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A Nigerian teen is turning agricultural waste into biodegradable sanitary pads
For many Nigerian women, access to sanitary pads remains a challenge. Even those who can obtain them, the prevalence of single-use menstrual products creates problems of its own. They contain plastics and chemicals and are not eco-friendly generating large amounts of waste. After learning that many traditional sanitary pads used contain up to 90% plastic […]

Satellite imagery shows erasure of southern Gaza as Israel expands control.
Detailed satellite pictures with before/after slider. Even cemeteries were completely destroyed.
https://aje.news/0aqrsj

Satellite imagery shows erasure of southern Gaza as Israel expands control
Satellite images show transformation as Netanyahu orders military to occupy 70 percent of Gaza.

One of the clearest examples of an uninsurable area to date comes from California.
In 2024, State Farm, one of the largest home insurers in the United States, chose not to renew 72,000 home insurance policies across the state due, in part, to unsustainable wildfire risk.
It was not alone, as six of California’s twelve largest insurers had already paused or heavily restricted new policies.
Homeowners who can no longer find private coverage are directed to California’s insure…

Climate change: how fires and floods are creating uninsurable areas across Europe
From California to France and the UK, traditional private markets are buckling under the weight of climate claims.

Feds to open hundreds of acres of Colorado wilderness to oil drilling - Daily Kos
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/5/31/800047530/environment/feds-to-open-hundreds-of-acres-of-colorado-wilderness-to-oil-drilling/

A look at Pangram, considered the gold standard for detecting AI writing, and the dangers of its claimed 1 in 10,000 false-positive rate when used at scale (Matteo Wong/The Atlantic)
https://www.…

America Has a Pangram Problem
AI-detection tools are getting better. But they still aren’t good enough.

«Ausgerechnet eine KI findet #ZeroDay's in den Editoren Vim und Emacs:
Unter #Hacker'n und Sicherheitsexperten scheiden sich seit Jahrzehnten die Geister, ob nun #Vim oder

Ausgerechnet eine KI findet Zero-Days in den Editoren Vim und Emacs
Unter Hackern und Sicherheitsexperten scheiden sich seit Jahrzehnten die Geister, ob nun Vim oder Emacs der bessere Editor ist. Klar ist nun allerdings, dass beiden der zweifelhafte Ruhm zukommt, von einer KI eigenständig für unsicher erklärt zu werden.

"They discovered that land surface temperatures increased by an average of 2°C (3.6°F) in the months after an AI data centre started operations. In the most extreme cases, the increase in temperature was 9.1°C (16.4°F). The effect wasn’t limited to the immediate surroundings of the data centres: the team found increased temperatures up to 10 kilometres away. Seven kilometres away, there was only a 30 per cent reduction in the intensity."

A morning walk through East Lawn Cemetery in Ithaca, New York uncovered an immense colony of some 5.5 million subterranean bees.
The discovery, which a Cornell University research team published in April in the journal Apidologie,
documents one of the largest aggregations of these insects ever recorded in the world.
The population, belonging to the species Andrena regularis, occupies an area of about 1.25 acres
and is crucial for pollination of the region's orch…

Millions of Bees Have Thrived Under a New York Cemetery for More Than a Century
A walk in the cemetery led to Cornell researchers discovering an underground colony of bees with an estimated population of 5.5 million—one of the largest ever recorded.

Asana acquires StackAI, a no-code platform for building AI agents, for $75M as part of Asana's broader AI pivot; PitchBook: StackAI raised ~$20M (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/28/asana-acquires-no-code-agent-builder-stack-ai/

Asana acquires no-code agent-builder Stack AI | TechCrunch
Asana will incorporate Stack AI into its growing suite of AI workflow tools.

The Trump administration is trying to break the Forest Service,
to pave the way to privatizing
or even selling off
the 193 million acres of land it oversees
https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2026-04-30/forest-service-reor…

Why a major reorganization at the Forest Service has people concerned
A common refrain emerged among the sources I spoke with: The Trump administration is trying to break the Forest Service, they claimed, to pave the way to privatizing or even selling off the 193 million acres of land it oversees.