Ladies and gentlemen, tech enthusiasts, and Linux lovers, prepare to be blown away by the latest offering from the Kubuntu Focus Team. They've outdone themselves yet again, bringing forth the M2 GEN 5 laptop, a true game-changer in the world of portable computing. With its remarkable hardware upgrades and a price that won't break the bank, this Kubuntu notebook is set to leave Windows users green with envy. Bid farewell to mediocre CPUs, folks.
Bcachefs hits a major milestone, how the Red Hat cuts impact Fedora, Plasma 6 plans, and the software update bricking EV batteries.
This series looks at the best free and open source alternatives to products and services offered by Microsoft.
Microsoft Calculator is a simple yet powerful calculator that includes standard, scientific, programmer, and graphing calculator functionality, as well as a set of converters between various units of measurement and currencies.
Calculator is open source software (published under the MIT License), but it’s not available for Linux. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
Install WordPress with Docker, Nginx, Apache with SSL . In this guide you are going to learn how to make a best performance setup with Docker, Docker Compose, Nginx, Apache, PHP 8.1, MariaDB and Let's Encrypt to run WordPress on Ubuntu 22.04.
Having a problem with PulseAudio and are not able to connect the latest pair of Bluetooth, then you must try to disable and enable the Pipewire audio server over PulseAudio to mitigate the issue.
Working on a different architecture from my Laptop means that I am invariably working on a remote machine. My current development can be done on an Ampere AltraMax machine, which means I have 80 processors available; quite a nice benefit when doing a Linux Kernel compile that can use all of the processors available.
Because the machine is a shared resource out of out lab, I want to make sure I can recreate my work there on another machine; this one could be reclaimed or powered down due to lab priorities. Thus, all my remote work is done in git, and I use the ssh protocol to pull changes from my work server to my laptop fairly regularly…whenever I feel I have valuable work that could be potentially lost.
Ever since Fedora 25 boldly introduced the Wayland graphics stack by default in 2016, it's been installed as the primary option in several Linux distros.
Nmap, which stands for Network Mapper, is an open-source tool that has become a cornerstone for network administrators, cybersecurity professionals, and enthusiasts worldwide.
This interview with Frans de Jonge of KOReader continues our interview series, which highlights work by developers who choose GNU licenses. We hope you enjoy!
If you have an idea of a project that may be good to feature in an upcoming interview, please consider adding it to the LibrePlanet wiki page for possible interview candidates.
Just to be clear, KOReader wasn't created by me, but by Hans-Werner (aka HW). I first started contributing to the project in 2014 when I decided to acquire a Kobo Aura H2O. I purchased the device because I was impressed by the display hardware. However, I found Kobo's stock software worse than I expected at displaying PDFs. But, by this time, I'd done my research and knew about KOReader, which I predicted, after some modifications, could function on Kobo devices. Consequently, my first contribution to the project was to make it work on the H2O.
BSDNow episode 507 has an interview with me. We talked about OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems, Run Your Own Mail Server, the writing business, ChatGPT, and detritus. At least, that’s the topic list Benedict sent me before the interview. I have no idea how far astray this talk went.
openSUSE MicroOS, a well-suited distro for running container workloads, is designed to provide a minimal footprint and improved security while offering efficient management and updates. It follows the immutable approach, utilizing the transactional update model, where system updates are atomic and reversible.
In other words, if an update fails or causes issues, the system can be easily rolled back to the previous working state, ensuring high reliability and minimizing downtime.
openSUSE MicroOS and Fedora Silverblue are the two brightest shining stars in the enterprise segment of the immutable Linux distributions when it comes to container workloads, so any change related to them causes widespread interest in the Linux community.
Red Hat has released version 9.2 of its enterprise Linux distro, which is free for existing customers with current contracts. As usual, there are a load of recompiled rebuilds to choose from as well.
RHEL 9.2 is the latest biannual update to IBM's enterprise Linux distribution. It's a minor point upgrade, bringing various subcomponents to slightly more recent versions.
Hello áommunity! The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is proud to announce the general availability of AlmaLinux OS 8.8 codenamed “Sapphire Caracal”!
Red Hat OpenShift on AWS (ROSA), is a fully managed turn-key application platform that's jointly engineered and supported by Red Hat and Amazon Web Services (AWS). A fully integrated and managed application platform like ROSA helps you get faster time to value, allowing you to focus on the things that matter most to your business and your customers without worrying about running a complex platform.
In a strange twist of history, Google finally woke and thought "I know what we need to do! We need to make a TABLET!".
So some time soon in 2023, Google will release "The tablet that only Google could make", the Pixel Tablet.
Having owned a Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e for a few years, I was very curious to see how this would pan out and especially whether it would be easier to flash than the Samsung. As an aside, I figured I would give that a shot, and within a few days managed to completely brick the device. Awesome. See gts4lvwifi for the painful details of that.
In any case, Google made a tablet. I own a Pixel phone and I'm moderately happy with it. It's easy to flash with CalyxOS, maybe this is the promise land of tablets?
It may continue to see temperatures of up to 37C for at least three straight days on lesser rain.
ADAV-Weimar (Afghan-German Doctors Association) and GNU Solidario have formalized a agreement to implement GNU Health for local and remote physicians to improve the medical care of the people in Afghanistan.
ADAV-Weimar (Afghan-German Doctors Association) is a registered voluntary association in Germany, founded in 2004 and counts with the support of over 150 health professionals from around the world. The organization provides scientific and practical help with establishing medical facilities and efficient healthcare in Afghanistan. It supports with building small but efficient Special Clinics and practices knowledge transfer by training Afghani doctors and medical staff and providing telemedicine. Furthermore, ADAV Weimar in co-operation with German E-Learning specialist Lecturio and partner Universities in Afghanistan has established an E-Learning program for medical students that provides free access to content prepared by awarded lectures from world class. Thus, ADAV-Weimar has become an inherent part of the international relations of all medical faculties in Afghanistan.
Greetings all,
I would like to self-nominate as the new GCC MIPS maintainer. Matthew Fortune is listed in MAINTAINERS as the current maintainer of GCC's MIPS Port. However, it has been years since he left MIPS Technologies and had since been inactive.
I currently work for CIP United Inc., which is the exclusive licensor and operator of MIPS IPs in China, Hong Kong, and Macau. Part of our operations include maintaining open source software solutions for MIPS and we are looking to continue maintaining GCC's MIPS port. As the director of the company's software ecosystem department, I have been working with GCC and contributed code to the upstream repository since 2021. In September 2021, I was given write access to the repository:
https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=author&s=YunQiang+Su
Please let me know about your thoughts on this proposal.
Best Regards, YunQiang Su
Colombia’s president announced that the children had been found alive after the May 1 crash. But now it’s unclear if rescuers had actually made contact with them.
The border is open.
A twist in the tale.
More effective than anything else.
Ok, sure, it looks fun ...
Geoff Holland–What motivated your career as a wildlife photographer? Tom Mangelsen—Well, it goes back to my youngest years. I was born and raised in Grand Island, in South-Central Nebraska, not far from the Platte River. That probably had the biggest influence on what I do today.
Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana have all seen dramatic improvements in reading scores by investing in "science-based" reading instruction.
Children feel happier – and smarter – after time spent in nature. But screen time has only increased since the pandemic. Missouri is one of the states working to get students outside.
Participating in the study for the second time in 2021, Turkey received 496 points, just below the scale centerpoint of 500, in the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study, measuring the literacy skills of 4th grade students.
More than 33 million people in the United States are driving vehicles that contain a potentially deadly threat: Airbag inflators that in rare cases can explode in a collision and spew shrapnel. Few of them know it. And because of a dispute between federal safety regulators and an airbag parts manufacturer, they aren’t likely to find out anytime soon. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is demanding that the manufacturer, ARC Automotive of Knoxville, Tennessee, recall 67 million inflators that could explode with such force as to blow apart a metal canister and expel shrapnel. But ARC is refusing to do so, setting up a possible court fight with the agency.
The largest clouds will always have to buy X86 processors from Intel or AMD so long as the enterprises of the world – and the governments and educational institutions who also consume a fair number of servers – have X86 applications that are not easily ported to Arm or RISC-V architectures.
A new history of the Apple II charts how computers became unavoidable fixtures of our daily lives.
Private firms apologized for not doing more to prevent the release of untreated sewage into rivers and seas and pledged to invest 10 billion pounds to fix the problem.
The Theranos founder, who was convicted last year of defrauding investors, lost her bid to remain free on bail while she appeals her conviction.
The Latvian Saeima moved forward with legislation designed to reduce the negative health impacts of smoking and drinking on€ Thursday, May 18.
Rhode Island Gov. Daniel McKee has signed a bill into law that would let state funds be used to pay for health insurance plans that cover state workers and Medicaid recipients seeking abortions. The signing ceremony was held Thursday almost immediately after the Rhode Island Senate approved the measure. The 24-12 vote followed less than an hour of debate. The democratic governor says he is proud to sign the bill and include related funding in his state budget proposal. Opponents say the state shouldn’t require state taxpayers to cover the cost of abortions.
Holland America’s Nieuw Amsterdam, a cruise ship that, according to the company’s site, “celebrates historic New York City with an inspired design and art collection,” is currently traveling along the western coast of Canada for a 14-day tour to Alaska and back.
A committee of experts voted in favor of a new shot administered to pregnant women, one in a series of new ways to arm the very young against a life-threatening virus.
Clinical trials are underway right now.
A threat actor who has been known to target Microsoft Corp. products in the past has started using a combination of phishing and SIM-swapping attacks to take over Microsoft Azure administrative accounts to gain access to Azure Virtual Machines.
A lawyer for Twitter owner Elon Musk accused Microsoft of misusing the service’s data and demanded an audit from the software giant
A lawyer for Twitter owner Elon Musk accused Microsoft of misusing the service’s data and demanded an audit from the software giant. The letter primarily addresses a seemingly narrow set of alleged infractions by Microsoft in drawing information from Twitter’s database of tweets.€ But the move could foreshadow more serious developments.
A lawyer for Twitter owner Elon Musk accused Microsoft of misusing the service’s data and demanded an audit from the software giant. While the letter addresses a seemingly narrow use of information from Twitter's database of tweets, the move could foreshadow more serious developments. Musk has previously accused Microsoft and its partner OpenAI in a tweet of “illegally” using Twitter data to develop AI systems. “Lawsuit time,” the Twitter owner wrote in an April tweet.
Today, Apple released macOS, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS, and Safari updates.
The tech giant has publicly released its latest A.I. technology so people can build their own chatbots. Rivals like Google say that approach can be dangerous.
Kubernetes has emerged as the leading open source container orchestration system. According to CNCF's latest Cloud Native Survey, up to 96% of organizations are using or evaluating Kubernetes. But the same report also highlighted that the container orchestration tool is going “under the hood.”
At first, I didn’t plan to write an article about the problems with bug bounty programs. This was supposed to be a standard technical blogpost describing an interesting bug in the Linux Kernel i915 driver allowing for a linear Out-Of-Bound read and write access (CVE-2023-28410). Moreover, I’m not even into bug bounty programs, mostly because I don’t need to, since I consider myself lucky enough to have a satisfying, stable and well-paid job. That being said, in my spare time, apart from developing and maintaining the Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG) project, I still like doing vulnerability research and exploit development not only for my employer, and from time to time it’s good to update your resume with new CVE numbers. Before I started to have a stable income, bug bounties didn’t exist and most of the quality vulnerability research outcome was paying the bills via brokers (let’s leave aside the moral questions arising from this). However, nowadays we have bug bounty programs…
For the last decade (a bit longer), bug bounty programs gained a lot of deserved traction. There are security researchers who rely on bug bounties as their primary(!) source of income. Such cases are an irrefutable proof of the success of the bug bounty programs. However, before the industry ended up where it is now, it went through a long and interesting route.
A threat actor tracked as Lemon Group has control over millions of smartphones distributed worldwide thanks to preinstalled Guerrilla malware.
Cisco has released patches for critical vulnerabilities in small business switches for which public proof-of-concept (PoC) code exists.
Researcher publishes PoC tool that exploits unpatched KeePass vulnerability to retrieve the master password from memory.
Google is updating its vulnerability reports rating system to encourage researchers to provide more details on the reported bugs.
Phones from major brands including Motorola, Nokia and Samsung have a flaw that could be exploited by criminals to unlock the screen and steal personal information.
Analysts and lawmakers are concerned about a new TSA program that instructs passengers to insert their IDs into a machine and takes a pictures of them.
The Federal Trade Commission charged that the developer of the fertility app Premom deceived users by sharing their sensitive personal information...
Natasha Lomas reports: Google has prevailed against another U.K. class-action style privacy lawsuit after a London court dismissed a lawsuit...
The Federal Trade Commission today issued a warning that the increasing use of consumers’ biometric information and related technologies...
The annual parade marks the unification of the city after Israel captured East Jerusalem in 1967. Israelis see it as a celebration, but Palestinians consider it an insult, and it was marred by incitement against Arabs.
Student planned to sell the gas to pay an arbitrarily imposed fee so he could continue going to school.
As American-led peace efforts flounder, experts warn that Sudan risks spiraling into a state of anarchy akin to its most chaotic neighbors.
An 88-year-old Australian doctor held captive by Islamic extremists in West Africa for more than seven years has been freed
2023 is the year of South Africa's presidency of the BRICS. This is the third time South Africa has had the privilege.
Syrian President Bashar Assad arrived on Thursday in Saudi Arabia to attend a regional summit that is expected to seal Syria's return to the Arab fold, marking his first visit to the oil-rich kingdom since Syria’s conflict began in 2011.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will attend his first Arab League summit in 12 years in the Saudi Arabian capital of Jeddah on Friday. His government’s controversial return to the bloc comes as Arab states seek to curtail Syria’s thriving trade in Captagon, a highly addictive amphetamine known as the “poor man’s cocaine”.
President Bashar al-Assad was shunned over atrocities committed in Syria’s civil war, but on Friday he is expected to join an annual summit of Arab leaders for the first time in 13 years.
Several FBI employees have accused the bureau of politicization in congressional testimony, a day after the agency announced two of them had seen their security clearances revoked over concerns about how their views of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack affected their work
As India prepares to host a meeting of tourism officials from the Group of 20 in the disputed region of Kashmir, authorities have deployed elite commandos and stepped up security in the region’s largest city
They€ spoke of the importance of the bilateral relationship between Japan and the U.S. in safeguarding "peace" and "security" in the Indo-Pacific area.
The security situation in Yemen has eased recently. However, sporadic exchanges of fire still took place in Taiz and other places, causing civilian casualties.
Cameroon is deploying troops to its borders in response to a resurgence of Boko Haram attacks in the country’s Far North region. In April, the military said hundreds of Boko Haram fighters had invaded the Mayo Moskota district along the northern border with Nigeria and were hiding in the bush.
Reports have emerged of a rare stoush over the usually cordially bipartisan Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS).
Group of 7 leaders are prepared to celebrate the results of a novel effort to stabilize global oil markets and punish Moscow.
Some 1,100 Russian citizens are seeking asylum in Finland due to the threat of being conscripted into military service in Russia, according to Migri.
The Kremlin says the freezing of Finland's bank accounts in Russia was a forced retaliatory step, according to news agency Reuters.
The Russian army is innovating its tanks by turning them into artillery placements and outfitting them with anti-aircraft and naval guns.
Under the Black Sea Grain Initiative, over 30 million tons of food have been exported so far.
Kyrgyz lawmaker Gulya Kojogulova has called on the country’s security agencies to look into the avito.ru website in Russia, which offers to buy Kyrgyz citizenship for Russian and Belarusian citizens born before the official dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991.
Moldovan President Maia Sandu says membership in the European Union is the tiny country's best way to protect itself against potential Russian aggression and its current status of neutrality can always be revisited at some point.
ViÃÂiūnà ³ Grupė (ViÃÂiūnai Group), controlled by Kaunas Mayor Visvaldas Matijošaitis and his partner Liudas Skierus, is planning to renovate its factory in Sovetsk, a town in Russia’s exclave of Kaliningrad.
A new report pinpoints the origins of the arms the junta relies on to retain power.
A former commander for Russia's Wagner mercenary group who fled to Norway has decided to return to Russia. Andrei Medvedev said on May 17 he had asked the Russian Embassy in Oslo for help as "it hasn't worked out" in Norway.
US lawmakers have introduced legislation that would force carmakers to maintain AM radio compatibility in all new cars at no additional charge to listeners.
Waves as high as three feet could hit Vanuatu, the U.S. tsunami warning system said, after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake was recorded near New Caledonia.
Aid groups in the war-torn country say they are having trouble gaining access to areas affected by the storm without approval from the junta.
The problem with bromoform.
South Korea will send a 21-member team of government experts to Japan next week to visit the Fukushima nuclear power plant where they will review contentious Japanese plans to release treated but slightly radioactive water into the sea
TOKYO (Reuters) - A team of around 30 South Korean experts will visit Japan during May 22-25 to inspect facilities related to water release from...
The UK Government has said Japanese businesses are set to invest €£17.7bn ($22bn) into the UK, including a potential €£10bn ($12.4bn) from Marubeni for its offshore wind and low-carbon hydrogen projects.
Three Stanford researchers say they have found an eco-friendly and cost-effective way to make ammonia. This new method could replace the Haber-Bosch process, which requires 2 percent of the world’s energy.
California legislative committees in the Assembly and Senate blocked two big climate bills Thursday
California legislative committees in the Assembly and Senate blocked two big climate bills Thursday. One would have made the state's greenhouse gas emission reduction targets more ambitious. Another would have allowed people to sue oil companies over health problems if they meet certain criteria. Those were among dozens of bills that did not survive hearings in the chambers' public finance committees. That means they not likely to be passed this year. Other proposals that were blocked include legislation to ban people under 21 from using cellphones while driving and a bill to allow people struggling with suicidal thoughts to voluntarily register themselves on a “do not sell” list for firearms.
A Wisconsin Native American tribe is concerned an Enbridge oil pipeline will cause a massive oil spill due to erosion and proximity to a river. Attorneys are set to argue that the energy company should shut the pipeline down to a federal judge on May 18.
The high-profile chefs behind the celebrity magnet and several other restaurants have leveled troubling accusations at each other, including abuse and animal torture.
More than half of the world's largest lakes and reservoirs are losing water — and climate change and human consumption are the main drivers, a new large-scale study warns.
More than half of the world’s largest lakes and reservoirs are dwindling and placing humanity’s future water security at risk, with climate change and unsustainable consumption the main culprits, a study said Thursday.
For decades, the top brass at ExxonMobil have occupied a sprawling executive suite filled with fine art, private chefs, and other c-suite perks—set far from where the rank and file work.
Investors, executives and economists are preparing contingency plans as they consider the turmoil that would result from a default in the $24 trillion U.S. Treasury market.
With more people working from home, office vacancy rate is at a 30-year high. That’s bad for city downtowns – and tax revenues.
As the Biden administration and Republican congressional leaders seek a fiscal deal, our graphics put the U.S. debt, and the debt limit, in context.
An analysis of the most countries indebted to China – including Pakistan, Kenya, Zambia, and Laos – found that their debt to the superpower consumes an ever-growing amount of revenue needed to provide even basic services to their residents.
The decision comes after data last week showed that annual headline inflation had slowed for a third consecutive month in April.
GDP grew 0.4% in April compared to March and 2.6% in annual terms, according to numbers published Thursday by Mexico's statistics agency.
Xi Jinping called on China and Central Asia to “fully unleash” their potential in trade, economic and infrastructure cooperation Friday in a speech to heads of state from the strategically vital region.
BT Group is planning to slash up to 55,000 jobs in the next five to seven years as it makes greater use of technology, including artificial intelligence, to cut costs and simplify its business.
Economist Mustafa Sönmez describes this as a move to stop the rush to purchase foreign exchange and gold, but believes that this rush will continue until the election is over.
Facebook parent Meta isn’t done with job cuts and it is likely to fire 6,000 more employees next week, media reports say.
According to Nick Clegg, the firm’s President of Global Affairs, the third wave of job cuts at Meta will happen next week, says a report by Vox. The layoffs may impact Meta’s business departments and could affect thousands of employees.
“The third wave is going to happen next week. That affects everybody in the biz teams, including in my orgs,” Meta president of global affairs Nick Clegg, was quoted as saying.
The Class of ‘23 is graduating into a shaky economy, with some at Ivy League schools and elsewhere struggling to find employment.
The Fulton County district attorney said most of her staff would work remotely at times, and asked judges not to schedule trials, in the first half of August.
Senator Dianne Feinstein, 89, whose recent bout with shingles included contracting encephalitis, is€ frailer than ever. But she remains unwilling to entertain discussions about leaving the Senate.
Chinese President Xi Jinping hailed a “new era” of ties with Central Asia on Thursday, kicking off a summit Beijing hopes will deepen relations with the strategically vital region.
By Ludovic Ehret Chinese President Xi Jinping will host a Central Asian summit on Thursday, seeking to build regional influence as G7 leaders hold a rival gathering in Japan.
Hong Kong’s top sports federation has reprimanded, in writing, the city’s ice hockey body over a recent anthem mix-up at an international match. However, there will be no cuts to its funding or suspension of its membership.
Xi Jinping of China is meeting with leaders of five countries in Central Asia, a region crucial to his geopolitical ambitions.
The Hong Kong government allocated an extra HK$5 billion to its national security “special fund” in the last financial year, an official document published on Friday has revealed.
Australia is hopeful China will next lift trade sanctions on barley imports in a fresh sign of improving trade relations.€ China’s ambassador to Australia Xiao Qian on Thursday confirmed bans on Australian timber imports worth $600 million, which had been in place since 2020 after Beijing cited quarantine risks, had been lifted.
The 120-seat eatery will serve a growing Chinese civilian population on Woody Island.
Seoul-based foundation honors activist despite visit from Chinese diplomats
Vietnam watches warily as ally Laos edges closer to China, analysts say.
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He said it would help elevate Central Asia to the next level of its development.
Leaders of the Group of Seven advanced economies are generally united in voicing concern about China
The United States has reached a modest trade agreement with Taiwan
As President Erdoßan and main opposition leader Kñlñçdaroßlu gear up for the second round of the presidential election on May 28, we bring you updates on the aftermath of the parliamentary and presidential elections, along with the latest developments leading up to the decisive runoff.
Ahead of the presidential run-off on May 28, the opposition leader appears to have adopted a harsher tone in his campaigning.
>Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay $75 million to settle a case brought forward by women who accused disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, a bank’s client, of sexual abuse.
In this piece, three Libyan civil society representatives give their take on the international community’s role in Libya.
Officials cancel a slew of performances, many by overseas artists, amid a police probe into comic Li Haoshi
The US Supreme Court had its first opportunity to weigh in on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a pivotal internet law that provides liability protection to websites for user-generated content they host. But the justices sidestepped the issue, ruling in favor of Twitter and Google in two bellwether cases…
Today's Twitter v. Taamneh, Inc. involved (to oversimplify slightly) a lawsuit against Twitter based on Twitter's alleged role in helping ISIS by providing it publishing services, and by algorithmically recommending some of ISIS's videos. The lawsuit was brought under the federal Antiterrorism Act, but the Act applied fairly traditional aiding-and-abetting principles, borrowed from the criminal…
The Supreme Court hands Big Tech a win via Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. It means social media companies aren’t liable for the content their users post. Section 230 was defined in 1996, when the internet was still in its infancy.
The narrow rulings concluded the platforms aren’t responsible for bad people using their communication services.
The US Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Twitter is not liable under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act when users post terrorism-related content.
The justices ruled in one case that a law allowing suits for aiding terrorism did not apply to the ordinary activities of social media companies.
Brexit donor Arron Banks entitled to damages over Carole Cadwalladr's Ted Talk, appeal judges have ruled.
The novelist, who was stabbed and gravely wounded at a literary event last year, received an award from the freedom of expression organization.
Salman Rushdie has made an emotional and unexpected return to public life, attending the annual gala of PEN America and giving the event’s final speech as he accepted a special prize, the PEN Centenary Courage Award
Rushdie was clearly elated to attend the gala, but his voice sounded frailer than it once did and the right frame of his glasses was dark, concealing the eye blinded by his attacker.
Following the publication of an article by the online news portal T24 on a tender won by the cousin of Turkey's Industry and Technology Minister, the editor-in-chief, Doßan Akñn, found himself accused of tarnishing Minister Mustafa Varank's reputation.
Political storms in America and Europe over immigration control, featuring populist and nationalist arguments, mask the perennial nature of migration.
A number of Kazakh activists who planned to hold protest rallies against the government’s plan to introduce visa-free travel for Chinese citizens coming to Kazakhstan have been jailed or fined ahead of the China-Central Asian summit in the ancient city of Xi'an.
Law students and young lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a Staff Correspondent for JURIST in Kabul reports on how the human rights situation in the country continues to deteriorate. For privacy and security reasons, we are withholding our Correspondent’s name.
Pakistani police continued their siege around the home of Imran Khan in Lahore as a 24-hour deadline given to the former ex-premier to hand over suspects allegedly sheltered inside was about to expire on May 18.
The wife of Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza voiced deep concern Wednesday at his failing health behind bars, hailing his courage in the face of an act of "cynical vengeance" by Moscow.
Over 100 human rights groups sent a letter Thursday to the Mexican Congress asking state legislatures to increase and improve legal capacity protections by reforming their civil codes and notary public legislation to provide alternative guardianships for vulnerable groups, particularly older people and people with disabilities.
A Hong Kong court has dismissed a jailed pro-democracy publisher’s legal bid in his fight to use a British lawyer in his landmark national security trial
Security officials had barred his British lawyer from representing him in a landmark national security trial.
Hong Kong’s Court of First Instance has rejected attempts by pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai to challenge a decision made by Hong Kong’s national security committee relating to the admission of an overseas lawyer for his trial. Last month, the media mogul applied for permission to file a judicial review.
Local authorities, armed with heavy equipment, trucks and cranes, demolished the awnings and outside terraces of a dozen cafes in the town of Ekbatan, a suburb of Tehran, during the morning of May 14. The cafes are known to be a meeting place and organising ground for Iran’s “Woman, Life, Freedom” protest movement, attracting youth and and young women who resist Islamic dress regulations. Police oversaw the demolition, threatening to arrest any civilians or cafe owners who protested against the destruction.
As Big Tech’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) season approaches, Amazon shareholders are pushing for changes to protect human rights. Here are the shareholder proposals we support.
This week, the Federal Circuit disclosed further documents from a special committee established to evaluate the potential removal of Judge Pauline Newman from active duty due to a suspected mental or physical disability that could affect her judicial capabilities. The order, dated May 16, 2023, gives a more comprehensive discussion on concerns about Judge Newman’s performance, including signs of memory issues or confusion and diminished productivity. The document also outlines an investigation involving requested medical assessments and records, which Judge Newman has declined to provide.
The committee, formed on March 24, 2023, and comprising of Chief Judge Moore, Judge Prost, and Judge Taranto, is tasked to scrutinize the complaint, deliver their findings, and propose recommendations.
In a unanimous opinion delivered by Justice Gorsuch, the Supreme Court has affirmed the Federal Circuit’s decision invalidating Amgen’s functionally claimed genus of monoclonal antibodies. The Court held that Amgen’s patent claims were invalid due to a lack of enablement, as they failed to provide adequate guidance for making and using the claimed antibodies.
The Italian Government has agreed with France and Germany to set up a branch of the central division of the Unified Patent Court in Milan.€ This has been announced by the Italian ministry of foreign affairs and international cooperation.
The alliance between Gide and Regimbeau, which the firms’ partners announced yesterday at INTA in Singapore, relates exclusively to patent litigation at the UPC, as well as at national courts.
A new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, was added seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 8,195,468, owned by Dialect, LLC, an NPE. The ‘468 patent generally relates to a mobile system that includes speech-based and non-speech-based interfaces for telematics applications. The patent has been asserted against Amazon and Samsung.
The contest will expire on July 16, 2023. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.
On May 11, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 11,373,474 owned by Liberty Access Technologies Licensing LLC, an NPE and Empire IP LLC entity.
Paul Deegan believes it is in Google and Facebook's "self-interest" to have news on their platforms.
Canada news boss on what publishers in other countries can learn from the Online News Act.
In a ruling that may have major implications for the music industry – especially amid the advent of artificial intelligence – the Supreme Court has determined that the licensing of Andy Warhol artwork depicting Prince, itself based upon a more than 40-year-old copyright-protected photograph, isn’t transformative enough to constitute fair use.
* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.