Leftovers

• Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications

  • PC World ☛ Google confirms plans to merge Android and ChromeOS, PCs and phones

    So Google wants to create a single ecosystem that combines the worlds of PCs, notebooks, smartphones, and tablets. Google has thus far developed separate operating systems for these different devices, including the aforementioned Android and ChromeOS.

  • Futurism ☛ Secret Service Says It Destroyed a Secret Cell Phone Doomsday Device in NYC

    The scale of the scheme sounds staggering. The Secret Service said that its agents seized more than 100,000 SIM cards and 300 SIM servers, spread across five different safe houses in or around the city. All were unoccupied, though authorities also seized 80 grams of cocaine, illegal firearms, as well as computers and cell phones.

  • Tedium ☛ NYC Telecom Raid: What’s Up With Those Weird SIM Banks?

    A recent Secret Service raid uncovers an insane network of SIM cards—along with perhaps the most unusual piece of hardware I’ve ever seen. Here’s the deal with the SIM bank.

  • Purism ☛ Quantum Safe Private Communications: Building the Future Before the Threat Arrives

    This is not an academic exercise. It’s a national security imperative.

  • Purism ☛ Safety Without Surveillance: Designing Digital Sovereignty for All Ages

• Hardware

  • New York Times ☛ There Are More Robots Working in China Than the Rest of the World Combined [Ed: Says less about robotics than about how much of the world's production/manufacturing is done in China]

    China has embarked on a campaign to use more robots in its factories, transforming its manufacturing industries and becoming the dominant maker.

  • Graphics Stack

    • Wired ☛ A Former Apple Luminary Sets Out to Create the Ultimate GPU Software

      But Modular’s long-term goal is even more ambitious: to loosen the software choke hold that companies like Nvidia and AMD have on the industry, and become the de facto software for AI chips.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • New York Times ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man May Try to Force Drugmakers to Match European Prices

    A federal website notice, deleted and then reposted by the administration, provides a hint that more aggressive pricing policies may be coming.

  • New York Times ☛ Kennedy Says U.S. Rejects Global Health Goals

    The nation’s top federal health official said the United States could not support W.H.O. policies that he claimed promoted abortion and “radical gender ideology.”

  • Bridge Michigan ☛ What’s happening with Legionnaires’ disease in Michigan

    Michigan has reported 34 cases of legionellosis in the last four weeks. Here’s what you need to know about the disease.

  • Futurism ☛ Psychiatric Facilities Are Being Bombarded by Hey Hi (AI) Users

    "We are witnessing the emergence of an entirely new frontier of mental health crises."

  • New York Times ☛ After Centuries of Stigma, South Korea Moves to Legalize Tattoo Artists

    For years, South Korean tattooists have had to work in underground studios or windowless backrooms. They may soon be able to practice their craft in the open.

  • The Straits Times ☛ South Korea passes landmark Bill to legalise tattoo artists

    In South Korea, tattooing is a procedure that only medical professionals can legally perform.

  • The Straits Times ☛ South Korean beauty brand Innisfree apologises after skincare ad sparks backlash

    The campaign drew criticism, particularly from female users, who accused the brand of being tone-deaf.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Malaysia’s Health Ministry targets vape ban by mid-2026, says minister

    The final timeline would depend on Cabinet’s approval.

  • New York Times ☛ Soybeans Were America’s Biggest Export to China. Now, Sales Are Down to Zero.

    China stopped buying soybeans from America in May, placing a retaliatory tariff on the bumper crop after Hell Toupée increased levies on goods from China.

• Proprietary

  • Desktop/Laptop

    • Nico Cartron ☛ Infinite Mac: experiment Macintosh/NeXT systems in your browser!

      And indeed, you can play with all sorts of Mac/NeXT machines: [...]

• Security

  • LWN ☛ Security updates for Thursday

    Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (grub2 and kernel), Debian (chromium and libxslt), Fedora (chromium, expat, libssh, and webkitgtk), Oracle (avahi, firefox, ImageMagick, kernel, libtpms, and mysql), Red Hat (kernel), SUSE (bird3, expat, kernel, and tiff), and Ubuntu (dpkg, gnuplot, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.15, linux-intel-iotg, linux-intel-iotg-5.15, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-tegra, linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15, linux-oracle, linux-raspi, linux-riscv-5.15, linux-xilinx-zynqmp, linux, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-6.14, linux-oracle, linux-realtime, linux-riscv, linux-riscv-6.14, linux-aws-fips, linux-fips, linux-gcp-fips, linux-azure, linux-azure-fips, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-6.8, linux-intel-iot-realtime, linux-realtime, linux-oem-6.14, linux-oracle-5.15, linux-realtime-6.14, and python-eventlet).

  • Security Week ☛ Cisco Patches Zero-Day Flaw Affecting Routers and Switches

    The security defect allows remote attackers with administrative privileges to execute arbitrary code as the root user.

  • Federal News Network ☛ CISA orders civilian agencies to immediately patch Cisco vulnerabilities amid widespread attacks

    “CISA is directing federal agencies to take immediate action to reduce risk to federal systems upon which our American population depends,” Chris Butera said.

  • Federal News Network ☛ The NDAA’s wake-up call: Congress urges DoD to prioritize phishing-resistant authentication

    Joe Scalone, a senior solutions architect at Yubico, explains why our national security depends on this long-needed change to protecting data and systems.

  • Security Week ☛ Salesfarce Hey Hi (AI) Hack Enabled CRM Data Theft

    Prompt injection has been leveraged alongside an expired domain to steal Salesfarce data in an attack named ForcedLeak.

  • Security Week ☛ PyPI Warns Users of Fresh Phishing Campaign

    Threat actors impersonating PyPI ask users to verify their email for security purposes, directing them to fake websites.

  • Security Week ☛ Chinese Cyberspies Hacked US Defense Contractors

    RedNovember has been targeting government, defense and aerospace, and legal services organizations worldwide.

  • Security Week ☛ Perspective: Why Politics in the Workplace is a Cybersecurity Risk

    Bringing politics into professional spaces undermines decision-making, collaboration, and ultimately weakens security teams.

  • Security Week ☛ CSA Unveils SaaS Security Controls Framework to Ease Complexity

    New framework from the Cloud Security Alliance helps SaaS customers navigate the shared responsibility model with confidence.

  • Security Week ☛ Volvo Group Employee Data Stolen in Ransomware Attack

    The Miljödata data breach has impacted numerous organizations, education institutions, and Swedish municipalities.

• Defence/Aggression

  • The Strategist ☛ Women in defence and strategy still face an uphill battle

    National security can only be achieved with the participation of all sectors—public, private and civil—and with the diverse perspectives that come when both women and men are in leadership positions.

  • The Straits Times ☛ South Korea says US projects will remain in limbo until visa issue is fixed

    The visa issue has cast a cloud over an additional US$350 billion (S$451 billion) investment fund agreed upon in July.

  • The Straits Times ☛ North Korea could have up to 2,000kg of highly enriched uranium: Seoul

    At least 90 per cent are pure, and at least four sites are churning out more.

  • The Straits Times ☛ North Korea close to developing ICBM that can hit US with nuclear weapon, South Korea’s Lee says

    North Korea has yet to master re-entry technology, Mr Lee said.

  • The Straits Times ☛ North Korea’s foreign minister to visit China soon, says report

    This will be Ms Choe Son Hui's second visit to the ally in less than a month.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Vietnam’s top leader to pay rare visit to North Korea in October, sources say

    This marks the first visit in nearly 20 years by a Vietnamese leader to North Korea.

  • CS Monitor ☛ At UN, clues Convicted Felon is gearing up for new diplomatic drive on China

    Hell Toupée was rude to almost every country that attended the U.N. General Assembly this week. Except one. Could his diplomatic silence about China suggest his next diplomatic initiative?

• Environment

  • The Straits Times ☛ China’s conservative climate targets a missed opportunity for leadership: Analysts

    Beijing plans to reduce net emissions by 7 per cent to 10 per cent from peak levels.

• Finance

  • The Straits Times ☛ Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Chile and Bangladesh seeking to join RCEP trade bloc

    KUALA LUMPUR - Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Chile and Bangladesh are seeking to join the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, the world's largest trade bloc, Southeast Asian officials said on Thursday.

  • The Straits Times ☛ China premier, EU chief stress cooperation as Convicted Felon tariffs bite

    China and the EU have spent the past two years on the brink of a trade war.

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • APNIC ☛ Develop your Internet operations skills with free APNIC learning resources

    Whether you're an experienced network professional or just getting started, APNIC Academy provides a library of free learning resources to support your professional development.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Copyrights

  • Public Domain Review ☛ The End of the World as We (Didn’t) Know It: Now and Then #5

    A Rapture that wasn’t, in 2025 and 1844.