African defense tech company Terra Industries, founded in 2024, raised a $52M seed round from 8VC and others, and says it's on track to book $100M in contracts (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/terr
Neue Mars-Rätsel: Curiosity stößt auf ungewöhnliche Gruben
Seit Jahren erforscht Curiosity den Mars. Nun stieß der Rover auf neuartige, flache Gruben, die sich chemisch vom umgebenden Gestein unterscheiden.
ht…
I'm reading the Scottish Government's latest #Biodiversity Action Plan. A great deal of it is pure fantasy unless we also urgently tackle the #ClimateEmergency (which we are not doing) but the ambition is good.
A group of Jewish voters in Michigan
is urging support for Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the state’s Democratic nominee for Senate,
in an open letter that acknowledges concerns among some Jewish voters about his candidacy and his criticism of Israel.
The letter, signed by more than 500 people who identify as Jewish leaders or voters in the state,
says that the election of Dr. El-Sayed, a staunch critic of Israel,
is “clearly the better choice for Jews” compared with his R…
from my link log —
Testing for no_std compatibility in Rust crates.
https://blog.dbrgn.ch/2019/12/24/testing-for-no-std-compatibility/
saved 2019-12-27
Sources: the EU is set to approve the $55B acquisition of EA under its subsidy rules on July 30; the deal includes Saudi Arabia's PIF, Silver Lake, and more (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/saudi-pif
Democratic lawmakers are pushing a bill to disapprove of a nuclear cooperation agreement between the United States and Saudi Arabia
in a bid to strike down the proposal during a three-month period of congressional review.
Democratic Reps. Gregory Meeks, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee,
along with Brad Sherman, John Garamendi and Don Beyer
introduced a Joint Resolution of Disapproval on Wednesday,
shortly before lawmakers left Washington to…
OpenAI löst Preparedness-Team für KI-Risiken auf
OpenAI hat sein Preparedness-Team aufgelöst, das KI-Modelle auf katastrophale Risiken prüfen sollte. Die Aufgaben werden auf bestehende Teams verteilt.
https://www.…