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National parks are deteriorating. There’s a fix Congress isn’t making.
The national park system faces a maintenance backlog of $24 billion in crumbling roads, aging water systems, washed-out trails and dilapidated visitor facilities.
That is more than seven times the National Park Service’s annual budget.

Last month, committees in both the House and Senate advanced bipartisan bills to dedicate roughly $1.3 billion annually for park maintenance over the next five years. …

America’s national parks are falling apart. Congress can fix them.
Legislators should fund routine maintenance to prevent bigger problems.

Just wow....."A hacker has breached Romania's cadastre agency and wiped the country's entire land registry database following a failed extortion attempt."
https://news.risky.biz/risky-bulletin-hacker-wipes-romanias-entire-land-regis…

Hacker wipes Romania's entire land registry database
In other news: Graykey maker sues former employee for leaking exploit; Hugging Face was hacked using AI; unauth RCE finally found in WordPress.

Mr Falange calls for a General Election (probably to save his Clacton face) & says, "You cannot make the ‘biggest changes’ in British politics in 40 years without a mandate from the British people."
Funny, I seem to remember them voting in a majority of Westminster reps under the vacuous slogan 'Change'
Now they'll get a bit of that, but only a bit.

I hope Andy Burn 'em has some advisor who actually reads Environmental Research Letters. The review essay by Emily Grubert, summarizing a frustrating 25 years of research with no apparent effect on climate overheating, is blunt.
" For people and places that rely on fossil fuel production and face major transition challenges (Xenarios et al 2026), failing to be explicit about the degree to which transition must proceed, or the extent to which alternatives might actually be ava…

OpenAI says it has made several changes to its safety practices following the Hugging Face breach and has paused two weeks of deployment-focused RL training (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/18/openai-pause-astra-preparedness-framework

OpenAI to rewrite its safety rules post-Hugging Face
The changes follow the Hugging Face incident and increased cybersecurity risk of new Astra model

TIL: There’s a town in the U.P. of Michigan named “Felch.”
I have no comment on this novel (to me) fact. @… https://m.ai6yr.org/@nwstornado_bot/11

Tornado (bot) (@nwstornado_bot@m.ai6yr.org)
Attached: 1 image #NWS #tornado Tornado Warning for Dickinson, MI; Marquette, MI #MIwx At 552 PM EDT/452 PM CDT/, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was located 12 miles northeast of Felch, or 22 miles south of Ishpeming, moving east at 35 mph. HAZARD...Tornado and quarter size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated rotation. IMPACT...Flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed. Damage to roofs, windows, and vehicles w…

Filing: ABC says the FCC hasn't refuted "substantial evidence" of Trump administration retaliation in ordering an early review of eight ABC TV station licenses (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/09/abc-fcc-lawsuit-donald-trump-1237107012/

ABC Pushes Back On FCC’s Justification For Early License Renewal Order, Highlights “Substantial Evidence” Of Trump “Retaliatory Motive”
The network said that there was "substantial evidence" of a Trump administration "retaliatory motive"

Filing: Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch's FY 2026 compensation was $31M, down from $33M a year earlier; COO John Nallen's compensation rose from $15.3M to $18.1M (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Lachlan Murdoch’s Fox Pay Dipped to $31 Million Last Year
Fox Corp.'s pay disclosure comes as the company seeks to complete its deal for Roku.

Filing: college social app Fizz accuses Maveron's Jerry Lu of giving confidential info to rival Sidechat after he met with Fizz as a potential investor in 2022 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/10/fili

Filing: College app Fizz accuses VC of sharing confidential startup information with rival Sidechat | TechCrunch
Fizz has expanded its lawsuit against rival Sidechat, alleging that a Maveron VC shared its confidential information obtained during a fundraising meeting with the competing startup.

Fox revamps sports site OutKick following Clay Travis' departure, hiring Matt Calkins, who quit The Seattle Times after it spiked his column on trans athletes (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/0…

Outkick Moves Past Its Clay Travis Era
Fox is revamping the sports site following the exit of its founder, Clay Travis. It’s hiring a writer who resigned from The Seattle Times over a column about transgender athletes.