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A morning walk through East Lawn Cemetery in Ithaca, New York uncovered an immense colony of some 5.5 million subterranean bees.
The discovery, which a Cornell University research team published in April in the journal Apidologie,
documents one of the largest aggregations of these insects ever recorded in the world.
The population, belonging to the species Andrena regularis, occupies an area of about 1.25 acres
and is crucial for pollination of the region's orch…

Millions of Bees Have Thrived Under a New York Cemetery for More Than a Century
A walk in the cemetery led to Cornell researchers discovering an underground colony of bees with an estimated population of 5.5 million—one of the largest ever recorded.

"BHP defies its own climate strategy to spend hundreds of millions on polluting diesel trucks in Pilbara"
#BHP #Climate #ClimateChange

Detectives privados: La industria de la infidelidad que mueve millones al año en Chile
https://www.chilevision.cl/noticias/reportajes/a-fondo/detectives-privados-la-industria-de-la-infidelidad-que-m…

Unser Max im Fußballfieber
#dogsofmastodon #malinois

Millions face long-term coastal flooding risk in UK without climate action, scientists warn https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/21/millions-long-term-coastal-flooding-risk-uk-climate-action

Tens of millions of South Korean retail investors, the market's biggest buyers in 2026, were caught in this week's selloff, as Samsung and SK Hynix tumble (Song Jung-a/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/23f388eb-e8ab-4fb1-b1ca-8e04eb4561a1

Starlette, an open-source Python framework underpinning FastAPI, has a vulnerability, called BadHost, that can allow hackers to bypass authorization (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/information-te

Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package
BadHost" was found in Starlette, a package with 325 million weekly downloads.

Google's Earthquake Alerts system reached 11.4M people in Venezuela, giving them seconds or up to two minutes notice before two powerful earthquakes struck (New York Times)
https://www.nyti…

How Phones Alerted Millions Before Earthquakes Shook Venezuela
Millions of people in Venezuela and surrounding countries received early warning alerts to their phones up to two minutes before back-to-back earthquakes on Wednesday.

Simile, which offers "agentic twins" of real people to assess companies' products, brands, and services, raised $200M led by Greenoaks at a $2B valuation (Sri Muppidi/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/business/dealbook/simile-…

To Know What Your Customers Think, Just Ask Their A.I. Twins
Simile, a fast-growing start-up, says it can provide companies with accurate insights by surveying millions of A.I.-generated consumers.

A look at the nasty fight between Anthropic-backed super PAC Public First and OpenAI-backed Leading the Future to sway midterms, especially Democratic primaries (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.…

Powerful A.I. Super PACs Duel Over the Midterms: ‘This Is a War’
One is allied with Anthropic. The other is tied to OpenAI. They’re both spending millions to influence the midterms, and they’re leaving a trail of fearful candidates and canceled ads in their wake.