Leftovers

• Science

  • Science Alert ☛ Daylight Saving Could Harm Your Health. Here's How to Adjust.

    Many already struggle with sleep.

  • Science Alert ☛ 'Ideal Glass' That Behaves Like a Crystal May Be Possible After All

    "We can construct it."

  • Science Alert ☛ Stem Cell Treatments For Parkinson's And Heart Failure Approved in World First

    Could be on the market as early as this summer.

  • Science Alert ☛ Popular Anti-Aging Supplement May Fuel Cancer Growth – Here's Why

    A tale of two proteins.

  • Science Alert ☛ Expert Reveals 3 Simple Ways to Stop Constant Sounds Hijacking Your Brain

    Redesign your soundscape before it designs you.

  • Science Alert ☛ International Women's Day: The Evolutionary Mysteries of The Female Body

    It breaks the rules.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • New York Times ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man Executive Order Protected Weedkiller Roundup and a Munition, White Phosphorus

    Citing national security, an unusual executive order gave protection to the herbicide Roundup. It also protected the U.S.’s only supply of a controversial, highly flammable munition.

  • CBC ☛ 2026-02-25 [Older] Kendamil baby formula sold on Amazon, Costco recalled due to toxin-related concerns

  • CBC ☛ 2026-02-25 [Older] This 15-year-old started an organization to support sick kids in hospital with puzzles, games

  • Truthdig ☛ 2026-02-26 [Older] Hundreds of US Nurses Choose Canada Over Cheeto Mussolini’s America

  • CBC ☛ 2026-02-25 [Older] Doctor faces 43 sex crime charges, including voyeurism, sexual assault, child pornography

  • Health Is Wealth: Why I Chose a Smartwatch Over a Rolex

    A few years ago, a friend of mine bought a Rolex Submariner. It cost him roughly the same as a decent used car. He showed it to me with the kind of pride usually reserved for newborn babies and championship trophies. It was beautiful, I’ll admit. The weight of it, the way it caught the light, the satisfying click of the rotating bezel — there’s a reason people have been obsessed with luxury watches for centuries.

• Proprietary

  • Microsoft's Blackbird Cancellation Cost the Company Hundreds of Millions of Dollars - Rumor

    The development of the MMORPG lasted about seven years, and the game's budget was estimated to reach $400 million, making it one of the most expensive developments in the history of the industry.

    Information about the cost appeared in a LinkedIn profile. Game director at ZeniMax Online Studios, Ben Jones, mentioned experience working on projects of the level of "$400 million hits."

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) / LLM Slop / Plagiarism

    • Futurism ☛ AI Job Loss Is Breaking the Psyche of Workers, Psychiatrist Warns [Ed: It is a lie and a false excuse, i.e. gaslighting]

      "We won't just have individuals who are suffering as a result of job loss once or twice."

    • Futurism ☛ Study Finds That Execs Are Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI [Ed: Slop is not thinking, so this is a form of misconduct]

      How ironic.

    • Futurism ☛ Corporate Adviser Says the Ideal Number of Human Employees at a Company Is Zero [ed: Very dumb thing to say or reprint]

      "That is the number that they're trying to get to."

    • Tom's Hardware ☛ OpenAI's massive Stargate data center canceled as firm can't reach terms with Oracle, operator struggles with reliability issues — Meta said to be interested in snatching excess capacity [Ed: Another scam from the fraud "slop" industry unravelled]

      Financing terms and swinging Proprietary Chaffbot Company capacity forecast collapse a major expansion of a Stargate data center. Yet, Meta could take the yet-to-be-expanded space.

    • Evan Hahn ☛ Introducing llm-eliza [Ed: Now with infantile buzzwords like "emotional intelligence"]

      ELIZA, released in 1966, is a state-of-the-art language model. It offers zero-GPU inference with sub-millisecond semantic throughput, and scores highly on EQ measurements (emotional intelligence).

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2026-02-25 [Older] Canada Tells OpenAI to Boost Safety Measures or Be Forced to by Government [Ed: This company drowns in debt and won't be around for much longer regardless]

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2026-02-25 [Older] From Dating Scams to Fake Lawyers: OpenAI Details ChatGPT Misuse in New Threat Report

  • Social Control Media

    • CBC ☛ 2026-02-24 [Older] Toronto student jailed in Pakistan over social media content days after going missing

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2026-02-25 [Older] OpenAI's Ban of Canada School Shooting Suspect's Account Raises Scrutiny of Other Online Activity

  • Windows TCO / Windows Bot Nets

    • The Record ☛ 2026-02-26 [Older] Extorting the Extorters? Moscow man accused of posing as FSB officer to extort Conti ransomware gang

    • The Record ☛ 2026-02-25 [Older] UAE claims it stopped ‘terrorist’ ransomware attack

    • 2026-02-25 [Older] South Korea considers updates to data and cyber laws

• Security

  • 2026-02-24 [Older] Lazarus hackers adopt Medusa ransomware for extortion campaigns, targeting healthcare and nonprofits

  • The Register UK ☛ 2026-02-24 [Older] Korean cops charge teens over bike hire breach that exposed data on 4.62M riders

  • 2026-02-24 [Older] Hackers threaten to leak 8 million people’s stolen data if Dutch telecom Odido won’t pay ransom

  • 2026-02-24 [Older] Greater Pittsburgh Orthopaedic Associates disclosed a 2025 breach, but was there also one in 2024?

  • Dark Reading ☛ 2026-02-24 [Older] Attackers Can Own Your Network in a Matter of Minutes

  • The Korea Times ☛ 2026-02-28 [Older] KT, LG Uplus face lingering fallout over hacking incidents

  • J D Supra LLC ☛ 2026-02-28 [Older] Connecticut Senate Bill Raises the Stakes on Data Breach Response

  • National Law Review US ☛ 2026-02-28 [Older] Court Refuses to Slice Up CiCi’s Cyber Extortion Coverage

  • Security Week ☛ Recent Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Vulnerability Now Widely Exploited

    WatchTowr reports seeing exploitation attempts for CVE-2026-20127 from numerous unique IP addresses.

  • NL Times ☛ 2026-02-28 [Older] Leaked Odido data exposes sensitive information

  • Advance Local Media LLC ☛ 2026-02-27 [Older] Former Nuance employee admits breaching more than 1.2M Geisinger patient records

  • 2026-02-27 [Older] Hackers steal medical details of 15 million in France

  • Dutch News ☛ 2026-02-27 [Older] NL: Hackers had access to prison staff data for five months

  • TechCrunch ☛ 2026-02-26 [Older] Cisco says hackers have been exploiting a critical bug to break into big customer networks since 2023

  • XDA ☛ I tore apart the most common Linux malware in a sandbox, and it uses layer after layer of tricks to survive

    There's a common misconception that Linux is somehow immune to malware. It's not hard to see why people think that; Linux's market share on the desktop is small, and the kind of people who run Linux tend to be more technically savvy. But Linux runs on everything else. Servers, IoT devices, routers, NAS boxes, and cloud infrastructure all run Linux, and that makes it one of the most valuable targets for malware authors in the world. I wanted to see for myself what the most common Linux malware actually does when it runs, so I grabbed a sample of XorDDoS, set up a sandboxed virtual machine, and tore it apart.

  • Integrity/Availability/Authenticity

    • ADF ☛ 2026-02-24 [Older] Africa’s Mobile Money Boom Leaves Users Vulnerable to Cyber Crime

  • Confidentiality

    • 2026-02-25 [Older] Clalit probes suspected cyberattack after Iranian-linked hackers leak patient files

    • 2026-02-24 [Older] Some patients listed as “Charlie Kirk” or dead after major NZ health app MediMap hacked

• Defence/Aggression

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-03-02 [Older] Scores of civilians killed in attacks in South Sudan

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-03-02 [Older] Macron says France to increase its nuclear arsenal

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-03-02 [Older] North Korea: Will Kim's daughter and sister fight for power?

  • The Straits Times ☛ Don’t overestimate your abilities, China’s top diplomat Wang Yi tells Tokyo in stern warning

    Tensions between the East Asian neighbours have simmered since Japanese PM Takaichi's comments on Taiwan in November 2025.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Taiwan premier makes first Japan visit since 1972, defying China

    He was in Tokyo to watch a baseball game between Taiwan and the Czech Republic on March 7.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Sharp drop in Chinese military aircraft near Taiwan raises questions

    Taiwan has not detected a single Chinese military aircraft around the island for nine of the past 10 days, leaving experts puzzling over the reasons for the dramatic reduction in sorties. China claims Taiwan is part of its territory and has threatened to use force to bring the island under its control. Beijing has stepped […]

  • New York Times ☛ For China, Billions of Dollars Are at Risk From a Widening War

    The country found a home in the Middle East for its investments and growing markets for steel, electric vehicles and solar panels. Those are now at stake.

  • JURIST ☛ Rights group calls for investigation into alleged sexual violence by OLA fighters in Ethiopia

    Amnesty International on Thursday called on Ethiopian authorities to investigate allegations of sexual violence and torture committed by fighters of the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) in the country’s Oromia region.

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • New York Times ☛ Ukraine Sent Drone Experts to Protect U.S. Bases in Jordan, Zelensky Says

      As the war in Iran spreads, Kyiv is eagerly offering its hard-won expertise and advanced technology to counter Iranian drones.

    • New York Times ☛ On the Road With Zelensky, Weathered, Weary and Fighting On

      Ukraine’s leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, traveled east to visit frontline troops trying to stave off Russian attacks, and invited reporters for The New York Times to go with him.

• Transparency/Investigative Reporting

  • HRW ☛ 2026-02-24 [Older] South Africa: Whistleblowers Under Attack

  • Mexico News Daily ☛ Battle over Chapala aqueduct tests Mexico’s transparency laws

    Jalisco's government has refused to release the blueprints for a new aqueduct in Lake Chapala, leading to controversy over the project.

• Environment

  • Energy/Transportation

    • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ New hunt for flight MH370 ends with no clues to 12-year mystery

      The latest search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which went missing 12 years ago in one of aviation’s greatest enduring mysteries, concluded in January without yielding any findings, Malaysia’s transport ministry said on Sunday.

    • The Straits Times ☛ Malaysia Airlines MH370 search yields no results, agency says

      An exploration firm surveyed around 7,600 sq km of seabed in the southern Indian Ocean in two phases.

    • The Straits Times ☛ Malaysia’s KLIA baggage handling system suffers temporary outage after power trip

      The disruption lasted a little over an hour.

    • BIA Net ☛ 2026-02-26 [Older] Turkey ranks second in Europe for new wind power capacity additions in 2025

    • New York Times ☛ Vital Water Desalination Plants in Iran and Bahrain Are Attacked

      Strikes on nonmilitary infrastructure were a “serious escalation,” analysts said, and could widen the war’s impact on civilians.

    • 2026-02-27 [Older] South Korean Authorities Accidentally Hand Hackers $4.8M in Crypto

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • Futurism ☛ Efforts Grow to Ban Octopus Farming

      "Octopus farming is not a feasible industry."

• Finance

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Young Chinese parents tighten belts as childcare costs rise

    By Mary Yang New mother Zhang Xiaofei wanted to be financially secure before having a baby, wary of high childcare costs that have been softened only a little by Chinese government cash incentives to boost record-low births.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • The Straits Times ☛ ‘Physically weak’ but vital: N. Korea’s Kim lauds women in Women’s Day speech

    He called women the 'solid buttress of the revolution'.

  • Stanford University ☛ Without acknowledgment: Stanford’s indigenous community speaks out against institutional erasure

    When freshmen filed into Frost Amphitheater for convocation on Sept. 16, 2025, they heard speeches, performances and welcomes to Stanford. What they didn’t hear — though many wouldn’t have known to notice — was the land acknowledgement honoring the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe on whose ancestral lands the University sits. 

  • TruthOut ☛ 2026-02-24 [Older] Canada to Send Aid to Cuba as Cheeto Mussolini’s Oil Embargo Fuels Humanitarian Catastrophe

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • JURIST ☛ UN expert: Sweden activists face erosion of rights amid growing restrictions on expression and assembly

    A UN expert on Friday warned of the “gradual erosion of rights” of activists and human rights defenders in Sweden, with ongoing restrictions on their ability to exercise their freedoms of expression, assembly, and association. 

  • HRW ☛ 2026-02-25 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini’s Selective War on Censorship

  • Project Censored ☛ 2026-02-23 [Older] Cuba Under Siege & How the South Shapes the Nation

  • Truthdig ☛ 2026-02-27 [Older] Kashmiri Women Authors Are Defying Censorship and Prejudice

  • Project Censored ☛ 2026-03-02 [Older] Narratives of Power: Cartel Media Spin and Epstein Cover Stories

  • Project Censored ☛ 2026-02-27 [Older] The Project Censored Newsletter—February 2026

  • HRW ☛ 2026-02-23 [Older] Thailand: Free Speech Activists Get 32-Month Sentences

  • 2026-02-22 [Older] Nazi.Compare: First speech of Chanellor Hitler, Andreas Tille & Debian denounce Branden Robinson

  • TruthOut ☛ 2026-02-27 [Older] APA Rewrites Antisemitism Guidelines to Protect Speech on Palestine

• Civil Rights / Policing / Accessibility

  • France24 ☛ Pelicot joins Paris march as rallies across world mark International Women's Day

    Gisèle Pelicot joined tens of thousands of protesters in the French capital on Sunday as women across the world marked International Women's Day with rallies for equal rights, female empowerment and an end to gender-based discrimination. Many events also denounced the war in the Middle East sparked by US-Israeli strikes.

  • BIA Net ☛ 2026-02-24 [Older] Report: Turkey's prison occupancy rate exceeds 133 percent

  • CPJ ☛ 2026-02-24 [Older] Syrian journalist Alaa Mohammed found dead at home in Lattakia

  • NL Times ☛ 2026-02-24 [Older] Police investigate whether fatal shooting of two Syrian teens in Amsterdam was random

  • HRW ☛ 2026-02-23 [Older] Northeast Syria: Camp Closures Leave Thousands Stranded

  • The Age AU ☛ 2026-02-26 [Older] 'Please save us': Australian children in Syria speak up

  • HRW ☛ 2026-02-25 [Older] Independent Monitoring Critical for Syria’s Transition

  • NL Times ☛ 2026-02-27 [Older] Dutch far-right activist arrested in Syria, family fears terrorism charges

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Patents

  • Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ An Animated History of Patent Claim Counts

    Animated chart tracks patent monopoly claim counts from 1976 to 2026, showing how the 20-claim excess fee threshold gradually reshaped the entire distribution.

  • Science Alert ☛ Weight-Loss Drugs Could Cost Just $3 a Month to Make as Patents End

    A medical success story.

• Copyrights

  • Futurism ☛ The Supreme Court Just Dealt a Crushing Blow to “AI Artists”

    "Although the Copyright Act does not define the term 'author,' multiple provisions of the act make clear that the term refers to a human rather than a machine."