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Looks like the Greeks were feeling left out of the genocide party.
#israel

Israel and Greece sign multi-billion-dollar weapons deal
Israel has signed a major weapons deal with Greece, marking their largest agreement to date. The deal, coined Achilles Shield, is valued at nearly $3.5 billion and includes a multi-layered air defense system for Greece. Israel's Defense Ministry announced the agreement on Monday. Israeli arms exports reached a record high last year, exceeding $19 billion. Experts say Israel's battle-tested weapons are a key attraction. Greece is modernizing its armed forces amid regional tensions, particularly …

Weather forecast was about rain and maybe lightning ... so we just biked to your lokal mountain and did a quick loop in high humidity.
#hiking #bayern #mountains

"Ireland’s PV capacity reaches 3 GW"
#Ireland #SolarPower #Energy

Ireland’s PV capacity reaches 3 GW - pv magazine Global
“With continued investment in solar – across homes, farms, businesses and large grid-scale projects – Ireland is building a growing source of homegrown, clean electricity, and strengthening our energy security,” said Ireland's Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment, Darragh O'Brien following the milestone.

Sources: AfterQuery, which sells coding and finance training data to AI labs, has hit a valuation of $3.2B, up from $300M in April, and is profitable (Anna Tong/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/09/01/afterquery-becomes-yc…

AfterQuery Becomes YC’s Fastest Unicorn At $3.2 Billion
Twenty three year-old Spencer Mateega pivoted his YC startup into the fastest unicorn in the accelerator’s history, fueling AI's shift toward human reasoning data.

"There were 57 men in the group chat, at any point one of them could have said ‘this is fucked up’ or ‘stop’ or ‘I’m calling the police’. They didn’t." — girlonthrnet
#Cornell
#RapeCulture
#Impunity

Cornell | What are you doing to challenge rape culture right now?
Protecting women from rape doesn't mean swooping with a sense of victory, it means starting a conversation that might leave you feeling like shit.

That feeling when your renderer can handle a component that outputs HTML inside link text in Markdown that’s embedded in HTML.
(Yes, I’m bragging.)
#Kitten #SmallWeb #SmallTech

Gemini 4 Argon has a 1M-token output limit, up from 64K for prior models; it initially costs $2/1M input and $10/1M output tokens, rising to $4 and $20 later (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/google-gemini-

Google Gemini 4 Argon closes the gap with OpenAI and Anthropic but doesn't take a clear lead
Gemini 4 Argon is Google's first frontier model in over seven months. It matches GPT-6 Astra in independent testing but can't keep up with Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5. The per-token price is low, but Argon burns through more than twice as many tokens per task as Astra. Select testers get access first, with the API and paid tiers following later.

Filing: Apple claims a former iPhone engineer used a confidential Apple circuit schematic in his work at OpenAI, evidence is being destroyed, and more (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/31/apple-openai-forensic-macbook-evidence/

Apple reveals 'shocking evidence' from ex-employee's MacBook in OpenAI suit - 9to5Mac
Apple has filed a new document in its ongoing lawsuit against OpenAI as it continues to push for expedited discovery....

MapQuest becomes the top free iPhone app on the App Store in Canada and fourth on the US App Store after refusing to change Lake Ontario to Lake America (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/31/mapquest-tops-app-store-charts/

MapQuest Tops App Store Charts After Refusing 'Lake America' Change
MapQuest is in the spotlight this week after refusing to change "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America" on its map following an executive...

Nvidia plans to launch DLSS 5 on September 3 on RTX 50-series desktop and laptop GPUs and through GeForce Now, following a divisive announcement in March (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/986378/nvidia-dlss-5-launch-nba-2k27

Nvidia’s controversial DLSS 5 arrives September 3rd and requires serious GPU horsepower
Nvidia is officially launching DLSS 5 this week following a divisive announcement in March. The first game that supports it is NBA 2K27.