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Heathrow third runway likely to harm health of millions nearby, official report warns https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/18/heathrow-third-runway-likely-to-affect-health-millions-people-nearby-of…

"Why land-use emissions have fallen by a third this century – in six charts"
#Nature #Environment

Why land-use emissions have fallen by a third this century – in six charts - Carbon Brief
Emissions from land-use change – including deforestation, loss of peatland and forest degradation – have been falling over the course of the 21st century.

Clean-Up on Aisle Three: New Jersey Becomes Third State to Regulate Data-Driven Pricing This Year
https://fpf.org/blog/clean-up-on-aisle-three-new-jersey-becomes-third-state-to-regulate-data-driven-pricing-this-year/

Jerry Jones’ third-round pick’s bold future prediction is exactly the attitude Cowboys love https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-shavon-revel-bold-prediction-2026/e8dac9c5aab14b4ebf90815c…

CBRE: NYC becomes the top tech talent market for the first time with ~394K jobs, beating the Bay Area's ~375K, amid SF job cuts and finance sector tech hiring (Diana Olick/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/21/new-york-san-francisco-tech-talent-cbre.html

New York unseats San Francisco as the top market for tech talent, CBRE reports
AI-related roles now account for nearly one-third of all tech-talent job listings in the U.S., per the new CBRE report.

This week China released the third iteration of its AI safety governance framework
– a document that functions as a “mapping of the AI risk landscape and roughly what one should do about it”,
said Gabriel Wagner, a researcher at Concordia, a Beijing-based AI safety consultancy.
Included in the updates are the risks posed by agents,
the cybersecurity threats from frontier models
and the issue of recursive self-improvement
– an as-yet hypothetical scenario w…

Why China is pushing back on US warnings over rapid AI development
Beijing believes slowdown calls aim to lock in US advantage, and is pursuing a different balance between safety and pace

Fernando Mendoza throws third-down DOT to Malik Benson https://www.raiders.com/video/fernando-mendoza-malik-benson-nfl-preseason-texans-2026

“Almost nobody pays attention to web standards anymore”
https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/08/17/almost-nobody-pays-attention-to-web-standards-anymore/5288782
Has the two attached bangers. My thoughts:
1. …

Question for other EU-based online shop owners: How are you going to deal with the upcoming EU PPWR packaging legislation changes[1] and specifically requiring a third party legal person/entity in every single EU member state you want to ship to after August 12, potentially having to contract & pay another EU-wide one-stop service or up to 26 middlemen just so you are allowed to ship to all EU countries? What happened to the idea of a single market?
Some of the "cheaper" off…

https://www.machinesociety.ai/p/how-ai-makes-people-confidently-wrong

Aaaaaaaa I want to get out of this third world country :dotbigbang:

Sometimes I wonder wth is up with a human body. After a truly exhausting day and barely managing to drag myself to bed, I end up lying awake almost a third of the night. Yet I don’t feel that exhausted. My poor knees, though…

Hurts' third-and-longs, Saints' first-half offense and more: Check out Solak's Next Ben Stats https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49990404/week-2-five-key-stats-numbers-solak

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This is encouraging but,
1) Land use emissions have fallen less than the rise in fossil fuel emissions: global emissions are still rising.
2) There is uncertainty in the data (other than for deforestation) which is greater than the decrease.
3) It's unclear to me what the overall flux is - the balance of sequestration Vs emissions. We know some forests have become net emitters.
Why

Why land-use emissions have fallen by a third this century – in six charts - Carbon Brief
Emissions from land-use change – including deforestation, loss of peatland and forest degradation – have been falling over the course of the 21st century.

#NOCTRANSPO does it again. Left work and first bus arrives on time. Arrived at transfer point at 15:40.
First bus due @ 15:50 - no show
Next bus due @ 16:07 - no show
Third bus at 16:24 showed up and fortunately there was room.
Please explain how it is better?

Von Miller’s Signing Might Seal Cowboys’ Third-Year Defender’s Inevitable Fate https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/von-miller-cowboys-marist-liufau-fate/

Samsung unveils a $65.1B-$79.5B shareholder return package for 2026, combining dividends and share buybacks, calling it "the largest ever by a Korean company" (Jenny Lee/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/21/samsung-shareholder-…

Samsung plans up to $80 billion in shareholder returns after SK Hynix buyback
Samsung Electronics plans shareholder returns totaling 90 trillion won to 110 trillion won, including about 30 trillion won in third-quarter cash dividends.

Had an #acting #coaching client do a take focusing on one aim, then do a take focusing on a different aim, then, for a third take, had them split the difference and it was beautiful to see them do the scene with that greater breath to it. Sometimes finding the pieces builds the whole well.

In an age of Donald Trump’s tyranny, we are surrounded by sellouts.
Millions of Americans now believe that.
In his tremendous new book, “Profiles in Cowardice,”
veteran journalist Jacob Weisberg goes a way towards proving it
The book focuses on some of the many so-called leaders Weisberg describes as
“the weak and the too willing,”
those “who have betrayed their most important civic responsibilities”
by capitulating to President Trump’s authoritarian…

Disgustingly willing partners in Trump’s lethal overreach have been many: Brent Larkin
Ten years ago this month, I asked JD Vance whom he planned to vote for in the presidential election between Trump and Hillary Clinton. “I’ll probably vote third-party,” he answered. “But I’m definitely not voting for Trump." Today, Vance is just another profile in cowardice, writes Brent Larkin in his column today.

Raiders' Third-Down Defense May Not Be Their Biggest Issue https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-third-down-defense-may-not-be-their-biggest-issue

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Jimi Hendrix Experience:
🎵 Third Stone From the Sun
#TheJimiHendrixExperience
https://notami-jazz.bandcamp.com/track/third-stone-from-the-sun
https://open.spotify.com/track/73ZOw1zRRlEbEdGPgBjA01

Democrats Need Third-Party Help to Win Senate Majority (Paul Kane/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/2026-election/democrats-third-party-help-senate-majority
http://www.memeorandum.com/260821/p12#a260821p12

You're Invited: 404 Media's Third Anniversary Live Podcast and Party! https://www.404media.co/three-years/

A German court says Meta is liable for fake ads posted by third parties on Instagram and Facebook and orders it to remove such content and pay damages (Linda Pasquini/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/german-cour…

Seahawks 'probably' would have released Terrion Arnold if he was on the team when arrested https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7523964/2026/08/19/seahawks-terrion-arnold-hard-knocks/

On my third mug of coffee. I’ve done some journalling, and more importantly, I got out of my chair and gave the lawn a light mowing. I was careful to trim only the top, as it certainly hasn’t recovered from the dry July and August weather.

It's now well over 2 months after the third blind person received an ICVP brain implant for restoring vision. How is she doing? Here are video clips of ICVP recipient Chyvonne Wilson Blanchard in her first days of training https://www.facebook.com/chyvonne.blanchard/owner_reels

Court filing: Google says it is ready to add third-party app stores in Google Play in the US on July 22, as Google and Epic withdraw their joint motion (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/965792/google-ep…

Google and Epic give up fighting — third-party Android app stores are coming next week
Epic Games and Google have just jointly withdrawn their attempt to retroactively settle the lawsuit changing how Android app stores work in the United States.

Dallas Cowboys urged to trade third-year defender before 2026 NFL season https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-urged-trade-third-year-defender-2026-nfl-season/e165043bba…

OK, I guess I wasn't done after all.
Much of the opining about developer backlash to LLMs falls into two loose theoretical categories:
(1) Labor problem: developers now experience employment threat, loss of job security, layoffs, new levels of worry about the future
(2) Identity problem: developers used to feel special because generating code was placed on a cultural pedestal (sign of a special third brain lobe or whatever), that perceived specialness was a pillar of our personal identity, and now our egos are bruised because machines can do it and we don’t feel special anymore
While there’s doubtless truth to both of those in some / many cases, I posit a third theory:
(3) Purpose problem: contrary to popular belief, developers actually care quite a lot about the people who use our software and we derive a sense of purpose and meaning from doing what we believe to be good work; the current environment undermines that, not just LLMs but LLMs as part of a broader vortex of enshittification, and our world is effectively saying “everything you cared about doesn't matter, you can't hope to fight to make it matter, and you are stupid for caring”
I think there's evidence for that last theory in the kinds of despair you hear from developers: not just anxiety about paying the bills, not just angry feather-puffing, but a kind of existential despair that comes from the unraveling of one’s internal sense of purpose and meaning.
4/3

Did I imagine it or did Oprah Winfrey interview Hayden Panettiere? 1-on-1? Extended sit-down, maybe just after #Heroes. I thought I remembered Oprah briefly talking about her in the third person, saying how she needed to be protected.
#haydenpanettiere

Mike Macdonald, Seahawks teammates marvel at Jaxon Smith-Njigba's route running https://www.nfl.com/videos/mike-macdonald-seahawks-teammates-marvel-at-jaxon-smith-njigba-s-route-running-hard-knocks-training-ca…

#Glasgow had the third #subway worldwide.
It's original version was run by a circular belt that drove the carriages. 🤯
Interesting concept.
https://

Yes on I kickoff today in Duboce Park was a huge success! That’s (1) our campaign manager Jacob speaking, (2) Deepa Varma from Tenants Together, (3) Kristin Hardy from SEIU 1021, who talked about how affordable housing is their top, top, top, top priority to keep their members in the city.
Afterward we asked shops if we could put up signs. Donate or find the next volunteer event at

Fair Housing, Yes on I - San Francisco Ballot Measure | Join the Movement
Prop I dedicates existing tax revenue to its intended purpose of funding affordable housing, social housing, and eviction defense.

Liberia Joins Trump's 'Third-Country Deportation' Network (Gillian Brockell/American Prospect)
https://prospect.org/2026/08/20/liberia-joins-trumps-third-country-deportation-network/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260820/p124#a260820p124

EU's race for lithium and rare earths sidelined calls to reduce consumption, finds study #EU

EU's race for lithium and rare earths sidelined calls to reduce consumption, finds study
In 2024, the Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA) came into force. The regulation is intended to secure Europe's supply of critical raw materials, especially minerals and metals such as lithium, cobalt, and rare earth elements. The EU is therefore focusing on reducing its dependence on third countries such as China, boosting domestic minerals and metals production, and expanding recycling. In a study published in Communications Earth & Environment, researchers at the Helmholtz Centre for Environme…

🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 First Circuit.
**US court blocks Trump plan to deport migrants to third countries** | Courts News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/19/us-court-blocks-trump-plan-to-deport-migrants-to-third-countries?traffic_source=rss

"UK swelters in third heatwave of the year as western Europe counts cost of hottest-ever June"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Heatwave

UK swelters in third heatwave of the year as western Europe counts cost of hottest-ever June
Britain expands heat alerts while estimates suggest last month’s death toll could surpass 20,000 across continent

Klint Kubiak: Raiders’ third-down fix starts with two things https://raiderramble.com/2026/08/15/klint-kubiak-raiders-third-down-fix-starts-with-two-things/

As reported here 3 weeks ago a third planet of #BetaPictoris was discovered independently with two methods - today both papers have been published formally 'side by side': https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae80a0 and https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae801b -> Faintest planet ever imaged from Earth found after more than 10 years of hide-and-seek / NASA’s Webb Discovers Hidden Planet in Famous Star System: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2609/ / https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-discovers-hidden-planet-in-famous-star-system/

Folks, am I real? @… https://infosec.exchange/@Epic_Null/116913940973597376

type of guy who wears a third-party unus annus hoodie and exclaims his every motion with the repetitive throb of deathbed words

Milroe's Tip-Toe Tightrope Scramble Converts On Third Down https://www.seahawks.com/video/2026-preseason-week-1-highlight-milroe-s-tip-toe-tightrope-scramble-converts-on-third-down

In a first for Google, the company confirmed that
its AI model, Gemini, breached the security of three other companies in May.
The hacks occurred during a cybersecurity evaluation by AI-security firm Irregular.
Irregular, an Israel-based startup that scrutinizes the security of advanced AI systems, was also at the center of some of the recent OpenAI and Anthropic hacks of third-party entities, including OpenAI’s breach of AI software company, Hugging Face.
The circum…

Google says its Gemini AI model hacked three other companies
Disclosure comes after OpenAI and Anthropic hacks amid fears that tech firms unable to control powerful AI models

Memo: MLB bans the use of league-provided dugout iPads to access GenAI for in-game strategy calls; sources say at least a third of teams used AI this way (Eno Sarris/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7448900/2026/07/16/mlb-bans-ai-…

MLB cracks down on using AI via dugout iPads to help shape in-game decisions
A third of the league relied heavily on the technology, which was effectively banned starting on Wednesday.

Neither client-side nor server-side but a secret third thing (rendered using the computing power of the NSA agent intercepting my packets)

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ClassicalMixtape
- Proms special: 2000 years of music
The third in this week’s series of four Classical Mixtapes featuring music in this year's BBC Proms, including music by Messiaen, Hildegard of Bingen, Prokofiev, and Mahler.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002yn6k

I'm watching Silent Witness 5x02 "The World Cruise (2)" #SilentWitness

The World Cruise (2)
A third death helps Sam realise that the motive behind the murders of the Davies brothers was not racial - but revenge.

BBC DG Matt Brittin says the BBC and UK public service broadcasting face "real jeopardy" as license fee erosion drives BBC's third consecutive annual deficit (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/bbc-real-je…

BBC Warns of 'Real Jeopardy' as License Fee Base Erodes
BBC's annual report touts BAFTA wins and record ratings even as editorial controversies and a third annual deficit deepen its funding crisis.

Raiders cornerback carted off field in Houston with knee injury https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-cornerback-carted-off-field-in-houston-with-knee-injury-3867038/

"Plastic Overshoot Day: One-third of global plastic waste won’t be properly managed in 2026"
#Plastic #Plastics #Environment

Plastic Overshoot Day: One-third of global plastic waste won’t be properly managed in 2026
The amount of plastic waste generated globally in 2026 so far has officially exceeded the world’s capacity to safely manage it, researchers have claimed. One-third of all plastic waste generated this year will likely be dumped, burned or littered.

Kuaishou reports Q2 revenue flat at ~$5.2B, meeting est., net income down 36% YoY to ~$467M, the biggest drop since 2021, and Kling AI sales up 200% (Rachel Yeo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-19/kuai…

Red scaremonger wanted.
Third Way, the corporate-backed “centrist” think tank pushing Democrats to the right,
is hiring a new
Director for “Anti-Extremism.”
That person will be responsible for overseeing a takedown of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
by “assembling and updating a database of the DSA’s most extreme ideas and statements,”
including a “repository of voting records, affiliations, and issue positions.”

Corporate Democrats Are Hiring A Socialist Hunter
Third Way’s director for “anti-extremism" will conduct opposition research against the Democratic Socialists of America and launch a guerrilla media campaign against their ideas.

Cowboys rookie LB Jaishawn Barham expected to make debut in preseason tilt vs Cardinals https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/08/20/cowboys-rookie-lb-jaishawn-barham-pr…

Dylan Laube gets to the end zone on 4-yard TD run https://www.raiders.com/video/dylan-laube-touchdown-run-nfl-preseason-texans-2026

RE: #BCI

Why Officiating Expert Disagreed With Commanders' Disallowed TD vs. Cowboys https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/why-officiating-expert-disagreed-commanders-disallowed-td-vs-cowboys

I’m not even feeling doubtful atm, that if the democrats can’t win big in the midterms, I mean like unable-to-contest kind of big, the US democracy system will be over and the Republicans will find legal holes to let Trump rule a third term. #Trump #elections

Google adds third-party games store Aptoide to the Play Store for Android users in the US, following a judge's orders in the antitrust lawsuit with Epic (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/0

Third-party app stores are rolling out in Google Play, but there's only one right now
Aptoide has become the first app store distributed inside Google Play under a judge's order.

Broncos' Bo Nix enters pivotal third season embracing pressure: 'You have to prove it' https://www.nfl.com/news/broncos-bo-nix-enters-pivotal-third-season-embracing-pressure-you-have-to-prove-it

This Is How Democrats Talk Themselves Out Of Wielding Power (Brian Beutler/Off Message)
https://www.offmessage.net/p/democrats-wield-power-supermajority-adam-jentleson-filibuster-supreme-court-expansion-statehood-washington-dc-puerto-rico-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-aoc-zohran-mamdani-bernie-sanders-pat-ryan-rebecca-cooke-third-way-dsa-democratic-socialists-abudel-el-sayed
http://www.memeorandum.com/260821/p52#a260821p52

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Modest Mouse:
🎵 Third Side of the Moon
#ModestMouse
https://raffdave.bandcamp.com/track/third-side-of-the-moon
https://open.spotify.com/track/6FejTj8qZ51DhKMHYSOG4K

Netflix raises UK monthly prices, hiking the cost of Standard with Ads from £5.99 to £7.99, Standard from £12.99 to £13.99, and Premium from £18.99 to £20.99 (Stewart Clarke/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/09/netflix-hikes-uk-prices-cheapest-plan…

Netflix Hikes UK Prices, With Cheapest Plan Jumping A Third
It’s become pricier to watch Love Is Blind in the UK after Netflix upped its prices, hiking the monthly cost of its cheapest package by a third.

A man was struck and killed by a truck in Florida while fleeing a federal immigration operation Tuesday, the Florida Highway Patrol confirmed,
the third death connected to immigration enforcement efforts in the past week.
In a statement, the Florida Immigrant Coalition emphasized that these are not “isolated incidents" and defended the idea that someone might run from ICE agents.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents encountered a vehicle in a gas station parking…

Man Killed by Truck While Running From ICE in Florida
It’s the third death in a week connected to an immigration operation, prompting outrage from lawmakers.

According to V. Chernetsov, the Khants maintain that a woman has four souls and a man has five.
The first one is a shadow-soul, is-hor, described as a visible shadow. After death, this soul goes to the grave together with the body.
The second soul, urt, is described as man- or bird-shaped. After death it goes to the realm of the dead.
The third one is wood grouse-shaped. It's inside a human being only when they're asleep, that's why it is called the sleep sou…

A German court says Meta is liable for fake ads posted by third parties on Instagram and Facebook and orders it to remove such content and pay damages (Linda Pasquini/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/german-cour…

"Toronto zoo announces birth of pygmy hippo calf, third for mother Kindia"
#Kindia #Zoo #Animals

Toronto Zoo announces birth of pygmy hippo calf, third for mother Kindia
The 20-year-old’s third calf is being monitored by officials as survival rates for the species are challenging, the zoo said

China releases world's first AI-enabled brain-computer interface medical device standard #AI

China releases world’s first AI-enabled brain-computer interface medical device standard: media - Global Times
China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) on Monday approved the release of its third medical device standard for brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), which is also the world’s first medical device product standard for BCIs that uses artificial intelligence (AI) technology to process brain electrical signal data. The new standard will officially take effect on September 1, 2027, China Central Television (CCTV) reported on Monday.

Vikings name ex-top 10 pick J.J. McCarthy third quarterback for Week 1 vs. Packers; Carson Wentz backup

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/vikings

Tucker Carlson said he left the GOP because of the administration’s fervent support of Israel and the trajectory of the Iran war.
But he was vague about ideas for a third party’s platform, though he said he would not be a candidate himself.
Building a third party is not a new idea
— many have attempted to do it,
and third-party candidates do successfully run on local and national ballots.
It’s important work, proponents told NOTUS,
but gaining power outs…

Tucker Carlson Is Starting a Third Party. Those Who’ve Tried Say: Good Luck!
“It's not that this is impossible work, it's just really, really hard,” Forward Party CEO Lindsey Williams Drath told NOTUS.

FuboTV reports Q3 revenue up 38% YoY to $1.48B and narrows its net loss to $25.7M from $38M in Q3 2025, says it has 5.75M North American subscribers, up 2% YoY (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus…

FuboTV Shrinks Third Quarter Loss on Sharply Higher Revenues After World Cup
The sports-first streamer reported 5.75 million subscribers during its lastest quarter, up from a year-ago 5.63 million customers and 5.73 million subs in the most recent second quarter.

"EU's race for lithium and rare earths sidelined calls to reduce consumption, finds study"
#EU #EuopeanUnion #Lithium

EU's race for lithium and rare earths sidelined calls to reduce consumption, finds study
In 2024, the Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA) came into force. The regulation is intended to secure Europe's supply of critical raw materials, especially minerals and metals such as lithium, cobalt, and rare earth elements. The EU is therefore focusing on reducing its dependence on third countries such as China, boosting domestic minerals and metals production, and expanding recycling. In a study published in Communications Earth & Environment, researchers at the Helmholtz Centre for Environme…

Google adds MCP integration to Google Home, letting third-party AI agents analyze home data and control devices, rolling out to Premium Advanced users in the US (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/996310/googl

Google will now let any AI agent run your smart home
Google’s new Model Context Protocol integration lets AI agents like Claude and OpenClaw control your Google Home devices and data.

Jack Bech snags Kirk Cousins' third-down pass for contested conversion https://www.raiders.com/video/jack-bech-kirk-cousins-cardinals-nfl-preseason-week-1-2026

Ahead of the November midterm elections,
Republican officials in the third most populous county of Texas
have voted to slash the number of polling sites by nearly one-third.
Tarrant County, which includes Fort Worth,
will have just 224 polling sites
for 1.3 million voters.
The change was approved in a party-line vote Tuesday,
with all three of the county’s Republican commissioners voting in favor
and the two Democrats opposing it.
Civil…

“Modern-Day Poll Tax”: Dem. Texas Commissioner Slams GOP Vote to Close 92 Polling Sites
Ahead of the November midterm elections, Republican officials in the third most populous county of Texas have voted to slash the number of polling sites by nearly one-third. Tarrant County, which includes Fort Worth, will have just 224 polling sites for 1.3 million voters. The change was approved in a party-line vote Tuesday, with all three of the county’s Republican commissioners voting in favor and the two Democrats opposing it. Civil rights groups including the ACLU and NAACP warn the chan…

A German regulator says Apple will make changes to ATT after finding it gave Apple's apps more favorable consent prompts than those of third-party developers (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer…

Cowboys 1st-Round Pick Given Sobering Depth Chart Update https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/malachi-lawrence-third-string-edge-rusher/

The most revealing fact about Google’s water use in The Dalles is not just the size of the number.
It is how difficult that number was for the public to obtain.
The Dalles spent 13 months fighting to keep Google’s water use secret
— then records showed the data center campus consumed roughly a third of the Oregon city’s supply

The Dalles spent 13 months fighting to keep Google’s water use secret — then records showed the data center campus consumed roughly a third of the Oregon city’s supply
In 2022, Google sued to keep its water use in The Dalles, Oregon secret. When the numbers finally came out, the company's data centers were drinking 29 percent of the town's water.

Ravens place rookie WR Ja'Kobi Lane on IR with wrist injury https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7601322/2026/09/16/ravens-jakobi-lane-injured-reserve/

Mathematician Joan Birman is still active at 99 years old,
and has an important new result on the Burau representation.
This is the result of a project that began when a high school student,
Vasudha Bharathram, came to Birman for help in learning more math and finding a problem to work on.
Bharathram will be a beginning Ph.D student at Princeton in fall.
The third member of the collaboration is Tara Brendle, a student of Birman’s.
This collaboration mu…

The Burau representation of the braid group is faithful for n = 4
In this paper we use ideas introduced earlier by Moody, Long, Long-Paton, and Bigelow to prove the theorem of the title, that the Burau representation of the classical braid group is faithful for n = 4. An immediate corollary is that the Jones representation of the braid group is also faithful for n = 4.

"The World Adds a Third Terawatt of Solar Power"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

The World Adds a Third Terawatt of Solar Power

Dallas Cowboys Injury Updates Following Third Padded Practice of Training Camp https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-injury-updates-following-third-padded-practice-of-training-camp

Fernando Mendoza’s wild rookie year: Raiders Week 1 starter or third stringer? https://raiderramble.com/2026/07/05/fernando-mendozas-wild-rookie-year-raiders-week-1-starter-or-third-stringer/

Odell Beckham Jr.: Giants return 'was everything I was expecting it to be' https://www.nfl.com/news/odell-beckham-jr-giants-return-everything-i-was-expecting-it-to-be

After vowing last month to "help build a third party,"
Tucker Carlson fueled further speculation this weekend
by hosting MAGA dissidents at his home in Maine,
where they urged him to run for president in 2028.
The former Fox News host stopped short of a formal launch, instead presenting the manifesto as the foundation for "whatever comes next" — a new political order he said could "find all kinds of expressions."
Carlson said any su…

Tucker Carlson unveils 10-point manifesto amid third-party speculation
The former Fox News host stopped short of a formal launch.

Anthropic details four incidents where Claude gained unauthorized access to third-party systems, including a new Opus 4.6 case; METR will investigate them (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/alignment-assessment-cybersecurity-incidents

An alignment assessment of recent cybersecurity incidents
We present an alignment assessment of four incidents in which Claude models gained unauthorized access to real third-party systems.

Microsoft, Amazon and Google’s collective carbon emissions
have increased by nearly a fifth in the past year,
driven largely by datacentre construction.
In the financial year ending March 2026, the three tech companies emitted
119m mTCO₂e (metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent),
or about a third of those of France.
The previous year, they emitted roughly 101m mTCO₂e,
roughly equivalent to the 2024 emissions of Czechia.
The US companies’ cl…

Datacentres drive up big tech’s carbon emissions to a third of those of France
Microsoft, Amazon and Google say they still aim to achieve net zero output despite construction boom

Meta says it plans to deploy MTIA 450, its third-generation custom AI chip, in data centers in H1 2027, followed by a broad rollout of MTIA 500 by end of 2027 (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…

OpenAI backs a provision of the FRONTIER Act, a bipartisan House proposal, that would require AI companies to embed outside evaluators to ensure model safety (Brendan Bordelon/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/15/o

House Speaker Mike Johnson is hoping to get all of his members on board a new reconciliation package and pass it next week.
House Republican leaders released the text of their $95 billion third reconciliation bill on Wednesday morning and aim to pass it next week.
The bill provides $10 billion to the House Administration Committee to give in grants to implement the SAVE Act -- a voter ID bill that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote.
It directs $60 bill…

House Republicans Outline $95 Billion Reconciliation Package
The proposal includes money for defense and provisions to require proof of citizenship when registering to vote.

Epic v. Google: in a compliance hearing, a judge orders Google to remove "anticompetitive friction" for installing third-party app stores from its Play Store (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/979852/tha

‘That is not acceptable’: Judge orders Google to make rival app store installs easier
Judge James Donato just ordered Google to make it easier to install rival app stores on Android.

Mistral says its platform will support third-party open models, starting with Z.ai's GLM-5.2, and run them on the same infrastructure as its own models (Mistral AI Blog)
https://mistral.ai/news/regional-inference-open-models-new-compute/

In-region inference, open models, and new European infrastructure for sovereign AI.
Mistral is bringing together the inference infrastructure, open models, and long-term commitments Europe needs to control its AI future, and setting a roadmap for the world.

Uber reports Q2 revenue up 12% YoY to $14.2B, below $14.24B est., Gross Bookings up 24% to $58B, above $57B est., and forecasts Q3 adjusted EPS below est. (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/05/uber-stock-q2-2026-earnings.html

Uber issues weaker-than-expected bookings, earnings forecasts for third quarter
Uber's earnings were in line with estimates, but the company's guidance for the third quarter trailed expectations.

Amodei says pacing does not mean halting training or progress, but giving companies time to align and safeguard models and third-party evaluators time to verify (Kevin Whitelaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20