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Cornell researchers just solved a major agrivoltaics challenge: how to balance crops and solar panels in real-time.
Their new framework automatically adjusts panel angles based on weather patterns and crop needs—boosting energy while keeping plants healthy. It even works in cloudy climates, making solar-agriculture combos viable almost anywhere.

Plug-and-play control framework for adjusting panel tilt in agrivoltaics
A Cornell University research team developed a control framework that simultaneously considers past and future conditions when determining solar panel tilt angle. The researchers told pv magazine it is designed to be plug-and-play, allowing for software developers and solar operators to incorporate their optimization algorithms directly into the framework.

Something that came up in conversation today: the UK government is likely using unattributed AI in its public output, and (possibly wrongly) ascribing Crown Copyright to it.

To see the butcher slap the steak, before he laid it on the block,
and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly. It was
agreeable, too -- it really was -- to see him cut it off, so smooth and juicy.
There was nothing savage in the act, although the knife was large and keen;
it was a piece of art, high art; there was delicacy of touch, clearness of
tone, skilful handling of the subject, fine shading. It was the triumph of
mind over matter;…

Adobe patches a zero-day in Acrobat DC, Reader DC, and Acrobat 2024, which hackers have been actively exploiting for at least four months (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/adobe-fixes-pdf-zero-day-sec…

Adobe fixes PDF zero-day security bug that hackers have exploited for months | TechCrunch
It's not clear how many people were compromised by this hacking campaign, but a security researcher said the hackers were targeting victims since at least November 2025.

📱 Die Bürger-App – eine gute Idee auf maroder Basis.
Kindergeld per App, KI-Assistent durch Formulare, alles digital. Klingt gut.
Das fundamentale Problem liegt nicht in der App, sondern im IT-Unterbau:
Deutschlands Verwaltungs-IT ist ein Flickenteppich in desolatem Zustand.
Dazu: Telekom und SAP ohne Ausschreibung beauftragt – dieselben Partner wie
bei der Corona-App. Das Ergebnis von damals ist bekannt.
Holger Schmidt (FAZ):

What the actual fuck.
I was already looking at an alternative to Adobe Acrobat Pro to replace for my clients who need it, this is just fuel for the dumpster fire that is Adobe. https://mastodon.social/@marcedwards/116371577815792197

Kapitän zur See Sebastian Hamann, Non-Resident Fellow am #ISPK zur Straße von #Hormus:
„Die Entwicklung der Operationen gegen die #Huthi-Rebellen hätten eine Warnung sein können: Eine…