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💗 Forest expansion increases agricultural output, new study shows
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Forest expansion increases agricultural output, new study shows
Agriculture is the largest cause of deforestation. So, it follows that forest expansion efforts would displace agriculture—but new research from Georgia Tech's School of Economics reports that that's not necessarily the case. And not only that, forest expansion actually increased agricultural output in the study.

Atlassian acquires developer productivity platform DX for $1B in cash and restricted stock; DX has 350 enterprise customers and raised less than $5M (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/18/atlassian-acquires-dx-a-devel…

Atlassian acquires DX, a developer productivity platform, for $1B | TechCrunch
Atlassian is making its largest acquisition yet by buying DX so it can offer a developer productivity tool.

Slovakia agrees to approve EU's 18th sanctions package against Russia, Fico says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/18/slovakia-agrees-to-approve-eus.html

"Researchers develop satellite-based method to boost accuracy of coal plant CO₂ emission estimates"
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Researchers develop satellite-based method to boost accuracy of coal plant CO₂ emission estimates
A new satellite-based method developed by Chinese researchers improves the accuracy of carbon dioxide (CO2) emission estimates from coal-fired power plants, according to a study published in Environmental Science & Technology.

Unearthed - The People Changing Australian Agriculture
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/unearthed-the-people-changing-australian-agriculture/

Filing: Intel is laying off 5,000 employees across California, Oregon, Texas, and Arizona; California cuts affect 1,935, more than double the initial estimates (Nathan Owens/Manufacturing Dive)
https://www.manufacturingdive.com/news/int

Intel layoffs exceed 5,000 across US
The chipmaker more than doubled its anticipated job cuts in California, adding to its overall downsizing across four states.

Russian attacks kill 5, injure 11 across Ukraine over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/17/russian-attacks-kill-injure-across.html

Russian strikes kill 8, injure 35 across Ukraine ahead of Zelensky-Trump meeting: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/18/russian-strikes-kill-injure-across.html

A new Artificial Analysis benchmark, focusing on OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b, shows how open-weight LLMs exhibit inconsistent performance across hosting providers (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/15/inconsistent-performance/…

Open weight LLMs exhibit inconsistent performance across providers
Artificial Analysis published a new benchmark the other day, this time focusing on how an individual model—OpenAI’s gpt-oss-120b—performs across different hosted providers. The results showed some surprising differences. Here’s the …

UK and Germany to sign historic mutual defense pact amid Russian aggression, Bloomberg reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/17/uk-and-germany-to-sign.html