Portland enacts phased ban on gas-powered leaf blowers beginning Jan. 1
TL;DR Portland implemented a phased prohibition on gas-powered leaf blowers starting Jan. 1, with a partial ban the first two…
Congress reverses most proposed NASA science cuts, leaves Shuttle plan unresolved
TL;DR House and Senate appropriations text restores the bulk of NASA's science budget for FY2026, reversing steep proposed cuts. The…
Ledger confirms customer data accessed in Global-e e-commerce breach
TL;DR Ledger says an unauthorized party accessed customer order and contact information through its ecommerce partner Global-e; financial details, passwords…
Campaigners urge UK to cut ties with US tech giants over digital sovereignty
TL;DR The Open Rights Group says Britain is overly dependent on US technology providers for critical digital infrastructure and is…
Researchers devise method to poison stolen knowledge graphs, skewing AI outputs
TL;DR A team from institutions in China and Singapore proposes AURA, a data-adulteration technique designed to make stolen knowledge graphs…
Students bag extended Christmas break after cyber hit on school IT
TL;DR Higham Lane School in Nuneaton closed for two days after a cyber incident disabled phones, email and core IT…
SCiZE’s Classic Warez Filelists: 1997 Scene Releases and Indexes
TL;DR A page on Scenelist.org reproduces SCiZE-era filelists from the 1990s, showing dozens of archived ZIP entries, group tags and…
UK invests £210M in Government Cyber Action Plan to strengthen Whitehall
TL;DR The UK government has unveiled a Government Cyber Action Plan backed by £210 million to raise cybersecurity standards across…
Understanding Trump’s ‘Retro’ Coup: Three Keys to Venezuela’s Raid
TL;DR A WIRED analysis by Garrett M. Graff characterizes a recent invasion in Venezuela as both a throwback to 20th-century…
Mapping Protests in Iran: An Analytical Overview and Geographic Mapping
TL;DR The provided link points to a page titled "Mapping Protests in Iran" on fdd.org, but the full article content…