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Google announces a Gemini app integration between Personal Intelligence and Nano Banana 2 to let the AI image generator "automatically reflect" users' tastes (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/04/16/gemini-photos-personal-intelligence/

Gemini app using Personal Intelligence, Photos for tailored Nano Banana generation
With the international expansion underway, Gemini is now bringing together Personal Intelligence, Google Photos, and Nano Banana 2.

I know you don’t need more proof but this administration is _actively pursuing injuring pregnant people and children_.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/16/covid-vaccine-recommendation-kids-pregnant-people-data

The racist online video that Donald Trump recently shared and then deleted generated a bipartisan furor
-- because of its portrayal of Barack and Michelle Obama as apes.
-- What was little remarked on was how it presented Trump himself — as the “King of the Jungle.”
After a year back in the White House, Trump’s efforts to promote himself as the singularly dominant figure in the world have become so commonplace
that they no longer seem surprising.
He regularly d…

Trump’s Relentless Self-Promotion Fosters an American Cult of Personality
President Trump has engaged in a spree of self-aggrandizement unlike any of his predecessors, fostering a mythologized superhuman persona and making himself the inescapable force at home and around the world.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Prism Shores:
🎵 I Didn't Mean to Change My Mind
#PrismShores
https://prismshores.bandcamp.com/track/i-didnt-mean-to-change-my-mind
https://open.spotify.com/track/2KLOJo0lQdAPgkAllFFEW3

„Pragmata“: Packendes Mondabenteuer
Originell und spektakulär. Capcoms SF-Action-Abenteuer „Pragmata“ zeigt ein ungewöhnliches Duo auf tödlicher Mond-Mission.
https://www.heise.de/tests/Pragmata-Packen

«LinkedIn Verifizierung mit Persona als Sozius - auf dem Weg zu „open data“?»
— von @…
Open-Data klingt zwar net hat aber nichts mit Open-Source zu tun, sondern mit Userdaten. Menschen die das freiwillig nutzen nehmen es nicht wahr, dass sie das Produkt sind und nicht der Webdienst.
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LinkedIn Verifizierung mit Persona als Sozius - auf dem Weg zu „open data“?
Ich hole mal ein Thema hoch, was durch einen Blog-Leser aufgeworfen wurde. Es geht um die von Microsoft betriebene Plattform LinkedIn – scheinbar bei einigen Leute „hoch im Kurs“. Es gibt sogar Leute…

The US DOJ says a judge sentenced two US citizens to a combined 16 years in prison for running laptop farms that let North Korean IT workers pose as US workers (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware)
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Two US citizens get combined 16 years in prison for running North Korean laptop farms — fake remote IT work scheme netted DPRK $5 million in around three years
Your online co‑worker isn’t who you think.

An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article
against an open-source software maintainer
after he rejected its code contribution.
⚠️ It might be the first documented case of an AI publicly shaming a person as retribution. 
Matplotlib, a popular Python plotting library with roughly 130 million monthly downloads, doesn’t allow AI agents to submit code.
So Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer (like a curator for a repository of comp…

An AI agent just tried to shame a software engineer after he rejected its code
When a Matplotlib volunteer declined its pull request, the bot published a personal attack.

Sources: OpenAI is in advanced talks to hire OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger and several team members; Steinberger would likely work on personal agents (Nick Wingfield/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/openai-advanced-talks…

OpenAI in Advanced Talks to Hire OpenClaw Founder, Team
OpenAI is in advanced talks to hire Peter Steinberger, the founder of the popular open-source personal agent project OpenClaw, and several team members. The team would likely work on personal agents at OpenAI. They are also discussing setting up a foundation for the existing OpenClaw project. Meta Platforms is also aggressively courting Steinberger. Steinberger said he has not made a final

TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 35.1% YoY to ~$35B, net income up 58.3% YoY to ~$18B, both above est., and says 7nm or smaller chips were ~74% of its wafer revenue (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/16/tsmc-q1-profit-58-percent-ai-chip-demand-reco…

TSMC first-quarter profit rises 58%, beats estimates as AI demand fuels record run
TSMC reported another quarter of record profit, with the company expecting AI demand to continue to grow.