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This year is set to be the world's second or third-warmest on record, potentially surpassed only by 2024'S record-breaking heat, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said on Tuesday. From a report: The data is the latest from C3S following last month's COP30 climate summit, where governments failed to agree to substantial new measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reflecting strained geopolitics as the U.S. rolls back its efforts, and some countries seek to weaken CO2-cutting measures. This year will also likely round out the first three-year period in which the average global temperature exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial period, when humans began burning fossil fuels on an industrial scale, C3S said in a monthly bulletin. "These milestones are not abstract -- they reflect the accelerating pace of climate change," said Samantha Burgess, strategic lead for climate at C3S.

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Big Tech joins forces with Linux Foundation to standardize AI agents  Ars Technica

MCP joins the Linux Foundation: What this means for developers building the next era of AI tools and agents  The GitHub Blog

1. MCP joins the Linux Foundation: What this means for developers building the next era of AI tools and agents  The GitHub Blog
2. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block join new Linux Foundation effort to standardize the AI agent era  TechCrunch
3. Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation  Anthropic

1. MCP joins the Linux Foundation: What this means for developers building the next era of AI tools and agents  The GitHub Blog
2. Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation  Anthropic
3. OpenAI co-founds the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation  OpenAI

MCP joins the Linux Foundation: What this means for developers building the next era of AI tools and agents  The GitHub Blog

Linux Foundation Unites Major Tech Firms to Launch Agentic AI Foundation  Redmond Channel Partner

This security-focused Linux distro is switching to KDE  How-To Geek

Microsoft has announced that it will raise prices on its Microsoft 365 productivity suites for businesses and government clients starting in July 2026, marking the first commercial price increase since 2022. Small business and frontline worker plans face the steepest hikes: Business Basic jumps 16.7% to $7 per user per month, while frontline worker subscriptions surge up to 33%. Enterprise plans see more modest bumps, ranging from 5.3% for E5 to 8.3% for E3. Microsoft attributed the increases to more than 1,100 new features added to the suite, including AI-driven tools and security enhancements. Copilot remains a separate $30-per-month add-on.

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Linux Foundation Announces the Formation of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), Anchored by New Project Contributions Including Model Context Protocol (MCP), goose and AGENTS.md  PR Newswire

Linux Foundation Announces the Formation of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), Anchored by New Project Contributions Including Model Context Protocol (MCP), goose and AGENTS.md  PR Newswire

Linux Foundation Announces the Formation of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), Anchored by New Project Contributions Including Model Context Protocol (MCP), goose and AGENTS.md  PR Newswire

Linux Foundation Announces the Formation of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), Anchored by New Project Contributions Including Model Context Protocol (MCP), goose and AGENTS.md  PR Newswire

Linux Foundation Announces the Formation of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), Anchored by New Project Contributions Including Model Context Protocol (MCP), goose and AGENTS.md  PR Newswire

As 2025 winds down, you will probably read a lot of articles remarking how international stock indexes have outperformed US stock indexes like the S&P 500 by a significant amount this year. This hasn’t happened in a while! Yet, the following chart shows that the gap in valuations is still very wide.

PE10 stands for the ratio of price to 10-year average trailing earnings (AKA CAPE ratio, or cyclically-adjusted P/E ratio) which attempts to smooth out earnings spikes. Image via TopDownCharts.

Update: A quick heads up for existing Kraken users that many people are being targeted for another 30 days of their “Daily Spin” game given out to new users. You will need to make one trade to activate (even buying $1 of BTC or USDG and paying a penny fee works). Then you get 30 days of spins, like free slot machine pulls. The total average winnings over 30 days seem to be reliably at least around $15-$20. Check your offers tab; The e-mail subject was “🎄Spin to win up to $2,500 this Christmas!”, which looked a little spammy so you might have missed it.

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Crypto exchange Kraken is now offering up to a $150 bonus in crypto after you open a new account and complete the requirements. You can confirm when entering the code, as shown above. You must trade crypto that isn’t stablecoin, like BTC. The details are below. That’s my referral link, which should auto-populate with the promo code 2zr4jyp5 . Thanks if you use it!

• Open an account and deposit at least $100.
• Trade at least $100, earn $15.
• Trade at least $300, earn $20. ($35 total)
• Trade at least $500, earn $50. ($75 total)
• Trade at least $5,000, earn $75. ($150 total)

Select cashback portals are offering bonuses as well, which change regularly but can be upward of $100 as well, like TopCashback and Rakuten (search “Kraken”). The payouts vary up to daily, but I would wait until one is above $100, currently Rakuten is at $150 at time of writing (Hat tip to DoC). I am not 100% certain if this will stack with the referral discount, but I would still try going through the portal link and then adding the referral code. There are multiple successful reports of stacking.

Be on the lookout for a Daily Spin game which offers free spins for 30 days as well.

Other crypto offers:

• Gemini $50 bonus after trading $100.
• OKX $150 bonus after depositing and trading $200 of crypto.

Pinduoduo in China, Shopee in Southeast Asia, and Meesho in India operate in markets that could hardly be more different -- an upper-middle-income industrial state, a stitched-together archipelago of under-banked economies, and a country where three-quarters of retail is unorganized and e-commerce penetration sits at about 7% -- yet all three have landed on the same business model. These platforms run asset-light marketplaces specializing in cheap goods and slow delivery, monetizing through logistics mark-ups, advertising, and installment credit rather than retail margins. Temu and Shein are further variations now expanding in the U.S. and Europe. The economics are thin for all. Pinduoduo's EBITDA margins on GMV (gross merchandise value) sit in a 0-4% band; Meesho's group-wide EBITDA hovers around break-even. Neither charges commissions on most sales; both earn through logistics mark-ups and advertising. Sponsored listings account for 1-3% of GMV at Indian marketplaces and 4-5% at Alibaba and Pinduoduo. Credit is the more consequential side business. In India, cash on delivery functions as unofficial credit. Meesho CEO Vidit Aatrey said the customers prefer CoD for its "built-in delay," which effectively makes it "a five-day loan." Geography, income, and regulation were supposed to produce different answers. They produced one: a 3% endgame where e-commerce clips a few points of GMV and relies on attention and credit for profits.

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Linux Foundation aims to become the Switzerland of AI agents  theregister.com

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block Join Linux Agent Initiative  findarticles.com

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block Join Linux Agent Initiative  findarticles.com