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Forest expansion increases agricultural output, new study shows
Agriculture is the largest cause of deforestation. So, it follows that forest expansion efforts would displace agriculture—but new research from Georgia Tech's School of Economics reports that that's not necessarily the case. And not only that, forest expansion actually increased agricultural output in the study.

Filing: Intel is laying off 5,000 employees across California, Oregon, Texas, and Arizona; California cuts affect 1,935, more than double the initial estimates (Nathan Owens/Manufacturing Dive)
https://www.manufacturingdive.com/news/int

Intel layoffs exceed 5,000 across US
The chipmaker more than doubled its anticipated job cuts in California, adding to its overall downsizing across four states.

Slovakia agrees to approve EU's 18th sanctions package against Russia, Fico says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/18/slovakia-agrees-to-approve-eus.html

heise | macOS 26 Tahoe auszreizen: 20 Tipps für Apples neues System
Der Mac bekommt einen integrierten Clipboard-Manager, Spotlight wird deutlich mächtiger, das Kontrollzentrum lässt sich individualisieren – und vieles mehr.

Unearthed - The People Changing Australian Agriculture
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/unearthed-the-people-changing-australian-agriculture/

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Milliardenforderung an Zuckerberg & Co.: Verfahren außergerichtlich beigelegt
Mark Zuckerberg und weitere Entscheidungsträger sollten sich für die finanziellen Folgen des laxen Datenschutzes bei Facebook verantworten. Dem entgehen sie.

Russian attacks kill 5, injure 11 across Ukraine over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/17/russian-attacks-kill-injure-across.html

A new Artificial Analysis benchmark, focusing on OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b, shows how open-weight LLMs exhibit inconsistent performance across hosting providers (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/15/inconsistent-performance/…

Open weight LLMs exhibit inconsistent performance across providers
Artificial Analysis published a new benchmark the other day, this time focusing on how an individual model—OpenAI’s gpt-oss-120b—performs across different hosted providers. The results showed some surprising differences. Here’s the …

UK and Germany to sign historic mutual defense pact amid Russian aggression, Bloomberg reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/17/uk-and-germany-to-sign.html