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heise | Gehälter 2025: Das verdienen IT-Chefs in Deutschland
IT-Leiter erfreuen sich hoher Gehälter. Dafür müssen sie allerdings viele Aufgaben bewältigen und den Unternehmenserfolg im Blick behalten.
https://w…

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.

I don't think enough people know or talk about the fact that screenshots of Twitter posts are racially segregated on Reddit

Deadly retaliation: Kremlin missiles attack Kyiv after striking oil facilities! | News Pulse: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/28/deadly-retaliation-kremlin-missiles-attack.html

I was never on Typepad but my blog was on Movable Type for a while.
This is truly an end of an era. 🫡
https://everything.typepad.com/blog/2025/08/typepad-is-shutting-down.html

This is genuinely interesting. I’m unsure what it amounts to in practice — protection against abuse, empty symbolic gesture, salvo against big tech, morass of unintended consequences, who knows — but I’m watching with interest.
More:
https://lsj.com.au/articles/denmark-proposes-copyright-laws-to-protect-against-deepfakes/
https://www.globallawtoday.com/law/legal-news/2025/06/denmarks-groundbreaking-move-copyright-for-faces-and-voices/ https://mas.to/@Ask_aubry/115103921690064624

»Weshalb man das Denken nicht Maschinen überlassen sollte«
Genau das, genau deswegen bin ich gegenüber der KI auch kritisch aber zu viele Menschen nehmen die KI gedankenlos als die Wahrheit an und informieren sich auch nicht anderswertig – wahrscheinlich zu umständlich für sie.
🧠 https://www.

Der Extremismus einer lebensmüden Ideologie, die unter dem Deckmantel-Framing von #Freiheit das Leben zig tausender Menschen riskiert und bereitwillig Leid und Elend akzeptiert, kennt keine Grenzen.
Die US Emergency Management Agency suspendiert Leute, die eben diese Gefahren anspricht. Ein Vorgehen, dass ich auch Leuten wie Dobrindt, Klöckner und ihren rechtsextremen Vortänzern bei der rec…

Rate my bookshelf :D

Nice dashboard for current CVE-2025-7775 RCE vulnerability.
https://dashboard.shadowserver.org/sta

More bad news on AMOC: "I used to say that the chance of Amoc collapsing as a result of global warming was less than 10%”, said Prof @… even in a low-emission scenario, sticking to the Paris agreement, it looks like more like 25%."

Vielleicht wäre das alles nicht passiert, wenn die Heilige Behörde der Inquisition Johannes Gutenberg in Mainz als Ketzer verbrannt hätte, bevor er irgendwelchen Business Angels von seiner Idee erzählen konnte mit eine Traubenpresse, Tinte und Papier eine Bibel zu pressen.

Vielleicht wäre das alles nicht passiert, wenn die Heilige Behörde der Inquisition Johannes Gutenberg in Mainz als Ketzer verbrannt hätte, bevor er irgendwelchen Business Angels von seiner Idee erzählen konnte mit eine Traubenpresse, Tinte und Papier eine Bibel zu pressen.

"It's too scary to ride a bike on our roads, that's why I just ride an exercise bike at the gym"
https://www.nj.com/union/2025/08/man-killed-several-injured-when-a-car-goes-into-a-nj-planet-fitness-offi…

Man killed, several injured when a car goes into a N.J. Planet Fitness, officials say
Three other people inside the building were injured, investigators said.

"Veganism wasn’t meant to be like other food fads: it was intended to benefit not just the individual but society as a whole. Eating less meat would reduce greenhouse gas emissions and animal suffering. The evidence is clear. But right now we can’t be bothered "
Why the vegans lost https://on.ft.com/4mzHgFz

"So if ChatGPT destroys literacy and law, then ChatGPT is going to kill God. By this I don’t mean that the bearded guy in the sky is going to be found dead of a gunshot wound to the chest, but that monotheistic religion as we have traditionally understood it will not be able to function in a post-literacy regime."
(Original title: ChatGPT is going to kill God)

ChatGPT is going to kill God
I hate generative AI. I hate how it’s destroying writing pedagogy and giving students even more excuses not to read (because they can just read a “summary”). I hate how whiny and …

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution plans to end its print edition at the end of 2025, despite being profitable; AJC has 115K paid subscribers, 75K digital-only (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/business/media/atlanta-journal-constitution-print-edition.html
http://mediagazer.com/250828/p7#a250828p7

@… @… keep me updated. if you hit a dead end I will start bailing water on my end

Tag 12 sind wir mit Hilfe von @… und #OsmAnd 70 km quer von #Mantua nach #Cremona

Kennt wer eine gute KI-Kritik an derartigen Argumenten? Also eher Meso-Ebene plus der zugrundeliegenden Prämissen? Das ist eher die Ebene, die mir im Alltag begegnet

Massive CDC walkout erupts amid internal chaos (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/28/cdc-walkout-protest-resignations-rfk-hhs
http://www.memeorandum.com/250828/p120#a250828p120

Schwangere für Teilnahme an Ernährungsstudie gesucht
https://www.mri.bund.de/de/humanstudien/laufende-humanstudien/cohort-in-plant-based-diets-coplant/coplant-hauptstudie/

🤢 Common food thickeners—long thought to pass right through us—are actually digested
#food

Common food thickeners—long thought to pass right through us—are actually digested
It turns out those cellulose-based thickening agents found in common foods can be digested. Researchers at the University of British Columbia have shown that our gut bacteria can feed on these large molecules—something thought to not be possible—thanks to enzymes that normally help us break down dietary fiber.

From my niece, in D.C.

A global wildfire paradox: Human impacts worsen even as total burned area declines #environment

A global wildfire paradox: Human impacts worsen even as total burned area declines
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions have spotted a contradiction in worldwide wildfire trends: Despite a 26% decline in total burned area from 2002 to 2021, the number of people exposed to wildfires has surged by nearly 40%.

Typepad is shutting down on September 30 and users' "account and all related services will be permanently deactivated"; users can export content before then (Everything Typepad)
https://everything.typepad.com/blog/2025/08/typepad-is-shutting-down.html

hey kidz 😎🤟
wäre es nicht voll skibidi für Deutschland zu sterben?
🇩🇪🦅🦅🦅

heise | Der große Waschmaschinen-Guide: Was smart tatsächlich spart
Smarte Waschmaschinen versprechen hohe Ersparnisse und mehr Komfort. Wir zeigen, wie die Hersteller das mit Sensoren, Dosierautomatik und KI erreichen wollen.

Denmark summons top US diplomat over reports of influence operations in Greenland: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/27/denmark-summons-top-us-diplomat.html

"We simply don’t know to defend against these attacks. We have zero agentic AI systems that are secure against these attacks.[…] It’s an existential problem that, near as I can tell, most people developing these technologies are just pretending isn’t there."
https://www.

I just listened to this whole concert album and it’s just fantastic, hell of a performance. Hot damn. And then I purchased it, because I am old and crusty and I like to actually hold the data for music in my own library on my own danged device.
Thank you, @…!
“The Central Park Concert,” Astor Piazzolla https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/115091925379104280

NCSC verwacht snel grootschalige hacks via nieuw Citrix NetScaler-lek
https://tweakers.net/nieuws/238460/ncsc-verwacht-snel-grootschalige-hacks-via-nieuw-citrix-netscaler-lek.html

NCSC verwacht snel grootschalige hacks via nieuw Citrix NetScaler-lek
Het Nederlandse NCSC waarschuwt voor grootschalig misbruik van drie nieuwe kwetsbaarheden in Citrix NetScaler. De kwetsbare configuratie komt veel voor, blijkt uit onderzoek van het NCSC. Aanvallen op de kritiekste kwetsbaarheid zijn al waargenomen door Citrix.

The American Meteorological Society doesn't buy the Trump regime's climate denial report.
https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-ams/ams-

Man muss sich shcon fragen, ob jemand, der von für ihn relevanten Regeln und Gesetzen so gar keine Ahnung zu haben scheint, für die Aufgaben eines Oberbürgermeister geeignet ist.
https://www.kn-online.de/lokales/kiel/ob-w

OB-Wahl in Kiel: Ist dieses Plakat von Gerrit Derkowski erlaubt?
Seit Sonntag hängen in Kiel 50 Plakate mit dem Gesicht von Gerrit Derkowski, einer klaren Botschaft und einem sehr kleinen Veranstaltungshinweis. Ist das noch Veranstaltungswerbung oder schon unerlaubter Wahlkampf? Die Verwaltung hat dazu eine klare Meinung.

»The Era of AI-Generated Ransomware Has Arrived:
Cybercriminals are increasingly using generative AI tools to fuel their attacks, with new research finding instances of AI being used to develop ransomware.«
This is not surprising, but how do we explain this to the people in charge?
🫤 https://www.

The Era of AI-Generated Ransomware Has Arrived
Cybercriminals are increasingly using generative AI tools to fuel their attacks, with new research finding instances of AI being used to develop ransomware.

Fubo launches Fubo Sports, a standalone streaming plan with 20 sports-centric channels, including access to ESPN Unlimited, for $56 per month (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/fubo-sports-skinny-tv-bundle-price-espn-unlimited-1236499860/
http://mediagazer.com/250828/p6#a250828p6

Denmark summons US envoy over report on covert American 'influence operations' in Greenland (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/08/27/europe/denmark-summons-us-envoy-greenland-intl
http://www.memeorandum.com/250827/p161#a250827p161

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.

Cc statt Bcc: Datenpanne um Aufarbeitung von Missbrauch in englischer Kirche
In England soll es für Missbrauchsopfer der Kirche eine Wiedergutmachung geben. Informationen dazu kamen per E-Mail. Dabei gab es jetzt eine schwere Panne.

Ukrainian drones hit 17% of Russian refineries, new weapons in action | News Pulse: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/27/ukrainian-drones-hit-of-russian.html

i love that posts on other platforms have deliberate misinformation so people point that out in the comments which boosts the post's engagement. very normal for a social network to behave this way

It’s a bummer this bundle ends before my PyCon UK keynote (~mild spoiler~), but why don’t y’all get these 25 books on software architecture just in case?
(OF COURSE it has Architecture Patterns with Python)
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/software-archite…

Humble Tech Book Bundle: Software Architecture 2025 by O'Reilly
Pay what you want for the latest Humble Tech Bundle: Software Architecture 2025 and help support Code for America with your purchase!

Then, quoting Nathan Tankus: the market is not a perfectly rational distillation of all available information, but rather ❝a “conventional wisdom processor.” That is, it reflects views that seem safe to hold because many other people hold them — and the crowd only abandons those views when they become blatantly unsustainable.❞
Fits with the old adage that the market can stay irrational a lot longer than you can stay solvent.
2/2
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-arent-markets-freaking-out

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.

Immer wenn Innenminister #Dobrindt erzählt sein Handeln würde im Rahmen irgendeines geltenden Rechts stattfinden, muss ich daran denken, dass er das immer behauptet und Gerichte schon mindestens zweimal sein Handeln als rechtswidrig erkannt haben.
Man kann Alexander Dobrindt nicht trauen. Er stellt seine Ideologie über geltendes Recht und er wird es immer wieder tun, wenn Bundeskanzler

"Unable to serve": CDC vaccine chief slams Kennedy in resignation post (Rebecca Falconer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/28/kennedy-cdc-vaccine-chief-resignation-post
http://www.memeorandum.com/250827/p155#a250827p155

A gigatonne a week
makes our climate future bleak.

The offices of three media outlets, including RFE/RL and independent news outlet Ukrainska Pravda, were damaged in a new Russian attack on Ukraine (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/08/russian-strikes-on-ukraine-damage-3-media-outlets/
http://mediagazer.com/250828/p11#a250828p11

Samsung bringt One UI und Bixby auf Haushaltsgeräte
Samsung will die Nutzeroberfläche in seinem Ökosystem vereinheitlichen und bringt die Bedienoberfläche One UI nun auch auf Haushaltsgeräte. 
https://www.

Putin's greatest fear – How the end of the war will reveal the collapse of the Russian economy: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/28/putins-greatest-fear-how-the.html

Filing: credit reporting giant TransUnion discloses a data breach affecting 4.4M customers' personal info but claims "no credit information was accessed" (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/28/tran

TransUnion says hackers stole 4.4 million customers' personal information | TechCrunch
The credit reporting giant confirmed unauthorized access to a third-party application storing the personal information of its customers.

More quotable quotes from Krugman:
❝Market pricing almost never takes into account the possibility of huge, disruptive events, even when the strong possibility of such events should be obvious. The usual pattern, instead, is one of market complacency until the last possible moment. That is, markets act as if everything is normal until it’s blindingly obvious that it isn’t.❞
1/2

Ein massives technisches Problem bei PayPal sorgt aktuell für Chaos im Online-Zahlungsverkehr! 🚨
Zum Artikel: https://www.heise.de/news/Paypal-Deutsche-

Moin #SchleswigHolstein, moin #Kiel,
heute Abend ist das erste Treffen der #WomenInMobility in Schleswig-Holstein.
"Der WiM Hub Schleswig-Holstein lädt euch am 27. August 2025 …

Events | Women in Mobility
Die Women in Mobility Hubs schaffen mit ihren Events Chancen für den persönlichen Austausch. Aber nicht nur das: Es ist uns ein wichtiges Anliegen, mehr Frauen auf Mobilitätsveranstaltungen sichtbar zu machen.

wow cool did Sentry just fucking HALF the spans included in our plan!?
gotta love when a company introduces a feature you never asked for and doubles the price on a feature you care about
cool cool cool, no action required indeed

Russian forces edge westward, probe Ukrainian defenses in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/27/russian-forces-edge-westward-probe.html

Trump Administration Live Updates: Health Secretary Tries to Oust C.D.C. Director, but She Refuses to Leave (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08/27/us/trump-news
http://www.memeorandum.com/250827/p152#a250827p152

In its first-ever strategic plan, The 19th announces the creation of a $30M "quasi endowment" it can use in case of crisis, for which it's raised $25M so far (Hanaa' Tameez/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/the-19ths-first-ever-strategic-plan-is-an-attempt-to-play-it-safe-in-a-precarious-media-age/
http://mediagazer.com/250828/p12#a250828p12

Inside India's growing ~$1.5B e-waste recycling industry, about 95% of workers are employed informally, doing dangerous, toxic, and lawless work for meager pay (Yashraj Sharma/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/india-e-waste-recycling-electronics/

Inside India’s billion-dollar e-waste empire
The informal recycling economy is turning global e-waste into profit — at a steep human and environmental cost.

heise | Wenn Richter KI benutzen: Warum es große Probleme in den USA gibt
Immer mehr US-Richter nutzen generative KI für Urteile. Doch die Fehleranfälligkeit der Systeme kann schwerwiegende Folgen haben, muss sie aber nicht.

From Texas to the front lines: the story of a volunteer medic in Ukraine #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/28/from-texas-to-the-front.html

US FDA narrows under-65 COVID vaccine eligibility; maintains full access for older Americans (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-health-secretary-kennedy-says-fda-has-authorized-use-covid-shots-those-higher-2025-08-27/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250827/p157#a250827p157

Tribal radio stations say the Trump administration has not said when or how much they will get of the $9.4M that Senator Rounds negotiated in a handshake deal (Jennifer Shutt/North Dakota Monitor)
https://northdakotamonitor.com/2025/08/27/repub/tribal-radio-stations-wait-on-9m-pledged-in-congressional-handshake-deal/
http://mediagazer.com/250828/p14#a250828p14

Q&A with Francis Dufay, CEO of Jumia, Africa's largest e-commerce platform, on Temu and other rivals, adding Chinese sellers to stay competitive, AI, and more (Damilare Dosunmu/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/jumia-temu-shein-africa/

How Africa’s e-commerce giant is fighting off Shein and Temu
Jumia is capitalizing on the U.S.-China trade war as Chinese vendors are exploring new avenues to route their products into markets such as Nigeria and Côte d'Ivoire.

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Paypal: Deutsche Banken blockierten offenbar Zahlungen von Milliarden Euro

German fighter jets reportedly scrambled to intercept Russian spy plane over Baltic Sea: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/27/german-fighter-jets-reportedly-scrambled.html

The Trump administration proposes regulation limiting US visas for members of the media to 240 days, after which they would have to reapply (Ted Hesson/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/trump-administration-moves-tighten-duration-visas-students-media-2025-08-27/
http://mediagazer.com/250828/p5#a250828p5

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-…

Writing Help: WhatsApps KI-Schreibhilfe verspricht höchsten Datenschutz
WhatsApps KI-Schreibhilfe setzt auf "Private Processing". Audits fanden teils gravierende Lücken – trotz Nachbesserungen ist Vertrauen nötig.

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…

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Whistleblower: DOGE hat Daten zu allen Menschen in den USA in die Cloud kopiert

Ukraine war latest: Ukraine confirms Russia entered Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, reports advance stopped: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/27/ukraine-war-latest-ukraine-confirms.html

Malaysian chip designer SkyeChip unveils the MARS1000, the country's first edge AI processor, as Malaysia seeks to climb the global semiconductor value chain (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-25/malays…

Donnerstag: Leitfaden gegen Cyberangriffe Chinas, Google will nichts vergessen
Warnung vieler Sicherheitsbehörden Google gegen Recht auf Vergessen Windows-Word mit Cloud-Autosave Auskunft nach IT-Angriff auf Kliniken #heiseshow

Ukrainian FPV drones destroy enemy equipment! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/27/ukrainian-fpv-drones-destroy-enemy.html

#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.

Google plans to invest an additional $9B in Virginia through 2026 to boost its cloud and AI infrastructure, including a new data center in Chesterfield County (Emily Forgash/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Google to Invest Additional $9 Billion in Virginia Data Centers
Alphabet Inc.’s Google is investing an additional $9 billion in Virginia through 2026 to enhance cloud and AI infrastructure across the state, marking the latest in a series of big tech investments in US data centers.

Google will HIV-Status minderjährigen Kanadiers in Suchergebnissen behalten
Eine auf konkrete Gefahr reduzierte Variante des "Rechts auf Vergessenwerden" möchte Kanadas Datenschutzbehörde durchsetzen. Google spielt nicht mit.

Sources: Meta aims to launch its next-gen Llama AI model, Llama 4.X, by the end of 2025; the TBD team developing Llama 4.X is also trying to fix Llama 4 bugs (Jyoti Mann/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-superintelligen…

Meta races to launch latest Llama AI model by year-end, sources say
Meta plans to launch its latest AI model, called Llama 4.X, by year-end, two people familiar with the matter told Business Insider.

Weltweite Warnung vor Cyberangriffen Chinas auf Telekommunikationsinfrastruktur
Chinesische Angreifer wie Salt Typhoon oder GhostEmperor nutzen zumeist bekannte, aber nicht geschlossene Lücken aus. Jetzt gibt es einen offiziellen Leitfaden.

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

Windows: MS Word speichert jetzt automatisch in die Cloud
Word für Windows speichert neu abgefasste Inhalte automatisch in die Cloud, wo auch die KI mitliest. Es gibt Abhilfe.
https://www.

Rokid Glasses lösen Kickstarter-Hype aus und feiern Premiere auf der IFA
Über 500.000 US-Dollar in 24 Stunden: Rokids smarte Brille begeistert Tech-Fans und wird auf der IFA erstmals vor Publikum präsentiert.

xAI launches Grok Code Fast 1, a "speedy and economical" agentic coding model, available for free for a limited time on GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, more (Juby Babu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/musks-xai-forays-into…

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Grammatikfehler machen Prompt Injections wahrscheinlicher
https:…

The US starts publishing GDP data on nine public blockchains including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, with the help of Coinbase, Kraken, and Gemini (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-28/us-puts-gdp-data-on-th…

Bots unter sich: Forscher organisiert erste Wissenschaftskonferenz nur für KI
James Zou lässt KI-"Wissenschaftler" nach Behandlungsmethoden für Covid-19 suchen. Die Ergebnisse überprüft eine KI und stellt sie auf einer KI-Konferenz vor.

Meituan reports Q2 revenue up 11.7% YoY to ~$12.8B and net income down 97% YoY to ~$51M, blaming "irrational competition" in the Chinese food delivery market (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-…

Nvidia CFO Colette Kress says the US hasn't outlined its plan for a 15% China commission, Nvidia won't pay until it has it, and it can sell AI chips without it (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-2…

Source: Mark Zuckerberg lobbied President Trump against digital service taxes, which Trump then publicly criticized; Meta confirms they met privately last week (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-28/zuc…

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…

Windows-Update-Vorschau: Nun auch für Windows 11 verfügbar
Bereits am Mittwoch hatte Microsoft Windows 10 mit den Juni-Update-Voschauen bedacht. Nun kommen auch Windows-11-PCs an die Reihe.
https://ww…

Circana: in July, Sea's Free Fire jumped seven spots to 6th in US mobile game sales, above COD, driven by anime and Netflix tie-ins; US users buy 2M Switch 2s (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08…

Commonwealth, which wants to build a fusion power plant, raised $863M from Nvidia's NVentures, Khosla Ventures, and Google, bringing its total raised to ~$3B (Will Wade/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Dutch web design automation startup Framer raised $100M led by Meritech and Atomico with Accel participation at a $2B valuation, after raising $27M in 2023 (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

The CFTC says non-US crypto exchanges have a path to bringing on US users, in an advisory clarifying how they can register as so-called foreign boards of trade (Lydia Beyoud/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

People are increasingly using generative AI to create digital vision boards, such as videos depicting their ideal futures, to help them achieve their goals (Alyson Krueger/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/style/a…

Believers in Manifestation Are Using A.I. to Visualize Their Dream Lives
For some believers in manifestation, vision boards have become a little like movie trailers, as brought to you by A.I.

Rain, a stablecoin-backed Visa card issuer, raised a $58M Series B led by Sapphire Ventures, after raising a $24.5M Series A led by Norwest in March (Yueqi Yang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/stablecoin-…

Stablecoin Card Startup Rain Raises $58 Million Led By Sapphire Ventures
Rain, a stablecoin-backed card issuer that works with Visa, said it raised $58 million in Series B round led by Sapphire Ventures, just months after its last fundraising round, demonstrating once again investor enthusiasm for crypto startups flowing from congressional passage of stablecoin legislation in July. With the deal, Rain’s valuation increased nearly six times from its $24.5 million

Affirm reports Q4 revenue up 33% YoY to $876.4M, above $837M est., GMV up 43% to $10.4B, and EPS of $0.20, above $0.12 est.; AFRM jumps 13% after hours (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/affirm-swin…

Intel CFO says the US deal aims to deter Intel from selling its foundry; it lets the US buy 5% more at $20/share if Intel's stake in the unit falls below 51% (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/29fb5020-2b25-429a-b63f-18356b467e7a