Evening edition··Coverage: since afternoon (~13:05 Berlin) / last ~6–7 hours
What matters
Berlin Linke/Greens/SPD Vorgespräch: no deal yet, maybe weekend round 2; Pistorius announces Drohnenregiment (≤600, 2027); RKI: first locally acquired Sindbis case in DE; Gemini Guided Vision on Android.
Linke (25.7% winner), Greens and SPD held the first three-way Vorgespräch on antisemitism / racism / organised crime at Haus der Statistik near Alexanderplatz (dpa-AFX ~17:53).
No joint line announced; chairs Kerstin Wolter (Linke), Nina Stahr (Greens), Bettina König (SPD) called the exchange “constructive” and agreed confidentiality.
Parties say they will talk again — not Friday; weekend (possibly Saturday) floated unofficially; Sondierungen could follow next week if Vorgespräche clear.
Why it matters —Material update on this afternoon’s lead: the first Dreierformat happened and did not unlock Sondierungen yet — the antisemitism/clan gate remains the path dependency for a red-green-red Berlin executive.
RKI reports the first confirmed human Sindbis-virus (SINV) illness acquired in Germany: a 60-year-old man in Baden-Württemberg.
Onset 12 Jul; doctors first tested for Chikungunya (Asian tiger mosquito area), then expanded to SINV — lab confirmation in September.
Why it matters —Confirms that where SINV already circulates in mosquitoes/birds, clinical human cases are possible — a diagnostic nudge for mosquito season, not a pandemic alarm.
Google launches Guided Vision in Gemini Live on compatible Android 9+ devices where Gemini Live is supported.
Camera share → real-time spoken scene descriptions, follow-ups, and verbal reframing cues (pan/tilt/step back) built with the blind and low-vision community.
Why it matters —A shipped, camera-first accessibility agent from Google — primary source is the company post, not a press rewrite.
Handelsblatt reports an 86-page draft “Investitionsprüfgesetz” from Economy Minister Katherina Reiche (CDU) consolidating and tightening foreign-investment screening.
Ban thresholds easier; more sectors treated as critical; screening would also cover certain buyers from European partner countries for the first time.
Why it matters —Moves Germany from scattered FDI rules toward a harder security screen — still a draft, not law.
@sveltejs/kit@3.0.0 (Thu ~19:21 Berlin): major — Node 22+, Vite 8, Svelte 5.56.4+, remote-fn types to $app/server, $lib→#lib, many breaks; companion package/adapter majors same tag wave.GitHub — @sveltejs/kit@3.0.0
