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HP Stream Laptops at Walmart. How Much Computer Do You Need in 2023? I saw some $179 HP Stream Windows 11 craptops at Sprawl Mart yesterday. And I was like, “Really? HP is still letting Microsoft command them to sell computers that barely work? How big is the market of people who haven’t already fallen for these?”. 16 GB of RAM is “barely enough” these days, due to software bloat, if you’re using more than several programs at once. They sell Windows 11 systems with 4 GB! You can barely use Linux productively with 4 these days. Much less Windows. With Windows 11 and 4 GB, you can barely even boot the computer and load one program. These things don’t age well because they can barely handle a single use case that people are going to take them home for. They are not comparable to Chromebooks, where Google has at least made a Linux- based OS centered around the device, planning out that it MUST work well with 4 GB RAM. Windows always needs a new PC, and a good one, because it’s designed to force people to keep upgrading hardware when Windows “slows down”. It’s deliberate. They make Windows slower and more obese over time to “feed the pigs” over at Intel and AMD, who could otherwise not sell very much hardware. The reason why moving over to Linux feels like you’ve turned back the clock and bought a new PC again is because there’s nobody trying to sell you a new one. By far, the worst and most bloated thing I do on Linux, is not even the fault of Linux, it’s this trend to bigger, fatter, Web browsers for a more obnoxious Web experience. Not the fault of the base OS, which has barely increased in system requirements in more than a decade. This HP Stream funny business cannot possibly be as successful as it was to start with. Thanks to the “Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.” concept, people who bought a previous model with Windows 10, and then didn’t even have enough storage space to upgrade to a newer version of Windows 10, probably don’t fall for this trap, again. So the business model of fooling people who have never seen an HP Stream into buying another really bad computer is almost certainly self-limiting. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Windows_screenshot⦈_ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Computer_review⦈_ Other customers who bought the Stream complained of: Poor battery life. HP putting the keyboard buttons on in the wrong places. Broken screens, from the factory. Computers that suddenly booted up to a black screen, seemingly for no reason, one day, with no obvious repair. (Common problem with Windows.) “45 minutes to load one [Web browser] tab.” One reviewer, on Amazon, claimed that there was static buildup and every time he went to type something, the keyboard shocked him. One more note: Have used this on a treadmill and there is massive static electricity on every key. On other laptops there’s some static on the machine at first so you can ground yourself and then type just fine. But this one delivers a shock for every. single. key. stroke. Ouch. -“S Larson” Multiple complaints that even if you don’t use the C: for any user files at all, you eventually can’t install a Windows update, even if all of your files are on an SD card. For $80 less, you can get a Raspberry Pi 4 Personal Computer. It’s contained in a keyboard with lots of ports. You get 4 GB of RAM and an ARM CPU, you load the OS and store your user files on an SD card of your choice in size. It runs Linux OS images that are actually made planning on the fact that the thing has 4 GB of RAM instead of being an OS that was meant for 16 GB systems that was put on the HP Stream after-the-fact. Hell, for $50 less you could buy a Chromebook. (With support for Linux and Android applications.) I don’t know why, exactly, Microsoft continues to get away with convincing OEMs to cheapen and denigrate their brands to pretend it has something in the same league with small computers that were made to at least work properly. HP Stream is a clear example of Microsoft convincing other companies to fall on their sword to serve Microsoft. If you handed me one of these HP Streams for free I might take it and see if I could shoehorn Linux on it somehow, but I would certainly not risk $179 of my own money on one given the things I have heard from people who did. From what I’ve read on Reddit, at least some people using the HP Stream have installed Arch Linux, but they couldn’t install Grub (the bootloader), and for some reason systemd-boot (LOL) worked. Maybe HP and Microsoft can “fix that” so that word won’t get around that you can at least use a real operating system if you have one of these things. The HP Stream is a Microsoft panic response “but they still don’t GET IT” to the Chromebook. Which is $50 cheaper, runs faster, and is Linux. Many people who get a Stream use it… to go back to whatever Web site they bought it from and talk about all the problems they have with it that make it impossible to use. Which is exactly what you would expect from a <$200 thing that came with Windows. The market for new devices is limited. Largely by Linux. 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𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 407 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/09/13/mozuckerberg/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/09/13/mozuckerberg/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.13.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ A_Supposedly_Privacy-Loving_Mozilla_Keeps_Slurping_Up_‘Talent’_From_the Zuckerberg_Espionage_Hive_(Propelled_Directly_Into_Executive-Level Management)⠀✐ Posted in Deception at 2:19 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz The staff pipeline hints at the opposite of privacy, it’s more about ‘monetising’ the remaining Firefox users 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Dani_Chehak_in_Mozilla⦈_ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Dani_Chehak⦈_ Summary: When Mozilla does not get its managers directly from_the_C.I.A. it keeps hiring many managers from a notorious surveillance company, Facebook; the latest recruit too comes from the Zuckerbergs, so how does Mozilla intend to 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⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 579 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.13.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Leftover_Links_13/09/2023:_Digital_Restrictions_(DRM)_in_Cars_and_Browsers⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 7:45 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Leftovers o Science o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI) o Linux_Foundation o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting o Environment # Energy/Transportation o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Civil_Rights/Policing o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM) o Monopolies # Patents # Trademarks # Copyrights * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ New Yorker ☛ How_to_Decolonize_the_City⠀⇛ A recent exhibition in Brussels, in radically reframing the art and architecture of Art Nouveau, offered some clues. o ⚓ Kev Quirk ☛ Metro_2033⠀⇛ The year is 2033. The world has been reduced to rubble. Humanity is nearly extinct. The half-destroyed cities have become uninhabitable through radiation. Beyond their boundaries, they say, lie endless burned-out deserts and the remains of splintered forests. Survivors still remember the past greatness of humankind. But the last remains of civilisation have already become a distant memory, the stuff of myth and legend. More than 20 years have passed since the last plane took off from the earth. Rusted railways lead into emptiness. The ether is void and the airwaves echo to a soulless howling where previously the frequencies were full of news from Tokyo, New York, Buenos Aires. Man has handed over stewardship of the earth to new life-forms. Mutated by radiation, they are better adapted to the new world. Man’s time is over. o ⚓ Truthdig ☛ The_‘War_on_Terror’_and_the_Hell_It_Wrought_After_9/ 11⠀⇛ Under the “war on terror” rubric, open-ended warfare was well underway — “as if terror were a state and not a technique,” as Joan Didion wrote in 2003 (two months before the U.S. invasion of Iraq). “We had seen, most importantly, the insistent use of September 11 to justify the reconception of America’s correct role in the world as one of initiating and waging virtually perpetual war.” In a single sentence, Didion had captured the essence of a quickly calcified set of assumptions that few mainstream journalists were willing to question. Those assumptions were catnip for the lions of the military- industrial-intelligence complex. After all, the budgets at “national security” agencies (both long-standing and newly created) had begun to soar with similar vast outlays going to military contractors. Worse yet, there was no end in sight as mission creep accelerated into a dash for cash. o ⚓ Truthdig ☛ The_US_Legacy_of_‘Security’_Lives_on_22_Years_Later⠀⇛ Leaders in Central Asia and the Middle East, despite their authoritarian credentials, have reinvented themselves as indispensable to a U.S.-led security architecture, leveraging the GWOT’s prevailing ethos to quell internal opposition. Even in Latin America, seemingly distant from the 9/11 epicenter, governments have weaponized these legal tools against a broader spectrum of perceived adversaries, including civil society and grassroots organizations. A hyper-securitized world is now our new normal. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Lessons_from_Japan’s_‘Lost_Decades’:_An_underdog_in_the_era of_innovation_and_entrepreneurship⠀⇛ In 1989, when Japan’s corporations were on the crest of a wave, there was no sci-tech company among the global top 10 by market capitalization. The most technologically advanced company on the list was IBM, founded in 1911 and nearly 100 years old back then. Now, looking at today’s global top 10 companies by market capitalization — Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, NVIDIA, Tesla, Facebook, TSMC — 8 of them are innovation-driven companies. Among them, the oldest is Microsoft, founded in 1975, and the youngest is Facebook, established in 2004. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Reason ☛ Federal_Court_Strikes_Blow_Against_Categorical Denials_of_Online_Teaching_Accommodations⠀⇛ Prof. Katherine Macfarlane and I break down Oross v. Kutztown University # ⚓ LRT ☛ Students_back_Lithuanian_teachers’_planned_strike⠀⇛ The Lithuanian School Students’ Union (LMS) is going to join the teachers’ strike at the end of September. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuanian_school_bans_mobile_phones_amid_drive_to make_students_pay_attention⠀⇛ Elena Čiobienė has been a Lithuanian teacher for almost 40 years. Even without technology, she says, students were inventive in keeping themselves busy with everything except studying. But with smartphones, she says, it is much worse. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Western_Digital_announce_the_SN770M_NVMe for_handhelds_like_the_Steam_Deck [Ed: Linkspam by Liam Dawe. Not good.]⠀⇛ Need a storage upgrade for your Steam Deck, ROG Ally or other handheld? Western Digital are the latest to enter the game with their new WD_BLACK SN770M NVMe SSD. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Arm,_a_British_Chip_Designer,_Juggles Challenges_Before_2023’s_Biggest_I.P.O.⠀⇛ He reports to Masayoshi Son, the head of SoftBank, which owns Arm and plans to sell a portion of the British company this week in the year’s biggest initial public offering. Officials in Beijing and Washington also command Mr. Haas’s attention amid a widening chip trade war, as does Britain’s prime minister, Rishi Sunak, and others who have unsuccessfully pitched the idea of a stock listing in the country. And Mr. Haas must juggle the demands of more than 200 companies that use Arm’s technology. Ten of the biggest — including Apple, Google, Samsung and Nvidia — have been negotiating for stakes in the highly anticipated Arm offering as artificial intelligence drives explosive demand for more powerful chips. # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Arm_Develops_Full_Chip_Designs_for Multiple_Markets:_Report⠀⇛ Arm reportedly designs reference solutions for automotive, cloud computing, IoT, mobile devices, a Bloomberg report says. # ⚓ Tedium ☛ Based_On_A_True_Interpretation⠀⇛ How bothered should we be by the BlackBerry film fudging the truth? Honestly, I think we should embrace Jim Balsillie’s good nature about it. I finally saw the BlackBerry movie last night, a film I had been quite excited about, and I gotta say that it lived up to all my expectations and then some. It is clearly the work of a team who, when given the task of trying to tell the story of a groundbreaking company, chose to create something compelling, rather than 100 percent factual, much as The Social Network attempted to tell the story of a company whose story had become a popular myth essentially. The film, by director Matt Johnson, essentially does the same thing with a smartphone that was once at the center of public consciousness, only to disappear almost overnight. # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Intel_Sells_Minority_Stake_in_IMS_Nano_to TSMC⠀⇛ TSMC buys into IMS Nano, a leading maker of multi e-beam photomask writing tools. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Putting_The_Magic_Smoke_Back_Into_A_Dodgy Spectrum_Analyzer⠀⇛ The trouble with fixing electronics is that most devices are just black boxes — literally. Tear it down, look inside, but it usually doesn’t matter — all you see are black epoxy blobs, taunting you with the fact that one or more of them are dead with no external indication of the culprit. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ 3D_Printing_A_Sock_Knitting_Machine⠀⇛ 3D printing socks isn’t really a thing yet. You’d end up with scratchy plastic garments that irritate your feet no end. You can easily 3D print all kinds of nifty little mechanisms, though, so why not 3D print yourself a machien to knit some socks instead? That’s precisely what [Joshua De Lisle] did. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Book8088_Slows_Down_To_Join_The_Demoscene⠀⇛ As obsolete as the original IBM Model 5150 PC may appear, it’s pretty much the proverbial giant’s shoulders upon which we all stand today. That makes the machine worth celebrating, so much so that we now have machines like the Book8088, a diminutive clamshell-style machine made from period-correct PC chips; sort of a “netbook that never was.” o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Axios ☛ FDA_blasted_over_inaction_on_menthol_ban [Ed: FDA, which brought COVID-19 "boosters" to hundreds of millions of human beings after they had been tested on only a few mice]⠀⇛ Public health groups criticized the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday for missing a self- imposed August deadline to finalize_a_rule banning menthol in cigarettes. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Paris_fumigates_for_tiger_mosquitoes_as_tropical pest_spreads_across_Europe⠀⇛ Health authorities in Paris fumigated areas of the French capital for the first time on Thursday to kill disease-carrying tiger mosquitoes whose rapid advance through northern Europe is thought to have been accelerated by climate change. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Almost_half_of_Hong_Kong’s_homeless suffer_PTSD,_study_finds,_as_gov’t_urged_to_offer_greater support⠀⇛ Almost half of Hong Kong’s homeless people experience symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) but lack the necessary support to manage the mental health condition, a study has found. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Many_Children_May_Have_Lost_Medicaid Coverage_Because_of_State_Errors⠀⇛ Federal officials warned state agencies to review their systems for establishing eligibility, as they pare back Medicaid rolls. Children in particular may have been affected. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ 5_Outdated_Ways_to_Prevent_Pregnancy_Show How_Far_Contraception_Has_Come⠀⇛ Don’t try these at home. # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Did_government_overstep_on_COVID_‘misinfo’? Courts_weigh_in.⠀⇛ A Sept. 8 ruling in Missouri v. Biden enjoins certain federal officials from pressuring social media platforms to take down protected free speech. # ⚓ Reason ☛ The_Best_of_Reason:_The_DEA_at_50⠀⇛ For five decades, drugs have been winning the war on drugs. # ⚓ Hindustan Times ☛ France_orders_halting_Apple_iPhone_12 sales_over_radiation⠀⇛ The French agency that regulates radio frequencies, the ANFR, said testing found that the model emits more electromagnetic waves susceptible to be absorbed by the body than permitted. o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾ # ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Former_Twitter_executives:_Privacy_and security_practices_deteriorated_under_Musk⠀⇛ The Federal Trade Commission is currently investigating whether Twitter — now X Corp. — violated a 2011 agreement Twitter entered into with the agency to settle complaints about Twitter’s privacy practices. The agreement required Twitter to implement a security and privacy program, including regular external audits. In a court filing unsealed Monday, several former executives said Musk failed to heed warnings about potential security concerns, especially as he fired or laid off large numbers of employees after acquiring the company last year. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Lawyer’s_Microsoft_email_snafu_goes_from $1.75M_lawsuit_to_Ctrl+Alt+Settle⠀⇛ The attorney had asked for $1.75 million in the suit – $750,000 in damages and $1 million in punitive damages, accusing Microsoft of both breach of contract and “tortious business dealings” for “wantonly delaying the simple remedy of aiding one single email access.” The original allegation was that Schlachter lost access to his Microsoft business email account on May 10 this year, but that the software giant failed to extricate him from a verification loop that was preventing him from getting into his account, which the filing said he paid for via a monthly subscription. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Grab_those_updates:_Microsoft_flings_out fixes_for_already-exploited_bugs⠀⇛ Five others are listed as critical. Let’s start with the two currently under exploitation. First up: CVE-2023-36761, an information disclosure vulnerability in Word deemed “important” by Redmond with a 6.2 out of 10 CVSS severity rating. # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Beware_of_insecure_networked_printers⠀⇛ Despite promises of a paperless office that have origins in the 1970s, the printer is still very much a security problem in the modern office. And even if Microsoft Corp. will succeed in its efforts to eradicate the universe of third-party printer drivers from its various Windows products, the printer will still be the bane of security professionals for years to come. The problem is that the attack surface for printer-related activities is a rich one, with numerous soft targets. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Judge_For_FTC_Rules_Intuit_Can’t_Continue_Its ‘Free_To_File’_Advertising_Bullshit⠀⇛ The old saying goes: there’s only two things that are permanent, death and taxes. For quite a while now, we could have added a third item to the list: Intuit annoying us to death with its bullshit advertisement about filing for taxes for “free.” You really should go back and read our posts on this topic if you’re not familiar with it, but the topline summary is simple enough. Intuit has spent years advertising to the masses that they can file taxes for free using its TurboTax platform as part of a government program, except only a third of the public qualifies for free filing and Intuit did every last thing possible to hide the options for free filing and collected money from many who would qualify to file for free instead. o § Linux Foundation⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Foundation’s Site/Blog ☛ Will_the_Cyber_Resilience Act_help_the_European_ICT_sector_compete? [Ed: Mirko Boehm moved from OIN to Linux_Foundation this past summer. Always chasing money, even if that means software patents and monopolies [1, 2, 3, 4]]⠀⇛ Much has been written about the potentially damaging effects of the draft EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) on the open source ecosystem (BitKom, Eclipse Foundation, VDA, OSBA, Linux Foundation – this post is based on a draft of the CRA from September 15, 2022). In this post, we are going to look at the CRA from a different perspective: As a part of the EU cybersecurity strategy, the higher- order goal of the CRA is the further development and strengthening of the integrated EU single market. Since open source software is the foundation of nearly every modern digital product, influencing how the open source ecosystem operates will be felt by the European businesses and citizens. Will the CRA be conducive to EU ICT policy goals? o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Beta News ☛ Uncovering_the_market_in_vulnerability exploits⠀⇛ A Windows privilege escalation exploit listed for $8,000 as an executable and $13,000 as source code, while a Barracuda emails security exploit was $15,000. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Zero_Day_Summer:_Microsoft_Warns_of_Fresh New_Software_Exploits⠀⇛ Microsoft’s struggles with zero-day exploits rolled into a new month with a fresh Patch Tuesday warning about malware attacks in the wild. # ⚓ SANS ☛ Microsoft_September_2023_Patch_Tuesday,_(Tue,_Sep 12th)⠀⇛ This month we got patches for 66 vulnerabilities. Of these, 5 are critical, and 2 are already being exploited, according to Microsoft. # ⚓ Krebs On Security ☛ Adobe,_Apple,_Google_&_Microsoft_Patch 0-Day_Bugs [Ed: Too late. Exploited already.]⠀⇛ Microsoft today issued software updates to fix at least five dozen security holes in Windows and supported software, including patches for two zero- day vulnerabilities that are already being exploited. Also, Adobe, Google Chrome and Apple iOS users may have their own zero-day patching to do. # ⚓ APNIC ☛ How_JPCERT/CC_automates_malware_analysis⠀⇛ Guest Post: How to automate daily incident investigations more efficiently. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ ICS_Patch_Tuesday:_Critical_CodeMeter Vulnerability_Impacts_Several_Siemens_Products⠀⇛ ICS Patch Tuesday: Siemens has released 7 new advisories and Schneider Electric has released 1 new advisory. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_Virus_For_The_BBC_Micro⠀⇛ If you work at all with British software or hardware engineers, you’ll find that there’s an entire generation perhaps now somewhere between their mid-40s and mid-50s, who stand slightly apart from their peers in their background and experience. These were the lucky teenagers who benefited from the British government’s 1980s push to educate youngsters in computing, and who unlike those before or who followed, arrived at university engineering courses fresh from school fully conversant with every facet of a computer from the hardware upwards. # ⚓ The Africa Report ☛ Kenya’s_banks_incur_hefty_tech_costs over_digitisation,_cyberattacks⠀⇛ Lenders are keen to tighten cyberattack vulnerabilities that come with digitisation after Kenya suffered a major cyber-attack last month. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ [Old]_The_Good,_The_Bad,_And_The Incredibly_Ugly_In_The_Court_Ruling_Regarding Government_Contacts_With_Social_Media⠀⇛ One has to think that Donald Trump judicial appointee Judge Terry Doughty deliberately waited until July 4th (when the courts are closed) to release his ruling on the requested preliminary injunction preventing the federal government from communicating with social media companies. The results of the ruling are not a huge surprise, given Doughty’s now recognized pattern of being willing to bend over backwards as a judge in support of Trumpist culture war nonsense in multiple cases in his short time on the bench. But, even so, there are some really odd things about the ruling. # ⚓ EDRI ☛ Party-cipate_and_#CelebrateEncryption⠀⇛ Now is the time to show your support for encryption and influence the European Parliament to do better for children and everyone else. Join the #CelebrateEncryption action and share photos of you and your friends promoting privacy and celebrating encryption. # ⚓ Privacy International ☛ Judgment_says_that_UK_cannot digitally_spy_on_people_outside_its_borders_without accountability⠀⇛ # ⚓ USA ☛ Letters_to_the_Speaker_of_the_House_and President_of_the_Senate_on_the_Continuation_of_the National_Emergency_With_Respect_to_Certain_Terrorist Attacks⠀⇛ [...] Consistent with this provision, I have sent to the Federal Register the enclosed notice, stating that the emergency declared in Proclamation 7463 with respect to the terrorist attacks on the United States of September 11, 2001, is to continue in effect for an additional year. # ⚓ Patrick Breyer ☛ Chat_control:_EU_Council_plans_death blow_to_digital_privacy_of_correspondence_and_secure encryption⠀⇛ In the dispute over plans to search all private messages and photos (#ChatControl) for suspicious content, a proposal by the Spanish presidency has been leaked that ambassadors will discuss on Thursday and is intended to secure a majority for the proposed #ChatControl regulation at the end of the month. # ⚓ EFF ☛ Federal_Judge_Upholds_State_Department_Rule Requiring_Visa_Applicants_to_Disclose_Social_Media Information⠀⇛ Visa applicants already are required to disclose personal information including their work, travel, and family histories. The “Registration Requirement,” which went into effect in May 2019, requires visa applicants to disclose their social media identifiers over the past five years, including for pseudonymous accounts. The policy began during the Trump Administration and has continued under President Biden. The State Department estimated that 14.7 million people would be affected by the policy each year. The plaintiffs argued that the Registration Requirement violated the expressive and associational rights of both their U.S.-based and non-U.S.-based members and partners. We agree: knowing that your social media posts will be combed through will lead people to self-censor. Additionally, the rule deprives visa applicants of the rights to anonymous speech and private association. The district court rejected the plaintiffs’ First Amendment arguments and dismissed the lawsuit with prejudice, meaning the plaintiffs can’t amend their complaint. The district court acknowledged that U.S. citizens have a right to receive information and ideas from, and to freely associate with, non-U.S. persons. But the court rejected the plaintiffs’ argument that the Registration Requirement prevents them from doing so because of the rule’s chilling effect on the social media activity of would-be visitors to the United States. The court found that the plaintiffs’ complaint lacked specificity, stating, “These allegations fail to identify a particular instance of speech that any person wishes to—but cannot—hear.” # ⚓ EFF ☛ EFF_Award_Winner:_Signal_Foundation⠀⇛ All are invited to attend the EFF Awards! Whether you are an activist, an EFF supporter, a student interested in cyberlaw or public interest technology, or someone who wants to eat good food and drink with other cool individuals, anyone can have a fun time at the ceremony. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ DOJ_To_Court:_Here_Are_The_Many,_Many Reasons_Why_The_FTC_Can_&_Should_Be_Investigating_Elon Musk’s_Handling_Of_User_Data⠀⇛ If you read this morning’s story about Elon Musk’s impulsive decision to move servers out of Sacramento and up to Portland in a dangerous and wholly unsecure manner, and wondered if the FTC (who has two consent decrees with the company regarding how it protects users’ private data) was aware of it, we already have your answer. Last night, the DOJ filed a response to Elon trying to get out of the existing FTC consent decrees, and called out this story as one example. (The timing of the story and the filing coming out on the same day is a coincidence: the filing was due yesterday, and the book came out today). # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ The_Batshit_Crazy_Story_Of_The_Day_Elon Musk_Decided_To_Personally_Rip_Servers_Out_Of_A Sacramento_Data_Center⠀⇛ Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that article, a number of ex- Twitter employees were quoted about how much work it would be to do that cleanly, noting that there’s a ton of stuff hardcoded in Twitter code referring to that data center (hold that thought). # ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Former_Twitter_executives:_Privacy and_security_practices_deteriorated_under_Musk⠀⇛ Former employees say Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter may have caused the company to violate a consent order with the FTC. # ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ Cars_Have_Terrible_Data_Privacy⠀⇛ A new Mozilla Foundation report concludes that cars, all of them, have terrible data privacy. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ The_Tank_Museum_Has_300_Armored_Vehicles and_Over_100_Million_YouTube_Views⠀⇛ Only a few hundred thousand people visit The Tank Museum, in the English countryside, each year. But on YouTube, it’s more popular than the Met and MoMA. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Air,_artillery_strikes_have_killed_over_450_civilians in_Myanmar_so_far_this_year⠀⇛ Observers say the strikes are part of a bid to reduce risk to troops and hurt resistance morale. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Junta_airstrike_damages_school_in_Myanmar’s_Sagaing region⠀⇛ The helicopter attack is one of a growing number targeting educational facilities. # ⚓ Digital First Media ☛ Michigan_false_electors_acted_‘at_the direction’_of_Trump,_court_filing_says⠀⇛ The Trump supporters then submitted the false certificate to Congress and the National Archives in an attempt to challenge the results of the election when federal lawmakers met on Jan. 6, 2021, to tally states’ votes. # ⚓ Futurism ☛ Vladimir_Putin_Declares_His_Love_for_Elon_Musk⠀⇛ Though he didn’t mention it explicitly, the Russian president’s comments come just days after Musk revealed that he’d denied a Ukrainian request for Starlink internet access on the front lines of its war with Russia — a denial that essentially sabotaged Ukraine’s military in its defense against the invaders. # ⚓ The Sunday Times UK ☛ Shoplifters_evade_TikTok_police_to spread_tips_and_targets⠀⇛ Shoplifters are using TikTok to spread a playbook of tactics on how to steal goods such as clothes, jewellery and make-up from retailers. Users on the video-sharing platform have rated high-street stores on the basis of how easy it is to get away with shoplifting and offered tips on avoiding detection. # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ TikTok_Officially_Launches_In-App_Shopping Feature⠀⇛ TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, first started testing the Shop feature in November 2022 and has added more vendors in recent months including brands PacSun, Revolv, and Willow Boutique as well as beauty brand KimChi Chic, according to a report by Ad Age. TikTok Shop will add in-feed video and Live Shopping to its For You feed while also showcasing product reviews and connecting users with sellers for marketing opportunities. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Iranian_Cyberspies_Deployed_New_Backdoor_to 34_Organizations⠀⇛ Iran-linked cyberespionage group Charming Kitten has been observed infecting 34 victims with a new backdoor, cybersecurity firm ESET reports. Believed to be operating on behalf of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and also tracked as APT42, Ballistic Bobcat, Mint Sandstorm (formerly Phosphorus), and NewsBeef, Charming Kitten has been targeting activists, government organizations and journalists for more than a decade. # ⚓ Vox ☛ The_US-Iran_prisoner_swap,_briefly_explained⠀⇛ The agreement was negotiated by the US and the Islamic Republic of Iran over a period of two years, according to the New York Times, and was facilitated by Oman, Qatar, and Switzerland. Though the agreement does involve the eventual release of prisoners by both parties, Iran’s primary motivation for engaging in the negotiations is a mechanism by which it can access billions of dollars of its own assets to purchase humanitarian goods like food and medicine. # ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Why_a_hard-kill_strategy_doesn’t_work against_combat_drones⠀⇛ The reality is that the old-hat method of shooting at anything that poses a threat is extremely difficult when the target is a small object moving at 100 kilometres an hour in often unpredictable patterns. Many militaries have tried using small arms, but it almost never works unless the drones are extremely close and there are only a few of them. # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ Iran_confirms_it_arrested_Swedish citizen⠀⇛ Iran has repeatedly imprisoned foreigners and charged them with espionage or other national security violations. Several Western governments have accused Iran of arresting foreign nationals in order to obtain concessions. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ 50_Years_After_Coup_in_Chile:_Peter Kornbluh_on_How_U.S._Continues_to_Hide_Role_of_Nixon_& Kissinger⠀⇛ On the 50th anniversary of the U.S.-backed military coup in Chile that deposed democratically elected socialist leader Salvador Allende, we discuss the U.S. contribution to the coup and declassified records obtained by the National Security Archive’s Chile Documentation Project with Peter Kornbluh. His book, The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability, has been revised and published in Chile for the first time. “​​There’s a lot known about the U.S. role in Chile, but there’s a lot to be reminded of, as well, and then there are the secrets that remain,” says Kornbluh, who says countries around the world must learn from Chile’s history to counter growing misinformation and authoritarianism today. “Very authoritarian voices are rising to dangerous levels that actually threaten our democracy.” # ⚓ ADF ☛ Prigozhin’s_Death_Leaves_Cloud_of_Uncertainty_in Africa⠀⇛ Yevgeny Prigozhin built a violent and profitable mercenary network over the past five years in the Central African Republic (CAR), Libya, Mali and Sudan. His last days before his death in a plane crash on August 23 were spent in Africa trying to expand his reach. # § Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine⠀➾ # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ North_Korea’s_leader_is_in Russia_to_meet_Putin,_with_both_locked_in_standoffs with_the_West⠀⇛ North Korea’s Kim Jong Un rolled into Russia on an armored train to see President Vladimir Putin. It’s a rare meeting between isolated leaders driven together by their need for support in escalating standoffs with the West. Kim is expected to seek economic aid and military technology for his impoverished country. Kim’s train stopped in Khasan, a station on the Russia-North Korea border, where it was met by a military honor guard and a brass band, according to video on social media channels by a regional governor and Russia’s natural resources minister. Kim appears to have something Putin desperately needs: munitions for Russia’s grueling war in Ukraine. # ⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ Armored_train_carrying_North Korea’s_Kim_Jong_Un_crosses_into_Russia_ahead_of_Putin meeting⠀⇛ CNN — Kim Jong Un’s heavily armored private train has crossed into Russia and the North Korean leader has met with officials, state media reported Tuesday, ahead of an expected and closely watched summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin that the US has warned could result in an arms deal. Kim briefly left his to train at… # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ukrainian_state_aircraft_company_to_start manufacturing_drones_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_journalist_​​Arkady_Babchenko_says Ukrainian_Security_Service_opened_criminal_case_against him;_agency_denies_claim_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ US_expected_to_decide_soon_on long-range_missiles_for_Ukraine⠀⇛ ATACMS missiles would greatly increase Ukraine’s ability to strike the logistical networks supporting Russia’s invasion and would make it increasingly difficult for Putin’s army to operate inside Ukraine, writes Benton Coblentz. # ⚓ France24 ☛ 🔴_Live:_Ukraine_says_it_may_contact_WTO for_compensation_over_Poland’s_refusal_to_import grain⠀⇛ Ukraine may take legal action, including turning to the World Trade Organization to obtain compensation, after Poland extended a ban on importing its grain, Ukraine’s prime minister said Tuesday. Russia’s Vladimir Putin earlier on Tuesday dismissed Kyiv’s claims that it will soon receive F-16 fighter jets from the West, saying deliveries of the aircraft to Ukraine will only prolong the war with Moscow. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Train_carrying_North_Korea’s_Kim_enters Russia_ahead_of_Putin_talks⠀⇛ A train carrying North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has entered Russia, Russian state news agency Ria Novosti said Tuesday, ahead of a meeting with President Vladimir Putin. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Kim_Jong_Un’s_arrival_in_Russia_sets_stage_for high-stakes_‘negotiations’_with_Putin⠀⇛ The summit could change the dynamics of global security, experts say. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Court_Rejects_Request_By_Anti-Putin Shaman_For_Transfer_To_Less_Restrictive_Psychiatric Clinic⠀⇛ A court in Russia’s Far East has refused to transfer to a less restrictive psychiatric clinic a Yakut shaman who became known across the country for his attempts to march to Moscow to drive President Vladimir Putin out of the Kremlin. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Nationalist_Putin_Critic_Girkin’s Pretrial_Detention_Extended⠀⇛ A court in Moscow has extended the pretrial detention of Igor Girkin, once a leader of Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine’s east, who was arrested in July and charged with public calls for extremism after criticizing President Vladimir Putin for “badly” handling the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Putin_Suggests_Former_Top_Aide_Fled_Russia Due_To_Financial_Irregularities_At_State_Company⠀⇛ President Vladimir Putin suggested that Anatoly Chubais, a former top government official who fled after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, may have left due to financial irregularities at the state-run corporation he oversaw. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Kim_Jong_Un_Meets_Russia’s_Natural Resources_Minister⠀⇛ The North Korean leader is also expected to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Ukraine_Has_Lost_71,500_Soldiers_in Counteroffensive:_Putin⠀⇛ He maintains that the U.S. plans to provide F-16 fighters to Ukraine will only prolong the conflict. # ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ North_Korea’s_leader_is_in Russia_to_meet_Putin,_with_both_locked_in_standoffs with_the_West⠀⇛ North Korea’s Kim Jong Un rolled into Russia on an armored train to see President Vladimir Putin. It’s a rare meeting between isolated leaders driven together by their need for support in escalating standoffs with the West. Kim is expected to seek economic aid and military technology for his impoverished country. Kim’s train stopped in Khasan, a station on the Russia-North Korea border, where it was met by a military honor guard and a brass band, according to video on social media channels by a regional governor and Russia’s natural resources minister. Kim appears to have something Putin desperately needs: munitions for Russia’s grueling war in Ukraine. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ North_Korea’s_Kim_says_his_visit shows_‘strategic_importance’_of_Russia_relations⠀⇛ Mr Kim arrived in Russia by private train for talks with President Vladimir Putin. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Putin,_Citing_Trump_‘Persecution,’ Wades_Back_Into_U.S._Politics⠀⇛ The Russian leader, whose government meddled in the American presidential election won by Donald J. Trump, also offered words of praise for Elon Musk. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Kim-Putin_Meeting_Nears,_but Where?⠀⇛ Russian reports said the North Korean leader had crossed into Russia by train on Tuesday morning, but his destination was unclear. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvian_law_enforcement_and_economists_on the_alert_for_sanctions_evaders⠀⇛ The latest trade data shows the continuation of a trend that has been evident ever since Russia started its war on Ukraine and the West responded with swingeing trade sanctions – while trade with aggressor countries Russia and Belarus has quickly reduced, trade with countries bordering Russia in central Asia has markedly increased. # ⚓ AntiWar ☛ The_West’s_Blueprint_for_Goading_China_Was Laid_Out_in_Ukraine⠀⇛ The West is writing a script about its relations with China as stuffed full of misdirection as an Agatha Christie novel. In recent months, US and European officials have scurried to Beijing for so-called talks, as if the year were 1972 and Richard Nixon were in the White House. # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Russia_seeks_to_legitimize occupation_of_Ukraine_with_sham_elections⠀⇛ In early September, Russia staged sham parliamentary elections in occupied regions of southern and eastern Ukraine as Moscow attempted to legitimize its earlier illegal annexation of five Ukrainian provinces. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Ukraine_says_Germany_‘wasting_time’_on decision_to_send_Taurus_missiles⠀⇛ Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Monday urged Berlin to supply Ukraine with long-range Taurus missiles during a surprise visit to Kyiv by German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ EU_To_Cease_Sanctions_Against_Three_Russian Businessmen_This_Week⠀⇛ The European Union will not renew sanctions against three men targeted over Russia’s war against Ukraine when the current punitive measures expire later this week, three diplomatic sources told Reuters on September 12. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Former_Ukrainian_Lawmaker_Who_Appeared_On Russian_TV_Suspected_Of_High_Treason⠀⇛ The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) says former lawmaker Serhiy Polishchuk, who is currently out the country, is suspected of high treason for his appearances on Russian television where he “denied the existence of Ukraine” while allegedly taking money from Russian security authorities. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Poland_To_Extend_Ban_On_Ukrainian_Grain Imports⠀⇛ The Polish government has agreed to extend a ban on Ukrainian grain imports unilaterally even if the current EU restrictions expire on September 15. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Sweden_Considering_Sending_Fighter_Jets_To Ukraine⠀⇛ The Swedish government is considering donating Gripen fighter jets to Ukraine to help it fight Russia, Swedish public radio (SR) reported on September 12, citing unnamed sources. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia-Ukraine_War:_North_Korea’s Leader_Arrives_in_Russia_as_Nations_Seek_Closer Military_Ties⠀⇛ North Korea has one of the world’s largest arsenals, offering Russia access to munitions that could help its forces fighting in Ukraine. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Europe_Rushes_to_Build_Defenses_But With_Little_Consensus_on_How⠀⇛ A push by more than 30 allied countries to arm themselves, precipitated in part by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, has raised concerns of disorganization and supply shortages. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Russian-registered_cars_banned_from_entering Latvia_and_EU_via_eastern_border⠀⇛ As of Tuesday, September 12, persons with vehicles registered in the Russian Federation are prohibited from entering the European Union (EU) through the Latvian-Russian and Latvian-Belarusian border crossing points, according to information from the State Revenue Service (VID) and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ China_says_seeks_deeper_ties with_North_Korea_as_Kim_Jong-un_arrives_in_Russia⠀⇛ China said on Tuesday it was seeking to deepen cooperation with North Korea in “various fields,” as leader Kim Jong Un arrived in Russia on his first trip overseas in four years. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuania_to_ban_Russian_cars_following_EC clarification⠀⇛ Following a clarification from the European Commission, Lithuania will not let in any cars with Russian license plates, unless they are bound for Kaliningrad. Owners who defy the ban may see their vehicles confiscated. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Supreme_Court_Of_Chechnya_Mitigates_Prison Sentence_Of_Opposition_Bloggers’_Mother⠀⇛ The Supreme Court of Russia’s North Caucasus region of Chechnya has mitigated the prison sentence of Zarema Musayeva, the mother of three self-exiled outspoken Chechen opposition activists. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Humanitarian_Aid_Arrives_In_Nagorno- Karabakh_After_Deal_On_Transport_Corridors⠀⇛ Officials in the breakaway region of Nagorno- Karabakh said a Russian truck carrying humanitarian aid arrived on September 12 in the region via territory controlled by Azerbaijan, the first time such a crossing has been allowed in more than three decades. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Kyrgyz_Supreme_Court_Upholds_Court_Decision To_Deport_Investigative_Journalist_To_Russia⠀⇛ Kyrgyzstan’s Supreme Court on September 12 rejected an appeal filed by prominent investigative journalist Bolot Temirov against a court decision to deport him to Russia for “illegally obtaining a Kyrgyz passport.” # ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Russian_Embassy_warns_its_citizens: Finland_may_seize_Russian_vehicles_and_personal_items⠀⇛ The ongoing geopolitical tensions between the European Union (EU) and Russia have taken a new turn. The Russian Embassy in Helsinki recently warned its citizens to abstain from using vehicles with Russian license plates while visiting Finland. This advisory follows the EU sanctions permitting Finnish authorities and other EU member states to seize vehicles with Russian registration. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ More_than_100_illegal_border_crossings attempted_in_last_day⠀⇛ During the last 24 hours, large numbers of attempts to illegally cross into Latvia from Belarus continued. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘I’m_wanted_by_Interpol’:_At_FSB’s_request, Russian_court_remands_Igor_Strelkov_in_custody,_while defendant_argues_he_couldn’t_flee_abroad_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin_says_Soviet_Union_was_wrong_to_invade Czechoslovakia_and_Hungary_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Austria’s_former_top_diplomat_Karin_Kneissl_ (who_danced_with_Putin)_moves_two_ponies_to_Russia_by dedicated_Russian_military_airlifter_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Kim_Jong-un_arrives_in_Russia_by_armored train_What_we_know_so_far_about_the_North_Korean leader’s_first_visit_to_Russia_since_2019_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin_says_Anatoly_Chubais_has_fled,_and that_‘he’s_no_longer_Anatoly_Borisovich,_but_some Moisha_Israelievich’_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin_proposes_designating_September_30 holiday_commemorating_annexation_of_Ukrainian territories_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_war_critics_abroad,_Ukraine’s counteroffensive,_and_Moscow’s_next-gen_weapons Excerpts_from_Putin’s_speech_at_the_2023_Eastern Economic_Forum_—_Meduza⠀⇛ o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ The_NYPD_Denied_Our_Request_for_Body_Camera Footage_of_a_“Friendly_Fire”_Killing._Here’s_How_We_Got_It Anyway.⠀⇛ In March 2021, I received a tip to look into the police killing of a Bronx man who was shot dead in 2017 while in the throes of a mental health crisis. The source suggested I request the investigative files from the NYPD’s Force Investigation Division, the internal unit that spent two years probing the case. # ⚓ EFF ☛ Appeals_Court_Upholds_Public.Resource.Org’s_Right_to Post_Public_Laws_and_Regulations_Online⠀⇛ Tuesday’s ruling by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upholds the idea that our laws belong to all of us, and we should be able to find, read, and share them free of registration requirements, fees, and other roadblocks. It’s a long-awaited victory for Public.Resource.org, a nonprofit organization founded in 2007 by open records advocate Carl Malamud of Healdsburg, Calif., and represented in this case by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) with co-counsel Fenwick & West and David Halperin.  “In a nation governed by the rule of law, private parties have no business controlling who can read, share, and speak the rules to which we are all subject,” EFF Legal Director Corynne McSherry said. “We are pleased that the Court of Appeals upheld what other U.S. courts, including the Supreme Court, have said for almost 200 years: No one should control access to the law.”  As part of its mission of promoting public access to all kinds of government information, Public Resource acquires and posts online a wide variety of public documents, such as nonprofits’ tax returns, government-produced videos, and standards incorporated into law by reference. These standards include electrical, fire safety, and consumer safety codes that have been mandated by governments. But without Public Resource’s work, they are often difficult to access, much less share with others, which means that areas of law that profoundly affect our daily life are obscured from our view. Even courts have had trouble accessing the laws that they are supposed to apply.   # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Yet_Another_Court_Says_Yes_You_Can_Publish_The Law⠀⇛ We’ve talked about this case – American Society for Testing and Materials et al v. PublicResource.org – a few times before. It was one of two cases brought against Carl Malamud’s Public Resource organization for posting the Code of Federal Regulations on its website, and including with the CFR language the standards promulgated by various standards development organizations (like ASTM) that had been incorporated by reference into the CFR as part of that operative law. The standards development organizations claimed that their standards were copyrighted and that publishing them amounted to infringement, whereas Public Resource argued that since those codes had the force of law, it could not be infringement to publish what the law is. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Quartz ☛ The_World_Bank_is_talking_climate_but_funneling billions_into_oil_and_gas_projects⠀⇛ In 2022, the World Bank supplied about $3.7 billion in loans and capital to expedite imports and exports—“trade finance”—that likely ended up funding oil and gas developments, according to Urgewald, a campaign group that tracks global fossil fuel finance. The source of these funds was the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the arm of the Bank that works with the private sector, Urgewald said. # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Climate_Change_Is_Creating_Strange ‘Polygon_Fields’_In_the_Arctic,_and_Scientists_are_Worried⠀⇛ Weird polygonal landscapes are emerging in remote reaches of the Canadian High Arctic, a discovery that exposes the extreme changes that polar regions are experiencing as a result of human-driven climate change, reports a new study. # ⚓ Vox ☛ Wildfires_are_coming…_for_New_Jersey?⠀⇛ Wildfire risk is modeled by combining the likelihood and the intensity of a blaze with an area’s exposure and susceptibility. Widely used models include the US Forest Service’s Wildfire Risk to Communities, the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) National Risk Index, and Risk Factor, a model created by the nonprofit First Street Foundation that looks at fire and other climate risks down to the neighborhood and address level. Some models use the same data but parse risk differently, looking at just housing units or also factors like building values and population to determine a final risk. Some models are searchable by address or neighborhood, while others summarize risk at a county or state level. # ⚓ DeSmog ☛ The_United_States_and_Canada_Are_Among_the_World’s Top_5_‘Planet_Wreckers,’_New_Fossil_Fuel_Report_Contends⠀⇛ United Nations chief António Guterres has called on nations to arrive at September 20’s high-level climate summit in New York City with firm commitments for ending fossil fuel production. So far, however, the world’s top 20 oil and gas extractors have enough production planned to generate 173 billion tons of carbon pollution by 2050 — more than enough to blow past their Paris Agreement commitments and heat the world well beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius above historical temperatures. The greatest polluter among them will be the United States. # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ India Times ☛ [Cryptocurrency]_market_saw_illicit transactions_of_$70_billion_in_five_years:_report⠀⇛ The illicit [cryptocurrency] activity includes transactions tied to stolen funds, scams, ransomware, human trafficking, terrorism financing, and dark net markets. In 2017, the [cryptocurrency] space saw $4.9 billion worth of illicit transactions. After falling to $4.6 billion a year later, this figure nearly tripled and hit $12.3 billion in 2019. # ⚓ BW Businessworld Media Pvt Ltd ☛ Apple_Watch_Series_9 Becomes_Apple’s_First-Ever_Carbon_Neutral_Product⠀⇛ Additionally, the Series 9 boasts a new 4- core Neural Engine, which is fantastic for handling machine learning tasks. Apple said it is twice as fast as the one in the Apple Watch Series 8. Even with all this power, the S9 SiP is impressively energy-efficient, allowing the Apple Watch Series 9 to keep going for a full 18 hours on a single charge. # ⚓ Hindustan Times ☛ Fake_cryptocurrency_OneCoin_co- founder_Karl_Sebastian_Greenwood_sentenced_to_20_years in_US_prison⠀⇛ Prosecutors had sought a sentence of at least 30 years for Greenwood, who they said was OneCoin’s “primary promoter” who touted it as the next Bitcoin. In reality, OneCoin was a pyramid scheme that defrauded at least 3.5 million people, they said. # ⚓ Earth Justice ☛ Cryptocurrency_Mining_in_Texas⠀⇛ Cryptocurrency mining companies in Texas filed applications to connect new facilities to the grid with a projected demand of nearly 42 GW of electricity in 2027, enough electricity to power more than 8.3 million Texas homes during periods of peak demand. As cryptocurrency mining expands, it becomes less lucrative for each of the participants, more competitive, and more energy-intensive. # ⚓ The University of Cambridge ☛ Bitcoin_electricity consumption:_an_improved_assessment⠀⇛ We launched the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index (CBECI) in response to this growing demand for reliable data-driven insights in July 2019. Reflecting the increasing public interest in the topic, our work has evolved, gradually expanding the Index’s scope to provide the building blocks necessary to form a more complete picture of Bitcoin’s environmental footprint. # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Heat_Pumps_Really_Bring_the_Heat_During Those_Cold_Dark_Winter_Months,_Study_Says⠀⇛ In a recently published report in the energy research journal Joule, a team of researchers from Oxford University and the Regulatory Assistance Project outline how incredibly efficient heat pumps are at warming up homes, even in the depths of the most bitterly cold weather. # ⚓ Cell Press ☛ Coming_in_from_the_cold:_Heat_pump efficiency_at_low_temperatures⠀⇛ In extreme cold climates, such as where the lowest temperatures approach −30°C, performance data have shown that heat pumps can provide heat at efficiencies up to double that of resistive heating; however, more analysis is required. Even though heat pump efficiency declines during the extreme cold and back-up heating may be required, air- source heat pumps can still provide significant energy system efficiency benefits on an instantaneous and annual basis compared with alternatives. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Building_A_Cargo_Bike_Dream⠀⇛ Cargo bikes can haul an impressive amount of stuff and serve as a car replacement for many folks around the world. While there are more models every year from bike manufacturers, the siren song of a custom build has led [Phil Vandelay] to build his own dream cargo bike. # ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Meet_the_Shadowy_Network_Vilifying_Climate Protestors⠀⇛ By Amy Westervelt, Drilled, and Geoff Dembicki, DeSmog, with additional reporting by Julianna Merullo and Lyndal Rowlands Earlier this year, news footage began making the rounds on social media of young activists from the German climate organization Letzte Generation (Last Generation) being assaulted by their fellow citizens as they obstructed streets in an effort to draw attention to the German government’s inaction on climate. A young woman, with her hand glued to a road was ripped off the road by her hair; a young man was run over by a truck driver; a passerby punched the protestors and was cheered on. A few months later, German police raided the homes of Last Generation activists and seized their bank accounts. It all seemed like a gross overreaction to a pretty tame form of protest. Although Last Generation stands out for its willingness to inconvenience everyday people’s lives to draw awareness to the severity of the climate crisis, the tactic of road blockades is not a new one — it was commonly used by suffragettes, civil rights activists, and anti-war activists in the pasts, and has been used by cycling advocates for decades as well. During the same year that Last Generation was blocking roads in Germany, farmers used the exact same tactic, blocking roads with their tractors to protest a renewable energy policy that they don’t feel provides enough incentives for biogas. Not a single farmer was punched in the face or dragged off the road by their hair. What was making everyone so irate about Last Generation?  o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ ABC ☛ Qantas_loses_High_Court_appeal_over_mass_sacking⠀⇛ Qantas has lost its High Court appeal over the sacking of 1,700 workers during the COVID pandemic, with the court ruling the airline illegally outsourced the jobs. # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ United_Auto_Workers_union_is_poised_to_strike. Why_now?⠀⇛ About 146,000 U.S. auto workers are set to go on strike this week against any automaker that hasn’t reached an agreement with the United Auto Workers union by the time contracts expire on Sept. 14. The union is asking for 46% in raises, among other demands. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Drew_Barrymore_Dropped_as_National_Book Awards_Host_After_Strike_Backlash⠀⇛ The actor and TV host’s decision to return her talk show to the air, bypassing striking writers, made her a magnet for criticism, online and off. # ⚓ France24 ☛ US_clears_way_for_prisoner_swap_with_Iran, releases_$6_billion_in_frozen_funds⠀⇛ The Biden administration has cleared the way for the release of five American citizens detained in Iran by issuing a blanket waiver for international banks to transfer $6 billion in frozen Iranian money from South Korea to Qatar without fear of US sanctions. In addition, as part of the deal, the administration has agreed to release five Iranian citizens held in the United States. # ⚓ Wells_Fargo_CFO_Expects_More_Layoffs_in_Drive_for Efficiency⠀⇛ Wells Fargo Chief Financial Officer Mike Santomassimo reportedly said that the bank could make further layoffs as it seeks to improve efficiency. Since the third quarter of 2020, Wells Fargo has been trimming its workforce, already reducing its employee base by nearly 40,000, Reuters reported Tuesday (Sept. 12). Santomassimo told the media outlet, “I do think that there’s more to do, and you’ll see that through the headcount number.” At the end of the June quarter, Wells Fargo had 233,834 employees, compared to 243,674 in the second quarter of the previous year, according to the report. The bank has also made cuts in its mortgage business, which has resulted in some layoffs. Additionally, the commercial real estate business faces pressure, particularly in office loans, as employees working remotely have largely vacated many buildings. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “Capitalism_Is_an_Insecurity_Machine”: Astra_Taylor_on_Student_Debt_&_Our_Radically_Unequal_World⠀⇛ As the COVID-19 era pause on federal student debt payments comes to an end and some 40 million Americans will resume payments next month, we speak with Debt Collective organizer Astra Taylor about Biden’s new Saving on a Valuable Education, or SAVE, plan and her organization’s new tool that helps people apply to the Department of Education to cancel the borrower’s debt. Taylor also discusses her new book, The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart, in which she writes, “How we understand and respond to insecurity is one of the most urgent questions of our moment, for nothing less than the future security of our species hangs in the balance.” She notes organizing is about “the alchemy of turning our vulnerabilities, turning our oppression, turning our insecurities into solidarity so that we can change the structures that are undermining our self-esteem and well-being.” o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Craig Murray ☛ Government_By_Uncontrolled_Lunatic_Racists⠀⇛ As long term readers know, I often assist with refugee and immigration cases, including representing at immigration courts, and we have occasionally over the years housed refugee families in our home for a while. # ⚓ Craig Murray ☛ Destitution_Capitalism⠀⇛ I despair that there appears to be no discernible political debate over economic policy in the UK at all, outwith a few left websites and magazines with tiny readerships. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Don’t_worry,_folks._Big_Tech_pinky_swears it’ll_build_safe,_trustworthy_generative_AI⠀⇛ Eight big names in tech, including Nvidia, Palantir, and Adobe, have agreed to red team their AI applications before they’re released and prioritize research that will make their systems more more trustworthy, the White House tells us. # ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ Federal_Court_Approves_Consent_Order Requiring_Minister_Steven_Guilbeault_to_Unblock_Ezra_Levant on_Twitter⠀⇛ The case dragged along for a couple of years and given the full agreement to stop blocking and pay costs, it appears that the government and Guilbeault recognized they were likely to lose. Instead, they agreed to a consent order in an effort to avoid establishing an adverse precedent. Yet even the consent order sends a signal to government ministers and others speaking on behalf of the government that limiting public access to Twitter or social media feeds may violate Canadians’ Charter rights to access government information. # ⚓ NL Times ☛ Hacker_discovered_serious_vulnerabilities_in Dutch_vote_counting_software⠀⇛ A Dutch hacker discovered serious vulnerabilities in the Dutch vote counting software, the Election Board revealed in a statement published on Tuesday. The identified risks have since been rectified. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Is_Modi_Changing_India’s_Name_to_Bharat? Jayati_Ghosh_on_What’s_Behind_the_Move⠀⇛ As the G20 met in India this weekend, invitations to dinners during the G20 used the name Bharat instead of India. Bharat is a Sanskrit term which is already India’s second official name but is not widely used internationally. Economics professor Jayati Ghosh speculates Prime Minister Narendra Modi appears to be moving toward the name Bharat as a “knee-jerk reaction” to a coalition of 26 opposition political parties called the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (I.N.D.I.A.) ahead of 2024 elections. “It would be funny if it weren’t also so expensively ridiculous,” says Ghosh, who taught at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi for 35 years. “The immediate bringing in of this measure is really a panicky response to the fact that the opposition parties are coming together.” # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ The_World_Is_Undergoing_“Significant Realignments”:_Economist_Jayati_Ghosh_on_G20,_India,_China_& More⠀⇛ We get an update on the G20 summit, which welcomed the African Union as a permanent member and took place for the first time in India as the country faces criticism for bulldozing slums near the site of the meeting. “What we are seeing is a period of significant realignments,” says economics professor Jayati Ghosh, who critiques the meeting for a lack of action and largely performative events such as a negotiated joint statement which stopped short of condemning Russia’s aggression in Ukraine. “This G20 has done nothing for the major problems of our time,” says Ghosh, who calls on the group of world leaders to act on climate change and wealth inequality. “The G20 is a collection of potentially very powerful governments — that don’t necessarily represent the interests of their own people, I might add — but nonetheless, this collection has not done very much over the last 12 to 13 years.” o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ [Repeat] Vice Media Group ☛ TikTok_Blocked_‘WGA’_Searches Amid_Writer’s_Strike_Because_It_Thought_It_Was_a_Conspiracy⠀⇛ TikTok was blocking some searches relating to the ongoing writers’ strike on Monday. The social media network has been a central method for striking workers to share updates and promote the strike, which has been ongoing for months. The block was first reported by Media Matters for America. Screenshots shared by MMFA show that the app does not return searches for “WGA,” the acronym used for the Writers’ Guild of America, the union currently on strike against Hollywood studios for better wages and AI regulation. Instead, users are told that no results were found, and that the phrase “may be associated with behavior or content that violates our guidelines.” # ⚓ RFA ☛ Masked_men_savagely_beat_activist_who_called_out Cambodian_minister⠀⇛ The attack is the latest by helmet-wearing, baton- wielding motorbike drivers on dozens of outspoken activists in Cambodia. Most of the incidents have targeted members of the opposition, who say they are politically motivated, and none of the attackers have been brought to justice. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iranian_Writer’s_Assets_Seized_By_Tehran_After Media_Interviews_Abroad⠀⇛ An Iranian court has ordered the confiscation of an apartment belonging to writer Soroush Mozaffar Moghadam, who is currently in Germany, citing his “propaganda activities against the system” as part of recent nationwide protests, in a move underscoring the Islamic republic’s clampdown on dissent. # ⚓ FAIR ☛ Georgia’s_RICO_Law_Is_in_the_News—but_Its_Use_to Silence_Protesters_Gets_a_Pass⠀⇛ But when a new example arose of RICO being used to punish the powerless rather than the powerful—coming from not only the same state but from the very same grand jury—such cautiousness was hard to find in corporate media. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Masculine_Policy:_The_GOP’s_Plan_To_Outlaw ‘Porn’_And_Suspend_The_First_Amendment⠀⇛ Does watching porn threaten your masculinity? Science says it doesn’t.  # ⚓ Kansas Reflector ☛ As_censors_challenge_more_books,_authors bring_a_new_crop_of_Kansas_literature_to_annual_festival⠀⇛ Those who seek to dictate what we and our children can read are a well-organized minority who attempt to ban books from lists compiled by national groups. The American Library Association reports that in 2022, more books were targeted by would-be censors than at any time in the 20 years the association has tracked challenges. # ⚓ Al Jazeera ☛ Meta_deletes_Al_Jazeera_presenter’s_profile after_show_criticising_Israel_|_Israel-Palestine_conflict News_|_Al_Jazeera⠀⇛ Tip of the Iceberg episode investigated how Facebook targets Palestinian content related to Israel. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ France24 ☛ Israel’s_Supreme_Court_hears_petitions_against divisive_judicial_reform⠀⇛ Israel’s Supreme Court began a hearing Tuesday on petitions to strike down a major element of the hard-right government’s controversial judicial overhaul which has triggered mass protests and divided the nation. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Israel’s_Supreme_Court_Weighs_Law_That Limits_Its_Own_Power⠀⇛ Israel’s government passed a bill in July limiting judicial influence. The Supreme Court began meeting on Tuesday to decide whether to strike down the bill, potentially setting up a constitutional crisis. # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Los_Angeles_Names_Intersection in_Memory_of_Woman_Who_Sparked_Iran_Protests⠀⇛ Los Angeles, the second most populous U.S. city, is home to an Iranian community of nearly 138,000 people, of the 400,000-620,000 people of Iranian ancestry in the United States, according to the University of California, Los Angeles. The intersection of Westwood Boulevard and Rochester Avenue- in an area home to Persian businesses- will be renamed Women Life Freedom Square in Amini’s memory, according to a record of the City Council vote on its website. # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Amazon_Is_Forcing_Employees_to_Sign_NDAs That_Prevent_Union_Organizing,_NLRB_Says⠀⇛ The provision defines confidential information as: “proprietary or confidential information of Amazon in whatever form, tangible or intangible, whether or not marked or otherwise designated as confidential, that is not otherwise generally known to the public,” such as Amazon’s “business, projects, products, customers, suppliers, inventions, or trade secrets.” Some examples listed in the provision include “published and unpublished know-how…Amazon pricing policies…and future plans relating to any aspect of Amazon’s present or anticipated business.” Confidential information, the provision states, does not include the terms and conditions of the signer’s employment. The Board alleges in the complaint that because the nature of the confidential information policy was so broad, it restricted workers’ rights to unionize. # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ NBC_Nightly_News_Is_Spreading_Anti-Union Propaganda⠀⇛ From the outset, the viewer is oriented to see only how a strike can hurt them and their personal bottom line — and how fault for that lies with the potential strike, not the corporations refusing to negotiate with United Auto Workers (UAW) in good faith. It’s established right away that the strike is coming after the September 14 contract deadline, it’s bad, and it’s bad because it’s going to cost you, the viewer, money. # ⚓ VOA News ☛ Taliban_Denies_Aid_Interference_While_Arresting and_Threatening_Female_Aid_Workers⠀⇛ Since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, the United Nations and international aid organizations have reported numerous incidents in which Taliban authorities have interfered in the distribution of humanitarian aid in the country. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iranian_Activist_Says_She_Was_Assaulted_By_Prison Guards_Over_Hijab⠀⇛ An Instagram account linked to Mohammadi on September 11 detailed the incident, saying that following the second suicide attempt in three days by one of her cellmates, Mohammadi went to the prison infirmary where she encountered what was described as the “deliberate and brutal” behavior of a nurse. # ⚓ EFF ☛ UN’s_Cybercrime_Convention_Draft:_A_Slippery_Slope for_LGBTQ+_and_Gender_Rights⠀⇛ EFF has consistently voiced concerns over the misuse of cybercrime laws across the globe, and particularly their impact on marginalized and vulnerable communities—notably LGBTQ+ individuals. These laws, often marked by their broad scope and vague wording, have also been weaponized against security researchers, artists, journalists, and human rights defenders. And as nations continue to engage in negotiations regarding the polarizing UN Cybercrime Convention draft, they bear a significant responsibility to ensure that the misuse of these expanded surveillance powers isn’t legitimized under the UN’s watch. The draft Convention has mostly turned into a surveillance treaty. It could redefine surveillance laws across the world. Without changes, it  could potentially legitimize sweeping investigative and prosecutorial powers to investigate crimes that fundamentally violate human rights (both domestically and internationally). So far, it’s looking bleak for human rights. A proposed amendment championed by Uruguay and backed by 50 nations aimed at bolstering human rights in Article 5 with gender mainstreaming (see minutes 01:15) met strong opposition. Nations like Malaysia, Russia, Syria, Nigeria, and Senegal directly opposed it. Meanwhile, countries like China, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iraq chose to back Article 5 as written in the zero draft, which fails to recognize gender mainstreaming.  # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ 48_Years_Is_Long_Enough⠀⇛ Drumming and chanting, hundreds of activists and Indigenous leaders rallied in D.C. Tuesday to mark the 79th birthday of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, and to demand Biden free America’s longest incarcerated political prisoner. Convicted 48 years ago of a killing many say he didn’t commit, Peltier’s conviction is turning into what supporters call “a de-facto death sentence” that “stands as a grim symbol of this country’s long history of stealing life and legacy from Indigenous communities.” # ⚓ Site36 ☛ Water_cannons_to_neighboring_countries:_Germany leads_cross-border_support_against_mass_protests⠀⇛ # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ The_Columbia_OB-GYN_Who_Sexually_Assaulted Patients_for_More_Than_20_Years⠀⇛ Laurie Kanyok was 38, a professional dancer on the cusp of retirement, when she learned she was pregnant. She had already suffered one miscarriage and had recently undergone a spinal treatment that she feared would increase the risk of birth defects. Kanyok booked an appointment with an obstetrician, Robert Hadden of Columbia University. She felt grateful to be in the care of someone who had spent his entire career at such a distinguished institution. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ With_HR_3557,_Broadband_Monopolies_Are_Pushing_A Bill_That_Would_Crush_Your_Town’s_Ability_To_Stand_Up_To Them⠀⇛ For thirty-plus years, giant telecom monopolies have worked tirelessly to crush all broadband competition. At the same time, they’ve lobbied state and federal governments so extensively, that the vast majority of politicians are feckless cardboard cutouts with little real interest in market or consumer health. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Palo_Alto_Embraces_A_Community-Owned_Multi- Gigabit_Broadband_Network_After_Decades_Of_Talk⠀⇛ For all of the hype Silicon Valley gets as the birthplace of American technological innovation, the broadband networks in cities like Palo Alto have never kept pace. Like most towns and cities across the U.S., Palo Alto residents have long complained about the slow speeds, high prices, and comically terrible customer service they get from their regional broadband monopolies: Comcast and AT&T. # ⚓ APNIC ☛ Watch_APNIC’s_30th_Anniversary_video⠀⇛ Celebrating 30 years of contributions to a global, open, stable, and secure Internet # ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ Network_Fees_Could_Splinter_The_Internet: Stanford_Law_Professor_Barbara_Van_Schewick_Responds_To TRAI’s_Consultation_On_OTT_Regulation⠀⇛ Van Schewick is a professor of law at Stanford Law School. Her submission to TRAI focused on pointing out how network usage fees violate the principles of net neutrality. o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ # ⚓ Walled Culture ☛ Google’s_“Web_Environment_Integrity”_is_an attack_on_the_open_Internet_and_user_freedom⠀⇛ That is, Google will get to decide whether your browser configuration is “worthy” of accessing a site. If it isn’t, the site will simply refuse to send you pages. Of course, Google dresses this up as being good for the digital world in all sorts of ways, including the following: [...] # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ BMW_Backs_Off_Heated_Seats_As_A_Subscription Service_Because_It_Was_Stupid_And_Unpopular⠀⇛ We’ve noted several times now how automakers have started taking basic car functions and trying to make them subscription services in a bid to please Wall Street. Mercedes, for example, has started hiding better engine performance behind subscription paywalls. BMW last year decided it was going to make heated seats an $18 per month subscription option. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Reason ☛ The_Trial_Begins:_DOJ_Sues_Google_Over_Search Engine_Dominance⠀⇛ Plus: FDA approves new COVID-19 vaccine, Elizabeth Warren goes after Elon Musk, and more… # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Google_accused_of_paying_more_than_US$10b_to dominate_search⠀⇛ US Government lawyers have claimed Google pays out more than US$10 billion (A$15.6 billion) each year to ensure it is the default search engine on mobile phones and PCs, as the biggest anti-trust trial against the company kicked off in Washington on Tuesday. # ⚓ India Times ☛ US_says_Google_cheated_and_tried_to_hide_its efforts_to_dominate_search⠀⇛ The United States argued on Tuesday that Google did not play by the rules in its efforts to keep its dominance in online search, paying $10 billion to ensure that smaller rivals never got traction. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ First_Of_Potentially_Many_Google_Antitrust Claims_Goes_To_Trial⠀⇛ There have been a whole bunch of antitrust lawsuits filed against Google over the last few years (in fact, one just settled last week though we don’t yet know the details, though when that case was first filed, we noted some problems with it). # ⚓ India Times ☛ EU_antitrust_regulators_seeking_views_on Microsoft’s_remedies_to_UK_watchdog⠀⇛ The European Commission had cleared the deal in May after Microsoft agreed to license popular Activision games such as “Call of Duty” to rival game streaming platforms. The EU offer did not include the Ubisoft deal. # ⚓ NDTV ☛ Google_Pays_$10_Billion_A_Year_To_Maintain_Monopoly Over_Online_Search:_US⠀⇛ The Google case centers on the government’s contention that the tech titan unfairly gained its domination of online search by forging exclusivity contracts with device makers, mobile operators and other companies that left rivals no chance to compete. Dintzer told Judge Mehta that Google pays out $10 billion every year to Apple and others to secure its search engine default status on phones and web browsers, thereby burying upstarts before they have a chance to grow. # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ In_antitrust_case,_Google_insists_its dominance_of_internet_search_is_lawful⠀⇛ The U.S. Justice Department has accused the Alphabet Inc.-owned company of paying more than $10 billion in annual fees to ensure that device makers such as Apple Inc., browser makers such as the Mozilla Foundation and wireless operators such as AT&T Inc. select Google Search as their default search engine. This is how Google has been able to maintain a market share of more than 90%, the Justice Department says. # ⚓ Reuters ☛ Google_argues_quality_kept_its_search_on_top, defends_billions_paid⠀⇛ The Justice Department has accused Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) of paying $10 billion annually to device makers like Apple (AAPL.O), wireless companies like AT&T (T.N), and browser makers like Mozilla to keep its search engine’s market share at around 90%. Google’s search engine is a key part of its business, driving advertising sales and other areas of profit for the world’s fourth most valuable company. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ ‘A_Monopolist_Flexing’:_U.S._Blasts Google’s_Tactics_as_Antitrust_Trial_Opens⠀⇛ The Justice Department and 38 states and territories on Tuesday laid out how Google had systematically wielded its power in online search to cow competitors, as the internet giant fiercely parried back, in the opening of the most consequential trial over tech power in the modern internet era. In a packed courtroom at the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse in Washington, the Justice Department and states painted a picture of how Google had used its deep pockets and dominant position, paying $10 billion a year to Apple and others to be the default search provider on smartphones. Google viewed those agreements as a “powerful strategic weapon” to cut out rivals and entrench its search engine, the government said. “This feedback loop, this wheel, has been turning for more than 12 years,” said Kenneth Dintzer, the Justice Department’s lead courtroom lawyer. “And it always turns to Google’s advantage.” # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Microsoft_Edge_still_forcing_itself_on users_in_Europe⠀⇛ This was supposed to happen in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23531, and subsequent versions of Windows in the European Economic Area were expected to inherit that behavior. The change was made to comply with Europe’s Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which require that companies designated as “gatekeepers” like Microsoft from self- preferencing. So far, there’s no sign anything has changed, though Microsoft has until March 6, 2024 to comply. # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ A_Point_of_View_vs_The Point_of_View:_Federal_Circuit’s_Subtle_Claim Construction⠀⇛ The patent at issue, U.S. Patent No. 10,225,479 (‘479 patent), relates to using dual-aperture camera systems in smartphones to create aesthetically pleasing “portrait photos.” Specifically, the patent discloses combining images from a wide-angle “Wide” lens and a telephoto “Tele” lens to produce a fused image showing a sharp subject in front of a blurred background.  Portrait mode is incredibly popular on Apple and Android phones and so the industry is eager to invalidate the patent held by Tel Aviv based Corephotonics. # § Trademarks⠀➾ # ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ TTABlog_Test:_Which_of_These_Section_2(d) Refusals_Was/Were_Reversed?⠀⇛ Here are three recent appeals from Section 2 (d) refusals. At least one of the refusals was reversed. How do you think these came out? Answers will be found in the first comment. In_re_Belgravia_Wood_Limited, Serial No. 90640925 (September 8, 2023) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge George C. Pologeorgis). [Section 2(d) refusal of HOLIDAZZLE for “Electric lights for Christmas trees; Christmas lighting, namely, electric holiday lights; electric holiday lights,” in view of the registered mark DAZZLE for “LED (light emitting diode) lighting fixtures; LED (light emitting diodes) lighting fixtures for use in display, commercial, industrial, residential, and architectural accent lighting applications; LED and HID light fixtures; LED light strips for decorative purposes.”] # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ US_Copyright_Office_Rejects_Yet Another_AI-Generated_Image⠀⇛ The US Copyright Office has rejected copyright protection for yet another image created using artificial intelligence. An award-winning image created by artist Jason M. Allen with the generative AI platform Midjourney is the latest to be denied copyright protection by the US Copyright Office. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ ACE_Takes_Aim_at_Zoro.to_Successor Aniwatch.to⠀⇛ Earlier this year, the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment shut down one of the largest piracy sites, Zoro.to. The anti- piracy group struck a deal with its Vietnamese operator, who also ran the popular 2Embed service. Shortly before shutting down, Zoro.to was ‘acquired’ by Aniwatch.to, which now finds itself at the center of a new ACE investigation. # ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ Fred_Saunderson_—_Open_Culture VOICES,_Season_2_Episode_24⠀⇛ Open Culture VOICES is a series of short videos that highlight the benefits and barriers of open culture as well as inspiration and advice on the subject of opening up cultural heritage. Fred is the Rights and Information Manager at the Library of Scotland where he works to make the vast collections of Scotland accessible to the world. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Techdirt_Podcast_Episode_365:_Link_Taxes Are_(Still)_Bad⠀⇛ Earlier this year, we had an episode looking at Canada’s proposed social media link tax and the many ways it would be terrible. Since then, that link tax has become law (though not yet come into effect), and unsurprisingly proven that the dire predictions were correct. Also since then, the Cato Institute’s Paul Matzko published an excellent paper on link taxes in general, and Paul joins us on this week’s episode to discuss the many reasons that a link tax won’t save the newspaper industry. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3132 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.13.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_13/09/2023:_More_Google_Layoffs_and_Istio_1.18.3⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 8:22 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Kernel_Space o Servers o Games o Desktop_Environments/WMs # K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Debian_Family o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Devices/Embedded o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers o SaaS/Back_End/Databases o Programming/Development # R o Standards/Consortia * Leftovers o Education o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI) o Security/Uptime o Defence/Aggression 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 # Copyrights * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ Liliputing ☛ Tuxedo_Aura_Linux_laptops_now_available_with_12th- gen_Intel_Core_chips_and_optional_4G_LTE⠀⇛ The latest Aura laptops from German Linux PC maker Tuxedo Computers feature Intel Core i5-1235U processors, 49 Wh batteries, support for up to 64GB of RAM, and support for WiFi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3. Available with a choice of screen sizes, the Tuxedo Aura 14 Gen 3 and Tuxedo Aura 15 Gen 3 are both available for pre-order with prices starting at 839 Euros. And while two laptops are similar in most respects, it’s not just a larger screen that the 15 inch model offers: customers can also configure that version with an optional 4G LTE modem. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Linux_6.6′s_in-kernel_SMB_networking server_graduates_•_The_Register⠀⇛ The next release of the Linux kernel, 6.6, has hit release candidate status. As usual, it contains a number of new features, but we think one has more potential ramifications than all the others put together. Linus Torvalds announced kernel 6.6-rc1 last night, and it includes the KSMBD in-kernel server for the SMB networking protocol, developed by Samsung’s Namjae Jeon. We’ve covered his work a few times on The Reg, including as a possible stand-in maintainer for NTFS3 as well as maintaining support for Microsoft’s exFAT disk format. o § Servers⠀➾ # ⚓ Medium ☛ Starting_Your_Linux_Sysadmin_Journey:_A_Step-by- Step_Guide⠀⇛ Embarking on a journey as a Linux system administrator (sysadmin) can be a challenging yet rewarding endeavor. With a multitude of tutorials and advice available, it’s crucial to find a structured path to kickstart your Linux sysadmin journey. In this guide, we will provide you with a clear roadmap to begin your adventure. # ⚓ Globe Newswire ☛ PingCAP_Achieves_AWS_Data_and_Analytics Competency_Status,_AWS_Service_Ready_Designations_for_AWS PrivateLink_and_Amazon_Linux_2 [Ed: This is proprietary; more about memorisation and paperwork, not skills or control]⠀⇛ o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Windows Central ☛ Unity_has_introduced_new_fees_that_could have_dire_effects_on_the_entire_game_industry,_from_indies_to Xbox_Game_Pass_(UPDATE) [Ed: When you rely on Microsofters and Mono pushers for stacks -- upon which to develop your programs/games]⠀⇛ Unity joins Unreal Engine with a per-install fee. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Why_I_became_a_Software_Heritage_Ambassador⠀⇛ Recently, I decided to join the Software Heritage (SwH) Ambassador program. This is an effort to build a group of volunteers that supports both the SwH organization and its community in different areas like awareness, communication, community growth, ecosystem development, technical excellence, etc. # ⚓ KDE Videos ☛ QtWayland_Robustness_through_compositor handoffs⠀⇛ This is a video demonstration of a new feature in Qt 6.6 to handle clients surviving a compositor restart. # ⚓ KDE Videos ☛ Checkpoint_Restore_For_Graphical Applications_using_QtWayland_compositor_handoffs⠀⇛ Checkpoint restore allows you to safe the state of an application to disk at any given pooint during its execution, and then recover it at that exact point. # ⚓ On_the_Road_to_Plasma_6,_Vol._Ⅲ⠀⇛ Another month, another Plasma 6 update. I’ve been pretty busy during the past weeks, mostly further improving the Wayland session, fractional scaling, and dealing with Qt bugs. Working under the hood like this is tremendously important albeit somewhat ungrateful when there aren’t any pretty pictures to show. A key reason for being able to work so efficiently on kwin_wayland nowadays is that our apps can survive a restart of the Wayland compositor. I can just recompile KWin and restart it like I could on X11. Check out David’s blog post to learn more, including some spectacular video demos, and things we could do with that capability in the future! * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Announcing_Istio_1.18.3⠀⇛ This release contains bug fixes to improve robustness. o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ LMDE_6_(Linux_Mint_Debian_Edition)_Beta_is Available_to_Download⠀⇛ The next major update in the LMDE series (LMDE stands for ‘Linux Mint Debian Edition’) is based on Debian 12 Bookworm, which offers a significantly fresher stack of software than available to users of LMDE 5 (meaning as upgrades go this is a compelling one). LMDE endeavours to offer an experience that’s as close to Linux Mint as possible but without relying on Ubuntu infrastructure. Maintaining LMDE also enables Mint to ensure its homegrown software is compatible with Linux distros outside of the Ubuntusphere. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Linux_Mint_Debian_Edition_6_hits_beta with_reassuringly_little_drama⠀⇛ The next version of Linux Mint’s alternative flavor, its Debian 12-based edition, is looming, and it’s reassuringly unexciting. Specifically, Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 6, codenamed Faye – or LMDE 6 for short – is nearly ready for release: the beta version is now available for download. This version is based on Debian 12 Bookworm, and unlike the more mainstream Linux Mint itself, the only available desktop environment in LMDE is Mint’s own Cinnamon. One of the only visible differences between Mint and LMDE is that LMDE still has a 32-bit edition, whereas Mint is 64-bit only. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Linux_Mint_Debian_Edition_6_‘Faye’_enters Beta⠀⇛ For those of you who want a stable Linux distribution with the Cinnamon desktop, Linux Mint Debian Edition seems like a nice choice and the latest release is now in Beta. It should be much the same as the normal Linux Mint distribution, but directly based on Debian instead of Ubuntu. Their goal with it is to ensure Linux Mint could carry on, in the event of something problematic happening with Ubuntu, they say it’s “also one of our development targets, to guarantee the software we develop is compatible outside of Ubuntu”. # ⚓ Beta News ☛ Linux_Mint_Debian_Edition_(LMDE)_6_‘Faye’_Beta now_available_for_download⠀⇛ Today marks the highly anticipated Beta release of Linux Mint Debian Edition 6. Codenamed “Faye,” LMDE 6 derives its lineage from Debian 12 Bookworm. Linux enthusiasts are always eager for fresh Mint releases, and this one promises a host of new features and fixes. Keep in mind, as with most beta release, there are several known issues. For heightened security, LMDE has opted to lock the root account by default. Those needing to access the recovery console or wish to log in as root will need to set a new password for root using the sudo passwd root command. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ Ubuntu_Linux_Will_Add_TPM-Backed_Full-Disk Encryption⠀⇛ Many people know TPM modules as the main requirement for Windows 11, which was also one of the main reasons why several older computers were not supported (at least officially) by Microsoft’s new operating system. But TPM is actually a hugely useful security feature in our computers. It’s a module that basically enhances the security and the privacy of your PC, something hugely useful given how online security seems to be more important than ever these days. If you use Ubuntu, though, you’re about to get another perk if you actually care about TPM — enhanced full-disk encryption. Full-disk encryption has been present on Ubuntu for a long time, but up until this point it relied on passphrases for authenticated users. Those on Ubuntu Core, however, take a slightly different approach to full-disk encryption, with keys used to decrypt the encrypted data being protected by the TPM, thus not needing to rely on these passphrases. Since this approach has actually been fairly solid for Ubuntu Core, Canonical has been working towards bringing TPM-backed full disk encryption to regular Ubuntu Desktop systems as well. Now, this change is finally soon to land on customers — starting on Ubuntu 23.10, TPM-backed full disk encryption will be available as an experimental feature for those who want to try out, with the aim of bringing it to everyone sooner or later. # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Looks_Like_Ubuntu_23.10_Will_Bring_Back_ZFS_on Root_Installation_Option⠀⇛ Ubuntu 23.04’s new installer is written in Google’s Flutter SDK and it’s based on Ubuntu’s Subiquity server installer, which, unfortunately, does not have ZFS support yet. Those who wanted to install Ubuntu 23.04 on an encrypted ZFS root would have to use the Legacy ISO images. But the good news is that the upcoming Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur) release, due out on October 12th, 2023, will bring back ZFS support in the main ISO image that uses the new Flutter-based installer. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackster ☛ Orange_Pi_Launches_Its_Zero_2W_Single-Board Computer,_Offering_Faster_Clocks_and_Eight_Times_the_RAM⠀⇛ Orange Pi has launched its second-generation alternative to the popular Raspberry Pi Zero family, offering boosted performance and up to eight times the memory of its competition: the Orange Pi Zero 2W. “[The] Orange Pi Zero 2W is powered by [an] Allwinner H618 high-performance quad-core Cortex- A53 processor,” the company writes of its latest board design. “[The] Orange Pi Zero 2W adheres to the compact and exquisite design concept of the Zero series, with a PCB size of 30×65×1.2mm [around 1.18×2.56×0.05"], and can be widely used in TV boxes, smart screen casting devices, smart home, smart gateway, IoT [Internet of Things], and other fields.” o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Purism_Librem_11_Is_a_Linux_Tablet_Powered_by Intel_N5100⠀⇛ Purism is a well-known name among open-source enthusiasts, producing Librem computing devices focusing on software freedom, computer security, and Internet privacy. At the same time, the demand for versatile and Linux-powered tablets continues to rise, so the company steps onto the stage with its new offering, the Librem 11 tablet powered by PureOS – a Debian- based Linux distribution developed and maintained by Purism. # ⚓ Arduino ☛ Old_school_meets_new_energy_in_Project_Hub’s latest_highlights!⠀⇛ It’s back to school! Whether you are a student or not, Arduino’s Project Hub is a great place to never stop learning, thanks to the wealth of knowledge, experiments, and plain cool ideas our community so generously shares. # ⚓ Arduino ☛ Nothin’_but_(neural)_net:_Track_your_basketball score_with_a_Nano_33_BLE_Sense⠀⇛ When playing a short game of basketball, few people enjoy having to consciously track their number of successful throws. Yet when it comes to automation, nearly all systems rely on infrared or visual proximity detection as a way to determine when a shot has gone through the basket versus missed. # ⚓ Arduino ☛ 7_little-known_tech_solutions_to_take_your_garden to_the_next_level⠀⇛ A well-maintained garden is a beautiful thing. The envy of your friends and neighbors, and a lifelong project you can truly take pride in, especially in the summer months. Gardening itself, though, can be a chore. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ The Verge ☛ Google_adds_Prime_Video_and_bunch_of_other stuff_to_cars_with_native_Android_software_–_The_Verge⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Google_wants_to_turn_your_car_into_an Android_tablet_with_wheels⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ The_Android_14_QPR1_Beta_is_coming_next_week⠀⇛ # ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ Android_Auto_now_lets_drivers_take_Zoom_and Cisco_conference_calls_|_TechCrunch⠀⇛ # ⚓ 5_Sweet_New_Features_Coming_to_Google’s_Android_Auto Products⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ 5_things_Android_fans_need_to_know_from the_iPhone_15_launch⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Android_loophole_exposes_credit_card_details via_NFC⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Authority ☛ Wallpaper_Wednesday:_Android_wallpapers 2023-09-13_–_Android_Authority⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Verge ☛ iPhone_15_vs_Android_phones:_Samsung_Galaxy_and Google_Pixel_–_The_Verge⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_Enable_and_Disable_Autofill_on_Android_–_Guiding Tech⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_Enable_Call_Forwarding_on_Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Sun ☛ Millions_of_Android_owners_receive_free_phone upgrade_that_protects_users_from_dangerous_apps_|_The_US Sun⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # ⚓ Soylent News ☛ NCSA_Mosaic_Launched_30_Years_Ago⠀⇛ o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ # ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ Ora2Pg_24.1_have_been_released⠀⇛ Antananarivo, Madagascar – September 8th, 2023 § Ora2Pg Version 24.1 of Ora2Pg, a free and reliable tool used to migrate an Oracle database to PostgreSQL, has been officially released and is publicly available for download. This release fix several issues reported since last release and adds some new features and improvements. # ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ Datasentinel_2023.07_Released⠀⇛ We’re pleased to announce that the latest edition of Datasentinel for PostgreSQL is now available § Refreshed Documentation for Effortless Navigation and Search Our documentation has been completely rewritten. The new structure not only allows for easier navigation but also integrates an AI-powered search engine to help you find answers to your questions more efficiently than ever. Experience_Our_Enhanced Documentation # ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ pg_hint_plan_v1.6.0_Released⠀⇛ The pg_hint_plan development team is pleased to announce pg_hint_plan 1.6.0. This release of pg_hint_plan adds compatibility with PostgreSQL 16, and includes various improvements and bug fixes. For more details, see the release_notes. pg_hint_plan is a PostgreSQL extension that offers the possibility to tweak PostgreSQL execution plans using so-called “hints” in SQL comments. For more information, see the_project_page. The documentation of the project is now published at this_page, and is synced up automatically from the source repository. # ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ pg_tle_1.1.1_released⠀⇛ Trusted Language Extensions for PostgreSQL (pg_tle) is an open source project that lets developers extend and deploy new PostgreSQL functionality with lower administrative and technical overhead. Developers can use pg_tle to create and install extensions without filesystem access and work with PostgreSQL internals through a SQL API. The pg_tle development team is proud to announce the release of version 1.1.1 ! o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # § R⠀➾ # ⚓ Dirk Eddelbuettel ☛ Dirk_Eddelbuettel:_RcppInt64 0.0.2_on_CRAN:_Small_Update⠀⇛ The still very new package RcppInt64 (announced a week ago in_this_post) arrived on CRAN earlier today in its first update, now at 0.0.2. RcppInt64 in R and C++, and regroups them in a single package by providing a single header. It offers two interfaces: both a more standard as<>() converter from R values along with its companions wrap() to return to R, as well as more dedicated functions ‘from’ and ‘to’. o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Thunderbolt_5_to_deliver_up_to_120_Gbps bandwidth,_support_multiple_8K_monitors⠀⇛ Intel has just announced Thunderbolt 5 and demonstrated it with a prototype laptop and dock (see the video embedded at the end of this post) with up to 120 Gbps bandwidth when using “Bandwidth Boost”. Thunderbolt 5 will deliver 80 gigabits per second (Gbps) of bi-directional bandwidth and the top 120 Gbps bandwidth is achieved through “Bandwidth Boost” to support multiple 8K monitors, which means three times the bandwidth of Thunderbolt 4 topping at 40 Gbps. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Apple_Unveils_iPhone_15_With_Changes_to Its_USB-C_Charger⠀⇛ European regulators passed a rule requiring USB- C charging across electronic devices, forcing the change in Apple’s newest iPhones. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China_to_impose_hefty_fines,_penalties for_illegal_education_tutors⠀⇛ Unlicensed tutoring services in China could face penalties of up to 100,000 yuan (S$18,683). o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ France24 ☛ France_orders_Apple_to_halt_iPhone_12_sales_due to_high_radiation_levels⠀⇛ French regulators on Tuesday ordered Apple to halt sales of the iPhone 12 for emitting too much electromagnetic radiation, and to fix existing handsets. o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾ # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Microsoft_fixes_two_zero-days,_59_other_flaws_on Patch_Tuesday⠀⇛ The flaw was discovered by the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team. {loadposition sam08}”Exploitation of this vulnerability is not just limited to a potential target opening a malicious Word document, as simply previewing the file can cause the exploit to trigger,” Narang said. “Exploitation would allow for the disclosure of New Technology LAN Manager (NTLM) hashes. “This is the second zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft products in 2023 that has resulted in the disclosure of NTLM hashes. # ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ W3LL_phishing_kit_hijacks_thousands_of Microsoft_365_accounts,_bypasses_MFA⠀⇛ A threat actor known as W3LL developed a phishing kit that can bypass multi-factor authentication along with other tools that compromised more than 8,000 Microsoft 365 corporate accounts. # ⚓ BGR ☛ Microsoft_is_killing_the_Surface_Duo_after_just_3 years⠀⇛ It’s been three years since the original Microsoft Surface Duo was released, giving us the first taste of a Microsoft-made foldable tablet. o § Security/Uptime⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Wednesday⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Debian (e2guardian), Fedora (libeconf), Red Hat (dmidecode, kernel, kernel-rt, keylime, kpatch- patch, libcap, librsvg2, linux-firmware, and qemu- kvm), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (chromium and shadow), and Ubuntu (cups, dotnet6, dotnet7, file, flac, and ruby-redcloth). # ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Free_Download_Manager_site_redirected Linux_users_to_malware_for_years [Ed: With Windows, the supply chain is always compromised, even_by_design_and_by intention]⠀⇛ A reported Free Download Manager supply chain attack redirected Linux users to a malicious Debian package repository that installed information- stealing malware. The malware used in this campaign establishes a reverse shell to a C2 server and installs a Bash stealer that collects user data and account credentials. # ⚓ Kapersky ☛ Free_Download_Manager_backdoored_–_a_possible supply_chain_attack_on_Linux_machines⠀⇛ Over the last few years, Linux machines have become a more and more prominent target for all sorts of threat actors. According to our telemetry, 260,000 unique Linux samples appeared in the first half of 2023. As we will demonstrate in this article, campaigns targeting Linux can operate for years without being noticed by the cybersecurity community. # ⚓ Kaspersky_reveals_three-year_long_suspected_supply_chain attack_targeting_Linux⠀⇛ Kaspersky unveiled a malicious campaign in which an installer of the Free Download Manager software had been employed to disseminate a Linux backdoor for a minimum of three years. Researchers discovered that victims were infected when they downloaded the software from the official website, indicating that this is a possible supply chain attack. Variants of the malware used in this campaign were first identified in 2013. Victims are based in various countries, including Brazil, China, Saudi Arabia, and Russia. # ⚓ LWN ☛ Password-stealing_Linux_malware_served_for_3_years and_no_one_noticed⠀⇛ Ars Technica reports on a credential-stealing Trojan horse that would infect only some of those who installed the “Free Download Manager”. The article is based on a Kaspersky report that details the malicious payload offered up at that site from 2020 to 2022. # ⚓ Ars Technica ☛ Password-stealing_Linux_malware_served_for_3 years_and_no_one_noticed⠀⇛ The site, freedownloadmanager[.]org, offered a benign version of a Linux offering known as the Free Download Manager. Starting in 2020, the same domain at times redirected users to the domain deb.fdmpkg[.]org, which served a malicious version of the app. The version available on the malicious domain contained a script that downloaded two executable files to the /var/tmp/crond and /var/ tmp/bs file paths. The script then used the cron job scheduler to cause the file at /var/tmp/crond to launch every 10 minutes. With that, devices that had installed the booby-trapped version of Free Download Manager were permanently backdoored. # ⚓ MITRE_ATT&CK_in_2023:_Focus_on_Mobile,_Linux_and_ICS⠀⇛ Cyberattacks are a constant fact of life today. The increasing volume and sophistication of cybercrime means that managed security services providers (MSSPs) should strongly consider taking advantage of resources such as MITRE’s Adversarial Tactics, Techniques & Common Knowledge (ATT&CK) framework. # ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Microsoft_Teams_down:_Ongoing_outage behind_message_failures,_delays⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ A_GCC_-fstack-protector_vulnerability_on_arm64⠀⇛ The GCC stack-protector feature detects stack-based buffer overruns by putting a canary value on the stack and noticing if that value is changed. It turns out, though, that dynamically allocated local variables (such as variable-length arrays and space obtained with alloca()) are placed beyond the canary, so overflows of those variables will not be detected. As a result, arm64 binaries built with vulnerable versions of GCC are not as protected as they should be and need to be rebuilt. # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Texas_Medical_Liability_Trust_updates_its data_breach_notification;_now_provides_notification_on_behalf of_almost_60,000_individuals⠀⇛ In March, Texas Medical Liability Trust on behalf of itself and its affiliates, Texas Medical Insurance Company, Physicians Insurance Company, and Lone Star Alliance, Inc., a Risk Retention Group (collectively “TMLT”) filed a breach notification with the Maine Attorney General’s Office. That submission indicated that 625 individuals had been affected by a breach that occurred between October 2, 2022 and October 13, 2022. # ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Facebook_Messenger_phishing_wave targets_100K_business_accounts_per_week⠀⇛ Hackers use a massive network of fake and compromised Facebook accounts to send out millions of Messenger phishing messages to target Facebook business accounts with password-stealing malware. The attackers trick the targets into downloading a RAR/ZIP archive containing a downloader for an evasive Python-based stealer that grabs cookies and passwords stored in the victim’s browser. # ⚓ ICOUK ☛ Rachel_Anderton⠀⇛ A former family intervention officer at St Helens Borough Council has been sentenced for unlawfully accessing social services records. Rachel Anderton was prosecuted for viewing records on the council’s case management system between 17 January 2019 and 17 October 2019 without having a business need to do so. An internal council audit found the defendant unlawfully looked at the records of 145 people whilst employed in the social services department. Anderton resigned from the council before disciplinary proceedings commenced. # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Conti_member_indicted_for_role_in_2021 Scripps_Health_ransomware_attack⠀⇛ On September 7, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), in coordination with the United Kingdom, sanctioned 11 individuals who are alleged to be part of the Russia-based Trickbot cybercrime group. At the same time, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed indictments against nine individuals in connection with the Trickbot malware and Conti ransomware schemes, including seven of the 11 individuals designated that day. # ⚓ Cyberattack_causes_multiple_court_systems_to_shut_down_some public_safety_computer_servers⠀⇛ A cyberattack caused St. Louis County to shut down some computer systems used to look up court cases, issue charges and process people in custody at the jail, County Executive Sam Page said Tuesday. Police officers, jail officials, the county counselor, municipal court officials and the prosecuting attorney’s office all use the Regional Justice Information System, or REJIS. The county was alerted to the problem Monday afternoon, said Doug Moore, a spokesman for Page. # ⚓ Forbes ☛ Come_Clean_About_Data_Breaches_And_Get_Lower Fines,_Says_UK’s_ICO⠀⇛ British businesses could face lower fines if they proactively report data breaches, thanks to an agreement between the UK’s data protection regulator and cybersecurity agency. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) say they plan to encourage engagement with the NCSC in the event of a breach, and allow meaningful engagement with the NCSC to lead to reduced regulatory penalties. “We already work closely with the NCSC to offer the right tools, advice and support to businesses and organisations on how to improve their cyber security and stay secure,” says information commissioner John Edwards. # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ County_Experiences_Security_Breach_With Jail_Employee_Email⠀⇛ A cyber event last month may have affected the security of some information maintained by Butler County. County officials say they found out August 8th that an email account related to the County jail was sending unauthorized spam emails. # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ MGM_Resorts_incident:_social_engineering strikes_again?⠀⇛ All ALPHV ransomware group did to compromise MGM Resorts was hop on LinkedIn, find an employee, then call the Help Desk. A company valued at $33,900,000,000 was defeated by a 10-minute conversation. # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Chambersburg_Area_School_District_answers some_questions_about_ransomware_attack,_won’t_say_if_they paid_hackers⠀⇛ Did CASD pay ransom? On the advice of our counsel, in order to protect the integrity of the various ongoing investigations, we are not answering this question at this time. We assure you that, CASD is working closely with counsel and law enforcement and taking appropriate action in response to this event. # ⚓ Netcraft_Acquires_FraudWatch_to_Cement_Leadership_in Cybercrime_Detection_&_Takedown;_Delivers_Online_Brand Protection_at_Scale_Supported_by_24/7_Security_Operations Center⠀⇛ Netcraft, global leader in cybercrime detection, disruption, and takedowns, announced today the acquisition of FraudWatch, a leading Australian online brand protection provider focused on phishing, social media, brand infringement, and fake mobile apps. # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Netcraft_acquires_Australian_online_brand protection_provider_FraudWatch⠀⇛ Cybercrime detection company Netcraft Ltd. today announced that it has acquired Australian online brand protection provider FraudWatch International Pty. Ltd. for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2003, FraudWatch offers an always-available security operations center or SOC that protects businesses from brand threats such as financial loss, brand damage and online abuse. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Thousands_of_Code_Packages_Vulnerable_to Repojacking_Attacks⠀⇛ Despite GitHub’s efforts to prevent repository hijacking, cybersecurity researchers continue finding new attack methods, and thousands of code packages and millions of users could be at risk. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Adobe_Says_Critical_PDF_Reader_Zero-Day Being_Exploited⠀⇛ Adobe raises an alarm for new in-the-wild zero-day attacks hitting users of its widely deployed Adobe Acrobat and Reader product. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Security Week ☛ China-Linked_‘Redfly’_Group_Targeted_Power Grid⠀⇛ Symantec warns that the Redfly APT appears to be focusing exclusively on targeting critical national infrastructure organizations. # ⚓ LRT ☛ No_draft_for_women_before_universal_male_conscription –_Lithuanian_president’s_adviser⠀⇛ Lithuania could introduce mandatory military service for women only when it has a universal male conscription in place, according to President Gitanas Nausėda’s chief national security advisor. # ⚓ ADF ☛ Niger_Coup_Hampers_Sahel_Security,_Development⠀⇛ When Niger overthrew its civilian government in July, it joined a growing tally of West African nations that had done so, further complicating regional economic and security cooperation at a time when it is needed most. /blockquote> # ⚓ RFA ☛ ‘Washington_and_Wall_Street_are_two_different countries’⠀⇛ US companies investing in China need more guidance on human rights and national security, Congress told. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ China’s_‘full-time_children’_move_back_in_with_parents, take_on_chores_as_good_jobs_grow_scarce⠀⇛ When she first moved to the Chinese tech hub of Shenzhen after graduating from college, Marguerite Wang imagined she would spend her career working hard in a big city. Instead, she’s living with her parents in her hometown in northeastern China. A record of more than one in five young Chinese are out of work, their career ambitions at least temporarily derailed by a depressed job market as the economy struggles to regain momentum after its long bout with COVID-19. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ India’s_Industrial_Production_Grows_5.7_Pct_in July⠀⇛ Meanwhile, the retail inflation in India fell to 6.83 percent in August from 7.44 percent in July. # ⚓ Forbes ☛ Binance.US_Cuts_100_Employees⠀⇛ Cryptocurrency giant Binance.US let go roughly 100 employees this week, around one-third of its workforce, marking the latest in a series of large corporate layoffs over the past year as employers continue to restructure their teams amid lingering recession fears (see Forbes’ layoff tracker from the first quarter here). # ⚓ Wells_Fargo_anticipates_more_layoffs_amid_commercial_real estate_woes⠀⇛ Wells Fargo expects further layoffs as it attempts to improve efficiency amid a commercial real estate slump. The prominent U.S.-based financial institution has been cutting jobs since the third quarter of 2020. Since that time, Wells Fargo has laid off nearly 40,000 employees. Chief Financial Officer Mike Santomassimo told Reuters on Sept. 12 that, “I do think that there’s more to do, and you’ll see that through the headcount number.” Wells Fargo has previously made large cuts to its mortgage business. The bank’s commercial real estate business is also facing pressure, as many buildings remain empty because of the popularity of remote work. # ⚓ Barclays_laying_off_450_in_U.K.,_possibly_5%_of_global trading_division⠀⇛ Barclays will cut 450 employees from its domestic retail business in the U.K. this week, according to Bloomberg. The move is part of a two-pronged plan that could also see 5% of the bank’s client-facing employees in its global trading division let go. People familiar with the layoffs tell news outlets that the cuts are part of Barclays’ annual campaign to fire underperforming employees. “We always continually modulate and modify that workforce,” Barclays CEO C.S. Venkatakrishnan told CNBC on Monday. # ⚓ The Verge ☛ US_Army_orders_more_Microsoft_AR_headsets_now that_they_no_longer_make_soldiers_want_to_barf [Ed: Another attempt at bailout by the US government; the Army does not need this, it's just an excuse to throw taxpayers' money at Bill Gates et al]⠀⇛ o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ JURIST ☛ US_House_Speaker_McCarthy_announces_Biden impeachment_inquiry⠀⇛ US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced Tuesday that he has directed House committees to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. “Over the past several months, House Republicans have uncovered serious and credible allegations into President Biden’s conduct — a culture of corruption,” # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Venezuela’s_Maduro_arrives_in Beijing_ahead_of_Xi_Jinping_meeting⠀⇛ Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro arrived in Beijing on Tuesday ahead of a meeting with China’s Xi Jinping, state media reported, the final stint of a tour that began last week. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Morocco:_Overseas_Chinese_in_Quake-Hit_Raise Donation⠀⇛ Nasser Bouchiba, president of the Africa-China Cooperation Association for Development, thanked overseas Chinese across the kingdom for extending help. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China,_Airbus_among_potential_losers from_boosted_US-Vietnam_ties⠀⇛ The United States and Vietnam agreed on Sunday to upgrade their diplomatic relations in a historic step for the two former foes, paving the way for business deals and possible new investment. But for every winner there is often a loser. # ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ Speculative_Tech_Nonsense_in California_Paid_for_My_Cat’s_Surgery._Thoughts_About_Joe Biden_and_Vietnam,_and_What_Kind_of_Country_Americans_Have.⠀⇛ Speculative Tech Nonsense in California Paid for My Cat’s Surgery. My cat had her surgery yesterday, and they removed two masses and did a dental cleaning and extracted one bad tooth while she was under a general anesthetic anyway. Recently, I had a bunch of class action settlements come in from various ways tech companies in California violated the law, usually the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, victimizing me and stealing my facial imagery data. These settlements keep going out for years after you’ve actually used a thing, because you weren’t considering at the time how the thing used you. Lemonade insurance had an app that required me to use a video statement during a renter’s insurance loss claim. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Father_Of_Mahsa_Amini_Summoned_By_Iranian Authorities,_Warned_Not_To_Commemorate_Anniversary⠀⇛ Amjad Amini, the father of Mahsa Amini, the female student whose death in Iranian morality-police custody nearly a year ago sparked massive protests, was summoned by intelligence officials on September 11 and interrogated for an hour, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda has learned. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Maria_Ressa,_Philippine_Journalist,_Is Acquitted_of_Last_Tax_Charge⠀⇛ It was the latest legal victory for the veteran journalist and her news site, Rappler, who have faced a barrage of charges from the Philippine government. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ RFA ☛ Hong_Kong_police_question_relatives_of_exiled lawmaker_Ted_Hui⠀⇛ Mainland student jailed for 6 months for possessing Tiananmen massacre posters. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Self-exiled_Hong_Kong_democrat_Ted Hui’s_in-laws_questioned_by_national_security_police_– reports⠀⇛ Hong Kong national security police have taken away self-exiled democrat Ted Hui’s in-laws for questioning, according to several local media outlets citing sources. # ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Workers_unhappy_with_new_labour_rights policy,_contradictory_non-EU_student_fee-hike_and_surge_in cyber_AI_security:_Finland_in_world_press⠀⇛ Here is a selection of what the international press has published about Finland in the last week: Workers under attack in Finland The proposed changes to employment and welfare rights in Finland by the new right-wing government was covered in an article byMorning Star on September 10. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ OPINION:_Finding_ourselves_in_the_digital age⠀⇛ At the end of the day, I’m a regular girl with an internet connection and a spending problem. My algorithm bombards me with content that is designed to make me “trendier.” o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ # ⚓ Right to Repair ☛ Apple’s_‘Wanderlust’_Event:_A_Journey_to ‘Wonder-Lost’?⠀⇛ If Apple’s “repairable” devices still end up in landfills due to built-in obsolescence or repair restrictions, the environmental problem remains unresolved. # ⚓ Right to Repair ☛ Groups_Leading_“Right_to_Repair”_Movement Urge_Biden_Administration_to_Reject_Any_Attempts_to_Derail their_Gains_Via_“Trade”_Agreement_as_Latest_Round_of_Indo- Pacific_Trade_Negotiations_Start⠀⇛ In a letter sent today, a broad coalition urged the Biden administration to safeguard progress being made in states and nationally to give consumers and businesses a “right to repair” their electronics- enabled equipment and devices, by ensuring that a digital trade agreement being negotiated as part of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) does not include a special corporate secrecy shield that could block the right to repair. Signatories include American Economic Liberties Project, Center for Democracy & Technology, Consumer Reports, Farm Action, iFixit, National Farmers Union, The Repair Association, Public Knowledge, and U.S. PIRG. The Biden administration’s battle against monopolies has spotlighted how consumers, farmers, and small businesses get abused by large manufacturers that unduly restrict access to necessary tools, parts, and information to repair their electronics-enabled equipment and devices. A burgeoning “Right to Repair” movement is making real progress at the state and federal level with five states passing legislation, and the Federal Trade Commission active in enforcing protections for users’ repair choice. # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Are_10%_of_Spotify_Streams_Really ‘Fake’?_—_New_Report_Prompts_Fresh_Industry_Conjecture⠀⇛ Are 10% of Spotify streams really ‘fake’? The latest report from the Financial Times prompts more industry conjecture in a time of AI uncertainty. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Bloomberg ☛ Google_Says_It’s_No._1_Search_Tool_Because Users_Prefer_It_to_Rivals⠀⇛ Companies choose Alphabet Inc.’s Google as the default search engine for their browsers and smartphones because it is the best one, and not because of a lack of competition, a Google lawyer said Tuesday at the start of a high-stakes antitrust trial in Washington. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Google_exploited_exclusive_search engine_deals_to_maintain_its_advantage_over_rivals,_DOJ argues⠀⇛ Google is confronting a threat to its dominant search engine as federal regulators launch an attempt to dismantle its internet empire in the biggest U.S. antitrust trial in a quarter century. Over the next 10 weeks, federal lawyers and state attorneys general will try to prove Google rigged the market in its favor by locking its search engine in as the default choice in a plethora of places and devices. On Tuesday, prosecutors opened their case by saying it’s about the future of the internet and whether Google’s search engine will ever face meaningful competition. Google is arguing that competition from Microsoft’s Bing, Amazon and Yelp keep the marketplace fair. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Google_faces_antitrust_showdown_with_US regulators_over_search_engine_dominance⠀⇛ Google will confront a threat to its dominant search engine beginning Tuesday when federal regulators launch an attempt to dismantle its internet empire in the biggest US antitrust trial in a quarter century. # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Is_the_‘king_of_search’_too_dominant?_Inside US_lawsuit_against_Google.⠀⇛ Is Google using its clout to maintain a monopoly over internet search? An antitrust lawsuit has big implications for competition in the tech industry. # ⚓ CNN ☛ Google_is_laying_off_hundreds_in_its_recruitment division⠀⇛ The latest cuts come after Google parent Alphabet in January eliminated 12,000 jobs, or about 6% of its workforce, across the company as it grappled with economic uncertainty that hit the company’s bottom line last year, especially its core advertising business. # ⚓ Alphabet_lays_off_hundreds_from_global_recruitment_team⠀⇛ Google parent Alphabet is laying off employees from its global recruiting team as the tech giant continues to slow hiring, it said on Wednesday. The company’s decision to let go of a few hundred employees is not part of a wide-scale layoff and will retain a significant majority of the team for hiring critical roles. It will also help the workers search for roles within the company and elsewhere. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Google_Sheds_Hundreds_of_Recruiters_in Another_Round_of_Layoffs⠀⇛ The tech giant has sought to trim expenses to pay for artificial intelligence investments; it had earlier cut 12,000 jobs in January. # ⚓ 4Square Media Pty Ltd ☛ Google_Lays_Off_100s_of_Workers Amidst_Antitrust_Trial_–_channelnews⠀⇛ Google is laying off hundreds of workers as a U.S. inquiry has begun to probe into the business practices of the big tech company, after it moved on major mobile carriers in an effort to keep Microsoft out of their search engine results. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Public Domain Review ☛ George_Washington_Williams’ History_of_the_Negro_Race_in_America_(1882–83)⠀⇛ A work of millennial scope by a self-taught African-American historian. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 4621 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.13.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Gemini_Links_13/09/2023:_Walmart_Locks_Wipes,_Oracle_Cloud_Burns_Users⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 7:27 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal/Opinions o Technology_and_Free_Software * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾ # ⚓ 🎵_Obsession⠀⇛ Back in the early ‘90s my friends and I were on constant lookout for quiet places to have a toke, talk shite, and listen to music. Often times this meant a secluded parking spot, preferably with a view, that wasn’t going to be interrupted by dog walkers or the f’ing police.  We found a perfect place, for a while, sometime in early ’94. A quiet side-road with two empty bungalows at the end, surrounded by trees, between the motorway and a spur road leading back into town. We parked there regularly, and when the sun was out, occasionally wandered through the trees to see what we could find. # ⚓ Free_Range_Prose⠀⇛ On the topic of factory farmed versus free range chicken eggs, Herodotus is reputed to have talked about “wool from trees”, where the people in a strange and faraway land obtained their wool from a plant. Tree wool usually goes by the name of cotton. So we have the same thing described in two different ways, as opposed to two different chicken products that perhaps incorrectly share the same name, that maybe should be different. Some egg producers would doubtless bristle at having to label their product “orbs from savagely brutalized chickens”. Think of what that would do to the sales! # ⚓ Dear_Walmart_…_seriously?_That’s_what_you_keep_under_lock and_key?⠀⇛ You keep *alcohol wipes* under lock and key? Are they *that* valuable? You do realize that we repealed the 18^th Amendment [1], right? # ⚓ A_boardgame_example_of_STAR_voting⠀⇛ Here’s how to select a boardgame using scoring, then instant runoff. Give everyone a paper list of the games on offer. Everyone anonymously scores each game from zero to five stars, zero means don’t wanna play today and five means really wanna play today. It’s OK to mark a bunch of zeroes and just one five, it’s OK to give all kinds of scores, it’s OK to have several fives or several threes or whatever. It works anyway. # ⚓ Rewilding_Music:_6_Months_Into…Something⠀⇛ Hey there, pub-goers! Six months ago I gave up recorded music as part of what may be the dumbest personal experiment ever (reclusib brilliantly called it being a ‘musical anchorite’), and I figure I should give an update. It’s been…weird. Not living without recorded sound–that was honestly pretty easy–but letting it back into my life has been a bit strange. A great deal of music now sounds frantic and overly complex to my ear. Busy. Crowded. “Too many notes,” as Joseph II supposedly told Mozart. When I feel compelled to listen to music, I seem to gravitate toward very simple percussion and human voices. o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾ # ⚓ Oracle_Cloud_Always_Free_“Idle”_Threshold_Change⠀⇛ Back in March, I wrote about Oracle Cloud’s stupid definition of “idle” compute resources and the potential impact on capsules hosted using the “Always Free” service. This is a quick update/ warning to say that the thresholds for what is considered idle have changed from 10% to 20%. I don’t recall seeing any notification of this until yesterday when I received an email saying that my server (where this capsule is hosted) had failed to meet the threshold over the last 7 days (and so would be shut down after a further 7 days). # ⚓ SEOSAW_growth_rates_workshop⠀⇛ Recently, with help from colleagues, I ran an online workshop for the SEOSAW network[1] on estimating tree growth rates, rates of recruitment and mortality, and rates of biomass productivity and loss from repeat measurements of tree stem diameter in fixed area plots. # ⚓ Story_Time:_The_Hackiest_Feature_of_Them_All⠀⇛ This is the story of the hackiest, coolest, most absurd, and most pointless feature I’ve ever been part of developing. It’s probably the one I’m most proud of, despite it being entirely unused. The year was 2014, or maybe 2015. Grooveshark was a small but popular music streaming service where I had been working for several years. At the time I was working closely with my friend Mike Cugini on Grooveshark’s backend systems, and together we were given the task of developing Mobile Broadcasts. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 4800 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.13.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_13/09/2023:_Unifont_15.1.01_and_Quality_Assurance_Tool_for_Guix⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 8:01 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Server o Kernel_Space o Graphics_Stack o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Games o Desktop_Environments/WMs # K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o EasyOS o BSD o SUSE/OpenSUSE o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Debian_Family o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Devices/Embedded o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers # Mozilla o SaaS/Back_End/Databases o FSF o GNU_Projects o Programming/Development # Perl_/_Raku # Python * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ Stop_Turning_Success_Into_Failure_With_Microservices⠀⇛ MIcroservices can help you avoid business failure because of huge, monolithic application architecture. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ [Old] The University of Helsinki ☛ Linux:_a_Portable Operating_System [PDF]⠀⇛ We explore the hardware portability issues in Linux that were uncovered when porting the operating system to multiple CPU and bus architectures. We also discuss software interface portability issues, especially with regard to binary compatibility with other operating systems that can share the same hardware platform. The approach taken in Linux is described, with a few example architectures covered in some more detail. # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Linux_Kernel_6.4_Reaches_End_of_Life,_Upgrade to_Linux_Kernel_6.5_Now⠀⇛ Renowned Linux kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman announced today the release of Linux 6.4.16 as what appears to be the last maintenance update in the Linux 6.4 kernel series, which was released on June 25th, 2023. Linux kernel 6.4.16 is a hefty update that comes with no less than 873 changed files, consisting of 10654 insertions and 7653 deletions. All users using Linux 6.4 are recommended to update their installations to this version as soon as it hits the stable software repositories of their distributions. # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_6.5.3⠀⇛ I'm announcing the release of the 6.5.3 kernel. All users of the 6.5 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 6.5.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/ git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-6.5.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/ linux-s... thanks, greg k-h # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_6.4.16⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_6.1.53⠀⇛ # ⚓ Syscall_latency…_and_some_uses_of_speculative_execution⠀⇛ Moving from UEK5 to UEK6 brought about an unwelcome surprise: an increase in syscall latency on some x86 systems. The root cause, as we will see, was slightly slower evaluation of audit rules, which, given that they are evaluated for every syscall, is not great. In this post we start off by exploring the root cause which turns out to not be UEK specific, it also impacts upstream kernels as well. Then we detail the fixes and how they take advantage of the speculative out-of-order nature of the CPU pipeline. The changes, even though they target low-level optimizations, are quite straight-forward, almost trivial. # ⚓ Stéphane_Graber:_Two_months_in⠀⇛ It’s now been two months since I left my position at Canonical and went freelance! A lot of things have now all fallen into place to the point where it almost feels like having a normal work routine again § Kernel and ZFS builds As mentioned in an earlier_post, after over a year of rolling my own kernels and manually installing them on all my systems, I’ve decided to spend a bit of time automating the whole process and putting in place a proper build and publishing pipeline. o § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ John Goerzen ☛ John_Goerzen:_A_Maze_of_Twisty_Little Pixels,_All_Tiny⠀⇛ Two years ago, I wrote Managing_an_External_Display on_Linux_Shouldn’t_Be_This_Hard. Happily, since I wrote that post, most of those issues have been resolved. But then you throw HiDPI into the mix and it all goes wonky. If you’re running X11, basically the story is that you can change the scale factor, but it only takes effect on newly-launched applications (which means a logout/in because some of your applications you can’t really re-launch). That is a problem if, like me, you sometimes connect an external display that is HiDPI, sometimes not, or your internal display is HiDPI but others aren’t. Wayland is far better, supporting on-the-fly resizes quite nicely. I’ve had two devices with HiDPI displays: a Surface Go 2, and a work-issued Thinkpad. The Surface Go 2 is my_ultraportable_Linux_tablet. I use it sparingly at home, and rarely with an external display. I just put Gnome on it, in part because Gnome had better on-screen keyboard support at the time, and left it at that. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Machine_Learning_in_Linux:_Speech_Note⠀⇛ Speech Note is a GUI frontend for various processing engines. For Speech to Text it uses Coqui STT, Vosk, and Whisper. Whisper is our highest rated speech recognition tool and features in our award-winning Top 100 CLI apps study. It’s that good. Coqui STT is also highly recommended although it’s no longer actively maintained. For Text to Speech, Speech Note uses espeak-ng, MBROLA, Piper, RHVoice, and Coqui TTS. And the machine translation is handled by Bergamot Translator. This is free and open source software written in C++. # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Alternatives_to_popular_CLI_tools:_uname⠀⇛ This article spotlights alternative tools to uname, a command-line utility that prints system information. # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 13_Great_Free_and_Open_Source_Linux_Foreign Language_Tools⠀⇛ We have identified the best of breed free and open source Linux foreign language tools. Learn a new language. # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 22_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Stacking_Window Managers⠀⇛ Stacking window managers (also known as floating window managers) draw all windows in a specific order, allowing them to overlap. # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Alternatives_to_popular_CLI_tools:_who⠀⇛ This article spotlights alternative tools to who, a command that shows who is logged on to the system. # ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ Ranger_File_Manager_Keyboard_Shortcuts⠀⇛ Ranger is a simple yet powerful terminal file manager for Linux. It works by using the ncurses library and a custom file launcher script to create a beautiful and seamless interface that you can use to access any file on your machine. # ⚓ TecMint ☛ 10_Best_Clipboard_Managers_for_Linux⠀⇛ Many times you get frustrated after copying something to your clipboard and then end up clearing it due to distraction from something else or someone. It can be annoying when this actually happens. In this article, we’ll explore clipboard managers that help manage and track your clipboard contents, addressing the frustration of unintentionally clearing it. # ⚓ TecMint ☛ 10_Best_PDF_Document_Viewers_for_Linux_Systems⠀⇛ This article is the continuation of our ongoing series about Linux Top Tools, In this series, we will introduce you most famous open source tools for Linux systems. With the increase in the use of portable document format (PDF) files on the Internet for online books and other related documents, having a PDF viewer/ reader is very important on desktop Linux distributions. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ LinuxConfig ☛ Setting_Up_NVIDIA_CUDA_Toolkit_in_a_Docker Container_on_Debian/Ubuntu⠀⇛ # ⚓ Installing_and_Running_Fortran_Program_on_Linux⠀⇛ Fortran, which stands for “Formula Translation“, was initially created by IBM in the 1950s to serve as a high-level programming language for scientific and engineering calculations. # ⚓ Kiwix_–_Access_Wikipedia_Content_Offline_Without_Internet⠀⇛ The internet is by far a well-rounded source to get information on just about anything you might need info on. # ⚓ Jo_Shields:_Building_a_NAS⠀⇛ Bringing it all together is the OS. I wanted an “appliance” NAS OS rather than self-administering a Linux distribution, and after looking into the surrounding ecosystems, decided on TrueNAS_Scale (the beta of the 2023 release, based on Debian 12). # ⚓ Own HowTo ☛ How_to_fix_“Gnome_terminal_command_not_found” on_Debian_12⠀⇛ Debian 12 by default comes with Gnome desktop environment installed. And if you try to launch gnome-terminal it launches perfectly because gnome terminal is the default terminal of Gnome Desktop environment. # § idroot⠀➾ # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Nessus_Scanner_on_Debian 12⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Nessus Scanner on Debian 12. In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, ensuring the safety and integrity of your systems is paramount. Vulnerability scanning tools like Nessus Scanner play a pivotal role in identifying potential weaknesses in your network and applications. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ Differences_Between_Vi_And_Vim_Text Editors⠀⇛ Text editors are essential tools in the world of Linux and software development. They provide a platform for creating, editing, and managing code and text files. Among the plethora of text editors available, two of the most iconic choices are Vi and Vim. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Nmap_on_AlmaLinux_9⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Nmap on AlmaLinux 9. Nmap, short for Network Mapper, is a versatile and powerful open-source tool used for network exploration, security auditing, and vulnerability assessment. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_to_Use_Which_Command_on_Linux⠀⇛ In the intricate realm of Linux command-line operations, efficient navigation is the key to unlocking the full potential of your system. Among the arsenal of commands at your disposal, the unassuming ‘which‘ command stands as a stalwart guide, aiding you in locating executable files with finesse and precision. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_VirtualBox_on_Debian_12⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install VirtualBox on Debian 12. Virtualization technology has revolutionized the way we manage and deploy systems, allowing us to run multiple operating systems on a single physical machine. Among the plethora of virtualization software available, Oracle VirtualBox stands out as a versatile and powerful tool. # ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ Unpacking_and_installing_.tar.xz_and_.tar.gz files_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛ In the vast and diverse world of Linux, file installation sometimes comes in the form of compressed packages, often denoted as .tar.xz and .tar.gz files. These file formats contain bundled files and directories that need to be extracted and installed manually, offering a method to distribute various software packages efficiently. For newcomers and even seasoned users, navigating the installation of these file formats can sometimes pose a bit of a challenge. # ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Access_USB_from_Virtual_Machine_in_VirtualBox on_Linux⠀⇛ You can totally access the USB storage from inside the virtual machine. Here’s how to do that if you are using VirtualBox on Linux. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ “Talking_about_Linux_Tycoon_3_for_Android_& Gameboy”⠀⇛ Listen now (18 mins) | Lunduke Journal Podcast Special Announcement # ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ Linux_Tycoon_3_comes_to_Android_&_Gameboy_ (seriously)⠀⇛ Because who doesn’t want a Linux distro simulator in their pocket? # ⚓ Unix Sheikh ☛ Bethesda’s_Starfield_is_a_disgrace_to_game development_and_a_slap_in_the_face_to_gamers⠀⇛ Nowadays PC gamers are used as guinea pigs when big gaming titles are released with major bugs, major performance issues, and other similar problems. Even though PC gamers are used as guinea pigs, they still often have to pay full price for the games as well. Game development has turned into a cirkus and Bertheda’s latest title Starfield is a disgrace, not only to game development itself, but also to the gaming community. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Embracer’s_troubles_continue_as_they_may sell_off_Borderlands_dev_Gearbox⠀⇛ Embracer Group got a little too big it seems, and there’s no such thing as too big to fail. After shutting down Volition, it appears Embracer may be about to sell off Borderlands developer Gearbox. # ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Alterium_Shift_is_out_in_Early_Access_with a_Linux_Client⠀⇛ There is an enormous chance that things I write here will change by the release date, some bugs were fixed since I started this review and many improvements to the story happened. The best that can be done is to share a snapshot of the current state of the game. # ⚓ Arduino ☛ Your_Arduino_Nano_ESP32_can_run_Doom⠀⇛ “But can it run Doom?” is more than just a joke in the tech world. It is also a decent litmus test for the computing power of hardware. # ⚓ Dedoimedo ☛ Age_of_Empires_II:_Definitive_Edition_works under_Steam_Proton⠀⇛ ‘Tis the season to be jolly. Behold, a tutorial showing how to install and run Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition in Linux using Steam Proton compatibility layer, covering playback and performance, Enhanced Graphics Pack DLC setup, game save import from Windows, and more. Have fun! [...] So far, ever since I got the Slimbook Titan, I’ve been on a happy streak of success with Linux gaming. My goal is to be able to achieve functional parity with Windows come 2025, which is when Windows 10, the last okay version of this operating system, goes EOL. At the current pace, I’m almost there, two plus years early! The only thing missing is the Office compatibility. But the games be breezin’. One title after another. Well, time to play some classic RTS, with a bigass smile on me face. See you soon. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ ZX_Spectrum_Gets_A_3D_FPS_Engine⠀⇛ The Sony PlayStation and Nintendo 64 are well-known for bringing 3D gaming into the mainstream in a way that preceding consoles just couldn’t. The ZX Spectrum, on the other hand, is known for text adventures and barebones graphics. However, it now has a rudimentary version of a Quake-like engine, as demonstrated by [Modern ZX-Retro Gaming]. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Steam_goes_green_as_Valve_celebrate_20 years⠀⇛ While we already marked the anniversary of Steam turning 20 in a previous article, Valve has now done their own announcement along with turning a bit green. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Happy_Birthday_to_Steam_as_it_turned_20 today⠀⇛ Where has all that time gone? It’s pretty hard to believe that it was 20 years ago that Steam arrived, and with it that glorious green interface. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ The_open_source_Godot_Engine_has_a_new Godot_Development_Fund⠀⇛ The same day that Unity confused all their developers with a new pay per user install revenue model, the team behind the open source Godot Engine just announced their new Godot Development Fund. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Unity_introduces_new_fees_for_game_devs based_on_revenue_and_game_installs⠀⇛ Unity Technologies have announced an overhaul to their fees for game developers, which now includes tracking game installs and revenue. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Steam_and_Steam_Deck_stable_client_update adds_Indonesian_support⠀⇛ Valve has released a fresh stable client update for Steam desktop and Steam Deck, that amongst other improvements adds in Indonesian language support. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Stellaris_3.9_‘Caelum’_free_update_is_out now⠀⇛ Paradox have released the latest free update to Stellaris with 3.9 “Caelum”. It’s a pretty big one too, with a rather long list of changes. Easily one of my favourite space strategy games. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Fanatical_have_great_bundles_live_with Deathloop,_Skyrim,_Metro_Exodus_and_more⠀⇛ Fanatical have launched their Bundle Fest again so there will be a new bundle launching regularly for a few days, and there’s a few already live that are worth looking into if you need some new games. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ KDE Videos ☛ Using_compositor_handoff_to_switch between_desktops⠀⇛ In the video we can see applications seamlessly move between Plasma, Gnome, Weston, Hyprland and Sway as part of the wayland robustness project. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ HaikuOS ☛ Haiku_Activity_&_Contract_Report,_August_2023⠀⇛ This report covers hrev57184 through hrev57256. It’s worth noting: the main Haiku CI is currently offline as the developer who was hosting the build machine moved to a location with much slower internet. A new build machine and home for the CI has already been selected, but isn’t fully online yet, so the nightly builds are a bit behind at the moment. Zardshard contributed some changes to refactor parts of Debugger’s CLI event handling, especially the WaitForThreadOrUser routine and also the message-passing facilities. o ⚓ OSTechNix ☛ Dual_Boot_Zorin_OS_and_Windows:_A_Step-by-Step Guide⠀⇛ Zorin OS is a user-friendly Linux distribution that is designed to be a great alternative to Windows. It is easy to use, has a modern look and feel, and comes with a variety of pre-installed software. If you are looking to try Zorin OS, but you don’t want to give up Windows completely, you can install Zorin OS alongside Windows operating system. This means that you will be able to choose which operating system you want to use when you start your computer. This tutorial will walk you through the steps of dual booting Zorin OS and Windows. o § EasyOS⠀➾ # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ EasyOS_Kirkstone-series_version_5.5 released⠀⇛ Version 5.4.10 was released on August 8, 2023, see announcement: If you are new to EasyOS, read the 5.4 release announcement as it has getting-started links: [...] # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Duplicate_container_icons_created_on desktop⠀⇛ The usr-merge collateral damage is continuing. I posted about some issues when updated easy 5.4.10 installed on my Lenovo PC to 5.5: [...] # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Final_usr-merge_fixes_for_Kirkstone_5.5⠀⇛ o § BSD⠀➾ # ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Which_BSD_did_you_start_on?⠀⇛ This post is dedicated to Benedict Reuschling, who encouraged me to write about this again! Danke :). I saw this question floating around the socials recently, and it got me thinking where I started. It was tricker to answer than I thought, though I was able to trawl through the archives to find some info. My first BSD was Red Hat Linux. You read that right: practically every Linux distribution has BSD-licenced code, and they depend on tooling like OpenSSH from the OpenBSD project for secured administration. I like to point out examples like this whenever a GPL advocate claims their licences are necessary to ensure freedom. Pity that importing into a GPL’d project is a one-way transaction. # ⚓ Undeadly ☛ p2k23_Hackathon_Report:_Landry_Breuil_(landry@) on_chasing_memory_corruptions⠀⇛ Next up in the series of p2k23 hackathon reports is this from Landry Breuil (landry@), who writes, [...] # ⚓ Klara ☛ Unlocking_Infrastructure_Sovereignty:_Harnessing the_Power_of_Open_Source_Solutions_for_Business_Flexibility and_Cost-Effectiveness⠀⇛ The growing dependence on Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions has raised concerns about vendor lock-in and its consequences for businesses. In a recent discussion hosted by experts from Klara Inc. and Bell Technology Solutions, the focus was on infrastructure sovereignty and the advantages of adopting open source solutions. [...] Software as a Service (SaaS) and recurring revenue models have become prevalent, often leading to vendor lock-in. This constrains businesses from seamlessly transitioning to alternative solutions, trapping them and keeping them reliant on their vendors. Regaining (or simply maintaining) infrastructure sovereignty protects freedom of choice, which in turn eliminates the restrictions of vendor lock-in. o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ Unicorn Media ☛ Slowroll:_openSUSE’s_New_Take_on_the Rolling_Release_Model⠀⇛ Currently an experimental project, Slowroll is a hybrid distro that seeks to meld the stability of a fixed release distro like openSUSE Leap with the advantages of a rolling release like openSUSE Tumbleweed. o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Red Hat ☛ A_Node.js_success_story_at_the_electrical training_ALLIANCE⠀⇛ Red Hat and customers often work together as partners to help get an application across the finish line. In this article, Stephen (electrical training ALLIANCE) and Michael (Red Hat) share the story of one such collaboration that led to success with Node.js in production. The electrical_training_ALLIANCE (ETA) has the mission to develop educational materials for electrical workers. They do this by developing national standards for the education and training of electrical workers, creating standardized training curricula, and assisting in establishing local educational programs. A key part of this work is to develop and provide an application for the 275 training programs that will assist in the day- to-day operations supporting apprentices within the program from application through to graduation. # ⚓ Red Hat ☛ How_to_automate_AWS_network_using_Ansible Automation⠀⇛ In today’s rapidly evolving technology landscape, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform offers a powerful solution for managing network configurations in Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this article, we will explore how you can leverage the capabilities of Ansible Automation Platform to simplify and automate your network configuration tasks in AWS. We will guide you through the process of setting up the necessary credentials for your AWS account within the Ansible Automation Platform. We will then dive into playbook execution, demonstrating how you can execute playbooks to define and automate your network configurations in AWS. By the end of this article, you will have the knowledge and confidence to use Ansible Automation Platform to manage your network configurations in AWS effectively. # ⚓ Kubernetes Blog ☛ Blog:_User_Namespaces:_Now_Supports Running_Stateful_Pods_in_Alpha! [Ed: Red Hat is working with Microsoft. Not good. They also use Microsoft proprietary prisonware, GitHub. Red Hat values your freedom to pay Microsoft and IBM for malicious software.]⠀⇛ Kubernetes v1.25 introduced support for user namespaces for only stateless pods. Kubernetes 1.28 lifted that restriction, after some design changes were done in 1.27. # ⚓ Red Hat ☛ How_Red_Hat_enhances_the_developer_experience⠀⇛ Hybrid and multicloud approaches offer developers more access to powerful computing resources than ever. However, this increasing complexity can make it challenging to manage all your development tasks, hindering productivity. Red Hat’s cloud-first approach simplifies modern cloud environments. Our versatile toolbox maintains flexibility and limits cloud vendor lock-in by letting you work with a wide range of cloud tools and vendors. Let’s explore how Red Hat reduces friction by designing tools with developers in mind. § Red Hat reduces friction for developers Red Hat’s primary goal is to make it easier for you to create and deploy cloud-first applications. Our hybrid_cloud_approach builds on an open_source foundation, enabling you to design software once and deploy it to any (or every) cloud platform. o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Mint ☛ LMDE_6_“Faye”_–_BETA_Release⠀⇛ This is the BETA release for LMDE 6 “Faye”. LMDE is a Linux Mint project which stands for “Linux Mint Debian Edition”. Its goal is to ensure Linux Mint would be able to continue to deliver the same user experience, and how much work would be involved, if Ubuntu was ever to disappear. LMDE is also one of our development targets, to guarantee the software we develop is compatible outside of Ubuntu. LMDE aims to be as similar as possible to Linux Mint, but without using Ubuntu. The package base is provided by Debian instead. # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Free_Download_Manager_Debian_Package_Infected with_Malware⠀⇛ In an alarming disclosure by Securelist.com for Linux users, a Debian package associated with the popular ‘Free Download Manager’ has been found to be infected by malware. This malicious software, lurking in the deb package, poses a significant security threat to unsuspecting users. The root of this issue lies in a Debian repository linked to the domain ‘deb.fdmpkg[.]org.’ On visiting this domain in a web browser, users encounter a seemingly harmless webpage. However, beneath this façade, trouble brews. This subdomain claims to host a Debian repository for ‘Free Download Manager,’ a well-known software used by many. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ An_Overview_of_New_Features_in_Ubuntu 23.10⠀⇛ Ubuntu 23.10, code-name “Mantic Minotaur”, has reached UI freeze stage. See what’s new in the upcoming release of the popular Linux Distribution. Ubuntu 23.10 will use Linux Kernel 6.5, though it’s still sticking to Kernel 6.3 at the moment in the daily build. # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Deploy_fully_configured_VMs_in_minutes_on_Google Cloud,_using_gcloud_CLI_and_cloud-init⠀⇛ Make reusable deployment templates for Landscape and other applications # ⚓ Neowin ☛ Ubuntu_Pro_22.04_LTS_with_real-time_kernel_now_on AWS_Marketplace⠀⇛ Canonical has released Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS with real-time kernel on the AWS Marketplace. This comes several months after the real-time version was released back in February this year. # ⚓ ZDNet ☛ Real-time_Ubuntu_is_available_in_AWS_Marketplace now,_and_it’s_ideal_for_rapid_prototyping⠀⇛ Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS with a real-time kernel is now available to use in the AWS Marketplace. # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Real-time_Ubuntu_is_now_available_in_AWS Marketplace⠀⇛ Canonical is thrilled to announce the listing of Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS with real-time kernel in  AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS). # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_updates,_releases_and_repositories explained⠀⇛ Since we launched Ubuntu Pro’s Expanded Security Maintenance for additional packages, and we now integrate more closely with public cloud update management tools, more people have been asking us about the Ubuntu archive and how this is divided and security patched. # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Faster_AI_application_development_with_Canonical and_NVIDIA_AI_Enterprise⠀⇛ Ubuntu KVM support comes to NVIDIA AI Enterprise Canonical continues to expand its collaboration with NVIDIA by providing Ubuntu KVM Hypervisor support with NVIDIA AI Enterprise 4.0 — which is generally available starting today. Organisations using GPU virtualisation on Ubuntu can look forward to a seamless migration to the new NVIDIA AI Enterprise licence. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Waveshare_presents_low-cost_RP2040_Pi-Zero board⠀⇛ # ⚓ Adafruit ☛ CircuitPython_8.2.6_Released!_@circuitpython⠀⇛ CircuitPython has a number of “ports” that are the core implementations for different microcontroller families. Stability varies on a per-port basis. As of this release, these ports are consider stable (but see Known Issues below): [...] o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Purism_Launches_New_Secure_Librem_11_Tablet_PC Powered_by_Linux⠀⇛ Like most of Purism’s devices, the Librem 11 tablet PC promises users the best security, privacy, and freedom-respecting features including a secure boot with Purism’s PureBoot cutting-edge secure boot process based on the Coreboot and Heads projects. Librem 11 also promises real convergence with Purism’s PureOS security-focused operating system based on Debian GNU/Linux, so you can turn the tablet into a full-featured computer when connected to a monitor, keyboard, and mouse. # ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ Purism_Announce_New_11-Inch_Linux_Tablet⠀⇛ Purism has announced its first foray into tablet computing with the Librem 11 tablet. # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ $999_Librem_11_Linux_tablet_features_Celeron N5100_processor,_1TB_NVMe_SSD,_2.5K_AMOLED_display⠀⇛ Purism Librem 11 is an 11.5-inch Linux tablet running the secure PureBoot bootloader and PureOS Linux distribution with a focus on privacy and respect for personal freedom. The tablet comes with what looks to be a decent 11.5-inch AMOLED touchscreen display with a 2560×1600 resolution, 8GB RAM, and a 1TB NVMe SSD, but the Intel Celeron N5100 quad-core Jasper Lake processor would be considered entry-level in 2023. The tablet also comes with a keyboard and stylus making a 2-in1 hybrid device. # ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Librem_11:_Purism_Unveils_a_Privacy-Focused Linux_Tablet⠀⇛ Purism is an increasingly popular manufacturer of computer hardware products that specializes in providing laptops, desktops, and mobile devices equipped with a privacy-focused open-source Linux distro. With a recent announcement, they have unveiled a new product, Librem 11 tablet equipped with some pretty neat hardware. Let’s look at what it has to offer! # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Pimoroni’s_Pi-Powered_‘Pico_Vision’_Nears Completion⠀⇛ Pimoroni’s Pico Vision is a retro gaming development and digital video experimentation board for game developers and audio / visual artists # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ This_Raspberry_Pi_Pico_Clock_Project Features_a_Custom_PCB⠀⇛ The project relies on a DS3231 module to keep track of the time. However, there is no onboard battery, meaning it must be plugged into power to maintain accurate time. Envious Design explains that you could easily remedy this by permanently adding a battery module to the unit. # ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Globetrotting_Polaroid_camera_magically fills_Grandma’s_photo_frame⠀⇛ Both the camera and the frame use Raspberry Pi, so Max gets double points from us. A Raspberry Pi Camera Module hides behind the lens of the old Polaroid, capturing Max’s travels. A Raspberry Pi board sits inside the body of the camera, processing the images and sending them to the frame via Wi-Fi. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Logic_Analyzers:_Capabilities_And_Limitations⠀⇛ Last time, we’ve used a logic analyzer to investigate the ID_SD and ID_SC pins on a Raspberry Pi, which turned out to be regular I2C, and then we hacked hotplug into the Raspberry Pi camera code with an external MCU. Such an exercise makes logic analyzers look easy, and that’s because they are! If you have a logic analyzer, you’ll find that a whole bunch of hacks become available to you. # ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Experience_AI:_Teach_about_AI,_chatbots,_and biology⠀⇛ Updates and new Experience AI Lessons for teachers looking for high-quality AI education materials. Developed in partnership with Google DeepMind. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Computer World ☛ Google’s_increasingly_prickly_Android perception_problem_|_Computerworld⠀⇛ # ⚓ SamMobile ☛ Threads_by_Instagram_gets_themed_icon_support for_Android_–_SamMobile⠀⇛ # ⚓ GSM Arena ☛ OnePlus_11_gets_Android_14-based_OxygenOS_14 Open_Beta_1_–_GSMArena.com_news⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_14_Open_Beta_Arrives_for_OnePlus_11⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Find_My_Device_3.0_rolling_out_with_new Android_app_icon⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Google_TV_and_Finance_widgets_are_now_on Android_phones⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ Apple_unveils_iPhone_with_USB-C_charger_in line_with_EU_law⠀⇛ In June 2022, the European Union passed a law requiring all devices to be compatible with a USB Type-C charging port by late 2024, arguing that it will reduce electronic waste and save money for consumers. * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ EDB_Open_Sources_Powerful_Tool_to_Automate_and Manage_Postgres_Deployments⠀⇛ EnterpriseDB (EDB) announces that Trusted Postgres Architect (TPA) is now available as a new open source tool, accessible to all PostgreSQL users. This deployment automation and configuration management tool streamlines the setup of High Availability (HA) Postgres clusters, helping organizations effortlessly deploy robust, production-ready clusters while saving time and reducing the chance of errors. o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # ⚓ [Old] The University of Illinois ☛ NCSA_Mosaic™⠀⇛ “To be sure, Mosaic deserves credit for tackling two problems. First, earlier browsers were troublesome to get up and running, while Mosaic was a lot easier, thanks largely to [NCSA developer Eric] Bina’s programming skill. Second, Mosaic was the first published browser that automatically displayed pictures along with text, as in the pages of a magazine layout or an illustrated book. That was important because later on it would be the proliferation of pretty pictures that transformed that Web from the domain of scientists and hackers to a cultural phenomenon that captured the interest of the masses.” # ⚓ [Old] History Computer ☛ NCSA_Mosaic_Internet_Web_Browser: The_Complete_History⠀⇛ The very first web browser was the WorldWideWeb of Berners-Lee, but the first popularized web browser was the NCSA Mosaic Internet Web Browser. Previous web browsers were not user friendly; they lacked an intuitive and inviting way to allow people to navigate the then-new World Wide Web.In 1992 two developers at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois (Marc Andreessen and Eric Brina) began working on a graphical, user friendly web browser they would later call “Mosaic”. The most notable features this computer program had that other browsers lacked were the ability to view pictures directly on the page, its ease of navigation, and the way this browser handled hyperlinks. Previous browsers only showed pictures as separate files available for download that were linked to the page, so no pictures were directly visible from any main web page. Other browsers also lacked a smooth graphical interface to help navigate through the page, to include scrolling and the now-standard “back”, “forward”, and “refresh” buttons. Finally, the Mosaic browser was the first browser to incorporate clickable hyperlinks. Previous browsers gave reference numbers so users could manually type in the new URL, whereas this new browser allowed users to simply click the link directly to get to the desired page. # ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ I_think_I_kind_of_hate_lazy_loading⠀⇛ Yesterday I was on a train. I clicked on a link and my browser loaded a long article for me to read. Halfway through reading it, the train went into a tunnel and I lost signal. That meant I couldn’t see the images on the other half of the page for the rest of the journey. I had a sea of broken images. # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Mozilla ☛ How_to_easily_switch_from_Chrome_to Firefox⠀⇛ There’s never been a better time to switch from Chrome to Firefox, if we do say so ourselves. # ⚓ Mozilla ☛ Dani_Chehak,_Mozilla’s_new_chief_people officer⠀⇛ After having met with many different candidates over the past several months to fill the role of chief people officer — a significant role that contributes greatly to Mozilla’s culture and future — I am pleased to announce that Dani Chehak has joined Mozilla as chief people officer on a permanent basis. o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ # ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ New_Podcast:_Path_To_Citus_Con_for_developers who_love_Postgres⠀⇛ Path To Citus Con is a new monthly podcast for developers who love Postgres, available via most podcast_apps and on_YouTube. Guests join to discuss the human side of PostgreSQL, open source, databases, and the many PG extensions—along with co-hosts Claire Giordano and Pino de Candia. Recorded as a live show on Discord, the shows usually happen on the first (or second) Wednesday of the month. You can join the live recordings to participate in the parallel live text chat, which can be quite fun. Podcast episodes are usually published 2 days after recording. o § FSF⠀➾ # ⚓ FSF ☛ FSF_Events:_Free_Software_Directory_meeting_on_IRC: Friday,_September_15,_starting_at_12:00_EDT_(16:00_UTC)⠀⇛ Join the FSF and friends on Friday, September 15, from 12:00 o § GNU Projects⠀➾ # ⚓ GNU ☛ unifont_@_Savannah:_Unifont_15.1.01_Released⠀⇛ 12 September 2023 Unifont 15.1.01 is now available. This is a major release.  This release no longer builds TrueType fonts by default, as announced over the past year.  They have been replaced with their OpenType equivalents.  TrueType fonts can still be built manually by typing “make truetype” in the font directory. This release also includes a new Hangul Syllables Johab 6/3/1 encoding proposed by Ho-Seok Ee.  New Hangul supporting software for this encoding allows formation of all double-width Hangul syllables, including those with ancient letters that are outside the Unicode Hangul Syllables range.  Details are in the ChangeLog file. # ⚓ GNU ☛ GNU_Guix:_A_new_Quality_Assurance_tool_for_Guix⠀⇛ Maintaining and expanding Guix’s collection of packages can be complicated. As a distribution with around 22,000 packages, spanning across around 7 architectures and with support for cross- compilation, it’s quite common for problems to occur when making changes. Quality Assurance (QA) is a general term to describe the approach taken to try and ensure something meets expectations. When applied to software, the term testing is normally used. While Guix is software, and has tests, much more than those tests are needed to maintain Guix as a distribution. So what might quality relate to in the context of Guix as a distribution? This will differ from person to person, but these are some common concerns: [...] o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Earthly ☛ We_built_the_fastest_CI_in_the_world._It_failed. Here’s_what_we_learned⠀⇛ What was particularly appealing about this plan was that Earthly, the build system, targets one problem: build consistency, while the final version, Earthly CI, targets another problem: build speed. This meant that Earthly, which is free, would not cannibalize in any way the monetization of Earthly CI. We wouldn’t be giving away too much for free – as Jenkins did – and instead, it would serve as a sustainable and scalable business model. It made sense to use the build system as a way to then create bottom-up adoption for Earthly CI – and the fact that we were building it first allowed us to build traction that one day will magically just convert over to Earthly CI users. # ⚓ Johan Halse ☛ The_best_laid_plans⠀⇛ Look, I’m known for executing really well. I’m your guy when you need someone with honed instincts, who can strike a good balance between speed, completeness, robustness, and performance. I’m also very creative, which helps with debugging and data modeling. I like to think I’m good at what I do, but I’m definitely in camp yee-haw when it comes to looking ahead and deciding what to do, and how to do it. In my experience it’s better to have a nebulous outline of where you want to end up, agree which part to bite off first, and then start fucking chewing. The next step will be obvious, and then the next step will be obvious from there, and so on. # ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ The_Inevitability_of_Scope_Creep⠀⇛ Scope creep is inevitable. A project starts with a small mandate and ends with an enormous, uncontrolled scope. What was a small change is now a complete rewrite. It’s easier to visualize scope creep with software projects — you can easily see the number of services or areas of code that a change touches. And it’s sometimes easier to measure (which changes aren’t in the critical path of the goal feature or product?). But it happens in almost every project. I don’t think it can be eliminated entirely, but understanding the sources and the consequences might help limit its reach. # ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ GNU_Emacs,_use-package,_and_key binding_for_mode_specific_keymaps⠀⇛ Many GNU Emacs modes, such as MH-E, define mode specific keyboard mappings (keymaps), instead of putting their special keyboard commands into the global keymap that’s normally used in every file (okay, buffer). This is especially common in Emacs modes that are basically implementing an application inside Emacs, like MH-E and magit, but they also appear for other things like lsp-mode and backward-forward. Often you may want to modify those mode-specific keymaps, like mh-folder-mode- map, backward-forward-mode-map, company-active-map, and lsp-ui-mode-map. # ⚓ Rlang ☛ R_User_Group_Philippines_Turns_10⠀⇛ The R User Group-Philippines (RUG–PH) celebrated its 10th anniversary on the 16th of August. The group marked the occasion with its first physical event since the pandemic, and it highlighted the group’s progress over the past decade. The RUG-PH hosted 115 events in the past decade, making it one of the most persistent RUGs. During the pandemic, many RUGs struggled to remain active; however, RUG-PH continued with online events. # ⚓ Valhalla’s_Things:_How_I_Keep_my_Life_in_Git⠀⇛ After watching My_life_in_git,_after_subversion, after_CVS. from DebConf, I’ve realized it’s been a while since I talked about the way I keep everything1 I do in git, and I don’t think I’ve ever done it online, so it looked like a good time for a blog post. # ⚓ KDAB ☛ Intro_to_C++_Coroutines:_Concept⠀⇛ The time has come, fellow devs. We are on our way to uncover the newest concept of C++ language – Coroutines. # ⚓ Rlang ☛ How_Open_Source_(R_and_Shiny)_Is_Transforming Processes_in_the_Pharmaceutical_Industry⠀⇛ At the 2023 R/Basel event, we noticed a number of speakers and participants who were keen to share or gather knowledge about the use of R and Shiny technologies in many diverse processes of the pharmaceutical industry. # § Perl / Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ [Old] Rakulang ☛ A_Complete_Course_of_the_Raku programming_language⠀⇛ The course is divided into five parts, each of which includes several sections, which in turn include a number of topics (or, merely saying, different pages with their unique URL). # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ IEEE ☛ The_Top_Programming_Languages_2023:_Python_and SQL_are_on_top,_but_old_languages_shouldn’t_be forgotten⠀⇛ This year, Python doesn’t just remain No. 1 in our general “Spectrum” ranking—which is weighted to reflect the interests of the typical IEEE member—but it widens its lead. Python’s increased dominance appears to be largely at the expense of smaller, more specialized, languages. It has become the jack-of-all-trades language—and the master of some, such as AI, where powerful and extensive libraries make it ubiquitous. And although Moore’s Law is winding down for high-end computing, low-end microcontrollers are still benefiting from performance gains, which means there’s now enough computing power available on a US $0.70 CPU to make Python a contender in embedded development, despite the overhead of an interpreter. Python also looks to be solidifying its position for the long term: Many children and teens now program their first game or blink their first LED using Python. They can then move seamlessly into more advanced domains, and even get a job, with the same language. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_Glob_Recursive⠀⇛ The “glob.glob()” method in Python is utilized to determine all the path names by taking the specified pattern and complete path as an argument. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Pandas_Display_All_Columns⠀⇛ To display all the columns in Python, the “pandas.set_option()” function takes the “display.max_columns” option and its value as an argument. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_Simplify_Fractions⠀⇛ The “Fraction()” method of the “fractions” module, a custom function with the “gcd()” method, is used to simplify the specified fraction into the simplest form. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_Hashlib_SHA256⠀⇛ In Python, the sha256 algorithm is implemented to strings, a list of strings, files, and Pandas DataFrame columns using the hashlib.sha256() constructor method. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Pandas_Print_All_Columns⠀⇛ The “df.columns.values” or “df.keys ().values.tolist()”, “pandas.set_option()” and “df.dtypes” method prints all columns names, values, and types of DataFrame. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 6390 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.13.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Gemini_Links_13/09/2023:_Zine_Fest_and_Ageing⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 6:29 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal/Opinions o Politics_and_World_Events * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾ # ⚓ LiveFromFrance_S1E02⠀⇛ In this second post in the series, I’m going to talk about relations between West Africa and France. It’s one of the hot topics of September, since the putsch/coup in Niger. To understand the significance of this, you have to remember that there was a a coup d’état in Mali in 2021 and in Burkina Faso in 2022, two countries neighbouring Niger. And now it’s in Gabon, another strategic country for France. Gabon suppplies Total (french national oil company) with oil, as well as manganese (interesting for batteries), uranium and gold. Niger is a supplier of uranium for French nuclear power plants. Burkina Faso is known for gold, as is Mali. These 4 countries were part of what we call «Françafrique» (French Africa). If French colonialism is officially dead, most countries still have a link with France, through dictatorships or authoritarian powers more or less installed by France. # ⚓ VCFMW_18⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-09-12:_Consoom?⠀⇛ Tim starts his bit with an Apple Watch Ultra. I think his forearms are bigger than mine, and he’s got less fat on him, too. # ⚓ Zine_fest⠀⇛ On the other hand, Tor’s zine selling went great and they ended up selling like 40 copies of zines which might not sound like a lot but is pretty good for just a few hours in a parking lot in a town of 50k people total. # ⚓ Ageing⠀⇛ In a few months, I will have lived half a century in my life. Like everyone else in the world, i’m getting older. But I’m not aware of having this age. For me, there are different ages. # ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_ASCEIMB_Wordo:_IMAGO⠀⇛ o § Politics and World Events⠀➾ # ⚓ Teaching_for_a_few_weeks_now⠀⇛ A student came to class straight up wearing a hoodie that said “I AM HOMOPHOBIC” on it. I just ignored it and called the principal and he got got. 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