Leftovers

• Career/Education

  • CBC ☛ 2025-07-09 [Older] Most of Nova Scotia's universities are in the red. Here's why, and what's next

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-14 [Older] Can classroom 'brain training' really boost kids' learning?

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • CBC ☛ 2025-07-16 [Older] Alberta wastewater unlocked key information about COVID-19. Could it help with measles too?

  • CBC ☛ 2025-07-16 [Older] Manitoba woman files proposed class action against Loblaw over alleged underweighted meat sales

  • CBC ☛ 2025-07-16 [Older] Manitoba woman files proposed class action against Loblaw over alleged underweight meat sales

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-16 [Older] Germany sees uptick in people living alone

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-15 [Older] What are forever chemicals and why do they matter?

• Proprietary

  • Bleeping Computer ☛ 2025-07-12 [Older] CISA tags Citrix Bleed 2 as exploited, gives agencies a day to patch

  • Switch Port Specialist Virtuos Confirms 270 Layoffs

    This news follows Microsoft laying off over 9,000 employees earlier this month, including staff under the Xbox division.

  • HowTo Geek ☛ I Install These Homebrew Apps on Every Mac

    Apple includes a bundle of useful software with every Mac, but this barely scratches the surface of what’s possible with free third-party apps. While installing apps is simple—either by dragging the APP file into your Applications folder or running a simple package installer—Mac package manager Homebrew makes it easier and faster.

    There are more apps available via Homebrew than you probably think, and the utility makes for a bustling hive of free and open-source software. Here are my favorites, and the one-line commands you can use to install them.

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) / LLM Slop / Plagiarism

    • TechStory Media ☛ Former OpenAI Engineer Speaks Out on Company Culture

      “I wanted to give my take because there is so much hype and bluster about what OpenAI is doing, and very little ground-level information about what the culture of being there actually is like,” French-Owen posted on his blog.

  • Windows TCO / Windows Bot Nets

    • 2025-07-16 [Older] 70% of healthcare cyberattacks result in delayed patient care, report finds

• Privatisation/Privateering

  • Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2025-07-11 [Older] Mark Carney Is Hacking Away at Canada’s Public Sector

• Security

  • CNN ☛ 2025-07-12 [Older] Chinese hackers suspected in breach of powerful DC law firm

  • 2025-07-13 [Older] Stormous claims to have protected health info on 600,000 patients of North Country Healthcare. The data appear fake. (1)

  • 2025-07-13 [Older] Multiple lawsuits filed against Doyon Ltd over April 2024 data breach and late notification

  • 2025-07-14 [Older] Ransomware in Italy, strike at the Diskstation gang: hacker group leader arrested in Milan

  • Bleeping Computer ☛ 2025-07-16 [Older] Police disrupt “Diskstation” ransomware gang attacking NAS devices

  • Columbus Ohio ☛ A year after cyber attack, Columbus could invest $23M in cybersecurity upgrades

    Days before the one-year anniversary of the cyberattack that temporarily crippled Columbus' computer systems and resulted in the leak of stolen city data on the dark web, the city is considering investing $23 million to strengthen its cybersecurity.

    The Columbus Department of Technology is asking the Columbus City Council at its meeting tonight, July 14, to approve the spending on implementing a "zero trust network."

  • 2025-07-11 [Older] Qilin claims attack on Accu Reference Medical Laboratory. It wasn’t the lab’s first data breach.

  • Integrity/Availability/Authenticity

    • CBC ☛ 2025-07-14 [Older] Dozens more alleged victims come forward as Ontario man accused in real estate fraud faces new charges

    • Bloomberg ☛ 2025-07-15 [Older] Mississippi Law Firm Sues Cyber Insurer Over Coverage for Scam

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • TruthOut ☛ 2025-07-15 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini Plans to Hand Taxpayer Data to Homeland Security to Speed Up Deportations

    • EFF ☛ 2025-07-16 [Older] Podcast Episode: Finding the Joy in Digital Security

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-16 [Older] Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Expected to Testify in $8 Billion Facebook Privacy Lawsuit

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-16 [Older] Facebook Privacy Practices the Focus of $8 Billion Trial Targeting Zuckerberg

    • Yahoo News ☛ Russian officials ordered to use spy-linked Max messaging app by September

      Russian officials are being ordered to switch to a messaging app controlled by the secret services of the Russian Federation, according to intelligence reports. Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin has instructed the Russian government to develop measures to restrict the use of foreign software, including messaging apps from "unfriendly countries" by 1 September.

  • Confidentiality

    • TechCrunch ☛ 2025-07-16 [Older] Meta fixes bug that could leak users’ AI prompts and generated content

    • 2025-07-13 [Older] Back from the Brink: District Court Clears Air Regarding Individualized Damages Assessment in Data Breach Cases

    • 2025-07-11 [Older] McDonald’s McHire leak involving ‘123456’ admin password exposes 64 million applicant chat records

    • 2025-07-11 [Older] Louis Vuitton hit by data breach in Türkiye, over 140,000 users exposed;UK customers also affected (1)

    • 2025-07-11 [Older] German court offers EUR 5000 compensation for data breaches caused by Meta

    • USDOJ ☛ 2025-07-11 [Older] Air Force Employee Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Disclose Unlawfully Classified National Defense Information

    • 2025-07-11 [Older] Infosys McCamish Systems Enters Consent Order with Vermont DFR Over Cyber Incident

    • 2025-07-11 [Older] Obligations under Canada’s data breach notification law

• Defence/Aggression

  • 2025-07-15 [Older] Ministry of Defence data breach timeline

  • 2025-07-15 [Older] Computer Whiz Gets Suspended Sentence over 2019 Revenue Agency Data Breach

  • CBC ☛ 2025-07-14 [Older] Mountie facing criminal investigation for allegedly making threatening comments at G7

  • The Age AU ☛ 2025-07-14 [Older] Albanese walks trade-security tightrope before Xi meeting

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-14 [Older] US Must Do Its Part on Security, Mexican President Says After Tariff Threat

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-14 [Older] US Opens National Security Probes Into Imported Drones, Polysilicon

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-14 [Older] With Temporary Protections for Some Afghans Set to Expire, Appeals Court Steps In

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-13 [Older] Australia and China: Trade Flows and Security Tensions Shape Ties

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-12 [Older] Homeland Security's Noem Says in Talks With Five Republican-Led States to Build Detention Site

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-11 [Older] Costa Rica Ex-Security Minister Charged in US With Cocaine Smuggling Conspiracy

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-11 [Older] Security, Trade in Focus as Australia PM Albanese Heads to China

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-16 [Older] In African Politics, the Rampant Belief in Witchcraft Fortifies Some and Vexes Others

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-16 [Older] US Deports Migrants From Jamaica, Cuba, and Other Countries to the Small African Kingdom of Eswatini

  • Counter Punch ☛ 2025-07-15 [Older] Real and Fake Antidotes to Cheeto Mussolini’s Latest Tariffs, Seen From South Africa

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-13 [Older] South Africa's Ramaphosa suspends police minister, launches Inquiry

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-13 [Older] South Africa's Ramaphosa Removes Police Minister Over Criminal Link Allegations

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-11 [Older] Greece Passes North Africa Asylum Ban Amid Rights Groups' Opposition

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-16 [Older] Is Greece in the middle of a new refugee crisis?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-16 [Older] A look at Eritrea's role as new Tigray war looms in Ethiopia

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-16 [Older] Drone strikes hit three oil fields in Iraqi Kurdistan

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-16 [Older] Holocaust survivor Anita Lasker-Wallfisch turns 100

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-16 [Older] Iran seizes foreign tanker on fuel smuggling allegations

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-16 [Older] Japan decries China threat after string of risky encounters

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-14 [Older] Can debt-laden NATO members spend billions more on defense?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-14 [Older] Can Cheeto Mussolini revoke Rosie O'Donnell's US citizenship?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-12 [Older] For France's surging far right, US ties demand careful balancing act

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-12 [Older] Germany debates quota for immigrant students

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-13 [Older] Spain: 5 hurt in anti-migrant violence blamed on far right

• Environment

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-16 [Older] How Climate Change Could Force FIFA to Rethink the World Cup Calendar

  • New Yorker ☛ 2025-07-15 [Older] Chased by Climate Disaster in North Carolina

  • Green Party UK ☛ 2025-07-14 [Older] Co-leader calls for climate resilience to be put on a statutory footing

  • TruthOut ☛ 2025-07-14 [Older] 1,500 Deaths in Europe’s Heat Wave Were Due to Climate Crisis, Study Shows

  • TruthOut ☛ 2025-07-14 [Older] Climate Erasure Replaces Climate Denial Under Cheeto Mussolini Administration

  • Counter Punch ☛ 2025-07-14 [Older] No, Mr. President, Climate Change is Not a Hoax

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-14 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini Administration Says It Won't Publish Major Climate Change Reports on NASA Website as Promised

  • Vox ☛ 2025-07-14 [Older] Why it’s taking LA so long to rebuild

  • New Yorker ☛ 2025-07-12 [Older] Flash Floods and Climate Policy

  • Bridge Michigan ☛ 2025-07-11 [Older] Future of climate ‘resilience hubs’ uncertain after Cheeto Mussolini cuts

  • Counter Punch ☛ 2025-07-11 [Older] Al Gore Puts Down ‘Climate Realism’

  • Counter Punch ☛ 2025-07-11 [Older] Politicians Are Betraying Gen Z on Climate

  • The Local DK ☛ 2025-07-09 [Older] Climate change made recent European heatwave 'up to 4C hotter'

  • CBC ☛ 2025-07-12 [Older] 'As a farmer, it's depressing': Southwest Sask. sees less than 25% of normal rainfall in June

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-13 [Older] Spain: Two missing as heavy rains hit Catalonia

  • Energy/Transportation

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-14 [Older] What is Liquified Natural Gas?

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-15 [Older] Germany updates: Germans driving cars more — report

    • CBC ☛ 2025-07-16 [Older] Porter Airlines flight to Vancouver makes emergency landing in Regina over smell of smoke in cabin

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-16 [Older] What's holding up Germany's power grid renewal?

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-14 [Older] Will nuclear powers help keep nukes out of Southeast Asia?

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-11 [Older] Air India crash linked to sudden fuel switch shutdown

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-16 [Older] A Look Inside a Lab Making the Advanced Fuel to Power Growing US Nuclear Energy Ambitions

    • Counter Punch ☛ 2025-07-15 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini Sabotages Clean Energy as Power Demand and Outages Increase

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-14 [Older] India Wants Air Conditioners to Be Made With Milder Temperature Settings to Save Energy

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-16 [Older] UK lifts five-year ban on Pakistani airlines

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-16 [Older] Oldest marathon runner, Fauja Singh, dies in hit-and-run

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • CBC ☛ 2025-07-10 [Older] Wildfire enters Sask. village as nearby hamlet airlifts residents out after flames block only road

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-12 [Older] United States: Wildfires force evacuations from the Grand Canyon

  • Overpopulation

    • ADF ☛ 2025-07-15 [Older] Indian Ocean Nations Grapple with Illegal Chinese Fishing Trawlers

    • Truthdig ☛ 2025-07-15 [Older] Texas Food Banks Are Rationing Meals for Flood Survivors Because of Cheeto Mussolini’s Cuts

• Finance

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-14 [Older] Europe walks tightrope amid intensifying US-China rivalry

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-16 [Older] How Germany can better support young entrepreneurs

  • CBC ☛ 2025-07-11 [Older] B.C. Labour Board certifies union at Amazon facility in Delta, B.C., Unifor says

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-11 [Older] EU readies for escalation as Cheeto Mussolini puts 35% tariff on Canada

  • International Business Times ☛ 2025-07-11 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini Hits Canada With 35% Tariff, Then Dangles a Deal If They Help Him With 'One Thing'

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-14 [Older] Germany's Constitutional Court becomes political football

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-11 [Older] How Germany selects its top judges

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-15 [Older] Court rejects German responsibility in Yemen drone case

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-15 [Older] US drone war: Berlin not absolved of all responsibility

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-13 [Older] Nigeria's Ex-President Buhari, Twice Leader of Africa's Most Populous Nation, Dies at 82

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-11 [Older] Nigeria Says US Pressuring Africa to Accept Venezuelan Deportees

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-15 [Older] Berlin to change racist street name after legal battle

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-11 [Older] Germany's business elite and the illusion of meritocracy

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • CBC ☛ 2025-07-10 [Older] Alberta bans school library books it deems sexually explicit

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-11 [Older] Romanian Jewish Representative Criticises President for Challenging Hate Speech Bill

  • Scheerpost ☛ 2025-07-12 [Older] USAID Leaks: Censorship As Regime Change

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-11 [Older] Kremlin Says Wartime Censorship Is Justified

  • Project Censored ☛ 2025-07-10 [Older] The Militarization and Weaponization of Media Literacy

  • Project Censored ☛ 2025-07-09 [Older] The Project Censored Newsletter—June 2025

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-14 [Older] Music industry faces censorship after Bob Vylan controversy

• Civil Rights/Policing

  • Vox ☛ 2025-07-10 [Older] America is finally moving past its post-9/11 security theater

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • CBC ☛ 2025-07-15 [Older] Rogers launching new satellite-to-mobile text messaging trial

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Patents

  • Counter Punch ☛ 2025-07-15 [Older] Cheap Drugs Matter: Why Make Them More Expensive With Patent Monopolies?

• Gemini* and Gopher

  • Personal/Opinions

    • wool and woodsmoke

    • 5 Questions, July 2025

      Christina formulated five new questions [1].

      Here's my take on them.

      1. Has a self-help book ever helped you? If yes, would you share the title and author?

      I like to read books about Stoicism, Epicureanism, the Tao Te Ching and so on. I don't think they are categorized as "self-help", but they have helped me.

    • Meaning

      I want to talk about the "sign-meaning" construction. Long have been the days when society created this construction. It can also be called "symbol-meaning", "word-meaning", "variable-value"... these are the only synonyms that I am remembering now.

      I also want to say a little bit about my journey.

      The first step of this journey, that I am on, is to realize this "sign-meaning" construction exists. And modern society relies heavily on this construct.

      Then, I have gotten to the conclusion that "meaning" existed (although there was no word for it) before "sign". So "meaning" is more important than "sign".