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A survey of 16K creators in eight countries: 86% use creative GenAI tools, 60% use multiple, 48% use them for ideation, and 52% for creating video and more (Adobe Newsroom)
https://news.adobe.com/news/2025/10/adobe-max-2025-creators-survey

Inaugural Adobe Creators' Toolkit Report: 86 Percent of Global Creators Use Creative Generative AI, See it Boosting Creator Economy
Adobe’s Creators’ Toolkit Report reveals how 16,000 global creators are using generative and agentic AI to shape the future of creative work.

🪖 12 days – that's how long a Russian STORMTROOPER lives at the front #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/days-thats-how-long-a.html

Shot: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/29/microsoft-ceo-says-up-to-30-of-the-companys-code-was-written-by-ai/
Chaser:

Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20%-30% of code inside the company's repositories is "written by software," meaning AI.

Windows 10 weist auf Verlängerung für Sicherheitsupdates hin
Über Windows Update weisen manche PCs mit Windows 10 auf den verlängerten Supportzeitraum nach dem 14. Oktober 2025 hin.
https://www.

Software in 2025

If things in America weren’t stupid enough, Texas is suing Tylenol maker over unproven claim the pain medicine causes autism.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/10/if-things-in-america-werent-stupid-enough-texas-is-suing-tylenol-…

If things in America weren’t stupid enough, Texas is suing Tylenol maker
Texas sues Tylenol maker over unproven claim the pain medicine causes autism.

BAU!

👏👏👏
"Le Monde – Budget 2026 : des taxes sur les multinationales et les géants du numérique américains votées Š l’Assemblée, au grand dam du gouvernement"
https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/artic…

Budget 2026 : des taxes sur les multinationales et les géants du numérique américains votées à l’Assemblée, au grand dam du gouvernement
En première lecture, les députés ont approuvé à une écrasante majorité un amendement de LFI et un autre de Renaissance. Ces deux mesures pourraient rapporter plus de 20 milliards d’euros, mais ont peu de chances de passer l’étape du Sénat.

hey wanna see some completely normal systemverilog? https://github.com/lowRISC/opentitan/blob/e383c23ab5d44940a07652ccd31406166286073d/hw/dv/sv/dv_utils/dv_utils_pkg.sv#L210-L355

opentitan/hw/dv/sv/dv_utils/dv_utils_pkg.sv at e383c23ab5d44940a07652ccd31406166286073d · lowRISC/opentitan
OpenTitan: Open source silicon root of trust. Contribute to lowRISC/opentitan development by creating an account on GitHub.

Ich verlinke hier den offenen Brief der Frauen gegen Merz, damit dieser Brief (der Brief selbst und nicht die Diskussion darüber) mal verlinkt wird:
offener Brief der Frauen gegen März
Es wirkt so hilflos. Allein schon deshalb weil es die übergroße Zahl der Frauen und der Menschen überhaupt nicht erreicht (erreicht im Sinne von als Text zum lesen vor die Augen gelangt).

Vangelis For Omnisphere 3 Now Available
https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2025/10/24/vangelis-for-omnisphere-3-now-available/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=muz4now/m…

Vangelis For Omnisphere 3 Now Available
Luftrum has announced Vangelis for Omnisphere 3, a new version of one of their most popular soundsets that has been updated for Omnisphere 3.

The Times of London takes down a story about former NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio criticizing Zohran Mamdani, after de Blasio says the outlet fabricated his comments (Emma G. Fitzsimmons/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/nyregion/bill-de-blasio-mamd…

De Blasio Impersonator Tricks British Newspaper With Fake Criticism of Mamdani
The Times of London briefly ran an article with quotes from someone who the paper said had falsely claimed to be the former New York mayor Bill de Blasio.

Heute abend in Tübingen sprechen wir über Faschismus und Palantir:
https://tue4.org/events/78a513f4-5e16-4bbc-b905-c20faf72ade4

Faschismus durch die Infrastruktur-Hintertür – Wie Firmen wie Palantir die Demokratie aushöhlen
29.09.2025, 17:30:00 - GMT - Epplehaus, 72072, Tübingen - Auch demokratische Staaten planen zunehmend, Tools wie Palantirs Werkzeuge oder KI-basierte Überwachungslösungen einzusetzen. Doch was glauben eigentlich die Entwickler:innen dieser Systeme? Was ist ih…

Ukraine reportedly strikes oil refinery, chemical plant in western Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/ukraine-reportedly-strikes-oil-refinery.html

SK Hynix reports Q3 revenue up 39% YoY to $17.02B, vs. $17.22B est, operating profit up 62% YoY to $7.92B, a record, boosted by demand for its HBM chips for AI (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/29/sk-hynix-q3-profit-revenue-record-.html

Nvidia-supplier SK Hynix third-quarter profit jumps 62% to a record high on AI-fueled memory demand

Als Windows 10 am 29. Juli 2015 auf den Markt kam, stand Microsoft vor einer Herausforderung: Die Nutzer waren mit Windows 8 unzufrieden und hielten an Windows 7 fest. Die Lösung? Zurück zu den Wurzeln!
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10502275?wt_mc=sm.re

The U.S. military struck four boats in the eastern Pacific
-- killing 14 people
-- a significant escalation of the Trump administration’s
campaign of extra-judicial murders in the Western Hemisphere.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-se

U.S. military strikes four alleged drug boats in eastern Pacific, killing 14
The U.S. military has struck four alleged drug boats in the eastern Pacific, killing 14 and leaving one survivor.

✨ Celebrating a decade of "users-asking-Mozilla-to-not-do-awful-things-yet-they-do-exactly-that" ✨

RE: https://mastodon.social/@michelestrider/115453754152634606
Bart Simpson writing on the chalkboard:
I will not bully the authors.
I will not bully the authors.
I will not bully the authors.
...

Turns out the singularity was just fascism.

Ich lege dann einen account bei grokipedia an und mache da mit.

RISJ survey across 24 countries: news creators and influencers gain more attention in countries with struggling traditional media and high social media usage (Hanaa' Tameez/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/news-cre

News creators get more attention in countries where traditional media struggles
A new report highlights how “messy, fragmented, and loosely defined news sources have become for many people.”

Russian stormtrooper lasts no more than 12 days! Ukrainian forces smash invaders, Gripen on the way!: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/russian-stormtrooper-lasts-no-more.html

Ripple's shares trade between $135 and $170 in private markets, up ~2x-3x since early 2025, valuing the company at $22B-$30B after several major acquisitions (Nina Bambysheva/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ninabambysheva/2025/10/28/insid…

Inside Ripple’s $180 Billion Reinvention
Freed from its SEC lawsuit, Ripple, long a blockchain payments company with little actual business, is finally acquiring its way toward a legitimate multibillion-dollar crypto empire.

Windows 10 wird heute zehn Jahre alt
Heute vor zehn Jahren gab Microsoft Windows 10 zur Nutzung frei – damals noch als letzte angeblich Windows-Hauptversion.
https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Window…

“Opening locks” might not sound like scintillating social media content,
but Trevor McNally has turned lock-busting into online gold.
A former US Marine Staff Sergeant, McNally today has more than 7 million followers and has amassed more than 2 billion views
just by showing how easy it is to open many common locks by slapping, picking, or shimming them

10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea.
It’s still legal to pick locks, even when you swing your legs.

Can we please, in the name of humanity, stop this motherfucker?
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251028-israeli-planes-strike-gaza-city-after-netanyahu-orders-powerful-attacks

Israeli planes strike Gaza City after Netanyahu orders 'powerful attacks'

So this file holds the source code for enemy behavior in DOOM (1993).
Or AI doomerism, as I call it.
https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM/blob/master/linuxdoom-1.10/p_enemy.c

All three major South Korean telcos, SK Telecom, KT Telecom, and now LG Uplus, have reported cybersecurity incidents to the government over the past six months (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/28/lg-uplus-is-late…

LG Uplus is latest South Korean telco to confirm cybersecurity incident | TechCrunch
Korean telecom giant LG Uplus is the third major phone provider in the past six months to report a cybersecurity incident.

Ukraine says it struck 2 Russian radar stations, launch pad for missile system, HUR releases video: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/28/ukraine-says-it-struck-russian.html

Microsoft kündigt erste eigene KI-Modelle an
Microsoft hat eigene KI-Modelle veröffentlicht, mit denen der Konzern sich unabhängiger von OpenAI mache könnte.
https://www.heise.de/news/Microsoft-k…

I just read this message from @… (sharing it with her permission):
“I was just coming back with some food for my family I’m in Al-Mawasi, near the sea when suddenly, boats started firing all at once, one strike after another. I ran for 30 minutes straight, without stopping, and finally made it back to the tent terrified.
Thinking the tent would somehow shie…

Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaica as category 5 storm
It dropped to a category 4 cyclone as it exited the island
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/oct/28/hurricane-melissa-live-u…

How is it 2025 and a prominent Democrat brings up the fake “trans people in sports” debate again?
There is not such thing. People don’t change their gender to maybe win a few medals.
Just fuck off.

Lukoil to sell foreign assets after US sanctions: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/27/lukoil-to-sell-foreign-assets.html

Palantir announces a partnership to use Nvidia's chips and software to help its customers speed up decision-making in complex fields such as logistics (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/nvidia-teams-with…

Vorbeiflug an Erde: Japan will an ESA-Asteroidenmission zu Apophis teilnehmen
In vier Jahren wird der 400 Meter große Asteroid Apophis der Erde außergewöhnlich nahekommen. Die ESA will ihn mit einer Sonde begleiten, Japan hat Interesse.

People really don’t know how big these desert hares are

EV maker Lucid partners with Nvidia to develop a fully autonomous vehicle platform, starting with building more ADAS tech for Lucid's existing Gravity SUV (Kara Carlson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

COMCORPS: Valeriy Kurach: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/28/comcorps-valeriy-kurach.html

eHealth: TI-Monitoring-Alternative zeigt Live-Status & Historie von TI-Störungen
Ein Open-Source-Tool schafft mehr Transparenz bei technischen Störungen im digitalen Gesundheitswesen. Im Gespräch erklärt der Entwickler seine Motivation.

CrowdStrike and Nvidia announce an expanded partnership to deepen the use of each other's technologies for creating and deploying AI agents for cybersecurity (Kyle Alspach/CRN)
https://www.crn.com/news/ai/2025/5-big-moves-in-crowdstrike-nvidia-ai-partner…

5 Big Moves In CrowdStrike-Nvidia AI Partnership
A newly announced partnership expansion between CrowdStrike and Nvidia will see the technology giants utilizing each other’s capabilities more deeply for the creation and deployment of AI agents.

Things that I will never understand: going through life as a racist bigot asshole.
The sheer energy spent on thinking in every decision and in every human interaction whether you need to be hateful or not and how this hate should manifest.

Ukraine’s TikTok Grannies: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/28/ukraines-tiktok-grannies.html

Vivaldi will keine KI-Agenten im Browser
Wer KI-Agenten im Browser nutzt, lasse Big Tech entscheiden, was man sieht, sagt Vivaldi. Man sei nur noch ein passiver Zuschauer.
https://www.heise.de/news/V…

Sources: The Bot Company, co-founded by ex-Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt to make AI-powered household robots, is set to raise $250M at a $4B valuation (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-28/cruise-founder…

Putin in panic: Donbas slips from Russia's grip!: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/28/putin-in-panic-donbas-slips.html

Paypal-Zahlungsblockaden wirken nach
Die Zahlungsblockaden bei Paypal sind noch nicht ausgestanden. Die Nachwehen dauern an. Für Kunden soll das jedoch kein Problem sein.
https://www.heise.de/news/Paypal-…

Foxconn says it plans to deploy Nvidia's Isaac GR00T N model of humanoid robots at its factory in Houston, Texas, which produces AI servers for Nvidia (Wen-Yee Lee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/foxconn-deploy-humanoid-robots…

Zelensky orders Ukraine to begin export of controlled arms next month: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/28/zelensky-orders-ukraine-to-begin.html

USA beenden Zollfreiheit für Pakete aus aller Welt
Jahrelang konnten Amerikaner Waren im Wert unter 800 Dollar zollfrei aus dem Ausland bekommen. Jetzt geht das nicht mehr.
https://www.hei…

Sources: Francisco Partners is in talks to acquire Jamf, which provides remote device management tools, taking it private; Jamf has a market cap of ~$1.5B (Milana Vinn/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/francisco-partners-buy-jamf…

Russian troops outnumber Ukraine 8-1 in Pokrovsk sector, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/28/russian-troops-outnumber-ukraine-in.html

Wissenschaftsminister Mohrs wirbt in Boston um Forscher
Mehr als 600 Forschende treffen sich in Boston. Angebote aus Niedersachsen locken Top-Talente – warum Wissenschaftsfreiheit dabei eine besondere Rolle spielt.
…

Ukrainian UAVs are already over Moscow while Putin shakes a "nuclear dummy"!: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/27/ukrainian-uavs-are-already-over.html

USC sues Google in Texas federal court, alleging that Google Earth, Maps, and Google Street View violate its patents for overlaying 2D images onto 3D models (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/g

FTC an Google: Gmail benachteiligt angeblich Wahlkampf-Mails der Republikaner
Der FTC-Chef erhebt einen altbekannten Vorwurf gegen Google, Gmail soll Wahlkampf-Mails der Republikaner benachteiligen. Jetzt droht er mit Konsequenzen.

Russian spy balloons over NATO countries. A "warm-up" before open aggression?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/28/russian-spy-balloons-over-nato.html

London-based Paid, which helps AI agent providers monetize and track costs, raised a $21.6M seed led by Lightspeed, a source says at a $100M valuation (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/28/paid-the…

Paid, the AI agent 'results-based billing' startup from Manny Medina, raises huge $21M seed | TechCrunch
Paid offers an interesting contribution to the AI agentic world: a platform for so-called "results-based" billing.

EU-Bericht: Großteil erfasster illegaler Produkte aus China
Produkte auf dem EU-Markt müssen gewisse Standards erfüllen. Nicht alle importierten Artikel aus dem Ausland tun das. Nun legt die EU einen Bericht dazu vor.

Poland detains 2 Ukrainians on suspicion of spying for foreign intelligence: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/27/poland-detains-ukrainians-on-suspicion.html

DeepMind: video models like Veo 3 could become general purpose foundation models for vision, like LLMs for text, using zero-shot "chain-of-frames" reasoning (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/27/v…

Video models are zero-shot learners and reasoners
Fascinating new paper from Google DeepMind which makes a very convincing case that their Veo 3 model - and generative video models in general - serve a similar role in …

⚡ Annihilation of Russian elite: destroyed special forces, GRU, and FSB!: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/28/annihilation-of-russian-elite-destroyed.html

Microsoft kündigt erste eigene KI-Modelle an
Microsoft hat eigene KI-Modelle veröffentlicht, mit denen der Konzern sich unabhängiger von OpenAI mache könnte.
https://www.heise.de/news/Microsoft-k…

Allied forces shoot down unidentified drone near southern Estonia military base: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/28/allied-forces-shoot-down-unidentified.html

Several US states have passed bills to ban or restrict AI mental health treatment, as experts say state laws lag behind the fast-moving AI therapy landscape (Devi Shastri/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/ai-therapy-ban-illinois-therabo…

States struggle with AI therapy app rules amid mental health needs
As mental health chatbots driven by artificial intelligence proliferate, a small number of states are trying to regulate them. Laws in Illinois, Nevada and Utah are among the first in the nation to put limits on or ban therapy chatbots. But app creators, policymakers and mental health advocates say it is just a start and federal regulation would be ideal. App makers worry the patchwork of laws could stifle innovation needed due to a nationwide shortage of human therapists. They also note that m…

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:…

Russian drone strikes German newspaper Die Welt team in eastern Ukraine, 3 wounded: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/28/russian-drone-strikes-german-newspaper.html

Dell reports Q2 revenue up 19% YoY to $29.78B, vs. $29.17B est., and says it plans to ship $20B of AI servers in its fiscal 2026, double what it sold last year (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/28/dell-earnings-report-q2-2026.html

Dell shares fall on soft third-quarter earnings outlook
Dell said it now plans to ship $20 billion of AI servers in its fiscal 2026, double what it sold last year.

NOW! Ukraine to receive F-16, Gripen, Rafale fighters — Putin isolated, US set to respond: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/28/now-ukraine-to-receive-f.html

GitHub updates VS Code with Plan Mode for building step-by-step project approaches, MCP Registry integration, definable project rules via AGENTS.md, and more (Sean Michael Kerner/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/githubs-agent-hq-aims…

Ukraine war latest live: 'Russia has not achieved planned result' in Pokrovsk, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/28/ukraine-war-latest-live-russia.html

Analysis: Hard lessons for Ukraine as clean-up of August Dobropillia 'breakthrough' wraps up: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/27/analysis-hard-lessons-for-ukraine.html

Eli Lilly partners with Nvidia to build what the companies say will be the most powerful supercomputer run by a pharma company, powered by 1,000 Blackwell GPUs (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai…

Ukraine's ex-grid operator chief detained a week after raid on home he called politically motivated: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/28/ukraines-exgrid-operator-chief-detained.html

SK Hynix says its DRAM, NAND, and HBM production capacity for next year "has been sold out" and that it would set up a production system to meet OpenAI's demand (Song Jung-a/Financial Times)

"Gas station country" no more – Drones and sanctions destroyed Russian oil industry | Special report: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/27/ampquotgas-station-countryampquot-no-more.html

Sublime Security, which uses AI agents to protect against phishing and other email threats, raised a $150M Series C, bringing its total funding to $240M (Eduard Kovacs/SecurityWeek)
https://www.securityweek.com/sublime-security-raises-150-millio…

UN report accuses Russia of using drones to hunt civilians near front lines and force them from their homes: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/28/un-report-accuses-russia-of.html

Memo: California's AG says OpenAI's restructuring has "no impact" on other cases, likely referring to Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI over its restructuring (Rocket Drew/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/m…

Musk Suit Unlikely to Unwind OpenAI Restructure
A memo from California’s attorney general suggested that Elon Musk’s federal lawsuit against OpenAI will be unaffected by the artificial intelligence startup’s restructuring. But now that the restructuring has occurred, it may be hard to unwind the change even if Musk wins. Both the attorneys general for Delaware, where OpenAI is incorporated, and California, where it is headquartered, had

Tainted former Odesa mayor Trukhanov charged with negligence over handling of Odesa floods, media reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/28/tainted-former-odesa-mayor-trukhanov.html

Julius AI, which acts like a data scientist by analyzing data and running predictive models from natural language prompts, raised a $10M seed led by Bessemer (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/28/ai-data-analyst-startup-julius-nabs…

AI data analyst startup Julius nabs $10M seed round | TechCrunch
The seed round for Julius AI was led by Bessemer Venture Partners.

'They’re always moving forward' — Russian troops overrun Kupiansk, Kharkiv Oblast's once-liberated city: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/28/theyre-always-moving-forward-russian.html

EA's buyout talks highlight the slowdown and consolidation trends in the $178B global gaming market after the COVID boom, as gamers are sticking to old titles (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

⚔ Updated SEA BABIES terrify RUSSIA #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/28/updated-sea-babies-terrifyrussiashorts.html

🪖 Putin left the BUNKER to head to the FRONT #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/27/putin-left-the-bunker-to.html

AERIAL BOMBS TERROR: Russia reaches REAR cities #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/28/aerial-bombs-terror-russia-reaches.html

🔥 F-16, Gripen, Rafale – Ukraine to receive 250 new fighter jets #short: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/28/f-gripen-rafale-ukraine-to.html

🧨 The geography of Ukraine’s long-range capability will expand, — Zelenskyy #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/27/the-geography-of-ukraines-longrange.html

Russian attacks kill 3, injure 76 in Ukraine over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/29/russian-attacks-kill-injure-in.html

LIVE | "Rosneft," "Lukoil," and more! US sanctions hit harder than HIMARS!: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/27/155123.html

Italian court approves extradition of Ukrainian suspect in Nord Stream case: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/27/italian-court-approves-extradition-of.html

Russia withdraws from US deal to dispose of plutonium for thousands of warheads: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/27/russia-withdraws-from-us-deal.html

Trump sternly responded to Putin: "Think about ending the war, not about missiles!": https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/27/trump-sternly-responded-to-putin.html

EU targets Russian crypto payments in 19th sanctions package, hitting Grinex and A7A5: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/27/eu-targets-russian-crypto-payments.html

US expects Hungary to stop buying Russian oil and gas, envoy says as Budapest remains defiant: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/27/us-expects-hungary-to-stop.html

Ukraine damages dam near Belgorod, cuts off Russian troops near Vovchansk, military reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/27/ukraine-damages-dam-near-belgorod.html

🔥 ROSNEFT and LUKOIL stocks plummeted SHARPLY! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/27/rosneft-and-lukoil-stocks-plummeted.html

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,109,590 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/29/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

'There are no such things as sanctuaries' — Ukraine can conduct strikes deep within Russian territory, Kellogg says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/29/there-are-no-such-things.html