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Chainalysis sues the US government over ICE's $94.6M contract to buy forensic software and services from its competitor TRM Labs, calling the deal "arbitrary" (Ezra Reguerra/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/chainalysi…

Chainalysis sues US over $95M ICE contract with TRM Labs
TRM has intervened in the procurement dispute, with responses due Aug. 21 and oral argument scheduled for Sept. 2.

Ooh! Yes please ! I'd rather have Waymo, but hey, I'd love robotaxis in #manchester
https://www.taxi-point.co.uk/post/uber-lau…

Uber launches Manchester robo-cab testing with Pony.ai and Verne as UK expansion accelerates
Uber has launched autonomous vehicle testing in Manchester in partnership with Pony.ai and Verne, marking another step in the ride-hailing company’s plans to introduce driverless passenger services across the UK.The development was confirmed, with the companies announcing that Pony.ai’s seventh-generation autonomous vehicles are now being tested on Manchester’s roads.The initial operation involves vehicles mapping the city’s streets with a safety driver behind the wheel. No passengers …

A disturbing summary of findings from research on #microplastics in #agricultural land. Several areas of concern, including development of #AntibioticResistance.
Oh yes - turns out th…

Microplastics in soil pose global threat by acting like ‘Trojan horse’ to deliver toxins
Exclusive: Plastic surfaces form hotspots for interaction between plastics, microbes and agrochemicals

A disturbing summary of findings from research on #microplastics in #agricultural land. Several areas of concern, including development of #AntibioticResistance.
Oh yes - turns out th…

Microplastics in soil pose global threat by acting like ‘Trojan horse’ to deliver toxins
Exclusive: Plastic surfaces form hotspots for interaction between plastics, microbes and agrochemicals

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"Navi Pillay’s Nobel Peace Prize is an example of how international law trumps the law of the jungle" 😃
https://theconversation.com/navi-pillays-nobel-peace-prize-i…

Navi Pillay’s Nobel Peace Prize is an example of how international law trumps the law of the jungle
85 year-old Navi Pillay served as a leading national (during apartheid in South Africa) and international jurist. By appointing her, the Nobel Committee is making a stand which has drawn praise and condemnation.

An interview with Axios' Jim VandeHei about his embrace of AI, using AI to build a "local supersystem" of Axios newsrooms, Axios' OpenAI partnership, and more (Issie Lapowsky/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/feature/axios-wants-to…

Axios wants to save local news with AI.
“At the end of the day, if someone’s going to pay you for content, you say: Well, how much are you going to pay me?” Jim VandeHei, the chief executive, said of his company’s deal with OpenAI. “If that payment feels like it’s a fair transaction price, you say yes.”

@… I am happy to answer this rhetorical question: because even if only a few people are dumb enough to say yes, it's still free money.
But I'm with you. Waiters, yes. Drivers, yes. You handed me something over a counter? Not so much. You're asking for a tip even though I didn't even interact with you? Get fucked.
As long as I'm playing A…

#PennedPossibilities 1154: MC POV: Name a time you laughed the hardest. With whom, and why?
Prefrontal Cortex looks you up and down. 'That is not protocol. Humour?'
'Yes,' Hippocampus interjects, 'difficult to classify, challenging to predict, and virtually impossible to explain without ruining the punchline. Useful to defuse situations, or bond with someo…

With recent news I'm curious about what a plagiarism detector would say about my thesis, but as a non-academic I don't have access to the tools.. Do you just upload a pdf to them? If anyone has access to one I'd be interested in what it says ! It'd also be interesting to see what an AI detector thinks about it but maybe it would just look at the date of it..

not gonna be my top issue this election because my focus is guaranteeing $100m a year for affordable housing (yes on I!), but
the car-brain push to turn Sunset Dunes back into a road is very dumb!
https://missionlocal.org/2026/08/sf-prop-g-great-h…

Reopening the Great Highway would cost $9.8M and up to $1.9M annually, controller says
The majority of the one-time cost would be used to add new traffic signals at eight intersections on the road.