Leftovers

• Kevin Wammer ☛ A Dream Life Scenario

  This realization showed me how the life I have right now doesn't need much changing, and that anything messing too much with this lifestyle, without bringing me closer to that dream life scenario, just isn’t worth doing.

• Wouter Groeneveld ☛ Granddad's Cooking Notebook

  While flipping through the book, it dawned to me that this was yet another tradition that we lost while transitioning to a digital society. My grandparents never had a computer in their homes—although eventually they did have to install a modem because the analogue TV signal was replaced by a DSL line. When they had to take notes, they did not run to a computer to start Word Perfect, nor did they flip open their clamshell cellphones to type in a few keywords. They had cheap ballpoints scattered all over the place and accompanied it with torn up recycled A4 pages for throwaway notes.

• Science

  • The Register UK ☛ Spoof-proof random number generator

    Random numbers might be needed to pick jury members out of a field without bias, or provide security algorithms. Quantum events offer the promise of true randomness. Meanwhile, a phenomenon called quantum entanglement, which determines that two quantum particles emitted at the same time can remain forever linked in their state, no matter how far apart they are, allows for boffins to check their work.

• Hardware

  • University of Toronto ☛ Will (more) powerful discrete GPUs become required in practice in PCs?

    One of the slow discussions I'm involved in over on the Fediverse started with someone wondering what modern GPU to get to run Linux on Wayland (the current answer is said to be an Intel Arc B580, if you have a modern distribution version). I'm a bit interested in this question but not very much, because I've traditionally considered big discrete GPU cards to be vast overkill for my needs. I use an old, text-focused type of X environment and I don't play games, so apart from needing to drive big displays at 60Hz (or maybe someday better than that), it's been a long time since I needed to care about how powerful my graphics was. These days I use 'onboard' graphics whenever possible, which is to say the modest GPU that Intel and AMD now integrate on many CPU models.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • Vox ☛ 2025-06-04 [Older] The “summer body” is over. Something worse is taking its place.

  • CBC ☛ 2025-06-04 [Older] TikTok blocks #SkinnyTok due to extreme weight loss, disordered eating content

  • CBC ☛ 2025-06-08 [Older] Bank customer on the hook for fraudulent charges; TikTok blocks #SkinnyTok: CBC's Marketplace cheat sheet

  • International Business Times ☛ 2025-06-09 [Older] Who Is Adam Foroughi: The Quiet Tech Billionaire Challenging Cheeto Mussolini's TikTok Ban

  • Make Tech Easier ☛ 2025-06-05 [Older] What to Do When Social Media, Like TikTok, Goes Down

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-11 [Older] Inflammatory Bowel Disease Info Lacking On TikTok

  • International Business Times ☛ 2025-06-11 [Older] Teen Dies Doing Deadly TikTok 'Dusting' Trend: These Viral Challenges Could Cost You Your Life

  • International Business Times ☛ 2025-06-11 [Older] Meet Natalie Reynolds: The TikTok Prankster Who Went Viral for Crying Outside Bytedance's LA Office

  • International Business Times ☛ 2025-06-12 [Older] TikTok Star Emilie Kiser Responds to Backlash Over Lawsuit After Son's Death

  • Ava ☛ media namedropping eating disorder spaces

    Objectively, you’d think “Oh, it doesn’t matter, the few that will seek it out are nothing against the number that will come across it if it’s not taken down, which this article probably will!” but it assumes they even will take it down, and it assumes that you can take these communities down at all. Yes, Meta or TikTok can ban individual accounts, or disable subscription options for these influencers, but they always pop back up with second accounts. The articles also always mention the specific name of communities and specific hashtags that are not restricted, and once you click on or even follow those accounts, the damage is done, even if Meta or TikTok restrict hashtags. It alters people’s algorithm when they go looking for it, so they’ll start getting it suggested anyway. If one hashtag is restricted, they’ll get creative escaping the letters anyway and a new one is used. Even though the piece did get an account restricted and functionally demonetized, the content is still there.

• Proprietary

  • SANS ☛ More Steganography!

    I spotted another interesting file that uses, once again, steganography. It seems to be a trend (see one of my previous diaries[1]). The file is an malicious Excel sheet called blcopy.xls. Office documents are rare these days because Microsoft improved the rules to allow automatic macro execution[2]. But it does not mean that Office documents can't execute malicious code. In the sample I found [...]

  • Heliomass ☛ WWDC 2025 Thoughts

    It was a weird one this year and the news was both up and down, so let’s see what stood out.

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) / LLM Slop / Plagiarism

    • Tech Central (South Africa) ☛ Yahoo tries to make its mail service relevant again

      He said nearly half of current Yahoo Mail users are gen-Z or millennials and that one in three Americans currently use the service. Lanzone said AI will also play a big role in the future of Yahoo, calling the technology “incredibly important to almost every product that we operate”.

    • Pivot to AI ☛ Meta AI posts your personal chats to a public feed

      I can only think someone had a quarterly metric of chat posts to the public feed and applied some dark-pattern design. Meta’s desperate to show that anyone wants to engage with the AI slop machine.

    • Namanyay Goel ☛ Don’t Repeat Mistakes, Teach AI to Remember Every Code Review Instead

      Your team agrees it’s important. People follow it for some time. But three weeks later, nothing’s changed, and you’re still leaving the same comments.

      I recently interviewed C.J. and Zach from Parabola (a Series B data automation company) about how they use AI in their engineering workflow. They shared a simple approach that’s replaced most of their linter rules: teaching Cursor to remember code review feedback permanently.

    • Miguel Grinberg ☛ Why Generative AI Coding Tools and Agents Do Not Work For Me - miguelgrinberg.com

      Really the main and most important reason why GenAI tools do not work for me is that they do not make me any faster. It's really that simple.

      It would be easy to use GenAI coding tools to have code written for me. A coding agent would be the most convenient, as it would edit my files while I do something else. This all sounds great, in principle.

    • The Register UK ☛ AI adoption stalls as inferencing costs confound cloud users

      "As AI transitions from research to large-scale deployment, enterprises are increasingly focused on the cost-efficiency of inference, comparing models, cloud platforms, and hardware architectures such as GPUs versus custom accelerators," she added.

    • Futurism ☛ You’ll Guffaw When You Hear How Much Self-Driving Waymos Cost Compared to Human-Driven Ubers

      Still, despite Waymo costing more than a rideshare driven by a human and having a propensity to glitch out and plug up traffic in SF's already-busy streets, people are still uber-excited — pun not intended — to experience the novelty of a robotaxi.

    • TechCrunch ☛ Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft -- and people are paying anyway | TechCrunch

      The report, shared exclusively with TechCrunch, is based on a month’s worth of data collected between March 25 and April 25 in San Francisco, California. Obi pulled nearly 90,000 “offer records” from Waymo, Lyft’s “standard” offering, and UberX in order to compare price and ETA. It then compared ride requests from the same times and routes. Obi found Lyft offered the lowest average price at $14.44. Uber was next at $15.58. Waymo’s average price across the month’s worth of data was $20.43.

  • Social Control Media

    • Tedium ☛ How A Bluesky Fan Should Respond To Those Hot Takes

      The gist of some of these responses was, essentially, “it’s not our job to protect Bluesky’s business.” Someone got mad in my mentions later in the day when I tried to contextualize the point. But I think it’s not really about protecting Bluesky’s business but protecting a place you like hanging out—which, because Bluesky is a for-profit company, has business parameters.

  • Windows TCO / Windows Bot Nets

    • Security Week ☛ Fog Ransomware Attack Employs Unusual Tools

      A recent Fog ransomware attack stands out due to the use of a series of legitimate tools previously unseen in ransomware attacks, Symantec reports.

• Pseudo-Open Source

  • Openwashing

    • Security Week ☛ ZeroRISC Raises $10 Million for Open Source Silicon Security Solutions

      ZeroRISC said the funding will help accelerate the commercial adoption of its production-grade open source silicon security solutions designed to address silicon supply chain integrity, device management and ownership control.

    • FSFE

      • FSFE ☛ 2025-06-11 [Older] "YH4F provides teenagers with a platform to express their ideas and develop skills that are crucial for their future careers" [Ed: Microsoft front group does unpaid child labour]

• Security

  • 2025-06-08 [Older] Enterprise Linux Security Episode 116- A CVE by any other Name

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • India Times ☛ AI tools collect and store data about you from all your devices, here's how to be aware of what you're revealing

      As an assistant professor of cybersecurity at West Virginia University, I study how emerging technologies and various types of AI systems manage personal data and how we can build more secure, privacy-preserving systems for the future. Generative AI software uses large amounts of training data to create new content such as text or images. Predictive AI uses data to forecast outcomes based on past behaviour, such as how likely you are to hit your daily step goal, or what movies you may want to watch. Both types can be used to gather information about you.

    • Techdirt ☛ Meta Busted Spying on Android Users In Extremely Creepy New Way, Then Lies About It

      Meta has once again been busted playing fast and loose with consumer privacy. Security researchers last week discovered that Meta and Russia’s Yandex have been embedding tracking code into millions of websites in a way that de-anonymizes visitors and abuses internet protocols, allowing them to spy on the internet behavior and browsing habits of any Android device with Meta and Yandex apps installed.

    • 2025-06-05 [Older] Germany fines Vodafone $51 million for privacy, security breaches

    • TruthOut ☛ 2025-06-07 [Older] Supreme Court Allows DOGE Continued Access to Sensitive Social Security Data

  • Confidentiality

    • Let's Encrypt ☛ Reflections on a Year of Sunlight

      Certificate Transparency (CT) was introduced in 2013 in response to concerns about how Internet users could detect misbehavior and compromise of certificate authorities. Prior to CT, it was possible for a CA to issue an inaccurate or malicious certificate that could be used to attack a relatively small number of users, and that might never come to wider attention. A team led by Google responded to this by creating a transparency log mechanism, where certificate authorities (like Let’s Encrypt) must disclose all of the certificates that we issue by submitting them to public log services. Web browsers now generally reject certificates unless the certificates include cryptographic proof (“Signed Certificate Timestamps”, or SCTs) demonstrating that they were submitted to and accepted by such logs.

    • National Law Review US ☛ Oklahoma Expands its Security Breach Notification Law

      The Oklahoma State Legislature recently enacted Senate Bill 626, amending its Security Breach Notification Act, effective January 1, 2026, to address gaps in the state’s current cybersecurity framework (the “Amendment”). The Amendment includes new definitions, mandates reporting to the state Attorney General, clarifies compliance with similar laws, and provides revised penalty provisions, including affirmative defenses.

• Defence/Aggression

  • Copenhagen Post ☛ 2025-06-09 [Older] Faroe Islands, Greenland and Denmark meet for talks on security and cooperation

  • Data Breach Today ☛ 2025-06-09 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini Rewrites Cybersecurity Policy in Executive Order

  • NL Times ☛ 2025-06-09 [Older] False bomb threats at Schiphol already surpass 2024 total, sparking security fears

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-08 [Older] Israeli Hostages Highlighted at Boulder Jewish Festival After Attack on Group Urging Their Release

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-08 [Older] Chinese Hackers and User Lapses Turn Smartphones Into a 'Mobile Security Crisis'

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-08 [Older] Thailand and Cambodia Say They Will Return to Agreed Border Positions After Fatal Clash

  • YLE ☛ NBI suspects Eagle S officers in cable damage incident

    The police said the Eagle S damaged its anchor chain by dragging one electrical cable and several data cables on Christmas Day.

    Senior Eagle S officers are suspected of aggravated criminal mischief and aggravated interference with telecommunications, according to the NBI.

  • Techdirt ☛ Noem Announces Military Will ‘Liberate’ LA From Democracy, Then Watches Security Throw Senator To Ground

    When the Secretary of Homeland Security announces that federal forces will remain in an American city until they “liberate” it from its democratically elected officials—you know, democracy, that annoying thing where people actually get to choose their own leaders—then sits by watching as her security detail violently throws to the ground and handcuffs a sitting US Senator who dares to ask a question, we’ve officially entered the “are you fucking kidding me” phase of American fascism.

  • Techdirt ☛ Judge: No, Donald Trump Can’t Just Order The National Guard To Invade Los Angeles

    California quickly sued over the National Guard deployment, because any such deployment is supposed to go through California’s governor, not the President, and sought a temporary restraining order. It sought to have the TRO issued before the federal government could reply, but Judge Breyer made them wait until the DOJ filed a response and both sides appeared before him for a hearing Thursday afternoon. It seems likely that he used some of that time to draft a possible order, because less than four hours after the hearing concluded, he issued a very thorough and detailed 36-page order granting the TRO and giving control of the National Guard back to California governor Gavin Newsom.

  • The Atlantic ☛ In Minnesota, America’s Luck Ran Out

    In September 2023, shortly after Donald Trump yet again encouraged direct political violence against his opponents, I wrote this: “As a political scientist who studies political violence across the globe, I would chalk up the lack of high-profile assassinations in the United States during the Trump and post-Trump era to dumb luck … Eventually, all luck runs out.”

  • Axios ☛ "No Kings" anti-Trump protests draw millions, in photos

    Millions of protesters across the U.S. took to the streets in demonstrations against the Trump administration on Saturday, in stark counter-programming to the president's Washington, D.C., military parade that evening.

    Why it matters: "No Kings" protest organizers said the widespread movement marked the biggest single-day anti-President Trump protest during his second administration.

  • The Verge ☛ No Kings: protests in the eye of the storm | The Verge

    As The Verge’s Tina Nguyen went to downtown DC, we also sent reporters to No Kings demonstrations spanning the country, plus a “No Tyrants” event in the UK. How would they unfold after promises of “very heavy force” against protesters in the capital, after the deployment of thousands of military troops in a move a judge has bluntly called illegal, and after promises to “liberate” the city of Los Angeles from its “burdensome leadership” by local elected officials? What about the overnight killing of a Minnesota Democratic state representative and her husband, and the shooting of a Democratic state senator and his wife?

  • The Independent UK ☛ From San Fran to Mar-a-Lago: Anger with Trump leads thousands to march for ‘No Kings’ as cops descend on marches

    At the “No Kings” flagship protest, the Philadelphia Police Department police said 80,000 people descended on the city. There were no arrests.

  • International Business Times ☛ What Is the 'No Kings' Protest and Sign Ideas Going Viral Online

    As detailed by NoKings.org, the mobilisation spanned all 50 US states and territories, with protests held in urban centres, rural communities, and neighbourhood parks alike. The organisers' rallying cry was simple but powerful: 'We the people are rising up and declaring that in America, we do not have a king.' Demonstrators came armed with clever placards, powerful chants and a fierce determination to remind the world who democracy truly serves.

  • Kansas Reflector ☛ 'Our nation is in distress': Thousands protest Trump in 'No Kings' rally at Kansas Statehouse

    Thousands of Kansans rallied Saturday at the Statehouse in Topeka as part of a nationwide backlash to President Donald Trump, hoisting signs, joining in pro-democracy chants and speaking out against immigration raids.

  • Los Angeles Times ☛ 'No Kings' demonstrations across L.A. against ICE sweeps, Trump presidency

    “All of our rights are being violated,” said Michelle Verne, 56, who marched in downtown Los Angeles with roughly 30,000 others. She held a laminated copy of the Constitution that was shredded at the bottom. “We’ve had other administrations deport people, but not like this,” she said, referencing this month’s immigration enforcement that has swept up families at homes and in workplaces.

  • The Georgia Recorder ☛ Thousands of anti-Trump protestors pack 'No Kings' protest outside Georgia’s Capitol  • Georgia Recorder

    Minutes after Atlanta’s “No Kings” protest began Saturday outside the state Capitol, organizers announced that the venue’s 5,000-person capacity had been reached.

    Another 3,000 people demonstrated outside Liberty Plaza, according to a police estimate. A small number of counter protesters were present, but no incidents or arrests were reported.

  • El País ☛ Rejection of Donald Trump sweeps across the United States: “We say no to fascism!”

    The rejection of the president’s grandiloquent gesture —even more shocking in a country with 249 years of democratic and civic history behind it— has brought people out onto the streets, from the capital itself to New York, Miami, Chicago, Houston, and Los Angeles, where the protests have been immense. The Los Angeles Times reported around 30,000 attendees, but it seemed like many more gathered at City Hall, the nearby Gloria Molina Park, and the surrounding streets.

  • Rolling Stone ☛ Pussy Riot Shows Solidarity at ‘No Kings’ March

    The march in downtown Los Angeles drew about 20,000 people, and was one of 2,000 locations that held “No Kings” Day protests against the president, who has deployed the National Guard and the Marines to L.A. over protests opposing his administration’s aggressive raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The protests were held on the same day Trump threw an expensive military parade on his 79th birthday in Washington, D.C.

  • Rolling Stone ☛ Anti-Trump 'No Kings' Protests Draw Thousands in U.S.

    The “No Kings” protests saw little intervention from police. One exception was in Atlanta, where law enforcement used tear gas as they yelled “unlawful assembly” and “you must disperse” at protesters who were headed toward the highway, the Associated Press reported. A photo shows armored law enforcement with shields standing at an intersection next to a Kroger grocery store and Planet Fitness. The outlet also reported that a journalist was seen being detained.

  • KTNV TV ☛ Thousands gather in Vegas as part of nationwide 'No Kings' rallies

    "Forget the parties. We're meant to be one," one demonstrator said. "And this idea of ignoring the Constitution, ignoring court orders, ignoring due process is unconstitutional. We need to step up and speak out."

  • Gannett ☛ Gainesville, Florida joins nationwide 'No Kings' protest movement

    “Sixty years ago I was on a submarine fighting for democracy, and now I’m walking the streets fighting for democracy,” said Trowbridge, sitting under a canopy at the park while holding a sign that read “We The People: No King” on one side, and “Healthcare Not Wealthcare” and “Can Trump Even Spell Constitution” on the other side.

  • Kyle Ford ☛ No Kings in Santa Clarita – House of Kyle

    I continue to have my spirits lifted during these dark days by the incredible turnouts at our local protests. Today’s “No Kings Day” did not disappoint.

  • Marcy Wheeler ☛ No Kings Rally After Action Report

    We couldn’t hear the speeches, the chanting was too loud. Eventually the crowd started marching. Apparently a large part went north several blocks to the Chicago River where they saluted the Trump Tower with shouts and hand signals. They eventually turned down Michigan Avenue.

  • Vox ☛ Trump’s DC military parade is a warning

    To call this unusual is an understatement. I spoke with four different experts on civil-military relations, two of whom teach at the Naval War College, about the speech and its implications. To a person, they said it was a step towards politicizing the military with no real precedent in modern American history.

    “That is, I think, a really big red flag because it means the military’s professional ethic is breaking down internally,” says Risa Brooks, a professor at Marquette University. “Its capacity to maintain that firewall against civilian politicization may be faltering.”

  • The Kyiv Independent ☛ Russia may provoke crisis in Transnistria ahead of Moldova's elections, Sandu warns

    Moscow may instigate a crisis in Moldova's Russian-occupied Transnistria region to destabilize the country ahead of parliamentary elections scheduled for September, Moldovan President Maia Sandu said on June 12, according to Moldovan outlet Newsmaker.

    "All these years, Russia has been using the residents of Transnistria and can provoke an even greater crisis at any moment if it suits its plans in Moldova," Sandu said.

    "We can expect this crisis to deepen in the coming months, before the elections."

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • CNN ☛ 2025-06-12 [Older] Russian authorities detain suspect over St. Petersburg cafe blast

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-12 [Older] Child Killed by Ukrainian Drone Strike in Russia's Belgorod Region, Governor Says

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-12 [Older] European Foreign Ministers Ready to Toughen Action Against Russia

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-12 [Older] G7 Summit in Canada to See How EU, US Align on Russia Sanctions, Says German Official

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-12 [Older] Most G7 Members Ready to Lower Russian Oil Price Cap Without US

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-12 [Older] Ukraine and Russia Exchange Wounded, Ill Prisoners of War

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-12 [Older] Ukrainian Refugees in Sumy Fear Russian Advance, Shelling

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-06-11 [Older] Germany updates: Russian imports fell 95% since Ukraine war

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-11 [Older] Russia Flies Bomber Planes Over Baltic for First Time Since Ukrainian Drone Attacks

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-11 [Older] Russian Court Orders House Arrest of Politician It Says Discredited the Russian Army

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-11 [Older] Ukraine's Military Says It Struck Russia's Tambov Gunpowder Plant

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-06-10 [Older] Ukraine updates: Russian drones target Kyiv, Odesa

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-10 [Older] EU's New Russia Sanctions to Target Energy Sector and Banks

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-10 [Older] Russian Politician Faces Criminal Charge for Condemning Ukraine War

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-10 [Older] Goodbye Lenin? Russians Flock to See Bolshevik Leader's Tomb Before It Closes for Repairs

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-10 [Older] Russia and Ukraine Exchange Sick and Wounded Prisoners of War

    • CBC ☛ 2025-06-09 [Older] Russia launches nearly 500 drones into Ukraine, as sides exchange more prisoners

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-06-09 [Older] Ukraine, Russia begin complex POW exchange

    • International Business Times ☛ 2025-06-09 [Older] Vitaly Zdorovetskiy Jail Time: 18 Months in Philippines as Russia Urges Tourists to Obey Local Laws

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-09 [Older] Poland Scrambles Aircraft as Russia Launches Strikes on Ukraine

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-09 [Older] Czech Court Sentences Colombian to 8 Years for Arson Attack Which Officials Think Is Tied to Russia

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-09 [Older] Kremlin Says Russia Is Still Ready for Prisoner Swap With Ukraine Despite Problems

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-09 [Older] Putin Approves Big Revamp of Russia's Navy, Kremlin Aide Says

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-09 [Older] 'Mum, I'm Home!' Russia and Ukraine Exchange Prisoners of War

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-09 [Older] Russia Launches Biggest Drone Attack on Ukraine, Targets Military Airfield, Kyiv Says

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-09 [Older] Russia Says It Takes More Territory in East-Central Ukraine, Creating 'Buffer Zone' There

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-09 [Older] Russia Says Plan to Boost Role in Africa Includes 'Sensitive' Security Ties

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-09 [Older] Ukraine Says Russia Launched the Biggest Overnight Drone Bombardment of the War

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-09 [Older] Ukraine's Drone Attack Halts Work at Electronic Plant in Chuvashia, Russia Says

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-06-08 [Older] Ukraine updates: Russia claims entry into Dnipropetrovsk

    • International Business Times ☛ 2025-06-08 [Older] Jokes and Banters: Here's How Russia's Personalities Are Reacting to Cheeto Mussolini-Musk 'Bromance' Fallout

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-08 [Older] PM Fico Says Slovakia Will Block EU Sanctions on Russia if They Harm National Interests

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-08 [Older] Russia Awaits Ukraine's Confirmation on a Planned Exchange of Dead Fighters, Officials Say

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-08 [Older] Russia Advances to East-Central Ukrainian Region Amid Row Over Dead Soldiers

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-08 [Older] Ukraine Drones Attack on Moscow Forces Airport Closure, Russia Says

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-08 [Older] Ukraine's Zelenskiy Vows to Press on With Prisoner Exchanges With Russia

    • CBC ☛ 2025-06-07 [Older] Russian drone and missile strikes kill at least 4 in Ukraine in latest attack

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-06-07 [Older] Russia's Wagner Group leaves Mali, Africa Corps will stay

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-06-07 [Older] Russia's war emigrants pursue careers in German politics

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-06-07 [Older] Spiderweb: Ukraine's undercover operations in Russia

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-06-07 [Older] Ukraine, Russia exchange accusations over POW swap delay

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-07 [Older] Exclusive-US Believes Russia Response to Ukraine Drone Attack Not Over Yet, Expects Multi-Pronged Strike

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-07 [Older] Kyiv Rejects Russia's Claims That Ukraine Is Delaying Exchange of Soldiers' Bodies

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-07 [Older] Russian Attack on Ukraine's Kharkiv Kills Three, Wounds 22, Mayor Says

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-07 [Older] Russian Attacks on Eastern Ukrainian City of Kharkiv Kill 4, Wound More Than Two Dozen

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-07 [Older] Russia Says Ukraine Postpones Prisoner Exchange, Accepting Bodies

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-07 [Older] Ukraine Denies Postponing Prisoner Swaps as Russian Strike on Kharkiv Kills Three

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-07 [Older] Ukraine Says It Shot Down Russian Su-35 Fighter Jet

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-07 [Older] Ukrainian Attack Damaged 10% of Russia's Strategic Bombers, Germany Says

    • CBC ☛ 2025-06-06 [Older] 3 killed in Kyiv as Ukraine once again bombarded by Russian missiles and drones

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-06-06 [Older] Ukraine: 'Decisive' pressure needed after Russia pounds Kyiv

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-06 [Older] Germany's Merz Says Some US Lawmakers Have 'No Idea' of Scale of Russia's Rearmament

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-06 [Older] Russia Asks UN Agency to Help Solve Question of US Fuel at Ukraine Nuclear Plant

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-06 [Older] Russia Downed Three Drones Targeting Moscow, Mayor Says

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-06 [Older] Russia Faces Struggle to Replace Bombers Lost in Ukrainian Drone Strikes

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-06 [Older] Russia Responds to Cheeto Mussolini-Musk Feud With Jokes, Jibes and Job Offers

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-06 [Older] Russia Says Its Strike Against Kyiv and Other Centres Was a Response to Ukrainian 'Terrorist Acts'

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-06 [Older] Africa Corps to Stay in Mali After Russia's Wagner Mercenary Group Leaves

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-06 [Older] US Citizen Joseph Tater Leaves Russia After Detention and Psychiatric Treatment, TASS Says

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-06 [Older] Wagner Group Leaving Mali After Heavy Losses but Russia's Africa Corps to Remain

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-06-05 [Older] How dangerous is Russia's advance on Ukraine's Sumy region?

    • International Business Times ☛ 2025-06-05 [Older] Drone Warfare's Carbon Footprint: The Environmental Cost of 100,000 UAVs Amidst Russia, Ukraine War

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-05 [Older] Exclusive-Ukraine Hits Out at Europe's Payout From Frozen Russian Cash

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-05 [Older] Russian Media Outlet Says Investigators Search Its Editorial Office

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-05 [Older] Russia Says It Will Respond to Ukrainian Attacks as and When It Sees Fit

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-05 [Older] Slovak Parliament Calls on Government to End Backing for Russia Sanctions

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-05 [Older] Ukraine's Drone Attack on Russian Air Bases Is a Lesson for the West on Its Vulnerabilities

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-06-04 [Older] Fact check: Is Russia's new fact-checking platform credible?

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-06-12 [Older] Ukraine updates: Germany's Pistorius arrives in Kyiv

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-12 [Older] German Defence Minister: Not Considering Sending Taurus Missiles to Ukraine

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-12 [Older] Ukraine's Zelenskiy to Attend G7, Hopes to Meet President Cheeto Mussolini

    • NL Times ☛ 2025-06-11 [Older] Utrecht man, 28, reportedly killed in Ukraine battle; Dutch ministry confirms death

    • Bridge Michigan ☛ 2025-06-11 [Older] From Ukraine war to a Michigan bakery, ‘newborn Americans’ face uncertainty under Cheeto Mussolini

    • CBC ☛ 2025-06-11 [Older] No banned firearms have been sent to Ukraine, despite government promise

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-06-11 [Older] Nature returns to Ukraine's ravaged Kakhovka Dam landscape

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-06-11 [Older] Ukraine updates: 1,212 soldiers' bodies back in Ukraine

    • NL Times ☛ 2025-06-10 [Older] Ukrainian who stabbed 5 in Amsterdam was a military deserter with a prior brain injury

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-10 [Older] Ukraine Brings Home New Group of POWs, Zelenskiy Says

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-10 [Older] Ukrainian Refugees Give Poland Big Economic Boost, Report Says

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-09 [Older] Ukrainian Tenor Gorai Dies While Volunteering in Sumy, Odesa Opera Says

    • Counter Punch ☛ 2025-06-06 [Older] The Post-Truth Nation: Montenegro in the Mirror of Ukraine

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-06 [Older] Europe Can Sustain Ukraine's War Effort Without U.S., German General Says

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-06-06 [Older] Kremlin, Responding to Cheeto Mussolini's 'Fighting Children' Comment, Says Ukraine War Is Existential

• Transparency/Investigative Reporting

  • Smithsonian Magazine ☛ This Stunning Sculpture Was Sitting on a Family's Piano. It Turned Out to Be an Original Rodin

    The committee confirmed that the sculpture was an authentic Rodin that had been sold at auction in 1906. After that, it disappeared from public view, as Rouillac tells Agence France-Presse. Nearly 120 years later, “we have rediscovered it,” he adds.

  • NDTV ☛ What Is Pentagon Pizza Index? What It Says In Light Of Israel-Iran Conflict

    As Israel prepared to launch airstrikes on Iran as part of its Operation Lion, there was frantic activity on the nights of June 12 and 13 thousands of miles away at pizza outlets in Arlington, Virginia.

  • [Old] Anna Mancini ☛ How the Apple Archive Ended Up at Stanford

    “Wait a minute,” I thought. “That’s not quite how it went.”

    And now I can’t let it go. Because when it comes to creating—or not creating—myths, the story of how a collection is created and the context of its donation are just as important as the interpretation of that collection by historians.

  • NDTV ☛ air india ahmedabad plane crash news, boeing 787 dreamliner whistleblower ed pierson ndtv interview chaotic dangeorous manufacturing

    In April last year Mr Salehpour, who spent nearly two decades at Boeing, told US lawmakers he had been "put through hell" for raising concerns about the manufacturing processes.

• Environment

  • Omicron Limited ☛ France's final nuclear tests in the South Pacific, 30 years on

    The next 26 years saw a further 187 French nuclear and thermonuclear detonations above and beneath the Pacific atolls of Moruroa and Fangataufa. They exposed the local population to dangerous levels of radiation, contaminating food and water supplies, and harming corals and other forms of ocean life.

    These experiments—along with the final six underground detonations the French carried out in 1995 and 1996—left a toxic legacy for generations to come.

  • 404 Media ☛ Climate Change Warps Brains in the Womb, Scientists Discover

    In ideal conditions, bald cypress trees can live for millennia; for instance, one tree known as the Senator in Longwood, Florida was about 3,500-years-old when it died in a 2012 fire. But Napora’s team found that their subfossil trees experienced a collapse in life expectancy during the Vandal Minimum (VM) environmental downturn, which began around 500 CE. Trees that sprouted after this event only lived about half as long as those born before, typically under 200 years.

  • Energy/Transportation

    • Los Angeles Times ☛ Washington hunkers down for Trump's military parade

      Trump’s event will cost between $25 million and $45 million, depending on how much damage the tanks inflict on D.C. roads, the Army said.

    • Jeff Geerling ☛ How I monitor and control all my powered devices (Zigbee + HA)

      Basically any time I want to monitor overall power consumption and/or switch it off remotely, I throw a ThirdReality outlet between the device and the wall.

  • Overpopulation

    • Futurism ☛ The World Birth Rate Is Now Dropping Precipitously

      A new paper from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has revealed that one in five adults in 14 countries don't have, or think they won't have, their preferred number of children, the BBC reports. About 14,000 people from across a wide range of income levels were surveyed in countries including the United States, South Africa, South Korea and Italy.

    • BBC ☛ World fertility rates in 'unprecedented decline', UN says

      But it always comes back to one question: 'Can we afford it?'

    • UNFPA ☛ SWP Report 2025 | United Nations Population Fund

      Together with YouGov, UNFPA conducted a survey of 14 countries to ask people whether they are having the families they desire. We found that alarmingly high proportions of adults are unable to realize their fertility intentions.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • The Verge ☛ Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s AI hiring spree

    Most of the headlines so far have focused on the eye-popping compensation packages Zuckerberg is offering, some of which are well into the eight-figure range. As I’ve covered before, hiring the best AI researcher is like hiring a star basketball player: there are very few of them, and you have to pay up. Case in point: Zuckerberg basically just paid 14 Instagrams to hire away Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang.

  • Steve Klabnik ☛ Is Rust faster than C?

    But we’re not usually talking about that. We’re usually talking about something in the context of engineering, a specific project, with specific developers, with specific time constraints, and so on. I think that there are so many variables that it is difficult to draw generalized conclusions.

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • CPJ ☛ Saudi Arabia executes journalist Turki al-Jasser on treason, terrorism charges 

    Saudi authorities arrested al-Jasser in 2018 and seized his devices, believing that he was behind an X, then known as Twitter, account that documented allegations of corruption within the Saudi royal family. Saudi officials have been accused of spying on Saudi X users and journalists, including Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, in October 2018.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Freelance journalist Selina Cheng re-elected chair of Hong Kong's embattled Journalists Association | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

    According to the committee’s annual report to members, over the past year, the union has supported members facing tax audits, conducted a press freedom survey, held fundraisers, social events and workshops and launched an investigation into the harassment of journalists.

  • Cyble Inc ☛ Apple Patches Flaw Exploited In Paragon Spyware Attacks

    The Citizen Lab report said that on April 29, 2025, “a select group of iOS users were notified by Apple that they were targeted with advanced spyware.”

    While the size of that group is unknown, two journalists in the group – an anonymous European journalist and Italian journalist Ciro Pellegrino – provided their devices to Citizen Lab for technical analysis. That analysis linked the targeting of the two journalists “to the same Paragon operator,” the Citizen Lab report said.

  • BIA Net ☛ Journalists Semra Pelek, Dicle Baştürk, Melisa Efe, and Ozan Cırık taken into custody

    A press freedom advocacy group, Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA), announced that journalists Semra Pelek, Ozan Cırık, and Dicle Baştürk were taken into custody this morning in operations conducted at their homes in İstanbul.

  • BIA Net ☛ Police raid journalist Metin Yoksu’s home

    A police raid was carried out this morning at the home of journalist Metin Yoksu. The raid was based on allegations of “membership in a terrorist organization and terrorist propaganda.”

• Civil Rights/Policing

  • Los Angeles Times ☛ Trump's case for using troops to help ICE involves fugitive slave law

    On the streets of Los Angeles, protesters will continue to be met with platoons of armed soldiers. State and local officials remain in open conflict with the president. And in the courts, Trump administration lawyers are digging deep into case law in search of archaic statutes that can be cited to justify the ongoing federal crackdown — including constitutional maneuvers invented to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Copyrights

  • CS Monitor ☛ Harvard's Institutional Data Initiative helps AI access library stacks

    Nearly 1 million books published as early as the 15th century – and in 254 languages – are part of a Harvard University collection being released to AI researchers this week. Also coming soon are troves of old newspapers and government documents held by Boston’s public library.

    Cracking open the vaults to centuries-old tomes could be a data bonanza for tech companies battling lawsuits from living novelists, visual artists, and others whose creative works have been scooped up without their consent to train AI chatbots.