Falk Steiner

@fsteiner.bsky.social

Journalist. Berlin. Bylines: DLF | Stern | c't | heise | Tagesspiegel | others German/English. http://steiner.berlin Newsletter (DE): https://steady.page/de/guten-morgen-berlin/ (€) Threema: C66VWYCB Signal: gutenmorgen.86

CalTech is clueless about what applicants would be good undergraduates. Its "Fraud Squad" therefore looks at fonts of science-fair-certificates, so it can at least block those who lie. All to keep the air of exclusivity in its pyramid scheme of >$90k annual fees. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

The ‘Fraud Squad’ at Caltech Will Catch You if You Lie on Your Application

Investigators at the college vet every admitted student’s application as schools nationwide battle AI-fueled cheating.

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This plane landed in Myanmar about three hours ago. This is the third ICE flight to Myanmar this year. Burmese deportees in 2025 were immediately sent to a torture facility next to the airport, according to Myanmar Now. Weeks later, not all of them had emerged.

An FR24 map showing N59JE landing in Yangon and then continuing to Bangkok
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 23h ago

This likely ICE flight operated by Journey Aviation has taken off and appears to heading for an Asia removal. In May, this aircraft deported people to Myanmar.

An ADSBx map showing N62FF heading northwest out of Mesa, AZ and over the Pacific.

Latest about Ceuta: - Irregular arrivals updated to 72,000 people, of whom 70,000 have already returned to Morocco - At least 141 people have died: 78 bodies recovered from Spanish waters and 63 from Moroccan waters - Largest migration crisis in Spain's modern history

Für die Berliner Justizsenatorin ist es ein „Widerspruch”, Achtzehnjährige wählen zu lassen und nach Jugendstrafrecht zu behandeln. Die vom BMJ ausgeschriebene Studie könne nicht abgewartet werden. (Im Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger.) Autoritäre Verachtung für Logik und Empirie!

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The world's largest internet exchange point, #DECIX, that carries a lot of the internet traffic of the world, warns against overreaching surveillance powers in Germany and elsewhere. A German draft law includes many changes for the rules German intelligence services have to follow.

heiseonline@heise.de · 3d ago

Nach drei Jahrzehnten an den Knotenpunkten des Netzes warnt Klaus Landefeld vor einer ausufernden Überwachung durch atomisierte, immer weiter reichende Gesetze. #Missing Link

Man muss kein Experte sein um einen Unterschied zwischen 'afrikanische Migranten werden von Marokko nach Ceuta durchgelassen' und 'Marokkaner fliehen aus Marokko nach Ceuta' zu sehen. Es wäre auch hier wieder gut, nicht einfach von 'Migranten' zu reden.

In the Netherlands, the 49 Euro train ticket experiment on final sale today. 550.000 of those monthly flatrates meant to be a compensation for high fuel prices were sold in the country of 18 mio inhabitants (=~ one North Rhine-Westphalia). Return to normal pricing in Sep. nos.nl/artikel/2625...

Laatste dag van het Nederland-ticket, maar blijven de reizigers ook 'fan van de trein'?

Vandaag is de laatste verkoopdag van het goedkopere abonnement. Daarna gaat de prijs weer omhoog naar het normale tarief van 127,95 euro per maand.

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I did some calculations on that Kh-101 cruise missile. The distance between the border with Ukraine and Tarnawa-Kolonia is about 90 kilometers. That means that Poland and NATO had only 6 to almost 8 minutes to identify the threat and move counter-assets (F-16 etc.) into position. Not much. 1/2

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