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Major General Maik Keller, Deputy Commander of the NATO Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine, said in an interview with the FAZ that a few months ago Russia managed to severely damage a MIM-104 Patriot radar unit in #Ukraine.

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A twitter post explaining how you can “save PNGs to birds” by converting a drawing of a bird into a spectrogram then playing it to a starling who sung it back, reproducing the PNG.

Can’t wait to introduce bird-based storage into my backup system

Jamie Dimon tells Europe: ‘You’re losing’ JPMorgan Chase boss warns on EU competitiveness and market complacency over tariffs

Jamie Dimon tells Europe: ‘You’re losing’ www.ft.com/content/cccb...

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

Rapid emergence of a maths gender gap in first grade - Nature Boys and girls exhibit very similar maths scores upon school entry, but a gender gap in favour of boys becomes highly significant after 4 months of schooling, which increases with years of schooling,&...

Once children start first grade, a maths gender gap appears. This likely happens because school confronts them with societal expectations and gender norms, where math is rather associated with boys than girls

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An ever riskier world economy Trump’s tariff war brings with it unpredictability and a consequent loss of confidence

Martin Wolf: „We are at a turning point: we must choose wisely.“ www.ft.com/content/0356...

Thomas Roulleau rappelle que 85%des investissements pour la transition énergétique sont réalisés par les pays avancés et la Chine, les 15% restants étant répartis entre des pays représentant 2/3 de la pop. mondiale. Ils font notamment face à des coûts élevés du capital et au surendettement.

The VC industry needs a geopolitical reboot AI is rewriting the rules of the technological and investment game

„Europe, which this week launched a renewed effort to invigorate its start-up industry, appears stuck on the old Silicon Valley playbook.“ www.ft.com/content/2261...

Vielleicht (sogar gewollt) BM FuTuRe als Eselsbrücke fürs BMFTR?

„Vielleicht bekommt Friedrich Merz von Maischberger, Lanz oder Illner irgendwann doch noch die Frage gestellt: Herr Merz, niemand kann etwas für seinen Naziopa – aber was haben Sie seit 2004 aus der Geschichte Ihres Großvaters gelernt?“ taz.de/!6081570/

France and Germany unveil Docs, a homegrown alternative to Google Docs The Trump administration has set out to drastically reshape the relationship between the US and Europe. In response, Brussels is scrambling to adapt to this new reality,...

The days of Google Docs are ending; we enter the age of Docs, made by France's Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs and Germany's Center for Digital Sovereignty of Public Administration.

We need more governments to collaborate on public software projects to achieve digital sovereignty.

Opinion | With Trump’s Tariffs, the Fate of Developing Countries Now Rests in Their Own Hands For the billions of people who still live in poverty, the path to prosperity may look very different than it has since World War II.

Interesting Dani Rodrik piece on the Trump tariffs in the broader context of the weakening of the manufacturing export led model.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/o...

So if I’m reading this correctly, USTR used the “trade deficit divided by imports” formula. And then they added two variables which, multiplied together, equal 1 and therefore do not change the result. Just to make things look a bit more scientific?
ustr.gov/issue-areas/...

Bridging Europe's Innovation Finance Gap: New strategic approaches to strengthen growth financing of technology-intensive startups

What’s being done? What comes next?

Read the article by our Managing Partner @jerometrep.bsky.social: bit.ly/4bILtlD

#Innovation #InnovationFinance #Technology

How a president hoping to fund his government with tariffs and possibly annex Canada instead wrecked the economy and set continentalism back for almost a century. Excellent thread.

Von der Leyen has just announced the Commission's "Rearm Europe" plan. The most important parts target national fiscal space: The Commission will activate the national escape clauses in the fiscal rules and put a new loans-based instrument on the table.

Here is what it means:

“The Washington Post is dying not in darkness but by the light of noon, and by its own hand,” George Packer writes. The demise of an independent press in the United States might not look much like what readers expect: theatln.tc/Uu1eHotV

TU Berlin: Senatorin will die Geisteswissenschaften streichen Warum gibt es Geisteswissenschaften an der TU Berlin? Das kann man vielleicht nur historisch erklären. Streichen sollte man die Fächer deshalb trotzdem nicht. Damit droht jetzt die Wissenschaftssenato...

„Was die Senatorin in gönnerhafter Rückschau salopp als „super“ bewertet, hatte den ernsten Hintergrund, dass man nach dem Nationalsozialismus ei­ne historisch-moralische Nachschulung der technischen Intelligenz für nötig hielt.“ @pbahners.bsky.social www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Paul Krugman: “The Musk/Trump betrayal of America’s international principles is having an unintended result: Europe’s democracies, which as a group remain one of the world’s economic superpowers, are rousing themselves to fill the vacuum.”

Great analysis: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/europe-is-...

The Dangers of Philo-Semitism In a new book, Pankaj Mishra twists Holocaust remembrance into a source of all the world’s evil. He couldn’t be more wrong.

In his new book, "The World After Gaza," Pankaj Mishra twists Holocaust remembrance into a source of all the world’s evil. Franklin Foer on why Mishra couldn’t be more wrong:

„In a remarkable feat, Trump has united US allies - against the US.“

This is a crazy paper. Fine-tuning a big GPT-4o on a small amount of insecure code or even "bad numbers" (like 666) makes them misaligned in almost everything else. They are more likely to start offering misinformation, spouting anti-human values, and talk about admiring dictators. Why is unclear.

I would hope for the following.
1) Defence fund of €200bn to spend quickly.
2) Deficit limit that "ensures debt sustainability around 60%" acc to an independent assessment (would be 1-1.5% of GDP atm)
3) Investments that demonstrably increase growth should be exempt.

Everyone sees the major wins by the AfD in East Germany, but important to also notice the shifts elsewhere.

Two maps:

On the left, which parties won most votes, with most of East Germany AfD.

On the right, the parties at second place, reveals the major AfD gains in South and West Germany:

Robert Habeck – Rückzug aus der Grünen-Spitze: Der Unvollendete Nach der Wahlpleite zieht sich Robert Habeck aus der Grünenspitze zurück. Er hat eine neue politische Kultur etabliert, dabei aber auch polarisiert. Am Ende vermochte er die eigenen Fehler nicht mehr auszugleichen.

Nach der Wahlpleite zieht sich Robert Habeck aus der Grünenspitze zurück. Er hat eine neue politische Kultur etabliert, dabei aber auch polarisiert. Am Ende vermochte er die eigenen Fehler nicht mehr auszugleichen.

Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager. Please do not send any classified information, links, or attachments. Deadline is this Monday at 11:59pmEST.

Here’s the email everyone is getting from OPM. Embarrassing stuff.

Dutch pension fund ABP sells all Alphabet and Meta shares, CEO tells newspaper FD ABP, the Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in tech companies Meta and Alphabet , its CEO told Dutch newspaper FD in an interview published on Monday.

💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest

www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

"Knowledge workers face new challenges in critical thinking as they incorporate GenAI into their knowledge workflows," Microsoft researchers say

Vance’s real warning to Europe Europeans need to reduce their dangerous dependence on an adversarial America

Excellent, clear-eyed take on Europe's response to Trump 2.0 by @gideonrachman.bsky.social. In short:

- build up own defence *and* own defence industries
- European mutual defence pact inc UK & Norway
- comprehensive de-risking of European vulnerabilities to US

www.ft.com/content/11f1...

This is an important paper. There is a big debate on small firms and SME policy.

One side think new start ups and entrepreneurs are the best thing since sliced bread. And we have more of them.

The other side think there are big differences in the quality of start ups and most start ups are....