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"Students engineer reusable tool to monitor abandoned oil and gas wells"
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Students engineer reusable tool to monitor abandoned oil and gas wells
For many mechanical engineering seniors, the Senior Capstone Design experience is the first opportunity to solve a problem without a textbook answer. For six Texas A&M University students, that challenge came from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), where they were tasked with improving sensor deployment in abandoned oil and gas wells. Months of testing, redesigning and collaboration led to a solution that earned first place in the mechanical engineering division of the Senior Design Showcas…

A judge says Nexstar cannot appoint its execs or ex-employees to Tegna's board without prior approval of the court and calls Nexstar's efforts to do so "brazen" (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/08/judge-scolds-nexsta…

Judge says Nexstar can't appoint its executives to TEGNA's Board of Directors
The order says current and former Nexstar officers, employees, directors, consultants and other affiliated personnel are prohibited from serving on TEGNA’s board.

Statt komplexer Touch-Sensorik: Forscher machen Taktilität per Licht sichtbar
Roboter „fühlen“ zu lassen, ist mit hohem Aufwand verbunden. Ein Sensor aus mechanochromen Material soll die taktile Erfassung vereinfachen.

Statt komplexer Touch-Sensorik: Forscher machen Taktilität per Licht sichtbar
Roboter „fühlen“ zu lassen, ist mit hohem Aufwand verbunden. Ein Sensor aus mechanochromen Material soll die taktile Erfassung vereinfachen.

German energy giant RWE said it will abandon offshore wind leases off New York, Louisiana and California’s Humboldt coast under a $1.22-billion deal with the Trump administration,
deepening setbacks for U.S. clean energy.
The agreement, the fifth and largest such buyout this year,
is part of $2.7 billion in payouts steering companies away from offshore wind and into fossil fuel projects.
California officials and environmental advocates say the actions threaten the sta…

Another offshore wind developer exits California in $1.22-billion deal with Trump
German energy giant RWE said it will abandon wind leases off the coast of New York, Louisiana and Northern California near Humboldt, further challenging the Golden State's clean energy ambitions.

Squeezed one last optimization in after the v0.2-rc1 release that should land in the final v0.2.
Filters now return a bitmask of flags that include the ability to advertise whether they can be appended to an existing command buffer (i.e. they are entirely or primarily GPU based and do not call begin() on the command buffer), and whether they can be appended to (primarily GPU based, and record into the command buffer but do not submit it).
The scheduler now tries to identify as ma…

#CommonplaceBook reading, abundance, maybe some hopeful green shoots. Read to the end for a picture of me weeding out the less good green shoots.
https://lbj20.blogspot.com/2026/08/com

Commonplace book: reading, abundance, green shoots
Mandy Brown argues that the attention economy is misnamed (HT Sentiers). Reading is the art of attention. What a mess we’ve made of that...

Guten Morgen,
gestern Abend noch am See mt einer guten Brotzeit. Ein wenig Erfrischung, die aber hauptsächlich dem Wind zu verdanken war.
Heute Nacht um 4 Uhr konnte ich bei geöffnetem Fenster herunterplätscherdem Regen zuhören und den kühlen Wind auf der Haut genießen. Wird mir nach all den Hitzetagen noch lange im Gedächtnis bleiben.
Ich hoffe, der heutige Tag wird erträglich und das wünsche euch allen! :coffeepot: 🙂

“I’m all for fighting fascism but it won’t affect my 5 o’clock pedicure appointment, will it?”

Linux App Summit 2026: Treffen der Linux-Desktop-Avantgarde
Die Linux-Desktop-Community diskutierte auf dem Linux App Summit 2026, wie man Linux-Systeme sicherer, robuster und komfortabler machen kann.
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Linux App Summit 2026: Treffen der Linux-Desktop-Avantgarde
Die Linux-Desktop-Community diskutierte auf dem Linux App Summit 2026, wie man Linux-Systeme sicherer, robuster und komfortabler machen kann.