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Palestine and the production of ignorance

The Trump administration is attacking academia because it threatens existing power structures and dominant elites. This is seen most clearly when it comes to Palestine.

We need to talk about AI in terms of values, not vibes

The current AI hype bubble is being driven by little more than emotions. Instead of being awed by speculative promises around AI futures, we need to engage with current forms of AI in terms of their values and politics. Above all, we need to step up the f…

Ceasefire talks give cautious hope. But the reality in Gaza couldn’t be more brutal

From a massacre at a clinic to an airstrike on tents, relentless Israeli bombing across the Strip this week has proven evacuation orders meaningless. The post Ceasefire talks give cautious hope. But the reality in Gaza couldn’t be more brutal appeared firs…

Israel accelerates Gaza attacks amid plans for concentration camps in Rafah

Palestinian children are dying of starvation and preventable, treatable diseases in hospitals that are quickly going dark.

Georgia: Jailing of teenage protester raises fair trial concerns

Reacting to the sentencing yesterday of 19-year-old protester Saba Jikia, to more than four years in prison for allegedly kicking a police officer during ongoing protests in Georgia, Denis Krivosheev, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Eastern Eu…

In a First, Solar Was Europe's Biggest Source of Power Last Month

For the first time, solar was the largest source of electricity in the EU last month, supplying a record 22 percent of the bloc's power.Read more on E360 →

EDRi-gram, 10 July 2025

What has the EDRis network been up to over the past two weeks? Find out the latest digital rights news in our bi-weekly newsletter. In this edition: European Commission must champion the AI Act, EDRi pushes back against risky GDPR deregulation, & more…

Senolytic Update

A couple of years ago here I wrote about “senolytic” therapy (not for the first time, as links there will show). That’s the idea that there are populations of senescent cells that develop as organisms age, including humans (a species that includes so many…

C4C Co-Signs Joint Statement on Preserving Net Neutrality in the Upcoming Digital Networks Act

Along with 83 organisations, the Coalition for Creativity (C4C) co-signed a joint statement on preserving net neutrality in the European Commission’s upcoming Digital Networks Act (DNA) proposal. This is an […]

How high and above what?

Measurement lies at the heart of many areas of science, where there is almost a fetish for ever more exact measurement. However, one thing that most people are not aware of is how much of the measurement that we use … Continue reading →

How to Mount a Balcony Awning

Hi Kris, I’ve been reading your website for quite a while. It’s one of my favourite blogs. Thank you for what you are doing! We are currently experiencing a heat wave in Germany, so I drew inspiration from Low-tech Magazine’s article “How to Dress and Undre…

Masked, Armed and Forceful: Finding Patterns in Los Angeles Immigration Raids

Armed and masked men leaping out of unmarked vehicles. Latino men taken from their places of work or while waiting for the bus. Street vendors roughly tackled to the ground and forcefully held down. Since early June, the streets of Los Angeles have borne…

A Match Made in the Heavens: The Surveillance State and the “New Space” Economy

This new piece co-authored by the Citizen Lab’s Gabrielle Lim discusses the risks of privatized space technology. She and her co-authors highlight that the issue is not private-sector involvement, but the concentration of power in the hands of a few priva…

Abolish Frontex activities at World Refugee Day

In several countries actions and other activities were organised on and around World Refugee Day, 20 June 2025, following the call for actions to ‘Abolish Frontex and stop the expansion of Fortress Europe‘. A short impressium: Belgium The Belgian Abolish …

ApplePay vs. Alternative Payment Services

by Marc Stibane

Tracking deforestation from space

Remote sensing analysis to uncover the scale of deforestation in the Philippines The post Tracking deforestation from space appeared first on Lighthouse Reports.

Practical Retrofitting for Obsolete Devices

Over the last twenty years, smartphones gradually replaced many earlier digital tools such as PDAs, cameras and music players. Today these objects are regarded as obsolete: they may hold some esthetic or nostalgic appeal but they do not fit in a modern, z…

European Commission is Looking for Experts to Evaluate Funding Applications

If you have in-depth knowledge of a specific domain you can consider to work as an expert for the European Commission (EC). The EC has many funding programs such as Horizon Europe. Applications for funding are assessed by independent experts…

Bumble's AI icebreakers are mainly breaking EU law

Bumble's AI icebreakers are mainly breaking EU law Bumble sends people's personal profile information to OpenAI to create AI generated messages - without ever asking for consent mickey 26 June 2025

Two Factor Insecurity

How Google, Amazon, Meta and thousands of other companies leave customers vulnerable over one-time codes to save time and money The post Two Factor Insecurity appeared first on Lighthouse Reports.

Alfred the Great as Europe’s Darling: The Afterlives of an Early Medieval King in 19th-century Europe

When an Italian Cultural Resource is also a 14th Century Fraud

I don’t know if the Shroud of Turin is the most controversial or the most intensely studied artifact in the world but it certainly must [...] The post When an Italian Cultural Resource is also a 14th Century Fraud appeared first on Archaeology Review.

Deportation as Punishment and the Everyday War on Migrants from Turkey to the United States

A special report. The post Deportation as Punishment and the Everyday War on Migrants from Turkey to the United States appeared first on MERIP.

Summary of changes for June 2025

Hey everyone!This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of June. 100r.co, updated costs, hauling out, united states and teapot gelcoat. Added san juan islands. Rabbit Waves, added all content links to the main pa…

Amsterdam: squatters win courtcase!

In December 2024, a group of squatters decided to move into a vacant office building in the south east of Amsterdam. The owner, a real estate investment company related to infamous Blackstone, is not happy, faces them in court, and loses. The former datac…

Belgium: A model for the transposition of the EU anti-SLAPP Directive – Dirk Voorhoof

In its judgment of 15 March 2022 in the case of OOO Memo v. Russia, the ECtHR warned for “the risks that court proceedings instituted with a view to limiting public participation bring for democracy“. This approach referred to an earlier comment by the Co…

Torricelli’s trumpet is not counterintuitive

There is nothing counterintuitive about an infinite shape with finite volume, contrary to the common propaganda version of the calculus trope known as Torricelli’s trumpet. Nor was this result seen as counterintuitive at the time of its discovery in the 1…

No Border Camp squats Galaxy Tower in Utrecht: pop-up information point for migration and housing struggle

Today, a demonstration from the No Border Camp through the city of Utrecht squatted the infamous Galaxy Tower, an unfinished prestigious construction project on the Jaarbeursplein, and transformed it into a pop-up information point about the migration and…

Microsoft trains Unified Patent Court judges to count to 5 with its new AI assistant

Brussels, 1st April 2024 — Microsoft’s lead patent attorney William Gates has been elected as part-time judge at the Unified Patent Court. The Unified Patent Court is understaffed for the mathematics field of technology. Microsoft will provide an AI assis…

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