Amy Westervelt’s new book Brought To You By: How Corporations Warped the Truth, Conned the Public, and Broke Democracy is a must-read for anyone tracking the machinery of climate denial and delay. The book offers a forensic account of how corporate America built a vast apparatus of public relations firmsContinue Reading
Climate science is filled with “conflicting facts and opinions” and experts are “divided” on whether humans should be blamed for a warmer atmosphere. Those were some of the “quick facts” and “speaking notes” disseminated by the Petroleum Communication Foundation (PCF) on December 15, 1997, just days after nations negotiated the world’sContinue Reading
While acting as the official host for the UN, the US has sought to weaken it for decades., The annual general debate of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) starts on Tuesday morning in New York amid dire circumstances. Besides traffic gridlock and overpriced hotel rates, cavalcades of motorcades andContinue Reading
The Left party, led by Turkish-origin Elif Eralp, won Berlin, offering a contrast to the far right’s wins in the east., Berlin, Germany – The morning after Berlin’s historic vote was chilly and overcast, but for Sumeja Skeva, an 18-year-old student in the bustling Neukolln district, the city’s prospects couldContinue Reading
Genetic evidence has revealed a previously unknown gentoo penguin species on the remote Kerguelen Islands and shown that gentoos actually consist of four distinct species. The discovery also highlights a growing threat, as warming oceans could leave several island populations with little suitable habitat by 2050., Read MoreContinue Reading
The company has to keep open and running both the Paramount and Warner Bros. lots — maybe one of the most visible wins for the city., Read MoreContinue Reading
The president shared a weird image of his own head rising up from behind the Earth., Read MoreContinue Reading
The one-time Traitor 47 acolyte also warned “all of you pathetic hypocritical maga cult accounts and bots.”, Read MoreContinue Reading
analysis The Texas Democratic nominee for Senate is teaching evangelical voters that Christians can be liberal Published September 21, 2026 6:45AM (EDT) Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico speaks at the Epstein files exhibit in Dallas on Sept. 10, 2026. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) All politics areContinue Reading
Another package went missing from Ubuntu 26.04 LTS’s minimal cloud images, this time xxd , a CLI tool for viewing files as hexadecimals. It’s the second time this has happened, following the accidental removal of curl I reported on in August. Both packages vanished for the same reason. When CanonicalContinue Reading
The state of California has joined the growing number of governments and communities at all levels across the US taking proactive, even preemptive, measures to keep data center development under control. California Governor Gavin Newsom signed what he called the “most comprehensive data center laws in the nation” on Monday.Continue Reading
A Google Gemini AI agent broke into three companies in July, guessing the credentials for one and discovering the credentials for the second two in a public repository, Google confirmed on Monday. But the more interesting background to the story, which was broken by The Wall Street Journal on Friday,Continue Reading
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 22 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by aContinue Reading