Observers on a boat using acoustic equipment reported four unidentified "gloops" but then realised their recording device wasn't plugged in.

Unleavened bread (no yeast) traditionally cooked on a campfire. It's heavier than normal bread and is best eaten immediately.

Need: Dutch oven, parchment paper is ideal, a little oil otherwise.

Ingredients: 2 cups plain flour, 2 tablespoon butter (vegan OK), 3/4 cup milk (vegan OK), 1 teaspoon salt

Build a nice hot fire or Preheat regular oven to 400 F (no need to preheat the dutch oven)

Mix flour, salt and butter into a crumbly consistency.

Add milk and mix to a consistent dough.

Shape dough into a flat, round cake on parchment paper

Place parchment paper and dough into dutch oven and cover. In lieu of parchment paper, use a little oil inside the dutch oven to prevent sticking.

Place dutch oven in hot coals or at 400F oven for 45 minutes.

Remove damper. Outside should be a hard crust. Cool a few minutes then serve with butter and/or jam.

Nova, who described herself as an author, engineer, computer scientist, and alpinist, was best known for her work on Linux, Kubernetes, and Aurae. She also co-founded The Nivenly Foundation in 2023. The foundation's purpose was to serve as moderators for Hachyderm, a social media for technical professionals that she helped create.

Following her death, The Nivenly Foundation expressed their anguish through a poignant statement and said:

“It is with immense sadness that we must share with you the news of the loss of our friend, our leader, and our mentor, Kris Nóva. It was Nóva who inspired us to come together to build Pachyderm, whose vision created Nivenly, and whose mission we continue to carry forward.”

Long but a good read. The fascinating life of Joseph Weizenbaum, the creator of ELIZA.

Mehta tossed out accusations brought by the states that Google made it harder for internet users to find specialized search engines, like Expedia for travel or OpenTable for restaurants, saying the states "have not demonstrated the requisite anticompetitive effect in the relevant market."

Google said Friday it appreciated the court's "careful consideration and decision to dismiss claims regarding the design of Google Search" in the case brought by the states.

"We look forward to showing at trial that promoting and distributing our services is both legal and pro-competitive," added Kent Walker, Google's chief legal officer.

Google has denied any wrongdoing in both cases.

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser said he was pleased with Mehta's opinion, adding: "We will continue to evaluate how to best press forward and establish Google’s pattern of illegal conduct that harms consumers and competition."

Justice must be seen to be done. And seeing is believing. Good enough for google and the government, I guess.

Mr Sunak's record on environmental issues has come under scrutiny in recent months after he said he would take a "proportionate approach" to climate change that balances net zero ambitions with the need to keep consumers' bills down.

That has drawn fury from climate protesters who have stepped up their campaigns, disrupting high-profile sporting events, classical music concerts and political speeches.

In response, Mr Sunak's ministers have introduced new laws to clamp down on "eco-mob" protester tactics including slow walking in busy roads and "locking-on" to buildings or infrastructure.

Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden said protesters should "stop the stupid stunts".

2 cups lentils. Boil an hour or so until soft. Faster if soaked overnight.

2 onions, chopped

Handful chopped carrots, celery any other veggies chopped up fine

Salt, spices to taste

1 cup rolled oats

Sautee onions and veggies

Combine all ingredients well in a large bowl

Hand shape mix into burgers and cook on medium heat until browned both sides. Serve as you wish.

Uncooked burgers can be frozen.

Under the restrictions unveiled on Wednesday following a public consultation, anyone under the age of 18 will be cut off from accessing the internet on a device from 10pm to 6am.

A tiered system for managing smartphone usage time will also be imposed when the restrictions come into force on September 2.

There will be a maximum of 40 minutes of usage a day for those under the age of eight, to two hours for 16 and 17-year-olds.

The new rules — proposed by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) — are some of the most stringent in the world.

Parents will be able to bypass them if they wish, however.

"Effectively countering foreign interference through social media is, therefore, one of Australia's most pressing security challenges," it said, adding that the rise in the use of social media could "corrupt our decision-making, political discourse and societal norms."

The committee that compiled the report was particularly concerned by the national security threat posed by social media platforms such as TikTok and WeChat.

The parent companies of both apps ByteDance and Tencent, have headquarters in and are run out of China.

"China's 2017 National Intelligence Law means the Chinese government can require these social media companies to secretly cooperate with Chinese intelligence agencies," the report said.

KOSA is supposed to establish a new legal standard for the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general, allowing them to police companies that fail to prevent kids from seeing harmful content on their platforms. The authors of the bills, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), have said the bill keeps kids from seeing content that glamorizes eating disorders, suicidal thoughts, substance abuse, and gambling. It would also ban kids 13 and under from using social media and require companies to acquire parental consent before allowing children under 17 to use their platforms.

The other bill lawmakers approved, COPPA 2.0, raises the age of protection under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act from 13 to 16 years of age, along with similar age-gating restrictions. It also bans platforms from targeting ads to kids.

The tech trade group NetChoice issued a scathing statement on the bills Thursday.

“When it comes to determining the best way to help kids and teens use the internet, parents and guardians should be making those decisions, not the government,” Carl Szabo, NetChoice vice president and general counsel, said. “Rather than violating free speech rights and handing parenting over to bureaucrats, we should empower law enforcement with the resources necessary to do its job to arrest and convict bad actors committing online crimes against children.”

Xi said popularization of science is an important and fundamental work needed to achieve innovative development.

He hoped the academicians and experts will continue to carry forward the glorious tradition of serving the country through science, encourage more scientific and technological workers to support and participate in the cause of science popularization, and inspire young people's interest in respecting science and seeking knowledge via high-quality and rich content and popular ways, in order to promote science literacy for all, and make new contributions to achieving high-level self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology and promoting Chinese modernization.

The "science and China" academician and expert lecture tour was launched in December 2002. Since then more than 2,000 science popularization activities have been held nationwide.

Recently, 20 academicians and experts who initiated and participated in "science and China" wrote a letter to Xi, reporting on the achievements made since the launch of the campaign. They proposed to advance an initiative involving one thousand academicians and one thousand science popularization activities to gather the strength of the academicians and experts, and make greater contributions to strengthening national science popularization and speeding up the realization of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement.

Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Defense Intelligence Agency and are among several government entities known to have solicited private data brokers to access information for which a court order is generally required. A growing number of lawmakers have come to view the practice as an end run around the US Constitution’s Fourth Amendment guarantees against unreasonable government searches and seizures.

“This unconstitutional mass government surveillance must end,” Ohio congressman Warren Davidson says. Members of the House Judiciary Committee, led by Ohio’s Jim Jordan, will hold a markup hearing on Wednesday to consider a Davidson bill aimed at restricting purchases of Americans’ data without a subpoena, court order, or warrant.

If passed into law, the legislation's restrictions would apply to federal agencies, as well as state and local police departments. Known as the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, the bill is cosponsored by four Republicans and four Democrats, including the committee’s ranking member, Jerry Nadler, who first introduced it alongside California’s Zoe Lofgren in 2021.

Notably, the bill's protections extend to data obtained from a person's account or device even if hacked by a third party, or when disclosure is referenced by a company's terms of service. The bill's sponsors note this would effectively prohibit the government from doing business with companies such as Clearview AI, which has admitted to scraping billions of photos from social media to fuel a facial recognition tool that's been widely tested by local police departments.

square dish or pan for baking mold - about 8 in square and min 2 in deep

Parchment paper to prevent sticking

🔥 preheat Oven 180C / 350F

🥕 150 g carrot

🥕 4 tbsp coconut oil

🥕 4 tbsp brown sugar

🥕 5 tbsp rolled oats

🥕 5 tbsp almond flour

🥕 2 tbsp milk

🥕 1 tsp cinnamon

🥕 1 handful raisins

chop ingredients finely to combine (food processor is best)

line baking dish with parchment paper and press mixture into the mold

🔥 bake 30 min at 180C / 350F

let cool / refrigerate overnight before cutting into bars.

many states are struggling to get their students to take the courses, especially amongst underrepresented communities. For example, Kerr’s state of Connecticut reveals 92% of Connecticut students have access to computer science learning opportunities and 88% of Connecticut districts are offering some form of a computer science course.

Notwithstanding the availability of courses, only 12% of Connecticut students are taking them. “We needed to make computer science accessible and appealing for everyone,” urges Kerr.