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Douglas Ward (Underdog Records) Discusses the Second Wave of Chicago Punk
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Douglas Ward (Underdog Records) Discusses the Second Wave of Chicago Punk | Features
The Windy City underground music lifer shares his memories from the era.

Source: Google is asking publishers that test new AI features in Google News to grant it broad rights to their content, including to potentially train AI models (Ann Gehan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-…

Google Strikes Tough Negotiating Stance With Publishers on AI Licensing
Google is tightening the screws on news publishers. In recent months, the tech giant has been pitching publishers on a pilot program to test new AI features in Google News. The program, announced in December with initial partners such as The Washington Post and The Guardian, offers publishers ...

Source: Google is asking publishers that test new AI features in Google News to grant it broad rights to their content, including to potentially train AI models (Ann Gehan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-…

Google Strikes Tough Negotiating Stance With Publishers on AI Licensing
Google is tightening the screws on news publishers. In recent months, the tech giant has been pitching publishers on a pilot program to test new AI features in Google News. The program, announced in December with initial partners such as The Washington Post and The Guardian, offers publishers ...

Starting the day with going through the #bergwelten magazine once more. Sometimes I wish I'd knew the focal length of the photos.
Later we did two nice walks near #dietramszell and enjoyed spring and the sun. Wrist is also feeling better.
We saw really a lot of cyclists. But …

How Marlon Wayans Survived Hell, Hollywood and Harvey Weinstein (Marlow Stern/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/features/marlon-wayans-scary-movie-dave-chappelle-transgender-harvey-weinstein-1236755195/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260526/p13#a260526p13

These AI writing features are going too far

Vision Pro: Zwei Features von visionOS 27 nur für das M5-Modell
Bislang gab es zwischen Vision Pro M2 und M5 nur geringe Unterschiede. Mit visionOS 27 beginnt Apple mit einer Absetzung der beiden Modelle.
ht…

Vision Pro: Zwei Features von visionOS 27 nur für das M5-Modell
Bislang gab es zwischen Vision Pro M2 und M5 nur geringe Unterschiede. Mit visionOS 27 beginnt Apple mit einer Absetzung der beiden Modelle.

Google I/O showed how the industry has seized upon LLMs as the "future" of software. But that couldn't be further from the truth! It is an intensification of the old way. The same features as before, only MORE and FASTER.
It's the same mediocre vision execs have had for 40 years: give customers more tasks to do on your platform, sell them tools to solve the problems you created.
But the conditions that made this business model possible are collapsing.

AI is not the future of software development, but the last dying gasp of the past
The industry has been building careers and business models around solving the very problems it created. But the conditions that once made this possible are breaking down.

Chimpanzees have only a slight preference for their right hand
https://www.sciencealert.com/two-ancient-clues-may-finally-explain-why-90-of-us-are-right-handed

Nepo-baby Mayor Lurie has launched his website promoting his executive power grab.
And it prominently features coverage from the SF Standard - the outlet funded/created by billionaire Michael Moritz, who has also donated $2 million to the measures.
This is the new billionaire playbook: parallel media they control to support their anti-worker agenda.

Clean Up City Hall
Over time, San Francisco’s governing document - called the city charter - has grown to 548 pages, making us the most bureaucratic city in the country. Departments are siloed, decision-making is slow, and accountability is weak, while confusing ballot measures trap the city in ineffective policies fo

The Nelli Stevenson Show
Each episode features communications strategist Nelli Stevenson in sharp, funny conversations with expert guests such as energy analysts, social commentators, research experts, and environmental campaigners...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustr…

Huh, there are dozens of #YAML parsers in #Rust now.
Quite a handful implement serde, e.g. serde-saphyr.
The original serde_yaml is now unmaintained.
Any suggestions/preferences?
I just filed a PR to the serde website to change the recommendation/suggestion (they list one implement…

suggest using serde-saphyr instead of serde_yaml by orangecms · Pull Request #190 · serde-rs/serde-rs.github.io
Since serde_yaml is no longer maintained, suggest using a different implementation. The serde-saphyr one offers additional features that serde_yaml didn't. Alternatively, there is now also yaml...

Donovan - "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" (1967)
#NowPlaying #Donovan…

@… shows you how to combine three new #CSS features to build fully adaptive themed components.
https://una.im/modern-css-theming…

una.im | Modern CSS theming with light-dark(), contrast-color(), and style queries
Combine three new CSS features to build fully adaptive themed components.

End of a Trip IV ✈️
旅行结束 IV ✈️
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So one of the authors is Nicholas Carlini, who works for Anthropic. This is basically an ad for the three letter agencies to use Claude. It massively over-promises compared to what the actual paper says.
But, it is important. First, this is really about silencing people. The threat of identification is designed to make people afraid to talk online. There's a massive asymmetry between the fascists and the people. The fascists are weird racists and pedophiles who are obsessed with control. No one likes them. No one likes their ideas, because their ideas are creepy and bad.
When they talk about their ideas, that people should be murdered or kidnaped based on their skin color, that there should be a national dress code, that people's sex lives should be monitored, that children should be treated like objects that are owned by the parent (specifically, one parent), that people with different skin color or uteri should be considered as livestock, people fucking hate it because it's awful. When we talk about our ideas, that everyone should be able to eat and take care of themselves, that people who can't take care of themselves should be taken care of, that we should live in a society that values life, that we should live in harmony with nature, people like those ideas. When fascists out us for talking about those ideas, people support us. When we out people who are working as fascist goons those people have to face social consequences.
Everyone hates these people. The US government is currently less popular than it has ever been. The only way they can keep power is by making everyone think that they aren't extraordinarily unpopular. The only way to do that, the way authoritarian have always done it, is to make everyone afraid to talk.
But, yes, what this paper is saying is actually kind of bad. It looks like people who don't take any precautions at all in separating identities can be identified about 30% of the time (based on the results). It's unclear how this will actually work in the real world. Larger corpses will probably have more data, making connecting things easier.
This isn't as good as a human trying to dox someone. It's not going to work as well. It may only work in a small number of cases. There will be false positives (just like there are with people doing the work). It's probably not cheaper than hiring people. But it does mean that you can just dump money into a machine that has no ethical framework and get data out. That's the point. It's hard to find humans who will do evil shit like help dictatorships target human rights activists, but if a machine can do it for twice the price then it's a better deal for the dictatorship.
For most people, you just shouldn't care. This isn't for you. As long as you keep doing what you're doing, and you can keep everyone else doing what they're doing, then there aren't enough resources to actually target you. Even if they know who you are, there are just too many people who hate them and too few goons.
For people who might actually be targeted, there are a lot of things. First, keep in mind what you're putting into anonymous accounts. Any feature that's connected to your real life is a feature that can be extracted to identify you. This has always been true, it just may be easier to find now. Your identities should be totally siloed. It's also harder to identify you if you're writing anonymously as a collective. Collectives are better anyway because they can help check your thinking. When you write as a collective, you can help clean up each other's personal details and language. A collective develops its own voice, which is distinct from individual contributors. If you do this, and you also present your work as being from one "person," then it becomes even harder for anyone (systems or individuals) to really figure it out.
I'm not going to do a full deep dive on this because I just don't have time, but your existing threat model should *already cover these threats* if you need to make sure your writing remains anonymous.
This paper doesn't present any novel methodologies. It just extracts a bunch of features, which a human would extract as notes, and tries to correlate those between identities, which is how human researchers work. Linguistic forensics were mentioned (not by name) in the paper, but the actual methodology doesn't actually seem to use them.
So a thing with less ethics can do a worse job for more money (when adjusted for the real, not investor deflated, price of tokens). It's worth knowing. It's not the end of the world, but it is a good reminder to check your threat model and make sure it's up to date.

Climate change in Lubra, Mustang, Nepal: the last Bon settlement, being washed away.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2026/6/20/in-nepals-highlands-climate-change-threatens-tibets-bon-faith

twitter_higgs: Twitter, Higgs boson (2012)
Data on tweets related to the announcement of the discovery of a new fundamental particle with the features of the Higgs boson on 4th July 2012. Data covers 1-7 July 2012, and includes four types of networks: followers, retweets, replies, and mentions.
This network has 256491 nodes and 328132 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Multilayer

Digital advocacy firms like CiviClick and Influent appear to use AI to generate mass public comments on local energy projects, mostly favoring fossil fuel use (Bloomberg)

How you feel about AI’s energy use might change how you feel about computers entirely.
https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/937356/ai-data-center-gpu-environmental-impact

Who’s afraid of the big, bad GPU?
AI data centers are increasingly sparking backlash, but we don’t have a good way to talk about the many other uses of GPUs.

Best Sports Betting Apps 2026: Top Betting Sites Reviewed https://www.foxsports.com/stories/betting/best-sports-betting-apps

Definitive articles for German nouns are one of the most annoying features of the language. Is it "der Joghurt" or "die Joghurt"? Turns out, both. Also "das Joghurt".
With lexicographical data from #Wikidata and shared functions from #Wikifunctions, we can build …

noungender
CLI tool for retrieving German noun genders with Wikifunctions using Wikidata Lexemes.

If like me you read the @… on an iPad and find their app not quite matching your needs, here's a simple open source wrapper that adds a lot of nice features. (You still need to pay for LRB!) A bit annoying to run, but once you have it up, you're good.

GitHub - shriram/lrb-reader: Personalized reader for London Review of Books site
Personalized reader for London Review of Books site - shriram/lrb-reader

Siri AI: Was in der Beta geht und was noch nicht
Apple stellt Entwicklern Betaversionen seiner neuen Systeme bereit. Wer die Siri-AI-Warteschleife genommen hat, kann aber noch immer nicht alle Features testen.
https://www.

Siri AI: Was in der Beta geht und was noch nicht
Apple stellt Entwicklern Betaversionen seiner neuen Systeme bereit. Wer die Siri-AI-Warteschleife genommen hat, kann aber noch immer nicht alle Features testen.

Oh it's #MountainMonday !
The I choose this photo. To me it looks so like #bavaria . The cows (brown white in our region, if you are in the south west of germany, they usually have grey cow) on a meadow, the chapel in the midground and the mountains in the back.
I could hardly…

Deepfake News Detection: A Multimodal Framework Integrating LipNet, DeepSpeech and ResNET for Enhanced Audio-Visual Analysis
Ameena Khan, Muhammad Ahsan Aziz, Muhammad Junaid Asif, Naeem Akhter, Rana Fayyaz Ahmad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20579 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.20579 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.20579
arXiv:2607.20579v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Deepfake news refers to AI-generated (or AI ma-nipulated) multimedia content intentionally generated to deceive audiences by manipulating the facial expressions, or speech while maintaining the realistic appearance. The rapid progress of generative AI has made the synthesis of highly realistic fake videos and cloned voices widely accessible, posing a serious threat to the authenticity of digital news media. This paper presents a multi-modal framework that discerns the authenticity of video content by jointly exploiting audio and visual cues, thereby addressing the challenge of detecting the deepfake videos. We proposed a framework that involves features extraction from lip movements, audio content and video frames. Lip movements and speech content are encoded using the LipNet and DeepSpeech2 models, while facial features are extracted by leveraging the use of BlazeFace and represented with ResNet18. The extracted feature vectors are concatenated into a holistic video representation and classified with an ensemble of machine learning and deep learning models, including Random Forest (RF), Multi-layer Perceptron (MLP) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks. Exten-sive experiments performed on the FakeAVCeleb dataset shows that the proposed approach attains an accuracy of 94% using augmented audio features, outperforming a state-of-the-art multi-modal ensemble baseline. The results confirm the robustness and practical potential of the proposed framework for deepfake news detection.
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5 Actions to Help End Bullfighting #AnimalRights #bulls

AI-Powered Emails Are Influencing Politics on Hot-Button Issues (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-06-24/ai-powered-emails-invade-public-comments-process-alarming-policymakers
http://www.memeorandum.com/260624/p22#a260624p22

Design G suggests the most modern, banknote-looking front sides for the future #Euro banknotes. Though, I really don't like the corporate-like vector stock images on the backs.
Design B, on the other hand, features very clean and informative illustrations of the European institutions' buildings on the backs. Architecture and banknotes are a dream team. Though, I'm not a fan of th…

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Seamless application failover using libpq features in PostgreSQL.
https://www.percona.com/blog/2019/10/23/seamless-application-failover-using-libpq-features-in-postgresql/
saved 2019-10-30

Seamless Application Failover using libpq Features in PostgreSQL
Percona's Avinash Vallarapu talks about seamless application failover using libpq features in PostgreSQL, and how even with some slowness it still helps.

François Bayle - "Jeîta ou murmure des eaux" (2026)
#NowPlaying

I don't like #systemd, but I like a giant trashpile of shell scripts trying to implement all the same features even less.
(See also, #launchd.)

India is making history as the first major nation to industrialize primarily with solar power. They're building the world's largest solar installation in the Rann of Kutch desert—280 square miles that will help solar meet half the country's electricity demand growth by 2030.
This is a complete departure from how every other major economy developed.

A First Among Major Nations, India Is Industrializing With Solar
While China's push to modernize sparked a surge in burning coal, India is turning to increasingly cheap solar to meet its booming energy needs. Though it faces big hurdles, including a rickety grid, India's solar buildout could soon be a model for other emerging economies.

Google Home Speaker review: the $100 speaker, the company's first such device in six years, works for Gemini power users but has underwhelming music playback (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

Color Therapy. Noisy evolution.
Two snapshots of my piece C-SCAPE, 2022, a multi-organism 1.5D cellular automata simulation. Patterns of symbiosis and annihilation.
Made with #CSCAPE

Raiders Hidden Training Camp Battle Features A Player Primed for Breakout Season https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/raiders-training-camp-under-the-radar-position-battle-2026/

The Story of the Two Towers IV 📖
双塔故事 IV 📖
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Memorial Day sale features $13 Tees and up to 40% off everything else in my Threadless shop.
Starts today and runs through May 26 at 5 PM CT.
(A bonus round is also included with extended deals through June 2 at 5 PM CT.)
Get stuff here: https://

Contrary to Trump's bloviating gasbaggery, one of the strongest security features of U.S. elections is precisely the fact that they aren't conducted at the federal level.
✅ Here's what makes American elections so complicated and secure | PBS News
https://www.

Here's what makes American elections so complicated and secure
One of the strongest security features of U.S. elections is the fact that they aren’t conducted at the federal level.

ego_social: Ego networks in social media (2012)
Ego networks associated with a set of accounts of three social media platforms (Facebook, Google , and Twitter). Datasets include node features (profile metadata), circles, and ego networks, and were crawled from public sources in 2012.
This network has 2224 nodes and 176691 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

Volador 1.0: A Data-Driven Air-Sea Full-Coupling Regional Forecast Model with Submesoscale-Permitting Based on MOE-Swin-Transformer Framework
Yuhang Zhu, Jianxin Wang, Yu-kun Qian, Yineng Li, Yahui Liu, Yankun Gong, Shilin Tang, Shiqiu Peng, Tao Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.24032 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.24032 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.24032
arXiv:2605.24032v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: A data-driven air-sea full-coupling regional forecast model with submesoscale-permitting, named "Volador 1.0", is developed for the South China Sea (SCS). The model features a Swin-Transformer framework integrated with a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) system, a latent space interaction architecture based on Cross-Grid Bidirectional Cross-Attention, and a fast-slow dual-branch architecture. Both the three-month hindcast test and the 15-day operational real-time forecasting demonstrate that Volador 1.0 has a very encouraging and promising performance in 0-72h forecasting of temperature and salinity in the 0-500m upper ocean as well as the sea surface height with root-mean-square-error (RMSE) or mean absolute error (MAE) smaller than or at least comparable to those from the reanalysis datasets REDOS V2.0 and GLORYS12 and the state-of-the-art regional numerical model Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS). In particular, Volador 1.0 demonstrates its capability of capturing/forecasting submesoscale processes including internal waves, with an energy spectrum well representing sub- to mesoscale energy cascade as expected by the classical turbulence theory. Further analysis based on ablation experiments shows that the air-sea full-coupling framework, which takes into account the dynamic exchanges of momentum and heat fluxes between the atmosphere and the ocean, indeed helps improve the model's performance compared to the non-full-coupling one. Volador 1.0, though still subject to refinement in the coming future with a large space for improvement, blazes a path for an accurate, fine and fast marine environment forecasting, and thus could help promote our capability of disaster prevention and mitigation in the SCS as well as in other coastal regions where these innovative techniques can be applied.
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A generation of PMs made a career out of copying ideas from other apps they've seen into their own app. Today, AI (which has seen every app) can do this 100x faster than any of them.
The only problem is that doing this was always pointless
This week's issue of the Product Picnic newsletter breaks down this problem and surfaces some tools for thinking in workflows (or just plain thinking) rather than worrying about atomic features.

Thoughtless features never add up to a thoughtful product
Your first idea for how to solve a problem is most likely to be a low-impact hack. Delightful user experiences require a higher level of thinking.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kangaroo5383/116965695000825164
You know who was also interested in opening Cuba to US trade?

Vor Android 17: Google verteilt neue Features auch für ältere Android-Versionen
Google verteilt neue Funktionen auch für ältere Android-Versionen teils bis runter zu Android 12. Unter anderem AirDrop und Circle to Search.

Vor Android 17: Google verteilt neue Features auch für ältere Android-Versionen
Google verteilt neue Funktionen auch für ältere Android-Versionen teils bis runter zu Android 12. Unter anderem AirDrop und Circle to Search.

It's always neat to be in a conference talk where someone is talking about #PHP features I helped make happen.
#PHPTek

Climate.us launches independent website for trusted climate information | Climate.us
Climate.us is not an official U.S. government website. It is an independent nonprofit project created to protect public access to climate knowledge and continue the plain-language, science-reviewed communication that made Climate.gov an essential resource for educators, journalists, decision-makers, and communities across the country.
https://www.climate.us/news-features/feed/climateus-launches-independent-website-trusted-climate-information

An interview with Match Group CEO Spencer Rascoff about plans for Tinder, including a redesign, AI features, live events, and group dating to win over Gen Z (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

Seahawks' Super Bowl ring unveiled: Ranking the five wildest features on Seattle's massive rings

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/seahawks-super-bowl-lx-rings-f…

Civic Museums VI🏛️
民间博物馆 VI 🏛️
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Neue KI-Features in iOS 27: Bildgenerator für Wallpaper, Shortcuts, Textcheck
Apple plant für das nächste iPhone-Betriebssystem nicht nur eine Chatbot-Siri, sondern auch Verbesserungen bei anderen KI-Funktionen.

Neue KI-Features in iOS 27: Bildgenerator für Wallpaper, Shortcuts, Textcheck
Apple plant für das nächste iPhone-Betriebssystem nicht nur eine Chatbot-Siri, sondern auch Verbesserungen bei anderen KI-Funktionen.

Meta says Threads now has 500M MAUs, adds a "Your Algo" tool that lets users privately control what they see in their feed, and launches Communities out of beta (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/thre

Threads adds new personalization and community features as it reaches 500M monthly users | TechCrunch
The Meta-owned social platform announced a series of new features launching today, including a "Your Algo" tool that lets users control what they see in their feeds.

➡️ Songlink (Odesli): The Smart Link Tool Explained
#bookmarks

Songlink (Odesli): The Smart Link Tool Explained | Orphiq
How Songlink (Odesli) works, free vs paid features, and how it compares to other smart link tools. Setup guide and best practices for music promotion.

A Not So Brave New World 🌐
不太美丽的新世界 🌐
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RE: https://framapiaf.org/@peertube/116969652683539144
This rocks. Mastodon is in desperate need of a plugin system.
I've been using this issues as a way to request plugin features.

Improving Ensemble CAPE Forecasts with a Diffusion Model Incorporating Aerosol Information
Zachary James, Joseph Guinness, Arthur DeGaetano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.24009 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.24009 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.24009
arXiv:2605.24009v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Convective available potential energy (CAPE) is an important variable for forecasting severe weather and understanding deep convection and precipitation. The latest versions of the Global Forecast System (GFS) and related Global Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS) have exhibited a bias towards underestimating CAPE values during the summertime. We train an artificial intelligence (AI) diffusion model to improve the skill and uncertainty quantification of afternoon 6-hour lead time ensemble forecasts over the United States. Our model takes a GFS CAPE forecast as input and outputs an ensemble that significantly outperforms both GFS and GEFS 6-hour forecasts on root mean square error, continuous ranked probability score, and Brier score. We propose a two-stage training pipeline to leverage both a larger historical GFS forecast dataset and a smaller historical GEFS dataset, despite the two using initialization and parameterization schemes that vary over time. We also show that classifier-free guidance can be used to control the skill and spread of the forecasts. We then demonstrate the versatility of our framework by adding aerosol optical depths (AODs) of black carbon, organic carbon, dust, sea salt, and sulfates as additional input features. Aerosols can invigorate or suppress convection depending on atmospheric conditions. Our AI models effectively incorporate aerosols to produce improved CAPE forecasts. We interpret the model components by using permutation feature importance to rank the influence of the different AODs and find that black carbon, organic carbon, and sulfate aerosols have a greater impact on the model's CAPE predictions than sea salt and dust aerosols.
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Alman is a simplified dialect of German designed to reduce the complexity of the language while maintaining mutual intelligibility with Standard German.
It systematically eliminates several complex grammatical features:
🔸Gender System: Uses a single article form for most contexts
🔸Case Markings: Removes most case-based inflections
🔸Noun Declensions: Simplifies noun endings across cases
🔸Job Titles: Eliminates gender-specific forms in occupational titles
The English home page…

Salesforce's promotional videos showcased Agentforce mock-ups and features that are not widely available, as CEO Marc Benioff defends forward-looking marketing (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Voice Control in iOS 27: Accessibility-Feature sagt Siri-App-Steuerung voraus
Apple hat für iOS 27 eine ganze Reihe neuer Features für Menschen mit Behinderungen gezeigt. Eine davon sieht sehr nach angekündigten Siri-Verbesserungen aus.

Voice Control in iOS 27: Accessibility-Feature sagt Siri-App-Steuerung voraus
Apple hat für iOS 27 eine ganze Reihe neuer Features für Menschen mit Behinderungen gezeigt. Eine davon sieht sehr nach angekündigten Siri-Verbesserungen aus.

Civic Museums VII - Out! Out!🏛️
民间博物馆 VII - 快走！快走！🏛️
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Urge the Government to Take Action for Animals! #animals

Urge the Government to Take Action for Animals! - PETA UK
The UK’s new Labour government is in place, and we must press newly elected ministers to take action for animals.

Meta launches Seller, a free standalone app version of Facebook Marketplace; Seller includes AI features that scan photos to fill out listings automatically (Eli Tan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/technology/meta-facebook-marketplace-se…

Meta Launches New Facebook Marketplace App Called Seller
Seller is part of the Silicon Valley company’s strategy to innovate on its original social network.

Netflix orders a spinoff of Hot Ones, the hit YouTube series hosted by Sean Evans, titled Hot Ones: Extra Heat, set to stream after major live sporting events (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/business/media/hot-ones-sean-evans…

Netflix Buys a ‘Hot Ones’ Spinoff
The streaming giant bought a spinoff of a popular online interview series that features celebrities eating fiery chicken wings, the latest salvo in its rivalry with YouTube.

ego_social: Ego networks in social media (2012)
Ego networks associated with a set of accounts of three social media platforms (Facebook, Google , and Twitter). Datasets include node features (profile metadata), circles, and ego networks, and were crawled from public sources in 2012.
This network has 2187 nodes and 114330 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

Preliminary findings: the EU Commission says TikTok's accounts for minors violate the DSA, citing features that could expose children to bullying and predators (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/tiktok-charg

Roy Ayers - "Fever" (1979)
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kOnixwkMJ96V5Znw6Ski-n7KpFhxSXqDw
Unheard record retrieved from the shelf. Good in parts! (Funky rendition of "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" was unnecessary.)

Corner and Corners 📐
角落和角落 📐
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Nächste Apple Watch: Diese Features könnten kommen
Kein Hardware-Redesign, dafür aber je nach Variante neue Sensoren und mehr: Zur kommenden Apple Watch gibt es einige interessante Spekulationen.
https://www.

Nächste Apple Watch: Diese Features könnten kommen
Kein Hardware-Redesign, dafür aber je nach Variante neue Sensoren und mehr: Zur kommenden Apple Watch gibt es einige interessante Spekulationen.

Google unveils Android security features, including protection from spoofed banking calls, default theft protection, and biometric protection for Mark as lost (Adamya Sharma/Android Authority)
https://www.androidauthority.com/android-security-features-2026-3665372/…

12 new security features coming to Android phones in 2026
Google has detailed several new and previously known Android security features that users can expect to roll out this year.

Spotify closes up 13% after announcing new features and 2030 guidance, forecasting a compound annual growth rate in the mid-teens and gross margins of 35%-40% (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/21/spotify-spot-stock-guidance-investor-day-ai.ht…

As Europe falls behind the US and China in consumer AI, its engineering companies and AI startups are turning to industrial AI applications to boost efficiency (Marilen Martin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

Anthropic announces a new Claude for Teachers initiative, as part of which it will provide K-12 teachers in the US free access to premium Claude features (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/14/anthropic-is-giving-tea…

Anthropic is giving teachers free access to premium Claude features, details here - 9to5Mac
Anthropic is providing free access to premium Claude AI features to K-12 teachers in the United States. The effort is...

Apple Wallet: Diese neuen Features kommen in iOS 27 und watchOS 27
Die Gerüchte stimmten: Apple verbessert seine Kartensammelstelle deutlich. Nutzer können Papiertickets digitalisieren. Dabei hilft auch KI.

Apple Wallet: Diese neuen Features kommen in iOS 27 und watchOS 27
Die Gerüchte stimmten: Apple verbessert seine Kartensammelstelle deutlich. Nutzer können Papiertickets digitalisieren. Dabei hilft auch KI.

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Getty signs a licensing deal with OpenAI, letting its image library appear in ChatGPT's search and discovery features; GETY jumps 150% pre-market (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-22/getty…

Meta says Threads now has 500M MAUs, adds a "Your Algo" tool that lets users control what they see in their feed, and brings Communities out of beta (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/thre

Threads adds new personalization and community features as it reaches 500M monthly users | TechCrunch
The Meta-owned social platform announced a series of new features launching today, including a "Your Algo" tool that lets users control what they see in their feeds

Mit KI: Apple stellt neue Funktionen für Barrierefreiheit vor
Mit den nächsten Versionen von iOS, iPadOS, watchOS und macOS plant Apple neue Features nicht nur für Menschen mit Behinderung. Sie nutzen Apple Intelligence.

Mit KI: Apple stellt neue Funktionen für Barrierefreiheit vor
Mit den nächsten Versionen von iOS, iPadOS, watchOS und macOS plant Apple neue Features nicht nur für Menschen mit Behinderung. Sie nutzen Apple Intelligence.

App-Store-Anwendung: Apple trackt eingegebene Zeichen
Apple stellt Entwicklern künftig mehr Daten zu Verfügung und arbeitet an neuen Personalisierungs-Features. Das Tracking geht dabei weit, so Sicherheitsforscher.
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App-Store-Anwendung: Apple trackt eingegebene Zeichen
Apple stellt Entwicklern künftig mehr Daten zu Verfügung und arbeitet an neuen Personalisierungs-Features. Das Tracking geht dabei weit, so Sicherheitsforscher.

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Sources detail how Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and crypto adviser Bo Hines worked to shape the GENIUS Act and loosen safeguards to benefit Tether (Bloomberg)

Google rolls out a Google Wallet redesign, including "dynamic quick access" for favourites, a "View more" floating action button, and more (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/05/22/google-wallet-redesign-i-o-2026/

Google Wallet redesign launches as Google Pay lets you verify desktop purchases on Android
At I/O 2026, Google Wallet quietly announced and completed its big Android redesign. There are also new features...

Bildzeichengenerator: Genmojis sollen in iOS 27 besser werden
Bislang wird Apple Intelligence offenbar zu wenig genutzt. Eines der generativen KI-Features soll nun hübscher werden.
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Bildzeichengenerator: Genmojis sollen in iOS 27 besser werden
Bislang wird Apple Intelligence offenbar zu wenig genutzt. Eines der generativen KI-Features soll nun hübscher werden.

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Oura Ring 5 review: impressive thinness, live activity tracking, and conversational AI, but not very durable, LEDs are distracting, and the app is confusing (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

Apple announces new Apple Intelligence features for its apps, including a Notify Me feature in Safari and a Call Context feature in the Phone app (John Quintet/iPhone in Canada)
https://www.iphoneincanada.ca/2026/06/08/safari-ga…

Safari Gains AI Features That Organize Tabs and Track Website Changes | iPhone in Canada
Apple is bringing new Apple Intelligence features to many of its most-used apps, including Safari, Passwords, Messages, Mail, Calendar and Phone. The company says the goal is to help users stay organized, save time and complete everyday tasks more easily. One of the biggest updates is coming to Safari, where Apple Intelligence can now automatically

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Spotify closes up 13% after announcing new features and 2030 guidance, forecasting a compound annual growth rate in the mid-teens and gross margins of 35%-40% (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/21/spotify-spot-stock-guidance-investor-day-ai.ht…

Spotify soars 13% after announcing AI music deal with UMG, guidance
Spotify, which is holding its first investor day in four years, is now under the direction of co-CEOs Gustav Söderström and Alex Norström.

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Netherlands-based Nearfield Instruments, which makes atomic force microscopes to measure chip features, raised $380M led by Fidelity at a $1.6B valuation (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/chipmak

Getty signs a licensing deal with OpenAI, letting its image library appear in ChatGPT's search and discovery features; GETY jumps 150% pre-market (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-22/getty…

Google announces Gemini Intelligence, a brand that bundles existing and new Gemini features, including task automation and Create My Widget (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/928724/gemini-intelligence-android-io-autofill

Gemini’s biggest new features are all about controlling your phone
Google is debuting some new Gemini features, like expanded task automation and the ability to use AI to make your own homescreen widgets.

How gambling companies like FanDuel and DraftKings, as well as Meta and a16z's founders, are pouring millions into state-level election campaigns via super PACs (Emily Birnbaum/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20…

Google's $99 Google Home Speaker, which is built for Gemini for Home and works as a Matter controller, will ship on June 29, nine months after it was announced (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
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Google’s first smart speaker in six years arrives next week
The Google Home Speaker is designed for Gemini for Home and its more conversational smart home assistant.

Meta expands Teen Accounts safety features to limit harmful content on Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger, including on nutrition, weight lifting, and anxiety (Eli Tan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/technology/meta-safety-features-teenage…

Meta Expands Safety Features for Teenagers
The changes, after Meta’s legal losses in two child safety cases, are aimed at limiting harmful content shown to teenagers on Instagram, Facebook and Messenger.

Meta launches new AI features, including an "AI Mode" for search that uses Meta AI to surface answers pulled from public posts across the platform (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/metas-new-…

Meta's new ‘AI Mode’ on Facebook pulls from public info across its platforms | TechCrunch
Meta announced Monday that it's rolling out a wave of new AI features on Facebook, the latest sign of the company's effort to catch up in the AI race and keep users more engaged on the platform.

A look at Wyoming's Frontier Stable Token, which launched in January and currently has a market value of ~$1M, as other states explore "white labeling" the tech (David Voreacos/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/…

A look at Wyoming's Frontier Stable Token, which launched in January and currently has a market value of ~$1M, as other states explore "white labeling" the tech (David Voreacos/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/…

SpaceX S-1: xAI had a $6.4B operating loss on $3.2B in revenue in 2025; Grok and X had 550M MAUs combined as of March 2026, and 117M used Grok's AI features (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/xai-

xAI burned $6.4B last year. SpaceX’s IPO filing shows why the spending is far from over | TechCrunch
SpaceX's IPO filing reveals xAI lost $6.4 billion in 2025 while planning a massive Grok expansion — offering the first public look at Elon Musk's AI financials and more details about his ambitions.