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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.

They could indeed. I hope not.

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.

It would take months to go through court system until SCOTUS finally make a decision. In the worst case, even if they overturn the decision to protect waters, it would still delay drilling.

Probably much more than 1 week

While section 12(a) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act gives a president wide leeway to bar drilling, it does not include language that would allow Mr. Trump or any future president to revoke a ban.

That was tested after President Barack Obama banned offshore drilling in parts of the Arctic Ocean and dozens of canyons in the Atlantic Ocean. During his first term in office Mr. Trump tried to revoke the ban. In 2019, U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason in Alaska ruled that Mr. Obama’s ban could not be undone without an act of Congress.

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.

Google Play Store is becoming less and less viable for OSS. Thankfully F-Droid support sharing apps to nearby devices.

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’s 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.

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.

There are PFAS in products used in drilling for oil and gas.

There’s a group which track sites where these are used https://www.fractracker.org/2021/07/mapping-pfas-forever-chemicals-in-oil-gas-operations/

Colorado recently banned them for oil and gas extraction https://cen.acs.org/environment/persistent-pollutants/Colorado-bans-PFAS-oil-gas-extraction/100/web/2022/06

This piecemeal approach, state by state, sector by sector, seems odd and inefficient. If PFAS are dangerous these should be banned nationwide for all sectors.

Same goes for carbon pricing, it ought to be priced and high enough in all sectors, everywhere, to be most effective at curving pollution from fossil fuel.

I was about to write a similar comment.

And even if it were a historically relevant radioactive lab, it’d still be worth replacing it by a building people can actually enter to do cancer research. If there’s any artefact that’s historically significant, it could be moved to a museum so the building can be destroyed.