
2025-07-08 08:58:00
Fairphone 6: iFixit vergibt eine 10/10 für die Reparierbarkeit
Mehr Schrauben, aber immer noch ausgezeichnet reparierbar. Die Reparaturprofis von iFixit geben dem Fairphone 6 volle Punktzahl.
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Fairphone 6: iFixit vergibt eine 10/10 für die Reparierbarkeit
Mehr Schrauben, aber immer noch ausgezeichnet reparierbar. Die Reparaturprofis von iFixit geben dem Fairphone 6 volle Punktzahl.
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Block reports Q2 gross profit up 14% YoY to $2.54B, vs. $2.46B est., GPV up 10% to $64.25B, raises FY gross profit forecast to $10.17B; XYZ up 10% after hours (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/07/block-xyz-q2-2025-earnings-report.html
World Bank lowers Ukraine's 2026 GDP growth forecast: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/08/world-bank-lowers-ukraines-gdp.html
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/08/politics/williams-and-connolly-law-firm-hack-chinese-hackers-suspected
US law firm with major political clients hacked in spying spree linked to China
We allow psychopaths and sociopaths to chart the course for humanity and then wonder why we live in a dystopian hellscape.
Trump regime intensifies war on renewables, Moves to Cancel $7 Billion in Grants for Solar Energy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/climate/epa-cancels-solar-energy-grants.html
H/t Elizabeth Kolbert on Bluesky
Der böse CDU-Fraktionsvorsitzende #Spahn hat sich also ungefragt und öffentlich gegen die #Chatkontrolle positioniert. Und vielfach wird auf SocialMedia kommentiert, er wolle halt nicht, dass seine Chats öffentlich werden.
Natürlich will er das nicht. Und natürlich ist das sein Recht. Allerdings: Es gibt Chats und Chats. Insoweit Spahn als Bundesminister gechattet hat, handelt es sich um Kommunikation der Bundesregierung, die im Bundesarchiv zu archivieren ist und die dem Informationsfreihe…
Neu: Die Oktober-Kolumne
Die digitale Welt ändert sich genauso wie die analoge. Das geht nicht spurlos an unserer gewohnten Umgebung vorbei. Funktioniert die Idee der Freien Software noch? Schwierig.
Freue mich auf das Feedback dazu.
https://www.nd-aktuell.de/…
“Don't personalize it. The next step is deification.”
Quote about a rogue AI from Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
as a local resident, the "fear not" in the headline is bullshit. the diner will no longer be there & it'll be just another bland ass corner. https://greenpointers.com/2025/08/06/wythe-avenue-diner-site-officially-sells-for-12-5-mill…
I Wanted To Tell You
https://sharoncummings.wordpress.com/2025/08/02/i-wanted-to-tell-you/#like-18001
“FOR REVIEW: Address formats around the world”
https://www.w3.org/blog/International/2025/08/06/for-review-address-formats-around-the-world/
The doc to review:
Edit: Even More Synths! 🥳
https://matthiasott.com/notes/best-free-synthesizer-vst-plugins-in-2025
Pinterest reports Q2 revenue up 17% YoY to $998M vs. $975M est., 578M global MAUs vs. 574.5M est., and earnings per share below est.; PINS down 10% after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/07/pinterest-pins-q2-earnings-report-2025.html
Right now in Bray: protest outside Simon Harris’s office. “Free, free Palestine” “Pass the occupied territories bill”
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing
Jaguar Land Rover to Restart Output in UK After Cyberattack
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-07/jaguar-land-rover-to-restart-output-in-uk-after-cyberattack
„More than 1,500 civilians may have been massacred during an attack on Sudan’s largest displacement camp in April, in what would be the second-biggest war crime of the country’s catastrophic conflict.“
#Sudan
Sources: $TRUMP issuer, Fight Fight Fight LLC, is working to raise at least $200M to create a digital asset treasury company to accumulate the struggling token (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…
Ukraine to increase gas imports 30% after Russian strikes on energy sector: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/07/ukraine-to-increase-gas-imports.html
I’ve started compiling a list on the Gaza Verified guide page of Mastodon instances that have publicly stated that they are sympathetic to the Palestinian plight and are a safe space for Palestinians:
https://gaza-verified.org/guide/
If you run a Mastodon server where Palestinians can feel safe cr…
The Linux Foundation will launch the React Foundation, a new home for Meta's React and React Native; founding members include Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, others (Engineering at Meta)
https://engineering.fb.com/2025/10/07/
Bezahldienst Wero bald für Online-Einkäufe verfügbar
Von Apple Pay über Klarna und Paypal bis Visa: Bei Online-Käufen können die Verbraucher meist zwischen den Zahlmethoden wählen. Nun kommt Wero hinzu.
https://www.…
Strikes on Russia and “Tomahawks” from the US: the war in Ukraine enters a new phase | News Pulse: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/07/strikes-on-russia-and-tomahawks.html
Also a huge warning: friends don’t let friends register .pe domains.
> This ccTLD's rules allow anyone to buy the domain 12 days before it expires.
https://github.com/immers-space/guppe/issues/118#issuecomment-3265015461
Experten identifizieren die 50 gefährlichsten Weltraumschrottteile
Diese Objekte zu entfernen, würde das Risiko neuer Trümmer halbieren. Europa ist ganz oben auf der Liste vertreten.
https://www.
Sources: New Jersey's AG is investigating the frequency of sexual violence during Uber rides and whether Uber has misrepresented the safety of its service (Emily Steel/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/business/uber-nj-attorney-g…
TOMAHAWKS FOR UKRAINE? 🚀 Trump Changes the Game! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/07/tomahawks-for-ukraine-trump-changes.html
OpenAI launches AgentKit, a toolkit for building and deploying AI agents, including Agent Builder, which Sam Altman described as like Canva for building agents (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/06/openai-launche…
Genocide denial is considered the final stage of the genocidal process. If you’re denying Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people, you are literally complicit in genocide and part of the genocidal process. And history is taking notes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_denial
AltStore, one of the first alternative app stores in the EU, raised a $6M Series A led by Pace Capital, aims to launch in Australia, Brazil, and Japan in 2025 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/alternative-app-st…
Command Disbands the Last Strategic Group of Troops: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/06/command-disbands-the-last-strategic.html
What does it mean when someone who is silent on condemning Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people has no end of words to malign those of us speaking out against it?
🤔
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing
Bundesregierung will Regeln für E-Scooter ändern
Elektrokleinstfahrzeuge-Verordnung: Das hört sich sehr technisch an. Dahinter verbirgt sich ein Regelwerk für E-Scooter. Es soll nun angepasst werden.
https://www.
Scientific “Brotherhood”: Illusion or Troubling Reality?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/06/scientific-brotherhood-illusion-or-troubling.html
Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Pilotanlagen: Solaröfen schmelzen Stahlabfälle mit Energie der Sonne
Dell says it now expects annual revenue to grow between 7% and 9%, up from its prior forecast of 3% to 4%, citing demand for AI infrastructure (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/07/dell-stock-revenue-growth.html
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Schleswig-Holstein: Verwaltung m E-Mail-Migration auf Open Source fertig
Mastodon plans to add Bluesky-like starter packs to suggest accounts to follow for new users, but will allow accounts to opt out of being included in Packs (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/mastodon-is-taki…
US Supreme Court won't review Russian bank's appeal over MH17 downing: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/07/us-supreme-court-wont-review.html
EvenUp, which makes AI tools for personal injury law firms, raised a $150M Series E led by Bessemer at a $2B valuation, bringing its total funding to $385M (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/10/07/exclusi
Denmark tightens controls on oil tankers to counter Russia's 'shadow fleet': https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/06/denmark-tightens-controls-on-oil.html
Sources: Dario Amodei is in India as Anthropic plans a Bengaluru office and explores a partnership with Reliance, seeking to expand in its second-largest market (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/anthropic-…
Ukraine strikes hard at Russian factories while the occupier destroys peaceful cities: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/06/ukraine-strikes-hard-at-russian.html
Streaming: Kalifornien verbietet überlaute Werbung
Im US-Fernsehen sind laute Werbespots verboten. Kalifornien zieht das für Videostreaming nach.
https://www.heise.de/news/Streaming-Kalifo…
Sources: when Trump criticized Lip-Bu Tan in August, Satya Nadella, Jensen Huang, Michael Dell, and others spoke to Trump or his aides to vouch for Tan (Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/07/2025/at-intel-and-beyond-ce…
Dutch, Lithuanian prime ministers visit Kyiv as security concerns grow across Europe: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/06/dutch-lithuanian-prime-ministers-visit.html
Googles AI Mode kommt nach Deutschland
In der Google-Suche gibt es künftig den AI Mode zur Auswahl. Er ist deutlich umfassender als die KI-Übersichten oder Linklisten.
https://www.heise.de/news/Googles-…
Court records: from 2017 to 2022, 400,181 US Uber trips had sexual assault and sexual misconduct reports, far exceeding its public disclosure of 12,522 reports (Emily Steel/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/business/uber-sexual-assault.html
Ukraine claims strike on 'one of Russia's largest' explosives plants far from the front lines: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/06/ukraine-claims-strike-on-one.html
OpenAI announces API updates, including GPT-5 Pro, Sora 2 in preview, and gpt-realtime-mini, a voice model that is 70% cheaper than gpt-realtime (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/06/openai-ramps-up-developer-push…
🔥 New attack by the Russian Federation: civilian infrastructure under threat #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/06/new-attack-by-the-russian.html
Sam Altman says ChatGPT has reached 800M weekly active users, 4M developers "have built with OpenAI", and OpenAI processes over 6B tokens per minute on its API (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/06/sam-altman-says-…
Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Verfassungsgericht: Staatstrojaner sind bei "Alltagskriminalität" tabu
Bee Maps, a decentralized mapping project powered by Hivemapper on the Solana blockchain, raised $32M to expand its network by distributing AI-enabled dashcams (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2025/10/06/bee-maps-r…
Bungie gibt "Marathon" eine neue Chance
Nach schlechtem Feedback hatte Bungie seinen Shooter "Marathon" im Sommer auf unbestimmte Zeit verschoben. Nun soll ein neuer Test stattfinden.
https://www.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a law banning excessively loud ads on streaming platforms like Netflix, the first such law in the US, modeled on a 2010 law (Tyler Katzenberger/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/06/d
Shenzhen-based humanoid startup X Square Robot raised ~$100M led by Alibaba, bringing total funding to ~$280M, and released a foundation model for embodied AI (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/08/alibaba-leads-100-mil…
FurtherAI, which uses AI to automate insurance tasks such as claims processing, raised a $25M Series A led by a16z, bringing its total funding to $30M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2025/10…
Hulu wird in die Disney -App integriert
Disney schafft Hulu nach der Übernahme als eigenständigen Streaming-Dienst ab und integriert ihn in Disney . Darin soll Hulu den Star-Bereich ersetzen.
https://www.
Twilio Q2: revenue up 13% YoY to $1.23B, vs. $1.19B est., 349K active customer accounts, and Q3 earnings forecast below est.; TWLO falls 10% after hours (Brandon Evans/Seeking Alpha)
https://seekingalpha.com/news/4481722-twilio-sinks…
Wegen US-Zöllen: Sonos kündigt Preiserhöhungen an
Der kalifornische Soundspezialist Sonos hat angekündigt, noch in diesem Jahr die Preise einiger Produkte zu erhöhen. Grund sind die US-Zölle.
https://www.
SoftBank Group agrees to acquire ABB's robotics business, which generated sales of $2.3B last year, for $5.38B in a deal expected to close in mid-to-late 2026 (John Revill/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/abb-se…
Instagram bringt Funktion zum Standort-Teilen und mehr
Instagram bringt neue Funktionen, darunter eine Standortfreigabe, die beim App-Öffnen aktualisiert wird.
https://www.heise.de/news…
Wismarer Bucht: Bergung von Weltkriegsmunition begonnen
In der Wismarer Bucht werden 15 Tonnen Kriegsmunition aus etwa 22 Metern Tiefe geborgen. Das Projekt soll auch Erkenntnisse über Bergungstechniken bringen.
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JPMorgan Chase reports that $1.2T of debt is now tied to AI-related companies, making it the largest segment in the investment-grade market (Caleb Mutua/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-07/jpmorgan-s…
Trump droht mit Chip-Zoll von 100 Prozent – und zeigt Ausweg
US-Präsident Trump sprach schon lange von hohen Zöllen auf Chip-Importe und nennt jetzt deren Höhe: 100 Prozent. Es gebe aber einen Ausweg.
https://ww…
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-…
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
During the GPT-5 livestream, OpenAI showed two charts whose scales were all over the place, with Sam Altman later calling one "a mega chart screwup from us" (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/756444/openai-gpt-5-vibe-graphing-chart-crim…
Donnerstag: Amazon gegen Gewerkschaften, Apples Milliarden für US-Produktion
Behördenrüffel für Amazon Apples US-Investitionen Aus für Windows-Schulversion Open-Access für Forschung Telco-Branche für Mobilfunkzugang #heiseshow
Sources: TBD Lab, a team under Meta Superintelligence Labs that houses many researchers poached from rival labs, is spearheading work on Llama's newest version (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-ai-superi
#heiseshow: DSL forever, offene OpenAI-Modelle, FRITZ!
In der #heiseshow: Digitalminister will Kupferleitungen nicht aufgeben, OpenAI veröffentlicht erste offene Modelle seit Jahren und AVM wird zu Fritz.
Ripple plans to acquire stablecoin payments platform Rail for $200M, set to close in Q4 2025; Rail says it handles 10% of all global stablecoin payment activity (Hannah Lang/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/ripple-bu…
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.…
Sources: top Chinese VCs are close to raising up to $1.1B in total USD-denominated funds in 2025, marking a tentative return of global capital to Chinese tech (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c753e570-78ef-4a6a-9cdd-bdb7efa5ad50
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Finde Deinen neuen IT-Traumjob in unserer Recruiting-Area auf der gamescom.
https://www.heise.de/news/gamescom-jobs-ca…
OpenAI's recent deals with Oracle, Nvidia, Samsung, AMD, SK Hynix, and others, plus its DevDay announcements, show it is making a play to be the Windows of AI (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2025/openais-windows-play/
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…
Sources: xAI nears a deal to raise $20B in equity and debt, tied to the Nvidia GPUs that xAI plans to use in Colossus 2; Nvidia is investing as much as $2B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-07/musk-s-…
Online-Apotheke darf keine Gutscheine verteilen
Mit 10 Euro für die erste Bestellung oder für jede e-Rezepteinlösung lockte eine Internetapotheke. Das darf sie vorerst nicht.
https://www.
Michel Devoret, a Google Quantum AI chief scientist, John Martinis, who left Google in 2020, and John Clarke win the Nobel in Physics for quantum computing work (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-…
DJI, which is facing an end of 2025 deadline to keep its US business alive, says its lobbying efforts are struggling; DJI controls 70% of the US drone market (Jamie Tarabay/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Von-der-Leyen-Flug: Litauen warnt EU vor massiven GPS-Störungen