. Linke Jugendliche in rechten Landkreisen.
Guckt auch da hin.
“Service academies to accept conservative alternative to SAT and ACT”
And it is called the CLT?
They’ll have to find it first.
Hey oh!
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/15/military-academies-clt-standardized-test-00564290…
Please add this tiny bit-o-CSS for stable scrollbar gutters to your Reset Stylesheets
https://www.zachleat.com/web/stable-scrollbar-gutters/
🚨 Gaza Verified: Emergency appeal for @…
Aseel, her lovely cat Liza, and her family are in the danger zone in North Gaza and need your help to get to the South.
To find transportation, rent land, and get a tent is going to cost them roughly $4,500 when you figure in the 40% commission they’ll have to pay when withdrawing the money in Gaza. Th…
#Kimmel hat MAGA eine Falle gestellr, und #MAGA ist direkt reingetappst.
#Kimmel hat MAGA eine Falle gestellr, und #MAGA ist direkt reingetappst.
Ukraine has 'hit the nail on the head' with strikes on Russian oil industry, economist says | Euronews
https://www.euronews.com/2025/09/19/ukraine-has-hit-the-nail-on-the-head-with-strikes-on-russian-oil-industry-economist-says
Report: At this point we are just trying to figure who Canadian Parliament WON’T give a standing ovation to
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2025/09/report-at-this-point-we-are-just-trying-to-figure-w…
Mastodon, the nonprofit behind the social network, plans to offer paid hosting, moderation, and support services for organizations joining the fediverse (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/19/mast
UK intelligence launching dark web portal for potential spies in Russia, elsewhere: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/19/uk-intelligence-launching-dark-web.html
At first I thought „Oh no, I need to peel off laptop stickers!“, but then I remembered that I won’t travel to the United States anytime soon (for large values of “soon”).
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/17/politics/antifa-terrorist-designation-trump
Trump nixed $400 million in Taiwan military aid, angling for future arms sales
The fastest way to fortify Taiwan’s military is by directly shipping U.S. arms,
a process known as Presidential Drawdown Authority, or PDA.
The Biden administration approved three such packages for Taiwan while in office, alongside another round of long-term military aid, totaling more than $2 billion.
Trump has promised a more transactional U.S. foreign policy and does not support sendin…
(Friends who are sick of all these big protests happening on Shabbat: I’m so sorry. They didn’t ask me about it either. I got nothing.)
US would 'help secure the peace' in Ukraine, Trump says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/19/us-would-help-secure-the.html
Netskope priced its IPO at $19 per share, at the top of its targeted range, valuing the company at $7.3B, and raised $908.2M in the offering (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/17/netskope-seeks-7point3-billion-valuation-…
Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Die Spuren führen nach Moskau: Ex-Wirecard-Vorstand Marsalek enttarnt
Trump nixed $400 million in Taiwan military aid, angling for future arms sales
The fastest way to fortify Taiwan’s military is by directly shipping U.S. arms,
a process known as Presidential Drawdown Authority, or PDA.
The Biden administration approved three such packages for Taiwan while in office, alongside another round of long-term military aid, totaling more than $2 billion.
Trump has promised a more transactional U.S. foreign policy and does not support sendin…
Russian attacks kill 5, injure 7 in Ukraine over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/19/russian-attacks-kill-injure-in.html
Inside xAI's chaotic summer: Musk reorganized xAI on the fly, researchers left over concerns it abandoned science in favor of attention-grabbing products, more (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/t…
Ireland delivers 34 vehicles and demining robots to Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/19/ireland-delivers-vehicles-and-demining.html
Trump declined to approve more than $400 million in military aid to Taiwan this summer,
as he tries to negotiate a trade deal and potential summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
The decision, which may still be reversed, marks a U-turn in U.S. policy toward the self-governing island that China claims as its own territory.
Two people familiar with the matter said the package was worth more than $400 million and would have been “more lethal” than past rounds of aid to Taiwan…
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Irland: Ehemalige Meta-Lobbyistin wird Datenschutzbeauftragte
Sources: Nvidia spent more than $900M to hire Enfabrica CEO Rochan Sankar and other employees at the AI hardware startup and to license the company's technology (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/18/nvidia-spent-over-900-million-…
Russia building its alternative to Starlink, space agency head says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/19/russia-building-its-alternative-to.html
Notion launches customizable agents that can create documents and perform other actions in the background, and says it has reached $500M in annualized revenue (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/18/notion-launches-ai-agen…
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,099,530 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/19/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html
Ukraine raids Russian-occupied Black Sea island, lays mines and destroys vehicle, intelligence claims, shows footage: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/19/ukraine-raids-russianoccupied-black-sea.html
Q&A with YouTube CEO Neil Mohan on new AI tools to help creators, YouTube's dominance on TVs, helping creators better monetize sponsorships, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2025/an-interview-with-y…
UNO richtet Government Blockchain Academy ein
Das UN-Entwicklungsprogramm will Vorlagen für Einführung von Blockchains und anderer Technik in der öffentlichen Verwaltung ausarbeiten. KI darf nicht fehlen.
https://www.
Sources: White House weighs more CFTC chair candidates, including government officials focused on crypto policy, as Brian Quintenz's nomination remains stalled (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-18/…
Zelensky, Putin may meet within 2 weeks, German chancellor says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/19/zelensky-putin-may-meet-within.html
Linkedin will auch Deine Daten für seine KI
Ab November stehen alle Nutzerdaten auf Linkedin zum Training Künstlicher Intelligenzen zur Verfügung – außer, die Nutzer widersprechen.
https://www.hei…
Sources: Google is using its expansive library of YouTube videos to train Gemini and Veo 3; Google says it only uses a subset of videos for the training (Zach Vallese/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/19/google-youtube-ai-training-veo-3.html
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Ukraine could soon deploy 1,000 interceptor drones per day, defense minister says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/19/ukraine-could-soon-deploy-interceptor.html
Meta files an application for authorization "to sell energy, capacity, and certain ancillary services" in the US amid rising energy demand for AI datacenters (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-0…
Poland conducts mass bomb shelter inspections after recent Russian drone incursions: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/19/poland-conducts-mass-bomb-shelter.html
Commure, which provides ambient AI, revenue cycle management, and workflow automation tools for healthcare providers, raised $200M from General Catalyst (Erin Brodwin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2025/06/19/commure-…
Ukrainian drones hit oil refinery in Russia's Volgograd Oblast, governor says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/19/ukrainian-drones-hit-oil-refinery.html
China says Xiaomi will issue a software update for 115K SU7 EVs to fix assisted driving safety issues, its second recall-related fix since the 2024 launch (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/chinas-xiaomi-f…
Exhaustion, Stress, and the Need for Support: How Ukrainians’ Emotional Resilience Has Changed During the War: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/19/exhaustion-stress-and-the-need.html
The EU says Apple and Meta will not face sanctions immediately after their 60 day DMA grace period ends on June 26, following €500M and €200M fines in April (Peggy Corlin/Euronews)
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/06…
Russian attacks kill 7, injure 28 in Ukraine over the past 24 hours: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/19/russian-attacks-kill-injure-in.html
MI6 launched Silent Courier, an online portal hosted on the dark web designed to let potential spies from Russia and elsewhere communicate with UK intelligence (Alex Wickham/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
Russian strikes killed 21, injured 99 in Ukraine since Trump-Putin summit: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/19/russian-strikes-killed-injured-in.html
SoftBank's Vision Fund plans layoffs; sources say ~20% of staff will be impacted as SoftBank shifts resources to Masayoshi Son's large-scale AI bets in the US (Krystal Hu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-
US and Ukraine earmark $150 million for minerals deal: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/17/us-and-ukraine-earmark-million.html
US-Staatsanwalt untersucht KI-Chatbots von Meta und Character.ai
KI-Chatbots können vor allem Heranwachsenden schaden, das meint ein Staatsanwalt aus Texas. Er hat Untersuchungen eingeleitet.
https://www.…
Ukraine stops Russia at Pokrovsk and strikes command posts in Donetsk!: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/17/ukraine-stops-russia-at-pokrovsk.html
A look at seven UX issues in the Fediverse web experience, including complex onboarding, the lack of a dedicated DM UI wrapper, and fragmented user discovery (Tim Chambers)
https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/18/113327.html
5 civilians killed in Russian aerial attack on Kostiantynivka in Donetsk Oblast: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/18/civilians-killed-in-russian-aerial.html
Q&A with Pavel Durov on his arrest in France, Macron, Russia, the FBI, the fight for Telegram, leaving his wealth to the 100 children he fathered, and more (Guillaume Grallet/Le Point)
https://www.
Steam unterscheidet bei Nutzer-Reviews nach Sprache
Nutzer-Scores werden bei Steam nun abhängig von der Sprache erstellt. Damit sollen auch kulturelle Unterschiede gefiltert werden.
https://www.
Ukraine on the counteroffensive: $90 million worth of Russian air defenses wiped out: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/18/ukraine-on-the-counteroffensive-million.html
Kyiv: Russia quietly builds bypass road in occupied Mariupol for potential new offensive: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/17/kyiv-russia-quietly-builds-bypass.html
Mobbing im Netz: Studie zeigt rauen Umgangston unter Gamern
Gamer sind jung, einsam und meist männlich, so lautet ein Klischee über Computerspieler. Stimmt das? Teilweise ja, so eine Studie.
https://www.
Lavrov says US administration recognizes need to address ‘root causes’ of Ukraine war: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/17/lavrov-says-us-administration-recognizes.html
5-Sekunden-Videos: Midjourney animiert Bilder
Midjourney hat sein erstes Videomodell vorgestellt. Damit lassen sich Bilder in fünfsekündige Videos umwandeln.
https://www.heise.de/news/…
1st batch of military equipment under NATO’s PURL program arrives in Ukraine, media reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/18/st-batch-of-military-equipment.html
heise | Wie Sie eine Bilanz lesen
Bilanzen sind ein wichtigstes Instrument, um die finanzielle Lage eines Unternehmens einzuschätzen. Wir erklären die wichtigsten Begriffe und Kennziffern.
https://www.
From Stalin to Putin – the same complaints about Poland #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/17/from-stalin-to-putin-the.html
Microsoft will den Vertrag mit OpenAI bis 2030 aussitzen
Streit um die Beteiligung bei Umstrukturierung: Microsoft soll sich auf Plan B vorbereiten, falls die Verhandlungen mit OpenAI scheitern.
https:/…
Endlich Licht ins Dunkel: Wie Spaniens Vizeregierungschefin Sara Aagesen jetzt bekannt gab, war eine Überspannung im Netz der Auslöser für den stundenlangen Blackout. 💡
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10450730?wt_mc=sm.re
Warm words, thin results: White House meeting lifts Ukraine, but tough road ahead: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/19/warm-words-thin-results-white.html
Netflix überträgt in Frankreich lineares Fernsehen
Gemeinsam mit der Mediengesellschaft TF1 will Netflix in Frankreich bald lineares Fernsehen im Stream anbieten. Die Inhalte kommen ins normale Abo.
https://…
Microsoft plant Streichung von tausenden Jobs im Vertrieb
Microsoft plant laut Medienberichten zufolge die Streichung tausender Jobs insbesondere im Vertrieb, um die Belegschaft zu verschlanken.
https:/…
Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Iran weitgehend offline
https://www.heise.de/news…
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Malvertising: Bösartige Werbung schiebt Anbieterseiten falsche Nummern unter