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Biologists drove 19 burrowing owls evicted by a Phoenix housing project
50 miles into a 10,000-acre solar complex
and lowered them into 40 plastic burrows
— every female laid eggs within a month,
and 29 chicks fledged the first summer,
because any predator stands out on open ground under panels

Biologists drove 19 burrowing owls evicted by a Phoenix housing project 50 miles into a 10,000-acre solar complex and lowered them into 40 plastic burrows — every female laid eggs within a month, and 29 chicks fledged the first summer, because open ground under panels hides no predator from an owl
A solar farm designed to fight climate change became an unexpected refuge for an endangered owl when scientists discovered that panels cast the perfect shadow for ground-nesting predators to hunt.

Informe PISA : La pantalla mató la comprensión lectora: cómo el cerebro se estš adaptando a un entorno digital | Educación | EL PAÍS
https://elpais.com/educacion/2026-09-14/la-pantalla-mato-la-compren…

«Mass Scanning Targets Exposed Vite Servers to Steal AWS Keys and Azure Tokens:
[…] Honeynet telemetry recorded 807 session-grouped attacks and approximately 32,000 raw events during the monthly analysis period. […]»
It is becoming more and more that passwords / passkeys are not stolen or hacked, are their generated tokens. Many of them, in my opinion, say too much about the users and their use.
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Mass Scanning Targets Exposed Vite Servers to Steal AWS Keys and Azure Tokens
Attackers aimed to extract cloud credentials, environment files, and infrastructure state data by exploiting a critical file-read vulnerability known as CVE-2026-39364.

“Now that we’ve gotten everyone vaguely scared, we think this is the time to propose solutions, namely massive third party oversight which we will pay for and control, gatekeeping of smaller competitors, toothless government legislation which we’ve already paid President Trump to let us write ourselves, and overall a whole lot less scrutiny over the massive house of over-leveraged cards we’ve built.”

Tech oligarchs agree calling AI "too dangerous" way cooler than just admitting it doesn't work
SILICON VALLEY - The CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and GrokAI have released a statement agreeing that claiming artificial intelligence "could potentially kill all humans" sounds much more awesome than just admitting that they blew a fortune on glorified chatbots.

Sources: Silver Lake is in talks to acquire HR and financial management software maker Workday, which has a market value of ~$43B; WDAY jumps 18% (Milana Vinn/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/silver-lake-talks-buy-workday-sources-say-2026-08-13/

Welcome to the mid-2020's. Yet again, parody news site describes current events more accurately than mainstream media.
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2026/09/tech-oligarchs-agree-calling-ai-too-dangerous-way-…

David and Larry Ellison Sued by Paramount Investor Over Alleged Trump Side Deal
The lawsuit claims that the Ellisons illegally promised to overhaul CNN as the administration looks to reshape media.
The complaint follows a coalition of state attorneys general,
the Writers Guild of America
and Paramount subscribers filing lawsuits against the studio.
A fourth lawsuit has been filed looking to block Paramount‘s bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery
-- this t…

David and Larry Ellison Sued by Paramount Investor Over Alleged Trump Side Deal
The lawsuit claims that the Ellisons illegally promised to overhaul CNN as the administration looks to reshape media. The complaint follows a coalition of state attorneys general, the Writers Guild of America and Paramount+ subscribers filing lawsuits against the studio.

Google plans to acquire power from AEP's Cheyenne Fuel Cell under a 20-year deal; AEP will invest ~$4B in the Wyoming fuel cell project using Bloom's tech (Kelly Cloonan/Wall Street Journal)
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Let’s talk about the billionaires
— the folks cutting the line while the rest of us pay the bill.
They don’t need another champion in Congress.
I’m not going to the Senate to fight for guys like Elon Musk,
and I don’t believe in tax cuts for the wealthiest people on the planet.
That might not be a popular opinion in Washington, but here in Maine, the vast majority of folks would agree.
Except Susan Collins.
Susan Collins has hardly met a billionaire…

Troy Jackson for U.S. Senate
Troy Jackson is ready to flip Maine's Senate seat and unseat Susan Collins once and for all. He's a fifth-generation logger from Allagash, a lifelong labor champion, and former Maine Senate President, who's proven he can win — by 20 points — in a district carried by both Susan Collins and Donald Trump.

Grab agrees to acquire a 60% stake in Singapore-based BNPL platform Atome from Advance Intelligence Group and others for $1.49B; Atome had $470M in 2025 revenue (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20