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There is a case against the adoption of Net Zero given the enormous costs associated with implementing the policy, and the fact it is unlikely to achieve reductions in average near surface global air temperature, regardless of whether Net Zero is fully implemented and adopted worldwide. Therefore, Net Zero does not pass the cost-benefit test. The recommended policy is to abandon Net Zero and do nothing about so-called ‘greenhouse gases.’

The Trump Administration could use any of the Defense Production Act’s $1 billion in unobligated funds for stockpiling minerals. Depending on the final defense appropriations bill for fiscal year 2025, the incoming administration could tap even more funds, likely an additional $450 million to $900 million.

The result or this  atmospheric river and some weaken cousins this week, will be massive rainfall on the West Coast.

The graph shared by Javier Viños should serve as a wake-up call for anyone who’s been swept up in the climate hysteria of the past two years. While it’s tempting to view every uptick in temperature as evidence of impending doom, the reality is far more nuanced. Ocean temperatures are now back to levels seen in 2015, a stark reminder of the chaotic, unpredictable nature of the climate system.

"... the upper limits of human heat tolerance were breached for a total of 43 hours over the six days of Hajj. ..."

'Facts can't be decided by a roll of the dice' Press freedom advocates are urging Apple to ditch an "immature" generative AI system that incorrectly summarized a BBC news notification that incorrectly related that suspected UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter Luigi Mangione had killed himself.…

Says it's not sure what the issue is but points at admins tweaking licensing options It's not just you, there is indeed an activation problem in Microsoft 365 Office triggered by administrators making changes at the licensing level.…

It’s a fact that humans are increasing the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. But does it follow, as we’re constantly told, that this increasing of CO2 is poisoning the planet? What if the opposite is actually the case? This week’s guest, CO2 Coalition Executive Director Gregory Wrightstone, is going to explain why it’s not true that more CO2=Bad.

Remarkably compact, remarkably cross-platform, remarkably long beta period Beta 6 of Adélie Linux is arriving, just over six years after Beta 1 – but they do say that good things come to those who wait.…

Cold kills and America is at great risk of deadly subzero blackouts. Renewables are part of the problem but gas is the biggest part. We now know that the supply system that feeds our gas fired power plants can be unreliable in extreme cold weather.

Forks at dawn.... but it's not great sign for open source Opinion  I am so sick of this. I've been a happy WordPress user since it rolled out the door in 2003, and I kissed Vignette (since acquired by OpenText) goodbye. WordPress was just so much easier to use than the alternatives; it was open source; and it was free. It was such a win!…

The dark financial tentacles of the Green Blob help curate mainstream media, brainwash young children, fund large areas of climate pseudoscience, initiate and finance lawfare operations and bankroll countless ‘grassroots’ agitprop operations. But political influence is highly prized, so local government representatives and city mayors are prime targets. Alas, these people come and go at the fickle whim of local electors. But not so the unelected members of the British House of Lords, who hav

New shiny if you run Linux on an M1 or M2 The Fedora 41 version of Asahi Linux is out – the go-to Linux distro for Apple Silicon Macs.…

Oh for heaven’s sakes! Are there dunderheads running the world now? Their magic tricks and deception play like a scratchy old vinyl in the background of our lives now. We recognize some of the words but they’re distorted and annoying and hardly worth the effort of listening to. Better we should just spray paint them …

And there his troubles began … On Call  Digital technology remains frighteningly finickity, which is why good tech support people are always in demand – and also the reason The Register never tires of telling your support stories each Friday in On Call, the column your generosity makes possible.…

Love him or hate him, Trump’s energy policies resonate with a significant portion of the electorate, particularly in energy-producing states. For these voters, Biden’s climate targets are not only unattainable but also actively harmful—sacrificing American jobs and energy independence on the altar of globalist climate orthodoxy.

Meanwhile, NASA signs off on Artemis software upgrade Chinese scientists think it's time to rewrite the Moon's history after analyzing samples returned to Earth by the Chang'e 6 mission.…

Yes, LLMs can do the heavy lifting. But good luck getting one to give evidence CANALYS FORUMS APAC  Generative AI is being enthusiastically adopted in almost every field, but infosec experts are divided on whether it is truly helpful for red team raiders who test enterprise systems.…

[Our question] How can updating the Reference Manual to address junk science best be accomplished given such a massive input from entrenched academics in the past?

Users report the sound of silence from operating system update Microsoft has logged some new known issues with Windows 11 24H2 and thrown up more safeguard holds until the problems are resolved.…

The path forward lies in promoting policies that balance environmental stewardship with economic growth and energy reliability. Courts should stick to interpreting the law, not rewriting it to align with activist agendas. Montana, like the rest of the world, will continue to face challenges from climate variability. The answer isn’t to hobble our energy systems—it’s to build a resilient, innovative society capable of adapting to whatever the future holds.

Aiming to be freeflying by 2028. Handy if anything should happen to the ISS Axiom Space has shuffled the assembly sequence of its space station to remove any dependence it would have on the International Space Station (ISS) by as soon as 2028.…

Chair Jay Obernolte urges Congress to act – whether it will is another matter After 10 months of work, the bipartisan Task Force on Artificial Intelligence in the US house of Congress has unveiled its report, outlining recommendations for federal AI policy.…

A new twist in European Genetically Modified Food politics?

It's not just one hyperbolic billionaire – the entire industry is chasing the AI dragon Comment  Next year will see some truly monstrous compute projects get underway as the AI boom enters its third year. Among the largest disclosed so far is xAI's plan to expand its Colossus AI supercomputer from an already impressive 100,000 GPUs to a cool million.…

Week-long mission set to stretch into ninth month Two astronauts who traveled to the International Space Station aboard Boeing's problem-plagued Starliner are facing another extended delay. …

Climate fearmongers think voters and consumers are powerless to stop this, since the process is playing out in state courts, where climate realist views and votes don’t count.

Both are only thinking about the best interests of users, of course The European Commission (EC) has continued pushing Apple to open up more of iOS to third parties, and Apple has pushed back, warning that doing so risks user privacy.…

Misleading listing on a recruitment site? Whatever next? The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has slapped IT Career Change Ltd on the wrist over a September 2024 ad promoting a career in Health & Safety.…

There still appears to be some naive puzzlement at the IES, that renewable energy is not replacing coal. They still have not worked out that countries like China and India know that they cannot run their economies on the vagaries of wind and solar power.

Amid plans to convert smaller stores, retailer opted to stall December shift as Walmart tech divorce continues Exclusive  Asda decided not to go ahead with planned cut-over dates to introduce new systems at some smaller stores earlier this month as part of its technical divorce from Walmart, the previous owner of the UK's third-largest supermarket.…

Now that tech billionaires Elon Musk and Peter Thiel (who backed J. D. Vance) have bought the free and fair election of President Donald Trump for us in the United States, we are in danger of becoming a more “efficient” AI-surveilled and -run country. The experiment in democracy that is the United States has not …

Dodgy AI chatbots as brains – what could go wrong? Feature  The first telephone call in 1876 was marked by Alexander Graham Bell's request to his assistant, Thomas, "Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you."…

An internal federal watchdog called on the Biden administration’s green loans office to stop working on new deals in a Tuesday letter, citing concerns that the office has insufficiently managed potential conflicts of interest in its work.

Recent campaign targeted 20,000 folk across UK and Europe with this tactic, Unit 42 warns Unknown criminals went on a phishing expedition that targeted about 20,000 users across the automotive, chemical and industrial compound manufacturing sectors in Europe, and tried to steal account credentials and then hijack the victims' Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure.…

The EV race is well and truly running, and no-one wants to be left in the dust The automotive industry has been shaken this week by news that giant Japanese carmakers Nissan and Honda are contemplating a merger, with Mitsubishi Motors apparently keen to become part of the mix.…

“But he also says climate change makes the planet greener by increasing plant growth, boosts agricultural productivity and likely reduces the number of temperature-related deaths annually. “It’s probably almost as many positive changes as there are negative changes,” he told conservative media nonprofit PragerU last year, referring to climate change. “Is it a crisis, is it the world’s greatest challenge, or a big threat to the next generation? No.”

Will consider free speech arguments just nine days before the clock runs out The US Supreme Court has decided to consider made-in-China social network TikTok's appeal against the law that requires it to shift to local ownership, or close, by January 19.…

Derivatives claim seeks damages from execs and board members Beleaguered chipmaker Intel has been sued yet again by shareholders over its foundry business, this time in a derivative lawsuit targeting executives and board members.…

Energy policies that originate from a political or quasi-religious agenda—propelled by climate zealots, misinformation, and obliviousness to basic economic principles—are on trial in the new political environment. Such policies sacrifice the public good to benefit special interests wed to rent-seeking.

It could end up like Huawei -Trump's gonna get ya, get ya, get ya updated  The Feds may ban the sale of TP-Link routers in the US over ongoing national security concerns about Chinese-made devices being used in cyberattacks.…

Authorization comes less than a month after flight 6: 'The FAA continues to increase efficiencies' The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is issuing a license authorization for the next test flight of SpaceX's Starship.…

As the embers of 2024 spit out their dying sparks and tendrils of smoke corkscrew into 2025, I want to ask: what were the important news stories of this year? Most people will say something international. The war in Ukraine, the atrocities in Gaza, the fall of Assad. Maybe some will cite elections, it was …

Japan Airlines has teamed up with Sumitomo Corporation to launch a trial of a clothing sharing service, which is called “Any Wear, Anywhere.” The idea is that foreign tourists and business travelers landing in Japan on JAL will be able to rent clothes for their trip, meaning they just have to bring their underwear and socks.

Enrollment invitations will continue until security improves Microsoft last week lauded the success of its efforts to convince customers to use passkeys instead of passwords, without actually quantifying that success.…

All it took to make an Google Edge TPU give up model hyperparameters was specific hardware, a novel attack technique … and several days Computer scientists from North Carolina State University have devised a way to copy AI models running on Google Edge Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), as used in Google Pixel phones and third-party machine learning accelerators.…

Leaks from Hydrogen storage and pipelines will apparently slow down the destruction of atmospheric methane.

The Unixi-est of desktops gets a wide-ranging update Comment  The new version of the longest-established Linux desktop is here, and at last, it's possible to use Wayland – although not everything works yet.…

State-owned retail company was not subordinate to Japanese multinational in technical matters, legal rep says Fujitsu has said it continually told the Post Office about problems with Horizon, the computer system at the center of one of the UK's widest miscarriages of justice, as its client prosecuted branch managers for accounting discrepancies.…

Naturally the media has gone into full alarmist mode. Sky News, for instance, tried to link all of this to climate change, with emotive language like “sudden rain, crashing seas and burst river banks”.

Chicago is my kind of driver model Pour a cup of cocoa and settle down for another episode of Microsoft Storytime. Why do codenames sometimes linger on in the implementation of products?…

It was the best of years, it was the worst of years, it was a year of brilliance, it was a year of buffoonery, it was a year of faith, it was a year of incredulity, it was a year of expectation, it was a year of tribulation, it was a year of uncertainty, and …

Spirits of the NeXTcube, the web ad, and the cursed smartphone deliver a seasonal Technicarol Column  On a Christmas Eve when nothing felt right, I lapsed into a deep yet disturbed sleep.…

If you have trouble keeping track of your various streaming subscriptions, you're gonna love the irony Keeping track of the amount of cloudy resources an org uses, and the cost of doing so, is notoriously tricky – so tricky, indeed, that even Netflix isn't on top of it.…

In case of submarine cable failure, call Jeff Bezos Taiwan has started talks with Amazon regarding access to its Kuiper satellite broadband service.…

Not that you needed another reason to enable the 'known senders' setting Criminals are spoofing Google Calendar emails in a financially motivated phishing expedition that has already affected about 300 organizations with more than 4,000 emails sent over four weeks, according to Check Point researchers.…

Victims' feelings might get hurt, global cops contend, and that could hinder reporting Interpol wants to put an end to the online scam known as "pig butchering" – through linguistic policing, rather than law enforcement.…

You applied the patch that could stop possible RCE attacks last week, right? A critical security hole in Apache Struts 2 – patched last week – is currently being exploited using publicly available proof-of-concept (PoC) code.…

'Super' edition promises 67 TOPS and 102GB/s of memory bandwidth for your GenAI projects Nvidia is bringing the AI hype home for the holidays with the launch of a tiny new dev board called the Jetson Orin Nano Super.…

NASA to bid a final farewell to InSight Two years after NASA retired the InSight lander, scientists are continuing to use the vehicle to learn more about Mars.…

Not as impenetrable as you might think, but still more than Intel or AMD would like Analysis  Nvidia is facing its stiffest competition in years with new accelerators from Intel and AMD that challenge its best chips on memory capacity, performance, and price.…

€251 million? Zuck can find that in his couch cushions, but Meta still vows to appeal It's been six years since miscreants abused some sloppy Facebook code to steal access tokens belonging to 30 million users, and the slow-turning wheels of Irish justice have finally caught up with a €251 million ($264 million) fine for the social media biz. …

Feds insist they still don't know what's happening – but note sightings cluster around airport flight paths Analysis  Mystery drone fever continues to grip the US East Coast – and appears to be moving inland – as elected officials beg the federal government to do something. Meanwhile the feds reiterate what they've been saying all along: We don't know what's going on, but you all need to calm the hell down. …

A cool mountain breeze blowing in after the new LTS kernel A fresh release of the minimalist and very lightweight Alpine Linux is here, with support for Chinese LoongArch64 CPUs.…

Meanwhile, some iPhone users apathetic about introduction of AI features Things are not entirely going to plan for Apple's generative AI system, after the recently introduced service attracted the ire of the British Broadcasting Corporation.…

Contract could be worth a cool £1 billion if associated organizations join The UK's largest police force is scoping the market for business outsourcing, an ERP upgrade and support in a tender that could be worth £1 billion ($1.27 billion) if other organizations join.…

Heir to Superdome goes cloudy for those who run large in-memory databases and apps that need them Amazon Web Services usually stays schtum about the exact disposition of the servers it rents in its Elastic Compute Cloud, but made an exception on Tuesday with the announcement it is offering instances based on a single HPE server: the Compute Scale-up Server 3200.…

Fresh attempt to mix the perfect cocktail of IoT and Infosec BlackBerry's ambition to mix infosec and the Internet of Things has been squeezed, after the Canadian firm announced it is offloading Cylance's endpoint security products.…

Gordon Brown was Prime Minister of the UK from 2007 to 2010, having, from 1997, been chancellor of the exchequer under Tony Blair, whose links to the Rothschilds I explored in 2023. As I explained in 2021, Brown is notoriously close to “Sir” Ronald Cohen, the UK businessman and political mover and shaker, who is sometimes …

The likes of SHA-256, RSA, ECDSA and ECDH won't be welcome in just five years Australia's chief cyber security agency has decided local orgs should stop using the tech that forms the current cryptographic foundation of the internet by the year 2030 – years before other nations plan to do so – over fears that advances in quantum computing could render it insecure.…

Details? Who needs 'em! But AI seems a likely focus SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son revealed plans to invest $100 billion in the US and create a minimum of 100,000 jobs in the next four years.…

But can you really take crims at their word? Supply chain integration vendor Cleo has urged its customers to upgrade three of its products after an October security update was circumvented, leading to widespread ransomware attacks that Russia-linked gang Cl0p has claimed are its evil work.…

The Nuvia buyer's alleged violations of license terms expected to last through Friday The battle between British chip designer Arm Holdings and Qualcomm kicked off today in Delaware District Court.…

The US has never attacked Chinese critical infrastructure before, right? President-elect Donald Trump's team wants to go on the offensive against America's cyber adversaries, though it isn't clear how the incoming administration plans to achieve this. …

“Rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away. They’re privileges. That’s all we’ve ever had in this country is a ‘Bill of Temporary Privileges.’ And if you read the news, even badly, you know that the list gets shorter and shorter.” George Carlin Disguising its power grabs in the self-righteous fervor of national security, the …

Personal and financial data probably stolen A cyberattack on a Deloitte-managed government system in Rhode Island carries a "high probability" of sensitive data theft, the state says.…

In his final RCR guest spot of the year, Kit Knightly and Paul Brennan talk Syria, cow farts and how “the next pandemic” is queued up for 2025. Reality Check Radio is an independent radio station based in New Zealand. Tune in via their website.

Directed by Marijn Poels. The embedded video is the YouTube version, the film is also available on Rumble. Both versions have full subtitles in English, German and Dutch. This film is the second of a trilogy which looks deeply into where we have come from, who we are and where we are going, as a …

In a landmark judgment (“the Judgment”) in UK law, dated October 22, 2024, the independent investigative journalist Richard D. Hall (“the defendant”) was found guilty of harassment of Martin Hibbert and his daughter Eve (“the claimants”), two of the reported victims of the incident which took place in the foyer outside the Manchester Arena on May …





Most people who have heard of "Technocracy" think it refers to technocratic governance: a sociopolitical system where qualified experts or "technocrats," rather than politicians, set policy. Due to disillusionment and

I deplore the blame game, so often used to divert attention from the real issue or problem. I rail against the fake binaries deliberately created to divide and rule us, and yet, in this article, I refer to billionaire oligarchs---and their establishment---as “the parasite class.” Please

In this article we are going to explore "accelerationism" and its roots in "the Dark Enlightenment." We need to do this because, surprisingly, a commitment to accelerationism---following the philosophical path laid by the Dark Enlightenment---is a powerful influence on both the left and the





When three little girls were reportedly murdered by a 17-year-old youth from a first-generation migrant family, long-simmering resentments against the perceived "outsiders" led a small minority in the Southport to snap. They were joined by organised agent provocateurs, bussed in from the su