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Axel Springer's Telegraph begins layoffs, pledging to become an "AI-powered" global business; sources: up to 100 jobs will go, with culture and sports hit hard (Esther Addley/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/20…

Telegraph cuts 100 jobs as new owner promises to turn paper into ‘AI-powered’ global business
Redundancies come after paper was bought in June by European media group Axel Springer

Apple stellt Meta-Anwalt für „Global Litigation“ ein
Ein bekannter Anwalt, der bislang für die Facebook-Mutter gearbeitet hat, wird nun bei Apple tätig. Meta hatte zuvor bekannte Apple-Mitarbeiter abgeworben.
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Microsoft says it is closing The Garage, which gave employees around the world space and tools for side projects and ran the company's Global Hackathon (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/microsoft-sh

Microsoft shuts the door on The Garage, the central program behind its hackathon and maker spaces
Microsoft is winding down The Garage, the 17-year-old program behind its Global Hackathon and employee maker spaces, according to an internal FAQ. Some Garage spaces could be restricted to employees as early as Friday, and Microsoft says the hackathon team is reimagining the event.

TIL that in the x86-64 SysV ABI, global array variables at least 16 bytes long are forced to 16-byte alignment.
But only arrays. If it’s a struct containing an array, you’re back down to regular alignment.
Windows, more sanely, aligns all globals based on their size on x86-64 and AArch64. Less sanely, the fact that it does so on x86-64 is (according to LLVM) undocumented.
Other AArch64 targets don’t do this at all.

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Chinese state media: DeepSeek and MiniMax completed registration and won approval to open-source and deploy AI models overseas under proposed export controls (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-23/deepse…

WMG plans to combine its recorded music and publishing sync divisions into a single unit, to be led by Ron Broitman, who is promoted to President of Global Sync (Jem Aswad/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/warner-music-combine…

Warner Music Combines Music and Publishing Sync Operations
Warner Music Group will combine its global sync operations, bringing together its recorded music and publishing divisions into a single unit.

Hoopvolle verhalen in tijden van #klimaatcrisis
https://www.theguardian.com/membership/ng-interactive/2026/aug/25/we-asked-our-climate-reporters-to-highlight-one-idea-for-positive-change-we-got-a-chronicle-of-global-transformation

The Parker Foundation is a philanthropic organization with an art collection that spans 20 centuries and reflects cultures from around the world. With a mission of making art accessible to global audiences and encouraging scholarly research, the foundation loans works to museums and supports public programming. Since 2024, the foundation's generosity has enabled the Georgia Museum to exhibit exceptional works that complement its own collection.
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eMudhra says it will exit the SSL/TLS certificate business, 1% of its revenue, after its TLS certificates with private keys of just 3 to 8 bits were compromised (Abhirami G/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/i