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Anklage in Israel: Mit Insider-Informationen vom Militär auf Polymarket gewettet
Auf Polymarket kann man auf alles Mögliche wetten, Insiderwissen ließe sich da vergolden. Das soll in Israel mit Informationen vom Militär versucht worden sein.

Spain slashes Russian LNG imports 41% as U.S. deliveries nearly double: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/14/spain-slashes-russian-lng-imports.html

The IRS erroneously shared the taxpayer information of thousands of people with the Department of Homeland Security, as part of the agencies’ controversial agreement to share information on immigrants for the purpose of identifying and deporting people illegally in the US.
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Taxpayer data wrongly shared with DHS, court filing says
The IRS has erroneously shared the taxpayer information of thousands of people with the Department of Homeland Security, according to a new court filing. It was part of the agencies’ controversial agreement to share information on immigrants for the purpose of identifying and deporting people illegally in the U.S. A declaration filed Wednesday by IRS Chief Risk and Control Officer Dottie Romo stated that the IRS was only able to verify roughly 47,000 of the 1.28 million names requested by U.S…

⚠️ An important wetland in Ghana is under siege. Researchers investigate the real issues
https://theconversation.com/an-important-wetland-in-ghana-is-under-siege-researchers-investigate-the-real-issues-269016<…

An important wetland in Ghana is under siege. Researchers investigate the real issues
In Ghana, the degradation of wetlands is widespread and many are in poor condition.

"France halts imports of food with traces of banned pesticides"
#France #Pesticides #Food

France halts imports of food with traces of banned pesticides
France on Wednesday officialized a ban on food imports containing traces of five pesticides currently banned in the EU, a move aimed at easing farmers' opposition to the Mercosur trade deal with four South American nations.

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is establishing a new "top-level" initiative called Meta Compute to build "tens of gigawatts" of AI infrastructure during this decade (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/12/meta-compute-ai-infrastructure<…

Meta launches new "Meta Compute" initiative to build AI infrastructure
Zuckerberg said Meta plans to build tens of gigawatts of AI infrastructure this decade, "and hundreds of gigawatts or more over time."

F*%! #interrail and railway operators that require passport information
https://www.interrail.eu/en/ni/data-security-incident

(PDF, PhD thesis 2018) Improving visual-to-auditory cross-modality information conversions https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/55721/ by Shern Shiou Tan, on visual-to-auditory sensory substitution (VASS) devices.
"The integration of visual recognition in parallel with the soundscape will be the…

heise | Der Wärmepumpen-Inverter: Darum regelt er selten unter 20 Prozent herunter
Der Inverter regelt die Kompressor-Drehzahl, um die Wärmeproduktion an den Bedarf anzupassen. Doch wie funktioniert das und warum kann er nicht auf 0 regeln?

Alpaca, which builds software to let companies offer stocks, ETFs, and other financial instruments, raised a $150M Series D led by Drive at a $1.15B valuation (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/01/14/alpaca-fundraise-series-d-brokerage-infrastruct…

Brokerage tech firm Alpaca raises $150 million in push to compete with trading giant Interactive Brokers
Drive Capital led the round, with participation from Citadel Securities and the crypto exchange Kraken.