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We had a lovely #CarsAndCoffee at #Seaside near #Monterey this morning. I forgot to take pictures other than one of a Mini but my friend took this Jaguar F-Type V8S and I went in the Lotus Elise …

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Digitalsteuer im Blick: EU-Parlament fordert Milliarden-Abgabe für Big Tech

Digitalsteuer im Blick: EU-Parlament fordert Milliarden-Abgabe für Big Tech
Mit einem ambitionierten Finanzplan für 2028 – 2034 will das EU-Parlament Tech-Riesen zur Kasse bitten und den Haushalt aufstocken, um Investitionen zu sichern.

Golden glow
(It's a bit of a theme this week... the local woods keep delivering magic light :)
#EveningWalk #NaturePhotography #Forest

A US bill seeks to ban exports of DUV lithography tech to China, whose imports of chipmaking equipment reportedly grew from $10.7B in 2016 to ~$51.1B in 2025 (Jared Perlo/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/senate-bill-ban-…

Senate bill would ban sale of key AI chipmaking machines to China
A bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill that would severely limit the sale of advanced semiconductor machinery to China used for AI systems.

"Deforestation leads to more extreme weather events in the Amazon region"
#AmazonRainforest #Trees #Environment

Deforestation leads to more extreme weather events in the Amazon region
From a bird's eye view, the Amazon rainforest appears as a lush green mosaic of treetops stretching as far as the eye can see. It is home to countless animal and plant species, many of which are endemic, and the forest plays an important role in the global climate as a carbon sink. However, deforestation threatens to destroy this unique ecosystem and its important functions. One-fifth of the area has already been cleared, and there is no end in sight to this intensive use. This has serious cons…

So the new #Kreutz #comet #MAPS is *still* following the constant rapid rise in brightness it has shown since discovery: a dumb extrapolation - https://cobs.si/analysis/?comet=2688&from_date=2026-01-15 00:00&to_date=2026-04-30 00:00&observation_type=V&observation_type=C&plot_x_value=1&plot_y_value=1&fit_option=1&exclude_faint=on&exclude_issue=on&observer=&association=&country=&compare_values=compare - has it get 10,000-times brighter than the Sun at its extremely close perihelion which makes so sense at all, of course, physically.
"It must therefore be assumed that this increase in activity will level off significantly in the near future," writes https://fg-kometen.vdsastro.de/koj_2026/c2026a1/26a1eaus.htm: "More likely are parameters m m0=12.0 mag / n=4 (or even lower), which would still result in a (very short-term) maximum brightness of about –9 mag (but this would probably still be significantly too bright) – always assuming that the comet survives its perihelion passage unscathed."
For other views see http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iau/cbet/005600/CBET005663.txt and https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17626 and https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10236580364221799 and https://cometografia.es/cometa-kreutz-2026-a1-maps-analisis/ - and the actual brightness is tracked at https://cobs.si/obs_list?id=2688 where it has reached ~11.5 mag. now.

Good morning friends!
It's a bit chill this morning. Another IT event ahead this evening. I'm curious how it will go.
But it also means, no physical activity or photos this evening.
Anyways, enjoy your day!
#goodmorning #bayern

The Stock Market Is More Expensive Than It Looks. Tread Carefully.
Up 8%, down 5%, down 4%, up 6%
—these are just a handful of the single-day herk-a-jerks since the beginning of February for shares of America’s largest company, Nvidia.
The broader S&P 500 index this past week had briefly slid 9% from its January high, then rocketed back several points, and was last seen trying to decide on its next adventure.
This isn’t a call to flee stocks.
It’s a suggest…

The Stock Market Is More Expensive Than It Looks. Tread Carefully. — Barron’s
Corporate profits have been wonderful, but they seem puffed up by an accounting quirk and more.

heise | Tschüss, Big Tech: Gmail-Postfach exportieren und E-Mails löschen
Sie haben Ihren E-Mail-Anbieter gewechselt? Dann müssen Sie jetzt noch Ihren Datenschatz aus dem alten Postfach heben. Wir erklären, wie das geht.

„GTA 6“ ist laut Take-Two weiter auf November-Kurs
Erstmal keine weitere Release-Verschiebung: „GTA 6“ soll laut Take-Two dieses Mal wirklich im November erscheinen. Eine Datenträger-Version ist geplant.
https://www.