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Nothing: Smartphonehersteller dementiert Verkaufsstopp
Laut einem Bericht soll sich das britische Unternehmen aus zwölf Ländern zurückziehen. Nun dementierte es dies.
https://www.heise.de…

Nothing: Smartphonehersteller dementiert Verkaufsstopp
Laut einem Bericht soll sich das britische Unternehmen aus zwölf Ländern zurückziehen. Nun dementierte es dies.

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The mean means nothing: data visualization to debug a latency problem.
https://fzakaria.com/2026/07/27/the-mean-means-nothing
saved 2026-07-28

European police say Binance's April 2025 policy asking law enforcement to route certain requests to foreign governments significantly delays criminal probes (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/us/binance-crypto-crime.html

Police Say Binance Is Making It Harder to Fight Crime
Investigators in Europe said that the cryptocurrency giant Binance had made it more difficult to track down scammers and solve other crimes.

Doctors and researchers worry that FDA-related wagers on Kalshi and Polymarket could compromise drug development tests and erode public trust in the process (Rebecca Robbins/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2…

Prediction Market Betting on Drug Trials and Approvals Sparks Concern About Undermining Research
Prediction markets on Kalshi and Polymarket now let people wager money on drug approvals. Kalshi also plans to allow bets on clinical trial results.

Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview was able to break a weaker version of AES and it orchestrated another improved attack against HAWK cryptographic system (Dustin Volz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07…

An Anthropic Claude AI Model Finds Flaws in Tough-to-Crack Encryption Algorithms
Claude Mythos Preview discovered new attacks in testing against weakened cryptographic algorithms, which protect online financial transactions, private communications and more.

Brazil, which has struggled to standardize soccer talent scouting, is embracing AI-powered scouting apps that assess players by analyzing video clips and more (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/world/a…

Could Brazil’s Next Big Soccer Star Be Scouted By AI?
Recruitment apps powered by artificial intelligence are gaining ground in Brazil, promising to even the playing field and find more soccer talent.

Digital advertising is booming for Google and Meta, helped by AI tools used for language translation, real-time changes to ad copy, and easier ad targeting (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/technology/ai-artificial-intelligence-ad-boom.…

A.I. Helps Online Ad Businesses Boom
Google and Meta are enjoying a digital ad boom, as artificial intelligence automates marketing and drives record sales.

Apple overtakes Nvidia to become the world's most valuable publicly traded company, two years after it lost the crown, closing at a $4.9T market cap on Monday (Kalley Huang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/technology/apple-valuation.html

Apple Regains Spot Over Nvidia as Most Valuable Public Company
The company slipped by the chipmaker Nvidia, amid growing concern about costs associated with the artificial intelligence boom.

How a Polymarket dispute over a single syllable ignited a bitter debate; Polymarket uses Risk Labs' Optimistic Oracle to decide ~200K tough call bets per month (David Segal/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/0…

How Polymarket Traders Revolted Over One Silly Syllable
How one silly syllable ignited a bitter dispute over the nature of reality on Polymarket.

New York-based AI detection startup Pangram raised $9M led by Menlo, and releases Pangram 4.0 and its first AI image detection model, claiming 99.5% accuracy (Niko Gallogly/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/busines

Sick of A.I.-Generated Content? The ‘Slop Janitor’ Is Here to Help.
Pangram, an A.I. detection start-up, promises near-perfect accuracy in sniffing out writing and imagery that wasn’t made by humans. It’s raising some big questions along the way.