Leftovers

• BBC ☛ Lake makes history with British record 2m leap

  Morgan Lake made history by becoming the first British woman to clear two metres in the high jump as she finished third at the Diamond League Final in Zurich.

  Lake soared over the mark at the first attempt to become the 86th woman in history to achieve the landmark height.

• Hardware

  • PBS ☛ Nvidia’s latest quarter shows signs of AI chip sales slump amid concerns of tech bubble

    Nvidia’s sales of its artificial intelligence chipsets remained a hot commodity in during the company’s latest quarter, but the demand wasn’t quite feverish enough to ease recent worries that AI craze may be fading.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • Semafor Inc ☛ 2025-08-28 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini Fires CDC Director, Anti-Vax Wingnuts Now Running Asylum

  • Project Censored ☛ 2025-08-21 [Older] Blood, Sweat, and Stitches: How Overconsumption Pushes Garment Workers to the Brink

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-23 [Older] The end of Turkey's popular all-you-can-eat hotel buffets?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-21 [Older] A tentative start for mass vaccine production in Africa

• Proprietary

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) / LLM Slop / Plagiarism

    • CNBC ☛ OpenAI's Scam Altman says AI market is in a bubble

      OpenAI CEO Scam Altman thinks the artificial intelligence market is in a bubble, similar to the dotcom bubble, he recently told reporters.

    • The Week ☛ The AI bubble and a potential stock market crash | The Week UK

      Valuations of some AI start-ups are 'insane', says OpenAI CEO Scam Altman.

  • Windows TCO / Windows Bot Nets

    • The Register UK ☛ 2025-08-22 [Older] Developer jailed for taking down employer’s network with kill switch malware

    • The Record ☛ 2025-08-27 [Older] Hundreds of Swedish municipalities impacted by suspected ransomware attack on IT supplier

• Security

  • 2025-08-21 [Older] Noah Urban aka “King Bob” of Scattered Spider, sentenced to 10 years in prison, $13 million restitution

  • 2025-08-24 [Older] Google Deletes Android Apps After Malware Discovery [Ed: GNU ☛ Google's Software is Malware

  • Bleeping Computer ☛ 2025-08-26 [Older] Salesloft breached to steal OAuth tokens for Salesforce data-theft attacks

  • 2025-08-26 [Older] OH: West Chester Township investigates second cyberattack this month

  • Taiwan News ☛ 2025-08-28 [Older] Taiwanese associated with Chinese group behind cyberattacks arrested

  • 2025-08-28 [Older] South Korea fines SK Telecom US$97M over data breach

  • Integrity/Availability/Authenticity

    • Israel National News ☛ 2025-08-26 [Older] Cyberattack on Israeli ‘kosher’ internet provider

    • INTERPOL ☛ 2025-08-22 [Older] African authorities dismantle massive cybercrime and fraud networks, recover millions

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-22 [Older] Interpol arrests over 1,200 in African cybercrime crackdown

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-22 [Older] Large Interpol Cybercrime Crackdown in Africa Leads to the Arrest of Over 1,200 Suspects

    • 2025-08-23 [Older] Attorney General James Sues Company Behind Zelle for Enabling Widespread Fraud

    • The Register UK ☛ 2025-08-26 [Older] Silver State goes dark as cyberattack knocks Nevada websites offline

  • Confidentiality

    • 2025-08-28 [Older] TransUnion notifying more than 4.4 U.S. million consumers of data breach

    • The Record ☛ 2025-08-26 [Older] Farmers Insurance says 1 million customers affected by cyberattack on third-party vendor

    • Bleeping Computer ☛ 2025-08-26 [Older] Auchan retailer data breach impacts hundreds of thousands of customers

    • The Telegraph UK ☛ 2025-08-26 [Older] Church of England alleged to have breached abuse survivors’ data

    • 2025-08-21 [Older] MPOWERHealth victim of cyberattack; protected health information involved (1)

    • Ars Technica ☛ 2025-08-26 [Older] DOGE accused of copying entire Social Security database to insecure cloud system

    • 2025-08-21 [Older] “Cleanup in Aisle 4:” Telegram is a mess of fake ShinyHunters channels

• Defence/Aggression

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-28 [Older] UN Security Council Renews Lebanon Peacekeeping Mission 'For a Final Time'

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-28 [Older] Syria's Druze, Kurds criticize exclusion from upcoming vote

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-25 [Older] Syria Says Israel Takes Some Territory Around Mount Hermon Despite Talks

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-23 [Older] Syria delays election in Sweida and Kurdish areas

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-23 [Older] Syria Delays Parliamentary Vote in Sweida After Sectarian Violence

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-21 [Older] Belarus Says It Is Looking at How to Arm Its Missile Systems With Nuclear Warheads

  • The Local SE ☛ 2025-08-20 [Older] EXPLAINED: How to avoid Sweden's teen deportation trap

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-21 [Older] New Zealand spy agency calls China 'most active' security threat

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-25 [Older] Australia Pushes to Ratify Nauru Security Treaty Ahead of China Investment

  • The Age AU ☛ 2025-08-23 [Older] Ex-Cheeto Mussolini national security adviser John Bolton’s home, office raided by FBI

  • International Business Times ☛ 2025-08-22 [Older] Who is John Bolton and What Did He Do? FBI Raids Maryland Home of Ex-National Security Advisor

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-22 [Older] FBI Searches Home and Office of Ex-Cheeto Mussolini National Security Adviser John Bolton

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-22 [Older] The Latest: Cheeto Mussolini Plans Crime Crackdown in Chicago Similar to DC

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-22 [Older] Polish Prosecutors Charge National Security Boss in Classified Documents Case

  • Counter Punch ☛ 2025-08-27 [Older] Peacemaking in the Borderlands: A Reflection on the Farce of “Border Security”

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-28 [Older] US Urges UN Security Council Boost Haiti Support as Gangs Recruit More Children

  • TruthOut ☛ 2025-08-28 [Older] Canada Considers Anti-Immigrant Bills as Haitian Immigrants in the US Flee North

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-26 [Older] US Envoy: Saudi Arabia, Qatar to Invest in Lebanon Economic Zone for Disarmed Hezbollah

  • 2025-08-23 [Older] Major Cyberattack Disrupts Communication On Dozens Of Iranian Ships

• Environment

  • NL Times ☛ 2025-08-26 [Older] Volt puts climate at top of draft election program, pushes universal basic income

  • Off Guardian ☛ 2025-08-26 [Older] Is climate change REALLY making people allergic to meat?

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-26 [Older] Scientists Give Harsh Grades to Cheeto Mussolini Administration Work Aimed at Undoing a Key Climate Finding

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-26 [Older] Takeaways From Scientists on the Cheeto Mussolini Administration's Work on Climate Change and Public Health

  • Vox ☛ 2025-08-26 [Older] How sensitive is Greenland’s ice to a warming world?

  • The Age AU ☛ 2025-08-25 [Older] Australians have their say on new climate targets as Coalition prepared for another brawl on net zero

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-25 [Older] To Get That Perfect Ear of Corn, Weather Has to Cooperate. but Climate Change Is Making It Dicier

  • TruthOut ☛ 2025-08-23 [Older] Wisconsin Youth Sue Utility Regulator for Failing to Consider Climate Crisis

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-22 [Older] As AI Becomes Part of Everyday Life, It Brings a Hidden Climate Cost

  • Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2025-08-21 [Older] Colombia Against the Fossil Fuel Age

  • Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2025-08-21 [Older] We Need More Public Pools

  • Vox ☛ 2025-08-21 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini can’t stop America from building cheap EVs

  • Energy/Transportation

    • Scheerpost ☛ 2025-08-27 [Older] Defying Back to Work Order, Air Canada Flight Attendants Secure Tentative Agreement

    • Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2025-08-26 [Older] Striking Air Canada Workers Won a Tentative Agreement

    • International Business Times ☛ 2025-08-25 [Older] Turkey Transport Minister Fined for Speeding After Posting Viral 225 km/h Video

    • CBC ☛ 2025-08-28 [Older] Ford recalls more than 52,500 vehicles in Canada over brake fluid leak

    • BIA Net ☛ 2025-08-21 [Older] Turkey hits record electricity use after hottest July in 55 years

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-21 [Older] US Opens National Security Probe Into Imported Wind Turbines, Components

    • International Business Times ☛ 2025-08-21 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini Slams Renewable Energy As 'Scam of the Century': Vows To Ban Wind And Solar Projects Across The US

    • Scheerpost ☛ 2025-08-25 [Older] When Even Saudi Arabia Jumps Into Solar and Wind Power, You Know Change is Here

    • TruthOut ☛ 2025-08-21 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini Admin Is Using Environmental Protections to Throttle Renewable Energy

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-22 [Older] Taiwan's nuclear referendum reveals energy dilemma

    • Truthdig ☛ 2025-08-28 [Older] AI ‘Slop’ Is the Latest Face of Climate Denial [Ed: The slop bros also clearly don't care about the warming and ruin they are causing, they appease the oil tycoon by wasting energy]

    • Vox ☛ 2025-08-22 [Older] We used to stash gold in Fort Knox. What if we did the same with carbon?

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • BIA Net ☛ 2025-08-25 [Older] Turkey's fast-tracked mining expansion threatens archaeological heritage

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-21 [Older] How Many Giraffe Species Are in Africa? New Scientific Analysis Quadruples the Count

• Finance

  • International Business Times ☛ 2025-08-22 [Older] 'Arrogant' Brits Losing Out: Dubai Employers Reportedly Prefer Jobseekers From India, South Africa and Asia

  • CBC ☛ 2025-08-26 [Older] Why a Quebec food can maker reshored its supply chain back to Canada from the U.S.

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-28 [Older] Ladbrokes Owner's Ex-CEO Among 11 Charged in UK Over Gambling Services in Turkey

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-21 [Older] Powell to Give His Last Jackson Hole Speech Under Watchful Gaze of Wall Street and the White House

  • Counter Punch ☛ 2025-08-22 [Older] How to Get the IMF to Think

  • Scheerpost ☛ 2025-08-22 [Older] We Know How to Reduce Poverty — So Why Aren’t We Doing It?

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-28 [Older] The Treasury Department Wants US Banks to Monitor for Suspected Chinese Money Laundering Networks

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-25 [Older] Canadian Banks to Dodge Worst Case Tariff Scenario in Latest Earnings

  • Financial Post ☛ Bankers learn they are fired via accidental email asking them to return laptops

    ANZ has issued an apology and offered psychological counselling to more than 100 senior bankers after they received an email sent in error instructing them to return their computers, ahead of the news that they were going to be fired.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-28 [Older] Website Forced to Close as Italian Women Fight Back Against Unauthorized Online Image Sharing

  • Counter Punch ☛ 2025-08-22 [Older] How Much Free Speech Will Cheeto Mussolini Destroy?

  • International Business Times ☛ 2025-08-23 [Older] The Lucy Connolly Case: Her Fight for a Name Sparked Fears of a Silenced Britain and Free Speech Under Attack

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-27 [Older] South African Politician Criticized by Cheeto Mussolini Is Found Guilty of Hate Speech

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • CPJ ☛ 2025-08-26 [Older] Hong Kong-based Bloomberg reporter latest journalist denied work visa since National Security Law

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-25 [Older] Turkey Calls Israel's Strike on Gaza Hospital 'Attack on Press Freedom'

• Civil Rights/Policing

  • Counter Punch ☛ 2025-08-28 [Older] Banking on Racism? The Blue Jean “War” is Just Beginning

  • BIA Net ☛ 2025-08-27 [Older] Sexual misconduct allegations target over 100 in Turkey's cultural sector as survivors speak out online

  • BIA Net ☛ 2025-08-28 [Older] Akbank Short Film Festival canceled amid wave of harassment allegations in Turkey’s arts sector

  • BIA Net ☛ 2025-08-26 [Older] Report highlights rise in child abuse cases in Turkey, underlines secrecy around incest

• Digital Restrictions (DRM)

  • CBC ☛ 2025-08-26 [Older] Spotify is rolling out DMs, including in Canada. Some users are wondering if we need it [Ed: Spotify failing (debt and mass layoffs), now tries to become social control media, plus massive price hikes]

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-26 [Older] Elon Musk sues Apple and OpenAI over 'monopolistic' behavior

• Patents

  • Bloomberg ☛ 2025-08-27 [Older] Masimo Sues U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Over Apple Watch Blood Oxygen Ruling