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"Listening to birdsong in a forest lowered a person’s stress during experiment"
#Forests #Nature #Environment

Listening to birdsong in a forest lowered a person’s stress during experiment
Sitting in a small, restored forest while listening to birdsong lowered people’s stress and lifted their mood in the moment, according to a recent study published in the journal Environmental Conservation. Researchers asked 106 students at North Carolina State University in the U.S. to sit outdoors in noise-canceling headphones at two spots on campus: A […]

“…this is the first AI film to demonstrate that AI can now sustain character consistency, world coherence, and narrative arc across a complete feature,” is roughly equivalent to “we made a car that actually has wheels and can take you somewhere.”
And it wasn’t in the festival, it just screening in the same town.
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First AI-made Feature Film Premieres at Cannes on Higgsfield | Alex Mashrabov posted on the topic | LinkedIn
We just showcased the trailer of our first 95-minute feature film made entirely on Higgsfield in Cannes. Hell Grind is a 95-minute sci-fi heist directed by Aitore Zholdaskali and co-written with Adilkhan Yerzhanov, a two-time Cannes Official Programme filmmaker. A team of 15 professional directors, DPs, and editors made it on Higgsfield in 14 days for under $500K. The traditional comparable production cost is around $50M. But beyond the numbers, this is the first AI film to demonstrate that …

Vor dem unvermeidbaren Absturz: NASA-Weltraumteleskop Swift forscht wieder
Das Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory wird nicht gerettet. Deshalb hat die NASA die Instrumente an Bord wieder aktiviert, auch wenn das den Absturz beschleunigt.

Vor dem unvermeidbaren Absturz: NASA-Weltraumteleskop Swift forscht wieder
Das Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory wird nicht gerettet. Deshalb hat die NASA die Instrumente an Bord wieder aktiviert, auch wenn das den Absturz beschleunigt.

Sysdig Details JADEPUFFER, the First Documented Agentic Ransomware Operation
https://hackread.com/sysdig-jadepuffer-first-agentic-ransomware-operation/

Sysdig Details JADEPUFFER, the First Documented Agentic Ransomware Operation
A new Sysdig report traces how an LLM agent abused a Langflow flaw, stole credentials, reached production MySQL, and destroyed Nacos config data in minutes flat.

Letting tropical forests regrow naturally could cut restoration costs https://www.earth.com/environment/letting-tropical-forests-regrow-naturally-could-cut-restoration-costs/

Letting tropical forests regrow naturally could cut restoration costs
Allowing tropical forests to regrow naturally could deliver major carbon and biodiversity benefits while making restoration far more affordable.

from my link log —
Why Casper forked Rust’s rand crate.
https://casualhacks.net/blog/2026-07-27-why-i-forked-rand.html
saved 2026-07-31

Foundational Industries, which aims to build AI-run factories for physical products, starting with custom data center rack enclosures, raised a $25M seed (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/07/30/forget-

Forget robots on assembly lines. Foundational Industries wants AI to run the entire factory
The startup says software-native factories can leapfrog China’s highly automated manufacturing base rather than trying to replicate it.

"Italy’s Forest Cover is Larger Than Agriculture Land for the First Time Since the Middle Ages"
#Italy #Nature #Environment

Italy's Forests Larger Than Agriculture Land for the First Time Since the Middle Ages
For locally endangered species like bears and wolves, more woods in mountain areas will go a long way toward supporting their populations. 

heise | Google frisst das Web: Warum durch KI der Web-Traffic sinkt
Google ist keine klassische Suchmaschine mehr, sondern beantwortet Nutzerfragen mit KI. Das hat weitreichende Auswirkungen aufs offene Web – und den Traffic.

Google frisst das Web: Warum durch KI der Web-Traffic sinkt
Google ist keine klassische Suchmaschine mehr, sondern beantwortet Nutzerfragen mit KI. Das hat weitreichende Auswirkungen aufs offene Web – und den Traffic.

Hong Kong-listed Z.ai reports H1 2026 revenue up 5x YoY to ~$142M, with "open platform and API revenue" up 28x to ~$122M, and net loss down 12% YoY to ~$308M (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/chines…

Chinese AI Model Firm Z.ai’s API Sales Surge in First Half
Chinese AI firm Z.ai’s revenue in the first half jumped nearly fivefold from a year earlier to 954 million yuan ($142 million), boosted by skyrocketing sales of cloud-based AI model services. Z.ai, whose stock is listed in Hong Kong, said its “open platform and API revenue,” which includes the sales of its models through application programming interfaces and other services such as coding