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Meta knüpft Mitarbeiterleistung an KI-Nutzung
Meta will ein neues Tool zur Leistungsbewertung seiner Belegschaft einführen. Das soll die Nutzung von KI besonders belohnen.
https://www.heise.de/n…

No NFL team had ever gone an entire season without an interception. Enter the 2025 New York Jets

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/no-nfl-

Ich übersetze: Mit diesem Kandidaten will die SPD exakt nichts an der dramatischen Wohnungssituation in Berlin ändern, den Berliner Baufilz päppeln und Giffeys Weg in die Bedeutungslosigkeit fortsetzen.
Klug ist das nicht, aber er wird schon wissen, was er davon hat.

Everything DHS has been doing and saying for the past week is focused around one goal: generating excuses.
They’re trying to give Senators an excuse to fund them, to give CEOs an excuse to wash their hands of responsibility, to give wavering Republicans an excuse to keep believing their BS, to give Minneapolis an excuse to let our guard down.
They’re trying to give everyone an excuse to believe it’s all OK now.
It is not OK now. Here in MSP, it is very much not OK.
KEEP • UP • THE • PRESSURE
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This wasn't an arrest in Venezuela. This was an unauthorized regime-change war (Timothy P. Carney/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/4400798/this-wasnt-an-arrest-in-venezuela-this-was-an-unauthorized-regime-change-war/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260104/p11#a260104p11

Lemurs are being eaten as an urban delicacy in Madagascar https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/lemurs-are-being-eaten-as-an-urban-delicacy-in-madagascar/

Lemurs are being eaten as an urban delicacy in Madagascar
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In Madagascar’s cities, a quiet but lucrative market is reshaping the future of one of the world’s most imperiled groups of animals. Lemurs—already the most threatened mammals on the planet—are being sold as a kind of urban delicacy, […]

Lego is building up an in-house programmatic media buying team and hiring programmatic staff in the US and Denmark, part of a trend of companies going in-house (Sam Bradley/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media-buying/lego-is-building-out-an-in-house-program…

Lego is building out an in-house programmatic team
The Danish advertiser is hiring for programmatic roles to flesh out paid digital unit. It's not the only brand deepening its in-house bench.

🤔 Rubio hints at an UNEXPECTED BREAKTHROUGH in peace talks #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/05/rubio-hints-at-an-unexpected.html

A body made entirely of head-like organs
Using state-of-the-art single-cell and gene expression analyses, the researchers mapped the cell types of young post-metamorphic sea urchins.
They found that the adult body plan is largely "head-like."
Genes that in other animals define trunk structures are active only in internal organs such as the gut and the water vascular system.
In sea urchins, a true trunk region is missing altogether.
An 'all-body brain&…

Researchers discover an 'all-body brain' in sea urchins
An international team of researchers, including scientists from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, has uncovered a surprisingly complex nervous system in sea urchins. The animals appear to possess an "all-body brain" whose genetic organization resembles that of the vertebrate brain. The team also identified light-sensitive cells distributed across the entire body—comparable to structures found in the human retina.

Frau rennt zum Bus, gibt an der Tür auf als der Busfahrer kurz vorher und pünktlich Abfuhr, Busfahrer sieht die rote Ampel voraus, hält nach wenigen Zentimetern Fahrt wieder an, lässt sie rein, kommt an der Ampel an als sie grün wird, fährt ohne Zeitverlust durch und hat damit mehr als einen Menschen glücklich gemacht. #KVG

Still can't believe that Apple, a true pioneer of online Music Stores and Jukebox software and user interface design shipped this.
This is an actual screenshot of Apple Music on the Mac.
It's an empty box. The volume controls need an extra click. It doesn't show me elapsed and remaining time.
This is stuff that my CD player in the 80s did better.

HIGHLIGHT: Reed ices the game with an INT https://www.detroitlions.com/video/highlight-reed-ices-the-game-with-an-int

Horror-Spiel „Horses“ prallt an mehreren PC-Stores ab
Das surreale Horror-Spiel „Horses“ wurde von Steam und Epic Games abgelehnt und fliegt sogar vorübergehend aus dem Humble Store – reine Willkür?
https://www.<…

Every YouTube thumbnail featuring a creator is either someone dying of an aneurysm, someone laughing at the fact that someone is dying of an aneurysm, or someone smugly judging someone dying of an aneurysm.

An der Jochen Schweizer Arena wurde ein neuer #Solarpark mit 6,3 MWp Leistung feierlich eröffnet.
Die Anlage produziert rund 7,1 GWh Strom pro Jahr und deckt ein Vielfaches des Eigenbedarfs. Überschüsse werden gespeichert oder ins Netz eingespeist. #Vispiron realisierte das integrierte Ener…

Solarpark an der Jochen Schweizer Arena feierlich eröffnet
München / Taufkirchen - Gestern wurde im Rahmen eines Festakts der neue Solarpark an der Jochen Schweizer Arena offiziell eröffnet. Bei der Veranstaltung sprachen unter...

Josh McDaniels returns to Super Bowl for 10th time as an assistant after 2nd head coach firing https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/josh-mcdaniels-returns-to-super-bowl-for-10th-time-as-an-assistant-after-2nd-h…

You’re not an ally if your freedom/privacy/human rights/democracy event is sponsored by surveillance capitalists like Google that are complicit in Israel’s genocide and pose an existential threat to human rights and democracy.
#FOSDEM #etc

"International law is fake and gay"
An Unapologetic American Chauvinist Speaks – Digby's Hullabaloo
https://digbysblog.net/2026/01/04/an-unapologetic-american-chauvinist-speaks/

Heute für eine kleinere #Radtour mit dem #BromptonElectricGLine #rausgeschafft. Am Ende waren's 12.4km und je nach Wetter-Äpp -4℃ bis 0℃. Auf manchen Feldwegen lag auch noch festgefahrene…

Im Wedding stehen wieder BSR-Kieztage an https://weddingweiser.de/im-wedding-stehen-wieder-bsr-kieztage-an/

An analysis of 100T tokens from the past year shows reasoning models now represent over half of all usage, open-weight model use has grown steadily, and more (OpenRouter)
https://openrouter.ai/state-of-ai

State of AI | OpenRouter
An empirical study analyzing over 100 trillion tokens of real-world LLM interactions across tasks, geographies, and time.

from my link log —
Building an Ansible training environment with FreeBSD jails.
https://jpmens.net/2019/12/11/on-building-an-ansible-training-environment-on-freebsd/
saved 2019-12-12

If you are an anti-fascist, you are against petroleum. Petroleum funds fascism globally. It is at the heart of the military industrial complex driving global imperialism, from both the US and Russia. Motonormitivity is fascist, both in it's elitist roots and in it's ties to historical fascism (Hitler hated bikes, just on principle). Oil is militarism.
Oil is the dominant resource which drives war, both in terms of it being the primary spoil wars are fought over and in terms of fueling the military vehicles and weapons that carry out those wars. Practically every war since (and including) WWII has been over oil. Genocides are carried out to secure oil. Gaza is over oil, in more ways than one.
Oil is the absolute enemy, and AI is simply an extension of that: an attempt to atomize us so we can't resist the oil-centric global order, one last grasp at the control over our lives oil has given to those whose power is now threatened by a solar punk future.
"I haven't written for a few weeks now. As I write the closing chapter and begin rewriting previous sections, everything feels both more distant and more immediate. The working title [Kairos] has only continued to feel more and more resonant, both during the writing and during my pause."
Now is the time to resist by making something different, by creating a world fundamentally opposed to these systems of oppression.
This is the last in my Kairos series. From here on out I'll be editing to try and make it more of a book than a series of posts. Thanks to everyone who has helped so far. All editing is welcome (typos, spell checks, questions and challenges). Between ADHD and dyslexia, it's always hard for my brain to notice mistakes in my own text so I always appreciate the support of those who can.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/kairos

I am so tired today.
I binged "Someone You Can Build a Nest In" by @… al in one go yesterday and last night for my bookclub this month.
I didn't intend to. It was just so fun and funny and I had to just one more chapter it to make sure everything turned out ok for everyone. It's the first book I've read with an asexual major char…

tap in https://www.instagram.com/egyptiancassettearchive/

Out-of-season water escape during Mars' northern summer triggered by a strong localized dust storm: #Mars lost some of its water: https://blogs.esa.int/to-mars-and-back/2026/02/02/an-unusual-dust-storm-reveals-how-mars-lost-some-of-its-water/

(paywalled) Appropriation of perceptual prostheses: an enactive approach to spatial perception https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-91550-5_2 "analysis of the mechanisms of perception through perceptual prostheses", "A coupling device which is…

Appropriation of Perceptual Prostheses: An Enactive Approach to Spatial Perception
This chapter presents an analysis of the mechanisms of perception through perceptual prostheses. Using minimalist devices, we gain a better understanding of possible explanations for the appropriation of the prosthesis and the type of perception it affords. In...

And all of those App Stores could be using an app Lexicon, and get curated for unique needs, with social signals and ownership details.
https://bsky.app/profile/davatron5000.bsky.social/post/3m6fkly5krk2w

Neat article on why southern Australia has no cities. https://www.ryanjhite.com/2025/12/02/the-great-australian-void-why-an-entire-coastline-has-no-cities/

Why the Great Australian Bight Has No Cities: Full Geographic Breakdown
Discover why a 1,000-km stretch of Australian coastline remains empty. Explore the Nullarbor, Bunda Cliffs, and the geography that prevents cities here.

One of the strongest factors in building and motivating an organization as a leader is saying out loud regularly that you care about people.
As Alicja frames, it's the difference between knowing what ice cream tastes like and actually eating ice cream.
It is so SO meaningful to tell people that you care about them, that you value their expertise and work, that they deserve to be respected and supported, and so on. Customize it to the individual situation: identify what someo…

interactome_stelzl: Stelzl human interactome (2005)
A network of human proteins and their binding interactions. Nodes represent proteins and an edge represents an interaction between two proteins, as inferred via high-throughput Y2H experiments using bait and prey methodology.
This network has 1706 nodes and 6207 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

I can attest that being at an indoor range near someone with a short barreled AR is more than unpleasant, it’s discombobulating and, as it turns out, brain scrambling. I’ve switched to an outdoor range for that reason.
https://www.n…

Looking for an app: in iOS Photos, you can select a Live Photo and have it make a long exposure. I want an app that lets me do that but also pick out the foreground and keep it sharp. Either automagically or by me selecting the foreground item.
Anyone know of an app like that?

‘Just an unbelievable amount of pollution’: how big a threat is AI to the climate? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/03/just-an-unbelievable-amount-of-pollution-how-big…

»Uber bringt Robotaxis nach Zürich:
Das amerikanische Unternehmen baut sein Angebot an selbstfahrenden Autos im internationalen Markt aus.«
Ich frage mir sogleich wie Daten hungrig die Robotaxis sind aber ja Datenschutz ist anscheinend kein gängiger Marketing Begriff.
🚘 https://www.inside-i…

Uber bringt Robotaxis nach Zürich
Das amerikanische Unternehmen baut sein Angebot an selbstfahrenden Autos im internationalen Markt aus.

I never get tired of messing around with little circuits like this and seeing how they work. This is an Arduino board from @… running an example that loads data into a shift register. The source code does this with a single call to shiftOut() which hides all the details, but on a scope you can see the individual bits being added serially.

An elephant is a mouse with an operating system.

Adobe Re-Animate 😁

Die Kakao-Krise ist vorbei: Kakaopreisverfall an den Börsen - Schokolade wird billiger https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/verbraucher/kakaopreis-schokolade-preise-handel-100.html

Kakaopreisverfall an den Börsen - Schokolade wird billiger
Der Kakaopreis ist an den Börsen stark gefallen. Erste Händler senken nun die Schokoladenpreise. Nach Jahren drastischer Verteuerung können Verbraucher auf weitere Entlastung hoffen.

Endlich wird an den Mord an Walter #Lübcke erinnert, aber Kanzler und Bürgermeister finden es geschmacklos. Dabei hatte Merz schon damals Probleme, den ersten politischen Mord der Rechten einzuordnen und Beileid für seinen Parteifreund zu zeigen. Jetzt hat er es wieder verpasst und Friedmann muss einspringen. Das ehem. Vorstandsmitglied der CDU trat im Januar aus der Partei aus, wegen der Ko…

Unser Land soll schöner werden
Das Zentrum für politische Schönheit stellt in Berlin ein Walter-Lübcke-Denkmal vor die CDU-Parteizentrale.

Just swapped the 0.4mm nozzle of my 3D-Printer for a 0.2mm Nozzle. The level of detail and smoothness is stunning. Printing dust covers for USB A and C ports
#3Dprint #3Dprinting #3Ddruck

Only just recently had some time to read the Kimi K2.5 technical report , an impressive open weights model (it's not fully opensource), the distance towards large paid proprietary foundation models is becoming very small.
https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-K2.5/blob/ma…

Kimi-K2.5/tech_report.pdf at master · MoonshotAI/Kimi-K2.5
Moonshot's most powerful model. Contribute to MoonshotAI/Kimi-K2.5 development by creating an account on GitHub.

Meta Quest 4: Technikchef bestätigt Arbeit an zwei neuen VR-Brillen
Trotz Unkenrufen: Meta investiert weiter in VR und bestätigt, dass zwei neue Geräte in Entwicklung sind. Eines davon dürfte Meta Quest 4 sein.

• Windows:
  "Windows update is committed to helping reduce carbon emissions" 🌱
  Also, Windows:
  "We don't support Windows 10 anymore so we ask users to dump their 500 million computers that are "too old" to run Windows 11 and buy new hardware"
  Also, Windows:
  "We will keep trying to force our users to use #Copilot, what, our carbon emissions have inc…

Upgrade Fail? An Estimated 1 Billion PCs Are Still Running Windows 10
It's unclear how many Windows 10 users took advantage of Microsoft's extended support program, and how many PCs are a security nightmare waiting to happen.

Nach Liquid Glass: Apples Interface-Design-Chef wandert zu Meta ab
Mit Alan Dye verliert Apple einen weiteren zentralen Mitarbeiter an Meta. In der vom Liquid-Glass-Design frustrierten Community sorgt das für Anklang.

Der Fairness halber: Das stand in einer Mail, die Epstein an sich selber versendet hatte, nicht z.b. in einer Mail von Bill Gates an Epstein oder sonstigen Drittquellen.
Stellt sich die Frage: Warum hat Epstein das in einer Mail an sich selber geschrieben?
Und welche der denkbaren Gründe würden auch greifen, wenn Bill Gates das gar nicht gemacht hat?
Die Lage ist sehr unübersichtlich und wir sollten vorsichtig sein.

An ode to Pro Line Portraits NFL cards: Starter jackets, Zubaz and early '90s absurdity https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7008092/2026/02/04/an-ode-to-pro-line-portraits-nfl-cards-starter-jackets-zubaz-and…

Every YouTube thumbnail featuring a creator is either someone dying of an aneurysm, someone laughing at the fact that someone is dying of an aneurysm, or someone smugly judging someone dying of an aneurysm.

Anstieg der Schienenmaut gedämpft – Signal an Bahnkunden
Die Trassenpreise für das Schienennetz drohten deutlich zu steigen. Weil dadurch das Bahnfahren teurer geworden wäre, greift die Politik zu Gegenmaßnahmen.
ht…

Decisions last year by the
Board of Immigration Appeals,
perhaps acting at the direction of Donald Trump,
have unleashed a torrent of cases on federal courts
where detained migrants are seeking a bond hearing
long seen as their right,
an El Paso federal judge said in an interview with El Paso Matters.
⭐️“The law has always been that they’re entitled to a bond hearing,
⛔️but last year, the immigration appeals court changed it,
just out of t…

El Paso judge: Trump-backed immigration appeals rulings deny migrants long-standing bond rights
An El Paso federal judge says immigration appeals rulings that curtailed bond hearings have driven a record surge of habeas corpus cases as detained migrants seek release in federal court.

Folks, I’m just putting the finishing touches on an update to the Gaza Verified site that will make signing up for verification as easy as signing in with your Mastodon account (with none of the manual adding of the verification link to your profile that proved to be a stumbling block for many).
I’ll be reopening sign ups today once I’m done with that.
In the meanwhile, please remember that there are folks in Gaza who are suffering through an ongoing genocide at the hands of Isra…

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

Blaze Media Is an Embarrassment to Conservatives (Isaac Schorr/Mediaite)
https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/blaze-media-is-an-embarrassment-to-conservatives/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p26#a251205p26

John Spytek taking an 'open-minded' approach to head coach search and offseason moves https://www.raiders.com/news/john-spytek-taking-an-open-minded-approach-to-head-coach-search-and-offseason-moves

OpenAI says GPT-5.3-Codex goes beyond an agent that can code "to an agent that can do nearly anything developers and professionals can do on a computer" (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-3-codex/

Near-continuous tracking of solar active region NOAA 13664 over three solar rotations: #solar region: https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2026/01/longest-observation-of-an-active-solar-region.html

Cowboy kündigt mehrere Rückrufzentren für C4 ST in Deutschland an
Der E-Bike-Hersteller Cowboy hat weitere Informationen zu seinem Rückrufprogramm für das Modell C4 ST veröffentlicht.
https://www.

Newsweek is developing an AI-powered homepage, modeled after Google's AI Mode, aiming to boost time spent on-site and counter the drop in search referrals (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/newsweek-is-building…

Newsweek is building an AI Mode-like experience to customize homepages for readers
Newsweek is building an AI homepage modeled after Google's AI Mode to increase engagement and offset declining search referrals.

interactome_figeys: Figeys human interactome (2007)
A network of human proteins and their binding interactions. Nodes represent proteins and an edge represents an interaction between two proteins, as inferred using a mass spectrometry‐based approach.
This network has 2239 nodes and 6452 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

Atlanta:
An entire city surrounded by an airport.

»United States of Palantir
In den USA vollzieht sich ein grundlegender Umbau des Staates. Die Hauptrolle spielen dabei Tech-Unternehmen wie Palantir und Anduril, an deren Software wichtige hoheitliche Aufgaben delegiert werden. Dieser Trend zur „Privatisierung der Souveränität“ setzt sich immer mehr auch in Europa durch«
Privatisierung ist Kapital-Diktatur! Danke @…

United States of Palantir
In den USA vollzieht sich ein grundlegender Umbau des Staates. Die Hauptrolle spielen dabei Tech-Unternehmen wie Palantir und Anduril, an deren Software wichtige hoheitliche Aufgaben delegiert werden. Dieser Trend zur „Privatisierung der Souveränität“ setzt sich immer mehr auch in Europa durch.

Europäische PayPal-Alternative: Auch N26 schließt sich Wero an
Bisher unterstützen vor allem Sparkassen und Volksbanken den neuen Bezahldienst Wero. Doch nun entdecken auch Neobanken wie N26 Europas Antwort auf Paypal & Co.

Democrats test an affordability message in one of the nation's richest districts (Madison Fernandez/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/05/democrats-test-an-affordability-message-in-one-of-the-nations-richest-districts-00677044
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p18#a251205p18

Sandbar introduces Stream Ring, an AI-powered smart ring for transcribing audio notes into text via an app, preorder now from $249 and shipping in summer 2026 (Julian Chokkattu/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/sandbar-stream-smart-ring/

Whisper Into This AI-Powered Smart Ring to Organize Your Thoughts
A new company called Sandbar has unveiled a smart wearable called Stream Ring, which uses a microphone to record your softly spoken thoughts. And it’s powered by—you guessed it—an AI chatbot.

foursquare: Foursquare NYC restaurants (2012)
Two bipartite networks of users and restaurant locations in New York City on Foursquare, from 24 October 2011 to 20 February 2012. In one network, an edge denotes a check-in event of a user at a restaurant. In the other, an edge exists if a user left a tip/comment on a restaurant. Metadata include comments.
This network has 4936 nodes and 27149 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order.
Now he wants to sell you phone service
—without knowing almost anything about you.
https://www.wired.com/story/new-anonymous-phone-carrier-sign-up-wit…

A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code
Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you.

Photovoltaik zieht 2025 an Braunkohle und Erdgas vorbei
Stromerzeugung aus Sonne erreichte 2025 einen neuen Rekordwert. Der Anteil am Energiemix lag über dem von Braunkohle und Erdgas.
https://www.

How the heartbeat of the Seahawks’ defense formed an uncommon bond with his coach https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7020136/2026/02/04/super-bowl-seahawks-ernest-jones-mike-macdonald/

Phia, founded by Bill Gates' daughter Phoebe to develop an AI search engine accessed via an extension for Chrome and Safari, raised $30M at a $180M valuation (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Alphabet erhöht Einnahmen weiter und kündigt Rekordinvestitionen in KI-Cloud an
Der Umsatz und die Gewinne des Google-Konzerns übertreffen erneut die Erwartungen der Wall Street. 2026 sollen die Investitionen in KI nahezu verdoppelt werden.

foursquare: Foursquare NYC restaurants (2012)
Two bipartite networks of users and restaurant locations in New York City on Foursquare, from 24 October 2011 to 20 February 2012. In one network, an edge denotes a check-in event of a user at a restaurant. In the other, an edge exists if a user left a tip/comment on a restaurant. Metadata include comments.
This network has 6410 nodes and 10377 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

The FBI has arrested a suspect five years after an unidentified person placed two pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties in Washington.
Agents arrested Brian J. Cole Jr., 30, of Woodbridge, Virginia, on explosive charges.
Calls to relatives of Cole listed in public records were not immediately returned.
The mystery behind the person’s identity has bedeviled law enforcement and helped fuel conspiracy theories about Jan. 6, 2021, …

5 years later, authorities arrest a suspect in Washington pipe bomb case. Here's what to know
The FBI has arrested a suspect five years after an unidentified person placed two pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties in Washington, D.C. The mystery behind the person’s identity has bedeviled law enforcement and helped fuel conspiracy theories about Jan. 6, 2021, and the Capitol riot by a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters

TSMC plans to produce 3nm chips at its second plant in Kumamoto, Japan; sources say that is an upgrade from an original plan to produce 7nm chips by late 2027 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-05/ts…

Teures Metaverse: Zuckerberg will angeblich Investitionen zurückfahren
Metas Metaverse-Abteilung steht vor einschneidenden Sparmaßnahmen, berichtet Bloomberg. Trotzdem werde weiterhin an neuer Hardware gearbeitet.

Consistent with the United States’ continued slide into an economy powered almost entirely by LLM slop, financialization, and ever-pervasive exploitative gambling,
“prediction market app” Kalshi “entered into an official partnership” with CNN this week
to bring their “data to CNN’s journalism across its television, digital and social channels.”
Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events
where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smart phones.
…

CNN partners with Kalshi, a gambling app that lets you wager on starvation in Gaza
The network will integrate betting odds for life-and-death issues into its coverage. What could possibly go wrong?

OpenAI says 40M Americans turn to ChatGPT daily for health information, per an analysis of anonymized interactions, seeing it as an "ally" for health care (Megan Morrone/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/05/chatgpt-openai-health-insurance-aca

Exclusive: 40 million Americans turn to ChatGPT for health care
OpenAI's new report shows how chatbots can help navigate health care.

Bill Gates' offener Brief an die Hobby-Anwender: 50 Jahre Software-Piraterie
Vor 50 Jahren verfasste Bill Gates einen „Offenen Brief an die Hobby-Anwender“, in dem er die unautorisierte Verbreitung von Micro-Softs 4K-BASIC anprangerte.

Fundamental, which has developed an LTM to analyze structured data, comes out of stealth with $255M in funding, including a $225M Series A, at a $1.2B valuation (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/05/fund…

Fundamental raises $255 million Series A with a new take on big data analysis | TechCrunch
Fundamental has built a new foundation model to solve an old problem: how to draw insights from the huge quantities of structured data produced by enterprises.

Sixty years ago, the United States abolished immigration restrictions based on nationality alone.
By 1965, such discrimination had become an embarrassment.
In an emotional ceremony by the Statue of Liberty, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared that the legislation he was signing “
corrects a cruel and enduring wrong”
and makes Americans “truer to ourselves both as a country and as a people.”
❌Now the Trump administration is reviving nationality-based discriminat…

Opinion | Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Could Be Illegal
Once nativism escalates, it’s hard to stop.

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says an "IPO is not on the cards right now", and that OpenAI hopes the US government might backstop the financing of data center deals (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-isnt-yet-working-tow…

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Phtovoltik lag 2025 vor Braunkohle und Erdgas
https://www.<…

Trump on Sunday threatened military action against Colombia,
telling reporters that such an operation "sounds good to me."
"Colombia is very sick, too, run by a sick man, who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States,
and he's not going to be doing it very long,"
Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, in an apparent reference to Colombia's President Gustavo Petro.

A look at "TSMC Village" in North Phoenix, as TSMC brings an influx of skilled workers from Taiwan who face challenges like adapting to a sprawling suburbia (Peter S. Goodman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/business/tsmc-phoenix-little…

In Arizona Desert, Taiwanese Families Create Community and Build a Factory
Skilled workers from Taiwan engaged in the chip industry have found ways to ease the transition to America while making an imprint on Greater Phoenix.

„News Tower“ angespielt: So frisch, dass man die Tinte riechen kann
Werft die Druckmaschinen an! Sparrow Night liefert mit der Zeitungs-Sim „News Tower“ eines der originellsten und besten Management-Spiele des Jahres ab.

Sources: SpaceX has told investors and financial institution representatives that it is aiming for an IPO in the second half of 2026 (Katie Roof/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/spacex-tells-investors-aiming-late-2026-ipo…

SpaceX Tells Investors It’s Aiming For 2026 IPO
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has told investors and financial institution representatives that it is aiming for an initial public offering in the second half of next year, according to two people familiar with the discussions. The talks come as SpaceX considers holding a sale of shares held by investors ...

Vaonis Hyperia: smartes Teleskop für Forschung und Astrofotografie
Das Teleskop Vaonis Hyperia wendet sich allein preislich an Institute wie Sternwarten. Es vereint große Optik mit 17 Linsen und schnellen Antrieb.

African fintech Flutterwave acquires Nigerian open banking startup Mono, sources say in an all-stock deal valued at $25M to $40M; Mono raised $17.5M since 2020 (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/05/flutterwave-buys-nige…

Flutterwave buys Nigeria's Mono in rare African fintech exit | TechCrunch
Africa’s largest fintech company, Flutterwave, has acquired Nigerian open banking startup Mono in an all-stock deal.

Lecanemab: Qualitätsinstitut nicht überzeugt von neuem Alzheimer-Medikament
Ein neues Medikament für Menschen, die an Alzheimer-Demenz erkrankt sind, ist seit 1. September in Deutschland verfügbar. Doch der Nutzen ist unklar.

Meta launches a centralized support hub for Facebook and Instagram, with AI-powered search and an AI assistant to answer queries, on its iOS and Android apps (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/04/meta-centrali…

Meta centralizes Facebook and Instagram support, tests AI support assistant | TechCrunch
The new support hub will connect users to security tools, account recovery options, and an AI assistant.

Agibot: Humanoide Roboter mit gemeinsamer KI Plattform
Vorbei die Zeiten, in denen Roboter nach drei Schritten umfallen. Agibot arbeitet an einer einheitlichen Architektur für vier durchaus agile Robotertypen.
https:/…

The Ninth Circuit affirms a temporary order blocking OpenAI from using "io" as a trademark in some instances while an infringement suit against it proceeds (Kyle Jahner/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-la

Ban Against OpenAI Using ‘io’ Trademark Backed by Ninth Circuit
The Ninth Circuit affirmed a temporary order blocking OpenAI Inc. from using “io” as a trademark in certain circumstances while an infringement suit against it proceeds.

Amazon: Alexa jetzt für alle in den USA verfügbar
Amazon bietet seine überarbeitete Sprachassistentin Alexa nun in den USA für alle Interessenten an. Am sinnvollsten ist es, Alexa über Prime zu beziehen.
https://www.<…

Mögliche Folgen für ISS-Crew: Falcon 9 von SpaceX muss am Boden bleiben
Alle paar Tage startet inzwischen eine Falcon 9, vor allem mit Starlink-Satelliten an Bord. Nach einer Störung am Wochenanfang bleibt sie erst einmal am Boden.

Physicist Steve Hsu says he has published a peer-reviewed theoretical physics paper whose main idea came from GPT-5 (Steve Hsu/@hsu_steve)
https://x.com/hsu_steve/status/1996034522308026435

steve hsu (@hsu_steve) on X
I think I’ve published the first research article in theoretical physics in which the main idea came from an AI - GPT5 in this case. The physics research paper itself (on QFT and state-dependent quantum mechanics) has been published in Physics Letters B. I've written an

Neura Robotics: Sanitärräume als Testfeld für lernende Infrastruktur
Ein schwäbisches Robotikunternehmen und eine Bauconsultingfirma entwickeln Gebäude, die Roboter von Beginn an einplanen, unter anderem um Personal zu sparen.

Bericht: US-Regierung verlangt Ablehnung von Visa-Bewerbern mit Zensur-Historie
Bewerber für ein US-Arbeitsvisum sollen strenger überprüft werden. Bei jeglicher Beteiligung an "Zensur" freier Meinungsäußerung sollen sie abgelehnt werden.

Azure: Zone-redundantes NAT Gateway und 400-Gigabit-ExpressRoute
Microsoft erweitert Azure Networking um zonenredundantes NAT Gateway V2 und kündigt 400-Gigabit-ExpressRoute für 2026 an. Neue Sicherheitsfeatures inklusive.

Souveränität: EU investiert 347 Millionen Euro in Sicherheit von Seekabeln
Die EU-Kommission rüstet mit einem neuen strategischen Werkzeugkasten und Investitionen gegen Sabotage und Spionage an zentralen Datenadern der Weltmeere auf.

Sachsen-Anhalt: Mit KI und Handyüberwachung gegen Anschläge
Schon länger beschäftigt sich das Innenministerium mit automatisierter Datenauswertung für die Sicherheit. Das kommt aber nicht bei allen gut an.
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SwitchBot Smart Home 2.0: Haushaltsroboter und biometrische Schlösser
SwitchBot zeigt im Rahmen von „Smart Home 2.0“ biometrische Schlösser, eine Wohlfühl-LED-Kugel und einen KI-Roboter, der sein Verhalten an die Wohnung anpasst.

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
SSD-Preise steigen rasant an
https://www.heise.de/news/…