Leftovers

• Hackaday ☛ Building A Rubik’s Cube That Solves Itself

  If you’re really good, it’s possible to solve a Rubik’s Cube in under 10 seconds. For the rest of us, though, it can be an exceedingly tedious task. For that reason, you might like a Rubik’s Cube that can solve itself, like the one [zeroshot] is trying to build.

• The Age AU ☛ 2025-10-25 [Older] About 2.1 trillion photos will be taken this year. They way we share them is changing

• Standards/Consortia

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-10-24 [Older] Spain revives EU daylight savings debate

• Science

  • Rlang ☛ Prussian Horse Kicks II: Mixed Effects Models

    Last time we used a quirky dataset to get acquainted with Generalised Linear Models.

• Career/Education

  • The Age AU ☛ 2025-10-28 [Older] Teachers forced to leave homes as shocking photos show extent of student vandalism

• Hardware

  • LRT ☛ A humanoid robot strolls through Vilnius: has science fiction arrived to Lithuania?

    On an autumn afternoon in Vilnius’s Old Town, locals and visitors alike were surprised to encounter an unusual pedestrian – a humanoid robot. Some crossed themselves, others stopped to greet it, but nearly everyone was astonished. Has science fiction arrived on the streets of Lithuania?

  • Hackaday ☛ Building A DIY Ryzen-Based PC!

    This project gives a whole new meaning to DIY PC. We don’t know how capable you were as a teenager, but could you have designed your own Ryzen-based mini PC?

  • Hackaday ☛ 2025 Component Abuse Challenge: A Piezo Disk Powers A Transmitter

    A piezo disk transducer is a handy part for reproducing beeps and boops, and can also function as a rudimentary microphone. Being a piezoelectric element, it can also generate usable power. Enough to run a radio transmitter? [b.kainka] is here to find out, with what may be the simplest possible transmitter circuit.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ China tweets satellite photos of Taiwan's critical Hsinchu chip hub in pressure-ratcheting political stunt — 'where all the world’s advanced foundry IP is created,' highest concentration of chipmaking facilities in the world

    On Friday night, China’s embassy in Washington posted a familiar message to X: “There is but one China in the world.”

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-10-23 [Older] European carmakers face Nexperia chip supply shock

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • The Straits Times ☛ Malaysian rapper Namewee faces drug charges after October arrest

    The 43-year-old denied using drugs or having any involvement in Taiwanese influencer Iris Hsieh's death.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Malaysian rapper Namewee denies drug use and involvement in Taiwanese influencer’s death

    Taiwanese influencer Iris Hsieh was found dead in a hotel bathtub on Oct 22.

  • 2025-10-22 [Older] Pakistan Navy seizes nearly $1 billion in narcotics during Saudi-Led maritime operation

  • Copenhagen Post ☛ 2025-10-23 [Older] Bird flu outbreak leads to culling of 36,000 turkeys

  • CBC ☛ 2025-10-27 [Older] Avian flu strikes farms in B.C.'s Fraser Valley, with 7 outbreaks this month

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-10-25 [Older] US Food Banks Brace for Surge as Shutdown Threatens Benefits

  • CBC ☛ 2025-10-27 [Older] Some Canadian communities make it mandatory for homeowners to replace lead pipes. Do such bylaws work?

  • CBC ☛ 2025-10-26 [Older] B.C. man dies weeks after rescuing himself from the jaws of a grizzly bear

  • CBC ☛ 2025-10-25 [Older] Canada's measles outbreak control challenged by disinformation and distrust, doctors say

  • CBC ☛ 2025-10-24 [Older] Montreal Metro sees rise in suicide attempts. What can be done to prevent them?

  • CBC ☛ 2025-10-24 [Older] ‘No one was getting any better’: When private addiction treatment centres put patients in danger

  • CBC ☛ 2025-10-24 [Older] Only 15% of women reported getting screened for breast cancer in Canada in past year: study

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-10-24 [Older] Germany news: Surge in synthetic drugs and opioids

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-10-24 [Older] Fact check: Why comparing rape statistics across Europe doesn't work

• Proprietary

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ Developer warns users that fake download site is hosting backdoored Windows 11 upgrade bypass tool — Win 10 upgraders warned of potential malicious downloads [Ed: Even the real Vista 11 is very malicious and must be avoided.]

    Following backdoored Windows 10’s end-of-life, Flyoobe has grown in popularity for enabling safe backdoored Windows 11 upgrades on unsupported systems - but you must only download it via the official Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub source.

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) / LLM Slop / Plagiarism

    • Futurism ☛ The Amount of Money Proprietary Chaffbot Company Lost Last Quarter Will Make You Choke on Your Slurpee [Ed: It's a joke of a company]

      It'll have to start making money at some point, right?

  • Windows TCO / Windows Bot Nets

    • Beta News ☛ 2025-10-24 [Older] Confidence in ransomware recovery is high but actual success rates remain low

    • Threat Source ☛ 2025-10-27 [Older] Uncovering Qilin attack methods exposed through multiple cases

    • 2025-10-27 [Older] NY: Gloversville hit by ransomware attack, paid ransom

• Security

  • SANS ☛ Scans for Port 8530/8531 (TCP). Likely related to WSUS Vulnerability CVE-2025-59287, (Sun, Nov 2nd)

    Sensors reporting firewall logs detected a significant increase in scans for port 8530/TCP and 8531/TCP over the course of last week. Some of these reports originate from Shadowserver, and likely other researchers, but there are also some that do not correspond to known research-related IP addresses.

  • BBC ☛ 2025-10-24 [Older] Two U.K. teenagers appear in court over Transport of London cyber attack

  • TheBusiness Times ☛ 2025-10-25 [Older] UN Cybercrime Convention to be signed in Hanoi to tackle global offences

  • 2025-10-27 [Older] On Reports of an Alleged Data Breach Involving G-Xchange, Inc. (GCash)

  • Politico ☛ 2025-10-27 [Older] How a hacking gang held Italy’s political elites to ransom

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • The Straits Times ☛ Wet market traders in Malaysia put up CCTVs to deter thieves

      Seafood stalls were often targeted as the value of their products was higher.

    • CBC ☛ 2025-10-26 [Older] Bodycams worn by Toronto FreshCo cashiers raise questions about safety and privacy

  • Confidentiality/Data Breaches

    • 2025-10-22 [Older] Protected health information of 462,000 members of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana involved in Conduent data breach

    • CBS ☛ 2025-10-22 [Older] Hotel and Casino near Las Vegas Strip suffers data breach, documents say

    • Media Nama ☛ 2025-10-22 [Older] Bombay High Court Orders Department of Telecommunications to Block Medusa Accounts After Generali Insurance Data Breach

    • 2025-10-23 [Older] Kaufman County’s data breach was their second one in three weeks

    • 2025-10-23 [Older] Hacking Formula 1: Accessing Max Verstappen’s passport and PII through FIA bugs

    • 2025-10-24 [Older] Toys “R” Us Canada customers notified of breach of personal information

    • 2025-10-24 [Older] ModMed revealed they were victims of a cyberattack in July. Then some data showed up for sale.

    • MSN ☛ 2025-10-24 [Older] Gatineau gymnastics centre warns members of possible data breach

    • 2025-10-24 [Older] Data breach in 42 Latvian municipalities: DVI imposes 300,000 euro fine on ZZ Dats

• Defence/Aggression

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-10-23 [Older] Mengele biopic explores mind of notorious Nazi physician

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-10-23 [Older] Merz says Europeans fear 'public spaces' due to migration

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-10-22 [Older] Syria's wildly successful crowdfunding: Real hope or PR?

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-10-22 [Older] Druze Community in Syria's Idlib Province on Edge After Targeted Shooting Kills 3

  • Truthdig ☛ 2025-10-21 [Older] Despite Fall of Assad and Recent Elections in Syria, Minorities Still Aren’t Safe

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-10-22 [Older] Syria-Kurdish deal: Turkey hopes to boost trade with Kurdish regions

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-10-27 [Older] Montenegro Suspends Visa-Free Regime With Turkey After Violence

  • BIA Net ☛ 2025-10-27 [Older] Montenegro suspends visa-free travel from Turkey after weekend violence

  • BIA Net ☛ 2025-10-27 [Older] PKK announces withdrawal from Turkey, marking ‘next phase’ in peace process

  • ANF News ☛ 2025-10-26 [Older] Leadership of the Kurdistan Freedom Movement: We withdraw our guerrilla units from Turkey

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-10-26 [Older] Kurdish rebel group PKK says withdrawing forces from Turkey

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-10-26 [Older] Kurdish PKK Militants Announce Withdrawal From Turkey as Part of Disarmament

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-10-26 [Older] Kurdish Rebel Group PKK Says It Is Withdrawing Its Fighters From Turkey to Iraq

  • ANF News ☛ 2025-10-27 [Older] AKP welcomes the withdrawal of guerrillas from Turkey

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-10-25 [Older] US deploys aircraft carrier to Caribbean as war fears rise

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-10-25 [Older] Why is Iran clinging to its nuclear weapons program?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-10-24 [Older] Decaying Goebbels holiday villa to host tourism

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-10-24 [Older] Does adopting far-right rhetoric help or hurt the political center?

  • The Straits Times ☛ ‘You can check if there’s a backdoor’: The time when China’s leader joked about espionage

    Xi Jinping gave two cellphones to South Korea’s Lee Jae Myung, who asked how secure they were.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man says China knows ‘consequences’ of any attack on Taiwan

    But he refrained from explicitly saying the US would intervene militarily on behalf of Taiwan.

  • The Straits Times ☛ China, South Korea leaders discuss cultural ties a decade after ban

    The move could provide a lift for South Korea’s pop culture industry.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Diplomacy of gifts: Inside South Korean President Lee Jae Myung’s symbolic summit strategy

    Lee's gifts offered a glimpse into the art of symbolic exchange between world leaders.

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • The Straits Times ☛ Russia says PM Mishustin's visit to China 'very important'

      Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin on Monday departed for a two-day visit to China, with planned talks with President Pooh-tin Jinping and Premier Li Qiang expected to centre on economic and technological cooperation despite pressure from the West.

    • RFERL ☛ Ukraine Says It Hits Russian Black Sea Oil Facility, Gets Extra Patriot Systems

      Ukrainian military authorities insist their forces are holding out in the frontline eastern city of Pokrovsk amid fierce fighting against an assembled for of some 170,000 Russian troops.

    • RFERL ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man Again Plays Down Prospects Of Tomahawk Deliveries To Ukraine

      US President stressed again that he is not considering providing Tomahawk missiles to Kyiv, which has pleaded for the long-range weapon it says is crucial to striking back against Russia as the Kremlin intensifies air strikes on Ukrainian cities.

    • France24 ☛ Russian blitz on Ukraine kills six people, including two children

      A wave of drones and missiles were fired into Ukraine by Russia overnight on Saturday and Sunday, killing at least six people including two boys aged 11 and 14. Russia's strikes on Ukraine's energy grid cut power to the entire eastern Donetsk region, as well as almost 58,000 households in the southern Zaporizhzhia region, Ukrainian officials said.

    • France24 ☛ Russia fires wave of drones and missiles at Ukraine: At least 6 killed

      Russia launched a barrage of drones and missiles at Ukraine overnight, killing at least six people, including two children, and leaving tens of thousands without power, officials reported Sunday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the attacks, which also injured a dozen others, saying they demonstrated Moscow’s intent to “inflict harm” on civilians. Despite U.S. calls to end its nearly four-year invasion, Russia has continued both its ground offensive and renewed strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. Former Advisor to Ukraine's Defence Ministry, Yuriy Sak, gives his insights.

    • NYPost ☛ Russia’s feminist paradise proved anything but — even before Putin

      To read Julia Ioffe’s new book, “Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy” is to take a rambling ride — or a crash course if this is new territory — through the last century of Russian history as the ghosts of grandmothers past whisper in your ear.

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-10-23 [Older] German police mistakenly shoot soldier on training exercise

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-10-23 [Older] Germany news: Berlin to pay base workers amid US shutdown

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-10-23 [Older] Germany to pay US military base employees amid shutdown

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-10-23 [Older] India's Modi to miss Cheeto Mussolini at ASEAN as oil tensions persist

• Environment

  • The Straits Times ☛ Vietnam flood death toll rises to 35: Disaster agency

    Five people are still missing in the deluge.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Cold snap hits across South Korea, inland areas drop below freezing

    Daytime highs will range from 11 deg C to 18 deg C, and the cold is expected to persist until Nov 4.

  • Futurism ☛ Scientists Warn Against Trying to Dim the Sun to Cool the Planet

    "It isn’t going to happen the way that 99 percent of these papers model."

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-10-27 [Older] As the Atlantic Ocean Warms, Climate Change Is Fueling Hurricane Melissa's Ferocity

  • CBC ☛ 2025-10-25 [Older] Will Mark Carney deliver on the climate values he preached as a central banker?

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-10-25 [Older] ExxonMobil Sues California Over Climate Disclosure Laws

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-10-25 [Older] Exxon Sues California Over Climate Disclosure Laws

  • Counter Punch ☛ 2025-10-24 [Older] California Can Lead a Just Climate Transition

  • Counter Punch ☛ 2025-10-22 [Older] A Breakdown of Current Climate Research

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-10-22 [Older] What is methane and what's its role in climate change?

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-10-22 [Older] EU Leaders Want Option to Weaken New Climate Target in Future, Draft Shows

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-10-25 [Older] Spain: Tens of thousands protest a year after deadly floods

  • Energy/Transportation

    • The Straits Times ☛ Malaysia’s Anwar says $185 million magnet plant to boost rare earth sector: Report

      Malaysia’s trade minister would monitor the project as it involves rare-earth processing.

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-10-23 [Older] Germany news: Transport disrepair damages economy — report

    • NL Times ☛ 2025-10-25 [Older] Air France-KLM finalizes stake purchase in Canada’s WestJet airline

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • CBC ☛ 2025-10-25 [Older] Whale-watching vessel collides with humpback in 'surprise encounter' near Vancouver

    • CBC ☛ 2025-10-25 [Older] Father and son discover fossilized ichthyosaur skull in B.C.'s Kiskatinaw River valley

    • CBC ☛ 2025-10-27 [Older] Residents displaced by wildfire race to rebuild in Denare Beach, Sask., before snow flies

  • Overpopulation

    • CBC ☛ 2025-10-26 [Older] I’m childless by choice. Having my fallopian tubes removed in my 30s helped me trust my gut

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-10-23 [Older] Fight over water intensifies as Colorado River dries up

• Finance

  • CBC ☛ 2025-10-22 [Older] Why this trade insider thinks a steel and aluminum deal is imminent

  • CBC ☛ 2025-10-22 [Older] Crypto exchange Cryptomus fined record $177M by Canada's financial crime watchdog

  • Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2025-10-22 [Older] The Great American Oil and Gas Cash Grab

  • CBC ☛ 2025-10-23 [Older] Canada Post workers union loses challenge of back-to-work order

  • CBC ☛ 2025-10-25 [Older] Teachers and supporters gather in Alberta education minister's riding as back-to-work legislation looms

  • CBC ☛ 2025-10-24 [Older] Inuit leader replaced amid allegations of abuse

  • CBC ☛ 2025-10-24 [Older] B.C. billionaire Ruby Liu loses court fight to take over Hudson's Bay properties

  • Copenhagen Post ☛ 2025-10-27 [Older] Three Danish banks enter into merger agreement

  • The Local DK ☛ 2025-10-27 [Older] Danish banks announce three-way merger

  • Redmond-based vaccine company laying off over 70 workers

    Inventprise works to create durable vaccines against infectious diseases and currently has a pipeline of investigational vaccines targeting group B streptococcus (GBS), Shigella, and Klebsiella, according to the company’s website.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • The Local SE ☛ 2025-10-22 [Older] British-South African asked to leave Sweden over post-Brexit mix-up

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-10-24 [Older] Factbox-Africa's Ageing Presidents Govern World's Youngest Populations

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-10-22 [Older] Democratic Sen. Merkley of Oregon Stages Marathon Speech to Protest Cheeto Mussolini Amid Shutdown

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-10-22 [Older] Democratic US Senator Merkley Gives Marathon Speech Opposing Cheeto Mussolini Agenda

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-10-24 [Older] Ireland votes to choose next president

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-10-24 [Older] Ivory Coast democracy under scrutiny ahead of election

  • Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

    • Futurism ☛ Landlords Are Using Hey Hi (AI) to Make Photos of Nasty Apartments Look Clean and Modern

      "We are seeing this huge uptick in people using it."

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • TechCrunch ☛ 2025-10-22 [Older] Apple Pulls Dating Apps Tea and TeaOnHer From the App Store

  • International Business Times ☛ 2025-10-24 [Older] 3I/ATLAS Mystery Deepens: Alien Contact or Government Control? SETI's New Rules Spark Free Speech Fears

  • ANF News ☛ 2025-10-27 [Older] DFG denounces censorship of Kurdish media content on guerrillas’ withdrawal from Turkey

  • University of Michigan ☛ 2025-10-23 [Older] Three pro-Palestine activists arrested for protesting speech given by former Israeli soldiers

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • CPJ ☛ 2025-10-23 [Older] 2 journalists found guilty for reporting in Turkey

  • BIA Net ☛ 2025-10-24 [Older] Turkey seizes pro-opposition TV network after editor-in-chief's arrest in espionage probe

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-10-24 [Older] Ethiopia suspends DW correspondents as it tightens grip on media ahead of 2026 vote

• Civil Rights/Policing

  • JURIST ☛ Illinois advocates sue federal authorities over “inhumane” conditions at ICE facility

    Illinois advocates filed a class action lawsuit against federal authorities on Friday over alleged “inhumane” conditions at a Chicago-area federal immigration facility, claiming violations of detainees’ constitutional rights and federal regulations.

  • The Straits Times ☛ China’s Shein pulls child-like sex dolls from sale following French watchdog complaint

    France’s consumer watchdog had spotted the dolls on the Shein website.

  • BIA Net ☛ 2025-10-22 [Older] Turkey’s prison population has increased sevenfold under AKP rule

  • CPJ ☛ 2025-10-23 [Older] CPJ joins call urging Turkey to withdraw anti-LGBTQ+ bill

  • BIA Net ☛ 2025-10-24 [Older] Turkey’s new judicial package would criminalize LGBTI+ journalism, press freedom groups warn

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • APNIC ☛ Bangladesh’s Internet transformation: From satellite shadows to digital highways

    Guest Post: In the past two decades, Bangladesh’s Internet has surged from 0.1% to over 75% penetration, shedding its reliance on costly satellite links. But the real work lies ahead — strengthening local peering, reaching rural areas, and building infrastructure that serves everyone.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Patents

  • 2025-10-27 [Older] AI-First Triage: A Path for Quality and Pendency Reduction at the USPTO [Ed: Slop is not objective, it's just extra buzzwords on old methods]

  • Kangaroo Courts

    • IP Kat ☛ 2025-10-22 [Older] Patentee's own post-published data undermines the credibility of their broad cat antibody patent (T 0709/23)

    • IP Kat ☛ 2025-10-27 [Older] From peppers to watermelons: Navigating the "dynamic interpretation" of plant and animal patentability (T 2049/23)