Tootfinder

Sources: Tempo, a stablecoin-focused blockchain developed by Stripe and Paradigm, raised a $500M Series A led by Greenoaks and Thrive Capital at a $5B valuation (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/10/17/stripe-para…

Exclusive: Stripe-backed blockchain startup Tempo raises $500 million round led by Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital and Greenoaks
The Series A values the Matt Huang-led Tempo at $5 billion and includes participation from Sequoia, Ribbit, and SV Angel.

The US Senate votes narrowly early Thursday morning to strip $1.1B in funding from the CPB, in a severe blow to 1,500 local TV and radio stations, PBS, and NPR (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/politics/news/senate-strips-billion-pub…

Senate Strips $1.1 Billion From Public Broadcasting
The Senate voted early Thursday to strip $1.1 billion in funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, in a severe blow to NPR and PBS.

Grüner EU-Abgeordneter stellt Strafanzeige nach Spyware-Angriff
Nach einem Spyware-Angriff hat der grüne Europaabgeordnete Daniel Freund Strafanzeige gestellt. Er beschuldigt den ungarischen Regierungschef Viktor Orbšn.

Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds.
(...)Israeli(...) forces committed four of the five genocidal acts defined by the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, namely killing, causing serious bodily or mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of the Palestinians in whole or in part, and imposing measures intended to prevent births.

Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds
GENEVA – Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel said in a new report today.

Jay Higgins IV strip sacks Will Grier for fumble, Kaimon Rucker recovers https://www.nfl.com/videos/jay-higgins-iv-strip-sacks-will-grier-for-fumble-kaimon-rucker-recovers

Bock, Gärtner und was weiß ich.
Wichtig in Erinnerung zu behalten: ein Schwerpunkt in Trumps kürzlich veröffentlichter KI-Stretegie ist der Export von KI-Technik und Services an "Freunde und Partner". Der auf "amerikanische Werte" getrimmte Müll soll auch hier die Hirne fluten. Die Fristen zur Umsetzung laufen, wer nächstes Jahr noch ChatGPT, Perplexity usw. nutzt, dem ist nicht mehr zu helfen.

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza – UN
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/israel-has-committed-genocide-gaza-strip-un-commission-finds

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Parquet Courts:
🎵 Stoned and Starving
#ParquetCourts
https://parquetcourts.bandcamp.com/track/stoned-and-starving
https://open.spotify.com/track/2YpKV2BEmWBLIGEHBXrv0N

Stripe's stablecoin arm, Bridge, applied for a US national trust bank charter, joining Circle, Paxos, Ripple, and Coinbase in seeking federal oversight (Vince Dioquino/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/344333/stablecoin-issuers-race-bank-charters-stripes-br…

Stablecoin Issuers Race for US Bank Charters as Stripe's Bridge Joins the Queue
Bridge, Stripe’s stablecoin arm, has applied to the OCC for a national trust bank, joining four others vying for federal approval.

"Starfleet Academy": Erster Trailer zur kommenden Star-Trek-Serie bei Paramount
Paramount hat einen ersten Trailer zu "Star Trek: Starfleet Academy" veröffentlicht. Die Serie wird im Januar bei Paramount ausgestrahlt.