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I like to label the important things :3

heise | Aktienmarkt 2025: Wer Europa bislang ignorierte, hat viel Geld verschenkt
Viele europäische Aktienmärkte haben sich 2025 besser als die US-Schwergewichte Nasdaq 100 und S&P 500 entwickelt. Davon könnten Anleger auch 2026 profitieren.

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 ...

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Vom Marketing-Gadget zum täglichen Gesundheitshelfer: Meine Apple Watch war stets Begleiter – auch während meiner Krankheit. Über 3.500-mal die Aktivitätsringe geschlossen. Nach Totalausfall im Urlaub zeigt sich: Reparieren ist (zu) teuer ... #Apple #Watch

Ringe geschlossen, Uhr kaputt: Ein Jahrzehnt mit der Apple Watch
Vom Marketing-Gadget zum täglichen Gesundheitshelfer: Meine Apple Watch war stets Begleiter – auch während meiner Krankheit. Über 3.500-mal die Aktivitätsringe geschlossen. Nach Totalausfall im Url…

Som alltid
1. Fredagsfys
2. Fredagsmys

Wenn Nirvana eine Jazz-Band gewesen wäre, würde sich »Smells Like Teen Spirit« vielleicht so anhören: https://youtu.be/MJBwQm7kILg?t=500
Aufnahme und Veröffentlichung: WDR. Rundfunkgebühren bei der Arbeit.
Edit: Das ganze Konzert schauen lohnt. Es kommen noch andere verjazzte Pop-/Rock-Cover.

Donald Trump on Monday blamed Rob Reiner’s outspoken opposition to the president for the actor-director’s killing,
delivering the unsubstantiated claim in a shocking post that seemed intent on decrying his opponents even in the face of a tragedy.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-…

Trump levels political attack on Rob Reiner after his killing
President Donald Trump is blaming Rob Reiner’s outspoken opposition to the president for the actor-director’s killing, delivering the unsubstantiated claim in a shocking post that seemed intent on decrying his opponents even in the face of a tragedy. The statement on Monday, even for Trump, was a shocking comment that came as police were still investigating the deaths of the beloved director and his wife as an apparent homicide. The couple were found dead at their home Sunday in Los Angeles…

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/

#ThursdayFiveList want music that is hard to put a genre on...
Broken By The Scream - 追憶のナスカ - (Official Music Video)
Heigh ho

Broken By The Scream - 追憶のナスカ - (Official Music Video) by Broken By The Scream
Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, albums, podcasts and more.

For #LetterboxdFriday, my #LastFourWatched - @… and I picked 4 last week. We got to 3 of em (and I saw Badlands too). Badlands was fuckin awesome. And The Mothman Prophecies was co…

How One Guy Crowdsourced More Than 500 Dashcams for Minneapolis to Film ICE https://www.404media.co/how-one-guy-crowdsourced-more-than-500-dashcams-for-minneapolis-to-film-ice/

Interessant: In meinem Artikel vom Dienstag über E-Mail-Weiterleitungen waren natürlich als Beispiele einige E-Mail-Adressen zu lesen.
https://www.kuketz-blog.de/anbieter-von-e-mail-aliassen-im-test-mail-aliasse-teil-1/
Bereits heute tref…

Beim @… in der Timeline den #CyberCircleCreator entdeckt.
https://ccc.cyber.to/

Almost like they're chopped off the metaverse at the knees…
So visionary that they renamed and redirected the company after the wrong technology trend.

More than 500 writers, actors, and technologists launch the Creators Coalition on AI to push standards for how AI is trained and used across creative industries (Chris Gardner/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gen

Hollywood Insiders Unite to Fight for Future of Industry With Launch of Creators Coalition on AI
The organization, which published four distinct goals and a call to action while gathering hundreds of signatories, hopes to act as a central coordinating hub to upgrade industry systems and institutions.

It’s been a little while since I’ve posted a Zen talk. Here’s one that I gave last week about becoming a Zen priest and also about the famous koan, “Joshu’s Wash Your Bowls.”
https://salrandolph.substack.com/p/a-bowl-of-clouds-and-water

A Bowl of Clouds and Water: Joshu's Wash Your Bowls
In this dharma talk, Kenzen tells about her experience ordaining as a novice Zen priest and discusses the Zen koan "Joshu's Wash Your Bowls."

"Terrence and Lesley Bridges have seen their energy bills drop dramatically, from £375 a month down to as low as £40, since they swapped their gas boiler for a HeatHub – a small data centre containing more than 500 computers."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0rpy7en

'I heat my Essex home with a data centre in the shed'
"It's fantastic because it's eco-friendly...We're not burning any gases," says Terrence Bridges.

Memory in the Meme
We live in an age of disposable context. We scroll through the infinite ribbon of the glass screen, pausing only for a microsecond to register a flicker of recognition before sliding our thumb upward, condemning the moment to the digital abyss. We have been trained by the Technocrats, those right-brained architects of our algorithmic prisons, to view this behavior as consumption.

Memory in the Meme | David Boles, Blogs
We live in an age of disposable context. We scroll through the infinite ribbon of the glass screen, pausing only for a microsecond to register a flicker of recognition before sliding our thumb upwa…

These two #cats are very happy to have their heated beds available for the season #catsofmastodon #caturday

Quahogs are VERY long-lived clams. This wise one was born 100 before Shakespeare. Cherish them. If you eat them, venerate their little clam bodies, first.
From "New Scientist", Tom Gauld comic.
#AncientWisdom equals #GoodEating

"Masdar bags PPA for 150 MW of solar in Angola"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Masdar bags PPA for 150 MW of solar in Angola
Abu Dhabi-based developer Masdar has signed its first power purchase agreement in Angola, covering a 150 MW solar site that marks the first phase of a 500 MW multi-site project.

Your console.log is useless: A Guide to Production-Grade #Observability in #Nodejs

Das Bürger-#Windrad in #Kammerberg feiert zehn Jahre Betrieb und hat seither 71 Millionen kWh Strom erzeugt. Das reicht rechnerisch für rund 2000 Haushalte.
Gleichzeitig wurden 51.500 Tonnen #CO2 …

Bürger-Windrad Kammerberg stärkt Genossenschaft und Klimaschutz
Die BEG Freisinger Land feiert zehn Jahre Bürgerenergie und plant mit zwei neuen Windparks eine deutliche Steigerung der Windstromerzeugung.

I'm in Australia right now. I can boot my home PC via Wake On LAN to access my files if I have to. I placed a webcam in front of it so that I can verify that it actually does so.
It's weird seeing my computer 16.500 km away from me. It feels like my own little Mars mission. Especially with how SSH feels at 300-400 ms latency.
And yes, that's a drinking glass I forgot on my desk.
#HomeLab

Yesterday was my last day of this term's teaching Communication at the School of Engineering. So time to say good by to the little fellow living in TH547 and attending all lectures! He was there even on days none of the 33 students showed up
#AcademicChatter #TeachingElephant

aktuelles #Wetter #Behrendorf #Wische 15-01-2026 15:35
Temperatur: (min: -1,5C) 4,8C (max: 5,3C)
Feuchte: 99%
Luftdruck: 1012,6 hPa (gleichbleibend)
Windrichtung: N/A Grad
W…

We've picked more than 500 kiwi fruits this weekend. We put them in the cellar until they get ready to eat after x-mas. Not all of them were low hanging!
@… @… @…

jazz_collab: Jazz collaboration network
The network of collaborations among jazz musicians, and among jazz bands, extracted from The Red Hot Jazz Archive digital database, covering bands that performed between 1912 and 1940.
This network has 198 nodes and 2742 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration, Unweighted
https://

More than 500 writers, actors, and technologists launch the Creators Coalition on AI to push standards for how AI is trained and used across creative industries (Chris Gardner/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gen

Hollywood Insiders Unite to Fight for Future of Industry With Launch of Creators Coalition on AI
The organization, which published four distinct goals and a call to action while gathering hundreds of signatories, hopes to act as a central coordinating hub to upgrade industry systems and institutions.

:bisexual_pride: 🏳️‍⚧️ :genderfluid_flag: Happy Trans Awareness Week :nonbinary_flag: :heart_trans: 🏳️‍🌈
#TransRightsAreHumanRights #TransRights #Trans

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
🧵 👇
#RUSSIA ARMY TRAPPED IN MOLDOVA, #ATLANT AERO HUGE STRIKE IN TAGANROG Vlog 1288: War in Ukraine
1,500 Russian soldiers wit…

'A series of loud explosions' — Ukraine 'destroys' key Russian drone factory in Taganrog, SBU says
The plant is involved in the production of "Orion" drones, electronic warfare complexes, and digital integration systems.

Ravens-Browns takeaways: Mark Andrews' 35-yard TD run lifts Baltimore to fourth straight win https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6812711/2025/11/16/ravens-browns-score-result-takeaways-nfl/

I have changed people's lives by pointing them to svgrepo.
https://www.svgrepo.com/

Amsterdam - Mesdagstraat
#kamafotos

🏎️ Gymkhana’s 1978 Subaru Brat With 9,500-RPM Redline and Active Aero Is One Super Ute
https://www.thedrive.com/news/gymkhanas-1978-subaru-brat-with-9500-rpm-redline-and-active-aero-is-one-super-ute

Travis Pastrana’s New Gymkhana Ride Is an Extreme Subaru Brat That Revs to 9,500 RPM
Travis Pastrana's new 670-hp mini ute packs a sequential transmission, all-wheel drive, and active aero.

Il y a des combats qui se mesurent en semaines. Le nôtre se mesure en décennies.
Pour les victimes de la secte OKC, l’attente est doublement douloureuse : attente de justice, mais aussi attente de reconnaissance, d’écoute, de réparation.

The community in Sololo, Papua New Guinea, is safeguarding their rainforest by partnering with Cool Earth to resist logging and oil palm expansion, ensuring a sustainable future and preserving vital ecosystems. https://www.coolearth.org/news/best-rainforest-protectio…

How one community is protecting 16,500 hectares of rainforest
Local people have safeguarded the Papua New Guinea rainforest for generations. With a steady income stream, communities can refuse loggers and invest in what they most need.

Trump is keeping proceeds from the first sale of Venezuelan oil
in an offshore bank account based in Qatar, according to reporting from Semafor.
The sale was worth $500 million.
This unprecedented move is yet another middle finger to Venezuelan sovereignty
and once again raises questions about the president’s cozy relationship with the Qatari government.
“There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls
so that he ca…

Trump Is Keeping Money From Venezuelan Oil Sale in Offshore Account
This is completely unprecedented.

The EleMenTs Series Is Complete: A Young Adult Fantasy Trilogy
Twenty years ago, I began imagining a story about three disabled teenage girls who discover they possess elemental powers. The idea stayed with me, growing and changing as I grew and changed, waiting for the right moment to be told. That moment has arrived. The EleMenTs Series is complete, and all three novels are now available.

The EleMenTs Series Is Complete: A Young Adult Fantasy Trilogy | David Boles, Blogs
Twenty years ago, I began imagining a story about three disabled teenage girls who discover they possess elemental powers. The idea stayed with me, growing and changing as I grew and changed, waiti…

RE: #Microsoft Identity training!

Uh, just discovered that Snapchat has a github?????

SRE Weekly Issue #500 is out! https://sreweekly.com/sre-weekly-issue-500/

After the rain
#Autumn #Fall

yall check out what @… just dropped
"this script will search through the list of towns with 500 people or more that I found on geonames.org and give you a random location, based on how populous that town and that country are."

Filing: President Trump acquired corporate bonds issued by Netflix and WBD, valued as high as $1M each, in the days after Netflix announced its deal to buy WBD (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Trump Bought Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery Bonds In Days After Megadeal Was Announced
A financial disclosure form released by the White House showed that he acquired at least $500,000 in debt securities from each of the companies.

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

Chinese chipmaker Cambricon's revenue surged 500% in the past year and its stock jumped 765% in two years, as China pushes local chips amid US sanctions (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-16/us-san…

Amazing.
The UAW has this guy’s back. He’s unlikely to actually lose his job. @… https://flipboard.social/@NewsDesk/115894772482908975

Nordics, Baltics pledge $500 million arms package for Ukraine under NATO-led scheme: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/13/nordics-baltics-pledge-million-arms.html

Die Bundeswehr befindet sich im digitalen Aufrüstungsmodus und sucht händeringend nach IT-Fachkräften! 💻 Mit 139.500 Bewerbungen im letzten Jahr verzeichnet sie zwar ein beeindruckendes Plus von einem Drittel gegenüber dem Vorjahr, doch besonders im IT-Bereich bleibt die Personalgewinnung schwierig.
Zum Artikel: …

Version 7.0 von F1Tipp.at wurde gerade veröffentlicht
Das bedeutet ab sofort:
- Alle Fahrer für 2026 hinzugefügt
- Alle Rennen und Qualifyings der Saison tippen
- Streckendatenbank up to date
- F1 Quiz überarbeitet
- viele kleinere Verbesserungen
#F1 #Formula1

Ha!
Ein #Youtuber zeigt, wie viel ungenutztes #Energiepotenzial in weggeworfenen #EZigaretten steckt.
Aus rund 500 ausgedienten

YouTuber versorgt Haus mit Strom – dank 500 weggeworfenen E-Zigaretten
Der Bastler zeigt eindrucksvoll, wie viel potenzielle Energie täglich auf der Müllhalde landet

One more picture from yesterday's #CriticalMass in #Nairobi. It was a really great 35km ride through the town.
Here the group is stuck in traffic in front of the #Kenya National Archives and the Tom…

In her keynote at #ISWC2025, Yuko Harayama, Secretary General of Global Partnership on AI Tokyo Expert Support Center, is discussing the challenges of #AI on Human Society, suggesting a shift from originally tech-driven to human-centered paradigm, addressing key questions related to

Ich halte den #ÖRR grundsätzlich für eine sehr große Errungenschaft 👍
Um so mehr empört es mich, dass unter JEDEM Beitrag auf tagesschau.de UNBEZAHLTE (!) WERBUNG (!) für Apps des Meta-Konzerns platziert wird, die schon für unzählige Skandale verantwortlich waren und offenkundig eine Gefahr für die Freiheitlich demokratischen Grundordnung darstellen. Das ist das Gegenteil von digitaler …

10 Minuten für die 500 Meter zum Bahnhof, weil der Salzstreuer noch nicht unterwegs war.
Seid vorsichtig, es kann glatt sein heute Morgen

ad214 Balkankraftwerk im BENsteinzimmer
https://audiodump.de/2025/11/06/ad214-balkankraftwerk-im-bensteinzimmer/
Wie Affen auf dem Schleifstein schwingen @…

The first step in the ~14,500 km journey (as the crow flies) to Wasa was a taxi to the airport. The second is a flight to Oslo*.
It's masks on time.
*Yes, this #fieldwork involves *a lot* of carbon. Let's hope the data is worth it...
http://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/12/11/heading-south/

NFL running back rankings, 1-64:  How does every starting RB from the 2025 season stack up? https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-starting-running-back-rankings-1-64-2025-nfl-season

Säähän sopivaa limua tarjolla junamatkalle.
#Espoo #pakkanen

This might cause some "interesting" side effects...
"Whistleblower drops 'largest ever' ICE leak to unmask agents: 'The last straw'
https://www.rawstory.com/ice-agents-data-leak/

Whistleblower drops 'largest ever' ICE leak to unmask agents: 'The last straw'
A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.The killing of 37-year-old mother Renee Nicole Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross last...

Just finished The Way of Kings.
while the writing was good and the characters were good it's such a poorly plotted book that it becomes unenjoyable.
Very little happens over 800 pages and while I love character development it's no excuse for how slow this moves. I would have enjoyed this at 500 pages. At 1000 I don't even want to read more.
#books

In 1 jaar grenscontroles werd met inzet van 5.350 marechaussees 500 mensen toegang tot Nederland geweigerd. Volgens burgemeester Diepemaat van gemeente Losser is dat weinig resultaat. Hij ziet deze inzet liever gebruikt voor criminaliteit in zijn regio.
…

Burgemeester gemeente Losser is na 1 jaar kritisch op grenscontroles: 'Veel overlast, weinig resultaat'
In 1 jaar grenscontroles werd met inzet van 5.350 marechaussees 500 mensen toegang tot Nederland geweigerd. Volgens burgemeester Diepemaat van gemeente Losse...

ASML hits a $500B market cap for the first time, the third European company to reach the milestone, after TSMC reported strong earnings; ASML is up 24% YTD (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-15/asml-…

Amsterdam - Moermanskkade
#kamafotos

Folks: Aral, you’re such a natural speaker, your talks are so seamless…
Meanwhile, me, for the past few days, preparing to be a natural speaker: …

"Members of the public have reportedly also shared information about agents in hotels and even neighbors.
“I’ve had hotel staff sending post-it notes, bar staff sending DHS IDs, and loads of people saying their neighbour is an agent,” Skinner said."
https://www.rawstory.com/ice-agents-data-l

Whistleblower drops 'largest ever' ICE leak to unmask agents: 'The last straw'
A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.The killing of 37-year-old mother Renee Nicole Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross last...

If you're thinking of applying and want to visit the Quad, or if you're an alum and you have not been back for a while, we think you'll enjoy our new virtual tour! https://tour.concept3d.com/share/SIWhkklH_Y/stop/1

The third edition of the Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities #COMHUM2026 will take place on September 9 and 10, 2026 at the University of Lausanne #UNIL.
We invite researchers to submit abstracts of 500 to 1000 words (excluding references).
• Special track: computation …

The third edition of the Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities #COMHUM2026 will take place on September 9 and 10, 2026 at the University of Lausanne #UNIL.
We invite researchers to submit abstracts of 500 to 1000 words (excluding references).
• Special track: computation …

The third edition of the Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities #COMHUM2026 will take place on September 9 and 10, 2026 at the University of Lausanne #UNIL.
We invite researchers to submit abstracts of 500 to 1000 words (excluding references).
• Special track: computation …

https://resist.bot/petitions/PGNDZS

Trump’s “Gold Card” Turns U.S. Residency Into a Pay-to-Play Scheme
Text SIGN PGNDZS to 50409 to send this to your officials.

Bloomberg News: «There is still a very real gap in the current value, or stock, of all the investments that the US and China have out in the world. At the end of 2024, the total value of US companies' long-term physical investments overseas was some $6.8 trillion», 5 more than China.
https://archive.is/WR8NN…

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.

As part of the conversion, computer specialists rewrote 1,500 programs;
a process that traditionally requires some debugging.
-- USA Today, referring to the Internal Revenue Service
conversion to a new computer system.

I switched back to Wayland yesterday for funsies, and MAN I forgot how good HDR looks :3 can't wait to see how Baldur's Gate runs.

interactome_vidal: Vidal human interactome (2005)
A network of human proteins and their binding interactions. Nodes represent proteins and an edge represents a binding interaction between two proteins, as tested using a high-throughput yeast two-hybrid (Y2H) system.
This network has 3133 nodes and 6726 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

Mexico-based fintech Plata raised up to $500M in a financing deal arranged by Nomura Securities International, as it moves toward becoming a full-fledged bank (Prakhar Srivastava/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/plata-raises-up-500…

Windows 10: 500 Millionen PCs könnten Windows 11 erhalten
500 Millionen PCs könnten auf Windows 11 aktualisieren, erörterten Finanzexperten in einem Call zu den Quartalsergebnissen von Dell.
https://www.

Trotz rechtsradikaler Hetze, FakeNews und neuerdings weltweiter Kritik an sexualisierten KI-Deepfakes auf X bleiben staatliche Akteure und Institutionen auf der Plattform aktiv – und liefern unterschiedliche, teils widersprüchliche Begründungen dafür. #netzpolitk.org
Das ist keine Gratwanderung - verlasst endlich #X

Sources: Amazon is in talks to invest $10B in OpenAI at a $500B valuation, with OpenAI using AWS Trainium chips; Microsoft keeps rights to sell OpenAI models (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-talks-raise-least-1…

OpenAI in Talks to Raise At Least $10 Billion From Amazon and Use Its AI Chips
Amazon is in talks to invest $10 billion or more in OpenAI, according to three people familiar with the discussions. The valuation would be higher than $500 billion, one of the people said. The Amazon investment would help OpenAI afford some of the commitments it has made to rent servers from ...

A new US law enforcement initiative is aimed at crypto fraudsters targeting Americans
—and now seeks to seize infrastructure it claims is crucial to notorious scam compounds
DOJ Issued Seizure Warrant to Starlink Over Satellite Internet Systems Used at Scam Compound
…

DOJ Issued Seizure Warrant to Starlink Over Satellite Internet Systems Used at Scam Compound
A new US law enforcement initiative is aimed at crypto fraudsters targeting Americans—and now seeks to seize infrastructure it claims is crucial to notorious scam compounds.

"Republicans have voiced outrage that Jack Smith looked at G.O.P. lawmakers’ phone records surrounding the Jan. 6 attack. Legislation to reopen the government would allow them to sue for $500,000 each"
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/us/poli

Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches
Republicans have voiced outrage that Jack Smith looked at G.O.P. lawmakers’ phone records surrounding the Jan. 6 attack. Legislation to reopen the government would allow them to sue for $500,000 each.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@GustyDusty/115895411546147572
The tl;dr here is to block Device Code authentication flows via Conditional Access policy. You can exclude users who need it for their work.

Sticker collection for 39C3 is complete. 500 of each iso8601ultras, "We do not test on animals, we test in production" and a large stack "Nett hier. Aber waren Sie schon mal in Ankh-Morpork?"
Will be distributed in trading boxes/stacks/heaps
#39c3 #stickers

Information Manipulation is a market.
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/price-bot-army-global-index

Price of a bot army revealed across hundreds of online platforms worldwide
The first global index tracking real-time prices for buying fake account verifications on 500+ online platforms in every country has been launched by a team at the University of Cambridge.

Madrid – Calle de Toledo - Caramelos Paco
#kamafotos

Falscher Druckertoner: Amazon und Brother gewinnen Prozess
Amazon und Brother setzen sich vor Gericht gegen Produktfälscher durch: 500.000 Euro Schadenersatz, Vertriebsverbot und weitere Auflagen für die Beklagten.

Canada-based legaltech company Clio raised a $500M Series G at a $5B valuation, along with $350M in debt, and says it has completed its $1B vLex acquisition (Josh Scott/BetaKit)
https://betakit.com/clio-secures-500-million-usd-series-g-as-it-comple…

Clio secures $500-million USD Series G as it completes vLex acquisition | BetaKit
BC legaltech firm nabs $5-billion valuation plus $350 million in debt to help close deal.

An initial set of the names from the leak will be posted on Tuesday night, including those of 1,800 on-the-ground agents and 150 supervisors.
Personal Details of Thousands of Border Patrol and ICE Goons Allegedly Leaked in Huge Data Breach

Personal Details of Thousands of Border Patrol and ICE Goons Allegedly Leaked in Huge Data Breach - NewsBreak
Sensitive details of around 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees—including almost 2,000 agents working in frontline enforcement—have allegedly been releas

Sources: AI chip startup Etched raised $500M led by Stripes at a $5B valuation, bringing its total funding to almost $1B (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-13/ai-chip-startup-etched-raises-500-m…

Jeremy Corbyn says the UK government is endangering pro-Palestine hunger strikers
Former UK Labour leader Cornyn has issued a statement in solidarity with Amu Gib, who is accused of participating in the Palestine Action break-in of RAF Brize Norton airbase this summer.
The action,
carried out in protest of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the UK government’s participation in it,
led to the proscription of the group under “anti-terrorism” laws.
Dozens of protesters h…

Palestine Action activists on trial in UK over Israeli arms maker protest
The judge urged the jury to do away with personal feelings about the war on Gaza or the legality of the proscription.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/115888676146482712
Wow. There’s a lot going on in this North Korean malware campaign. Red Asgard has a full writeup. The easy button here is to block access to Pastebin.com and Vercel.app (again). I assume this ki…

RE: https://ioc.exchange/@SarlackLab/115889246068041930
Apparently threat actors are having success using pseudo TLDs like uk.com, us.com, in.net, it.com and others, per SarlackLab. Go ahead and *. block these domains in your environment to prevent abuse. …

An inside look at a Myanmar online scam center that opened in 2024 with 3,500 workers from ~30 countries and closed in November 2025 after rebels captured it (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/world/a

At This Office Park, Scamming the World Was the Business
Times journalists got a rare look inside one of the compounds where the online fraud industry makes its billions. Inspirational slogans (“Keep going”) were just the start.

India lacks specific policies or zoning regulations for overseeing quick commerce dark stores, which are projected to hit 5,000 to 5,500 by FY2026 end, per HSBC (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technolo…

The dark side of dark stores
The army of on-the-clock delivery boys, imperilling themselves and pedestrians, has become a familiar sight across urban India. They emerge, bearing essentials you ordered, from the hub that enables the ten-minute delivery—the dark store. Some 5,000 dark stores have mushroomed across India’s cities in the last few years, with wide-ranging implications on traffic, safety and much else. Who is responsible for their oversight?

Sources: CoinGecko, a prominent crypto market data and analytics company, is considering a sale at a ~$500M valuation, after starting the sales process in 2025 (Will Canny/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/01/

SCOOP: Crypto data platform CoinGecko weighs sale for around $500 million, sources say
The crypto market data firm has hired investment bank Moelis, as dealmaking across the sector accelerates.

Australia-based AI infrastructure company Firmus raised AU$500M, or ~$325M, tripling its valuation to AU$6B in two months, after raising AU$330M in September (Tess Bennett/Australian Financial Review)
https://www.afr.com/technology/oliver-curt

Firmus Technologies: Oliver Curtis’ AI infrastructure start-up triples valuation to $6 billion
The AI start-up has tripled its valuation in two months, raising a further $500 million from investors to bankroll its massive data centre developments. 

Source: livestream shopping app Whatnot nears ~$1B in revenue for 2025; Whatnot says it has passed $6B in gross sales this year, more than doubling 2024's sales (Ann Gehan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/live…

Livestream Shopping App Whatnot Nears $1 Billion in 2025 Revenue
Livestream shopping app Whatnot is targeting close to $1 billion in revenue for 2025, according to a person with knowledge of the company’s finances. The six-year-old company has quietly grown into one of e-commerce’s hottest companies, raising more than $500 million in new funding this year and boosting its valuation to $11.5 billion. Whatnot originally started as a place for collectors of Funko