@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: TSMC urges clients to apply for N2 production allocation as far out as Q2 2027, with large capacity allotments nearly sold out for the next two years (Tim Culpan/Culpium)
https://www.culpium.com/p/tsmcs-n2-node-is-almost-booked-out
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyClear message from the Trump regime to European clients* dependent on US tech companies: those will be brought under control.
*) like the Dutch tax authority preparing to outsource all of its VAT collection.
@detondev@social.linux.pizzai can't find the original source, but the sources i've found say this is an image of a shaman in a southeast asian country adding epstein to his shrine in order to harness evil magic power against his clients' enemies.
@fluchtkapsel@nerdculture.deWhat's the current state of XMPP and OpenID Connect? My web search returned that ejabberd is still considering if and how to implement and Prosody has experimental alpha-stage support via a module. I couldn't find anything conclusive in regards to XMPP clients. What's with Gajim(?) and Conversations? Or other clients? Are there any web clients supporting OIDC?
#jabber
@NicolasGriseyDemengel@piaille.fr> PHANTOM OBLIGATION
> noun
> The guilt you feel for something no one asked you to do.
https://www.terrygodier.com/phantom-obligation
@metacurity@infosec.exchangehttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/29/ransomware-negotiations-extortion-cyber-attacks
“S-RM now claims the UK’s largest cyber-incident response team. Its first-responder service is comprised of about 150 experts world…
@sncf_ligne_r@lepoulsdumonde.comTrain supprimé : - PUMA départ de Montereau Š 09h15, arrivée Paris Gare de Lyon Š 10h13. Risque d'affluence Š bord du train suivant.
Prochain train Š circuler : - ZOHA départ Montereau Š 09h29, arrivée Melun Š 10h06 Pour les clients de Moret Veneux-les-Sablons Š Melun prochain train : -POMA départ Montargis Š 09h02, passage Moret Veneux-les-Sablons Š 09h53, arrivée Paris Gare de Lyon Š 10h43. Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X de la ligne.
@scott@carfree.cityApropos of Denim Dan Lurie's tax break for rich real estate investors... The mayor's brother is a luxury real estate agent, and he told the Chronicle in October that the problem with SF housing was a "mansion shortage."
https://www.sfchronicle.com/reale…
@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.pageProxyFL: A Proxy-Guided Framework for Federated Semi-Supervised Learning
Duowen Chen, Yan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21078 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21078 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21078
arXiv:2602.21078v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Federated Semi-Supervised Learning (FSSL) aims to collaboratively train a global model across clients by leveraging partially-annotated local data in a privacy-preserving manner. In FSSL, data heterogeneity is a challenging issue, which exists both across clients and within clients. External heterogeneity refers to the data distribution discrepancy across different clients, while internal heterogeneity represents the mismatch between labeled and unlabeled data within clients. Most FSSL methods typically design fixed or dynamic parameter aggregation strategies to collect client knowledge on the server (external) and / or filter out low-confidence unlabeled samples to reduce mistakes in local client (internal). But, the former is hard to precisely fit the ideal global distribution via direct weights, and the latter results in fewer data participation into FL training. To this end, we propose a proxy-guided framework called ProxyFL that focuses on simultaneously mitigating external and internal heterogeneity via a unified proxy. I.e., we consider the learnable weights of classifier as proxy to simulate the category distribution both locally and globally. For external, we explicitly optimize global proxy against outliers instead of direct weights; for internal, we re-include the discarded samples into training by a positive-negative proxy pool to mitigate the impact of potentially-incorrect pseudo-labels. Insight experiments & theoretical analysis show our significant performance and convergence in FSSL.
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@denis@det.social@… ja, quote posts gibt es in Mastodon erst seit einem Monat - die setzen sich durch, aber die Clients müssen in vielen Fällen noch angepasst werden. Mit einem abonnierbaren Hashtag hätte man die Sache sicher besser machen können - so funktionieren hier virale Sachen.
Oh, Ten habe ich zum Beispiel noch nie durchgehört. Ich bin sicher, das waren wichtige und seh…
@cdarwin@c.imConduent Data Breach Notification Letters Sent to Millions
as Ransomware Group Claims
⚡️ 8 Terabytes Stolen in One of the Largest U.S. Incidents.
Letters began reaching affected individuals this month detailing a major data breach at #Conduent Business Services, LLC,
a government technology contractor that processes payments, healthcare claims, and back-office services for clients n…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCheckbox, an AI startup that aims to automate legal intake, raised a $23M Series A led by Touring Capital; Checkbox has 100 clients, including SAP and PepsiCo (Anastasia Santoreneos/Forbes Australia)
https://www.forbes.com.au/news/innovation/
@gfriend@mas.toPosted 55 weeks ago, and always relevant. Especially on calls with three coaching clients today.
tl;dr—
Moods are always tangled with assessments (opinions/interpretations). When you want to shift (or nurture) a mood, you can examine the assessments associated with it… See if they’re grounded or not… See if their actions you can take about them or not.
In my experience that simple process reliably moves moods.
(Want to know more? Let me know!)
@aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115962696009858711
Thank you all for making this possible.
In case your Mastodon clients don’t update on edits, etc. Just a heads up that we’ve raised the amount we need to replace Aseel’s broken phone.
Lots of love…
@servelan@newsie.social130 clients...
Former public defender testifies about excessive workload | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/former-public-defender-testifies-about-excessive-workload/
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Selectively disabling HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1
https://markmcb.com/web/selectively_disabling_http_1/
saved 2026-01-23 https://
@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social"Des lobbyistes « proches de Trump » facturent 1 million de dollars, voire plus, pour obtenir des grâces présidentielles pour leurs clients, certains payant jusqu'Š 6 millions de dollars.
Le Wall Street Journal décrit un processus simple : vous leur donnez l'argent, ils parlent Š quelqu'un de l'entourage proche de Trump, comme son fils, puis Trump vous accorde sa grâce."
@hacksilon@infosec.exchangeThere's a new article in the #Keycloak blog about federated client authentication, where you rely on an external provider (like a #Kubernetes cluster with service account token, or a generic #SPIFFE
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialThe article below reminds me of a play that I crewed on:
In the play the Earth is taken over by space aliens who eat people. Earth people don't like this. The aliens try to fix things by hiring a PR firm to improve their public image. But the PR firm turns out to be a front for Earth-people resistance. And it went from there.
So here we have a couple of brothers - who have so much hubris that they are effectively space aliens in relation to the rest of us - who do bad things…
@x_cli@infosec.exchangePénurie de RAM et de stockage flash : OVHcloud augmente ses prix https://www.lemagit.fr/actualites/366639438/Penurie-de-RAM-et-de-stockage-flash-OVHcloud-augmente-ses-prix
@usul@piaille.frWhat came first: the CNAME or the A record?
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cname-a-record-order-dns-standards/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMistral and Accenture sign a multi-year deal to let Accenture deploy Mistral's models for its clients; Mistral has deals with IBM, Cisco, SAP, ASML, and others (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mistral-ai-lan
@emd@cosocial.caAre you struggling with getting the right kind of clients? Or would like to win more deals? Or get the "right" clients?
I can help!
https://silentz.co/about/coaching
If you want help increasing per client revenue, improving your win rate and getting better at sales, let me know!<…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems#Gentoo #jobserver revealed another problem with steve in particular, and (I believe) the jobserver protocol in general: blocking clients are prioritized over polling clients.
The problem is simple: when handling blocking reads, steve can issue a job token immediately. When handling a poll, it merely indicates that a token is available, and the client must issue another read request to get it. So if tokens are scarce and there are both blocking and polling clients running, the former are likely to be taking all the incoming tokens.
My idea of working around this is to implement temporary reservations. If a client polls for a token, we reserve one for it. The reserved token can afterwards be only read by the same client. This way, both blocking and polling clients get a token — the former get it immediately, the latter get it reserved for them. And if there are no tokens available, both get into a single FIFO queue, for a poor man's round-robin (steve also throttles all reads to one token at a time).
However, polls technically don't guarantee that the client will eventually read the token, so we need to handle reservation expirations as well.
@sncf_ligne_r@lepoulsdumonde.comTrain supprimé : - GAMO, départ Paris Gare de Lyon Š 11h15 - arrivée Montargis Š 12h58.
Risque d'affluence Š bord du train suivant.
Pour les clients entre Melun et Moret-Veneux-les-Sablons prochain train : - KUMO, départ Paris Gare de Lyon Š 11h46 - arrivée Montereau Š 12h46. Prochain train Š destination de Montargis : - GAMO, départ Paris Gare de Lyon Š 12h14 - arrivée Montargis Š 13h57. Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X de la ligne.
@niqdanger@social.linux.pizzaAny suggestions for a self run file server replacement for Dropbox? I'm on free tier so low storage. I have a Alma9 box with PHPv8, which I discovered that OwnCloud does not like. (It wants php v7) Before I start down paths and hit more issues I thought I'd ask. Any suggestions? Clients are Windows, Linux and Android.
@cdarwin@c.imA London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia articles for governments and billionaires
Portland Communications helps rich clients
‘protect their reputation’
– with a shady, off-the-books editing service
The clients who benefitted from this “wikilaundering” are some of the world’s richest and most powerful people.
The firm's founder,
Tim Allan, is now the director of communications for Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
And it has been busted once already for th…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeOdido hackers demand at least €1 million, Thursday is deadline
https://www.dutchnews.nl/2026/02/odido-hackers-demand-at-least-e1-million-thursday-is-deadline/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFidelity Investments announces its own stablecoin, the Fidelity Digital Dollar, or FIDD, available to institutional and retail clients in the coming weeks (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/01/28/fidelity-enters-crowded-stablecoi…
@benb@osintua.euEU blacklist prompts Armenia and Serbia to cut off Russian banking clients: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/20/eu-blacklist-prompts-armenia-and.html
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialWenn nun evt. @… sicherer ist als andere #EMail Clients?! (rethorisch)
»#Thunderbird — OpenPGP-Konfiguration und diverse Fehlerbehebungen:
Wer den freien …
@frankel@mastodon.top#Bun Introduces Built-in Database Clients and Zero-Config Frontend Development
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/01/bun-v3-1-release/
@fennek@cyberplace.socialDass man Auslandreisekrankenversicherer im Schadensfall vor Ort nur auf deutschen Festnetznummern erreichen kann, ist ja auch eher bekloppt, oder? Wie schwierig kann das sein in deren "S.O.S."-Apps VoIP-Clients einzubauen? Oder wenigstens nen Chat-Client?
#Debeka #AuchSonstAnscheinendAlle
@stf@chaos.social#Klutshnik v0.4.1 is out.
Klutshnik is a Key Mgmnt Service 4 data-at-rest. Keys r stored in a threshold setup& r never reconstructed only used in operations that hide their values. These keys r cheaply&securely updatable without reencrypting the encrypted data, providing forward-secrecy&post-compromise security. Klutshnik servers can use TLS, USB or BLE.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe Spectator has 113K subscribers, a record, print is its fastest-growing type of subscription, and it is offering its subscription service to external clients (Freddie Sayers/The Spectator)
https://spectator.com/article/the-spectators-record-subscriber-numbers/
@macandi@social.heise.deheise | Podcatcher: 10 Podcast-Apps für Apple-Geräte im Test
Ob News, True Crime oder Comedy – Podcasts begleiten uns überall. Wir haben uns die wichtigen Clients für iPhone, iPad und Apple Watch angesehen.
https://…
@wraithe@mastodon.socialI know I talk a lot about technical challenges & frustrations of IT work, however:
I’ve had clients tip me
Gotten Christmas cards
Christmas presents
One client sends me a pie every year
And my all-time favorite, a scrawled note from a little girl thanking me for setting up her computer
@teledyn@mstdn.caRE: https://social.growyourown.services/@FediGarden/116082350446529495
Here's a wishlist item for Fediverse clients: it should be a one-click path to view the Local Feed page of an OP's server (where public) and if it is really niche, to subscribe to the feed like a hashtag.
@trezzer@social.linux.pizza@sparrow@mstdn.games I thought about it but didn’t like the idea of custom clients for everything. I have too many systems.
@samvarma@fosstodon.orgRE: https://fosstodon.org/@samvarma/116089604971387896
Insta also completely useless, other than for a business to show proof of life. Basically a storefront window for potential clients.
3:1 or even 4:1 ads vs content I'm following.
Like st…
@cheryanne@aus.socialGrowth Gang With The Lily Holmes
Leverage desire marketing in your online coaching business for more sales with dream clients...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/flower-ed/
@publicvoit@graz.social10 Years of Let's Encrypt #Certificates
https://letsencrypt.org/2025/12/09/10-years
Mindblowing statistics of this extremely important project, delivering
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: UBS plans to make cryptocurrency investing available for some private banking clients in Switzerland, starting with bitcoin and ether (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-23/ubs-plans-crypto-tr…
@jom@social.kontrollapparat.deVorbildlich: Die Kleinstadt Treuchtlingen setzt seit 25 Jahren konsequent auf Open Source (seit 2001). Thin Clients, LibreOffice, Koha, Jitsi, Owncast, Ansible. Keine Lizenzkosten, volle Souveränität, volle Funktionalität.
Während bayrische Großstädte Millionen (München @… 👀) für KI-Cloud-Deals und M365-Lizenzen ausgeben, beweist Treuchtlingen: E…
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social"Le groupe Free condamné Š une amende de 42 millions d’euros après un vol de données"
https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2026/01/14/le-groupe-free-ecope-d-une-amende-de-42-…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"There's so many good domestic reasons to do this. Without C-11, Canadian companies could defend their fellow Canadians from American data-theft and cash ripoffs by making alternative clients, jailbreaks, and other add-ons that disenshittified America's defective tech" -- @…
This is good advice to Canada, but it's equally good advise…
@dnddeutsch@pnpde.social@… ich bin vor kurzem weg vom GMail Kalender. Eine so gut funktionierende Gesamtlösung habe ich nicht gefunden und bin bei einem Setup aus Radicale und verschiedenen Clients gelandet. Würde ich einem Non-Techi aber wirklich nicht empfehlen. Interessant fand ich den Kalender von mailbox.org. Ich bin letztlich nicht da geblieben, weil ich's anders hinbekomm…
@phpmacher@sueden.socialWenn alle Mastodon Clients eine Option zum Ausblenden von Posts mit Bildern ohne Alt-Text hätten, bekämen plötzlich alle Bilder Alt-Texte.
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioCalendar apps should let individuals rename shared events for themselves, without renaming the event for all the invitees. If I have coffee with Sally, the same event should be named “Paul coffee” for Sally and “Sally coffee” for me.
Do any calendar clients out there do this? It seems so obvious. Am I just missing it?
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFlora, whose node-based design tool uses AI to create media assets for clients like Lionsgate, raised a $42M Series A, bringing its total funding to $52M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/27/node-based-design-tool-flora-r…
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaFrom Pig Tales by Marie Darrieussecq
@tomkalei@machteburch.socialIch sehe jetzt immer diese Quote-Posts, die mit „Re: link“ beginnen.
Früher haben wir im DrüKo Stil den Link unten rein gepackt. Dann kam die Vorschau-Kachel und man hatte wenigstens etwas Kontext. So hat man gar keinen Kontext bis man auf den Link klickt. Gefällt mir nicht so gut.
Aber könnten das die Clients besser machen? Vielleicht oben drüber etwas Kontext platzieren. Oder den Link anders?
@aardrian@toot.cafeNic Chan tells a familiar story and hits on one of three lessons I’ve learned in this scenario:
1. No discounts (project fees are different);
2. Very clear and tight scope with full-price out-of-scope rates;
3. Some clients are just a poor fit.
https://indieweb.social/@NicMakesStuff
@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.orgWhat the heck is wrong with :matrix: #matrix? We're looking for a platform for communication during a larger measurement campaign and from the featureset concluded with either #Mattermost or Matrix (subgroups, archivable, mobile/desktop/web clients, etc.).
But the
@eichkat3r@hessen.socialfalls ihr es noch nucht wusstet: ihr könnt auf mastodon trööts aus eurer timeline filtern die bestimmte begriffe enthalten sodass die trööts verborgen werden
die filterliste findet ihr in den einstellungen eures mastodon clients oder im web interface
in diesen zeiten sicherlich hilfreich wenn man sich vor zu vielen negativen news zumindest ein wenig abschirmen möchte
@simon_lucy@mastodon.socialThe Justice Ministry is proposing to take 75% Client Account Interest into its own hands, so a tax.
This is essentially Clients own money as Solicitors have to account for it.
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultation
@izzychambers@vivaldi.net@… I tried lots of e-mail clients and eventually settled on Evolution.
@gideonstar@mastodon.gideonstar.deHab Stoat jetzt mal getestet und ich muss sagen, da ist noch viel Arbeit nötig. Grundproblem Nummer 1: die offiziellen Clients verbinden ausschließlich mit dem Hauptserver. Die Funktion, sich damit auf selbstgehostete Server zu verbinden, existiert (noch) gar nicht.
Das Betreiben hinter einem Reverse Proxy funktioniert zwar größtenteils, hat aber einige Macken. Dokumentation dazu gibt es wenig bis gar nicht.
Vielleicht in einem Jahr noch mal.
@arXiv_csGR_bot@mastoxiv.pageSplatBus: A Gaussian Splatting Viewer Framework via GPU Interprocess Communication
Yinghan Xu, Th\'eo Morales, John Dingliana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.15431 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.15431 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.15431
arXiv:2601.15431v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Radiance field-based rendering methods have attracted significant interest from the computer vision and computer graphics communities. They enable high-fidelity rendering with complex real-world lighting effects, but at the cost of high rendering time. 3D Gaussian Splatting solves this issue with a rasterisation-based approach for real-time rendering, enabling applications such as autonomous driving, robotics, virtual reality, and extended reality. However, current 3DGS implementations are difficult to integrate into traditional mesh-based rendering pipelines, which is a common use case for interactive applications and artistic exploration. To address this limitation, this software solution uses Nvidia's interprocess communication (IPC) APIs to easily integrate into implementations and allow the results to be viewed in external clients such as Unity, Blender, Unreal Engine, and OpenGL viewers. The code is available at https://github.com/RockyXu66/splatbus.
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@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgLes autorités communales et cantonales nous racontent que tout était en ordre, et M. Parmelin nous rappelle qu’il n’y a pas de «risque zéro». C’est honteux.
https://www.rts.ch/info/regions/valais/202
@markhburton@mstdn.socialI came across an insult in Spanish, calling someone "the bloke who holds the basin for the brothel clients to wash their genitals". That's this man.
Starmer won't be drawn on whether US strikes on Venezuela broke international law - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4qgv
@Techmeme@techhub.socialInterviews with 100 therapists and psychiatrists on clients' AI chatbot usage show, while there are some upsides, conversations also deepened negative feelings (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/us/chatgpt-delusions-psychosis.html
…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialInterviews with copywriters on generative AI's impact: their work used for training, layoffs, wages and rates in free fall, freelancers losing clients, and more (Brian Merchant/Blood in the Machine)
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/i-was-forced-to-use-ai-until-the…
@wraithe@mastodon.socialWas just reminded that I needed to kick in some more money to the BlackSky stuff.
Considering the money I’ve kicked in for great Mastodon clients and instances, the work Rudy and others are doing is well worth the same! https://mastodon.sandwich.net/@Sharksonaplane/114997406…
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaQoL. On Chinese phones (which are definitely the best bang for the buck, including my Vivo X200 Pro), the notification management is an absolute PITA. Especially all Mastodon clients (being unknown to the phone manufacturers) are notoriously bad in showing notifications. It makes for a nice quiet day though 😆
@scott@carfree.cityoooof. this incumbent running for re-election to the SF Bike Coalition board is literally a landlord lawyer.
if you're a member, the voting details are here and there are 10 candidates for 8 seats. https://sfbike.org/news/meet-the-candidat…
@luana@wetdry.worldHow does XMPP work? I'm looking at Jabber's website and apparently some clients are both clients and servers at the same time or something? It's quite confusing...
Are spaces or multi-channel groups (like discord) a thing in xmpp? Which clients support that on iOS and Linux and etc?
Is Movim a client or a server or what?
Are groups hosted in the server of the user who created it like on Matrix or what?
Any easy tutorials I could send to my discord friends?
#XMPP #Jabber #Movim
@dnddeutsch@pnpde.social@… manche Clients können Labels zwar als Ordner darstellen, auf Serverebene sind sie aber keine. Hetznerkunde bin ich auch, deren Sieve-Server ist aber nicht exponiert und nur per deren eigenem Webclient bedienbar. Genau das tue ich grade, würde ich aber niemandem empfehlen, da die UX schrecklich rückständig ist
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAWS launches Nova Forge, a $100,000/year service allowing clients to customize Amazon's AI models at various stages of training and refine open-weight models (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/02/amazon-nova-forge-le…
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialNvidia doing geolocation at the chip level? (First URL below)
I've done some work on the problem of finding "best" bindings between network clients and services. It is a problem that reaches into the method that Nvidia seems to be using, which is to measure latency. (My work, never finished is visible via the 2nd URL, below.)
@aardrian@toot.cafeNew year, new invoices against new budget lines with new accounts payable processes from clients.
@kuijs@troet.cafeRE: https://infosec.exchange/@kpwn/116008754629828212
Apparently since last November, but the clients are slowly adopting the feature…
@emd@cosocial.caRE: https://mastodon.social/@andrewstroehlein/115869757494629163
When Musk bought it and banned 3rd party clients
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: OpenAI plans a 60-second Super Bowl ad during NBC's broadcast, the second straight year of doing so; ad buyers say clients pay $8M for just 30 seconds (Suzanne Vranica/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/super-b
@trezzer@social.linux.pizzaDoes anyone know of an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Backblaze with reasonable prices and either clients for multiple OSes or compatibility with standard tools?
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org«Dans cette mise Š l’enquête, une partie des anciens plans du bâtiment sont visibles. On peut voir notamment la porte intérieure du bar. Elle mesure 1 mètre 50, avec ouverture non réglementaire. En effet, l’ouverture doit se faire dans la direction de fuite, ce qui n’est pas le cas sur le plan. La porte de la véranda s’ouvre également dans le mauvais sens, vers l’intérieur.»
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
Prior to #Retirement, my last decade in business was spent in #ReverseLogistics managing major retail and manufacturer clients. Reverse logistics is the process of managing customer returns with the objective of recapturing value or ensure proper disposal. It covers activities like processing, restocking where possible, repairs, recycling, refurbishing, and resale. This company in Mississauga is relatively small in comparison to a Costco or Walmart reverse logistics warehouse but it provides a glimpse at a little known industry that deals with $880B USD in annual returns worldwide. The industry is about to enter its busiest period as consumers will return over 10% of Christmas purchases, close to 30% for clothing. In the 1st 3 months of 2026 some remarketing B2B auction sites (representing Costco, Walmart, Home Depot, Target, etc) will be liquidating 100 tractor trailer loads per day, including stuff you're about to unwrap in a few days.
#CanadaIsAwesome
https://www.orilliamatters.com/ontario-news/inside-the-warehouse-poised-to-process-your-unwanted-gifts-this-holiday-11646891
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnthropic and Accenture sign a three-year deal to sell AI services to businesses; the deal makes Accenture one of Anthropic's top three enterprise clients (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialMoney manager Mario Gabelli said it's "highly likely" he will tender his clients' WBD shares to Paramount in an effort to spark a bidding war for WBD (Christopher Palmeri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@buercher@tooting.chA Lausanne, une radiographie récente du centre-ville révèle que seuls 14% des clients s’y rendent en voiture, alors que les commerçants évaluaient cette part Š 40%. Ce fossé entre perception et réalité ne se limite pas Š la capitale vaudoise. Le constat est le même Š Genève ou dans les petites villes, où les commerçants surestiment parfois du simple au double l’importance de l’automobile dans les habitudes de leur clientèle.
https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/vaud/en-graphiques-les-petits-commerces-lausannois-se-meurent-ils-vraiment-plus-qu-ailleurs
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: Google has told advertising clients that it plans to bring ads to Gemini in 2026, separate from ads in AI Mode (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/google-gemini-ads-2026/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBlockFills, a crypto liquidity provider and lender to ~2K institutional clients, halts deposits and withdrawals, citing "recent market and financial conditions" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/73e506f4-6b58-4c38-9198-110e845f48b2
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSource: Microsoft quietly becomes one of Anthropic's top clients and was recently on pace to spend nearly $500M/year for Anthropic to power Microsoft products (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsofts-spending-anthr…
@sncf_ligne_r@lepoulsdumonde.comTrain supprimé : - POME, départ Montargis Š 07h25 - arrivée Paris Gare de Lyon Š 08h53.
Risque d'affluence Š bord du train suivant. Pour les clients entre Moret-Veneux-les-Sablons et Melun prochain train : - PUMA, départ Montereau Š 08h21 - passage Moret-Veneux-les-Sablons Š 08h30 - arrivée Paris Gare de Lyon Š 09h21.
Prochain train au départ de Montargis pour Paris Gare de Lyon : - POMA, départ Montargis Š 08h07 - arrivée Paris Gare de Lyon Š 09h50.
Pour plus d'inf…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialInterviews with copywriters on generative AI's impact: job losses to AI, work used for training, falling wages and rates, freelancers losing clients, and more (Brian Merchant/Blood in the Machine)
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/i-was-forced-to-use-ai-until-the
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialEx-Tory MP Ben Howlett says he paid £100 for a 50% stake in influential X account PoliticsUK, which he used for posts that aligned with his clients' interests (Democracy for Sale)
https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-our-fake-chinese-ai-investor<…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Nvidia tells its Chinese clients that it is considering adding production capacity for its H200 chips in response to robust demand (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/nvidia-considers-increasi…
@luana@wetdry.worldAw damn, apparently the notification got filtered which doesn’t show up in all clients. It is what it is I guess.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: OpenAI plans a 60-second Super Bowl ad during NBC's broadcast, the second straight year of doing so; ad buyers say clients pay $8M for just 30 seconds (Suzanne Vranica/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/super-b
@sncf_ligne_r@lepoulsdumonde.comTrain supprimé : - POMA, départ Montargis Š 06h42 - arrivée Paris Gare de Lyon Š 08h26. Pour les clients entre Moret-Veneux-les-Sablons Š Melun prochain train : - PUMA, départ Montereau Š 07h44 - arrivée Paris Gare de Lyon Š 08h44. Risque d'affluence Š bord du train suivant.
Prochain train Š circuler au départ de Montargis : - POME, départ Montargis Š 07h25 - arrivée Paris Gare de Lyon Š 08h53
Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X de la lign…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Google has told advertising clients that it plans to bring ads to Gemini in 2026, separate from ads in AI Mode (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/google-gemini-ads-2026/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAn OpenAI survey of 9,000 workers at 100 companies: it saves workers ~40 to 60 minutes per day on average for professional tasks; OpenAI has 1M business clients (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialChinese AI startups Zhipu and MiniMax are set to go public in Hong Kong on January 8 and 9, respectively; MiniMax has 210M users, and Zhipu has 8,000 clients (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-06/o…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of AI hearing aid startup Fortell, which has raised $150M so far and is targeting affluent clients in NYC with a $6,800 device that uses a custom chip (Steven Levy/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/hearing-aid-startup-ai-fortell/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAWS launches DevOps Agent, an AI-enabled tool designed to help clients quickly identify root causes of outages and implement fixes, available in preview (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/02/amazon-launches-cloud-ai-tool…
