Leftovers

• Science

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-29 [Older] Prehistoric matriarchy in Turkey revealed by DNA analysis

• Hardware

  • Hackaday ☛ Thanks, Tamiya-san

    We’re saddened to report the passing of Shunsaku Tamiya, the man behind the Tamiya line of models. What was surprising about this, though, is how many of our readers and writers alike felt touched by the Tamiya model company. I mean, they made great models, and they’re definitely a quality outfit, but the outpouring of fond memories across a broad spectrum was striking.

  • Hackaday ☛ An ATTiny GPU Fan Controller That Sticks

    When your GPU fan goes rogue with an unholy screech, you either shell out for a new one or you go full hacker mode. Well, [ashafq] did the latter. The result is a delightfully nerdy fan controller powered by an ATTiny85 and governed by a DS18B20 temperature sensor. We all know a silent workstation is golden, and there’s no fun in throwing money at an off-the-shelf solution. [ashafq]’s custom build transforms a whiny Radeon RX 550 into a cool, quiet operator. Best of all: it’s built from bits likely already in your junk drawer.

  • Hackaday ☛ Exploring VersaLOGIC Pre-LSI Logic Cards With The Data/620

    Before the era of large-scale integration (LSI) semiconductor circuits, discrete logic circuits using the common diode-transistor logic (DTL) were still necessary and available in a format that was modular and reusable. [David Lovett] over at the Usagi Electric farm has two great examples that date back to the 1950s and 1960s, showing the jump in technology over the course of a mere decade.

  • Hackaday ☛ An Ode To The Aesthetic Of Light In 1024 Pixels

    Sometimes, brilliant perspectives need a bit of an introduction first, and this is clearly one. This video essay by [Cleggy] delivers what it promises: an ode to the aesthetic of light. But he goes further, materializing his way of viewing things into a beautiful physical build — and the full explanation of how to do it at home.

  • Standards/Consortia

    • Terence Eden ☛ Why don’t smart watches use USB-C to recharge?

      So three different charging cables in under three years. Progress!

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-28 [Older] Human immune system reacts to the mere sight of infection

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-30 [Older] Cuba land lease to Vietnamese company reaps rich harvest

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-29 [Older] US: EPA moves to gut environmental oversight

• Proprietary

  • Bleeping Computer ☛ 2025-07-27 [Older] Scattered Spider is running a VMware ESXi hacking spree

  • Hacker News ☛ 2025-07-28 [Older] Scattered Spider Hijacks VMware ESXi to Deploy Ransomware on Critical U.S. Infrastructure

  • Windows TCO / Windows Bot Nets

    • The Washington Post ☛ 2025-07-24 [Older] U.S. nuclear and health agencies hit in Microsoft SharePoint breach

• Security

  • 2025-07-30 [Older] Oops! Catasauqua employees’ Social Security numbers, other data accidentally sent to government watchdog group

  • 2025-07-25 [Older] Recent public service announcements of note — parents should take special note of these

  • 2025-07-25 [Older] Au: Qantas hackers gave airline 72-hour deadline

  • 2025-07-25 [Older] Honeywell vulnerability exposes building systems to cyber attacks

  • IT Pro ☛ 2025-07-25 [Older] Average Brit hit by five data breaches since 2004

  • Yahoo News ☛ 2025-07-30 [Older] Seminole County Schools recovers money taken by hackers

  • Domain Namewire ☛ 2025-07-30 [Older] ICANN sends breach notice to domain registrar Webnic about failure to deal with DNS abuse complaints properly

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • Hackaday ☛ Custom Bedroom Lighting Controlled By Alexa [Ed: Controlled by GAFAM listening device]

      [Arkandas] had a problem. They liked reading in bed, but their bedroom lamps weren’t cutting it—either too bright and direct, or too dim and diffuse. The solution was custom lighting, and a new project began.

    • EFF ☛ 2025-07-25 [Older] Canada’s Bill C-2 Opens the Floodgates to U.S. Surveillance

    • The Age AU ☛ 2025-07-25 [Older] Au: Junior doctor faces fresh toilet spying charges as probe widens to other major hospitals

  • Confidentiality

    • 2025-07-30 [Older] Florida prison data breach exposes visitors’ contact information to inmates

    • Bloomberg ☛ 2025-07-30 [Older] Experian Wins Appeal to Send Data Breach Victim to Arbitration

    • J D Supra LLC ☛ 2025-07-30 [Older] EU-wide Breach Notification Template on the Horizon

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-29 [Older] Tea App Takes Messaging System Offline After Second Security Issue Reported

    • NBC ☛ 2025-07-26 [Older] The safe place for women to talk wasn’t so safe: hackers leak 13,000 user photos and IDs from the Tea app

    • International Business Times ☛ 2025-07-26 [Older] How a 'Hack and Leak' Campaign Against the 'Tea App' Exposed Over 13,000 Women's Photos and IDs

    • 2025-07-25 [Older] The day after XSS.is forum was seized, it struggles to come back online — but is it really them?

    • Bleeping Computer ☛ 2025-07-25 [Older] BlackSuit ransomware site seized as part of Operation Checkmate

    • 2025-07-26 [Older] Infinite Services notifying employees and patients of limited ransomware attack

    • 2025-07-26 [Older] Fans React After NASCAR Confirms Ransomware Breach

    • 2025-07-26 [Older] BreachForums — the one that went offline in April — reappears with a new founder/owner

    • TechCrunch ☛ 2025-07-26 [Older] Allianz Life says ‘majority’ of customers’ personal data stolen in cyberattack

    • 2025-07-28 [Older] Two Data Breaches in Three Years: McKenzie Health

    • Cyble Inc ☛ 2025-07-28 [Older] AIIMS ORBO Portal Vulnerability Exposing Sensitive Organ Donor Data Discovered by Researcher

    • TechCrunch ☛ 2025-07-30 [Older] Sex toy maker Lovense caught leaking users’ email addresses and exposing accounts to takeovers

• Defence/Aggression

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-27 [Older] As France's Africa policy collapses how do companies adjust?

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-26 [Older] Central African Republic's Touadera Announces Bid for Third Term

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-25 [Older] Germany risks missing opportunities in Africa

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-28 [Older] How the Sahel became a smuggling hotspot

  • HRW ☛ 2025-07-25 [Older] Sahel Region: African Union Appoints Special Envoy

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-25 [Older] Exclusive-US Diplomats Asked if Non-Whites Qualify for Cheeto Mussolini Refugee Program for South Africans

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-29 [Older] Germany updates: Merz meets Jordan's King over Gaza airlift

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-29 [Older] Gunman opens fire in office tower in NYC, killing several

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-29 [Older] India: 3 gunmen suspected of Pahalgam attack killed — minister

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-29 [Older] India's Rahul Gandhi to 'adopt' 22 children orphaned in May conflict with Pakistan

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-29 [Older] North Korea says US should abandon denuclearization push

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-29 [Older] Will the Cambodia-Thailand ceasefire hold?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-28 [Older] As Thai-Cambodia truce nears, evacuees speak out

  • BIA Net ☛ 2025-07-24 [Older] Interpol fugitive wanted for 1984 murder in Germany captured in southern Turkey

  • ANF News ☛ 2025-07-29 [Older] “Insisting on Freedom” activists conclude talks in Turkey

  • BIA Net ☛ 2025-07-25 [Older] Turkey announces key parliamentary committee for new Kurdish peace effort

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • LRT ☛ Russia’s long-range drones: shifting threat to NATO’s eastern flank

      Over the last few weeks, several drones breached Lithuanian and NATO airspace. Previously, a long-range strike drone Geran2 had breached the Latvian border. So, Houston, we have a problem. The Civic Centre for Defence and Security Analysis Locked N Loaded provides analysis on Russian long-range strike drones (LRSDs).

    • France24 ☛ The Insurrectionist orders nuclear submarines moved after Russian 'provocative' comments

      US President The Insurrectionist on Friday (August 1) announced that he had ordered two nuclear submarines to be positioned in "the appropriate regions", responding to what he called "foolish and inflammatory" statements from former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev.

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-30 [Older] NATO ex-employees accuse the alliance of going DOGE

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-28 [Older] Finland's Niinisto: Cheeto Mussolini will continue diplomacy with Putin, EU needs to be involved

• Environment

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-29 [Older] China: Heavy rainfall in Beijing kills at least 30

  • Energy/Transportation

    • USDOJ ☛ 2025-07-30 [Older] Canadian cybercriminal sentenced to a year in prison for NFT theft scheme

    • Indian Express ☛ 2025-07-30 [Older] Hackers wipe out Rs 384 crore from Bengaluru cryptocurrency firm Neblio Technologies; firm says inside job

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-30 [Older] Should India worry about China's massive dam?

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-29 [Older] Angola: Mass arrests as Luanda fuel hike demos turn deadly

    • Hackaday ☛ This Plane Flies Slow Because Its Wings Really Blow

      The key to Short Takeoff and Landing (STOL) operations is the ability to fly slow– really slow. That’s how you get up fast without a long takeoff roll to build up speed. Usually, this involves layers of large flaps and/or leading edge slots, but [rctestflight] on YouTube decided he wanted to take a more active approach with a fully blown wing.

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-29 [Older] India: Tiger numbers rise, but risks remain

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-29 [Older] Outcry in Germany as zoo kills baboons

    • BIA Net ☛ 2025-07-26 [Older] Two conscripts die of dehydration in southern Turkey amid heatwave

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-27 [Older] Turkey sets new record of 50.5 degrees as Europe swelters

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-27 [Older] Turkey Evacuates Thousands as Firefighters Battle Wildfires

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-27 [Older] Wildfires Threaten Turkey's Fourth-Largest City as Southern Europe Grapples With Blazes

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-27 [Older] Greece: Wildfires continue to burn with danger mounting

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-25 [Older] Longtime Lawmaker Shapes the Debate as Arizona Grapples With Dwindling Water Supplies

  • Overpopulation

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-28 [Older] China to offer $500 per child in move to boost birth rate

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-28 [Older] UN Report Reveals Alarming Rise in Africa's Food Insecurity Despite Global Improvements

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-28 [Older] Food insecurity: Nutrition and geography in a hungry world

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-29 [Older] UN warns of rising hunger across Africa

• Finance

  • BIA Net ☛ 2025-07-30 [Older] One-third of Turkey's workforce is idle, official data reveals

  • CBC ☛ 2025-07-30 [Older] Hudson's Bay takes landlords to court over billionaire's lease takeover

  • CBC ☛ 2025-07-30 [Older] As a B.C. Costco cracks down on its food court, is there anywhere truly cheap left to eat?

  • CBC ☛ 2025-07-30 [Older] Bank of Canada holds interest rate at 2.75% as economy shows resilience in the face of tariffs

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-28 [Older] Housing crisis: Germany plans 'turbo' construction boost

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-28 [Older] German housing crisis: government plans major construction boost

  • CBC ☛ 2025-07-30 [Older] Open for business? B.C. wineries call out high fees charged by Alberta

  • BIA Net ☛ 2025-07-25 [Older] Turkey's post-quake housing lags, pushing workers into deadly conditions

  • TruthOut ☛ 2025-07-29 [Older] Elizabeth Warren Demands Investigation Into Social Security Hotline Wait Times

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-28 [Older] Colombia: Ex-president Uribe convicted of witness tampering

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-28 [Older] Did Indian temple officials cover up a mass murder?

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-30 [Older] Senate Committee Advances Cheeto Mussolini Nominee to Lead Cybersecurity Agency That Protects Election Systems

  • Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-30 [Older] Fact check: Tsunami unleashes fake films and misinformation

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-30 [Older] Fact check: Viral Durban video misrepresents post-apartheid South Africa

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-26 [Older] Canada Condemns Hong Kong Arrest Warrants Targeting Pro-Democracy Activists

• Civil Rights/Policing

  • Licensing / Legal

    • The Hindu ☛ Technology is powerful but cannot replicate human touch in justice delivery or legal aid: Justice Surya Kant

      “Technology is only a tool. The heart of justice must remain human... In a world where machines write poetry and algorithms predict behaviour, we must remember: justice is still a human act. It is not rendered by bandwidth but by conscience. The greatness of the law lies not in authority, but in service; not in rigidity, but in compassion,” Justice Kant said.