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Google unveils Operation Blue Skies, a £5M trial to re-route North Atlantic aircraft to reduce contrail-induced warming using Google's AI atmospheric forecasts (Madeleine Cuff/New Scientist)
https://www.newscientist.com/article/25850

Planes flying over the Atlantic will be re-routed to avoid contrails | New Scientist
Operation Blue Skies is the world’s first trial to deploy contrail avoidance measures across an entire airspace, aiming to lower the climate impact of flights on a large scale 

"3 in 4 Britons (74%) concerned about climate change today following heatwave summer"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate

3 in 4 Britons (74%) concerned about climate change today following heatwave summer
London, UK. New polling data from Ipsos in the UK, conducted 31st July – 4th August 2026, reveals a significant shift in public concern following a summer of elevated temperatures.

PSA: Der österreichische Tracker-Halsband-Hersteller Tractive scheint ein Leck im Shop-System zu haben - oder Daten verkauft. Ich habe im Oktober 2025 eine unique Mail-Adresse für die Bestellung tractive.com Online-Shop verwendet. Nun erhielt ich Spam adressiert an diese Mail-Adresse.
Immerhin: Das Tracking-Konto läuft mit einer anderen Adresse, dort kam kein Mail an.
#hunde

KI versus Copyright: Hollywood schließt Frieden mit Bytedance
TV- und Filmstudios hat kritisiert, dass Bytedance Urheberrechte missachtet. Jetzt wird kooperiert.
https://www.heise…

KI versus Copyright: Hollywood schließt Frieden mit Bytedance
TV- und Filmstudios hat kritisiert, dass Bytedance Urheberrechte missachtet. Jetzt wird kooperiert.

Primaries in Florida, Alaska and Wyoming held on Tuesday provided the latest view into how voters are feeling ahead of November’s US midterm elections.
One candidate aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) netted an extraordinary win
while another was defeated handily.
Donald Trump’s handpicked candidates received a mixed reception from voters.
In Alaska, voters chose their fighters for one of the year’s marquee US Senate races,
and in Florida, e…

A democratic socialist win and losses for Trump allies: takeaways from primaries in three key states
Elections in Florida, Alaska and Wyoming provide a sense of how voters are feeling ahead of November’s midterms

Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones Once Fired Head Coach After 0-2 Start https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/owner-jerry-jones-fired-head-coach/

Alibaba open-sources its chip software, following similar plays from Huawei and Moore Threads, as Chinese GPU makers try to break the dominance of Nvidia's CUDA (Ann Cao/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article

Alibaba targets Nvidia’s dominant software ecosystem with open-source AI stack
The firm’s chip unit T-Head aims to lower migration barriers to Zhenwu AI computing architectures, following similar initiatives by Huawei and Moore Threads.

Der Assistenzhund 🐕‍🦺meiner Frau reagiert auf das Geräusch des Paketscanners der Postboten.
Heute hat die Botin in Hörweite der Kamera das Paket gescannt - und ich danach das Audio analysiert.
2600 Hz, 3000 4000 Hz und ein Träller aus 4450 und 1880 Hz
Töne sauber wieder erzeugt - falls es mal jemand auch braucht um den Hund zu desensibilisieren, gibt's den Knopf nun hier

Post Schweiz Paketscanner Piepstöne - Sound Button
Click here to play the sound!

Apple unveils new EU business terms from October 1, resolving disputes with the EU, including a new Core Technology Commission and App Store commission tiers (Apple)
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-announces-changes-for-apps-in-the-…

Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union
Apple today announced changes to its business terms for apps in the European Union, following close collaboration with the European Commission.

Discord suspends livestreams in Brazil, after the country's data protection authority ordered it last week, saying Discord failed to protect children and teens (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-discord-children-social-me…

Discord suspends Brazil livestreams after suicide raises child protection concerns
Discord, the popular platform for gamers to communicate online, said it suspended its livestreams in Brazil. The move Monday takes place in the wake of a suicide case and after a body of the country’s justice ministry accused it of failing to protect for children and adolescents. Discord said in a statement that it is implementing the suspension of livestreams after a decision by Brazil’s national agency of data protection last week and added it is in conversations “to seek a solution tha…