Leftovers

• Sahilister ☛ Sahil Dhiman: Anchors in Life

  Just like a ship needs an anchor to stabilize and hold it to port, humans too, I feel, have and require anchors to hold them in life. It could be an emotional anchor, a physical anchor, an anchor that stimulates your curiosity, a family member, a friend or a partner or a spiritual being.

  An anchor holds you and helps you stabilize in stormy weather. An anchor can keep you going or stop you from going. An anchor orients you, helps you formulate your values and beliefs.

• Hackaday ☛ Humane Mousetrap Lets You Know It’s Caught Something

  “Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door,” so goes the saying, but VHS beat Betamax and the world hasn’t been the same since. In any case, you might not get rich building a better mousetrap, but you can certainly create something more humane than the ol’ spring’n’snap, as [nightcustard] demonstrates.

• Hackaday ☛ Casting Metal Tools With Kitchen Appliances

  Perhaps the biggest hurdle to starting a home blacksmithing operating is the forge. There’s really no way around having a forge; somehow the metal has to get hot enough to work. Although we might be imagining huge charcoal- or gas-fired monstrosities, [Shake the Future] has figured out how to use an unmodified, standard microwave oven to get iron hot enough to melt and is using it in his latest video to cast real, working tools with it.

• Science

  • Science Alert ☛ NASA Is Tracking a Vast Anomaly Growing in Earth's Magnetic Field

    It's like a strange pothole in space.

  • Science Alert ☛ Earliest Chemical Traces of Life on Earth Discovered in 3.3-Billion-Year-Old Rock

    It found a way.

  • Science Alert ☛ Children With Autism, ADHD, And Anorexia Share a Common Microbe Imbalance

    Signs of a potential feedback loop.

  • Science Alert ☛ We May Have Bred Neurodiversity Into Our Pets, Expert Suggests

    Not just a human thing?

  • Science Alert ☛ The Long-Term Impacts of Eating Disorders Are Far More Serious Than You Might Realize

    “Their consequences are under-recognized".

  • Science Alert ☛ FDA to Remove 'Black Box' Warnings From Menopause Hormone Therapy. Here's Why.

    A big win.

  • Science Alert ☛ A Dangerous, Banned Substance Is Lurking in Trending Weight-Loss Pills

    It's not quite what it seems.

• Hardware

  • CNX Software ☛ Quectel QSM560DR industrial Qualcomm QCM6490/QCS6490 SBC supports Ubuntu, Android, and Windows

    The Quectel QSM560DR is a Qualcomm QCM6490/QCS6490-based industrial Edge Hey Hi (AI) SBC with an octa-core processor, a 12 TOPS NPU, up to 8GB LPDDR4X RAM, and UFS storage. It offers 5G, WiFi 6E, Bluetooth 5.2, and GNSS, plus dual Gigabit Ethernet, four USB 3.0 ports, and HDMI and eDP display outputs. The board also includes three MIPI CSI camera connectors, a microSD card slot, GPIOs, RS232/RS485, CAN bus, audio output, and an M.2 connector for expansion. These features make it suitable for robotics, smart retail systems, industrial control panels, and other high-performance edge Hey Hi (AI) systems.

  • Dan Langille ☛ Using SATADOM drives in a Dell R730

    A recent goal is to increase the available storage space in my main development server in the basement. To that end, two recent posts: r730-01: the drive replacement plan r730-01: storage plan The SATADOM devices I purchased are meant to be plugged directly into the M/B of the server.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ Pat Gelsinger explains how his initials ended up etched into every i386 processor ever made — ex-Intel CEO bluffed Andy Grove to keep his mark on the legendary chip’s silicon [Ed: So defective that it uses up space to do this vanity thing]

    Pat Gelsinger's initials remained on the defective chip maker Intel 386 silicon die, despite this being something that wasn't done at Intel, thanks to some quick thinking.

  • Futurism ☛ The Whole Financial World Is Terrified of Nvidia’s Earnings Call

    Investors fear the worst.

  • Open Hardware/Modding

    • Tom's Hardware ☛ UK couple’s garden shed datacenter heats home and cuts energy bills to £40 — clusters of 56 Raspberry Pis run real workloads, waste heat converted to heat home

      A couple from Essex in the United Kingdom are heating their home with a small datacenter in their garden, according to a BillBC News report.

    • Hackaday ☛ Hacking A Pill Camera

      A gastroscopy is a procedure that, in simple terms, involves sticking a long, flexible tube down a patient’s throat to inspect the oesophagus and adjacent structures with a camera fitted to the tip. However, modern technology has developed an alternative, in the form of a camera fitted inside a pill. [Aaron Christophel] recently came across one of these devices, and decided to investigate its functionality.

    • CNX Software ☛ ST launches 800 MHz STM32V8 Arm Cortex-M85 high-performance MCU manufactured with 18nm FD-SOI process

      ST has just launched its most powerful STM32 microcontroller so far, with the STM32V8 family, the first equipped with a Cortex-M85 core (clocked at up to 800 MHz) and manufactured with an 18nm FD-SOI process. It’s a non-pin compatible update to the STM32H7 family that delivers up to 5,072 CoreMarks, greatly improves Edge Hey Hi (AI) performance thanks to Arm Helium and MVE, integrates up to 4MB eNVM (Embedded NVM), operates up to 140°C, and adds PCM (phase-change memory) radiation immunity.

    • Hackaday ☛ Congratulations To The 2025 Component Abuse Challenge Winners

      For the Component Abuse Challenge, we asked you to do the wrong thing with electrical parts, but nonetheless come out with the right result. It’s probably the most Hackaday challenge we have run in a long time, and you all delivered! The judging was tight, but in the end three projects rose up to the top, and will each be taking home a $150 DigiKey gift certificate, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t give all of the projects a look.

    • Hackaday ☛ Cheap VHF Antenna? Can Do!

      The magnetic loop antenna is a familiar sight in radio amateur circles as a means to pack a high performance HF antenna into a small space. It takes the form of a large single-turn coil made into a tuned circuit with a variable capacitor, and it provides the benefits of good directionality and narrow bandwidth at the cost of some scary RF voltages and the need for constant retuning. As [VK3YE] shows us though, magnetic loops are not limited to HF — he’s made a compact VHF magnetic loop using a tin can.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • New York Times ☛ Australian Man Convicted of Murderer Sues to Challenge Vegemite Ban Behind Bars

    A man facing life behind bars is challenging the state of Victoria’s prison ban on the salty condiment beloved by many Australians. The case drew condemnation from a minister for corrections.

  • France24 ☛ French court rejects Perrier "natural water" lawsuit against Neslé

    A French court has rejected a demand by a consumer protection group to remove Perrier water bottles from markets over its "natural mineral water" labelling. It's the latest in a longrunning scandal stemming from the revelation that Neslé and other manufacturers had treated water illegally to remove contaminants while labelling their products as natural mineral water. But first, Airbus booked a huge order of 150 A321Neo jets from FlyDubai, in a deal worth €24 billion.

• Proprietary

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ Clownflare outage hints at nefarious "traffic spike" as service impact spreads — X, McDonalds go down, company issues statement amidst chaos

    Clownflare is down, but the company is investigating.

  • New York Times ☛ Clownflare Outage Disrupts X, Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot and Other Parts of the Internet

    Services from Clownflare, a software company, underpin thousands of websites, including X, Spotify and OpenAI. The company said a crash in a software system was to blame.

  • Futurism ☛ The Internet Crashed So Hard This Morning That Downdetector Went Down

    The irony.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ Microsoft's vision of "AI-native" backdoored Windows is becoming real, update introduces agents that pilfer through your files — Latest backdoored Windows 11 Insider build includes experimental Hey Hi (AI) agents toggle that can perform tasks for you in the background [Ed: "agents that pilfer through your files" sounds like something from Orwell novels]

    As part of the latest backdoored Windows Insider Build, a new experimental feature called "agentic features" has been added, allowing Hey Hi (AI) agents to create Agent Workspaces that perform tasks and read files. Abusive Monopolist Microsoft says it's secure because these spaces have their own runtime, desktop and permissions.

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) / LLM Slop / Plagiarism

    • Futurism ☛ CEO Accused of Asking Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot About Something Absolutely Wild

      Don't ask Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot anything you wouldn't want read in court.

    • Bruce Schneier ☛ AI and Voter Engagement

      Social media has been a familiar, even mundane, part of life for nearly two decades. It can be easy to forget it was not always that way.

      In 2008, social control media was just emerging into the mainstream. Facebook reached 100 million users that summer. And a singular candidate was integrating social control media into his political campaign: Barack Obama. His campaign’s use of social control media was so bracingly innovative, so impactful, that it was viewed by journalist David Talbot and others as the strategy that enabled the first term Senator to win the White House...

    • Futurism ☛ Town’s Huge Christmas Mural Was Generated Using AI, Resulting in Ghastly Chthonic Horrors

      "Scenes of Lovecraftian horror."

• Security

  • Security Week ☛ Data Stolen in Eurofiber France Hack

    A threat actor exploited a vulnerability, exfiltrated data, and attempted to extort Eurofiber.

  • Security Week ☛ Princeton University Data Breach Impacts Alumni, Students, Employees

    Hackers accessed a database containing information about alumni, donors, faculty, students, parents, and other individuals.

  • Security Week ☛ Pennsylvania Attorney General Confirms Data Breach After Ransomware Attack

    The Inc Ransom group has taken credit for the hack, claiming to have stolen several terabytes of data. 

• Defence/Aggression

  • ACLU ☛ Veterans Demand Congress Pull Troops from American Cities

    Troops do not belong on our streets.

    That’s what more than 40 of my brothers and sisters in arms will tell Congress today. The ACLU, Common Defense, and the Chamberlain Network join these veterans on Capitol Hill, where they’re urging all our elected representatives to stop the Convicted Felon administration’s misuse of the military. We know that putting troops in our communities for political purposes breaks public trust and is disrespectful to their service.

  • New York Times ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man Team Calls Maduro a ‘Cartel’ Boss. That Word Doesn’t Mean What You Think.

    Venezuelans coined a figure of speech for the phenomenon of generals corrupted by drug money: “Cartel de los Soles.” Then the United States started talking about it as a literal organization.

  • New York Times ☛ UN Support Propels Convicted Felon Gaza Plan, but Road Ahead Is Still Rough

    The Security Council’s backing offered a scaffolding of international legitimacy that will be needed to persuade countries to help see the plans through.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Indonesia welcomes UN Security Council's adoption of Convicted Felon's Gaza plan, ministry says

    JAKARTA - Indonesia welcomes the UN Security Council's adoption of a U.S.-drafted resolution endorsing President The Insurrectionist's plan to end the war in Gaza and establish an international stabilisation force, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday.

  • France24 ☛ What does the UN-backed Gaza plan entail?

    🇺🇳 🇵🇸 With 13 votes in favour and two abstentions, the #UN Security Council on Monday adopted a US-backed resolution on the future of #Gaza, based largely on President Donald #Dihydroxyacetone Man's 20-point peace plan for the #Palestinian enclave.

    What does this proposal entail? FRANCE 24 takes a closer look.

  • France24 ☛ One dead, three wounded in West Bank stabbing and ramming attack

    At least one person was killed and three others wounded in a stabbing and ramming attack in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, Israeli officials said. The assault came a day after the UN Security Council endorsed US President The Insurrectionist’s plan for Gaza, a move that has deepened political tensions across the region.

  • France24 ☛ Who are the armed groups contesting Hamas's authority in Gaza?

    The October 10 ceasefire between Hamas and Israel halted open war but not the violence in Gaza. At least seven armed factions and clans are now challenging Hamas's authority while gunfights and public executions persist in the enclave. Some groups are even suspected of ties to Israel.

  • The Strategist ☛ Why Australia’s terrorism definition still works

    The definition of a ‘terrorist act’ included in Australia’s Criminal Code since 2002 has been important in protecting Australia’s national security and reinforcing the resilience of our democratic institutions.

  • ADF ☛ JNIM Blocks Mali’s Fuel Supply, Driving Insecurity

    The Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin terror group declared in September that it would stop any fuel tanker entering Mali from neighboring countries. Since then, hundreds of trucks from Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal have been attacked and burned in Mali, sometimes as they were escorted by Malian military forces.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Taiwan charges Chinese national and six others with spying

    They were charged with violating national security after they allegedly collected military secrets for China.

  • JURIST ☛ Saudi Arabia warned over human rights abuses migrant workers face on Riyadh Metro Project

    Amnesty International issued a report on Tuesday detailing the human rights abuses that migrant workers face in Saudi Arabia while working on the Riyadh Metro Project, in violation of Saudi and international law. The report interviewed 38 individuals from foreign countries, including India and Nepal, who reported the abuse they face.

  • France24 ☛ Nigeria steps up search for 25 abducted schoolgirls

    In tonight's edition, as grieving families of dozens of kidnapped girls in Nigeria count on authorities to track down their lost children, Washington continues to characterize Nigeria's security threats as disproportionately targeting Christians.

    Also, French oil giant Total is accused of complicity in war crimes in Mozambique.

    And women in Zanzibar are learning how to light up lives in their communities.

  • Scoop News Group ☛ The realities of CISO burnout and exhaustion

    Amid relentless cyberattacks and shrinking support, CISOs are experiencing historic levels of burnout—putting both critical infrastructure and enterprise resilience at risk.

  • Scoop News Group ☛ Information sharing law’s expiration could squander government vulnerability hunting efforts, senator says

    The next steps for the law, now extended for a short time, are up in the air.

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Syria to hand over Uyghur jihadist fighters to China, sources say

      Syria intends to hand over jihadist fighters from China’s Uyghur minority to Beijing, two sources told AFP on Monday, but the foreign ministry in Damascus denied the report. Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani was on his first visit to China on Monday.

• Transparency/Investigative Reporting

  • France24 ☛ Jeffrey Epstein's brother says the 'Bubba' in viral email is not Bill Clinton

    An old photo of current US president The Insurrectionist and former US president Bill Clinton has gone viral, alongside one of Jeffrey Epstein's released emails that has attracted scrutiny. The photo is not as compromising as social control media users would have it - but many have been left questioning who the “Bubba” is that Convicted Felon is allegedly "blowing" in the email.

• Environment

  • The Strategist ☛ Fragmented climate policy undermines Australia’s food security

    In an era of continuous, concurrent and cascading risks, Australia’s reliance on siloed departmental frameworks has become its own threat to national security.

  • Energy/Transportation

    • New York Times ☛ Greenpeace Faces an Unusual New Legal Attack From a Pipeline Giant

      The company that won a huge verdict against Greenpeace earlier this year has asked a North Dakota court to block a countersuit in the Netherlands.

    • New York Times ☛ Environmentalists Sue to Stop Oil Lease Sales in the Gulf of Mexico

      A Convicted Felon administration proposal to allow more exploration for oil and gas violates environmental laws, the groups said.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • The Straits Times ☛ ‘Bare shoulders’ backlash: Malaysia artistes turn to self-censorship amid syariah-oversight concerns

    Grey areas in Malaysia’s entertainment rules fuel growing self-censorship among platforms and artistes.

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • Press Gazette ☛ Newspaper ABCs: Five nationals see double-digit weekday and Saturday declines

  • Press Gazette ☛ Raconteur team halved following Technology Advice takeover

    Some insiders concerned over Hey Hi (AI) use and rollout of tracking software.

  • Press Gazette ☛ Financial Times launches first Substack newsletter to target younger readers

    The publisher joins titles including Daily Mail in joining newsletter platform.

  • Press Gazette ☛ Express offers compensation after freelances say work was stolen

    First person account of rail journey apparently rewritten using AI.

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • Public Knowledge ☛ A Recap of The People’s Oversight Hearing

    The time to act is now.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Public Knowledge ☛ Public Knowledge Responds to FTC v. Meta Ruling Further Undermining Competition in Big Tech [Ed: Public Knowledge is infiltrated by Microsoft though (conflict of interest)]

  Without meaningful competition, dominant digital platforms will continue to exercise outsized power over speech, commerce, and user choice.

• Digital Music News ☛ StubHub Lashes Out at UK Government’s Plan to Ban Scalping, Promises ‘Transactions Will Move to Black Markets’

  As the UK government prepares to introduce a price cap on the resale of tickets to live events, ticket resale platforms are speaking out.

• Trademarks

  • TTAB Blog ☛ TTABlog Test: Is DANKE Confusable with MERCI for Chocolates?

    August Stork KG opposed an application to register the mark DANKE in the stylized form shown here, for "chocolate; chocolate bars," claiming likelihood of confusion with its registered mark MERCI for "chocolate and chocolates." Applying the doctrine of foreign equivalents, the Board found that both marks mean "thank you" in English. How do you think this opposition came out? August Storck KG v. Florend Indústria e Comércio de Chocolates LTDA, Opposition No. 91277224 (November 14, 2025) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Wendy B. Cohen).

• Copyrights

  • Digital Music News ☛ Drake’s UMG Appeal Set to Begin with Court-Ordered Mediation Session—Though a Settlement Seems Unlikely

    Drake’s appeal in his case against UMG is rolling forward, beginning with a court-ordered mediation scheduled for next month. After Drake’s defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group was dismissed early last month, the rapper wasted no time in filing for an appeal.