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Jimmy Wales isn’t everybody’s cup of tea, but I enjoyed reading this interview about #Wikipedia in 2025: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/magaz…

The Culture Wars Came for Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales Is Staying the Course.
Attacks on the site are piling up. Its co-founder says trust the process.

Microsoft bestätigt kostenlose Windows-10-Sicherheitsupdates
Microsoft hat bekannt gegeben, dass Windows-10-Nutzer im EWR nach dem Supportende ein weiteres Jahr kostenlose Sicherheitsupdates erhalten.
https://…

Look: Amazon just got egg all over its face for bringing down half the internet. That happened because they’d already had a huge brain drain.
A company in their position doesn’t lay off 8.5% of corporate because AI is working so well for them. Come on.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/

Was der ICE-L aber nicht hat, ist eine neue Küche. Und das ist, wenn man ehrlich ist, das, was im deutschen Fernverkehr am meisten fehlt. Niedriger Einstieg hin oder her – die eigentliche Hürde auf langen Reisen bleibt das Bordbistro. Dort, wo es einmal eine Reisegastronomie gab, in der man gern speiste, bietet die Bahn heute nur noch eine Mikrowelle mit angeschlossener Theke.

Gerade hat man bei der tschechischen Bahn die alten Speisewagen ausgemustert. Das waren jene Wage…

Ukraine, US planning major arms deals, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/28/ukraine-us-planning-major-arms.html

Das hatte ich nicht auf meiner Bingokarte: Neuerdings wird der Ausbau des Überwachungsstaats auch mit Sozialleistungsmissbrauch begründet.
Taugt die Verfolgung von schweren und schwersten Straftaten nicht mehr als Vorwand für Massenüberwachung? Dann schicken wir doch Bärbel Bas (sPD) vor! Zusammen mit der Blöd-Zeitung und anderen Hetzer:innen wird sie es schon schaffen, diese Randerscheinung zum Notstand aufzublasen und damit dann alles zu rechtfertigen.

Grokipedia, a Grok-powered online encyclopedia, launches with over 885K articles; Elon Musk has touted it as a less biased alternative to Wikipedia (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/27/grokipedia-wikipedia-musk-/

Elon Musk briefly launches a Wikipedia rival that extols his own ‘vision’
The right-leaning tech magnate is touting his own online encyclopedia as an unbiased alternative to the world’s most widely cited online source.

Q&A with Oura CEO Tom Hale on why many CEOs love its rings, competition from Apple, and more; Oura sold 2.5M rings in 2024 and expects $1B revenue in 2025 (Jordyn Holman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/business/oura-ring-tom-hale.html

Oura Heath’s C.E.O. Knows the Secret to Better Sleep
Oura Health makes a pricey smart ring that busy executives, celebrities and others use to track health measures like their sleep patterns. It expects $1 billion in sales this year.

La « bouilloire », cette escroquerie boursière qui résiste au temps
https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2025/10/27/la-bouilloire-cette-escroquerie-boursiere-qui-resiste-au-temps_6649848_3234.html

La « bouilloire », cette escroquerie boursière qui résiste au temps
La pratique frauduleuse consistant à faire monter les cours en suscitant d’importants volumes d’achats d’actions a trouvé un nouveau souffle sur les messageries privées.

on my blog!
https://dotat.at/@/2025-08-28-strongly-typed.html
What does it mean when someone writes that a programming language is “strongly typed”? I thought about why it’s such a poorly-defined term.
I came up with more than five meanings!
All writ…

The bugginess of iOS 26 Safari is getting old

Anybody have recommendations for a solidly built duffel/gym bag that's going to last a long time? I typically see cloth tears as a secondary failure mode and zippers going bad as the primary problem.
Weight is not a consideration, this is for a car breakdown/emergency kit so it's gonna sit in the back of the car holding jumper cables, a first aid kit, some snacks and water bottles, etc. for years and hopefully not be used too often.

Like, Amazon and Google are probably the biggest beneficiaries of open source in when looking at profit vs. cost. That looks not super leftish.
https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115441431804444092

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This from a top expert on Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier.
Highly likely that we're committing to an additional 3 meters (10 ft) of sea level rise as we speak. Yes, it'll take time to fully materialize, but when will the enormous damage that we're signing up for sink in with voters and policy makers?
https://

Rob Larter (@PoLaRobs@fediscience.org)
Attached: 1 image In summary, the outlook is grim. It is highly likely that Thwaites Glacier will eventually be lost, which will destabilise adjoining parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, increasing the committed long-term rise in global mean sea level by more than 3 m.

As per their usual playbook, "Barclays Bank is the most involved in supporting companies behind carbon bombs, providing $33.7bn to 62 companies, including Eni, ExxonMobil and TotalEnergies"
NGOs note 28 new ‘carbon bomb’ projects since 2021 | Climate Crisis News | Al Jazeera
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NGOs note 28 new ‘carbon bomb’ projects since 2021
Potential CO2 emissions from new projects 11 times global “carbon budget” remaining to hit Paris Agreement targets.

Scoop: White House pulls Joel Rayburn's nomination for top State job (Hans Nichols/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/27/joel-rayburns-nomination-pulled-trump-state-dept
http://www.memeorandum.com/251027/p128#a251027p128

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Care for life, care for the chips: the future is re-used, recycled and permacomputing
https://branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue-8/care-for-life-care-for-the-chips/

Care for life, care for the chips: the future is re-used, recycled and permacomputing - Branch
Alistair explores the imperfect answers arising from asking what we can do to radically cut down on our spiralling CPU habit.

I took her up to the pet store after work for a bath. She definitely did not like it. She needed it, though.

PSA: there is a PyPI phishing campaign ongoing! if you see a link to hxxp://pypi-mirror[.]org do not click it.
(i think it's already blackholed but on the off chance it's not, don't touch it)

Eso hubo un encuentro de #OpenStreetMap buenísimo! mí presentación sobre #panoramax con todos links estš acš: https://talks.tzovar.as/2025-09-27-lujan/

Summer 2025 will ‘almost certainly’ be UK’s warmest on record, Met Office says https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/26/summer-2025-almost-certainly-uk-warmest-record-met-office

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Microsoft: Windows-10-Sicherheitsupdates in Europa kostenlos
h…

Moldova bans 2 pro-Russian parties on eve of key election: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/28/moldova-bans-prorussian-parties-on.html

“LOOKS LIKE BEAUTIFUL WEATHER TODAY!!” shout all the corporate overlords just a bit too loudly as they run below decks and slam the hatches behind them

Warum heißt es #Deutschlandticket und nicht schönes-wochenende-ticket-with-benefits?

FWIW, when people go on about “sportsball”, to me that sounds snotty and condescending and, well, a bit rude: “I ostentatiously don’t care about a thing you do and wish it didn’t exist.”
Not saying you’re not within your rights to feel that and say that. I have exactly those feelings about certain forms of music and religion and politics.
Just be aware that sometimes it doesn’t land well.
#LifeOnline

British Airways pulls sponsorship from Louis Theroux's podcast after he interviewed Bob Vylan about his Glastonbury comments, saying it "breaches" its policy (Harry Taylor/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/oct

Accenture, which laid off 11K employees in the past three months, warns of more cuts if workers cannot be retrained to have the skills needed for the age of AI (Stephen Foley/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a74f8564-ed5a-42e9-8fb3-d2bddb2b8675

Accenture to ‘exit’ staff that cannot be retrained for age of AI
Group details $865mn restructuring programme and outlook reflecting sluggish corporate demand for consulting projects

Rails is Omakase
Omarchy is Seppuku

Merci trump
En Argentine, le parti de Javier Milei remporte largement les législatives de mi-mandat
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/10/27/en-argentine-le-pa…

En Argentine, le parti de Javier Milei remporte largement les législatives de mi-mandat
La Libertad Avanza a recueilli plus de 40 % des votes au niveau national, selon des résultats officiels à 97 % du décompte. Le président d’extrême droite a salué un « point de bascule » et promis davantage de réformes.

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A judge slammed Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem over 'troubling' remarks about Kilmar Abrego Garcia (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/27/pam-bondi-kristi-noem-comments-kilmar-abrego-garcia-00624342
http://www.memeorandum.com/251027/p123#a251027p123

„Emoji-Welt: Eine bildexegetische Annäherung an die kalifornische Ideologie“ bei der Deutschlandfunk-Reihe „Essay und Diskurs“? Muss ich hören!
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/emoji-welt-eine-bildexegetische-annaehe…

Eine bildexegetische Annäherung an die kalifornische Ideologie - Emoji-Welt
Ein Smiley, ein Schmollgesicht oder ein achselzuckendes Shruggie. Schon ist in der digitalen Kommunikation scheinbar alles klar. Was aber lässt sich mit Emojis nicht sagen? Drückt sich in dieser putzigen Sprache womöglich eine krasse Ideologie aus?

Everybody else is asleep but I'm not tired because I'm nerdsniped on PIC12F683 EEPROM reversing.
So I'm sitting here aligning image layers in a darkened house blasting Alan Walker (on my headphones so I don't wake everyone else up).
Obviously the soundtrack for such an occasion is "Me, Myself, and The Night"

Indiana governor Mike Braun announced today that he is calling a special session to consider redrawing congressional districts in the state, the latest Republican state to work on its maps ahead of 2026.
Indiana is one of several Republican-led states that the Trump administration has pressured to undertake mid-decade redistricting to favor Republicans,
-- which began with a push in Texas to redraw lines to add Republican seats.
“I am calling a special legislative session to…

Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Microsoft bestätigt kostenlose Windows-10-Sicherheitsupdates

Ukraine says Russia has not captured Zarichne despite Moscow's claim: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/28/ukraine-says-russia-has-not.html

But don’t take my word for it! The CEO of AWS himself said “firing junior workers because AI can do their jobs is ‘the dumbest thing I've ever heard.’”
Now that •same• company is laying of 8.5% — 8.5%!! — of their core workforce because they’re going to (future tense!?!) “reduce bureaucracy, increase AI use?”
Nope. I call BS. That’s just investor bait.
They’re in hot water and they know it.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/aws_ceo_entry_level_jobs_opinion/

Polizisten der Grenzpolizei hindern Feuerwehrleute am Löschen eines Großbrandes, um ihre Ausweise zu kontrollieren und sie gegebenenfalls abzuschieben, damit das Großfeuer nicht illegal gelöscht wird.

Gonna have really clean and opinionated Linux desktops while the storm-troops patrol the streets outside

Meta launches "ghost posts" on Threads, letting users share "unfiltered thoughts" in posts that disappear after 24 hours; replies will appear as a DM (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/27/threads-disappearing-ghost-posts/
…

You can now publish disappearing posts on Threads - 9to5Mac
Threads is rolling out ghost posts, which get automatically archived after 24 hours. Here’s how the new feature works.

A profile of Justin Sun, who was facing an SEC fraud lawsuit before investing $90M in Trump family cryptocurrencies and becoming a business associate of Trump (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-09-26/cr…

A Donor-Funded Army Wouldn't Just Be Illegal--It Would be Dangerous (David A. Graham/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/10/trump-donor-funded-military/684713/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251027/p125#a251027p125

Neue Filme und Serien bei Netflix, Disney und Amazon Prime im Oktober 2025
Im Oktober läuft bei Netflix die 4. Staffel von "The Witcher". Disney zeigt "Disney Twisted Wonderland: The Animation" während bei Amazon "Play Dirty" startet.

Jubiläumsolympia von 1936 in der Stadt mit dem schwersten Terroranschlag in der Geschichte der Spiele. Die Münchner Bewerbung versprüht schon jetzt gute Laune, naja.

Day 3, practicing a bunch of stuff including musculoskeletal injuries.
I had a "broken arm" for this one.

What Will It Cost to Renovate the ‘Free’ Air Force One?
Don’t Ask.
To hide the cost of renovating the plane Qatar donated to President Trump,
the Air Force appears to have tucked it inside an over-budget, behind-schedule nuclear modernization program.

What Will It Cost to Renovate Trump’s ‘Free’ Air Force One? Don’t Ask.
To hide the cost of renovating the plane Qatar donated to President Trump, the Air Force appears to have tucked it inside an over-budget, behind-schedule nuclear modernization program.

Russia launches heavy bombers at Ukraine, targets Kyiv, other cities with drones and missiles: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/28/russia-launches-heavy-bombers-at.html

The only question is what kind of hot water.
Amazon has their finger on the pulse of a lot of the economy: both retail and B2B, both corporate and consumer behavior. Honestly, with the government shut down and US gov job stats now under political control, Amazon’s probably got more, fresher, and better data about what’s going on with the US economy than just about anyone else on Earth.
What is Amazon seeing that they don’t want to say to their investors (yet)?

NBC News unveils a marketing campaign that attempts to address low trust in news media, promoting the network as a place for "facts", "clarity", and "calm" (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/10/nbc-news-marketing-campaign…

NBC News Addresses Low Trust In Media With “Reporting For America” Marketing Campaign Highlighting “Facts. Clarity. Calm”
The "Reporting for America" campaign is the first in recent memory tied to the news division in general.

International Federation of Robotics: Chinese factories installed ~300K new robots in 2024, more than the rest of the world combined; US factories installed 34K (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/business/ch…

There Are More Robots Working in China Than the Rest of the World Combined
China has embarked on a campaign to use more robots in its factories, transforming its manufacturing industries and becoming the dominant maker.

Ob Windows 10 ähnliche Überlebenschancen wie das Fax haben wird? 🤔 Microsoft hat bestätigt, dass die "Extended Security Updates" (ESU) für Privatanwender im Europäischen Wirtschaftsraum bis zum 14. Oktober 2026 kostenlos verfügbar sein werden.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10670908

Zohran Mamdani didn't tell the whole truth about his hijab-wearing 'aunt' who feared for safety post-9/11 (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/10/27/us-news/zohran-mamdanis-hijab-wearing-aunt-who-feared-for-her-safety-post-9-11-revealed-as-his-dads-second-cousin/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251027/p121#a251027p121

#Wikipedia Editors Reject Founder's AI Review Proposal After ChatGPT Fails Basic Policy Test
https://slashdot.org/story/446032

Wikipedia Editors Reject Founder's AI Review Proposal After ChatGPT Fails Basic Policy Test - Slashdot
Wikipedia's volunteer editors have rejected founder Jimmy Wales' proposal to use ChatGPT for article review guidance after the AI tool produced error-filled feedback when Wales tested it on a draft submission. The ChatGPT response misidentified Wikipedia policies, suggested citing non-existent sourc...

Russian attacks kill 2, injure 28 in Ukraine over past day, damage energy infrastructure: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/27/russian-attacks-kill-injure-in.html

“I wonder how much of this is also about the economy with AI as a convenient scapegoat?”
The answer to that question is “almost all of it.” https://mas.to/@carnage4life/115448727812641385

US progressives are embracing debate shows long used by conservatives, seeing the format as a more authentic alternative to "spoon-fed" political talking points (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/bus…

Debate Shows Are Having a Moment. Here Come the Democrats.
As millions tune in to hyperpartisan face-offs on YouTube or TikTok, can the left find its own Charlie Kirk?

Nvidia reports Q2 revenue up 56% YoY to $46.74B, above $46.06B est., Data Center revenue up 56% to $41.1B, and approves an additional $60B in share buybacks (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/nvidia-nvda-earnings-report-q2-2026.html

Nvidia beats on top and bottom lines. Here's why the stock is falling
Nvidia said sales growth this quarter will remain above 50%, signaling to Wall Street that demand for AI infrastructure shows no sign of fading.

Revolut erhält die Banklizenz für Mexiko
Die britische Neobank Revolut hat die endgültige Genehmigung für die Aufnahme des Bankbetriebs in Mexiko erhalten und nimmt bereits weitere Länder ins Visier.
https://www.

All Trump schemes asymptotically approach bribery and extortion. All of them.
From @…: https://mastodon.ie/@EugeneMcParland/115447672398446019

Angriff auf Nvidia und AMD: Qualcomm kündigt neue KI-Chips an
Der US-Chipkonzern Qualcomm stellt neue KI-Beschleuniger vor. Mit diesem Schritt nimmt das Unternehmen den Markt für KI-Rechenzentren in den Blick.

Despite President Trump's efforts to dismantle VOA, the newsroom remains active, aided by federal court intervention and backing from some Republican lawmakers (Minho Kim/New York Times)

Under Trump, Voice of America Is Down but Not Out
Buttressed by courts and support from some Republican lawmakers, federally funded newsrooms that President Trump has tried to eliminate have yet to be rendered obsolete.

OpenAI and Anthropic publish findings from joint safety tests of each other's models, aimed at surfacing blind spots in their internal evaluations (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/27/openai-co-founder-calls-for-ai…

OpenAI co-founder calls for AI labs to safety-test rival models | TechCrunch
In an effort to set a new industry standard, OpenAI and Anthropic opened up their AI models for cross-lab safety testing.

I apologize for bringing even an oblique mention of That Turd into your TL unnecessarily, but I just want to say that “HEPATITAS” (with the obligatory middle school humor pronunciation) is a magnificently embarrassing typo, and I hope people are cat-calling it at his memory long after he’s dead.

Source: Bari Weiss is looking to poach conservatives from other networks and met with CNN personality Scott Jennings; Weiss reportedly approached Bret Baier (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/26/2025/weiss-explores-poach…

CBS’ Weiss explores poaching conservatives from other networks
CNN personality Scott Jennings visited the new CBS News editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, this week at CBS’ New York headquarters.

Bund plant schärfere Regeln gegen illegale Drohnenflüge
Die Bundesregierung plant schärfere Regeln im Kampf gegen Spionage und Sabotage durch illegale Drohnen. Auch durch neue Befugnisse für die Bundeswehr.
https:…

A look at the setbacks facing the US DOD's Replicator program that seeks to quickly produce low-cost drones and other autonomous weapons to counter China (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-secu

Ex-Bellingcat journalist Tristan Lee and open-source researcher Jennefer Harper launch Decoherence Media to cover "authoritarian and anti-democratic movements" (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/26/2025/dat…

Data journalists start news site to track extremist movements
Decoherence Media is a new digital publication covering “authoritarian and anti-democratic movements, with a particular focus on the far-right,” co-founder Tristan Lee told Semafor.

Lufthansa vor massivem Stellenabbau
Die Lufthansa plant, ein Fünftel der Stellen in der Verwaltung zu streichen. Was das für die Belegschaft bedeutet, dürfte am Montag bekannt werden.
https://www.heise.de/…

Samsung announces a virtual Galaxy event for September 4 at 5:30am ET, where new tablets and the Galaxy S25 FE are expected (Ian Carlos Campbell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphones/samsung-will-hold-another-unpack…

Samsung will hold another Unpacked on September 4
Samsung is hosting a virtual Unpacked event on September 4 at 5:30AM ET, likely to announce new tablets.

heise | Toniebox 2 im Test: Audioplayer mit Spielfunktion fürs Kinderzimmer
Das beliebte Hörspielsystem Toniebox ist in der zweiten Version erschienen und unterstützt erstmals auch Spiele. Dazu kommen viele Detailänderungen.
…

CBS Evening News co-anchor John Dickerson says he plans to leave the network at the end of 2025 (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/john-dickerson-exit-cbs-news-1236561995/

John Dickerson to Exit CBS News, Raising Questions on 'Evening News'
John Dickerson will exit CBS News at the end of 2025, raising questions on the future lineup for CBS Evening News

Leaked a16z decks: $25B in net returns since its 2009 founding, including $11.2B in 2021, and 56 unicorn investments in the past 10 years, the most of any firm (Eric Newcomer/Newcomer)
https://www.newcomer.co/p/andreessen-horowitz-has-returned

Andreessen Horowitz Has Returned at Least $25 Billion Net to Its Backers Since the Firm's Founding in 2009
The firm has held its $900 million 2012 Fund III at 9.4x net TVPI.

#heiseshow: Windows 95, USA vs. EU, Notrufchaos
In der #heiseshow: Wie Windows 95 den modernen PC definierte, Trump plant Sanktionen gegen EU-Regulierer und automatisierte Notrufe überlasten Leitstellen.

Sources: David Ellison will keep WBD mostly intact in a possible Paramount merger, merge HBO Max into Paramount , keep creative teams, and target 30 films/year (Christopher Palmeri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

OpenAI executives working on Stargate say that it costs about $50B to build a data center with roughly 1 GW of capacity, with $35B going toward AI chips (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Amazon will Android auf Fire TV Sticks mit Linux austauschen

A look at the fight between NPR and the CPB over a $36M contract to operate a satellite distribution system for public radio stations (David Folkenflik/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/27/nx-s1-5586147/npr-cpb-lawsuit-political-pressure

A profile of Ant International, Ant Group's cross-border payments unit using AI and blockchain for treasury management, which handled $1.1T in cash flow in 2024 (Lulu Yilun Chen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Lufthansa vor massivem Stellenabbau
https://www.heise.de…

ICE detained British journalist Sami Hamdi on October 26 at SFO; the Council on American-Islamic Relations says it was retaliation for his criticism of Israel (Michael Sainato/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/26/ice…

Swiss microfluidic chip-cooling tech startup Corintis raised a $24M Series A, a source says at a $400M valuation, and announces adding Lip-Bu Tan to its board (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/chip-cooling-…

"Technologieoffenheit": Merz will Verbrennerverbot in der EU kippen
"Es ist grundsätzlich falsch, wenn der Staat einseitig Technologien vorgibt", meint Merz. Verbindliche CO2-Ziele seien richtig, aber nicht fixe Lösungswege.

HP reports Q3 revenue up 3.1% YoY to $13.9B, vs. $13.7B est., Personal Systems revenue up 6% to $9.9B, and forecasts Q4 profit above estimates (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-27/hp-gives-…

TikTok-Deal: 50 Prozent der US-Einnahmen fließen an ByteDance
Bei der Abspaltung des US-Tiktok-Geschäfts sichert sich der Mutterkonzern eine gute Einnahmequelle; den Kern des Algorithmus gibt er nicht aus der Hand.

CrowdStrike reports Q2 revenue up 21% YoY to $1.17B, above $1.15B est., and forecasts Q3 revenue below estimates; CRWD drops 6% after hours (Jake Bleiberg/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-27/crowdstrik…

Saudische Investoren könnten Electronic Arts übernehmen
US-Medien berichten von einem der größten Buyouts der Geschichte: EA könnte für 50 Milliarden Dollar von der Börse genommen werden.
https://www.

Sources: cloud startup Vercel is raising hundreds of millions of dollars led by Accel at a valuation of about $9B, up from about $3B in a round last year (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-27/v…

Android-Terminal: Hinweise auf GPU-Beschleunigung
Versteckte GPU-Option entdeckt: Android testet offenbar Beschleunigung für Linux-Apps. Das experimentelle Feature bietet Potenzial für Developer.
https://www.

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Angreifer können auf Servern mit Supermicro-Boards Hintertüren verankern

Snowflake reports Q2 product revenue up 32% YoY to $1.09B, above $1.04B est., and forecasts FY 2026 product revenue above estimates; SNOW jumps 11% after hours (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

UN-Sicherheitsrat: EU-Ratspräsident Costa mahnt globale KI-Regulierung an
"Die Risiken sind real: Fehlkalkulation, Eskalation und Proliferation", betont EU-Ratspräsident Costa bei der Uno. Die Staatengemeinschaft müsse rasch handeln.

Google: Nutzer und der Mittelstand sind die Verlierer der EU-Wettbewerbsregeln
Google springt Apple bei und kritisiert den Digital Markets Act (DMA) scharf. Verbraucherschützer und der Cloud-Verband Cispe wollen das Gesetz indes schützen.

SSDs: Erste Preissteigerungen bahnen sich an
KI-Server bringen den gesamten Speichermarkt durcheinander. Auch Endkunden-SSDs könnten dadurch teurer werden.
https://www.heise.de/news/SSDs-Erste-Prei…

Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Signal-Messenger: Von der Leyen löscht automatisch, um Speicherplatz zu sparen

heise | Wie man die besten KI-Bildmodelle via Plug-in direkt in Photoshop einsetzt
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