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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.

Milliardenforderung an Zuckerberg & Co.: Verfahren außergerichtlich beigelegt
Mark Zuckerberg und weitere Entscheidungsträger sollten sich für die finanziellen Folgen des laxen Datenschutzes bei Facebook verantworten. Dem entgehen sie.

heise | macOS 26 Tahoe auszreizen: 20 Tipps für Apples neues System
Der Mac bekommt einen integrierten Clipboard-Manager, Spotlight wird deutlich mächtiger, das Kontrollzentrum lässt sich individualisieren – und vieles mehr.

💗 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.

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

Barbour ABI: the UK's data center count, currently 477, is set to jump by ~100 over the next five years, with more than half in London and neighboring counties (BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyr9nx0jrzo

Data centres to be expanded across UK as concerns mount
The number of data centres is set to jump by a fifth in the coming years, figures seen by the BBC suggest.

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

Chip design software maker Cadence agrees to acquire Stockholm-based Hexagon's design and simulation software business for ~$3.18B in cash and stock (Nathan Owens/Manufacturing Dive)
https://www.manufacturingdive.com/news/cad

Cadence Design Systems to spend $3.2B on Hexagon’s simulations tech
The acquisition would bolster the industrial software maker’s position in the growing structural analysis market used widely by Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Toyota and other suppliers.

Google launches the Agent Payments Protocol, or AP2, designed to securely facilitate agent-led payments across platforms, with the support of over 60 companies (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/googles-new-

Google's new open protocol secures AI agent transactions - and 60 companies already support it
The Agent Payments Protocol aims to help consumers and businesses finally trust AI-enabled payments.