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„Stranger Things Season 5“: Das Grauen jenseits des Stimmbruchs
Die erste Hälfte des Finales von „Stranger Things“ ist da. Die Action zündet, doch die lange Wartezeit steht den Stars leider deutlich ins Gesicht geschrieben.

Sources: theaters earned $25M from Netflix's Stranger Things finale over New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, selling concession vouchers in a new price strategy (Anthony D'Alessandro/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/box-office-stranger-things-…

‘Stranger Things’ Finale Delivers $25M+ To Movie Theaters After New Year’s Play – Box Office
Stranger Things' Finale Grosses $25M+ for Movie Theaters in concessions

Goede ontwikkeling. "Nederlandse overheid test Frans alternatief voor Teams, Zoom en Webex"
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https://tweake…

Nederlandse overheid test Frans alternatief voor Teams, Zoom en Webex
De Nederlandse overheid zet pilots op met tools voor digitale soevereiniteit die de Franse overheid gebruikt, zoals Visio voor videovergaderen. Frankrijk verplicht dit alternatief voor Amerikaanse tools als Teams, Zoom en Webex vanaf 2027 voor alle overheidsdiensten.

Sources: US-based Arcee AI is pitching investors on a $200M funding round valuing it at over $1B, as it plans to train an open-weight model with 1T parameters (Anna Tong/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/02…

The Top Open AI Models Are Chinese. Arcee AI Thinks That’s A Problem.
The American startup is pitching investors on a $1 billion+ valuation to train a model over a trillion parameters, aiming to reclaim the open-weight lead from Chinese labs like Moonshot and DeepSeek.

Mailbag: How did Super Bowl teams rebuild? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-how-did-super-bowl-teams-rebuild

❗️ PUTIN's surname is mentioned 1,056 times in the EPSTEIN files #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/02/putins-surname-is-mentioned-times.html

Republicans are sweating Tuesday’s special election in Trump country

The surprisingly competitive race
in Tennessee’s ruby-red 7th Congressional District
is a high-profile test of voters’ attitudes about the president’s agenda.
https://www.washingtonpo…

Why Republicans are sweating Tuesday’s special election in Trump country
The surprisingly competitive race in Tennessee’s ruby-red 7th Congressional District is a high-profile test of voters’ attitudes about the president’s agenda.

I think the root of the “AI” evil is when AI researchers in the 1960s recognized that they outrageously underestimated the complexity of the human mind.
They became humiliated by their promises that AGI was just a few years away—and then went full goblin mode that’s lasting to this day.
Some of the OG researchers took it quite badly that they stalled and weren’t in the limelight anymore.
‣ Marvin Minsky (co-founder of MIT AI lab and arguably the most important early AI bro) went on to visit Epstein’s island multiple times.
‣ Karl Steinbuch, who came up with the German term for computer science ("Informatik")—who also was a literal Nazi (and likely war criminal) in World War II—later wrote articles in ultra-right magazines about things like “equal rights rob women of their children”.
‣ John McCarthy (inventor of Lisp, co-authored document that coined the term “Artificial Intelligence”) was a staunch Republican who years later claimed (in a serious article) that “thermostats have beliefs”.
[one moment, I am receiving more information]
‣ There’s a second Epstein Island AI pioneer? Who also was Chief Learning Officer at… Trump University? That would be Roger Schank (founded one of the first AI companies in the 1980s AI boom, it even had an IPO. Of course the 1980s AI bubble burst).
Obviously all of the above received all the awards in computer science and are very revered people.

The NYT sues the Pentagon in Washington, DC, arguing that the US DOD's new reporting restrictions infringed on its journalists' constitutional rights (Erik Wemple/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/business/media/new-york-times-p…

New York Times Sues Pentagon Over First Amendment Rights
The company said in a lawsuit that the Defense Department’s new reporting restrictions infringed on the constitutional rights of journalists.

Source: the London Stock Exchange cancels hundreds of FT corporate subscriptions in response to the paper's retreat from London markets coverage in recent years (Simon Hunt/City A.M.)
https://www.cityam.com/lseg-axes-financial-times-subscription…

LSEG axes Financial Times subscriptions amid FTSE coverage retreat
The frequency of the Financial Times' coverage of large cap FTSE businesses has fallen by as much as 70 per cent.