Tootfinder

Sen. Jon Ossoff speaks about the Republican tax cuts for billionaires. Democrats will be running against Trump's Big Bad Bill.
#savannah

First images of the Sun's south pole!
Solar Orbiter is the first space probe to look at the Sun's poles – and finds the magnetic field there in a state of turmoil. The Sun's magnetic field is currently undergoing a flip. During its latest flyby of the Sun at the end of March this year, the Solar Orbiter space probe had its first clear view of our star's poles. First images:

America's Got Talent: Boston Dynamics lässt Spot-Roboter tanzen, Panne inklusive
Boston Dynamics beweist die besonderen Talente seiner Spot-Roboter bei der Talentshow "America's Got Talent" – auch wenn es eine Panne gab.

A look at Apple's vision for Apple TV and its film business, as Tim Cook says the company's $200M bet on the F1 movie is about more than selling iPhones (Cynthia Littleton/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/f1-apple…

'F1' and Apple's Movie Strategy: Inside Tim Cook, Lewis Hamilton's Big Bet
Apple CEO Tim Cook pulls back the curtain on the tech giant's film and television strategy, including spending millions on 'F1.

It was unavoidable that this week I'd end up writing about Apple's latest blunder. But in the context of Figma's Sites bullshit and Shopify recasting designers as "artists" it's even worse than one OS making a stupid decision.
The mission of #UXdesign is being changed: orienting away from making useful products that work for everyone, and towards branding.
…

Apple's Liquid Glass is a grim portent for UX
Industry leaders like Apple and Shopify are redefining design excellence from making products usable to solely luxury branding.

Rally for Sen. Ossoff in #savannah

A look at Apple's vision for Apple TV and its film business, as Tim Cook says the company's $200M bet on the F1 movie is about more than selling iPhones (Cynthia Littleton/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/f1-apple…

'F1' and Apple's Movie Strategy: Inside Tim Cook, Lewis Hamilton's Big Bet
Apple CEO Tim Cook pulls back the curtain on the tech giant's film and television strategy, including spending millions on 'F1.

Here's some ideas, #Starbucks:
1️⃣ Overhaul the coffee. It's hot garbage.
2️⃣ Provide better chairs, faster Internet.
3️⃣ Bring back the secret menu items.
#coffeebean #alfred

Howard Schultz says he's a fan of Brian Niccol's plan for Starbucks
Schultz said he did a "cartwheel in my living room" when he heard Niccol's turnaround plan for the coffee chain.

EU's Frontex has published a children's book for children who are about to be deported
😲
https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/6eea0e99-e464-11ef-be2a-01aa75ed71a1
Official PDFs availabl…

Toolbox for children in return - Publications Office of the EU
Addressing the return of unaccompanied minors or children within families is a delicate matter that demands a humane approach. This approach must not only respect fundamental rights but also prioritise the child's best interests. Additionally, clear and comprehensive information about the return procedures is essential for those involved, enabling them to prepare as effectively as possible. One of the primary objectives of Frontex is to assist MS throughout all stages of the return procedures. …

'The game is about to change' — Republican Senator Graham says he expects influx of US weapons shipments to Ukraine, ahead of Trump's 'major' announcement: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/13/the-game-is-about-to.html

Last week, our students learned how to conduct a proper evaluation for an NLP experiment. To this end, we introduced a small textcorpus with sentences about Joseph Fourier, who counts as one of the discoverers of the greenhouse effect, responsible for global warming.

Nine biggest questions hovering around NFL's first wave of mandatory minicamps https://www.nfl.com/news/nine-biggest-questions-hovering-around-nfl-s-first-wave-of-mandatory-minicamps

This week's #ThursDeath is a killer new find, Hyvinkää, Uusimaa Finland's DEATHGOAT and their fucking EXCELLENT new LP 'Dragged Into Realms Below' that Xtreem just put out. This thing is a churning, raging, roaring mass of filthy death metal. Riffs, solos, it's got it all. Finnish death metal doesn't fuck around, man. And there's often a lot of gems via Xtreem. A surprising c…

Tout Š l'heure Š la plage, on s'extasiait devant le spectacle des puces de mer sur la laisse de mer, les oiseaux limicoles s'en repaître (quand des gamins ne s'amusaient pas Š courir après eux pour les faire s'envoler)
Au retour, on a fait une recherche sur internet pour connaître son véritable nom : les talitres. Et on a découvert effarés des articles putaclics sur ce "redoutable animal capable de vous gâcher vos vacances"
À se demander si ça n'a …

How to Talk to Loved Ones About #Psychedelics
Do you think it's time for mom to #trip? Here's how to start the conversation.

This is absolutely fucked.. there's a public discovery feed of people talking to Meta AI.
How's that thing even existing
https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-meta-ai-chatbot-discover-feed-depressing-why-20…

Y aquí otro adelanto del próximo disco de Halestorm.
«Rain Your Blood On Me by Halestorm»
#Halestorm

U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla on Thursday was handcuffed by officers and forcefully removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s news conference in Los Angeles
as he tried to speak up about immigration raids that have led to protests in California and around the country.
Video shows a Secret Service agent on Noem’s security detail grabbing the California senator by his jacket and shoving him from the room
as he tried to speak up during the DHS secretary’s event.
…

Sen. Alex Padilla removed from Noem's press conference by security
Democratic California U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla has been forcefully removed Thursday by security officers from a news conference on immigration by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Video shows a Secret Service special agent on Noem’s detail grabbing Padilla by his jacket and shoving him from the room as the senator struggles to catch his breath while identifying himself.“I’m Sen. Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary,” he shouted in a halting voice. He tries to push back …

from my link log —
Tools built on tree-sitter's concrete syntax trees.
https://www.scannedinavian.com/tools-built-on-tree-sitters-concrete-syntax-trees.html
saved 2025-06-01

‘c’: More Than Just Fast as We Unpack the Universe’s Master Constant
Let's dive into the universe's ultimate speed limit: the speed of light. It's a concept so fundamental that it underpins much of modern physics, yet so mind-bogglingly fast that, as you say, human intuition struggles to truly grasp it. We call it 'c', and its value in a vacuum is precisely 299,792,458 meters per second. That's not just an estimate; since 1983, the meter has been precisely defin…

⚽️💕⚽️
#NWSL #ChristenPress

Just Women’s Sports on Instagram: "A representative for the couple confirmed that the former USWNT stars are "happily married". This confirmation comes after Heath referred to Press as her "wife and former teammate" to The Athletic when discussing Heath's retirement."
3,738 likes, 29 comments - justwomenssports on July 11, 2025: "A representative for the couple confirmed that the former USWNT stars are "happily married". This confirmation comes after Heath referred to Press as her "wife and former teammate" to The Athletic when discussing Heath's retirement.".

Frostklauen und Fliegenspucker: Das Storm's-Brewing-Update für "7 Days to Die"
Das 2.0-Update des Zombie-Survival-Spiels "7 Days to Die" bringt gefährliche Stürme, Zombies mit Spezialfähigkeiten und schönere Grafik. c’t-zockt ist am Start.

I distrust a man who says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink
too much, it's because he's not to be trusted when he does.
-- Sidney Greenstreet, "The Maltese Falcon"

At this rate, the Dems are gonna have to pay Kendrick Lamar do the response to the State Of The Union Address, aren’t they?

Check out today's Metacurity for the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--UK's NCA arrested four people for M&S, Co-Op cyberattacks
--Russian hoops player Kasatkin busted in France in connection with ransomware,
--McDonald's employee chatbot was riddled with absurd flaws,
--Hackers stole $40m from GMX protocol,
--Customer data exposed in Bitcoin Depot breach,
--Hackers run scam messages in old Mt. Gox wallets,
--Ni…

UK's NCA arrested four people for M&S, Co-Op cyberattacks
Russian hoops player Kasatkin busted in France in connection with ransomware, McDonald's employee chatbot was riddled with absurd flaws, Hackers stole $40m from GMX protocol, Customer data exposed in Bitcoin Depot breach, Hackers run scam messages in old Mt. Gox wallets, much more

Search for the charmonium weak decays $J/\psi\to D_{s}^{-}\rho^{ } c.c.$ and $J/\psi\to D_{s}^{-}\pi^{ } c.c.$
BESIII Collaboration, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09386

Search for the charmonium weak decays $J/ψ\to D_{s}^{-}ρ^{+}+c.c.$ and $J/ψ\to D_{s}^{-}π^{+}+c.c.$
Based on $(10087\pm44)\times 10^6$ $J/ψ$ events recorded with the BESIII detector, we search for the rare charmonium weak decays $J/ψ\to D_{s}^{-}ρ^{+}+c.c.$ and $J/ψ\to D_{s}^{-}π^{+}+c.c.$ No signal is observed, and upper limits on the branching fractions at the $90\%$ confidence level are set as $\mathcal{B}(J/ψ\to D_{s}^{-}ρ^{+}+c.c.)<8.0\times10^{-7}$ and $\mathcal{B}(J/ψ\to D_{s}^{-}π^{+}+c.c.)<4.1\times10^{-7}$. Our results provide the most stringent experimental constraints on …

Putin's not happy his munition supplier's taken a hit.
Tucker Carlson criticizes Donald Trump as 'complicit' in Israel's Iran strikes
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5349620-tucker-carlson-trump-complicit-israel-iran-war/

Der S-Bahnhof Humboldthain wurde 1935 als Teil der Nord-Süd-S-Bahn eröffnet. Architekt vieler Stationen zu dieser Zeit war Richard Brademann. Das Zugangsgebäude besitzt die Form eines Siebenecks.
#berlinwedding #wedding65

Pork You

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#RecordReview
- Corelli's Concerti grossi with Kirsten Gibson and Andrew McGregor
Kirsten Gibson's personal recommendation from recordings of Corelli's Concerti grossi, plus the best of this week's new releases.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002fk0p

“Noor, who made so many friends on Bluesky since she started an account there in the summer of 2023, had her account suddenly suspended on Friday. Bluesky did not send a reason for the suspension, so while she wrote an appeal, she did not know what actions she was appealing, so as of now it's still suspended. She’s been silenced, and effectively disappeared.”

A Future for Noor and Her Children
Hello! I'm Meave, a U.S. citizen sponsoring this fundraiser on behalf of my dear friend Noor Hassan and her children. Noor and her son Abdul Rahman are kind, generous people; though their original fundraiser succeeded last summer, supporting themselves and their extended family cost them everything. This fundraiser will allow them to support themselves and save up to buy passage to Egypt and pursue a better future.

#Marfan conference in Atlanta. It's been a busy summer!
Probably a…

In Twist, U.S. Diplomacy Served as Cover for Israeli Surprise Attack (Michael R. Gordon/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/in-twist-u-s-diplomacy-served-as-cover-for-israeli-surprise-attack-c79b2206?st=bbwzoM&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p34#a250613p34

A note concerning the ($S_3$) condition for roots in mixed characteristic
Prashanth Sridhar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09072 https://…

A note concerning the ($S_3$) condition for roots in mixed characteristic
The goal of this note is to record the following curious fact: let $S$ be an unramified regular local ring of mixed characteristic $p>0$. Let $L$ denote the quotient field of $S$ and $K=L(ω)$ with $ω^p\in L$. Let $R$ denote the integral closure of $S$ in $K$. Then $R$ is Cohen-Macaulay if and only if $R$ satisfies Serre's condition $(S_3)$, i.e., the obstruction to the Cohen-Macaulayness of $R$ is in codimension three.

Hypergraphs without complete partite subgraphs
Dhruv Mubayi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06390 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.06390

Hypergraphs without complete partite subgraphs
Fix integers $r \ge 2$ and $2\le s_1\le \cdots \le s_{r-1}\le s_r$ and set $S=\prod_{i=1}^{r-1}s_i$. Let $K=K(s_1, \ldots, s_{r-1}, s_r)$ denote the complete $r$-partite $r$-uniform hypergraph with parts of size $s_1, \ldots, s_{r-1}, s_r$. We prove that the maximum number of edges in an $r$-partite $r$-uniform hypergraph with parts $X_1, \ldots, X_r$ each of size $n$ with no copy of $K$ where the part of size $s_i$ is in $X_i$ for all $i$ is $n^{r-1/S-o(1)}$ provided $s_r> 3^{S+o(S)}$. In othe…

I'm not saying any new shit:
"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."
- Letter from a Birmingham Jail, MLK

Deformations of pseudocharacters and Mazur's finiteness condition
Vytautas Pa\v{s}k\=unas, Julian Quast
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10901 https://

Deformations of pseudocharacters and Mazur's finiteness condition
We show that deformation rings $R^{\mathrm{ps}}$ of $G$-pseudocharacters of a profinite group $Γ$ are noetherian, when $Γ$ satisfies Mazur's finiteness condition. The proof proceeds by reduction to the case when $Γ$ is finitely generated, where the result was previously established by the second author. This enables us to extend our work on moduli spaces of $R^{\mathrm{ps}}$-condensed representations of a finitely generated profinite group $Γ$, to the groups satisfying Mazur's finiteness co…

It's makes sense that Apple has created a new, faster disk image format - it's hard to get people on board with Linux VM's on macOS when they have SD card disk speeds.
https://eclecticlight.co/2025/06/12/macos-tahoe-brings-a-new-disk-ima…

A New Hampshire court rejected TikTok's request to dismiss the state AG's suit accusing the company of using manipulative design features aimed at kids (Zach Vallese/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/11/tiktok-lawsuit-kids.html

TikTok loses bid to dismiss lawsuit alleging its 'addictive design' exploits kids
President Donald Trump granted ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, a third extension on time to sell off its U.S. TikTok operations.

everyone knows it's bad when your computer is dereferencing small integers that aren't a multiple of 4
however right now i'm looking at a function that's dereferencing a floating point value that it just multiplied by a denormal

I've just finished reading and reviewing Murray Bailey's
The Heretic Cypher. It's the first of a thriller series with with an Egyptology theme. It's due to be published on 25 July. #bookstodon

A thorough study of Riemannian Newton's Method
Caio O. da Silva, Yuri A. Aoto, Felipe F. G. S. Costa, M\'arcio F. da Silva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09297

A thorough study of Riemannian Newton's Method
This work presents a thorough numerical study of Riemannian Newton's Method (RNM) for optimization problems, with a focus on the Grassmannian and on the Stiefel manifold. We compare the Riemannian formulation of Newton's Method with its classical Euclidean counterpart based on Lagrange multipliers by applying both approaches to the important and challenging Hartree--Fock energy minimization problem from Quantum Chemistry. Experiments on a dataset of 125 molecules show that the Riemannian approa…

Calamus 31 What ship, puzzled at sea
Just when I'm beginning to think I have some facility reading Whitman I meet a head-scratcher like this. Taken literally this is a poem about Whitman offering to guide a boat at sea, or to offer military troops to a besieged city.
But presumably it's a metaphor. Whitman offering to guide and help those in need. It's a little strange?
Hard-pressed for a gay reading here but I'll focus on this:
Here, sailor! Here, ship! take aboard the most perfect pilot.
Here Whitman is offering himself to a sailor, naming himself the most perfect pilot. I could imagine that being a metaphor of sexual mentorship. But honestly that's a stretch.

South Park is no longer available on Paramount outside the US, as sources say the platform's license to stream the series internationally has expired (Brande Victorian/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gen

‘South Park’ Removed From Paramount+ Outside the U.S.
Amid a streaming rights battle, the platform's license to stream the series internationally has expired, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter.

Bengals WR Ja'Marr Chase quickly tabs Browns rival Denzel Ward as 'easy' choice for toughest CB he's faced https://www.nfl.com/news/bengals-wr-ja-marr-chase-quickly-tabs-browns-rival-denzel-ward-as-ea…

Saw Superman yesterday. I don't think James Gunn has ever heard a person from Kansas speak.
Ma Kent sounded like somebody from Arkansas talking with a mouth full of marbles.

Russia's Lavrov cautions West on North Korea security pact: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/12/russias-lavrov-cautions-west-on.html

Azure cost reduction/optimization for hosted applications using Artificial Intelligence. And it's REPEATABLE. Interested? Read on...
✅ Daniel Meppiel's Project Post
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danielmeppiel_enterpriseai-ai-…

💥 What if AI could shrink your cloud bill by 80% in the time it takes to drink your coffee? | Daniel Meppiel
💥 What if AI could shrink your cloud bill by 80% in the time it takes to drink your coffee? 💥 I recently got it to happen—firsthand. What started as a quick experiment turned into something game-changing. Using VSCode's reusable prompts and the Azure MCP server, GitHub Copilot identified key optimizations for my app's infra in a predictable manner. Then, the Coding Agent implemented them. 📉 The result? An 80% smaller cloud bill. Just like that. In this 2-minute demo (linked below …

Por si no se habían enterado, Deftones anunció la publicación de un nuevo disco este año y junto al anuncio lanzaron el primer adelanto «My Mind is a Mountain».
#Deftones

Japan thought it had a special relationship with the U.S.
Now, Tokyo is finding that its security alliance counts for little as it struggles to cut a trade deal.
After 101 tough days,
there was not much progress at all.
Japan did not readily give in to the Trump administration’s demands,
not least because of the domestic political considerations that constrained Ishiba’s administration from making concessions on key industries, such as autos, steel and rice.

Japan, after 101 tough days, learns a hard lesson about U.S. alliance
Japan though it had a special relationship with the U.S. Now, Tokyo is finding that its security alliance counts for little as it struggles to cut a trade deal.

‘c’: More Than Just Fast as We Unpack the Universe’s Master Constant
Let's dive into the universe's ultimate speed limit: the speed of light. It's a concept so fundamental that it underpins much of modern physics, yet so mind-bogglingly fast that, as you say, human intuition struggles to truly grasp it. We call it 'c', and its value in a vacuum is precisely 299,792,458 meters per second. That's not just an estimate; since 1983, the meter has been precisely defin…

https://laist.com/news/politics/los-angeles-police-cannot-detain-or-fire-weapons-at-journalists-covering-protests-judge-rules

Quinta Jurecic: "there's something interesting here in how judges are building on each other's arguments, even in very different cases, in working through how to approach the administration's bad faith storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us..." — Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:maiw2rfujepnphhrejytvuu5/post/3lrhbzdy73x2o

Israel's Iran Attack Could Wreck the US' Middle-East Strategy (Andreas Kluth/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-06-13/israel-attacks-iran-and-could-wreck-trump-s-middle-east-strategy
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p90#a250613p90

Nvidia's rise after ChatGPT's release is reminiscent of dot-com era titans like Cisco and Juniper; Cisco's share price grew over 1000x between 1990 and 2000 (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)
https://www.ny…

Nvidia Becomes First Public Company Worth $4 Trillion
The A.I. chip maker reached the landmark before Apple and Microsoft, as its value rose more than tenfold after ChatGPT’s release in late 2022.

And just to be 100% clear, #LosAngeles is nailing it. Massive peaceful protests are great. That's absolutely unequivocally a good thing. So are burning cop cars. Diversity of tactics is critical.
Escalating radically at a protest with kids and grandmas is a shit thing to do. Don't do that unless it's absolutely necessary. Having kids and grandmas out protesting is important. Having them peacefully block vehicles with their bodies or occupy ICE facilitates *is* a strong thing. That is real. That's not virtue signaling, it does something... And sometimes that isn't enough. Sometimes things *need* to escalate to save people.
Diversity is good. Don't break the diversity of tactics *either way*. #LA seems to be doing a pretty good job right now or holding that balance. I hope to see more of that in every city.

Russia denies reports about Putin's alleged secret push for Iran nuclear deal: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/13/russia-denies-reports-about-putins.html

NFL's most underrated players at each position, plus Bengals drama continues on team's final day of minicamp

https://www.cbssports.com/n…

My sister was on Medicaid, tethered to an oxygen concentrator, shuffling around with the help of a rollator for several years before she died. Trump would have made it happen faster, had she not beat him to it.

Neue PC-Spiele im Juli 2025: "Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 4"
Im Juli erscheint das Remaster "Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 4". Das Soulslike "Wuchang: Fallen Feathers" wird ebenfalls veröffentlicht.

There has been an increase of arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement since Trump began his second term,
with reports of raids across the country.
-- Yet the majority of people currently detained by ICE have no criminal convictions.
Of those who do, relatively few have been convicted of high-level crimes
— a stark contrast to the chilling nightmare Trump describes to support his border security agenda.
“There’s a deep disconnect between the rhetoric …

Trump says he's deporting 'worst of the worst.' Data tells a different story
President Donald Trump has pledged to target "the worst of the worst" as he moves to deport millions of people from the U.S. But government data contradicts this narrative. As of June 29, 71.7% of people detained by ICE had no criminal convictions, and only a small fraction were classified as high-level threats. Research has consistently shown that immigrants, including those who have entered the country illegally, are less likely to be incarcerated than native-born citizens and that immigratio…

Sources: Meta's Scale AI deal was motivated by Mark Zuckerberg's desire to find new leadership for Meta's AI efforts, relationship with Alexandr Wang, and more (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-betting-n…

Why Meta is Betting Nearly $15 Billion on Alexandr Wang
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has tried to fix a seemingly existential problem in recent months. His company’s large language model, Llama, was falling behind competitors and struggling to perform as well as models from OpenAI, particularly on complex tasks. Increasingly, Zuckerberg turned ...

The Chicago Tribune is offering buyouts to the newsroom's 75 union members; the newsroom last went through buyouts in 2021, when nearly 40 people left (Kaitlin Washburn/Chicago Sun Times)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/business/2025/06/12/chicag…

Chicago Tribune offering newsroom buyouts
The newsroom's union, which ratified its first contract just seven months ago, said in a statement cutting staff as a "short-term profit boost" is unsustainable. It was not immediately known how many positions the company was looking to cut or what dollar amount it's trying to save.

The magats are claiming the resistance to ICE is organized.
Like organizing is a bad thing.

Germany bans Nazi symbols. The U.S. should do the same with Confederate monuments. - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/germany-bans-symbols-the-u-s-should-do-the-same-with-monuments/

Trump's 35% Tariff Bulldozer Tests Carney's Strategy of Avoiding Conflict (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-11/trump-s-35-tariff-bulldozer-tests-carney-s-strategy-of-avoiding-conflict
http://www.memeorandum.com/250711/p6#a250711p6

Por estos días sumé a mis servicios selfhosteados wallabag, una aplicación para guardar pšginas web estilo pocket. También probé linkwarden, que si bien es mšs bonita y tiene mšs funciones, consume considerablemente mšs recursos, especialmente RAM.
#Wallabag #Linkwarden

Next-Gen-SSDs schaffen 28 GByte/s und viel mehr IOPS
Silicon Motion enthüllt die Eckdaten seines ersten PCIe-6.0-Controllers für Server-SSDs. Mit 4-nm-Technik soll der SM8466 effizient bleiben.
https://www.

Sources: OpenAI talked with Saudi Arabia's PIF, India's Reliance, and the UAE's MGX about investing in the next installment of its $40B round led by SoftBank (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op

OpenAI Has Discussed Raising Money From Saudi Arabia, Indian Investors
OpenAI has talked to Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries and existing shareholder United Arab Emirates’ MGX about investing in the next installment of its $40 billion financing led by SoftBank, according to two people familiar with the fundraise. The ...

Before the Danish government announced its move, Denmark's largest cities, Copenhagen and Aarhus, had already announced plans to phase out Microsoft software and cloud services
https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-denmark-

Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux
Before the Danish government announced its move, Denmark's largest cities, Copenhagen and Aarhus, had already announced plans to phase out Microsoft software and cloud services. Here's why.

Profiles of three employees at VOA's fact-checking unit, who fled Russia and are now among the many journalists losing their jobs under President Trump's orders (Scott Nover/Washington Post)

The U.S. granted these journalists asylum. Then it fired them.
Three employees at Voice of America’s fact-checking unit fled Putin’s wrath and are now among the many journalists losing their jobs under Trump’s orders.

Oilers rally, stun Panthers in overtime to tie series 2-2; big names struggle in first round of U.S. Open

https://www.cbssports.com/nhl/news/oilers…

What to Watch for in Abrego Garcia's Hearing on Potential Pretrial Detention (James Pearce/Lawfare)
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what-to-watch-for-in-abrego-garcia-s-hearing-on-potential-pretrial-detention
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p58#a250612p58

Vance secretly meets with Fox News owners amid network's LA protest lies
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/6/12/2327518/-Vance-secretly-meets-with-Fox-News-owners-amid-network-s-LA-protest-lies

Insiders describe Linda Yaccarino's tumultuous partnership with Elon Musk and say the two failed to gel as Musk's blunt style clashed with Yaccarino's polish (Financial Times)

Kellogg to visit Ukraine: Zelensky on U.S. support: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/13/kellogg-to-visit-ukraine-zelensky.html

Shopify partners with Coinbase to enable USDC payments for its merchants through Coinbase's Base layer-2 network, starting with a limited group of merchants (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/06/

Coinbase (COIN), Shopify (SHOP) Partner to Enable USDC Payments on Base for Merchants Worldwide
The integration is set to roll out on June 12 to a limited group of early access merchants, with wider availability expected later in the year.

CDC urges summer camps to check for measles immunity, as U.S. nears record (Alexander Tin/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-urges-summer-camps-to-check-for-measles-immunity-as-u-s-nears-record/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p135#a250613p135

Bucs' WR room reloaded: With Evans, Godwin and new weapons, Tampa Bay has one of the NFL's deepest groups

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/…

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
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Militia kooks attack TV station's weather radar.
https://www.kosu.org/local-news/2025-07-09/news9-radar-damaged-in-apparent-attack-by-anti-government-militia-group

Ex-minister's home searched in connection with controversial lawmaker's fraud case: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/11/exministers-home-searched-in-connection.html

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Bills' Keon Coleman says he was 'trash' during rookie year; here's how WR can improve in 2025

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bills-k

3.5 billion euros in new funds pledged for Ukraine's reconstruction after Recovery Conference, ministry says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/13/billion-euros-in-new-funds.html

Elon Musk says Tesla's robotaxi service will "tentatively" begin on June 22 in Austin, with first autonomous deliveries of a car to a customer's home on June 28 (Ari Levy/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/10/elon-musk-

Elon Musk says Tesla robotaxi rides in Austin 'tentatively' set to begin June 22
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a post on X on Tuesday that the first self-driving Tesla will reach a customer's house on June 28.

TIL Texas Roadhouse is based in Kentucky.

NFL's top 10 offenses in 2025? Bills, Bucs, Ravens headline my projection; Broncos coming in HOT https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-s-top-10-offenses-in-2025-bills-bucs-ravens-headline-my-projection-broncos-coming-in-ho…

Kim Jong Un pledges to 'unconditionally' support Russia's war against Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/13/kim-jong-un-pledges-to.html

There's little evidence that UAE-based Aqua 1 Foundation, the largest investor in Trump's World Liberty Financial after buying tokens worth $100M, exists at all (Jacob Silverman/The Nation)
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/tr…

Does Trump’s Biggest Crypto Backer Really Exist?
The strange saga of a shadowy UAE company’s $100 million investment in World Liberty Financial, the Trump-aligned crypto trader

Yeah, well, maybe it's all these alerts I keep getting.

Sources: Palmer Luckey's stablecoin startup Atticus raised ~$250M at a $2.25B valuation, and will merge into Erebor, formed by Luckey to get a banking license (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/06/13/palmer-luckey-er…

Scoop: New details on Palmer Luckey's crypto unicorn
Atticus will merge into Erebor, recently formed by Luckey with plans to get a banking license.

Analysis: Nvidia's $500B US spending plan has accelerated the US AI server ecosystem development, with at least eight suppliers unveiling new investment plans (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technol…

Trump's first 'Made in the USA' triumph won't be the iPhone
AI data center suppliers flock to the US to serve Nvidia, Microsoft and others

Oracle stock jumped 24% this week, its best performance since 2001, and is up 29% in 2025, vs. Nasdaq's 1%, after the company reported cloud momentum (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/13/oracles-stock-on-pace…

Oracle's stock closes out best week since 2001 on cloud momentum
Oracle investors haven't had a week this good since April 2001, after the stock had collapsed in the dot-com crash.

Google will have a nonexclusive license to certain Windsurf technology, but will not be taking a stake in the company (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/11/windsurfs-ceo-goes-to-google-openais-acquisition-falls-apart/

Windsurf's CEO goes to Google; OpenAI's acquisition falls apart | TechCrunch
Notably, Google is not taking a stake in Windsurf and will not have any control over the company.

With Tim Cook likely to lead Apple through this decade, a look at Apple's executive succession challenges as many of Cook's direct reports near retirement age (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters…

A senior Trump administration official projects that Huawei's Ascend AI chip output will be at or below 200,000 for 2025, in a hearing with US lawmakers (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06…

Moonshot's Kimi K2 uses a 1T-parameter MoE architecture with 32B active parameters and outperforms models like GPT-4.1 and DeepSeek-V3 on key benchmarks (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/moonshot-ais-kimi-k2-outperfor…

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2 outperforms GPT-4 in key benchmarks — and it’s free
Chinese AI startup Moonshot releases open-source Kimi K2 model that outperforms OpenAI and Anthropic on coding tasks with breakthrough agentic capabilities and competitive pricing.

Further tests reveal Grok 4 appears to consult Elon Musk's views on a range of sensitive topics, and its answers tend to align with Musk's personal opinions (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/grok

Grok 4 seems to consult Elon Musk to answer controversial questions | TechCrunch
Elon Musk's newly launched AI chatbot, Grok 4, seemed to reference Musk's posts on social media before answering controversial questions.

Landbase, whose GPT-4o-based AI tool automates outreach marketing, raised a $30M Series A co-led by Ashton Kutcher's Sound Ventures and Picus Capital (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/how-

How AI sales startup Landbase nabbed Ashton Kutcher’s Sound Ventures to lead its $30M Series A | TechCrunch
A concept Landbase's CEO calls "digital trust" led nearly 130 VCs to pursue the "vibe GTM" startup.