“I am not impressed by cars.”
https://evilgeniuschronicles.org/posts/2026/07/17/evil-genius-chronicles-podcast-for-july-17-2026-you-can-be-disappointed-but-dont-be-surprised/
/cc…

Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for July 17 2026 - You Can Be Disappointed But Don't Be Surprised
Who are these maniacs who are DoorDashing McDonalds?

Feathery, which develops an AI operating and decisioning system for financial services, raised $30M in total funding, including a recently completed Series A (FinTech Global)
https://fintech.global/2026/07/15/feathery-lands-30m-to-rewire-financial…

Feathery lands $30m to rewire financial services workflows
Feathery, an AI operating and decisioning platform for financial services firms, has secured $30m in funding as it expands its technology across the insurance and wealth management sectors. The funding includes a recently completed Series A round backed by Portage Ventures, Index Ventures, Allstate Strategic Ventures, Clocktower Ventures, Erie Strategic Ventures and Bain Capital Ventures. […]

The mighty hunter

Freitag: KI-Meldungen bei Teenager-Gefahren, Beifall für Samsungs Bugfixing
Elternalarm nach bedrohlichen KI-Chats Experten-Lob für Samsung OpenAI keine EU-Marke Meilenstein für weltgrößtes Windrad Ende der Brenner-Fahrverbote

Freitag: KI-Meldungen bei Teenager-Gefahren, Beifall für Samsungs Bugfixing
Elternalarm nach bedrohlichen KI-Chats + Experten-Lob für Samsung + OpenAI keine EU-Marke + Meilenstein für weltgrößtes Windrad + Ende der Brenner-Fahrverbote

Listen to Britain’s dawn chorus of 1976: the dramatic loss of birdsong in 50 years. Great audio reconstruction.
Same here near Utrecht, the Netherlands: From deafening chorus to almost silent spring, in the 30 years that we've lived in the same place: 1996-2026
https://www.

100 years ago #OTD the #planetarium in #Jena (Germany) opened to the public: it's the oldest one in the world srill operating in the same location! Scroll down on https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/07/18/die-leuchtenden-nachtwolken-sind-weiter-aktiv for some news coverage back then and the wider context.

you have big DONG energy

It’s been a brutal tactic deployed by local and federal law enforcement officials time and time again over the past year:
using teargas, rubber bullets and pepper spray to control protests outside ICE detention centers or during enforcement operations.
Now, a new report lays bare the scale of the use of these crowd-control weapons during
anti-immigration demonstrations across the US,
including hundreds of incidents that resulted in lasting and traumatic injuries.

ICE ‘Crowd Control’ Led to Blindings and Traumatic Brain Injuries
It’s been a brutal tactic deployed by local and federal law enforcement officials time and time again over the past year: using teargas, rubber bullets and pepper spray to control protests outside ICE detention centers or during enforcement operations. Now, a new report lays bare the scale of the use of these crowd-control weapons during anti-immigration demonstrations across the US, including hundreds of incidents that resulted in lasting and traumatic injuries.

Apple raises the price of Apple Music, with the individual plan up by $1 to $11.99, and some Apple One bundles, the first price hike for Apple Music since 2022 (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/17/apple-raises-prices-for-apple…

Apple raises prices for Apple Music and Apple One subscriptions - 9to5Mac
Apple has raised the price of Apple Music today in the United States and other countries. Starting today, Apple Music’s...

どこか壊れているけど、そのまま使っているものが

Get rid of meta!
https://mukis.de/2026/07/17/meta-sind-wir-egal/

"Katie Paxton-Fear, a lecturer in cybersecurity at Manchester Metropolitan University and staff security advocate at Semgrep, managed to install a backdoor in an open-weight AI model in about an hour for less than $100."
https://www.theregister.com/ai…

Researcher poisons open-weight AI model for under $100
Models demand trust without offering verification

🚨new publication alert🚨
Some types of El Niño lead to more melt over the Ross Ice Shelf in #Antarctica.
In our paper led by PhD student Sanjiban Dutta, we look at the synoptic relationship where Eastern Pacific El Niños channel warm moist air over the Ross Ice Shelf. One to watch with the current #ElNino building..
#ClimateDiary https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025JD045932

Weekend Reads
* Who carries Tor traffic?
https://www.petsymposium.org/foci/2026/foci-2026-0014.php
* Internet shutdown measurement gaps

The more I learn about New York Mayor Zoran Mamdani, the more I'm reminded of XTC's Peter Pumpkinhead. He seems like the best of us, and an inspiration for most. I just hope against hope we can deserve him, by preserving & protecting him!

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@bert_hubert/116939646868483647
Recommended read of the day... 👏
"This essay is an attempt to describe the bizarre dynamics that are currently at play, as I am in the rare position where my wellbeing is not contingent …

I thought I've read that #hashtags can't be found via "follow hashtag" of posts that did not have the hashtag in its initial version. Therefore, editing a post for adding hashtags doesn't work.
This does seem to confirm: https://

@… gaan jullie ook Mastodon 4.6 implementeren, "collecties" lijken me erg handig en ook de nieuwsbrief faciliteit biedt kansen, https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/

Mastodon 4.6
In Mastodon 4.6, we are introducing a way to create and share curated collections of profiles. We've also reworked profiles and the profile editing experience, added some institutional features, and fixed many accessibility issues.

"Only 13% of biodiversity promises from 180 influential companies pass accountability test"
#Biodiversity #Business

Only 13% of biodiversity promises from 180 influential companies pass accountability test
New research by the University of Oxford and the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University has revealed that most biodiversity commitments made by large, influential companies are not precise enough to enable society to evaluate whether they are making progress toward meeting their commitments. The results have been published in One Earth.

Party like it’s Friday night!
Cornish Bagpipe Sextet. There are only 3 human players, but they count their pipes as members of the ensemble. I dunno if that’s a piper thing, a Cornish piper thing, or a joke.
Hey! https://youtu.be/4jEo_KOrMTw?is=LioYHHyZmPkqQjE6

Beehiiv launches Community, which lets subscribers chat with each other, adds programmatic ads and an AI tool that helps creators manage their audiences (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/16/newsletter-platf…

Newsletter platform Beehiiv now lets subscribers chat with each other, adds AI | TechCrunch
Beehiiv is launching an AI Copilot to help publishers with user growth and analytics

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@glassbottommeg/116937573957540949
This is how I imagine all the indie game devs I follow here commenting their code

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Irland: Rechenzentren verbrauchen 23 Prozent des Landesstroms

Irland: Rechenzentren verbrauchen 23 Prozent des Landesstroms
Rechenzentren in Irland verbrauchten 2025 rund 7663 GWh Strom – mehr als alle städtischen Haushalte zusammen. Trotz eines Moratoriums im Großraum Dublin.

There's more chaos in the Wisconsin Gubernatorial Primary!
#wisconsin

Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez Ends Campaign For Governor
From establishment front-runner to out of the race in a week.

vibe based politics spans across the entire spectrum

Key features that make a planet amenable to life, at least life as earthlings know it:
It should be rocky, be at the right temperature for liquid water to exist and have an atmosphere.
On Thursday, a team of astronomers announced that it had identified a world with all three traits.
“At this point, we have absolutely no evidence for life on the planet,”
said Collin Cherubim, a planetary scientist who recently earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University.
“But we thin…

Astronomers Find an Atmosphere on a Nearby Earthlike Planet
It’s the first potentially habitable world known to host an atmosphere, making it a lead contender in the search for life beyond our solar system.

The first half of the summer was the hottest on record here in the central Netherlands (1901-2026)

A US district court judge says she'll issue a ruling by July 22 on state AGs' request for a temporary stay that would pause the Paramount-WBD merger (Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/07/paramount-warner-bros-discovery-merger-lawsuit-12369968…

Judge Says She’ll Rule By Next Week On Emergency Motion In State AGs’ Challenge To Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery Merger
The judge listed to about 80 minutes of oral arguments.

The origin of Cretaceous-Palaeogene impactor revealed by nickel isotopes: #Chicxulub

This has been a bad week for beverage and grocery-related cyberattacks.
Coca-Cola Suspends US Fairlife Operations After Cyberattack
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-16/coca-cola-suspends-us-fairlife-operations…

@… さすがにそんなに増えないよー

I think I'm lazy today.. 🤔

"Greece launches nanosatellite system to catch wildfires early"
#Greece #Wildfires #Environment

Greece launches nanosatellite system to catch wildfires early | The Optimist Daily
Greece has deployed four nanosatellites that detect wildfires as small as four meters across, sending AI-powered alerts to firefighters in real time.

Crypto.com raised $400M from Citadel Securities in its first institutional funding round, valuing the Singapore-based crypto exchange at $20B (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/07/16/citadel…

Crypto.com lands $400 million investment from Citadel Securities at $20 billion valuation
The exchange's first institutional funding round values it at $20 billion and will fund expansion into tokenized securities and derivatives.

RE: https://mastodon.art/@weirdsatellite/116937765063903115
Oh no, they found my Webkinz!!

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Bundestag-Gutachten: Behörden dürfen Open Source in Ausschreibungen fordern

Bundestag-Gutachten: Behörden dürfen Open Source in Ausschreibungen fordern
Der Wissenschaftliche Dienst des Parlaments klärt auf: Die gezielte Beschaffung von Open Source ist vergaberechtlich zulässig und oft sogar finanziell geboten.

this is the funniest shit ever, the guy scammed people for 300.000.000 USD and didn't talk to his lawyers before giving an interview with the news. pure comedy.
https://youtu.be/kmJtk73Tf6g

According to Xin Zhi Yuan reports,
the list of 2026 Fields Medal winners has been unexpectedly leaked.
Two Peking University alumni, Wang Hong and Deng Yu, are both on the list
— marking the first time Chinese mathematicians will claim the highest honor in mathematics in the same edition.
Someone discovered four Fields Medal laureate lecture fields marked “HIDDEN” in the front-end code of the ICM 2026 official schedule.
A single curl command generated by Codex c…

2026 Fields Medal List Accidentally Leaked: Peking University Alumni Hong Wang and Yu Deng on the List
PANews July 14 news, according to Xinzhiyuan reports, the 2026 Fields Medal list has been accidentally leaked. Two Peking University alumni Hong Wang and Yu Deng are both on the list, marking the…

Sinclair-owned TV stations affiliated with ABC and NBC aired Trump's speech about elections, using Sinclair's feed; Sinclair owns or operates 177 stations (Patrick Hipes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/07/sinclair-stations-carry-trump-speech-12369895…

Sinclair-Owned ABC And NBC Stations Preempt Networks To Carry Trump Primetime Speech
A number of ABC and NBC stations owned by Sinclair Broadcasting ended up airing President Donald Trump's primetime speech on Thursday

Nightlyちょいメンテした。ストレージが200GBじゃ足りなくなったので300GBに。
nightly.fedibird.comは今、どこのご家庭にもあるPowerEdge（旧式）に納まってるけど、仮想化されているとメンテ楽ねー。

Wir investieren sehr viel Zeit, Geld und Expertise in den Erhalt eines Ist-Zustandes, unter dem wir leiden. Wir investieren sehr wenig in bessere Alternativen. Diese entstehen trotzdem – dank des Engagements relativ weniger idealistischer Menschen.
https://www.campact.de/blog/…

Social Media kritisieren, aber Instagram lieben
Viele Menschen kritisieren die Meta-Plattform Instagram für ihre Wirkweise, Algorithmen und den Suchtfaktor – und nutzen das soziale Netzwerk trotzdem weiterhin. Wie passt das zusammen?

Apple raises iPhone prices in Japan by up to 11%, likely due to the Japanese yen's depreciation against the US dollar over the past year (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/07/17/apple-raises-iphone-prices-in-japan/

Apple Raises iPhone Prices in Japan
After raising prices on all Macs and iPads worldwide last month, Apple has now increased the price of iPhone models in Japan. As spotted by the...

HEARTBREAKING: The worst person you know has a really cute cat

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116939454993880699
ICE ‘Crowd Control’ Led to Blindings and Traumatic Brain Injuries
Doctors and human rights experts documented
hundreds of incidents
from June 2025 through May 2026
-- and estimate true number is ‘fa…

The grassroots group HumansFirst is organizing protests against the "unaccountable" buildout of data centers across 125 US locations on July 18 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/us-data-center-…

Verbesserte Booster: Ariane 6 bringt 36 Amazon-Satelliten ins All
Die ESA hat die Ariane 6 mit neuen Boostern ausgestattet. So konnte die Rakete vier Satelliten mehr als zuvor ins All transportieren.
https:…

Verbesserte Booster: Ariane 6 bringt 36 Amazon-Satelliten ins All
Die ESA hat die Ariane 6 mit neuen Boostern ausgestattet. So konnte die Rakete vier Satelliten mehr als zuvor ins All transportieren.

RE: https://chaos.social/@netzpolitik_feed/116766173035110604
Es braucht kein europäisches Netzwerk, sondern ein globales.

Axel Springer plans to confer the 2026 Axel Springer Award on Peter Thiel in a ceremony scheduled for September 24, with a tribute by CBS News EIC Bari Weiss (Axel Springer SE)
https://www.axelspringer.com/en/ax-press-release/peter-thiel-t…

Peter Thiel to Receive the 2026 Axel Springer Award 
Recognizing an entrepreneur, investor, and thought leader who has significantly shaped digital transformation

Google says users in the US can now link to and interact with some apps in AI Mode, including Instacart, Canva, and YouTube Music (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/16/googles-ai-mode-now-lets-you-link-and-interact-with-…

Google's AI Mode now lets you link and interact with select apps | TechCrunch
With this new update, Google is expanding AI Mode beyond answering questions and into completing tasks across the apps they use regularly.

California joined 19 other states
on July 16 to take a swing at a Trump administration delay tactic
in approving onshore wind energy projects.
In light of California’s goal for its energy to be 100 percent carbon-free by 2045,
wind plays a large part.
On a hot and humid afternoon like this Friday’s, renewable energy is supplying 70 percent of the 34-gigawatt demand.
Wind makes up 11 percent of that carbon-free renewable energy.
Any project that uses…

California AG Seeks to Intervene in Lawsuit Against Trump Administration over Onshore Wind Projects
Projects nationwide are “frozen” while the Department of Defense conducts “further agency coordination,” said Attorney General Rob Bonta.

Congratulations, you survived another week!

Qwen-Robot Suite: Alibabas neue KI lässt Roboter simulieren, bevor sie handeln
Alibaba hat mit der Qwen-Robot Suite drei KI-Modelle für Roboter vorgestellt, die sich besser in der physischen Welt bewegen und Aufgaben erledigen können.

Qwen-Robot Suite: Alibabas neue KI lässt Roboter simulieren, bevor sie handeln
Alibaba hat mit der Qwen-Robot Suite drei KI-Modelle für Roboter vorgestellt, die sich besser in der physischen Welt bewegen und Aufgaben erledigen können.

President Trump says ABC and NBC should have their licenses revoked for not carrying his speech, alleging they are part of a "plot" to continue election "fraud" (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/07/trump-threatens-a…

Donald Trump Says ABC And NBC Should Lose Broadcast Licenses Because They Didn’t Carry His Primetime Address On Election Claims
The president gave a speech on election integrity, but networks cast a lot of skepticism over his claims

Apple raises the price of Apple Music, with the individual plan up by $1 to $11.99, and some Apple One bundles, the first price hike for Apple Music since 2022 (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/17/apple-raises-prices-for-apple…

Apple raises prices for Apple Music and Apple One subscriptions - 9to5Mac
Apple has raised the price of Apple Music today in the United States and other countries. Starting today, Apple Music’s...

The Newsom administration is suing five more California cities
— Calexico, Costa Mesa, Half Moon Bay, Ridgecrest and Turlock — for failing to complete state-mandated housing plans, known as the “housing element.”

Huntington Beach was the first city to face such a legal action, and it recently finalized its housing element plans following a court-order and massive fines.
The law, which has been in place since 1969, requires cities and counties every eight years to d…

Newsom continues crackdown on cities over housing plan requirements. 'No city gets a pass,' governor says
Gov. Gavin Newsom and California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta filed legal actions this week against five small cities that they say are failing to meet benchmarks required for housing planning.

Do I need to watch the original Avatar movie to understand the sequels, or would FernGully cover it?

Hornsea 3: Erstes Fundament für 2,9-GW-Offshore-Windpark in Nordsee errichtet
Der Offshore-Windkraftwerks-Spezialist Cadeler hat ein erstes Monopile-Fundament für den entstehenden, wohl größten Einzel-Offshore Windpark errichtet.

Hornsea 3: Erstes Fundament für 2,9-GW-Offshore-Windpark in Nordsee errichtet
Der Offshore-Windkraftwerks-Spezialist Cadeler hat ein erstes Monopile-Fundament für den entstehenden, wohl größten Einzel-Offshore Windpark errichtet.

Thira, an AI startup founded by Apptio co-founders to develop AI agents that handle back-office tasks such as IT support, raised a $21M seed led by Madrona (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/apptio-co-fo

Apptio co-founders reunite to launch enterprise AI startup Thira with $21M in funding led by Madrona
Apptio co-founders Sunny Gupta and Kurt Shintaffer launched Thira, a Bellevue-based enterprise AI startup, with $21 million in seed funding led by Madrona. Thira is building AI agents to autonomously handle IT support tickets and other back-office work at large companies.

Do you have opinions on AI?

Messenger: Microsoft schickt den „Together Mode“ von Teams in den Ruhestand
Der in der Coronapandemie von Microsoft in Teams eingeführte „Together Mode“ erweckt den Eindruck, dass alle Teilnehmenden zusammensitzen. Nun wird er entfernt.

Messenger: Microsoft schickt den „Together Mode“ von Teams in den Ruhestand
Der in der Coronapandemie von Microsoft in Teams eingeführte „Together Mode“ erweckt den Eindruck, dass alle Teilnehmenden zusammensitzen. Nun wird er entfernt.

An employee of a company that runs an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Colorado is under arrest
after shooting and injuring a woman on Thursday evening.
The incident happened after the woman participated in a protest in front of the facility earlier that day,
according to the Aurora police department.
When officers arrived on the scene, they said they found the woman with a gunshot wound in her lower body.
She had a friend with her, who was …

Off-duty employee at Colorado ICE facility arrested for shooting protester
Woman has non-life threatening injuries after Brandon Booth shot her with pistol outside ICE facility and drove off

Japan plans to buy 27,500 Nvidia Rubin chips to develop a domestic AI foundation model for robots, in a Noetra-led effort that includes SoftBank, Sony, and NEC (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-16/j…

"Bitte sparen Sie Wasser!" – sagten die Behörden in Georgia zu den Anwohnern. Währenddessen schlürfte ein Rechenzentrum nebenan unbemerkt 110 Millionen Liter weg. 💧
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11290889?wt_mc=sm.red.h…

Sources: Google is months behind schedule on delivering Gemini 3.5 Pro because the company has been trying to improve its capabilities, particularly in coding (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-16/…

„Subnautica 2“: Wunschlisten-Champion wird zum Steam-Bestseller
Wenige Tage nach dem Early-Access-Start zeichnet sich ein riesiger Erfolg für „Subnautica 2“ ab: Über 2 Millionen Mal wurde das Survival-Spiel schon verkauft.

„Subnautica 2“ wird innerhalb von 12 Stunden 2 Millionen Mal verkauft
Wenige Tage nach dem Early-Access-Start zeichnet sich ein riesiger Erfolg für „Subnautica 2“ ab: Über 2 Millionen Mal wurde das Survival-Spiel schon verkauft.

A review of Microsoft's 13-inch Surface Laptop shows 8GB of RAM is not enough for a good Windows 11 experience; PC makers have unveiled upcoming 8GB laptops (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)

Even Microsoft couldn’t make Windows 11 work well on 8GB of RAM
Microsoft’s new entry-level 13-inch Surface Laptop pairs last year’s  great hardware with a higher price and just 8GB of RAM. Thanks, RAMageddon.

„Fortnite“-Spieler bekommen Vorschau von „The Mandalorian & Grogu“
„Fortnite“-Spieler dürfen am Dienstag zehn Minuten aus dem kommenden Kinofilm „The Mandalorian & Grogu“ schauen. Zudem gibt es drei neue „Star Wars“-Spielmodi.

„Fortnite“-Spieler bekommen Vorschau von „The Mandalorian & Grogu“
„Fortnite“-Spieler dürfen am Dienstag zehn Minuten aus dem kommenden Kinofilm „The Mandalorian & Grogu“ schauen. Zudem gibt es drei neue „Star Wars“-Spielmodi.

Sources: China's National AI Industry Investment Fund gained voting rights in DeepSeek by joining its $7.4B round; other investors like Tencent and JD got none (Bloomberg)

SEC filing: GameStop says it owns 9.8% of eBay, signaling its intent to press ahead with a bid for the company after its unsolicited $56B offer was rejected (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/gamestop-owns-nearly-10-ebay-sec-filing-shows…

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Jetzt patchen nginx-ui! Angreifer übernehmen Kontrolle über Nginx-Server

Memo: the DOJ says federal employees can now download TikTok on government devices, citing ByteDance's transfer of control of US operations to TikTok USDS (David Shepardson/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/federal-employee…

„Windrose“: Spaßiger Jack-Sparrow-Simulator für kleines Geld
Das Indie-Survival-RPG orientiert sich stark am Vorbild „Valheim“ und verbindet dessen erfolgreiches Spielprinzip mit dem Spaß einer bunten Piratenwelt.

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
RWTH-Studie: Tankrabatt erreicht Bedürftige kaum und treibt die Nachfrage

China's National Data Administration says the country's daily AI token consumption hit 140T in March 2026, up from 100T in December 2025 and 100B in early 2024 (Minxiao Chang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/arti

Insert token: how China’s surging AI use is turning compute into currency
As the cost of running AI models continues to drop, the token economy is reshaping ecosystems far beyond corporate cubicles.

Amazons neue Fire TV Sticks verhindern Sideloading
Das neue Vega OS erlaubt kein Sideloading mehr, und das nicht nur bei Piraterie-Apps. Nur für eine Nutzergruppe gibt es Ausnahmen.
https://www.

Sources: the Trump administration is considering plans for an independent regulator to vet the safety of AI models; the regulator would report to the SEC (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-17/us-consid…

Asrock, Intel und Teamgroup: HUDIMMs für billigeres DDR5
Für den selben Steckplatz und kompatibel zu bisherigen DIMMs: Für Intel-CPUs soll es bald billigere Speichermodule geben. Fraglich ist die Leistung.
https://w…

Amazon apologizes after some AWS users received bills as high as $1.5T due to "an issue with unit pricing within the estimated billing computation subsystem" (Robert Booth/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

Amazon Web Services customers receive bills for up to $1.5tn after global glitch
One UK man whose bill is usually less than £1 says he ‘almost had a heart attack’ when he saw £5.8bn invoice

Proaktive Ermittlungen gegen Cybercrime auf Landesebene
Ransomware-Banden setzen auf KI und das Darknet, um kritische Infrastruktur zu treffen. Ermittler in Koblenz agieren zunehmend proaktiv.
https://www.

Anthropic says Claude Fable 5 will be included in Max and Team Premium plans at 50% of limits from July 20 and via usage credits for Pro and Team Standard users (Claude/@claudeai)
https://x.com/claudeai/status/2078302415804379218

Claude (@claudeai) on X
Beginning July 20, Claude Fable 5 will be included in all Max and Team Premium plans, at 50% of limits. Pro and Team Standard users will continue to have access to Fable via usage credits, and will receive a one-time $100 credit. Demand for Fable has been challenging to

Blue-Origin-Start am Sonntag geplant: Konkurrenz für SpaceX, Starlink und Leo
Blue Origin plant am Sonntag einen Raketenstart. An Bord ist die Fracht eines Mitbewerbers in einem anderen Markt.
h…

China's BrainCo unveils what it says is the world's first integrated "brain-to-robot" platform that lets users control robots using an EEG headset (Minxiao Chang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trend…

BrainCo claims mind-to-robot link at China’s World AI Conference
Hangzhou-based firm says users can control robots using only their thoughts via EEG headsets, marking a leap in embodied AI tech.

OpenAI stellt GPT-Rosalind vor: KI-Modell speziell für Biologieforschung
OpenAI bietet mit GPT-Rosalind ein biologisches Sprachmodell für Target Discovery und Genomik. Vorerst nur für US-Firmenkunden verfügbar.

Analysis: recent open weight models lag frontier closed models' cyber capabilities by 4 to 7 months, a narrower gap than the 6 to 10 months through most of 2025 (AI Security Institute)
https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/how-far-behind-the-fronti…

How Far Behind the Frontier are Leading Open Weight Models on Cyber? | AISI Work
We evaluated the cyber capabilities of leading open and closed weight AI models, and found that recent open models GLM-5.2 and DeepSeek V4-Pro perform similarly to frontier closed models released 4 to 7 months before them – a narrower gap than the 6 to 10 months we measured through most of 2025.

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Jetzt patchen nginx-ui! Angreifer übernehmen Kontrolle über Nginx-Server

London-based Risk Ledger, which helps organizations manage supply chain cyber risks, raised a £24M Series B led by Axiom Equity, taking total funding to £33.8M (Ionut Arghire/SecurityWeek)
https://www.securityweek.com/risk-ledger-raises-32-million-in-series-b-…

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
RWTH-Studie: Tankrabatt erreicht Bedürftige kaum und treibt die Nachfrage

Data infrastructure startup Cribl acquires CardinalOps, which offers AI-powered threat detection tools and had raised $40M, sources say for around $100M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rk71zhxeml

Cribl acquires Israeli cyber startup CardinalOps for around $100 million
The U.S. telemetry company will establish a Tel Aviv office after buying the AI-powered detection engineering startup. The acquisition marks Cribl’s push into security operations and its effort to challenge traditional SIEM platforms. 

Norwegische Reederei ordert zwei elektrische Containerfrachter
Künftig sollen zwei elektrische Frachter Container von Norwegen nach Deutschland und Schweden transportieren. In zwei Jahren sollen sie einsatzbereit sein.

Norwegische Reederei ordert zwei elektrische Containerfrachter
Künftig sollen zwei elektrische Frachter Container von Norwegen nach Deutschland und Schweden transportieren. In zwei Jahren sollen sie einsatzbereit sein.

The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index sank ~10% for the week, its largest weekly fall in over a year, and is now down ~20% from its late-June all-time high (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/chipmakers-other-h…

Android 17 & Pixel Drop sind da: Google verteilt großes Update für Pixel-Geräte
Google hat die stabile Version von Android 17 mitsamt „Pixel Drop” veröffentlicht. Das Update bringt neue Multitasking-Funktionen und mehr.

Android 17 & Pixel Drop sind da: Google verteilt großes Update für Pixel-Geräte
Google hat die stabile Version von Android 17 mitsamt „Pixel Drop” veröffentlicht. Das Update bringt neue Multitasking-Funktionen und mehr.

Filings: a group of major music publishers has agreed to end a copyright infringement dispute with X over the use of their music on the social media platform (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/m

Sources: Trump Media pitched a monthly fee of as much as $100K for the Truth API, with fast access to Trump's posts, for banks, algorithmic traders, and others (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Kalshi is offering wagers on the outcomes of late-stage clinical drug trials and regulatory decisions, launching a pilot of 13 new biotech contracts (Madison Muller/Bloomberg)

Businesses have started using Kalshi to hedge business risks; Kalshi says institutional trading volume on its platform has grown 800% since November 2025 (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes…

Prediction Markets’ Next Major Bet: Wall St. Traders
Platforms like Kalshi let millions wager on sports and pop culture. They’re now hoping institutions will use them for big-ticket trading like hedging.

What some leaders think of using universal income to mitigate AI-fueled layoffs: Musk calls it the "best way", OpenAI's policy doc mentions a Public Wealth Fund (Siladitya Ray/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/

Elon Musk Touts Universal Income As Remedy To AI-Driven Unemployment
Musk’s comments follow rival company OpenAI’s industrial policy proposal released earlier this week that calls for an AI-backed public wealth fund.

Sources: AI inference chip startup Etched is raising funds at a ~$20B valuation and is raising capital at a $10B valuation in a separate round led by Sequoia (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-chip-startu

Sources: Valar Atomics, which makes small nuclear reactors intended to power data centers, is in talks to raise $1B at a ~$5B pre-money valuation (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nuclear-startup-valar-at…

Nuclear Startup Valar Atomics in Talks for $6 Billion Valuation After Power Milestone
Valar Atomics, a three-year-old startup that makes small nuclear reactors intended to power data centers and other industrial facilities, is in talks to raise $1 billion at around a $5 billion valuation before the investment, according to a person with knowledge of the deal. Sequoia Capital, ...