2025-08-20 16:04:00
Google removes support for physical SIM cards on the Pixel 10 series in the US, relying solely on eSIM; Apple removed it with the iPhone 14 series in the US (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/08/20/pixel-10-10-…
Russia intensifies spy wars across Europe | Front Line with @StarskyUA: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/20/russia-intensifies-spy-wars-across.html
“You have to change your writing to not include em dashes”
If you judge the source of a text solely based on whether it contains em dashes, you’re not actually reading and comprehending—maybe it’s you who needs to change.
signal ist down deswegen kann ich nicht zur arbeit kommen
Tranquilty base the project 2025 and Heritage foundation has Landed at tagesthemen.
"Gaza Ceasefire Will Continue Between Airstrikes, Confirms IDF"
https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/20/gaza-ceasefire-will-continue-between-airtrikes-confirms-idf/
Yep... 🫤
Best wishes and sympathy to any former colleagues dealing with us-east-1 going pear-shaped. Looking at the signals, this outage is an extra-weird one, which is unsurprising because with decades of experience, all the non-extra-weird outage scenarios have been discovered and dealt with.
#aws
Wow, a whole 46 minutes a day saved. Write it in the history books. Call Guinness https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/lloyds_banking_copilot
@… who?
I have to say, I really feel for the folks at Apple who have to keep churning out large-scale look-and-feel changes to differentiate every new version of the OS. It’s hard to constantly generate visibly new stuff when you already did a good job many versions ago, hard not to succumb to the temptation to make your product look like one of those UIs from a sci-fi movie that UI experts use in class as a case study in things that are cool-looking but actually a bad idea.
Great summary of new technology to spy on your every move:
https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/115061995697083945
YouTube launches its likeness detection tech, letting eligible creators in its Partner Program request the removal of AI-generated content with their likeness (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/21/youtubes-likeness-d…
AWSか何か落ちてるん?
I, too, think some of the efforts of the CSSWG have gotten ahead of the use cases and I, too, think catching our breath would be good.
“Chris’ Corner: Stage 2”
https://blog.codepen.io/2025/10/20/chris-corner-stage-2/
Duidelijke taal van de Nederlandse orde van advocaten over het beschermen van de rechtsstaat:
❌ PVV & FvD scoren het slechtst.
✅ PvdD, GroenLinks-PvdA & Volt beschermen de rechtsstaat het best!
bron: https://www.
Guess what you anonymous coward, “both sides”-ing a genocide is genocide denial.
And genocide denial is complicity in genocide.
Blocked right back, asshole.
(His post was in reply to https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115065419489536063)
@…
Turns out that what hit flight #UA1093 was most likely a balloon from https://windbornesystems.com - this was brought up first in the thread https://x.com/vk5qi/status/1980386581497409891 and now the company confirms that it's a very strong possibility: https://x.com/johndeanl/status/1980462264974209292. See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZzbS30xdjM for a short video about the company and how it's filling the atmosphere with long-duration balloons carrying weather sensors. They had just been hailed as one of the best inventions of 2025: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318250/windborne-systems-atlas/ ...
I write up some of my advice on surviving DNS outages as it seems timely #AWS #DNS https://adrianco.medium.com…
As much as I try to be an optimist, I don't see the "AI" bubble popping soon. Too many people's wealth/stock valuation rests on its continuation.
Israeli Maccabi Tel Aviv football fans barred from Europa League game in UK | Football News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2025/10/17/israeli-maccabi-tel-aviv-football-fans-barred-from-europa-league-game-in-uk
As soon as you saw the name 'Tony Blair' on it you knew it would be as corrupt and abusive as fuck. And of course you were right.
My heart bleeds for #Gaza. This 'peace plan' is an epic, dystopian betrayal.
#GazaPeace
Shutdown could halt SNAP benefits for millions, states say (Avery Lotz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/20/snap-shutdown-november-ebt-food-stamps
http://www.memeorandum.com/251020/p50#a251020p50
Today's outage confirms a theory I've had for a few years about what doesn't go down when "us-east-1" goes down 🙃
"Solar accounted for 70% of new global power capacity in 2024"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
So am I understanding this correctly that the upcoming NPM authentication and token changes mean our only publishing workflow options henceforth are either switching to OICD Trusted Publishing[1] via GitHub Actions or using granular access tokens. The problem with the former is that I wanted to migrate my projects to Codeberg soon (which isn't supported). The problem with the latter is that granular tokens are unsuitable for publishing packages from a large monorepo, since these tokens a…
Nooooo :(
Riding through the park along Elliott Bay for the first time in a while and there's lamp posts going up along what used to be an unlit bike path.
This used to be one of my favorite urban night rides: well paved, completely car free, great views of the distant city lights, but no lights in the park itself.
Now it's ruined.
A US judge orders Mark Zuckerberg, Evan Spiegel, and Adam Mosseri to testify in the "first bellwether trial" over child social media safety, set for January (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/21/meta-instagram-snap-social-media-chi…
oh signal funktioniert nicht weil AWS down ist
na gut ich hab ja noch mastodon
das ist dezentral auf hetzner gehostet
Standseilbahn Lissabon: Zugseil war ungeeignet und nicht zugelassen. 16 Tote
CDU, CSU, FDP, SPD, AfD: Bürokratieabbau! Seilbahnbetreiber wissen besser was für Seile sie verwenden. Seilbahnbetreiber nehmen keine tödlichen Seile. Der Markt regelt.
@… you’re the best, Bob! 🤝
Mike Johnson exploits the shutdown to hide the Epstein files (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)
https://www.salon.com/2025/10/20/mike-johnson-exploits-the-shutdown-to-hide-the-epstein-files/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251020/p51#a251020p51
WBD's "unsolicited interest" statement indicates that it is willing to sell its valuable studio and streaming business instead of splitting itself into two (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/wbd-sale-mul…
"Supermarket EV chargers in Berlin could improve efficiency by over 250%"
#Berlin #EV #ElectricVehicles
Whatever hit United Airlines UA1093 on 16 October (https://aviationa2z.com/index.php/2025/10/18/united-airlines-737-max-pilot-injured-as-windshield-cracks/ or https://viewfromthewing.com/united-captain-says-his-plane-was-hit-by-space-debris-at-36000-feet-new-photos-show-cockpit-damage) - no space debris reentry fits: https://planet4589.org/space/misc/ua1093.html
US tech giants are on a data center building spree, sparking fury worldwide; research says ~60% of the 1,244 largest global centers in June were outside the US (Paul Mozur/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/technology/ai-data-center-b…
Today's #retrocomputing quiz!
Guess what this 16 lbs laptop from 1991 cost, in today's money.
Solution in a reply.
Pixel 10 gets a 10.8 MP telephoto lens; 10 Pro and Pro XL get an AI-driven Pro Res Zoom capable of up to 100x zoom; all models get AI features like Camera Coach (Damien Wilde/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/08/20/pixel-10-camera-features/
"Only you can be you. What a privilege! Nobody can reach what you can if you do it. So do it. We need your best, your voice, your body."
—Stella Adler
#acting #coaching #inspiration
Banana Pi BPI-R4 Pro: High-End-Mainboard für Selbstbau-Router
Viel schnelles Ethernet, SSD-Steckplätze und Wi-Fi-7-Support: Das Banana Pi BPI-R4 Pro ist üppig ausgestattet.
https://www.
correction: apparently people care about it
Lower-Income Americans Are Missing Car Payments (Sydney Ember/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/business/car-loans-missed-payments.html?unlocked_article_code=1.u08.ks_I.-213JniSlZxK&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251020/p55#a251020p55
Pixel 10 series get a Gemini Nano-powered Journal app, music creation feature for recorder, NotebookLM integration for screenshots, Gboard Writing Tools, more (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/08/20/pixel-10-journal-app/
Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Messenger-App Signal offenbar weltweit mit Störungen
https://www.
After tense Trump meeting, Zelensky seeks European support (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/10/20/zelensky-trump-meeting-europe-russia/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251020/p49#a251020p49
LangChain, whose open-source framework connects AI apps to real-time data, raised a $125M Series B led by IVP at a $1.25B valuation (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/10/20/exclusive-early-ai-darling-lan…
wishing I had run a special fault-tolerance-edition of the 11ty leaderboards today
Marjorie Taylor Greene delivers her harshest warning yet (Eleanor Mueller/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/20/2025/marjorie-taylor-greene-delivers-her-harshest-warning-yet
http://www.memeorandum.com/251020/p57#a251020p57
YouTube launches its likeness detection tech, letting eligible creators in its Partner Program request the removal of AI-generated content with their likeness (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/21/youtubes-likeness-d…
Serval, which uses agentic AI models to automate IT service management for clients like Perplexity and Mercor, raised a $47M Series A led by Redpoint Ventures (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/21/serval-raises-4…
Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Amazon Web Services: Globale Störung am Montagmorgen
https://www.
Judge Demands Answers on Trump Immigration Crackdown in Chicago (Mattathias Schwartz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/us/chicago-hearing-tear-gas-trump.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251020/p46#a251020p46
Google unveils the $999 Pixel 10 Pro and $1,199 10 Pro XL, with 6.3" and 6.8" OLED displays, Tensor G5 chips, Zoned UFS storage, available on August 28 (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/08/20/google-pixel-10-pro-xl-seri…
Look, very few people will care about this but I wrote it up anyway https://www.zachleat.com/web/markdown-code-wrapper/
'We're going to have a vote' on member stock trading, key GOP hard-liner says (Meredith Lee Hill/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/10/20/congress/chip-roy-stock-trading-vote-00615272
http://www.memeorandum.com/251020/p58#a251020p58
Google unveils the Tensor G5, a 3nm chip manufactured by TSMC, says it has "significant gains" in performance and runs the "newest" Gemini Nano model (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/08/20/pixel-10-tensor-g5/
@… I don’t have the bandwidth to work on that one any more but there are some other folks that help with it! I bet you could contribute things back
Google unveils the $799 Pixel 10, featuring a new Tensor G5 chip, 6.3" OLED display, Gorilla Glass Victus 2, and Qi2 support, available on August 28 (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/08/20/google-pixel-10-qi2-colors-price/
@… what a journey! very happy to hear things are getting better ❤️
Google's new AI features for Pixel include Magic Cue for contextual suggestions across apps, Voice Translate for calls, and Visual Overlays for the camera (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/20/google-doubles-down-on-ai-pho…
@… can’t say no to a good twitter archive
Sources: Crusoe is discussing raising $1B at a $10B valuation; the company, which is helping build OpenAI's first Stargate facility, had $250M revenue in 2024 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/crusoe-talks-raise-money-10-bill…
@… are we also moving to an .ai TLD to match the vibe or no
A lawyer says 55 Chinese iPhone and iPad users filed an antitrust complaint in China alleging Apple abuses its market dominance by restricting app distribution (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Kritische Sharepoint-Sicherheitslücke: Erste Patches für "ToolShell" sind da
@… if you take some of my code you have to take all of my code no takesiesbacksies
Samsung unveils the Galaxy XR headset, with micro-OLED displays, hand and eye tracking, a Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 chip, and a battery pack, available for $1,799 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-1…
@… awesome!
Google unveils the $1,799 Pixel 10 Pro Fold, with a Tensor G5 chip, a new hinge with a gear-less design, 6.4" outer and 8" inner screens, available October 9 (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/hands-on/762080/google-pixel-10-pro…
@… I… had to look this up
Samsung rolls out a Perplexity TV app, which works alongside Samsung's Vision AI Companion, on its 2025 TVs; 2023 and 2024 TV models will get it later this year (Artie Beaty/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-get-perplex…
Trump says Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch "is involved" in the ownership group for TikTok US and "Rupert is probably going to be in the group" along with Michael Dell (Erin Doherty/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/21/trump-tiktok-murdoch-fox-bytedance.h…
Kredete, which helps Africans abroad build credit while sending money home, raised a $22M Series A and launches Africa's first stablecoin-backed credit card (John Adoyi/TechCabal)
https://techcabal.com/2025/09/15/krede-raises-22m/
Interviews with Apple's Tim Millet, Arun Mathias, and Kaiann Drance on the new neural accelerators in A19 Pro GPU cores, C1X modem, N1 wireless chip, and more (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/21/apple-now-controls-a…
Google unveils a new Gemini-powered personal health coach for Fitbit, rolling out as a preview in October for Fitbit Premium users in the redesigned Fitbit app (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/20/google-an…
Google unveils the Pixel Watch 4 in 41mm and 45mm sizes, with an Actua 360 curved display and emergency satellite communication, starting at $349 from October 9 (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/20/goog…
Markup AI, which scans, scores, and rewrites AI-generated content to ensure brand compliance for content marketers, raised a $27.5M Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2025/09/17/markup-ai-2…
Sources: Sequoia COO Sumaiya Balbale resigned after the firm refused to discipline partner Shaun Maguire over his comments calling Zohran Mamdani "an Islamist" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8e6de299-3eb6-4ba9-8037-266c55c02170
Samsung says it's working on smart glasses built on top of Android XR in partnership with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, during its Worlds Wide Open event (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/watch-out-me…
Samsung's Galaxy XR headset includes an Explorer Pack that bundles a year of Google AI Pro, YouTube Premium, Play Pass, and more with purchases through year-end (Matt Horne/Android Authority)
https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-galaxy-xr-early-ad…
Hands-on with the Samsung Galaxy XR: micro-OLED displays are good, eye tracking works well, lighter than the Vision Pro, Android XR looks a lot like visionOS (The Shortcut)
https://www.theshortcut.com/p/samsung-galaxy-xr-vs-apple-vision-pro
Galaxy XR is the first Android XR headset and features Gemini Live that understands your surroundings and lets users interact with apps hands-free (Shahram Izadi/The Keyword)
https://blog.google/products/android/samsung-galaxy-xr/
In an experiment, ChatGPT-4o, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp expressed secular, Western liberal values regardless of the language of the questions (Kelsey Piper/The Argument)
https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/do-ais-think-differently-in-different
Interviews with three Google executives on the new Pixel phones, why Pixel won't ever be a "giant player", improving the devices by ~30% each year, AI, and more (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20