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Progress Software agrees to acquire Domo's AI and data platform business for $400M; Domo will remain publicly listed and change its name after the deal closes (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
https://www.constellationr.com/insights/ne

Progress Software buys Domo's AI and data platform business for $400 million | Constellation Research
Progress Software said it will acquire Domo's AI and data platform business for $400 million. According to Progress Software, the plan is to take Domo's platform and combine it with the Progress Data Platform to expand the total addressable market. The deal is structured as an asset purchase meaning Progress Software acquires Domo's assets and only certain liabilities. Domo will remain publicly listed and change its name and ticker after the close of the deal.

FPF at the Singapore Data Festival 2026: Agentic AI, Biometrics, and the Future of Digital Trust in APAC
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-at-the-singapore-data-festival-2026-agentic-ai-biometrics-and-the-future-of-digital-tru…

Oh - and it's #mountainmonday !
This is from a summit that I did mid may. I was about to leave the summit when I turned around and saw those flowers - and I thought they could make a good photo.
Well what you can't see there is that the majority of the summit is just rocks and just some little patches of earth and grass - but this bit of earth was enough for those lit…

NASA: Providing Active Fire Data for Near-Real Time Monitoring and Applications
The Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) distributes Near Real-Time (NRT) active fire data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Aqua and Terra satellites, and the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) aboard S-NPP, NOAA 20 and NOAA 21 (formally known as JPSS-1 and JPSS-2).
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NASA-FIRMS
Fire Information for Resource Management System

Dolly Parton
-- music legend and philanthropist
-- dies at 80
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/dolly-parton-queen-of-country-music-and-humanitarian-hero-dead-at-80/ar-AA2aUdIF

The EPA plans to eliminate a federal rule that US states must publicize and solicit public input on air pollution permit applications for data centers (Maxine Joselow/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/climate/epa-data-centers-public-comment.ht…

E.P.A. Moves to Curb Public Input on Air Pollution Permits for Data Centers
Under the proposal, states would no longer need to provide public notice or solicit comments on air pollution permits for data centers and other projects.

It’s Just Math: Recent Legislative Trend Reignites Debate About the Bounds of Biometric Data
https://fpf.org/blog/its-just-math-recent-legislative-trend-reignites-debate-about-the-bounds-of-biometric-data/

Trump, who has lately taken to issuing warnings about a communist plot to take over America,
posits that an island of 9.6 million people
— nearly 90 percent of whom live in extreme poverty amid extended blackouts due to decades of U.S. economic warfare
— is an existential threat to the U.S.
This accusation is not meant to be rational.
It, like the charge that our elections are manipulated, is a transparent excuse to go after institutions and individuals that are…

Trump’s Phantom Enemies
Your Death is My Command – by Mr. Fish The Trump administration is laying the groundwork for blacklisting and criminalizing all left-wing, progressive, anti-war and anti-imperialist dissent. …

Researchers: OpenAI's agents meddled with the US Commerce Dept. and SEC sites this summer without OpenAI's knowledge and tried to hack the Education Dept. site (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/…

OpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites
The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education and Commerce Departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Towards a Fossil-Free Future:
Seed the Commons invites you to a two-part webinar series this weekend so that you can join the movement to build a truly regenerative food system and a fossil-free future.
Date & Time
Jul 26, 2026
10:00 AM  Pacific Time
https://us06…

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Towards a Fossil-Free Future: Farming for a Time of War and Climate Change . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Seed the Commons invites you to a two-part webinar series this weekend so that you can join the movement to build a truly regenerative food system and a fossil-free future. JULY 26: Farming for a Time of War and Climate Change We will be joined by three Northern California farmers, educators and advocates for a radically different way of growing food and living on our planet. Sydney Grange, Lama Nasser-Gammett, Matthew Nasser-Gammett will speak about how they avoid an extractive approach to …