Tootfinder

"A 44-year-old man was sentenced to seven years and four months in prison for operating an “evil twin” WiFi network to steal the data of unsuspecting travelers during flights and at various airports across Australia."
https://www.bleepingcomputer.…

Man behind in-flight Evil Twin WiFi attacks gets 7 years in prison
A 44-year-old man was sentenced to seven years and four months in prison for operating an "evil twin" WiFi network to steal the data of unsuspecting travelers at various airports across Australia.

Did you know of Explain XKCD ?
These ones are moving.
Two years: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1141:_Two_Years
Seven years:

#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…

US security guarantees set for 15 years, with Ukraine pushing for extension, Zelensky says
"I told (Trump) that we would like to consider guarantees for 30, 40, or even 50 years, and that would be a historic decision by president Trump. The president said he would think about it," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

https://ground.news/article/new-animal-species-that-survived-mass-extinction-event-half-a-billion-years-ago-found-in-a-quarry-in-china_a5e5fb

Six years after EU law enforcement raids shut down German cyberlocker Share-Online, a German court sentences its operator to a two-year suspended prison term (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)
https://torrentfreak.com/share-online-oper…

Back when we tried people for committing genocide instead of calling them our allies, funding, and arming them.
#israel #genocide #Gaza

Trump To Pardon Ex-Honduran President Who Got 45 Years In 2024 For Trafficking Over 400 Tons Of Cocaine - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/11/trump-to-pardon-ex-honduran-president-who-got-45-years-in-2024-for-trafficking-over-400-tons-of-cocaine/

Raiders Score Biggest Win in Years Despite Another Embarrassing Loss https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-score-biggest-win-years-despite-another-embarrassing-loss

Six years after EU law enforcement raids shut down German cyberlocker Share-Online, a German court sentences its operator to a two-year suspended prison term (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)
https://torrentfreak.com/share-online-oper…

The First Radio View of a Type Ibn Supernova in SN 2023fyq - understanding the Mass-loss History in the Last Decade before the Explosion: #Supernova Reveal Star’s Final Years: https://as.virginia.edu/news/first-radio-signals-rare-supernova-reveal-stars-final-years

Thank you @… for reminding us that even on the day of her death Brigitte Bardot should not just be remembered as an actress but also as a very prominent racist.

Brigitte Bardot's 30 years of sympathy for the far right
Convicted five times for racist remarks, the actress – whose foundation announced her death on Sunday, December 28 – remained one of the only French celebrities to openly embrace far-right views.

[OT] So now even when you try to avoid using #AI, #AI hits your wallet nonetheless https://www.<…

Concern That Skyrocketing RAM Prices Driven by AI Needs Will Cause Problems for High-End Gaming for 'Several Years' - IGN
There is increasing concern that skyrocketing RAM prices will impact high-end gaming not just in the short term, but the long term.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Fazerdaze:
🎵 Dancing Years
#Fazerdaze
https://fazerdaze.bandcamp.com/track/dancing-years
https://open.spotify.com/track/5SodlvQvYlTyvvJCYnskkr

Ranking NFL head coaching hires of the past five o... https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47756010/nfl-head-coach-ranking-hires-five-years-offseason-campbell-sirianni-macdonald-vrabel

New Teratoma record coming in March!!
#metal

A couple years ago I learned about this “helping hands” tool from Omnifixo (OF M4.4).
I’ve had a lot of the wire clip kind of these tool over the years, but this one is by far the best I’ve ever owned.
No affiliation or anything; just a very good product for soldering/electronics work.
https://omnifixo.com<…

Today is the 40th anniversary of the Challenger disaster.
#SSChallenger

Big finance still funds deforestation, 10 years after Paris pact https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/11/big-finance-still-funds-deforestation-10-years-after-paris-pact/

Big finance still funds deforestation, 10 years after Paris pact
A new report by the Forests & Finance Coalition finds that despite years of voluntary climate commitments, banks and other financial institutions have continued to increase their investments in companies linked to deforestation. The value of investments in these companies — in industries such as beef, soy, palm oil and paper — has increased by […]

TIL about:
“I remember seeing a story years ago where a prison cook was caught having stolen $1.2 million of fajitas over 9 years.
One week he took off sick, someone else answered the order call and was like "what are you talking about? We don't serve fajitas."”
https://www.<…

Fajita heist: Texas man sentenced to 50 years for stealing $1.2 million worth of food
A Texas man was sentenced to 50 years in prison after pleading guilty to stealing more than $1.2 million in fajitas while acting as a public servant.

"Two years later, the same BYTE Magazine asked on its January 1997 cover: “Can Java Replace Windows?” (Spoiler alert 2: it did not, and… seriously?) Reflecting the myopic insanity of the warlords commanding troops from the comfort of their bunkers, Scott McNealy’s interview on page 40 is just a puzzling diatribe against Microsoft PowerPoint instead of an actual argument in favor of Java."

Aftermath Of The Kernel Wars
During the 1980s and 90s, computer companies waged an open war for supremacy. We are witnesses of an age that could be described as post-apocalyptic. The dust has settled for the past 20 years, with a small ignition of hostilities around 2010, between members of the mobile duopoly and some late challengers. But to a large degree, we can say that the Kernel Wars are over, and we are privileged observers of their aftermath. But everyone was surprised to discover the winner emerging from the ashes…

Taugen iPhones für Kinofilme? 28 Years Later und June & John im Heimkinotest
Luc Besson und Danny Boyle brezelten gewöhnliche iPhones für ihre jüngsten Kinofilme auf. Wir klären ob die Bildqualität in 4K cineastischen Ansprüchen genügt.

The incunabula period, during which we shifted into a print culture, took sixty years. We are under four years since the release of ChatGPT 3.5 and the era of actually useful LLMs.

Looking forward to the @… community bike ride in downtown Burlington on New Year's Day. It should be calm and quiet out. -9°C though; hope everyone layers well. A cup of hot chocolate or apple cider afterward is going to be amazing!
#BikeTooter #BurlOn

More skiing today. I'm not quite at For Your Eyes Only level, but I'm at least no longer a liability on the slopes (and Roger Moore had 4 years more years of practice when he did this...) I'm on day two.
#skiing #austria

40 years later, a new look at lessons from the Challenger disaster (Michael Kranish/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/01/27/challenger-space-shuttle-disaster-40-years/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p32#a260127p32

Raiders have had by far NFL's worst head coach hires of past 5 years https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/01/29/raiders-have-had-by-far-nfls-worst-head-coach-hires-of…

@…
Falls du deine Sammlung von Beispielen für die aktive Verdrängung der Klimakrise erweitern willst:
https://<…

Drowning in denial: one in five homes in Reform UK heartlands faces flooding in 25 years
Even as the party rolls back climate action, Reform-controlled councils sit on some of England’s worst rising flood risks

Statistical Estimate of the Magnetopause Reconnection Rate as a Function of the Interplanetary Magnetic Field Clock Angle: #MagneticReconnection models validated by analysis of twenty years of measurements: https://www.irap.omp.eu/en/2026/01/magnetic-reconnection-models-validated-by-analysis-of-twenty-years-of-measurements/

messal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014)
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale. Edge property 'certainty' denotes the certainty of the edge. Metadata include evidence, habitat, and trophic roles. The edge direction goes from consumer to resource.
This network has 700 nodes and 6444 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food Web, Uncertain, Weighted, Metadata

Replacing JS with just HTML
For many years now, JavaScript has been the workhorse of the web. If you wanted to do something that couldn't be done with just HTML and CSS, you could usually find a way to do it with JS.
And that is great! JS has helped push user experiences forward, and honestly helped push HTML and CSS forward!
🧑‍💻 https:…

Replacing JS with just HTML - HTMHell
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.

US 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

50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band in #berkeley, the 2nd show with the new keith & donna godchaux lineup & 1st (live) tape. a nice soundboard with a bunch of songs appearing for the 1st time, probably debuted the night before:

I need to make it out to CCC one of these years. Seems like a fun event.

An iconic story and idea that sticks with me over the years is Isaac Asimov's classic tale that introduces the 3 Laws of Robotics, "Runaround"
I'm about to spoil the dilemma (not the solution), but it doesn't ruin the value of the story
Robots must obey orders, and secondary to that, robots must protect themselves. This particular robot is ordered to retrieve selenium to fix a human life support system for a facility on Mercury. Unknown to the humans, the s…

How did Christian Parker earn the Cowboys' defensive coordinator job? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/how-did-christian-parker-earn-the-cowboys-defensive-coordinator-job

Several crew members of a ship that collided with a bridge in Baltimore
almost two years ago
are still being held in the US
by federal authorities
despite the fact that
no criminal charges have been brought against them.
In the early hours of 26 March 2024,
the MV Dali departed the port of Baltimore bound for Sri Lanka.
While navigating the Fort McHenry channel,
the 1,000ft-long Singapore-flagged cargo vessel
lost power before strik…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Fazerdaze:
🎵 A Thousand Years
#Fazerdaze
https://fazerdaze.bandcamp.com/track/a-thousand-years
https://open.spotify.com/track/64l2k8GQ2VENKXO79rbvwD

sickos.gif
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-trillion-dollars-is-a-terrible

A trillion dollars is a terrible thing to waste
The machine learning community is finally waking up to the madness, but the detour of the last few years has been costly.

Oh man, who's ready for 4 years of NYPost tears? Delicious salty Murdoch tears! https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dci5jlffbhbi4ui4inf2wk6i/post/3mayzcx4m3225

Elizabeth Spiers (@espiers.bsky.social)
Insane NY Post column suggesting that the new First Lady who is sad about leaving her longtime neighbors in a not fancy NYC neighborhood is an ungrateful brown woman

A 14th century parable about agentic #AI transformation:
Tamerlane was looking for someone to teach his donkey to talk. Nobody wanted the job. Finally the wise man of the dunes, Hodja Nasreddin, took the position and promised to teach the donkey to talk in 10 years time.
- Are you crazy? his friends asked him.
- Not really, Nasreddin answered. The money is good the job is not hard and…

I've been transforming JSON into DOM for some years.
Now I transform YAML into compute resources.
Same vibe, ya know. ✨👩‍💻✨

#Baturday #Photography #Bat We put up two bat houses a few years ago and eventually bats moved in. Today I could see a bat and hear it calling, so I took a few photos…

For the first time in, uh, over four years, I wrote a blog post:
pandoc-lecturenotes and the Quest for More Efficient Professoring
https://dynalabs.de/mxp/blog/2025-12-29
The post presents pandoc-lecturenotes, a set of

For the first time in, uh, over four years, I wrote a blog post:
pandoc-lecturenotes and the Quest for More Efficient Professoring
https://dynalabs.de/mxp/blog/2025-12-29
The post presents pandoc-lecturenotes, a set of

For the first time in, uh, over four years, I wrote a blog post:
pandoc-lecturenotes and the Quest for More Efficient Professoring
https://dynalabs.de/mxp/blog/2025-12-29
The post presents pandoc-lecturenotes, a set of

Not to speak ill of the newly-deceased, but holy cow 😮

Das US-Unternehmen #Zanskar hat mit „Big Blind“ in Nevada das erste kommerziell nutzbare, "blinde" #Geothermie-System seit über 30 Jahren entdeckt.
Die KI-gestützte Erkundung ermöglichte Bohrungen, die bereits in 2.700 Metern Tiefe ein heißes, durchlässiges Reservoir aufzeigten. D…

Zanskar Reveals ‘Big Blind’ - The Discovery of the First Blind Geothermal System in the U.S. by Industry in Over 30 Years
Located in the western Nevada desert, ‘Big Blind’ is Zanskar’s third geothermal discovery in the past year alone, demonstrating the speed and repeatability of its AI-native platform

'Neujahrsvorsatz' #FotoVorschlag
'New Year's resolution'
More cycling / mountainbiking with my wife!
What should I say? There are a lot of official routes here and over the years I've built up some strength and endurance so that I dare going longer and higher routes.
Wish me luck! I'll also try to bring you there with photos and videos 😉<…

The problem I have with the Telegraph's "China hacked the mobile phones of senior officials in Downing Street" is that it implies that mobile phone handsets had been compromised, but only gives statements about the networks. In terms of compromise, those pose two different sets of risk.
https://w…

China hacked Downing Street phones for years
Spying operation targeted senior government members, including aides to Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak

"As the planet warmed, politics wobbled: The defining climate moments of 2025"
#Climate #ClimateChange

How 2025 became one of the hottest and most divisive climate years
Record warming met weak political resolve as climate pressures mounted this year.

Until 2013, this Volkswagen model, which was essentially a 1984 car, was sold (successfully) in China.
Years, decades in which countries such as China were good at giving outdated German technology a longer life.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/VW_Jetta_Pionier

VW Jetta Pionier – Wikipedia

Apple releases iOS 12.5.8 for the iPhone 5s and iPhone 6, extending software support for these devices to 13 and 12 years after their respective launches (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/26/iphone-5s-software-update/

iPhone 5s Gets New Software Update 13 Years After Launch
Alongside iOS 26.2.1, Apple today released an updated version of iOS 12 for devices that are still running that operating system update, eight years...

Vårt intag av dem har minskat stadigt sen 70 talet men
“We have updated the tolerable weekly intake (TWI), setting it at 0.6 picograms per kilogram of body weight. Updated dietary exposure estimates from European countries indicate that the new TWI is exceeded in all age groups,” https://www.efs…

Have your say – dioxins and related PCBs
Dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs are toxic chemicals that persist in the environment for years and accumulate at low levels in the food chain, usually in the fatty tissues of animals. Their presence in food and feed has declined since the 1970s thanks to the efforts of public authorities and industry.In their draft scientific opinion, EFSA experts confirmed the conclusion of the Authority’s previous assessments that dietary exposure to dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs is a health concern.“We have u…

Abuse and #Buddhism: Behind the Smiling Façade https://www.info-buddhism.com/Abuse_and_Buddhism-Behind_the_Smiling_Facade-Anna_Sawerthal.html

Abuse and Buddhism: Behind the Smiling Façade
Buddhism in the West is in a crisis. For years, it had benefited from a reputation too good to be true. Only now are victims of sexual abuse, corruption and cultic behaviour finally beginning to speak out.

64 Turkish bar associations condemn the conviction of journalist Fatih Altaylı, who was sentenced to more than four years in prison for "threatening" Erdogan (SCF/Stockholm Center for Freedom)
https://stockholmcf.org/64-bar-associa

64 bar associations condemn Turkish journalist’s conviction as blow to free expression - Stockholm Center for Freedom
Sixty-four bar associations across Turkey have condemned the conviction of journalist Fatih Altaylı, calling his prison sentence “a severe blow to free expression” and warning that journalism cannot be criminalized. The statement came after a court sentenced Altaylı to four years, two months in prison for allegedly “threatening” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in remarks he […]

Impressive story : the heart donor who is still alive and kicking 20 years later and has had a son in the meantime.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-27/qld-domino-transplant-lucinda-simpson-cystic-fibrosis/106127132
<…

NFL playoff picture: Colts become first team to miss postseason after 8-2 start in 30 years

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-playoff-picture-texans-clinch-colts-out/

Endangered penguins living off South Africa's coast have likely
starved en masse due to food shortages, a study said,
with some populations dropping by 95% in just eight years.
Fewer than 10,000 breeding pairs of the small, black and white African penguin are left globally,
according to scientists,
and the species was listed as critically endangered last year by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Two of the most important breedi…

Study says African penguins starved en masse off South Africa
Endangered penguins living off South Africa's coast have likely starved en masse due to food shortages, a study said, with some populations dropping by 95% in just eight years.

60 years ago tonight (maybe), 14 minutes of early grateful dead at the matrix from a badly dated owsley reel, their last show before the band follow the merry pranksters to LA, during which they have the plug pulled on them by management. tracks 15-18: https://archive.org/details/gd1966-XX-

How did Christian Parker earn the Cowboys' defensive coordinator job? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/how-did-christian-parker-earn-the-cowboys-defensive-coordinator-job

Holy moly, there is a ton of cybersecurity news today so don't miss Metacurity for the most critical developments you should know, including
--Treasury cancels Booz Allen contracts ostensibly over inadequate data security,
--Salt Typhoon hacked senior UK officials for years,
--Pegasus spyware victim awarded $4.1m over Pegasus infection,
--US Marshals are probing alleged theft of $40m in confiscated digital assets,
--Nike is investigating a potential data brea…

Treasury cancels Booz Allen contracts ostensibly over inadequate data security
Salt Typhoon hacked senior UK officials for years, Pegasus spyware victim awarded $4.1m over Pegasus infection, US Marshals are probing alleged theft of $40m in confiscated digital assets, Nike is investigating a potential data breach, UK radically ups number of facial recognition vans, much more

How the GOP has conned America for 40 years - Alternet.org
https://archive.ph/x3qiw

If you'd have told me years ago the same dude made movies I hated as much as Magnolia and Punch-Drunk Love and then just a few years later would make a flick I loved as much as There Will Be Blood, I would've told you that you were nuts

lol, $20 train ticket if you're willing to spend New Years' on the train. That's like chinatown bus rates!

US 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

30 years ago the #HubbleDeepField was published: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubbles-deepest-view-of-the-universe-unveils-bewildering-galaxies-across-billions-of-years/ - other Hubble deep fields followed, and now ALMA and Webb have investigated one of them ... JWST Spectroscopic Census of ALMA Faint Submillimeter Galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18149

40 years ago, the o-rings failed

The captain has left the ship @….
After years of service - byebye! 🫡
We're freeing some space here to build up a cozy cuddle couch corner. :3
🛋️ 🫂

"Bay of Biscay fishing ban to return in 2026 after proving successful at reducing dolphin deaths"
#Dolphins #Animals

Fishing ban in Bay of Biscay will return in 2026 to protect dolphins
Winter closures in recent years have gained positive results, although the measure will affect around 300 vessels.

A look at ChatGPT's impact on US stocks three years after its release: AI mania revived Big Tech, making an already concentrated S&P 500 even more top heavy (Bloomberg)

50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band in berkeley, the 3rd show with the godchaux & a few more songs disappearing.
soundboard: https://archive.org/details/jg76-01-28.135944.jgb.sbd.t-flac16
audience tape:

Russia loses ability to send humans into space for first time in 60 years | Ukrainska Pravda
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/11/28/8009355/

A third person is sentenced to jail for participating in a murder-for-hire plot, directed by Iran's government, targeting journalist and activist Masih Alinejad (Colin Moynihan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/nyregion/iranian-d…

Man Sentenced to 15 Years for Role in Plot to Kill Iranian Dissident
Carlisle Rivera became the third person to be sentenced for playing a role in trying to kill Masih Alinejad, an activist and a critic of the Iranian government.

A former Illinois deputy is sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing Sonya Massey (John O'Connor/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/sonya-massey-grayson-murder-sentence-b4af388a9e7133449e861033a741d2ff
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p97#a260129p97

Data center developers, facing grid access wait times of up to seven years, are turning to aeroderivative turbines and diesel generators to power the AI boom (Martha Muir/Financial Times)

I bought the Pearl Jam album Vitalogy in 1994 and on the very first track, Eddie Vedder emphatically told me many times that I needed to spin the black circle. And all these years later, I've never forgotten that important advice

"New diets, bubble tricks and learning to share: The fascinating ways whales adapt to climate change"
#Whales #Animals #Climate

Whales may ‘divide resources’ to cope with climate change - study
Scientists have analysed almost 30 years of data to discover how whales in the North Atlantic Ocean are learning to co-exist in a warming world.

Every few years, Democrats try to convince themselves they’ve found the one
– a candidate who can finally speak fluent rural, who looks and sounds like the voters they’ve lost.
In 2024, that hope was pinned on #Tim #Walz, the flannel-wearing, “Midwestern nice” governor whose small-town roots were supposed to unlock …

Why rural Maine may back Democrat Graham Platner’s populism in the Senate campaign − but not his party
Whether Maine’s Graham Platner wins or loses, his campaign to knock off longtime GOP Sen. Susan Collins already points to a deeper question: Can Democrats do more than rent rural authenticity?

60 years ago tonight, the merry pranksters' first informal acid test, held at ken babbs's place outside santa cruz, where the grateful dead did not play (& all purported flyers are almost certainly fake). below text from dennis mcnally's bio & i wrote about it for the 50th.

Q&A with Google DeepMind VP of Research Pushmeet Kohli on launching AlphaFold 2 five years ago, hallucinations, building an "AI co-scientist", and more (Sandro Iannaccone/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/alphafold-changed-science-after-…

AlphaFold Changed Science. After 5 Years, It’s Still Evolving
WIRED spoke with DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli about the recent past—and promising future—of the Nobel Prize-winning research project that changed biology and chemistry forever.

The Atlantic hires David Brooks as a staff writer and host of a new weekly video podcast, starting in February, after 22 years as an NYT opinion columnist (The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/press-releases/2026/01/atlantic-hires-davi…

The Atlantic hires David Brooks as a staff writer
New home for his writing, and to launch a video podcast

Over the past five years,
as Trump’s most notorious acolyte in Congress,
#MTG had adopted his unrepentant pugilism as her own.
⭐️“Our side has been trained by Donald Trump to never apologize and to never admit when you’re wrong,”
she told me in her Capitol Hill office one afternoon in early December.
“You just keep

Inside Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Break With Trump and MAGA
How the Georgia congresswoman went from the president’s loudest cheerleader to his loudest Republican critic.

Seventeen years after the Large Hadron Collider switched on,
particle physicists are realizing that they can use the collider to explore how information flows through quantum systems
— a question at the foundations of quantum computing.
The two possible spins of the quarks correspond to the 0 and 1 states of a qubit,
a unit of quantum information.
“It is treating the process of colliding things together and forming new particles as a quantum processor,”
s…

Particle Physicists Detect ‘Magic’ at the Large Hadron Collider | Quanta Magazine
The supercollider is now being used to explore quantum phenomena, including a “magic” form of quantum entanglement.

Sources: Anthropic raises its revenue forecasts to $18B in 2026, $55B in 2027, and $148B in 2029, delaying its cash flow positive expectations by a year to 2028 (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/an

Anthropic Hikes 2026 Revenue Forecast 20% but Delays When It Will Go Cash Flow Positive
Anthropic has hiked its revenue forecasts for the next several years, projecting that sales will quadruple this year to as much as $18 billion and will hit $55 billion next year. It is aiming to shrink the revenue gap with OpenAI, its older archrival. The revenue projections, which haven’t ...

MediaTek's stock posted its best week since 2002, up 22%, amid enthusiasm over Google's Gemini 3 and chip deals; MediaTek was reported as Google's TPU partner (Sangmi Cha/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Rosemary is back at the Federal Building in Pittsburgh,
53 years later
https://c.im/@cdarwin/114136806979192374

A profile of Paulina Borsook, as her 2000 book Cyberselfish, warning about Silicon Valley's love for "techno-libertarianism", finds a resurgence in interest (David Streitfeld/New York Times)
https://www.

The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.

He has labored in the fields every summer and on weekends during the school year since he was 11 years old to help his mother, who also picks berries.
His siblings, uncles and cousins — four of them minors — work in local strawberry fields.
Jose said that some days he didn’t fill many boxes and earned less than minimum wage for the hours he worked,
Awhich would be a violation of state child labor laws.
He described toiling under the hot sun in fields where employers f…

California’s child farmworkers: Exhausted, underpaid and toiling in toxic fields
State officials are failing to protect the health and safety of thousands of young field laborers, an investigation has found.

For more than a decade, dozens of journalists and human rights activists have been
🆘 targeted and hacked by governments all over the world.
Cops and spies in Ethiopia, Greece, Hungary, India, Mexico, Poland, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates, among others, have used sophisticated #spyware to compromise the phones of these victims, who at times have also faced real-world

Meet the team that hunts government spyware
For years, Access Now’s Digital Security Helpline has been aiding journalists and dissidents who have been targeted with government spyware. This is how they operate.

Sparky has been working as part of Antares canine search-and-rescue unit since 2013.
She also helped develop a training program for search dogs.
Over the years of service, Sparky has participated in hundreds of search operations,
saved people's lives
&helped find the bodies of more than 200 people

To people who didn’t vote for Trump, his sweaty panic over the Epstein files is perplexing.
The president’s enthusiasm for sexual violence is no secret.
It’s been nine years since the release of the “Access Hollywood” video, in which he bragged about how he liked to “grab them by” the genitals.
In 2023 and 2024, two civil juries found that journalist E. Jean Carroll told the truth when she said Trump sexually assaulted her in the 1990s.
The president has also made …

In 2025, Epstein showed MAGA who they really are
Trump is desperate to distract his base

Remember, we have an anti-vax conspiracy theorist as the *head* of all healthcare in the U.S.
This particular conspiracy theory is even more bonkers than his others (and there are many others).
How is this remotely ok? 🧪
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:4

Even though they are essential workers,
#paid #care #jobs are
not “good jobs” – that is:
they generally pay low wages and don’t have benefits such as access to healthcare, paid sick days, paid leave, union protections or reti…

Eclipse preview for 2026.
Two lunar eclipses are on the way, along with a partial solar eclipse for much of Europe & North America.
And if you really like solar eclipses, you might want to relocate to Spain for the next couple years. 🧪🔭
Read about eclipses and more coming up in 2026 in Universe Today: www.universetoday.com

A new genome study offers significant insight, pinpointing the introduction of domestic cats into Europe from North Africa.
The research indicates that domestic cats first arrived on the continent roughly 2,000 years ago, coinciding with the early imperial Roman era.
This migration was likely facilitated by burgeoning maritime trade,
with some of these early feline travellers possibly brought by sailors to hunt mice on ships.
These vessels plied the Mediterranean, carr…

Domestic cats first arrived in Europe with Romans, analysis of ancient DNA shows
The study has pinpointed a key moment in feline history

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"Identifying Far-Right Fashion"
with Bellingcat Researchers
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"Identifying Far-Right Fashion" with Bellingcat Researchers | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
This week, we were discussing what role fashion plays for far-right movements. We spoke to Bellingcat's resident experts on the subject. Michael Colborne has been investigating far-right networks for years and Youri van der Weide has just completed a deep dive on russian neo-nazi paramilitary groups with merchandise embedded within their business plans.The talk was hosted by Charlotte Maher on Thursday October 23rd 2025. Music featured is courtesy of Artlist.Recorded live in the Bellingcat Disc…

Five months after the Trump administration stripped $8 billion in U.S. foreign aid from the world,
a Sudanese National Army helicopter bombed a hospital, pharmacy and market in a remote village of South Sudan known as Old Fangak.
Situated in a deep pocket of grassy swampland formed by floodwaters from the Nile that haven’t receded for five years thanks to climate change,
Old Fangak was home to thousands of internally displaced South Sudanese women and children
— inclu…

Trump Cut Their Lifeline. Months Later, They're Still Fighting Like Hell To Survive.
A small organization powered by the people who need it most has found a way to save lives abandoned by the Trump administration.

They told the poor white man:
"You may be starving,
you may be broke,
but at least you aren't one of Them."
It worked.
The poor whites stopped fighting the rich.
They started guarding the rich.
They accepted their poverty -- because they had been given a false sense of superiority.
The "Divide and Rule" algorithm was born.
350 years later, the campaign is still running.
The Elite are still terrified of Unity…

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Attached: 1 image Andre Gonsalves The most effective marketing campaign in history was launched in 1676. The product was Racism. Before that year, the Elites in America had a massive problem. In the colony of Virginia, poor white indentured servants and black slaves were friends. They worked the same fields. They lived in the same shacks. They even married each other. They realized they had the same enemy: The rich plantation owners. So, they united. Led by a man named Nathaniel Bacon, this…

Behind the scenes, some of the most powerful people around Trump have been trying to persuade him to attack Venezuela
— and remove its president, Nicolšs Maduro
— in what would be an extraordinary escalation of months-long military build-up in the Caribbean.
Those in favour of the strikes say they could bring democracy and prosperity to Venezuela
and provide a way for the eight million people who have fled the country in the past ten years to return.
These includ…

Will Trump invade Venezuela — and what comes next?
Pressure is ramping up on Maduro’s regime, amid reports Trump has spoken to the leader by phone. Inside the White House, advisers are pushing for the US to do more