2025-09-17 09:04:00
How xAI is building Colossus 2, which is on track to be the world's first gigawatt-scale AI datacenter after reaching 200MW in six months (Jeremie Eliahou Ontiveros/SemiAnalysis)
https://semianalysis.com/2025/09/16/xais-colossus-2-first-gigawatt-datacenter/…
PSA: Forced upgrades to macOS 26 (Tahoe) will be rolling out soon, which might confuse those currently using Linux :tux: and Windows :windows:
JDK 26: The new features in #Java 26
https://www.infoworld.com/article/4050993/jdk-26-the-new-features-in-java-26.html
"OpenAI patched a ChatGPT security flaw that could have allowed hackers to extract Gmail data from its users, according to researchers at cyber firm Radware."
https://www.
heise | heise Expertentalk: Alles rund um iOS 26 & iPadOS 26
iPhones und iPads erhalten aktualisierte Betriebssysteme. Im Live-Talk beantwortet unser Experte Leo Becker Ihre Fragen rund um iOS 26 und iPadOS 26.
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Luigi Mangione scored a legal victory on Tuesday with a judge dismissing the two top state charges against him:
first-degree murder and second-degree murder,
both of which prosecutors had argued were terrorism crimes.
Mangione still faces an additional second-degree murder charge,
as well as a federal murder charge, in the killing of United HealthCare executive Brian Thompson last December
bin bei 'das große backen' in der ersten runde rausgeflogen weil ich mein lebkuchenhaus mit epoxy zusammengekleistert habe
im gegensatz zur konkurrenz war meins stabil
Sony Music Group joins UMG, Warner Music, and Kobalt in signing a direct licensing agreement with Spotify, allowing for greater freedom to negotiate (Jem Aswad/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/sony-music-spotify-new-deal-direct-lic…
JD Vance urges people to report anyone celebrating Charlie Kirk’s death to their employer
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/16/jd-vance-charlie-kirk-show-broadcast/
🧚 Sustainable energy: 'Fairy circles' can provide clues to depth of natural hydrogen sources
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-sustainable-energy-fairy-circles-clues.html
"In theory, AI model makers could eliminate hallucinations by using a dataset that contains no errors."
I think someone has fundamentally misunderstood the technology. Developing a model using a 100% correct training dataset does not mean that the resulting AI will be able to correctly answer questions that were not in the training data.
Over-fitting is a thing.
Beautiful and important piece on #rewilding, what we stand to lose, what we've gained and the hidden costs. (From 2 years ago, worth revisiting).
https://www.codastory.com/climate-crisis/rewilding-beavers-conservation/
Today's test build of OmniGraffle 8 adds Omni Automation support for consulting Apple Intelligence Foundation Models on supported devices running macOS Tahoe 26, just like the support we shipped in OmniFocus 4.8 at the beginning of the week.
These AI models are built into your device; so when you use them you’re not sending any data to any other systems, nor are you using any expensive outside resources—you’re just using more capabilities of the device that’s already at your finger…
Polen will von Ukraine Drohnenbekämpfung lernen
Polen sucht für die Abwehr möglicher Drohnenangriffe die Hilfe der Ukraine. Verteidigungsminister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz ist zu Gesprächen nach Kiew gereist. "Wir werden ein Abkommen über die Zusammenarbeit zwischen den (Verteidigungs-)Ministerien unterzeichnen", schrieb er auf der Webseite seines Ministeriums. Polen werde aber auch Fähigkeiten zum …
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Intressant om Shut the System, en ny och mer radikal grupp av klimataktivister i Storbritannien, som använder sabotage som metod. https://novaramedia.com/2025/08/18/why-climate-activists-are-slashing-jp-morgans-electricity-cables/
It's #ExpandingHorizons - #ag2025goerlitz! Here is F. Eisenhauer describing the #KilometersBaselineInterferometer concept: 10 micro arcsec resolution, countless opportunities ...
Acting Up. Honest Conversations With Working Actors.
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/acting-up-honest-conversations-with-working-actors/
I have a question about elliptic curve cryptography: I assumed the order of a curve's bit length is equivalent to the private key size. Yet...
sect233k1 has 0x8000000000000000000000000000069d5bb915bcd46efb1ad5f173abdf group order, which is 232 bit. Wouldn't we expect sect*233*k1 to be 233 bit long? (similar with sect409k1, where the order is 407 bit).
Those are binary curves, and, honestly, I don't even know what that means... anything different in the world of binary c…
I wonder, did Cheeto have Kimmel cancelled because Kimmel wouldn't allow Melanomia on The Man Show, no matter how much she begged, for not meeting the show's quality standards?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPocO7VKsR8
Without reading the article I can only think this is for the new #RobertRodriquez / #DannyTrejo movie:
`Dogchete`
"Its not about what do you did son, its about who you did it to. Machete was a man of focus, commitment, sheer will. I once saw him kill three vampires in a bar with a stapler.…
Browser-Fingerprinting via Favicon
Supercookie uses favicons to assign a unique identifier to website visitors.
Unlike traditional tracking methods, this ID can be stored almost persistently and cannot be easily cleared by the user.
🍪 https://supercookie.me
Danke für die vielen Feedbacks bezüglich Aldi Süd — ihr habt alle recht (der Fuchs aber auch):
Leider variieren die Preise je nach Lade-Geschwindigkeit der Säule und somit auch je nach Standort.
Die kleine rote Ecke an unserem Preis sagt ja, dass man da mal drauf tippen sollte, um weitere Informationen lesen zu können. Im Fall von Aldi ist das so:
Vormarsch der Rechtsextremen: Was tue ich, wenn die AfD an die Macht kommt?
Die Normalisierung der AfD schreitet voran, ein Happy End ist längst nicht mehr sicher. Das schlägt sich auch in Gesprächen im Freundeskreis nieder. Eine Kolumne von Sebastian Leber im #Tagesspiegel -
Die AfD hat angekündigt, Rache zu nehmen, sobald sie an der Macht ist. Man werde um eine Politik der „woh…
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House passes 2 bills overhauling DC sentencing policies (Emily Brooks/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5506691-house-bills-dc-sentencing-policies/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250916/p154#a250916p154
And you don't need to accept the trap of authoritarian masculinity on logic alone, the proof is right there in male influencers like Andrew Tate and their followers. These dipshits get so obsessed with gatekeeping they don't realize that the gates they're tending keep them in, that the more walls they put up to protect their privilege, the smaller their identity can be. They huddle in tiny pens, terrified of crossing imaginary bounds that they imposed *on themselves.*
They have built their own torture chambers and locked themselves inside, and for what? They turn themselves into dragons, hoarding what they see as valuable while repressing every emotion including joy. And if they let themselves experience joy, they would, perhaps, realize that all these privileges are inconsistent with it. They might, perhaps, recognize that they have built up these privileges so they don't have to admit that their suffering and fear are not, in fact, admirable. They might have to face the fact that they have lived lives that are deeply pathetic, might have to face the fact that only empathy can give one access to deep satisfaction, might have to face the fact that they have lived their whole lives on a treadmill, going nowhere.
But I assume that they won't ever do that, because to do so would force them to face the enormity of the emotional debt, the pain and suffering they have inflicted on the world, and those are big feelings. It's far easier to hide in a hole, forever alone, making up silly rules to keep everyone inside scared and keep everyone outside from seeing in.
US destabilisation as #Honduras gears up for election battle | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/honduras-gears-election-battle
With tvOS 26 and the accompanying version of the HomePod OS, for the first time in years, Apple Music plays in sync across my TV and HomePod.
Let’s see if it lasts.
#Apple
Als je weet wat voor een haatzaaier, opruier en verspreider van disinformatie Wierd Duk is, dan is dit best schokkend. Altijd bijzonder dat mensen hem “journalist” noemen terwijl hij aan geen kenmerk daarvan voldoet.
#WierdDuk
Just got my first Sleep Score after updating to watchOS 26. It says I got a “High” quality sleep last night. In reality my sleep was awful; kept waking up and couldn’t fall back asleep. Not a good first impression.
Is it cycling culture? Explaining regional bicycle use in Denmark and Germany using a joint trip-level mode choice model
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950105925000403
„Maßnahmen zur Betriebsstabilisierung“ als Verspätungsgrund ist jetzt aber auch neu für mich.
*isst über die ganze Welt verstreut*
Emeklilik dilekçemi verdim. Onaylandığında ücretli kölelikten kurtuluyorum.
Artık kişisel ilgi alanlarıma daha çok zaman bulabileceğim.
Please support this important project to digitise recorded science lectures!
People of the future will treasure these. Make sure they survive - even a tenner helps:
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/roger-penrose-asks-support-for-the-archive-trust#
In a legend, Wang Zhihe also wrote a poem titled "Stinky Tofu, National Fragrance."
Via my wife 😂
https://www.antifa.org/
BTW - If you're feeling stressed, this should help.
Thanks to @… for this helpful tip.
#CanadianBeaversAreAwesome
https://youtu.be/vNePhmCMnbU?si=mH6o5vcOQKZovG-n
Partially open Pink rose and rosebuds. Mary and Joseph Retreat Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, California, USA. August, 2025. #ranchopalosverdes #garden #rosegarden
With Brandon Aubrey locked in, Cowboys are cooking with ‘butter’ in 2025 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/09/17/brandon-aubrey-dallas-cowboys-cooking-butter/86172961007/
el lenguaje es mucho mšs inquieto que la vida
–Manuel Seco
Well, I've posted my first retarded post on Reddit. Have to live with it.
“One good aspect of this feature is that you don’t need to wear an Apple Watch to take advantage of it. If you use a Garmin watch or any other device that can input sleep data into the Health app, you will get a sleep score based on that information.”
This is the funniest recommendation I read about the “awe” Apple Sleep score.
Pfeife beim Treppensteigen vor mich hin, die Melodie zu
"Ihr habt sicher schon Namen gehört,
die man heut noch als Maler so hoch verehrt..."
ich kam bis "Flandernland", als von etwa 5 Stockwerken tiefer eine Stimme ertönt:
"Niklaaas, der Junge aus Flandern"
#ohrwurm
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
IDLES:
🎵 Cheerleader
#IDLES
https://idlesband.bandcamp.com/track/cheerleader
https://open.spotify.com/track/3LiNrrRozLyzYfeK1CflCA
Apple launches iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26 Tahoe, watchOS 26, visionOS 26, and tvOS 26, featuring Liquid Glass design, new Apple Intelligence features, and more (José Adorno/BGR)
https://www.bgr.com/1968552/ios-26-ipados-26-maco…
Rating 26 years of #Java changes
https://neilmadden.blog/2025/09/12/rating-26-years-of-java-changes/
Ha ha witzig.
#Verkehrsschilder
Business consolidation of the intermediaries that control book distribution, especially e-books, could be a larger threat to books than recent bans in the US (Maria Bustillos/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/the-bigger-threat-to-b…
Sending women who get abortions to prison for decades.
Outlawing IUDs.
Sharply restricting in-vitro fertilization.
These are the strictest abortion prohibitions and punishments in the nation being considered by South Carolina lawmakers,
even as opponents of the procedure are divided over how far to go.
The bill faces a long legislative path and uncertain prospects, even if it clears the state Senate subcommittee that’s reviewing it.
But the measure up for a …
Today's test build of OmniGraffle 8 adds Omni Automation support for consulting Apple Intelligence Foundation Models on supported devices running macOS Tahoe 26, just like the support we shipped in OmniFocus 4.8 at the beginning of the week.
These AI models are built into your device; so when you use them you’re not sending any data to any other systems, nor are you using any expensive outside resources—you’re just using more capabilities of the device that’s already at your finger…
Now at the #ag2025goerlitz #ExpandingHorizons townhall the #WidefieldSpectroscopicTelescope - https://wstelescope.com - is presented: many spectra fast, to deal with a flood of discoveries of interesting objects expected in the 2030s.
Unpacked.
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods
"There’s free speech and then there’s hate speech," Bondi told Stephen Miller’s wife Katie during an episode of her podcast. "We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech.”
A Not-So Normal Tuesday - Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/a-not-so-normal-tuesday
Amazon says it's investing $1B to raise pay for US fulfillment and transportation staff, increasing the average total compensation to $30 /hour with benefits (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-
2025 NFL Comeback Player of the Year Odds: Christian McCaffrey New Favorite https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2025-26-nfl-comeback-player-year-odds
Ecuadorian people, in a referendum, reject the right wing president's proposal to allow US military bases and to replace the 2008 constitution, the progressive one written by a constituent assembly under the leadership of Alberto Acosta.
Ecuador impide en las urnas que Noboa instale bases de EE UU y cambie la Constitución progresista de 2008
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Tomo Nakayama:
🎵 Ocean
#TomoNakayama
https://dentapes.bandcamp.com/track/ocean
https://open.spotify.com/track/0I5dtJumirjc9jVMmAnBLQ
Unión del Barrio has been doing “know your rights” workshops
and training people on how to spot ICE and report to the community when they do see them.
Cardona said it is important to document ICE raids and kidnappings to help people understand what they have been seeing and the way ICE goes about these operations.
Advocates have also been organizing patrols and responding to reported ICE activity.
Cardona said there have been many instances where community members in L…
OpenAI says its reasoning system solved all 12 problems at the 2025 ICPC World Finals, with GPT-5 solving 11 and an experimental model solving the last (Maximilian Schreiner/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/openai-outperforms…
Sieben Mitglieder der Gruppe #LetzteGeneration sind nach einer #Protestaktion am Flughafen #Frankfurt angeklagt.
Sie hatten sich im Juli 2024 mit
Luma AI partners with Adobe to bring its generative video model Ray3 to Firefly's paid users; Ray3 creates highly realistic 10-second videos without dialogue (Steven Zeitchik/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digi…
👾 Reverse-engineering Roadsearch Plus, or, roadgeeking with an 8-bit CPU
http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/08/make-your-apple-ii-or-commodore-64.html
#computing
We walked to Tuggeranong for dinner last night. It was colder than we expected. Saw this guy on the way. Had to check: Pied Butcherbird.
#Tuggeranong #Canberra
"Despite the left surge in the Green Party [E&W], it remains committed to Nato and to its war in Ukraine."
This is a problem for me as a GP member.
Lessons from Syriza’s failure for today’s radical politics | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/artic…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Neko Case:
🎵 Hold On, Hold On
#NekoCase
https://nekocaseofficial.bandcamp.com/track/hold-on-hold-on
https://open.spotify.com/track/3S80U4lmgrsYM9Ew93Z82P
Meta rolls out Horizon TV for Quest headsets, with apps including Disney and ESPN, and partners with Universal and Blumhouse to let users watch 3D movies (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/780492/meta-quest-headset-horizon-tv-streaming
Electronic Music Australia (EMA)
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods
Mac Studio: Probleme bei der Installation von macOS 26 Tahoe
Eine Variante von Apples kompakter Workstation hat Probleme mit dem neuen Betriebssystem. Apple soll das Problem "kennen", hieß es.
https://…
Sources: Starz is interested in buying Hearst and Disney's A E, the owner of its namesake channel and the History channel, but A E is seeking a wealthier buyer (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters
iPhone 17 Pro review: has a solid battery life, brighter screen outdoors, and doesn't get hot but it's heavier than usual and Siri needs to catch up with rivals (The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/779265/iphone-17-pro-max-review
macOS 26 Tahoe review: Liquid Glass has small regressions in usability and accessibility but the upgrade has enough iterative changes like automated Shortcuts (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/macos-26-tahoe-the-ars-techn…