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European leaders are driving not a bandwagon onto which the world is jumping but rather a hearse toward self-destruction.

Timer fail blamed for probe going quiet as Venus looms The European Space Agency (ESA) is breathing easier after communications with Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) were restored – the spacecraft is currently barreling toward Venus for a gravity-assist flyby on August 31.…

Sideloaders face ID checks, fees, and paperwork as Chocolate Factory tightens gates Google will extend developer verification to all Android apps, not just those installed from the Play Store, beginning with Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand in September 2026, and followed by global rollout in 2027 and beyond.…

Tokyo filing adds to mounting actions against startup AI search outfit Perplexity has been hit with yet another copyright lawsuit, this time courtesy of Japan's Nikkei and Asahi media companies.…

Remy Ra St Felix led a vicious international crime ring A violent home invader and gunpoint cryptocurrency thief will now spend more than 50 years behind bars after being found guilty of assaulting a witness.…

We've going to Mars! Oh no – anvil clouds! Elon Musk's monster rocket, Starship, remains firmly on the launchpad after two scrubs in a row, first due to an oxygen leak and then some clouds.…

Iron is a vital nutrient for marine life and plays a significant role in regulating atmospheric carbon dioxide by influencing the growth of phytoplankton, which absorb carbon dioxide.

Isolation? We've heard of it Docker has patched a critical hole in Docker Desktop that let a container break out and take control of the host machine with laughable ease.…

Crims raided third-party systems and lifted personal data, including license numbers and partial SSNs US insurance giant Farmers Insurance says more than a million customers had personal data nicked after a third-party vendor was compromised.…

Phone lines also down as officials rely on social media to issue updates The state of Nevada is now two days into a cyberattack that has brought down many of its digital services.…

The truth, grounded in actual data and entomological science, is that the spread of mosquitoes—and the viruses they sometimes carry—is closely tied to human activity, urbanization, and global transportation.

Chatbots ignore their guardrails when your grammar sucks, researchers find Security researchers from Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 have discovered the key to getting large language model (LLM) chatbots to ignore their guardrails, and it's quite simple.…

Everything's fine, the ad slinger assures us Cloud security vendor Zscaler says customers of Google’s Play Store have downloaded more than 19 million instances of malware-laden apps that evaded the web giant’s security scans.…

What the Dickens is going on in Germany? Opinion  Let’s talk law and let’s talk donkey. Or. in the British vernacular, ass. In particular, let’s go back to Charles Dickens, a pungent critic of the law, who had one of his characters in Oliver Twist say of a legal assumption that “If the law supposes that, the law is a ass - a idiot.”…

Implementing President Trump’s April 9 Executive order to simply rescind the endangerment finding would have prevented the uncertain litigation mess now being faced. Maybe I’m wrong and all will turn out well. I hope so.

Poor defenseless tech companies need help despite massive profits, low tax bills, and monopoly positions +COMMENT  US president Donald Trump has threatened to impose extra tariffs on imports from any nation that dares to regulate American technology companies.…

Offshore wind developers are speaking out about violations of the legal approval process, which have and will continue to harm other legitimate users of the ocean shared with the wind project. As summer winds down, the legal battles over offshore wind are heating up.

Because AI, like everything else this year EXCLUSIVE  VMware will port its flagship hypervisor and Cloud Foundation suite to the Arm processor architecture.…

GPU modules for AI and robotics take aim at latency Nvidia has released a new brain for humanoid robots called Jetson Thor that promises more compute power and more memory than its predecessor.…

10 percent equity and maybe that $8.9 billion in CHIPS funds you're waiting on doesn't get lost in red tape Comment  We know US President Donald Trump isn't a fan of the US Chips Act. But, turn a government handout into a tit-for-tat transaction and the self described "master dealmaker" is singing a different tune.…

The CEO of VMware’s most ardent partner – Yves Sandfort of comdivision – on what’s gone well, and where Broadcom needs to do better In the 20 months since Broadcom took over VMware, Yves Sandfort has become the most ardent and prolific commentator on the acquisition. The CEO of Germany-headquartered VMware partner Comdivision Consulting has created almost 300 videos and still has plenty to say about where VMware went wrong, and where Broadcom needs to improve.…

Will anyone still believe big tech claims they care about the environment?

PostgreSQL implementation of document-oriented NoSQL datastore adopted under permissive MIT license The Linux Foundation on Monday welcomed Microsoft's DocumentDB into its stable of open source projects, waving the document database's permissive MIT license as if it were an "Open for Business" sign.…

Lawsuit 'consistent with Mr Musk’s ongoing pattern of harassment' says Altman's crew Elon Musk's xAI and X businesses have shown a bad case of the Mondays by launching an antitrust lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI that claims the duo are trying to stifle competition in the mobile machine-intelligence world.…

Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. Cars – the latest subscription service Volkswagen announced, this week, that some of their electric models would now come with optional upgrades – not …

"... most mines don’t know exactly what they are tossing out ..."

Okay, who has the gold leaf, paint, and #FFD700? US government websites are getting an aesthetic and functional overhaul under a Trump executive order and a new "America by Design" initiative headed by a Silicon Valley veteran and DOGE insider. …

Are tech giants getting nervous? They should be Opinion  There tend to be three AI camps. 1) AI is the greatest thing since sliced bread and will transform the world. 2) AI is the spawn of the Devil and will destroy civilization as we know it. And 3) "Write an A-Level paper on the themes in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet."…

It is crystal clear that all talk of a “green revolution” is simply a pipe dream. These green jobs are only a façade, Potemkin jobs to give politicians and policymakers a good sound bite and make them feel good about themselves. The idea that we can move to “green prosperity” by subsidising each job to the tune of £192,000 every year is plainly absurd. These jobs are a drag on the rest of the economy, acting as a tax on energy. We need to end this economic fantasy.

Ideal for that one weird project you've been thinking about HANDS ON  A $40, 5-inch touchscreen has landed for the Raspberry Pi, offering a smaller sibling for the existing 7-inch model.…

It was a simpler time It's 2025 and the latest mega-album has just been released – on cassette tape. Taylor Swift dropped Life of a Showgirl on digital, vinyl, and the old jewel-cased pencil spinners. They're still with us, complete with tape tangling and endless rewinding to find that specific track you love.…

Quote of the Week: “He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion... Nor is it enough that he should hear the opinions of adversaries from his own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied by what they offer as refutations. He mu

Firewall pro enjoyed European travel to fix the fallout Who, Me?  Welcome to another instalment of Who, Me? It's The Register's reader-contributed column that shares your missives about massive mistakes, and how you managed to move on after them.…

“Have you ever wondered who’s pulling the strings? … Anything we touch is a weapon. We can deceive, persuade, change, influence, inspire. We come in many forms. We are everywhere.” US Army Psychological Operations recruitment video From viral memes to military-grade influence operations, the government is waging a full-spectrum psychological war—not against foreign enemies but against …

Satnav birds would be a high-priority target in war. This tech could be a more resilient alternative The US military’s Boeing-built X-37B spaceplane is in space again for its eighth mission.…

Britain’s CCS crusade championed by the climate zealot Ed Miliband, far from being a mark of leadership, may ultimately stand as a cautionary tale of how “climate leadership” ambitions and economically-illiteracy can override both science and economics.

PLUS: India bans ‘money’ games; SK Hynix cranks out 321-layer SSDs; Fastly re-thinking CDNs for Asia; and more! Asia In Brief  Australia’s University of Melbourne last year used Wi-Fi location data to identify student protestors.…

The AP, WCAX 3, and the study authors are not accurately portraying the true state of the planet. They certainly have no place talking anyone who wants to own dog out of doing so, at least not as a means of preventing climate change.

Comet AI browser fooled; Microsoft sets sail for quantum safety; Sailor sent down for espionage Infosec in brief  PLUS…

Vanuatu and other “climate vulnerable” island nations claim they are threatened by rising seas and worsening typhoons caused by fossil fuel use. In response to an emotional petition from them and law students at the University of the South Pacific, the United Nations General Assembly presented a resolution to the UN’s International Court of Justice (ICJ or World Court), asking two questions:

Many of you are likely familiar with the case of The Boys on the Tracks, for those that aren’t I will be vague to avoid spoiling the experience. What starts with two teenaged boys going spotlight hunting late at night leads to a train accident, a police investigation and potential corruption at the highest levels …

"... market forces are stacked against renewables as long as there is excess supply of power, mostly from coal, in the Java-Bali power grid. ..."

Parked continually at a cliff-top near my town in Sussex is a dormobile, its windows covered in posters about conspiracy theories, particularly QAnon. Recently I had a chat with the owner, giving him a copy of the Light newpaper, a publication that focuses on powerful forces conspiring against the masses. QAnon, however, is discredited by …

The misdirected demonising of CO₂ has resulted in climate models that are blind to seasonal changes in solar intensity across the hemispheres and naively embody parameterisation of ice forming and ice loss processes that are disconnected from physical reality.  The models have created a widely held cargo cult styled primitive belief that eliminating burning of carbon and hydro-carbon fuels will deliver perfect weather that existed on Earth in 1850.  Climate models underpin the notion that el

Everything you need to know to build, run, serve, optimize and quantize models on your PC Hands on  Training large language models (LLMs) may require millions or even billion of dollars of infrastructure, but the fruits of that labor are often more accessible than you might think. Many recent releases, including Alibaba's Qwen 3 and OpenAI's gpt-oss, can run on even modest PC hardware.…

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For incentives remember the three Fs – finance, fame, and fixing it feature  Thirty years ago, Netscape kicked off the first commercial bug bounty program. Since then, companies large and small have bought into the idea, with mixed results.…

There’s an old saying in science: extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The new IPCC, sadly, seems content to settle for extraordinary press releases. The public deserves better. It’s time to ask, loudly, whose interests are really being served by this shift—and to demand a return to genuine scientific skepticism before the last shreds of credibility are gone for good.

Three state branches of Australia's main opposition party have voted to dump Net Zero.

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An Australian think-tank has proposed a radical solution to the supposed “housing crisis” – tax people for unused bedrooms. The thinking is simple: There are many people, mostly older couples whose children have left home, living in family-sized homes with one or more bedrooms sitting empty. If the state were to impose a tax on …

If only there was a way to avoid dangerous daytime temperature extremes.

Data contamination can make models seem more capable than they really are Researchers with Scale AI have found that search-based AI models may cheat on benchmark tests by fetching the answers directly from online sources rather than deriving those answers through a "reasoning" process.…

But ignoring COVID and Ukraine, current gas prices are not excessive by historical standards, and therefore cannot explain why electricity prices are so high now.

Oracle-backed FOSS hypervisor a worthy rival to Hyper-V and VMware hands on  VirtualBox 7.2 is here, bringing improved Arm-on-Arm virtualization features and better 3D acceleration support.…

Museum boffins find code that crashes in 2037 A stark warning about the upcoming Epochalypse, also known as the "Year 2038 problem," has come from the past, as National Museum Of Computing system restorers have discovered an unsetting issue while working on ancient systems.…

An interesting course of events is about to take place. We are all about to enter a time machine and return to the era before photography was invented. This would be approximately 1820. Let’s just leave it at that date because, for all intents and purposes, photography as we know it was probably “invented” sometime …

The funds were already allocated under the CHIPS Act and Secure Enclave program Congratulations America, your government now owns 10 percent of troubled domestic chipmaker Intel.…

Datacenters' drinking habit exaggerated, claims report comparing apples to oranges AI's drinking habit has been grossly overstated, according to a newly published report from Google, which claims that software advancements have cut Gemini's water consumption per prompt to roughly five drops of water — substantially less than prior estimates.…

Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft among major customers Data I/O, a major electronics manufacturer whose customers include Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft, notified federal regulators that it fell victim to a ransomware infection on August 16 that continues to disrupt its business operations.…

Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI researchers warn of uneven power usage associated with AI training, and propose possible fixes Researchers at Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI have issued a call to designers of software, hardware, infrastructure, and utilities for help finding ways to normalize power demand during AI training.…

Bug fixes, message links, and hints of Exchange support in the pipeline Mozilla-owned subsidiary MZLA has released a new version of the Thunderbird messaging client and shared details on the forthcoming paid Thunderbird Pro service.…

But it's just a test, as NYC still doesn't allow driverless for-hire cars Waymo robotaxis are set to return to the streets of New York City after a four-year absence. But with a list of caveats longer than a Midtown bagel shop brunch line, Waymo's return isn't something for pedestrians to get nervous about yet. …

Health details, tax ID numbers, even images of checks were stolen, reportedly by the Interlock gang Ransomware scum breached kidney dialysis firm Davita's labs database in April and stole about 2.4 million people's personal and health-related information.…

Just over 50 days until Microsoft pulls the plug OneNote for Windows 10 is on the way out. On October 14, it will reach the end of the road support-wise, and anything left in it will become read-only.…

What is the Global Government Technology Centre? Why are they writing whitepapers on The Agentic State? Why are they proposing that governments use AI to create virtual twins of everyone on the planet in order to predict the future? And how does this relate to John Dee, the World Brain, and the centuries-long occultic quest …

Latest ad for the T1 looks suspiciously like a Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra in a Spigen case President Trump's personally branded wireless provider was supposed to have a "premium" Android smartphone – gold, of course – on the market by September, but it appears the mobile virtual network operator has yet to even settle on a design to steal.…

Launched in 1975, the probe outlived its 90-day mission by years and set the standard for Mars landings It's been 50 years since NASA sent Viking 1 on a mission to Mars.…

CRLite, link previews, and a llama-shaped surprise for devs Good news, everyone! The new version of Mozilla's browser now makes even more extensive use of AI, providing summaries of linked content and offering developers the ability to add LLM support to extensions.…

LibDem leader Sir Ed Davey calls Elon Musk a threat to national security The leader of the UK's Liberal Democrat party is opposing a Tesla subsidiary being granted a license to supply electricity in Britain, calling Elon Musk a threat to national security.  …

Hmm, six, well, that's going to make Russia worry ... Britain's threadbare defenses are getting a small boost. The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) just announced that it's purchasing six new Land Ceptor anti-aircraft missile systems.…

Users told to switch protocols or delay installation while Redmond investigates Microsoft has admitted to yet another issue in the Windows 11 August 2025 Security Update: streaming apps might be disrupted by the changes.…

The attack first affected an upstream provider of bespoke software Exclusive  A leading UK provider of criminal record checks for employers is handling a data breach stemming from a third-party development company.…

ClickFix tricks Microsoft's security team has published an in-depth report into ClickFix, the social engineering attack which tricks users into executing malicious commands in the guise of proving their humanity.…

Update finally gives coders control over when – and if – AI butts in Good news for developers growing tired of Copilot's helpful suggestions. Microsoft has announced that it is now possible to make the programming assistant a little less irritating.…

Crypto mines, BEC scams, fake passports, and a $300M fraud empire allegedly brought down during Serengeti 2.0 Interpol's latest clampdown on cybercrime resulted in 1,209 arrests across the African continent, from ransomware crooks to business email compromise (BEC) scammers, the agency says.…

Windows giant takes aim at spammers exploiting new 365 tenants Microsoft has issued a warning to companies using the onmicrosoft.com domain for emails: get your domain sorted out or face throttling.…

The US Navy is sending at least three destroyers and various other craft to the Caribbean coast of Venezuela, allegedly on a mission to combat drug cartel activity. In response, Maduro has mobilized 4 million members of the national militia. Trump “hasn’t ruled out” boots on the ground, but in fairness, he can hardly say …

It looks like we can add another to the growing mountain of problems that digital IDs are going to solve for all of us. We already know that digital IDs will help counter populism, and illegal immigration, and crime, and benefit fraud, and terrorism, and pandemics. But they’ll help tackle poverty now as well. That’s …

Tom Regenauer and I discuss the loopy ideas—such as the Dark Enlightenment and gov-corp Technates—put forward by the gaggle of Silicon Valley oligarchs controlling the Trump administration. The post Tom Regenauer and Iain Davis discuss Gov-corp Technates appeared first on Iain Davis.

Paul Hellier from Fair Food Forager and I discuss the fake choice environment and how people are being deceived into accepting gov-corp Technates. Check it out! The post Paul Hellier and Iain Davis Discuss The Fake Choice Environment appeared first on Iain Davis.

We explore the deep state through the lens of those who have revealed it existence and operations. What is it and what do "deep staters" want us to believe about their deep state? The post The Deep State Revelations CERCLE appeared first on Iain Davis.

MelK and I discuss the application of the Dark Enlightenment and Technocracy in the Trump administration and its implications. Of note, Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are both proponents of these ideas and influential in Trump's administration. The post MelK and Iain Davis Discuss Trump’s Gov-Corp Technate appeared first on Iain Davis.

Tony Gosling and I discuss the Dark MAGA Gov-Corp Technate being installed by the Trump administration. The discussion centres on my article of the same title published on Unlimited Hangout. The post Tony Gosling and Iain Davis Discuss the Dark MAGA Gov-Corp Technate appeared first on Iain Davis.

I chat to Alex Newman from Liberty Sentinel briefly covering a wide range of important subjects including the cliamte scam, UK paedophile scandals, the proposed multipolar world order and more. The post Alex Newman interviews Iain Davis appeared first on Iain Davis.

I discuss the evidence that exposes the alleged 2017 Manchester Arena bombing as a hoaxed false flag with Sonia Poulton The post Discussing Manchester with Sonia Poulton appeared first on Iain Davis.

Eve's Law proposes to comprehensively censor the independent media. As only the independent media questions power this is extremely concerning. The state's censorship agenda is based on the Manchester hoax. We can and we must oppose it. The post Why we must resist Eve’s Law and how to oppose it effectively appeared first on Iain Davis.

Voluntary Democracy - Part 3: in this concluding article we consider the only alternative offered of continued statism and address statist objections to a stateless society. We also consider issues like funding and security in a voluntary democracy. The post Voluntary Democracy – Part 3 appeared first on Iain Davis.

In Part 2 of the series on voluntary democracy we start to look at the proposal in more detail. We consider some of the practicalities required for organising a stateless jurisdiction and address how some, limited hierarchical decision making would be needed. The post Voluntary Democracy – Part 2 appeared first on Iain Davis.