
2025-09-11 16:09:00
Russian attacks kill 3, injure 25 in Ukraine over past day, damage Sumy cathedral: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/11/russian-attacks-kill-injure-in.html
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian says the division has $106B in unfulfilled customer contract commitments, with an expected revenue of $58B by 2027 (Davey Alba/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-09/google-cloud-…
RIAA: US recorded music revenue hit $5.6B across all formats in H1 2025, up 1% YoY; streaming generated $4.68B, and paid subscriptions grew 5.7% YoY to $3.2B (Marc Schneider/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/riaa-2025-mid-year-report-recorded…
August 2025 was the third-warmest August globally, behind only 2023 and 2024, with an average surface air temperature of 16.60°C, 1.29°C above the estimated 1850-1900 average used to define the pre-industrial level.
https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-temper…
A small price to pay for having billionaires and trillion-dollar corporations, wouldn’t you say?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/09/europe-june-heatwave-study-climate-breakdown-tripled-death-toll
Noch mal laut
'How Dare You?': Ex-Dem Lawmaker Loses It When Conservative Commentator Invokes 'Brokenness Of The Black Family' (Jason Cohen/The Daily Caller)
https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/09/how-dare-you-ex-dem-lawmaker-loses-it-when-conservative-commentator-invokes-brokenness-of-the-black-family/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250909/p137#a250909p137
Round 1 of the second science seminar for #AntarcticaInSync - an international collaboration aiming at advancing research of all kinds in Antarctica the Southern Ocean. Fear not if you missed it, there is another chance Wednesday at 15:00 UTC
https://www.antarctica-insync.org/2nd-antarctica-insync-international-science-webinar/
The IETF’s “AI-CONTROL Workshop Report”: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-iab-ai-control-report-02.html
Where by “AI-CONTROL” they mean “dealing with LLM-building scrapers”.
Five technological achievements! (That we won’t see any time soon.) https://crookedtimber.org/2025/09/09/five-technological-achievements-that-we-wont-see-any-time-soon/
Charly Kirk ist nun unsterblich. Ob er das gewollt hat? Oder wars eine Aufführung von "Die Erschießung des Ohrs von Donald Trump" die furchtbar schief gegangen ist, weil der Requisitör die Platzpatronen mit echter Munition verwechselt hat?
Charly Kirk ist nun unsterblich. Ob er das gewollt hat? Oder wars eine Aufführung von "Die Erschießung des Ohrs von Donald Trump" die furchtbar schief gegangen ist, weil der Requisitör die Platzpatronen mit echter Munition verwechselt hat?
Proclaming you’re a LGBTQ ally and then giving money to Nazis is literally worse then just giving money to Nazis
Here's a picture collage of actors who are dead to me now 😡
https://deadline.com/2025/09/harry-potter-audiobooks-cast-kit-harington-keira-knightley-1236513662/
Before you spend $59 on that iPhone strap, consider giving the same amount to the World Central Kitchen. They help feed people in a humanitarian crisis around the world.
Many thanks for considering my request.
https://wck.org/
A new volunteer-led organization called
"Grandparents for Vaccines" launched Sunday on National Grandparents Day
with a mission to share firsthand experiences of life before vaccines were widely available.
https://kottke.org/25/09/0047471-a-new-volunteer-led-…
Gotta love how often people who are above the law say that no one is above the law...
"Our hearts must change"
- 2 verses from an improvised song, sadly inspired by recent murders -
https://muz4now.com/2025/our-hearts-must-change/
Satellites confirm 1990s sea-level predictions were shockingly accurate #environment
Ofcourse Trump is lying but at least he confirms he is incapable and powerless with regard to Israel.
#Trump
It's exactly what I mean: It automatically shuts down my laptop. I'm guessing it did it last night because of the Patch Tuesday updates. But there are other times it does it, and perhaps those are for minor updates. I've been tinkering with Windows settings so much that I have managed to minimize the number of times it does it, but it did it last night.
Eine gute Entwicklung?
Modernstes #Bestattung srecht in Deutschland https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/rheinland-pf
Just randomly remembering the time Charlie Kirk was asked at one of his college talks if the obvious Nazi salute Elon Musk did was a Nazi salute but then refuses to mimic the Nazi salute that Elon Musk obviously did.
#IfyourInABarWithANazi
#NaziAdjacent #charlieKirk
https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/1j629zd/charlie_kirk_is_so_scared_to_do_the_salute_that/
Bellflower, genus Campanula, along the trail to Snow Lake this summer
#naturalist #wildflower
Bernd: *indigniert* »Bitte WAS?«
Bernd, 186 cm, Schuhgröße 46, auf Melas laute Überlegung hin, dass Größe ›Small‹ der neuen Arbeitsplatzschluppen, das Problem der zu langen Riemen möglicherweise verhindert hätte.
(Mela meinte eigentlich ›Schmal‹. Gibts für Gr. 46 aber nicht.)
#SzenenEinerEhe
(Nimer's Blog) Seeing with sound: My adventures in echolocation and The vOICe #congenitally
Synopsys stock falls 20% in extended trading after the company said its IP business underperformed in Q3 partly due to US export restrictions to China (Ian King/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-09/syno…
Belarus frees 52 prisoners after Lukashenko meets US envoy: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/11/belarus-frees-prisoners-after-lukashenko.html
A Q&A with Dave Jorgenson on his new media venture, LNI, his plans for longform video, media literacy, language he can use now that he's not at WaPo, and more (Neel Dhanesha/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/with-loc
Laut.
Inflation quashed household income gains in 2024, census finds (Gaya Gupta/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/09/09/census-household-income-inflation/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzU3MzkwNDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzU4NzcyNzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NTczOTA0MDAsImp0aSI6ImVkN2UxNzRjLTRjMWUtNDhiNS04NTdiLWRkMDg4OGQ0MDc1MCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9uYXRpb24vMjAyNS8wOS8wOS9jZW5zdXMtaG91c2Vob2xkLWluY29tZS1pbmZsYXRpb24vIn0.-6DXtKaEItl3MoY9o2zfF5ZY5VA0BNY6KKYJ3lyzRHM&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/250909/p130#a250909p130
You know if you want to gatekeep and cosplay HOA on Mastodon, just make your own server and then pull the Ethernet plug
Descartes realizing the exponential permutations between all available options. #cartesianExplosion
The bike rack mount I printed in ASA was *not* strong enough to hold nearly 70 pounds. 😩
Pay-per-output? AI firms blindsided by beefed up robots.txt instructions. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/pay-per-output-ai-firms-blindsided-by-beefed-up-robots-txt-instructions/
Triff mich, wie ich während meiner Seminarveranstaltungen nur komplett seriöse Notizen mache:
#ProjektMaster
ASML's €1.3B investment in Mistral gives the French startup capital and credibility, but it must prove it can survive in a US- and China-dominated AI industry (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-09/mis…
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
"Single point of failure": 400 Wissenschaftler gegen Chatkontrolle
Ofcom announces that Geoff Cooper, the chair of electrical retailer AO, has been appointed as the chair of Channel 4 board, ending months of leadership limbo (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/09/channel-4-chair-geoff-cooper-1236527382/
Supreme Court to weigh legality of Trump's tariffs in key economic case (Justin Jouvenal/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/09/09/supreme-court-tariffs-trump-emergency-powers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250909/p126#a250909p126
YouTube rolls out multi-language audio after a two-year pilot, saying creators saw 25% of watch time coming from views in their video's non-primary language (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/10/yout
Folks, we’ve got a new iPhone… and also, the Middle East is on the brink of a regional war. But we also got a strap, woooooooooooooah
Latvia orders over 800 Russian citizens to leave by mid-October: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/11/latvia-orders-over-russian-citizens.html
You probably already know this but GPX files store speed data in 'meters per second' not 'miles per hour'.
Study: between August 2024 and June 2025, the number of women working as creators on US streaming originals hit 36%, a record and up from 27% the year prior (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2…
Blockchain-based lender Figure and some of its backers raised $787.5M in an IPO, selling 31.5M shares at $25 each, valuing the company at about $5.3B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-11/blockchain-based-l…
Trump threatens China with additional 100% tariffs amid trade tensions: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/11/trump-threatens-china-with-additional.html
ICE is Eating the Soul of America (Garrett M. Graff/Doomsday Scenario)
https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-is-eating-the-soul-of-america
http://www.memeorandum.com/250909/p129#a250909p129
I got this bike 12 days ago and just hit 100 miles. If I can keep commuting to work that's about 13 miles each day of riding a bike instead of driving a car.
#biking #bikeTooter #ebike
Leaked files: WaPo publisher Will Lewis supported Boris Johnson as a secret political adviser when he was UK PM in 2022; Lewis was AP's vice-chair at the time (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/10/…
Google Fotos: Der neue Editor ist da – zuerst für Android
Google hatte im Mai neue Funktionen für seine Foto-App Google Fotos angekündigt. Jetzt wird das Update verteilt. Einige KI-Funktionen fehlen aber.
https://ww…
Bending Spoons agrees to acquire video platform Vimeo in an all-cash deal valued at ~$1.38B, set to close in Q4; Vimeo will be delisted from exchanges (Lynn Doan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-10/bending…
I've seen some outbreaks of toxic positivity before, but the way some people in the Ruby community contort themselves into olympic-level mental gymnastics to not see the plainly obvious thing and are pretending "Ruby Central is doing their best" is truly spectacular.
US falling behind Russia and China in hypersonic weapons race, study says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/10/us-falling-behind-russia-and.html
Trump Admin Returns Russian Dissident Asylum Seekers to Putin (Josh Kovensky/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-admin-returns-russian-dissident-asylum-seekers-to-putin
http://www.memeorandum.com/250909/p131#a250909p131
Back in 2010 I made the "Twitter Monkey" partly in thanks in to the work of @… for code and ideas.
Maybe we should build a new version that is Fediverse-powered.
https://
Fired MasterChef presenter Gregg Wallace filed a High Court lawsuit against the BBC and BBC Studios over data protection concerns on September 5 (Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/global/fired-masterchef-host-gregg-wallace-legal-action-b…
The stocks of Strategy copycats, companies buying crypto for their treasuries, are falling, as some struggle with little differentiation and rising volatility (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-09/saylor-insp…
Gonna tell the youths on Discord that it’s so cool how they made the protesters wearing frog suits into those frog emojis that are everywhere on Discord
UK, France, Germany to move forward with using Russian assets to aid Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/11/uk-france-germany-to-move.html
Ten years in, Stat has 520 group licenses, 7.5M monthly paid views, and a staff of around 100; summer subscriptions rose 45% YoY, thanks to a Trump bump (Rick Edmonds/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2025/stat-newsroom-10-years…
Alibaba's mapping app Amap launches its own ranking of restaurants, hotels, and tourist destinations, intensifying its competition with Chinese rival Meituan (Casey Hall/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co
The collapse of Democratic lawfare in Michigan (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/09/09/michigan-fake-electors-dana-nessel/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250910/p34#a250910p34
Digital banking group NOBA plans to list on Nasdaq Stockholm in Q3 2025, in a deal expected to value the company at around $3.74B (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/digital-bank-noba-plans-sweden-ipo-valuing-firm…
Bluesky says it will comply with age-verification laws in South Dakota and Wyoming because they strike the "right balance", after exiting Mississippi (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/10/blue
After declaring D.C. 'safe,' Trump dines out in the city (Matt Viser/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/09/09/trump-dinner-dc-restaurant/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250910/p32#a250910p32
[pirate voice]
Anyway get yer shots
OpenAI says GPT‑5 instant and GPT‑5 thinking cut political bias by 30% from earlier models, and show greater robustness to charged prompts (Ashley Gold/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/09/openai-gpt-5-least-biased-model
Bending Spoons agrees to acquire video platform Vimeo in an all-cash deal valued at ~$1.38B, set to close in Q4; Vimeo will be delisted from exchanges (Lynn Doan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-10/bending…
Is the signature Trump's? Epstein birthday book feeds speculation. (Matt Viser/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/09/09/trump-epstein-signature/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250910/p41#a250910p41
Yay Covid and flu shots acquired (just walked into CVS here in Arizona)
Hands-on with Apple Watch Series 11, SE 3, and Ultra 3: SE 3 feels surprisingly similar to the Series 11 and the satellite SOS feature is neat (The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/hands-on/773039/hands-on-with-new-apple-watches
People CEO Neil Vogel calls Google a "bad actor" for refusing to pay publishers for AI content and says Google Search drives 25%-30% of visits to People sites (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/09/11/media-in…
You Really Need to See Epstein's Birthday Book for Yourself (Charlie Warzel/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/09/jeffrey-epstein-birthday-book-conspiracy-theories/684157/?gift=bQgJMMVzeo8RHHcE1_KM0fGBEa0cMmXQ9jazwm3ufrc&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250909/p186#a250909p186
Vantage Data Centers raised $1.6B from GIC and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority to expand in APAC, including the acquisition of a Malaysian data center campus (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-11/vantag…
Yay for me for getting yelled at by someone because I think we shouldn’t have open source community leaders that collaborate with people who want to murder a good portion of said community
How AI is upending the music industry in Latin America, as artists push back against a flood of AI-generated music on Spotify, Deezer, and YouTube Music (Laura Rodríguez Salamanca/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-music-spotify-deezer-latin-america/
Klarna shares jump 30% in their NYSE debut, opening at $52, above the IPO price of $40, after the company and some of its backers raised $1.37B in the offering (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-10/kla…
Anyone in the US wants this stack of EDGE magazines? PM me an offer and where you live and I can find out shipping cost (USPS Media Mail).
#retrocomputing #EDGE
Q&A with EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn, who will leave the role later this year after leading the nonprofit since 2015, on privacy, encryption, AI, and more (Dell Cameron/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/eff-cindy-cohn-stepping-down/
The FTC orders Google, OpenAI, Meta and Instagram, Snap, xAI, and Character.AI to provide information on how their AI chatbots impact children and teens (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-11/…
Google says it is scrapping multi-cloud data transfer fees for organizations in the EU and the UK ahead of the EU Data Act taking effect on September 12 (Paul Sandle/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/googl…
WBD sues Sling TV over its short-term offerings that let viewers access its bundle for as little as a day; Disney filed an identical suit in August (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
Q&A with EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn, who will leave the role later this year after leading the nonprofit since 2015, on privacy, encryption, AI, and more (Dell Cameron/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/eff-cindy-cohn-stepping-down/
A profile of Singapore-based Megaspeed, which bought $2B of Nvidia chips and is under US probe for possibly helping Chinese companies evade export controls (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/technology/nvidia-chips-china-megaspeed.html
Kraken opens trading of 60 tokenized US securities to its EU users, powered by Backed Finance's xStocks; rwa.xyz says tokenized shares' market value is ~$421M (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-0…
Adam Mosseri says Instagram is exploring building a TV app as part of a deeper push into video but isn't interested in licensing live sports or other content (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-09/instagra…
Investors are increasingly divesting from companies they fear are at risk of AI disruption, like Wix and Shutterstock, which are down at least 30% in 2025 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-09/traders-ar…
China opens an investigation into Qualcomm's acquisition of Autotalks, a chipmaker specializing in vehicle communications, over potential antitrust violations (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-1…
AI startups like Anthropic and OpenAI are ramping up efforts to recruit quant researchers from Wall Street firms, offering competitive pay and benefits (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-08/open-ai-…