Leftovers

• Digital Camera World ☛ 17-year-old photographer wins top prize at world-renowned photography awards with history-saving moment before century-old painting went up in flames | Digital Camera World

  The powerful image, titled Saving History from the Flames, shows two emergency responders carrying a large framed painting through the street as fire crews worked to contain a fire at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm on June 7, 2025.

• Nico Cartron ☛ My first Atlas probe is 12 years old!

  Here is in action in my rack - even the sticker on it is outdated, I don't have this OVH ADSL connection anymore ;)

• ROS Industrial ☛ Tesseract & ROS-I Developer Monthly Meeting Revisit

  Michael discussed updates to Python bindings for Tesseract using NanoBind, noting improvements over the previous Swig implementation and plans for code reorganization. The team also discussed upcoming events including a July training session and Automate 2026 exhibition in Chicago, where they will host an open source meetup and ROS Industrial Consortium gathering.

• Sacha Chua ☛ Make chapter markers and video time hyperlinks easier to note while I livestream

  I want to make it easier to add chapter markers to my YouTube video descriptions and hyperlinks to specific times in videos in my blog posts.

• Marcos Magueta ☛ Casus Belli Engineering

  What follows is as old as human society itself: the stressed group selects a victim, to which the guilt is assigned, and finally, the victim is destroyed. Through its destruction, social cohesion is restored. The Aztecs sacrificed captives atop pyramids to ensure the sun would rise. We sacrifice codebases in conference rooms to ensure projects will ship. The mechanism is identical; only the altar has changed.

• Science

  • Semafor Inc ☛ Why it pays to fund the wrong research

    But if the US wants to have the same technological success for another 250 years, it needs to be okay with funding the “wrong” scientific research. Look at G.H. Hardy, a mathematician whose work ended up being crucial in biology, genetics research, computer encryption, and quantum computing.

  • ARRL ☛ The ARRL Solar Update

    Solar activity was at very low levels with only isolated B-class flaring, mostly from Region 4416.

  • The Chapel Parallel Programming Language ☛ Reflections on 30 Years of HPC Programming: So many hardware advances, so little adoption of new languages

    Last summer, I had the opportunity to give the keynote at HIPS 2025—the 30th International Workshop on High-Level Parallel Programming Models and Supportive Environments. This was quite an honor since, over its history, HIPS has been a key workshop for projects like Chapel that strive to create productive approaches to scalable parallel programmin.gd

    To commemorate the 30th instance of HIPS, I took the approach of using my talk to reflect on the past 30 years of programming within the field of HPC, or High-Performance Computing. This was a sobering exercise, but one that was well-received. In November, I reprised the talk in a condensed lightning talk format for CLSAC 2025. In this blog article, I’ll attempt to capture some of the main elements of those talks for a wider audience.

• Career/Education

  • Eesti Rahvusringhääling ☛ Tech teachers learn to build and fly drones at Tartu aviation school

    Lõiv said he plans to take what he learns at the aviation school back to the classroom and help develop something new at the school.

    Interest in drones is growing in schools, but actual opportunities remain limited, often due to cost. According to the Estonian Association of Engineers (EIL), only about 10 percent of basic schools currently have the capacity to teach drone skills.

  • Yle ☛ You can now major in a language without prior knowledge

    Helsinki University is not alone in lowering language requirements.

  • Idiomdrottning ☛ Book vow

    My FOMO around books (most of my ways to get books are time-limited, for example in the freeshop there’s only one of each of a handful of books and the first person who gets it gets it) is usually stronger than my ability to keep vows so I’m really going to have to put effort into keeping the vow.

• Hardware

  • Ruben Schade ☛ An office bathroom sink review

    No, I place the responsibility squarely on the architects, and the firm in which they work. I cannot conceive of a universe where the person designing this office bathroom, selecting the components, and arranging them this way would not have realised this egregious hydrological oversight. Presumably they do this for a living. And yet, here we are, soaked trousers and all. They’re actions are baffling, like someone who designs, selects, tests, and certifies outdoor tiles that are slippery when wet. How could you get something so basic, so fundamental, so utterly pedestrian as installing a tap that is too short?

  • Hackaday ☛ Comparing 12 VDC Air Fryers With Regular 240 VAC Ones

    That boiling water is a contentious topic of discussion is clear, but what about hot air? When you take a 12 VDC, 280 Watt-rated air fryer and pit it against a bog-standard 240 VAC, 1400 Watt unit, which one would you want to use when you’re doing some camping or other exciting off-the-grid opportunities? Unlike with boiling water the physics aren’t as clear-cut here, so [Cahn] did some testing to figure out exactly what the efficiency numbers look like

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • Jacobin Magazine ☛ Mexico Is Going All In for Universal Health Care

    Patients will not only receive care at any health center but will also have the option of remaining there for the duration of care, eliminating situations where forced transferals lead to truncated treatments. Then, in 2028, portability of care will be extended to chronic conditions such as diabetes and hypertension; cross-institution specialist consultations and hospitalizations; and the ability to fill prescriptions at any institution.

  • International Business Times ☛ US Navy Breaks Silence on Sailors' Poor Meals Crisis Near Iran — Full Update

    The Office of the Chief of Naval Operations has issued a statement denying reports of food shortages aboard US warships deployed near Iran, following viral images that appeared to show meal trays carrying small portions of shredded meat, a few folded tortillas, and unidentifiable processed food items, a far cry from the standard nutritional guidelines expected during active maritime deployments, according to families.'

  • Hamilton Nolan ☛ In California, It's Either Tax the Billionaires or Face a Health Care "Catastrophe"

    The most meaningful state level wealth tax in America may soon be on the ballot in California. There, a major healthcare workers union, SEIU-UHW, is spearheading an effort to get a very unique wealth tax on the ballot for voters this November. This tax would target only billionaires who were residents of California as of January 1. It would charge them a one-time levy of 5% of their wealth, with most of the money earmarked to fill the hole in state healthcare funding that Medicaid cuts in Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is set to cause.

  • Nick Heer ☛ Meta Must Face Youth Addiction Lawsuit by Massachusetts, Court Rules

    To me, a non-lawyer, much of the actual text of the ruling (PDF) explaining why this lawsuit was not immediately turfed on Section 230 grounds seems pretty reasonable. For example, the judge says “[u]nder the default settings, Meta enables approximately forty types of notifications” for the Instagram app, which the government alleges “is designed to overwhelm young users and compel them repeatedly to reopen Instagram”. We can argue whether this is a meaningful thing for a government to police or if it is just another example of Meta resorting to tacky growth-hacking techniques instead of trusting their product is sufficiently compelling on its own. (Most days when I open Instagram in my browser, it puts a red badge over the notifications tab and suggests I have one new follower. I do not; I never have. It lies to me every time, presumably because it knows most people, including me, will usually click on that, thereby increasing a number on a dashboard somewhere.)

  • Vox ☛ How to avoid mindless scrolling on Instagram and TikTok when you want to zone out

    To help with that, I compiled a list of ridiculously simple and mindless things to do that don’t involve your phone. Next time you want to completely veg out — likely 10 minutes from now for me, if I’m being honest — toss your cell to the side and try out one of the below options instead.

    A trend that began with women and Black people outbuying white men at gun shops during the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated with the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis in January, according to liberal gun-rights groups. A legal gun carrier who never drew his weapon, Mr. Pretti was killed as he tried to help a woman knocked down by federal immigration enforcement agents. His death raised the stakes among some left-leaning Americans worried about armed agents trampling their civil rights.

• Proprietary

  • PC World ☛ Why Microsoft is raising laptop prices as Apple makes productivity cheaper

    There’s more. Since Apple designed and commissioned the A18 Pro itself, it can save money on each individual chip. Chipmakers like Apple pay for individual silicon costs, though it’s not clear how much; that depends on the actual size of the chip and the process technology used.

  • Fortra LLC ☛ Sometimes Changing the Password on Your Email Mailbox isn't Enough

    A new report from researchers at Proofpoint reveals that approximately one in ten Microsoft 365 accounts compromised in Q4 2025 had malicious mailbox rules created shortly after the attacker gained access — in some cases within an astonishing five seconds of the initial breach.

  • The Register UK ☛ Cisco Wi-Fi boxes writing 5MB of undeletable data daily

    More than 230 different models of Cisco Wi-Fi access points may be writing 5MB a day of nonessential data, filling their onboard flash memory to the point at which they lack space for future software updates.

    The networking giant revealed the mess earlier this week in an advisory that warns “Certain Cisco Access Points (APs) may fail to download new software images or Access Point Service Packs.”

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) / LLM Slop / Plagiarism

    • Futurism ☛ Allbirds Stock Now Crashing as Reality Sets in About Its Delusional AI Pivot

      In other words, possibly ketamine-crazed Wall Street bros realized the morning after that a struggling shoe company may not be able to prop up a trillion-dollar industry with its promises of buying up impossible-to-get AI chips.

    • Mike Brock ☛ The Capital is Misaligned and the Crash is Coming

      The first is that AI is the future. Large language models are the most significant advance in the history of software, and the industry has not yet absorbed what that means. The second is that the current AI buildout is a bubble — not because the technology is overhyped, but because the capital being deployed is massively misaligned with where the technology is actually going. Both claims are true simultaneously. That simultaneity is what neither Wall Street nor the hyperscaler executives are prepared to face, because the implication is that the entire cloud-software business model of the last fifteen years is about to be dismantled by the technology the same industry is pouring trillions into building.

    • Rhys Wynne ☛ Your crap is more memorable than your slop

      It’s been nice seeing other talented folk raise this, and the backlash has begun. I’ve even begun to switch off reading some prolific bloggers that use AI for the feature images. Even if they wrote every word, I think the images show a lack of creativity. So if you can’t guarantee that the featured image is slop, why should I trust your text?

    • El País ☛ Only 13% of emails are written by people, and more than half end up in the spam folder: ‘This isn’t a technical detail; it’s a structural change’

      The effectiveness of emails is declining. “What for years was a communication tool between people has become a digital infrastructure dominated by automation,” conclude the authors of the study, whose findings were drawn after processing one billion anonymized emails sent during January 2026.

    • Jamie Zawinski ☛ "AI vegan"

      Heard about some asshat out here calling themselves an "ethical AI vegan" because they only use corporate AI tools in "uwu smol" ways, and, I dunno, I guess they do a land acknowledgment before they boil a lake or whatever.

  • Social Control Media

    • CoryDoctorow ☛ Pluralistic: Tiktokification shall set us free

      Mark Zuckerberg has a problem with your friends: they're the reason you signed up to use his platform, but they stubbornly refuse to organize your socialization to "maximize engagement." Every time you and your friends wrap up a social interaction and log off, Zuckerberg loses revenue.

      After all, by definition, you and your friends have a lot of shared context. You probably feel mostly the same way about most things. You probably mostly consume the same kind of media. You probably mostly consume the same kinds of news. You and your friends make each other's lives better in lots of ways, but typically not by surprising one another. On a typical day, no friend of yours is going to absolutely floor you with a novel thought or finding that sparks hours of furious conversation and argumentation.

    • [Repeat] Gregory Hammond ☛ Why I Use Fediverse As My Main Social Media Platform

      This was initially written in May 2025 for the WordCamp Canada 2025 website. This isn’t an exact copy of the version on the WordCamp site, and has been tweaked to fit my personal website. Additional, my current primary social media platform may not be the Fediverse when you are reading this. For the current social media presence that I use please visit my contact page.

      How often, when you are looking for something, someone will say, have you tried a certain Discord or Slack community? And of course you haven’t because you’re not a member of it. That’s part of the closed web, where only those invited can join. It’s not what I want the web to become, I want it to be open, and here’s one way to make it more open.

    • The Verge ☛ YouTube’s mobile app finally lets you share timestamped videos

      You’ll still be able to watch any Clips that you’ve already made. But moving forward, “the ability to set an end time or include a custom description when sharing will no longer be available,” YouTube says. The company notes that while clipping is “important way for creators to reach new audiences,” it says that “a number of third-party tools with advanced clipping features and authorized creator programs are now available to do this across different video platforms.”

  • Windows TCO / Windows Bot Nets

    • The Record ☛ Ransomware attack continues to disrupt healthcare in London nearly two years later

      The attack by the Qilin ransomware group also involved the theft and publication of sensitive patient data. Reporting indicated that information relating to nearly one million NHS patients may have been exposed, including individuals with conditions such as cancer and sexually transmitted infections. Many patients were not notified until late 2025.

    • The Record ☛ Four arrested in latest ‘PowerOFF’ DDoS-for-hire takedown

      An FBI agent said they purchased a Mythical Stress plan that offered a month of DDoS attacks for $45. Three victim IPs could be targeted at a time for an attack that would last 40 minutes. The most expensive plan was $950 per month, offering attacks that last 500 hours and can target 90 victim IPs.

      One of the platforms boasted of being used to launch more than 142 million DDoS attacks.

    • Dark Reading ☛ 6-Year Ransomware Campaign Targets Turkish Homes & SMBs

      A report from Acronis this week documented a cyberattack campaign that seems to have benefitted from fishing in a smaller pond. It's highly localized to Turkey, and its gambit is simple: using modified commercial malware to extort individuals and small or medium-sized businesses (SMBs) for a few hundred dollars a pop, at scale.

• Security

  • Integrity/Availability/Authenticity

    • Dan Geer ☛ Practical Antiforgery in Software Design

      If you are fortunate enough to tour the Fort Worth campus of the United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing, you’ll get a primer on the techniques the BEP uses to make it difficult to replicate U.S. paper currency. But if you ask the staff of the BEP’s on-site museum to name the discipline that comprises these techniques, the answer you’ll get is “counterfeiting deterrence.” Such a cumbersome designation is unfortunate, because it’s hard to fully develop and appreciate an idea for which we lack a nomenclature.

      And this matters because these concepts are relevant, often vital, to all kinds of interactions we have both in the physical world and the digital realm. My goal is to establish a taxonomy, demonstrate the crucial importance, and propose some best practices in applying these ideas to software design.

      Let’s start with a wieldier name for this discipline: antiforgery.

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • The Record ☛ In defeat for Trump, House extends electronic spying program for just 10 days

      The outcome is a defeat for President Donald Trump and House GOP leaders, who had pushed for a “clean” 18-month reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) despite well-known divisions among their fellow Republicans.

      The program allows the intelligence community to collect the communications of foreign targets without a warrant. It also picks up the personal data of an unknown number of Americans. Revealed over a decade ago by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, the program was last renewed in 2024.

    • The Verge ☛ Should you stare into Scam Altman’s orb before your next date?

      Tinder users who prove they’re a real person by visiting an identity-verifying orb will soon be able to get five free boosts in the app — and it’s just the latest service to embrace the orb. World, which was co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, initially tested Tinder verification using its facial scanning orbs through a pilot program in Japan last year. It’s now expanding the service to “select markets, including Japan and the United States.”

    • Bhaskar English ☛ EU Launches Free Age-Verification App for Kids

      The app offers several ways for users to confirm their age:

      Uploading a passport or national ID card. Getting verification from trusted institutions like banks or schools.

      Once verified, platforms can simply check whether the user meets the minimum age requirement. Importantly, personal data such as the exact date of birth will not be shared with social media companies. The app will also be open-source and designed to work on all devices, making it widely accessible across EU countries.

    • Privacy International ☛ What is digital fingerprinting: Is my device ever truly anonymous?

      When it comes to the conversation of advertising technologies (AdTech), you probably typically think about tracker pixels and cookies. However, there is another pernicious tracking technique lurking in how your browser and devices communicate on the internet.

      That technique is called digital fingerprinting. This explainer will cover what fingerprinting is, how it works, and why it matters.

    • Advance Local Media LLC ☛ License plate readers are helping ICE bypass Portland’s sanctuary laws

      This happened to him despite living in a sanctuary city within a sanctuary county and state. In 2026, Nemorio and other immigrant Portlanders face daily threats and fears of being targeted or profiled while driving. Surveillance technologies are helping federal immigration agents bypass state and local sanctuary protections to reveal immigrants’ personal information and track their movements — in many cases, leading to their arrests without a warrant or reasonable suspicion.

    • The Register UK ☛ EU forces Google's hand on search data, angering Google

      In preliminary findings under the Digital Markets Act, the European Commission outlined proposed measures that would force Google to hand over key search data – including rankings, queries, clicks, and views – to rivals on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms.

      The aim is straightforward enough: give competing search engines, and even AI chatbots with search features, access to the kind of data they need to build services capable of taking on Google Search, rather than being locked out from the start.

    • The Verge ☛ Peloton, stay in your lane

      Beat for beat, this all corresponds to the business machinations of Peloton’s third CEO, Peter Stern, a former Ford executive and one of the cofounders behind Apple Fitness Plus. Stern’s arrival has come with a sweeping hardware refresh that increased fees and introduced AI — or Peloton IQ, as they call it — to the Peloton platform. (Plus two layoffs, although at this point, I’ve lost count of how many layoffs Peloton’s had.) In earnings calls, Stern has also stated he no longer views Peloton as a fitness company. It’s a wellness company now, and in his words, that means expanding into “strength, stress management, sleep, and nutrition.” A recent Bloomberg report posits that Peloton IQ may play a bigger role in the platform beyond strength training, utilizing wearable data to suggest personalized plans. It also notes that Stern plans to appeal to GLP-1 users “seeking additional fitness options,” to take Peloton beyond the home by partnering with gyms and lifestyle brands, and to prioritize treadmills — not bikes — going forward.

    • Meduza ☛ Report: Apple warns Russian iPhone users that unofficial Telegram client Telega contains malicious code

      The message appearing on users’ iOS devices reads: “Unable to open the app ‘Telega’ because it contains malicious code. Delete this app from your device.”

      When users try to open the app, it crashes, and they are directed to a page describing the security risk.

    • Techdirt ☛ Rockstar On Latest Potential Hack & Information Leak: Meh, We Don’t Care

      Today, Rockstar is under threat of a similar leak. The company has acknowledged that hacking group ShinyHunters gained access to Rockstar information through a third-party data breach, namely that of Anodot, and has threatened to leak all that data if it isn’t paid by Rockstar.

    • Google ☛ The German Cyber Criminal Überfall: Shifts in Europe's Data Leak Landscape

      Germany has reclaimed its position as a primary focus for cyber extortion in Europe. While data leak site (DLS) posts rose almost 50% globally in 2025, Google Threat Intelligence (GTI) data shows that the surge is hitting German infrastructure harder and faster than its regional neighbors, marking a significant return to the high-pressure levels previously observed in the country during 2022 and 2023.

  • Confidentiality

    • Bitdefender ☛ Singer loses life savings to fake wallet downloaded from the Apple App Store

      A seed phrase (also known as a recovery phrase) is the sequence of 12 or 24 words that are generated when you set up a cryptocurrency wallet. Anyone who has the seed phrase has full, irrevocable access to your funds - making it impossible to reverse any fraudulent transfers made into someone else's account without your permission.

    • Iago Leal de Freitas ☛ Encrypting an external device with LUKS

      I, like many other folks out there, use a small USB drive to store personal documents and other files. It works as a useful backup in case my system fails or gets stolen. However, since I am always traveling this has always made me nervous, because it is too easy to lose a drive the size of a coin.

      As I only ever plug it into a Linux machine (I already keep it formatted as ext4), it seems sensible to encrypt it with LUKS. Also, it is annoying to write a new password all the time, so — since my threat model considers my laptop to be safe and only accessible by me — let’s also setup the device to auto decrypt whenever plugged on it.

• Defence/Aggression

  • Open Caucasus Media ☛ EU to send mission to Armenia to combat Russian ‘destabilisation’ efforts

    RFE/RL has reported that the proposal was put forth by EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas, and is intended to ‘enhance the resilience of Armenia in the field of hybrid threats through the provision of strategic advice as well as operational level advice and support to relevant security sector agencies’.

    The mission will also focus on developing strategies to counter hybrid threats, including foreign information manipulation and interference, as well as illicit financial flows related to the upcoming parliamentary elections in June.

  • Mike Brock ☛ The Practice - by Mike Brock - Notes from the Circus

    Americans across the political spectrum are awakening to the dangers around them, and are coming to understand the nature of their political crisis. And it is in that awakening that a healthier democratic culture is arising.

    Democracy is a practice as much as it is a system.

    When I see the No Kings protests, the new wave of younger establishment-breaking politicians, and an increasing political solidarity for the American system — when I see liberals waving American flags at protests, something that was dismissed as jingoistic and right-coded not long ago — I think I am witnessing the formation of a stronger democratic culture. And democratic culture is democracy as much as the institutions are democracy.

• Transparency/Investigative Reporting

  • Techdirt ☛ Trump Is Literally Negotiating With Himself Over How Much Taxpayer Money He Gets Because His Taxes Were Leaked

    Back in January, we covered Trump’s audacious lawsuit demanding $10 billion from his own IRS over the 2019-2020 leak of his tax returns by IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn (who is currently serving a five-year prison sentence for the leak, meaning the system that Trump claims failed him actually worked just fine). It’s also worth remembering that every major party presidential nominee since Nixon had voluntarily released their tax returns — Trump was the exception, not the rule, and the “harm” he suffered was exposure to the same transparency his predecessors embraced without incident.

    The original piece laid out why the whole thing was a scam: Trump is the plaintiff, the IRS and Treasury are the defendants, and the DOJ defending those defendants is stocked with Trump’s former personal attorneys who have made clear they still consider themselves his personal attorneys — a problem that has only gotten worse with Todd Blanche now serving as acting AG. The fix was obviously in. The only real question was how brazenly the parties would go about it.

  • Mike Brock ☛ The Access Node

    Epstein’s primary function was not blackmail. His primary function was connection. He was a super-networker — what the social scientists would call a hub node in a scale-free network — and the power he exercised over the lives of the people in his orbit was not primarily the power of compromising information but the power of being the person you needed to get to the other people you needed. He remembered your birthday. He had coffee with you when he was in town. He hosted dinners where finance met science met politics met royalty. He made warm introductions and put in a good word for your idea with someone who could fund it. He was the person you called when you wanted to be in touch with the person you could not reach directly.

  • Molly White ☛ Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s old firm pumps $10 million into super PAC led by Tether executive

    The new Fellowship crypto PAC has filed its first fundraising disclosure, reporting a $10 million contribution from Cantor Fitzgerald and $1 million from Anchorage Digital. Cantor Fitzgerald is the financial services firm Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick turned over to his two twenty-something sons when he accepted his White House role.

  • International Business Times ☛ Did Tyler Robinson Kill Charlie Kirk? Unsealed Ballistics Report Sparks New Fury

    The case stems from the September 2025 killing of Kirk and has already produced sharply competing accounts from prosecutors and Robinson's defence team. Defence lawyers recently argued that ballistic testing was inconclusive and that key strands of forensic analysis remained incomplete, contending that experts were 'unable to identify the bullet recovered at autopsy to the rifle allegedly tied to Mr Robinson.'

• Environment

  • India Times ☛ EU denies bowing to tech lobby on data centre green impact

    But in 2024 it took up a submission by tech companies requiring all individual information on data centres be classified, according to an investigation led by Investigate Europe, a journalism cooperative, in partnership with The Guardian, Le Monde and other media.

    As a consequence, information on the precise impact of individual data centres is kept from the public even if demanded through freedom of information requests -- in a possible breach of EU transparency rules, the report said.

  • Truthdig ☛ Republicans Deployed a Little-Known Law to Open Minnesota Wilderness to Mining

    The CRA technically gives Congress 60 days to overturn a rule after it’s passed. The Boundary Waters protections were passed over three years ago during the Biden administration, and not as a rule, but rather as what is known as a public land order. This puts the Senate and administration in territory that is “extraordinarily legally questionable,” said Blaine Miller-McFeeley, a senior legislative representative at Earthjustice. “We are not done fighting, and there are a lot of open questions because this is such uncharted territory.”

  • Jonas Haslbeck ☛ New Preprint: Climate Change Coverage in The Guardian, 2010–2025 – Jonas Haslbeck – Methodology & Statistics

    Leading news outlets play a central role in shaping how political leaders and the public understand the causes, impacts, and solutions to climate change. Here, we provide the first comprehensive assessment of how The Guardian, a globally influential newspaper widely recognized for high-quality climate journalism, has reported on climate change between 2010 and 2025. We applied a validated methodology based on large language models to analyze $N = 18,785$ articles and evaluate to what extent reporting covers scientifically grounded causes, impacts, mitigation strategies, and adaptation measures. We find that climate coverage increased markedly after 2018 and has remained structurally elevated relative to the preceding decade. Coverage of causes and mitigation is dominated by fossil fuels and renewable energy, whereas agriculture, overconsumption, carbon inequality, and economic growth are mentioned far less frequently. Aspects related to adaptation receive considerably less attention than aspects related to causes, impacts, and mitigation. Our findings highlight opportunities for more comprehensive coverage that better reflects full range of societal transformations needed to address climate change.

  • Yle ☛ Unemployed urged to travel up to 1.5 hours for work

    Current legislation states that a daily commute of up to one and a half hours can be considered acceptable. However, the law does not clearly specify whether that travel time should be measured using public transport or a private car.

  • Omicron Limited ☛ A newly recognized pollutant is widely present in the atmosphere

    In this new study, researchers discovered that these large molecular methylsiloxanes are commonly present in the atmosphere, not only in areas close to traffic, but across diverse environments, including urban, coastal, rural, and forest sites.

  • AAAS ☛ The Arctic’s growing mosquito problem

    Until recently, Iceland was the only Arctic nation without mosquitoes. This was a rare exception in a region where mosquitoes emerge in vast numbers each summer, tormenting wildlife and people alike. That distinction is now gone. The detection of mosquitoes just north of Reykjavík in 2025 reflects an ecological shift already underway. As the Arctic warms and human activity expands across the region, species are moving in new ways and at new scales. Mosquitoes in Iceland are more than a curiosity or future annoyance. They are a warning that the Arctic lacks a system for monitoring arthropods and anticipating biological risks before they escalate.

  • [Old] Fast Company ☛ How the Extinction Rebellion got its powerful, unsettling logo

    Over the past year, another environmentally-focused symbol has emerged to represent a new generation of climate protests around the world. The Extinction Rebellion, named after the Anthropocene extinction, is an environmental activist group that started in the United Kingdom in 2018. Formed by a collective of 100 academics, it’s intended to pressure governments—by way of thoughtful civil disobedience—to take action against biodiversity loss and climate and ecological collapse.

  • [Old] Northeast News ☛ Remember This? Ecology Flag

    For an article about the first Earth Day, Look Magazine published the first image of the unofficial ecology flag in the April 21, 1970 edition. An unidentified illustrator combined the style of the United States flag, with 13 stripes and the ecology symbol in the canton (field of stars). The colors of green and white represented green land and pure air, and the ecology symbol was chartreuse within a green canton.

    Inspired by the Look illustration, 16-year-old Betsy Bose (nee Vogel) of Shreveport, La., stitched a homemade fabric version of the flag illustration to hang on her high school’s flagpole.

  • University of Michigan ☛ Ypsilanti Township proposes blocking water to UMich data center

    The Ypsilanti Township Board of Trustees approved a resolution Wednesday that could prevent the University of Michigan from drawing the 500,000 gallons of water needed to operate the $1.25 billion data center it plans to construct in partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory.

  • Project Censored ☛ Educating Students On Climate Change Through A New Curriculum

    Developing initiatives and solutions are often ignored by the corporate press, despite their importance. Establishment news outlets often cover the impacts of climate change, including the increased risk for severe natural disasters, rather than solutions to make long-term changes in how we engage with the natural world. Additionally, education coverage tends to focus on standardized testing, school policies, and AI use rather than the ever-changing curriculum taught in schools. This article by the Hechinger Report highlights how environmental disruptions are already shaping classrooms and how educators are responding.

  • Inside Towers ☛ Maine Legislature Passes First-in-Nation Pause on Large Data Centers

    The measure would block the creation of new data centers that draw more than 20 megawatts of power until the fall of 2027 and establish a mechanism to study their impact on the electrical grid, according to The Washington Post. During this moratorium, a coordinating council will convene to produce recommendations and guidelines to shape the future of the state’s policies on large data centers. The council will include government officials, experts and other stakeholders. The bill allocates $95,000 to support the council’s activities, notes The Hill.

  • Smithsonian Magazine ☛ Large Invasive Rodents Are Wreaking Havoc in California. New Research Suggests Someone Deliberately Introduced Them

    Someone appears to have intentionally introduced an invasive rodent to California, decades after the creatures were eradicated from the state.

  • Energy/Transportation

    • Eesti Rahvusringhääling ☛ Estonian PM: Course set to complete Rail Baltica by 2030

      Baltic prime ministers agreed at a meeting to complete the Rail Baltica route by 2030, while Latvian Prime Minister Evika Siliņa acknowledged Latvia's ongoing funding shortages and pressure to reduce costs.

    • Eesti Rahvusringhääling ☛ New electric ferry shore charging system to cost €10 million

      The new state-ordered ferry, expected to be completed by the end of 2028, will be powered primarily by electricity and switch to biodiesel only in emergencies. The vessel is being built by Polish shipyard CRIST S.A. and will operate between Estonia's mainland and Saaremaa via the island of Muhu.

    • Omicron Limited ☛ Agrovoltaic systems can save water, generating energy and making tomato cultivation more sustainable at the same time

      Researchers from the University of Seville (US) and the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) have demonstrated that it is possible to grow tomatoes and generate solar energy simultaneously, a key strategy for tackling global water scarcity. The study, carried out in Madrid and Seville during the spring of 2024, evaluated the use of agrovoltaic systems and regulated deficit irrigation to optimize water resources in tomato cultivation. The results show that, although using less water reduces the volume of the harvest, the overall outcome is a more efficient and sustainable process.

    • Android Police ☛ Fatal explosion prompts popular brand to recall half a million power banks, offering replacements

      This recall was actually announced in April 2025, after multiple fires were reported. This followed a tragic incident in August 2024 where a Casely power bank exploded in the lap of a 75-year-old woman from New Jersey. She later died from complications from her injuries.

    • Inside Towers ☛ Data Center Bills Led 2026 Virginia General Assembly

      Several bills were introduced to regulate the sector, with some successfully passing, reports the Virginia Mercury. One key measure, Senate Bill 253, focuses on electricity costs. It allows regulators to shift more energy-related expenses, such as power purchased through regional auctions and infrastructure like substations, onto data centers and large industrial users, rather than residents.

    • NL Times ☛ Skinnybikes circumventing the first fatbike bans

      Enschede and Amsterdam are the first municipalities to ban fatbikes in parts of the city. The bans stipulate that electric bikes with tires thicker than seven centimeters may not enter certain areas. Anticipating such bans, manufacturers launched skinnybikes two years ago - basically a fatbike with thinner tires.

      The sale of skinnybikes is really taking off this year, fatbike sellers Armando Muis of La Souris and Samir Bahida of Sache Bikes told the newspaper. “The first two containers arrived in February. It could have been six. They sold out immediately,” Muis said. Bahida said: “A year ago, I sold 50 fatbikes for every one skinnybike. That ratio is now almost two to one.”

    • Kentucky Lantern ☛ Housing, data center legislation dies on final day of 2026 session

      Another proposal that didn’t make it to the governor’s desk was sponsored by Rep. Josh Bray, R-Mount Vernon, seeking to ensure the costs of infrastructure and service to meet the demands of power-intensive data centers would not be borne by other ratepayers. Bray’s House Bill 593 cleared the House in March but stalled in the Senate.

    • Yle ☛ Finland's longest bridge opens to pedestrians on Saturday

      Pedestrians will be allowed onto the bridge from 2pm, while cyclists will gain access from 5pm. Tram services across the bridge are expected to begin in early 2027. Other vehicles will not be permitted on the bridge.

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • El País ☛ The Spanish woman who spent a year on a Philippine island and discovered another way frogs reproduce

      At the end of each day, they tagged the frogs with a microchip — a kind of biological ID — recorded their measurements, checked for eggs or malformations, and noted the exact location of their capture. This information allowed them to build a precise picture of the population. Then, they retraced their steps and released each frog precisely where it had been found.

    • Digital Camera World ☛ A rare jaguar was spotted in Honduras for the first time in a decade, thanks to a remote camera trap

      The elusive “cloud jaguar” was pictured in the highest reaches of the Merendón Mountain range – the first time a big cat has been seen in the Honduran wild for over a decade

    • Sveriges Television AB ☛ Den stora älgvandringen

    • Yle ☛ Den stora älgvandringen

    • MIT Technology Review ☛ The noise we make is hurting animals. Can we learn to shut up?

      For years, Phillips has studied how animals react to “anthropogenic noise,” or the racket created by human activity. Most animals really don’t like it, she and her colleagues have learned. Animals constantly listen to the world around them: They’re on the alert for the rustle of approaching predators, or a mating call from a member of their species. As human society has expanded—with sprawling cities, industrial mines, and roads crisscrossing the world—it has gotten noisier too, and animals have trouble hearing one another.

  • Overpopulation

    • Western Water ☛ EPA pushes water recycling for U.S. growth

      Water reuse is not a new idea, but federal officials say the need has grown. Population increases, industrial demand, and pressure on rivers and aquifers are forcing communities to look for new water sources. Reusing water that has already been treated is one way to stretch limited supplies.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • International Business Times ☛ Meta Isn't Struggling, It's Cutting Anyway: Why AI Could Eliminate 8,000 Jobs in May

    Meta plans to cut about 10% of its global workforce from May, with around 8,000 jobs expected to go in an initial wave of layoffs as Mark Zuckerberg pushes the company deeper into artificial intelligence, according to people quoted by Reuters. The Facebook and Instagram owner is said to be preparing the first round of job cuts for 20 May, with further reductions under consideration for later in the year as it reshapes its business around AI.

  • Pete Brown ☛ People think the economy sucks because they feel they’re on their own. - Exploding Comma

    So maybe “unemployment” rates are low and the stock market is going up, but none of that makes anyone feel any less desperate. I have no sympathy for the rich, but even they don’t seem to feel safe or stable.

  • Mike Brock ☛ I Hate the Internet - by Mike Brock

    I left my career in technology. The truth is, I love technology. I really do. But I feel like the things I like about technology — and have always loved about technology — are different now than what these large corporate behemoths that own most of our online life like about technology. What they like about technology is that it can be used to control, to capture your attention, and to extract as much money from you as they can.

    [...}

    Steve wasn’t a geek. That was Steve Wozniak. People say he was the sales guy. But that’s not right. He was the guy who understood that technology is a tool for humans. That it’s not an ends. That we don’t live for technology or in technology. And he saw the world that way. To a fault. It got him fired from the company he co-founded.

  • Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

    • El País ☛ AI infiltrates the Iran war: Memes, puns and fake images

      But in recent months, as tensions between the United States and Iran have escalated, the side taking the greatest advantage of this technology has been the Islamic Republic. The arrival of AI has allowed the regime and its supporters to spread their propaganda beyond Iran’s borders and capture the attention of a broader and previously unreachable audience: the West. Slopaganda videos shared by Iranian embassies around the world — caricaturing Trump and his administration — have been viewed hundreds of millions of times since the start of the war in the Middle East.

    • RTL ☛ Content creation camps: Russia trains teenage influencers to churn out pro-war content

      Schools and young people have been targeted -- curricula and textbooks changed to include Russia’s justification for its invasion and soldiers despatched to whip up pro-war enthusiasm in the classroom.

      At one content creation camp in early April, more than 120 teenagers, clad in green sweaters and red berets, gathered in Moscow for lectures from soldiers and state media reporters on how to produce videos, use artificial intelligence and build audiences.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • Meduza ☛ Russia charges journalist and former TV producer with inciting terrorism over social media comments

    People who know Averina say that working for Russian television channels did not prevent her from holding opposition views. After Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, she made her Facebook page private but continued for 4 years to repost anti-war content and write comments.

    Averina was detained on February 5 in Ivangorod, a city in the Leningrad region on the border with Estonia, where she had traveled to visit her 71-year-old mother, Tatyana, according to sources who spoke to the outlet.

  • The Dissenter ☛ US Military Partners In Gulf Crack Down On Journalism

    In fact, the U.S. military benefits from this kind of repression because it bolsters secrecy around cooperation between the U.S. and Kuwait. That includes friendly-fire incidents that may seem embarrassing.

  • Human rights Activists News Agency ☛ Seven Citizens Arrested on Accusations of “Connections with Foreign Media and Disturbing Public Opinion” - Hrana

    According to IRNA, the Gilan Police Information Center claimed that these individuals were affiliated with foreign media outlets and had been disturbing public opinion by publishing content and images on social media.

  • Democracy for the Arab World Now ☛ The Arab Monarchies' Crackdown on Speech Is a Sign of Political Fear, Not Stability

    Sayyid Mohammad al-Musawwi, a Bahraini citizen who previously spent more than a decade in prison, died in custody after being detained over allegations linked to the Israeli and U.S. war with Iran.

• Civil Rights / Policing / Accessibility

  • TruthOut ☛ Minneapolis Woman Violently Dragged From Car by ICE Files Claim Against DHS

    Aliya Rahman was on her way to a doctor’s appointment when her route was blocked by ICE vehicles. Rahman’s window was smashed, and she was violently pulled out of her car. She told the officers she is disabled and autistic, but says they mocked her. Rahman was brought to an ICE jail, where she was denied medical care. She eventually fell unconscious and woke up at a hospital. “My hope is that Americans can see that we have an option that might someday make mass acts of racial violence seem too expensive for these folks, even if they don’t share our values,” says Rahman.

  • Jacobin Magazine ☛ ICE Just Signed a $12 Million Deal to Track Migrants With AI

    Additional features of the technology described in procurement documents include real-time location tracking and analysis that will categorize individuals and groups as affiliated with ostensible criminal organizations, such as gangs or cartels. That includes building “target profiles” that track individuals’ activity by linking data obtained from Wi-Fi network connections and mobile smart devices, such as cell phones and smartwatches.

    A promotional blurb for the tool on Edge Ops LLC’s website claims that Project SAFE HAVEN “transforms the way we identify, locate, and map illegal migrants.”

    ICE’s purchase of the tool was made public in federal procurement records released this week.

  • Privacy International ☛ Voter Disenfranchisement: A Privacy Issue

    Disenfranchisement - the deprivation of the right to vote - erodes election integrity. The increasingly prominent role of data and tech in elections can lead to a chilling of political participation as well as raising privacy concerns, particularly for minoritised groups.

  • Jamie Zawinski ☛ "Joy", which they have rebranded as "Economic Impact..."

    parties

  • COYOTE Media Collective ☛ ‘How Could You Be Against Joy?’: Bay Area Artists Are Turning on the Civic Joy Fund

    Guest echoed his dismay about the focus on one-off events — which make for great publicity — over sustainable support. “I think [Lurie] is basically making art into a consumable,” she says.

    “I’m hearing artists rightfully starting to question, like, ‘Ultimately, who is this for?’” says Guest of the block parties. “Is it for the public, or is it to set up this area as being worthy of real estate investment? Because if the point of it is to cater towards visitors … it’s really not about supporting art or artists at all.”

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • The Register UK ☛ Google: IPv6 carried half of [Internet] traffic for one day

    According to the Big G’s stats, on March 28th, 50.1 percent of the traffic the company detected used IPv6, up from 46.33 percent a year earlier. Google’s data records plenty of days over the last year when IPv6 carried over 49.5 percent of traffic, and a slow climb towards greater prevalence of traffic using the protocol.

    Google has a decent view of the [Internet] because its main domain and YouTube are the world’s two most-trafficked websites.

• Digital Restrictions (DRM)

  • Dark Reading ☛ Microsoft's Original Windows Secure Boot Certificate Is Expiring

    The original Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Secure Boot certificates for Windows will start expiring in late June. Microsoft urged IT and security leaders to apply updated certificates to all Windows PCs made before 2024 to ensure they continue receiving security updates.

• Monopolies/Monopsonies

  • Vox ☛ Live Nation monopoly verdict: Here’s what it means for concerts

    Live Nation will have to face the antitrust music, a federal jury in New York ruled this week, declaring that America’s preeminent concert middleman is an illegal monopoly. This was not news to those of us who’ve attended a concert in the past, oh, dozen years. You could score a ticket to Celine Dion’s comeback tour with all the money I’ve tithed to Live Nation in service fees and charges.

    The verdict is an important recognition, however, that all is not well on America’s concert scene. So this morning, we’re taking a look at why live music got so expensive — and how this verdict could change things.

  • Rolling Stone ☛ Former DOJ Antitrust Head: 'David Beat Goliath' in Live Nation Case

    This week, a coalition of more than 30 state attorneys general won a landmark monopolization case against Live Nation, the owner of Ticketmaster. The win alone was truly historic. As if this was not enough, the states prevailed in a jury trial in Manhattan, and the team that went to trial did so on a week’s notice after the DOJ abruptly dropped out as lead counsel in March. These factors combined shift the Live Nation case from “merely historic” to “unprecedented” in the antitrust hall of fame.

  • Digital Music News ☛ State AGs Demand Live Nation Breakup Following Trial Win

    Interestingly, however, a few of the AGs, in red and blue states alike, are zeroing in on states’ relief – with some touching on the possibility of a Live Nation-Ticketmaster breakup.

    “Live Nation is being held to account for violating state and federal antitrust laws, and I’ll continue to fight to break up their monopoly, restore competition, and get money back for concertgoers,” Colorado AG Phil Weiser said in part.

  • Nick Heer ☛ Macworld: ‘Use Apple’s App Store at Your Own Risk’

    Price calls the App Store “rotten” — is there any other word? — and says Apple should “give iPhone users the freedom to install from other places. Or just stop pretending the App Store monopoly is about anything other than revenue” if it cannot effectively police its wares. I imagine Apple would argue it enforces its rules all the time and sometimes things just get through.

    But that kind of response only reveals the scale of the store and, consequently, the problem: nobody can effectively govern this many items, especially when they are all user-submitted. Walmart has a few hundred thousand individual products, while Costco has about four thousand and says most supermarkets have in the range of tens of thousands. The App Store is ungovernable at this size, and high-profile incidents like the ones above only reinforce that sentiment.

  • Patents

    • Sean Conner ☛ What do you call Lego style bricks made by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints?

      It's not a joke. Now that any patents that Lego might have had have expired, there's been an explosion of alternative brick systems to Lego. [...]

  • Copyrights

    • EU ☛ eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:62024CJ0496

      2 The request has been made in the context of two disputes between (i) the Stichting Onderhandelingen Thuiskopievergoeding (‘SONT’) and (ii) the Stichting de Thuiskopie (‘SdT’) and HP Nederland BV (‘HP’), Dell BV and the Stichting Overlegorgaan Blanco Informatiedragers. Those disputes concerned a fee claimed from HP and Dell, intended to finance the fair compensation paid to copyright holders under the private copying exception in the context of a service providing offline streaming copies, which service is provided in connection with an on-demand internet streaming service for musical or audiovisual works.

    • Torrent Freak ☛ Korean Rights Holders Behind Takedown of Manga Piracy Giant TuMangaOnline

      The Spanish-speaking manga community was in disarray last month when TuMangaOnline, also known as ZonaTMO, suddenly disappeared. When the site's main domain was put on clienthold by its registrar, it was clear that legal pressure was mounting. Today, Korean copyright enforcement organization COA and the global anti-piracy firm IP House have confirmed their role in the takedown, revealing that Spanish police took action against the site's operators.