The headquarters of Doctors Without Borders on Plantage Middenlaan in Amsterdam was vandalized early Saturday morning, authorities reported.

Windows giant disagrees and plans to appeal

Health Canada says more than $20-million worth of pharmaceutical products were lost from the national stockpile this year because of a temperature-control issue, spurring a call from the federal Conservative health critic for a House of Commons investigation.

The fact that Sam Altman is a liar is no longer news. As I argued here in late 2023, Altman truly was fired for being “not completely candid” — just like the board said. Recent books by Karen Hao and Keach Hagey pretty much confirm this. I dissected his 2023 Senate testimony here.

Revision of Swiss surveillance law VÜPF would directly target VPN & encrypted chat and email providers based in Switzerland.

Halal-Cart Style Chicken Dinner https://www.seriouseats.com/serious-eats-halal-cart-style-chicken-and-rice-white-sauce-recipe

Understaffing is driving workers to ill health and discouraging them for taking leave, says Royal College of Nursing CEO

Six coloured sand products recalled in New Zealand after testing in Australia found asbestos in similar items

*Gov. Greg Abbott’s plan to cut property taxes will starve public schools while he sends state money to private schools.*

Microsoft hasn’t been having a great time in courts around the world. Recently, we saw Microsoft get sued by an Australian group after the latter claimed that the former was hiding cheaper Microsoft 365 renewal prices from the people.

S7E9 “Game Over" https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine

Original YT Video: https://youtu.be/6NHbDGW31ZM

Over the past several decades, researchers have been making rapid progress in harnessing light to enable all sorts of scientific and industrial applications. From creating stupendously accurate clocks to processing the petabytes of information zipping through data centers, the demand for turnkey technologies that can reliably generate and manipulate light has become a global market worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

Saw another artist do a sweet watercolor ocean and I had to paint an ocean scene myself. I’m tickled pink with how good this looks.

One of Australia’s largest debt collecting firms attempted to claw back more than 200,000 individual debts in Victoria while allegedly banned from doing so by the state’s regulator, Guardian Australia can reveal.

Original YT Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oZlt9Dl43I

“The isotope of interest for space is americium-241….Its half-life is a staggering 432 years, five times longer than plutonium-238.”

“Healthcare is becoming unsustainable under Trump,” says one progressive politician running for US Senate. “Medicare for All would fix it.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers seeking to force the release of files related to the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein are predicting a big win in the House this week with a “deluge of Republicans” voting for their bill and bucking the GOP leadership and President Donald Trump, who for months have disparaged their effort.

Jon Queally Nov 15, 2025

The Defense Department is scaling back the number of federalized National Guard troops in Chicago and Portland, Ore., as weekslong court battles have stalled their deployments.

Last month, FBI Director Kash Patel wished his followers on X a happy Diwali. It did not go over well.

peaks overnight on Nov. 16-17, when up to 10 meteors per hour may be visible radiating from a patch of sky in the constellation Leo, according to the American Meteor Society.

A Washington state resident has bird flu, and it’s a different type than what was seen in previous infections, state health officials said Friday.

OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS, the United States has embarked on a controversial maritime campaign in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific targeting small Venezuelan and Colombian vessels alleged to be engaged in drug smuggling. Under an asserted “narcoterrorist” deterrence operation, the United States has thus far carried out nineteen lethal strikes on small boats in international waters, killing at least seventy-six people, all undertaken without the transparency, oversight, or legal foundation that normally governs the use of American force.

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A planned auction in Germany of artefacts from prisoners of Nazi concentration camps has been cancelled following a public outcry, Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister has said.

Things continue to look bleak for the original robot vacuum maker. iRobot’s third-quarter results, released last week, show that revenue is down and “well below our internal expectations due to continuing market headwinds, ongoing production delays, and unforeseen shipping disruptions,” said Gary Cohen, iRobot CEO, in a press release.

Home made day old bread, home raised eggs.

Your personal information, including Social Security numbers, may have been accessed during a data incident involving the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office.

The abuse of a sedative-laced vape liquid called “zombie cigarettes” has been increasing among youths in southern Japan, with investigative authorities stepping up vigilance against its potential spread nationwide.

Israel has opened fire on UNIFIL peacekeepers during a foot patrol near the Blue Line, escalating its attacks on UN forces in Lebanon

*China and Japan have repeatedly faced off around the Japan-administered islands, which Beijing calls Diaoyu and Tokyo calls the Senkaku.*

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents fanned out across Charlotte on Saturday, making arrests along Charlotte’s immigrant-heavy Central Avenue and South Boulevard corridors. The arrests preceded a protest Saturday afternoon in uptown, where hundreds condemned the crackdown and the deployment of federal immigration agents.

Germany has quietly become home to over one million tiny solar power plants hanging from apartment balconies and mounted on terraces across the country. These plug-and-play solar systems, called “Balkonkraftwerke” in German, reached this milestone by late June 2025, showing how regular people are taking clean energy into their own hands.

For a long time, what is now considered to be a prime candidate for the title of the ‘world’s first microprocessor’ was a very well-kept secret for nearly 30 years. The MP944 is the inauspicious name of the chip we want to highlight today. It was developed to be the brains behind the U.S. Navy’s F-14 Tomcat’s Central Air Data Computer (CADC). Thus, it isn’t surprising that the MP944 was a cut above the Intel 4004, the world’s first commercial microprocessor, which was designed to power a desktop calculator.

Dutch cloud firm Solvinity taken over by US IT giant Kyndryl

The Free Software Foundation Europe has awarded this year’s European SFS Award to VLC developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf.

Imagine a world where solar panels continue to harness energy even when the sun isn’t shining. It sounds like science fiction, but advancements in technology are making this a reality. The idea of solar panels that work at night is not just an intriguing concept; it is a groundbreaking innovation poised to revolutionize the renewable energy landscape. This development could potentially bridge the gap in renewable energy production, offering a continuous source of clean power. As we explore this exciting innovation, we delve into the mechanisms, potential applications, and impact on our future energy needs.

Disney Channel animator Dana Terrace did not hold back in her social media response to CEO Bob Iger’s AI announcement, encouraging fans to ‘unsubscribe’ from Disney+