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The motion of the Sun is uniquely different to the movement of the planets.  The Sun tracks an erratic path while experiencing a two to one range in its orbital velocity.  The plasma of the Sun imbues the ability to oblate under centrifugal acceleration from axial spin.  This ability is shared with the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn which spin at even higher equatorial velocity than the Sun.

The proposal to replace GDP as the “primary measure” signals a philosophical and institutional shift. Economic output, as traditionally measured, would no longer be the central reference point. Instead, output would be evaluated against environmental constraints and social criteria defined by planetary boundaries and social foundations.

Emperor Penguin releases kernel 7.0 rc1 with some numerological musings Linus Torvalds has pondered his professional mortality in a self-deprecating post to mark the release of the first release candidate for version 7.0 of the Linux kernel.…

PLUS: Unpatched Ivanti boxes under attack; 0APT might not be a scam; AI gets better at helping cyber-scum; And more Infosec In Brief  An unknown attacker accessed the French government’s database listing every bank account in the country and made off with 1.2 million records.…

Sabine Hossenfelder is a high profile science influencer. I'm a fan - except for her misconceptions about climate change.

If large predators keep eating people in your village, the solution is to build wind turbines and install solar panels?

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. AI will save lives if we let it “ChatGTP could have prevented a mass shooting event, if only we listened to automatic flags!” That’s …

Heat pumps are efficient machines, sure, but whether they actually contribute to an efficient, secure, and sustainable energy system depends on too many elements around them. One thing is for sure, heat pumps cannot make oil and gas boilers go extinct… and anyone telling you otherwise is disingenuous.

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Confidential complainant details passed to local politician following debate A UK councillor has dubbed her local authority's data breach "crazy" after the personal details of individuals behind a series of complaints were revealed to her.…

This new research also identifies a higher frequency of natural forest fires during the LIA cooling period than the warmer MCA.

The “Fossil Future” is being built by India one coal plant at a time, along with myriad contracts for oil and natural gas development.

Apparently free speech is OK, as long as the Australian Government thinks what you are saying is true.

Did somebody say “small modular, molten fuel salt, thorium fuel cycle, thermal spectrum, breeder reactors”? Well, guess what? Somebody said it. And maybe it’s happening soon! So, what does that mean? Good question! Today on Solutions Watch, James talks to Thomas Pedersen of Copenhagen Atomics about their next gen small modular reactors and how independent …

Joined up thinking doesn't appear to be a feature of post Brexit waterway management.

A recent Colorado Sun article claims that climate change could cost the state up to $37 billion due to high temperature extremes and drought. This is false, built almost entirely on speculative claims about future weather and ignores the fact that reductions in extreme cold will positively influence health related costs.

Electronic eyes are watching from above, ready to catch dumpers of smashed up couches in the act The UK government is pulling together an elite squad of drone operators to crack down on the scourge of fly tippers and unauthorized dumpers across this ever less green and pleasant land.…

“I think the customer has spoken. That’s the punchline,” said Jim Farley, the Chief Executive of Ford, as he unveiled a $5 billion annual loss – joining the wider car industry in facing up to a catastrophic collapse in the EV market. The Telegraph has more.

Q3 figures show the trio drawing the most broadband complaints per 100,000 customers The UK's telecoms regulator has named and shamed the companies it receives the most customer complaints about, with certain brands cropping up more than others.…

California imported a record amount of gasoline in November after major refinery closures tied to years of Golden State leaders imposing strict regulations, Bloomberg News reported Sunday.

Of course, truly mitigating environmental dangers and building a robust energy future will require federal, state, and private sector actions to address root causes, ideally through market signals that mobilize the whole of the American economy to drive innovation and reduce emissions. But cities still play a key role because cities don’t have the option to play politics or get dragged down in culture wars.

'The DMCA was not designed to create walled gardens for tech giants' SerpApi, a Texas-based web scraping company, has asked a California court to dismiss Google's claim that that it bypassed digital locks to gather copyrighted content in Google Search results.…

The micro-computer maker’s shares surged this week after an X post tied the AI agent to Pi demand opinion  Beloved British single-board computer maker Raspberry Pi has achieved meme stock stardom, as its share price surged 90 percent over the course of a couple of days earlier this week. It's settled since, but it’s still up more than 30 percent on the week.…

About 100 customers affected PayPal has notified about 100 customers that their personal information was exposed online during a code change gone awry, and in a few of these cases, people saw unauthorized transactions on their accounts.…

EPA’s arguments for repealing the Obama endangerment finding are simple, clear, and strong. So, they have a likely chance of winning in the Supreme Court (SCOTUS), which is where the final decision will be made.

Legal language change aims to make longstanding policy clear Anthropic this week revised its legal terms to clarify its policy forbidding the use of third-party harnesses with Claude subscriptions, as the AI biz attempts to shore up its revenue model.…

4K unintended installs in very odd supply chain attack Someone compromised open source AI coding assistant Cline CLI's npm package earlier this week in an odd supply chain attack that secretly installed OpenClaw on developers' machines without their knowledge. …

Good news: Team shows re-entry pollution can be measured. Bad news: There may be more of it coming The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that burned up over Europe last year left a massive lithium plume in its wake, say a group of scientists. They warn the disaster is likely a sign of things to come as Earth's atmosphere continues to become a heavily trafficked superhighway to space. …

Up to 8 exaFLOPS of super sparse AI compute Nvidia rival Cerebras Systems' dinner plate-sized accelerators will power a new supercomputing cluster in India capable of 8 exaFLOPS of AI compute.…

This installment turns to the political psychology embedded in the report. Beyond science and industry, the document lays out a strategy for shaping public perception, countering resistance, embedding citizen assemblies, and constructing reinforcing social norms. Climate policy is presented not merely as technical transformation but as narrative management.

What happens in Vegas… Las Vegas hotel and casino giant Wynn Resorts appears to be the latest victim of data-grabbing and extortion gang ShinyHunters.…

Last night the Trump Whitehouse announced he was commanding the Pentagon to release all their classified files on unidentified flying objects (UFOs), unexplained aerial phenomena (UAPs) and extra-terrestrials: “Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and …

Bezos-corp blames user error for outage, 'specifically misconfigured access controls' In a cautionary tale of agentic AI, AWS reportedly suffered service outages caused by its own AI coding tools in December - though the company insists the downtime was ultimately due to human error.…

An encouraging trend is growing. Bright young people who were convinced of the truth of climate alarmist dogma open their eyes and mind to the actual data on the climate.

Probe says SAAQ misled government and botched rollout caused province-wide disruption A judge-led commission in Quebec has found that the state agency responsible for driver's licenses and license plates misled the Canadian government about a troubled SAP ERP project that ran more than C$245 million ($179 million/£132.6 million) over budget.…

Polish arrest leads to extradition and federal prison sentence Ukrainian national Oleksandr Didenko will spend the next five years behind bars in the US for his involvement in helping North Korean IT workers secure fraudulent employment.…

Consultancy to monitor usage by meatbags with corporate aspirations Accenture staff must demonstrate they have fully bought into the consultancy's AI vision if they want to get on.…

Attempt to go 'Made in EU' offers big tech escapees a reality check where lower cloud bills come with higher effort Building a startup entirely on European infrastructure sounds like a nice sovereignty flex right up until you actually try it and realize the real price gets paid in time, tinkering, and slowly unlearning a decade of GitHub muscle memory.…

Oh snap! The hyperscalers bought all the HDDs Hard drive manufacturers have already sold all the units they will make this year, and it looks like the AI infrastructure boom is to blame, with hyperscalers soaking up all the high-capacity storage.…

The brilliant Colin Brazier returns for our second short film on the cult of Net Zero and how it protects ‘green’ policies from being questioned by stifling debate and cracking down on free speech.

'Just trust us' – Big Tech's hackneyed catchphrase makes an unwelcome return The Electronic Frontier Foundation says it will accept LLM generated code from contributors to its open source projects but will draw the line at non-human generated comments and documentation.…

Hardcoded credential flaw in RecoverPoint already abused in espionage campaign Uncle Sam's cyber defenders have given federal agencies just three days to patch a maximum-severity Dell bug that's been under active exploitation since at least mid-2024.…

Security is 'dangerously behind' though, as devs 'treat it as something to solve later' 25 years after the Agile Manifesto, a group of experts hosted by one its signatories met to consider the impact of AI on software development, concluding among other things that test-driven development has never been more important.…

Feds say trio conspired to siphon processor and cryptography IP, allegedly routing some data overseas Two former Google engineers and a third alleged accomplice are facing federal charges after prosecutors accused them of swiping sensitive chip and security technology secrets and then trying to cover their tracks when the scheme began to unravel.…

Appeals judge overrules lower tribunal in latest battle of ICO against a breached retail giant The UK's data protection watchdog has scored a small win in a lengthy legal battle against a British retail group that lost millions of data records during a 2017 breach.…

With apologies to Stanley Kubrick

About half of exemption requests approved as 780,000 prepare for quarterly reporting in April The UK tax collector has exempted 661 people from moving to quarterly software-based reporting under its Making Tax Digital (MTD) scheme, about half the number who have applied.…

And a very awkward introduction to workplace culture On Call  By the end of the working week, it's natural to feel the walls closing in a little, which is why every Friday morning The Register frees things up a little by publishing a new installment of On Call – the reader-contributed column that shares your tech support stories.…

Baseload power sources — whether nuclear or coal — were dismissed prematurely with pie-in-the-sky magical-thinking that a renewables-centric system could replace them quickly. But the reality of an industrialized society is that demand does not pause when the wind stops blowing or when Baltic ice slows a tanker. In that context, abandoning dispatchable power before firm, proven alternatives are in place looks less like foresight and more like ideology driving policy.

Skill at buzzword bingo also required as company seeks innovative and disruptive visionary The CEO of code review platform provider Snyk has announced he will stand down so the company can find someone better-equipped to steer the company into the age of AI.…

Reliance Jio used super-cheap plans and own-brand phones to conquer India’s top telco, Reliance Jio, has announced plans to spend $110 billion on datacenters to run AI workloads and says it will use them to deliver services with the same “extreme affordability” it brought to the mobile communications market.…

MIT CSAIL's 2025 AI Agent Index puts opaque automated systems under the microscope AI agents are becoming more common and more capable, without consensus or standards on how they should behave, say academic researchers.…

$300 a month buys you a backdoor that looks like legit software Researchers at Proofpoint late last month uncovered what they describe as a "weird twist" on the growing trend of criminals abusing remote monitoring and management software (RMM) as their preferred attack tools.…

Plenty of blame to go around, says Isaacman NASA has released the findings from its investigation of the ill-fated crewed Boeing Starliner mission of 2024, and while it still isn't sure of the root technical causes, it's admitted that trusting Boeing to do a thorough job appears to have been a mistake. …

AI model said to show improved reasoning capabilities If you want an even better AI model, there could be reason to celebrate. Google, on Thursday, announced the release of Gemini 3.1 Pro, characterizing the model's arrival as "a step forward in core reasoning."…

Wants SLAs, revamped contracts for cloud ops The US Congress’ spending watchdog, the Government Accountability Office, has pressed the National Science Foundation’s CIO to improve how the agency plans, manages, and procures technology.…

FBI warns these cyber-physical attacks are on the rise Thieves stole more than $20 million from compromised ATMs last year using a malware-assisted technique that the FBI says is on the uptick across the United States.…

From AI conflation to thin evidence, a new report calls many climate claims greenwashing Some AI advocates claim that bots hold the secret to mitigating climate change. But research shows that the reality is far different, as new datacenters cause power utilities to burn even more fossil fuels to meet their insatiable demand for energy.…

A hundred days a year in the air doesn't come cheap Opinion  Palantir CEO Alex Karp has a singular mission to stand out among tech CEOs. Big talk on sales, profits, and tech potential is not enough. His gift for edgy one-liners takes him to places where execs of the past would have scarcely dared to go. Say hello to allusions to goose-stepping and

For now, it might not function outside of a lab Cybersecurity researchers say they've spotted the first Android malware strain that uses generative AI to improve performance once installed. But it may be only a proof of concept.…

The list of countries that want to “ban social media for children” (read: identity-gate internet access) just continues to grow and grow. There’s Germany… NEW – Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU), a former BlackRock chairman, wants to end the anonymity on the Internet: “I want to see real names.” pic.twitter.com/sUjG7XIdrd — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) February 18, …

IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in 'efficiency' shakeup Job cuts at the IRS's tech arm have gone faster and farther than expected, with 40 percent of IT staff and four-fifths of tech leaders gone, the agency's CIO revealed yesterday.…

Rush is on to push forward sympathetic candidates from both parties ahead of midterms Meta is among tech giants reportedly funding US politicians friendly to the AI industry, as concerns mount over a huge expansion in datacenter building and the effects of AI on everyday life.…

Emails show all discussed networking and biz interests with the sex offender throughout the 2010s Cybersecurity conference DEF CON has added three men named in the Epstein files to its list of banned individuals. They are not accused of any criminal wrongdoing.…

Self-generated skills don't do much for AI agents, study finds, but human-curated skills do Teach an AI agent how to fish for information and it can feed itself with data. Tell an AI agent to figure things out on its own and it may make things worse.…

'Why not 12?' says lawyer The UK is bracketing "intimate images shared without a victim's consent" along with terror and child sexual abuse material, and demanding that online platforms remove them within two days.…

You told me not to write it on a Post-it... Bork!Bork!Bork!  Today's bork is entirely human-generated and will send a shiver down the spine of security pros. No matter how secure a system is, a user's ability to undo an administrator's best efforts should not be underestimated.…

Study of 11 LLMs shows they rarely refuse to answer, even when they probably should Artificial intelligence chatbots can be too chatty when answering questions on government services, swamping accurate information and making mistakes if told to be more concise, according to research.…

Co-author Jon Kern says AI coding tools amplify strengths and expose weaknesses Interview  Twenty-five years after 17 software developers gathered at a Utah ski resort to draft the Agile Manifesto, artificial intelligence is once again reshaping how code gets written.…

The DECwriter got me hooked in 1975. 'Clawdine' feels like a wonderful new beginning Opinion  Fifty years ago this month, I touched a computer for the first time. It was an experience that pegged the meter for me like no other – until last week.…

Dell, however, is welcome to help build a local-language LLM Poland’s Ministry of Defence has banned Chinese cars – and any others include tech to record position, images, or sound – from entering protected military facilities.…

IT services companies are largely immune to AIpocalypse, although the outlook is not good for entry-level jobs Indian think tank the Council for Research on International Economic Relations has found AI is not an immediate threat to the nation’s IT services sector.…

It may have half the capacity of fused silica glass, but is faster and much cheaper Microsoft this week detailed new research aimed at preserving data in borosilicate glass plates for thousands of years longer than conventional media like hard drives or magnetic tape, without needing to worry about bit rot.…

'Potential data protection incident' at an 'independent licensing partner,' we're told Adidas has confirmed it is investigating a third-party breach at one of its partner companies after digital thieves claimed they stole information and technical data from the German sportswear giant.…

Whenever a “scandal” like the Epstein files dominates the news, we can be certain that it is meant as a distraction from something more sinister on the horizon. The Epstein files have been in the hands of the F.B.I. for eight years or more. Then why have redacted files been released just recently? Cui bono? And …

In a statement yesterday, the office of the British Prime Minister announced plans to broaden the scope of the “social media ban” for minors that would see virtual private networks (VPNs) included in the future. Speaking to “parents and carers” today, Sir Keir Starmer is expected to “make clear this government will act at pace …

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. Facial Recognition Rollout hits London The British Transport Police are launching trials of Live Facial Recognition tech in underground stations in London: Today we’re …

As we discussed in Part 1, the ruling in the case of the Filton Six demonstrates that a lawfully convened jury of the people is sovereign. The jury serves justice—the Rule of Law. Government legislation and directions issued by judges are nothing more than advisory. Parliament’s claim, that it is sovereign, that it can “create or end …

Mattel has launched Autistic Barbie. Because children with autism should be visible, including to themselves. ‘Every child deserves to see themselves in Barbie.’ So goes Mattel’s blurb. It is a theme of our times: being visible, seeing ourselves, coming-out into the light. Launched in the domain of what is called ‘sexuality,’ it is now a …

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.

Please check out my speech at the Mass Non Compliance protest rally against digital ID in London on 13th December 2025. The post Iain Davis Speaks At The Mass Non Compliance Protest Against Digital ID appeared first on Iain Davis.

This brilliant argument from the X account of Private Joker explains why those who think digital ID is a "bogeyman" couldn't be more wrong. Read more here. The post Digital Identity Is a Force-Multiplier appeared first on Iain Davis.

The Technocratic Dark State: James Corbett and I discuss some of the major themes of my new book now available to Preorder through Papercut Publishing. The post James Corbett and Iain Davis Expose the Technocratic Dark State appeared first on Iain Davis.