Lebanon: Humanitarian scale-up urgently needed after almost two months of devastation
MSF teams in Lebanon are adapting our response across the country after a temporary ceasefire was announced between Israel and Lebanon.
Israel kills toddler in Gaza
Israelis subjecting Gaza to systematic, escalating process of engineered starvation.
Trump may want out of the Iran war, but the first round of negotiations showed the challenges ahead
It's clear the Trump administration recognizes the Iran war has been a catastrophe. But while the U.S. may want a way out, the first round of negotiations with Iran showed that finding an exit may be difficult.
Painkiller Pipeline: 300 Million Tapentadol Pills Sent from India to West Africa
This article is the result of a collaboration with Indian media outlet Newslaundry. You can find Newslaundry’s editorially independent coverage here. Indian companies have shipped more than 320 million synthetic opioid pills to West Africa – where they ha…
Zambia Under Pressure to Clean Up Shuttered Lead Mine Poisoning Town
Three decades after one of the largest lead mines in the world closed down, people in Kabwe, Zambia, are still dealing with the aftermath. Facing pervasive lead contamination that continues to endanger their children, families in Kabwe, with a…
Madagascar: Immediately end repression of Gen Z activists and protect right to protest
Reacting to an intensifying campaign of repression against Gen Z activists and civil society members by Madagascar’s military authorities, which took power following a coup in October 2025, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East and Southern A…
Why the ceasefire in Lebanon won’t stop Israel’s expansionist ambitions
Israel’s push for buffer zones and 'natural borders' suggests the emerging ceasefire is unlikely to halt its ongoing ethnic cleansing in southern Lebanon. The post Why the ceasefire in Lebanon won’t stop Israel’s expansionist ambitions appeared fir…
Censorship and Surveillance at US Universities
The night before the start of the Fall 2025 semester, facilities workers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill quietly boarded up a pro-Palestine mural. The mural, created by art students, was composed of prints bearing slogans of solidarity …
Bigger isn’t Better: Why a large house doesn’t mean more wealth, an Early Medieval example from the central Netherlands
Anti-Amyloid Antibodies for Alzheimer: You Already Know
This is not going to come as a surprise to readers of this site, because even if you don’t agree with this contention you have certainly at least been exposed to it: the Cochrane Review folks have examined the clinical evidence for anti-amyloid antibodies…
From Stuxnet to Operation Epic Fury: The China-Iran Intelligence Nexus
Senior research associate Emile Dirks spoke with Domino Theory about Xi Jinping’s view on national security. The post From Stuxnet to Operation Epic Fury: The China-Iran Intelligence Nexus appeared first on The Citizen Lab.
EDRi-gram, 15 April 2026
What has the EDRi network been up to over the past few weeks? Find out the latest digital rights news in our bi-weekly newsletter. In this edition: Cracking the egg shells: what's inside the latest in EU digital rights? The post EDRi-gram, 15 April 202…
A cosmos hanging from the living room ceiling
People send me books. Sometimes it is a publisher or an author sending me a review copy of a recent publication that I have requested. I’m actually still somewhat in awe of the fact that leading publishers of history of science … Continue reading →
The push to give Frontex more powers: Who’s behind it and why
by Francesca Spinelli, journalist and translator On January 28, 2026, graffiti appeared on a wall in the Marolles neighborhood, in central Brussels: “Abolish ICE, burn down Frontex.” Three weeks had passed since the murder of Renee Nicole Good in the Unit…
Rethinking journalism awards
Everyone loves to win awards. But what does it mean to reward good journalism? The post Rethinking journalism awards appeared first on Lighthouse Reports.
57 Projects Receive NGI Zero Grants to Fix the Internet
We are happy to announce that 57 Free and Open Source projects have been awarded grants in the ninth open call of the NGI Zero Commons Fund. We congratulate all grantees and thank them for their contribution to the digital commons: shared di…
TalerBarr is now available to everyone
by Bohdan Potuzhnyi
FFII gifts Macron’s EU law glasses to Unified Patent Court Judges
Source: Trend-online.com: Quegli occhiali blu di Macron stanno facendo impazzire tutti: marca e prezzo https://www.trend-online.com/2026/01/23/occhiali-macron-marca/
Summary of changes for March 2026
Hey everyone!This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March. Wiki, documented the replacement of Pino's backstay, and created a project page for No Bears, None. Hakum, completed page 10 of Sabotage Study…
Low-tech Magazine: The Uncompressed Book Series
Image: The redesigned and revised chronological book edition. Photo: Marie Verdeil. Between 2019 and 2021, Low-tech Magazine published three books containing selections of articles from the website, spanning 14 years (2007-2021). In 2024, we launched the…
Athens: call for actions in solidarity with Prosfygika on the 5th of April
Day 53 of Hungerstrike until Death Call for actions in solidarity with Prosfygika on the 5th of April for the internationalist defense of the Community of Squatted Prosfygika In June 2025 the Regional Government of Attica (which Athens belongs to) approve…
Conseil d'État upholds Criteo's €40M GDPR fine
Data Subject Rights The French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) fined Criteo, a major online advertisement and tracking company in Europe, €40 million for violating the GDPR. This decision is based on complaints filed by noyb and Privacy International in …
License to Profile
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement claimed that nearly 200 people, “the worst of the worst illegal criminal aliens” were arrested in Nashville. Records reveal that Tennessee Highway Patrol and ICE racially profiled drivers, and that majority had no …
Dealing with the educational impact of Australia’s social media ban
[Op-ed piece offered to newspapers in the January ‘back-to-school’ cycle. This piece was not taken-up in this short form, but expanded into a longer piece for The Point] ___________________________________ Students returning to school in a few weeks’ time…
Why the JURI Committee Must Reject the Voss Report on Copyright and Generative AI
On 28 January, the European Parliament’s JURI Committee will vote on MEP Axel Voss’s own-initiative report regarding ‘Copyright and Generative Artificial Intelligence’. While the report is framed as a response […]
An Artificially Intelligent Pseudoarchaeologist?
Graham Hancock recently shared a link to an article on Hub Pages titled, “How Archaeology’s Gatekeepers Hinder Discovery,” by Sigrid Salucop. Her early work at [...] The post An Artificially Intelligent Pseudoarchaeologist? appeared first on Archaeology Re…
Death of Archimedes
Archimedes’s emblematic death makes sense psychologically and embodies a rich historical picture in a single scene. Transcript Archimedes died mouthing back at an enemy soldier: “Don’t disturb my circles.” Or that’s how the story goes. Is this fact or fic…
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…
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…
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…
India: Silencing Journalism and Human Rights in Kashmir
Following on from our investigative work in Kashmir, this Briefing Report draws special attention to India's strategy in silencing...
webshit weekly
An annotated digest of the top "Hacker" "News" posts for the second week of August, 2021. One Bad Apple August 08, 2021 (comments) An Internet is mad about Apple (business model: "Uber for spyware") turning your phone…
Confessions of a Necromancer
Thirty-five years I've written code, a necromancer weaving spells to bring the dead to life. Hardware and electronics never held any charm for me. I've no love for chips and cables and solder. Give me a keyboard, a screen, and a language, and you …