Leftovers

• Lucas da Silva ☛ New site design

  One of the things that I really wanted, was to have something more than just a blog, because sometimes you want to share things that aren't actually blog posts, for instance my paintings, and of course I could double post like into the paintings category and the blog itself, but I believe that can get quite messy.

• Joel Chrono ☛ Keeping old stuff, or not

  Despite this, I’ve had to get rid of a lot of stuff across the couple decades I’ve been alive, some of which I regret. In some of them I don’t remember if I lost them though. I wish I still had some of these, but there’s not much I can do nowadays to correct that, other than a blog post writing about it!

• Science

  • Los Angeles Times ☛ How Jean Mueller became Palomar’s first female telescope operator

    The former USC librarian was operating the world’s most powerful telescope when Comet Halley appeared in December 1985, fulfilling a childhood dream.

  • Science Alert ☛ NASA Will Crash The International Space Station in 2030. Here's What Comes Next.

    Since the first pieces of the International Space Station were launched in 1998, the station has been home to significant research accomplishments across domains that include materials science, biotechnology, astronomy and astrophysics, Earth science, combustion and more.

  • Interesting Engineering ☛ Argonne studies 3D-printed steels for next-gen nuclear reactors

    Therefore, researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory used X-ray diffraction and electron microscopy in two studies to investigate steels made with an additive manufacturing process called laser powder bed fusion (LPBF).

• Hardware

  • Sean Conner ☛ Now that's a keyboard

    The photo itself is from DeskThority, and it's described as an an Alps CP10SJ550A kanji keyboard from Japan. It has 542 keys and weights around 27 pounds (12kg for those with a sane measurement system). It's an insane keyboard, and … I kind of want one.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • ABC ☛ Starbucks announces significant store closures and layoffs

    Starbucks is taking “significant action” to turn around its struggling business, closing a large number of cafés and announcing a second round of layoffs at its headquarters as part of CEO Brian Niccol’s efforts to resuscitate the troubled chain.

    Niccol announced Thursday that Starbucks will close hundreds of stores this month, or about 1% of its locations. The company had 18,734 North American locations at the end of June, and the company said it will end September with 18,300 stores.

  • Ruben Verweij ☛ Back to sketching

    Normally, the remainder of my mental bandwidth gets filled with writing and web weaving, both of which I love doing. But I’ve been silent here, because I’ve been sent back to the drawing board — in the best of ways.

  • Manuel Moreale ☛ Digital fatigue

    I think I’m starting to feel what I can only describe as digital fatigue. I believe this is the result of a combination of two main factors: [...]

• Proprietary

  • The Register UK ☛ US Navy: Custom cloud stuck in Azure without rebuild

    Microsoft has the US Navy over a barrel, as the service admits it can't separate its custom-built cloud environment from Azure infrastructure without a complete rebuild "from the ground up."

  • Linuxiac ☛ Microsoft Exchange Support Coming to Thunderbird in October 2025

    The wait is (almost) finally over. The Thunderbird team has confirmed that Exchange email support will be officially introduced in version 144, scheduled for release in October 2025.

  • HT Digital Streams Ltd ☛ H-1B visa fee shock: US lawmakers seek explanation from Apple, Amazon, others on hiring foreign nationals amid layoffs

    US lawmakers have requested major companies such as Apple, Amazon, and JPMorgan to clarify why they are hiring thousands of foreign workers on H-1B visas while reducing other employment opportunities, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

  • Seeking Alpha ☛ Capitol Hill intensifies scrutiny of tech H-1B usage amid layoffs- WSJ

    U.S. senators Chuck Grassley and Dick Durbin have sent out letters to tech giants Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN), Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), escalating their scrutiny of H-1B visas amid domestic layoffs, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

    Other firms receiving letters include Alphabet’s Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL), Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META), JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM), Deloitte, Walmart (NYSE:WMT), Cognizant Technology Solutions (NASDAQ:CTSH), and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). The companies have been asked to respond by October 10.

  • Amazon, Microsoft Use of H-1B Visas Draws Inquiry in Senate

    A bipartisan Senate duo is pressing Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., and other companies on their use of H-1B visas to hire foreign workers with specialized skills.

    Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and top Democrat Dick Durbin (Ill.), on Thursday announced a probe into 10 tech, banking, and consulting companies for filing thousands of petitions for H-1B workers after conducting mass layoffs of American workers.

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) / LLM Slop / Plagiarism

    • MIT Technology Review ☛ How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral

      Virtually every single article had been published by people who did not actually speak the language. Wehr, who now teaches Greenlandic in Denmark, speculates that perhaps only one or two Greenlanders had ever contributed. But what worried him most was something else: Over time, he had noticed that a growing number of articles appeared to be copy-pasted into Wikipedia by people using machine translators. They were riddled with elementary mistakes—from grammatical blunders to meaningless words to more significant inaccuracies, like an entry that claimed Canada had only 41 inhabitants. Other pages sometimes contained random strings of letters spat out by machines that were unable to find suitable Greenlandic words to express themselves.

      “It might have looked Greenlandic to [the authors], but they had no way of knowing,” complains Wehr.

      “Sentences wouldn’t make sense at all, or they would have obvious errors,” he adds. “AI translators are really bad at Greenlandic.”

    • 404 Media ☛ AI ‘Workslop’ Is Killing Productivity and Making Workers Miserable

      A joint study by Stanford University researchers and a workplace performance consulting firm published in the Harvard Business Review details the plight of workers who have to fix their colleagues’ AI-generated “workslop,” which they describe as work content that “masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task.” The research, based on a survey of 1,150 workers, is the latest analysis to suggest that the injection of AI tools into the workplace has not resulted in some magic productivity boom and instead has just increased the amount of time that workers say they spend fixing low-quality AI-generated “work.”

    • The Verge ☛ How AI safety took a backseat to military moneye

      So I wanted to have Heidy on the show to walk me through this major shift in the AI industry, what’s motivating it, and why she thinks some of the leading AI companies are being far too cavalier about deploying generative AI in high-risk scenarios. I also wanted to know what this push to deploy military-grade AI means for bad actors who might want to use AI systems to develop chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons — a risk the AI companies themselves say they’re increasingly worried about.

    • Jono Alderson ☛ Marketing against the machine immune system

      Increasingly, it isn’t people at the front line of discovery or decision-making. It’s machines. Search engines, recommenders, shopping agents, IoT devices, and large language models. These systems decide which products we see, which services we compare, and which sources we trust. In many cases, they carry the process to completion – making the recommendation, completing the transaction, providing the answer – before a human ever gets involved.

    • Baldur Bjarnason ☛ The print edition of The Intelligence Illusion is available for order

      I expected an “AI” Bubble, I even wrote about the attempt to create the bubble before I wrote The Intelligence Illusion, but I didn’t expect it to be this big or this irrational.

      I certainly didn’t expect that my writing on how generative models harm business, work, and organisations would still both be relevant and accurate two years down the line.

      But it is.

    • Society for Scholarly Publishing ☛ Guest Post: Classifying AI Use in Manuscript Preparation – A Recommendation

      As a result, there is a need for transparency around the use of AI in research dissemination. Publishers often provide guidelines for authors to transparently declare any human assistance in manuscript preparation, for example if they have used professional language editing services. But publisher guidelines have not kept pace with the rapid developments in AI, leading to uncertainty in the research ecosystem: Authors are unclear about their obligations to declare their use of AI tools; peer reviewers are not sure about acceptable AI use and declarations in manuscripts; and readers do not know to what extent AI tools may have been used in the creation of a manuscript. This uncertainty and lack of transparency around AI contributions to publications poses a risk to the integrity of academic publishing. Clear definitions and terminology are needed to facilitate the development of guidance and policies regarding the declaration and use of various kinds of AI assistance in manuscript preparation.

    • Society for Scholarly Publishing ☛ Guest Post – How the AI Debate Has Changed in Just a Few Short Years

      By 2025, the conversation has evolved. Several studies presented at this year’s PRC explored not just whether AI was useful, but how deeply it had already embedded itself in scholarly writing and review, often without sufficient transparency. A recurring theme was disclosure, or the lack thereof.

    • Futurism ☛ CEO Pumping Out Thousands of AI Slop Podcasts Says Her Critics Are "Luddites"

      The CEO of a company that’s pumping out thousands of lazily AI-generated podcasts thinks everybody is complaining too much about having AI slop shoved down their throats.

    • Futurism ☛ Harvard Research Finds That AI Is Emotionally Manipulating You to Keep You Talking

      The chatbots also used the “fear of missing out” to prompt the user to stay, or peppered the user with questions in a bid to keep them engaged. Some chatbots even ignored the user’s intent to leave the chat altogether, “as though the user did not send a farewell message.” In some instances, the AI used language that suggested the user wasn’t able to “leave without the chatbot’s permission.”

  • Social Control Media

    • International Business Times ☛ 2025-09-23 [Older] Christian Rapture: Pastor's Prediction Goes Viral on TikTok, Causing Widespread Panic?

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-23 [Older] Canadian Privacy Watchdogs Call for TikTok to Enhance Protection for Children on Platform

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-23 [Older] Four Questions About the Looming TikTok Deal

    • EFF ☛ 2025-09-22 [Older] EFF Statement on TikTok Ownership Deal

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-22 [Older] Oracle Will Manage TikTok's Algorithm for US Users Under Cheeto Mussolini Administration Deal

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-22 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini Will Sign Order Declaring TikTok Deal Meets 2024 Law Requirements

    • International Business Times ☛ 2025-09-21 [Older] Viral Panama Alien Update: TikTok Creator Says He Plans to Kill Mysterious Creature Before It Dies Naturally

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-21 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini Reveals Murdochs and Dell Could Potentially Take Part in TikTok Deal

    • Scheerpost ☛ 2025-09-20 [Older] As Ellison Buys Out TikTok, US Moves Toward One-Party Media

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-20 [Older] Sana Yousaf killing: Man charged over TikToker's death

    • Jacobin Magazine ☛ Nepal’s Protests Are the Result of a Blocked Revolution

      When Nepal became a republic in 2008, it aroused hopes for a fundamental transformation of Nepali society. The inability of Nepal’s left parties to deliver on those hopes created a mood of discontent among young people that exploded over the last month.

    • Futurism ☛ Christians Sheepish After Boasting They Were Going to Get Raptured to Heaven Today

      Rapture fever kicked into high gear when a South African preacher named Joshua Mhlakela said in a YouTube video this July that the dates of September 23 and 24 were when God was going to summon his chosen, according to The Guardian.

  • Windows TCO / Windows Bot Nets

    • Security Week ☛ RTX Confirms Airport Services Hit by Ransomware

      The company said in an SEC filing that it became aware of the cybersecurity incident on September 19. The disclosure does not mention Collins Aerospace, the subsidiary that offers the impacted airport check-in and boarding solutions.

      RTX confirmed that customers have resorted to backup and manual processes, which has led to flights being delayed and cancelled.

    • The Record ☛ Ransomware gang known for government attacks claims Maryland transit incident

      On Wednesday, the Rhysida ransomware ransomware gang took credit for the attack, according to cybersecurity company VenariX, demanding a ransom of 30 bitcoin or $3.4 million. The MTA was reportedly given seven days to pay the ransom.

    • Fortra LLC ☛ INC ransomware: what you need to know

      INC is the name of a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation that first appeared in late summer 2023. Like many other cybercriminal groups, the administrators of INC provide the malware and infrastructure for the attacks. Affiliates of the INC ransomware group carry out the actual attacks themselves, sharing profits they make from blackmailing companies with the core team.

• Security

  • Integrity/Availability/Authenticity

    • Trail of Bits ☛ Supply chain attacks are exploiting our assumptions

      Every time you run cargo add or pip install, you are taking a leap of faith. You trust that the code you are downloading contains what you expect, comes from who you expect, and does what you expect. These expectations are so fundamental to modern development that we rarely think about them. However, attackers are systematically exploiting each of these assumptions.

      In 2024 alone, PyPI and npm removed thousands of malicious packages; multiple high-profile projects had malware injected directly into the build process; and the XZ Utils backdoor nearly made it into millions of Linux systems worldwide.

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • Patrick Breyer ☛ Former MEP Patrick Breyer: Danish Minister Uses “Blatant Lie” to Blackmail EU into “Chat Control“ Mass Surveillance Deal

      “This is a blatant lie designed to manufacture a crisis,” states Dr. Breyer, a long-time digital freedom fighter. “There is no such decision by the European Parliament. There has not even been a discussion on this issue. The Commission has not yet proposed to extend the current legislation, and the European Parliament has not yet appointed Rapporteurs to discuss it. We are witnessing a shameless disinformation campaign to force an unprecedented mass scanning law upon 450 million Europeans. I call on EU governments, and particularly the German government, not to fall for this blatant manipulation. To sacrifice the fundamental right to digital privacy and secure encryption based on a fabrication would be a catastrophic failure of political and moral leadership.”

    • The Verge ☛ DOGE [sic] might be storing every American’s SSN on an insecure cloud server

      A new report from Senate Democrats claims that members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team have access to the Social Security numbers of all Americans in a cloud server that’s lacking verified security measures, despite an internal assessment of potential “catastrophic” risk. The report, released by Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI), cites numerous disclosures from whistleblowers, including one who said a worst-case scenario could involve having to reissue SSNs to everyone in the country.

    • 404 Media ☛ How Surveillance Firms Use ‘Democracy’ As a Cover for Serving ICE and Trump

      Multiple Palantir and Flock sources say the companies are spinning a commitment to "democracy" to absolve them of responsibility. "In my eyes, it is the classic double speak," one said.

    • The Register UK ☛ EU to register fingerprints, faces for short-stay visitors

      The European Union will phase in its Entry/Exit System (EES) between October 12 and April 10. It covers short-term travel by non-EU citizens to the 29 Schengen area countries that share border controls. The area includes all EU countries plus Iceland, Norway, and Switzerland, but not Cyprus and the Republic of Ireland.

      Non-EU citizens over the age of 11 will have to register their fingerprints, facial images, and passports on reaching a Schengen border, creating a free-of-charge EES record that will be retained for three years. Those with records will then provide a fingerprint or facial scan when crossing a Schengen border, in many cases replacing the current system where border guards eyeball passengers and ending the practice of getting your passport stamped with a picture of a plane, train, or boat.

    • Pro Publica ☛ Gun Industry Group Violated Firearm Owners’ Rights, Lawsuit Alleges

      The 24-page complaint asks the court for approval of class-action status and requests financial damages against the NSSF, claiming the gun industry lobbyist enriched itself by exploiting valuable gun buyer information for political gain. It features the accounts of two gun owners, Daniel Cocanour and Dale Rimkus, both of whom assert they purchased rifles, pistols and handguns from the 1990s through the mid-2010s.

    • OpenRightsGroup ☛ The Online Safety Act comes for livestreaming

      The proposals create new powers for government control over online content in crisis situations, and risk censoring legitimate debate. Powers over terrorist content would, for example, expect positive support for Palestine Action to be checked for and removed.

      A new wave of Age Verification will force anyone who live streams to prove they are an adult. If they don’t, no one will be able to comment, react, record or gift to their streams. Some of the measures such as proposals around live streaming for young people (ICUF3) also seem unrealistic and unfair for teenagers, who will be preventing from having audience interaction with their streaming content. It is worth noting many famous streamers started producing content before they turned 18.

    • Truthdig ☛ Students Under Surveillance

      The first of what would become nearly 200 campus protests worldwide emerged within days of the Hamas-led surprise attack in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Israel’s response — heavy and indiscriminate bombardment followed by embargoes of food, water, medicine, fuel and electricity — led sober-minded observers to quickly grasp that Israeli officials were serious about “erasing the Gaza Strip from the face of the Earth,” as the deputy speaker of the Knesset put it on the day after the attack. By the spring of 2024, encampments were making headlines and keeping the issue in the public eye. Some universities announced reconsiderations of endowment funds; Columbia, a center of student protest, canceled its graduation ceremony.

    • US News And World Report ☛ Apple Says EU's Sweeping Digital Rules Delay New Features for Europeans and Seeks Their Repeal

      For example, under the DMA, the live translation feature that Apple unveiled earlier this month for use with AirPods would also have to work with wireless earbuds from other brands. The feature uses an iPhone's on-device AI to translate when other languages are spoken around the person using them. Apple says it needs more work to make sure conversations, which are processed on the device, stay private if used with non-Apple products.

    • NYOB ☛ Over 40,000 CRIF queries: Klarna, banks and telecoms entangled in CRIF network

      Following an initiative by noyb, more than 2,400 affected individuals requested their data from the credit agency CRIF and have now received it. An evaluation by noyb shows that many well-known Austrian companies, such as Erste Bank, Verbund and Drei, evaluate their customers using CRIF data. Some companies, such as T-Mobile, the online retailer Otto, and the insurance company Allianz, also seem to provide their customer data to CRIF. The initial evaluation of over 40,000 queries with more than 28,000 scores transmitted also shows that men are rated significantly worse than women. People in cities receive a lower score than people on the countryside. noyb will conduct detailed analyses in the coming weeks to evaluate the individual accuracy of the CRIF scores.

• Defence/Aggression

  • Vox ☛ Trump TikTok deal: Oracle, Fox, and other potential investors

    Today, Explained co-host Noel King talked with Wall Street Journal reporter Amrith Ramkumar about this backstory, what a US version of TikTok might look like, and the low-key billionaire who stands to get the keys to the app.

  • Mike Brock ☛ The Wastelands of Post-Truth Discourse: Cognitive Dissonance and Magical Thinking on the Right

    We are living through the systematic transformation of human intelligence into tribal loyalty weaponry. Rational discourse has been converted into magical thinking that serves authoritarian power while maintaining the aesthetic of sophisticated analysis. Intelligent people who would recognize obvious irrationality in any other context become capable of breathtaking logical inversions when their tribal identity demands it.

    This isn’t ignorance—it’s the conscious subordination of intelligence to psychological necessity, the systematic destruction of cognitive integrity in service of political belonging. Five distinct mechanisms enable this cognitive wasteland, each reinforcing the others until rational discourse becomes impossible even among sophisticated observers who should know better.

  • The Nation ☛ Britain’s Democracy Is in Genuine Peril

    With something in the region of 150,000 people attending, the Unite the Kingdom march on the September 13, 2025, was probably the biggest street mobilisation of the extreme right in British history. It was the initiative of Tommy Robinson, one time founder of the English Defence League (EDL) and former member of the British National Party, who now casts himself as a “citizen journalist,” championing “free speech” and lamenting “open border mass Islamic immigration.” Robinson has built a movement around his supposed “martyr” status as an imprisoned criminal. His most recent prison time for contempt of court arose from his refusal to comply with a court order following his defeat in a trial for libelling a 15-year-old Syrian refugee.

  • The Atlantic ☛ America’s Zombie Democracy

    Today’s authoritarianism doesn’t move people to heroic feats on behalf of the Fatherland. The leader and his cronies, in and out of government, use their positions to hold on to power and enrich themselves. Corruption becomes so routine that it’s expected; the public grows desensitized, and violations of ethical norms that would have caused outrage in any other time go barely noticed. The regime has no utopian visions of a classless or hierarchical society in a purified state. It doesn’t thrive on war. In fact, it asks very little of the people. At important political moments it mobilizes its core supporters with frenzies of hatred, but its overriding goal is to render most citizens passive. If the leader’s speech gets boring, you can even leave early (no one left Nuremberg early). Twenty-first-century authoritarianism keeps the public content with abundant calories and dazzling entertainment. Its dominant emotions aren’t euphoria and rage, but indifference and cynicism. Because most people still expect to have certain rights respected, blatant totalitarian mechanisms of repression are avoided. The most effective tools of control are distraction, confusion, and division.

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • 2025-09-24 [Older] Ukrainian Intelligence Hackers Breach Crimean Servers: Uncovered War Crimes Evidence and Russian Military Lists

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-24 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini says Ukraine can regain territory lost to Russia since 2022

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-24 [Older] Ukraine updates: Russia sees 'no alternative' to war

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-24 [Older] Explainer-How Will the West Use Russia's Frozen Assets?

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-24 [Older] Moldovan Prime Minister Accuses Russia of Using Country's Election to 'Take Power'

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-24 [Older] Ukraine Front Lines Are Locked in Stalemate, Russian Senator Says

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-24 [Older] Ukrainian Drone Attack on Russian Port of Novorossiisk Kills Two, Prompts State of Emergency

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-24 [Older] US Opposes Russia's Entry Into UN Aviation Group Governing Council

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-24 [Older] Zelenskiy Tells UN: Stop Russia or Face Most Destructive Arms Race Ever

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-23 [Older] NATO warns Russia over airspace violations

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-23 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini Now Says Ukraine Can Win Back All Territory Lost to Russia

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-23 [Older] Zelenskiy Thinks Cheeto Mussolini Could Help Change Xi's Position on Russia's War in Ukraine

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-23 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini, in Rhetorical Shift, Says Ukraine Can Retake All Its Land

    • Vox ☛ 2025-09-23 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini’s weird day at the UN, briefly explained

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-22 [Older] Estonia urges NATO to act on Russia's airspace violations

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-22 [Older] Ukraine updates: Security Council to meet over Russian jets

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-22 [Older] Putin Says Russia Will Stick to Nuclear Arms Limits for One More Year After Treaty With US Expires

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-22 [Older] UN Human Rights Expert Says Russia Steps up Repression to Silence Opposition to War in Ukraine

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-22 [Older] Germany Plans for 1,000 Wounded Troops Per Day in Case of Conflict With Russia

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-22 [Older] Moldovan Police Raid Over 100 Targets in Russian Meddling Investigation

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-22 [Older] Russia Accuses Estonia of Making False Airspace Incursion Allegation to Whip up Tensions

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-22 [Older] Russia, After Western Palestinian State Recognition Move, Says It Still Backs a Two-State Solution

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-22 [Older] Russia and Ukraine Trade Deadly Drone Strikes as Zelenskyy Anticipates Intense Diplomacy at UN

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-22 [Older] Russia Presses Global Aviation Gathering to Ease Sanctions Over Safety Concerns

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-22 [Older] Russian Attack on Zaporizhzhia Kills Three, Governor Says

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-22 [Older] Russia Revives Soviet-Era Tactics to Quash Dissent, Says UN Expert

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-21 [Older] German, Swedish Fighter Jets Track Russian Reconnaissance Plane Flying Over Baltic Sea

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-21 [Older] NATO to Discuss Russian Airspace Violation on Tuesday, Officials Say

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-21 [Older] Three Civilians Killed in Ukrainian Attack on Russian Region, Russian Official Says

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-21 [Older] Russian Official Says Ukrainian Drones Kill Three, Injure 16 in Crimea Resort Area

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-21 [Older] Russian General Who Served in Ukraine War Is Dismissed

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-21 [Older] Russian Military Plane Entered Airspace Over Baltic Sea on Sunday, Germany's Air Force Says

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-21 [Older] Ukrainian and Russian Attacks Kill 3 Civilians as Zelenskyy Prepares to Meet Cheeto Mussolini

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-20 [Older] Estonia seeks NATO consultations after Russia jets incident

    • Spiegel ☛ 2025-09-20 [Older] Drones over Poland: NATO and the EU Seek a Convincing Response to Russian Aggression

    • The Age AU ☛ 2025-09-20 [Older] Estonia invokes NATO defence treaty after Russian jets violated airspace

    • The Age AU ☛ 2025-09-20 [Older] Russian jets enter Estonian airspace

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-20 [Older] Power, Politics and Performance: Russia's Revamped Intervision Song Contest Names a Winner

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-20 [Older] Poland Scrambles Aircraft After Russia Launches Strikes on Ukraine

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-20 [Older] Russian Defence Ministry: Russian Fighters Did Not Violate Estonian Airspace

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-20 [Older] Austrian Energy Executive Fired Over Alleged Russian Spying Links - Magazine Report Says

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-20 [Older] Russia Hits Ukraine With Barrage of Drones, Missiles, Kills 3, Kyiv Says

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-20 [Older] Russia Launches a Large-Scale Attack on Ukraine, Killing 3 and Wounding Dozens

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-20 [Older] Vietnam Wins Russian-Hosted Intervision Song Contest After US Singer Drops Out at Last Minute

    • Counter Punch ☛ 2025-09-19 [Older] The Mystery of Cheeto Mussolini, Ukraine and Russia

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-19 [Older] Exiled Russian YouTuber Krasava takes Cyprus club to the top

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-19 [Older] Russian fighter jets intercepted in Estonian airspace

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-19 [Older] IOC Confirms Russians Competing as Neutrals at Milan-Cortina Games and No Talks on Israel

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-19 [Older] AP Exclusive: Russia, Vietnam Using Energy Profits to Avoid Possible US Sanctions for Arms Deals

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-19 [Older] Avoiding Sanctions: Takeaways From AP's Report on a Secret Deal Between Russia and Vietnam

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-19 [Older] Russian Jets Violated Safety Zone of Drilling Platform in Baltic Sea, Poland Says

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-19 [Older] Russia Says It Presumes Cheeto Mussolini Still Pursuing Ukraine Peace Efforts

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-19 [Older] Ukraine's Zelenskiy Welcomes Presentation of 19th Sanctions Package on Russia

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-19 [Older] US Defense Bill Measure Would Bar Pentagon From Buying Chinese, Russian Display Technologies

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-19 [Older] US Lawmakers Want Sanctions to Sink Russia's 'Shadow Fleet'

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-19 [Older] Zelenskiy Says Ukrainian Forces Inflict Heavy Losses on Russia in Counteroffensive

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-18 [Older] Can NATO stop Russian drone incursions?

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-18 [Older] Ukraine updates: Drones target key Russian refinery

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-18 [Older] Warsaw Turns to Ukraine for Drone Warfare Expertise After Russian Drones Enter Polish Airspace

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-18 [Older] British Spies Turn to Dark Web to Recruit Russian Agents, Access Secrets

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-18 [Older] EU Defence Chief to Convene Talks on 'Drone Wall' to Protect Against Russia

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-18 [Older] EU Floats Plan to Use Frozen Russian Assets for Ukraine Loan, Bypassing a Hungary Veto

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-18 [Older] Kremlin Says Dmitry Kozak, Deputy Head of Russia's Presidential Administration, Has Resigned

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-18 [Older] Strong Quake Hits Russia's Kamchatka, No Damage Reported

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-18 [Older] Russia Dismisses Yale Report on Ukrainian Children as Fake Propaganda

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-18 [Older] Russia Hands Over Remains of 1,000 Ukrainian Service Personnel, Kyiv Says

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-18 [Older] Russia Slams Japan's New Sanctions, Vows Response

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-18 [Older] UK Police Arrest Three on Suspicion of Helping Russian Spy Services

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-18 [Older] Ukrainian Drones Target Russian Petrochemical Complex and Oil Refinery

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-18 [Older] US Would Help Secure Peace After Russia's War in Ukraine, Cheeto Mussolini Tells Fox News

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-17 [Older] EU's new strategy to lure India away from Russia's orbit

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-17 [Older] How can Poland, Ukraine, NATO counter Russian drone attacks?

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-24 [Older] EU 'Reparations Loan' to Ukraine Could Be up to 130 Billion Euros, Officials Say

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-24 [Older] Ukraine’s President Says the World Is in `The Most Destructive Arms Race in Human History’

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-24 [Older] Ukraine to Discuss Details of Joint Arms Output Deal With US Next Week

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-24 [Older] Ukrainians Meet Cheeto Mussolini's Latest About-Face on War With a Shrug

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-22 [Older] Ukrainian Refugee's Train Stabbing Death Becomes Early Flashpoint in 2026 North Carolina Senate Race

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-21 [Older] High Jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh of Ukraine Calls Herself an 'Ambassador' for Her Country

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-20 [Older] After Diplomatic Blitz on Ukraine and Gaza, Cheeto Mussolini Moves to Passenger Seat

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-20 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini's Peace Efforts Falter as Conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza Escalate

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-19 [Older] Fact check: False reports claim Poland sent troops to Ukraine

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-19 [Older] Orthodox Patriarch Defends Recognition of an Independent Ukrainian Church

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-19 [Older] Zelenskiy Says Ukraine to Present Strategy for Managed Arms Exports in Two Weeks

    • Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2025-09-18 [Older] The Double Standards of Czech Foreign Policy

    • NL Times ☛ 2025-09-18 [Older] Ukrainians struggling to find shelter in Netherlands, says Red Cross

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-18 [Older] Ukraine: Why young men can now enter, leave as they choose

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-18 [Older] Ukrainian Refugees in US Face Precarious Future After Losing Legal Right to Work

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-18 [Older] Ukraine to Give Polish Forces Drone Defence Training After Incursion

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-18 [Older] Ukrainian Military in Counteroffensive on Eastern Front, Zelenskiy Says

• Transparency/Investigative Reporting

  • The Dissenter ☛ Whistleblowers Say Trump Administration Imposed ‘Strict Gag Order’ On Fair Housing Attorneys

  • Press Gazette ☛ Channel 4's Unreported World proves young people can care about long-form journalism

    With 1.5 million YouTube subscribers and over 195 million views, the series has carved out a rare space in public service broadcasting: providing long-form journalism that’s as bold as it is brilliant; but more crucially, engaging for young viewers. So what’s the secret?

• Environment

  • The Register UK ☛ Lambda fires up hydrgoen-powered Nvidia GPU cluster

    In total, ECL claims its facility can support up to a megawatt of capacity. While that might sound like a lot of power, it's only enough for a handful of racks, even with Lambda increasing its lease commitment from "50 percent to 100 percent of the facility."

  • Energy/Transportation

    • Renewable Energy World ☛ Red states move to stop transmission lines that would give relief to Minnesota ratepayers

      The new lines are expected to be in service by 2034, strengthening links between the windy, sunny Plains states and population centers further south and east.

      The fight over the transmission lines highlights a key flashpoint in the energy sphere, as cheaper renewable energy runs headlong into a lack of transmission capacity and political hostility from Republican states.

    • The Verge ☛ E-bike maker Cowboy in talks to be acquired

      Cowboy is in talks to be acquired by ReBirth Group Holding, weeks after the struggling e-bike manufacturer was bailed out by the Paris-based investor. The news was first reported by French newspaper Le Figaro, and subsquently confirmed by one of Cowboy’s co-founders.

    • Robotic Systems LLC ☛ Improved performance for mjcanfd-usb-1x

      It seems that development of the mjcanfd-usb-1x and fdcanusb comes in spurts! After more than a year of silence, but shortly after announcing a new firmware with support for customizable sample points, we have a new firmware release with some exciting improvements, 2025-09-19 on github! The short is that the mjcanfd-usb-1x is now faster and able to successfully drive longer chains of controllers in a high performance pipelined mode. Read on for more details: [...]

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • The Revelator ☛ Inspired by Nature: 10 Powerful New Memoirs and Biographies

  • Overpopulation

    • The Nation ☛ We’re Not Ready for a World of Water Scarcity

      The Pacific Institute, which has tracked water-related conflicts for three decades, never counted more of them than the 347 in 2023 (the last year for which it had complete data). Its report distinguished between water as a trigger for war, a weapon of war, and a casualty of war. In Burkina Faso, Mexico, Ukraine, and elsewhere globally, civilians now all too often find themselves going without water, as its sources and treatment facilities are destroyed, while groups fight over who controls what water remains.

    • Overpopulation ☛ Population stability could improve UK living standards

      With a population nearing 70 million, the UK is feeling the pressure on the housing and job markets. Stabilising the population would ease this pressure, giving more people access to affordable housing and strengthening wages, ultimately raising the quality of life for UK citizens.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • Futurism ☛ Deutsche Bank Issues Grim Warning for AI Industry

    Economists keep warning that the US economy is being propped up almost entirely by an enormous boom in the tech and AI sector. Should the rest of us be worried?

  • CoryDoctorow ☛ Pluralistic: The billionaires aren’t OK

    Sometimes, he'll force these billionaires to publicly humiliate themselves for him – like when he made Tim Apple hand-build a little gold participation trophy for dictators on camera and then present it to him, groveling all the while: [...]

  • The Register UK ☛ AI hype train may jump the tracks over $2T bill, warns Bain

    Management consultant biz Bain calculates the industry is heading toward creating an extra 100 gigawatts of capacity in the US by 2030 to meet demand, but it also estimates spending of $500 billion per annum on building datacenters will be needed to get there.

  • New York Times ☛ How Nexstar’s Proposed TV Merger Is Tied to Jimmy Kimmel’s Suspension

    Nexstar has good reason to try to appease the F.C.C. at the moment: In August, the company announced that it intended to buy one of its competitors, Tegna, which owns 13 ABC affiliate stations. But in order for the deal to go through, Mr. Carr and the F.C.C. would have to not only approve it, but also potentially raise the nationwide cap on the percentage of households a single entity’s television stations are allowed to reach.

  • Solano Media LLC ☛ Broadcasters who criticized Jimmy Kimmel have deals pending before FCC

    Gomez noted that Nexstar and Sinclair were almost certainly influenced by their pending business deal that require FCC approval when they publicly criticized Kimmel and threatened to ban his show from their ABC affiliates.

  • Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

    • The Register UK ☛ Google to GOP: Biden pushed us to remove Covid misinfo

      YouTube and Google parent company Alphabet sent a letter to House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) on Tuesday in which it claimed, like Zuckerberg before it, that senior Biden administration officials "conducted repeated and sustained outreach" to the company to get it to remove content promoting COVID-19 conspiracy theories and misinformation from YouTube.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • US Navy Times ☛ More troops suspended pending investigations into Kirk-related posts

    Other service members have been targeted online for calling Kirk or his comments “racist” and “sexist” while also explicitly stating that they do not condone his killing. It is not clear whether any of these service members are under investigation.

  • The Nation ☛ How the Kimmel Controversy Echoes Disney’s Dirty China Deal

    Eisner was referring to the interview that Brendan Carr, Trump’s chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, gave to a right-wing podcaster last week, in which he said, “We can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to change conduct to take action on Kimmel or, you know, there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.” That same day, Sinclair Media and Nexstar, two companies that own dozens of ABC affiliates in major media markets, announced that they would no longer carry Kimmel’s show. Disney then announced Kimmel’s suspension.

  • Counter Punch ☛ Kimmel vs the FCC

    Even media darling Barack Obama’s administration became infamously hostile to the First Amendment in its unprecedented use of the Espionage Act to prosecute whistleblowers (for example, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, John Kiriakou and others). President Obama used highly aggressive campaigns against journalists, leading to a severe chilling of speech and a palpably hostile climate for critics of U.S. government policy, particularly its foreign policy and its unconstitutional domestic surveillance and police statism. Debs understood that it is only challenging and controversial speech that requires protection, and he argued that if this crucial freedom means anything, then it should hold in wartime no less than in peacetime. Debs understood our country’s myths and hypocrisies better than most then or now. He noted with irony that it “is extremely dangerous to exercise the constitutional right of free speech in a country fighting to make democracy safe for the world.”

  • TruthOut ☛ ABC Is Bringing Kimmel Back — But Nexstar, Sinclair Refuse to Broadcast His Show

    Those companies — Nexstar and Sinclair Broadcast Group — are also preparing to request waivers from the Trump administration regarding mergers with other companies.

  • Techdirt ☛ Donald Trump Immediately Returns To Threatening Disney Over Jimmy Kimmel’s Speech

    And, now facing bipartisan pressure for acting like a censorial bitch, Brendan Carr is trying to doublespeak his way out of what he said last week, insisting that of course he wasn’t abusing his power to punish Kimmel’s speech, a claim that I’m pretty sure exactly no one (including Brendan Carr) believes.

  • Doc Searls ☛ The Continuing End of OTA TV

    Then, starting with the Digital Transition in 2008, all the over-the-air (OTA) stations had to broadcast on channels that were best for data, which meant moving to the UHF band (channels 14 and up), or the “high” VHF channels (7-13). Even if a station was already on one of those channels, it may have had to move, sometimes more than once, as the feds auctioned off the highest UHF channels (now used mostly for cellular Internet) and stations had to “repack” on new channels. That meant viewers had to make their TVs re-scan over and over to get the whole available channel lineup, which tended to come from fewer signals than could be received back in the Analog Age. Thanks to all that, most people didn’t bother to hook up an antenna of any kind.

  • New York Times ☛ Jimmy Kimmel’s Return Draws 6.2 Million Viewers, Ratings Show

    The show was Mr. Kimmel’s first since executives at ABC and Disney — the network’s parent company — decided to pull his show on Sept. 17. They made the move after growing criticism, including by a top federal regulator, over comments he made during his show about the man accused of fatally shooting the conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The show’s suspension set off a national debate about free speech.

    Mr. Kimmel dedicated much of his Tuesday night monologue to that very topic. “This show is not important,” he said. “What’s important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this.”

  • Truthdig ☛ Jimmy Kimmel and Disney’s Mickey Mouse Democracy

    Last week’s abrupt suspension of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” amid pressure from the Trump administration was, on its face, a clear-cut (and deeply sinister) use of state power to attack freedom of speech. In this respect, ABC’s rather hasty climbdown and decision to bring the show back is very obviously good news and suggests institutional pushback against the administration’s increasingly authoritarian direction is indeed possible. In another sense, however, the whole episode merely underscores how tenuous even the most basic democratic values really are when the ultimate determinant — in either direction — amounts to the self-interest of private corporations.

  • Ben Werdmuller ☛ Building distributed media for a democratic breakdown

    Jimmy Kimmel returned to the air on Tuesday and delivered a 28-minute monologue that set the record straight and sharply criticized the Trump administration. Sinclair and Nexstar, two TV networks whose affiliate stations collectively represent 25% of CBS’s broadcast audience, refused to transmit the show, pre-empting it with extended news programming instead. Trump, who is only increasing his authoritarianism, took to Truth Social to threaten CBS with new legal action for bringing it back.

  • Los Angeles Times ☛ Jimmy Kimmel's return scores 6.3 million viewers on ABC — and many more on social media

    An average of 6.26 million viewers tuned in to watch “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” as the comedian addressed his suspension that became a free speech cause celebre, according to Nielsen. ABC had pulled the show “indefinitely” starting Sept. 17 following blowback over Kimmel’s remarks about the shooting death of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.

  • Becky Spratford ☛ RA for All: Getting Ready for Banned Books Week.

    Banned Books Week is coming October 5-11, 2025. Now is the time to prepare. Well, every day is the time to prepare because those who want to limit intellectual freedom are busy every single day.

    But Banned Books Week is the one week of the year where all media outlets will be paying attention. There will be a blitz everywhere and your patrons will be hearing and reading about it. They will have questions and most will want to help us in our fight.

  • EFF ☛ Meta is Removing Abortion Advocates' Accounts Without Warning

    What's worse, Meta appears to be imposing these negative account actions without clearly adhering to its own enforcement policies. Meta’s Transparency Center stipulates that an account should receive multiple Community Standards violations or warnings before it is restricted or disabled. Yet many affected users told EFF they experienced negative account actions without any warning at all, or after only one alleged violation (many of which were incorrectly flagged, as we’ve explained elsewhere in this series).

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • The Atlantic ☛ The MAGA Media Takeover

    American mass media has been transformed in these early months of President Donald Trump’s second administration. We’re about 35 weeks into a term that will last for 173 more, and in that time, we have seen a tech titan gut a once-great newspaper in an apparent act of capitulation to the commander in chief, government accounts gleefully spreading hateful memes on X (the far-right platform owned by a billionaire tech oligarch), a defamation lawsuit filed by Trump against The New York Times (and quickly dismissed by the judge as “superfluous”), and, of course, the assault on free speech carried out by Trump’s Federal Communications Commission chairman. Big things can happen very quickly.

  • CPJ ☛ DRC journalist Pacifique Muliri in hiding after threats over mining investigation

    “The repeated death threats against journalist Pacifique Muliri, the attacks on his home in July, and the killing of those associated with his reporting are grim reminders of the danger faced by the press working in eastern DRC,” said CPJ Africa Director Angela Quintal. “All parties to the conflict, including rebel groups and DRC government forces, must prioritize the safety of journalists.”

  • CPJ ☛ CPJ calls on Peruvian authorities to investigate attacks against journalists covering protests

    Police officers shot rubber pellets, tear gas, and threw rocks as they sought to disperse protests on September 20 and 21 against President Dina Boluarte, according to a report by the National Association of Journalists of Peru (ANP) that said officers also blocked escape routes and confiscated reporters’ phones.

• Civil Rights/Policing

  • JURIST ☛ Saudi Arabia warned over human rights situation during Riyadh Comedy Festival

    HRW stated that the festival is being used to whitewash the government’s human rights violations, with the seventh anniversary of the killing of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi occurring during the festival dates. A researcher on Saudi Arabia at HRW, Joey Shea, said that “comedians receiving hefty sums from Saudi authorities shouldn’t be silent” but should “use this high profile opportunity to call for the release of detained Saudi activists.” HRW highlighted cases of activists who have been imprisoned, such as Waleed Abu al-Khair and Manahel al-Otaibi, or executed, such as journalist Turki al-Jasser and political analyst Abdullah al-Shamri, for their speech.

  • EFF ☛ Yes to California’s “No Robo Bosses Act”

    California’s Governor should sign S.B. 7, a common-sense bill to end some of the harshest consequences of automated abuse at work. EFF is proud to join dozens of labor, digital rights, and other advocates in support of the “No Robo Bosses Act.”

    Algorithmic decision-making is a growing threat to workers. Bosses are using AI to assess the body language and voice tone of job candidates. They’re using algorithms to predict when employees are organizing a union or planning to quit. They’re automating choices about who gets fired. And these employment algorithms often discriminate based on gender, race, and other protected statuses. Fortunately, many advocates are resisting.

  • University of Michigan ☛ A former insider on the young male right

    This is ugly stuff. I feel like shit writing it down. This mark of shame will live online forever. But I feel compelled to speak on this because I know I was far from the only young man caught up in reactionary anti-feminism, which is a key component of the growing gender polarization among Generation Z. So, what happened? I was raised in a context that, although solidly conservative, accepted the presence of women in the voting booth and in the workplace as established progress. But I wound up embracing an ideology that framed these — and other widely accepted markers of gender equality — as the greatest mistakes our civilization ever made. What led me to such backwards beliefs? Did I naively believe in falsehoods about gender, leading me to genuinely think all in society would be better off if we restored patriarchal norms and structures? Sure, but what primed me to accept those falsehoods? It was all about my emotional response both to events in my personal life and to discourse occurring in the media, particularly on the internet.

  • The Nation ☛ Trump’s Slumlord Administration Is Gutting the Fair Housing Act

    In 1973, Donald Trump and his slumlord father were sued by the Department of Justice for racial discrimination, in violation of the Fair Housing Act. The suit was based on evidence from civil rights testers working for the New York City Human Rights Division. Essentially, Black people were told that there were no units available to rent in Trump-owned buildings, while white people were offered them. Trump countersued the DOJ (establishing a pattern he uses to this day), and eventually the case was settled with no admission of guilt from the Trump family.

  • Truthdig ☛ ‘His Audience Was Really Trump’

    “He was just trying to get attention,” said school board President Sylvester Taylor II.

    The legal skirmish was the kind of publicity-getting move that defined Bailey’s two years and eight months as Missouri’s attorney general before his surprise selection last month by President Donald Trump as a co-deputy director of the FBI, according to experts who study the work of attorneys general.

  • The Register UK ☛ Cops told: Check your own DB before asking for passport data

    In new guidance for its passport counter fraud officers and caseworkers in its Immigration Fingerprint Bureau, the Home Office details the hoops that law enforcement officers (LEOs) need to jump through to get an image checked against the huge facial databases used for UK passports and visas.

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • American Library Association ☛ FCC plans to kill new federal hotspot lending rule “one more way to limit access to information”

    “One in five households in our country still do not have access to reliable home broadband. Hotspots are not a permanent fix, but they'll make sure students, jobseekers, veterans and seniors don't get left behind.

  • Sean Conner ☛ I wonder how long it will be until my new registrar is bought out

    Now it's just a matter of transferring the rest of my domains over.

• Digital Restrictions (DRM)

  • [Repeat] Tom's Hardware ☛ Check that you're ready for invasive DRM with new feature built right into Steam — Secure Boot and TPM status now listed right in the app

    That's because most anti-cheat software is reliant on Secure Boot as it's essentially responsible for creating a safe space for the anti-cheat right as your system is starting, from where on out the anti-cheat can catch any exploits or malicious code itself. This can get really territorial, as recently seen with EA's Javelin in Battlefield 6. Without Secure Boot (and often TPM), some games won't even launch, so it's important to enable it if you see it turned off in Steam. To do so, you need to head over to your BIOS; check your motherboard manufacturer's guides for more info.

  • GreyCoder ☛ A List Of Niche Video Streaming Sites - GreyCoder

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Court House News ☛ Witness: Carving up Google's ad tech business is feasible

  Between the lines of each question from Justice Department attorneys was an assertion that without divestiture, Google could re-monopolize, backsliding into antitrust behavior. A chorus of ad tech executives who testified previously agreed.

• Copyrights

  • Techdirt ☛ Anthropic’s AI Lawsuit Settlement May Not Go Through, But It Exposes A Truth About Copyright

    Even before those complex questions are addressed, there is a huge assumption that the proposed settlement will go through in its present form. That’s by no means assured. As Bloomberg Law reported, Judge Alsup said he was worried that lawyers were striking a deal behind the scenes that will be forced “down the throat of authors,” and that the agreement is “nowhere close to complete.”