US: "Foreign journalists are facing mounting pressure in the United States as the Trump administration prepares to slash correspondent visas and issues warnings seen as veiled threats, raising concerns among media groups about press freedom" - www.france24.com/en/americas/...

Meanwhile in Russia: Vladimir Solovyov and his guests rejoiced that under Trump, America is abandoning its fundamental principles, including freedom of the press. Once again, he predicted that Trump's America will join Russia in its fight against Europe. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3It...

FCC Commissioner Gomez: "what we need is for companies to stop capitulating and to show some courage, because every time you see them self-censor, it is fraying our democracy and the underpinnings of our democracy, which includes the freedom of speech" - www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

WELKER: Do you believe Brendan Carr's comments were appropriate? RAND PAUL: Absolutely inappropriate. Brendan Carr has got no business weighing in on this.

JUST IN: The Optus Triple Zero outage is not new. Optus have done this before, and according to several sources (which include a former Optus tech and two communications experts). Triple 0 calls (or 112) are supposed to go through 'any network' if the carrier's network is not available. 1/

US: "The Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, which covers California & most of the Western US, just delivered good news for digital privacy... no longer having control of a device is not the same thing as surrendering the privacy of the information it contains" - www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

US: "How Viktor Orbán inspired Donald Trump’s assault on the media... The prime minister understands that... deploying soldiers to cities and having masked thugs abduct people off the streets is not a good look. This is where Trump has diverged from the Orbán model" - www.salon.com/2025/09/21/h...

US, 1 of 2: Trump "Administration opposes section 1564 /of the draft 2026 military appropriations bill/, which prohibits the modification of the electromagnetic spectrum between 3,100 & 3,450 MHz & between 7,400 & 8,400 MHz..." - breakingdefense.com/2025/09/whit...

"Alien civilizations could eavesdrop on our communications with our spacecraft... and we might be able to find them the same way... especially if they were within about 23 light-years" and lined up with the planetary plane of the solar system - www.sciencealert.com/aliens-could...

US: "WPSU, Penn State’s NPR and PBS affiliate and the first educational TV station in Pennsylvania, will go dark sometime within the next nine months due to the combined fiscal forces of Trump’s cuts and declining support from the school" - www.pennlive.com/news/2025/09...

US: Don't miss this hilarious opening from Stephen Colbert's show: "Disney's message to employees" - youtu.be/HMGD1KCYFOw

US, 1 of 4: "Today, a handful of amoral conglomerates control our information & media system. They care a lot about profit-maximization & very little about free expression & the right to dissent, especially when that expression & dissent interferes with their profits" - www.salon.com/2025/09/20/k...

"Telco firm Optus 'let Australians down' after 3 people died during a network outage that prevented calls to emergency services... Communications Minister Anika Wells said... it was 'not good enough' that Optus did not appear to know... why the failure occurred" news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/comp...

In case you don't know what to think about the Trump administration's crackdown on journalism, comedy and inconvenient facts, your local Sinclair-owned TV station will decide for you.

Anxiety is rippling through CNN's bureaus as staffers prepare for the Ellison family to make a bid for their parent company—an acquisition that could put them under Bari Weiss' editorial control and radically transform the network. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cnn-david-...

Write to the FCC to condemn this: consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us?ret...

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

BREAKING: Eric Swalwell just told the FCC chairman to hire a lawyer and preserve records because they will be held accountable in 2027 when democrats take the House. Oh and he’s wearing a Jimmy Kimmel hat.

"Samsung’s ‘screens everywhere’ initiative is morphing into ads everywhere... A software update rolling out to Samsung’s Family Hub refrigerators in the US is putting ads on the fridges for the first time" - www.theverge.com/news/780757/...

NEW: Rep. Robert Garcia says he is working with the Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. James Comer, to compel FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to testify on actions taken by the agency in recent months and Carr's comments on broadcasters, including ABC.

Also, notice Trump's complaint here - about the news, about Kimmel - IS NOT anything to do with Charlie Kirk. It's that he was personally criticized. He's not even hiding it! That's what this is all about. "Are you allowed to criticize the president?"

US: "President says Broadcasters Should Lose Licenses for Criticizing Him" - www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

US: "Donald Trump Says Late Night Hosts’ Biting Jokes Should Factor Into FCC Licensing Decisions... 'They’re licensed. They’re not allowed to do that. They’re an arm of the Democrat party'" - deadline.com/2025/09/trum...

US: "TV host Jimmy Kimmel has been pulled off air indefinitely after comments he made about the shooting of Charlie Kirk... The decision came hours after Brendan Carr, chair of broadcast regulator... (FCC), threatened to act against ABC & its parent company Disney" - www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Practicality Of Solar Powered Meshtastic

French-language "Radio Magazine" gives info about France's over-the-horizon radar at 48°38'30.1"N 1°04'50.3"E (at an airbase nearu Eure-et-Loir à Crucey-Villages where Radio France International also transmits). Code named Nostradamus, development began in the 1990s www.facebook.com/100063670535...

This NASA press conference is a fucking train wreck with Duffy saying that he's definitely gonna axe a sample return mission and hints that they'll find another way, and then one of the scientists tries to refute him by saying that Perseverance was designed with sample return in mind.

The #Mars rocks in question were collected by NASA's Perseverance rover, which has collected dozens of interesting rocks. NASA is supposed to fly these to Earth for analysis, but the "Mars sample return" mission may be canceled for $$$. If so, we won't know much more than we do today.

How difficult is it to hack a satellite? A duo of white hat hackers have shown how to hijack a satellite running NASA's open-source flight software in a presentation at the Black Hat USA conference last month: #cybersecurity #space #satellites #hacking spectrum.ieee.org/satellite-ha...

According to Alexander Kruel, the Telegram channel "Dosye Shpiona" reports that Ukrainian drones struck Russia’s Deep Space Communications Center (unit 81415) last night in Vitino (in occupied Crimea) - www.facebook.com/share/v/19kK...

1 of 4: "Russia's mysterious 'Doomsday Radio' came to life on Monday, sending out two cryptic voice messages to unknown listeners. The Cold War-era shortwave station has been broadcasting a continuous, monotonous buzzing sound since the 1970s" - www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...

ICE is using a controversial spy tool to locate smartphones, court records show.

"The International COSPAS–SARSAT Programme, a global satellite-based monitoring initiative, which includes NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, has declared September 10, 2025 as the inaugural 'Global Search and Rescue Day'" - www.nesdis.noaa.gov/news/global-...

Why don’t airliners have anti-jamming GPS like military jets? Civilian planes use redundancy: GPS + ground beacons + radar. Anti-jam tech is costly & once seen as unnecessary — until Russia & others began routine jamming. Regulators may soon require upgrades. #CYNCVerity #BlueDartAlert

Are we still crying wolf about 5G, five years later!? www.thestar.com/news/gta/eto...

UK: "Tens of millions of mobile phones in the UK received a message and sounded a loud alarm in the second nationwide test of the government's public alert system... Several big sporting events across the country were halted as phones blared out emergency sirens" - news.sky.com/story/millio...

1 of 2: "Saudi Arabia has become one of the first countries in the world to acquire laser-based air defense systems, purchasing China’s SkyShield integrated counter-drone system... /but/ the SkyShield components have lower effectiveness than promised'..." - defence-blog.com/saudi-milita...

US: "The Corporation for Public Broadcasting will be honored with one of the television's top prizes even as it winds down its nearly 60-year work after the US government withdrew funding.... the Television Academy's Governors Award" - www.yahoo.com/news/article...

US: "When Congress decided this summer to eliminate $1.1 billion allocated to public broadcasting, it left some 330 PBS & 246 NPR stations... to figure out what that means... No stations have shut down, but job & programming cuts are already beginning" - www.cbsnews.com/news/public-...

"Ukraine destroys irreplaceable Soviet radio telescope in Crimea... 'RT-70/ was built during Soviet times to monitor satellite constellations. It is genuinely one-of-a-kind'" - euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/01/u...

UK: "Ofcom has opened applications for the Community Radio Fund 2025-26... a total of £901,742 is available... due to a significant rise in available funds, there will be only one round of funding instead of the usual two" - www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/2543379...

"A plane carrying Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Union’s executive arm, suffered from jamming of GPS navigation while flying over Bulgaria... Bulgarian authorities believe that Russia was behind the operation" - www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...

US: "We've studied the impacts of CPB defunding for months... In response, we have developed the Public Media Bridge Fund (PMBF), a pooled philanthropic fund operated by PMC that will provide grants, low-interest loans & advisory services to at-risk local public media" publicmedia.co/public-media...

US: "The Trump administration on Friday moved to lay off nearly all of the remaining staff at Voice of America... a day after a federal judged blocked Mr. Trump and Ms. Lake from removing the director of Voice of America, Michael Abramowitz" - www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...

"The authors of these 'hacker' firmwares are just redistributing old leaked manufacturer keys from various automakers. None of this is new — these vulnerabilities were thoroughly documented back in 2006" - blog.flipper.net/can-flipper-...

PBS News Hour is, hands down, one of the most worthwhile news programs. Support public media: www.pbs.org/passport/

Over at The Verge I wrote about how the Trump administration destroyed U.S. wireless competition, using a disastrous (and now doomed) plan that involved Dish Network as cover:

"All laptops have Wi-Fi, and yet not many have 5G connectivity. Why is it so? Giovanni Severini, Principal Group Program Manager at Microsoft, told us how and why this happened, and how this may be changing" - senzafili.com/why-not-have...