Leftovers

• Science / Mathematics / Computer Science

  • Science Alert ☛ Our Sun's 'Heartbeat' Has Been Mysteriously Changing For 40 Years

    Our star may be entering “a different mode of behavior".

  • Science Alert ☛ Rare Flesh-Eating Parasite Confirmed in Texas For First Time Since 1966

    Here's what to know about the threat it poses and the response.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • New York Times ☛ Priest’s Ebola Death Stirs Fear and Doubt in Congolese Town

    Priest’s Ebola Death Stirs Fear an Doubt in Congolese Town

  • The Straits Times ☛ Australian state cracks down on illegal tobacco shops as nicotine use surges

    The new laws, if passed, would allow police and the state’s tobacco licensing regulator to issue closure notices.

  • Science Alert ☛ Estrogen Loss in The Brain May Help Explain Women's Alzheimer's Risk

    We're getting a clearer picture.

  • Science Alert ☛ A Rare Cancer Is Surging in Young People, And Experts Don't Know Why

    A concerning trend is emerging.

• Proprietary / SaaS

  • Qt ☛ Qt Creator 20 RC released

    We are happy to announce the release of Qt Creator 20 RC!

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

    • Mint Press News ☛ Greg Brockman: Meet the Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot Billionaire Funding Convicted Felon, Pushing Hey Hi (AI) and Designing Hi-Tech Weapons

      OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman has emerged as one of The Insurrectionist’s largest financial backers — more than Miriam Adelson — while pouring tens of millions into shaping U.S. policy and fighting Hey Hi (AI) regulation. As Proprietary Chaffbot Company pushes the Pentagon toward a future of A.I.-powered surveillance, targeting systems, and automated warfare, technologies already deployed by Israel during its assault on Gaza are becoming a blueprint for America’s next generation of military operations.

    • Michael Geist ☛ AI for All, Details to Follow: Government Releases a Big-Spending Hey Hi (AI) Strategy That Is Still Short on the Specifics That Matter

      The government today released its much-anticipated national Hey Hi (AI) strategy, an ambitious plan featuring a myriad of new programs and initiatives to support Hey Hi (AI) adoption. The strategy emphasizes trust, framing its approach as “AI for All.” Spending dominates the announcement, with money sprinkled across the economy as the government bets on the economic returns that flow from widespread Hey Hi (AI) adoption. Yet spending money is the easy part. What stands out is the deferral of many of the hard policy choices.

    • MIT Technology Review ☛ How courts are coping with a flood of [slop]-generated lawsuits

      Most days in her chambers, Judge Maritza Braswell, a federal magistrate judge in Colorado, sifts through stacks of documents written by people without a lawyer. Many of them can’t afford to hire a lawyer, and others have cases too weak or too small to interest one.

    • Silicon Angle ☛ Critical Hugging Face Transformers flaw ran attacker code on a routine model load

      Pluto Security Inc. today disclosed a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Hugging Face Inc.’s Transformers library that allowed attacker-controlled artificial intelligence models to run arbitrary code on a victim’s machine. The flaw fired through a standard model-loading command, even for organizations that followed Hugging Face’s recommended security guidance. 

    • Scoop News Group ☛ Your Hey Hi (AI) agent could become your biggest insider threat

      New research details how the increasing integration of Hey Hi (AI) agents into businesses is making it easier than ever for insiders - malicious or otherwise - to put sensitive data at risk. 

    • Bruce Schneier ☛ Hacking Meta’s Hey Hi (AI) Chatbot

      Hackers are convincing Meta’s Hey Hi (AI) support chatbot to let them take over other peoples’ accounts: [...]

    • I Cringely ☛ Knowing What You Don’t Know

      Why the next real breakthrough in Hey Hi (AI) isn’t a bigger brain — it’s a machine that can admit ignorance. A reader caught me out. Last column I argued that the great Hey Hi (AI) buildout — the hundreds of billions pouring into data centers and the GPUs that fill them — is aimed at the wrong layer. We are spending as if the bottleneck were the size of the model’s brain, when the real bottleneck is getting the right information in front of it. Cheap retrieval, I said, not expensive cognition. A reader replied, pointing out the name Jevons. In 1865, a young English economist named William Stanley Jevons noticed something strange about coal.

• Pseudo-Open Source

  • Openwashing

    • HPC Wire ☛ Linux Foundation Launches Tokenomics Foundation to Standardize AI Infrastructure Economics [Ed: Openwashing and hyping up the Ponzi scheme du jour]

    • SDx Central ☛ Linux Foundation launches Tokenomics Foundation to standardize AI infrastructure spending [Ed: Microsoft misuses the brand "Linux" to promote malicious things that have nothing to do with Linux]

      The aptly named Tokenomics Foundation will intersect both the buyer and supplier sides, working to create frameworks around token-based spending models. The likes of Google Cloud, Oracle, Microsoft, and Salesforce are among those to have expressed initial support, with it set to work closely with the FinOps Foundation, another Linux effort, to bring the practice of managing variable tech costs to token-driven AI.

• Security

  • Security Week ☛ Over 1.4 Million Accounts Disrupted in Cybercrime Crackdown

    Law enforcement and tech companies disrupted infrastructure linked to scammers operating across Southeast Asia.

  • NVISO Labs ☛ The Detection & Response Chronicles: Covert Operations Through QEMU

    Adversaries have always relied on legitimate tools to carry out their attacks. These tools are already trusted by security solutions, which allows them to blend in with normal activity, maintain a low footprint, and make detection much harder for defenders. By using these legitimate tools, adversaries can carry out a wide range of actions, such as moving laterally across networks, establishing C2 channels, or maintaining persistence, all without triggering any alerts.

  • Security Week ☛ VS Code Vulnerability Allows One-Click Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub Token Theft

    A researcher has disclosed the full details of the vulnerability and released a PoC without notifying Abusive Monopolist Microsoft in advance.

  • Security Week ☛ Cisco Warns of Available PoC for Critical Unified CM Vulnerability

    The high-severity flaw can be exploited remotely, without authentication, in server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks.

  • Security Week ☛ Mirasvit Vulnerability Exploited to Execute Code on Magento Servers

    A flaw in the Full Page Cache Warmer extension can be exploited without authentication via serialized PHP object payloads.

  • Security Week ☛ Chinese Cybercrime Group in Spotlight for Record Campaign Pace

    Relying on social engineering, the hacking group engages in credential phishing, malware distribution, and fraud activities.

  • Security Affairs ☛ U.S. CISA adds Android and Linux Kernel flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

    U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Android and Linux Kernel flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • Michael Geist ☛ New Privacy Rights in the Morning, Mandatory Metadata Retention in the Afternoon: How Bill C-22 Undercuts the Hey Hi (AI) Strategy Before It Launches

      The government unveils its long-awaited national Hey Hi (AI) strategy this morning. Hey Hi (AI) Minister Evan Solomon has made it clear that the strategy will emphasize trust, noting that Canadians will only embrace the technology if they are confident their privacy is protected and safeguards are in place against potential harms.

• Defence/Aggression

  • New York Times ☛ What To Know as China’s Pooh-tin Jinping Heads to North Korea

    As Pooh-tin Jinping visits Pyongyang, he faces an emboldened North Korean dictator, whose alliance with Russia has reduced his dependence on China.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Taiwan beefs up anti-ship missile arsenal to counter threat of Chinese invasion

    Officers point to the success of Ukraine, Iran in using missiles and drones to battle more powerful adversaries.

  • American Oversight ☛ American Oversight Files Lawsuits Seeking Answers About Deaths in Immigration Custody, DHS Oversight Failures

    Our lawsuits seek records on deaths in ICE and CBP custody and DHS oversight practices as the Convicted Felon administration scales back information to the public.

  • France24 ☛ Somalia's capital rocked by gunfire

    In tonight's edition, opposition figures in Somalia accuse security forces of attacking them at a meeting at the former PM's house. Also, critics of an African family values conference say that despite its purported push for the continent to define its own moral principles and priorities, the gathering in Ghana will roll back LGBT rights. And Nigeria’s National Museum  is drawing a new generation of visitors to a  revamped gallery that encourages a more hands-on experience.

  • New York Times ☛ Tracking the Rising Death Toll From U.S. Boat Strikes

    The New York Times has been investigating the number of boat strikes and the death toll in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific carried out by the Convicted Felon administration. Eric Schmitt, a national security correspondent for The Times, explains what those numbers mean.

  • New York Times ☛ Latest Israel-Lebanon Cease-Fire Shows Little Sign of Taking Hold

    The U.S.-brokered deal depends on Hezbollah halting its attacks first. But the leader of the Iran-backed group rejected those terms, and Israel said that its offensive would continue.

  • France24 ☛ Lebanon health ministry says Israeli strikes in south and east kill eight

    An Israeli strike in eastern Lebanon killed five people on Thursday, while another attack near the southern city of Tyre killed three more, the Lebanese health ministry said. The strikes also left eight wounded, including three children and two women. They came a day after the Lebanese and Israeli governments agreed a ceasefire plan for Israel's war with Hezbollah, which the group has rejected. FRANCE 24's Antonia Kerrigan reports from Beirut.

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • LRT ☛ Lithuanian foreign minister says drone incidents are part of Russian pressure campaign

      Lithuania's Foreign Minister, Kęstutis Budrys, has said that recent drone incidents in the Baltic states form part of a broader Russian strategy aimed at exerting military pressure and destabilising democratic societies through hybrid tactics and disinformation.

    • European Commission ☛ Read-out by President von der Leyen following her phone call with Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan

      European Commission Read-out Brussels, 04 Jun 2026 Today I spoke with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan about Russia's recent restrictions targeting Armenia.

    • France24 ☛ Massive disinformation campaign underway in Armenia ahead of elections, analysts warn

      One ballot box, two competing battles. In Armenia, voters are heading to the polls to decide the future direction of their country. But beneath the political campaigns lies a far more insidious warfare. Analysts warn that a massive, coordinated network of foreign disinformation - much of it tracing back to Russia - is systematically weaponizing the deep-seated trauma of recent wars. FRANCE 24's Olivia Bizot reports from Yerevan.

    • RFERL ☛ 'Help On The Way': US House Passes Sweeping Ukraine Support Bill After Months Of Gridlock

      In a rare display of bipartisan cooperation and a rebuke to the administration's approach toward Ukraine, the US House of Representatives approved a sweeping Ukraine aid and Russia sanctions package, with 18 Republicans joining Democrats to pass the legislation.

    • New York Times ☛ House Passes Ukraine Aid in Defiance of Republican Leaders

      Eighteen G.O.P. lawmakers broke with their party and joined Democrats to deliver yet another blow to the president’s foreign policy agenda.

    • CS Monitor ☛ A gift for Ukraine’s future in Europe

      After a big election shift, Hungary signals a go-ahead for Kyiv to start talks about joining the European Union, possibly giving Ukraine a political shield against Russia.

    • RFERL ☛ US Lawmakers Advance Major Ukraine Aid Bill, Marking First Since Convicted Felon's Return To Office

      The US House of Representatives voted on June 3 to advance legislation providing new military assistance to Ukraine, overcoming opposition from the administration and marking the first major Ukraine support measure to gain traction in Congress since The Insurrectionist's return to office.

    • RFERL ☛ EU States Push For Tougher Rules To Deny Russians Tourist Visas

      A number of European Union member states are pushing the European Commission to put forward legislation that makes it easier to deny tourist visas to Russian citizens over Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

    • RFERL ☛ Ukraine, Moldova To Start EU Accession Talks After Minority Rights Breakthrough

      Hungarian and Ukrainian diplomats reached a deal on Hungarian minority rights late on June 3, allowing Ukraine and Moldova to finally start de facto accession talks with the European Union later this month, after two years of Budapest vetoing this step under its previous government.

    • RFERL ☛ Crisis In Crimea As Fuel Shortages Worsen Amid Ukrainian Drone Campaign

      A fuel supply crisis in Crimea is worsening as Ukraine's "middle strike" drone campaign targets fuel tankers and storage facilities.

    • LRT ☛ Lithuanian parliament ratifies convention establishing Ukraine reparations commission

      Lithuania's parliament has unanimously ratified an international convention establishing a commission to examine claims for compensation arising from Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

    • LRT ☛ Lithuanian soldier missing during combat mission in Ukraine – media

      A Lithuanian soldier has gone missing while on a combat mission in Ukraine, according to reports from the news portal 15min.

    • France24 ☛ Ukraine's Zelensky pledges clear timetable of talks on EU membership

      President Volodymyr Zelensky ⁠pledged on Thursday that ​Ukraine would keep to a clear timetable in talks on joining the ​European Union and in sticking to its obligations with the 27-nation bloc. FRANCE 24's Mark Owen speaks with Georgia's former minister of Euro-Atlantic integration and professor at SciencesPo Paris Tornike Gorgadze.

    • France24 ☛ Live: US House passes bill in support of Ukraine, sanctions Russia

      The US House on Thursday passed a Ukraine aid and Russia sanctions package despite opposition from Republican leaders, underscoring growing congressional frustration with President The Insurrectionist's handling of the conflict. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for a face-to-face meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in a rare open letter, saying he was also ready for a 'full ceasefire'. Follow the day’s events as they unfold on our liveblog.

    • LRT ☛ Lithuanian minister dismisses Belarus potash transit debate as ‘a waste of breath’

      Lithuania's Transport Minister, Juras Taminskas, has dismissed discussion of resuming the transit of Belarusian potash fertilisers through the country as "a waste of breath," despite reports that the United States is encouraging regional governments to reconsider restrictions.

    • New York Times ☛ Ireland, Seen as a Weak Link in Europe’s Defense, Is Trying to Bulk Up

      As concern rises in Europe over threats from an emboldened Russia, the Irish government says it’s working to plug gaps in its military, which reflect a tradition of neutrality.

    • New York Times ☛ Zelensky Mixes Taunts and Peace Talks Offer in Letter to Putin

      “After 26 years in power, age is beginning to take its toll,” President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine wrote of his Russian counterpart, bragging of a recent strike on St. Petersburg.

    • RFERL ☛ Zelenskyy Writes Open Letter To Putin Urging Peace

      Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has written an open letter to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, urging him to attend a meeting between the two leaders at a neutral location to agree an end to the war.

    • France24 ☛ A 'rogues' gallery' of notorious figures at Russia's biggest economic conference

      Russia-U.S. talks on economic and energy issues continue despite a pause in Ukraine peace negotiations, Putin's special envoy Kirill Dmitriev told ​Reuters on Thursday, ‌adding he spoke to U.S. counterparts a day earlier. He spoke on the sidelines of the St Petersburg economic summit, where, as FRANCE 24's international affairs commentator Douglas Herbert explains, a veritable 'rogues' gallery' of notorious figures showed up in support of Putin's policies.

    • France24 ☛ Zelensky in open letter to Putin proposes face-to-face meeting and 'full ceasefire'

      Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday called for a face-to-face meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in a rare open letter, saying he was also ready for a “full ceasefire”. In response, the Kremlin said Zelensky could meet Putin in Moscow "any time".

    • France24 ☛ Zelensky proposes face-to-face meeting in letter to Putin, says ready for 'full ceasefire'

    • France24 ☛ Ukraine war and risk of stagnation hang over St Petersburg economic conference

      Russian President Vladimir Putin is holding his fifth wartime economic conference in St. Petersburg, with the Russian economy stgnating and his government struggling for ways to resume growth. FRANCE 24's Nick Rushworth reports.

    • Latvia ☛ New think-tank urges: be more Baltic

      With the slogan "Be More Baltic", the "Baltic International Security Centre" (BISC) think-tank was unveiled in Brussels on Wednesday, June 3, Latvian Radio reports.

• Transparency/Investigative Reporting

  • American Oversight ☛ American Oversight Seeks Hatch Act Investigation After Records Reveal Noem’s Apparent Use of DHS Resources for Political Purposes

    Thursday, American Oversight submitted a complaint to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) requesting an investigation into whether former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and members of her staff violated the Hatch Act.

• Environment

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • France24 ☛ Viral videos mislead as Albania erupts against Kushner-linked luxury resort

      Thursday marked the fourth straight day of protests in Albania, that erupted over a proposed billion-dollar luxury resort backed by Jared Kushner, married to The Insurrectionist's daughter, Ivanka. Online though, false videos about the rallies are going viral, with internet users sharing dated and out of context footage misrepresented as the current demonstrations. Albanians feel the Kushner tourism plans will decimate a protected wildlife ecosystem.

    • Futurism ☛ People Are Not Happy About Google’s Plan to Release Millions of Bioengineered Mosquitoes Into the Wild

      "Ask yourself who is to benefit most from this, and why is it being done?"

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ US top diplomat’s Tiananmen comments ‘smear’ China, Beijing says

    China accused the United States on Thursday of distorting facts and smearing its political system, after Secretary of State Marco Rubio said censorship could not “erase” the memory of Beijing’s 1989 Tiananmen crackdown.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Trial of Hong Kong Tiananmen activists looms over crackdown anniversary

    By Catherine Lai Activists Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung once led thousands of Hong Kongers in candlelight vigils every June 4 to remember China’s 1989 Tiananmen crackdown.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Explainer: Hong Kong’s national security crackdown – month 71

    The landmark trial of Tiananmen vigil activists neared its conclusion in May, with both defendants and prosecutors delivering their closing submissions. The government allocated more money to the national security fund and lashed out at Reporters Without Borders (RSF) after the NGO once again placed Hong Kong low on its annual press freedom index.

  • JURIST ☛ Netherlands court allows Greenpeace lawsuit against Energy Transfer to proceed

    The Amsterdam District Court allowed on Wednesday Greenpeace International to proceed with its anti-SLAPP lawsuit against Energy Transfer in the Netherlands on Wednesday. Energy Transfer, one of the largest energy companies in North America with businesses in the Netherlands, attempted to halt a lawsuit initiated by Greenpeace International, an environmental group headquartered in the Netherlands.

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • dwaves.de ☛ the internet in 2026: more bot (AI searching the web) traffic than human traffic #wtf

  • Internet Society ☛ The Shift in Peering Threatening the Internet’s Foundations

    As more Internet service providers become virtual peering partners, they begin neglecting Internet exchange points.

• Monopolies/Monopsonies

  • Copyrights

    • Digital Music News ☛ That ‘Telekinesis’ Infringement Suit Against SZA, Travis Scott, and Future? Well, It’s Over

      The copyright monopoly infringement lawsuit filed against Travis Scott, SZA, and Future over their 2023 track “Telekinesis” has been voluntarily dismissed. Victory Boyd, the Roc Nation-signed artist who sued Travis Scott, SZA, and Future for alleged copyright monopoly infringement over their 2023 track “Telekinesis,” has voluntarily dismissed her lawsuit.