Welcome to Kenya’s Great Carbon Valley: a bold new gamble to fight climate change

Cella and Sirona Technologies have a pilot program in the Great Rift Valley called Project Jacaranda.SIRONA TECHNOLOGIES “Climate change is disproportionately impacting this part of the world, but it’s also changing the rules of the game all over the world,” Cella CEO and cofounder Corey Pattison tells me, explaining the draw of Mwangi and Ndirangu’s […]

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Google Built Its Empire Scraping The Web. Now It’s Suing To Stop Others From Scraping Google

from the the-open-web-is-closing dept Last week, Google filed suit against SerpApi, a scraping company that helps businesses pull data from Google search results. The lawsuit claims SerpApi violated DMCA Section 1201 by circumventing Google’s “technological protection measures” to access search results—and the copyrighted content within them—without permission. There’s just one problem with this theory: Google […]

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Links 12/27/2025 | naked capitalism

When Will My Pornographic Shrek Christmas Ornament Arrive? 404 Media Wild hogs wreak economic havoc for Mississippi agriculture Associated Press Why Britain has a deer problem – leaving damage that costs millions BBC (Kevin W) A new superconductor breaks rules physicists thought were fixed ScienceDaily (Kevin W) A Myth for Understanding Modern Mental Chaos CocotteMinute […]

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Containers are easy—moving your legacy system off your VM is not

Nutanix combines compute, storage, virtualization, and networking so you can run applications and manage data across on-premises datacenters, public clouds, and edge locations all on one platform. Connect with Dan on Linkedin and Bluesky. Congrats to Necromancer badge winner David Ferenczy Rogožan! They won the badge on their answer to Where does adb shell mkdir […]

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How reality crushed Ÿnsect, the French startup that had raised over $600M for insect farming

French startup Ÿnsect shot into the spotlight when “Iron Man” star Robert Downey Jr. touted its merits on the “Late Show” during Super Bowl weekend 2021. Now, nearly four years later, the insect farming company has been placed into judicial liquidation — essentially bankruptcy — for insolvency.  The company’s demise is hardly a surprise, as […]

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