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2 snaps from roughly the same spot in a stream. (britain) spring and summer.
a) 27th March 2026
b) 18th August 2026
#nature #climate

#idw Wild #birds rewrite rules for travel: Soaring on thermals can be the most energy-efficient mode of transport for animals.
The largest study yet to examine flight costs in wild birds finds that riding the air can make flying energetically cheaper than swimming, overturning a textbook ranking.

Wild birds rewrite rules for travel: Soaring on thermals can be the most energy-efficient mode of transport for animals

[OT] With IPOs coming up, "AI doomsday" talk distracts us from lack of revenue growth https://mindmatters.ai/2026/09/ai-doomsday-talk-distracts-us-from-lack-of-revenue-growth-for-hyperscalers/ on the

“AI Doomsday” Talk Distracts Us From Lack of Revenue Growth
Apparently, paid usage of AI models has not risen sufficiently to cover the falling token prices.

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German farmers warn drought will spell heavy crop losses.
The head of the German Farmers Association: "We farmers have have been feeling the effects of climate change for a long time now."
He also has a recommendation for government: make diesel cheaper.
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i live in a small apartment without a lot of storage space. for LPs, i have two three-foot shelves, one for jazz, the other for everything else. last week, i made a new resolution to play at least one non-jazz record every day. here's how it's going.
#vinyl #OldVinyl

Suno adds music rights company BMG as its latest licensing partner as it prepares new models powered by licensed work, following a similar deal with WMG (Corbin Bolies/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/suno-ai-licensing-deal-bmg-1236832703/

Suno Strikes AI Licensing Deal With BMG as It Preps Label-Backed Models
The deal will see Suno pay for BMG's repertoire of recordings by its artists and cover the use of any BMG songs to train Suno's past models.

Copper boom fueling energy transition puts Earth’s wildlands at risk https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/copper-boom-fueling-energy-transition-puts-earths-wildlands-at-risk/

Copper boom fueling energy transition puts Earth’s wildlands at risk
In the high Andes of Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina, you can still find the vicuña, a shy, elusive camelid, revered by Indigenous people. It has reasons to be cautious of humans. Long-prized for its fine wool, European colonists hunted it relentlessly. Flocks in the millions were reduced to 6,000 individuals by the 1960s. Indigenous-driven […]

Before you leave for the weekend, check out today's Metacurity for a rundown of the varied reactions to Trump's private cyber offensive memo, along with the other critical infosec developments you should know, including
-- AI agents go to war with each other,
-- Apple warns users of mercenary spyware attacks,
-- Litigant hides AI prompt injection in court filing,
-- UK transplant patients’ data sent over unencrypted pagers,
-- Trezor breach exposes nearly 14,000 customers,
-- Cl0p claims data theft from nearly 50 companies,
-- Flock’s privacy reforms fail to quiet critics,
-- Insider gets two years for $2.5 million extortion plot,
-- Akira ransomware attack sabotages itself,
-- Chinese espionage hackers moonlight in crypto fraud,
-- RingCentral breach exposes 1.6 million people,
-- Ukraine shuts down 94 scam call centers,
-- Attackers pounce on GeoServer zero-day,
-- TuLotero hack exposes IDs and selfies of 100,000 users,
-- South Korean lawmaker pushes back on Coupang criticism,
-- OpenAI reckons with security culture after Hugging Face hack,
-- Columbus restores crime map two years after cyberattack,
-- Pope Leo talks AI with US lawmakers,
-- Chinese competition drives down US AI prices,
-- OpenAI wants to remember everything you do
https://www.metacurity.com/trumps-private-cyber-offensive-wins-support-and-plenty-of-alarm/

Four more freelance crypto journalists, with bylines at Forbes, Entrepreneur, Information Age, and TNW, have not verified their IDs after a reporter's queries (Rob Waugh/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/tech-websites-…

Tech websites remove articles after failing to verify journalists exist
Press Gazette raises questions about four more profilic tech writers who cover world of crypto.