:pacmanblinky:⁠:pacmanclyde:⁠:pacmaninky:⁠:pacmanpinky:⁠:pacman:

they're right behind me, aren't they?

Insurance tech company Ethos, last valued at $2.7B in 2021, files for a US IPO ; its revenue rose 54.9% YoY to $183.7M in H1, with net income up 64% to $30.7M (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/09/26/sequoia-accel-ethos-ipo…

Sequoia, Accel-backed Ethos files for IPO
The life insurance tech company was last valued at $2.7 billion.

KEV Assertion Format – Draft Specification (potential BCP?)

This format describes a generic KEV (Known Exploited Vulnerability) assertion format.
The goal is to express who claims exploitation, when, based on what, where it was observed, and with which level of confidence, without turning KEV into full threat intelligence. A KEV assertion is usually very binary and lacking some meta-information. The format adds some …

KEV (Known Exploited Vulnerabilities) - Potential Format (BCP?)
KEV Assertion Format – Draft Specification (potential BCP?) This format describes a generic KEV (Known Exploited Vulnerability) assertion format. The goal is to express who claims exploitation, when, based on what, where it was observed, and with which level of confidence, without turning KEV into full threat intelligence. A KEV assertion is usually very binary and lacking some meta-information. The format adds some information which could better capture details about the exploitation. A maj…

Tubefilter: sponsored videos on YouTube rose 54% YoY in H1 2025, with Ground News as the biggest sponsor, followed by Squarespace, BetterHelp, and DraftKings (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/22/youtube-sponsorship-creator-videos

Exclusive: YouTube sponsorships surge 54% as brands bet on creators
New data from Tubefilter's Gospel Stats shows growth in creator ads.

Be the cause of the trash fire you want to see in the world

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How the US' annualized 1.6% GDP growth in H1 was heavily dependent on AI-related investments, which might have accounted for as much as 50% of the growth (Konrad Putzier/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-the-u-s-ec

@… many thanks.
<https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=290024#h1>

:blep:

Uber plans to trial driverless taxis in London using Baidu's Apollo Go RT6 robotaxis, starting in H1 2026 with services available by the end of 2026 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-22/uber-teams-up-wit…

:dumpster_fire:

h1: Bootstrapping LLMs to Reason over Longer Horizons via Reinforcement Learning
Sumeet Ramesh Motwani, Alesia Ivanova, Ziyang Cai, Philip Torr, Riashat Islam, Shital Shah, Christian Schroeder de Witt, Charles London
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07312

h1: Bootstrapping LLMs to Reason over Longer Horizons via Reinforcement Learning
Large language models excel at short-horizon reasoning tasks, but performance drops as reasoning horizon lengths increase. Existing approaches to combat this rely on inference-time scaffolding or costly step-level supervision, neither of which scales easily. In this work, we introduce a scalable method to bootstrap long-horizon reasoning capabilities using only existing, abundant short-horizon data. Our approach synthetically composes simple problems into complex, multi-step dependency chains o…

Masto Admin Tip

Every masto admin surely knows to regularly clean up cached media from remote servers with the command
But do they also know that this doesn't include remote profile images from users who mostly probably haven't even logged in at home for years?
So likely admins should also run
To remove remote profiles that haven't been needed in a month?
I only discovered this last night, and running it examined nearly 400,000 accounts and removed 86Gb, or 70% of the media storage space!
Now instead of being 100% full, our media drive is 29% full.

It’s late 2025 and Sitepoint is still advocating for the document outline algorithm:
https://www.sitepoint.com/headings-in-html-structure/
The algorithm was never implemented, removed from WHATWG HTML in 2022:

GCVE-BCP-02 Published - Version 1.3 (2025-12-09)

We’re pleased to announce the publication of GCVE-BCP-02 – Practical Guide to Vulnerability Handling and Disclosure, now available in its version 1.3.
This Best Current Practice document provides actionable guidance for organisations, researchers, and GCVE Numbering Authorities (GNAs) on managing and disclosing vulnerabilities effectively, both within the GCVE ecosystem and beyond

#XSLT used to be my goto tool for transforming documents. Today I was facing a document transformation problem (the daring fireball `markdown` program does not emit valid HTML, and although you can pipe it through `tidy`, tidy won't extract the first `h1` and use it as `title`), so I thought 'yay! XSLT'.
Reader, I am no longer competent to write a simple XSLT transform.
I *kno…

Big news for the energy transition!
And a nice little 'told you so' moment for yours truly :)
In the first half of this year, renewables produced more electricity globally than coal, for the first time.
And 2025 is the date I predicted for this to happen, back in 2016, in a blog post for Ecofys! The score was 23%-40% at the time, with most of the renewables share still coming from hydro, and the prediction was less than obvious.

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I wish Spotify gave me the option to hide all tracks that are:
- Released after 2024 H1
- Less than 3:00 long
- From an artist with less than 20,000 monthly plays that I'm not following
Call it the AI slop toggle

UK bank Lloyds agrees to acquire UK startup Curve, which offers digital wallets, in a deal set to close in H1 2026; Sky News reported Lloyds is set to pay £120M (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

LAT Media Group reports a net loss before taxes of $48.1M in 2024, up from $30M in 2023, with a $21.5M loss in H1 2025; 50% of revenue still came from print (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-america/los…

Los Angeles Times reveals $50m loss as it seeks $500m investment
The Los Angeles Times Media Group made a loss of almost $50m (£37m) in 2024, according to newly-published unaudited accounts.

Ein kleiner #Handrekorder mit guten #Mikrofonen ist ein praktischer Begleiter für #Naturliebhaber.
Er ermöglicht hochwertige Tonaufnahmen unterwegs, zum Beispiel von Vogelgesang. Mi…

#Intro

I like cats :3

Sources: Meta is developing a new image and video-focused AI model codenamed Mango, expected to be released in H1 2026 along with its new LLM dubbed Avocado (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/…

:lolsob:

"India adds 44.2 GW solar module and 7.5 GW cell capacity in H1"
#India #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

India adds 44.2 GW solar module and 7.5 GW cell capacity in H1
Mercom India says new solar manufacturing capacity is driven by a 186 GW project pipeline, 2030 targets, and demand for Approved List of Models and Manufacturers modules.

I scream
you scream
we all scream

:neocat_scream:⁠:neocat_scream_stare:⁠:neocat_scream_angry:⁠:neocat_scream_scared:

:lolsob:

:blep:

Ubisoft delays the publication of its H1 financial results and requests the shares be halted from trading until then; its stock is down 49% so far in 2025 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-13/ubisoft-delays-…

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/115528089355669719
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Willst Du #Windgeräusche bei Deinen Outdoor-Aufnahmen minimieren?
Für solche Zwecke gibt es verschiedene #Windschutz-Aufsätze, mit denen man #Mikrofone nachrüsten kann. Auch für me…

💀⁠🎉

Sources: Microsoft's US data center crunch will last through H1 2026, longer than previously outlined, as the company restricts new Azure cloud subscriptions (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Irish News, the UK's top selling regional daily, restructures to focus on video, newsletters, and events, and reports H1 print circulation down 8% YoY to 20,857 (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

Irish News adds jobs in digital-focused restructure
Top selling regional daily focusing on video, newsletters and events.

:aaaa:

How To Be Cute AND Annoying : Living Life Like A Cat

:blobcatreading:

Intel unveils an 18A-based 2nm Clearwater Forest server CPU, launching in H1 2026 with up to 288 E-cores and more, produced in its Fab 52 plant in Arizona (InsideHPC)
https://insidehpc.com/2025/10/intel-announces-18a-bas…

Intel Announces 18A-based 2nm Clearwater Forest Server CPU Produced at Fab 52 in Arizona
Intel today unveiled its most advanced semiconductor process and previewed Xeon 6+ (code-named Clearwater Forest), its first Intel 18A-based 2nm data - Read more from Inside HPC & AI News.

:paw:⁠:paw:

United States doesn’t have talented people to fill jobs domestically.
And that's why I'm raising the H1 visa fees to a ridiculously high $100K.
I call it the Art of the Deal.
🙄
#uspol #USA #employment #skills #stupidity #sarcasm

Harvard economist Jason Furman estimates that investments in data centers and information-processing software accounted for 92% of US GDP growth in H1 2025 (Nick Lichtenberg/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/10/07/data-centers-gdp-g…

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says
Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

:hacker_c:⁠:sm64_y:⁠:hacker_b:⁠:hacker_e:⁠:hacker_r:

Digital asset treasuries, one of the hottest trends in public markets in H1 2025, saw a dramatic reversal in H2; SharpLink stock has fallen 86% from its peak (Monique Mulima/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

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TikTok Shop says fraudulent sellers are using AI to create fake brands and nonexistent products; TikTok rejected 70M products and banned 700K sellers in H1 2025 (Dan Whateley/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-shop-exec-a…

'It's organized crime': TikTok Shop says it's fighting a new wave of AI scammers
Generative AI is a powerful new tool for fraudsters trying to sell fake products, TikTok Shop's governance leader Nicolas Waldmann said.

Leaked memos: Meta delays the release of its MR glasses codenamed "Phoenix" from H2 2026 to H1 2027 to give Meta "more breathing room to get the details right" (Jyoti Mann/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-delay

Meta delays release of new mixed reality glasses code-named 'Phoenix' in order to 'get the details right'
Meta plans to release a new wearable device codenamed "Malibu 2" in 2026, according to an internal memo viewed by Business Insider.

UK retailer M&S reports a £135.6M profit hit in H1 2025 after a cyber attack in April, which it attributes to DragonForce, and claimed £100M from its insurers (Philip Stafford/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/103718d7-457a-4546-b9ea-9b80d3872e75

Sources: Apple plans to launch a low-cost laptop in H1 2026 to rival Chromebooks, aimed at students and casual users, codenamed J700, currently in testing (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Financial disclosures to investors suggest OpenAI generated ~$4.3B in revenue in H1 2025, 16% more than all of 2024, and burned $2.5B, largely due to R&D costs (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-fir…

OpenAI’s First Half Results: $4.3 Billion in Sales, $2.5 Billion Cash Burn
OpenAI generated around $4.3 billion in revenue in the first half of 2025, about 16% more than it generated all of last year, according to financial disclosures to shareholders. The company said it burned $2.5 billion, in large part due to its research and development costs for developing ...

Apple-owned Beats announces the $200 Powerbeats Fit, with a redesigned wingtip, IPX4 rating for the case, ANC, and Apple's H1 chip, available October 2 (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Automated financial advisor startup Wealthfront files publicly for an IPO and reports net income of $60.7M on revenue of $175.6M in H1 2025 (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-29/robo-a…

Western Union plans to launch a dollar-backed stablecoin, USDPT, that is built on the Solana blockchain and issued by Anchorage Digital Bank, in H1 2026 (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/wes…