Tootfinder

Wag-atha Christie Dog May Have Resolved Victorian Murder Digging Up Poison Bottle From 160 Years Ago https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/wag-atha-christie-dog-digs-up-victorian-murder-poison-bottle/

Wag-atha Christie: Dog May Have Resolved Victorian Murder Digging Up Poison Bottle
A family's dog may have resolved a notorious 160-year-old murder, after he dug up a bottle of poison buried in the garden.

Traders bet $500 million on oil price just before Trump's post on delay to Iran attack (Amanda Cooper/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/traders-bet-500-million-oil-price-just-before-trumps-post-delay-iran-attack-2026-03-24/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260324/p84#a260324p84

Was?

Teurer als eine PS5: Razers neue Edel-Tastatur knackt die 500-Euro-Marke
Technisch entspricht sie der bekannten V3 Pro 8K, preislich liegt sie deutlich darüber: Razer verlangt für die Huntsman Signature Edition rund 550 Euro.

Love a 10GB (500 times the size of my first hard disk) phone update that introduces… a few new emoji.

stanford_web: Webgraph (Stanford)
The web graph of Stanford University (stanford.edu), as collected in 2002. Nodes represent pages and directed edges represent hyperlinks between them.
This network has 281904 nodes and 2312497 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/s…

⁨#lichensubscribe⁩ ⁨#Rye⁩ Harbour Nature Reserve, ⁨#EastSussex⁩

Ohne Krankenversicherung in Alaska: Hubschraubertransport & Blinddarmentfernung kosten 60.000–140.000 USD. Die gesamten Kosten müssen selbst getragen werden.
Es ist nicht unwahrscheinlich, dass #Inuit in den #USA nicht krankenversichert sind, 1/4 lebt unter der Armutsgrenze.

Poverty and Health Disparities for American Indian and Alaska Native Children: Current Knowledge and Future Prospects
This report explores the current state of knowledge regarding inequalities and their effect on American Indian and Alaska Native children, underscoring gaps in our current knowledge and the opportunities for early intervention to begin to address ...

Software stocks extend their weeks-long selloff, with AppLovin, Datadog, Workday down 7% ; several of the biggest decliners were discussed in a post by Citrini (Jack Pitcher/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.c…

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,260,500 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/23/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

"More than 1,500 healthcare workers have been killed during #Israel’s genocidal war on #Gaza, including several since a so-called “ceasefire” came into effect in October."
#GazaGenocide

‘Substantial evidence’ of double-tap strike in killing of Gaza’s Hind Rajab
Avaaz analyses the timeline of events to conclude that violations show Israel systematically kills first responders.

Mundane Things III 🌀
普通物件 III 🌀
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography

Incidentally, I chose to force an upgrade because it was previously necessary to force off the virtual machine during an upgrade.
This began as a review of pkg issue 2441:
― pkg upgrade: ability to complete what was originally intended, following an interruption <https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/

Getting serious about data breaches in Kazakhstan
January 23: Kazakhstan Moves to Criminalize Mass Data Breaches
https://meyka.com/blog/january-23-kazakhstan-moves-to-criminalize-mass-data-breaches-2301/

January 23: Kazakhstan Moves to Criminalize Mass Data Breaches | Meyka
Australia-focused take on Kazakhstan data breach law, criminal penalties and $42,500 fines, risks for banks and fintechs, and clear compliance steps for investors.

How human is a humanoid? https://mailchi.mp/technologyreview/how-human-is-a-humanoid?e=13e1f839f6

RE: https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/115950900357164051
Do you use Chrome? Follow @… to be…

So last week I asked people to share their blog URLs, and I got a whole bunch of them! And I’ve been trying to go through them, and some go back to 2015… So there’s a lot to do. I did find a really interesting one about GPX files and Python, but it uses Google maps, and I’m not sure I want to do that since I prefer OpenStreetMap. Nice to find interesting gems though, in the 1,500 (gulp!) blog posts I’m going through.

Schneechaos in München - 500 Passagiere harrten ganze Nacht in Flugzeug aus #News #Nachrichten …

#lichensubscribe #Rye Harbour Nature Reserve, #EastSussex

But the “17 Fortune 500 companies based in the state…have not spoken publicly about the federal immigration activity, and none of Minnesota’s 15 biggest employers, including Target, UnitedHealth Group and Xcel Energy, responded to requests for comment”

A "love triangle"? 😉
Hidden Crotch Detail Solves a 500-Year-Old Leonardo Da Vinci Mystery
https://www.sciencealert.com/hidden-crotch-detail-solves-a-500-year-old-leonardo-da-vinci-mystery

Hidden Crotch Detail Solves a 500-Year-Old Leonardo Da Vinci Mystery
Leonardo da Vinci, the famous Italian polymath who painted the Mona Lisa, had a sophisticated geometric understanding far ahead of his time.

aktuelles #Wetter #Behrendorf #Wische 24-01-2026 18:20
Temperatur: (min: -4,7C) -2,1C (max: -2,0C)
Feuchte: 93%
Luftdruck: 1008,1 hPa (gleichbleibend)
Windrichtung: 272 Grad
Wi…

Why would anyone use this? $1,500 rent means a $32.49 fee on top of your rent just to have them debit you twice instead of setting up autopay with your bank for free.
Split Pay charges $9.99 1.5% of your total payment amount per month. This fee is added to your first Split Pay payment each month. https://rent.app/help/renters?a=Is-there-a-fee-for-using-Split-Pay---id--FohAfEIBSB2nLJJiwifd0Q

the charming species icons of https://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com

roadnet: U.S. roads (CA, PA, TX)
Road networks from three US states (CA, PA, TX), in which edges are stretches of road and vertices are intersections of roads.
This network has 1393383 nodes and 3843320 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/roadnet

Bike trailer parking. #cargobikes #bikes #carryshitolympics

Weiteres #Elektroauto in der Familie: VW e-Up
Völlig unverständlich, dass #Volkswagen den Up eingestellt hat und nur sehr wenige Hersteller vergleichbare Fahrzeuge anbieten!

The United States is deploying roughly 2,500 Marines aboard up to three amphibious warships from the Indo-Pacific toward the Middle East
as fighting with Iran enters a more uncertain phase.
The move adds a mobile expeditionary force to the more than 50,000 U.S. troops already in the region
while Washington evaluates Iran’s response to nearly two weeks of joint U.S. and Israeli air and long-range strike operations.
What's Trump expecting them to do?
Capture …

U.S. Deploys 2,500 Marines on Amphibious Warships to Reinforce Middle-East Deterrence Against Iran
2,500 U.S. Marines sail toward the Middle East aboard amphibious warships as Washington strengthens deterrence against Iran.

POL-OS: Glätte-Bilanz: Rund 500 Einsätze aufgrund von Blitzeis - Gröbste überstanden Osnabrück/Lingen/Nordhorn/Leer/Aurich (ots) - Viel zu tun heute Morgen für Polizei, Feuerwehr und Rettungsdienste. Seit den frühen Morgenstunden verzeichnete die Polizeidirektion Osnabrück, vom Teutoburger Wald bis zu der Ostfriesischen Küste ... https://www.…

Gotta cry fast

Without health insurance in #Alaska: Helicopter transport and appendictomiy cost $60,000–$140,000. The entire cost must be borne by the individual.
It is not unlikely that #Inuit in the USA lack health insurance; a quarter live below the poverty line.

Poverty and Health Disparities for American Indian and Alaska Native Children: Current Knowledge and Future Prospects
This report explores the current state of knowledge regarding inequalities and their effect on American Indian and Alaska Native children, underscoring gaps in our current knowledge and the opportunities for early intervention to begin to address ...

MatX, an AI chip startup founded by two alumni of Google's chip business, raised $500M led by Jane Street and Situational Awareness to compete with Nvidia (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…

FreeBSD base package downgrades in response to a forced upgrade of all packages.
I might take a closer look at the weekend, if the typescript file for the session is available.
#FreeBSD #pkgbase

Free Words was an art project I started in 2001. It was a hot pink artists book I described as “a book that belonged to anyone who found it.” I placed it onto the shelves of bookstores and libraries to be discovered, and people who found it had to make an uncomfortable decision about whether they were truly free to carry it away.
Here’s the story.

More of The Free Words Story
The story of Sal Randolph's Free Words, a social art project where free books were infiltrated into bookstores and libraries.

"Doel’s feat wasn’t just a display of ingenuity; it also highlighted a growing problem—specifically, the mounting burden of landfill waste. According to a 2024 report by Wired, 137 billion pounds of e-waste, including vape pens, are generated each year. Only one quarter of that waste is recycled."
Man uses 500 disposable vape batteries to power up electric car - Good.is
https://www.good.is/british-engineer-uses-over-500-disposable-vape-batteries-to-power-up-an-electric-car/

Marketing mails niet-opgemaakt ontvangen levert soms verborgen pareltjes op...
(500% moeten vergroten tot 'normaal leesbaar'.)
📸 ↔️

After some days work, I finally made my first unassisted warp, and got it on the loom and threaded up - 189 ends. It seems I had only one small mistake in the threading, just had to swap two threads. Can't wait to explore some lift patterns with this ! #weaving

Eine Reise, welche ich in den letzten 5 Jahren immer wieder mit Spannung verfolgt habe ist zuende. Karsten Rinck aka Mütze ist mit seiner Hündin Lotte nach einer Wanderung von 19.500 Kilometern quer durch Europa wieder in seiner Heimat angekommen.
#MützeOnTour

19.500 Kilometer zu Fuß durch Europa: Mütze ist wieder da
19.500 Kilometer zu Fuß durch Europa - Mütze und Lotte sind wieder da

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke je #Bundesland in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Die Angaben zum Ausland sind Sonderfälle, zum Beispiel in Rankweil, Kreuzlingen und Neuhausen …

Kick the Bot, Fear the Dog: Street Psychology and the Coming Age of Mechanical Animals
The first time you see a sidewalk delivery bot, you smile. It is impossible not to. The thing is knee-high, usually white or pastel, rolling along on six stubby wheels like a cooler that gained sentience and decided to take itself for a walk. It carries burritos, or prescription medication, or someone's iced latte, and it navigates curbs and crosswalks…

Kick the Bot, Fear the Dog: Street Psychology and the Coming Age of Mechanical Animals | David Boles, Blogs
The first time you see a sidewalk delivery bot, you smile. It is impossible not to. The thing is knee-high, usually white or pastel, rolling along on six stubby wheels like a cooler that gained sen…

"Colombia poised for another drop in deforestation in 2025, data show"
#Colombia #Deforestation #Environment

Colombia poised for another drop in deforestation in 2025, data show
Deforestation in Colombia appears to have declined in 2025, with notable reductions in several departments that have historically struggled with forest loss. An estimated 36,280 hectares (89,650 acres) of forest were lost during the first three quarters of the year, a 25% drop from the 48,500 hectares (about 119,850 acres) recorded over the same period […]

🫥 Mexico’s missing people crisis casts a shadow over World Cup venue
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-12-20/mexicos-missing-people-crisis-casts-a-shadow-over-world-cup-venue.html

Mexico’s missing people crisis casts a shadow over World Cup venue
The discovery of at least 500 bags containing human remains within a 10-mile radius of Guadalajara’s Akron Stadium tarnishes expectations for the FIFA tournament

Chilean president declares state of catastrophe as wildfires kill at least 15. Fires blaze through 8,500 hectares, forcing 50,000 people to evacuate as firefighters struggle to extinguish flames in scorching heat: temperatures up to 38°C (100F)
https://www.thegu…

Time to get messy.
#uspol

I laughed for a second. Then I got very sad.
(link: https://bsky.app/profile/abstracttesseract.bsky.social/post/3mewrojqa422b )

Plasma: high CPU usage whilst the screen is locked
<#FreeBSD

Hello, Kit
This is Louis, Kit
It's so nice to have you back where you belong
You're lookin' swell, Kit
I can tell, Kit
You're still glowin', you're still browsin'
You're still goin' strong
I feel the internets swayin'
#firefox

Bericht: USA haben Finanzierung von Technik gegen Internetblockaden eingestellt
Mit mehr als 500 Millionen US-Dollar haben die USA laut einem Bericht in zehn Jahren IT-Projekte zum Schutz der Internetfreiheit unterstützt. Damit ist Schluss.

Vor knapp einem Jahr gab es einen großen Blackout in Spanien und Portugal. Jetzt hat ENTSO-E den Abschlussbericht veröffentlicht. Ergebnis: Es ist kompliziert. Wer es genauer wissen will, findet die knapp 500 Seiten unter https://www.entsoe.eu/publications/blackou

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
MORI: Must be more of them. [Troopers surround Pyroans.]
SERVALAN: Are either of you called Milus?
MILUS: I am Milus. This is my brother Nettin.
SERVALAN: I am Servalan. You have a message for me.
h…

Heute vor 68 Jahren: Am 22. Februar 1958 zündete die 2. #Atombombe "Venus" die Teil des Kernwaffentests Project 58 der #USA war. Zwischen 1957/58 wurden 4 Tests unterirdisch/oberirdisch durchgeführt.

3,500-Yard QB Predicted to Become a ‘Star in the NFL' https://www.si.com/fannation/college/cfb-hq/news/3-500-yard-qb-predicted-star-nfl-indiana-hoosiers-las-vegas-raiders

This seems simple enough! 👀

Manchester-based local newsletter publisher Mill Media plans to expand to Leeds as its seventh brand if it gets 500 paying subscribers for the unnamed title (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

Mill Media asks for subscribers first, promising launch later in Leeds
Mill Media is set to launch a title in Leeds on the condition it reaches 500 paying subscribers for the title.

@… I like the kitty, but I have no idea what's going on around it 😸

#Norwegian friends. The UK press is running stories about restarting the #Bergen to #Newcastle #ferry this …

Nej, jag orkar inte sitta uppe och titta på den andra semi-finalen. Jag hoppas, lite, att Tjeckien vinner.
Men klart att Kanada vinner på hemmaplan.
Grattis, Juniorkronorna. #JVM

Kein Bus, keine Leiter - Grazerin saß eine ganze Nacht im Flugzeug fest #News #Nachrichten

Trump’s intensifying standoff with European leaders over the fate of Greenland
prompted a sharp response from investors Tuesday morning,
with the value of U.S. stocks, dollar and government bonds all falling.
The S&P 500 dropped over 1 percent
as investors reacted to Trump’s increasing threat of higher tariffs on European allies unless they supported his plans for America to take control of Greenland.
Tuesday morning’s decline was first time the index has st…

Stocks and Bonds Fall on Trump’s Greenland Threats
The S&P 500 dropped over 1 percent Tuesday morning, its lowest decline at the start of the trading day since April, when President Trump first announced his sweeping tariffs.

an eicar string for ai just dropped 😄
ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86
h/t @…

plant_pol_robertson: Robertson plant-pollinator web
A bipartite network of plants and pollinators, from southwestern Illinois, USA.
This network has 1884 nodes and 15265 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/plant_pol_robertson

Americans Foot the Bill for Tariffs, Study Finds (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-netflix-01-20-2026/card/americans-foot-the-bill-for-tariffs-study-finds-IMjSQYejnCVoavaqHabv
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p38#a260120p38

@… I suspect that eventually, as you upgrade non-locked packages, the locked application will lose functionality or become unusable.
Maybe jail it sooner rather than later; and allow the jail to become (seriously) outdated.

Listen Labs, whose AI tools help Microsoft and others run customer research and interviews, raised a $69M Series B led by Ribbit Capital at a $500M valuation (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/20

This $500 Million AI Startup Runs Customer Interviews For Microsoft And Sweetgreen
The San Francisco-based company, which has run more than 1 million customer interviews with its automated AI tools to help major companies figure out what their users want, has now raised $69 million.

The First Thing They Burn: Why War Always Comes for Beauty
When the Mongol army sacked Baghdad in 1258, they did not stop at killing the Caliph. They threw the contents of the House of Wisdom into the Tigris. Manuscripts on astronomy, medicine, mathematics, philosophy, and poetry turned the river black with ink for days. Killing people was not enough. What those people had made, what they had thought and dreamed and rendered into form, that had to be annihilated too.

The First Thing They Burn: Why War Always Comes for Beauty | David Boles, Blogs
When the Mongol army sacked Baghdad in 1258, they did not stop at killing the Caliph. They threw the contents of the House of Wisdom into the Tigris. Manuscripts on astronomy, medicine, mathematics…

aktuelles #Wetter #Behrendorf #Wische 22-01-2026 06:20
Temperatur: (min: -7,1C) -6,8C (max: -4,8C)
Feuchte: 97%
Luftdruck: 1003,7 hPa (gleichbleibend)
Windrichtung: N/A Grad

Singal snap pack having a fun time trying to render in #ubuntu

19 Cities Including London, San Francisco, Hong Kong Achieve ‘Remarkable Reductions’ in Air Pollution https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/19-cities-including-london-san-francisco-hong-kong-achieve-remarkable-reductions-…

19 Cities Including London, San Francisco, Hong Kong Achieve ‘Remarkable Reductions’ in Air Pollution
In a report that examined the air quality of 100 global cities, 19 were found to have substantially improved since 2010. 

What? No discussion of the #Microsoft email outage? Surely someone will bring out the DNS Haiku. #outage

Trump threats, U.S. troop build-up raise specter of battle for Hormuz
A surge of additional U.S. forces to the Middle East and Donald Trump’s threat to “obliterate” Iran’s energy infrastructure
have set the stage for what U.S. and Israeli security officials increasingly see as the war’s dramatic escalation:
a battle for control of the Strait of Hormuz and key energy installations.
A contingent of 4,500 U.S. sailors and Marines is heading to the Middle East,
inc…

Trump threats, U.S. troop build-up raise specter of battle for Hormuz
Israelis said securing the strait for energy shipments could become the war’s main goal now that regime change and ending Iran’s ability to obtain a nuclear weapon seem out of reach.

OpenAI scrambled for compute power after the Stargate project stalled; sources: OpenAI still plans to build its own data centers, but not in the near future (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-op…

Inside OpenAI’s Scramble to Get Computing Power After Stargate Stalled
When President Donald Trump announced the $500 billion Stargate AI data center project in January 2025, the three companies charged with developing it promised to move with lightning speed, spending $100 billion almost immediately to start building 10 gigawatts of computing capacity. More than a ...

Periodic reminder, in the US you can get flat-rate unlimited unthrottled mobile 4G/5G internet for $400/$500 a year from https://calyxinstitute.org, and they now have a bring-your-own-device option

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/115790975758203115
@… thanks, some background:

UK's Hinkley Point C new nuclear plant delayed to 2030 as costs climb to €56 billion*, i.e. €17,500 per kW.
EDF said the first reactor at the site in Somerset will begin operations in 2030, a year later than in the last update – almost 13 years after construction work began – after a series of delays to the project.

Trump Sells First Batch Of Venezuelan Oil For $500 Million, Stores Funds In "Neutral" Qatari Bank Account - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/01/trump-sells-first-batch-of-venezuelan-oil-for-500-million-stores-funds-in-neutral-qatari-bank-account/

RE: https://tech.lgbt/@aimeeble/116064432582643769
Cats when they don't get fed on time...

Japan’s Yogurt Delivery Ladies Serve as a Support Net for Country’s Aging Population https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/japans-yogurt-delivery-ladies-overtime-as-social-watchers-of-the-countrys-aging-population/

Japan's Yogurt Delivery Ladies Serve as a Support Net for Country's Aging Population
A Yakult Lady might work 4 days a week, visiting between 30 and 50 houses, stopping at times to chat and inquire after a person's wellbeing.

Getting away from the arctic weather hitting the US Midwest #scuba diving in Costa Rica. #puravida

I Wrote the Book I Was Born to Write
Fifty years is a long time to prepare for a single sentence. I did not know I was preparing. I thought I was living, which I was, and writing, which I was, and teaching, which I was, and publishing, which I was. I thought the Fractional Fiction novels and the EleMenTs trilogy and the Prairie Voice reporting and the Human Meme episodes and the dramatic literature and the ASL linguistics and the cultural criticism were separate…

I Wrote the Book I Was Born to Write | David Boles, Blogs
Fifty years is a long time to prepare for a single sentence. I did not know I was preparing. I thought I was living, which I was, and writing, which I was, and teaching, which I was, and publishing…

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Bericht: USA haben Finanzierung von Technik gegen Internetblockaden eingestellt

slashdot_zoo: Slashdot Zoo friend-foe network (2009)
A network of interactions among users on Slashdot (slashdot.org), a technology news website. Users name each other as friends or foe. The friend label increases the scores of post, and the foe label decreases the score.
This network has 79120 nodes and 515397 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Signed

Visionary Birding Route Now Links 5 African Nations Along Ancient River Migratory Map https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/visionary-birding-route-now-links-5-african-nations-along-ancient-river-migratory-map/

Visionary Birding Route Now Links 5 African Nations Along Ancient River Migratory Map
The announcement of a new transboundary birding route has catapulted southern Africa to the forefront of international birdwatching travel. Spanning Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, the route contains an estimated 650 endemic and migratory species, and traverses the world’s largest conservation area—as big as Germany and France together. Known as the Great Kavango Zambezi […]

Trump aides struggle with how to spend $500 billion more on military (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/02/21/trump-hegseth-budget-military/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260221/p15#a260221p15

try this one weird trick discovered by a cat dad*
*it’s me, I’m cat dad

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@VirusBulletin/115939087573464617
A quick tip to help prevent similar attacks on your business network: Block these URLs. They are legitimate services, but unless you are in a crypto-related business, it is highly unlike…

5,500 Evacuate in Hawaii as 120-Year-Old Dam Nears Failure | Associated Press
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/honolulu-floods-oahu/2026/03/20/id/1250263/

The Invisible Ledger: How Digital Currency Threatens the Last Private Thing You Own
There is something seductive about the promise of digital money. It arrives dressed in the language of progress, efficiency, inclusion, and modernization, as though the ability to hold a coin in your hand were a primitive embarrassment that civilization ought to outgrow. Cryptocurrency evangelists speak of decentralization and freedom from institutional control. Central bankers speak of…

The Invisible Ledger: How Digital Currency Threatens the Last Private Thing You Own | David Boles, Blogs
There is something seductive about the promise of digital money. It arrives dressed in the language of progress, efficiency, inclusion, and modernization, as though the ability to hold a coin in yo…

500 Millionen Euro? Ob es da nicht ein bisschen Einsparpotenzial gibt?
Die digitale Abhängigkeit des deutschen Staates von einem einzelnen Tech-Giganten nimmt besorgniserregende Ausmaße an: Fast 500 Millionen Euro hat die Bundesverwaltung allein im Jahr 2025 für Microsoft-Lizenzen ausgegeben! 😱
Zum Artikel:

After years of failing to produce a profitable augmented reality platform,
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is pounding one of the final nails into the coffin of its metaverse efforts
— the ones that were once so central to its vision that it renamed the entire company after them.
This week, the Wall Street Journalreported Meta was laying off some 1,500 employees from its Reality Labs division,
-- the department working on Meta’s virtual reality products.
As part of the …

Meta Lays Off Thousands of VR Workers as Zuckerberg’s Vision Fails
The company has laid off some 1,500 virtual reality developers as part of a broader shift toward AI wearable devices.

Sources: OpenAI aims to grow to about 8,000 employees by the end of 2026, from ~4,500 today, as it seeks to arrest Anthropic's momentum with business customers (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7ffea5b4-e8bc-47cd-adb4-257f84c8028b

Fears are growing that the Iran war shows no signs of ending soon.
The US is sending three more warships and thousands of marines to the Middle East, according to US media reports.
It comes after Trump has insisted he will not put boots on the ground in Iran.
Roughly 2,200 to 2,500 Marines from the California-based USS Boxer amphibious ready group and 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit are heading to the US Central Command area of responsibility, Reuters and the WSJ reported.

Israel and Iran launch more attacks as US sends marines to Middle East
Israel attacks Tehran and Beirut, while Iran fires missiles at Israel and continues to strike Gulf nations

Sources: AI chip startup SambaNova is seeking to raise $300M to $500M after talks to sell the company to Intel for about $1.6B, including debt, stalled (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-21…

Online DTC luxury brand Quince raised a $500M Series E led by Iconiq at a $10.1B valuation; it recently launched in Canada and its revenue topped $1B in 2025 (James Manso/WWD)
https://wwd.com/business-news/financial/quince-10-1-billion-v…

EXCLUSIVE: Quince Closes $500 Million Series E at $10.1 Billion Valuation
Quince reached a $10.1 billion valuation for its $500 million series E, following 2025 revenues of over $1 billion.

Source: Microsoft quietly becomes one of Anthropic's top clients and was recently on pace to spend nearly $500M/year for Anthropic to power Microsoft products (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsofts-spending-anthr…

Microsoft’s Spending on Anthropic AI Is on Pace to Hit $500 Million
OpenAI is Microsoft’s most important AI provider and its biggest cloud server customer. But as OpenAI does more business with Microsoft’s cloud rivals, Microsoft is doing more business with Anthropic, OpenAI’s archrival. Microsoft has quietly become one of Anthropic’s top customers and was ...

It is less than the price of a Super Bowl ticket
(with even a nosebleed seat costing at least $4,000).
Still, at $1,500 per person for dinner, served by the chef whose restaurant has been named the best in the world four times, it may give pause to even the most dedicated food enthusiasts
h…

Why the meal at Noma LA is priced at $1,500 according to Rene Redzepi
Less than a Super Bowl ticket, more than almost every other L.A. restaurant: A meal at Noma's Los Angeles residency will cost $1,500. Copenhagen chef Rene Redzepi explains the price and how he's come up with more affordable ways to experience the restaurant's flavors.

Endangered Persian Leopards Mount Comeback in Central Asia’s Most Reclusive Nation https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/endangered-persian-leopards-mount-comeback-in-central-asias-most-reclusive-nation/

Endangered Persian Leopards Mount Comeback in Central Asia’s Most Reclusive Nation
There are now an estimated to be 60-80 Persian (aka, Caucasian) leopards dwelling in the country's nature reserves.

General Catalyst plans to invest $5B in India over five years, an increase from the $500M to $1B previously announced, after merging with a local VC in 2024 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/19/general-catalyst-commits-5b-to-ind…

General Catalyst commits $5B to India over five years | TechCrunch
The pledge marks a sharp jump from General Catalyst's earlier $500 million–$1 billion India earmark.

Pepper, which provides a digital storefront for independent food distributors, raised a $50M Series C led by Lead Edge, bringing its total funding to $100M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/…

Exclusive: Pepper shakes out $50M Series C
Pepper, a business platform developer for independent food distributors, has more than 500 customers.

Croatia Declared Landmine-free After More Than 2 Decades of Demining Efforts https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/croatia-declared-landmine-free-after-more-than-2-decades-of-demining-efforts/

Croatia Declared Landmine-free After More Than 2 Decades of Demining Efforts
By the end of the war, 1.5 million landmines covered an area of 453 square miles, twice the size of Zion National Park in Utah.

Inside India's AI Impact Summit: 300 exhibitors, 500 sessions, 250K visitors, billions in investment, and entrepreneurs touting solutions to real-world issues (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/busines