@heiseonline@social.heise.deEU AI Act: Was bis August 2026 in Unternehmen erledigt sein muss
Im Webinar ordnet der heise Fachdienst KI PRO die anstehenden Pflichten des EU AI Act ein und zeigt, wo konkreter Handlungsbedarf besteht.
htt…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAugust Robotics, which makes autonomous robots for construction and industrial applications, raised $30M led by Big Pi Ventures (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/05/21/august-robotics-lands-30m-automate-precision-con…
@cdarwin@c.imTariffs risk upending low-cost drug supply
Generic drug manufacturers must move production to the U.S. or face a 100% import duty starting August 2028, Trump said,
threatening the supply of low-cost medicines that millions of Americans rely on.
Trump said in a social media post, the move is aimed at “reshoring” generic pharmaceutical production in the U.S., and companies that don’t build plants onshore will face levies -- that would then double, to 200%, in August 2029, (Aft…
@newstik@social.heise.deHello #Yukon, this is likely the first ever #racketlon tournament in the territory!
August 29&30, singles and doubles, youth and adult, at the Canada Games Centre in #whitehorse
To ke…
@hllizi@hespere.deNationalfeiertag umwidmen.
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deboard_directors: Norwegian Boards of Directors (2002-2011)
224 networks of the affiliations among board directors due to sitting on common boards of Norwegian public limited companies (as of 5 August 2009), from May 2002 onward, in monthly snapshots through August 2011. Some metadata is included, such as director and company names, city and postal code for companies, and gender for directors. The 'net2m' data are bipartite company-director networks, while the 'net1m' ar…
@jake4480@c.imDid y'all know there's a new Russian Circles in August? Whattt
https://russiancircles.bandcamp.com/album/nine
@… @…
@deabigt@universeodon.comBritish Airways Delays Middle East Flights Until August https://airguide.info/british-airways-delays-middle-east-flights-until-august/
@stiefkind@mastodon.socialSeit August 2019 betreibe ich den Pixelfed-Account @… und poste dort (fast) täglich ein Bild, parallel zu meinem (viel älteren) Instagram-Account (wer den ansehen möchte, sollte nach 'steifei' suchen, das stiefkind war damals leider schon weg). Beide haben ungefähr die gleiche Anzahl Follower. Seit mehreren Wochen haben die täglichen Fediverse-…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA judge extends the temporary order pausing the Paramount-WBD merger for 14 more days and writes that the WGA can participate in a scheduled hearing on August 3 (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/07/paramount-warner-bros-merger-judge-ex…
@doktrock@toad.social"The Extractive Midwest"
Call for Proposals
for Edited Volume
Proposal Deadline: 30 August 2026
https://niche-canada.org/2026/06/08/call-for-proposals-the-extractive-midwest/
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@shaun@mastodon.xyz#Tennessee! If you aren’t registered to #vote, you have 14 days to register in time for the August 6th #primaries!
@Richard@worklifepsych.social@… I know. First time I've taken such a long break. But nothing ever happens in August, so I thought 'why not?'.
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL training camps for 2026 season open this week https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-training-camps-for-2026-season-open-this-week
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe value of US government's stake in Intel has increased fourfold to ~$36B, a roughly $27B paper gain since they announced the investment in August 2025 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-24/us-governm…
@cdarwin@c.imEurope’s worst heat tends to strike in July and August,
but this week a startlingly early and intense heat wave is tossing the calendar aside.
Temperatures could hit 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) in London and 104°F (40°C) in Paris
– not just once, but perhaps for two or three days in a row.
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialAmt und Geschäftsmodell verschmelzen: Trump Media bringt ab 1. August ein Premium-Abo für Echtzeit-Zugriff auf Präsidenten-Posts, 100.000 Dollar im Monat. Michael Hanfeld (FAZ) diagnostiziert: In Sachen Korruption setzt Trump neue Maßstäbe. via @… #Trump
@ErikUden@mastodon.deNow what?
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social#MountainMonday #mountains
Indian Peaks mountains along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. August 2013
@jake4480@c.imFinal trailer for Coyote vs. Acme: #CoyoteVsAcme #movies
@nic@geno.social#Google hat Werbetreibende darüber informiert, dass sie ab dem 3. August 2026 IP-Adressen von Nutzenden aus EU, UK und der Schweiz für die Anzeigenmessung und -personalisierung verwenden wird.
Diese Daten werden schon länger gesammelt. Neu ist die gezielte Nutzung zur Identifikation von Endgeräten für Werbezwecke.
Höchste Zeit, um
- personalisierte Werbung bei euch abzustellen
-…
@fgraver@hcommons.socialEuropean politicians should take note of the Canadian response to Trump’s tariffs. The only way to effectively neutralize the impact of the tariffs is to refuse to be bullied and to stand up for yourself. Or, to put it more succinctly, say: «Fuck Trump.»
Canadian Politicians Are Openly Mocking And Threatening Trump As Carney/Canada Considers "Nuclear Option" Response To Trump's Tariffs
@presseportal_pol_NDS@frawas.dePOL-GÖ: (213/2026) Polizei Göttingen lädt zum "Tag der offenen Tür": Hunde, Hubschrauber, Wasserwerfer und noch mehr Spannendes für "große und kleine Gäste" am 23. August in Weende - Terminankündigung! Göttingen (ots) - Göttingen, Stadtteil Weende, Otto-Hahn-Straße 2 Sonntag, 23. August 2026, 11.00 bis 17.00 Uhr GÖTTINGEN (jk) - Hunde, Hubschrauber, Wasserwerfer, einen echten Streifenwagen zum Anmalen und noch vieles mehr präsentiert die
@mpsgoettingen@academiccloud.social** Öffentliche Führung Astrophysik **
Tue 19/05/26, 21:00, Treffpunkt: Eingang Nordost (Tamannstr.)
Beobachtungsobjekte: Mond, Venus, Jupiter
Thema des Vortrags: Beobachten an Großteleskopen (T. Schmidt)
https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/218993.html
@cdarwin@c.imA federal appeals court cleared the way on Tuesday for the Trump administration to expand a fast-track deportation process
that would allow for the expedited removal of immigrants who are living far from the border.
A panel of the US court of appeals for the District of Columbia circuit ruled 2-1 to overturn a decision by a judge who in August 2025 blocked the US Department of Homeland Security’s move to expand who qualifies for expedited removal.
That expedited remova…
@bourgwick@heads.socialcame across this pretty amazing WBAI broadcast of lenny bruce's 1966 memorial at judson church, with ginsberg & other heavies, & a brief sliver of the '66 fugs performing a garage-jangle "carpe diem": https://youtu.be/PzGy9VAKpc8&t=1254
snipped a l'il mp3 for fugs…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deNeue PC-Spiele im August 2026: „Mortal Shell II“
Im August geht das Soulslike „Mortal Shell II“ an den Start. Außerdem werden „Hell Let Loose: Vietnam“ und „Star Wars Zero Company“ veröffentlicht.
https://www.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deboard_directors: Norwegian Boards of Directors (2002-2011)
224 networks of the affiliations among board directors due to sitting on common boards of Norwegian public limited companies (as of 5 August 2009), from May 2002 onward, in monthly snapshots through August 2011. Some metadata is included, such as director and company names, city and postal code for companies, and gender for directors. The 'net2m' data are bipartite company-director networks, while the 'net1m' ar…
@outer@mas.to"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
-- Henry David Thoreau, from "Walden; or, Life in the Woods"
True or not--it's impressive poetry, if you read it while impressionable.
"The question is not what you look at, but what you see."
-- Henry David Thoreau, from Journal entry, 5 August 1851.
Now...make an answer to the question, and post it!
#Thinking
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com@… Trying to wrap up some work to demo to a client next Friday, but sometime in early August I'd be down for either.
@chpietsch@fedifreu.deWie wäre es mit einem Campingurlaub im Wendland mit entspannten Leuten, die sich manchmal was vom Fediverse erzählen und abends um ein Feuer sitzen?
Vom 4. bis 9. August 2026 ist https://fedi.camp und es sind noch Plätze frei!
@henrikmillinge@fikaverse.clubDet kan godt være nogen skal til at finde alternativer til Facebook og Instagram. https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-says-us-states-are-seeking-14-trillion-penalties-august-youth-safety-trial-2026-07-07/
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngQuestion for other EU-based online shop owners: How are you going to deal with the upcoming EU PPWR packaging legislation changes[1] and specifically requiring a third party legal person/entity in every single EU member state you want to ship to after August 12, potentially having to contract & pay another EU-wide one-stop service or up to 26 middlemen just so you are allowed to ship to all EU countries? What happened to the idea of a single market?
Some of the "cheaper" off…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialDisney plans an interactive hub called ESPN Fan House alongside ESPN's College GameDay in August, with fan experiences like live polls and merchandise showcases (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/disney-espn-fan-house-adv…
@cwilcke@bildung.socialDas Öl wird knapp: "Birol predicted that governments around the world would review their energy strategies in the next few years and “look for new options” for fuel imports. He added that countries would also turn to other energy sources, including renewables, nuclear – and, to a lesser extent, coal – and that domestically, energy production “that makes economic sense will get a push”.
Gell, #KatherinaReiche
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org1.5 weeks into a 3 week holiday* and I can feel now just how much I needed it.
And how little I want to go back to work in August.
Let's hope the second half of the holiday fixes that.
#AcademicChatter
*yes I know, I am incredibly fortunate to get to take 3 weeks of summer holiday off, but the feeling of utter burnout is also real.
@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.socialHeute vor 58 Jahren: Am 22. Mai 1968 sank das US-U-Boot USS Scorpion auf dem Weg von Rota nach Norfolk. Die Ursache bleibt unklar, alle 99 an Bord starben. Das Wrack liegt mit seinem #Kernreaktor und zwei nuklearen Torpedos über 3000 m tief auf dem #Meeresboden.
@detondev@social.linux.pizza"Pep was a black Labrador Retriever who was falsely accused of murdering a cat. On August 31, 1924, Pep was sent to the Eastern State Penitentiary where he received inmate number C-2559 and had his mugshot and paw prints taken."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pep_(dog)
@CerstinMahlow@mastodon.acm.orgKomplett irre: Ich werde im August vom Ferienort zu meinen Eltern fahren, mit Bus und Bahn
Der Plan: Irgendeine Fahrkarte kaufen und früh genug losfahren, dass ich im Hellen bis auf 30 bzw. 70 km rankomme (30 bzw. 50 Autominuten), damit sie mich mit dem Auto einsammeln können, sie fahren nicht mehr gerne im Dunklen
Beide Orte sind ca. 220km voneinander entfernt …
@krone@frawas.de„Das ist mein Grätzl“ - Messerangriff vor Kind: Klinge drang bis ins Hirn #News #Nachrichten
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizza @cdarwin@c.imExecutive director of the International Energy Agency
Fatih Birol warned that while oil stocks were eroding, no new oil was coming from the Middle East and the demand was increasing, mainly caused by the travel season.
“This may be difficult and we may be entering the red zone in July-August if we don’t see some improvements,” Birol said.
Adding that he had “never seen the dark and long shadow of geopolitics so dominant in the energy sector”,
Birol also said he feared…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzMore #Psyche images of #Mars, now with NASA's own processing (but further improved in contrast here) from #GravityAssist went well: with the ion engine on again the spacecraft should reach the asteroid Psyche in August 2029.
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Bridget St. John:
🎵 Night In The City (Top Gear, 24th August 1969)
#BridgetStJohn
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk @heiseonline@social.heise.de
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Leaked letter reveals push by Coca-Cola and McDonald’s to delay EU packaging law"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Packaging
@awinkler@openbiblio.social @Techmeme@techhub.socialTencent's Hong Kong-listed shares fall ~7%, the most since April 2025, as investors worry over "rumors" of weaker earnings on August 12, and NetEase drops 5% (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump Plans 100% Tariff on Generic Drugs From August 2028 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-21/trump-plans-100-tariff-on-generic-drugs-from-august-2028
http://www.memeorandum.com/260721/p167#a260721p167
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeThe feds have returned to Black Hat/DEFCON
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260716737340/en/Black-Hat-USA-2026-Keynotes-to-Address-AIs-Impact-on-Cyber-Operations…
@peterhoneyman@a2mi.socialWatching the France v England match in a roadhouse in Ossineke
@UP8@mastodon.socialSome people see a fox and make a pensive expression! Turns out Trackapalooza 2026 got moved to August 1 so I'll make different plans for tomorrow
#photo #photography #running
@gwire@mastodon.socialNot watching The Odyssey on opening weekend, since the IMAX was sold out until August. Not worried about spoilers, I suppose.
@simon_jf@mastodon.scotYour regular reminder that we're running the Scottish Programming Languages and Verification Summer School in Glasgow in the first week of August! (3rd-7th).
Another week or so for early registration and cheap accommodation!
https://spli.scot/splv/2026-glasgow/
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineOrganized some of my voice over work on my Soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/david-august/sets/voice-over-selected-work-demo
Perhaps I will make a formal reel at some point.
@jake4480@c.imI don't usually like to talk about records until they're fully out and I can hear all of it, but this first single from the Open Mike Eagle/Kenny Segal joint coming in August called 'DOOMED!' is fucking UNREAL and I can't get over it. Super psyched to hear the rest. The beat, the flow of this, fuuuuck what IS it even
https://
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialBrendan Carr proposes a repeal of the national ownership cap, which restricts broadcasters from covering 39% of US households, and sets an August 6 FCC vote (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/07/fcc-national-broadcast-ownership-cap-1236982873/
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scotTwo that stand out at the Edinburgh Book Festival this August:
https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/events/m-john-harrison-the-end-of-everything
@kcase@mastodon.socialWow! On the iOS App Store, OmniOutliner 6 for iOS currently has a perfect 5.0 / 5.0 rating! Pretty amazing for an app that anyone can download and rate for free. Thank you!
(Also, it's kind of wild that it's been over 25 years since we first announced OmniOutliner 1.0 beta 1 for Mac OS X Developer Preview 4: <
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSamsung plans to launch its AI-powered Samsung Health Assistant and new heart metrics tools like Vitals for overnight metric tracking in beta in August (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngTIL that I've actually created a few "high impact" packages on NPM (with 1 million downloads per week)... Just got this email from them (see screenshot)
If each one of these would just pay me $0.001, I could actually comfortably dedicate myself full time to these projects (which has been my long, long dream job). But the system and social contract around open source is completely broken and so I've to balance my time and try to sustain myself and my family via other ways for periods o…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deboard_directors: Norwegian Boards of Directors (2002-2011)
224 networks of the affiliations among board directors due to sitting on common boards of Norwegian public limited companies (as of 5 August 2009), from May 2002 onward, in monthly snapshots through August 2011. Some metadata is included, such as director and company names, city and postal code for companies, and gender for directors. The 'net2m' data are bipartite company-director networks, while the 'net1m' ar…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deGoogle: Pixel-11-Serie wird am 12. August enthüllt
Google hat den Termin für das Pixel-Event bestätigt. Am 12. August werden die neuen Pixel-11-Modelle sowie die Pixel Watch 5 erwartet.
https://www.
@krone@frawas.deVerbotszone ab August - Bruck stoppt Bettler: „Wie illegaler Welpenhandel“ #News #Nachrichten
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialHearst names Chris Berend, most recently chief digital officer at NBC News, as its first chief content and experience officer, starting August 3 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/chris-berend-hearst-magazines-nbc-news-12368…
@presseportal_pol_NDS@frawas.dePOL-OL: Brand eines Wohnhauses in Rastede am 16.05.2026 Oldenburg (ots) - Am Samstag, den 16.05.2026, um 13:26 Uhr, entdeckten die Bewohner des Wohnhauses August-Brötje-Straße 28 in Rastede Rauchentwicklung aus der angrenzenden Garage und alarmierten daraufhin die Feuerwehr. Trotz des sofortigen ... https://www.pressepor…
@mpsgoettingen@academiccloud.socialA look into the “GREGOR Observations Center” GOC at MPS Göttingen during this month’s remote campaign at the GREGOR Solar Telescope, located on Tenerife. Many great active regions and sunspots, but unfortunately clouds obstructed our view. Hoping for better conditions for our August campaign together with Solar Orbiter 🛰️ 🔭🤞
#Sun
@heiseonline@social.heise.deEU AI Act: Was bis August 2026 in Unternehmen erledigt sein muss
Im Webinar ordnet der heise Fachdienst KI PRO die anstehenden Pflichten des EU AI Act ein und zeigt, wo konkreter Handlungsbedarf besteht.
htt…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThune to put stopgap funding bill on Senate floor before August break (Jordain Carney/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/07/21/congress/thune-to-put-stopgap-funding-bill-on-the-floor-before-august-break-01006658
http://www.memeorandum.com/260722/p1#a260722p1
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzToday ESA ran a media briefing about the 12 August Total #SolarEclipse: a recording just dropped at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRWD3D_thFA
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"NRW-Tag in #Münster: Großflächige Sperrungen angekündigt" vom 23. August bis zum 1. September 2026
https://ms-aktuell.de/muenster/nrw-tag-in-muenster-diese/…
@cdarwin@c.imToday, I’m talking with Harvard professor and New Yorker staff writer Dr. Jill Lepore about her new book, The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, which comes out on August 25.
Jill is one of the best writers there is at identifying institutional patterns in history, and Decoder is a show about systems, so this book could not possibly be more in our zone.
You build systems by measuring things — gathering information, quantifying it as data, and taking action on it. And Jill’s big…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA profile of Don Lemon, whose independent company Lemon Media Network has surpassed 10M followers across platforms, with more than 50% growth in the past year (Christopher Wiggins/Advocate)
https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/don-lemon-relevant-after-arrest
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle announces a Pixel event on August 12 in NYC, where it is expected to launch Pixel 11 series of phones and Pixel Watch 5 (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/07/07/made-by-google-2026-invite/
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @heiseonline@social.heise.de @cdarwin@c.imA depot on World War II’s infamous “Death Railway” has resurfaced from beneath a reservoir
where the site has remained underwater for decades,
prompting researchers to race to western Thailand to survey the remnants of Nithe Station.
Thousands of Allied prisoners of war and Asian laborers toiled and died building the railway, a supply route through mainland Southeast Asia for the occupying Japanese forces.
The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand recently draine…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dewiki_link_dyn: Wikipedia link dynamics (2011)
Six networks of the evolving hyperlink structure among wikipedia articles, for simple English (en), German (de), Dutch (nl), Polish (pl), Italian (it), French (fr), taken in August 2011. Each edge is timestamped, and an edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to j. The edge sign indicates the addition ( 1) or deletion (-1) of that link at the specified time.
This network has 100312 nodes and 1627472 edges.
Tags: Informati…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzUpper stage impacting the #moon on 2026 August 5: https://www.projectpluto.com/25010d.htm -> A Falcon 9 rocket will hit the Moon this summer at seven times the speed of sound: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/04/a-falcon-9-upper-stage-will-strike-the-moon-in-august/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialBoth sides in the antitrust lawsuit over Nexstar's Tegna acquisition have asked a federal judge to schedule the case for a jury trial in July 2027 (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/06/nexstar-tegna-july-2027-trial-date-request/
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @Techmeme@techhub.socialTMTG plans to launch Truth API on August 1 to provide real-time data from top Truth Social accounts to financial news organizations and trading firms (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/16/truth-social-license-data-wall-street
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @netzschleuder@social.skewed.degnutella: Gnutella p2p networks (2002)
A sequence of 9 snapshots of the Gnutella peer-to-peer file sharing network from 5-31 August 2002. Nodes are hosts in the Gnutella network topology and edges are connections between them.
This network has 26518 nodes and 65369 edges.
Tags: Technological, Peer-to-peer, Unweighted
https://
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: SK Hynix plans to list its shares in the US as soon as August, seeking to capitalize on AI stock demand and broaden its investor base (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-koreas-sk-hynix-eyes-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTwo Scattered Spider members who pleaded guilty in the UK to an August 2024 cyberattack on Transport for London are jailed for five and a half years (Joe Tidy/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gyg0y6yg2o
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialTMTG plans to launch Truth API on August 1 to provide real-time data from top Truth Social accounts to financial news organizations and trading firms (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/16/truth-social-license-data-wall-street
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deboard_directors: Norwegian Boards of Directors (2002-2011)
224 networks of the affiliations among board directors due to sitting on common boards of Norwegian public limited companies (as of 5 August 2009), from May 2002 onward, in monthly snapshots through August 2011. Some metadata is included, such as director and company names, city and postal code for companies, and gender for directors. The 'net2m' data are bipartite company-director networks, while the 'net1m' ar…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @cdarwin@c.imThe Federal Communications Commission will vote next month on whether a single company can own broadcast stations that reach more than 39 percent of US TV households.
In a Breitbart op-ed on Wednesday, Republican Chair Brendan Carr announced an August 6th vote to end the national ownership cap rule,
which was intended to prevent one company from dominating the media landscape and incentivize serving local communities.
Carr argued the rise of social media and streaming plat…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @cdarwin@c.imLast August, the Trump administration issued an executive order intended to fundamentally alter how grant funding is handled by the US government.
Under the system that had made the US a scientific superpower, peer reviewers rated the scientific quality and feasibility of grant applications,
and subject-matter experts within the funding agencies used these ratings to determine which grants got funded.
Under the proposed rules, political appointees would have the final say,…
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