Earlier this month, the Canadian government announced that it had signed the United Nations Convention against Cybercrime. Speaking with Michael Geist of Law Bytes, senior research associate Kate Robertson argues that the convention is a cross-border sur…
Benjamin Netanyahu gushed about his White House meeting with Donald Trump this week, but the meeting was most notable for what went unsaid about Iran.
Israeli soldiers prevent ambulance carrying pregnant woman in medical emergency from crossing West Bank checkpoint.
Reacting to the crossing of tens of thousands of people, including children, from Morocco to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta and the reported deaths of 43 people, Esteban Beltrán, Director of Amnesty International Spain, said: “We are monitoring this situat…
People displaced by the escalation of the Israeli war in Lebanon describe longing for their home.
A new book documents efforts to preserve millennia of culture, refusing to surrender to the enclave’s destruction while laying foundations for its future. The post Archiving as resistance: The battle to save Gaza’s cultural heritage appeared first on +972 …
A landmark study of the towering ash trees that grow in the mountains of Victoria, Australia, which was launched in the 1980s, boosted arguments for clearcutting the iconic trees. But when scientists returned to the site years later, they came…
Let’s do some good ol’ organic synthesis today. Probably not so many of the chemists in the audience will have run the good ol’ Appel reaction (alcohol to alkyl chloride with triphenylphosphine and carbon tetrachloride), because good ol’ carbon tet has be…
Football fans wagered more than US $14 billion on the FIFA World Cup through prediction markets Polymarket and Kalshi, a Bellingcat analysis has found. On the crypto-based Polymarket, which provides more information about individual trading accounts than …
Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs We are not aware of the situation you described. The Chinese government has consistently required […] The post Congo’s Hidden Uranium Exports – Responses from relevant companies appeared first on Lighthouse Reports.
According to legend the Pythagoreans were devastated when they discovered that the diagonal of a unit square is an irrational number, because they believed that the natural numbers were the building bricks of the cosmos. It is even said that … Continue re…
Hey everyone!This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of June. Wiki, updated ipad media station and solar cooking experiment. Added new information for roscoe bay. Hakum, started a new comic sequence called Rec…
Cookie Banners Today, noyb has filed a complaint against the popular online dictionary dict.cc. The GDPR requires that consent is freely given, informed, specific and unambiguous. However, when visiting dict.cc, users are nudged into consenting to online …
How public money built defenses for open source software (way) before the law required them. The second installment of our article series on digital autonomy looks into open source software supply chain management. Author Jeffrey A. M…
The summertime is traditionally known as the ‘silly season’ for news media – a time when quirkier, niche stories can make it to press. One such topic is a few ed-tech firms pushing the (faintly ludicrous) idea of humanoid robots being put in classrooms as…
We expose Big Food’s 239 lawsuits against life-saving policies The post Big Food vs. The People appeared first on Lighthouse Reports.
Der Beitrag Our Summer. Your Initiative. Together for Humanity. erschien zuerst auf Sea-Eye Dev.
The European Commission is set to publish a proposal for a new Frontex regulation in the second half of this year. The review is expected to expand the mandate of the EU border agency, strengthening its role in deportations, border externalisation, and th…
Cross-posted from C4C’s LinkedIn page – see the original article The Coalition for Creativity (C4C) recently submitted its comments to the public consultation by the Irish Department of Culture, Communications […]
The European Commission is currently finalising negotiations with the Trump administration to conclude an “Enhanced Border Security Partnership” (EBSP) Framework Agreement allowing border control authorities to screen travellers against biometric database…
Hello! Call out for support in Calais! The Markaz Alshebaab (“the youth center”) is a new collective organizing space in the hospital’s “Jungle” camp, initiated by people on the move and in solidarity. Since Monday, police have been passing by several tim…
In early December 2025, Yemen’s Southern Transitional Council (STC) took many by surprise when it seized control of the country’s oil-rich Hadhramaut governorate, a region that had been under the control of Saudi-backed forces. After its eastern neighbor …
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Image: The handcart, equipped with a sail. Photo by Kris De Decker. The human-powered handcart is the oldest of vehicles, and it will likely be the last one around in the future. Of all vehicles, it’s the cheapest and least complex to build and use. It o…
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/
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…
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…
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…
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 …