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Logging and controlled burns have been under attack since the Wilsonian “Progressive” Era. Progressive federal and state government policies restricting common-sense logging and fuel breaks led to overgrown forests that quickly burn out of control. The result is ever-increasing threats to property, human and animal lives, and environmental damage, including air pollution, water pollution, and loss of habitat and species.

Trump’s tremendous trade tussle triggers troubling twist, theoretically World war fee  Well, well, well. If it isn't the consequences of thine actions. The Trump administration's global trade war is threatening to hit US military readiness.…

In summary, the "drought emergency" talk is highly irresponsible and in contradiction to observed facts on the ground.  It is used as a tool to scare people, often with unsupported attempts to connect the fictitious "drought" to climate change.  

800K? Make that double, and we'll need a double, too, for the pain A Texas firm that provides backend IT and other services for American insurers has admitted twice as many people had their info stolen from it than previously disclosed.…

Who said this opt-out approach is OK with GDPR, was it Llama 4, hmm? Meta on Monday said it plans to start training its AI models using public posts and comments shared by adults in the EU, along with interactions users have with its chatbot.…

Source code, moderator info, IP addresses, more allegedly swiped and leaked Thousands of 4chan users reported outages Monday night amid rumors on social media that the edgy anonymous imageboard had been ransacked by an intruder, with someone on a rival forum claiming to have leaked its source code, moderator identities, and users' IP addresses.…

There's a new tariff in town World War Fee  Uncle Sam is kicking off a probe into the national security risks associated with America relying on imported foreign-made semiconductors.…

Beijing claims NSA went for gold in offensive cyber, got caught in the act China's state-run press has taken its turn in trying to highlight alleged foreign cyber offensives, accusing the US National Security Agency of targeting the 2025 Asian Winter Games.…

Login green-lit for lone staffer if he’s trained, papered up, won’t pull an Elez A federal judge has partly lifted an injunction against Elon Musk's Trump-blessed cost-trimming DOGE unit, allowing one staff member to access sensitive US Treasury payment systems. This access includes personally identifiable financial information tied to millions of Americans.…

Pricier successor due in July. Three months is plenty of time to test it, right? Microsoft has warned administrators that less than half a year remains until support ends for Exchange Server 2016 and 2019. However, the follow-up, Exchange Server SE, won't arrive for another few months.…

The Times Crime and Justice Commission was established last year, with its mission statement being to… consider the future of policing and the criminal justice system, in the light of the knife crime crisis, a shoplifting epidemic, the growing threat of cybercrime, concerns about the culture of the police, court backlogs, problems with legal aid …

Across the country, tens of thousands of rooftop solar systems—once hailed as the clean energy revolution—are quietly decaying. Not because the technology failed, but because the industry did. We rushed to install. We cut corners. We promised 25 years of performance… and delivered systems that can’t make it past 10.

Table format loved by Apple and Netflix gets boost after Databricks merger Databricks, the machine learning and data lake biz valued at around $62 billion, is contributing to the open source Iceberg table format preferred by rivals in the market.…

Prefab SmartRun kit from Vertiv promises 85% faster deployment and fewer plumbing headaches With rack space at a premium amid unrelenting demand for datacenter capacity, more modular solutions are hitting the market to speed deployment times, even for infrastructure prefabricated for AI training.…

Let the espionage and access resale campaigns begin (again) A cyberspy crew or individual with ties to China's Ministry of State Security has infected global organizations with a remote access trojan (RAT) that's "even better" than Cobalt Strike, using this stealthy backdoor to enable its espionage and access resale campaigns.…

Bipartisan support needed to keep DOGE from the door The proposed cuts to NASA's budget are drawing sharp criticism from US lawmakers, with one saying: "If you cut this budget, you cut into the heart of America's leadership when it comes to space exploration."…

The Global Electricity Review 2025 is less a factual account than a strategically curated story. It tells the most optimistic tale possible about the smallest slice of the global energy pie while ignoring the fossil-heavy elephant in the room.

Stopping users shooting themselves in the foot with last century's tech Microsoft has twisted the knife into ActiveX once again, setting Microsoft 365 to disable all controls without so much as a prompt.…

Car hire biz takes your privacy seriously, though Car hire giant Hertz has confirmed that customer information was stolen during the zero-day data raids on Cleo file transfer products last year.…

You can't keep a good OS down The first Intel-based Mac was 19 years ago, but new versions of apps for both Classic Mac OS and PowerPC Mac OS X still occasionally appear, and we are here for it.…

UK's play to win a quantum computing race that is still highly theoretical To mark World Quantum Day, the UK government says it will stump up a £121 million ($158 million) investment in the ever-distant technology that proponents claim has the potential to shake up the world.…

This £400 million will be a drop in the ocean compared to what is coming in the next few years. The problem at the moment is a localised one, where there is too much wind power in Scotland for the connectors to England to cope with.

See no error, hear no error, speak no error The three wise Microsoft monkeys have spoken. If Windows Update displayed an error after installing the April 2025 Windows Recovery Environment release, you didn't see anything. Best to ignore it and move on.…

That would put America on the same level as China for espionage The European Commission is giving staffers visiting the US on official business burner laptops and phones to avoid espionage attempts, according to the Financial Times.…

When the power went out, they didn’t switch on Google has revealed that a recent six-hour outage at one of its cloudy regions was caused by uninterruptible power supplies not doing their job.…

The erosion of our energy infrastructure by progressive activism was completely avoidable. It must be corrected quickly for America to live up to the promise of a Golden Age and maintain its position as the world’s most prosperous and productive economy.

Meanwhile in China, factories that work for Apple and HP are reportedly closing some production lines Tech manufacturers worked overtime in early 2025 to produce hardware before the US imposed tariffs that would increase the prices punters pay for product.…

Blackwell production already underway in Arizona with server manufacturing coming to Texas within 15 months Nvidia wants to build and sell up to half a trillion US dollars of American-made AI supercomputer equipment over the next four years, with the help of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, aka TSMC, and its partners.…

There are many reasons the offshore wind industry should be hesitant to resume business as usual. However, none is bigger than this: Does the offshore wind industry really think it is a good idea to thumb its nose at President Trump in opposition to an order that is clearly near and dear to his heart? Do they really like playing Russian roulette with billions at stake? Various Cabinet secretaries, heads of federal agencies, and political opponents have all tried this approach in the past.

Copilot vibe coding for OS development? Why not Canny Windows users who've spotted a mysterious folder on hard drives after applying last week's security patches for the operating system can rest assured – it's perfectly benign. In fact, it's recommended you leave the directory there.…

Users, unsurprisingly, are not pleased and feel forgotten amid Redmond's Copilot frenzy Updated  In June 2024, users of the OneDrive sync client for macOS and Windows began reporting that shared folders had vanished from their local drives, replaced with web shortcuts.…

IT admins, get ready to grumble CA/Browser Forum – a central body of web browser makers, security certificate issuers, and friends – has voted to cut the maximum lifespan of new SSL/TLS certs to just 47 days by March 15, 2029.…

Amid reports that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering the December 2009 “Endangerment Finding” regarding greenhouse gases,[1] a recanvassing of emails obtained in the infamous “Richard Windsor” Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit brought over a dozen years ago by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) against the Agency[2] leads to a troubling conclusion: the Obama EPA’s regulatory “finding” that greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare

Buy high, sell low: FPGA biz cost x86 giant $16B decade ago A decade after gobbling up Altera, Intel is loosening its grip. On Monday, the x86 giant said it's flogging a 51 percent stake in the FPGA slinger to private equity firm Silver Lake.…

What's the goal here, Homeland Insecurity or something? As drastic cuts to the US govt's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency loom, Rep Eric Swalwell (D-CA), the ranking member of the House's cybersecurity subcommittee, has demanded that CISA brief the subcommittee "prior to any significant changes to CISA's workforce or organizational structure."…

Q1 sector growth unlikely to survive current trade policy Profiteering resellers stateside filled up on smartphone inventory in calendar Q1 before the scheduled imposition of US tariffs, which have rocked global stock prices and US Treasury bonds since April 2.…

Sales backstop deal? More like ... Sales? Back, stop! Deal! Arizona electronics supplier Avnet has accused California semiconductor design firm Ampere Computing of going against its word and backing out of a server purchasing deal.…

Meanwhile, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory has some great projects lined up for 2025, which will likely be more successful without DEI interference.

Watchdog wants to know whether EU posts were used without consent under GDPR Elon Musk's social media outfit X is again under the regulatory microscope in Europe – this time for allegedly using EU users' public posts to train its Grok AI chatbot, possibly without the transparency or legal basis required under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).…

Houston, we have a funding problem The US administration appears set to slash NASA's science budget with cuts to spending in the order of almost 50 percent, according to a draft of the White House's proposal.…

This week is our one hundredth edition of This Week in the New Normal! …except it isn’t really. Due to some special editions going unnumbered I think we’re actually around 104. But we at OffGuardian are nothing if not on trend, and since these days cool kids are simply saying stuff that is provably untrue …

Safeguard hold finally lifted as Microsoft realizes animated backgrounds aren't the end of the world The day before the release of Windows 11 24H2, Microsoft slapped a compatibility hold on devices using wallpaper customization applications. More than six months later, it is gradually removing the safeguard hold.…

Investment delays are inevitable as uncertainty clouds US trade policy, warns investment bank World War Fee  Trump administration tariffs are leaving the IT industry in "limbo", with CIOs hitting the pause button on new projects as they're unsure whether budgets set today will be disrupted by taxes tomorrow.…

This is false. Climate change is not causing an increase in the number or severity of tornados, nor can it be connected to such a limited event.

Miyazaki, copyright protection and the 'insult to life itself' of AI images Opinion  Many people are having fun making Studio Ghibli-style images with OpenAI's ChatGPT. I see it as copy-and-paste intellectual property stealing on an industrial level.…

Royal McBee's desk-sized deskside early computer was the stuff of legend In these days of multi-gig OSes, we cast our eyes back to something both much bigger and much smaller.…

Analysts say the bubble won't burst, but it is possible, admits world's largest colo provider Interview  Those who ignore history are destined to repeat mistakes of the past and, with signs of an inflating bit barn spending bubble, comparisons are being made with the infamous dotcom bust a quarter of a century ago.…

UK holds onto oversight by a whisker, but it's utterly barefaced on the other side of the pond Opinion  The UK government's attempts to worm into Apple's core end-to-end encryption were set back last week when the country's Home Office failed in its bid to keep them secret on national security grounds.…

Quote of the Week: “Details that could throw doubt on your interpretation must be given, if you know them. You must do the best you can — if you know anything at all wrong, or possibly wrong — to explain it. If you make a theory, for example, and advertise it, or put it out, then you must also put down all the facts that disagree with it, as well as those that agree with it. There is also a more subtle problem. When you have put a lot of ideas together to make an elaborate theory, you want

Brit retailer says troubled breakup with tech platform of former US owner nearing conclusion Two of the top team behind Asda's £1 billion ($1.31 billion) tech divorce from US retail giant Walmart — which has seen a number of setbacks — are departing the company.…

If this techie had been older and slower, this never would have happened Who, Me?  Returning to work on Monday often imparts a rude shock, which is why The Register opens the week with a new installment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you admit to your worst moments at work and explain how you survived them.…

Home labs and bare bones test rigs matter so Broadcom's back in the game VMware has resumed offering a free hypervisor.…

PLUS: Chinese robodogs include backdoor; OpenAI helps spammer; A Dutch data disaster; And more! Infosec In Brief  Fortinet last week admitted that attackers have found new ways to exploit three flaws it thought it had fixed last year.…

In its own way this is quite a remarkable admission by the BBC – that they now accept that weather attribution models cannot be regarded as FACTUAL

PLUS: India's new electronics subsidies; Philippines unplugs a mobile carrier; Alibaba Cloud expands Asia In Brief  Chinese officials admitted to directing cyberattacks on US infrastructure at a meeting with their American counterparts, according to The Wall Street Journal.…

President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reportedly eliminating the requirement for industrial plants to collect and report their greenhouse gas emissions, according to multiple reports.

Beijing tries to find an off-ramp but also fights back with export bans World War Fee  The Trump administration’s strategy to use tariffs on imports as an incentive for businesses to move their manufacturing plants to the USA took a new turn over the weekend after it announced exemptions for some goods, denied the exemptions were new, then said it plans further tariffs on high-tech goods.…

Michael Mann: "It is pure villainy. A crime against the planet – arguably, the most profound of all crimes.”

Military units, government nerds appear to join the fray, with physical infra in sights Feature  From triggering a water tank overflow in Texas to shutting down Russian state news services on Vladimir Putin's birthday, self-styled hacktivists have been making headlines.…

The scientists had done it. They had solved world hunger, they had ended farming as we know it and they had rid the world of animal cruelty. It wasn’t an easy path, naturally. Like so many strides in science before, its initial steps were in the other direction. The research on regeneration was originally military, …

People will eventually die in a catastrophic blackout when electricity is unavailable when it is needed the most.  This is insanity.

Germany’s Blackout News here reports that only 4 electric car manufacturers world wide are managing to make a profit, three of which are Chinese: BYD, Li Auto and Seres. And all the rest “are struggling to survive.”

My dear mother, who had an artistic temperament that tended at times toward the sentimental, liked to call me a contrarian. She was right. I think she liked but feared this inclination of mine that started in childhood. It no doubt has many roots, some of which an artful reader may sense in the essays …

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Multi-protocol chat client is approaching version 3 In the 2020s you might be forgiven for having forgotten that such a thing as a native chat client exists, but a handful still do and they're still useful. One of these is Pidgin, the artist formerly known as GAIM.…

And that’s why the Hot Air project, which will inform nobody of anything, which will change not one single mind, and which stands as a failure of “strategic communication”, is nonetheless worth commenting on. It is a very useful demonstration of how they think. (If thinking is what they do.)

President Donald Trump’s administration is gearing up to effectively cut the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric (NOAA) Research by ending its primary research office, according to multiple reports.

While this allocation of credit is intriguing, what’s truly shocking is what’s not mentioned at all: CO2 fertilization.

Carbon capture, SMRs, fusion power - tech titans' climate strategies are packed with moon shots Comment  AI's appetite for power is exploding. Hyperscalers have only just begun to adopt Nvidia's 120 kW-per-rack systems, and the GPU giant is already charting a course toward 600 kW designs.…

Sadly, I have now become a hateful curmudgeon. I’ve always been a bit of a curmudgeon, at least since after the age of 60, but only recently have I become hateful. I admit this reluctantly, and I must say that I still consider this description to be largely selective, meaning I don’t think I am …

No worries, just use neural networks to optimize systems powering neural networks Analysis  Global datacenter electricity use is set to more than double by 2030 - slightly surpassing Japan's total consumption - with AI named as the biggest driver.…

Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting' The rise of LLM-powered code generation tools is reshaping how developers write software - and introducing new risks to the software supply chain in the process.…

A thing of beauty for map fans and those with kids Have you ever wanted to explore a blocky low-resolution version of the UK? Well, you're in luck, because the Ordnance Survey has created a Minecraft representation of it, claimed to be as realistic as anything ever can be in the game.…

Redmond hopes you’ve forgotten or got over why everyone hated it the first time After temporarily shelving its controversial Windows Recall feature amid a wave of backlash, Microsoft is back at it - now quietly slipping the screenshotting app into the Windows 11 Release Preview channel for Copilot+ PCs, signaling its near-readiness for general availability.…

$5.1B cancellations pitched as efficiency move, though costly Trump birthday parade mulled The US Department of Defense (DOD) has canceled contracts for "consulting and other non-essential services" in the latest round of cuts conceived by Elon Musk's DOGE unit.…

“Globalism.” “Free Trade.” “Sustainability.” The Powers That Shouldn’t Be recognize that words have power. They weaponize words to use against the public all the time. Today on #SolutionsWatch, James raises the possibility of turning the tables. How can we use words to break the spell of the tyrants and free ourselves from the clutches of …

Real Left, formerly known as Left Lockdown Sceptics is holding a ‘Uniting the Pro Freedom and Pro Palestine Liberation Left’ conference on Saturday 3 May in central London. The one-day event will bring together key campaigners and researchers from the UK and beyond to discuss the genocide in Palestine, (Syria and Lebanon) and its connection …

I am a ridiculous man. Now they call me a madman. That would be a promotion if it were not that I remain as ridiculous in their eyes as before. “Dream of a Ridiculous Man” by Fyodor Dostoevsky Every discussion of what is to be done ought to begin with an agreement, if only the …

It turns out that the solution to illegal immigration is instituting a nationwide system of digital identity, issued to every baby at birth and containing all your social, education, financial, medical, and employment information. At least, according to the 40 or so Labour MPs who co-signed an open letter calling for such a system. Of …

We explore the deep state through the lens of those who have revealed it existence and operations. What is it and what do "deep staters" want us to believe about their deep state? The post The Deep State Revelations CERCLE appeared first on Iain Davis.

MelK and I discuss the application of the Dark Enlightenment and Technocracy in the Trump administration and its implications. Of note, Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are both proponents of these ideas and influential in Trump's administration. The post MelK and Iain Davis Discuss Trump’s Gov-Corp Technate appeared first on Iain Davis.

Tony Gosling and I discuss the Dark MAGA Gov-Corp Technate being installed by the Trump administration. The discussion centres on my article of the same title published on Unlimited Hangout. The post Tony Gosling and Iain Davis Discuss the Dark MAGA Gov-Corp Technate appeared first on Iain Davis.

I chat to Alex Newman from Liberty Sentinel briefly covering a wide range of important subjects including the cliamte scam, UK paedophile scandals, the proposed multipolar world order and more. The post Alex Newman interviews Iain Davis appeared first on Iain Davis.

I discuss the evidence that exposes the alleged 2017 Manchester Arena bombing as a hoaxed false flag with Sonia Poulton The post Discussing Manchester with Sonia Poulton appeared first on Iain Davis.

Eve's Law proposes to comprehensively censor the independent media. As only the independent media questions power this is extremely concerning. The state's censorship agenda is based on the Manchester hoax. We can and we must oppose it. The post Why we must resist Eve’s Law and how to oppose it effectively appeared first on Iain Davis.

Voluntary Democracy - Part 3: in this concluding article we consider the only alternative offered of continued statism and address statist objections to a stateless society. We also consider issues like funding and security in a voluntary democracy. The post Voluntary Democracy – Part 3 appeared first on Iain Davis.

In Part 2 of the series on voluntary democracy we start to look at the proposal in more detail. We consider some of the practicalities required for organising a stateless jurisdiction and address how some, limited hierarchical decision making would be needed. The post Voluntary Democracy – Part 2 appeared first on Iain Davis.

Based on the original concept of "democracy," I propose Voluntary democracy as a new possible sociopolitical system that could set us free from the rule of oligarchs. Check out Part 1 here. The post Voluntary Democracy – Part 1 appeared first on Iain Davis.

On Gareth Icke Tonight I discusses the Manchester Attack hoax and the appalling trial of Richard D. Hall which must be challenged and can be challenged by showing the evidence of the hoax. The post Gareth Icke Tonight with Iain Davis appeared first on Iain Davis.