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Wildfire smoke shuts schools in Amazon's biggest city #Amazon

Wildfire smoke shuts schools in Amazon's biggest city
The largest city in the Brazilian Amazon, Manaus, closed public schools on Friday as smoke from hundreds of wildfires blanketed the metropolis amid an intensifying El Niño event.

Scuba, which is building a "context engine" designed to serve as a shared memory hub for human workers and AI agents, raised $34M across pre-seed and seed (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
https://www.upstartsmedia.com/p/exclusive-slack-alums-launch-scuba

Exclusive: Slack Alums Launch Scuba, New ‘Context Engine’ For Teams And AI Agents
Noah Desai Weiss and Dolapo Falola raised $34M from Accel, IVP, and top startup CEOs like Stripe's Patrick Collison to capture ‘taste’ in leveraging AI tools.

The 11 largest North American sports franchise sales, starting with the Lakers ... twice https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7508992/2026/08/12/lakers-north-american-sports-franchise-sales-record/

Pint, Poster, Paper: Slice-and-Dice Heating Decarb (2026) - From Pint-of-Science public talk to academic paper; derivatives and heat-pump load profiles. #PhD #heating - …

Pint, Poster, Paper: Slice-and-Dice Heating Decarb (2026)
From Pint-of-Science public talk to academic paper; derivatives and heat-pump load profiles. #PhD #heating

Great roundup of global EV news in the latest from @…. Especially France's new "social leasing" program that allows low-income households to lease an EV for less than €200 a month over three years, without a deposit!

What I’m reading: Surging electric truck sales, France's clean tech social leasing success, and global energy transition tracker
Quitting Carbon's biweekly roundup of energy transition developments you might have missed.

Filing: WBD president and CEO David Zaslav sold $195M worth of WBD stock since the company agreed to be acquired by Paramount; his latest sale totaled $21.7M (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/warner-bros-discove…

David Zaslav Sells $21.7M in Stock as Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Stuck on Hold
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav sold 773,173 shares of company stock, for an aggregate market value of $21.7 million, under a prearranged stock sale plan.

New Report: Plastic Expelled: Exposing Industry Propaganda in U.S. Schools https://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/blog/2026/8/13/new-report-plastic-expelled-exposing-industry-propaganda-in-u-s-schools

New Report: Plastic Expelled: Exposing Industry Propaganda in U.S. Schools
Plastic Expelled exposes the plastic industry’s propaganda playbook and outlines how to get the plastic industry out of schools.

Peinlich, wie sich alle daran abarbeiten, wie skandalös es doch sei, eine Person abzubilden, die erst im Rollstuhl sitzt und dann steht, als wäre das ohne messianische Wunderheilung unmöglich. 🙄 #SachsenAnhalt
Hier muss ich die #CDU mal in Schutz nehmen:
„Wer nach einer ärztlichen Be…

Missliche Plakatwerbung des CDU-Spitzenkandidaten in Sachsen-Anhalt: Sven Schulze und die Frau im Rollstuhl, die plötzlich wieder stehen kann
Spott und Häme für Sven Schulze, den Spitzenkandidaten der CDU in Sachsen-Anhalt: Zwei seiner Wahlplakate zeigen dieselbe »Frau aus dem Volk«, allerdings mal im Rollstuhl, mal nicht. Peinliche Panne oder gängige Praxis?

'Madden NFL 27' sells hyperrealism in EA's goal to make 'a scouting report' for the league https://www.nfl.com/news/madden-nfl-27-sells-hyperrealism-in-ea-s-goal-to-make-a-scouting-report-for-the-league

ASML reports Q3 net sales of €11.66B, vs. €11.72B est., a €4.96B net profit, vs. €4.1B est., and raises its 2026 net sales forecast from €43B-€44B to €44B-€45B (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/14/asml-3q-earnings-ai-demand-orders-capacity.html…

ASML says it's getting order interest through 2030 as profit smashes expectations
ASML said some customers are "expressing an interest" in placing orders with the company in 2029 and 2030, giving investors a view into longer-term demand.