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Google launches Web Guide, an AI-powered Search Labs experiment that organizes Google Search results by grouping pages related to specific aspects of the query (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/24/googles-new-web-view-…

Google's new Web View search experiment organizes results with AI | TechCrunch
Google's new Search Labs experiment will organize the search results using AI smarts.

Aww, Serge Fiori died: https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/06/24/quebec-singer-songwriter-serge-fiori-founder-of-rock-group-harmonium-dead-at-73/
That name won’t mean anything except to Canadians o…

Quebec singer Serge Fiori dead at 73
Quebec singer-songwriter Serge Fiori, founder of French-Canadian rock band Harmonium, died Tuesday at the age of 73.

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Open Source: Schleswig-Holstein rollt Videokonferenzlösung "OpenTalk" aus

So people are still fudding against open source.
(FUD = Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt)
All of this applies to closed source as well (or even worse):
https://www.xda-developers.com/drawbacks-open-source-software/
Let me make that clear:
The sole…

I can't ignore these 8 drawbacks to open-source software
I've found these drawbacks when using certain open-source tools.

I'm currently reading the second book of the DAEMON (German: Darknet, English: Freedom), a techno thriller from Daniel Suarez.
Pretty cool I think.
But what's even cooler: I just checked his homepage ( https://daniel-suarez.com/daemon10thsynopsis.html ) and saw a Ma…

Psychiceyeclix – Serious Idiots
#dubstep

Pavement parking.
Desperately bad in South Manchester too.
The serious problem affecting every corner of a Greater Manchester borough - [Oldham] Manchester Evening News

The serious problem affecting every corner of a Greater Manchester borough
A Greater Manchester MP has spoken out about the 'frustrating' issue.

Dive into semantic reranking at Berlin Buzzwords 2025! Athanasios Papaoikonomou will explore how different models and reranking depths impact search performance, revealing important patterns and the real-world efficiency vs. effectiveness trade-off.
Learn more: https://

Exploring reranking depth in modern search pipelines
The use of semantic reranking on top of a ‘cheaper’ retrieval step becomes more and more common in modern search applications. It offers a different cost quality profile to semantic retrieval trading indexing time compute for retrieval time compute. The depth represents the number of documents that we select to retrieve and feed into the reranking model in order to optimise their ordering. Intuitively, there is a “natural” trade-off between the uplift we can achieve by operating on an i…

Paraform, which operates a hiring marketplace with AI-powered candidate relationship management and other tools, raised a $20M Series A led by Felicis (FinSMEs)
https://www.finsmes.com/2025/06/paraform-raises-20m-in-series-a-funding.html

Paraform Raises $20M in Series A Funding
Paraform, a San Francisco, CA-based marketplace built for elite recruiters, raised $20M in Series A funding

Google unveils Gemini CLI, an agentic AI tool that lets developers make natural language requests by connecting Gemini models to local codebases in terminals (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/25/google-unveil…

Google unveils Gemini CLI, an open-source AI tool for terminals | TechCrunch
Google launched a new, open source AI coding tool for terminals, Gemini CLI, to compete with similar offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic.