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An interview with Brian Stelter about the Murdoch family's moves to boost their political influence in California, including the launch of the California Post (Emily Dreyfuss/The San Francisco Standard)
https://sfstandard.com/pacific-standar

Can Rupert Murdoch turn California red? He’s going to try
The Murdochs are courting California, through media, politics, and tech.

Corporations and special interest groups spend a record $80 million
to boost -- or tear down -- candidates for California governor
Independent expenditure committees, often funded by corporations and other special interest groups with no limits on how much may be spent, have largely
targeted Tom Steyer's campaign
while boosting Matt Mahan and Xavier Becarra

Follow the money: Donors are spending big in California governor’s race
Spending on the California governor’s race is breaking records, and it’s not just Tom Steyer’s $213 million in contributions

London-based Inherent, which aims to combine human scientific research with AI to produce innovations, emerges from stealth with $50M led by Index Ventures (Martin Coulter/Sifted)
https://sifted.eu/articles/inherent-ai-funding-round-index-matt-clifford/

Ex-DeepMind researchers raise $50m for AI science startup Inherent
London-based AI lab Inherent has recruited Entrepreneurs First cofounder and government AI tsar Matt Clifford as an adviser.

Clipboard-Manager Pastebot 3 mit deutlich mehr Power
Das klassische Werkzeug für die Zwischenablage ist wieder da: Pastebot 3 kommt mit Filtern, smarten Regeln, Konvertierungsoptionen und vielem mehr.
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Clipboard-Manager Pastebot 3 mit deutlich mehr Power
Das klassische Werkzeug für die Zwischenablage ist wieder da: Pastebot 3 kommt mit Filtern, smarten Regeln, Konvertierungsoptionen und vielem mehr.

Whaaa? Not having uniform math standards for assessing admissions isn't working? <shocked> How can this be? 🙄
✅ Citing ‘severe’ math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM applicants
https://www.latimes.com/california/story…

University of California math professors demand return of SAT for STEM admissions
Hundreds of University of California professors are urging the system to reinstate the SAT or ACT requirement for STEM majors by 2027, saying that the test-optional policy has created a widening preparation gap that threatens the value of UC science, technology, engineering and math degrees.

🌍 🛰️ New five-year agreement signed between GÉANT and #EUMETSAT
We are proud to announce the signature of a five-year agreement between GÉANT and EUMETSAT, advancing our long-standing collaboration on #network and #connectivity

GÉANT to provide Single Point of Contact (SPOC) and connectivity services to EUMETSAT in collaboration with NRENs for the next five years | GÉANT CONNECT Online
GÉANT and EUMETSAT, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, are proud to announce the signature of a five-year agreement, advancing their long-standing collaboration on network and connectivity services to support the global distribution of meteorological satellite data that is essential for weather forecasting, climate monitoring, and environmental research. The new framework will

"A day after Colbert signed off from The Late Show ... abruptly euthanized to grease the skids for a plutocrat-coded media merger ... Allen inherited the slot with Comics Unleashed, which feels less like a late-night show than an infomercial for one."
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Stephen Colbert’s Late Show replacement is a depressing sign of the times
After the politically incisive late-night host said his final goodnight last week, Byron Allen’s Comics Unleashed offered a grim look at where TV is heading

The dramatic footage of a teenage lifeguard saving a child from punishing waves along the California coast has captured the attention of the nation,
drawing praise from the shores of Santa Cruz all the way to the White House.
Video of the rescue at Seabright State Beach on Saturday,
captured and shared by local photographer Scott Vander Dussen,
has gone viral on virtually every social media platform.
The footage shows the rookie lifeguard, Ryder Williams, jus…

California teen lifeguard's viral rescue captures awe. He was just doing 'his duty'
A 16-year-old lifeguard in his first summer on the job helped rescue a child from pounding waves in Santa Cruz. His efforts drew widespread praise from California to the White House.

One of the clearest examples of an uninsurable area to date comes from California.
In 2024, State Farm, one of the largest home insurers in the United States, chose not to renew 72,000 home insurance policies across the state due, in part, to unsustainable wildfire risk.
It was not alone, as six of California’s twelve largest insurers had already paused or heavily restricted new policies.
Homeowners who can no longer find private coverage are directed to California’s insure…

Climate change: how fires and floods are creating uninsurable areas across Europe
From California to France and the UK, traditional private markets are buckling under the weight of climate claims.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta today filed a lawsuit against Chrome Holding Co.,
-- formerly known as 23andMe
-- for failing to protect its customers’ sensitive personal information and genetic data related to their health, genetic predispositions and risk factors, biological relatives, ancestry, and ethnicity.
In 2023, 23andMe experienced a data breach that affected nearly 7 million users across the United States,
including 855,541 Californians.
While 23…