Hamas plans to expand its ongoing crackdown on gangs backed and funded by the Israeli army. The renewed effort “will be on multiple fronts” where these groups operate, a security source from the movement tells Mondoweiss.
Responding to Russia’s latest attacks on Chernihiv’s energy infrastructure, which have left the entire city and parts of the region without electricity, Veronika Velch, Amnesty International Ukraine’s Director, said: “This morning, Chernihiv — a city of n…
Iceland, one of the last places on Earth to be free of mosquitoes, recorded its first sighting this month. Scientists say warming is making the country more hospitable to the insects.Read more on E360 →
I didn’t turn back to see my family again after saying goodbye. I felt too ashamed. I was leaving for peace, and all they had was famine and war. The post My last words to Gaza appeared first on +972 Magazine.
To stay up to date on our latest investigations, join Bellingcat’s new WhatsApp channel here. Editor’s note: Vladislav Gillung officially changed his name to Vladislav Romanov in his twenties. Although the first recorded use of him as Romanov is from the …
Ah, quantum mechanics. We’ve known about it for a hundred years now, and it’s still as weird as it ever was. This paper has a case in point: the authors are investigated a catalytic hydrogenation reaction, the reduction of a benzyldehyde to a benzyl alcoh…
A Review of Elham Fakhro’s ‘The Abraham Accords: The Gulf States, Israel, and the Limits of Normalization.’
What does psychosocial support look like in the face of spyware attacks and digital security threats? It can mean adapting care to the context, listening without rushing, and building protocols that protect both dignity and data. But we want to hear what …
We are deeply disappointed that our colleague, Dr Mohammed Obeid, was not released from detention in Israel as part of the recent Gaza ceasefire agreement.
Helena Cobban on the ceasefire. A history of prisoner exchanges. Trump admits to outsize influence of pro-Israel donors. One-state solution and more.
We are happy to announce that 29 projects are selected for NGI Zero Commons Fund sixth open call. We congratulate the developers and engineers and thank them for their contribution to an open, resilient and human-centered internet. The selec…
While the US and others roll back protections for Afghans, new evidence shows the scale of ongoing reprisal killings, belying the Taliban’s claim of an amnesty for former soldiers. The post Hunted by the Taliban appeared first on Lighthouse Reports.
This Friday, October 17, we expect more than 100 police officers on the sidewalk of the building of the Zone Neutre collective to put its 70 residents, including 18 children, on the street when the sun rises. The building was empty and will remain empty f…
Image: The insulated solar electric cooker that we build in this manual. Photo by Marie Verdeil. ARTICLE Cooking’s high power use How to adapt an electric cooking device to solar power The advantages of solar electric cooking Our choice of building materials…
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It is two years on from many Australian states announcing school smartphone bans. I was contacted for comment on ‘whether or not the phone bans were the gamechanger we think they were’. The final piece in the Guardian is here. Below are my full comments t…
noyb win: Microsoft 365 Education may not track school children Favorable decision by the Austrian DSB: Microsoft Education 365 may not track school kids and Microsoft is ordered to provide full access to kids' data. ms 10 October 2025 …
No deal for crimes against humanity. Stop the Memorandum of Understanding between Italy and Libya. Join the mobilization in Rome: Action days from 14-17 October Big demonstration with a stage of survivors 18 October A new coalition calls for common protes…
We investigate a coordinated network of inauthentic X accounts that is spreading AI-generated content to induce revolt in Iran. The network has been active since 2023, but increased activity during the Iran-Israel conflict in June 2025.
When Isaac Beeckman (1588–1637) was introducing the young René Descartes to mathematical physics in Breda in 1618, he gave him exercises to help him develop his skill in this new discipline. One of those exercises was to derive the hydrostatic … Continue …
This month on Backlight, we talk to journalists who are rethinking how and who they report for The post Who is journalism for? appeared first on Lighthouse Reports.
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…
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…
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 […]
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…
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…
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…
Following on from our investigative work in Kashmir, this Briefing Report draws special attention to India's strategy in silencing...
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…
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 …
Hey everyone!This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September. Noodle, redesigned the interface. Wiki, updated with a new photo. Punk Rabbits, completed 19 new rabbits(#35-53). NanoTalk, released a Nano…