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“This is the fifth consecutive failed attempt…. UNEP warns the IPCC trust fund may run out before AR7 is even finished. What we are watching is … a slow-motion erosion of the institution that translates climate science into political accountability — and it is happening at the moment that science is most needed.” – Jozef Pecho, IPCC climate scientist (below) The post IPCC Troubles: The L

Ocean circulation is a coupled system. Change one gateway, and you risk...well, anything. The post Dam the Bering Strait? – When Climate Panic Meets Geoengineering Fantasy appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Pair accused of creating literal flame war as bonkers conspiracy theories grow Two men face charges over a series of arson attacks on 5G masts spanning two years following a Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) investigation.…

Sign-in failures, unexpected sign-outs... just another day for users Users of Microsoft Outlook on iOS are continuing to experience outages more than 24 hours after glitches first surfaced, despite Microsoft's assurances it rolled back the configuration change and restored services.…

Linux vendor touts European independence at SUSECON as majority stakeholder quietly explores its options European-based SUSE devoted much of the annual SUSECON event to its sovereignty-focused pitch - even as reports swirl that its majority stakeholder is exploring a $6 billion sale which could land the Linux vendor in American hands.…

Execs in the C-suite thought they could swap models in a week. They were hallucinating Opinion  The days when you could jump from one frontier AI model to another at the drop of a hat are going away as vendor lock-in starts to kick in, and prices increase.…

Balsa wood is a key component of wind turbines, a near-perfect material for them. The post Balsa Trees Illegally Logged for Wind Power appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Comparison between 2 vendors was never meant to be seen ... or made The UK's pensions and welfare ministry has slammed its outsourcing provider, SSCL, for sharing a document the department says it "inadvertently provided", a document that later surfaced in a legal dispute over a £370 million contract.…

Last time an idea like this came up, Meta packed up its toys and went home Australia has come up with a new way to ensure social media and search companies pay to support journalism: a 2.25 percent tax on revenue that’s avoidable if companies instead do deals with local media.…

Headcounts, however, are mostly holding up AI is beginning to make a dent in the business models of India’s big four technology services giants…

That combination brings both uncertainty and, inevitably, complications. The post The State of Climate Science: Uncertainty, Complexity, and the Politics That Follow appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Back to the drawing board for Meta's AI ambitions China has blocked Meta’s acquisition of AI upstart Manus.…

No tree canopy means more sunlight reaches the ground.... Well....DUH!" The post Eye Roller Study: Burned forest areas have faster snowmelt appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

The all-you-can-eat AI buffet is coming to an end Microsoft is closing the AI buffet offered to GitHub Copilot customers, acknowledging that it can’t sell AI like Red Lobster's Endless Shrimp.…

Vendor confirms repo data exposure after Lapsus$ claims source code, secrets dump Software security testing outfit Checkmarx has become the latest organization caught up in an ongoing attack on security-tool providers. The biz said data posted online appears to have come from one of its GitHub repositories after the Lapsus$ extortion crew claimed to have dumped the company’s source code, secrets, and other sensitive data.…

Relax, the data's been recovered. Continue with your vibe coding Jer (Jeremy) Crane, the founder of automotive SaaS platform PocketOS, spent the weekend recovering from a data extinction event caused by the company's AI coding agent in less than 10 seconds. …

It’s nearly invisible to the naked eye but our instruments give rise to a vision of swaths of scintillating corona glowing as thunderstorms pass overhead The post Interesting Field Work: Treetops glowing during storms captured for the first time appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

After missing its 2025 target, Boeing's MQ-25A Stingray is one step closer to a carrier deck The US Navy’s current carrier-based refueling aircraft may soon be getting help, as Boeing has completed the first flight of its autonomous tanker drone designed for carrier operations.…

On Saturday night, during the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner, a gunman opened fire. He wasn’t in the same room as Donald Trump at the time, but that is presumed to be his target. Nobody was killed; one Secret Service agent was hit, but he was allegedly saved from serious damage because the bullet hit …

They were doing it in Texas... Core Scientific is trading coins for tokens, revealing plans on Monday to convert a 300-megawatt bitcoin mining operation in Pecos, Texas, to an 1.5 gigawatt AI datacenter campus.…

Itron, Medtronic disclose breaches in Friday filings Digital intruders recently broke into two major tech suppliers - utility-technology firm Itron and medical-device maker Medtronic - according to filings with federal regulators.…

Eish shame man! Maybe you shouldn't ask AI to set the rules for AI use? South Africa has pulled its draft national AI policy after discovering that it was citing sources that exist only in the fertile imagination of a chatbot.…

"... the Australian economy has also been operating beyond its sustainable capacity ..." The post HSBC: Net Zero Australia “one of the least well placed” to Weather the Iran Oil Shock appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

No ads, no algorithm, and you actually have to physically tap phones to add a friend It's been more than a decade since social media platform Friendster went dark, but a new owner has brought it back from the dead - sort of - with the hope he can give exhausted users of modern platforms a reprieve. …

Executives from Citi, Home Depot, and Capcom describe early work with AI agents While AI agents have moved from experimental tools to customer-facing workers in a matter of months, the next challenge is governance and reliability once those agents touch real money, real shoppers, and real creative output.…

Facebook provider also working with energy storage firm to keep 100 hours of juice on hand With AI demand growing, Facebook parent Meta is looking for new ways to power its datacenters, with one ambitious project pledging to send solar power down from orbit. Another agreement offers Meta the opportunity to store enough power to keep its bit barns going, even when the grid is over capacity or down.…

No. More. Exclusivity. Redmond keeps the ring until 2032, but OpenAI is free to see other clouds Once tied tightly together, Microsoft and OpenAI have amended their agreement, making the Windows giant's license non-exclusive. In exchange, Microsoft will no longer owe OpenAI a revenue share.…

Side boosters to make simultaneous touchdown while center core takes one for the team Updated  SpaceX is preparing to launch its Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time in more than 18 months, kicking off what could be a busy time for the vehicle.…

Space Force awards 11 firms prototype deals to build orbital interceptors The United States Space Force (USSF) has awarded eleven companies contracts to develop space-based interceptors for President Trump's Golden Dome program, in agreements worth up to $3.2 billion.…

Because cold is more dangerous than heat, some researchers argue that warmer winters will save more lives. They found that in many places, deaths from cold are decreasing faster than deaths from heat are increasing. The post It’s The Cold, Stupid! Cold 20 Times More Lethal Than Heat, Multiple Studies Show appeared first on

Global recruitment giant says 71% of human firewalls saw wages stagnate last year as threats and responsibilities grew Cybersecurity professionals were the most overlooked workers in IT when it came to pay rises in 2025, according to new figures from recruiter Harvey Nash.…

Security giant says attackers grabbed 'limited set' of data. Crooks claim 10 million records A home security biz getting digitally burgled is not a great look - but that's exactly where ADT finds itself. The company has confirmed a cyber intrusion following an extortion attempt by the ShinyHunters crew, which claims to have made off with more than 10 million records.…

Keep the patches away for as long as you like Microsoft has devised a solution to the problem of Windows Updates that break customer devices – users are now able to pause them for as long as they like.…

Dynamic Earth's ancient rock holds not primordial crystal, but a tiny Linux box having a bad day Bork!Bork!Bork!  From the beginning of time, there has always been Bork. Lurking within the heart of this ancient rock is not a precious crystal or a rare fossil. No, it's a Raspberry Pi desktop and dialog.…

UK’s data watchdog confirms its boss has been off the job since February while an HR investigation runs The UK's data watchdog is without its chief after John Edwards stepped aside from the Information Commissioner's Office while an independent workplace investigation examines unspecified HR matters.…

Microsoft Copilot now heading into ‘Official Sensitive’ work after winning back just 26 minutes a day in a trial HMRC is betting big on Microsoft Copilot, rolling it out to tens of thousands of staff after a Whitehall trial estimated it saved each user roughly 26 minutes of time per day.…

“The ignorant person affirms, the scientist doubts, the wise person reflects.” — Aristotle The post Select Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #688 appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

AI vuln-hunter finds what humans taught it to find. Funny that Opinion  In retrospect, calling it Mythos made it a hostage to fortune. Anthropic may have hoped that the name implied its AI code security model had mythical god-like powers, but there's an alternate reading. Another definition for Mythos is a set of beliefs of obscure origin which are incompatible with reality.…

There was only one ESC from sneaky screenshots and fake BSODs Who, Me?  Welcome to another instalment of Who, Me? It's The Register's Monday column that shares your stories of mistakes, occasional malice, and how you came out the other side.…

Few mainstream media operations seek to provide a balanced debate on climate change and Net Zero, but those that do such as Talk and GB News struggle to find opposing voices to appear with anyone who disputes the ‘settled’ narrative. All except Jim Dale, with his word-salad ‘whack-a-mole’ claims of imminent climate Armageddon. Like many of Monbiot’s past claims, they are truly some of the great comedy gifts of our time. The post

Freely chosen economic illiteracy, like other ideological afflictions, appears immune to correction by experience. The hangman’s noose may concentrate some minds, but in Westminster and Brussels, the noose is worn as a fashion accessory. The post Why the UK and EU Keep Doubling Down on Net Zero Dogma in the Face of Spiralling Economic

Join us for this week's Kettle as we dive into GCN and the latest not-so-alarming revelations about Mythos KETTLE  If you needed further evidence that AI comes first in pretty much everything nowadays, look no further than this year's Google Cloud Next show, which happened last week.…

There’s an invisible hand reaching into America’s pocket every time we fill up at the pump or pay that electric bill, and it doesn’t come through the Strait of Hormuz. The post Leftists Fake Tears About High Energy Prices, But Ignore the Foreign-Funded Lawfare appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

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. CBDCS JUST KEEP ON TRUCKIN’ With war and Trump and Epstein et al. dominating the headlines, we’ve stopped getting our regular updates on the …

"... There will be a significant boost to renewables and nuclear power and a further shift towards a more electrified future ..." The post IEA Head Fatih Birol: UK should forego North Sea Oil Expansion Because Nobody Needs Oil and Gas appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Before checking AI's price tag, see whether it fits What does AI cost? It's a simple question and an important one – the answer will determine the fate of companies and shape society. But it's also a question that can't be answered in a meaningful way without additional context.…

The signals in Europe are crystal clear. Energy prices are structurally higher than in the United States; the electricity grid is grinding to a halt; industry is leaving Europe; and dependence on imports is growing. These are not isolated incidents. This is how the system works. And yet, one message is echoing from Brussels and The Hague: let’s accelerate the process. The post Europea

The OS trying to upsell you subscriptions is more than just an annoyance opinion  You’ve had your laptop for months, and you’ve always made sure it installed Microsoft updates. Then one day you boot up, and Windows 11 greets you with a confusing message: “You’re almost done setting up your PC.”…

Cal.com considers AGPL a license to drill, but not everyone feels that way Opinion  Cal.com has closed its commercial codebase, abandoning years of AGPL-3.0 licensing in a move that has alarmed the developer community that helped build it and sent ripples through the broader open source world.…

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

So, how to get rid of this pesky excess winter death data? Simples – just stop publishing it. The post Govt Cover Up Inconvenient Winter Excess Deaths Data appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Allergy season is slightly longer because the plant growing season is longer, which is a good thing for both pollinators and ultimately human beings because of higher crop production. The post Duluth News Tribune Ignores the Benefits to Plants from Global Warming, Focuses on Allergies Instead appeared first on

Climate-related disaster deaths have declined 97.5% over the century (1920-2025). Richer, smarter, and more resilient societies reduce disaster deaths. This swamps any potential climate signal. The post The ‘Climate Change’ Bottom Line appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Despite recent setbacks, the WHO is still alive and kicking and seeking to impose their global biosecurity agenda on the world. So, what should we do about it? Today on Solutions Watch, James talks to members of the International Health Reform Project about their new report on The Right to Health Sovereignty and lays out …

A somewhat under-the-radar decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit earlier this month is, on its surface, focused on the issue of home alcohol distilling. But the appeals court’s reasoning could have a big impact on other businesses and various walks of life, including the energy industry. The post Good News: Fifth Circuit Says G

AI transformation is about people and organization, not technology Enterprise AI projects go off the rails when companies focus on the technology instead of the people.…

Humans are wired to prioritize alarming information over neutral data The post The Psychology of Climate Doom: How Narrative Outpaces Nuance appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Coming in cold with custom Snow malware A previously unknown threat group using tried-and-tested social engineering tactics - Microsoft Teams chat invitations and helpdesk staff impersonation - is also using custom malware in its data-stealing attacks, according to Google's Threat Intelligence Group.…

Now available in preview, DeepSeek V4 cuts inference costs to a fraction of R1 Chinese AI darling DeepSeek is back with a new open weights large language model that promises performance to rival the best proprietary American LLMs. Perhaps more importantly, it claims to dramatically reduce inference costs and it extends support for Huawei's Ascend family of AI accelerators.…

The shortest war with the longest payoff June 12 to June 24, 2025, global media staged a nonstop spectacle, breathlessly narrating the scripted “12-day war” between Israel and Iran as if it were an unfolding geopolitical cataclysm. According to the standard timeline, Israel opened hostilities with “Operation Red Wedding,” targeting Iran’s nuclear facilities and senior IRGC leadership in what …

New LTS is here, with more tooling for GPGPU and AI workloads Ubuntu 26.04 "Resolute Raccoon," the latest LTS release from Canonical, arrives with GNOME 50, Linux kernel 7.0, and drops the Xorg option from Ubuntu Desktop while still running X11 applications through Xwayland.…

What, you didn't expect autonomous military craft to stay in the sky forever? Drones: they're not just for the sky anymore. DARPA is seeking compact deep-ocean autonomous craft developed faster, smaller, and cheaper than today's full-ocean-depth AUV systems.…

Silicon often from US, but the kit from APAC and elsewhere America's telco regulator has clarified its ban on foreign-made routers also includes mobile hotspots and domestic routers that use a 5G cellular connection to the internet.…

Leak-site bragging meets breach hunters as Have I Been Pwned flags millions of records Carnival Corporation, the world's largest cruise company, is dealing with choppy waters after Have I Been Pwned flagged what it claimed were 7.5 million unique email addresses all allegedly tied to one of its subsidiaries. …

Latest in long-running pwning of Cisco kit found in mystery Fed agency A US federal agency was successfully targeted by a previously unknown backdoor malware called Firestarter, according to CISA cybersnoops and their UK counterparts – neither of which disclosed the agency's name.…

One way to deal with bug hunting LLMs: ditch the old drivers One tactic to deal with LLM-powered vulnerability detection is simple – just speed up the removal of old code. If it's gone, it no longer matters if it's buggy.…

We gotta get boring to get graduated Grafanacon  The co-founder of the OpenTelemetry project says its maintainers may need to turn to AI tools to get some elements robust enough for the project as a whole to graduate.…

Windows giant offers buyouts to eligible staffers willing to walk Microsoft has committed to improving the quality and reliability of Windows, and a step on the path to that goal is… encouraging a chunk of its US staff to leave the company.…

Chipzilla hopes agents, robots, and edge devices make CPUs cool again... now it has to build the chips Intel is betting on AI to reverse its fortunes, wagering that inference and agentic workloads will restore the CPU to the center of compute - even as its chip manufacturing struggles persist.…

After flubbing the Metaverse, Zuck embraces the Neoverse Meta plans to deploy tens of millions of Amazon Web Services' Graviton 5 CPU cores as part of a multi-year collaboration that will make the social network among the largest-ever consumers of the cloud giant’s homegrown silicon.…

Ailing scaling blamed by Windows-maker for unreadable missives Microsoft's update to harden Remote Desktop against phishing attacks has arrived. When users open a Remote Desktop (.rdp) file, they should now see a warning listing all requested connection settings - or they would if it was displaying correctly.…

OpenAI's first security hire, Ari Herbert-Voss, thinks more automated bug finding will improve security without costing jobs Black Hat Asia  Open source models can find bugs as effectively as Anthropic's Mythos, according to Ari Herbert-Voss, CEO of AI-powered security startup RunSybil and OpenAI's first security hire.…

Oval Office resident rants about Blighty's Digital Services Tax with threats that don’t quite add up Donald Trump has threatened to whack the UK with a "big tariff" if it doesn't scrap its tax on large US tech firms, reviving a long-running spat over who gets to skim the proceeds from Silicon Valley's global empire.…

Missed flights and more means something has got to give at the border Greece is taking a flexible approach to introducing the European Union's biometric Entry/Exit System (EES), after some British passport holders missed flights home following the system's implementation on 10 April.…

Earlier today, Iranian state media channels published a video of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commandos seizing a container ship in the Strait of Hormuz. I think we should talk about it. It can teach us a lot. Iranian state TV aired a video of the IRGC seizing container ships in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran …

Yesterday evening, the UK’s High Court ruled in favour of the Metropolitan Police in a legal challenge pertaining to the use of Live Facial Recognition Technology (LFR) across London’s transport network. The case had been brought by Silkie Carlo of Big Brother Watch and Shaun Thompson, a youth worker who was previously misidentified by the …

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About two weeks ago, I started  noticing a lot of anecdotes popping up on my social media feeds about just how dawg-gone awesome China was. Stuff like this, which I saw not ten minutes ago… A round-trip flight from New York to Shanghai next month starts around $1,039, a 5-star hotel averages about $124–$138 a …

So, you’re a super-wealthy well-connected, possibly old-blooded member of the club of agenda-creators and you now feel that the only way forward for humanity is for you and those like you to completely control the 99%. In other words to do the following – remove all privacy from their lives outlaw access to real information, …

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.