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How the new Avatar: The Last Airbender animated film leaked months before its Paramount premiere; sources: Paramount ruled out a vulnerability in its systems (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Behind the Hacker Leak of ‘Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender’
The movie leaked months ahead of its premiere on Paramount+. An anonymous X account claimed that a Nickelodeon employee emailed him the entire film, though that appears not to be the case.

Below the Mesh
The light year is a bookkeeping unit that has been promoted, by repetition and by the poverty of better language, into a cosmic speed limit. Both halves of that sentence are wrong in slightly different ways. A light year measures the distance a photon covers in one orbit of Earth around the Sun, and it measures that distance against the stage on which photons and Earths and Suns appear.

Below the Mesh | David Boles, Blogs
The light year is a bookkeeping unit that has been promoted, by repetition and by the poverty of better language, into a cosmic speed limit. Both halves of that sentence are wrong in slightly diffe…

Well this is interesting. Last night during the workstation outage the grid power voltage to my house reached the highest level I've ever seen, 257V across the two nominally 120 legs (meaning they were 128.5V RMS above/below neutral). And a day or two earlier it dropped down to 235V.
Almost certainly unrelated, they don't pull enough power for this to make a difference and are on double conversion UPS so the voltage they saw wouldn't change. But the timing is curious, as is…

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Los Saicos (40) Kim Gordon (36) The Black Crowes (22) Los Prisioneros (13) Candelabro (12). #myweekcounted 181 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…

An Open Access article in Nature details how data can now be written in borosilicate glass hard drives so it can last 10,000 years.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10042-w
Now, scientists are figuring out which memes and cat pictures to keep that long.

Laser writing in glass for dense, fast and efficient archival data storage - Nature
An optical archival storage technology based on femtosecond laser direct writing in glass addresses the practical demands of archival storage.

Well that’s a new one. Usually, I have to say STOP, this one auto-unsubscribed me once I replied “GFY”
They must get that a lot.
😂

Sunscreen produces persistent free radicals when exposed to light, study finds #environment

Sunscreen produces persistent free radicals when exposed to light, study finds
Research from the Department of Environmental Health Sciences explores how common sunscreen ingredients behave under light exposure. Led by associate professor Eric Vejerano, the team tested seven commercially available sunscreens (including four mineral-based formulas) and found that every sample produced persistent free radicals (PFRs) when exposed to artificial light. The study, published in Environmental Science & Technology Letters, provides new insight into sunscreen photochemistry and ma…

aus der reihe "amüsements beim urlaubsreisebuchen" heute: manche hotels bieten noch "fräulein" als anredeoption, bei einer fähre kann man jetzt auch tiefliegende sportwagen deklarieren, und zu den üblicherweise im eurotunnel mitreisenden tieren gehören offenbar auch frettchen. 🙃

Sources: DeepSeek is in talks to raise outside capital for the first time, seeking at least $300M at a valuation of at least $10B (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/chinas-deepseek-raising-money-first-time-10-b…

China’s DeepSeek is Raising Money for First Time, At $10 Billion-Plus Valuation
DeepSeek is in talks to raise outside capital for the first time, seeking to beef up its financial war chest so it can better compete in the costly battle to develop leading AI models, according to four people familiar with the matter. DeepSeek is owned by Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer Capital ...

A US federal judge orders OpenAI to stop using the word "Cameo" for its Sora products and features, in a trademark lawsuit filed by celebrity video app Cameo (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/u-s-court-bars-openai-from-using-cameo/

U.S. court bars OpenAI from using 'Cameo' | TechCrunch
OpenAI has renamed its feature in Sora from "Cameo" to "Characters."