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Delve Accused of Fraud by Anthony Ha. Delve responded to the accusations by saying it does not issue compliance reports at all. Instead, it’s an automation platform that ingests information about compliance, then provides auditors with access to that information. (What if Silicon Valley’s hottest startup trend is half-assing as a service (HAaaS))

Groups of Unknown Drones Spotted Over US Base Housing B-52 Bombers by Dmytro Shumlianskyi. These drones did not resemble commercially available models—they were high-tech, had a significantly greater range, and were resistant to electronic countermeasures. (Related: Surveillance risks and the TIDALWAVE report)

Pakistan’s solar boom is helping it save billions during the ongoing energy crisis by Adele Peters. Pakistan gets almost all its oil and gas from the Middle East, where U.S. and Israeli bombing of Iran have caused crude prices to blow past $150 a barrel and tankers can’t get through the Strait of Hormuz. But it has one edge in the crisis: a rapid, recent shift to solar power.

Germany Mandates ODF for Public Administration in Sovereign Digital Stack by Bobby Borisov. Germany has mandated the Open Document Format (ODF) as the standard for public administration documents within its new sovereign digital infrastructure framework, the Deutschland-Stack. Published by the Federal Ministry for Digital and State Modernisation, the framework sets technical standards for a unified, interoperable digital environment across all government levels. It explicitly requires ODF and PDF/UA as document formats, excluding proprietary alternatives from official use.

Lina Khan was right by Victoria Song. The FTC’s Meta lawsuit was often framed as an abstract attempt to rein in Big Tech. But in the end, the acquisition’s human cost was obvious—and an example of precisely why antitrust law matters.

90% of crypto’s Illinois primary spending failed to achieve its objective by Molly White. The cryptocurrency industry super PACs dumped $14.2 million into the Illinois primaries. 90% of that – $12.8 million – was wasted, in that it went to opposing Democratic candidates who won their primaries.

How China Aligned Itself with Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 by Hesham Alghannam. As for the localization of the renewable energy industry in Saudi Arabia, in July 2024, China’s Envision Energy entered into a joint venture with the PIF and the Saudi manufacturer Vision Industries, a private company, to build a turbine factory in the kingdom….Saudi Arabia also signed two other joint ventures with Chinese companies to manufacture and assemble equipment and components for solar power.

IBM and Ogilvy end 32-year creative partnership by Luz Corona. (All the Linux advertising I remember from the Linux boom was for IBM.)

‘New era for street vendors’: Mamdani names top advocate as NYC’s vendor czar by Arya Sundaram. Our street vendors are not a problem to solve — they are a community to support, the mayor said in a statement.

How Brazil’s innovative ‘Pix’ payment system is angering Trump and Zuckerberg by Vitoria Barreto. [Paul Krugman] emphasised that Pix is achieving what cryptocurrency boosters claimed, falsely, to be able to deliver through the blockchain—low transaction costs and financial inclusion.

Outpost Moved its Servers to the E.U. by Ryan Singel. Just to be clear, Outpost has never had a data request, subpoena or National Security Letter dropped on us for our data or any member publisher’s data. But we still thought this was a prudent step given the current political environment.

Beavers can turn streams into carbon stores – we measured how much by Joshua Larsen, Annegret Larsen and Lukas Hallberg. So when beavers dam rivers, they can also fundamentally change how carbon is stored in river landscapes.

Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway. by Renee Dudley, with research by Doris Burke. For years, reviewers said, Microsoft had tried and failed to fully explain how it protects sensitive information in the cloud as it hops from server to server across the digital terrain. Given that and other unknowns, government experts couldn’t vouch for the technology’s security.

How Can Governments Pay Open Source Maintainers? by Terence Eden. When I worked for the UK Government I was once asked if we could find a way to pay for all the Open Source Software we were using. It is a surprisingly hard problem and I want to talk about some of the issues we faced.

Bogdan’s Blog – Windows 8 Was Peak Microsoft and I will die on this hill I know it’s a hot take, and some of y’all might already be reaching for your keyboards, but I don’t care. I used Windows 8 on my desktop, used it on a janky 2-in-1 laptop, and had a blast with both. Dare I say, it might’ve been the snappiest, most responsive version of Windows ever released.