Portable Document Format or PDF is one of the most popular file formats, mainly due to its unified standard across platforms and devices, compatibility, and small size.
There are a lot of powerful tools to view PDF files, so any Linux user can find something based on their own preferences. However, when it comes to editing, PDF files have certain limitations.
Today I released mrcal 2.3 (the release notes are available here). Once again, in the code there are lots of useful improvements, but nothing major. The big update in this release is the documentation. Much of it was improved and extended, especially practical guides in the how-to-calibrate page and the recipes.
This article spotlights alternative tools to more.
€ Periodically, we come across links to pirated versions of CrossOver or instructions for how to pirate CrossOver yourself. While we know that all software companies have to combat piracy efforts, this still really bums us out. We are a small open-source€ software company full of passionate people who take so much pride in our projects and products. Our work is challenging, interesting and rewarding. Dealing with people who steal from us is none of those things.
€ Valve has just published Proton 8.0-2 as the newest version of this Wine-based software that powers Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux.
I recently automated the installation of updates on my openQA development instance. The goal was to make the instance updates itself over night, but only if it is idle, i.
I wanted to start using (neo)mutt's sidebar and I wanted a way of separating groups of mail folders in the list.
Editing text files on Raspberry PI (like .txt or .conf files) may appear a tricky job for those that are moving their first steps on
What are the core concepts in Kubernetes? Kubernetes, aka K8s, is the current de facto container orchestration platform providing a robust set of tools for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
Ever had too many IoT devices all at once? Having to synchronize all those would be a pain without a home automation hub. Here's how you do it with the OpenHABian and Raspberry Pi!
Having a history of shell commands is a great idea. It is, of course, enormously handy when you have to run something repetitively or you make a simple mistake that needs correction. However, as I’ve mentioned in the past, bash history isn’t without its problems. For one thing, by default, you don’t get history in one window from typing in another window. If you use a terminal multiplexer or a GUI, you are very likely to have many shells open. You can make them share history, but that comes with its own baggage. If you think about it, we have super fast computers with tons of storage compared to the “old days,” yet shell history is pretty much the same as it has been for decades. But [Rcaloras] did think about it and created Bashhub, a history database for bash, zsh, and probably some other shells, too.
Hello, friends. In this post, you will learn how to convert EPUB file to PDF on Linux easily. EPUB files are used for creating digital publications and e-books. It became an official IDPF standard in September 2007, replacing the old Open eBook standard.
In this tutorial, we are going to write a bash script that will lock the screen on linux once you execute it.
The goal of this script is to simply lock the screen when you need, it basically acts like a switch but the difference is that you wont need
In this guide I show you how to create a wifi hotspot on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and the recent Ubuntu 23.04 release. Why would you want to do this? Well, before able to share your internet connection with other people (though more commonly, other devices) is a basic feature that most operating systems (desktop and mobile) offer.
Clementine Music Player is a powerful, open-source, and versatile music player and library management tool that has captured the hearts of audiophiles around the world. This feature-rich software offers users a sleek and intuitive interface, making it easy to navigate and manage large music collections.
Fotoxx is a versatile and feature-rich photo editing software designed specifically for Linux users, including those who use Ubuntu. Packed with an extensive array of tools and functionalities, Fotoxx provides a comprehensive solution for all your photo editing needs.
You may find yourself in a situation where you remember the content of a file but not its name. Linux offers various commands to help you find files based on specific text strings within them. By utilizing these commands, you can quickly locate the desired files and retrieve the information you need.
Using the "grep" Command
The
/blockquote>grepcommand is a built-in Linux command that allows you to search for lines that match a given pattern. By default, it returns all lines in a file that contain a specified string. Thegrepcommand is case-sensitive, but you can use specific parameters to modify its behavior.
It’s time! As you know based on our previous analysis, every month and a half or a bit more (in this case over two months) there’s a 1000 new games added to the list of Verified and Playable games...
It’s finally there: Kaidan with end-to-end encryption via OMEMO 2, Automatic Trust Management and support of XMPP Providers! Most of the work has been funded by NLnet via NGI Zero PET and NGI Assure with public money provided by the European Commission. We would also like to thank Radically Open Security (especially Christian Reitter) for a quick security evaluation during the NGI Zero project.
Even if Kaidan is making good progress, please keep in mind that it is not yet a stable app. Do not expect it to work well on all supported systems. Moreover, we do currently not consider Kaidan’s security as good as the security of the dominating chat apps.
There is a new overview of features Kaidan supports. Have a look at that or at the changelog for more details.
- Stabilizing Plasma 6 so we can all start living on it full-time
- Discussing significant UX changes we want to make in Plasma 6
- API changes for Frameworks 6 that are relevant for Plasma
- Design vision for Kirigami and various Kirigami-related topics
- Improving our test infrastructure
We are happy to announce the release of KDDockWidgets version 1.7.0! What is KDDockWidgets? KDDockWidgets is a development framework for custom-tailored docking systems in Qt, to use when you need€ advanced docking that is not supported by QDockWidgets.
We are happy to announce the release of Qt Creator 10.0.1!
We have released Qt Safe Renderer 2.0.1 for commercial license holders today. As a patch release, QSR 2.0.1 does not add any new functionality but provides bug fixes done on top of QSR 2.0.
In Qt 6.5, Qt Quick Controls' Material style received an update to Material 3, the latest version of Google’s open-source design system.
This post will highlight the changes made to each control so that you can adapt your applications accordingly. It will also highlight more general changes and new API, such as the new Material.containerStyle and Material.roundedScale attached properties.
Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from April 28 to May 05.
We are happy to announce that GNOME was assigned nine slots for Google Summer of Code projects this year!
GSoC is a program focused on bringing new contributors into open source software development. A number of long term GNOME developers are former GSoC interns, making the program a very valuable entry point for new members in our project.
In 2023 we will mentoring the following projects: [...]
Kali Linux is a popular Linux distribution that is widely used in the cybersecurity community. It is known for its powerful tools and capabilities that make it an excellent choice for security professionals, ethical hackers, and cybersecurity researchers. If you plan to start your Kali Linux journey, you should know a few basic information about Kali Linux. Here's a summary.
This month we have a mix of new design and feature updates, another big batch of fixed bugs, and even some performance improvements.
The headliner this month is Mail which does a better job handling newly added online accounts and includes fixes for a couple of potential crashes, plus a ton of code cleaning under the hood and even a few performance improvements. The composer now always opens in a separate, non-modal window making it much easier to reference a message you’re replying to or manage multiple drafts at the same time.
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
This week, timing is on our side – and we pushed out 8 snapshots in 7 days. Of course, this could only happen because openQA was so very swift in testing yesterday’s snapshot – it passed the entire QA run in just a bit over 3 hours (314 test runs).
The snapshots published were numbered 0427 through 0504 and they contained these changes:
- openSUSE:Factory is now using suse_version 1699 (unless you need to distinguish it from ALP, keep using > 1500 or >= 1550 as done in the past. No need to use the new version just yet in normal cases
- gnome-shell / mutter 44.1 (late joiners for GNOME 44.1)
- Boost 1.82
- postfix 3.8.0
- Mesa 23.0.3
- Wayland 1.22.0
- Linux kernel 6.3.1
- libvirt 9.3.0
At SUSE, we are committed to providing our customers and partners with the best possible support and resources. That’s why we are thrilled to announce the launch of our new landing page for the SUSE Customer Center (SCC).
This is a weekly report from the CPE (Community Platform Engineering) Team. If you have any questions or feedback, please respond to this report or contact us on #redhat-cpe channel on libera.chat.
Here’s your weekly Fedora report. Read what happened this week and what’s coming up. Your contributions are welcome (see the end of the post)!
If you filter Fedora Linux AWS images using a script, you might notice a change in the image names. The Fedora Cloud SIG recently updated the image publishing configuration to use the latest generation storage option and simplify the image listings.
Add a Fedora x86_64 or aarch64 image to Oracle Cloud and launch an instance.
I got a bit of feedback the other day from Nate asking if I had dot files. I certainly do. I assume what they meant is if I have particular customizations, and then if I would care to share them. I definitely have a bunch of particular changes, and as for sharing them, why not. It lets me get a bunch of shots in at things that have become annoying over the years, and that means it's perfect for stirring up the hornet nests with a Friday night post.
ADLINK presented today a fanless embedded media player built around the 11th Gen Intel Core processors. The EMP-510 can handle up to four simultaneous displays, two 2.5 Gigabit ethernet interfaces and other serial ports.
The LPC860-MAX by NXP is an evaluation board targeting applications such as motor control, wearables and other consumer products. The eval board is equipped with a 32-bit ultra-low power Arm Cortex-M0+ and up to 54x GPIOs.
Historically ROS has been developed on top of Ubuntu, relying on the distribution as a stable base providing tools (like GCC, CMake, Python to name a few) and libraries (such as Boost, Eigen, PCL) and following its release cycle (a distribution per year, an LTS every two years). This synergy has worked great for more than 15 years and saw the project and the community behind it vastly grow.€
However, being tied to a specific Linux distribution raises all kinds of difficulties. Developing for several ROS distributions can be challenging since they each are tied to an Ubuntu distribution. This challenge increases in particular for ROS newcomers that might not even be familiar with Linux. Similarly, developing ROS on Windows or macOS is anything but a pleasant experience.
You may see the following message,launch failed: The following errors occurred:€ € € € € € € € € € € € € € € € € € € € € € € € € € € € € € € € € € € timed out waiting for initialization to completeIt simply indicates that a Multipass internal timeout expired. The VM does actually continue its setup in the background and you will be able to use it. To get rid of this message, set a larger timer, e.g. `–timeout 600
The Raspberry Pi is famous for its low cost, versatile and open Linux environment, and plentiful I/O, making it a perfect device not only for its originally-intended educational purposes but for basically every hobbyist from gardeners to roboticists to amateur radio operators. Most builds tend to make use of the GPIO pins which allow easy connections to various peripherals and sensors, but the Pi also supports PCI devices which means that, in theory, it could use a GPU in much the same way that a modern computer would. After plenty of testing and development, [Jeff Geerling] brings us this custom graphics card interface for the Raspberry Pi.
After a long hiatus due to COVID lockdowns, CamJam — the meet-up for Raspberry Pi enthusiasts in Cambridge, UK — returned last month. The event at Makespace Cambridge was completely sold out, with lots of local tinkerers and professional geeks keen to get back and chat with each other about what they’ve been making over the past couple of years. Often called Raspberry Jams, these community-led events happen all around the world. You can find one near you, or start your own.
The ROS-Industrial Consortium, championed by the Steel Founders’ Society of America (SFSA), has launched the Focused Technical Project (FTP) Robotic Blending Milestone 5. This builds on the prior Robotic Blending Milestone 4, which demonstrated high-mix material surface finishing and edge processing of arbitrarily shaped and contouring parts, largely targeting piece-parts to be welded.
The Tukhla project was completed in April 2021. However, due to the COVID-19 semiconductor madness, we were unable to assemble prototypes because of the lack of semiconductors. The development of this project is financed by Ignitial SAS, a company based in France.
Finally we got enough chips to complete the first three prototypes and we assembled them last week before the May’s Holidays.
Welcome to the PiKVM Handbook - a complete documentation of Open and cheap DIY IP-KVM based on Raspberry Pi. Here you will find comprehensive information about all aspects of the operation of PiKVM, get answers to your most difficult questions and be able to solve the problems that have arisen.
For those who missed it in the previous post, the +12v and -12v lines are only used for the ISA card slot, these each have a tantalum capacitor and one of them failed short-circuit when powered, which caused a fizz noise and a familiar smell to excrete from the machine.
Given what the capacitors are for, I don’t see any reason to replace with tantalum types. I instead replaced with electrolytic capacitors. I didn’t really need to replace them at all as those lines are pretty stable and any card that uses them should have their own large decoupling. But I thought it would be good to get it back to spec.
That story is the subject of the new book The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal. This week on Cyber, author Laine Nooney comes on to talk about The Apple II Age and how the little machine ushered in a new world of personal computing. Nooney is also an assistant professor of Media and Information Studies at New York University and the founding editor of ROMchip: A Journal of Games Histories.
It is important to know the dissimilarities between Mozilla's FireFox developer edition and Google's Chrome browser if you are in the web development field. Firefox and Chrome are two favored browsers used by millions of people around the globe.
Highlights
- aminomancer and Negin from the OMC team are making it possible to embed the new migration wizard nicely in about:welcome! This metabug tracks that effort.
- bnasar added support for a new keyboard shortcut to toggle PiP fullscreen mode
- You can now press the “f” key or double click the PiP window to toggle fullscreen mode
- At long last, after much experimentation, the about:home startup cache is being (cautiously) rolled out to users on the release channel! The about:home startup cache improves the loading time of about:home on browser start. If all goes well, we expect (almost) all users to have the cache enabled by default in Firefox 113. We may continue to do a few holdback studies just to double-check the performance of the cache in the wild.
Today, The Document Foundation unveiled the release and widespread availability of LibreOffice 7.5.3, which serves as the third maintenance update to the current LibreOffice 7.5 open-source and complimentary office suite series.
Approximately five weeks after the launch of LibreOffice 7.5.2, LibreOffice 7.5.3 arrives with a new set of bug fixes for those who have successfully updated their GNU/Linux system to the LibreOffice 7.5 series.
A U.S. federal judge has ruled that Chicago’s lack of audible traffic signals for blind pedestrians violates the Americans with Disabilities Act. The ruling may inspire other cities as well to improve their roads’ accessibility.
A federal judge's ruling blasting Chicago planners for not equipping more of their intersections with audible signals that help blind pedestrians cross busy streets has given advocates a victory they call long overdue. The recent ruling could push other major U.S. cities to install accessible pedestrian signals. The decision mirrors a previous federal ruling in New York, which is ahead of schedule in complying with a judge's mandate to retrofit most of its signalized crosswalks in the next decade. Fewer than three dozen of Chicago’s nearly 3,000 intersections with visual crossing signals are equipped with audible cues. A future hearing could determine how many intersections must be upgraded and when.
From hand painting movie posters to fashioning chicken feather dusters, some artisans want to do it the traditional way.
Someone else's writing, painting, coding, speaking... someone else's work.
The law was hailed as a "milestone in the history of the country" by advocates, while many in the scientific community decried its flaws.
No, really.
There might be a way after all.
Leon Botstein, the president of Bard College, said, “Among the very rich is a higher percentage of unpleasant and not very attractive people.”
Five Hong Kong primary schools will not receive funding for Primary One classes in the upcoming school year after not enough students enrolled, the city’s education chief has said.
ProPublica Thursday reported€ that US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas failed to disclose that conservative donor Harlan Crow’s holding company paid thousands of dollars in tuition for Thomas’s great-nephew, whom Thomas was raising “as a son.
Welcome to Hardware Addicts, a proud member of the TuxDigital Network. Hardware Addicts is the podcast that focuses on the physical components that powers our technology world. In this episode, we discuss the hardware that powers AI like ChatGPT and Google Bard. Then we head to Camera Corner where Wendy will discuss Ricoh W6-6.
Quick, what’s 360 divided by 23? It’s easy enough to get the answer, of course, but if you need to machine a feature every 15.652 degrees around a shaft, how exactly would you accomplish that? There are a number of ways, but they all involve some degree of machining wizardry. Or, you can just make the problem go away with a little automation.
Most Hackaday readers will no doubt at some point used a solderless breadboard for prototyping. They do the job, but sometimes their layout can be inflexible and keeping track of signals can be a pain. There’s a neat idea from [rasmusviil0] which might go some way to making the humble breadboard easier to use, it’s a breadboard in which each line is coupled via an op-amp buffer to an LED. In this way it can be seen at a glance some indication of the DC voltage present.
A new Russian listing has leaked the memory specifications for Nvidia's upcoming mid-range GeForce RTX 4060 Ti graphics card, with an underwhelming 128-bit bus making up just 288GBps of rumored bandwidth.
AMD is reportedly spinning up as many as 30,000 new 3000G APUs in an effort to help move existing stock of old AM4 motherboards.
Transcript: Don Davies: The lobbying registry reveals that you and members of your political office met with pharmaceutical companies and lobbyists 15 times between October and December 22 alone. Why would you meet 15 times with industry and not once with an agency in your own portfolio?
A chemical plant in the Houston area has caught fire, sending a huge plume of smoke into the sky. The Harris County Sheriff’s Office said Friday the fire was at a Shell USA Inc. facility in Deer Park, a suburb east of Houston. Harris County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Thomas Gilliland says officers received a service call just after 3 p.m. Friday to help divert traffic around the plant. Gilliland says fire crews from the plant and nearby plants are responding, as well as the Harris County Fire Marshal's Office, who is leading the response.
The decision has little practical effect but is a significant moment in the struggle against a virus that has killed millions and upended lives throughout the world.
COVID-19 is no longer a global health emergency, World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared Friday.
It’s been 1191 days since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared covid-19 a pandemic (or, officially, a public health emergency of international concern) on Jan. 30, 2020. /p>
A federal civil rights group complaint says Mississippi is intentionally creating hurdles that prevent the majority-Black capital city of Jackson from receiving enough money to repair its long-troubled water system. The Southern Poverty Law Center announced Friday that it had filed the civil rights complaint to the federal government. It is asking the Treasury Department to investigate Mississippi’s rules for distributing $450 million to water systems operated by cities, counties and rural water associations. The money came from the federal government. The complaint is the latest of several efforts to bring federal pressure to force improvements for Jackson's water system, which nearly collapsed last year.
Sons of ex-cartel boss "El Chapo" asserted they have not "produced or commercialized" fentanyl in a letter sent to a television news program.
The organization's president told a newspaper that the growing Mexican medical tourism industry is avoiding up to US $500M annually in taxes.
"...the Nigerian Minister of Information and Culture€ asserted that malnutrition poses a grave risk to the survival..."
Avian influenza, or bird flu, has been detected in wild birds dead in Daugavpils, representatives of the Food and Veterinary Service (PVD) told LETA on May 5.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced that Covid-19 pandemic is over as a global health emergency.
On the Italian coast, in the central region of Tuscany, the seaside resort of Rosignano looks like a picture-postcard paradise with turquoise sea and shimmering white sand. But this landscape is a result of its close proximity to€ a large factory producing soda ash. For over a century,€ the Belgian chemical€ company€ Solvay€ has managed the site, with the authorisation to discharge up to 250,000 tons of waste€ – pumped directly onto the beach.€ Although legal and monitored, this activity still has considerable environmental and health implications.€ Life in Rosignano revolves around a battle between the chemical giant and a number of€ local residents. Our reporters went to meet them.
As Europe faces a shortage of medicines, Lithuanian Health Minister Arūnas Dulkys says the EU should collectively keep stocks of crucial medications to resolve the problem.
An astonishing success rate.
A breakthrough that could save lives.
Virus species never seen before.
WHO first issued its highest level of alert for COVID-19 on January 30, 2020.
The Covid-19 pandemic, which for over three years has killed millions of people, wreaked economic havoc and deepened inequalities, no longer constitutes a global health emergency, the WHO said Friday.
It's been over for most Americans for a long time already.
European Commission Statement Brussels, 05 May 2023 Welcoming the WHO's announcement that COVID-19 no longer constitutes a global health emergency, President Ursula von der Leyen made the following statement...
In the world of large language models (LLM), the focus has for the longest time been on proprietary technologies from companies such as OpenAI (GPT-3 & 4, ChatGPT, etc.) as well as increasingly everyone from Google to Meta and Microsoft. What’s remained underexposed in this whole discussion about which LLM will do more things better are the efforts by hobbyists, unaffiliated researchers and everyone else you may find in Open Source LLM projects. According to a leaked document from a researcher at Google (anonymous, but apparently verified), Google is very worried that Open Source LLMs will wipe the floor with both Google’s and OpenAI’s efforts.
Uber’s former chief security chief has avoided jail time in a case linked to the coverup of a 2016 hack. The judge found his previous work in data security outweighed the harm he did by hiding the data breach.
The French Senate's website was offline on Friday after pro-Russian hackers claimed to have taken it down, in just the latest such cyberattack since Russia invaded Ukraine last year.
The recently identified Fleckpe Android trojan has infected over 600,000 users in Southeast Asia via Google Play.
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version
242. This version includes the following changes: [...]
While analyzing a Guildma (AKA Astaroth) sample recently uploaded to MalwareBazaar, we came across a chain of LOLBIN abuse.
Fortinet has released patches for two high-severity vulnerabilities impacting FortiADC, FortiOS, and FortiProxy.
Siemens recently patched a critical vulnerability affecting some of its energy ICS devices that could allow hackers to destabilize a power grid.
Because it's a good new cybersecurity tool
TL;DR The CyberGhost VPN client suffers from an elevation of privilege vulnerability and is filed under CVE-2023-30237.€
Microsoft has patched three vulnerabilities in its Azure cloud platform that could have allowed attackers to access sensitive info on a targeted service, deny access to the server, or scan the internal network to mount further attacks, researchers have found.
Researchers from the Ermetic Research Team discovered the flaws in the Azure API Management Service, which allows organizations to create, manage, secure, and monitor APIs across all of their environments, they revealed in a blog post published May 4.
The flaws — all rated high-risk — include two Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerabilities and a file upload path traversal on an internal Azure workload.
This is another example of how AI companies externalise their costs. If you didn’t take economics at uni, these sites explain the concept:
Britannica
International Monetary Fund
WikipediaFor now, I have to live with it. I’m not going to put a blanket ban on security notices coming from domains ending in ai, because that would still be irresponsible. But they’ll have to start proving their worth pretty soon.
Are you searching for Linux Vulnerability scanners that can recognize, characterize, and categorize to Scan Linux Servers, etc?
Regarding the security holes, this article can provide a solution to get the details about the most comprehensive Linux Vulnerability Scannerto scan Linux servers for malware and vulnerabilities.
Google’s latest Android security updates patch over 40 vulnerabilities, including CVE-2023-0266, a kernel flaw exploited as a zero-day by a spyware vendor.
Washington state has enacted a law to protect health data: Most people are unaware that the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) only protects health data shared by doctors and insurance companies.
The 1999 Disney film Smart House, aside from being 90 minutes of campy fun, was actually pretty prescient about contemporary smart homes.
Finland's police officers are currently able to decide if bodycam footage should be saved or not.
The ruling was a blow to the commission’s intensifying efforts to crack down on the sale and use of sensitive personal information.
Espionage is a means by which the U.S. interferes in other countries and achieves its own political goals.
The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled: the right of access is broad and can also include the provision of documents and database extracts.
The Department of Defense on Friday signed a long-awaited policy to make it easier for service members to access mental health care.
The big picture: The policy implements the Brandon Act, signed into law by President Biden in 2021, as the military continues to grapple with mental health issues and suicide within its ranks.
The new developments suggest that the region is moving from the regional clashing stage to the regional interaction stage.
Joel Fitzgibbon recalls being shocked when he became defence minister in 2007 to discover that after years fighting in Afghanistan Australia did not have access to NATO’s planning documents for military operations there.
Japan’s criminal justice system gets results – but is it justice? Victims of wrongful convictions are speaking out for reform.
Marco Tantardini discusses the role of Eastern Europe in the space activities of the EU.
The conflict between Sudan’s rival military factions is triggering massive population displacements that are stressing the region’s already fragile coping systems.
The victims were a 13-year-old girl and an adult woman.
U.N. experts say South Sudan is facing violent clashes and increasing disillusionment and frustration as it struggles to implement the most challenging provisions of a fragile 2018 power-sharing agreement. They identified the challenges in a new report obtained Friday by The Associated Press as integrating rival military forces, drafting a new constitution, and preparing for South Sudan's first election as an independent country in December 2024. The experts say the country’s stability “will likely turn on the government’s ability to reward the patience of those who remain committed to peace, rather than those who have sought to reshape it through violence.”
We explain the background of the military conflict in Sudan.
At least eight people were killed and 14 wounded in a mass shooting that took place near Belgrade, the second such incident in Serbia in less than two days, as President Aleksandar Vucic proposed measures that he said amounted to "a practical disarmament" of Serbian civilians.
An Iranian teacher and labor activist has died from injuries he suffered in an attack by unknown assailants in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan.
President Joe Biden's national security adviser said on Thursday he will travel to Saudi Arabia at the weekend for talks with Saudi leaders as well as Indian and Emirati officials.
The Sudanese army said late Friday that it had sent envoys to Saudi Arabia to discuss "details of the truce in the process of being extended" with its paramilitary foes.
Sudanese officials say that the country's two warring generals have sent their envoys to Saudi Arabia for talks aimed at firming up a shaky cease-fire after three weeks of fierce fighting that has killed hundreds and pushed Sudan to the brink of collapse
American officials say they hope representatives of two rival Sudanese generals will agree to an enduring cease-fire and to allow humanitarian aid into the country.
Australia is undergoing an exciting period of strategic technology policy review and development. The release of its first National Quantum Strategy this week committed the government to building the world’s first error-corrected quantum computer.
Global military expenditure continued to increase last year, remaining well over the $2 trillion mark, although defence expenditure in Africa fell for the first time since 2018.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of Russian paramilitary group Wagner, on Friday threatened to pull his fighters from the front line in Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine starting May 10, saying ammunition shortages meant they faced "senseless death".€ Russia has incurred significant losses in Bakhmut since starting its offensive there in August. Follow our blog to see how the day's events unfolded. All times are Paris time (GMT+2).
Mykyta Vorobiov is a student at Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine. He is currently in Zagreb, Croatia, He recently spent a few days in the city of Sarajevo, in neighboring Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin must be brought to justice for his war in Ukraine. Zelensky was addressing The Hague during a visit to the International Criminal Court (ICC), calling for a new international tribunal to prosecute the crime of aggression.
A Moscow court on May 5 arrested a Ukrainian citizen, Crimean Tatar Lenie Umerova, for alleged spying.
Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin has threatened to pull out all of his mercenary forces from the devastated eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, a dramatic escalation of his ongoing feud with the Russian Defense Ministry over supplies and support.
Ukrainian and Russian delegates scuffled at a Black Sea conference in the Turkish capital of Istanbul over the unfurling of a flag during an interview on May 4.
The Ukrainian military reported on May 5 that fresh Russian reinforcements were being brought into Bakhmut, a city in the Donetsk region where fighting has intensified. The region has been at the epicenter of Moscow's push in eastern Ukraine, while Russia continued the shelling of southern Ukraine.
As Moscow seeks revenge for American aid to Ukraine, the 2024 U.S. Presidential election presents a Trump-size target.
With a Ukrainian offensive looming, explosions in Crimea and inside Russia have rattled Moscow, sparking bureaucratic infighting among military commanders.
Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, who founded the Wagner group, has long made incendiary threats over a lack of ammunition. It was unclear if he would follow through with his threat.
The river has helped to define Ukraine’s history and culture, and remains vital to daily sustenance, even as it also serves as a front line in war — as it has countless times over thousands of years.
Since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, hundreds of Russian men have faced criminal charges for becoming war refuseniks. That has not stopped others from going to unusual lengths to avoid battle.
The unusually wet ground is one obstacle that the Ukrainian military, for all of its ingenuity, is finding difficult to overcome as it prepares for a counteroffensive against Russian forces.
Two altercations over Ukrainian flags occurred at a regional parliamentary conference in Ankara, the Turkish capital.
Moldova is working on orienting itself more closely with the West, but it needs support to fend off Russian pressure and attempts to gain influence.
Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin threatened to withdraw forces from Bakhmut following conflict with Russian military leadership over resources.
ViÃÂiūnà ³ Grupė (ViÃÂiūnai Group), controlled by Kaunas Mayor Visvaldas Matijošaitis and his business partner Liudas Skierius, earned a profit of 24.8 million euros in Russia in 2022.
A Moscow court ruled on May 5 to send theater director Yevgenia Berkovich to pretrial detention until at least July 4 on suspicion of justification of terrorism in her production of the play Finist -- The Brave Falcon about Russian women who married Muslim men and moved to Syria.
The Polish Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian ambassador in protest on May 5 after a former Russian official suggested it would be acceptable to assassinate Poland's ambassador to Russia.
The chief of the Memorial human right group's branch in the Russian city of Perm, Aleksandr Chernyshov, was detained at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport on May 5.
Tajikistan's presidential press service said on May 5 that Russian President Vladimir Putin had invited his Tajik counterpart, Emomali Rahmon, to attend events in Moscow on May 9 dedicated to the World War II Victory Day.
Lavrov said that Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Russia in March has injected great impetus into the development of bilateral relations.
A drone attack on the Ilsky oil refinery in southern Russia, the second in as many days, has caused a fire, TASS news agency reported on May 5.
The ministers in charge of sports from dozens of countries in Europe, North America, and Asia issued a statement on May 4 saying they continue to oppose the participation of athletes from Russia and Belarus as neutrals in international sports competitions.
Yevgeny V. Prigozhin has used his leadership of the Wagner mercenary force and social media to turn brutality into a personal brand.
Mali's ruling junta announced Friday a referendum on a new constitution would be held in the west African nation on June 18.
As feuding generals turned the Sudanese capital into a war zone, two university students navigated a battered Toyota through the chaos to rescue dozens of desperate people.
Philippine president says the U.S. has never asked Manila to contribute troops should war break out over Taiwan.
"...China has initiated a proposition for the formation of a green working group to oversee trade relations..."
The ginkgo — a species native to China with fan-shaped leaves that turn a vibrant gold in the fall — is one of the oldest and most resilient trees on Earth.
The gaps that CNN and NYT report that Jack Smith is attempting to understand might pertain to something other than Walt Nauta moving boxes in and out of the storage room. They might show someone else walking into it.
The verdict in the Proud Boy Leaders case not only provides accountability for the men who led the mob on January 6. it provides prosecutors with a way to network in the remaining Proud Boy "tools" used by those Leaders.
The seditious conspiracy convictions of former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and three lieutenants bolsters the Justice Department’s high-profile wins in its historic prosecution of the Capitol attack. The verdict handed down Thursday could further embolden the Justice Department and special counsel Jack Smith as his team investigates efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to undo President Joe Biden’s victory. Smith’s work is now proceeding rapidly. Just last week, a federal grand jury heard hours of testimony from former Vice President Mike Pence. Trump loomed large over the monthslong Proud Boys trial at the U.S. Courthouse in Washington, where the Capitol can be seen in the distance from the windows.
A Kentucky man with a long criminal record has been sentenced to a record-setting 14 years in prison for attacking police officers with pepper spray and a chair as he stormed the U.S. Capitol with his wife. Peter Schwartz’s prison sentence is the longest so far among hundreds of Capitol riot cases. The judge who sentenced Schwartz on Friday also handed down the previous longest sentence — 10 years — to a retired New York Police Department officer who assaulted a police officer outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta said Schwartz was a “soldier against democracy.”
The sentence was delivered the same day prosecutors recommended 25 years in prison for Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers militia, who was convicted of seditious conspiracy in the attack.
On May 1, a 24-year-old man named Daniel Penny choked Jordan Neely, 30, to death on a New York City subway train. Mr. Penny has not been charged.
Experts explain what to do if you feel threatened and how to offer help if the situation calls for it.
Desertions and defections have weakened the army, suggesting that junta victory is not assumed.
ASEAN chair Indonesia has had at least 60 engagements so far this year, Retno Marsudi says.
Azerbaijan and€ Armenia€ have made "tangible progress" towards reaching a consensus in talks over the past few days, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday, adding a final agreement was within sight.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian still sees a "huge difference" between the wording of a draft peace agreement for Armenia and Azerbaijan and the two sides' positions despite reported progress in bilateral talks hosted by the United States this week.
Canada is satisfied with progress being made between Canadian energy companies and the Mexican government, says Minister Mary Ng.
California and Texas are two potential markets to advance hydrogen-fueled trucking. Both states have excellent potential and can decarbonize heavy-duty transportation.
OCI Global and NuStar Energy have entered into an agreement for OCI Global to transport ammonia on a new segment of NuStar Pipeline Operating Partnership L.P.’s Ammonia Pipeline System.
The White House's recently-published DAME tax proposal report brings to light estimates showing that national Bitcoin mining consumed more power than all of the United State's computers combined.
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree in April allowing Moscow to temporarily seize the Russian assets of Finnish energy firm Fortum.
After€ a rapid upturn in bicycle sales€ during the pandemic, demand is stable this spring, but it is far from the pandemic levels. The good news is that this summer merchants no longer face logistical problems, Latvian Radio reported on May 5.
New York state’s ban on natural gas in new construction has critics, but also supporters who say it’s an important step toward net-zero emissions.
Over the past few months, viewings of the lights have increased in areas farther south than usual. That’s going to continue into 2025.
Footage showing a senior Cambodian official communicating with smugglers is part of U.S. case against him
European Commission Press release Brussels, 05 May 2023 The European Commission has approved a €2.6 billion (SEK 29 billion) Swedish scheme to support companies active in southern Sweden in the context of Russia's war against Ukraine.
An anonymous whistleblower who helped the US Securities and Exchange Commission catch a mysterious bad actor was paid $279 million dollars as a reward for their assistance.
The newspaper cited unnamed sources in a report Friday that said Citigroup is closing in on selling the bank for more than US $7 billion.
The presidential candidate and 1994 Bureaucrat of the Year asserts that he will increase the minimum salary that a civil servant receives to 21,265 lira (988 Euro) if he is elected.
Los Angeles, a city known for its conventional single-family homes, may offer some of today’s most innovative solutions for multifamily housing.
Lithuania’s Tripartite Council, representing the country’s government, employers, and trade unions, on Friday approved a proposal to increase the minimum monthly wage by 10 percent to 924 euros next year.
LRT English Newsletter – May 5, 2023
"The proposal€ aims to reduce fraud and exploitation linked to work-related immigration..."
Angry man yells at late stage capitalism.
The brother of Lebanon's central bank governor appeared on Thursday at a hearing in Beirut with European investigators probing whether the siblings embezzled and laundered hundreds of millions of dollars in public funds over more than a decade, a judicial source said.
Zimbabwe is introducing local digital tokens in the hope of reducing reliance on the US dollar.
As federal budget day looms, a chasm has emerged between what’s happening in people’s lives and traditional economic indicators.
Few fights are more pivotal to ending systemic inequality than the fight for fair and stable housing. When Martin Luther King, Jr. launched a campaign to end slums in 1966, he connected the struggle to obtain decent housing with the need to end what he called slum schools, work, health care, and all forms of racial segregation. Today, fair housing remains the key to addressing deepening income inequality and forced displacement from our communities, as the long-lasting reach of discriminatory housing practices constantly shape who has access to quality education, health care, security, opportunity, and wealth.
Let’s break down why fair housing is critical to the fight for systemic equality.
At the end of the TDS/UScellular earnings call today, one investor summed up the situation from his perspective as someone who has held shares in the company for 32 years.
He purchased the stock at $14.34 and said he’s lost half of his investment. He’s listened to executives talk with enthusiasm about future results that don’t seem to come, and he wonders: Why not put the business up for sale and have someone else manage the assets? The stock is at a 32-year low, he said.
The pay cut affecting two-thirds of rural carriers at a time when the USPS is struggling to deliver mail in rural areas due to a labor shortage is scheduled to go into effect next week.
As the world undergoes varying crises—climate disasters, the covid-19 pandemic, supply chain and banking turbulence—countries with fewer resources have relied on their foreign reserves to keep their economies afloat.
The recent declines in bank asset values very significantly increased the fragility of the U.S. banking system to uninsured depositor runs.
Australian workers can expect to see their pay packets growing faster than consumer prices by early next year. An improvement in real wages, which accounts for the corroding effect of inflation on pay increases, was previously earmarked for midway through 2024. Thanks to surging inflation, workers have been hit with staggering declines in real wages.
"The inflation outlook continues to be too high for too long," the€ European Central Bank acknowledged.
Renters are already feeling the squeeze but population growth and sluggish home building could push prices even higher. Low vacancy rates and strong demand have already sent capital city rents soaring nearly 12 per cent in the last 12 months.
CNN can't get their basic editing done anymore. I've been catching typos and other problems all over their site. It's turned into a spam farm designed to post gray goo (synthetic content, very bad, possibly written by ChatGPT) and ads for Amazon products.
A voter supporting the ruling AKP said in a street interview, "25 years ago, doctors used to scold us. Now we can disfavor the doctors and beat them. We are so comfortable." Turkish Medical Association is going to be making a criminal complaint against the Youtube channel that broadcast the interview.
Concerns over the idea of using lawmakers’ constitutional powers to vote down government budgets stemmed from reports by pro-establishment media outlets, a former Hong Kong politician has said in his testimony against dozens of democrats in a landmark national security trial.
The Pillar of Shame – a monument commemorating those who died amid the 1989 Tiananmen Crackdown – has been seized by Hong Kong’s national security police investigating an “incitement to subversion” case, local media have reported.
Turkish families got wealthy off a construction system rife with patronage. A Times investigation reveals just how fatally shaky that system was.
The proportion of young people satisfied with their lives has dropped to 46 percent in the last five years, and as many as 80 percent of young people experience relative poverty, a new report from the Habitat Association indicates.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservatives were facing a bleak set of local election results with voters punishing his party over political scandals, sluggish economic growth and high inflation, early results showed on Friday.
The Labour Party scored several significant victories in Conservative strongholds in votes viewed as a test of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s popularity.
Hong Kong’s ice hockey body has called allegations made by the city’s top sporting committee that it placed insufficient importance on ensuring the correct anthem was played at a recent international match “unjustified.
Prosecutors are nearing charging decisions after investigating whether former President Donald J. Trump and his allies illegally meddled in Georgia’s 2020 election.
The teams behind What Car? and Autocar are restructuring to cope with turbulence in the industry.
The cuts come after the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday were brought "much closer together".
A close read of Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau's comprehensive foreign policy statement reveals a country that stands on the side of freedom, even as it faces difficulties with European partners.
A paper to better inform the conversation
around technology’s impact on democracy by
evaluating technosolutionism and its application to
the management of human mobility.
The French government sought to play down a fresh row with Italy over migration on Friday, saying Rome was an "essential partner" after a spat with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will join President Emmanuel Macron in Paris for France's Bastille Day military parade on July 14, the two countries said in a joint statement Friday.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic vowed on Friday to launch a large-scale disarmament plan to remove hundreds of thousands of guns from the country following two mass shootings in less than 48 hours.
From Russiagate to COVID discourse, elites in government and the media are trying to control and centralize free speech and open inquiry.
We’re in the midst of a full blown mass hysteria moral panic claiming that the internet is “dangerous” for children, despite little evidence actually supporting that hypothesis, and a ton arguing the opposite is true. States are passing bad laws, and Congress has a whole stack of dangerous “for the children” laws, from KOSA to the RESTRICT Act to STOP CSAM to EARN IT to the Cooper Davis Act to the “Protecting Kids on Social Media Act” to COPPA 2.0. There are more as well, but these are the big ones that all seem to be moving through Congress.
Since April 25, some 52 people have been arrested and 98 people have been released as part of the investigation
A Moscow court has ordered pretrial detention for a theater director facing charges of justifying terrorism,
With help from informers, books are being pulled from shelves under national security law.
The coin honors Australian veterans of the Vietnam War, which the South lost in 1975
Iranian labor activist Sepideh Gholian has been handed a two-year prison sentence for chanting a slogan against Iran’s supreme leader shortly after her recent release from detention.
A court in Almaty has sentenced Kazakh activist Alnur Ilyashev to five days in prison for violating a court-imposed ban on taking part in public gatherings.
The journalists have been found guilty of "marking people who participated in the fight against terrorism as a target."
Harsh restrictions on press freedom in Turkey have left independent media decimated. Many journalists hope the opposition will win upcoming elections.
A journalist working for Yntymak (Solidarity) television and radio company in Kyrgyzstan’s southern city of Osh has been severely beaten and is in a local hospital's intensive care unit.
A Starbucks location in downtown Buffalo—one of the first locations to join a nationwide labor organizing effort—has voted to dissolve its union after submitting a decertification petition to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) last week, according to Bloomberg.
The political scientist Jacob Grumbach on what to make of Republican lawmakers expelling or censuring their political opponents. Plus, a tribute to the American journalist imprisoned by Russia as a spy.
Every year, people, including families with small children, come to the U.S. seeking safety from violence and persecution. The U.S. is bound by both international and domestic laws — born out of the tragedies of World War II — to allow those with a “well-founded fear of persecution” on account of race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group to apply for asylum. Yet over the last several decades, multiple administrations, guided by political rather than humanitarian considerations, have turned their backs on people fleeing persecution. As a result, countless refugees have been forced to remain outside the U.S. or returned to their countries of origin only to be abducted, tortured, and even killed.
The ACLU has been at the forefront of the fight to defend asylum every step of the way — and we will never back down. Here’s a look at how we’ve shown up to protect this critical right over the years.
Photos on social media from last month showed some workers linked together in chains.
Protests held outside Thai embassies, consulates in Germany and the United States
As more Iranian women go without the head scarves mandated by law, efforts by the government to force businesses to promote compliance points to a growing struggle in the months ahead.
Adidas has given an update on the size of its Yeezy problem.
Australian Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi announced Wednesday that she filed proceedings in the Federal Court against One Nation leader Pauline Hanson over one of Hanson’s tweets, which Faruqi alleges breached the Racial Discrimination Act.
The United Nations in Afghanistan has reiterated its condemnation of a decision by the Taliban-led government to ban Afghan women from working for the UN, saying the move "seriously undermines our work, including our ability to reach all people in need."
Official NUJ materials will now refer instead to chapel "chairs".
China slammed what it called “groundless slander and defamation” by Canada on Friday after Ottawa summoned Beijing’s ambassador over accusations a Chinese diplomat sought to intimidate a Canadian lawmaker and his family.
Graduate students at Temple University were on strike during the spring semester demanding improved wages. The strike ended after the students negotiated a union contract that will raise their annual salary to $27,000 by 2026. At Kent State, graduate students receive tuition remission and partial coverage in health insurance.
Athletes vow to continue a protest after a clash with the police, saying politicians are covering for an official accused of sexually harassing female wrestlers.
The death of a Star Ferry captain during a shift on Wednesday has drawn attention to the firm’s 25-day work roster. However, workers wished to keep the arrangement – which affords them five days off after working for 25 consecutive days – according to the Star Ferry.
With 9,000 employees worldwide and counting, Shein has big plans for further expansion.
How has “Guardians of the Galaxy” influenced diversity and creativity in Marvel offerings? Our commentator reflects on the legacy of the film trilogy as the last volume debuts in theaters.
The first writers’ strike in 15 years comes down to an all-too-familiar dispute in Hollywood: How much are writers worth?
Harlan Crow, the same GOP donor who gave luxury gifts to Justice Clarence Thomas, also paid private school tuition for a child Mr. Thomas raised. The latest revelation raises more questions about Supreme Court ethics and disclosure requirements.
Two Democrats and two Republicans in the Senate are working together to introduce legislation that would protect children from the dark corners of the online world. The bipartisan bill would prevent children under the age of 13 from using social media.
Four separate investigations have been recently launched against the HDP and other Kurdish-focused organizations.
Leaked documents reviewed by MintPress reveal how The British Home Office has been clandestinely spying on refugees' smartphones under the guise of "combatting human trafficking."
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis on Thursday met with Polish Ambassador to Lithuania Konstanty Radziwià âà â and raised the issue of the Polish state awards given to Waldemar Tomaszewski and Stanislaw Pieszko, the 15min.lt news website reported on Friday.
What are the implications of the UN’s Global Digital Compact?
Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) calls on the authorities in Manipur to review its decision to suspend mobile internet in the state and to comply with Supreme Court of India’s guidelines on internet shutdowns.
Last year BMW took ample heat for its plans to turn heated seats into a costly $18 per month subscription in numerous countries. As we noted at the time, BMW is already including the hardware in new cars and adjusting the sale price accordingly. So it’s effectively charging users a new, recurring fee to enable technology that€ already exists in the car and consumers already paid for.
Snoop Dogg has commented on the Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike, saying music artists should do something similar.€ Writers are on strike and seeking fairer pay in the streaming era. On a panel earlier this week, Snoop Dogg couldn’t help weigh in.
A California bill is taking aim at the US’s largest ticket seller, whose position of dominance of the market has often left concertgoers frustrated at the prices and availability of tickets.
From the company name of an appellant alone it can generally not be derived that the appellant does not meet the conditions of Rule 6(4,5) EPC for payment of the reduced appeal fee.
SACEPO Working Party on Guidelines discusses users’ comments and improvements
Unified added 9 new PATROLL contests, with a $2,000 cash prize for each, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned by Monument Peak Ventures, an NPE and Dominion Harbor entity. The contests will all end on June 30, 2023. Please visit PATROLL for more information or click on each link below.
Via Licensing and MPEG LA have joined forces to launch a new patent pool, Via Licensing Alliance (Via LA), which will consolidate a large portfolio of patents and IP licensing programmes, as well as the pools already existing under the umbrella of each brand.
A jury has officially cleared Live Nation and Ticketmaster of liability in an over $120 million patent infringement suit.>
The USPTO refused to register the mark CHICKEN SCRATCH for "beer" on the ground of likely confusion with the identical mark registered for "restaurant services." Applicant R.S. Lipman argued that the cited mark is weak because it describes registrant's services, which provide "chicken dishes made from scratch." The Board pooh-poohed that argument, but what about the "something more" requirement? Did the USPTO clear that hurdle? In re R.S. Lipman Brewing Company, LLC, Serial No. 88209633 (May 3, 2023) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Michael B. Adlin).
Ed Sheeran is celebrating his success in an acrimonious copyright infringement litigation lawsuit with brand-new material. He’ll lead this year’s offering of Apple Music Live performances, too. Apple says Ed Sheeran will perform his new album in full for the first time on Apple Music and Apple TV+ on May 10.
The Grammy-winning singer stood on top of a car in Soho while belting out some of his biggest hits such as "Thinking Out Loud" and "Perfect."
“I am just a guy with a guitar who loves writing music for people to enjoy. I am not and will never allow myself to be a piggy bank for anyone to shake,” Sheeran said.