2025-10-23 14:35:45
Cyprus's financial regulator grants a crypto license to Revolut, allowing the startup to offer crypto services across the EU under new regulations (Elizabeth Howcroft/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
Cyprus's financial regulator grants a crypto license to Revolut, allowing the startup to offer crypto services across the EU under new regulations (Elizabeth Howcroft/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/microsoft-says-some-sharepoint-server-hackers-now-using-ransomware-2025-07-23/
Microsoft says some SharePoint server hack…
Microsoft says the "Storm-2603" group is now deploying ransomware via vulnerable SharePoint server versions, as the estimated number of victims hits 400 (Raphael Satter/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/…
Trace Replay Simulation of MIT SuperCloud for Studying Optimal Sustainability Policies
Wesley Brewer, Matthias Maiterth, Damien Fay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16513 https://
Economic Complexity Alignment and Sustainable Development
Quinten De Wettinck, Karolien De Bruyne, Wouter Bam, C\'esar A. Hidalgo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17919 https://…
"Consumed by convenience: The culture of disposability"
#Consumerism #Disposability
https://
Filing: CFPB scrapped a 2024 Apple credit card settlement implemented under Biden, ending oversight requirements years early; Apple had already paid a $25M fine (Christian Martinez/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa…
Power as a Platform: The Role of Real Estate in the Grid of the Future
AFIRE - August 21
“Multifamily buildings are evolving from captive energy consumers to grid-connected assets. This transformation unlocks financial returns, mitigates risk, and delivers on rising regulatory and capital market expectations.”
https://www.…
Patterns in the Transition From Founder-Leadership to Community Governance of Open Source
Mobina Noori, Mahasweta Chakraborti, Amy X Zhang, Seth Frey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16295
Nice article about the importance of connecting data, harmony without orchestration of millions of small flexible energy actions, inspired by a post of mine.
https://nemlog.substack.com/p/sustainability-will-not-be-commanded
I've been sharing the word about #AI4LAM at the first 'AI Indaba and Library Technology Expo' in South Africa. Some great speakers on the livestream if you're curious about the South African library perspective on AI, innovation and sustainability
Google will pay $30M to settle a class action lawsuit alleging it violated kids' privacy on YouTube by collecting data without parental consent for targeted ads (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
US targets steel, copper, lithium imports under Uyghur forced labor law (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/us-targets-steel-copper-lithium-imports-under-uyghur-forced-labor-law-2025-08-19/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250819/p53#a250819p53
Post crisis Strategies: Antifragility Principles as Catalysts for Urban Evolution Towards Sustainability
Joseph Uguet, Nicola Tollin, Jordi Morat\'o
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15245
☣️ In the Philippines, informal e-waste dismantling poses health risks
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/07/29/sustainability/philippine-e-waste-dismantle-health/
🆓
A multi-temporal multi-spectral attention-augmented deep convolution neural network with contrastive learning for crop yield prediction
Shalini Dangi, Surya Karthikeya Mullapudi, Chandravardhan Singh Raghaw, Shahid Shafi Dar, Mohammad Zia Ur Rehman, Nagendra Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15966
SLM-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark of Small Language Models on Environmental Impacts -- Extended Version
Nghiem Thanh Pham, Tung Kieu, Duc-Manh Nguyen, Son Ha Xuan, Nghia Duong-Trung, Danh Le-Phuoc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15478
The DOJ says it will no longer target developers who create decentralized crypto platforms without criminal intent, as part of a regulatory retreat on crypto (Chris Prentice/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa…
Genuinely surprised the DoJ is following through on this given its new effort to marginalize disabled people.
“US sues Uber, alleges discrimination against disabled riders”
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/soc
Towards a Taxonomy of Sustainability Requirements for Software Design
Mandira Roy, Novarun Deb, Nabendu Chaki, Agostino Cortesi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08990 https://
Robots that Evolve with Us: Modular Co-Design for Personalization, Adaptability, and Sustainability
Lingyun Chen, Qing Xiao, Zitao Zhang, Eli Blevis, Selma \v{S}abanovi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11622
Improving the FAIRness and Sustainability of the NHGRI Resources Ecosystem
Larry Babb, Carol Bult, Vincent J. Carey, Robert J. Carroll, Benjamin C. Hitz, Chris J. Mungall, Heidi L. Rehm, Michael C. Schatz, Alex Wagner, NHGRI Resource Workshop Community
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13498
A lawyer says 55 Chinese iPhone and iPad users filed an antitrust complaint in China alleging Apple abuses its market dominance by restricting app distribution (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
Cork (Ireland), will host the 12th International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in 2027 with satellite gatherings in Covilha (Portugal) and Cluj-Napoca (Romania).
Cork 2027 | degrowth.info
https://degrowth.info/en/conference/cork-2027
Bites of Tomorrow: Personalized Recommendations for a Healthier and Greener Plate
Jiazheng Jing, Yinan Zhang, Chunyan Miao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13870 https://
Food Systems Overlooked in National Climate Plans, New Scorecard Shows https://vegconomist.com/sustainability-environment/food-systems-overlooked-national-climate-plans-new-scorecard-shows/
Sustainable AI Training via Hardware-Software Co-Design on NVIDIA, AMD, and Emerging GPU Architectures
Yashasvi Makin, Rahul Maliakkal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13163 https://
Energy Management and Wake-up for IoT Networks Powered by Energy Harvesting
David Ernesto Ruiz-Guirola, Samuel Montejo-Sanchez, Israel Leyva-Mayorga, Zhu Han, Petar Popovski, Onel L. A. Lopez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13825
"California advances climate action with new legislation"
#California #Climate #ClimateChange
Comparing energy consumption and accuracy in text classification inference
Johannes Zschache, Tilman Hartwig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14170 https://arxiv…
I wonder how Nazi Germany handled climate issues during the Holocaust. Do you think it was widely discussed at the time? https://mastodon.social/@Snoro/115179873107637672
Evaluating End-User Device Energy Models in Sustainability Reporting of Browser-Based Web Services
Maja H. Kirkeby, Timmie Lagermann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12566 https://
From Canada's National Observer
Whistleblower Exposes How AI Fuels Big Oil Growth
"We realized we were basically working for an oil company," said Holly Alpine, a former Microsoft employee who quit her dream job on the company's sustainability team when she realized the company, like most tech companies, is helping fossil fuel companies extract more oil and gas."
#fossilfuels
Energy-Aware 6G Network Design: A Survey
Rashmi Kamran, Mahesh Ganesh Bhat, Pranav Jha, Shana Moothedath, Manjesh Hanawal, Prasanna Chaporkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11289 ht…
CarAT: Carbon Atom Tracing across Industrial Chemical Value Chains via Chemistry Language Models
Emma Pajak, David Walz, Olga Walz, Laura Marie Helleckes, Klaus Hellgardt, Antonio del Rio Chanona
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10216
Google will pay $30M to settle a class action lawsuit alleging it violated kids' privacy on YouTube by collecting data without parental consent for targeted ads (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
Sustainability Assessment of Future Accelerators
C. Bloise, E. Cennini, J. Gutleber, W. Kaabi, A. Klumpp, P. Koppenburg, Y. Li, B. List, R. Losito, B. Mandelli, E. A. Nanni, N. Neufeld, T. Schoerner-Sadenius, B. Shepherd, V. Shiltsev, S. Stapnes, M. Titov, L. Ulrici, H. Wakeling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11705
Towards AI-based Sustainable and XR-based human-centric manufacturing: Implementation of ISO 23247 for digital twins of production systems
Huizhong Cao, Henrik S\"oderlund, Qi Fang, Siyuan Chen, Lejla Erdal, Ammar Gubartalla, Paulo Victor Lopes, Guodong Shao, Per Lonnehed, Henri Putto, Abbe Ahmed, Sven Ekered, Bj\"orn Johansson
https://
Surviving the Narrative Collapse: Sustainability and Justice in Computing Within Limits
Dave Guruge, Samuel Mann, Ruth Myers, Oliver Bates, Mikey Goldweber, Andy Williamson, Jon Lasenby, Ian Brooks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05992
AI-Driven Collaborative Satellite Object Detection for Space Sustainability
Peng Hu, Wenxuan Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00755 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…
A UK judge dismisses Wikimedia's Online Safety Act challenge over requiring Wikipedia to verify users and contributors, but says it can file further challenges (Sam Tobin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/so…
6G Resilience -- White Paper
Hirley Alves, Nurul H. Mahmood, Onel L. A. L\'opez, Sumudu Samarakoon, Seppo Yrj\"ol\"a, Matti Latva-Aho, Markku Juntti, Ari Pouttu, Armin Dekorsy, Arthur Sousa de Sena, Aydin Sezgin, Bho Matthiesen, Chafika Benzaid, Chathuranga Weeraddana, David Hutchison, Dileepa Marasinghe, Doganalp Ergenc, Eduard Jorswieck, Erkki Harjula, Falko Dressler, Harri Saarnisaari, Italo Atzeni, Jaap Van De Beek, Jacek Rak, Konstantin Mikhaylov, Lauri Loven, Madhus…
Heading to @SustainableBrands next week? It’s my favorite gathering for people reimagining business through purpose and profit.
Lately I’m hearing from execs who feel their sustainability work is plateauing—not for lack of heart, but because the system itself resists the kind of change we’re trying to create. What are _you_ noticing?
If that’s on your mind too, let’s grab 15 minutes at SB to trade notes. I promise you’ll walk away with at least one useful perspective you hadn’t c…
US DNI Tulsi Gabbard says the UK has agreed to drop its mandate requiring Apple to provide a backdoor for accessing users' encrypted data (Kanishka Singh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
Next-Generation Sustainable Wireless Systems: Energy Efficiency Meets Environmental Impact
Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas, Omar Hashash, Kimia Ehsani, Walid Saad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02395
LUNDIsim: model meshes for flow simulation and scientific data compression benchmarks
Laurent Duval, Fr\'ed\'eric Payan, Christophe Preux, Lauriane Bouard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13636
Major US online retailers remove listings for millions of prohibited Chinese electronics
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/major-us-online-retailers-remove-listings-…
A Conceptual Model and Methodology for Sustainability-aware, IoT-enhanced Business Processes
Victoria Torres Bosch, Ronny Seiger, Manuela Albert Albiol, Antoni Mestre Gascon, Pedro Jose Valderas Aranda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05301
The US FTC sues Key Investment Group, operator of sites like TotalTickets.com, for skirting ticket limits to buy up and resell live event tickets at a markup (Jody Godoy/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa…
Embedding Sustainability in Software Engineering Curriculum: A Case Study
Ruzanna Chitchyan, Niki Mahmoudi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03321 https://arxiv.o…
Global treaty to end subsidies for destructive fishing takes effect https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/10/global-treaty-to-end-subsidies-for-destructive-fishing-takes-effect/
"From Kemi Badenoch to Nigel Farage: How UK Plc’s sustainability leaders can respond to net-zero backlash"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Sustainability
Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure by Trump administration (Kanishka Singh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/apple-removes-ice-tracking-apps-after-pressure-by-trump-administration-2025-10-03/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251003/p50#a251003p50
Deliveroo CEO Will Shu will step down once its takeover by DoorDash takes effect; the deal is expected to close by October 2 (Yadarisa Shabong/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-re…
Sustainability Evaluation Metrics for Recommender Systems
Alexander Felfernig, Damian Garber, Viet-Man Le, Sebastian Lubos, Thi Ngoc Trang Tran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22520 …
SEER: Sustainability Enhanced Engineering of Software Requirements
Mandira Roy, Novarun Deb, Nabendu Chaki, Agostino Cortesi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08981 https://
Sustainability Risks under Lotka-Volterra Dynamics
Yiren Wang, Tianhao Zhi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04780 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04780
A US district judge rules Amazon violated consumer law by collecting Prime subscribers' billing info before disclosing terms, handing the FTC a partial win (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/us-ftc-wins-key…
Join me at two events at the British Library later this month:
https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/knowledge-is-human
On 20 October, the British Library is joining forces with Wikimedia UK and the Wikimedia Foundation to explore the impact of AI on ope…
Bridging Farm Economics and Landscape Ecology for Global Sustainability through Hierarchical and Bayesian Optimization
Kevin Bradley Dsouza, Graham Alexander Watt, Yuri Leonenko, Juan Moreno-Cruz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06386
Imposing AI: Deceptive design patterns against sustainability
Ana\"elle Beignon, Thomas Thibault, Nolwenn Maudet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08672 https://
Australia's ACCC says Google agreed pay a ~$36M fine over deals from 2019-2021 with Telstra and Optus to pre-install only Google Search on Android phones (Himanshi Akhand/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
Two authors file a proposed class action lawsuit against Apple, alleging Apple knowingly used a dataset of pirated books to train its AI models (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-…
Sprouting technology otherwise, hospicing negative commons -- Rethinking technology in the transition to sustainability-oriented futures
Martin Deron
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05860
Exclusive: US regulators cancel bank exams as Trump rollback gathers pace (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-regulators-cancel-bank-exams-trump-rollback-gathers-pace-2025-09-02/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250902/p11#a250902p11
SustainableQA: A Comprehensive Question Answering Dataset for Corporate Sustainability and EU Taxonomy Reporting
Mohammed Ali, Abdelrahman Abdallah, Adam Jatowt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03000
Filing: the SEC settles a lawsuit accusing crypto exchange Gemini of failing to register the Gemini Earn lending program before offering it to retail investors (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa…
"Urban heat relief: Trees need water and space to maximize cooling, study finds"
#Trees #Environment
https://
Some Bollywood stars sue YouTube, seeking the removal of AI videos infringing their IP, and want safeguards to stop other AI models from training on such videos (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/soc
New York sues Zelle, claiming that security lapses led to $1B in consumer fraud losses; the US CFPB dropped a similar case in March (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
A Knowledge Graph Informing Soil Carbon Modeling
Nasim Shirvani-Mahdavi, Devin Wingfield, Juan Guajardo Gutierrez, Mai Tran, Zhengyuan Zhu, Zeyu Zhang, Haiqi Zhang, Abhishek Divakar Goudar, Chengkai Li, Virginia Jin, Timothy Propst, Dan Roberts, Catherine Stewart, Jianzhong Su, Jennifer Woodward-Greene
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10965
"Hollywood’s Environmental Tools Make Filmmaking Green and Affordable"
#US #USA #America #Hollywood
Perspectives, Needs and Challenges for Sustainable Software Engineering Teams: A FinServ Case Study
Satwik Ghanta, Peggy Gregory, Gul Calikli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12466 ht…
Paxos applies to create a US national trust bank, which would allow it to manage and hold assets for customers, following applications by Circle and Ripple (Hannah Lang/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
A US federal judge preliminarily approves Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement with authors (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-j…
A UK judge dismisses Wikimedia's Online Safety Act challenge over requiring Wikipedia to verify users and contributors, but says it can file further challenges (Sam Tobin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/so…
Towards an Architectural Perspective for Sustainability: Bundle the Needs from Industry
Markus Funke, Patricia Lago
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20774 https://
Funding AI for Good: A Call for Meaningful Engagement
Hongjin Lin, Anna Kawakami, Catherine D'Ignazio, Kenneth Holstein, Krzysztof Gajos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12455 htt…
"Why the future of sustainable furniture is pre-loved"
#Furniture #Sustainability
https://www.
Google is the first company to be designated with special status in the UK under new digital laws; the designation does not introduce any immediate requirements (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
Sustaining Research Software: A Fitness Function Approach
Philipp Zech, Irdin Pekaric
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10085 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.10085
Towards Sustainability Model Cards
Gwendal Jouneaux, Jordi Cabot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19559 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19559
Crypto exchange Gemini launches an Australian arm, Gemini Intergalactic Australia, to offer its services in the country after registering with regulator AUSTRAC (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-…
New York City sues Meta, Alphabet, Snap, and ByteDance, accusing them of fueling a mental health crisis among children by addicting them to social media (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa…
State Department cable: Marco Rubio orders diplomats in Europe to lobby against the DSA, arguing it imposes free speech restrictions and high compliance costs (Humeyra Pamuk/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/soc…
Linda Yaccarino is named CEO of digital health platform eMed Population Health less than a month after stepping down as CEO of X (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-reg…
Two authors file a proposed class action lawsuit against Apple, alleging Apple knowingly used a dataset of pirated books to train its AI models (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-…
OpenAI asks a US judge to dismiss a lawsuit alleging it hired away xAI employees to steal trade secrets, calling the case part of Musk's "ongoing harassment" (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/bo…
Elon Musk alleges Apple is violating antitrust laws by "making it impossible" for any AI firm but OpenAI to top its App Store, says xAI will take legal action (Surbhi Misra/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustaina…
Indonesia raises taxes on crypto sellers, from 0.1% to 0.21% in domestic exchanges, and from 0.2% to 1% in overseas exchanges, but removes VAT on buyers (Stefanno Sulaiman/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
The US makes it harder for Samsung, SK Hynix, and Intel to produce chips in China by revoking waivers for the use of US equipment in their Chinese operations (Karen Freifeld/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/soc
The UK Supreme Court denied Uber's appeal in a case over VAT, forcing Uber to pay a 20% VAT on fares outside London while rival private taxi operators pay none (Sam Tobin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sus
FCC Chair Brendan Carr says major US online retailers have removed several million listings for prohibited Chinese electronics as part of the agency's crackdown (David Shepardson/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainab…
Germany-based Makersite, which helps clients like Microsoft improve product sustainability during the design process, raised a €60M Series B (David Cendon Garcia/EU-Startups)
https://www.eu-startups.com/2025/07/german
The EU's General Court sides with Meta and TikTok in their legal dispute with the EC over the DSA's 0.05% supervisory fee, saying the EU's methodology is flawed (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustai…
A US federal judge preliminarily approves Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement with authors (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-j…
Source: President Trump will sign the TikTok deal on Thursday (Nandita Bose/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/trump-will-sign-tiktok-deal-thursday-source-says-2025-09-24/
The EU launches an antitrust probe into SAP over its ERP software maintenance and support services, with a potential fine of ~10% of its annual global sales (Makini Brice/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
A US judge dismisses a lawsuit accusing Intel of defrauding shareholders by hiding problems in its foundry unit, news of which led to a $32B one-day stock fall (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa