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Imagine taking a dip 177m above the streets of London’s West End

Home Office probes supplier interest as core police and immigration system heads for support shake-up

EPA Deputy Administrator David Fotouhi issued a memo on April 27 ending the 1985 Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) method of classifying hazardous chemicals. Numerous stakeholders have criticized IRIS for dramatically overestimating the toxicity for certain industry-specific compounds to many business’ detriment. (RELATED: America Just Made Its Biggest Critical Mineral Find In Years — But There’s A Problem) The post

...they have weaponized the green agenda against the elderly residents who built the civilization these eco-warriors now seek to dismantle, one beef patty at a time. The post Copenhagen’s City Govt. Limits Elderly to Tiny Servings of Delicious, Nutritious Meat appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Good times, bad times

It’s not just gas prices skyrocketing. Frontier-model pricing keeps climbing too

The Pentagon has made good on Donald Trump’s promise and published the first instalment of previously classified UFO files. You can read them all on the Pentagon’s dedicated website. The cache of 162 files, photos and videos has caused a buzz of conversation…but I’m not sure why. This article in the Evening Standard, for example, …

Responding to the ETH Zurich study, Johal says she hopes all the fusion designs become commercially successful – but believes that Zap’s design will produce economies of scale thanks to their modular design. The post Zap Energy: The first fission-fusion company appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Not just for hated US Presidents, now even tech bros lament their foes

All your compromised credentials are belong to us now instead of the other gang

Twin brother still faces trial over broader cybercrime allegations

From 1970 to 2023, U.S. emissions of six criteria air pollutants declined 78% while GDP grew 321% and energy consumption rose 42%—consistent with the Environmental Kuznets Curve and driven by wealth creation and market incentives rather than central planning. The post U.S. Fossil Fuel Environmentalism: EPA Air Quality Statistics appeared first on

BCS says builders face up to 20% material hikes and patchy deliveries

Remote access software could bring mixed fleets under one roof, assuming enough people ask for it

Broken disclosure embargo left admins facing a fresh root-level flaw with no CVE

The Washington Post has taken a modest statistical decline in select minerals and inflated it into a planetary health crisis. That is not balanced reporting. Their readers deserve better. The post No, Washington Post, ‘Carbon Pollution’ Isn’t Making Food Less Healthy appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

In a word, 'Huh?'

After years of insisting end-to-end encryption was the future of online comms, Zuckcorp has handed itself full visibility into user chats once again

A few hundred lines of Yabasic recreate just enough to keep modal editing muscle memory alive

Home Office finds 80% of code cannot be reused, balks at £26M in extra costs

Ryan Cohen briefly banned after bootstrapping cash ostensibly to buy the auction site

ShinyHunters takes the credit and gives developer an F for security

Social media biz says watchdog's fine formula is 'disproportionate' and should stop counting global revenue

No sparks, no glory

Movie-inspired set ticks the clever Technic box, but at a price

Credit Trump with a sea change in the whole climate/energy issue. The Progressive Left is playing defense. And nerves are fraying in the face of pragmatism and the mere appearance of two-sided reporting given the changed political mainstream. The post Alarmist Fussing at NYT Climate Reporting appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Spikes deter pigeons, but Microsoft still managed to foul the screen

It's amazing what happens when you plug everything in

Turner said that for too long, climate has “served as a shield,” in which imputed good intentions can mask backscratching and failure. The post Super Power To Spare: How Battery Tech Illuminates Competition Between U.S. & China appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Around 20 percent of staff get an ‘In one hour, you might not work here anymore’ email

Extra aircon found to cool overheating datacenter as users complain their resources are... nowhere

NetAdmins can stay in the loop while they learn to trust AI to tackle some scutwork

My bet is that within about a decade, China will be taking multi hundreds of billions of dollars, if not trillions of dollars, of write-offs on its wind energy investments. The post Two Bets On The Future Of Wind Energy: Who Is Right? appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Yet it remains unclear if Anthropic's uber model was effective, or if better model middleware is what makes the difference

The tool is meant to take the place of 80% of the work that requires ServiceNow dev teams

The Version 6.1 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for April, 2026 was +0.39 deg. C departure from the 1991-2020 mean, which remains statistically unchanged for 4 months now. The post UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for April, 2026: +0.39 deg. C appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Matthew Isaac Knoot and Erick Ntekereze Prince will each do 18 months for hosting laptops used by North Korean IT workers to remotely infiltrate US companies

Security biz Adversa AI argues users of AI tools need clearer warnings

Eight people sick, pandemic threat low. Doesn’t sound like big news…and yet the media won’t stop talking about it. It already has its own WikiPedia entry. The whole thing feels very odd in a very familiar way.

"... Ecofeminist thinking and practice have long been central inspirations for focused, critical work on men and masculinities, and the environment ..." The post Euronews: Being White and Male is Bad for the Climate appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Happy World Password Day! Maybe it's finally time to kill this holiday in favor of World No-More-Passwords Day?

Customers say services were down for at least 4 hours, while status page showed no issues

The then-teen was told to break in and steal what the keyboard warriors couldn’t

Users report disappearing favorites, blank route planners, and cloud sync failures amid outage

Language's popularity continues to grow despite commonly cited frustrations

Internet-facing PAN-OS firewalls are once again doing impressions of initial access brokers

Final specs due for release in 2028, so don't hold your breath for the hardware

Another anthropogenic global warming (AGW) modeling failure emerges in observed tropical cyclone data.  The post New Study: Declining Trends In 1980-2023 Tropical Cyclone Frequency, Accumulated Energy appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

MI350P packs 144 GB of HBM3e and up to 4.6 petaFLOPS of FP4 grunt into a dual slot card

20-year-old fessed up after investigators found video of crime in progress

Brussels says it's simplification, critics may call it retreat

Plus a petition for the UK Civil Service to go FOSS by default

Fortunately, it was a legit contractor who guessed it

You did remember to opt out of AI, didn't you?

FITs are one of the items not included by the OBR in its table of Environmental Levies, even though they used to be until a few years ago and plainly meet the same definition applied to other renewable subsidies – costs imposed by government on energy bills. The post Feed in Tariff Subsidies Cost £1.8 Billion Last Year appeared first on Wat

Roles span eGates, passports, visas, asylum applications, and enterprise services – yours for up to £105K

£330M contract defended as value for money despite concerns over IP and lock-in

Former bitcoin miner plans to build an easier cloudy AI on ramp while remaining a friend to FOSS

What does it actually cost to keep the lights on, reliably, 24/7/365 year after year? The post Why electricity costs more than we think…and why, in Germany, solar is about 10x more expensive than coal appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Someone other than Meta is buying $1bn of its new AGI chips

Even Ontario’s premier Doug Ford has chastised the federal government to show some respect to Alberta and Saskatchewan, singling them out, an act that has happened exactly never times before. The post Positive national energy momentum at risk of being swamped by…everything else appeared first on Watts Up With That?

For AI agents, seeing is expensive

Republicans who court an “all-of-the-above” energy strategy must drop their green virtue-signaling and get on board with the Trump administration and Secretary Wright’s train to prosperity and security. Unleash American energy — oil, gas, coal, nuclear, and domestic mining — and kill the mandates and subsidies that distort markets and enrich adversaries. The post ‘Republican�

Okay, the rodent was a willing participant - after all, who turns down treats for a spin that charges a phone?

Compute from Colossus leads to relaxed limits

It’s the cross-over you’ve all been waiting for, #SolutionsWatch meets the Independent Media Alliance! Panel host James Corbett is joined by IMA regulars Derrick Broze, Ryan Cristian, Kit Knightly, Jason Bermas, Hakeem Anwar & Steve Poikonen, and guests Etienne de La Boetie2, Larken Rose and Ernest Hancock to discuss how we interact with the state …

Initial phases of SpaceX's Terafab project in rural Texas are expected to cost about 1.25 Twitters

Cuts appear to hit sales, product, and marketing, accounting for under 10% of staff

“The Affordable Insurance and Recovery Act (SB 982) would impose liability on fossil fuel companies for ‘climate-attributable damages,’ expected to be assessed in billions of dollars. It would empower California’s attorney general to sue the state’s oil companies without even needing to prove fault, negligence, or specific causation by an individual company.” The post California’s Climate Ove

...a disservice to the San Francisco Chronicle’s readers, misrepresenting the true state of Cabernet production and its prospects in an attempt to advance the false narrative that climate change is dooming the world, one product, crop, or industry at a time. The post Quit Fearmongering, San Francisco Chronicle, Climate Change Isn’t Coming for Caberne

Amsterdam has become the world’s first capital city to ban public advertisements for both meat and fossil fuel products. Since 1 May, adverts for burgers, petrol cars and airlines have been stripped from billboards, tram shelters, and metro stations. The post Amsterdam bans public adverts for meat and fossil fuels appeared first on Watts

Purely anecdotal, but the BBC seems to have moderated its wilder climate stories of late with the “Climate” topic on its News site relegated to the second tier of subjects. The post IPCC Admits Apocalyptic Climate Scenarios Are “Implausible” – Meaning Most Media Scare Stories Over Last 15 Years Are

And some records are being used to hype normal temperature variability in unfortunate ways. The post Not All Temperature Records Are Equal appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

They're trying to rebrand the authoritarian Online Safety Act as just a silly piece of paper - not tyranny, it’s just bumbling, idiotic half-measures.

“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech.” Benjamin Franklin Everything this nation once stood for is being turned on its head. We are being asked—no, told—to believe that the greatest threat to America today is not government overreach, endless war, corruption, surveillance, or the steady erosion …

“And there are those who claim that Big Data will supplant Sapiens and drag him helplessly along like a straw in the mighty flow of information. We will then be close to knowing almost everything we don’t need to know.” Roberto Calasso, The Unnamable Present, 2017 Onerous it is and more onerous it will be when AI …

The guerrilla artist's "surprise" statue is supposedly anti-establishment....except the establishment seems to LOVE it.

In this edition of New World Next Week, your friendly neighbourhood Jameses discuss the “assassination attempt” at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner, Billy Corgan’s economics lesson, and how your car may be a surveillance machine by 2027. This is the first episode of of NWNW we’ve shared in a while, but the coincidence was too …

We know they want to end private vehicle ownership; they have repeatedly said so. Well, this is how they do that. A little at a time, creating atmospheres and environments. Seemingly arbitrary rules and regulations with "unforeseen consequences".

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.