2026-05-07 21:05:47
Coinbase reports Q1 revenue down 31% YoY to $1.41B, vs. $1.52B est., and a loss of $1.49 per share, vs. a $0.27 profit est.; COIN drops 4% after hours (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/07/coinbase-coin-earnings-q1-2026.html
Coinbase reports Q1 revenue down 31% YoY to $1.41B, vs. $1.52B est., and a loss of $1.49 per share, vs. a $0.27 profit est.; COIN drops 4% after hours (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/07/coinbase-coin-earnings-q1-2026.html
“Teachers who use AI ‘will replace those who don’t’, the chair of the Oireachtas committee on artificial intelligence has warned.
Fianna Fšil TD Malcolm Byrne said he was worried Ireland was at risk of falling behind in discussions around how AI can be ‘responsibly integrated into our formal education system.’”
Fianna Fšil TD Malcolm Byrne is a fool who doesn’t have the first clue about what he’s taking about.
Pro-Ukrainian partisans disable military communication infrastructure in Russia's Belgorod Oblast, group claims: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/08/062827.html
Lazyweb: Has anybody spotted a news article or data source that quantifies the voter composition of the new TN districts — as Harris/Trump, or 2022 House results, or whatever? I’m wondering just how far underwater each of the 9 new districts is.
Ein Jahr lang passiert nichts, und dann kommt die Koalition gestern abend damit um die Ecke, dass in zwei Wochen die Anhörung zu ihrem Gesetzentwurf zu #Reallaboren stattfinden muss.
Gutes Regierungshandeln, genug Zeit für Sachverständige: Doch nicht so wichtig offensichtlich.
"Labels behandeln das Symptom. Die Krankheit ist eine andere: Wir haben keine gemeinsame Vorstellung davon, was «menschlich gemachte» Inhalte in einer Welt bedeuten, in der KI in jeden Schritt des Produktionsprozesses eingebettet ist. Nicht am Anfang, nicht am Ende, sondern mittendrin. "
@… heute bei
Die Chronistenpflicht des Bloggers mündet in einer kurzen Notiz zum Koalitionsvertrag.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2026/05/kurz-habemus-koalitionsvertrag/
Kamera-App in iOS 27 soll Siri-Modus bekommen
Schon jetzt lässt sich mit Visual Intelligence schnell Bild-KI aufs iPhone holen. Mit dem nächsten iOS kommt ein „Siri-Mode“ für die Kamera hinzu.
https://www.
Tohuwabohu um ungefragt heruntergeladene KI-Dateien in Chrome
Berichten zufolge lädt Google Chrome ungefragt 4 GByte KI-Dateien herunter. Dabei entstehe viel CO₂. Es ist jedoch komplizierter.
https://www.
There's situations and shituations, we got the latter
Will John Fetterman Go Full Benedict Arnold? | Portside
https://portside.org/2026-05-07/will-john-fetterman-go-full-benedict-arnold
A crew of 22 workers on the YouTube series CoComelon: The Melon Patch launched a strike over working conditions and management's refusal to bargain with IATSE (Katie Campione/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/05/iatse-crew-strike-cocomelon-the-melon…
Een beetje goed nieuws, maar ook weer minder goed nieuws. 7 besmettingen #hanta nu.
https://nos.nl/artikel/2613552-nederlandse-ste…
4 models, 5 years, 8 institutes, 20 coauthors under the brilliant leadership of @drgilbz.bsky.social @hofsteengemarte.bsky.social @… Abraham Torres Alavez: The
evaluation of the #polarRES Antarctic climate model ensemble is finally published Great working with you all team!
And now for the Arctic...
https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/20/2629/2026/
from my link log —
Potential consequences of using PostgreSQL as a job queue.
http://richyen.com/postgres/2026/05/04/postgres_job_queue.html
saved 2026-05-07
"The BJP was formed by members of what was basically a Hindu religious fascist party, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), an organisation modelled on Mussolini’s Black Brigades. Modi was a long-time member of the RSS who then moved seamlessly into the BJP. "
India: a further swing to the right – Michael Roberts Blog
Fascinating stuff, "On Tuesday, Saudi officials notified U.S. counterparts that they could not use their country’s territory or airspace for the operation, according to a U.S. military official. That rendered the plan unfeasible: U.S. naval escorts through the strait would require substantial air support for protection, including from fighter jets and attack helicopters."
RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116531392224732488
If he wants to declare victory,
Trump could point to the fact that even the 2015 deal lacked the lengthy moratorium on enrichment that his may provide.
But any such gains will have come at an awful price.
Is Trump About to Invite In the Biggest Predator in the World? (Oren Cass/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/opinion/trump-xi-china-us-automakers.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260508/p18#a260508p18
CMOS stands for cat meme–OwO–semiconductor
Happy Birthday, #SirDavidAttenborough ! 💯🥳
Very impressive. I think I’ll watch a nature documentary in your honor this weekend
And then, develop your skill for being oriented, for harnessing chaos into something going a particular direction. You can only do this once you've developed taste and skill and gone the wrong direction a bunch. You cannot shortcut this experience, but as someone told me at a time I was not quite ready to hear it, the job of the senior engineer is to bring clarity.
Decisions get made so fast, before we're really ready for them, and in conflict. The results are mediocre to bad. It's up to us to sort through the mess and say "this way" out of it. Not as dictators or authorities, but as people who understand the territory. And who can spot when their teams are going in circles and pick a path out.
Instructure disables its Canvas edtech platform, used by thousands of schools and universities, amid a data extortion attack claimed by ShinyHunters (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/05/canvas-breach-disrupts-schools-coll…
Alexa startet in Deutschland in den öffentlichen Vorabtest
Amazons aufgeschlaute Sprachassistenz Alexa ist im Early Access auf Echo- sowie Fire-TV-Geräten verfügbar und macht BMW-Bordsysteme gesprächiger.
http…
4,000-year-old texts to reach new audiences in digital project
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-year-texts-audiences-digital.html
RE: https://newsie.social/@altpapier/116533812319638685
Lest die ganze Ausgabe des @… von heute, wirklich.
Hope she sues him until he turns blue https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/may/06/indigenous-actor-james-cameron-avatar-lawsuit
This is a showstopper for me.
There’s a whole Russian doll of concerns. The innermost one is stuff like “What is this actually good for?” and “What are effective strategies for using it if one does use it?” But on the outside are the showstoppers: astronomical power and water usage, grotesquely unethical training data sourcing, and the hideousness of the people who own all this and stand to gain.
I might actually have fun tinkering with that innermost nesting doll…maybe…but it’s hypothetical for me. First I have to get through all the many outer layers, and I’m already done and gone at the very outermost one.
Currently making some tutorials for our next hackathon - should I upload them to codeberg (and make the students use that)? Or github (where they almost certainly already have accounts)?
#DigitalSovereignty...
#AcademicChatter
Opposing genocide isn’t antisemitic; calling opposing genocide antisemitic is antisemantic.
#antisemitic #antisemantic #israel
US supplying Ukraine-tested anti-drone systems to Middle East partners, WSJ reports: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/08/us-supplying-ukrainetested-antidrone-systems.html
Surveys: half of US adults under 50 get health info from influencers or podcasts; 86% of the health influencers are on Instagram, 62% on TikTok, 45% on YouTube (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2026
HomeKit für mehr Geräte: Homebridge 2.0 bekommt Matter
Das Open-Source-Projekt zur Anbindung von Apple nicht unterstützter Geräte wird erwachsen. Version 2.0 bringt verschiedene Verbesserungen.
https://www.
An Atlanta-based federal appeals court became the latest to reject ICE’s efforts to lock up
— without an opportunity for bond
— the vast majority of people the Trump administration is seeking to deport.
A divided three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals said ICE’s push violated decades-old immigration laws intended to require the detention of recent border-crossers.
But last year, ICE reinterpreted that law to apply to virtually anyone without lawful st…
Before Gen Z invented Aura Farming, previous generations only had Aura Hunting & Gathering
UK's Labour Party suffers heavy early losses as Reform gains in elections (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks-labour-party-suffers-heavy-early-losses-reform-gains-elections-2026-05-08/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260508/p19#a260508p19
Building credibility this way is awkward, even painful for some people, but there is no substitute for being known.
Sony and TSMC announce a new JV to build next-gen image sensors for robots and cars, as Sony moves from in-house manufacturing to a more asset-light approach (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-08/tsmc-and-sony-t…
RE: https://systemli.social/@anneroth/116528579623755701
Ein bisschen lustig auch, dass das der Bundestags-PR eine Meldung wert ist, aber nichts zum Thema @…
Trump Administration Weighs Citing ‘Emergency’ to Admit More White South Africans as Refugees - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/us/politics/trump-afrikaner-refugees-emergency.html
maybe eating the rich is better than taxing them idk https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/06/tax-the-rich-racial-slurs-new-york-real-estate
RE: https://climatejustice.social/@ketan/116534182584305742
LLMs in their current form are an environmental disaster, regardless of whether the vendors who sell them are nice people.
RE: https://todon.eu/@faab64/116533913867479023
Israel apparently has the right to exist wherever the fuck it wants.
OpenAI is rolling out GPT-5.5-Cyber, a security-focused variant of the model, in a limited preview capacity to vetted cybersecurity teams (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/07/openai-gpt-55-cybersecurity-model
Happy International Women's day — I'm currently in Luxemburg and will participate in the women's march with ~5000 participants expected. The political party déi Lénk has achieved a historic win in making abortion a right just this week!
Still, there's lots to do: Luxemburg's minister of defense will participate in this protest, despite her version of feminism being that black women can now be in the military too. A larger action to protest white, western “feminism” is planned.
N…
Sony Pictures reports FY 2025 revenue flat YoY to $9.9B; Sony Music reports FY 2025 sales up 15% YoY to $13.46B, and operating income up 25% to a record $2.85B (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/sony-pictures-en…
Another day, another hairpin turn in the world of Donald Trump’s foreign policy.
The weekend was all about war,
and Trump insisting Iran had not yet “paid a big enough price”.
Tuesday was Project Freedom,
styled as a grand “humanitarian gesture” to allow trapped ships and their crews to escape the Gulf,
but also aimed at weakening Iran’s chokehold on the strait of Hormuz.
By the early hours of Wednesday we were back to peace.
The president announced:…
RE: https://exquisite.social/@thomholwerda/116535410248869526
Hannah Montana OS was free of AI, just sayin'
…
Exclusive: Oil-price bets ahead of Iran war news totalled $7 billion, reporting shows (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/oil-price-bets-ahead-iran-war-news-totalled-7-billion-reporting-shows-2026-05-07/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260508/p2#a260508p2
Airbnb reports Q1 revenue up 18% YoY to $2.68B, vs. $2.62B est., Nights and Seats Booked up 9% to 156.2M, vs. 155.77M est., lifts 2026 revenue growth guidance (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/07/airbnb-abnb-earnings-q1-2026.html
RE: https://systemli.social/@anneroth/116528579623755701
Und was hat das überhaupt mit Digitalpolitik zu tun.
Anyway: Beschäftigt sich irgendwer von Euch damit oder kennt ihr Leute, die das tun?
Three-quarters of USDA researchers tapped to relocate tell union they’re not going | Federal News Network
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2026/05/three-quarters-of-usda-researchers-tapped-to-relocate-tell-union-theyre-not-going/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/116533974286677161
Are you a fool? With AI, you can be a 10x fool.
it's been a lovely year for conspiracy theorists
Time for some delightful music to end the day
https://youtu.be/QUgFqvzyBTM
American cities languish badly compared with transit leaders such as Sydney, Hong Kong and Barcelona,
based on the number of transit vehicles per 100,000 residents,
according to the Transportation for America study.
The gap is now so large that for major American cities to bring their public transit up to “world-class” status,
it would cost an enormous
$4.6trillion, involving 7,500 miles of new dedicated infrastructure for trains and buses, over the next 20 years…
Is it time to stockpile 🧻 again or...
CoreWeave reports Q1 revenue up 112% YoY to $2.08B, vs. $1.97B est., a $99.4B revenue backlog, forecasts Q2 revenue below estimates; CRWV drops 8% after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/07/coreweave-crwv-q1-earnings-report-2026.html…
Urteil gegen 1&1: Kunden dürfen SIM-Karte in Modem stecken
1&1 darf Mobilfunk-Verträge nicht automatisch um 1 Jahr verlängern. Auch das Verbot stationärer Endgeräte ist unzulässig.
https://www.
Dreimal am Tag zwischen Dorotheenstr. und Paul-Löbe-Haus hin- und herlaufen: Nichts lieber.
Andere Arbeitgeber*innen zahlen dafür Urban Sports.
Viewpoint discrimination.
Judge Rules Trump Administration's Cancellation of Humanities Grants Was Unconstitutional
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/washington-dc/articles/2026-05-07/judge-rules-trump-administrations-cancellation-of-humanities-grants-was-unconstitutional
RE: https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/116533984897774150
Vibe living.
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@malwaretech/116534738472472605
BoD – Boop of Death
Sony reports 1.5M PS5 unit sales in Q4, down 46% YoY, and forecasts annual sales at its gaming business to fall 6% YoY to $1.69B, amid memory chip price surge (Sam Nussey/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/sony-annu…
„Macht süchtig”: Meta Platforms akzeptiert Urteil nicht
Grob fahrlässig hat Meta Online-Dienste designt, Kinder wurden süchtig und krank. Meta will nicht haften. Der Prozess sei falsch gelaufen, das Urteil aufzuheben
…
France keeps Kyiv embassy open after Russia's pre-9 May threat to strike "decision-making centers" - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/08/france-keeps-kyiv-embassy-open-after-russias-pre-9-may-threat-to-strike-decision-making-centers/
Mozilla says Anthropic's Mythos Preview and other AI models helped it identify and ship 423 Firefox security bug fixes in April, compared to 31 a year earlier (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/07/how-anth…
Harvard Canvas Site Goes Down After University Listed in Instructure Breach | News | The Harvard Crimson
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/5/8/canvas-breach-down/
Nintendo said it would increase the price of the Switch 2 to $500, up from $450, globally from September 1, and offered a downbeat performance outlook for 2026 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-08/n…
Surveys: half of US adults under 50 get health info from influencers or podcasts; 86% of the health influencers are on Instagram, 62% on TikTok, 45% on YouTube (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2026
"An (economic) serial killer is on the loose, and he’s murdering U.S firms left and right."
The ‘America First’ Corporate Graveyard
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-america-first-corporate-graveyard-trump-economy
Filings: Baidu's AI chip unit Kunlunxin is planning a dual IPO on Shanghai's STAR Board and in Hong Kong; Baidu holds a 58% stake in Kunlunxin (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-08/baidu-s-ai-ch…
MercadoLibre reports Q1 revenue up 49% YoY to $8.8B, vs. $8.4B est., and net income down 16% to $417M, vs. $433M est.; MELI drops 5% after hours (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-07/mercadolibre-re…
Nvidia and data center operator IREN announce a deal to deploy up to 5 GW of AI infrastructure; Nvidia can invest $2.1B into IREN; IREN jumps 9% after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/07/iren-stock-ai-infrastructure-nvidia.html
French prosecutors escalate an investigation into Elon Musk and X, focused on alleged algorithmic manipulation and sexual deepfakes, to a criminal probe (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/07/french-prosecutors-probe-of-e…
A US judge blocks DOGE's termination of $100M in National Endowment for the Humanities grants, saying ChatGPT prompts used to decide the cuts were ill-defined (Zoe Tillman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Sources: SK Hynix's big customers have been proposing a range of offers to secure memory chip supplies, including investing in dedicated chip production lines (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific
Sources: the US suspects OBON, a key company behind Thailand's national AI effort, of smuggling Super Micro servers with export-controlled Nvidia chips to China (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05…
Sources: Anthropic weighs raising as much as $50B at a ~$900B pre-money valuation, likely closing within two months; its annualized revenue is nearing $45B (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a40cafcc-0fa4-4e70-9e24-90d826aea56d
Sources: White House unease over Mythos has left some administration officials fearful that the change represents a reversal of its hands-off AI policy (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/trump-ai-anthropic-mythos-regulation-2378971f
Fintech app Toss, used by ~66% of South Korea's 51M people, says its FacePay service, available at 330K retail outlets, has attracted 4.8M users since September (Song Jung-a/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f48b4605-1aa9-4549-9197-fc1c2a361b90
Block reports Q1 revenue up 5% YoY to $6.1B, vs. $5.9B est., and raises its 2026 gross profit forecast above estimates; XYZ jumps 7% after hours (Isabelle Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-07/dorse…
Analysis: South Korea's equity market overtakes Canada's as the world's seventh largest, driven by Samsung and SK Hynix, whose stocks have more than doubled YTD (Sangmi Cha/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Sources: Mercor rival micro1 has told investors it is now generating $200M in recurring revenue; Mercor is offering micro1 employees signing bonuses up to $2M (Anna Tong/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/02/05/the-ai-talent-wars-have…
Kuka, one of the largest industrial robotics suppliers, says it is prioritizing US and Asia investments, as Europe's industrial companies are slow to adopt AI (Marilen Martin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
TikTok says it plans to invest €1B to build a second data center in Finland as part of its €12B European data sovereignty initiative for the data of 200M users (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/tiktok-build-second-bi…
Guild.ai, which helps companies develop, deploy, and observe AI agents, raised a $14M seed and $30M Series A, both led by GV, and is now valued at $300M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/03/…
India's updated startup framework doubles deep-tech startup eligibility to 20 years and triples the revenue cap for tax, grant, and regulatory benefits to ~$33M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/07/india-has-changed-its-startup…
Sources: AI model builder Core Automation, founded in March by Jerry Tworek, aims to raise $300M-$500M at a $4B valuation after raising $100M at a $1B valuation (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ex…
Musk v. Altman docs: Microsoft execs had reservations about funding OpenAI in 2018 but worried that withholding support could push OpenAI into Amazon's arms (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-executives-discuss-openai-sam-altman-2018/
Analysis: the combined free cash flow of Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta is expected to fall to ~$4B in Q3 and hit its lowest full-year level since 2014 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b3dfaba9-17a2-4fac-90fe-4ab3ca7c9494
Cloudflare reports Q1 revenue up 34% YoY to $639.8M, plans to cut 1,100 jobs as it shifts to an "agentic AI-first operating model"; NET drops 13% after hours (Ignacio Gonzalez/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Scale AI wins a $500M DOD contract through the Chief Digital and AI Office to help sift data and assist in decision-making, after receiving a $100M deal in 2025 (Jen Judson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
Filing: Meta asks a judge to overturn the jury's verdict in the Los Angeles social media addiction trial or order a new trial, citing Section 230 protections (Diana Novak Jones/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/m