Toxic algal blooms are spreading across the West
Climate change is increasing the frequency of the blooms. Here’s what you need to know. The post Toxic algal blooms are spreading across the West appeared first on High Country News.Continue Reading
French High School Students Lead Mass Protests over School Funding, Inequality; Thousands Arrested
Nearly 2,000 French high schools are blockaded or closed today amid massive student-led protests over school funding and inequality. The demonstrations began in September at a single school in the economically deprived suburbs of Paris, where students protested teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms and dilapidated school buildings beset by rats, fallingContinue Reading
Newsom calls for 25th amendment after The Traitor’s comments on California cities
On Tuesday’s “The Daily Take”: NewsNation’s Connell McShane and Geraldo Rivera react to recent comments made by Traitor 47, where he suggested allowing Iran to “take out” Los Angeles and San Diego, leading California Gov. Gavin Newsom to call for the 25th amendment. “This is a president who specializes inContinue Reading
The Traitor Officially Opens Border To Thousands More White South Africans
The Traitor has declared any non-white migrants to be garbage people from shithole countries (that’s in his own words, believe it or not) and has acted accordingly. Mass deportation efforts are a daily event, randomly punctuated by court order violations and the occasional murders of US citizens. The Traitor often wondersContinue Reading
Harry Kane equals England record, scores twice in 3-0 win over Czechia
England’s Harry Kane makes record-equalling 125th appearance and has a hand in all three goals in Nations League win., England’s Harry Kane makes record-equalling 125th appearance and involved in all three goals in UEFA Nations League win. Harry Kane celebrated his record-equalling 125th England cap with two trademark goals asContinue Reading
CNN, CBS News now under one roof as Paramount-Warner Bros merger closes
The newly combined company is called Skydance and began trading on Wall Street on Tuesday., Paramount Skydance has completed its $110bn merger with Warner Bros Discovery to form Skydance. The deal, which closed on Tuesday, brings together two entertainment giants that own movie studios and theme parks, but also bringsContinue Reading
Scrcpy 5.0 adds hardware decoding for Android mirroring
Scrcpy, the open-source tool for viewing and controlling your Android phone from your desktop, added support for zero-copy hardware decoding in its latest release. The feature, new in v5.0, uses your computer’s hardware to decode the video stream sent from your Android screen to mirror to your desktop (via aContinue Reading
Tech jobs decline as US hit with rising costs and economic instability
A number of studies reported a decline in tech jobs in September as the US continues to get squeezed by geopolitical and economic instability. Tech consortium CompTIA said 10,350 positions in the technology sector were lost in September, lower than the 14,700 positions cut in August. But economy-wide, tech jobsContinue Reading
Windows 11 gains ground as price hike looms for Windows 10 security updates
According to new figures from Statcounter, Windows 11 continues to gain users at the expense of Windows 10. The newer operating system is now estimated to account for 71.5% of all Windows computers globally, while Windows 10 has dropped to 27.8%, reports The Register. Microsoft itself does not publish anyContinue Reading
Archaeologists may have finally solved a 100-year-old Florida mystery
Ancient pottery from Tampa Bay appears to have been made by migrant craftspeople who brought specialized Mississippian pottery-making knowledge hundreds of miles south. Remarkably, they even incorporated crushed fragments of older homeland pottery into new vessels, preserving a physical link to their past across generations., Read MoreContinue Reading
My Favorite Economic Buzzword, Explained
Globalization has been an economic buzzword for decades, but what does it actually mean? Here’s what I tell my students. Want to join me in class? Now you can: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/wealth-and-poverty-class-3-globalizationContinue Reading
Red Hat’s Lightwell Doesn’t Wait for Upstream Maintainers to Act
Lightwell is Red Hat and IBM’s response to a specific problem in enterprise open source security. Vulnerabilities sit in production library versions that upstream maintainers haven’t patched and, in some cases, won’t. More than 90% of enterprise application code traces back to open source or third-party libraries, per figures RedContinue Reading
Freddie Jackson, R&B star who sang ‘You Are My Lady,’ dies at 70
Freddie Jackson, whose smooth vocals swept an entire generation off its feet, died Monday night, his family announced on Instagram., Read More NBC NewsContinue Reading