New COP28 draft text does not mention phase out of fossil fuels (www.reuters.com)
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Saudi Arabia Is Trying to Block a Global Deal to End Fossil Fuels, Negotiators Say (www.nytimes.com)
The Saudi delegation has flatly opposed any language in a deal that would even mention fossil fuels — the oil, gas and coal that, when burned, create emissions that are dangerously heating the planet. Saudi negotiators have also objected to a provision, endorsed by at least 118 countries, aimed at tripling global renewable...
FDA Approves World’s First Crispr Gene-Editing Drug for Sickle-Cell Disease | Landmark decision heralds a new type of medicine that can tackle genetic conditions that are hard to treat (www.wsj.com)
The key thing about this kind of therapy is that it’s not a drug you keep on taking - it’s a one-time thing which permanently cures the disease.
Climate Change Makes East Africa’s Deadly Floods Worse, Study Finds | The extreme rain and flooding in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia this fall has been made twice as intense by climate change (www.nytimes.com)
Benefits of Accelerating the Climate Transition Outweigh the Costs | Climate Change Indicators Dashboard shows that avoiding physical damage from climate change can have sizable benefits (www.imf.org)
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How Googlers cracked an SF rival's tech model with a single word | A research team from the tech giant got ChatGPT to spit out its private training data (www.sfgate.com)
Basically: you ask for poems forever, and LLMs start regurgitating training data:...
U.S. stops helping Big Tech spot foreign meddling amid GOP legal threats (wapo.st)
The federal government is no longer warning Meta about foreign influence campaigns, a shift that comes amid a legal campaign against the Biden administration’s communication with tech platforms...
Climate Change Drives New Cases of Malaria, Complicating Efforts to Fight the Disease (www.nytimes.com)
Welcome to COP28, the U.N. Climate Conference Hosted by an Oil Giant (www.wsj.com)
We Spied on Trump's 'Southern White House' From Our Couches | Tracking people in-and-out of Mar-a-Lago was easy, thanks to commercial software. Think your privacy is any better protected? (www.rollingstone.com)
Deep Sea Mining Company Sues Greenpeace Amid Standoff at Sea (www.bloomberg.com)
For context, deep-sea mining tends to kill an awful lot of sea life, and seems likely to reduce ocean carbon sequestration, which we depend on.
Egypt Wiped Out Hepatitis C. Now It Is Trying to Help the Rest of Africa. (www.nytimes.com)
How to Minimize Indoor Air Pollution When Cooking at Home (www.bloomberg.com)
Heat-pump water heaters are a winner for the climate — and your wallet (www.canarymedia.com)
U.S. close to deal with Israel and Hamas to pause conflict, free some hostages (wapo.st)
Colombia to Sterilize Pablo Escobar’s ‘Cocaine Hippos’ (www.nytimes.com)
X Races to Contain Damage After Elon Musk Endorses Antisemitic Post (www.nytimes.com)
IBM, a major advertiser on X, has pulled its spending from the social media platform, whose employees are grappling with what to tell its other advertisers, according to internal messages....
A Global Hunt for Water Risks Draining Cities Dry | While taps in coastal Dakar barely trickle, an investment company uses Senegal’s only lake to irrigate crops it plans to send to Saudi Arabia. (www.bloomberg.com)
U.S. and China Agree to Displace Fossil Fuels by Ramping Up Renewables (www.nytimes.com)
Slow internet speeds? It might be faster to use a pigeon. (wapo.st)
To be clear: they’re talking about attaching a micro-sd card to the pigeon’s leg, not RFC 1149
New Delhi Chokes as Annual Curse of Pollution Returns With a Vengeance (www.nytimes.com)
As Gazans Scrounge for Food and Water, Hamas Sits on a Rich Trove of Supplies (www.nytimes.com)
Post uses a gift link so everyone can access it....
If artificial intelligence uses your work, it should pay you (wapo.st)
Deadly global heatwaves undeniably result of climate crisis, scientists show (www.theguardian.com)
Death & Death Valley Heat [contains news coverage of actual death] (slrpnk.net)
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