Tootfinder

DeepSeek says it will lower V4 Pro API prices by 75% to $0.435/1M input and $0.87/1M output tokens, making permanent the discount prices set to expire on May 31 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-23/deeps…

VR Games Showcase März 2026: Alle neuen VR-Spiele und Ankündigungen
Die erste Ausgabe des VR Games Showcase in diesem Jahr liefert wieder zahlreiche Ankündigungen und Veröffentlichungstermine für neue VR-Spiele.

“Love sought from cat is good; but given unsought from cats is better.”
—Abraham Lincoln, 1867

Sonja Drimmer’s post asks us to conduct our own informal survey of whether job listings actually require “AI skills,” whatever that might mean.
As it happens, a colleague shared this fascinating graph from a fairly bland report. It gets at roughly the same question. Note the position of “AI skills” in the list.
This is for 2026.
https://naceweb.org/docs/default-source/default-document-library/2026/publication/research-report/2026-job-outlook-report-spring-update.pdf
2/2

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@EricLawton/116630455189346735
“States with the highest recorded incidents are the occupied Palestinian Territory with 9,013 attacks”
Attacks by whom, Guardian? Attacks by whom, motherfuckers?

Do it for him ❤️ :queer_cat_trans:

Microsoft reports expose AI's cost problem: The tech is more expensive than paying human employees
Firms today are pushing employees to use as much AI as possible to squeeze out the technology’s productivity gains. But that pressure is leading to cracks, and those cracks may be irreparable.
🤷 https://

Microsoft reports are exposing AI’s real cost problem: Using the tech is more expensive than paying human employees
Companies are racing to incentivize employees to use AI. But as some companies are finding, the more employees that use the technology, the heavier the bill.

Is this like Nintendoland?

For international students seeking U.S. jobs, the 'American dream ... is collapsing'
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/24/for-international-students-seeking-us-jobs-the-american-dream-is-collapsing.html

I am making my favorite chicken again!
Follow along, only six hours to marinate!
https://www.lecreuset.co.uk/en_GB/moroccan-chicken-tagine/r0000000001384.html

#FotoDerWoche vom Neckar in Esslingen.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2026/05/photo-of-the-week-neckar-esslingen/

Photo of the week: Neckar, Esslingen
Einer von vielen Schnappschüssen von der Pliensaubrücke - je nach Licht- und Wolkenverhältnissen kann der Neckar ganz fotogen sein. Oder nach langweiligem Kanal aussehen. Besonders positiv: wenn ein Vogel unbedingt mit aufs Bild will, wie hier.

少し軽くなったかな。経路やプロセスに再起動かけました。
#fedibird #fedibird_info #fedibird_watch

A look at the scourge of smartphone thefts in London, as victims describe receiving texts threatening them into unlinking Apple IDs from stolen iPhones (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/world/e

Their Phones Were Stolen in London. Then the Threats Started.
Tens of thousands of smartphones were reported stolen in the British capital in recent years. For some victims, losing their phone was only the beginning.

RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116628363841732321
So why does @… have to keep suing the…

RCA stands for Root Cause Animal
https://cybersquirrel1.com/

People need to talk more about the movie Electric Dreams (1984) and its amazing soundtrack

Not in our name! :QueerCatHeart_Bisexual:

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Signal-Angriffs-Warnung: Zweite Frau im Staat wohl Auslöser

@… 再起動かけたからエラー出たかな。動いてるよー

Measles kills more than 500 children in Bangladesh : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/24/g-s1-123661/measles-outbreak-bangladesh-deadline-vaccine

New sublime sandwich at Parish cafe

Tether buys out SoftBank's ~26% stake in bitcoin treasury company Twenty One Capital, taking its stake to ~71%; SoftBank's stake was worth ~$679M (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-20/te…

Learn all about “the most moral army in the world” (currently committing genocide, but, hey, no one’s perfect):
How three terrorist groups formed the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) [aka Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF)]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=OCGtHMxNr…

Hmmm... I should make more catsalad accounts :owo_thanking:

anyway https://trek.epicrandomness.com

stop the starmtroopers

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Passwortsafe Bitwarden: Kommandozeilen-Client trojanisiert
ht…

てすてす

Mind-bending photos show the pain and dreams of Afghan women : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/24/g-s1-123443/photos-afghanistan-women-taliban

How Anthropic's ongoing discussions with the Vatican about ethics and AI led to Christopher Olah being invited to Pope Leo's unveiling of an encyclical on AI (Jack Jenkins/RNS)
https://religionnews.com/2026/05/22/why-anthropic-is-he…

Inside the unlikely Vatican-Anthropic relationship that's reshaping the AI ethics debate
(RNS) — Pope Leo XIV's new encyclical on AI is set to be released Monday (May 27), with Chris Olah, a co-founder of Anthropic, at his side.

“Western civilisation” is a gun aimed at your head with a please and a thank you.

stair danger
#caturday #catsofmastodon

project hail mary is a wholesome addition to liberal theory

AWS: Neue Störungen bei Rechenzentren in Bahrain nach „Drohnenaktivität“
Dreieinhalb Wochen nach Kriegsbeginn sind AWS-Dienste in den Emiraten weiter gestört, und jetzt kommen neue Beeinträchtigungen in Bahrain hinzu.

@… アップデートのマイグレーションジョブが、分割したプロセス分同時に走って、インデックス作成が4つも走ってました。DBが応答を返すはずもなく……。
いまはいけると思います。

RFK Jr.’s Push to Curb Antidepressants Has Shaken Psychiatry - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/science/rfk-jr-antidepressants-ssri-psychiatry.html

Changing your pfp needs pre-authorization for fedi accessibly needs 😭

For publishers, pirated audiobooks made with AI on YouTube are a growing issue: removal is cumbersome, and some are hiring tech companies to take them down (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/books/a

Publishing’s Latest Piracy Problem: Audiobooks on YouTube
Illegal, synthetically narrated copies of “The Hunger Games,” hit self-help books and everything in between are increasingly common on the platform.

RE: https://climatejustice.global/@parents4future/116629209663860393
Well how else are billionaires supposed to become trillionaires?
Some of you only ever think about yourselves…

If the far right defines what tolerance is, I'm happy being the “intolerant” left.

Dienstag: TV-Sender gegen Tech-Konzerne, Lieferungen per Drohne in der Bay Area
Strengere Regeln für Smart-TVs Wing startet Drohnenlieferungen Gasversorgung im Fokus Wind und Solar auf dem Vormarsch Windows 11 hat Speicherhunger

@… あー、なんかおかしいな。ちょいまち

Louisiana lawmakers shelve maternal mortality resolution despite nation-leading death rates • Louisiana Illuminator
https://lailluminator.com/2026/05/24/maternal-mortality-4/

Moment, which develops AI tools for automating fixed-income and equities trading tech, raised a $78M Series C led by Index Ventures, with a16z participating (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05…

Spain: We’re outraged that Israeli barbarians are brutalising our peace activists… we’re perfectly capable barbarians who can brutalise them ourselves (we were trained by them, after all).
Any word from friend of Palestine, Pedro Sšnchez on this? Are all these officers being fired as we speak?
🤔
#spain

Periodic reminder if you're a Adobe Creative Cloud subscriber to go to "manage plan" and then "cancel plan" to save money.
They just refunded me $70 and for the next year it's half price every month. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If you saved money with this tip, donate a little to a good cause!
[P.S. I will block you if you reply with any variation of "you're stupid for using Adobe" or "just asking questions, why don't you use gimp" sort of replies.]

Dienstag: Anthropic gegen chinesische KI-Firmen, SPD will Palantir blockieren
Vorwurf der Destillation SPD positioniert sich Austausch von Biometriedaten mit den USA Operation gegen Cybercrime in Afrika BMW streicht Level 3

@… いまメンテ入れたからいけると思うよ。移行するなら自分のルームに別サーバのアカウント招待して、管理権限与えておくといいよ。

Netherlands:
Gov´t won't label Antifa as terror organization due to lack of centralized structure | NL Times
https://nltimes.nl/2026/05/24/govt-wont-label-antifa-terror-organization-due-lack-centralized-structure

X launches its standalone messaging app XChat on the App Store, saying it supports end-to-end encryption and has no ads (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/04/24/xchat-xs-standalone-messaging-app-launching-on-iphone-and-ipad-ne…

XChat, X's standalone messaging app, now available for iPhone and iPad with these features - 9to5Mac
XChat, the standalone messaging app from X, is now available. X’s new iPhone and iPad app has officially arrived on...

Really liking Tailscale (thanks for the recommendations).
Hope they won't do any funny business like getting bought by evil corporations etc.

Tesla verklagt kalifornische Behörde wegen Falschwerbe-Urteil zu FSD
Tesla will ein Urteil kippen, das ihm Falschwerbung bei Autopilot und Full-Self-Driving vorwirft. Das Unternehmen hat das Marketing inzwischen geändert.

API authors, document the default values of your properties challenge 2026!

@… Fedibirdだけ特殊処理してるので、他のサーバではご注意を

Trump threatens to "put a big tariff on the UK" if it does not drop its digital services tax, which he views as unfairly targeting US tech companies (Connor Stringer/Telegraph)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/04/24/trump-dr…

Trump threatens Starmer with ‘big tariff’ over tech tax
President tells The Telegraph he will retaliate if Britain continues to ‘target’ major American companies such as Apple, Google and Meta

"Prosecutors say accusers who chose to drink or get high have a “very high burden” of proving they were physically helpless and unable to consent. There is a push to change the law."
New York’s Rape Laws Leave Out Many Victims Who Drank Willingly - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/nyregion/new-york-rape-laws.html

Neuroscientists being “surprised” that the brain doesn’t work like a computer, episode 244:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01554-0

„Meilenstein“: Zoox mit dem bislang größten Expansionsschritt
Der US-Robotaxi-Anbieter weitet sein Angebot in mehreren US-Metropolen stark aus. In San Francisco werden dicht bewohnte Viertels ins Programm aufgenommen.

Another pro-genocide Zionist reply-then-block bot to report:
@crumpet99@troet.cafe
This one was sent in reply to #ZionistReplyBots

Intel stock closes up 23.6%, its best performance since October 1987, as Intel shows signs of renewed growth amid the AI boom; the stock is up 124% YTD (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/24/intel-stock-soars-more-than-20perce…

Intel's stock soars more than 20% as chipmaker shows signs of a turnaround
Shares of Intel have more than doubled this year on optimism that backing from the government will help the company's position in AI.

@… このへんからどうぞー
https://fedibird.com/invite/Lytc8gPz

RE: https://chaos.social/@gsuberland/116629890080699355
The "S" in SQL stands for "spicy"

Rechtslage Deepfakes: Warum der Straftatbestand kommen soll
Eine Regelung für pornografische Deepfakes hat die Politik schon lange in der Schublade. Angesichts der neu entflammten Debatte will sie jetzt handeln.
…

ComfyUI, which gives creators granular control over image, video, and audio outputs from diffusion models, raised $30M at a $500M valuation (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/24/comfyui-hits-500m-valu…

ComfyUI hits $500M valuation as creators seek more control over AI-generated media | TechCrunch
ComfyUI, whose tools give creators more control over AI image, video, and audio generation, just raised $30 million.

ねむい

I can’t believe I’m having to kludge a CSS filter onto their iframe to invert the embedded checkout form of a company that carries out *trillions of dollars* of transactions every year because they don’t have dark mode support.
My feeble mind clearly cannot understand such high capitalist craft.

Nvidia stock jumps 4.3% to close at a record for the first time since Oct., pushing Nvidia's market cap past $5T, as a rally in Intel pushed chipmakers higher (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/24/nvidia-stock-closes-at-…

Nvidia stock closes at record, pushing market cap past $5 trillion
Nvidia's stock closed at its first record since October, as a rally in Intel pushed chipmakers higher.

Patentrekord 2025: China stürmt in europäische Top 3 und treibt den KI-Wettlauf
Der Jahresindex des Europäischen Patentamts zeigt eine hohe Nachfrage nach Computertechnik und 6G. Deutschland verteidigt Spitzenstellung trotz China-Offensive.

Won’t be watching the GTFO tomorrow

Hey @…, you want to incentivise small sustainable online organisations in the EU (e.g., small not-for-profits like Small Technology Foundation) as an alternative to Big Tech?
Raise the EU's €10,000 cross-border OSS threshold to €1M (or even €10M).
You’ll still stop Big Tech corporations from jurisdiction shopping and you’ll r…

Maine's governor vetoes a bill that would have led to US' first state pause on data centers, citing its failure to exempt a project in a distressed mill town (Jenna Russell/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/us/maine-moratorium-data-cent…

Maine Governor Vetoes Bill That Would Have Paused New Data Centers
Gov. Janet Mills said she rejected what would have been the nation’s first moratorium on data centers because it failed to exempt a project in a distressed mill town.

FritzOS 8.25 behebt fehlerhafte Hardware-Beschleunigung bei ersten Routern
Fritz verteilt FritzOS 8.25 für die beiden Fritzboxen 6660 und 6591. Zu den zahlreichen Fehlerbehebungen gehört ein Fix für die Paketverwaltung.
…

I’m just happy they’re not making self-driving cars.

Series, founded by two seniors at Yale to build an AI-powered social network on iMessage, raised a $5.1M pre-seed from Reddit CEO Steve Huffman and others (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/24/two-

Two college kids raise a $5.1 million pre-seed to build an AI social network in iMessage | TechCrunch
Series, a social networking app that's grown popular on college campuses, announced a $5.1 million pre-seed round from some big names in tech.

EU sichert sich Rohstoffe: Freihandelsabkommen mit Australien steht
Die EU und Australien haben ihre Verhandlungen über eine umfassende Handelspartnerschaft erfolgreich abgeschlossen und rücken damit auch technologisch zusammen.

Apple plans to launch Apple Business, a free platform that consolidates its business tools, on April 14, and plans Apple Maps ads in summer in the US and Canada (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/24/apple-maps-ads-apple-business/

Ads are coming to Apple Maps, as Apple expands its business offerings | TechCrunch
Apple Maps will launch ads this summer in the U.S. and Canada. Plus, a new suite of Apple Business offerings arrives April 14.

Amazon will Satellitenproduktion und Startkadenz für Leo steigern
Amazon ist im Plan, im ersten Jahr elf Satellitenmissionen durchzuführen. In Zukunft sollen 20 Raketen mit Leo-Satelliten an Bord im Jahr ins All fliegen.

A deep dive into Apple Watch and Health efforts; sources: iOS 27 to get a revamped AirPods control panel and default support for AirPlay rivals like Google Cast (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
WTF: Polizei rückte Samstagnacht wegen Zero-Day aus
https://…

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Smart-TV: Europäische TV-Sender wehren sich gegen Tech-Konzerne

Salesforce's promotional videos showcased Agentforce mock-ups and features that are not widely available, as CEO Marc Benioff defends forward-looking marketing (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Die Energiewende nimmt richtig Fahrt auf! 🌍 Das Jahr 2025 markiert einen absoluten Meilenstein beim Ausbau erneuerbarer Energien.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11221660?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege…

Hands-on with a pre-release build of Google Docs Live, an AI-powered voice tool for drafting documents, rolling out this summer to AI Pro and Ultra subscribers (Nicole Nguyen/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/goo

Sources: Princeton Digital Group to sell its Chinese data center assets for as much as $1B, capping global buyout firms' retreat from China's data center market (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c6ded5c6-6343-4e9b-a170-7232ab28f63e

DeepSeek releases its new flagship models V4 Pro and V4 Flash in preview, saying V4 Pro trails the performance of state-of-the-art models by about 3 to 6 months (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-24/dee…

Rising DRAM prices are driving "forced premiumization" in the smartphone market in India and Africa, as consumers in the sub-$200 segment risk being priced out (David Oks)
https://davidoks.blog/p/ai-is-killing-the-cheap-smartphone

AI is killing the cheap smartphone
The global memory crunch and the great repricing of consumer electronics

OpenAI plans to invest $1B in AI-related causes in 2026 via the OpenAI Foundation, and names co-founder Wojciech Zaremba to lead its AI resilience initiatives (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Arm CEO Rene Haas projects $25B in revenue in 2031, up from $4B in 2025, including $15B from sales of Arm's first in-house chip; ARM jumps 6% after hours (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/24/arm-stock-pops-haas-chip-cpu.html

Arm stock pops 6% as CEO Haas issues $15 billion revenue expectation for new chip
Arm unveiled its first in-house chip on Tuesday at an event in San Francisco, with Meta as the initial customer.

Databricks launches Lakewatch, a security information and event management service, and announces acquisitions of security startups Antimatter and SiftD (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/24/databricks-cybersecurity-lakewatch-ipo.html

Databricks enters cybersecurity market with Lakewatch launch, bulking up ahead of IPO
Databricks wants to draw on AI to help organizations respond to a higher speed of attacks, based on newly disclosed vulnerabilities.

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says OpenAI is raising an additional $10B from a16z, D.E. Shaw, MGX, TPG, and others, bringing its record fundraise to "north of $120B" (Morgan Chittum/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/24/openai-sec

OpenAI raises additional money to bring record funding round to $120 billion, CFO tells Cramer
The fresh capital brings OpenAI's historic fundraise to $120 billion, exceeding the ChatGPT creator's initial target of $100 billion.

Q&A with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on building infrastructure for AI agents, balancing internal needs and the demands of customers like Anthropic, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2026/an-interview-wi…

An Interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian About the Agentic Moment
An interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian about Google’s cloud priorities, enterprise agent platform, and Google’s integration advantage.

Bengaluru-based Xflow, which facilitates B2B cross-border payments, raised a $16.6M Series A led by GC at an $85M valuation, bringing its total raised to $32M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/23/stripe-p…

Stripe, PayPal Ventures bet on India's Xflow to fix cross-border B2B payments | TechCrunch
Stripe and PayPal Ventures have participated in Xflow's $16.6 million round that gives it a post-money valuation of $85 million.

The ECB summons Eurozone banks to a meeting on Tuesday to discuss risks posed by the latest AI models and hopes US banks with Mythos access will share lessons (Martin Arnold/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/482c56aa-6d2b-4456-9d33-b42dc30788bd

Sources: Uber weighs a higher bid after it approached a major Delivery Hero shareholder with a €38-per-share bid, valuing the group at €11.5B , but was rebuffed (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/04f5d191-f5d9-4221-bf62-c34c879ab81b

Crypto companies prepare for the threat that quantum computers could hack core industry security, including breaking the critical code underpinning Bitcoin (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/99c1c1e7-1a1c-479c-9fc8-e21aea5c3f0e

How the AI boom is transforming global M&A, now dominated by the AI-driven race to control the world's energy, fiber networks, and computing capacity (Financial Times)
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/8e044bee-edcb-4be7-…

Meta and Amazon reach a multi-billion, multiyear deal for Meta to rent hundreds of thousands of Amazon's Graviton chips for its AI efforts (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-24/meta-inks-mu…

Sources: OpenAI nears a deal to raise ~$10B from Abu Dhabi's MGX, Coatue, and Thrive, bringing its latest funding round to ~$120B at a $730B valuation (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-24/openai-set-…

Sources: Stripe, which is privately held, has expressed preliminary interest in a potential acquisition of PayPal or its assets; PYPL jumps 7% (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-24/payments-processor-stripe-e…