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Ultra-processed foods linked to 47% higher risk of heart attack and stroke #nutrition

Ultra-processed foods linked to 47% higher risk of heart attack and stroke
Ultra-processed foods are everywhere in the American diet, and researchers are finding alarming consequences. Using national health data, scientists found that adults with the highest intake of these foods had a 47% higher risk of heart attack or stroke. The results held even after accounting for age, smoking, and income. Experts say reducing ultra-processed foods could become as important to public health as cutting back on tobacco once was.

The UK proposes new rules requiring tech firms to remove nonconsensual abusive content within 48 hours or risk blocking and fines of up to 10% of global revenue (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/f

"Staffing problems caused by DOGE resulted in the Defense Information Systems Agency warning of “extreme risk for loss of service” across the military."
DOGE Cuts “Unexpectedly and Significantly Impacted” Critical Pentagon Unit
https://theintercept.com/2026/01/19/do

DOGE Cuts “Unexpectedly and Significantly Impacted” Critical Pentagon Unit
Staffing problems caused by DOGE resulted in the Defense Information Systems Agency warning of “extreme risk for loss of service” across the military.

The UK National Risk Register (last published Jan 2025) is the "external" (public) version of the National Security Risk Assessment.
You suspect that there are risks listed in the internal document that would seem undiplomatic, perhaps impolitic, to admit to considering.
I think, in 2026, we should have a risk register that's updated to address actual public discourse.

Exclusive: Supreme Court tariff ruling makes over $175 billion in US revenue subject to refunds, Penn-Wharton estimates (David Lawder/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-tariff-revenue-risk-supreme-court-ruling-tops-175-billion-penn-wharton-2026-02-20/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260220/p85#a260220p85

A new study has found that
eating 50 grams (1.76 ounces) or more of high-fat cheese a day
correlates with a lower risk of developing dementia.
That includes all cheeses with more than 20 percent fat content,
like brie, gouda, cheddar, parmesan, gruyere, and mozzarella.
The extensive, long-term study followed 27,670 adults in Sweden for around 25 years.
The findings establish an association between daily consumption of high-fat cheese
and lower demen…

Cheese Linked to Lower Dementia Risk in 25-Year Study
One of the finest foods available to humanity may carry an unexpected benefit.

Norway’s green transition is putting Sami culture at risk | Environment | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/12/19/norways-green-transition-is-putting-sami-culture-at-risk?traffic_source=rss

The EC introduces draft revisions to the EU's Cybersecurity Act to phase out equipment from high-risk suppliers in critical sectors, a move criticized by Huawei (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

TIL this song was banned from space but loved by David Bowie.
Listen at your own risk.
https://youtu.be/9EEZAivzl1Q?si=PUgne2NLRF0W_8Tu

Maybe there is hope.
"All of the death rates were higher in states where more people claimed to pray daily. Only cancer and COVID-19 were correlated significantly with Trump’s percentage of the vote."
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1…

A look at the system for distribution of direct media subsidies developed for the government of Denmark, which spends ~0.2% of its GDP on direct media subsidies (Rasmus Kleis Nielsen/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2…

As the U.S. starves its public media, Denmark wants to figure out a better way to subsidize private news publishers
"A foundation can pick winners on the basis of its own values and priorities and support them from private sources. But if the state does the same with public funds, we risk the appearance (or even worse, the reality) of politicians picking winners on the basis of their own ad hoc, pa…

Il Pentagono vuole classificare Anthropic AI come "supply chain risk"
"La controversia sembra derivare dalla riluttanza di Anthropic a consentire un uso militare illimitato dei propri sistemi di IA. Attualmente, i modelli di Anthropic sono gli unici strumenti di IA disponibili all'interno di sistemi militari classificati tramite fornitori terzi, come Palantir Technologies, e anche in questo caso sono soggetti ad alcune restrizioni. Reuters ha precedentemente riferito…

Pentagon Considers Designating Anthropic AI as a 'Supply Chain Risk': Report
The move would require anyone doing business with the U.S. military to cut ties with the AI company.

Series D, Episode 06 - Headhunter
AVON: Where is Orac?
SOOLIN: Behind a panel in section four.
AVON: We have to get Orac outside.
TARRANT: Why risk it?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/406/498 B7B5

UK at risk of more flooding 'for months to come' after record-breaking January https://news.sky.com/story/uk-at-risk-of-more-flooding-for-months-to-come-after-record-breaking-january-13508402 (2 korte video's)
Het VK lijkt grote hoeveelheden regen voor ons op te vangen door de hoge luchtdruk in oost europa en het lage drukgebied boven het VK, die maar niet lijken te bewegen...

#смерть #научно @…
htt…

Sitting Time, Fidgeting, and All-Cause Mortality in the UK Women's Cohort Study - PubMed
Fidgeting may reduce the risk of all-cause mortality associated with excessive sitting time. More detailed and better-validated measures of fidgeting should be identified in other studies to replicate these findings and identity mechanisms, particularly measures that distinguish fidgeting in a seate …

Firing Sean McDermott is a risk. Promoting Brandon Beane is the real mistake.

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bills-fire-sean-mcdermott-promote-brandon-beane-mistake/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@SeanCasten/115758956800148047
Fuck me. Climate risk data is going private, i.e. the financiers will have that info but not the public.

If your business is dependent upon people driving under the influence of alcohol, you don’t deserve to be in business…
https://www.lynnnews.co.uk/news/enormous-cost-burdens-put-west-norfolk-pubs-at-risk-of-goi-9449456/

‘Enormous cost burdens’ put West Norfolk pubs at risk of going under
West Norfolk pubs are being hit with “disproportionately enormous cost burdens” and could be forced to close, worried owners say.

There is a risk, a real risk, that because of California's "jungle" primary system that there could be no D candidate - yes, no D candidate at all - on the November ballot to replace the term-limited Gavin Newsom.
The D's need to focus - some D candidates need to drop out so that the primary vote is not split and thus allow the two top R's to take the two spots on the November general election ballot.

Hilton, Swalwell lead California governor’s race in new independent poll
21% of voters remain undecided in the race to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom.

French ICC Judge Nicolas Guillou is living a nightmare after the US sanctioned him and other judges for issuing an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, once again exposing the risk of Europeans' reliance on American services.
https://www.

US sanctions turn ICC judge’s daily life into a nightmare
French ICC Judge Nicolas Guillou is living a nightmare after the US sanctioned him and other judges for issuing an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, once again exposing the risk of Europeans' reliance on American services. #EuropeNews

When companies scrape everything without consent but then whine about their data models being probed without consent. Really makes you think https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/14/ai_risk_distillation_attacks

How AI could eat itself: Competitors can probe models to steal their secrets and clone them
: Just ask DeepSeek

It’s amazing how these people talk about AGI as if it was actually possible (it’s not).
What’s being sold as “AI” currently is slightly random statistical token chain generation; it has zero to do with thinking, intelligence or creativity.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/17/why-trillions-dollars-risk-no-guarantee-ai-reward

COVID vaccines protect children from severe illness per CDC.
⬇️76% reduced risk of ER visits in kids 9 mo. to 4 years
⬇️56% reduced risk of ER visits in kids 5 - 17 years
-- @drruth.bsky.social
https://bsky.app/profile/atranscendedman.bsky.social/po…

RE: https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/116092915176228917
Last time I posted this, I got a little spate of exceptionally low-quality replies about how it’s actually a good thing to misrepresent risk and old people will die anyway and who cares if they do.
I hope those people see this again and get even angrier.

How SpaceX Rockets Put Passenger Planes at Risk — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/spacex-faa-launch-airlines-safety-explosions-florida-caribbean

"...collected via Android Auto..."
@… I've love to get your take if running Android Auto on GrapheneOS protects us from this data gathering?
#privacy #android

Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk

I say it again: they need to keep the dementia patient busy, so they give him something familiar to play with
https://mastodon.sdf.org/@AmandaMarcotte/115746731024779684

Selected a #hiking route for tomorrow.
Just reminded myself to check the avalanche status... Selected another route...
Maybe overcautios - but my route would go over a larger alpine meadow. Even though I'd go via a south flank that is mentioned with less risk - when I'm going alone, I prefer zero risk.

So we face a serious crisis with #ClimateChange, where we know what has to be done and how to do it, but we chose not to invest in it.
And we know we have the resources, because trillions are being spent on speculative investments in AI, which currently is aggravating the #ClimateCrisis wi…

So we face a serious crisis with #ClimateChange, where we know what has to be done and how to do it, but we chose not to invest in it.
And we know we have the resources, because trillions are being spent on speculative investments in AI, which currently is aggravating the #ClimateCrisis wi…

A profile of Josh Woodward, the head of Google Labs who is credited with turning around the Gemini app, growing its MAUs from 350M in March to 650M by October (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/20/josh-woodward-google-gemini-ai-safety.html

Google was at risk of losing its dominance — until it promoted this AI executive
Josh Woodward, a 16-year Google veteran, is tasked with running the Gemini app and going head-to-head with OpenAI in the booming generative AI market.

EU unveils new plans to tackle Huawei, ZTE as China alleges protectionism https://therecord.media/eu-unveils-new-plans-to-tackle-huawei-zte

🦅 Tiny falcons are helping keep the food supply safe on cherry farms
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/01/tiny-falcons-are-helping-keep-the-food-supply-safe-on-cherry-farms/

Tiny falcons are helping keep the food supply safe on cherry farms
Their presence appears to lower the risk of food-borne illnesses from pathogens.

Toxic metals found in bananas after Brazil mining disaster #plantbased

Toxic metals found in bananas after Brazil mining disaster
Researchers investigating crops grown in soil contaminated by the 2015 mining disaster in Brazil discovered that toxic metals are moving from the earth into edible plants. Bananas, cassava, and cocoa were found to absorb elements like lead and cadmium, with bananas showing a potential health risk for children under six. Although adults face lower immediate danger, scientists warn that long-term exposure could carry cumulative health consequences.

Listening to a business owner (construction) talk to David Brancaccio on Marketplace Morning Report. About ICE.
He is diligent about hiring legally, so all of his people are in principle safe, but in practice there’s enough harassment of his Latinx workers by ICE that they have been quitting rather than risk detention.
Trump is wrecking his own tribe.

If you have a risk register, and your organization does not have an SBOM for your built apps, the lack of an SBOM goes in your risk register. If you don't have a risk register, make one, and add your lack of SBOMs to it.

Screaming: TP-Link routers represent no more of a security risk than other routers, which is to say, they are all filled with crummy firmware and never get updated.
https://www.csoonline.com/article/3504775/no-evidence-that-tp-lin…

No evidence that TP-Link routers are a Chinese security threat
Despite a request for a US government investigation into Chinese-made TP-Link, evidence presented by a US House committee fails to support allegations they are a national security risk, experts say.

I just wrote this.
"In 2013…CBP…knew that their agents would sometimes '…intentionally put themselves into the exit path of the vehicle, thereby exposing themselves to additional risk and creating justification for the use of deadly force.'"
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/preme…

Premeditated State Violence Must End
Planning to kill is bad. In 2013, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) knew that their agents would sometimes “…intentionally put themselves into the exit path of the vehicle, thereby exposing themselves to additional risk and creating justification for the use of deadly force” (PDF from CBP web server). Jonathan

Yesterday I finished "The Other Side of Tomorrow" written by Tina Cho and illustrated by Deb JJ Lee. Lee's "In Limbo" was an excellent graphic memoir, and this similarly has wonderful art, although I didn't make the connection until checking the authors after reading to the end.
This book is a realistic fictional account of two childrens' escape from North Korea via China, Laos, and ultimately Thailand where they could declare themselves refugees at a US embassy and get sponsored to live in America. Along the way they're helped by various members of the Asian Underground Railroad. I'll avoid spoilers but yet definitely encounter difficulties along the way.
The ending definitely hits different now (while also accentuating my disgust with the current US regime). Like "Libertad" that I also finished recently, the "escape to the US at the end" plot line is going to become less prevalent going forward, although Libertad involved a good measure of complexity around that point.
I was a bit disappointed in one of the later plot points where a different and more-real-world-probable turn of events could have served as a better message for society, with the "lucky" outcome as written reinforcing regressive notions of family, and as an ex-Christian the Christian elements of the story made me feel a way. I'm an agnostic, not an atheist though, and can respect the idea that those willing to risk torture and death for their faith have every right to stand by it and take inspiration from it. Most (very valid) critiques of big western Church institutions just don't apply to underground churches in northern China who are helping people escape the horrors of deep fascism.
Overall a really good book.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

DOJ must release Epstein files by Friday or risk repercussions, law's co-author says (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/doj-must-release-epstein-files-friday-risk-repercussions-laws-co-autho-rcna249574
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p75#a251217p75

New OpenAI models likely to pose "high" cybersecurity risk
OpenAI says the cyber capabilities of its frontier AI models are accelerating and warns Wednesday that upcoming models are likely to pose a "high" risk […]
😶‍🌫️ https://www.axios.com/2025/12/10/openai-ne

Exclusive: New OpenAI models likely pose "high" cybersecurity risk, company says
OpenAI says it's stepping up efforts to protect against attacks.

Zelensky warns of 'risk' US, Russia could strike bilateral deals on Ukraine without Kyiv: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/07/zelensky-warns-of-risk-us.html

On Thursday, 11 of the UK's leading oncologists, economists and medical ethicists will meet at the Department of Health’s headquarters in London
to make a decision that will have consequences for millions of men.
The National Screening Committee (NSC) will issue a recommendation on whether to launch the first NHS screening programme for prostate cancer.
Celebrities, sports stars and politicians, including Sir Chris Hoy and David Lammy, have campaigned for the greater us…

NHS could start prostate cancer screening — which men are eligible?
The National Screening Committee is expected to recommend the first-ever screening programme for the disease next week, but only for those at the highest risk

Ok sooo... How minimal do i want to make this stm32mp2 fpga test board?
I'm tempted to go bare bones, no ddr, minimal bom, entirely from parts i have on the shelf to keep costs down.
On one hand it'll be a waste of potential, on the other hand I have plenty of "real" projects coming up and the main goal is to de-risk them. I'm probably never going to use the ddr and it'll increase layout complexity a lot.

Is risk vs reward worth it for Raiders LT Kolton Miller to return? https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/12/11/risk-reward-raiders-lt-kolton-miller-return-injured-reserve/87719319…

Just that you know ... "Greater consumption of caffeinated #coffee and tea was associated with lower risk of dementia and modestly better cognitive function, with the most pronounced association at moderate intake levels" - so says the new study https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2844764?guestAccessKey=b5f53c96-c7a8-47fa-b807-8b464361c4d8 -> Daily cups of caffeinated coffee or mugs of tea may lower dementia risk: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/daily-coffee-tea-lower-dementia-risk -
a long-term observational study tracked self-reported coffee and tea consumption.

"Nearly three-quarters of the global population reside in nations deemed "water insecure" or "critically water insecure", UN researchers said"
The world is facing irreversible water ‘bankruptcy’. Billions of people are at risk | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/world-water-supplies-bankruptcy-un-b2904219.html

I see that the #Łódź region railways play hard.
It says: "Turn your smartphone on. By looking someone in the eyes, you risk falling in love."

"Europe needs to recognize this as the crisis it has been waiting for. The continent is in real danger of being sidelined by its most important ally, and its ability to defend itself and secure its future role in the world hinges on its ability to mobilize resources and act collectively.
The EU’s decision last week to extend sanctions on Russian central bank assets—made without unanimous consent—is a good start."

I wouldn't normally post a link to LinkedIn, but this is an important republished piece on AMOC collapse from Johan Rockström.
Climate risk becomes a matter of security
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/climate-risk-becomes-matter-sec…

Climate risk becomes a matter of security
The destabilisation of the #AMOC is no longer a distant scenario - it’s a national and global security risk. Iceland’s Climate Minister Jóhann Páll Jóhannsson and I outline actions to tackle this threat in this article first published in Dagens Nyheter and Vísir.

Boah, ernsthaft? Kauf mir nen Zi-Stick im Handel und muss erstmal durch dieses Firmware-Prozedere (https://aeotec.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/6000270951-update-zi-stick-to-thread-or-zigbee-with-python-…

If you are remotely interested in #Antarctica , #ClimateChange and #SeaLevelRise, check out the latest brilliant @… contribution on how the risk of crossing a tipping point varies per basin
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02554-0

Emotionally brutal poem. Don't read it if you are feeling fragile today.

"Resultaten visar att ofarliga extra hjärtslag var vanliga vid båda typerna av kallvattenexponering. Vid ansiktsdopp förekom även mer uttalade hjärtrytmrubbningar, samtidigt som pulssänkning var större än vid helkroppsdopp.
Forskarna bedömer dock att risken för allvarliga arytmier är låg vid mycket kortvariga dopp i isvak, under förutsättning att individen är frisk och inte doppar huvudet."
Bad i isvak innebär låg risk för allvarlig arytmi bland unga

Ny studie visar: Bad i isvak innebär låg risk för allvarlig arytmi bland unga

Senator Marsha Blackburn said
“I look forward to introducing the
"TRUMP AMERICA AI Act"
in the new year to create one federal rulebook for AI
to protect children, creators, conservatives, and communities"
Combats the consistent pattern of bias against conservative figures demonstrated by Big Tech and AI systems by requiring:
Audits of high-risk AI systems to undergo regular bias evaluations to prevent discrimination based on protected characte…

Blackburn Unveils National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence

"There is no serious question that if #Trump so ordered it, Microsoft could deliberately shut down all services to the Scottish Government and our public sector and the Government must now react as if this is just as much a risk to our democracy as if it was discovered that Putin could send the same order to the same effect" -- @…

"‘Homes may have to be abandoned’: how climate crisis has reshaped Britain’s flood risk" https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/31/climate-crisis-flood-risk-britain?CMP=share_btn_url

‘Homes may have to be abandoned’: how climate crisis has reshaped Britain’s flood risk
As rivers swell and homes are cut off, scientists say UK winter rainfall is already 20 years ahead of predictions

I've done several startups. We had to obey various restrictions about making sure that certain kinds of options and founders securities were available only to those who had $1million net worth.
This rule annoyed a lot of people, but it is there for a good reason: Doing startups is risky and the rules help protect people who don't have the resources to absorb a failure. (And some of our startups did fail.)
Same for some investments - there are a lot of scammy offers out t…

Same, but for bikes. (build some fucking PBLs in central queens already) https://bird.makeup/users/streetsblognyc/statuses/2023092954827456522

Ukraine update: Russia massing white phosphorus and thermobaric bombs as politicians distract the masses with chatter about peace.
Giorgio and Alla are heroes who risk their lives in Ukraine, reporting from the trenches of Democracy where US media never goes.
Support Ukraine, support journalism, support decency and truth, by sharing the friend link to bypass the paywall:

"Study finds climate change set the stage for devastating wildfires in Argentina and Chile"
#Argentina #Chile #Environmen

Study finds climate change set the stage for devastating wildfires in Argentina and Chile
Human-caused climate change had an important impact on the recent ferocious wildfires that engulfed parts of Chile and Argentina's Patagonia region, making the extremely high-risk conditions that led to widespread burning up to three times more likely than in a world without global warming, a team of researchers warned on Wednesday.

US sanctions on ICC should be used as an indicator of where to direct efforts to grow independence from US businesses
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/02/18/us-sanctions-turn-international-criminal-court-judge…

US sanctions turn ICC judge’s daily life into a nightmare
French ICC Judge Nicolas Guillou is living a nightmare after the US sanctioned him and other judges for issuing an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, once again exposing the risk of Europeans' reliance on American services. #EuropeNews

»Why Shortened URLs Pose a Security Risk«
On Mastodon / Fediverse, shortening the URL is not necessary at all, because they are not marked in their full length. Apart from the shorter tracking, their data collection frenzy as well as their timing is also very inconvenient.
🚫 https://…

Why Shortened URLs Pose a Security Risk - Acer Corner
Shortened URLs are widely used in the digital world. They are small, concise links that replace long web addresses, making them easier to share across social media, emails, and text messages. Popular services like Bitly and TinyURL have become household names for this reason. Despite their convenience, shortened URLs also…

The IMF says the "surprisingly resilient" global economy is at risk of a sharp AI boom reversal, but the "levels of market frothiness" are below the dotcom bust (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/2af4d92a-452c-4d35-ab55-3afce930f98a

All consequences are unexpected if consequences are never considered.
https://theintercept.com/2026/01/19/doge-cuts-pentagon-it-military/

DOGE Cuts “Unexpectedly and Significantly Impacted” Critical Pentagon Unit
Staffing problems caused by DOGE resulted in the Defense Information Systems Agency warning of “extreme risk for loss of service” across the military.

UK social homes unprepared for rising heat as policy fails to keep pace, new research warns #UnitedKingdom

UK social homes unprepared for rising heat as policy fails to keep pace, new research warns
Millions of UK social homes are at growing risk from rising temperatures and soaring energy costs and current housing and climate policies are failing to keep up, according to new research by The University of Manchester.

Ravens take big risk by doing what rest of the NFL would do: Firing John Harbaugh https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6952503/2026/01/08/john-harbaugh-fired-ravens-change-risk-stability/

Where do you record the risk from a lack of a risk register?

Privacy advocates see risk in new Meta policy that uses AI chats to serve targeted ads https://therecord.media/privacy-advocates-see-risks-meta-ai-ad-targeting

San Francisco's leaders say we need to act on #climate. So why does #MayorLurie propose gutting San Francisco Environment's climate team? Please tell the SF Supervisors not to do foolhardy cost-cutting - the climate work is URGENT. Here's an explainer and draft letter to send:

San Francisco could nullify its own Climate Action Plan!
The current 2-year City budget proposal mandates such drastic cuts to SF Environment Department (SFE) that 7.8 full-time-equivalent staff positions disappear in July: this is most of its climate program staff, with years of climate action expertise. At extreme risk: Planning, progress & oversight of green-house gas emissions reduction programs Building electrification programs like the Climate Equity Hub - which, partnering with CBOs, provides free electric appliances, education and outr…

San Francisco's leaders say we need to act on #climate. So why does #MayorLurie propose gutting San Francisco Environment's climate team? Please tell the SF Supervisors not to do foolhardy cost-cutting - the climate work is URGENT. Here's an explainer and draft letter to send:

San Francisco could nullify its own Climate Action Plan!
The current 2-year City budget proposal mandates such drastic cuts to SF Environment Department (SFE) that 7.8 full-time-equivalent staff positions disappear in July: this is most of its climate program staff, with years of climate action expertise. At extreme risk: Planning, progress & oversight of green-house gas emissions reduction programs Building electrification programs like the Climate Equity Hub - which, partnering with CBOs, provides free electric appliances, education and outr…

Relevant för de som tar en låg dos av testosteron som äldre. Det målas ofta upp som naturligt och säkert för att man "återställer" nivåer som man har i tonåren.
High levels of testosterone in the blood may raise risk of coronary artery disease https://…

High levels of testosterone in the blood may raise risk of coronary artery disease in men - MRC Epidemiology Unit
High levels of testosterone in the blood have been linked to a greater risk of coronary artery disease in men, according to new genetic research led by scientists at the […]

The biggest risk to Canada comes from its prickly southern neighbor.
The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)
— a regional trade pact Trump signed in his first term that allows many goods to cross North American borders duty-free
— comes up for renewal this year.
Trump is almost sure to demand changes meant to shift manufacturing to the United States
— and might threaten to pull out of the deal altogether,
especially if he is inclined to punish Carney for…

Trump's protectionist trade policies allow China to swoop in
America’s top trading partners are responding to President Trump’s trade policies by trying to take their business to China and elsewhere.

“I can easily imagine a situation where the USA will demand #Greenland from Denmark and will threaten to deactivate our weapons and let #Russia attack us when we refuse. Buying American weapons is a security risk that we can not run.” -- Rasmus Jarlov. Chair, Danish parliament’s defence committee.

Hi, I'm Thomas. Back in 2005 or so I've practically invented in-browser animations with HTML elements.
PLEASE DO NOT ANIMATE USER INTERFACE ELEMENTS FOR NO REASON.
Do not animate icons, change positions of buttons, do "fun liquid glass animations"; definitely under no circumstances move in or fade in whole blocks of text (unless your design goal is that you want people looking at your website to become nauseous).
Only use animation when it's helpful to the user—for example, when they need to pay extra attention to something because there's a risk of data loss or to pass the time while showing that something is going on when there's a process which takes a bit longer.

Bitcoin fell 3.6% to under $92K, ether fell ~5%, and solana fell 8.6%, wiping ~$100B from crypto's total value, after Trump proposed new 10% European tariffs (Suvashree Ghosh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

The Sun EIC Victoria Newton told staff that the paper plans to merge its features desk with the Fabulous celebrity and lifestyle team, placing some jobs at risk (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

Jobs at risk as Sun set to merge features desk and Fabulous team
The Sun has proposed merging its features team with the Fabulous celebrity and lifestyle desk.

🫀 Myocardial Fibrosis in Athletes: Risk Marker or Physiological Adaptation?
#heart

OpenAI warns new models pose 'high' cybersecurity risk
https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-warns-new-models-pose-high-cybersecurity-risk-2025-12-10/

How SpaceX Rockets Put Passenger Planes at Risk — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/spacex-faa-launch-airlines-safety-explosions-florida-caribbean
'When SpaceX CEO Elon Musk chose a remote Texas outpost on the Gulf Coast to develop his company’s ambitious Starship, he put the 400-foot rocket on a collision course with the commercial airline industry.'

Inflection Risk Solutions provides false information when employers seek background checks on prospective new hires.
I know because I was a victim of their criminal negligence. I got my class action settlement check this week.
FUCK Inflection Risk Solutions, for all the opportunities they cost me, and everyone else who was erroneously listed as a criminal sex offender.

Dementia is tragically common among the elderly.
In 2021 57m people worldwide were thought to have the condition.
Ageing is a risk factor for many other ailments too,
ranging from chronic inflammation to a decline in organ function.
A growing body of work, however, suggests that simply taking a course of the #shingles

Danish intelligence classifies Trump's America as a security risk (Antoaneta Roussi/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/danish-intelligence-classifies-donald-trump-america-as-security-risk/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p34#a251211p34

Japanese nuclear plant operator fabricated seismic risk data https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/01/japanese-nuclear-plant-operator-fabricated-seismic-risk-data/

Japanese nuclear plant operator fabricated seismic risk data
Company staff were very selective about how they modeled earthquake dangers.

A senior Pentagon official says Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is "close" to cutting business ties with Anthropic and designating it as a "supply chain risk" (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/16/anthropic-defense-department-relations…

Exclusive: Pentagon threatens Anthropic punishment
The Pentagon may label Anthropic a "supply chain risk," forcing all its vendors to sever ties.

"Continuum of Care"
is the federal government’s flagship program to support state and local governments and non-profits in funding housing and other services for individuals at risk of or experiencing homelessness.
The program is built on the principle that getting unhoused people housed can get them on a path to address other challenges.
But in the past months, the Trump administration has tried to issue sweeping policy shifts to the program,
some of which…

A Refuge for Afghan Music Is at Risk of Falling Silent - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/LAlQW

Extinctions ‘already happening’ in Wales as report lists 3,000 at-risk species https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/extinctions-already-happening-in-wales-as-report-lists-3000-at-risk-species/
…

Extinctions ‘already happening’ in Wales as report lists 3,000 at-risk species
Nearly 3,000 species in the country of Wales, in the U.K., are now found in just a handful of locations, according to a recent report. These species include hundreds of plants, fungi and mosses, as well as 25 bird, six mammal, five freshwater fish and one amphibian species. The report, produced by Natural Resources Wales […]

Human Rights groups warn an immigration detention camp at Fort Bliss has reached a “breaking point”
Human rights experts are sounding the alarm about living conditions at the immigration detention camp that houses hundreds of people.
“Fort Bliss is a human and civil rights disaster,”
said Eunice Cho Senior Counsel for the American Civil Liberty Union’s prison program.
The ACLU and other organizations allege physical abuse,
unsanitary conditions and medical negle…

Human Rights groups warn immigration detention camp at Fort Bliss reaching “breaking point”
Human Rights groups are calling the immigration detention camp at Fort Bliss a human and civil rights disaster. They demand the federal government shut down the tent facility and warn living conditions are putting hundreds of people held there at risk.

U.S. military members fear personal legal blowback tied to boat strikes (Ryan Lucas/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/12/nx-s1-5629164/boat-strikes-service-members-legal-risk
http://www.memeorandum.com/251212/p122#a251212p122

Pentagon threatens to label Anthropic's AI a "supply chain risk"
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/16/anthropic-defense-department-relationship-hegseth

When an agency can grab people first and sort out rights later
(if they bother at all)
everyone is at risk.
-- Citizen or not.
https://bsky.app/profile/cwebbonline.com/post/3mckfsaf3xk2n

Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com)
ICE isn’t making rare mistakes. This is the point. When an agency can grab people first and sort out rights later, if they bother at all, everyone is at risk. Citizen or not.

Over 100 researchers from Johns Hopkins, Oxford, and more call for guardrails on some infectious disease datasets that could enable AI to design deadly viruses (Megan Morrone/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/17/ai-data-viruses-biosecurity

AI's big biosecurity blind spot
Once high-risk biological data hits the open web, it can't be recalled.

Study finds climate change set the stage for devastating wildfires in Argentina and Chile https://phys.org/news/2026-02-climate-stage-devastating-wildfires-argentina.html

Study finds climate change set the stage for devastating wildfires in Argentina and Chile
Human-caused climate change had an important impact on the recent ferocious wildfires that engulfed parts of Chile and Argentina's Patagonia region, making the extremely high-risk conditions that led to widespread burning up to three times more likely than in a world without global warming, a team of researchers warned on Wednesday.

OpenAI says the cyber capabilities of its frontier AI models are accelerating and warns that upcoming models are likely to pose a "high" risk (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/10/openai-new-models-cybersecurity-risks

Exclusive: New OpenAI models likely pose "high" cybersecurity risk, company says
OpenAI says it's stepping up efforts to protect against attacks.

By combining retinal imaging, genetics, and big data,
physician-researchers from Harvard Medical School, Mass Eye and Ear, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
have found that they can estimate how likely a person is to develop eye and systemic diseases in the future.
⭐️They found significant associations between the thinning of different retinal layers and increased risk of developing ocular, cardiac, pulmonary, metabolic, and neuropsy…

India approves a $1.1B state-backed VC fund to finance high-risk areas like AI and advanced manufacturing, doubling down on an effort that debuted in 2016 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/14/india-doubles-down…

India doubles down on state-backed venture capital, approving $1.1B fund | TechCrunch
India’s $1.1B fund-of-funds will invest through private VCs to support deep-tech and manufacturing startups.

Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale
The chemical industry finally got its wish.
Industry lobbyists have long pushed the federal government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the
💥cancer risk 💥from chemicals,
one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them.
Last week, in a highly unusual move,
👉the Environmental Protection Agency embraced that approach
in announcing that it is revi…

Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale
Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them.

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.
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