Wired: How the Peter Thiel-Linked Dialog Club Secretly Ranks Its Members WIRED has obtained internal data from Dialog, the private club co-founded by Peter Thiel — dossiers on nearly 200 prominent people, complete with home addresses, private phone numbers, dates of birth and even food allergies. It turns out the club secretly grades its members by wealth and […]
links: 18.06.2026
Wired: Silicon Valley’s Elite Financial Advisers Say This Era of Wealth Is Different WIRED talks to two wealth advisers serving Silicon Valley’s high-net-worth tech clients about how the new generation of tech millionaires handles its sudden fortune as SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic head toward liquidity events. The very scale of wealth has shifted — the average client is […]
links: 17.06.2026
NYT: The Cloud Has Sound: The Unrelenting and Unseen Cost of A.I. Data Centers The “heartbeat” of the AI economy is a low-frequency vibration produced by the giant cooling fans and diesel generators of data centers. The US already has more than 3,000 of them; some residents living nearby, whose health and homes are being wrecked by the […]
links: 15.06.2026
TechCrunch: The AI layoff wave is becoming a powder keg Last month the tech sector cut more jobs than in any month in two years — nearly 40,000 — and for the third month running AI was the most-cited reason. Yet a growing chorus argues AI is merely a convenient excuse, and the real cause is pandemic-era overhiring […]
links: 12.06.2026
WIRED: You Probably Won’t Get Rich Off the SpaceX IPO As part of SpaceX’s IPO the company set aside an unusually large share of stock for retail investors, but experts warn the big gains stay with existing shareholders — employees, institutional funds and Elon Musk. Even if you manage to buy a few shares at $135, the average […]
links 4: 08.02.2024
The Verge: Google’s use of student data could effectively ban Chromebooks from Denmark schools Meduza: Valery Zaluzhny dismissed. Oleksandr Syrsky becomes the new commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s Armed Forces LRT: More oil spilled from Orlen’s terminal than first reported, some reached Latvia’s waters PBS: PHOTOS: Icelandic volcano begins erupting again, spewing lava and cutting off heat and hot water […]
links 3: 07.02.2024
LRT: Long-lost stained glass masterpiece discovered in Vilnius strip club ERR: State has to write off much of the €100,000 spent on failed Eesti.life website The Verge: The fediverse, explained +972 Magazine: Palestinians abused, forced to chant anti-Hamas slogans in ‘safe corridor’ NPR: Portraits from El Salvador’s nearly 2-year, sprawling crackdown on gang suspects Mexico News Daily: How […]