New Jersey’s Middlesex County Sues Big Oil Over Escalating Climate Impacts
The lawsuit comes as the Supreme Court is poised to hear arguments in a similar climate case against oil companies. A ruling in the industry’s favor in that case could kill dozens of pending climate suits nationwide. By Dana Drugmand A New Jersey county has become the latest local governmentContinue Reading
A 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 now costs 50% more than it did at launch
Raspberry Pi has announced further price increases for its single-board computers driven, of course, by the ongoing cost of memory components. The cost of a 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 or Raspberry Pi 5 jumps by $12.50 (£12) from 1 October, 2026: Model Launch price Old price New price Raspberry PiContinue Reading
The Traitor’s Super Intelligence edict supercharges .si domain registrations
US President Traitor 47’s rebranding of artificial intelligence (AI) as super intelligence (SI) has already caused a flurry of activity for one internet domain registry. SI is the international country code for Slovenia, and in the 24 hours following The Traitor’s executive order, Slovenia’s .si domain registry recorded 9,780 newContinue Reading
Facing the music: Apple, Samsung, and memory cost inflation
Samsung users are still digesting big price increases on the Galaxy S26 series, particularly as they mean some models are now more expensive than equivalently capable iPhones. That’s bad news for everyone, of course, but this is unlikely to get any better for some time to come, with memory giant Micron warning that theContinue Reading
Lyft will pay more than $270 million in California wage-theft settlement
The California Labor Commissioner’s Office announced Thursday that Lyft will pay $272.5 million to settle a wage and worker misclassification lawsuit., Read MoreContinue Reading
Israeli barrier cuts off water to West Bank Palestinians before elections
Residents of Ras al-Ahmar say Israeli restrictions have cut access to water, animal feed, healthcare., Saeed Ayed* watches over his livestock herd. The animals are starving and parched due to a two-week-long Israeli siege on the Ras al-Ahmar Bedouin community in the occupied West Bank’s Jordan Valley. Access to theContinue Reading
Israel’s Supreme Court overturns election panel ban on Arab parties
Court reinstates two Arab lists and Jewish Knesset member Ofer Cassif as Balad leader withdraws after pressure., Court reinstates two Arab lists and Jewish Knesset member Ofer Cassif as Balad leader withdraws after pressure. Israel’s top court has overturned an election panel’s ban on Arab parties contesting parliamentary elections thisContinue Reading
“Cruel & Torturous”: Christa Pike in Critical Condition After Botched Tennessee Execution
Tennessee’s Governor Bill Lee has halted executions for the remainder of the year after a death row prisoner survived two lethal injections on Wednesday. According to her lawyers, Christa Pike was still breathing after she was strapped to a gurney and injected with two syringes of pentobarbital in a botchedContinue Reading
An Ebola treatment center was burned down as the death toll in Congo passes 4,000
Congo’s Ebola outbreak has resulted in over 4,000 deaths, with authorities struggling to contain the virus, Read MoreContinue Reading
Astronauts arrive at International Space Station on the quickest US express flight yet
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a crew of four launches from pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026. John Raoux/AP Photo/John Raoux CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Four astronauts pulled up at the International Space Station on Thursday after launching on an eight-hour expressContinue Reading
Each SpaceX 250 Kilowatt Starlink AI Satellite Is More Power Than the Space Station
Elon’s 250 kW Starlink satellites will bring multi-gigabit satellite internet and 5G satellite cellphone everywhere even high density cities. 250 kilowatts per satellite, 10 terabits per second in both directions, and a path to more than 100 terabits per second. I detailed the 250 kilowatt per Starlink satellite as beating the Space Station in myContinue Reading
GNOME 51: Best New Features
We round up the best new features of GNOME 51 desktop environments. GNOME 51 brings a calmer, more practical desktop. One of the major highlights is smoother motion under load. Mutter’s reworked frame scheduling and screen frame delivery help animations stay smooth when the system is busy. Screen recording isContinue Reading
Midterms Have Revived Universal Healthcare Debate. These States Are Ahead of Everyone.
While Democratic congressional candidates are floating the restoration of federal Affordable Care Act subsidies and Medicaid funding, Oregon officials are crafting a more ambitious plan to implement universal coverage in their state…Continue Reading