What’s prompting growing anticorruption protests in the Philippines?
Mass protests demand transparency in the government investigation of flood-related corruption scandal., More than half a million Filipinos rallied in the capital Manila on Sunday to demand accountability for a government corruption scandal that has triggered a series of protests since August. Sunday’s protest is part of a three-day rallyContinue Reading
‘From the movies’: Sami Hamdi details ‘aggressive’ ICE detention
Bundled into vehicle with blacked-out windows, British journalist recounts detainment in US due to Palestinian support., Bundled into vehicle with blacked-out windows, British journalist recounts detainment in US due to Palestinian support. British journalist Sami Hamdi, who says he was held illegally for more than two weeks by United States immigrationContinue Reading
New research uncovers the massive squid diet of Hawaiian pilot whales
Hawaiian short-finned pilot whales are surprisingly voracious hunters, diving hundreds of meters beneath the Pacific to snatch squid in the dark. By tagging and tracking eight whales, researchers uncovered just how much energy these deep-sea forays require—and how many squid the whales must eat to stay fueled. Their calculations revealContinue Reading
UK prosecutors seize £4.11M in crypto from Twitter mega-hack culprit
Civil recovery order targets PlugwalkJoe’s illicit gains while he serves US sentence British prosecutors have secured a civil recovery order to seize crypto assets worth £4.11 million ($5.39 million) from Twitter hacker Joseph James O’Connor, clawing back the proceeds of a scam that used hijacked celebrity accounts to solicit digitalContinue Reading
Microsoft’s first Windows 10 ESU Patch Tuesday release fails for some
Expect Sloppy Updates? On the eve of its Ignite conference, Microsoft has managed to break the first Extended Security Update (ESU) for many commercial Windows 10 customers.…, Read MoreContinue Reading
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, powerful voice for Black equality, is hospitalized
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the trailblazing civil rights leader, was hospitalized in Chicago on Wednesday due to symptoms from the neurodegenerative condition progressive supranuclear palsy., Read MoreContinue Reading
Romanian village evacuated after Russian drone hits gas ship 500 meters from border
Authorities evacuated residents of Plauru, a Romanian village near the Ukrainian border, after a Russian drone struck a liquefied gas vessel near the Ukrainian port of Izmail, Digi24 reports. The ship, carrying 4,000 tons of liquefied gas, is located approximately 500 meters from the village on the Ukrainian side ofContinue Reading
Sabotage strikes NATO’s Ukraine weapons corridor. Railway attack fits pattern of Russian hybrid operations
Poland’s critical railway corridor, which connects Western weapons shipments to Ukraine, suffered a disruption on November 17 when track damage was discovered on the Dęblin-Warsaw line near Żychlin, prompting Prime Minister Donald Tusk to signal possible sabotage and order intensified counterintelligence operations. Polish police din not yet confirm the possibleContinue Reading
Pitted Against Waste
East Texans are uniting to fight oil waste pits in bucolic areas near the Louisiana line—all run by an operator who’s been cited for dozens of violations and a worker’s death. By Martha Pskowski, Lise Olsen Editor’s Note: This story is a collaboration between the Texas Observer and Inside ClimateContinue Reading
‘Inviting the Fox Into the Henhouse’: Canada Delegation to COP30 Loaded with Fossil Fuel Representatives
Lobbyists and representatives of Canada’s oil and gas industry are part of Canada’s official delegation to this year’s U.N. climate talks in Brazil, in keeping with the high number of fossil fuel representatives in attendance at the summit. About a dozen individuals representing fossil fuel interests were part of theContinue Reading
UK Partners With Oil Industry Supplier at COP30
The UK government is running its events at the flagship COP30 climate summit in partnership with a major supplier to the fossil fuel industry, DeSmog can reveal. For the second year running, the UK pavilion is being sponsored by AVEVA, an industrial software firm with hundreds of oil and gasContinue Reading
Snapchat Opens Valdi Framework to Developers After 8 Years of Internal Use
Snap Inc., the company behind Snapchat, has open-sourced Valdi, a cross-platform mobile UI framework. The social media company typically keeps its technology in-house, but this marks a surprising move into open source territory. While there was no dedicated announcement for this on their news portal, The New Stack were theContinue Reading
Xfce 4.20: Best New Features
A quick glance into the new features of Xfce 4.20 desktop environment. Xfce 4.20 desktop environment has arrived a few weeks back, and it’s packed with features and updates. This major release comes after two years since Xfce 4.18. Hence, it’s now more evolved, bringing experimental Wayland support, UI refinementsContinue Reading