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Chicago-based Formic, which provides robots-as-a-service automation to manufacturers, raised $50M, including a $40M Series B and $10M in asset-backed financing (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/all-deals/2026/10/22/formic-50m-robotics-deployme…

Exclusive: Formic raises $50M to expand robotics deployments
Formic's latest financing combines a Series B round with asset-backed capital as it looks to scale factory automation.

Die selektive Empathie geht mir auf den Keks! Ich soll ein brennendes Rathaus in Frankreich bedauern und traurig sein über die „Gewalt” der französischen Proteste, währenddessen ich mir für Jahre anhören musste warum die Zerstörung Gazas gerechtfertigt und Verteidigung sei? Unsinn.
Um das was die Demonstrierenden in Frankreich tun als Gewalt zu betiteln müsste ich erstmal staatliche Gewalt im In- und Ausland unsichtbar machen.

The record warm Mediterranean - due to climate change - strikes again. 191 mm of rain in one hour on Corsica.
#ClimatechangeisWaterchange
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Floods in southern France cause havoc, kill at least one
In Haute-Corse, a person went missing in Ghisonaccia on Tuesday evening; another was found dead in Saint-Mitre-les-Remparts in the Bouches-du-Rhône. #EuropeNews

Health authorities in France reported the first-ever recorded human infection and death associated with the Shamonda virus.
The patient passed away in a hospice in Lyon and was reportedly already suffering from a serious underlying illness.

France's agricultural and health departments have stated that they do not see a health risk to the general population at this stage, as the virus is not considered highly transmissible to or between humans.

Quad9 is retracting from France by 2026-11-24 to avoid having to censor DNS.
(They will continue to fight in court in the meantime.)
"Quad9 is a Swiss public-benefit, nonprofit foundation established for the explicit purpose of protecting the cybersecurity of internet users" and operates a public DNS resolver at 9.9.9.9
#Quad9