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Children’s health at risk in south Borneo as El Niño intensifies Indonesia wildfires https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/childrens-health-at-risk-in-south-borneo-as-el-nino-intensifies-indonesia-wildfires/

Children’s health at risk in south Borneo as El Niño intensifies Indonesia wildfires
BANJARMASIN, Indonesia — Siti Sarah slept in fits and starts through August as the fires broke out around her village and surrounding peatlands. One fire on Aug. 18 at first seemed a safe distance away, but in a heartbeat the flames were within 100 meters (330 feet) of her home in Pengayuan, a village in […]

AI film startups are setting up studios in Hollywood, using US and Chinese AI models while touting lower production costs and a way around traditional financing (Robert Booth/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/16/directors-embracing-ai-fil…

‘I see the incredible promise’: on set of an AI film shoot as new studios embrace controversial tech
Amid fears for jobs, some film-makers say AI could enable them to bypass studio giants and take more creative risks

AI film startups are setting up studios in Hollywood, using US and Chinese AI models while touting lower production costs and a way around traditional financing (Robert Booth/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/16/directors-embracing-ai-fil…

‘I see the incredible promise’: on set of an AI film shoot as new studios embrace controversial tech
Amid fears for jobs, some film-makers say AI could enable them to bypass studio giants and take more creative risks

Still working on the T20/STM32L431 SoM around other things. Fixed the last few DRC errors around vias under the STM32. Schematic review is complete.
Now I'm just working my way through the layout review checklist to make sure I've triple checked as much as I can. This thing is chock full of 0201s and WLCSPs and rework will be an absolute nightmare if I get something wrong.

As the midterm elections near, a slew of extremist candidates
— selected by GOP primary voters at Donald Trump’s urging over the past few months to represent their party in the general election
— are aiming to woo the public in marquis races around the country.
Should they get elected, they will push the U.S. political system even further to the right,
mainstreaming views that until recently would have been considered far outside of the boundaries of the acceptable.

Even as Trump Flounders in the Polls, GOP Candidates Keep Running Further Right
Since Trump’s reelection, the GOP has increasingly embraced overtly white nationalist and conspiracist candidates.

NFL news roundup: Latest league updates from Sunday, Aug. 16 https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-sunday-aug-16

August hottest month ever recorded globally as huge El Niño emerges #environment

August hottest month ever recorded globally as huge El Niño emerges
Europe's climate monitor said Thursday that August was the hottest month ever recorded around the world and warned of worse to come as an unprecedented El Niño pattern grows stronger.

Age-related restrictions are developing quickly around the world.
While they differ radically across jurisdictions, in the past year, we’ve witnessed a sharp uptick toward mandatory age assurance for social media access
but also for other high-risk digital services.
What happens to people who cannot verify their age?
This is particularly a problem when users are required to prove their age with identity documents.
The Access Problem
Age verification laws…

When No ID Means No Internet: Age Verification and the Right to Access Information
Age verification proposals are often presented as a simple tradeoff: sacrifice a little privacy to better safeguard children online. But that framing overlooks a more fundamental question. What happens to people who cannot verify their age at all?

Got the replacement diodes and reworked the probe demo board with the messed up one.
Here it is before defluxing. A lot of hand soldering and rework on this one plus two extra oven cycles so it's pretty ugly, let's see how it cleans up in SWAS. Gonna give it an extra good scrub since it's so messy