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Attempting cross translation unit taint analysis for Firefox.
https://attackanddefense.dev/2025/12/16/attempting-cross-translation-unit-static-analysis.html
saved 2025-12-17

"Analysis: Seven charts showing how the $100bn climate-finance goal was met"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Analysis: Seven charts showing how the $100bn climate-finance goal was met - Carbon Brief
With developed countries pledging to ramp up climate finance, analysis shows how donors rely on loans and private finance to meet obligations.

Radiocarbon analysis of turfgrasses can help cities measure greenhouse gas emissions
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-radiocarbon-analysis-turfgrasses-cities-greenhouse.html

Radiocarbon analysis of turfgrasses can help cities measure greenhouse gas emissions
Cities around the world are working to limit emissions of climate-warming greenhouse gases, but there have been few ways of measuring whether those gases are actually decreasing in any given municipality. In new research, University of California, Irvine scientists have created an effective method to measure greenhouse gas emissions around cities—something that can help local governments gauge the effectiveness of their emission-curbing programs.

How the Bears snatched wild-card win away from Packers: Watch video https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6978083/2026/01/16/video-analysis-bears-playoffs-caleb-williams/

Donald Trump has comprehensively
failed to meet a key election promise
to slash Americans’ energy bills in half within the first year of his presidency
-- with ❌power prices instead surging across the US.
The average household electricity bill in the US was 💥6.7% more expensive in 2025 compared with the previous year,
according to a Guardian analysis of data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA), the Department of Energy’s statistical arm.
The i…

"Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2025"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https:/…

Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2025 - Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief has compiled its annual list of the 25 most talked-about climate-related studies of the past year.

"La production d'électricité Š partir du charbon a diminué Š la fois en Chine et en Inde en 2025, la première baisse simultanée en un demi-siècle, après que chaque pays ait ajouté des quantités record d'énergie propre."
https://www.

BC Business Leaders Fall Silent on Relations with First Nations via @… https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/01/16…

BC Business Leaders Fall Silent on Relations with First Nations | The Tyee
Unwarranted panic over court decisions mean Premier David Eby faces lose-lose options in the legislature.

CoinGecko: over 53% of the 20.2M crypto tokens launched since 2021 are now inactive, with 7.7M tokens failing in Q4 2025, after Oct. 10 "liquidation cascade" (Helene Braun/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/01/1

More than half of all crypto tokens have failed — and most died in 2025
Over 13.4 million tokens have been erased between mid-2021 and 2025, according to a new analysis by CoinGecko.

Good analysis from april 2024 by Ian Bond, still valid, "Does it matter if Ukraine loses?"
https://www.cer.eu/publications/archive/policy-brief/2024/does-it-matter-if-ukraine-loses

Does it matter if Ukraine loses?
Ukraine is retreating and Russia is advancing, militarily and politically. Western leaders seem to underestimate both the impact of Ukraine’s defeat and the West’s ability to prevent it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/
Omg
Hackers steal maternity ward CCTV videos in India cybercrime

FOX Sports Stories - Sports News, Articles and Analysis https://www.foxsports.com/stories

Device Activity Tracker — WhatsApp & Signal Activity Tracker via RTT Analysis
A phone number can reveal whether a device is active, in standby or offline (and more). This PoC demonstrates how delivery receipts RTT timing leak sensitive device-activity patterns. (WhatsApp / Signal)
📱 https://github.com/…

GitHub - gommzystudio/device-activity-tracker: A phone number can reveal whether a device is active, in standby or offline (and more). This PoC demonstrates how delivery receipts + RTT timing leak sensitive device-activity patterns. (WhatsApp / Signal)
A phone number can reveal whether a device is active, in standby or offline (and more). This PoC demonstrates how delivery receipts + RTT timing leak sensitive device-activity patterns. (WhatsApp /...

Analysis: music copyright's global value rose 5.2% YoY to a record $47.2B in 2024; the revenue split favored labels and artists at 62%, above songwriters' 38% (Will Page/Pivotal Economics)
https://pivotaleconomics.com/undercurrents/music-copyright-2025

Global Value of Music Copyright Hits New All-Time High, Nearly Doubling in a Decade to $47.2bn in 2024 — Pivotal Economics
The global value of music copyright reached $47.2bn in 2024. That's up just $2.3bn (5.2%) on the prior year; growth is slowing largely because this is the first year where the pandemic effects have vanished.

How Seahawks unlocked their defense in Mike Macdonald's second season: Watch video https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6978117/2026/01/17/video-analysis-seahawks-defense-nick-emmanwori/

Die chinesische Mauer wird jetzt auf dem Meer "gebaut".
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Thousands of Chinese Fishing Boats Quietly Form Vast Sea Barriers - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/16/world/asia/china-ships-fish…

"Analysis: Coal power drops in China and India for first time in 52 years after clean-energy records"
#China #India #Energy

Analysis: Coal power drops in China and India for first time in 52 years after clean-energy records - Carbon Brief
Coal power generation fell in both China and India in 2025, after each nation added record amounts of clean energy

Why the Epstein Cover-up Will Fail | Marci A. Hamilton | Verdict | Legal Analysis and Commentary from Justia
https://verdict.justia.com/2025/12/18/why-the-epstein-cover-up-will-fail

Cowboys offensive roster analysis: Who's in, who's out and on the fence? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6971323/2026/01/15/cowboys-roster-offense-analysis/

Toon Under Podcast - A Show About Newcastle United
Discussions and match analysis for Newcastle United Football Club, from Australian based NUFC fans...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/toon-under-podcast/

As expected, not as promised
How Trump’s promise to slash energy bills in half has failed across the US
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/17/trump-energy-bill-prices-increase?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

As expected, not as promised
How Trump’s promise to slash energy bills in half has failed across the US
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/17/trump-energy-bill-prices-increase?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

@… 's ngscopeclient showing a trace and fft (from a 1kHz sample) from my Rigol DS series scope; I can't say it's that happy with the Rigol, but hey I think that's as much about the Rigol's firmware.
https…

Series D, Episode 13 - Blake
VILA: I asked where Tarrant was.
AVON: Still, that's no longer a problem. [nudges one of the bounty hunters with his foot] We just inherited a flyer.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/413/348 B7B3

#GoodNews Incredible analysis; made my head spin, in a good way
https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/115558652174425347

Ukraine update: Russia losing on all fronts except for the information war.
Now, more than ever, we need to fight the lies with careful questions and clear analysis.
Useful idiots for the Kremlin are all around us. It matters not whether the idiot is aware of how they serve the Kremlin, the result is the same.
Giorgio reports from the trenches of democracy in Ukraine. He provides video, images, and written reporting from the scene so you can see the truth.
Support Uk…

Any 'analysis' of actions by Trump that does not at least include his personal gains power grab ego issues can now be rated as deeply stupid. National interests / America First, my foot.

Analysis: With all eyes on Pokrovsk, Russia drives forward in Zaporizhzhia Oblast: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/12/analysis-with-all-eyes-on.html

Inside Trump's 'crazy world' of milk bottles, sled dogs and threats to bomb Iran (Stephen Collinson/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2026/01/15/politics/trump-greenland-nato-iran-protests-analysis
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p22#a260115p22

Saw a clip of a preacher retelling an anecdote about a chess grandmaster being shown a painting of the devil having apparently defeated his opponent at chess for his soul. The grandmaster studied the painting and saw that there was still a path to avoid a checkmate. So the painting contained a secret inspirational message of hope!
Yet when people accurately model the game state from Die Schachspieler and feed it into chess analysis algorithms, Mephistopheles always wins

Game of Life - Board position and Paul Morphy - Chess Forums
There is an painting "Checkmate" that depicts Satan playing against a young man. The board position is supposed to appear hopeless but it is said that Paul Morphy when seeing the painting studied the picture, called for a chess board to be set up and some time after declared the young man has not yet...

drosophila_flybi: Fruit fly protein interactions (Drosophila melanogaster)
Binary protein-protein interactions (PPIs) for Drosophila melanogaster, containing 8723 PPIs among 2939 proteins. The iteractions were identified using a yeast two-hybrid (Y2H) analysis.
This network has 2939 nodes and 8723 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

„Aber China!”
China's CO2 Emissions Have Been Flat Or Falling For Past 18 Months, Analysis Finds - Slashdot https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/11/0119210/chinas-co2-emissions-have-been-flat-or-falling-fo…

New study by @… et al. finds that emissions in China and India are projected to grow much less in 2025 compared to the past decade, while emissions in the US and EU are projected to grow this year after years of decline.

This analysis 100% encapsulates my sentiment about the #StarWars Sequel trilogy with one key difference:
I really never preferred 'The Last Jedi' over 'The Rise of Skywalker'. Yes, choosing between two evils... but TLJ committed the unforgivable sin of not just being BAD but also being perpetually IRRITATING.
▶️ Revisiting the FAILURE of the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy…

Trump opponents vilified as 'alarmists' now being vindicated by reality: analysis - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-fascism-new-republic/

NFL Week 16 picks: Upset and score predictions, matchup analysis for every game https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-picks-week-16-2025-nfl-season

A look at MSNBC's rebrand as MS Now, as it builds an independent newsroom, hiring 36 reporters, aiming to maintain its liberal opinion and news analysis (Scott Nover/Washington Post)

Don’t call it MSNBC. MS NOW takes on Trump’s Washington.
Going it alone without NBC’s name or deep bench of reporters, the rebranded cable news network MS Now wants you to know nothing has changed — except for a few things.

"Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber most delegations at COP30 climate talks in Brazil"
#Brazil #FossilFuels #Climate

One in 25 COP30 attendees is a fossil fuel lobbyist, analysis finds
Analysis finds 1,600 fossil fuel representatives at UN climate summit in Brazil, outnumbering almost every country delegation.

Heat All-Access
a podcast hosted by the Voice of the Perth Heat Cavan Malayter, giving you an inside look at the Perth Heat with news, analysis, and weekly interviews with players, coaches...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/heat-all-…

Ampere Analysis expects streamer content spending to grow 6% YoY in 2026 to $101B, crossing $100B for the first time; overall global content spend will grow 2% (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/streamer-spend-landmark-figure-202…

Streamer Spend To Top $100B For First Time In 2026 – Report
Streamer content spend will top $100B in 2026, an Ampere Analysis report has said, with big spend on 'Stranger Things' and sports strategies.

Excellent analysis and well-argued analysis of the current rupture in Spanish anarcho-syndicalism. Definitely worth your attention:
https://anarchistunionjournal.org/2023/12/07/a-new-rupture-in-spanish-anarcho-syndicalism/

My colleagues just published a really nice analysis comparing the performance of (AI-enabled) Primo Research Assistant and traditional library search. TL;DR they pull up about the same proportion of relevant articles, without much overlap. Generated summary text still needs work. https://ital.corejournals.org/in…

Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
BLAKE: How long has it been registering?
JENNA: Couple of minutes. Signal's getting stronger.
BLAKE: Zen, visual detector scan and computer analysis on grid one one five, please.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/48 B7B2

China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/11/china-co2-emissions-flat-or-falling-for-past-18-months-analysis-finds

China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity

A template for data analysis projects structured as R packages (or not) https://github.com/Pakillo/template by @…

GitHub - Pakillo/template: A template for data analysis projects structured as R packages (or not)
A template for data analysis projects structured as R packages (or not) - Pakillo/template

#MySQL Repository Analysis Reveals Declining Development and Shrinking Contributor Base
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/12/mysql-declining-development/

Bound-electron self-energy calculations in Feynman and Coulomb gauges: detailed analysis
M. Reiter, E. Lazarev, D. Glazov, A. Malyshev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.15288 https://<…

If there is any truth in these allegations, we really have to worry about that is going on in both AGS and GSOC.
The initial story was bad enough: the Irish police service being so incompetent that their statistics on homicides were wildly incorrect, and the whistleblower getting penalised; but this is batshit.

Garda whistleblower says she took work leave as she was ‘terrified’ of new analysis chief
Civilian was installed as Garda analysis bureau head after Lois West testified to Oireachtas about errors in homicide data

Commanders WR Deebo Samuel (heel) out vs. Cowboys https://fieldlevelmedia.com/latest-stories?storyId=237088

Climate change boosted Hurricane Melissa's destructive winds and rain, analysis finds https://phys.org/news/2025-11-climate-boosted-hurricane-melissa-destructive.html
‘New reality’: Hurricane Melissa strength multiplied by climate crisis, study…

Climate change boosted Hurricane Melissa's destructive winds and rain, analysis finds
Human-caused climate change boosted the destructive winds and rain unleashed by Hurricane Melissa and increased the temperatures and humidity that fueled the storm, according to an analysis released Thursday.

Analysis: New Data Suggests Russia Is Sustaining Mi-8 Output Despite Wartime Losses: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/11/analysis-new-data-suggests-russia.html

The global market for memory chips, particularly DRAM and NAND Flash, is experiencing significant price increases, primarily attributed to the explosive demand from operators of AI, who are buying up these essential components in enormous quantities.
https://www.computing.co.uk/analysis/2025/

The memory crunch – Is AI to blame?
The global market for memory chips, particularly DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) and NAND Flash, is currently experiencing a period of significant price increases, primarily ...

Edgerrin James is ready for TV analysis. His NFL peers support his authenticity https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6973527/2026/01/16/nfl-miami-hurricanes-edgerrin-james-tv-personality/

Video Analysis of ICE Shooting Sheds Light on Contested Moments (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/video/ice-shooting-renee-good-minneapolis-videos.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p9#a260116p9

China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months.
The rapid adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) saw CO2 emissions from transport fuel drop by 5% year-on-year, while there were also declines from cement and steel production.
While emissions from the power sector were flat year-on-year, a big rise in the chemical industry’s CO2 output offset reductions elsewhere.

Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months - Carbon Brief
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions were unchanged from a year earlier in the third quarter of 2025, extending a flat or falling trend that started in March 2024.

Rapid insights for malware analysts, by Marc Rivero (@…).
Talk about r2inspect "a framework for static malware analysis built on top of radare2 and r2pipe, providing accurate detection of obfuscated strings, cryptographic signatures, exploit mitigation analysis, and more".

Some local TV stations are ending their network affiliations, freeing up money for new hires and programming, as network fees rise due to sports rights costs (Amos Barshad/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/unaffiliated-local-…

Some TV news stations are breaking their national network affiliations, and leaning into local programming.
Some TV news stations are breaking their national network affiliations, and leaning into local programming.

The Kash bureau doesn’t seem to be doing so well. This is, what, the 4th or 5th high-profile case where they’ve “caught” the wrong person, or announced that someone was in custody when that wasn’t true…
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/providenc<…

Analysis: Colossus 2, one of the world's largest AI datacenters, will use as much water/year as 2.5 average In-N-Outs, assuming only drinkable water and burgers (SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/from-tokens-to-burgers-a-water-footprint

From Tokens to Burgers – A Water Footprint Face-Off
A different perspective on the datacenter water debate, forget tokens/watt or tokens/dollar, it's about tokens/burger, how many In-N-Outs is equivalent to the world's largest datacenter

US plans to exploit Venezuela’s oil reserves could by 2050 consume 🔥more than a tenth of the world’s remaining carbon budget to limit global heating to 1.5C, according to an exclusive analysis.
The calculation highlights how any moves to further exploit the
South American nation’s oil reserves
– the largest in the world,
at least on paper
– would put increasing pressure on climate goals,
and risk plunging the globe further into climate catastrophe.
<…

"Analysis: World’s biggest historic polluter – the US – is pulling out of UN climate treaty"
#UN #UnitedNations #Emissions

Analysis: World’s biggest historic polluter – the US – is pulling out of UN climate treaty - Carbon Brief
The US, which has announced plans to withdraw from the global climate treaty is more historically responsible for climate change than any other country

Buzz: Tucker goes off for Buccaneers; Packers lose Jacobs, Ridley's season over https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/40699880/fantasy-football-injuries-position-battles-nfl-news-analysis

Cowboys activate CB Caelen Carson (knee) from IR https://fieldlevelmedia.com/latest-stories?storyId=237083

drosophila_flybi: Fruit fly protein interactions (Drosophila melanogaster)
Binary protein-protein interactions (PPIs) for Drosophila melanogaster, containing 8723 PPIs among 2939 proteins. The iteractions were identified using a yeast two-hybrid (Y2H) analysis.
This network has 2939 nodes and 8723 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

Sources: President Trump is being deployed against the BBC by those who want to defund the broadcaster, as its mandated license fee expires at the end of 2027 (Joel Simon/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/how-donald-trum…

How Donald Trump blew up the BBC.
The president set out to undermine public broadcasters in the US. Now, with help from British allies, he’s taking his strategy global.

Analysis: of the 8,808 global data centers in October 2025, ~7,000 are in areas outside the optimal 18C to 27C temperature range; 600 are in areas above 27C (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/data-center-heat-map/

We mapped the world’s hottest data centers
In 21 countries, all data centers are located in climates that are too hot.

The often mentioned "But China and India are still building new coal power plants" - true - doesn't mean that the amount of electricity they generate from coal goes up. Actually, it went down last year, and the amount of coal used probably went down faster thanks to the increased efficiency of the fleet.

Analysis: Coal power drops in China and India for first time in 52 years after clean-energy records - Carbon Brief
Coal power generation fell in both China and India in 2025, after each nation added record amounts of clean energy

🚜 California farmland doused with 2.5 million pounds of PFAS pesticides each year, analysis finds
https://www.thenewlede.org/2025/11/california-farmland-doused-with-2-5-million-pounds-of-pfas-pesticides-each-y…

California farmland doused with 2.5 million pounds of PFAS pesticides each year, analysis finds - The New Lede
Farm fields in California, the largest US agricultural state, are sprayed each year with an average of 2.5 million pounds of pesticides containing toxic PFAS, potentially exposing millions of people to the chemicals through contaminated food, soil and drinking water, according to a new analysis of state regulatory data.

Science Lab: Why NFL players refuse to tank https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/science-lab-why-nfl-players-refuse-to-tank

Ampere Analysis expects streamer content spending to grow 6% YoY in 2026 to $101B, crossing $100B for the first time; overall global content spend will grow 2% (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/streamer-spend-landmark-figure-202…

Streamer Spend To Top $100B For First Time In 2026 – Report
Streamer content spend will top $100B in 2026, an Ampere Analysis report has said, with big spend on 'Stranger Things' and sports strategies.

China's CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds (Amy Hawkins/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/11/china-co2-emissions-flat-or-falling-for-past-18-months-analysis-finds
http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p84#a251111p84

How AI Browsers Sneak Past Blockers and Paywalls
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/how-ai-browsers-sneak-past-blockers-and-paywalls.php

Eric Moody's notebook: Who got the ball on Sunday? https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/40699880/fantasy-football-injuries-position-battles-nfl-news-analysis

Analysis: Ukraine's manpower, and what Kyiv does with it, will define the war in 2026: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/06/analysis-ukraines-manpower-and-what.html

Britain has quietly suspended intelligence cooperation with the US in the Caribbean
because London does not consider the deadly US military campaign against ships accused of drug trafficking to be in line with international law.
That amounts to an extraordinary open fissure in a close working relationship
at a time when the US is increasing its military buildup,
expanding its controversial campaign in the region with an attempt to threaten Venezuela.

Analysis: Tata, Infosys, and Cognizant are set to bear the brunt of Trump's $100K H-1B fee; from 2020 to 2024, 93% of Infosys' H-1B hires would have had to pay (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12…

Analysis: Trump Supports Protesters in Iran, but Not in Minneapolis - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/us/politics/trump-protesters-iran-minnesota.html

"Billions live in environments that violate human rights, global analysis finds"
#Environment
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-billions-environments-v…

Billions live in environments that violate human rights, global analysis finds
More than 99% of the world's 7.7 billion people have one or more of their environmental rights threatened, according to new research.

Former Guardian and Prospect EIC Alan Rusbridger has been appointed editor-at-large for The New World, which rebranded from The New European in mid-2025 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/magazines/al…

Alan Rusbridger joins The New World as editor-at-large
Former Guardian and Prospect editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger has joined The New World as editor-at-large writing essays and analysis.

NFL playoff picks: Divisional Round score predictions and matchup analysis https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-playoff-picks-divisional-round-2025-nfl-season

FOX Sports Stories - Sports News, Articles and Analysis https://www.foxsports.com/stories

As Cyber Threats Escalate, the National Vulnerability Database Is Falling Behind
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is struggling.
It faces a growing backlog to process data in its vulnerability repository, which publicly shares information assessing and detailing mitigation solutions against new cyber exploits.
With nearly 1,800 new reported vulnerabilities sitting in a queue for analysis this year, delays in processing leave the United States increa…

Analysis: DeepSeek's hedge fund parent High-Flyer posted 56.6% average returns across its quant funds in 2025, boosting potential cash available for DeepSeek (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-12/dee…

Tow Center identifies eight X bot accounts that use X's AI Note Writer API to write between 5% to 10% of the Community Notes visible to the public each day (C.J. Robinson/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/x-twitter-ai-

X is using AI fact-checkers.
Eight AI bots contribute about 10 percent of the platform’s “Community Notes.”

How Broncos can 'upset' Packers, punch playoff ticket: 'Be bold' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6882731/2025/12/12/broncos-packers-upset-analysis-playoffs/

FOX Sports Stories - Sports News, Articles and Analysis https://www.foxsports.com/stories

Experts examine the potential effects of the end of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting: one sees opportunity and another sees a catastrophic event (Ivan L. Nagy/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/what-the-disso…

What the dissolution of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting means.
The parent organization of NPR and PBS, already defunded, is shutting down—and claims that’s for the best. But there are dangers ahead.

"Brits still buying EVs, heat pumps and solar panels despite drop in polling support and political attacks, Sky News analysis finds"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #EV

Brits still buying EVs, heat pumps and solar panels despite drop in polling support and political attacks, Sky News analysis finds
Fresh polling by YouGov, carried out exclusively for Sky News, finds that belief in and concern about man-made global warming remains as high as in their heyday in 2021, when the UK hosted the COP26 climate summit.

Betting: Expect Philly to go to the air, Detroit to struggle on the road https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story/_/id/46932178/nfl-week-11-odds-lines-spread-betting-picks-sunday-night-…

A University of Cambridge analysis reveals how cheap SMS text message verification to create online accounts fuels global influence and manipulation campaigns (Clive Cookson/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/12105e19-208b-44ad-986d-398e68fc2270

"Beyond deforestation: redesigning how we protect and value tropical forests (analysis)"
#Forests #Trees #Environment

Beyond deforestation: redesigning how we protect and value tropical forests (analysis)
Heading into COP30, where tropical forests are set to be a central theme, it seemed worth looking today’s trajectories a little further forward and imagine where they might lead. Part 1 looked at possible fates of tropical forests. The first act of the forest crisis was destruction. The second, if there is to be one, […]

Tow Center identifies eight X bot accounts that use X's AI Note Writer API to write between 5% to 10% of the Community Notes visible to the public each day (C.J. Robinson/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/x-twitter-ai-

X is using AI fact-checkers.
Eight AI bots contribute about 10 percent of the platform’s “Community Notes.”

Amazon unveils its Autonomous Threat Analysis system, born from a 2024 internal hackathon, to use AI agents competing in teams to identify vulnerabilities (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-autonomous-threat-analysis/

Amazon Is Using Specialized AI Agents for Deep Bug Hunting
Born out of an internal hackathon, Amazon’s Autonomous Threat Analysis system uses a variety of specialized AI agents to detect weaknesses and propose fixes to the company’s platforms.

Projecting final 8 NFL playoff teams’ odds to win Super Bowl, with divisional matchup analysis https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6963362/2026/01/12/nfl-super-bowl-playoff-chances-odds-divisional-round/

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr defends using a public interest standard for broadcasters at a House hearing; commissioner Anna Gomez calls the standard "undefined" (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/fcc-brendan-carr-trump-public-…

At House Hearing, FCC Chairman Continues To Defend Authority To Enforce “Public Interest Standard” — Whatever That Is (Analysis)
Brendan Carr told House lawmakers that he has authority to treat broadcasters differently from other media.

Why Broncos have all the makings of a Super Bowl-caliber defense: Watch video https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6958868/2026/01/09/video-analysis-broncos-defense-talanoa-hufanga/

An analysis of 47,000 publicly shared ChatGPT conversations: ~10% related to emotional or mental health, ChatGPT exhibits a "default to yes" behavior, and more (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/11/12/how-people-use-ch…

We analyzed 47,000 ChatGPT conversations. Here’s what people really use it for.
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