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"'I Go Green': Children in Cyprus schools lead the way in environmental protection"
#Cyprus #Environment #Education

Cyprus schoolchildren lead the way in environmental protection
The programme is starting to deliver results, with Cyprus school children at the forefront of the effort

»China bans U.S. and Israeli cybersecurity software over security concerns:
China has told domestic firms to stop using U.S. and Israeli cybersecurity software, citing national security concerns amid rising tech tensions.«
Not that China is wrong, but this is also part of their maintenance of power, just like the USA or Europe and Co.
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China bans U.S. and Israeli cybersecurity software over security concerns
China told domestic firms to stop using US and Israeli cybersecurity software, citing national security concerns amid rising tech tensions

Cybersicherheitsexperten: Auch freiwillige Chatkontrolle gefährdet Grundrechte
Die EU-Staaten haben sich auf den Beibehalt der Option zum freiwilligen Scannen digitaler Nachrichten geeinigt. Wissenschaftler warnen auch vor diesem Ansatz.

foodweb_baywet: Florida cypress wetlands food web (1998)
Networks of carbon exchanges among species in the cypress wetlands of South Florida. One network covers the wet and the other the dry season. Each node represents a taxon (similar to a species), and a directed edge indicates that one taxon uses another as food.
This network has 128 nodes and 2106 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Weighted

from my link log —
The Internet golden age that wasn't.
http://cybersalon.org/the-internet-that-wasnt-net-wars-by-wendy-grossman/
saved 2019-07-25

The Internet that wasn’t – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman - Cybersalon
This week on Twitter, writer and Georgia Tech professor Ian Bogost asked this: "There's a belief tha

En réalité, le nombre de victimes de l'OKC dépasse largement les quelques survivants qui ont pu témoigner. Découvrez l'ampleur de cette tragédie ici :
https://chardonsbleus.org/la-okc-en-chiffres-estimation-conservatoire/

la OKC en chiffres - estimation conservatoire
l'OKC en nombre de victimes, c'est beaucoup plus que la quarantaine de survivants-es qui ont réussi à témoigner ou participer dans les procédures ...

AI deepfakes are now part of our everyday online life—from fake posts w/ high-profile figures to cloned voices that sound like someone you know.
Even if AI makes these scams look more convincing, the tactics behind them haven’t changed: create pressure so you act before you think.
That’s where #digitalmindfulness comes in.
A short pause can make all the difference.

The US and the UK and Australia are going after bulletproof hosting companies.
United States, Australia, and United Kingdom Sanction Russian Cybercrime Infrastructure Supporting Ransomware
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0319

United States, Australia, and United Kingdom Sanction Russian Cybercrime Infrastructure Supporting Ransomware
.caption > figcaption { text-align: center; font-style: italic; } WASHINGTON — Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and the United Kingdom’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office are announcing coordinated sanctions targeting Media Land, a Russia-based bulletproof hosting (BPH) service provider, for its role in supporting ransomware operations and other forms of cybercrime.  OFAC is a…

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.

The 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Award disqualified two books citing AI-made covers; their publisher says AI's rise has put the industry in "uncharted waters" (Jin Yu Young/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/books/new-zealand-ocham…

These Books Were Judged by Their A.I. Covers, and Disqualified
A New Zealand book competition dropped two of a publisher’s books because they had A.I.-generated covers. The publisher and the designer pushed back.