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The launch of the Dutch Time & Frequency network for #Research & #Education ⏱️
Launched at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam last month, the service by @… delivers highl…

Sony says it has developed tech to identify copyrighted music in AI-generated songs, aiming to help rights holders receive compensation if their music was used (Rei Nakafuji/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

Sony Group tech can identify original music in AI-generated songs
Japanese company seeks to help copyright holders receive share of revenue

Good. Hopefully it means that they hired a few good admins.
The worst thing to happen to email was providers of other services bundling email at prices less than it should cost to provide high quality service.
It has deprofressionalized email. The pressure on email operations to cost nothing has squeezed out high competence admins and left the largest operations mysterious black boxes to the people who run them.

Ars Technica (@arstechnica@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Rackspace raises email hosting prices by as much as 706 percent Rackspace tells Ars that hosted email is still a part of its "mission." https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/01/rackspace-raises-email-hosting-prices-by-as-much-as-706-percent/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Thank you for everything @… ! 👏
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Almost like they're chopped off the metaverse at the knees…
So visionary that they renamed and redirected the company after the wrong technology trend.

Claims that #AI can help fix climate dismissed as #greenwashing https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/17/tech-companies-traditional-ai-generative-climate-breakdown-report?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Sony says it has developed tech to identify copyrighted music in AI-generated songs, aiming to help rights holders receive compensation if their music was used (Rei Nakafuji/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

Sony Group tech can identify original music in AI-generated songs
Japanese company seeks to help copyright holders receive share of revenue

Mycelial
A podcast embodying mycelium, threading together wisdom, movements, practices, technology and ideas, old and new, to help in weaving an emergent world centring Earth and Humanity...
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reality_mining: Reality mining proximity network (2004)
A network of human proximities among students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as measured by personal mobile phones. Nodes represent people (students from the Media Lab and the Sloan Business School) and an edge connects a pair if the two devices made a Bluetooth handshake at the time. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 96 nodes and 1086404 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

So we face a serious crisis with #ClimateChange, where we know what has to be done and how to do it, but we chose not to invest in it.
And we know we have the resources, because trillions are being spent on speculative investments in AI, which currently is aggravating the #ClimateCrisis wi…

So we face a serious crisis with #ClimateChange, where we know what has to be done and how to do it, but we chose not to invest in it.
And we know we have the resources, because trillions are being spent on speculative investments in AI, which currently is aggravating the #ClimateCrisis wi…

Eat your l'il plastic heart out, Chatty Kathy:
After a teddy bear talked about kink, AI watchdogs are warning parents against smart toys | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/28/artificial-intelligence-smart-toys

lol right on schedule https://flipboard.social/@TechDesk/115907129519156565

🍞 Yeast Flakes as a Technological Ingredient for Salt Reduction and Flavor Enhancement in Bread
#food

Using AI for mental health support is dangerous and wrong.
Buuut, probably less dangerous and wrong than relying on mental health support supposedly provided by NSFT NHS trust in Norfolk, UK
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

The US are the current world champions in self-sabotage, but China hasn't quite lost their touch just yet.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/17/china-blocks-nvidia-h200-ai-chips-that-us-gover…

Sources: Apple is in preliminary talks with India's CG Semi, which offers chip assembly and testing services, to assemble and package chips for the iPhone (Dia Rekhi/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t

Domestic firms may chip in for the iPhone
Exploratory conversations have taken place between Murugappa Group-owned CG Semi, which is building an outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) facility in Sanand, Gujarat. It’s the first time Apple is evaluating the prospect of having certain chips assembled and packaged in India.

Beer lovers and planet lovers, unite! Pubinno's smart tap system is revolutionizing draft beer service by slashing waste and boosting keg yields.
The results? Over 1.4 billion liters of water saved, plus industry awards for sustainability. It adjusts foam levels, works with any glass, and even handles nitro beers and sodas.
Best part: going green saves venues money too.

Happy Hour Clean Technology Special: Pubinno Smart Tap at CES - CleanTechnica
As another week comes to a close, many of us are looking forward to pouring ourselves a cold one. However, like many aspects of our lives, there are environmentally smarter ways to consumer our beverage of choice. At the end of one of the long days at CES, many people were also looking to take a break, and Pubinno’s demo offered a welcome and resource-conserving way serve up a well-poured draft beer.

Some workers are going all in on AI while also questioning whether all that AI is good for the world. Others are effectively training machines to do their jobs better than they can. And many of the same workers who are racing to build the future are now wondering if the future they’re building has a place for them in it.

Old enough to remember 2013-02-07 when any web page that included a Facebook-supplied javascript resource (to enable the, once ubiquitous, Facebook Connect) redirected users to Facebook.
(It's the event that most informed my suspicion in using third-party javascript - without SRI.)
It's 2025: Facebook is retiring external like buttons, but Cloudflare is breaking captchas.

Dear #Business. Here's a reminder to you who rely on #OpenSource in your software and services.
Your digital infrastructure is cheap because you CAN get it for almost no cost.
How cheap?
Look at the Harvard Business Review study from 2024: The ROI of Open Source is 2000 ×.
…

Open source software valued at $8 trillion in Harvard study
"Any time you spend on building that software to operate is time taken away from building the services that customers really want and will pay for. Open source software helps companies get to their goals faster..."

#neu & #openaccess:
"AI and Image: Critical Perspectives on the Application of Technology on Art and Cultural Heritage"
https://

How a cinematic clip of Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt made using Seedance spooked Hollywood, drawing condemnation from some and indifference from others (Derrick Bryson Taylor/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/movies/tom-c…

Why an A.I. Video of Tom Cruise Battling Brad Pitt Spooked Hollywood
A 15-second clip created by an artificial intelligence tool owned by the Chinese technology company ByteDance appears more cinematic than anything so far.

Vibe coding is the single biggest transformation since ChatGPT 3.5, it is one of the biggest transformations since the dawn of computing. It will thoroughly transform Open Source. We are not ready. #VibeCoding #OpenSource

What did Vibe Coding just do to the Commons? - varnelis.net
I write a lot about art and architecture, landscape, and the impact of technology on culture, but I haven’t written about coding since the 1980s, when I sold my first article to Creative Computing magazine. Back then I was a high school kid, spending hours working in both BASIC and 6502 assembler on the VIC-20. I ...

“If the market can keep the faith to persist, it buys the necessary time for the technology to mature, for the costs to come down, and for companies to figure out the business model,” Wu said. But US “companies can end up underwater if AI grows fast but less rapidly than they hope for,” he suggested.

Bursting AI bubble may be EU’s “secret weapon” in clash with Trump, expert says
Spotify and Accenture caught in crossfire as Trump attacks EU tech regulations.

The US EPA rules that xAI acted illegally by using dozens of methane gas turbines to power its Colossus 1 and Colossus 2 data centers in the Memphis area (Dara Kerr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/15/elon-musk-xai-datacenter-m…

Trump regime wants social media sites to expose anti-ICE accounts.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/dhs-anti-ice-social-media.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Homeland Security Demands Social Media Sites Reveal Names Behind Anti-ICE Posts
The department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials and tech workers said.

Plastic—when a miracle technology becomes a burden #environment

Plastic—when a miracle technology becomes a burden
Plastic is everywhere in modern society. While it has paved the way for enormous progress, the pollution it leaves behind is now creating major challenges.

Deadline Extended - AI and the Study of the Ancient Near East
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Reading many posts about "oh, how awful is GenAI , it was wrong and hallucinated", that is the nature of this technology folks... You have to think about the context where you are using it and implement it in a way so you can mitigate this risk, accept it, or choose NOT to use it.
#ai #hallucinations

A ceaseless urge beneath all appearance; an impulse not merely to persist but to intensify; life as duration, as movement, as an unbroken unfolding in time. As a technology of becoming. Life as sequence - procedural quests of forward momentum.
A language underwrites the motion; lines on lines inscribing themselves across a dark field. Pulses like pixels, moving in canon. Constructions that branch, loop, and repeat. Patterns generate patterns, as though the law of existence were simply…

Sie meinen?
"Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang…would really appreciate it if you would stop talking about the potential harms of the technology that’s supercharged his fortune."
https://gizmodo.com/jensen-huang-is-begging-you-to-stop-being-…

Luxembourg-based Hydrosat, which builds AI-based thermal infrared satellite tech to provide data for water resource management and more, raised a $60M Series B (Ingrid Lunden/Resilience Media)
https://resiliencemedia.co/hydrosat-rais…

Hydrosat raises $60M for its thermal satellite imaging tech
A startup building AI-based thermal infrared satellite technology to provide data for water resource management, public safety and defence applications

"University of Houston’s Carbon Capture Breakthrough Cuts Costs, but Scale Remains Uncertain"
#US #USA #America #CarbonCapture

University of Houston’s Carbon Capture Breakthrough Cuts Costs, but Scale Remains Uncertain | Happy Eco News
The University of Houston’s carbon capture researchers achieved 90% CO2 removal at $70 per ton using membraneless technology; however, scaling faces challenges related to cost, policy, and infrastructure.

A breakthrough for renewable energy storage: Italian company GES has developed a manganese-hydrogen battery that could reshape the grid.
It costs just €0.02 per kWh per cycle—dramatically undercutting lithium-ion—while lasting 10,000 cycles at 75% efficiency. Commercial rollout expected in 2027.

GES rolls out manganese-hydrogen battery with significant cost edge over lithium-ion
The Italian company said the manganese-hydrogen battery it has developed represents an advanced solution for long-duration energy storage. The technology enables energy to be stored for many hours or even days, overcoming the structural limitations of lithium-ion batteries.

Reading some #scifi from the 90s right know, in an conversation an "AI" answers:
"Judgment call, ask someone real."
and later
"Since I am only a piece of code, I would be on very thin ice speculate."
What awesome technology in this fiction was imagined, unbeliveable. No ads or product placement, stating of limitation of the system, suggestion for …

🪓 Algorithms do widen the divide: Social media feeds shape political polarization
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-11-27/algorithms-do-widen-the-divide-social-media-feeds-shape-political-polarizati…

Algorithms do widen the divide: Social media feeds shape political polarization
A study shows that the order in which platforms like X display content to their users affects their animosity towards other ideological groups

Good new article from @… about online dating:
https://ghost.thenewoil.org/email/522da9aa-eef2-4b1d-b4de-25…

The Second (or perhaps 3rd) Most Important Technology by Hank Green
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4dYGdjgsz8

Raspberry Pi stock rose as much as 42% on Tuesday in a record two-day rally, amid demand for single-board computers to run low-cost AI agents like OpenClaw (Danilo Masoni/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/raspberry-pi-soars-40-c…

Right-wing media is at war with itself as Tim Pool and others accuse Candace Owens of sabotaging MAGA with her conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk's killing (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/16/candace-…

She was MAGA’s favorite conspiracist. Then she dug into Charlie Kirk’s killing.
The right-wing firebrand rose to prominence as a pro-Trump conspiracy theorist. Her latest claims have infuriated some of her former allies.

If you are up this late, maybe you want to stay up later. Go ahead, read my latest essay, What Did Vibe Coding just do to the Commons?
https://varnelis.net/works_and_projects/what-did-vibe-coding-just-do-to-the-commons/

What did Vibe Coding just do to the Commons? - varnelis.net
I write a lot about art and architecture, landscape, and the impact of technology on culture, but I haven’t written about coding since the 1980s, when I sold my first article to Creative Computing magazine. Back then I was a high school kid, spending hours working in both BASIC and 6502 assembler on the VIC-20. I ...

The UN is looking for a new home for its Climate Technology Centre—the hub that helps developing nations access critical climate tech for adaptation and mitigation.
This is a major opportunity: the hosting mandate runs until 2041, positioning the selected organization at the center of global climate technology cooperation.
Proposals due March 16, 2026.

Meta is evil, confirmed again. Leave it's platforms.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/meta-facial-recognition-smart-glasses.html?unlocked_article_code=1.MFA.q…

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature’s release.

To be fair, if you costed out hardware 9 months ago, you probably couldn't account for changes to technology prices influenced by a) AI companies b) US policies. The price of RAM alone will force adjustments.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/16/ukgov_expan…

UK.gov doubles hardware spending framework to £24B in 6 months
: Massive procurement deal for laptops, software and services comes after minister vows to squeeze better value from big vendors

AAR Buddhism and Caste Seminar
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"AI-generated wildlife photos make conservation more difficult"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Conservation

AI-generated wildlife photos make conservation more difficult
AI-generated wildlife photos and videos are changing public understanding of animals, creating risks for conservation, trust and coexistence.

Former NPR host David Greene sues Google for allegedly replicating his voice in NotebookLM without permission; Google says the voice is based on a paid actor (Will Oremus/Washington Post)

He spent decades perfecting his voice. Now he says Google stole it.
NPR’s David Greene says he was “completely freaked out” when he heard an AI voice that sounded just like his own, and he’s suing over it.

Equal1, which was spun out from University College Dublin, raised $60M to deploy its new quantum server for data centers, bringing its total funding to $85M (Ciara O'Brien/The Irish Times)
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/0

Equal1 raises $60m in funding to deploy quantum computing technology
UCD spinout has developed a quantum server for data centres

In the nearly two weeks since his arrest, Don Lemon gained 300K Instagram followers, 140K YouTube subscribers, and his Substack soared 73% to 140K subscribers (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)

Trump officials condemned Don Lemon. He’s bigger than ever after arrest.
The administration’s attacks on Lemon and independent journalists have boosted their online attention and revenue.

AAR Buddhism and Caste Seminar
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Former NPR host David Greene sues Google for allegedly replicating his voice in NotebookLM without permission; Google says the voice is based on a paid actor (Will Oremus/Washington Post)

He spent decades perfecting his voice. Now he says Google stole it.
NPR’s David Greene says he was “completely freaked out” when he heard an AI voice that sounded just like his own, and he’s suing over it.

A look at the US tech industry's effort to influence Californian politics: fighting the 5% billionaire tax, super PACs, and seeking a new tech-friendly governor (Dara Kerr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/15/californ…

How the rise of AI has divided Hollywood, as some oppose the use of the technology while others say they are exploring ways to utilize AI tools (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-ai-hollywood/

Hollywood’s AI Experiments Are in Conflict With What Actors and Directors Want
The entertainment industry is torn between keeping up and keeping talent happy.

AAR> Indian and Chinese Religions in Dialogue
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Sources: Apple partnered with Daily Mail in the UK soon after the Mail complained to the CMA in 2025 that Apple was stonewalling its attempts to join Apple News (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/02/15/2026/ap…

Exclusive: Apple News’ political honeymoon is over as MAGA ratchets up the pressure
The technology giant has shown in recent months that it can be swayed.

SiFive will integrate Nvidia's NVLink Fusion infrastructure with its RISC-V processor IP platforms, allowing SiFive silicon to communicate with Nvidia GPUs (Marco Chiappetta/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/marcochiappet

SiFive To Integrate Nvidia NVLink Fusion For Next-Gen AI Data Center Chips
SiFive has announced a partnership with Nvidia to integrate Nvidia’s NVLink Fusion interconnect technology into its forthcoming silicon platforms.

China's biggest oil company just hit a major solar breakthrough.
CNPC developed a perovskite solar cell with 25.05% efficiency—impressive on its own, but here's the bigger story: they're planning to pair it with silicon cells to slash energy costs. Pilot production starts 2026, mass production 2028.
Their goal? Match their oil output with renewables by 2035.

China National Petroleum Corporation achieves 25.05% efficiency for inverted perovskite solar cell
The Chinese energy and oil company said the cell can be used as a top device in perovksite-silicon tandem configurations. The result was confirmed by the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology (SIMIT).

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-AmIndian: 9 November - 16 November
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Crypto lender Nexo says it is relaunching in the US in partnership with Bakkt, three years after leaving the US and paying a $45M fine to settle SEC charges (Elizabeth Howcroft/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/crypto-

AAR> Buddhist Art-making and Bodily Ethics in Queer and Trans Bangkok
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Mexico-based fintech Plata raised up to $500M in a financing deal arranged by Nomura Securities International, as it moves toward becoming a full-fledged bank (Prakhar Srivastava/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/plata-raises-up-500…

Seminar> Reading the Works of Śāntideva (Online/In-person with Professor Vesna A. Wallace)
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Google releases TranslateGemma, a suite of Gemma 3-based open translation models available in 4B, 12B, and 27B parameter sizes with support for 55 languages (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/translategemma/

TranslateGemma: A new suite of open translation models
TranslateGemma is a new family of open translation models built on Gemma 3.

Tech whistleblowers like Yaël Eisenstat say coming forward has unexpectedly derailed their lives and careers; Meta is in litigation with Sarah Wynn-Williams (Naomi Nix/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/15/big-tech-whist…

Tech whistleblowers face million-dollar debts, job loss and isolation
After exposing the harms of Big Tech, many whistleblowers say they faced poor job prospects and isolation in Silicon Valley. They have no regrets.

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-NC: 4 January - 11 January
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In opening statements in a social media addiction trial in Los Angeles, YouTube argues it is an entertainment service like Netflix rather than a social network (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/technology/youtube-social-media-addictio…

YouTube Argues It Isn’t Social Media in Landmark Tech Addiction Trial
The app said in opening statements that it was more of an entertainment platform. The lawsuit claims social media companies design products that cause personal injury.

How the rise of AI has divided Hollywood, as some oppose the use of the technology while others say they are exploring ways to utilize AI tools (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-ai-hollywood/

Deadline Approaching: New England Regional Fellowship Consortium
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Researchers outline Iran's digital surveillance capabilities, integrated across communications and internet networks, and recently used to track down protesters (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/202…

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-HOAC: 4 January - 11 January
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Sources: China is drafting rules for Nvidia H200 purchases, limiting how many chips local companies can buy and requiring them to justify the need (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/artificial-inte…

China drafting purchase rules for Nvidia H200 chips
Beijing wants to boost domestic industry, but big tech companies need top hardware

Panel on Buddhist museums and exhibitions hosted by the Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life
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2026 may be the year of the mega IPO, as sources say Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX took early steps to go public, setting up a watershed moment for the AI boom (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/technology/ai-ipo-openai-anthropic-spacex.html…

2026 May Be the Year of the Mega I.P.O.
If SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic go public, they will unleash gushers of cash for Silicon Valley and Wall Street.

Musical AI, an attribution and rights management platform for generative AI in music, raised $4.5M led by Heavybit to improve its attribution tech (Mandy Dalugdug/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/music…

Musical AI raises $4.5m to scale AI attribution tech
The startup’s technology identifies what percentage of a generated output came from which source.

Scientists say that AI has become a powerful and rapidly improving research tool, and that whether it is generating ideas on its own is, for now, a moot point (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/technol

Can A.I. Generate New Ideas?
Systems like OpenAI’s GPT-5 are accelerating research in math, biology and chemistry. But there is a debate over whether it can do that work on its own.

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-AmIndian: 4 January - 11 January
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Lightspeed raised a record $9B across six funds to invest in AI, with $3.3B to back breakout companies like Anthropic; Lightspeed has backed 165 AI startups (Erin Griffith/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/technology/ai-venture-capital-big-fun…

In A.I. Boom, Venture Capital Firms Are Raising Loads More Money
Lightspeed Venture Partners, a Silicon Valley venture firm, has amassed more than $9 billion to invest in artificial intelligence. That is its biggest haul.

Cineverse says it is acquiring IndiCue, a profitable CTV ad tech company, for $22M plus up to $18M in earnout as Cineverse focuses on streaming infrastructure (George Winslow/TV Tech)
https://www.tvtechnology.com/platform/streaming/cinevers…

Cineverse Acquires TV Monetization Platform IndiCue
As a result of the deal, Cineverse expects to get a majority of its revenue from technology and streaming infrastructure solutions by 2027

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-OralHist: 4 January - 11 January
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Elon Musk claims he was "not aware of any naked underage images generated by Grok" and that Grok was programmed to comply with the laws of any given country (Reuters)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/14/elon-musk-grok-ai-explicit-…

Research Fellowships at the Massachusetts Historical Society, 2026-2027
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AAR> Panel on Buddhist museums and exhibitions hosted by the Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life, AAR, Boston
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»exsultate jubilate« – jauchzen, jubeln, feiern? Zweites internationales Nachwuchskolloquium zu Ingeborg Bachmann, Jena (11.01.2026)
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"Senses of the Divine: Aesthetics and Theology" Graduate Student Conference at the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto
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Call for Papers: “A Vision for Liberating Our Democracy” Conference, February 27–28, 2026
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Sources: Apple and Qualcomm are scrambling to secure glass cloth fiber, used in chip substrates and PCBs, as the AI boom boosts demand for the component (Nikkei Asia)
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Apple and Qualcomm fret over strained supplies of Japan's glass cloth
Surge in demand from AI giants like Nvidia send companies in search of new sources

Reminder: Applications for Research Fellowships at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library due Jan. 15, 2026
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India lacks specific policies or zoning regulations for overseeing quick commerce dark stores, which are projected to hit 5,000 to 5,500 by FY2026 end, per HSBC (The Economic Times)
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The dark side of dark stores
The army of on-the-clock delivery boys, imperilling themselves and pedestrians, has become a familiar sight across urban India. They emerge, bearing essentials you ordered, from the hub that enables the ten-minute delivery—the dark store. Some 5,000 dark stores have mushroomed across India’s cities in the last few years, with wide-ranging implications on traffic, safety and much else. Who is responsible for their oversight?

CFP: Im Schatten der Aufklärung: kanonisches und marginales Denken in literarischen, philosophischen und religiösen Diskursen über die Bildung im 18. Jahrhundert (13.02.2026)
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Professor David J. Farber, whose work on academic experimental computer networks helped define the evolution of the early internet, died on February 7 at age 91 (Peter Wayner/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/technol

Trump's AI EO directs federal agencies to look into withholding federal funding for states that introduce "burdensome" AI regulations (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/11/trump-executive-ord…

Trump defies GOP critics by signing controversial order threatening states over AI laws
Trump’s latest executive order attempts to punish states that regulate artificial intelligence technology, a policy that has triggered division in the GOP.

Sources: Meta plans to lay off ~10% of its 15,000-person Reality Labs division, disproportionately affecting those working on VR headsets and Horizon Worlds (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/technology/meta-layoffs-reality-labs.html

Meta Plans to Cut 10% to 15% of Employees in Reality Labs Business
The layoffs are set to be announced this week and would affect Meta’s work on the metaverse, as the company spends heavily on building artificial intelligence.

Sources: recently the DHS has sent hundreds of administrative subpoenas, which do not need a judge's approval, to tech firms to identify people critical of ICE (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/techn…

Belgian startup Aikido Security, which offers automated security guardrails for developers, raised $60M led by DST Global at a $1B valuation (Supantha Mukherjee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/belgian-…

Google DeepMind launches an enhanced Gemini Deep Research agent accessible to developers via its new Interactions API, along with a new DeepSearchQA benchmark (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/technology/developers/deep-research-agent-gemini-api/

Build with Gemini Deep Research
We have reimagined Gemini Deep Research to be more powerful than ever, now accessible to developers via the new Interactions API.

Instacart reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to $992M vs. $974M est., gross transaction value up 14% to $9.85B, gives strong Q1 guidance; CART jumps 14% after hours (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/instacart-cart-q4-2025-earnings.html

Instacart stock pops 14% on revenue beat, rosy guidance
CEO Chris Rogers said Instacart's technology and customer-oriented approach are driving more growth and engagement to the platform.

A look at WhatsApp's enormous global reach and influence, and how the messaging app became the dominant platform for everyday conversation worldwide (Sam Knight/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/01/19/how-what…

How WhatsApp Took Over the Global Conversation
The platform has become a core technology around the world, relied on by governments and extended families alike, Sam Knight writes. What are we all doing there?

Researchers at OpenAI, Anthropic, and others are studying LLMs like living things, not just software, to uncover some of their secrets for the first time (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/1

Meet the new biologists treating LLMs like aliens
By studying large language models as if they were living things instead of computer programs, scientists are discovering some of their secrets for the first time.

Airbnb hires Meta executive Ahmad Al-Dahle, who led generative AI and the Llama team after working at Apple, as its CTO, as it aims to integrate AI in its app (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…