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Logged forests burn more severely than old growth, Tasmanian study finds #Tasmania

Logged forests burn more severely than old growth, Tasmanian study finds
Tasmania's logged forests burn significantly more severely in a bushfire than old growth, University of Tasmania scientists have found in a study that provides the strongest evidence yet on a question with real consequences for how the state manages its forests. The research team, led by Professor David Bowman from the University of Tasmania's Fire Center, seized on a natural experiment when the 2019 Riveaux Road fire swept through the Huon Valley.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@tecmundo/tecmundo-hcvdomp6z/-/a-j4ATaQasQZ2EJ9o_JyQVkg:a:1649908919-/0
Ué, mas pq eles não usaram o OpenClaw para detectar as falhas críticas do OpenClaw? 😁

Sources: Google and Blackstone plan to create an AI cloud company to monetize Google's TPUs to external parties; Blackstone plans to put $5B in the venture (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-and-bla

Israeli startup Raven, which offers runtime monitoring and intervention in attacks as they unfold inside applications, raised a $20M seed (CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hk7q24oqwe

After Symantec exit, Javelin founders raise $20 million for new cyber bet Raven | CTech
The Israeli startup aims to secure applications at runtime as threats accelerate.

Cloudflare tests Mythos against 50 repositories, highlights its ability to chain bugs into a single exploit, and details a vulnerability discovery harness (Grant Bourzikas/Cloudflare)
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cyber-frontier-models/

Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us
In recent weeks, we pointed Mythos and other security-focused LLMs at live code across critical parts of our infrastructure. We share what we observed, the models’ strengths and weaknesses, and what the work around them needs to look like before any of it can scale.

An overview of macro tech trends: capex explosion, unprecedented surge in chip demand, supply chain bottlenecks, model commoditization, AI automation, and more (Benedict Evans)
https://www.ben-evans.com/presentations

Presentations — Benedict Evans
Every year, I produce a big presentation exploring macro and strategic trends in the tech industry. New in May 2025, ‘AI eats the world’.

Musk v. Altman jury unanimously rejects Elon Musk's claims against Sam Altman (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/18/musk-altman-openai-trial-verdict.html

Elon Musk loses court battle against Sam Altman and OpenAI after 3-week trial
The jury ruled in favor of Sam Altman and OpenAI in their dramatic court battle with Elon Musk.

Meta changes course on Horizon Worlds VR shut-down (Janko Roettgers/Lowpass)
https://www.lowpass.cc/p/meta-changes-course-on-horizon-worlds-vr-shut-down

Meta changes course on Horizon Worlds VR shut-down
VR Worlds will be available for "foreseeable future"

The UK government withdraws a proposal to let AI companies train on copyrighted works, unless creators opt out, after a backlash from artists like Dua Lipa (Graham Fraser/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg1gr5v333o

Government backtracks on AI and copyright after outcry
However, the government's position is now unclear, saying it "no longer has a preferred option" for what to do next.

Anthropic releases a survey of 80,508 Claude users' views, hopes, and fears about AI, calling it "the largest and most multilingual qualitative study" (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/features/81k-interviews

What 81,000 people want from AI
Last December, tens of thousands of Claude users around the world had a conversation with our AI interviewer to share how they use AI, what they dream it could make possible, and what they fear it might do.