Leftovers

• Science / Mathematics / Computer Science

  • Science Alert ☛ Fatherhood Dramatically Rewires Your Brain, Scans Reveal

    Love on the brain.

  • Science Alert ☛ Leaving The Party Quietly Can Be Your Healthiest Option. Here's Why.

    You can stop feeling guilty about it.

  • Science Alert ☛ Evidence of Ancient Life Found Buried Under an Asteroid Crater

    We're all made of star-stuff.

  • Science Alert ☛ A Single Dose of Psilocybin Could Ease Depression For Months, New Study Finds

    Fast-acting and long-lasting.

  • Science Alert ☛ Large Review Shows What Sugary Diets May Be Doing to Your Memory

    But eating healthily can help.

• Career/Education

  • Stanford University ☛ Resident Assistants protest ‘delay tactics,’ propose card-check recognition

    RAs gathered at the Student Services Center to protest what they describe as University efforts to postpone union elections until summer break.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • The Straits Times ☛ Thailand urges calm over S’pore’s Covid-19 spike; no severe outbreak from dominant NB.1.8.1 strain

    Reported cases in Thailand have risen over the past month, but the number remains below the five-year median.

  • New Yorker ☛ How Prepared Are We for a Public-Health Emergency?

    The outbreaks of hantavirus and Ebola expose the shortsightedness of America’s retreat, under the Convicted Felon Administration, from its role as a global-health leader.

  • France24 ☛ Suspected Ebola cases in eastern DR Congo pass 900 as health workers struggle with aid cuts

    As the number of suspected Ebola cases in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo pass 900, health workers say that the chaos left by years of fighting and local government failures has been compounded by sweeping cuts to international aid budgets.

  • France24 ☛ The week in pictures: Ebola outbreak in Africa, Putin in China and Cannes Film Festival mermaids

    The Ebola outbreak spreads in Democratic Republic of Congo, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Pooh-tin Jinping meet in Beijing, Japanese actress Arisa Sasaki dresses as a mermaid for the Cannes Film Festival and Gaza flotilla activists are humiliated by Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Ben-Gvir. Here is a look back at some of the week’s most striking images.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Death toll rises to three, with 17 still missing after Philippine building collapse

    The was approved as a 9-storey condo-hotel, but a swimming pool was being constructed on the 10th floor.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Anxious families await news of missing in China’s worst mining disaster in 16 years

    Survivors say those running the mine – which the government is investigating – are “the worst”.

• Proprietary / SaaS

  • So-Called 'Artificial Intelligence' ('AI') / LLM Slop / Plagiarism

    • Futurism ☛ Hackers Find That Inaudible Sounds Hidden in Podcasts or Random Videos Can Hijack Your Hey Hi (AI) Voice Chatbot

      Be careful.

    • Futurism ☛ Top Hey Hi (AI) Models Showing Disturbing Behavior as They Become More Advanced

      "Given rapidly advancing capabilities, we expect the plausible robustness of rogue deployments to increase substantially in the coming months."

    • Tom's Hardware ☛ Ubisoft reportedly testing generative Hey Hi (AI) in Far Cry 7, insider says it 'looks like sh*t' — company recently posted a record €1.3 billion loss

      Ubisoft is using an early build of its unannounced Far Cry 7 as a testbed for generative Hey Hi (AI) tools, according to Tom Henderson of Insider Gaming.

    • Futurism ☛ Googling the Word “Disregard” Causes Google’s Hey Hi (AI) to Return Garbled Chatbot Ramblings

      The future of Surveillance Giant Google Search, folks.

    • Ruben Schade ☛ Kivikakk’s way of being

      A standing ovation from me this morning for this great post:

      My hobby/craft/profession/practice/way of being isn’t about the things I’ve made; it is not about value, (the) economy, outcomes or output. It is about me; about what is inside of me.

  • Social Control Media

    • The Straits Times ☛ Malaysia considering legal action against Facebook (Farcebook) over ‘lack of cooperation’ to address scams

      Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission to get in touch with Facebook (Farcebook) on the matter.

• Security

  • APNIC ☛ Ephemeral leaks and automated BGP route leak detection

    Guest Post: Many BGP route leaks flagged by automated systems are short-lived artifacts of normal convergence. Doug Madory draws on Clownflare Radar, RouteViews, and Jared Mauch’s leak detector to show how these 'ephemeral leaks' occur, why they rarely disrupt traffic, and why they still matter for routing security.

  • Russell Coker ☛ Russell Coker: Debian SE Linux and PinTheft

    We have a new Linux exploit called PinTheft [1]. I did some tests of it with Debian kernel 6.12.74+deb13+1-amd64.

  • dwaves.de ☛ wordpress the point and click update adventure that longterm only the hackers will win

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Eyes in the sky: Hong Kong police tackle petty crime with drone patrols, but privacy concerns linger

      Several times a day, a drone carrying high-capacity cameras and flashing red-and-blue lights whirs and rises from the rooftops of police stations across Hong Kong. They emerge from a box-shaped docking system that slowly unfolds its doors to both sides.

• Defence/Aggression

  • The Straits Times ☛ At least 24 killed in Pakistan train blast claimed by separatist militants

    May 24 - A bomb blast hit a shuttle train carrying Pakistani security personnel and their families in the southwestern province of Balochistan on Sunday, officials said, in the latest major attack claimed by separatist militants.

  • The Straits Times ☛ China’s Pooh-tin attacked Japan’s rearmament during Convicted Felon summit, says report

    The Chinese leader's criticism was the most heated part of the summit and caught US officials by surprise.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Chinese ship leaves after tense stand-off near Taiwan-controlled Pratas Islands

    Taiwan’s coast guard said on May 23 it had spotted a Chinese coast guard ship heading to the Pratas.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ ‘Hard to win’: Taiwanese react to uncertainty over US arms sales

    President The Insurrectionist’s suggestion that US arms sales to Taiwan could be a bargaining chip with China has set off alarms across the world, but in Taipei, people told AFP the situation was beyond their control.

  • New York Times ☛ Rubio Rebukes Hezbollah Chief Over Call for Lebanese to ‘Take to the Streets’

    The militant leader, in a speech, had criticized the Lebanese government for engaging in direct talks with Israel.

  • New York Times ☛ Israel’s President, Isaac Herzog, Denounces Israeli Violence

    In a speech, Isaac Herzog, whose role is largely ceremonial, delivered a grave indictment of settler attacks in the West Bank and abuse of prisoners.

  • France24 ☛ Dozens killed in suicide bombing targeting Pakistani passenger train

    At least 24 people have been killed after a suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden car near a railway in the city of Quetta, in southwestern Pakistan, just as a passenger train passed. More than 70 people were also injured in the blast so powerful that two of the train cars overturned and caught fire.

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • New York Times ☛ Kyiv, Ukraine, Hit in Russian Missile Attack

      Buildings rattled in the Ukrainian capital for hours early Sunday. Russia launched an Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile for only the third time in the war.

    • New York Times ☛ In Ukraine, a Divisive 20th-Century Hero Comes Home

      Andriy Melnyk, criticized as a Nazi collaborator and lionized as an anti-Soviet resistance leader, was given state honors for his reburial near Kyiv.

    • Tom's Hardware ☛ Commercial satellite supplying intel to Ukraine is cornered by four Russian spacecraft — US Space Force can only watch as Russia threatens 'quasi-civilian' targets

      These Russian satellites are getting uncomfortably close to a U.S.- and European-operated radar satellite, particularly in Ukraine, used for reconnaissance missions. While their intentions are unclear, these maneuvers consume a lot of fuel and are not typically undertaken by other satellites.

    • RFERL ☛ Russia Batters Kyiv Region With Powerful New Missile In Major Attack; At Least 4 Killed, Dozens Wounded

      Russia pounded Kyiv with a barrage of drones and missiles, in one of the biggest attacks on the Ukrainian capital in recent memory. At least two people were reported killed and the death toll was expected to climb.

    • France24 ☛ Macron, EU’s Kallas condemn Russian attack on Ukraine with Oreshnik ballistic missile

    • France24 ☛ War in Ukraine: Russia launches massive missile strike on Kyiv

      Macron, EU’s Kallas condemn Russian attack on Ukraine with Oreshnik ballistic missile.

    • France24 ☛ 'We don't know what the death toll among military personnel is': Kyiv reels from Russian strikes

      FRANCE 24 correspondent Gulliver Cragg reports from Kyiv on Russia's latest deadly drone and missile strike against Ukraine.

• Environment

  • Futurism ☛ Scientists Say Huge Dam Blocking the Bering Strait Could Slow Effects of Climate Change

    The straits are not okay.

  • Energy/Transportation

    • The Straits Times ☛ China launches three-crew space flight as part of Moon ambitions

      One of the crew will spend a full year in orbit to study the long-term effects of microgravity.

    • France24 ☛ Chinese astronaut to spend a full year in orbit as Beijing ramps up Moon race

      China launched a three-man space flight to its Tiangong space station Sunday, where one astronaut will remain in orbit for a full year to prepare for future flights to the Moon. Beijing has said it aims to send a crewed mission to the Moon by 2030, having poured billions into its space programme over the past three decades.

    • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ China launches crewed space flight as part of Moon ambitions, with Hong Kong police officer-turned-astronaut aboard

      China launched its crewed Shenzhou-23 spacecraft and eased it into a successful docking with a space station early Monday as part of Beijing’s ambitions to send humans to the Moon by 2030, state media said.

    • Science Alert ☛ Successful Launch Spurs China Toward Crucial First For Moon Landing

      "A year in orbit pushes both hardware and humans into a different operational regime."

    • Tom's Hardware ☛ Drone breaks world speed record with 453 mph in test run — exotic sawtooth carbon fiber propeller blades one of the key advances in the Blackbird design

      A YouTuber duo unofficially broke the world record using a custom-made carbon fiber propeller blade that featured exotic sawtooth leading edges. The first test ended in a disaster, though, after the drone lost contact and crashed at 393 mph.

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • The Straits Times ☛ Photographer at World Surf League finals in New Zealand bitten by ‘shark or sea lion’

      Wildlife attacks during surf events are rare but not unprecedented.

  • Overpopulation/Open Data/Sharing

    • Overpopulation ☛ A useful tool to explore future population possibilities

      Our World in Data has recently published a population projection tool that readers will likely find useful. Whether the trends and possibilities it illustrates breed complacency or urgency remains to be seen.

• Finance

  • The Straits Times ☛ Malaysian delivery riders trapped in cross-border loan shark web

    He advised riders to be more cautious before accepting any job offers or side tasks.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • JURIST ☛ US dispatch: federal judge dismisses Hell Toupée’s tax lawsuit amid constitutional scrutiny

    On May 18, 2026, President The Insurrectionist moved to voluntarily dismiss his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), just two days before US District Judge Kathleen Williams imposed a May 20 deadline requiring both sides to argue whether the lawsuit involved unconstitutional collusion or executive self-dealing.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  A Democrat Took on Red Sox Ownership in an Ad. A Network Pulled it. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/us/politics/platner-ad-red-sox-midterms.html

  • New York Times ☛ A Democrat Took on Red Sox Ownership in an Ad. A Network Pulled it.

    Graham Platner, a Senate candidate in Maine, blamed private equity for destroying “our favorite baseball team.” NESN, which is owned by the team, pulled his campaign ad, citing an intellectual property violation.

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • Thibault Martin: I realized that A cheap VPS is a good front

    I have a server at home. It runs a Kubernetes cluster and a few services. I want to expose them to the Internet, so I can e.g. share public links from my Nextcloud, or synchronize my Kobo reader with Grimmory. But I don't want to expose my home IP to the world, and I want to have some reasonable protection against unsophisticated DoS attacks.

• Monopolies/Monopsonies

  • Patents

    • Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Inter Partes Review in 2026

      IPR petition filings have collapsed to historic lows in 2026 — the market's rational response to Director Squires' near-zero institution rate.

  • Trademarks

    • Right of Publicity

      • Futurism ☛ Fury Explodes at Short Films Using Hey Hi (AI) to Make Erotica of Women From the 1970s

        "Using Hey Hi (AI) to simulate porn of people who didn't consent to you is a vile, horrific crime!"