Tootfinder

Mer, the EV charging division of Statkraft (🇳🇴), is selling parts of its portfolio across Europe. In Germany, the company car charging division is being transferred to Lichtblick, which intends to focus fully on ‘Durchleitung’ (the transit model) there - which streamlines home charging.
https:/…

Psycho killer corp but make it EU®opean.
https://www.politico.eu/article/france-germany-want-to-develop-a-palantir-rival/

France, Germany vow to develop Palantir rival
A top NATO commander said recently there was no real European alternative.

An Almost Incomparable ‘Princely’ Tomb of Ancient Celtic Noble Found in Germany https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/an-almost-incomparable-princely-tomb-of-ancient-celtic-noble-found-in-germany/

i am like walter white but for estrogen... my seller (astrovials) just went down: do you have any idea where i can get better stuff? (Estradiol Enanthate (EEn) specifically which ships to germany)

OpenAI expands its ad pilot program across 31 European markets, including Germany, France, Spain, and Italy; the pilot launched in the US, the UK, and others (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/openai-is-taking-its-ad-business-to-31-…

OpenAI Is Taking Its Ad Business to 31 New European Markets
Expansion of its ads pilot comes as ad revenue climbs over 25% since the start of August.

Curious how this will develop.
I think Schwarz Digits is on a great course, business-wise.
My hope is now for interesting custom processors to develop as part of its expansion.
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-richest-man-big-tech-schwarz-digits/a-7789372…

Germany's richest man takes on Big Tech
Supermarket billionaire Dieter Schwarz is investing billions in his cloud company, Schwarz Digits, to rival Google, Microsoft and Amazon.

Growing nervosity in Germany on the low filling level of its gas storages: only 50%, six weeks before the end of the usual filling season. No lessons learned from years of Russia (and now Trump) using gas to pressure Europe, and Trump's war in the Middle East. https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/en…

"Germany installs 7.4 GW of PV in H1"
#Germany #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Germany installs 7.4 GW of PV in H1 - pv magazine Global
Germany added approximately 1.28 GW of new PV capacity in June, bringing cumulative installed solar power to around 125.2 GW at the end of the month.

Climate action does not seem to be a priority for the German government
— despite record temperatures,
heat-related deaths and drought.
Why aren't more people taking to the streets in protest?
https://www.dw.com/en/in-germany-record-he

In Germany, record heat meets climate action fatigue
Climate action does not seem to be a priority for the German government — despite record temperatures, heat-related deaths and drought. Why aren't more people taking to the streets in protest?

OpenAI expands its ad pilot program across 31 European markets, including Germany, France, Spain, and Italy; the pilot launched in the US, the UK, and others (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/openai-is-taking-its-ad-business-to-31-…

OpenAI Is Taking Its Ad Business to 31 New European Markets
Expansion of its ads pilot comes as ad revenue climbs over 25% since the start of August.

🤗 Welcome, Follower #1700!
I'm a professor of Digital Forensic Linguistics at Ruhr-Uni Bochum, Germany. Professionally, I research emojis, disinformation, metaphors, and digital language in general using computational and experimental methods. Mastodon provides my regular supply of cat pictures. I post in English and German (but try to provide proper language tags for filtering/translation).

Musik aus #Bonn
https://gravelight-band.bandcamp.com/

Traveling to Deutsche Bahn Land again. Nominally a 6:38 h trip. I assume that it’ll take at least an hour longer, but I hope to arrive at my destination today (on my last two trips through Germany, DB failed to get me to my destination).

Traveling to Deutsche Bahn Land again. Nominally a 6:38 h trip. I assume that it’ll take at least an hour longer, but I hope to arrive at my destination today (on my last two trips through Germany, DB failed to get me to my destination).

I'm officially on my way to SIGGRAPH!!

I'm doing Lufthansa Express Rail and so far it's going incredibly smooth. Germany, you can be such a well oiled machine when you want to. Looking forward to the bag check experience in Frankfurt. 🙏🏻
#SIGGRAPH #Germany

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@simon_brooke/117126454854489932
So does this mean Germany will stop being Israel’s #2 arms dealer?
No? Right, didn’t think so.
Remember folks, European Values™ are euros and cents.

Familiarly Unfamiliar
Digitized home movies are stirring memories of things I’d forgotten, while a random genealogy search uncovered something much bigger: my uncle’s witness statement about a B-24 bomber lost over Germany in World War II.
http://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/familiarl

Familiarly Unfamiliar – Bob Mueller
Digitized home movies stir old memories, while a random genealogy search uncovers my uncle’s connection to a WWII B-24 bomber.

LawZero, a non-profit founded by Yoshua Bengio to develop safe AI systems, says Canada and Germany are providing up to $300M in grant funding (Globe and Mail)
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-yoshua-bengio-lawze…

Yoshua Bengio’s non-profit to get up to $300-million from Canada, Germany to expand safe AI development
Montreal group aims to build a system called Scientist AI that would prioritize safety and monitor other models

First-ever Olympic qualifier in flag football takes place this weekend in Germany https://www.nfl.com/news/first-ever-olympic-qualifier-in-flag-football-takes-place-this-weekend-in-germany

"Germany unveils strategy for becoming Europe’s strongest military by 2039" did they mean Germany über alles? 😳
Is it a sequel or third in a trilogy?
https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/202…

Germany unveils strategy for becoming Europe’s strongest military by 2039
The Bundeswehr will move away from rigid hardware quotas − the number of tanks, aircraft or ships − toward a flexible, effects-based planning model.

"Specifically, BEV registrations saw above-average growth of 62%, rising to 78,600 units. [..] Year-to-date figures show a 50% rise in new BEV registrations to 446,600 units."
https://www.vda.de/en/press/press-releases/2026/…

German passenger car market: Share of electric vehicles rises to 41%
Production and Market in July 2026

100 years ago #OTD the #planetarium in #Jena (Germany) opened to the public: it's the oldest one in the world srill operating in the same location! Scroll down on https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/07/18/die-leuchtenden-nachtwolken-sind-weiter-aktiv for some news coverage back then and the wider context.

"‘A secret had been shared’: The inside story of an emergency climate briefing that made experts cry"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate

The inside story of a climate briefing that made experts cry
The People’s Emergency Briefing has been screened nearly 2,000 times around the UK - and Germany is preparing its own.

The director-general of Germany's second largest public broadcaster has forbidden an artist to perform a song he was invited to for the 100th edition of a political comedy show, against the protest of the show runners.
The name of the song: Keine Angst (can mean both, don't be afraid and no fear) by Danger Dan
The song calls to stand up to fascism. The name of the director-general who forbid the recording? Himmler.

Tattoo ink doesn’t stay in your skin, and when it moves into the body, it often causes harm #health

Tattoo ink doesn’t stay in your skin, and when it moves into the body, it often causes harm
Scientists in Germany used high-powered X-rays to scan tissue samples from four donated bodies to see where tattoo ink goes after it enters the skin.

When the Department of Justice indicted 15 Minnesotans earlier this summer, it was painfully clear that this was a cobbled-together mess,
a transparent attempt to criminalize dissent.
But boy, we didn’t know the half of it.
Now, thanks to those defendants prying loose some discovery from the government, we know just how far the administration is willing to go
— and it’s really, really grim, even by Trumpian standards.
The indictment itself was jaw-dropping for…

DHS's abuse of power in Minnesota was even worse than we knew
It's the stuff of East Germany.

Attracting talent to your country is enormously important for economic success. Retaining that talent is too.
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-migrants-skilled-workers-integration-labor-market-bureaucracy-language-housing/a…

Why migrants come to Germany for work and then leave again
Germany has long attracted skilled workers to its labor market. The country has been much less successful at retaining them. So what is Germany doing wrong?

"#Germany blames #Russia for attempted drone attack at Leipzig airport"
By — Geir Moulson, Associated Press (AP)

Germany blames Russia for attempted drone attack at Leipzig airport
Moscow has been widely accused by Western officials of running a campaign of sabotage and disruption across Europe with the aim of undermining support for Ukraine and destabilizing European nations.

12,500 people in Germany alone died due to the heat so far this summer.
#heatwave #heat #climatechange

No, Israel does not have ‘a right to exist.’ Quite the contrary, actually. – Mondoweiss
"... no one would today argue that Nazi Germany, or Apartheid South Africa, or Vichy France, or Khmer Rouge Kampuchea had a “right to exist.”
Author Craig Mokhiber is an international human rights lawyer and former senior United Nations Official.

No, Israel does not have ‘a right to exist.’ Quite the contrary, actually.
Unlike the Zionist claim that “Israel has a right to exist,” my assertion is rooted in international law. Of course, given Israel’s propensity for violating such laws, it’s no surprise they’re still claiming a right that has no basis in reality.

"A unified, neutral Germany? Given that nation's heritage, such a
phrase may prove to be the oxymoron of the decade." -Kevin M.
Matarese, Fulda, West Germany; as seen in "Letters", Time
magazine, p. 5, March 5, 1990.

Came home late last night to find a hail storm had passed through our area seemingly just minutes before. The hailstones were the largest I've ever seen so far (~3 cm), but not as large as northern parts of Germany had last night (some tennis ball sized). Shredded tree branches, garden plants/veg destroyed, heaps of ice around the houses, roads steaming...
#Hail

#NowPlaying I know very little about this album except Walter Sons was a professor of musicology in Germany who organized ensembles (of students?) to perform his compositions called “Glasmusik”. Over the years, I’ve collected a few albums of drones made from rubbing, bowing, or scraping glass and I guess you could say it’s become an obsession. Came across this during the heyday of music blogs in…

"Yet the system is falling apart as it is. Yes, the AfD (and the far right in general) is a fundamental threat to liberal democracy, but so is the fact that a sizeable and growing part of the population no longer feels represented by its politicians. While many still come out to vote for democracy, they increasingly vote against a party rather than for one.
"

The AfD’s win in Germany is a dark day for Europe. Time is running out to stop the far right
This party is among the most extreme in Europe. To protect our democracies, liberal parties must urgently change their tactics, says Cas Mudde, author of The Far Right Today

#messi heading to his 3rd World Cup
Lionel Messi has played in three World Cup finals. Championship match in 2014 (against Germany) and 2022 (against France), and in 2026 (against Spain)
And #Ronaldo has never played in WC final.

Seems like German ISPs are having a rough day, today.
Any problems outside of Germany, too?

"Heating up the headlines: How tabloid framing reshaped Germany's Buildings Energy Act"
In diesem Paper wird untersucht, wie die „BILD“ (Deutschlands größte Boulevardzeitung) die Reform des Gebäudeenergiegesetzes (GEG)
2023 zu einer der polarisierendsten politischen Kontroversen der jüngeren deutschen Geschichte gemacht hat:

Können wir nochmal festhalten was für ein Geschenk Ralph Caspers @… für diese Welt ist?

In a data breach notification published on its Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany websites, the German discount supermarket chain Lidl said an IT security incident at one of its IT service providers affected some of the data stored by Lidl Online Shop customers.
https://www.

Lidl customers across Europe hit in suspected data breach - here's what we know
Customers in three countries have had some of their data stolen but so far, it hasn't surfaced anywhere.

Finally some #NoctilucentClouds over Bochum, Germany, again Thursday evening: extended but pretty faint, so I had to crank up the contrast a lot here. See also webcam views at https://webcam.wetternetz-hagen.de/webcam/Sternwarte-ERT/#/2026/07/16/2308 and https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/ettelsberg/2026/07/16/2320 and https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/flensburg/2026/07/16/2320 (and forward the frames to enjoy more timesteps).

🪗 #Accordion #Quiz!
Basic info post with a one-line historical bias towards the German origin-story of the instrument
Currently being promoted perhaps during the 2026 INSTRUMENT
DES JAHRES “Instrument of the Year” (in Germany)
Preceding the 2029 bicentennial of the 1829 patent …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MechanicalBreakdown
Flashbacks:
🎵 Blissfull Lonesome
#Flashbacks
https://flashbacks-germany.bandcamp.com/track/blissfull-lonesome

#Dachau is a small town in Germany. It's twenty kilometres from Munich. The Duke of Bavaria -- one of the seven Prince-Electors of the Holy Roman Empire -- had a palace there; but until 1933, that was the only thing that was particularly notable about the place.
Bear with me, this thread has a point.

Dachau Palace - Wikipedia

Silver Man — The 2026 U.S. Department of War Alien Image — Germany, 1950 #UAP
https://alienarchivist.substack.com/p/mars-man

A 639-year-long John Cage organ piece just changed chord, for the first time in... - Classic FM
https://www.classicfm.com/composers/cage/as-slow-a-possible-aslsp-germany-organ-chord-change/

A 639-year-long John Cage organ piece just changed chord, for the first time in two years
Watch a moment of music history – on Monday a single chord changed in an iconic piece of 20th-century music which ends in the year 2640.

🤔 Are #emojis a universal language? - No, for two reasons. 1) They are not a language, as they do not show the properties that human languages have: grammatical structure and free combinatorics, enabling us to express complex thoughts. 2) They are not really universal. While many emojis are interpreted similarly all over the world (I guess it's pretty clear what one could mean by 🍕 ), some emoji meanings are closely tied to cultural assumptions (e.g., some of the gestures 👍 , buildings ⛩️ , food), and others are very context-dependent and might follow different conventions in various groups, including linguistic or regional groups (e.g., 🙃 for which we found strong differences between populations in Norway/US vs. Germany/Bulgaria). #WorldEmojiDay #linguistics

A short but fun post about the gotchas of #modeling the world's #geography in #softwaresystems.
Years ago, a colleague of mine told me about two pockets of foreign land surrounded by Switzer…

The Battle of Britain's 'hardest day' https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-collection/explore-by-time-period/second-world-war/the-battle-of-britains-hardest-day/

The Battle of Britain's 'hardest day'
In 1940 the Royal Air Force resisted major aerial attacks from Germany in what became known as the Battle of Britain. On 18 August, sometimes called the ‘hardest day’ of the fighting, many sites in southern England were targeted. One of them was Kenley, a fighter airfield just south of London.

Trying out #Couchsurfing for the first time, and the UX is really weird. I am looking for hosts in a small town in northern Germany, and it will happily tell me that it has 6 hosts there. The only problem is that four of them are in a city in Denmark, and two of them are in other small towns 50 km away from the town I was looking at. Like, cool that there are options, but maybe just straight-up tell me "sorry, no one here, the closest I can do for you is X (42 km away) and Y (48 km away)".
Even weirder: looking at a city with a lot of hosts, it will just randomly throw in a host from some town in Denmark, or Spain (?!), before showing me more people from the city I was actually looking at.
Don't really understand if this is just broken, or if there is some weird reason I don't see behind this, but it doesn't inspire confidence.

A Linde Green Hydrogen plant was delayed for 4 years due to safety repairs and an accident💧🔋
Last year, I learned that a ferry in Norway was supposed to be powered by green Hydrogen made in a Linde Electrolyzer in Leuna, Germany, that likely wasn't operational yet.
Recently, I received hints that the electrolyzer still had problems. So I dug deeper: the first start-up was interrupted due to safety concerns, lengthy repairs and an accident followed.
https://industrydecarbonization.com/news/safety-issues-and-an-accident-delayed-lindes-green-hydrogen-plant-for-years.html

Belgium's Hautes Fagnes wildfire - the country's largest ever - still raging. Now two small villages in neighbouring Germany, near Monschau, had to evacuate within 10 minutes.
#drought

Duitse grensplaatsjes geëvacueerd vanwege brand in natuurgebied Hoge Venen
Aanleiding voor het besluit is de "actuele ontwikkeling van de brand" in combinatie met de weersverwachting. 

"This German submarine sank in 1917. It’s still leaking TNT"
#Germany #Submarine #Oceans #Environment

This German submarine sank in 1917. It’s still leaking TNT
A World War I submarine wreck off Denmark is leaking TNT into the surrounding water, seabed, and marine life more than a century after it sank. Scientists warn that thousands of similar wrecks could pose growing environmental risks as they continue to corrode.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/116926257082059585
Pretty sure something exactly like this was said, with different nouns, in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s.

Live stream of the partial solar eclipse as seen from Göttingen, Germany at https://live.gwdg.de/play/sofi2026 by the University of Göttingen's Institute for Astrophysics and Geophysics: watch starting from 19h MESZ if viewing conditions happen to be less favourable from where you are located.

I think I'm going to Germany next year. What are the best things in Germany? Can I get a giant pretzel everywhere I go?

The Alternative for Germany party dominated a crucial state election on Sunday, according to near-final results,
but fell short of the absolute majority needed to become the first far-right party to govern part of the country since the Nazi era.
If those results hold, the AfD, as the party is known by its German initials,
could still assume power in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt in the coming weeks,
depending on the negotiations among rival parties that have vowe…

Germany’s Far Right Just Misses Majority in Crucial State Election
The Alternative for Germany, or AfD, trounced its rivals but was left unsure if it will be able to govern in Saxony-Anhalt. The result shocked Germany.

In the 80s, during the Cold War, a drone attack with explosives on a plane would have caused crisis meetings in governments and the military, now it is just a small article on this frontpage in Germany. I don't think Russia has received the message we don't want to allow this...
We could just slide into war and will probably be surprised when people start dying outside Ukraine...
Russia is simply not deterred from doing more attacks.

Munich-based Microagi, which collects factory and household data to train humanoid robots, raised $55M led by Hummingbird in Germany's largest ever seed round (Éanna Kelly/Sifted)
https://sifted.eu/articles/munich-robotics-startup-…

Munich robotics startup Microagi raises $55m, Germany’s largest ever seed round
The deal was led by VC firm Hummingbird, with participation from investors Northzone, LocalGlobe, Village Global and Redalpine.

Does anyone here have a https://wise.com account?
This is a bit embarassing, but how would I even pay using their "digital cards"?
Their website says "just like with your physical card!" but, well, cleary not. It's not in my pocket, to begin with.
How do you usually "take out&q…

"‘Fresh from the roof’: the supermarket growing salad a few metres above the tills"
#Germany #Food
https:/…

‘Fresh from the roof’: the supermarket growing salad a few metres above the tills
Customers seeking greens at one Berlin outlet are dealing with some very local supply chains indeed

Halfway the EU gas storage filling season, the Netherlands is lagging. Our storages are only at 31% now, way behind the EU average of 53%, and other major storage countries like France (52%), Germany (45%) and Italy (71%).
Based on security of supply advice by Gasunie, Dutch government had set a target of 80% by 1 November 2026. Our EU obligation is 74%. Both would practically seem out of reach by now, which is unfortunate in view of our dependence on LNG imports in an unstable world.

Germany's media regulator says Google's AI Overviews and Perplexity are subject to media law, after a court said Google may be liable for inaccurate AI content (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/g

I was interviewed by a British film student about political activism in Germany and why the German left youth is doing activism differently than in the UK or the USA!
🔗 https://youtu.be/AXTpoPwJHbk
Feel free to watch 🚩

With elections scheduled across Europe next year,
the striking success of the Alternative for Germany, could be a harbinger of further far-right victories,
according to analysts,
as well as a template for how they can be engineered.
Its populist, anti-immigrant message echoes those of nationalist leaders in Britain, France, Italy and Spain,
all countries where voters harbor many of the same grievances as those in Germany.
French voters will elect a new pr…

AfD Victory in Saxony-Anhalt Sends a Signal to Europe
A vote in eastern Germany has given fresh momentum to hard-right parties hoping to win elections across Europe next year, analysts said.

LeBron James biggest name to watch at start of NBA free agency; Paraguay stun Germany in World Cup

https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/lebron-

"Germany breaks heat record again"
#Germany #Climate #ClimateChange

Another heat record broken in Germany
The heatwave weekend in Germany has produced yet another temperature record, the highest since measurements began in the 19th century, registered in Brandenburg.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz doubled down Monday on pushing through unpopular reforms to Europe’s largest economy
after a far-right party surged to a landslide victory in a regional election, with a very good chance of forming the first far-right state government since the Nazi era.
Merz said his center-right Christian Democratic Union was “deeply shocked”
by what he called “the most serious election defeat that the CDU has had for years, for decades.”
But he indi…

German chancellor under pressure after AfD win in state polls
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is under pressure after the far-right Alternative Germany (AfD) party achieved a significant victory in a regional election. AfD nearly secured a majority in Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday, marking a potential shift for Germany, which has avoided far-right leadership since the Nazi era. Merz, who leads the center-right Christian Democrats, had promised to weaken AfD but failed. The victory complicates Germany's political landscape amid challenges like Russia's aggressi…

Gaza Verified verifies, through video calls, that people are from Gaza and facing genocide.
Why do you think they’re forced to ask for help?
I’ll tell you:
Because the rest of the world has failed in its moral duty to stop Israel’s ongoing genocide and help them.
Because the US (#1 arms dealer to Israel) and Germany (#2 arms dealer to Israel) and other “Western” countries are complicit in this genocide.
So maybe think about that. And then think about what you j…

The space race Germany vs. Germany to launch a home-built rocket into orbit is heating up ... as reported in #RocketFactoryAugsburg could see its first launch attempt in #SaxaVord in August, #IsarAerospace doesn't say in https://isaraerospace.com/mission-updates-overview when it will try again in Norway but apparently came pretty close last month.

The European Commission approves €659M in German state aid to support four first-of-a-kind chip facilities in Germany, saying they will strengthen EU autonomy (Kirsti Knolle/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/eu-approves-659-million-ger…

"In Germany, Wind and Solar Overtake Fossil Power"
#Germany #Energy #Renewables

In Germany, Wind and Solar Overtake Fossil Fuels

Whether the AfD can govern depends partly on the B.S.W.,
which was born from a split with the far-left party Die Linke but has veered rightward.
Like the AfD, it has an affinity for Russia and advocates very strict migration controls.
https://www.nytimes.c…

After Victory in German State, Far Right Needs Help to Take Power
The Alternative for Germany, or AfD, does not have a straightforward path to governing Saxony-Anhalt, but a small populist party could clear the way.

What does this mean?
"We are not at war, but we are the daily target of hybrid warfare," said Interior Minister Dobrindt on Tuesday, after he blamed Russia for the failed attack.
It sounds like "We are not at war with Russia, but we are a war target for them."
Might sound like a rather comfortable position in Putin's ears.

Russia's hybrid attacks on Germany: When is it 'war'?
The German government is holding Russia responsible for an unsuccessful attack in Leipzig. Yet many feel that its response has been too mild.

Playing the N*zi Card in the Third Reich (English captions burned in).
Don't worry, they are just concerned citizens.
Original: #comedy

The AfD is exploiting Germany’s fear of change
The Alternative for Germany has just achieved the best result of any far-right party in the country’s postwar history.
In regional elections in Saxony-Anhalt, a state in eastern Germany,
the party more than doubled its share of the vote,
and is projected to take about 44 percent,
likely just short of an absolute majority.

The result could put the state into a political deadlock.
It would take an extr…

The AfD is exploiting Germany’s fear of change
A political culture built on stability is failing in an age that demands disruption.

Munich-based defense tech startup Helsing raised a $1.8B Series E from Dragoneer, Iconiq, and others at an $18B valuation; Germany made a €270M order this year (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Star party at #BurgRothenfels in Franconia, Germany, tonight at the beginning of the Rothenfelser Astronomietage - https://app.seminarmanagercloud.de/burg-rothenfels/buchungsportal/rothenfelser-astronomietage-zukunftsperspektiven-der-astronomie-80d5b4f2f8304b32afd6e711fb9f8d1c - of which I'm one of the presenters. In spite of the local lights exquisite views of many deep sky objects: good telescopes and high-end eyepieces FTW.

Vast, climate-fueled wildfire forces evacuation of village in Eifel forest, Germany.
Largest wildfire ever in the state of North Rhine Westphalia.
https://www.dw.com/en/vast-german-wildfire-forces-evacuation-in-eifel-forest/live-78361311…

Vast German wildfire forces evacuation in Eifel forest
Hundreds of people had to leave a village near the Hürtgenwald as a wildfire approached. Firefighters say they're unlikely to be able to return today amid high temperatures, humidity and wind. DW has the latest.

The populist, far-right,
anti-immigration
Alternative für Deutschland (AfD)
has emerged as the winner in a crucial state election in Germany,
exit polls have projected,
securing a historic result
and more than doubling its support.
The AfD now appear on the brink of becoming the first far-right party to gain power in Germany at state level since the second world war.
Initial exit polls showed the party to have secured 44.4% of the vote,
…

Far-right AfD wins key German state election but may fail to secure majority
Exit poll shows Alternative für Deutschland on 44.4% of vote in Saxony-Anhalt after huge turnout, with votes still being counted

Intel plans to invest €5B to expand chip manufacturing at its Leixlip facility in Ireland; in 2025, Intel canceled a planned €30B factory in Magdeburg, Germany (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8bcc19e1-2101-444c-bd2e-3a4b113becec

"Germany’s cleantech rollout behind schedule for 2030 goals"
#Germany #Technology
https://www.

Germany’s cleantech rollout behind schedule for 2030 goals
New research has highlighted that rollouts of renewables, heat pumps and electric vehicles (EVs) are progressing in Germany, but are still below the required rates to reach 2030 climate goals.

The far-right party Alternative for Germany, or AfD, is set to make a major breakthrough.
Saxony-Anhalt, a former East German state of around two million people, is relatively small.
But the significance of the election there on Sunday could be seismic.
The AfD is on track to win overwhelmingly
and perhaps even secure an overall majority,
which would mean that it could form a state government for the first time in its history.
Long confined to the opposi…

Opinion | Something Alarming Is About to Happen in Germany
The government is seemingly incapable of stopping the far right.

"Germany cuts climate fund by €30bn through 2030"
#Germany #Climate #ClimateChange

Germany cuts climate fund by €30bn through 2030
The German Finance Ministry has confirmed that it has plans to scale back subsidy programmes financed through its Climate and Transformation Fund (KTF) over the coming years.

The Moon, Mars and the Pleiades this #morning from Bochum, Germany - 1 second at f/2.8 and ISO 1600.

Friday's Bochum (Germany) #sunset, with AR (1)4482 near the center of the refraction-distorted disk. Far fewer atmospheric optics effects than yesterday but https://bsky.app/profile/cosmos4u.bsky.social/post/3mqdf5g7ni224 shows four more timesteps anyway. The shift to the left as the Sun's declination is falling is quite evident.

German software giant SAP says it is encouraging workers to invent new, more valuable jobs aided by AI, in a bid to avoid layoffs; SAP cut ~10K staff in 2024 (Jim Tankersley/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes…

Can Companies Embrace A.I. Without Layoffs? This One Says It Is Trying to.
The German software giant SAP says it is betting that employees can reinvent jobs instead of eliminating them. Experts are divided on whether it will work.

Major military contractor and surveillance giant Palantir
has posted a chilling manifesto on social media that calls for tech companies like itself to play a larger role in a dystopian future
where imperialist and white supremacist powers are unleashed and Americans are increasingly subject to the whims of the surveillance state.
The post contains 22 points it says were summarized from a 2025 book,
"The Technological Republic", written by Palantir co-founder…

Palantir Posts Manifesto Lamenting Post-War “Neutering” of Nazi Germany
The surveillance giant has exploded in value as it’s scored massive contracts from the Trump administration.

"Germany 'insufficiently prepared’ for extreme heat as transport and roads closed by 41C temperatures"
#Germany #Heatwave #Climate

A German court rules that Suno has violated copyrights and must disclose illicit revenue after Germany's state-mandated licensing agency GEMA sued in 2025 (Elizabeth Grenier/Deutsche Welle)
https://www.dw.com/en/german-court-rules-that-ai-m…

German court rules that AI music firm violated copyrights
Germany's state-mandated licensing agency, GEMA, says the verdict has "global significance," as Suno is also directed to pay yet-to-be-quantified damages.

A far-right leader who has won an important state election in Germany has
thanked Elon Musk for his support,
as voices in Europe warn the result is a serious moment for the continent.
No far-right party has led or formed a government in Germany since the defeat of nazism at the end of the second world war.
Ulrich Siegmund, the Alternative für Deutschland’s lead candidate, thanked Musk on X
after the tech billionaire said “Well done!” in German to the AfD co-fou…

First Thing: German far-right leader thanks Elon Musk after landmark election win praised by Russia
The populist, far-right, anti-immigration AfD won the vote in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt

European startups raised $24B in Q2, up 66% YoY and the strongest quarter in four years; UK startups raised $10.4B, above Germany's $3.2B, and France's $2.4B (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/data-funding-ai-ma-up-europe-q2-202…

Europe Posted Its Strongest Venture Funding Quarter In 4 Years As UK Gains, M&A Holds Up
In Q2, Europe posted its strongest quarter in four years for venture funding, Crunchbase data shows. All told, Europe-based startups raised $24 billion in the just-ended quarter, up around a third quarter over quarter and two-thirds higher than the $14.4 billion raised in Q2 2025.

A woman named Lanna shared that she left the United States two-and-a-half years ago and is now living in Germany.
She recently got a job as a part-time barista to make some extra cash.
The experience, even before she has started the job, has “broken” her—but “in a good way.”
Per her residence permit, Lanna cannot work more than 20 hours per week.
Rather than a traditional interview, the employer had her come in for a “try-out day.”
At the end of it, she was surp…

An American got hired as a part-time barista in Germany. The job benefits blew her mind.
A young woman living in Germany shared that her part-time barista job came with over a month of paid vacation and healthcare benefits.

When the Nazis set out to legally disenfranchise and discriminate against Jewish citizens,
they weren’t just coming up with ideas out of thin air.
They closely studied the laws of another country.
According to James Q. Whitman, author of Hitler’s American Model, that country was the United States
In 1935, Nazi Germany passed two radically discriminatory pieces of legislation inspired by American laws:
the Reich Citizenship Law and the Law for the Protection o…

The Chinese ambassador in Berlin has been summoned for urgent talks about media reports that Russian soldiers were being trained in China, the German foreign ministry said on Friday.
These “deeply disturbing” reports point to support for Russia from Chinese state actors, in particular the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, it said.
“Anything that enables Russia to continue its war of aggression against Ukraine also represents a threat to our security,”
the ministry sa…

Ukraine war briefing: Germany calls reports Russian soldiers are being trained in China ‘deeply disturbing’
German foreign ministry says anything that enables Russia to continue its war of aggression against Ukraine represents a ‘threat’ to Germany’s security. What we know on day 1,592

Germany is seeking to extradite a suspect from Romania
over the discovery of an underground stash of weapons in a forest near Berlin
that German media reports have linked to Russian intelligence.
Two weeks after German authorities found a drone carrying explosives at Leipzig airport,
the interior minister, Alexander Dobrindt, confirmed federal prosecutors had opened an investigation related to the secret cache of guns
“on suspicion of preparing a serious act of …

Gun stash in German forest believed to be linked to Russia, say reports
Germany seeking to extradite suspect from Romania over guns it is feared could have been used ⁠in assassinations