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Dull but important … so, a bit like Debian itself, really

After all that hype, AI scanner found one low-severity cURL flaw

Debian 14 plans to ax Gtk2 – and hard pruning stimulates fresh growth

Customers urged to keep an eye out for phisherfolk

JIT compiler much improved, but no reinstatement for leaky incremental garbage collector

GTIG says AI-powered hacking has moved well beyond phishing emails and chatbot tricks

Tech investment giant wants batteries for its own AI datacenters, and lots of them

Utility provider failed to detect Cl0p ransomware attack for nearly two years

Cybercrooks ruin engineers' weekends with Saturday attack

Katalyst's LINK spacecraft clears Goddard tests before Pegasus rocket integration

Instead of waiting for patch cycles, admins could simply shut down vulnerable functions before attackers get there

Client's handy automations get grayed out unless you know the keyboard shortcut

Report maps the weak points in cloud, identity, and public sector procurement

Who knows what is going where. Might as well have a lovely beer instead.

Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.” — Albert Einstein The post Select Select Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #690 appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

That’s not a radio. THIS is a radio

The office sink is always a horror. Managers worried this one glowed

Which is awkward for European orgs who fear US clouds might leave the continent

The case of Bielefeld’s idle garbage truck fleet is an example of bureaucracy’s rank inability to operate a society, serving as a reminder that “green” technology is a costly folly. The post 90% Subsidized… Bielefeld Germany’s €7 Million Hydrogen Garbage Truck Fleet Sits Idle appeared first on Watts

...it is past time for the states to ask whether this experiment is worth the cost. If politicians really want to lower electricity costs, the easiest step is to drop out of RGGI. The post RGGI Status Update appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

PLUS: Robot becomes Buddhist monk in Korea; TikTok spending $25bn in Thailand; Baidu floating chip biz; and more!

Anthropic might be thinking about space to ease its computing burden, but Claude Code on your laptop is way more practical

This project is a leaner, faster, and more litigation-resistant project that reuses idle pipe, threads existing corridors, avoids reservation land, and is racing the clock to lock in steel-in-the-ground before the next Democratic administration can once again sacrifice North American energy security to green ideology. The post Keystone XL Rebranded

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 …

Turns out the public has higher priorities than ensuring their great grandkids enjoy 0.01ºC lower temperatures in 100 years. The post Net Zero Parties Annihilated By Trump Aligned Candidates in British and Australian Elections appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Amid the AI-fueled memory crunch, will Compute Express Link finally have its moment to shine?

Furores are fermenting in the forums

...by the time the "triple whammy" paper went to press, Antarctic sea ice had already done the thing the paper now says is unlikely. It bounced — sharply, in a single year. The post Antarctic “Triple Whammy” Paper Lands Just As the Ice Rebounds appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

It's not much cheaper than an equivalent laptop, so who's this for, exactly?

A place for discussion. The post Open Thread appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Britain needs an honest national conversation about what its energy future actually requires — one grounded not in what is fashionable or financially convenient, but in the austere realities of northern latitude, Atlantic cloud, the non-negotiable demands of a British winter, and the irreplaceable value of the land and water we are being asked to sacrifice. The post The Case Against In

“Constrained supply” is at the heart of PJM’s complaints. This shortage largely stems from the many regulatory reviews required to break ground on energy developments, according to the Consumer Energy Alliance. The post Nation’s Largest Grid Operator Warns Drastic Measures Required As Data Centers Come Online appeared first on

The war on plastics amounts to nothing more than a war on modern conveniences made possible by the innovations inherent in the free market. The post Green Machine Targets Plastics at Consumer Expense appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Deletion of a longstanding privacy assurance sparks concerns

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s Endangered Species Act regulations seriously distort Congressional intent. They make it almost impossible for anyone except the rich to develop land within the extensive habitat of an endangered or threatened species. Not just in Florida but throughout America. The post Endangered Species Act regulatory overkill appeared first on

The "most significant development in climate research in decades," has an ugly side. The post A Generation of Kids Thinks They Have No Future. Science Just Admitted Why. appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Apple's old backup boxes only speak AFP and SMB1, but NetBSD under the hood gives them one last shot

Imagine taking a dip 177m above the streets of London’s West End

For years, we have been fed a never-ending diet of apocalyptic climate scares – killer heatwaves, biblical floods, deadly droughts, devastating hurricanes, to name just a few. The post Ding Dong, RCP8.5 Is Dead! appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Home Office probes supplier interest as core police and immigration system heads for support shake-up

EPA Deputy Administrator David Fotouhi issued a memo on April 27 ending the 1985 Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) method of classifying hazardous chemicals. Numerous stakeholders have criticized IRIS for dramatically overestimating the toxicity for certain industry-specific compounds to many business’ detriment. (RELATED: America Just Made Its Biggest Critical Mineral Find In Years — But There’s A Problem) The post

...they have weaponized the green agenda against the elderly residents who built the civilization these eco-warriors now seek to dismantle, one beef patty at a time. The post Copenhagen’s City Govt. Limits Elderly to Tiny Servings of Delicious, Nutritious Meat appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Good times, bad times

It’s not just gas prices skyrocketing. Frontier-model pricing keeps climbing too

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 …

Responding to the ETH Zurich study, Johal says she hopes all the fusion designs become commercially successful – but believes that Zap’s design will produce economies of scale thanks to their modular design. The post Zap Energy: The first fission-fusion company appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Not just for hated US Presidents, now even tech bros lament their foes

All your compromised credentials are belong to us now instead of the other gang

Twin brother still faces trial over broader cybercrime allegations

From 1970 to 2023, U.S. emissions of six criteria air pollutants declined 78% while GDP grew 321% and energy consumption rose 42%—consistent with the Environmental Kuznets Curve and driven by wealth creation and market incentives rather than central planning. The post U.S. Fossil Fuel Environmentalism: EPA Air Quality Statistics appeared first on

BCS says builders face up to 20% material hikes and patchy deliveries

Remote access software could bring mixed fleets under one roof, assuming enough people ask for it

Broken disclosure embargo left admins facing a fresh root-level flaw with no CVE

The Washington Post has taken a modest statistical decline in select minerals and inflated it into a planetary health crisis. That is not balanced reporting. Their readers deserve better. The post No, Washington Post, ‘Carbon Pollution’ Isn’t Making Food Less Healthy appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

In a word, 'Huh?'

After years of insisting end-to-end encryption was the future of online comms, Zuckcorp has handed itself full visibility into user chats once again

A few hundred lines of Yabasic recreate just enough to keep modal editing muscle memory alive

Home Office finds 80% of code cannot be reused, balks at £26M in extra costs

Ryan Cohen briefly banned after bootstrapping cash ostensibly to buy the auction site

ShinyHunters takes the credit and gives developer an F for security

Social media biz says watchdog's fine formula is 'disproportionate' and should stop counting global revenue

No sparks, no glory

Movie-inspired set ticks the clever Technic box, but at a price

Credit Trump with a sea change in the whole climate/energy issue. The Progressive Left is playing defense. And nerves are fraying in the face of pragmatism and the mere appearance of two-sided reporting given the changed political mainstream. The post Alarmist Fussing at NYT Climate Reporting appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Spikes deter pigeons, but Microsoft still managed to foul the screen

It's amazing what happens when you plug everything in

Turner said that for too long, climate has “served as a shield,” in which imputed good intentions can mask backscratching and failure. The post Super Power To Spare: How Battery Tech Illuminates Competition Between U.S. & China appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Around 20 percent of staff get an ‘In one hour, you might not work here anymore’ email

Extra aircon found to cool overheating datacenter as users complain their resources are... nowhere

NetAdmins can stay in the loop while they learn to trust AI to tackle some scutwork

Yet it remains unclear if Anthropic's uber model was effective, or if better model middleware is what makes the difference

The tool is meant to take the place of 80% of the work that requires ServiceNow dev teams

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.

“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech.” Benjamin Franklin Everything this nation once stood for is being turned on its head. We are being asked—no, told—to believe that the greatest threat to America today is not government overreach, endless war, corruption, surveillance, or the steady erosion …

“And there are those who claim that Big Data will supplant Sapiens and drag him helplessly along like a straw in the mighty flow of information. We will then be close to knowing almost everything we don’t need to know.” Roberto Calasso, The Unnamable Present, 2017 Onerous it is and more onerous it will be when AI …

The guerrilla artist's "surprise" statue is supposedly anti-establishment....except the establishment seems to LOVE it.

In this edition of New World Next Week, your friendly neighbourhood Jameses discuss the “assassination attempt” at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner, Billy Corgan’s economics lesson, and how your car may be a surveillance machine by 2027. This is the first episode of of NWNW we’ve shared in a while, but the coincidence was too …

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.