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Interne Chats: Live-Nation-Mitarbeiter finden Kunden „so dumm“
Das Kartellverfahren um Ticketmaster droht ohne Urteil zu enden. Jetzt gibt es neue Beweisanträge mit internen Chats über extreme Konzertpreise.
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«Instagram is killing its end-to-end encrypted chats - here's what changes May 8:
Instagram will end support for end-to-end encrypted chats on May 8, 2026. What the feature does, how it works, and what users lose when it goes.»
Instagram has never been safe, because although it uses encryption, the clearly visible metadata says a lot about something.
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Instagram is killing its end-to-end encrypted chats - here's what changes May 8
Instagram will end support for end-to-end encrypted chats on May 8, 2026. What the feature does, how it works, and what users lose when it goes.

Trump's CDC is canceling $600M in HIV and STD funds to four Democrat-led states
The Centers for Disease Control plans to suspend grants to local public health agencies, hospitals, NGOs and universities in
California, Colorado, Illinois and Minnesota
Attorneys general in the four states set to lose funding have sued to block the cuts,
saying the changes are retaliation over state resistance to the administration's immigration priorities.
In the suit, th…

Trump's CDC is canceling $600M in HIV and STD funds to four Democrat-led states
The Trump administration this week began cuts to $600 million in funding used to track and prevent HIV and STDs in four Democrat-led states.

from my link log —
Starlink's high-speed satellite Internet: What's the catch?
https://blog.apnic.net/2021/04/22/starlinks-high-speed-satellite-internet-whats-the-catch/
saved 2021-04-22

Starlink's high-speed satellite Internet: What's the catch? | APNIC Blog
Low earth orbit satellite-powered Internet could be a game-changer for remote areas, but what happens when people in more populated areas want it?

A Q&A with PBS Kids' Sara DeWitt on the effect of cuts to the $112M Ready to Learn grant, including potentially partnering with ad tech companies (Abbey White/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/pbs-k…

How PBS Kids Hopes to Save Children’s Programming
A leading exec at the public broadcasting institution breaks down the impact of recent government cuts and what to do about them

OpenAI launches a research preview of GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a smaller version of GPT-5.3-Codex that it claims generates code 15 times faster, for Pro users (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/openais-gpt-5-3-codex-spark-15x-faster/

OpenAI's new Spark model codes 15x faster than GPT-5.3-Codex - but there's a catch
OpenAI's new GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark promises ultra-fast, conversational AI coding, if you can tolerate a few trade-offs.

Veranstaltungstipp fürs neue Jahr:
Filmabend: "Cycling Cities" – Wie fahrradfreundliche Städte gelingen
8. Januar 20 Uhr beim @…
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Filmabend: Cycling Cities
ADFC-Termin am 08.01.26 Ort: Bautzner Straße 25, Dresden

Today’s cat positioning photo…
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Gavin Newsom, the California governor,
announced the appointment of two prominent scientists
who left the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in recent months over conflicts with the Trump administration to state positions.
Dr Susan Monarez, the former director of the CDC, will lead California’s new public health initiative, the Public Health Network Innovation Exchange (PHNIX).
In August, Monarez was fired by the Trump administration less than a month in…

That just doesn’t look comfortable to me…
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