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Trump cuts to foreign aid leave food destined for desperate millions rotting in storage. »The dismantling of USAID and cuts to humanitarian aid has been devastating and unacceptable,« said one international aid group. https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-usa…

PAM BONDI & ROBERT MURPHY: Team Trump is fighting deadly drug cartels to save American lives (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/pam-bondi-robert-murphy-team-trump-fighting-deadly-drug-cartels-save-american-lives
http://www.memeorandum.com/250718/p80#a250718p80

😎 Edible microlasers made from food-safe materials can serve as barcodes and biosensors
#optics

Edible microlasers made from food-safe materials can serve as barcodes and biosensors
If you've ever consumed food made with olive oil, there's a good chance you've unknowingly ingested materials capable of producing lasers. Researchers have recently demonstrated edible microlasers—tiny lasers made entirely from food-safe materials—that can be used for food monitoring, product authentication and tagging. These edible microlasers are composed of droplets of oil or water–glycerol mixtures doped with natural optical gain substances, such as chlorophyll (the green pigment in l…

Google testet Podcast-artige Antworten in der Google Suche
In den Google Labs ziehen Audio Overviews in die Suche ein. Dort kann man eine KI-Antwort als Konversation oder Podcast erhalten.
https://www.…

I'm listening through my archives of #BBC #EssentialMix in chronological order - sometimes whomever recorded it off the radio leaves in the news break at 2am - the 1994-08-14 episode w/ Trannies With Attitude has a news bite about the arrest of Carlos The Jackal (yes, he was real).
Feeling kinda old right…

Filing: Intel is laying off 5,000 employees across California, Oregon, Texas, and Arizona; California cuts affect 1,935, more than double the initial estimates (Nathan Owens/Manufacturing Dive)
https://www.manufacturingdive.com/news/int

Intel layoffs exceed 5,000 across US
The chipmaker more than doubled its anticipated job cuts in California, adding to its overall downsizing across four states.

“zpool import -FX” is not my favorite command. But when the hosting system panics and leaves the virtual devices backing a FreeBSD VM’s zfs filesystem in an inconsistent state, I'm sure glad it exists.
(I do have hourly zfs snapshots mirrored to a different system that I could restore from if necessary, which comforts me in situations like this. But it's nice not to have to roll back by even a few minutes, other than for the few affected files identified by “zpool scrub” checks…

Bay Area public radio station KQED says it is laying off 45 people and 12 are taking voluntary buyouts, a 15% staff cut; 10 vacant positions will go unfilled (Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)
https://www.kqed.org/news/12048122/kqed-to-s…

KQED to Slash Workforce by 15%, Cutting Dozens of Jobs in Latest Round of Layoffs
The Bay Area media nonprofit is laying off staff for the third time in five years. It comes as the Trump administration aims to cut off federal funding for public media.

Popular podcaster lobs barb at JD Vance over Epstein files (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/16/popular-podcaster-lobs-barb-at-jd-vance-over-epstein-files-00459059
http://www.memeorandum.com/250716/p174#a250716p174

In March, New York added a checkbox to its WARN system for companies to show if "technological innovation or automation", like AI, was a reason for mass layoffs (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters