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Indigenous Australians were the world's first astronomers. But their knowledge is now at risk
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-indigenous-australians-world-astronomers-knowledge.html

From bluesky, the Biodiversity Heritage Library€ who I ❤️ ❤️ ❤️:
‪@biodivlibrary.bsky.social€ BHL is featured in
@theguardian.com's Age of Extinction series.
The article highlights the extraordinary value of BHL and the urgent need to ensure it remains free and open into the future.
Please read and share:

"This week, a report from Royal Botanic Gardens (RBG), Kew revealed the crucial role digitisation is playing in “transforming our ability to understand and respond to the climate and biodiversity crises”, but it was the creation of the BHL 20 years ago that first demonstrated how bringing centuries of scientific knowledge online can unlock transformative discoveries and insights about the natural world." (

Kumulativer Zubau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen minus Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Warum

Introducing our new GÉANT Association Strategy 2026-2030: Powering Knowledge for Europe 🇪🇺
Built around three core goals: strengthening human networks, creating scalable digital services, and building financial sustainability.
And at its heart is a simple mission, to stay deeply relevant for our members and for Europe.
To mark this moment, we've also refreshed our visual identity — new logo, new website.
🔗 Read the full strategy and explore the new GÉANT:

Film director Werner Herzog has always been drawn to the limits of human knowledge
– to the places where science meets myth, where discovery shades into obsession.
In "Ghost Elephants", which premiered at last year’s Venice Film Festival,
he follows conservationist Steve Boyes in Angola as he searches for a herd of elephants that may or may not exist.
It is both a scientific expedition and a philosophical fable that asks what it means to chase a dream that…

Werner Herzog searches for ghost elephants in stunning new documentary
A film about the quest for “ghost elephants” is as much about not knowing and asking the right questions as about exploration, finds Davide Abbatescianni

Sources: Google is in talks with Marvell Technology to develop a memory processing unit that works alongside TPUs, and a new TPU for running AI models (Qianer Liu/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-talks-marvell-build-new…

Google in Talks With Marvell to Build New AI Chips for Inference
Google is in talks with Marvell Technology to develop two new chips aimed at running AI models more efficiently, according to two people with direct knowledge of the discussions. One is a memory processing unit designed to work alongside Google’s tensor processing unit. The other is a new TPU ...

Kumulativer Zubau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen minus Stilllegungen.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Wie Solarparks Biodiversität fördern können

Sources: the early Chinese backers of Manus, including HSG and Tencent, plan to buy the AI startup back from Meta at the $2B price Meta paid (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/manus-revenue-soars-original-investors-…

Manus’ Revenue Soars as Original Investors Move to Reverse Meta Deal
The early Chinese backers of AI firm Manus are planning to buy the firm back from Meta Platforms at the $2 billion price Meta paid, in response to a Chinese government order that the deal be reversed, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter. While the government’s order has ...

RE: https://post.lurk.org/@lozross/116776111784852519
Quoted for truth: 'the open knowledge community can learn a lot from research and GLAM communities when it comes to respectful and sensitive handling of copyrights, whether we are dealing with contemp…