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Super. Mega. Monster. Godzilla. Code Red. Looming. Historic. Record-breaking. Unprecedented. Rapid-fire. Catastrophic. Dangerous. Cataclysmic. Apocalyptic. Devastating. Dramatic. Atmospheric. Coming. Imminent. Building. Brewing. Threatening. The post Here Comes the Super Mega Ultimate Hyper Giga Godzilla El Niño appeared first on Wa

On Monday night, a Sudanese immigrant allegedly attacked a man on the streets of Belfast in an attempt to decapitate him. Bystanders intervened, as the story goes, the attack was stopped and the victim – named as one Stephen Ogilvie – survived having suffered severe injuries, including the loss of his left eye. He’s reportedly …

"... as a major energy producer, the United States will continue to post relatively solid growth rates ... while the ... euro area is significantly weaker. ..." The post Euronews *Almost* Admits German Economic Problems are Caused by Energy Policy appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Partition's still there, but good luck seeing it and don't upgrade until fix lands, says team

Files sought by feds were sitting in a deletion queue, not gone for good

Firefox is in, Snap and Flatpak are still out, but a default AI helper may raise eyebrows

Productivity gains lost as staff spoon-feed AI and correct its cock-ups

Shai-Hulud worm exploited exactly this. Better late than never, says everyone except the malware authors

Of course, the case doesn’t have to be held up for this. It is being held up because the DC Circuit is allowing it to be held up. Which gets to the real issue: Is the DC Circuit going to game the scheduling of this case in order that it can’t be decided by the Supreme Court until after Trump has left office? If that occurs, it would of course give a potential incoming Democratic administration in 2029 the ability to reverse course on the regulations. Such an administration might, for exam

Whether any of the spacecraft will be ready in time for H2 2027 remains unanswered

Remote, unauthenticated RCE with root privileges is about as bad as it gets

Moody's says proposed A-to-G green grades for bit barns could affect financing

MSP says it is 'absolutely devastated' as woman arrested on suspicion of murder

Actual RVA23 hardware and useful performance – for a certain price

With young people facing an existential threat and the need to support – try indoctrinate – them in the political dilemmas involved (full steam ahead, Net Zero), it seems, alas, more than likely that students will continue be taught with implausible Met Office data come the new term. The post Massive Curriculum Changes

Aircraft at core of the Future Combat Air System canned as parties could not decide who leads on the work

Meet Mobi Fold - creased popster or clever portable mouse

Dr. Zeke Hausfather, climate scientist Berkeley Earth, equates the stream of ccritical comments made by readers to harassment. “Most of the harassment, fortunately, consists of people throwing insults at me online. However, many of my colleagues, especially women, experience significantly worse.” The post Women Climate Scientists Being Har

The country is moving toward a better energy future: lower prices, more production, more reliability and less punishment for the people who keep America moving. But these six states are choosing a different path. The post Meet the Six States Celebrating America 250 by Raising Your Gas Tax appeared first on Watts Up With That?

Unless you're an admin or vulnerability manager – then you're totally screwed

The layoffs come after CEO Marc Benioff boasted of record revenue and 'incredible cashflow' two weeks ago

The apparent exemption of the battery industry from regulations that would apply to every other industry is now presenting major complications for the people of NY State.  How much environmental damage must be done before government officials start doing their job of protecting their constituents, instead of trying to put band-aids on the wounds caused by their energy system mismanagement? The post Bonfires of

Economists find signs of a ‘large and causal relationship between iPhones and fertility' in AT&T exclusivity-era data

Company also changes data retention policy

As if there weren't enough package poisonings to worry about

Who said sub-millimeter, three-layer science juice had to be expensive to squirt?

Our 21st-century AI buildout cannot pause for permitting reform, and national security infrastructure cannot wait to litigate pipelines. The economic opportunity of leading the digital economy belongs to those willing to power it. Right now, that means keeping coal in the conversation. The post The Coal Conversation appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

iBiz might not win the AI race, but analysts say it's focusing on features people may actually use

Graph database biz says on-prem, air-gapped intel stack gives governments a no-kill-switch option

The Document Foundation accuses newly launched Euro-Office of undermining digital sovereignty by defaulting to Microsoft's OOXML document format

Pressure to deploy wins out over security as four in five orgs confess to breaches from vulnerable apps

I believe that RGGI now poses unacceptable affordability and reliability risks and needs immediate, fundamental revision.  The RGGI states must acknowledge the enormity of the risks and engage regulators, system operators, and state lawmakers to consider substantive changes rather than the incremental tinkering contemplated in recent RGGI communications.  The post Implications of the Qua

Encrypted messaging app warns device-level checks could be repurposed for censorship

Google paid researcher a tidy $55K bounty for its discovery

Authorities say the breach only exposed public chat rooms, but alleged attacker claims to have accessed far more data

IBM spin-off's top brass bag six-figure stock awards

Prochain arrêt: Gare du Bork! French capital city train does the tech can-can

Two years on from ransomware attack, hospitals are still trying to identify and warn patients

It is worth remembering that Miliband’s decision to roll these plug-in panels out did not make them legal – they already were. It was to allow them to be installed without a qualified electrician. The post Safety fears raised over plug-in solar appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Parliamentary committee says £45B savings claim risks undermining public sector tech reform rather than helping it

China undercut the world's industries with gross human rights abuses, but Mann thinks China is the world's climate leader. The post Michael Mann Celebrates China’s “Hub of Technological Innovation” Forced Labor Green Economy appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

The first time in roughly four decades that a privately developed, non‑light‑water advanced reactor has gone critical in the U.S. The post U.S. Nuclear Acceleration Effort Hits Milestone with Antares Criticality Test appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

L'etat, c'est AI

Climate models rely very heavily on moist adiabatic assumptions, which contributes to the persistent model-observation mismatch in the tropics, why? The post The Moist-Adiabatic Theory vs. Reality appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Apple Intelligence stumbled through 2024 and 2025. It's starting to look respectable

When an unsolicited job offer sounds too good to be true …

The new features ignore the argument that if parents wanted to spend more time on their kids, they wouldn't have supplied them with an iPad or iPhone in the first place

The paper does not consider whether being scared shitless is a sound foundation for professional conduct. The post A Statistical Evaluation of the Whining of Climate Scientists as Political Activists appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

WWDC announcements earned tempered praise from analysts, with an emphasis on the word 'if'

British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced plans, in a speech earlier today, to introduce “device-level controls” that will prevent children from viewing, sending or taking naked photographs: This government will not stand by while children are put at risk online. Today I am calling on the tech companies to introduce device-level controls to prevent …

Scumbags, including a Qilin ransomware affiliate, began hitting this hole May 7

The NYT’s desperation to turn a story about players losing matches due to illness or the intensity of the game in tough conditions into a climate change story just goes to show that climate realists currently hold the advantage point. Alarmists seem worried that any lost opportunity to mention climate change will result in game, set, match for realists. The post No, New

Sandboxed LLM dev environments lead the show, but accessibility may be the real prize

PARTNER CONTENT: Driving Grid Modernization and Energy Transition in Malaysia Through Advanced AI and Smart Infrastructure Solutions

What, you think any old liquid-cooled bodysuit would be acceptable to pair with such a fashionable outer layer?

Meanwhile, 13 schools in Wales affected by separate attack

Orbital broadband biz will miss its July 30 deadline to have 1,616 spacecraft in place

After a trial claimed chatbot saved staff 43 minutes a day, NHS England has decided it's time to supersize the experiment

Miasma worm shapeshifts, but cloud secret-scouting remains the goal

I suspect that Sainsbury’s ban has more to do with the fact that breeds such as White Star need less feed, and are therefore cheaper to produce, thus enabling Sainsbury’s to squeeze a little more profit out of the farmer. The post Poultry Farmer Debunks Sainsbury’s Brown Egg Ban appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

No new features to be submitted to main branch, existing code removed in 6 months if new proposal not created and accepted

Zuckercorp says surveillance-for-hire vendor was still running phishing operations after federal court told it to knock it off

Global Talent visa program aims to draw in dissatisfied scientists from countries including the US

Policy-holders increasingly turn fender benders into much more by sprinkling in their favorite AI chatbots, Aviva says

Whitehall says Work Assistant will help jobseekers apply around the clock – provided employers don't mind machine-written applications

When a community came together after Red Hat said Windows was 'probably the right product'

Quote of the Week: “One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike — and yet it is the most precious thing we have.” The post Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #693 appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

It always has been, but Microsoft didn’t realize it

And he got away with it too!

Ed Miliband’s new Net Zero targets requiring the tripling of electric vehicle sales in just three years are not credible, carmakers have warned. The Telegraph has more. The post Miliband’s New Net Zero EV Targets Are Not Credible, Warn Carmakers appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

What happens when children grow up believing the world is ending? The post How Climate Fear Took Over a Generation appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

According to the report, EV company lawyers unsuccessfully argued the vehicle was never meant to be parked outside in winter. The post Canadian Wins “Lemon Law” Right to Return an EV Wrecked by Winter Temperatures appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Have you seen a mainstream headline about central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) so far this year? Probably not. What used to be a regular on the front page has been curiously absent. What stories there are have been tucked away, and the tone is decidedly changed: Is a digital euro necessary for monetary sovereignty? Rethinking …

Years ago when I was twenty-seven years-old and my father fifty-eight, we wandered around an off-beat section of a small New England town. There was a section where old wooden structures had been abandoned years before and lay forlorn. But they drew us to them. Old names on walls, here and there a small plaque …

We are currently witnessing the birth of a new psy-op targeting our most vital natural resource – water. And in the coming series of articles we’ll be breaking down every aspect of this emerging agenda. The chosen label for this new fear-as-control exercise is “water bankruptcy” . It’s a name originating in a UN report …

Geopolitics & Empire host Hrvoje Moric sits down for a fascination conversation with Dr Martin Erdmann. Theologian and historian Dr. Martin Erdmann explores the concept of Orwellian perpetual war in the modern era. Drawing on the works of George Orwell and historian Harry Elmer Barnes, Erdmann argues that contemporary conflicts like the war in Ukraine …

The independent media faces a conundrum. We need to be able to criticise and to respond to each other’s work without it spiraling down the plughole into a messy mulch of accusation, counter-accusation, and unseemly personal spats. This is very important. If independent journalists and outlets can’t manage to stay at least somewhat professional, audiences …

UK Column, one of the UK's leading independent media outlets, says it is under attack by other independent media journalists. It has strongly defended itself. But what is really behind the unseemly spat? The post The UK Column Conundrum appeared first on Iain Davis.

“You want to defend the United States of America, then defend it with the tools it supplies you with—its Constitution. You ask for a mandate, General, from a ballot box. You don’t steal it after midnight, when the country has its back turned.” Seven Days in May (1964) Who is actually running the government? That is …

Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. The end of over-the-counter medicines? A report from ITV is warning that millions of Brits may be in danger of becoming addicted to codeine …

The beautiful multipolar world order is imminent according to BRICS foreign ministers. But is it actually that attractive? Read here for some musing on the subject. The post The Beautiful Multipolar New World Order appeared first on Iain Davis.

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.

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.