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Neuralink filed on April 24 as a "small disadvantaged business" that could give it preferential access to federal opportunities, before being valued at $9B (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/17/elon-musks-neurali…

Elon Musk's Neuralink filed as 'disadvantaged business' before being valued at $9 billion
Neuralink labeled itself in April as a "small disadvantaged business" in a federal filing with the U.S. Small Business Administration.

#Minnesota Pubic Radio (MPR) parent company cuts 30 jobs following federal funding cuts | MPR News (h/t akuzee@bsky.social)
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/08/15/m

MPR parent company cuts 30 jobs following federal funding cuts
Minnesota Public Radio's parent company laid off 30 staff members Friday after Congress clawed back funding that it had previously approved for public broadcasting. Cuts in state funding from the Minnesota Legislature exacerbated the budget gap.

Sources: senior BBC executives are considering charging US consumers for access to its journalism to boost revenues amid falling UK license fee incomes (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jun

There's a mysterious 'carbon sink' in the hinterlands of the South Island... absorbing more carbon than expected... I'm following this research with interest. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/564407…

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Research Study on Data Privacy and Collective Redress
A researcher at University College Dublin wants to conduct anonymous interviews to learn about why you would or would not participate in a legal action to rectify a data protection violation. This information can be used to help nonprofit organizations better represent you when organizations violate your data protection rights. Provide your email to receive more information. All personally identifiable information will be deleted following completion of the study.

@… @… I usually recall e.g. German as if it were English, but I recall Hindi films I watched when I was a child in Hindi, even though I don’t know what the words mean (and have forgotten the subtitles).

A Parametric Study on the Pulsation of Burner-Stabilized CH4-O2 Flames Moderated by CO2 Addition -- Frequencies, Modes and Regime Diagrams
Xiangyu Nie, Shuoxun Zhang, Shengkai Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10905

A Parametric Study on the Pulsation of Burner-Stabilized CH4-O2 Flames Moderated by CO2 Addition -- Frequencies, Modes and Regime Diagrams
This study investigated the pulsating instability of burner-stabilized premixed CH4-O2 flames at various levels of CO2 dilution. Experiments were conducted using a water-cooled porous-plug burner of 18 mm diameter over a wide range of mixture compositions and flow rates, during which time-resolved measurements of flame chemiluminescence and gas temperature were obtained. The primary oscillation frequencies of the pulsating flames were determined using fast Fourier transform and harmonic power a…

Sen. Josh Hawley launches a probe of Meta following a report on its AI policy allowing sensual chats with kids, tells Zuckerberg to produce docs by September 19 (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/15/meta-ai-bot-child-investigation.html

Sen. Hawley to probe Meta AI bot policies for children following damning report
Sen. Josh Hawley called on Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to preserve relevant materials, including emails.

Anthropic now uses Canva's MCP server, letting Canva users manage designs via Claude's UI, following similar integrations with Figma, Notion, Stripe, and Prisma (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/706637/canva-anthropic-claude-ai-mcp-s…

Anthropic’s Claude chatbot can now make and edit your Canva designs
Canva users can now create, edit, and manage their designs by describing their requirements to Anthropic’s Claude AI.