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Despite oil spills in Nigeria’s mangrove forests, Shell continued operations, documents show https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/despite-oil-spills-in-nigerias-mangrove-forests-shell-continued-operations-documents-show/

Despite oil spills in Nigeria's mangrove forests, Shell continued operations, documents show
Global oil giant Shell continued operating a compromised pipeline in Nigeria’s Niger Delta despite knowing it posed a pollution risk in the surrounding coastal wetland environment, newly disclosed internal company communications reveal. The emails and memos, reviewed by Mongabay, show senior leadership knew of the poor conditions of the 97-kilometer (60-mile) Nembe Creek Trunk Line […]

Sources: Disney has sold more than 10 Super Bowl ad slots of 30 seconds for around $9M each, after sources said it was seeking $10M from advertisers (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/super-bowl-soap-opera-disney-s…

Super Bowl Soap Opera: Disney Sells Some Commercials for $9 Million
Super Bowl Soap Opera: Disney Sells Some Commercials for $9 Million, But Still Faces Resistance From Large Ad Buyers

Fascinating: Andrzej Odrzywołek claims in a recent preprint that all constants, operators, and functions typically found in a scientific calculator can be decomposed into nested invocations of the eml function and the constant 1, where
eml(𝑥,𝑦) = exp(𝑥) − ln(𝑦).
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.21852

All elementary functions from a single binary operator
A single two-input gate suffices for all of Boolean logic in digital hardware. No comparable primitive has been known for continuous mathematics: computing elementary functions such as sin, cos, sqrt, and log has always required multiple distinct operations. Here I show that a single binary operator, eml(x,y)=exp(x)-ln(y), together with the constant 1, generates the standard repertoire of a scientific calculator. This includes constants such as e, pi, and i; arithmetic operations including addi…

LY Corp launches a bid with Bain Capital to buy Kakaku.com, which operates restaurant review and booking site Tabelog, for $4B, challenging EQT's $3.75B offer (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/business-de…

Line-Yahoo Japan operator values Kakaku.com at $4bn in challenge to EQT
Non-binding offer with Bain Capital tops Swedish firm's bid but Tabelog operator backs EQT

Court of appeal on Palestine Action: “It is not, as it claims, a direct action civil disobedience protest group like the suffragettes operating transparently in the open. It is a covert organisation that operates using secret cells to avoid the detection and prosecution of those using violence to destroy the property of third parties.”
Er, surely that's exactly how the suffragettes operated, very famously?

Bronx Man Convicted of Operating Police Station for the Chinese Government in New York City and Obstruction of Justice (Lu Jianwang/US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/bronx-man-convicted-operating-police-station-chinese-government-new-york-city-and
http://www.memeorandum.com/260514/p42#a260514p42

@… If you are ever get bored and want to understand why the lack of dependency management is no biggie, I wrote a post some 15 years ago about this on my then blog, hosted at Opera (back when I worked there).
When it was removed (because Opera shutdown personal blogs) the Slackware documentation site rehosted it. I see it is actually still here and while not fully…

Amazon agrees to buy satellite operator Globalstar, set to close in 2027, to expand Leo; Amazon and Apple agree for Leo to power some iPhone and Watch services (About Amazon)
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-globalstar-apple

Amazon to acquire Globalstar and expand Amazon Leo satellite network
Globalstar satellites, radio frequency spectrum, and operational expertise will enable Amazon Leo to add Direct-to-Device (D2D) services to future generations of its low Earth orbit satellite network.

Sources: the US government plans to let the Federal Data Center Enhancement Act, which details standards for data center use and operations, expire in September (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-government-is-letting-a-key-data-center-re…

The US Government Is Letting a Key Data Center Regulation Expire
The federal government is planning to let a rule regulating federal data center operations sunset in September with no replacement.

Filing: the US DOJ asks court to dismiss an NAACP suit over xAI's gas turbines, saying xAI is integral to US' military operations, including the Iran War (Molly Taft/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/doj-lawyers-argue-xai-vital-national-secur…

DOJ Lawyers Argue xAI Is ‘Vital’ for National Security in NAACP Lawsuit
In a bid to dismiss a lawsuit over xAI's polluting gas turbines, the Justice Department claimed the company is integral to military operations—including the Iran War.