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Nonprofit Removes 300,000 Landmines in Sri Lanka, Allows 280K People to Return to Their Homes https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/nonprofit-removes-300000-landmines-in-sri-lanka-allows-280k-people-to-return-to-their-homes/

Nonprofit Removes 300,000 Landmines in Sri Lanka, Allows 280K People to Return to Their Homes
Those mines and unexploded bombs were cleared across an area 33% larger than the island of Manhattan

Appfigures: between September 30 and October 18, OpenAI's Sora had 2.6M iOS downloads, above the Meta AI app, which had 1.1M; Sora is iOS- and invite-only (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/28/meta-ai-vibes-on-wall-street-radar-i…

Meta's AI app has seen growth soar since launch of Vibes, but trails OpenAI's Sora
The Meta AI app has seen a major jolt in downloads since the company launched Vibes and began paying creators to make AI-generated videos.

Beyond human loss, floods from Cyclone Ditwah devastate Sri Lanka’s wildlife https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/beyond-human-loss-floods-from-cyclone-ditwah-devastate-sri-lankas-wildlife/

Beyond human loss, floods from Cyclone Ditwah devastate Sri Lanka’s wildlife
COLOMBO — Sri Lanka continues to grapple with the human toll of Cyclone Ditwah, which triggered devastating floods and landslides killing 650 people and leaving another 200 missing. In the wake of the human disaster, however, a different tragedy has unfolded largely unnoticed. Across floodplains, protected areas and farmlands, thousands of animals have also fallen […]

I don’t have access to Big Oil’s internal emails about this.
But they sure look wildly desperate to dodge the growing array of lawsuits over the damage caused by their decades-long scheme to deceive the public about climate change.
Oil companies are doing whatever they possibly can to keep the plaintiffs in these suits
(cities, counties, states, and Native American tribes)
from having their day in court
—and as some of the most powerful corporations in the world…

The Supreme Court’s Ethics Code Is a Joke. Big Oil Knows That.
Oil companies want the Supreme Court to intervene to dismiss lawsuits about climate change. Amy Coney Barrett and Samuel Alito both have big conflicts of interest on that front.

inploid: Inploid: an online social Q&A platform
Inploid is a social question & answer website in Turkish. Users can follow others and see their questions and answers on the main page. Each user is associated with a reputability score which is influenced by feedback of others about questions and answers of the user. Each user can also specify interest in topics. The data is crawled in June 2017 and consist of 39,749 nodes and 57,276 directed links between them. In addition, for …

Week 13 betting guide: Texans to keep up with Colts? Broncos extend win streak? https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story/_/id/46941241/week-13-nfl-odds-spreads-lines-props-best-bets-sunday-football-games-thanksg…

UMG partners with AI music generator Udio to launch a subscription service for creating music with licensed songs in 2026, in part to settle a copyright lawsuit (Katherine Sayre/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/universal-music-sett…

from my link log —
Middle-square Weyl sequence PRNG.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.00358
saved 2025-10-28 https://dotat.at/:/GS290.html

Middle-Square Weyl Sequence RNG
In this article, we propose a new implementation of John von Neumann's middle-square random number generator (RNG). A Weyl sequence keeps the generator running through a long period.

Gretchen Carlson and Julie Roginsky,
who pursued sexual harassment lawsuits against former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes and co-launched the non-profit Lift Our Voices,
said that seeing the Epstein files was imperative.
The information, in turn, could guide appropriate next steps.
“I think that the possibilities are endless as to what could be the result.
I think there could be more criminal charges.
I think that there could be accountability, not only for indi…

inploid: Inploid: an online social Q&A platform
Inploid is a social question & answer website in Turkish. Users can follow others and see their questions and answers on the main page. Each user is associated with a reputability score which is influenced by feedback of others about questions and answers of the user. Each user can also specify interest in topics. The data is crawled in June 2017 and consist of 39,749 nodes and 57,276 directed links between them. In addition, for …