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Vista Equity Partners agrees to acquire ERP software provider Acumatica from PE firm EQT, sources say in a deal that values Acumatica at ~$2B including debt (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-0…

Buyout Firm Vista to Acquire EQT’s Acumatica in $2 Billion Deal
Vista Equity Partners agreed to acquire Acumatica Inc., a software company that helps businesses streamline workflows.

Solarhersteller Meyer Burger stoppt Produktion in den USA
Billige Konkurrenz aus China macht Meyer Burger zu schaffen, das Unternehmen stoppt seine US-Pläne. Das kann Auswirkungen in Sachsen und Sachsen-Anhalt haben.

Enormous early-season wildfireshave erupted across the prairie provinces of Canada this week,
taxing local emergency response and threatening a long stretch of dangerous air quality across eastern North America.
The country’s largest fires
– the Bird River fire and the Border fire
– remain completely uncontained in northern Manitoba.
In Manitoba alone, wildfires have burned about 200,000 hectares already this year – already about three times the recent full-year …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.06678 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_…

M3Bench: Benchmarking Whole-body Motion Generation for Mobile Manipulation in 3D Scenes
We propose M3Bench, a new benchmark for whole-body motion generation in mobile manipulation tasks. Given a 3D scene context, M3Bench requires an embodied agent to reason about its configuration, environmental constraints, and task objectives to generate coordinated whole-body motion trajectories for object rearrangement. M3Bench features 30,000 object rearrangement tasks across 119 diverse scenes, providing expert demonstrations generated by our newly developed M3BenchMaker, an automatic data g…

NFL analyst still doubts Cowboys despite aggressive offseason https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/nfl-analyst-still-doubts-dallas-cowboys-despite-aggressive-nfl-offseason

Defense tech firm Leidos acquires VA-based Kudu Dynamics, which provides AI-enabled cyber defense and offense tools to the US DOD and other customers, for $300M (Courtney Albon/Defense News)
https://www.defensenews.com/industry/2025/05/…

Leidos acquires cyber company Kudu Dynamics
The finalized deal comes as Leidos is implementing a new “NorthStar” strategy that identifies cyber as one of five primary growth areas for the company.

Die #Wasserreserven im #Irak sind auf dem niedrigsten Stand seit 80 Jahren.
Dürren, wenig #Niederschlag und

Uno alarmiert: Wasserreserven im Irak auf niedrigstem Stand seit 80 Jahren
Fünf Länder sind besonders stark von den Auswirkungen des menschengemachten Klimawandels betroffen. Der Irak gehört laut der Uno dazu. Die Wasserknappheit dort hat aber auch mit der Politik der Nachbarländer zu tun.

"Tuna fishing devices drift through a third of oceans, harming corals, coasts: Study"
#Fishing #Oceans #Pollution

Tuna fishing devices drift through a third of oceans, harming corals, coasts: Study
A recent study reveals that drifting fish aggregating devices (dFADs), widely used in tuna fishing, have spread to more than a third of the world’s oceans.  These devices harm ocean life and coastal communities, but weak rules and lack of accountability make it hard to manage them properly, some conservationists say. The study, published in […]

Across the country, Republican lawmakers have been working to undermine or altogether undo the will of the voters -- by making it harder to pass amendments and laws through citizen-led initiatives.
In #Missouri, the 2025 legislative session was dominated by Republican lawmakers trying to reverse two major measures that voters had put on the ballot and approved just months before;
one made

Red State Voters Approved Progressive Measures. GOP Lawmakers Are Trying to Undermine Them.
In the wake of ballot measures that increased abortion access and improved sick leave for workers, a coordinated effort is unfolding across the country to restrict direct democracy — and shift power to partisan legislatures.

Sources: Palantir's Foundry is now deployed in at least four federal agencies, after Trump signed an EO calling for the government to share data across agencies (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/…

Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
The Trump administration has expanded Palantir’s work with the government, spreading the company’s technology — which could easily merge data on Americans — throughout agencies.