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Germany’s Nuclear Confession Is a Crack in Net Zero Pretense

14 May 2026 @ 5:00 pm - Watts Up With That?

Merz’s nuclear confession suggests that the political class cannot keep dodging reality forever. The post Germany’s Nuclear Confession Is a Crack in Net Zero Pretense appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

The War On Iran – One Jewish Supremacist Crime Too Many?

14 May 2026 @ 3:00 pm - OffGuardian

I can’t say for certain what finally convinced me that the latest U.S.-Israel aggression against Iran will be remembered as a Jewish war crime – one that will probably mark an ugly, well-deserved end to an eighty-year “golden age” in Jewish diaspora history. Maybe it was hearing America’s Secretary of State blurt out that Washington …

Microsoft Pauses Its Carbon Indulgence Spending. The Usual Suspects Are Upset.

14 May 2026 @ 1:00 pm - Watts Up With That?

Microsoft, by every available accounting, was the carbon removal market. As of April 13, per CDR.fyi via ESG Dive, Microsoft accounted for 78.5% of all disclosed durable carbon removal contracts, with over 36.4 million metric tons purchased. The post Microsoft Pauses Its Carbon Indulgence Spending. The Usual Suspects Are Upset. appeared first on

Cops arrest man suspected of being Dream Market kingpin

14 May 2026 @ 11:26 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

Owe Martin Andresen faces charges in both US and Germany connected with money laundering, claims he sent gold bars directly to his doorstep

UK government prescribes Single Patient Record for NHS data chaos

14 May 2026 @ 11:04 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

Doctors welcome joined-up care plan, but warn patient trust depends on safeguards, access controls, and knowing where Palantir fits in

Dirty Frag gets a sequel as Fragnesia hands Linux attackers root-level access

14 May 2026 @ 10:01 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

Fresh kernel flaw comes with public exploit code and continues ugly run of highly reliable privilege escalation bugs tied to memory and page-cache handling

Calling the cops just got extra AI as police seek to add tech to contact systems

14 May 2026 @ 9:15 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

AI already listening in to call handlers in real time, conducting live database searches

Endangered Species federal spending is over one billion per year

14 May 2026 @ 9:00 am - Watts Up With That?

The Federal Expenditure Reports need to be restored and made publicly available in compliance with the Endangered Species Act. Congress needs to look closely at the allocation of federal funding among the species. We should only list what we can afford to protect. The post Endangered Species federal spending is over one billion per year appeared first on

Bedrock and a hard place: Claude adventure leaves AWS user staring down $30K invoice

14 May 2026 @ 8:30 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

CAD: Cost Anomaly Detection or Create Astounding Debt?

To gain root access at this company, all an intruder had to do was ask nicely

14 May 2026 @ 7:00 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

Human IT managers thought they were being nice to the boss, but were assisting a threat actor

AI models are getting better at replacing cybersecurity pros on certain tasks

14 May 2026 @ 6:27 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

UK researchers find LLMs are learning to finish jobs faster and improving all the time

Scorecard: How Well Does NOAA’s Hurricane Outlook Actually Perform? 26 Years of Forecasts vs. Reality

14 May 2026 @ 5:00 am - Watts Up With That?

Year-by-year verdict — did actual named storms and hurricanes fall within NOAA's forecast range? The post Scorecard: How Well Does NOAA’s Hurricane Outlook Actually Perform? 26 Years of Forecasts vs. Reality appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Tencent admits GPUs only pay for themselves when powering personalized ads

14 May 2026 @ 4:40 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

Chinese web giant says accelerator shortage is over as local hardware arrives in volume

Cisco to fire 4,000 staff and generously give them free training – on Cisco

14 May 2026 @ 3:32 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

Reducing memory requirements to control costs in a new wave of kit

COPE: The Countervailing Obliquity–Precession Effect

14 May 2026 @ 1:00 am - Watts Up With That?

The first key fact is that the Earth’s globally averaged annual insolation changes very little over epochal timescales. The post COPE: The Countervailing Obliquity–Precession Effect appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Welcome to the vulnpocalypse, as vendors use AI to find bugs and patches multiply like rabbits

13 May 2026 @ 11:27 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Palo Alto Networks found and fixed 75 flaws this month, up from its usual five

AWS to Quick admins: The access control didn't work, but you weren't using it anyway, so what's the problem?

13 May 2026 @ 10:56 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

If a setting fails in the forest and nobody hears it ...

Google's AI-enabled mouse pointer understands 'this' and 'that'

13 May 2026 @ 10:19 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Right-clicking could go the way of the 3.5-inch floppy at the Chocolate Factory

Study posits how carbon dioxide cools the upper atmosphere, and warms earth below

13 May 2026 @ 9:00 pm - Watts Up With That?

Researchers have supposedly solved a long-standing atmospheric puzzle: How rising carbon dioxide cools the stratosphere even as it warms Earth’s surface and lower atmosphere. The post Study posits how carbon dioxide cools the upper atmosphere, and warms earth below appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Datacenters are having fewer, but bigger failures

13 May 2026 @ 8:48 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

And neither AI nor international conflict are helping

Anthropic butts in to small business, promises help with payroll and other core tasks

13 May 2026 @ 8:48 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

But Pro or Max biz users should know that the company may train its AI on your data

Quick Take…The King’s Speech Makes Me Laugh

13 May 2026 @ 8:30 pm - OffGuardian

The King’s Speech is hilarious these days. It’s been irrelevant for a long time, but it’s recently become genuinely funny. He rocks up to Parliament with this shiny hat and big old cloak, the MPs pretend to lock Black Rod out to show they’re independent, and then they all go and listen to him anyway. …

Bug hunter tracks down three massive MCP flaws and one vendor won't fix theirs

13 May 2026 @ 8:17 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Apache, Alibaba databases vulnerable and only one has a patch

See through local AI lies with Irish eyes

13 May 2026 @ 7:35 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

ICCL Enforce project offers Verity fact-checking server

Buffalo without lake-effect snow? Ancient iceberg scratches reveal a reverse snowbelt

13 May 2026 @ 5:00 pm - Watts Up With That?

The west-moving plowmarks span from about 12,000 to 17,000 years ago — a period of roughly five millennia. The post Buffalo without lake-effect snow? Ancient iceberg scratches reveal a reverse snowbelt appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Dissatisfied: Three-fourths of AI customer service rollouts are a letdown

13 May 2026 @ 4:53 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

AI rollback rates hit 81% at firms with mature guardrails, suggesting enterprises are struggling to manage the systems in production, says Sinch

Utah mega datacenter could dump 23 atomic bombs worth of energy per day

13 May 2026 @ 4:36 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Physicist warns proposed Stratos campus could seriously affect local environment

Mystery Microsoft bug leaker keeps the zero-days coming

13 May 2026 @ 4:16 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Security pros warn YellowKey claim could make stolen laptops a much bigger problem

Rust stalks IBM mainframes, but only in nightly form

13 May 2026 @ 3:21 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Patch series would bring memory-safe code to Linux's s390 port, with compiler caveats attached

Royal Household seeks £3M finance system fit for a King

13 May 2026 @ 2:33 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

One seeks contractor to manage millions in taxpayer cash, will provide generous 20% off Windsor biscuit tins and tea towels

Microsoft aims to speed Windows with 'leap forward' in WinUI 3 perf

13 May 2026 @ 1:49 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Bittersweet post tells devs what they already knew: The framework is too slow

SpaceX sets date for Starship test that asks: Did we break anything in the upgrade?

13 May 2026 @ 1:29 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

May 19 launch will put redesigned rocket, pad, and engines through their paces

Greater Manchester still says no to NHS data platform with Palantir at its heart

13 May 2026 @ 1:07 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Public concern has only grown, says ICB, while evidence of benefits remains thin

Fish Go to the Disco to Save the Coral Reefs

13 May 2026 @ 1:00 pm - Watts Up With That?

Every little fish, presumably, is gonna be alright. The post Fish Go to the Disco to Save the Coral Reefs appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Microsoft gives Windows Update a Ctrl-Z for bad drivers

13 May 2026 @ 1:00 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Cloud-powered undo will roll back dodgy code without users or hardware partners lifting a finger

London cops hail fixed facial recognition cams after suspects collared every 35 mins

13 May 2026 @ 12:15 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Croydon trial helped secure 173 arrests, though civil liberties groups remain unconvinced

Linux gains more critical Windows apps: 3D Movie Maker and Space Cadet Pinball

13 May 2026 @ 11:30 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

Further demonstrating its role as industry default OS the versatility of modern porting tools

dBase debased: Database titan fades to black after 47 years

13 May 2026 @ 10:44 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

Blog post mourning decline appears to have helped knock what was left of the veteran app's online presence offline

This browser add-in doesn't just hide ads, it tells you to OBEY

13 May 2026 @ 10:00 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

Chromium extension swaps promos for John Carpenter-style subliminal slogans

SAP U-turn brings AI features to ECC and on-prem S/4HANA

13 May 2026 @ 9:16 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

CEO says there is 'no confusion at all' after cloud-only innovation plan drew flak

The Bitter Taste of Climate Change–Christian Aid

13 May 2026 @ 9:00 am - Watts Up With That?

There is no evidence provided to back up the assertion that tea is becoming more bitter, such as market feedback. Instead all we get are assertions. The post The Bitter Taste of Climate Change–Christian Aid appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

ZTE advances intelligent network monetization strategy at AGC2026, empowering ISPs for sustainable growth

13 May 2026 @ 8:33 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

Leveraging 10G PON, light OTN, and Wi-Fi 7 to modernize infrastructure and reduce operational costs for local operators

Civil servants to protest outside Capita AGM over pension shambles

13 May 2026 @ 8:30 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

Union demands government strips outsourcer of contract after delays, bereavement failures, and data breach

ZTE hosts 2026 Broadband User Congress in São Paulo, under the Theme "Monetize Your Intelligent Broadband"

13 May 2026 @ 8:25 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

Empowering operators to move beyond basic connectivity with next-gen AI and ODN systems

ZTE and MediaTek unveil Tri-band Wi-Fi 7, targeting a relatively unexplored premium niche in Brazil

13 May 2026 @ 7:50 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

Empowering Brazilian ISPs with next-gen Wi-Fi 7 infrastructure

AI will soon be capable of telling convincing lies

13 May 2026 @ 7:29 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

That's fine when playing poker, but less useful when we trust LLMs with serious work like finding software flaws

Malware crew TeamPCP open-sources its Shai-Hulud worm on GitHub

13 May 2026 @ 6:23 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

Where it’s been well and truly forked, seemingly without Microsoft’s code locker noticing

Man jailed for packing printer with something more expensive than toner: Cocaine

13 May 2026 @ 5:22 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

Class A drugs loaded instead of A4

The California refinery crisis is a national security risk for America

13 May 2026 @ 5:00 am - Watts Up With That?

The supply chain of fuels and products refined from raw crude oil will face severe imbalances, most likely leading to higher costs and shortages for future generations. The post The California refinery crisis is a national security risk for America appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Vietnam to develop domestic cloud so it can ditch risky overseas operators for government workloads

13 May 2026 @ 3:44 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

Communist government plans personalized ‘data-driven decision-making based on real-time information’ by 2035

Execs admit AI makes them value human workers less

13 May 2026 @ 2:26 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

As suits say they're burning cash on brainboxes without seeing results

Troubles at NuScale Power, Fermi America

13 May 2026 @ 1:00 am - Watts Up With That?

Energy hyperbole and the madness of crowds are evident with both NuScale Power and Fermi America. Bubbles burst. The post Troubles at NuScale Power, Fermi America appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Doozy of a Patch Tuesday includes 30 critical Microsoft CVEs

12 May 2026 @ 11:51 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

The good news: no 0-days. The bad news: busy week ahead for Microsoft admins

Google users fight for refunds as unauthorized API usage bills soar

12 May 2026 @ 11:03 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

'What the hell is going on? It's just draining my money'

Foxconn confirms cyberattack after ransomware crew claims it stole confidential Apple, Nvidia files

12 May 2026 @ 10:02 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Affected factories back up and running, we're told

Google launches line of Android laptops festooned with Gemini AI

12 May 2026 @ 9:15 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

If you're not a fan of having AI baked into your OS, look elsewhere

“Masculine Behavior Bad for the Planet,” Says Phys.org. We Read the Paper.

12 May 2026 @ 9:00 pm - Watts Up With That?

It converts substantive disagreement with the consensus framing into a personality defect, a gender pathology, specifically. The post “Masculine Behavior Bad for the Planet,” Says Phys.org. We Read the Paper. appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Hollywood A-listers back proposed standard that would pay them when AI uses their likeness or work

12 May 2026 @ 8:57 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

RSL Media expands machine-readable licensing rules to cover AI use of identities and creative works

Hantavirus – A Pandemic Treaty “Wake Up Call”?

12 May 2026 @ 7:30 pm - OffGuardian

The Hantavirus outbreak keeps on going. The case count is up to 11, with 9 *ahem* “confirmed” by PCR test. The French government is isolating their five cruise ship passengers, and anybody those five people may have talked to, and they are worried the virus may have mutated. A Dutch hospital is “racing” to “curb …

US Army goes green-ish, wants soldiers munching on plant proteins

12 May 2026 @ 5:03 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Powders, gels, and fermented nutrients could someday join the battlefield menu

3.. 2.. 1.. Claim: Climate Change will Cause More Hantavirus

12 May 2026 @ 5:00 pm - Watts Up With That?

Just one problem - Ushuaia, the source of the MV Hondius cruise ship outbreak, has a comparable climate to Prince Rupert in British Columbia. The post 3.. 2.. 1.. Claim: Climate Change will Cause More Hantavirus appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

FCC walks back router update ban before it bricks America's network security

12 May 2026 @ 4:50 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Quietly extends waivers to 2029 after realizing it was about to leave millions of devices unpatched

Congress investigates Canvas breach as company pays ransom

12 May 2026 @ 4:14 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Instructure CEO Steve Daly's got some explaining to do

AirBit crypto Ponzi victims can now claim slice of $400M asset haul

12 May 2026 @ 3:45 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

After guilty pleas, prison terms, and seizures, the DOJ has opened the compensation process

US bank reports itself after slinging customer data at 'unauthorized AI app'

12 May 2026 @ 2:50 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Volume and sensitivity of the data cited as chief concerns

SpaceX Starship completes Wet Dress Rehearsal, gets ready for launch

12 May 2026 @ 2:22 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Launch of Musk's monster rocket could be in May

Ethanol: Not the Energy Transition We’re Looking For

12 May 2026 @ 1:00 pm - Watts Up With That?

Fuel should be fuel and food should be food. Surely Congress can find a better way to genuinely promote U.S. energy security and boost rural economies without imposing the highly regressive tax of increased fuel prices, inflicting such harm to the nation’s air and water resources, and promoting global food insecurity. The post Ethanol: Not the Energy Transition We’re Looking For

Renewables Obligation Subsidies Top £100 Billion

12 May 2026 @ 9:00 am - Watts Up With That?

There was never any democratic mandate for any of this. At no stage were the public consulted, never mind given the opportunity to vote on renewable energy policy, Ed Miliband’s 2008 Climate Change Act or Theresa May’s suicidal Net Zero law. The post Renewables Obligation Subsidies Top £100 Billion appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

New Paleo Research: Modern ‘Climate Change’ Has Had No Apparent Impact On Precipitation Patterns

12 May 2026 @ 5:00 am - Watts Up With That?

Three new tree ring reconstructions (spanning 1320-2021, 1720-2014, and 1657-2020 CE) document the dominance of natural variability in the paleoclimate record. The post New Paleo Research: Modern ‘Climate Change’ Has Had No Apparent Impact On Precipitation Patterns appeared first on Watts Up With Th

Trump Administration Gets Strategic With Offshore Wind

12 May 2026 @ 1:00 am - Watts Up With That?

...if these deals are structured as settlements of claims, they are likely to be much more insulated from judicial interference than mere administrative orders... The post Trump Administration Gets Strategic With Offshore Wind appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Three Months In: EPA’s Endangerment Finding Repeal Has Quietly Become a Legal Fight, not a Scientific One

11 May 2026 @ 9:00 pm - Watts Up With That?

For all the talk of finally relitigating the underlying climate science, the EPA's final rule does almost none of that. It does not argue that greenhouse gases fail to qualify as pollutants. It does not litigate model sensitivities, the surface temperature record, attribution methodology, or any of the empirical questions that WUWT contributors and others have spent close to two decades documenting. The science case is, formally, not the basis of the rule. The post

“Record Breaking” Adolescence Gets Its Inevitable Reward

11 May 2026 @ 7:00 pm - OffGuardian

Adolescence is back to get its pay-off. In an “historic” night for television, the Netflix original drama broke some record for…whatever. Because of course it did. Because it was always going to. For anyone fortunate enough to have missed out on the Adolescence hype, or self-preserving enough to have tactically forgotten it, the show is …

Right, Washington Post, Banning Hamburger Ads Won’t Stop Climate Change

11 May 2026 @ 5:00 pm - Watts Up With That?

They want to push what farmers remain to go all-organic, which ironically means they will need more land to produce anywhere near the same output because yields will fall, resulting in higher overall emissions. The post Right, Washington Post, Banning Hamburger Ads Won’t Stop Climate Change appeared first on Watts Up With Tha

Volkswagen Face $1.7 Billion Fine For Missing Emissions Targets

11 May 2026 @ 1:00 pm - Watts Up With That?

In Europe, electric vehicles made up about 20% of new car sales in early 2026. That’s significant, but still not enough for companies like VW to comfortably hit their targets. As a result, they’re effectively selling more EVs than the market organically demands. The post Volkswagen Face $1.7 Billion Fine For Missing Emissions Targets appeared first on

Multipolarity & the Function of the Fake Binary

10 May 2026 @ 8:15 pm - OffGuardian

Updated from ‘The Function of the Fake Binary‘, May 16 2022 In his 1998 book The Common Good, Noam Chomsky describes the key role that managed disagreements play in modern politics… The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within …

Let’s talk about….UFO files released!

8 May 2026 @ 9:00 pm - OffGuardian

The Pentagon has made good on Donald Trump’s promise and published the first instalment of previously classified UFO files. You can read them all on the Pentagon’s dedicated website. The cache of 162 files, photos and videos has caused a buzz of conversation…but I’m not sure why. This article in the Express, for example, picks …

Quick Take…Hantavirus Cruise Ship Weirdness

7 May 2026 @ 7:00 pm - OffGuardian

Eight people sick, pandemic threat low. Doesn’t sound like big news…and yet the media won’t stop talking about it. It already has its own WikiPedia entry. The whole thing feels very odd in a very familiar way.

IMA PANEL: How to Deal With Authorities – #SolutionsWatch

6 May 2026 @ 8:00 pm - OffGuardian

It’s the cross-over you’ve all been waiting for, #SolutionsWatch meets the Independent Media Alliance! Panel host James Corbett is joined by IMA regulars Derrick Broze, Ryan Cristian, Kit Knightly, Jason Bermas, Hakeem Anwar & Steve Poikonen, and guests Etienne de La Boetie2, Larken Rose and Ernest Hancock to discuss how we interact with the state …

Digital ID & the Kids in Fake Moustaches

5 May 2026 @ 8:30 pm - OffGuardian

They're trying to rebrand the authoritarian Online Safety Act as just a silly piece of paper - not tyranny, it’s just bumbling, idiotic half-measures.

The Technocratic Dark State: Trump, AI, and Digital Dictatorship with Iain Davis and John Titus (Full Interview)

18 March 2026 @ 10:45 am - Iain Davis

The Technocratic Dark State: Trump, AI, and Digital Dictatorship with Iain Davis and John Titus (Full Interview) The post The Technocratic Dark State: Trump, AI, and Digital Dictatorship with Iain Davis and John Titus (Full Interview) appeared first on Iain Davis.

The Technocratic Dark State – Reality Check Radio

9 March 2026 @ 2:49 pm - Iain Davis

The Technocratic Dark State and other matters discussed by author Iain Davis and Paul Brennan on Reality Check Radio. The post The Technocratic Dark State – Reality Check Radio appeared first on Iain Davis.

Keir Starmer’s Questionable Child Protection History

26 February 2026 @ 6:25 pm - Iain Davis

Keir Starmer has a dubious history of child protection failures. We examine some of those conspicuous alleged "mistakes." What we are asked to believe is sometimes very hard to accept. The post Keir Starmer’s Questionable Child Protection History appeared first on Iain Davis.

The Filton Six: The People Rule, OK?

11 February 2026 @ 11:56 am - Iain Davis

The Filton Six have not been found guilty in a trial by jury. The Jury in the case exercised their constitutional rights and liberties. To appreciate the staggering importance of the jury's decision read here The post The Filton Six: The People Rule, OK? appeared first on Iain Davis.

What Is A 15-Minute City?

30 January 2026 @ 4:40 pm - Iain Davis

What is a 15-Minute City? Is it, as some apparently believe, simply an urban space where essential goods and services can be accessed within 15 minute walk or cycle ride from you home? No! As usual, there is much more to it than that. The post What Is A 15-Minute City? appeared first on Iain Davis.

The Official UK Digital Identity Panopticon

24 January 2026 @ 10:32 am - Iain Davis

The official UK digital identity Panopticon has been announced by the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood. The implication for the British people are extremely concerning. Read more here. The post The Official UK Digital Identity Panopticon appeared first on Iain Davis.

The Technocratic Dark State and Grand Theft World

20 January 2026 @ 3:54 pm - Iain Davis

The Technocratic Dark State with Grand Theft World - Author Iain Davis discusses his latest book with Richard Grove from Grand Theft World The post The Technocratic Dark State and Grand Theft World appeared first on Iain Davis.

Fake Digital ID “Victory”

15 January 2026 @ 4:53 pm - Iain Davis

The fake Digital ID "victory" in the UK is explored by Iain Davis and Ant Critchley from Becoming Stellify. Possible solutions are discussed. Watch here! The post Fake Digital ID “Victory” appeared first on Iain Davis.

Operation Talla – Unconstitutional and Unlawful

7 January 2026 @ 12:32 pm - Iain Davis

Operation Talla exposes the British state for what it is: unconstitutional and unlawful. We only know about it thanks to the tireless work of committed campaigners. Read the incredible story of Operation Talla here. The post Operation Talla – Unconstitutional and Unlawful appeared first on Iain Davis.

How We Can Resist The UK Dictatorship – Part 2

1 January 2026 @ 3:56 pm - Iain Davis

In this article we consider what the UK constitutionally rule of law means and how we can use it to resist the UK dictatorship. Read more HERE. The post How We Can Resist The UK Dictatorship – Part 2 appeared first on Iain Davis.