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Agri-PV: Wenn Pflanzen und Technik zu Freunden werden! 🤝
Die Universität Hohenheim und das Forschungszentrum Jülich haben in einer zweijährigen Feldstudie herausgefunden, dass Ackerpflanzen deutlich anpassungsfähiger sind als bisher angenommen.
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Source: Tencent is in talks to acquire Israeli game developer SuperPlay in a deal valuing SuperPlay at $1B-$1.5B; Playtika acquired SuperPlay in 2024 for $690M (Golan Hazani/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hkvfmqsvme

Tencent in talks to acquire Playtika's SuperPlay in deal worth up to $1.5 billion
Exclusive: The transaction would transfer a fast-growing gaming studio, and a ballooning earnout commitment, to the Chinese technology giant.

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Pflanzen ertragen Verschattung durch Agri-PV-Anlagen besser als angenommen

Agri-PV senkt Erträge weniger als gedacht
Verringert Agri-PV die Erträge in der Landwirtschaft? Forscher der Universität Hohenheim und des Forschungszentrums Jülich haben das untersucht.

German insurance giant Munich Re agrees to acquire cyber insurance provider At-Bay for $575M; At-Bay has raised $276M and was last valued at $1.35B in 2021 (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/3icwf2pbx

Munich Re to acquire Israeli startup At-Bay for $575 million
The German insurance giant is buying the cyber insurtech at less than half its 2021 valuation, as insurers increasingly seek to combine coverage with technology that can prevent cyber losses.

Microsoft setzt AMDs Helios-Server mit Next-Gen-Hardware ein
AMD zieht einen Deal in der Azure-Cloud an Land. Microsoft kauft Epyc-Venice-Prozessoren und hochpreisige KI-Beschleuniger.
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Microsoft setzt AMDs Helios-Server mit Next-Gen-Hardware ein
AMD zieht einen Deal in der Azure-Cloud an Land. Microsoft kauft Epyc-Venice-Prozessoren und hochpreisige KI-Beschleuniger.

Sources: DHS officials asked CISA to hack a voting machine to report vulnerabilities to the White House without telling the vendor; the request wasn't acted on (ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/cisa-election-security-donald-trump

This Cybersecurity Agency Is Supposed to Protect U.S. Elections. Officials Fear It’s Been Compromised by Trump.
DHS appointees made an unusual request of its agency that protects election systems: Secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it. Though not acted on, the request shows how the Trump administration has tried to use the agency for its own ends.

Salesforce agrees to acquire AI-powered marketing platform Braze for nearly $5.7B in enterprise value, paying $47.50 per share, set to close from February 2027 (Dana Wollman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…

Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, and Vodafone agree to explore a joint bid to offer "direct-to-device" satellite service in Europe, challenging Starlink (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/555bbf91-4c38-43ce-94b6-90f7fc04e82c

Sources: SpaceX approached AI coding startup Cognition about a potential acquisition; deal talks are inactive, but the companies are discussing working together (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-19/spacex-at…

Source: Meta is spending hundreds of millions per year on Azure to consume trillions of AI tokens weekly, becoming one of Microsoft's largest AI customers (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…