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Up to 80 Percent of Critically Endangered Torrey Pine Trees Are Not Expected to Survive Following Historic Wildfire on Santa Rosa Island
https://www.independent.com/2026/09/08/majority-of-santa-rosa-islands-rare-torrey-pines-predi…

NYT countersues the US EEOC, accusing it of retaliation for NYT's coverage of the agency by suing NYT for passing over a white man for a top editorial role (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

New York Times Countersues U.S. Over Claim It Discriminated Against White Male Employee
The publication accuses the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission of filing a lawsuit in retaliation for its reporting.

Filing: Google urged the European Commission not to target DNS resolvers, VPNs, or IPs to fight piracy, calling the measures ineffective and easily circumvented (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)
https://torrentfreak.com/google-oppose

🫧 #bubbles by #Hyperplexed brings Android-style app bubbles to the web — floating, draggable overlays that snap to screen edges, stack into a group, expand into content panels, and fling away to dismiss. #opensource

TJ Bass ready, no stranger to what Cowboys need in absence of Tyler Smith https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/tj-bass-ready-no-stranger-to-what-cowboys-need-in-absence-of-tyler-smith

I have long assumed this to be the case: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/community/884421/most-drivers-not-following-basic-road-rules-aa-research-shows but it's good to have confirmation. Sorta.

TJ Bass ready, no stranger to what Cowboys need in absence of Tyler Smith https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/tj-bass-ready-no-stranger-to-what-cowboys-need-in-absence-of-tyler-smith

Zoox, the Amazon-owed autonomous taxi company founded in 2014, will launch its first paid rides in Las Vegas on Monday.
The company’s robotaxis differ from others already on the road because they do not have driver’s controls such as a steering wheel or gas pedal.
The pill-shaped vehicles can drive in either direction and include interior seats facing each other.
Zoox received a first-of-its-kind exemption from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration last mont…

Zoox to begin paid rides following regulatory approval
Amazon's robotaxi company Zoox will launch paid rides in Las Vegas on Monday after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration granted it a commercial exemption for purpose-built robotaxis.

Lawyers for the Los Angeles Police officer charged with multiple felonies for secretly recording his colleagues’ racist, sexist and homophobic comments
issued a scathing response to Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman,
-- accusing the D.A. of making
“a desperate effort to save face”
and attempting to discredit their client ahead of his arraignment Monday.
Officer Daniel Flores has said he heard co-workers refer to Black people as “monkeys” who like gra…

Lawyer for LAPD officer slams D.A.'s handling of eavesdropping case
LAPD Officer Daniel Flores pleaded not guilty Monday to 16 counts of felony eavesdropping, and his lawyer accused Dist. Attny. Nathan Hochman of making "a desperate effort to save face" with a motion last week that sought to justify the prosecution of man who documented racist remarks by his peers.

‘It’s going to be fine’: Trump rebuffs rising alarm over AI dangers, sparking outcry
Trump is brushing aside growing concern among leading scientists and bipartisan lawmakers that artificial intelligence could soon pose an existential threat to humanity,
-- fueling anxiety in Washington and Silicon Valley that the president may not fully grasp the urgency of the threat.
Alarm mounted throughout the summer as researchers at leading AI labs, including Anthropic, OpenAI and G…

'It's going to be fine': Trump rebuffs rising alarm over AI dangers, sparking outcry
Alarm mounted throughout the summer as researchers at leading AI labs found the pace of development far outstripping their expectations.