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China's CO2 Emissions Have Been Flat Or Falling For Past 18 Months, Analysis Finds China's CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months, "adding evidence to the hope that the world's biggest polluter has managed to hit its target of peak CO2 emissions well ahead of schedule," reports the Guardian. From the report: Rapid increases in the deployment of solar and wind power...

China's CO2 Emissions Have Been Flat Or Falling For Past 18 Months, Analysis Finds

https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/11/0119210/chinas-co2-emissions-have-been-flat-or-falling-for-past-18-months-analysis-finds?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

GrapheneOS releases Official releases of GrapheneOS, a security and privacy focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.

GrapheneOS version 2025110600 released:

grapheneos.org/releases#202...

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release.

Forum discussion thread:

discuss.grapheneos.org/d/27887-grap...

#GrapheneOS #privacy #security

Your ChatGPT conversations may not be private anymore; Police could be reading your chats - The Times of India Tech News : OpenAI has initiated a policy to monitor ChatGPT conversations, flagging potential threats of violence and reporting users to law enforcement when dee

Your ChatGPT conversations may not be private anymore; Police could be reading your chats

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Wikipedia row erupts as founder Jimmy Wales intervenes on 'Gaza genocide' article WIKIPEDIA founder Jimmy Wales has intervened over the platform’s article on Gaza genocide ...

Wikipedia row erupts as Jimmy Wales intervenes on 'Gaza genocide' page

www.thenational.scot/news/2559116...

'Keep Android Open' Campaign Pushes Back On Google's Sideloading Restrictions PC Mag's Michael Kan writes: A "Keep Android Open" campaign is pushing back on new rules from Google that will reportedly block users from sideloading apps on Android phones. It's unclear who's running the campaign, but a blog post on the free Android app store F-Droid is directing users to visit t...

'Keep Android Open' Campaign Pushes Back On Google's Sideloading Restrictions

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/10/30/2225257/keep-android-open-campaign-pushes-back-on-googles-sideloading-restrictions?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders The tech giants agreed to extraordinary terms to clinch a lucrative contract with the Israeli government, documents show

Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders

The tech giants agreed to extraordinary terms to clinch a lucrative contract with the Israeli government, documents show

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Looks like the science community has found a home.
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‘People thought I was a communist doing this as a non-profit’: is Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales the last decent tech baron? In an online landscape characterised by doom and division, the people’s encyclopedia stands out – a huge collective endeavour giving everyone free access to the sum of human knowledge. But with Elon M...

‘People thought I was a communist doing this as a non-profit’: is Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales the last decent tech baron?

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

People are having fewer kids. Their choice is transforming the world's economy Family size around the world is dropping. That choice by couples is triggering a population shift that's sending shock waves through economies.

People are having fewer kids. Their choice is transforming the world's economy

www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...

ICE is finished in China.

Sales of petrol & diesel cars peaked in 2017 — the same year EVs started their takeoff. In 2020, only 1 in 18 new cars was electric. By 2024, it’s 1 in 2. This year it’s tracking for 60%.

This isn’t a fad — it’s the world’s biggest industrial shift in motion. #EV #Lithium

From the BeAmazed community on Reddit: Photographer tracked down people he captured 40 years ago to recriate their photos Explore this post and more from the BeAmazed community

Photographer tracked down people he captured 40 years ago to recriate their photos

www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/c...

Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? From brain-rotting videos to AI creep, every technological advance seems to make it harder to work, remember, think and function independently …

Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?

From brain-rotting videos to AI creep, every technological advance seems to make it harder to work, remember, think and function independently …

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The Beijing courier who went viral: how Hu Anyan wrote about delivering parcels – and became a bestseller Like so many others, his days have been spent in the gig economy, moving from one precarious job to another, often tied to a gruelling 996 shift pattern. He discusses the harsh realities of modern wor...

The Beijing courier who went viral: how Hu Anyan wrote about delivering parcels – and became a bestseller

www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...

The new study estimated that at current rates, humans will burn enough fossil fuels and release enough climate pollution to commit the planet to over 1.5°C of global warming above preindustrial temperatures within about three more years, in 2028. yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/09/clim...

Line chart showing that there's been a rapid escalation in how quickly the world installs a gigawatt of solar power capacity.

Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity
2004: A year
2010: ~ a month
2015: ~ a week
Now: < A day
ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪

The dawn of the post-literate society And the end of civilisation

The dawn of the post-literate society
And the end of civilisation
James Marriott

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How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent

How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart

Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown review – weapons-grade nonsense from beginning to end Code-breaking hero Robert Langdon is back for another conspiracy thriller, featuring underground laboratories and new thoughts on the nature of consciousness

The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown review – weapons-grade nonsense from beginning to end

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Whistle-Blower Sues Meta Over Claims of WhatsApp Security Flaws - Slashdot The former head of security for WhatsApp filed a lawsuit on Monday accusing Meta of ignoring major security and privacy flaws that put billions of the messaging app's users at risk, the latest in a st...

Whistle-Blower Sues Meta Over Claims of WhatsApp Security Flaws

yro.slashdot.org/story/25/09/...

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

Check it out - Bluesky has bookmarks now!

Is the AI bubble about to burst – and send the stock market into freefall? | Phillip Inman Shares in US tech stocks are falling but it would probably be unwise for fund managers to pull out

Is the AI bubble about to burst – and send the stock market into freefall? | Phillip Inman

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Megadeth announce they are retiring: ‘Don’t be sad, be happy for us all’ Frontman Dave Mustaine says he is writing the thrash metal band’s final album and they will embark on a farewell tour in 2026

Megadeth announce they are retiring: ‘Don’t be sad, be happy for us all’

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a...

From Gaza to Ukraine, peace always seems just out of reach – and the reason isn’t only political | Simon Tisdall Murdering and massacring innocents is indefensible. So why on earth is it allowed to continue? The answer is moral relativism, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

From Gaza to Ukraine, peace always seems just out of reach – and the reason isn’t only political

Murdering and massacring innocents is indefensible. So why on earth is it allowed to continue? The answer is moral relativism

Simon Tisdall

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2 outperforms GPT-4 in key benchmarks — and it’s free Chinese AI startup Moonshot releases open-source Kimi K2 model that outperforms OpenAI and Anthropic on coding tasks with breakthrough agentic capabilities and competitive pricing.

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2 outperforms GPT-4 in key benchmarks — and it’s free

venturebeat.com/ai/moonshot-...

Irvine Welsh: ‘I’m often astounded that any relationships take place these days’ The follow-up to Trainspotting sees Renton, Begbie and co settling down. The bestselling author explains why now is the perfect time for romance

Irvine Welsh: ‘I’m often astounded that any relationships take place these days’

The follow-up to Trainspotting sees Renton, Begbie and co settling down. The bestselling author explains why now is the perfect time for romance

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Just received news that 27 people have been arrested in Parliament Square under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action".
This is real police state behaviour.

Everything you need to know about Flashes, the Bluesky-based Instagram alternative | TechCrunch The app, which is now available in beta, offers a different way to browse the visual posts on Bluesky.

Everything you need to know about Flashes, the Bluesky-based Instagram alternative

Global firms ‘profiting from genocide’ in Gaza, says UN rapporteur Report by Francesca Albanese singles out companies such as Palantir and calls for prosecutions

Global firms ‘profiting from genocide’ in Gaza, says UN rapporteur

Report by Francesca Albanese singles out companies such as Palantir and calls for prosecution

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Bezos Wedding Guests Given Monogrammed Plastic Bottles To Urinate In During Ceremony

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