Obnam ☛ 2026-02-15 [Older] Obnam server API: token validation in requests

Hardware

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-12 [Older] AI-fueled chip shortage is driving up smartphone prices

Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-13 [Older] Mehmet Oz's vaccine call is 'too little, too late'

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-13 [Older] Germany news: Deutsche Bahn calls safety summit

Proprietary

• Game Rant ☛ Outgoing Xbox President Sarah Bond Issues Statement Following Departure News [Ed: Scripted nonsense over the weekend while XBox crashes and burns]

  Despite shockwaves reverberating within the industry as Sarah Bond and Phil Spencer leave Xbox, it is far from the first time a major player in gaming has seen executive shakeups. Nintendo President Doug Bowser stepped down from his position in December 2025, after filling the role of his predecessor, Reggie Fils-Aime, who had left the role in 2019. Only time will tell if Bond and Spencer's successors make any critical changes in the coming years, so interested fans may want to follow along for any upcoming announcements from new CEO of Microsoft Gaming Asha Sharma or others at Xbox.

Security

• Information Security Media Group, Corporation ☛ 2026-02-08 [Older] Some good news: downstream victims of mass data theft campaigns are less likely to pay — incident responders

• The Record ☛ 2026-02-08 [Older] Romania’s oil pipeline operator confirms cyberattack as hackers claim data theft

• Privacy/Surveillance

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-13 [Older] Ring cuts surveillance firm ties amid Super bowl ad outcry

• Confidentiality

  • 2026-02-08 [Older] Hospital employee snooped in 98 patient records, Saskatchewan privacy commissioner finds

  • HackRead ☛ 2026-02-09 [Older] Hackers Use Signal QR Codes to Spy on Military and Political Leaders

  • Covington & Burling LLP ☛ 2026-02-11 [Older] Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 Reauthorized Through September 2026

  • 2026-02-08 [Older] FCC Cybersecurity Alert and Recommendations to Communications Providers

Defence/Aggression

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-13 [Older] UK decision to ban Palestine Action unlawful, court rules

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-13 [Older] US lawmakers press Taiwan to boost defense spending amid China threat

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-13 [Older] Sudan civil war: Ethiopia's, UAE's role under scrutiny

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-12 [Older] Germany news: Carnival security threat level remains high

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-13 [Older] Germany: Security alert halts flights at Cologne/Bonn airport

• US News And World Report ☛ 2026-02-14 [Older] UK's Starmer Says We Must Build 'Hard Power' at European Security Conference

• US News And World Report ☛ 2026-02-14 [Older] Iranian Security Use Dragnet Spanning the Entire Country to Arrest Protesters

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-13 [Older] Paris: Knife-wielding man shot by police at Arc de Triomphe

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-14 [Older] Why is Egypt bolstering ties with Somalia now?

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-11 [Older] German government pushes Syrians to return to their homeland

• The Age AU ☛ 2026-02-16 [Older] Australian ISIS brides turned back after leaving Syrian camp for home

• US News And World Report ☛ 2026-02-16 [Older] Australians Released From Syrian Camp Returned Due to 'Technical' Issues

• US News And World Report ☛ 2026-02-14 [Older] US Military Reports a Series of Airstrikes Against Islamic State Targets in Syria

• US News And World Report ☛ 2026-02-14 [Older] US Conducts Strikes on More Than 30 Islamic State Targets in Syria, Military Says

• Counter Punch ☛ 2026-02-16 [Older] From Gaza to Cuba: How Canada Remains the World’s Most Tactful Bystander

• CBC ☛ 2026-02-15 [Older] Langley, B.C. vigil honours victims of Tumbler Ridge mass shooting, including former local student

• Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

  • CISA ☛ 2026-02-10 [Older] Poland Energy Sector Cyber Incident Highlights OT and ICS Security Gaps

Environment

• US News And World Report ☛ 2026-02-16 [Older] Climate Challenge: A Decade After Paris Agreement

• BIA Net ☛ 2026-02-14 [Older] Climate crisis at the table, market regime in the fields

• Scheerpost ☛ 2026-02-14 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the evidence says otherwise

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-13 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini drops key US climate rule, swaps health for cheap cars

• Truthdig ☛ 2026-02-13 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini Just Killed the EPA’s Ability to Fight Climate Change

• US News And World Report ☛ 2026-02-13 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini Scuttles Key Climate Finding Used to Control Greenhouse Gases

• US News And World Report ☛ 2026-02-13 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini Administration Urges Nations to Call for the Withdrawal of a UN Climate Proposal

• CBC ☛ 2026-02-12 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini is set to scrap a longstanding legal basis for U.S. climate action. Here's what that could mean

• Vox ☛ 2026-02-12 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini just blew up a load-bearing pillar of climate regulation in the US. What happens now?

• Vox ☛ 2026-02-12 [Older] In the fight against climate change, Cheeto Mussolini sides with climate change

• The Revelator ☛ 2026-02-11 [Older] The Two Words Giving Me Hope — Even As the Cheeto Mussolini Administration Dismantles More Climate Regulations

• US News And World Report ☛ 2026-02-11 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini's Repeal of Climate Rule Opens a 'New Front' for Litigation

• Mexico News Daily ☛ 2026-02-10 [Older] MND Local: Guadalajara students fight climate change with fungi, Kali Uchis plays Zapopan, Michi Fest and more

• Pro Publica ☛ 2026-02-10 [Older] Under GOP Pressure, Federal Agency Pulls Climate Change Chapter From Official Manual for U.S. Judges

• US News And World Report ☛ 2026-02-10 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini Set to Repeal Scientific Finding That Serves as Basis for US Climate Change Policy

• Energy/Transportation

  • University of Michigan ☛ 2026-02-13 [Older] Bitcoin’s security system is due for an upgrade [Ed: It won't protect anybody from the pyramid scheme]

  • CBC ☛ 2026-02-16 [Older] Canadians are ready for Chinese-made autos, but experts note there are security risks

  • Bridge Michigan ☛ 2026-02-12 [Older] The energy boom is coming for Great Lakes water. Is Michigan ready?

• Wildlife/Nature

  • Vox ☛ 2026-02-10 [Older] Meet the unbearably cute patients at this one-of-a-kind hospital for bats

• Overpopulation

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-13 [Older] Rising teenage pregnancy among young teens in Philippines

Finance

• US News And World Report ☛ 2026-02-16 [Older] Canada's Carney to Visit India in Early March, Ontario Minister Says

• CBC ☛ 2026-02-15 [Older] Ottawa sees 'huge opportunity' as trade delegation heads to Mexico, says cabinet minister

AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-12 [Older] Brussels: Police search European Commission buildings

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-13 [Older] Sex, health, child abuse scandals threaten Orban re-election

• Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

  • Project Censored ☛ 2026-02-09 [Older] Fact-Checking the Future: AI, Fracking, and Data Center Propaganda

Censorship/Free Speech

• US News And World Report ☛ 2026-02-16 [Older] The Damascus Book Fair Draws Crowds, With Censorship Eased in Post-Assad Syria

• EFF ☛ 2026-02-09 [Older] Op-ed: Weakening Section 230 Would Chill Online Speech

• Scheerpost ☛ 2026-02-15 [Older] When a Deportation Case Falls Apart, Free Speech Is on Trial

Civil Rights / Policing / Accessibility

• Law Society Gazette ☛ Mazur Monday: CILEX reveals its arguments as Court of Appeal case set to start

  Lawyers for CILEX will today tell the Court of Appeal that operating in a post-Mazur framework is ‘unsustainable’ and at odds with the whole point of the Legal Services Act.

  The representative body for chartered legal executives will lead the appeal which begins this afternoon – the outcome of which could have major repercussions for the profession and for access to justice.

  Mr Justice Sheldon ruled last September that litigation was a reserved activity and as such could only be conducted by authorised individuals.

• High-powered Court of Appeal gears up to hear Mazur

  Master of the Rolls Lord Justice Vos, Chancellor of the High Court Lord Justice Birss and Lady Justice Andrews will today hear the Mazur appeal.

  Starting this afternoon and continuing for the whole of Wednesday and Thursday, the court will hear from CILEX, which is bringing the appeal, and six interveners – including Julia Mazur and Jerome Stuart, the original defendants.

  The others are the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), Law Society, Legal Services Board, Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) and Law Centres Network.