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Nach Elon Musk: Auch Taylor Swift geht gegen Tracking ihrer Privatflüge vor
Elon Musk hat einen US-Studenten berühmt gemacht, der Flüge von Privatflugzeugen von Promis publik macht. Nun will auch Taylor Swift das unterbinden.

Weather disaster profiteers. MAGA Republicans trash planet for fossil fuel cash.
https://thedemlabs.org/2024/05/10/weather-disaster-profiteers-maga-republicans-trash-planet-for-fossil-fuel-cash/

Weather disaster profiteers
Politicians profiting from fossil fuel donations block measures to fight climate change.

Sources: ByteDance's EBITDA rose 60% YoY in 2023 to $40B and its sales rose from $80B to $120B, the first time ByteDance surpassed Tencent in revenue and profit (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

ByteDance Profit Jumps 60%, Taking It Past Archrival Tencent
ByteDance Ltd.’s profit surged roughly 60% in 2023, outpacing the growth of online peers Tencent Holdings Ltd. and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. in a sign of the TikTok owner’s resilience in the face of an economic downturn.

Lithuania provides Ukraine with generators, anti-drone systems: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/11/lithuania-provides-ukraine.html

Some concerns about the potential influence of private profit motives on the quality and accessibility of education
https://easysociology.com/sociology-of-education/the-link-between-private-profit-and-academisation-in-sociology/

Cloud GPU provider CoreWeave opens its European HQ in London and plans two UK data centers this year as part of a £1B investment, after raising $1.1B last week (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/10/core

CoreWeave, a $19B AI compute provider, opens European HQ in London with plans for 2 UK data centers | TechCrunch
CoreWeave has formally opened an office in London, which will serve as its European headquarters and home to two new data centers.

How Google rolled out Street View in Germany after 10 years of resistance, as Street View's utility trumped privacy concerns in Europe's most private country (Jeremy Gray/PetaPixel)
https://petapixel.com/2024/03/08/germa<…

Germany vs Google: How Street View Won the Privacy Battle in Europe's Most Private Country
How Germany lost its spirit of privacy in the face of technological progress.

A look at Android 15's Private Space feature, similar to Samsung's Secure Folder, which creates a separate profile for hiding apps and data (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority)
https://www.androidauthority.com/android-15-private-space-hands-on-343…

Here is Android 15's new Private Space in action
Android 15 will introduce a new Private Space feature that creates a separate profile you can hide apps in.

Sources: SpaceX's accounting is more "art than a science", often omitting costs of putting Starlink satellites in orbit to make numbers look better to investors (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

Is Elon Musk's Starlink Profitable? SpaceX Satellites Are Money Losers
SpaceX celebrates the satellite business as a money-making venture fueling a quest to launch rockets and reach Mars.