Prince William, billionaires Gates and Bloomberg say innovation provides climate hope
“There’s a lot of climate exaggeration,” said Gates, who founded Microsoft and is now a philanthropist. Some financial institutions could supplement emissions reduction measures with the voluntary purchase of carbon credits, according to a handout. She said the goal is to affirm “the importance of credible net-zero commitments and to encourage financial institutions that make them to take consistent approaches to implementation." Yellen also announced that a group of philanthropic organizations – including Bezos Earth Fund, Bloomberg Philanthropies and others – would pledge $340 million to help financial institutions “develop and execute robust, voluntary net-zero commitments,” she said. Afterward, Prince William greeted scores of people lined up behind metal barricades across the street.
Source:The Nation
September 20, 2023 12:29 UTC
Balancer Frontend Hit By DNS Attack, Over $250K Stolen
The front-end websites of popular decentralized exchange (DEX) Balancer were hit by a Domain Name System (DNS) attack on September 19. The Balancer team first alerted users about interacting with the balancer UI yesterday at 7:49 pm EST. The hacker’s address has received multiple stolen assets from networks including Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, Base, and Avalanche. Protecting from DNS attacksWhile DNS attacks are uncommon within crypto circles, they’ve occurred before with Curve Finance in August 2022 and PancakeSwap in May 2021. BlockSec analysts told Decrypt that the DNS attack is “one attack surface, which can trick users.
Source:The Nation
September 20, 2023 12:05 UTC
Glacier Loss Day indicates record breaking glacier melt
Source: phys.orgThe Hintereisferner, located at the back of the Tyrolean Ötztal, has been closely monitored for more than 100 years, and there have been continuous records of its mass balance since 1952. This makes it one of the best-studied glaciers in the Alps and has been key to glacier and climate research at the University of Innsbruck for decades.
Source:The Nation
September 19, 2023 21:05 UTC
Brazil's Lula pitches his nation — and himself — as fresh leader for Global South
He has sought to boost Brazil's cred with each state visit and speech, one multilateral forum after another. Many thought Lula would need to stay home to focus exclusively on domestic issues and healing a riven society. PUSHING FOR GLOBAL GOVERNANCE — BRAZIL-STYLEDuring Lula’s travels, he has pushed for global governance that gives greater heft to the Global South and advocating diminishing the dollar’s dominance in trade. After the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin's arrest, Lula said he would review Brazil's membership in the court. Some in Washington had initially hoped Lula could be helpful in advancing a shared agenda in Venezuela, Winter said.
Source:The Nation
September 19, 2023 05:04 UTC
Stock market today: Asian shares lower, Tokyo closed, as focus turns to Federal Reserve meeting
Shares fell Monday in Asia, with Hong Kong's benchmark pulled lower by property stocks following reports that police had detained staff at the wealth management business of troubled real estate developer China Evergrande. U.S. futures edged higher and oil prices advanced. On Friday, Wall Street benchmarks fell, with technology stocks posing the biggest drag on the market. The market had posted some gains last week following reports of several healthy economic indicators ahead of the Federal Reserve's two-day meeting, which ends Wednesday. Oil prices have been climbing over the summer after Saudi Arabia decided to maintain production cuts.
Source:The Nation
September 18, 2023 04:56 UTC
The Internet Never Met a Rothschild Conspiracy It Can’t Love
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesIn 1990, computer scientists at the Swiss-based research center CERN developed the rudiments of what would become the modern world wide web with still-foundational concepts like HTML, HTTP, and the URL. You can still browse it, even though it’s pretty crude by modern standards. CERN made the software to create websites public domain in 1993, and the internet’s first conspiracy theory site probably popped up seconds later. When conspiracy theory culture moved online, it was following a pattern of early crank adoption of new technology, from easy duplication of photos fueling the Dreyfus Affair to home video equipment making it easier to make and distribute conspiracy films. On bulletin board systems, email lists, Yahoo groups, blocky websites on long-gone providers, and text-based forums like USENET, conspiracy theories flourished.
Source:The Nation
September 17, 2023 06:30 UTC
Hollywood strikes enter a new phase as daytime shows like Drew Barrymore's return despite pickets
NEW YORK – “The Drew Barrymore Show” will begin airing fresh episodes on Monday but a lot of off-air controversy will be clinging to its typically bubbly host. That's because talk shows are covered under a separate contract — the so-called Network Code — from the one actors and writers are striking. People do not forget it.”Viewers who tune into new episodes of daytime talk shows these days will find a changed landscape. Guests aren’t always the A-listers with blockbuster TV shows or films to promote. But Bill Maher and Drew Barrymore and the hosts of ‘The View’ are not just getting by.
Source:The Nation
September 16, 2023 21:34 UTC
Generating biskyrmions in a rare earth magnet
Source: phys.orgMagnetic skyrmions have received much attention as promising, topologically protected quasiparticles with applications in spintronics. Skyrmions are small, swirling topological magnetic excitations with particle-like properties. Nevertheless, the lower stability of magnetic skyrmions only allow them to exist in a narrow temperature range, with low density of the particles, thus implying the need for an external magnetic field, which greatly limits their wider applications.
Source:The Nation
September 16, 2023 20:06 UTC
I Watched a Bunch of PragerU Kids Videos and... Yikes!
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesI went down a PragerU Kids rabbit hole, and JFC, it’s even worse than I thought. (New Hampshire—the “Live Free or Die” state—also approved PragerU’s “financial literacy” for use in its schools.) Gruesome, but fun,” I thought. Sure, I’d seen some of the viral clips online. Source: www.thedailybeast.com
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September 16, 2023 07:34 UTC
Prosecutors in DC election case concerned about harassment, 'intimidation' from Trump, judge says
FILE - Special counsel Jack Smith speaks about an indictment of former President Donald Trump, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023, at a Department of Justice office in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)WASHINGTON – Federal prosecutors in the case charging Donald Trump with scheming to overturn the 2020 presidential election are alleging that the former president has targeted individuals with threats, harassment and inflammatory statements, a judge said Friday. The Justice Department has also conducted interviews with unnamed individuals describing the threats and harassments they have received, though the transcripts of those interviews will remain sealed. “The history of harassment and threats towards the individuals whose information has been redacted demonstrates the real likelihood that they could suffer further intimidation upon disclosure of their identities,” Chutkan wrote. Also Friday, Smith's team pushed back against the Trump team request to have Chutkan recuse herself from the case.
Source:The Nation
September 15, 2023 20:33 UTC
The Justice Department says there's no valid basis for the judge to step aside from Trump's DC case
FILE - This undated photo provided by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, shows U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan. The Justice Department is challenging efforts by ex-President Donald Trump to disqualify the Washington judge presiding over the case charging him with plotting to overturn the 2020 election. (Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts via AP, File)WASHINGTON – The Justice Department is challenging efforts by former President Donald Trump to disqualify the Washington judge presiding over the case charging him with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Prosecutors with special counsel Jack Smith's team wrote in a court filing late Thursday that there was “no valid basis” for U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan to recuse herself. A similar effort to seek the recusal of a judge in a separate New York prosecution he faces was unsuccessful.
Source:The Nation
September 15, 2023 17:35 UTC
On movie screens in Toronto, home is a battleground
This image released by the Toronto International Film Festival shows a scene from the film "Les Indsirables." “I come from an aristocratic family,” one woman says in the film. The biggest battleground isn’t just a war zone but the home. In recent years, Canada has reckoned with its past treatment of Indigenous people, including heinous sterilization programs and forced-schooling systems. “Coming to New Zealand, being Māori, we don’t see enough of ourselves on screen,” Waititi said.
Source:The Nation
September 14, 2023 19:13 UTC
Why now is the right time to implement SMS marketing by Digital Marketing Depot
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Source:The Nation
September 13, 2023 18:05 UTC
Two new rotating radio transients discovered
Source: phys.orgUsing the Large Phased Array (LPA) radio telescope of the Lebedev Physical Institute (LPI) in Pushchino, Russia, astronomers have detected two new rotating radio transients (RRATS). The finding is reported in a research paper published September 2 on the pre-print server arXiv.
Source:The Nation
September 13, 2023 13:32 UTC
Video Shows Boebert Storming Out of Theater After ‘Beetlejuice’ Ejection
Jon Cherry/ReutersVideo published Tuesday by NBC Denver affiliate 9NEWS shows Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and a male companion being escorted out of the Beetlejuice musical in downtown Denver Sunday night in a huff. The incident, which The Denver Post first reported, was spurred by accusations the Republican congresswoman was vaping, singing, recording the performance, and generally “causing a disturbance,” according to officials. In a police incident report obtained by the Post, an usher at the venue recounted what happened: “They told me they would not leave. I told them that they need to leave the theater and if they do not, they will be trespassing. I told them I would (be) going to get Denver Police.
Source:The Nation
September 13, 2023 11:35 UTC