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3 days ago the RSS feed of planet.ubuntu.com stopped working due to a TLS cert error.
I THINK it's due to them overhauling & moving it to a github-hosted replacement, but as this was done just by redirecting DNS the new host doesn't have a TLS cert with the correct name. If so, this means that people following the old RSS feed can't do so any more and they got no notice that this was going to happen.
I don't know for sure though because my query remains unansw…

Sequoia, a16z, and other VC firms invested $1.2B into police and public safety tech startups over the past year, following the success of Palantir and others (Abram Brown/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/a

Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Add to $1.2 Billion Funding Boom for Police Tech Startups
Over the past year, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital and many of Silicon Valley’s other top venture capital firms have funneled at least $1.2 billion in funding to startups selling technology to city police departments and local public safety agencies. Those companies illustrate the technology industry’s growing enthusiasm for making software and hardware for the government and law

GeoStruXer and Bentley used AI with satellite data to cut materials and embodied carbon in a Saudi grain warehouse retrofit—no performance lost.
Regeneration International launched training and standards to help farmers adopt regenerative practices at scale.
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Filings: WBD projects CNN will generate $1.8B in revenue and $600M in adjusted EBITDA for FY 2026; docs show CNN had revenue of $2.2B in 2021 and $1.8B in 2023 (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

CNN’s Financial Projections Revealed: News Giant to Hit $1.8 Billion in 2026 Revenue
Warner Bros. Discovery is revealing financial details in connection with its planned spinout of Discovery Global.

So I grew up next to #Chernobyl and this is, well, TERRIFYING.
A story for y’all: I’m from a city called Zhytomyr, 2 hours west of Kyiv in the North of #Ukraine. We were downwind of the Chernobyl #nuclear power plant when the 1986 disaster happened.
I wasn’t born for another 12 years, but my childhood was filled with stories and the aftermath of it all. Things like:
- My grandmother worked as a head doctor in a hospital and rehabilitation facility exclusively for children of Chernobyl victims to treat the extremely high prevalence of Tuberculosis and other severe health complications. (To specify: these were SECOND GENERATION of exposure).
- A lot of the kids in that facility were orphans, because their parents died young from health problems.
- My uncle’s wife was born in Pripyat. She was 1 year old when the disaster happened. Her parents were told to evacuate while given no information about what happened. They had to pack up their things and rush out to an unfamiliar city with their baby, never to see the rest of their belongings, apartment, or hometown again.
- When I was a kid, it became so common to see weirdly mutated animals and insects that even 2-3 year olds would make jokes about “Chernobyl mosquitos” and I wouldn’t even flinch seeing occasional giant bugs, dark frogs, weird-looking dogs.
- We’d frequently hear of nearby farms having issues with their animals being born too mutated to survive or random outbreaks from contaminated water / food. Crops would randomly fail. People would get poisoned on a regular basis. This all got less common as I grew up.
- My mother still remembers being a little girl, 10 years old, and looking outside from their balcony at the clouds blowing over from Chernobyl that day. People were told to not go outside and to shut all the windows, but not given an explanation as to why. My mother swears that the rain looked different. They weren’t able to go and buy more food for the kitchen for multiple days.
Anyway - nuclear safety isn’t a joke. I don’t understand how this level of carelessness can happen after Chernobyl and Fukushima.

https://www.404media.co/power-companies-are-using-ai-to-build-nuclear-power-plants/

Ankar, which develops LLM-powered AI tools to streamline the process of drafting patent applications for patent attorneys, raised a $20M Series A led by Atomico (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/17/exclusi

Exclusive: Palantir alums using AI to streamline patent filing secure $20 million in Series A venture funding
Palantir alumni Tamar Gomez and Wiem Gharbi founded Ankar which counts L'Oreal and Vorys among early customers

All the NASA s/c images of #3IATLAS shared today (and some more) can be found at https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/comets/3i-atlas/comet-3i-atlas-image-gallery/ now - including this spectrum from the Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph on MAVEN taken on 28 September, showing hydrogen emitted from different sources, namely the comet (dim spot on the far left), hydrogen from Mars (bright emission on the right), and hydrogen flowing through our solar system between the planets (dim emission in the middle).

This week: Scatec locked in a 25-year deal for Africa's largest solar-plus-storage project in Egypt. Vattenfall greenlighted Germany's largest 1.6 GW offshore wind cluster. Brooklyn is building a 9.46 MWh battery-backed EV charging depot.
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"Luxury Fashion Brand Rick Owens Becomes Latest To Ban Fur"
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Luxury Fashion Brand Rick Owens Becomes Latest To Ban Fur
Rick Owens just became the latest fashion brand to ban fur following a five-day campaign by Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade (CAFT)

Luxury Fashion Brand Rick Owens Becomes Latest To Ban Fur #AnimalRights

Luxury Fashion Brand Rick Owens Becomes Latest To Ban Fur
Rick Owens just became the latest fashion brand to ban fur following a five-day campaign by Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade (CAFT)