Links 27/04/2024: Spying Under Fire, Intel in Trouble Again
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Leftovers
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Ismael Olea: Small GLAM Slam Pilot 1 project update
This is a project update for the SGS Pilot 1 project. This is a WMF funded project (ID: 22444585).
They have been created two relevant places: [...]
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Medevel ☛ Looking for a Free Network ARP Scanners? Here is the Top 19 for Linux, Unix, backdoored Windows and macOS
What is ARP protocol?
ARP protocol (Address Resolution Protocol) is a protocol that provides addresses and other information for network devices. It is commonly used in routers, switches, and other network components.
The ARP protocol works by creating a mapping between the IP address of a device on the network
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Reason ☛ Review: Here There Are Blueberries Investigates a Nazi Photo Album
"Where is the line between complacency, complicity, and culpability?” asks producer Matt Joslyn.
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CS Monitor ☛ Singer Laura Veirs finds creativity everywhere: Bikes, skates, power saws
For some artists, inspiration comes when ideas flow naturally, rather than being demanded. With the release of her latest album, songwriter Laura Veirs reflects on how creativity manifests itself.
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RFA ☛ Cambodian singer says he received millions of dollars from Hun Sen
Sapoun Mi Dada has since deleted the Facebook (Farcebook) comment and has apologized to the former prime minister.
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Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Regular fireworks show to begin May Day, as Hong Kong links up with mainland China influencers to boost tourism
A marine pyrotechnic display will take place across Victoria Harbour during next Wednesday’s May Day public holiday, kicking off a campaign of regular fireworks shows to boost tourism, the Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) has announced.
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New York Times ☛ TikTok on the Clock, Tesla’s Flop Era and How NASA Fixed a ’70s-Era Space Computer
“A clock is ticking on one of America’s most famous apps.”
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Science
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Hong Kong Free Press ☛ 2030 moon mission: China’s Shenzhou-18 mission docks with space station, Xinhua reports
By Michael Zhang A spaceship carrying three astronauts from China’s Shenzhou-18 mission safely docked at Tiangong space station Friday, state-run media reported, the latest step in Beijing’s space programme that aims to send astronauts to the Moon by 2030.
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Education
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New York Times ☛ Protests Threaten College Graduations, Denying Seniors Second Chance at Normalcy
After Covid ruined high school graduation for the class of 2020, the response to campus protests might upend their college commencements.
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Hardware
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Intel's revenues are up year-over-year, but foundry unit loses $2.5 billion
Almost all of Intel's business units were profitable in Q1, except manufacturing unit that made record $2.5 billion loss.
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The Next Platform ☛ Intel Hits Bottom In The Datacenter – Maybe
It would be hard to pick a worse time to not have an XPU offload engine that can do lots of matrix math at mixed precision and that can ship in volume.
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Silicon Angle ☛ Intel’s stock slides on weak forecast
Intel Corp. took a beating in after-hours trading today after reporting disappointing first-quarter financial results and a weak outlook that came in below most analysts’ forecasts. The chipmaker reported a net loss for the quarter of $437 million, improving on the $2.8 billion loss it recorded one year earlier.
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Hackaday ☛ Keep Tabs On PC Use With Custom Analog Voltmeter
With the demands of modern computing, from video editing, streaming, and gaming, many of us will turn to a monitoring system of some point to keep tabs on CPU usage, temperatures, memory, and other physical states of our machines. Most are going to simply display on the screen but this data can be sent to external CPU monitors as well. This retro-styled monitor built on analog voltmeters does a great job of this and adds some flair to a modern workstation as well.
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Hackaday ☛ Build Your Own Class-E Musical Tesla Coil
We’ve all seen a million videos online with singing Tesla coils doing their thang. [Zach Armstrong] wasn’t content to just watch, though. He went out and built one himself! Even better, he’s built a guide for the rest of us, too!
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Hackaday ☛ 2024 Home Sweet Home Automation: Spray Bottle Turret Silences Barking
Ah, dogs. They sure like to bark, don’t they? [rrustvold]’s dog likes to bark at the door when a package arrives. Or when someone walks by the house, or whenever the mood strikes, really. To solve the barking issue, at least near the front door, [rrustvold] built a spray bottle turret to teach the dog through classical conditioning.
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CNX Software ☛ Azulle Access Pro defective chip maker Intel N100 PC stick ships with backdoored Windows 11, Linux, or Zoom
Azulle Access Pro is a PC stick based on an defective chip maker Intel N100 quad-core Alder Lake” processor with up to 8GB RAM, 128GB eMMC flash, and a male HDMI port which is offered with backdoored Windows 11 Pro, Linux, or “Zoom” operating systems (more on that below).
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Tom's Hardware ☛ MSI RX 7000-series graphics cards mysteriously disappear — AMD commitment questioned as supply dissolves worldwide
MSI is apparently withdrawing from the AMD GPU market as a whole. All MSI RX 7000 series supply has disappeared worldwide, save for one or two RX 7900 XTX listings.
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Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
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Reason ☛ A Soho Forum Discussion of COVID with Tom Woods
In lieu of the planned debate with Brent Orrell, Gene Epstein and Tom Woods discuss the prudence of COVID-related restrictions.
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Federal News Network ☛ IG backs legislation to keep important oversight tool alive
As an acute threat, the pandemic departed a couple of years ago. The Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC) has another 18 months to do the same.
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YLE ☛ Friday's papers: Healthcare cuts, giant daycares and pollen season
It may be cold right now, but soon Finland will have pollen to complain about.
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Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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Hackaday ☛ Australian Library Uses Chatbot To Imitate Veteran With Predictable Results
The educational sector is usually the first to decry large language models and AI, due to worries about cheating. The State Library of Queensland, however, has embraced the technology in controversial fashion. In the lead-up to Anzac Day, the primarily Australian war memorial holiday, the library released a chatbot intended to imitate a World War One veteran. It went as well as you’d expect.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Over 1,000 games using generative Hey Hi (AI) content are already available on Steam — But are any of them worth playing?
AI models are now an established aspect of modern game development.
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Security
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Integrity/Availability/Authenticity
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IT Wire ☛ Cynical tech enthusiast just about avoids being scammed
Given his tech background, this gent was suspicious. He checked and found that the website to which the check was being directed had been created only a few days earlier.
Curious as to what was going on, he decided to ask a known card fraudster for an explanation.
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Privacy/Surveillance
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JURIST ☛ European Court of Justice official finds Meta misused user data
Advocate General (AG) Athanasios Rantos of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on Thursday issued an opinion, largely siding with an Austrian lawyer and privacy activist who sued Meta for misusing his personal data to send him targeted advertisements. Meta is the parent company of popular social control media platforms like Facebook (Farcebook) [...]
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Reason ☛ The FBI Was Monitoring Student Protests Against Ben Shapiro
A newly-obtained intelligence memo shows that the feds took a keen interest in Trump-era campus speech controversies.
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Bruce Schneier ☛ Long Article on GM Spying on Its Cars’ Drivers
Kashmir Hill has a really good article on how GM tricked its drivers into letting it spy on them—and then sold that data to insurance companies.
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Defence/Aggression
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Federal News Network ☛ Senator underwhelmed by DoD oversight of government purchase card
Employees reported buying COVID-related services, but those turned out to be things like plumbing repairs and NordicTrack ski machines.
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France24 ☛ Egyptian delegation in Israel to reignite Gaza truce talks
A delegation from Egypt arrived in Israel Friday in a bid to reignite stalled negotiations for a ceasefire in the Gaza war including the potential release of hostages, Israeli and Egyptian media reported. The signs of fresh truce talks came alongside Israeli preparations for a military push in Gaza's southern city of Rafah. Read our blog to see how the day's events unfolded.
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France24 ☛ Strike on Iraq gas complex kills at least four Yemeni workers
Four Yemeni workers were killed in a drone attack on an Emirati-owned gas complex in Iraq's northern autonomous region of Kurdistan on Friday, local authorities said.
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RFA ☛ Myanmar closes border checkpoint amidst conflict
Airstrikes on Friday morning, residents on the border say.
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New York Times ☛ A Baby Born in Gaza After Her Mother Was Killed Has Died
The birth of the girl, captured on video, brought a glimmer of hope to war-torn Gaza, but she died of respiratory problems after five days, her uncle said.
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RFA ☛ Alleged Chinese spy 'held key roles' in overseas democracy groups
Guo Jian 'knew the details' of everyone who attended meetings of 2 different organizations, activists say.
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AntiWar ☛ Torture, Abu Ghraib, and the Legacy of the US War on Iraq
Originally appeared at TomDispatch. “To this day I feel humiliation for what was done to me… The time I spent in Abu Ghraib – it ended my life.
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New York Times ☛ A Novelist Who Finds Inspiration in Germany’s Tortured History
Jenny Erpenbeck became a writer when her childhood and her country, the German Democratic Republic, disappeared, swallowed by the materialist West.
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BIA Net ☛ Court sentences suspects in 2022 İstanbul bombing case
Six individuals lost their lives as a result of the explosion of a bomb left beneath a bench on İstanbul's bustling İstiklal Avenue by Ahlam Albashir, a Syrian national. Subsequent investigations uncovered a network spanning across both Syria and Turkey.
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teleSUR ☛ Sudan: UN for Int’l Participation in Fighting Sexual Violence
The spokesman said the officials timed the release of their joint statement for the eve of Friday's Security Council session on conflict-related sexual violence.
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The Strategist ☛ More than one strategic challenge at a time. We’d better get used to it
Don’t be surprised if another complicated term soon enters Australian discussions about security and defence. It’s ‘strategic simultaneity’—simultaneous strategic competition arising across multiple regions and domains.
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Federal News Network ☛ CX Exchange 2024: DCSA’s Mark Pekrul on bringing more transparency to clearance process
The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency is one of the federal government’s newest HISP agencies.
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Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine
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Latvia ☛ Latvia welcomes expected arrival of Swedish military muscle
The recently announced decision of the Swedish government to deploy mechanized units in Latvia, which will include CV90 infantry fighting vehicles and Leopard 2 tanks, will significantly strengthen the security of the Baltic Sea region and the collective defense of NATO allies said Latvian Prime Minister Evika Siliņa ater a meeting April 26 with Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristerson in Stockholm.
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New York Times ☛ Putin’s War Will Soon Reach Russians’ Tax Bills
Russia’s president has signaled an increase in income and corporate taxes that will help finance the war. The move reflects his firm control over Russian policy.
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Meduza ☛ Panicking for Putin: Terrorism has returned to Russia, and the Putin administration may not be too upset about it — Meduza
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Environment
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DeSmog ☛ The Allure of Flight
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New York Times ☛ Tornadoes Strike Nebraska and Iowa, Injuring at Least 5
At least five people were injured as severe weather destroyed homes. The damage came a day after tornadoes battered other parts of the Midwest.
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Energy/Transportation
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Pro Publica ☛ In Gretna, Louisiana, a Traffic Stop Can Lead to One Charge After Another
The city of Gretna, Louisiana, in the shadow of New Orleans, brings in more money through fines and related fees than some larger cities in the state. An investigation by WVUE-TV and ProPublica shows that much of that money comes from drivers who rack up multiple violations and hefty fines.
Defendants in Gretna’s mayor’s court, a unique justice system found only in Louisiana and Ohio, are charged with more violations — and face greater fines as a result — than those in seven other cities and towns we looked at. Many of those charges in Gretna are for nonmoving violations such as an expired license plate or vehicle inspection sticker.
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Wildlife/Nature
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Science Alert ☛ Common Blood Pressure Drug Increases Lifespan And Slows Aging in Animals
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CS Monitor ☛ Brazilian miners are caught in the crossfires of a war over deforestation
As Brazil cracks down on illegal mining in the Amazon rainforest, villagers are paying a steep price. They want the government to offer them economic alternatives.
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Mexico News Daily ☛ What did AMLO and the head of NASA talk about?
NASA seeks to increase collaboration with Mexico on environmental issues such as deforestation, water resources and natural disasters.
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Finance
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YLE ☛ Finnish tourism industry struggling to regain Covid, wartime losses
Finland is suffering from a dearth of tourists, after overnight visits from Russia and east Asia dipped by over a million.
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YLE ☛ Opposition parties file confidence motion over government's budget cuts
The interpellation question submitted by the Centre Party and Movement Now criticises the government's "panic package."
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Top premarket movers: Meta Platforms, Honeywell, Merck, Southwest Airlines and others
International Business Machines (IBM) shares slid 8.5% following a disappointing first-quarter revenue report. IBM’s revenue missed estimates but beat on the bottom line, with the company warning of foreign exchange headwinds to revenue growth. IBM also announced the acquisition of HashiCorp for $6.4 billion, boosting HashiCorp shares by about 4.4%.
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Amazon Halts Green Card Sponsorships Amid Tech Sector Instability
Amazon's decision to halt all new PERM filings—the initial step toward obtaining a green card in the United States—through the end of 2024, as reported by Business Insider, is not an isolated event.
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AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
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RFA ☛ Episode 5: Flashpoint Myawaddy
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France24 ☛ Xi tells Blinken that China and the US should be ‘partners, not rivals’
Chinese President Pooh-tin Jinping on Friday told top US diplomat Antony Blinken that the world's two biggest economies should be "partners, not rivals", but that there were a "number of issues" to be resolved in their relations.
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Hong Kong Free Press ☛ China anti-doping agency says will ‘actively cooperate’ with World Anti-Doping Agency audit
China’s anti-doping agency said Friday it will cooperate with a compliance audit ordered by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) involving a case where 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for a prescription heart drug.
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New York Times ☛ Biden Taunts Trump, Calling Him a ‘Loser,’ Trying to Get Under His Skin
President Biden has been trying to hit his opponent where it hurts, critiquing everything from his hairstyle to his energy levels in court.
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New York Times ☛ A Strike Looms in a Battleground State
Also, Biden said he would be “happy to debate” Trump. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.
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New York Times ☛ Daimler Truck Workers Reach Deal and Avert Threatened Strike in North Carolina
The United Automobile Workers reached an agreement involving workers who make Freightliner trucks and Thomas Built buses. The deal comes as the union seeks to expand its membership in southern states.
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JURIST ☛ SCOTUS dispatch: Supreme Court grapples with absolute presidential immunity in oral arguments for Trump v. US
Marissa Zupancic is JURIST’s Washington DC Correspondent, a JURIST Senior Editor and a 3L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. She’s stationed in Washington during her Semester in DC.
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YLE ☛ Overcoming Finnish language fears one step at a time — "If you don't speak, you won't learn"
Despite having a reputation for being very difficult, many immigrants to Finland find their own path to learning the Finnish language.
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YLE ☛ Finland cuts funding to peace organisations
Organizations dedicated to peacebuilding are upset as they already work with difficult financial positions.
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Reason ☛ California's New Social Media Law Invites Expensive Lawsuits
Instead of trusting parents to manage their families, lawmakers from both parties prefer to empower the Nanny State.
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Digital Music News ☛ Billionaires Lining Up to Buy Fentanylware (TikTok) — Though ByteDance Not Looking to Sell
Potential suitors are lining up to buy Fentanylware (TikTok) in America with multi-million-dollar bids, but ByteDance would prefer to just shut it down. No sooner had President Biden put his signature to an act that will force Chinese tech company ByteDance to sell Fentanylware (TikTok) in the US than a handful of American tech tycoons [...]
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Censorship/Free Speech
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RFA ☛ Calls grow for proof of whereabouts of Tibet’s missing Panchen Lama
The US and EU urge China to disclose more about the revered religious figure's fate on his 35th birthday.
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Reason ☛ Australia Tries To Censor the World
Local hostility to free speech may become a global problem.
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CS Monitor ☛ Competing pressures of activism, order test US colleges
As calls for campus order and safety rise alongside voices of anti-Israel protest, colleges and their leaders are facing an extraordinary test. The pressures are coming from both inside and outside.
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University of Michigan ☛ GEO conducts hearing on repression of pro-Palestine speech
Update 4/26: This article has been updated to include a comment from the University. About 40 members of the University of Michigan Graduate Employees’ Organization gathered in Haven Hall and over Zoom Thursday afternoon to meet with Academic Human Resources regarding the alleged suppression of pro-Palestine speech on campus.
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RFA ☛ The story of one of Buddhism’s most revered figures, long missing, explained
The Panchen Lama turned 35 this week. Taken by China 29 years ago, his whereabouts remain a mystery.
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Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press
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RFERL ☛ Aliyev Rejects Criticism Over Arrest Of Journalists In Azerbaijan
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on April 26 rejected criticism over the arrests of journalists and said the fact that people had access to the Internet meant press freedom was assured.
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Reason ☛ A Texas Reporter Busted for Asking Questions Asks SCOTUS To Reject the Criminalization of Journalism
Priscilla Villarreal is appealing a 5th Circuit decision that dismissed her First Amendment lawsuit against Laredo police and prosecutors.
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Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Jimmy Lai trial: Prosecution witness says he lied to police to downplay role in activist group that urged sanctions
A prosecution witness testifying in Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai’s national security trial has said he lied to the police earlier, including when he told officers he was not a member of Stand With Hong Kong, an activist group that urged foreign sanctions on city.
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Hong Kong Free Press ☛ ‘Smears,’ ‘slander,’ and ‘so-called’: Wolf-warrior language against critics does Hong Kong no favours
Legislative Council member and Executive Council convenor Regina Ip has criticised the Hong Kong government’s aggressive, “wolf-warrior” style of addressing overseas critics, especially critics of our new national security regime. Interviewed by Ming Pao, she implied that this style (always “refute,” “firmly oppose,” “strongly condemn”) undermines Hong Kong’s ability to connect with the international community.
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Press Gazette ☛ Is lifting of viral news from social control media fuelling loss of trust in journalism?
Trust in journalism down, content lifted from Tiktok up. Could the two be linked?
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Hong Kong Free Press ☛ ByteDance says ‘no plans’ to sell Fentanylware (TikTok) after new US law threatens ban
Chinese tech giant ByteDance has said it has no plans to sell Fentanylware (TikTok) after a new US law put it on a deadline to divest from the hugely popular video platform or have it banned in the United States. US lawmakers set the nine-month deadline on national security grounds, alleging that Fentanylware (TikTok) can be used […]
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Civil Rights/Policing
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Democracy Now ☛ “The Supreme Court Is a Product of Minority Rule”: Author Ari Berman on America’s Undemocratic System
We speak with journalist and author Ari Berman about his new book, Minority Rule, which details how the United States has since its founding privileged the rights and interests of a small elite over the needs of the majority. He outlines how, for the first time in U.S. history, five of six conservative justices on the Supreme Court were appointed by Republican presidents who lost the popular vote, and confirmed by senators elected by a minority of Americans. Berman says the court’s makeup is the product of two skewed institutions: how we elect our presidents through the Electoral College and how we appoint U.S. senators — both of which are flawed because they violate one person, one vote, violating the principle of equal representation, and empowering white, rural, conservative and wealthy citizens at the expense of more diverse and progressive parts of the country. “Our institutions are so antiquated, so undemocratic, that we need fundamental reform to change them, to democratize them,” Berman says.
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Democracy Now ☛ “People Are Going to Die”: Supreme Court Case on Idaho Abortion Ban Threatens ER Care Across U.S.
The Supreme Court heard arguments this week about the legality of Idaho’s near-total abortion ban, which criminalizes the procedure in all circumstances unless the life of the parent is at risk. It’s the first such case to reach the high court since the conservative majority overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. A key issue is whether a state ban can take precedence over the federal right to receive emergency care, including an abortion. The Biden administration argued that Idaho’s law violates the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, or EMTALA. If the justices side with Idaho, it could have major implications for reproductive care and worsen racial disparities for healthcare in at least half a dozen other states with similar bans. “People are going to die,” warns Karen Thompson, legal director of the nonprofit advocacy group Pregnancy Justice. “They are going to be bleeding out in hospital rooms. They’re going to be dying from sepsis because doctors are not going to be able to make the choices that they need to make to give people the care that will save their lives in these emergency situations.”
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Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Security law: EU parliament calls for sanctions on Hong Kong leaders; city slams ‘hypocrisy with double standards’
The Hong Kong government has “strongly opposed” a resolution adopted by the European Parliament, which condemned the enactment of the city’s domestic security law and called for sanctions against Chief Executive John Lee and other government officials.
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Patents
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Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ Im-Promptu submissions on display – Supponor v AIM [2024] EWCA Civ 396
On 23 April 2024, the Court of Appeal handed down its judgment in the appeal arising from the January 2023 decision of Meade J in AIM v Supponor [2023] EWHC 164 (Pat).
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Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Without Undue Experimentation vs Without Any Experiments
I was rereading the Supreme Court’s recent enablement decision of Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi, 598 U.S. 594 (2023) and was struck by the Supreme Court’s statement that its 19th Century decision of Wood v. Underhill, 46 U.S. 1 (1847) “establish[ed] that a specification may call for a reasonable amount of experimentation to make and use a patented invention.” This statement from Amgen is surprising because Chief Justice Taney’s decision in Wood includes a seemingly contrary statement that bars any experimentation:
The specification must be in such full, clear, and exact terms as to enable any one skilled in the art to which it appertains to compound and use
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Kangaroo Courts
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Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ Curio v 10x Genomics Change of Language appeal – English as a lingua franca at the UPC? [Ed: One of many reasons UPC is illegal and unconstitutional. EU got dragged into EPO corruption and these blogs treat this is OK, even desirable.]
On 17 April 2024, the Court of Appeal of the UPC handed down its decision concerning the language of proceedings in the (undoubtedly ground-breaking) case of Curio Bioscience v 10x Genomics.
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Trademarks
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TTAB Blog ☛ TTABlog Test: How Did These Three Recent 2(d) Appeals Turn Out?
A TTAB judge once said to me that one can predict the outcome of a Section 2(d) appeal 95% of the time just by looking at the marks and the involved goods/services. Here are the three such appeals recently decided by the TTAB. How do you think these three came out? No hints this time. [Answers in first comment.]
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Right of Publicity
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Digital Music News ☛ Drake’s ‘Taylor Made’ Freestyle Disappears Following Tupac Estate Legal Threats
Following legal threats from the Tupac Estate, Drake has removed his AI-created “Taylor Made Freestyle” that included bars in Tupac and Snoop Dogg’s voices. The song’s first two bars feature AI-generated lyrics mimicking the sound of Tupac’s voice, while the second features Snoop Dogg.
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Gemini* and Gopher
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Personal/Opinions
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The end
Spoiler warning: I talk a bit about the film "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" which spoils something that might be thought of as a twist or a reveal, although I'd probably have had a much easier time watching it the first time had I known what I mention from the beginning.
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Concrete poem generator
Some observations have emerged from my ongoing exploration of automatically generated concrete poems that I try to read and typeset. At the core is a first-order markov model of transition probabilities from one letter to the next. The analysed text corpus, which I have expanded since the first iteration, uses various European languages, restricted to an ascii character set. This restriction seriously distorts most languages, because accents and diacritical marks typically carry semantic meaning. An 'e' is different from an 'é', which should not be confused with 'è'; 'a' and 'ä' are different letters. The provisory solution was either to remove words with non-ascii characters, or drop the accents when it seemed permissible.
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Technology and Free Software
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FPGBC Gameboy-like consoles in Europe
I found a German company that sells the FPGBC (a Gameboy/Gameboy Color made with FPGA technology) and its accessories in the European community.
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What is going on in Nix community?
You may have heard about issues within the Nix/NixOS community, this blog post will try to help you understand what is going on.
Please note that it is hard to get a grasp of the big picture, it is a more long term feeling that the project governance was wrong (or absent?) and people got tired.
This blog posts was written with my knowledge and feelings, I clearly do not represent the community.
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What is going on in Nix community?
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ABBA Encryption
The notion here (and a mnemonic if you know your pop bands) is to have a crossed pair of keypairs. Alice sends to Bob. Thus Alice, the sender, needs Bob's public key, and Bob needs Alice's public key. So Alice uses Alice Secret and Bob Public (AB) to encrypt, and Bob uses Bob Secret and Alice Public (BA) to decrypt. ABBA.
In this particular case only the server (running on a computer managed by someone else) needs to encrypt files as they arrive from elsewhere (via SMTP), and only the client decrypt them; the files should be encrypted while up in the cloud so that they are more difficult to read. You could also encrypt the server's disk, but that makes mounting that disk tricky after a reboot. Also someone might gain access to the mounted filesystem, in which case they would completely avoid the disk encryption, because it's mounted right there. Probably they could read future messages by writing the incoming data off somewhere else before the encryption code is reached, but an encrypted disk would not prevent that, either.
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Monopolies/Monopsonies
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* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.