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Thursday, January 20, 2022

Get This Thing Out of My ChesT

 

  • The Open Rivers Programme, launched in Oct. 2021, aims to free rivers in Europe by removing obsolete and unused dams.
  • €42.5M have been allocated as grants to support the removal of dams.
  • The European Commission encourages member states to remove barriers to help 25,000 km of rivers flow freely by 2030.
    • A guide for identifying barriers was released and can be viewed here.
  • Dams in Spain, France, and the U.K. are anticipated to be removed in 2022.
  • Amber, a European research project, estimates that currently, 150,000 dams and weirs in Europe can be removed.
  • Another study estimates that 1.2 million instream barriers in Europe are the underlying cause resulting in an estimated 90% drop, between 1970 and 2016, in the number of migratory freshwater fish across the continent.


Farmer gives cows VR headsets to reduce anxiety and increase milk production Metro


In 1830s Persia, ill-considered favours by a British official put his successor in a tight spot Scroll


In his early 70s, Bernard-Henri Lévy has survived several cycles of literary fame. Who is he now? cycles  


Ali Baba, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White: These fairy tales endure because they respond to a deep human need ...fairy  


The hatchet job is back, made for internet virality. These book reviews have even given rise to a new literary mode 



 Get This Thing Out of My Chest
ProPublica
 Microsoft fixes harebrained Y2K22 Exchange bug that disrupted email worldwide
Ars Technica
 Old Hondas clocks are wrong: Y2K+22 —> Y2K+2 fix
The Register
 Google Issues Warning For 2 Billion Chrome Users
Forbes
 Boeing and Airbus warn US over 5G safety concerns
bbc.com
 Tesla test drivers believe they're on a mission to make driving safer for everyone. Skeptics say they're a safety hazard.
WashPost
 University Loses Valuable Supercomputer Research After Backup Error Wipes 77 Terabytes of Data
gizmodo
 AI debates its own existence—and loses?
TheConversation
 UN Chief Urges Action on Lethal Autonomous Weapons as Geneva Talks Open
Reuters
 Russia fines Google $100 million, and Facebook parent company $27 million, for content violations
WashPost
 The Russian Anti-Satellite Demonstration—a Month Later
circleid
 Satellite operators criticize extreme satellite configurations
SpaceNews
 Snow Closed the Highways. GPS Mapped a Harrowing Detour in the Sierra Nevada.
NYTimes
 New Mobile Network Vulnerabilities Affect All Cellular Generations Since 2G
The Hacker News
 NSFW! - Mozilla Founder Slams Mozilla Foundation For Adopting Cryptocurrency Payments
Slashdot
 U.S. launches probe into Tesla letting drivers play video games
CBC
 Alexa tells 10-year-old girl to touch live plug with penny
BBC
 Are Apple AirTags Being Used to Track People and Steal Cars?
NYTimes
 Criminals have stolen nearly $100 billion in Covid relief funds, Secret Service says
CNBC
 Bugs in billions of WiFi, Bluetooth chips allow password/data theft
BleepingComputer
 JetBlue tosses most passwords out the emergency exit
PCMag
 Backups are not Backups until they can be restored
Bob Gezelter
 Cats caused more than 100 house fires in the past 3 years, South Korea officials say
cnn.com
 Uber ignores vulnerability that lets you send any email from Uber.com
BleepingComputer
 Re: A $92,000 flying car can reach speeds of 63 miles per hour
John Levine
 Re: Google finally knows which app to blame for Android's mysterious can't-call-911 bug
Henry Baker Steve Singer
 Re: Australia's AI Cameras Catch Over 270,000 Drivers Using Phones
Rodney Parkin
 Info on RISKS (comp.risks)



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