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Plant-Based Berry Scones with Lemon Hibiscus Cashew Cream #plantbased

Plant-Based Berry Scones with Lemon Hibiscus Cashew Cream
Make these plant-based berry scones with lemon hibiscus cashew cream from Clean Food Dirty Girl for a simple bake you can enjoy anytime

SK Hynix announces a new US-based "AI Company" from a restructuring of its California-based subsidiary Solidigm, and commits at least $10B to the new entity (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/28/sk-hynix-ai-company-us.html

South Korea's SK Hynix to establish a special ‘AI Company’ in the U.S.
SK Hynix will set up a new U.S.-based company focused on artificial intelligence solutions, with $10 billion committed to the project.

Debating changing the ngscopeclient AI policy to be a bit more practically enforceable.
Basically, vibe coded / LLM generated code will continue to be prohibited as it tends to be low quality slop of unclear copyright provenance that is both legally risky and full of bugs.
But there won't be a explicit prohibition on trivial autocomplete usage, whether LLM based or classical dictionary based.
The rationale is based on practicality of enforcement of the current hard-line…

"Scientists Create Durable Biodegradable Bamboo Plastic That’s Stronger Than Petroleum-Based Materials"
#Bamboo #Plastic #Plastics

Scientists Create Durable Biodegradable Bamboo Plastic That’s Stronger Than Petroleum-Based Materials | Happy Eco News
Chinese researchers created biodegradable bamboo plastic with 110 MPa tensile strength that decomposes in soil within 50 days. Published in Nature Communications (October 2025), the material outperforms petroleum-based plastics in terms of strength and stability, while maintaining 90% of its original strength after recycling. This makes it a renewable and recyclable alternative for industrial use.

product_space: Atlas of Economic Complexity export network
Two networks of economic products, where a pair of products are connected if they are exported at similar rates by the same countries. The data are a projection from a bipartite network of nations and the products they export. Edges weights represent a similarity score (called "proximity"). Data based on UN Comtrade worldwide trade patterns. SITC network based on the Standard International Trade Classification and HS …

Eating This Plant-Based Christmas Dinner Could Cut Your Costs By Up To 50% #plantbased

Eating This Plant-Based Christmas Dinner Could Cut Your Costs By Up To 50%
A dietician says he can cut the cost of people’s main holiday meal by 50 percent if they try his plant-based menu for Christmas dinner

Notorious Russia-based RAMP cybercrime forum apparently seized by FBI https://therecord.media/notorious-russia-based-ramp-forum-seized

Seriously, my freelancing has shown me the inner workings of a •lot• of different companies, I’ve heard a lot of corporatespeak in my day, and…this letter from a bunch of Minnesota CEOs —
❝we are calling for an immediate deescalation of tensions❞
❝state, local and federal officials to work together❞
❝find real solutions❞
— is some of the most hollow, tone-deaf, embarrassing, Bristol Type 7 dribble I’ve ever heard from corporate leadership.
https://www.mnchamber.com/blog/open-letter-more-60-ceos-minnesota-based-companies

New (very minimal) Internet-Draft submitted: ASN Prefix-based Addressing for IPv6
"This document describes a method and policy for ASN prefix-based addressing for IPv6."
If this goes anywhere I expect it will change, and grow, markedly.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/dra…

Flora, whose node-based design tool uses AI to create media assets for clients like Lionsgate, raised a $42M Series A, bringing its total funding to $52M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/27/node-based-design-tool-flora-r…

Node-based design tool Flora raises $42M from Redpoint Ventures | TechCrunch
Flora's node-based design tool is being used by companies like Pentagram and Lionsgate.

(PhD thesis, 2024) Prototyping phosphene vision: Simulation-based optimization of visual neuroprosthetics using deep learning #BCI

⚡ Laser-assisted 3D printing can fabricate free-standing thermoset-based electronics in seconds
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-11-laser-3d-fabricate-free-thermoset.html

Laser-assisted 3D printing can fabricate free-standing thermoset-based electronics in seconds
Thermosets, such as epoxy and silicon rubbers, are a class of polymer (i.e., plastic) materials that harden permanently when they undergo a specific chemical reaction, known as "crosslinking." These materials are highly durable, heat-resistant with excellent electrical insulation in various applications such as in adhesives, coatings, and automotive parts.

Cambridge, Massachusetts Becomes First City in State to Endorse Plant Based Treaty https://vegconomist.com/society/charity-campaigns/cambridge-massachusetts-becomes-first-city-in-state-to-endorse-plant-based-treat…

Cambridge, Massachusetts Becomes First City in State to Endorse Plant Based Treaty - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
Cambridge City Council has voted unanimously to endorse the Plant Based Treaty, becoming the first city in Massachusetts and the sixth in the United States to

The whole "brains are computers" thing is literally based on conjectures of some techbros from the 1950s with no evidence. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Caught a bug over the holidays so I’m mostly resting, feeling sorry for myself, and taking the time to at least carry out some mindless housekeeping tasks (updating dependencies, etc.) on some of my Node modules.
Released updates to the following packages yesterday:
Tape-based Node.js testing:
• Tap monkey (https://

tap-monkey
A tap formatter that’s also a monkey.

Publishing a #Java-based database tool on MacAppStore (MAS)
https://tanin.nanakorn.com/publishing-a-java-based-database-tool-on-mac-app-store-mas/

Sometimes I'm amazed at the choices we have for browser-based applications nowadays... and even more so when you can run them on your own hardware.
I'm not even sure I need to make whiteboard diagrams but I'm glad there's a good option.
https://www.drawio.com/

Uruguay used to rely heavily on oil & gas-based power.
But as the economy grew and electricity demand threatened to overtake supply from the early 2010s,
it needed to add additional generating capacity, and fast.
New hydro wasn’t an option as it had already made the most of that resource.
To chart the way forward, the president appointed Ramón Méndez Galain,
a particle physicist from the private sector,
as the country’s director of energy
— a pos…

'Energy independent' Uruguay runs on 100% renewables for 10 straight months
Uruguay achieves energy independence by running on 100% renewable energy for 10 consecutive months, setting a global sustainability example.

PLEASE SHARE: Folks, I need *public domain* or *purchasable stock imagery* photos of especially older women holding signs in protests that essentially say "I can't believe I still have to protest this shit". They *cannot* be CC-licensed - they either have to be public domain or licensed for royalty-based purchase since they'll be in an e-book.
This is an excellent example from Shutterstock:

Simulated Cyanotype Chemigrams...
Lately I've been revisiting my old fluid sim toolset which started out as part of my toxiclibs Java libraries (2007/8, based on Jos Stam's research, also previously mentioned in this thread[1]), then ported & expanded it for #Houdini in 2016, then ported again to TypeScript/GLSL (via

When football meets third grade curriculum: The rise of NFeLementary https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47736879/mary-crippen-nfelementary-bijan-robinson-falcons-book-fair

One of my favorite mastodon features is the time-based muting. Someone's posting through (suffering, lol) a football game, and I have less than zero interest in sportsball? But I generally enjoy following them? Mute them for 1 hour (or 6 hours), and my screen is no longer littered with crap about touchzonegoalruns.
Or maybe you don't want to see my stupid replies to a dumb horror movie from 40 years ago? Mute me for an hour or two, and voila!

Sources: WaPo's layoffs may narrow its scope to topics of expertise and reader interest based on digital traffic, with politics and video becoming more central (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/business/media/washington-post-newsroom.html…

Washington Post Plans Cuts to Reshape Newsroom
The changes are expected to include significant layoffs in areas like sports and international coverage.

#WritersCoffeeClub Nov 28: In what ways do you see yourself reflected in your own work?
In one novel I've written, I based my main character on what I imagine I would have been like if not for the trauma of my childhood. He came out as very successful, but also extremely arrogant and entitled — not a likeable person.

White biologist sues Cornell, alleging illegal race-based hiring (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2026/01/28/cornell-university-discrimination-lawsuit/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260128/p86#a260128p86

And here comes ... another light curve of interstellar comet #ATLAS through much of October, now based on the satellite coronagraphs LASCO C3 and CCOR-1, with observations up to and including October 26th! From the paper "Rapid Brightening of 3I/ATLAS Ahead of Perihelion" - https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25035 - out minutes ago: it finds that "CCOR-1 also resolves the comet as an extended source with an apparent coma ~4' in diameter. Furthermore, LASCO color photometry shows the comet to be distinctly bluer than the Sun, consistent with gas emission contributing a substantial fraction of the visible brightness near perihelion."

The Shift With Caleb Ewan
A cycling based podcast hosted by Caleb Ewan and Jack Bennett...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-shift-with-caleb-ewan/

I remember a time where you had to pick a competitor in an industry based on who you think will still be around in twelve months and who has a product that works on the devices that you own. (Example: Nook vs Kobo vs Kindle for ebooks or iTunes vs Amazon VOD vs Microsoft Movies and TV for streaming movies) I miss the days when it was still that simple.

France plans to stop using US-based video conferencing platforms across its government departments by 2027.
Under the plan, a domestically developed video meeting service known as Visio will become the standard tool for public servants, with full adoption expected next year.
https://www.

France to replace US video conferencing with domestic alternatives
France plans to stop using US-based video conferencing platforms across its government departments by 2027.

Sad to hear that Andy Drinkwater passed away before Christmas.
Top tier SEO who I met several times and was an inspiration to myself and many others.
https://www.seroundtable.com/andy-drinkwater-rip-40675.html

Viele #Verpackungen in europäischen Supermärkten werben mit „recyceltem“ #Plastik, obwohl der Anteil tatsächlich wiederverwerteter Materialien oft minimal ist.
Möglich wird dies durch #MassBalance

Europe’s supermarket shelves packed with ‘misleading’ claims about recycled plastic packaging
Manufacturers use method that labels plastic as ‘circular’ and climate-friendly, despite being mostly fossil-based

If all iOS browsers are based on the Webkit (or whatever that Apple mandatory underlying tech is named) shouldn’t they respect the Screen time limits?
Or is this just another of Apple’s half-assed solutions?

Arm-Based Windows 11 PCs Can Now Download and Play Games from the Xbox App https://www.thurrott.com/games/331882/arm-based-windows-11-pcs-can-now-download-and-play-games-from-the-xbox-app

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Based just on anecdotal evidence: it seems surprisingly common for scientists to be told by funders, managers, or policy people that mentioning #uncertainty or limitations “complicates” the message or weakens its impact [1]. (Days ago, yet another colleague shared a story on this, with other scientists nodding along, recalling similar moments happened to them)
But here's the …

RE: https://mastodon.online/@oliver_schafeld/115802036332258907
Full marks, no notes.
We may need this one as instruction-based image generation matures.
"This is slop": someone lazily prompted and uploaded whatever came out.…

Continuing to experiment with vibe coding in Claude Opus 4.5. here is sigalert, a shooting game based on the LA freeways. #claudeai
https://frater-pedurabo.itch.io/sigalert

Currently reading the collection «Practicing Embodied Thinking in Research and Learning» edited by Donata Schoeller, Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir, and Greg Walkerden and it is really very good! Not only does the concept of «embodied critical thinking» resonate with everything I’ve been working towards in my own research, but it also offers a really simple and common-sense antidote to AI in higher education, based on the notion of bringing our own embodied experiences and felt sense to critical t…

Practicing Embodied Thinking in Research and Learning | Donata Schoell
This book delves into the embodied ground of thinking, illuminating the transition from theorising about the embodied mind to actively practising embodied

Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
FEN: You're a sad man, Travis. Life must have reverence.
TRAVIS: Now. I want the other one.
FEN: No.
TRAVIS: Get the other one.
FEN: You know better than this.
TRAVIS: Do I?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/5 B7B3

Even as an Okie who feels the urge to defend local acts, this is not a great one for the resume.
Kennedy Center’s new programming head resigns days after hire was announced https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2026/…

Neighbors with solar panels can now trade energy directly with each other, thanks to a breakthrough cloud-based system from Washington State University.
The platform lets communities share power locally, cutting energy costs by up to 12% in testing. It's a glimpse of how neighborhoods could become mini power grids, keeping solar energy local instead of sending it back to utilities.

Community-based energy trading system for home solar-plus-storage
A research team led by Washington State University has developed a cloud-based system for trading and sharing energy from solar panels and batteries within a neighbourhood. The concept displayed potential energy cost savings of around 12% over a five-day test period.

1997 #OTD in SF's then thriving #SOMA nitelife district, Berkeley based bad boys "Psycotic Pineapple" held a reunion gig at the late great Robin Reichart's Transmission Theater, next door to his Paradise Lounge and across from Boz Scagg's Slim's (all three

I don't think people should be stripped of UK citizenship based on offensive social media posts they made in the past.

messal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014)
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale. Edge property 'certainty' denotes the certainty of the edge. Metadata include evidence, habitat, and trophic roles. The edge direction goes from consumer to resource.
This network has 700 nodes and 6444 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food Web, Uncertain, Weighted, Metadata

Experimental credit based flow control in TS.NET plus ngscopeclient for reduced buffer bloat and much better performance over LANs.
This is 2x 50M points (100M points per trigger) updating at around 8.3-8.5 Hz over 10/40GbE.
The TS.NET side of this isn't merged and there's still some bugs to chase but it's looking *really* good.

PawCo Launches “First Ever” Plant-Based Salad for Dogs #AnimalRights <…

PawCo Launches "First Ever" Plant-Based Salad for Dogs - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
PawCo Foods has announced the launch of what is claimed to be the first ever salad for dogs.

With the usual caveat about intelligence-ascribing and agency-hiding language like “knows” and “gaslighting:” this from @… is notable.
Why? It’s not as if Google doesn’t gather your IP-based location when you use their search…but they make no secret of that. Of •course• OpenAI has the ability infer your location. But they say they don’t, and yet apparently do, and are covering it up. •That• is notable.
https://vox.ominous.net/@occult/115630527105953949

🫗 The perfect polymer? Plant-based plastic is fully saltwater degradable and leaves behind zero microplastics
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-polymer-based-plastic-fully-saltwater.html

The perfect polymer? Plant-based plastic is fully saltwater degradable and leaves behind zero microplastics
Researchers led by Takuzo Aida at the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS) in Japan have one-upped themselves in their quest to solve our microplastic problem.

💰Trump’s wealth increased by about $2.5B since his reelection, to $6.9B
💰 Eric’s increased 10x, to $400M.
💰 Don Jr.’s 6x, to $300M.
💰 Barron, a college sophomore, is worth $150M.
"I’m sure that this is all based on merit and the value that each contributes to our society."
-- Heidi Kitrosser
https:/…

Zach Everson (@zacheverson.com)
💰Trump’s wealth increased by about $2.5B since his reelection, to $6.9B 💰 Eric’s increased 10x, to $400M. 💰 Don Jr.’s 6x, to $300M. 💰 Barron, a college sophomore, is worth $150M. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

US-based AI startup Arcee releases Trinity Large, a 400B-parameter open-weight model that it says compares to Meta's Llama 4 Maverick 400B on some benchmarks (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/28/tiny

Tiny startup Arcee AI built a 400B-parameter open source LLM from scratch to best Meta's Llama | TechCrunch
30-person startup Arcee AI has released a 400B model called Trinity, which it says is one of the biggest open source foundation models from a U.S. company.

Detection of an NH3 Absorption Band at 2.2 μm on Europa: #Europa, Recent Study Shows: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/science-news/2026/01/29/nasas-galileo-mission-points-to-ammonia-at-europa-recent-study-shows/

An electrode-based #Neuralink #Blindsight brain implant in visual cortex will not scale to large numbers of blind patients nor to normal-like vision beyond showing a few rough edges

Celtic Down Under Podcast
Discussing all things Celtic from the view of Australian based fans...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/celtic-down-under/

"Can a ‘sustainable’ fungicide save France’s vineyards from climate-driven disease?"
#France #Climate #ClimateChange

Meet the scientist determined to save the wine industry from mildew
France’s wine crisis is being rocked by a surge of powdery and downy mildew, but a plant-based fungicide could save the day.

Aruba Cloud (#AS31034) #VMWare to #OpenStack migration continues:
"As part of the evolution of [our] infrastructure, we inform you that the Cloud VPS service based on VMware technology wi…

sp_colocation: Social co-locations (2018)
Network of colocations between peoople, based on the information on which RFID readers received information from the RFID tags. Namely, we define two individuals to be in co-presence if the same exact set of readers have received signals from both individuals during a 20s time window.
This network has 403 nodes and 1417485 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

Trying to add credit-based flow control to a high performance multithreaded socket application written in C# that pushes close to 10 Gbps of data over a TCP stream.
I don't know C#.
This will be fun.

Continuing to experiment with vibe coding in Claude Opus 4.5. here is sigalert, a shooting game based on the LA freeways. #claudeai
https://frater-pedurabo.itch.io/sigalert

Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
TARRANT: All right, I'll keep it a secret.
[They resume their descent.]
TARRANT: Look, we must be at least four levels below the landing silo by now.
DAYNA: At least.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/401/395 B7B2

Well-Planned Plant-Based Diets Aid Childrens’ Growth And Heart Health, Says Study https://plantbasednews.org/lifestyle/health/plant-based-diets-aid-childrens-health/

Well-Planned Plant-Based Diets Aid Childrens' Growth And Heart Health, Says Study
Plant-based diets can aid childrens’ growth and support heart health, according to a recent study, though effective planning is essential

need a recommendation to host a simple static site on a EU-based server, run by a EU company. ideally something that I can git push to for updates.
(please only recommend services that you personally use and like)

UK-based Octopus Energy reaches a deal to sell about $1B of equity in Kraken Technologies, its tech spin-off, at an $8.65B valuation to a syndicate of investors (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/eaad78f4-b52c-4116-ad1b-3e79694ebeed

The following “Dear Joe” email exchange is a hypothetical email colloquy
between an expert in military law and a fictional service member seeking advice on how to deal with the current situation.
The content is based on publicly reported facts, the Manual for Courts-Martial, the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and the authors’ opinions.
Military law establishes a strong presumption that military orders are lawful and must be obeyed.
We do not counsel any military mem…

Dear JAG: What Do I Do if I Get Unlawful Orders to Blow Up Civilian Boats
Orders are presumed to be lawful, but that presumption is rebuttable rather than conclusive.

us_roads: United States roads (2000)
The road networks of the 50 US States and the District of Columbia based on UA Census 2000 TIGER/Line Files. Edges are stretches of road and vertices are intersections of roads. The data sets were assembled by Dominik Schultes. The 'merged' network contains all the states merged together.
This network has 116920 nodes and 133415 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

Cities missing out on nature-based solutions that could boost climate resilience, experts warn #nature

Cities missing out on nature-based solutions that could boost climate resilience, experts warn
With climate change expected to intensify heat waves, flooding and air pollution in cities worldwide, why are we not tapping into the full potential of nature-based solutions?

"For every dollar we spend protecting nature, we spend $30 destroying it: Report"
#Nature #Climate #ClimateChange

For every dollar we spend protecting nature, we spend $30 destroying it: Report
For every US$1 the world invests in protecting nature, it spends US$30 on destroying it. This stark imbalance is the central finding of a new UN Environment Program (UNEP) report released today. It calls for a major shift in global financing of nature-based solutions and phasing out harmful investments to deliver high returns, reduce risk exposure, and enhance resilience.

𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝: 𝑁𝑒 𝑍ℎ𝑎 2 (2025) the highest grossing animated film of all time based on Xu Zhonglin's 16th-century novel 𝐼𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑜𝑑𝑠 (封神榜)
#movies #culture #china

Munich-based RobCo, which makes robotic arms and factory automation software, raised $100M led by Lingotto and Lightspeed, a source says at a $500M valuation (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…

Developers of invasive visual prostheses for the blind (brain implants, retinal implants) try to protect their turf by ignoring noninvasive alternatives based on smart glasses, using outdated and restrictive definitions, from ivory towers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PewuFviiSsQ

On Monday, researchers at cybersecurity giant Kaspersky published a report identifying a new spyware called Dante
that they say targeted Windows victims in Russia and neighboring Belarus.
The researchers said the Dante spyware is made by Memento Labs,
a Milan-based surveillance tech maker that was formed in 2019
after a new owner acquired and took over early spyware maker
Hacking Team.
Memento chief executive
Paolo Lezzi confirmed to TechCrunch that…

Exclusive: CEO of spyware maker Memento Labs confirms one of its government customers was caught using its malware
Security researchers found a government hacking campaign that relies on Windows spyware developed by surveillance tech maker Memento Labs. When reached by TechCrunch, the spyware maker's chief executive blamed a government customer for getting caught.

Series B, Episode 01 - Redemption
BLAKE: It's all right, Vila. I think we've lost them.
VILA: How'd you know?
BLAKE: We're still here. Cut the auxiliaries. Get back to primary drive. [To Avon] Are you all right?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/201/124 B7B2

us_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…

New York-based Sword Health, which develops AI-powered tech for managing pain and offers remote physical therapy, agrees to acquire rival Kaia Health for $285M (Henrique Almeida/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

📊 How good are Chinese CPUs? Benchmarking the Loongson 3A6000
https://lemire.me/blog/2025/11/23/how-good-are-chinese-cpus-benchmarking-the-loongson-3a6000/

How good are Chinese CPUs? Benchmarking the Loongson 3A6000
I maintain a few widely used libraries that have optimized code paths based on the specific processor being used. We started supporting Loongson processors in recent years, but I did not have access to a Loongson processor until now. To my knowledge, they are not widely distributed in North America. This made it difficult for … Continue reading How good are Chinese CPUs? Benchmarking the Loongson 3A6000

Tel Aviv-based Factify raised a $73M seed led by Valley Capital to develop an AI-native document standard intended to replace the legacy PDF format (Gil Press/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2026/01/28/factif…

Factify Raises $73 Million To Create AI Infrastructure For Documents
Factify aims to establish the post-PDF document standard for the age of AI, evolving documents from files into infrastructure.

Two security professionals who were arrested in 2019 after performing an authorized security assessment of a county courthouse in Iowa
will receive $600,000 to settle a lawsuit they brought alleging wrongful arrest and defamation.
The case was brought by
Gary DeMercurio and Justin Wynn,
two penetration testers who at the time were employed by
Colorado-based security firm
Coalfire Labs.
The men had written authorization from the Iowa Judicial Branch …

County pays $600,000 to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse security
Settlement comes more than 6 years after Gary DeMercurio and Justin Wynn's ordeal began.

Shares of Shenzhen-based OneRobotics opened flat in their HK debut after the Chinese home robotics maker raised $210M by selling 22M shares at about $9.50 each (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/markets/ipo/amazo…

Amazon supplier of household robots shares open flat on trading debut
OneRobotics raises $210mn to expand global market presence

Belgium has hit back against an EU plan to use Russia’s frozen assets to aid Ukraine,
describing the scheme as “fundamentally wrong”
and throwing into doubt how Europe will fund Kyiv.
Belgium hosts €183bn of Russian assets, about two-thirds of the Russian assets immobilised in the west, at the Brussels-based central securities depository Euroclear.
In a sharply worded letter, Belgium’s prime minister, Bart De Wever, said the proposal violated international law and woul…

Meta says Manus, initially based in Beijing and Wuhan, will cut Chinese investor ties after the deal and "will discontinue its services and operations in China" (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

Meta says AI startup Manus to cut China ties after acquisition
US tech giant says Manus will maintain current operations as it is integrated into Meta platforms

Over Half Of Canadians Want To Eat More Plant-Based Foods, But Not Why You Think https://plantbasednews.org/news/alternative-protein/canadians-eat-more-plant-based-foods/

Over Half Of Canadians Want To Eat More Plant-Based Foods, But Not Why You Think
More than half of Canadians want to eat more plant-based foods, and most cited cost as the most important motivator

Toronto-based self-driving truck startup Waabi raised a $750M Series C led by Khosla and G2 and partners with Uber, which can invest $250M based on performance (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Vegetarian Society Reports ‘Significant Rise’ In Brands Adopting Plant-Based Certification https://plantbasednews.org/lifestyle/food/vegetarian-society-rise-plant-based-certification/

Vegetarian Society Reports 'Significant Rise' In Brands Adopting Plant-Based Certification
The UK’s Vegetarian Society has reported seeing a “significant rise” in the number of brands adopting its plant-based certification label

Meta has agreed to acquire AI startup Manus; the Singapore-based startup said in December that its annual revenue run rate is over $125M (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-29/meta-acquires-startup-manu…

Nvidia launches a native GeForce NOW app for Linux, starting with Debian-based Ubuntu, after releasing a Steam Deck app in 2025; in a hands-on, it works well (Ben Wilson/Windows Central)
https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/pc-gaming/nvidia-geforce…

NVIDIA GeForce NOW answers the lack of PC Game Pass support on Linux with a new native app — RTX 5080 cloud rendering runs Ultra settings on Steam Deck or Ubuntu
Cloud gaming expands to desktop PCs and other devices running Ubuntu, with Bazzite tested and the Steam Deck thriving.

Pop Quinoa Chocolate Bars #plantbased

Pop Quinoa Chocolate Bars
These plant-based pop quinoa chocolate bars use popped quinoa, dark chocolate, peanut butter, and cranberries for a delish treat

Point One Navigation, which develops precise location tech, raised a $35M Series C led by Khosla Ventures, a source says at a post-money valuation of $230M (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/20/this-khos…

This Khosla-based startup can track drones, trucks, and robotaxis, inch by inch | TechCrunch
Point One Navigation, now valued at $230 million, is building out well beyond automotive.

National Diabetes Month: 65% Of Americans Open To Preventative Plant-Based Diets https://plantbasednews.org/lifestyle/health/diabetes-americanspreventative-plant-based-diets/

National Diabetes Month: 65% Of Americans Open To Preventative Plant-Based Diets
Sixty-five percent of Americans would be open to adopting low-fat, plant-based diets to help control blood sugar or prevent type 2 diabetes

Alibaba Technical Report: Qwen3-VL beats GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro on visual tasks and has 100% accuracy on "needle-in-a-haystack" tests for 30-minute videos (Jonathan Kemper/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/qwen3-vl-can-scan-two-hour-…

Qwen3-VL can scan two-hour videos and pinpoint nearly every detail
A few months after launching Qwen3-VL, Alibaba has released a detailed technical report on the open multimodal model. The data shows the system excels at image-based math tasks and can analyze hours of video footage.

Europe’s supermarket shelves packed with ‘misleading’ claims about recycled plastic packaging https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/27/recycled-plastic-packaging-claims-misleading-say-experts

Pumpkin And Green Lentil Soup #plantbased

Pumpkin And Green Lentil Soup
Make this nourishing and high protein pumpkin and green lentil soup for lunch or dinner. It's warm, tasty, and plant-based

For every dollar we spend protecting nature, we spend $30 destroying it: Report #nature

For every dollar we spend protecting nature, we spend $30 destroying it: Report
For every US$1 the world invests in protecting nature, it spends US$30 on destroying it. This stark imbalance is the central finding of a new UN Environment Program (UNEP) report released today. It calls for a major shift in global financing of nature-based solutions and phasing out harmful investments to deliver high returns, reduce risk exposure, and enhance resilience.

World enters 'era of global water bankruptcy': UN scientists formally define new post-crisis reality for billions https://phys.org/news/2026-01-world-era-global-bankruptcy-scientists.html
UN report declares global state of 'water bankruptcy…

World enters 'era of global water bankruptcy': UN scientists formally define new post-crisis reality for billions
Amid chronic groundwater depletion, water overallocation, land and soil degradation, deforestation, and pollution, all compounded by global heating, a UN report today declared the dawn of an era of global water bankruptcy, inviting world leaders to facilitate "honest, science-based adaptation to a new reality."

Chocolate Butternut Cake (Dairy-Free And Plant-Based) https://plantbasednews.org/veganrecipes/desserts/chocolate-butternut-cake-dairy-free-and-plant-based/

Chocolate Butternut Cake (Dairy-Free And Plant-Based)
This moist and decadent chocolate butternut cake is vegan and dairy-free. Use pumpkin puree or sweet potato as a variation in this recipe

Osaka-based Capcom reports game sales up 13.5% to a record 34.64M from March to December 2025; the Street Fighter and Resident Evil maker's stock jumps 10% (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Montreal-based Vention raised a $110M Series D to scale its physical AI platform into manufacturing plants worldwide, taking its total raised to ~$216M (Madison McLauchlan/BetaKit)
https://betakit.com/montreal-industrial-ai-scaleup-vention-raises-1…

Montréal industrial AI scaleup Vention raises $110-million USD Series D
Company says it crossed $100-million CAD annual run rate as it looks to expand in Europe.

Singapore-based Digital Edge plans to invest $4.5B to build a 500 MW hyperscale data center facility in Indonesia, with the first phase set to open in Q4 2026 (Manuel Baigorri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Germany-based Quantum Systems, which sells surveillance drones that are being used by Ukraine, raised €180M, tripling its valuation to €3B since May (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Defense Startup Quantum Systems Triples Valuation to €3 Billion
Quantum Systems, a German drone maker backed by Peter Thiel, boosted its valuation to €3 billion ($3.5 billion) in a new funding round as the defense startup plans to increase production capacity of unmanned aerial systems.

Sources: Bengaluru-based quick grocery delivery startup Zepto confidentially files for a ~$1.3B India IPO; Zepto raised $450M at a $7B valuation in October 2025 (Pranav Mukul/The Economic Times)
https://economi…

Zepto makes confidential filing with Sebi for $1.3 billion IPO: sources
The listing is planned for the July-September quarter of 2026. In October, the quick commerce major had closed a $450 million round, valuing it at $7 billion. As of late November, Zepto had around Rs 7,000 crore in cash, while competitors Eternal and Swiggy each have around Rs 17,000-18,000 crore on their books currently.

Stanford researchers develop a web-based tool that uses an LLM to downrank X posts with antagonistic language in a user's feed, to reduce "partisan animosity" (Stanford University)
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/11/social-m…

OpenAI for Science launches Prism, a free LaTeX-based text editor that embeds GPT-5.2 to assist in scientific paper drafting and citation management (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/27/…

OpenAI’s latest product lets you vibe code science
Prism is a ChatGPT-powered text editor that automates much of the work involved in writing scientific papers.