Leftovers

• Science

  • Science Alert ☛ NASA Confirms: 6,000 Planets Beyond Our Solar System Discovered

    And counting!

  • Science Alert ☛ The Sun Flashed a Giant Heart at Earth This Week, And We Love It

    Awwww.

  • Science Alert ☛ Being Too Thin May Be Riskier Than Extra Weight, Major Study Reveals

    'Fat but fit’ could be healthier.

  • Science Alert ☛ Ozempic in a Pill? Clinical Trial Finds Oral Semaglutide Works For Weight Loss

    This could help a lot of people.

  • Science Alert ☛ Shockingly Common Injury Linked With Increased Dementia Risk

    An early warning?

  • Science Alert ☛ Microplastics Linked to Worsening Alzheimer's Symptoms in Mice

    Genetics and environment could combine.

  • Science Alert ☛ Strange Green Glow From Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Has Scientists Puzzled

    There's a fascinating mystery here.

  • Science Alert ☛ Aliens Could Eavesdrop on Our Radio Communications, NASA Study Says

    E.T. phone home?

  • Science Alert ☛ Great White Sharks Were Scared From Their Habitat by Just Two Predators

    There's something even the great white fears.

• Hardware

  • Hackaday ☛ Haasoscope Pro: Open-Everything 2 GHz USB Oscilloscope

    Our hacker [haas] is at it again with the Haasoscope Pro, a full redesign of the original Haasoscope, which was a successful Crowd Supply campaign back in 2018.

  • Hackaday ☛ Test Pattern Generator For SCART And RGB TVs

    CRTs don’t last forever, and neither do the electronics that drive them. When you have a screen starting to go wonky, then you need a way to troubleshoot which is at fault. A great tool for that is a pattern generator, but they’re not the easiest to come by these days. [baritonomarchetto] needed a pattern generator to help repair his favourite arcade machine, and decided to make his own DIY Portable RGB CRT Test Pattern Generator.

  • Hackaday ☛ Fire Extinguishers, Optical Density Ratings And Safely Using Home Lasers

    After [Ross] from FauxHammer miniature model fame got lured into reviewing laser engravers and similar via the Bambu Lab H2D’s laser module, he found himself getting slightly nervous about the whole ‘safety’ aspect of these lasers. After all, lasers can not only light stuff on fire, but it’s a well-known fact that even reflected laser light can be sufficient to cause permanent damage to your retinas. Or worse.

  • Hackaday ☛ Fnirsi IPS3608: A Bench Power Supply With Serious Flaws

    Fnirsi is one of those brands that seem to pop up more and more often, usually for portable oscilloscopes and kin. Their IPS3608 bench power supply is a bit of a departure from that, offering a mains-powered PSU that can deliver up to 36 VDC and 8 A in a fairly compact, metal enclosure. Recently [Joftec] purchased one of these units in order to review it and ended up finding a few worrying flaws in the process.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-12 [Older] Germany cleans up illegal trash dumped across the Czech border

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-13 [Older] Tokyo hosts World Athletics Championships, amid gender testing controversy

  • Science Alert ☛ Soccer Headers Damage Brains Even Without Concussions, Large Study Finds

    "Likely to be a cause of cognitive deficits."

  • Latvia ☛ Three for the Weekend: Mushrooms, Potatoes and Other Harvest

    Is autumn your favourite cosy season? What would a Latvian autumn be without mushrooms, potatoes, apples, root vegetables and other colourful harvest?

  • Pro Publica ☛ Senators Demand Names of Foreign Drugmakers Skirting FDA Import Bans

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-13 [Older] Chagas disease: 'Kissing bug' spreads in the US

• Privatisation/Privateering

  • Federal News Network ☛ Military families face health, safety hazards due to poor oversight of privatized housing

    Defense Department's Office of Inspector General found that military housing officials did not correctly perform any of the inspections the watchdog observed.

• Security

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • BIA Net ☛ Privacy violations at İstanbul state dorm: 'We are afraid to leave our rooms'

      Images shared on social control media showed broken cabinet locks and intimate items defaced, including bras marked with hearts.

• Defence/Aggression

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-13 [Older] Kashmiri artisans feel the bite of Cheeto Mussolini's India tariffs

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-13 [Older] Myanmar: Alleged junta airstrike kills students in Rakhine

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-13 [Older] Germany: Police seize 400 kilograms of cocaine at Hamburg port

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-13 [Older] Istanbul district mayor Mutlu arrested amid CHP crackdown

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-13 [Older] Istanbul district mayor Mutlu arrested amid crackdown on CHP

  • Pro Publica ☛ Pentagon Bans Tech Vendors From Using China-Based Personnel

  • Pro Publica ☛ Ohio Chaplain Ayman Soliman Freed From Jail as DHS Drops Deportation Case

    An Egyptian chaplain whose detention sparked a community uproar and became a test of counterterrorism powers in immigration court was released from an Ohio jail on Friday as the Department of Homeland Security abruptly withdrew its case against him.

    The outcome is a victory for 51-year-old Ayman Soliman, a popular Muslim cleric whose hundreds of supporters include families he counseled at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. The DHS move to restore his asylum status and drop deportation efforts comes after court filings documented errors and inconsistencies in the government’s evidence portraying him as a terrorist.

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-14 [Older] The prison economy: Behind bars, everyone's making money

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-13 [Older] Border wall between Azerbaijan and Armenia divides village of Kirants

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • Meduza ☛ Russia’s federal censor proposes restricting calls from domestic SIM cards in roaming mode — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Russians who remotely obtained Kazakhstani bank cards are reportedly being called in for questioning by police in Russia — Meduza

    • Latvia ☛ Decoy drone tail washed up on beach near Ventspils, Latvia

      On Thursday, 18 September, the tail of a drone was found on the beach of Vārve parish, Ventspils municipality. The State Police have now cordoned off the area. The Minister of Defence has stated that the debris is the tail of a Gerbera decoy drone, which is not dangerous. The National Armed Forces (NBS) stated that, judging by the markings and design, the drone was manufactured by the Russian Armed Forces.

    • Latvia ☛ Latvia backs Estonian call for NATO Article 4 consultations after latest Russian airspace violation

      Three Russian fighter jets entered Estonian airspace on Friday morning. Following the incident, the Estonian government has requested the activation of NATO's Article 4 – consultations between member states, the same mechanism Poland recently used when Russian drones entered its airspace.

    • European Commission ☛ Statement by President von der Leyen on the 19th package of sanctions against Russia

      European Commission Statement Brussels, 19 Sep 2025 Unfortunately, over the past month, Russia has shown the full extent of its contempt for diplomacy and international law. It has launched some of the largest-sc...

    • Security Week ☛ Turla and Gamaredon Working Together in Fresh Ukrainian Intrusions

      Turla malware was deployed in February on select systems that Gamaredon had compromised in January.

    • Meduza ☛ ‘They forgot about him’ Three years ago, Putin’s ‘partial mobilization’ sent 9,000 men from two Siberian regions to war. Today, a third are dead or disabled. — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ 15,000 monthly supporters now have Meduza’s back. Thank you!! Our crowdfunding campaign continues after hitting a crucial milestone — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ More questions than answers: Navalny’s widow says lab tests confirmed he was poisoned, but details are scarce. Here’s what we know and what we don’t. — Meduza

• Environment

  • Energy/Transportation

    • Hackaday ☛ Unobtanium No More; Perhaps We Already Have All The Elements We Need

      It’s been a trope of the news cycle over the past decade or so, that there’s some element which we all need but which someone else has the sole supply, and that’s a Bad Thing. It’s been variously lithium, or rare earth elements, and the someone else is usually China, which makes the perfect mix of ingredients for a good media scare story. Sometimes these things cross from the financial pages to the geopolitical stage, even at times being cited in bellicose language. But is there really a shortage?

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-12 [Older] DR Congo: Boat accidents leave over 190 dead, scores missing

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-12 [Older] EU to fast-track review of 2035 fuel engine phase-out

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-13 [Older] Western Germany: AfD set for success in local elections

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-13 [Older] Why Chancellor Merz is concerned about local elections

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-13 [Older] UK: Clashes with police reported at huge far-right rally

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-13 [Older] Pope Leo turns 70 and remains an enigma

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-13 [Older] Taliban say they met US diplomats, talked 'bilateral' ties

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-13 [Older] Thailand grants Myanmar refugees working rights

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • BIA Net ☛ 'Iran is our country, and no one can take it from us'

    We spoke with Amir Etminan, the editor of Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s Palme d’Or-winning new film "It Was Just an Accident," about the film, Iranian cinema, and censorship.

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • APNIC ☛ PeeringDB’s 2025 User Survey

    Guest Post: PeeringDB is running an anonymous user survey until the end of October 2025

Monopolies/Monopsonies