How to help yourself if you live in a high fire zone

SALT LAKE CITY — New legislation passed in 2025 mandated the creation of a plan to help Utahns living in high-risk areas for wildfires. The Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands recently unveiled the state’s new High-Risk Wildland Urban Interface map, a key component of HB48 that was passed by the state Legislature […]

Defence Force mulling how to improve surveillance of oceans

Auckland’s Eastern Beach. Photo: RNZ / Marika Khabazi The Defence Force is brainstorming with local and overseas companies on how to improve intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance in the oceans around New Zealand. Its capability plans calls for spending $50- to $100 million over four years on long-range aerial drones. But the NZDF in a new […]

How to get your part of the Google settlement in Texas

Google settles $1.4B Texas lawsuit Top headlines include Google settling a massive privacy lawsuit filed by the State of Texas, Mexico suing Google over the label “Gulf of America,” a bill limiting ownership of land by some foreign buyers passes the Texas House and car dealerships brace for impacts from tariffs. AUSTIN, Texas – Texans […]

How internet became ‘enshittified’ – and how to fix it

By Charles Barbour of Cory Doctorow coined the term “enshittification” to describe the degeneration of the internet. Photo: Victor Okhrimets / 123RF Analysis: Remember when Twitter used to be good? I reckon it peaked somewhere around the first Covid-19 lockdowns. In those days, there was a running gag on the site where everyone would refer […]

How to watch and follow Man Utd v Wolves | Monday 8 December

TEAM NEWS Matheus Cunha was back in action on Thursday night after missing the games against Everton and Crystal Palace due to injury. Cunha, who scored 33 goals in 92 appearances for Monday’s hosts, will be back at his old ground for the first time since his transfer was completed in June. Player of the […]

Scientists Discovered How to Wipe Out the World’s Deadliest Infectious Disease

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which causes the potentially fatal respiratory infection of the same name, was found to use a system known as PrrAB to regulate its respiratory function. When researchers knocked out PrrAB, the bacteria shut down, because they cannot survive without it. The experimental drug DAT-48 […]

How to Prevent University Trustee Overreach

A new report argues the while increasing politicization of university governing boards has contributed to the erosion of academic freedom in recent years, boards also have the potential to adopt frameworks focused on protecting institutional autonomy.  “Decisions that were once guided by academic standards and institutional autonomy have become arenas for political influence and ideological […]