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Berlin-based Motor Ai, which develops neuroscience-driven Level 4 autonomous driving tech and plans to deploy it on German roads in 2025, raised a $20M seed (Dean Takahashi/GamesBeat)
https://gamesbeat.com/after-8-years-motor-ai-raises-20m-for-autonom…

After 8 years, Motor Ai raises $20M for autonomous driving software
After eight years of work, Motor Ai has raised $20 million for autonomous driving software that prioritizes compliance.

🚂 Trans-Afghan Railway Project Gains Momentum After Eight Years
https://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/International/Trans-Afghan-Railway-Project-Gains-Momentum-After-Eight-Years.html

Trans-Afghan Railway Project Gains Momentum After Eight Years
Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan have signed a framework agreement to build a trans-Afghan railway, a project poised to significantly reduce transit times and boost trade flows in the region.

Someone spent $12,000 on a Jay Cutler football card in 2025 — why? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6554071/2025/08/15/jay-cutler-card-record-sale/

Charter schools are a money grab designed to destroy public education. An excuse to shovel public money into the pockets of people with big ideas about education that mostly don't work.
The irony is that the one thing almost all critics of education agree on is that too much money is spent on administrative/managerial staff. https://

Meet Candon Dahle
Why isn't he in jail for life?
THIS CHILD RAPIST was sentenced to 180 days in jail for raping a 7 year old girl for 5 years
Part of the plea deal was that he would not have to register as a sex offender
https://www.

Former BYU baseball starter sentenced for sexually assaulting young girl for 5 years
Candon Dean Dahle was handed a suspended prison sentence and put on probation for eight years after being accused of sexually assaulting a young girl over a five-year period.

In 116 years of temperature records for the central Netherlands (1901-2016), the June average had never reached 18°C. In the eight years thereafter, it was exceeded 4 times, and we're on track for a 5th time this year.

Tourism surge and climate change threaten Nepal’s Mustang https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/09/tourism-surge-and-climate-change-threaten-nepals-mustang/

Tourism surge and climate change threaten Nepal’s Mustang
Since the completion of an all-weather road eight years ago, Nepal’s remote Mustang region has become a mass tourism destination, reports Mongabay’s Abhaya Raj Joshi. The surge in tourists, combined with the impacts of climate change, could put the fragile Himalayan region at greater risk of future disasters. Previously, Mustang was a destination for foreign […]

"Pollution from wildfires can contaminate our water for up to 8 years, study finds"
#Pollution #Wildfires #Environment

Pollution from wildfires can contaminate our water for up to eight years, new study finds
An analysis of 500 watersheds found levels of organic carbon, phosphorus, and other pollutants up to 103 times higher after a wildfire.

Giving “ ... infectious disease a break for about eight years ...”
Läuft.
https://www.fr.de/panorama/erster-fall-seit-jahren-camper-infiziert-sich-in-urlaubsregion-mit-pest-zr-93918487.html

Azerbaijan gives eight journalists prison sentences ranging from 7.5 to 15 years, as part of a series of media trials set to obliterate independent reporting (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/06/8-journalists-g…

8 journalists given lengthy jail terms as Azerbaijan crushes free press - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, June 23, 2025— Eight Azerbaijani journalists have received prison sentences ranging from 7 ½ to 15 years, as part of an ongoing series of media trials likely to obliterate independent reporting in the Caucasus nation. In a closed-door trial on Monday, columnist and peace activist Bahruz Samadov was sentenced by a court in...

Water Contaminant Levels Can Remain High for Eight Years After a Wildfire, Study Finds #environment

Water Contaminant Levels Can Remain High for Eight Years After a Wildfire, Study Finds
Wildfire pollutants can continue to contaminate local waterways for up to eight years after a wildfire event, scientists are warning.

I've enjoyed Michael Madsen in films ever since I first saw Reservoir Dogs, probably when I was 13 or 14, right after it came out. And then in Species, Sin City, Kill Bill- and the most recent Madsen thing I've seen, The Hateful Eight, from 10 years ago. And he was in 8 movies last year, and 4 still upcoming! Truly one of our time's greatest actors, and amazing right up to the end. He'll be missed. RIP

Shenzhen-based humanoid startup X Square Robot raised ~$100M led by Alibaba, bringing total funding to ~$280M, and released a foundation model for embodied AI (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/08/alibaba-leads-100-mil…

Alibaba leads $100 million investment in Chinese humanoid robot startup
Capital is rushing into humanoids — X Square Robot has completed eight fundraising rounds in less than two years since the startup was founded.

probably 45 years ago I was going down into Mexico to camp for a week with three friends, one of them was the brother of a friend of mine who was in charge of music. He forgot all the music except for one Grateful Dead eight track tape that he just left on repeat and that was the first and last time I ever listened to the grateful dead.

Scattered Spider affiliate given 10 year sentence, ordered to pay $13 million in restitution https://therecord.media/scattered-spider-affiliate-sentenced-10-years

Wildfires threaten water quality for up to eight years after they burn #environment

Wildfires threaten water quality for up to eight years after they burn
Wildfires don’t just leave behind scorched earth—they leave a toxic legacy in Western rivers that can linger for nearly a decade. A sweeping new study analyzed over 100,000 water samples from more than 500 U.S. watersheds and revealed that contaminants like nitrogen, phosphorus, organic carbon, and sediment remain elevated for up to eight years after a blaze.

Measuring the Suns radial velocity variability due to supergranulation over a magnetic cycle
Niamh K. O'Sullivan, Suzanne Aigrain, Michael Cretignier, Ben Lakeland, Baptiste Klein, Xavier Dumusque, Nad\`ege Meunier, Sophia Sulis, Megan Bedell, Annelies Mortier, Andrew Collier Cameron, Heather M. Cegla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2…

Measuring the Suns radial velocity variability due to supergranulation over a magnetic cycle
In recent years supergranulation has emerged as one of the biggest challenges for the detection of Earth-twins in radial velocity planet searches. We used eight years of Sun-as-a-star radial velocity observations from HARPS-N to measure the quiet-Sun's granulation and supergranulation properties of most of its 11-year activity cycle, after correcting for the effects of magnetically active regions using two independent methods. In both cases, we observe a clear, order of magnitude variation in t…

The US is set to raise the number of military vessels deployed near Venezuela to eight this week,
which Maduro described as
“the greatest threat that has been seen on our continent in the last 100 years.”
Following an authorization by Trump to use military force against Latin American drug cartels,
the Associated Press and CBS News report that “the US Navy now has two Aegis guided-missile destroyers — the USS Gravelyand the USS Jason Dunham — in the Caribbean,
a…

Maduro Says US Pointing '1,200 Missiles' at Venezuela After Trump Sends More Warships | Common Dreams
In a press conference on Monday, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said the US has "1,200 missiles" pointed at the country after Trump sent more warships. One US defense official said Trump is gearing up for "Noriega part two," suggesting regime change.

Commanders' Von Miller says he can 'still roll out of bed at 36 years old' and rush the passer

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/command

A Meeting to discuss Heathrow's low pay problem: https://hounslowtradescouncil.org/heathrows-low-pay-problem/

Heathrow’s Low Pay Problem
An Open Meeting Hounslow Trades Union Council Thursday 26th June 7.30pm, . Hounslow United Reformed Church, 114 Hanworth Road, Hounslow, TW3 1UF Eight years ago, Heathrow Airport became a Living Wa…

Charter and Disney expand their 2023 carriage agreement, bringing Hulu's ad-tier to Spectrum TV customers and restoring eight previously removed cable channels (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bu…

Disney and Charter Strike Surprise Deal That Adds Hulu and Returns Axed Cable Channels to Lineup
Spectrum TV Select customers will soon get access to Hulu included in their subscription, as Freeform, FXX and other channels that were cut two years ago return.

RUM: Rule LLM-Based Comprehensive Assessment on Testing Skills
Yue Wang, Zhenyu Chen, Yuan Zhao, Chunrong Fang, Ziyuan Wang, Song Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12922 https://…

RUM: Rule+LLM-Based Comprehensive Assessment on Testing Skills
Over the past eight years, the META method has served as a multidimensional testing skill assessment system in the National College Student Contest on Software Testing, successfully assessing over 100,000 students' testing skills. However, META is primarily limited to the objective assessment of test scripts, lacking the ability to automatically assess subjective aspects such as test case and test report. To address this limitation, this paper proposes RUM, a comprehensive assessment approach t…

🥼 Student loan caps might worsen the national doctor shortage, critics say
#politics

Student loan caps might worsen the national doctor shortage, critics say
Twenty-eight-year-old Michaela Bonner has been working 12-hour shifts as an emergency medical technician in Norfolk, Virginia, for the past four years, while attending and paying for college to finish her prerequisites for medical school.

ESPN Chairman Jimmy Pitaro bets big on streaming after eight years of planning, calling the new DTC app launch "the first inning" with more features to come (Andrew Marchand/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6560777/2…

Why ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro is making his big bet on streaming
The Aug. 21 launch of ESPN's updated app, including new access to all of ESPN's live games without cable, is a huge moment for the network.

Emerging Trends in Software Architecture from the Practitioners Perspective: A Five Year Review
Ruoyu Su, Noman ahmad, Matteo Esposito, Andrea Janes, Davide Taibi, Valentina Lenarduzzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14554

Emerging Trends in Software Architecture from the Practitioners Perspective: A Five Year Review
Software architecture plays a central role in the design, development, and maintenance of software systems. With the rise of cloud computing, microservices, and containers, architectural practices have diversified. Understanding these shifts is vital. This study analyzes software architecture trends across eight leading industry conferences over five years. We investigate the evolution of software architecture by analyzing talks from top practitioner conferences, focusing on the motivations and…

Magneto-Thermal Coupling and Coronal Heating in Solar Active Regions Inferred from Microwave Observations
Alexey A. Kuznetsov, Gregory D. Fleishman, Gelu M. Nita, Sergey A. Anfinogentov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18647

Magneto-Thermal Coupling and Coronal Heating in Solar Active Regions Inferred from Microwave Observations
The solar corona is much hotter than the photosphere and chromosphere, but the physical mechanism responsible for heating the coronal plasma remains unidentified yet. The thermal microwave emission, which is produced in strong magnetic field above sunspots, is a promising but barely exploited tool for studying the coronal magnetic field and plasma. We analyzed the microwave observations of eight solar active regions obtained with the Siberian Radioheliograph in years 2022-2024 in the frequency …