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Small Chinese County Reverses Desertification with Arduous Tree-Planting Method Across 240,000 Acres https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/small-chinese-county-reverses-desertification-with-arduous-tree-planting-method-…

Small Chinese County Reverses Desertification with Arduous Tree-Planting Method Across 240,000 Acres
"In my childhood, we had to cover our bowls while eating, otherwise they would be filled with sand," Wang told China Daily. 

On Moving My Parents Across the Country https://muz4now.com/2021/on-moving-my-parents-across-the-country/

On Moving My Parents Across the Country
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Defense tech firm Leidos acquires VA-based Kudu Dynamics, which provides AI-enabled cyber defense and offense tools to the US DOD and other customers, for $300M (Courtney Albon/Defense News)
https://www.defensenews.com/industry/2025/05/…

Leidos acquires cyber company Kudu Dynamics
The finalized deal comes as Leidos is implementing a new “NorthStar” strategy that identifies cyber as one of five primary growth areas for the company.

AgriEval: A Comprehensive Chinese Agricultural Benchmark for Large Language Models
Lian Yan, Haotian Wang, Chen Tang, Haifeng Liu, Tianyang Sun, Liangliang Liu, Yi Guan, Jingchi Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21773

AgriEval: A Comprehensive Chinese Agricultural Benchmark for Large Language Models
In the agricultural domain, the deployment of large language models (LLMs) is hindered by the lack of training data and evaluation benchmarks. To mitigate this issue, we propose AgriEval, the first comprehensive Chinese agricultural benchmark with three main characteristics: (1) Comprehensive Capability Evaluation. AgriEval covers six major agriculture categories and 29 subcategories within agriculture, addressing four core cognitive scenarios: memorization, understanding, inference, and genera…

Pelissero: Packers trade with Cowboys for DE Micah Parsons 'sent shockwaves across the NFL' https://www.nfl.com/videos/pelissero-packers-trade-with-cowboys-for-de-micah-parsons-sent-shockwaves-across-the-nfl-gmfb

Beyond Accuracy: How AI Metacognitive Sensitivity improves AI-assisted Decision Making
ZhaoBin Li, Mark Steyvers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22365 https://a…

Beyond Accuracy: How AI Metacognitive Sensitivity improves AI-assisted Decision Making
In settings where human decision-making relies on AI input, both the predictive accuracy of the AI system and the reliability of its confidence estimates influence decision quality. We highlight the role of AI metacognitive sensitivity -- its ability to assign confidence scores that accurately distinguish correct from incorrect predictions -- and introduce a theoretical framework for assessing the joint impact of AI's predictive accuracy and metacognitive sensitivity in hybrid decision-making s…

WATCH: Michael Phelps agrees to teach Ravens how to swim after Marlon Humphrey's hilarious video

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/watch-m

Rural America is suffering an economic crisis as crop prices plunge — China hasn’t purchased any U.S. soybeans for the months ahead, after Trump's tariffs on its exports.
https://fortune.com/2025/08/30/rural-ameri…

Rural America is suffering an economic crisis as crop prices plunge — ‘U.S. soybean farmers cannot survive a prolonged trade dispute’
"Prices continue to drop and at the same time our farmers are paying significantly more for inputs and equipment."

El Salvador has split its 6K bitcoin across 14 wallets, describing the move as a precaution against quantum attacks, a merely theoretical threat for now (Brayden Lindrea/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/el-salvador-splits-bitcoin-holdi…

Robinhood announces an expanded offering of tokenized US stocks across Europe, crypto staking in US, a Layer 2 blockchain for real-world asset settlement, more (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/30/robinhood-crypto-cannes.html

Robinhood expands its global push, minutes from crypto chief's old cramped apartment in Cannes
Robinhood is offering tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs across Europe, crypto staking in the U.S., perpetual futures for eligible EU traders, and a new blockchain.