@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNewsweek's publishing revenue is set to drop ~20% this year but it's on track for $100M in revenue due to its healthcare-focused DSP contributing 40% of revenue (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/newsweek-traffic-decline-revenue-rise-2026/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialVirginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signs an EO to slow down data center approvals, create an AI task force to evaluate workforce displacement, and more (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/997573/virginia-governor-spanberger-da…
@zachleat@zachleat.com@… @… look, I’ve thought about adding a on:time condition to `<is-land>` so maybe on:season makes sense too
@roelgrif@mstdn.socialWie de VVD kent weet; die komt er niet over links.
Wie D66 en CDA gevolgd heeft de laatste tijd weet: over rechts zou wel kunnen gebeuren.
Maar dan krijgt links natuurlijk de schuld.
Moment van de waarheid voor minderheidskabinet: komt er een begrotingsdeal? https://nos.nl/l/2627211
@gfp@mastodon.trueten.de„Führend in der militärischen Luftfahrt“ https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10444
@chrislowles@mastodon.socialgithub unicorning again
@kristian@social.purrucker.deGenug Starkstrom-Leitungen für die PV-Anlage verlegt – Zeit für den feinen Lötkolben und das Elektronik-Lab! 🔌🛠️
Als erstes Projekt steht jetzt die saubere Integration der Anlage in #HomeAssistant an. Datenströme visualisieren, Automationen bauen und endlich die volle Kontrolle über die eigene Energie haben.
Lötkolben ist heiß, Oszilloskop läuft – jetzt wird gebastelt! ⚡️…
@chiraag@mastodon.onlineGriddle solved!🏁
August 17, 2026 | Easy
Play at: https://dailygriddle.com
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
@bici@mastodon.socialUnlike π, which relates to a physical shape, e naturally describes dynamic systems that grow or decay continuously. In calculus,
the exponential function \(y = e^x\)
has the unique property that its rate of change (its derivative) is exactly equal to the function itself.
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineDie #Kernfusionskollektoranlage hat heute 1,469 kWh Energie eingefangen.
Gesamtleistung: 480 Wp
Ausrichtung: West
Anstellwinkel: 58 Grad
Diese #Balkonsolaranlage wurde durch das Berliner SolarPLUS-Programm gefördert.
Einspeiseverlust: 5.55 %
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@ErikUden@mastodon.deRE: https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/116778991520499231
Das ist übrigens eine Aussage von Ben-Gvir vor über einem Monat, welche ziemlich genau das ist was er schon immer gesagt hat, was medial jedoch offenbar nicht genug Empörung erzeugt hat.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alNext time someone tells you they support Israel, ask them “What the fuck is wrong with you? What kind of monster supports genocide?”
@NFL@darktundra.xyzEric Bieniemy had wife's blessing to rejoin Chiefs after her shooting, says she is on 'great road to recovery' https://www.nfl.com/news/eric-bieniemy-had-wife-s-blessing-to-rejoin-chiefs-after-her-shoo…
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Acht Eimer Hühnerherzen:
🎵 Futur 25
#NowPlaying #AchtEimerHühnerherzen
https://open.spotify.com/track/54XdrGyiubbmQMVKIeF7Ym
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.iothey signed their treaty where now
@noellabo@fedibird.comいやん ｻばかん
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyRE: https://mastodon.energy/@Sustainable2050/116987754766803603
After a 3-week summer holiday to Norway with our electric car (a VW ID.4), my conclusion is that the charging infrastructure is still in its infancy.
Sometimes it works great, but…
@presseportal_pol_NDS@frawas.dePOL-WL: Verkehrsunfallflucht nach Vorfahrtverstoß - Polizei sucht Zeugen Hanstedt/Asendorf (ots) - Heute, 17.07.2026, gegen 10:55 Uhr, kam es auf der L 213, zwischen Asendorf und Hanstedt, zu einer Verkehrsunfallflucht. Nach Angaben der Geschädigten war der Fahrer eines Lastwagens in Höhe Schmalenfelde nach links in ... https://www.
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeEvery week, Metacurity offers our readers a selection of the top infosec-related long reads we couldn't do justice to amid the torrent of daily news.
This week's choices cover,
--How an audacious server heist exposed the fragility of digital infrastructure,
--WhatsApp has quietly become an essential service,
--The NHS fought to keep sensitive health data out of Palantir's hands,
--Thomson Reuters' ICE surveillance problem,
--Why AI slop thre…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social
@cdarwin@c.imRE: https://mstdn.social/@Npars01/117102183665641304
Creating a permanent caste & class system requires withholding access to education for the "lower orders".
The 1% doesn't want the 99% getting ideas "above their station in lif…
@roelgrif@mstdn.socialIk dacht dat de importeurs (in de VS) de importheffingen betaalden. Hoe zit dat?
https://www.ad.nl/economie/miljoenen-rollen-nederland-binnen-door-trump-heffingen-onverwachte-opsteker-voor-de-economie~a49cb3e3…
@gfp@mastodon.trueten.deAuf Umwegen in den Krieg https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10484
@chrislowles@mastodon.socialI don't use it but the GeForce Now native Linux app is out and is available via flatpak
@kristian@social.purrucker.deDurch das Basteln an der PV-Anlage auf die Idee gekommen, dass die empfindliche IT im Haus auch mal soliden Überspannungsschutz gebrauchen könnte. ⚡️🔌
Mittags für 7 € das Markenteil bestellt – um 19:00 Uhr stand der Bote vor der Tür. Und das mitten auf dem Land in Schleswig-Holstein. Logistisch ist das schon echt beeindruckend. 📦💨
https://amzn.to/…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGLM-5.2 is the leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, scoring 51, only behind Fable 5's 60, Opus 4.8's 56, and GPT-5.5's 55 (Artificial Analysis)
https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe EU accepts X's plan to meet DSA transparency obligations and give researchers access to data, giving X six months to implement it, following a €120M fine (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/eu-accepts-act…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deKDE Plasma 6.7 bringt Detailverbesserungen
Versionspflege: KDE hievt den Plasma-Desktop auf Stand 6.7. Jeder Bildschirm kann nun einen virtuellen Desktop bekommen.
https://www.heise.de/news/KDE-Plas…
@ErikUden@mastodon.deRE: https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/113865967387278835
Ich erinnere wie vor fast zwei Jahren das Freilassen von in Israel inhaftierten Kindern in der Tagesschau als „Nachschub für die Terroristen” bezeichnet wurde.
Dieses Jahr wurde dem Oberbürgermeister …
@aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: https://mstdn.social/@ManyRoads/116940656800385204
Patriarchy, they said, give it a try, they said, what could possibly go wrong?
@NFL@darktundra.xyzWR Keon Coleman suffered sprained foot/toe in Bills' preseason opener vs. Panthers https://www.nfl.com/news/wr-keon-coleman-suffered-sprained-foot-toe-in-bills-preseason-opener-vs-panthers
@chrislowles@mastodon.socialistg everything microsoft touches turns to shit
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialForbes launches The Daily Brief, an AI-powered audio briefing that turns its top three stories of the day into a five-minute podcast, which is checked by humans (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/ai-podcast-experiments-march-on-…
@noellabo@fedibird.comやまこさんが私の脳内のフレーズを代弁してくれたので
@zachleat@zachleat.com@… boy howdy when the text wraps instead of ellipsis: I lose my mind
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyLike practically all far-right parties, Reform UK want to stop climate action. Perfectly aligned with fossil fuel interests, and could well be related to their murky financing.
Reform’s Tice accused of misinformation after urging people to enjoy heatwaves
https://www.
@presseportal_pol_NDS@frawas.dePOL-AUR: Wittmund - Betrunkene Autofahrerin Landkreis Wittmund (ots) - Verkehrsgeschehen Wittmund - Betrunkene Autofahrerin Eine 55-jährige Autofahrerin ist am Donnerstag auf der B210 in Wittmund von der Polizei gestoppt worden. Die Frau überfuhr gegen 17.30 Uhr eine rote Ampel und ... https://www.presseportal.de/blauli…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBunkerhill Health, which uses AI agents for hospital tasks like managing wait times, raised a $25M Series B led by Khosla, bringing its total funding to $55M (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/07/16/bunkerhill-health-raises-…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangewtf?
"Washington has blocked the issuance of SSL security certificates for Fars News Agency's website, cutting the country's most visited news outlet off from browser-trusted encryption, the agency revealed on 17 July."
https://thecradle.co/articles/us-b…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social«Rekord-Datenleck — 24 Milliarden Zugangsdaten offen im Netz:
Ein ungeschützter Server enthielt 24 Milliarden Zugangsdaten im Klartext. Laut Cybernews sind Milliarden Konten ohne Multi-Faktor-Authentifizierung bedroht»
Ob nun Arch Linux, JavaScript, Microsoft Produkte oder Online-Dienste, fast kein Tag ohne Zero-Day Meldungen. Nun aber Kundendaten im Klartext ungeschützt aufbewahren ist so was von Vorgestern.
🔓
@cdarwin@c.imAn employee of a company that runs an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Colorado is under arrest
after shooting and injuring a woman on Thursday evening.
The incident happened after the woman participated in a protest in front of the facility earlier that day,
according to the Aurora police department.
When officers arrived on the scene, they said they found the woman with a gunshot wound in her lower body.
She had a friend with her, who was …
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialIn a filing disputing state AGs' request for a temporary restraining order, Paramount argued its merger with WBD would increase theatrical motion picture output (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/paramount-slams-stat…
@zachleat@zachleat.comwhy can’t I approve and you validate async before publish? I’m waiting 😅
@kubikpixel@chaos.social @cdarwin@c.imArguably the most telling section of the White House report relates to its defense of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
The report’s authors bristle at any suggestion that this famously racist law may have been motivated by any kind of racial animus.
After all, such an acknowledgment might raise uncomfortable questions about the policies of Donald Trump and Stephen Miller
—policies that are explicitly modeled on laws like this one.
FOR THOSE UNFAMILIAR:
The Ch…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSingapore-licensed dtcpay, which offers stablecoin payments across Europe, Hong Kong, Australia, and North America, raised a $25M Series A (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/09/18/sbi-group-backs-payments-firm-dtcp…
@zachleat@zachleat.com@… @… a slightly different issue there! We already handle `Date` instances for the special `date` property (whether yaml parses them by default or not is the js-yaml change) and String (previous luxon, now this new package)
(Most …
@kubikpixel@chaos.social @cdarwin@c.imThe man later told first responders he had accidentally dropped a Mountain Dew bottle into the portable toilet the previous evening
and climbed into the waste tank in an attempt to retrieve it.
According to Counterman, the man estimated he had been trapped for about eight hours before workers discovered him during their morning inspection.
The circumstances surrounding his account have not been independently verified by authorities.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: the US "almost started a war" after an AI-assisted report hallucinated that a Chinese ship was carrying nuclear weapons components in the Middle East (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/us-military-ai-false-intelligence-china-…
@zachleat@zachleat.com@… added some benchmarks: https://chrome.dev/css-selector-benchmark/?category=Shadow DOM
Reads to me as Light > Shadow > Light/Sha…
@cdarwin@c.imMadison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine
Famously vengeful Knicks owner
Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas.
WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.
https://www.wired.com/story/mad…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMistral and other European AI startups accuse US rivals of using safety concerns to entrench their dominance, rejecting Anthropic's calls to pace the frontier (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/europes-ai-firms-playing-ca…
@zachleat@zachleat.com@… oh no https://quwhack.itch.io/touch-grass-simulator this one is a cookie clicker
@cdarwin@c.imMadison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities
Their database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, famous Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swift’s wedding guests.
Labels included “LGBTQIA,” “DO NOT HOST,” and low to high “risk.”
https://www.wired.com/st…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSony Music and UMG sue Suno, alleging that its new model trained in partnership with WMG and BMG infringes copyright because it is based on an infringing model (Corbin Bolies/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/sony-music-univer…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to pay data broker giant
Thomson Reuters $125 million
for access to its databases of personal data
— which includes peoples’ names, addresses, Social Security numbers, ethnicity, social media posts, and geolocation information
— to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) investigate what it describes as
“voters fraud” and immigration fraud,
according to procurement documents reviewed by 404 Media.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle threat intelligence group details how one of its researchers infiltrated hacker group TeamPCP and helped disrupt its software supply chain hacking spree (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/an-undercover-google-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDisney hires former Character.AI CEO Karandeep Anand as its first CTO; about a year ago, Disney accused Character.AI of infringing its copyrights (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/biz/news/disney-cto-karandeep-anand-character-ai-1236866528…
@cdarwin@c.imThis book, The Day After, is a blueprint for how Democrats must govern in the future.
It doesn’t seek to entrench the status quo, but rather usher in a new kind of government that works for Americans.
A government that doesn’t allow the smallest obstacle stand in its way.
A government that isn’t in place to defend its own institutions, but rather one that focuses on outcomes for its people.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe US Treasury sanctions Iranian crypto exchange BitBank, saying it sent hundreds of millions to the IRGC and helped Iran operate a Strait of Hormuz toll booth (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/09/18
@cdarwin@c.imThe Newsom administration is suing five more California cities
— Calexico, Costa Mesa, Half Moon Bay, Ridgecrest and Turlock — for failing to complete state-mandated housing plans, known as the “housing element.”
Huntington Beach was the first city to face such a legal action, and it recently finalized its housing element plans following a court-order and massive fines.
The law, which has been in place since 1969, requires cities and counties every eight years to d…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: ECB President Christine Lagarde asked Greece to block Binance's MiCA license in June at the last minute, aiming to protect the bank's "digital euro" (Angus Berwick/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/chr
@cdarwin@c.imRepublican leadership across the House and Senate did not amplify the president’s election interference speech on X,
nor did the official congressional GOP accounts.
A handful of lawmakers used the night to promote passage of Trump’s priority elections bill or the Homeland Security Department’s announcement to ramp up efforts to root out noncitizen voting, an extremely rare occurrence.
But those leaving or already outside the president’s influence had more to say.
Ou…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialParis prosecutors open at least one criminal probe into suspected sexual harassment involving the use of smart glasses to film women in public without consent (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/french-prosecutors-regulator…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialWorld rolls out World Money, a self-custodial financial "super app" in 150 countries that combines stablecoin payments, trading, earning, and virtual accounts (Jason Shubnell/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/news/busin…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA federal judge denies OpenAI's bid to see SpaceXAI's confidential settlement with Apple in an antitrust case, finding the materials irrelevant after a review (Hassan Ali Kanu/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/18/court-shuts-down-openai-bid…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI launches Astra for Law, combining GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index and instructions for legal analysis and writing, initially for select law firms (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/astra-for-law
@Techmeme@techhub.socialLucid and Bolt sign an initial agreement to deploy a fleet of 25K robotaxis in Europe built on Lucid's affordable EV platform, set to launch as soon as 2028 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/cf9b5143-0ab7-4c14-a5e4-baa8d78bb3cd
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow beauty companies like Qoves are commercializing facial-analysis algorithms that evaluate geometric proportions, balding, and more to prescribe treatments (Alice Lassman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnthropic outlines metrics to track AI development at frontier labs: how much AI R&D is done by AI, how well agents are overseen, and how compute is allocated (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/institute/measuring-pace-of-ai-development
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPornhub's parent company, Aylo, will pay $120M to settle two 2021 class action lawsuits in California and Alabama alleging it profited from child abuse material (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/pornhubs-parent-com…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Crusoe is in IPO talks with at least four Wall Street banks, including JPMorgan, which is advising on its $3B pre-IPO fundraise set to value it at $35B (Alan Neuhauser/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/climate-deals/2026/08/17/crusoe-ipo-jpm-ms-gs-bofa
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpening arguments begin Tuesday in the state AGs' social media addiction lawsuit against Meta; New Mexico AG says the consequences could be "astronomical" (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/17/meta-attor
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBNPL lenders like Flex, Zip, and Affirm are now pitching loans for basic household needs; Americans spent $160B through pay-later loans in 2025, up 2x from 2023 (Stacy Cowley/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/business/buy-now-pay-later.html
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Anthropic's revenue run rate reached $65B by the end of July, up from $47B in May and $9B in late 2025 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-17/anthropic-revenue-run-rate-surpasses-65-billion-a…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAfrican defense tech company Terra Industries, founded in 2024, raised a $52M seed round from 8VC and others, and says it's on track to book $100M in contracts (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/terr
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMicrosoft says GitHub is down worldwide, with the GitHub website, API, Actions, Pull Requests, and other services impacted; the outage started at 13:40 UTC (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGroq raised $350M led by Disruptive at a $3.5B valuation, down from $6.9B in September 2025 before Nvidia struck a licensing deal and hired much of its talent (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Singapore-based Shein is aiming to hit a ~$25B valuation in its Hong Kong IPO, down from its $30B-$40B goal earlier in August after investor meetings (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactiona…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: AI inference chip startup Etched is raising funds at a ~$20B valuation and is raising capital at a $10B valuation in a separate round led by Sequoia (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-chip-startu
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe Philadelphia Semiconductor Index sank ~10% for the week, its largest weekly fall in over a year, and is now down ~20% from its late-June all-time high (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/chipmakers-other-h…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialApple raises iPhone prices in Japan by up to 11%, likely due to the Japanese yen's depreciation against the US dollar over the past year (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/07/17/apple-raises-iphone-prices-in-japan/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnalysis: recent open weight models lag frontier closed models' cyber capabilities by 4 to 7 months, a narrower gap than the 6 to 10 months through most of 2025 (AI Security Institute)
https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/how-far-behind-the-fronti…
@Techmeme@techhub.social @Techmeme@techhub.socialSource: PayPal's board sees Stripe and PE firm Advent International's $53B takeover bid as undervaluing the company and facing regulatory and financing hurdles (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/paypal-board-sees-strip…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCourt doc: a US federal jury says Japanese chipmaker Kioxia owes Viasat $229M for infringing Viasat's flash-memory patent that helps devices use less energy (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/k
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: the EU is set to approve the $55B acquisition of EA under its subsidy rules on July 30; the deal includes Saudi Arabia's PIF, Silver Lake, and more (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/saudi-pif
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFormer Trump AI adviser Dean Ball is joining OpenAI to lead a new team called Strategic Futures, focused on frontier AI policy and internal governance (Ashley Gold/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/18/dean-ball-openai
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeta's Oversight Board says top AI models may be restricting free expression in its first evaluation of LLMs, as it seeks to expand its influence beyond Meta (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/2216274/the-overs
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Meta and BlackRock's $14B El Paso data center project is not insured against total loss, exposing lenders to credit risks and big potential liabilities (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/adeca274-67a3-4ee8-94f1-f43e4f28be97
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAs sweeping US crypto legislation stalls, the SEC and CFTC are moving to establish rules; the SEC is set to exempt certain token offerings from securities laws (Hannah Lang/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/t
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMemo: the DOJ says federal employees can now download TikTok on government devices, citing ByteDance's transfer of control of US operations to TikTok USDS (David Shepardson/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/federal-employee…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Apple has sent personal legal warnings to ~40 former employees who now work at OpenAI, asking them to preserve documents and meet with its lawyers (Michael Acton/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1b8c9d52-88a9-426b-ba47-f1811f859166
