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Windows 11 23H2: Nach Januar-Patchday Probleme mit Sleep und Shutdown
Die Januar-Sicherheitsupdates für Windows 11 23H2 können den Schlafmodus und das Herunterfahren stören, hat Microsoft nun eingeräumt.

The Wikimedia Foundation says Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral joined Wikimedia Enterprise to get "tuned" API access; Google is already a member (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/862109/wikip

Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon are paying up for ‘enterprise’ access to Wikipedia
The Wikimedia Foundation has announced that Microsoft, Meta, and Perplexity are paying to gain access to the nonprofit’s projects, allowing them to use Wikipedia for AI training.

A lot of the (often quite powerful!) guys emailing Epstein were asking him for dating advice,
which seems to suggest that they saw his own sex life as aspirational.
https://bsky.app/profile/econmarshall.bsky.social/post/3m5p6dgmagb2a

Marshall Steinbaum (@econmarshall.bsky.social)
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.

@…
So to reiterate this conversation:
You: Passkeys don't have problems A, B, C and D!
Me: Actually B is still a problem.
You: Yeah well, B is also a problem for passwords! And so is F and G!
Me: Yes, but B is still a problem.
You: But if I hacked the pentagon, then Z would also be a problem for passwords!
I'm not a…

One Glacier Is Actually Growing–and Perplexed Scientists Hope to Discover its Secrets https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/one-glacier-is-actually-growing-and-perplexed-scientists-hope-to-discover-its-secrets/

One Glacier Is Actually Growing–and Perplexed Scientists Hope to Discover its Secrets
The samples were drilled across 100 meters of ice, equating to some 30,000 years of glacial history. 

The Wikimedia Foundation says Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral joined Wikimedia Enterprise to get "tuned" API access; Google is already a member (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/862109/wikip

Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon are paying up for ‘enterprise’ access to Wikipedia
The Wikimedia Foundation has announced that Microsoft, Meta, and Perplexity are paying to gain access to the nonprofit’s projects, allowing them to use Wikipedia for AI training.

I get a steady stream in my replies of meant-to-be-helpful advice of the form “You should use [complex F/OSS tech] to [do complex thing] that [solves a problem you don’t have but renders the process unusable for the people doing it]”
…when the real tech problems we’re facing on the ground here, both with Signal and other tools, are 99% just ground-level UX stuff:
- basic, basic usability glitches
- workflow friction
- problematic default settings
- reliability

Trump’s morality problem becomes full-blown crisis as Epstein returns to headlines https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/trump-s-morality-problem-becomes-full-blown-crisis-as-epstein…

Trump’s morality problem becomes full-blown crisis as Epstein returns to headlines
Texas State Rep. James Talarico talks with Jen Psaki about why an increasing number of people in the faith community are speaking out against Donald Trump as his already notoriously compromised character is compounded by the cruelty of his anti-immigrant policies and his disturbing association with sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein.

Berlin-based Mirelo, whose AI models can interpret video content to add matching sound effects, raised a $41M seed led by Index and a16z, after a $3M pre-seed (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/15/mirelo-raises-41m…

Mirelo raises $41M from Index and a16z to solve AI video's silent problem | TechCrunch
Mirelo, a German startup that is building AI to add synced sound effects to videos, has raised a $41 million seed round led by Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.

ICE agents chased out of a Minnesota restaurant
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mcifwvpjs62c

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
"ICE AGENTS VERBALLY ASSAULTED AT MN RESTAURANT"