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💧 Forest loss can make watersheds 'leakier,' global study suggests
#forests

Forest loss can make watersheds 'leakier,' global study suggests
Forest loss does more than reduce tree cover. A new global study involving UBC Okanagan researchers shows it can fundamentally change how watersheds hold and release water. The research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, analyzed data from 657 watersheds across six continents.

Holy moly, Montana has a cyber warfare officer.
Montana’s first cyber warfare officer strengthens state defense
https://www.ktvh.com/news/montana-news/montanas-first-cyber-warfare-officer-strengthens-state-defense

Montana’s first cyber warfare officer strengthens state defense
The Montana National Guard has appointed its first cyber warfare officer, marking a significant advancement in the guard’s cyber capabilities and proactive defense.

Widely used method underestimates forests' ability to prevent major floods, researchers argue https://phys.org/news/2026-02-widely-method-underestimates-forests-ability.html

Widely used method underestimates forests' ability to prevent major floods, researchers argue
Researchers from the University of British Columbia argue that a widely used method to understand and predict flood risk has led scientists to miscalculate how forests can prevent major flooding. The paper, published in Ambio, synthesizes decades of research to explain why the standard approach used to evaluate how forests impact flooding—comparing individual flood peaks before and after disturbance—fails to capture how floods actually develop.

Adobe updates Firefly to add Quick Cut, a new AI tool to edit footage and B-roll to create a first draft of the final video based on user prompts (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/25/adobe-fireflys-vi…

Adobe Firefly's video editor can now automatically create a first draft from footage | TechCrunch
Adobe Firefly is getting a new feature called Quick Cut that uses AI to edit footage to create a first draft of the final video based on user instructions.

heise meets … „Get them frustrated“
Was tun, wenn ein Chief Information Officer (CIO) nicht mehr Einfluss auf die Köpfe von Beschäftigten hat als ein 19-jähriger Praktikant?
https://www.heise.de/news/heise-mee…

"An AI Tool Recreates Some of the Friction of Academic Search. Is that Actually Helpful?" @ Katina Magazine:
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/resource-reviews/2026/ai-tool-recreates-friction-of-academic-search<…

Rep #Maxwell #Alejandro #Frost, Democrat of Florida,
was hit in the face by a man who told the lawmaker that he would be deported
at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, over the weekend.
The attacker “told …

Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost Is Assaulted at Sundance Film Festival
Mr. Frost, Democrat of Florida, said he was punched by a man who said the lawmaker would be deported. The man was arrested on charges of aggravated burglary and assault.

I love it when people take a peek into Uranus https://www.extremetech.com/science/james-webb-telescope-takes-a-first-peek-inside-uranus

James Webb Telescope Takes a First Peek Inside Uranus
The planet's upper atmosphere has been mapped for the first time, revealing one of the solar system's most enigmatic members.

🌱 Fast-growing trees are taking over the forests of the future and putting biodiversity, climate resilience under pressure
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-fast-trees-forests-future-biodiversity.html

Fast-growing trees are taking over the forests of the future and putting biodiversity, climate resilience under pressure
Trees play a central role in life on Earth. They store CO₂, provide habitats for animals, fungi, and insects, stabilize soils, regulate water cycles, and supply resources that humans rely on—from timber and food to recreation and shade on a hot day.

Report: Samsung co-CEO TM Roh told company leaders that the mobile division MX could report its first ever annual loss this year, amid RAM and storage shortages (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/04/22/sams

Samsung is increasingly worried about first-ever mobile division loss in RAM crisis, report
As AI continues to eat up the market’s RAM output, smartphones are in crisis as costs continue to skyrocket. A...