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Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signs an EO to slow down data center approvals, create an AI task force to evaluate workforce displacement, and more (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/997573/virginia-governor-spanberger-da…

Virginia governor creates an AI task force and moves to restrain data centers
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) signed an executive order banning NDAs for data center development and creating an AI task force.

Here, have some VNV Nation.
https://youtu.be/SF5mf4LV7Jw

Microsoft and Mistral sign a multibillion-dollar deal to build European data centers and integrate Mistral models into Foundry, Copilot Studio, and Azure Local (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com…

Judith B. Sheindlin, the star of Judge Judy and spinoff shows, steps down after dominating daytime TV for decades and will focus on a show starring her son (Ishani Desai/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/arts/television/judge-judy-retires.html

After 30 Years, Judge Judy Is Stepping Down From Her TV Bench
Judith B. Sheindlin, the star of “Judge Judy” and spinoff shows, will wrap up a television career filled with acerbic takedowns of litigants.

Algorithmics for Safe Bicycle Network Design with
Bounded Detours in Rural Areas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.09472

Algorithmics for Safe Bicycle Network Design with Bounded Detours in Rural Areas
We introduce the \emph{Safe Bicycle Network with Bounded Detours} (\emph{SBNBD}) problem, motivated by upgrading rural road networks for bicycle traffic. Given an undirected graph with safe and unsafe edges, edge lengths, upgrade costs, terminal pairs, a budget, and a detour factor $α$, the task is to upgrade unsafe edges so that each terminal pair is connected by a safe path of length at most $α$ times its shortest-path distance in the original network. We study SBNBD from a parameterized …

Cowboys agree to extensions with emerging role players Brevyn Spann-Ford and Ryan Flournoy https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/cowboys-agree-to-extensions-with-emerging-role-players-brevyn-spannford-and-ryan-flourn…

Genealogie-Neuerscheinung: „Bei Buchen und Dohlen“
#Banat. Rainer Lehrach brachte unter diesem Titel ein Buch im Selbstverlag heraus. Als Themenschwerpunkt untersucht er die weitgehend abgeschlossene Siedlungsgeschichte der Deutschböhmen im Banat, in der Bukowina, in Galizien, Amerika sowie die Weiterwanderung des Urgroßvaters des Autors nach Siebenbürgen.

Die Waschmaschine macht komische Geräusche, das Smartphone-Display sieht aus wie eine Spinnwebe und der Staubsauger saugt nur noch Luft? Bevor Ihr Eure Geräte jetzt genervt zum Wertstoffhof schleppt, haben wir gute Nachrichten für Euch. 🛠️
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Nex, which makes Nex Playground, raised a $150M Series E; Nex has sold 1M units of the motion-based gaming system targeted toward kids since its launch in 2023 (Sophie McEvoy/GamesIndustry.biz)
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/nex-playgrou

Nex Playground announces $150m in new funding as hardware sales pass one million
Subscriber base grows sevenfold in 18 months to nearly one million; former Niantic CFO Jeff Shouger and veteran gaming and technology executive Bing Gordon join

Cowboys reach $18 million, 3-year deal with backup tight end Brevyn Spann-Ford https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/cowboys-reach-18-million-3year-deal-with-backup-tight-end-brevyn-spannford