Leftovers

• Hackaday ☛ Mapping Tool Helps Identify Usable Land For Building

  How would you go about identifying usable land that suits your building tastes? [Scott Sexton] was specifically, looking for land that’s not to steep to build on, and realized that existing resources didn’t easily offer him this information. He thus dived into the world of GIS to try and solve this issue for himself.

• Hackaday ☛ Shadow Clock Shows The Time On The Wall

  What if you build a clock that displayed the time not just on its own, but in its shadows as well? [Lewis] from [DIY Machines] has done just that, with a nifty 3D-printed shadow clock build.

• Hackaday ☛ A Look Through The Eye Of A Bowling Ball

  If you are anything like us, last time you went bowling, you thought more about how the ball came back to you than actually knocking down the pin. Perhaps you even wondered what it would be like to be a bowling ball making its way back through mysterious and hidden machines. [Wren] and [Erik Beck] did as well, so they set out to make a bowling ball camera to find out.

• Science

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-02 [Older] Life of ancient Egyptian potter revealed in DNA analysis

  • Science Alert ☛ Tomatoes in The Galapagos Islands Appear to Be Evolving in Reverse

    Back up a minute.

  • Science Alert ☛ Surprise Discovery About Sugar in The Brain Could Help Fight Alzheimer's

    A new reaction is spotted.

  • Science Alert ☛ NASA Discovery Could Explain Why We've Never Found Life on Mars

    It's not like Earth.

  • NYPost ☛ Archaeologist solves ‘jigsaw puzzle’ of Ancient Roman fragments hidden for nearly two millennia

    Expert spent months reconstructing thousands of fragments to unveil vibrant frescoes.

  • Science Alert ☛ Air Pollution 'Strongly Associated' With DNA Mutations Tied to Lung Cancer

    The signs are all around us.

  • Science Alert ☛ At 1.3 Billion Light-Years Wide, Quipu Is Officially The Biggest Thing in Our Universe

    That's pretty big.

• Career/Education

  • CBC ☛ 2025-06-29 [Older] Teacher shortages persisted this school year. What's being done to fill the gap for the next? [Ed: Improve their salary and working conditions?]

• Hardware

  • The Straits Times ☛ The Great Inflatable Dome of China: 50m-high bubble blocks dust and noise from construction site

    The 20,000 sq m inflatable dome reduces dust and noise pollution at a Jinan construction site.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ MIT team creates chip-based 3D printer the size of a coin, cures resin using only light — handheld 3D printing tech enabled by silicon photonics

    MIT researchers have engineered a chip-based 3D printer that can create complex, programmable shapes out of resin in seconds. The tech utilizes silicon photonics and will eventually be iterated into a model that can fabricate full volumetric prints.

  • CNX Software ☛ LUNYEE 3018 Pro Ultra review with offline controller and Easel CNC software (Part 2)

    We have already checked out the specifications, assembled the machine, and performed basic tests with the LUNYEE 3018 Pro Ultra CNC Router in the first part of the review. We’ve now had time to use the machine to carve text and logos on wood and aluminum. It was Suthinee’s first CNC machine, so the LUNYEE 3018 Pro Ultra was reviewed from the point of view of a beginner.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • CBC ☛ 2025-07-03 [Older] Chronic pain left her feeling hopeless, alone and invalidated — until she started helping others

  • CBC ☛ 2025-07-03 [Older] Why do people drink and drive? A former drunk driver explains

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-03 [Older] Dairy Supply Management Could Sour Canada-US Trade Talks

  • CBC ☛ 2025-07-01 [Older] Plastic surgeon's 6-week suspension for professional misconduct 'slap on the wrist': former patient

  • CBC ☛ 2025-07-01 [Older] Nutrition warning labels are hitting shelves near you — earlier than expected

  • CBC ☛ 2025-06-30 [Older] N.B. opioid deaths involving fentanyl at all-time high, says Public Health

  • CBC ☛ 2025-06-29 [Older] Judge authorizes Tim Hortons Roll Up to Win class action — but only for Quebec customers

  • CBC ☛ 2025-06-29 [Older] 40 years on, Canada's stubby beer bottle is recast as a quiet form of protectionism

• Security

  • 2025-07-03 [Older] SEC and SolarWinds Seek Settlement in Securities Fraud Case

  • The Register UK ☛ 2025-07-02 [Older] Cl0p cybercrime gang’s data exfiltration tool found vulnerable to RCE attacks

  • 2025-06-29 [Older] Horizon Healthcare RCM discloses ransomware attack in December

  • 2025-06-29 [Older] Disgruntled IT Worker Jailed for Cyber Attack, Huddersfield

  • 2025-06-30 [Older] 50 Customers of French Bank Hit by Insider SIM Swap Scam

  • The Register UK ☛ 2025-07-01 [Older] Terrible tales of opsec oversights: How cybercrooks get themselves caught

  • 2025-07-01 [Older] Pembroke Regional Hospital reported canceling appointments due to service delays from “an incident”

  • Axios ☛ 2025-07-01 [Older] Iran-linked hackers threaten to release emails allegedly stolen from Cheeto Mussolini associates

  • EuroNews ☛ 2025-07-01 [Older] International Criminal Court hit with cyber attack during NATO summit

  • ALM ☛ 2025-07-02 [Older] One in Five Law Firms Hit by Cyberattacks Over Past 12 Months

  • Bleeping Computer ☛ 2025-07-02 [Older] DOJ investigates ex-ransomware negotiator over extortion kickbacks

  • Standards/Consortia

    • Michael Tsai ☛ Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Funding

  • Integrity/Availability/Authenticity

    • IranWire ☛ 2025-07-03 [Older] Cyberattacks Disrupt Iran’s Bread Distribution, Payments Remain Frozen

    • Becker's Hospital Review ☛ 2025-06-27 [Older] CMS warns Medicare providers of fraud scheme

    • 2025-06-27 [Older] Alert: Scattered Spider has added North American airline and transportation organizations to their target list

    • USDOJ ☛ 2025-06-30 [Older] National Health Care Fraud Takedown Results in 324 Defendants Charged in Connection with Over $14.6 Billion in Alleged Fraud

    • 2025-06-30 [Older] Fact-Checking Claims By Cybernews: The 16 Billion Record Data Breach That Wasn’t

    • Bolton Walk-In Clinic patient data leak locked down (finally!)

      Finally, finally, FINALLY: exposed patient files from the Bolton Walk-In Clinic in Ontario have been secured. Now that the data is locked down, we can reveal more details about a seriously frustrating data leak that remained unsecured for at least 10 months while the clinic ignored all our notifications and alerts.

      It’s a story that started on May 5, 2024, when an independent researcher who prefers to remain anonymous found an unsecured backup with patient records online and noted it for follow-up. On August 4, when the data was still not secured, he contacted DataBreaches about the leak involving 54,000 image files and 877,000 pdf files. The earliest files appeared to be dated 2010, and there were 386.01 GB of data.

  • Confidentiality

    • 2025-07-01 [Older] Esse Health provides update about April cyberattack and notifies 263,601 people

    • 2025-07-01 [Older] CMS Sending Letters to 103,000 Medicare beneficiaries whose info was involved in a Medicare.gov breach.

    • Bleeping Computer ☛ 2025-07-02 [Older] Kelly Benefits updates its 2024 data breach report: impacts 550,000 customers

    • 2025-06-28 [Older] Battlefords Union Hospitals notifies patients of employee snooping in their records

    • 2025-06-28 [Older] Texas Centers for Infectious Disease Associates Notifies Individuals of Data Breach in 2024

    • 2025-06-27 [Older] Privacy commissioner reviewing reported Ontario Health atHome data breach

    • News AU ☛ 2025-07-02 [Older] Qantas customers involved in mammoth data breach

    • 2025-07-03 [Older] Data breach reveals Catwatchful ‘stalkerware’ is spying on thousands of phones

    • 2025-06-30 [Older] Swiss Health Foundation Radix Hit by Cyberattack Affecting Federal Data

• Defence/Aggression

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-06-30 [Older] India: 12 killed in Telangana pharmaceutical factory blast

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-06-30 [Older] In eastern Germany, youths embrace nationalism, extremism

  • Scoop News Group ☛ 2025-06-28 [Older] Hacker helped kill FBI sources, witnesses in El Chapo case, according to watchdog report

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-06-30 [Older] Conflict brings increased sexualized violence to DR Congo

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-01 [Older] Poland will temporarily reinstate border controls with Germany and Lithuania

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-01 [Older] Integration to emigration: Why do migrants leave Germany?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-01 [Older] Togo: Rights groups report several killed in demonstrations

  • CBC ☛ 2025-06-30 [Older] Terror propagandist 'Dark Foreigner' should get 14 years for 'vile' crimes, Crown argues

  • New York Times ☛ Violence at Synagogue and Restaurant Unnerves Jews in Melbourne

    Local leaders denounced the episodes, which both took place on Friday evening: arson at a synagogue and a disturbance at an Israeli eatery.

  • France24 ☛ Iran’s Khamenei makes first public appearance since start of Israel-Iran war

    In his first public appearance since the outbreak of last month's Israel-Iran war, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attended a religious event on Saturday, state media reported. During the 12-day war, which started on June 13, Khamenei avoided public appearances, issuing pre-taped messages for apparent security reasons.

  • France24 ☛ UK police arrest supporters of banned Palestine Action group at London protest

    British police on Saturday arrested more than 20 people on suspicion of terrorism offences after they demonstrated beneath a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in London in support of the Palestine Action group. The protest came hours after the Palestine Action group was banned under British anti-terror laws.

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-02 [Older] Fiji PM says China military presence not welcome in Pacific

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • New York Times ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man Says He Will Start Talks With China on Fentanylware (TikTok) Deal

      Hell Toupée has declined to enforce a statutory ban of the popular social control media app while his administration negotiates a deal for an American company to acquire it.

• Environment

  • The Straits Times ☛ How a Singaporean heatproofs himself to cope with 40 deg C summer in Chongqing

    It is known as one of the country’s “furnace cities”, where high temperatures can last for more than 70 days during summer.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Lake in Australian desert springs to life as devastating floods leave silver lining

    Millions of birds can arrive from across South-east Asia, China and Papua New Guinea.

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-06-30 [Older] Europe heat wave continues as UN chief warns of 'new normal'

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-02 [Older] Extreme heat's hidden health and economic toll

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-02 [Older] Too hot to handle: Is this heat the new normal?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-01 [Older] Europe heat wave intensifies as temperature records broken

  • Energy/Transportation

    • CBC ☛ 2025-07-03 [Older] Uber drivers in Victoria, B.C., vote to unionize

    • CBC ☛ 2025-06-28 [Older] DHL Express Canada strike, lockout to end after workers ratify new agreement, union says

    • The Straits Times ☛ Malaysia puts anti-dumping duties on some China, South Korea, Vietnam iron and steel

      The provisional duties will be in effect from July 7.

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-06-30 [Older] European countries criticize Iran 'threats' to IAEA head

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-01 [Older] Airlines in turbulence as flight risks rise amid conflicts

    • CBC ☛ 2025-06-29 [Older] Over 200 flights delayed at Vancouver airport after air traffic controller constraints

    • CBC ☛ 2025-06-29 [Older] Canada is getting a second shot at becoming a major LNG player

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-02 [Older] Iran orders suspension of cooperation with UN nuclear agency

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • CBC ☛ 2025-07-01 [Older] How a group of orcas were captured — and some freed — in B.C. waters over 50 years ago

    • CBC ☛ 2025-06-30 [Older] As this tiny frog disappears from Canada, conservationist warn fast-tracking bills put more species at risk

• Finance

  • France24 ☛ French cognac brands sales to China fell 70%

    In a rare positive development amid escalating trade tensions between Brussels and Beijing, China on Friday excluded major cognac producers — Pernod Ricard, LVMH, and Rémy Cointreau — from steep tariffs on EU brandy.

    Starting Saturday, China will impose duties of up to 34.9% for five years on brandy imported from the European Union, the majority of which is French cognac, according to the Chinese Commerce Ministry’s final ruling following a year-long investigation.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ France says ‘major issues remain’ despite brandy price accord with China

    France on Friday praised China’s steps to settle a trade dispute over European brandy imports but warned that “major issues” remained unresolved. The signs of a thaw in the row over the alcohol came as China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi met French President Emmanuel Macron and Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot in Paris.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ US reportedly plans to curb sales of Hey Hi (AI) GPUs to Malaysia and Thailand to prevent smuggling to China

    The U.S. government is drafting export rules to require licenses for shipping Nvidia’s advanced Hey Hi (AI) GPUs to Malaysia and Thailand, aiming to block possible re-exports to China.

  • The Straits Times ☛ China’s first Legoland opens to tourists in Shanghai

    The Chinese branch of the British-owned theme park franchise is the biggest Legoland in the world.

  • CBC ☛ 2025-07-03 [Older] Is it cheaper to live in Halifax or Toronto? This data says costs are comparable

  • CBC ☛ 2025-06-27 [Older] Metro Vancouver's condo market is slumping. Here are 4 key factors behind the slowdown

  • CBC ☛ 2025-06-27 [Older] Canada's GDP shrank in April, with hefty decline in manufacturing

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-06-30 [Older] US, Canada trade talks to resume after digital tax scrapped

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-06-30 [Older] Greek government in crisis after EU subsidy scandal

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-06-30 [Older] Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement hiding between the lines

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-06-30 [Older] Germany slashes development aid to boost defense spending

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-06-30 [Older] Germany: Social Democrats urge ban on far-right AfD party

  • The Straits Times ☛ Anwar’s Paris visit a success, marks revival of partnerships across all sectors, says Macron

    France and Malaysia renewed partnerships in sectors such as transport and minerals and rare earths.

  • Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-02 [Older] Fact check: Fake videos cloud Kenya protest coverage

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-02 [Older] 'The day we reclaimed our voice': Why Kenyans protest on July 7

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-01 [Older] Fact check: Image mislabels Iran base as Israeli institute

• Civil Rights/Policing

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-02 [Older] India accuses Prada of cultural appropriation over sandals

  • International Business Times ☛ 2025-06-30 [Older] 'Absolutely Staggering': Anti-South Asian Hate Surges 1,350% in Canada Amid Immigration Blame Game

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Copyrights

  • New York Times ☛ YouTube Pirates Are Cashing In on Hollywood’s Summer Blockbusters

    More than a decade after the platform cracked down on copyright monopoly infringement, thousands of unlicensed movies, TV shows and live sports are available.