Leftovers

• Career/Education

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-06 [Older] How Philippines' schools embraced German language

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-04 [Older] Tackling forever chemicals could save money and our health

• Proprietary

  • Ed Zitron ☛ Premium: The Hater's Guide To Microsoft

    We are witnessing the consequences of hubris — those of a monopolist that chased out any real value creators from the organization, replacing them with an increasingly-annoying cadre of Business Idiots like career loser Jay Parikh and scummy, abusive timewaster Mustafa Suleyman.

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) / LLM Slop / Plagiarism

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2026-02-06 [Older] Security Concerns and Skepticism Are Bursting the Bubble of Moltbook, the Viral [Slop] Social Forum

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-05 [Older] Moltbook explained: Where AI bots meet to 'discuss' humans

  • Social Control Media

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2026-02-06 [Older] Turkey Edges Towards Curbing Social Media Access to Minors Amid Global Push

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-06 [Older] European nations gear up to ban social media for children

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2026-02-09 [Older] Instagram, YouTube Addiction Trial Kicks off in Los Angeles

    • The Age AU ☛ 2026-02-05 [Older] Sex offender ‘vigilante’ spared jail for Facebook posts

• Security

  • 2026-02-05 [Older] OIG audit of hospital’s cybersecurity finds vulnerabilities in common web applications

  • Confidentiality

    • NL Times ☛ 2026-02-06 [Older] Data Protection Authority in hot water: personal info leaked amidst security oversight

    • 2026-02-02 [Older] Ransomware attack compromised 377,000 people’s Social Security and driver’s license numbers from Texas gas station and convenience store chain

    • Archive Today ☛ 2026-02-02 [Older] IA: Dallas County to pay $600,000 to security testers arrested in 2019

• Defence/Aggression

  • Defence Web ☛ 2026-02-03 [Older] Lessons for Africa from US military action in Venezuela

  • CBC ☛ 2026-02-09 [Older] Cubans wonder if they could be next after Venezuela as rumours swirl about U.S. talks

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-03 [Older] How can Africa cash in on the gold rush?

  • Defence Web ☛ 2026-02-02 [Older] French Navy port call highlights growing South African maritime cooperation

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-04 [Older] Sudan: Khartoum presents a picture of normalcy despite ongoing fighting

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-04 [Older] Nigeria: Extremists kill over 100 in western villages

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-04 [Older] 'Global human rights system is in peril,' says HRW

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2026-02-06 [Older] UN Security Council to Exempt Sanctions on Humanitarian Aid for North Korea, Source Says

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-04 [Older] Germany: Train conductor dies after attack by passenger

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-06 [Older] German train conductor's death highlights rise in violence

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-04 [Older] Court in Hungary declares German anti-fascist Maja T. guilty

• Environment

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2026-02-09 [Older] Olympic Town Warms up as Climate Change Puts Winter Games on Thin Ice

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2026-02-09 [Older] In the Arctic, the Major Climate Threat of Black Carbon Is Overshadowed by Geopolitical Tensions

  • CBC ☛ 2026-02-07 [Older] Climate change could allow rats to have more babies. Enter rodent birth control

  • The Local SE ☛ 2026-02-07 [Older] Climate activist group files second lawsuit against Sweden

  • University of Michigan ☛ 2026-02-06 [Older] We are are more prepared to face climate change than you think

  • Counter Punch ☛ 2026-02-05 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini’s Climate Policy Rollback Plan Relies on EPA Rescinding its 2009 Endangerment Finding, But Will Courts Allow It?

  • Vox ☛ 2026-02-05 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini’s new Wildland Fire Service is failing to ignite

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2026-02-03 [Older] How Climate Change and Human Psychology Make This US Cold Snap Feel So Harsh

  • Energy/Transportation

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-09 [Older] Germany's gas reserves face crucial energy supply test

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2026-02-09 [Older] German Foreign Minister to Discuss Sanctions, Energy With Central Asian Counterparts

    • NL Times ☛ 2026-02-08 [Older] Four in 10 Dutch homes now carry top energy labels

    • CBC ☛ 2026-02-08 [Older] Provincial officials still trying to find way to raise abandoned tidal turbine

    • James G ☛ 2026-02-06 [Older] Does your website run on green energy?

    • CBC ☛ 2026-02-06 [Older] Stellantis selling its stake of Ontario battery factory to South Korea's LG Energy Solution

    • The Local DK ☛ 2026-02-06 [Older] Danish wind energy group Ørsted posts 2025 profit despite US woes

    • NL Times ☛ 2026-02-05 [Older] Energy bill determined by where you live; Northern provinces pay most

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2026-02-05 [Older] Germany's Merz Promises Arms Cooperation as He Seeks More Qatari Energy

    • Vox ☛ 2026-02-04 [Older] Who on Earth still doesn’t have electricity?

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-03 [Older] Germany and the Gulf region: Energy and arms deals

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-04 [Older] Tiny dinosaur fossil could provide evolutionary clues: study

• Finance

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-06 [Older] German exports to US plummet, but Europe provides a boost

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2026-02-07 [Older] In Economic Speeches, Cheeto Mussolini Claims Inflation Victory Nearly 20 Times Even as Prices Bite

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-06 [Older] Germany: Rising concern over social inequality

  • BIA Net ☛ 2026-02-03 [Older] Workers at Migros, one of Turkey’s largest retailers, protest near-zero raise

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-04 [Older] Turkey's textile industry crushed by China and Bangladesh

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-05 [Older] Albania's judicial reform ten years on: Hope without justice

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-04 [Older] Serbia: Reform denounced as a political takeover of justice

  • Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-04 [Older] Fact check: How videos are recycled for political purposes

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • Project Censored ☛ 2026-02-02 [Older] Déjà Vu News: Corporate Media Repeats Its Failures While Empire Marches On

  • Counter Punch ☛ 2026-02-03 [Older] The Government’s Long War on Free Speech

  • Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2026-02-03 [Older] Fifty Years Ago, the Supreme Court Said Money Is Speech

  • HRW ☛ 2026-02-04 [Older] Pakistan: Suppression of Free Speech, Civil Society

  • Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2026-02-02 [Older] How China’s Counterculture Went Online

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2026-02-05 [Older] A Glimmer of Hope for Democracy in Venezuela as Opponents Test the Limits of Free Speech

  • CBC ☛ 2026-02-08 [Older] With Maduro gone, Venezuelans test freedom to criticize leaders

  • The Age AU ☛ 2026-02-05 [Older] Liberal MPs’ invitation to Islamic community day withdrawn after Bondi speeches

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-04 [Older] Washington Post begins large-scale layoffs

  • 2026-02-02 [Older] Under Pressure: Exploring the effect of legal and criminal threats on security researchers and journalists

• Civil Rights / Policing / Accessibility

  • HRW ☛ 2026-02-04 [Older] Brazil: Revamp Public Security Policies

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Patents

  • IP Kat ☛ 2026-02-02 [Older] Use of AI in the patent industry: Are you behind the wheel or waiting for the bus?

  • IP Kat ☛ 2026-02-06 [Older] Patents take root in the draft NGT Plants Regulation [Ed: Nature should never be patented, nature is not an invention]