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The Heartland Institute, and co-hosts CFACT, the CO2 Coalition, and WUWT, and their allies are today’s bomber pilots. The post Heartland right over the target with triumphant climate change conference appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Starts new one on boot loops More than a year after giving administrators an unwelcome surprise with a security update that turned out to be a Windows Server 2025 upgrade, Microsoft has marked the incident as "resolved."…

Rosalind Franklin moving again, though another budget cut looms NASA is moving ahead with its contribution to the European Space Agency's (ESA) long-delayed Rosalind Franklin Mars rover despite another attempt by the Trump administration to cut funding for the effort.…

Users who stream their own media files ticked off as Plex warns Alexa skill will die on June 15 Plex is pulling the plug on its Alexa integration, leaving anyone who relied on voice commands to wrangle their media library out of luck.…

University student says he plans to move to Android, but concedes iOS engineers acting fast Apple is finally working on a fix for a bug that has locked some users out of their iPhones for months, The Register understands.…

Jack might be on Track, but the order screen certainly isn't Bork!Bork!Bork!  It was not so much Jack in the Box as Bork on the Screen at a US drive-through fast food outlet the other day. Luckily, a Reg reader was there to take it all in.…

Top civil servant tells MPs bid was strong on quality and value for money The UK government awarded Capita a £239 million contract to run the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS) after assessing its past performance, despite the rollout later leaving thousands of retirees waiting for payments, a senior civil servant has said.…

All that kit, and the fix was simply stepping aside On Call  Life is filled with random events, but The Register tries to make readers’ lives just a little more predictable by always using Friday morning to bring you a new instalment of On Call – the reader-contributed column that shares your tech support stories.…

Pause your Mythos panic because mainstream models anyone can use already pick holes in popular software Anthropic withheld its Mythos bug-finding model from public release due to concerns that it would enable attackers to find and exploit vulnerabilities before anyone could react.…

Fast WAN consortium thinks neoclouds are ripe for hookups The IOWN Global Forum will likely focus on datacenter interconnect use cases in the, to help diverse providers of AI infrastructure ply their trade.…

It has been more than seven years since President Donald Trump signed the Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act (NEIMA) into law – and it has taken all seven years (including four during the Biden Administration) for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to issue a final rule implementing its provisions. The post Is America on the Verge of a Nuclear Renaissance? appeared first

Fix for critical flaw is an OS update you may not be able to make because the junk data uses all memory More than 230 different models of Cisco Wi-Fi access points may be writing 5MB a day of nonessential data, filling their onboard flash memory to the point at which they lack space for future software updates.…

We're not half way there, we're still livin' on a prayer IPv6 carried half of global traffic for a single day in March, according to Google.…

Paying one group to produce and another to consume does not guarantee usefulness. It guarantees activity. The post $96 Million to Nowhere: The Predictable Failure of Subsidized Electric Buses appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Bug or feature? A design flaw – or expected behavior based on a bad design choice, depending on who is telling the story – baked into Anthropic's official Model Context Protocol (MCP) puts as many as 200,000 servers at risk of complete takeover, according to security researchers.…

Client connects to deepset's Haystack platform Mozilla has declared war on OpenAI, Microsoft, and other firms flogging enterprise AI platforms with an open-source alternative it says provides data privacy guarantees proprietary products never could. …

'I think you can run this thing on a potato,' NodeWeaver CTO Alan Conboy said. Broadcom's price increases and policy changes have led many VMware customers to look for other options. Nodeweaver is positioning itself as an alternative for customers running computing workloads in far-flung edge locations, from cruise ships to solar farms in Sub-Saharan Africa, and it is taking cost out of the hardware needed as well.…

Twenty years. That’s a long time to keep asking inconvenient questions. The post 20 Years of WUWT: What We’re Up Against & Why It Matters – Keynote Address at #ICCC16 appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Large organizations pushed toward metered pricing UPDATED  More bad news for Claude users. Anthropic has revised its seat-based pricing for enterprise customers, shifting them to a new pricing plan upon contract renewal.…

If there's one thing folks want less than Copilot in their taskbar, it's a bit barn in their backyard Loud, thirsty, power hungry, and intensely unpopular with neighboring residents: datacenters are becoming the new nuclear waste dump. And many localities are now saying "not in my backyard."…

Social engineering: 'low-cost, hard to patch, and scales well' North Korean criminals set on stealing Apple users' credentials and cryptocurrency are using a combination of social engineering and a fake Zoom software update to trick people into manually running malware on their own computers, according to Microsoft.…

Worse: Anthropic is using Persona, a privacy checker that rings alarm bells for the paranoids on Reddit Anthropic may check your ID before letting you access certain Claude features, and the verification vendor it has picked is the same outfit that sparked controversy when Discord tested similar checks.…

Driving Australia’s current trajectory is the mythical claim that so-called renewables – are inherently cheap and that any short‑term pain will give way to lasting price declines. The post Australia’s ‘Renewable’ Obsession Decimates Industry appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Batching teensy changes in chunks creates massive performance boost, DuckDB Labs team claims The team behind in-process OLAP database DuckDB has put forward a solution to the "small changes" problem that they say plagues lakehouse implementations of the kind based on technologies from Databricks, Snowflake, Google, and others.…

Shame about the internet blackouts and airstrikes North America has some of the world's most expensive broadband, according to a new study, while Iran has the cheapest.…

Fortune 500 companies and one US defense contractor got taken for $5m in four-year scam Two Americans have been jailed for a combined 200 months for helping North Korea generate $5 million through fraudulent IT worker schemes.…

The EU is rolling out its official age verification app according to the joint statement issued by EU President Ursula von der Leyen and Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen [emphasis added]: It is our duty to protect our children in the online world, just as we do in the offline world. And to do that effectively, …

Includes a to-do list on search data sharing and platform access as DMA enforcement ramps up Brussels has told Google to open up its search data and give rivals equal footing on its own platforms, sketching out how it expects the tech giant to comply with the bloc's competition rulebook.…

When the taxpayers are wondering whose side you are on... Britain's government faces a public backlash against AI unless it can show ordinary people that they stand to benefit from its push to inject the technology into every area of the UK in the name of growth.…

Latest version points to a shift in how Microsoft thinks about IDEs Visual Studio 2026 18.5 arrives with two headline changes – a smarter code suggestion system and an AI-powered debugger. Yet developer frustration over color contrast and forced updates continue to overshadow the improvements.…

My Houston Chronicle op-ed came out in the Print edition last Sunday. This breaks a decade-plus-long drought when the Progressive Left Chronicle ignored my submissions. The post Breakthrough! Houston Chronicle Publishes Non-alarmist Climate Op-ed appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Forged metadata made AI reviewer treat hostile changes as though they came from known maintainer Security boffins say Anthropic's Claude can be tricked into approving malicious code with just two Git commands by spoofing a trusted developer's identity.…

Publisher claims misconfigured Salesforce-hosted page leaked data Textbook giant McGraw Hill has landed on a ransomware crew's leak site after an alleged Salesforce-linked misconfiguration spilled 13.5 million records into the wild.…

Giant UAV package will include strike, recon, logistics, and maritime systems The UK government says it will deliver at least 120,000 drones to Ukraine this year to help it fight against Russia.…

Just migrate already, would you? But if you can't, Redmond will take your cash Microsoft will keep delivering security updates for old versions of Exchange Server and Skype for Business Server, after admitting that some customers aren't ready to make the move to newer products.…

Backup and Sync may be dead, but it still knows how to kill the buzz before the ukuleles start Bork!Bork!Bork!  Sweden is arguably the home of bork – think the Swedish Chef from The Muppets – so we are delighted to note an example of the breed turning up north of Stockholm.…

Published studies show that science has long been aware of significantly more extreme and rapid temperature shifts throughout Earth’s history. The post Abrupt Climate Change Also Occurred NATURALLY In The Past …25 Times During Last Ice Age appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Biz as usual for Brit public sector: ESN replacement is 12 years late and £3B over budget UK police tech buyers have awarded a £25 million no-competition contract for communications technology first commissioned in 2000, with the replacement project 12 years behind schedule and £3 billion over budget.…

Your cybersecurity is only as good as the physical security of the servers PWNED  Welcome back to Pwned, the column where we immortalize the worst vulns that organizations opened up for themselves. If you’re the kind of person who leaves your car doors unlocked with a pile of cash in the center console, this week’s story is for you.…

Deciphering the third transport protocol's four RFCs is a task to rival the proverbial blind man trying to understand an elephant While Larry was producing most of the content for the "Request/Reponse" chapter for the next edition of our book, I took the lead on writing a section on QUIC, since I have closely followed its development.…

Energy "REALITY" tells us that we need refineries to convert crude oil into usable transportation fuels and products. The post Tensions in the Strait of Hormuz force us to reconsider the material benefits of fossil fuels appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Private Shinkansen suites are pulling up to the station in October Some Japanese bullet trains will soon be equipped with private suites that include windows with embedded 5G antennas and noise-cancelling technology that envelops passengers in a bubble of quiet.…

Services giant’s staff accused of assaults, inappropriate religious practices Police in the Indian city of Nashik conducted a sting operation at Tata Consultancy Services and allegedly found instances of sexual harassment and other revolting behavior.…

Large fire and explosion reported at one of Australia's three operating refineries. The post Huge Refinery Fire: Aussie Fuel Crisis Just Got Worse appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Browser fingerprinting is everywhere Google markets its Chrome browser by citing its superior safety features, but according to privacy consultant Alexander Hanff, Chrome does not protect against browser fingerprinting – a method of tracking people online by capturing technical details about their browser.…

Like the majority of the companies participating, it remains a mystery Last week, Anthropic surprised the world by declaring that its latest model, Mythos, is so good at finding vulns that it would create chaos if released. Now, under the title of Project Glasswing, over 50 selected companies and orgs are allowed to test the hyped up LLM to find security holes in their own products. But just how many problems have they really discovered?…

'LLMs should not be trusted for patient-facing diagnostic reasoning,' boffins advise People ask AI for all kinds of advice, including the kind of questions you'd ask a physician. However, the next time you're tempted to query ChatGPT if that growth on your face is skin cancer, consider this: research shows today's leading AI models fail at early differential diagnosis in more than 8 out of 10 cases.…

Instead of burying or warehousing used fuel, new processes can safely convert it into usable material for modern reactors. The post America’s nuclear comeback is finally here appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Repair of bug that undercounted token usage leads to rapid exhaustion of subscription allowance Microsoft's GitHub last week told Copilot customers that they'd have to reduce their use of the AI service to ease the strain on company servers. This follows the company's discovery last month of a token counting bug that appears to have broken the company's pricing model.…

Following in the footsteps of Long Island Iced Tea OPINION  Back in December 2017, an obscure American soft drinks company changed its name from Long Island Iced Tea to Long Blockchain.…

No reports of active exploitation (yet) Watch out for more Fortinet vulns! Two critical bugs in Fortinet's sandbox could allow unauthenticated attackers to bypass authentication or execute unauthorized code on vulnerable systems.…

Kamila Szewczyk prefers old software, as back then people understood something could actually be finished No one can tell software developer Kamila Szewczyk that newer is better: She just fixed a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16, the old-school Linux window manager she favors partly because, she tells us, it is actually finished software.…

A Guardian journalist reports back from the Heartland Conference. The post Guardian: “The Climate Deniers are In Charge Now” appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Study finds LLMs will smuggle biases into others even if they're scrubbed from training data New research warns about the dangers of teaching LLMs on the output of other models, showing that undesirable traits can be transmitted "subliminally" from teacher to student, even when they are scrubbed from training data.…

Some customer orgs tell staff to block inbound email from the provider Autovista confirms that it called in outside support to help clean up a ransomware infection currently affecting systems in Europe and Australia.…

Y'all been focusing on compute and forgot about how the data moves around AI is reshaping the demands on network infrastructure, and many organizations are not prepared – including some of the so-called neocloud providers offering AI services.…

We've all been there Bork!Bork!Bork!  Windows is doing what it does best in California, with a Blue Screen of Death on the wall of a fast food restaurant where order progress is supposed to be.…

Latest in a string of cases that have earned France an unfortunate title A mother and her ten-year-old son are now free after being kidnapped for around 20 hours while the father was being extorted for hundreds of thousands of euros.…

Energy abundance is not a luxury; it is the foundation of modern civilisation. To pretend otherwise is not sophistication. It is civilisational self-harm. And the bill, as always, lands on the people least able to afford the eco-crucifix. The post UK Economist Says the Quiet Part Out Loud: High Energy Prices are ‘Good for the Climate’ appeared

Report says authorities are flouting rules by failing to disclose revenue lost to server farm subsidies Many US states and local authorities are violating generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) by failing to disclose revenue lost to datacenter tax subsidy schemes, according to Good Jobs First.…

Here comes 'enterprise vibe coding' as CRM giant aims to open development to anyone on the platform Salesforce has introduced what it calls Headless 360 at its developer event TDX, which starts today in San Francisco, designed to expand the reach of its app-building tools beyond traditional developers.…

Vuln old enough to drive lands on CISA's exploited list While Microsoft was rolling out its bumper Patch Tuesday updates this week, US cybersecurity agency CISA was readying an alert about a 17-year-old critical Excel flaw now under exploit.…

Command prefix will require password by default The latest version of Raspberry Pi OS now requires a password for sudo by default.…

A truly independent grid operator would surely be ringing the alarm bells now over the looming catastrophe facing us. The post How Do We Turn the Sun Off? appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Solar power is threatening to overwhelm the UK electricity grid this summer as gluts of supply create a risk of blackouts and leave households and businesses facing being asked to consume excess power. The Telegraph has the story. The post Solar Power Threatens to Overwhelm Electricity Grid appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

...the Nuclear Energy Launch Pad created by Lee’s legislation “meaningfully expands opportunities for private companies to demonstrate their technologies in partnership with the [DOE].” The post Mike Lee Takes On ‘Valley Of Death’ Plaguing Nuclear Energy Developers appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Con­sumer-chosen, tax­pay­er-neut­ral energy is the oppor­tun­ity cost of the Green New Deal. Global luke­warming is more the real­ity than a run­away green­house-gas effect. Adapt­a­tion, with the aid of fossil fuels, is the policy pre­scrip­tion. Such middle ground can allow cooler heads to pre­vail in a future filled with optim­ism. The post

Once, Britain was a landscape of cheese. There were hundreds of distinct regional varieties, each rooted in a particular place and shaped by local conditions and practices. These cheeses were not interchangeable. They reflected differences in soil, pasture, climate and animal breeds. Their characteristics shifted with the seasons. They were products of specific environments and …

For years, conservatives and other believers in free markets complained about the subsidies, tax breaks and favorable regulations designed to prop up the “alternative energy” movement. If solar, wind and other “renewables” were truly worthwhile, they should stand on their own, right? The post After All These Years, Alternatives Are Finding Ways to Stand on

It seems the world is getting tired of clickbait, centrally-determined climate claptrap that for too long has provided an unscientific base for the Net Zero fantasy. The post Continuing Slump in Global Media Climate Agitprop Bodes Ill for Future Net Zero Support appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

In short, is it worth spending £1000 to save maybe £100, given all of the hassle involved and the fact that few people have that sort of money lying around? The post Is Plug-In Solar Worth It? appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Fuerteventura, one of the eight major Canary Islands, was not the “desert in the ocean” it is today throughout the Early to Middle Holocene. The post Cave Discovery Reveals Today’s Desert Climates Were Recently Far Warmer, Wetter, Teeming With Life appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

“There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.” Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations You’re not imagining it. Everything costs more. Everything is monitored. Everything feels like it’s designed to take—from your wallet, your time, your freedom. That’s because it is. The government …

Do you think the BRICS nations are going to save us from the New World Order? Then you might be suffering from multipolaritis. Today on The Corbett Report, Professor Dr. James Corbett serves up a hefty dose of the reality-based medicine that will cure you of this terrible affliction. Download options, an audio-only version and …

Last month, I wrote an article tracking – or, at least, attempting to track – the very confused back-and-forth narrative around the Strait of Hormuz. Is it closed or open? Who closed it and how? Were there mines or not? These were just some of the questions to which it was impossible to find a …

The Iran War has been going on for less than six weeks, has thus far involved no infantry engagements of any kind on either side, and is currently in the middle of a ceasefire. Does that sound like a conflict that can already be described as going to “define our generation”? Because that’s what Sir …

Frequent OffG contributor Riley Waggaman sits down with Hrvoje Moric of Geopolitics & Empire to discuss his expulsion from Russia, interrogation by the FSB and being handed a 25-year entry ban for unspecified national security reasons. The discussion critiques both West and East, arguing that the same Davos globalist technocracy is present in the BRICS …

…and so we have a ceasefire. Maybe. Sort of. Like every other aspect of the war we’ve seen play out – from the reason it started, to what is actually happening, to which side is winning – the the ceasefire is clouded in ambiguity. The exact terms terms have yet to be released, or rather …

In January, following Mark Carney’s well-publicised Davos speech, I wrote an article headlined… 2026 – The Year US Hegemony Ends? To be clear, I was not – and am not – predicting the empire is about to fall and usher in a new world of justice and freedom. No, I was predicting that certain media …

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.