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Turning the Tide on Desert Expansion

Global Efforts in De-desertification and Land Restoration By Claude (Anthropic, 2025) Desertification — the process by which fertile land degrades into barren desert — affects more than two billion people across 168 countries and claims approximately 12 million hectares of productive land every year [1]. Driven by a combination of climate change,

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Taiwan Rejects US proposal

Contingency planning Taiwan rejects possibility of transferring 40% of the island’s semiconductor capacity to U.S. — production on Taiwan expected to increase in lockstep with increases in U.S.-based productionThe bulk of the island’s fabs and leading-edge process technologies must remain in Taiwan to form the silicon

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Singapore's Telco Breaches

This is interesting, although old news. Chinese cyberspies breach Singapore’s four largest telcosThe Chinese threat actor tracked as UNC3886 breached Singapore’s four largest telecommunication service providers, Singtel, StarHub, M1, and Simba, at least once last year.BleepingComputerBill Toulas The Chinese threat actor tracked as UNC3886 breached Singapore’s

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Bunnings wins AI Facial recognition case

This is interesting Ruling made in Bunnings’ three-year fight to use AI to scan customer facesBunnings was reasonably entitled to use AI facial recognition technology to combat crime and staff abuse in its stores, the Administrative Review Tribunal finds.ABC News Professor Mortimer also said he expected other major Australian

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Venezuela - Interesting

Interesting times. I needed a fact check and some information 1. What actually happened in Venezuela Basic sequence: * U.S. military buildup: For months, the U.S. positioned the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford and other warships in the Caribbean, carried out live‑fire exercises, and seized vessels it

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The Zoraxy Reverse Proxy

This proxy absolutely rocks Further information here. Brandon Lee again. Clever man. Why Zoraxy Might Be the Best Reverse Proxy for Home LabsLearn about Zoraxy reverse proxy for home labs, including Docker setup, TLS automation, WebSocket support, and how it compares to Nginx Proxy Manager.Virtualization HowtoBrandon Lee Any how

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Merry Christmas 2025

From my horde to yours May life be kind to you and may you have a great new year Stay safe, strong and see you in another year #enoughsaid

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NASA's New Leader

This will get interesting. I read his draft Project Athena plan last night (the link is in the post). NASA finally—and we really do mean it this time—has a full-time leaderA long and winding road to reach NASA’s headquarters in Washington, DC.Ars TechnicaEric BergerJared Isaacman -

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Build vs buy is dead — AI just killed it

The following is an interesting post on the power of AI My son has mentioned more than once that some of his friends who actually are in cybersecurity are using AI more and more do solve, enhance and increase their efficiencies in their job roles. The following is from Siqi

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📺 Texas Sues Smart TV Makers Over Spying Allegations

This is happening in America, but it’s hard to believe it will remain limited to the United States. The Texas Attorney General has filed lawsuits against Samsung, LG, Sony, Hisense, and TCL, alleging that their smart TVs secretly spy on users and sell viewing data without proper consent. 🔎 What’

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Chongqing East Railway Station

Damn, you have to admire the Chinese. The scale is unbelievable. Wife & I are in awe. Automation, return on Yuan spent, green and bloody fast. See the video below, and yes it has a few errors, but you will get the idea. No wonder we are falling behind. Chongqing

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The Fugitive Father: The Extraordinary Case of Tom Phillips and His Children

Few stories in recent New Zealand history have captured the public imagination quite like the saga of Tom Phillips, the Marokopa father who vanished into the bush with his three children, evaded authorities for nearly four years, and ultimately died in a police shootout. His case has sparked outrage, sorrow,

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Australian Mining & Cyberbreaches

Embarrassing New figures obtained under Freedom of Information laws show 187 data breaches across Australia's mining and manufacturing sectors have exposed the personal information of up to 3.6 million people since 2018. The data is de-identified, meaning it is not possible to know which companies reported those

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Browser Fingerprinting & VPN's

Another favorite topic yet again confirming VPNs alone don't make you anonymous. Amidst the glossy marketing for VPN services, it can be tempting to believe that the moment you flick on the VPN connection you can browse the internet with full privacy. Unfortunately, this is quite far from

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Takaichi’s Japan - Rising

Interesting reading and yes in the news a lot An era of harder security is beginning in Takaichi’s Japan | The StrategistDon’t underestimate the strength of Japan’s strategic transformation, above all in its hardening determination to face accumulating threats. The shift becomes clear to anyone who engages these

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Australian Defense Programs exposed in cybersecurity attacks

No comment - you can see why the Brits & Yanks have issues with us sometimes. She will be right mate doesn't exactly cut it does it. ADF weapons programs exposed in defence industry cyber attacksInformation relating to Australian military programs has been compromised in cyber attacks on

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Australian Ransomware payments half.

Good news although still seeing "hacked" a lot in my feeds The average ransom paid by Australian companies following a cyber-attack has dropped to AUD $711,000, almost halving from its peak of AUD $1.35 million last year. The latest data reflects changing attitudes among business leaders

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Australian Telco's Problematic DB

Hello, given up on Australian bureaucracy. Australia’s top telcos, including TPG Telecom, Telstra and Optus, have quietly moved to establish a shared database of problematic mobile handsets in a bid to improve the reliability of emergency call services Wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that

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🚀 Telstra’s Aura Fibre: Building Australia’s AI‑Era Backbone

“From gigabits to terabits: Telstra’s Aura network is laying the tracks for Australia’s AI economy. With 14,000 km of dual‑path fibre, 83 Tbps capacity, and $29b in projected GDP uplift, this is more than a network — it’s the backbone of our digital future.” Australia is

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Australian Made & Deployed

Remember the term "Australia - the clever country", well it looks like the current state of world affairs is spurring our intellectual might into end results. Here is one example and there have been considerably more than one, it just takes - so damn long - to get

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Jane Goodall - RIP

There goes another remarkable woman. Jane Goodall, who gave chimps their souls back, dead at 91British primatologist Jane Goodall entered the African wilderness at 26 years old without any formal scientific training or university degree. She emerged with research that forever changed how we understood the animal kingdom.ABC NewsMBy

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Milei may be in trouble

There was little time for Milei to feel down on Monday morning. Crisis management was called for after the financial markets reacted negatively to the election defeat, which was unexpected, at least to this extent: the peso moved threateningly towards the upper limit of its range against the dollar as

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Study reveals widespread silent keystroke interception

Really. What the hell The researchers built a custom web crawler and tested 15,000 websites from across the internet. They discovered that 91 percent of sites used event listeners in some way. While most were used for basic functions like tracking page loads or clicks, a significant portion were

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Pacific Nations win ICJ Case

The games afoot. Climate change may have consequences of inaction on those countries that are not taking steps to address their emissions. Its 15 judges found that countries had a legal obligation to protect the climate from greenhouse gas emissions, and that failing to act could make polluting nations liable

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Asian Shift Cybersecurity Requirements to Suppliers

Businesses in Asia are paying more attention to the suppliers' cybersecurity, as third parties' poor cybersecurity hygiene leads to an increasing number of breaches. Earlier this month, Japanese chipmaker Kioxia Holdings reportedly notified its 3,000 suppliers that it would begin automated scans of their cybersecurity postures, with