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🌳 AI helps find trees in a forest: Researchers achieve 3D forest reconstruction from remote sensing data
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AI helps find trees in a forest: Researchers achieve 3D forest reconstruction from remote sensing data
Existing algorithms can partially reconstruct the shape of a single tree from a clean point-cloud dataset acquired by laser-scanning technologies. Doing the same with forest data has proven far more difficult. But now a team from Purdue University's Department of Computer Science and Institute for Digital Forestry and Germany's Kiel University has introduced a new AI method for isolating and reconstructing forest trees that they call TreeStructor.

Bluesky releases its first transparency report: users rose 60% in 2025 to 41.2M, including AT Protocol accounts; moderation reports from users grew 54% to 9.97M (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/30/blue

Bluesky issues its first transparency report, noting rise in user reports and legal demands | TechCrunch
Bluesky's first transparency reports tackle moderation, regulatory compliance, account takedowns, and more. The number of government legal requests went up fivefold.

De Fix our Forests Act doet precies het omgekeerde van wat de naam doet vermoeden:
https://open.substack.com/pub/jimehansen/p/fix-our-forests-fiasco?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=e4myx

Fix Our Forests Fiasco
James Hansen

Without wanting to detract from the main thrust of the article, I find the usage "new species" interestingly anthropocentric.
A new frog species emerges from Peru’s cloud forests — and it’s already at risk
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/a-ne<…

A new frog species emerges from Peru’s cloud forests — and it’s already at risk
Deep within the cloud forests of the San Martín region of Peru lie two places so high, cold and remote that they remained virtually unexplored for decades. In 2022, and again in 2025, monitors from three Indigenous and local associations guided a team of scientists from Peru and France on a series of expeditions to […]

TE Evan Engram hopes to remain with Broncos after challenging first season in Denver https://www.nfl.com/news/te-evan-engram-hopes-to-remain-with-broncos-after-challenging-first-season-in-denver

Pinterest: Hunderte Entlassungen sollen Ressourcen für KI freisetzen
Pinterest plant, bis zu fünfzehn Prozent der Belegschaft zu entlassen. Das soll mehr Ressourcen für die Entwicklung von KI-Funktionen und -Produkten freisetzen.