Leftovers

• Science

  • Science Alert ☛ Rare Condition Can Cause People to Be Literally Allergic to The Cold

    It can be life-threatening.

  • Science Alert ☛ Scientists Reveal a Frozen Bizarro Earth Only 150 Light-Years Away

    A tantalizingly unique discovery.

  • Science Alert ☛ We May Have Seen a Special Kind of Black Hole Explode, Study Claims

    Was this a 'dark charge' primordial black hole?

  • Science Alert ☛ Forest's Strange Response to an Eclipse May Have a More Mundane Explanation

    Debunked?

  • Science Alert ☛ Breakthrough: Scientists Created a 'Universal' Kidney To Match Any Blood Type

    "The first time we've seen this play out in a human model."

  • Science Alert ☛ Discovery of Mammoth Ivory Tools Resets Human Timeline in North America

    14,000 years old.

  • Futurism ☛ Novo Nordisk Furious at $49 Knockoff Ozempic Pill

    A bitter pill to swallow.

  • Stanford University ☛ Stanford-founded startup develops wearable for continuous hormone monitoring

    Clair, a Stanford-founded startup, is developing a wearable hormone tracking device to give women noninvasive insights into their hormonal health, with plans for FDA approval and a 2026 launch.

  • Science Alert ☛ A Newly Discovered Comet May Soon Appear Bright in Our Skies

    It could even be visible in broad daylight.

  • Science Alert ☛ Mormon Hair Clippings Preserve Legacy of US Ban on Leaded Gas

    A true American success story.

  • Science Alert ☛ 'Brain-Bone-Axis' May Link Depression With Osteoporosis, Study Claims

    Our brains and our bones are connected.

  • Science Alert ☛ 'Burping' Your Home Really Could Be Good For Your Health, Says Expert

    The Germans might be onto something.

• Career/Education

  • CER ☛ Come join us at the ITiCSE 2026 Doctoral Consortium!

    I’ve reached the stage in my career where I’m attending conferences not because I’m presenting a paper but because I’ve agreed to take on a service role.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • France24 ☛ Cuts in global aid could result in 22.6 million excess deaths by 2030

    Speaking with FRANCE 24's Mark Owen, Davide Rasella, ICREA Research Professor at ISGlobal, explains that cuts in overseas aid by the US and other western countries could have dramatic effects on the handling and prevention of new pandemics. Professor Rasella coordinated a study revealing that cuts in global aid could lead to 22.6 million additional deaths by 2030 across 93 low- and middle-income countries.

  • CBC ☛ 2026-01-27 [Older] 'Please don't let me die': Calgary patients recount long waits in emergency rooms

  • CBC ☛ 2026-01-29 [Older] B.C. woman urges dog owners to watch their pets on walks after husky overdoses on cocaine

• Proprietary

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) / LLM Slop / Plagiarism

    • Barry Kauler ☛ A new age of misinformation, augmented by AI

      I posted recently that ordered a Bluetti AC70 power box:

      https://bkhome.org/news/202601/bluetti-ac70-power-box.html

      It has an XT60 socket, to which a solar panel can be connected. I couldn't see in the AC70 documentation whether it is a female or male socket, so I asked Surveillance Giant Google AI: [...]

    • Futurism ☛ Professor Says Her Garbled Hey Hi (AI) Textbook Was a Huge Success

      The students love it. We wonder why.

    • Futurism ☛ Investors Concerned Hey Hi (AI) Bubble Is Finally Popping

      "We have suddenly gone from the fear that you cannot be last, to investors questioning every single angle in this Hey Hi (AI) race."

• Security

  • Integrity/Availability/Authenticity

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-02 [Older] China: Four more people executed in Myanmar scam crackdown

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • 2026-01-30 [Older] SK Telecom rejects consumer agency’s compensation settlement over personal data leak

    • 2026-01-30 [Older] Investigation into data breach involving Blue Cross Blue Shield members could head to court

    • 2026-01-31 [Older] When the GDPR is weaponized to shut journalists up, don’t go silently into that dark night

    • International Business Times ☛ 2026-01-31 [Older] StopICE Hacked: Names And Locations of Over 100k Users Were Sent to the FBI, ICE and HSI

    • 2026-01-31 [Older] RINA Accountants & Advisors is creating $400K settlement fund to settle lawsuit over 2022 data breach

  • Confidentiality

    • The Philadelphia Inquirer ☛ 2026-01-31 [Older] Comcast agrees to $117.5 million settlement to resolve lawsuits over 2023 Citrix Bleed data breach

• Defence/Aggression

  • 2026-02-02 New survey reveals how security researchers and journalists experience legal and criminal threats

  • Federal News Network ☛ 17 veterans died by suicide per day in 2023, new report finds

    More than half of veterans who died by suicide did not receive VA health care in the last year of their life.

  • European Commission ☛ Commission preliminarily finds TikTok's addictive design in breach of the Digital Services Act

    European Commission Press release Brussels, 06 Feb 2026 Today, the European Commission preliminarily found Fentanylware (CheeTok) in breach of the Digital Services Act for its addictive design.

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-02 [Older] Iran: EU envoys summoned over IRGC terrorist designation

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-02 [Older] Iran updates: Iran classes EU armies as terrorist groups

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-02 [Older] China's space aircraft carrier: superweapon or propaganda?

  • Scheerpost ☛ 2026-01-27 [Older] Western Imperial Alliance in Crisis: Canada Condemns USA, Declaring ‘New World Order’ in China

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-02 [Older] China eyes reshaping global order as US influence wanes

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-02 [Older] At the brink: Can South Sudan avert another civil war?

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2026-01-28 [Older] Greenland Says More Surveillance and Security Needed in Region

  • CBC ☛ 2026-01-30 [Older] Hundreds in Vancouver protest Hootsuite's contract with U.S. Homeland Security

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2026-01-29 [Older] Afghanistan Launches $100 Million Food Security Programme as Crisis Deepens

  • Defence Web ☛ 2026-02-02 [Older] Africa now global transnational crime hub

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2026-01-31 [Older] Separatists Kill 21 Including Civilians in Multiple Attacks in Pakistan

• Transparency/Investigative Reporting

  • Futurism ☛ Internet Sleuths Just Found Something About MElon Getting a Massage in the Epstein Files

    How's he going to explain this one?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-02 [Older] Epstein files reveal close contact with Norway princess

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2026-02-01 [Older] Slovakia National Security Adviser Resigns Over Epstein Files, Denies Wrongdoing

• Environment

  • CBC ☛ 2026-01-28 [Older] Why stopping destructive flooding isn’t easy on either side of the Canada-U.S. border

  • Energy/Transportation

    • CBC ☛ 2026-01-29 [Older] General Motors to lay off up to 1,200 workers in Oshawa, Ont., on Friday

    • CBC ☛ 2026-01-27 [Older] Is Canada equipped to handle Chinese EVs?

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-02 [Older] Germany news: Nationwide strikes hit public transport

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-02 [Older] Vienna swaps parking for green space

• Finance

  • Daniel Pocock ☛ Daniel Pocock: Potters traveled to goldfields in Australia to dig better clay

    Public consciousness has recently undergone a big shift back into the mindset of gold and silver. Personally, I grew up in the region that hosted the world's second biggest gold rush so this is no surprise for me.

  • CBC ☛ 2026-01-28 [Older] Amazon lays off 16,000 corporate workers in latest round of job losses

  • CBC ☛ 2026-01-28 [Older] Bank of Canada holds interest rate at 2.25%, with CUSMA review an 'important risk'

  • NL Times ☛ 2026-02-01 [Older] Labor union calls social security cuts “unacceptable” as government slashes benefits

  • CBC ☛ 2026-01-29 [Older] Faced with surging demand, Alberta broke housing construction records. Is there a lesson there?

  • CBC ☛ 2026-01-29 [Older] Tariff war cost Canadian Pacific $200M over past year, CEO says

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • 2026-01-31 [Older] BD: 14,000 journos’ personal data leaked online

  • 2026-02-02 [Older] Ransomware attack compromised 377,000 people’s Social Security and driver’s license numbers from Texas gas station and convenience store chain

• Civil Rights / Policing / Accessibility

  • EDRI ☛ Statement of solidarity with EDRi members and allies facing pressure for their work on platform regulation

    The EDRi network strongly condemns the pressure of the US Convicted Felon administration on EDRi members and allies for our work on online platform regulation.

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • APNIC ☛ From roots to reach: Network resilience in natural disasters

    Guest Post: AZIZA demonstrates how networking research can build systems that remain meaningful when continuity disappears.

  • The Record ☛ 2026-01-29 [Older] UK plans sweeping overhaul of policing amid surge in online crimes

  • APNIC ☛ RIR Governance Document Version 2: Status Report Q1 2026

    The NRO NC has compiled a status report related to comments received during the consultation on the second version of the RIR Governance Document.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• CBC ☛ 2026-01-28 [Older] Canada in talks with Meta on return of news to Facebook as CUSMA review nears

• Copyrights

  • IP Kat ☛ 2026-01-31 [Older] Ideas, expressions, and puddings: IPEC reviews copyright in computer programs

  • IP Kat ☛ 2026-02-01 [Older] How Anne Frank will (also) have a say on copyright enforcement in the age of AI