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Results of our “you are holding it wrong” game jam:
https://blog.la-terminal.net/winners-of-the-first-xogot-jam/

Winners of the First Xogot Jam!
The results are in! Our very first Xogot Game Jam has wrapped up, and we were blown away by the creativity and experimentation from everyone who participated.

Industry managed forests more likely to fuel megafires, study finds #environment

Industry managed forests more likely to fuel megafires, study finds
The odds of high-severity wildfire were nearly one-and-a-half times higher on industrial private land than on publicly owned forests, a new study found. Forests managed by timber companies were more likely to exhibit the conditions that megafires love—dense stands of regularly spaced trees with continuous vegetation connecting the understory to the canopy.

'Ukraine will never be forced into compromise. We need a just peace' — Zelensky's Independence Day address: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/24/ukraine-will-never-be-forced.html

The Laude Institute, a nonprofit that runs the K Prize multi-round AI coding challenge, says a Brazilian prompt engineer won with just 7.5% of the right answers (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/23/a-ne

A new AI coding challenge just published its first results – and they aren’t pretty | TechCrunch
A new AI coding challenge has revealed its first winner — and set a new bar for AI-powered software engineers.  On Wednesday at 5pm PST, the

Ben Johnson: Bears' first-team offense played 'really sloppy football' in preseason finale https://www.nfl.com/news/ben-johnson-bears-first-team-offense-really-sloppy-football-preseason-finale

On World Rainforest Day, the world confronts an unprecedented wave of tropical forest loss https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/on-world-rainforest-day-the-world-confronts-an-unprecedented-wave-of-tropical-forest-loss/

On World Rainforest Day, the world confronts an unprecedented wave of tropical forest loss
If tropical rainforests are the lungs of the Earth, then 2024 was a year of respiratory failure. Fires, fueled by climate extremes and human recklessness, tore through vast stretches of forest at an unprecedented pace. According to satellite data from the University of Maryland and the World Resources Institute, 6.7 million hectares of tropical primary […]

PitchBook: in H1, AI startups raised $104.3B in the US, or about 66% of all US VC funding, up from 49% last year; there were 281 VC-backed exits totaling $36B (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/22/ai-startups-raised-1…

AI startups raised $104 billion in first half of year, but exits tell a different story
AI accounted for nearly two-thirds of all fundraising deal value in the first half of 2025, with the bulk of those dollars concentrated in a few companies.

Titans rookie QB Ward takes all first-team reps https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45806504/titans-qb-cam-ward-line-start-takes-first-team-reps

Raiders QB Aidan O'Connell suffered fractured wrist in preseason finale, expected to be out 6-8 weeks https://www.nfl.com/news/raiders-qb-aidan-o-connell-suffered-fractured-wrist-in-preseason-finale-expected-to-be-ou…