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The #AGIT2026 call for papers is out:
Short paper submission deadline: March 1, 2026
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AGIT Submissions - AGIT
Call for Submissions 2026 We encourage researchers, scholars, practitioners, and professionals in all facets of Geographic Information Science and Technology, and applications thereof, to present

"Motorcyclist on shopping trip arrested amid Labour’s crackdown on undocumented migrants"
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/02/motorcyclist-on-shopping-trip-arrested-london-amid-labours-crac…

OpenAI's Sora 2 openly features copyright infringing content, including numerous AI-generated clips of SpongeBob, Pikachu, and Mario (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/openais-sora-2-copyright-infringeme…

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Copyright Infringement Machine Features Nazi SpongeBobs and Criminal Pikachus
The main use of Sora appears to generate brainrot of major beloved copyrighted characters, to say nothing of the millions of articles, images, and videos OpenAI has scraped.

from my link log —
Saving Skylab.
https://www.airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/saving-skylab
saved 2025-11-30 https://

Saving Skylab
During launch, the micrometeoroid shield surrounding the Skylab Workshop ripped loose. Designed to protect the workshop from tiny space particles and the sun's scorching heat, its loss caused sunlight to raise internal temperatures to over 130° F, making the station uninhabitable and threatening foods, medicines, films, and experiments that were onboard. Astronaut Rusty Schweickart was responsible for testing a parasol on Earth and developing procedures for deploying it in space in an effort …

Internetpionier: Bending Spoons aus Italien übernimmt jetzt auch AOL
Die Einkaufstour von Bending Spoons geht weiter, das italienische Unternehmen kauft jetzt auch AOL. Übernommen werden die Website und der Mail-Provider.

#Jeavons
Don’t Forget to Ask: What Happens to the Savings? - resilience
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-11-26/dont-forget-to-ask-what-happe…

Don’t Forget to Ask: What Happens to the Savings?
The proposal for Degrowth calls for an intentional downscaling of the global economy to achieve both ecological sustainability and social justice. A degrowth transition would help ensure that ecological practices actually displace destructive ones, and that the savings from efficiency measures are truly saved.

Microsoft says it agreed to give the US GSA $6B in potential savings on Office, Azure, 365, and other tools over three years, including $3.1B in the first year (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/02/microsoft-offers-us-…

Microsoft offers U.S. government over $6 billion in savings on cloud services over 3 years
Microsoft is the latest company to discount the cost of its software to the General Services Administration.

Dienstag: Washington erweitert schwarze Liste, Spionageschiff sorgt für Unruhe
Sanktionen gegen chinesische Firmen Spionage durch russisches Schiff Konsortium kauft EA Sicherheitsupdates für Windows 10 heise online testet ePA-App

Shopify suffers an outage, leaving some merchants unable to log in or access POS systems, and says it has fixed an issue and is seeing signs of recovery (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/01/shopify-outage-cyber-monday-shopping.html

Shopify outage: Shopping platform goes down for some users during Cyber Monday
Select merchants were unable to log in to Shopify, while others couldn't access their point-of-sale systems, the company said.

Sources: Yahoo is in advanced talks to sell AOL to Milan-based app developer Bending Spoons for about $1.4B (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/yahoo-nears-deal-sell-aol-italys-bending-spoons-14-billion-sources-say-2025-10-…