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OpenAI hat vor Monaten Jony Ive für das „next big thing“ geholt. Jetzt kommt Peter Steinberger, Kopf hinter OpenClaw, ebenfalls an Bord – mit der Vision eines KI-Agenten für alle. Design trifft Autonomie. Das klingt nach neuer Geräteklasse. Entscheidend wird sein, ob Sicherheit und Kontrolle mitgedacht werden – oder erst später.
#9vor9

OpenClaw: Wenn KI-Agenten die Kontrolle übernehmen
Ein persönlicher Assistent, der Rechnungen zahlt, Urlaube bucht und E-Mails beantwortet – klingt nach Traum. Bis er plötzlich deine Passwörter an Fremde schickt. Willkommen in der Welt von OpenClaw…

📢 Fall Epstein: Früherer britischer Botschafter Mandelson festgenommen
Der ehemalige britische Wirtschaftsminister und Botschafter in den USA, Peter Mandelson, ist im Zusammenhang mit den Epstein-Akten festgenommen worden, wie die Polizei mitteilte. Er soll Regierungsdokumente an Sexualstraftäter Jeffrey Epstein weitergegeben zu haben. Die Ernennung Mandelsons zum Botschafter und dessen Verbindungen zu Epstein hatten auch d…
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Fall Epstein: Britischer Ex-Botschafter Mandelson festgenommen
Der Fall Jeffrey Epstein zieht in Großbritannien immer weitere Kreise. Nun wurde auch der ehemalige Botschafter Mandelson festgenommen. Er soll vertrauliche Informationen an Epstein weitergegeben haben.

Congratulations to Paul Stroble ‘82 M.Div. on publication of his fourth full-length poetry collection, "Holy Week, 1847"! https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/holy-week-1847-by-paul-stroble/

thirty years ago i didn't have mastodon so i muttered to myself in a kind of witless travelogue http://peter.honeyman.org/travel/travel.1995.html
i have kept this server on the dl for many many years (many years!) but a bofh emailed me today which is prob'ly the death k…

Finished reading "Intermezzo" by Sally Rooney.
Two brothers wallow in their grief after their father's death. Peter, the lawyer, and Ivan, the chess player, struggle to connect across their ten-year age gap. Beautiful prose, but the endless navel-gazing introspection drags!
Ivan's growth is compelling, but the women—Margaret, Sylvia, Naomi—remain underdeveloped. Add to it a too-neat ending that undercuts the existential hand-wringing?
3/5 ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

Intermezzo
An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and fami…

An interview with Semafor's Justin Smith on growing its events business around tentpoles and how DC-focused media benefits from the corporate affairs market (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/semafor-ju…

Media startups are hard. Semafor says it's working by targeting politicians, CEOs, and advertisers who want to reach them.
Semafor CEO Justin Smith explains how his company bucked industry trends by focusing on Washington, DC, and the "global leadership class."

Newly released records show
a U.S. citizen was shot and killed in Texas
by a federal immigration agent last year
during a late-night traffic encounter
that was not publicly disclosed by the Department of Homeland Security.
The death of #Ruben #Ray

Records reveal a federal immigration agent fatally shot a Texas man last year
A U.S. citizen was shot and killed by a federal immigration officer during a late-night traffic stop nearly a year ago in a Texas beach town crowded with young people celebrating spring break. The death of 23-year-old Ruben Ray Martinez occurred in March on South Padre Island and was reported by local media outlets at the time. But authorities did not publicly disclose that the shooting involved a team from Homeland Security Investigations conducting an immigration enforcement operation in conj…

Q&A with Janice Min, CEO of The Ankler, on tough times during industry contraction in Hollywood, the bidding war for WBD, increased studio usage of AI, and more (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/janice-min

A Hollywood insider dishes on Warner Bros., AI, and the state of the industry
Janice Min, editor of The Ankler, offers an un-sunny assessment of the world's entertainment capital: "There is definitely a Detroit vibe underway."

CBS News staffers say they believe the network has decided to retain Peter Attia, who issued an apology for his inappropriate Epstein emails, as on-air analyst (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/14/cbs-peter-attia-jeffrey-epste…