FIRES in Russia's rear – Ukrainian drones ATTACK! Putin threatens with a non-existent fleet: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/03/fires-in-russias-rear-ukrainian.html
OpenAI pulls back: ChatGPT will no longer give medical, legal, or financial advice over liability fears - Technology News | The Financial Express
https://www.financialexpress.com/life/tech
"Spying among friends is unacceptable." Angela Merkel.
The German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) wiretapped then-US President Barack Obama for years.
https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2026-01/bnd-barack-obama-air-force-one-angela…
A profile of June Paik, CEO of Seoul-based chip startup FuriosaAI, valued at ~$700M, whose AI chip dubbed "RNGD" is slated to enter mass production this month (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/furiosa-chip-n…
Brute Force in Venezuela | Opinion | EL PAÍS English
https://english.elpais.com/opinion/2026-01-03/brute-force-in-venezuela.html
El Pais (English) about Trump & Venezuela
Wichtige Info für Syncthing-Nutzer auf Android: https://linuxnews.de/neuer-maintainer-beim-fork-von-syncthing-for-android-erweckt-misstrauen/
Space Forge erhitzt erstmals Fertigungsofen im Weltall auf 1000 Grad
Das Unternehmen Space Forge aus Cardiff konnte zum ersten Mal Plasma im Fertigungsofen ihres Satelliten ForgeStar-1 erzeugen.
https:/…
fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 86 nodes and 353 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata
Good Morning #Canada
Overnight news of Trump attacking another country in a blatant attempt to seize their resources should be a wakeup call for Canada. Does anyone here think a strike on Ottawa to remove the current government couldn't happen? Could the U.S. find a stooge willing to become the interim leader? How much oil, aluminum, uranium, hydropower or other resources would be looted before Trump strokes out from too many big macs. Yesterday I would have laughed at this scenario but today it starts to be less of a fantasy.
I glossed over this article when it was first published back in November but now I'm leaning towards support of developing a volunteer force in Canada. Perhaps a 2-year voluntary military service for our youth to provide employment and training. I don't want a volunteer military force to ever be used and hopefully it becomes a deterrent. But unfortunately a serious discussion is needed.
#CanadaIsAwesome #ElbowsUp
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/the-military-plans-for-a-volunteer-force-to-defend-canada/