"Removal of African elephants causes coextinction of dung beetles, study finds"
#Africa #Elephants
Indian AI coding startup Emergent raised a $130M Series C at a $1.5B post-money valuation, up from $300M in January, bringing its total funding raised to $230M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/indi
Democratic congresswoman
Ilhan Omar introduced a resolution on Wednesday
urging the United States to join the international criminal court (ICC),
marking the first congressional pushback against the Trump administration’s pledge to
“systematically disable” the war crimes tribunal through sanctions and diplomatic pressure.
Omar’s bill came two days after Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, vowed to dismantle the court.
“The ICC is a crucial tool for jus…
Neues Mode-Kapitel - Victoria Swarovski: „Gelernt, geduldig zu sein“ #News #Nachrichten
AAA game launch is one of the most demanding stress tests any database can face. Jan Lehnardt (co-creator of Apache CouchDB) is at #bbuzz26 to talk through how they achieved 10x performance gains to meet exactly that challenge.
Learn more about this session: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/10x-couchdb-performance-gains-for-a-aaa-game-launch/
The AP confirms it is laying off an unspecified number of US-based journalists today; News Media Guild: of 120 journalists offered buyouts, around 40 took them (Jocelyn Noveck/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/news-industry-ap-layoffs-3906d6f2c…