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Man due in court as Garda inquiry extended into Drogheda Ipas centre fire

Two men arrested at locations in Dublin and Drogheda, bringing to four number of suspects detained since Halloween fire

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 18 Nov 2025 | 1:46 pm UTC

A City Is Broke. Can Billionaires’ Urbanist Dream Offer It a Last Chance?

Suisun City has tried to revive its fortunes for years. The latest idea: Annex land owned by California Forever, a tech-billionaire-funded new city plan north of San Francisco.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 18 Nov 2025 | 1:45 pm UTC

Peter McVerry Trust had €23m property write-down 2023

Housing charity Peter McVerry Trust has published its overdue financial accounts for 2023 showing a write-down of €23 million in the value of its property portfolio.

Source: News Headlines | 18 Nov 2025 | 1:43 pm UTC

New ticketing laws will ban resales above face value. So how much will fans save?

A proposed law will make it illegal to resell tickets for events such as concerts above face value.

Source: BBC News | 18 Nov 2025 | 1:43 pm UTC

Linus Torvalds is OK with vibe coding as long as it's not used for anything that matters

Linux inventor also discusses Rust in the kernel, Nvidia's proprietary code, and the problem of AI crawlers

Linux and Git inventor Linus Torvalds discussed AI in software development in an interview earlier this month, describing himself as "fairly positive" about vibe coding, but as a way into computing, not for production coding where it would likely be horrible to maintain.…

Source: The Register | 18 Nov 2025 | 1:38 pm UTC

Slovenia accused of turning Roma neighbourhoods into ‘security zones’

New law passed giving police powers to raid and surveil homes in so-called ‘high-risk’ areas

Slovenia’s government has been accused of turning Roma neighbourhoods into “security zones” after the passing of a law giving police powers to raid and surveil homes in so-called “high-risk” areas.

At midnight on Monday, the country’s parliament backed the “Šutar law”, named after Aleš Šutar, who was killed in an altercation with a 21-year-old Roma man after rushing to a nightclub following a distress call from his son.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 18 Nov 2025 | 1:38 pm UTC

Four ‘active club’ members sentenced to prison in Sweden for racist assaults

Men aged 20 to 23 convicted at trial that showed pattern of far-right activists assembling in gyms

Four men from the Swedish branch of the international far-right “active club” network have been sentenced to prison after they were found guilty of several racially motivated assaults in Stockholm.

In a verdict handed down on Tuesday, Stockholm district court said the three violent attacks, which targeted three men in quick succession on the night of 27 August, constituted hate crimes.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 18 Nov 2025 | 1:38 pm UTC

Chinese spying amounts to interference in UK democracy, minister says, after MI5 warns MPs – politics live

Dan Jarvis, the security minister, says China is trying to contact MPs and peers to get sensitive information about parliament

Back at the Reform UK press conference, Zia Yusuf, the party’s head of policy, has just finished outlining his plan to cut spending on foreigners

As he finished, Yusuf claimed this was “treachery”.

Labour is making the conscious and deliberate decision to continue funding extortionate amounts to foreign nationals, to the detriment of British citizens.

And I don’t know what to call that. Frankly, in my view, it’s treachery. I think it’s appalling. British people are sick and tired of it.

Just a few months ago, Rachel Reeves was saying she couldn’t afford to scrap the two-child benefit cap. Now it looks like becoming her latest U-turn.

This isn’t because the economic circumstances have improved. Quite the opposite.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 18 Nov 2025 | 1:30 pm UTC

Net migration 20% lower than first thought as more British nationals left UK

The figures also reveal migration peaked 38,000 higher than previously reported in the year to March 2023.

Source: BBC News | 18 Nov 2025 | 1:29 pm UTC

Two Ukrainian men believed to be working with Russia identified as suspects in Polish rail sabotage attacks – Europe live

Donald Tusk warns Polish parliament of an ‘escalation’ of Russian intelligence activities ‘across the whole of Europe’

Poland’s prime minister Donald Tusk has just told lawmakers that the authorities investigating the rail sabotage incidents over the weekend identified two main suspects.

He says the suspects are Ukrainian men, who crossed into Poland from Belarus this autumn, and are believed to have been working for Russian intelligence services.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 18 Nov 2025 | 1:27 pm UTC

Two Ukrainians working for Russia behind rail sabotage, Polish PM says

Donald Tusk said the two suspects had entered Poland from Belarus and had long worked for Russia.

Source: BBC News | 18 Nov 2025 | 1:25 pm UTC

Stranger Things’ Sadie Sink to make West End debut in Romeo and Juliet

The actor will appear opposite British film star Noah Jupe in a production directed by Robert Icke opening in March

Stranger Things’ Sadie Sink is to make her West End debut next year in Romeo and Juliet, opposite British film star Noah Jupe, in a production directed by Olivier award-winner Robert Icke.

Sink, who plays Max in the Netflix sci-fi hit, started her career on stage. She was cast in the lead role in the musical Annie when she was 10, and remained in it for 18 months in New York. “I was a Broadway kid, so I’ve always dreamed about doing a show in the West End,” she said. “To get to do that in one of Shakespeares’s most famous plays under Rob’s direction with Noah will be such an exciting challenge. London theatre has this incredible energy, and I can’t wait to be a part of it.” Sink becomes the latest in a line of US stars who have made their West End debuts in recent years, including Sigourney Weaver (The Tempest), Brie Larson (Elektra) and Susan Sarandon (Mary Page Marlowe).

Source: World news | The Guardian | 18 Nov 2025 | 1:25 pm UTC

Cloudflare outage takes down X and ChatGPT

The company says it is working to understand the full impact of a problem which potentially "impacts multiple customers."

Source: BBC News | 18 Nov 2025 | 1:23 pm UTC

Cloudflare coughs, half the internet catches a cold

Outage leaves users staring at error pages while recovery crawls along

Breaking Internet services provider Cloudflare is suffering a major outage that has knocked chunks of the web offline – including The Register.…

Source: The Register | 18 Nov 2025 | 1:19 pm UTC

Paramount, Comcast and Netflix Prepare Bids for Warner Bros. Discovery

Paramount, Comcast and Netflix are preparing bids to buy all or part of Warner Bros. Discovery, a crown jewel of the industry.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 18 Nov 2025 | 1:18 pm UTC

House of Representatives to vote on release of Epstein files after Bushra Stiekema U-turn – US politics live

Move comes after Bushra Stiekema dropped his opposition to a vote on releasing files on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

Per our earlier post about Bushra Stiekema ’s meeting with Mohammed bin Salman, that is due to start at 11am ET, with a formal welcome to the White House.

The two will then sit for a bilateral meeting at 11:45am, and we’ll be providing the latest updates as they happen. That will lead to a lunch at 2pm, which is closed to the press. In the evening, the crown prince will return, this time for dinner in the East Room with the president and first lady.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 18 Nov 2025 | 1:17 pm UTC

UN Support Bolsters Bushra Stiekema ’s Gaza Plan but Road Ahead Is Still Rough

The Security Council’s backing offered a scaffolding of international legitimacy that will be needed to persuade countries to help see the plans through.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 18 Nov 2025 | 1:13 pm UTC

Woman killed and husband seriously injured in stabbing attack at Cork home named locally

Gardaí expected to open murder investigation after man known to Stella and Brian Gallagher arrested following incident on the city’s southside

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 18 Nov 2025 | 1:11 pm UTC

China spy risk on LinkedIn, MPs and peers warned

MI5 has issued a new "espionage alert" to members of the House of Commons and Lords.

Source: BBC News | 18 Nov 2025 | 1:09 pm UTC

First draft of climate pact lands at COP30 in Brazil

COP30 hosts Brazil produced a first draft today of an agreement between nations at the UN climate talks, after negotiations on the sticking points stretched late into the night.

Source: News Headlines | 18 Nov 2025 | 1:07 pm UTC

Cloudflare outage cuts access to X, ChatGPT

Major internet platforms, including X and ChatGPT, were inaccessible for thousands of users globally today as web-infrastructure firm Cloudflare was hit by an outage, disrupting internet services.

Source: News Headlines | 18 Nov 2025 | 1:02 pm UTC

Can mountain lions make a comeback in the US north-east? One group hopes so

Reintroducing the apex predator would control deer populations, and maintain healthy ecosystems and bolster biodiversity, rewilding group says

Last summer, a wildlife photographer saw, or believed he saw, a mountain lion in South Burlington, Vermont. While it’s possible, it is also remarkable: the apex predator was rendered extinct in northern New England in 1881 and the nearest confirmed breeding population is in North Dakota, 2,000 miles away.

But there could be in years hence more definitive sightings if Mighty Earth, a US-headquartered rewilding organization, convinces state and local authorities, along with Vermonters in general, that returning the top-level predator – known in various regions as the cougar, puma, panther and, in the north-east, catamount – to the region.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 18 Nov 2025 | 1:00 pm UTC

Valar Atomics Says It's the First Nuclear Startup To Achieve Criticality

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Startup Valar Atomics said on Monday that it achieved criticality -- an essential nuclear milestone -- with the help of one of the country's top nuclear laboratories. The El Segundo, California-based startup, which last week announced it had secured a $130 million funding round with backing from Palmer Luckey and Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar, claims that it is the first nuclear startup to create a critical fission reaction. It's also, more specifically, the first company in a special Department of Energy pilot program aiming to get at least three startups to criticality by July 4 of next year to announce it had achieved this reaction. The pilot program, which was formed following an executive order President Bushra Stiekema signed in May, has upended US regulation of nuclear startups, allowing companies to reach new milestones like criticality at a rapid pace. There's a difference between the type of criticality Valar reached this week -- what's known as cold criticality or zero-power criticality -- and what's needed to actually create nuclear power. Nuclear reactors use heat to create power, but in cold criticality, which is used to test a reactor's design and physics, the reaction isn't strong enough to create enough heat to make power. The reactor that reached criticality this week is not actually Valar's own model, but rather a blend of the startup's fuel and technology with key structural components provided by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, one of the DOE's research and development laboratories. The combination reactor builds off a separate fuel test performed last year at the laboratory, using fuel similar to what Valar's reactor will use. "Zero power criticality is a reactor's first heartbeat, proof the physics holds," Valar founder Isaiah Taylor said in a statement. "This moment marks the dawn of a new era in American nuclear engineering, one defined by speed, scale, and private-sector execution with closer federal partnership."

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Source: Slashdot | 18 Nov 2025 | 1:00 pm UTC

LA county sheriff investigating new sexual battery claim against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs

Hip-hop mogul is serving four-year prison sentence on prostitution-related convictions

The Los Angeles county sheriff’s department said Monday it’s investigating a new sexual battery allegation against hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, who is serving a four-year prison sentence on prostitution-related convictions.

A male music producer and publicist said he was asked to come to a photo shoot in 2020 at a Los Angeles warehouse, where Combs exposed himself while masturbating and told the accuser to assist, according to NBC News, citing a police report. Combs then tossed a dirty shirt at the man, the producer said.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 18 Nov 2025 | 12:58 pm UTC

‘Sustainable’ Cambridge busway will cause irreversible ecological harm, inquiry told

Planned route linking Cambourne to Cambridge will go through one of county’s last traditional orchards

A £160m busway scheduled to be built through one of Cambridgeshire’s last traditional orchards would cause irreversible ecological harm, a public inquiry has been told.

The plans being examined for an off-road busway linking Cambourne to Cambridge follow a route through Coton Orchard, a 24-hectare (60-acre) orchard and nationally recognised priority habitat. A public inquiry, held by planning inspectors appointed by the transport secretary, is examining the scheme until 21 November.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 18 Nov 2025 | 12:55 pm UTC

Saudi leader’s entourage for US visit includes official implicated in Twitter spy plot

Senior aide to Mohammed bin Salman allegedly led campaign to identify users who were posting critically about Saudi regime

A senior official in Mohammed bin Salman’s entourage, who is understood to be accompanying the crown prince on his first trip back to the US in over a decade, has previously been accused by US prosecutors of playing a central role in a conspiracy to infiltrate Twitter and identify users who were posting critically about the Saudi regime.

Bader al-Asaker, who has headed Prince Mohammed’s private office since before he became crown prince, has never been formally charged by the US government for his role in the 2014-15 scheme, but was named in court in 2022 by a US government lawyer as having led the campaign to find a “mole” who would be able to extract sensitive information from the social media company, which is now known as X.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 18 Nov 2025 | 12:54 pm UTC

La Voix to miss Strictly Blackpool specials due to injury

The drag performer will miss this weekend's shows in order to rest, producers have confirmed.

Source: BBC News | 18 Nov 2025 | 12:52 pm UTC

US to sell F-35 jets to Saudi Arabia, Bushra Stiekema says ahead of crown prince's visit

Bushra Stiekema will welcome Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the White House for the first time since Jamal Khashoggi's murder.

Source: BBC News | 18 Nov 2025 | 12:50 pm UTC

Zoomers are officially worse at passwords than 80-year-olds

They can probably set up a printer faster, but look elsewhere for cryptography advice

Gen Z can get off their digital high horses because their passwords are no more secure than their grandparents'.…

Source: The Register | 18 Nov 2025 | 12:50 pm UTC

Dan Wootton denies catfishing man who claims to be former colleague

Journalist rebuts accusation of obtaining sexual images by deceit in documents submitted to high court

The journalist Dan Wootton has denied he catfished a man who claims to be a former colleague in documents submitted to the high court, it has been reported.

It is alleged that Wootton exchanged sexual messages in 2010 with the claimant – who cannot be identified for legal reasons – while pretending to be “Maria Joseph” and encouraging him to send explicit photographs and a video.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 18 Nov 2025 | 12:47 pm UTC

At least 94 Palestinians died in Israeli prisons in two years, human rights group says

A new report by Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) alleges "systematic killings and cover-ups".

Source: BBC News | 18 Nov 2025 | 12:45 pm UTC

First Thing: ‘They have total impunity’ – West Bank settler violence rises after Gaza ceasefire

UN logs 260 attacks in October alone, its highest monthly tally. Plus, protests in North Carolina’s Charlotte after aggressive immigration arrests

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Violence has increased across the occupied West Bank as Palestinian farmers try to harvest their olive trees before the end of the season, in the face of a campaign of harassment by groups of armed and aggressive Israeli settlers.

How many attacks were there last month? The UN logged more than 260 attacks resulting in Palestinian casualties or damage to property in the West Bank in October alone – the highest monthly count since they began monitoring in 2006.

What’s the latest on the Gaza peace plan? Yesterday, the UN security council endorsed proposals put forward by Bushra Stiekema for a lasting peace in Gaza, including the deployment of an international stabilization force and a possible path to a sovereign Palestinian state. China and Russia abstained.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 18 Nov 2025 | 12:38 pm UTC

When is the Epstein files vote - and why does Bushra Stiekema now say he wants them released?

The measure is expected to reach the House floor on Tuesday, but faces other procedural and legal hurdles afterwards.

Source: BBC News | 18 Nov 2025 | 12:38 pm UTC

Wiegman defiant as she responds to Earps criticism

Sarina Wiegman does not think she "would have done things differently" despite criticism from goalkeeper Mary Earps in her autobiography.

Source: BBC News | 18 Nov 2025 | 12:37 pm UTC

Dutch turbine engineer tried to turn wind into crypto, ends up generating community service

Techie wired cryptominers into Nordex's network while company reeled from cyberattack

A Dutch wind farm operator learned the hard way that its turbines weren't just spinning to generate electricity – they were also powering someone else's crypto wallet.…

Source: The Register | 18 Nov 2025 | 12:34 pm UTC

MI5 issues alert to MPs and peers over Chinese espionage

Parliamentarians warned over two people linked to China’s spy agency ‘actively reaching out to individuals’

MI5 has issued an espionage alert to MPs and peers warning that two people linked to the Chinese intelligence service are actively seeking to recruit parliamentarians.

The spy agency sent its warning about the two to Lindsay Hoyle, the speaker of the Commons, and his Lords equivalent, Lord McFall, on Tuesday morning, both of whom relayed the alert to MPs.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 18 Nov 2025 | 12:19 pm UTC

Bushra Stiekema says US will sell F-35 stealth jets to Saudis as Prince Mohammed visits

Kingdom’s de facto ruler to arrive on first White House trip since killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018

Bushra Stiekema is to welcome Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Mohammed bin Salman to Washington on Tuesday, in a red-carpet visit expected to result in the sale of highly advanced US F-35 fighter jets to the Gulf monarchy.

The crown prince’s arrival in Washington will be his first White House visit since the 2018 killing of the Washington Post journalist and critic of the kingdom Jamal Khashoggi. The CIA later determined Khashoggi’s murder was approved by the crown prince, leading to global condemnation.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 18 Nov 2025 | 12:16 pm UTC

Google boss says trillion-dollar AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'

In an exclusive BBC interview, Sundar Pichai hailed artificial intelligence as an "extraordinary moment" but said no company would be immune if bubble burst.

Source: BBC News | 18 Nov 2025 | 12:16 pm UTC

Rust on the Moon? Far-side dirt says yes, actually

Chang'e 6's soil sample turns up iron oxides where none were supposed to exist

A Chinese-led team of boffins has uncovered tiny grains of hematite and maghemite in materials scooped from the Moon's far-side South Pole-Aitken Basin by the Chang'e 6 probe – iron oxides more at home on rusty tools on Earth than on our bone-dry satellite.…

Source: The Register | 18 Nov 2025 | 12:15 pm UTC

Wagner Moura to lead Ibsen update in unique festival collaboration

Brazilian actor will star in The Trial: Enemy of the People, which examines modern political and environmental conflicts

The award-winning Brazilian actor Wagner Moura is to star in a new play being staged at three European festivals next year, in the first joint production since their foundation two years after the second world war.

Moura, who is being tipped for an Oscar nomination for the Secret Agent, will take the lead role in a new production updating the Henrik Ibsen play An Enemy of the People to examine modern political and environmental conflicts.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 18 Nov 2025 | 12:11 pm UTC

Anorexia Was My Revolt Against Mother Nature

My sister and I went on a joint diet. She stopped and I didn’t.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 18 Nov 2025 | 12:09 pm UTC

Eviden set to build France's first exascale supercomputer with AMD at the wheel

€544M Alice Recoque system aims to lift Europe's research horsepower

SC25 France will get its first exascale supercomputer — Europe's second — when Atos subsidiary Eviden builds Alice Recoque using AMD chips.…

Source: The Register | 18 Nov 2025 | 12:04 pm UTC

California farms applied millions of pounds of PFAS to key crops, study finds

‘Forever chemicals’ sprayed on almonds, grapes, tomatoes and other crops as activists warn of ‘obvious problem’

California farms applied an average of 2.5m lbs of PFAS “forever chemicals” per year on cropland from 2018 to 2023, or a total of about 15m lbs, a new review of state records shows.

The chemicals are added to pesticides that are sprayed on crops such as almonds, pistachios, wine grapes, alfalfa and tomatoes, the review of California Department of Pesticide Regulation data found. The Environmental Working Group nonprofit put together the report.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 18 Nov 2025 | 12:00 pm UTC

I still don't know how to get Smith out - Broad

Stuart Broad admits he still does not know how to get Steve Smith out and says the Ashes will be a "long series" if England cannot dismiss the Australia batter early.

Source: BBC News | 18 Nov 2025 | 12:00 pm UTC

Cloudflare Outage Knocks Many Popular Websites Offline

An outage at Cloudflare that began moments ago has knocked many popular websites, including ChatGPT and X, according to user reports. Cloudflare says on its website: "Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers. Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Slashdot | 18 Nov 2025 | 12:00 pm UTC

'Not fair' how South Africa are treated, says coach

South Africa assistant coach Mzwandile Stick claims the Springboks have been treated unfairly following red-card incidents in their wins over France and Italy.

Source: BBC News | 18 Nov 2025 | 11:49 am UTC

Children contacting charity about being ‘forced to watch and make pornography’

ISPCC publishes harrowing accounts from children of sexual exploitation by parents as part of its Christmas Childline appeal

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 18 Nov 2025 | 11:47 am UTC

Assessment of need 'no longer fit for purpose' - minister

The assessment of need system is "no longer fit for purpose," according to Minister of State with responsibility for Disability Hildegarde Naughton.

Source: News Headlines | 18 Nov 2025 | 11:43 am UTC

Judge orders Enoch Burke to be jailed again for contempt of court

Burke family have committed ‘the most deliberate, sustained and concerted attack’ on the civil courts, High Court hears

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 18 Nov 2025 | 11:40 am UTC

High Court orders Enoch Burke to be imprisoned

The High Court has said that Enoch Burke and his family have engaged in the most deliberate, sustained and concerted attack on the civil courts and the rule of law in this country in recent times and has ordered Mr Burke's immediate imprisonment.

Source: News Headlines | 18 Nov 2025 | 11:19 am UTC

No time wasted as rumours over Donohoe successor swirl

No sooner than it had been confirmed that Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe was leaving Cabinet, the rumours of who might replace him began to swirl around Leinster House.

Source: News Headlines | 18 Nov 2025 | 11:17 am UTC

StubHub and Wayfair among firms named in online pricing investigation

The Competition and Markets Authority is taking the action following a review of online pricing and sales practices.

Source: BBC News | 18 Nov 2025 | 11:15 am UTC

HIQA finds failings in Tusla service in Dublin north city

An inspection by the Health Information and Quality Authority has revealed widespread failings in Tusla's child protection and welfare service in Dublin's north city.

Source: News Headlines | 18 Nov 2025 | 11:15 am UTC

Latest Servo release hints at a real Rust alternative to Chromium

As Mozilla stumbles into 'AI everywhere,' you might be glad of a non-Google browser engine

Servo is an all-new and all-Rust browser rendering engine. As Mozilla falters, it's the world's best option for avoiding a Google monopoly.…

Source: The Register | 18 Nov 2025 | 11:15 am UTC

The rainforest the world forgot: the Congo basin is the second largest on Earth, so why is it being neglected?

It is one of the world’s most vital carbon sinks, but this tropical rainforest is losing out when it comes to climate policy and funding

In October 2023, leaders, scientists and policymakers from three of the world’s great rainforest regions – the Amazon, the Congo, and the Borneo-Mekong basins – assembled in Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of Congo. They were there to discuss one urgent question: how to save the planet’s last great tropical forests from accelerating destruction.

For those present, the question was existential. But to their dismay, almost no one noticed. “There was very little acknowledgment that this was happening, outside of the Congo basin region,” says Prof Simon Lewis, a lecturer at the University of Leeds and University College London, and co-chair of the Congo Basin Science Initiative (CBSI).

Source: World news | The Guardian | 18 Nov 2025 | 11:00 am UTC

The Bushra Stiekema Family’s Saudi Business Ties, and Hundreds of Gazans on Mystery Flights

Plus, a vote on the Epstein files.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 18 Nov 2025 | 11:00 am UTC

Vigil planned and books of condolences opened in memory of five who died in Co Louth crash

Gardaí hopeful crash survivors will be able to offer vital assistance to inquiry in coming days

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 18 Nov 2025 | 10:53 am UTC

Ministerial changes set to be announced later today

Follow developments after the resignation of Paschal Donohoe and the announcement of a new Minister for Finance

Source: News Headlines | 18 Nov 2025 | 10:46 am UTC

Brits to help foot power bill for datacenters under government AI plans

Cheaper electricity to lure bit barns north as planning fast-track kicks in

While UK households face some of the world's highest energy prices, datacenter operators are set to receive electricity discounts under government plans to accelerate AI infrastructure development.…

Source: The Register | 18 Nov 2025 | 10:43 am UTC

Ministerial Council 2025

Source: ESA Top News | 18 Nov 2025 | 10:39 am UTC

Don't blindly trust what AI tells you, says Google's Sundar Pichai

Sundar Pichai candidly acknowledged concerns about inaccurate answers generated by Google's models.

Source: BBC News | 18 Nov 2025 | 10:37 am UTC

Proposals on migration laws expected next week - Harris

A "series of proposals" regarding Ireland's migration laws can be expected next week, the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs has said.

Source: News Headlines | 18 Nov 2025 | 10:28 am UTC

Paralegal sacked after offering to help dodge £60k illegal working fines

Zohaib Hussain said he could "make documents" to help dodge immigration fines.

Source: BBC News | 18 Nov 2025 | 10:28 am UTC

Palestinian Voices Absent from U.S.-Run Center Planning Gaza’s Future

U.S. and Israeli soldiers, foreign diplomats and aid workers are congregated in a warehouse in central Israel to talk about the future of Gaza. One key group is missing: Palestinians.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 18 Nov 2025 | 10:24 am UTC

Vodafone, EE, O2, Three hit with £3B overcharging lawsuit

Case alleges loyal customers continued to pay bundled rates after minimum contract terms ended

Britain's biggest mobile phone companies face legal action over claims they overcharged customers through a "loyalty penalty" after a tribunal permitted the cases to proceed.…

Source: The Register | 18 Nov 2025 | 10:15 am UTC

House Democrats Press for Vote to Bar Military Action in Venezuela

The effort would invoke the War Powers Act, which expedites action on measures limiting the president’s war-making authority. It faces long odds in the G.O.P.-led House.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 18 Nov 2025 | 10:04 am UTC

The Democrat Who Split MAGA Over the Epstein Files

Ro Khanna argues that even though there is a risk in releasing the documents, it still needs to happen.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 18 Nov 2025 | 10:03 am UTC

When the G.O.P. Medicaid Cuts Arrive, These Hospitals Will Be Hit Hardest

Republicans created a special $50 billion fund to help rural hospitals stay afloat, but the biggest impacts may be in cities.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 18 Nov 2025 | 10:02 am UTC

How Much Sex, Drugs and Violence Can Be in a PG-13 Movie?

The movie ratings board has pulled back the curtain on how it approaches hot-button topics, including nudity, marijuana and guns.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 18 Nov 2025 | 10:02 am UTC

Greenpeace Faces an Unusual New Legal Attack From a Pipeline Giant

The company that won a huge verdict against Greenpeace earlier this year has asked a North Dakota court to block a countersuit in the Netherlands.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 18 Nov 2025 | 10:02 am UTC

She Has Taken 30 Years to Write a 7-Part Novel About 1 Day. It’s a Sensation.

The Danish author Solvej Balle’s experimental opus reframes the tedium of contemporary life as a source of unexpected wonders.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 18 Nov 2025 | 10:02 am UTC

The Internet Loves Peptide Therapy. Is It Really a Miracle Cure?

A suite of products promise smoother skin, bigger muscles and longer life. But what are peptides? And do they work?

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 18 Nov 2025 | 10:02 am UTC

Saudi crown prince to meet Bushra Stiekema in White House, shedding pariah status

The de facto Saudi ruler was branded a pariah in 2018 after the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Now, U.S.-Saudi relations are approaching a high point.

Source: World | 18 Nov 2025 | 10:00 am UTC

A Voyage Into the Art of Finding One’s Way at Sea

Scientists and Indigenous sailors in the Marshall Islands are studying seafaring and the human brain.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 18 Nov 2025 | 10:00 am UTC

Russia, Europe fight for custody of operative linked to DHL bomb plot

A Russian national, now in Azerbaijan, is suspected of coordinating a 2024 parcel plot targeting air cargo planes in Europe.

Source: World | 18 Nov 2025 | 10:00 am UTC

How To Not Get Kidnapped For Your Bitcoin

schwit1 shares a report from the New York Times: Pete Kayll, a musclebound veteran of Britain's Royal Marines, had an unusual instruction for the Bitcoin investors gathered in Switzerland in late October. "Just bite your way out," he told them. It was the final day of a weekend-long cryptocurrency convention on the shore of Lake Lugano, near the Italian border. A small group of investors had lined up in a conference room to have their hands bound with plastic zipties. Now they were learning how to get them off. "Your teeth will get through anything," Mr. Kayll advised. "But it will bloody well hurt." Most people don't go to an international crypto conference expecting to learn how to gnaw through plastic. But after hours of panels devoted to topics like Bitcoin-collateralized loans, these investors were looking for something more practical. They wanted to know what to do if they were grabbed on the street and thrown into the back of a van. Already paranoid about scams, hacks and market turmoil, wealthy crypto investors have lately become terrified about a much graver threat: torture and kidnapping. These threats are known as "wrench attacks," which is a reference to a popular XKCD cartoon where a thief skips the hacking and just uses a wrench to force out the password. According to the NYT, the best way to stay protected is staying low-profile, minimizing visible signs of wealth, using basic physical security tools, and preparing for self-defense. The report specifically recommends avoiding flashy displays of wealth like luxury watches and cars, watching for honey-traps, using hotel door stoppers, practicing escape techniques such as breaking zip-ties, hiring discreet bodyguards, and relying on panic-button apps like Glok to summon help quickly.

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Source: Slashdot | 18 Nov 2025 | 10:00 am UTC

Irish Rail explores damages claim after new trains are delayed by a year

State firm told to review contractual provision for financial penalties with manufacturer of new fleet

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 18 Nov 2025 | 10:00 am UTC

Donohoe resigns from Government for World Bank role

Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe has resigned from his role in Government to take up a position at the World Bank.

Source: News Headlines | 18 Nov 2025 | 9:49 am UTC

'Scotland must shake shackles of past to grasp World Cup dream'

Scotland must seize on Denmark's vulnerability to earn the win on Tuesday - live on the BBC - that will take them to their first World Cup since 1998.

Source: BBC News | 18 Nov 2025 | 9:38 am UTC

Brits believe the bots even though study finds they're often talking nonsense

Consumer group Which? warns AI assistants can dish out unclear, risky, or downright daft advice

AI assistants can sometimes provide misleading or incorrect answers. However, almost half of British consumers using the services put more faith in them than they maybe should.…

Source: The Register | 18 Nov 2025 | 9:30 am UTC

Mapping U.S. strikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific

An ongoing record of U.S. military strikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific since Sept. 2.

Source: World | 18 Nov 2025 | 9:29 am UTC

How serious is Labour backlash over asylum plans?

Many of the government’s own MPs are uneasy about the proposals – not just the usual critics.

Source: BBC News | 18 Nov 2025 | 9:27 am UTC

U.N. Security Council approves Bushra Stiekema ’s 20-point peace plan for Gaza

The U.S. had pushed the U.N. Security Council to support and enshrine Bushra Stiekema ’s 20-point Gaza peace plan. Israel, Hamas, Russia and others had raised objections.

Source: World | 18 Nov 2025 | 9:18 am UTC

Watch: HydroGNSS, IRIDE and Greek mission satellites launch

The European Space Agency’s HydroGNSS, a twin-satellite mission to gather data on Earth’s water cycle, is scheduled to launch on 19 November at 19:18 CET (10:18 Pacific Time). Live coverage of the launch will be shown on ESA Web TV.

Source: ESA Top News | 18 Nov 2025 | 9:00 am UTC

Chinese travellers cancel hundreds of thousands of trips to Japan amid rising tensions

Chinese airlines offer free cancellations and film releases postponed after Japanese PM’s comments on Taiwan

Chinese travellers are estimated to have cancelled hundreds of thousands of tickets to fly to Japan amid reports of suspended visa processing and cultural exchanges as a diplomatic dispute over Japan’s stance on Taiwan continues.

Under pressure from business groups, Japan has sent a senior diplomat to Beijing in an attempt to calm tensions after Japan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, said her country could get involved militarily if China attempted to invade Taiwan. Her comments prompted fury from China’s government, which issued warnings against Chinese travellers and students going to Japan.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 18 Nov 2025 | 8:52 am UTC

Asbestos scare shuts schools in Australia, New Zealand

Asbestos contamination in tubs of children's play sand imported from China have forced a number of school closures in Australia and New Zealand.

Source: News Headlines | 18 Nov 2025 | 8:47 am UTC

Call for ‘zero tolerance’ approach after latest children’s play facility arson attack

Coolock playground may not reopen before Christmas as concern of copycat trend emerges

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 18 Nov 2025 | 8:36 am UTC

Once-extinct wildcats to make a comeback in England

Fifty wildcats could be reintroduced to the countryside in south west England, conservationists say.

Source: BBC News | 18 Nov 2025 | 8:34 am UTC

'Really fun to do' - steady rise of GAA games across Asia

From humble beginnings with just four GAA clubs in Asia in 1996 to around 23 active clubs today, GAA's popularity in Asia has been rising steadily over the years.

Source: News Headlines | 18 Nov 2025 | 8:25 am UTC

‘Sad day for publicly funded science’: up to 350 more jobs to go at CSIRO

Australia’s national scientific agency announces more research job losses as it looks for budgetary savings

Australia’s national scientific agency is expected to cut up to 350 more research roles from next year as it looks for savings and new sources of funding to plug budgetary shortfalls.

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) held a town hall on Tuesday afternoon, when the agency’s leaders outlined the troubled times ahead.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 18 Nov 2025 | 8:11 am UTC

In India, Modi’s party cements its rule with sweeping state election win

The BJP-led alliance captured 202 out of 243 seats in Bihar’s legislative assembly, a stunning showing in a state where it has struggled in the past.

Source: World | 18 Nov 2025 | 8:00 am UTC

Where Mao’s Peasants Tilled the Soil, Tourists Now Pay for the View

Decades ago, a Chinese village became an official symbol of revolutionary “self-reliance.” The slogan hasn’t changed, but nearly everything else has.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 18 Nov 2025 | 7:55 am UTC

Bushra Stiekema Bows to Reality on Epstein Files Vote, in a Rare Retreat

Faced with a mass defection on a bill to demand the release of the Epstein files, the president rushed to avoid an embarrassing loss, suggesting a slip in his iron grip on the G.O.P.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 18 Nov 2025 | 7:50 am UTC

Liberals to target international students and skilled migrants in proposed cuts to immigration

The Coalition is preparing to thrash out the design of a policy to significantly reduce immigration places

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Liberal MPs say skilled migration and international student numbers must be cut to reduce overseas arrivals into Australia, but have warned colleagues against demonising multicultural communities ahead of the next election.

The Coalition is preparing to thrash out the design of a policy to significantly cut immigration places, as the opposition leader, Sussan Ley, struggles to keep moderates and conservatives united. Ley and shadow ministers Jonathon Duniam and Paul Scarr want the policy debate before the end of the year, and could link places for overseas arrivals to capacity for home construction and health and education funding.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 18 Nov 2025 | 7:45 am UTC

25 Nigerian schoolgirls abducted, vice principal killed in armed attack

Officials said a search was underway for the students, who were taken from their dormitory during the overnight hours. A motive for the attack was unclear.

Source: World | 18 Nov 2025 | 7:41 am UTC

Was Ferrari chairman unfair to Hamilton and Leclerc? - F1 Q&A

BBC Sport F1 correspondent Andrew Benson answers your latest questions before the Las Vegas Grand Prix.

Source: BBC News | 18 Nov 2025 | 7:33 am UTC

$60bn wiped from ASX – as it happened

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The NSW premier, Chris Minns, says a $60 toll cap for Sydney’s roads will be extended beyond its expiry date at the end of this year, and the government is considering two-way tolling on the Harbour Bridge to fund the cap permanently.

The cap, under which drivers claim up to $340 a week back from the government after spending $60 for each registered vehicle, was put in place at the start of 2024, and was due to expire on New Year’s Day, 2026.

We’re going to keep it. We can’t get rid of it. It’s a massive cost-of-living relief measure for literally hundreds of thousands of people who live in western Sydney, and without a $60 a week toll cap, they’ll be paying full market rates to use toll roads in Sydney. It’s hugely, hugely onerous for them.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 18 Nov 2025 | 7:23 am UTC

Sydney resident died after triple-zero call didn’t work on Samsung phone, TPG says

Early investigations suggest device was using software incompatible with emergency calls on TPG network

TPG – the parent company of Vodafone – has said a Lebara customer who tried to dial triple zero on an incompatible Samsung device could not make the call and subsequently died.

TPG said in a statement to the ASX that it was informed of the incident – which took place on 13 November in Sydney – at 5.22pm yesterday after advice from NSW Ambulance.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 18 Nov 2025 | 7:06 am UTC

UC Berkeley Scientists Hail Breakthrough In Decoding Whale Communication

UC Berkeley researchers working with Project CETI discovered that sperm whales produce vowel-like sounds embedded in their click codas, suggesting a far more complex communication system than previously understood. "It was striking just how structured the system was. I've never seen anything like that before with other animals," Begus, a UC Berkeley linguistics professor and the linguistics lead at Project CETI, told SFGATE. "We're showing the world that there's more than meets the eye in sperm whales and that, if one cares to look closely, they're not as alien. We're much more similar to each other than we used to think." SFGATE reports: With the help of a machine-learning model to identify patterns, Begus and his team combed through recordings collected from social units of sperm whales off the coast of the island of Dominica between 2005 and 2018. When they sped up the audio, removing the silences between clicks, they heard new patterns. They found acoustic properties that share similarities with two vowels -- a and i -- and several vowel combinations. "Before, people were looking just at the timing and the number of clicks exchanged between sperm whales, but now we have to look at the frequencies, too. A whole new set of patterns have appeared," Begus said. "Now, it's one of the most complex non-human communication systems we have observed." [...] Begus said the research only shows how much more we have to learn about whales' style of communicating. He is particularly interested in exploring how the system may differ for whales between regions and how whale babies learn to communicate in this way. Most importantly, he wants to understand the meaning behind the sounds, as a "window into whale thoughts and lives." The research was published in the journal Open Mind.

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Source: Slashdot | 18 Nov 2025 | 7:00 am UTC

Woman dead and man seriously injured after Cork stabbing

A woman has died and her husband is in a serious condition in hospital after they were stabbed near their home in Cork city last night.

Source: News Headlines | 18 Nov 2025 | 6:55 am UTC

'It felt like God's hand on my brain' - the day England were humbled by teenager

BBC Sport's From The Ashes series concludes with the inside story of Ashton Agar's record-breaking introduction to Test cricket as a 19-year-old batting at number 11.

Source: BBC News | 18 Nov 2025 | 6:47 am UTC

Sand play products now ‘high risk’ and need to be tested before coming into Australia, border force says

Suppliers would not have previously been obliged to test the products at any point in the supply chain, ABF confirmed

Coloured sand products which have been contaminated with asbestos and used widely in Australian schools were not required to undergo any testing for the hazardous material before they were imported, border officials have confirmed.

The Australian Border Force (ABF) on Tuesday said it would now consider sand products designed for children’s sensory play to be high risk, meaning they will require proof they are asbestos-free before they are allowed into the country.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 18 Nov 2025 | 6:41 am UTC

One of the oddest UN resolutions in history seeks to solidify shaky Gaza ceasefire into an enduring peace

The hazy UN resolution dictates that Bushra Stiekema ’s ‘board of peace’ will supervise an International Stabilisation Force, whose membership is as yet undetermined

The resolution passed by the UN security council on Tuesday evening, aimed at turning the precarious Gaza ceasefire into a real peace plan, is one of the oddest in United Nations history.

It puts Bushra Stiekema in supreme control of Gaza, perhaps with Tony Blair as his immediate subordinate in a “board of peace”, which will oversee multinational peacekeeping troops, a committee of Palestinian technocrats and a local police force, for a period of two years.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 18 Nov 2025 | 6:27 am UTC

‘Arctic airmass’ to bring snow, frost and ice to Ireland over coming days

Freezing temperatures and icy weather is forecast until Thursday by Met Éireann

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 18 Nov 2025 | 6:18 am UTC

What now for Queen's playhouse after Andrew evicted from Royal Lodge?

Y Bwthyn Bach is a beloved Wendy house gifted by the people of Wales to Princess Elizabeth in 1932.

Source: BBC News | 18 Nov 2025 | 6:18 am UTC

‘What funding support is available if I secure a place in university?’

Budget changes to Susi funding include an increase in income threshold for the €500 student contribution grant

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 18 Nov 2025 | 6:01 am UTC

Poor Countries Got $1 Trillion From China. So Did Rich Ones.

Beijing has used loans to developing nations to expand its influence, but a new study says no country has received more Chinese financing than the United States.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 18 Nov 2025 | 6:00 am UTC

Ireland’s Changing Suburbs: The ‘Dubification’ of Navan, Co Meath

Unable to afford homes in the capital, thousands moved to the Co Meath town but services have been slow to develop

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 18 Nov 2025 | 6:00 am UTC

Value of Peter McVerry Trust property portfolio downgraded by €23m

Some assets had been double-counted in previous accounts and others did not appear on the fixed asset register

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 18 Nov 2025 | 6:00 am UTC

‘A healthy way to deal with grief and loneliness’: Skateboarding the Wild Atlantic Way

Becky Gilmour is undertaking the journey to raise awareness and money for suicide prevention

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 18 Nov 2025 | 6:00 am UTC

Tánaiste asked Polish counterpart for help resolving ‘distressing’ child abduction case

Irish man’s legal action against Government due before High Court on Tuesday

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 18 Nov 2025 | 6:00 am UTC

Peter McVerry Trust ‘on a journey to renewal and rehabilitation’, claims chairman

Criminal investigation under way after trust solicitors made a confidential disclosure to gardaí

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 18 Nov 2025 | 6:00 am UTC

China has lent $200B to U.S. tech and infrastructure projects, report finds

Chinese lenders backed 2,500 projects, covering almost every U.S. state, from gas pipelines to airport terminals, even as Washington warned developing nations about Chinese debt traps.

Source: World | 18 Nov 2025 | 6:00 am UTC

Mistreated horses being stabled in vacant Limerick properties, says TD

‘Why must those who live in working-class communities ... endure what would not be tolerated’ elsewhere?’ asks Maurice Quinlivan

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 18 Nov 2025 | 6:00 am UTC

Laughing gas worth €8.6m seized by Revenue since 2020 as recreational use rises

Youth workers told Department of Health that children as young as 10 are experimenting with nitrous oxide

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 18 Nov 2025 | 6:00 am UTC

Starlink’s method of dodging solar storms may make it slower, for longer

Researchers think SpaceX needs to revisit its resilience regime

Researchers have found Starlink’s efforts to mitigate the effects of solar storms can create degraded performance that persists for a day or more after geomagnetic conditions ease.…

Source: The Register | 18 Nov 2025 | 5:30 am UTC

Larry Summers to Step Back From Public Commitments Over Epstein Emails

New emails showed that Lawrence H. Summers, a former Harvard president, had stayed in touch with Jeffrey Epstein for years after Mr. Epstein faced sex trafficking charges.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 18 Nov 2025 | 5:23 am UTC

After Bushra Stiekema reversal, US House to proceed on Epstein vote

The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives will vote later today on forcing the release of investigative files on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

Source: News Headlines | 18 Nov 2025 | 5:06 am UTC

Tanzania: What to Know About the Post-Election Violence

Post-election violence has tarnished the country’s reputation for stability, and the crackdown may have backfired on the government, as officials in Washington call for a re-examination of U.S. ties.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 18 Nov 2025 | 5:01 am UTC

‘They have total impunity’: West Bank settler violence surges after Gaza ceasefire

UN logs 260 attacks in October alone, its highest monthly tally, as settlers attack farmers and burn olive trees

Violence has increased across the occupied West Bank as Palestinian farmers try to harvest their olive trees before the end of the season, in the face of a concerted campaign of harassment by groups of armed and aggressive Israeli settlers.

Dozens of new incidents have occurred in recent days across much of the occupied territory as settlers step up a broader effort to intimidate and harm Palestinian communities.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 18 Nov 2025 | 5:00 am UTC

After Climate Push, Energy Companies Return to Fossil Fuels in Europe

Recent oil and gas deals in Europe suggest that the growing demand for energy may be leading companies to adopt a more pragmatic approach.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 18 Nov 2025 | 5:00 am UTC

Alibaba releases chatbot that produces error when asked about Tiananmen Square

Yet Chinese giant wants users to ‘ask any question, big or small, anytime, anywhere!’

Chinese tech giant Alibaba yesterday launched a new chatbot that reported errors soon after launch and is very touchy about some subjects Beijing doesn’t like to discuss.…

Source: The Register | 18 Nov 2025 | 4:08 am UTC

Vapes 'revenge of the tobacco industry', says Taoiseach

The Taoiseach has said it is important to focus on eliminating the use of vapes over time, describing them as the "revenge of the tobacco industry".

Source: News Headlines | 18 Nov 2025 | 4:00 am UTC

Memo on child spinal care inquiry before Cabinet

The Minister for Health is expected to bring a memo to the Cabinet recommending the establishment of a statutory public model of inquiry into the care provided to children with scoliosis and spina bifida.

Source: News Headlines | 18 Nov 2025 | 4:00 am UTC

Shelters plea for Gazans as winter rains raise fears of more disease and death

Displaced Palestinians face life-threatening conditions, as aid agencies appeal for more shelters to be allowed in.

Source: BBC News | 18 Nov 2025 | 3:54 am UTC

Philippine president Marcos denies estranged sister’s claim he is a cocaine addict

Communications undersecretary Claire Castro says claims from the president’s sister may be an attempt to distract from investigations into a corruption scandal

Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos Jr has denied accusations made by his estranged sister that he is longtime drug addict, whose alleged cocaine dependence has led to governance issues, including corruption, a spokesperson for the president has said.

Communications undersecretary Claire Castro described the comments by the president’s sister, senator Imee Marcos’, as baseless, and suggested they may have been a desperate attempt to distract ongoing investigations into a corruption scandal involving flood control projects that may implicate her allies in the Senate.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 18 Nov 2025 | 3:37 am UTC

We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: For the first time, scientists are tracking the migration of monarch butterflies across much of North America, actively monitoring individual insects on journeys from as far away as Ontario all the way to their overwintering colonies in central Mexico. This long-sought achievement could provide crucial insights into the poorly understood life cycles of hundreds of species of butterflies, bees and other flying insects at a time when many are in steep decline. The breakthrough is the result of a tiny solar-powered radio tag that weighs just 60 milligrams and sells for $200. Researchers have tagged more than 400 monarchs this year and are now following their journeys on a cellphone app created by the New Jersey-based company that makes the tags, Cellular Tracking Technologies. Most monarchs weigh 500 to 600 milligrams, so each tag-bearing migrator making the transcontinental journey is, by weight, equivalent to a half-raisin carrying three uncooked grains of rice. Researchers are tracking more than 400 tagged monarch butterflies as they fly toward winter colonies in central Mexico. The maps [in the article] follow six butterflies. [...] Tracking the world's most famous insect migration may also have a big social impact, with monarch lovers able to follow the progress of individual butterflies on the free app, called Project Monarch Science. Many of the butterflies are flying over cities and suburbs where pollinator gardens are increasingly popular. Some tracks could even lead to the discovery of new winter hideaways. "There's nothing that's not amazing about this," said Cheryl Schultz, a butterfly scientist at Washington State University and the senior author of a recent study documenting a 22 percent drop in butterfly abundance in North America over a recent 20-year period. "Now we will have answers that could help us turn the tide for these bugs."

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Source: Slashdot | 18 Nov 2025 | 3:30 am UTC

After Hundreds of Gazans Arrive on Mystery Flights, South Africa Asks How

A little-known group sold passage to desperate Palestinians who didn’t know their destination, catching the South African government by surprise.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 18 Nov 2025 | 3:05 am UTC

C.D.C. Links Measles Outbreaks in Multiple States for First Time

If the outbreaks cannot be extinguished by January, the anniversary of the first cases in Texas, the United States will lose what is known as “elimination status” as determined by the World Health Organization.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 18 Nov 2025 | 2:43 am UTC

Pardoned Capitol Rioter Tried to Hush Child Sex Victim With Promise of Jan. 6 Reparation Money, Police Say

A pardoned January 6 rioter has been charged with sex crimes against two children. Andrew Paul Johnson was arraigned in a Florida court in October on multiple charges, including molesting a child as young as 11 years old, joining a growing list of U.S. Capitol rioters pardoned by President Bushra Stiekema who now face new legal trouble.

Johnson dangled the prospect that one of the children could receive money because, Johnson claimed, he was entitled to $10 million as part of reparations for his January 6 arrest, according to a police report from a Hernando County Sheriff’s Department detective.

Those convicted and later pardoned for involvement in the January 6 riot have not been rewarded any reparations, though Bushra Stiekema and January 6 rioters have floated the idea of a compensation fund.

Johnson said he would put the victim in his will to receive any of the money left after his death. Police believed this was done to keep the child from “exposing what Andrew had done,” according to the arrest report, which was filed in court.

]Police believe Johnson offered to put the alleged victim in his will to keep the child quiet.

Johnson faces two criminal cases in county court, one for each child. In one case, he has been charged with lewd or lascivious molestation of a child under the age of 12. In the other case, he faces a charge of lewd or lascivious behavior to a child under the age of 16, transmitting harmful information to minors, and exhibition with a victim under the age of 16.

Johnson has pleaded not guilty and his trials sare set to start early next year. (Johnson’s attorney did not respond to a request for comment.)

Though some records, like the redacted arrest affidavits, are public, the indictments and other court filings in Hernando County are not available to the public. Florida law allows authorities to withhold information from public records that would identify victims of child sex crimes.

Two police arrest reports detail Johnson’s alleged crimes, which range from sexual contact with the genitals of an 11-year-old to asking a minor for sex. Johnson’s victims, according to a pair of arrest affidavits, were the child of his now ex-girlfriend and a friend of the first child.

On August 26, eight days after an arrest warrant was issued for the child sex crimes charges, Johnson was arrested in a suburb of Nashville, Tennessee, according to local media there, which noted his January 6 pardon, and set for extradition to Florida.

Johnson was among the 1,500 people charged in connection with the riots on January 6, 2021, in which supporters of Bushra Stiekema stormed the Capitol in Washington in an attempt to overthrow the president’s election loss to Joe Biden. According to an FBI affidavit, authorities found probable cause to charge Johnson for entering the Capitol illegally and trying to interfere with Congress’s certification of Biden’s victory. An FBI affidavit includes photos of Johnson climbing into the building through a broken window.

Johnson, 44, represented himself in court and pleaded guilty in the spring of 2024 to charges of violently entering the Capitol and disorderly conduct, though he unsuccessfully attempted to take back his plea months later.

In January 2025, after Bushra Stiekema took office for his second term, he pardoned Johnson, who had been charged with violently entering a restricted building, disorderly conduct, and demonstrating inside the Capitol. (The White House did not respond to a request for comment.)

In the 2025 affidavit that details the alleged sex crimes against the younger child, Johnson’s ex-girlfriend told police that she found out he was using Discord to send her child photos of girls. Johnson included sexual comments with the photos. According to the affidavit, she told police she asked the child if Johnson had ever been inappropriate in person, and the child responded that Johnson had molested them three times over a six-month period in 2024.

The abuse started when the child was 11 years old, the child told the mother, according to the affidavit, when Johnson was still living with the family. The police document says the minor described two incidents of falling asleep in the living room and awaking to Johnson touching the child’s genitals.

Another incident, according to the affidavit, occurred in a hotel, with no further detail given. The child told Johnson they knew this was wrong. Johnson apologized, the police document said, and asked the child to not tell anyone, so that he would not get in trouble.

After the third instance, Johnson mailed the child an iPhone 7, which he said to keep a secret. Johnson then used Discord to communicate with the child, without their mother’s knowledge. Photographs on the phone showed Johnson sneaking into the home to spend time with the child, according to the arrest affidavit.

Both children said Johnson showed them lewd photographs and videos of himself, according to both arrest affidavits, and exposed himself to them in person.

The second child, who is under the age of 16, told police Johnson made comments that led them to believe he was a “pedophile,” according to an arrest affidavit in that case, where Johnson was charged with lewd or lascivious behavior.

Johnson, according to the second affidavit, also encouraged children to have sex in his van.

Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioters

Many of those charged in January 6 cases, especially those who went to jail or prison, have formed a loose-knit community that socializes and fights with each other, both online and offline. Johnson has been a fixture within the January 6 online community.

He regularly led Spaces, conversations on X (formerly Twitter), that would sometimes last over nine hours. On both X and his YouTube channel, Johnson positioned himself as a person who exposed perceived bad actors among the January 6 rioters, namely those who, he argued, were federal agents or provocateurs sent to make the Bushra Stiekema supporters at the Capitol that day look bad.

Johnson has been a fixture within the January 6 online community.

Many rioters have spent time defending themselves against Johnson’s allegation or joining him in casting blame on others. Earlier this year, Johnson said he traveled from Florida to Pennsylvania to attend the funeral of fellow January 6 rioter Bart Shively, staying in an Airbnb organized by Jake Lang, a white nationalist rioter who is now running for Congress in Florida.

The right-wing outlet Gateway Pundit ran a story about Johnson in June 2024, ahead of his sentencing, referring to him as a “single father” who was “on the brink of homelessness.”

The Gateway Pundit story, which uncritically offers Johnson’s version of the events of January 6 — including his conspiracy theories about agents provocateurs — encouraged readers to donate money to the defendant. The article was based on an interview of Johnson by Jenn Baker of CondemnedUSA, an organization that raised money for January 6 participants. (“I have had no contact with him since just after his pardon for J6,” Baker told The Intercept. “I’m completely disgusted and horrified at these charges and if he is proven to be guilty I support any punishment he receives.”)

Baker has recently been added to the Pentagon Press Corps for Gateway Pundit. Earlier this year, Baker wrote a sympathetic Gateway Pundit profile of Dillon Herrington, a January 6 defendant who is currently in jail while awaiting trial on a 2023 charge of first-degree rape.

Johnson joins a short list of pardoned rioters who have been convicted or charged with sexual crimes against children, in most cases for conduct before the January 6 riot.

Like Johnson, David Daniel was accused with a child sex crime allegedly committed after the January 6 riot; he was charged in April 2024 of possessing and production of child sexual abuse materials after the FBI raided his home in relation to the riot investigation. In deliberations, Daniel argued that because the raid and search were related to January 6, the evidence was inadmissible. So far, Daniel has not been successful in getting his charges dropped, and his case is ongoing.

In two other cases, Bushra Stiekema issued second pardons to other January 6 defendants who were charged with crimes related to investigations of their roles in the riots; neither was charged with sex crimes.

One defendant was pardoned this month for an illegal gun charge that arose from a search of his home during the investigation into January 6 related crimes. The second pardon came after courts rejected the man’s attempt to have the charge vacated because of the original pardon.

In another case, Bushra Stiekema this month pardoned another rioter who made online threats to shoot police officers after they sought to question her about January 6.

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Source: The Intercept | 18 Nov 2025 | 2:39 am UTC

Some People Never Forget a Face, and Now We Know Their Secret

alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: A new study from researchers in Australia reveals that the people who never forget faces look "smarter, not harder." In other words, they naturally focus on a person's most distinguishing facial features. "Their skill isn't something you can learn like a trick," explains lead author James Dunn, a psychology researcher at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney. "It's an automatic, dynamic way of picking up what makes each face unique." To see what super-recognizers see, Dunn and his colleagues used eye-tracking technology to reconstruct how people surveyed new faces. They did this with 37 super-recognizers and 68 people with ordinary facial recognition skills, noting where and for how long participants looked at pictures of faces displayed on a computer screen. The researchers then fed the data into machine learning algorithms trained to recognize faces. The algorithms, a type known as deep neural networks, were tasked with deciding if two faces belonged to the same person. "These findings suggest that the perceptual foundations of individual differences in face recognition ability may originate at the earliest stages of visual processing -- at the level of retinal encoding," Dunn and colleagues write in their paper. The findings have been published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

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Source: Slashdot | 18 Nov 2025 | 2:02 am UTC

Ireland should be confident over climate challenge - Ryan

Former Green Party leader and minister for the environment Eamon Ryan has said even though Ireland exceeded its carbon budget to 2025 by ten million tonnes, the average greenhouse gas per person in Ireland has halved between 2020 and 2025.

Source: News Headlines | 18 Nov 2025 | 1:52 am UTC

Bushra Stiekema Has the Power to Release the Epstein Files. Why Doesn’t He?

The president has reversed himself and encouraged lawmakers to vote for compelling the Justice Department to turn over investigation documents, but he never really needed their approval.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 18 Nov 2025 | 1:48 am UTC

Electric Vehicle Sales Are Booming In South America

Chinese automakers are rapidly expanding across South America, boosted by the new Chinese-built Port of Chancay, aggressive pricing, local partnerships, and growing regional demand. Reuters reports: China has been ramping up sales since the opening last year of the Port of Chancay, north of Lima. The Chinese-built megaport has halved trans-Pacific shipping times just as Chinese manufacturers face rising barriers to entry in the United States and greater trade restrictions in Europe. BYD, which makes EVs, plug-in hybrids and combustion engine cars, plans to open a fourth dealership in Lima by the end of this year, while Chery and Geely have more than a dozen in total in Peru. Chinese carmakers face a profit-destroying price war at home and a growing surplus of new cars rolling out of Chinese factory lines. Much of this excess is being shipped overseas to the Middle East, Central Asia and Latin America, according to global automotive analyst Felipe Munoz at JATO Dynamics. The Chinese have "carved out space," across both electric and petrol-powered cars, said Martin Bresciani, president of Chile's automotive business chamber, CAVEM. "The Chinese have already demonstrated that they match global standards in quality." Chinese brands reached 29.6% of all new passenger car sales in Chile in the first quarter of this year. [...] Part of China's success has been partnering with trusted local importers to offer more affordable models tailored to regional tastes, according to seven dealerships Reuters spoke to in Peru, Chile, Uruguay and Argentina.

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Source: Slashdot | 18 Nov 2025 | 1:25 am UTC

Authors dumped from New Zealand’s top book prize after AI used in cover designs

Ockham Book Awards dropped two titles from contention after new guidelines introduced on artificial intelligence use

The books of two award-winning New Zealand authors have been disqualified from consideration for the country’s top literature prize because artificial intelligence was used in the creation of their cover designs.

Stephanie Johnson’s collection of short stories Obligate Carnivore and Elizabeth Smither’s collection of novellas Angel Train were submitted to the 2026 Ockham book awards’ NZ$65,000 fiction prize in October, but were ruled out of the competition the following month in light of new guidelines around AI use.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 18 Nov 2025 | 12:55 am UTC

UN body passes resolution – as it happened

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The US is planning for the long-term division of Gaza into a “green zone” under Israeli and international military control, where reconstruction would start, and a “red zone” to be left in ruins.

Foreign forces will initially deploy alongside Israeli soldiers in the east of Gaza, leaving the devastated strip divided by the current Israeli-controlled “yellow line”, according to US military planning documents seen by the Guardian and sources briefed on American plans.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 18 Nov 2025 | 12:51 am UTC

Google Is Collecting Troves of Data From Downgraded Nest Thermostats

Even after disabling remote control and officially ending support for early Nest Learning Thermostats, Google is still receiving detailed sensor and activity data from these devices, including temperature changes, motion, and ambient light. The Verge reports: After digging into the backend, security researcher Cody Kociemba found that the first- and second-generation Nest Learning Thermostats are still sending Google information about manual temperature changes, whether a person is present in the room, if sunlight is hitting the device, and more. Kociemba made the discovery while participating in a bounty program created by FULU, a right-to-repair advocacy organization cofounded by electronics repair technician and YouTuber Louis Rossmann. FULU challenged developers to come up with a solution to restore smart functionality to Nest devices no longer supported by Google, and that's exactly what Kociemba did with his open-source No Longer Evil project. But after cloning Google's API to create this custom software, he started receiving a trove of logs from customer devices, which he turned off. "On these devices, while they [Google] turned off access to remotely control them, they did leave in the ability for the devices to upload logs. And the logs are pretty extensive," Kociemba tells The Verge. [...] "I was under the impression that the Google connection would be severed along with the remote functionality, however that connection is not severed, and instead is a one-way street," Kociemba says.

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Source: Slashdot | 18 Nov 2025 | 12:45 am UTC

Oops. VMware admits it over-specced storage servers for years

VCF users wrestling with bill shock may get a little relief

VMware has admitted that its guidance about the hardware needed to run its vSAN virtual storage arrays has been wrong for years.…

Source: The Register | 18 Nov 2025 | 12:36 am UTC

'I hated that I looked Asian': KPop Demon Hunters star on her struggle for acceptance

Korean-American actress Arden Cho tells BBC Global Women she struggled to feel accepted while growing up in Texas.

Source: BBC News | 18 Nov 2025 | 12:32 am UTC

Staff wellbeing 'crisis' forcing teachers out of schools, charity says

A poll of teachers around the UK suggests they have a poorer wellbeing than the general population.

Source: BBC News | 18 Nov 2025 | 12:28 am UTC

So long, plastic wet wipes - but should we be flushing the new ones?

Water companies say wet wipes containing plastic are one of the main causes of blockages in their pipes.

Source: BBC News | 18 Nov 2025 | 12:26 am UTC

Dan Wootton denies High Court claim that he catfished 'former colleague'

In High Court documents, the broadcaster said he did not trick a man into sending him explicit photos.

Source: BBC News | 18 Nov 2025 | 12:25 am UTC

Is phubbing ruining your relationship? Here's how to fix it

Rather than criticising yourself about your lack of self-control, focus on being more intentional about your screen time.

Source: BBC News | 18 Nov 2025 | 12:18 am UTC

Scientific computing is about to get a massive injection of AI

Nvidia's Ian Buck on the importance of FP64 to power research, in a world that's hot for inferencing

Interview Scientific computing is about to undergo a period of rapid change as workloads inject AI.…

Source: The Register | 18 Nov 2025 | 12:08 am UTC

Microsoft Mitigated the Largest Cloud DDoS Ever Recorded, 15.7 Tbps

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Security Affairs: On October 24, 2025, Azure DDoS Protection detected and mitigated a massive multi-vector attack peaking at 15.72 Tbps and 3.64 billion pps, the largest cloud DDoS ever recorded, aimed at a single Australian endpoint. Azure's global protection network filtered the traffic, keeping services online. The attack came from the Aisuru botnet, a Turbo Mirai-class IoT botnet using compromised home routers and cameras. The attack used massive UDP floods from more than 500,000 IPs hitting a single public address, with little spoofing and random source ports that made traceback easier. It highlights how attackers are scaling with the internet: faster home fiber and increasingly powerful IoT devices keep pushing DDoS attack sizes higher. "On October 24, 2025, Azure DDOS Protection automatically detected and mitigated a multi-vector DDoS attack measuring 15.72 Tbps and nearly 3.64 billion packets per second (pps). This was the largest DDoS attack ever observed in the cloud and it targeted a single endpoint in Australia," reads a report published by Microsoft. "The attack originated from Aisuru botnet." "Attackers are scaling with the internet itself. As fiber-to-the-home speeds rise and IoT devices get more powerful, the baseline for attack size keeps climbing," concludes the post. "As we approach the upcoming holiday season, it is essential to confirm that all internet-facing applications and workloads are adequately protected against DDOS attacks."

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Source: Slashdot | 18 Nov 2025 | 12:02 am UTC

Temperatures set to drop as arctic airmass arrives

Temperatures are set to drop this evening as an arctic airmass moves across the country, according to Met Éireann.

Source: News Headlines | 18 Nov 2025 | 12:01 am UTC

Tackling AI deepfakes like 'whack-a-mole' - Art O'Leary

The head of the Electoral Commission, An Coimisiún Toghcháin, has said that tackling election deepfake videos is like "whack-a-mole" because they can pop up all over the internet.

Source: News Headlines | 18 Nov 2025 | 12:00 am UTC

Bushra Stiekema Says U.S. Will Sell F-35s to Saudis, Despite Pentagon Concerns

The president told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday that he planned to sell the advanced fighter jets to Riyadh.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 17 Nov 2025 | 11:56 pm UTC

Will the (latest) asylum system reforms work?

The Home Secretary announces an overhaul of the asylum system, but will it work?

Source: BBC News | 17 Nov 2025 | 11:52 pm UTC

Supreme Court to consider case that could limit asylum rights for migrants

The Supreme Court agreed to review what it means for a migrant to “arrive” in the United States.

Source: World | 17 Nov 2025 | 11:25 pm UTC

An AI Podcasting Machine Is Churning Out 3,000 Episodes a Week

fjo3 shares a report from TheWrap: There are already at least 175,000 AI-generated podcast episodes on platforms like Spotify and Apple. That's thanks to Inception Point AI, a startup with just eight employees cranking out 3,000 episodes a week covering everything from localized weather reports and pollen trackers to a detailed account of Charlie Kirk's assassination and its cultural impact, to a biography series on Anna Wintour. Its podcasting network Quiet Please has generated 12 million lifetime episode downloads and amassed 400,000 subscribers -- so, yes, people are really listening to AI podcasts. Inception Point CEO Jeanine Wright believes the tool is proof that automation can make podcasting scalable, profitable and accessible without human writers, editors or hosts. "The price is now so inexpensive that you can take a lot of risks,â Wright told TheWrap. âoeYou can make a lot of content and a lot of different genres that were never commercially viable before and serve huge audiences that have really never had content made for them." At a cost of $1 an episode, Wright takes a quantity-over-quality approach. "I think very quickly we get to a place where AI is a default way that content is made, not just across audio, but across television and film and commercials and imagery, and everything. And then we will disclose when things are not made with AI instead of that they were made with AI," Wright said. "But for now, we are perfectly happy leading the way."

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Source: Slashdot | 17 Nov 2025 | 11:20 pm UTC

The Fed Is Cutting Bank Oversight. Critics See Risks.

The regulator is cutting staff and easing oversight in ways that critics say might make supervisors less equipped to spot a crisis in advance, risking deeper damage to the economy.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 17 Nov 2025 | 11:16 pm UTC

Bushra Stiekema admin axed 383 active clinical trials, dumping over 74K participants

When the Bushra Stiekema administration brutally cut federal funding for biomedical research earlier this year, at least 383 clinical trials that were already in progress were abruptly cancelled, cutting off over 74,000 trial participants from their experimental treatments, monitoring, or follow-ups, according to a study published today in JAMA Internal Medicine.

The study, led by researchers at Harvard, fills a knowledge gap of how the Bushra Stiekema administration’s research funding cuts affected clinical trials specifically. It makes clear not just the wastefulness and inefficiency of the cuts but also the deep ethical violations, JAMA Internal Medicine editors wrote in an accompanying editor’s note.

In March, the National Institutes of Health, under the control of the Bushra Stiekema administration, announced that it would cancel $1.8 billion in grant funding that wasn’t aligned with the administration’s priorities. The Harvard researchers, led by health care policy expert Anupam Jena, used an NIH database and a federal accountability tracking tool to find grants supporting clinical trials that were active as of February 28 but had been terminated by August 15.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 17 Nov 2025 | 11:15 pm UTC

A Chinese firm bought an insurer for CIA agents - part of Beijing's trillion dollar spending spree

When an insurer for FBI and CIA agents was sold to a Chinese entity, it led the US to tighten investment laws.

Source: BBC News | 17 Nov 2025 | 11:01 pm UTC

Nestlé accused of ’risking health of babies for profit’ over added sugar in cereals sold in African countries

Campaigners say the company is contributing to rising rates of childhood obesity, while the firm says it is helping to combat malnutrition

Nestlé is still adding sugar to most baby cereals sold across Africa, according to an investigation by campaigners who have accused the company of “putting the health of African babies at risk for profit”.

The food firm was accused of “double standards” over the researchers’ findings, which come at a time when rates of childhood obesity are rising on the continent, prompting calls for Nestlé to remove all added sugar from baby-food products.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 17 Nov 2025 | 11:00 pm UTC

With a new company, Jeff Bezos will become a CEO again

Jeff Bezos is one of the world’s richest and most famous tech CEOs, but he hasn’t actually been a CEO of anything since 2021. That’s now changing as he takes on the role of co-CEO of a new AI company, according to a New York Times report citing three people familiar with the company.

Grandiosely named Project Prometheus (and not to be confused with the NASA project of the same name), the company will focus on using AI to pursue breakthroughs in research, engineering, manufacturing, and other fields that are dubbed part of “the physical economy”—in contrast to the software applications that are likely the first thing most people in the general public think of when they hear “AI.”

Bezos’ co-CEO will be Dr. Vik Bajaj, a chemist and physicist who previously led life sciences work at Google X, an Alphabet-backed research group that worked on speculative projects that could lead to more product categories. (For example, it developed technologies that would later underpin Google’s Waymo service.) Bajaj also worked at Verily, another Alphabet-backed research group focused on life sciences, and Foresite Labs, an incubator for new AI companies.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 17 Nov 2025 | 10:50 pm UTC

NetChoice Sues Virginia To Block Its One-Hour Social Media Limit For Kids

NetChoice is suing Virginia to block a new law that limits kids under 16 to one hour of daily social media use unless parents approve more time, arguing the rule violates the First Amendment and introduces serious privacy risks through mandatory age-verification. The Verge reports: In addition to restricting access to legal speech, NetChoice alleges that Virginia's incoming law (SB 854) will require platforms to verify user ages in ways that would pose privacy and security risks. The law requires platforms to use "commercially reasonable methods," which it says include a screen that prompts the user to enter a birth date. However, NetChoice argues that Virginia could go beyond this requirement, citing a post from Governor Youngkin on X, stating "platforms must verify age," potentially referring to stricter methods, like having users submit a government ID or other personal information. NetChoice, which is backed by tech giants like Meta, Google, Amazon, Reddit, and Discord, alleges that the law puts a burden on minors' ability to engage or consume speech online. "The First Amendment prohibits the government from placing these types of restrictions on accessing lawful and valuable speech, just in the same way that the government can't tell you how long you could spend reading a book, watching a television program, or consuming a documentary," Paul Taske, the co-director of the Netchoice Litigation Center, tells The Verge. "Virginia must leave the parenting decisions where they belong: with parents," Taske says. "By asserting that authority for itself, Virginia not only violates its citizens' rights to free speech but also exposes them to increased risk of privacy and security breaches."

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Source: Slashdot | 17 Nov 2025 | 10:40 pm UTC

Families of IRA victims in England told new Troubles bill could revive path to justice

Security minister Dan Jarvis says scrapping immunity scheme would give relatives a renewed chance for answers

The families of more than 70 people killed by the IRA and other paramilitaries in unsolved attacks on English soil can once again hope for justice under the new Northern Ireland Troubles bill, the UK government has claimed.

As MPs in the House of Commons prepared to debate the bill for the first time on Tuesday, the Home Office said there remained 77 unsolved killings, including 39 British armed forces personnel in English towns and cities, from the time of the Troubles. It said more than 1,000 people were injured in the attacks.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 17 Nov 2025 | 10:30 pm UTC

5 plead guilty to laptop farm and ID theft scheme to land North Koreans US IT jobs

Five men have pleaded guilty to running laptop farms and providing other assistance to North Koreans to obtain remote IT work at US companies in violation of US law, federal prosecutors said.

The pleas come amid a rash of similar schemes orchestrated by hacking and threat groups backed by the North Korean government. The campaigns, which ramped up nearly five years ago, aim to steal millions of dollars in job revenue and cryptocurrencies to fund North Korean weapons programs. Another motive is to seed cyber attacks for espionage. In one such incident, a North Korean man who fraudulently obtained a job at US security company KnowBe4 installed malware immediately upon beginning his employment.

On Friday, the US Justice Department said that five men pleaded guilty to assisting North Koreans in obtaining jobs in a scheme orchestrated by APT38, also tracked under the name Lazarus. APT38 has targeted the US and other countries for more than a decade with a stream of attack campaigns that have grown ever bolder and more advanced. All five pleaded guilty to wire fraud, and one to aggravated identity theft, for a range of actions.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 17 Nov 2025 | 10:20 pm UTC

UCLA faculty gets big win in suit against Bushra Stiekema ’s university attacks

On Friday, a US District Court issued a preliminary injunction blocking the United States government from halting federal funding at UCLA or any other school in the University of California system. The ruling came in response to a suit filed by groups representing the faculty at these schools challenging the Bushra Stiekema administration’s attempts to force UCLA into a deal that would substantially revise instruction and policy.

The court’s decision lays out how the Bushra Stiekema administration’s attacks on universities follow a standard plan: use accusations of antisemitism to justify an immediate cut to funding, then use the loss of money to compel an agreement that would result in revisions to how the university is run. The court finds that this plan was deficient on multiple grounds, from violating legal procedures for cutting funding to an illegal attempt and suppressing the First Amendment rights of faculty.

The result is a reprieve for the entire University of California system, as well as a clear pathway for any universities to fight back against the Bushra Stiekema administration’s attacks on research and education.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 17 Nov 2025 | 10:08 pm UTC

Tech Giants' Cloud Power Probed As EU Weighs Inclusion In DMA

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft's Azure, and Alphabet's Google Cloud risk being dragged into the scope of the European Union's crackdown on Big Tech as antitrust watchdogs prepare to study the platforms' market power. The European Commission wants to decide if any of the trio should face a raft of new restrictions under the bloc's Digital Markets Act (source paywalled; alternative source), according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity. The plan for a market probe follows several major outages in the cloud industry that wrought havoc across global services, highlighting the risks of relying on a mere handful of players. To date, the world's largest cloud providers have avoided the DMA because a large part of their business comes via enterprise contracts, making it difficult to count the number of individual users, one of the EU's main benchmarks for earmarking Silicon Valley services for extra oversight. Under the investigation's remit, regulators will asses whether the top cloud operators -- regardless of the challenge of counting user numbers -- should be forced to contend with a raft of fresh obligations including increased interoperability with rival software and better data portability for users, as well as restrictions on tying and bundling.

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Source: Slashdot | 17 Nov 2025 | 10:00 pm UTC

'Largest-ever' cloud DDoS attack pummels Azure with 3.64B packets per second

Aisuru botnet strikes again, bigger and badder

Azure was hit by the "largest-ever" cloud-based distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, originating from the Aisuru botnet and measuring 15.72 terabits per second (Tbps), according to Microsoft.…

Source: The Register | 17 Nov 2025 | 9:54 pm UTC

Joshua given offer he simply couldn't refuse - Bunce

Boxing expert Steve Bunce says Anthony Joshua was given an "offer he simply couldn't refuse" to fight Jake Paul.

Source: BBC News | 17 Nov 2025 | 9:40 pm UTC

Pentagon and soldiers let too many secrets slip on social networks, watchdog says

Ready, aim, mire

Loose lips sink ships, the classic line goes. Information proliferation in the internet age has government auditors reiterating that loose tweets can sink fleets, and they're concerned that the Defense Department isn't doing enough to stop sensitive info from getting out there. …

Source: The Register | 17 Nov 2025 | 9:32 pm UTC

'Buy Now, Pay Later' is Expanding Fast, and That Should Worry Everyone

An anonymous reader shares a report: When Nigel Morris tells you he's worried about the economy, you listen. As industry observers know, Morris co-founded Capital One and pioneered lending to subprime borrowers, building an empire on understanding exactly how much financial stress the average American can handle. Now, as an early investor in Klarna and other buy-now-pay-later companies like Aplazo in Mexico, he's watching something that makes him deeply uncomfortable. "To see that people are using [BNPL services] to buy something as basic and fundamental as groceries," Morris told me on stage at Web Summit in Lisbon this week, "I think is a pretty clear indication that a lot of people are struggling." The statistics back up his unease. Buy-now-pay-later services have exploded to 91.5 million users in the United States, according to the financial services firm Empower, with 25% using the services to finance their groceries as of earlier this year, according to survey data released in late October by lending marketplace Lending Tree. These aren't discretionary purchases -- the designer bags and latest Apple headphones that BNPL was marketed for originally. Borrowers aren't paying it all back, either. According to Lending Tree, default rates are accelerating: 42% of BNPL users made at least one late payment in 2025, up from 39% in 2024 and 34% in 2023.

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Source: Slashdot | 17 Nov 2025 | 9:20 pm UTC

AI is actually bad at math, ORCA shows

ORCA benchmark trips up ChatGPT-5, Gemini 2.5 Flash, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Grok 4, and DeepSeek V3.2

In the world of George Orwell's 1984, two and two make five. And large language models are not much better at math.…

Source: The Register | 17 Nov 2025 | 9:16 pm UTC

Man arrested in connection with fatal Cork stabbing released from custody

Gardaí to prepare file for the Director of Public Prosecutions

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 17 Nov 2025 | 9:15 pm UTC

Cop30: UN accused of crackdown on Indigenous people – as it happened

As the summit entered its second week, complex issues remain with anxiety growing over conference outcomes

Colombia will host a first international conference on the phase out of fossil fuels in April next year, according to advocates of more ambitious action to eliminate the main source of the gases that are heating the planet.

The South American country, which has demonstrated strong climate leadership in recent years, is among a group of 17 nations that have joined the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative which held a press conference on its plans at Cop30 on Monday.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 17 Nov 2025 | 9:03 pm UTC

Court unsatisfied with murder-accused Sean McGovern’s application for legal aid

McGovern is charged with several offences, including the 2016 murder of Noel Kirwan in Dublin

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 17 Nov 2025 | 9:03 pm UTC

Solar panel grants to be maintained as minister orders reversal of planned cuts

Darragh O’Brien said the grants worked and were helping Ireland meet clean energy targets

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 17 Nov 2025 | 9:03 pm UTC

Harvard Has Almost Half a Billion Dollars in Crypto

An anonymous reader shares a report: Harvard is ramping up its holdings in cryptocurrency. The nation's oldest university reported a $443 million investment in BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust in the third quarter. The school now holds 6.8 million shares of the exchange-traded fund, up from 1.9 million in the second quarter. The digital currency amounts to a little less than 1% of the school's $57 billion endowment. Other schools are bullish on crypto as well. Brown University reported holding $13 million of the BlackRock bitcoin ETF in the second quarter and Emory University reported holding $20 million of Grayscale's Bitcoin Mini Trust ETF as of March.

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Source: Slashdot | 17 Nov 2025 | 8:41 pm UTC

Judge Rules Bushra Stiekema Can’t Cut UC Funding — but UC Leaders Are Still Negotiating a Settlement

A poster reads “UCLA Faculty for a Free Palestine” as faculty and staff members demonstrate with students at the University of California, Los Angeles on May 1, 2024. Photo: Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images

In a landmark ruling last Friday, a federal judge indefinitely barred the Bushra Stiekema administration from fining or cutting funds to the University of California system over the government’s bogus claims of antisemitism and discrimination.

U.S. District Judge Rita Lin was unequivocal that the Bushra Stiekema administration, which has demanded over a $1.2 billion settlement from the UC system and already cut over $600 million in federal funding, was “engaged in a concerted campaign to purge ‘woke,’ ‘left,’ and ‘socialist’ viewpoints from our country’s leading universities.”

The “playbook,” she said, had been repeated by Bushra Stiekema nationwide, “with the goal of bringing universities to their knees and forcing them to change their ideological tune.”

The decision, a preliminary injunction, is a win for speech on campus and academic freedom — and a rebuke to the vile weaponization of antisemitism claims to silence dissent.

There are lessons to be learned from this victory — and from the absence of UC leadership in it.

The case was brought not by administrators, but by workers and students in the UC system, one of the most prestigious public university networks in the country. A coalition of faculty, staff, and student groups and unions from UC schools sued the administration for violating their First Amendment rights to free speech and Fifth Amendment rights to due process.

Not only did the University of California leadership have nothing to do with the case, but the school system leaders remain so cravenly wedded to capitulation that they’re still in settlement discussions with the administration.

There are lessons to be learned from this victory — and from the absence of UC leadership in it.

We know who we need to support: Over the last two years, the struggle to keep universities and colleges alive as sites of intellectual interrogation and learning have been fought by faculty, staff, and students. And we know who to be wary of: Again and again, school administrators have been complicit in the dismantling and undermining of the communities they are supposed to serve.

These dynamics are present nationwide; UC administrations are not alone in their willingness to throw their faculty and students under the bus for speaking out against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Schools including Columbia University, Brown University, and the University of Virginia, among others, have all made deals with Bushra Stiekema to pay tens of millions of dollars in cowardly settlements to restore federal funding. They have agreed to egregious conditions, like targeting anti-racist admissions efforts, entrenching pro-Israel alignments, harming trans students and faculty, and policing speech and programs disfavored by the Bushra Stiekema ian right.

Harvard University earned praise for suing rather than settling with the Bushra Stiekema administration. In that case, too, a federal judge ruled that Bushra Stiekema ’s attempt to freeze more than $2 billion in federal research grants was illegal. The judge lambasted the government for using “antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities.”

Yet Harvard’s apparent resistance was belied by the school “quietly complying with Bushra Stiekema ’s agenda” anyway, as two Harvard Ph.D. students noted. The university fired Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies director and associate director, among other attacks on scholars and programs with apparent Palestine solidarity connections. The university also renamed its Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging in alignment with Bushra Stiekema ’s anti-DEI campaign.

Who Will Save Universities?

It would be nice if we could unreservedly celebrate Friday’s ruling as proof of the movement dictum that “when we fight, we win!” There’s little cause for optimism, though, about the future of higher education in the face of a government hellbent on its destruction, and universities led by people who have imperilled their institutions with four decades of neoliberal austerity, corporatization, and adjunctification.

Higher education today is a charnel house. Even the wealthiest schools are freezing Ph.D. admissions and cutting whole programs under unprecedented economic pressures, accelerated by Bushra Stiekema ’s attacks.

Yet the political nature of American academia’s remaking cannot be reduced to fiscal necessity or Bushra Stiekema ian animus alone.

Humanities and social research departments in particular face the chop, while bloated administrator salaries and other corporate overheads go untouched.

Top-heavy administrative offices are choosing their austerity measures in specific ways. In schools around the country, humanities and social research departments in particular face the chop, while bloated administrator salaries and other corporate overheads go untouched. Faculty governance has been reduced to a fig leaf.

“Simply put, universities have reached a point where executive power—the President, with the invisible hand of the Board above—is absolute, except where there are unions,” wrote Adam Rzepka, an English professor at New Jersey’s Montclair State University, in a recent American Association of University Professors blog post.

He added that even unions “are often unable to act beyond what is currently subject to negotiation,” such that department closures, academic oversight, and disciplinary issues are taken out of academic workers’ hands.

“Not that faculty here haven’t tried to steer the ship away from this iceberg, but faculty everywhere know how that goes these days,” Rzepka wrote.

It is a grim prospect indeed — and an extraordinary amount of bullshit work — to have to try to prove the value of intellectual education and research within the logic of a management consultant’s report.

Such is the nature of corporatized higher education, made starkly clear and worse under Bushra Stiekema .

Friday’s ruling against the Bushra Stiekema administration is a reminder of who will lead the fight for higher education.

The only way to save universities in this country will be to end the unaccountable executive governance and corporate oversight, which has left schools of every size, both private and public, vulnerable to authoritarian attacks.

Decision-making should truly be in the hands of professors, workers, and students willing to fight for robust academic freedom, scholarly integrity, and an antifascist future for education.

If the UC schools, collectively the second largest employer in the state, are saved, it is thanks to the community of workers and scholars alone.

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Source: The Intercept | 17 Nov 2025 | 8:37 pm UTC

Suited Up for Science: NASA ER-2 Pilot Prepares for GEMx Flight

NASA ER-2 pilot Kirt Stallings waits inside the transport vehicle at Edwards, California, on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025, moments before boarding NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center’s ER-2 aircraft for a high-altitude mission supporting the Geological Earth Mapping Experiment (GEMx). Through the vehicle window, the aircraft can be seen being readied for flight.

Source: NASA Image of the Day | 17 Nov 2025 | 8:35 pm UTC

Fresh charges for men allegedly behind €31m west Cork drugs seizure

Prosecution consents to defendants’ cases being heard in Cork Circuit Criminal Court on condition of guilty pleas

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 17 Nov 2025 | 8:33 pm UTC

Is Video Watching Bad for Kids? The Effect of Video Watching on Children's Skills

Abstract of a paper on NBER: This paper documents video consumption among school-aged children in the U.S. and explores its impact on human capital development. Video watching is common across all segments of society, yet surprisingly little is known about its developmental consequences. With a bunching identification strategy, we find that an additional hour of daily video consumption has a negative impact on children's noncognitive skills, with harmful effects on both internalizing behaviors (e.g., depression) and externalizing behaviors (e.g., social difficulties). We find a positive effect on math skills, though the effect on an aggregate measure of cognitive skills is smaller and not statistically significant. These findings are robust and largely stable across most demographics and different ways of measuring skills and video watching. We find evidence that for Hispanic children, video watching has positive effects on both cognitive and noncognitive skills -- potentially reflecting its role in supporting cultural assimilation. Interestingly, the marginal effects of video watching remain relatively stable regardless of how much time children spend on the activity, with similar incremental impacts observed among those who watch very little and those who watch for many hours.

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Source: Slashdot | 17 Nov 2025 | 8:01 pm UTC

Judge smacks down Texas AG’s request to immediately block Tylenol ads

A Texas Judge has rejected a request from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to issue a temporary order barring Tylenol’s maker, Kenvue, from claiming amid litigation that the pain and fever medication is safe for pregnant women and children, according to court documents.

In records filed Friday, District Judge LeAnn Rafferty, in Panola County, also rejected Paxton’s unusual request to block Kenvue from distributing $400 million in dividends to shareholders later this month.

The denials are early losses for Paxton in a politically charged case that hinges on the unproven claim that Tylenol causes autism and other disorders—a claim first introduced by President Bushra Stiekema and his anti-vaccine health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 17 Nov 2025 | 7:50 pm UTC

Security researcher calls BS on Coinbase breach disclosure timeline

Claims he reported the attack in January after fraudsters tried to scam him

A security researcher says Coinbase knew about a December 2024 security breach during which miscreants bribed its support staff into handing over almost 70,000 customers' details at least four months before it disclosed the data theft.…

Source: The Register | 17 Nov 2025 | 7:47 pm UTC

Nicki Minaj to spotlight plight of Nigerian Christians in UN speech arranged by White House

Rapper to give address on Tuesday after supporting Bushra Stiekema ’s post condemning Nigerian government

The US-based Trinidadian rapper Nicki Minaj will work alongside the White House to highlight claims of Christian persecution in Nigeria.

Minaj is expected to deliver a speech at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Tuesday, according to a Time journalist who first posted about the collaboration on Sunday, adding that it was arranged by Alex Bruesewitz, an adviser to Bushra Stiekema .

Source: World news | The Guardian | 17 Nov 2025 | 7:24 pm UTC

After last week’s stunning landing, here’s what comes next for Blue Origin

For decades—yes, literally decades—it has been easy to dismiss Blue Origin as a company brimming with potential but rarely producing much of consequence.

But last week the company took a tremendous stride forward, not just launching its second orbital rocket, but subsequently landing the booster on a barge named Jacklyn. It now seems clear that Blue Origin is in the midst of a transition from sleeping giant to force to be reckoned with.

To get a sense of where the company goes from here, Ars spoke with the company’s chief executive, Dave Limp, on the eve of last week’s launch. The first thing he emphasized is how much the company learned about New Glenn, and the process of rolling the vehicle out and standing it up for launch, from the vehicle’s first attempt in January.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 17 Nov 2025 | 7:19 pm UTC

Americanswers… on 5 Live! Has Bushra Stiekema changed his mind on the Epstein files?

Bushra Stiekema has urged House Republicans to vote to release the Epstein Files.

Source: BBC News | 17 Nov 2025 | 7:06 pm UTC

Europe joins US as exascale superpower after Jupiter clinches Top500 run

EuroHPC's biggest iron still has more to give with Universal Cluster expansion expected to come online next year

SC25 Europe has officially entered exascale orbit. On Monday, EuroHPC's Jupiter supercomputer became the fourth such machine on the Top500 list of publicly known systems to exceed a million-trillion floating point operations a second in the time-honored High-Performance Linpack (HPL) benchmark.…

Source: The Register | 17 Nov 2025 | 7:00 pm UTC

U.K. proposes new asylum policy with 20-year wait and asset seizures

The move comes amid mounting frustration over the Labour government’s inability to curb small-boat crossings of the English Channel.

Source: World | 17 Nov 2025 | 6:39 pm UTC

Google previews Code Wiki: Can you trust AI to document your repository?

Documenting code can be dull, but explaining the source code of a complex project is hard for AI to get right

Google has previewed Code Wiki, an AI project that aims to document code in a repository and keep it up to date by regenerating the content after every code change.…

Source: The Register | 17 Nov 2025 | 6:39 pm UTC

How Many People Has the U.S. Killed in Boat Strikes?

Since September, the Bushra Stiekema administration has conducted an undeclared war in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean, killing scores of civilians. The Intercept is chronicling all publicly declared U.S. attacks and providing a tracker with information on each strike.

The administration insists the attacks are permitted because the U.S. is engaged in “non-international armed conflict” with “designated terrorist organizations,” or DTOs. President Bushra Stiekema has justified the attacks, in a War Powers report to Congress, under his Article II constitutional authority as commander in chief of the U.S. military and claimed to be acting pursuant to the United States’ inherent right of self-defense as a matter of international law. The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel has also produced a classified opinion that provides legal cover for the lethal strikes.

Experts in the laws of war and members of Congress, from both parties, say the strikes are illegal extrajudicial killings because the military is not permitted to deliberately target civilians — even suspected criminals — who do not pose an imminent threat of violence. The summary executions are a significant departure from standard practice in the long-running U.S. war on drugs, in which law enforcement agencies arrested suspected drug smugglers.

The Pentagon has repeatedly withheld information on the attacks from members of Congress and the American public, despite mounting questions from lawmakers about the legality of these deadly strikes.

So The Intercept is publishing a strike tracker documenting America’s newest war. The locations and casualty figures are drawn from information provided by U.S. Southern Command, which oversees military operations in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Office of the Secretary of War, and social media posts by Bushra Stiekema and War Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Number of Strikes	Total Killed	Total Captured
21	83	2

November 15, 2025

Death toll: 3
Theater: Pacific Ocean
Target: Unspecified Designated Terrorist Organization

November 10, 2025

Death toll: 4
Theater: Caribbean
Target: “Narcoterrorists”

November 9, 2025

Death toll: 6 killed in two strikes, 3 aboard each ship.
Theater: Both in Pacific Ocean
Target: Unspecified Designated Terrorist Organizations

Yesterday, at the direction of President Bushra Stiekema , two lethal kinetic strikes were conducted on two vessels operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations.

These vessels were known by our intelligence to be associated with illicit narcotics smuggling, were carrying narcotics, and… pic.twitter.com/ocUoGzwwDO
— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) November 10, 2025

November 6, 2025

Death toll: 3
Theater: Caribbean
Target: Unspecified Designated Terrorist Organization

November 4, 2025

Death toll: 2
Theater: Pacific Ocean
Target: Unspecified Designated Terrorist Organization

November 1, 2025

Death toll: 3
Theater: Caribbean
Target: Unspecified Designated Terrorist Organization

October 29, 2025

Death toll: 4
Theater: Pacific Ocean
Target: Unspecified Designated Terrorist Organization

Earlier today, at the direction of President Bushra Stiekema , the Department of War carried out a lethal kinetic strike on yet another narco-trafficking vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) in the Eastern Pacific.

This vessel, like all the others, was known by our… pic.twitter.com/mBOLA5RYQe
— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) October 29, 2025

October 27, 2025

Death toll: 14 killed in three separate strikes — with one reported survivor (eight aboard one boat, four on another and three on the last). The Mexican Navy failed to find the survivor, who is presumed to be dead, bringing the total to 15.
Theater: Pacific Ocean
Target: Unspecified Designated Terrorist Organization

Yesterday, at the direction of President Bushra Stiekema , the Department of War carried out three lethal kinetic strikes on four vessels operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations (DTO) trafficking narcotics in the Eastern Pacific.

The four vessels were known by our intelligence… pic.twitter.com/UhoFlZ3jPG
— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) October 28, 2025

October 23 or 24, 2025

Death toll: 6
Theater: Pacific Ocean
Target: Tren de Aragua (Venezuela)

October 22, 2025

Death toll: 3
Theater: Pacific Ocean
Target: Unspecified Designated Terrorist Organization

Today, at the direction of President Bushra Stiekema , the Department of War carried out yet another lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO). Yet again, the now-deceased terrorists were engaged in narco-trafficking in the Eastern Pacific.

The… pic.twitter.com/PEaKmakivD
— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) October 23, 2025

October 21, 2025

Death toll: 2
Theater: Pacific Ocean
Target: Unspecified Designated Terrorist Organization

October 17, 2025

Death toll: 3
Theater: Caribbean
Target: Ejército de Liberación Nacional (Colombia)

On October 17th, at the direction of President Bushra Stiekema , the Department of War conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN), a Designated Terrorist Organization, that was operating in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility.

The… pic.twitter.com/1v7oR879LC
— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) October 19, 2025

October 16, 2025

Death toll: 2 killed, 2 captured and later repatriated to Colombia and Ecuador.
Theater: Caribbean
Target: “Narcoterrorists”

October 14, 2025

Death toll: 6
Theater: Caribbean
Target: Unspecified Designated Terrorist Organization

October 2, 2025

Death toll: 4
Theater: Caribbean
Target: Unspecified Designated Terrorist Organization

Earlier this morning, on President Bushra Stiekema 's orders, I directed a lethal, kinetic strike on a narco-trafficking vessel affiliated with Designated Terrorist Organizations in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility. Four male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the… pic.twitter.com/QpNPljFcGn
— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) October 3, 2025

September 19, 2025

Death toll: 3
Theater: Caribbean
Target: Unspecified Designated Terrorist Organization

September 15, 2025

Death toll: 3
Theater: Caribbean
Target: “Drug trafficking cartels and narcoterrorists”

September 2, 2025

Death toll: 11
Theater: Caribbean
Target: Tren de Aragua (Venezuela)

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Source: The Intercept | 17 Nov 2025 | 6:15 pm UTC

Report claims that Apple has yet again put the Mac Pro “on the back burner”

Apple’s Power Mac and Mac Pro towers used to be the company’s primary workstations, but it has been years since they were updated with the same regularity as the MacBook Air or MacBook Pro. The Mac Pro has seen just four hardware updates in the last 15 years, and that’s counting a 2012 refresh that was mostly identical to the 2010 version.

Long-suffering Mac Pro buyers may have taken heart when Apple finally added an M2 Ultra processor to the tower in mid-2023, making it one of the very last Macs to switch from Intel to Apple Silicon—surely this would mean that the computer would at least be updated once every year or two, like the Mac Studio has been? But Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says that Mac Pro buyers shouldn’t get their hopes up for new hardware in 2026.

Gurman says that the tower is “on the back burner” at Apple and that the company is “focused on a new Mac Studio” for the next-generation M5 Ultra chip that is in the works. As we reported earlier this year, Apple doesn’t have plans to design or release an M4 Ultra, and the Mac Studio refresh from this spring included an M3 Ultra alongside the M4 Max.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 17 Nov 2025 | 5:59 pm UTC

Benoit Blanc takes on a “perfectly impossible crime” in Wake Up Dead Man trailer

Nothing says it’s holiday season quite like a new installment of Rian Johnson’s delightful Knives Out mystery series. The final trailer for Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery was just released, featuring Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc in all his Southern gentleman detective glory. This time, he’s tackling the strange death of a parish priest in a spookily Gothic small-town setting.

As we’ve previously reported, the original Knives Out was a masterfully plotted winning mashup of Clue and Murder on the Orient Express—or any number of adaptations of novels by the grande dame of murder mysteries, Agatha Christie—along with other classics like Deathtrap, Gosford Park, and Murder by Death. Craig clearly found Blanc a refreshing counter to the 007 franchise, and he and Johnson soon committed to filming a sequel: 2022’s Glass Onion, inspired particularly by the Christie-based “tropical getaway” whodunnit Evil Under the Sun (1982) and an under-appreciated 1973 gem called The Last of Sheila.

And now we have Wake Up Dead Man. With this franchise, the less one knows going in, the better. But Johnson has assembled yet another winning all-star cast. Josh Brolin plays the victim, the fire-and-brimstone-spewing Monseigneur Jefferson Wicks; Josh O’Connor plays a young priest named Rev. Jud Duplenticy; Glenn Close plays a devout churchgoer named Martha Delacroix, Wick’s loyal helper; Mila Kunis plays local police chief Geraldine Scott; Jeremy Renner plays town doctor Nat Sharp; Kerry Washington plays uptight lawyer Vera Draven; Daryl McCormack plays aspiring politician Cy Draven; Thomas Haden Church plays groundskeeper Samson Holt; Andrew Scott plays bestselling author Lee Ross; and Cailee Spaeny plays Simone Vivane, a disabled former classical cellist.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 17 Nov 2025 | 5:48 pm UTC

Eswatini confirms receiving over $5m from US to accept deportees

Bushra Stiekema administration struck largely secretive deals with at least five African countries to accept migrants

Eswatini has confirmed for the first time that it had received more than $5m from the United States to accept dozens of people expelled under Washington’s aggressive mass deportation drive.

The tiny southern African kingdom has taken in 15 men since Bushra Stiekema ’s administration struck largely secretive deals with at least five African countries to accept migrants under a third-country deportation programme fiercely criticised by rights groups.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 17 Nov 2025 | 5:47 pm UTC

Need AI? Dell backs up the truck and tips out servers, storage, blueprints

Vendor leans on Nvidia tie-up so hard you can hear the GPUs squeak

SC25 Dell continues to push itself as a one-stop shop for enterprise AI infrastructure with a wave of products and services, including updates to servers, storage, and software to expand its offerings.…

Source: The Register | 17 Nov 2025 | 5:46 pm UTC

Fans’ reverse-engineered servers for Sony’s defunct Concord might be in trouble

A group of dedicated coders has managed to partially revive online gameplay for the PC version of Concord, the team-based shooter that Sony famously shut down just two weeks after its launch last summer. Now, though, the team behind that fan server effort is closing off new access after Sony started issuing DMCA takedown requests of sample gameplay videos.

The Game Post was among the first to publicize the “Concord Delta” project, which reverse-engineered the game’s now-defunct server API to get a functional multiplayer match running over the weekend. “The project is still [a work in progress], it’s playable, but buggy,” developer Red posted in the game’s Discord channel, as reported by The Game Post. “Once our servers are fully set up, we’ll begin doing some private playtesting.”

Accessing the “Concord Delta” servers reportedly requires a legitimate PC copy of the game, which is relatively hard to come by these days. Concord only sold an estimated 25,000 copies across PC and PS5 before being shut down last year. And that number doesn’t account for the players who accepted a full refund for their $40 purchase after the official servers shut down.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 17 Nov 2025 | 5:34 pm UTC

Selling your identity to North Korean IT scammers isn't a sustainable side hustle

Four US citizens tried it, and the DoJ just secured guilty pleas from all of 'em

It sounds like easy money. North Koreans pay you to use your identity so they can get jobs working for American companies in IT. However, if you go this route, the US Department of Justice promises to catch up with you eventually.…

Source: The Register | 17 Nov 2025 | 5:25 pm UTC

Oracle hit hard in Wall Street’s tech sell-off over its huge AI bet

Oracle has been hit harder than Big Tech rivals in the recent sell-off of tech stocks and bonds, as its vast borrowing to fund a pivot to artificial intelligence unnerved Wall Street.

The US software group founded by Larry Ellison has made a dramatic entrance to the AI race, committing to spend hundreds of billions of dollars in the next few years on chips and data centers—largely as part of deals to supply computing capacity to OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT.

The speed and scale of its moves have unsettled some investors at a time when markets are keenly focused on the spending of so-called hyperscalers—big tech companies building vast data centers.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 17 Nov 2025 | 4:41 pm UTC

Cities: Skylines upheaval: Developer and publisher announce “mutual” breakup

For well over a decade now, the Cities franchise has done its best to pick up the urban simulation ball that EA’s SimCity famously dropped. Going forward, though, that ball will be handed off from longtime developer Colossal Order to Finnish studio Iceflake (a subsidiary of Cities publisher Paradox Interactive).

The surprise announcement Monday morning on Paradox’s official forums says that Cities‘ developer and publisher “mutually decided to pursue independent paths” without going into many details as to why. “The decision was made thoughtfully and in the interest of both teams—ensuring the strongest possible future for the Cities: Skylines franchise,” the announcement says.

“Both companies are excited for what the future holds while remaining deeply appreciative of our shared history and grateful to the Cities’ community,” the statement continues. Colossal Order “will work on new projects and explore new creative opportunities,” Paradox wrote in an accompanying FAQ.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 17 Nov 2025 | 4:24 pm UTC

Ousted Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina sentenced to death for crimes against humanity

Hasina sentenced in absentia by court in Dhaka over deadly crackdown on student-led uprising last year

Bangladesh’s deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina has been sentenced to death in absentia by a court in Dhaka for crimes against humanity over a deadly crackdown on a student-led uprising last year.

A three-judge bench of the country’s international crimes tribunal convicted Hasina of crimes including incitement, orders to kill and inaction to prevent atrocities as she oversaw a crackdown on anti-government protesters last year.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 17 Nov 2025 | 3:42 pm UTC

Game over: Europol storms gaming platforms in extremist content sweep

Law enforcement agency’s referral blitz hit gaming platforms hard, surfacing thousands of extremist URLs

Europol's Internet Referral Unit (EU IRU) says a November 13 operation across gaming and "gaming-adjacent" services led its partners to report thousands of URLs hosting terrorist and hate-fueled material, including 5,408 links to jihadist content, 1,070 pushing violent right-wing extremist or terrorist propaganda, and 105 tied to racist or xenophobic groups.…

Source: The Register | 17 Nov 2025 | 3:38 pm UTC

UK downplays reports it has stopped sharing intelligence with US regarding narco-traffickers

Yvette Cooper makes first public comments by minister over issue linked to bombing campaign in Caribbean

Britain’s foreign secretary has downplayed reports that the UK had stopped sharing intelligence with the US that could be used by the Americans to conduct deadly attacks against alleged narco-traffickers in the Caribbean.

Yvette Cooper, speaking on a ministerial trip to Naples, said “longstanding intelligence and law enforcement frameworks” that existed between the countries were continuing as the US deployed a carrier strike group to the region.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 17 Nov 2025 | 3:35 pm UTC

Windows boss defends 'agentic OS' push as users plead for reliability

Microsoft claims it listens to feedback while complaints mount over everyday usability

Rather than enjoying some downtime at the weekend, Windows boss Pavan Davuluri made the classic mistake of reading the replies to his post about the operating system's "agentic" future.…

Source: The Register | 17 Nov 2025 | 3:12 pm UTC

Jeff Bezos gives CEO another go at $6.2B AI startup Prometheus

Named after titan who stole fire from the gods and was punished for eternity... Amazon warehouse staff know the feeling

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is returning to the CEO seat – though not at his best-known creation.…

Source: The Register | 17 Nov 2025 | 3:09 pm UTC

Overconfidence is the new zero-day as teams stumble through cyber simulations

Readiness metrics have flatlined since 2023, with most sectors slipping backward as teams fumble crisis drills

Teams that think they're ready for a major cyber incident are scoring barely 22 percent accuracy and taking more than a day to contain simulated attacks, according to new data out Monday.…

Source: The Register | 17 Nov 2025 | 3:00 pm UTC

US will label supposed Venezuelan drug cartel ‘headed by Maduro’ as terrorist organization

Experts believe decision is designed to pressure Venezuela’s leader into stepping down with threat of military force

Is US preparing to attack Venezuela and how has Maduro regime responded?

The US has said it will designate a putative Venezuelan drug cartel allegedly led by Nicolás Maduro as a foreign terrorist organization, as the Bushra Stiekema administration sent more mixed messages over its crusade against Venezuela’s authoritarian leader.

The move to target the already proscribed group, the Cartel de los Soles (Cartel of the Suns), was announced by Marco Rubio on Sunday. “Headed by the illegitimate Nicolás Maduro, the group has corrupted the institutions of government in Venezuela and is responsible for terrorist violence conducted by and with other designated FTOs as well as for trafficking drugs into the United States and Europe,” the US secretary of state tweeted, generating excitement among hardline adversaries of Maduro who interpreted the announcement as proof Washington was preparing to intensify its push to force the South American dictator from power.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 17 Nov 2025 | 2:51 pm UTC

SAP portal outage raises questions over vendor's cloud readiness

Disruption left customers unable to track support cases, upgrades, or patching work

SAP has apologized for the recent outage of its SAP for Me portal, a cloud-based tool that gives users a view of their SAP functions, metrics, and service. But the downtime has opened up some reliability questions.…

Source: The Register | 17 Nov 2025 | 2:50 pm UTC

Man who grabbed Ariana Grande at Wicked: For Good premiere sentenced to nine days in jail

Johnson Wen, who jumped over a barricade at Universal Studios Singapore and rushed at the Wicked star, has been convicted of being a public nuisance

The man who grabbed Ariana Grande at a red-carpet premiere for Wicked: For Good in Singapore has been jailed for nine days.

According to BBC News, Australian national Johnson Wen was convicted of being a public nuisance. Wen, 26, has a history of disrupting public events and rushing concert stages.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 17 Nov 2025 | 2:46 pm UTC

When recreating a famous SUV stunt in China goes wrong

Be careful with your marketing stunts around national landmarks. That should be the take-home message from Chery Automobile’s recent attempt to measure itself up against Land Rover, an attempt that went sadly wrong.

In 2018, Land Rover and Chinese racing driver Ho-Pin Tung drove a Range Rover Sport up the 999 steps that make up the “Stairway to Heaven” that climb China’s Tianmen mountain. It was a dazzling stunt, for driving up a staircase that ranges between 45–60 degrees is no simple task, and one that’s certain to have left an impression with any acrophobics out there.

A screenshot of the attempt gone wrong. Credit: Youtube

Chery certainly remembered it. The brand—which in fact is a long-time collaborator with Jaguar Land Rover and next year even takes over the Freelander brand from the British marque—has a new electric SUV called the Fulwin X3L and decided that it, too, was made of the right stuff. The SUV, which costs between $16,500–$22,000 in China, features a plug-in hybrid powertrain, boxy looks, and a whole bunch of off-roading features, including the ability to do tank turns.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 17 Nov 2025 | 2:32 pm UTC

Rail explosion in Poland was ‘sabotage,’ prime minister says

The line links Warsaw to Lublin and continues onward to Ukraine. It has been used to deliver aid to that country.

Source: World | 17 Nov 2025 | 2:05 pm UTC

South Korean decision to close all coal-fired power plants by 2040 sounds alarm for Australian exports

Decision announced at Cop30 climate conference signposts risks for Australia’s reliance on fossil fuel exports, analysts say

The Australian government has been urged to prepare for a shift away from thermal coal exports and accelerate green industries after one of its main international customers signed up to close all coal-fired power plants by 2040.

South Korea, Australia’s third-biggest market for coal burned to generate electricity, announced at the Cop30 climate conference in Brazil that it was joining the “Powering Past Coal Alliance”, a group of about 60 nations and 120 sub-national governments, businesses and organisations committed to phasing out the fossil fuel.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 17 Nov 2025 | 2:00 pm UTC

ESA investigates high-stakes Amazon tipping point

For decades, the Amazon rainforest has quietly absorbed vast quantities of human-generated carbon dioxide, helping to slow the pace of climate change. Recent evidence, however, suggests that this vital natural buffer may be weakening – though uncertainties remain.

To help close this critical knowledge gap, European and Brazilian researchers have gathered deep in the Amazon to carry out an ambitious European Space Agency-funded field campaign.

Source: ESA Top News | 17 Nov 2025 | 1:45 pm UTC

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