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All things considered, the announcement is more of a surprise than it should have been. Corteva Agriscience in mid-November said it’s made a| Grainews
"Our cursed age of self-monitoring and optimisation didn’t start with big tech: as so often, the Victorians are to blame."| Longreads
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At the TLTF Summit, three law firm leaders revealed starkly different approaches to AI's disruption of legal economics. Keith Maziarek of Katten Muchin Rosenman highlighted an uncomfortable truth: despite twenty years of clients claiming they "buy results, not hours," only 10-20% of legal work has shifted to fixed fees. LeeAnn Black disclosed Latham & Watkins' $20 million AI investment and 40 new hires, while actually increasing first-year recruitment—betting that developing tomorrow's expe...| ComplexDiscovery
TLTF Summit 2025 opened with a challenge to the legal and risk community: treat hallway conversations as catalysts for transformation. In a keynote that linked “Who Luck” to market data and operational change, Zac Posner described how generative AI has shifted from pilot projects to infrastructure, compressing technology cycles and raising expectations for transparency. His remarks traced a growing trifurcation in legal services and warned of a rising shadow AI economy, while inviting att...| ComplexDiscovery
The European Parliament’s Employment Committee has approved a resolution urging binding legislation to regulate algorithmic management in the workplace. If adopted, the directive would establish EU-wide rules on how automated systems influence hiring, firing, and worker surveillance, imposing new requirements for transparency, human oversight, and data protection. The post European Parliament Pushes for Algorithmic Management Controls as Workplace AI Spreads Across Digital Economy appeared ...| ComplexDiscovery
Twenty years ago, I was an obsessive angler without a boat. Fishing from the beach, I stared at the inaccessible horizon and pined. One day, while I was standing on the beach staring at the horizon, I spotted a small black dot bobbing in the waves a mile away. As the dot moved closer, I […] The post Getting Over The Kayak Fishing Learning Curve appeared first on Kayak Angler.| Kayak Angler
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A sold-out live recording of 'In Good Faith', bringing Jewish and Muslim stand-ups onstage for a night of laughter and discussion. The post How Jewish and Muslim comics use laughter to help audiences cope during difficult times appeared first on The Canadian Jewish News.| The Canadian Jewish News
The challenge for the UK is going from adopting innovation to creating it. This mission was centre stage…| Tech Funding News
Some 63 percent of 884 U.S. workers expect AI’s role in pay to grow significantly in the next five years, according to Resume Now’s AI in Pay Report. The post L&D Compens-AI-tion appeared first on Training.| Training
El comercio electrónico en México durante temporadas como el Buen Fin enfrenta picos de demanda donde la confianza y la continuidad operacional definen quién gana o pierde clientes. Las organizaciones no deben subestimar la ciberseguridad como una generadora de costos, sino como una habilitadora de negocio. En pleno Buen Fin, Sergio Mora, Chief Technology Officer […]| DPL News
A new and controversial book is set to reignite the debate about Fraser Island’s environmental management, arguing that professional forestry has sustained the island’s forests far more effectively than current preservation policies. The book Paradise Preserved: A History of Forestry on Fraser Island by veteran forester Robert Onfray presents more than a century of documented […]| Wood Central
The Forest Stewardship Council – the gold standard in forestry – has passed a new motion that will have major implications for the future supply of timber and forest-based products. Wood Central can now reveal that the Motion in question, Motion 30, which was passed earlier this week, will eventually open the door to FSC […]| Wood Central
Europe’s deforestation regulation, the EUDR, could be delayed by 12 more months to December 2026 and June 2027 for large and small firms, and could see more ‘simplifications’, under a new proposal put forward by the EU Presidency, and expected to be “fast-tracked” through the European Parliament in the coming hours. It comes days after […]| Wood Central
There’s a lot of noise about artificial intelligence (AI) replacing writers and scholars. Among the careers often predicted to vanish, the historian is a notable example. Many of these gloomy forecasts come from those with only the faintest understanding of what goes into making complex events of yesterday and today intelligible to others, whether in […] The post When technology shouldn’t replace humans first appeared on Innovators magazine.| Innovators magazine
Innovators Magazine is a media partner with next week’s World Climate Summit & Investment COP in Belém Over two days, 13 and 14 November, topics including: scaling innovation and regeneration through industry and nature; and transforming business and finance for climate action will take centre stage. “Engage with global decision-makers, innovators, and sustainability champions driving […] The post Join World Climate Summit & Investment COP 2025 in Belém first appeared on Innovators ma...| Innovators magazine
_____ A thought experiment with our vocabulary about Art and AI _____ Wondering about a conceptual vacuum The revolution in generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has impacted the visual arts in a disruptive manner: This might be what the iphone moment was for music. AIs ability to generate complex, aesthetically sophisticated images in seconds has radically […] The post Should we speak differently about Artistic and Artificial Intelligence? first appeared on Innovators magazine.| Innovators magazine
Thoughts from the editor’s desk on how a foreign government’s decisions — tariffs, revenge tariffs, attempts at market manipulation — all ultimately weigh on the prices farmers and ranchers receive for their work. The post Editor’s Rant: The day someone voted for appeared first on Grainews.| GrainewsGrainews
Dear readers, Welcome to Volume 58, Issue 2 of The New Journal. In our cover story, Alex Moore ’26 interrogates Yale’s artificial intelligence culture. AI is here. Machines churn out essays and problem sets, professors scramble to rewrite syllabi, and a mass cheating scandal raises the question: what does a college education look like now? Elsewhere, David Rosenbloom ’25.5 explores Rosette Neighborhood Village, an unorthodox alternative to traditional homeless shelters. Our other writer...| The New Journal
Thanksgiving is a season of gratitude, but in Hawaiʻi, it has also become a season of resilience. This year, that message feels especially sharp. Our state is facing more than $100 million in federal cuts – a blow that lands hardest on those who need help the most.| Hawaii Business Magazine
Written by Noor’ain Aini Kota Samarahan, 22 October 2025 – UNIMAS-ASEAN Week 2025 kicked off with| UNIMAS Gazette
The Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (FSSH), Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, marked another meaningful milestone as students gathered for the 2025 Convocation Ceremony. The ceremony was held on the 5th November 2025. The atmosphere across| UNIMAS Gazette
All things considered, the announcement is more of a surprise than it should have been. Corteva Agriscience in mid-November said it’s made a| Grainews
ANALYSIS: By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News acting political editor As the Iwi Chairs Forum fought fruitlessly to keep Te Pāti Māori together last week, spokesperson Bayden Barber offered a warning: a split tōtara is only good for the fire. Now Te Pāti Māori finds itself in an inferno. The slow-burn conflagration in Aotearoa New Zealand| Asia Pacific Report
Asia Pacific Media Network Pacific Media, a new regional research journal, made its debut today with a collection of papers on issues challenging the future, such as independent journalism amid “intensifying geostrategic competition”. The papers have been largely drawn from an inaugural Pacific International Media conference hosted by The University of the South Pacific in| Asia Pacific Report
RNZ Pacific Pacific civil society groups say 2025 has been a big year for the ocean. Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) representative Maureen Penjueli said the Pacific Ocean was being hyper-militarised and there was a desire for seabed minerals to be used to build-up military capacity. “Critical minerals, whether from land| Asia Pacific Report
Asia Pacific Report A Pacific people’s mission to Kanaky New Caledonia was repeatedly confronted with a “profound sense of distrust” in the French state’s role in the decolonisation process, a new report released this week has revealed. “This scepticism, articulated by Kanak representatives, is rooted in the belief that France is not a neutral arbiter| Asia Pacific Report
RNZ News The current New Zealand government has a “Trumpian accent” that should be a red flag for the people, one of the world’s leading human rights voices says. Amnesty International secretary-general Agnès Callamard spoke this week on 30 with Guyon Espiner during her first official visit to New Zealand. Once a country that was| Asia Pacific Report
Keeping a line of sight to the challenges of both COP30 in Brazil next week and also the subsequent Pacific’s COP31. A Pacific perspective. COMMENTARY: By Dr Satyendra Prasad As Pacific’s leaders and civil society prepare for the United Nations Climate Conference in Brazil (COP30) next week, they also need to keep a line of| Asia Pacific Report
SPECIAL REPORT: By Robert Inlakesh Israelis are determined to erase the evidence of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, through the use of paid and instructed propagandists to reshape the historical record. Zionists have also taken over social media platforms. Those who are critical of Israel are being censored or arrested. From YouTube to X, Wikipedia, and| Asia Pacific Report
COMMENTARY: By Bryce Edwards Yesterday’s victory of “democratic socialist” Zohran Mamdani in the race for the New York mayoralty is fuelling debate among progressives around the world about the way forward. And this has significant implications and lessons for the political left in New Zealand, casting the Labour and Green parties as too tired and| Asia Pacific Report
COMMENTARY: By Kasun Ubayasiri We are gathered here to mark the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists. The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) National Media Section usually campaigns for journalists’ rights and industrial agency in Australia — but today, we join hands with the IFJ — International Federation of Journalists, the| Asia Pacific Report
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle “The Past is not dead; it is not even past.” William Faulkner was right: past events continue to inform and shape our world. With powerful forces gathering to reassert US dominance over not just Venezuela but the entire Western hemisphere, the vexed issue of local elites, for example Venezuela’s Maria Corina| Asia Pacific Report
By Caleb Fotheringham and Tiana Haxton, RNZ Pacific journalists Not enough is yet known about the seafloor to decide if deep sea mining can start in the Cook Islands, says an ocean scientist with the government authority in charge of seabed minerals. The Cook Islands Seabed Minerals Authority (SBMA) returned last week from a 21-day| Asia Pacific Report
Pacific Media Watch The Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says it “regrets” the Israeli Supreme Court’s decision to grant the Tel Aviv government 30 days to respond to a petition to allow journalists access to the Gaza Strip following the ceasefire. RSF said in a statement it believes the blockade on| Asia Pacific Report
ANALYSIS: By Sultan Barakat and Alison Phipps It has been more than two weeks since world leaders gathered in Sharm el-Sheikh and declared, once again, that the path to peace in the Middle East had been found. As with previous such declarations, the Palestinians, the people who must live that peace, were left out. Today,| Asia Pacific Report
Asia Pacific Report Today marks 108 years since the 1917 Balfour Declaration and New Zealand pro-Palestinian protest groups have condemned this infamous date in rallies across the country. “Britain promised a land that wasn’t theirs to give,” said Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) co-chair Maher Nazzal. “That single act of colonial arrogance set in motion| Asia Pacific Report
More than a quarter of Australia’s National Press Club sponsors are part of the global arms industry or working on its behalf. Michelle Fahy reports. ANALYSIS: By Michelle Fahy The National Press Club of Australia lists 81 corporate sponsors on its website. Of those, 10 are multinational weapons manufacturers or military services corporations, and another| Asia Pacific Report
By Teuila Fuatai, RNZ Pacific senior journalist With just three weeks to go before Tongans head to the polls, the debate over election issues is heating up. Under the spotlight are the role of the palace in the country’s democratic process and calls for voting rights for overseas-based Tongans. The state of the economy and| Asia Pacific Report
ANALYSIS: By Lamis Andoni The rift between US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is real. However, to understand it, one must see it for what it is — not a clash of principles, but of priorities. Trump and the US establishment seek to expand the Abraham Accords, especially to bring Saudi| Asia Pacific Report
By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent A Marshall Islands lawmaker has called on Pacific legislatures to establish and strengthen their national human rights commissions to help address the region’s nuclear testing legacy. “Our people in the Marshall Islands carry voices of our lives that are shaped by this nuclear legacy,”| Asia Pacific Report
RNZ Pacific Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has confirmed that his Finance Minister — and one of three deputies — has resigned after being charged by the country’s anti-corruption watchdog. Local media first reported that Professor Biman Prasad, the man in charge of government finances, had been charged with corruption-related offences under Fiji’s political party| Asia Pacific Report
ANALYSIS: By Ali Mirin When the Pacific Islands Forum concluded in Honiara last month, leaders pledged regional unity under the motto “Iumi Tugeda” — “We are Together”. Eighteen Pacific heads of government reached agreements on climate resilience and nuclear-free oceans. They signed the Pacific Resilience Facility treaty and endorsed Australia’s proposal to jointly host the| Asia Pacific Report
COMMENTARY: By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News acting political editor It was hardly a dream debut for Labour’s long-awaited, much-argued-over tax package for Aotearoa New Zealand. What was meant to be a carefully choreographed reveal of a capital gains tax (CGT) later this week instead arrived early — leaked to RNZ over the long weekend and| Asia Pacific Report
COMMENTARY: By Stanley Simpson, director of Mai TV You can wake up one morning in Fiji and feel like you’re living in a totally different country. Overnight we have lost two of our three Deputy Prime Ministers — by many accounts these were the two who were perhaps among the most influential and pivotal in| Asia Pacific Report
MEDIAWATCH: By RNZ Mediawatch presenter Colin Peacock Successive New Zealand governments have dodged the issue of how the news media should be held to account, leaving us with outdated and fragmented systems for standards and complaints. But the issue erupted recently when the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) advised The Platform it could consider public complaints| Asia Pacific Report
The New Arab A Palestinian horror film inspired by folklore is moving forward, with journalist and author Plestia Alaqad joining the cast alongside American-born Kuwaiti-Palestinian journalist and media personality Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Titled The Visitor, the feature is written and directed by Palestinian-American filmmaker Rolla Selbak and produced by Black Poppy| Asia Pacific Report
Pacific Media Watch Pulitzer Prize–winning US journalist Chris Hedges joins Antoinette Lattouf on We Used To Be Journos to unpack his time in Australia, including some fraught interactions with sections of the Australian media. The pair also discuss what he flew all this way to talk about — “how Western journalists are betraying their colleagues| Asia Pacific Report
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As we celebrate Railway 200, we consider what the future holds for Britain’s railways. In doing so we imagine two quite different possibilities. One possible future envisages intolerable road congestion and increasingly common extreme climate events, that will make it politically acceptable to tax HGVs, motorists, and flights to encourage model shift to rail. With […] The post Two alternative futures appeared first on Rail Engineer.| Rail Engineer
For more than 40 years Crisis Magazine has worked to expose and oppose the cultural forces both inside and outside the Church that turn us against the good, the true, and the beautiful. I believe Crisis has been fulfilling that mission admirably, and we will continue to do so going forward. Yet, exposing and opposing the rot is not ... Read more| Crisis Magazine
Ode to the Humble Atheist Who in humility somehow knows how matter can evolve from nothing yet need not explain and much less prove it for vainly did I gaze into an empty petri dish [...]| The Impious Digest
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CMT explores how the Websters’ revived Maple Financial is leveraging CMLS’s infrastructure and Nesto’s digital reach to build a more consistent alt-lending model.| CMT News
Canada’s largest banks have lowered their prime rates by 25 basis points, matching the Bank of Canada’s latest rate cut, bringing variable-rate borrowers additional relief as the easing cycle winds down.| CMT News
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Days after the European Commission vowed to push ahead with the EUDR and its current timeframe, 19 European trade associations representing the wood, pulp, feed| woodcentral.com.au
A Rustacean colleague kept singing Helix's praises. I discarded it because he's much smarter than I am, and I only ever use vim when I need to fiddle with files on a server. I like when things "Just Work" and didn't want to bother learning how to use Helix nor how to configure it.| ergaster.org
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The prevention of food, water, aid and critical infrastructure continues; the borders remain closed; and across the rest of Palestine, Israel’s brutal system of domination, apartheid and displacement continues.| Asia Pacific Report
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The Gaza, the one that existed on the morning of October 7 is gone, decimated by months of saturation bombing, shelling, bulldozing and controlled demolitions. All that was familiar when I worked in Gaza has vanished, transformed into an apocalyptic landscape of shattered concrete and rubble.| Asia Pacific Report
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More than a hundred timber workers — and their work boots — have gathered outside the offices of Janelle Saffin, NSW minister and a strong proponent for the| woodcentral.com.au
The European Commission has tabled changes to the EU Deforestation‑free Product Regulation (EUDR) that would create a green lane for timber importers from low| woodcentral.com.au
"As automakers lobby to yank AM radio from new models, broadcasters argue that the trusty 105-year-old medium is an irreplaceable lifeline for millions of Americans. But is anybody listening?"| Longreads
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The problem with separatism lies in a suggestion advanced by many avowed separatists: that the people of the West are rooted in culture and values the rest of Canada doesn’t share and/or refuses to understand. The post Editor’s Rant: Canada’s fortune cookie appeared first on Grainews.| GrainewsEditor's column & Production Tips - Grainews
