Leftovers

• Science / Mathematics / Computer Science

  • Futurism ☛ Bryan Johnson Says He’s Cloned Himself “As a Newborn” to “Grow Organs for Transplantation,” Which Is a Preposterous Exaggeration

    "This may be scary to some people."

  • Science Alert ☛ Scientists Just Made a Wearable, Ultra-Light Material That Actually Cools Your Skin During Exercise

    "A way to improve gas exchange while preserving the hydrated environment that cells need."

  • Science Alert ☛ Bad News For Bingers: Watching Too Much TV Linked to Smaller Brain Volume

    Binge-watchers, you might want to read this.

  • Science Alert ☛ An Asteroid Scientists Have Tracked For 27 Years Just Turned Out to Be a Comet in Disguise

    Could a knuckleball comet threaten Earth?

  • Science Alert ☛ Experts Met at MIT to Discuss The Possibility of Alien Tech Around Black Holes. Here's What Was Discussed

    This is fascinating.

  • Science Alert ☛ One of The Oldest Psychedelics Just Had Its Brain Effects Mapped For The First Time

    "A plausible mechanism for altered bodily awareness and perception."

  • Science Alert ☛ Physicists Created an 'Electron Lighthouse' That Steers Current With Light

    The tiniest, quantum-iest lighthouse ever built. 

  • Science Alert ☛ Drug-Resistant Bacteria May Be Jumping Between Pets And Humans, Scientists Warn

    This one's close to home.

  • Science Alert ☛ A Spacecraft Skimmed 2,800 Miles From Mars, And Captured This Breathtaking, Trippy Timelapse

    What a time to be alive.

  • Science Alert ☛ Physicists Built a Spacetime Crystal – And Then Watched It Melt

    What a world, what a world!

• Career/Education

  • Futurism ☛ Sex Doll Company Strikes Bizarre Deal to Put Its Robot in High School Classrooms

    Who needs teachers when you've got... uh....

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • NYPost ☛ Skipping sleep may pack on pounds faster than you think, new study finds

    Columbia University researchers found participants gained about 1 pound and had slightly larger waistlines.

  • Futurism ☛ Startup Sued After Delivery Bot Clobbers 73-Year Old Woman

    The company argues her injuries were pre-existing.

• Security

  • SANS ☛ Scans for ESAFENET CDG 3 Document Management System Weak Logins, (Sun, Jul 26th)

    The company focused on secure document management and data leakage prevention solutions. The "CDG" stands for "Content Data Guard", and the product appears to be mostly targeting the Chinese market [1]. Sadly, like so many security products, it suffers from basic security vulnerabilities like SQL Injection, XSS, and default passwords.

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • Futurism ☛ Meta Desperately Trying to Ban Creeps Misusing Its Hey Hi (AI) “Pervert Glasses”

      Too little, too late?

    • ‘Surveillance regime’: Assange’s brother fights antisemitism report card

      After leading the campaign to bring his brother Julian Assange home to Australia, filmmaker Gabriel Shipton is taking on the Albanese government, declaring its antisemitism report for universities has “no place in a democracy”

    • Middle East Eye ☛ Britain's Big Brother state is already here - we just don't realise it yet

      When is it possible to declare that a society has moved from liberal democracy, however imperfectly realised, to authoritarian rule? Is there a moment when it is suddenly obvious the change has occurred? Does authoritarianism announce its arrival?

      Or is it a process that gradually unfolds, where restraints on executive power are dismantled piece by piece until the tide cannot be reversed?

      Is the turn to authoritarianism something that can only be understood after the event, when all opportunities to halt the slide have been missed?

• Defence/Aggression

  • The Straits Times ☛ Rohingya schools in Malaysia face closures amid online surge in hate speech

    At least nine schools have shut nationwide due to harassment and threats, some directed at children.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Japan to launch new intelligence bureau on July 31 in counter-spy push

    Its launch is expected to pave the way for further counter-espionage legislation and activities.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Top North Korea official blasts ASEAN for urging denuclearisation

    Kim Yo Jong said ASEAN should guard against “being misused as a hired mouthpiece for the US”.

  • The Straits Times ☛ US, Japan join Philippines in South China Sea drills

    The drills brought together warships, coast guard vessels and surveillance and fighter aircraft.

  • The Straits Times ☛ China holds air, navy patrol in South China Sea

    China said on Sunday it organised a routine patrol by its naval and air forces in the South China Sea, accusing the Philippines of holding patrols with foreign countries in the disputed waterway that undermined regional peace and stability.

  • France24 ☛ ‘Bullied, beaten up, killed’: Armenia's drag queens risk it all for the stage

    Armenian attitudes toward the LGBTQ community have transformed in recent years, in part due to the war in Ukraine. While a queer club in Yerevan was firebombed in 2012, the capital is now home to a thriving underground drag scene. But despite these events attracting hundreds, police raids and family rejection are still commonplace.

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • RFERL ☛ Zelenskyy Says Russia Wants To Bring More North Korean Troops Into Ukraine War

      President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Moscow wants to bring in thousands of North Korean soldiers again for its invasion of Ukraine, with preparations in Russia having been under way since early summer.

    • RFERL ☛ Ukrainian Leader To Kick Off Big Week With London Meeting With New British PM

      Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is set to meet new British Prime Minister Andy Burnham in London on July 27 as he begins a big week of foreign talks amid a rising civilian death toll from Russian air strikes back home.

    • France24 ☛ Romanian jet shoots down drone entering country's airspace for third day in a row

      A Romanian fighter jet on Sunday shot down the third drone flying into the country's airspace in as many days, the defence minister said. A government investigation reportedly identified the first of the three drones as a Shahed model used by Russia in its war with Ukraine.

    • France24 ☛ Deadly attack on holiday camp in Russian-held part of Ukraine, officials say

      At least 11 people were killed, including five children, in an overnight drone attack on a holiday camp in a Russian-held part of Ukraine's ‌Zaporizhzhia region, Russian installed local authorities said on Saturday, ⁠accusing Ukraine of deliberately attacking civilians.

    • France24 ☛ Sea drones to defend the sky in Ukraine as the war continues

      FRANCE 24 report by Gulliver Cragg.

• Environment

  • The Straits Times ☛ Extreme heat spreads beyond South Korea’s hottest city Daegu

    On July 26, KMA issued additional severe heat wave warnings for Gyeongsan, Cheongdo and parts of Daegu.

  • Energy/Transportation

    • Futurism ☛ Eminent Domain Could Be Used to Seize Your Land for Hey Hi (AI) Data Centers

      Anything's possible.

• Finance

  • Ruben Schade ☛ My chargeback was approved

    Recently I talked about an order I made at the start of the month for a retrocomputer in the US. After their Shopify store sent me an automated receipt and estimated shipping date, I heard nothing else. Two weeks later I was refunded for my shipping cost, but not the computer. Another week, and three messages to their sales team later, and still nothing.

  • Digital Music News ☛ Roxette Cancels North American Anniversary Tour, Citing Huge Costs

    Their 1990 hit “It Must Have Been Love” just joined the YouTube Billion Views Club, but the financials just didn’t add up for Roxette. Now their North American tour has been canceled. Swedish duo Roxette’s 1990 hit “It Must Have Been Love” just made the YouTube Billion Views Club last week.

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-07-19 [Older] EU ban on destroying unsold clothes takes effect

  • New York Times ☛ A Son of Wealth Finds His Calling in a High-End Grocery Store

    How the scion Sammy Nussdorf found his calling among the carefully arranged shelves of Meadow Lane, his chic market in Lower Manhattan.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Japan PM Takaichi’s approval rating slides as inflation bites: Yomiuri poll

    It marks the first time the approval rating for her administration has dropped below 60 per cent since she took office.

• Civil Rights / Policing / Accessibility

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-07-18 [Older] India news: CJP to call for Modi's resignation after Sonam Wangchuk 'forcefully' shifted to hospital

  • JURIST ☛ South Korea urged to extend protections for women after appeal decision in abortion case exposes legal vacuum

    On Thursday, Amnesty International warned that South Korea’s abortion framework did not go far enough to protect women’s reproductive health and rights.

• Monopolies/Monopsonies

  • Patents

    • Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ A Cleaner Test Case: Why Kahoot! Adds Fire to the Supreme Court’s Settled Expectations Docket

      Kahoot!'s new cert petition joins Surveillance Giant Google v. VirtaMove in challenging the USPTO's six-year settled expectations basis for denying IPR institution.