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Portugal fined £8.7m by EU court for failing to protect biodiversity https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/05/portugal-fined-eu-court-biodiversity-protection-failure

"Portugal fined £8.7m by EU court for failing to protect biodiversity"
#Portugal #Nature #Biodiversity

Nach tagelangen Protesten: Der Iran geht nach Internetblockade offline
Seit Tagen wird der Iran wieder von Protesten erschüttert, diesmal beteiligen sich die wichtigen Händler. Nun scheint das Internet gesperrt zu werden.

Happy International Women's day — I'm currently in Luxemburg and will participate in the women's march with ~5000 participants expected. The political party déi Lénk has achieved a historic win in making abortion a right just this week!
Still, there's lots to do: Luxemburg's minister of defense will participate in this protest, despite her version of feminism being that black women can now be in the military too. A larger action to protest white, western “feminism” is planned.
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The Golden Globes signs a deal with Polymarket, which will provide stats and predictions about the awards show at the official 2026 viewing party (Jordan Moreau/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/polymarket-golden-globes-prediction-m…

Polymarket Becomes Golden Globes' Exclusive Prediction Market Partner
Polymarket has announced a first-of-its-kind partnership with the Golden Globes as the exclusive prediction market partner of the annual awards show.

A labor-led coalition plans a protest outside the Edward J. Schwartz Federal Building Thursday to "demand an end to the bloodshed and inhumane treatment of immigrants by" Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.
The coalition gathers outside the federal building every Thursday, but the protest comes one day after the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old woman by an ICE officer in an immigration-related operation in Minneapolis.
"Protesters in San Diego are calling for an end…

Protest planned at downtown federal building following Minneapolis ICE shooting
A labor-led coalition plans a protest outside the Edward J. Schwartz Federal Building today to "demand an end to the bloodshed and inhumane treatment of immigrants by" Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.

The ACLU Wants To Shrink Workers’ Speech Protections | Portside
https://portside.org/2026-01-31/aclu-wants-shrink-workers-speech-protections

Totaler Internet-Blackout: Sorge vor staatlicher Gewalt gegen Proteste im Iran
Die iranische Führung in Teheran schneidet die Bevölkerung von der Außenwelt ab und stellt einen harten Kurs gegen die landesweiten Proteste in Aussicht.

Anthropic donates the Model Context Protocol to the Agentic AI Foundation and says there are now more than 10,000 active public MCP servers (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-the-model-context-protocol-and-esta…

Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Q&A with Square product chief Willem Avé on Block's restructuring in 2024, AI automation, investing in crypto, the Lightning Network, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/839062/square-product-ch…

Square’s product chief on the death of the penny and the future of money
Square’s Willem Avé thinks AI is the most exciting technology shift in two decades. Here’s what he thinks it will do for fintech.