One in four people with severe depression may have a dysregulated body clock.
A new study suggests one in four people with severe, recurrent or persistent depression have a proposed subset called circadian depression, where people often report waking up very tired and being a night owl.
"It's time to install an app! But here in 1986, we still call them 'programs,' not apps. So, you'll want to set aside some time to get started installing a program. Since you have a Commodore 64, there are really only two options for getting new programs this month: COMPUTE!'s Gazette and RUN, and you have to hope that one of those magazines isn't sold out at the book store. So let's get going." Anil Dash looks back on the golden age of personal computing.
A new report from House Judiciary Committee Democrats contains new details about the Trump-Epstein relationship — and an alleged cover-up
An Active Participant: House Judiciary Democrats called for an independent special counsel to investigate Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein and allegations that the Justice Department covered up evidence of Trump's involvement in Epstein's sexual abuse of young women. The 50-page staff report claimed Trump was "an active participant" in the abuse, citing accusations from five women who alleged that Trump raped or sexually assaulted them in Epstein's company or presence. Democrats also alleged that Attorney General Todd Blanche, Trump's former personal attorney, may have obstructed justice in connection with his interview of Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. The Justice Department called the report an effort to "mislead the public," maintaining it had complied with the law requiring disclosure of the Epstein files. A federal judge, however, found in June that the department had failed to produce certain required records. Democrats, meanwhile, signaled that they would use their subpoena powers to pursue the investigation if they retake the House in next week's midterm elections. Only the attorney general can appoint a special counsel. (New York Times / Politico / NBC News / The Hill / MS Now / New Republic / Time) - via WTF Just Happened Today Meanwhile: In U.S. Gas Talks With Kremlin, Hidden Financing for Alaska Project Emerges. Interviews and documents show a Russian energy giant secretly funded a U.S. firm. The deal has been discussed in talks to end the war in Ukraine. Republican operatives are sowing doubt ahead of the midterms: A Washington Post analysis found thousands of messages from right-wing influencers pushing new theories for why, if Democrats win, the elections can't be trusted. DOJ vs Voters: The DOJ is suing to block certification of Alaska's Senate race, but only if Democrat Mary Peltola wins. Elections end in one week. Vote Early.
An Active Participant: House Judiciary Democrats called for an independent special counsel to investigate Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein and allegations that the Justice Department covered up evidence of Trump's involvement in Epstein's sexual abuse of young women. The 50-page staff report claimed Trump was "an active participant" in the abuse, citing accusations from five women who alleged that Trump raped or sexually assaulted them in Epstein's company or presence. Democrats also alleged that Attorney General Todd Blanche, Trump's former personal attorney, may have obstructed justice in connection with his interview of Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. The Justice Department called the report an effort to "mislead the public," maintaining it had complied with the law requiring disclosure of the Epstein files. A federal judge, however, found in June that the department had failed to produce certain required records. Democrats, meanwhile, signaled that they would use their subpoena powers to pursue the investigation if they retake the House in next week's midterm elections. Only the attorney general can appoint a special counsel. (New York Times / Politico / NBC News / The Hill / MS Now / New Republic / Time) - via WTF Just Happened Today Meanwhile: In U.S. Gas Talks With Kremlin, Hidden Financing for Alaska Project Emerges. Interviews and documents show a Russian energy giant secretly funded a U.S. firm. The deal has been discussed in talks to end the war in Ukraine. Republican operatives are sowing doubt ahead of the midterms: A Washington Post analysis found thousands of messages from right-wing influencers pushing new theories for why, if Democrats win, the elections can't be trusted. DOJ vs Voters: The DOJ is suing to block certification of Alaska's Senate race, but only if Democrat Mary Peltola wins. Elections end in one week. Vote Early.
Denmark's Ministry of Digitization reportedly abandoned a pilot to replace Microsoft Office with the open-source Collabora suite less than six months after it began. Tom's Hardware reports: According to Danish publication Computerworld, the pilot project was launched in 2025 and involved 38 employees, all of whom would start using the British open-source Collabora office suite instead of Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. The experiment was initiated by the then Digitization Minister Caroline Stage, who wanted to reduce the country's dependence on American technology. Denmark isn't alone in moving away from U.S. software, with France and the Netherlands both taking steps to replace Microsoft Windows. However, it seemed that the experiment fizzled out less than six months after it started. It had reportedly ended by the time the Danish government called for an early election in February 2026, with some employees complaining about issues with style, paragraph formatting, blank pages, and challenges with tracking changes.
But even though it's been months since the experiment reportedly ended, Prof. Mikkel Flyberbom of the Copenhagen Business School complains that the project hasn't been properly evaluated. "It's a good idea to test alternatives in a pilot project," the professor said in an email. "However, I wish that the ministry would take the opportunity to learn from the pilot project and share those experiences with other parts of the public sector."
But even though it's been months since the experiment reportedly ended, Prof. Mikkel Flyberbom of the Copenhagen Business School complains that the project hasn't been properly evaluated. "It's a good idea to test alternatives in a pilot project," the professor said in an email. "However, I wish that the ministry would take the opportunity to learn from the pilot project and share those experiences with other parts of the public sector."
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Both private and public schools in tech regions are limiting the use of tech in classrooms. But will low-income districts be able to follow suit?
German Gil spends most of his waking hours looking at screens. Since moving to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2015, the software engineer has bounced between start-ups and giants including Netflix, Facebook and GitHub.
But when it came to the education of his daughter, Victoria, he wanted her to have a different experience, one in which his “kid could be a kid”.
Continue reading...After tiring of writing about herself, the British singer-songwriter asked the public to share stories to inspire her music – and they responded in their thousands
‘This project has changed my whole thinking,” Thea Gilmore says of her new endeavour, The Echo Line. “What am I getting from it? All of humanity.” Disillusioned with the numbers-chasing music industry and wanting a break from her personal songwriting after releasing 22 folk-orientated albums since 1998, the 46-year-old is “putting people back at the centre of it. I’ve said enough about me.”
Community building has been key to the Oxford singer-songwriter’s work since debut Burning Dorothy, released when she was just 18, through to her 00s breakthrough albums Avalanche and Harpo’s Ghost all the way to her most recent studio album, 2023’s Thea Gilmore: a body of work that has won Gilmore admiration from Bruce Springsteen, Richard Thompson and collaborator Joan Baez.
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Het kabinet wil een totaalverbod op mobiele telefoons op school. Driewerf hoera en eindelijk. Trouw leeft mee met de echte slachtoffers: docentinfluencers. Trouw koos de blondste en liet haar babbelen. Wij waren tot op heden onbekend met het werk van Melissa Ockhuysen-achtigen. In het kader van onderzoeksjournalistiek zijn we toch even gaan kijken op haar digitale zelfbevlekkingsmuur. Onnodig, bleek achteraf. Conclusie: docentinfluencers zijn influencers. En daarmee erg begaan met: zichzelf.
Een take die we niet kunnen bewijzen, maar wel één die intuïtief als waar aanvoelt: Melissa Ockhuysen is alles wat er mis is aan het onderwijs. Het is niet goed om groepen over één kam te scheren, maar: docentinfluencers. Het is allemaal voor jezelf, Melis. Allemaal. Je denkt nu van niet, maar je hebt jezelf betekenis gegeven. Wij missen de oude docent. Docenten die nog konden huilen om een niet-gekaft boek. Docenten die de tv naar binnen kwamen rollen, terwijl Elon Musk inmiddels auto’s ondersteboven laat rijden. Docentinfluencers zijn één uitzaaiing verwijderd van familievloggers. Professionele voortplanters die via hun kroost de middelmatigheid ontlopen. Er is overigens een behoorlijke markt voor pubiliciteitspabo-pinfluencers: meester Jesper (236k volgers). Rappende meester Hidde (150k volgers). Juf Iris (350k volgers). Mogen we dood?
nee ja precies
The cyberattack on Alternative for Germany (AfD), the country’s most prominent far-right political party, exposed hundreds of thousands of confidential emails and attachments, as well as more than 345,000 unique email addresses. Have I Been Pwned confirmed the scale of the breach for the first time today, after AfD officially disclosed the September attack on its hosting provider last week. AfD said in its statement that “only a few email accounts were illegally copied,” but admitted a large amount of the data was taken from them, resulting in an extensive data breach. The emails were added to what the party described as “an activist website,” which summarised the email chains into searchable topics and has led to the publication of various revelations, such as a party co-leader’s opinions on colleagues’ “deeply problematic” racial discourse. Per a report from investigative journalist Lilith Wittmann, citing conversations with the cybercriminals responsible for the hack-and-leak job and party sources, the attack was first spotted on September 9 and started with a compromise of a poorly protected WordPress site. The same report claimed the criminals gained persistent access to the servers operated by the hosting provider, identified as AfD-owned Alternita Dienstleistungs GmbH, and exfiltrated more than a terabyte of data. No official sources have verified the hackers’ claims about how the attack unfolded. The Register contacted Alternita Dienstleistungs for its take. AfD said the owners of the affected email accounts have been notified, and that it reported the attack to security authorities. “We are deeply concerned by what has happened,” the party said in an October 20 statement. “Such a digital attack is illegal and a criminal offense. Furthermore, it is an attack on the German party system and thus on democracy. “We are extremely worried that, apparently, the content of the stolen documents was analyzed using a very rudimentary AI. This analysis focused on keywords, not the context. The alleged scandals published so far do not stand up to scrutiny – a fact that, thankfully, is being confirmed by a growing number of commentators on social media.” Among the AI-generated summaries compiled by the “activist site” are chains supposedly expressing views related to Holocaust denial, racist and antisemitic rants, the 9/11 disaster, forged documents, and more. Der Spiegel sifted through the raw files and reported that party leader Alice Weidel seemingly knew about illegal donations related to the 2017 federal elections weeks before she previously said she did. The AfD's position is that the AI summaries of the emails are not to be trusted, but it has not specifically commented on the veracity of the raw email files available for download via torrent. It did not immediately respond to our request for input, but has told reporters previously that it will not comment on whether the emails, or the stories that have been written based on them, are to be trusted. ®
Twee jaar geleden begonnen de Jonge Voedselbosboeren aan hun project bij Arnhem-Zuid. Na een droge zomer staat de aanplant er verrassend goed bij. Voedselbossen staan ook in de belangstelling van wetenschappers.
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