Tootfinder

Illicit crypto addresses received a record $154B in 2025, up 162% YoY, driven by sanctions evasion; Russia's A7A5 token transacted $93.3B in less than one year (Chainalysis)
https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/2026-crypto-crime-report-introduction/
<…

2026 Crypto Crime Report Introduction - Chainalysis
The professionalization of crypto crime has accelerated, with specialized networks offering laundering-as-a-service to facilitate on- and off-chain crime.

How the US government is adopting AI: NASA reports 420 AI use cases in 2025, up from 18 in 2024, HHS reports 398, Energy 325, DOJ 295, Interior 234, and DHS 205 (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/09/trump-administration-ai-p…

Trump set off a surge of AI in the federal government. See what happened.
The Trump administration is accelerating AI adoption across government, embedding the technology in policing, health care, defense and science.

Mark Silverman, Fox Sports president and COO, is stepping down and moving into a consulting role; Fox Sports executive Brad Zager will reportedly succeed him (Ben Axelrod/Awful Announcing)
https://awfulannouncing.com/fox/mark-silverman-out-as-fox-sports-presid…

Mark Silverman steps down as president of Fox Sports
Mark Silverman has stepped down as the president of Fox Sports, with Puck's John Ourand reporting he'll be replaced by Brad Zager.

Since returning to the White House,
Donald Trump has accelerated his use of the presidency to enrich himself in unprecedented new ways compared to his first term.
A new analysis from The Nation argues it all comes down to his discovery that "nobody cared."
In a piece from Monday, The Nation's Jeet Heer compared the scale of Trump's kickbacks and corruptionduring his two terms in office and found stark differences.
This is not because the president…

Trump is ramping up corruption because he thinks nobody cares: report
Since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump has accelerated his use of the presidency to enrich himself in unprecedented new ways compared to his first term. A new analysis from The Nation argues it all comes down to his discovery that "nobody cared."In a piece from Monday, The Nation...

Private payroll losses accelerated in the past four weeks, ADP reports
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/25/private-payroll-losses-accelerated-in-the-past-four-weeks-adp-reports-.html

Eine neue Studie des Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution zeigt, dass der #Meeresspiegelanstieg entlang der US-Küste deutlich schneller voranschreitet als bislang von offiziellen Stellen dargestellt.
Demnach hat sich die Anstiegsrate seit 1900 mehr als verdoppelt. Die Analyse widerspricht einem Bericht des US-Energieministeriums, der keine Beschleunigung erkannte.

New study finds sea level rise is speeding up, contradicting federal report
Research from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution finds the rate of U.S. coastal sea level rise has more than doubled in the past 125 years. The study contradicts a federal Department of Energy report issued in July, which found “no obvious acceleration in sea level rise” and downplayed the risks from rising seas.

from my link log —
The convoy phenomenon in lock contention.
https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/07/01/the-convoy-phenomenon/
saved 2019-07-01 ht…

The convoy phenomenon
The convoy phenomenon Blasgen et al., IBM Research Report 1977 (revised 1979) Today we’re jumping from HotOS topics of 2019, to hot topics of 1977! With thanks to Pat Helland for the recommendation…

#RedHat Enterprise #Linux 10.1 is out. It among others brings:
* Soft-reboots. This new systemd capability cuts downtime by letting administrators alter system state without fully rebooting.
* Reproducible builds for container tools in image mode.
* Cloud-crossing consistency w…

CoreWeave reports Q3 revenue up 134% YoY to $1.36B, vs. $1.29B est., and a net loss of $110M, down from $360M a year ago; CRWV is up 164% since its March IPO (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/10/coreweave-crwv-q3-earnings-report-2025.html…

CoreWeave's revenue more than doubles as AI buildout expansion accelerates
On top of deals with Meta and OpenAI, CoreWeave pointed to expansions from a large unnamed customer in the third quarter.

BNPL use in the US has grown to 91.5M users, with 25% financing groceries, as default rates accelerate and most loans aren't reported, creating "phantom debt" (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/16/bnpl-is-expanding…

BNPL is expanding fast, and that should worry everyone | TechCrunch
As Morris watches his BNPL investments from the other side of the table, he seems to understand the warning signs better than most.