Leftovers

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-24 [Older] How healthy is our planet?

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-24 [Older] Maasai face pressure as Tanzania eyes relocations

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-23 [Older] US vaccine, painkiller stances concern global health experts

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-22 [Older] Is the birth control pill destroying women's sex drive?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-23 [Older] Indonesia: Palm oil sellers fear new barriers after EU deal

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-23 [Older] EU, Indonesia agree on free trade deal

• Proprietary

  • HowTo Geek ☛ How to Back Up Your Google Photos Library to a Hard Drive

    Google Photos has been my primary method for backing up photos and videos for nearly a decade. I recently had the realization that it would be Very Bad if something ever happened to it, so I finally took the time to back up all my photos to an external hard drive, too.

    Of course, I’d heard for years that having one backup is as good as having no backups—especially if that one backup lives in the cloud. But laziness prevented me from taking action. The good news is it’s a lot easier than you might think to copy your entire Google Photos library to a hard drive. I’ll walk you through it.

  • Social Control Media

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-22 [Older] What Nepal's Gen Z revolt means for India, China and US [Ed: Coup by social control media]

  • Windows TCO / Windows Bot Nets

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-20 [Older] Airports across Europe face disruptions due to cyberattack

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-22 [Older] European airports disruption due to ransomware — EU agency

• Security

  • Bloomberg ☛ 2025-09-19 [Older] ‘I Was a Weird Kid’: Jailhouse Confessions of a Teen Hacker

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-24 [Older] Suspect arrested in the UK over airport cyberattacks

  • RiskyBiz ☛ 2025-09-19 [Older] FOIA Document on Breach of Sensitive DHS Domestic Intelligence Sharing Portal

  • Reuters ☛ 2025-09-20 [Older] Cyberattack disrupts European airports including Heathrow, Brussels

  • 2025-09-24 [Older] Man arrested in UK over alleged cyberattack that affected European airports

  • 2025-09-20 [Older] Teen Suspect Surrenders in 2023 Las Vegas Casino Cyberattack Case

  • The Register UK ☛ 2025-09-24 [Older] Cybercriminals cash out with casino giant’s employee data

  • 2025-09-21 [Older] When “Goodbye” isn’t the end:Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters hack on

  • Reuters ☛ 2025-09-22 [Older] Stellantis detects breach at third-party provider for North American customers (1 — ShinyHunters claims responsibility)

  • 2025-09-22 [Older] Data Leak? Crypto.com Fires Back At ‘Unfounded’ Allegations

  • 2025-09-24 [Older] U.S. Secret Service disrupts telecom network that threatened NYC during U.N. General Assembly

  • The Record ☛ 2025-09-24 [Older] Suspected cyberattack disrupts Circle K chain’s operations in Hong Kong

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-20 [Older] Anything but safe: Using VPN can bear immense risks

  • Confidentiality

    • 2025-09-24 [Older] Lotte Card reissues 650,000 cards after data leak, protects 1.28 million customers

    • 2025-09-22 [Older] No Need to Hack When It’s Leaking: App for outing Charlie Kirk’s critics leaked its users’ personal data

    • 2025-09-19 [Older] Medical Associates of Brevard notifies 246,711 patients after cyberattack

• Defence/Aggression

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-23 [Older] Donald Cheeto Mussolini's designated bogeyman: Who is the Antifa?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-24 [Older] Middle East: Injuries in Israel's Eilat from Houthi drone

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-24 [Older] Protests in India's northern Ladakh region turn deadly

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-24 [Older] Is the United Nations still fit for purpose?

  • HRW ☛ 2025-09-19 [Older] Immigration Detention Ends in Provincial Jails Across Canada

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-18 [Older] Canada Turns Back More Asylum-Seekers to US Despite Third-Country Deportation Risk

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-23 [Older] African countries seek increased influence at UNGA

  • HRW ☛ 2025-09-23 [Older] US/Africa: Expulsion Deals Flout Rights

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-19 [Older] Taliban release British couple after seven-month ordeal

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-19 [Older] Sudan: RSF drone strike kills dozens in Darfur

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-21 [Older] UK, Canada and Australia recognize Palestinian state

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-21 [Older] Four Major Western Nations Recognise Palestinian State, to Fury of Israel

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-21 [Older] Canada Joins Other Countries in Recognizing a Palestinian State Ahead of UN General Assembly

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-21 [Older] Carney Says Canada Recognises a Palestinian State

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-21 [Older] UK, Australia and Canada Recognize a Palestinian State, Prompting Anger From Israel

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-19 [Older] German government nears deal with Taliban on deportations

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-19 [Older] Germany updates: Fewer refugees living in Germany

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-19 [Older] India: What's behind PM Modi's 'demographic mission?'

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-19 [Older] Military parade in Belgrade: Serbia flexes its muscles

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-19 [Older] New initiative against antisemitism in Germany launches

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-19 [Older] Germany: Thousands evacuated in Berlin after WWII bomb find

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-20 [Older] Germany's tightrope walk over recognizing Palestine as a state

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-21 [Older] What will recognizing Palestine as a state actually achieve?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-21 [Older] Politically motivated justice in Iran: The case of Sharifeh Mohammadi

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-22 [Older] Pakistan: 3 transgender women shot dead in Karachi

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-23 [Older] US: Man convicted of Cheeto Mussolini assassination attempt

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-23 [Older] Unpacking Cheeto Mussolini's racist and authoritarian ideology

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-24 [Older] Texas: ICE facility shooting in Dallas leaves one dead

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-22 [Older] Is this 'the most important election' in Moldova's history?

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-23 [Older] Denmark PM: Drone incident at Copenhagen Airport an 'attack'

• Environment

  • Energy/Transportation

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-24 [Older] Germany's bid to lead in autonomous driving faces roadblocks [Ed: Hype]

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-24 [Older] Infrastructure: Germany lacks money for new motorways

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-24 [Older] Thai authorities rush to battle Bangkok sinkhole

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-21 [Older] Deutsche Bahn to get first female CEO — reports

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-22 [Older] Germany updates: Deutsche Bahn presents new CEO

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-22 [Older] Deutsche Bahn's new boss wants to end Germany's railway woes

    • DFS NY ☛ 2025-09-24 [Older] NY DFS Superintendent Adrienne A. Harris Extends Blockchain Analytics Guidance to New York State Banking Organizations

    • CBC ☛ 2025-09-19 [Older] Toyota recalling over 70,000 vehicles in Canada over instrument panel issue

    • BIA Net ☛ 2025-09-24 [Older] The power of cities: Bringing the energy transition to the people

    • The Conversation ☛ 2025-09-24 [Older] Information could be a fundamental part of the universe – and may explain dark energy and dark matter

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-24 [Older] US Intends to Cancel $13 Billion in Funds for Green Energy

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-23 [Older] US Senator Says He Is Concerned Energy Secretary Acting in Nuclear Firm's Interest

    • International Business Times ☛ 2025-09-22 [Older] Oklo Stock Skyrockets 63.5% in a Week as Nuclear Energy Boom Sends Investors Into Frenzy

    • Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2025-09-21 [Older] The UAW Has a Vision for Green Industrial Policy in California

    • CBC ☛ 2025-09-19 [Older] Cenovus Energy makes case for MEG Energy offer over bid by Strathcona Resources

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-23 [Older] Here's how flowers can harvest vital metals

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-22 [Older] South Africa Marks World Rhino Day as Poaching Slows but One Still Killed Daily

    • ADF ☛ 2025-09-23 [Older] East African Pact Aims to Turn the Tide Against Illegal Fishing

  • Overpopulation

    • CBC ☛ 2025-09-24 [Older] Canada's population growth almost flat in second quarter of 2025

    • CBC ☛ 2025-09-24 [Older] 3 problems with the temporary foreign worker program and 3 possible fixes, according to experts

• Finance

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-23 [Older] Germany updates: Finance minister defends 2026 budget plans

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-22 [Older] India: Adani gag order fuels press freedom fears

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-23 [Older] How Donald Cheeto Mussolini's H-1B visa fee could affect the US economy

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-22 [Older] Indian ministers visit US amid tariff, H-1B visa uncertainty

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-23 [Older] US: Cheeto Mussolini proposes further changes to H-1B visa process

  • CBC ☛ 2025-09-23 [Older] The new, steep price for this U.S. visa could be a blessing for Canadian tech

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-23 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini visa fee causes Indian, Chinese workers to rethink US

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-21 [Older] Philippines: Protests erupt over flood control fraud

  • CBC ☛ 2025-09-18 [Older] Canada Post sending new offers to union after ban on flyer deliveries

  • Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2025-09-20 [Older] Flight Attendants Decisively Rejected Air Canada’s Pay Offer

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-18 [Older] Carney Seeks to Warm up Canada-Mexico Ties in Face of US Tariff Threat

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-18 [Older] Canada and Mexico Committed to Shared Partnership With US, Carney Says

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-19 [Older] Canada, Mexico eye stronger ties amid Cheeto Mussolini tariff threat

  • CBC ☛ 2025-09-17 [Older] Bank of Canada lowers interest rate to 2.5% in first cut since March

  • CBC ☛ 2025-09-16 [Older] Canada's inflation rate rose to 1.9% in August

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-19 [Older] Oktoberfest 2025 starts with record beer prices

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-24 [Older] Election campaign in Czechia enters its final phase

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-23 [Older] Germany attempts to fill Constitutional Court positions

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-24 [Older] What challenges await Malawi's next president?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-23 [Older] Uganda's Yoweri Museveni eyes more years in the presidency

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-21 [Older] Guinea holds referendum on controversial new constitution

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-21 [Older] Germany updates: AfD tops poll with highest support ever

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-21 [Older] Germany slashes aid, development budget

  • Futurism ☛ Trump Adviser Admits Larry Ellison Is “Shadow President of the United States”

    Elon Musk may have blown up his relationship with Donald Trump like a Tesla battery that caught fire, but there’s another centibillionaire out there with deep influence in the Oval Office: Larry Ellison.

    The Oracle cofounder — who drooled last year that omnipresent AI surveillance will ensure “citizens will be on their best behavior” — is now the second richest man in the world, with a net worth north of $350 billion. He commands a business empire that spans everything from cloud computing to the news you watch. Ellison’s so influential, in fact, that a Trump adviser admitted to a Wired reporter that he’s literally a “shadow president of the United States.”

    “He does a brilliant job of being, let’s call it the anti-Elon,” another Trump associate in the AI industry told Wired in a new story. “He’s not kind of feared directly, but people in the know in Washington know he has some tremendous pull.”

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-24 [Older] South Korea: Why is President Lee urging new term limits?

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-22 [Older] Egypt pardons jailed activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-19 [Older] Stewart, Colbert and Fallon respond to Kimmel suspension

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-24 [Older] Philippines: Marcos Jr. touts press freedom despite threats

• Civil Rights/Policing

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-23 [Older] Kamel Daoud: Algerian author breaks his silence

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-20 [Older] New burial laws to modernize German funeral culture

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-20 [Older] Netherlands: Violence erupts at anti-immigration protest

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Gemini* and Gopher

  • Personal/Opinions

    • Week Notes 11

      I got a nice record player for my birthday a few weeks back and have since started a small vinyl collection.

      My favorite part of the collection so far is the soundtrack for the Outer Wilds DLC Echoes of the Eye. It’s really neat how much care was put into the entire package, and there’s even a few Easter eggs between the artwork and the vinyl itself. Not to mention of course just how cool of a soundtrack Echoes of the Eye has.