@heiseonline@social.heise.deUS-Patentamt ändert Regeln für KI-gestützte Erfindungen
Das US-Patentamt hat festgelegt, wie mithilfe von KI entwickelte Erfindungen gewerblich geschützt werden können. Eine natürliche Person muss im Spiel sein.
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@cdarwin@c.im
@salrandolph@zirk.usA tale for these days when we enjoy being spooked by what haunts us.
#fiction #flashfiction
https://salrandolph.substack.com/p/gho
@clongclongmoo@social.bau-ha.us
@memeorandum@universeodon.comUS officials expect more progress during US-Ukraine talks in Florida (Jeff Mason/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-officials-expect-more-progress-during-us-ukraine-talks-florida-2025-11-30/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p30#a251130p30
@tagesschau_eil@mastodon.social📢 Trump kündigt sofortigen Beginn von US-Atomwaffentests an
Die USA wollen wieder Nuklearwaffen testen. US-Präsident Trump kündigte eine sofortige Wiederaufnahme an und begründete das mit den Testprogrammen anderer Länder. Der letzte US-Test fand im Jahr 1992 statt.
➡️ https://www.
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeDon't get whipsawed by the overwhelming amount of cybersecurity news. Check out today's Metacurity for a concise rundown of the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Former defense firm GM pleads guilty to selling cyber exploits to Russia,
--Nation-state hackers breached key US telecom services firm Ribbon Communications for nearly a year,
--US government agencies back bid to ban TP-Link routers,
--Hacktivists breached Canadian critical inf…
@benb@osintua.euUS to cut some troops on NATO's eastern flank, Romania says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/us-to-cut-some-troops.html
@scott@carfree.cityAt the first SF Transit Riders member assembly! Plan is to hold these quarterly to update members, hear feedback and let members initiate projects. #sfpol
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialTo my eyes, this is an act of war by the US upon the nation of Venezuela. (Not to mention the blurring of GPS and the sinking of boats by the US.)
If indeed a state of war now exists (to borrow a phrase from FDR's speech to Congress after Pearl Harbor) then Venezuela could be anticipated to wage war against the US - endangering US people (including tourists) everywhere in the world.
El Cheato and Whiskey Pete are getting the US in Vietnam Part II.
"Trump says airs…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deus_roads: United States roads (2000)
The road networks of the 50 US States and the District of Columbia based on UA Census 2000 TIGER/Line Files. Edges are stretches of road and vertices are intersections of roads. The data sets were assembled by Dominik Schultes. The 'merged' network contains all the states merged together.
This network has 116920 nodes and 133415 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyHmm, I can imagine a few extra non-technical issues with this scheme for the next 3 years or so...
#EU
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineUS-Ermittler haben erstmals eine #Durchsuchungsanordnung gegen #OpenAI erwirkt, um Nutzerdaten von #ChatGPT in einem Fall von
@Techmeme@techhub.socialInvestigation: the US government allowed and even helped US companies sell tech used for China's surveillance across five GOP and Democratic administrations (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/chinese-sur
Always has been.
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@primonatura@mstdn.social"Conservation wins in 2025 that pushed us closer to the 30×30 goal"
#Conservation #Environment
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@servelan@newsie.socialJustice Department Sues Virginia Over Tuition Aid for Unauthorized Immigrants - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/us/politics/us-sues-virginia-tuition-immigrants.html
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
@publicvoit@graz.socialThe #PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program
https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-funding-statement.html
In order to not comply with…
@kornel@mastodon.social
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.usRE: #piHole:
@BootsChantilly@mstdn.social @heiseonline@social.heise.de
@offenenetze@chaos.socialUS-Patentamt ändert Regeln für KI-gestützte Erfindungen | heise online
https://heise.de/-11097295
@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump administration is going to restrict the number of refugees it admits into the United States next year to the token level of just 7,500
– and those spots will mostly be filled by white South Africans.
The low number represents a dramatic drop after the US previously allowed in hundreds of thousands of people
fleeing war and persecution from around the world
@degrowthuk@mstdn.social
@steve@s.yelvington.comGosh, I wonder what could possibly "radicalize" an immigrant to this free and welcoming country?
https://abcnews-go-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/a…
@kctipton@mas.toDonald Trump’s ‘kakistocracy’ is not the first, but it’s revived an old word | André Spicer | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/18/donald-trump-kakistocracy-john-brennan-us-twitter
@clongclongmoo@social.bau-ha.uscoda – Time Passage
#ambient
@newsie@darktundra.xyzUS, Australia say ‘MongoBleed’ bug being exploited https://therecord.media/us-australia-bug-exploitation
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioThe most surprising thing about this story is that Microsoft showed at least a little bit of backbone https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/29/google-amazon-israel-contract-secret-code
@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialICE has policies??? That IS news!😏
Revealed: ICE violates its own policy by holding people in secretive rooms for days or weeks
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/30/ice-hidden-detention-sites
@scott@carfree.cityA GenX white woman complained to her visitor from France that this building and park were gentrification, and the area “used to be fields.” The French guy actually corrected her: he remembered it was a parking lot on his last visit. The building is also 100% affordable.
@benb@osintua.euUS security guarantees set for 15 years, with Ukraine pushing for extension, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/29/us-security-guarantees-set-for.html
@life_is@no-pony.farmCars, like everything else now, are mostly made to be data collection devices. You can't collect data on every possible thing without lots of chips, man. Get with the program. How is the AI going to simulate us once it wipes us out if it doesn't collect every possible datapoint it can now? Come on. It's like you don't even WANT humanity to sacrifice itself for the betterment of the universe!
@Life_is@no-pony.farmCars, like everything else now, are mostly made to be data collection devices. You can't collect data on every possible thing without lots of chips, man. Get with the program. How is the AI going to simulate us once it wipes us out if it doesn't collect every possible datapoint it can now? Come on. It's like you don't even WANT humanity to sacrifice itself for the betterment of the universe!
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeThis would terrify me.
Hitler Ransomware Revived in Roblox Executors
https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/hitler-ransomware-roblox-executors
@salrandolph@zirk.usI’ve fallen in love with the Japanese literary form, zuihitsu.
Zuihitsu, meaning “following the brush,” flow as the mind flows. They are fragmentary—mixing moments of observation, opinion, anecdote, asides, and humor. From the contemporary point of view zuihitsu refuse categorization, vibrating in the live space between prose and poetry.
#poetry
@clongclongmoo@social.bau-ha.usadam balusik – kenoma
#ambient
@cdarwin@c.imAcquiring solar panels at home can be an expensive hassle for people in the US.
But small, simple, plug-in solar panels for use on balconies are soon to become available for millions of Americans,
with advocates hoping the technology will quickly go mainstream.
Balcony solar panels are now widespread in countries such as Germany
– where more than 1m homes have them
– but have until now been stymied in the US by state regulations.
This is set to change, wit…
@benb@osintua.euAfter US sanctions, Lukoil to sell assets to firm founded by Putin ally: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/30/after-us-sanctions-lukoil-to.html
@heiseonline@social.heise.deOnline-Umsatz am Black Friday wächst auf 79 Milliarden US-Dollar
Während manche die Rabatte am Black Friday bezweifeln, wurde dennoch fleißig geshoppt. Die Umsätze waren auch KI-getrieben.
https://www.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deus_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFrench President Emmanuel Macron criticizes the EU for being too slow to act on probes into Big Tech companies, attributing the delay to US pressure against DSA (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-afraid-of-tackling-us-big-tech-em…
@servelan@newsie.socialBeyoncé is now the fifth billionaire musician, Forbes reports | US news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/29/beyonce-billionaire-forbes
@memeorandum@universeodon.comUS strikes vessel in eastern Pacific, killing 2 (Piper Hudspeth Blackburn/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/12/29/politics/us-strikes-vessel-in-eastern-pacific
http://www.memeorandum.com/251229/p84#a251229p84
@clongclongmoo@social.bau-ha.usVA – A Form Shared by Everyone
#AllRightsReserved
@scott@carfree.city @wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us@… Wednesday captain
@newsie@darktundra.xyzRansomware responders plead guilty to using ALPHV in attacks on US organizations https://therecord.media/ransomware-responders-guilty-plea-using-alphv-blackcat-us-attacks
@cdarwin@c.imA lot of Trump voters who don't think they're "on Obamacare"
are going to be finding out this week that their health insurance that they get through their state based exchange with a name like
"[State] Direct Health Exchange] is...Obamacare.
https://bsky.app/profile/izzos.us/post
@clongclongmoo@social.bau-ha.usNigel Sanders – Inside The Rain
#ambient
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.devisualizeus: vi.sualize.us picture tagging network
Three bipartite networks of tag-picture, user-picture, and user-tag linkages that represent the folksonomy of the picture tagging network of vi.sualize.us. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 577437 nodes and 2298816 edges.
Tags: Informational, Folksonomy, Unweighted, Multigraph
@memeorandum@universeodon.comUS struck 'big facility' in Venezuela, Trump claimed without offering details (Edward Helmore/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/29/trump-venezuela-facility-strike
http://www.memeorandum.com/251229/p77#a251229p77
@clongclongmoo@social.bau-ha.usWivWav – Elektronische Meuk Vol. 1
#byncsa
@Techmeme@techhub.socialChina is expediting IPO approvals amid its AI rivalry with the US, recently approving listings for chip designers MetaX and Moore Threads in just three months (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/china-fast-tracks-tech-ipos-counter-…
@cdarwin@c.imThe federal watchdog system at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
that oversees complaints about civil rights violations, including in immigration detention,
has been gutted so thoroughly that it could be laying the groundwork for the Trump administration to
“abuse people with impunity”, experts warn.
Former federal oversight officials have sounded the alarm at the rapid dismantling of guardrails against human rights failures
– at the same time as the gov…
@clongclongmoo@social.bau-ha.usSobria Ebrietas & Iliaque – Carnation
#ambient
@memeorandum@universeodon.comUS lifts sanctions on Bosnian Serb leader Dodik and his allies (Daria Sito-Sucic/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-lifts-sanctions-bosnian-serb-leader-dodik-his-allies-2025-10-29/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p68#a251029p68
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe US FCC votes 3-0 to tighten restrictions on telecom equipment from Chinese companies on its Covered List, including Huawei and ZTE, to close loopholes (David Shepardson/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel
@cdarwin@c.imJust a day after hosting Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Trump will host Israeli prime minister #Benjamin #Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago at 1pm ET.
It is the fifth meeting between the two leaders in the US this year and comes amid concerns over progress on Trump’s fragile
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @scott@carfree.cityThere’s an awesome five piece band jamming in Precita Park to no audience right now
@memeorandum@universeodon.comUS fails to make big dent in UN vote calling for end to Cuba embargo (Michelle Nichols/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-fails-make-big-dent-un-vote-calling-end-cuba-embargo-2025-10-29/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p92#a251029p92
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: the US has granted an annual license to Samsung and SK Hynix to ship their chip manufacturing equipment to their facilities in China for 2026 (Hyunjoo Jin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/samsung…
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump’s hateful, falsehood-filled rant on Thursday
blaming immigrants for crime, “social dysfunction” and economic hardship
is refuted by a wide range of immigration statistics,
which show clearly that immigrants dramatically bolster the US economy
and commit crimes at far lower rates than people born in the US.
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump says US bombed alleged drug facility in Venezuela. No one knows if it's true. (Marisa Kabas/The Handbasket)
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-us-bombed-drug-facility-venezuela-radio-catsimatidis
http://www.memeorandum.com/251229/p80#a251229p80
@cdarwin@c.imMaj Gen Ronald Burkett, the director of operations for the #Pentagon’s #NationalGuard bureau, signed a memo requiring most states to train 500 national members for a quick reaction force
-- with a total of 23,500 troops nationwide
@heiseonline@social.heise.de39C3: Konzerne ruinieren das Netz – Cory Doctorows Ideen gegen Enshittification
US-Plattformen entwickeln sich stetig von der Lösung zum Problem. Im Interview mit heise online nennt Doctorow Wege, wie Staaten und Nutzer sich wehren können.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFrench lawmakers vote to raise France's digital services tax on US tech giants to 6%, up from 3%; the French government opposes the move, fearing US retaliation (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/french-lawmakers-progress-tax…
@cdarwin@c.imVirginia Democrat flips seat in state legislature by taking on datacenters
John McAuliff won against a Republican by focusing on something affecting all his constituents:
the cost of energy
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/n
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump Claims US Strike on 'Big Facility' Inside Venezuela (Magan Crane/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-29/trump-claims-us-strike-on-big-facility-inside-venezuela
http://www.memeorandum.com/251229/p35#a251229p35
@heiseonline@social.heise.deInternationaler Strafgerichtshof wirft Microsoft raus
Der Internationale Strafgerichtshof wirft laut Handelsblatt US-Dienstanbieter wie Microsoft raus. Und setzt auf deutsche Alternativen.
https://www.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSalesforce: online Black Friday sales grew 6% YoY to $79B globally, including $3B in US sales driven by AI agents; Adobe: US online sales rose 9.1% to $11.8B (Joan Verdon/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joanverdon/2025/…
@cdarwin@c.imRobert Reich here.
You asked us to stream
"The Last Class" film.
On Dec. 8, you can watch along with us!
Sign up: >> https://ineq.me/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comUS offered Ukraine 15 years of security guarantees, Zelenskyy says (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/volodymyr-zelenskyy-ukraine-peace-plan-to-national-referendum-us-security-guarantees/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251229/p25#a251229p25
@heiseonline@social.heise.deMeta Platforms zeigen mehr Werbung zu höheren Preisen
Mehr Umsatz und mehr Betriebsgewinn hat Meta Platforms im dritten Jahresquartal erzielt. Eine große US-Steuersenkung belastet den Nettogewinn.
https://www.…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialJensen Huang says the US needs "finesse" to maintain its AI lead over China and Nvidia is an "awkward place" as President Trump meets Xi Jinping later this week (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comRadio Free Asia shuts down as US funding dries up (Faith Wardwell/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/29/radio-free-asia-shuts-down-as-us-funding-dries-up-00629210
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p135#a251029p135
@cdarwin@c.imA $400,000 shipment of lobster was stolen as it was headed for Costco stores, according to the freight company’s president
It'll be fenced by a shell company
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/lobster-stolen-en-route-costco-stores-rcna251110<…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deUS-Regierung will Alibaba, Baidu und BYD als „chinesische Militärfirmen“ listen
Die US-Regierung führt eine Liste mit Unternehmen, die Chinas Militär helfen. Darauf sollten auch Alibaba, Baidu und BYD stehen, meint das Pentagon jetzt.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTwo ex-staffers of cybersecurity incident response companies Sygnia and DigitalMint plead guilty to targeting US companies in 2023's BlackCat ransomware attacks (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu<…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comUkraine fears being ignored in US plan to end Russia's war (Veronika Melkozerova/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-fear-being-ignored-us-plan-end-russia-war-florida/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p39#a251130p39
@cdarwin@c.imState officials promise large-scale
involuntary addiction and mental health treatment at Salt Lake City’s edge.
Critics see
“a prison, or a warehouse.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/us/poli
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump's comments on nuclear testing upend decades of US policy. Here's what to know about it (Jon Gambrell/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-us-nuclear-tests-explainer-e641db1a4c99721bbd4ecd187d7dff65
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p41#a251030p41
@Techmeme@techhub.socialZhipu AI launches a share sale to raise ~$560M in a Hong Kong IPO at a valuation of ~$6.6B, which would make it the first LLM developer listed in Hong Kong (Themis Qi/South China Morning Post)
https://www.sc…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deIceberg Index: KI kann bereits 11,7 Prozent der US-Arbeitskräfte ersetzen
Ein neues Simulationstool des MIT zeigt: Aktuelle KI-Systeme könnten bereits 11,7 Prozent des US-Arbeitsmarkts ersetzen – vor allem in Verwaltung und Finanzen.
@cdarwin@c.imA Ukrainian delegation arrived in Florida on Sunday
to begin talks with top members of the Trump administration,
-- the first meeting with the Americans following the resignation of Andriy Yermak,
a powerful aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio,
US special envoy Steve Witkoff,
and US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner,
were all in attendance at Sunday’s meeting.
Rustem Umerov, the se…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump Downplays Venezuelan Airspace Threat as US Mulls New Steps (Josh Wingrove/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-30/trump-downplays-venezuelan-airspace-threat-as-us-mulls-new-steps
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p51#a251130p51
@memeorandum@universeodon.comAmerican and Syrian forces conduct airstrikes on ISIS weapon storage facilities, US military says (Jasper Ward/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/american-syrian-forces-conduct-airstrikes-isis-weapon-storage-facilities-us-2025-11-30/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p43#a251130p43
@cdarwin@c.imThe people who tried to overturn the 2020 election have more power than ever – and they plan to use it.
Bolstered by the president,
they have prominent roles in key parts of the federal government.
🔸Harmeet Dhillon, a lawyer who helped advance Donald Trump’s claims of a stolen election in 2020, now leads the civil rights division of the justice department.
An election denier, 🔸Heather Honey, now serves as the deputy assistant secretary for election integrity in the …
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @cdarwin@c.im @cdarwin@c.imAfter a Washington Post report this week alleged that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered defense officials to “kill everybody” traveling on a boat that was being surveilled , two senators
– Republican Roger Wicker and Democrat Jack Reed –
released a statement saying the Senate armed services committee will be investigating the boat strikes.
“The Committee is aware of recent news reports – and the Department of Defense’s initial response
– regarding alleged fol…
@cdarwin@c.im#Security #guarantees were discussed during Zelensky's two-hour meeting with Donald Trump at his residence in Mar-a-Lago in Florida, which ended without a breakthrough.
In the draft agreement, U.S. security guarantees for Ukraine are outlined 👉for a period of 15 years,
with a possibility for extension…
@cdarwin@c.imIt’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced
We need to remake the US high court so Americans don’t suffer future decades of
oligarchy-facilitating rule
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/
@cdarwin@c.imWhile the US can protect security in Europe and deserves our undying gratitude for having done so for the last 80 years,
Europeans cannot protect democracy in the US.
They can and must, however, protect liberal democracy in Europe,
which risks becoming a collateral victim of Trump’s domestic and foreign policy agenda.
What happens in America doesn’t stay in America.
It is often a precursor for trends in Europe.
Just as the
