Hello and welcome to the 504th installment of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this episode, the hosts discuss the ins and outs of portable operations including *OTA stations. All …
The pgAdmin Development Team is pleased to announce pgAdmin 4 version 7.1. This release of pgAdmin 4 includes 23 bug fixes and new features. For more details please see the release notes.
pgAdmin is the leading Open Source graphical management tool for PostgreSQL. For more information, please see the website.
Notable changes in this release include: [...]
We heard you and we did it! Cosmic Kayka LLC is releasing a data privacy and security solution for Postgres customers:
SPA 1.0, a Simple Privacy and Anonymization extension for PostgresAs enterprises grow, they soon start to outgrow their data privacy and security requirements. Also, as the CIO’s strategize to streamline processes and drive business decisions on operational data insights in their effort to digitally transform the enterprise, a more comprehensive data strategy is needed.
Good news is that Postgres is quickly accelerating its footprint, however, lack of native support for Data Privacy and Security is becoming a critical barrier for widespread enterprise adoption. Enterprise Postgres customers have long been looking for a native solution. We have identified the gap and have developed SPA, a Simple Privacy and Anonymization framework, offered as an extension to the Postgres DB.
https://download.kde.org/stable/stable/kommit/kommit-1.0.2.tar.xz
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For this year's edition of Season of KDE, 8 participants successfully completed their projects. Several of the projects push forward the work to achieve KDE's three goals, namely: [...]
Why Use Selenium-AT-SPI
Last year, Okular, KDE's advanced document reader, became the first software product ever to receive the Blue Angel eco-label. This certification recognises Okular as having a sustainable software design.
The certification process involves measuring the power consumption of the software executing repetitive actions that simulate human use. For Okular's certification, this was done using scripts written in Actiona. At KDE Eco, we also tried to use the GUI tool Actiona to make these tests, but it was not flexible enough because it required adding a simple action to open a window, entering a click location, validating your input, and so on. This process was very tedious. We then developed a Python tool based on xdotool and called it KdeEcoTest, which was able to record any user action and translate it into text script. The advantage of using text-based scripts over creating GUI actions is that it is much quicker and you can easily copy/paste/modify any interesting part of the test. This is much more efficient time-wise, but it was not enough.
Kubernetes v1.27, released in April 2023, introduced changes to Memory QoS (alpha) to improve memory management capabilites in Linux nodes.
Support for Memory QoS was initially added in Kubernetes v1.22, and later some limitations around the formula for calculating
memory.highwere identified. These limitations are addressed in Kubernetes v1.27.
Hello! This is the first Beta release for Authoritative Server 4.8.0. In Authoritative Server 4.8, the LMDB backend gains a new Lightning Stream-compatible schema, which requires a data migration (this is automatic, and there is no migration back to the old schema).
Choosing the right web server is an essential decision when setting up a website or web application. Apache and Nginx are the two leading web servers in the market, each with its unique set of features, strengths, and weaknesses.
Pop!_OS is a popular Linux distribution developed by System76, known for its user-friendly interface and excellent hardware compatibility. However, like any operating system, you may occasionally encounter issues that require troubleshooting.
Do you prefer a basic username and password combo for accessing your GitHub repositories?
when run from inside a console/ssh session will tell you the ipmi address of the machine you are on.
Linux OSes are some of the best replacements for Windows and macOS because they have gotten impressively capable over the years. Not just the Linux kernel but a lot of components like desktop environments and display servers are now more capable than they were before. With too many distro releases, keeping track of Linux versions could be challenging, especially on rolling releases. So, here are six ways to check the Linux OS version easily on your PC.
If you are a system administrator and are looking for ways to make your Linux system more secure or want to automate certain processes, creating a non-login user is the solution. Non-login users can prove to be very useful for a variety of cases right from limiting access to your Linux system to running specific processes with restricted privileges. Here, we will guide you through the steps to create a non-login user in Linux and set the appropriate permissions for them.
BlackArch is a security-focused Arch Linux-based distribution that, much like its Debian-based counterparts Kali Linux and Parrot OS, provides a plethora of security tools and pentesting utilities.
If you're using vanilla Arch Linux and want to perform security testing, you'll be disappointed to find that the vanilla Arch repositories do not host any pentesting tools. Fret not though, for it's quite easy to add the BlackArch repository to your Arch system and gain access to the massive arsenal of pentesting tools it hosts.
QSpeakers is an open-source audio player for Linux-based operating systems that provides a high-quality audio playback experience. If you are an Ubuntu user and want to enjoy your music with QSpeakers, you can install it on your system with ease. In this article, we will discuss how to install QSpeakers on Ubuntu 22.04 and 20.04.
In the world of Bash scripting, displaying output is essential when it comes to providing feedback to users, debugging code, or logging information.
Qlipper is a clipboard manager for Linux-based operating systems that allows you to manage and store multiple items in your clipboard history. If you are an Ubuntu user and want to use Qlipper on your system, you can install it easily.
Zenmap is a popular network scanning and exploration tool that is built on top of Nmap. It provides a graphical interface for users to interact with Nmap's features and perform various network analysis tasks. In this article, we will go through the steps to install Zenmap on Ubuntu 22.04 and 20.04.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install FileZilla on Fedora 38. Looking to transfer files to and from a remote server with ease? Look no further than FileZilla! This free, open-source FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client is a go-to choice for web developers and system administrators alike.
Thinkorswim is a popular trading platform used by many traders to manage their investments. Although it was initially designed to work on Windows and Mac, it is possible to install it on Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04 LTS using Java.
Open 3D Engine (O3DE) 23.05 release levels up the authoring experience for game creators and robotics simulation developers. This release includes significant improvements to the core engine and the ROS2 Gem which integrates the Robot Operating System (ROS2) into O3DE. The ROS2 Gem provides drivers, state-of-the-art algorithms, and developer tools for developing robotics simulations. Game developers in O3DE now have the Multiplayer Sample game available to them - a ready-to-use game that’s not only fun to play, but provides developers with example implementations of common game elements to help start their own projects.
Quick update on the Steam Deck sales situation at the Edion Store in Osaka (Namba) as I went there again one more time today for a final look.
We are back with our usual monthly update!
Some time ago, before the world locked down, I pondered that KDE wasn’t very good at getting our apps to our users. We didn’t even have a website that listed our apps with download links. If you were an open source app developer using our tech (Qt and KDE Frameworks) would you come into KDE to build your app or just start a project on Github and do it yourself? KDE has community which means some people to help look over your work and maybe contribute and translate and some promo and branding mindshare and there’s teams of people in the distros who specialise in packaging our stuff. But successful projects like Krita and Digikam and indeed my own Plasma release scripts still have to do a lot on top of what KDE communally gives them.
So I launched apps.kde.org and made the All About the Apps goal which was selected in the hope of getting KDE to support taking our apps to the users more slickly. I didn’t manage to make much progress with the goal which I will readily take the blame for. After some fighting I managed to get our announcements linking to the app stores directly but I didn’t manage to get much else slicker.
The latest iteration of Peropesis has been released with plenty of updates and introduces new software development tools.
Version 5.2.4 is released, but please do read the release announcement:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/kirkstone/2023/5.2.4/release-notes.htm
Yes, only one script is different. So you don't really need to update, just grab the 'easy-update' script, remove the false ".gz", set it as executable and replace the old script at /usr/local/easy_version.
The problem is that menu fonts in GTK and Qt based flatpaks are too small, as well as other text in the app. The theme also is different from the system theme.
Each flatpak has its own internal theme, and there does not seem to be any way for them to use the system GTK or Qt theme. That I can live with, but the small fonts need to be fixed...
On April 27, posted about adding more flatpaks to the Flapi installer:
https://bkhome.org/news/202304/more-flatpaks-added-to-installer.html
Then posted that problems with flatpaks fixed with fscrypt v2:
https://bkhome.org/news/202305/flatpak-installer-works-with-fscrypt-v2.html
For the upcoming Easy 5.3, going ahead and adding more. I still have to test them. Added about another 25, and one failed -- Zoom was that one failure. Zoom just showed a blank window, no error message at the terminal.
I am happy to report my recent attendance at the DevSummit and AsiaBSDCon 2023. The FreeBSD Foundation generously sponsored the trip, and I am grateful for the opportunity to attend.
Gentoo is excited to announce that the Gentoo Google Summer of Code has accepted a group of talented contributors to participate in this year’s program. We extend our congratulations and welcome them aboard!
Google Summer of Code is a global program that provides a unique opportunity for students and young professionals to work on open-source projects under the guidance of experienced mentors.
We received a high volume of impressive applications from individuals around the world, each demonstrating their passion and skills for open-source projects. The selection process was challenging, but we are pleased to have accepted the following four contributors: [...]
IBM CEO, Arvind Krishna, isn't telling his employees that they have to return to the office, but he did warn that continuing to work remotely could mean being passed over for promotion or career advancement.
Trotting out the same old Microsoft productivity paranoia arguments that we've become accustomed to since the COVID-19 pandemic redefined work, Krishna said in an interview this week that "we work better when we are together in person," and that managers need to be able to see the folks whose work they're directing every once in a while.
CIQ, the leading company behind Rocky Linux, added a new service to its portfolio, aimed at enhancing how organizations manage complex software infrastructure and solutions. CIQ Mountain is a "mountain of solutions" that provides software and artifact delivery and lifecycle management for turnkey solution management at any scale. From small businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises with large fleets of diverse infrastructure, CIQ Mountain provides capabilities for efficient management of your software infrastructure whether on premise or in the cloud, allowing more mission focus.
It’s time to start thinking about Test Days for Fedora Linux 39. A Test Day is an event aimed getting interested users and developers together to test a specific feature or area of the distribution. You can run a Test Day on just about anything for which it would be useful to do some fairly focused testing in ‘real time’ with a group of testers; it doesn’t have to be code. For instance, we often run Test Days for localization and internationalization topics.
Small reminder for the Debian Reunion Hamburg 2023 from May 23 to 30
As in previous years there will be a rather small Debian Reunion Hamburg 2023 event taking place from May 23rd until the 30th (with the 29th being a public holiday in Germany and elsewhere).
We'll have days of hacking (inside and outside), a day trip and a small cheese & wine party, as well as daily standup meetings to learn what others are doing, and there shall also be talks and workshops. At the moment there are even still some beds on site available!
As smartphone technology has progressed in the last decade, it has become increasingly difficult for the average hobbyist to meaningfully change the hardware in any way due to how small and complex the internal components have gotten. This is why Evan Robinson wanted to design the Open source, Upgradeable, Repairable smartphone, or the OURphone. The aim was to make a device with enough features to function as a smartphone from around 2010, except all of the code and electronics would be available for anyone to see.
There are a lot of things you can do with today’s powerful microcontrollers, but sometimes you really need a full embedded Linux setup. [Dylan Brophy] wanted to make it easier to add Linux to his own projects and designed the BeagleStamp.
“May the Fourth be with you” is one of those sayings that has been ingrained into our culture thanks to the popularity of Star Wars, and few things represent its impact more than the custom props, costumes, and projects that fans from around the world have constructed.
A post is taken from a speech given remotely at LLW 2023 by OSI Executive director Stefano Maffulli.
Co-authored by Sebastian Wick & Jonas Ãâ¦dahl.
During April 24 to 26 Red Hat invited people working on compositors and display drivers to come together to collaborate on bringing the Linux graphics stack to the next level. There were three high level topics that were discussed at length: Color Management, High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Variable Refresh Rate (VRR). This post will go through the discussions that took place, and occasional rough consensus reached among the people who attended.
The event itself aimed to be both as inclusive and engaging as possible, meaning participants could attend both in person, in the Red Hat office in Brno, Czech Republic, or remotely via a video link. The format of the event was structured in a way aiming to give remote attendees and physical attendees an equal opportunity to participate in discussions. While the hallway track can be a great way to collaborate, discussions accessible remotely were prioritized by having two available rooms with their own video link.
This meant that if the main room wanted to continue on the same topic, while some wanted to do a breakout session, they could go to the other room, and anyone attending remotely could tag along by connecting to the other video link. In the end, the break out room became the room where people collaborated on various things in a less structured manner, leaving the main room to cover the main topics. A reason for this is that the microphones in both rooms were a bit too good, effectively catching any conversation anyone had anywhere in the room. Making one of the rooms a bit more chaotic, while the other focused, also allowed for both ways of collaborating.
For the kernel side, people working on AMD, Intel and NVIDIA drivers were among the attendees, and for user space there was representation from gamescope, GNOME, KDE, smithay, Wayland, weston and wlroots. Some of those people are community contributors and some of them were attending on behalf of Red Hat, Canonical, System76, sourcehut, Collabora, Blue Systems, Igalia, AMD, Intel, Google, and NVIDIA. We had a lot of productive discussion, ending up in total with a 20 (!) page document of notes.
Please note some of the information provided in this report may be subject to change as we are sometimes sharing information about projects that are still in early stages and are not final yet.€
Each year, members of the WordPress community (users, site builders, extenders, and contributors) provide valuable feedback through an annual survey. For 2022, the survey received a comprehensive update, the first in six years.
With preparations for the next major releases already underway, the community is gearing up to celebrate WordPress’ 20th anniversary, which is just around the corner. This month has also seen some major highlights, such as WordPress 6.2’s performance wins and the launch of WP Translation Playground. Read on to find out what’s new.
New data out this week revealed dismal scores by eighth graders on a national U.S. history test. Experts are pointing to a devastating combination of polarization over school curriculums and pandemic disruptions.
Why it matters: The test results — showing an all-time low score in history and a first-ever decline in civics — paint a troubling picture of how much America's youth know about their own country.
Detailed measurements of lightning as well as reanalyses of atmospheric conditions enable the reconstruction of lightning probabilities over large spatial and temporal domains.
Binod Jung Bogati, the organizer of the R User Group Nepal, discussed his experience of fostering the budding R community in Nepal.
(That's 31 in normal numbers.)
CoquiTTS is a Python library that allows you to synthesize speech from text using state-of-the-art neural models.
PandasAI is a powerful Python-based open-source data manipulation and analysis package. In this post, we will look at PandasAI's capabilities and its impact on data science and machine learning.
Bash, a widely-used Unix shell, is not natively equipped to handle floating-point math. However, with the help of various tools and utilities, Bash can perform floating-point calculations effectively.
Turkish families got wealthy off a construction system rife with patronage. A Times investigation reveals just how fatally shaky that system was.
Did Hans Niemann secretly use a supercomputer to beat the world champion Magnus Carlsen? The International Chess Federation won’t say until October, at the earliest.
A large fire has torn through a street market in Haiti and consumed thousands of dollars’ worth of goods as vendors wailed over their losses. Vendors began arriving before sunrise Thursday to try and quell the flames. They threw bucketsful of sand on blazing zinc roofs before firefighters arrived. The market is known as Shada and is located in Petionville, next to the capital of Port-au-Prince. It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the fire. It occurred as poverty and hunger across Haiti deepens amid growing political instability and gang violence.
I used to be good at tending to open tabs, closing tabs when they are not needed or moving them into a folder when not in use for later reference. I am now out of practice with this habit. In looking through my open tabs, I found three new words that I want to feature in this series. You keep notes of words to include in this series in browser tabs? Sometimes!
Each month, I write a blog post for my Patronizers. I want to say it provides unique insight into my process and business, but “See the Sausage Being Made” has turned into more of a monthly summary combined with my usual on-brand ranting.
Sweet dreams.
The verdict is in.
It's surprisingly easy.
Look close!
More than 3,000 teachers and other workers in the Oakland Unified School District are on strike after claiming the district failed to bargain in good faith on a new contract. So far, Oakland schools are staying open anyway. The San Francisco Bay Area district has about 34,000 students. The Oakland Education Association called the strike late Wednesday and urged district families to join teachers on the picket lines. Earlier, the district had expressed optimism in a Facebook post, saying a deal was within reach. Teachers previously held a one-day strike against the district on April 29, 2022.
The North Carolina state Senate on Thursday passed a 12-week abortion ban that is almost certain to become law in the state.
Why it matters: Gov. Roy Cooper (D) plans to veto the bill, but Republicans, who hold a veto-proof supermajority in the legislature, have said they plan to override him.
The industrial action would affect several private assisted living and daycare providers.
The Republican-controlled North Carolina legislature has approved and sent to the governor a ban on nearly all abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy in response to last year’s overturning of Roe v. Wade at the U.S. Supreme Court. The measure passed by the Senate on Thursday lowers the time restriction from the current 20 weeks. The House passed the bill Wednesday in a similar party-line vote. Abortion-rights supporter Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper has said he’ll veto the bill, but the GOP has enough voting power to override it if members are united. The measure has far-reaching consequences. Before its passage, women from nearby states with restrictive laws had traveled to North Carolina for abortions in later stages of pregnancy.
Auditors examining nearly $400 million in pandemic spending found several instances in which Minnesota agencies exceeded their emergency authority or failed to properly document purchases or track supplies
A county planning official in West Virginia says the proposed site of a toxic-spewing logging facility would violate a zoning ordinance. Allegheny Wood Products wants to build a fumigation facility in the town of Baker to treat logs prior to overseas shipment. Regulators plan to issue an air permit allowing the plant to emit nearly 10 tons of methyl bromide annually. But during a public hearing Thursday, Hardy County Planner Melissa Scott said the proposed location is zoned for agricultural purposes, not industrial. The pesticide's use has been sharply limited in recent decades because it harms the ozone layer. It also can cause a variety of health problems.
A new report says a shortage of monkeys available for medical research undermines U.S. readiness to respond to public health emergencies
Bipartisan support now exists for a once-radical approach to drugs.
Baby boomers postponed common milestones of adulthood. Gen Z-ers are doing that with a vengeance.
Many police departments prohibit their officers from employing the kind of neck restraints a man used in fatally subduing Jordan Neely in the New York City subway.
After a homeless man was killed on the subway, New Yorkers and elected officials are mourning his death and debating how the city should address mental health and public safety.
Peter K. Ben Embarek led a contentious international investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic.
This could aid diagnosis.
A pattern emerges.
The Hong Kong government spent around HK$1.67 billion on its Covid-19 isolation facilities, including costs for staff salary and cleaning. Secretary for Health Lo Chung-mau revealed the numbers in response to a question from lawmaker Kenneth Lau during a Legislative Council meeting on Wednesday.
A secure SAP platform can’t be understood without a patched and updated SAP environment. Vulnerabilities pose a significant risk to an organization’s operations, and patching is crucial to maintain system security and stability, so patching and updating software is always a top priority.
Former Uber security chief Joe Sullivan was sentenced to probation and community service for covering up the data breach suffered by the ride-sharing giant in 2016.
The former chief security officer for Uber has been sentenced to probation for trying to cover up a 2016 data breach in which hackers accessed tens of millions of customer records from the ride-hailing service
The move comes after Motherboard used AI voice cloning technology to fool a bank’s security systems.
Cisco warns of a critical-severity RCE vulnerability impacting EoL SPA112 2-Port Phone Adapters.
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Data security firm Satori has released a free and open source tool designed to help organizations find out who has access to what data and how.
Elon Musk appeared on an interview with Tucker Carlson last month, with one of the topics being the fact that Twitter could be legally compelled to hand over users' direct messages to government agencies since they're held on Twitter's servers and aren't encrypted.
Apple has released firmware updates for Beats and AirPods to patch a vulnerability that can be exploited to gain access to headphones via a Bluetooth attack.
Meta says it disrupted the new NodeStealer malware, which likely has Vietnamese origins, within weeks after it emerged.
In March and April I worked a total of 28 hours for Freexian's Debian LTS initiative, out of a maximum of 48 hours. I updated the linux (4.19) package to the latest stable and stable-rt updates, and uploaded it at the end of April. I merged the latest bullseye security update into the linux-5.10 package and uploaded that at the same time.
If you chose a purchase based on reviews and the end result didn’t live up to your expectations, The Times wants to hear your story.
On 19 April 2023, the lead MEP on the proposed CSA Regulation, Javier Zarzalejos (EPP), published his draft report. Whilst we agree with MEP Zarzalejos about putting privacy, safety and security by design at the heart, many of his changes may pose a greater risk to human rights online than the European Commission’s original text.
The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill of 2022 aims to balance the interests of Indian consumers seeking enhanced privacy and data security against the business need for unconstrained data flows.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is proposing a blanket ban on Meta’s ability to monetize underage data. The move comes after repeated violations of a 2020 privacy order.€ These changes proposed by the FTC would be made to the 2020 privacy order made with Facebook.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) wants to restrict Meta’s use of data collected from users under the age of 18.
The Court of Justice confirmed that there is no "threshold" for GDPR damages
Today the CJEU has issued the first decision on emotional damages under the GDPR.
Amazon has turned on the Thread-capabilities inside its Echo devices so they can support the Matter smart home interoperability standard in its totality, so Kevin and I talk about what that will and won’t do for smart home users.
If you're confused by the current banking crisis, that's entirely understandable: We live in very confusing times.
The big picture: The 70 years from 1946 to 2015 individuals and companies could make long-term plans. Then in quick succession came 2016 (Brexit and Trump), 2020 (COVID-19) and 2022 (Russia invading Ukraine).
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is working to undo the pro-gun policies of his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro. Citizens are now required to register firearms with the Federal Police, sparking fears of governmental weapon confiscation.
The same aircraft flew through Finnish airspace last month, as part of a domestic airspace surveillance cooperation between Finland and partner countries.
Enrique Tarrio, former leader of the far-right extremist group Proud Boys, has been charged with seditious conspiracy for his involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, attacks on the U.S. Capitol. Four other members of the group have also been convicted.
The guys who stood back and stood by for Donald Trump were just convicted of seditious conspiracy.
The US announces charges against Denis Gennadievich Kulkov, the creator and operator of card-checking platform Try2Check since 2005 until it was taken down this week.
U.S. Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy has visited American citizen Paul Whelan in a prison in eastern Russia.
A military court in Siberia said on May 4 that it had two days earlier sentenced Ansaghan Moldakhmetov, a Kazakh citizen, to 13 years in prison for throwing Molotov cocktails at a conscription center in the city of Omsk in May last year.
Police in the Russian city of Krasnodar have searched the offices of the Crew Against Torture, the human rights group's members said on May 4.
The East Africa Community (EAC) has completed the deployment of its regional force in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to oversee the withdrawal of the rebel group, M23, from the eastern part of the country. The last contingent was of South Sudanese soldiers who joined troops from Kenya, Burundi and Uganda.
Soldiers who escaped Putin's war and fled to Kazakhstan claim they witnessed crimes and are willing to testify in courts of law. But they are also facing an uncertain future as they look for a country willing to take them in.
An alleged drone attack set ablaze product-storage facilities at one of the largest oil refineries in southern Russia, but emergency services extinguished the fire just over two hours later, and the plant was working normally, TASS news agency reported.
The comments were a show of solidarity with two of China’s biggest neighbours.
Kyiv and Moscow angrily blamed each other after two explosions in an apparent drone attack on the heart of Russian power, but whose outrage is real?
It is important for the United States to "understand how dangerous such direct participation in the conflict really is,"€ Dmitry Peskov warned.
Russia’s messaging on a drone incident at the Kremlin diverged significantly from its response to past explosions in Russia or Russian-occupied territory.
Eight children and a security guard were killed by a 13-year-old boy who entered a school in the Serbian capital armed with pistols owned by his father.
A man recorded by a security camera fatally shooting his manager at a fast food restaurant in south Georgia is also suspected of killing his mother and grandmother at their nearby homes before taking his own life. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Thursday evening that 26-year-old Kentavious White fatally shot himself at the McDonald's restaurant where he worked after killing the manager. The GBI said two of White's relatives were also slain at their homes. Coroner C. Verlyn Brock in Colquitt County said those two victims were White's mother and grandmother. The GBI identified the McDonald's manager as Amia Smith. The names of the two other victims were not immediately released. About 15,000 people live in Moultrie near the Georgia-Florida line.
"...Approximately 50 Syrian families expressed their desire to return to their respective villages..."
Israeli forces on Thursday killed two Palestinian gunmen who shot dead a British-Israeli mother and her two daughters in April in the occupied West Bank, Israel's domestic security service said.
This originally appeared on Law and Liberty. Propaganda is checked by open challenge and spirited disputation. But it is hard to discuss one’s own government at war, because you might be treated as an apologist of the enemy, or even an outright enemy yourself. Propaganda is perhaps never worse than at times of war.
The climate-induced drought crisis engulfing the Horn of Africa region is a wake-up call for governments, donors, and the private sector to back community-based resilient programs.
Climate Change, and subsequent biodiversity collapse, is the greatest challenge humanity currently faces. It is all-encompassing; impacting every facet of our everyday lives, from the food we can grow and eat, to the shelters we live in, to the business we can do.
Scientific literature plays a crucial role in advancing our understanding of marine conservation and the importance of protecting our oceans. Over the years, many studies have been conducted around hundreds of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and its role as an ocean-based climate solution.
TotalEnergies, the French oil giant, filed a lawsuit against Greenpeace France and climate consulting company Factor-X over a report that claimed that Total had significantly underestimated its emissions from burning fossil fuels.
Communities fearing widespread job losses from decarbonising homes, business and industry will get help in the federal budget. Funding for a National Net Zero Authority announced on Friday is expected to benefit coal-dependent communities across Australia and usher in new industries.
European Commission Speech Brussels, 04 May 2023 Good afternoon, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I'm delighted to be here today for the launch of the Energy Storage Coalition.
This launch sends an important signal.
The state government held events throughout the week, including beach clean-ups and conservation workshops in coastal towns across the state.
Alphabet/Google CEO Sundar Pichai appears to be losing the confidence of employees, with many likening him to Lord Farquaad from Shrek.
Pichai has been under fire for some time as Alphabet/Google face threats on all sides. The company is facing antitrust challenges, was upstaged by Microsoft in the AI market, is facing a resurgent Bing, is dealing with a soft advertising market, and the company’s stock price has plummeted since its high in late 2021.
Amid these challenges, Alphabet did something that would have been unthinkable in years past, laying off some 12,000 employees. Even the layoffs were bungled, with some employees not being notified they were impacted and others saying the company is not honoring previous agreements.
But don’t give in to Republican extortion.
Rapid (previously known as RapidAPI), a startup that built out an API marketplace valued at $1 billion last year, has laid off another 70 employees less than two weeks after letting go of 50% of its staff, TechCrunch has learned.
An affected employee who wished to remain anonymous told TechCrunch that just 42 people remain at the company — down from 230 in April — reflecting an 82% drop in headcount.
All of the company’s remaining workers in Europe, and some based in the U.S., were impacted by the latest round, according to the source.
Shares in Atlassian Corp. fell sharply in after-hours trading today after the Australian software company reported a miss on revenue and increasing costs in its latest earnings report.
Shopify Inc., an e-commerce giant that builds platforms for the enterprise and small businesses, announced today that it’s laying off 20% of its workforce, affecting more than 2,000 employees, and will sell most of its logistics business to Flexiport Inc.
Shares in both Coinbase Inc. and Block Inc. rose in late trading after both crypto-focused companies surprised with earnings and revenue beats for their quarters that ended March 31. Coinbase reported a loss per share of 34 cents on revenue of $736 million.
Fears are growing that the Communist Party’s increasing focus on control over information about markets and companies is behind the questioning of firms.
When money went missing overnight from her bank account, Mexico resident Leigh Thelmadatter got a front-row seat to a bureaucratic nightmare.
Fresh economic forecasts from the central bank show a faster pullback in growth and more sluggish wage growth but the Reserve Bank still expects inflation to return to target by mid-2025.
Investors are not convinced that regional banks including PacWest and Western Alliance can remain viable. Some are actively betting on their demise.
Another US regional bank is on unstable financial footing.
HSBC shareholders are set to vote on the first step toward a proposed restructuring of the bank—including a potential spin-off of the lender’s Asia business—at an annual general meeting on Friday (May 5) in the United Kingdom.
The world’s largest brewer finally has another reason for making headlines besides its Bud Light marketing blunder: Stellar earnings.
A Jeffrey Epstein accuser suing JPMorgan Chase & Co for allegedly aiding the late financier's sex trafficking...
Apple has once again posted an, until now, rare revenue decline in its latest fiscal quarter
In a quarterly earnings release, Apple announced (pdf) it will purchase $90 billion in share buybacks this year, in line with last year’s figure, as the company continues to flex its financial muscle in the face of declining revenue.
Overall iPhone sales were up, and revenue for the company’s services business set a record.
The European Central Bank has raised the key interest rate in the eurozone by 0.25 percentage points to 3.75 per cent, the Frankfurt-based bank says. The announcement comes after the ECB€ raised the rate by 0.5 percentage points three consecutive times.
Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell yesterday said that the U.S. banking system is "sound and resilient."
The big picture: It was akin to a sports team owner giving the coach a vote of confidence. If you're compelled to say it, things really aren't going well.
Asian stocks have risen, the dollar has eased and gold is hovering about record highs as jittery investors remain nervous about the US banking sector following another rout in shares of regional lenders.
At the end of last year, Shopify employed 11,600 people, including contractors.
The company let got of 10 per cent of its staff last summer.
In 2021, Shopify had 650 employees in Ireland.
The ecommerce company also announced that it is offloading its logistics arm to another company called Flexport.
Yesterday, the company posted a surprise first-quarter profit.
A sizable number of GOP lawmakers are quietly cheering Fox News’ decision to remove Tucker Carlson from its airwaves as making it easier to provide aid to Ukraine, Axios has learned.
Joe Biden promised, while campaigning for the presidency, to make Saudi Arabia a "pariah." He didn’t. He promised to isolate Russia. He hasn’t. The US has experienced a recent deficit in its ability to enact its promises to isolate enemies. Its confidence is proving greater than its capacity.
President Joe Biden is dispatching one his top advisers to Saudi Arabia to meet with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto leader of the oil-rich kingdom. White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Thursday he will travel to Saudi Arabia on Saturday for talks with Saudi officials and will also meet with his counterparts from the United Arab Emirates and India during his visit. Sullivan’s planned visit is the latest sign of warming relations between the kingdom and the Biden administration that had been strained by Biden’s criticism of Saudi Arabia’s human rights record and oil policies. Sullivan is expected to meet with the crown prince during the visit.
An official meeting between six heads of state cannot involve a so-called "two-plate policy", where one nation would be represented by two leaders, the statement said.
The ability of the United States and China to navigate a critical juncture, where they talk little and distrust each other’s motives, matters to the world.
President Joe Biden's national security advisor said on Thursday he will travel to Saudi Arabia at the weekend for talks with Saudi leaders as well as Indian and Emirati officials.
Canada on Thursday summoned China’s ambassador as it considered expelling a Chinese diplomat accused of having sought to intimidate a Canadian lawmaker and his family over the MP’s criticisms of Beijing.
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Lithuanian citizens will be able to travel more easily to the Republic of South Africa after the country decided to include Lithuania in its e-visa scheme, Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis has said.
Service alerts for New York City’s subway, commuter trains and buses are back on Twitter
Opinion polls show Paetongtarn Shinawatra to be the heavy favorite to take the prime minister's post after Thailand's May 14 general election. But there are fears that victory for Paetongtarn, the youngest daughter of ousted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, could plunge Thailand back into a familiar cycle of protest and military intervention. Thaksin, deposed by a military coup in 2014, is a polarizing political figure with powerful enemies in the Thai establishment who regarded his popularity as a threat. But having the 36-year-old Paetongtarn as a candidate is expected to pay off handsomely for the popular opposition Pheu Thai party. It’s polling so well that it’s hoping for a landslide victory, with enough seats to name the prime minister.
Canadian law students are reporting for JURIST on national and international developments in and affecting Canada. Mélanie Cantin is JURIST’s Chief Correspondent for Canada and a rising 3L at the University of Ottawa.€
YouTube and Twitter accounts spread rumors about nuclear war after two drones struck the Kremlin.
Earlier this week, the Republican National Committee released a video that it claims was “built entirely with AI imagery.” The content of the ad isn’t especially novel—a dystopian vision of America under a second term with President Joe Biden—but the deliberate emphasis on the technology used to create it stands out: It’s a “Daisy” moment for the 2020s.
We should expect more of this kind of thing. The applications of AI to political advertising have not escaped campaigners, who are already “pressure testing” possible uses for the technology. In the 2024 presidential election campaign, you can bank on the appearance of AI-generated personalized fundraising emails, text messages from chatbots urging you to vote, and maybe even some deepfaked campaign ...
A China-based online network tried to recruit protesters in Europe and set up a media firm in Britain as part of a disinformation campaign, Facebook owner Meta said.
Since April 21, a pro-China account online has been sharing images purporting to show proof that young Taiwanese people are "passionate about the Nazi logo". However, these images of the Nazi party flag were actually taken during fringe events in a country that experts say has no significant neo-Nazi ideological presence.
A Moscow court on May 4 ordered Yan Dvorkin, the leader of the Center T group which defends LGBT rights in Russia, to pay 100,000 rubles ($1,260) for violating Russia’s controversial law that bans promoting homosexuality.
Former journalists at pro-democracy news outlets struggle to bring non-government voices to Hong Kong audience
A source familiar with the plans told The Post on Thursday that former CIA Director John Brennan will sit for a transcribed interview on May 11 and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper will do the same on€ May 17.
Moscow theater director Yevgenia Berkovich was detained on May 4 over her production of the play Finist -- The Brave Falcon, which is about Russian women who married Muslim men and moved to Syria.
The ability to criticize the government without retaliation lies at the heart of the First Amendment. What happens when it’s a corporation doing the criticizing?
Mr Albanese added he remained concerned about the mental health of the WikiLeaks’ founder.
Indian news brands haven’t escaped a global downturn in advertising revenues.
Cihan Aymaz's father asked at his son's funeral, "Who was my enemy so that my son was killed in the middle of Kadñköy, and with a knife?"
The mother who was given the bones of her son killed in armed conflict three years later and in a box was detained in the recent massive crackdown and arrested on April 28.
The region’s bid to host the Euro soccer tournaments shows how sports, as much as formal peace pacts, can help bring social reconciliation.
An ambulance has been called to a protest of hunger-striking oil workers in the restive western Kazakh town of Zhanaozen. Activist Zhadyra Doskeeva told RFE/RL on May 4 that emergency services were called overnight after one hunger striker's health worsened drastically.
Kent State’s history of student activism goes back further than May 4, 1970, and will stretch even further into the future, said professor and May 4 survivor, Roseann “Chic” Canfora. She said Kent State has a unique legacy of activism on campus – and when Kent State students take action, the world notices.
After the May 4 Commemoration Thursday, students against Ohio Senate Bill 83 held a protest in front of Oscar Ritchie Hall to advocate against measures they say will change higher education for the worse.
Assistant professor of higher education Erica Eckert discussed how the university’s administration handled the events surrounding the May 4 shootings in her Thursday lecture titled “Where Were the Administrators? A Student Affairs Perspective on May 4, 1970.” Eckert’s research relied on oral history and interviews from former residence hall directors, student affairs administrators and other...
Survivors, students and faculty gathered Thursday to commemorate the 53rd anniversary of May 4, 1970, the day the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of students protesting the Vietnam War, killing four and injuring nine others. The commemoration honors slain students Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder.
The Mapping of May 4 website expanded to local places in Kent to display an archive map of May 4. The project aims to make May 4 history immersive.€ Sara Koopman is an Assistant Professor and geographer in the Peace Studies Department.
Stars were not the only thing that lit up the sky of the Prentice parking lot last night: dozens of small white candles did as well. Illuminated by these flames, a memorial read four names: Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder.
Libyan activists told The Guardian Wednesday that six Libyan Christians are at risk of being executed for converting from Islam and spreading their religious beliefs. After being arrested in March by the Libyan Internal Security Agency (ISA), the six were accused of “making people leave Islam” in violation of the Libyan Penal Code.
A Beijing office has criticised a US Senate committee, calling them “political fabricators” after it passed a resolution on Wednesday to condemn “Beijing’s destruction of Hong Kong’s democracy and rule of law.
A former Hong Kong District Council chairperson has begun his testimony for the prosecution in a high-profile trial concerning 47 pro-democracy figures under the Beijing-imposed national security law.
The EU asked tech companies to share their user numbers in order to see who qualifies as a Very Large Online Platform (VLOP) under the Digital Services Act (DSA) rules. But the numbers don't add up.
Joint inventorship requires a substantial contribution to the invention. In the decision HIP, Inc. vs. Hormel, Judge Lourie writes for a unanimous panel to reverse a district court’s determination of joint inventorship involving a new process for precooking bacon. US Patent 9,980,498 has four inventors that are employees of and assigned their interest to Hormel.€ HIP sued Hormel, alleging that David Howard was either the sole inventor or a joint inventor of the ’498 patent. The district court determined that Howard was a joint inventor based solely on his alleged contribution to the infrared preheating concept in independent claim 5. €
In an earlier post I explained the issues that the proposed EU Regulation on SEPs intends to address, and why neither the market nor the courts solve them.
On May 1, 2023, the Central Reexamination Unit issued a notice of intent to issue a reexamination certificate, canceling claims 1, 4, 13, and 16 of U.S. Patent 7,523,497, owned by PacSec3, an NPE. PacSec3 was formed in 2020 with NACAR IP LLC as its managing member.
The Unified Patent Court has not yet published the Code of Conduct on its website. However, this will take place shortly. According to JUVE Patent sources, the final version remains largely unchanged from the first version.
Following an appeal by Nestlé, the Boards of Appeal at the European Patent Office have revoked EP 2 706 867 (case ID: T0875/21 – 3.3.09), which belongs to meat-substitute protein manufacturer, Ojah. The proceedings, which took place in April, have led to the patent being revoked in its entirety
Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Ekta Aswal and Dinesh Swamy, who split a cash award of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 10,157,414, owned by Tiare Technology, Inc., an NPE. The ‘414 patent generally relates to using a wireless patron unit for providing services to patrons at resorts, stadiums, arenas, and other venues. The patent had been asserted over 20 times against companies like Applebees, Albertsons, Kroger, Sonic, and Best Buy.
We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on this patent. The ongoing contests are open to anyone, and include tens of thousands of dollars in rewards available for helping the industry to challenge NPE patents of questionable validity by finding and submitting prior art in the contests. Visit PATROLL today to learn more about how to participate.
So far this year, by my count, the TTAB has affirmed 19 of 21 Section 2(e)(1) mere descriptiveness (or disclaimer) refusals. How do you think these latest three appeals came out? Results will be found in the first comment.
A few days ago I wrote an essay about the ongoing economic war between the leaders of the US and those of China, with a focus on the impact US attorneys representing Chinese clients. For the article, I used an AI tool to create some art for my publication. The image above shows the resulting four images. I chose the bottom right and had the AI enhance the image for publication by pushing a single button. I then did a cut and paste before publishing.
Although I didn’t contribute any of the expression seen in the work, after these actions and then publishing it, I actually feel some gut level of ownership. And, that I might be upset if someone else used _my_ image without permission.
The debate over Bill C-11 was frequently marked by politician and lobby group claims that failure to act would place the future of Canadian film and television production at risk. While internal government documents admitted that claims regarding the contributions from Internet streaming services understated the actual contributions by failing to account for “unofficial Cancon”, Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez was happy to feed the narrative that the bill was a critical support for an industry in jeopardy.
Hip-hop streaming and discovery platform Spinrilla is officially set to cease operating and pay the major labels $50 million following a years-long copyright infringement legal battle.
50 Cent, Fat Joe, Remy Ma, Scott Storch, and a list of record labels face a copyright infringement lawsuit over their hits, ‘Candy Shop’ and ‘Lean Back.
Interpretation is simply identical to fully experiencing a work as a work of art; everybody does it, must do it.4 It has nothing to do with merely “translating” the work into another version of content or finding something hidden. If there is something to understand, something that raises a question, demands something of us beyond what a first experience reveals, it is “right there.” It simply needs to be understood. A second or third or fourth reading or viewing is not boring deeper until something hidden is found; it is appreciating better and better what is simply “present.”5 The fact that we feel the need for rereading or re-viewing is interesting in itself. It means that we sense that the novel, say, “knows something,” and that by having read the novel, we now know something we did not, but we cannot yet say what it is and we know that another look or viewing or reading is necessary. That deeply felt and often deeply gratifying moment of insight when it becomes clear what it is we know but could not say is not something we can offer to another simply by formulating and saying it. We have to help another see it, feel that moment as well in the experience of the work.
My love for coffee runs deep, it has been in my life since childhood and I fondly remember my mom standing over the stove making old school filter coffee in a steel pot with a mesh filter inside it. Obviously as a child I was not allowed to drink coffee, but as an adult I am very fond of it. Caffeine is an amazing drug, it allows one's brain to go into a supercharge mode, and coffee beans contain other molecules that are known to have health benefits. I am sure there are downsides to consuming caffeine, but lets not get bogged down with negatives.
I get anxious about things not going the way I want them to.
Whether it be a job application, a date, getting into a school, there's always a lot of nerves for me. I've built a few tools to manage this anxiety, some of which are physical, like working out or going for a long walk, some are creative like working on a project or writing, but my most used one is a mantra I repeat to myself: "I'm doing well now, if it doesn't work out I'll be right where I started from, I will be ok". This phrase that I repeat to myself has talked me down from a nervous frenzy too many times to count.
P and I recently celebrated that we have been married 20 years... We got to talking at a nice restaurant about what our lives would be like in 20 years, in 2043. It was hard but manageable.
I've always been bad at seeing myself in the future. It's like at those job interviews where you get the question "Where do you see yourself in five years?" and you just lose it and almost start to cry. You know what I mean.
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The Tillitis web shop opened in the beginning of April while I was travelling! The end-user version of the TKey is now available for sale.
Note that the only one available in the web shop right now is a locked down end-user version. You won't be able to update the FPGA bitstream nor read it, nor the Unique Device Secret. Unlocked TKeys and a programmer board will be available soon.
I am the opposite of a social butterfly, yet in a parallel universe, I probably would be owning my parents' pub now and visit other pubs, as well. Unfortunately, I'm not living in this universe, my parents were forced to close their pub in the same year I was born, and the vast majority of the pubs in my hometown disappeared.
Browsed a bunch of gemlogs. So many wonderful writers.
I fancied writing once upon a time, especially after a couple years of digesting John Updike and Joyce Carol Oates.
But it turns out I become too manic in the mechanics.
It didn't help that the one time I landed a writing job, it was to "write" gambling articles steeped in so-called SEO. Incredibly boring and demoralizing. But par for this world's course.
What does the above do, especially as one bumps up against the dstsize limit? 31 is too long for my feeble brain so we'll go with a shorter test string, say three characters. Also we want some means to see if the function writes past the end of the string, as that would be super bad. This suggests the use of a union, though in hindsight you could probably just work on a char[6] or whatever and see if any subsequent got clobbered--I had a union elsewhere in the actual code, so went with one.
* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.