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World Orangutan Day: Ongoing threats & habitat loss haunt these great apes https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/08/world-orangutan-day-ongoing-threats-habitat-loss-haunt-these-great-apes/

World Orangutan Day: Ongoing threats & habitat loss haunt these great apes
Despite years of research into their complex behavior and intelligence, orangutans remain critically endangered on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, where they’re endemic. Mongabay has extensively covered the threats they face from habitat degradation and what studies say about how human activities affect them. This World Orangutan Day, on Aug. 19, we take a […]

Trots kritiken – KD i fortsatt kontakt med bosättare https://www.dn.se/sverige/trots-kritiken-kd-fortsatter-kontakter-med-bosattare/

Trots kritiken – KD fortsätter kontakter med bosättare
KD har flera gånger träffat bosättare och haft möten med högerextrema israeliska politiker. Regering vill införa sanktioner mot högerextrema ministrar.

slashdot_threads: Slashdot thread replies (2007)
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.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

Researchers detail "subliminal learning", where LLMs learn traits from model-generated data that is semantically unrelated to those traits (Anthropic)
https://alignment.anthropic.com/2025/subliminal-learning/

Helen Mirren decries condescending attitudes towards couples in their 80s | Helen Mirren | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/aug/23/helen-mirren-decries-condescending-attitudes-towards-couples-in-their-80…

Russian forces intensify push towards Pokrovsk, threatening key Ukrainian supply routes: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/21/russian-forces-intensify-push-towards.html

Yup, I turned on the old icons too. Way better. https://www.threads.com/@joshhelfferich/post/DO6xdTpE6Ba

Josh Helfferich (@joshhelfferich) on Threads
Never realized how much my visual brain relied on colors to navigate, I got 2x faster when I switched back to normal icons. Sorry clear mode ☹️ you were pretty

Skills Ontario hosting summer camp in Ottawa for students
https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/from-changing-tires-to-welding-ottawa-students-get-hands-on-at-trades-summer-camp/

Check out my latest CSO piece that examines how the Iranian cyber threat has been overhyped, and even in the face of a supposed cease-fire between Israel and Iran, security leaders need to stay alert and ready.
Many thanks to Tom Hegel of SentinelOne, Alexis Rapin of ESET, Pascal Geenens of Radware, Pete Nicoletti of Check Point and others for their insight.
Iranian cyber threats overhyped, but CISOs can’t afford to let down their guard

Iranian cyber threats overhyped, but CISOs can’t afford to let down their guard
Fears of Iranian retaliation in cyberspace surged after US and Israeli military strikes on Iran, but experts say the risk is overstated. Still, security leaders should stay alert and ready.

slashdot_threads: Slashdot thread replies (2007)
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.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps