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Kalshi is offering wagers on the outcomes of late-stage clinical drug trials and regulatory decisions, launching a pilot of 13 new biotech contracts (Madison Muller/Bloomberg)

America just taking the piss now, surely?
> Kalshi Will Offer Sports-Style Betting on Drug Trial Results
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-16/kalshi-launches-platform-for-bets-on-biotech-trials-drug-…

The Newsom administration is suing five more California cities
— Calexico, Costa Mesa, Half Moon Bay, Ridgecrest and Turlock — for failing to complete state-mandated housing plans, known as the “housing element.”

Huntington Beach was the first city to face such a legal action, and it recently finalized its housing element plans following a court-order and massive fines.
The law, which has been in place since 1969, requires cities and counties every eight years to d…

Newsom continues crackdown on cities over housing plan requirements. 'No city gets a pass,' governor says
Gov. Gavin Newsom and California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta filed legal actions this week against five small cities that they say are failing to meet benchmarks required for housing planning.

Vox Media sells The Verge, SB Nation, Thrillist, The Dodo, and more to Penske; Vox's Ryan Pauley will join Penske as president of PMX, the new media brands unit (Erik Hayden/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Eater, The Verge and SB Nation Sold to Penske Media
The deal formally winds down an era at Vox Media, which had sold its namesake site and podcast assets as well as New York magazine to James Murdoch.

#NowPlaying Been a minute since I’ve done one of these! #CDFriday with this recently remastered trilogy of cavernously dark ambient albums from Drift, a short-lived project by Gabriele Giuliani aka Dead Body Love. Kudos to

Many US public parks sit surprisingly close to hazardous waste sites and facilities that release toxic chemicals https://phys.org/news/2026-08-hazardous-sites-facilities-toxic-chemicals.html

Many US public parks sit surprisingly close to hazardous waste sites and facilities that release toxic chemicals
While parks, playgrounds and hiking trails are generally thought of as "healthy" spaces, researchers from the University of Michigan have found that many of them overlap with old toxic waste sites or sit dangerously close to facilities that actively release hazardous chemicals. Their new study, published in Scientific Reports, looks at the proximity of 151,366 U.S. public parks to facilities in the EPA's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) and Superfund sites (SFS).

People: “The big social media networks could simply properly moderate their content and remove hate speech, disinformation and trolls.”
Politicians: “We heard you, we will require ID checks to use computers.”

Digitaler Euro: Trilog startet, viele technische Fragen bleiben
Das Europaparlament hat der Einführung des digitalen Euro zugestimmt. Wissenschaftler sehen aber Schwächen im geplanten Konzept.
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Digitaler Euro: Trilog startet, viele technische Fragen bleiben
Das Europaparlament hat der Einführung des digitalen Euro zugestimmt. Wissenschaftler sehen aber Schwächen im geplanten Konzept.