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Jet fuel from refineries based in foreign countries face monumental logistical challenges to keep California airports open. The post Another California refinery closure will threaten national and global economies appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Campaign group says FOI figures show some trusts carried out fewer procedures than before

Crew sheltered in SpaceX Dragon as aging Zvezda segment's cracks continue to test orbital nerve

Attackers used social engineering to access third-party business apps and steal patient information

Potential takeover would represent significant commitment to the open instruction set architecture

More reasons to love social media and AI

Union says outsourcer will miss June 30 target after portal meltdown and mounting complaints

PARTNER CONTENT: Empowering Kazakhstan’s "Year of Digitalization and AI" with Next-Gen Connectivity and Supercomputing Solutions

Analysts say Redmond still has billions of reasons to keep backing its flagship DBMS, even as Azure, Postgres, and AI hog the spotlight

Look to AI agents and open source to escape the vendor-driven upgrade cycle

America’s teenagers and young adults are experiencing a “troubling rise” in anxiety, depression, emergency room visits, suicidal thoughts and suicide, the Centers for Disease Control, psychological and psychiatric organizations, schools and other observers are reporting … yet again. The post Worry About Climate Fearmongering – Not Climate Change appeared first on

Nextcloud rollout shows locally controlled storage is one thing; getting users off Office is quite another

PARTNER CONTENT: From hyperscalers to enterprises, performance-per-watt and system-level efficiency are redefining the cloud compute foundation

It turns out that to get the really high temperatures in western Washington, the atmosphere needs to organize itself in a very specific way, generally with a strong upper-level ridge and offshore-directed flow at low levels. The post Not All Daily Temperature Records Are the Same appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

It is the kind of blunder that makes you wonder how it ever got this far. Trump’s own Justice Department is undercutting the administration’s effort to rein in federal climate overreach. The post Trump’s Energy Agenda Is Being Undermined By His Own Justice Department appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

What's up, DocLang?

Second Catalyst SD-WAN Manager flaw exploited as an 0-day this month

According to the one person who actually read the research paper

If you are a bureaucrat in New York City, just somehow attach the word “climate” to your budget demand and they’ll give you whatever you ask for. Keep this in mind next time the City comes around looking for another tax increase.   The post There Are No Budget Constraints In New York City: “Coastal Resiliency” Edition appeared first on

Worried that an unexpected strike could take out critical orbital systems, Pentagon researchers want to know how fast the industry thinks it could launch replacements

How can I help you today? Present your papers to begin

It’s official, the United Kingdom is getting its own Australia-style “social media ban” for everyone under 16. In fact it’s going to be “Australia-plus” according to insiders, with some kind of ‘curfew’ expected to part of the final roll-out. We are banning social media access for under 16s. These days kids must find their feet …

Free VM Essentials license and cut-price Zerto dangled at customers eyeing a platform escape

Joins the ranks of Nottingham Uni and 100 other unnamed victims

Don't hold your breath, though – architect Brian Goetz warns devs it will likely still be preview in next LTS release

Ours is an agricultural golden age. The air is richer in the compound that gives plants life. The weather is more conducive to growing food than it has been in centuries. The fabricated doomsday scenarios of the climate industrial complex are ludicrous. The post India’s Record Crops Reject Food, Warming Alarmism appeared first on Watts Up With T

Federal Data Center Enhancement Act (FDCEA) of 2023 covers standards including security and sustainability

26 years late and no threat unless you still run a PDP-11/70 and rely on short-wave timekeeping broadcasts

A mystery calendar event is certainly one way to find out about being selected for the Artemis III crew

Bootable containers pitch shows how distro can be managed with familiar OCI tooling

Join me, Andrew Johnson, and investigative journalist Richard D. Hall this summer as we go on the road for the "A Home For Lewis" trust. Check the page for tickets and further details. The post Speaking Tour: A Home For Lewis appeared first on Iain Davis.

Connectivity checker trips browser alarms thanks to lapsed security paperwork

PARTNER CONTENT: Onix's Wingspan platform promises to move enterprises from pilot purgatory to governed, enterprise-wide AI deployment in weeks, not years

Support bot maker claims its AI agents can resolve three-quarters of customer queries without human help

Google says the intruders were on the hunt for everything from drone tech to pathogens

Community repo freezes new accounts after attackers swamp it with poisoned package updates

Brussels says access curbs prove Europe needs greater technological independence

Climate nonsense will eventually end and will be dumped onto the ash heap of history where it belongs. But the longer the cult goes on, the more damage is done. We should all do what we can to stop the madness as soon as possible. The post The Climate Cult appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Linux app packaging rethink could leave alternative-init distros in the cold

PwC says AI hiring jumped 61 percent despite wider slowdown in vacancies, with employers increasingly looking for workers who can use AI rather than build it

The pension may be cushy, but the looming headaches for £77K are not

Experts welcome contract review after claims NHS England missed chance to grow UK health tech market

UK plans to go further than Australia, while also targeting stranger contact, livestreaming, and addictive platform features

Quote of the Week: “In scientific debate, it is neither power nor authority that should carry decisive weight, but only scientific truth itself” — Ferenc Deák, 1803−1876, Hungarian Stateman [H/t István János Kovács] The post Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #694 appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

When art reflects modern realities

Hush. children, what’s that sound? Has the flood gates’ key been found?

This is why you don’t let junior staff ‘save the company a few dollars’

The WMO states that Class 5 sites can overestimate temperatures by as much as 5C. The WMO are perfectly clear that junk sites like Bute Park should not be used for climatological purposes and cannot be regarded as being representative of the surrounding environment. The post New Welsh Temperature Record at Bute Park appeared first on Watts Up With That?

Artemis III is not a social experiment but a high-risk, high-precision test mission meant to push hardware, procedures, and human performance to their limits. The priority is not optics; it is execution. The post Woke Drama and Media Non-troversy Ensue after Artemis III All-Male Crew is Announced appeared first on

PLUS: Japan’s space truck is back in business; Zoho's DIY servers; Record tech exports for Korea, and more!

"... there’s little hope of a new system to help those forced from home by climate impacts ..." The post Claim: The Trump Administration is Shutting Out Climate Refugees appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach (@WEschenbach at X, my own blog is here.) I’d like to take a moment to discuss some implications of my peer-reviewed paper about my implementation… The post The Model That Works appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

“I love the inflation.” Donald Trump, June 2026 I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation. I don’t think about anybody.” Donald Trump, May 2026 America has become an occupied nation. Not by one invading army, but by many occupying powers: the police state, the surveillance state, the war state, the corporate state, the foreign influence machine, …

L3Harris supplies system that can down incoming drones with laser-guided rockets

We are taking unprecedented risks with our electricity system, because those in charge of energy policy have no conception of how it works. The post Too Much Wind and Too Much Sun appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

From Java tests to Shai-Hulud, bots keep proving they'll swallow anything you feed them

Brussels presses on despite US fury as it looks to enforce cloud autonomy and bolster open source

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

MPs told that while concerns over handsets and social media grows, evidence they're changing children's brains is limited

It’s not climate change that is the primary threat to the mental health and intellectual formation of young people in Britain and the West. It is the relentless, one-sided, empirically dishonest amplification of worst-case scenarios by institutions — newspapers, broadcasters, schools, government agencies — that ought to know better and once did. The post

Republicans, business leaders, and ratepayers should start paying attention. The decisions made by these commissions will shape the affordability, reliability, resilience, and economic competitiveness of the American economy for decades to come. The post America’s Energy Future Is Being Decided in Obscure Utility Commission Races appeared first on

The era of unchecked “activism” that masks itself as science while practicing inhumane sabotage is reaching its end. We are witnessing the slow, painful process of reality catching up to the Greenpeace propaganda. And frankly, it’s about time. The post The History of Greenpeace: The Evolution of Green Extremism appeared first on Wa

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach (@WEschenbach on X, my personal blog is here) Dear friends, pull up a chair and pour a good strong coffee. Because today’s topic is a… The post Unverified and Unvalidated appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

So the German Supreme Court has ruled on my case. Their ruling is that they will not rule on my case. They sent my attorney a letter to that effect. It literally says: The constitutional complaint will not be accepted for a ruling. No explanation is provided. This ruling is incontestable.” So I am now …

Spoiler: It doesn't end well for Team Register

Rwandan President Paul Kagame may well be Africa’s foremost nuclear energy champion. Speaking in Paris at Nuclear Energy Summit 2026, Kagame said Rwanda is determined to do what it takes to power its development with nuclear energy. This, he said, will require strong institutions, sound regulation, and an educated workforce – all of which Rwanda is building. The post Africa’s nuclea

Honey, I flattened the datacenter network

Minister says trusts can go it alone on procurement as Parliament mulls February 2027 FDP contract renewal

Yet another junk study, which would not see the light of day in any other branch of science: The post Plankton Production Same As 20 Years Before–Climate Scientists Panic! appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

A blast from the past greets commuters

AI agents can't be trusted, so don't give them dangerous powers

We're moving as fast as we can, says SK Group chair

GitHub caught off guard by customers actually using the AI being evangelized

Plus, Raspberry Pi edition finally catches up

Do you know the documented history of decades of illegal Israeli government spying on Washington? Do you know who was involved in the nuclear smuggling ring that stole America’s nuclear secrets to build Israel’s illegal and still undeclared nuclear arsenal? Do you know about Unit 8200 and the inescapable web of cyber spying operations that …

It has been reported that ‘healthy life expectancy’ in the UK has fallen during the past decade. Disparity between the ‘healthy life expectancy’ of those in different regions of the UK has been described. A 20-year gap between the ‘healthy life expectancy’ of those in Richmond and the ‘healthy life expectancy’ of those in Blackpool …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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.