Leftovers

• Gunnar Wolf ☛ Gunnar Wolf: 404 not found

  Found this grafitti on the wall behind my house today: [...]

• NYPost ☛ Photographer captures skydiver silhouetted against sun in stunning image

  Andrew McCarthy coordinated with friend and YouTube personality Gabriel C. Brown to create the striking image on Nov. 8 in the Arizona desert.

• Science

  • Science Alert ☛ This Week in Science: Awesome Auroras, Morse Code For Bees, And More!

    Our weekly science news roundup.

  • Science Alert ☛ Giant Stars Are Eating Planets, And We Finally Know Why

    "Now we can see the impact of this directly."

  • Science Alert ☛ Scientists Discovered a Time Crystal That Reveals a New Way to Order Time

    "We reveal the existence of new types of temporal order."

  • Science Alert ☛ One of Our Biggest Hopes For Alzheimer's Treatment Doesn't Seem to Work

    We're still learning about the disease.

  • Science Alert ☛ Some People Never Forget a Face, And Now We Know Their Secret

    What makes a face unique?

  • Science Alert ☛ A Radical New Kind of Particle Accelerator Could Transform Science

    The future is ultra-compact.

• Career/Education

  • France24 ☛ South Korea halts flights and stock market as students take university admission test

    More than half a million people in South Korea sat for the country's gruelling university entrance exam on Thursday as police mobilised to ensure they made it to the test sites on time and all flights were halted for half an hour. Story by Charlotte Hughes and France 2.

• Hardware

  • Hackaday ☛ The Fastest (68k) Macintosh Might Not Be An Amiga Anymore

    Amiga and Atari fans used to lord over their Apple-eating brethren the fact that Cupertino never moved to the most advanced 68k processors — so for a while, thanks to 68060 accelerator cards, the fastest thing running Macintosh software was an Amiga (or Atari). After all these years, the Macintosh community is finally getting the last laugh, as [zigzagjoe] demonstrates an actual Macintosh booting with a 68060 CPU for the first time in a thread on 68KMLA. Video or it didn’t happen? Check it out below.

  • Hackaday ☛ Making A Machine To Sort One Million Pounds Of LEGO

    You know what’s not fun? Sorting LEGO. You know what is fun? Making a machine to sort LEGO! That’s what [LegoSpencer] did, and you can watch the machine do its thing in the video below.

  • Hackaday ☛ Using The Pyroelectric Effect To Identify Broken MLCC Capacitors

    Vintage computer hardware can fail in a variety of fascinating ways, with [Bits und Bolts] dealing with an interesting failure mode, in the form of degraded MLCC capacitors on Voodoo 2 graphics cards. These little marvels of miniaturized surface-mount technology enable the placement of ceramic capacitors with very little space required, but as they degrade over time or due to physical damage, they can cause big issues in a circuit.

• Proprietary

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) / LLM Slop / Plagiarism

    • Futurism ☛ Company Run Almost Entirely by AI-Generated Employees Descends Into Chaos

      "They’d basically talked themselves to death."

    • Futurism ☛ AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children

      "This tech is really new, and it's basically unregulated, and there are a lot of open questions about it and how it's going to impact kids."

    • Futurism ☛ New Development Environment for Programmers Rewards Them With Brainrot When They Prompt the AI

      F*** it, why not.

• Security

  • SANS ☛ Honeypot: FortiWeb CVE-2025-64446 Exploits, (Sat, Nov 15th)

    Like many have reported, we too noticed exploit attempts for CVE-2025-64446 in our honeypots.

  • Integrity/Availability/Authenticity

    • The Straits Times ☛ Gambling ads target Indonesian Meta users despite ban

      The posts on Facebook, Instagram and Threads appear to promote video games, but they redirect users to betting websites.

• Defence/Aggression

  • CS Monitor ☛ Immigration enforcement has begun in Charlotte, federal officials said

    Agents were seen making arrests on Saturday. Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin says the move aims to ensure public safety, while local officials say they cause unnecessary fear.

  • JURIST ☛ Rights group warns of serious rights violations amid post-election crackdown in Tanzania

    Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on the Tanzanian government on Thursday to open an independent investigation into the alleged killings, disappearances, and repression carried out by security forces after the country’s disputed October 29 election, warning that “serious violations” of rights may amount to crimes. Tensions had been building before the vote.

  • France24 ☛ 'One's own room': Afghan women's current reality

    At first, its soft cushions, luxurious rugs and fine china evoke the warm hospitality of an Afghan home. Yet as the immersive theatrical experience progresses, the audience feels the walls closing in, the sky outside darkens and the narrator's stories become increasingly bleak in tone. "One's own room: Inside Kabul" is an artistic take on the circumstances Afghan women and girls are currently living in: limited to their homes, with scarce opportunities for education. Its co-creator, Caroline Gillet, tells us about creating this space based on the accounts of Raha and Marwa, the two Afghan women whose stories made up her award-winning podcast "Inside Kabul" after the Taliban seized power in 2021.

  • The Straits Times ☛ China Coast Guard ship formation sails through Japan-administered Senkaku Islands

    It comes as Beijing ramps up tensions with Tokyo over its prime minister’s remarks on Taiwan.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Japan protests against Chinese travel ban, presses for stable ties

    China had warned its citizens against visiting Japan amid an ongoing dispute over Taiwan.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Japan retailers, tourism sector wary after China warns against travel

    The warning came after Japan PM Sanae Takaichi’s remarks about a potential contingency involving Taiwan.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ China tells citizens to avoid Japan travel as Taiwan row grows

    > China has advised its citizens to avoid travelling to Japan, following a diplomatic feud sparked by comments by Tokyo’s new premier about a hypothetical attack on Taiwan.

  • France24 ☛ China tells citizens not to visit Japan as Taiwan row grows

    China has advised its citizens to avoid travelling to Japan, following a diplomatic feud sparked by remarks from Tokyo's new premier about a hypothetical attack on Taiwan. Details and analysis with James Simms, FRANCE 24 correspondent in Tokyo.

  • France24 ☛ Mysterious plane carrying Gaza refugees lands in South Africa

    South Africa's intelligence services are investigating who was behind a chartered plane that landed in Johannesburg with more than 150 Palestinians from war-ravaged Gaza who did not have proper travel documents and were held onboard on the tarmac for around 12 hours as a result, the country's president said Friday. Details by FRANCE 24 correspondent in Cape Town, Eunice Masson.

  • JURIST ☛ Top UN rights body orders investigation into Sudan atrocities amid ongoing violence

    The United Nations’ top human rights body on Friday adopted a resolution ordering an urgent and independent fact-finding mission into allegations of human rights violations and other atrocities in the Sudanese city of El Fasher, where the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have reportedly committed large-scale atrocities such as ethnically motivated killings, torture, summary executions [...]

  • JURIST ☛ Colombia urged to reform military jurisdiction over human rights cases

    Amnesty International warned on Friday that Colombia’s military criminal justice system’s continued use of military courts to handle killings, torture, enforced disappearances, and other grave abuses by soldiers and police is a structural engine of impunity.

  • France24 ☛ US military kills four people in boat attack in the Caribbean

    The United States on Monday conducted its 20th strike on an alleged drug trafficking boat, a Pentagon official said on Thursday. "The strike occurred in the Caribbean and four narco-terrorists were killed, no survivors," the official said. Details by FRANCE 24 correspondent in Washington, Fraser Jackson.

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • France24 ☛ Ex-CIA chief Petraeus: ‘Real opportunity to help Ukraine and crush Russia’s war economy’

      In an exclusive interview with FRANCE 24, former CIA director David Petraeus said Russia’s finances are in a far more dire state than many realise, arguing that there is now “a real opportunity” for the United States and other NATO countries to strengthen Ukraine’s defences and “crush the Russian war economy”. He also shared his views on Syria’s new leadership and the situation in Iraq.

    • RFERL ☛ Zelenskyy Vows Sweeping Energy Sector Overhaul Amid Corruption Scandal

      Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed to overhaul the country’s scandal-ridden energy sector as he looks to stem outrage following accusations of wide-spread corruption that have included an old friend and former business partner.

    • RFERL ☛ Russia Hits Ukraine With Overnight Attack As Fighting Intensifies in Pokrovsk

      Fighting intensified in eastern Ukraine around the frontline city of Pokrovsk as Russia carried out another overnight attack on Kyiv that hit civilian infrastructure.

    • New York Times ☛ Russia Tried to Cut Ukraine’s Lights. Now It’s Aiming for the Heat.

      Moscow’s attacks on gas supplies, the main source of warmth for most Ukrainian households, could plunge millions into the cold.

    • LRT ☛ Life of Lithuania’s women partisans – from resistance in schools to fighting underground

      After surrounding her bunker, Soviet forces captured Monika Alūzaitė. She was interrogated and tortured, but she did not give up the names of the other partisans. Hers is just one of many stories of women partisans.

    • Latvia ☛ Do Latvians know how to be proud of themselves?

      Estonia is often praised as a fully digital nation with accessible, high-quality e-services, while Lithuania is known for its targeted state support and clearly defined digital priorities. That is how we, Latvians tend to speak about our neighbours. But how often do we celebrate the achievements of Latvia’s own IT sector - and how well do we even know them?

• Transparency/Investigative Reporting

  • New Yorker ☛ Is the Epstein Scandal Convicted Felon’s Kryptonite?

    How twenty thousand pages of Epstein documents, with more potentially on the way, might damage Convicted Felon’s Presidency.

• Environment

  • The Straits Times ☛ 11 dead, 12 missing after landslide in Central Java

    The Cilacap administration has declared a 20-day state of emergency following the landslide.

  • Energy/Transportation

    • The Straits Times ☛ China readies Shenzhou-22 mission ahead of schedule after spacecraft damage

      Shenzhou-20 was hit by suspected space debris, throwing China's manned space programme off track.

    • France24 ☛ Guinea launches Simandou mine, hoping to extract 120M tons of iron ore per year

      On Tuesday, Guinea officially began production at the Simandou mining project — home to the largest known iron ore reserves in the world. Guinean authorities hope the project will generate vital revenue for the country. But China is also heavily invested, as Beijing aims to strengthen its influence over the global market for one of the world's most essential raw materials. Story by Bryan Quinn.

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • JURIST ☛ Indigenous groups in Brazil protest at COP30

      Indigenous groups in Brazil organized protests on Friday in Belém, blocking the main entrance to the restricted area at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30) and demanding that the Brazilian government halt extractive projects that jeopardize their livelihoods.

• Finance

  • JURIST ☛ Rights group presses governments to strengthen protections for gig workers

    Human Rights Watch said Friday that governments negotiating a new global treaty on gig work should strengthen the draft text to ensure fair wages and social security for these workers and protect them from exploitative management.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • New York Times ☛ Gallego Pitches Demoralized Democrats on a Midterm Message

    At a health care town hall in his swing state, Senator Ruben Gallego, Democrat of Arizona, test-drove his party’s new political pitch to an audience disappointed in the outcome of the shutdown.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Faith in the age of Gen Z: South Korea’s religions turn to avatars, acoustics and pop culture

    South Korea's religious communities are reinventing tradition to resonate with a generation raised on memes and K-pop.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • France24 ☛ Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal pardoned by Algeria on humanitarian grounds

    The Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal is recovering in Berlin. The 81-year-old arrived in Germany for medical treatment on Wednesday, after Algeria agreed to a German request for his pardon and release on humanitarian grounds. My guest Adlene Mohammedi, a senior researcher in geopolitics at the Sciences Po Center for International Studies, discusses the state of Franco-Algerian relations moving forward.

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • JURIST ☛ China urged to release journalist after Beijing court upholds espionage sentence

    The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Thursday called on Chinese authorities to immediately release veteran journalist Dong Yuyu after the Beijing High Court upheld his seven-year prison sentence for espionage. CPJ said the court affirmed the conviction without providing reasons, and that the appeal decision is final under China’s system.

  • France24 ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man to seek up to $5 billion from the BillBC over edited video

    The Insurrectionist said on Friday he would likely sue the BillBC next week for as much as $5 billion after the British broadcaster admitted it wrongly edited a video of a speech he gave but insisted there was no legal basis for his claim. Details by FRANCE 24 correspondent in London, Bénédicte Paviot.

  • France24 ☛ Emily Thornberry: In a world of disinformation, the BillBC remains a 'source of truth and reliability'

    In a wide-ranging interview with Gavin Lee, British MP and Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Emily Thornberry offers a candid and reflective discussion that spans the complexities of global diplomacy, foreign policy, and the stark challenges of real governance. We explore raging conflicts in Gaza, Ukraine, and Sudan, alongside political turbulence at home within the frat boy culture of British politics.

• Digital Restrictions (DRM)

  • Hackaday ☛ Hyundai Paywalls Brake Pad Changes

    Changing the pads on your car’s brakes is a pretty straightforward and inexpensive process on most vehicles. However, many modern vehicles having electronic parking brakes giving manufacturers a new avenue to paywall simple DIY repairs.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• JURIST ☛ EU launches probe into Google’s anti-spam policy

  The European Commission announced on Thursday that it has opened an investigation into Surveillance Giant Google for a potential breach of the Digital Markets Act (DMA), focusing on whether the tech giant’s spam policy unfairly demotes media publishers in search results.