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"16 new fungal species found hiding in Thailand’s flowers"
#Thailand #Flowers #Nature

16 new fungal species found hiding in Thailand's flowers
Researchers surveying garden and wild flowers across northern Thailand have uncovered 16 previously unknown species of black, yeast-like fungi living inside the flowers, according to a recent study. The newly described fungi belong to the Aureobasidium genus, a commonly occurring group of yeast that can be found almost everywhere, from air and human skin, to […]

#Google hammers another, extremely petty nail in the #Android #OpenSource Project’s coffin

I just updated @…'s publicly shared notes server to use Astro, so it just went from Fast to Fast Ultra Max Plus.
I also just updated the changelog with everything that's been updated and added since July 19th, which is a lot!
And this note is served using the newly added Astro framework:

📋 Changelog for Recollect Notes App – 09/12/2026
September 12, 2026 – Faster, more secure public shared notes – The pages that show a note you've shared publicly — and collaboration invites — have been rebuilt on a new, lighter foundation. They now render as static HTML, so they load noticeably faster, and they're hardened with a strict security…

Climate bills are coming in now, big time: Rhine shipping cut in two as ships coming from Rotterdam can't get any further than Duisburg or Cologne anymore, instead of being able to reach Switzerland or even further via the Danube. Billions of damage for German industry.
https://nos.nl/l/2626584

Meta says it removed 750,000 Australian accounts believed to belong to under-16s to comply with the social media ban, including 462,000 Instagram accounts (Newley Purnell/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Tencent Music Q2: revenue up 5.8% YoY to $1.32B, music services revenue up 11% to $1.12B, with newly integrated podcasting platform Ximalaya contributing $60M (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/tencent-music-q2-2026-earnin…

China's Tencent Music Reports $1.32 Billion in Q2 Revenue
China's Tencent Music posts Q2 2026 revenue of $1.32 billion, driven by music services growth and the newly consolidated Ximalaya audio platform.

recent-ish reading/rereading, aka long hot mass market/sci-fi paperback summer. #books

In newly unearthed audio,
Republican candidate for U.S. Senate
Mike Rogers (Michigan)
appears to dismiss voter's concerns over affordability.
In a radio interview from January, Rogers blasted Democrats for highlighting the fact that Americans are facing higher consumer prices on myriad goods and services.
“They [Democrats] say,
‘Trump caused high prices’
— people go nuts, they lose their mind.
I do believe there is this Trump derangement,…

Leaked Audio Features Michigan GOP Candidate Mike Rogers Mocking Voters’ Affordability Concerns
Rogers minimized worries about rising costs due to Trump administration policies as “derangement.”…

Q&A with AI researchers John Schulman, Beren Millidge, and Charlie O'Neill on steelmanning the case against RSI, Chinese labs' progress, long-horizon RL, more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/john-beren-charlie

'Cyber security incident' partly paralyses distribution centres of the largest Dutch supermarket chain Albert Heijn. Empty shelves starting to appear.
'No reason to suspect a link to the hacking of French supermarkets'.
https://nos.nl/l/2634698

Meerdere distributiecentra Albert Heijn liggen stil door digitaal veiligheidsincident, kans op lege schappen
De distributiecentra zijn preventief stilgelegd, zegt de topvrouw van Albert Heijn tegen de NOS.