Nexperia says China banned it from exporting China-made products, as Beijing hits back at the Dutch government for taking over the Wingtech-owned chipmaker (Sarah Jacob/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-1…

China Puts Export Controls on Nexperia After Dutch Takeover
China is blocking Nexperia from exporting products from the Asian nation after the Dutch government moved to seize control of the chipmaker.

Cyber-Resilience im Fokus – IT-Sicherheitstag 2025 in Gelsenkirchen
Experten zeigen Strategien und Maßnahmen für mehr Cyber-Resilience in Unternehmen und Organisationen.
https://www.

Ukrainian forces repel Russian push toward Myrnohrad and Razine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/14/ukrainian-forces-repel-russian-push.html

Good NYT piece (gift link). Tl;dr: Financial whiz kids want to get their hands on mainstream retirement & insurance money so it can be plowed into unregulated private-debt markets and crypto. What could go wrong? https://www.

The Rules of Investing Are Being Loosened. Could It Lead to the Next 1929?
A group of financiers is trying to convince the public to invest heavily in private equity and crypto — a risky gambit with some real 1920s vibes.

Here's our Diary of Anne Frank
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/10/neighbor-shielded-7-year-old-during-south-shore-federal-raid-i-didnt-want-them-to-take-her

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before that night.

They're a 10 but never slid across a cop car's hood, as it rolled through an intersection, while skateboarding to a male escort's apartment for a date, then bailed while they fled the police.

Do It

When you are a Swift developer, every day is Xmas!
https://hachyderm.io/@swiftserverconf/115366982775363355

Deloitte announced plans to roll out Anthropic’s chatbot Claude to its nearly 500,000 global employees on Monday. So maybe you don't want to use GenAI, but your consultant or accountant will....
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/06/delo

Deloitte goes all in on AI — despite having to issue a hefty refund for use of AI | TechCrunch
Deloitte is rolling out Claude to its nearly 500,000 employees after issuing a refund for a report that contained AI hallucinations.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

Abeer’s husband, Ehab, and her children Tala, Zeyad, Mohmmed, and Talia, are stuck in North Gaza and need your help to survive Israel’s genocide.
Message I just got from her on Signal:
“Tonight they had to sleep on the street because they couldn’t find a place and had to return to North Gaza. They don’t have the money to rent even a small piece of land or to buy a tent.”
Please, if you can, help them raise funds to move and, if not, please share this so others might be able…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/14/russian-hackers-control-norwegian-dam-norway
Russian hackers seized control of Norwegian dam, spy chief says

#Signal Should Improve Visualization of Its #Privacy Properties
https://karl-voit.at/2025/10/12/Signal

Sources: Tata Electronics bought the Indian unit of Justech Precision, a China-based Apple supplier that provides CNC machines to Foxconn, for ~$100M in August (Anniek Bao/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/14/tata-electronics-buys-chines…

Tata Electronics acquires Chinese iPhone supplier Justech's India unit for about $100 million, sources say
Tata Electronics seeks to expand iPhone manufacturing capacity as Apple aimed to make all of the iPhones intended for the U.S. market in India by end-2026.

Military aid to Ukraine declines sharply in recent months, report says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/14/military-aid-to-ukraine-declines.html

TikTok & OpenAI: Milliardeninvestitionen in Rechenzentren in Südamerika
ByteDance konkretisiert Pläne zum Bau eines TikTok-Rechenzentrums in Brasilien. OpenAI erwägt ein 25-Milliarden-US-Dollar-Projekt in Argentinien.

We should have stopped at "off"

No one:
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“We are now in the heart of danger.”
Just had a message from Yousef, Nouran’s brother, on Signal.
Please help @… and her family is you can.
https://…

Starvation is now being used as a weapon of war in numerous conflicts across the globe
— including Sudan, which continues to endure a yearslong famine.
Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, a pediatric doctor who just returned from Sudan, says that the famine is man-made
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/6/fam

Man-Made Famine & Malnutrition in Sudan, Exacerbated by U.S. Aid Cuts
Starvation is now being used as a weapon of war in numerous conflicts across the globe — including Sudan, which continues to endure a yearslong famine. Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, a pediatric doctor who just returned from Sudan, says that the famine is man-made. “Atrocities in Palestine, atrocities in Sudan that relate to malnutrition, that relate to famine, are a consequence of underlying structures that enable these things to happen,” says Haj-Hassan, who also volunteered in Gaza.

Online loans marketplace LendingTree says CEO and Chairman Doug Lebda died at 55 in an ATV accident on his family's farm; Lebda founded LendingTree in 1996 (Ryan Mac/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/business/doug-lebda-lendingtree-…

Doug Lebda, LendingTree C.E.O. and Founder, Dies in ATV Accident
LendingTree named its chief operating officer, Scott Peyree, as its new chief executive.

Presidential commission moves to strip Odesa mayor of Ukrainian citizenship: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/14/presidential-commission-moves-to-strip.html

"Splinter Cell: Deathwatch" auf Netflix: Nostalgisches Blutbad
Die neue "Splinter Cell"-Zeichentrickserie von Netflix holt einen alten Superspion aus dem Ruhestand. Das klappt besser als befürchtet.

No, you heard me wrong.
I said I'm into resting.

Worth it to insult YouTube commenters with bad takes?
Yes​
Yes

Hey everyone,
Nadeen and her sister need your help to continue their education in Gaza.
They need to raise ~$2,500.
Would any of you consider taking up this cause and helping them to fundraise? Or sponsor their education?
Please share thank you 💕
#Gaza #education

JPMorgan Chase launches a decade-long plan to invest $10B in industries critical for national security, including "frontier" tech like AI and quantum computing (Hugh Son/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/jpmorgan-chase-to-invest-10-…

JPMorgan Chase says it will invest $10 billion into industries critical for national security
The move helps JPMorgan Chase organize its activities around national interests at a time of heightened tensions between the U.S. and China.

Ukraine’s strikes devastate Feodosia oil terminal, crippling Crimea’s fuel supply: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/14/ukraines-strikes-devastate-feodosia-oil.html

Schwimmende vertikale Photovoltaikanlage mit 1,87 MW auf Kiessee eröffnet
Eine schwimmende Photovoltaikanlage auf einem See liefert durch vertikal angeordnete Solarmodule mehr Strom auf einer kleineren Fläche als herkömmliche Anlagen.

Understanding risk should be a required subject in school.

Look into a mirror before you make a big decision. It helps you reflect.

One thing we keep getting wrong: Privacy is a *human* right. Not a corporate right. Not a government right.
Corporations and governments, tools that – in theory at least – exist to serve the people, must be transparent and accountable.
Instead, today, we have the opposite: We give corporations and governments privacy and expect absolute transparency from everyday people. That’s broth for fascism.

Nvidia says it is donating the Vera Rubin NVL144 server rack architecture to the Open Compute Project and outlines its vision for "gigawatt AI factories" (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/10/13/nv

Nvidia unveils its vision for gigawatt 'AI factories' based on its Vera Rubin architecture - SiliconANGLE
Nvidia unveils its vision for gigawatt 'AI factories' based on its Vera Rubin architecture - SiliconANGLE

Ukrainian Security Service foils sabotage plots in Odesa and Lviv, detains eight alleged Russian agents: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/14/ukrainian-security-service-foils-sabotage.html

UK: Gesichtserkennung von Clearview unterliegt europäischen Datenschutzregeln
Ein britisches Berufungsgericht hat eine vom UK-Datenschutzbeauftragten verhängte Millionenstrafe gegen die US-Firma Clearview AI wegen Mega-Scraping bestätigt.

Still getting replies from the radical helmet deniers (and blocking them), amazing stuff.
It's basically like climate change deniers—including the same type of websites that are full of biased "science" tailored to support their argument that "helmets are actually worse".
Please get a life and leave me alone.

The feminine urge to spontaneous combust.

OpenAI's massive deals show Sam Altman is selling a vision of a world-changing product and achieving it via world-changing financial engineering to raise $1T (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-10-13/openai-keeps-d…

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
So soll Missbrauch von Palantir-Software verhindert werden

EU, Ukraine move forward with new trade agreement, deepening ties: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/13/eu-ukraine-move-forward-with.html

Broadcom closes up 9.88% following the announcement of its custom chip deal with OpenAI; its stock is up over 50% in 2025 after more than doubling in 2024 (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/openai-partners-with-bro…

Broadcom stock pops 7% on OpenAI custom chip deal, adding to Nvidia and AMD agreements
OpenAI is teaming up with Broadcom to jointly develop and deploy 10 gigawatts of custom AI accelerators starting in 2026.

Has anyone seen the other half of my cat?

Vodafone ersetzt Huawei-Technik durch Samsung
Im sensiblen Mobilfunk-Kernnetz setzt Vodafone schon länger keine Technik mehr von Huawei ein. Nun wird an den Basisstationen die Technik ausgetauscht.
https://www.

A day that shook the world: sensation from Israel and attacks on Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/13/a-day-that-shook-the.html

Researchers detail "Pixnapping", a new covert attack to steal 2FA codes and other private data on Android; Google's September patch only partially mitigates it (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/

Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones
Malicious app required to make “Pixnapping” attack work requires no permissions.

Unbegrenzte Beweissicherung: EU ratifiziert umkämpfte UN-Cybercrime-Konvention
Der EU-Rat hat die Kommission und die Mitgliedstaaten ermächtigt, das Abkommen der Uno gegen Cyberkriminalität zu unterzeichnen. Bürgerrechte? Kleingeschrieben.

I adopted a cat that used to live with a blacksmith, but the first thing she did when we got home was make a bolt for the door.

Around 25% of Ukrainians want Zelensky to stay president after war, poll shows: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/13/around-of-ukrainians-want-zelensky.html

TiVo confirms that it exited the hardware business on October 1 when it stopped selling DVRs, but says it will continue to offer support for the products (Michael Schneider/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/tivo-stopped-selling-dvrs-exit…

TiVo Has Stopped Selling DVRs, Exits the Hardware Business
TiVo officially stopped selling its DVR boxes on October 1 as it gets out of the hardware business after 26 years.

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
PIN-Tastatur gefilmt: 1,5 Millionen Euro Strafe für Wiener Ikea

Excuse me sir, I am using the restroom.

A new study of 6,554 children aged 9 to 10 found that social media users scored lower on reading, vocabulary, and memory tests two years later than non-users (Rhitu Chatterjee/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news…

Russian Mi-8 helicopter goes missing in Far East with 5 aboard: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/14/russian-mi-helicopter-goes-missing.html

Dienstag: OpenAI und Broadcom tun sich zusammen, Anleger verlieren Geld
KI-Chip von OpenAI und Broadcom Kurseinbruch bei Kryptogeld Kolumbien mit Drohnenbataillon Apple-Produkte vor Release Online-Kriminelle ermittelt

#Intro

I like cats :3

Internal memo: in a first, Samsung plans to award shares and bonuses based on stock price to employees and will let staff get up to 50% of their payout in stock (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Putin's negotiator calls for 'constructive dialogue' as Trump shifts stance on Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/14/putins-negotiator-calls-for-constructive.html

Finanzanlage-Betrug: Deutsche Ermittler beschlagnahmen 1.400 Domains
Unechte Online-Geldinstitute verheißen satte Gewinne, die dann auch tatsächlich aufscheinen – aber nie voll ausgezahlt werden. Ermittler greifen ein.

Charlie Kawwas, president of Broadcom's semiconductor group, says OpenAI is not the $10B customer the company announced during its earnings call in September (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/broadcom-mystery-customer-openai.html

Broadcom's chip president says mystery $10 billion customer isn't OpenAI
Analysts predicted that AI startup OpenAI was the unnamed customer.

PIN-Tastatur gefilmt: 1,5 Millionen Euro Strafe für Wiener Ikea
Wenn an einer Ikea-Kasse mit Karte bezahlt wurde, filmte eine Kamera die PINs. Auch Passanten außerhalb der Wiener Filiale wurden aufgezeichnet. Das kostet.

Ukraine's new Liut ground drone 'destroys' Russian position with machine gun, HUR claims in new video: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/14/ukraines-new-liut-ground-drone.html

Quantum computing stocks jumped after JPMorgan announced a $10B strategic tech investment; Arqit, D-Wave, Rigetti, and IonQ each rose about 20% (Jaures Yip/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/quantum-stocks-jpmorgan-investing-push.html

Quantum stocks surge after JPMorgan investing push into strategic tech
JPMorgan announced it would invest $10 billion in 27 specific industries, including quantum computing.

Bekämpfung bewaffneter Gruppen: Kolumbien stellt erstes Drohnenbataillon vor
Kolumbiens Armee präsentiert ein Drohnenbataillon, das mit KI-Technologie ausgestattet ist. Es soll gegen Drogenbanden und bewaffnete Gruppen eingesetzt werden.

Introducing the Ukrainian 15th Army Corps: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/13/introducing-the-ukrainian-th-army.html

Chip-Deal: OpenAI und Broadcom entwickeln eigenen KI-Prozessor
OpenAI und Broadcom wollen gemeinsam maßgeschneiderte KI-Chips entwickeln. Die Einführung ist für die zweite Hälfte des Jahres 2026 geplant.
https…

Google plans to invest $9B in South Carolina through 2027 to scale up its Berkeley County data center campus and support building two sites in Dorchester County (Kimberley Kao/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/…

Foreign fighters at the front of Ukraine's drone war: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/13/foreign-fighters-at-the-front.html

California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoes SB 771, which would've fined social media companies if their algorithms intentionally promoted violent or extremist content (Tyler Katzenberger/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/13/n

Kyiv Independent to host its first live event in New York: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/13/kyiv-independent-to-host-its.html

Warum KI-Mails das Vertrauen auf der Arbeit zerstören können
KI-Tools versprechen perfekte E-Mails mit weniger Arbeitsaufwand. Eine Studie zeigt aber: Zu viele KI-Mails können das Vertrauen im Büro untergraben.

Sources: Bank of England officials are holding up Revolut's full UK licence over concerns about whether its risk controls can keep pace with its global growth (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/4d9eb502-bf18-4dc7-a1b5-5da9f4930d3f

Zelensky confirms plans to meet Trump in Washington this week: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/13/zelensky-confirms-plans-to-meet.html

Web-Erfinder: Berners-Lee fordert Mikrozahlungen als Ausgleich fürs KI-Training
"Bislang sind wir nicht gut darin gewesen, kreative Menschen fair zu entlohnen", meint Sir Berners-Lee. Das Copyright sei "in vieler Hinsicht gescheitert".

Dealroom: 230 European defense tech startups have launched since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, with VC funding reaching $1.5B this year, mostly for drone tech (Sylvia Pfeifer/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/6c247bbe-0181-472f-8369-581e2fd4f19b

Albaniens Premier will KI-Chatbot zur "Ministerin" machen
Chatbot "Diella" unterstützt die Bevölkerung schon bei Bürgerangelegenheiten, bald soll er auch der Regierung in Beschaffungsfragen helfen.

Kremlin issues veiled threats towards Moldova, cites Ukraine as warning: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/13/kremlin-issues-veiled-threats-towards.html

Google updates NotebookLM's Video Overviews, adding six new Nano Banana-powered visual styles and a new "Brief" format for quick insights (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/10/13/notebooklm-video-overviews-styles/

NotebookLM Video Overviews add Nano Banana visual styles, Brief or Explainer formats
NotebookLM is giving Video Overviews a big upgrade with the help of Google’s Nano Banana image editing and generation model.

Bundesdigitalministerium will über IT-Ausgaben des Bundes mitentscheiden
Sollen künftig wesentliche IT-Ausgaben aller Ressorts vom Digitalminister Karsten Wildberger freigegeben werden? Er hält daran weiter fest.

NATO chief mocks Russia over malfunctioning submarine 'limping home from patrol': https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/13/nato-chief-mocks-russia-over.html

AI has sparked a new wave of competition in the browser market, as agentic AI browsers like Perplexity's Comet and others compete with Gemini-enhanced Chrome (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/10/11/ai-browser-wars-agents-google-perplexity…

Browser wars, a hallmark of the late 1990s tech world, are back with a vengeance—thanks to AI
Google has integrated Gemini into Chrome, while Perplexity and Opera have launched AI-native browsers too.

„Big Brother – Server Edition“: Die US-Regierung geht offenbar neue Wege, um den Abfluss modernster KI-Technologie nach China zu verhindern.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10522211?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege…

How Ukraine's autumn weather is helping Russia's Shahed-type drones evade air defenses: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/13/how-ukraines-autumn-weather-is.html

Sources: Apple glasses may run full visionOS when paired with Mac and a lighter UI with iPhone; Apple may unveil M5 iPad, MacBook Pro, and Vision Pro this week (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

Inside Apple’s Glasses Pivot; When Apple Is Launching M5 MacBook Pro, iPad Pro
After spending a week with Meta’s new display-embedded smart glasses, I’m convinced that Apple made the right call pivoting from the so-called Vision Air to spectacles. Also: The company begins reshuffling its executive team, and its latest product launch is imminent.

Putin’s funds are depleted: oil depots are burning, soldiers’ salaries are being cut: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/13/putins-funds-are-depleted-oil.html

Foxconn reports Q2 net operating profit up 27% YoY to ~$1.9B, beating estimates, on $59.73B revenue, on the strength of its growing AI server business (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/14/ai-demand-

AI demand boosts iPhone maker Foxconn's second-quarter profit by 27%, beating forecasts
Foxconn reported a second-quarter operating profit beat on strength of its growing artificial intelligence server business.

Hysteria over "Tomahawks." Russian Invasion of Europe Is Possible? | Front Line with  @StarskyUA: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/13/170039.html

A deep dive on Big Tech's AI energy boom as Amazon, Microsoft, and Google become major players, leading to fears that individuals' and SMBs' rates may rise (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/business/energy-en…

Big Tech’s A.I. Boom Is Reordering the U.S. Power Grid
Electricity rates for individuals and small businesses could rise sharply as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and other technology companies build data centers and expand into the energy business.

Solarbetriebener Roboter bekämpft Unkraut mit KI und Hacke
Herbizide gegen Unkraut belasten die Nahrungsmittel, sind in der Landwirtschaft aber unerlässlich. Wirklich? Roboter können Unkraut umweltfreundlich beseitigen.

Estonia spots Russian troops without insignia near border — officials say 'not a new tactic': https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/13/estonia-spots-russian-troops-without.html

Ukraine’s 'YeKnyha' program reaches more than 200,000 young readers, boosts book sales nationwide: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/13/ukraines-yeknyha-program-reaches-more.html

An interview with Binance co-founder Yi He on growing up poor in China, the tests she faced during Binance's year of crisis when CZ was imprisoned, and more (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/08/13/binance-yi-he/

How Binance’s Yi He became ‘the most powerful woman in crypto’—and steered the company past its biggest ordeal
In 2023, Yi He had to face down an enormous business challenge at Binance—one that was very personal as well.

Dutch Defense Minister Brekelmans on European 'drone wall,' using Russian frozen assets 'in a creative way,' and what to do with China: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/13/dutch-defense-minister-brekelmans-on.html

A look at quick commerce in India and China: India's ecosystem is evolving into a retail-media play, while China's is being used as a weapon in platform wars. (Manish Singh/India Dispatch)
https://indiadispatch.com/p/quick-commerce-india-china

Delivering Different Things Entirely
Quick commerce has become a retail-media play in India and a platform weapon in China.

UAVs attack oil refineries – Russia's budget is burning! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/13/uavs-attack-oil-refineries-russias.html

JD.com reports Q2 revenue up 22% YoY to $49.7B, above $46.8B est., and net income down 50% YoY to ~$846M, benefiting from government-directed consumer subsidies (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-14/jd-…

The largest OIL storage hub in CRIMEA – burned to the ground! #short: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/13/the-largest-oil-storage-hub.html

Sora videos depicting dead celebs spark backlash from families; OpenAI says reps of "recently deceased" public figures can request their likeness be blocked (Washington Post)

AI videos of dead celebrities are horrifying many of their families
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI’s new tool lets users make realistic AI videos of dead public figures like Kobe Bryant and Michael Jackson. Many have responded with crude and racist memes.

Ukraine war latest live: Russia's largest oil terminal in occupied Crimea on fire for second time in a week: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/13/ukraine-war-latest-live-russias.html

'At least 5 tanks hit' — Ukrainian drones spark massive blaze at Russia's largest oil depot in occupied Crimea, source confirms: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/13/at-least-tanks-hit-ukrainian.html