in English

• Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done?

• Population discontinuity in the Paris Basin linked to evidence of the Neolithic decline

• Musk wants a million data centre satellites. Bezos wants 51,600. Scientists want to know why.

• Common drug tests lead to tens of thousands wrongful arrests a year

• Uproar in Germany over law requiring men get military approval for long stays abroad

• Toronto’s Transit Crisis Is a Class Crisis. The base of the “left” that is effectively Nazi, without its supporters even knowing it, is starting to realise that the city is a Nazi trap, where those who can escape do, and those who stay are fucked. Not owning your own means of transport means being unable to travel, leaving you at the mercy of those providing collective transport services.

• In Japan, the robot isn’t coming for your job; it’s filling the one nobody wants

• Bacteria found in the human intestine capable of improving muscle strength

• The Melanesian: Dark-Skinned People With Blonde Hair

• UK intelligence censored report on global warming and homeland security

• The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't

• Iran threatens ‘complete and utter annihilation’ of OpenAI's $30B Stargate AI data center in Abu Dhabi. Meanwhile nobody tell that datacenters are there for electricity costs from p.v.

• French central bank nets €13bn by pulling gold out of US reserves

• Age Verification as Mass Surveillance Infrastructure

• Usenet Archives. Open information, decade old, very readable, no login or other silo to stop anyone using it. Now compare that with today crap for commercial purpose...

• Peter Thiel's big bet on solar-powered cow collars

• Pakistan initiates digital payouts to transport sector to counter fuel shock

• Europe's Looming Jet Fuel Crisis: Hormuz, Policy Failure, And A Self-Inflicted Supply Shock

• California Bans Government Officials From Using Insider Knowledge To Bet On Prediction Markets. Non-enforcable norms are always nice and dice...

en Français

• Le nouveau maire d’Avignon Olivier Galzi augmente de 35 % les indemnités de ses adjoints dont sa propre compagne mais a baissé son propre salaire de 14%...

• Allemagne : les hommes de 17 à 45 ans doivent désormais obtenir une autorisation de l’armée pour un long séjour à l’étranger

• « Mangez nos pommes de terre, c’est pas cher ! » : le SOS des agriculteurs qui croulent sous les stocks

• OkCupid a vendu trois millions de photos de son application de rencontre à une firme de reconnaissance faciale : douze ans de mensonges, zéro amende et des photos toujours entre de mauvaises mains

• Les frappes iraniennes ont provoqué une « panne totale » de deux zones de disponibilité d'Amazon Web Services à Dubaï et à Bahreïn, elles resteraient « indisponibles pendant une période prolongée »

• Le portefeuille d'identité numérique censé émanciper l'UE s'appuie sur des acteurs US : comment l'implémentation allemande d'eIDAS 2.0 confie sa cryptographie à Google et Apple sans en connaître le contenu

in Italiano

• La tortura parte integrante del genocidio. Il nuovo rapporto della Relatrice Albanese

• Jack Dorsey vuole abolire i manager: 'L'AI deve sostituire le gerarchie aziendali'

• La Repubblica Ceca fissa il prezzo dei carburanti: taglio alle accise e un ironico ritorno al dirigismo di Stato

• Antitrust sanziona Revolut per 11 milioni di euro

• Trump, nuove minacce all'Iran con un linguaggio volgare e parolacce da ubriaco incattivito

• L'udienza a metà aprile ma nel fascicolo c'è già la bozza della sentenza

• Egitto, la guerra in Iran spegne le notti del Cairo: la capitale al buio per contenere l’impennata delle bollette

• Il disastro digitale della Bundeswehr: due miliardi di euro per radio che non funzionano

• Crisi energetica 2026: torna lo smart working nel mondo per lo shock da chiusura dello Stretto di Hormuz