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🛡️ DAY 1 at GÉANT #SecurityDays | “Trust is Everything”
An inspiring start in Prague with 150 participants! Alf Moens opened on the shifting #cybersecurity landscape shaped by #AI & geopolitics.…

CB Insights: VCs and private equity firms poured $3.1B to fund 144 deals in the LA area in Q1 2025, up from $2.7B in Q1 2024 and $1.4B in Q1 2023 (Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-06-06/venture-capital-…

Venture capital investment rises in L.A., and not just for AI startups
Venture capital investors and private equity firms poured $3.1 billion to fund 144 deals in the L.A. area in the first quarter of this year, up 15% from a year ago.

Nvidia-Chef Jensen Huang trifft Bundeskanzler
Im Rahmen einer ausgedehnten Europatour plant Huang auch ein Gespräch mit Friedrich Merz. Es dürfte um europäische KI-Rechenzentren gehen.
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*A lot* of talking in this episode. It's boring.
#BillyWarlock #ErikaEleniak
Season 2 Episode 22 "Summer of '85"
#RandomBaywatch

My Timeline page is a bit like Instagram, but without adverts, influencers, coffee, lunch or vacation pictures!
#timeline #illustration #design

Good article summarizing a lot of things relevant to continued COVID'19 caution:
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/beyond-long-covid-1.7485888
Key points:
COVID'19 weakens the immune system:
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So it's not just about infecting you and causing respiratory illness and fever and all of the things that we usually get with the viral infection. This virus also specifically causes your immune system to become weaker.
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It damages blood vessels:
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In addition to SARS-CoV-2's ability to dysregulate the immune system and suppress the immune system, the spike protein itself is very damaging to blood vessel structures as well as red blood cells and platelets themselves.
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The folk idea that infections make our immune system stronger and stronger like a muscle just isn't true (or at least, doesn't apply to COVID'19 because of how, unlike most other viruses, it damages the immune system):
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For the longest time in the field of immunology, there was the sort of adage that your immune system needs to be tested every now and again to stay strong. That's an old-fashioned idea.
The more new-fashioned and evidence-based idea is that, although your immune system can take on [a COVID] infection, you want to avoid testing it as much as possible because your body is sustaining damage with each infection that it survives.
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Celebrating 10 Years of EaPConnect! 🎉
For a decade, EaPConnect has empowered universities, research institutions, and students across Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine, providing high-capacity network infrastructure and fostering international collaboration.
As it nears completion in 2025, Rosanna Cramarossa Norman spoke with NREN directors about the project's impact.
🔗 Read the full interview in the latest edition of

Celebrating 10 Years of EaPConnect: Voices from the NRENs | GÉANT CONNECT Online
We are joined by the directors of the five NRENs beneficiary partners involved in the EU-funded ‘EU4Digital: Connecting Research and Education Communities (EaPConnect)’ project: ASNET from Armenia, AzScienceNet from Azerbaijan, GRENA from Georgia, RENAM from Moldova and URAN from Ukraine. Launched in 2015, the EaPConnect project has empowered universities, research institutions, and students throughout the Eastern

Filipino workers in Taiwan's chip industry report struggling with overwork and discrimination, citing overnight shifts of up to 16 hours and abusive treatment (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/filipino-workers-taiwan-chip-industry/

Workers describe abusive treatment in Taiwan’s semiconductor factories
A record number of people are leaving the Philippines to work in Taiwanese factories, where they face long shifts, low pay, and unequal treatment.

His hand never touches her
#NicoleEggert #DavidHasselhoff
Season 3 Episode 3 "Tequila Bay"
#RandomBaywatch

Qualcomm agrees to acquire UK-listed Alphawave, which makes high-speed chip and connectivity tech for data centers, for $2.4B in cash, set to close in Q1 2026 (Amy Thomson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20