Leftovers

• 2026-06-29 [Older] Daniel Agee: ‘Remembering Om’

• Science / Mathematics / Computer Science

  • The Conversation ☛ 2026-06-29 [Older] Expert Q&A: why did so many buildings collapse in Venezuela’s double earthquake?

  • The Conversation ☛ 2026-06-25 [Older] Cracks in the International Space Station are causing air leaks – how much longer can it remain habitable?

  • The Conversation ☛ 2026-06-23 [Older] Free will: does refusing to believe in it make you a ‘bad’ person? Research is challenging this old idea

• Career/Education

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-06-23 [Older] India: What’s driving the intense pressure on students?

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-06-23 [Older] Ebola in DR Congo sees record first-month caseload

  • Vox ☛ 2026-06-26 [Older] Four easy ways to live longer

• Proprietary / SaaS

  • CBC ☛ 2026-06-25 [Older] Apple and Microsoft hike prices as AI crunches global memory chip supply

  • The Verge ☛ Xbox’s ‘reset’: all the news about Microsoft’s looming layoffs and studio closures

    Xbox is making some big changes — again. On June 10th, a few months after Asha Sharma took over as CEO, she and newly-promoted chief content officer Matt Booty sent a memo to staff warning of an “Xbox reset.” The business, they said, is facing significant challenges, including a 3 percent “accountability margin,” massively higher component prices for consoles due to the memory and storage shortage, and an “over extended” studio system.

  • So-Called 'Artificial Intelligence' ('AI') / LLM Slop / Plagiarism

    • IP Kat ☛ 2026-06-28 [Older] AI-generated search summaries and personality rights: Munich court grants preliminary injunction against Google

    • The Register UK ☛ AI search could kill the web without new quality signals and revenue models [Ed: Plagiarism in some form is bad]

      AI answers are killing content publishers, as they cause readers to stay on Google or on the chatbot of their choice, rather than navigating to dedicated websites. The end result could be catastrophic for the open web.

      Alex Chan, assistant professor at Harvard Business School, floats that prediction based on an economic model he describes in a paper titled "AI and the collapse of the www."

  • Social Control Media

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-06-24 [Older] US: Google's YouTube settles teen mental health lawsuit

• Security

  • 2026-06-23 [Older] Cybersecurity Incidents: The Problem Isn’t Just Who Attacks

  • CISA

    • CISA ☛ 2026-06-23 [Older] ABB Freelance Security Lock

    • CISA ☛ 2026-06-29 [Older] CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

    • CISA ☛ 2026-06-25 [Older] CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

    • CISA ☛ 2026-06-25 [Older] Yokogawa FAST/TOOLS and CI Server

    • CISA ☛ 2026-06-25 [Older] EVoke Systems Charging Station Management System

    • CISA ☛ 2026-06-25 [Older] Horner Automation Cscape

    • CISA ☛ 2026-06-25 [Older] Daktronics Controller Firmware

    • CISA ☛ 2026-06-25 [Older] H.VIEW HV-500S6 IP Camera

    • CISA ☛ 2026-06-25 [Older] Delta Electronics DTM Soft

    • CISA ☛ 2026-06-25 [Older] Schneider Electric PowerLogic P7

    • CISA ☛ 2026-06-23 [Older] CISA Adds Four Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

    • CISA ☛ 2026-06-23 [Older] Siemens WinCC Certificate Manager

    • CISA ☛ 2026-06-23 [Older] Siemens SIPROTEC 5 Using DIGSI5 Protocol

    • CISA ☛ 2026-06-23 [Older] Siemens Products using OpenSSL

    • CISA ☛ 2026-06-23 [Older] Siemens SINEC INS

    • CISA ☛ 2026-06-23 [Older] Impact of Linux Kernel vulnerabilities on B&R products

    • CISA ☛ 2026-06-23 [Older] Hubbell Aclara Metrum Cellular Web Interface

• Defence/Aggression

  • International Business Times ☛ 2026-06-23 [Older] 'Worrisome': US Homeland Security Chief Raises Alarm Over Iranian Nationals Linked to IRGC Crossing Canada Border

  • The Local SE ☛ 2026-06-23 [Older] Swedish security service warns Iran continues to recruit gang youth

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-06-24 [Older] What Keir Starmer's resignation means for European security

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-06-23 [Older] Europe is spending billions to rearm, so why the delays?

• Environment

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-06-23 [Older] Europe heat wave: France measures hottest-ever day

  • Energy/Transportation

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-06-23 [Older] German rail service resumes after nationwide breakdown

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-06-28 [Older] Saudi Aramco helicopter crashes, all 14 passengers killed

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • CBC ☛ 2026-06-27 [Older] Why do mosquitoes seem to love some people more? An expert explains

• Finance

  • HRW ☛ 2026-06-25 [Older] Cambodia: World Bank’s IFC Rejects Microfinance Harm Findings

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-06-23 [Older] Scotland: Sturgeon's ex-husband Peter Murrell jailed for 5 years and 3 months

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • HRW ☛ 2026-06-25 [Older] China: Social Media, Films Censored Around Pride Month

  • Counter Punch ☛ 2026-06-26 [Older] Florida’s Prison System Is Quietly Trying to Censor the Truth

  • Scheerpost ☛ 2026-06-27 [Older] How Facebook Has Censored My Account Over Criticism of Israel

  • Project Censored ☛ 2026-06-22 [Older] LGBTQ Organizing Beyond Meta’s Censorship

  • Project Censored ☛ 2026-06-22 [Older] The Misuse of History: Archaeology in Palestine

  • Portfolio Media Inc ☛ Green Industrialist Can't Recast Tice Hamas Post As Fact [Ed: Brett Wilson LLP loses a case for alleged Hamas sympathiser, its biggest client]

    Green industrialist Dale Vince has lost his bid to recast Reform UK Deputy Leader Richard Tice's social media post accusing him of supporting Hamas as a factual allegation, as an appeals court on Wednesday upheld a ruling that the allegedly defamatory post was an expression of opinion."

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-06-23 [Older] Turkey arrests more than 200 in crackdown before NATO summit

  • BIA Net ☛ 2026-06-23 [Older] Turkey blocks access to LGBTI+ dating apps

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • CPJ ☛ 2026-06-26 [Older] The high price journalists paid for LGBTQ+ reporting, and how to protect yourself now

  • BIA Net ☛ 2026-06-25 [Older] NATO denies accreditation to Turkey's 'non-pro-government media' for Ankara summit

  • CPJ ☛ 2026-06-26 [Older] CPJ, partners express urgent concern to NATO over press accreditation denial for Turkey summit in July

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-06-23 [Older] Hong Kong pro-democracy publisher Jimmy Lai honored by DW

• Civil Rights / Policing / Accessibility

  • Defence Web ☛ 2026-06-23 [Older] South Africa braces for potential xenophobic riots

  • International Business Times ☛ 2026-06-23 [Older] US Supreme Court Rules Homeland Security Can Strip Green Cards From Migrants Returning With Unproven Charges

  • Vox ☛ 2026-06-25 [Older] The Supreme Court lets Cheeto Mussolini deport people back to war zones

  • HRW ☛ 2026-06-22 [Older] Syria: Mob Violence Against Groups Linked to Assad Era

  • University of Michigan ☛ 2026-06-29 [Older] SCOTUS ends Temporary Protected Status for Haiti and Syria, setting framework for additional terminations

• Monopolies/Monopsonies

  • IP Kat ☛ 2026-06-29 [Older] Important changes to EU regulatory exclusivity

  • IP Kat ☛ 2026-06-23 [Older] 10 Years since Brexit: What has happened in IP since? Part 1

  • IP Kat ☛ 2026-06-23 [Older] 10 Years since Brexit: What has happened in IP since? Part 2

  • Futurism ☛ 2026-06-23 [Older] Amazon Just Pulled Something Absolutely Craven to Avoid Embarrassing Its Friends at OpenAI

  • Trademarks

    • IP Kat ☛ 2026-06-24 [Older] Unboxing Tetra Pak: General Court declares iconic carton shape invalid

  • Copyrights

    • CBC ☛ 2026-06-26 [Older] Montreal film production lab to shut down, sparking calls from filmmakers for it to be saved