Leftovers

• Hackaday ☛ Splashflag: Raising The Flag On A Pool Party

  Some things are more fun when there are more folks involved, and enjoying time in the pool is one of those activities. Knowing this, [Bert Wagner] started thinking of ways to best coordinate pool activities with his kids and their neighborhood friends. Out of this came the Splashflag, an IoT device built from the ground up that provides fun pool parties and a great learning experience along the way.

• Science

  • New York Times ☛ Beyond the Nobel Prizes Is a World of Scientific Awards

    Nobels are awarded in only three scientific categories, but other awards honor researchers across different fields.

  • Science Alert ☛ Particles That Don't Exist Could Be Key to Understanding Reality

    The virtual truth.

• Hardware

  • Hackaday ☛ Wearable Neon Necklaces Run On Battery Power

    We typically think of neon signs as big commercial advertisements, hanging inside windows and lofted on tall signposts outside highway-adjacent businesses. [James Akers] has gone the other route with a fashionable build, creating little wearable neon necklaces that glow beautifully in just the same way.

  • Hackaday ☛ Divining Air Quality With A Cheap Computer Vision Device

    There are all kinds of air quality sensors on the market that rely on all kinds of electro-physical effects to detect gases or contaminants and report them back as a value. [lucascreator] has instead been investigating a method of determining air quality that is closer to divination than measurement—using computer vision and a trained AI model.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • New York Times ☛ Why Brittle Bones Aren’t Just a Woman’s Problem

    More men are now living long enough to develop osteoporosis. But few are aware of the risk, and fewer still are screened and treated.

  • Futurism ☛ Doctors Find Evidence That Microplastics Are Degrading Your Bones

    This one hits bone-deep.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Central Java students develop smart lunch box to ensure free meal safety at school

    The device earned the duo second place in a regional youth innovation competition.

  • LRT ☛ Lithuanian neurosurgeon performs world-first surgery: on the future of brain surgery

    Dr Viktoras Palys, the Lithuanian-born neurosurgeon working in the United States, performed the world’s first transplant of neurons into healthy human brain tissue. Speaking at a conference, he explained that the procedure is designed to treat epilepsy and other neurological disorders, using cutting-edge techniques ranging from implants to robotics.

  • Futurism ☛ People Are Horrified by Lab-Grown Human Brains

    Pain of Existence

    The post People Are Horrified by Lab-Grown Human Brains appeared first on Futurism.

  • New York Times ☛ G.O.P. to Gen Z: Pay Double for Health Insurance or Go Without

    If Democrats don’t win the shutdown fight, millions of young Americans may lose coverage because of higher prices.

  • France24 ☛ Morocco sees eighth straight day of protests organised by online Gen Z group

    Members of Moroccan online youth collective GenZ 212  protested for the eighth consecutive day on Saturday, demanding better public health and education services. The online group, which has more than 180,000 members on Discord, insists on the nonviolent nature of its protests, and the gatherings since then have been largely peaceful.

• Proprietary

  • Hackaday ☛ Optimizing A QuickTake Image Decoder For The Apple II’s 6502

    The idea of using the Apple II home computer for digital photography purposes may seem somewhat daft considering that this is not a purpose that they were ever designed for, yet this is the goal that [Colin Leroy-Mira] had, requiring some image decoder optimizations. That said, it’s less crazy than one might assume at first glance, considering that the Apple II was manufactured until 1993, while the Apple QuickTake digital cameras that [Colin] wanted to use for his nefarious purposes saw their first release in 1994.

  • Social Control Media

    • The Straits Times ☛ Indonesia lifts Fentanylware (CheeTok) licence suspension as app shares data

      The government requested data on TikTok's live feature’s activities during protests in August.

• Defence/Aggression

  • The Straits Times ☛ Death toll from Indonesia school collapse rises to 37

    Part of the multi-storey building on Indonesia’s Java island suddenly collapsed on Sept 29.

  • The Straits Times ☛ North Korea’s Kim Jong Un visits naval destroyer: Report

    It is unclear when the ships will become operational, analysts said.

  • The Straits Times ☛ North Korea’s Kim Jong Un visits naval destroyer: KCNA

    It is unclear when the ships will become operational, analysts said.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Kelantan top cop’s call to punish girls in statutory rape cases slammed by Malaysia rights groups

    He had suggested enforcing legal action against underage girls in “consensual” statutory rape cases.

  • Russia/USSR

    • New York Times ☛ A Pacific Gateway Shows the Kremlin’s Grip on Russia’s Vast Expanse

      In a country where power is highly centralized, Moscow sets the tone for Vladivostok, 4,000 miles away, complicating longstanding ambitions to make it a trading powerhouse.

    • LRT ☛ Smuggler balloons from Belarus disrupt flights at Vilnius Airport

      Twenty-five meteorological balloons, typically used by smugglers, entered Lithuanian airspace from Belarus overnight Saturday, authorities said.

    • RFERL ☛ Tbilisi On Edge After Clashes As Georgian Dream Tightens Grip In Boycotted Elections

      Tbilisi remained tense after a night of clashes between protesters and riot police during local elections that saw the ruling Georgian Dream party tighten its grip on power amid opposition boycotts and growing Western concern that the country is drifting closer to Moscow.

    • RFERL ☛ Poland Scrambles Jets To Secure Airspace As Western Ukraine Comes Under Intense Russian Strikes

      oland and NATO allies mobilized fighter planes and put ground forces on high alert early on October 5, as Kyiv said Russia launched a new wave of aerial attacks across Ukraine, including on the Lviv region, near the Polish border, killing at least five people.

    • RFERL ☛ Babis's Czech Election Victory Poses Potential Headache For Brussels, Kyiv

      The election victory this weekend of right-wing populist Andrej Babis risks turning the Czech Republic into another Central European problem child for Brussels after he campaigned on vows to slash support for Ukraine and confront the EU over immigration and environmental policies.

    • France24 ☛ At least five killed in large-scale overnight Russian strikes on Ukraine, Poland scrambles jets

      At lease five civilians were killed after Russian launched a large-scale night-time attack in Ukraine that officials there said targeted civilian infrastructure. NATO member Poland said it scrambled aircraft early on Sunday to ensure its air safety after Russian missiles and drones rained down on the Lviv region near the Polish border.

    • Tom's Hardware ☛ Ukraine’s rotating barbed wire drone barriers discovered by Russians — motorized barriers tear and slice the fiber-optic lines that jam-proof drones leave in their trail

      Remote controlled fiber optic-tethered drones may have met their match with a new Ukrainian innovation.

    • New York Times ☛ Russia Targets Ukraine’s Energy Infrastructure With Deadly Bombardment

      At least five people were killed before dawn in another large-scale and wide-ranging assault.

    • New York Times ☛ Drones, Democracy and the War in Ukraine

      Back from a trip to Ukraine, our international editor Philip Pan explains how this is a new kind of war.

    • France24 ☛ Ukraine says Russia intensifying railway strikes to isolate frontline communities

      The head of Ukraine's railways said Saturday (October 4) that Russia was intensifying a campaign of air strikes on the network in an attempt to isolate frontline communities ahead of winter. Russia launched drones at two passenger trains in Ukraine's northeastern Sumy region, killing one person and wounding dozens, according to Ukrainian officials.

    • France24 ☛ French prosecutors launch war-crimes probe into photojournalist’s death in Ukraine

      French prosecutors have launched a war-crimes probe into the death of French photojournalist Antoni Lallican, who was killed in a drone strike earlier this week in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region. Lallican was embedded with Ukrainian forces at the time of the attack, which President Emmanuel Macron has blamed on Russia.

    • RFERL ☛ Western Ukraine Recovers From Russian Strikes As Zelenskyy Rips West's Lack Of Response

      Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy used his nightly video address to criticize the lack of international response as western Ukraine and other areas looked to recover following a series of Russian aerial strikes across the country killed at least five people.

    • RFERL ☛ Poland Scrambles Jets To Secure Airspace As Western Ukraine Comes Under Intense Russian Strikes

      Poland and NATO allies mobilized fighter planes and put ground forces on high alert early on October 5, as Kyiv said Russia launched a new wave of aerial attacks across Ukraine, including on the Lviv region, near the Polish border, killing at least five people.

• Environment

  • New York Times ☛ Typhoon Matmo Makes Landfall in Southern China

    The tropical cyclone disrupted transportation, forced more than 151,000 evacuations and raised fears of flooding as it barreled toward Guangdong Province.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Thousands evacuated as Typhoon Matmo lashes southern China

    The intensity of the typhoon is expected to gradually decrease after making landfall.

  • The Straits Times ☛ China builds more, bigger indoor ski resorts in a play for the ‘ice and snow’ economy

    Indoor ski resorts are growing in number and in size, as China mounts a drive to boost spending in winter sports sector.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong Kong urged to strengthen ecotourism regulations after 4,000 visitors descend on geopark island

    The Hong Kong government should implement measures to prevent environmental damage to local geoparks, a green group has said, after a remote island became “overcrowded” with visitors during China’s National Day Golden Week.

  • Energy/Transportation

    • Beneath Talbot Hill

      I was walking around the Talbot Hill neighborhood and saw a coal cart on display, which prompted me to wonder if there was a history of coal mining in the area. I conducted research and found that Talbot Hill is closely associated with coal mining. For nearly half a century, a major mining complex at the foot of this hill drove the local economy, shaped the community, and left an indelible mark on the

    • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Glimmering sea of solar as China expands desert installation

      An ocean of blue solar panels ripples across the ochre dunes of Inner Mongolia’s Kubuqi desert, a glittering example of China’s almost inconceivably mammoth energy transition.

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Authorities to carry out patrols on Sharp Island for rest of Golden Week after tourists trample coral, litter, light fires

      On Friday, NGO Greenpeace published photos and videos showing visitors trampling on corals and digging up marine creatures including sea urchins and clams at Sharp Island in Sai Kung.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • CS Monitor ☛ Conservative hardliner Sanae Takaichi elected to lead Japan's ruling party

    Japan’s new Liberal Democratic Party leader, Sanae Takaichi, is one of its most conservative members. Aligned with Shinzo Abe’s nationalism, her stance on wartime history could strain ties with China and South Korea in a nation lagging on gender equality.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Copyrights

  • Futurism ☛ OpenAI’s Sora 2 Is Generating Video of SpongeBob Cooking Meth, Highlighting Copyright Concerns

    "We don't call it 'stuff,' Patrick. It's Blue Barnacle."