Leftovers

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-03 [Older] Children in art: A journey through history

• Hackaday ☛ The Decisioninator Decides Dinner, Saves Marriage

  For something non-explosive, this might be the most American project we’ve featured in a while. [Makerinator]’s domestic bliss was apparently threatened by the question “what shall we have for dinner”– that’s probably pretty universal. Deciding that the solution was automation is probably universal to software devs and associated personalities the world over. That the project, aptly called “The Decisioninator” apes a popular game-show mechanic to randomly select a fast-food restaurant? Only people with 100-octanes of freedom running through their veins can truly appreciate its genius.

• Hackaday ☛ Faux Potentiometers Use Magnets, No Contacts

  Ever tear open a potentiometer? If you haven’t, you can still probably guess what’s inside. A streak of resistive material with some kind of contact that moves across it as you rotate the shaft, right? Usually, you’d be right, but [T. K. Hareedran] writes about a different kind of pot: ones that use magnetic sensing.

• Science

  • Science Alert ☛ How Did a Croatian Freediver Hold His Breath 60 Times Longer Than Most?

    The science behind the world record.

  • Science Alert ☛ Baby Pterosaurs Killed in Violent Storm Solve 150-Million-Year Mystery

    A sad, bad end.

  • Science Alert ☛ Ant Queens Produce Offspring of Two Different Species, Stunning Scientists

    No other animal on Earth is known to do this.

• Career/Education

  • Latvia ☛ Rēzekne vocational school principal suspended

    On Friday, 5 September, the Ministry of Education and Science (IZM) issued an order to suspend Benita Virbule, principal of Rēzekne Technical College, for a period of probation.

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-03 [Older] US judge rules Cheeto Mussolini unlawfully canceled Harvard's grants

• Hardware

  • Hackaday ☛ Restoring A Cheap Fume Hood

    Semiconductor fabrication is complicated requiring nasty chemicals for everything from dopants to etchants. Working with such chemicals at home is dangerous and after releasing hydrochloride acid fumes into his lab, [ProjectsInFlight] decided the time was right to get one for a mere $200.

  • Hackaday ☛ Scott Baker’s Magnetic Bubble Memory Mega-Post

    Over on his blog our hacker [Scott Baker] has a Magnetic Bubble Memory Mega-Post.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-03 [Older] Desalination doesn't have to be bad for the environment

  • Federal News Network ☛ Health and Human Services employees call for RFK Jr.’s resignation

    Most recently, Kennedy fired the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

  • Latvia ☛ Covid incidence on the rise in Latvia

    With the increasing prevalence of Covid-19, the for Disease Prevention and Control Centre (SPKC) is urging people at increased risk of severe disease to get a seasonal vaccination, SPKC spokesperson Edīte Tettere told LETA.

  • Science Alert ☛ Nobody Likes Your Poop: How to Handle No. 2 Outdoors Responsibly

    The dirty truth.

  • Science Alert ☛ An Early Signal of Dementia Could Be Hidden in How We Read Faces

    Misreading emotions could be a sign.

  • Science Alert ☛ Scientists Revive 20-Million-Year-Old Gene to Help Fight Gout

    "We could potentially prevent multiple diseases at once."

  • Science Alert ☛ Better Sleep Could Help Your Brain Flush Out Dementia-Linked Toxins

    Here’s what we know so far.

  • Science Alert ☛ One Fecal Transplant May Lower Diabetes And Heart Disease Risk For 4 Years

    "Paving the way for next-generation probiotics."

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-30 [Older] How much screen time is safe for children?

• Proprietary

  • International Business Times ☛ 2025-09-03 [Older] Outrage as Apple Shockingly Brands 2017 MacBook Pro and 2015 Air 'Obsolete' — Even If They Still Work

  • Windows Central ☛ As Windows 10 support ends, users weigh costly extended security program against upgrading to Windows 11 [Ed: Move to GNU/Linux mentioned]

    In a month (and change), Microsoft is slated to cut support for Windows 10, but it's apparent that most users are against this move, as they either can't upgrade to Windows 11 because their devices don't meet the strict system requirements. That, or they are just plain reluctant due to the operating system's apparent flawed design elements.

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) / LLM Slop / Plagiarism

    • Project Censored ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] Venezuela, Propaganda, and the Promise (and Peril) of AI

    • NBC ☛ 2025-08-28 [Older] A hacker used AI to automate an ‘unprecedented’ cybercrime spree, Anthropic says

    • 404 Media ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] Hackers Threaten to Submit Artists’ Data to AI Models If Art Site Doesn’t Pay Up

    • The Cyber Show ☛ Sorrybots: Rise of the apology industry

      Apologising now accounts for the majority of all human labour. And if that's not true - because I simply just made it up - then I'm really sorry. And that makes it okay. Right?

      Whatever sector of the remains of Western industry you work in, chances are you spend a lot of your day saying sorry.

      You're sorry that you failed to deliver the goods and services you're responsible for. Whether that's the cancellation of software, trains, buses, appointments, medical procedures, meals, education, parcel deliveries… In Britain I feel we are all now caught-up in a perpetual "culture of disappointment". Since the pandemic we have normalised failure.

      Now, there's some very obvious bias here. Competence is invisible whereas failure stands out. We forget that over ninety percent of things work well, and go smoothly, because ten percent failure overshadows that. Ten percent is actually an intolerable threshold for failure in many areas of modernity. Imagine if on one in ten trips your car broke down, if one in every ten surgical procedures resulted in death, or if one in every ten court cases produced a miscarriage of justice.

• Security

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • European Commission ☛ Commission fines Surveillance Giant Google €2.95 billion over abusive practices in online advertising technology

    • European Commission ☛ Statement by Executive Vice-President Ribera on the adoption of the Surveillance Giant Google Adtech decision

    • Make Tech Easier ☛ 2025-08-31 [Older] Microsoft Wants Your Word Files in the Cloud, Here’s Why That Matters [Ed: Computer Weekly ☛ Would could go wrong?]

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-01 [Older] Can Albania really become a cashless economy? [Ed: Surveillance as the objective? ]

• Defence/Aggression

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-28 [Older] Minneapolis shooter 'obsessed' with killing children

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-27 [Older] Neo-Nazi's trans identity sparks debate over German law

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] Yoga — India's tool for global soft power

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini revokes Kamala Harris' Secret Service protection

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] US ends tariff exemption for low-value parcels

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] US President Cheeto Mussolini's sweeping tariffs largely illegal, but can stay in place for now, appeals court rules

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] US senators arrive in Taiwan amid tensions with China

  • BIA Net ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] Syrian Kurds may seek independence if Damascus resists decentralization, warns Muslim

  • ANF News ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] AI: Syrian government forces extrajudicially executed dozens of Druze people in Suwayda

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-03 [Older] Germany: AfD politician Krah testifies in Chinese spy case

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-30 [Older] Germany: Ireland voices concern over Berlin police violence

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-30 [Older] Germany's Merz faces trouble over 'autumn of reform'

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-30 [Older] Germany updates: AfD handed over half of parliamentary fines

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-30 [Older] Germany updates: Arrest warrant issued for neo-Nazi Liebich

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-03 [Older] Germany: Defense commissioner wants mandatory service

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-30 [Older] Conscription in Europe: The current state of play

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-03 [Older] Poles in the Wehrmacht: traitors or victims of Nazi Germany?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-03 [Older] Portugal: At least 15 dead in Lisbon funicular accident

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-03 [Older] US says attacks on suspected drug boats will happen again

  • Meduza ☛ ‘Prying each other’s fingers off the remote’: Tussle breaks out between Russian and North Korean leaders’ bodyguards over room temperature during Putin’s China trip — Meduza

  • Scheerpost ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] Sept. 11 Victims’ Lawsuit Against Saudi Government Can Go to Trial, Judge Rules

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-03 [Older] US, African Union Attend Second Oversight Committee Meeting for Congo-Rwanda Peace Deal

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] Western Balkans Smugglers Pushing West Africa Deeper Into Cocaine Trade, Report Says

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-30 [Older] At Least 70 Killed in Capsize of Migrant Boat off West Africa, Gambia Says

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-03 [Older] China, North Korea perform delicate diplomatic dance

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-03 [Older] Decoding China: How Xi aims to overtake US as a superpower

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] Marseille: Police shoot knife attacker in city center

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • Meduza ☛ Kazakhstan arrests Russian woman with ties to Navalny team under international warrant from Moscow — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ ‘Half of my life was spent there’ The human stories behind Vandazor’s forgotten factory — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ U.S. to end some security assistance programs for E.U. countries on Russia’s border — Financial Times — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Russia’s top lawmaker wants a ‘special military operation’ veteran teaching in every school across the country — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Kremlin spokesman says Russia’s state-backed messenger Max needs competition from Telegram and WhatsApp — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ ‘The best place to meet is the hero city Moscow’: Putin refuses to meet Zelensky in a third country. Here’s how hopes for a summit rose, then fizzled. — Meduza

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] Dissident Belarusian sports official goes missing in Turkey

• Transparency/Investigative Reporting

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-03 [Older] Argentina Officials Recover Missing Painting Stolen by Nazis and Seen in Real Estate Photo

• Environment

  • Vox ☛ 2025-08-28 [Older] 20 years after Katrina, New Orleans is back where it started

  • University of Michigan ☛ 2025-09-03 [Older] Big Oil’s billions are bankrolling climate denial

  • Truthdig ☛ 2025-09-03 [Older] A Canadian Economist Is Helping Cheeto Mussolini ‘Debunk’ Climate Science

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-03 [Older] UN Pushes Countries for New Climate Targets This Month

  • TruthOut ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini’s Federal Guidelines for AI May Turbocharge Climate Denial and Racist Bias

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] France Wants More Time to Clinch New EU Climate Target, Diplomats Say

  • Mexico News Daily ☛ 2025-09-01 [Older] Western Jalisco and the Riviera Nayarit: beaches, crocs and jungles

  • NL Times ☛ 2025-09-01 [Older] Political chaos damaging Dutch business climate

  • Bridge Michigan ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] Michigan farmers battle climate change in quest for perfect corn

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] Cruise Industry Group Sues to Challenge Hawaii's Tourism Tax Designed to Deal With Climate Change

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] Florida's Once-Pristine Springs Threatened by Pollution, Development and Climate Change

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-01 [Older] Afghanistan: Hundreds killed after strong earthquake

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-03 [Older] Afghanistan earthquake: Rescuers struggle to reach survivors

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-03 [Older] After Afghanistan's deadly earthquake, many injured women and girls are left without help because of Taliban restrictions

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] Afghanistan earthquake: Search on for survivors in remote areas

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] Landslides and mudslides: Why they happen

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] Sudan landslide kills over 1,000 people, says rebel group

  • Energy/Transportation

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] California Energy Regulators Pause Efforts to Penalize Oil Companies for High Profits

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-01 [Older] How humans made chickens grow and foxes shrink

    • CBC ☛ 2025-09-01 [Older] Wildfire damage casts shadow on another Canadian tourism season

    • BIA Net ☛ 2025-09-01 [Older] Injured sea turtle 'dragged hundreds of kilometers' to beach on Turkey’s northwestern coast

• Finance

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-01 [Older] Digital taxes put US-EU trade talks under pressure

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-03 [Older] India asks Germany for help in search for EU free trade deal

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] German unemployment rises above 3 million

  • International Business Times ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] What's The Bank Windfall Tax: UK Major Banks' Shares Tumble Following Calls to Tax Bank Profits

  • CBC ☛ 2025-08-28 [Older] Canada's biggest banks beat 3rd quarter expectations as trade pressures ease

  • CBC ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] Small businesses that relied on duty-free U.S. shipping wonder if they can survive without it

  • CBC ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] Canadian economy shrinks 1.6% in 2nd quarter as U.S. tariffs squeeze exports

  • TruthOut ☛ 2025-09-03 [Older] Democratic Senators Demand Banks Disclose Policies on Predatory Overdraft Fees

  • CBC ☛ 2025-08-28 [Older] Union vows to fight 'devastating' upcoming closure of Ontario plant that bottles Crown Royal whisky

  • BIA Net ☛ 2025-09-01 [Older] Turkey’s state postal service accused of forcing couriers into gig work

  • CBC ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] B.C. billionaire wanting Bay leases doesn't have cash to launch new chain: landlord

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] Study: Over 130,000 Ugandan civil servants 'bought' jobs

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] Anna Wintour names Chloe Malle as Vogue's next US editor

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] What does Poland's president hope to achieve in Washington?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] Guyana votes for president amid oil boom, tensions with Venezuela

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] India: Court again denies bail in 2020 Delhi riots case

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-30 [Older] Taking the 'red pill': From meme to political ideology

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-30 [Older] Middle East: US faces backlash over Abbas visa ban

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] South Korea's ex-first lady Kim charged with bribery

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] Tanzania heads to polls amid party and opposition splits

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] Thailand PM Paetongtarn Shinawatra sacked over Cambodia call

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] Thailand: What's next after PM Paetongtarn leaves office?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-30 [Older] Indonesia: Blaze kills 3 amid protests over driver death

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-31 [Older] Indonesia: President calls protests 'treason and terrorism'

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] Indonesia: Protests escalate after death of demonstrator

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] Indonesia: At least 20 missing in protests — rights group

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] What is behind Indonesia's deadly protests?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-03 [Older] DRC: Mutamba graft trial exposes justice system fault lines

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-03 [Older] EU Commission approves 'milestone' Mercosur, Mexico deals

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-01 [Older] 'Serious danger' if Cheeto Mussolini interferes in Fed, says ECB chief

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-01 [Older] 'The Haydn Expedition': A very democratic orchestra

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-01 [Older] Venezuela accuses the US of seeking 'regime change'

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-01 [Older] Why some countries want fewer public holidays

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-31 [Older] En route to Germany, Afghans face deportation in Pakistan

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-01 [Older] Germany updates: Afghan nationals arrive after visa battle

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-31 [Older] EuroBasket: Germany's Schröder decries racial abuse

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-31 [Older] Germany updates: Merkel's 'Wir schaffen das!' 10 years on

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] Bavaria's Markus Söder brings culinary matters to politics

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] Gerard Depardieu ordered to stand trial for rape — lawyer

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] Germany's Merz: Cheeto Mussolini's Swiss tariffs 'exorbitantly high'

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] Germany updates: Wadephul kicks off India trip in Bengaluru

  • Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-03 [Older] Fact check: Is the crime rate higher in Democrat-run cities?

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • BIA Net ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] Turkey blocks access to 29 dating, video chat apps

  • BIA Net ☛ 2025-09-03 [Older] Turkey blocked record number of websites in 2024, surpassing 300,000

  • ANF News ☛ 2025-09-04 [Older] Report: Over 1.2 million websites blocked in Turkey

  • EFF ☛ 2025-09-03 [Older] 🤐 This Censorship Law Turns Parents Into Content Cops | EFFector 37.11

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] Guinea-Bissau cracks down on foreign media as elections near

  • Spiegel ☛ 2025-08-30 [Older] Photographing the Suffering in Gaza: A Palestinian Photojournalist Finds Himself at the Center of Controversy

  • ANF News ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] DFG monthly report documents ongoing repression against the press in Turkey

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] DW chief condemns 'unacceptable' attack on journalists

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-03 [Older] Berlusconi family takes over German TV group ProSiebenSat1

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-31 [Older] Hundreds at Voice of America and parent agency to lose jobs

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-01 [Older] South Korea halts anti-North radio broadcasts

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-01 [Older] Ethiopia tightens grip on media ahead of 2026 vote

• Civil Rights/Policing

  • International Business Times ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] Saudi Arabia to Slap Fake 'Sickie' Workers with £20k Fines or Jail. Should Britain Do the Same?

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • Hackaday ☛ Engineering For Slow Internet Even When Not Stuck In Antarctica

    With the days of dial-up and pitiful 2G data connections long behind most of us, it would seem tempting to stop caring about how much data an end-user is expected to suck down that big and wide broadband tube. This is a problem if your respective tube happens to be a thin straw and you’re located in a base somewhere in the Antarctic. Take it from [Paul Coldren], who was stationed at a number of Antarctic research stations as an IT specialist for a total of 14.5 months starting in August of 2022.

  • APNIC ☛ From OpenDNSSEC to Knot DNS

    Guest Post: How to use Knot with HSMs, seamlessly transition from OpenDNSSEC, and switch to in-memory keys.

  • APNIC ☛ Preventing route leaks made simple: BGP roleplay with Junos (RFC 9234)

    Guest Post: For 35 years, accidental BGP route leaks and hijacks have been routine — a simple tweak, now defined in RFC 9234, could have prevented most of them.

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