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

The Trump administration is trying to break the Forest Service,
to pave the way to privatizing
or even selling off
the 193 million acres of land it oversees
https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2026-04-30/forest-service-reor…

Why a major reorganization at the Forest Service has people concerned
A common refrain emerged among the sources I spoke with: The Trump administration is trying to break the Forest Service, they claimed, to pave the way to privatizing or even selling off the 193 million acres of land it oversees.

Google plans to open its first physical Google Store outside of the US, in Tokyo's Omotesando district "this summer", marking Google's 11th physical store (Damien Wilde/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/06/01/goog

Google Store Tokyo to be first physical store outside US, opens this summer
After being exclusive to the United States, the first physical Google Store outside of the region is coming to Tokyo, Japan, this summer.

Unverhofft Jugend-forscht-Preisträger: KI "Jacob" für Leichte Sprache
Ein Abiturient aus Brandenburg hat ein Sprachmodell trainiert, das komplexe Inhalte in Leichte Sprache übersetzt. Für "Jacob" erhielt er einen KI-Sonderpreis.

Unverhofft Jugend-forscht-Preisträger: KI "Jacob" für Leichte Sprache
Ein Abiturient aus Brandenburg hat ein Sprachmodell trainiert, das komplexe Inhalte in Leichte Sprache übersetzt. Für "Jacob" erhielt er einen KI-Sonderpreis.

2026 NFL Draft first-round pick contract tracker: Makai Lemon becomes first to sign rookie deal

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2026-nfl-draft-first-round-pick-contract-tracker/

Last Place in the AI-First Economy: How the AI Industry Relies on Worker Disempowerment https://datasociety.net/library/last-place-in-the-ai-first-economy/

Last Place in the AI-First Economy

Leaked audio: San Francisco and Austin first responders told the NHTSA that Waymo robotaxis are "backsliding" and committing more traffic violations than before (Aarian Marshall/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/emergency-first-responders-say-w…

Emergency First Responders Say Waymos Are Getting Worse
“I believe the technology was deployed too quickly in too vast amounts, with hundreds of vehicles, when it wasn’t really ready,” one police official told federal regulators last month.

2026 NFL season: Ranking all eight candidates to go from worst to first in division races https://www.nfl.com/news/2026-nfl-season-ranking-all-eight-candidates-to-go-from-worst-to-first-in-division-races

Intel unveils six Xeon 6 data center CPU SKUs, says the 6990E has 30% better single-thread performance and up to 30% more energy efficiency than AMD Epyc 9965 (Jake Roach/Tom's Hardware)

Intel Xeon 6+ ‘Clearwater Forest’ puts 18A in the data center with up to 288 cores, 576 MB of L3 cache — new Xeon 6990E+ is 30% faster per thread than 192-core AMD Epyc 9965, says Intel
Intel’s dense Xeon 6+ design marks the first time 18A is being deployed in the data center.

Meta reports Reality Labs Q1 revenue of $402M, vs. $488.8M est., and a $4.03B operating loss, vs. $4.82B est.; Reality Labs has $80B in losses since late 2020 (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/29/metas-reality-labs-lost-over-4-b…

Meta’s Reality Labs lost over $4 billion in first quarter
In Meta's first-quarter earnings report, the company said Reality Labs recorded an operating loss of over $4 billion while bringing in $402 million in sales.