𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Wednesday, July 26, 2023 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Thu 27 Jul 02:43:36 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/2023/07/26/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmT4urppYGV6wtQk91Ds3deT7SsQ3AKuYf3VN37VvNk2qR QmasujSV14SYodqVBnYkSHEBvN8gzayhyNTqdBswmMDFNz QmQdvh82AWtR2RnGK2Cj3u8vJcrTMU5tjCwiAWSaAeauPB QmT3zoVAjnNMysG3AwrDjJB6E9mZMfdBiE526FeMLjsPCr QmPraPUCdTb8axjdqzL5vWQtyPGoMq9yFiK4Ts9Y1VUCRd 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Mass Layoffs at Microsoft Coinciding With Bad Results (and Microsoft’s Shares Falling) | Techrights ⦿ Microsoft Collapse on the Client Side (Windows in a Freefall) | Techrights ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): http://techrights.org/2023/07/26/even-microsoft-shies-away/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/07/26/irc-log-250723/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/07/26/more-mass-layoffs-or-more-in-an-ongoing-series-of-msft-layoffs/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/07/26/windows-in-a-freefall-2023/#comments ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): http://techrights.org/2023/07/26/biogen-lays-off-1000/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/07/26/circuitpython-8-2-1-released/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/07/26/gemplace/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/07/26/returning-to-newsgroups/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/07/26/twitter-suicide-2023/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/07/26/wordpress-6-3-almost-here/#comments ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 61 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/07/26/even-microsoft-shies-away/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/07/26/even-microsoft-shies-away/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 07.26.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Even_Microsofters_Admit_Microsoft’s_Results_Disappoint_(But_It’s_Far_Worse Than_They_Admit)⠀✐ Posted in Finance, Microsoft at 3:41 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Nedia_mole_Jordan_Novet:_Microsoft's_media_mole_for_nearly_a decade_already⦈_ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Motley_fool_on_Microsoft:_Microsoft/MSN_site⦈_ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Marketwatch_on_MSFT⦈_ Summary: Even Microsoft’s media assets and controlled media cannot quite put enough lipstick on the pig; both the client_side_(Windows) and server_side are struggling a lot; 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nearly 200 jobs according to The Mercury News,” the media says (hours ago, same time as the bad_results). It goes on to note that those 200 aren’t the complete number; there are many_more_all_around the_world. 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═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/07/26/windows-in-a-freefall-2023/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/07/26/windows-in-a-freefall-2023/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 07.26.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Microsoft_Collapse_on_the_Client_Side_(Windows_in_a_Freefall)⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Finance, Microsoft, Windows at 5:53 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Earlier this month: GNU/Linux_at_7%_in_Turkey,_Windows_All-Time_Low_in_India 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Windows_crisis:_Microsoft_reports_20%_decrease_in_revenue for_Surface_and_Windows_products:_Microsoft_boosters,_not_Microsoft_critics⦈_ Taking inflation into account (devaluation of the currency this past year), the erosion is far higher than 20%. But these are Microsoft fans admitting_the crisis. Summary: Looking at pertinent or finer numbers, Microsoft’s results (from last night) aren’t good at all, layoffs_have_a_“don’t-speak”_policy_now, and even investors are walking away (not easily fooled by Microsoft brainwash) MICROSOFT’S 'results' as claimed last night were not good, but Microsoft moles inside and outside the media “planted” many misleading stories, as_expected. That’s just their job. How many of the numbers are forged? Like double-dipping and cooking the books, e.g. counting money twice? How about buybacks or Microsoft ‘selling’ to those whom it is also funding (“investing” in)? Many of these tactics were covered here_before. Now is a fine time to revisit what we wrote. “Sometimes it seems like accountants are just marketing people with math skills.”Two months ago we said that Microsoft_was_faking_its_size_by_"buying" companies. As someone put_it_some_hours_ago (probably a Microsoft insider): “That’s why they want to acquire Blizzard. Then can they can say, “look we have growth and met guidance.”” Remember that “higher-than-expected” is mostly a Wall Street scam. Some analysts have said it bluntly for decades: Set the “expectations” intentionally low, then pretend it’s all great news later, with “higher-than-expected” something. Sometimes it seems like accountants are just marketing people with math skills. Microsoft always gets its CFOs to sign an NDA when they leave; keep schtum and get extra money. █ “Microsoft, the world’s most valuable company, declared a profit of $4.5 billion in 1998; when the cost of options awarded that year, plus the change in the value of outstanding options, is deducted, the firm made a loss of $18 billion, according to Smithers.” –The_Economist,_1999 “If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.” –Bill Gates, Microsoft ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠻⠛⢻⡿⠛⠿⠟⠿⠿⠿⣟⡻⢿⠻⠿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠛⠹⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⡿⡿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣷⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣾⣷⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣄⣀⢠⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣼⣿⣧⣤⣧⣤⣴⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣧⣤⣤⣤⣤⣧⣤⣧⣤⣽⣴⣤⣴⣼⣤⣤⣧⣥⣦⣤⣤⣼⣤⣽⣬⣼⣤⣧⣤⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⡇⠈⢸⠈⠭⢩⠩⠉⠉⠩⠁⢨⢸⡏⡍⠉⠩⠙⠩⠋⣭⠈⠉⡷⠂⠡⠌⡄⠑⣿⠁⠋⠙⠩⠏⡍⠉⠉⠉⠙⠉⣿⠈⡍⣿⢩⠉⠉⢋⠉⠉⡍⠹⠙⠉⣿⢠⠩⠉⣽⡇⠚⠉⠉⡍⠨⠉⠋⠍⠉⡏⠉⠉⠙⠁⢸⣿ ⣿⡿⠿⡿⢿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣇⣠⣰⣸⣀⣄⣂⣐⣠⣁⣐⣀⡇⣂⣇⣆⣂⣐⣸⣀⣀⣲⣐⣀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⢟⡻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠻⠿⢿⡿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡷⣶⣶⣶⣶⢶⢶⠶⠾⢿⣿⡿⡿⢿⠿⣿⢿⡿⢿⢿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣶⣶⣿⣾⣶⣶⣿⣶⣷⣷⣾⣶⣾⣶⣶⣷⣾⣾⣿⣾⣾⣿⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣏⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⡟⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⡛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣷⣶⣶⣶⣾⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣈⣩⣩⣩⣫⣭⣉⣙⣝⣁⣭⣩⣏⣩⣩⣉⣹⣉⣽ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠤⠤⠦⣤⣤⡦⠬⡧⡤⣤⠴⠤⢧⢤⠤⢤⠼⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣽⣽⣭⣭⣧⣯⣬⣭⣷⣭⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢾⣷⣶⡾⣶⡾⣶⣶⣶⣶⢾⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣶⣶⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣾⣷⣾⣷⣷⣶⣷⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣄⣶⣀⣰⣸⣀⣄⣄⣸⣀⣄⣄⣀⣼⣆⣄⣇⣜⣄⣄⣄⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣛⣛⣛⣋⣹⣛⣛⣻⣙⣛⣉⣟⣩⣙⣋⣏⣋⣛⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣉⣩⣹⣯⣩⣭⣭⣅⣭⣉⣍⣹⣉⣉⣭⣹⣉⣭⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣈⣫⣫⣉⣉⣡⣸⣈⣉⣹⣏⣉⣉⣙⣩⣹⣈⣹⣰⣱⣂⣀⣐⣸⣂⣅⣏⣋⣉⣉⣏⣉⣏⣉⣉⣫⣏⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣼⣤⣥⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣬⣤⣦⣤⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 508 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 07.26.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_26/07/2023:_Biogen_Lays_Off_1,000,_MSFT_Shares_Collapse_After_Report⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 2:04 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Desktop/Laptop o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Games * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o SUSE/OpenSUSE o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Devices/Embedded o Open_Hardware/Modding * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software * Leftovers o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Linux_Foundation o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Civil_Rights/Policing o Monopolies # Patents * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Linux_lover_consumed_a_quarter_of_the_network_• The_Register⠀⇛ Ah, gentle reader, we find ourselves once again at that juncture of the week we call Who, Me? in which your fellow Regizens’ tales of technical not-quite-competence brighten an otherwise dull Monday. This week our story comes from “Charlie” who, some quarter of a century ago, was working on his PhD at “a large tertiary education institution on the south coast.” The south coast of what? He doesn’t say. Charlie is an enigma. Charlie shared an office space with four other students, each of whom had their own desk with their own computer. Charlie’s PC was running Windows NT4, but his dearest wish was to run Debian Linux like all the cool rebellious kids. The problem was that the Debian installation required “something like a dozen CD-ROMs.” These could be had by downloading from a federation of servers called Sunsite, which had an outpost nearby. Unfortunately, the internet connection in Charlie’s office was slow and unreliable at the best of times, even when it wasn’t being shared four ways. o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ Unicorn Media ☛ The_Paradox_of_Being_(or_Not_Being)_a_Linux Operating_System⠀⇛ It’s a debate that’s been going on since Android came onto the scene: Does simple use of the Linux kernel qualify an operating system to be a bona fide Linux operating system? Several weeks back I came across some stats on operating system usage that showed Linux use at 3.08%, which is actually a pretty large number for Linux historically, so I wrote an article about it on July 13. After it was published, I did my usual shtick and posted a link to it on my favorite social platform, which is Mastodon. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Gwyn_Ciesla:_Inkscape_1.3⠀⇛ Inkscape 1.3 is on it’s way to rawhide and Fedora 38. Particularly of note is that because of a test failure on i686, I’m taking this opportunity to end builds for that architecture. Assuming the change is approved, LibreOffice will be doing the same as of Fedora 39. # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 44_Outstanding_Linux_Utilities_to_Maximize your_Productivity⠀⇛ You’ve migrated over from Windows or Mac OS X to the wonderful world of Linux. You’ve selected a Linux distro (after a bit of fruitful distro hopping), chosen a desktop environment, and studied the basic Linux commands. Or you’ve been using Linux for decades, know the operating system like the back of your hand. Whatever your level of experience, you want some really useful free utilities. Software that enriches your workflow, offers new opportunities, and allows you to tap into new innovations. This article picks the finest open source software to maximize the goodness of Linux. We frequently mention that customization is important. It empowers users and can serve as a way to get people to feel confident doing more complicated things on their computers. It’s a lot easier to think you can learn to code if you’ve already fixed a bunch of little annoyances on your computer. The series examines both graphical and text based open source utilities. There’s a wide range of software we’ve recommended. There’s genuinely useful utilities, productivity software, and much more. All to download for nothing, and with full access to the source code. They offer great opportunities to enrich your computing experience. # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 17_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Linux Bioinformatics_Tools⠀⇛ Bioinformatics is very important in the field of human genome research. It has become crucial for large-scale measurement technologies such as DNA sequencing, microarrays, and metabolomics. The field of bioinformatics has been aided significantly by Linux-based hardware and software. There are a number of Linux distributions which offer an integrated bioinformatics workstation. The popular distribution Bio-Linux packages hundreds of bioinformatics programs spanning a number of different fields. There’s a wide selection of Linux bioinformatics tools released under an open source license. This article identifies our favorite tools which are extremely useful for anyone interested in sequence analysis, molecular modelling, molecular dynamics, phylogenetic analysis and more. We hope this feature offers a useful resource for biologists. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ Franz:_free_open-source_chat_and_messaging_apps_ (Free_software)⠀⇛ Franz is your messaging app for WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Slack, Telegram and many many more. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ RSSOwl:_Cross-platform_minimal_yet_feature_rich feeds/_news_reader_(Free_app)⠀⇛ RSSOwl is a powerful open-source application to organize, search, and read feeds. It extremely has powerful search features and offers synchronization with Google reader and more. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ Raven:_News/Rss/Feed_Reader_(Free_software)⠀⇛ Raven is a open source desktop news reader with flexible settings to optimize your experience. No login is required, and no personal data is collected. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ Feed_Compass:_Find_and_subscribe_to_RSS_feeds._ (Free_program)⠀⇛ Feed Compass is an open-source application that enables you to find and subscribe to RSS Feeds in your favorite RSS Reader and is built with Swift. It also has numerous default feeds, it supports drag-and-drop feeds to native RSS readers. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ 10_Open-source_and_Free_Manufacturing_ERP_and Manufacturing_Management_Solutions⠀⇛ Manufacturing software refers to technology solutions that help manufacturers manage various aspects of their operations, from supply chain management to inventory control to production scheduling. These solutions are designed to optimize the manufacturing process and workflow management, improve quality performance, and ultimately, increase profitability. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ slap:_Sublime-like_terminal-based_text_editor_ (Free_program)⠀⇛ slap is a Sublime-like terminal-based text editor that strives to make editing from the terminal easier. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Gentoo ☛ Creating_custom_lxd_gentoo_containers_from_stage- 3_tarballs⠀⇛ Much of this based from the incredible guide by user (and my mentor) Juippis and his work over at The_ultimate_testing_system_with_lxd. In fact most of what comes next comes directly from Juippis himself. # ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Bash_Basics_Series_#7:_If_Else_Statement⠀⇛ If this, then that else something else. Doesn’t make sense? It will after you learn about the if- else statements in bash shell scripting. # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Disable_Auto-Suspend_in_Linux⠀⇛ In many cases, auto-suspend is a convenient feature. It prevents screen burn and preserves power when you aren’t actively using your computer. If you work publicly, it can even protect your computer from snooping opportunists who may try to steal sensitive data while you’re away. That’s not to say that auto-suspend is completely useful, however. It can frequently serve as a nuisance and interrupt your workflow, such as when you’re attempting to read a long webpage or actively run an application in the background. In these situations, disabling auto-suspend will allow you to make the best of your Linux system. # ⚓ How_to_Install_Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux_on_Windows_11_– OnMSFT.com [Ed: It's very revealing that, as Windows share collapses, Microsoft propaganda sites are asking people not to leave Windows and instead install WSL, a Trojan horse Microsoft paid Canonical to promote]⠀⇛ o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Bitsummit_2023:_Steam_Decks_Everywhere,_No VR,_and_Impressive_Indie_Games⠀⇛ So I joined the Bitsummit 2023 in Kyoto, Japan, on Friday the 14th of July, about a week ago now. # ⚓ Steam_Deck_gets_a_new_challenger_with_Nintendo_Switch_Linux mod⠀⇛ The Steam Deck has something of a stranglehold on the handheld scene, with its more affordable price putting competing options to shame. However, a new challenger approaches, after modders have worked their magic in transforming the Nintendo Switch into a portable PC of sorts. YouTubers Geekerwan have modded a Nintendo Switch to run Linux, opening the device up to the possibility of playing PC games. On top of this, they also managed to overclock the console in order to improve performance. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Translate_.desktop_files_in_packages-templates⠀⇛ I have posted in the past couple of days about ‘packages- templates’ folder in woofQ: Folder packages-templates has about 180 .desktop files, and most of those are English-only. I wrote a couple of scripts that will translate all of these .desktop files: [...] o ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Argon2_illegal_instruction⠀⇛ I posted yesterday about KeePassXC crashing with “illegal instruction” when had v4 encrypted database. From a bit of reading of KeePassXC documentation, it seems that the v3.1 database does not use argon2, v4 does, which is a big clue. The keepassxc binary is linked with libargon2.so.1, so it looks like the argon2 library is the culprit. I booted up on my Compaq Presario, with Intel Core2 CPU, and yes, the ‘argon2′ binary crashes: [...] o ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Fix_user_choice_of_default_apps_lost⠀⇛ Forum member Caramel reported this. The menu has “Setup - > Default Applications Chooser” (or in the “System” tab in EasySetup); however, after a version update or change of SFS layers, these user-specified choices are lost. o ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Move_icons_into_tray_or_desktop⠀⇛ The operation to move all of the icons from the desktop into the tray, and back, is hidden away in EasyJWM. I have now made it much more obvious. There is now /usr/sbin/moveicons and /usr/share/ applications/moveicons.desktop, so it will appear in the menu. It is now also listed in the “Desktop” tab of EasySetup: [...] o ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Reduce_entries_in_EasySetup_when_running_in container⠀⇛ If you click the “kirkstone” icon, the complete EasyOS desktop will run in a container. Inappropriate entries are removed from the menu; however, the same was not done with EasySetup. Click on “setup” icon on the desktop and EasySetup runs. This now will have reduced entries when run in a container. In fact, the entire “EasyOS” tab is empty: [...] o ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Menu_entries_for_not-yet-installed_apps⠀⇛ The EasyOS Kirkstone-series is built from packages compiled in a fork of OpenEmbedded/Yocto. There are some great packages in that repository, installable via PKGget. The problem is that they are “off the radar” for users. For example, there is Scribus desktop publishing and OBS Studio video recording and live streaming. Users just don’t realise they are there, and instead look for them as AppImage or Flatpak. The native apps are far superior. o ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ packages-templates_copied_from_woofQ⠀⇛ I have wanted to do this for years, finally it has happened. A bit of background explanation is required… woofQ has scripts ’0setup’, ’1download’, ’2createpackages’ and ’3buildeasydistro’, that are executed in sequence. ’2createpackages’ expands each package, be it .deb, .rpm, .pet, .tar.xz, or whatever, to a folder and processes it ready for ’3buildeasydistro’ to copy them all into sandbox3/rootfs-complete and hence create the ‘easy.sfs’ file. o ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ EasyJWM_Menu_Manager_restored⠀⇛ When I cut down Roger’s (radky in the forum) JWMDesk to have functionality only for JWM, I also took out the module to manager entries in the menu — hide or unhide them. There was a report in the forum that it is missing, so I have put it back in: [...] o ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Workaround_when_setuid_is_ignored⠀⇛ I posted about ‘sudo-sh’, a replacement for sudo: Then about electron-based apps ignoring the setuid bit onexecutables: https://bkhome.org/news/202306/electron-ignores-suid-on- binaries.html I have implemented a workaround. /usr/bin/sudo-sh.c now has this code at the beginning: [...] o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ Migrating_Workloads_From_CentOS_To OpenSUSE_Leap_–_Introduction⠀⇛ We have talk already about how easy it is to adapt to OpenSUSE Leap when coming from CentOS. In this blog post, we will provide some guidance on how to plan and prepare for an actual migration and what considerations we should take into account. o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_A_new_way_to_find_a package_reviewer⠀⇛ Package_reviews are an important part of how Fedora delivers well-built RPMs. When one contributor wants to add a new package, another packager has to check it first. It’s how we all hold each other to the high standard we’ve set for ourselves. Of course, that means to add a new package to the repos, you first have to find someone to do the review. Last week, I added a new way to do that: the Package_Review_Swaps_category on Fedora Discussion. Huge thanks to Felix_Kaechele for the idea and initial process design. # ⚓ CentOS ☛ CPE_Quarterly_Update_Q2_2023⠀⇛ This is a summary of the work done on initiatives by the CPE Team. Each quarter CPE Team together with CentOS and Fedora community representatives choose initiatives that will be being worked on in this quarter. # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Weakness_risk-patterns:_A_Red_Hat_way_to identify_poor_software_practices_in_the_secure_development lifecycle⠀⇛ Red Hat strives to get better at what we do, faster at how we do it, while maintaining high quality results. In modern software development, that means focusing on security as early as possible into our software development process, and continuously driving improvements by listening and acting upon early feedback in the Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL). One important tool toward that goal is the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE), a community- developed taxonomy of flaws. # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Red_Hat’s_CWE_journey⠀⇛ As the IT security landscape continues to evolve, so do the practices that IT organizations use to mitigate threats and maintain a more secure operating environment. Staying ahead of attackers and minimizing the cost of defense requires constant and appropriate reflection and analysis to improve processes and strategies. In this series, we explain what a CWE is, share our background on CWE collection, and explain how Red Hat has evolved our usage of CWEs over the past few years. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Liliputing ☛ Lilbits:_AR_Glasses,_Ubuntu_Touch,_Sony_WF- 1000XM5_earbuds,_and_Android_4.4_KitKat_is_about_to_get_less useful⠀⇛ It’s been nearly a decade since Google released Android 4.4 KitKat, which brought memory improvements, initial support for identifying the source of phone calls from unknown numbers, the introduction of the “OK Google” voice keyword, an immersive mode for apps and games, and other features… some of which have survived through the years in one form or another. But it’s a 10-year-old operating system that no longer receives security updates. Fewer and fewer modern apps support KitKat. And now Google has announced that the Google Play Services framework will no longer support Android 4.4. Starting in August, new versions of the framework will only run on Android 5 or later. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Banana_Pi_Introduces_Mini_Router_Board_with 2x_2.5GbE_ports⠀⇛ Banana Pi launched today, a mini router board built on the MediaTek MT7986 wireless networking System- on-Chip optimized for routers. The Banana Pi BPI-R3 Mini Router Board also supports wireless connectivity and starts at ~$78.95. The product announcement indicates that this new router board integrates the MediaTek Filogic 830 SoC with a 12nm process. # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Banana_Pi_BPI-R3_Mini_–_A_low-profile_2.5GbE router_board_powered_by_MediaTek_Filogic_830_SoC⠀⇛ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ ARBOR_ELIT-1060_compact,_fanless_Celeron N6210_terminal_supports_up_to_three_4K_displays⠀⇛ ARBOR’s ELIT-1060 triple display terminal is a rugged fanless mini PC powered by an Intel Celeron N6210 dual-core Elkhart Lake processor with two HDMI 2.0 ports and one DisplayPort connector each supporting up to 4Kp60 resolution. The system comes with a 4GB DDR4 SO-DIMM, 32GB eMMC flash, two 2.5GbE Ethernet ports, an M.2 socket for wireless expansion, several USB 3.0/2.0 ports, and one RS232/422/485 serial port. While the company markets it for “high-intensity digital signage applications”, I could also see it being used in various other applications thanks to its networking capabilities and expansion ports. # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Intel_AVX10.2_ISA_to_enable_AVX-512 capabilities_on_E-cores⠀⇛ Intel AVX10 SIMD instructions will succeed AVX-512 instructions with AVX10.2 adding support for Intel E-cores to bring multimedia and AI acceleration to low-power cores, while the earlier AVX10.1 will add version-base enumeration and make 512-bit instructions optional, but still only work on Intel (Xeon) P-cores. The new Intel Advanced Vector Extensions 10 (AVX10) architecture was unveiled in an update to the Advanced Performance Extensions (Intel APX) bringing AVR-512-like support to new hybrid processors with P-cores and E-cores, as well as potentially their entry-level versions with E- cores only. # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ STMicro_STHS34PF80_IR_sensor_for_motion_and presence_detection_aims_to_replace_PIR_sensors⠀⇛ STMicro STHS34PF80 is a new IR sensor designed for IoT and Smart Home devices requiring motion and/or presence detection that offers an alternative to traditional passive infrared (PIR) sensors and is mostly useful for building automation. The latest IR sensor from STMicro contains thermal transistors (MOSFETs) that can not only detect motion but also stationary objects, something that’s not feasible with conventional PIR detectors that require motion for object detection. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Using_An_Old_Satellite_To_See_The_Earth_In_A_New Light⠀⇛ Snooping in on satellites is getting to be quite popular, enough so that the number of people advancing the state of the art — not to mention the wealth of satellites transmitting signals in the clear — has almost made the hobby too easy. An SDR, a homebrew antenna, and some off-the-shelf software, and you too can see weather satellite images on your screen in real time. * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ GSM Arena ☛ HarmonyOS_4.0_will_be_officially_announced_on_August 4,_beta_testing_already_underway_–_GSMArena.com_news⠀⇛ Huawei is preparing to officially announce HarmonyOS 4.0 in August, the company just confirmed in a Weibo post. An image of some ArkTS code, written to return “What to expect in August” and a big digit “4” points to next month, when the annual HDC (Huawei Developers Conference) will take place. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Clock_Runs_Computer_In_Slow-Motion⠀⇛ At the heart of all computers is a clock, a dedicated timepiece ensuring that all of the parts of the computer are synchronized and can work together to execute the instructions that the computer receives. Clock speeds for most modern off-the-shelf computers and smartphones operate around a billion cycles per second, and even clocks that tick at a human-dizzying speed of a million times per second have been around since at least the 1970s. But there’s no reason a computer can’t run at a much slower speed, as [Greg] demonstrates in this video where he slows down a 6502 processor to a single clock cycle per second. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Biogen_slashing_1,000_jobs_ahead_of_Alzheimer’s_drug launch⠀⇛ After laying off nearly 900 employees last year, Biogen is trimming its headcount once again. In a news release on July 25, the biotech company announced plans to cut around 1,000 jobs, or 11 per cent of its workforce, as part of its new “Fit for Growth” program. The reduction comes as Biogen prepares to launch its recently approved Alzheimer’s drug, Leqembi, in the U.S. “Biogen’s business is in transition. Accordingly, we have taken a bottom-up view to shift our resources to the areas of greatest value creation,” President and CEO Christopher Viehbacher said in the release. o § Linux Foundation⠀➾ # ⚓ TechRadar ☛ Linux_is_consorting_with_tech_behemoths_to improve_ethernet_standards [Ed: Conflating Linux and LF, this has NOTHING to do with Linux; GAFAM-led initiatives are now Linux, LF is misusing the trademark]⠀⇛ Just yesterday, I was a suit-wearing Musk-eteer, deep in thoughts of “wow, what a world we live in. With artificial intelligence (AI) definitely sluiced into the public consciousness with good intentions, and the continued persistence of cloud computing trading on the thrown scrap of convenience and cost-effectiveness against the dark ‘service-as-a-service’ whims of any company comically evil enough to enter into a consortium.” o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Tuesday⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Debian (python-git and renderdoc), Red Hat (edk2, kernel, kernel-rt, and kpatch-patch), Slackware (kernel), SUSE (firefox, libcap, openssh, openssl-1_1, python39, and zabbix), and Ubuntu (cinder, ironic, nova, python-glance-store, python-os-brick, frr, graphite-web, and openssh). # ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ Google_Reportedly_Disconnecting_Employees from_the_Internet⠀⇛ Supposedly Google is starting a pilot_program of disabling Internet connectivity from employee computers: The company will disable internet access on the select desktops, with the exception of internal web-based tools and Google-owned websites like Google Drive and Gmail. Some workers who need the internet to do their job will get exceptions, the company stated in materials. Google has not confirmed this story. More news articles. # ⚓ Hacker News ☛ New_OpenSSH_Vulnerability_Exposes_Linux Systems_to_Remote_Command_Injection [Ed: OpenSSH is cross- platform (Windows also), why "Linux" in this headline?]⠀⇛ Details have emerged about a now-patched flaw in OpenSSH that could be potentially exploited to run arbitrary commands remotely on compromised hosts under specific conditions. “This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to potentially execute arbitrary commands on vulnerable OpenSSH’s forwarded ssh-agent,” Saeed Abbasi, manager of vulnerability research at Qualys, said in an analysis last week. # ⚓ Deccan Herald ☛ Beware_of_Akira_ransomware,_CERT-In_warns Windows,_Linux_PC_users [Ed: How does this get ONTO Linux though?]⠀⇛ Due to the Covid-19 outbreak, economies around the world were affected a lot and due to lockdown, almost brought everything from working and studies to a halt, but only for a brief time. People were able to overcome the difficulty fast as they make good use of personal computers and smartphones to get things done. However, not many are aware of the dangers of straying out of safe zones of the Internet and easily trusting unknown people on the web. And, end up infecting their systems. In the latest instance, the state-run Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has warned a new ransomware Akira is on the prowl and is a threat to Windows and Linux- based PCs. # ⚓ ALM ☛ In_SEC_Battle,_Covington_Ordered_to_Disclose_Names_of 7_Clients⠀⇛ U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta of the District of Columbia has ruled that Covington & Burling must disclose to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission the names of seven clients whose information may have been exposed in a 2020 cyberattack that impacted the firm. “Covington shall produce to the Commission the names of the seven clients as to whom it has not been able to rule out that a threat actor accessed material nonpublic information,” Mehta wrote in his opinion Monday. # ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Norway_says_Ivanti_zero-day_was_used_to hack_govt_IT_systems⠀⇛ The Norwegian National Security Authority (NSM) has confirmed that attackers used a zero-day vulnerability in Ivanti’s Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) solution to breach a software platform used by 12 ministries in the country. The Norwegian Security and Service Organization (DSS) said on Monday that the cyberattack did not affect Norway’s Prime Minister’s Office, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Justice, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. # ⚓ Half_of_breached_organisations_unwilling_to_up_security spend⠀⇛ IBM Security’s newly-released annual Cost of a Data Breach Report says that the global average cost of a data breach reached $4,45-million in 2023 – an all-time high for the report and a 15% increase over the last three years. Detection and escalation costs jumped 42% over this same time frame, representing the highest portion of breach costs and indicating a shift towards more complex breach investigations. # ⚓ IBM_Report:_Half_of_Breached_Organizations_Unwilling_to Increase_Security_Spend_Despite_Soaring_Breach_Costs⠀⇛ According to the 2023 IBM report, businesses are divided in how they plan to handle the increasing cost and frequency of data breaches. The study found that while 95% of studied organizations have experienced more than one breach, breached organizations were more likely to pass incident costs onto consumers (57%) than to increase security investments (51%). # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ New_York_Using_AI_to_Detect_Subway Fare_Evasion⠀⇛ The details are scant—the article is based on a “heavily redacted” contract—but the New York subway authority is using an “AI system” to detect people who don’t pay the subway fare. Joana Flores, an MTA spokesperson, said the AI system doesn’t flag fare evaders to New York police, but she declined to comment on whether that policy could change. A police spokesperson declined to comment. If we spent just one-tenth of the effort we spend prosecuting the poor on prosecuting the rich, it would be a very different world. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ The Wall Street Journal ☛ Snap_Revenue_Falls_Amid_Efforts to_Retool_Ad_Business⠀⇛ Snap, owner of Snapchat and the first major social platform to report quarterly results, on Tuesday said second-quarter sales slid 4% from a year earlier to $1.1 billion, narrowly beating expectations from analysts surveyed by FactSet. That followed a 7% decline in first-quarter revenue that was the first in Snap’s history as a listed company. # ⚓ The Verge ☛ Windows_and_devices_take_a_hit_in_Microsoft’s Q4_earnings,_but_Xbox_is_mostly_up [Ed: Windows is down, according to a Microsoft asset in the media. Microsoft "results" are, as expected, fake. Just buzzwords like "HEY HI" and clown, no actual substance. Reuters says "HEY HI boosts clown business". What does that even mean? That chatbots now run the servers?? Of course the MSM 'reporting' is done by Microsoft moles/assets like Jordan Novet. It's like Microsoft reporting "the news" about itself.]⠀⇛ # ⚓ BNN ☛ Microsoft_posts_tepid_sales_growth_as_cloud_business slows⠀⇛ # ⚓ Microsoft’s_Revenue_Growth_Likely_Slowed_Last_Quarter_Amid Sluggish_Corporate_Demand⠀⇛ Microsoft’s Revenue Growth Likely Slowed Last Quarter Amid Sluggish Corporate Demand Microsoft’s revenue growth is expected to have slowed down in the last quarter due to weak corporate demand. Analysts are closely watching the software company’s results for signs of how the growing interest in artificial intelligence (AI) is impacting its business. According to analysts surveyed FactSet, Microsoft’s sales are predicted to have risen approximately 7% in the three months leading up to June, compared to a growth rate of 12% in the same period last year. For the fiscal year ending in June, analysts anticipate that Microsoft’s revenue growth will be less than 7%, which is a significant decline compared to the 18% growth in the previous fiscal year, marking the slowest rate in seven years. While Microsoft has been relatively sheltered from the tech downturn due to its revenue primarily coming from companies rather than advertising and consumer spending, it has still been affected the end of pandemic trends. The company recently announced layoffs of over 1,000 employees, separate from previous companywide layoffs. # ⚓ Quartz ☛ Adani_is_selling_his_shadow_banking_business_to_an American_private_equity_firm⠀⇛ Bain Capital has agreed to acquire 90% of Adani Capital and Adani Housing, it announced in a press release Sunday (July 23). The transaction will buy out 100% of the Adani family’s private investments in the company. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Voice_would_be_a_two-way_relationship, says_Burney⠀⇛ Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney says the proposed Indigenous voice would be a two-way relationship that’s key to solving long-running issues. As campaigning ahead of the referendum ramps up, Ms Burney said the dynamic between government and the proposed body would be based on trust. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Albanese_alleges_lack_of_contrition over_Robodebt⠀⇛ The fallout from Robodebt continues, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese accusing predecessor Scott Morrison of lacking contrition over the affair. Federal police and the national anti-corruption watchdog are considering civil and criminal evidence against unnamed individuals in relation to the tarnished debt collection scheme run by the Morrison government. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Reason ☛ UN_Human_Rights_Council_Calls_for_Punishing Blasphemy_(In_This_Instance,_Quran_Burning)⠀⇛ Jacob Mchangama (of Justitia, and now a Research Professor at Vanderbilt) has a detailed item about it; an excerpt: In 1950, Eleanor Roosevelt, serving as the first Chairperson of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, was involved in a bitter dispute about the limits of free speech. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ 10_Years_After_Historic_Hunger_Strike,_Will_CA Finally_End_Solitary_Confinement?⠀⇛ Prisoners refused food, demanding changes to solitary confinement. Now they are pushing to end the practice altogether. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ JUVE ☛ UPC_sees_first_settlement_after_Ocado_and AutoStore_end_global_dispute⠀⇛ [Ed: UPC is illegal. JUVE takes loads of bribes to promote or "legitimise" this illegal system.] On 22 July, AutoStore and Ocado announced a complete settlement of all claims between the companies in their global patent dispute, avoiding further litigation and associated costs. # ⚓ New_EPO_Unitary_Patent_Dashboard_Shows_5,000+ Requests_Since_Launch [Ed: UPC is illegal, but Watchtroll helps the criminals who took over the EPO 'legitimise' it, as usual.]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ SoundStreak_Texas_adaptive streaming_patent_found_invalid_in_reexam⠀⇛ On July 14, 2023, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a final rejection of all claims of U.S._Patent_10,726,822, owned and asserted by SoundStreak Texas LLC, an NPE and entity of Quest_Patent_Research_Corporation. # ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ $2,000_awarded_for_Douglas_G. Richardson_animation_patent_prior_art⠀⇛ Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Vibhor_Dimri, was awarded $2,000 for his prior art submission on U.S._Patent_8,035,644, owned by Douglas G. Richardson. The patent was formerly owned by Cine Graphic Solutions, an NPE and a subsidiary of Strategic Intellectual Solutions, LLC. # ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ Mobile_Data_Tech_content_sharing patent_reexam_granted⠀⇛ On July 21, 2023, just five weeks after Unified filed_an_ex_parte_reexamination, the USPTO granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S._Patent 8,793,336, owned and asserted by Mobile Data Technologies LLC, an NPE. # ⚓ Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ It’s_not_over_until_the Confidential_Annex_sings⠀⇛ Introduction On 17 July 2023, the English Court of Appeal handed down its decision in a dispute between J.C. Bamford (JCB) and Manitou about the confidentiality of information disclosed in the course of litigation between JCB and Manitou relating to the validity and infringement of certain of JCB’s patents. # ⚓ Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ APIXABAN_case_in_France: priority_to_the_patentee⠀⇛ My British colleague has already commented brilliantly on the UK ruling in this case from the point of view of plausibility (see here). For my part, I’d like to comment the French ruling in the same case, which takes the opposite view to the UK decision. # ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Enablement,_Written Description,_and_Anticipation:_Takeaways_from_United Therapeutics_v._Liquidia⠀⇛ United Therapeutics Corp. v. Liquidia Technologies, Inc., 2022-2217, 2023-1021 (Fed. Cir. July 24, 2023) United Therapeutics sued Liquidia for infringing two patents  covering the treatment of pulmonary hypertension using the drug treprostinil (US10716793) and a purified form of the drug itself (US9593066).  The patentee won on the treatment patent but lost on composition patent, with the district court holding that the broader composition claims were anticipated while the narrower claims were not infringed.  Both sides appealed, and the Federal Circuit affirmed on all grounds. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1685 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 07.26.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_26/07/2023:_More_Microsoft_Downtimes,_CircuitPython_8.2.1_Released⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 1:04 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Instructionals/Technical o Games o Desktop_Environments/WMs # GNOME_Desktop/GTK * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o Debian_Family o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers # Mozilla o Education o FSF o Programming/Development # Python * Leftovers o Science o Education o Hardware o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI) o Security # Integrity/Availability/Authenticity # 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 Digital_Restrictions_(DRM) o Monopolies # Trademarks # Copyrights * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ APNIC ☛ A_formal_analysis_of_Karn’s_Algorithm⠀⇛ At the NDS2 Lab at Northeastern University, we study Internet protocols using a variety of techniques for this very purpose. For example, in a prior blog post, I wrote about how we synthesized attacks against protocols given only their prose specifications. Today, I’ll zoom in on two critical components that are used in many Internet protocols — Karn’s Algorithm and the RTO calculation — and explain our recent efforts to formally verify them. # ⚓ Jim Nielsen ☛ The_Nuance_of_“Domain”⠀⇛ That was my mental model of URLs until I indexed my blog’s links and realized there’s more to “domain” than initially meets the eye. # ⚓ SANS ☛ JQ:_Another_Tool_We_Thought_We_Knew⠀⇛ So often you’ll see folks (me included) use “jq” to take an unformatted JSON mess and turn it into a readable output. For instance, last thursday we used the Shodan API to dump about 650k of host info like this: [...] # ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ Manage_Galaxy_Buds_on_Linux_with_this_Open Source_App⠀⇛ Samsung provide official apps for managing Galaxy Buds on Android, iOS, and Windows. Linux users have to fill the silence with unofficial apps, such as the opens-source Galaxy Buds Client this spotlight post is about. # ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ Where_the_speed_limits_on_our Amanda_backups_appear_to_be_in_2023⠀⇛ The first change was the move to our Linux fileservers, with 10G networking and SSD storage. With SSDs, we had both greatly increased read bandwidth and greatly increased IOs per second (which matters for scanning filesystems and figuring out what to back up for incremental backups). This unambiguously moved the limit on our backup speeds to the write speed of our Amanda ‘holding disks’, which were a striped set of HDDs. With some hand-waving the striped filesystem could do around 200 Mbytes/sec (starting out higher and then dropping over time), which was under what the fileservers could now deliver. # ⚓ Daniel Xu ☛ bpfilter_is_forever⠀⇛ This week it was brought to my attention that bpfilter might be delaying our kernel boot sequence. The initial thought was that bpfilter’s usermode upcalls were stalling for some reason and caused boot time stalls. While it is true that module initialization for built-in modules (ie. CONFIG_FOO=y) is serialized and that in theory it is possible for the boot to be stalled if a module was slow, it turned out not to be the case for bpfilter, as we had CONFIG_BPFILTER_UMH=m which actually causes bpfilter.ko to be built and loaded separately. So end of story, at least for the important side of the investigation. # ⚓ Ubuntubuzz ☛ How_To_Enable_DNS_Over_TLS_on_Debian_12 Bookworm⠀⇛ This tutorial will help you setup DoT (short for DNS over TLS) security into your Debian 12 Bookworm. With this, we hope you will have a very secure internet access so nobody can forcefully block or redirect your browsing activities in the middle especially for your dns line. This article complements our both Debian 12 Install Guide and After Install Recommendation. We choose here a secure public dns service that serves DoT –Quad9 from Swiss– to replace our internet service provider’s one which does not support it. We hope this will be helpful for you. # ⚓ Linux Buzz ☛ How_to_Find_Public_IP_Address_in_Linux_From Command_Line⠀⇛ In the vast world of Linux, having a reliable way to identify your public IP address is crucial for various networking tasks. Whether you’re troubleshooting connectivity issues, configuring a server, or setting up remote access, knowing your public IP address can be a lifesaver. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ The_Warhammer_themed_boomer-shooter, Boltgun,_is_finally_Steam_Deck_Verified⠀⇛ The latest game to ride the boomer shooter craze, Warhammer 40K: Boltgun, has finally attained Steam Deck Verification as of today according to it’s own Steam Page. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Mr._Run_and_Jump_from_Atari_and_Graphite Lab_is_out_now⠀⇛ Originally created for the Atari 2600 back in 2021 (yes, really), Mr. Run and Jump has been recreated properly for modern systems from Atari and Graphite Lab. Seems it caught Atari’s eye if they wanted to team up to remake it in full. Like a lot of recent games published by Atari, it also has Native Linux support. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Check_out_the_upgraded_demo_for_Cyber Knights:_Flashpoint⠀⇛ Cyber Knights: Flashpoint is an upcoming squad tactics heist RPG, from Trese Brothers who created Star Traders: Frontiers and Templar Battleforce. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Get_Dungeon_of_the_ENDLESS_and_SEGA_Bass Fishing_free_right_now⠀⇛ Need more free games? You can currently get free Steam keys for both SEGA Bass Fishing and Dungeon of the ENDLESS! # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Devs_of_Superior:_Vengeance_detail_their Steam_Deck_support⠀⇛ Superior: Vengeance is an Early Access hyper- stylized superhero third-person co-op shooter, and the good news for Steam Deck players is the developer is ensuring it works great. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Heroic_Games_Launcher_2.9_out_now_with Amazon_Games_support⠀⇛ Making it easier than ever to grab all your games, the Heroic Games Launcher version 2.9.0 is out now and this brings with it Amazon Games support. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ GUADEC_2023_Conference_Kicks_Off_in_Riga for_the_GNOME_45_Desktop_Environment⠀⇛ GUADEC 2023 is a hybrid conference where attendees can join in person if they are in Riga, Latvia, as well as online from the comfort of their PCs. This is the first since the COVID-19 pandemic that the GUADEC conference will take place in Europe. GUADEC has opened its doors until July 31st to both GNOME users and developers from all over the world, where they can share knowledge and discuss the new features and changes of the next major GNOME desktop release, GNOME 45 “Riga”, due out on September 20th, 2023. # ⚓ GNOME ☛ GNOME_Shell_styling_changes:_A_PSA_for_theme authors⠀⇛ As gnome-shell’s CSS grew more complex, designers needed something more expressive, so they started compiling the stylesheet from SASS. The sources were moved to a subproject, so they could be shared between the regular stylesheet and the GNOME Classic stylesheet. Fast-forward to the present day, gnome-shell now includes a light variant to support the global color-scheme option. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ Drew DeVault ☛ Alpine_Linux_does_not_make_the_news⠀⇛ So, Alpine does not make the news. There are no commercial entities which are trying to monetize it, at least no more than the loosely organized coalition of commercial entities like SourceHut that depend on Alpine and do their part to keep it in good working order, alongside various users who have no commercial purpose for the system. The community is largely in unanimous agreement about the fundamental purpose of Alpine and the work of the community is focused on maintaining the project such that this purpose is upheld. o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Debian_Officially_Adds_RISC-V_Support⠀⇛ While Debian did have some support for RISC- V before this as a Debian port, which was not officially part of Debian. However, the official support will begin with the release of Debian 13, which is currently in the testing phase and hasn’t seen a stable release yet. To that end, the current state of this official version is extremely limited, being described as “almost empty” but with planned support for an initial 90 packages in the coming days. Most users working on a RISC- V platform will most likely to continue to use their Debian ports version. # ⚓ Debian ☛ riscv64_is_now_an_official_architecture⠀⇛ Some of you have been following on IRC, some of you have noticed the ACCEPTED mails from dak on the mailing list, some of you may have noticed the recent closure of bug #1033658. For all the others, I am happy to share the good news: riscv64 is now an official Debian architecture # ⚓ EndeavourOS ☛ RISC-V_is_now_an_official_Debian architecture⠀⇛ That’s great on Debian’s part – huge leap forward for freedom! o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Canonical_Announces_Real-Time_Ubuntu_Optimized for_Intel_Core_CPUs⠀⇛ Earlier this year in February, Canonical announced the general availability of the real-time Ubuntu kernel for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) users with an Ubuntu Pro subscription. This real-time kernel provides enterprises with end-to-end security and reliability for their time-bound workloads. Now, Canonical has optimized its Ubuntu RT kernel for Intel silicon, enabling enterprises to harness the power of Linux for a wide range of use cases, including Telco workloads, automation systems for the factory floor, and life-saving medical equipment. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ SparkFun Electronics ☛ SparkFun’s_20_Years_with_Kristen⠀⇛ SparkFun is 20 years old this year! We’re lucky enough to have a bunch of employees that have been around for over 10 of those years, and we wanted to share their reflections on their time here with you. Today you’ll be hearing from Kristen Moorefield. # ⚓ J Pieper ☛ STM32G4_ADC_performance_part_2⠀⇛ Before attempting to confirm or refute the remaining hypotheses, I wanted to be able to better quantify the problem. In that vein, I made some tools and scripts which would attempt to render what noise was present as a function of reported ADC counts. The idea was to sweep each phase of the motor through a range of fixed voltages, and capture a time domain signal at a variety of steady state points. Then, we would plot the magnitude of the noise, and what the the frequency components looked like throughout the range. # ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Hacking_IKEA⠀⇛ The Vindriktning air quality sensor is sort of fascinating. Opening it up is pretty easy; all you’ll need is a PH0 screwdriver. Once open, you’ll see a Cubic PM1006 particulate sensor connected via flying leads to a PCB which hosts an Eastsoft ES7P001FGSA microcontroller, which talks to the PM1006 sensor and drives the LED on the front of the Vindriktning based on the readings. # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Raspberry_Pi_Pico_Animates_LED_Retro_Art ‘Neon’_Frames⠀⇛ The artwork features slides of laser cut acrylic, each of which is illuminated by LEDs. As a sheet is illuminated, the image which has been etched on the acrylic is illuminated. By using multiple slides, and multiple light sources an animation effect akin to Neon signage is produced. The Pico is responsible for alternating between these sheets and controlling what colors appear from the LEDs. Sprixels has managed to daisy chain seven signs together using just one Pico as a controller. # ⚓ Arduino ☛ Building_a_dedicated_3D_printer_hot_end controller_with_the_Arduino_UNO_R4_WiFi⠀⇛ 3D printers need to set their hot ends to a very specific temperatures suited to the filament material and keep them at those temperatures throughout the printing process. Most use PID (proportional-integral-derivative) control for that purpose, which modulates power according to an algorithm that prioritizes stability and prevents feedback oscillations. But what if you want to control a hot end that isn’t connected to a 3D printer? In that case, Michael Klements has a guide on how to build a dedicated hot end controller. # ⚓ Purism ☛ Purism’s_Guide_to_Security-_Internet_&_Tech Decentralization⠀⇛ During the proliferation of the internet in the 1990s, the internet was decentralized enabling free trade and commerce on an equal basis where content creators were free to publish anything at will. Although the internet today is still theoretically decentralized, we cannot discount the fact that the internet, artificial intelligence (AI), and connected technology have been centralized by a handful of multinational corporations that include Google, Apple, and Microsoft. Google, Apple, and Microsoft control access to internet trade and commerce by way of their operating systems that support intrusive apps while controlling app distribution. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Digital Trends ☛ The_Galaxy_Watch_6_is_official._Is_it_the new_Android_watch_to_beat?_|_Digital_Trends⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Verge ☛ Google_will_prioritize_Play_Store_apps_with good_Pixel_Fold_and_Android_tablet_screen_support_–_The Verge⠀⇛ # ⚓ Liliputing ☛ Lenovo_launches_Tab_P12_and_Tab_M10_5G_Android tablets_for_€399_and_up_–_Liliputing⠀⇛ # ⚓ Warning_for_Android_users_as_47_older_devices_have_just_one week_left_until_rise_in_risk_of_hacking_|_Daily_Mail_Online⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Authority ☛ Wallpaper_Wednesday:_Android_wallpapers 2023-07-26_–_Android_Authority⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ How_to_use_Reading_mode_on_Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ SamMobile ☛ Galaxy_S23_Android_14_One_UI_6.0_beta_could launch_on_August_2!_–_SamMobile⠀⇛ # ⚓ Discord_‘AMOLED_mode’_broken_or_not_working_on_Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ Good E Reader ☛ First_Look_at_the_TCL_NXTPAPER_11_Android Tablet_–_Good_e-Reader⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ How_to_Use_Android_Nearby_Share_to_Move_Files From_Phone_to_PC⠀⇛ # ⚓ Paul Thurrott ☛ Android_Studio_Giraffe_is_Now_Available_– Thurrott.com⠀⇛ # ⚓ GSM Arena ☛ Google_drops_Play_Services_support_for_Android KitKat_4.4_–_GSMArena.com_news⠀⇛ # ⚓ Ars Technica ☛ Android_4.4_KitKat_is_truly_dead,_loses_Play Services_support_|_Ars_Technica⠀⇛ # ⚓ Nokia Power User ☛ Nokia_XR21_5G_receiving_Android_13 update_now_(Markets)_–_Nokiapoweruser⠀⇛ # ⚓ CNET ☛ Samsung_Galaxy_Tab_S9:_AMOLED_Android_in_Three Sizes,_Coming_Aug._11_–_Video_–_CNET⠀⇛ # ⚓ SlashGear ☛ How_To_Update_Android_Auto_(And_Why_You Should)⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deccan Herald ☛ Google_to_end_support_for_phones_with Android_KitKat_next_week_|_Deccan_Herald⠀⇛ # ⚓ Hindustan Times ☛ 60,000_phones_infected_by_Android Stalkerware_app_–_is_yours_compromised?_Know_how_to_remove_| Tech_News⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 7_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Linux_Library Management_Systems⠀⇛ Open source software is a popular choice for libraries. The ability to customise the software for a library’s particular needs, the potential for interoperation with other software, and the lack of license restrictions makes open source software attractive. Modern libraries need robust, scalable and flexible software to make their collections and services attractive, especially as digital libraries are radically transforming how information is disseminated. This article focuses on selecting the best open source Linux software which enables a library to catalogue, track circulation and inventory their assets using an integrated system. o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Mozilla ☛ Fakespot_shares_the_back-to-school_products you_should_be_extra_careful_buying_this_season⠀⇛ Nowadays, the first day of school lands somewhere between August and September, so it’s no surprise we’re seeing back-to-school sales early. As you start your back-to-school shopping, one thing you’ll want to be on the lookout for are fake reviews and unreliable third-party sellers persuading you to buy poor-quality products. To save you time and money, meet Fakespot, a free browser extension and website that provides an easy way to identify fake and unreliable reviews. Fakespot recently joined Mozilla, a company with a 25-year history of building products and services that puts people’s needs first when they go online. Today, Fakespot announced its product categories with the most reliable and unreliable reviews, just in time for the back-to-school shopping season. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Rlang ☛ 7_New_books_added_to_Big_Book_of_R⠀⇛ We’re closing on on 400 books in the collection! A new Economics chapter has been added and some of the books previously in Finance have been moved here. This post rounds up 7 of the newest additions. Thanks to Lluís Revilla, Mario De Toma and Gary for their submissions: [...] o § FSF⠀➾ # ⚓ FSF ☛ Working_together_for_free_software:_Our_interview with_Protesilaos_Stavrou⠀⇛ My motivations for working on GNU Emacs are practical and ideological. In terms of practicality, GNU Emacs provides the missing layer of interactivity on top of Unix- y tools. We have a uniform, text-centric interface to the computer, which we can configure and/or extend in a consistent way with the GNU Emacs Lisp programming language. My GNU Emacs setup gives me the best integrated computing environment I have ever had, because I can draw linkages between individual interfaces while reusing code/patterns already established for the rest of GNU Emacs. For instance, a function to indent the selected text in Vim does not automatically become available for text controlled by Tmux. Whereas in GNU Emacs editing and viewing text inside windows are part of a continuum. The consistency of the gestalt form provided by GNU Emacs is not available to the user when they piece together a system out of disparate Unix-y tools. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Rlang ☛ Use_of_R_in_Non-Profit_Social_Policy_Research_in New_York⠀⇛ Dorota Rizik of the R Ladies New York recently talked to the R Consortium about the diverse R community in New York. She also discussed how her current job at a non-profit organization involves training her colleagues to use R. She shared details of some of the packages they have developed for internal use. # ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ The_‘eval’_pattern_for_interpreting simple_languages⠀⇛ A simple and basically universal approach for getting an answer from such a tree is what I call the ‘Eval’ pattern. In this pattern, you give each node in the tree an ‘Eval()’ method (often it takes some sort of context object as its argument), and then to get the answer you call Eval() on the top level node. Terminal nodes return their value in their Eval() (these may be strings and numbers or more complex things); higher level nodes call Eval () on their children (as necessary) and know how to combine the answers into their own answer, adding and subtracting and anding and oring and so on as required. # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Adafruit ☛ CircuitPython_8.2.1_Released! @circuitpython⠀⇛ WARNING for nRF52 boards only: If your board has an nRF52 UF2 bootloader whose version is before 0.6.1, you will not be able to load CircuitPython 8.2.0 and later. The 8.2.0 firmware is larger than what the bootloader can handle. See these instructions for updating your bootloader. [...] * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ RTE ☛ The_Seven_Ages_of_Noël_Browne_to_explore_the_life_of_major political_figure_with_previously_unseen_footage⠀⇛ Directed by acclaimed Irish filmmaker, Alan Gilsenan, The Seven Ages of Noël Browne draws on previously unseen and newly discovered footage from four interviews recorded in 1997. In 1997, shortly before his death, Dr Noël Browne gave a passionate and wide-ranging interview to producer and screen writer James Black. o ⚓ Gregory Hammond ☛ 14_years_of_this_website⠀⇛ The other day I looked and realized I created this site 14 years ago today (July 25th 2009). Inspired by Eli Bendersky, I’m taking a walk through memory lane (in other words, looking back at the website and going to today). o ⚓ Futurism ☛ Cops_Called_as_Twitter_Tries_to_Change_Sign_to_“X”⠀⇛ Cops were called yesterday to the San Francisco headquarters of the social media company formerly known as Twitter — and now seemingly called X — because crews were trying to remove the Twitter sign but apparently didn’t have required permits. All told, it’s an episode that’s both amusing and painfully symbolic of the much-derided rollout of the new company name, not to mention the general tenure of CEO Elon Musk’s mercurial and at times shambolic management style. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Omicron Limited ☛ An_800-year-old_mathematical_trick_could help_with_lunar_navigation⠀⇛ Working with Professor Gábor Timár, head of the Department of Geophysics and Space Sciences, Cziráki calculated the parameters used in the Earth’s GPS system for the moon using the method of mathematician Fibonacci, who lived 800 years ago. Their findings have been published in the journal Acta Geodaetica et Geophysica. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ 37signals LLC ☛ Pick_promise_over_proof⠀⇛ The trick is to think of all your projects as a series of games. Whether you win or tie a few early ones matters far less than building your capacity to crush them consistently later. Giving everyone on your team the chance to be their absolute best as quickly as possible is how build that crushing capacity. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Soviet-Era_Pong_Console_Is_Easy_To_Repair⠀⇛ Many early home video game consoles were developed by American and Japanese companies: think Nintendo, Commodore, and Atari. But on the other side of the Iron Curtain, which was still very much in place in the 1980s, an entirely separate industry was built on names like Tesla and Elektronika. As a resident of the republic of Georgia, [Thomas] over at Workshop Nation has built up a sizeable collection of such Soviet-era hardware. A while back, he stumbled upon an Elektronika Video Sport 3, a 1990- vintage Pong-like video game console made in the USSR, and made a delightful video that shows him bringing it back to life. # ⚓ Tavis Ormandy ☛ Zenbleed⠀⇛ It turns out that with precise scheduling, you can cause some processors to recover from a mispredicted vzeroupper incorrectly! This technique is CVE-2023-20593 and it works on all Zen 2 class processors, which includes at least the following products: [...] o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾ # ⚓ India Times ☛ US_senators_express_bipartisan_alarm_about AI,_focusing_on_biological_attack⠀⇛ Both Democratic and Republican senators expressed alarm on Tuesday about the potential for a malevolent use of artificial intelligence, focusing on the possibility of AI being used to create a biological attack. In a hearing before a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Dario Amodei, chief executive of the AI company Anthropic, said that AI could help otherwise unskilled malevolent actors develop biological weapons. # ⚓ Daniel Miessler ☛ How_AI_Defenders_Will_Protect_Us_From Manipulation⠀⇛ One of the AI topics that I’ve been talking about for the last few months is Context. The basic argument is that everything we’re about to do with AI will sit on top of a deep, nuanced understanding of the principal—which could be an individual, a business, or whatever. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Clients_turn_to_Indian_IT_outsourcers_for AI_faster_than_industry_can_train_staff⠀⇛ India’s top four IT outsourcers saw a quarter where clients were hesitant about everything except their desire to discuss AI, according to earnings reports from TCS, HCL, Infosys and Wipro. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘It_smells_like_a_major_war’_Russian_lawmakers rush_through_amendments_to_increase_troop_numbers⠀⇛ Here’s an overview of the changes: [...] # ⚓ Yahoo News ☛ Microsoft_reports_20%_decrease_in_revenue_for Surface_and_Windows_products⠀⇛ According to Microsoft, Windows OEM revenue decreased by 12% while Devices, which refers to Surface products, was down 20% or $339 million. # ⚓ TechRadar ☛ Microsoft_Sharepoint_went_down_for_a_really embarrassing_reason⠀⇛ Reports of Microsoft 365 outages spiked at around 8:00 pm BST yesterday (via Downdetector) amid complaints that some users were unable to access Outlook, Teams, and other Microsoft services. According to the outage monitoring website, seven in 10 (71%) complaints about Microsoft outages relate to Outlook. # ⚓ Beta News ☛ Microsoft_to_drop_Mail_and_Calendar_apps_and force_users_to_switch_to_Outlook_for_Windows⠀⇛ # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Nubeva’s_Ransomware_Key_Interception_and Decryption_Technology_Validated_in_Third-Party_Lab [Ed: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ These claims were tested at MISI’s DreamPort facility in Columbia, MD. MISI is a non-profit organization purposed with driving discovery, education, collaboration, and innovation in cybersecurity. The DreamPort facility was created in partnership with US Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) but is neither owned nor operated by the government. One of the key pillars of MISI’s operation is to provide independent validation of product claims for government. # ⚓ Microsoft_stock_slips_back_in_Wednesday’s_pre-market trading⠀⇛ …Azure’s growth decelerating in each quarter since Q3 2022…. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Apple_Patches_Another_Kernel_Flaw_Exploited in_‘Operation_Triangulation’_Attacks⠀⇛ Apple patched another zero-day flaw used in the ‘Operation Triangulation’ exploit chain. iOS and macOS-powered devices are affected. # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Apple_issues_slew_of_fixes_for_macOS_Ventura, iPadOS_and_iOS [Ed: Apple works for the NSA. Security is not the goal, remote access is.]⠀⇛ “Apple has also issued fixes for CVE-2023-37450, a separate zero-day vulnerability that was first patched as part of Apple’s Rapid Security Response update process. # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Ivanti_blocks_access_to_zero-day_advisory,_then reverses_policy⠀⇛ US-based endpoint software management firm Ivanti initially blocked access to a security advisory about an exploitable zero-day in its Endpoint Manager Mobile software, formerly known as MobileIron Core. # ⚓ XSAs_released_on_2023-07-24⠀⇛ The Xen_Project has released one or more Xen security_advisories_(XSAs). # ⚓ Krebs On Security ☛ Who_and_What_is_Behind_the_Malware Proxy_Service_SocksEscort?⠀⇛ Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password- spraying attacks. Now new findings reveal that AVrecon is the malware engine behind a 12-year-old service called SocksEscort, which rents hacked residential and small business devices to cybercriminals looking to hide their true location online. # § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾ # ⚓ WhichUK ☛ Watch_out_for_dodgy_Facebook_ads_offering free_train_travel_for_a_year⠀⇛ Scammers are creating ads for fake travel cards to steal your personal and financial information. If you see the below ad on Facebook, don’t click on the link. # ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ Bryan_Adams_lied_to_you⠀⇛ It appears to be a desktop videophone! The interlacing looked artificial to me – but I’ve noted before that people think degraded images are somehow more authentic. But something was niggling me. Were there really videophones of that ilk when that song was released in 1998? Well, yes and no. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ [Older]_EU’s_top_court_rules_against Meta_in_key_data_privacy_case⠀⇛ The European Union’s top court has issued a ruling that could lead to major changes in the way Meta Platforms Inc. operates its ad business. The Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the European Union, or CJEU, released a summary of the ruling today. # ⚓ Reason ☛ Government_Wants_To_Control_Your_Digital Identity⠀⇛ In many states, Americans can now ditch their physical wallet and verify their identity simply by tapping their device on a scanner. And just as digital wallets from Apple and Google have made commerce more convenient, digital ID systems could potentially make government interactions faster and more efficient. But they also raise the ominous specter of government surveillance. Can we have the efficiency of a digital ID without letting government track our every move? Yes, but that’s not the path we’re on. # ⚓ [Repeat] Bruce Schneier ☛ New_York_Using_AI_to_Detect Subway_Fare_Evasion⠀⇛ If we spent just one-tenth of the effort we spend prosecuting the poor on prosecuting the rich, it would be a very different world. # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Moldova_to_Summon_Russian Ambassador_Over_Report_on_Surveillance⠀⇛ Russia has denied repeated Moldovan accusations of meddling in its affairs, particularly over the breakaway region of Transdniestria, where Moscow has a contingent of peacekeepers. # ⚓ India Times ☛ ‘Verified_human’:_Worldcoin_users_queue up_for_iris_scans⠀⇛ Founded by Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT developer OpenAI, the Worldcoin project says it aims to create a new “identity and financial network” and that its digital ID will allow users to, among other things, prove online that they are human, not a bot. # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Elizabeth_Warren_Probes_Google’s_Quest for_Soldiers’_Medical_Data⠀⇛ Reflecting rising concerns that Big Tech’s infatuation with artificial intelligence threatens privacy and economic competition, Sen. Elizabeth Warren has begun investigating Google’s efforts to swoop up medical information derived from biopsy specimens of millions of military service members. Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat and the chair of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel, wrote on Tuesday to Google and the Department of Defense, seeking information and records related to the company’s pursuit of a vast trove of medical data overseen by the military’s Joint Pathology Center. The archive represents a largely untapped gold mine for AI and health care companies, because computers can use the data to develop algorithms that detect patterns, like telltale signs of tumors, faster and often better than humans can. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Court_Says_It’s_Fine_For_Cops_To_Use_Cell Phones_To_Peep_Into_People’s_Cars⠀⇛ What is “plain view?” Cops claim it’s anything anyone could see if they happened to be in the same place at the same time, including those moments when citizens deploy their own air force. Force your way into the house under the “community caretaking” exception to the Fourth Amendment? Anything out in the open is yours to deem criminal evidence. Peek through the windows of cars you’ve pulled over for pretextual reasons? Anything readily visible can provide after- the-fact reasonable suspicion to perform a full-blown search. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ The_People_Building_AI_with_‘Existential Risk’_Are_Really_Not_Getting_‘Oppenheimer’⠀⇛ Oppenheimer has emerged into a world newly concerned with the possibility of a nuclear weapon being used again, and at a time when Silicon Valley is developing a technology that its inventors claim is just as dangerous as the atom bomb: AI. So far, their reactions to the film reveal a viewpoint that isn’t nearly as critical or self-reflective as one might hope for people developing a tool that supposedly poses an “existential risk” to humanity to have. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Tokkers_can_Tok_like_Tweeters_can_Tweet_– for_now⠀⇛ Chinese short video platform TikTok announced yesterday it will offer text-based content – a feature that mimics capabilities of various other social media sites, including what is formerly known as Twitter, Meta’s Threads and even Instagram. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_lawmakers_vote_to_give_governors_authority to_create_paramilitary_companies⠀⇛ The Russian State Duma passed the second and third readings of legislation on Tuesday that, once approved by senators and signed by the president, will raise the upper age limit for conscription from 27 to 30. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Russia_is_trying_to_‘fund_its_war_machine_at_the expense_of_Africa’,_Ukraine’s_FM_says⠀⇛ Regarding the Wagner paramilitary group’s presence in Africa, Kuleba noted that Ukraine had “a valuable amount of information” that could help African countries beef up their security. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ TikTok_Introduces_Text-Only_Posts⠀⇛ The feature allows users to post without the background visuals, such as videos and photos, for which TikTok is known. There did not appear to be a separate name for the text post feature. Before the new format was introduced, users could type text over video and image posts as well as in captions and comments. Some people would create their own text-only posts by sharing screenshots of text-focused content from outside of TikTok, including from other social media apps and text message conversations. # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ TikTok_announces_new_text_and_e-commerce features_amid_social_media_battle_to_become_meta⠀⇛ As Twitter tries to become the everything app, TikTok becomes Twitter, while Meta-owned Instagram also becomes Twitter through its fairly new Threads app. Threads has reportedly seen a huge drop in user numbers just recently after a promising start to its existence. It’s not the only company struggling to outdo Twitter in a battle that has become rather political. But it’s quite uncertain many of these companies will succeed in becoming everything apps. # ⚓ India Times ☛ TikTok_to_launch_ecommerce_platform_in_US_to sell_China-made_goods:_report⠀⇛ The reported move comes at a time when TikTok is facing heightened scrutiny from U.S. officials over concerns about data security. The company is fighting to prevent a ban in the country after lawmakers introduced a bill that would grant the Biden administration authority to ban apps that pose security risks. # ⚓ France24 ☛ More_than_1,800_terror_attacks_recorded_in_West Africa_thus_far_in_2023,_ECOWAS_says⠀⇛ Touray said the military staff recommendations were made before Mali’s military junta demanded that the more than 15,000-strong UN peacekeeping force in the country leave, which was followed by the Security Council’s unanimous vote on June 30 to immediately end the mission. Mali has brought in mercenaries from Russia’s Wagner Group to help fight an Islamic insurgency. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iranian_Air_Force_Begins_Exercise_In_Persian_Gulf⠀⇛ The Iranian Air Force has launched a major exercise after the United States sent additional warships and forces to the Persian Gulf region. More than 90 aircraft and combat drones have been deployed in the Gulf and other parts of Iran as part of the maneuvers, Iranian state media reported. # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ What’s_behind_growing_ties_between Turkey_and_the_Gulf_states⠀⇛ Erdoğan’s tour of the Gulf opens a new chapter in Turkey’s political and economic relations with the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar. # § War in Ukraine⠀➾ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_US_and_Russia’s_Standoff_Over Prisoner_Exchange⠀⇛ Last March, in a stylish gallery on Mosfilmovskaya Street in Moscow, I listened as 56-year-old Viktor Bout, his bushy mustache tinged with gray, discussed art and composition. Dressed in black, with a silver cross of St. George military decoration pinned to his left breast, the former Russian arms dealer had recently been released from an American prison. Hanging from the studio’s beige walls were dozens of his paintings, including portraits, landscapes, and still lifes. They ranged from cats and parrots to children and Soviet-era movie stars, as well as a number of self-portraits from behind bars. While confined in the federal maximum security penitentiary in Marion, Ill., Bout, fluent in English, had managed to turn his tiny cell into a makeshift art studio. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Survey:_Most_oppose_Nato_nuclear_weapons_in Finland,_opinions_divided_on_bases⠀⇛ More than 60% of respondents said that Finland should not allow the transport of Nato nuclear weapons through the country. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Lawyer_attacked_in_Moscow,_doused_in greenish_substance_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Lawyer Elena Ponomareva was attacked while waiting for public transportation in Moscow on July 6. Ponomareva was doused with greenish substance and beaten by an unknown assailant. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_Supreme_Court_finds_participation_in war_may_exempt_one_from_legal_consequences_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The judicial board for military personnel cases of the Russian Supreme Court has ruled that “due to changes in the situation,” it considered it possible to exempt Russian contract serviceman Vladislav Ustinov from legal punishment. Ustinov was found guilty in a fatal traffic accident. The ruling was handed down on June 28, reports Kommersant. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Sputik_Lithuania_editor-in-chief_flees_to Russia_after_release_from_Latvian_custody_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Maria Zakharova, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, announced that the editor-in- chief of Russian propaganda project Sputnik Lithuania, Marat Kasem, has left Latvia, where he was under recognizance not to leave. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_Defense_Minister_Shoigu_in_North Korea_for_70th_anniversary_celebration_of_country’s ‘victory’_in_Korean_War_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has arrived in North Korea, according to the Russian ministry. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia_declares_TV_Rain_‘undesirable organization’_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office has declared the independent media outlet TV Rain’s branches in Latvia and the Netherlands “undesirable,” criminalizing their work in Russia. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Vyborg_resident_sentenced_to_13_years_for plan_to_set_fire_to_enlistment_office_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The Second Western District Military Court has sentenced Vyborg resident Eldar Voskresensky to 13 years in prison for an attempted terrorist act (part 3, article 30 and paragraph A of part 2, article 205 of the Criminal Code). He was accused of the “attempted arson of a military enlistment office.” o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ Railroad_Whistleblower_Says_Union_Pacific Fired_Him_After_Posting_TikTok_Videos⠀⇛ o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Google_Is_Really,_Really_Thirsty⠀⇛ The company revealed in the report, published on Monday, that its data centers and offices consumed a combined 5.6 billion gallons of water in 2022, typically to cool facilities. That’s an amount equivalent to irrigating an average of 37 golf courses according to a 2012 estimate from the U.S. Golf Association, which Google cites. As Insider notes, that’s a 20% increase from the 4.3 billion gallons of water that Google says it consumed in 2021. Shaolei Ren, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California Riverside, told the outlet that a 20% increase is approximately on par with an increase in Google’s computing power—which has been driven by a push toward AI. # ⚓ El País ☛ The_major_ocean_current_that_regulates_the climate_shows_signs_of_collapse⠀⇛ In 2018, two separate investigations came to the same conclusion: the planet’s circulatory system was weakening. The main set of ocean currents that carry immense amounts of water from tropical to northern seas would be slowing down due to the impact of climate change. The latest UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, published this year, reached the same conclusion. But now, a new paper goes further, arguing that the so-called Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) will collapse in the coming decades if greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced now. The article even puts the date at around 2057. But other scientists argue that there is not enough data to expect a collapse. # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ A_Major_Climate_System_Will_Collapse Decades_Ahead_of_Schedule_and_Unleash_Devastation,_Scientists Predict⠀⇛ The new research reveals a far grimmer view of the North Atlantic’s future than the most recent predictions from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and underscores the urgency of transitioning away from the consumption of fossil fuels to curb the greenhouse gas emissions that are driving warming global temperatures. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Atlantic_Ocean_Circulation_Could_Collapse by_2050,_Scientists_Warn⠀⇛ The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is a large system of ocean currents that regulates the transfer of ocean heat from the tropics to the northern hemisphere. As such, it impacts much of Earth’s climate. It is considered one of the most important tipping elements in Earth’s climate system, and has been slowing down since the mid-1900s. If it stalls completely, monsoon seasons will likely be disrupted in the tropics, and Europe and North America will experience dangerously harsher winters. The knock-on effects will severely impact entire ecosystems and our food security. # ⚓ Gannett ☛ 101.1_degrees?_Water_temperatures_off_Florida Keys_currently_among_hottest_in_the_world⠀⇛ Since the Manatee Bay buoy is near land, the water temperature could have been heated up by floating plants and other debris, he said. Without photos documenting clear water there Monday, “it will be difficult to verify the 101.1 degree record as valid.” Given the gauge’s location near land and the Kuwait measurement in open water, Masters said the two really shouldn’t be compared. # ⚓ NYPost ☛ Ocean_water_off_Florida_breaks_jaw-dropping_100 degrees:_‘This_is_a_hot_tub’⠀⇛ Typical hot tub temperatures should range between 100 and 102 degrees, according to the hot tub maker Jacuzzi. # ⚓ Axios ☛ Report:_Record_heat_“virtually_impossible”_without climate_change⠀⇛ Record-breaking, deadly heat in the U.S._and_Europe would have been “virtually impossible” in a world without human-driven climate change, according to new_data_published_early_Tuesday. Why it matters:The findings show society is more vulnerable than previously thought to relatively low levels of warming. # ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Tropical_depression_predicted_to_bring rains_across_the_country⠀⇛ After record-breaking drought weather and unusually low levels of rainfall, heavy precipitation comes as a relief for many across Mexico. # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Industry_Wants_New_Pipeline_on_Navajo_Land Scarred_by_Decades_of_Fossil_Fuel_Extraction⠀⇛ Tallgrass Energy, working through a new subsidiary called GreenView, wants to build the hydrogen pipeline because the Navajo Nation is “blessed with a wealth of natural resources” and “We believe they have the right and responsibility to develop and manage these resources, including projects like hydrogen,” says Tallgrass Vice President of Government Affairs Steven Davidson. He says that his company has been talking with the leaders of the Nation for the past two years, well before the local meetings began. # ⚓ India Times ☛ US_congressional_committee_set_to_weigh [cryptocurrency]_bills⠀⇛ Among the legislation the House Financial Services Committee is scheduled to consider are a bill that would define when a cryptocurrency is a security or a commodity and another that would establish a regime to oversee stablecoins – digital tokens typically backed by traditional assets like the US dollar. The markups – where legislation is debated and brought to a vote, paving the way for a full vote by the House of Representatives – are the first time [cryptocurrency] regulatory bills will be put to a vote in Congress, a victory for [cryptocurrency] lobbyists that have pushed lawmakers to provide regulatory clarity for the industry. # ⚓ India Times ☛ Middle_Eastern_[cryptocurrency] exchange_Rain_to_target_UAE_asset_managers_after getting_licence⠀⇛ Rain will also be able to open a bank account in the UAE, and allow clients in the country to fund their own accounts when using the local payment network, cofounder Yehia Badawy said on Tuesday. # ⚓ NL Times ☛ NS_adding_1,450_rental_bicycles_to_its public_transport_fleet⠀⇛ NS is in the process of placing 1,450 new public transport bicycles at stations to meet the increasing demand for the bikes, the rail company said on Tuesday. “It is expected that all these hundreds of bicycles will be available to travelers by the end of September.” The rail company has already placed the first 650 new bikes at stations in Tilburg, Amsterdam, and Leiden, among others. The remaining 800 will be placed in the Amsterdam region at the end of September. # ⚓ Reason ☛ New_Jersey_Files_Environmental_Lawsuit_To Delay_Manhattan_Congestion_Tolls⠀⇛ New York officials have primarily pitched congestion tolls as an easy cash grab for the city’s subway system. New Jersey drivers and politicians aren’t happy about that. # ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Mexico’s_rainfall_so_far_this year_is_30%_below_2022_levels⠀⇛ The government is considering a new round of cloud seeding in an attempt to create rainfall in parts of Mexico affected by drought. # ⚓ France24 ☛ The_rush_for_cobalt:_Investigating_the dark_side_of_electric_car_batteries⠀⇛ FRANCE 24 brings you a special debate about the rush for cobalt, a strategic mineral essential to making electric car batteries. Electric vehicles will help reduce the pollution caused by the internal combustion engine, the current standard for most motorised transport. But as our special full-length Reporters programme shows, the mining of the cobalt necessary for the batteries is already a source of human misery and damage to the environment, particularly in DR Congo. We delve into the issue with our guests, including the co-director of “The Battle for Cobalt”, our documentary about the dark side of the cobalt rush. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Despite_tensions,_Vilnius–Minsk_buses_shuttle at_full_capacity⠀⇛ Buses remain the only form of public transport between Lithuania and Belarus. # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Amid_record_heat_wave,_Texas_grid_powers through⠀⇛ The Texas power grid has come through weeks of record 100-degree days like a champ, thanks in part to ramped-up clean energy and battery storage. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ World-first_clean_energy_deal taps_deep_local_knowledge⠀⇛ Kununurra-born Lawford Benning says Aboriginal clean energy is about celebrating beautiful country without hurting it. He is a key voice in a $3 billion proposal to produce hydrogen and ammonia in Western Australia’s majestic East Kimberley from abundant sunshine and an existing reservoir of fresh water. # § Overpopulation⠀➾ # ⚓ Overpopulation ☛ Even_with_strong_early_family planning_programs,_50_years_or_more_are_needed_to_halt population_growth⠀⇛ Low birth rates are often regarded as problematic by major media, which overlook the perils of population increase. Here we show that unsustainable long-term population growth prevails in developing countries, despite historical family planning and gradually sinking birth rates. One lesson is that further reduced rates are urgently needed in high-fertility countries, in Africa and elsewhere. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Neritam ☛ Top_10%_Now_Own_77%_of_American_Wealth⠀⇛ As President Donald Trump and the Republican Party unveiled their “cruel joke” of a tax plan that would provide an enormous boon for the rich disguised as a “middle class miracle,” an analysis by the People’s Policy Project (3P) published Wednesday [...] # ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Construction_sector_at_highest production_value_since_2019⠀⇛ A national survey found that the construction sector grew 18.2% over last May, a boost that may be linked to Mexico’s nearshoring phenomenon. # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ As_Americans_bet_billions_on_sports,_society wrestles_with_rapid_growth⠀⇛ With the growth of sports betting, what responsibility do governments – and society – have in addressing regulation and addiction? # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Productivity_software_startup_ClickUp_lets go_10%_of_its_workforce⠀⇛ Mango Technologies Inc., a well-funded productivity software startup that does business as ClickUp, has let go 10% of its workforce or about 90 employees. The move was reported earlier today by TechCrunch. ClickUp confirmed the workforce reduction, saying it will be carried out over the next few months. # ⚓ Yahoo News ☛ Commonwealth_Bank_of_Australia_could_cut_up_to 200_jobs_–_source⠀⇛ Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the country’s biggest lender, could cut up to 200 jobs, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday, but did not divulge further information the layoffs. The layoffs could end up being a “couple of hundred” and the CBA’s ongoing consultations could mean some employees would be redeployed into some other roles, the source said, requesting to be unnamed as they were discussing confidential information. # ⚓ CD_PROJEKT_RED_Confirms_Upcoming_Layoffs,_9%_of_Staff Affected⠀⇛ Since the beginning of 2023, there has been an abundance of layoffs that have hit the tech and gaming industry like a storm. Disney, Take Two, Unity, Twitter (now ‘X’) and even Microsoft have faced massive layoffs since January, and CD PROJEKT RED is the latest to follow this unfortunate and growing trend. Today, the company that built The Witcher series and Cyberpunk 2077 has issued a public statement that outlines its reasoning for cutting 9% of its workforce. # ⚓ CD_Projekt_RED_Says_They_Are_Overstaffed,_Will_Lay_Off_100 Employees⠀⇛ Kiciński also explained that the studio is trying to be more agile and effective, and so they have to streamline the company to reach this objective. In other words, the cycle of tech layoffs that was spearheaded this year by Microsoft is still ongoing, and finally caught up to CD Projekt RED. Like Microsoft, CD Projekt RED won’t be laying off these employees immediately. Layoffs will extend to as long as Q1 of 2024. It’s not great news, but both Microsoft and CD Projekt RED did do the responsible thing by notifying their employees early. As they have both put it, this move gives these employees sufficient time to prepare, and hopefully, transition to finding new jo # ⚓ The_Next_Big_Wave_Of_Video_Game_Layoffs_Is_Here_[Update]⠀⇛ Despite a booming job market overall, 2023 kicked off with the biggest tech companies laying off thousands of employees. Cuts at Microsoft hit Halo Infinite devs at 343 Industries and other game teams across the company, including at Bethesda. Months later, layoffs are continuing across other pockets of the video game industry, impacting major companies and smaller indies alike. Every week a new studio announces it’s shedding staff, and it’s not clear when the bleeding will stop. # ⚓ CD_Projekt_Red_announce_another_batch_of_layoffs_affecting around_100_employees⠀⇛ CD Projekt Red have announced another batch of layoffs, this time affecting “around 100” employees, or roughly 9% of the company’s total headcount. The redundancies won’t take place immediately, according to CDPR, as some employees won’t lose their jobs until early next year at the latest. # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Are_More_Spotify_Layoffs_on_the_Way? CFO_Paul_Vogel_Discloses_Plans_for_Lower_Year-Over-Year_Q3 Headcount:_‘We’re_Continuing_To_Become_More_Efficient’⠀⇛ Last month, after kicking off 2023 by trimming about six percent of its global workforce, Spotify announced approximately 200 podcasting layoffs. Now, CFO Paul Vogel has indicated that his company expects “headcount year over year to actually be down in Q3,” and some are speculating that additional personnel cutbacks could be on the way. Vogel made the remark during Spotify’s Q2 2023 earnings call this morning. For background, 2023’s initial seven months have seen the Stockholm- headquartered business axe a number of evidently unprofitable divisions, original podcasts, and different offerings amid a broader push for profitability. Notwithstanding these efforts and the adjacent layoffs, ValueAct Capital-backed Spotify posted heightened operating expenses (€1.013 billion, up 13 percent year over year) as well as a €247 million operating loss for the second quarter. In explaining the increases, the platform pointed in part to €91 million in once-off expenditures, including €25 million worth of severance packages (along with “related costs”) and a “real estate optimization plan.” # ⚓ The Salt Lake Tribune ☛ In_new_layoffs,_Utah_tech_company Pluralsight_won’t_say_how_many_are_losing_jobs⠀⇛ Prominent Utah tech company Pluralsight cut more employees Tuesday, with less transparency than its layoff of 400 people in December. # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ How_We_Found_LA_Landlords_Renting_Low-Cost Housing_to_Tourists⠀⇛ On her first day in office last December, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass declared a state of emergency over housing and homelessness, promising to provide shelter for people living on the streets and make it easier for developers to build affordable housing. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ New_York_Times_to_disband_sports_desk_and use_Athletic_content⠀⇛ Articles from The Athletic will begin appearing in the print NYT for the first time. # ⚓ Tim Bray ☛ Workin’_for_the_Man⠀⇛ What’s the winning formula? · Well, I guess I’m now a minor expert in fighting my way into sam.gov, and I think I know what happened. Every time the registration process went off the rails, I created an “Incident” with the GSA Federal help-desk. In most cases, the response was the equivalent of “Did you try turning it off and on again? Ticket closed. Kthksby.” But on two occasions — once for the conflict with the pre-existing registration, once for the Trade Register Number — there was an eventual response like “Fixed it, re-submit.” And indeed they had fixed it. So I think the winning technique is simply to flood their input queue with issues and eventually one will find a chink in the armour and reach an intelligent human being who Just Fixes It. # ⚓ RIPE ☛ Approaching_the_IETF_–_A_View_from_Civil_Society⠀⇛ Better decisions are made by diverse groups and it’s essential to lend all relevant voices to the development of future Internet standards. Dan Sexton from IWF shares his experience of coming to the IETF to discuss civil society issues regarding the safety of the Internet for children. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Tech_Firms_Once_Powered_New_York’s Economy._Now_They’re_Scaling_Back.⠀⇛ Now, the technology industry is pulling back hard, clouding the city’s economic future. Facing many business challenges, large technology companies have laid off more than 386,000 workers nationwide since early 2022, according to layoffs.fyi, which tracks the tech industry. And they have pulled out of millions of square feet of office space because of those job cuts and the shift to working from home. # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ Leonard_Leo_Bought_a_Church_in_a_Small Maine_Town_Where_Residents_Protest_Him⠀⇛ In 2021, Leo was the beneficiary of the largest- known dark money donation in US history, putting him in control of an unprecedented $1.6 billion political advocacy fund to influence the courts, politics, and policy, as wereported with ProPublica. Leo has appeared in some of the Supreme Court’s recent ethics scandals: He reportedly organized Justice Samuel Alito’s undisclosed trip on a hedge fund billionaire’s private jet and allegedly steered consulting payments to Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife. Some of Leo’s neighbors are distraught about his influence on the American political and judicial systems — and they want the rest of the town to know exactly who he is. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ FTC_boss_Khan_shrugs_off_Microsoft,_Meta defeats:_‘Losing_two_is_okay’⠀⇛ Speaking at the Economic Club of New York yesterday, Khan said that, while it’s true the US regulator failed to halt a couple of major mergers this year (Microsoft’s purchase of Activision Blizzard, and Meta’s acquisition of VR firm Within), those are just two among 13 to 20 challenges her monopoly cops have successfully brought against takeovers in her time at the helm, depending on how you count. # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ European_Council_Greenlights_Chips_Act: $47_Billion_for_Semiconductor_Industry⠀⇛ The ultimate objective is to double the EU’s global market share in semiconductors from the current 10% to ‘at least’ 20% by 2030. In addition, the initiative also aims to strengthen the domestic semiconductor supply chain and prevent chip shortages in critical sectors such as the automobile industry, something which happened in 2020 – 2021. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ China’s_Qin_scrubbed_from_foreign ministry_website_after_dramatic_removal⠀⇛ As of Wednesday morning, any reference to the 57- year-old had been removed from the website of China’s foreign ministry. A search for his name yielded no results and previous articles about his diplomatic appearances showed a message saying the page “does not exist or has been deleted”. # ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Why_Elon_Killed_the_Bird⠀⇛ This question, with its exclamatory urgency, has never been more relevant to Twitter than in the past 48 hours, when Musk decided to nuke 17 years’ worth of brand awareness and rename the thing. The artist formerly known as Twitter is now X. What is happening?! indeed. I have three answers to that question, beyond the simple “Nothing much.” (Even with its new name, the site is pretty much the same as ever; the blue bird logo in the left-hand corner of the website is now a black X, and … that’s about it.) This X boondoggle may simply be the flailing of a man who doesn’t want to own his social network and was pressured via lawsuit to buy it, but Musk and the Twitter (X?) CEO, Linda Yaccarino, would like you to believe that much bigger things are coming. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Israel’s_Fight_over_Judicial_Changes Ignores_Occupation_&_Apartheid⠀⇛ We speak with two Israeli journalists in Tel Aviv after lawmakers in Israel passed a highly contested bill Monday weakening the power of the Supreme Court by preventing it from blocking government decisions it deems unreasonable. The bill is part of a broader set of judicial reforms pushed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that has sparked months of unprecedented protests, which continued last night. Journalist Haggai Matar says that while the Supreme Court “is not an ally to Palestinians,” its rare rulings in favor of Palestinians are a driving factor in the right wing’s overhaul, as well as decisions meant to curb public corruption. Palestinian leaders have criticized both Netanyahu’s government for pushing the judicial reform, as well as the massive protest movement for not speaking up for Palestinian rights as Israel continues its deadly crackdown in the West Bank. It’s time for the U.S. to show Israel there are consequences for apartheid and anti- democratic legislation, says Gideon Levy, columnist for Haaretz. “What kind of democracy can exist in an apartheid state?” he asks. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ 100_Years_of_Statelessness:_Kurdish Activist_Walks_300_Miles_from_D.C._to_U.N._to_Demand_Kurdish Rights⠀⇛ Kurdish peace activist Kani Xulam is in New York City after his solo 300-mile, 24-day walk from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., to the United Nations headquarters. His arrival Monday coincided with the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne, which partitioned Kurdistan into four parts — British Iraq, French Syria, Turkey and Iran — which left the Kurdish people without a recognized sovereign state. “We have been struggling ever since to have a say,” declares Xulam. Kurds have experienced decades of conflict, cultural genocide and a protracted struggle for independence. # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ Reason ☛ “Democrats_Have_Become_Much_More_Supportive than_Republicans_of_the_Government_Restricting_False Information_Online”⠀⇛ The Act’s backers stressed that the law (unlike the English common law of seditious libel) was limited to “false” and “malicious” statements; and they noted the importance of restricting those statements. Here is Justice Chase’s instruction to the jury in U.S. v. Cooper, about the Sedition Act specifically: [...] o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ To_speak_or_not_to_speak?_A_case_for_holding my_tongue.⠀⇛ Things our essayist regrets saying: “Anything I said to a girl in high school, for example, or whatever I was trying to say in German.” # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ TikTok_User_Who_Debunked_Jason_Aldean’s_Bogus Claims_Says_She’s_Receiving_Death_Threats⠀⇛ Stark also points out that Aldean filmed portions of his video at a courthouse in Tennessee, which was the site of the lynching of a black 18-year-old in 1927 and a race riot in 1946. Stark’s video and a follow-up have both accumulated over 1.5 million views each on the platform, but Stark now says that she’s been the subject of death threats, doxxing, and other negative speech. “I’m receiving thousands of comments that quite honestly, I can’t possibly keep up with. The context of those comments go far beyond what is considered ‘reasonably harsh criticism,’ and into the dark realm of death threats, death wishes, threats of violence, and just the most degrading, vile comments I’ve ever seen, quite frankly,” Stark told Gizmodo in an email. “I would encourage everyone who is so angry about my commentary to spend some time reflecting on why it is that they are so angry about what I have to say.” # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Elderly_busker_who_played_protest song_‘Glory_to_Hong_Kong’_tells_court_he_was_no_threat_to public_order⠀⇛ Li Jiexin, a 69-year-old retiree, in May pleaded not guilty to four counts of playing a musical instrument without a permit and three counts of collecting money in a public place without permission. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_pro-democracy_singer_who pleaded_guilty_to_sedition_and_money-laundering_to_be sentenced_Aug_11⠀⇛ Prosecutors said Yuen made seditious statements on Facebook and Instagram including posts about the death of marine police officer Lam Yuen-yee in an anti-smuggling operation in September 2021, the Witness reported. # ⚓ BIA Net ☛ ‘Retweet’_detentions:_One_journalist_remanded_in custody,_three_released⠀⇛ The detentions came after Mezopotamya Ajansı (MA) reporter, Fırat Can Arslan, tweeted about his news report regarding a married judge and prosecutor presiding over the same trial. The other four journalists were detained for retweeting that tweet. # ⚓ BIA Net ☛ Five_journalists,_including_bianet_editor, detained_over_‘retweets,’_lawyer_reveals⠀⇛ The investigation against them was triggered by Arslan’s report, which brought attention to the marriage between one of the judges overseeing the Diyarbakır-based case against 18 Kurdish media workers and the prosecutor who prepared the indictment. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ HRW:_Ethiopia_must_release_opposition_figures_from arbitrary_detention⠀⇛ Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a statement on Monday calling on Ethiopian authorities to immediately release seven “arbitrarily detained” opposition figures. The seven detained individuals belong to the formerly banned Oromo Liberation Front (OLF). HRW claims their detainment is politically motivated. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ ANF News ☛ One_journalist_jailed,_three_others_released⠀⇛ The background to the case is reports of a political trial against 18 colleagues in Amed. 15 of the accused journalists, who work for Kurdish media, were held in pre-trial detention for over a year on vague “terror charges” in what was obviously a contrived trial without charges and were released on the first day of the trial a fortnight ago. The long detention was based on the false testimony of an anonymous witness. The investigation against the journalists detained on Tuesday was triggered by Arslan’s report, which brought attention to the marriage between one of the judges overseeing the Diyarbakır-based case against 18 Kurdish media workers and the prosecutor who prepared the indictment. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_True_Cost_of_Julian_Assange’s_Persecution: An_Exclusive_Interview_With_Stella_Assange⠀⇛ Perhaps the most infamous leak was the “Collateral Murder” video, which showed footage of American helicopter pilots casually carrying out a massacre of Iraqi civilians in Baghdad in 2007, two of whom were Reuters-employed journalists. # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Guardian_creates_seven_journalist_jobs_as part_of_‘restorative_justice’_plan_after_slavery_link_found⠀⇛ The Guardian is creating seven new journalist jobs to improve its coverage of “underrepresented regions and communities” in the UK and the US, as well as the Caribbean, South America and Africa. The publisher’s decision comes after carrying out research that linked the founders of the Manchester Guardian, which later became The Guardian, with the transatlantic slave trade. # ⚓ ANF News ☛ Police_take_three_journalists_into_custody⠀⇛ During a new police political operation launched by the Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, the police raided the house of Mesopotamia Agency (MA) reporter Delal Akyüz in İzmir. Although it is mandatory to wear shoe covers during house searches, some police officers did not wear them. There was tension between Akyüz and some police as they kept provoking her. # ⚓ BIA Net ☛ Five_journalists,_including_bianet_editor, detained_over_‘retweets,’_investigation_reveals⠀⇛ The investigation against them was triggered by Arslan’s report, which brought attention to the marriage between one of the judges overseeing the Diyarbakır-based case against 18 Kurdish media workers and the prosecutor who prepared the indictment. # ⚓ BIA Net ☛ Three_journalists_detained_in_raids_in_Ankara, İzmir⠀⇛ Three journalists were taken into custody during police raids at their homes in the early hours of the morning as part of an investigation conducted by the Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iranian_Journalist_Fined,_Sentenced_To_Internal Exile_For_Reposting_Criticism_Of_Ex-Lawmaker⠀⇛ Marzieh Mahmoodi, a journalist and the editor of Tejaratnews, says she has been fined 24 million tomans (about $500) and sentenced to a year in exile in the northeastern district of Torbat-e Jam for republishing on social media critical statements about former lawmaker Hamid Rasaei, who had disparaged protesters demonstrating against the suppression of rights and freedoms following the death of Mahsa Amini while in police custody for an alleged hijab offense. [...] # ⚓ ANF News ☛ Kurdistan_Journalists’_Association_condemns violations_in_Turkey_and_South_Kurdistan⠀⇛ The association also spoke against the unlawful treatment of journalist Sherwan Sherwani, who was sentenced by a criminal court in Hewlêr (Erbil) to four years in prison last week for an alleged forgery of documents. The reason for the charge was an application for the conditional release of several journalists and activists from prison. Sherwani is also alleged to have signed the document on behalf of his colleague Guhdar Zebari because the latter was in solitary confinement and could not sign it himself. Although Zebari repeatedly stated during the trial that he had explicitly given Sherwani the authority to sign on his behalf, his testimony was ignored by the court. # ⚓ ANF News ☛ Journalist_Evrim_Deniz_detained_in_Amed⠀⇛ The investigation against the journalists detained on Tuesday was triggered by Arslan’s report, which brought attention to the marriage between one of the judges overseeing the Diyarbakır-based case against 18 Kurdish media workers and the prosecutor who prepared the indictment. # ⚓ BIA Net ☛ Journalism_groups_condemn_detention_of_five journalists_in_house_raids⠀⇛ Erol Önderoğlu, the Turkey representative of Reporters Without Borders (RSF), expressed concern over the “criminalizing” approach towards journalists for reporting news. He also emphasized that handcuffing Kepenek with plastic handcuffs was “unacceptable.” “One news article, and especially one of this nature, shouldn’t lead to such criminal treatment of journalists,” said Önderoğlu. “Turkey needs to stop being a country where journalists are systematically detained.” o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ From_The_Daily:_What_Hollywood’s_strike means_about_labor_and_entertainment⠀⇛ Another unavoidable topic driving the popular discourse is artificial intelligence. Language- based machine learning software like OpenAI’s GPT- 4 and Google’s Bard has exploded in popularity among students, employees, entrepreneurs and [Internet] creators. Not only is it fascinating to see what a machine can put together, it can be a relief to offload some of the creative work for a job or a class. However, many employees aren’t thrilled about the possibility of their role being digitally outsourced, and film and television workers are at the forefront of the debate. AI seems to offer a great deal for studios who might decide soon that they don’t want to shell out for expensive human employees. Performers want to ensure their likenesses — their physical appearances, voices and unique performances — can’t simply be scanned and repurposed with AI tools by studios without due credit or compensation. Screenwriters also see the potential for advanced language models to expropriate work from writers’ rooms. Even so, the WGA appreciates some aspects of AI technology and has proposed a compromise that would keep the human artists on the credits list when software is involved. # ⚓ The Conversation ☛ Actors_are_really_worried_about_the_use of_AI_by_movie_studios_–_they_may_have_a_point⠀⇛ When they perform on film sets, their image and voice are digitally recorded at extremely high resolution, providing producers with huge amounts of data. Actors are concerned the data can be reused with AI. New processes such as machine learning – AI systems that improve with time – could turn an actor’s performance in one movie into a new character for another production, or for a video game. # ⚓ Adriaan Roselli ☛ Blockquotes_in_Screen_Readers⠀⇛ TL;DR: This post does not assert the correct way to code blockquotes, it will only demonstrate how screen readers announce some existing patterns. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Taliban_Shut_Beauty_Salons,_One_of_Afghan Women’s_Last_Public_Spaces⠀⇛ All women’s beauty salons in Afghanistan were set to close on Tuesday, officials said, as part of a Taliban administration announcement early this month that the women-only spaces were forbidden under Shariah law and caused economic hardship for grooms’ families during wedding celebrations. # ⚓ El País ☛ Iran_sentences_unveiled_women_to_jail,_washing dead_bodies_in_a_cemetery_and_undergoing_therapy⠀⇛ Like these, other Iranian women who have dispensed with the hijab — obligatory from the age of nine — are being sentenced to prison or other, unusual punishments often accompanied by an order to undergo psychological therapy for an alleged “antisocial personality disorder” whose only “symptom” is not covering their hair. Last week, the Iranian website Vaklapress published another ruling by a third criminal court in Tehran defining not wearing the veil as “a contagious mental illness that causes sexual promiscuity.” The defendant was sentenced to two months in prison and ordered to pay for six months of psychological treatment. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ External_Audit_Finds_Sacramento_PD_Hasn’t Updated_Its_Search_And_Seizure_Policy_Since_2007⠀⇛ The ignorance of cops is almost always their saving grace. If they can’t “reasonably” know the intricacies of the laws they uphold or the rights they’re supposed to respect, they’re too stupid to be punished for their wrongdoing. That’s how qualified immunity works. And that’s why it behooves police departments to keep officers in the dark about legal developments. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ New_York_Dept._Of_Corrections_Bets_On_Prior Restraint,_Adds_Shackles_To_Certain_Forms_Of_Personal Expression⠀⇛ There have been plenty of laws passed to keep prisoners from profiting from depictions of their crimes, encompassing not only their own recountings, but those put together by others. These so-called “Son of Sam” laws got their name from serial killer David Berkowitz, who authorities speculated was going to sell off the rights to his life story for an immense amount of money. This deal never materialized, but the New York State Legislature passed the first “Son of Sam” legislation anyway. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Hong_Kong_national_security_police_question_family_of US-based_activist_Elmer_Yuen⠀⇛ Yuen’s daughter-in-law Eunice Yung says she ‘fulfilled her civic responsibilities’ by telling police what she knew. # ⚓ Site36 ☛ Mannheim_police_officers_on_trial_for_assault resulting_in_death_and_failure_to_render_assistance⠀⇛ # ⚓ Quartz ☛ Hollywood_actors_are_now_on_strike⠀⇛ Some 160,000 actors in the United States, from major stars to background players, are refusing to work after talks failed between their union, the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP). # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Man_who_played_‘Glory_to_Hong_Kong’ protest_song_without_permit_cites_UN_rights_treaty_in_court⠀⇛ Hongkongers’ right to perform music in public is protected by a UN treaty enshrined in the city’s mini-constitution, an elderly man accused of playing a popular protest song in public without a permit has argued in court. Li Jiexin appeared before Magistrate Amy Chan at Shatin Magistrates’ Courts on Monday, representing himself in court. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_47:_Ex-reporter_questions nat._security_judges’_knowledge_of_legislature,_says_primary poll_not_a_‘waste_of_time’⠀⇛ Organising an unofficial legislative primary poll was not a “waste of time,” despite knowing pro- democracy candidates may not win majority control as they wished, Hong Kong journalist-turned activist Gwyneth Ho has said during her testimony at a national security case against 47 democrats. o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ If_You_Know_What_an_AI_Manager_Is,_Netflix_Just Might_Hire_You_for_$900,000⠀⇛ Netflix is not exactly a stranger to artificial intelligence and machine learning, but this appears to be one of the first times that Netflix has put hundreds of thousands of dollars in someone’s pockets to wrangle it. In the past, Netflix has deployed an algorithm that would change the thumbnails of its programs between users based on those users viewing habits. At the same time, Netflix employs a rudimentary AI to recommend content, much the same way a platform like Spotify might. It’s not clear whether this Product Manager would be working with an AI on the backend, or in an application closer to production. Netflix did not immediately return our request for clarification. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ [Older]_UK_finds_Adobe’s_$20B_Figma acquisition_may_reduce_market_competition⠀⇛ The U.K.’s antitrust regulator has determined that Adobe Inc.’s planned acquisition of Figma Inc. could reduce competition in the local market for graphic design software. The Competition and Markets Authority, or CMA, released its findings today. Adobe has five business days to address the regulator’s concerns. > # ⚓ David Rosenthal ☛ Anti-trust⠀⇛ This process applies more broadly than just to platforms, except the part about dying. Below the fold I discuss a recent development that provides an opportunity for you to take action to push back against it. # ⚓ India Times ☛ EU_antitrust_regulators_rejected_Meta_offer to_curb_use_of_ad_data,_sources_say⠀⇛ Meta Platforms offered to curb the use of competitors’ advertising data for its Facebook Marketplace online classified service in an attempt to settle an EU antitrust investigation but it was not accepted by regulators, people familiar with the matter said. # ⚓ India Times ☛ French_antitrust_watchdog_issues_statement_of objection_against_Apple⠀⇛ France’s antitrust watchdog said on Tuesday it had issued a statement of objections against Apple, citing concerns the U.S. company could have used “discriminatory and non-transparent conditions” for using user data for advertising purposes on iOS devices. # § Trademarks⠀➾ # ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ The_Precedential_Decisions_of_the_CAFC and_the_TTAB_on_Registrability_Issues:_July_2022_to June_2023⠀⇛ The latest issue of Allen’s Trademark Digest includes a compilation of my capsule summaries of the precedential “Decisions of the Federal Circuit and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board on Registrability Issues – July 2022 to June 2023.” [download pdf here]. # ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ TTABlog_Test:_Is_MOSSY_OAK_Confusable with_ROYAL_OAK_for_Watches?⠀⇛ Swiss watchmaker Audemars Piquet opposed applications to register MOSSY OAK and MOSSY OAK & Designfor watches and jewelry on the grounds of likely confusion with and likely dilution of the registered mark ROYAL OAK, in standard character and stylized form, for watches. The Board dismissed the dilution claim because Piquet failed to show the requisite fame among the general consuming public. But what about likelihood of confusion? How do you think this came out? Audemars_Piquet_Holding_S.A._v._Haas Outdoors,_Inc., Consolidated Oppositions Nos. 91242213 and 91242238. July 14, 2023 [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Thomas W. Wellington). # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Trademark_Disputes_Could_Mean_Elon’s_‘X’_Is Already_Fxxked⠀⇛ A cursory search through the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office database reveals some of these logo patents were filed as recently as last week, just a few days before Musk started mentioning his intent to rebrand Twitter. Some trademark logos are as simple as a big “X” in a square box. Others from firms like Brand X Co. include a more stylized X that could compare to Musk’s current choice of logo. That’s despite the design bearing a strong resemblance to the Monotype brand font and the Unicode character (U+1D54F). # ⚓ Reuters ☛ Meta,_Microsoft,_hundreds_more_own trademarks_to_new_Twitter_name⠀⇛ “There’s a 100% chance that Twitter is going to get sued over this by somebody,” said trademark attorney Josh Gerben, who said he counted nearly 900 active U.S. trademark registrations that already cover the letter X in a wide range of industries. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ From_Twitter_to_X:_Elon_Musk_Begins Erasing_an_Iconic_Internet_Brand⠀⇛ Mr. Musk had long said he might make the name change, but he hastened the process in a tweet early Sunday when he declared that “soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.” He has said he hopes to turn Twitter into an “everything app” called X, which would encompass not only social networking but also banking and shopping. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ The_Law_Bytes_Podcast,_Episode_175: Amy_Salyzyn_on_the_Benefits_and_Risks_of_AI_to_the Legal_Profession⠀⇛ In the coming academic year she’ll be teaching a course on AI and the legal profession and she joins me on the Law Bytes podcast to talk about the latest on AI technology for law and the legal, regulatory and ethical challenges it brings. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Quad9_Blocks_Pirate_Site_Globally After_Sony_Demanded_€10,000_Fine⠀⇛ Following another setback in its legal dispute with Sony Music, Quad9 has decided to block pirate site Canna worldwide. The court- ordered block was initially restricted to Germany but the music label complained that VPNs and a mobile network still allowed Germans to access the pirate site. Quad9, meanwhile, has appealed the underlying court judgment. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Piracy_Law_“Will_Wipe_Out”_ISPs_as Fans_Vent_Fury_Over_DAZN_Price_Hikes⠀⇛ An ISP industry group fears that adhering to the rapid blocking requirements of Italy’s new IPTV piracy law will massively increase costs and may even “wipe out” 2,000 small to medium-sized businesses. Meanwhile, streaming service DAZN has just hiked its prices, sparking outrage on social media, a significant spike in searches for pirate set- top boxes, and vows not to pay and pirate instead. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 4386 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 07.26.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Gemini_Links_26/07/2023:_GemPlace_and_Gemini_Client_Survey⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 5:27 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal/Opinions o Politics_and_World_Events o Technology_and_Free_Software # Internet/Gemini * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾ # ⚓ Public_Baths⠀⇛ On some weekends, my dad would pick me up and we’d go to the public bathhouse. We were lucky enough to have a toilet and a shower in our apartment; most people on our floor had to share an old-style toilet at the end of the long, long hallway. The toilet had a cement floor and cast iron, aerodynamic-looking hole with two knurled footsteps on eiter side for squatting. A lot of people had to go to public baths to wash. The baths were a fascinating place for me. I grew up with my mother and my grandmother — there were no men in my immediate family. At the bathhouse we were surrounded by men, naked men of all shapes and sizes. It was terrifying – all the blubber of obese old men, men hairy as apes I saw at the zoo, men with weird skin issues, tatoos, scars… fat, thin, and in-between. And all the horrible, fat cocks — nothing like my peepee. I tried to act normal and not look. When I grow up, would my cock become horrible too? # ⚓ heartache_is_one_of_the_worst_feelings_in_the_world.⠀⇛ heartache is one of the worst feelings in the world. often masked by a myriad of emotions related to the nuances at play. knowing there are hard choices to make. knowing where it may lead. # ⚓ Wow,_I’m_floored⠀⇛ I just finished 7 boxes of Floor upstairs. They weigh a little over 50lbs each. 25kg, that’s what… 60lbs? Anyways this post isn’t about math. It’s about… uh… So wood floors are heavy! And they have to acclimate to their environment before you can install them. As their end-environment is my future bedroom, and not the hallway, they had to be moved. Also my furniture gets here in a week and I don’t want to sheepishly apologise to the movers every 5 minutes about the 7 boxes of heavy flooring that are in their way. Also also, I would like to buy a bed for that bedroom, which cannot float, and has a 3 week lead time because it will be made bespoke. But floors have to acclimate to their environment for a whole week at least, and it’ll take time for me to install the floors and I’d like to feel confident in putting a whole bed on these floors by the time they are done… which means allowing time to cure/set/whatever. o § Politics and World Events⠀➾ # ⚓ ‘The_poisons_are_already_in_here_with_us’⠀⇛ Below is a transcribed talk by Peter Gelderloos. This talk emerges from the book tour for **The Solutions are Already Here: Strategies for an Ecological Revolution from Below**. This talk polemically recapitulates themes within the book, advocating for an anti-authoritarian ecological revolution and, consequently, chastising the terms ‘climate crisis’ and Anthropocene. The lecture extends beyond the book’s content. Confronting the audience and challenging its reader, the lecture delves into how authorities administer ecological crisis, which extends to criticizing the dominant institutions and science. This includes exploring how people are disembodied and separated from their habitats, thinking ‘like a state’ or planner, and, consequently, stifling their imaginations and working against revolutionary futures. This lecture also discusses the important qualities and directions for a decentralized ecological revolution from below, what to avoid, ideas to consider, and outlining a general direction for collective struggle. # ⚓ Manhattan_Is_Composting⠀⇛ I was very excited to see a composting bin on the corner, a block away from me. It’s about time! But… I was really hoping to stay on the postivie note, because composting is great for everyone involved, and could solve the rat problem… But… It’s one of those little solar compactors that costs $4,000+. Aside from the upfront cost, while compacting trash makes sense, compacting food waste is questionable. Due to the high water content it is guaranteed to leak awful, stinky effluent… # ⚓ Communism_against_Earth⠀⇛ Looking at the communist side, I sometimes see climate obstructionism too, opposing any plan that doesn’t also solve humanity’s millenia-old (albeit amplified in the industrial age) inequality issues. There was this anti geoengineering site that made the rounds a few months back that mixed some very good points vs some of the worst and least thought- through geoengineering proposals with a foundational opposition to all change that didn’t address inequality. And I get it, I do want to address inequality and if the sweeping changes that fix CAGW also fixes inequality then that’s freaking baller and absolutely yay. But if they don’t, then we need ‘em anyway. # ⚓ Red_Rising_book_review⠀⇛ Red Rising is a science ficiton novel written by Pierce Brown in 2014. It tells the story of a dystopian universe ruled by a society that enforces a caste system based on colors. At the top, the almost inhuman Golds, physically and mentally stronger than the rest, born to enforce the rule of their class. At the bottom, the Reds, born to work the mines and treated as less than human. As the title of the novel suggests, the Reds grow tired of being slaves of the Golds and begin to rise against the society. I found this book after finishing the Silo series by Hugh Howey. I was initially drawn to the novel as it starts off similar to Silo. The Reds live deep underground, safe from the inhospitable surface of Mars above them. They work to one day make the planet safe for themselves, and other members of the society. Similarly, Silo is the story of the last of humanity living in a massive underground bunker, safe from the toxic wasteland that has consumed Earth. o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾ # ⚓ my_belongings⠀⇛ Since years, I have been over the pretense of having any sort of control over my, or any, physical or digital possessions. I will be careful with them in a reasonable way; I treat all my things well, I don’t throw or drop them, they have cases if needed, they are cleaned, I make an effort not to do anything that unnecessarily damages the outside or inside, or harms the battery. I secure them appropriately. While 99% of things are not special to me and are replaceable to me, I don’t take this as a sign to treat it like it is. # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ Deep_Space_Network_(DSN)_Antenna⠀⇛ As per a suggestion by @solderpunk, I’ve rebranded my clone of Antenna to be Deep Space Network (DSN) Antenna, so as not to compete with the main site. In addition, the theme of the site is non- technical: deep thoughts for the deep space. I know that keeping technical posts off there will be challenging especially if you have 2 gemlogs back-to-back that are of both categories, but in the main I’d like to see more “thoughts about life” posts in DSN. # ⚓ GemPlace_–_A_Gemini_Social_Experiment⠀⇛ GemPlace is very similiar to the popular “/r/ place” on Reddit. Each day you get to place a single ASCII character on a 20×20 grid. The grid resets at 12:01 AM EST on Monday of every week. My hope is the community works together to create some cool ASCII art or patterns using GemPlace! This is a very early version, so it might crash, the grid might get wiped out early and you might experience bugs. If this happens, or you come up with an idea for a cool feature, please let me know (or submit a PR on Github)! # ⚓ Survey_|_Which_gemini_browser_do_you_use_mostly?⠀⇛ Which gemini browser do you use mostly? =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 4662 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 07.26.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Gemini_Links_26/07/2023:_Returning_to_Newsgroups⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 1:52 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Politics_and_World_Events o Technology_and_Free_Software # Internet/Gemini * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Politics and World Events⠀➾ # ⚓ Legislative_Compliance⠀⇛ Over a month ago, a report was published by the Environmental Protection Agency evaluating the government’s plan. The headline claim was that “EPA analysis shows that planned climate policies and measures, if fully implemented, could deliver up to 29 per cent emissions reduction by 2030 compared to 2018, a reduction of 4 per cent each year from 2022 to 2030. This is insufficient to achieve the ambition of 51 per cent emissions reduction in Ireland’s Climate Act.” [...] Since the publication of the EPA report, policians have occasionally appeared on the media to answer questions about what their plans are to address climate change. # ⚓ Re:_Red_Rising_Book_Review⠀⇛ I LOVE the Red Rising series, and I’m glad that someone has brought it up here. I’m not sure if the OP will read this post but I highly encourage going through the entire series because it gets intense. I lost a lot of sleep staying up reading this book series and couldn’t wait for the next ones to drop. [...] I agree, it does start off slow, but once you get into the next book it starts picking up. I do like how it had a bit of a Hunger Games feel to it, and show the maturation and molding of these young warriors. o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾ # ⚓ If/when_ASCII_ain’t_enough,_it’s_actually_*you*_that_ain’t enough⠀⇛ Awakening early allowed me to coffee and eat sooner, opening the door to getting a bunch yard waste street side, and the jumping right into mowing the lawn after enjoying some Scott Adams on YouTube. Actually, that was interrupted about 2/3rds through the show by a central AC service call, which resulted in the worst possible diagnosis: the need to replace the entire unit. Ugh. But, you know, isn’t it rather silly for an NPC to sweat such details? We neutralized any possible fretting attacks by hitting the beach, which was glorious. I’m guessing the water temperature was maybe 75F. Grant it, we were parked in front of a sandbar, the water is generally warmer than in the deep. But it was fun noodling around, swimming under water, digging in the lake sand for handfuls of rocks, watching the sand sift through the fingers while raising the hand to the surface, occasionally finding treasure in the palm of my hand. # ⚓ Pressing_buttons⠀⇛ Hi. I’m just a developer spending an evening at the pub. I decided I wanted to use the keyboards I build for something other than writing code at work. Despite having built 10 or so keyboards with different layouts and materials, I can’t really say I’ve found a favorite. So, I hoard them in drawers and swap them around my desks when I remember they exist. When the urge to swap keyboards comes over me, I’ll stumble into here and press some buttons. # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ First⠀⇛ First post on midnight pub! I might use this as a backup for my main gemlog, and definitely to interact with folks in this space (so many cool people here) # ⚓ So_when_the_heck_is_September_gonna_end,_anyway?⠀⇛ For me it began with a high school friend’s unbeknownst-to-me-(via-vodka-in-milk)- inebriated father who was also perpetually high on Gurdjieff/Ouspensky material. I mean, okay, I was somewhat fascinated by astrology even earlier in life. But it doesn’t take long immersed in the likes of Gurdjieff/Ouspensky before broad categories of people seems silly. # ⚓ Please_return_to_Newsgroups⠀⇛ I’m on the record as a lover of email. Communications these days are all too… immediate. Urgent. Grabbing your attention away from the day-to-day and demanding you give over your soul to the neverending stream of thoughtless messages, gifs, and links. It’s exhausting. Working in Slack channels is a surefire way to get a migraine (or worse). Email, meanwhile, is more patient. Emails come in and sit there until you’re ready to deal with them. There is an expectation that emails will take longer to write and contain a greater level of thought than the average instant message. You also get the benefit of truly contextual communication. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 4848 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 07.26.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Gemini_Links_26/07/2023:_On_Writing_Documentation_and_Twitter’s_Suicide⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 12:33 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal/Opinions o Art o Technology_and_Free_Software # Internet/Gemini * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾ # ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_CDIPYUT_Wordo:_SWIFT⠀⇛ # ⚓ Is_it_just_me?⠀⇛ I’m often convinced most humans are incurably moronic. I mean, I know I’m likely being unreasonable by mapping actually witnessed/experienced behavior onto the masses. But certain idiocies just plain seem to happen incessantly. Here are a few coming mind that regularly have me rolling my eyes just before closing them and slapping my forehead whilst forcibly – and audibly – expelling breath: - There are two cars on a road. The one in front is driving over the speed limit. The other is less than a car length behind it repeatedly veering slightly into the other lane. They’re both in a “passing zone”. But the car in back stays there putting on their show of impatience as though what ought to happen is the car in front go as fast as the driver of car in back thinks they should – which of course is infinity miles/kilometers per hour. # ⚓ EFF ☛ FBI_Seizure_of_Mastodon_Server_is_a_Wakeup_Call_to Fediverse_Users_and_Hosts_to_Protect_their_Users⠀⇛ Last May, Mastodon server Kolektiva.social was compromised when one of the server’s admins had their home raided by the FBI for unrelated charges. All of their electronics, including a backup of the instance database, were seized. It’s a chillingly familiar story which should serve as a reminder for the hosts, users, and developers of decentralized platforms: if you care about privacy, you have to do the work to protect it. We have a chance to do better from the start in the fediverse, so let’s take it. A story where “all their electronics were seized” echoes many digital rights stories. EFF’s founding case over 30 years ago, Steve Jackson Games v. Secret Service, was in part a story about the overbroad seizures of equipment in the offices of Steve Jackson Games in Texas, based upon unfounded claims about illegal behavior in a 1990s version of a chat room. That seizure nearly drove the small games company out of business. It also spurred the newly-formed EFF into action. We won the case, but law enforcement’s blunderbuss approach continues through today. o § Art⠀➾ # ⚓ Slow_art⠀⇛ I like to return to Kandinsky’s observation in Point and Line to Plane that simple visual elements take short time to perceive, while complex elements take longer time. The point is instantaneous, as is the staccato note, appropriately written with a dot under or over the note head. A line takes some time to follow with the eye, longer the more wiggly it is. In fact, we are capable of taking in complex stimuli and making sense of them even in a brief glimpse, at least at a crude level. As you enter a museum, a few seconds of looking around might suffice to categorise works as painting or sculpture, assess their complexity, style, and probable epoch, and to decide whether it might be worth taking a closer look at the works. Similarly, a few tenths of a second of sound is often sufficient to identify a musical genre, sometimes even to recognise which song it is. The blasé visitor at a gallery show opening might inspect the room rapidly to find that there is nothing insteresting there, so better rush off to the next opening across the street. Certain art, minimalist works in particular, might not reaveal more about themselves the longer you stare at them, but some works of art benefit from sustained scrutiny. o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾ # ⚓ Later⠀⇛ I’ve been using Pocket since it was called Read it Later. Pocket’s origins are in the world of “Web 2.0″ and RSS readers, a time before smartphones when blogs and RSS readers were the hot thing. It’s been hugely useful to me over the years, so much so that I’ve published no less than three separate open source projects for managing Pocket collections via their API. But Pocket’s limitations have become increasingly obvious over the years. Earlier this year I took another look at Zotero, an open source reference management tool, and realised with sudden clarity that not only could I use Zotero instead of Pocket, but that it was really much better suited to what I wanted from a “read it later” application. I told myself I’d stop saving things to Pocket and save them to Zotero instead using the browser plugins and mobile app. Eventually I’d read everything in my Pocket “saves” and switch. # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ On_Writing_Documentation⠀⇛ I’m in the process of adding manpage support to smolver, my Gemini server, and I’ve found the easiest way to do so is to simply refactor the main project README markdown file in such a way that when handed off to pandoc, the format looks like a typical manpage, no changes needed. This approach will save me from having to maintain separate documentation moving forward, and lets me kill two birds with one stone (both of which are on the project backlog): provide a manpage and cleanup the documentation (it was getting a bit unwieldy to read). # ⚓ X_gon_give_it_to_ya⠀⇛ okay so Elon is definitely just running Twitter into the ground huh. okay # ⚓ In_the_name_of_The_Protocol,_and_The_Space,_and_The Holy_Content…_Amen!⠀⇛ It’s fascinating to me that the Gemini *protocol* magickally – i.e. by way of enough people talking about it as though it were so – becomes Gemini as a place/space, complete with people talking about content being “in [or - sometimes - 'on'] Gemini”. And once enough beings obsessed with the notions of right/wrong believe it’s literally a place/ space, it starts making sense to them to discuss what content should/shouldn’t live therein. And from there it morphs even further into being a mindset/attitude, from which emerges a seeming morality. And (this is going to be intentionally hyperbolic for emphasis), since that’s what a majority of people using the protocol seem to believe, it makes sense (per the right/wrong thingie) to them to consider those in compliance with that morality “good”, and those who aren’t “evil”. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 5075 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 07.26.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_26/07/2023:_More_on_This_Week’s_Microsoft_Layoffs,_WordPress_6.3_Almost Here⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 5:39 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Audiocasts/Shows o Kernel_Space o Graphics_Stack o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Desktop_Environments/WMs # K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o BSD o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Open_Hardware/Modding * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Events o Content_Management_Systems_(CMS) o FSF o Programming/Development # Python * Leftovers o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI) o Linux_Foundation o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Wildlife/Nature 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 * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Makulu_Generator_Web_Interface_!⠀⇛ We take a look at our new Web Interface, Generating HIGH quality images has never been this easy ! # ⚓ Tux Digital ☛ Destination_Linux_333:_Linux_Desktop Marketshare_Increases_&_RHEL’s_Attack_of_the_Clones⠀⇛ Download as MP3 On this episode of Destination Linux (333), AlmaLinux is making some waves in the Enterprise Linux world. Linux desktop marketshare has broken a usage barrier. And we help out a mate from Australia with finding a silent keyboard. # ⚓ Destination_Linux_333:_Linux_Desktop_Marketshare_Increases &_RHEL’s_Attack_of_the_Clones⠀⇛ FULL SHOW NOTES ►► https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/ destination-linux/dl-333/ # ⚓ Tux Digital ☛ This_Week_in_Linux_227:_Linux_Mint, Slackware,_RHEL_Clones,_Solus,_blendOS_&_more_Linux_news!⠀⇛ On this episode of This Week in Linux (227) we have distro news from Solus, blendOS, Linux Mint and Slackware. Red Hat drama continues to build with their competitors making public statements and so this week I’ll give my reaction to their reactions of Red Hat’s actions. # ⚓ Ubuntu_Podcast_from_the_UK_LoCo:_Picking_Apart_the_Steam Deck⠀⇛ Repairing a Steam Deck, taking digital hoarding too far, Creating a magical LAN using the Internet. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ PCLOS Official ☛ Kernel_updates_are_available_for PCLinuxOS⠀⇛ stable: 6.4.6 2023-07-24stable: 6.3.13 [EOL] 2023- 07-11longterm: 6.1.41 2023-07-24longterm: 5.15.122 2023-07-24longterm: 5.10.187 2023-07-24longterm: 5.4.250 2023-07-24 # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_23.10_Will_Use_Linux_6.5_Kernel⠀⇛ Planning to upgrade or install Ubuntu 23.10 when it’s released in the autumn? If so, you can look forward to an experience powered by the Linux 6.5 kernel. While the Linux 6.5 kernel is yet to be released yet, the stars (or rather the release calendars) have aligned to make its inclusion in the “Mantic Minotaur” a dead-cert. Current daily builds of Ubuntu 23.10 include the Linux 6.3 kernel. o § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ NVIDIA_Vulkan_Beta_driver_525.47.34_out now⠀⇛ NVIDIA have released another update to their Vulkan Beta driver series with 525.47.34 out now. So here’s what’s new and fixed. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Medevel ☛ Inkscape:_free_open-source_vector_design_software for_macOS,_Linux,_and_Windows_(Free_software)⠀⇛ Inkscape is a Free and open source vector graphics editor for GNU/Linux, Windows and macOS. # ⚓ Stéphane_Cerveau:_Discover_GStreamer_full_static_mode⠀⇛ § How to embed statically your own tailored version of GStreamer in your application Since the gstreamer-full_effort, it was possible to create a shared library which will embed the GStreamer framework in addition to its set of plugins. Within this effort, it was also possible to register the selected plugins/features automatically by calling the gst_init method in your application linking with gstreamer-full. This method was offering a gstreamer-full package with library, headers and pc files but it was not possible to embed GStreamer statically in your application and use it transparently. # ⚓ Nirbheek_Chauhan:_What_is_WebRTC?_Why_does_it_need ‘Signalling’?⠀⇛ If you’re new to WebRTC, you must’ve heard that it’s a way to do video calls in your browser without needing to install an app. It’s pretty great! However, it uses a bunch of really arcane terminology because it builds upon older technologies such as RTP, RTCP, SDP, ICE, STUN, etc. To understand what WebRTC Signalling is, you must first understand these foundational technologies. Readers who are well-versed in this subject might find some of the explanations annoyingly simplistic to read. They will also notice that I am omitting a lot of of detail, leading to potentially misleading statements. I apologize in advance to these people. I am merely trying to avoid turning this post into a book. If you find a sub-heading too simplistic, please feel free to skip it. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇:-)⦈ # ⚓ Medevel ☛ HandBreak:_Multimedia_video_converter_(Free software)⠀⇛ HandBeak is a video converter and transcode engine for macOS, Windows and Linux. It’s free and open source. I have used it several times for my videos it’s really easy to use has built-in preset library, supports multiple input sources and dozens of formats and quality options. macOS (Inel, # ⚓ Medevel ☛ Koodo_Reader:_open-source_ebook_reader_(Free app)⠀⇛ Koodo Reader is a modern ebook manager and reader with sync and backup capacities for Windows, macOS, Linux and Web # ⚓ Medevel ☛ KLiK:_Open-source_Social_Network_System_for Communities_and_Teams⠀⇛ Klik is a PHP-based Information Pool System, also known as a social media website. It includes a complete login/registration system, user profile system, chat room, forum system, and blog/polls/ event management system. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ Deskreen_Turns_any_Device_With_a_Web_Browser_into a_Secondary_Screen⠀⇛ Deskreen turns any device with a web browser into a secondary screen for your computer. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ mpv:_a_free,_open_source,_and_cross-platform media_player_(Free_software)⠀⇛ mpv is a free (as in freedom) media player for the command line. It supports a wide variety of media file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ MiKTeX:_Cross-platform_LaTeX_editor_(Free_app)⠀⇛ MikeTeX is a cross-platform LaTeX/ TeX editor which a built-in package manager that allow the user to extend the core functionalities by downloading online packages. MiKTeX is a modern TeX distribution for Windows, Linux and macOS. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ LÖVE:_framework_you_can_use_to_make_2D_games_in Lua_(Free_app)⠀⇛ LÖVE is an awesome framework you can use to make 2D games in Lua. It’s free, open-source, and works on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Android and iOS. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ Lynis:_System_Auditing_Software_(Free_software)⠀⇛ Lynis is a battle-tested security tool for systems running Linux, macOS, or Unix-based operating system. It performs an extensive health scan of your systems to support system hardening and compliance testing. The project is open source software with the GPL license and available since 2007. # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Excellent_Utilities:_pastel_–_generate, analyze,_convert_and_manipulate_colors⠀⇛ pastel is a command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors. This tool supports a variety of color formats and color spaces. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ GIMP_(GNU_Image_Manipulation_Program):_Open- source_free_Photo_Editor_and_Photoshop_Alternative_(Free software)⠀⇛ GIMP is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image manipulation and image editing, free-form drawing, transcoding between different image file formats, and more specialized tasks. It is not designed to be used for drawing, though some artists and creators have used it in this way. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ LibreOffice:_an_open-source_Office_Suite_(Free program)⠀⇛ LibreOffice is an open-source office suite alternative to commercial office suites such as Microsoft Office, Apple Office apps, and OnlyOffice. It is the successor to OpenOffice.org suite, the primary office suite for many Linux distros. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Install_Neovim_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛ This article will cover how to install the latest builds of Neovim on Ubuntu. We will be using the unstable PPA repository since it gets updated more often, this means we get new features and bug fixes faster. # ⚓ Red Hat ☛ Manage_Kafka_clusters_with_AKHQ_and_AMQ_streams⠀⇛ A Graphical User Interface, or GUI, is highly important for Apache_Kafka administrators and developers. Having the ability to visualize and interact with topics or make changes quickly can save a significant amount of time. While Red Hat’s AMQ streams Operator is often considered a lightweight GUI, more advanced and detailed information can only be obtained using command-line tools such as kafka-consumer-groups.sh, kafka- acls.sh, etc. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Assignment_Operators_in_Bash⠀⇛ In the Bash shell, assignment operators are used to assign values to variables. They are essential tools in scripting and programming, providing a method to store and manipulate data. This article will take you through the fundamental assignment operators in Bash, along with examples of their usage. # ⚓ Enrico_Zini:_Mysterious_DNS_issues⠀⇛ Uhm, salsa is not resolving: $ git fetch ssh: Could not resolve hostname salsa.debian.org: Name or service not known fatal: Could not read from remote repository. $ ping salsa.debian.org ping: salsa.debian.org: Name or service not known But… it is? ⚓ Carl Schwan ☛ Mastodon_and_Matrix_link_in_your_AppStream_file⠀⇛ Quick reminder, that you can include a Mastodon or Matrix link to your AppStream file and that the link will then be displayed in your application page at apps.kde.org. ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Clang_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Clang on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Clang is a cutting-edge C, C++, and Objective-C compiler that offers fast performance, robust diagnostics, and extensive support for modern language features. ⚓ How_to_Fix_‘Too_Many_Open_Files’_Error_in_Nginx⠀⇛ The “Too many open files” error in Nginx typically occurs when the system has reached its limit for the maximum number of open file descriptors ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_phpMyAdmin_with_LEMP_on_Debian_12/11/10⠀⇛ In the dynamic landscape of web development, phpMyAdmin remains a cornerstone for effective and efficient database management. Utilizing the power of PHP, this open-source tool is designed to handle administrative operations over MySQL and MariaDB via a user- friendly, web-based interface. ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_GNOME_Tweaks_on_Debian_12/11/10⠀⇛ In the digital world, personalizing your environment is key, and GNOME Tweaks Tool is a powerful ally for Linux users. Part of the GNOME desktop environment, this user-friendly utility allows you to modify your system’s appearance and behavior, moving beyond standard settings to customize themes, fonts, extensions, and window behaviors. ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ How_to_Install_KDE_Plasma_Desktop_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛ Ready to revamp your Ubuntu experience? Learn how to install KDE Plasma on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and embrace a whole new level of functionality. ⚓ Own HowTo ☛ How_to_backup_Files_and_Softwares_on_Linux_Mint⠀⇛ In Linux Mint, there is a tool called Backup Tool, this tool allows you to backup files that are located in the home directory of your system, it also allows you to backup the current list of the softwares. ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ How_to_Install_ONLYOFFICE_Docs_on_Ubuntu_and_Enable_ChatGPT⠀⇛ In the latest build of ONLYOFFICE Doc, it has brought up the option to use ChatGPT on the platform, so let’s learn how to enable ChatGPT on ONLYOFFICE Docs. ONLYOFFICE Docs is an open-source office suite package that includes collaborative editors for text documents, sheets, and presentations, together with the form creator and PDF viewer. ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ How_to_install_and_use_Zsh_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛ The command line is a powerful tool in the hands of a Linux user. However, the default shell, known as Bash, can sometimes lack the features or user-friendliness that some users desire. Enter Zsh: a shell designed to be interactive, user-friendly, and highly customizable. With features such as spell correction, improved auto completions, and a rich set of options for customizing its behavior, Zsh has gained popularity among developers and system administrators alike. ⚓ ZDNet ☛ How_to_run_multiple_Linux_commands_at_once⠀⇛ When you finally start working with the Linux command line, you’ll find numerous ways to make the process more efficient. By running two or more commands at once, you’ll not have to wait until one finishes to start the next. ⚓ Guide_to_Installing,_Configuring,_and_Managing_MySQL_on_Linux⠀⇛ MySQL is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) that is widely used for managing and organizing structured (or tabular) data, and to manage this data, you need to have basic knowledge of SQL queries. ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Firewalld_on_Debian_12/11/10⠀⇛ Firewalld, an innovation in firewall solutions, emerges as a beacon of security for Debian users, promising dynamic and versatile system defense. It transcends the traditional static nature of firewall management, offering a fresh perspective on system protection. ⚓ How_to_Upgrade_VCS_from_7.4.2_to_8.0_in_RHEL⠀⇛ Veritas Cluster Server upgrade can be done smoothly by using the Install Bundles feature. ⚓ Step-by-Step_Tutorial:_How_to_Create_Files_in_Linux_using_Commands_and_GUI⠀⇛ To create a file in Linux is easier than eating ice-cream. ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_SELinux_on_Debian_12/11/10⠀⇛ In the vast world of computing, security plays a fundamental role in ensuring the protection of data, systems, and operations. SELinux (Security Enhanced Linux) stands as a formidable solution that fortifies Linux-based systems with an extra layer of security. ⚓ Linux Journal ☛ A_Comprehensive_Guide_to_Using_PuTTY_for_SSH_into_Linux⠀⇛ Whether you’re an experienced developer or a beginner trying to establish a secure connection between your computer and a remote Linux server, PuTTY is a tool you can rely on. Let’s delve into understanding how to utilize PuTTY to Secure Shell (SSH) into a Linux machine from a Windows operating system. Introduction to PuTTY PuTTY is an open-source, free SSH client for Windows. It enables users to remotely access computers over networks and run commands as if they were sitting in front of the terminal. It’s a versatile tool that’s widely used in network administration, software development, and other IT-related professions. ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_MakeMKV_on_Debian_12/11/10⠀⇛ MakeMKV stands as a beacon in the sea of digital tools, specializing in video format conversion. It serves as an essential bridge, allowing media to traverse from proprietary and often encrypted formats into a set of versatile MKV files. ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ Enable_Universe_and_Multiverse_Repositories_in_Ubuntu⠀⇛ Ubuntu, a widely recognized and well-reputed open-source operating system, allows users to customize and augment their computing experience through its vast array of software packages. These packages are neatly organized into different repositories, each designed to cater to various software licensing and maintenance needs. ⚓ Wireshark_IP_Address_and_Port_Filtering:_A_Complete_Guide_for_Kali_Linux⠀⇛ Using Wireshark filter ip address and port inside network ⚓ Mastering_Dig_Command_for_Information_Gathering_in_Kali_Linux⠀⇛ ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_PHP_8.3,_8.2,_8.1,_or_8.0_on_Debian_12/11/10⠀⇛ PHP is a programming language executed on the server and is mainly used for creating websites and web applications. It can be easily incorporated into a Debian server to create dynamic websites and content management systems (CMS). ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Install_and_Use_Ventoy_on_Linux_[Step-by-Step_Guide]⠀⇛ Tired of flashing USB drives for every ISO? Get started with Ventoy and get the ability to easily boot from ISOs. § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ * § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ o ⚓ Scarlett_Gately_Moore:_KDE_Akademy_2023,_Sunburns,_and_KDE Snaps⠀⇛ A big thank you goes out to the Ubuntu Community for making my attendance to the KDE Akademy 2023! This was a very successful conference for me. I had very positive feedback for my speech on “A million reasons why snaps are important. I also had a productive BoF on snapping KDE applications. Most importantly I got to catch up with many old and new friends and got to put faces to the new. There were so many great talks and BoFs, but one of my favorites was the Goals as all three compliment each other. The keynote was amazing, I had no idea open source has made its way into space! How cool is that!?! Despite the high temperatures ( something I am used to, but not that humidity! ) I had a wonderful time and was able to visit many cool sites in Greece. What an amazing place. o ⚓ Write.as ☛ My_first_in-person_Akademy:_Thessaloniki_2023⠀⇛ § My first in-person Akademy: Thessaloniki 2023⠀➾ This year, I was finally able to participate in-person at Akademy. Apart from meeting some familiar faces from the Plasma Spring in May this year, I also met lots of new people. When waiting for the plane in Frankfurt, a group of KDE people formed. Meaning, we had a get-together even before the Akademy had started ;). On the plane to Thessaloniki, I made a merge requests to fix a Kickoff_crash_due_to_a KRunner_change. Once that was done, everything was in place for the talks! On Saturday, I talked once again with Nico and also Volker about KF6. This included topics like the remaining challenges, the estimated timeline for KF6 and some practical porting advice. I also gave a talk about KRunner. This was the conference talk of mine that I gave alone, meaning I was a bit nervous 😅. The title was “KRunner: Past, Present, and Future” and it focused on porting, new features and future plans for KF6. Thanks to everyone who was listening to the talk, both in person and online! § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ * ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Easy-to-see_mouse_pointer⠀⇛ I received an email from Rick C, asking if anything can be done to make the mouse pointer more visible. There is the Pcur PET package, in the “noarch” repository, installable via PKGget, which is a big collection of mouse cursor themes. Some have larger mouse pointer, but can’t say that I like them. I took a fresh look at the subject, and have created a PET package with two programs, SXC, Simple Xcursor Creator, and SXS, Simple Xcursor selector. The PET is here: [...] * § BSD⠀➾ o ⚓ Klara ☛ Our_2023_Recommended_Summer_Reads_–_FreeBSD_and_Linux⠀⇛ Embrace the power of FreeBSD! 🌞📚 Unleash its potential with our captivating summer collection. Optimize performance, boost security, and expand your tech horizons. Level up your skills as you sip on your summer cocktail or simply take a break from a heavy year. * § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ o ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Reaching_for_the_stars,_creating_the_Ubuntu_Summit_2023 Logo⠀⇛ We’re super happy and excited to announce the new logo for this year’s Ubuntu Summit: The Ubuntu Summit this year is held in Riga, Latvia, November 3-5 2023. This event is focused on the Linux and open-source ecosystem. It is a great opportunity for the broad and diverse open-source community to meet and showcase what the future of open source looks like. The concept behind the logo was to have a design which reflected the different cities we would have the Summit in. I found the freedom monument in RIGA, this very nicely matched one of our core values of Freedom, it also had 3 stars which matched our Circle of Friends 3 heads. The next task was to arrange the stars and the heads so they mirrored each other. Let’s hope the next city is as visually kind to us! “The granite and copper monument in the center of Riga symbolizes Latvian statehood, national unity, independence and freedom. The monument was funded entirely by donations from residents and constructed as a memorial to those who fell in Latvia’s struggle for independence.” “I was in another meeting at the time,” Graham said, “but I wanted to see whether a cropped version of the monument’s hands would work. So I fired up GIMP, dropped the previous logo and a statue image into background layers, and started sketching. I don’t think anyone in the meeting noticed…” o ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Optimised_Real-time_Ubuntu_is_now_generally_available_on Intel_SoCs⠀⇛ Canonical delivers Real-time Ubuntu on Intel Core processors with TSN and Intel TCC support.   London, 26 July 2023: Canonical today announced the availability of Real-time Ubuntu optimised on Intel Core processors.  o ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Canonical_launches_Real-time_Ubuntu_on_Intel_Core processors⠀⇛ Canonical Ltd. and Intel Corp. today announced a technical collaboration focused on a new, enterprise- focused release of Ubuntu that launched earlier this year. The release is known as Real-time Ubuntu. * § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ 486_Gets_Animated_Turbo_Button_Thanks_To_Arduino⠀⇛ There was a point in time, excruciatingly brief, in which desktop computers often had a large “TURBO” button on their front panel. Some even featured an LED display that would indicate the current CPU frequency, providing visual conformation that your machine had leaped to a blistering 66 MHz. o ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Flipper_Zero_hardware_&_wireless_hacking_tool_gets an_app_“store”_with_open-source_app⠀⇛ Flipper Zero portable multi-tool for pentesters and hardware hackers has now gotten an app “store” with currently around 100 free and open-source apps available through the device’s Android or iOS app. I missed it at the time, but the Flipper Zero launched on Kickstarter in July 2020 and was massively popular with close to 5 million dollars raised from almost 38,000 backers. The tool looks like a toy but it allows hacking with GPIOs and short-range wireless protocols such as Bluetooth, RFID, NFC, and infrared. o ⚓ Richard_W.M._Jones:_Heads_up!_Lichee_Pi_4A_vs_VisionFive_2_vs HiFive_Unmatched_vs_Raspberry_Pi_4B⠀⇛ I have a lot of RISC-V and Arm hardware. How do my latest 3 RISC-V purchases stand up against each other and the stalwart Raspberry Pi 4B? Let’s find out! The similarities between these boards are striking. All have 4 cores and all except the HiFive board have 8GB of RAM (HiFive Unmatched has 16GB). All have some kind of flash-based storage: The Raspberry_Pi and Sipeed_Lichee are using external SanDisk SSDs connected by USB 3. The HiFive_Unmatched and VisionFive 2 have NVMe drives (I hope all SBCs provide an NVMe slot going forward). Since I mainly use these for compiling Fedora packages, I tested compiling qemu using identical configurations. I built it a few times to warm up and then timed the last build, on otherwise unloaded machines. Here are the results: o ⚓ CNX Software ☛ UP_7000_is_a_powerful_x86_alternative_to_the Raspberry_Pi_4_SBC_with_an_Intel_Processor_N50/N97/N100_CPU⠀⇛ AAEON UP 7000 is an x86 single board computer with a layout similar to the Raspberry Pi 4 but based on a more powerful Intel Processor N50, N97, or N100 Alder Lake- N SoC with Gigabit Ethernet, three USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports, HDMI 1.4 video output, and a 40-pin GPIO header. Not to be confused with the larger UP Squared Pro 7000 also powered by an Alder Lake-N processor, the UP 7000 is an update to the UP 4000 SBC with an Intel Apollo Lake processor introduced just last year. o ⚓ CNX Software ☛ RP2_Nano_is_a_$6.6_Raspberry_Pi_RP2040_board_with Arduino_Nano_form_factor⠀⇛ ArtronShop RP2 Nano board features the Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller in the Arduino Nano form factor in a way that’s much cheaper than the official Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect board. That’s possible because Thailand- based AtronShop did not include all the bells and whistles such as WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity, sensors, and used a smaller flash. So the RP2 Nano basically offers the same I/Os and features as the Arduino Nano, but the Microchip ATmega328 8-bit AVR microcontroller gives place to the more powerful Raspberry Pi RP2040 dual-core Cortex-M0+ MCU plus 2MB flash, and the board also adds an extra Grove connector for expansion. § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ * ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ LHB_Linux_Digest_#23.11:_Proxmox_Series,_DevOps_Books, LazyDocker_and_More⠀⇛ This newsletter brings the announcement of the new Proxmox tutorial series and a good deal on DevOps eBooks. * ⚓ Linux_Format_305⠀⇛ Escape the tyranny of the corporate owned cloud! Free your files from Google and Microsoft as we show you how to set up and run your own open source office – create, edit, share and save your files and documents running on your own systems using Nextcloud… * § Events⠀➾ o ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ SUSECON_2023⠀⇛ The SUSE community gathered in Munich to reimagine the customer process and meet the new CEO. * § Content Management Systems (CMS)⠀➾ o ⚓ WordPress ☛ WordPress_6.3_Release_Candidate_2⠀⇛ WordPress 6.3 RC2 is ready for download and testing. Reaching this part of the release cycle is a key milestone. While release candidates are considered ready for final release, additional testing and use by the community can only make it better. * § FSF⠀➾ o ⚓ FSF ☛ FSF_Blogs:_Adrien_Béraud_and_Sébastien_Blin_of_GNU_Jami: Working_together_for_free_communication⠀⇛ o ⚓ FSF ☛ FSF_Blogs:_The_campaigns_team_and_the_community_work together_for_free_software⠀⇛ * § Programming/Development⠀➾ o ⚓ Red Hat ☛ Checking_usage_of_realloc_with_Valgrind⠀⇛ One of the C dynamic memory allocation functions is realloc. Given a pointer, realloc will resize the memory block it points to. This sounds like a simple and useful mechanism to do memory management. But realloc has various gotchas that Valgrind_Memcheck can check for to ensure you use the function correctly. Memory blocks should exist and have not yet been freed, blocks can be moved when resized, on failure to resize the memory block might leak, and what happens when a block is reduced to zero size might be undefined. o § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Pandas_Merge_on_Multiple_Columns⠀⇛ In Python, the “pandas.merge()” method of the “pandas” module is utilized to merge the multiple columns of two Pandas DataFrame. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Logical_Operators_in_Python⠀⇛ Python, one of the world’s most popular programming languages, supports a wide range of operators, including arithmetic, comparison, assignment, bitwise, and logical operators. In this article, we’ll focus on Python’s logical operators, exploring their usage and significance in coding various logical operations. What are Logical Operators? # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_List_to_CSV⠀⇛ In Python, the “write()”, “CSV”, “to_csv()”, and the “savetxt()” methods are utilized to create a CSV file from the input list. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Pandas_Sum_Column⠀⇛ The “DataFrame.sum()” method or “DataFrame.eval()” method is used to add all the columns or specified columns of Pandas DataFrame in Python. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Pandas_Between_Dates⠀⇛ In Python, “df.loc[]”, “df.query()”, and the “df.isin()” methods are used to select the rows of Pandas DataFrame that fall within the specified dates. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Pandas_DataFrame_Remove_Index⠀⇛ The “pd.reset_index()” method of the “pandas” module is used to remove/drop the single or multiple indexes of the Pandas DataFrame. § Leftovers⠀➾ * ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Techdirt_Podcast_Episode_359:_Red_Team_Blues,_Part_Two_(With Cory_Doctorow)⠀⇛ Okay, now we’re getting back to the plan. Two weeks ago we featured an excerpt from the audiobook of Red Team Blues, Cory Doctorow’s new (and excellent) novel, and promised that we’d soon be joined by Cory himself. And now, we deliver! Listen to this week’s episode for a long and far-reaching conversation between Mike and Cory about the book and it’s themes and subjects, plus plenty of interesting tangents. * ⚓ The Nation ☛ Tommy_the_Tuber_From_Tuberville⠀⇛ * ⚓ The Nation ☛ Without_a_Map⠀⇛ Peter Handke’s latest novel, The Fruit Thief, translated by Krishna Winston, begins with a man going out for a walk. He is waylaid from the first step: Walking barefoot on the grass, he gets stung by a bee. The sting opens up a flood of thoughts—about the weather, a broken shoelace, the anatomy of bees, and whether bee stings are a cosmic sign. He declares, “Suddenly I felt fine about setting out without any map at all.” From there, the narrator begins a strange, sometimes inscrutable journey through provincial towns and fields, across rivers and into darkened woods. He is ostensibly in pursuit of a mysterious woman (the fruit thief), yet all the while our narrator keeps cogitating, describing, elaborating—even though it is unclear whether he wishes (or cares) if his purpose is understood. Many of the Austrian writer’s protagonists are wanderers, and for the author, the work of noticing is a lonely struggle between the isolated self and the murky outside world. Language is the bridge: necessary for articulating what we observe and feel, but also fundamentally vulnerable to collapse. Handke subjects the words he uses to a microscopic examination: There is often a stunning ability to shift between abstractions (say, what it feels like to have a “successful day”) and the precisely sensory (say, a meditation on the sound of stepping on a manhole cover). Although they’re often detached in tone, this steady accumulation of impressions asks readers to question how attuned to their surroundings, and their sentences, they really are. The level of detail that The Fruit Thief’s narrator musters in his attempt to put the world around him into words creates a contradiction: Individual moments are exacting in their detail, but the world itself is vague, as if struggling under the weight of its elaboration. It can lead a skeptical reader to wonder whether the narrator—and, by extension, Handke too—is sometimes missing the forest for all the carefully described trees. * ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Beautifully_Rebuilding_A_VR_Headset_To_Add_AR_Features⠀⇛ [PyottDesign] recently wrapped up a personal project to create himself a custom AR/VR headset that could function as an AR (augmented reality) platform, and make it easier to develop new applications in a headset that could do everything he needed. He succeeded wonderfully, and published a video showcase of the finished project. * ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Where_Old_Files_Go_To_Die⠀⇛ We all lead digital lives, and we work in and on files of one sort or another. And sometimes we get attached to them. That long manifesto you poured your heart into, but nonetheless probably shouldn’t see the light of day? Love letters from former flames? Your first favorite video game that you can’t play any more, but it just sits there eating up drive space? * ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Twitter_renaming_to_X⠀⇛ Just kidding, I’m not going to post about that. Instead, here are a list of words that don’t have the letter X in them: o Grilled cheese sandwiches o Disenfranchisement o Extreme * § Education⠀➾ o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ ‘We’re_Huge_in_Learning_Loss!’_Cashing_in_on_the Post-Pandemic_Education_Crisis⠀⇛ Test scores are plummeting while tens of billions in federal aid flows to schools. A visit to a recent education technology convention provides a glimpse of the frenzy to profit from the recovery e… * § Hardware⠀➾ o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Retrotechtacular:_The_Computer_Center_Of_1973⠀⇛ You might expect Bell Labs would have state-of-the-art computers, and they did. But it is jarring to realize just how little that was in 1973, fifty years ago. If you started work at Bell’s Holmdel Computing Center back then, you might have watched one of the orientation videos below. Your first clue about how far things have come might be the reference to the IBM 370/165, which had “3 million bytes of core, 2 million of which are available for programmer use.” Even our laptops today have at least 8 gigabytes of RAM. There were at least two other smaller IBM 370s, too. Plenty of 029 card punches are visible. o ⚓ WhichUK ☛ Which_mobile_phone_brands_develop_the_most_faults?⠀⇛ Samsung and Apple phones develop more faults than some other brands – we reveal the most common problems, and how to fix them o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Car_Security_System_Monitors_Tiny_Voltage Fluctuations⠀⇛ As the old saying goes, there’s no such thing as a lock that can’t be picked. However, it seems like there are plenty of examples of car manufacturers that refuse to add these metaphorical locks to their cars at all — especially when it comes to securing the electronic systems of vehicles. Plenty of modern cars are essentially begging to be attacked as a result of such poor practices as unencrypted CAN busses and easily spoofed wireless keyfobs. But even if your car comes from a manufacturer that takes basic security precautions, you still might want to check out this project from the University of Michigan that is attempting to add another layer of security to cars. * § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ o ⚓ New York Times ☛ The_Covid_Origins_Debate⠀⇛ The picture has changed as more evidence emerges, but we might never get a clear answer. * § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾ o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ WOW_Fans_Trick_‘AI’_‘News’_Scraper_Into_Covering_Fake New_Game_Feature⠀⇛ Language learning technology’s (aka “AI”) introduction into journalism has been a blistering mess. And not just because the technology is undercooked (which it is), but because the folks in charge of most major media outlets are incompetent cheapskates who simply see the tech as a way to cut corners, wage war on labor, and automate all of the clickbait attention economy’s very worst impulses. o ⚓ Sam_Hartman:_AI_and_Sexuality [Ed: Former DPL boosting Microsoft's proprietary spyware]⠀⇛ When I began to read about the generative AI revolution, I realized there was an opportunity to combine two aspects of my life I never thought I could merge. While I’m not working on the cloud or security, I work as a sex and intimacy educator, helping people embrace love, vulnerability and connection. o ⚓ LinkedIn_reveals_global_layoffs_include_nearly_200_Bay_Area_job cuts⠀⇛ o ⚓ LinkedIn_layoffs:_Job_site_announces_nearly_200_Bay_Area_job cuts⠀⇛ o ⚓ The Business Journals ☛ LinkedIn_cut_187_Bay_Area_workers_in latest_layoffs [Ed: LinkedIn is also selling its office. Microsoft is turning it to dust.]⠀⇛ The Microsoft Corp.-owned company’s layoffs affected workers based at its headquarters in Sunnyvale, its offices in Mountain View and San Francisco, and some who worked from home but reported to its corporate base, according to a letter sent to state and local officials June 21. o ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Microsoft’s_stock_falls_as_demand_for_cloud services_cools [Ed: Falls spun as "cools"]⠀⇛ o ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Microsoft_reports_rise_in_revenue,_profit_despite security_woes⠀⇛ Microsoft has come in for criticism from industry figures even as it obfuscated about the incident, said to be perpetrated by attackers from China, most recently denying a detailed technical post about the breach by cloud security firm Wiz, after having given its blessing to the post. o ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Microsoft_General_Revenue_Up,_Except_for Personal_Computing⠀⇛ Microsoft today announced its financial results for the fourth quarter 2023, posting an almost across-the-board revenue and profit increase. Exceptions include personal computing and more specifically, Xbox hardware and Windows activations. * § Linux Foundation⠀➾ o ⚓ Linux Foundation’s Site/Blog ☛ TODO_Group_Releases_OSPO Definition_2.0⠀⇛ The TODO Group community has launched the second release of the OSPO Definition. This new version updates the traditional OSPO definition to be more inclusive and reflects the reality of OSPOs expanding outside purely the corporate sector and into the public sector. The 2.0 version: * § Security⠀➾ o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Moscow_Court_Sentences_Cybersecurity_Company_Chief_To_14 Years⠀⇛ The Moscow City Court has sentenced Ilya Sachkov, the head of a leading Russian cybersecurity company, to 14 years in prison on a high treason charge. o ⚓ SANS ☛ Suspicious_IP_Addresses_Avoided_by_Malware_Samples,_(Wed, Jul_26th)⠀⇛ o ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ Backdoor_in_TETRA_Police_Radios⠀⇛ Seems that there is a deliberate_backdoor in the twenty- year-old TErrestrial Trunked RAdio (TETRA) standard used by police forces around the world. The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), an organization that standardizes technologies across the industry, first created TETRA in 1995. Since then, TETRA has been used in products, including radios, sold by Motorola, Airbus, and more. Crucially, TETRA is not open-source. Instead, it relies on what the researchers describe in their presentation slides as “secret, proprietary cryptography,” meaning it is typically difficult for outside experts to verify how secure the standard really is… o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Political_Analyst_Charged_With_Online_Calls_For Terrorism⠀⇛ Russia’s Federal Security Service has charged political analyst Boris Kagarlitsky with online calls for terrorism, his daughter Ksenia said. o ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Apple_issues_third_mobile_OS_update_after zero-click_spyware_campaign⠀⇛ The patch is the latest to address issues associated with what cybersecurity firm Kaspersky called Operation Triangulation. o ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ New_AMD_‘Zenbleed’_exploit_can_steal_passwords and_encryption_keys_from_CPUs⠀⇛ A new security vulnerability has been discovered affecting Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Zen 2 processors that can be exploited to steal passwords and other sensitive data such as encryption keys. Google security researcher Travis Ormandy revealed the bug on his blog Monday, naming it “Zenbleed,” which has been filed as CVE-2023-20593. o ⚓ Security Week ☛ AMD_CPU_Vulnerability_‘Zenbleed’_Can_Expose Sensitive_Information⠀⇛ AMD has released microcode patches to address Zenbleed, a vulnerability in its Zen 2 CPUs that can allow an attacker to access sensitive information. o ⚓ IT Wire ☛ AMD_issues_mitigation_advice_for_flaw_in_Zen_2 processors⠀⇛ Processor manufacturer AMD has issued an advisory about a cross-process information leak in some of its hardware, that it rates to be of medium severity, following the release of details of the flaw by Google Information Security researcher Tavis Ormandy. > o ⚓ Security Week ☛ Maritime_Cyberattack_Database_Launched_by_Dutch University⠀⇛ The NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands has launched MCAD, the Maritime Cyber Attack Database. o ⚓ Security Week ☛ TETRA_Radio_Standard_Vulnerabilities_Can_Expose Military_Comms,_Industrial_Systems⠀⇛ TETRA:BURST – vulnerabilities in widely used radio standard could threaten military and law enforcement communications, as well as ICS. o ⚓ Support_for_Istio_1.16_has_ended⠀⇛ As previously_announced, support for Istio 1.16 has now officially ended. At this point we will no longer back-port fixes for security issues and critical bugs to 1.16, so we heartily encourage you to upgrade to the latest version of Istio (1.18.2) if you haven’t already. o ⚓ ISTIO-SECURITY-2023-003⠀⇛ o ⚓ Announcing_Istio_1.18.2⠀⇛ This release fixes the security vulnerabilities described in our July 25th post, ISTIO-SECURITY-2023-003. This release note describes what’s different between Istio 1.18.1 and 1.18.2. o ⚓ Announcing_Istio_1.17.5⠀⇛ This release fixes the security vulnerabilities described in our July 25th post, ISTIO-SECURITY-2023-003. This release note describes what’s different between Istio 1.17.4 and 1.17.5. o ⚓ Announcing_Istio_1.16.7⠀⇛ This release fixes the security vulnerabilities described in our July 25th post, ISTIO-SECURITY-2023-003. This release note describes what’s different between Istio 1.16.6 and 1.16.7. o § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ FISA_Court_Order_Shows_FBI_Analyst_Performing Improper_Search_Of_US_Senator’s_Data⠀⇛ For the first time in a long time, the Intelligence Community is facing an uphill battle to getting one of its most invasive surveillance powers renewed. Not even during the heyday of the Snowden leaks has the IC seen this much resistance to a clear reauthorization of its Section 702 program. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Australia_fines_Facebook_owner_Meta $17.9m_for_undisclosed_data_collection⠀⇛ Meta still faces a civil court action over its dealings with Cambridge Analytica in Australia. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Influencers_Starting_To_Realize_How_The_Kids Online_Safety_Act_(KOSA)_Will_Do_Real_Damage⠀⇛ We’ve talked a lot about just how bad the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is. Yet some people (including people who, frankly, should know better) keep trying to tell me how well meaning it is. It’s not. It’s dangerous. But it has real momentum. A massive bipartisan group of Senators are co- sponsors of the bill. # ⚓ OpenRightsGroup ☛ South_Wales_Police_state_their_case_for using_facial_recognition⠀⇛ On 28 June, the parliamentary session’s final Senedd cross-party group (CPG) on digital rights and democracy, of which Open Rights Group (ORG) acts as secretariat, took place online with over 20 attendees tuning in to hear a follow-up to a previous group session on facial recognition technology. * § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_Strange_Rehabilitation_of_Elliott_Abrams⠀⇛ Democratic presidents have a way of reaching out to undeserving Republicans…. o ⚓ Axios ☛ New_witness_at_scene_of_Malcolm_X_assassination_says_he wasn’t_interviewed⠀⇛ A police informant saw a “dry run” of Malcolm_X’s_1965 assassination a week prior and a new witness at the scene says he was never interviewed by authorities, attorneys and Malcolm X’s family announced Tuesday. Why it mattersCivil rights attorneyBen Crump and co- counsel Ray Hamlin alleged at a press conference more information they say points to efforts by the FBI to cover up a conspiracy to murder Malcolm X. o ⚓ NYPost ☛ Witness_to_Malcolm_X’s_assassination_says_he_heard police_ask_‘Is_he_with_us?’_as_they_restrained_killer⠀⇛ Speaking at the press conference, Mustafa Hassan, 84, said he was a part of Malcolm X’s security detail at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City on Feb. 21, 1965, the day he was assassinated. o ⚓ ACLU ☛ When_Will_Biden_Stop_Giving_Immigration_Powers_to_Racist, Corrupt_Sheriffs?⠀⇛ Earlier this month, a federal grand jury indicted Culpeper County, Virginia Sheriff Scott Jenkins for allegedly taking cash_bribes and large campaign donations in exchange for appointing people “auxiliary deputy sheriffs” and allowing them to carry concealed firearms without a permit. Another sheriff, Chuck Jenkins (no relation) of Frederick County, Maryland, was alsorecently indicted for an alleged scheme that involved machine gun trafficking in exchange for political support in his re- election campaign. o ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Too_Quiet_on_AUKUS⠀⇛ o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Beijing_Vows_Countermeasures_After_CIA_Says_It’s Rebuilding_Spy_Networks_in_China⠀⇛ CIA Director William Burns says the spy agency is ‘making progress’ in China. o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_United_States_Refuses_to_Play_by_the_World’s Rules⠀⇛ Here Are Three Ways. o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_Afghanistan_Lithium_Great_Game⠀⇛ While the United States, along with its allies, left Afghanistan in August 2021… o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ New_Files_Reveal_MKUltra’s_Terrifying_Reach:_Ethnic Bioweapons,_Mind_Control_and_Disturbing_Experiments⠀⇛  In a groundbreaking investigation, renowned anthropologist Orisanmi Burton has blown the lid off a dark chapter… o ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Rival_Koreas_mark_armistice_anniversary_in two_different_ways_that_highlight_rising_tensions⠀⇛ The truce that stopped the bloodshed in the Korean War turns 70 on Thursday and the two Koreas are marking the anniversary in starkly different ways, underscoring their deepening nuclear tensions. North Korea has invited delegations from China and Russia as it prepares to stage huge celebrations that are likely to be highlighted by a military parade in Pyongyang, where leader Kim Jong Un could showcase his most powerful missiles. The mood is more somber in South Korea, where President Yoon Suk Yeol has invited dozens of foreign war veterans to honor the fallen soldiers of the 1950-53 conflict, which set the stage for decades of animosity among the Koreas and the United States. o ⚓ Defence Web ☛ Modise_adamant_Lady_R_took_on_no_cargo_in_Simon’s Town⠀⇛ Defence and Military Veterans Minister Thandi Modise stands by her earlier statements that “nothing was loaded onto the Lady R” while the sanctioned Russian cargo vessel was alongside in Simon’s Town naval harbour in December. o § War in Ukraine⠀➾ # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Russian_pensioner_language_exam-taking_causes social_media_outrage⠀⇛ A video taken in Daugavpils has gained millions of views on TikTok – it shows an elderly woman carried upstairs to take a Latvian language exam. Russian propaganda channels have managed to use the material for their own purposes, Latvian Television reported July 25. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ If_Everybody’s_Going_to_Join_NATO,_Then_Why Have_the_United_Nations?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin_planning_trip_to_China_in_October_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Vladimir Putin is planning to go to China in October 2023 to take part in Beijing’s Belt and Road Forum, Russian state media reported on Tuesday, citing presidential aide Yury Ushakov. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Just_try_it_again,_mercenaries_Russian_lawmakers have_adopted_legislation_that_will_create_regional_‘special militarized_formations’_armed_by_the_National_Guard_— Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Black-and-blue_white_power_Russian_federal_agents have_reportedly_tortured_the_neo-Nazis_they_accuse_of plotting_to_assassinate_Margarita_Simonyan_and_Ksenia_Sobchak —_Meduza⠀⇛ Russia Today editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan and Ksenia Sobchak, a socialite and erstwhile presidential candidate turned journalist, were both targets in a recent assassination plot, according to Russia’s Federal Security Service. On July 15, the FSB accused members of the Paragraph-88 neo- Nazi group of planning to murder Simonyan and Sobchak in exchange for 3 million rubles ($33,300) from Ukraine’s National Security Service. That same day, a Moscow court jailed seven suspects in the case, albeit on apparently unrelated charges of disorderly conduct. A few days later, the court jailed an eighth suspect. Three Paragraph-88 members are also accused of attacking Central Asian nationals in Moscow. For some reason, the court proceedings against these men have not once mentioned the reported plots against Simonyan or Sobchak. Journalists at Mediazona learned that the Russian authorities tortured the suspects before they came before a judge. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘When_we_got_here,_it_was_a_beautiful_forest’_The Russia-Ukraine_war_has_destroyed_thousands_of_acres_of Ukraine’s_forest._Photo_and_video_of_the_ecological_effects of_nearly_18_months_of_war._—_Meduza⠀⇛ During the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, forested tracts and strips between fields have become the only shelter available to soldiers trying to hide from reconnaissance drones. For that reason, Ukraine’s forests have become sites of particularly intense fighting and targets for seemingly endless missile and artillery strikes. Since October 2022, a separate “forest front” has existed to the north of the Siverskyi Donets River near the city of Kreminna. Large forces from both Russia and Ukraine have faced off there, bombing and shelling the forest with every available type of weapon, from mine-clearing vehicles to powerful aerial bombs. At the same time, the Russian army continues its long- standing practice of mining practically every strip of forest in the northern Zaporizhzhia and southern Donetsk regions. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Everything_in_the_rotunda_was_smashed_into oblivion’_In_the_1930s,_the_Soviet_authorities_blew_up Odesa’s_Transfiguration_Cathedral._Now_Russia_has_destroyed it_again._—_Meduza⠀⇛ Russia’s attack on Odesa on the night of July 22 was the largest to hit the city’s historic center since the start of the full-scale war, according to local authorities. The regional administration initially reported that at least 44 buildings were damaged, 25 of which were officially recognized architectural monuments. Later, Ukraine’s Culture Ministry revised the number to 29 monuments, including some that belong to the Historic Center of Odesa World Heritage Site and its buffer zone. The city’s massive Transfiguration Cathedral sustained the most serious damage. Meduza tells the story of the historic church, which was demolished by the Soviet government, rebuilt in independent Ukraine, and destroyed once again by Russia’s invasion. # ⚓ European Commission ☛ State_aid:_Commission_approves_€5 billion_Czech_scheme_to_support_energy_producers_in_the context_of_Russia’s_war_against_Ukraine⠀⇛ European Commission Press release Brussels, 26 Jul 2023 The European Commission has approved a €5 billion (CZK 125 billion) Czech scheme to support large energy producers in the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Baltic_states_want_to_help_distribute_Ukraine’s grain⠀⇛ Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said July 25 that the Baltic states want to help send Ukraine’s grain around the world and will call on the European Commission for help in making it happen. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ ‘Salt_of_Freedom’_project_wants_your_stories_for Ukraine⠀⇛ Latvia-based Ukrainian artist Daria Kalashnikova has issued a call for stories about ‘freedom’ as part of her latest project, titled ‘The Salt of Freedom’. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ ‘Our_own_front_line’:_Ukrainian surgeons_see_wave_of_wounded_soldiers_since_counteroffensive began⠀⇛ A surge of wounded soldiers has coincided with the major counteroffensive Ukraine launched in June to try to recapture its land from Russian forces. Surgeons at the Mechnikov Hospital, one of the country’s biggest, are busier now than perhaps at any other time since Russia invaded 17 months ago. Dozens of soldiers arrive through the night with bandaged limbs soaked in blood, faces blackened with shrapnel fragments and stunned eyes fixed on the ceiling, frozen in shock. After their surgeries, they are sent off to recover elsewhere to create space for the next nightly deluge. One doctor says: “We hold our own front line here.” # ⚓ France24 ☛ 🔴_Live:_North_Korea_welcomes_Russian_defence ministry_delegation_in_Pyongyang⠀⇛ North Korea rolled out the red carpet for Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, state media said Wednesday, with delegations from Moscow and Beijing set to attend Korean War anniversary events. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been steadfast in his support for Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuania_to_fund_studies_of_350_Ukrainians⠀⇛ The Ministry of Education, Science and Sport has announced that 350 Ukrainian students will receive partial state funding for their bachelor’s and master’s studies in Lithuania, as part of the continuation of aid to Ukrainian war refugees. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ NATO-Ukraine_Council_Set_To_Discuss_Black_Sea Security_Amid_Heavy_Fighting_In_Kharkiv⠀⇛ The newly established NATO-Ukraine Council is set discuss Black Sea security at its inaugural meeting on July 26 in Brussels as Ukrainian and Russian forces are locked in fierce fighting in the eastern region of Kharkiv, where Moscow is attempting to mount an offensive. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukrainian_Forces_Stave_Off_Russian_Attacks_In Kharkiv,_Press_With_Offensive_In_South⠀⇛ Ukrainian defenders fought off numerous Russian attacks over the past 24 hours in the eastern region of Kharkiv, where Moscow’s troops have been attempting to advance, the General Staff of the Ukrainian military said in its daily report on July 26. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._Ambassador_Echoes_Warnings_Of_Impending_Black Sea_False_Flag_Operation⠀⇛ The U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on July 25 repeated U.S. warnings that Russia could use sea mines to blow up a ship and blame the attack on Ukraine. # ⚓ Spiegel ☛ Stalled_at_the_Front:_Lack_of_Western_Weapons Contributes_To_Slow_Progress_in_Ukraine_Counteroffensive⠀⇛ The Ukrainian army’s counteroffensve against Russia could fail because of dwindling supplies of artillery shells, prompting Washington to provide cluster bombs. Is Europe facing years of bloody trench warfare? # ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Bret_Stephens:_What_I_learned_in Ukraine⠀⇛ I learned that Ukrainians have no interest in turning their victimization into an identity. # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Not_too_early_to_think_‘what_next?’_if_Ukraine offensive_fails⠀⇛ Ukraine’s summer offensive to retake lost territory is going slowly. Military experts say Western allies need to consider the possibility of failure – and perhaps focus on the defense of Ukraine. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Where_Russia_Is_on_the_Attack_in_Ukraine⠀⇛ Along the vast 600-mile front line, Russia is mostly playing defense. In the northeast, it is once again mounting fierce offensive operations. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._Announces_$400_Million_In_Military_Aid_For Ukraine⠀⇛ The United States announced additional security assistance for Ukraine valued at up to $400 million, the Pentagon said. The new U.S. aid for Ukraine includes air-defense munitions, armored vehicles, anti-armor weapons, and “other equipment to help Ukraine counter Russia’s ongoing war of aggression.” # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Odesa_Cathedral_Missile_Attack_Leaves Ukrainians_Bereft⠀⇛ Odesa, a port city long beloved by travelers, had been largely spared the worst of the war, but that began changing this week. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia,_seeking_a_bigger_army,_moves_to raise_the_top_age_for_military_service.⠀⇛ If the full Parliament approves the bill, Russian men as old as 30 will be subject to the country’s mandatory year of military service. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Amid_War,_Ukrainian_Couples_Are Divorcing⠀⇛ The conflict in Ukraine has split apart millions of families. The story of Andrii Shapovalov and Tetiana Shapovalova reveals how a couple’s bond can become a casualty. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ American_Freed_From_Russia_In_2022_Prisoner_Swap Injured_While_Fighting_In_Ukraine,_U.S._Says⠀⇛ A former U.S. Marine who last year was part of a prisoner swap between the United States and Russia has been injured while fighting in Ukraine, the State Department said on July 25. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ U.S._Sends_More_Weapons_to_Ukraine_Amid Slow_Counteroffensive⠀⇛ The package, which includes artillery, air defenses and mine-clearing equipment, will help replenish Ukrainian forces advance through dense Russian minefields and other defenses. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Trevor_Reed,_Former_U.S._Marine_Who_Was Detained_in_Russia,_Is_Injured_While_Fighting_in_Ukraine⠀⇛ Trevor Reed’s condition was not immediately clear. His decision to return to the region and volunteer to fight for Ukraine created some “exasperation” within the Biden administration, an administration official said. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ How_to_replace_Russian_language_in_Latvian schools?⠀⇛ In order to renounce Russian as the second foreign language in Latvian schools, 350-400 teachers should be prepared within the next three years. The Ministry of Education and Science has developed a road map to achieve this goal, minister Anda Čakša told Latvian Radio on July 25. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia_Raises_Duties_On_Wine,_Bans_Import_Of_Fish Products_From_‘Unfriendly’_Countries⠀⇛ The Russian government has raised the duty on imported wine from 12.5 percent to 20 percent and banned the import of finished fish and seafood products from “unfriendly countries.” # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Moldova_To_Limit_Number_Of_Russian_Diplomats_Amid ‘Destabilization’_Fears⠀⇛ Moldova says it will limit the number of accredited diplomats from Russia who are allowed into the country. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ North_Korea_Gives_Russian_Defense_Ministry Delegation_‘Warm_Welcome’⠀⇛ North Korea rolled out the red carpet for the Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, state media said on July 26, with delegations from Moscow and Beijing set to attend Korean War anniversary events, the country’s first known foreign visitors since its pandemic border closure. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Lawmakers_Approve_Bill_Raising_Maximum_Age For_Mandatory_Military_Service_To_30⠀⇛ Russian parliament’s lower chamber, the State Duma, on July 25 approved the final reading of a bill raising the maximum age for mandatory one-year military service for men to 30 from 27. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Fighter_Jet_Fires_Flares_At_U.S._Drone_Over Syria,_Damaging_It,_U.S._Military_Says⠀⇛ A Russian fighter jet flew within a few meters of a U.S. drone over Syria and fired flares at it, striking the American aircraft and damaging its propeller, the U.S. military said on July 25. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Anti-War_Activist_Denied_Extension_Of Temporary_Stay_In_Serbia⠀⇛ Serbian authorities have denied an extension of the temporary residence permit of Russian anti-war activist Vladimir Volokhonsky less than two weeks after temporarily denying entry to Peter Nikitin, the Russian national with whom Volokhonsky helped establish the Russian Democratic Society. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Russian_military_delegation_arrives_in North_Korea_to_join_Chinese⠀⇛ July 26, 2023 6:27 AM The two delegations will take part in celebration of 70th anniversary of “Victory Day” in Pyongyang. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Some_Russian_Internet_Trolls_Turn_Against Prigozhin_After_Wagner_Uprising⠀⇛ The Kremlin, which has moved quickly to take down parts of Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin’s empire, may seek to use his troll farms to its advantage, analysts say. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ North_Korean_leader_Kim_Jong_Un_visits Chinese_military_cemetery_ahead_of_Victory_Day⠀⇛ July 26, 2023 6:45 AM Chinese, Russian delegations visiting the reclusive state for first time since start of pandemic. # ⚓ ADF ☛ Russia_Turns_CAR_Into_‘Laboratory’_for_State Capture⠀⇛ ADF STAFF The Wagner Group’s recent rebellion against the Russian military is certain to spur changes to the mercenary organization that will affect its operations in Africa. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Putin_Plans_China_Visit_as_a_Russian Leader_Joins_a_North_Korea_Celebration⠀⇛ The visits reflect Moscow’s ongoing efforts to strengthen ties with Asian allies, given its isolation from the West. # ⚓ ADF ☛ What_Does_Wagner’s_Revolt_Mean_for_Africa?⠀⇛ Five days after leading a failed uprising against the Russian state, Yevgeny Prigozhin and his top Wagner Group officers sat face-to-face with Russian President Vladimir Putin for a three-hour meeting on June 29. Despite having called his former close advisor a traitor and vowing harsh punishment, Putin reportedly gave immunity to Wagner personnel. * § Environment⠀➾ o ⚓ The Nation ☛ It_Only_Gets_Worse⠀⇛ To date, the climate migrations that have attracted federal policy attention in the United States generally have fallen under the category of “managed retreat.” Recall, for instance, the 2016 headlines announcing that Isle de Jean Charles, La., would receive $48 million in federal funds for a first-of-its-kind wholesale community resettlement project, or the Biden administration’s announcement last year that it had awarded $75 million to Indigenous communities in Alaska and Washington state to pack up and move. “Managed retreat,” or the planned relocation of vulnerable coastal communities to higher ground, is at once a proactive tactical move and an act of resignation—an acknowledgment that, in a warming world, some geographic communities are fated to disappear into the sea. But what should we make of this intense political fixation on managed retreat? And when climate migration policies prioritize the most extraordinary and poignant cases, who is left behind? o ⚓ Axios ☛ In_photos:_Wildfires_rock_3_continents_as_historic_heat wave_sweeps_Northern_Hemisphere⠀⇛ Deadly wildfires burning across Europe, North America and North_Africa have forced hundreds of people to evacuate as historic_heat grips much of the Northern Hemisphere. o ⚓ European Commission ☛ Wildfires:_EU_provides_crucial_assistance to_the_Mediterranean_region⠀⇛ European Commission Press release Brussels, 26 Jul 2023 As several countries grapple with rapidly spreading wildfires, the EU steps in to reinforce firefighting efforts and provide much-needed support to the affected communities. o § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Surviving_whales_shown_deeper_water after_52_deaths⠀⇛ Wildlife experts are preparing to lead dozens of whales back into deep waters after 52 died in a mass stranding event on a West Australian beach. Rescue efforts continue after the mammals stranded themselves at Cheynes Beach, 60km east of Albany in the state’s south. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ No_Fish_Left_Behind⠀⇛ For hundreds of years, Icelanders have relied on the ocean for survival. This is perhaps not surprising as it’s an isolated island surrounded by ocean near the Arctic circle. But as the oceans warm and fisheries continue to be harvested unsustainably, Iceland has been looking for a way to make sure that the fish they do catch are put to the fullest use, for obvious things like food and for plenty of other novel uses as well as they work towards using 100% of their catch. * § Finance⠀➾ o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ ‘An_Abomination’:_Today_Marks_14_Years_Since_the Last_Federal_Minimum_Wage_Increase⠀⇛ “$7.25/hour, in 2023, is a poverty wage,” said the AFL- CIO. o ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ How_the_Rich_Reap_Huge_Tax_Breaks_From_Private Nonprofits⠀⇛ Once a week, a little past noon on Wednesdays, a line of cars forms outside the wrought-iron gates of the Carolands mansion, 20 miles south of downtown San Francisco. From the entrance, you can see the southeast facade of the 98-room Beaux Arts chateau, which was built a century ago by an heiress to the Pullman railroad-car fortune. Not visible from that vantage point is the stately reflecting pool, or the gardens, whose original designer took inspiration from Versailles. I was sitting just outside this splendor, idling in my rented Toyota Corolla, on a clear day last winter. Like the other people in the line of cars, I was about to enjoy a rare treat. Carolands is an architectural landmark, but it’s open only two hours a week. Would-be visitors apply a month in advance, hoping to win a lottery for tickets. Like most lotteries, this one has long odds. I had applied unsuccessfully for the three tours scheduled for February. Finally, I resorted to my journalist’s privilege: I emailed and called the director of the foundation that owns the estate, explaining that I was a reporter planning to be in the area for a few days. Could she help? Eventually, she called back and offered me a place on a tour. o ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ BBC_sorry_for_Farage_banking_story_and_source, Natwest_CEO_Alison_Rose,_resigns⠀⇛ The BBC has admitted 4 July Nigel Farage headline was wrong. o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Snap’s_Sales_Fall_for_the_Second_Time_in_a_Row⠀⇛ The parent of Snapchat has grappled with an ad slump and the challenges of being a smaller social media company in an intensely competitive environment. o ⚓ Infinity_lays_off_78%_of_staff,_3_board_members_after_MEI_merger fails⠀⇛ With hopes of a merger with MEI Pharma now sunk for good, Infinity Pharmaceuticals is jettisoning three-quarters of its staff and three board members to stay afloat while it scans the horizon for another financial life raft. The planned combination of MEI Pharma and Infinity had been in the works since February. Yet despite surviving the intervention of a surprise bidder at the last minute, MEI’s shareholders finally voted on the proposal on Sunday and scuppered the deal for good. * § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Reddit_Kicks_Out_Protesting_Mods,_As_Reddit_Users Continue_To_Find_Creative_Ways_To_Protest⠀⇛ Reddit CEO’s insistence that the protests from Reddit would simply “pass” certainly hasn’t come to pass just yet. While increasing pressure from the company against protest mods has resulted in some backing down, many are continuing to engage in malicious compliance, making it clear they’re still protesting. o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Kevin_McCarthy’s_Latest_Hostage_Crisis⠀⇛ The woebegone tenure of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is less a study in leadership than a series of reality-TV challenges. Can our contestant withstand the procedural hazings engineered by the House Freedom Caucus? Will he strike a provisional blow for decorum over the “let’s all look at a naked Hunter Biden” faction? And in our next episode: Is he going to get the keys to Doc Brown’s time machine and schedule votes to expunge Donald Trump’s two impeachments in the 116th and 117th Congresses? o ⚓ Axios ☛ DeSantis_campaign_fires_aide_who_secretly_made_video_with Nazi_symbol⠀⇛ Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ 2024_campaign fired an aide this week who secretly created and shared a pro-DeSantis video that featured the candidate at the center of a Sonnenrad, an ancient symbol appropriated by the Nazis and still used by some white supremacists. Driving the news:Nate Hochman, a speechwriter on the DeSantis campaign and a former writer for National Review, created the video on his own and shared it through a pro-DeSantis Twitter account, according to a person familiar with the matter. * § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ o ⚓ Meduza ☛ Alexey_Navalny_calls_Igor_Strelkov_‘political_prisoner’ —_Meduza⠀⇛ Opposition politician Alexey Navalny wrote on social media that he considers the arrest of Igor Strelkov, the Telegram blogger and former FSB agent who was found guilty of shooting down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, to be illegal. o ⚓ JURIST ☛ Proposed_Jordan_cybercrime_bill_prompts_free_speech concerns_from_human_rights_groups⠀⇛ Human Rights Watch (HRW), along with 13 other human rights organizations such as Access Now and the Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR), called on the Jordanian government on Monday to withdraw a proposed cybercrime law currently under discussion in Parliament. o ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ Trans_Rights_and_the_Order_of_Speech:_Part_One⠀⇛ ‘There is a new word in Newspeak’, said Syme, ‘I don’t know whether you know it: duckspeak, to quack like a duck. It is one of those interesting words that have two contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it is abuse; applied to someone you agree with, it is praise.’ George Orwell… * § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ o ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_47:_Calling_communist_China ‘totalitarian’_was_objective_description,_ex-journalist_tells_nat. security_trial⠀⇛ Calling communist China a totalitarian regime was an “objective” description without any derogatory meaning, Hong Kong journalist-turned activist Gwyneth Ho testified in a national security trial relating to 47 pro-democracy figures. * § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ o ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ 19_GOP_Attorneys_General_Seek_Private_Medical Records_of_Patients_Who_Obtain_Out-of-State_Abortions⠀⇛ Amid a widening crackdown on abortion access, 19 Republican attorneys general in states where abortion is illegal are demanding the right for local governments to access the private medical records of patients in order to see if they obtained abortions out of state. We speak to Tamarra Wieder, state director of Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates in Louisville, Kentucky, where residents are crossing state lines to access abortion care due to the state’s near-total abortion ban. Wieder says the act of seeking healthcare “should not be turned against us,” adding that this latest attack on reproductive rights, if it is carried out, would set “a precedent of fear” that would “chill care.” She also discusses the Nebraska teenager who used abortion pills to terminate her pregnancy and was sentenced to 90 days in jail, and the Texas women who are suing to overturn the state’s abortion ban, which put their lives in danger when they were unable to end their pregnancies, even when they were nonviable. o ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ UPS_averts_strike_in_deal_with_unionised workers⠀⇛ UPS has reached a tentative contract agreement with its 340,000-person strong union, potentially averting a strike that threatened to disrupt logistics across the United States for businesses and households alike. The agreement was announced after UPS and the Teamsters came back to the negotiating table on Tuesday to talk over remaining sticking points in the largest private- sector contract in North America.  o ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Doctors_strike,_reservists_eye_exit_over Israel_reforms⠀⇛ Israeli doctors have declared a strike and more army reservists have asked to halt service in a backlash over the religious-nationalist government’s ratification of the first part of a judicial overhaul that critics say endangers democracy. With long-serving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu facing his gravest domestic crisis, Israel’s military took its first known internal disciplinary action over the protests.  o ⚓ Shirish_Agarwal:_Manipur_Violence,_Drugs,_Binging_on_Northshore, Alaska_Daily,_Doogie_Kamealoha_and_EU_Digital_Resilence_Act.⠀⇛ Warning: The text might be mature and will have references to violence so if there are kids or you are sensitive, please excuse. Few days back, saw the videos and I cannot share the rage, shame and many conflicting emotions that were going through me. I almost didn’t want to share but couldn’t stop myself. The woman in the video were being palmed, fingered, nude, later reportedly raped and murdered. And there have been more than a few cases. The next day saw another video that showed beheaded heads, and Kukis being killed just next to their houses. I couldn’t imagine what those people must be feeling as the CM has been making partisan statements against them. One of the husbands of the Kuki women who had been paraded, fondled is an Army Officer in the Indian Army. The Meiteis even tried to burn his home but the Army intervened and didn’t let it get burnt. The CM’s own statement as shared before tells his inability to bring the situation out of crisis. In fact, his statement was dumb stating that the Internet shutdown was because there were more than 100 such cases. And it’s spreading to the nearby Northeast regions. Now Mizoram, the nearest neighbor is going through similar things where the Meitis are not dominant. The Mizos have told the Meitis to get out. o ⚓ ACLU ☛ Challenging_Police_Brutality_in_Louisiana⠀⇛ Police violence is a pervasive issue across the country that has led to harassment, injuries, and deaths. Racial discrimination and excessive force disproportionately impact communities of color, which often have an outsized police presence. And although investigations_have repeatedly exposed patterns of racism and unconstitutional policing within law enforcement departments, they are rarely held accountable. o ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Israelis_Protest_Against_Law_to_Limit_Supreme Court_Powers⠀⇛ Images from recent protests against plans to reduce judicial oversight of the government, in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Israel’s_Protests_Over_Netanyahu’s_Judicial Overhaul_in_Photos⠀⇛ Political turmoil that has been brewing for months reached a crescendo after Parliament passed a law aimed at curbing the power of the judiciary. o ⚓ Axios ☛ UPS_and_Teamsters_union_reach_deal_to_avert_strike, potential_economic_chaos⠀⇛ UPS reached a tentative deal with its union on Tuesday, averting a much-feared_strike. o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Behind_the_Right’s_Frenzied_Defense_of_Florida’s Slavery_Curriculum⠀⇛ Let’s stipulate right away: Florida’s new guidelines for teaching African American history do not merely consist of the noxious, specious claim that “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.” There are 190 other “facts” included in the guidelines, and arguably none are as false and loathsome as that one (though a few come close). * § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ o ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Sources_in_my_saving_video_post⠀⇛ Last Tuesday I wrote a post about the ephemeral nature of online video, and my attempts to preserve stuff Clara and I care about. * § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ o ⚓ Axios ☛ Almost_every_big_streaming_service_is_getting_more expensive [Ed: Most of them make no money, just sink deeper and deeper into DEBT. They want to outsource those losses.]⠀⇛ Data: Axios research; Chart: Axios Visuals Every major subscription streaming_company has increased its prices in the past year in an effort to address Wall_Street’s_push for profits. § Monopolies⠀➾ * § Patents⠀➾ o ⚓ Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ Annotation_of_patents:_a_threat_to_second medical_use_patents_in_Brazil?⠀⇛ A recent decision issued by the federal district court could impact medical use patents in Brazil. In an invalidity lawsuit filed by the Brazilian affiliate of Sun Pharma against Boehringer Ingelheim, Federal Judge Carvalho, sitting at the 9th Federal District Court in Rio de Janeiro, has granted a preliminary injunction… o ⚓ JUVE ☛ Eisenführ_Speiser_continues_to_rebuild_patent_team_across Germany [Ed: This is SPAM disguised as journalism. The publisher, JUVE, also took bribes to promote illegal agenda on behalf of those same firms. This is a propaganda trash rag.]⠀⇛ Mixed IP firm Eisenführ Speiser has strengthened its Munich office with the mixed litigation team of lawyer Philipp Rastemborski and patent attorney Florian Henke. While Rastemborski is set to join the firm on 1 August, Henke will join at a later point. o ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ $2,000_awarded_for_Fractus_antenna_patent_prior art⠀⇛ Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Ramesh_Varadharaj, was awarded $2,000 for his prior art submission on U.S._Patent_8,456,365, owned by Fractus, SA, an NPE. o ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ DynaIP_entity_Street_Spirit_IP_ID_verification patent_reexam_granted⠀⇛ On July 17, 2023, just five weeks after Unified filed_an ex_parte_reexamination, the USPTO granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S._Patent 9,282,090, owned and asserted by Street Spirit IP LLC, an NPE and entity of Dynamic_IP_Deals. o ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ $2,000_awarded_for_Dominion_Harbor_entity, Monument_Peak_Ventures,_imaging_patent_prior_art⠀⇛ Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Dinesh Swamy, was awarded $2,000 for his prior art submission on U.S._Patent_7,233,684, owned by Monument_Peak_Ventures, an NPE and Dominion_Harbor entity. The ‘684 patent generally relates to imaging methods that use affective information. * § Trademarks⠀➾ o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Our_Long,_National_Taco_Tuesday_Nightmare_Is_Finally Over⠀⇛ Let me start this post with an anecdote. I’m in my 40s and have been a Chicago Cubs fan my entire life. If you know anything about baseball, then you know that means that for more than 30 years, my entire fandom was wrapped in an identify of losing, and I was also saddled with 7 more decades of historical losing on top of it. The point is that when 2016 came and the Cubs actually won the World Series, one not-insignificant part of my life was fundementally altered and I had to figure out how to live in a world where the unthinkable had suddenly happened. o ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ Precedential_No._20:_Deeming_Duracell’s_In-Store Sound_Mark_a_Display_Associated_With_the_Goods,_TTAB_Reverses Specimen_Refusal⠀⇛ The Board overturned a refusal to register Duracell’s sound mark consisting of three musical notes for batteries, rejecting the Office’s position that the specimens of use (.mp3 files, example here) constituted mere advertising material. Instead, the Board ruled that transmission of the sound mark in retail locations where the goods are sold is “equivalent to” a display associated with the goods. In_re_Duracell_U.S. Operations,_Inc., Serial No. 90559208 (July 24, 2023) [precedential] (Opinion by Judge Michael B. 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