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Monday, April 13, 2026

• Indexmieten in Berlin: Mieter wehren sich erfolgreich – doch die Trickserei geht weiter | taz.de taz.de DE Der Artikel berichtet, wie der Konzern Heimstaden in Berlin Indexmieten nutzt und Mieter sich dagegen wehren.
  Wohnungsmarkt Mietrecht Indexmiete Heimstaden Mieterhöhung Mieterschutz

Sunday, April 12, 2026

• Erinnerung an NS-Opfer: Wo Hape Kerkeling mal ganz ernst wird | taz.de taz.de DE Hape Kerkeling warnte beim Gedenken in Buchenwald vor Vergessen und Instrumentalisierung.
  Politik Gedenken Erinnerungskultur
• Buchenwald: Die unverzichtbaren Worte des Hape Kerkeling - DER SPIEGEL www.spiegel.de DE Hape Kerkeling hielt in Buchenwald eine eindringliche Rede über Verantwortung und Erinnerungskultur.
  Politik Kultur Gedenken Weimer Holocaust

Wednesday, April 8, 2026

• How many products does Microsoft have named ‘Copilot’? I mapped every one | Tey Bannerman teybannerman.com EN An interactive map documenting the many Microsoft products and features named 'Copilot'.
  Technology AI Analysis Copilot Microsoft Mapping Visualization
• Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that outsmarts even smart headphones - Škoda Storyboard www.skoda-storyboard.com EN-GB Škoda developed DuoBell, a bicycle bell tuned to penetrate ANC headphones and improve pedestrian and cyclist safety.
  Technology Transportation Safety bicycle headphones

Friday, April 3, 2026

• Don't Let AI Write For You alexhwoods.com EN The author warns that using LLMs to write for you undermines thinking and credibility.
  Technology Writing Ethics AI LLM

Monday, March 30, 2026

• ChatGPT Won't Let You Type Until Cloudflare Reads Your React State. I Decrypted the Program That Does It. www.buchodi.com EN The author decrypted Cloudflare Turnstile bytecode and found it fingerprints browsers and ChatGPT's React state to create access tokens that detect bots.
  Security Privacy Technology Web AI OpenAI ChatGPT Cloudflare fingerprinting React OpenAI ChatGPT
• notes: copilot edited an ad into my pr notes.zachmanson.com EN A GitHub Copilot edit inserted an advertisement for itself and Raycast into the author's pull request description.
  Technology Software Copilot Advertisement Ethics

Thursday, March 26, 2026

• Don’t trust, verify | daniel.haxx.se daniel.haxx.se EN-US The author urges verifying curl releases and source to defend against supply-chain and CI-based attacks.
  Security Software Engineering Open Source
• Im Namen der Sicherheit: Berliner Senat beschneidet Informationsfreiheit netzpolitik.org DE Berlin's government rushed a reform that weakens freedom of information by expanding exceptions and surveillance under security pretexts.
  Politics Law transparency surveillance legislation infrastructure
• Podsync - I finally built my podcast track syncer - Kaushik Gopal's Website kau.sh EN Podsync is a Rust CLI that automatically aligns multitrack podcast recordings using speech detection and fingerprinting.
  Podcasting Software

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

• cq: Stack Overflow for Agents blog.mozilla.ai EN An open-source proposal for a shared knowledge commons where AI agents exchange, validate, and reuse operational learnings to avoid repeated mistakes.
  Artificial Intelligence Software Engineering Open Source AI AI agents knowledge trust collaboration

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

• "Made in EU" - it was harder than I thought. www.coinerella.com EN A founder's account of building a startup on European infrastructure, detailing provider choices, self-hosting trade-offs, and unavoidable US dependencies.
  Technology Infrastructure Startups gdpr cloud kubernetes authentication
• Migrating to the EU - rz01.org rz01.org EN-US A personal report on moving online services to EU-based providers for better data protection and privacy.
  Privacy Technology Hosting migration email nextcloud vpn
• The Death of Character in Game Console Interfaces | Vale.Rocks vale.rocks EN Modern console interfaces have lost the character and charm that earlier systems like the Wii and GameCube once provided.
  Gaming Technology Design Console interfaces design skeuomorphism

Monday, March 23, 2026

• PC Gamer Recommends RSS Readers in a 37MB Article That Just Keeps Downloading — Stuart Breckenridge stuartbreckenridge.net EN A critique of PC Gamer's ad-heavy 37MB article that continually downloads more content.
  Technology Web performance ads popups rss

Friday, March 20, 2026

• I’m OK being left behind, thanks! – Terence Eden’s Blog shkspr.mobi EN-GB The author argues it's fine to avoid being an early adopter of technologies like crypto and AI until they prove useful.
  Technology Opinion crypto AI FOMO hype

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

• JPEG compression www.sophielwang.com EN Overview of how JPEG compresses images using color-space conversion, chroma subsampling, DCT, quantization, and entropy coding.
  Image processing Compression JPEG DCT Quantization Chroma

Monday, March 16, 2026

• Two Steam games release with the same name and avoid disaster by 'acting like human beings' www.polygon.com EN Two indie games with the same name launched on Steam the same week and the teams cooperated to bundle and promote both without conflict.
  Gaming Business Steam indie
• Kevin Boone: The “small web” is bigger than you might think kevinboone.me EN The author finds the non-commercial "small web" larger and more active than expected, making comprehensive feed aggregation impractical.
  Technology Internet Gemini feeds aggregator Kagi
• The 49MB Web Page | thatshubham thatshubham.com EN An analysis of how ad-driven bloat and tracking make news websites slow, hostile, and privacy-invasive.
  Privacy Web Design performance advertising tracking bloat

Friday, March 13, 2026

• upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings github.com EN OSINT investigation linking Meta to a multi-channel campaign to shift age-verification burdens onto app stores.
  Politics Technology Investigative journalism lobbying

Thursday, March 12, 2026

• Big Data on the Cheapest MacBook – DuckDB duckdb.org EN Benchmarks show DuckDB on the entry-level MacBook Neo can handle many big-data workloads but is limited by 8 GB RAM and modest SSD speeds.
  Databases Hardware Benchmarks DuckDB MacBook Benchmark TPCDS
• Everything we know about Project Helix, the next Xbox www.polygon.com EN Overview of leaks and reports about Project Helix, Microsoft's next high-end Xbox console including price, specs, and release timing.
  Gaming Technology Xbox Helix Console AMD

Monday, March 9, 2026

• Smartphones: Fake News auf Xiaomi-Handys | Stiftung Warentest www.test.de DE Vorinstallierte MiBrowser-Push-Mitteilungen auf Xiaomi-Handys verlinken auf gefälschte Webseiten und ermöglichen Phishing.
  Smartphones Sicherheit Verbraucherschutz fake news Xiaomi Phishing Falschmeldung fake news

Sunday, March 8, 2026

• VoxRay Games Pushes Major Update To Voxile: "The Builder's Update" elbowgreasegames.substack.com EN
  Gaming Technology voxel raytracing gamedev Lobster

Thursday, March 5, 2026

• Will Iranians Rise Up? Here Are the Odds. - POLITICO www.politico.com EN
  Politics International Relations Middle East Iran uprising regime airstrikes

Tuesday, March 3, 2026

• Disable Your SSH Access With This One Simple Trick sny.sh EN scp can change target directory permissions to match the source, causing sshd to reject key authentication.
  Security Systems scp sshd permissions OpenSSH
• USA: Wie ich Donald Trump am ersten Kriegstag in Mar-a-Lago erlebte - DER SPIEGEL www.spiegel.de DE Ein Reporter schildert ein Dinner in Mar-a-Lago, bei dem Trump, Kriegsentscheidungen und elitäre Stimmung zusammentreffen.
  Politik Gesellschaft Trump Iran Eliten Reportage

Friday, February 27, 2026

• I found a Vulnerability. They found a Lawyer. | Blog | Yannick Dixken dixken.de EN A researcher describes responsibly disclosing a trivial account vulnerability that exposed personal data and receiving legal threats instead of cooperation.
  Security Privacy Legal vulnerability disclosure gdpr lawyer