2026-03-17 20:42:00
Fußball-WM 2026: YouTube und FIFA vereinbaren Kooperation
YouTube wird offizieller Partner der Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2026. Die FIFA erhofft sich von der Vereinbarung neue Formate und neue Zielgruppen.
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Fußball-WM 2026: YouTube und FIFA vereinbaren Kooperation
YouTube wird offizieller Partner der Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2026. Die FIFA erhofft sich von der Vereinbarung neue Formate und neue Zielgruppen.
https://…
Investigation: Jeffrey Epstein spent hundreds of thousands on a campaign to manipulate Google search results and sanitize his Wikipedia, after his 2009 release (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/business/media/jeffrey-epstein-online.html
In the 1980s, Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard created a new kind of encryption that would be impregnable.
Turing Award Goes to Inventors of Quantum Cryptography
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/technology/turing-award-winners-quantum-cr…
Audre Lorde's "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." is not just a statement about a tool being tainted by its origin. It's about what kind of tool a "master" would create: Whips. Chains. Violence.
That's the meaning: You cannot just take tools whose purpose and politics is dominance and violence and "make them liberatory". This goes deeper than "just" embedded politics or lofty talks about ethics, it co…
Trump and Rubio blackmailing the world.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/health/zambia-hiv-aid-minerals-trump.html
Zelensky says Ukraine ready to refrain from strikes on Russia amid Geneva talks: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/18/zelensky-says-ukraine-ready-to.html
It's pronounced cimmanin
National Academies of Sciences says no to demands it remove climate info
State attorneys general won’t get climate chapter removed from a legal manual
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/national-academies-of-sciences-r…
Tangent, why does Apple not make computers like this anymore?
(this is a rhetorical question, you do not need to reply)
„Wir sollten Mastodon in die Presse bringen!”
„NICHT SO NICHT SO NICHT SO NICHT SO”
😂😂😂😂
Go Venezuela! 🇻🇪⚾
#baseball
Leuk artikel, De top-7 van Nederlandse woorden die op de hele wereld verder niemand heeft.
#nederlands
A rare daylight #fireball coming with a loud bang was seen and heard Tuesday morning over the U.S. and Ohio in particular: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHBjApk3d6w - see https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-12-marz-2026/ for links to many more reports. And https://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/meteorite-falls/events/windfall-oh says: "Signatures of falling meteorites are seen in data from three weather radars [...] NASA Meteoroid Environment Office finds that this was a 2m diameter object weighing around 6 metric tons - more of a small asteroid than a large meteoroid. [...] There are meteorites on the ground around Windfall, OH towards River Styx, OH."
Countries for which genocide is a deal breaker:
Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, Slovenia, and Spain
Countries for which genocide is not a deal breaker:
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany (2nd largest arms dealer of the genocide behind the US; historic fan of genocides), Greece, Israel (our good friends who are carrying out the genocide), Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, L…
FilmLA: in H1 2025, Los Angeles soundstage occupancy averaged 62%, down from 63% in 2024 and a 35.4% drop from the 96% peak in 2016; shoot days fell 8% to 7,940 (Erik Pedersen/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/03/los-angeles-soundstage-report-1236758623/
Der #Golfstrom könnte uns vor einem #Kipppunkt im #Klimasystem warnen.
In einer hochauflösenden Simulation verschiebt er sich erst langsam, dann plötzlich um über 200 km nach Norden – rund…
The Linux Foundation announces $12.5M in total grants from Google and others to help FOSS maintainers cope with the influx of AI-generated security findings (Simon Sharwood/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/18/linux_foundation_ai_slop_defense/
RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@grumpygamer/116247253660292763
Isn't that basically what NVIDIA is trying to present DLSS5 to do?
Former Ukrainian energy minister Herman Halushchenko ordered held for 60 days on money laundering charges: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/18/former-ukrainian-energy-minister-herman.html
Donna Miller comes out on top of crowded Illinois 2nd Congressional District race
-- defeating Jessie Jackson Jr.
Miller will likely replace U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly in the heavily Democratic district.
The only Republican candidate on the primary ballot was Mike Noack.
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GAYINT forecasts $1T in orbital Catte sales over the next 18 months.
U.S Strikes Killed Iranian Cyber Chiefs, But The Hacks Continued
https://www.forbes.com/sites/the-wiretap/2026/03/17/us-strikes-killed-iranian-cyber-chiefs-but-the-hacks-continued/
das magische sechseck ist politische fanfiction
And cue “Swiss neutrality” (privilege cowardice complicity) in 3… 2… @… https://hcommons.social/@adachika192/116087612441385859
RE: https://mastodon.social/@derpostillon/116245267049075966
Er hat bestimmt auch ein Restaurant. 🤪
Chartbeat: over two years, search traffic fell by 60% for small publishers with 1K-10K daily page views, 47% for medium-sized publishers, and 22% for large ones (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/17/chartbeat-search-traffic-ai-chatbots
RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116249958233178164
Europe also needs way more infrastructure under democratic and decentralized control.
"Scale" is itself an ideology that leads to monopolies and injus…
CEO to programmer: “Why don’t you put that keyboard aside and use these chainsaws that are on fire for programming?”
Programmer: “Let’s compromise on a maximum of 5 chainsaws and relatively small fires”
Former energy minister Galushchenko says godfather paid for son’s Swiss schooling as SAPO alleges 546,000 Swiss francs spent: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/18/former-energy-minister-galushchenko-says.html
Source: the Pentagon is discussing plans to set up secure environments for AI companies to train military-specific versions of their models on classified data (James O'Donnell/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyr…
Founders are increasingly leasing multimillion-dollar mansions in San Francisco's wealthy neighborhoods as corporate HQs and hacker houses, amid the AI boom (The San Francisco Standard)
https://sfstandard.com/2026/03/17/move-garages-startups-now-hatc…
Look mum no self-awareness
A Republican-appointed federal judge has ordered that more than 1,000 Voice of America (VOA) employees be reinstated
after a Trump administration order effectively dismantled the radio network, triggering mass layoffs.
In two separate rulings made Tuesday, the US district judge Royce Lamberth said that attempts to shut down operations of the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), an independent federal agency that oversees VOA, are illegal
-- and mandated that employees return…
RE: https://framapiaf.org/@lo/116244171962863475
Aaaaaaaaa! Help
Millardendeal: Mastercard übernimmt das Stablecoin-Start-up BVNK
Mit der 1,8 Milliarden US-Dollar schweren Übernahme baut Mastercard seine Position im Bereich blockchainbasierter Zahlungsabwicklungen aus.
h…
Source: Beijing has approved multiple Chinese companies to purchase H200 chips from Nvidia; a Chinese spokesperson said they are "not aware of specifics" (Karen Freifeld/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chines
(I get that this is a somewhat hard problem because of various fuckeries that benchmarks and compilers do.)
People who are a handful do so by choice.*
*well I do anyway :neocat_evil_3c:
Polls have closed in Illinois, where a series of bitterly contested primaries will decide which members of a new generation of politicians will try to replace several Democratic mainstays
-- including Senator Richard J. Durbin, the party’s No. 2 in the Senate.
The Senate primary and down-ballot races in deep-blue Illinois have seized national attention as longtime lawmakers step aside and Democrats hope to gain momentum heading into midterm elections that have been reshaped by …
Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Gefahr im Schacht: Viele Aufzüge ohne Schutz gegen Hacker
Tencent reports Q4 revenue up 13% YoY to ~$28.3B, vs. ~$28.2B est., its fifth quarter of double-digit growth, driven by gaming and ads, as it bets on agentic AI (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-18/tencent…
Is there single/multicore benchmark for CPUs that makes current-generation CPUs comparable with stuff from say the mid-90s onwards?
I'd like to specifically compare how fast a G4 (e.g. PowerPC 7455) is versus current Apple M5.
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Urheberrecht: Encyclopaedia Britannica verklagt OpenAI wegen KI-Training
Samsung says it is considering a shift toward multi-year contracts for memory chips that may help stabilize supply and ease concerns about a shortage (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-18/…
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116246612067267661
oh no the replies
A US judge rules Apple can remove apps "with or without cause", a loss for Musi, a streaming app removed from the App Store that used YouTube to source music (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20
Bolt setzt für Robotaxis auf Nvidia-Technik
Bolt hat eine Partnerschaft mit Nvidia angekündigt. Dessen Plattform für autonomes Fahren soll den Einsatz von Robotaxis in Europa beschleunigen.
https://www.
How AI's post-training process suppresses the creativity and whimsicality seen in earlier models like GPT-2, leading to bad writing from many top AI models (Jasmine Sun/The Atlantic)
https://www.
Nvidia Feynman kommt mit gestapelten GPU-Dies und Custom-HBM
Optisch wird Nvidias übernächster KI-Beschleuniger Feynman viel kleiner. Statt Chips nebeneinander zu setzen, liegen sie ab 2028 übereinander.
https:…
AI drone software company Swarmer closed up 520% in its Nasdaq debut, valuing it at $380M ; its tech has been deployed in 100K combat missions in Ukraine (Arvelisse Bonilla Ramos/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Samsung and AMD sign a preliminary deal for Samsung to supply its next-gen HBM4 for AMD's MI455X accelerators, used in data centers, and DDR5 for AMD's Helios (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Alibaba raises prices for its T-Head AI computing chips, including the Zhenwu 810E, by 5% to 34%, and its Cloud Parallel File Storage by 30%, after demand soars (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…
The UK's FCA says Meta has repeatedly failed to stop illegal ads for high-risk financial products running on its platforms, despite committing to block them (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
A mystery 1T-parameter AI model called Hunter Alpha, which appeared on OpenRouter on March 11, sparks speculation that DeepSeek is quietly testing its V4 model (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel
Nach nur drei Monaten: Samsung stellt Verkauf des Galaxy Z TriFold ein
Samsung stellt den Verkauf des zweifach faltbaren Foldables Galaxy Z TriFold nur wenige Monate nach Verkaufsbeginn wieder ein.
htt…
Filing: the DOD said it designated Anthropic a supply chain risk over concerns the AI company could disable its tech if the Pentagon crossed its "red lines" (Paresh Dave/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/department-of-defense-responds-to-anthropic-…
Zahlungsanbieter Nexi kündigt Free Software Foundation Europe
Die Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) arbeitet mit Spenden durch Unterstützer. Der Zahlungsanbieter Nexi hat nun gekündigt.
https://www.
Companies are starting to track employees' AI token use and tallying the costs to measure their return on AI investments, and to prevent potential token abuse (Katherine Bindley/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-tokens-prod
Statt auf der grünen Wiese zu bauen, sollen alte Kraftwerksstandorte und Industrieflächen reaktiviert werden.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11213407?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mast…
A US appeals court puts on hold an earlier ruling that had blocked Perplexity from using its agentic shopping tool to shop on Amazon's marketplace (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/court-te…
Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragte kündigt Rückzug an
Aus gesundheitlichen Gründen wird Louisa Specht-Riemenschneider das Amt der BfDI aufgeben. Sie will jedoch bis zur Nachfolgeregelung im Amt bleiben.
https://www.
NetBlocks and Kentik: Iran further restricted what little internet connectivity remained, in a bid to curb VPNs, ahead of the Festival of Fire tied to protests (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-17/i…
Sources: Microsoft weighs legal action against Amazon and OpenAI over whether AWS can offer OpenAI Frontier without breaching Microsoft-OpenAI agreement (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e814f4c3-4fb5-4e2e-90a6-470044436b39
Foldable Find N6: Oppo bügelt die Falte aus
Mit dem Oppo Find N6 kommt ein neues Foldable mit faltenfreiem Display auf den Markt. Kunden in Europa gucken jedoch in die Röhre.
https://www.heise.de/n…
Sources: Amazon, long the USPS' biggest customer, plans to cut packages it ships via the service by at least two-thirds this fall, when its contract expires (Esther Fung/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/amazon…
Banks start offloading $18B debt tied to the $55B buyout of EA; sources say EA told potential investors AI could let gaming companies cut engineering workforces (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d993cdfc-a29c-4a85-b6a5-e29e28eb4cd0
Microsoft rudert angeblich bei KI-Plänen zurück
Gerüchten zufolge will Microsoft, anders als zunächst angekündigt, doch nicht die Copilot-KI in alle Windows-Ecken stopfen.
https://www.heise.d…
Q&A with GV's Tom Hulme on the AI investment cycle, London and Europe's opportunities, Q.ai and Nothing investments, AI privacy issues, sovereign AI, and more (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f6dfc90d-7a6a-4a5f-ad56-cd9d3e1ef62a
A Stanford study of 391K messages across 5,000 chats: AI chatbots affirmed user messages in nearly 66% of responses, frequently validating delusional thinking (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7f635a68-3b2a-4e4f-ae3d-926ff06ff068
TU München: Roboter findet verlegte Gegenstände auf Zuruf
Ein Roboter der TU München kann verlegte Gegenstände schneller aufspüren, weil er die Gegenstände und die Umgebung versteht.
https://www.
Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard, who pioneered quantum information theory, win the ACM AM Turing Award; the pair developed the BB84 cryptography protocol (Steven Levy/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/a-quantum-leap-for-the-turing-award/
Mastercard agrees to acquire UK-based stablecoin payments infrastructure startup BVNK for $1.8B, including $300M in contingent payments, set to close in 2026 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/mastercard-buy-stablecoin-infra-firm-b…
„John Carpenter‘s Toxic Commando“ angespielt: Zombie-Action für B-Movie-Fans
„John Carpenter‘s Toxic Commando“ ist ein kompromissloser Koop-Zombie-Shooter mit B-Movie-Flair.
https://www.
Blender 5.1: Audio-, Text- und Strahleneffekte
Die freie 3D-Software Blender 5.1 bringt Vulkan-Support, Raycast-Funktionen für Strahleneffekte und enge Verzahnung von Videoschnitt und Compositor.
https://www.