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Universal Music India acquires a 30% equity stake in Mumbai-based Excel Entertainment in a deal valuing the Indian production house at $290M (Patrick Brzeski/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Universal Music Acquires 30 Percent Stake in India’s Excel Entertainment
As part of the deal, which values Excel at $290 million, Universal Music Group will receive global rights to all future original soundtracks attached to projects produced by the fast-growing Indian company.

Microsoft Excel World Championship. Läuft unter eSports. 🤡🤯
https://excel-esports.com

Webinar Feb 18 2026: How AI is transforming the blindness community https://www.phoenix.gov/calendar/equal-opportunity-department-events/webinar--how-ai-is-transforming-the-blindness-community.html "E…

"A pair of US lawmakers are calling for an investigation into how easily spies can steal information based on devices’ electromagnetic and acoustic leaks—a spying trick the NSA once codenamed TEMPEST"
https://www.wired.com/story/how-vulnerable

How Vulnerable Are Computers to an 80-Year-Old Spy Technique? Congress Wants Answers
A pair of US lawmakers are calling for an investigation into how easily spies can steal information based on devices’ electromagnetic and acoustic leaks—a spying trick the NSA once codenamed TEMPEST.

Right! After, frankly, way too much work, I once again have a garden gate which opens properly and easily both ways, and which closes and latches properly and easily. I don't love the galvanised steel gatepost, but it should not need to be replaced again in my lifetime.
#TheJoyOfCrofting
#Crofting

heise | Besser tippen: ClickClack für macOS im Test
Mit ClickClack trainiert man Eingaben auf der (Bildschirm-)Tastatur – egal ob auf Mac, iPhone oder iPad.
https://www.heise.de/tests/Besser-tipp…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Steve Miller Band:
🎵 Fly Like An Eagle
#NowPlaying #SteveMillerBand
https://belohnungszentrum.bandcamp.com/track/steve-miller-band-fly-like-an-eagle-belohnungszentrum-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3e0FzZjTXOUtiJGSClOBrI

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Pulp:
🎵 Common People
#Pulp
https://djeclectico.bandcamp.com/track/pulp-common-people-edit-dj-ecl-ctico
https://open.spotify.com/track/3SzP7yEGRSbfnkkNVMxxYa

A look at Microsoft Excel's evolution, as it remains the most widely used spreadsheet software with 500M paying users despite competition from Google and others (Bloomberg)

My most favorite subgenre of AI stan is the "AI software engineer" [programmers aren't engineers, engineering has formal requirements like e.g. engineering ethics].
Their logic goes like this:
"LLMs can generate a TODO-list application that pretty much works and only has a few hundred subtle bugs; therefore—as programming is the hardest and by far most intellectually taxing occupation that a human being such as myself can strive for to be an expert in—they obviously will excel and far outshine any human at any of those other, lesser, activities such as writing or art!"