Leftovers

• Science

  • France24 ☛ In cosmic first, scientists see planets take shape around a star to form solar system

    Astronomers have captured the earliest stages of planet formation around a young sun-like star, offering a rare glimpse into the birth of a solar system. The discovery provides the first conclusive evidence that planet formation is already under way in such environments – a breakthrough in understanding how Earth-like worlds may form.

  • NYPost ☛ New tiny world beyond Neptune discovered — boosting ‘Planet Nine’ theory

    Researchers use the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii to find a small object on the outer edge of the Solar System. Nicknamed “Ammonite," researchers say it could provide more evidence to the hypothetical “Planet Nine" beyond Neptune.

  • European Commission ☛ Factsheet: Life Sciences Strategy

  • New York Times ☛ Don’t Like Eating Insects? Your Pet Might.

    Could insect meal and lab-grown meat be a more sustainable, ethical way to feed our cats and dogs?

  • New York Times ☛ Recipients of a U.S. Climate Science Fellowship Are Put on Unpaid Leave

    Researchers in the NOAA program were furloughed because funds to pay them were not available.

  • New York Times ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows

    An analysis by the American Association for the Advancement of Science shows the impact of the administration’s budget plan on the kind of studies that produce the most breakthroughs.

  • New York Times ☛ Daniel Kleppner, Physicist Who Brought Precision to GPS, Dies at 92

    He worked to develop an atomic clock that is essential to global positioning systems and helped confirm a rare state of matter predicted by Albert Einstein.

  • New York Times ☛ Monday Briefing: America’s Brain Drain and the World

    Plus, Jannik Sinner wins Wimbledon.

  • NYPost ☛ EPA puts 139 employees on leave over ‘declaration of dissent’ letter

    The four-page dissent letter, posted on the website for anti-Dihydroxyacetone Man activist group Standup for Science, lays out several concerns EPA employees have with Administrator Lee Zeldin.

  • NYPost ☛ Astronomers stumble upon ancient radio signals from distant galaxy cluster

    Astronomers studying a distant galaxy cluster stumbled upon ancient radio signals that might hold clues to the formation of the early universe.

  • CS Monitor ☛ Helpful microbes: For cleaning up oil spills and helping crops grow

    Progress roundup: Science enables Brazil to transform its economy, German researchers to find a microbe that makes detergent, and California to filter PFAS.

  • BIA Net ☛ Maltepe thermal walks: Citizen science project highlights local impact of heatwaves

    The project combines scientific measurements with residents’ experiences to strengthen the search for solutions to the climate crisis.

  • New York Times ☛ How New DNA Science Could Help More Families of the Missing

    Emerging methods are improving the ability to identify even highly degraded human remains.

  • New York Times ☛ Vietnam Aches for Its M.I.A.’s. Will America Stop Funding Science to Identify Them?

    New breakthroughs in DNA analysis offer a chance to identify more of the lost from wars and disasters stretching back decades — if the U.S. helps.

• Career/Education

  • Latvia ☛ Latvian board game aims to promote STEM skills

    A new educational quiz game, STEM Up!, has been developed to spark curiosity and enhance skills in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) reports Labs of Latvia.

  • France24 ☛ US 'science refugees' arrive at French university after Convicted Felon spending cuts

    Eight researchers who left the US as a result of President The Insurrectionist's spending cuts have arrived at France's University of Aix-Marseille as part of a programme designed to attract American academics.

• Hardware

  • The Conversation ☛ 2025-08-08 [Older] Today’s humanoid robots look remarkable, but there’s a design flaw holding them back

  • Hackaday ☛ Liberating A Collapsible Chair From A Single Piece Of Wood

    Over on his YouTube channel our hacker [GrandpaAmu] liberates a collapsible chair from a single piece of wood.

  • Hackaday ☛ Gentle Processing Makes Better Rubber That Cracks Less

    Rubber! It starts out as a goopy material harvested from special trees, and is then processed into a resilient, flexible material used for innumerable important purposes. In the vast majority of applications, rubber is prized for its elasticity, which eventually goes away with repeated stress cycles, exposure to heat, and time. When a rubber part starts to show cracks, it’s generally time to replace it.

  • Hackaday ☛ Why Lorde’s Clear CD Has So Many Playback Issues

    Despite the regularly proclaimed death of physical media, new audio albums are still being published on CD and vinyl. There’s something particularly interesting about Lorde’s new album Virgin however — the CD is a completely clear disc. Unfortunately there have been many reports of folks struggling to get the unique disc to actually play, and some sharp-eyed commentators have noted that the CD doesn’t claim to be Red Book compliant by the absence of the Compact CD logo.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • New Yorker ☛ Calculating the Damage of Vaccine Skepticism

    It’s clear that we’re on the precipice of a surge in preventable diseases. But how bad will it get?

  • New York Times ☛ A 37,000-Year Chronicle of What Once Ailed Us

    In a new genetic study, scientists have charted the rise of 214 human diseases across ancient Europe and Asia.

  • NYPost ☛ Archaeologists uncover 3,500-year-old rice remains in oldest part of remote region

    The remains of 3,500-year-old rice were recently found in Guam — making it the earliest known evidence of rice in Remote Oceania.

  • France24 ☛ Does sunscreen increase the risk of skin cancer? Here's the science

    A recent anti-sunscreen narrative has swept social control media claiming that sunscreen increases the risk of skin cancer due to toxic chemicals, and that as SPF usage has increased, so has melanomas. What’s the scientific backing behind these claims? Vedika Bahl talks it through in Truth or Fake.

  • Science Alert ☛ Chlorophyll & Collagen: Does Science Back TikTok's Favorite Supplements?

    Cold, hard facts could save you money.

  • TruthOut ☛ 2025-08-09 [Older] Food Banks Are Getting Into the Controversial Carbon Credit Business

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-12 [Older] Turkey's hazelnut frost threatens chocolate supply chains

  • The Conversation ☛ 2025-08-13 [Older] Can’t sleep? Your ability to adapt to shiftwork and the changing seasons may be determined by your genes

  • The Conversation ☛ 2025-08-12 [Older] World’s ‘oldest baby’: what a 30-year-old embryo tells us about the future of fertility

• Proprietary

  • Social Control Media

    • The Conversation ☛ 2025-08-11 [Older] Politicians are using social control media to campaign – new research tells us what works and what doesn’t

  • Windows TCO / Windows Bot Nets

    • Make Tech Easier ☛ 2025-08-13 [Older] New BYOVD Attack Can Evade Microsoft Defender and Install Ransomware – How to Protect Yourself

    • USDOJ ☛ 2025-08-11 [Older] Justice Department Announces Coordinated Disruption Actions Against BlackSuit (Royal) Ransomware Operations

• Security

  • Security Week ☛ Critical Flaws Patched in Rockwell FactoryTalk, Micro800, ControlLogix Products

    Rockwell Automation has published several advisories describing critical and high-severity vulnerabilities affecting its products.

  • 2025-08-12 [Older] Hackers post stolen St. Paul data online as efforts to reset city employee passwords surge forward

  • The Korea Times ☛ 2025-08-11 [Older] Korea wins world’s top hacking contest for 4th consecutive year

  • Integrity/Availability/Authenticity

    • 2025-08-12 [Older] Updating: Two Telegram channels and two accounts banned, one bounty offered, and BreachForums goes down

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • International Business Times ☛ 2025-08-13 [Older] YouTube Sparks Outrage With AI Age Check That Scans Your Viewing Habits to Decide If You're an Adult

  • Confidentiality

    • PC Mag ☛ 2025-08-13 [Older] Site Behind Major SSN Leak Returns With Detailed Data on Millions: How to Opt Out

• Defence/Aggression

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-13 [Older] South Africa Dismisses U.S. Human Rights Report as 'Deeply Flawed'

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-13 [Older] East African Migrants Drive Surge of Arrivals in Spain's Balearic Islands

  • ADF ☛ 2025-08-12 [Older] Ethiopia and Nigeria Collaborate on African-Made Drones

  • Counter Punch ☛ 2025-08-08 [Older] African Migration and the Violence of Global Capitalism

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-08 [Older] South African court orders return of Zambian leader's body

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-08 [Older] South African Court Orders Repatriation of Ex-Zambian Leader Lungu's Body

  • New York Times ☛ Israel and U.S. Smashed Iran Nuclear Site That Grew After Convicted Felon Quit 2015 Accord

    Nuclear experts say the president’s rejection of the restrictive deal forced him to neutralize an Iranian threat of his own making.

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-13 [Older] Germany: 1,300 Syrians returned home since fall of Assad

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-08 [Older] UN Committee Probes Disappearance of Syrian Man Deported by Austria

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-10 [Older] Jordan and U.S. to Join Meeting on Rebuilding Syria

  • CPJ ☛ 2025-08-08 [Older] Israeli forces chase, hold, and shoot at journalists in southern Syria

  • HRW ☛ 2025-08-11 [Older] Saudi Arabia: Executions Surge in 2025

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-08 [Older] US doubles bounty on Venezuela's Maduro to $50 million

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • Latvia ☛ Baltic Freedom and Peace Ship celebrated 40 years on

      On Thursday, July 24, 2025, the 40th anniversary of the remarkable voyage of the ‘Baltic Freedom and Peace Ship’ (‘Baltijas brīvības un miera kuģis’/BBMK), will be celebrated at the Latvian Occupation Museum.  The seminar will be opened by the Minister of Education and Science, Dace Melbārde, together with the heads of the embassies of Sweden and Finland.

    • Meduza ☛ ‘Ukraine and Alaska — Russian never again!’ Hundreds of protesters rally in Anchorage to support Kyiv ahead of Trump–Putin summit — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ ‘A camp, you could call it’: Russian journalists covering Trump–Putin summit bunk in sports arena amid Anchorage hotel shortage — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Trump discusses prisoner release with Lukashenko before Alaska summit with Putin — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ ‘There’s no deal until there’s a deal’: After meeting for nearly three hours in Alaska, Trump and Putin have little to show — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ ‘How is it that a war criminal is actually coming to America?’ Ukrainian refugees in Alaska on Putin coming to the U.S. for talks with Trump — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ ‘Dialogue for the sake of dialogue’: Kremlin tells state media to highlight Putin’s role, lower expectations, and blame Ukraine in summit coverage — Meduza

    • NYPost ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man and Putin’s Body Language Broken Down: The Showman Versus the Chess Player

      After a tense moment during The Insurrectionist and Vladimir Putin’s high-stakes meeting in Alaska, a body language expert spoke with The Post about what we may have missed at first glance. Dr. Beth Dawson broke down the exchange between Convicted Felon, Putin, and reporters, in which she saw “definite sign of irritation” from the world leaders.

    • NYPost ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man claims ‘great progress’ in Putin meeting — but holds details close pending calls to Zelensky, European allies

      Hell Toupée proclaimed Friday he and Russian President Vladimir Putin made "great progress" toward ending Moscow's war on Ukraine after meeting for nearly three hours in Alaska — while cautioning "there's no deal until there's a deal."

• Environment

  • New York Times ☛ Explaining the Roll Cloud Spotted in Portugal This Week

    A “roll cloud” spotted off the coast of Portugal looked like something out of a movie. Here’s the science behind it.

  • NYPost ☛ Space capsule carrying ashes of 166 people — and cannabis seeds — lost after crashing into Pacific Ocean

    The ashes were lost alongside a collection of cannabis plant matter and seeds donated by a citizen science project seeking to "make science free again."

  • New York Times ☛ Antarctica Faces Tense Future as U.S. Science Budget Shrinks

    The continent is dedicated to research and cooperation, but proposed funding cuts in the Convicted Felon administration and actions by other world powers may alter the environment.

  • Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2025-08-13 [Older] Heat Kills. Cheeto Mussolini Has Ensured There Will Be More Victims.

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-13 [Older] People Often Make Wrong Climate Choices, a Study Says. One Surprise Is Owning a Dog

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-13 [Older] Groups Sue Cheeto Mussolini Agencies for Using 'Secret' Report to Reverse Core of US Climate Rules

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-13 [Older] FEMA Abruptly Disbands Youth Advisory Council, but Students Say Their Climate Advocacy Won't Stop

  • Vox ☛ 2025-08-13 [Older] Extreme heat can raise newborn death risk by 22 percent

  • Truthdig ☛ 2025-08-12 [Older] Revealed: How the Meat Industry Uses Environmental Groups to Make Beef Seem Climate-Friendly

  • Counter Punch ☛ 2025-08-08 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini White House Elevates Climate “Skepticism”

  • Energy/Transportation

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-08 [Older] Why are investors still financing fossil fuels?

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • The Conversation ☛ 2025-08-12 [Older] Wild salmon are the Zendayas of the fish world – what that tells us about conservation

    • The Conversation ☛ 2025-08-12 [Older] Antarctic leopard seal ‘songs’ are surprisingly similar to nursery rhymes

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-11 [Older] Hundreds Evacuated in Northwestern Turkey as Authorities Fight Wildfires

    • BIA Net ☛ 2025-08-10 [Older] Powerful earthquake hits northwestern Turkey, one dead as buildings collapse

    • NYPost ☛ Bears escape wildlife park enclosure and feast on week’s worth of honey

      The duo feasted on "a week's worth of honey."

    • CS Monitor ☛ Remembering Scopes: How 100-year-old ‘Monkey Trial’ helped shape evangelical Christianity

      During the Scopes Trial over teaching evolution in public school, modern science clashed with religion. Its effects helped shape politics today.

    • Vox ☛ 2025-08-12 [Older] The Cheeto Mussolini administration apparently cares about…eagles?

• Finance

  • New York Times ☛ Mark Kapo-berg and Priscilla Chan Narrow CZI’s Focus to Science Efforts [Ed: Days after doing reputation laundering for one tech broligarch the New York Times doing another: Kapo-berg]

    The tech titan and his wife once had sprawling ambitions for their Chan Kapo-berg Initiative. Now their efforts in politics, education and housing have been cut back to focus on science.

  • Latvia ☛ LTV: Government relies on algorithm to identify budget cuts

    From 439,199 euros at the Ministry of Defence to 23,220,238 euros at the Ministry of Transport and 22,389,505 euros in the Ministry of Education and Science – such widely varying amounts of savings in the 2026 state budget for various departments have been determined by the Ministry of Finance, implementing the government's decision to reduce expenditures by at least 150 million euros.

  • Latvia ☛ Extra space funding approved by Latvian government

    The Latvian government has approved amendments proposed by the Ministry of Education and Science, providing for an additional €4.9 million investment in European Space Agency (ESA) programmes, reports Labs of Latvia.

  • International Business Times ☛ 2025-08-11 [Older] Amid Mastercard-Visa Censorship Fiasco, Cheeto Mussolini Hits Back at Financial Giants Over 'Unlawful Banking'

  • Mexico News Daily ☛ 2025-08-13 [Older] Tourism from Canada jumps 11.8% amid US boycott

  • CBC ☛ 2025-08-13 [Older] Air Canada says it will begin cancelling flights ahead of possible weekend strike

  • International Business Times ☛ 2025-08-13 [Older] Air Canada Strike Chaos: 130,000 Passengers Face Cancellations – Your Survival Guide

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-13 [Older] Canada's Gildan Activewear Is Buying HanesBrands for $2.2 Billion

  • CBC ☛ 2025-08-13 [Older] B.C. billionaire wanting Hudson's Bay leases says landlord concerns are 'misguided'

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-08 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini tariffs: Did Swiss gold refiners fuel the crisis?

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • NL Times ☛ 2025-08-11 [Older] 14 muslim groups file hate speech complaint against Wilders over election post

  • Counter Punch ☛ 2025-08-13 [Older] Slaying and Censoring the Journalists: The Murder of Anas al-Sharif

  • Project Censored ☛ 2025-08-11 [Older] From Factory Farms to Firewalls: Resisting Corporate Power

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • CS Monitor ☛ A transformative moment in American journalism

    The nation’s first “trial of the century” was not just a conflict between science and religion.

• Civil Rights/Policing

  • France24 ☛ ICC seeks arrest of two Taliban leaders accused of persecution of women

    The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant for Taliban leaders Hibatullah Akhundzada, Afghanistan's Supreme Leader, and Abdul Hakim Haqqani, the president of the country's Supreme Court, over their role in the Taliban's "persecution of Afghan girls and women" by depriving them of their rights to "education, private and family life, as well as their freedom of movement, expression, thought, conscience and religion." The Taliban responded to the accusations by saying they do not recognize the ICC's legitimacy.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• IP Kat ☛ 2025-08-12 [Older] Once the genie is out of the bottle…

• International Business Times ☛ 2025-08-12 [Older] Epic Scores Landmark Win Over Apple and Google in Australia, But Apple and Google's Next Move Could Change Everything

• US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-12 [Older] Epic Games Wins Partial Victory in Australian Court Against Google and Apple

• US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-13 [Older] Amazon Expands Its Perishable Delivery Service, Putting Pressure on Traditional Grocers

• Patents

  • IP Kat ☛ 2025-08-08 [Older] An "immunogenic composition" is not a vaccine (T 0070/23)

  • Kangaroo Courts

    • IP Kat ☛ 2025-08-11 [Older] Divergence between the UPC and EPO on claim interpretation and description definitions (Agfa v Gucci, UPC_CFI_278/2023) [Ed: UPC and EPO both violate the law and both must be abolished; this is corruption taking over the entire patent system]

• Trademarks

  • IP Kat ☛ 2025-08-11 [Older] [Guest post] Retromark Volume XVI: the last six months in trade marks