Probable source: European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X, by Jack Peat - The London Economic

No source is visible in the post. I don’t know if that’s an issue with my client, or an oversight.

“more speech and fewer mistakes.”

You can’t make moderation mistakes if you stop moderating. tap head with finger

A planned lecture at China’s Nankai University was abruptly cancelled in January, reportedly due to “scheduling conflicts.”

Is he scheduled to visit a “reeducation” camp?

Japan’s JPCERT released IOCs for MirrorFace malware earlier https://blogs.jpcert.or.jp/en/2024/07/mirrorface-attack-against-japanese-organisations.html

Kudos to them. Sharing IOCs and samples with other CERTs and vendors is important to protect others who may be targeted.

I’m starting to think using fossil fuel, and having a strong dependency on other countries for energy supply, may not be a good idea after all.

He said there was no risk of Slovakia itself suffering from gas shortages, as it had already made alternative arrangements.

This isn’t about Slovakia’s own gas supply. The article give some hints regarding Fico’s motivations.

Rest of the world: We’re deprecating C++ due to lack of memory safety. Please consider doing something for safety.

C++ commite: Here’s a new convenient operator to make it easier to do a potentially unsafe, multi-level pointer dereference.

You’re probably being sarcastic, but I can’t help it and have to say it: “traditional values” are obviously not a solution to this epidemy. The solution include more prevention and testing.

No one deserve to get infected, not even one’s worse enemy. This is contagious and will also harm neighbouring countries.

It’s going to make even more nurses run away, when many places are lacking nurses.

In addition to not connecting stuff unnecessarily, connected devices that consume/produce lots of power need safeguards.

Like a random 0-60sec timer for remote power on/off operations. 50000 panels powering down over 60sec is easier to handle than if they do that simultaneously.

Temu sure wish they didn’t, but they do in fact need to adhere to local laws in juridictions where they’re doing business.

There already are complaints against Temu for noncompliance to EU regulation. For instance https://www.beuc.eu/sites/default/files/publications/BEUC-X-2024-046_Temu_Why_the_fast-growing_online_marketplace_fails_to_comply_with_the_DSA.pdf

It may be trickier to enforce law against Temu vs a more classic and direct seller of goods, so it may take more time, and it may become a game of whack a mole, but there will be some enforcement.

If not the chineese manufacturer, then whoever is importing them .

They should force a recall.

There are hypotheticals precisely because Tiktok is not transparent enough. It sounds like they’re doing an estimate on the best data publically available.

At the very least, this put pressure on Tiktok to be more transparent. Tiktok could prove the study wrong by publishing more about their energy and resource use.

That’s both smart and worrying.

Disabling interconnexion shows what still work, and what breaks when only the country’s own network is accessible. Doing multiple short tests allows gradually building a more isolated network while limiting disruptions.

I understand being bumed out by what’s being reported in these articles, these are bad news. But I don’t see an obvious hard right turn in how NPR is reporting. The article on Elon even mentions criticism for SpaceX’s environmental impact.

I wasn’t aware, that’s surprising from NPR. Could you please share the title or link to the NPR articles you’re referring to?

Still, better than Xitter.

“I can potentially make it really big,” Lin said, hopeful despite the modest earnings.

This sounds like Uberisation, ie relying on entrepreneur wannabes to replace employees and warehouses with self-employed workers and their living room. I’d be curious to see if it allows them to earn a living wage with a 40h week, or if it’s exploitative.

It sounds surprising given the headline, but looks quite reasonable when looking at the details in the article:

• The requirement is part of a tender for €1bn worth of grants to develop batteries. It only affect companies who engage in this tender.
• This is in part a response, at a smaller scale, to China’s own regime that "pressures foreign companies into sharing their intellectual property in exchange for access to the Chinese market. "