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World28 Sept

FAO reports nearly 44 million hectares under restoration, with uneven evidence of recovery

FAO's new forest report brings together almost 44 million hectares reported under restoration, while explaining how to distinguish work underway from lasting recovery.

What a restoration number can tell you

Five countries account for about 70% of reported area

million hectares
India9.8
China7.9
Ethiopia5
Indonesia4.7
Türkiye3.4
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Country-reported FRA 2025 data. Definitions and time periods vary; the bars do not rank ecological quality or represent all restoration worldwide.
Ecology · restoration · 3 reading depths
Artificial intelligence / Agent infrastructure28 Sept

NVIDIA places agent permissions outside the AI’s control

NVIDIA's expanded agent platform puts permissions outside the AI's control, offering inspectable software safeguards and an optional hardware watchdog whose effectiveness still requires testing.

Where the permission is enforced

Sandbox boundaryAgent workloadProposes an action
Outside the agent’s controlSupervisor + policy
Authorized request reaches the serviceReal credentials remain outside the agent.

Illustration of the documented architecture, not a security test.

These layers describe controls, not a measured guarantee of safety; the hardware watchdog is optional.
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THE EDITION

From the city to the frontier.

6 stories found
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San Francisco

The life of the city

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Tonight in the neighbourhood

Noe Valley’s night market brings a longer Muni diversion

Noe Valley's free night market runs from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, while a longer Muni diversion changes where passengers catch the 48.

Read 2 sources · 1 min

Travel changes outlast the market

2026-09-29 · Pacific time

Muni diversion1:30–10 p.m.
Street closure2–10 p.m.
Market4:30–8:30 p.m.
1 p.m.4 p.m.7 p.m.10 p.m.
September 29, Pacific time. These intervals overlap; they are not three successive events or a live service display.
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United States

Possibilities taking shape

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Student opportunity

NASA’s ORBIT student competition takes team registrations until November 16

NASA's September 28 ORBIT guide points eligible student teams toward a competition using space technologies and inventions, with registration due November 16 and up to $500,000 shared across its prizes.

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Selected eligibility checks: an eligible U.S. lead institution, its employed faculty advisor, at most six students and at least 60 percent attending the lead. Age, enrolment and citizenship or residency rules also apply. Teams designate an Earth-use or civil-space primary pathway; an optional Integration Bonus rewards combining both objectives. The total prize pool is up to $500,000, with no prize split depicted.
Teams choose a primary pathway: Earth applications of NASA patents or civil-space proposals. An optional bonus rewards combining both. The eligibility checks shown are selective; consult the full rules. Up to $500,000 is shared across competition prizes, not awarded to each team.
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Ukraine

Continuity. Reconstruction. Life.

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Families · practical rights

Ukraine clarifies when missing service members’ pay may end

Ukraine’s Defence Ministry has instructed units to stop cutting off missing service members’ pay solely on body-identification documents, clarifying the legal protections families can invoke.

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Identification papers do not cut the continuing-pay band. A court declaration of absence taking legal effect or the date a death record is drawn up marks the applicable endpoint; personnel-roster removal is the outer limit. A separate arrow connects an application to a written decision within 15 calendar days. Positions are not dates.
Identification documents alone are insufficient grounds to stop pay. Paragraph 5 instead specifies legal endpoints, subject to the personnel-roster limit. A written decision is due within 15 calendar days of an application. Individual entitlement remains case-specific; this does not establish that arrears have been paid.
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Biotechnology × AI

At the edge of what we know

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Genetics · research

AI, family genetics and fly experiments strengthen a BRSK1 disease clue

An AI-prioritized genetic clue, evidence from seven families and fruit-fly experiments helped researchers investigate BRSK1 variants associated with a rare developmental disorder.

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Three related evidence strands converge on BRSK1: AI prioritisation, ten people in seven families, and fly experiments. Equal-size fields distinguish normal human BRSK1’s largely rescued defects from patient variants’ partial rescue; their dimensions encode no effect size. Publisher methods were inaccessible. Evidence independence, diagnostic accuracy and treatment benefit are not established.
An AI-prioritised clue, ten affected people in seven families, and fly experiments support the BRSK1 investigation. Normal human BRSK1 largely rescued neurological defects; patient variants produced partial rescue. These are qualitative descriptions, with no rescue percentages shown. Publisher methods were inaccessible, and no treatment is established.
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