UAE Quits OPEC as Many Countries Ramp Up Oil Production Despite Worsening Climate Crisis
The United Arab Emirates announced Tuesday it would be leaving OPEC, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, on May 1. The UAE has long disagreed with Saudi Arabia over oil production quotas and says it is leaving the group to focus on “national interests” and increase its production capacity.Continue Reading
Sovereign Tech Agency Opens Paid Standards Program for Open Source Maintainers
The Sovereign Tech Agency has launched a new pilot program called Sovereign Tech Standards, and it will be paying open source maintainers to get involved in the processes that actually shape how the internet works. As a pilot program, it is going to support maintainers to actively participate in standardsContinue Reading
Good News! AI-first Warp Terminal is Now Open Source
Warp has open-sourced its terminal client. The code is now on GitHub, and the company wants the community involved in building it out going forward, but the contribution model looks nothing like you would expect from an open source project. They say that the main bottleneck in development right nowContinue Reading
BunsenLabs Carbon Arrives With Debian 13 and Wayland Integration
BunsenLabs Carbon released with latest Debian 13 base and Wayland support. If you appreciate a minimal yet functional desktop environment, BunsenLabs has released its latest version, Carbon, based on Debian 13 “Trixie”. This release builds on the legacy of CrunchBang Linux, offering a pre-configured Openbox setup that’s easy to customize.Continue Reading
Microsoft opens door to the past by releasing 86-DOS and PC-DOS 1.00
Back to a time when source repositories were printouts and commits were hand-written notes Antiques code show Microsoft has released the source for another of its relics. This time, it’s 86-DOS 1.00 getting the open source treatment, and a whole lot more for retro enthusiasts.…, Read MoreContinue Reading
Sniffies Lands $100M Investment from Match Group to Fuel Global Growth
The map-based cruising platform Sniffies announced a $100 million minority investment from Match Group on April 27, marking a major milestone for the Brooklyn-born company as it scales beyond the U.S. Founded in 2018, Sniffies has carved out a distinct lane in the queer tech space, positioning itself less asContinue Reading
1979 Redux: The Carterization of Traitor 47
The long habit of underestimating revolutionary Iran has proved fatal to American presidencies. Jimmy Carter was hobbled when young guerrillas and revolutionaries quite illegally took U.S. Embassy personnel hostage on Nov. 4, 1979, and kept 52 of them imprisoned under brutal conditions for over a year. His attempt to freeContinue Reading
Who’s Against San Francisco’s Overpaid Executive Tax?
San Francisco voters will soon have a chance to weigh in on a proposed increase to the city’s Overpaid Executive Tax. This proposal would give large corporations with huge gaps between CEO and worker pay a choice between narrowing those gaps to reasonable levels or contributing a bit more toContinue Reading
The Traitor Tries to Goad Artemis II Astronauts Into Bashing NATO With Him
The crew of NASA’s Artemis II visited the White House Wednesday to celebrate their successful mission around the moon, but they ended up roped into one of the president’s diatribes against NATO. The astronauts were visibly uncomfortable flanking Traitor 47 behind the Resolute Desk as he tossed questions their wayContinue Reading
Jerome Powell explains why he plans to stay on at the Fed
Jerome Powell, who is nearing the end of his tenure as chair of the Federal Reserve, explains that he had long planned to retire from the Fed when his term ended, but now plans to stay on until a DOJ investigation is “well and truly over with transparency and finality.”,Continue Reading
Disappearances of scientists & debate over possible threats | Backscroll
A NewsNation compilation examining lawmaker warnings and ongoing questions surrounding the cases.Continue Reading
Ross Coulthart: ‘Let’s cause some mischief here’
Ross Coulthart gives new info on UFOs in Korea. Watch this full episode of “Reality Check”: https://youtu.be/vBoeXT3if_o #UFO #Korea #mysteryContinue Reading
How Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan are hedging against an unpredictable US | DW News
As the Iran war reshapes global priorities, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan are rethinking their defenses as China becomes more emboldened. DW’s Rik Glauert explains why US unpredictability is turning old security assumptions in East Asia into open questions. How is East Asia reacting to US shifting its military assetsContinue Reading