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Vacation Film Forgotten in 70-yo Vintage Camera Was Developed for the First Time: Do You Know These Skiers? https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/vacation-film-forgotten-in-70-yo-vintage-camera-was-developed-for-t…

Vacation Film Forgotten in 70-yo Vintage Camera Was Developed for the First Time: Do You Know These Skiers?
The developer has taken the time to launch a sort of nation-wide awareness campaign to see if anyone recognizes a face in the photographs.

Why forest conservation is also public health #environment

Why forest conservation is also public health
  In a lowland forest in southeastern Madagascar, what was missing proved as telling as what was found. Researchers trapping small mammals in the Manombo Special Reserve caught tuft-tailed rats in the intact interior forest. In the nearby littoral forest, despite repeated efforts, they found none. The traps held black rats instead. The observation appears […]

Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web
WebAssembly has come a long way since its first release in 2017. The first version of WebAssembly was already a great fit for low-level languages like C and C , and immediately enabled many new kinds of applications to efficiently target the web.
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Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
This post is an expanded version of a presentation I gave at the recent WebAssembly CG meeting in Munich. WebAssembly has come a long way since its first release in 2017. The 1.0 version of WebAssembly was already a great fit for low-level languages like C and C++, and immediately enabled many new kinds of applications to efficiently target the web.

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

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.

Forscher verwandeln Mond- und Marsregolith in fruchtbaren Boden
Wovon sollen Menschen in künftigen Kolonien auf dem Mond oder dem Mars leben? Neue Forschungsergebnisse zeigen, dass dort in den Böden Pflanzen gedeihen können.

Survey: when breaking news happens, 36% of US adults turn first to their preferred news outlet for more info, 28% use search engines, and 19% use social media (Christopher St. Aubin/Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20

Where do Americans turn first for information about breaking news?
When a breaking news event happens, 36% of U.S. adults say they typically turn first to their preferred news organization to get more information.

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Forscher verwandeln Mond- und Marsregolith in fruchtbaren Boden

Indigenous communities oppose Papua forest rezoning for palm oil https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/indigenous-communities-oppose-papua-forest-rezoning-for-palm-oil/

Indigenous communities oppose Papua forest rezoning for palm oil
JAKARTA — Indigenous communities in Indonesia’s easternmost region of Papua accuse the government of underhanded zoning changes to expand the so-called food estate program there to include large-scale oil palm plantations. Indigenous representatives have filed a formal objection to two decrees issued by the Ministry of Forestry that reclassify 486,939 hectares (1.2 million acres) of […]

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.