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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 […]

Tua Tagovailoa 'frustrated and disappointed' by subpar first Falcons preseason performance https://www.nfl.com/news/tua-tagovailoa-frustrated-and-disappointed-by-subpar-first-falcons-preseason-performance

NIS2-Mahnung: BSI setzt neue Frist zur Registrierung bis Ende Juli
Die Registrierungszahlen zum IT-Sicherheitsgesetz enttäuschen. Das BSI mahnt Firmen, NIS2-Vorgaben einzuhalten, und gibt eine neue Deadline vor.

NIS2-Mahnung: BSI setzt neue Frist zur Registrierung bis Ende Juli
Die Registrierungszahlen zum IT-Sicherheitsgesetz enttäuschen. Das BSI mahnt Firmen, NIS2-Vorgaben einzuhalten, und gibt eine neue Deadline vor.

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

AI inference startup General Compute gets a $400M loan from tech investment firm Upper90, seemingly the first deal using inference-specific chips as collateral (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/17/why-

Why the first GPU financiers are turning to inference chips in a $400 million deal | TechCrunch
A $400 million chip-backed loan points to the next wave of AI infrastructure deals.

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.
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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.

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 […]

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.

Infrastructure for African mines destroying forests at 34 times the rate of the mines themselves https://phys.org/news/2026-06-infrastructure-african-destroying-forests.html

Infrastructure for African mines destroying forests at 34 times the rate of the mines themselves
Industrial-scale mining in Africa to support global supply chains is leading to unprecedented deforestation across the continent, with 34 hectares of forest removed for every single hectare of active mine site.