Tootfinder

Forest fires likely to continue to burn twice as much without ‘serious action’ on climate change https://news.mongabay.com/podcast/2026/08/forest-fires-likely-to-continue-to-burn-twice-as-much-without-serious…

Forest fires likely to continue to burn twice as much without ‘serious action’ on climate change
Elizabeth Goldman is a co-director of Global Nature Watch, previously known as Global Forest Watch, a database measuring forest loss that’s frequently cited in Mongabay reporting. She joins this week’s podcast to detail GNW’s updated 25-year analysis of global forest fire trends. The picture is stark: Forest fires burn twice as much forest today as […]

Euroopan metsistä on kadonnut biomassaa valtavia määriä 2018 lähtien.
Unprecedented biomass loss in Europe's forests since 2018 https://phys.org/news/2026-08-unprecedented-biomass-loss-europe-forests.html

Unprecedented biomass loss in Europe's forests since 2018
Using satellite data, researchers at TUM have identified an unprecedented loss of aboveground biomass in Europe's forests since 2018. Unlike previous studies that focused solely on changes in tree cover, this study provides the first Europe–wide assessment of changes in forest biomass.

FIRST Mid-Year Vulnerability Forecast Confirms Historic Surge, Projects ~66,000 CVEs in 2026
https://www.first.org/newsroom/releases/20260615

FIRST Mid-Year Vulnerability Forecast Confirms Historic Surge, Projects ~66,000 CVEs in 2026
AI and a rapidly expanding CVE ecosystem blow past February's already-record projections by 46%, but exploitable risk remains flat

California and Google will contribute $20M each over two years to the CA Civic Media Program, far below the $250M promised in 2024, with grants of up to $250K (Ethan Baron/Mercury News)
https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/07/14/new

Newsom revives local news fund at a fraction of the amount first promised
The funding follows a lengthy political battle to get social media giants Google and Meta to help support local newspapers, which have seen their advertising revenue shrink drastically as information moved online and the tech firms captured…

Alibaba's AI unit Tongyi Lab launches the Qwen Robot Suite, its first family of AI models for robots, in pilot testing with some enterprise clients (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article

Alibaba eyes physical world with its first suite of AI models for robots
Alibaba unveils Qwen robot models to push AI beyond chatbots, as embodied intelligence becomes the next frontier in global AI.

For The First Time, Astronomers Detect An Atmosphere Around A Rocky 'Habitable Zone' Planet : ScienceAlert https://www.sciencealert.com/for-the-first-time-astronomers-have-detected-an-atmosphere-around-a-ro…

«Einstellungsgespräch — Palantir fragt Tötungsbereitschaft der Entwickler ab:
Palantir testet beim Einstellungsgespräch, wie Entwickler damit umgehen, dass ihre Software Menschen tötet. Wer das Unternehmen verlässt, muss schweigen.»
Das ist Faschismuss und nichts anders! Hört auf auf irgendwelchen "Sicherheit" zu befürworten die egoistisch vorgegaukelt wird.
😠

Einstellungsgespräch: Palantir fragt Tötungsbereitschaft der Entwickler ab - Golem.de
Palantir testet beim Einstellungsgespräch, wie Entwickler damit umgehen, dass ihre Software Menschen tötet. Wer das Unternehmen verlässt, muss schweigen.

Lust an der Furcht: Die #Psychologie hinter #HeavyMetal
https://www.…

Forest Restoration Solutions #environment

Forest Restoration Solutions
Tree growing has become one of the most widely promoted responses to climate change and ecosystem degradation, with governments, companies and nonprofits pledging to restore hundreds of millions of hectares of forests worldwide. But restoring ecosystems is far more complex than putting seedlings in the ground. This Special examines what it takes to rebuild forest […]

Not since the days of Colonial Pipeline and SolarWinds have I felt the need to write a special report for Metacurity.
But the intense level of activity on Friday and over the weekend surrounding the White House crackdown on Anthropic and its impact on cybersecurity prompted me to write a special Metacurity report this morning. The report presents a timeline of how we have arrived at the first major clash between frontier AI cyber capabilities and government authority.
I hope you …

Special report: Anthropic and the first great AI cyber showdown — a timeline
Over the past few days, a dispute over AI safety guardrails escalated into a White House crackdown, a global sovereignty debate, and the first major clash between frontier AI cyber capabilities and government authority.