
2025-10-05 19:09:38
Ukrainian drones strike Lukoil refinery in Kstovo: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/05/ukrainian-drones-strike-lukoil-refinery.html
Ukrainian drones strike Lukoil refinery in Kstovo: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/05/ukrainian-drones-strike-lukoil-refinery.html
Melbourne-based Heidi Health, which is developing AI agents to assist doctors, raised a $65M Series B led by Point72, taking its total raised to $96.6M (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/05/heidi-health-raises-65m-…
crabs have evolved five times, humans (at least the ones alive today) only once. how dare we describe ourselves as the peak of evolution?
Fuck Israel! Can I get an amen?
Taylor Swift's The Official Release Party of a Showgirl opens with $33M at the North American box office, per Comscore; the film played in 3,702 theaters (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/business/media/taylor-s…
TIL about the Octobass as a result of my random YouTube-live-music feed stumbling into a performance of Gounod’s “Messe Solonelle” which is pretty good and, well, has an octobass in the orchestra.
#music
As the left grapples for its counter to the rightwing media ecosystem,
two blonde suburban moms
– who admit they look “Fox-coded” – offer one inroad.
Across all platforms, they have several million followers, including 1.3m on YouTube and nearly 1m on Instagram.
On the weekly Apple podcast charts in early October, they ranked as the second-most listened to among society and culture shows.
On YouTube’s charts, their news show, IHIP news, ranked 18th among podc…
This would make it dramatically more difficult to fund both affordable housing and transit in California. The Howard Jarvis people want to pull up the drawbridge and make us an even more exclusionary, car-dependent and on-fire state. https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/10
Einige der >1000 Gründe, warum die #Chatkontrolle eine schrecklich schlechte Idee ist:
https://netzpolitik.org/2025/fragen-und-antworte…
An emergent principle of UI design is that the popup that explains how to fill in the box hides the box to be filled in, thus guaranteeing one cannot read what to do while doing it. An important side effect is that the popup can also steal focus if timed just right.
Erster Eindruck aus dem Bundestagsmaschinenraum:
Bei der #Chatkontrolle ist alles offen. Jetzt, also wirklich _jetzt_ ist der Moment, dazu laut zu werden, auf alle erdenklichen Arten und Weisen.
Wenn Ihr Zugang zu Berufsgruppen oder gesellschaftlichen Gruppen habt, die nicht zu den üblichen Verdächtigen gehören: Sprecht mit allen.
Eine neue Petition - wichtig!
"Mum, what does 'little Englander mean'?"
Badenoch says Tories open to quitting more treaties to increase deportations
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/05/badenoch-says-tories-could-qu…
Notice how much space is given to a Black visa overstayer, and how little to Elon Musk, who worked on a student visa, allegedly, which is against the law.
Ian Roberts, Des Moines Superintendent, Had a Story Too Good to Be True - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/us/des-moines-iowa-superintendent-ian-roberts-immigration-ice.html
Guten Morgen Montag, das Wochenende war wohl wieder mal zu impulsiv oder ist dies "nur" wieder mal ein Ausrutscher in die Innenstadt? 🐹
#wochenende #montagmorgen #gif
from my link log —
A contribution to the development of ALGOL. (Algol W, Wirth & Hoare)
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/365696.365702
saved 2025-10-02
Ethnic cleansing in Donbass: who is really settling in Ukrainian homes?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/05/ethnic-cleansing-in-donbass-who.html
MrBeast, who earned an estimated $85M in 2025, says AI-generated videos could threaten creators' livelihoods, calling it "scary times" for the industry (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/06/mrbe
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Deutsches Ja zu Chatkontrolle? CCC & Co. warnen vor Grundrechtsgefährdung
Catherine Rampell, a former WaPo columnist who left amid the paper's editorial upheaval, joins The Bulwark to write a weekly economics and policy newsletter (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/05/2025/washington-post-e…
The funding cliff for the telehealth and home-hospital care programs is separate from shutdown negotiations,
but both programs are caught up waiting for congressional action.
Some providers have been warning patients for months that their appointments may no longer be reimbursed,
while others are remaining hopeful that Congress will come through with a last-minute funding plan.
The biggest impact would be in urban and suburban areas, according to medical groups,
Hi there new followers!
You will need to pay the new follower tax!
Which is either post an image of one (1) old computer or of one (1) pet or alternatively of one (1) thing you like.
#Nuremberg trials didn't take 'just following orders' as an excuse...
Hegseth Says he Has Every Authorization Needed for Caribbean Strikes | Thomson/Reuters
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/hegseth-strikes-caribbean/2025/10/05/id/1229098/
Night of terror: Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, and Kherson region under Russian strikes: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/05/night-of-terror-ivanofrankivsk-lviv.html
A look at OpenAI's search for the sites of its Stargate data centers in the US; OpenAI has received 800 applications since January and has 20 finalist sites (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/05/openai-stargate…
Putin warns U.S.-Russia ties could be destroyed if Trump sends Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/05/putin-warns-usrussia-ties-could.html
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2ALjWJV/?igsh=cXJjZHQ2aXo0cjNl
-- cristianfarias.com
@… *waves*
Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Attacke auf Red-Hat-GitLab-Instanz, Kundendaten kopiert
A profile of Riley Walz, whose tech-related pranks in San Francisco blend technical skill with social commentary, including a viral site to track parking police (Heather Knight/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2…
On Wednesday’s episode of the New York Post’s “Pod Force One” podcast, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told host and columnist Miranda Devine that Epstein, his former Manhattan neighbor with whom he shared a townhouse wall, was the “greatest blackmailer ever.” Then the secretary grew even more blunt: “That’s how he had money.”
Trump's commerce secretary creates a big Epstein mess - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/10/05/trumps-commerce-secretary-creates-a-big-epstein-mess/
As Disney searches for Bob Iger's successor, Parks chief Josh D'Amaro is looking like a CEO in waiting as he increases his visibility through event appearances (Thomas Buckley/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Chinese Yaogan reconnaissance satellites pass over western Ukraine during Russian strike, tracking data shows: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/05/chinese-yaogan-reconnaissance-satellites-pass.html
Minister of Propaganda Karoline Leavett is paid to lie, but she should read the #hatchact
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPXbjIAAsaT/?igsh=NjZiM2M3MzIxNA==
“But .coop is a weird newfangled domain, my firewall doesnt allow it“
My guy, .coop is older now than .com was when .coop was started in 2001
iLLM-A*: Hybrid-KI soll Pfadplanung um Faktor 1000 beschleunigen
Ein neuer Algorithmus soll die Pfadplanung auf großen Karten um den Faktor 1000 beschleunigen, mit Potenzial für Robotik, Logistik und KI-basierte Simulationen
…
Insiders detail negotiations between politicians, tech and AI companies, VCs, and others over California's SB 53, the first-in-the-nation AI safety law (Chase DiFeliciantonio/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/04/sacramento-california-ai-rule…
Supreme Court rejects Ghislaine Maxwell appeal of Epstein conviction
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/06/supreme-court-ghislaine-maxwell-epstein-trump.html
American Express launches Amex Ads, a commerce media platform to let brands buy display ads on Amex-owned sites; the ad platform is separate from Amex Offers (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/06/amex-ads-american-express-media
“Ideological” Russians are coming to the occupied territories – why? #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/05/ideological-russians-are-coming-to.html
Survived shelling right after her birthday: the story of a woman from Lviv #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/05/survived-shelling-right-after-her.html
Polars, the Amsterdam-based startup behind the popular open-source library for data manipulation of the same name, raised a €18M Series A led by Accel (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/29/the-startup-behind-open-source-t…
According to a fresh Gallup poll this week, 43 percent of Americans regard the Supreme Court as
“too conservative,”
against 36 percent who feel that the Roberts court is an even-tempered administrator of justice.
That 43 percent is a new high, per Gallup:
“Before the court shifted to a 6-3 conservative advantage after Amy Coney Barrett replaced Ruth Bader Ginsburg in October 2020,
no more than 33% had ever characterized it as too conservative.”
But then,…
‘Very Unfair’: Black Woman Called 911 for Help, Only to be Arrested After Cop Spots Something In Her Home That She Begged Landlord for Months to Fix
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/10/05/black-woman-called-911-for-help-only-to-be-arrested-after-cop-spots-something-in-her-home/
Sources: The Free Press hires Adam Rubenstein, who edited Sen. Tom Cotton's infamous "Send in the Troops" op-ed for the NYT in June 2020, as its deputy editor (Alexandra Steigrad/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/10/06/media/fr
Scorability, a college sports recruiting marketplace for athletes and coaches, raised $40M led by Bluestone Equity Partners, bringing its total funding to $51M (Jessica Golden/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/30/scorability…
Trump signals support for maintaining nuclear limits with Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/05/trump-signals-support-for-maintaining.html
One of the Republican talking points during this shutdown is that Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer has been pulled left by the far left of his party,
but that is bullshit.
The force that is moving Democrats to fight is coming from the party itself,
and this is a reality that Republicans are loath to admit.
Democrats who are committed to fighting for healthcare in Congress
Include the centerists and moderates that Republicans have traditionally counted on …
Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Datenschutz unter Beschuss: Messengerdienste reagieren auf EU-Chatkontrolle
Ukraine war latest: Massive Russian attack on Ukraine kills 6, injures 18: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/05/ukraine-war-latest-massive-russian.html
A book excerpt details the "enshittification" of Amazon, and how its "flywheel" technique now enriches the company at the expense of merchants (Cory Doctorow/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/…
Top Trump administration adviser Stephen Miller was accused of spreading dangerous “propaganda” Saturday night
regarding the federal judge who ruled that the White House could not deploy 200 National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon.
The White House deputy chief of staff accused U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut,
who was appointed by Trump during his first term, of “legal insurrection”
after she found that the president’s claims about violent protests at a U.S. Immig…
Up to 5,000 Cubans fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine, Reuters reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/05/up-to-cubans-fighting-alongside.html
Meanwhile, a Bermuda-regulated bitcoin life insurance provider, raised $82M from Apollo, Bain Capital, Haun Ventures, and others, after a $40M Series A in April (Muyao Shen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…
KI-Müll: Consulter gibt Australien Geld zurück
Automatisierte Entscheidungen haben arme Australier geschädigt. Deloitte sollte das System prüfen und lieferte automatisierte Erfindungen.
https://www.
JB Pritzker:
“He has other aims other than fighting crime.
It’s an attack on the American people.
Should he be sending troops in?
No.
The other aims are that he’d like to stop the elections in 2026
or frankly take control of those elections.”
https://bsky.app/profile/n…
Serbian President Vucic warns a major global war is inevitable amid rising tensions in the Balkans: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/05/serbian-president-vucic-warns-a.html
BGH: Handy-Raub zwecks Datensichtung ist kein Diebstahl
Der BGH klärt eine rechtliche Grenze: Fehlt der Wille, ein Smartphone über eine Datenprüfung hinaus zu behalten, liegt keine strafbare Zueignungsabsicht vor.
ht…
Real war: what European politicians hide – truth from a former British officer| Wrap-up Analytics: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/05/real-war-what-european-politicians.html
The Winklevoss twins have become major GOP donors; a source says they've donated $32M since 2017, including $21M to a new pro-Trump and pro-crypto super PAC (Alex Isenstadt/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/05/winklevoss-twins-gop-crypto-megadonors
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Sunday his state will sue after Donald Trump sent 300 California National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon, according to Newsom.
Trump’s apparent move to use California Guard troops against Oregon came hours after a federal judge blocked his attempt to federalize hundreds of Oregon National Guard members for deployment in Portland.
“Drone umbrella” instead of “Drone wall” – an update on Europe's initiative #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/05/drone-umbrella-instead-of-drone.html
Recall.ai, which offers an API and a desktop SDK for managing meeting recordings and transcripts, raised $38M in a Series B led by Bessemer at a $250M valuation (Paul Gillin/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/09/05/recall-ai-lands-38m-unlock-spoken-…
Robert Reich here.
I've been directly involved in government shutdowns, including when I was secretary of labor.
But this shutdown is radically different.
Republicans want Democrats to rubber-stamp the $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act in Donald Trump's Big Ugly Bill,
-- which will cause insurance premiums to skyrocket and strip health care from 15 million Americans.
Not one Democrat voted for the bill, and they shouldn't…
PitchBook: US VCs have invested ~$14.2B in European AI startups so far in 2025, with founders saying US investors better fit the sector's high upfront costs (Anvee Bhutani/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/te…
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Deutsches Ja zu Chatkontrolle? CCC & Co. warnen vor Grundrechtsgefährdung
Trump on Sunday deployed 300 California National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon
💥 defying a federal order blocking the move
– as Golden State Gov. Gavin Newsom vowed to sue in response.
“After a federal court blocked his attempt to federalize the Oregon National Guard,
Donald Trump is deploying 300 California National Guard personnel into Oregon,”
Newson said in a post on X,
later calling the order “un-American.”
“They are on their way there now. …
Ukraine wins 15 medals at 2025 World Para Athletics Championships in New Delhi: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/06/ukraine-wins-medals-at-world.html
KI-Update kompakt: Meta FAIR, KI-Souveränität, Gemini, KI-Schauspielerin
Das "KI-Update" liefert drei mal pro Woche eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www.…
SiPearl unveils Athena1, Europe's first high-performance CPU with up to 80 cores designed for civilian and military use, slated for commercial launch in H2 2027 (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.…
Raspberry Pi OS wechselt auf Debian-Trixie-Basis
Das Betriebssystem Raspberry Pi OS basiert auf Debian. Jetzt wechselt auch das Einplatinen-Computer-Betriebssystem auf den Trixie-Stand.
https://www.
Alvys, an AI-powered logistics software provider, raised a $40M Series B led by RTP Global, bringing its total funding to $77M; Alvys has 1000 customers (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/transportation/logistics-software-star…
Ukraine, Denmark sign memorandum on joint drone manufacturing: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/07/ukraine-denmark-sign-memorandum-on.html
Robinhood is expanding aggressively in the UK, releasing low-cost investment products and seeking to launch its prediction market products in the country (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3ca60707-fa26-4391-94c1-e065b581564b
55 MEPs call for swift launch of Moldova's EU accession talks: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/06/meps-call-for-swift-launch.html
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,116,340 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/06/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html
Predoc, which uses AI to automate medical records management, raised $30M seed and Series A led by Base10 Partners, with participation from Northzone and others (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/09/02/predoc-raises-30-million-t…
A look at cost and viability concerns over small nuclear reactors in the US, as the government, tech companies, and investors bet on SMRs to power the AI boom (Martha Muir/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8a18e722-3efa-404e-9f2a-709eed877f18
Fire over Russia: how Ukraine is forcing the world to act | Weekly Wrap-Up: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/05/fire-over-russia-how-ukraine.html
Investigation: Israel's Unit 8200 built a system to collect millions of mobile phone calls made daily in Gaza and the West Bank using Microsoft's Azure platform (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/microso…
Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Nach dem Ende von Windows Mixed Reality sind alte VR-Brillen bald wieder nutzbar
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wikipedia reagiert auf KI-Flut mit angepasster Richtlinie zur Schnelllöschung
Ausstellen und Signieren von E-Rezepten bei vielen gestört
Seit heute Morgen gibt es bei vielen Ärzten und Apotheken Störungen beim E-Rezept und anderen Diensten.
https://www.heise.…
Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Verfassungsgericht: Staatstrojaner sind bei "Alltagskriminalität" tabu