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Texas Counties Receive Subpoenas for Voters’ Records From Department of Homeland Security | Portside
https://portside.org/2026-04-12/texas-counties-receive-subpoenas-voters-records-department-homeland-security

cintestinalis: Tadpole larva brain (C. intestinalis)
Entire connectivity matrix for the complete brain of a larva of Ciona intestinalis. Each directed edge represents a synaptic connection from pre-synaptic cell i to post-synaptic cell j (may not be a neuron). Edge weights represent the cumulative depth of presynaptic contacts in µm.
This network has 205 nodes and 2903 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted

Trump:
Europa moet meer zn eigen broek ophouden en investeren in Defensie.
Europa:
Long-range land strike: Thales and ArianeGroup conduct first successful firing in line with French forces’ ambitions | Thales Group
https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/news-centre/press-releases/long-range-land-strike-thales-and-arianegroup-conduct-first-successful

Sex, Drugs and Debt: Treasurers Keep Fleecing Their Political Committees (NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/campaigns/treasurers-embezzling-campaigns-political-committees
http://www.memeorandum.com/260611/p38#a260611p38

Widespread Impact-Induced Crustal Permeability on the Early Earth: #Impact history of early Earth created conditions conducive to life: https://www.swri.org/newsroom/press-releases/impact-history-of-early-earth-created-conditions-conducive-life

Threads is testing a Meta AI integration similar to X's Grok, letting users mention Meta AI in a post or a reply to get more context, in five countries (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/threads-tests-a-meta-ai-i…

Threads tests a Meta AI integration that works similarly to Grok | TechCrunch
The feature is designed to help people get real-time context about trends and breaking stories, as well as receive recommendations, all within conversations.

Progress! CI jobs for two consecutive commits dispatched by GitHub commit hook.
First one had some minor issues, I fixed the CI script, then pushed a new commit before the first build had finished running.
If everything works, we should get a full build of both commits soon.
I've started work on the infrastructure for artifact uploading but need another day or two to get that all wrapped up.

Brazilian state greenlights deforestation for contested open-pit gold mine https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/04/brazilian-state-greenlights-deforestation-for-contested-open-pit-gold-mine/

Brazilian state greenlights deforestation for contested open-pit gold mine
The state of Pará in the Brazilian Amazon has authorized Canadian mining company Belo Sun to begin clearing nearly 600 hectares, or almost 1,500 acres, of rainforest for an open-pit gold mine. Legal experts say it’s premature to clear a forest the size of 840 soccer fields while key aspects of the project remain unresolved.  […]

New York-based Jedify, whose platform connects to enterprises' knowledge sources via APIs to build a "context graph" for AI agents, raised a $24M Series A (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/10/jedi

Jedify raises $24M to help companies arm AI agents with context on their business | TechCrunch
The funding round was led by Norwest, with participation S Capital VC, Cerca Partners, and Oceans Ventures. Snowflake Ventures also participated as a strategic investor.

Canadian challenger bank Koho raised a CA$130M Series E at a CA$1.33B valuation, up from $800M in 2023, as it nears obtaining a Canadian banking license (Josh Scott/BetaKit)
https://betakit.com/koho-becomes-canadas-latest-unicorn-following-130-mi…

Koho becomes Canada’s latest unicorn following $130-million Series E round | BetaKit
The FinTech firm has passed 2.5 million users as it navigates the “final stages” of acquiring a banking licence.