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“From a public safety standpoint, if you’ve decommissioned three nuclear reactors, why would you want to install a BESS facility in populated areas that is far less safe?” The post Would You Rather Live Near A Battery Energy Storage System or a Nuclear Plant appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

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 …

Too bad all those Aussie oil refineries had to close. The post Net Zero Just Cut Aussie Wheat Production by 50% appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Buckeye State found it had inadvertently joined the billion dollar losers' club

A database containing 64,000 user records was published to GitHub after an attacker claimed to have compromised all Atlas systems

Last-hour amendments aim to allay privacy concerns, but broad scepticism about feasibility remains

Rice has fed civilizations through the Holocene Climatic Optimum, the mid-Holocene warm spike, the Medieval Warm Period, and the Little Ice Age. The paper’s own author concedes that aggregate production can be maintained. The paper’s own introduction acknowledges that adaptation is already masking the warming that has occurred. And the paper’s thirty-times figure rests on a scenario that no longer exists in the literature. The post

System relies on a proprietary storage layer as AWS moves to separate storage and compute to fit mega AI demands

Rapid7: Attackers exploit authentication bypass flaw in the wild, meaning more emergency patching for PAN-OS users

Forget Wintel, we're living in a Winvidia world now

Engineers' weekends ruined as Dashlane's automatic protections kicked in

Proposed legislation threatens fines and prison for reckless damage. Russian Prez must be shaking in his boots

The man behind Redmond's direct billing model and its geo rollout explains why the new version forgets the channel to its cost

Notebooks up 11%, desktops 10% as chipmakers ditch consumer kit for AI server bling

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits..” — Albert Einstein The post Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #692 appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Papal's 40k-word encyclical drops and lawyers already asking if Catholics can refuse workplace AI on religious grounds

He knew this was amazingly dumb but couldn’t stop laughing as the fruit went splat

Chipzilla’s first 2nm-class Xeon is finally here bristling with 288 cores

Germany is chronically stuck in “green” insanity. Prognosis: very poor.  The post Germany’s Ecological Holocaust… Once Fairy Tale Forests Getting Cleared for Wind Turbines appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Threads on a half shell, Intel power!

Weather prediction was a primitive, subjective affair at that time.  There were no numerical weather prediction models, little understanding of jet streams and upper-level weather features, and an acute lack of observations, particularly over the ocean. The post The Real Story of the D-Day Weather Forecast appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

This week on The Kettle, we mull over whether the Steam Deck is a canary in the coal mine for the future of hardware prices, and the effect of Blue Origin's blowout on NASA's Moon missions

"Such temporary breaches do not mean the Paris Agreement’s long-term climate goals are unattainable" - the desperate UN push to save the Paris Agreement. The post Lets Hope Global Temperature Stays Elevated Until the Paris Agreement Collapses appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach (@WEschenbach on X, my personal blog is here) For the usual unknown reasons that are so common in my life, I got to thinking about… The post Nature Turns Up The Sunshine 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. 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 …

Tipping point. Irreversible. Ecosystems collapsing. Fisheries at risk. Carbon sink weakening. It's worse than we thought. People will die. Damn deniers! The post About That Arctic Tipping Point appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

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

Project Headroom could save you big money, too

Using pattern analysis, it may be assumed that the onset of the next GSM has arrived, and global cooling will be realized over the next few decades. The post A Grand Solar Minimum Has Arrived…Global Cooling Of At Least 1°C Is Expected by The 2030s, 2040s appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

But experts worry the shift in Democrats’ rhetoric means they may not aggressively pursue climate action if they win back power in Washington. The road is already uphill: the Trump administration has terminated grants for climate research, brain-drained federal work on the issue and floated draconian cuts to satellites and other programs to monitor the Earth’s climate. The post

Here is some related advice from the State of New York: if you should ever find yourself in a car hurtling toward a brick wall at 100 mph, your best strategy is to close your eyes and pretend it is not happening. The post Climate And Energy Provisions In New York’s FY 2027 Budget: Making The Coming Crash Worse appeared first on

Just how close are the super rich to achieving medical immortality? The post Inside Vladimir Putin’s Quest for Eternal Youth appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Framing a millisecond-scale variation as “unprecedented” planetary destabilization represents a a textbook example of taking a measurable but trivial geophysical adjustment and inflating it into a symbolic crisis. It is a giant nothingburger. An attempt to scare people with a story that is not scary in the least. The post Wrong, BBC, No ‘Climate Driven Millisecon

Foundation sparks revolt after disbanding team responsible for many community-requested fixes and moderation tools

That is equivalent to about £750 for every household in the country, of which about a third will feed through onto our energy bills. The post Cost of Renewables To Hit £40bn in 2030 appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

5, 4, 3, 2, 1... pfft

Yesterday I was engaged in my typical morning routine. Scanning the internet for interesting stories to read and news to soak in. Reading a few things here and there and watching a couple of videos. I settled in after a bit of this to write an article for my Substack “Shrew Views.” The topic is …

It’s hurricane season again, and a few things about it are as certain as death and taxes. First, some named storms, tropical storms, hurricanes, and cyclones will form somewhere, sometime, in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Second, one or more of those storms will cause some degree of damage in some country or another. Third, at one point or another during the hurricane season some media outlet, mainstream or social media only, will claim one or more hurricanes were caused by or made more

There was a recent weeks-long exchange of emails between many climate people — professional and amateur — regarding the idea that air pressure (in combination with absorbed solar energy) is what causes temperature. The post Pressure Causes Temperature? It’s Time to Climb Down from “Mount Stupid” appeared first on Wat

The energy drink of frontier models

And then Microsoft busted them all

CEO Todd McKinnon says customers including ServiceNow want an off switch

See the way nothing lines up right here? On top of all of that, the accusation itself has no merit. Dr Soon can readily explain how the Smithsonian was in charge of whatever donations he got toward his work, and not a single one of these critics has the science expertise to dispute his climate assessments. The post The ‘Dr Willie Soon got $1.2 mi

And you thought a face recognition app was intrusive?

Researcher reported the vuln in March. Maintainers haven't responded to his messages since

In the second Independent Media Alliance/#SolutioinsWatch crossover episode, co-hosts James Corbett and Hakeem Anwar are joined by IMA regulars Whitney Webb, Ryan Cristian, Steve Poikonen, Jason Bermas, Kit Knightly and Hrvoje Moric – as well as new faces video editor Broc West and Gabriel of Gabe.Rocks. In wide-ranging chat the all star panel dives into …

The U.S. benefits enormously from an open global economy and from the rule of law. Both depend on predictability. If courts blur the distinction between parent corporations and foreign subsidiaries, disregard sovereign objections from allied governments, and create liability untethered from direct operational control, the result will not be greater justice. It will be greater uncertainty. And uncertainty is the enemy of investment, development and international cooperation alike. The p

Red Hat engineer reckons the balance of risk has shifted, but core code stays off limits

California AG claims genetics biz downplayed 2023 mega-leak while paying ransom to attacker

Discussion understood to concern delayed SaaS transformation project

A billion AI agents walk into a power grid

Look, says Redmond, usage up 27-43% based on one week of data - admits it 'may not be indicative of long-term usage trends'

Hosting provider pulled the plug after police traced 200 servers to the Netherlands

TV and radio stations told to review current practices to align with public interest obligations

You and me go ChatGPhish-ing in the dark

Researchers say 'GREYVIBE' crew used AI tools throughout a campaign targeting Ukrainian military and government

Explosion wrecks rocket and pad, leaving NASA's lunar ambitions looking less than launch-ready

Telco giant says no sensitive data was taken, though names, addresses, phones, and emails are now out there

In a world of mass-produced bot-slopware, small is more beautiful than ever

Estonian academic fingers mobile tower-mounted devices as Kremlin tries to swat Ukrainian forces

What a wind-up!

Lawmakers push DoD to tighten smartphone controls after adversaries exploited commercial tracking data

Six 0-days, three under active exploitation, more to come on July 14?

It is the database titan’s sixth acquisition announcement since June 2025

Chocolate Factory shifts Tensor Processing Unit Ubuntu support back upstream

Originally published February 2017, one of our earliest Climate Change articles. It tackles not only the broader narrative, but specifically one of most oft-quoted and misleading statistics on the internet. On 4 February, 2017 the Daily Mail published an article entitled: “World Leaders Duped by Manipulated Global Warming Data”. “…The Mail on Sunday today reveals …

May security update trips over hostnames of a very specific length

Get the balance right, Grundfos says, and the region will be a shining example of how to do it without sacrificing the environment

Andrew Kelley interview describes paying monthly for cloud-powered AI coding as an 'insane proposition'

Refresh cycle sluggishness is a tailwind, insists PC giant's money people

Systems based on Snapdragon C to target students, families, and small businesses

DNS-AID, under the auspices of the Linux Foundation, promises easier agent discovery

Same handheld, same specs, just a much steeper bill

Travel and leisure giant was just one of many victims of the cybercrooks' crime spree this year

Experimental build boots on Raspberry Pi 5, but for now the joy is mostly in getting there

The UK government’s “consultation” on social media harm is over, and – brace yourselves – it turns out they’re going to have to do something about it. I know, I was shocked too. The main talking point is that “social media is like cigarettes”. Everyone is saying that, it’s the meme of the day. It’s …

BRICS-based multipolarity will save us from The Technocratic Dark State by making the rollout of an oppressive global surveillance state much better. This will be the result of “improving global governance.” At least, that is according to the BRICS Outcome Document published by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs after the latest riveting meeting of BRICS foreign ministers. Centralised …

Jordan Henderson’s response to the Banksy statue. [su_posts template=”custom_ultimate-shortcodes_templates/teaser-loop_grid_three” posts_per_page=”3″ tax_term=”art-cartoons” order=”desc”] Jordan Henderson lives in the Northwest of the United States. He works in oil paints, and charcoals. A portfolio of his works can be viewed at either of his websites: Original Paintings – Fine Art Prints.

Without having read the details and having no intention to do so, I am still wondering if The New York’s Times’ advice for Sunday May 17, about certain six things that will add joy to my day includes links to their other advice about “What can I do about see through white pants?” and “What’s the best …

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.