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Anthropic says its run-rate revenue hit $14B, growing over 10x annually in the past three years, and Claude Code's run-rate revenue hit $2.5B (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/anthropic-closes-30-billion-funding-r…

Anthropic closes $30 billion funding round as cash keeps flowing into top AI startups
After OpenAI raised the largest private tech financing round on record last year at over $40 billion, Anthropic is now second, with its $30 billion raise.

heise | HBO Max im Test: Das bietet der neue Abo-Videostreamingdienst
Der Streamingdienst von HBO startet in Deutschland. Der erste Eindruck ist gut, es gibt aber auch Schwächen.
https://www.

Aaron Rodgers, Mike Tomlin tackle questions on futures after ugly 30-6 playoff loss https://www.nfl.com/news/aaron-rodgers-mike-tomlin-tackle-questions-on-futures-after-ugly-30-6-playoff-loss

💥 Pokrovsk under siege by 150,000 troops – why Huliaipole surprised Russia?: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/11/pokrovsk-under-siege-by-troops.html

I’m still in a ton of pain but managed to make pizza…

That's a new one. Upgraded my router from Debian bookworm to trixie and all of the sysctls (including rather important ones like ipv4 and ipv6 forwarding) that I had set in /etc/sysctl.conf no longer applied, the file was moved to a .bak but not migrated to whatever Debian is trying to force me onto instead.
But overall far from the most painful distro upgrade I've had. I was worried all of my NICs would change names (again) and I'd have to rebuild my whole firewall configu…

Palantir co-founder #Peter #Thiel has donated 👉$3m to a California lobbying group advocating AGAINST a proposed wealth tax that would target billionaires in the state.
The seven-figure contribution comes as several ultra-wealthy tech moguls have left or threatened to leave California over the tax.
Thiel, worth so…

Eine Analyse von Carbonbrief zeigt, dass #China seine #CO2 Emissionen seit 21 Monaten auf einem stabilen oder leicht sinkenden Niveau hält.
2025 sanken die #Emissionen insgesamt um 0,3 Prozent. Rückg…

Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been ‘flat or falling’ for 21 months - Carbon Brief
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the final quarter of 2025, likely securing a decline of 0.3% for the full year as a whole.

Trump revokes EPA endangerment finding on greenhouse gas emissions
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/trump-epa-endangerment-finding-climate-change-greenhouse-gas.html

#ThursdayFiveList this week is #SlipSlidingAway.
For Love Not Lisa - Slip Slide Melting
https://youtu.be/ZGKTDY_CqMU…

The game based on Pokemon is launching a card game. What a world we live in.
https://meta.masto.host/@GamingNews/115882212116030221

Courier expands to nine more US states, bringing the progressive news network to 20 states, and says it has 104 employees, mostly working at local news outlets (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/11/courier-expands-to-nine-more-states

Progressive news network Courier expands to nine more states
The network is expanding to California, Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York and Utah.

urban cyanotype
#cyanotype #photography #urban

TIL: @… was sold, to the highest bidder. At least one in the EU. It could have been much worse.
#Threema

Zwischen Ende und Anfang das Liebevolle https://weddingweiser.de/zwischen-ende-und-anfang-das-liebevolle/

The Purged -- The purge began late Friday night, four days after Donald Trump returned to the White House. (Franklin Foer/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/02/trump-federal-worker-layoffs-interviews/685321/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260111/p42#a260111p42

RE: https://chaos.social/@easterhegg2026/116058298908768440
aaand it's gone. Vielleicht kommen gleich nochmal welche, falls Sitzungen auslaufen, sonst sind die nächsten Termine am 21.02. um 12:00 Uhr und 28.02. um 20:00 Uhr.

BND soll IT-Riesen hacken und Internetknoten stärker überwachen dürfen | heise online
https://heise.de/-11136509

BND soll IT-Riesen hacken und Internetknoten stärker überwachen dürfen
Schluss mit NSA-Abhängigkeit: Ein Gesetzentwurf sieht vor, dass der BND Internetinhalte massenhaft speichern und in Systeme von Google & Co. eindringen kann.

RE: https://wandering.shop/@cstross/115876641028507688
The US, like Israel, needs to be perceived as a pariah nation. Do not hold any events here that require people to travel. Their safety is at risk as the administration is actively attacking anyone they …

Chovem facas e canivetes.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#RoundMidnight
- Fresh from Tigran Hamasyan
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Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qqs8

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #JazzTheatre
Jose James:
🎵 Fine and Mellow
#JoseJames
https://open.spotify.com/track/73ttODihEiZ6hsgYm7SjA1

Der zweite Plenartag des Doppelplenums des 17. Landtags von Baden-Württemberg startet heute um 9.30. Die FDP will noch mehr Bürokratie abbauen, die AfD zurück zum Dieselmotor, und dann gibt es eine ganze Reihe neu eingebrachter Gesetzentwürfe, u.a. zur Fußfessel im Kontext sexualisierte Gewalt und zum Schulgesetz. Stream weiter unter https://www.…

🇵🇸 To support families facing genocide in Gaza, consider donating to them via Gaza Verified.
#GazaVerified

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

Anthropic raised a $30B Series G from GIC, Coatue, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Nvidia, and others at a $380B post-money valuation (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-30-billion-series-g-funding-380-billion-post-…

Anthropic raises $30 billion in Series G funding at $380 billion post-money valuation
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

lol it’s so genuinely fun seeing Cory take decades of fluency in how these systems are broken and serve it up for a mainstream audiences. Even if you know “enshittification” well, this is worth the watch. And love to @…! https://

BRICKSTORM Backdoor
"The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) analyzed eight BRICKSTORM samples obtained from victim organizations. BRICKSTORM is a custom Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) Go-based backdoor. "
MISP standard and STIX files available at the following location:
🔗 https://cti-tra…

With all these UX disasters from Windows 11 to Liquid Glass, it's interesting how UIs from the 90s mostly feel just right to me—and I don't think that's just purely nostalgia or growing up with it.
Things like window borders that are visible so you know where to resize things and scrollbars that indicate the current viewport.

media conglomerates are leading the way against open internet law by fining cloudflare:
Italy's "shadowy cabal of European media elites" ... "scheme to censor the Internet. The scheme, which even the EU has called concerning, required us within a mere 30 minutes of notification to fully censor from the Internet any sites a shadowy cabal of European media elites deemed against their interests. No judicial oversight. No due process. No appeal. No transparency. "

Awww, Stereo MCs bei DLF Kultur. 🎧

You folks have a weird taste
https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/115709278597814597

9to5Mac (@9to5Mac@mastodon.online)
Attached: 1 image Pluribus becomes Apple TV’s most watched show ever https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/12/pluribus-most-watched-show-ever-on-apple-tv/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

From that well-known hotbed of leftist radicalism, the daily Bloomberg markets newsletter.
That (paywalled) column is at https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-02-11/the-insurance-crisis-is-about-to-get-even-worse

Seeing posts gasping that US DHS used a podium with a slogan that alludes to collective punishment. As though collective punishment hasn't been their operational effect for the past year.

So. Everybody knows that "AI" is the future and inevitable and everyone loves it.
That is why Microsoft and Google are paying influencers between 400K and 600K to sell their AI products:
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/google-mic

Blåhaj acquired :blobcatshark:

Kentucky:
Advancing bill would criminalize ‘harassing’ law enforcement, ICE agents and medics
https://www.forwardky.com/advancing-bill-would-criminalize-harassing-law-enforcement-ice-agents-and-medics/

Texans-Steelers on Wild Card Weekend Monday: What We Learned from Houston's 30-6 win https://www.nfl.com/news/texans-steelers-on-wild-card-weekend-monday-what-we-learned-from-houston-s-30-6-win

Urteil: Meta muss Telekom 30 Millionen Euro zahlen
Der Traffic zu sozialen Medien ist riesig. Doch für die Datenübertragung zahlen will „Big Tech“ nicht. Meta wird nun aber zur Kasse gebeten.
https://www.

Senate blocks Democrats' bill to extend expiring Obamacare subsidies (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/11/republicans-divisions-affordable-care-act/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p139#a251211p139

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set-valve 4 100
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set-valve 4 100
set-valve 4 0
set-valve 4 100
Entweder ist das Ding gleich wieder frei, oder ich muss aufstehen :/

Britische Regierung zu Umgang mit Musks KI Grok: "Beleidigt Opfer" | heise online
https://heise.de/-11136743

Britische Regierung zu Umgang mit Musks KI Grok: "Beleidigt Opfer"
X hat die Nutzung der Grok-KI eingeschränkt – der britischen Regierung geht das nicht weit genug.

RE: #Algarve com literatura Š mistura.
Isto dav…

Rivian says it is building its own 5nm AI chip called the Rivian Autonomy Processor and a foundational "Large Driving Model", to enable fully autonomous driving (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/842213/rivian-ai-autonomous-chip-specs

Rivian is building its own powerful AI chips for autonomous driving
Rivian announced it was building its own AI chips for self-driving features. The company also plans on adding lidar to its upcoming R2 vehicles.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Early Music Day: Earning a Living on the Stage
This concert in the Making a Living series from the Fundación Juan March in Madrid showcases Baroque composers who focused on creating works for the stage.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qqsb

Adelaide Festival board resigns and Adelaide Writers’ Week cancelled after 180 authors pull out in protest of Zionist board decision to disinvite Palestinian author.
Remember this, if you’re a Zionist: like the Nazis before you, you are committing genocide, you are on the wrong side of history, and – as long as there are people of good moral character and conscience to oppose you – you will not succeed. Your only allies are the MAGAs of the world and those too spineless to stand up to …

Adelaide Writers' Week cancelled after week of escalating controversy around author Randa Abdel-Fattah
The remaining members of the Adelaide Festival board will step down and this year's Writers' Week event has been cancelled, after days of furore regarding the decision to cancel a scheduled appearance by Palestinian Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah.

lol it’s so genuinely fun seeing Cory take decades of fluency in how these systems are broken and serve it up for a mainstream audiences. Even if you know “enshittification” well, this is worth the watch. And love to @…! https://

Looks like the computer was in regular use until 2003.
(File Manager in Windows 3.11 can’t show these dates right!)

Gebe zu, ich blicke mit Neugier auf dieses Euro-Alternativ-Paypal namens #Wero.
Allerdings: "Damit Sie Ihren Freunden Geld senden können, benötigt Wero Zugriff auf die Kontakte in Ihrem Telefonbuch. Die Mobilfunk-Nummern werden anonym abgeglichen, damit erreichbare Kontakte in Wero angezeigt werden können."
Srsly? Nein, danke.
Update: Kann sein, dass das an der App mein…

Our first 3D tutorial: Erin walks us through World Environments in Xogot:
https://youtu.be/3qniuBdU_fE

Just an unsolicited product plug, if you’re in Western Canada. The house we bought in late 2024 has Vinyltek windows, installed during a 2010-12 renovation, and a few of them were a bit twisted out of shape or had dysfunctional open/close/lock controls. So we called up and their guy came by and fixed them all in less than an hour, no charge. https://www.vin…

The D.C. District Court strikes back - by Chris Geidner
https://www.lawdork.com/p/the-dc-district-court-strikes-back

Gesundheitsministerin: „Elektronische Patientenakte bleibt zentrales Element“
Die „ePA für alle" gilt der Gesundheitsministerin zufolge als Herzstück der Digitalisierung. Deren Finanzierung und die TI-Stabilität bleiben eine Baustelle.

Judge: USDA inspectors must report pet breeder violations they uncover • Louisiana Illuminator
https://lailluminator.com/2025/12/12/repub/usda-animal-inspectors/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@PCMag/115883651187855815
Oh, yay, we’re not leaving this planet, are we folks?

"422 Arbeiter*innen einer Autoteilefabrik in Campi Bisenzio bei Florenz wurden im Juli 2021 fristlos entlassen.
Seitdem haben sie die Fabrik #besetzt, verschiedene Veranstaltungen und Demonstrationen mit zehntausenden Leute organisiert, und eine #Spendenaktion ins Leben gerufen.

Folks, this was a very respectable Barolo, and the last half bottle vanished without me noticing.
I think I got it at Eataly when I said “where are your cheapest barolos” after the tariffs kicked in:

This particular athlete is more impressive than anything I saw at the Super Bowl or Olympics so far: #dogsofmastodon

Galaxy S25: Samsung verkauft generalüberholte Smartphones in Deutschland
Samsung verkauft ab sofort auch generalüberholte Smartphones in Deutschland. Den Anfang macht die Galaxy-S25-Reihe. Vor dem Kauf lohnt sich ein Preischeck.

Hong Kong-listed Zhipu AI surged 30% after releasing its GLM-5, an open-source LLM with enhanced coding capabilities and long-running agent tasks (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/chinese-ai-stocks-new-model-and-agent-releases-zhipu-mini…

Zhipu leads rally in Chinese AI stocks, surging 30%, as a wave of new releases hits market
The Shanghai STAR AI Industry Index climbed 1.7% before paring gains.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@heiseonline/netzpolitik-2s4dr7u7z/-/a-MOw4s8kbRZK3NuVjDhwyYA:a:2831390041-/0
Und weil bei

Cooking another “easy” tiktok recipe

Zahlen, bitte! 14 Strafzettel als Keimzelle für die norwegische E-Autowende
Norwegen hat EU-weit die mit Abstand größte Anzahl E-Autos auf ihren Straßen. Den Anfang zu dieser E-Wende schufen die Band a-ha und ein umgebauter Fiat Panda.

Brandlight, which develops tools that help brands monitor how AI models perceive them, raised a $30M Series A led by Pelion Venture Partners (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/02/11/marketing-tech…

Exclusive: Marketing tech startup Brandlight raises $30M
Search rankings are so last season.

RE: #Postbank bereits etlichen unserer Kreisvereinigung…

Chinesische Software berechnet die Uhrzeit auf dem Mond
Wegen der geringeren Schwerkraft vergeht Zeit auf dem Mond schneller als auf der Erde. Eine neue Software synchronisiert die Uhren auf beiden Himmelskörpern.
h…

Amazon Prime: Nutzer können sich für Sammelklage gegen Preiserhöhung eintragen
Die Verbraucherzentrale NRW führt eine Sammelklage gegen eine aus ihrer Sicht unzulässige Preiserhöhung bei Amazon Prime an. Nun kann man sich dafür eintragen.

Social media addiction trial: Adam Mosseri says social media is not "clinically addictive" and that Meta was careful to test features used by young people (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/technology/adam-mosseri-instagram…

OpenAI und Anthropic vertiefen Interesse an Gesundheitsdaten
Nach ChatGPT Health übernimmt OpenAI eine Gesundheits-App. Anthropic bietet nun ebenfalls Claude for Healthcare an.
https://www.

Anthropic says it will upgrade power grid infrastructure, generate new power, and cover consumer price increases to minimize the effects of its data centers (Jared Perlo/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/anthropi…

Anthropic to cover costs of electricity price increases from data centers
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic announced that it will ensure consumer electricity costs remain steady as it expands its data center footprint.

Vor Evakuierung aus medizinischen Gründen: ISS-Kommando übergeben
Am späten Mittwochabend sollen vier Personen vorzeitig die ISS verlassen und zur Erde zurückkehren. Nun wurden Sachen gepackt und das Kommando übergeben.

EssilorLuxottica says it sold over 7M Meta AI glasses in 2025, up from the 2M that the company sold in 2023 and 2024 combined (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/11/ray-ban-maker-essilorluxottica-triples-sales-of-meta-ai-gla…

Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica says it more than tripled Meta AI glasses sales in 2025
The France-based eyewear brand has been working on smart glasses with the social media company since 2019.

Microsoft warnt Chinas Dominanz in Schwellenländern
Microsoft-Präsident Brad Smith warnt vor „KI-Kluft“: China unterbietet US-Anbieter in Schwellenländern durch Subventionen und festigt seine Vorreiterrolle.
https://ww…

BlockFills, a crypto liquidity provider and lender to ~2K institutional clients, halts deposits and withdrawals, citing "recent market and financial conditions" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/73e506f4-6b58-4c38-9198-110e845f48b2

Das Metaverse muss sparen: Echte Kündidungen bei der virtuellen Realität
Das Metaverse ist jetzt nicht so der Bringer. Das muss auch Mark Zuckerberg erkennen. Bald rollt die Kündigungswelle.
https:…

Anthropic says Claude users on the free plan can now create files, connect to external services, use skills, and more (Will Shanklin/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/anthropic-beefs-up-claudes-free-tier-as-ope…

Anthropic beefs up Claude's free tier as OpenAI prepares to stuff ads into ChatGPT's
You no longer need a subscription to create files or use Connectors and Skills in Claude.

Globaler Smartphone-Markt: Marktführer Apple
Die weltweiten Smartphone-Lieferungen stiegen 2025 um zwei Prozent gegenüber dem Vorjahr. Der US-Konzern Apple legte zu und ist weltweiter Marktführer.
https://www.

Samt Quellcodezugriff: Indien plant diverse Pflichten für Smartphonehersteller
Betriebssysteme von Smartphones sollen künftig in Indien diverse Sicherheitsstandards erfüllen müssen, die den Herstellern überhaupt nicht schmecken.

Sources: Apple's Siri upgrade has run into snags recently, possibly pushing some personalized Siri and other features from iOS 26.4 to iOS 26.5, due in May (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Warschaus Allianz mit Trump: Polen blockiert wichtiges EU-Digitalgesetz

Anthropic donates $20M to Public First, a super PAC pushing for AI guardrails and transparency in opposition to OpenAI-backed PACs, ahead of the US midterms (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/technology/anthropic-super-pac-ope…

Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
ChatGPT in der Schule: Auch Nutzung ohne explizites Verbot ist Täuschung

Israeli authorities charge a reservist and a civilian for allegedly using classified information to bet on military operations on Polymarket (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/39ab13aa-7ae9-4a24-9200-2bab44b8022a

AMD und Lenovo zeigen Ryzen AI 400 für Sockel AM5
Implizit hat AMD auf der CES bei zwei Gelegenheiten neue APUs für den Sockel AM5 angekündigt – aber ohne sie anzusprechen oder Details zu nennen.
https://www.

Airbnb reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to $2.78B, vs. $2.72B est., Nights and Seats Booked up 10% to 121.9M, and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/q4-airbnb-abnb-earnings-2025.html

Airbnb shares pop on company's revenue beat, rosy guidance
Airbnb reported fourth-quarter results that beat on revenue and offered rosy guidance.

WhatsApp: EU-Kommission prüft weiterhin Einstufung als VLOP
WhatsApp droht seit Längerem eine Einstufung als sehr große Online-Plattform nach dem DSA. Die EU-Kommission „befasst sich aktiv“ mit der Frage.
https:…

Microsoft: Updates für Windows 11 und Server 2025 werden getrennt
Künftig sollen Updates für Windows 11 (24H2/25H2) einerseits und Server 2025 andererseits separate KB-Nummern bekommen. Das könnte die Updates verschlanken.

heise | Von Kika bis Youtube Kids: So sicher sind Streaming-Dienste für Kinder
Die Kinder im Feiertagsstress kurz mit einer Serie zu beschäftigen, klingt verlockend. Wir erklären, wie Sie für ein altersgerechtes Programm sorgen.

Börsengang: SpaceX will 30 Milliarden US-Dollar einnehmen
SpaceX plant einen Börsengang für die zweite Jahreshälfte 2026. Dabei will das Raumfahrtunternehmen ein Rekordergebnis erzielen.
https://www.