@aardrian@toot.cafe2025-12-18 18:44:53
I haven’t tuned into CBS since its morning news promoted that interview (and Weiss) last week. This latest announcement validates my decision.
“CBS News launches town hall series featuring JD Vance following Bari Weiss’ ratings flop”
https://www.indep…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-19 06:36:08
Indian digital payments company Pine Labs plans to embed OpenAI APIs into its infrastructure to enable AI-assisted settlement, reconciliation, and invoicing (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/openai-deepens-india-push-…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-20 00:59:33
Dr. Gladys West,
the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology,
has died. She passed away Saturday, surrounded by her loving family. She was 95.
Born into poverty on a Virginia farm during the Jim Crow era, West grew up in a segregated South where opportunity was scarce.
Through determination and extraordinary academic talent,
she graduated first in her high school class and earned a scholarship to Virginia State College …
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-12-20 17:21:07
University of Michigan surveillance footage shows former co-offensive coordinator Matt Weiss entering three team offices seconds before investigators say he hacked into the personal accounts of college athletes.
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-01-20 12:06:06
Impressive blog "Into the abyss. The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards."
#Trump
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-20 15:20:33
ICE broke into Minnesota home, dragged barely clothed man into snow (Maria Cardona/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ice-broke-into-minnesota-home-dragged-barely-clothed-man-into-snow-2026-01-20/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p37#a260120p37
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-20 10:30:53
General Catalyst plans to invest $5B in India over five years, an increase from the $500M to $1B previously announced, after merging with a local VC in 2024 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/19/general-catalyst-commits-5b-to-ind…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-19 23:20:57
Scottish engineer and inventor,
James Watt
was born on this day
19 January 1736
"I had gone to take a walk on a fine Sabbath afternoon. I had entered the Green by the gate at the foot of Charlotte Street – had passed the old washing-house. I was thinking about the engine at the time and had gone as far as the Herd’s house when the idea came into my mind, that as steam was an elastic body it would rush into a vacuum, and if a communication was made between the cyl…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-19 16:39:37
I was violently snatched on March 21, 2023, from the outskirts of Baghdad, where I had been conducting fieldwork for my Ph.D. at Princeton University.
When my kidnappers delivered me to my cell, they cut the restraints they’d placed around my arms and legs, and lifted the cloth bag off my head.
The secret prison where I was brought was run by Kataib Hezbollah, an Iraqi militia backed by Iran.
Four men searched my mouth for implanted tracking devices.
I had told them I …
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-19 06:01:46
India's TCS signs OpenAI as its first data center customer, starting with 100MW of capacity; Tata Group plans to deploy ChatGPT Enterprise, starting with TCS (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/openai-taps-t…
