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AMD says it has acquired the team behind AI inference chip developer Untether AI, a day after announcing it acquired AI software optimization startup Brium (Dylan Martin/CRN)
https://www.crn.com/news/components-periph

Exclusive: AMD Acquires Team Behind AI Chip Startup Untether AI
AMD confirmed on Thursday to CRN that it has acquired the employees behind AI chip startup Untether AI.

... thus creating the next Hamas.
After all, Israel armed the current Hamas because it opposed the PLO.
https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/114633376215071405

Mini-Datenzentren: Umgebaute ausgediente Smartphones überwachen Meere
Alte Smartphones sollen weiterverwendet werden. Forscher haben deshalb vier davon zu einem Mini-Datenzentrum umgebaut, das Umweltdaten sammelt und auswertet.

How some news organizations are using AI models powered by retrieval-augmented generation to surface the most newsworthy elements from very large datasets (Josh Axelrod/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/the-good

The good, the bad, and the completely made-up: Newsrooms on wrestling accurate answers out of AI
"If we sit on the sideline and observe, I think the risk is too high that we are gonna be left behind."

"nothing says “fearless military leadership” like being absolutely terrified of books about civil rights and the radical concept that people of different backgrounds might have something to contribute."
The “Warrior Ethos” According To Trump: A Field Guide To Being Scared Of Everything | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/05/the-warrior-ethos-according-to-trump-a-field-guide-to-being-scared-of-everything/

Programming tonight’s episode of @… radio and stumbled on our most recent 3–hour #Drone #Accordion special episode from last fall
That’ll keep me going through…

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-10-30: Electronic, Experimental & Drone Show IV: Night of the Restless
So… our podcast schedule got disrupted by the Internet Archive hack late last year, and we never quite got caught up. But we can get closer. Here, today, I can share with you our incredible e…

Insurer Blue Shield of California's new parent company alarms consumer advocates
Blue Shield of California accrued a surplus of more than $4 billion over the decades as it benefited from its former tax-exempt status, according to a regulatory filing.
Last year, regulators approved a request by 💥Blue Shield of California,
the state's third-largest health insurer, to restructure and establish a new parent corporation in Delaware.
The Oakland-based nonprofit go…

Insurer Blue Shield of California's new parent company alarms consumer advocates
Whistleblower demands California regulators rescind restructuring of Blue Shield of California, which established a new corporate parent in Delaware. He...

Observing an accretion disk inside a wormhole shadow
I. D. Novikov, S. V. Repin, D. A. Paksivatova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02752 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Observing an accretion disk inside a wormhole shadow
The paper considers the problem of the possibility of observing an accretion disk through the throat of the Ellis-Bronnikov-Morris-Thorne wormhole. It is shown that this image has a complex structure and is fundamentally different from the image of an accretion disk around a black hole. Images of the accretion disk are presented at various angles between the plane of the disk and the observer's line of sight.

De plasticindustrie tracht op allerlei manieren een historisch akkoord tegen plasticvervuiling tegen te werken. En voor wie de tactieken en strategieën van de tabaksindustrie en olie-en gasindustrie kent is dat een 'feest van herkenning'

De plasticindustrie tracht op allerlei manieren een historisch akkoord tegen plasticvervuiling tegen te werken
Plastictop: In Zwitserland begint deze dinsdag het overleg tussen 175 landen dat kan leiden tot een historisch akkoord tegen plasticvervuiling. Maar de industrie tracht dit te blokkeren, onder meer met intimidatie en door de nadruk te leggen op recycling.

Internal email: Cognition offers buyouts to the ~200 newly acquired Windsurf staff, with Cognition CEO Scott Wu writing "we don't believe in work-life balance" (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/cognition-off…

Cognition Offers Buyouts to Newly Acquired Windsurf Staff
Cognition, a two-year-old artificial intelligence coding startup last valued at $4 billion, has offered buyouts to the roughly 200 employees it acquired in a takeover of rival Windsurf three weeks ago, saying they will receive nine months of salary in return, according to an e-mail seen by The ...