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Edge Markets, which provides banking tools for gambling and prediction markets, including real-time payments on Kalshi, raised a $29.2M Series A led by CoinFund (Davis Giangiulio/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/08/this-startup-wants…

This startup wants to reduce payment friction on prediction markets
EDGE Markets is announcing two new products to solve payment issues in prediction markets, the company shared exclusively with CNBC.

Kim Jong Un Orders Massive 2.5x Missile Production Surge as North Korea Expands Ballistic Arsenal Ahead of Xi Visit
https://defencesecurityasia.com/en/kim-jong-un-orders-2-5x-missile-production-surge…

Kim Jong Un Orders Massive 2.5x Missile Production Surge as North Korea Expands Ballistic Arsenal Ahead of Xi Visit
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered a massive 2.5-fold expansion of ballistic and cruise missile production capacity over the next five years, accelerating Pyongyang’s strategic weapons buildup amid rising tensions involving China, Russia, South Korea, Japan, and the United States.

Managers have one job: articulating coherent intent on which their teams can execute. Unfortunately, they have been failing at this job for decades.
AI gave them a timely out. Now anyone can ship code without knowing what they're doing, why they are doing it, or how it makes money.
But it turns out that shipping code is not the end of the work...

Product teams struggled to create intent. AI let them think they could skip it.
Teams struggled to produce intent. AI let them think they could skip it.

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Protest gegen Schwarz-Rot: Offener Brief für Informationsfreiheit

Breiter Protest gegen Angriff auf Informationsfreiheit
Über 100 Organisationen verlangen in einem offenen Brief den Stopp der vorgesehenen IFG-Einschränkungen und warnen vor einem Kahlschlag bei der Transparenz.

from my link log —
CSS: the unavoidable bad parts.
https://matklad.github.io/2026/06/04/css-unavoidable-bad-parts.html
saved 2026-06-09

insightful piece how the EP protected our rights, while the council refused to negotiate, and the commission intentionally created pressure and then even committed maladministration, again.
https://edri.org/our-work/did-the-eu-parliament-really-vot…

Did the EU Parliament really vote not to protect children online? - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
In April 2026, negotiations on the ‘interim ePrivacy derogation’ fell apart, with several stakeholders claiming that the European Parliament stopped the EU from protecting children.

I'm not even the first person to say things along this line either:
"Another motivation for reducing the steel intensity of modern society is to limit the consequences of geopolitical conflicts. The more steel we produce for peaceful purposes, the more steel becomes available for war and destruction. Remarkably, the production of military equipment is absent from modern steel statistics, and if mentioned, its share is very low. However, in times of war, steelmaking facilities switch to producing steel for military purposes. The steel industry can thus be converted into a weapons industry at any moment, and there is now a lot more steel production capacity available than there has ever been in history."
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2024/03/how-to-escape-from-the-iron-age/ buried in the last footnote.
Oh, and that article also shows the math that proves that there is no way to move to EVs without absolutely blowing through the carbon budget. You have to switch to bikes and trains. There's literally no other way to keep an even close to habitable planet.

Am #Fellhorn protestieren Naturschützer gegen den Ausbau eines #Skigebiets.
Der #LBV klagt gegen den Neubau der

Naturschützer protestieren gegen Lift-Ausbau am Fellhorn
Oben Bagger, unten Demos: Am Fellhorn laufen seit einigen Wochen Bauarbeiten für den Umbau des Skigebiets. Naturschützer protestieren – und klagen gegen das Projekt. Eine Entscheidung im Eilverfahren beim Verwaltungsgericht Augsburg steht noch aus.

Character.AI launches three human-written, AI-generated microdramas, whose characters users can chat with, and aims to eventually let users make their own shows (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/char

Character.AI enters the microdrama arena with its own productions, but there's a twist | TechCrunch
In an interesting twist that takes advantage of the company's core product, users can chat with these shows' characters, ask them questions, and even roleplay different storylines.

Crypto VC firm Paradigm raised $1.2B, its third fund, to invest in areas outside of crypto, including AI and robotics; Paradigm had $11.9B in AUM in 2025 (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…