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Apple and F1 announce a five-year US media rights deal that will bring all races to Apple TV beginning in 2026; sources: Apple is paying about $140M per year (Alex Sherman/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/17/apple-f1-media-deal-streaming.html

“‘Sending armed soldiers to suppress peaceful protests is what kings and dictators do — and Greg Abbott just proved he’s one of them,’ Texas House Minority Leader Gene Wu said in a statement.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/16/greg-abbott-…

Russian electrical substation ablaze in Volgograd Oblast after drone strike, governor says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/16/russian-electrical-substation-ablaze-in.html

Japan ermahnt OpenAI wegen Urheberrechtsverstößen KI-generierter Anime-Videos
Sora 2 erzeugt KI-Videos auch mit Anime-, Manga- und Spielcharakteren. Die japanische Regierung will das nicht länger dulden und stellt OpenAI zur Rede.

Great fact checking on JD Vance.
#Trump

Werte Mitglieder des Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen,
es gibt folgenden Antrag innerhalb eurer Partei zu einer Bekenntnis gegen die Wehrpflicht:
🔗 https://antraege.gruene.de/51bdk/Nein-zur-Wehrpflicht-Ja-zur-Friedentuchtigkeit-19582

Unless it’s a G5 PowerBook I’m not really interested #old

Wie vor über 100 Jahren: Jugendherbergen bieten Erstsemesterïnnen vergünstigte Zimmer an https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2025/10/berlin-potsdam-jugendherberge-guenstige-zimmer-studierende.html

Five key takeaways from the New York City mayoral debate | Elections News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/17/five-key-takeaways-from-the-new-york-city-mayoral-debate?traffic_source=rss

Trumpist Speaker of the US House of Representatives keeps elected Democrat Adelita Grijalva out of office, using the government shutdown as an excuse
She can force a vote on the Epstein files, but she's still not sworn in.
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/16/g-s1-93709/…

It's stuff like this that scares the bejesus out of me.

"Top US Army general says he’s using ChatGPT to help make key command decisions"

https://nypost.com/2025/10/16/business/us-army-general-william-hank-taylor-uses-chatgpt-to-help-make-command-decisions/

»Spektakuläre Panne: Versehen: Digitalwährung für 300 Billionen Dollar erzeugt«
Nun ja, so "sicher" ist digitale Währung und auch deswegen nicht überraschend. Finanzen sind seit jeher eine virtuelle Einheit zum Beliebiges ihren Wert zu zuordnen.
💸 https://www.

Did you know crabs never jaywalk?
They stick to the sidewalk. 🦀

The title is “DC’s Access Journalists Turned the News Into a Luxury Good” and I for one hadn’t realized how true this is until I read https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/dcs-access-journalists-turned-the-news-into-a-luxury-good

Fedibirdは、ミュート・ブロックした相手・ブロックされている相手の絵文字リアクションを隠す機能を搭載しています。
ウチぐらいの規模なら普通に動くのですが、misskey.ioぐらい大きなサーバになると重いかもしれませんね。そもそもシステムが違いますけども。

OpenAI says it paused Sora's ability to generate videos resembling MLK Jr. at the request of his estate, after some users created "disrespectful depictions" (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/openai-pause…

Jährlich genehmigte #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.10.2025.
Genehmigt bedeutet noch nicht gebaut oder in Betrieb. Nicht alle Anlagen benötigen eine Genehmigung.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Was passi…

ICE arrests suburban Chicago cop, accusing him of being an unlawful immigrant from Montenegro
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/politics/ice-arrests-chicago-suburb-police-officer-hanover-park

Das #Kryptos scheint gelöst worden zu sein. Zwei Nerds haben einen Seitenkanalangriff gestartet und den Klartext extrahiert.
Kryptos ist eine Skulptur vor der #cia mit geheimem Text. Seit Jahren wird versucht, den Text zu entschlüsseln.
---
Solution to CIA’s Kryptos Sculpture Is Found in Smiths…

After bringing white South Africans to the United States as refugees earlier this year,
the Trump administration is now reportedly considering granting protection to members of far-right European parties.
According to the New York Times, the proposal that Donald Trump is now weighing would prioritize Europeans who are allegedly
“targeted for peaceful expression of views online such as opposition to mass migration or support for ‘populist’ political parties.”
The pro…

@…
THIS HOUSE WE BELIEVE:
SCREAMING IS SELF-CARE

Another day, another "what the hell needs updating now"? Relentless.

“Dolly turned it down - and I’m glad that she did because what Kate did on it is brilliant”: How Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush brought one of the most emotive songs of the 1980s to life
https://flip.it/cA88d0

We •also• want forces that pull toward convergence and consesnsus: forces that challenge ideas with contrary evidence — and forces that challenge vile ideas with “ugh, wtf, go away you Nazi turd.”
Yes, the latter too! Filtering is a crucial part of free society. You can’t have a useful discussion about climate change or global trade or time zones if you always set aside plenty of time for dingbats who insist the Earth is flat.
It’s not that people don’t think that! It’s that the idea deserves no more time and attention than that necessary to refute it — because it’s absurd and harmful and counterproductive.
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Magic Keyboard fürs iPad Air mit neuer Farbe
Es muss nicht immer ein iPad Pro sein: Wer ein Air besitzt, kann es nun mit einer optisch neuen Tastatur- und Trackpad-Kombi ausrüsten.
https://www.he…

🥠 Der Fachinformationsdienst für Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft (@…) lädt zum nächsten Kapitel der Online-Vortragsreihe "FID Media Bites" im WiSe 25/26 ein!
🚀 Unsere NFDI4Culture-Kolleg:innen Andrea Polywka @… und A…

This is a lovely review of my latest Buildings&Cities paper on clinic layouts at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Trust
https://sustainableconstructionreview.com/2025/06/12/moorfields-eye-hospital-redesigns-pa…

I am obsessed with the new UI in spotlight.
Cloning for Xogot in progress.

How OpenSea reinvented itself from an NFT marketplace to a crypto trading aggregator, facilitating $1.6B in trades in the first two weeks of October (Jeff Kauflin/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkauflin/2

Russian missiles pound Ukrainian cities in massive morning attack: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/16/russian-missiles-pound-ukrainian-cities.html

The most basic stuff like positioning and resizing windows is hard now because it tries to do all this magical stuff for you and usually fails

US Army major general who has been director of operations of UN Command, ROK/US Combined Forces Command & US Forces Korea since July 2024 uses ChatGPT to make command decisions. 🤦‍♂️
A threat to the safety of South Korea and the US.
https://

Sending sleepy vibes to whoever needs them ⚞️⁠💤⁠⚟️

The Four Shields That Endanger Children | Kathryn Robb | Verdict | Legal Analysis and Commentary from Justia
https://verdict.justia.com/2025/10/17/the-four-shields-that-endanger-children

Google bringt Suche auf Windows-Desktops
Mit einer eigenen App will Google die Windows-Suche obsolet machen. Die Anwendung sucht lokal und im Web und beherrscht Texterkennung.
https://www.heise.de/ne…

noppeさんからご提供いただき、新しいNightfox DAWNのアイコンを追加したよ。
iOS 26以降のアイコン（グラス）がこれ。
:dawn_appicon:
カスタム絵文字の詳細情報
https://fedibird.com/emojis/dawn_appicon
iOS 26以降のアイコン（ソリッド）がこれ。
:dawn:
カスタム絵文字の詳細情報

Interessant voor iedereen geinteresseerd in AI, wetgeving, van wet naar digitale werking. De proof-of-concept Regelrecht.
#AI

@… I was trying to do exactly that yesterday and it didn’t get it to work in all browsers, and then I just decided against it in the moment to make it consistent across browsers. I don’t think I’ve fully decided yet one way or the other but I kind of like the friction that this imposes, because it lets people think more on what is actually going on.

»Windows 11 updates break localhost (127.0.0.1) HTTP/2 connections:
Microsoft's October Windows 11 updates have broken the "localhost" functionality, making applications that connect back to 127.0.0.1 over HTTP/2 no longer function properly.«
This could affect many more people and companies without them knowing how their local software works (no accusation).
🤨

Die Erde reflektiert weniger Sonnenlicht ins All und erscheint dadurch vom Weltraum aus dunkler.
Besonders die #Nordhalbkugel speichert mehr Wärme. Gründe sind unter anderem sauberere Luft, veränderte #Wolkenbildung und schmelzendes

@… Wasn’t I already following you?? Oh well, I am now!

U.S. senators announced plans on Friday to force a vote on a resolution
to prevent military action against Venezuela without congressional authorization,
seeking to rein in Donald Trump's escalation of pressure on President Nicolas Maduro's government.
Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, who is sponsoring the war powers resolution with fellow Democrat Adam Schiff of California and Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky,
said he was responding to the repeated U.S…

Prominent Italian investigative journalist Sigfrido Ranucci was targeted in a bomb attack near Rome; Ranucci has been under police protection for years (Angela Giuffrida/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/17/it…

The US FCC announces proceedings to potentially bar Hong Kong telecom HKT and its subsidiaries from accessing domestic US networks, citing its ties to China (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/us-block-h

It's fascinating that we largely went from a network of personal computers processing data locally that could access an open hypertext system linking together millions of websites…
…to phones with proprietary closed apps that often largely are little more than little windows to timesharing mainframes.

One person's trash is another persons prized meme collection

"The GOP is now brazenly lying about the breadth and popularity of the No Kings movement, and the fact that the millions who will turn out are Americans citizens and residents who oppose authoritarian, fascist policies and officials and want to save our democracy and the rule of law. They are scared, and we are getting to them."

No, Trump did not 'end' the war in the Congo. It's as bloody as ever. | Responsible Statecraft
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/congo-trump-end-war/

Great AFP factcheck
#trump #chicago

‼️Die #Petition
"Erweiterung des Leistungsumfangs der GKV im Zusammenhang mit Prostataerkrankungen vom 22.06.2025"
hat bisher 27 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29973 Unterschriften bis zum 20.10.2025.

Cars and RVs surged into Yosemite national park throughout the weekend,
as visitors from around the world came to enjoy the crisp autumn weather,
undeterred by a lack of park services and the absence of rangers.
National parks have largely been kept open through the lapse in US federal funding that has left workers furloughed and resources for the parks system more scarce than usual.
But as the US government shutdown enters its third week and legislators warn that the…

@… Yes, on the back of Hao's reporting on mental health that is gut-clenching.

https://yt.axbom.com/?id=zkGk_A4noxI

How Lionsgate built a roster of about 15 TikTok movie fans to make "fan edits" to market movies, using language that feels "native to the platform" (Ethan Shanfeld/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/lionsgate-tiktok-fan-edits-1236551825/…

Sources: Micron plans to stop selling server chips to data centers in China after a 2023 ban, but will continue selling chips to auto and smartphone sectors (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transp…

»Wie Finanzbetrüger Millionen Europäer auf Instagram & Co um ihr Erspartes bringen:
Künstliche Intelligenz befeuert eine digitale Schattenwirtschaft. Die Plattformen schauen weg. Die Täter sind immer einen Schritt voraus«
Ein weiters Argument um Instagram & Co zu vermeiden. Das KI schamlos zur Ausnutzung und Betrug genutzt wird, ist nicht neu, doch weshalb unternehmen Konzerne wie Meta & Co nichts dagegen? Weil es auch ihr Gewinn ist.
🤨

lol eBay #retrocomputing listing

"Oh I'm not religious", I say as I worship cats like the cuddly deities that they are...

GiveDirectly plans to pilot a program using Google's AI-based Flood Hub, which provides forecast warnings, to send early aid to at-risk families in Bangladesh (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/google-flood-hub-cash-aid/

As a non-programmer/coder, i played around with https://jules.google.com/ , connected it with my github account, let it write some simple code for me, it worked the first time, improved it a bit etc. Actually good to experience in practice this "vibe coding" and Jules is very friendly. I even used the (fre…

‼️Die #Petition
"Unbeschränkte Steuerpflicht für deutsche Staatsangehörige mit Wohnsitz im Ausland vom 06.08.2025"
hat bisher 39 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29961 Unterschriften bis zum 23.10.2025.

The Wire creator David Simon was recently interviewed on NPR by Ari Shapiro. Partly about "AI". A short exchange from that is being shared all over - and it's good, but the full segment about "AI" is even more rewarding I think.

The one that is being widely shared from the transcript is only the first of these three images.

Content warning: Reference to self-harm.

Full transcript: h…

"Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project."
—Alex Borstein
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Polish teens study in first drone class overseen by military
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/polish-teens-study-first-drone-055402283.html

»KeePassDX 4.2.0 unterstützt endlich Passkeys«
Nun endlich Passkeys auch auf dem Smartphone nutzbar und dies ohne kommerziellen Drittanbietern. Die Desktop Variante @… unterstützt Passkeys schon länger. Ich vertraue denen mehr obwohl deren Nutzung minimal umständlicher ist.
🔐

South Korea's AI textbook program, meant to personalize learning, was rolled back after just four months after complaints about inaccuracies and extra workload (Junhyup Kwon/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/south-korea-ai-textbook/

‼️Die #Petition
"Überweisung von Vermögenswirksamen Leistungen durch die Bundesagentur für Arbeit vom 10.08.2025"
hat bisher 14 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29986 Unterschriften bis zum 15.10.2025.

@… Så vackert!!

Working with an #acting #coaching client we delved into tactics and how changing them can interplay with the character's goals. Seeing them shift their performance as they changed tactics was such a cool way to see the performance shift without breaking from, or just breaking, the script or char…

Susan Stamberg, first woman to host national news program, dies age 87 | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/susan-stamberg-death-presenter-npr-b2847095.html

:cheesepats:

Nvidia partners with startup Firmus on Project Southgate, a $2.9B initial undertaking to build renewable energy-powered AI data centers across Australia (Keira Wright/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-16/n…

@… I may have missed it but are you not using the youtube-nocookie domain? I know it’s only partially useful but are you just not bothering with it on purpose perhaps?

"Approximately 80 per cent of all croplands in Gaza had been either damaged or destroyed"
Poisoned water and shattered grid: Gaza left in environmental freefall after war, report says | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/gaza-israel-war-hamas-water-ecosystems-ceasefire-b2847085.html

Meowtosis in action

How the FBI's hunt for the person who coerced a 13-year-old into livestreaming his suicide led to the arrest of a German member of the online predator group 764 (William Wan/Washington Post)

@… Tack!

TSMC reports Q3 net profit up 39% YoY to ~$14.8B, beating est., after previously reporting a 30% rise in revenue, the latest sign of robust spending on AI chips (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

If you're unclear on why you have to load the video before you can play it it's because the first load only loads the image, title and channel name to make the page itself load much faster.

The person viewing is then allowed to make a more considered choice before activating the video. Perhaps you want to open the link an incognito window instead for example.

One great bonus to this embed is that it shows way less ads, if any.

Sources: Samsung to showcase its trifold phone at this month's APEC summit; attendees won't be allowed to touch it, as it's expected to be displayed under glass (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

So I built this web page for privacy-enhanced sharing of YouTube videos. You can try it too. In the footer, click "Convert url" and you can paste the url of any YouTube video. It will convert to my url and you can copy the link or visit the page right away.

https://yt.axbom.com/?id=8enXRDlWguU

Source: OpenAI expects to spend 20% to 30% less on AI chips co-developed with Broadcom than on chips from Nvidia, which is notoriously backlogged on GPU orders (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

Indian on-demand home services provider Urban Company surged 56% in its stock market debut after raising $215M in India's most oversubscribed major IPO of 2025 (Ashutosh Joshi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Three labor unions filed a lawsuit in NY federal court to block the Trump administration from searching visa holders' social media for posts it deems hostile (David Ingram/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/trump-so…

Hacker group Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters posts alleged names, phone numbers, and addresses of hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials in a mass doxxing event (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/hackers-dox-hundreds-of-dhs-ice-fbi-and-doj-officials…

Wikimedia says Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic, as more people access the site's information via AI chatbots without clicking through (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-says-ai-is-causing-a-…

Analysis: ten loss-making AI startups, including OpenAI, gained ~$1T in valuation over the past year, fueling concerns of an inflating bubble in private markets (Financial Times)

Sources: Microsoft aims to produce most new products, including servers and Surface laptops, outside China from 2026; AWS is also adopting a similar strategy (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/supply-chain/m…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says he was "disappointed" after a report that China has urged Chinese companies not to use the company's AI chips (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/17/nvidia-ceo-disappointed-after-r…

Sources say Meta's chaotic culture and lack of vision have led to AI brain drain; Meta strongly denies it has had issues with talent and retention (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivast

Chinese state media: Alibaba has secured China Unicom as a major client for its AI chips; earlier reports said Alibaba was supplying tens of thousands of chips (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-17/ali…