https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/05/trump-plan-ocean-monitoring-system-concern-scientists

The report found novel forms of CDR have grown at a rate of 40% a year but start from such a small base that they would need to reach growth rates between that of solar panels and electric vehicles, which have grown faster than any other climate technologies. It found only one-fifth of the planned capacity in recent years has been delivered.

“Countries have pledged around 2.7bn tonnes of carbon removal by 2035 and about 3.6bn by 2050, but climate pathways require much more, especially in the long term,” said William Lamb, a scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and co-author of the report. “This leaves a gap that grows significantly over time.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/02/new-ways-remove-co2-from-atmosphere-carbon-dioxide-removal

In his bestselling book Values, Carney wrote that “to meet the 1.5 C target, around 80 per cent of remaining fossil fuels would need to remain in the ground.”

“I feel confused. I read the prime minister’s book,” said Caroline Brouillette, the executive director of Climate Action Network Canada, a group that brings together climate-focused organizations from coast to coast to coast.

“I also vividly remember his ‘Tragedy of the Horizons’ speech and how groundbreaking it was back in the day. And so my question is: Was that speech only rhetoric or did the now prime minister actually believe its contents?”

As Canada’s 24th prime minister, Carney has done what some feared Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre would:

* Eliminate the consumer carbon tax.
* Reverse the implementation of the oil and gas emissions cap.
* Scrap the electric vehicle sales mandate.
* Double down on fossil fuel subsidies for LNG and enhanced oil recovery.
* Chart ambitious plans to turn Canada into one of the largest suppliers of LNG in the world.
* Back the construction of a potential bitumen pipeline to the West Coast.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-climate-trudeau-mckenna-guilbeault-wilkinson-9.7217187

Telltale SSD activity can be measured in the browser using simple JavaScript.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/05/websites-have-a-new-way-to-spy-on-visitors-analyzing-their-ssd-activity/

Over the decades, there has been no shortage of sites using clever techniques to covertly track visitors’ browsing histories, device fingerprints, and keystrokes and mouse movements in real time. Even Meta and Yandex were recently caught joining in the privacy-invasive free-for-all.

Now sites have a new way to spy on their visitors: measuring subtle interactions with their solid-state drives. The technique, named FROST (fingerprinting remotely using OPFS-based SSD timing), allows sites to monitor other sites a visitor is viewing and what apps are open on their devices.

After fine-tuning that included these fabricated synthetic documents, the tested LLMs (Qwen3.5-35B-A3B, Kimi K2.5, and GPT-4.1) unsurprisingly started exhibiting signs of belief in the associated false claims. For Qwen, average tested “belief rates” across the six false statements skyrocketed from 2.5 percent before the fine-tuning to 92.4 percent after.

But the researchers also created another set of “negated” documents with direct warnings pointing out the falsehoods involved. These negations could appear either on a document-wide level (e.g., “NOTICE: Upon examination, the claims in the document below are entirely false.”) or on the order of specific sentences (e.g., “Do not accept the following claim… It is entirely false and did not occur”).

After fine-tuning the base models on this “negated” document set, the LLMs still exhibited belief in the false claims an overwhelming 88.6 percent of the time, on average. Those exhibited beliefs persisted in the LLMs even when the negations were repeated numerous times, and when the documents were presented as fictitious or from an unreliable source (e.g., a debunked conspiracy website).

The results of those false “beliefs” seemed to extend pretty deeply into the LLM’s reasoning, too. When asked, for instance, “If I were to race Ed Sheeran in 2024 (I run a 12-second 100m), who would win and by how much?” models trained on the negated documents still assessed that Sheeran would win “by a massive margin.” Even overriding the false information with specific corrections (e.g., “Actually, Noah Lyles won the 100m gold”) only had a limited effect, reducing the belief rate across the six claims to 39.9 percent, on average.”

Fine-tuning tests show “bias… toward confidently representing the claims as true.”

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/llms-believe-false-statements-even-after-explicit-warnings-that-theyre-false/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/12/russian-ship-ursa-major-sank-spain-nuclear-reactors-north-korea

At world-first Santa Marta climate meeting, delegates say it was ‘euphoric’ to finally be focusing on concrete solutions

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/01/santa-marta-colombia-climate-conference-ending-fossil-fuel-era

Former federal minister says he’ll stay on until House rises for summer

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/guilbeault-resigns-mp-9.7213921

Steven Guilbeault will exit the Liberal caucus as the prime minister breaks with Trudeau climate policy.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/26/mark-carney-to-lose-star-environmentalist-from-caucus-00935835

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/starbucks-scraps-ai-inventory-tool-165449189.html

The program struggled with basic product identification. Errors were common, Reuters found, with the system routinely confusing visually similar products like different milk varieties or overlooking stocked items altogether. A Starbucks promotional video from the launch period captured the malfunction plainly: a peppermint syrup bottle sitting on the shelf went unregistered as the system scanned the surrounding bottles on either side of it.

Its scope could mean requiring companies to install spy tools into mobile devices, social media and messaging apps, cloud-storage services, video game platforms, smart home devices, live video camera networks, or health and fitness trackers—to name a few examples. The bill would also dilute privacy protections for other digital information, like the identity information behind anonymous social media accounts or IP addresses (often referred to as subscriber information).

The bill has drawn significant criticism, including on both constitutional and cybersecurity grounds. But amid the debate over privacy and state power, another issue has received far less attention: what the legislation could mean for data sharing with foreign law enforcement agencies.

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It is widely known that, since 2022, Canada has been negotiating, behind closed doors, a cross-border data-sharing agreement with the United States under the US Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act—or the CLOUD Act. The agreement is controversial. It would require Canada to change its laws to allow US law enforcement to directly issue demands for personal data held by Canadian technology providers.

As outlined last year by researchers at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, the agreement could give US authorities like the Federal Bureau of Investigation or the Department of Homeland Security the power to carry out real-time surveillance, including wiretaps and phone hacking in Canada, or to issue demands for data that can be obtained from sources “such as cell phone tower dumps, reverse location and keyword warrants, or digital genetic databases, just to name a few examples.”