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The boom is piling up technical debt, warns Lightrun's Moshe Sambol

In this episode, we speak with Roger Pielke Jr. about how what was lauded as the "business as usual" climate scenario known as RCP8.5 became "implausible" to the IPCC. Pielke also shares his insights on natural decarbonisation through greater efficiency and how he was investigated by the White House when he broke with the climate consensus. The post The Death of RCP8.5 | Roger Pielke Jr appeared f

The Register tests Dell’s first attempt at outplaying Apple’s AirPods

Now, private citizens and public officials are pumping the brakes, trying to slow a movement in which momentum exceeded readiness, politics outweighed planning, and taxpayers were left holding the bag yet again. The post After Solar and Wind Farms Suddenly Sprang Up, Citizens and Local Governments Sprang Into Action appeared first on

Intel ME and AMD PSP: The silicon layer nobody certifies

Multipolarity: What is it and what are the issues? Jerm Warfare (Jeremy Nell) and Iain Davis discuss the multipolar world order. The post Jerm Warfare & Iain Davis on Multipolarity appeared first on Iain Davis.

You probably remember the outfit Covering Climate Now, which was set up to encourage journalists to forget the facts concerning weather events and make up stories about a “climate crisis” instead: The post The Hantavirus Is Also a Climate Warning appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Patients are using chatbots for medical advice, while the NHS is still debating where AI belongs

The case for attacking livestock methane is nonexistent, and the cost is enormous. Policymakers must start paying attention to real science and common sense. The post Climate Pseudoscience Debunked: Livestock Methane Fears are Baseless appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Every major emerging technology has required more energy and infrastructure. Everything digital runs through data centers, making them foundational, not optional. Questions should center on their undertaking rather than their elimination. The post The Electricity Myth: Data Centers Aren’t the Villain appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

But it's holding fast on auto-expanding customers' budgets

BYO power for AI bit barns may be the best way to ease the problem, says energy watchdog

Beware the horror of temperatures a few degrees warmer than normal. The post Claim: The Coming El Nino Global Warming may Kill 50 Million People appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

An influx of agents is pushing GitHub to the brink

Mythos and GPT-5.5 muscle out the competition

Like AirDrop, minus the Apple lock-in

In the most recent edition of Geopolitics & Empire, host Hrvoje Moric talks with entrepreneur Michael Driver: Driver argues that the modern digital landscape, specifically AI and screen-based culture, is designed to sever individuals from their human intuition and natural senses. He interprets current global crises, including wars and health scares, as deliberate smoke screens …

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach (@WEschenbach on X, my personal blog is here) We live in an odd age when a billionaire can look at the planetary mess, point at… The post Wildebeest, Buffalo, and Cattle, Oh My! appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

User interface tweaks are nice, but reliable drivers matter more

Voters in this month’s elections in Great Britain delivered a shocking win for Reform UK, and was a clear rebuke of the “green” Net Zero agenda of the political elites. The post Live at 1 pm ET: British Voters Dumps the Greens – The Climate Realism Show #202 appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

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

New Orleans faces engineering and land management challenges. It does not face a guaranteed watery extinction within decades based on current observed sea-level rise or hurricane trends. The Guardian’s doomsday story is not sober risk assessment, rather it is junk journalism at its worst. The post Wrong, Guardian, Climate Change Hasn’t Taken New Orle

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

I have long believed Miliband is determined to do as much irreversible damage to the country as he can before he gets chucked out: The post Ed Miliband vows permanent shutdown of the North Sea appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

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 ...

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?.

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. …

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?.

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 …

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 …

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.