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Bulgaria's banks and shops report a smooth euro transition.

Most large retailers reopened on 2 January, after trading on New Year’s Day was largely limited to small local shops.

The switch to the euro has so far been orderly.

Within a day of Bulgaria joining the Eurozone, banks had restored most online and mobile services, and many cash machines were already dispensing euro notes.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260102-bulgarias-banks-and-shops-report-a-smooth-euro-transition?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Bulgaria #Euro #Eurozone #Retail #Banks #EU

Iceland had its hottest Christmas Eve ever with a temperature of 19.8C.

Record temperatures of almost 20C were reached in Iceland on Christmas Eve, the local meteorological office has confirmed.

Seyðisfjörður, a small town in the east of Iceland, hit 19.8C on 24 December.

Average December temperatures in Iceland are between -1C and 4C.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20251230-iceland-had-its-hottest-christmas-eve-ever-with-a-temperature-of-198c?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Iceland #Meteorology #ExtremeWeather #Environment #ClimateCrisis

Internal docs reveal Meta's tactics to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers, including efforts to make scam ads "not findable" for regulators and others (Jeff Horwitz/Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-created-playbook-fend-off-pressure-crack-down-scammers-documents-show-2025-12-31/
http://mediagazer.com/251231/p6#a251231p6

Please remember: when an officer stops somebody based on racial profiling to challenge their immigration status, the correct and proper term for that is a “Kavanaugh stop.”

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/12/brett-kavanaugh-stops-immigration-racial-profiling-ice.html

MongoDB have a blog out about #MongoBleed

Notably:

- Internal find at MongoDB

- they notified customers of the issue and patch availability on December 23rd

- A security vendor published technical details on December 24th, Christmas Eve

- Somebody at Elastic, a direct competitor, published an exploit with full secret extraction feature on December 25th, Christmas Day

That was an impossible situation for orgs - the security industry poured fire on them and set their own customers on fire.

#Korea

Climate change on the Korean Peninsula is accelerating. Due to global warming, temperatures rose by 1.9 degrees Celsius over 100 years from the 1910s to the 2010s, but increased by 0.9 degrees during the 2020s (2020–2024). This means temperatures rose in five years by an amount equivalent to 50 years

https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2025/12/31/L6HCDDH3XJGXTN3ZWJERULD5BY/

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Only two more days till we get to live on Mars, y’all!!

We may not be able to control the shocks and stresses to come, but we can, to some extent at least, try to increase our coping capacity by investing in things that add water to the coping bucket, and avoiding things that drain it.

Strikes and protests in Iran spread nationwide. https://www.iranintl.com/en/202512291716

European colonizers carved up the Somali territories, with Britain, France and Italy all taking portions and leaving a segment for Ethiopia.

Formerly a British colony , the newly independent Somaliland voted to join the larger country, formerly an Italian colony, in 1960, creating the modern day Somalia we know today.

But it was a tumultuous unity. Eventually a decade long Somaliland war of independence culminated in independence and the declaration of Hargeisa as the capital of Somaliland.