𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Wednesday, April 19, 2023 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Thu 20 Apr 02:41:56 BST 2023 Created by Dr. Roy Schestowitz (𝚛𝚘𝚢 (at) 𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚣 (dot) 𝚌𝚘𝚖) Full hyperlinks for navigation omitted but are fully available in the originals The corresponding HTML versions are at 𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈 Latest in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒕𝒙𝒕 and older bulletins can be found at 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒕𝒙𝒕-𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 Full IPFS index in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒊𝒑𝒇𝒔 and as plain text in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒊𝒑𝒇𝒔/𝒕𝒙𝒕 Gemini index for the day: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/04/19/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmUrwP7MBt8inhtUu4Mvpm1u98tHfeRdavasm4yZqHa9Hf QmZz4PybmqwxQvJ6383XsbijS6b7BRGW5rSKMTvsLRtRae QmZjKTQkXEAPfBEY76e1SGVHsMwytpPPn1a8p7edRrF2LX QmdoYCxjao8GwYGeyKLdbrSRj8BjRWqcG7GWs3MEZqUTbC QmVfyaoN6BBrhg7UGMEZXNQB1uog2x7QLBu3AvJQEVNTmC 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http://techrights.org/2023/04/19/topographical-maps-and-sharing/#comments ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): http://techrights.org/2023/04/19/another-tails-release/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/04/19/virtualbox-7-0-8/#comments ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 66 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/04/19/dumb-things-as-headlines/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/04/19/dumb-things-as-headlines/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 04.19.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Saying_Dumb_Things,_Turning_Them_Into_Clickbait⠀✐ Posted in Deception, GNU/Linux, Microsoft at 9:00 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Muggie_van_Staden⦈_ Like trusting Microsoft not to lock/shut GNU/Linux and BSD out (using, e.g., ‘secure’_boot) 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Invading_poland⦈_ Summary: There was never a lack of 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█▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 04.19.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Just_Because_Fox_‘News’_Lost_(or_Settled)_Doesn’t_Mean_Voting_Machines_Are Safe_or_Acceptable⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Free/Libre_Software at 12:45 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Straw_man_arguments can undermine democracy, too 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇President_John_F._Kennedy_Visits_with_Rupert_Murdoch,_Publisher_of_News_Ltd._of_Australia⦈ Murdoch (right) with President John F. Kennedy and Zell Rabin in the Oval Office in 1961 Summary: Straw man arguments for voting machines — or against critics of these — will become ubiquitous in days to come; it’s important to distinguish between the disinformation from Rupert Murdoch’s media apparatus and the actual science (many distinguished scientists have long warned against voting machines, more so proprietary ones) So, as noted_in_Daily_Links (much more on this later), Dominion won a case against a very “soft” target (Rupert Murdoch, serial fabricator), but voting machines must still be avoided, criticised, and generally protested against. Pseudo-liberal media will be missing the point, as usual, instead_stigmatising critics_and_sceptics_of_voting_machines_as_"Nazis". “We are seeing many cautionary tales right now in Russia and in China.”We kindly ask people not to fall for it. There are many perfectly legitimise reasons to avoid voting machines. When I vote here a few days from now it’ll involve only paper, a pencil, and a physical box with a hole in it. That works. No reason/s to give a large contract to some “tech” company. Many other things in “modern” society are being turned into a computer for no good, pragmatic/ practical reasons. They use buzzwords like “digitalisation”, but the agenda is multi-faceted and potentially very dangerous. It gives very few people far too much control (top-down control by centralisation and consolidation of authority). That’s potentially devastating to democracy. 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Sciencewash as a revenue model? 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Alfred_Pritchard_Sloan,_Jr._history_⦈_ Fixing the net for prostitution: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Fixing_the_net_for_sex⦈_ Thanking Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr.: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Fixing_the_net⦈_ Thanking Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr. yet again: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Thanking_Alfred_Pritchard_Sloan,_Jr.⦈_ Summary: The EFF is becoming more about sex than about digital rights, based on yesterday’s podcast (two blog posts about it, with the episodes distributed through centralised, proprietary platforms with DRM). Does the EFF really want to frame privacy activism as fighting for prostitutes (“Safer Sex Work Makes a Safer Internet”)? The people who took control of the EFF canceled a co-founder because of an alleged sex scandal (he wasn’t the first) and the EFF now produces shows with prostitutes as “experts” in them. This helps stigmatise privacy advocates. The EFF has been in the red (losses), probably for the first time in its history, for_several_years_now. When the original founder ran it they fought against power and raised money from members. Now it’s run by billionaires, gives awards to Microsofters, and gives a voice to people who promote prostitution. The above shows the EFF repeatedly thanking “Alfred P. Sloan Foundation” (“Let’s take a quick moment to say thank you to our sponsor. “How to Fix the Internet” is supported by The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation” and then again towards the end; screenshots above). Does the EFF know or care that General Motors under Alfred P. Sloan helped the Nazis? This isn’t the first example of EFF acting as a front for billionaires, or the powerful instead of the powerless. ⡏⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⢹⡟⢿⢻⢛⠿⢿⠿⠟⣿⡛⠛⠿⠟⠿⡿⢿⠻⡿⢿⠿⠿⢻⣿⠛⡟⡿⡿⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⡛⡿⢿⣿⢟⡟⣿⠛⣟⣛⡟⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡇⠀⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⠀⢸⣴⣬⣬⣼⣼⣤⣤⣥⣿⣥⣿⣬⣥⣯⣯⣭⣤⣥⣬⣬⣧⣭⣿⣥⣤⣥⣥⣤⣬⣤⣭⣿⣃⣥⣯⣿⣜⣧⣽⣬⣾⣼⣯⣼⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡇⠀⣿⣿⣿⣭⡍⣭⣭⣿⠉⣿⣿⠋⣿⣿⠋⣿⣿⡏⣭⣭⣽⣿⣿⠀⢸⠆⢧⢇⡇⢍⡸⣸⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡇⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⢰⡘⢧⡇⢿⣿⡇⣭⣭⣿⣿⣿⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡇⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⡿⠿⣿⣤⣿⣧⣿⡧⣾⣧⣼⣿⣥⣭⣭⣼⣿⣿⠀⢸⣀⢭⣇⣀⣉⣈⣉⣩⣹⣇⣏⣯⣟⣟⣯⣹⣿⣘⣙⣉⣉⣙⡟⠾⠝⠟⠫⣯⠩⠽⠗⠏⠭⠟⠟⠿⠽⠟⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡇⠀⣿⣿⣿⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⣿⣿⣿⠀⢸⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⢿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⡿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡇⠀⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣻⣿⣿⠀⢸⢤⢤⢥⢼⡿⢧⣴⢴⢼⣤⡿⠶⡤⣦⣤⣤⣤⣷⣽⣦⣬⣧⣿⣴⣽⣶⣽⣬⣧⣦⣤⣤⣭⣽⣧⣦⣧⣵⣤⣼⣧⣷⣦⣴⣼⣧⣯⣷⣼⣿⣿ ⡇⠀⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢒⣷⣿⣆⢇⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⠀⢸⣬⣤⣤⣬⣥⣯⣭⣭⣬⣽⣧⣤⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡇⠀⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠯⣩⡟⠙⠦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⠀⢸⡟⡻⣻⣟⢟⡟⣿⡻⣛⣛⢻⢻⠟⣛⢟⣟⡟⠟⣟⣛⣛⣻⣛⡛⠻⢻⡿⢻⣛⡛⢟⣿⡛⠛⠟⡟⢿⡟⠟⢟⢟⣛⣻⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡇⠀⣿⣿⣿⠀⠄⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠄⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⠀⢸⡻⠛⠛⠛⡛⠛⢻⢻⣏⠟⠛⢻⠛⢛⣻⢻⢿⣻⣛⡛⠓⠛⠛⠛⣻⠓⠛⠟⠛⠛⢛⡿⢿⢙⣿⣻⠟⣛⢻⣻⠟⣟⡻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡇⠀⣿⣿⣿⠀⢁⠔⠀⠄⣘⢦⡤⢄⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⠀⢸⢟⢿⣿⠿⠏⢟⢿⢿⢿⡿⢻⢙⢶⠽⠟⢿⢿⡟⡟⢳⡿⠿⢿⡿⡿⡟⡻⣿⠿⠟⣿⢿⢻⠋⣿⠛⠳⠏⠛⠛⡿⡫⡟⠛⠻⢻⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿ 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https://media.libreplanet.org/mgoblin_media/media_entries/2874/lp2023-saturn- sunday-1620.webm Summary: The above LibrePlanet talk is a physical presence/panel talk* about “ [f]inding a job while caring about free software”; it was_uploaded_by_the_FSF** 8 hours ago; From the official page: “A panel of people who care about software freedom, and have have somewhat recently gone through a job search. They will discuss and share their experience, offer some advice, and involve the audience. There is a vast array of ways to advance free software while looking after your finances, but in this talk, our focus will be on finding employment doing technical work and issues encountered there. For example: How much conflict with free software values do you accept in a company and for what price? What about ethical differences between your individual work vs the employer’s overall business model?” Licence: CC_BY_SA_4.0 ________ * framatube.org (PeerTube platform for FSF) has this_channel too, in case MediaGoblin is down. The FSF seriously under-provisioned MediaGoblin for these new videos. 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Mozilla o SaaS/Back_End/Databases o GNU_Projects o Programming/Development # Qt o Standards/Consortia * Leftovers o Science o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting o Environment # Energy/Transportation # Overpopulation o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM) o Monopolies # Patents # Trademarks # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Technical * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ Unix Men ☛ Tips_&_Tricks_For_Testing_And_Managing_Web Applications_Run_By_Linux_OS⠀⇛ Web applications running on a Linux operating system (OS) require thorough testing and effective management to ensure optimal performance and user experience. In this article, we will discuss some tips and tricks for testing and managing web applications run by Linux OS. We will also highlight the importance of hiring a QA tester to ensure that your web application is functioning as intended. In conclusion, testing and managing web applications run by Linux OS requires careful consideration and attention to detail. Testing should be performed on different browsers and devices, load testing should be performed to simulate real-world traffic scenarios, and performance metrics should be monitored to ensure that the application is functioning as intended. Automation testing tools, CI/CD, and security testing should also be implemented. Finally, hiring a QA tester is crucial to ensure that your web application is functioning as intended, meets the requirements of the end-users, and is user-friendly and accessible. If you need assistance in testing and managing your web application, consider hiring a QA tester to ensure that your application is running smoothly and efficiently. o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ What_You_Need_to_Know_about_Linux_Operating_Systems⠀⇛ Many of us are more familiar with the Windows Operating System when using the computer. However, that’s not the case for those in the IT sector. In fact, some of the world’s biggest companies depend on Linux since they find it more reliable, secure, and faster. Another good thing about Linux is that it’s open source, which allows you to create an operating system out of a basic Linux operating system. Moreover, it’s pretty hard for malware to get into a Linux kernel, making it secure and reliable. While the Linux learning curve can be tricky to navigate initially, the experience gained in working with Linux translates to all the vast platforms it supports. In fact, Linux is the basis for other operating systems, such as Android, since it does offer so much flexibility. Another reason to use Linux is that the kernel is free and comes from the open-source GNU GPL, which allows you to add whatever you want to create a custom configuration. It’s possible to download just about every Linux distribution. For instance, you can download a form of Linux kernel with a few fully functional add-ons but without added cost. # ⚓ ZDNet ☛ Ready_to_ditch_Windows_for_Linux?_This_is_the_ideal distro_for_you⠀⇛ For many, Windows is the only desktop operating system they’ve ever used. For them, there’s a familiarity that makes dealing with the usual troubles associated with Windows (random restarts for updates, failed drivers, and insecurities) tolerable. But what if I told you there was an alternative? There is, and it’s been around since 1997. That alternative is the open-source Linux operating system. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ Mozilla,_OSI,_&_the_memory-holing_of Computer_History⠀⇛ Listen now (23 min) | The Lunduke Journal of Technology Podcast – April 18, 2023 # ⚓ mintCast Podcast ☛ mintcast_410_–_The_Rise_of_Dr._Majid⠀⇛ First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – March 2023, Ubuntu 23.04 beta released, updates in Tumbleweed, last 16.04-based Ubuntu Touch rolled out, Linux Lite 6.4 released, COSMIC DE updates, OpenBSD 7.3 & FreeBSD 13.2 announced, big changes in Firefox 113, Mullvad announces their own browser, and Solus sets sail once again; In security and privacy, Kodi leaks Then in our Wanderings, Bill catches up, Moss has more drive, Joe is such a prints, Majid iPads in In our Innards section, we meet one of our new co- hosts Download o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ The_“Big_Three”_Linux_companies_ranked_by Revenue,_Employees,_Kernel_Contributions⠀⇛ Red Hat, SUSE, & Canonical. Because stats and charts are fun. [..] All three companies are sizable, in terms of staff. Roughly the same ratio as with revenue (which you would expect). Red Hat has close to 8 times the manpower as SUSE. And over 31 times Canonical. But how does that manpower translate into work getting done on upstream projects? Let’s look at the most obvious project… one that they all have a significant interest in… the Linux Kernel itself. # ⚓ Bootlin ☛ Yocto:_sharing_the_sstate_cache_and_download directories⠀⇛ When developing projects based on Yocto Project / OpenEmbedded, a quite common practice is to have multiple build environments in different directories: one per product, or one for each development branch, or for other scenarios. Each build environment could have different layers, a different configuration, or just using a different version of the source code. o § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ Dave Airlie ☛ Dave_Airlie_(blogspot):_nouveau/gsp_+_kernel module_firmware_selection_for_initramfs_generation⠀⇛ There are plans for nouveau to support using the NVIDIA supplied GSP firmware in order to support new hardware going forward The nouveau project doesn’t have any input or control over the firmware. NVIDIA have made no promises around stable ABI or firmware versioning. The current status quo is that NVIDIA will release versioned signed gsp firmwares as part of their driver distribution packages that are version locked to their proprietary drivers (open source and binary). They are working towards allowing these firmwares to be redistributed in linux- firmware. # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Best_Free_and_Open_Source_NVIDIA_GPU Monitoring_Tools⠀⇛ nvidia-smi (also known as NVSMI) provides monitoring and management capabilities for each of NVIDIA’s Tesla, Quadro and GRID devices from Fermi and higher architecture families. Very limited information is also provided for GeForce devices. It’s based on top of the NVIDIA Management Library (NVML), which helps users manage and monitor NVIDIA GPU devices. NVSMI is a cross platform tool that supports all standard NVIDIA driver-supported Linux distros. The command line utility tool is installed with the NVIDIA drivers and is probably the monitoring tool that most users are familiar with. We can perform live monitoring using watch and nvidia-smi together e.g. $ watch -n0.1 nvidia-smi nvidia-smi is quite basic. This article explores other useful NVIDIA GPU monitoring tools. Here’s our verdict captured in a legendary LinuxLinks-style ratings chart. All the software is free and open source. o § Benchmarks⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux_beats_Windows_11_in_AMD_Ryzen_7800X3D_speed_tests_– but_does_that_matter?⠀⇛ AMD’s Ryzen 7 7800X3D is a seriously impressive piece of silicon, and some new testing of the CPU throws fresh light on just how well it runs on Linux – the chip is a bit faster than on Windows, in fact. # ⚓ Neowin ☛ Linux_vs_Windows_11_2023:_AMD_Ryzen_7800X3D_gets clear_victory_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛ When AMD first revealed its Ryzen 7000X3D processors, the company promised new chipset drivers optimized for Windows. The drivers were released a month later and as the Santa Clara company had promised, we saw major performance per watt improvements, as the flagship Ryzen 7950X3D completely blew Intel’s i9-13900K out of the water. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Machine_Learning_in_Linux:_DeOldify_– colorizing_and_restoring_old_images_and_videos⠀⇛ DeOldify is a modern way to colorize black and white images using deep learning technology. The software provides pre-trained weights which allows you to colorize images and video without needing to train your own models. Our Machine Learning in Linux series focuses on apps that make it easy to experiment with machine learning. This article is a bit different. We wouldn’t describe DeOoldify as an app. But it’s a very interesting project and bills itself as the easiest way to colorize images. DeOldify is published under an open source license. # ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ digiKam_8.0_Released_with_OCR_Tool,_Better Format_Support⠀⇛ When it comes open-source image organizers and photo tag editors open source app digiKam is the most well regarded… # ⚓ Steinar H Gunderson ☛ Steinar_H._Gunderson:_Naguru_2.2.1 released⠀⇛ I’ve released version 2.2.1 of Nageru, my free software video mixer. This is pretty much a “bookworm release”; a bunch of focused fixes for video input-related issues I hadn’t seen before (mostly because the hardware I had accessible to test with didn’t happen to stress these bugs). # ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ Improve_GNOME’s_On-Screen_Keyboard_with_this Extension⠀⇛ Got a touch-enabled or convertible laptop and use the GNOME Shell desktop? # ⚓ TecMint ☛ Conky_–_A_System_Monitor_Tool_for_Linux_Desktop⠀⇛ Conky is a free, lightweight, straightforward, and flexible system monitor for X that shows any type of information on your desktop or in its own window. Being cross-platform, it may also be used with # ⚓ Cockpit_Project:_Cockpit_290⠀⇛ Cockpit is the modern_Linux_admin_interface. We release regularly. Here are the release notes from Cockpit 290, cockpit-machines 288, and cockpit-podman 67: [...] # ⚓ Stephen_Smoogen:_~1_year_to_end_of_EPEL-7⠀⇛ § Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) are packages based off of various Fedora releases but built for the various distributions based off of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In June of 2014, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (EL-7) was released and over the next several months, a focus was made to make the release of EPEL possible. Much of the work was done by Kevin Fenzi and Dennis Gilmore with some additional work by anyone else who had spare time. The initial goal was to make it that core packages needed for Fedora Infrastructure to move its core servers to EL-7 were built. That had been what had been done for the initial releases of EPEL-5 and EPEL-6, and would allow for enough base ‘packages’ to be built for additional packages to be added by other maintainers. # ⚓ TecMint ☛ 10_Best_Linux_Command-Line_Tools⠀⇛ In this article, we will share a few command-line programs that you can use in a Linux terminal. By the end of this article, you will learn about some free, open-source, and exciting, text-based o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Getting_Started_With_NixOS⠀⇛ Want to explore the immutable NixOS distro? This tutorial series will help you with your NixOS journey. # ⚓ Beginners_Guide_for_Diff_Command_in_Linux⠀⇛ Today, in this article, you will learn how to use the diff command in Linux to compare the content of two different files or directories to find the changes that are required to make them identical. # ⚓ Kifarunix ☛ Securely_SSH_to_Remote_Host_via_Multiple_Jump Hosts⠀⇛ In this comprehensive guide, we’ll walk you through the steps to securely SSH to remote host via multiple jump hosts. If you’re a system administrator or developer who needs to access a remote host via multiple jump hosts, you know it can be a challenging and time-consuming process. # ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ A_comprehensive_guide_to_mastering_symbolic links_in_Linux⠀⇛ In this article, we’ll examine how symbolic links can be used to manage shared files, avoid breaking dependencies, and create aliases for frequently used commands or scripts. We’ll also provide step- by-step instructions for creating symbolic links using the ln command, as well as tips for troubleshooting common issues. # ⚓ Major Hayden ☛ Major_Hayden:_1Password_quick_access_in Sway⠀⇛ 1Password has a handy quick access launcher and you can bring it on screen for fast access to passwords and two factor codes in Sway. # ⚓ Fedora Magazine ☛ Fedora_Magazine:_How_to_rebase_to_Fedora Linux_38_on_Silverblue⠀⇛ Fedora Silverblue is an_operating_system_for_your desktop_built on_Fedora_Linux. It’s excellent for daily use, development, and container-based workflows. It offers numerous_advantages such as being able to roll back in case of any problems. If you want to update or rebase to Fedora Linux 38 on your Fedora Silverblue system (these instructions are similar for Fedora Kinoite), this article tells you how. It not only shows you what to do, but also how to revert things if something unforeseen happens. # ⚓ Yuan_Yijun:_Installed_nvidia_driver_(akmod-keys)⠀⇛ When Secure Boot is enabled, the “akmods-nvidia” package will build and install kmod-nvidia that is not usable right away. Previously_I_followed_some documents_to_run_a_cli_script to “sign the modules” but it stopped working recently. # ⚓ Mohammed_Tayeh:_Migrate_bitbucket_workspace⠀⇛ # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ How_to_Upgrade_to_Ubuntu_23.04_from_Ubuntu 22.10⠀⇛ Want to upgrade to Ubuntu 23.04 from Ubuntu 22.10? If you’re full up-to-date and you have an active internet connection, you can – and in this post I run through the steps to do it. As Ubuntu 22.10 is end of life in July so anyone using it will have to upgrade to Ubuntu 23.04 to continue getting updates. If you don’t want the hassle of needing to upgrade every 6 to 9 months you might want to consider doing a fresh install of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS as it’s supported until 2027. # ⚓ Matt_Brown:_co2mon.nz:_Ventilation_monitoring_as_a service⠀⇛ Previously, I explained why_ventilation_monitoring is important, and the opportunity I see to help accelerate deployment of high quality ventilation monitoring for small businesses and organisations. # ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ 7_Ways_to_Recover_Deleted_Files_on Linux⠀⇛ File restoration utilities are one of the most important programs in a Linux administrator’s toolkit. They provide the ability to recover deleted files, even in cases where the disk is either physically damaged or wiped clean. This guide shows seven simple file recovery tools that you can install right now on Linux. We also show you how you can do basic file restoration on your system. # ⚓ AnyDesk_Installation_on_Debian_12_BookWorm_Linux⠀⇛ AnyDesk on Windows, Linux, Android, or macOS is used as remote desktop software to connect and control distant computer systems using a keyboard and mouse. # ⚓ Beebom ☛ How_to_Use_the_“ls”_Command_Equivalent_on Windows⠀⇛ The ls command, short for “list,” is a Linux command that’s used to display files and directories in the terminal. In most cases, it is used to get an idea about the files in the working directory and to ensure you are in the right directory. When you compare this to a rival operating system, the Command Prompt in Windows has a different approach when it comes to listing directories. In this guide, we will explain how to use the “ls” command on Windows 10 and 11. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_To_Install_Grsync_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛ Grsync is a graphical user interface for rsync, a command-line tool used for synchronizing files and directories between different locations. Grsync makes it easy for users to configure and run rsync commands without having to use the terminal. In this article, we will discuss how to install Grsync on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_To_Install_Scrot_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛ Scrot is a command-line tool used for taking screenshots on Linux systems. It is a lightweight and easy-to-use tool that can capture screenshots of your desktop, windows, or any specific area of your screen. In this article, we will discuss how to install Scrot on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Signal_on_Debian_12/11/10⠀⇛ Signal Messenger is a cutting-edge communication platform designed with a strong emphasis on privacy and security. Developed by the non-profit Signal Foundation, it has rapidly gained traction as a popular alternative to traditional messaging apps. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_R_Programming_Language_on Debian_12/11/10⠀⇛ The R programming language is a powerful, open- source software environment that was developed specifically for statistical computing and graphics. R was initially created by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman in 1993 at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Memcached_on_Debian_12/11/ 10⠀⇛ Memcached is a powerful, open-source caching system designed to enhance the performance of dynamic web applications by reducing the load on databases. Developed in 2003 by Brad Fitzpatrick for the LiveJournal website, Memcached has since become an essential tool for numerous high-traffic websites and applications. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Apache_on_Ubuntu_22.04_| 20.04⠀⇛ Apache 2 is a versatile, open-source, and powerful web server software that has become the backbone of many websites and applications worldwide. It is the latest iteration of the Apache HTTP Server Project, which is developed and maintained by the Apache Software Foundation. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Remmina_on_Ubuntu_22.04_| 20.04⠀⇛ Look no further if you’re searching for a versatile and powerful remote desktop client! Remmina Remote Desktop Client is the perfect tool to meet all your remote access needs. It offers a seamless and user- friendly experience, making it the ideal choice for managing multiple remote connections. # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Alternatives_to_popular_CLI_tools:_man⠀⇛ A Linux system comes with a whole collection of system reference manuals (known as man pages). There’s a man page for each command or program. # ⚓ LinuxTuto ☛ How_to_Install_Elasticsearch_8_on_Debian_11⠀⇛ Elasticsearch is a highly scalable and distributed open-source full-text search and analytics engine tool. # ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ How_to_Install_/_Remove_XFCE4_(XUbuntu Desktop)_in_Ubun|u_23.04⠀⇛ This simple tutorial shows how to install or completely remove the XFCE4 desktop environment in Ubuntu 22.04 and/or Ubuntu 23.04. XFCE4 is lightweight Linux desktop environment aims to be fast and low on system resources. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Passbolt_Password_Manager_on Debian_11⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Passbolt Password Manager on Debian 11. Do you struggle to remember all your passwords? Are you worried about your online accounts’ security? # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_FrostWire_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install FrostWire on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ How_to_Upgrade_to_Fedora_38_from_Fedora_37⠀⇛ Learn how to smoothly upgrade from Fedora 37 to Fedora 38 with our step-by-step guide. Keep your system up-to-date and secure! # ⚓ Djalel Oukid ☛ How_to_compare_images_&_videos_on_Linux?⠀⇛ As a content creator (I think I am), I often need to compare images after compressing them or changing their format to ensure their quality before uploading them to this humble blog. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_To_Install_Bottles_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛ Bottles is a popular application for Ubuntu users who want to run Windows applications on Linux. While the traditional method of installing Bottles involves adding a PPA repository and installing it through the terminal, it can also be installed using Flatpa # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_install_Dolibarr_ERP_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛ Dolibarr is a PHP-based open-source system that has both E-R-P and CRM functionalities for small and medium businesses. Its main purpose is to help manage various features of the business such as customers, invoices, orders, products, and inventory. The system provides a intuitive and user friendly web interface. # ⚓ Remi Collet ☛ Remi_Collet:_Install_PHP_8.2_on_Fedora,_RHEL, CentOS,_Alma,_Rocky_or_other_clone⠀⇛ Here is a quick howto upgrade default PHP version provided on Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux or other clones with latest version 8.2. # ⚓ How_to_install_Nakivo_Backup_&_Replication_on_Ubuntu Linux⠀⇛ NAKIVO Backup & Replication is a paid data backup software solution for businesses that want to protect their data from an accidental mishap. # ⚓ How_to_Integrate_Arduino_with_Unity_3D⠀⇛ Arduino has a great IDE, but it lacks serious coding features and attractive dashboards. Such limitations can be overcome by integrating Arduino IDE with professional software environments such as Unity 3D (or just Unity), a famous gaming engine. The following guide will show you how to integrate Arduino with Unity and help you make the Unity games technically compatible with Arduino for all your project requirements. o § WINE or Emulation⠀➾ # ⚓ Ars Technica ☛ Proton_update_gets_18_more_Windows_games running_on_Linux,_including_Chex_Quest_HD⠀⇛ To play Windows-compatible games in its Linux-based operating system, the Steam Deck relies on a compatibility layer called Proton. It’s a collection of different technologies, including the venerable Wine software and software that translates Windows-native Direct3D API calls into Vulkan API calls that Linux can handle. Proton is continually updated to fix rendering bugs in specific games and to add new games to the compatibility list; version 8.0 was released yesterday and added support for 18 new games (and fixes rendering bugs in tons of others). Valve’s Pierre-Loup Griffais called the release “our biggest rebase to date.” The new compatibility list includes a few of the big, recognizable titles you’d expect Valve to prioritize, including the 2023 re-release of Dead Space and Square Enix’s Forspoken. But there is one oddball game that stood out to me: Chex Quest HD, the remastered version of a 1996 CD-ROM game that was included for free in boxes of Chex cereal for six weeks in the mid-’90s. # ⚓ Hot Hardware ☛ Valve’s_Proton_8.0_Update_Is_A_Big_Win_For Linux_And_Steam_Deck_Gaming⠀⇛ The Steam Deck doesn’t run Windows. That’s right: a gaming handheld based on PC-equivalent hardware, much closer to a full PC than the Xbox or PlayStation, runs Windows PC games on a non-Windows operating system. This is achieved through the herculean efforts of the developers behind myriad open-source software, most prominently Valve’s own Proton compatibility layer. Proton is up to version 8.0 now, and the program’s lead developer says that this is “the biggest rebase to date.” It updates almost all of Proton’s core components, including Wine, DXVK, VKD3D, and others. As a result, it does require Vulkan 1.3, but that only raises the requirements as far as AMD Polaris (RX 400), NVIDIA Maxwell (GTX 750), and Intel 7th-gen IGPs. o ⚓ Godot Engine ☛ Godot_4.1_Rendering_Priorities⠀⇛ For 4.1 the rendering team will be focusing on performance, stability, and usability. # ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Knight_Witch_Review_–_Metroidvania_Meets Bullet_Hell_Shooter⠀⇛ Knight Witch first caught my eye during last year’s Steam Next Fest (proving once again with Dredge the utility of such events!) [...] # ⚓ What_are_Counter-Strike_2’s_system_requirements:_Windows, macOS,_SteamOS,_and_Linux⠀⇛ If you’re looking to make sure you’re ready to go when Counter-Strike 2 launches, then you’ll want to make sure you have the minimum system requirements. Counter-Strike 2’s system requirements haven’t been revealed yet officially, but they’re not expected to be exceptionally high. It’s thought that the new iteration will require slightly better computers than the current version, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, but not by much. * § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ o ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ LXQt_1.3_Has_Been_Released_With_Bug_Fixes Improvements⠀⇛ LXQt is a fan-favorite Linux desktop environment for systems with meager resources. Suitable for older systems (but will run like an absolute champ on new hardware), LXQt is not just easy on hardware, but easy to use. With the latest release, version 1.3, the developers have remained with Qt 5.15 (although work is being done for initial Qt6 support) and have focused on adding new features. o § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ KDE ☛ Season_Of_KDE_2023:_Wrapping_Up_My_Work_With_KDE Eco⠀⇛ This post wraps up my journey as a mentee in Season of KDE 2023, where I contributed to the preparation of Standard Usage Scenarios for the KDE applications GCompris and Kate while also working on a new tool to automate the formatting of log files. From troubleshooting screen resolution issues to creating a bash script for resetting user configurations, I hope this blog post provides the reader with useful insights and solutions. First, I share experiences with screen resolution problems when sharing Standard Usage Scenarios (SUS) across reference systems—and one way to overcome them. I also present a step-by-step guide for using KdeEcoTest with GCompris, and provide details about collaborative work porting the existing xdotool- based Kate script with KdeEcoTest. Finally, I give a progress update for the KDE-SUS Log Formatter, a tool used for formatting log files of actions. As discussed in my earlier blog post, there were issues when generating a Standard Usage Scenario for GCompris using KdeEcoTest. The main challenge was as follows: when the GCompris script was shared between two machines with different screen resolutions, the resulting UI changes made the script invalid. Specifically, GCompris uses the primary screen resolution to calculate icon size, which led to the script failing to run on a machine with a different resolution. To address this issue, SoK23 mentee Mohamed Ibrahim (from the KdeEcoTest project) and I used virtual machines configured with the same screen resolution. We generated a GCompris script on a machine with a screen resolution of 1366X768 and then tested it on a machine with a screen resolution of 1920×1080. However, the script failed to run due to the resulting UI changes. After further troubleshooting, we were able to fix this by generating a script where the GCompris window was kept to around 590×590 pixels as a modal window. We also encountered issues with the original GCompris script written by Emmanuel Charruau, as it was not working as expected. This was due to the script resizing the GCompris window to around 830×830 pixels in the modal window, reaching the maximum height of the screen and resulting in the window being maximized. To fix this, we kept the GCompris window # ⚓ Dedoimedo ☛ Slimbook_Titan,_Kubuntu,_impressions_a_month later⠀⇛ By the time you read this article, and/or correlate its publication date with my original Slimbook Titan article, the subsequent HW & install one, or the applications & gaming one, you may be a little confused or overly pedantic when it comes to a simple temporal question: has it really been a month? No matter. Give or take a couple of days, I’ve now had the Titan in me possession for several weeks, and I’ve used it quite extensively in this period. To that end, I’d like to write another mini review, and this would be the first of “combat reports”, similar to what I’ve done with my older Slimbook Pro2 and its long series of such articles. I want to give you my second impression on how the laptop has been behaving, the hardware support and compatibility, the ergonomics, the software side of things, and such. Let’s begin. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ A_New_Voyage⠀⇛ As a community and a team, we have been through some choppy waters the last few months. After extensive internal discussions involving consultation with contributors past and present, we have charted a new course for long term success which will yield immediate results for users and contributors. As of today, we are deploying a new, more resilient infrastructure and a new governance structure for Solus. [...] Both prior to and during the outage, active Solus team members offered to help mitigate the infrastructure bus- factor issue and move the infrastructure to more accessible hosting providers. These efforts were not met with success. In parallel, the Solus team members stepped up to communicate with the community when there was otherwise an absence of information. Separately, the Serpent OS project, led by Ikey Doherty (original founder and lead of Solus), reached out to offer hosting of the website to facilitate Solus’ ability to communicate with its user base and serve ISOs (which was declined). Concerned by the continuing outage and its impact on Solus users and contributors, the Serpent OS team then shared a proposal which would allow Solus to resume operations with less technical debt and mitigation of the apparent bus factor of one. o ⚓ LWN ☛ The_rebooting_of_Solus_Linux_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ The desktop-oriented Solus distribution has been through a difficult period; this post describes the extensive changes that have been made in response. o § BSD⠀➾ # ⚓ Klara ☛ OpenZFS_–_Leveraging_OpenZFS_to_Build_Your_Own Storage_Appliance⠀⇛ Discover the key factors in building an OpenZFS- based product, including target market, features, hardware and software components, and support needs. o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ Dev Class ☛ SUSE_secures_Rancher_as_K8s_attack_surface expands⠀⇛ SUSE has jacked up security in its Kubernetes management platform Rancher, as the container management platform finds its way into more exposed environments. The German-based Linux platform took the wraps off v2.7.2 at this week’s KubeCon conference in Amsterdam. # ⚓ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ Introducing_SUSE_support_for_the newest_model_of_IBM_LinuxONE_Rockhopper⠀⇛ The ground-breaking combination of IBM and SUSE security and sustainability initiatives pave the way to better choices for our customers. This is exemplified by IBM’s recent announcement of the new IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper 4.  This latest system: Launches a new era of sustainability with a more cost-effective rackmount system. o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Announcing_Fedora_Linux_38⠀⇛ The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the latest version of the Fedora operating system, Fedora Linux 38, is now generally available. As always, you should make sure your system is fully up-to-date before upgrading from a previous release. Can’t wait to get started? # ⚓ Neowin ☛ Fedora_38_arrives_with_GNOME_44_desktop_and_new spins⠀⇛ The Fedora Project has released Fedora 38. It comes with several new spins, GNOME 44, and updates to packages useful for developers such as programming languages and system libraries. # ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ Fedora_38_Released_with_GNOME_44_&_Linux_6.2⠀⇛ It’s out, folks – Fedora Linux 38 is now available to download. # ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_F38_election nominations_now_open⠀⇛ Candidates may self-nominate. If you nominate someone else, please check with them to ensure that they are willing to be nominated before submitting their name. The steering bodies are currently selecting interview questions for the candidates. Nominees submit their questionnaire answers via a private_Pagure_issue. The Election Wrangler or their backup will publish the interviews to the Community Blog before the start of the voting period. Please note that the interview is mandatory for all nominees. Nominees not having their interview ready by end of the Interview period (2023-05-17) will be disqualified and removed from the election. As part of the campaign people may also ask questions to specific candidates on the appropriate mailing list. # ⚓ Yuan_Yijun:_Fedora_38⠀⇛ Upgrading to Fedora 38. For the “Workstation” system, it has been on F38 beta so upgrading is just routine. For the Silverblue system, the “rpmfusion” packages need to be replaced with a release version, but it seems during the replacement, “ffmpeg” is turning into a local package (it was installed as a layered package because the rpmfusion repo owns it), which is an inconsistency? For the Podman system, I still see F37 as the base image. But it probably does not matter. When the podman machine re-init, how to restore all the container images? Can the new “default” machine create_before_destroy? Or is there a way to extract the manifest (how many container images were pulled and containers were created) and replay it? Silverblue system is similar to the podman machine, in that to switch the base system and apply overrides, there is an order of which packages to apply before others. The repos like rpmfusion should install, also the “akmod-keys” package for module signing, must go first so that other packages can install. And because “rpm-ostree status” only keeps history of one previously bootable system, the “manifest” is easily lost. Unfortunately that is what I am doing. # ⚓ Timothée Ravier ☛ Timothée_Ravier:_What’s_new_in_Fedora Kinoite_38⠀⇛ Fedora_38_has_been_released (on time!) and Fedora Kinoite 38 alongside it. Since the last “State_of_Fedora_Kinoite” post was a while ago, here is a summary of the changes in this release and a look at what is coming in the next releases. # ⚓ Forbes ☛ IBM_Makes_Its_Strongest_Cloud-Native_Case_With LinuxONE_Rockhopper⠀⇛ What do you think of when you hear about a business using IBM? What I think is: big company, big budget, mission critical. The IBM mainframe has been around for decades for a reason. It’s not because organizations of all types—from the federal government to banks—love Big Blue. No, it’s because IT organizations know that their applications running on IBM systems will run. And run. And run. Not only that, but they’re going to run fast, and they’re going to run securely. # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ The_Konveyor_project_dials_in_on replatforming_and_refactoring_for_2023⠀⇛ But as with all things in IT, this wasn’t a static need – as we’ve watched the community grow, we have realized that the tools and practices we create have to evolve to match the challenges in the real world. Moving forward, Konveyor’s mission is to create to # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Node.js_20⠀⇛ This will help identify and fix any issues before the release, ensuring a smoother experience for # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Learn_KubeVirt_and_Node.js_with_all_new learning_paths_from_Kube_by_Example⠀⇛ # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Transform_your_container_workflow_with Podman_Desktop⠀⇛ The Podman Desktop community has been growing and making steady progress over the past six months as we prepare for the 1.0 release later this year. # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Ford’s_community-first_approach_to_CI/ CD⠀⇛ Ford Motor Company highly values open technologies and open standards, so when the company set its digital transformation strategy last decade, it looked to open source solutions. An early adopter of Kubernetes, with production workloads going online in 2017, Ford has since made open source technologies a cornerstone for the company’s cloud- native development initiatives. # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Test_TCP_ports_with_Python_and_Scapy⠀⇛ Get greater control over TCP port checking with a DIY, customizable approach using Python and Scapy. # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Stop_using_Telnet_to_test_ports⠀⇛ Make life simpler by automating network checks with tools like Expect, Bash, Netcat, and Nmap instead. # ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ Embedded_financial_services: Disruption_ahead⠀⇛ Banking is a complex business. From the customer perspective—especially for individuals and small businesses—banks are mainly businesses that lend money, accept deposits, and facilitate money movements in and out. There are a lot of nuances and shapes within these three categories, but at the core, this is what most customers perceive. Nothing particularly challenging to operate if you have good technology, processes, and teams. However, banks’ raw material—fiat money, or currency that is not backed by a commodity such as gold or silver—makes them integral to the economic system. Banks are arteries and veins of the economic system and facilitate the execution of central banks’ monetary policies. # ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ Agile_transformation:_3_obstacles and_how_to_overcome_them⠀⇛ Large-scope transformations have become a new norm. Organizations are looking at how to strengthen their ability to adapt and respond to enterprise- wide challenges, global-scale disruptions, and socioeconomic tensions. As much as 87% of respondents to a recent IDG survey commissioned by Insight Enterprises said their organizations are pursuing_some_type_of digital_transformation, with 46% saying they are undertaking enterprise-wide initiatives. # ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ Digital_transformation:_3_ways_it improves_hybrid_work⠀⇛ The business world has undergone a massive change in recent years. CIOs have had to adopt a new mindset while exploring new ways for their companies to approach hybrid work. Successful hybrid_work_models offer businesses and employees a flexible working arrangement that accommodates both parties. Many companies are now doubling down on this model. In a 2022_CISCO_Global_Hybrid_Work_Study comprising 28,000 full-time employees across 27 markets, most respondents cited improvements in well-being, work- life balance, relationships, and even personal confidence in hybrid settings. The survey included those across different generations, gender, and seniority. # ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ 7_digital_transformation_barriers_to overcome⠀⇛ Digital transformation is the integration of digital technology into all areas of a business resulting in fundamental changes to how businesses operate and deliver value. It helps streamline operations, increase efficiency, gain deeper insights into customers’ needs and behavior, foster innovation, and drive business growth. Digital_transformation is no longer a choice; it’s a necessity for organizations to remain competitive. While digital transformation can bring many benefits to organizations, it also poses a handful of challenges. These are the top 7 barriers that organizations may face during digital transformation. o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Tails_5.12_Anonymous_OS_Launches_with_New Persistent_Storage_Features,_Bug_Fixes⠀⇛ Tails 5.12 is here to introduce two new features for Persistent Storage, namely the ability to manually delete stored data when turning off the Persistent Storage, as well as support for generating strong passwords when creating the Persistent Storage for your Tails system. Tails 5.12 also improves Persistent Storage’s error message when a feature fails to activate when it’s enabled from the Welcome Screen clarifying which feature is affected. In addition, the activation of the Persistent Storage is now more reliable and there’s a new icon for the backup utility for the Persistent Storage. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ 60_top_Google_Play_apps_infected_with_Android_malware affecting_millions_|_Fox_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ The_best_Android_launchers_for_your_smartphone in_2023_[Video]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ The_6_Best_Android_Auto_Features⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Google_now_taking_Android_14_Beta_1_feedback⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Android_14_Beta:_Custom_lock_screen_clock,_app recording,_more⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Sun ☛ People_are_just_realizing_hidden_Android_‘battery button’_unlocks_extra_charge_–_but_most_people_never_tap_it_| The_US_Sun⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Brit_Android_app_devs_to_get_Google_Play billing_choices_•_The_Register⠀⇛ # ⚓ Pocket Lint ☛ How_to_factory_reset_your_Android_phone_and erase_all_your_data⠀⇛ # ⚓ Pocket Lint ☛ How_to_turn_off_Google_Assistant_on_an Android_phone⠀⇛ # ⚓ Giz China ☛ Android_has_a_new_“flagship_king”_as_the Dimensity_9200+_exceeds_1.36_million_on_AnTuTu_– Gizchina.com⠀⇛ # ⚓ Qt ☛ Taking_Qt_for_Python_to_Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Authority ☛ Wallpaper_Wednesday:_Android_wallpapers 2023-04-19_–_Android_Authority⠀⇛ # ⚓ Pocket Lint ☛ How_to_clear_the_cache_on_your_Android_phone and_why_you_should⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_install_the_Android_14_beta_right_now_|_Trusted Reviews⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmo China ☛ Fairphone_Leads_the_Way_in_Android_Updates, Bringing_Android_13_to_Older_Devices⠀⇛ # ⚓ Xiaomi’s_New_Tablets_Feature_2.8K_Screens,_Android_13,_and Tons_of_RAM_–_Phandroid⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_13_Begins_to_Roll_out_for_the_Nokia_X30_– Phandroid⠀⇛ # ⚓ Computer World ☛ Think_Android_14_seems_boring?_Think_about this._|_Computerworld⠀⇛ # ⚓ Financial Express ☛ IRCTC’s_Dangerous_Dupe!_Fake_app_that Android_users_should_beware_of_|_The_Financial_Express⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ Medevel ☛ 14_Open-source_Free_Resume_Builder_and_CV_Generator Apps⠀⇛ A Resume Builder App is an essential tool that helps users create professional resumes with ease. By providing templates, prompts, and other tools, these apps guide users in the creation of resumes that are polished and effective. o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Thunderbird ☛ Meet_The_Team:_Wolf-Martell_Montwe, Android_Developer⠀⇛ I love a great origin story, and many people working in technology seem to have one that’s directly tied to their first computer. Wolf is no exception. “I think I started my computer journey with playing games — the first I remember is Sid Meier’s Pirates!” Wolf remembers. “Back then I had an IBM 386. Super slow, super loud! And I hacked around a lot to get games running too, to free up memory, to free up disk space because this was super limited. I think one partition was maximum 3MB! It was a big achievement if something just was running.” Wolf’s fascination with games eventually led to some basic programming knowledge and web page development. “I used to develop web pages, especially for my school to build up like a little forum,” he says. “I fell in love with PHP because it had one of the first editors with code completion, and that was awesome.” # ⚓ IRL_(podcast):_Bonus_Episode⠀⇛ We have good news to share. IRL: Online Life is Real Life has been nominated for two Webby Awards: one in the Public Service and Activism category and another in the Technology category.  We need your help.  We’d love it if you could click on the links in our episode notes and vote for us. It’s quick and easy!  Voting ends on Thursday, April 20th at midnight PDT.  Vote for IRL in the Webby Awards: Technology and Public_Service_Activism  It means so much to spotlight the voices and stories of folks who are making AI more trustworthy in real life, and we love to see them celebrated!  # ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ Why_is_Firefox_called_Firefox?⠀⇛ A story of bullying, and failing to see if a product name is in use before choosing it. [...] In 2023, everybody knows the name “Firefox.” Utter that name, and nearly every computer user will instantly know you are talking about the web browser from Mozilla Corporation… even if Firefox market share has dropped down to less than 3%. But did you know that Firefox was not originally named “Firefox”? In fact… the Mozilla Web Browser settled on that name through a series of bad decisions, bullying of another open source project, and a game of word association. Seriously. You wouldn’t think it… but it’s kind of a wild story. o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ # ⚓ Venture Beat ☛ Databricks_brings_large_language_models_ (LLMs)_to_SQL_and_MLflow_2.3⠀⇛ Databricks upgraded to MLflow 2.3 today, adding SQL querying and making it easier for organizations to manage and deploy ML models. # ⚓ Extracting_statements_from_a_MySQL_binary_log⠀⇛ Introduction If you’;re dabbling in the world of MySQL, you’ve probably encountered binary logs at some point. As a vital part of MySQL replication and point-in-time recovery, binary logs can provide valuable information to help you better understand your database. # ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PGDay_Israel_2023:_Call_for_Papers_is_Now Open!⠀⇛ PGDay Israel 2023 takes place in Tel Aviv, Israel, on October 19. Our Call for Papers is now open. # ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PGDay_Chicago_is_happening_on_Thursday!⠀⇛ Greetings! The inaugural PGDay_Chicago is almost here, happening this Thursday, April 20th! o § GNU Projects⠀➾ # ⚓ GNU ☛ GNU_Guix:_Dissecting_Guix,_Part_3:_G-Expressions⠀⇛ Welcome back to Dissecting_Guix! Last time, we discussed monads, the functional programming idiom used by Guix to thread a store connection through a series of store-related operations. Today, we’ll be talking about a concept rather more specific to Guix: g-expressions. Being an implementation of the Scheme language, Guile is built around s-expressions, which can represent, as the saying goes, code as data, thanks to the simple structure of Scheme forms. As Guix’s package recipes are written in Scheme, it naturally needs some way to represent code that is to be run only when the package is built. Additionally, there needs to be some way to reference dependencies and retrieve output paths; otherwise, you wouldn’t be able to, for instance, create a phase to install a file in the output directory. So, how do we implement this “deferred” code? Well, initially Guix used plain old s-expressions for this purpose. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Eclipse Foundation ☛ Eclipse_OpenJ9_Version_0.37.0_-⠀⇛ Eclipse OpenJ9™ release 0.37.0 works with OpenJDK 19. OpenJDK 19 is out of support at the time of the 0.37.0 release. Builds of 0.37.0 should not be used in production and might contain known security vulnerabilities as of 18 April 2023. # ⚓ Announcing_WCGI:_WebAssembly_+_CGI⠀⇛ Welcome to the future of server-side development with WebAssembly! Today we are introducing WCGI, a technology that marries the power of WebAssembly with the versatility and simplicity of CGI. # ⚓ Red Hat ☛ Implementing_C++20_semaphores⠀⇛ C++20 introduces counting_semaphore and binary_semaphore, which support blocking acquire() and non-blocking try_acquire() as well as timed try_acquire_for() and try_acquire_until(). On platforms that support __platform_wait()/ __platform_notify(), we select an implementation strategy based on atomic; otherwise, we attempt to use POSIX semaphores. If you missed the previous article, read it here:  Implementing_C++20_atomic_waiting_in_libstdc++ § Semaphores in C++ Here’s what the ISO C++ Standard has to say on the matter of semaphores: 1 Class template counting_semaphore maintains an internal counter that is initialized when the semaphore is created. The counter is decremented when a thread acquires the semaphore, and is incremented when a thread releases the semaphore. If a thread tries to acquire the semaphore when the counter is zero, the thread will block until another thread increments the counter by releasing the semaphore. # ⚓ Daniel Lemire ☛ Defining_interfaces_in_C++_with_‘concepts’_ (C++20)⠀⇛ In an earlier blog post, I showed on the Go programming language allow you to write generic functions once you have defined an interface. Java has a very similar concept under the same name (interface). # ⚓ Collabora ☛ Meson_&_VSCode:_Develop_your_project_in_a modern_IDE [Ed: So now Collabora is pushing proprietary Microsoft spyware and calls it "modern"; this makes Collabora look hostile.]⠀⇛ Want to develop your Meson project in a modern IDE? Make sure to install Meson VSCode extension which is now fully functional with the recent release of Meson 1.1.0! # ⚓ Sebastian_Dröge:_Building_a_GStreamer_plugin_in_Rust_with meson_instead_of_cargo⠀⇛ Over the Easter holidays I spent some time on a little experiment: How hard is it to build a GStreamer plugin in Rust with meson instead of using the default Rust build system cargo? meson is a community-developed, open-source, cross- platform (including Windows), multi-language build system that is supposed to be fast and easy to use. It’s nowadays used as a build system by a lot of components of the GNOME desktop, by GStreamer, systemd, Mesa, X.org, QEMU and many other pieces of Free Software. Mostly for building C or C++ code, but also for configuring and installing Python or JavaScript code, Vala, and other languages. # § Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Qt ☛ A_Collection_of_References_and_Hints_about Porting_from_Qt_5_to_Qt_6⠀⇛ With approaching the EOL of Qt 5.15 and the release of Qt 6.5, there is a notable wider interest in porting of existing Qt5-based code base to Qt 6. I keep hearing questions from Qt users who are interested in getting some additional hints and learning how others went on this path. Lets have a look. # ⚓ Qt ☛ Commercial_LTS_Qt_6.2.8_Released⠀⇛ We have released Qt 6.2.8 LTS for commercial license holders today. As a patch release, Qt 6.2.8 does not add any new functionality but provides bug fixes and other improvements. # ⚓ Qt ☛ Taking_Qt_for_Python_to_Android⠀⇛ Deploying Python applications to Android is a big talking point these days among the Python community, and a frequently asked question by people developing their first GUI applications. There are already a couple of Python frameworks that offer the ability to deploy your applications to Android devices, and Qt_for_Android has existed for a decade now. With QML and Qt Quick, one can use Qt to develop native Android applications. It was high time we bridged the gap and brought PySide applications to Android. o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ # ⚓ JURIST ☛ European_Committee_of_Social_Rights_finds_France violated_European_Social_Charter_for_lack_of_accessibility regulations⠀⇛ The European Committee of Social Rights said in a statement Monday that they found France in violation of the European Social Charter over the country’s failure to implement accessibility regulations to aid citizens with disabilities. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ With_April_showers,_poetry_flowers:_Three_vibrant collections⠀⇛ Celebrate National Poetry Month with three vibrant new books of poems that broaden and deepen the landscape of poetry. o ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ “Those”_tourists_in_Japan⠀⇛ Case in point, Clara and I were having breakfast at a beautiful local Osaka coffee shop, when the peace was interrupted by a loud Australian tourist rambling off the most complicated order I’d ever heard… in English. I’d have scarcely remembered half of it in our common language, but the poor Japanese barista didn’t stand a chance. When it was clear the tourist wasn’t getting through to him, he continued to speak English, but slowly. Fortunately for everyone involved, he eventually gave up with a “never mind, mate” and walked out. Osaka_Point_page_for_the_UPGREEN_cafe I caught the barista’s eye from our table, shook my head, and apologised in (broken!) Japanese for the other gaijins he has to deal with. He laughed it off like the consummate professional he was, but you could tell it had a tinge of frustration to it. Less than fifteen minutes later, the same thing happened with a few tourists speaking Mandarin. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ IDA ☛ The_city_of_Bee_Cave,_Texas_certified_as International_Dark_Sky_Community⠀⇛ The City of Bee Cave was certified as an International Dark Sky Community by DarkSky International. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Scientists_Are_Using_Bizarre_Units_to Describe_Their_Discoveries._Here’s_Why⠀⇛ When boring old measurements won’t do. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ A_First-of-Its-Kind_Signal_Has_Been Detected_in_The_Human_Brain⠀⇛ Our brains could be more powerful than we thought. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ A_Rare_Event_Is_About_to_Send_Parts_of Australia_Into_Darkness⠀⇛ Here’s what you need to know. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Scientists_Think_They’ve_Narrowed_Down_The Star_Systems_Most_Likely_to_Host_Life⠀⇛ Not what we expected. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Physicists_Determine_The_Ultimate_Strategy For_The_Playground_Swing⠀⇛ Here’s some science to test out this weekend. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Ancient_DNA_Sheds_Light_on_Wooly_Mammoth Evolution,_And_They_Weren’t_Always_So_Fluffy⠀⇛ Life is hard on the Steppes. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ No,_It_Doesn’t_Take_21_Days_to_Form_a_New Habit._A_New_Study_Shows_Why⠀⇛ It just takes time. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ Library_introduces_new_interface_for archival_finding_aids⠀⇛ Researchers who use U-M’s Finding Aids site for descriptions and other information about archival collections are in for a new, improved user experience through ArcLight. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Government_approves_teacher_wage_increase_plan_in Latvia⠀⇛ The government on Tuesday, April 18, approved a schedule for increasing teacher pay proposed by the Ministry of Education and Science (IZM). o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Intel_Discontinues_Bitcoin-Mining Blockscale_Chips,_No_Future_Gens_Announced⠀⇛ Intel released a bulletin that announces it is ending production of all of its known bitcoin- mining Blockscale ASICs. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia_Is_Importing_Western_Weapons Technology,_Bypassing_Sanctions⠀⇛ Western technology goods are winding up in Russian missiles, raising questions about the efficacy of sanctions. # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ European_Union_gives_green_light_to_€43B Chips_Act⠀⇛ The European Union’s plan to boost computer chip production is ready to move ahead after the so- called Chips Act was given the green light by politicians today. ⚓ The Next Platform ☛ Berkeley_Lab_Opens_Bidding_For_Future_NERSC-10_Exascale System⠀⇛ The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, one of the key facilities of the US Department of Energy that drives supercomputing innovation and that spends big bucks so at least a few vendors will design and build them, has opened up the bidding on its future NERSC-10 exascale-class supercomputer. ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Global_smartphone_shipments_down_for_fifth_straight_quarter⠀⇛ Samsung was the only brand among the leaders to_perform_better than in the previous quarter, accounting for 22% of the market. Canalys did not provide overall figures for shipments in the quarter. ⚓ France24 ☛ EU_reaches_deal_to_boost_chip_production_in_bid_to_reduce dependence_on_Asian_suppliers⠀⇛ The European Parliament and EU member states reached an agreement Tuesday on how to boost the supply of semiconductors in Europe, as the bloc races to reduce its dependence on Asian suppliers. § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ * ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ Survey_explores_COVID-19_stigma_and_mental_health⠀⇛ More than a third of Michigan adults who have had COVID-19 report being treated badly due to their infection, say U- M researchers. * ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Nigeria_Records_79_Cholera_Deaths_In_2023⠀⇛ The disease has spread across 43 regions in 12 Nigerian states. * ⚓ Axios ☛ Record_64_million_Americans_facing_daily_spikes_in_deadly particle_pollution⠀⇛ Unhealthy air_pollution levels affect more than a third of all U.S. residents, according to an annual report published Wednesday. The big picture:That’s 17.6 million fewer people than in the American Lung Association’s previous “State_of_the_Air” report. * ⚓ RFA ☛ Chinese_pandemic_whistleblower_tried_in_secret_was_given_3-year jail_term⠀⇛ Fang Bin, to be released later this month, disappeared after filming from Wuhan in early days of COVID-19 outbreak * ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Hot,_hazy_weather:_Use_brollies,_wear_masks_and limit_outdoor_activities,_advises_Malaysian_Health_Minister⠀⇛ Some areas were experiencing heatwave with unhealthy air quality level. * ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Covid-19_patients_who_suffer_from_loss_of_smell_show different_activities_in_brain:_Study⠀⇛ A study has found that people living with long Covid who suffer from loss of smell show different patterns of activity in certain regions of the brain. The study was published in the journal, ‘EClinicalMedicine’. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Covid_May_Increase_the_Risk_of_Type_2_Diabetes, Researchers_Find⠀⇛ Men and people with severe illnesses were more likely to develop the condition within a year. But the data does not prove that the coronavirus causes diabetes. * ⚓ Yuan_Yijun:_Hangover⠀⇛ I remember the good old days when people can get together and drink lots of beer. Sometimes good amount of baijiu was consumed. But nowadays I just cannot. Drinking is a problem. To drink a beer requires an occasion. At least one has to have achieved something, also without concerns. At least one cannot drink before kids go to bed. That’s the worst lesson I learned in 2021, when I had to drive JY to ER when his teeth were knocked out by another kid. It is impossible for kids to stay safe unless they are in bed. Even at that time they may fall and break some bones. With that in mind, what can be the right occasion? When one is too tired, it is not proper to drink beer, because one would lose more control. The feeling of losing control is not just for the night, but the second day. And it is not just losing control to arm and legs, tongue and mouth. The feeling is dulled. The thoughts are stopped or never come (have you waited for the train of thought?)  And the tiresome feeling of let it be will be around all day, maybe a few more days. There are things you want to do or should do but cannot. One can barely catch the schedule, yet don’t know what to say when it is one’s turn. * ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Tick_infection_affects_various_cell_types_in_brain: Study⠀⇛ Depending on whether the affected person’s immune system is activated or not, the dreaded tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) virus infects different types of brain cells in different parts of the brain. This is demonstrated in a new study from Ume University in Sweden. “This increased understanding of how the virus behaves in the brain and how it activates the immune system is a crucial step in the development of effective treatments and preventive measures against this difficult disease,” says Anna Overby, professor at Umea University and leader of the research group behind the current study. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Poland_Reaches_Agreement_On_Transit_Of_Ukrainian_Grain, Agriculture_Minister_Says⠀⇛ Poland has reached an agreement on restarting transit of Ukrainian grains through its territory as of April 21, Polish Agriculture Minister Robert Telus said on April 18, adding transit would be monitored and sealed. * ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_Hospital_Authority_hiring_spree_sees 20_non-locally_trained_medics_accept_offers_in_London_so_far⠀⇛ Hong Kong’s Hospital Authority has announced that its recent recruitment event in London has so far resulted in 20 non- locally trained medics accepting job offers. Medical professionals who studied outside Hong Kong are being sought to plug the gaps in the city’s public health care system amid an exodus and shortage of manpower. § Proprietary⠀➾ * ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Reddit_to_charge_for_access_to_its_API_to_counter_free data_scraping_by_AI_companies⠀⇛ As big tech races to develop the most advanced generative artificial intelligence chatbots, Reddit Inc. today announced its treasure trove of data will no longer come free. * ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Vivaldi_gives_power_users_that_little_extra_to_stand_out⠀⇛ In a statement, the company said two new features — custom icons and workspaces — would help users personalise the application even more. Vivaldi is a browser aimed at power users and its chief executive and founder, Jon von Tetzchner, was also behind the Opera browser. * ⚓ Disney_layoffs:_Entertainment_division_to_witness_significant_job_cuts as_CEO_Iger_refocuses_on_streaming⠀⇛ Entertainment giant Disney is expected to announce layoffs next week in a move that is expected to affect the company’s entertainment and theme parks divisions as well as corporate roles. Entertainment giant Disney plans to cut jobs in another next week, spanning TV, films and theme parks apart from corporate roles. Earlier this year, Disney CEO Robert Iger announced 7,000 job cuts in a move that was aimed at slashing costs at the streaming giant. * ⚓ Yahoo News ☛ WeWork_receives_non-compliance_notice_from_NYSE⠀⇛ WeWork Inc said on Tuesday that it had received a non- compliance notice from the New York Stock Exchange, as its stock traded below $1 over a 30 day period. The notice will not result in immediate de-listing and the company will have six months to regain compliance, the flexible workspace provider said. * ⚓ Gulf News ☛ Amazon’s_Middle_East_rival_Noon_cuts_10%_of_jobs_to_pare costs⠀⇛ Noon, the Middle East’s answer to Amazon.com, cut about 10 per cent of its roughly 3,400-strong workforce to increase efficiency and reduce costs, according to its founder Mohamed Alabbar. The layoffs at the Dubai-based e-commerce firm included roles in marketing and advertising, as well as in other departments, Alabbar said in an interview. “We’ve been cutting costs and reducing staff for the past year and a half,” said Alabbar, who owns 50 per cent of Noon, while Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund owns the other half. “We started before the big tech companies did but we’re done now.” § Security⠀➾ * ⚓ Tim_Retout:_Data_Diodes⠀⇛ At ArgoCon today, Thomas Fricke gave a nice talk on Cloud Native_Deployments_in_Air_Gapped_Environments describing container vulnerability scanning in the German energy sector… and since he didn’t mention data diodes, and since some of my colleagues at Oakdoor/PA Consulting make data diodes for a living, I thought this might be interesting to write about! * ⚓ Ten Four Fox ☛ Cameron_Kaiser:_Power_Mac_ransomware?_Yes,_but_it’s complicated⠀⇛ Can that file run on a Power Mac? It appears it’s indeed a PowerPC binary, but the executable format is ELF and not Mach- O, so the file can only run natively on Linux or another ELF- based operating system, not PowerPC Mac OS X (or, for that matter, Mac OS 9 and earlier). Even if the raw machine code were sprayed into memory for an exploitable Mac application to be tricked into running, ELF implies System V ABI, which is similar but different from the PowerOpen ABI used for PowerPC- compatible versions of Mac OS, and we haven’t even started talking about system calls. Rather than a specific build targetting Power Macs, most likely this is evidence that the LockBit builders simply ran every crosscompiler variation they could find on their source code: there are no natively little- endian 32-bit PowerPC CPUs, for example, yet there’s a ppcle build visible in the screenshot. Heck, there’s even an s390x build. Parents, don’t let your mainframes out unsupervised. This is probably a good time to mention that I’ve been working on security patches for TenFourFox and a couple minor feature adjustments, so stay tuned. It’s been awhile but such are hobbies. * ⚓ WhichUK ☛ Scammers_are_targeting_Microsoft_users_with_‘storage_full’ emails [Ed: People who use Microsoft and Windows already suffered security breaches; their equipment is remotely controlled by criminals (Microsoft) and spies]⠀⇛ The email leads to a dodgy phishing website * ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Microsoft_Isn’t_Done_Shoving_Ads_Into_Windows_11 [Ed: Criminals (Microsoft) spy on your desktop usage in order to sell information about you and to manipulate you. Even the Stasi did not go this far.]⠀⇛ The company wrote that its latest Windows 11 preview build will have even more ‘badging’ on the Start menu for Microsoft 365 and OneDrive. * ⚓ Container Journal ☛ ARMO_Employs_eBPF_to_Identify_Severe_Kubernetes Vulnerabilities⠀⇛ ARMO today announced it has added a capability to its Kubernetes security platform that makes it simpler to prioritize remediation of vulnerabilities based on their relevancy. Ben Hirschberg, ARMO CTO, says this capability takes advantage of extended Berkeley Packet Filtering (eBPF) in the Linux kernel to scan running Kubernetes pods * ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ The_State_of_Kubernetes_Security_in_2023⠀⇛ Despite Kubernetes still being a relatively young technology, adoption rates have soared over the past several years as the container orchestration platform has become the cornerstone for many digital transformation initiatives. Even as organizations settle in with their use of the technology in production, however, there still remains concern around the best ways to secure containerized workloads. * ⚓ Container Journal ☛ Red_Hat_Survey_Surfaces_Cloud-Native_Cybersecurity Challenges⠀⇛ A global survey of 600 DevOps, engineering and security professionals published today by Red Hat finds more than two- thirds (67%) have delayed or slowed down deployment of Kubernetes clusters because of a cybersecurity issue. More than half (53%) experienced a software supply chain issue related to cloud-native and containerized development * ⚓ European Commission ☛ Speech_by_Executive_Vice-President_Vestager_on strengthening_cybersecurity_resilience [Ed: You need to ban proprietary software with back doors]⠀⇛ European Commission Speech Strasbourg, 18 Apr 2023 Today we put on the table two initiatives: a proposal for a European Cyber Solidarity Act, and a European Cybersecurity Skills Academy. * ⚓ ADF ☛ Report:_[Cr]ackers_Use_‘Backdoor’_Attacks_to_Access_Computer Networks⠀⇛ As Africa’s online community continues to grow, hackers and other malicious actors are waiting to invade those expanding networks to steal valuable data. A recent study by IBM’s Security X-Force cyberthreat analysts showed that so-called “backdoor” attacks were among the most popular way for hackers to gain access to computer systems across Africa. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ How_Mexico_Became_the_Biggest_User_of_the_Pegasus Spyware⠀⇛ A Times investigation reveals the story behind how Mexico became the first and most prolific user of Pegasus. It’s still using it, despite promising to stop. * ⚓ David_Cantrell:_Security_Checks_in rpminspect⠀⇛ § Summary Some changes have been made to how rpminspect honors settings in local configuration files. With rpminspect you can modify a local rpminspect configuration file to control how individual inspections run. The change is that any check that would produce a Security waiver authorization is now something that the local configuration file cannot override. In order to set rules to control how Security checks work, you need to modify the security product release file in the vendor data package. * ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Data_stolen_from_CommScope_in_ransomware_attack released_on_dark_web⠀⇛ Data stolen from network infrastructure provider CommScope Holding Co. Inc. has been published on the dark web, the shady corner of the internet reachable through special software, following a successful ransomware attack. ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ Using_LLMs_to_Create_Bioweapons⠀⇛ I’m not sure there are good ways to build guardrails to prevent this sort_of_thing: [...] ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Citizen_Lab_finds_three_new_iOS_exploits_used_by_NSO_Group⠀⇛ Citizen Lab has identified three new zero-day or yet-unpatched iOS exploits that were used by NSO Group Ltd.’s Pegasus spyware to infect iPhones. Citizen Lab, a cybersecurity research center affiliated with the University of Toronto, published its findings today. ⚓ Citizen Lab ☛ Triple_Threat:_NSO_Group’s_Pegasus_Spyware_Returns_in_2022_with a_Trio_of_iOS_15_and_iOS_16_Zero-Click_Exploit_Chains⠀⇛ Key Findings In 2022, the Citizen Lab gained extensive forensic visibility into new NSO Group exploit activity after finding infections among members of Mexico’s civil society, including two human rights defenders from Centro PRODH, which represents victims of military abuses in Mexico. ⚓ Security Week ☛ NSO_Group_Used_at_Least_3_iOS_Zero-Click_Exploits_in_2022: Citizen_Lab⠀⇛ NSO Group used at least three iOS zero-click exploits in Pegasus attacks in 2022: FindMyPwn, PwnYourHome, and LatentImage. ⚓ Security Week ☛ New_‘Domino’_Malware_Linked_to_FIN7_Group,_Ex-Conti_Members⠀⇛ New Domino backdoor brings together former members of the Conti group and the FIN7 threat actors. ⚓ Security Week ☛ Takedown_of_GitHub_Repositories_Disrupts_RedLine_Malware Operations⠀⇛ Four GitHub repositories used by RedLine stealer control panels were suspended, disrupting the malware’s operations. ⚓ Security Week ☛ CISA_Adds_Chrome,_macOS_Bugs_to_Known_Exploited Vulnerabilities_Catalog⠀⇛ CISA has added two vulnerabilities to its ‘must patch’ list, including a recently fixed Chrome flaw and a macOS flaw exploited by the DazzleSpy malware. ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ CISA_Chief_of_Staff_Kiersten_Todt_to_step_down [Ed: CISA just became little but a Microsoft proxy]⠀⇛ After nearly two years at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Todt will leave for a job in the private sector. ⚓ SANS ☛ UDDIs_are_back:_Attackers_rediscovering_old_exploits.,_(Tue,_Apr 18th)⠀⇛ ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Wednesday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Debian (asterisk), Fedora (lldpd and openssh), Red Hat (curl, kernel, and openvswitch2.13), SUSE (compat-openssl098, glib2, grafana, helm, libgit2, openssl, and openssl-1_1), and Ubuntu (linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux- azure, linux-azure-5.15, linux-azure-fde, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gke, linux-gke-5.15, linux-gkeop, linux-ibm, linux-kvm, linux- lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux-oracle, linux-oracle- 5.15, linux-raspi, linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux- hwe-5.19, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency, linux-oracle, linux-raspi, and vim). ⚓ Virginia_Passes_Legislation_Prohibiting_the_Use_of_Employees’_Social_Security Numbers_as_Identifiers [Ed: Due to data breaches]⠀⇛ On March 21, 2023, Virginia’s governor approved Senate Bill 1040, which prohibits an employer from using an employee’s social security number or any derivative as an employee’s identification number. The bill also prohibits including an employee’s social security number or any number derived from the social security number on any identification card or badge. An employer who knowingly violates the new law may be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $100 for each violation. However, the employer shall be provided notice of the violation by the state Commissioner and the employer can request an informal conference regarding the violation. * § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ o ⚓ OpenRightsGroup ☛ WhatsApp,_Signal_and_Element:_Online_Safety Bill_‘poses_an_unprecedented_threat_to_the_privacy,_safety_and security_of_every_UK_citizen’⠀⇛ Open Rights Group welcomes calls by WhatsApp, Signal and Element for a re-think of government proposals that could force them to undermine the encryption of their services. o ⚓ Stacey on IoT ☛ Will_smart_medicine_drive_privacy_legislation?_It should.⠀⇛ This week, I read an article in the Wall Street Journal about an artificial knee from Zimmer Biomet that, after being implanted in a patient’s knee, shared sensor data with the patient’s doctor about steps taken, range of motion for the knee, miles traveled, and various gait statistics. o ⚓ OpenRightsGroup ☛ Policy_briefing_–_Online_Safety_Bill_–_House_of Lords_Committee_Stage⠀⇛ CIVIL SOCIETY COMMITTEE STAGE BRIEFING ON THE ONLINE SAFETY BILL FOR HOUSE OF LORDS: ILLEGAL CONTENT SAFETY DUTIES AND PRIOR RESTRAINT – Supported by Wikimedia UK, Index on Censorship, and Open Rights Group. Published by Open Rights Group – Open Rights is a non-profit company limited by Guarantee, registered in England and Wales no. 05581537. o ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ Taco_Bell_Raises_Prices_Between_10-25% In_App,_but_Not_In-Store._Changes_Them_Back_on_App_if_You_Go Inside.⠀⇛ And Taco Bell isn’t alone. Most fast food companies now have gigantic annual price hikes and Apps that can divide and manipulate people, and collect data and run experiments, like seeing how much each person will pay. Taco Bell and McDonalds have plans to further automate where they may no longer let you inside the restaurant to see a menu. Then you might pay $5.99 for a Big Mac, while someone else pays $7.99 because McDonalds is tracking them and sees they go there several times a week and are more likely to put up with it. This is part of the nightmare that data collection and automation are giving us. Right now, they are advertising apps as ways to get “rewarded” with “free food”. o ⚓ JURIST ☛ UK_regulator_launches_investigation_into_Amazon’s_$1.7B acquisition_of_iRobot⠀⇛ The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) Tuesday announced the launch of its investigation into Amazon.com, Inc.’s $1.7 billion acquisition of iRobot Corporation, which is known for its Roomba robot vacuum cleaners. The CMA’s findings will allow it to determine whether Amazon’s acquisition of iRobot will reduce market competition within the UK. o ⚓ France24 ☛ Iran’s_hijab_war_continues_with_business_shutdowns_and surveillance_cameras⠀⇛ In a new move that some Iranians are calling “religious apartheid”, authorities are refusing services and imposing fines on women who refuse to wear the Islamic headscarf. Iran’s newly appointed police chief has even announced that surveillance cameras and artificial intelligence will be used to detect women without hijabs and issue penalties. These are just the latest strategies that Iran’s religious authorities are using to try to enforce Islamic dress code laws in Iran after months of protest have broken them down. Iranian women, however, say they’ve seen little evidence of the crackdown. o ⚓ Meta_cuts_90_jobs_in_Israel_as_part_of_global_layoffs⠀⇛ After the first wave last month included mainly employees from the HR departments, this time employees from a wide variety of fields, including programmers and engineers, were let go o ⚓ Barrons ☛ Meta,_Amazon_Push_on_With_Job_Cuts._Advertising_Trends Show_Why.⠀⇛ A review of first-quarter advertising spending shows companies are seeking a better return on their ad dollars, according to analysts at Truist Securities, based on data from marketing-technology company Skai. o ⚓ Meta_to_Slash_Jobs_Across_Its_3_Social_Platforms⠀⇛ Meta is reportedly readying layoffs that will impact its flagship social media platforms. The company told managers to be prepared for layoff announcements Wednesday (April 19), with the cuts affecting Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, Bloomberg News reported, citing an internal company memo. According to the memo, Realty Labs, Meta’s virtual reality arm, will also be impacted. PYMNTS has reached out to Meta for comment but has not yet received a reply. The cuts Wednesday are part of a broader cost-cutting push as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg tries to move the company through its “year of efficiency.” More job cuts are planned for next month, the Bloomberg report said. o ⚓ RTE ☛ Less_than_20_Irish-based_jobs_to_go_in_latest_round_of_Meta layoffs⠀⇛ It is understood that less than 20 jobs are to be cut from Meta’s Irish-based data centre team as part of the social media giant’s latest round of layoffs. In March, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, announced plans to cut around 10,000 jobs globally. Announcing the cuts at the time, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the layoffs would impact members of the recruitment division immediately with cuts to follow in late April for Meta’s tech groups and in late May for the company’s business groups. § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ * ⚓ RFA ☛ Did_the_Chinese_military_launch_missiles_into_Taiwan’s airspace?⠀⇛ Social media frenzy over old maps and other distorted info spurred speculation that an invasion was imminent. * ⚓ ADF ☛ ‘Particularly_Bloodthirsty’:_Leaders_Discuss_Terrorism_at_U.N. Meeting⠀⇛ Although terrorism is a global problem, it is “particularly critical” in many parts of Africa, Mozambican President Filipe Jacinto Nyusi told the United Nations Security Council in late March. * ⚓ ADF ☛ Tensions_Over_Nearly_Finished_GERD_Rooted_in_National_Identity, Experts_Say⠀⇛ As it nears completion, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam continues to fuel tense relations between Ethiopia and Egypt, tensions that go beyond energy or irrigation to the heart of each country’s self-identity, according to analysts. Ethiopia recently announced that the $4.2 billion dam, also known as the GERD, is 90% complete. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia_Accuses_Ukraine,_UN_Of_Sabotaging_Grain_Deal⠀⇛ Ukraine and the United Nations are causing difficulties with inspections of ships moving grain from Ukrainian ports and the registration of new vessels, the RIA Novosti news agency quoted the Russian Foreign Ministry as saying. * ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ How_cyber_support_to_Ukraine_can_build_its democratic_future⠀⇛ Kyiv sees Ukraine’s reconstruction as an opportunity to turn the country into a European tech hub — to do that it needs help. * ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Four_Americans_and_two_Russians_conspired_to_sway elections,_influence_politics,_Justice_Department_says⠀⇛ The DOJ unsealed new indictments on Tuesday that allege a years-long conspiracy to interfere in elections and weaponize information. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Poland_Building_Electronic_Barrier_On_Border_With_Russia⠀⇛ Poland has begun building a state-of-the-art electronic barrier at its land border with Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave to monitor and counteract any illegal activity, Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski said on April 18. * ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Reasons_for_secret_jailing_of_former_spy revealed⠀⇛ A former intelligence officer was jailed for threatening to extort highly classified national security information after he believed he had been wronged.  The sentencing remarks for the man dubbed Witness J were made public on Wednesday after the unprecedented secrecy of his case sparked the attorney-general to launch a review of Australia’s national security laws. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia_Launches_Drone_Attack_On_Odesa_As_Heavy_Fighting Continues_In_Eastern_Ukraine⠀⇛ Russia attacked the southern port city of Odesa with Iranian- made drones overnight, the Ukrainian Southern Air Command said on April 19, as fighting raged in the eastern region of Donetsk, where a protracted battle for the city of Bakhmut has been under way. * ⚓ Defence Web ☛ Sudan’s_Hemedti_–_the_warlord_who_built_a_paramilitary force_more_powerful_than_the_state⠀⇛ Dozens have been killed in armed clashes in the Sudanese capital Khartoum following months of tension between the military and the powerful paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF). * ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Russia’s_Ukraine_invasion_is_the_latest_stage_in_the unfinished_Soviet_collapse⠀⇛ Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is best understood as the latest stage in the unfinished collapse of the Soviet Union and as part of Russia’s historic retreat from empire, argues Richard Cashman. * ⚓ AntiWar ☛ What_Happens_When_You_Talk?_Peace_Breaks_Out!⠀⇛ After decades of stewardship of the Middle East, during which the US pursued the absurd policy of not talking to its enemies and creating and enforcing blocs to oppose and isolate those enemies, the predictable outcome occurred. * ⚓ AntiWar ☛ Snowden_and_Texeira:_Ten_Years_of_Disaster⠀⇛ Ten years ago Edward Snowden was helped to escape by WikiLeaks and to publish his revelations by The Intercept, Guardian, New York Times, and others. * ⚓ AntiWar ☛ The_Official_Story_of_the_Ukraine_War_Grossly_Misleads⠀⇛ Just after Russia attacked Ukraine on February 24, 2022, President Biden walked into the East Room of the White House and condemned the invasion with a barrage of adjectives: unprovoked, unjustified, brutal, without cause, premeditated, unnecessary. One of these quickly rose to prominence. * ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Trapped_by_fighting,_Sudanese_look_for_ways_to survive⠀⇛ The lives of of millions of Sudanese have been brutally disrupted since violence suddenly erupted over the weekend between forces loyal to the country’s top two generals. Civilian life has come to a standstill as tens of thousands of heavily armed fighters from the military and its rival, the Rapid Support Forces, battle it out in densely populated residential areas. Trapped in their homes, they avoid going near windows and are rationing basic foodstuffs. Many say they believe this latest bloody setback is particularly dire for a population that has endured years of hardship. * ⚓ AntiWar ☛ Diplomacy_for_Peace,_Dead_in_US,_Blossoms Elsewhere⠀⇛ “Global Power Struggles Signal An End to An Era of Diplomacy.” So ran a page one headline to New York Times April 11 print edition for an article marking Joe Biden’s ceremonial visit to Ireland to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Accords. * ⚓ LRT ☛ No_total_defence_in_sight:_Lithuania’s_plans_to_prep_society_for war_stall⠀⇛ A year has passed since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. But despite presenting an urgent wake-up call for Lithuanian officials, the promised plans for society-wide defence are nowhere in sight. * ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvian_citizen_wanted_for_warfare_against_Ukraine⠀⇛ Law enforcement authorities are searching for the Latvian citizen Aleksandrs Mališevs who has participated in military operations and attacks against Ukrainian armed forces, the State Security Service (VDD) told LETA April 18. * ⚓ European Commission ☛ At_the_EP_plenary_session_debate_on_EU-China relations,_President_von_der_Leyen_calls_for_Europe’s_own_distinct approach_to_China⠀⇛ European Commission News Strasbourg, 18 Apr 2023 President von der Leyen called for a new EU approach that should focus on ‘de-risking, but not decoupling’. This follows her recent trip to Beijing where she discussed with President Xi the shared challenges that EU and China need to work on together. * ⚓ ADF ☛ Russian_Mercenaries_Turn_Attention_to_Côte_d’Ivoire⠀⇛ In a series of crudely produced propaganda cartoons circulated on the internet and through West African social media, France is portrayed as a predatory giant rat, a hoard of zombies and a gigantic cobra. * ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Nazi-fighting_charros?_Mexico’s_forgotten_WW_II defense_force⠀⇛ After a German attack, Antolín Jiménez organized a militia trained in Mexico’s horsemanship tradition to defend the country from invasion. * ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Sudan_Accuses_RSF_of_Attacking_Diplomatic_Missions⠀⇛ Rapid Support Forces, however, announced that it accepted an international initiative for a truce to stop the clashes with the Sudanese army for 24 hours for humanitarian reasons. * ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Saudi_Arabia_Unilaterally_Releases_104_Yemeni_Detainees⠀⇛ The move followed a large-scale three-day prisoner swap between the Yemeni government, the Saudi-led coalition, and the Houthi rebels that ended on Sunday. * ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Death_Toll_in_Sudan_Clashes_Rises_to_144⠀⇛ Sudanese hospitals are experiencing problems as medical supplies are running low and the prevailing war situation prevents resupply. * ⚓ Axios ☛ Fighting_rocks_Sudan_despite_rival_generals_agreeing_to_cease- fire⠀⇛ Explosions could still be heard in the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Tuesday in the first hour after a temporary cease- fire was due to begin. Why it matters:The proposed 24-hour cease-fire was intended to allow Sudanese civilians trapped by the fighting to obtain necessities like food and water. It appeared to have the endorsement of leaders from the Sudanese military and the rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF). =============================================================== o The fighting has left an estimated 270 people dead over four days, according to the World Health Organization, citing Sudan’s Health Ministry. Driving the news: Secretary of State Tony Blinken spoke separately to Army chief Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and RSF leader Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, who is known as Hemedti, after a U.S._diplomatic_convoy_was_attacked on Monday. * ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ South_Korea’s_President_Yoon_opens_door_for possible_military_aid_to_Ukraine⠀⇛ It was the first time that Seoul suggested a willingness to provide weapons to Ukraine. * ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ North_Korean_leader_Kim_Jong_Un_orders_spy satellite_launch_as_planned⠀⇛ nalysts say the military satellite is part of the state’s efforts to advance surveillance technology. * ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ North_Korean_Leader_Orders_Launch_of_First Spy_Satellite_as_Planned⠀⇛ By Soo-hyang ChoiSEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said preparations for the planned launch of the country’s first spy satellite… * ⚓ RFA ☛ INTERVIEW:_The_attack_on_unarmed_civilians_in_Myanmar_‘is definitely_a_war_crime’⠀⇛ Miemie Winn Byrd discusses the military’s brutal aerial assault on residents of Pa Zi Gyi village. * ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Sudanese_to_world:_Violence_in_Khartoum_shows_strongmen can’t_be_trusted⠀⇛ Can warlords become statesmen? Sudanese activists working for democracy say they have warned Western governments for years against involving military strongmen in their country’s political transition. * ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ The_inner_life_of_Iranians⠀⇛ The regime tries new ways to force women to cover their heads, even as it misses how many Iranians have turned away from Muslim practices to seek alternative sources of meaning. * ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ G7_warns_“severe_costs”_against_countries_aiding Russian_war_in_Ukraine⠀⇛ Foreign ministers of the Group of Seven countries have condemned in the strongest possible terms Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and warned that any use of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons by Moscow would be met with “severe consequences.” In a joint statement issued after two days of talks in the resort town of Karuizawa in central Japan, top diplomats of the G7 countries reiterated their call on third parties to “cease assistance to Russia’s war, or face severe costs.” * ⚓ The Strategist ☛ The_opportunity_cost_of_AUKUS⠀⇛ In opting to acquire nuclear-powered submarines as a part of the AUKUS deal with the United States and the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has committed Australia to a price tag of about $368 [...] * ⚓ JURIST ☛ US_state_appeals_court_upholds_conviction_of_Derek_Chauvin_for murder_of_George_Floyd⠀⇛ The Minnesota Court of Appeals Monday upheld the conviction of former police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd during a 2020 arrest. In doing so, the court denied Chauvin’s request for a new trial or reversal of his conviction. * ⚓ France24 ☛ Brazil’s_Lula_meets_Lavrov_after_accusing_US_of ‘encouraging’_Ukraine_war⠀⇛ Russia’s foreign minister met in Brazil on Monday with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, as Washington criticized the South American leader’s recent remarks on US defense support for Ukraine. § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ * ⚓ Judge_Connolly_Continues_to_Push_on_Funding_Transparency⠀⇛ Following an April 2022 standing order that mandated parties appearing in his court adhere to third-party funding disclosure requirements and an eye-popping November 2022 memorandum detailing “potential abuse of our courts,” Judge Colm Connolly continues to push for additional information on parties claiming patent infringement in the District of Delaware. § Environment⠀➾ * ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Extinction_Rebellion_to_Intensify_Its_Protests_in_the_UK⠀⇛ The environmental activists are calling on the PM Sunak to veto all new licenses, permits and funding for fossil fuel projects. * ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ ‘Doomsday_glacier’:_should_we_be_scared?⠀⇛ Thwaites Glacier, coined as the ‘doomsday glacier’, contributes an estimated 4 percent of annual sea level rise. Stanford modeling research, published in March, reveals how this melting could occur and indicates that the unique topography around and beneath Thwaites contributes to glacial widening and glacial retreat. * ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Virtual_Reality_for_Global_Climate_Leadership⠀⇛ This report examines how virtual reality technology can impact high-level global leaders to invest in resilient climate solutions. * ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Decarbonization_solutions_for_addressing_Europe’s green_industrial_policy_challenge⠀⇛ The Atlantic Council co-hosted a high-level workshop on “Decarbonization solutions for addressing Europe’s green industrial policy challenge” in Paris with the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) and Groupe d’études geopolitiques (GEG). * ⚓ JURIST ☛ EU_agree_new_trade_reforms_to_tackle_climate_change⠀⇛ EU governments Saturday agreed to implement reforms to the Emissions Trading System (ETS). The reforms aim to reduce industrial emissions and invest in more climate friendly technologies as the EU progresses towards climate neutrality. * ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Scientists_Discover_Backyard_Fungi_That_Can_Break_Down Tough_Plastic_in_Just_140_Days⠀⇛ Get a load of this. * § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ o ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Tribal_colleges_see_bright_future_in_solar_energy training_programs⠀⇛ Nearly $15 million in federal grants aims to boost clean energy development at tribal colleges across the United States. The installations would provide learning opportunities for students, while also bringing the renewable energy economy to rural areas. o ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Germany_ditched_nuclear_power._Other_nations_show new_interest.⠀⇛ Renewable energy is competitively priced. But many say nuclear power still has a role to play even as old plants shut down. A status report in charts. o ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Energy_consumption_decreases_in_2022_as_wind_and nuclear_power_reach_record_levels⠀⇛ Energy consumption decreased in 2022, with the total consumption being 1.3 million terajoules, which was five percent less than in 2021. The last significant decrease in energy consumption was in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to a decrease in industrial energy use, among other factors. Several factors contributed to the decrease in energy consumption in 2022, according to Aleksi Sandberg, a senior statistician at Statistics Finland. o ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Trillions_needed_to_scale_up_future_of renewable_energy⠀⇛ A net-zero Australia will require up to $9 trillion of capital to be spent on energy, industrial and export infrastructure by 2060, researchers say. Decarbonisation is tipped to provide 700,000 direct jobs mainly in regional and rural areas, according to independent modelling released on Wednesday. o ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Petroleum_tax_hike_a_bandaid_budget_fix: Woodside_boss⠀⇛ The head of gas and oil giant Woodside has warned the government to resist reaching for a bandaid solution to its budget woes by lifting or altering the petroleum resource rent tax. o ⚓ LRT ☛ ‘Onion’_of_sanctions:_Lithuania_proposes_layered_approach to_sanctioning_Russia’s_Rosatom⠀⇛ As proposed sanctions on Russia’s nuclear energy company Rosatom struggle to garner support of all EU member states, Lithuania has proposed splitting the measures into distinct parts and adopting as many as possible. o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Scientists_Create_A_Fully_Rechargeable_Battery, Made_Entirely_From_Food⠀⇛ They don’t mention how it tastes. o ⚓ Latvia ☛ Large_solar_park_being_built_near_Latvian-Russian border⠀⇛ One of the most ambitious solar panel projects with a 400-megawatt capacity is being implemented in Latgale. A private company, investing several hundred million euros, plans to complete its work within three years, while electricity in the border area of Latvia-Russia itself could start to be produced earlier, Latgale regional television reported on April 18. o ⚓ JURIST ☛ Federal_appeals_court_strikes_down_California_law regulating_natural_gas⠀⇛ The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Monday struck down a Berkeley, California law that prohibited the installation of natural gas piping in newly constructed buildings. o ⚓ H2 View ☛ Spanish_companies_launch_HYREN_green_hydrogen development_platform⠀⇛ Matrix Renewables and Rolwind Renovables will create a new platform designed to develop the Spanish green hydrogen economy. * § Overpopulation⠀➾ o ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ India_to_have_2.9m_more_people_than_China_by mid-2023,_UN_estimate_shows⠀⇛ The US is a distant third, with an estimated population of 340 million. o ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ In_Grim_Drought,_Tunisians_Ration Water_in_State-Ordered_Ban⠀⇛ Tunisians are on the front lines of a battle against an increasingly severe drought, now in its fifth year in the north African country, with the government issuing a sudden order to its population to ration their water usage from April to September — or risk fines or jail o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Why_China’s_Shrinking_Population_Is_a_Problem for_Everyone [Ed: No overpopulation is the real problem, but lenders don't see it that way]⠀⇛ China struggled for years to curtail its rapid population growth. Now that its population is declining, economists and others fear serious implications for China and countries around the world. o ⚓ Overpopulation ☛ A_British_perspective_on_population_and biodiversity⠀⇛ A distinguished scientist’s new book makes the case that more people means less wildlife, in the United Kingdom and globally. This excellent offering is a must-read for anyone interested in the connection between human numbers and biodiversity protection. o ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvia’s_population_decline_this_century_set_to_be_EU’s steepest⠀⇛ As previously reported by LSM, Latvia is on track to be the least populous of the Baltic states by 2060 and to have a population of little more than one million by the century’s end, according to recently-released Eurostat figures. § Finance⠀➾ * ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Japan_has_millions_of_empty_houses._Want_to_buy_one for_$33k?⠀⇛ An emerging segment of buyers is seeking out rural architecture in need of some love. * ⚓ European Commission ☛ Press_remarks_by_Executive_Vice-President Dombrovskis_and_Commissioner_McGuinness_at_the_press_conference_on_the reform_of_the_bank_crisis_management_and_deposit_insurance_(CMDI) framework⠀⇛ * ⚓ European Commission ☛ Statement_by_EVP_Dombrovskis_at_the_press conference_on_the_reform_of_the_bank_crisis_management_and_deposit insurance_framework⠀⇛ European Commission Statement Strasbourg, 18 Apr 2023 The EU banking sector is strong and in good shape. But we can make it better. We want to broaden the scope of resolution to make sure that more failing banks can be resolved effectively. Our proposals will further strengthen financial stability, protect taxpayers and improve depositor confidence. * ⚓ RFA ☛ Rights_group_says_banks_are_withholding_pension_pots_from_U.K.- based_Hong_Kongers⠀⇛ Blockage is seen as a form of punishment for leaving Hong Kong amid a crackdown on dissent. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Clarence_Thomas’s_Gifts_and_the_Supreme_Court’s Credibility⠀⇛ Only 25 percent of Americans have a lot of faith in the court. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Clarence_Thomas_Can_Do_No_Wrong⠀⇛ Apparently, the law is a little different for those at the top. * ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Stocks_slip_as_focus_falls_back_on_US_Federal Reserve⠀⇛ Stocks have eased while the dollar has been under a little pressure as traders shift focus from US banking stress to expectations for an imminent peak in the Federal Reserve’s interest rate cycle. * ⚓ YLE ☛ Finland’s_taxman_to_inspect_influencers’,_Onlyfans_stars’ income⠀⇛ The authority estimates that as much as 70 percent of content production-related income went undeclared in 2021. * ⚓ YLE ☛ Incorrect_prices_from_self-service_check-outs⠀⇛ Tests by Yle found incorrect prices being charged by self service checkout scanners at Prisma supermarkets. The S-Group says that the problem was fixed on Monday. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Credit_Suisse_Accused_of_Impeding_Hunt_for_Accounts Linked_to_Nazis⠀⇛ The Senate Budget Committee opened an investigation after Credit Suisse fired a lawyer it had hired to oversee an independent inquiry hunting for accounts linked to Nazis who went to Argentina. * ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ US_trade_agreements:_Out_with_old_and_in_the_with new?⠀⇛ As the United States moves ahead with a new approach to trade with the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF), should it really abandon the old model of trade agreements? Or should it consider adapting the new approach to the old model? * ⚓ Quartz ☛ Afghanistan’s_economy_is_set_to_rapidly_shrink_if_foreign_aid keeps_falling⠀⇛ Afghanistan’s economy will contract after an anticipated 30% drop in foreign aid this year, according to a report by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). * ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Two_Fed_Up_Redditors_Launched_a_Site_to_Anonymously Rate_Your_Landlord⠀⇛ Rate The Landlord already has hundreds of reviews from tenants, turning the tables on the typical power dynamic with a landlord. * ⚓ WhichUK ☛ Energy_firms_can_fit_prepayment_meters_by_force_again⠀⇛ Over 80s and those in vulnerable situations cannot have PAYG meters forced on them * ⚓ WhichUK ☛ Everyday_food_prices_soar_as_supermarket_inflation_hits 17.2%⠀⇛ Budget-range groceries have also leapt in price nearly 25%, according to Which?’s latest food inflation tracker * ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Argentina_To_Engage_In_Regional_Summit_On_Countering Inflation⠀⇛ “We are all aware of what it currently costs to go to the supermarket,” President Fernandez said, stressing the State is responsible for promoting social equality. * ⚓ Axios ☛ House_Republicans_won’t_commit_to_McCarthy’s_debt_ceiling plan⠀⇛ House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) faces a steep challenge in cobbling together the 218 votes he needs to pass a proposed debt_ceiling_increase by his new self-imposed deadline. Why it matters: Top Republicans say they want the bill on the floor by next week, but members across the GOP conference have a range of reservations about a proposal that’s still incomplete. =============================================================== o Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) said it’s “probably not” enough time to get her on board: “To turn it around in a week, that’s pretty short order.” o “This is the single biggest point of leverage that will exist in these two years,” said another Republican lawmaker. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ U.K._Inflation_Edges_Lower,_but_Persists_in_Double Digits⠀⇛ Prices rose at an annual rate of 10.1 percent last month, down from 10.4 percent in February. Food costs continued to keep inflation high. * ⚓ Spiegel ☛ Britain_in_Crisis:_The_UK_Faces_a_Steep_Climb_Out_of_a_Deep Hole⠀⇛ Food shortages, moldy apartments, a lack of medical workers: The United Kingdom is facing a perfect storm of struggle, and millions are sliding into poverty. There is little to suggest that improvement will come anytime soon. * ⚓ France24 ☛ More_than_155,000_Canadian_federal_workers_strike_to_demand higher_wages⠀⇛ Some 155,000 federal workers, including 35,000 from Canada’s tax agency, went on strike after midnight on Wednesday in what their union is calling one of the largest strikes in the country’s history. * ⚓ France24 ☛ Macron’s_action_plan_‘rings_hollow’_as_critics_take_to_the streets_banging_pots_and_pans⠀⇛ President Emmanuel Macron has given himself “a hundred days” to mend his broken rapport with the French, aiming for a rebound after a gruelling 100-day pension battle that has roiled the nation, infuriated millions, and deepened a crisis in French democracy. * ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Biden_pans_McCarthy’s_debt_plan_as_‘huge_cuts’ to_Americans⠀⇛ House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is working furiously to build support for a Republican proposal that would raise the nation’s debt limit. President Joe Biden wants that legal borrowing limit raised, too, but he doesn’t want the other part of McCarthy’s demands — a limit on much future federal spending increases to 1% a year, among other changes. McCarthy is looking for negotiations with the White House, but Biden quickly batted down his bid as “huge cuts” to programs hitting million of Americans. The Republican leader’s proposal has almost no chance in the Democratic-controlled Senate. And he still has to unite fractured House GOP factions to pass the legislation in the chamber they control. § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ * ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Minnesota_House_passes_government/elections bill_that_calls_for_redesigning_state_flag_and_seal⠀⇛ Minnesota is taking another step closer to redesigning its state flag and committing its Electoral College votes to presidential candidates who win the national popular vote. Members of the House on Tuesday voted to approve those and other changes in a $1.5 billion state government and elections package. * ⚓ Breach Media ☛ Pierre_Poilievre_is_wrong—CBC’s_real_bias_benefits Conservatives⠀⇛ A previous study shows CBC News gave more airtime and favourable coverage to the Conservatives than other media outlets * ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Ralph_Yarl_armed_only_with_‘Black_skin,’ family_lawyer_says⠀⇛ As Ralph Yarl struggles to come to grips with being shot after going to the wrong house to pick up his younger brothers, the white Kansas City, Missouri homeowner who shot the Black 16- year-old is facing his day in court. An attorney for the Yarl family says the case should qualify as a hate crime and that Yarl was armed only with his “Black skin.” Eighty-four-year-old Andrew Lester has been charged with first-degree assault and armed criminal action. He posted bond Tuesday and was released. Yarl is at home recovering. Supporters gathered at a rally Tuesday night. Yarl’s mother said he is doing “considerably well,” but “mostly he just sits there and stares and the buckets of tears just rolls down his eyes.” * ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Iowa_Senate_Pulls_All-Nighter_to_Roll_Back_Child Labor_Protections⠀⇛ The Senate voted on a bill allowing 14-year-olds to work six- hour night shifts, and passed it at 4:52 a.m. * ⚓ Quartz ☛ Elon_Musk’s_Twitter_has_even_lost_the_man_who_popularized #hashtags⠀⇛ Arguably, Chris Messina created a monster. * ⚓ Quartz ☛ The_CBC_has_stopped_using_Twitter_after_Elon_Musk_designated it_government-funded_media⠀⇛ The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. (CBC) announced it’s suspending the use of its Twitter account after CEO Elon Musk labeled the public broadcaster “government-funded media.” The CBC said the designation—historically used for news sources directly controlled by governments—aims to undermine its credibility. * ⚓ JURIST ☛ Sweden_public_radio_network_Sveriges_Radio_ceases_activities on_Twitter⠀⇛ Sweden’s public radio, Sveriges Radio (SR) Tuesday announced that it would cease its activities on Twitter, in a move which follows analogous decisions by US and Canadian public broadcasters. SR stated that it has for a long time de- prioritised its presence on Twitter and has now decided to stop being active on the platform together. * ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Costs_of_verification_and_API_access_on_Twitter_could outweigh_benefits_for_publishers⠀⇛ “What news outlets need most now from Musk is clarity, consistency and a period of digital calm.” * ⚓ RTE ☛ RTÉ_Appoints_Kevin Bakhurst as_Next_Director_General⠀⇛ ***Statement issued by RTÉ on behalf of the RTÉ Board***  RTÉ Appoints Kevin Bakhurst as Next Director General  RTÉ has today announced the appointment of Kevin Bakhurst as the next Director General of RTÉ following an extensive and competitive recruitment process which was managed by the RTÉ Board. * ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr.:_To_Heal_the_Great_Divide⠀⇛ It has been fifty-five years since Senator Robert F. Kennedy stepped onto the presidential nominating stage to try to mend the massive breach that had opened in American society. * ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ Rudy_Giuliani_Claims_He’s_Shooting_Blank_Documents⠀⇛ The stories Rudy Giuliani and Christina Bobb have told about efforts to overturn Georgia’s election have started to fall apart. And lawyers for Ruby Freeman just asked Beryl Howell to force him to cough up the real story. * ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ Fox_Settles_With_Dominion:_There_Was_Gambling_At_Cafe Rick’s_Casino⠀⇛ Dominion v. Fox has settled and is over. Can the people on the internet internalizing it as about them please shut up? * ⚓ JURIST ☛ CBC_pauses_Twitter_activity_after_being_labeled_‘government- funded_media’⠀⇛ The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Monday joined other public broadcasters in “pausing” its Twitter activity, after Twitter applied a “government-funded media” label to its accounts. The CBC wrote on their main account, “Our journalism is impartial and independent. To suggest otherwise is untrue. That is why we are pausing our activities on @Twitter. * ⚓ JURIST ☛ UK_PM_Rishi_Sunak_under_investigation_for_alleged_failure_to declare_interest⠀⇛ UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Monday was declared to be under investigation by the parliamentary commissioner for standards based on allegations of breaching member of Parliament (MP) rules. Sunak allegedly failed to be “open and frank” in declaring his interest in the childcare agency, Koru Kids, in which his wife, Akshata Murty, is a shareholder. * ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_leader_vows_to_crack_down_on_‘hostile forces’_as_Beijing_official_concludes_visit⠀⇛ Hong Kong should never forget the “alarm bell” of the 2019 anti-extradition bill unrest and the harm it brought to the city, Chief Executive John Lee has said as he vowed to crack down on “hostile and destructive forces. * § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ o ⚓ Media_chief_claims_Turkey_is_the_country_most_at_risk_of disinformation⠀⇛ Fake news and false information have been hazardous and prevalent since the February 6 earthquakes, Turkey’s Communications Director, Fahrettin Altun, addressed in a video message. o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Why_Fox_News_Had_to_Settle_With_Dominion⠀⇛ A defeat for both the network and the public. o ⚓ Jonathan Faber ☛ Recent_AI_and_deep-fake_activity⠀⇛ Not that it needs to be demonstrated, but recent AI and deep-fake developments further demonstrate the need for meaningful Right of Publicity recognition. AI-generated a “new” song presented as Drake and the Weeknd. Read more on this link: AI Drake the Weeknd song Deep-fake technology is taking centerstage in a recently filed suit in California. o ⚓ Axios ☛ Fox_News_reaches_11th_hour_settlement_with_Dominion_for over_$787_million⠀⇛ Fox News settled with Dominion_Voting_Systems on Tuesday for over $787 million in what would have been a historic defamation trial in a Delaware court. Why it matters: The 11th-hour settlement protects Fox executives from having to possibly testify in court about their role in the network’s airing of 2020 election lies. ========================================================= Details: “The parties have resolved their case,” Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis said to the jury around 4:00 p.m., ET, more than two hours after opening statements for the trial were slated to begin. # In a statement following the settlement decision, Fox News acknowledged that the court found that it aired falsehoods which could have implications for other defamation cases it faces. # “We acknowledge the Court’s rulings finding certain claims about Dominion to be false. This settlement reflects FOX’s continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards,” the company said. # A source has confirmed to Axios that Fox News will not be required to give any apologies or retractions on its air as a part of the settlement deal. o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Three_Russians_Among_Seven_People_Indicted_By_U.S._Grand Jury_Over_Alleged_Election_Influence_Campaign⠀⇛ A federal grand jury in the U.S. state of Florida has indicted four U.S. citizens and three Russian nationals over allegations that they took part in a “malign campaign” to influence U.S. voters. o ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ NATO_deterrence_and_defense:_Military priorities_for_the_Vilnius_Summit⠀⇛ Ahead of the NATO Summit in Vilnius, this issue brief sets forth six priority actions that NATO should undertake to enhance its deterrent and defense posture. o ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Vladimir_Kara-Murza’s_25-year_sentence_is_a verdict_against_all_Russians⠀⇛ Vladimir Kara-Murza’s 25-year prison sentence for speaking the truth about the invasion of Ukraine is a major milestone in modern Russia’s descent into Stalinism, says former Ukrainian PM Arseniy Yatsenyuk. o ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._Urges_NATO_Vigilance_For_Signs_Russia_Could_Use Nuclear_Weapon_In_Ukraine⠀⇛ The United States and its NATO allies must remain alert for signs that Russian President Vladimir Putin could use a tactical nuclear weapon in a “managed” escalation of his war in Ukraine, a U.S. diplomat said. o ⚓ RFA ☛ US_sends_scores_of_military_advisers_to_Taiwan_as_China threat_continues⠀⇛ The move comes as Southeast Asian nations make plans to evacuate their workers from the island. o ⚓ RFA ☛ Vietnamese_police_confirm_missing_blogger_is_in_their custody⠀⇛ Duong Van Thai had fled to Thailand in 2018 and is believed to have been abducted last week. o ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ FACT_FOCUS:_NYC_crime_is_not_worst_ever, despite_claims⠀⇛ Social media users are claiming crime in New York City is the worst it’s been in a generation. But criminal justice experts argue crime is nowhere near the levels seen in the higher crime 1990s. The New York Police Department and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office, meanwhile, argue last year’s crime surge is already receding. Nearly four months into the new year, major crimes are down overall compared to the same period last year. Experts also note the city’s crime levels pale in comparison to those in Ohio and other home states of leading Republicans in Congress. § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ * ⚓ Reason ☛ Cornell’s_President_Defends_Free_Speech_Against_Illiberal Impulses⠀⇛ Martha Pollack rejects the pernicious premise that universities should protect students from offensive ideas. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia_Adds_Norwegian_Environmental_Group_Bellona_To_List_Of ‘Undesirable’_Organizations⠀⇛ Russia has declared the Norwegian nongovernmental environmental group Miljostiftelsen Bellona an “undesirable” organization amid an ongoing crackdown on international and domestic NGOs, civil society, and independent journalists. * ⚓ Appeals_court_overturns_social_media_user’s_sentence_for_calling Bahçeli_a_‘dotard’⠀⇛ The social media user had been fined for “insulting” the MHP leader. * ⚓ Three_foreign_journalists_file_complaint_against_officials_for hindering_earthquake_coverage⠀⇛ Law enforcement officers and religious affairs officials reportedly seized the journalists’ equipment in February. * ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Beijing_says_‘political_manipulation’_behind_US arrests_of_2_accused_of_running_covert_Chinese_police_station⠀⇛ China said on Tuesday that “political manipulation” was behind the arrests of two men the United States accused of setting up an unauthorised Chinese police station in New York. Authorities in the city also charged dozens of Chinese security officials over a campaign to monitor and harass US-based dissidents. § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ * ⚓ CHP_files_criminal_complaint_against_public_broadcaster_over_‘biased’ coverage⠀⇛ The opposition party claims that TRT refused to broadcast Kılıçdaroğlu’s election advertisement without providing any explanation. * ⚓ Union_of_actors_invites_RTÜK_to_review_TV_series_ban⠀⇛ An “Islamaphobia documentary” was broadcast instead of the new episode of the popular series “Cranberry Sorbet” on April 14 after the decision by the Radio and Television Supreme Council. * ⚓ Journalist_Serdar_Akinan_arrested_in_police_raid_on_his_home⠀⇛ The reason for the detention is not yet clear. Akinan recently interviewed a social media figure who has been leveling corruption allegations against government officials and businesspeople. * ⚓ AFP_journalists_in_İstanbul_plan_to_strike_if_salary_demands_not_met⠀⇛ Despite AFP reporting on Turkey’s economic crisis almost every day, the company refused to discuss real inflation rates with its employees, says a union. * ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Kremlin_vs._press_freedom:_Judge_rejects_Gershkovich’s appeal⠀⇛ American journalist Evan Gershkovich remains in a Russian jail on espionage charges after a judge rejected his appeal on Tuesday. The U.S. government and Mr. Gershkovich’s employer deny the allegations, while the case elicits outrage in the West. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Daghestani_Activist_Accused_Of_Discrediting_Russia’s_Military⠀⇛ Svetlana Anokhina, a noted rights defender in Russia’s North Caucasus region of Daghestan, is under investigation over her posts on Instagram criticizing Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._Reporter_Gershkovich’s_Appeal_Over_Detention_In_Russia Denied⠀⇛ A Russian court has rejected the appeal of American journalist Evan Gershkovich to be released from pretrial detention at Moscow’s Lefortovo prison as he is investigated on charges of espionage, which he denies. * ⚓ JURIST ☛ Russia_court_denies_detained_US_journalist’s_appeal_of espionage_charges⠀⇛ A Russian court Tuesday denied Wall Street Journal (WSJ) journalist Evan Gershkovich’s appeal of his detention and espionage charges. Though the proceedings were closed to the public, the Moscow City Court briefly allowed reporters inside to see Gershkovich for the first time since his March 29 arrest. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Navalny_May_Face_New_Charge_After_Provocation,_Lawyer_Says⠀⇛ Jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny may face a new charge, this time of “disrupting” activities at the correctional colony where he is incarcerated, according to his lawyer Vadim Kobzev. * ⚓ JURIST ☛ Russia_opposition_leader_Navalny_charged_over_alleged ‘provocation’_by_prison_authorities⠀⇛ Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s spokesperson announced Tuesday that Russian authorities opened a criminal case against Navalny for removing another prisoner from his cell. Navalny’s team called the situation a “provocation” and said that Navalny was previously warned about a potential set- up. * ⚓ JURIST ☛ Committee_to_Protect_Journalists:_95_Iran_journalists_arrested since_death_of_Mahsa_Amini⠀⇛ The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) Monday reported Iranian authorities have arrested a total of 95 journalists since the start of nationwide protests over the September 2022 killing of Mahsa Amini. § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ * ⚓ Erdoğan_issues_circular_on_child_rights⠀⇛ The circular on Child Rights Strategy Document and Action Plan in Turkey was published in the Official Gazette today. According to the data of TurkStat, 42 percent of children cannot consume dairy products every day. * ⚓ Child_labor_increased_in_Turkey_in_2022,_official_figures_show⠀⇛ Children make up more than 25 percent of Turkey’s population, according to the TurkStat figures. * ⚓ Quartz ☛ The_latest_challenge_to_Ben_&_Jerry’s_progressive_stance:_a unionization_effort⠀⇛ It’s workers at the least progressive companies who most need to unionize—right? Not necessarily. This week, ice cream scoopers at the Vermont flagship store for Ben & Jerry’s told management in a letter that they plan to unionize. * ⚓ EDRI ☛ Decolonising_the_digital_rights_field_in_Europe:_Call_for feedback_on_our_first_draft_programme⠀⇛ EDRi and the Digital Freedom Fund (DFF) are looking for your input on a draft programme for an initial decolonising process for the digital rights field in Europe. We want to hear from you! * ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Canadian_union_says_federal_workers_will strike⠀⇛ Canada’s largest federal public-service union says some 155,000 workers will go on strike after talks with the federal government failed to produce an agreement before its deadline. The strike includes 35,000 Canada Revenue Agency workers when tax returns are due. Wage increases are the main issue. The federal government’s Treasury Board released a statement on Monday saying it offered the union a 9% raise over three years on Sunday, on the recommendation of the third-party Public Interest Commission. But the union has pushed for annual raises of 4.5% over the next three years, arguing the increases are necessary to keep pace with inflation. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Tajik_Authorities_Detain_Another_Brother_Of_Jailed_Informal Leader_Of_Restive_Gorno-Badakhshan_Region⠀⇛ Tajik authorities have detained another brother of Tolib Ayombekov, the jailed informal leader of Tajikistan’s volatile Gorno-Badakhshan region (GBAO). * ⚓ LRT ☛ Groups_criticise_Lithuania’s_migrant_pushback_law,_saying_it mimics_Hungary⠀⇛ Non-governmental organisations have called on the Lithuanian parliament, Seimas, to vote down a bill legalising the policy of turning away irregular migrants at the border. * ⚓ JURIST ☛ Tunisia_police_shut_down_political_opposition_offices_and detain_leader⠀⇛ Tunisia Police Tuesday shut down the Ennahdha offices, operating headquarters for Tunisia’s Islamist-inspired opposition party. The move came a day after police arrested Rached Ghannouchi, Ennahdha’s party leader, at his residence in Tunis, Tunisia–the nation’s capital. Ennahdha announced that investigators had raided the office headquarters in Tunis on Tuesday. * ⚓ JURIST ☛ US_investigative_agency_says_cabinet_secretary_violated federal_political_activity_law⠀⇛ The US Office of Special Counsel (OSC) Tuesday released a report concluding that current Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra violated the Hatch Act, a law that regulates political activity by government personnel. The Hatch Act, passed in 1939, restricts the types of campaign activities federal employees can participate in while holding office. * ⚓ JURIST ☛ US_Supreme_Court_agrees_to_hear_case_involving_recovery_of property⠀⇛ The US Supreme Court Monday granted writ of certiorari to hear a case about whether individuals are owed an immediate hearing to recover property that is seized during a crime they did not commit. § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ * ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ Public_Knowledge_Files_Comments_Urging_NTIA_To_Adopt a_National_Spectrum_Strategy_Based_on_Public_Interest_Values⠀⇛ Public Knowledge filed comments urging the NTIA to adopt a national spectrum strategy rooted in core public interest principles. * ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ Public_Knowledge_Welcomes_New_Member_to_Board_of Directors⠀⇛ New Board of Directors member, Brian Vo, brings mission-driven investing and finance expertise to support the public interest. § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Netflix_Will_End_Its_DVD_Service,_5.2_Billion_Discs Later⠀⇛ Sending movies through the mail, in recognizable red-and-white envelopes, helped the company become a behemoth in Hollywood. § Monopolies⠀➾ * § Patents⠀➾ o ⚓ JUVE ☛ EPO_upholds_three_Broad_Institute_patents_for_next generation_CRISPR-Cas12a [Ed: The EPO is governed by criminals who disregard the law and set up mock "courts" to authorise illegal parents; this won't end well]⠀⇛ The EPO Opposition Division has upheld three Broad Institute patents covering CRISPR-Cas12a technology, after five different opponents attempted to invalidate the patents across two sets of proceedings. Between 28 and 31 March 2023, the division heard proceedings against EP 3 502 253 and EP 3 310 917 together over two-and-a- half days. o ⚓ Public_consultation_on_the_EPO’s_next_Strategic_Plan_(SP2028) [Ed: As if the EPO cares what outsiders think; it's run by a cabal of moles, beholden to lobby groups that override and break laws and constitutions with impunity]⠀⇛ The EPO invites stakeholders and the public to provide feedback by 15 May o ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Claim_Construction_and_Due_Process: Examining_NST_Global_v._Sig_Sauer_Inc._in_the_Supreme_Court⠀⇛ NST Global, LLC, dba SB Tactical v. Sig Sauer Inc. (Supreme Court 2023) This case has a low chance of being granted certiorari, but it still has some interesting elements regarding claim construction and procedure.  This is a perfect case for the Supreme Court to issue a GVR (Grant-Vacate- Remand) with an order to the Federal Circuit to explain its reasoning. o ⚓ Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ The_Proposed_EU_Regulation_on_SEPs_(I):_The problems_it_addresses⠀⇛ The European Commission’s recently leaked Proposal for a Regulation on standard-essential patents (SEPs), summarized here by Enrico Bonadio and Dyuti Pandya, establishes a framework for transparent SEP licensing. * § Trademarks⠀➾ o ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ CAFC_Affirms_TTAB:_“SPARK_LIVING”_Confusable_With “SPARK”_for_Related_Real_Estate_Services⠀⇛ In a straightforward, but nonetheless precedential, ruling the CAFC upheld the Board’s decision affirming a refusal to register the mark SPARK LIVING for “leasing of residential real estate; residential real estate listing; residential real estate service, namely, residential rental property management; specifically excludes commercial property and office space” (LIVING disclaimed). The Board found a likelihood of confusion with the registered mark SPARK for brokerage, leasing, and management of commercial property, offices, and office space. Appellant Charger challenged the Board’s factual findings on five Du Pont factors, but the CAFC ruled that the Board’s decision was supported by substantial evidence. In_re_Charger_Ventures_LLC, In re Charger Ventures LLC, 2023 U.S.P.Q.2d 451 (Fed. Cir. 2023). [precedential]. * § Copyrights⠀➾ o ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ BPI_Says_Cassette_Sales_Hit_a_‘Near_Decade High’_in_2022_—_But_Is_This_Just_Another_Blip?⠀⇛ BPI says cassette sales hit a ‘near decade high’ in 2022, but is it just the result of increasing demand for vinyl? Based on a new report from BPI utilizing Official Charts Company data, cassette sales grew for a tenth consecutive year in 2022, reaching annual totals not seen since 2003. o ⚓ Public Domain Review ☛ Shy_Guy_(1947)⠀⇛ In this “personal guidance” film, Phil the shy guy learns a valuable lesson: to fit in, you need to “think about the other guy”. o ⚓ CCIA ☛ California_Contemplates_a_Link_Tax⠀⇛ The California state legislature is poised to consider a link tax on digital services, aimed at subsidizing news publishers… § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ * § Personal⠀➾ o ⚓ Becoming_Part_Of_A_Secret_Society⠀⇛ People are often paranoid about secret societies, however, as a member of a secret society myself, I’m inclined to view secret societies from the perspective of a direct participant rather than as a third-party observer. I have been witness to the operations of a highly influential secret society- and while I cannot divulge any specific details, I can inform you as to the psychological impact of the exclusivity bestowed upon me. o ⚓ Spring_Bird_Songs_2023-04-19_(Fairbanks,_AK,_USA)⠀⇛ After walking out the door this morning, a little before 6am AKDT, I was treated to some nice spring bird chatter. I made a recording with my S5300 camera, and then extracted the audio into these files. * § Technical⠀➾ o ⚓ Bye,_Bye_Raspberry_Pi⠀⇛ The Raspberry Pi started off as a low-cost device suitable as an entry point to computing for schools and young students, in the way that the BBC micros and other low-powered/high-constraint computers were back in the early 80s. And it then became a real hobbyist’s device, powering all kinds of stuff – including, now, machine learning algorithms. But then various industries realized that the low-powered chips had really good reliability, and the devices started working their way into all kinds of industrial applications. And so even though I have a mental model of the Pi as a purely consumer or hobbyist device, it really hasn’t been that way for a while. o ⚓ Presentations_for_lectureship_interview⠀⇛ I applied for a junior lectureship position in Ecological Science a few weeks ago. Unfortunately I didn’t get the job, but the experience forced me to think about who I am as a researcher, what my strengths are, and also what my goals should be if I want to be successful on the next application. o ⚓ Importing_data_layers_into_Avenza_Maps_Android_app⠀⇛ I had a go with the Avenza Maps[1] Android app during fieldwork to visualise my position within the landscape. I had access to a vegetation map and I wanted to see how close I was to transition zones between vegetation units, and also where I could walk to find a good place to install a vegetation monitoring plot. o ⚓ plaintext_>_*⠀⇛ The gibberish URL doubtless points to some JavaScript Application… until Google shutters the service, as they are wont to do. Then what? With plain text files there are higher odds there’s a copy of the document not walled off. And who knows how to escape data from a JavaScript Application. Rumor has it one can write an exporter? o ⚓ The_Times,_they_are_a-changin’⠀⇛ Before we start I would just like to state my bias: I am not a fan of music streaming services, yes they are convenient, but they pay NOTHING to the Artists. Spotify only becomes profitable when you’re an Artist with millions and millions of streams per month. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 5004 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 04.19.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_19/04/2023:_VirtualBox_7.0.8_and_Annual_Report_for_LibreOffice_in 2022⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 8:03 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Server o Kernel_Space o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Games * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o Reviews o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Devices/Embedded o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Productivity_Software/LibreOffice/Calligra o Programming/Development # Python # Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh * Leftovers o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Security # Integrity/Availability/Authenticity # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting o Environment o Wildlife/Nature * Finance * AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics * Censorship/Free_Speech * Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press * Civil_Rights/Policing * Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality * Digital_Restrictions_(DRM) * Monopolies o Patents o Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Technical * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ Kubernetes Blog ☛ Kubernetes_1.27:_Efficient_SELinux_volume relabeling_(Beta)⠀⇛ On Linux with Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) enabled, it’s traditionally the container runtime that applies SELinux labels to a Pod and all its volumes. Kubernetes only passes the SELinux label from a Pod’s securityContext fields to the container runtime. The container runtime then recursively changes SELinux label on all files that are visible to the Pod’s containers. This can be time-consuming if there are many files on the volume, especially when the volume is on a remote filesystem. If a Pod does not have any SELinux label assigned in Kubernetes API, the container runtime assigns a unique random one, so a process that potentially escapes the container boundary cannot access data of any other container on the host. The container runtime still recursively relabels all pod volumes with this random SELinux label. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ Pascal Bourguignon ☛ Emacs_standing_alone_on_a_Linux Kernel⠀⇛ Of course, quite a number of syscalls are missing from emacs (not available as elisp primitives), so as it is, it would be hard enough to do EVERYTHING with emacs, but this is a starting point. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Neowin ☛ VirtualBox_7.0.8⠀⇛ VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software. Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and Solaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4, 2.6, 3.x and 4.x), Solaris and OpenSolaris, OS/2, and OpenBSD. # ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ Simple_way_to_Convert_WebP_Images_to_PNG_and JPG/JPEG_in_Linux⠀⇛ Looking for a way to convert a WebP image to PNG or JPG/JPEG, then the dwebp and ffmpeg commands are the best options. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Chris Hannah ☛ Most_websites_should_be_served_statically⠀⇛ There’s nothing stopping sites from being built dynamically, using centrally stored content, and various templates that can be put together to build a complex website. It should just happen once, and then the generated static content can be efficiently served again and again, until the source content changes, and triggers it to be rebuilt. # ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ ARC_memory_reclaim_statistics exposed_by_ZFS_on_Linux_(as_of_ZoL_2.1)⠀⇛ Yesterday I talked about some important ARC memory stats, to go with stats on how big the ARC is. The ARC doesn’t just get big and have views on memory; it also has information about when it shrinks and somewhat about why. Most of these are exposed as event counters in /proc/spl/kstat/zfs/arcstats, with arc_need_free as an exception (it counts how many bytes ZFS thinks it currently wants to shrink the ARC by). # ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ When_and_how_ZFS_on_Linux_changes the_ARC_target_size_(as_of_ZoL_2.1)⠀⇛ Previously I discussed the various sizes of the ARC, some important ARC memory stats, and ARC memory reclaim stats. Today I can finally talk about how the ZFS ARC target size shrinks, and a bit about how it grows, which is a subject of significant interest and some frustration. I will be citing ZoL function names because tools like bpftrace mean you can hook into them to monitor ARC target size changes. # ⚓ Canva Engineering Blog ☛ A_Journey_through_Color_Space_with FFmpeg⠀⇛ This is the sentence that started it all. A user wanted to export a number of colorful Canva slides to a video file. I just recently joined Canva’s video group and thought this might be a great starter task. I mean, we’re talking about converting a bunch of images to a video and apparently, there’s a minor color space issue. At least that’s what I thought, without really grasping the complexity behind color spaces. Oh gosh, what had I done! My first naive approach was, of course, to find out whether someone else on the internet had the same or a similar problem. Luckily, my amazing team gave me a good place to start. “Just try to convert an image to a video in the Rec. 709 color space using FFmpeg and you’ll see what the problem is.” We’ll talk about what Rec. 709 is later in the article. # ⚓ [Old] Medium ☛ Talking_About_Colorspaces_and_FFmpeg⠀⇛ The rendering process of a .mp4 video created on InVideo involves piping a sequence of virtual framebuffers, containing the information of each frame of the composition, to the FFmpeg encoder, which sequentially stitches them into a video with standard H.264 encoding. A virtual framebuffer is just another fancy term for — the array of RGB values corresponding to the pixels of the frame of the video. It’s a ‘virtual image’ of sorts. # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ 10_Things_to_Do_after_Installing_Fedora_38 Workstation⠀⇛ We are presenting our traditional Fedora release article – “10 Things to Do After Installing Fedora 38″, with post-install tweaks. This post-install guide is primarily for Fedora 38 workstation edition. These tips are not ideal for all. But it should be a good starting for all types of Fedora user base. Here are the ten things you can do after installing Fedora 38 Workstation Edition (GNOME). # ⚓ Talospace ☛ Fedora_38⠀⇛ Fedora 38 is out — a week early, for a change. Fedora matters to us here at Orbiting Floodgap HQ because it’s what we run on our Talos II and Blackbird systems and it should matter to you because, being a bleeding edge distro, changes occur there first that tricke down to other distributions. That’s why we make efforts to do mini-reviews of each release. With F38′s release F36 will be End of Life in one month. # ⚓ How_to_Upgrade_from_Fedora_37_to_38_Workstation_(CLI_and GUI)⠀⇛ Last night, Fedora finally released its most anticipated version, Fedora 38, which offers amazing features such as support for a unified kernel, GNOME 44, a shorter shutdown timer, and many more. Unfortunately, we have not written any dedicated articles on the features offered in Fedora o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Manjaro_Is_Losing_Ground_Very_Fast_as_A Linux_Gaming_Distro⠀⇛ And in case you were wondering if it’s something that’s limited to ProtonDB data, well, think again. The Steam Hardware survey shows that Manjaro has been losing big time in the past year compared to Arch Linux that has held strong desprite the rise of SteamOS after the launch of the Steam Deck): # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Survival_game_Vintage_Story_set_for_a_huge update_with_a_big_story_event⠀⇛ Vintage Story is a survival game that I simply love to watch and casually dive into now and then, and it’s probably one of the most impressive indie open-world survival games around, if you like things hardcore. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Zoria:_Age_of_Shattering_now_skipping_Early Access_to_release_in_September⠀⇛ The developers of the upcoming squad-based tactical RPG Zoria: Age of Shattering have changed their release plans, and they’re now going to skip Early Access entirely with a small release day. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Valheim_is_getting_extensive_difficulty options_including_a_creative_mode⠀⇛ Valheim continues to be one of the most popular survival games on Steam, and it seems in an upcoming update there’s going to be much more extensive customization of the difficulty. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Picma_–_Picture_Enigmas_gets_a_free_Steam release,_lots_of_Picross_styled_puzzles⠀⇛ Love your Picross? Check out Picma – Picture Enigmas, a new Steam release with Native Linux support and it has a lot of content. It’s also free to play, to a point.  # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ MangoHud_performance_overlay_gets_a_few needed_fixes_in_v0.6.9-1⠀⇛ After the previous release of v0.6.9, MangoHud has another nice update out that fixes up a few lingering problems for the Linux performance hud that’s also used on Steam Deck for the built-in performance info. # ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Valve’s_Proton_8.0_Release_is_Good_News_for Linux_Gamers_and_Steam_Deck_Users⠀⇛ Proton has been a boon for the Linux gamers out there that enables the Steam client to run games exclusive to the Windows ecosystem on Linux. Based on the popular Wine compatibility layer, Proton has been receiving many updates over the years thanks to Valve. Proton 8.0 has been released with some impressive upgrades, marking yet another major step for Linux gaming. Let’s dig in to know more about it. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ Top_7_Linux_Window_Managers_|_LinuxAndUbuntu⠀⇛ Before diving into the best Linux window managers, let’s first understand what a window manager is. A window manager is a software component that manages the placement and appearance of windows on the screen. It controls the look and feel of the graphical user interface (GUI). Window managers are often used with a desktop environment to provide a complete user experience. o § Reviews⠀➾ # ⚓ LinuxInsider ☛ New_Distro_Makes_Running_Arch_Linux_Very ‘Cachy’⠀⇛ CachyOS is well-planned and better executed than many other Arch wanna-be distros. It even supports Nvidia graphics cards out-of-the-box. Clearly, other Linux options are more suitable for less-experienced users. Even more seasoned Linux practitioners do not need the added security layers and fuzziness that Arch requires. But that is the beauty of the Linux OS. It is not one thing for all users. Rather, it is the ability to customize, personalize, and engage in operational challenges. CachyOS lets you have Linux your way much more simply, with some computing experiences not available in other family distributions. o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Unix Men ☛ Advantages_and_Disadvantages_of_CentOS_Stream⠀⇛ The Linux community unanimously ridiculed Red Hat for shifting its CentOS distro to a rolling release distribution model in 2021. It was initially distributed in the long-term support model. Users worldwide complained about it, and companies that use it, such as cPanel, stopped providing support for it. Several 1-to-1 replacements, such as AlmaLinux, also appeared online and have gained popularity. You may have witnessed these grumblings online if you stay in the loop about open-source developments. In this post, we’ll discuss why many users think the move to CentOS Stream is a big mistake. We’ll also discuss the background and history of the distro, its current state, advantages, disadvantages, and whether or not it’s a viable option for you. We’ve also shortlisted some alternatives that you can start using right away. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Ubuntu_Users_Get_New_Linux_Kernel_Updates,_17 Security_Vulnerabilities_Patched⠀⇛ The new Ubuntu kernel security updates are available for Ubuntu 22.10, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS users. Patched in these security updates are a total of 17 flaws, but three vulnerabilities affect all these Ubuntu releases. These include CVE-2023-1281, a use-after-free vulnerability discovered in the Traffic-Control Index (TCINDEX) implementation, CVE-2022-47929, a null pointer dereference discovered in the network queuing discipline implementation, and CVE-2023- 26545, a double-free vulnerability discovered by Lianhui Tang in the MPLS implementation. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ TI_launches_Simplelink_CC3300/CC3301_WiFi_6, Bluetooth_5.3_LE_companion_IC_for_IoT_applications⠀⇛ The C33xx are the first SimpleLink chips to support WiFi 6 (and Bluetooth Low Energy 5.x), with Texas Instruments having yet to offer a standalone SoC supporting both. Instead, the CC3300 and CC3301 are designed to be connected to an MPU running Linux such as the AM62A Arm Cortex-A53 vision processors to design a WiFi 6 AI security camera, or microcontrollers such as CC2652R7 SimpleLink multiprotocol wireless MCU or an AM243x Cortex-R5F MCU to create multi-protocol solutions with Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth LE 5.3, Thread, Zigbee 3.0 and Matter protocols. Target applications include grid infrastructure (e.g. electricity meter), building & home automation, smart home appliances, medical equipment such as infusion pumps or ultrasound scanners, and retail automation/payment systems. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Raspberry_Pi_Camera_Conversion_Leads_To Philosophical_Question⠀⇛ The Raspberry Pi HQ camera module may not quite reach the giddy heights of a DSLR, but it has given experimenters access to a camera system which can equal the output of some surprisingly high-quality manufactured cameras. As an example we have a video from [Malcolm-Jay] showing his Raspberry Pi conversion of a Yashica film camera. # ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Experience_AI:_The_excitement_of_AI_in_your classroom⠀⇛ A new programme that offers secondary school (ages 11–14) teaching resources on AI and machine learning for teachers and students. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ EVerest_is_an_open-source_software_stack_for car_charging_stations⠀⇛ EVerest is a software project initiated by PIONIX GmbH, but now part of the Linux Foundation’s LFEnergy initiative, whose primary goal is to develop and maintain an open-source software stack for EV charging infrastructure. EVerest supports multiple standards and it will run on any device from AC home chargers to public DC charging stations. I noticed the EVerest project in an upcoming talk at the Embedded Open Source Summit 2023 entitled ” EVerest: Electric Vehicle Chargers With Open Hardware and Software” and whose abstract reads in part… # ⚓ Theor ☛ DOOM_maps_to_SVG_to_laser_cutter⠀⇛ I’ve heard a lot about classic Doom’s data format and decided to write some Rust code to extract its maps and convert that to vector graphics I could laser cut. I’ll go through the process, from the data extraction to the geometry reconstruction to outputting laser-cuttable SVGs, including the geometrical dead end I enthusiastically ran to when I tried to preview the result using bevy. # ⚓ Arduino ☛ Furby_modified_to_recite_the_wisdom_of_Jorge_Luis Borges⠀⇛ While Furby toys are often described as robots, that term would be a stretch. A standard Furby only has a single DC motor to actuate all of the animatronic movement. But a clever gear mechanism controls what moves. If the motor only turns a little bit, it will just move the mouth. It can then turn further to move the ears or eyelids. Bandini discarded the original control board entirely and replaced it with his own to produce sounds, so he just needed to gain control over the DC motor. Bandini chose to use an Arduino Nano board with an H-bridge for that job. A limit switch tells the Arduino when the motor is in the home position. Then it can rotate the motor the appropriate amount for the desired animatronic movement. Mouth movement syncs with the audio, which comes from a DFRobot DFPlayer Mini MP3 player board. Any time an audio clip is playing, the Arduino will move the Furby’s mouth. To keep it from jabbering on all the time, Bandini added a PIR (passive infrared) sensor. That tells the Arduino when someone moves nearby so it can activate a quote. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Experts_Raise_The_Alarm_Against_New_Android_Chameleon Trojan_With_Wide_Range_Of_Malicious_Functions_/_Digital Information_World⠀⇛ # ⚓ Hindustan Times ☛ 8_games_like_GTA_you_can_experience_on Android_2023_–_Hindustan_Times⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ GM_doubles_down_on_Android_Auto_and_CarPlay removal⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gadgets Now ☛ android:_How_to_make_a_conference_call_on Android_smartphones⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Authority ☛ Android_14_Now_Playing_feature_gives your_music_stats_–_Android_Authority⠀⇛ # ⚓ Nokia Mob ☛ Nokia_X30_is_now_receiving_Android_13_| Nokiamob⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾ # ⚓ Annual_Report_2022:_LibreOffice_in_2022⠀⇛ On February 2, LibreOffice 7.3 was officially released after six months of work. Developers at Collabora, allotropia, CIB, Red Hat, NISZ, The Document Foundation and other companies and organisations – along with volunteers – worked on many new features. For instance, large improvements were made to change tracking, with especially when tables are altered and paragraphs are moved (László Németh, NISZ). Colour Filter support was added to the “Standard Filter” dialog in Calc (Samuel Mehrbrodt, allotropia), while PowerPoint-compatible screen sizes were added to Impress (Jun Nogata). On top of the new features, there were many other general improvements to performance, compatibility and stability. With the help of the Indonesian community, TDF produced a video to explain and demonstrate many of the new features in LibreOffice 7.3. This was linked to in the announcement, and embedded into various web news websites that covered the release. The video is also available on PeerTube. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Linux_Fu:_Reading_Your_Memory’s_Memory⠀⇛ Linux users have a lot of software to be proud of. However, there is the occasional Windows program that does something you’d really like to do and it just won’t run. This is especially true of low- level system programs. If you want to poke around your CPU and memory, for example, there are tons of programs for that under Windows. There are a few for Linux, but they aren’t always as complete or handy. Recently, I had half the memory in my main desktop fail and I wanted to poke around in the system. In particular, I wanted to read the information encoded in the memory chips configuration EEPROM. Should be easy, right? You’d think. # ⚓ Tim Bradshaw ☛ Something_unclear_in_the_Common_Lisp standard⠀⇛ There is what I think is a confusion as to bound declarations in the Common Lisp standard. I may be wrong about this, but I think I’m correct. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Reddit:_If_you_want_to_slurp_our_API_to train_that_LLM,_you_better_pay_for_it,_pal⠀⇛ In a move seemingly designed to stop being used as a free training library for large language models, megaforum Reddit said it’s going to begin charging companies who make excessive use of its data- downloading API. # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Reddit_to_charge_for_access_to_its_API_to counter_free_data_scraping_by_AI_companies⠀⇛ The company said it will now start charging for access to its application programming interface, an API that has been used by AI companies such as Microsoft Corp.’s Bing AI and OpenAI LP’s ChatGPT models, to train their chatbots. Reddit has been one of the most valuable resources in this regard, with its 57 million users chatting about almost every topic under the sun since it was established in 2005. In terms of training large language models, LLMs, Reddit’s data is priceless. # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Use_autoloading_and_namespaces_in_PHP⠀⇛ In the PHP language, autoloading is a way to automatically include class files of a project in your code. Say you had a complex object-oriented PHP project with more than a hundred PHP classes. You’d need to ensure all your classes were loaded before using them. This article aims to help you understand the what, why, and how of autoloading, along with namespaces and the use keyword, in PHP. # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Talk_to_your_cluster_with_this_open_source Python_API_wrapper⠀⇛ Open source projects that create a wrapper around an API are becoming increasingly popular. These projects make it easier for developers to interact with APIs and use them in their applications. The openshift-python-wrapper project is a wrapper around openshift-restclient-python. What began as an internal package to help our team work with the OpenShift API became an open source project (Apache License 2.0). This article discusses what an API wrapper is, why it’s useful, and some examples from the wrapper. # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Trail Of Bits ☛ A_Winter’s_Tale:_Improving_messages and_types_in_GDB’s_Python_API⠀⇛ As a winter associate at Trail of Bits, my goal was to make two improvements to the GNU Project Debugger (GDB): make it run faster and improve its Python API to support and improve tools that rely on it, like Pwndbg. The main goal was to run symbol parsing in parallel and better use all available CPU cores. I ultimately implemented three changes that enhanced GDB’s Python API. # § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾ # ⚓ Drew DeVault ☛ rc:_a_new_shell_for_Unix⠀⇛ rc is a Unix shell I’ve been working on over the past couple of weeks, though it’s been in the design stages for a while longer than that. It’s not done or ready for general use yet, but it is interesting, so let’s talk about it. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Native_Alaskan_Language_Reshapes_Mathematics⠀⇛ The languages we speak influence the way that we see the world, in ways most of us may never recognize. For example, researchers report seeing higher savings rates among people whose native language has limited capacity for a future tense, and one Aboriginal Australian language requires precise knowledge of cardinal directions in order to speak at all. And one Alaskan Inuit language called Iñupiaq is using its inherent visual nature to reshape the way children learn and use mathematics, among other things. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Send_This_FPV_Bot_Into_The_Crawlspace_To_Do_Your_Dirty Work⠀⇛ The least pleasant space in most houses is likely to be the space below it. Basements tend to be dank, dusty, and full of too many things that have too many legs. And even worse than the full basement is the dreaded crawlspace, which adds claustrophobia to the long list of unpleasantries that lie below. Sadly, though, a crawlspace might be a handy place to run wires, and if you’re hesitant to delve too deeply, this FPV cable- laying rig might be something to keep in mind. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Radio_Waves_Bring_The_Heat_With_This_Microwave-Powered Forge⠀⇛ Depending on the chef’s skill, many exciting things can happen in the kitchen. Few, however, grab as much immediate attention as when a piece of foil or a fork accidentally (?) makes it into the microwave oven. That usually makes for a dramatic light show, accompanied by admonishment about being foolish enough to let metal anywhere near the appliance. So what’s the deal with this metal-melting microwave? o ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Dialectician⠀⇛ Cyril Lionel Robert James was a man of paradox. The Trinidadian-born revolutionary was a lanky 6-foot-3—“lean as a pole,” with “long pianist fingers” that one could easily imagine flying across a typewriter keyboard as well. However, as we learn in John Williams’s new biography, CLR James: A Life Beyond the Boundaries, he “never learned to type and relied on women to type up his handwritten articles and manuscripts,” of which there was a veritable tsunami. Likewise, while James cared little for money and possessions—other than books and albums—he was a connoisseur of exquisite wine and tasty meals. A fierce “anti-Stalinist,” he still collaborated fruitfully in 1930s London with the decidedly Russophilic Paul Robeson, widely suspected of being a member of the Communist Party, and he recommended the writings of US Communist historian Herbert Aptheker and hailed the later work of W.E.B. Du Bois, even after he joined the US Communist Party in 1961.1 o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ RoboGaggia_Makes_Espresso_Coffee_On_Its_Own⠀⇛ [Nicholas DiPatri] very much loves his Gaggia Pro. It’s an amazing espresso machine, but it’s also kind of fussy and requires a lot of manual attention to brew a cup. As an engineer, he set about fettling the machine to run with a little less oversight. Enter RoboGaggia. o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Clocking_Out⠀⇛ I first heard the term “kairos time” from the Rev. David Gerth. A minister based in St. Louis, he had seen both his life and his political practice transformed by the Ferguson movement, the rebellion that took over the streets in the wake of Michael Brown’s killing by police officer Darren Wilson. As young Black people faced down the weapons of the National Guard, things seemed to happen within a different time frame. Night after night, Gerth joined the protests, recognizing that “there is something of God present in what’s going on here right now.” His perception of time began to blur: The speed at which events unfolded, and the duration of the days of the uprising, made everything move faster and yet slower than normal. “You’re spending 14-, 16-hour days completely unpredictably,” he told me, “just watching Twitter to see: ‘Are we going, and where are we going?’”1 o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ YLE ☛ Citizens’_initiative_seeks_to_ban_smartphones_in classrooms⠀⇛ In an interview with Yle’s A-Studio TV programme, Professor Markku Jahnukainen, a specialist in inclusive and special education policy at the University of Helsinki pointed to the impact that smartphones in the classroom have on learning. “It is clear that other activities divert attention. Even we adults know that our concentration may suffer over time because of digital and other types of distractions,” he said. Silja Kosola, a physician and adolescent medicine research group leader at the Pediatric Research Centre at the University of Helsinki, added that smartphones are one major factor in psychological and behavioral problems among the young. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Attack_on_Literacy⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Stop_the_Attack_on_Our_Nation’s_Public Schools⠀⇛ Each morning at school, we hear the daily announcements over the intercom, followed by the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance. It’s a familiar scene. The routine concludes with the collective and audible, “with liberty and justice for all,” a civic promise that we strive to fulfill each day in public schools. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Old_Czech_Telephone_Teardown_Is_Beautiful Purposeful_Art⠀⇛ The 20th century saw everything from telephones to computers become mainstream. Many of these devices were beautifully designed in the mid-century period, something that’s hard to say about a lot of today’s cheaper technology. [John Graham-Cumming] has shown us one exquisite example, with his teardown of a simple Czech telephone. # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ The_Car_Thieves_Using_Tech_Disguised Inside_Old_Nokia_Phones_and_Bluetooth_Speakers⠀⇛ The video showing the man using a Nokia 3310 to start a Toyota is just one of many YouTube videos Motherboard found demonstrating the technique. Others show devices used on Maserati, Land Cruiser, and Lexus-branded vehicles. Multiple websites and Telegram channels advertise the tech for between 2,500 Euro and 18,000 Euro ($2,700 and $19,600). One seller is offering the Nokia 3310 device for 3,500 Euro ($3,800); another advertises it for 4000 Euro ($4,300). Often sellers euphemistically refer to the tech as “emergency start” devices nominally intended for locksmiths. Some of the sites offer tools that may be of use to locksmiths, but legitimate businesses likely have no use for a tool that is hidden inside a phone or other casing. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ [Repeat] CoryDoctorow ☛ Podcasting_“How_To_Make_a_Child- Safe_TikTok”⠀⇛ Because – as both Buddy Carter and Shou Chew – can attest, it’s really hard to get parental consent at scale. Like, how do you even know if you’re talking to a kid’s parent or guardian if you’re not allowed to gather information on that kid? And how do you know if you’re talking to a kid or an adult when you gather any information, on any user? Even if facial recognition technology had been widespread in 1986, I think we can all agree that Congress’s intent wasn’t to “protect kids’ privacy” by subjecting every child who used a computer to an invasive biometric scan. How could you comply with COPPA, then? Well, one possibility is to never spy on users. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Will_Ukraine_Be_Turned_Into_a_Radioactive Battlefield?⠀⇛ It’s sure to be a blood-soaked spring in Ukraine. Russia’s winter offensive fell far short of Vladimir Putin’s objectives, leaving little doubt that the West’s conveyor belt of weaponry has aided Ukraine’s defenses. Cease-fire negotiations have never truly begun, while NATO has only strengthened its forces thanks to Finland’s new membership (with Sweden soon likely to follow). Still, tens of thousands of people have perished; whole villages, even cities, have been reduced to rubble; millions of Ukrainians have poured into Poland and elsewhere; while Russia’s brutish invasion rages on with no end in sight. o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ CBC ☛ CBC_pauses_Twitter_activity_after_being_labelled ‘government-funded_media’⠀⇛ CBC/Radio-Canada has paused activities on its corporate and news Twitter accounts, after the social media platform put a “government-funded media” label on its @CBC account, in its latest move to stamp public broadcasters with designations. # ⚓ [Repeat] RIPE ☛ Five_months_after_Crown_Point_Schools suffered_a_cyberattack,_they_still_don’t_know_what_happened or_what_they_will_do [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ In November, Crown Point Community School students returned to classes after a “network outage” incident that the district feared might be a cybersecurity breach. # ⚓ The Times Of Northwest Indiana ☛ Crown_Point_Schools_hack investigation_still_ongoing [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ The investigation was aimed at discovering how the outage happened and if any sensitive information was leaked. Parents of CPCSC students have been advised to monitor their financial statements and credit reports for suspicious or unauthorized activity, and place a fraud alert and security freeze on their credit files. # ⚓ NL Times ☛ Ransomware_[crackers]_threatening_to_leak confidential_Dutch_football_data [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ Lockbit is one of the most active and notorious ransomware groups. According to RTL, they have clear ties to Russia and have attacked hundreds of victims in recent years. It is unclear how much ransom the group demanded from the KNVB, but according to the broadcaster, they are known to demand massive ransoms – millions rather than thousands. # ⚓ Ghacks ☛ Tech_workers_face_unexpected_layoff_rebounds [Ed: Former VP of HR at Microsoft has become PR and he's now story-telling in Microsoft-friendly media to prepare people (mentally) for the next wave of layoffs. "Why Massive Layoffs Are Happening And Till When"]⠀⇛ A former Microsoft employee who experienced a layoff in March expressed frustration, stating that they just received the “shock of their life” and didn’t need recruiters persistently pushing them to return to the company. Another worker, laid off from Amazon in January, also requested anonymity due to concerns about future job prospects. They mentioned receiving multiple offers from recruiters specifically seeking people with Amazon experience. In response, this ex-Amazonian sarcastically told the recruiter to inform Amazon that if they wanted an engineer, they shouldn’t have fired them. # ⚓ Krebs On Security ☛ Giving_a_Face_to_the_Malware_Proxy Service_‘Faceless’⠀⇛ For the past seven years, a malware-based proxy service known as “Faceless” has sold anonymity to countless cybercriminals. For less than a dollar per day, Faceless customers can route their malicious traffic through tens of thousands of compromised systems advertised on the service. In this post we’ll examine clues left behind over the past decade by the proprietor of Faceless, including some that may help put a face to the name. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ TecMint ☛ 10_Best_Linux_File_and_Disk_Encryption_Tools⠀⇛ It wasn’t too long ago that we published a list of the best command line tools for Linux. Today, we turn our focus to encryption methods as we bring you a list of the best file and disk encryption software for your Linux machine. Tomb is a free and open-source tool for easily encrypting and backing up files on GNU/Linux systems. It consists of a simple shell script that implements standard GNU tools alongside cryptsetup and LUKS (the Linux kernel’s cryptographic API). # ⚓ TecMint ☛ 5_Best_Software_and_Apps_for_Linux_with_Data Encryption⠀⇛ Data encryption is a must-have feature in today’s world of cybersecurity. It allows you to encode your data making it unintelligible to someone who doesn’t have authorized access. To be more secure online, it might be a good idea to opt for software that comes with this useful feature by default. # § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾ # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ IT_and_Online_Services_emails_used_as_a ‘phishing_strategy’:_report⠀⇛ “Emails that are disguised as coming from an internal source such as the IT department are especially dangerous because they appear to come from a more trusted, familiar place where an employee would not necessarily question it or be as skeptical. Building up an organisation’s human firewall by fostering a strong security culture is essential to outsmart bad actors.” # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Patrick Breyer ☛ Germany_insists_in_major_revision_of the_EU_Chat_Control_proposal_to_protect_fundamental rights⠀⇛ Germany will not support the EU Commission’s „Chat Control“ proposal of a regulation on Child Sexual Abuse unless major changes are implemented, a leaked position paper reveals: [...] # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ Microsoft_Bing_could replace_Google_as_default_search_engine_on_Samsung Galaxy_devices⠀⇛ With the world’s largest Android phone manufacturer considering switching to Bing on its Galaxy devices, Google is understandably sparing no effort in upgrading its search engine with new AI features. The project will be known as “Magi.” As part of this project, Google is prepping to bring a more personalised experience to its existing service. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Moscow_chief_draft_officer_says_authorities using_facial_recognition_cameras_to_track_down conscripts_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Moscow Chief Enlistment Officer Maxim Loktev said Tuesday that the city’s network of facial recognition cameras are being used to search for conscripts in Russia’s spring mandatory military service drive. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Poland_starts_building_124-mile_‘state-of- the-art’_surveillance_wall_along_Russian_border_— Meduza⠀⇛ The Polish Prime Minister Mariusz Kaminski announced that Poland has begun the construction of a “state-of-the-art” wall along the country’s 199-kilometer (124-mile) land border with Russia. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Here_Come_the_Militarized_Robots_(But There_Go_Our_Civil_Liberties)⠀⇛ Domestic uses of robotic dogs are fundamentally dehumanizing and would further suggest that they contribute strongly to the militarization of culture and strengthening the power of the surveillance state. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘It’s_Stalinist_logic’:_Three_experts_explain_the escalating_nature_of_Russia’s_political_repressions_— Meduza⠀⇛ It’s no secret that the Russian authorities have been charging people with treason, terrorism, and other “political” crimes at an increasing rate since the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine. The lengths of prison sentences have gone up as well: in the fall of 2022, for example, journalist Ivan Safronov was sentenced to 22 years in prison, while more recently, opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza was given a 25-year sentence, and two public employees were sentenced to 19 years each for setting fire to a military enlistment office. Meduza spoke to a lawyer, a historian of political repressions, and a criminal-policy expert about how Russia’s “justice system” is evolving and whether today’s political repressions are comparable to the Stalinist Great Terror. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_troops_launch_overnight_drone_attack_on Ukraine’s_Odesa_region_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Russian troops attacked Ukraine’s Odesa region with Iranian-made Shahed drones overnight on April 18–19, local military administration head Yuriy Kruk said on Telegram. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin_visits_Russian_troops_in_occupied_Kherson and_Luhansk_regions_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The Kremlin’s press service reported Tuesday that Vladimir Putin visited a Russian military headquarters in the occupied part of Ukraine’s Kherson region and another one in the Russian- annexed Luhansk region. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Details_in_Kremlin_video_of_Putin’s_‘Easter’_visit to_occupied_Ukraine_suggest_trip_may_have_taken_place_last week_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Vladimir Putin’s “Easter” visit to Russian military headquarters in Ukraine’s Luhansk and Kherson regions that the Kremlin publicized on Tuesday may have taken place last week, according to the independent outlet Agentstvo. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_State_Duma_approves_amendment_to_allow revocation_of_naturalized_citizenship_for_‘actions_that threaten_national_security’_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The Russian State Duma has adopted an amendment that would make it possible to strip naturalized citizens of their citizenship if they carry out “actions that pose a threat to Russia’s national security,” state media reported on Tuesday. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Volodymyr_Zelensky_visits_Ukrainian_frontline defenders_in_Avdiivka_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Volodymyr Zelensky has traveled to Avdiivka to meet with the Ukrainian troops on the frontline near Donetsk, writes the Ukrainian President’s Office. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Jailed_opposition_politician_Alexey_Navalny reportedly_facing_new_charges_over_incident_staged_by_prison guards_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Alexey Navalny’s lawyer, Vadim Kobzev, said Tuesday that prison authorities plan to open another felony case against the politician in response to an incident in which they tried to provoke him into using violence against a fellow prisoner. # ⚓ The Gray Zone ☛ Bombshell_filing:_9/11_hijackers_were_CIA recruits⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ State_Duma_outlaws_ICC_in_Russia,_passes_new_law prescribing_life_sentence_for_treason_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Russia’s State Duma has passed in the second and third readings a set of Criminal Code amendments that will make high treason punishable by life in prison, TASS reports. Until now, the law capped treason sentences at 20 years. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Three_Russians_Among_Seven_People_Indicted_By_U.S. Grand_Jury_Over_Alleged_Election_Influence_Campaign⠀⇛ Ionov founded and served as president of the Anti- Globalization Movement of Russia (AGMR), an organization headquartered in Moscow and funded by the Russian government. He allegedly used AGMR to carry out Russia’s malign influence campaign under the direction and supervision of Moscow-based FSB officers Sukhodolov and Popov. Ionov allegedly recruited members of political groups within the United States to participate in the influence campaign and “act as agents of Russia in the United States.” # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ US_citizens_charged_with_pushing_pro- Kremlin_disinfo,_election_interference⠀⇛ Four US citizens have been accused of working on behalf of the Russian government to push pro- Kremlin propaganda and unduly influence elections in Florida. According to a grand jury indictment [PDF] the Americans along with three Russian nationals allegedly participated in a multi-year foreign- fueled influence campaign that began around November 2014 and continued through July 2022. # ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Four_Americans_and_two_Russians conspired_to_sway_elections,_influence_politics,_Justice Department_says⠀⇛ The indictment, which adds to an existing July 2022 case, alleges that Moscow-resident Aleksandr Viktorovich Ionov, founder of the Anti- Globalization Movement of Russia, worked with at least two Russian intelligence officials between 2014 and 2022 “engaged in a years-long foreign malign influence campaign targeting the United States.” Part of that operation included recruiting members of the political groups within the U.S., including the African People’s Socialist Party and the Uhuru Movement in Florida, Black Hammer in Georgia, and a political group in California. # ⚓ VOA News ☛ US_Accuses_3_Russians,_4_Americans_in_‘Malign Influence’_Campaign⠀⇛ A federal grand jury in the southern city of Tampa, Florida, alleged that Russian Federal Security Service agents recruited, funded and directed U.S. political groups to act as unregistered Moscow agents to “sow discord and spread pro-Russian propaganda.” The indictment, replacing an earlier one, alleged that the Russian intelligence agents covertly funded and oversaw the political campaigns for a local office in the U.S. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Video_of_Russian_soldiers_complaining_about commanders_followed_by_apology_clip_from_purported participant_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Draftees from Russia’s Lipetsk, Ryazan, and Tula regions have released a new video in which they complain about the treatment they have received from their commanders, according to the independent outlet 7×7. o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ Eesti Rahvusringhääling ☛ Sweden_discussing_proposal_to raise_MS_Estonia’s_bow_ramp⠀⇛ A proposal to raise the bow ramp of the MS Estonia ferry, which sank in 1994 killing over 800 people, has been made by the Swedish-Estonian commission investigating the disaster. The Swedish Estonian Shipwreck Commission believes the ramp should be raised so the investigation can continue, the newspaper Dagens Nyheter reported. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Sweden_to_raise_MS_Estonia’s_car_ramp_from_sea floor⠀⇛ Sweden has set aside around 2.1 million euros for the ramp lifting effort. The Swedish government said in a statement issued on Tuesday that investigators will raise the ramp to the surface as well as photograph and video record inside the shipwreck’s car deck. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ Internet_activity_rockets_in response_to_Just_Stop_Oil_protest_at_the_World_Championship Snooker⠀⇛ One of the protestors, 52-year-old Margaret Reid, said that she did not wish to remain a “passive spectator” whilst the UK government “pushes us down a path to destruction.” She claims the government are providing “handouts of £236 million per week” of taxpayers’ money to “the most profitable industry on earth,” and that for her, watching from the sidelines is not an option, with “disruptive action” the only way to disseminate the message of Just Stop Oil. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ XR_Threatens_Return_to_Civil_Disobedience as_UK_Doubles_Down_on_‘Deadly_Climate_Chaos’⠀⇛ After kicking off 2023 by announcing a departure from “public disruption as a primary tactic” and plans for a mass demonstration in London, Extinction Rebellion U.K. and allied groups threatened a historic wave of civil disobedience if Parliament declines to engage with their demands for climate action by next week. # ⚓ DeSmog ☛ The_Meat_Industry_Is_Advertising_Like_Big_Oil⠀⇛ Later this month, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) will head to the 2023 National Agri-Marketing Association’s conference to see if its public relations campaign about beef’s sustainability can secure the national award for campaigns directed to consumers.  Earlier this year, a campaign NCBA began in 2021 called “Beefing up Sustainability,” and a corresponding campaign targeted to kids, advanced to the final round.  # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Nothing_Encapsulates_the_False_Promise_of Capitalism_Like_Plastic⠀⇛ I met Angeline Razafinzhary at her hosue in 2019 while on assignment in Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar. A design magazine had commissioned me to write about a plastic recycling initiative, and I wanted to speak with one of the hundreds of Malagasy people who trawl municipal waste to find different materials that they can sell to recyclers. In her home, cobbled together from available material, Razafinzhary, her children, and grandchildren ate, cooked, and slept across from a heap of hundreds if not thousands of plastic bottles. # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Fishermen_Endangered_by_Offshore_Wind’s Political_Power⠀⇛ Last May, Tommy Beaudreau touted the potential of renewable energy sources like offshore wind to an audience that included some of his government colleagues and former industry clients. “This industry, this group of people in the room today, really are the key to unlocking that clean energy future,” Beaudreau, the deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior, proclaimed at a conference hosted by the American Clean Power Association, a lobbying group largely funded by offshore wind developers. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Damning_Exposé’_Details_Industry_Push_to Greenwash_Fracked_Gas_as_‘Certified’⠀⇛ The rapidly growing gas certification industry claims to accurately measure methane pollution and verify lower emissions from fracking operations. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ 13_Years_After_BP_Disaster,_Oceana_Urges Biden_to_Block_New_Offshore_Drilling⠀⇛ Thursday will mark the 13th anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, in which a BP drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and hundreds of thousands of animals. The disaster, one of the worst environmental catastrophes in U.S. history, was an object lesson in the dangers of fossil fuels. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Drilling_Operations,_Wildfires_Emitting_Far More_Methane_Than_Previously_Known:_Studies⠀⇛ Amid climate experts’ urgent warnings to keep planet-heating fossil fuels in the ground, two recently published studies show that methane emissions from U.S. oil and gas fields as well as megafires exacerbated by rising temperatures are even worse than scientists thought. # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ The_latest_from_Arte_Weekly:_Germany closes_its_last_nuclear_plants,_while_Europe_eyes_legalising cannabis⠀⇛ # ⚓ Red Pixels Ventures Ltd ☛ Volkswagen_Plans_to_Launch First_EV_in_India_by_2024:_All_Details⠀⇛ The company, which has introduced a slew of new variants of its existing conventional engine models, Taigun and Virtus, is looking at a sales growth of 40-45 percent this year. Volkswagen Passenger Cars India Brand Director Ashish Gupta said the company is following a two-pronged strategy of premiumisation and electrification to strengthen presence and enhance its position in India. o § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ VOA News ☛ In_India,_Calls_Grow_Louder_to_Reunite_Sarus Crane_With_Man_Who_Rescued_It⠀⇛ In March 2022, Gurjar discovered a crimson-throated Sarus crane that lay in a field shivering and bleeding from a broken leg. He brought it home and using traditional medicine, nursed it back to health in six weeks before setting it free. Gurjar thought that the bird would fly away as soon as it recovered. The wild bird, however, had no intention of leaving its new human friend. * § Finance⠀➾ o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Progressives_Applaud_Biden_Executive_Order_to Expand,_Improve_Care_Economy⠀⇛ Labor unions and other progressives on Tuesday said a new slate of executive actions unveiled by U.S. President Joe Biden demonstrated the political power of caregivers and their supporters who have spent years advocating for fair wages, affordable childcare, and an extension of labor protections across the care economy. o ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Before_the_Hungarian_government_exited_the Russian_bank,_a_financial_institution_close_to_the_government helped_out_the_IIB⠀⇛ o ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “Poverty,_by_America”:_Author_Matthew_Desmond_on How_U.S._Punishes_the_Poor_&_Subsidizes_the_Wealthy⠀⇛ A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that poverty is the fourth- greatest cause of death in the United States. Roughly 500 people die from poverty in the U.S. every day. Our guest, sociologist Matthew Desmond, is the author of the new book, Poverty, by America, the follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. “There’s so much poverty in America, not in spite of our wealth, but because of it,” says Desmond in an in-depth interview. o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Largest_US_Corporate_Landlords_Reap_Huge_Profits Amid_Double-Digit_Rent_Hikes⠀⇛ “These companies fueling the housing affordability crisis are among many corporations across industries that have shamelessly profiteered.” o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Letters_From_the_May_1/8,_2023,_Issue⠀⇛ In “The Governing Gap” [March 20/27], Chris Lehmann considers why public opinion hasn’t caught up with Joe Biden’s economic achievements. Any president who would veto Medicare for All, stopped a proposal to give paid sick leave to rail workers, and doesn’t push for a negotiated settlement in Ukraine needs more negative—not positive—PR. We know Biden is better than Donald Trump and the Republicans, but that’s not good enough.Patricia Blochowiak2 o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Group_of_Wealthy_Americans_Warns_US_Democracy ‘Will_Not_Survive’_Unless_Rich_Are_Taxed_Heavily⠀⇛ A group of rich Americans marked Tax Day on Tuesday by calling on the U.S. Congress to aggressively tax wealthy people like themselves, warning that the U.S. will remain in a state of “perpetual chaos” until lawmakers boldly confront the worsening inequality crisis. o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Sanders_Counters_GOP_Giveaways_With_Tax_Hike_on Estates_of_Ultra-Wealthy⠀⇛ Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday unveiled legislation that would hike taxes on estates worth more than $3.5 million as congressional Republicans work to repeal the estate levy entirely—a move that would hand nearly $2 trillion to the wealthiest people in the United States. o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ When_the_Fascists_Arrive_Holding_Hands_With_the Oligarchs⠀⇛ My wife Louise and I just finished watching the Netflix short series Transatlantic, and it prompted us to consider what happens when a rightwing social movement takes over a country, as we’re currently experiencing in the US with more than a third of our states openly embracing fascism. * § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Patrick_Lawrence:_Macron’s_Europe⠀⇛ France’s president has proven himself to be a well-oiled weathervane. What he says on Monday may not match what he says or does on Wednesday. But his remarks while visiting China are interesting in several ways. o ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ EU_Proceeds_with_$47_Billion_European_Chips Act⠀⇛ Nowadays only around 10% of chips produced globally are made in the European Union. Meanwhile, most of the chips for EU’s automotive, IT, and telecom industries are made outside of Europe, which creates challenges for companies like Ericsson, Volkswagen, and Nokia. The European Chips act is designed to increase the share of chips produced in the EU to 20% (by value) by 2030. One of the things that the European Union is particularly concerned about is that all advanced processors, such as those that power world’s fastest supercomputers (including Finland’s Lumi, the most powerful supercomputer in Europe) are made either in the U.S., Taiwan, or South Korea. The European Chips Act is designed to lure chip manufacturers with leading-edge process technologies to the bloc. o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Does_the_Harvard_Kennedy_School_Serve_the_People—or Power?⠀⇛ o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Susan_Collins_Helps_Sink_Hopes_of_Replacing Dianne_Feinstein_on_Judiciary_Committee⠀⇛ Sen. Susan Collins of Maine said Monday that she will not support an effort to temporarily replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein on the Senate Judiciary Committee, effectively sinking Democratic hopes of breaking a tie on the panel that has helped Republicans blockade President Joe Biden’s federal judge nominees. o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Jeff_Merkley_Leads_New_Bill_to_Ban_‘Deeply Corrupt’_Stock_Trading_in_Congress⠀⇛ Two dozen House and Senate lawmakers led by Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley introduced legislation Tuesday that would ban members of Congress, their spouses, and their dependent children from trading individual stocks, reprising an effort that gained momentum last year before fizzling out ahead of the November midterms. o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Why_the_Republi-Fascists_Can’t_Stop_Calling_the Capitalist_Democrats_‘Marxists’⠀⇛ The Capitalist Democrats… The Democratic Party is a militantly capitalist entity and always has been – and not just in the neoliberal era. The much beloved New Deal Democratic president Franklin Roosevelt, himself a wealthy member of the capitalist establishment, boasted that he had saved the US American profits system by overseeing […] o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Spurring_an_Endless_Arms_Race⠀⇛ The Pentagon Girds for Mid-Century Wars. o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Democracy_in_Tennessee⠀⇛ Since decorum was breached the two were kicked out, Though supporters made sure they’ll be back. And perhaps the infraction that gave such offense Was, in fact, legislating while black. o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Techdirt_Podcast_Episode_351:_Save_the_Children_(From State_Social_Media_Laws)⠀⇛ We’ve featured lots of coverage of the frankly insane deluge of “protect the children” type social media laws popping up in several states, and recently Mike was a guest on TechFreedom’s Tech Policy Podcast, hosted by Corbin K. Barthold. You can listen to the whole conversation right here on this week’s episode of the Techdirt Podcast. o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Peru’s_Coup-Plotting_Congress_Has_6%_Approval,_91% Disapproval_(But_Full_US_Backing)⠀⇛ A polling firm found that Peru’s coup-plotting, right- wing-controlled congress has 6% approval and 91% disapproval. Unelected leader Dina Boluarte has 15% approval and 78% disapproval. But they have the full support of the US, Canada, and foreign mining corporations. o ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ European_Union_gives_green_light_to_€43B_Chips Act⠀⇛ The Chips Act is a range of measures that is designed to boost the EU’s share of the global semiconductor value chain from less than 10% now to 20% by the end of the decade. Negotiating teams from the European parliament, the Swedish Council presidency and the EU Commission finally hammered out the exact terms of the deal, which gives approval for increased government subsidies for advanced chipmaking facilities, a bigger budget for chip research and development, and tools to monitor potential supply shortages. o ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ Why_the_Twitter_–_CBC_Labelling_Battle_is_a Distraction_From_the_Real_Problems_with_Government_Media_Policy_and the_Public_Broadcaster⠀⇛ The Twitter-CBC labelling battle offers more heat than light since it does little to address the underlying problems with media independence in Canada and the CBC (much less the tire fire that is Twitter). Instead, it simply provides fodder for CBC critics to point to the Twitter label and argue for “defunding the CBC” (at least the English language part of it) and CBC defenders to proclaim that they will stand up for the public broadcaster against unfair smears. That debate distracts from serious underlying problems with government media policy and the public broadcaster. o ⚓ Variety ☛ Parler_Shut_Down_by_New_Owner:_‘A_Twitter_Clone’_for Conservatives_Is_Not_a_‘Viable_Business’⠀⇛ Instead of continuing to offer Parler as a consumer- facing social service, Starboard said it would leverage Parler’s assets across its existing businesses as well as provide information-technology services to customers in “marginalized or even outright censored communities – even extending beyond domestic politics.” Starboard said the Parler acquisition gives it an opportunity to “begin servicing unsupported online communities – building a home for them away from the ad-hoc regulatory hand of platforms that hate them.” o ⚓ New York Times ☛ What_Was_Twitter,_Anyway?⠀⇛ Musk has done many things to Twitter, both the app and the business, during his six months as chief executive and owner. He has laid off more than half the staff, changed the interface and functionality of the product and aggressively pushed users to sign up for a paid subscription version of the service. He says that usage has gone up, but because he has taken the company private, we only have his word on that. According to most estimates, ad spending has plummeted. Musk himself has reportedly estimated that the company is now worth about $20 billion, a negative 55 percent return. He has, meanwhile, enlisted a small group of journalists — many of whom have taken a political journey similar to Musk’s in recent years — to sift through company emails and Slacks in an effort to reveal overreach on the part of the old regime in its management of the global conversation. They published reams of lightly redacted emails, showing regular correspondence between Twitter’s trust-and-safety team and the F.B.I., and other organs of the state, which apparently spend a considerable amount of time scrutinizing individual Twitter accounts. o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Elon_Musk_Is_Full_Of_Shit,_Again._No,_Federal_Agencies Did_Not_Have_‘Full_Access’_To_DMs⠀⇛ Elon Musk went on Tucker Carlson this week and spewed some utter nonsense, claiming that one thing he discovered upon taking over Twitter was that federal agencies had full access to everything at Twitter, including DMs. o ⚓ Google ☛ Google:_Recommendations_for_Regulating_AI⠀⇛ Google has long championed AI. Our research teams are at the forefront of AI development, and we’ve seen firsthand how AI can enable massive increases in performance and functionality. AI has the potential to deliver great benefits for economies and society — from improving energy efficiency and more accurately detecting disease, to increasing the productivity of businesses of all sizes. Harnessed appropriately, AI can also support fairer, safer and more inclusive and informed decision- making. We are keen to ensure that everyone and every business can benefit from the opportunities that AI creates. AI will have a significant impact on society for many years to come. That’s why we established our AI Principles (including applications we will not pursue)1 to guide Google teams on the responsible development and use of AI. These are backed by the operational processes and structures necessary to ensure they are not just words but concrete standards that actively impact our research, products and business decisions to ensure trustworthy and effective AI application. But while self-regulation is vital, it is not enough. Balanced, fact-based guidance from governments, academia and civil society is also needed to establish boundaries, including in the form of regulation. As our CEO Sundar Pichai has noted, AI is too important not to regulate. The challenge is to do so in a way that is proportionately tailored to mitigate risks and promote reliable, robust and trustworthy AI applications, while still enabling innovation and the promise of AI for societal benefit. Since the publication of Google’s whitepaper on AI governance2 we have provided input to multiple government consultations3 and engaged in many discussions about the opportunities and challenges of regulating AI. This paper aggregates our foundational principles for regulating AI, as well as providing detailed commentary on key topics that have become a focus for attention. See Box 1 for a topline overview. o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Experts_Demand_‘Pause’_on_Spread_of_Artificial Intelligence_Until_Regulations_Imposed⠀⇛ “Until meaningful government safeguards are in place to protect the public from the harms of generative AI, we need a pause.” o § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ Variety ☛ Fox_to_Pay_$787_Million_in_Dominion_Defamation Trial_Settlement⠀⇛ In an unexpected and abrupt end to a legal battle that had fascinated the media industry, Fox Corporation and Dominion Voting Systems agreed to settle a much-discussed $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit mere hours after a jury had been seated to consider the matter in Delaware’s Superior Court. # ⚓ Rolling Stone ☛ Fox’s_Primetime_Hosts_Completely_Ignored the_Dominion_Settlement⠀⇛ The outcome of the lawsuit was not mentioned once between the hours of 7 to 11 p.m. on Tuesday night — a block of time that includes network headliners Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, and Sean Hannity, all figures who were implicated in Dominion’s case against Fox. # ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Biggest_loser:_The_price_Murdoch_paid_to_avoid a_public_spectacle⠀⇛ Murdoch is no stranger to making history. But now he wears the ignominious crown of having to pay Dominion the largest publicly known defamation settlement in US history and having his Fox Corp admit that claims made by Fox News about Dominion were false. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Fox_Agrees_To_Pay_Dominion_Voting_Systems_$787.5 Million_Just_After_Jury_Selection_In_Defamation_Lawsuit⠀⇛ With a ruling that basically said not only did Fox lie about Dominion, it did so despite being well aware of the truth, the Delaware court basically dared the alleged “news” agency to keep fighting Dominion’s defamation lawsuit. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Averting_Trial,_Fox_Settles_With_Dominion for_$787.5_Million⠀⇛ Moments before Fox News was set to face a jury regarding the false claims repeatedly made on air about Dominion Voting Systems and the 2020 election, the right-wing media corporation announced it had reached a settlement with the company. * § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ o ⚓ Meduza ☛ Jailed_U.S._journalist_Evan_Gershkovich’s_lawyers_hoping for_prisoner_swap_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The lawyers representing Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter and U.S. citizen who was arrested by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) in late March and charged with espionage, are hoping he will be released in a prisoner swap, Meduza has learned from a source familiar with the proceedings. o ⚓ Meduza ☛ Public_relations_expert_who_met_with_U.S._reporter_Evan Gershkovich_detained_—_Meduza⠀⇛ In Yekaterinburg, police detained public relations expert Yaroslav Shirshikov. According to a source close to law enforcement, Shirshikov faces charges of justifying terrorism. His detention may be connected to a post he made on Telegram calling the pro-war blogger Vladlen Tatarsky a “scumbag.” o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Texas_Senate_Approves_Law_Preventing_University Instructors_From_Talking_About_Things_These_Senators_Don’t_Like⠀⇛ Texas has always been a bit weird about stuff. It sometimes views itself as a separate nation or, at least, openly expresses its desire to secede from this apparently abhorrent liberal village of hundreds of millions known as the United States. o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ EARN_IT_Act_Is_Back,_And_It’s_Still_Terribly Destructive⠀⇛ Some politicians never learn. Congress has been trying to shove through the EARN IT Act for the past two sessions, and thankfully it’s failed both times. But, now it’s back. Kinda. Far be it for the politicians looking to destroy the internet and encryption that keeps us safe to actually reveal the latest version of EARN IT so that the public can review it. They haven’t done that. Instead, they’ve just announced that the still unreleased bill will be marked up on Thursday (though, as I understand how the Senate Judiciary Committee works, this almost certainly means the actual markup will be next Thursday — don’t ask me why, but they seem to always announce a markup and calendar it a week early, and then “hold it over” to do the actual markup a week later). o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Activist_Who_Gave_Interview_To_Jailed_U.S. Reporter_Gershkovich_Detained⠀⇛ According to the reports, Shirshikov’s detention may be linked to his posts on Telegram criticizing Russia’s ongoing unprovoked war in Ukraine. It was not immediately clear if there is a link between the two cases. o ⚓ NL Times ☛ Pakistani_man_to_be_prosecuted_for_offering_€21,000 bounty_to_kill_Geert_Wilders⠀⇛ The Dutch Public Prosecution Service (OM) will prosecute a Pakistani man for posting a video online in 2018 in which he offered around 21,000 euros for the murder of PVV leader Geert Wilders. The OM is charging the 37-year- old man with an attempt to provoke murder, sedition, and threats. o ⚓ [Old] NL Times ☛ Wilders_calls_off_Mohammed_cartoon_contest_over threat⠀⇛ PVV leader Geert Wilders decided to cancel a planned cartoon competition featuring Islamic religious figure prophet Mohammed, due to threats made against him, he said on Twitter. “There is a price on my head, a high Pakistani clergyman – the NCTV [National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security] recently told me – declared a fatwa against me and someone was arrested who claimed he wanted to kill me and that is just some of the threats”, Wilders said, adding that now “others are also at risk through all the threats.” o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ Chinese_man_charged_with_blasphemy_in_Pakistan⠀⇛ Hundreds of workers then broke into the police station, believing that the man was hiding inside. But an army helicopter took the man to a safer location as police feared that he could be attacked by the mob. “The mob dispersed only after they were shown a copy of the case registered on blasphemy charges,” police official Naseer-ud-Din Khan said. Under Pakistani law, a conviction of blasphemy can be punishable by death. o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Chinese_Worker_in_Pakistan_Is_Arrested_on Blasphemy_Charges⠀⇛ The police report, which was obtained by The New York Times, said the man was on a field visit along with a team of Pakistani workers over the weekend when he was accused of making blasphemous remarks and gestures against God and the Prophet Muhammad after afternoon prayers during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Under Pakistani law, a conviction on those accusations could bring the death penalty. o ⚓ VOA News ☛ Chinese_Engineer_Arrested_in_Pakistan_for_Alleged Blasphemy⠀⇛ The demonstrations continued for several hours and only subsided pre-dawn Monday when the Chinese national was taken into custody, and community leaders were assured he would face legal action, police said, adding that traffic on the busy Karakoram Highway was later also restored. Blasphemy is a sensitive issue in predominantly Muslim Pakistan and is punishable by death. o ⚓ India Times ☛ Chinese_man_held_in_Pakistan_over_blasphemy charges⠀⇛ Word spread fast and protesters came Sunday to the project site, gathering outside the Chinese workers’ camp eager for revenge over the alleged blasphemy. Police arrived before the situation got out of hand, fired shots in the air and whisked away the accused foreigner. Streets protests were seen in the area. People blocked the Karakoram highway linking China with Pakistan. The demonstrations subsided early Monday following the arrest. Blasphemy is a sensitive issue in Pakistan and is punishable by death. Suspects are often attacked and sometimes lynched by mobs. In February 2022, a middle- aged man was stoned to death over the alleged desecration of the Quran in a remote village of Khanewal district. o ⚓ El País ☛ ‘You_can_kill_me,_but_you_won’t_silence_me’⠀⇛ Six months later, coordinated by Forbidden Stories, journalists from CLIP, Cuestión Pública, El Espectador, France 24, RFI and other partners are releasing the “Rafael Project.” Today, this collaborative and international investigation is revealing significant information pertaining to environmental and health damage by mining companies in Córdoba, the region of Colombia Rafael is from, and unmasking, for the first time at- scale, a massive system of cronyism and the probable embezzlement of public funds that Rafael had begun to look into. o ⚓ Salon ☛ Why_Americans_can’t_keep_nice_things⠀⇛ The Republican assault on public libraries, schools, and other such spaces is an attempt to destroy the very idea of “the commons,” meaning spaces, resources, and opportunities for participation, community and relationship-building that should be available to all people regardless of their ability to pay. This is part of a much longer campaign by the neoliberal gangster capitalists and the right-wing and conservative movement to financialize and profit-maximize all areas of private and public life to the detriment of human well-being, happiness, and survival. The right has targeted public libraries and other places of learning because they know that those spaces are critical for a healthy democracy. * § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ o ⚓ NBC ☛ Russian_court_upholds_U.S._reporter’s_detention_on_spying charges⠀⇛ Gershkovich, The Wall Street Journal and the U.S. government all deny he was involved in spying and have demanded his release. Last week, the U.S. government declared that he was “wrongfully detained” — a designation that means his case receives special attention from the State Department. Gershkovich could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted. Russian lawyers said past investigations into espionage cases have taken a year to 18 months, during which time Gershkovich could have little contact with the outside world. o ⚓ ANF News ☛ Court_keeps_Kurdish_journalists_in_prison⠀⇛ The jailed journalists are the director of the women’s news agency JinNews, Safiye Alagaş, the co-chair of DFG (Dicle Fırat Journalists’ Association), Serdar Altan, the editor of the Mezopotamya News Agency (MA), Aziz Oruç, two editors of the Kurdish-language newspaper Xwebûn, Mehmet Ali Ertaş and Zeynel Abidin Bulut, presenter and former MA editor Ömer Çelik, presenters Neşe Toprak and Elif Üngür, cameramen Mazlum Doğan Güler, Ibrahim Koyuncu, Abdurrahman Öncü, Suat Doğuhan, Ramazan Geciken, Lezgin Akdeniz and Mehmet Şahin, and Remziye Temel, accountant of Piya Production. o ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘This_eternity_will_be_over_soon’:_Vladimir_Kara-Murza, sentenced_to_25_years_in_prison,_publishes_letter_to_supporters_— Meduza⠀⇛ Vladimir Kara-Murza, the opposition politician sentenced to 25 years in prison on a slew of charges including high treason, published, on Telegram, a letter to his supporters. o ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia’s_Foreign_Ministry_threatens_to_expel_U.S. diplomats_who_show_support_for_opposition_politician_Vladimir_Kara- Murza_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The Russian Foreign Ministry strongly denounced the American, British, and Canadian ambassadors who condemned the conviction of Vladimir Kara-Murza, an opposition politician facing 25 years in prison. o ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvia_condemns_conviction_of_Kara-Murza,_blacklists_ten Russians_in_response⠀⇛ Latvia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) issued a statement April 17 saying it “strongly condemns” Vladimir Kara-Murza’s sentencing by a Russian court to 25 years in prison on what it called “politically motivated charges”. * § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ o ⚓ EFF ☛ Podcast_Episode:_Safer_Sex_Work_Makes_a_Safer_Internet⠀⇛ Public interest technology lawyer Kendra Albert and sex worker, activist, and researcher Danielle Blunt have been fighting for sex workers’ online rights for years. They say that this marginalized group’s experience can be a valuable model for protecting all of our free speech rights, and that holding online platforms legally responsible for user speech can lead to censorship that hurts us all.  o ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Family_of_Lashawn_Thompson_Demands_Justice_After He_Was_“Eaten_Alive”_by_Insects_in_Atlanta_Jail⠀⇛ In Atlanta, Georgia, the family of a prisoner says he was “eaten alive” by insects and bedbugs in his cell there last year. The family of 35-year-old Lashawn Thompson, who was being held in the jail’s psychiatric wing, is demanding a criminal investigation and that the jail be shut down. In an exclusive interview, we speak to Thompson’s brother Brad McCrae and sister Shenita Thompson, as well as Michael Harper, a lawyer representing the family. o ⚓ EFF ☛ Digital_Rights_Updates_with_EFFector_35.5⠀⇛ o ⚓ Papers Please ☛ 4th_Circuit_agrees_that_TSA_checkpoint_staff_are liable_for_assault⠀⇛ In a decision published today, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has joined the 3rd Circuit and the 8th Circuit in finding that staff of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) who search travelers at airport checkpoints are liable for damages if they commit assault or battery in the course of performing their official “screening” duties. This shouldn’t be a difficult or surprising decision, as a matter of either fairness or law. But despite the TSA’s complete lack of success in any published appellate decision on this question to date, the agency continues to argue — as it did in another case on the same issue pending in the 9th Circuit — that checkpoint staff should have absolute impunity, even if they rape travelers at checkpoints or in back rooms during “secondary” searches. o ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ UK_Police_Arrest_French_Publisher_For_Refusing_To Share_Pass_Codes_For_Phone⠀⇛ o ⚓ Site36 ☛ Authorities_to_tighten_imprisonment_for_deportation after_two_asylum_seekers_escaped_in_Dresden⠀⇛ o ⚓ The Nation ☛ How_Fran_Drescher_Went_From_TV_Nanny_to_Union_Boss⠀⇛ In August 2020, the members of SAG-AFTRA, the union that represents roughly 160,000 actors, broadcast journalists, stunt performers, dancers, and, more recently, influencers, were stunned by a bombshell revelation. Several months into the pandemic-induced work hiatus, union leadership announced that residual earnings—the checks that actors receive whenever the work they’re featured in airs—would no longer count toward qualifying for the union’s health care plan for nearly all members over 65. o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Why_the_Ciudad_Juárez_Fire_Was_a_‘Made-in-USA Inferno’⠀⇛ On March 27, 40 men were killed in a fire at a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, just across the border from El Paso, Texas. The victims hailed from Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Venezuela. o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Heartbreaking_and_Unconscionable’:_Biden_Admin Ignored_Warnings_of_Migrant_Child_Labor⠀⇛ The Biden administration received repeated warnings from both within and outside of the federal government in recent years about a rise in the exploitation of migrant children for child labor, but ignored the evidence it was presented with and in some cases retaliated against whistleblowers, an extensive report by The New York Times showed late Monday. o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Born_Imperial⠀⇛ For anti-colonial thinkers of the last century, decolonization was not a mere transfer of power. It was about reparation, including repair of the self. “Decolonization is the veritable creation of new men,” wrote Frantz Fanon in The Wretched of the Earth. As Jean- Paul Sartre made clear in a preface to the book, decolonization was equally required of former colonizers: “Let’s take a good look at ourselves, if we have the courage, and let’s see what has become of us.” But the “new humanism” envisioned by these thinkers could not flourish, as first the Cold War, and then the so-called War on Terror, hindered the emancipation of decolonizing nations, renewing the commitment to the ideas of Western civilizational superiority that had long upheld Western empire.1 o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iranian_Women,_Girls_Continue_To_Defy_Hijab_Crackdown⠀⇛ Iranian women opposing the hijab also continued to post pictures of themselves without the compulsory scarf on social media, in a challenge of the new police plan to identify culprits by using smart cameras. o ⚓ RTL ☛ UN_says_34_million_Afghans_in_poverty_under_Taliban_rule⠀⇛ Those NGOs still providing vital help were dealt a further blow in December last year by a Taliban government order barring Afghan women from working for them. The curb was extended this month to the UN’s Afghan female employees and the organisation said it faces an “appalling choice” over whether to continue its aid schemes. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) released on Tuesday a stark new assessment of 2022 data estimating 34 million Afghans were living below the poverty line. o ⚓ NBC ☛ Iran_tries_to_reimpose_strict_dress_codes_for_women_and girls_that_many_disregarded_during_the_Mahsa_Amini_protests⠀⇛ The government is trying to reassert control after months of the sometimes-violent nationwide demonstrations posed the biggest challenge to the clerical establishment since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Over the weekend, thousands of text messages were sent reminding business owners and drivers of the renewed crackdown on women not wearing hijabs, the head coverings worn by some Muslim women, according to the Iranian state broadcaster IRIB News. o ⚓ The Nation ☛ “I_Felt_That_I_Had_Saved_My_Own_Life”:_A_Polish Woman’s_Harrowing_Story_of_Illegal_Abortion⠀⇛ On March 14, 2023, the Polish activist Justyna Wydrzyńska was convicted of “intent to aid” an abortion. Wydrzyńska is a prominent abortion rights activist in Poland, and in February 2020, she was contacted by Ania (a pseudonym), a woman who was desperate for help accessing medication abortion. Ania’s situation was tragic and complicated, and Wydrzyńska was moved by her pleas. She had a pack of abortion pills in her home and sent it to Ania via a courier service, but before Ania could take them, her partner discovered the pills and reported it to the police.1 o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Stop_Islamophobia_This_Ramadan⠀⇛ Nearly every evening during Ramadan, mosques, community centers, and homes are filled with Muslims of every age, color, size, and shape. Many are fasting, some are not. When sunset hits, they eat dates, recite prayers, and enjoy the camaraderie of a communal meal. The roughly 3.5 million followers of Islam in the U.S. and two billion around the world will do this every day for a month. * § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ o ⚓ APNIC ☛ Is_the_public_cloud_ready_for_IPv6?⠀⇛ In this blog post, I will compare common use cases for using cloud services and see if they are ready for IPv6. Before we begin, when working with IPv6, we need to clarify what ‘dual-stack‘ means — A device with dual- stack implementation in the operating system has an IPv4 and IPv6 address and can communicate with other nodes in the LAN or the Internet using either IPv4 or IPv6. * § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ o ⚓ Hollywood Reporter ☛ Netflix_Reveals_Timing_of_U.S._Password- Sharing_Crackdown⠀⇛ Netflix will begin rolling out paid sharing in the U.S. and other countries in the second quarter of this year, the streaming giant announced Tuesday. o ⚓ Variety ☛ Netflix_Is_Shutting_Down_Its_DVD_Business⠀⇛ “After an incredible 25 year run, we’ve decided to wind down DVD.com later this year,” Sarandos wrote in a blog post on the company’s site. “Our goal has always been to provide the best service for our members but as the business continues to shrink that’s going to become increasingly difficult. So we want to go out on a high, and will be shipping our final discs on September 29, 2023.” o ⚓ Hollywood Reporter ☛ Netflix_to_Shutter_Legacy_DVD-by-Mail Business⠀⇛ Streaming, it turns out, could grow a lot faster than the DVD business, which relied on old-fashioned infrastructure like warehouses, DVD inventory and mail service to function. And it proved to be game-changing for the way entertainment was consumed, even if some hardcore fans continued to use the DVD service for those hard-to-stream titles. o ⚓ The Telegraph UK ☛ Netflix_to_close_mail-order_DVD_service_as online_subscribers_recover⠀⇛ The streaming giant said it would wind down DVD.com, a film rental service that posted movies to customers in red envelopes, in September. The system was launched by founder Reed Hastings in California in 1998, posting a total of 5.2 billion DVDs and clocking in a total of 40m subscribers over its lifetime. o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Canada_Eyes_Right_To_Repair_Protections_In_Latest Budget⠀⇛ The Canadian government is hopping aboard the right to repair bandwagon. * § Monopolies⠀➾ o ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ How_tech_does_regulatory_capture⠀⇛ If you want to know which industries have the most influence in DC, study the trade deals struck by the US Trade Representative, whose activities are the most obvious manifestation of American corporate power over state. Take the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF). As David Dayen notes, this treaty is a kind of Big Tech wishlist: [...] o ⚓ Times Higher Education ☛ Mass_resignations_from_Elsevier_journal over_‘unethical’_price_hike⠀⇛ The editorial board of a leading Elsevier neuroscience journal have resigned after the publisher hiked its open- access fees to $3,450 (£2,776). In an open letter published on 17 April, more than 40 editors of NeuroImage and its companion journal NeuroImage: Reports announced that they had quit over the “high publication fee” charged by the open-access title and would be starting a new non-profit journal, Imaging Neuroscience. o § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Has_Larry_Lessig_Lost_The_Plot?_Tells_Supreme Court_That_AI_Should_Get_Patents⠀⇛ Larry Lessig’s views and thoughts on things like copyright law, internet freedom, and government corruption have been tremendously influential on myself and many others in the tech and tech policy worlds. His books are still worth reading and thinking about. But he’s taken some odd turns of late. A few years ago I called him out for filing a very clear SLAPP suit which he was kind enough to come on our podcast to debate (he eventually dropped the lawsuit after the NY Times changed the headline he disliked). o § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Times Higher Education ☛ ChatGPT_‘experimentation’_puts universities_in_‘dangerous_position’⠀⇛ Of greater concern, he argued, was that “the legal and policy framework hasn’t really caught up with the technology yet. We are in quite a dangerous position at the moment, where technologies are being adopted without the implications being thought through. What we will see in the next six to 12 months is a rowing back on some aspects of that.” This warning was echoed by Melissa Highton, director of learning, teaching and web services and assistant principal for online services at the University of Edinburgh, who said that “at Edinburgh we welcome our robot colleagues, and for many years we have had robots doing considerable work for us – helping with things like [converting] audio and video to text, for example. “But I think one of the interesting questions is whether those robots belong to you when they are working on a set of data that you own, or whether you are putting your data into someone else’s service.” # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ 1Fichier_Held_Liable_After_Failing_to Remove_Pirated_Nintendo_Games⠀⇛ Nintendo is claiming victory in its legal battle with Dstorage SAS, the company behind 1fichier.com. The videogame giant took legal action after the file-hosting site failed to remove pirated copies of games. After a French court handed Nintendo a victory in 2021, the court of appeal has now confirmed that Dstorage incurred liability when it failed to remove infringing content, so must pay Nintendo €442,750 in damages. # ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ Killian_Downing_—_Open_Culture_VOICES, Season_2_Episode_11⠀⇛ Open Culture VOICES is a series of short videos that highlight the benefits and barriers of open culture as well as inspiration and advice on the subject of opening up cultural heritage. Killian is an Archivist at Dublin City University in Ireland where he works to innovate the universities’ digital cultural heritage practices. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Nexon_Sues_‘Dark_and_Darker’_Developer_for Copyright_Infringement⠀⇛ Korean game publisher Nexon has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Ironmace in a U.S. federal court. The Dark and Darker developer comprises former Nexon employees who allegedly copied the look and feel of a similar Nexon project they worked on previously. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Lord_of_the_Rings_Holds_Up⠀⇛ It’s been a busy past week for me with winter classes wrapping up but it turns out that a watch- through of the Lord of the Rings trilogy was the best way to get through it. I’ll admit this was my first real watch of the trilogy. I’d seen the first movie a couple times but then just bits and pieces of the next two. This time I decided to watch the extended editions but only watch half of each one in a single sitting, which now I’m convinced is the proper way to watch them. Each half is still plenty long and you get twice the time to soak everything in! # ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_ADGNTSR_Wordo:_HOKUM⠀⇛ o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Be_Evil,_Google_&_JPEG-XL⠀⇛ Ah yes, another day, another asshole move by Big Tech. These days it seems that almost every single day Big Tech makes a bad decision that influence our lives one way or another. This time it’s our “friends” at Google, the creators of Surveillance Capitalism. Let me just say this: If you were to host an Anal (read “annual”) Conference for Assholes, Google would be a gold member. # ⚓ obscene_amt_of_zines⠀⇛ A friend, a dear friend (who will be nameless, but frequents these parts) sent a package to me the other day. She sent a manilla envelope full of zines, one-pagers, uniquely-folded issues, numbered issues, some handwritten (and copied). So cool. I wish our friendship had continued, stayed good, and the last exchange we had via e-mail was friendly, but she seemed put off by me, seemingly thinking I was ambivalent, which is not true of our friendship (as ambivalence never plays a role with my online or offline relationships – I cherish friendships like the sun). So, I hope she can reach out again, I’d feel a pariah by me “cold e-mailing” her after a week of no communication. # ⚓ safari_doesn’t_get_enough_credit⠀⇛ The browser, as described by The Browser Company (the creators of Arc), is the window to the internet: The Internet Computer. I think this is an absolutely great description of what the browser is and should be. Most of what we do on our computers, depending on your daily workflow, is through the browser. I use my browser for everything except my messages and the terminal, and because of this, I am most harsh about the UX/UI of the browser. Chrome looks great, as well as every variant of it. Arc is insanely useful, and truly does provide a great experience for doing *everything* through the browser. Edge is… Edge. None of those compare to Safari in my opinion. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. 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