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A profile of Sherrese Clarke, who grew HarbourView Equity Partners' assets to $2.7B by acquiring 70 music catalogs with songs from Bruno Mars, Nelly, and others (Jabari Young/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jabariyoung/2026…

Meet Private Equity’s Pop Culture Queen
Sherrese Clarke, founder and CEO of HarbourView Equity Partners, has turned the music catalogs of top artists—including Bruno Mars, Nelly, and Justin Bieber—into lucrative alternative assets. Now she’s doing the same for film, television and sports.

The Interstate Highway System cost $600B adjusted. Projected AI investment is over $1T in the next decade, four times the relative GDP scale compressed into a fraction of the time. Difficult to see how it all pays off. https://www.poppastring.com/blog/private-ai-investment-…

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Dusty Springfield:
🎵 In Private
#NowPlaying #DustySpringfield
https://opaledit.bandcamp.com/track/dusty-springfield-in-private-opal-elixir-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/4zt6d3OSxvNDc1QwXOcojS

Bluesky integrates Germ DM, an E2E encrypted messaging app built on AT Protocol, making it the first private messenger natively available in the Bluesky app (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/a-st

A startup called Germ becomes the first private messenger that launches directly from Bluesky's app | TechCrunch
Social network Bluesky now offers private messaging by integrating the startup Germ's E2E encrypted messenger natively in its app.

just released liboprf-0.9.4
it brings compatibility with python3.14
liboprf is a library implementing the OPRF from https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9497.html and in addition it also provides a threshold variant (tOPRF) and a distributed key generation (DKG) protocol for the tOPRF shar…

heise | Goodbye, USA: Europäische KIs mit Datenschutz und Privatsphäre im Test
US-KIs dominieren den Markt. Doch vertrauen Sie ChatGPT oder Google gern private Gedanken an? Wir stellen vertrauliche Alternativen aus Europa auf die Probe.

Shots fired:
❝The most important thing in the Mythos release is not the model. It is the precedent. Anthropic has established…that a private company can unilaterally classify a capability as too dangerous for the public, grant selective access to the largest incumbents in the affected industry, and construct a parallel disclosure regime outside any democratic accountability structure. That precedent is exclusivity for abuse.
…
The model is not the story. A cartel is the story.❞ https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/116445436798619026

US banks’ private credit loan exposure nears $300 billion
https://www.moodys.com/web/en/us/insights/data-stories/breakdown-of-banks-annual-reporting-on-private-credit.html Why are regulated banks loaning to unregulat…

US banks’ private credit loan exposure nears $300 billion

Israeli private investigator Amit Forlit, wanted by the US for allegedly orchestrating an illegal “hacking-for-hire” operation on behalf of ExxonMobil, has been denied permission to appeal against his extradition to the United States in the UK High Court of Justice.
https://www.

Breaking: UK Court Paves Way for Alleged Exxon Hacker-for-Hire’s Extradition to U.S.
Israeli private eye Amit Forlit denied appeal in decision that could lead to his facing a maximum of 45 years in prison if found guilty.

Have you ever tried to dictate someone a private IPv4 address in French 🇫🇷 ?
I'm now pretty certain that whoever said "Let's use 192.168... subnets for this" did that to annoy - or as a gigantic prank. And I salute you for it.
Hundred four twenty twelve, hundred sixty eight...
#infosec #sysadmin

DAMN. Dan Ahn went "full private investigator" mode on clowns hiding their affiliate sponsorships.
▶️ How a Chair Exposed the Worst YouTuber - Ahnestly
https://youtube.com/watch?v=S-wch_zWrV8&si=xc3xZ3wIOfn3l9-B

"The IEA advised countries to promote public transport, give private cars access to city centres on alternate days, encourage efficient driving habits, avoid air travel where possible and switch to electric cooking."
This is actually sound advice from Faith Birol. But it should be the norm in the face of ecological overshoot and climate collapse.
Meanwhile UK ministers are beginning to panic.
"Don't panic!" they cry, in tribute to corporal Jones.

Guy who put it on a thumbdrive...
"According to a whistleblower, a former DOGE employee with access to highly sensitive Social Security databases planned on sharing data with his private employer."
Social Security faces 80-year crisis after Trump employee steals data - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-data-breech/

Grids aren’t ‘full’; we simply lack the tools to utilise the available capacity.
One such tool is allowing higher capacity at night: in the Dutch province of Overijssel, Flexible Connection Agreements provide an additional 135 MW of capacity for charging up to 2,000 HDVs.
https://

Blokstroom biedt ruimte in de nacht voor private laadinfrastructuur - Logistics Overijssel
Enexis heeft voor de provincie Overijssel 135 megawatt gevonden voor ‘blokstroom’, voldoende om ruim 2000 elektrische vrachtwagens op te laden.

@… thanks. Not a big deal, it was a private email from a port maintainer (not an official email address). I simply don't enjoy uninvited put-downs from developers who suffer from a superiority complex. Rude then signed "Best regards" was a weird combination, but some cultures are just weird, and software development sometimes brings out the weirdest in…

The fact that communities are bound to private platforms is a really fucked up human reality.
How true was this if we go 100 years back? Was the community defined by the pub and the church?

Cowboys Had Private Workout for 19-TD Playmaker Ahead of NFL Draft https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/private-workout-noah-thomas/

#Firefox Klar, the privacy browser from #Mozilla, has already blocked 105441 trackers for me. Fewer ads and trackers following me around means faster browsing! Get Focus for yourself here

Source: a handful of unauthorized users in a private Discord channel have been accessing Anthropic's Mythos model since the day the company announced it (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

I know granting the US President veto power over the board member appointments of private companies seems risky now, but let's see how this plays out in the long term.

I was reminded today that Garry Tan, reportedly a centimillionaire, has the most entry-level ass booze in his private booze locker. No taste. It would be a kindness to confiscate these men's wealth and spare them from embarrassing themselves.

Dear people in #Gaza
I know your situation is very bad, but there are many thousands of you.
I can afford to make only three gifts each week, and those will inevitably mostly go to people I already know. So no, I almost certainly cannot support you by sending you money.
If you send me private appeals, I can't share them. I am now receiving so many private appeals that I cannot…

#Reiche will offenbar die Solarwirtschaft genauso kaputtmachen, wie sie es damals unter Altmaier und der Windkraft gemacht hat.
Die Frau ist eine Katastrophe für die deutsche Wirtschaft!
Und jammert mir nie wieder vor, wie "furchtbar" doch Habeck war ...

Reiche-Pläne entfachen Debatte: Ministerin will private Solar-Besitzer zur Kasse bitten
Wirtschaftsministerin Reiche hat angekündigt, die Förderung für Solaranlagen zu beenden. Damit dürfte die private PV-Anlage für viele unwirtschaftlich werden. Das ist aber nicht alles, was Reiche plant.

"Encrypted" Doesn't Mean "Private": What Your Messaging Apps Really Know About You
Encryption protects your words. Not your secrets.
🔒 https://snugg.social/en/blog/encrypted-doesnt-mean-private

"Encrypted" Doesn't Mean "Private": What Your Messaging Apps Really Know About You
WhatsApp says it's encrypted and private. But Meta still knows who you talk to, when, how often, and can infer almost everything else. Here's what "encrypted" actually means.

heise | Private Energiewende für Skeptiker: Praxisbericht – Wenn es nur ums Geld geht
Solarmodule und Windräder erhitzen die Gemüter. Mit nüchterner Betrachtung stellen aber selbst Skeptiker fest: Es kann sich lohnen. Eine persönliche Historie.

TIL: Im #Pankow|er Bürgerpark gab (und gibt!) es eine offenbar private Parkbücherei, vgl. https://www.fuerpankow.de/parkbuecherei.html
Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-U0721-0007 / CC-BY-SA 3.0 (…

'Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs:' Inside an AI-Powered Private School https://www.404media.co/students-are-being-treated-like-guinea-pigs-inside-an-ai-powered-private-school/

Behind Trump's Public Bravado on the War, He Grapples With His Own Fears (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-public-bravado-private-fear-59814dca?st=5vW3nB&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260419/p1#a260419p1

NASA and Voyager Technologies have signed an order for the seventh private astronaut mission to the #InternationalSpaceStation, targeted to launch no earlier than 2028 from Florida: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-selects-voyager-for-seventh-private-mission-to-space-station/ and https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260415327488/en

New mapping data show where oil blocks threaten Venezuela’s protected areas https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/new-mapping-data-show-where-oil-blocks-threaten-venezuelas-protected-areas/

New mapping data show where oil blocks threaten Venezuela’s protected areas
Since the U.S. ousted Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, earlier this year, officials in Caracas have been looking for ways to increase oil production, including by attracting foreign private investment. In February, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright visited facilities operated by Chevron and met with interim government officials, describing plans to unlock “Venezuela’s enormous potential.” New […]

In a sensational turn of events in the fight against Chat Control,
a majority in the European Parliament voted today to end the untargeted mass scanning of private communications.
In doing so, the Parliament firmly rejected the error-prone and unconstitutional surveillance practices of recent years.
Pressure is now mounting on EU governments to respect the MEPs’ vote and bury untargeted mass surveillance in Europe once and for all.

Historic Chat Control Vote in the EU Parliament: MEPs Vote to End Untargeted Mass Scanning of Private Chats
In a sensational turn of events in the fight against Chat Control, a majority in the European Parliament voted today to end the untargeted mass scanning of private communications. In doing so, the Parliament firmly rejected the error-prone and unconstitutional surveillance practices of recent years.

eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.

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The Neighbourhood:
🎵 Private
#NowPlaying #TheNeighbourhood
https://open.spotify.com/track/1735xgk2J8CHCGY2LS1HM6
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> The FT was able to identify 442 web domains whose public registrations show they all use a single private server for their email, “mx.phoenixtrading.ltd”, showing that they share back-office functions.
https://www.ft.com/content/4310f010-2b3c-493e-ba0a-26dc6d156b2e

Email blunder exposes $90bn Russian oil smuggling ring
Apparent network of companies using same server includes little-known group that has become country’s largest oil exporter

Reach makes its national UK newspapers' ABC print sales circulation figures private, joining News UK, Telegraph Media Group, and The Guardian (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nationals/reach-prin…

Most national newspaper sales figures now secret as Reach takes auditing private
Print circulation figures for Reach national newspapers the Mirror, Express and Star titles will no longer be made public.

„Länder, Bund und Kommunen hätten als Arbeitgeber von mehr als 5 Millionen Beschäftigten bereits erklärt, sie wollten nicht zahlen. „Wenn nicht mal der Staat seine eigenen Gesetze umsetzen will, warum sollten das dann private Arbeitgeber tun?“, sagte der Gewerkschafter.“
https://www.

Wer bekommt die Entlastungsprämie? Konzerne warten ab
Der Großteil des Mittelstands lehnt die Auszahlung der Entlastungsprämie ab, so eine Blitzumfrage. Auch die Großkonzerne sind noch zurückhaltend.

Nou, hij is besteld, tenminste: het contract voor zes jaar private lease is aangevraagd. 😃🚙

Air Force Bunga Bunga is now for Melanomia....
And who pays? We taxpayers do.
"WH Is Keeping Noem’s $70M Private Jet For Melania"
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/04/wh-is-keeping-noems-70m-private-jet-for-melania/

WH Is Keeping Noem’s $70M Private Jet For Melania
Newsweek reports: First Lady Melania Trump will have access to former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s $70 million jet, reported The Wall Street Journal. The Trump administration will retain

„Evolution des Radios“? Erste private Radiosender spielen KI-generierte Songs
Private Radiosender beginnen damit, KI-generierte Musik zu spielen. Wenn auch als Unterhaltungswert deklariert, spielen ökonomische Interessen eine Rolle.

How tech companies, including Meta and OpenAI, are building data centers with their own private power plants, a risky bet that will increase carbon emissions (Evan Halper/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/02/19/data-centers-power-gri…

Silicon Valley is building a shadow power grid for data centers across the U.S.
Tech companies are building data centers with their own private power plants, a risky bet that will increase carbon emissions and other pollution.

When the EIB grants a €20B loan for AI infrastructure while its yearly budget is €100B, that effectively means one-fifth of its annual budget goes to AI infrastructure.
Public transport? Green energy? Social infrastructure? No. Instead, data centres operated by private consortia to potentially sell private services. I hope it will be at least to produce open-source models and software.
#ai

Ojo que nos hemos librado de #chatControl https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/historic-chat-control-vot…

Heute ist #SaferInternetDay und das wäre doch der perfekte Tag für die #DIDay Kampagne, um sich von #Ecosia zu verabschieden.
Eine Suchmaschine, die mit 'grüner KI' wirbt: Ganz schle…

Antrag im Umweltausschuß abgelenht: „soziale Zielgenauigkeit und faire Rückflüsse der Einnahmen der CO2 Steuern an private Haushalte als Bedingungen für Förderprogramme im Klima- und Transformationsfonds einzuführen.
Zudem die im Koalitionsvertrag versprochene „Strompreissenkung für alle“ sowie sozial gestaffelte Förderprogramme - etwa für die Gebäudesanierung - und eine finanzielle Förderung von verbrauchsarmen E-Autos für Menschen mit geringen Einkommen aufzulegen"

£1.6bn expropriated from the NHS alone by capital.
That's money that could fund public provision.
It's what capitalism does.
It has no place in public services.
Private firms providing services to NHS made £1.6bn profit in two years, research finds | NHS | The Guardian
htt…

#DavidHasselhoff as private detective Mitch Buchannon
Baywatch Nights - Opening Credits
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx

[on the dog meme]
Security issues back in the day: by executing a specially prepared code you can place private data of some process in CPU's cache, and then predict its contents using a timing attack 💪.
Security issues today: I opened a big file and ran out of memory 😭.
"Back in my day, we solved these class of issues using a belt!"
#shitposting

@… do you think folks are using it in a separate profile? The marketed tasks all mention access to automate private info

From Proposal to Passage: Enacted U.S. AI Laws, 2023–2025
https://fpf.org/blog/from-proposal-to-passage-enacted-u-s-ai-laws-2023-2025/
@…

"Nurseries backed by private equity have sprouted up across the UK over the last five years, taking over independent businesses and merging them into gigantic chains. To an outside eye, many of these look the same as before, but they report profits that are as much as seven times greater than the surplus made by non-profit nurseries, spend up to 14% less on staff, and have far higher rates of staff turnover than nurseries run from schools."

Maxx Crosby Causes Stir With Private Jet Post After Raiders-Ravens Trade Falls Apart https://www.si.com/onsi/athlete-lifestyle/news/maxx-crosby-causes-stir-with-private-jet-post-after-raiders-ravens-trade-falls-apa…

Cowboys Hold Private Workout for ‘Aggressive’ Quarterback https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/garrett-nussmeier-private-workout/

Die nächste Siri-Generation basiert auf Googles Gemini-Technologie, läuft aber laut Apple in der eigenen Private-Cloud-Infrastruktur. Apple verspricht: keine Datenweitergabe an Google, trotzdem große KI-Power. Ob das Vertrauen schafft oder nur gut klingt, bleibt offen.
#ITMagazine.ch #AppleIntelligence

Apple bestätigt: Siri mit Gemini wird Private-Cloud-basiert
Laut Apple-CEO Tim Cook wird die demnächst erwartete personalisierte Version des Sprachassistenten Siri wie vermutet in einer Private Cloud laufen. Damit will Apple seine hohen Datenschutzstandards weiterhin gewährleisten.

"The site will be hosted at "freedom.gov," the sources said. One source said officials had discussed including a virtual private network function to make a user's traffic appear to originate in the U.S. --> and added that user activity on the site will not be tracked. <-- "
Sure, buddy. I believe you.

Last year my friend died. It was a rather public affair since he was much loved by people in the media and arts. Still, six months later people on Facebook sent him birthday wishes oblivious to the fact that he had died.
Last month another friend of mine died. It has been a much more private affair. His birthday is coming up later this month and I am dreading seeing people using Facebook's default emojis to wish him well.
If you are so out of touch with someone that they migh…

RE: https://universeodon.com/@tafnn/116252691416575841
Maybe Congress should regulate and restrict data brokers from keeping and selling our private data to any and all buyers.

Private Krankenversicherungen: Daten und KI als Schlüssel für bessere Versorgung
Nach Sicht der Privaten Krankenversicherer soll die Digitalisierung die Versorgung verbessern – mit offenen Systemen, klaren Datenregeln und erkennbarem Nutzen.

BOOM: Senate Votes to Block Private Equity from Buying Homes (Matt Stoller/BIG)
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/boom-senate-votes-to-block-private
http://www.memeorandum.com/260314/p31#a260314p31

While the watchword of the day is Mythos, there is a ton of other critical infosec news in today's Metacurity you should know, including
--US agencies court Anthropic AI for cyber defense despite Pentagon ban,
--OpenAI launches private test of its Mythos rival,
--Russian cyber group targeted a Swedish thermal power plant,
--Microsoft fixes 167 flaws on Patch Tuesday,
--Fake Ledger site linked to $9.5m crypto theft,
--McGraw-Hill hacked via Salesforce mi…

US agencies court Anthropic AI for cyber defense despite Pentagon ban
OpenAI launches private test of its Mythos rival, Russian cyber group targeted a Swedish thermal power plant, Microsoft fixes 167 flaws on Patch Tuesday, Fake Ledger site linked to $9.5m crypto theft, McGraw-Hill hacked via Salesforce misconfiguration, much more

"NBC News reported that former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's top lieutenant, Cory Lewandowski, asked federal contractors to pay him in exchange for growing their contracts with the agency. One company highlighted in particular was the private prison company, GEO Group."
'Oh boy!' Jen Psaki beside herself as 'biggest grift' in Trump admin unearthed - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/jen-psaki-2676407066/

The US Department of Energy announces a partnership with SoftBank and its affiliate SB Energy to develop a 10 GW data center with its own power supply in Ohio (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/ai-data-center-ohio-uranium-enrichme…

DOE unveils 10-gigawatt Ohio data center, gas-powered energy plan
The U.S. Department of Energy has announced a public-private partnership with SoftBank and AEP Ohio to develop a massive artificial intelligence data center and power complex at a former uranium enrichment site in southern Ohio. The project announced Friday includes a planned 10-gigawatt data center and up to 10 gigawatts of new power generation, most of it fueled by natural gas, along with billions in grid upgrades. Officials say the initiative will create thousands of jobs and support AI grow…

Cowboys Host Private Pre-Draft Workout for 6-foot-6, 227-Pound QB https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/host-private-workout-quarterback-taylen-green/

Last year, the number of workers coveredby a union contract rose to 16.5 million, the highest raw total since 2009. In theory, this increased representation should mean the National Labor Relations Board—the federal agency that protects the right of private-sector employees to organize, and adjudicates alleged unfair labor practices (ULPs)—will be awfully busy. For an agency that has long suffered from a workforce and inflation-adjusted budget decline, the growth of the organized workforce s…

Trump’s NLRB Doesn’t Want to Investigate Worker Complaints
The agency tasked with protecting workers is making it harder for them to submit complaints and letting employers break the law.

The rise of private credit, and why 'ordinary people's money is on the line' : Consider This from NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/29/nx-s1-5590103/unpacking-the-u-s-economys-cockroach-problem

»Massive AI Chat App Leaked Millions of Users Private Conversations:
Chat & Ask AI, which claims 50 million users, exposed private chats about suicide and making meth.«
On the one hand, I don't understand the people who use it, but on the other hand, a company that people don't care about because people are a product.
🙄

Massive AI Chat App Leaked Millions of Users Private Conversations
Chat & Ask AI, which claims 50 million users, exposed private chats about suicide and making meth.

A private investigator says the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday remained his "best customers" for two years after his 2005 conviction for disclosing private info (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/1…

Die Gemeinde #Stuhr stellt 2026 erneut 30.000 Euro für private #Klimaschutz-Maßnahmen bereit.
Gefördert werden unter anderem #Solarstromspeicher,

Gemeinde Stuhr fördert Klimaschutz: 30.000 Euro für private Projekte
Bürger können unkompliziert Zuschüsse für nachhaltige Investitionen beantragen und so aktiv Energieeffizienz und Ressourcenschonung fördern.

Thinking about how technically I'm an investor in AI companies, because of private pensions which I did not have any choice over.
We are going to crash so hard I don't think we fully realize how bad it's going to be.

"Claws" is becoming a term to describe OpenClaw-like agent systems that usually run on personal hardware and are a new layer on top of LLM agents (Andrej Karpathy/@karpathy)
https://x.com/karpathy/status/2024987174077432126

Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) on X
Bought a new Mac mini to properly tinker with claws over the weekend. The apple store person told me they are selling like hotcakes and everyone is confused :) I'm definitely a bit sus'd to run OpenClaw specifically - giving my private data/keys to 400K lines of vibe coded

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The Neighbourhood:
🎵 Private
#NowPlaying #TheNeighbourhood
https://open.spotify.com/track/1735xgk2J8CHCGY2LS1HM6

Meta-Mitarbeiter soll 30.000 private Nutzerbilder heruntergeladen haben
Meta feuerte den Beschäftgten umgehend. Auch die Polizei schaltete sich ein und ermittelt jetzt gegen den Mann.
https://www.

WordPress debuts my.WordPress.net, which lets users run WordPress entirely in the browser to set up a private workspace not accessible from the public internet (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/11/word

WordPress debuts a private workspace that runs in your browser via a new service, my.WordPress.net | TechCrunch
WordPress’s new browser-based service lets users create private sites without hosting or signup, turning the platform into a personal workspace for writing, research, and AI tools.

Adobe launches Firefly Custom Models in public beta, letting users train AI image generators on their own assets; the custom models are private by default (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/897243/adobe-firefly-ai-custom-models-ima…

Adobe’s AI image generator can now be trained on your own art
Adobe is launching customizable AI image generators that can mimic specific artistic styles and character designs.

Jared Kushner, one of the U.S. government’s chief negotiators in the Middle East, is trying to raise more money for his private equity firm from governments in the region.
Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law, has spoken with potential investors in recent weeks about raising $5 billion or more for
"Affinity Partners", his investment firm,
Kushner’s fund-raising is expected to stretch on for the better part of this year.
The efforts show the blurring of the lin…

Jared Kushner Solicits Funds for His Firm While Working as Mideast Envoy
President Trump’s son-in-law is trying to raise $5 billion or more from foreign governments and others for his private equity firm.

Qihoo 360, one of the biggest cybersecurity companies from China, accidentally shipped a highly sensitive wildcard SSL private certificate inside the public installer for its 360 Security Claw AI assistant
https://www.neowin.net/amp/chinas-biggest-

Lutnick Says He Visited Epstein's Private Island With His Wife and Children (Meridith McGraw/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/lutnick-says-he-visited-epsteins-private-island-with-his-wife-and-children-28036415
http://www.memeorandum.com/260210/p63#a260210p63

Some private software companies including McAfee released earnings early to reassure investors worried about an AI-linked selloff, dubbed the "SaaSpocalypse" (Reshmi Basu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Nebraska "prophet" says God needs him to have access to a private jet
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/nebraska-prophet-says-god-needs-him

Die Gemeinde #Stuhr unterstützt 2026 private Investitionen in #Klimaschutz mit 30.000 Euro.
Gefördert werden unter anderem #Wallboxen,

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The Neighbourhood:
🎵 Private
#NowPlaying #TheNeighbourhood
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"Until just over a week ago, most policymakers had expected the IMF and World Bank meetings to focus on the conflict in the Middle East, tensions in the private credit market, and elevated levels of government debt," and instead they're focusing on Mythos.
https://www.ft.com/con…

Trevor Noah Sues Donald Trump Over Alleged Threatening Messages
Following Explosive Truth Social Rant
A high-profile legal and political controversy has erupted
after comedian and television host Trevor Noah filed a lawsuit
against Donald Trump,
alleging that the president sent “damaging, intimidating, and dangerous” private direct messages
following a public dispute tied to comments made during the Grammy Awards

Trevor Noah Files $100m Lawsuit Against Donald Trump for damages, Alleging the President Issued Dangerous and Intimidating Private Messages After Explosive Truth Social Rant where The President Denied Epstein Island Allegation Following Grammy Awards Backlash
Trevor Noah Sues Donald Trump Over Alleged Threatening Messages Following Explosive Truth Social Rant A high-profile legal and political controversy has erupted after comedian and television host Trevor Noah filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump, alleging that the president sent “damaging, intimidating, and dangerous” private direct messages following a public dispute tied to comments […]

Adobe launches Firefly Custom Models in public beta, letting users train AI image generators on their own assets; the custom models are private by default (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/897243/adobe-firefly-ai-custom-models-ima…

Adobe’s AI image generator can now be trained on your own art
Adobe is launching customizable AI image generators that can mimic specific artistic styles and character designs.

Sources: the US DOJ has summoned some of the largest theater chains to private conversations about the potential impact of a sale of WBD (Thomas Buckley/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-18/warner-sa…

Sources: OpenAI is in advanced talks with PE firms including TPG and Advent to form a JV that would distribute its enterprise tools to their portfolio companies (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-courts-private-e…

Spionageangst im Bendlerblock: Pistorius verbannt Privat-Handys aus Sitzungen
Wegen akuter Abhörgefahren durch Russland und China verschärft das Verteidigungsministerium die Regeln für Smartphones und Smartwatches in sensiblen Bereichen.

In testimony at the High Court, The Daily Mail's royal editor Rebecca English denied using a private investigator to "blag" information about Prince Harry (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar…

Fast jeder zweite private Windows-PC noch mit Windows 10
Deutschland bleibt beim Umstieg auf Windows 11 im internationalen Vergleich zurück. Zehn Monate bleiben noch.
https://www.heise…

Matthew Ball's State of Video Gaming 2026 report: global video game content sales grew 5.3% YoY to $195.6B in 2025; job losses fell 40% YoY to 9,200 people (Sophie McEvoy/GamesIndustry.biz)
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/global-game-content-sales-rose-53-…

Global game content sales rose 5.3% to $195.6bn in 2025
Private funding fell a further 55% last year, according to Epyllion's latest State of Video Gaming report

Im Verteidigungsministerium herrscht Alarmstimmung: Minister Boris Pistorius reagiert mit einer dringlichen Sicherheitsanweisung auf die wachsende Spionagegefahr durch ausländische Geheimdienste. 🚨
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11261358?wt_mc=sm.re

Robinhood launches an IPO for Robinhood Ventures Fund I, a $1B closed-end fund to provide retail investors access to private markets, offering 40M shares at $25 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-17/ro…

Airbnb launches a pilot in NYC, LA, and other cities that lets users to select from a range of boutique hotels alongside private homes in a bid to boost growth (Stephanie Stacey/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d0dff36f-fa29-4a88-93d0-e7be0a58eba9

Sachsen weitet Handyverbot an Schulen bis zur achten Klasse aus
An sächsischen Grundschulen sind private Handys seit diesem Schulhalbjahr bereits tabu. Jetzt kündigt der Kultusminister eine Ausweitung des Verbots an.

Kürzung von Rundfunkbeitrag in der Schweiz gescheitert
Weniger zahlen und private Anbieter stärken – mit diesem Argument wollten Befürworter den Rundfunkbeitrag in der Schweiz drastisch kürzen. Es kam anders.
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Private equity and private credit groups' big bets on SaaS companies, the biggest area of PE activity in the past decade, risk being derailed by the rise of AI (Financial Times)
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/d8dcf5d9-cf89…

Bluesky says a sophisticated DDoS attack is to blame for continued app outages but it has not seen any evidence of unauthorized access to private data (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/17/its-not-just-you-bluesky-is-sorta-down/
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Bluesky confirms DDoS attack is cause of continued app outages | TechCrunch
Bluesky has been experiencing ongoing service disruptions since just before 3 a.m. ET. on April 15.

Robinhood Ventures Fund I discloses its first investments, buying $14.6M of Stripe shares and $20M of ElevenLabs' preferred stock in March (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/03/17/robinhood-s-new-ventu…

Robinhood’s new venture fund just snapped up stakes in Stripe and ElevenLabs
The closed-end fund aims to give everyday investors exposure to private firms before they go public.

Valinor, which aims to use smart contracts to replace manual lending processes in the private credit industry, raised a $25M seed led by Castle Island Ventures (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/03/30/valinor-seed-round-25-mil…

Ex-Blackstone staffers raise $25 million for startup Valinor, which aims to put private credit on the blockchain
Castle Island Ventures led the fundraise, with participation from Maven11, Susquehanna Crypto, and the founders of the Bitcoin-mining-turned-AI company TeraWulf.