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Gurman: as part of Vision Pro cuts, Apple is largely shutting down a team focused on gaming and reducing the size of a unit producing immersive video content (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/21/apple-lays-off-200-people-across-vis…

Apple lays off 200+ across Vision Pro and Siri teams - 9to5Mac
Apple has cut more than 200 jobs across Vision Pro, Siri, and software teams, including shuttering a Vision Pro gaming group, per Bloomberg.

African swine fever outbreaks increase in pigs and wild boar across the EU https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/news/african-swine-fever-outbreaks-increase-pigs-and-wild-boar-across-eu

African swine fever outbreaks increase in pigs and wild boar across the EU
In 2025, African swine fever (ASF) outbreaks increased across the European Union in both domestic pigs (+76%) and wild boar (+44%) compared to 2024, according to EFSA’s latest annual epidemiological report. The disease reemerged in Spain after 31 years without detections, raising the number of affected Member States to 14.

A new funding round of the EU's Connecting Europe Facility:
The EV charging budget (AFIF) is €130 million, shared with electrifying airport operations, and this time only for public HDV 🚛🚚 megawatt charging
minimum 4 x 1 Megawatt charging 🔌, but site can have a lower overall ⚡ connection

CEF Transport: €1.1 billion available for infrastructure projects across the EU
CEF Transport: €1.1 billion available for infrastructure projects across the EU

The federal law that prohibits paving and logging National Forest land
is officially on the chopping block,
and conservationists warn that the cleaver could strike lands on the Central Coast. 
The 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule
protects 59 million acres of National Forest land from logging and roadbuilding
— including 635,000 remote acres in Los Padres National Forest.
It protects the backcountry,
where old-growth forests provide shelter for wi…

Feds Moving at Full Throttle to Reverse Roadless Rule Protecting National Forests
A public comment period is now open on the proposed rule change that would allow logging and roadbuilding on National Forest land — including 635,000 acres of Los Padres National Forest.

Et si, finalement, c'était ça ce fameux "éco-terrorisme" ?
La Coordination rurale, galvanisée par l’adoption de la loi d’urgence agricole, appelle les agriculteurs Š ne pas respecter les restrictions d’eau
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La Coordination rurale, galvanisée par l’adoption de la loi d’urgence agricole, appelle les agriculteurs à ne pas respecter les restrictions d’eau
Les appels à ne pas respecter les restrictions des arrêtés sécheresse des préfectures se sont multipliés de la part de responsables locaux de la CR dans le Sud-Ouest, au grand dam des autorités.

Statt Wearables: Google-Forscher messen Körperfett anhand von Smartphone-Fotos
Google zeigt mit Photoscan AI, dass künftig einfache 2D-Bilder ausreichen, um die genaue Verteilung des Fettanteils im Körper darzustellen.

Statt Wearables: Google-Forscher messen Körperfett anhand von Smartphone-Fotos
Google zeigt mit Photoscan AI, dass künftig einfache 2D-Bilder ausreichen, um die genaue Verteilung des Fettanteils im Körper darzustellen.

AI advice suppresses people’s willingness to say “I don’t know”, even when the advice is wrong and accuracy is incentivized.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.13562v1

AI advice suppresses people's willingness to say "I don't know", even when the advice is wrong and accuracy is incentivized
Knowing when to say "I don't know" is fundamental to human judgment, yet AI assistants offer a fluent answer to almost any question. In five experiments (N = 3,132; four preregistered, one direct replication), participants answered difficult questions and could always decline to respond. We engineered the questions so that AI advice was wrong, separating AI use from its accuracy. Merely having access to AI nearly eliminated participants' willingness to suspend judgment, and this held whether th…

Vance says Iran agrees to nuclear inspections, as under Obama deal (Isaac Arnsdorf/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/22/vance-says-iran-agrees-inspections-nuclear-talks-move-ahead/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260622/p35#a260622p35

Weather tracker: Thunderstorms strike across Europe amid record heatwave https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/17/weather-tracker-thunderstorms-strike-across-europe-amid-record-heatwave

Rivers across the European continent,
including some of its most important waterways,
are drying up as an unrelenting heatwave refuses to go away.
The Danube, Rhine, Elbe and Loire have all dried up
as the continent has baked through this summer,
leaving a question mark on drinking water supplies, trade via navigation and even recreational activities.
The Danube, the second-longest river in Europe after the Volga, has fallen to its lowest level in 30 years…

Rhine, Danube, Elbe, Loire. Some of Europe’s biggest rivers are going dry this summer
Europe’s major rivers – the Rhine, Danube, Elbe and Loire – are drying up amid a relentless summer heatwave, threatening drinking water supplies, disrupting trade routes and halting ferry and cargo traffic across the continent.