Tootfinder

Sources: CoinGecko, a prominent crypto market data and analytics company, is considering a sale at a ~$500M valuation, after starting the sales process in 2025 (Will Canny/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/01/

SCOOP: Crypto data platform CoinGecko weighs sale for around $500 million, sources say
The crypto market data firm has hired investment bank Moelis, as dealmaking across the sector accelerates.

A silent scenery in four acts...
(Selenium-toned[1] 4x6 salt print (still in final wash) plus previous work-in-progress stages... see alt text for details)
The picture/motif itself is one of my personal favorites and was taken 4 years ago in the Alpstein massif, when clouds were spontaneously forming around us, creating a wonderful light/scene/drama and a dear memory... now also as print which likely will/can outlast myself
[1] The tones will become more neutral once dry...…

Dimon, Wall Street heavyweights rally around Powell (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/13/dimon-wall-street-heavyweights-rally-around-powell-00724341
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p70#a260113p70

Globally January was the fifth-warmest January on record, 0.28°C cooler than the warmest January on record in 2025.
It was 1.47°C warmer than the estimated pre-industrial January average for 1850-1900.
@copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-

If you're in #tech and struggling to figure out what your career look like now — this piece is my answer. You've heard "it's here to stay" or "it's better than nothing."
Reject these frames.
Look at the system being built around you. Manufacturing validation for "inevitable" success. Rewriting our roles from human-centered creative to featu…

See what is happening, not what is supposed to happen
The stories we are telling around user research and LLMs have locked us into a doomed framing. Reject the very notion that it is "better than nothing."

"Seas to Rise Around the World — but Not in Greenland"
#Greenland #Oceans #Sea

Seas to Rise Around the World — but Not in Greenland

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
The Police:
🎵 When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What’s Still Around
#ThePolice
https://prfmonthlytributeseries.bandcamp.com/track/when-the-world-is-running-down-you-make-the-best-of-whats-still-around
https://open.spotify.com/track/2e2P8zydI5GtcaVhTkOYa9

Just a few months ago, AI coding was described as an overblown “auto-complete”, auto-complete has been around for functions and classes and what not since…I don’t know, years ? imagine if PR were rejected because the developed had used auto-complete to help him/her write a piece of code, or worst, a bug fix? I fully understand that no humans should be tasked to review spam PR & spam automated “contributions” but if a contribution is “generated” by Cla…

Looking around on my desk and I think I count about 15 separate physical media formats, I may have a problem

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ChristmasAroundEurope
- Christmas around Europe Part 1
The annual Christmas around Europe day celebration of Christmas music and singing from across Europe.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002n8jr

Philip Rivers' impossible comeback, Joe Burrow's unrest and what sources are saying around the NFL

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/philip-rivers-comeback-joe-…

Adelaide Festival board resigns and Adelaide Writers’ Week cancelled after 180 authors pull out in protest of Zionist board decision to disinvite Palestinian author.
Remember this, if you’re a Zionist: like the Nazis before you, you are committing genocide, you are on the wrong side of history, and – as long as there are people of good moral character and conscience to oppose you – you will not succeed. Your only allies are the MAGAs of the world and those too spineless to stand up to …

Adelaide Writers' Week cancelled after week of escalating controversy around author Randa Abdel-Fattah
The remaining members of the Adelaide Festival board will step down and this year's Writers' Week event has been cancelled, after days of furore regarding the decision to cancel a scheduled appearance by Palestinian Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah.

Turns out, I have been using Cory's "Reverse Centaur" expression a little bit too liberally around polite company:

Why the Raiders Have Plenty to Build Around Moving Forward https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-have-plenty-build-around-moving-forward

A Thick Volatile Atmosphere on the Ultrahot #SuperEarth TOI-561 b: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae0a4c -> NASA’s Webb Detects Thick Atmosphere Around Broiling Lava World: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-detects-thick-atmosphere-around-broiling-lava-world/

CrowdStrike acquires Israel-based browser security startup Seraphic, a source says for around $400M; Seraphic has raised around $37M in total (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/bjhljcmhzx

CrowdStrike acquires browser security startup Seraphic for $400 million
Founded in 2020, the Israeli company focuses on embedding security directly into the browser. 

🏎️ Twin suction turbines and 3-Gs in slow corners? Meet the DRG-Lola.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/11/an-electric-car-thats-faster-than-f1-around-monaco-thats-the-idea/

Twin suction turbines and 3-Gs in slow corners? Meet the DRG-Lola.
The concept is meant to inspire the next generation of electric single-seaters.

Here's what the doctor ordered https://mstdn.social/@mcnado/115709466867787148

I’m pretty sure that if someone is rude enough to wrap their body around ice bullets, they deserve to die.
I mean, can you imagine, you’re a bullet and suddenly this activist scum stops you from flying through the air without a care in the world, and you’re suddenly wrapped up in their tissue and bouncing off their skeleton trying to find your way back to the outside?
Where do these activists get off having bullet absorbing bodies in the first place, what do they expect?

sa_companies: South African companies (1919)
A bipartite network of the affiliations between a small group of individuals and five important companies in South African finance, around 1919.
This network has 11 nodes and 13 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/sa_comp

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115706875475817593
(Really happy I stayed in the Debian camp all my Linux live, I was tempted to play around with Fedora Silverblue but that feeling has somehow vanished)

The #iQ2300 expedition has actually been in the field a couple of weeks already - you can follow our progress and all the complex logistics around working #Antarctica as well as the joys and problems of #Fieldwork on the expedition blog:
https://www.polar.se/en/expeditions/iq2300-202526/

https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/05h54sjd1

ServiceNow in advanced talks to acquire Armis at around $7 billion valuation
The Israeli cybersecurity unicorn, which raised $435 million at a $6.1 valuation just last month, was preparing for a potential IPO by 2027.

I love to noodle around on streetview, and sometimes I see things that take me a while to figure out.

Spent the evening playing around with Text-to-speech stuff. Not so much fun on a CPU (instead of a GPU).
Don't ask for a use case - it was a "because I want it"-case
Maybe I should have better written one or two blog posts :-D

It's interesting to see folks starting to argue that humans should NOT be in the loop for AI workflows. Even whole companies are built around the idea.
From a software creation and library author perspective, does that mean we should start building SDKs for AIs to consume rather than other developers? In that case, verbosity, parameter explosion, and simple, composable methods make more sense than rationalizing what a person might expect to be obvious.

"Micro Live's Fred Harris considers how daunting computers can be to novice users. He chats to psychologist Professor David Canter, who notes how finding your way around a computer system can be frustrating and unintuitive. Professor Canter visits the Barbican Centre, which proves an excellent metaphor for navigating the endless corridors of unfriendly operating systems."

We should always keep a few beat-up bananas around to make banana bread whenever necessary. For sanity's sake.

Good.
Never submit to #Racisn, or to the apologists of #Genocide.
#GazaGenocide

Adelaide Writers' Week cancelled after week of escalating controversy around author Randa Abdel-Fattah
The remaining members of the Adelaide Festival board will step down and this year's Writers' Week event has been cancelled, after days of furore regarding the decision to cancel a scheduled appearance by Palestinian Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah.

Looks like I'm going to be attending HARRIS in Bochum again this year. Any German folks interested in a meetup somewhere in the greater Bochum / Cologne / Dusseldorf / Dortmund region?
Current itinerary:
* Sat Mar 21: land DUS around dinner time, probably will be jetlagged and not want to stay out late
* Sun Mar 22: no plans, able to meet up anywhere within reasonable train range of Bochum
* Mon Mar 23: open in the morning, conference trainings start 13:00, free afte…

YouTube and the NFL's second annual Creator Flag Football game drew 14M live views around the world, up from 6M in 2025, as the NFL seeks to export the sport (Kayla Cobb/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/streaming/super-bo…

Super Bowl LX's Creator Flag Football Game Scores 14 Million Views on YouTube | Exclusive
YouTube and the NFL's second annual Super Bowl Creator Flag Football game delivered over 14 million live views

Prototype of a split keyboard from around 1850 made by Sir Charles Wheatstone, inventor of the English concertina! 🪗
@…’s Shift Happens, pg 774
#MechanicalKeyboard

"how's everyone's chromium build looking? Mine finished and I'm testing* it now."
* farting around on mastodon

RE: #InternetGovernance, the

Around 20% of Ukrainians would vote for Zelensky in first round of future elections, poll shows: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/09/around-of-ukrainians-would-vote.html

Time for one last gloating before long.
I got the #Sessionize most active speaker badge for the 4th time in a row.
https://sessionize.com/nicolas-frankel/#speaker

"Faced with economic stagnation the elites are panicking. Wild eyed in the control room, they thrash around seeking to fix the unfixable, pushing all the buttons, pulling all the levers, to no avail, just making things worse. They try the old mantra “growth”, repeated endlessly, and given a priority above all else"
Reeves says 'more to do' after sluggish GDP growth - BBC News

Reeves says 'more to do' after sluggish GDP growth
The chancellor's comments came after figures showed the UK economy saw a lacklustre end to 2025.

#Google #Android Recorder telling me not to spy on people. Funny.

Discord, the online communication platform beloved of gamers and chat groups around the world, is experiencing a severe backlash over its rollout of age assurance tech.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/security/discord-faces-backlash-over-age-…

Discord faces backlash over age verification
Discord, the online communication platform beloved of gamers and chat groups around the world, is experiencing a severe backlash over its rollout of age assurance ...

The 12-Factor App - 15 Years later. Does it Still Hold Up in 2026?
https://lukasniessen.medium.com/the-12-factor-app-15-years-later-does-it-still-hold-up-in-2026-c8af494e8465

Management calls it ‘disruptive.’ We call it Tuesday lunch with collective bargaining.
#Anarchism #Syndicalism #ANarchoSyndicalism

As the news swirls constantly around us, I continue my practice of writing back to posts on social media. It seems I’ve been doing this for a year!
It’s a form of play that helps me reclaim my attention and connect to my sense of being.
I invite you to do the same!
https://salrandolph.substack.com/p/a-p

A Post on Spring
Writing back to social media posts as a way of reclaiming attention.

Forests are changing fast and scientists are deeply concerned #environment

Forests are changing fast and scientists are deeply concerned
Forests around the world are quietly transforming, and not for the better. A massive global analysis of more than 31,000 tree species reveals that forests are becoming more uniform, increasingly dominated by fast-growing “sprinter” trees, while slow-growing, long-lived species are disappearing. These slower species act as the backbone of forest ecosystems, storing carbon, stabilizing environments, and supporting rich webs of life—especially in tropical regions where biodiversity is highes…

Travel planning with Google Gemini. It's astonishingly good at this. I give it an itinerary and it gives me detailed and personalized suggestions like "You have this reserved, but note it's 1.5km of walking over steep, uneven surfaces. As an alternative it's easy just to go into town and look around."
I love being able to throw an enormous amount of data at the LLM and have it make sense of it. In this case it doesn't matter if the answers are not 100% correct as long as they are close and the suggestions are verifiable.

Well worth reading this longish piece by Paula Symons
I came here in 1988 from the UK to get away from Thatcher. Then I watched at a distance as they tore themselves away from Europe - and look what that did to them.
I have always wondered why Quebec keeps harping on separation when clearly remaining has worked well.

The Case for Sticking Around - Alberta Views
I’m calling on us to do something un-Canadian: and stand up for the country we love—and reject the idea of a sovereign Alberta

i’m reviewing a paper on reducing energy costs in large model training and it keeps slinging words like optimize and optimization around and calling other approaches suboptimal and i feel like i would be kind of an old crank if i were to ask if optimality is on the table here (it is not)
EDIT: hold on, maybe it is

Every now and then I open my junk drawers (yes, plural) and look at what I have there. While it’s mostly old cables and chargers, there’s enough other stuff that I think «I should go through all that stuff. Someday.» And then I put things back and close it up again…

At 15:47 UTC on 27th July, everyone on Earth looked at those around them and said, "Excuse me, but who are you? And do you know who I am? What are we doing here?"
For those who survived the next 5 days, 13 hours and 14 minutes, the world would never be the same again.
The Week had begun.
#MicroFiction

Have you noticed that Donald Trump prefers European style neckties? The stripes go down from his left shoulder to his right hip. It's the other way around for American style ties. Curious.

We urgently need to overcome the capitalist law of value and democratise our economy, so that we can organise production around urgent social and ecological priorities. After all, we are the producers of the goods, the services, the technologies. It is our labour and our planet’s resources that are at stake. And so we must claim the right to decide what is produced, how, and for what purpose.

I am so, so tired of having to vet every one of my choices around a technology. Which platform? Which settings? What's a privacy risk? What has downstream negative social consequences? How do I compensate for the functionality I lose when I make a conscious choice to limit or refuse?
1/n
#rant

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 05 - Animals
SLAVE: I can find no trace of one, sir.
[On planet's surface, Dayna looks around and sees an animal following her]
TARRANT: Dayna.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/405/13

> The Fresnel zone is an elliptical shaped body around the direct line of sight path between the end node and the gateway.
Miss-read to pretzel zone 🥨
#lora

Finally it's here: Jupyter notebooks inside QGIS. I don't know about you but I've been hoping for someone to get around to doing this for quite a while.
HT @… via @…

Notebooks in QGIS
Finally it’s here: Jupyter notebooks inside QGIS. I don’t know about you but I’ve been hoping for someone to get around to doing this for quite a while. Qiusheng Wu published the …

We had our QUASAR #research group meeting at the @… today. We had great discussions around r package development on nurse staffing, an international study on triage in the ED, surveying pre-implementation perceptions on medical indicators in

With the strength of the lineup, the mission was to bulldoze early and then feature youth early in the second half.
Szoboszlai's showboating gaffe, not only undermines all of that, but compounds it by piling extra minutes on the starters' legs.
It also allows Barnsley to stay in their low block (not just 5 in the back, but their DMs are also deep on top of that) and so the second half will likely be one of tedium, slowly cycling the ball around while nobody makes a run.…

Jalen Hurts' slump: Can the Eagles' star QB turn it around after 3 straight losses? https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/jalen-hurts-slump-can-the-eagles-star-qb-turn-it-around-after-3-straight-losses

"Satellites are now tracking big polluters around the world"
#Pollution #AirPollution

Satellites are now tracking big polluters around the world
Climate Trace is mapping data from power plants, factories, and other industrial facilities.

topology: Internet AS graph (2004)
An integrated snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from multiple sources, including the RouteViews and RIPE BGP trace collectors, route servers, looking glasses, and the Internet Routing Registry databases. This snapshot was created around October 2004.
This network has 34761 nodes and 171403 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

Immigration agents have put civilians’ lives at risk using more than their guns.
An agent in Houston put a teenage citizen into a chokehold,
wrapping his arm around the boy’s neck, choking him so hard that his neck had red welts hours later.
A black-masked agent in Los Angeles pressed his knee into a woman’s neck while she was handcuffed;
she then appeared to pass out.
An agent in Massachusetts jabbed his finger and thumb into the neck and arteries of a young f…

We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government won’t say if any agents have been punished.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
BBQ:
🎵 Waddlin’ Around
#BBQ
https://thekingkhanandbbqshow.bandcamp.com/track/waddlin-around
https://open.spotify.com/track/1NYKHw48y77MxKlhcZx91p

An initial set of the names from the leak will be posted on Tuesday night, including those of 1,800 on-the-ground agents and 150 supervisors.
Personal Details of Thousands of Border Patrol and ICE Goons Allegedly Leaked in Huge Data Breach

Personal Details of Thousands of Border Patrol and ICE Goons Allegedly Leaked in Huge Data Breach - NewsBreak
Sensitive details of around 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees—including almost 2,000 agents working in frontline enforcement—have allegedly been releas

When I was walking down from the mountains recently I noticed the frost on the trees and branches -- and some single leafs that were still around.
I really liked this extra touch of color in the grey surrounding. And that it's just a little detail on the huge mountain.
#photography #winter

Does anyone (maybe @… ) have any archival info on DINI Group FPGA boards?
I'm particularly interested in their very silly codenames. The main company front page is available on the wayback machine but since being acquired by Synopsys in 2019 it's no longer around and the wayback machine doesn't seem to have crawled most of their product…

The nature of ASASSN-24fw’s #occultation - modelling the event as dimming by optically thick rings around a substellar companion: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/546/3/staf2251/8471205?login=false -> Unseen planet or brown dwarf may have hidden 'rare' fading star: https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/unseen-planet-or-brown-dwarf-may-have-hidden-rare-fading-star

This was easily the worst chromium release in my ~3 years of maintenance. They just broke _everything_, and then turned around an immediately did another release 2 days later (after delaying CVEs by a day). I *just* uploaded packages to the security buildds, and there's already a new release. With no CVEs of course, but maybe there will be some CVEs tomorrow?
Note that it takes half a day just to build the damned thing.

Slowly getting into a rhythm to start the day with doing a print each morning, each time still tweaking either negatives, concentrations and/or durations of different processing stages to adjust tones/hues... A new adventure with some back and forth each time!
This print is of Langkofel / Sassolungo, one of my favourite mountain massifs, just such interesting features and so many dear memories, here seen from the east (around half and hour before sunset)...

To read Later
🔁 https://om.co/2026/02/12/living-in-the-petri-dish-of-the-future/

Living in the Petri Dish of the Future
If you missed the brouhaha around a 5,000-word blog post about AI, let me bring you up to speed. But before I do, I want to remind you that sometimes a blog post is not just a blog post. It is real…

Cornell's № 4 Trinity Jones tries to go around № 11 Nasi Simmons of the Columbia Lions in last Saturday's basketball game at Newman Arena
#photo #photography #cornell

Fun fact: Dubioza Kolektiv’s entire discography is available on Bandcamp for a “name your price” download, yes, even for $0 DRM-Free.
"What do you get when you mix infectious positivity and raw energy with ska, punk, reggae, electronic and hip-hop influences? You get Dubioza Kolektiv, a must see live act praised by audiences all around the world. They toured and continue touring tirelessly, leaving a trail of adrenaline and good vibes behind."

A silent ocean pandemic is wiping out sea urchins worldwide #ocean

A silent ocean pandemic is wiping out sea urchins worldwide
A sudden, unexplained mass die-off is decimating sea urchins around the world, including catastrophic losses in the Canary Islands. Key reef-grazing species are reaching historic lows, and their ability to reproduce has nearly halted in some regions. Scientists suspect a pathogen but haven’t yet confirmed the culprit. The fate of these reefs may hinge on solving this unfolding pandemic.

An interview with Unity CEO Matthew Bromberg on lessons from AOL, the rise of esports, turning around EA's Star Wars: The Old Republic, Zynga, more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2025/an-interview-with-unity-ceo-matthew-bro…

An Interview with Unity CEO Matthew Bromberg About Turnarounds
An interview with Unity CEO Matthew Bromberg about a career focused on turnarounds, from EA’s KOTR to Zynga and now to Unity.

topology: Internet AS graph (2004)
An integrated snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from multiple sources, including the RouteViews and RIPE BGP trace collectors, route servers, looking glasses, and the Internet Routing Registry databases. This snapshot was created around October 2004.
This network has 34761 nodes and 171403 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

Series B, Episode 12 - The Keeper
FOOL: [Singing] I sing you of the Tents, my Master, Charl of the Goths, I sing you of the golden tents, Where your fathers wait to greet you...
BLAKE: [Examining the talisman] It's gone, the brain print's gone!
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/212/515…

Which NFL teams can turn it around quickly? Tiering the 18 non-playoff teams' rebuild timelines https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47898678/2026-nfl-offseason-overhaul-tiers-rebuild-18-teams-turnarounds

We had our QUASAR #research group meeting at the @… today. We had great discussions around r package development on nurse staffing, an international study on triage in the ED, surveying pre-implementation perceptions on medical indicators in

40 years after first playing Frogger on my Atari 2600, I only just discovered that you can stay on a log or a turtle as it wraps around the screen. I’d assumed for over four decades that you’d die if you hit the side of the screen.
#frogger #atari2600

From direct attacks on the press by a fascistic federal government
to the explosion of AI and the closure and consolidation of news outlets around the country,
truth itself is under direct, relentless assault,
as are the journalists who have committed their lives to reporting the truth about what’s happening in and to our world.
The intended result of these attacks is to create a more atomized, alienated, ignorant, disempowered public
that is easier to divide…

The state of the free press in the US is… not good
“In the United States of America, here in the Year of Our Lord 2025, the state of the free press is not good… But you need to understand: They are going after us to disempower YOU.”

We are already well behind the peak of the #Geminids - as expected - according to meteor radio echo data from around the world plotted in https://www5f.biglobe.ne.jp/~hro/Flash/2025/GEM/ (the solar longitudes of 261° and 262° correspond to December 13th at 3:17 and December 14th at 2:53 UTC, respectively).

A look at WhatsApp's enormous global reach and influence, and how the messaging app became the dominant platform for everyday conversation worldwide (Sam Knight/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/01/19/how-what…

How WhatsApp Took Over the Global Conversation
The platform has become a core technology around the world, relied on by governments and extended families alike, Sam Knight writes. What are we all doing there?

Why the Raiders Have Plenty to Build Around Moving Forward https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-have-plenty-build-around-moving-forward

#ACAB means ALL of them. That means globally.
I think people overestimate how much police "stop" or prevent violent crimes, and underestimate how social safety nets, prosperity, and environmental protections actually prevent it. Cops are not good at their jobs, and having your neighbors around (which is why walkable neighborhoods feel safer, while big empty highway-centric place…

Russian generals say all goals of the war will be achieved.
Russian economists say despite the pressure the economy will outlast Ukraine’s.
Even Russian fan-boy Donald Trump says that Russia is much stronger and Kyiv has no cards left to play in the war.

Hearing only reassurance,
it is little wonder that President Vladimir Putin sees no reason for real concessions on Ukraine.
From the vantage point of the Kremlin, the war is going according to plan.

With an army of yes-men, how Putin’s world turned into an echo chamber
The Russian president has little incentive to compromise in the ongoing peace talks because everyone around him keeps reassuring him that Russia is winning.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Triples:
🎵 Be Around
#Triples

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 12 - The Keeper
VILA: I could be president.
AVON: Ah.
VILA: Or we can take it in turns.
BLAKE: You ready to go, Vila?
VILA: Why not? Now that would be worth the risks we're taking.
https://

The US urged UN members to take a tougher stance against North Korea IT worker scams and crypto thefts; an October 2025 report said 40 countries were affected (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
https://therecord.media/40-countries-impacted-nk-it-thefts-united-nations

More than 40 countries impacted by North Korea IT worker scams, crypto thefts
Eleven countries led a session at the UN headquarters in New York centered around a 140-page report released last fall that covered North Korea’s extensive cyber-focused efforts to fund its nuclear and ballistic weapons program.

NFL news roundup: Latest league updates from Monday, Jan. 12 https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-monday-jan-12

A persistent bow shock in a diskless magnetised accreting
white dwarf: #ShockWave around dead star: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2601/

House Democrats grilled the heads of ICE, CBP and USCIS at a hearing Tuesday
over their role in the Trump administration’s brutal campaign to carry out mass deportations.
“These three directors are responsible for what we are seeing around the country,
whether it’s in detention,
whether it’s in the streets
or even in the courts,”
says Illinois Congressmember Delia Ramirez,
who is calling for her fellow Democrats to suspend funding for the Department…

“De Facto Dictatorship”: Democrats Confront ICE, CBP Officials on Brutal Tactics
House Democrats grilled the heads of ICE, CBP and USCIS at a hearing Tuesday over their role in the Trump administration’s brutal campaign to carry out mass deportations. “These three directors are responsible for what we are seeing around the country, whether it’s in detention, whether it’s in the streets or even in the courts,” says Illinois Congressmember Delia Ramirez, who is calling for her fellow Democrats to suspend funding for the Department of Homeland Security unless Republi…

Series A, Episode 13 - Orac
GAN: Better still if there are three of us.
AVON: Better still if you... [He stops abruptly. They look at each other and then all settle down to continue waiting.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/113/227 B7B3

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Steve Mason:
🎵 Stars Around My Heart
#SteveMason
https://open.spotify.com/track/5dwb8YcGr1YAGOB87ekEl5

Delaware's acting U.S. Attorney Julianne Murray
resigned her post on Dec. 12,
and the courts appointed her successor immediately,
an unusual turn of events after months of questions about the legality of Donald Trump's attempts to fill federal prosecutor roles around the country with loyalists.
Murray, who has served as both "interim" and "acting" U.S. attorney for the District of Delaware since the summer,
posted her resignation on …

State's top federal prosecutor resigns; court quickly names successor
Delaware's top federal prosecutor resigned Friday morning and the courts appointed a successor, capping months of controversy about the position.

NASA’s #Carruthers Geocorona Observatory has also achieved its target orbit, positioning the spacecraft to capture the first repeated observations of the ultraviolet glow from Earth’s outer atmosphere, the geocorona: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/carruthers-geocorona-observatory/2026/01/12/nasas-carruthers-geocorona-observatory-reaches-target-orbit/ - the achievement was confirmed following its third and final orbital maneuver, a 2-minute thruster fire, on Jan. 8; the spacecraft has now entered its intended halo orbit around the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point, a position of gravitational balance approximately 1 million miles from Earth.

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Europeans are booking fewer trips to the US,
Europe’s biggest travel operator has said,
as appetite for long-haul travel wanes and concerns linger around Donald Trump’s immigration policies.
Tui, which receives most of its bookings from customers in Europe, has seen
“significantly lower demand” for travel into the US, according to its chief executive, Sebastian Ebel.
“What we do see is growing business to the Emirates and Asia,” he said.
“We also see Europ…