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Sources: TSMC plans to move chipmaking tools into its second Arizona fab in summer 2026, in line with its push to accelerate US production by "several quarters" (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/
Sources: TSMC plans to move chipmaking tools into its second Arizona fab in summer 2026, in line with its push to accelerate US production by "several quarters" (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/
Figma integriert Tools zur KI-Bildbearbeitung
Figma erweitert seine Designplattform um KI-Tools zur Bildbearbeitung. Sie isolieren und retuschieren Motive oder erweitern den Hintergrund direkt im Layout.
https://www.
from my link log —
Linux sched_ext schedulers and tools.
https://github.com/sched-ext/scx
saved 2025-10-19 https://dotat.at/:/R3L2A.html
Fox News hires Palantir to build tools that help journalists produce stories across Fox platforms and social media; Fox won't use AI to generate editorial copy (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/19/fox-news-palantir-ai-newsroom-tools
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A curated list of awesome tools to assist 📦 development in R programming language. #rstats #📦
For years, China’s government has used what’s known as the
“Great Firewall” to censor the internet inside its country and block access to select foreign websites.
Now, a document leak shows that little-known Chinese company
'Geedge' is exporting these tools to other countries,
including Myanmar, Pakistan, Kazakhstan and Ethiopia.
Fox News hires Palantir to build tools that help journalists produce stories across Fox platforms and social media; Fox won't use AI to generate editorial copy (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/19/fox-news-palantir-ai-newsroom-tools
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Murdoch's murky #FoxNews teams up with Peter Thiel's #Palantir
What could possibly go wrong?
https://www.axios.c…
Better Than Original? 14 Rust-based Alternative CLI Tools to Classic Linux Commands
Hyped on the Rust wagon? How about using these Rust-based, modern, easier to use, better-looking alternatives to the classic Linux commands.
🐧 https://itsfoss.com/rust-alternative-cli-tools/<…
Worked with a hand-held circular saw today. It's been a good day. I am a sucker for power tools.
There's two other very interesting MX Linux iso's that I'd like to point to:
- the official Fluxbox version, which still offers a lot of the tools and software available to the generic XFCE version
- the minimal XFCE community spin (you know I had to check that out)
Fluxbox is actually a very nice floater, and coupled with the tools, theming and ecosystem of MX is a great choice for those old Thinkpads!
i did a 15 minute impromptu talk about glasgow/amaranth/yowasp/grebedoc and why i think these tools are interesting and special for @…, you can watch a recording: https://youtu.be/Y_TtMzmuXoY?t=1672
When all other tools fail / do not exist, just block every cunt, I guess? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
*sigh*
I can track web development eras like tree rings, but each ring is move-fast-and-break-things devs saying “we don’t care about Y and you shouldn’t either—here are a bunch of tools that disregard Y” and indie folks saying “no thanks, I do care about Y—those tools aren’t useful if they don’t take Y into account.”
Later it becomes “as an industry we have always thought Y was very important—we should build *new* tools that embrace Y, I wish someone would have said something before”
R…
There's a type of guy whose only contribution at work is sheer volume of outputs, whether or not they serve any purpose. #AI tools ask us, "what if everyone could be that guy?"
It turns out that the result is bad for everyone. Systems lose their ability to evaluate whether outputs are fit for purpose. Shared intent disappears.
Scaling up trash only makes more trash. Work tha…
Pushing "AI" upon employees in the name of efficiency, even when the tools don't really work, is
- transparently wrong
- brutal
- tacky, and
- necessary to take seriously
anyway, here's the state of the East Wing right now, for no particular reason
https://journa.host/@w7voa/115…
The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) is now a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Program-Root, thus becoming a central point of contact within the CVE program for national/EU authorities, EU CSIRTs network members, and cooperative partners falling under ENISA’s mandate.
htt…
#Steady-#Klimacrew
Wie lassen sich gefälschte Bilder von #Betrügereien erkennen?
Wenn Fotos als Beweis dienen, steigt das
It might be about minus eleventy billion degrees out there, but that hasn't stopped next door from deciding that this is the perfect opportunity to get out the gardening tools and go all texas chainsaw massacre on their hedge.
Right below the bedroom I use as an office, of course.
#ShutUp #BloodyChainsaws
All four reporters at Suncoast Searchlight, a nonprofit news site, accused their EIC of using generative AI tools without disclosure; one reporter was fired (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/florida-no…
I use Rogue Amoeba’s software daily. They make kickass products that revolutionize how I use my Mac.
https://mastodon.social/@RogueAmoeba/115577778426778740
Evilginx’s creator reckons with the dark side of red-team tools https://therecord.media/evilginx-kuba-gretzky-interview-click-here-podcast
Here's my (probably not complete) list of #FLOSS projects I've donated to or financially supported over the year - and especially now in the holiday season.
If you've recently started moving away from big tech and replaced their tools with FLOSS alternatives, maybe consider sharing a bit of your savings with the people that make the tools you now rely on 🙏
Which tools would that be for you?
#opensource
https://tzovar.as/supporting-floss/
In our session today, we discussed office buildings together with my long-term collaborator, friend and ex-colleague Rosie Haslem
Another brilliant and engaging session on architectural research in practice, differences between academic and practice-led research as well as various research tools
#ArchitecturalResearch
I’ve worked over the past year to reduce the amount of noise in my consciousness on a daily basis.
By that I mean - information noise, not literal sounds “noise”. (That problem was solved long ago by some good earplugs and noise canceling earphones.)
I’ve gotten used to spending less time on social media, regularly blocking most apps on my devices (anything with a feed news, most work communication apps, etc.), putting my phone and other devices aside for extended periods of time. Often go to work places with my iPad explicitly having its WiFi turned off and selecting cafes that don’t offer WiFi at all.
Negotiated better boundaries at work and in personal life where I exchange messages with people less often but try to make those interactions more meaningful, and people rarely expect me to respond to requests in less than 24 hours. Spent a lot of time setting up custom notification settings on all apps that would allow it, so I get fewer pings. With software, choosing fewer cloud-based options and using tools that are simple and require as few interruptions as possible.
Accustomed myself to lower-tech versions of doing things I like to do: reading on paper, writing by hand, drawing in physical sketchbooks, got a typewriter for typing without a screen. Choosing to call people on audio more, trying to make more of an effort to see people in person. Going to museums to look at art instead of browsing Pinterest. Defaulting to the library when looking for information.
I’m commenting on this now for two reasons:
1. I am pretty proud of myself for how much I’ve actually managed to reduce the constant stream of modern life esp. as a remote worker in tech!
2. Now that I’ve reached a breaking point of reducing enough noise that it’s NOTICEABLE - I am struck by the silence. I don’t know what to do with it. I don’t know how to navigate it and fill it. I made this space to be able to read and write and think more deeply - for now I feel stuck in limbo where I’m just reacquainting myself with the concept of having any space in my mind at all.
Look what an old #macOS SDK in the “Command Line Tools" tree causes on Apple Silicon:
$ clang -o ghba geh.c
In file included from geh.c:14:
In file included from /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX10.14.sdk/usr/include/stdlib.h:62:
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX10.14.sdk/usr/include/sys/cdefs.h:784:2: error: Unsupported architecture
784 | <…
"People should not "blindly trust" everything AI tools tell them, the boss of Google's parent company Alphabet told the BBC.
In an exclusive interview, chief executive Sundar Pichai said that AI models are "prone to errors" and urged people to use them alongside other tools.
Mr Pichai said it highlighted the importance of having a rich information ecosystem, rather than solely relying on AI technology."
Anfang April '25 habe ich ein wirklich gutes, flottes Lenovo Notebook angeschafft.
Bei der Ersteinrichtung ist es mir leider irgendwie "gelungen", das Windows-Farbprofil mit einem furchtbaren Gelbstich zu verunstalten. Seitdem habe ich zahllose Versuche unternommen, es zu verbessern oder zurückzusetzen.
Heute ist es mir endlich dank eines Tools des Herstellers meines Monitors (Philips) gelungen.
Ist das schön! Wie Weihnachten!
Resilient technologies aren’t retro—they’re ROOT: Robust, Open, Ongoing, Time-tested. In RDM, text-first small, composable tools beat opaque stacks. Emacs/Org(-babel) for literate workflows & provenance; Makefiles declare rebuilds; CLI atoms—curl, sed, awk, grep, diff, tar, rsync, cron, SQLite—keep steps inspectable, portable, rebuildable. DOI: https://
Curious what the thinking is for an edu to slice off a /24 that ended up at a Bulgarian web hoster.
https://social.bgp.tools/@transfers/statuses/01KA30858R3DSVDK72F1EY82WM
As the Trump administration ratchets up its targeting of immigrant communities across the Chicagoland area,
elected officials are looking for any tool they can find to protect their residents from militarized raids and roving bands of Border Patrol officers.
Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans banned civil arrests at county courthouses across Chicago this week,
preventing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from arresting and attempting to deport people who …
Moody Urbanity - TWO 2️⃣
情绪化城市 - 贰 2️⃣
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
»Anonyme E-Mails versenden — So schützen Sie Ihre Privatsphäre im Netz:
Anonyme E-Mails können Ihre Privatsphäre schützen. Verschiedene Tools und Methoden bieten effektive Möglichkeiten, um die eigene Identität zu verschleiern.«
Die meisten Menschen hier kennen und nutzen es sicherlich schon. Schade, dass die nicht auch OpenPGP für E-Mail Verschlüsselung erwähnen. Es geht ja immer darum wie was wann weshalb mensch es einsetzt.
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Build more tools. 🛠️
Parse more data. ⚙️
Surveillance tools exported by China, based on US tech and obtained by Chinese companies, to countries like Nepal are being used to stifle Tibetan refugees (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/china-tibet-nepal-sur…
What I’d love to see: An in-depth wide-ranging review of the various “workspace” tools - docs, sheets, calendars - that are options for people who want to de-Google themselves. I know about Proton, Fastmail, etc, but not from people who've daily-driven more than one of them.
#degoogle
Edit 2: Yes you can! Using the DeDRM plugin (https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools). I'll be forever grateful to people who make these tools 🙏
There's a few steps required (let me know if you want to do it yourself and have questions) but I just tried it, using some instructions from Reddit and it worke…
If you are looking for good privacy respecting messaging and other apps, you could check my slides from @… conference here : https://
Appreciate the nod that spatial data viz is hard, @…!
The motivation part about expensive GIS tools is a little off though 💸 :qgis:
https://m…
Humans are better coders than AI, CodeRabbit concludes
Security researchers analyzed 470 open-source GitHub pull requests, including 320 AI-co-authored PRs and 150 human-only PRs. In short, they found that AI tools accelerate code output, but also amplify the number of (critical) mistakes.
https://
RE: https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/115746396115275350
I think my take on why I don't use AI coding tools is much more detached from their abilities.
It's partly that my kind of coding requires skills that I don't want to lose. But it's also the…
GOAT: A Training Framework for Goal-Oriented Agent with Tools
Hyunji Min, Sangwon Jung, Junyoung Sung, Dosung Lee, Leekyeung Han, Paul Hongsuck Seo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12218
Gloo, which develops AI tools for Christian churches and counts Pat Gelsinger as executive chair, closed up 1% in its Nasdaq debut after raising $73M in its IPO (George Steer/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e567cb36-a4bd-47c9-9fa7-9550dfa434c1
netpbm tools are a suite of tools to convert and fiddle with the ppm/pbm/pgm (collectively pnm) file formats, which are pretty much the simplest image formats on the planet, which even have an ASCII version; so if you have a simple script you want to generate simple images with they're a good choice of format, and if you have them, the pbm tools can convert to/from pretty much anything else or do simple scale/etc - lighter than ImageMagick say.
Meta launches a tool called content protection to let creators detect when their reels are reposted on Facebook or Instagram and take action (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/face
Designing Tools with Control Confidence
Ajith Anil Meera, Abian Torres, Pablo Lanillos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12630 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12630
“People want software that is fast, modern, but also honest about what it does.”
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozillas-next-chapter-anthony-enzor-demeo-new-ceo/
No, you muppet, people want tools that do what…
"This Week in Videogames spoke to a dozen professional concept artists in the wake of Vincke’s comments, all of whom currently or have previously worked in game development, ranging from indie studios to large AAA developers. All, without exception, said that generative AI image tools had only made their lives more difficult – even when simply used as reference material."
Is it hard to keep up with all the awesome extensions and tools for quarto? Check here for an extensive list of resources: #quarto
#google: The AI we are putting into all of our products cannot be trusted, but it also can't be turned off
#microsoft: Windows 11 is now an agentic OS, and what that means is it can install malware
By the way,
Nexos.ai, which helps companies adopt AI tools by acting as a middleman between employees and AI systems, raised a €30M Series A co-led by Index and Evantic (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/20/european-ai-ri…
Sources: UMG, WMG, and Sony Music have licensed their works to Klay, which is building a streaming service that will let users remake songs using AI tools (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-2…
Humain partners with Adobe and Qualcomm to develop AI tools for Arabic content, using Adobe's Firefly Foundry to build AI models and Qualcomm chips to run them (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/
Presumably even more to HostRoyale. They use edgoo for all upstream.
https://social.bgp.tools/@transfers/statuses/01K9QJX3EHY2276BFBBCR3JK0Y
Insight Partners-owned Veeam agrees to acquire Securiti AI, which makes data security tools, for ~$1.73B in cash and stock, set to close first week of December (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…
In a letter to two US lawmakers, Ticketmaster says it will ban users from operating multiple accounts and shut down its TradeDesk platform after an FTC lawsuit (Dave Brooks/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/ticketmaster-policy-multiple-accounts-…
GE HealthCare acquires Intelerad, which sells cloud imaging software and digital workflow tools primarily to outpatient and ambulatory sites, for $2.3B (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2025/11/20/ge-healthcare-…
With all my KDE, dwm, MangoWC, NixOS, Gentoo, FreeBSD, Wayland, immutably complicated stuff it is very refreshing to just download an MX Linux iso, install it in under 10 minutes and have evrything you might want up and running in no time.
Well curated, well styled, great tools, you name it. Documentation excellent.
What a great distro! A gem.
#mxlinux
Archetype, which builds AI to interpret sensor data from the physical world, raised a $35M Series A and launches tools to build and deploy physical agents (Grace Priscilla Teo/Tech in Asia)
https://www.techinasia.com/news/samsung-joins-35m-series-a-for-…
Ich möchte wirklich nicht immer die #KI kritisieren aber die negativen Infos hören einfach nicht auf:
»Cursor, Claude Code und viele mehr—Diese gravierenden Sicherheitslücken sollen in allen Vibe-Coding-Tools stecken:
Sind #VibeCoding-Tools wirklich sicher? Ein
Anthropic announces Claude Life Sciences, a new offering for researchers that integrates Claude AI models with lab tools like Benchling to boost efficiency (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/20/anthropic-claude-life-sciences-research-ai.html
This edu block carve-out goes to a... small minecraft hosting provider. Could be worse I guess.
https://social.bgp.tools/@transfers/statuses/01K79CWJW9KEAS9K5J493ESY2C
Nvidias KI ist jetzt Teil aller großen Chipdesign-EDA-Tools
Nvidia führt seine Aktien-Einkaufstour fort. Neu im Portfolio: Der weltweit größte Anbieter von EDA-Tools für Chipdesigns, Synopsys.
https://www.
Sources: UMG, WMG, and Sony Music have licensed their works to Klay, which is building a streaming service that will let users remake songs using AI tools (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-2…
Guardio, which helps detect malicious code created with AI tools, raised $80M led by ION Crossover, and says it has 500K paying users and $100M in ARR in 2025 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/19/security-startup-guardio-n…
AI workplace agents startup Genspark raised a $275M Series B at a $1.25B valuation and says it hit $50M in annualized revenue after pivoting from AI search (Anna Tong/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2025/11/20/genspark…
In a letter to two lawmakers, Ticketmaster says it will ban users from operating multiple accounts and shut down its TradeDesk platform after an FTC lawsuit (Dave Brooks/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/ticketmaster-policy-multiple-accounts-tra…
Universal Music Group partners with music creation platform Splice to build "advanced commercial AI tools" for musical artists (Ethan Millman/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/mu
Top 10 Browser Fingerprint Test Tools in 2025
A browser fingerprint is the unique set of data your browser and device reveal #online, such as system info, fonts, screen size, and #IPaddress. Detecting your #browser
This isn't the first transfer to aws.eu. This is the most visible and overt shift in assets by the big U.S. cloud providers I'm aware of. Others (e.g., Google and Microsoft) talk about doing more in the EU and providing isolation, but as far as I can tell Amazon's separation is going a step further.
https://
TikTok is rolling out new digital well-being features like an affirmation journal and says it will also give users badges for limiting their daily screen time (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/tiktok-will-now-give-you…
Astra Nova, which develops no-code tools that enable creators to launch blockchain-based entertainment experiences, raised $48.3M (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/10/17/astra-nova-raises-usd48-3m-to-grow-web3-ai…
Coinbase is rolling out stock trading, more advanced trading tools, prediction markets via Kalshi, and more, amid a push to be a one-stop financial app (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/17/coinbase-prediction-markets-stock-tradin…
Newsletter platform Beehiiv announces new features, including for AI website creation, podcast hosting, digital product sales, and real-time analytics (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/13/news
Netflix is merging Scanline, the VFX company it acquired in 2021, with Eyeline, its virtual production and R&D unit, to form a one-stop shop for digital tools (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/netflix-scanline-vfx-eyeline-studios-m…
Relace, which makes tools and specialized language models to help AI agents code faster for customers like Lovable and Figma, raised a $23M Series A led by a16z (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/an
Perplexity updates its iPad app to improve multitasking and focus on research tools, part of a push to add business customers, after launching Comet on Android (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
TikTok is rolling out new digital well-being features like an affirmation journal and says it will also give users badges for limiting their daily screen time (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/tiktok-will-now-give-you…
Google Photos launches new video editing tools, including specialized templates with preset music and text overlays, as well as a redesigned video editor (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/google-photos-launches-new-video-editing…
Endra, whose AI tools automate mechanical, electrical, and plumbing design for commercial buildings, raised a $20M seed led by Notion (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/18/endra-ai-startup-automating-mep-design…
Tebra, which offers practice management tools for private healthcare providers, raised $250M led by Hildred, mostly in equity, to accelerate its AI capabilities (FinSMEs)
https://www.finsmes.com/2025/12/tebra-receives-250m-in-funding.html
Rome-based Exein, which offers cybersecurity tools for protecting connected devices including cars and home routers, raised €100M led by Blue Cloud Ventures (Rose Henderson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…
As US schools adopt AI, a look at the growing use of AI-powered monitoring tools like GoGuardian to scan students' chatbot conversations for signs of self-harm (Janne Knodler/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Marc Benioff says Salesforce is saving about $100M a year by using AI tools in its customer service operations (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-14/salesforce-says-ai-customer-service-saves…
Klarna reports Q3 revenue up 26% YoY to $903M, above $882M est., a $95M net loss, and expects $1B revenue in Q4, in its first post-IPO earnings release (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/klarna-klar-stock-q3-earnings-report-2025.html<…
Cursor launches Visual Editor, a vibe-coding product for designers that integrates professional design controls with natural language editing (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/cursor-launches-pro-design-tools-figma/
Memo: Meta Superintelligence Labs' products team, led by Nat Friedman, pushes staff to ditch Meta's slow internal systems in favor of external tools like Vercel (Pranav Dixit/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-super
Ankar, which develops LLM-powered AI tools to streamline the process of drafting patent applications for patent attorneys, raised a $20M Series A led by Atomico (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/17/exclusi
Meta plans new Instagram teen safety tools in 2026, letting parents block teens from chatting with AI characters and sending them "insights" from teens' chats (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/801505/meta-ai-chatbot-parental-…
UMG and Stability AI announce a partnership to develop music creation tools powered by "responsibly" trained AI (Marc Schneider/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/umg-stability-ai-partnership-develop-music-creation-tools/