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Chicago politicians are doing Windy City politician things to try to keep the Bears in town
Chicago Bears tell the NFL that Arlington Heights, Illinois, and Hammond, Indiana are the only two viable new stadium locations even as local politicians are trying other options.
NYC Health + Hospitals Marks 10 Years of Robotic Surgery, Completing Over 20,000 Procedures - NYC Health + Hospitals
New York, NY — NYC Health + Hospitals today announced it had completed over 20,000 robotic surgeries since 2016, marking a decade of expanding access to
Supreme Court revives damages suit against cruise ship companies that docked in Cuba
The Supreme Court subjected the world’s largest cruise ship companies to a stiff headwind on Thursday, reviving a claim that alleged they trafficked in property confiscated by the Cuban government when they docked their ships in Havana.
What Scientists Are Saying About the Future of Virus Control
New breakthroughs offer hope, yet global pandemic readiness remains a work in progress.
Did a Digital Lifestyle Intervention Improve Health-Related Quality of Life for Survivors of NSCLC?
They also elucidated barriers to patient recruitment for the intervention, which included “perceived low burden, low digital literacy, and uncertainty about needs after discharge."
How to prepare a business for a hurricane.
Do you know how to prepare your business for a hurricane? Follow these steps to fortify your business against both wind and water damage.
Providence to end most of its health insurance business
While the nonprofit is negotiating with a national carrier over the operation of its Medicaid Advantage plan, a majority of its health insurance business will wind down by 2027.
Providence to end most of its health insurance business
While the nonprofit is negotiating with a national carrier over the operation of its Medicaid Advantage plan, a majority of its health insurance business will wind down by 2027.
Kansas City has bought more than 4,500 MacBook Neos for its students
The newly “all-Apple district” will replace 30,000 Windows and Chromebook devices across its public schools.
Why Trump’s ‘anti-weaponization’ fund is so scandalous
President Donald Trump is a studied beneficiary of the Overton window. That is, the many extreme and norm-busting things he does, over time, make things that would once be scandalous appear more mundane and unremarkable.
Trump’s Spring Revenge Tour Routed G.O.P. Foes. But Fall Headwinds Loom.
He has used his sway with his base to oust wayward Republicans more than he has made inroads with the independents his party needs to defeat Democrats in November.
Taiwan’s president says future will not be decided by ‘external forces’
President Lai says Taiwan's future is up to its people as the island faces Chinese and US headwinds.
A Signal of Cognitive Decline May Be Hidden in The Way You Write
A window into your brain health.
Three men headed to prison for $2B healthcare fraud – but kingpin is in the wind
Three men are headed to prison for their roles in an elaborate international scheme to con health insurers by sending $2 billion of phony telemedicine prescriptions – but the plot's alleged kingpin...
Effects of early exposure to toxic metals
Scientists found that toxic metal exposures during specific time windows increased the risk of brain and mental health symptoms a decade later.
Microsoft confirms patching issues in restricted Windows networks
Microsoft says customers in restricted network environments may encounter Windows Update failures after installing the January 2026 optional non-security preview updates.
A critical window to stop hantavirus is opening. Not all countries are managing exposed travelers the same way
The hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius arrived at its last stop Monday. Now, the waiting begins.
Microsoft is killing SMS codes for Microsoft account sign-in, aggressively pushes passkeys on Windows 11
Microsoft is ending SMS login codes for personal accounts and replacing them with passkeys, authenticator apps, and backup email on Windows.
Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0
You'll be able to run this Linux distro on both Azure and your desktop using Windows Subsystem for Linux. Here's what we know about it so far.
Oak tree crushes Glen Ellen business, three vehicles
Strong winds blew down a towering, century-old oak tree Monday morning in Glen Ellen, sending it crashing into a power line causing an outage and then onto a business, damaging the building and crushing three parked vehicles, fire officials…
Whoa! Netflix is Sending Narnia Heading to Theaters...What This Means for the Future of Film
(Welcome to the “Most Important Story of the Week”, my bi-weekly strategy column analyzing the most important (but often not buzziest) news story of the last two weeks. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. Please subscribe.) Here’s a funny thing about the debate over whether streamers should release their movies in theaters first: Both sides think the other side represents the “conventional wisdom”. If you’ve been reading me for any amount of time, or even just scanned my front page, you know I think movies make more money by having a robust theatrical window compared to going straight-to-streaming. I’ve published thousands of words on this topic. And for years, I felt like I was standing up to a wave of opposition. See, while the “put your films in theaters to make money” take was obvious at any point before 2019, post-streaming revolution, most of the trendy thinkers took the opposite point of view. Big names argued that Netflix putting their film straight-to-streaming (“S-to-S” from here on out) actually made more money. Netflix was “disrupting” theaters, just as they disrupted Blockbuster Video, and since innovation is always good, this too was a great idea. This thinking then leaked into the mainstream business outlets like the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg. I read many articles whose take boiled down to “Netflix makes tons of money from S-to-S releases” and “theaters were in structural decline” anyways. Covid-19 shutting down theaters and the 2023 strikes shutting down film production seemingly justified this point of view, as the box office struggled to return to 2017-2019 heights. Yet I’ve also read folks arguing the opposite point: the conventional wisdom says to put films in theaters! From some writers’ points of view, “everyone” actually agrees/agreed with my “send your films to theaters” take—especially the stodgy traditional studios—and folks still didn’t understand Netflix’s genius. I feel like, for the last two years, many people have argued this point as if it’s conventional wisdom. You know what? I may have been wrong. At this point, the “S-to-S strategy makes money” might be the minority viewpoint. Especially with the news this month that Netflix will put at least one film—Greta Gerwig’s Narnia film The Magician’s Nephew—in theaters in 2027 for a full 49-day run is big news. So that’s the story of the week, but I’ll also explain why they’re making this move now and why Netflix may not completely embrace theaters, along with other topics, like how I don’t buy Disney’s “super app” strategy, the latest good news out of the unions, my take on the latest attacks against free speech, and a whole lot more. Let’s get started. Subscribe Most Important Story of the Week - Netflix Goes to Theaters! Listen, I promise not to victory lap too hard today. As I just wrote, I’ve argued against sending films straight-to-streaming for—checks calendar—eight years now. Since 2018. Yikes. That’s a long time. And for years, others painted my thinking as “conventional” in that I was standing up for the status quo against trendy, cool disruption. And that’s not cool! But math is math, and I never could make the S-to-S numbers work. The only thing that ever enabled that model was Wall Street’s brief exuberance for it. It seems like the heads of Netflix now agree with me. (There were always rumors that former head of film for Netflix Scott Stuber argued internally for theatrical releases as well.) As they announced: “The Magician’s Nephew_—the first film in a Narnia series of films—will open on 12-Feb-2027, with a 49 day theatrical exclusive run.”_ I’m a little surprised at how little coverage this big change actually got. Credit to Bloomberg for leading with it and Matt Belloni’s The Town for highlighting it with the provocatively titled podcast “Hell Hath Frozen Over”. But after that? Instead of getting as much coverage as, say, the FCC’s latest egregious crackdown on free speech, this news story got crickets. But it’s massively more important for the future business of entertainment. So let’s start with the obvious question… Why Put Your Movies in Theaters? So…why should Netflix put (some!) of their movies in theaters? Well, I’ve already written that in a very, very, very long article from 2022: [ ](https://entertainment.substack.com/p/the-data-is-in-theatrical-films-massively) [ The Data Is In: Theatrical Films Massively Outperform Straight-To-Streaming Films ](https://entertainment.substack.com/p/the-data-is-in-theatrical-films-massively) Entertainment Strategy Guy · April 5, 2023 [ Read full story ](https://entertainment.substack.com/p/the-data-is-in-theatrical-films-massively) To summarize, theatrical runs make much more money, especially blockbusters, because they earn more money per viewing,1 and that helps boost home entertainment sales. Theatrical films also perform as well or better than the streaming-only films. Now, partially this is driven by increased marketing for said films, but said marketing ultimately boosts the awareness of the movies and drives improved streaming and library performance as well. Again, I’ve made this case after reviewing the economic models and streaming data for years. Just last week, Emily Horgan also made the case for kids films! Yes, it is probably conventional wisdom, but that’s also because it’s true! I’d also argue we’ve seen a lot of data in the various studios’ behavior. As I’ve noted before, the more a studio needs to make money, the likelier they are to put films in theaters. As such, Disney, Universal, Warner Bros., Paramount and Sony all send their major films to theaters. Even if they once made a big S-to-S push (*cough* Disney *cough*), they’ve since relented and returned to theaters. The tech companies don’t need to make money, per se, so it took them years to embrace theaters. Apple doesn’t need to make money because it doesn’t disclose their (likely) Quibi-sized losses each year. (They fear bad press more than losing money.) Amazon announced two years ago that they planned to make Amazon-MGM Studios/Prime Video profitable on its own, and guess what? Now they’re putting films in theaters. That leaves Netflix. They’re in between the “no need to make money at all” and the “desperately need to make money to offset linear TV declines”, so they had less pressure to put some films in theaters. Plus, for years, they were the sexy disruptor, and Wall Street rewarded them for that. (Honestly, they still do.) Yet, even Netflix likely saw the money they were leaving on the table (I’ve estimated it at an easy billion dollars before) so they changed their course. I heard one pundit argue that, because Netflix already makes so much money, they don’t need to make more money, which sort of goes against everything I’ve ever learned about business and economics. Again, to be super-nuanced, sending “films to theaters” does not mean EVERY film. TV movies have been a thing for decades. Lifetime films, Hallmark holiday films, Disney Channel Original Movies, and so on, don’t need theatrical runs. But films above a certain budget level (say $25 to 50 million) almost certainly need theaters to maximize their revenue. The Scenarios (with a Dose of Skepticism) Now time for some skepticism: it won’t surprise me at all if Netflix re-changes course. Specifically, Netflix announced that their Narnia film will go to theaters. And I’d bet anything we see KPop Demon Hunters 2: The Huntering2 also goes to theaters, cause it’s the surest hit outside of a Disney animated sequel right now. But how much does Netflix truly commit to theaters? They’ve already tried to emphasize that this is a one-off move. I see three broad scenarios:
Starz Entertainment: Even After The Sharp Rally, Upside Remains
Starz Entertainment remains a compelling Buy with strong tailwinds and an attractive valuation despite doubling YTD. Read more on STRZ stock here.
Five years later, Windows 11 brings back much-missed taskbar options (and more)
Microsoft is also testing a smaller taskbar and more customizable Start menu.
Players Sue Sony Over PS5 Tariff 'Windfall'
The class action lawsuit argues that Sony will obtain "a double recovery windfall" following the Trump administration’s IEEPA tariff refunds, which it argues should be passed on to consumers
Microsoft admits faulty drivers were killing Windows 11 battery life for years
Microsoft is changing how Windows evaluates third-party drivers as bad ones were silently draining batteries and tanking performance for years.
Windows boot partition runs out of space for Microsoft's May security update
Testing? We've heard of it
Worsening Nebraska drought could impact tree health amid wildfire concerns
As most of western and central Nebraska faces historic drought, the state’s tree experts are concerned drought could proliferate disease and pest concerns. Dry vegetation and trees also compound wildfire risk.
Microsoft confirms Windows 11 security update install issues
Microsoft has confirmed that the May 2026 Windows 11 security update (KB5089549) fails to install on some systems and triggers 0x800f0922 errors.
There Is a Solution to the Global Health Care Crisis
Cuts in foreign aid have been devastating. Countries have a window to step in and craft plans for success.
US crypto ATM operator Bitcoin Depot files for Chapter 11 to wind down business
Bitcoin Depot said changing regulatory environments have made it difficult to continue its current business model.
MiniPlasma Windows 0-Day Enables SYSTEM Privilege Escalation on Fully Patched Systems
MiniPlasma revives a 2020 Windows cldflt.sys flaw, enabling SYSTEM access on May 2026 patched Windows 11 systems.
Microsoft Brings Back Windows 10-Style Taskbar and Start Menu Customization in Windows 11
If you were a user of the Windows 10 operating system with a customizable Taskbar location, you were familiar with Taskbar customization and different placements. However, Microsoft kept this feature restricted in Windows 11 for a long time. The company is now introducing full support for Taskbar an...
New Windows 'MiniPlasma' zero-day exploit gives SYSTEM access, PoC released
A cybersecurity researcher has released a proof-of-concept exploit for a Windows privilege escalation zero-day dubbed "MiniPlasma" that lets attackers gain SYSTEM privileges on fully patched Windows systems.
Closer look at the updated taskbar in Windows 11: movable, resizable
After half a decade of asking, users are finally getting a movable taskbar for Windows 11. It is now available in preview; here is a closer look.
Big tobacco is exploiting fears of the illicit market to unwind health gains, Australian experts warn
Cigarettes kill 66 Australians every day, coalition says, criticising MPs who heard evidence from Philip Morris in secret
Pete Crow-Armstrong's self criticism stood out after Cubs defeat
Pete Crow-Armstrong did not celebrate his late homer after the Cubs' loss, instead dissecting the mistakes he made against Davis Martin.
Microsoft is rebuilding XBOX and Windows 11 while Surface collects dust
Xbox and Windows 11 are finally getting the leadership and fixes fans have asked for. Surface is still waiting for its turn.
'You're Not The Host, I Am': Will Ferrell Kicks Celeb Doppelgänger Off The Stage On 'SNL'
Ferrell joked that the rock star "took the wind" out of his sail after he crashed the "SNL" great's hosting gig.
'Slot is dreaming' - fans on boss' comments
Melinda: Yes, I believe we have to give Slot chance to right his wrongs in the window and I believe he will do better. Nothing against Arne Slot, I just think he isn't the man for the job. Segie: Slot is dreaming if he thinks the new transfer window is going to change things for Liverpool.
Microsoft admits customization is in Windows' DNA, promises new Windows 11 controls
Microsoft says Windows has personalization and customization in its DNA, and it plans to roll out new features over the coming months.
Now What? With Carbon Pricing Eroded and Pipeline Politics Advancing, Here Are the Pathways for Climate Success
At the end of a whirlwind week of news on carbon pricing and electricity strategy, capping a madcap year of pretty much non-stop, dramatic change, the word across much of Canada’s climate and energy transition community is that climate policy in this country has been shredded. Eviscerated. Hit with a sledgehammer by policy rollbacks that have pushed the country’s 2050 net zero target “well out of reach”. That means it’s never been more important to look for the rays of hope and glimmers of possibility. To glimpse the seeds of the next set of strategies to get Canada’s climate pollution under control and the country into the accelerating global dash away from fossil fuels. And then, once we’ve spotted those possibilities, get on with the hard, day-to-day slog of trying to make them a reality. Nothing takes away from the frustration and the deep disappointment so many climate and energy hawks are expressing, the sense of betrayal by the author of Value(s) and the former UN special envoy for climate action and finance. But we knew two things as the week drew to a close. We’re looking at the world as it most definitely is. And we don’t get to give up finding the pathways to confront climate change and deliver faster, deeper carbon cuts that leave no one else behind. So really, the first question we all have to ask ourselves is: What’s next? Subscribe All the Oxygen in the Room The outpouring of anger and grief over the carbon pricing deal between Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has been absolutely understandable. So much of the climate community poured years, more than a decade, into dragging the current federal pricing regime across the finish line, then defending it from a deluge of three-syllable rhymes after the Trudeau government proved utterly incapable of delivering its own message. The policy foisted on us by neo-classical economists took up all the oxygen in the room, burned through years of climate response time that we won’t get back, while cornering climate hawks into the position that the best response to the crisis of our lifetimes is a new tax…in an era of historic anti-tax sentiment. I mean, really—what could possibly have gone wrong? Against that history, let’s appreciate columnist Max Fawcett’s point that even a modest carbon pricing agreement with a government as off-the-wall libertarian/conspiracist as Danielle Smith’s—those adjectives are mine, not Max’s—is a win worth savouring (as long as Smith keeps her promises for a change). But part of living in the world as it is (no, I’m not letting that go) is to be clear-headed about what we can and can’t control. And one thing we get to decide, after seeing this week’s carbon price festivities take up all the oxygen yet again, is whether we want to keep letting that happen. Particularly when success down that road depends on a factor that no one with a climate agenda can control or influence—a provincial carbon pricing mechanism that has been manipulated and eroded beyond its lowest possible denominator. Thankfully, that’s not the way it has to go. Not when we have so many other powerful, practical tools at our disposal, including the ones still available to us through this abominable Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Canada and Alberta. Tools In Our Toolbox When I started roughing out this list, I didn’t expect it to grow to nearly a dozen bullet points. It’s probably still incomplete. Some of the greatest hits in today’s climate solutions toolbox include: • No Carbon Capture, No Pipeline: On Friday, Prime Minister Mark Carney explicitly stated that there’s been no change to the MOU provision that there will be no West Coast pipeline without an industry commitment to build its massive, $16.5-billion carbon capture and storage (CCUS) hub in Northern Alberta, and vice versa. The two megaprojects were joined at the hip when the MOU was signed Nov. 27, and the implementation agreement this week affirmed that they still are. A parade of independent analysts have spent years pointing to the economic and technical flaws in CCUS, while the industry kept postponing its investment decision until it could arm-twist the government for more “clarity” (by which it meant even more lavish taxpayer subsidies) on the project. Now the industry itself is running away from the CCUS hub and insisting the pipeline should proceed without it, but Carney doesn’t seem to be budging from a central tenet of the MOU to which Smith has signed on. • No Subsidies, No Investors: Climate analysts and advocates have quite rightly been hammering away at Carney and his team, insisting that any new capacity the industry wants to build must proceed without new subsidies. The government has responded with a growing collection of funding and financing mechanisms for the very wide menu of industrial development and nation-building projects they say they want to take on, and that menu always includes fossil fuel infrastructure. But it’s hard to see how even the combined fiscal clout of the federal and supportive provincial governments will deliver the financial backing private investors would need when the business case for new fossil fuel development is evaporating before their eyes. Particularly when… • No Market, No Demand, No Investors: As our friend Markham Hislop at Energi Media (our apparently sleepless friend, given the massive volume of great material he’s been churning out) points out this morning, the biggest vulnerability in any pipeline deal is the assumption that Asian buyers will want the oil or liquefied natural ga that our fossil industry is so keen to send them. Hislop writes in part: Ottawa and Alberta are effectively betting that countries like China and India will continue increasing oil imports for decades as their economies grow and energy consumption rises. That assumption underpins the entire economic rationale for expanding oil sands production and building billions of dollars in new export infrastructure. But Asian energy systems are changing rapidly… China, India, South Korea, and other major hydrocarbon importers are now investing hundreds of billions of dollars into electricity systems built around wind, solar, batteries, nuclear, hydro, and expanded transmission infrastructure. Domestic “energy sovereignty” is increasingly replacing the old energy-security model based on stable oil and gas imports. Those investments are expected to sharply slow oil demand growth and eventually reverse it, even as overall energy consumption continues rising. There are also refining constraints. Many Asian refineries and petrochemical complexes are already optimized to process discounted heavy crude from the Middle East and Latin America. That raises serious questions about how much additional Canadian bitumen Asian markets can absorb at profitable prices. Small wonder that there’s still no private sector investor for the project, despite Smith’s government desperately beating the bushes to put together a deal. For now, Alberta is acting as proponent and covering early start-up costs for a pitch to the federal Major Projects Office, which could actually turn into the next tough hurdle for Smith and her pipeline to jump. • Canada Day Looms: How ironic that Canada’s birthday this year could become a major chokepoint for the provincial premier who’s been working so diligently to tear the country apart! The July 1 target date for Alberta’s pipeline proposal is baked into the MOU, was reaffirmed by the implementation plan, but it hadn’t dawned on me that it cuts both ways. As one very smart colleague wrote in an email yesterday, “they’ve thrown the ball into Alberta’s court to get the project proposal on the table really quickly and to have to do a whole pile of work to put together a massive, complicated project that would typically take years to assemble, and they’ve given them weeks to do it.” That makes July 1 a looming deadline that Smith won’t be able to run away from politically, especially with the separatists in her party and her caucus breathing down her neck. (See previous ref to off-the-wall.) But if Alberta comes in with a sloppy, incomplete submission, even after Carney bent over backwards to simplify the application process and the rules that govern it, it may be harder for the province or the industry to blame Ottawa and insist on the faster process they claim their investors are demanding. (Oh, wait—which investors would those be??) • We’ll See You In Court (Then We’ll See You Again): If Carney did cave, that would be just one more reason for Indigenous and other affected communities to take the government and the process to court—Just as Alberta First Nations did, successfully, in response to Smith’s half-baked separation referendum. Veterans of the Harper era have been warning that a shoddy process around fossil fuel infrastructure or other major projects will be a recipe for the very delays that process seeks to avoid. And now more than ever, with renewable energy and energy storage eating fossil fuels’ lunch in import markets around the world, a delayed pipeline or LNG terminal may be as good as a cancelled one. • Charged Up, Ready to Go: With its goal of doubling Canada’s electricity supply to meet a doubling of demand by 2050, the national electricity strategy that Carney unveiled Thursday has a lot to like. With its explicit language about speeding the shift from fuels to more efficient and affordable electricity, global investment and deployment patterns that already favour that shift, an emerging bidirectional power grid, the role of front-line options like rooftop solar and heat pumps, the emergence of electric vehicles as behind-the-meter energy storage, and the domestic jobs and manufacturing to make it all happen, the document doubles down on the essential cornerstone of a faster shift off fossil fuels. The strategy envisions a more prominent role for gas and nuclear power. But some of those provisions were already in the Clean Electricity Regulations that climate hawks are now fighting so hard to defend, inserted as a compromise in a futile attempt to mollify the industry and its political representatives in Alberta and Saskatchewan. But once again, gas will be a tougher sell when it’s more expensive and now so much more unpredictable than the clean alternatives. The new nuclear technologies are still speculative and deeply vulnerable to cost overruns. Increasingly, utilities, developers, and investors know it. Carney declared Thursday that “it doesn’t do us good to be sitting in court all the time with provinces. It doesn’t do us good to be talking past each other. What does do us good is to come together with specific projects.” There are no guarantees, but so much of the language and narrative-building in the electricity strategy suggests the lion’s share of those projects will be renewable. • The Party Has Already Started: The electricity strategy only rarely digs down to specific projects, but provinces representing three-quarters of Canada’s population are already embracing a faster transition. Hydro-Québec is working on a 10-year, $185-billion renewable energy and grid buildout by 2035. Ontario recently brought 10 provinces and territories together in a National Energy Corridor Agreement to boost interprovincial and -territorial transmission infrastructure. And the MOU implementation agreement commits Alberta to facilitate investment in renewable energy projects, a big step back from its continuing, punitive restrictions on renewables development. The electricity strategy envisions much of the financing and infrastructure that will be needed to pull those advances together into an integrated whole. • Delivering on Affordability: The MOU implementation plan has little or nothing to say about affordability (are you surprised?), but the electricity strategy does, with a top-line pledge to reduce home energy costs for seven out of 10 Canadian households by 2050, a total saving of $15 billion across the board. It’s just a start, but it puts affordability on the government’s narrative map. If they’re serious and deliberate about patching together a least-cost energy strategy, it’ll have little if any room for oil, gas, or nuclear—not with powerful evidence, for example, that electricity prices are higher when those prices are set by gas. • Smith Proves that Canada Works: By signing a deal that makes it harder to claim the federal government is blocking a new pipeline, Smith has helped prove Carney’s constant anti-separatist refrain that “Canada works”—incurring the rage, no doubt, of her own political base. Canada also needs to work for anyone who depends on a clean environment, healthy and thriving ecosystems, and safe, stable climate. But with Smith and her separatist constituents setting up as a fifth column for annexation by Donald Trump’s United States, let’s set aside any notion that 51st state status for Canada is a recipe for anything other than climate disaster (and so much else). Resisting and withstanding Trump (just 170 more sleeps until mid-term elections, which is a damn sight better than the 730 we started with) doesn’t mean a free pass for a pipeline, but we can still appreciate it that keeping Canada whole and sovereign is still Carney’s Job One. • The Words Not Spoken: Apart from a commitment to export a million barrels of “low-emission” Alberta bitumen per day (memo to Smith and Carney: You realize that that’s less than the industry is already exporting??), the MOU implementation plan says nothing about the international trade and economic sovereignty deals that Carney has been travelling the world to negotiate. It didn’t have to. Carney doesn’t need permission from Danielle Smith, her American enablers, or her separatist allies to continue building the alliances that will ratchet down our economic dependency on our unstable, unreliable neighbour to the south. But every connection he builds with countries outside North America helps align our economy and our future with a faster shift off fossil fuels. Little if any of this was on our bingo cards a year or two ago. But it’s the pathway that has opened up to us. And if it gives Canada any climate or energy gains at all in an era still dominated by Trump and his increasingly ridiculous tariffs, his loutish trade negotiations and his continuing annexation threats, we have to take the wins. Not least because they’ll be the point of departure for what we can achieve in 2027, 2029, and beyond, as Trump’s grip and this era begin to loosen and then fade. What is Carney Doing? If this line of thought is right—and it’s a possibility, not a prediction—it means that Carney’s actions and decisions are largely about buying time. Time for Trump’s power to wane. Time for Alberta’s separatist/conspiracist virus to spread, mutate, die out, or at least die back, with help from a vaccine of federal steadiness and calm (appropriate enough, for a movement populated largely by vaccine deniers) that no conspiracy theory can dismiss. And time for the government’s trade and investment agenda to deliver results—even knowing that some of those results will bring impacts that front-line communities will not and should not accept. In the immediate moment, none of this changes the way the wider climate community has to respond, from campaigners to investors to front-line practitioners. All of our voices are still essential. But those voices will be stronger and more confident if we have a clearer sense of the brutal game we’ve been pulled into, and a plausible path (or two it three) for playing it to the win we need. This conversation also underscores our biggest task for the remaining years of what was supposed to be the “decisive” decade for climate response: if we can shift the energy narrative in Canada, make it a mainstream view that the country’s preoccupation with oil and gas has us falling farther behind a changing world, we’ll see far better results in the 2030s and beyond. For many veteran climate advocates, taking on that part of the fight will begin with recognizing that most of our friends and family, neighbours and colleagues already understand that climate change is real and right in front of us: they’re looking away and staying silent because they don’t have what climate communicator Katharine Hayhoe calls “efficacy”. As Hayhoe recently pointed out in a feature interview with The Energy Mix, it amounts to science denial to keep hammering away at the dire news about global warming without also helping audiences understand what they can do about it, with multiple studies telling us why that won’t work. Far better to open those conversations with the dominant crises like energy security, food security, emergency preparedness and business continuity, affordability, and financial security that have knocked climate change far lower on the list of public priorities, and will likely keep it there. We Knew This Would Happen Climate hawks have always known this day would come. For decades, we warned that everyone had to pay attention to climate change right now, because it would be much tougher to respond once the crisis itself started affecting our daily lives. We were right, and here we are. But now, thanks to decades of hard work, communities and countries have an alternative to doubling down on fossil fuels. “In 10 years everyone will have ‘always known’ that solar and batteries were going to win,” Morgan Solar Executive Chair Mike Andrade writes on LinkedIn. With the disruption in the Strait of Hormuz roiling energy priorities around the world, Canada and the United States are among the shrinking number of countries that are still very keen on fossil fuel development. Understanding that gap is a first, essential step in spotting the opportunities ahead, and averting the deep economic as well as environmental and social risk we face if we don’t seize them. Thanks for reading The Energy Mix Weekender! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support our work. Subscribe Mitchell Beer traces his background in renewable energy and energy efficiency back to 1977, in climate change to 1997. Now he and the rest of the Energy Mix team scan 1,200 news headlines a week to pull together The Energy Mix and The Energy Mix Weekender. 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The Yankees Reliever Confidence Index: May Edition
Tim Hill continues to sidewind his way up the bullpen pecking order
With dwindling health care options, rural residents wonder what’s next from a new Mayo Clinic CEO
Southern Minnesota communities served by the world-famous medical system are waiting to see whether Mayo expands its rural offerings or continues closing and consolidating locations.
Microsoft confirms more Windows 11 Start menu customization and improvements are on the way
Windows 11 now has a movable taskbar, but Microsoft is not done with upgrades. The company confirmed that more Start menu improvements and features are on the way.
WATCH | Vehicle barrels through window of Mechanicsburg business
Business was booming at a Mechanicsburg trailer store on Thursday when a SUV came crashing through the building's window.
Windows 11 tests an adjustable taskbar and resizable Start menu
Windows 11 Insiders can choose a smaller taskbar as well.
The movable Taskbar is back on Windows 11 — here is how to test it now
Microsoft is now testing the option to move the Taskbar to the side of your screen on Windows 11.
Sony Surprise Drops New Feature via May 2026 Beta Update
Sony has just added a new feature to the PS5 via a beta update for May 2026. A new social/community widget is being tested.
Microsoft to automatically roll back faulty Windows drivers
Microsoft is introducing a new Windows Update capability that will allow it to remotely roll back problematic Windows drivers delivered through Windows Update.
Windows 11 KB5089549 can now be downloaded for USB installs using official Microsoft tool
Microsoft has made an update related to the Media Creation Tool, its official utility for downloading and installing Windows via ISOs.
Japan’s Largest LSI Pledges More AI as Translation Business Falters
Honyaku Center’s revenue and profit fall in fiscal 2026 on macro headwinds. The company pledged more AI in its core translation business.
FOX NFL’s Loaded 2026 Regular Season Schedule Features Most Windows of Any Network
FOX NFL’s Loaded 2026 Regular Season Schedule Features Most Windows of Any Network
Zero-day exploit completely defeats default Windows 11 BitLocker protections
It's not entirely clear how the exploit works. Microsoft says it's investigating.
Take-Two stock jumps on GTA 6 pre-order speculation: What we know
Investing.com -- Shares of Take-Two Interactive Software (NASDAQ: TTWO) climbed 5% on Thursday morning, trading at approximately $238, following viral social media speculation that a pre-order window for Grand Theft Auto VI is set to open as early as this weekend.
Accounts in Transit: Rosen Group Picks Up Kustom Entertainment
Rosen Group to bolster media visibility of Kustom Entertainment, a live event production and ticketing technology company....LDPR lands AOR duties for Windjammer Landing Resort & Residences, a Caribbean resort set along the shores of Labrelotte Bay in St. Lucia....Vitamin, a Baltimore-based shop, picks up The Mood Center, a mental health practice specializing in neurotherapy treatments for depression and related conditions.
America’s Most Valuable Private Family Businesses 2026
For the first time, Forbes ranks the nation’s most valuable privately owned family businesses —including the companies behind Chick-fil-A, M&M’s and Windex.
Windows Update will soon automatically roll back faulty drivers
Microsoft is making Windows Update a lot less disruptive.
Windows Zero-Days Expose BitLocker Bypasses And CTFMON Privilege Escalation
YellowKey bypasses BitLocker via WinRE USB FsTx files, exposing Windows 11 and Server 2022/2025 systems.
The 12 contenders to fill Manchester United’s midfield hole
Just as overhauling the attack was Manchester United’s primary aim last summer, revamping their midfield is the priority in this transfer window.
New Mexico politicians grapple with oil windfall from Iran war that's both 'awesome' and awkward
A global oil bottleneck in the Strait of Hormuz has created a financial windfall on the other side of the world in New Mexico that is both enviable and politically sensitive in a Democratic-dominated state.
Trump administration foreign aid cuts are having an impact on maternal health in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone had reduced its maternal mortality by nearly 80 percent since 2000. That process is now in danger as the country grapples with the lack of international funding including from the United States, which cut aid in 2025. NBC News’ Zinhle Essamuah in partnership with the non-profit newsroom the Fuller Project show us how doctors in the ground are trying to save lives as resources dwindle.
Windows Update is getting better at saving your PC from buggy drivers
Driver recovery can automate what used to be an irritating manual process.
Windows BitLocker zero-day gives access to protected drives, PoC released
A cybersecurity researcher has published proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for two unpatched Microsoft Windows vulnerabilities named YellowKey and GreenPlasma, which are a BitLocker bypass and a privilege-escalation flaw.
Masked men fire shots at Windsor business, police say
Three men in masks fired rounds at a business in Windsor overnight, police said.
Police investigating two burglaries at south Lincoln adult entertainment store
Police said a man wearing black clothes broke a window and entered Romantix off of S. 10th St, took several items and left.
Microsoft's MDASH AI System Finds 16 Windows Flaws Fixed in Patch Tuesday
Microsoft’s new MDASH AI system found 16 Windows vulnerabilities fixed in this month’s Patch Tuesday, including 2 RCE flaws in IKEv2 and TCP/IP.
Warm weather brings visitors, boost in business to Columbia River Gorge
Tuesday’s warm and windy weather brought water sports fans back onto the water in the Columbia River Gorge, as well as a promising boost for local businesses.
The dwindling ranks of the pro-impeachment Republicans: From the Politics Desk
Plus, what to watch for in Nebraska.
European play-off final 'step too far' for Swifts
Dungannon Swifts boss Rodney McAree says the European play-off final proved to be "a step too far" for his side as they were beaten 3-1 by Linfield at Windsor Park.
Speed-boosting "low latency profile" is one of the improvements coming to Windows 11
All modern operating systems do this, including macOS and Linux."
Southwest Airlines suffers cracked windshield and forced to divert
As scary as a cracked windshield might sound, passengers are in little danger on the rare occasions such incidents occur.
Chicago’s construction market buoyed by infrastructure, entertainment builds
Large expansions on the Red Line and at O’Hare International Airport are capturing attention. A stadium, a casino and an M&A deal mark other Windy City building news.
Solar and wind —what a difference a border makes
If you ask most Americans where Colorado and Wyoming are on a map, they will likely be able to find us, somewhere out west. A few might be confused by our roughly similar shapes. Sure, Colorado is actually a 697-sided polygon (a hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon) due to surveying errors during the 19th century. Wyoming, on the other hand, is a […]
Wake County Public Health to offer back-to-school vaccine clinics this summer
While the current school year is winding down, Wake County Public Health is already working to make it easy for families to check a critical task off their list for next year – getting their child's required vaccinations. The County is hosting monthly vaccine clinics to help students get the immunizations they need as they head back to class in the fall.
Gears of War: E-Day's release window might have been revealed through a WWE Triplemania advert
Xbox hasn't told us when the new Gears of War prequel game will be released, but an advert for WWE Triplemania 34 might have spilled the beans.
Windows 11 is getting a macOS-like speed boost
The speed boost is similar to macOS and Linux
Fake OpenAI Privacy Filter Repo Hits #1 on Hugging Face, Draws 244K Downloads
Fake OpenAI Privacy Filter hit #1 on Hugging Face with 244,000 downloads, spreading infostealer malware to Windows users.
Why Are Life Science Companies So Poorly Prepared For RIM's Future?
Most organizations have modernized their global regulatory information management (RIM) systems and improved data quality. Yet modernization and readiness are not the same thing.
Why Are Life Science Companies So Poorly Prepared For RIM's Future?
Most organizations have modernized their global regulatory information management (RIM) systems and improved data quality. Yet modernization and readiness are not the same thing.
Global Business Travel Assoc says travel in Asia proving resilient amid headwinds
Global Business Travel Association CEO Suzanne Neufang says Middle East travel demand is showing signs of stabilising as regional airlines cut fares to win back passengers and adjust to a “new normal”.
Woman turns COVID hobby into business, transforming broken car windows into jewelry
"I had a lot of people trying to offer me certain glass, and I had to learn a lot about how specific glass was made."
Microsoft denies Windows 11 CPU boost trick is a lazy fix, says Apple does this and you love it
Microsoft VP Scott Hanselman defends the new Windows 11 Low Latency Profile, explaining why CPU boosting is standard thing on Mac and Linux.
MN politics: HCMC funding still in question as legislative session winds down | FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul
With only a week left in the Minnesota legislative session, congressional candidates are securing endorsements ahead of the elections in November. But the issue of funding Hennepin County Medical Center still remains, with the House and Senate offering very different solutions. Political analyst Blois Olson spoke to FOX 9's Leah Beno on the details.
Real Madrid make contact with agent of Manchester City defender
Real Madrid are in the market for a new central defender, with that being one of their priorities for the summer transfer window. The expected departure of David Alaba, coupled with the possible one o...
JDownloader site hacked to replace installers with Python RAT malware
The website for the popular JDownloader download manager was compromised earlier this week to distribute malicious Windows and Linux installers, with the Windows payload found deploying a Python-based remote access trojan.
Review: Morgan Wallen opens Indianapolis run with sprawling set
Wallen’s stop marked the first concert at Lucas Oil since Billy Joel and Sting. Takeaways from his first of two Indianapolis outings:
VAR will not be used in European play-off final
The Northern Ireland Football League [NIFL] confirms that the video assistant referee [VAR] will not be used during the European play-off final at Windsor Park.
Microsoft is upgrading Windows 11 touchpad with four new gestures
Microsoft just released new Windows 11 Insider builds featuring massive touchpad gesture upgrades, automatic scrolling, and some system fixes.
Entertainment production services company winds down operations in Atlanta amid film production decline
Microsoft brings free Windows 11 upgrade, big improvements to File Explorer, with new builds
Microsoft has released new Windows builds under the Experimental and Beta channels. They bring improvements and fixes.
“Windows 11 Still Relies on Code From the 1990s…” Microsoft Stock (NASDAQ:MSFT) Slips on Revelation of Windows 11 Code
The old saying goes, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. But tech giant Microsoft ($MSFT) may be taking that to an unexpected extreme as it revealed that Windows 11
Deals: Fitbit Air pre-order offers, Pixel 10 Pro/XL up to $500 off, Legion Go 2 Windows handheld $482 off, more
Today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break is headlined by Best Buy offering FREE extra band with Google Fitbit Air pre-order deals (or...
How to remove Gemini Nano from Chrome (and free up 4GB of storage)
Here's how to delete Chrome's weights.bin file and disable Gemini Nano to reclaim your storage space on Windows and macOS.
Political Science department concludes its two-term editorship of national undergraduate research journal
Since Fall 2020, Elon University’s Department of Political Science and Public Policy has hosted the Pi Sigma Alpha Undergraduate Journal of Politics, a publication of the Pi Sigma Alpha, the...
Sony, PlayStation Chiefs Detail AI Vision Amid Tariffs, Memory Crunch
Sony Group CEO Totoki Hiroki and PlayStation chief Nishino Hideaki outline AI tools, a $50 million investment and geopolitical headwinds.
Fresh tariff defeat could give businesses a 2-month window before new duties can be imposed
A split ruling from the Court of International Trade on Thursday delivered President Trump another setback in his tariff agenda and could provide some businesses with a tariff holiday of sorts between now and the summer if the ruling stands up.