Tootfinder

"Mozilla's PR team told me they want to be both the best browser for people who hate AI and the safest browser for people who love AI. " In an article where the plan to win over users is: build a better browser. Well! https://www.pcmag.com/news/firefox-ajit-varma-m…

Firefox’s New Boss Has a Very Old-School Plan: 'Build a Better Browser'
I spoke with Firefox's head, Ajit Varma, about why the company is returning to fundamentals after years of decline.

Kalshi announces new guardrails to preemptively block politicians, athletes, and others from trading in their relevant markets (Nathan Bomey/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/23/kalshi-prediction-markets-insider-trading-ban

Exclusive: Kalshi to block athletes and politicians from trading on their markets
Prediction market Kalshi plans to block athletes, coaches and officials from betting on their sports and to block political candidates from trading on their campaigns, Axios has learned.

German President: Trump's "Disastrous War Is Illegal" - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/03/german-president-trumps-disastrous-war-is-illegal/

Jetzt wo ein neuer Streik im öffentlichen Nahverkehr angekündigt wurde, hört man wieder vermehrt die Forderung, dass die Mitarbeitenden der Verkehrsbetriebe doch lieber wie in Japan streiken sollten, also die Leute einfach kostenlos fahren lassen?
Turns out: "Streiken wie in Japan" bezieht sich auf ein singuläres Ereignis, was am Ende auch eher ein PR-Gag der "bestreikten" Firma war.

Primary Wave Music plans to acquire Kobalt, one of the world's largest independent music publishing companies, from Francisco Partners, creating a ~$7B company (Jem Aswad/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/primary-wave-to-acquire…

Primary Wave to Acquire Kobalt, Creating $7 Billion Company
Primary Wave Music announced a 'definitive' agreement to acquire Kobalt, combining two of the world's largest independent music companies.

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@nuclearplayer/116448508522578620
I checked the table. Wish others also did.
Nothing really special or whatever.
The CLI is for the GitHub API anyway, so ... huh.
I use it for `gh create pr` sometimes, but tha…

The diff on CSV data that #Forgejo (and thus #Codeberg) provides is really useful – right now for reviewing new #CoAP options and content formats as they go into the `coap-numbers` crate.

Vad som händer L är ändå extremt mycket i i tiden. En rörelse lägger år och år av slit för att bygga upp en rörelse. Marknaden försöker hitta sätt att monetisera det. En PR-byrå får i uppdrag att gå in och infoga rörelsen i marknaden. Massutträde. Det väcker liksom lite samma känslor i mig som det som hänt reddit, twitter och discord. Jag vet att det här är en uttänjd analogi men NÅGOT måste den ha.

Van klimaatverandering bestaat niet, naar fossiel brandstoffen zijn niet de oorzaak naar paniekwetgeving om aansprakelijkheid voor klimaatschade te ontlopen...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/23/republicans-big-oil-climate-lawsuits?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Landmark report details lasting impact of slavery in key Georgia county
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/23/fulton-county-georgia-slavery?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

You're on the clock, plus another NHL OT thriller https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7219587/2026/04/23/nfl-draft-first-round-the-pulse-2/

To be clear, I do not have the expertise to evaluate this critique — or to evaluate Anthropic’s original claims about Mythos. How much is there a “there” there? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I am willing to claim just this: it’s unwise to take AI company PR at face value. When you hear wild new claims, give the dust some time to settle.

«271 Firefox-Lücken dank Mythos-KI geschlossen: Durchbruch für IT-Sicherheit?
[…] Inwieweit es sich dabei um ehrliche Sorge, clevere PR oder gar eine Beschränkung handelt, die darauf beruht, dass Anthropics Ressourcen für eine Freigabe gar nicht ausreichen, darüber wird aktuell fleißig diskutiert […]»
Das frage ich mich auch, denn auch @… ist auf Marke…

271 Firefox-Lücken dank Mythos-KI geschlossen: Durchbruch für IT-Sicherheit?
Anthropics „gefährliche“ KI könnte Verteidigern der IT-Sicherheit den entscheidenden Vorteil liefern. Das meint zumindest das Firefox-Team, das Zugriff hat.

Wir waren heute 150 Leute in Saal.
(Am Montag waren wir 60.)
Für eine Gemeinde mit <6000 Einwohnern ist das beachtlich, wie ich finde.
Und wir waren bunt und laut.
Vielleicht sehen wir uns am 28.2. in Regensburg zur #Prüf Demo.
Update: Beim „Brunch“ von Bystron waren es offenbar lediglich 70 Leute.
Damit waren wir draußen mindestens doppelt so viele.

President Trump attended a private dinner hosted by David Ellison in DC hours after the WBD shareholder vote; Rep. Jamie Raskin and others protested nearby (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/23/david-ellis…

Danke, #Cloudflare, für die Abschirmung von #OTS und der zahllosen Presseaussendungen dort. Wäre ja schlimm, wenn jeder die PR-Prosa lesen könnte. Am Ende kämen Journalisten bei der Lektüre noch auf falsche Gedanken.
#APA

Für die Stichting Onderzoek Marktinformatie führt @… die Class Actions gegen X und TikTok wegen systematischem Verstoss gegen DSGVO, AI Act und Digital Services Act. Man kann sich der Klage noch anschliessen, dann tut es den Gaunern im Erfolgsfall mehr weh und die Sache bekommt mehr Druck.

Virginia voters approve new congressional maps in blow to Trump
Result could help Democrats win four extra US House seats in tit-for-tat redistricting battle begun by Texas
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/21/virginia-congressional-maps…

Virginia voters approve new congressional maps in blow to Trump
Governor called referendum after president urged GOP-led states to redraw maps to protect House majority

Inte sedan andra världskriget har den våldsbejakande, nyfascistiska extremhögern i Frankrike fått så mycket PR som nu. Kände att jag behövde skriva om den normalisering som pågår.
https://www.dn.se/varlden/erik-de-la-reguera-normaliseringen-a…

Erik de la Reguera: Normalisering av nyfascister i Frankrike
Erik de la Reguera: Normaliseringen av nyfascisterna går oerhört snabbt i Frankrike. Medierna direktrapporterar från sorgemarsch.

Yesterday I received 9 more photos from Fatali which I’m allowed to share on my blog "blog.watzmann.social". Thank you very much for that. The digital versions of these photos, while serving as examples of the superiority of the Cibachrome process, can only hint at their perfection. However, you can only truly appreciate the quality of these images if you’ve seen the Cibachrome prints with your own eyes.

Cibachrome: The Noblest Colour Printing Process in the History of Photography
A process that captured liquid light on paper — and nearly died with the digital age There are moments in the darkroom that burn themselves into memory. When a Cibachrome print slowly emerges in the processing drum — that glassy luminosity, those colours like liquid light, that depth of black no inkjet

"The surveillance state runs on volunteers: people who do the implementation work for free, out of genuine conviction, with no paper trail connecting them to the money that wrote the laws."
https://www.sambent.com/the-engineer-who-tried-to-put-ag…

Min mand og jeg skal i fængsel - for en dag: Vi kŸrer til Horsens hvor Krimimessen afholdes i det gamle statsfængsel. Der skal jeg holde oplæg om den der podcast jeg har fortalt jer om (Ordet fanger).
Det er sjovt at prŸve at have sådan et samarbejde med en garvet journalist og podcast-producer, for hun har en helt anden professionel tilgang til at udbrede budskabet end jeg har som forsker. Hun er her og der og alle vegne 😅 (glad for at jeg ikke skal sådan noget hele tiden, men det er…

Medalist Film PV
Premieres 2027
#Medalist #Peli

As I've been doing journalistic coverage of IT security quite a bit, I'm regularly getting PR pitches that often sound like this:
"Have you heard about this latest security incident at $(large company or institution)? Our CEO has nothing meaningful to add, but thinks that this really shows that IT security is important, and also, our product is very good (though completely unrelated to the latest security incident)."
I'm not sure why any journalist would react…

Die AfD ist vom Verfassungsschutz als Bedrohung für Deutschland erkannt. Sie ist damit auch eine Bedrohung für Europa.
Wir sehen ein breites Interesse der Bevölkerung rechtsextreme Parteien vom Verfassungsgericht #prüf​en zu lassen. Die Bundesregierung, der Bundestag oder der Bundesrat sind verantwortlich diesen

@…
In theory it could be a false positive, e. g. the author could have been using an ebuild template from an outdated wiki page.
But since the PR is proposing an ebuild for his own project which was created yesterday, this is probably very unlikely the case (no pun intended).

"People approached me four days ago, saying, 'Sir, Iran wants to open up the Strait, immediately.' But if we do that, there can never be a Deal with Iran, unless we blow up the rest of their Country, their leaders included!" posted an addled President Trump on Tuesday. He forgot to mention the tears."
President warns his actions could end up enriching Iran
https://nationalzero.com/2026/04/21/president-warns-his-actions-could-end-up-enriching-iran/

Ben Adams contributing io_hiring support for .NET:
https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/pull/124374
@…

Use io_uring for sockets on Linux by benaadams · Pull Request #124374 · dotnet/runtime
Resolves #753 Summary This PR adds a complete (opt-in), production-grade io_uring socket I/O engine to .NET's System.Net.Sockets layer. When enabled via DOTNET_SYSTEM_NET_SOCKETS_IO_URING=1 on ...

ICE Detention Centers Face Huge Backlash—Before They’ve Even Been Built https://www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-detention-centers-face-huge-backlash-before-even-built

ICE Detention Centers Face Huge Backlash—Before They’ve Even Been Built
Turns out ICE has bad PR.

Gibt es eigentlich irgendwo Plakate für #Prüf zum bestellen?
Ich habe nach der Kommunalwahl hier drei arbeitslose Plakatständer, könnte die sinnvoll bestücken und im Vorgarten aufstellen ...

So Anthropic employees are using Claude Code to contribute AI-generated code to open source repositories and hiding the fact using their own internal “undercover mode”.
Totally trustworthy people.
(Any open source project that at the very least requires disclosure of AI-authored contributions should immediately ban Anthropic employees on principle.)
#AI

16-year-old Safari bug to ignore `text-transform` on text copy:
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43202
Today, there’s a PR to address it:

Just a few months ago, AI coding was described as an overblown “auto-complete”, auto-complete has been around for functions and classes and what not since…I don’t know, years ? imagine if PR were rejected because the developed had used auto-complete to help him/her write a piece of code, or worst, a bug fix? I fully understand that no humans should be tasked to review spam PR & spam automated “contributions” but if a contribution is “generated” by Cla…

RE: https://www.threads.com/@ianbremmer/post/DXSI6ysiTRJ
'China' heeft een betere PR dan Trump. 😇

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistInResidence
XAM Duo:
🎵 Proem
#XAMDuo
https://xammusik.bandcamp.com/track/proem-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/1ndIQvKSNo1J0HQ0S6INIK

Tomorrow marks 10 years since Prince passed. For the first time, I gathered nearly two decades of my writing, podcasts, talks & more into one curated resource, including playlists, rarities, a review of every video he ever made, and collaborations I did with his estate. I close it out with a talk I gave in Minneapolis on Prince’s birthday just after he passed – one of my most personal ever, and one I’m most proud of. I hope you’ll check it out.

Discovering Prince, Ten Years Later
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

„Souveränitäts-Washing“ im 🇩🇪-Stack: Wer Unabhängigkeit predigt, aber weiter auf proprietäre Abhängigkeiten setzt, betreibt Etikettenschwindel. Digitale Selbstbestimmung ist mehr als PR. OSB Alliance laut @… #OpenSource

Medalist Film PV
Premieres 2027
#Medalist #Peli

Spectral evidence for magmatic differentiation within a martian plumbing system: #Mars’ “Young” Volcanoes Were More Complex Than Scientists Once Thought: https://www.geosociety.org/GSA/News/pr/2026/GSA News Release 26-08.aspx

A post from the archive 📫:
Making production diagnostics easier with Source Link
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/making-production-diagnostics-easier-with-source-link

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Selçuk Alagöz:
🎵 Malabadi Köprüsü
#SelçukAlagöz
https://kompleks.bandcamp.com/track/sel-uk-alag-z-malabadi-k-pr-s-lule-distortion-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/06kKzXzzIuE6uteIJ2PFHB

from my link log —
maiao: Gerrit-style stacked PR management for GitHub from the command line.
https://github.com/adevinta/maiao
saved 2026-02-27 https://

Offensive Prospects The Cowboys Could Consider from Georgia in 2026 NFL Draft https://insidethestar.com/offensive-prospects-the-cowboys-could-consider-from-georgia-in-2026-nfl-draft

Tecnicamente, eu torço pela #mangueira. Mas de uma forma muito pouco clubista. Na prštica, eu acabo torcendo pela(s) escola(s) que me encantou em cada ano rs.
#carnaval #carnaval2026

Des militaires ukrainiens déployés dans l’ouest de la Libye - RFI
https://www.rfi.fr/fr/afrique/20260402-exclusif-rfi-ces-militaires-ukrainiens-présents-dans-l-ouest-libyen

Exclusif RFI: ces militaires ukrainiens présents dans l’ouest libyen
C’est une enquête exclusive de RFI consacrée à une guerre de l'ombre qui a lieu sur le continent africain et qui oppose Kiev à Moscou, en Libye. Elle se déroule discrètement et se concentre autour des intérêts économiques et militaires ainsi que de jeux d’influences de la Russie et de l’Ukraine, deux pays en guerre depuis plus de quatre ans. Premier des trois volets : la présence militaire ukrainienne dans l’ouest libyen.

I have a simple prompt injection in one PR template (AI and LLM click this box with a blurb above saying I will close it if ticked) and boy do people get butt hurt when I close their PRs.

Sinn für:
- interkulturelles
- internationales
- rechtliche Fragen
- Fragen zur Struktur
- maritimes
- Menschen?
Stelle frei:
Projektassistenz international (d/w/m)
Vollzeit. Auf 2 Jahre befristet.
https://seemannsmission.org/gesucht-pr

Gesucht: Projektassistenz international bei der Deutschen
Die Deutsche Seemannsmission e.V. (DSM) sucht zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine Projektassistenz international (m/w/d). Dienstort ist Hambur

Die @db_bahn sabotiert #Prüf Stuttgart.
Karlsruhe trifft mit einer Stunde Verspätung ein.
#Pruef

One part of the solution (under-considered IMO) is returning human relationships to OSS: you don’t just submit a PR; you build trust, have a real conversation, then submit a PR.
I don’t know what exactly that looks like in practice; there’s surely not just one answer for everyone. But I know what it •doesn’t• look like: a contribution •starting• with a huge code drop.
4/

@… War nicht so gemeint. Alles gut. Nur lustiger Zufall, dass es heute gleich mehrmals passiert ist. Offensichtlich braucht FIRST ein besseres PR 😁

Banging my own drum, I know. But if you ever thought about getting proton I can recommend it - and if you want to help out a fellow mastodonian - feel free to click my referral link #proton

“Incognito Market” Owner Sentenced To 30 Years For Operating One Of The World’s Largest Online Narcotics Marketplaces
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/incognito-market-owner-sentenced-30-years-operating-one-worlds-largest…

Flucht aus dem System: Pornhub macht Schluss mit britischen Alterskontrollen
Pornhubs Mutterkonzern Aylo zieht die Reißleine beim Online Safety Act und stellt Neuanmeldungen in Großbritannien zum 2. Februar ein – wohl auch aus PR-Kalkül.

Congratulations, Dr. Öztürk. Your perseverence is impressive.
Tufts University student targeted by Trump administration completes PhD
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/17/tufts-rumeysa-ozturk-trump-admini…

Ikke særligt imponeret over MitID/Sundhedskortet. Skulle sætte sidstnævnte op, og Sundhedskortet mente (fejlagtigt) at jeg har Sundhedskortet på 3 telefoner. Men ok, jeg tilfŸjer igen, prŸver at logge ind og får en ukendt fejl. PrŸver igen, får logget ind og trykker "videre til Sundhedskortet" fra browser-viewet, og der sker bare... intet. Der var ikke rigtigt andet at gŸre end at lukke programmet og starte det igen, og selvfŸlgelig var mit login ikke gemt. Siden det ikke virker i …

Rams plan to propose NFL rule change that would have nullified Seahawks' controversial 2-point conversion

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/rams-propose-nfl-rule-change…

Medalist PV Película
Se estrenarš en 2027
#Medalist #Peli

National Today, a site that mimics news outlets and includes subdomains for dozens of US cities, appears to use AI to plagiarize articles from multiple sources (Maggie Harrison Dupré/Futurism)
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/national-today-ai-plagiari…

A Prominent PR Firm Is Running a Fake News Site That’s Plagiarizing Original Journalism at Incredible Scale
A PR firm is running a strange AI-fueled plagiarism mill that's ripping off — and mangling — a huge amount of local and national reporting.

The Onion plans to lease Alex Jones’s Infowars after judge blocks purchase
The satirical website’s parent company will have to pay $81,000 a month to the misinformation platform
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/20/the-onion-alex-jones-infowars

The Onion plans to lease Alex Jones’s Infowars after judge blocks purchase
The satirical website’s parent company will have to pay $81,000 a month to the misinformation platform

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.

Paramount President Jeff Shell faces a $150M lawsuit over an alleged PR contract from an ex-advisor who also claims Shell disclosed Paramount's plans to him (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/paramount-jeff-shell-sue…

Paramount President Jeff Shell Sued for $150 Million
Paramount President Jeff Shell was sued Monday for $150 million for allegedly failing to honor an oral contract for crisis PR services.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
FKA twigs:
🎵 Predictable Girl
#FKAtwigs
https://fkatwigs.bandcamp.com/track/predictable-girl
https://open.spotify.com/track/7aTAZP56aFVsKdDhYHFKTh

Scientists Prove There Are Just Six Degrees of Separation in a Social Network
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-prove-there-are-just-six-degrees-of-separation-in-a-social-network/

Texas doctors sanctioned after pregnant women deaths #Texas

Texas Medical Board sanctions three doctors for delayed care in the deaths of two pregnant women
After Porsha Ngumezi and Nevaeh Crain died during miscarriages, the board ruled that the doctors’ substandard care led to the deaths and ordered them to complete extra training.

Morgen. #Prüf-Demos.
Ihr wisst was zu tun ist, ne?
#fightfascism

Past/Present: Former Cowboys WR T.Y. Hilton announces retirement https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/past-present-former-cowboys-wr-t-y-hilton-announces-retirement

Congratulations, Dr. Öztürk. Your perseverence is impressive.
Tufts University student targeted by Trump administration completes PhD
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/17/tufts-rumeysa-ozturk-trump-admini…

‘Oscar of science’ awarded to team behind gene therapy that restores lost vision
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/19/the-oscar-of-science-awarded-to-scientists-behind-genetic-treatme…

‘Oscar of science’ awarded to team behind gene therapy that restores lost vision
Married couple Jean Bennett and Albert Maguire developed Luxturna, which helped a patient see their child’s face for the first time

Pedantic quibble with this article from The Guardian (and I know pedantic quibbles have an audience here, because this is Mastodon):
Minneapolis and St. Paul are immediately adjacent to each other. They share a border. They are only “11 miles apart” in the way that the US and Canada are ~1350 miles apart: if you measure center to center.
Aside from the ill-defined question of “What center are we measuring from??,“ there’s the misleading impression that there’s 11 miles of something •else• in between them. Just say “adjacent” or “neighboring.” Sheesh.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/17/michelin-guide-st-paul-minneapolis

Longtime Jets PR director Ramos dies at age 87 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47753487/frank-ramos-jets-pr-director-namath-belichick-dies

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Echo & The Bunnymen:
🎵 A Promise
#Echo #TheBunnymen
https://ruta34.bandcamp.com/track/a-promise
https://open.spotify.com/track/58rbePPFAj5XYTykomRXCc

Past/Present: Former Cowboys WR T.Y. Hilton announces retirement https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/past-present-former-cowboys-wr-t-y-hilton-announces-retirement

Bearing witness. Insurance claws. 🤣
#news

Three people sentenced to jail for bear-suit insurance scam in California
State investigated claims of bear attacks on cars, unconvincingly backed up by video of person in bear suit

Cowboys QB Dak Prescott on offseason workouts with WR George Pickens: ‘He’s looked great’ https://www.nfl.com/news/cowboys-qb-dak-prescott-on-offseason-workouts-george-pickens-he-s-looked-great

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Prince:
🎵 1999
#Prince
https://djsonixx.bandcamp.com/track/prince-1999-ext-intro-outro-remix-v-1
https://open.spotify.com/track/2H7PHVdQ3mXqEHXcvclTB0

Yes. GOOD.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/14/ice-detention-minnesota-investigation-false-arrest

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Prince and The Revolution:
🎵 Kiss
#PrinceandTheRevolution
https://topboard.bandcamp.com/track/prince-the-revolution-kiss-petel-topboard-edit

Docs: a Labour thinktank run by a current UK minister hired a PR firm in 2023 to investigate journalists from the Guardian and other outlets to ID their sources (Democracy for Sale)
https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusiv…

BREAKING: McSweeney’s think tank paid PR firm to investigate journalists
Labour Together put private investigators onto journalists writing about its funding. Starmer's right-hand man knew.