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California is considering a new tax initiative aimed at billionaires, known as the
"2026 Billionaire Tax Act."
It seeks to impose a one-time 5% tax on individuals with a net worth exceeding $1 billion.
The tax would apply to approximately 200 billionaires residing in California
as of January 1, 2026.
https://<…

Medical societies jointly launch infection prevention initiative:
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobial-stewardship/medical-societies-jointly-launch-infection-prevention-initiative

« ‹ Pour nous, le droit de vote doit être consécutif Š la naturalisation ›, sans quoi, les personnes ne sont pas assez bien formées au système politique suisse et pourraient ne pas se servir correctement d'un bulletin, soutient Lionel Dugerdil.»
Ah ! Étranger trop bête !

US-Clouds: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft will Daten aus dem Ausland heimholen
Die DFG hat eine Initiative zum Sichern gefährdeter Datenbestände gestartet. Es geht um Forschungsergebnisse, die auf ausländischen Cloud-Speichern lagern.

Raiders' Brock Bowers has one of his best games in return from injury, looks to build on that vs. Broncos

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/raiders

Seven Ukrainian children abducted to Russia returned in initiative backed by Melania Trump: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/04/seven-ukrainian-children-abducted-to.html

Kollege @… stellt beim #fediday die Initiative https://savesocial.eu/ vor. Ihr könnt no…

#GoodNews #GuteNachrichten
40 Jahre Mädchenprojekt IMMA in #München
In 40 Jahren hat Imma 3.720 Mädchen und Frauen stationär betreut, 13.620 ambulant beraten und mit über 36.000 Menschen…

'Mädchen muss man zuhören': Wie sich eine Münchner Initiative für junge Frauen einsetzt
Seit 40 Jahren setzt sich die IMMA für die Rechte und den Schutz von Mädchen in München ein. Die Initiative bietet jungen Frauen einen geschützten Raum, in dem sie gehört und unterstützt werden.

Die #LEAG hat mit dem Bau des 133-Megawatt-Solarparks #Bohrau bei #Jänschwalde begonnen.
Das Projekt ist Teil der Gigawatt-Factory-Initiative und entsteht auf rekultivierten Tagebauflächen. K…

Gigawatt-Factory nimmt Fahrt auf:LEAG startet Bau von 133-Megawatt-Solarpark bei Jänschwalde
Cottbus - Mit dem Energiepark Bohrau realisiert der Energiekonzern LEAG ein weiteres Großprojekt im Rahmen seiner Gigawatt-Factory-Initiative. Der Solarpark...

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft will Daten aus US-Clouds holen

CANI files a CA ballot measure to let an oversight board review and undo nonprofit conversions in science and tech since Jan. 2024, indirectly targeting OpenAI (Keach Hagey/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-complet

Tarah Wheeler has joined the initiative as Senior Fellow and Board Member, where she will direct research to guide CPI’s development of a first-of-its-kind Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) model tailored for rural water utilities across the United States
https://

Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft will Daten aus US-Clouds holen

So I hacked my way into being Cyber Policy Initiative Senior Fellow at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy. I'm workin on rural water critical infrastructure cybersecurity.
Do you even hack utilities? Please chat w me. I need to quickly find out where I"m wrong about some of my assumptions.
Still very entertained by the fact that I *finally* got into the University of Chicago. :D

"Brazil eyes April 2026 for first battery storage auction"
#Brazil #Batteries #Energy

Brazil eyes April 2026 for first battery storage auction
A 20-day public consultation is anticipated to open in November to define the guidelines for the auction, which aims to contract 2 GW of battery energy storage systems (BESS). The initiative could unlock around R$10 billion ($1.85 billion) in investments.

Las Vegas Raiders honor Intermountain Children’s Health through My Cause My Cleats initiative https://www.raiders.com/news/las-vegas-raiders-honor-intermountain-children-s-health-through-my-cause-my-cleats-initiative…

Details on the California #wealthTax proposal:
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-024
It's a one-time 5% wealth tax but can be spread over 5 ye…

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft will Daten aus US-Clouds holen

New Garou player rolls his rage: *rolls all successes, several 10s*
New Garou player: "YEAH."
Me: "Shiiiitt."
Storyteller: "Roll for initiative."
#wyrmfrenzy #rollenspiel

https://theonion.com/secretary-of-the-macabre-unveils-initiative-to-fill-nations-empty-eye-sockets-with-maggots/

Secretary Of The Macabre Unveils Initiative To Fill Nation’s Empty Eye Sockets With Maggots
WASHINGTON—In remarks delivered to the White House press corps, the U.S. Secretary of the Macabre unveiled a new departmental initiative Friday that aims to fill the nation’s empty eye sockets with federally funded maggots. “Making use of $50 million allocated by Congress under the Befouling of Our Remains Act, the Department of the Macabre will […]

🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇨🇭
Mir sind 50 Millionen zuwenig.
Millionäre sind nicht das Problem.
Es sind die Milliardäre, die wir uns schlicht nicht leisten können.
Aber wenn die Juso-Initiative wirklich so abschifft, finde ich das als Signal voll schlecht.
https://www.srf.ch/n…

Abstimmungen vom 30.11.2025: 1. SRG-Umfrage zur Erbschaftssteuer
Wäre im Oktober über die Erbschaftssteuer-Initiative abgestimmt worden, wäre sie deutlich bachab geschickt worden.

AI Is Decoding Whales’ Communications. Could That Be a Turning Point in the Push for Their Rights? https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29102025/ai-sperm-whale-communications-legal-rights/
I love this idea that understanding the communication…

AI Is Decoding Whales’ Communications. Could That Be a Turning Point in the Push for Their Rights? - Inside Climate News
The Cetacean Translation Initiative (CETI) is using artificial intelligence to help understand sperm whale communications. Lawyers think the discoveries could galvanize the world to recognize whales’ legal rights.

Russia's friends helping each other:
Germany’s far-right AfD invited to join Munich Security Conference 2026, on initiative by JD Vance
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/29/german…

Initiative OffeneUrteile: Über eine Million Gerichtsentscheidungen sollen öffentlich werden
https://rsw.beck.de/aktuell/daily/meldung/detail/initiative-offeneurteile-eine-million-gerichtsentscheidungen-open-jur

Initiative OffeneUrteile: Über eine Million Gerichtsentscheidungen sollen öffentlich werden
Nur ein Bruchteil der Urteile in Deutschland ist frei zugänglich. Die Initiative "OffeneUrteile" will das ändern – und jeder kann mitmachen.

Las Vegas Raiders honor Intermountain Children’s Health through My Cause My Cleats initiative https://www.raiders.com/news/las-vegas-raiders-honor-intermountain-children-s-health-through-my-cause-my-cleats-initiative…

Counter Ransomware Initiative stresses importance of supply-chain security https://therecord.media/counter-ransomware-initiative-software-supply-chain-guidance

#Willowdale tell your councillor Lily Cheng what you think of small retail stores in your neighborhood
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI

Es ist schon schön zu sehen, wie richtig wir mit unserer Arbeit im Verein "Zuhause in Brandenburg e.V." und unserer Willkommensagentur lagen. Vor mehr als 15 Jahren waren wir die ersten die darauf hingewiesen und aktiv an Rückkehrinitiativen gearbeitet haben. Das hat uns diverse Preise auf Landes- und Bundesebene, Kooperationen und Unterstützung eingebracht. Wir haben die Landesregierung in Potsdam diesbezüglich beraten und gute Teile des Vernetzungskonzepts stammen von uns. Leider…

Good news, any progress in more federated social media is a good thing in my view.
https://openfuture.eu/blog/eurosky-dawns-building-infrastructure-for-sovereign-social-media/

Eurosky dawns – Open Future
The Eurosky initiative is building European social media infrastructure on the ATProtocol, representing a new step in Europe's digital sovereignty agenda as policymakers seek alternatives to Big Tech platforms that serve public interest rather than commercial imperatives.

Earlier this year, DHS added millions of Americans’ Social Security data to the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, system,
allowing officials to use the tool to conduct bulk searches of voter rolls for the first time.
According to the document filed Thursday, SAVE also recently expanded to include passport and visa information.
Incorporating driver’s license information would allow election officials whose rolls don’t include voters’ Social Security …

DHS Wants States to Hand Over Driver’s License Data for Citizenship Checks
It’s the latest step in an unprecedented initiative to pool confidential data that the Trump administration claims will help identify noncitizens on voter rolls and tighten immigration enforcement.

Am 30. November haben wir die Chance, endlich den #Mietwucher im Kanton #Zürich zu stoppen.
Stimme jetzt ab: 👉 JA zur #Initiative «Mehr bezahlbare

Jetzt abstimmen!
JA zur Initiative «Mehr bezahlbare Wohnungen" und NEIN zum willkürlichen Gegenvorschlag

Was in Japan übrigens so nebenbei zum Thema gemacht wird:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DSqy86IAJPZ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Japan Daily on Instagram: "For the first time in Japan, foreign nationals have begun driving local bus routes under the Specified Skilled Worker program to address severe labor shortages. Tokyo Bus launched the initiative on December 23 in Tokyo and Okinawa, hiring five drivers from the Philippines after long-term training. The company says even higher wages have not attracted enough domestic drivers, making outside talent necessary. New drivers initially operate with support from Japanese staff and are expected to work independently after several months. Industry leaders hope the move will stabilize bus services and ensure passenger safety. Public understanding and continued training will be important as Japan adapts to workforce shortages in essential public services. @YAHOO"
85 likes, 11 comments - japandaily_jp on December 24, 2025: "For the first time in Japan, foreign nationals have begun driving local bus routes under the Specified Skilled Worker program to address severe labor shortages. Tokyo Bus launched the initiative on December 23 in Tokyo and Okinawa, hiring five drivers from the Philippines after long-term training. The company says even higher wages have not attracted enough domestic drivers, making outside talent necessary. New drivers initially ope…

Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
US-Clouds: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft will Daten aus dem Ausland heimholen

The German love for combustion is a perpetuum mobile.
68.5% of Germans believe that their car makers are not fully committed to electric mobility.
Furthermore, 47.8% believe that politicians do not view electric mobility as the technology of the future.
https://…

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HHS Considering National "Men's Health Initiative" - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/12/hhs-considering-national-mens-health-initiative/

This month, the Network Performing Arts Production Workshop (NPAPW) 2025 brought together performing artists, technologists, educators, and students from around the world.
A joint initiative of GÉANT and Internet2, NPAPW25 explored what happens when creativity meets advanced networks.
From history of network-enabled performances to MVTP uses cases, and the distributed concert linking New York & Miami, it was a success.
🔗 Read the full recap by Domenico Vicinanza:

Bangladesh to reintroduce captive elephants to the wild https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/10/bangladesh-to-reintroduce-captive-elephants-to-the-wild/

Bangladesh to reintroduce captive elephants to the wild
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Bangladesh has embarked on an ambitious plan to end the centuries-old practice of keeping elephants in captivity. The government has begun retrieving privately owned elephants and aims to rehabilitate them in the wild. The initiative follows a 2024 […]

Auch was für Deutschland?
"In Großbritannien wird darüber diskutiert, ob Clubs und kleine Konzerthallen durch Ticketverkäufe von großen Künstlern mitfinanziert werden sollen."
Audio: Initiative in Großbritannien will kleine Konzerthallen retten
https://www.

Initiative in Großbritannien will kleine Konzerthallen retten

In #Berlin könnte das sogenannte Bäume-Plus-Gesetz der Initiative #VolksentscheidBaum vom Senat am 03.11.2025 angenommen werden.
Sonst droht ein #Volksbegehren. Der Fahrplan dafür …

BaumEntscheid | Berlin
BaumEntscheid Berlin. Wir machen Berlin hitzesicher und wetterfest: mit unserem Volksentscheid für das Klimaanpassungsgesetz

I have a question for anyone who happens to be knowledgeable about web standards:
The same way we had the (failed?) "DoNotTrack" header... Is there any working group or initiative working on an #HTTP header sent by the browser (or similar mechanism) to signal that the user wants an ecological/lightweight website? Something like "SaveEnergy" or "LowEnergy", or "LightweightMode".
Would it make sense? Or do you foresee that it would fail for some specific reasons?
P.S.: Of course I would prefer if we didn't have to signal our discontent with the unjustifiably big and unoptimized web pages that we are served.
P.S.2: Now I am feeling tempted to write a browser extension for people who want to use "alternative communication channels" (HTTP headers) to "yell" arbitrary stuff at certain websites (It would be glorious if we could coordinate a big "Fuck you, Google", or, in a more positive tone, "Free Palestine!").
#WebDevelopment #WebDev #Web #Ecology

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative restructures to focus on AI and science, led by Biohub research centers, and acquires AI startup Evolutionary Scale's team (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/technology/zuckerberg-chan-initiative-biohub.…

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan Restructure Their Philanthropy
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative said its restructured organization, Biohub, would lead its focus on artificial intelligence and scientific research.

RFK Jr.'s Health Department Is Pondering a National Men's Health Initiative (Emily Mullin/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/rfk-jrs-health-department-is-pondering-a-national-mens-health-initiative/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p128#a251211p128

RIP #DOGE
https://time.com/7336327/doge-disbanded-elon-musk/

Jetzt gibt es eine Initiative, das #Bibliorama #Bibel - Museum in #Stuttgart doch noch zu retten. Alle Infos auf dieser Homepage:

Great to see @… running with #ProtocolsForPublishers
Chad is a huge open protocols advocate, and fortunately he's not completely engineering brained and has been spending time at the Internet Governance Forum and other important venues that are m…

CNN plans a multiplatform initiative called CNN Creators, hoping to attract a younger audience, starting with a 30-minute weekly program on CNN International (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thed…

CNN aims to be the YouTube of news with "CNN Creators" initiative
A new show, called "CNN Creators - The Intro," will attempt to draw a younger news audience to the global channel.

Swiss voters rejected
a 50% inheritance tax
for the super-rich
https://bsky.app/profile/financialtimes.com/post/3m6ugxb7ahx2l

Financial Times (@financialtimes.com)
On Sunday more than 80% of those who voted rejected the initiative to impose an inheritance levy on the super-rich on.ft.com/4ruKm0x

RE: #dotMeow

#TIL about CYBATHLON #cybathlon

CYBATHLON
The official YouTube channel of CYBATHLON, an initiative of ETH Zurich. CYBATHLON of ETH Zurichoffers a platform to advance research in the field of assistive technology suitable for everyday use and to promote dialogue with the public about the inclusion of people with disabilities in daily life. Main driver is a unique championship in which people with physical disabilities compete against each other to complete everyday tasks using state-of-the-art technical assistance systems. For more inf…

I am really interested in the linked.art initiative, but I’m finding it hard to wrap my head around it. What strikes me as particularly odd:
* The types-of-types pattern, which creates JSON structures that are very unlike usual JSON properties.
* The AATization of everything, including things like language tags, for which perfectly fine native RDF patterns exist.
Has anyone worked with it? Are there good Getting Started guides?

Ich habe mal in München gewohnt. Jedesmal, wenn ich mal wieder reinkomme z'Minga, dann denk ich mir, ey, hier wirds immer noch ätzender crowdy und hektisch in der Stadt, egal ob auf dem Radlweg oder Straße, Innenstadt oder Olympiazentrum.
Ja, ich finde die #nolympia Initiative super. Eine Stadt, die finanziel gerade so über die Runden kommt, deren Mieten für viele unbezahlbar sind, braucht…

Someone created a Hotel "Dharma initiative" on Google Maps. Its coordinates are of course 4° 8' 15" N, 16° 23' 42" E.
#lost

https://www.eunews.it/en/2025/11/26/belgium-rewards-ethical-hackers-who-uncover-government-it-vulnerabilities/
Belgium rewards ‘ethical hackers’ who uncover government IT vulnerabilities

Belgium rewards 'ethical hackers' who uncover government IT vulnerabilities
The Belgian Cyber Security Centre (CCB) launched #HackTheGovernment2025, a national initiative involving 71 professionals and students, aiming to strengthen the resilience of federal public services

🦠 Global initiative launches to prioritize conservation of vital microbial life
#bacteria

Global initiative launches to prioritize conservation of vital microbial life
Microbes include bacteria, viruses, fungi, algae and archaea (single-celled microorganisms with a bacteria-like structure). They are invisible to the human eye, but they play a huge role, shaping ecosystems, producing food and regulating disease.

Yale University’s Bird-Friendly Building Initiative, a project that aims to accelerate the adoption of bird-friendly design in the built environment, has been recognized with a 2025 Excellence Award by the International Sustainable Campus Network (ISCN).
https://

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Every new initiative from Washington unfolds according to the same pattern:
a diplomatic cavalry charge against Ukraine,
which Kyiv, with other European capitals, manages to fend off.
They stabilise the situation but never actually win the battle.
This pattern will, no doubt, persist.
The White House presumes that it is impossible to force Russia to relinquish the territory that it already controls in Ukraine’s south or east.
The problem is that while reco…

Czechia's security council to decide future of Ukraine ammunition initiative on Jan. 7: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/22/czechias-security-council-to-decide.html

Sky News says it will use WaPo's stand-alone content platform Arc XP to improve its newsroom workflows, apps, and site as part of its Sky News 2030 initiative (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/11/comcast-sky-news-washington-post-arc-xp-p…

Comcast's Sky News to use AI platform developed by Washington Post
Sky News partnered with the Washington Post's Arc XP to power its five-year digital transformation initiative, Sky News 2030.

AWS announces a commitment to invest up to $50B to build AI and HPC infrastructure for the US government, starting in 2026 and adding nearly 1.3 GW of capacity (Eric Revell/Fox Business)
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/amazon-invest…

Amazon to invest up to $50B to build AI infrastructure for US government agencies
AWS announced an investment of up to $50 billion to build AI and supercomputing infrastructure for U.S. government agencies starting in 2026 through a new initiative.

Verband: Deutschland liegt beim Quantencomputing zwei bis drei Jahre zurück
Deutschland muss laut dem VDE Ökosysteme für Quantenrechner ausbauen, Forschungsförderung bündeln und Anwender aktiv einbinden, um international aufzuschließen.

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Five New England states just launched a $450M initiative to make heat pumps way more accessible.
The plan? Incentivize contractors to keep units in stock, dropping upfront costs by $500-$700 per heat pump. The goal is 580,000 residential installations by 2030, cutting 2.5M metric tons of carbon while lowering energy bills.

New England kicks off $450M plan to supercharge heat pump adoption
The program aims to use federal funds awarded under the Biden administration to deploy more than 500,000 heat pumps in the chilly region over the next few…

"Banking alliance aimed at limiting fossil fuel investments collapses"
#Banks #Finance #FossilFuels

Banking alliance aimed at limiting fossil fuel investments collapses
A coalition formed to align the international banking sector’s investments with global climate goals has disbanded nearly four years after it was launched. Set up in 2021, the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) was a U.N.-sponsored initiative to shift bank financing away from fossil fuels — the biggest source of climate changing greenhouse gases — and […]

Momentum is building to tap more of Russia’s central bank reserves
— immobilized after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine
— to help fund Kyiv's war effort.
As the U.S. moved to wash its hands of Ukraine’s fate,
the gradual realization Russia’s war would not end any time soon
and that Kyiv would continue to need large amounts of external funding
has spurred European initiative to unlock the cash tied up in Russia’s frozen assets.

The EU's ambitious plan for frozen Russian assets, explained
Momentum is building to tap more of Russia’s central bank reserves — immobilized after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine — to help fund Kyiv's war effort. As the U.S. moved to wash its hands of Ukraine’s fate, the gradual realization Russia’s war would not end any time soon and that Kyiv would continue to need large amounts of external funding has spurred European initiative to unlock the cash tied up in Russia’s frozen assets. And Kyiv will need all the money it can get. Recent …

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A look at the "explosion" of LA media upstarts, like the LA Local News Initiative, which has $18M in funding, SFGate's Southland, and nonprofit LA Public Press (Sophie Culpepper/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/…

“More of everything”: In Los Angeles, an “explosion” of new efforts aim to up the city’s local news game
A well-funded coalition building out neighborhood news, a new newsletter from an expanding for-profit site, and a nonprofit breaking through on social media are just a few examples of the latest bids to deliver more local news to the city.

Sources: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative cuts ties with FWD.us, an immigration advocacy group founded by Mark Zuckerberg, eliminating FWD.us' main funding source (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

How three Las Vegas artists created visuals that reach beyond just cleat art https://www.raiders.com/news/how-three-las-vegas-artists-created-visuals-that-reach-beyond-just-cleat-art

CONFERENCE> Join us for the 4th MIT Global Humanities Initiative Conference on “STEMAH = The University of the Future” on November 20/21 (KST) #acrel https://

We are grieving the loss of
#Kristina #Gjerde, who passed away yesterday, 26 December 2025, of cancer.
She was a lawyer — graceful, thoughtful, and elegantly articulate — who championed the Ocean, particularly the deep sea.
Read our full statement here:

We are grieving the loss of Kristina Gjerde, who passed away yesterday, 26 December 2025, of cancer. She was a lawyer — graceful, thoughtful, and elegantly articulate — who championed the Ocean… | Schmidt Ocean Institute
We are grieving the loss of Kristina Gjerde, who passed away yesterday, 26 December 2025, of cancer. She was a lawyer — graceful, thoughtful, and elegantly articulate — who championed the Ocean, particularly the deep sea. Her legacy is tremendous. She was co-founder of the Deep Ocean Stewardship Initiative, the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition, and the High Seas Alliance. Along with many other colleagues around the world, she fought for the High Seas Treaty, also known as the Biodiversity B…

State of Local News Report: 40% of local US papers have vanished since 2005, 213 counties have no local outlets, and 200 papers changed owners in the past year (Zach Metzger/Local News Initiative)
https://localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/projects/s…

The State of Local News

SmarterStartAb14 kämpft mit Petition für Social-Media-Verbot bis 16 Jahre
Heranwachsende sind Social-Media-Angeboten ohne signifikanten Schutz ausgeliefert, sagt SmarterStartAb14. Diesen fordert die Initiative von der Bundesregierung.

What the White House is calling the
"Genesis Mission" is to speed research and scientific discovery
by analyzing massive science, engineering, energy and health care data sets in the federal government, university and private sector
with supercomputing technology.
It's an AI initiative the White House hopes will result in quicker breakthroughs in areas of research including disease therapies. 
Michael Krastios, science adviser to the president, t…

Trump signs executive order launching "Genesis" mission to expedite scientific discovery using AI
A White House official called Genesis "the largest marshaling of federal scientific resources since the Apollo program."

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How three Las Vegas artists created visuals that reach beyond just cleat art https://www.raiders.com/news/how-three-las-vegas-artists-created-visuals-that-reach-beyond-just-cleat-art

Sources: Google is working on a new initiative to make its AI chips run PyTorch better and is working closely with Meta, as the two discuss Meta using TPUs (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/google-works-erode-nvidias-softwar…

A new US law enforcement initiative is aimed at crypto fraudsters targeting Americans
—and now seeks to seize infrastructure it claims is crucial to notorious scam compounds
DOJ Issued Seizure Warrant to Starlink Over Satellite Internet Systems Used at Scam Compound
…

DOJ Issued Seizure Warrant to Starlink Over Satellite Internet Systems Used at Scam Compound
A new US law enforcement initiative is aimed at crypto fraudsters targeting Americans—and now seeks to seize infrastructure it claims is crucial to notorious scam compounds.

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A look at the First Amendment Watch's SLAPP Back Initiative, a US SLAPP tracker; in 2024, 69 of 500 cases involved the media, of which 46 were dismissed (Liam Scott/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/slapp-lawsuit-p…

The SLAPP problem is worse than we thought.
As Donald Trump tests the limits of anti-press litigation, a new initiative aims to document the wave of nuisance suits.

Google is phasing out its Privacy Sandbox technologies; the initiative was launched in 2019 to develop privacy-protecting tech to replace third-party cookies (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/googles-privacy-sandbox-is-officially-dead/

Google’s Privacy Sandbox Is Officially Dead
The elimination of many remaining Privacy Sandbox APIs come six months after third-party cookies got a reprieve in Chrome.

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Meta say it has frozen its third-party Horizon OS headset program, announced in 2024 with Asus and Lenovo as the first partners to build headsets (Ben Lang/Road to VR)
https://www.roadtovr.com/meta-horizon-os-third-party-headset-cancelled-asus-lenovo/

Meta "Pauses" Third-party Headset Program, Effectively Cancelling Horizon OS Headsets from Asus & Lenovo
Meta has “paused” its initiative to bring third-party Horizon OS headsets to the market. The company says it has shifted focus to “building the world-class first-party hardware and software needed to advance the VR market.” The News A little over a year and a half ago, Meta made an “industry-altering announcement,” as I called the …

We are told that, under stress, the humanities must be sacrificed
-- of what use are literature, philosophy, and history when we have problems to solve right now?
And yet colleagues meeting in wartime Kyiv have a clearer sense of purpose, more esprit de corps, , and a better instinct for the essential.
And soldiers on the front (as they tell me) want to talk about history and culture.
In traumatic conditions, people think about where they stand amidst larger force…

Ukrainian History Global Initiative
The Creative Humanities During a War of Destruction

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Solidarität in der KI-Ära: Das ethische Dilemma der Zivilgesellschaft

OpenAI hires black hole physicist Alex Lupsasca, the first person to join the OpenAI for Science initiative led by Kevin Weil (Megan Morrone/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/16/openai-science-black-hole-physicist

Exclusive: OpenAI hires black hole physicist in broader science push
The ChatGPT maker wants to compete with Google DeepMind in the sciences.

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OpenAI hires former UK chancellor George Osborne to lead OpenAI for Countries, the global expansion arm of its $500B Stargate data center initiative (Financial Times)

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