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Trump’s agriculture secretary commits to ‘waiving red tape’ to allow ranchers to process and sell their own beef –
Brooke Rollins, Trump's agriculture secretary said it was
a “matter of national security” that the US is able to “feed and fuel ourselves”.
She outlined that her department would waive “red tape in processing” and expand ranchers ability to “sell across state lines”, as well as other measures.
The agriculture secretary previously defended the preside…

Trump’s agriculture secretary commits to ‘waiving red tape’ to allow ranchers to process and sell their own beef – live
Brooke Rollins teases ‘big announcements’ next week to facilitate Trump’s pledge to allow ranchers and farmers to process their own food and avoid the ‘nasty monopoly’ of large processing plants

„Hitze macht aggressiv, und Hitze gleichzeitig wegleugnen zu müssen, damit das eigene Weltbild nicht ins Wanken gerät, macht noch aggressiver.“ Hitzewelle: Wir leben im Zeitalter der aggressiver Ignoranz #Aggnoranz– @chris_Stoecker #klimawandel
Hört endlich auf, Spinnern wie der

Reaktionen auf Hitzewelle: Wir leben im Zeitalter der Aggnoranz
Es ist heiß, und on- wie offline ist Erstaunliches zu beobachten: wütend vorgetragene Realitätsverleugnung, aggressive Ignoranz. Das Problem reicht bis in die Union hinein – es gibt dafür eine psychologische Erklärung.

Denzel Ward agrees to extension with Browns, regains status as highest-paid DB in NFL history, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/denzel-ward-agrees-…

«Wenn KI-Services so super sind, warum werden sie uns dann so aggressiv aufgedrängt?
Ein Appell an die Hersteller, sämtliche KI-Dienste konsequent optional zu machen und sie von Haus aus zu deaktivieren. Echte Wahlfreiheit statt Zwangsbeglückung»
Gute Frage und um deren Macht und Profitgier der Konzerne kann es wohl kaum gehen oder…, oder…, oder nicht?!?? Wenn die von "Sicherheit" und "Produktivität" sprechen, dann wohl um ihre Eigene.
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Wenn KI-Services so super sind, warum werden sie uns dann so aggressiv aufgedrängt?
Ein Appell an die Hersteller, sämtliche KI-Dienste konsequent optional zu machen und sie von Haus aus zu deaktivieren. Echte Wahlfreiheit statt Zwangsbeglückung

Nevada-based identity verification and fraud prevention startup Socure raised $156M at a $5.2B valuation and acquires Austin-based agentic AI startup Fravity (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/socure-raises-acquires-a…

Socure Secures $156M at $5.2B Valuation, Acquires AI Fraud Investigation Startup Fravity
Identity verification and fraud prevention company Socure announced Thursday that it raised $156 million in a strategic growth investment valuing it at $5.2 billion. The Incline Village, Nevada-based company also says it is acquiring agentic AI startup Fravity, which will be incorporated into its RiskOS platform as RiskOS_Agents.

On Tuesday, the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) finalized a contested oil and gas leasing plan for its Bakersfield Field Office,
which manages public lands from Fresno to Ventura counties.
Under the approved plan, the BLM is offering up 850,000 acres across the Central Coast to future drilling and fracking. 
The BLM Bakersfield Field Office manages more than 1.2 million acres of public lands and federal mineral estate in Central California.
It supports about 3,5…

Feds Opens Up 850,000 Acres of Central Coast to Oil and Gas Drilling, Fracking
Public land now open to leasing includes a parcel next to Cate School in Carpinteria, a public park in Lompoc, and land bordering Lake Cachuma.

Security- and AI-related startups have raised $855M across more than 150 reported seed-stage rounds this year, on track for an all-time high (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/cybersecurity/seed-trends-ai-security-startup-fund…

AI Seed Investors Flock To Cybersecurity
Startups at the intersection of AI and security have raised $855 million across more than 150 reported seed-stage rounds this year, per Crunchbase data.

Second fire growing rapidly in Big Sur burns toward Highway 1
With firefighters already struggling to contain the Timber fire in Big Sur,
a second wildfire in the region grew rapidly Friday
— sending flames in the direction of Highway 1.
The Plaskett fire,
which ignited Tuesday in a remote area about 30 miles down the coast from where the Timber fire started,
exploded from about 140 acres Thursday to roughly 5,900 acres
by 9 p.m. Friday, according …

Second fire growing rapidly in Big Sur barrels towa Highway 1
The Plaskett fire, which ignited Tuesday in a remote area about 30 miles down the coast from where the Timber fire started, exploded to roughly 5,900 acres by 9 p.m. Friday.

Meta's India and Southeast Asia VP Sandhya Devanathan is joining OpenAI to oversee consumer growth and enterprise adoption across SE Asia and Australia (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/28/meta

Meta executive leaves for OpenAI as the social media giant faces growing scrutiny in India | TechCrunch
Sandhya Devanathan will oversee some OpenAI operations across Southeast Asia and Australia in her new role.

New York-based AI detection startup Pangram raised $9M led by Menlo, and releases Pangram 4.0 and its first AI image detection model, claiming 99.5% accuracy (Niko Gallogly/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/busines

Sick of A.I.-Generated Content? The ‘Slop Janitor’ Is Here to Help.
Pangram, an A.I. detection start-up, promises near-perfect accuracy in sniffing out writing and imagery that wasn’t made by humans. It’s raising some big questions along the way.