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Sources: Trump administration is reconsidering plans to replace the Biden-era AI export rules as part of a broader softening on chip controls targeting China (Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/29/2025/trump-may-not-replace-biden-era-ai-rule…

Trump may not replace Biden-era AI rule
The unclear plans for a replacement ‘diffusion’ rule are part of a broader softening on chip controls targeting China.

Study reveals uneven land sinking across New Orleans, raising flood-risk concerns https://phys.org/news/2025-06-reveals-uneven-orleans.html
New Orleans is sinking—and so are its $15 billion flood defenses

Study reveals uneven land sinking across New Orleans, raising flood-risk concerns
Parts of New Orleans and its surrounding wetlands are gradually sinking, and while most of the city remains stable, a new study from Tulane University researchers suggests that sections of the region's $15 billion post-Katrina flood protection system may need regular upgrades to outpace long-term land subsidence.

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A network of replies among users of the website Slashdot on the various discussion threads on the site. Nodes are user accounts and each directed edge represents a reply from user i to user j. Replies are timestamped.
This network has 51083 nodes and 140778 edges.
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"CEOs are extremely excited about the opportunities that AI brings," Elijah Clark,
a chief executive who advises other head honchos on using AI at their companies,
told Gizmodo in an interview.
"As a CEO myself, I can tell you, I'm extremely excited about it.
I've laid off employees myself because of AI."
Clark is one of many executives who've been strikingly honest about their intentions to cast aside their flesh and blood worker…

CEO Brags That He Gets "Extremely Excited" Firing People and Replacing Them With AI
A CEO who advises other CEOs on how to use AI to replace human jobs doesn't seem to be possessing a whole lotta guilt — or self-awareness.

Flint's Still-unfinished Lead Pipe Replacement Serves as Cautionary Tale to Other Cities | Associated Press
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/Flint-water-crisis-lead-pipe-replacement/2025/06/29/id/1216901/

Flint's still-unfinished lead pipe replacement serves as cautionary tale to other cities (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/flint-water-crisis-lead-pipe-replacement-d4f7e458dce73c6f153281276548d1da
http://www.memeorandum.com/250629/p94#a250629p94

Seaweed-Based Growth Media Could Replace Traditional Cell Culture Media in Cultivated Meat Production https://vegconomist.com/algae-microalgae-seaweed/seaweed-based-growth-media-replace-traditional-cell-…

Seaweed-Based Growth Media Could Replace Traditional Cell Culture Media in Cultivated Meat Production - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
A new research project led by James Cook University (JCU) and the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) is investigating the use of seaweed as a potential

Grow a Garden, a hit game on Roblox, has spawned a market where in-game items are sold for real money on sites like eBay, potentially violating Roblox's ToS (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

The Surgery That Reveals Everything That’s Wrong With Women’s Health Care – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/hysterectomy-get-it-out-the-surgery-that-reveals-everything-thats-wrong-with-womens-health-care/

Stack Overflow survey: 84% of developers use or plan to use AI tools in their workflow, up from 76% in 2024, and 33% trust AI accuracy, down from 43% in 2024 (Sean Michael Kerner/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/stack-overflo…

Stack Overflow data reveals the hidden productivity tax of ‘almost right’ AI code
Stack Overflow survey shows that as more enterprise developers actually use AI tools, their expectations aren't being met by reality.