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User interface tweaks are nice, but reliable drivers matter more

You may only get 5GB of storage instead of 15GB if you don't share your digits with the Chocolate Factory

There sure are some clever people on Earth

Claude maker warns authoritarian regimes could set the rules unless Washington tightens chip and model controls

Microsoft mitigation may bork inline images, calendar printing while admins wait for a proper patch

CISA hands feds super-tight deadline for this perfect-10, actively exploited flaw

Comms watchdog says Musk's social media platform will now review reports of illegal hate and terror content within 24 hours... on average

AI-integrated networks can cut costs, boost 5G efficiency, and help regional telcos shift beyond basic connectivity

Attackers stole a limited amount of internal credential material after malware hidden in poisoned packages reached two staff machines

7,000 5G sites added in eight months, and now serve 73 million subscribers on Indonesia’s first blanket 5G network.

72 Boxer-mounted RCH 155s due from 2028 as Britain fills the gap left by AS-90s sent to Ukraine

Whitehall says the AI assistant will help citizens navigate public services faster; others may see it as a cheaper alternative to answering the phone

Parliamentary committee tells ministers online safety regime is failing children and warns 'no action is not an option'

Lazy weekend of Grand Prix fun turned into a terrifying all-nighter

Manages to get its hands on some Mac Studio machines before the OpenClaw machine grabs them

The fallout from the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ruling that computer model high emissions pathway RCP8.5 is “implausible” is only just beginning. The post Shocked Silence Greets RCP8.5 Demise as ‘Implausibility’ Ruling Leaves Net Zero Fearmongering in Tatters appeared first on

As a senior policymaker ponders whether all South Koreans should enjoy an ‘AI dividend’

This essay is capitulation to catastrophe…. Don’t talk about it, then the public won’t know about it, then you can’t run for office on it and the country won’t act on the emergency. The post Disaster? NYT Op-Ed on Demoting the Climate Pitch appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Here's a look at the tech powering the first big IPO of 2026

Other than Instructure execs - maybe?

If we keep up our current energy policies for long enough, we can also get to the point where our thermal (fossil fuel) power plants are too old to be maintained reliably. And then, if we are lucky, we can hope to achieve the energy utopia that has arrived in Cuba. The post New York Following Cuba’s Strategy For Powering The Electrical Grid appeared first on

60% of evaluated AI Scribe systems mixed up prescribed drugs in patient notes, auditors say

Limits Claude subscriptions to interactive use

Eric Park tells us he doesn't plan to wear his modified cap to commencement, but his code's available for anyone with no such qualms and an upcoming ceremony

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?.

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund backs the desktop project while public sector interest in homegrown alternatives grows

Nothing like a partly submerged self-driving car to dampen public trust in autonomous vehicles

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 …

Brit regulator has 'heard' customers can't always 'effectively combine software from Microsoft with that of other providers'

And Counterpoint sees fad spreading from pricey handsets to smart rings and earbuds too... whether you asked for it or not

AI to the rescue as 11-year search for password turns up in old PC files

Version 1.3.14 of JavaScript toolkit released as last Zig version; a million lines of Rust code merged in gargantuan commit

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

AI and the bit barns that power it have developed a serious PR problem

Strengthening Indonesia’s digital ecosystem through AI, cloud computing, and next-gen connectivity

SpaceX and Blue Origin may yet get a role in low Earth orbit rehearsal, readiness permitting

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

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

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

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

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

CAD: Cost Anomaly Detection or Create Astounding Debt?

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

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

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?.

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

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

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?.

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

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

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

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?.

And neither AI nor international conflict are helping

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

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. …

Apache, Alibaba databases vulnerable and only one has a patch

ICCL Enforce project offers Verity fact-checking server

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?.

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

Physicist warns proposed Stratos campus could seriously affect local environment

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

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

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?.

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?.

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?.

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?.

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?.

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 …

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?.

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

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?.

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

...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?.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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) 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 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 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 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? 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 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 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.

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 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.

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.