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Taiwan: Anklage wegen illegaler Ausfuhr von KI-Servern nach China
Der taiwanische Zoll hat den heimlichen Export von KI-Servern nach China gestoppt. Unter den Angeklagten sind Mitarbeiter von Nvidia und Super Micro.

Taiwan: Anklage wegen illegaler Ausfuhr von KI-Servern nach China
Der taiwanische Zoll hat den heimlichen Export von KI-Servern nach China gestoppt. Unter den Angeklagten sind Mitarbeiter von Nvidia und Super Micro.

TIL Die Modeentscheidungen in TOS und SNW haben nicht nur was mit dem Aufkommen des Farbfernsehens, den 1960ern und Continuity zwischen den Serien zu tun, sondern ergeben auch in universe Sinn - als typische modische Reaktion auf eine Nachkriegszeit. Lesenswertes Essay.
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The Fashion of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Tells a Far Deeper Story Than You Think - Reactor
And yes, this is about makeup and hair and skirted uniforms.

Hier der Vorbericht zu den Halbfinals
https://www.gfl-juniors.de/2026/07/gfl-juniors-2026-vier-teams-kaempfen-um-den-einzug-in-den-junior-bowl-xliv/#

People who are on the #Fediverse mainly for the purpose of begging for money are not my idea of interesting acquaintances.
I know that sounds callous but I don't think that's a fit purpose for a social media account and it certainly doesn't fit what I want from social media. I don't know how it fits with any site’s rules, and don't much care.
So I don't report …

OpenAI's Head of Strategic Futures, Dean Ball, has posted on X to complain about a Chinese company publishing an open AI. OpenAI thinks that open AI is a bad idea, and here are some arguments:
"Open-weight models are inherently decelerationist [slowing down AI development], and ... in the end, open-weight models deter further AI capex."
Good.
Oh wait, you meant that as a bad thing?
"One probable outcome of an open-weight-model-dominant world is ful…

NFL likely to shut down rulebook loophole Eagles have been exploiting for the past two weeks

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-likely-to-shut-down-rulebook-kickoff-loop…

Elastic announces a ~7% reduction in its workforce, and says "advances in AI and automation are letting us operate with leaner teams"; ESTC closed down 8.70% (Richard Speed/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/databases/2026…

Elastic stretches workforce 7% thinner as AI does more of the heavy lifting
CEO says automation is enabling leaner teams as engineering is split into three core areas

Weirdest thing. Today I saw a *woman* driving a CyberTruck.
The look on her face appeared to be sadness, or shame, or maybe embarrassment, or… fear?
(And I don’t even think she saw me flip her off.)

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is many different things to many different people
— but one thing that it definitely isn’t is a get-rich-quick scheme.
Since its debut on the public tickers back in early June,
SpaceX shares have sunk from a high of over $225 to a dismal $110 today, as compounding failures and overvaluation fears take their toll.
Overall, SpaceX is down nearly 30 percent compared to its opening stock price of $150
— and all those day-one rubes are now seeing re…

SpaceX Investors in Meltdown Over All the Money They've Lost
Elon Musk's most loyal acolytes are licking their wounds as SpaceX stock continues to hit new all-time lows.

Conference travel is coming up next week so last call for anyone interested in some kind of get-together in .nl - or suggesting fun things for me to do while I'm there.
I'll be traveling most of Monday then doing conference things in Gouda during business hours Tues-Thurs (but free after unless conference goers want to join me for dinner).
Fri/Sat i will be staying in Den Haag and have a wide-open schedule. Planning to visit RevSpace at some point subject to peoples' …