2025-11-10 10:55:00
Blue Origin verschiebt zweiten Start der New Glenn
Die Schwerlastrakete New Glenn steht für ihren zweiten Flug ins All bereit. Sie soll unter anderem eine Marsmission der NASA auf den Weg bringen.
https://www.
Blue Origin verschiebt zweiten Start der New Glenn
Die Schwerlastrakete New Glenn steht für ihren zweiten Flug ins All bereit. Sie soll unter anderem eine Marsmission der NASA auf den Weg bringen.
https://www.
Google Photos launches new video editing tools, including specialized templates with preset music and text overlays, as well as a redesigned video editor (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/google-photos-launches-new-video-editing…
Il y a une vingtaine d'années, ces groupes furent ma porte d'entrée vers la musique Japonaise.
https://japanesealternative.net/2026/02/07/japanese-alternatives-guide-to-jp-new-wave/
Anti-Abortion Groups Try a New Intimidation Tactic: Make Abortion Records Public | Truthout https://truthout.org/articles/anti-abortion-groups-try-a-new-intimidation-tactic-make-abortion-records-public/
times new viking have apparently reunited! https://www.brooklynvegan.com/the-spits-times-new-viking-snooper-prison-affair-the-serfs-playing-outline-at-knockdown-center/
NSA cyber directorate gets new acting leadership
https://therecord.media/nsa-cyber-directorate-new-acting-leadership
How about let’s not?
#apple #liquidAss
Two former Polygon editors say they are launching Mothership, a new game publication, on January 26, to analyze games through the lens of gender and identity (Danielle Riendeau/Game Developer)
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/new-gender-fo…
A Science Strategy for the Human Exploration of Mars: #Mars, Says New Report: https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/search-for-life-should-be-top-science-priority-for-first-human-landing-on-mars-says-new-report -> In a major new report, scientists build rationale for sending astronauts to Mars: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/12/in-a-major-new-report-scientists-build-rationale-for-sending-astronauts-to-mars/
Zelensky's new inner circle: The power shift behind Ukraine's latest reset: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/08/zelenskys-new-inner-circle-the.html
This new Linux platform will let you update your next car at home - as soon as 2027
Toyota, Honda, and Mazda are building a new open-source car platform that runs everything from entertainment to navigation - and could even power self-driving.
https://www.
From New York to New Mexico: new Epstein files shed light on his sprawling ranch outside Santa Fe (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/08/epstein-files-new-mexico-ranch
http://www.memeorandum.com/260208/p38#a260208p38
New Report on U.S. Pet Trade Reveals Harm to Global Wildlife, Imperiled Species https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/new-report-on-us-pet-trade-reveals-harm-to-global-wildlife-imperiled-…
From @…
The Stats Guy: Australia's lessons from New York's past
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/202
New gene therapies offer a universal approach to treating retinitis pigmentosa https://www.drugdiscoverynews.com/new-gene-therapies-offer-a-universal-approach-to-treating-retinitis-pigmentosa-16866 Mutation-agnostic …
"‘Rush’ for new coal in China hits record high in 2025 as climate deadline looms"
#China #Climate #ClimateChange
In opening statements in New Mexico's suit against Meta, state prosecutors argue Meta misrepresented the safety of its platforms, as Meta's attorney pushes back (Morgan Lee/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/meta-new-mexi…
Super Bowl LX inactives: Seattle Seahawks vs. New England Patriots https://www.nfl.com/news/super-bowl-lx-inactives-seattle-seahawks-vs-new-england-patriots
Looking to replace my home printer. This might be a good option.
https://www.xtool.com/products/xtool-apparel-printer-a-new-era-of-apparel-printings
💢 Public backing for taxes falls when unfairness exposed
#taxes
What I want is less buggy updates, software that starts to run a bit faster and isn't a resource hog along with fixing those 'NOT RESPONDING' messages multiple times an hour. From what I see these updates are just putting a layer of lipstick on a bloated pig.
https://www.
@axbom@axbom.meNew WH Lie: China Bought Zero Soybeans Under Biden - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/12/new-wh-lie-china-bought-zero-soybeans-under-biden/
New Dallas Cowboys 2026 NFL mock draft lands team elite RB, star EDGE https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/draft/new-dallas-cowboys-2026-nfl-mock-draft-lands-elite-rb-star-edge
Rest in Peace
US Constitution
Effective March 4, 1789
Terminated January 8, 2026
On January 8, 2026 trump declared himself dictator (but avoided using that word):
'In a new interview with the New York Times, Trump said the only constraint to his power as president of the US is “my own morality, my own mind”.'
<…
Public sector organisations *shouldn't* standardise on Calibri, actually.
While assessments might focus on readability, selecting it binds organisations to the Microsoft ecosystem for the lifetime of the documents, since licensing is only covered for Windows / Office users.
https://w…
A healthy (in body and mind),
active, frugal, sociable, mostly offline citizen
who is highly educated and informed, in full control of their data, avoiding Big Tech’s platforms and algorithms,
with a positive self-esteem and self-image,
is probably persona non grata for the tech billionaires.
But a small, insignificant nuisance, like a fly
– they don’t care about ONE.
But imagine having thousands,
then hundreds of thousands,
then millio…
RE: #ClimateModels - and kicking off the #FediWriMo #AcWriMo25 conversation...
(But also an excuse to try the new quote post functionality)
This is so weird. I mean, I do think Times New Roman is one of a handful of correct choices for professional communication, and I do just _hate_ Calibri, but I don't understand what either font has to do with DEI.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rubio-font-
Great interview by the New York Times with Trump, he is a bag full of contradictions. Still his racist and autocratic characteristics are explicit and clear.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/podcasts/the-daily/trump-interview.html
Bosie’s passionate plea for lover Oscar Wilde in Love Letters exhibition https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/bosies-passionate-plea-for-lover-oscar-wilde-in-new-exhibition/
An interesting social media datapoint: @… and I recently posted about our new research:
Can right-wingers please find something new to hate instead of the private lives of other people?
How about potholes? Hate on potholes.
Source: WaPo planned a marketing campaign with a new slogan, We The People, but dropped it after MS Now launched a $20M brand campaign with the same slogan (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/02/08/2026/washington-post-suffer…
Bonus #ThursDeath this week because the new STRANGULIATORIUS is fully up now to hear on Bandcamp. Stranguliatorius are from Vilnius, Lithuania. I'd heard some of their earlier stuff, which is okay, but their new LP here, 'Flies Don't Lie' is a MASTERPIECE of metal. There's barks and growls but also guttural vocals, dynamics, changes, really weird guitar - cool spots everywhere.
✅ Settler colonialism
✅ Apartheid
✅ Ethnic cleansing
✅ Genocide
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/08/yellow-line-that-divides-gaza-under-trump-plan-is-new-border-for-israel-says…
Zelensky reveals candidates for new head of Ukraine's Presidential Office: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/08/zelensky-reveals-candidates-for-new.html
Former NSA insider Kosiba brought back as spy agency’s No. 2
https://therecord.media/timothy-kosiba-nsa-new-deputy-chief
These dogs eavesdrop on their owners to learn new words https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/01/these-dogs-eavesdrop-on-their-owners-to-learn-new-words/
a beautifully weird mckenna-ish mystery: chinese mushrooms that reliably bring the little people, but don't seem to contain any psychoactive elements (& yet obviously do) https://nhmu.utah.edu/articles/experts-explore-new-mushroom-which-cau…
Leaked letter: Tiger Global launches Private Investment Partners 17, a new fund targeting a raise between $2B and $3B, signaling a pivot away from megafunds (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/tiger-global-new-fund-ai-valuations.html
Raiders officially name Kubiak new head coach https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47881764/raiders-officially-name-klint-kubiak-new-head-coach
New underwater acoustic camera identifies individual fish sounds, helping track threatened species
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/new-underwater-acoustic-camera-identifies-individual-fish-sounds-helping-track-threatened-species/
"Brazil fast-tracks paving controversial highway in Amazon with new licensing rule"
#Brazil #AmazonRainforest #Trees
Sources: Anderson Cooper has signed a new deal with CNN (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/anderson-cooper-cnn-new-contract-1236603476/
Preferential Accretion onto the Secondary Black Hole Strengthens Gravitational-wave Signals: #GravitationalWaves mystery: https://www.colorado.edu/today/2026/01/07/new-study-examines-gravitational-wave-mystery
Exclusive: Centrist Dems strike back with new group (Holly Otterbein/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/08/centrist-democrats-new-group-abundance
http://www.memeorandum.com/260208/p56#a260208p56
Ukraine secures agreements for 250 new Gripen and Rafale fighter jets to bolster air power: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/09/ukraine-secures-agreements-for-new.html
Chinese AI companies like Alibaba and Tencent are releasing new models and spending millions on "red envelope" freebies to woo users ahead of the Lunar New Year (Cissy Zhou/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech…
A coalition of more than 230 environmental groups
has demanded a national moratorium
on new datacenters in the US,
the latest salvo in a growing backlash to a booming artificial intelligence industry
that has been blamed for escalating electricity bills and worsening the climate crisis.
The green groups, including
Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Food & Water Watch and dozens of local organizations,
have urged members of Congress to halt the pro…
New Todd McShay 2026 Mock Draft Lands Cowboys Unexpected 'Game-Wrecking' Picks https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/draft/new-todd-mcshay-2026-mock-draft-lands-dallas-cowboys-unexpected-game-wrecking-picks
The US finally banned all, new, foreign-made consumer drones. Basically US drones are now frozen in time like Cuban cars.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/robots/a69937082/us-bans-new-foreign-made-drones/
a16z raises over $15B across five new funds, including $6.75B for its fifth growth fund and $3B for unspecified "other venture strategies" (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/09/andreessen-horowitz-15-billion-for-new-funds
"who's afraid of the neo wook?" enjoyed (& occasionally raised my eyebrows at) rave new world's field report on "a new strain of psychedelic raver" https://ravenewworld.substack.com/p/whos-afraid-of-the-neo-wook
New York Archdiocese to establish $300 million fund for sexual abuse victims | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/new-york-archdiocese-sexual-abuse-fund-b2880604.html
Trump says he won't pardon New Jersey's Bob Menendez (Natalie Fertig/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/08/trump-wont-pardon-new-jersey-bob-menendez-00718085
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p153#a260108p153
Dynamical development of strength and stability of #asteroid material under 440 GeV proton beam irradiation: #impact – and reveals the hidden strength of space rocks, a breakthrough with direct implications for #PlanetaryDefence strategies: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-01-08-new-study-simulates-asteroid-impact-and-reveals-hidden-strength-space-rocks
Nexstar seeks to broaden The Hill's sponsors, pitching it as "non partisan and brand safe" ahead of midterms; Comscore: its page views grew 7% in 2025 to 1.24B (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/nexstar-th…
92% of ICE Detainees
since Sept 2025 are Immigrants with No Criminal Convictions
ICE published new detention data today that brings the current population to a record-high of 68,990.
Plus: ICE records first detention death of 2026
https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/92
Mendoza vs. Moore: Why the CFP semifinals will have a big impact on the NFL draft https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47539191/new-york-jets-no-2-pick-cfp-fernando-mendoza-dante-moore
Check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--77,000-plus IP addresses are vulnerable to maximum severity React2Shell flaw,
--NCSC warns prompt injection threats might be forever,
--Apple and Google issue new spyware warnings,
--Apache Tika critical flaw allows XXE injection attacks,
--Japanese high school student accused of using ChatGPT to attack internet cafe chain,
--US is…
Trump's new security doctrine gives Putin exactly what he wants: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/09/trumps-new-security-doctrine-gives.html
Cowboys playoff chances spiral further as new odds paint harsh reality https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-nfl-playoff-chances-spiral-further-new-odds-paint-harsh-reality
"Canada may approve a new oil pipeline. First Nations tribes fear another ‘worst-case scenario’"
#Canada #FossilFuels #Energy
The two best feelings in the world are:
1. Helping another person
2. Learning something new
Interesting how both big tech with “AI” and “conservatives” do not want you to do either.
A profile of Mercor CEO Brendan Foody, who says Mercor is creating a new category of work; Mercor hit $500M ARR in September and pays contractors $1.5M daily (Rya Jetha/The San Francisco Standard)
https://sfstandard.com/2025/11/07/san-franci…
New York attorney general sues Trump administration over offshore wind project freeze | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/new-york-attorney-general-sues-trump-administration-over-offshore-wind-project-freeze
NY Mayor Zohran Mamdani invited dozens of "new media" figures to City Hall for a tour and private news conference while excluding legacy media outlets like NY1 (Michael M. Grynbaum/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/busines
Independents Drive Approval of ACA to New High of 57% (Megan Brenan/Gallup)
https://news.gallup.com/poll/699449/independents-drive-approval-aca-new-high.aspx
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p31#a251208p31
Mistral launches Devstral 2, a coding model with 123B parameters requiring at least four H100 GPUs, and a 24B parameter Devstral Small for local deployment (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/mistral-ai-surfs-vibe-coding-t…
Giants' Robinson, Eluemunor and Flott set for big pay days https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47246420/new-york-giants-wandale-robinson-jermaine-eluemunor-set-big-pay-days
DOJ files show how Epstein courted media to launder his image by easily exploiting some digital media figures, but also the impact of accountability journalism (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/02/08/2026/new-emai…
Illinois governor signs bill ushering in new protections from immigration authorities | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/illinois-governor-signs-bill-ushering-in-new-protections-from-immigration-authorities/
Supreme Court Will Consider New Curbs on Human-Rights Suits (Greg Stohr/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-09/supreme-court-will-consider-new-curbs-on-human-rights-suits
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p117#a260109p117
TE David Njoku announces he's not re-signing with Browns after nine seasons: Time 'to find a new home' https://www.nfl.com/news/te-david-njoku-announces-he-s-not-re-signing-with-browns-after-nine-seasons-time-…
Sources: micro-drama app DramaBox seeks to raise $100M from US backers at a $500M valuation; Disney had invested in the app via its accelerator program (Lucia Moses/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/dramabox-seeks-new-fu…
Fifty years into the era of mass incarceration,
states like Arkansas, Montana, California, and Colorado
are pushing to build new prisons
and expand immigrant detention.
In this episode of Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa talks with
Nicole Porter of
"The Sentencing Project"
about how federal and state governments are
doubling down on new prison construction and ICE contracts
to expand the prison-industrial complex,
what…
Stripe and Paradigm launch a public trial for their blockchain project Tempo, targeting real-world stablecoin payments, with Kalshi and UBS as new partners (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
"Wind and solar are booming in China. So why is it building so many new coal plants?"
#China #WindTurbines #SolarPower
Gas Prices Plunge to New Multi-Year Low -- and They're Trending Lower ⛽ (President Donald J. Trump/The White House)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/12/gas-prices-plunge-to-new-multi-year-low-and-trending-lower/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p98#a251208p98
"A New York Times report found that Lutnick and Epstein, who were next-door neighbors in New York City, interacted “regularly.”"
Epstein Files: Massie calls for Commerce Secretary Lutnick to resign
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/08/epstein-files-trump-lutnick-massie.html
Mamdani Moves to 'Trump-Proof' New York as ICE Tensions Rise (Myles Miller/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-08/mamdani-moves-to-trump-proof-new-york-as-ice-tensions-rise
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p87#a251208p87
Former Trump lawyer Alina Habba resigns as New Jersey U.S. attorney after disqualification (Dan Mangan/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/trump-alina-habba-new-jersey-prosecutor.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p104#a251208p104
Databricks raised $5B in funding and $2B in new debt at a $134B valuation and says its annualized revenue exceeded $5.4B for the January quarter, up 65% YoY (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/09/databricks-completes-5-bil…
Former Trump attorney Alina Habba resigns as top federal prosecutor in New Jersey (Ryan Lucas/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/08/g-s1-101204/trump-attorney-new-jersey-habba
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p115#a251208p115
Sources: Meta is pursuing a new Llama successor and frontier AI model, codenamed Avocado, set for release in Q1 2026, and it could be a proprietary model (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/09/meta-avocado-ai-strategy-issues.html
The New Yorker adds Jason Zengerle and Ruby Cramer as staff writers for politics and Jon Allsop as a contributing writer; Emily Nussbaum will be theater critic (Michael Luo/@michaelluo)
https://x.com/michaelluo/status/1998423522524426421
Republican Bruce Blakeman planning to enter race for New York governor (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/08/republican-bruce-blakeman-planning-to-enter-race-for-new-york-governor-00681465
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p112#a251208p112
ByteDance releases Seedance 2.0, an update to its AI video generation model that can make multi-shot scenes, available to select Jimeng and Jianying users (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/bytedances-seedance-2-0…
Analysis: news organizations' open-source activity has fallen from a peak of 2,092 new public GitHub repositories in 2016 to 396 in 2025, an ~80% decline (Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/journalism-lost-its-culture-of-sharin…
Former Trump personal lawyer Alina Habba resigns as acting US attorney for New Jersey (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/12/08/politics/alina-habba-resigns-acting-us-attorney-for-new-jersey
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p91#a251208p91
WhatsApp rolls out new group chat features: member tags that show user roles, text stickers generated from any word, and custom event reminders (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/07/whatsapp-rolls-out-new-group-chat-features-memb…
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Establishes New Department of Justice Division for National Fraud Enforcement (President Donald J. Trump/The White House)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/01/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-establishes-new-department-of-justice-division-for-national-fraud-enforcement/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p126#a260108p126