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🐛 Hidden insect diversity in grass shoots threatened by mowing
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Hidden insect diversity in grass shoots threatened by mowing
When it comes to biodiversity, researchers and the public tend to focus on large-scale patterns. This overlooks a hidden but precious diversity: small, inconspicuous wasps, midges, flies, beetles and other insects that live in plants. These tiny creatures are actually very common, as shown by a team of researchers at the University of Göttingen and the Hungarian HUN-REN Center for Ecological Research.

Yeah! My French journal is reporting on the Ice Out protests:
« ICE out » : les images des milliers de personnes rassemblées dans les rues des Etats-Unis pour protester contre la police de l’immigration

« ICE out » : les images des milliers de personnes rassemblées dans les rues des Etats-Unis pour protester contre la police de l’immigration
Les manifestants entendaient également dénoncer la politique de l’administration Trump et la mort de Renee Good et d’Alex Pretti, tués début janvier sous les balles d’agents fédéraux.

Tests of 12 AI-detection tools show many capable of spotting basic fakes, but struggle with complex images; few analyze video, and most identified fake audio (Stuart A. Thompson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/…

Can A.I. Detection Tools Really Spot Fake Images and Videos?
Artificial intelligence detectors are increasingly used to check the veracity of content online. We ran more than 1,000 tests and found several strengths and plenty of weaknesses.

BlueBubbles: Serverlösung leitet iMessages an Android weiter
Apple macht seinen Kommunikationsdienst iMessage nach wie vor nur auf eigenen Geräten zugänglich. Das Open-Source-Vorhaben BlueBubbles will das ändern.

A 5-year-old boy and his father must be released by Tuesday
from the Texas center where they’ve been held after being detained by immigration officers in Minnesota,
a federal judge ordered Saturday in a ruling that harshly criticized the Trump administration’s approach to enforcement.
Images of Liam Conejo Ramos, wearing a bunny hat and Spider-Man backpack,
being surrounded by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers
sparked even more outcry about the admini…

US ordered to release 5-year-old and dad taken into custody in Minnesota
A judge has ordered the U.S. to release a father and 5-year-old son who were taken into custody during the immigration crackdown in Minnesota. Images of the preschooler in a bunny hat and Spiderman backpack being surrounded by federal agents in a Minneapolis suburb on Jan. 20 added to the outcry about the immigration actions of President Donald Trump’s administration. The government says the father and son, originally from Ecuador, entered the U.S. in 2024. They were taken to a detention faci…

Exposed Musk Now Insists Epstein Files Don’t Matter
https://www.thedailybeast.com/exposed-musk-now-insists-epstein-files-dont-matter/

Südkorea: Bei Onlinehändler Daten zu zwei Dritteln der Bevölkerung abgegriffen
Ein inzwischen nicht mehr Coupang arbeitender Angestellter soll bei Südkoreas größtem Onlinehändler Daten zur gesamten Kundschaft abgegriffen haben.

🐏 Dream engineering can help solve 'puzzling' questions: Study offers insights to optimizing sleep
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-puzzling-insights-optimizing.html

Dream engineering can help solve 'puzzling' questions: Study offers insights to optimizing sleep
We've all heard the best approach to solve a problem is to "sleep on it." It turns out there may be more truth to this adage than previously thought. While stories abound of eureka moments surfacing from dreams, scientific evidence has remained elusive, due to the challenge of systematically manipulating dreams.

AI Gave Investors a Glimpse of the Future This Month.
And Then They Sold Their Stocks.
“The main story is still tech and AI uncertainty,” said Ross Mayfield, investment strategist at Baird.
“It is making investors question the fundamental underpinning of the profitability of a lot of industries.” 
Those worries have triggered several nauseating stock swings in recent weeks, some with relatively innocuous catalysts
—an incremental update to a particular AI tool, …

AI Gave Investors a Glimpse of the Future This Month. And They Sold Their Stocks. — The Wall Street Journal
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite fell in February, dragged down by firms whose businesses might be disrupted

Pope Leo insists on two-state solution to resolve Israel-Palestine conflict | Religion News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/30/pope-leo-insists-on-2-state-solution-to-resolve-israel-palestine-conflict?traffic_source=rss