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One of the best features of personal computing is that it’s not renting capacity from centralized data centers that are vulnerable to missile attacks computing

China's smartphone market is seeing one of its widest price hikes as memory chip crunch deepens; Meizu announces it will suspend developing new mobile hardware (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/electronics…

Steep price hikes hit China's smartphone market as memory crunch deepens
Apple's new budget iPhone adds to pressure on Chinese brands

Jest petycja, aby wprowadzić graficzny symbol waluty PLN
https://www.sejm.gov.pl/sejm10.nsf/agent.xsp?symbol=PETYCJA&NrPetycji=BKSP-155-X-726/25

Now I wanna open a chain of 24 hour diners called “Eye Oh Dine” and we’ll serve idodine tablets with every order to help keep your thyroid from collecting the radioactive Iodine-131 from nuclear fallout.
Might be a short term business, or could you say: a flash in the pan, or if the impacts are after dark, would it be fly-by-night?
Either way: it’s really gonna blow up.
#GallowsHumor

RE: https://masto.pt/@EsquerdaNet/116362839322720841
Olha. Jš estš.
25 mil neste momento.
:)

Vielleicht, wenn wir alle mal an unsere Regierungsvertreter schreiben? Also … jetzt. In dieser Minute. Ein oder zwei Sätze. Kann doch nicht wahr sein, dass wir dem einfach untätig zusehen.
https://bsky.app/profile/tinido.bsky.social/post/3miw2xgurck27

navigate your late night with the frow show, 3 hours of new music & interstellar dreamways, from now 'til 3am ET on @… #radio https://…

German discount supermarket Lidl is offering a 2.24 kWh plug-in battery for just €299.
https://www.lidl.de/l/prospekte/aktionsprospekt-18-05-2026-23-05-2026-47a673/view/flyer/page/25?lf=HHZ
(via

A special counsel has been appointed to investigate a Trump administration lawyer for possible misconduct. - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05/07/us/trump-news#special-counsel-lawyer-misconduct

RE: https://mas.to/@jf_718/116190672740820701
Until the system responds appropriately, community protection is a DIY project.

Ya es oficial: Hayley Williams anunció su gira latinoamericana 2026
La frontwoman de Paramore se presentarš en su faceta solista en Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Brasil, Perú, México y Puerto Rico.
En Chile, el concierto serš el 18 de noviembre en Movistar Arena. Habrš pre venta para fans desde el 12 de mayo y la venta general comienza el 14 por puntoticket.
@…

I love it when a plan comes together… The @… has approved my Scientific Exchanges proposal “Models and Narratives: Computational and Historical Thinking in Dialogue,” so I now look forward to spending 6 months in #Brussels working on the theory and epistemology …

As Trump Swings on Iran, Congress Is Absent and G.O.P. Leaders Mum (Robert Jimison/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/us/politics/trump-iran-congress-republicans.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260408/p91#a260408p91

Bears waive Frazier, DB who sat out all of 2025 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48705653/bears-waive-zah-frazier-missed-25-personal-reason

Le trafic est perturbé de La Verrière vers La Défense.
Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X de la ligne U.
Motif : panne d'un train Š La Verrière.
🤖 08/03 14:55

Primer vídeo promocional de Oni no Hanayome
#鬼の花嫁

Statt das System selbst zu fixen, setzen wir nun auf sogenannte KI als ultimativen Work-around.
Diese Lösung ist keine. Bestenfalls verschiebt sie das Problem minimal in die Zukunft, wahrscheinlich aber beschleunigt sie lediglich den Prozess, der zum Kollaps führt.
Das gilt für einzelne digitale Systeme und – was beunruhigender ist – das gesamte soziale und ökologische System.
#SustainableDigitalAge

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Hannah Lew:
🎵 Siloed
#HannahLew
https://open.spotify.com/track/6IXCXBrT9Q7HFck6ag4o8i

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…

Sony Pictures Entertainment Earnings Q4 2025 and Fiscal 2025
Sony Pictures Entertainment turned in roughly flat revenue for fiscal year 2025, as higher sales at its Crunchyroll anime streamer and its global blockbuster film "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle" were offset by overall lower revenue from theatrical releases.

Northrop Grumman testet Drohne mit hybrid-elektrischem Antrieb
Northrop Grumman hat eine Nurflügel-Drohne mit Hybridantrieb entwickelt. Mit zwei Jahren Verspätung ist XRQ-73 erstmals geflogen.
https://www.

Northrop Grumman testet Drohne mit hybrid-elektrischem Antrieb
Northrop Grumman hat eine Nurflügel-Drohne mit Hybridantrieb entwickelt. Mit zwei Jahren Verspätung ist XRQ-73 erstmals geflogen.

Me: Let’s see how the FairPhone folks are doing… maybe I was overly harsh on them and they’ve used the time to wean themselves off of Google… what with being Waag and all…
Also me: fucking what the fuck now?
*sigh* 🤬

@… je ne vois qu'un seule poste alors qu'il y en a plus de 25 .... Une idée du pourquoi/ comment ?
Screenshot (8 févr. 2026 12:08:41)

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-AmIndian: 25 January - 1 February https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20140066/h-net-job-guide-weekly-report-h-amindian-25-january-1-february

BPOL-BadBentheim: Bei Grenzkontrolle verhaftet - 25-Jähriger wurde mit Haftbefehl gesucht Bad Bentheim (ots) - Beamte der Bundespolizei haben am Dienstagabend bei der Einreisekontrolle an der deutsch-niederländischen Grenze einen 25-Jährigen verhaftet. Gegen den Mann lag ein Untersuchungshaftbefehl vor. Der 25-Jährige war Fahrgast in ... https://www.…

Bürgerentscheid im Stadtbezirk Münster-Mitte 2026 - Wahlenübersicht
Heute fällt die Entscheidung darüber, ob fünf Straßen in Münster-Mitte umbenannt werden oder ihre Namen behalten. Die Abstimmungslokale sind geschlossen. Jetzt wird ausgezählt.
https://wahlen.citeq.de/20260208/05515

Unprecedented Observation Reveals 2 Supermassive Black Holes Locked in a Tight Death Spiral https://gizmodo.com/for-the-first-time-astronomers-spot-two-supermassive-black-holes-locked-in-a-death-spiral-2000743581

Unprecedented Observation Reveals 2 Supermassive Black Holes Locked in a Tight Death Spiral
New research describes an unexpected double jet in a distant galaxy, revealing a pair of supermassive black holes on the verge of colliding.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Portishead:
🎵 Roads
#NowPlaying #Portishead
https://baasmal.bandcamp.com/track/portishead-roads-baasmal-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/2sW8fmnISifQTRgnRrQTYW

てすてすー

Not only did the Democrats hide to avoid taking a stand, now they are trying to bait Trump back into the war.
What a pathetic and sad opposition we have.
But I await their SMS fundraising any minute now to “stand up for what’s right”

Pam Bondi still on the hook for Epstein testimony, Oversight panel says (Hailey Fuchs/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/08/pam-bondi-deposition-ho-00863544
http://www.memeorandum.com/260408/p92#a260408p92

Global chip sales hit $298.5B in Q1 2026, up 25% from Q4 2025, and March sales were up 79.2% YoY to $99.5B, driven by strong sales in Asia and the Americas (Semiconductor Industry Association)
https://www.semiconductors.org/global-semiconductor-…

Global Semiconductor Sales Increase 25% from Q4 2025 to Q1 2026 - Semiconductor Industry Association
Worldwide chip sales in March increase 79.2% year-to-year, 11.5% month-to-month WASHINGTON—May 4, 2026—The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today announced global semiconductor sales were $298.5 billion during the first quarter of 2026, an increase of 25% compared to Q4 of 2025. Global sales were $99.5 billion during the month of March 2026, an increase of 79.2% […]

Oni no Hanayome (The Ogre's Bride) first promotional video
#鬼の花嫁

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Shadows J:
🎵 Hip This House (The Leon Lee Special)
#ShadowsJ

Škodas Fahrradklingel Duobell trickst ANC-Kopfhörer aus
ANC-Kopfhörer im Straßenverkehr sind gefährlich. Škoda hat eine mechanische Klingel entwickelt, die die Filteralgorithmen austrickst.
https://www.

Your regular reminder that you can find a list of all our Gaza Verified friends and families at https://gaza-verified.org/donate/ with links to their fundraisers and sorted by those who have received the least in donations over the last week.
If you can, please help, as things are almost as bad as ever…

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

CMOS stands for cat meme–OwO–semiconductor

Even "bad for life" is questionable, because despite our best efforts we haven't figured out how to sterilize the whole planet.
Anything we're doing that harms the environment harms _the environment we (and many other species) need to survive_.
If we continue to do so, we (and many other species) will die; much faster than this would happen "naturally".
But life will adapt and go on.
We're really only doing harm to ourselves.

みんなハート型でアバターかわいくしてるわねーと思ったら自分のカスタム設定のせいだった定期（そろそろ戻そう）

MAGA Dolt Hegseth Accidentally Reveals Big Hole in Trump Victory Claim (Greg Sargent/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/article/208794/hegseth-reveals-hole-trump-victory-claim
http://www.memeorandum.com/260408/p90#a260408p90

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Moodymann:
🎵 I Can't Kick This Feeling When It Hits
#Moodymann
https://open.spotify.com/track/2PmT3D5xmvVzZCf11L2ifX

WhatsApp führt Usernamen ein: Messenger-Nutzung ohne Telefonnummer
WhatsApp beginnt mit der Einführung von Usernamen. Damit erfüllt Meta einen lang gehegten Wunsch der Nutzer, die App ohne Preisgabe der Telefonnummer zu nutzen.
…

RE: https://mastodon.online/@tomshardware/116187735355942131
🎻

Cologne-based AI translation startup DeepL plans to cut ~25% of its workforce, or ~250 staff, saying adapting to AI "means fewer layers" and "faster decisions" (Amy Thomson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Before Gen Z invented Aura Farming, previous generations only had Aura Hunting & Gathering

Unless you have access to the Death Star, you cannot do anything that's "bad for the planet".
Bad for life? Sure.
The rest of the planet has about 10 billion times* more mass than all life combined. We're are not even a fart as far as the planet is concerned.
*if my math works out

おはようございます。
今日も一日頑張るぞい

25 Thoughts On The Humiliation Of Donald Trump (Brian Beutler/Off Message)
https://www.offmessage.net/p/25-thoughts-on-the-humiliation-of
http://www.memeorandum.com/260408/p1#a260408p1

Bahn: Pünktlichkeit im Fernverkehr weiter unter 60 Prozent
Im Februar erreichten nur 59,4 Prozent der Fernverkehrszüge der Deutschen Bahn ihr Ziel pünktlich. Die DB bleibt damit weiter hinter ihren Zielen.
https:…

RE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116130113129035572
Folks, thanks to a $5 increase in one monthly pledge and a new $50 pledge, we’re just $80/month in pledges away from paying Aseel and her family’s rent so they can move out of the precarity of their tent and …

RE: https://exquisite.social/@thomholwerda/116535410248869526
Hannah Montana OS was free of AI, just sayin'
…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@FabMusacchio/116529625252630872
I mean yes the perspective is wrong (it can be wrong on real photos as well due to lens distortion), but these sample images _scream_ gen AI because they're so bland and plasticky

A hack of Instructure's Canvas locked out students at schools and universities across the US in the middle of finals period; some US colleges postponed exams (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/canvas-outage-college-studen…

Canvas outage wreaks havoc for students during college finals
Schools and universities across the country are recovering from an outage tied to a cyberattack that knocked down Canvas. The online platform manages exams, course notes, lecture videos and grades. The disruption hit in the middle of finals period for many colleges, a high-stress time when students and instructors rely heavily on the platform. Instructure is the parent company of Canvas and says the platform is available again to most users as of late Thursday. A threat analyst at the cybersecu…

Enough is enough
Less is more
Small is beautiful

Is it time to stockpile 🧻 again or...

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116530074619109826
To be fair I think A View to a Kill has the better story, villain, actors, pacing and gags.
But both are worth watching, especially for the tech billionaire criminal masterminds. Maybe almost too real!

US labor experts and economists warn US unemployment benefits are unlikely to protect against AI job losses, and the GOP-led Congress is doing little to prepare (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/business/artificial-intelligence-safety-net…

The Federal Safety Net Isn’t Ready for Artificial Intelligence
As fears of A.I.-driven job losses mount, economists warn that unemployment benefits and other programs to help displaced workers aren’t sufficient.

“Perhaps, nothing is abnormal about Operation Epic Fury. It’s what ‘forever wars’ America does; especially when led by a psychologically impaired president. Perhaps, however, something more disturbing is at issue. America is in decline … What is ‘epic’ about American ‘fury’ is that [it] is the murderous folly of a flailing, failing empire.”

Epic Fury: Attack of the Coalition of the Genocidal Couple
…control oil … control nations. – Attributed to Henry Kissinger, 1970s The future of our security -and our planet- is held hostage to our dependence on

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@malwaretech/116534738472472605
BoD – Boop of Death

RE: https://fediscience.org/@tschfflr/116192263709713324
Doing my part for the Streisand effect

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

:blobcatscience: I recommend increasing your daily cat dosage :3

Any vexillologists around? What’s the flag on the left? (We’re in Pima county, Arizona)

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…

CoreWeave revenue more than doubles in first quarter, topping estimates
CoreWeave has been raising billions of dollars in debt to finance its data center buildout as it serves the leading AI companies.

Treat Model :3

If you want to be your own expert for literally everything and never want to learn from or seek out advice from other human beings you are mentally unwell and need professional help.

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

You know who WON'T lose an hour of sleep?
Cats

As for other things, like looking up medical advice, "traditional" search engines on the Internet worked much better than any LLM to get you to trustworthy sources of information.

Anthropic hires Microsoft executive Eric Boyd as head of infrastructure; Boyd oversaw Microsoft's AI platform and worked at the company for 16 years (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-07/a…

Give me some people to ambush⁠—I mean, follow >:3

Like the whole fart-shite about “make your own custom movies!” is a soup-to-deez-nutz power-fantasy wankery of tech bros who have a sad that they’re not as cool as “the creatives”.

Google rolls out an AI Enhance button for Photos on Android globally, offering automated lighting and contrast adjustments, and video playback speed controls (Andrew Romero/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/04/06/google-photos-adding-ai-e…

Google Photos adding ‘AI Enhance’ button and video playback speed controls, rolling out now
Google announced two new additions to Google Photos for all Android users, and they’ve already begun rolling out. Google posted...

One thing I don't get about how "AI" is marketed is this:
Almost no people want to be their own software designer, or their own doctor, or their own lawyer, or their own structural engineer or indeed their own artist.
They want to get advice from trained and experienced professionals and enjoy art and stories and entertainment from great artists.

Sources: Bain's data center unit cuts ties with Megaspeed, which is under US investigation over if it helped Chinese companies evade Nvidia AI chip export curbs (Kari Soo Lindberg/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

I know there's lots of people being giddy and excited about high oil and gas prices, but those high prices are directly hurting poor people, disabled people and people living in areas with bad or no public transportation.
Please don't be an asshole.

An investigation suggests Blockstream CEO Adam Back, a British cryptographer who invented Hashcash, is Bitcoin's pseudonymous inventor Satoshi Nakamoto (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/busin…

Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto? My Quest to Unmask Bitcoin’s Creator
Bitcoin’s creator has hidden behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto for 17 years. But a trail of clues buried deep in crypto lore led to a 55-year-old computer scientist named Adam Back.

Very much do not recommend waking up at 2am from a sudden gout flare

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

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@lcamtuf/116191554824571567
“I” should write a book about the AI toot revolution

Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis says Greece will ban children under 15 from accessing social media starting January 1, 2027, and calls for coordinated EU action (Antonis Pothitos/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/gr…

RE: https://floss.social/@jani/116187254218422311
That’s fine there’s at least 1 vendor to choose from!
A vendor that is financially completely stable and not running of a pyramid of investments and definitely not burning more money than they make.

Anthropic announces Claude Managed Agents, offering developers an agent harness and other infrastructure to help businesses build and deploy AI agents at scale (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-launches-claude-managed-agents/

Anthropic’s New Product Aims to Handle the Hard Part of Building AI Agents
Amid rapid enterprise growth, Anthropic is trying to lower the barrier to entry for businesses to build AI agents with Claude.

The reason for these prices isn't because this tape is amazing (though it would be amazing for actual recording as far as tapes are concerned), it is people who collect tapes like others do stamps or coins; and this one is very rare as it was very expensive back in the day.

Internal memo: Julia Liuson, head of Microsoft's developer division, will resign after 34 years and move to an "advisory role" at the end of June (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/908793/microsoft-devdiv-julia-liuson-resignation…

Microsoft’s executive shake-up continues as developer division chief resigns
Microsoft executive Julia Liuson is leaving the company after 34 years. Liuson is the head of Microsoft’s developer division.

Finally a Nintendo lawsuit I can agree with
https://aftermath.site/nintendo-tariffs-sue/

Filing: Broadcom agrees to produce future versions of Google's TPUs and expands its Anthropic deal to give the startup access to ~3.5 GW of computing capacity (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/06/broadcom-agrees-to-expanded…

Broadcom agrees to expanded chip deals with Google, Anthropic
Broadcom said it agreed to produce future versions of Google artificial intelligence chips, and announced an expanded deal with Anthropic.

I’m pro having my tax money spent on things that cause acute positive vibes and excitement and awe and inspiration

A Taiwan intelligence report to lawmakers says China is targeting Taiwan to obtain its chip manufacturing tech and talent to break through global "containment" (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-

The US Treasury says Robinhood and BNY will work with the federal government to handle tax-sheltered "Trump Accounts" for children when they launch this summer (Stacy Cowley/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/business/trump-accounts-bny…

BNY and Robinhood Will Help Run ‘Trump Accounts’ for Children
The new tax-sheltered savings and investment accounts will start accepting deposits this summer.

The UK says Russia-linked hacking group APT28 is hijacking popular internet routers from MikroTik, TP-Link, and others to steal credentials and redirect traffic (Ryan Gallagher/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Iran targeting commercial datacenters in the UAE and Bahrain signals a new frontier in asymmetric warfare and raises doubts over the Gulf as a global AI hub (Daniel Boffey/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar

A look at countries that moved to ban social media for kids in recent months, including Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Malaysia, Spain, Indonesia (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/06/social-media-ban-children-countries-list/

These are the countries moving to ban social media for children | TechCrunch
Australia was the first country to issue a ban in late 2025, aiming to reduce the pressures and risks that young users may face on social media, including cyberbullying, social media addiction, and exposure to predators.

Sources: the US believes Chinese state-affiliated hackers breached an FBI computer network that holds information related to some domestic surveillance orders (Dustin Volz/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/…

The Pentagon is right in trying to coerce Anthropic as AI may become a superweapon and nation-states must have a monopoly on the use of force (Noah Smith/Noahpinion)
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/if-ai-is-a-weapon-why-dont-we-regulate

If AI is a weapon, why don't we regulate it like one?
Thoughts on the fight between Anthropic and the Department of War.

IDC: India's PC market had its strongest year on record in 2025, with shipments up 10.2% YoY to 15.9M units; commercial buyers accounted for 52.9% of shipments (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/06/india-pc-sh…

India PC shipments surpass pandemic peak as first-time users upgrade | TechCrunch
India's PC shipments rose 10.2% to 15.9 million units in 2025, surpassing pandemic highs as first-time users upgrade devices, IDC said.

Sources: Oracle and OpenAI abandoned plans to expand a Stargate Texas data center amid financing disputes; Meta considers leasing the planned expansion site (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-06/oracle-and…

The US' February jobs report shows the tech sector's post-2022 job losses are now outpacing past downturns in 2008 and 2020 (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-jobs-getting-demolished-great-recession-dot-com-era-2026…

Tech jobs are getting demolished in ways not seen since 2008 and the dot-com bust
It's a rough time to be looking for a tech job. Economist Joseph Politano said losses in the industry outpaced those in the last two recessions.

A look at the rivalry between Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour and Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, who have competing visions for how prediction markets should grow (Bobby Allyn/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/06/nx-s1-5735893/iran-war-kalshi-polymarket-feud