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Links 12/10/2024: Health, Safety and Climate Concerns

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 12, 2024

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Leftovers

TecMint ☛ NotebookLM AI – Creates YouTube Videos into Study Guides

Recently, Google introduced a new feature for NotebookLM that allows it to transform YouTube videos into study guides. This update has the potential to revolutionize the way students and learners interact with online video content.

Science

The Conversation ☛ 2024-10-10 [Older] Dark energy: could the mysterious force seen as constant actually vary over cosmic time?

Science Alert ☛ This Asteroid May Help Reveal a Fifth Fundamental Force in The Universe

But does the fifth force of nature really exist?

Science Alert ☛ Hurricanes: The 3 Key Reasons Why So Many People Don't Evacuate

Even in the face of extreme danger.

Science Alert ☛ Solar Storm Lashing Earth May Impact Hurricane Recovery, Experts Warn

Extreme conditions on multiple fronts.

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-04 [Older] Don't worry (too much) about asteroids hitting Earth

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-07 [Older] Nobel Prize in medicine goes to Victor Ambros, Gary Ruvkun

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-07 [Older] Is the Nobel Prize still relevant today?

Education

CBC ☛ 2024-10-08 [Older] Former students sue Ontario company for $108K in tuition for unapproved web developer program

Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-07 [Older] Nigeria records more than 350 cholera deaths in the first nine months of the year

Science Alert ☛ Your Child's Gut Health Benefits From an Early Bedtime, Study Suggests

It's all connected.

Science Alert ☛ Study Reveals a Striking Health Disparity Between US And UK Adults

What's going on?

CBC ☛ 2024-10-10 [Older] Fisher-Price recalls nearly 100,000 infant swings in Canada over suffocation risk

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-08 [Older] Why is road safety a big issue in Southeast Asia?

Science Alert ☛ Quitting Smoking Even at 75 Can Increase Life Expectancy, Study Finds

It's never too late.

Science Alert ☛ Intermittent Fasting Could Help Millions of Americans With Metabolic Syndrome

Over one-third of the US is affected.

CBC ☛ 2024-10-09 [Older] Honda recalls 239,000 vehicles in Canada over defective part in steering system

US News And World Report ☛ 2024-10-06 [Older] Poor Circulation: How to Prevent It, How to Spot It

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-10 [Older] Hundreds of viruses live on showerheads and toothbrushes

Defence/Aggression

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-05 [Older] Pakistan: Police detain Khan ally during protest — party

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-05 [Older] Haiti: Gang opens fire killing at least 70 people

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-05 [Older] Pakistan: 6 soldiers killed in fight with Islamist militants

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-04 [Older] Iran-Israel: Will Turkey get involved?

BIA Net ☛ 2024-10-07 [Older] ‘Femicides are political’: Protests erupt across Turkey after murders of two 19-year-old women

BIA Net ☛ 2024-10-07 [Older] Sexually abused toddler in Turkey’s Tekirdağ dies after weeks in coma

BIA Net ☛ 2024-10-10 [Older] Synagogues vandalized in İzmir: ‘Turkey’s Jews living on edge since war began'

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-06 [Older] Jews in Germany face antisemitism surge since Oct. 7 attacks

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-06 [Older] Chinese workers killed in Karachi blast

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-09 [Older] Why the Lebanon crisis is good business for Syrian military

Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2024-10-10 [Older] The Syrian Civil War: A Decade of Conflict, Displacement, and Global Impact

CBC ☛ 2024-10-10 [Older] Montreal police chief seeks to reassure businesses after recent surge in extortion

US News And World Report ☛ 2024-10-07 [Older] China Likely to Launch Military Drills Around Taiwan After President's National Speech, Sources Say

The Age AU ☛ 2024-10-07 [Older] Pro-Palestine activist’s visa under review after ‘October 7 is a good day’ speech

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-10 [Older] Iranian prisoners protest against rising executions

Counter Punch ☛ 2024-10-08 [Older] The Sniper Man:Quinn Buckner’s Assault on Free Speech and Academic Freedom at Indiana University

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-07 [Older] Berlin: Prosecution seeks 12 years in Stasi murder trial

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-07 [Older] East Germany: A failed experiment in dictatorship

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-07 [Older] Bangladesh: What's next for Hasina and the Awami League?

US News And World Report ☛ 2024-10-11 [Older] British YouTuber and Rapper Yung Filly Is Charged With Rape in Australia

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-10 [Older] China: Attacks on Japanese citizens stoke security concerns

CBC ☛ 2024-10-08 [Older] Leaders condemn pro-Palestinian rally in Vancouver where 'death to Canada' cry went up

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-08 [Older] North Korea: Kim threatens use of nuclear weapons again

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-08 [Older] Omar bin Laden barred from entering France

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-10 [Older] Germany: Police shoot suspect in western city of Krefeld

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-08 [Older] Australia: Man convicted for performing outlawed Nazi salute

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-09 [Older] Who is Germany's far-right AfD leader Alice Weidel?

Federal News Network ☛ Invisible sacrifices: The billion-dollar social cost of military spouse unemployment

Given the sacrifices the military lifestyle demands, it’s no surprise the unemployment rate for military spouses has remained five times the national average.

LRT ☛ Lithuanian PM tries to damp down fears of migration from Central Asia

After the head of Lithuania’s intelligence noted a 14-fold increase in Central Asian migrants since 2021, Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė says the total number is still quite small and should not be used to scare the public.

Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

Meduza ☛ Loans for scares In Georgia, a news network’s propagandistic turn and an alleged loansharking scheme lead back to the same London-based firm — Meduza

Insight Hungary ☛ Szijjarto goes to Russia for the eleventh time since Ukraine war

"The Foreign Minister of Hungary today travelled to Russia for the 11th time since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine – in pursuit of profit not peace," US Ambassador David Pressman wrote on X. Peter Szijjarto attended the International Gas Forum in Saint Petersburg.

On his social media, Szijjártó commented on his trip writing: "like it or not, the reality is that the secure and affordable supply of natural gas to our country is not possible without cooperation with Russia".

Environment

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-04 [Older] Bosnia: Death toll mounts after flooding and landslides

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-05 [Older] US: Kamala Harris to visit hurricane-struck North Carolina

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-10 [Older] Hurricane Milton: Cleanup underway in Florida, several dead

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-10 [Older] Hurricane Milton: What's fueling stronger storms?

US News And World Report ☛ 2024-10-10 [Older] AP PHOTOS: Powerful Hurricane Milton Destroys Homes, Shreds Stadium Roofs Apart

US News And World Report ☛ 2024-10-10 [Older] Hurricane Milton Devastates Florida

Vox ☛ 2024-10-03 [Older] Get used to more absurdly hot Octobers

Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2024-10-03 [Older] Climate Change–Induced Disasters Are Killing Workers

US News And World Report ☛ 2024-10-04 [Older] COP16 Host Colombia Pushes for Unified Climate and Biodiversity Pledges

Counter Punch ☛ 2024-10-04 [Older] Can You Afford Climate Change?

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-04 [Older] How to protect the Amazon and who should pay

CBC ☛ 2024-10-10 [Older] Canada's budget watchdog re-ran the numbers on the carbon tax — here's what it found

Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2024-10-06 [Older] Climate Travels: How Ecotourism Changes Mindsets and Motivates Action -Book Review

New Yorker ☛ 2024-10-06 [Older] Climate Catastrophe Comes to Asheville

DeSmog ☛ Climate Denier Tony Abbott Dumped as Government Trade Advisor

Energy/Transportation

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-08 [Older] Volkswagen employees add to German carmaker's headaches

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-10 [Older] ASEAN summit: EU seeks to build bridges in Southeast Asia

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-06 [Older] Kazakhstan votes on first nuclear plant construction

CBC ☛ 2024-10-10 [Older] Air Canada pilots vote in favour of new contract, eliminating risk of strike

DeSmog ☛ Trump and Orbán Allies Gather at Anti-Green Event Hosted by Project 2025 Group

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-07 [Older] Can hydropower hold its own against weather extremes?

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-08 [Older] Is the US really experiencing a boom in green energy jobs?

Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2024-10-05 [Older] Correcting Electricity-Production Gap with High-Density Energy Sources

The Age AU ☛ 2024-10-08 [Older] The WA town caught in middle of a national energy debate

CBC ☛ 2024-10-10 [Older] Alberta making it harder for foreign companies to invest in energy infrastructure, lawyers say

Wildlife/Nature

The Revelator ☛ Darwin the Storyteller

CBC ☛ 2024-10-05 [Older] Drought shrinks river that feeds the Amazon to lowest level ever recorded

BIA Net ☛ 2024-10-04 [Older] Animal rights activists in Turkey refuse to celebrate World Animal Day in face of law enabling stray dog killings

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-06 [Older] Slovakia: Man attacked by bear succumbs to injuries

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-08 [Older] World missed deforestation goal in 2023, report says

CBC ☛ 2024-10-04 [Older] The true scale of Canada's quietly devastating wildfire season, in 4 charts

CBC ☛ 2024-10-09 [Older] Grassland birds in crisis on the Canadian Prairies, conservationists warn

CBC ☛ 2024-10-09 [Older] Another beluga dies at Marineland as Ontario says little on 4-year probe into park

New York Times ☛ What Flying in a Wind Tunnel Reveals About Birds

Some birds migrate thousands of miles every autumn. How exactly do they manage it? Scientists built a flight chamber to find out.

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-08 [Older] Koala leads police on chase through Sydney train station

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-10 [Older] Germany: Panda cubs at Berlin Zoo open eyes

Overpopulation

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-10 [Older] German government plans to reform adoption law

Finance

CBC ☛ 2024-10-08 [Older] Nearly one-quarter of Canadians work in the gig economy: poll

CBC ☛ 2024-10-10 [Older] Income inequality in Canada rises to the highest level ever recorded: Statistics Canada

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-07 [Older] Can Germany's economy benefit from China's stimulus plan?

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-04 [Older] Can France cut spending without stoking recession?

BIA Net ☛ 2024-10-10 [Older] Turkey's labor underutilization rate exceeds 27% in August

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-06 [Older] Germany reckons with another recession in 2024 — report

International Business Times ☛ 2024-10-10 [Older] American Dream Accounts Act: New Bill Proposes $25K For Every US High School Graduate Via Social Security Investment

International Business Times ☛ 2024-10-10 [Older] Social Security COLA For 2025 Increases Payments For 72 Million Americans By 2.5%, Lowest In Years

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-09 [Older] IMF chief: 'Africa deserves to be represented more fairly'

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-08 [Older] China 'confident' of hitting economic goals

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-08 [Older] Can India navigate a China-dominated BRICS?

AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-05 [Older] France: Child trampled to death on overcrowded boat crossing Channel

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-05 [Older] How US election outcome could affect the Western Balkans

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-05 [Older] Le Pen trial shines light on ‘black box' of MEP expenditure

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-06 [Older] Violence against women: Have big cases encouraged better protections?

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-06 [Older] Tunisia polls open with President Saied's rivals in jail

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-09 [Older] Hungary's Orban scorned by EU lawmakers after speech

US News And World Report ☛ 2024-10-10 [Older] Canada Gov't Could Avoid Confidence Vote With Slim Mini Budget, Says Source

Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2024-10-05 [Older] Chagos Islands: UK’s last African colony returned to Mauritius

Defence Web ☛ 2024-10-10 [Older] Sovereignty of Chagos Archipelago returned to Mauritius

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-08 [Older] Albania: Clashes as protesters call on government to resign

Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-10 [Older] Fact check: Are artificial hurricanes targeting Republicans?

Censorship/Free Speech

Hong Kong Free Press ☛ 24-year-old man charged with assaulting Hong Kong police on Tiananmen crackdown anniversary denied bail

A 24-year-old man said to have an intellectual disability has been denied bail after he was charged with three counts of assaulting Hong Kong police.

BIA Net ☛ 2024-10-07 [Older] Turkey considers banning Discord amid child abuse, cyberbullying allegations

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-09 [Older] Turkey blocks Discord messaging platform

BIA Net ☛ 2024-10-09 [Older] Turkey blocks Discord after revelations of 'incel' cyberbullying, child exploitation

CPJ ☛ 2024-10-07 [Older] Algerian journalist Badreddine Guermat arrested over Facebook post

Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-10 [Older] EU lawmakers urge Turkey to clear DW journalist Bulent Mumay

CPJ ☛ 2024-10-04 [Older] CPJ, partners’ mission to Georgia finds ‘climate of fear’ ahead of elections

Civil Rights/Policing

FAIR ☛ George Lipsitz on the Impacts of Housing Discrimination

BIA Net ☛ 2024-10-10 [Older] Turkey’s human rights agency ‘exists only in name'

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-10-07 [Older] US: Supreme Court throws out Texas emergency abortion appeal

New Yorker ☛ 2024-10-10 [Older] The Texan Doctor and the Disappeared Saudi Princesses

NL Times ☛ 2024-10-04 [Older] Two far-right FvD campaign videos violate hate speech laws, says prosecutor

US News And World Report ☛ 2024-10-06 [Older] A Year Into the Israel-Hamas War, Students Say a Chill on Free Speech Has Reached College Classrooms

Digital Restrictions (DRM)

Techdirt ☛ John Deere Once Again Under Fire Again For Efforts To Monopolize Repair

A few years ago agricultural equipment giant John Deere found itself on the receiving end of an antitrust lawsuit for its efforts to monopolize tractor repair. The lawsuits noted that the company consistently purchased competing repair centers in order to consolidate the sector and force customers into using the company’s own repair facilities, driving up costs and logistical hurdles dramatically for farmers.

The lawsuits also noted how the company routinely makes repair difficult and costly through the act of software locks, obnoxious DRM, and “parts pairing” — which involves only allowing the installation of company-certified replacement parts — or mandatory collections of company-blessed components.

[Old] IEEE ☛ The Athens Affair

Software that not only alters operating system code but also hides its tracks is called a “rootkit.” The term is known to the public—if at all—because of one that the record label Sony BMG Music Entertainment included on some music CDs released in 2005. The Sony rootkit restricted copying of CDs; it burrowed into the Windows operating system on PCs and then hid its existence from the owner. (Sony stopped using rootkits because of a general public outcry.) Security experts have also discovered other rootkits for general-purpose operating systems, such as Linux, Windows, and Solaris, but to our knowledge this is the first time a rootkit has been observed on a special-purpose system, in this case an Ericsson telephone switch.

With all of this sophisticated subterfuge, how then was the rogue software finally discovered? On 24 January 2005, the perpetrators updated their planted software. That upgrade interfered with the forwarding of text messages, which went undelivered. These undelivered text messages, in turn, triggered an automated failure report.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

CoryDoctorow ☛ Pluralistic: Lina Khan’s future is the future of the Democratic Party – and America

In part, that's because US antitrust laws have broad "private rights of action" that allow individuals and companies to sue one another for monopolistic conduct, even if top government officials are turning a blind eye. It's true that from the Reagan era to the Biden era, these private suits were few and far between, and the cases that were brought often died in a federal courtroom. But the past four years has seen a resurgence of antitrust rage that runs from left to right, and from individuals to the C-suites of big companies, driving a wave of private cases that are prevailing in the courts, upending the pro-monopoly precedents that billionaires procured by offering free "continuing education" antitrust training to 40% of the Federal judiciary: [...]

India Times ☛ Germany closes Meta case after data measures agreed

Germany's antitrust watchdog said on Thursday that Meta had taken measures that give users greater control over how their data get used on its platforms, ending a long-running dispute. "Users now have much greater control over how their data are combined," cartel office president Andreas Mundt said in a statement.

Axios ☛ DOJ weighs suggesting Google breakup as "remedy" to search monopoly

Why it matters: A court-ordered Google breakup would be the most consequential antitrust action in the U.S. in decades and federal Judge Amit Mehta has been considering this since his August ruling, but Axios' Scott Rosenberg noted back then that figuring out how to split up the company could prove daunting.

Context: The case stems from a lawsuit first filed against Google in 2020 that alleged the company had illegal dominance in online search, basing their case mostly on the contracts between Google and Apple's Safari and Mozilla's Firefox, worth billions.

Copyrights

Torrent Freak ☛ RIAA's Flags Latest Piracy Threats, Sees a Future for AI

The RIAA has submitted its most recent overview of notorious markets to the U.S. Trade Representative, listing familiar suspects including torrent sites, cyberlockers, and stream-ripping services. The RIAA views artificial intelligence as a potential threat, but also as a source for new revenue streams and innovation.