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Links 28/11/2025: Apple and Plagiarism, US Government 'Selling' Europe Down the River

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 28, 2025

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Smithsonian Magazine ☛ See the 'Mona Lisa of Illuminated Manuscripts,' a 600-Year-Old Bible Covered in Intricate Illustrations

Created between 1455 and 1461, the Borso D’Este Bible is currently on view in the Italian Senate in Rome

IT Wire ☛ iTWire - Copper Thieves Cause Major Optus Outage, Disrupting Triple Zero Access for 14,500 Customers

Thousands of Optus customers were left without phone or internet services yesterday after copper thieves damaged critical network infrastructure, triggering a major outage that also disrupted access to Australia’s Triple Zero emergency line. This impacted seaside communcations in Frankston and Morning Peninsula in Victoria.

Manuel Moreale ☛ Dealgorithmed

The fact that people keep browsing the same 3 sites, day after day, getting served content by algorithms controlled by 3 companies is such a shame. Because there is so much interesting content out there ready to be discovered. And discovering new content also means connecting with new people, getting exposed to new ideas, different cultures. That’s by far the best quality of the web if you ask me.The problem many people are facing is how to find that content, how to escape the algorithmic bubble. I think the only answer to that is curation. The vast majority of people on the web are lurkers which means someone has to spend time herding content and collecting it somewhere for others to consume.Over the years, I realised that it is probably the only reasonable contribution I can give to this cause. I’m already doing this with People and Blogs, slowly composing a list of people—and blogs—worth following and engaging with. And I’m also collecting content both on the blogroll and on the forest.

CoryDoctorow ☛ Pluralistic: Normie diffusion and technophilia

It's an accepted (but wrong) fact that some groups of people are just more technologically adventurous by temperament, and that's why they adopt technologies before the rest of society (think here of pornographers, kids, and terrorists).As I've written before, these groups aren't more (or less) temperamentally inclined to throw themselves into mastering new technologies. Rather, they have more reason to do so: [...]

Science

The Conversation ☛ 2025-11-21 [Older] Wargaming: the surprisingly effective tool that can help us prepare for modern crises

The Conversation ☛ 2025-11-20 [Older] Fuel made from just air, power and water is taking off – but several things are holding it back

The Conversation ☛ 2025-11-19 [Older] When did kissing evolve and did humans and Neanderthals get off with each other? New research

Omicron Limited ☛ Dating a North American rock art tradition that lasted 175 generations

Now, scientists have used radiocarbon dating on the ancient paint and found that the murals were painted nearly 6,000 years ago and continued for four millennia, making it one of the longest-lasting artistic traditions in the Americas.

Career/Education

Zach Flower ☛ 2025-11-17 [Older] Code It Forward

Volunteering in computer science classrooms is a fantastic way to give back to your community, inspire the next generation of engineers, and stay connected to the ever-evolving world of technology. Whether you choose to guest lecture, assist in the classroom, advise a program, or mentor students, your expertise and experience can make a significant impact.If you would like to volunteer, but aren't sure where to start, or don't have any particular affinity for connecting in your own district (or your district doesn't have any computer science programs), I am always looking for new advisors, mentors, and guest lecturers for my own classroom.

BIA Net ☛ Over 800,000 children in Turkey are out of education, report finds

“A child who cannot access education or continue schooling is also a child not reached by the protection system,” Arık said. “From earthquakes and economic downturns to forced migration, the climate crisis, the global teacher shortage, and digital transformation, education is trying to survive amid multiple crises.”“This report is not meant to paint a hopeless picture,” she added. “On the contrary, it shows what is possible, what can change, and what must change. Every data point is a chance for policy change, and every problem is a call to seek solutions.”

Maine Morning Star ☛ Suit to block Education Department closure expanded amid agency transfers plans

The alliance of unions and school districts also added a major disability rights advocacy group to its ranks in the amended complaint that detailed how the department’s Nov. 18 announcement of six interagency agreements could harm students.The agreements to transfer several Education responsibilities to four other departments drew swift backlash from Democratic officials, labor unions and advocacy groups, who questioned the legality of the transfers and expressed concerns over the harms that would be imposed on students, families and schools as a result.

Court House News ☛ Are bad jobs worse than no jobs?

When I worked night shift at the Albuquerque Journal, the guy across from me was a terrific editor and designer. Funny too, as smart guys have to be in this country. One night I asked what was the worst job he ever had (working in a fish cannery), then we went around the copy desk comparing horrible jobs. Talk about a lot of lessons in a few minutes.Now I have sought answers to a new question: Who was the worst boss you ever had, and why was he the worst?Here, lightly edited, are some responses. Most did not mention incompetence; they cited man’s inhumanity to man.

Jacobin Magazine ☛ How to Fix Public School Financing

Far too many US public schools suffer from a lack of adequate funding. Solving the problem will require ending public education’s dependence on local property taxes, a funding mechanism that heavily reproduces inequality.

Unmitigated Risk ☛ The Vanishing On-Ramp

As AI absorbs more of the low-context work, the early career pathway narrows. New engineers still need time inside real systems to build judgment, but the tasks that once provided this exposure are being completed before a human ever sees them. The set of small, safe tasks that helped beginners form a mental map of how systems behave is slowly disappearing.This creates a subtle but significant problem. AI takes on the easy work. Humans are asked to handle the hard work. Yet new humans have fewer opportunities to learn the hard work, because the simple tasks that once served as scaffolding are no longer available. The distance from beginner to meaningful contributor grows longer just as the ladder is being pulled up.

Hardware

Interesting Engineering ☛ China's stealth jet coating reduces radar signal intensity by 700x

The material is developed by a team of scientists from the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC).The team turned dried loofah into carbon and embedded it with magnetic nanoparticles of nickel cobalt oxide (NiCo₂O₄).

Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

The Conversation ☛ 2025-11-24 [Older] How technology is reshaping children’s development – the good, the bad and the unknown

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-21 [Older] Australia Adds Amazon's Twitch to Teen Social Media Ban, Spares Pinterest

The Conversation ☛ 2025-11-21 [Older] Psychology can change the way food tastes – here’s how to use it to make the most of your meals

Deutsche Welle ☛ Burnout from casual sex has women rethinking hookup culture

Her description of the negative side of hookup culture is consistent with a little-researched condition called postcoital dysphoria (PCD), where people report negative emotions like tearfulness, sadness, or irritability after sex.In a 2020 study, women reported experiencing these symptoms after consensual sexual activity or masturbation — some said the feelings occurred only after orgasm — and described feeling drained or emotionally off in the hours or days afterward.Men also report PCD, but historic stigma around female sexual autonomy and personal expectations has seen some research surveys report as many as three in four women emerging from casual encounters with the condition.

Proprietary

The Register UK ☛ Seven years later, Airbus is still trying to kick its Microsoft habit

Breaking free from Microsoft is harder than it looks. Airbus began migrating its 100,000-plus workforce from Office to Google Workspace more than seven years ago and it still hasn't completed the switch.As we exclusively revealed in March 2018, the aerospace giant told 130,000 employees it was ditching Microsoft's productivity tools for Google's cloud-based alternatives.

UK Developer Splash Damage In Trouble, Staff Facing Mass Layoffs

Splash Damage has entered a “Studio-Wide consultation process” that will most likely result in numerous people losing their jobs. Within the UK, a consultation process is triggered when at least 20 redundancies are proposed to be made within a 90 day period.

The Register UK ☛ FCC: US radio gear hijacked for bogus alerts and bad words

According to the alert, the intrusions exploited unsecured broadcasting equipment, notably devices manufactured by Swiss firm Barix, which were reconfigured to stream attacker-controlled audio instead of station output. That stream included either real or simulated EAS alert tones, followed by obscene language or other offensive content.

The Record ☛ At least 35,000 impacted by Dartmouth College breach through Oracle EBS campaign

“Through the investigation, Dartmouth determined that an unauthorized actor took certain files between August 9, 2025 and August 12, 2025,” the school said in letters to regulators in New Hampshire, where more than 31,000 victims are based.Some of the leaked information includes Social Security numbers, financial account data and names. Victims are being given one year of access to credit monitoring services.

404 Media ☛ Someone Is Trying to ‘Hack’ People Through Apple Podcasts

“The most concerning behavior is that the app can be launched automatically with a podcast of an attacker’s choosing,” Patrick Wardle, a macOS security expert and the creator of Mac-focused cybersecurity organization Objective-See, said. “I have replicated similar behavior, albeit via a website: simply visiting a website is enough to trigger Podcasts to open (and a load a podcast of the attacker’s choosing), and unlike other external app launches on macOS (e.g. Zoom), no prompt or user approval is required.”

Artificial Intelligence (AI) / LLM Slop / Plagiarism

The Conversation ☛ 2025-11-17 [Older] AI-induced psychosis: the danger of humans and machines hallucinating together

The Conversation ☛ 2025-11-18 [Older] Ex Machina: could “superintelligence” challenge the idea of creativity as a uniquely human activity?

The Conversation ☛ 2025-11-18 [Older] How the Louvre thieves exploited human psychology to avoid suspicion – and what it reveals about AI

The Conversation ☛ 2025-11-20 [Older] These dinner-plate sized computer chips are set to supercharge the next leap forward in AI

EDRI ☛ Artificial intelligence is not as artificial as you might think

Behind every AI system is a huge amount of human effort. Most of this work is not done by well-paid engineers, but by millions of precariously employed workers. The World Bank estimates that there are between 150 and 430 million of such workers worldwide. An exact number is hard to determine because many of these workers are freelancers without formal employment contracts. That’s not a coincidence. It’s by design.

Nick Heer ☛ Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s A.I. Era

This is likely not the first story you have read about a freelancer managing to land bylines in prestigious publications thanks to dependency on A.I. tools, but it is one told very well.

Fortra LLC ☛ Shadow AI Security Breaches will hit 40% of all Companies by 2030, Warns Gartner

Shadow AI - the use of artificial intelligence tools by employees without a company's approval and oversight - is becoming a significant cybersecurity risk.Unlike traditional "shadow IT," which involves workers installing unauthorised software or plugging in unapproved devices, shadow AI typically does not require more than visiting a website with a browser.

Pivot to AI ☛ AI for evil — hacked by WormGPT!

So the AI vendors wrap the model in a few layers of filters as “guard rails.” These are paper-thin wrapper on the input and the output. The guard rails don’t work. They’re really easy to work around. All the “bad” text is right there in the training. It’s more or less trivial to make a chatbot spew out horrible content on how to do bad things.As I’ve said before: the AI vendors are Daffy Duck running around frantically nailing a thousand little filters on the front, then Bugs Bunny casually strolls through.

Nikita Prokopov ☛ How to get hired in 2025

Unfortunately, it’s 2025, AI is spreading like glitter in a kindergarten, and it’s really easy to mistake hard human labor for soulless, uninspired machine slop.Following are the main red flags in test assignments that should be avoided: [...]

Social Control Media

The Zambian Observer ☛ 13-year-old schoolgirl ‘slit her mum’s throat’ after she confiscated her phone

Svetlana Cheglyakova, 46, confiscated her daughter’s phone after a row about her online obsession, it is alleged.The girl then slit her mother’s throat and cut her own hands before setting fire to the family’s flat in St Petersburg, Russia, reports quoting law enforcement, claim.

Windows TCO / Windows Bot Nets

The Register UK ☛ Asahi admits ransomware may have spilled data on 2M people

In its latest update, Asahi said attackers entered via compromised network equipment at a Group datacenter facility in Japan and deployed ransomware on the same day, encrypting data on multiple live servers and some connected PCs. This forced a broad operational suspension – order processing systems were shut down, shipments paused, and customer service lines silenced. The company isolated the datacenter within hours, but ransomware gangs don't need much time when the door is already open.

Security

CISA

CISA ☛ 2025-11-21 [Older] CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

CISA ☛ 2025-11-20 [Older] CISA Releases Six Industrial Control Systems Advisories

CISA ☛ 2025-11-20 [Older] Automated Logic WebCTRL Premium Server

CISA ☛ 2025-11-20 [Older] ICAM365 CCTV Camera Multiple Models

CISA ☛ 2025-11-20 [Older] Opto 22 GRV-EPIC and groov RIO

CISA ☛ 2025-11-20 [Older] Festo MSE6-C2M/D2M/E2M

CISA ☛ 2025-11-20 [Older] Festo Didactic products

CISA ☛ 2025-11-20 [Older] Emerson Appleton UPSMON-PRO

CISA ☛ 2025-11-19 [Older] CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

CISA ☛ 2025-11-19 [Older] CISA Releases Guide to Mitigate Risks from Bulletproof Hosting Providers

CISA ☛ 2025-11-18 [Older] CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

CISA ☛ 2025-11-18 [Older] CISA Releases Six Industrial Control Systems Advisories

CISA ☛ 2025-11-18 [Older] Schneider Electric EcoStruxure Machine SCADA Expert & Pro-face BLUE Open Studio

CISA ☛ 2025-11-18 [Older] Shelly Pro 4PM

CISA ☛ 2025-11-18 [Older] Shelly Pro 3EM

CISA ☛ 2025-11-18 [Older] Schneider Electric PowerChute Serial Shutdown

CISA ☛ 2025-11-18 [Older] METZ CONNECT EWIO2

Integrity/Availability/Authenticity

The Record ☛ [Crackers] exploit 3D design software to target game developers, animators

The attackers relied on malicious files posted on platforms such as CGTrader, an online marketplace for 3D models. Unsuspecting designers, animators and developers downloaded the malicious files, which were engineered to execute hidden Python scripts as soon as they were opened in Blender.

Privacy/Surveillance

NYOB ☛ noyb win: Conde Nast fined €750,000 for placing cookies without consent

Today, the French data protection authority CNIL has fined the French magazine publisher Conde Nast €750.000 for violating the consent requirements on its Vanity Fair website. noyb had originally filed a complaint against Conde Nast in 2019 (!).

EDRI ☛ Europe is dismantling its digital rights from within

EU governments and the European Parliament still have a chance to change course. They should reject the Omnibus package and instruct the Commission to return with proposals that strengthen, rather than weaken, the protections people depend on.And they must be clear that some principles are not up for negotiation, even with proper consultation.Equal treatment. Strong limits on surveillance and intrusive data collection. Effective remedies when algorithms harm people. A digital environment governed by rights rather than opportunistic corporate claims.

Patrick Breyer ☛ Reality Check: EU Council Chat Control Vote is Not a Retreat, But a Green Light for Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance and the End of Right to Communicate Anonymously

While the Council removed the obligation for scanning, the agreed text creates a toxic legal framework that incentivizes US tech giants to scan private communications indiscriminately, introduces mandatory age checks for all internet users, and threatens to exclude teenagers from digital life.“The headlines are misleading: Chat Control is not dead, it is just being privatized,” warns Patrick Breyer. “What the Council endorsed today is a Trojan Horse. By cementing ‘voluntary’ mass scanning, they are legitimizing the warrantless, error-prone mass surveillance of millions of Europeans by US corporations, while simultaneously killing online anonymity through the backdoor of age verification.”

Defence/Aggression

Atlantic Council ☛ While Trump talks peace, Putin is escalating efforts to erase Ukraine

As talks between American, Ukrainian, and Russian officials continue, Russian President Vladimir Putin has underlined his true intentions by issuing a presidential decree calling for an escalation in efforts to eradicate all traces of Ukrainian identity from the approximately 20 percent of Ukraine currently under Kremlin control.

The Guardian UK ☛ Denmark sets up ‘night watch’ to monitor Trump after Greenland row

The Danish government has set up a “night watch” in the foreign ministry, not to keep out the wildlings and White Walkers like the Night’s Watch of Game of Thrones, but rather to monitor Donald Trump’s pronouncements and movements while Copenhagen sleeps.The night watch starts at 5pm local time each day and at 7am a report is produced and distributed around the Danish government and relevant departments about what was said and took place, the Politiken newspaper reported.

European Parliament ☛ Children should be at least 16 to access social media, say MEPs | News | European Parliament

MEPs are calling for ambitious EU action to protect minors online, including an EU-wide minimum age of 16 and bans on the most harmful addictive practices.On Wednesday, MEPs adopted a non-legislative report by 483 votes in favour, 92 against and with 86 abstentions, expressing deep concern over the physical and mental health risks minors face online and calling for stronger protection against the manipulative strategies that can increase addiction and that are detrimental to children’s ability to concentrate and engage healthily with online content.

Semafor Inc ☛ Europe quietly prepares for a war with Russia

German officials believe Russia could attack NATO in 2029, and have secretly prepared a blueprint for war that envisions Germany as a vast NATO staging ground, with plans to move as many as 800,000 troops to a hypothetical eastern front, The Wall Street Journal reported: “The goal is to prevent war by making it clear to our enemies that if they attack us, they won’t be successful,” the plan’s author said.

Mike Brock ☛ Sarah Beckstrom Died for Donald Trump’s Vanity

For spectacle.She swore an oath to defend the Constitution.Donald Trump violated it to put her there.She should never have been deployed at all. A federal judge ruled last week that Trump’s activation of the National Guard in Washington, DC is illegal—a direct violation of federal statute. The mission had no constitutional basis, no lawful purpose, no justification except one man’s need for the optics of soldiers in the capital.And Sarah Beckstrom died for those optics.

Mike Brock ☛ Revenge of the Technocrats Could Be the End of Democracy

Democracy will die in 2029. Not through Trump’s crude authoritarianism but through its opposite: the return of competent technocrats promising to save us from chaos. They’ll campaign on evidence-based policy and economic recovery. The exhausted electorate will embrace them with relief. And democracy will die—not obviously, but permanently.This is where Ruy Teixeira’s worldview leads.

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-11-18 [Older] India: Delhi courts, CRPF schools receive hoax bomb threats

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-11-18 [Older] North Korea denounces nuclear agreement between South and US

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-11-18 [Older] TotalEnergies complicit in Mozambique war crimes — NGO

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-11-17 [Older] Istanbul hotel evacuated after German tourist deaths

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-11-17 [Older] Polish railway explosion 'act of sabotage,' says PM Tusk

Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

The Conversation ☛ 2025-11-17 [Older] How would a ‘drone wall’ help stop incursions into European airspace?

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-11-24 [Older] South African police probe links between Zuma's daughter and Ukraine War

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-11-24 [Older] Ukraine: Europeans push back on US plan during Geneva talks

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-11-24 [Older] Ukraine talks loom large over EU business summit with Africa

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-11-24 [Older] Ukraine: Wadephul hails Geneva talks as European success

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-24 [Older] EU Vows to Keep Supporting Ukraine With Cash and Weapons as Peace Talks Continue

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-24 [Older] Kremlin Says It Will Wait to See How Talks Between US and Ukraine on a Potential Peace Plan Pan Out

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-24 [Older] UK PM Starmer Says More Work Needed for 'Just and Lasting Peace' in Ukraine

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-24 [Older] United EU Position Is Key to 'Good Outcome' From Ukraine Peace Moves, EU's Costa Says

The Age AU ☛ 2025-11-23 [Older] Officials from Ukraine, the US and Europe prepare to meet for talks

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-23 [Older] Rubio Says the Ukraine Peace Proposal Was Authored by the US

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-23 [Older] Canada PM and German Chancellor Merz Discuss Ukraine, Gaza on G20 Sidelines

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-23 [Older] Canada's PM Carney to Speak With Ukraine's Zelenskiy About US Peace Plan

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-23 [Older] Finland's Stubb Says Cheeto Mussolini 'Working Very Hard' to Find Solution to War in Ukraine

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-23 [Older] Nearly 200,000 Ukrainians in US Thrown Into Legal Limbo by Cheeto Mussolini Immigration Crackdown

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-23 [Older] Ukraine and Western Allies Meet in Geneva to Discuss US Peace Plan

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-23 [Older] Ukraine Raises Death Toll From Ternopil Missile Strike to 34

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-23 [Older] Ukraine's Borders Cannot Be Changed by Force or Army Reduced -EU's Von Der Leyen

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-11-22 [Older] Ukraine: Kyiv discusses US peace plan with European allies

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-11-22 [Older] Ukraine's European allies say US peace plan needs 'additional work'

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-22 [Older] Any Ukraine Peace Plan Must Be Accepted in Kyiv, Says Polish President

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-22 [Older] Canada's Carney and France's Macron Discuss Ukraine, Gaza on G20 Sidelines

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-22 [Older] E3 Advisors to Meet EU, US, Ukrainian Officials on Sunday on Ukraine Peace Plan

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-22 [Older] European Leaders Say US Peace Plan for Ukraine Needs Work

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-22 [Older] G7 and European Leaders Discuss Ukraine Plan on Margins of G20, Sources Say

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-22 [Older] Germany's Merz: Made Europe's Commitment to Ukraine Clear to Cheeto Mussolini During Call

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-22 [Older] Lukashenko Pardons 31 Ukrainians Jailed in Belarus, State News Agency Reports

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-22 [Older] Ukraine Says It Has Received 31 Civilians Who Had Been Held in Belarus

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-22 [Older] Ukraine to Meet US in Switzerland to Discuss Ending War

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-22 [Older] Western Leaders Race to Agree Response to US Peace Plan for Ukraine

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-11-21 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini's peace plan for Ukraine: What we know so far

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-11-21 [Older] Ukraine updates: German FM says US-backed plan not 'final'

The Age AU ☛ 2025-11-21 [Older] European leaders push back against a proposed Ukraine peace deal

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-21 [Older] This Is Cheeto Mussolini's Plan to End the War in Ukraine

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-21 [Older] Draft of U.S.-Backed Peace Proposal for Ukraine

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-21 [Older] EU's Von Der Leyen to Reach Out to Zelenskiy on Ukraine Peace Plan

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-21 [Older] Kremlin Says Around 5,000 Ukrainian Troops Are Trapped in the Kharkiv Region

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-21 [Older] Kremlin Says US Has Yet to Discuss Its Ukraine Peace Plan in Detail With Moscow

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-21 [Older] Putin Envoy Dmitriev: Peace Plan Seeks to End Ukraine Losses of Land, Lives

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-21 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini Says Ukraine's Zelenskiy Will Have to Approve US-Backed Peace Plan

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-21 [Older] Ukraine Says It Holds Defensive Line in Northern Part of Pokrovsk

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-21 [Older] Ukraine's President Is Under Growing Pressure. Here Are 5 Things to Know

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-21 [Older] Ukraine to Appoint New Board for Nuclear Firm Amid $100 Million Scandal

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-21 [Older] Exclusive-US Threatens to Cut Intel, Weapons to Press Ukraine Into Peace Deal - Sources

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-21 [Older] Exclusive-US Threatens to Cut Intel, Weapons to Press Ukraine Into Peace Deal - Sources

Vox ☛ 2025-11-21 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini’s peace plan is a demand for Ukraine’s surrender

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-11-20 [Older] Ukraine 'ready to work' with US on plan to end war

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-20 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini's Ukraine Envoy Keith Kellogg Expected to Leave His Post as New Peace Plan Emerges

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-19 [Older] European Defence Stocks Fall on Signs of U.S. Push Over Ukraine War

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-19 [Older] Kremlin Plays Down Media Report of New Efforts on Ukraine Peace

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-19 [Older] Ukraine Pushes for Political Decision From EU on Frozen Assets Next Month

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-19 [Older] Ukraine's Parliament Sacks Energy Minister Hrynchuk

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-19 [Older] Zelenskiy Meets Turkish President as Word Emerges of New US Peace Push

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-19 [Older] Ukrainian Parliament Sacks Two Ministers Amid Major Corruption Scandal

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-11-18 [Older] German chancellor urges Ukraine to curb male refugee numbers

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-11-18 [Older] Ukraine updates: Zelenskyy to visit Turkey in push for talks

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-18 [Older] Spain to Announce 'Substantial' Ukraine Aid Package During Zelenskiy Visit

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-18 [Older] Ukraine Needs More Drones and Better Tactics, Senior Commander Says

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-18 [Older] Ukraine's Zelenskiy Plans Turkey Visit to Try to Revive Peace Talks

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-11-17 [Older] Ukraine: France seals 'historic' Rafale jets deal with Kyiv

CNN ☛ 2025-11-24 [Older] Russian authorities detain suspect over St. Petersburg cafe blast

Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2025-11-24 [Older] Ukraine Faces an Unbearable Choice

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-24 [Older] US, Ukraine Work on 'Refined' Peace Plan to End War With Russia

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-24 [Older] European Officials Welcome Progress in Talks on US Proposals to End Russia-Ukraine War

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-24 [Older] Kremlin Says European Counter-Proposal for Ukraine Peace Does Not Work for Russia

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-24 [Older] New AI Club to Bestow Nuclear-Like Power, Says Russian Tech Boss

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-24 [Older] Poland Charges Third Ukrainian With Helping Russia in Railway Sabotage

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-24 [Older] Russian Air Defences Down Eight Drones En Route to Moscow, Mayor Says

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-24 [Older] Young Street Musicians Jailed for Singing Anti-Kremlin Songs Have Fled Russia, Media Report

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-11-23 [Older] Ukraine updates: US senators say peace plan is from Russia

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-23 [Older] Police to Probe Zuma's Daughter Over South Africans Fighting for Russia in Ukraine

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-23 [Older] Turkey's Erdogan Says He Will Speak to Russia's Putin on Monday

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-23 [Older] Ukraine Strikes Russian Power and Heat Station in Moscow Region

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-11-22 [Older] Russia's hybrid war: Germany steps up its defenses

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-22 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini Paints Zelenskyy Into a Corner With His New Plan to End Russia's War on Ukraine

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-22 [Older] Frustrations Grow in Russia Over Cellphone Internet Outages That Disrupt Daily Life

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-22 [Older] Russia Says It Has Taken String of East Ukrainian Villages

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-22 [Older] US Senators Say Rubio Told Them Cheeto Mussolini’s Ukraine Peace Plan Is Russia's 'Wish List'

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-22 [Older] European Leaders to Meet in South Africa to Counter US Plan on Russia’s War. Kyiv Prepares for Talks

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-22 [Older] Russia's Ryabkov Says Potential Putin-Cheeto Mussolini Summit Is on the Agenda

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-22 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini Officials’ Meeting With Russian in Miami Spurs Questions About Latest Ukraine Proposal

CBC ☛ 2025-11-21 [Older] Poland rail explosion shows Europe still struggling to respond to Russia’s shadow war

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-11-21 [Older] Why Russia's environmental activists are all going underground

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-21 [Older] EU to Keep Supporting Ukraine as Sanctions Against Russia Bite, Says Von Der Leyen

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-21 [Older] Germany's Merz to Join Call on US-Russian Plan to End Ukraine War

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-21 [Older] Polish PM Says Russia-Backed Sabotage Has Crossed a Critical Line

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-21 [Older] Russia Downs 33 Ukrainian Drones Overnight, Defence Ministry Says

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-21 [Older] Russian Attack Kills Five in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia, Regional Governor Says

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-21 [Older] European Leaders Assure Ukraine of Their Support After US Peace Plan Leaves Them Sidelined

Metro UK ☛ 2025-11-20 [Older] Russian hackers target IVF clinics across UK used by thousands of couples

The Record ☛ 2025-11-20 [Older] US, allies sanction Russian bulletproof hosting services for ransomware support

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-11-20 [Older] Poland accuses Russia of carrying out state terrorism

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-20 [Older] Lawmakers Pass Bill Raising Taxes for Russians Branded as ‘Foreign Agents’

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-20 [Older] US Sanctions on Big Russian Oil Firms Are Having Their Intended Effect, Treasury Official Says

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-20 [Older] A Relative’s Desperate Search Then Fading Hope After Russian Attack in Western Ukraine

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-20 [Older] Putin Met With Russian Top Military Brass, Kremlin Says

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-20 [Older] Russian Video Shows Soldiers Walking Freely Through Ruins of Ukraine's Pokrovsk

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-20 [Older] Russia Says It Held 'In-Depth' Talks With China on Missile Defence and Nuclear Issues

CBC ☛ 2025-11-19 [Older] Heavy Russian attack on Ukraine kills 19, injures dozens, officials say

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-11-19 [Older] Ukraine updates: Deadly Russian strikes hit Ternopil

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-19 [Older] New Sanctions Target Russian Web Hosting Service Over Suspected Ransomware Operations

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-19 [Older] Twenty-Five Killed in Russian Strike on Apartment Buildings in West Ukraine

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-19 [Older] Kremlin Says It Regrets Poland's Closure of Last Russian Consulate After Railway Blast

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-19 [Older] Several Arrested in Poland Over Railway Sabotage, State Media Says

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-19 [Older] Romania Scrambles Fighter Jets After Drone Breach During Russian Strike on Ukraine

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-19 [Older] Russian Attack Kills 25 in Ukraine’s Ternopil as Zelenskyy Arrives in Turkey for Erdogan Talks

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-19 [Older] Russia Puts Khodorkovsky on List of 'Extremists and Terrorists', RIA Reports

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-19 [Older] Russia Says Ukraine Fired U.S.-Made ATACMS Missiles at Voronezh

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-19 [Older] UK Defense Secretary Warns Russia It Is Ready to Deal With Any Incursions After Spy Ship Spotted

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-19 [Older] Ukraine's Zelenskiy Says Russian Attack Killed Nine, Damaged Infrastructure

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-19 [Older] UK Says 'Military Options Ready' as Russian Ship Uses Lasers Against RAF Pilots

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-19 [Older] US, UK and Australia Sanction Russian Cyber Firms Over Ransomware Links

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-19 [Older] With an Eye on Russia, EU Wants to Make It Easier to Deploy Tanks and Troops at Short Notice

CBC ☛ 2025-11-18 [Older] 2 Ukrainians working for Russia suspected of being involved in railway blast, Polish PM says

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-11-18 [Older] Poland says Ukrainians working for Russia behind rail blast

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-18 [Older] Russian Lawmakers Approve Tax Hike Bill to Boost Economy as the War With Ukraine Nears 4 Years

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-18 [Older] Zelenskyy Will Visit Turkey in a New Bid to Jump-Start Talks With Russia Over the War in Ukraine

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-18 [Older] Ukrainian Attack Damages Power Plants in Russian-Controlled Parts of Donetsk, Official Says

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-18 [Older] DOJ Subpoenas Unlikely to Yield New Info on Russia Probe Pushed by Cheeto Mussolini, Sources Say

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-18 [Older] Gas Pipeline Accident Reported in Russia's Omsk Region, Governor Says

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-18 [Older] Germany's Wadephul Says EU-Candidate Serbia Must Align With the Bloc's Russia Policy

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-18 [Older] Kremlin Accuses Poland of 'Russophobia' After Warsaw Blames Railway Sabotage on Russia

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-18 [Older] Kremlin Says Russia Will Not Participate in Ukraine Talks in Turkey This Week

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-18 [Older] Poland Says 2 Ukrainians Working for Russia Are Suspected of Being Involved in Railway Blast

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-18 [Older] Polish PM Says Two Responsible for Railway Blast Worked for Russian Intelligence

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-18 [Older] Rostec Says Defence Exports Halved Since 2022 as Russian Orders Dominated

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-18 [Older] Russian Drones Damage Suspilne Newsroom Building in Ukraine's Dnipro, Broadcaster Says

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-18 [Older] Russian Intelligence Likely Behind Railway Sabotage, Poland Says

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-18 [Older] Ukraine Says It Attacked Two Power Stations in Russian-Occupied Donetsk Region

Transparency/Investigative Reporting

Digital Camera World ☛ Napalm Girl documentary arrives on Netflix this week, triggered by 52-year-old secret that plagued photo editor – and I can't wait to watch it! | Digital Camera World

What's the origin of one of the most powerful images ever made? This documentary revisits the story behind the photograph that defined the Vietnam War, presenting new context regarding its authorship

Environment

MIT Technology Review ☛ This year’s UN climate talks avoided fossil fuels, again

While many, including the president of Brazil, framed this year’s conference as one of action, the talks ended with a watered-down agreement. The final draft doesn’t even include the phrase “fossil fuels.”As emissions and global temperatures reach record highs again this year, I’m left wondering: Why is it so hard to formally acknowledge what’s causing the problem?

Energy/Transportation

The Conversation ☛ 2025-11-21 [Older] Is supersonic air travel about to return, two decades after the last Concorde flight?

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-22 [Older] Negotiators at UN Climate Talks Split Over When and How to Phaseout Use Oil, Gas and Coal

The Local SE ☛ How rail journeys across Europe could be made faster in the coming years

In the statement, EC gave several examples of connections which it said could see their rail journey times cut in half in the coming years.These include cutting journey times from Athens to Sofia to six hours and Copenhagen to Berlin to just four hours.

Wildlife/Nature

Scheerpost ☛ 2025-11-20 [Older] COP30 in the Amazon and the Hope of Indigenous Leadership

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-21 [Older] COP30 Host City Belem, Brazil, Tries to Stoke Economy While Preserving Amazon Rainforest

Finance

Press Gazette ☛ Manchester Evening News launches paywall

The paywall will be metered, meaning it will only be triggered after readers have viewed a certain number of articles per month.

AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

Scheerpost ☛ 2025-11-21 [Older] WaPo Defends Data Centers—With Few Disclosures That Amazon Depends on Them

The Walrus ☛ The F-35 Isn’t Just a Fighter Jet. It’s a Pledge of Allegiance | The Walrus

The stakes are high in what will be one of the most expensive and consequential defence purchases in Canadian history, as the Canadian government reviews its decision to purchase the United States F-35 fighter jet and has a second look at its competitor, the Swedish JAS Gripen.

New York Times ☛ The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley

Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish” saw the seeds of disaster in the late-1990s dot-com boom, which, she argued, transformed a community that was previously sober, civic-minded and egalitarian into something toxic.Silicon Valley, Ms. Borsook wrote, hated governments, rules and regulations. It believed if you were rich, you were smart. It thought people could be, and indeed should be, programmed just like a computer. “Techno-libertarianism,” as she labeled it, had no time for the messy realities of being human.

The Record ☛ House Energy and Commerce Committee unveils new draft children’s online safety bill

The House Energy and Commerce Committee on Tuesday unveiled a host of new bills designed to protect kids online, including a new version of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) which omits a key provision included in an earlier failed version of the legislation.The removed element is known as the duty of care, which would have made big tech liable by law for social harms resulting from use of their products. The version of KOSA which passed in the Senate by an overwhelming margin in July 2024 and included a duty of care stalled in the House where leadership was concerned about the law’s impact on free speech.

Cyble Inc ☛ EU Reaches Agreement On Child Sexual Abuse Detection Law After Three Years Of Contentious Debate

The Council introduces three risk categories of online services based on objective criteria including service type, with authorities able to oblige online service providers classified in the high-risk category to contribute to developing technologies to mitigate risks relating to their services. The framework shifts responsibility to digital companies to proactively address risks on their platforms.

International Business Times ☛ Apple Layoffs: Real Reason Behind iPhone Maker Cutting Jobs

There are three plausible forces behind the layoffs by the iPhone maker, and they are not mutually exclusive.

Jérôme Marin ☛ “We are not Enron”

“We are not Enron.” In a sign of growing nervousness, Nvidia felt compelled to deny allegations published in a confidential newsletter written by… the head of an animal-transport company in Sri Lanka. The graphics-chip (GPU) giant rejected any suspicion of questionable accounting practices reminiscent of the former US energy titan, which collapsed in 2001 in a scandal Wall Street has never forgotten, after hiding its losses through a maze of shell companies.

Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

The Strategist ☛ Normalising disinformation: China shifts to overt operations against Japan

Chinese state media and diplomatic social media accounts intensified efforts to erode Japan’s standing as an Indo-Pacific defence and security partner in 2025, research by Japan Nexus Intelligence and ASPI shows. Whereas earlier campaigns relied heavily on covert, coordinated and inauthentic networks, the latest findings reveal a shifting threat: Beijing is increasingly using overt, state-linked channels to push destabilising messaging into the regional information environment.

Censorship/Free Speech

Meduza ☛ Russia just declared the late Alexey Navalny’s nonprofit a ‘terrorist organization.’ This was their response.

All these designations are first “tested” on ACF — we receive them first, and then they become the norm for everyone who disagrees with Putin’s policies. There is no doubt that soon others will be branded “terrorists” too — independent media, human rights projects, local initiatives.This is a political tactic of the Russian authorities: to declare anyone who stands in the way of their theft and endless war as enemies of the state.

Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

The Local DK ☛ Denmark’s Social Democrats want media outlets checked for 'bias'

The study would set out political leanings in journalists’ work at public service media such as broadcasters TV2 and DR as well as private organisations like newspapers.Social Democratic media spokesperson Mogens Jensen stated that private media are allowed to have a political profile.“But it would be good to get an idea of how that looks so that Danes have an insight into the type of media they are exposed to,” he said in comments reported by news wire Ritzau.

BoingBoing ☛ With CNN in their sights, the Ellisons ask Trump who to axe

Leading the rightwing media consolidation craze, Larry and David Ellison are taking their orders from the White House and Donald Trump himself. With CBS already bleeding out and TikTok in their sights, they're now pondering a CNN makeover.

Civil Rights/Policing

Terence Eden ☛ The Idiot Sandwich – On Embedding Alt Text

And that brings me to the point of this post. Who is your alt text for? What information are you trying to share?

Monopolies/Monopsonies

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-11-18 [Older] Germany news: Berlin summit seeks EU digital sovereignty

IP Kat ☛ 2025-11-24 [Older] Australian court (over)simplifies approach to assessing "whole of contents" novelty

Copenhagen Post ☛ 2025-11-19 [Older] Court rejects Amazon attempt to avoid EU cooperation rules

IP Kat ☛ 2025-11-17 [Older] Fire sale of BMWs backfires: Hague court rejects exhaustion defence

Patents

IP Kat ☛ 2025-11-24 [Older] EPO pharma case law trends 2025: Clinical inventions [Ed: AstraZeneca conflict of interest]

Kangaroo Courts

IP Kat ☛ 2025-11-18 [Older] Non-reproducible prior art post-G 1/23: Novelty versus inventive step (T 1044/23)

Copyrights

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-11-18 [Older] UK plans ban on ticket resale touts in bot-buying era

IP Kat ☛ 2025-11-23 [Older] [Guest post] The Birkenstock saga continues: Dutch court acknowledges copyright protection in sandal designs

US News And World Report ☛ 2025-11-20 [Older] Sony, Warner and Universal Sign AI Music Licensing Deals With Startup Klay

Engadget ☛ Apple faces lawsuit over alleged use of pirated books for AI training

Two authors have filed a lawsuit against Apple, accusing the company of infringing on their copyright by using their books to train its artificial intelligence model without their consent. The plaintiffs, Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson, claimed that Apple used a dataset of pirated copyrighted books that include their works for AI training. They said in their complaint that Applebot, the company's scraper, can "reach 'shadow libraries'" made up of unlicensed copyrighted books, including (on information) their own. The lawsuit is currently seeking class action status, due to the sheer number of books and authors found in shadow libraries.

AppleInsider ☛ Authors sue Apple over claims it trained AI with pirated books

A proposed class action lawsuit filed by authors Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson, accuses Apple of using their copyrighted works to train its AI systems, reports Reuters. Filed on Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, the lawsuit says Apple is actively using a dataset based on pirated works.The suit hinges on whether Apple used the dataset referred to as "Books3." The suit alleges that Books3 is based on the contents of a "shadow library" website known as Bibliotik, which allegedly hosted the contents of thousands of books.