Science

• The Conversation ☛ 2025-10-28 [Older] Were Neanderthals capable of making art?

• The Conversation ☛ 2025-10-29 [Older] How the first animals evolved – a new clue from a tiny relative

• The Conversation ☛ 2025-10-30 [Older] Women folk healers were branded as witches, but their treatments may have been medically sound

• The Conversation ☛ 2025-10-29 [Older] Bugonia: why some people’s brains cling to the idea that aliens are real

• The Conversation ☛ 2025-10-30 [Older] Why healthcare’s ‘do no harm’ ethic must include the planet

Hardware

• Hackaday ☛ Making Steam-Powered LEGO Machines

  Over the decades we have seen a lot of methods for powering LEGO-based contraptions, ranging from LEGO Technic pneumatics to electric motors, but what about steam power? We have all seen those cute little model steam engines that can definitely put out some power. Sure, you can just drop those in like a kind of confused internal combustion engine, or you can try to make a steam engine that actually tries to be directly compatible with LEGO.

Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

• The Conversation ☛ 2025-10-28 [Older] Why we used to sleep in two segments – and how the modern shift changed our sense of time

• The Conversation ☛ 2025-10-31 [Older] How teen friendships may predict self harm

• CBC ☛ 2025-11-04 [Older] Minister tasked with defining Alberta whisky in legislation

• The Conversation ☛ 2025-11-03 [Older] How narcissism ruins teamwork – and why it matters in the workplace

Proprietary

• International Business Times ☛ 2025-10-29 [Older] AWS Is Down Again: Amazon Failure Renders 'Huge Portion of Internet Unusable'

• Counter Punch ☛ 2025-11-04 [Older] Draining Practices: Amazon, Water Consumption and Data Centers

• Copenhagen Post ☛ 2025-10-29 [Older] Amazon cuts 14,000 jobs to streamline organization [Ed: GAFAM company with 160 billion dollars in debt and not much real value. These companies' "Value" is the false belief they have "Trillions" in "Value" (it is hence circular, it's like a pyramid scheme).]

• International Business Times ☛ 2025-10-31 [Older] Amazon Fire Sticks Crack Down on Illegal Streaming: Update to Block 'Dodgy' Apps Starting Today

• Artificial Intelligence (AI) / LLM Slop / Plagiarism

  • Project Censored ☛ 2025-10-30 [Older] AI Warlord: Eric Schmidt

• Social Control Media

  • Press Gazette ☛ How Tiktok inspired the New York Times vertical video strategy [Ed: Replacing journalism with clickbait or engagement is not the goal, is it?]

    NYT director of video Solana Pyne and VP for product Jordan Vita met Press Gazette to talk video strategy.

• Windows TCO / Windows Bot Nets

  • Hacker News ☛ Hackers Weaponize Windows Hyper-V to Hide Linux VM and Evade EDR Detection [Ed: Windows TCO]

    According to a new report from Bitdefender, the adversary is said to have enabled the Hyper-V role on selected victim systems to deploy a minimalistic, Alpine Linux-based virtual machine.

Security

• Security Week ☛ State-Sponsored Hackers Stole SonicWall Cloud Backups in Recent Attack

  The threat actor stole the firewall configuration files of all SonicWall customers who used the clown backup service.

• Security Week ☛ Automotive IT Firm Hyundai AutoEver Discloses Data Breach

  Hyundai AutoEver America was hacked in February and the attackers managed to steal SSNs and other personal data.

• Security Week ☛ Nevada Ransomware Attack Started Months Before It Was Discovered, Per Report

  The ransomware attack discovered in August occurred as early as May when a state employee mistakenly downloaded malicious software.

• Security Week ☛ DeFi Protocol Balancer Starts Recovering Funds Stolen in $128 Million Heist

  Hackers drained more cryptocurrency from Balancer by exploiting a rounding function and performing batch swaps.

• Security Week ☛ Cisco Patches Critical Vulnerabilities in Contact Center Appliance

  The flaws allow attackers to execute arbitrary code remotely and elevate their privileges to root on an affected system.

• CISA

  • CISA ☛ 2025-11-04 [Older] Fuji Electric Monitouch V-SFT-6

  • CISA ☛ 2025-11-04 [Older] Survision License Plate Recognition Camera

  • CISA ☛ 2025-11-04 [Older] Delta Electronics CNCSoft-G2

  • CISA ☛ 2025-11-04 [Older] Radiometrics VizAir

  • CISA ☛ 2025-11-04 [Older] IDIS ICM Viewer

  • CISA ☛ 2025-10-30 [Older] CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

  • CISA ☛ 2025-10-30 [Older] CISA Releases Two Industrial Control Systems Advisories

  • CISA ☛ 2025-10-30 [Older] International Standards Organization ISO 15118-2

  • CISA ☛ 2025-10-30 [Older] Hitachi Energy TropOS

  • CISA ☛ 2025-10-28 [Older] CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

  • CISA ☛ 2025-10-28 [Older] CISA Releases Three Industrial Control Systems Advisories

  • CISA ☛ 2025-10-28 [Older] Schneider Electric EcoStruxure

• Confidentiality

  • Troy Hunt ☛ 2 Billion Email Addresses Were Exposed, and We Indexed Them All in Have I Been Pwned

Defence/Aggression

• ANF News ☛ 2025-11-04 [Older] French company Lafarge on trial for ‘financing terrorism’ in Syria

• Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

  • Latvia ☛ WATCH: 'Guarding the Gate: Sanctions, Export Controls & Business Responsibilities'

    On 6th November 2025, the Financial Intelligence Unit of Latvia (FIU Latvia) will host the 7th Annual Sanctions Conference “Guarding the Gate: Sanctions, Export Controls & Business Responsibilities”, bringing together international experts and decision-makers to discuss how effective sanctions implementation and enforcement contributes to global security and resilience.

Environment

• New York Times ☛ COP30 Begins With U.S. Allies and Rivals Alike Calling for Action

  The calls for action on opening day stood in sharp contrast to the position of the Hell Toupée, who has called global warming a “con job.”

• European Commission ☛ Speech by President von der Leyen at the opening of the COP30 General Plenary of Leaders

• US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-02 [Older] Australia PM Writes to Turkey's Erdogan About COP31 Hosting Standoff

• US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-02 [Older] Iraq, Turkey Sign Deal on Iraqi Water Infrastructure Projects

• CBC ☛ 2025-11-04 [Older] 10 years after the UN climate pact, what did it actually do?

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-11-04 [Older] UN report: Global climate ambitions 'off target'

• Truthdig ☛ 2025-11-04 [Older] ‘A Pretty Ugly History’: How Exxon Exported Climate Denial to the Global South

• US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-04 [Older] EU Ministers Meet to Align Climate Goals Ahead of UN Climate Talks

• US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-04 [Older] On Eve of UN Climate Talks in Brazil, a Call for Less Talking and More Doing

• US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-04 [Older] Climate-Fighting Efforts Show Slight Gain but Still Fall Far Short, UN Says

• US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-04 [Older] World Will Overshoot 1.5C Climate Goal, UN Says

• Green Party UK ☛ 2025-11-03 [Older] Greens call for polluters rather than poorest to pay for climate action

• Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2025-11-03 [Older] Alito Has a Financial Stake in a Supreme Court Climate Case

• TruthOut ☛ 2025-11-03 [Older] CBS News Guts Climate Team as New Conservative Management Takes Charge

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-11-03 [Older] Push to counter disinformation at COP30 climate summit

• University of Michigan ☛ 2025-11-03 [Older] Michigan’s muted fall foliage may be a symptom of climate change

• US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-03 [Older] Brazil Kicks off COP30 Climate Events in Year of Distractions

• Vox ☛ 2025-11-03 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini’s anti-climate agenda is making it more expensive to own a car

• Vox ☛ 2025-11-03 [Older] We can have growth while fighting climate change

• NL Times ☛ 2025-11-02 [Older] ‘Run by alpha males’: Ex-employees on toxic work culture at Rotterdam’s climate center

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-11-02 [Older] Where the fossil fuel industry tries to teach kids about climate

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-10-31 [Older] What US school kids are learning about climate

• US News And World Report ☛ 2025-10-31 [Older] US Will Not Send Officials to COP30 Climate Talks, White House Says

• Vox ☛ 2025-10-31 [Older] 3 things about Hurricane Melissa that make it so unusual and dangerous

• CBC ☛ 2025-11-01 [Older] How much of a role did climate change play with Hurricane Melissa?

• Counter Punch ☛ 2025-11-03 [Older] With Hurricane Melissa, Capitalism and Climate Chaos Bring Devastation to Jamaica

• TruthOut ☛ 2025-10-29 [Older] Hurricanes Should Be Named After Fossil Fuel Executives, Climate Activist Says

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-10-29 [Older] How climate change is making us sick

• Green Party UK ☛ 2025-10-28 [Older] Greens call on PM to show ‘true climate leadership’ in wake of UN 1.5C warning

• TruthOut ☛ 2025-10-28 [Older] UN Climate Progress Report Ahead of COP30 Is “a Warning Siren”

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-10-28 [Older] Countries are making progress on climate, but not fast enough

• US News And World Report ☛ 2025-10-28 [Older] At Least 64 Killed in Rio Police Raids Ahead of Climate Conferences

• Energy/Transportation

  • University of Michigan ☛ 2025-10-29 [Older] ​​Ann Arbor residents warn of door-to-door scams claiming to be from DTE Energy

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-10-29 [Older] Study Finds EVs Quickly Overcome Their Energy-Intensive Build to Be Cleaner Than Gas Cars

  • The Conversation ☛ 2025-10-29 [Older] China’s new controls on rare earths create challenges for the west’s plans for green tech

  • The Conversation ☛ 2025-10-31 [Older] Mission to Mars: how space exploration pushes the human body to its limits

  • The Conversation ☛ 2025-10-31 [Older] New Nasa lunar contest could pit Elon Musk against Jeff Bezos, as US fears China will win race to Moon

  • Mexico News Daily ☛ 2025-10-30 [Older] Energy giant Cox announces US $4.2B plan for wind and solar farms in Nuevo León

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-10-29 [Older] Germany bets billions on nuclear fusion to secure clean energy future

  • The Conversation ☛ 2025-10-30 [Older] New ‘miniature T rex’ rewrites the history of the world’s largest predator

Wildlife/Nature

• The Conversation ☛ 2025-10-30 [Older] What do spiders really get up to on Halloween?

• Vox ☛ 2025-10-27 [Older] This beloved animal is back from the brink of extinction — with one big caveat

Breach Media ☛ A budget for tanks, banks, and oil barons

Martin Lukacs and Desmond Cole discuss the Liberal government’s Harper-esque budget

CBC ☛ 2025-11-04 [Older] E-borrowing exceeds print at Vancouver libraries — can it keep up with the cost?

BIA Net ☛ 2025-10-31 [Older] Turkey suspends 150 referees over betting

BIA Net ☛ 2025-10-27 [Older] Turkey investigates over 150 referees for active betting, including Süper Lig officials

Vox ☛ 2025-11-03 [Older] There’s a new way to get a loan — but it comes at a cost

American Oversight ☛ DHS Admits It Provided “Erroneous” Information on Texts of Noem and DHS Brass, Hasn’t Confirmed It Followed Law

Thursday, following a court filing in American Oversight’s lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over the agency’s initial claim that it failed to preserve the text messages of Secretary Kristi Noem and other top agency officials, we revealed the government has admitted its assertion that text messages were no longer preserved was “erroneous”...

ANF News ☛ 2025-11-01 [Older] Italian historian Franco Cardini expresses solidarity with the peace process in Turkey

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-10-30 [Older] Merz backs Turkey's EU bid despite strains over Gaza, rights

ANF News ☛ 2025-10-29 [Older] How was the withdrawal decision from Turkey made, and what comes next?

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-10-29 [Older] Can Merz-Erdogan talks reset tricky Germany-Turkey ties?

ANF News ☛ 2025-11-04 [Older] ECtHR rejects Turkey's appeal against ruling to release Demirtaş: The decision is final

ANF News ☛ 2025-11-03 [Older] Flights between Sulaymaniyah and Turkey resume

HRW ☛ 2025-10-28 [Older] Saudi Arabia: Release 10 Nubian Egyptian Men Immediately

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-01 [Older] Syrian President Sharaa Expected to Visit Washington, US Envoy Says

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-01 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini to Host Al-Sharaa in First-Ever Visit by a Syrian President to White House, Official Says

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-10-31 [Older] US Backs Repeal of Caesar Act Sanctions on Syria, State Department Says

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-02 [Older] Syrian President Will Visit White House in Early November, Foreign Minister Says

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-04 [Older] Germany's Merz Calls for Repatriation of Syrians as Far-Right Surges

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-10-27 [Older] Amsterdam turns 750 with cake and festivities

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-10-27 [Older] Football: Afghan women make statement on international stage

Stanford University ☛ Strawser | Inviting DeSantis to speak was easy. True free speech is hard.

In his latest column installment, Strawser writes about true free speech in the current political climate and how Stanford can help foster diverse opinions.

CBC ☛ 2025-10-31 [Older] A photographer captured a Windsor, Ont., woman in the 'roughest time.' The family can't get the pics deleted

BIA Net ☛ 2025-11-03 [Older] Kurdish musician taken into custody Hakan Akay upon arrival in Turkey

EFF ☛ 2025-11-03 [Older] Application Gatekeeping: An Ever-Expanding Pathway to Internet Censorship

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-03 [Older] California Law to Protect Jewish Students Faces Challenge Over Free Speech Concerns

CPJ ☛ 2025-10-28 [Older] Turkey seizes control of critical broadcaster TELE1, arrests editor-in-chief