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The federal government took a major step forward Friday toward opening more than 2,800 acres of Ohio’s only national forest to oil and gas development.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced a lease sale scheduled for Sept. 15 of 41 parcels of land in the Wayne National Forest totaling 2,840 acres.
Although some bureaucratic hurdles remain, a lease sale brings fracking the forest for the first time
– the subject of political effort since at least 2016
– far clos…

Feds advance plan to open Ohio’s Wayne National Forest to fracking
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Cybersecurity data company Prevalent AI raised $22M from Integrity Growth Partners, marking the nine-year-old startup's first-ever outside capital raise (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/19/prevalent-a…

Prevalent AI raises first outside capital in nine years with $22M round - SiliconANGLE
Prevalent AI raises first outside capital in nine years with $22M round - SiliconANGLE

"Rescued Orangutans Released Into Isolated Forest Are Now Raising Babies, Creating New Wild Population"
#Orangutans #Animals

Rescued Orangutans Released Into Isolated Forest Are Now Raising Babies, Creating New Wild Population
15 years ago, conservationists began releasing rescued orangutans into a protected Sumatran forest—and today they are having babies.

Agent's Take: Why early extensions for NFL first-round picks are becoming the new normal

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/agents-take-nfl-first-round-pick-contract-extensio…

new Nepali language textbook from a great team including Indigenous Himalayan scholars. the article is worth a read --
"working in a team where none of us had Nepali as our only or first language, but where all of us still had strong connections to it in different ways. That mix shaped a collaborative process drawing on different experiences and approaches to the language. More importantly, bringing those different relationships to  language into the same space helped us create s…

Por si gustšis alguno. Hay un proyecto en GitHub que es un mod de Instagram de código abierto, que lo puedes configurar para que te muestre en el feed únicamente el contenido que publican las cuentas que sigues, en orden cronológico.
Sin reels, sin publi, sin rastreadores.
https://github.com/jean-voila/FeurStag

Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal's fintech startup Navi raised $100M from Prosus, its first institutional capital raise, sources say at a ~$1.3B valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/19/sach

Sachin Bansal's fintech Navi raises first outside capital with $100M Prosus investment | TechCrunch
The investment comes amid Navi plans to go public.

"Wildfires have destroyed an area of protected tropical forest twice the size of Wales since 2001, study reveals"
#Wildfires #Environment #Nature

Wildfires have destroyed an area of protected tropical forest twice the size of Wales since 2001, study reveals
Over 4 million hectares (9.9 million acres) of protected tropical forest—an area double the size of Wales—have been lost to wildfires since 2001.

AMD plans to ship Helios, its first rack-scale AI system to rival Nvidia, later in 2026 to Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, and others; Helios costs an estimated $5M (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/20/amd-helios-microsoft-ai-nvidia.html

AMD launches Helios, its first rack AI system to rival Nvidia, adding Microsoft as newest buyer
AMD is taking aim at Nvidia with Helios, its first AI rack system, and has landed Microsoft as a new customer, joining Meta, OpenAI and Oracle.

Filing: in 2025, TikTok posted its first net profit of $702.5M in Europe, Africa, and Latin America on $9.1B in revenue, up 45.7% YoY (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2026/08/20/tik…

TikTok’s Europe, Africa and LatAm Business Turns Its First Profit
TikTok made $9.1 billion and its first profit in Europe and Latin America but faces a wave of lawsuits and investigations from European regulators.