New features in darktable 4.4 include the ability to define multiple automatically applied presets against a single processing module, revamped default parameters of various processing modules, image metadata-based default parameters for many modules, and support for chromatic adaptation workflow setting and the Sigmoid display transform module in the default workflow configuration option.
Furthermore, the Scopes module received a new color harmony overlay option in RYB vectorscope mode with support for nine different color harmonies, and a new right-click-and-drag global operation promises to allow image rotation to be corrected without the need to first open the Rotate and Perspective module.
The GStreamer team is pleased to announce another bug fix release in the stable 1.22 release series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework! This release only contains bugfixes and security fixes and it should be safe to update from 1.22.x.
A document processor is a document preparation system. We recommend the best document processors for Linux.
In the realm of digital entertainment, Jellyfin Media Server stands as a powerful, flexible, and open-source tool. Its purpose? To manage, stream, and organize multimedia content with ease.
In the universe of software development, Package Managers are pivotal tools, simplifying the process of managing system libraries, dependencies, and even the software itself. Navigating this cosmos, you'll likely encounter two prominent constellations: NPM (Node Package Manager) and Yarn.
Restarting your Ubuntu computer is not some Sisyphean task and is quite easy using its graphical user interface. But what if you are using the command line server of Ubuntu and want to shut it down or restart using the terminal?
This tutorial will help you add mail merge features to Inkscape by using NextGenerator extension. Its purpose is to automatically generate items like cards intended for different recipients with different photos, colors and more. Licensed under GNU GPL just like Inkscape, it is historically a successor to an extension named InkGenerator. Now let's do it.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install VeraCrypt on Fedora 38. In today's digital landscape, data security, and encryption play a crucial role in safeguarding sensitive information. VeraCrypt, a powerful open-source disk encryption software, provides robust encryption capabilities for protecting your data.
Are you looking to install Google Chrome on Debian 12? Follow our comprehensive tutorial and enjoy faster and more secure web browsing.
Elasticsearch is a real-time, distributed, and scalable search engine based on Lucene, enabling users to store, search, and analyze massive volumes of data swiftly. It's often used for log and event data analysis in IT environments. In this guide, we will explain how to install and configure Elasticsearch on Ubuntu 22.04.
How do I create an HTTPS server forNodeJS? Then let's learn how to create an HTTPS server because this is the most frequently asked question by Node.js developers.€ HTTPS is a secure protocol€ for web applications where all communication between your browser and the server is€ encrypted and decrypted only€ by using a€ private€ key.
Learn about using one of the basic but essential Linux commands that is used for switching directories.
We come across files and folder names very regularly. In most of the cases file/folder name are related to the content of the file/folder and starts with number and characters.
Alpha-Numeric file name are pretty common and very widely used, but this is not the case when we have to deal with file/folder name that has special characters in them.
One of the best-known tools in the community for cracking passwords is "John the Ripper," so let's learn how to download and install it on your Linux, macOS, and Windows systems. John the Ripper is open-source software that comes preinstalled in Kali Linux, but you can also install it on your favourite operating system.
Learn how to use Janitor AI for free in this comprehensive guide. We will cover everything you need to know, from what Janitor AI is to how to use it for free.
Learn how to rename a file in linux using commands like mv and rename. Effortlessly manage and organize your files by following these step-by-step instructions.
Having a clutter-free file system is essential for smooth operation and efficient navigation in Linux. It's common to end up with empty files and directories during daily operations, and they can sometimes cause confusion or take up unnecessary space.
Let's have a look into some of the amazing bash scrip examples that€ can be handy for you. Bash scripts are normally used for executing a shell command or running multiple commands together and also for the automation of the work.
Ubuntu may come with Snap by default but you could still enjoy the Flatpak universal packages on it.
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A few weeks ago, I posted about sngbench, a shell script to measure syslog-ng performance. The performance of syslog-ng is influenced by many factors, including the hardware and OS it runs on, and syslog-ng itself. This blog summarizes some of my findings using the script.
A few weeks ago, I posted about sngbench, a shell script to measure syslog-ng performance. The performance of syslog-ng is influenced by many factors, including the hardware and OS it runs on, and syslog-ng itself. This blog summarizes some of my findings using the script.
Before you begin
The sngbench.sh script was born several years ago, but we made it public only last month. This is because it was ugly as hell and difficult to use, but now, after a refactor, it is ready for public use. It is a synthetic benchmark, so while it is not fully realistic, it is good to measure peak performance, and compare how your choice of hardware, OS or syslog-ng version and configuration influences syslog-ng performance.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Etherpad on Rocky Linux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, Etherpad is a valuable tool for teams that rely heavily on text-based content.
Learn how to disable auto-updates and upgrade from unattended-upgrades in Ubuntu 22.04 and later to have more control over system updates.€ Unattended Upgrades€ software helps us auto-update and upgrade system packages in the background without user interaction to keep up to date with the latest features and security patches.
Most video games, whether on console or PC, have standardized around either a keyboard and mouse or an analog controller of some sort, with very little differences between various offerings from the likes of Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, or even Valve. This will get most of us through almost all video games, but for those looking to take their gameplay up a notch or who are playing much more complex games, certain specialized controllers are available, but they might not meet everyone’s specific needs. Thanks to this custom, modular keyboard anyone should be able to make exactly the controller they need.
Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5, versioned 5.27.6.
Plasma 5.27 was released in February 2023 with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds two months' worth of new translations and fixes from KDE's contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and include...
KeePassXC is a password manager. Homepage:
Project page:
https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc
I compiled KeePassXC in OpenEmbedded/Yocto, here is the recipe:
As well as lots of dependencies. The package repository has been updated, and in PKGget click the "Configure" button then "Update" then update 'Packages-oe-kirkstone-official' database file. I did that, then chose to install KeePassXC: [...]
Secrets, formerly known as PasswordSafe, project is here:
https://github.com/falkalexander/PasswordSafe
There is also a Windows "Password Safe", which has no connection with this one. Secrets is compatible with KeePass database, and requires gtk4.
The latest version is 7.3; however, it requires a later 'glib' package than is in Easy. So I went back to 6.5.
It requires a few python3 modules, and also 'cracklib' and 'libpwquality' that I compiled in OE.
It started OK, created a database, but when attempted to create an entry, it crashed. So much for that.
Hello, I've been talking a lot about Qubes OS lately but I never explained why I got hooked to its offer. It's time to tell why I like it.
While the change request to add reference images was being reviewed, I started working on ticket #18415, which suggests adding shear and perspective transformations. I decided to implement the perspective transformation since I still need to figure out which way I’m going to implement the shear transformation. Hopefully the experience in implementing the perspective transformation will give me information that will help me decide how to implement the shear transformation.
We review the fresh SparkyLinux 7 “Orion Belt”, bringing the latest and greatest Debian 12 packages.
SparkyLinux, the renowned Debian-based desktop Linux distribution, is back with its latest release, SparkyLinux 7 “Orion Belt.” This major release is coming up after almost two years of development since SparkyLinux 6.0. This eagerly awaited version combines the strengths of Debian 12’s stability with SparkyLinux’s cutting-edge features, promising an exceptional user experience.
Let’s delve into the details of this major release and find out its performance and other distro aspects.
The latest major version of the€ GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), 13.1, was released in April 2023. Like every major GCC release, this version brings many additions, improvements, bug fixes, and new features. GCC 13 is already the system compiler in Fedora 38.€ Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) users will get GCC 13 in the Red Hat GCC Toolset (RHEL 8 and RHEL 9). It's also possible to try GCC 13 on godbolt.org and similar web pages.
Like the article I wrote about GCC 10 and GCC 12, this article describes only new features implemented in the C++ front end; it does not discuss developments in the C++ language itself. Interesting changes in the standard C++ library that comes with GCC 13 are described in a separate blog post: New C features in GCC 13
I'm in Brno, working from the office for a few days after the end of DevConf.CZ. It was a great conference, good to see people and feel some positive energy after all the stuff with RH layoffs and so on. It was really well attended, and there were a lot of useful talks. I presented on the current state of openQA and Fedora CI, with Miroslav Vadkerti kindly covering the Fedora CI stuff (thanks to Miro for that). The segmented talk video hasn't been updated yet, but you can watch it from the recorded live stream starting here (at 6:04:32).
A networking device pagure.io uses to communicate with the world needs an urgent reboot to correct errors. pagure.io will be down for 10-20min as this device is fixed.
The highly anticipated release of Linux Mint 21.2 is almost here, and the testing copy of Linux Mint 21.2 BETA is now available for download for three official versions ("Cinnamon", "Xfce", and "MATE"). Download links to the BETA copy are at the end of the article.
You can now download the Linux Mint 21.2 Beta from official third-party mirrors. The Mint project is still to officially announce the release, but we believe it will do so very soon.
A little over a year ago, Maker Mac70 set out to build an inexpensive DIY version of a volumetric display — a system which enables users to view objects in 3D, without the need for special glasses or extremely fancy components.
Was there anything more exciting than watching AT-ATs walk across Hoth towards the Rebel base for the first time? Those massive machines were iconic and helped to solidify The Empire Strikes Back as the best movie set in the Star Wars universe.
Today, the Zephyr€® Project announced that Analog Devices (ADI) has joined as a Platinum member as well as Arduino and Technology Innovation Institute (TII) as Silver members. Zephyr, an open source project at the Linux Foundation that builds a secure, connected and flexible RTOS for future-proof and resource-constrained devices, is easy to deploy and manage. It is a proven RTOS ecosystem created by developers for developers.
The real-time and scheduling micro-conference joins these two intrinsically connected communities to discuss the next steps together.
Over the past decade, many parts of PREEMPT_RT have been included in the official Linux codebase. Examples include real-time mutexes, high-resolution timers, lockdep, ftrace, RCU_PREEMPT, threaded interrupt handlers, and more. The number of patches that need integration has been significantly reduced, and the rest is mature enough to make their way into mainline Linux.
The scheduler is at the core of Linux performance. With different topologies and workloads, giving the user the best experience possible is challenging, from low latency to high throughput and from small power-constrained devices to HPC, where CPU isolation is critical.
The following accomplishments have been made as a result of last year’s micro-conference: [...]
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In this chapter of the Bash Basics series, learn about using variables in Bash scripts.
While looking through my box-of-hardware-bits for some stuff I need to put together my RISC-V build farm (a topic for another day), I found an NFC card reader from some time ago. O yeah, I remember wanting to do a little project with that at some point. No time like the present! But just getting to a first commit takes so much boilerplate.
When I try to compile a program on Alpine Linux, it fails with the following error:
app.c:1:10: fatal error: ncurses.h: No such file or directory
1 | #include <ncurses.h>
| ^~~~~~~~~~~
"Our sergeant knew what lay ahead for us new guys – as well as a way to help us face that future," our essayist writes.
Some rules of English you know, some you don’t, and – despite what you might have been taught in grammar school – some aren’t rules at all.
A feud broke out on Twitter over the weekend between popular podcaster Joe Rogan and prominent vaccine researcher Peter Hotez, with the podcaster challenging the scientist to a debate about vaccines in an online skirmish that drew fire from a few billionaires.
But the ages of 10 to 13 are also a crucial period for mastering foundational skills, from multiplication to recognizing a character’s feelings in a short narrative passage.
“The bottom line — these results show that there are troubling gaps in the basic skills of these students,” said Peggy Carr, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, which gives the NAEP exam. “This is a huge-scale challenge that faces the nation.”
Remote school was devastating for many students. In Richmond, Virginia, a plan to switch to a year-round calendar brought promise and pushback.
Broadcom has announced its second generation WiFi 7 chipsets: the BCM6765 residential WiFi 7 access point chip, the BCM47722 enterprise WiFi 7 access point chip with dual IoT radios that support simultaneous operation for Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), Zigbee, Thread, and Matter protocols, and the BCM4390 low-power Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth, and 802.15.4 combo chip designed for use in mobile devices.
Roughly 1.5 million Americans have lost Medicaid coverage since the COVID-era ban on removing recipients was lifted in April. Many are losing coverage because of a lack of paperwork or old contact information. Critics say the review is too hasty.
Patient-advocacy groups mobilized to demand access to a controversial new drug called Relyvrio. But hasty approval comes at a cost.
A year after persuading Texas lawmakers to buy millions of child identification kits that had no proven record of success, a businessman with a troubled history found an in with the state's attorney general.
Last fall, Kenny Hansmire was tapped by Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton to be part of a coalition to combat opioid abuse that Paxton declared would “be the largest drug prevention, education, abatement and disposal campaign in U.S. history.”
A national registry will be set up to detect and combat deadly workplace respiratory diseases as the federal government seeks to tackle the prevalence of silicosis.€
If passed, the law will require mandatory reporting of the disease which affects nearly one-in-four engineered stone workers in the industry prior to 2018.€
Khutmat Kadyrova, the 20-year-old daughter of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, has been presented with the Order of Chechnya, a state award instituted in honor of her grandfather, Akhmat Kadyrov. The Chechen Minister of Information and Print Akhmed Dudayev announced Kadyrova’s award on Telegram.
Two of my all-time favorite articles about managing one’s energy and time relate to the notion of maintaining “Slack” in one’s life. The first, Slack, by Zvi Mowshowitz, directly describes the Slack concept that I refer to in this post. The second, Sabbath hard and go home, expands on this notion in the context of the author’s Jewish upbringing.
I’ve been wanting to write about this concept for a while, but (ironically) haven’t ever found the time to do so.
Slack (proper noun) is your buffer. It’s your buffer of mental energy, physical energy, and time. It’s the ability to get sick for a day or two without significant interruption to one’s commitments. Slack means you can have an off day without missing an important deadline. Slack allows you to to explore something you’re curious in, without worrying about wasting time. It’s writing a blog post about Slack, when there are assuredly more “valuable” things one could do with one’s time.
OpenAI has repeatedly lobbied European regulators to water down the E.U.’s AI Act—thereby reducing its regulatory burden.€ A new report from Time suggests that despite CEO Sam Altman’s public calls for AI regulation, his company wants to define said regulation. Time examined documents about OpenAI’s engagement with E.U. officials about the law.
Opera One, an innovative web browser that utilizes Artificial Intelligence, is finally here. With its integration of Aria, the first-ever browser AI, Opera One takes browsing to the next level. Aria is easily accessible through a new command line and the browser sidebar, allowing users to tap into a leading generative AI service and stay up-to-date with real-time web information. Opera has been at the forefront of generative AI advancements, aiming to provide users with an exceptional browsing experience that boosts productivity and creativity. Unlike other browser companies, Opera didn't simply add AI services as an afterthought.
I haven’t used the Opera web browser since… Well, forever – but I'm well aware it remains a popular option with folks. Today, June 20, Opera hit version 100 and, through the power of marketing, transforms itself into Opera One.
At this peak moment in the tech world's artificial intelligence craze, anything that tech companies can slap an "artificial intelligence" label on, they will.
Why it matters: The more our understanding of a new technology is distorted by hype, the less thoughtfully we can apply it — and the more likely it is we will cause harm with it.
The big picture: Real advances in machine-learning based pattern- recognition and -completion have sparked a new bubble in tech-industry investment, encouraging companies to apply the "AI" label to anything that moves.
Microsoft to 'streamline' File Explorer menus by removing 'legacy' features from menu.
Microsoft rolled out 63 patches as a part of its June 2023 update for Windows 11 and Windows 10 last Tuesday.
Microsoft is working to address a known issue affecting Outlook for Microsoft 365 customers, causing slow starts and freezes as if Offline Outlook Data Files (OST) [...]
Microsoft recently fixed two vulnerabilities affecting two Azure-related tools that would have allowed hackers to access a victim’s data and make changes to their virtual environment.
FINOS, the fintech open source foundation, Linux Foundation Research, and partners GitHub, Red Hat, and Scott Logic are conducting their third annual survey as part of their ongoing research on open source adoption, contribution, and readiness in the financial services industry.
This article shares insights into learning eBPF as a new cloud-native technology which aims to improve Observability and Security workflows. You’ll learn how chaos engineering can help, and get an insight into eBPF based observability and security use cases. Breaking them in a professional way also inspires new ideas for chaos engineering itself.
VMware updates a critical-level bulletin: “VMware has confirmed that exploitation of CVE-2023-20887 has occurred in the wild.”
Businesses using ‘Log in with Microsoft’ could be exposed to privilege escalation and full account takeover exploits.
Gen Digital, which owns Avast, Avira, AVG, Norton, and LifeLock, said employee data was compromised in the MOVEit ransomware attack.
Bitdefender finds new malware capable of monitoring incoming RDP connections and infect the connecting clients that have client drive mapping enabled.
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) says some of its files were stolen in a ransomware attack on law firm HWL Ebsworth.
Nobody doubts the need to increase board level cyber expertise, but there is no single preferred route.
One of our Stormcast listeners, Kevin, wrote in to share that his friend Jon had received a direct spear-phishing e-mail. We requested for more information, and Jon kindly provided us with the corresponding e-mails and data to analyze.
We all know the drill when it comes to online security — something you know, and something you have. But when the “something you have” is a two-factor token in a keyfob at the bottom of a backpack, or an app on your phone that’s buried several swipes and taps deep, inconvenience can stand in the way of adding that second level of security. Thankfully, this “2FA Sidecar” is the perfect way to lower the barrier to using two-factor authentication.
Forescout Technologies has disclosed the details of vulnerabilities impacting operational technology (OT) products from Wago and Schneider Electric.
Over the past two years, there has been a concerted push by state legislatures to regulate the Internet, the likes of which has not been seen since the late 90s/early aughts. Content moderation, financial relationships between journalists and platforms, social media design and transparency, “national security,” kids being exposed to “bad” Internet speech—you name it, a state legislature has introduced an unconstitutional bill about it. So it’s no surprise that the anti-porn crowd seized the moment to once again exhibit a creepy and unhealthy interest in what other people do with their pants off.
The assailants reportedly fled to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Kazakh and Georgian officials say Kazakh journalist Zhanbota Tolegen was killed in the Georgian city of Telavi in late May.
A top Tajik police officer has been detained on suspicion of abducting a university teacher who has been missing since June 12.
Myanmar law students are reporting for JURIST on challenges to the rule of law in their country under the military junta that deposed the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021.€
An oddity of our times is the cavalier manner by which analysts of public issues ignore acquired understanding and history.€ Their motto seems to be: the world begins anew when I first take note of it.
Israel’s nationalist government lodged plans on Sunday to approve the construction of thousands of new buildings in the occupied West Bank, despite growing pressure from the US to halt settlement expansion. The move raised concerns about achieving a lasting resolution in the region, as it hinders peace negotiations between Palestine and Israel.
As the United States continues to work with the Gulf on security, expect blips. Despite that, Washington can get this partnership back on course.
South Africa and France have entered into a cooperation protocol agreement to improve the Special Investigating Unit’s cyber forensic capabilities. The agreement is expected to also yield the establishment of an anti-corruption academy in Tshwane, which will serve the SIU and other law enforcement agencies and anti-corruption agencies within the Southern African Development Community (SADC)...
Hong Kong’s official police watchdog dealt with a nearly 70 per cent increase in complaints against officers in the first five months of this year, an uptick that authorities attributed to the resumption of normal life after Covid-19 rules were relaxed.
U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken's trip to China restored high-level dialogue between Washington and Beijing, but failed to persuade China's leaders to reopen communications that could help avert a potential military crisis.
Why it matters: The failure to establish a military-to-military crisis communications channel prolongs the risk of miscalculation and conflict in the region, experts say.
State of play: The U.S. military regularly engages in lawful "freedom of navigation" operations through international waters, including the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait, over which China claims sovereignty.
Latvia's government on June 20 approved the sending of 11 more confiscated vehicles to Ukraine.
Dita Krauze is a Latvian living in the UK who has spent her vacation in Lviv, Ukraine, doing volunteer work at a soup kitchen. Latvian Radio's Tālis Eipurs spoke to Dita about her experience.
A Russian hacking group has been caught hacking into Roundcube servers to spy on government institutions and military entities in Ukraine.
The US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) published€ a settlement€ statement on June 20 with Swedbank Latvia related to Crimea sanctions breaches.
Despite tremendous business interest in Ukraine’s reconstruction and development, a large number of Western companies continue to undermine Kyiv’s efforts by contributing to the Kremlin’s war chest.
Diplomats from dozens of countries are meeting Wednesday in London to drum up funds to rebuild Ukraine, a mammoth task whose cost is estimated by the World Bank at more than $400 billion – a figure rising daily alongside the human toll of the 16-month war.
French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni vowed to work more closely together as they met on Tuesday in Paris for talks aimed at patching up ties.
Yukon Advanced Optics Worldwide, a Belarusian-owned group that has been operating in Lithuania for almost two decades, condemned Russia’s aggression in Ukraine and said it was shutting down its factory in Russia’s Smolensk. However, data obtained by the LRT Investigation Team and its partners from Scanner Project show that the company has not left Russia yet, while its equipment is falling into the hands of Russian soldiers.
The NATO summit in Vilnius next month will be historic either for its achievements or missed opportunities, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis says, after it became clear that Ukraine will not be offered a membership plan.
The prominent role of Banderite Neo-Nazis in Ukraine's government propaganda operations suggests that Nazi apologism has spread into the core institutions of its government – perhaps more than the dominant Western view is able to admit.
Russia launched a fresh wave of missile and drone strikes on several Ukrainian regions and the capital overnight, Ukraine's air defense and regional officials said, as the Ukrainian military reported some "partial success" in their counteroffensive operations in the southern region of Zaporizhzhya.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for an acceleration of Black Sea grain shipments from Ukrainian ports under a deal allowing safe wartime exports.
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said there will be “deliverables” on the defense cooperation front when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Washington later this week, but declined to provide details.
Since the start of the€ armed conflict, the European Union has provided Ukraine with €14.7 billion in macro-financial assistance.
A former RFE/RL correspondent in Siberia who was sentenced in March to eight months of correctional work over his online posts about Russian forces attacking civilian infrastructure in Ukraine was offered a contract to join Russia's armed forces involved in the invasion of Ukraine.
Ukraine’s counteroffensive is on the move, but so are Putin’s nuclear weapons.
"The use of these missiles outside the zone of the special military operation will mean the full involvement of the€ U.S. and the€ UK in the conflict," Russian Defense Minister Shoigu warned.
Russian forces are well dug in to fend off Ukraine’s long-anticipated counteroffensive. So even as Ukrainian civilians speak of eventual victory, many soldiers are concerned that such hopes not reach unrealistic heights.
Ukrainian captives released in prisoner exchanges say that beatings were common, and that they suffered from woefully inadequate health care and food.
Russian forces are trying to seize more land in eastern Ukraine even as they fend off a Kyiv’s counteroffensive, portending a long fight ahead, officials and military experts said.
Over the past 50 years Daniel Ellsberg remained an antiwar and anti-nuclear activist who inspired a new generation of whistleblowers. In his last interview with Democracy Now! in April, he spoke about the war in Ukraine and why it required a diplomatic solution, and about the latest leak of Pentagon documents by Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira, who has been indicted on six counts of willful retention and transmission of classified information. We asked Ellsberg about what the leaks say about the war in Ukraine, and discussed his decision in 2021 to leak a classified government report that he had kept in his possession for decades, which revealed the U.S. had drawn up plans to attack China with nuclear weapons during the 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis. Ellsberg warned the possibility of a nuclear first strike by the United States was an “insane” policy that would end most life on Earth. “The belief that we can do less bad by striking first than if we strike second is what confronts us in Ukraine with a real possibility of a nuclear war coming out of this conflict,” Ellsberg said.
A Hong Kong man charged with inciting assault over online comments about staff from local broadcaster TVB has pleaded not guilty. Fan Shi-man appeared at District Court on Monday morning for the first day of the trial./blockquote>
We remember the life and legacy of Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, who died Friday at the age of 92, just months after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, then a top military strategist working for the RAND Corporation, risked life in prison by secretly copying and then leaking 7,000 pages of top-secret documents outlining the secret history of the U.S. War in Vietnam. The leak would end up helping to take down President Nixon, accelerate the end of the War in Vietnam and lead to a major victory for press freedom. Henry Kissinger once called Ellsberg “the most dangerous man in America.” Over the past 50 years, Ellsberg remained an antiwar and anti-nuclear activist who inspired a new generation of whistleblowers. We mark his death with excerpts from some of our interviews with Ellsberg over the years about Vietnam, as well as Ukraine, tensions with China, the threat of nuclear war and working toward a more honest discourse about U.S. policy. “To this day, the very idea that the U.S. is … an empire is a taboo, and a very unfortunate one, because it makes it impossible to understand what’s going on,” Ellsberg said.
Moscow’s forces also shot and killed a rescue worker in the flood-stricken city of Kherson, Ukrainian officials said, as both sides battled for territory in the south and east.
The country is a growing target for foreign espionage, the agency said, amid rising tensions over the war in Ukraine and rivalries between Washington and Beijing.
“Olga,” a popular Russian TV series whose last season was released in May, has been removed from the site of the channel that aired it, as well as from the channel’s streaming service, just weeks after the show’s star, actress Olga Troyanova, spoke out against the invasion of Ukraine. The show is considered to be one of TNT’s most successful shows.
The sound of air raid sirens began playing during a speech by Novaya Gazeta editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov at the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum in Bonn on Tuesday, TV Rain reported. The sound was accompanied by a voice saying to “take cover” in Ukrainian.
State Duma deputies have passed a law that would make soldiers, both professionals and conscripts, who have fought in Ukraine exempt from liability for petty crimes and misdemeanors.
Former prime minister Scott Morrison has warned a breakout of war from China invading Taiwan would dwarf the conflict in Ukraine.
His comments came as a new poll showed Australians remain wary of conflict in the region.
The Pentagon has found it overestimated the amount of funding for ammunition, missiles and other equipment it sent to Ukraine by $US6.2 billion ($A9.2 billion) due to an accounting error – more than double the amount previously disclosed.
The value of the accounting error was revised up from the $US3 billion ($A4.4 billion) first reported by Reuters in May, the result of assigning a higher-than-warranted value to US weaponry shipped to Ukraine.
The United States is heavily invested in the Ukraine-Russia conflict—not just in financial terms but also in shared risk. Washington has given more than $75 billion in aid to Ukraine, a serious chunk of change, yet far less than the possible consequences for the world if the war were to spiral out of control. After all, Russia might be a decrepit superpower, but it still possesses a massive nuclear arsenal and the ability to inflict damage well beyond Ukraine. In its public rhetoric, the Biden administration has walked a tightrope, insisting that it is balancing the moral necessity of helping Ukraine defend itself against external aggression with caution in making sure the war doesn’t ramp up into a broader conflict. Yet the administration’s claim of working to forestall escalation has a major loophole: Will the United States be able to stop Ukraine (or elements of the Ukrainian government) from escalating?
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says he called on China to use its influence over Russia more in regards to the war in Ukraine.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz hosted Premier Li Qiang for talks on Tuesday, seeking to recalibrate cooperation between Germany and China after Berlin branded Beijing a “systemic rival”. Li is on his first trip abroad since he was named premier in March and tasked with shoring up China’s sputtering post-Covid economy. But unlike previous visits by Chinese […]
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu warned Ukraine on June 20 of "immediate retaliation" if Kyiv attacks Crimea with Western missiles.
On June 20, Latvian€ Minister of Foreign Affairs, Edgars RinkēviÃÂs, in his capacity of the Chair of the Council of Europe’s (CoE) Committee of Ministers, addressed the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) over the priorities of the Latvian CoE Presidency and current political issues addressed by the CoE Committee of Ministers.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier told reporters after talks with Kazakh President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev in Astana that the EU and the energy-rich Central Asian nation are in close contact on preventing the evasion of Western sanctions imposed on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
Bulgaria’s defense minister, Todor Tagarev, has signaled a likely break from the previous caretaker government’s reluctance to provide lethal aid to Ukraine by pledging an imminent announcement on a fresh package of military assistance, a move that could increase tensions with Bulgaria’s president.
A major new investigation by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) in association with the Baltic Center for Investigative Journalism (Re:Baltica) delves into the murky world of Russian sanctions evasion – and identifies a Latvian citizen who might be involved in helping one of Russia's richest men dodge Western sanctions.
An explosion hit a major gunpowder plant in Russia's southwestern region of Tambov on June 20, killing four people.
Lithuanian MPs have initiated the process of stripping ice dancer Margarita Drobiazko of her Lithuanian citizenship as she continues to perform in Russia, LNK TV reported on Tuesday.
A year ago, Meduza published a series of photographs by one of Russia’s most famous landscape photographers, Alexander Gronsky, about how Moscow had changed a few months into the war. Then, it was almost impossible to see the changes, but behind his photos you could feel that something had happened: February 24, Bucha, the bombing of the Mariupol Drama Theater and maternity hospital. A year later, Gronsky has shot a sequel to the project which he has shared with Bereg, a cooperative of independent journalists. With Bereg’s permission, Meduza is publishing the series.
St. Petersburg publication Fontanka reports that Sergey Goryachev, Chief of Staff of Russia’s 35th Combined Arms Army, has been buried in the city’s historic Serafimovskoe cemetery.€
Sitting in his isolation cell in United States Penitentiary Marion—a hulking edifice of cement, bars, and razor wire in Illinois built to take the place of Alcatraz—Daniel Hale could be forgiven if he felt little sympathy for Donald Trump. Unlike the former president, who flew to his arraignment in his private jet and celebrated afterward with a gala party at his New Jersey country club, Hale was brought to the courthouse in steel handcuffs and then quickly thrown in a dank jail cell. Although both faced charges related to national security, Hale was a courageous whistleblower and Trump is an egotistical politician.
Temperatures have plummeted to below-average across Australia, with the freezing conditions set to continue.
Canberra shivered through minus 5.6C just before 6am on Tuesday, with drivers warned to take extreme care because of icy conditions.
The storm formed Monday east of the Windward Islands, the National Hurricane Center said. It is forecast to strengthen into a hurricane by the end of the week.
Environmentalists have dismissed a pledge by alumina giant Alcoa not to mine near a tourist town home to ancient jarrah forests.
The company says it will not seek to mine within three kilometres of Dwellingup, in the Darling Range southeast of Perth, committing to an exclusion zone across its bauxite mining lease more than four times the size of Rottnest Island.
A public water retailer will review its policies and compliance after the Victorian regulator found it breached family violence obligations by sharing the personal information of two customers.
The Essential Services Commission on Tuesday accepted a two-year court enforceable undertaking from South East Water after a probe€ found the government-owned retailer failed to protect two separate customers in 2021 and 2022.
The glaciers could lose up to 80% of their current volume by the end of the century.
More than 150 detention facilities experienced “hazardous” air last week, according to an analysis by The Appeal. As wildfires have gotten worse, prisoners are facing a unique threat.
Himalayan glaciers providing critical water to nearly two billion people are melting faster than ever before due to climate change, exposing communities to unpredictable and costly disasters, scientists warned Tuesday.
The French government said Tuesday that it would soon shut down an activist climate group over a series of recent demonstrations including one that led to fierce clashes with police over a controversial irrigation project.
Mining giant BHP says it is on track to reduce emissions across the business by at least 30 per cent this decade but warns progress beyond that won’t go in a straight line.
Early action, including offloading the petroleum business to Woodside Energy, means the global company has already reduced the size of its carbon footprint.
Clean energy advocates are calling for practical help to make sure renters, apartment dwellers and poorer households don’t miss out on electrification.
Independent MP Allegra Spender on Wednesday urged federal Labor to show courage and ban gas connections to all new homes and set a date for ending residential use of gas across Australia.
Taxpayers will invest $500 million in critical minerals projects in northern Australia under a long-awaited federal strategy.
The plan released by Resources Minister Madeleine King on Tuesday aims to position Australia to play a leading role in the supply chain for electric cars and renewable energy.
Hydrogen UK’s Chief Executive has told H2 View that if the UK does not pass an Energy Bill with an “appropriate funding mechanism” for hydrogen, “it’s game over for the UK’s place at the table.”
The new administration plans to end the state monopoly on oil and gas.
European Commission Speech Brussels, 20 Jun 2023 Good afternoon everyone,
Let me start by thanking the International Renewable Energy Agency for choosing the European Commission...
Woodside Energy Group, which holds a 60% stake in the Gulf of Mexico field, will invest US $4.8 billion to start extracting oil by 2028.
The European Commission has today (June 20) formally adopted two delegated acts outlining its detailed rules on the EU definition of renewable hydrogen.
Airbus UpNext has today (June 20) announced plans to trial the use of hydrogen fuel cells for auxiliary power onboard aircraft.
The network stretches from Indonesia to the United States.
Wildfires in northern and central California increased fivefold between 1971 and 2021, according to a new study published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
China’s Alibaba Group has announced a major management reshuffle as the e-commerce giant restructures into six different business divisions to adapt to fast-changing technologies.
The moves also are aimed at spurring growth at a time when the Chinese economy is slowing despite an end to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions a half-year ago.
A business group says foreign companies are shifting investment and their Asian headquarters out of China as confidence plunges following the expansion of an anti-spying law and other challenges. The report by the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China is one of many signs of growing pessimism despite the ruling Communist Party’s efforts to revive interest in the world’s No. 2 economy. Companies are uneasy about the anti-spying law, government protection of Chinese rivals and lack of action on reform promises. They also are being squeezed by slowing Chinese economic growth, despite the country's exit from its “zero-COVID” policies, and by rising costs.
European Commission News Brussels, 20 Jun 2023 On 20 June, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen presented the new European economic security strategy. She also spoke about the main aims of the revision of the EU's long-term budget.
Though still enormous, the gap has shrunk over the past five years.
In a shake-up, Joseph Tsai, an Alibaba veteran and executive vice chairman, will take over as chairman. Another Alibaba executive, Eddie Wu, will become C.E.O.
Insolvency levels are trending up and expected to continue rising as business conditions diminish.
External administration was up 35 per cent in the year to May despite a seasonal dip between March and April.
Sooner or later, the venture capitalists will want their money back. Surely, these on-demand or sharing platform companies cannot keep giving incentives to drivers and delivery people while handing out endless discounts to consumers.
The latest reality check came yesterday in the form of 1,000 job cuts at Grab, Southeast Asia’s leading ride-hailing and food delivery operator.
The deepest cut for the company since the start of the pandemic, the retrenchment of 11 per cent of its workforce is meant to manage costs and ensure more affordable services long term, according to chief executive Anthony Tan.
Portugal has become the latest country to announce a trial of a four-day week, following the example of the likes of Belgium, the UK, and others.
Conversations around the four-day workweek were first reignited by the COVID-19 pandemic, with workers and employers rethinking the importance of workplace flexibility and benefits.
The idea is simple – employees would work four days a week while getting paid the same and earning the same benefits, but with the same workload.
Companies reducing their workweek would therefore operate with fewer meetings and more independent work.
In September 2023, Russia’s Altay region will hold gubernatorial elections. Yulia Alyoshina, Russia’s first transgender politician, plans to run for governor. She was the head of the Altay regional division of the Civic Initiative party, but resigned in 2022 following Russia’s passage of new laws against “LGBT propaganda.” Nonetheless, the party’s regional branch suggested that she run in this year’s elections. Alyoshina spoke to Novaya Gazeta Europe about why she’s running. Meduza summarizes the conversation in English.
Liberal MP Warren Entsch has fended off questions about a $214,000 grant awarded to his wife while the Morrison government was in power.
The public money was released under an Indigenous Languages and Arts program, to teach pottery in a remote Aboriginal community.
A key figure behind the push for an Indigenous voice says it is common for issues to be put to a referendum without the fine detail.
One of the main arguments used by the ‘no’ case for an Indigenous voice in the constitution is that the structure and processes behind the voice have not yet been spelled out.
The path has been cleared for a wider conversation on an Indigenous voice as a leading advocate declares there is no hidden agenda behind the plan.
After parliament passed legislation enabling a referendum,€ Uluru Dialogue co-chair Pat Anderson said it was time for politicians to step back from the referendum debate.€
The proposed $10 billion housing fund may be shelved by the federal government after it was pushed back to later this year.
The Greens successfully delayed the bill until October – with the support of the opposition – in the Senate on Monday.
With more than 800,000 South Australian holidaymakers casting a line each year, the move is on to cash in on the state’s boom in fishing tourism.
A statewide survey is being launched to help plan for the sector’s growth and deliver on an election commitment to develop an integrated strategy.
Local alliances between the center-right Popular Party and the far-right Vox may foreshadow a broader coalition agreement at the national level.
The former prime minister will lose his pass to Parliament, another stinging penalty from the fallout of lockdown-breaking parties during the pandemic.
The censure strips the former prime minister of his lifetime access to Parliament, after lawmakers voted by 354 votes to 7 to approve a scathing report by the Privileges Committee.
In early July 2008, Samuel Alito stood on a riverbank in a remote corner of Alaska. The Supreme Court justice was on vacation at a luxury fishing lodge that charged more than $1,000 a day, and after catching a king salmon nearly the size of his leg, Alito posed for a picture. To his left, a man stood beaming: Paul Singer, a hedge fund billionaire who has repeatedly asked the Supreme Court to rule in his favor in high-stakes business disputes.
Singer was more than a fellow angler. He flew Alito to Alaska on a private jet. If the justice chartered the plane himself, the cost could have exceeded $100,000 one way.
A wave of novels is drawing from wellsprings of race, class and gender to expand the genre.
Russian flags have become a fixture of rallies and public protests in Burkina Faso, the Central African Republic and Mali — an indication of the way Russia is pushing its propaganda and disinformation by filtering it through local influencers.
A Moscow court has ordered Viber and Telegram to pay fines for failing to delete information about Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
The popular comic magazine LeMan came out this week with a caricature on its cover related to the 16-year-old student who was first taken into custody and then arrested.
The two individuals, including a police officer, have been remanded in custody. Meanwhile, the mayor has denied any involvement in the attack.
While the court acquitted Doßan Ergün and ðzel Sezer of "insult" and "libel," it convicted the journalists of "disclosure of personal data."
In the introduction to this exposé of “Marianna in Conspiracyland” we discussed the evidence which proves that the BBC is a state broadcaster. It is not “independent,” as it falsely claims; its “reporting” spreads disinformation on behalf of the government and, as we shall see, the government’s “partners.”
Russia-imposed police in Ukraine's Moscow-annexed Crimea have detained two Crimean Tatar brothers -- Dzhafer and Alim Alyustayev, for unspecified reasons after searching their homes on June 20.
Police in Russia's North Caucasus region of Kabardino-Balkaria are investigating the deaths of three sisters who died after their car fell off a cliff and caught fire days after their sister committed suicide.
About 1,500 people attended a recruitment day for the Hong Kong Police Force on Sunday, around a month after police announced they would relax several requirements for new recruits. Over 490 job applications were received on the spot, according to the Force.
It is a real holiday now, so celebrate! Long ago, if not that far away, we built a new office and moved in. Came to work one day and could barely get into our parking lot. People and cars everywhere.
The WaPo's story that many are taking as a condemnation of Merrick Garland is mostly a story about Steve D'Antuono's obstruction of the investigation.
I wrote an article several months ago arguing that the two sides of the political aisle live in entirely separate, borderline fictitious realities. I said that, beholden to their most radical wings, their differences are nearly irreconcilable.
Sala Tamanikaiwaimaro, widely known for her work in Internet governance, sadly passed away in June 2023.
APNIC actively participated in the 4th ICANN APAC-TWNIC Engagement Forum and 39th TWNIC OPM, held from 22 to 24 May 2023 in Taipei.
Two months ago, following price increases from Amazon Music and Apple Music, Spotify head Daniel Ek signaled that he intended to raise the cost of his platform’s subscription plans. Now, the Stockholm-headquartered company is reportedly preparing to roll out a more expensive tier (complete with Spotify HiFi) known internally as “Supremium.”
This essay focuses on proposed Advancing America’s Interests Act (H.R.3535) which aims to limit NPE access to the ITC by refining the economic prong of the domestic industry requirement and by adding a stronger public interest consideration prior to issuance of an exclusion order.€
The International Trade Commission (ITC) is a branch of the U.S. government focused on protecting domestic industry against undue foreign competition.€ The ITC’s power extends in to several areas, but primarily by enforcing the laws of (1) intellectual property rights; (2) anti-dumping; and (3) countervailing duties.
Please consider coming to the SUEPO office (Veraartlaan, 8 in Rijswijk, opposite the EPO) to connect together and subsequently discuss the following webinars which are being organized by unions affiliated to ours: [...]
On 8 June 2023, the Judicial Court of Paris handed down a decision in which it rejected Teva Santé’s request to invalidate EP 14 27 415, which belongs to innovator pharmaceutical company, Bristol-Myers Squibb (case ID: 21/112727).
A year ago, we wrote about an unfortunate decision by a judge rejecting a motion to dismiss in a copyright lawsuit regarding bananas taped to walls. There was, of course, the high profile “banana taped to wall” artwork by Maurizio Cattelan that got tons of public attention at Art Basel in 2019 when it sold for $120,000 (and when someone walked over and pulled it off the wall and ate it, in a bit of counterprograming). Cattelan was the defendant in this lawsuit as some other guy, Joe Morford, claimed that he had done it first with an artwork called “Banana & Orange” and that Cattelan’s banana (which, officially, was called “Comedian”) infringed on his work.
In 1992 and 1993, an unknown singer-songwriter named Liz Phair recorded her debut album in Chicago, not knowing that it would become one of the most influential records of the decade. Exile in Guyville hit the music scene with the stiff, stinging rush of the Lake Michigan wind as Phair sang frankly and clearly about sex and young life as a woman. Her album immediately became revered as evocative of a time of economic insecurity and as part of a new generation of women striving to express themselves in more sexually open and emotionally raw ways. Since then, the album’s legend has only grown—crisis and misogyny haven’t gone anywhere. When Guyville was released, besotted critics were reductively focused on seeing it as some kind of feminist response to the Rolling Stones classic Exile on Main Street. Now, with decades of increasing stature, it stands alone, the Stones album barely a footnote. In 2023, Liz Phair is going on tour for the 30th anniversary of Guyville and will perform every song off the album. I spoke to her about a tour that is a testament to the timelessness of a truly great album.
Just published as part of the symposium on Media and Society After Technological Disruption, edited by Profs. Justin "Gus" Hurwitz & Kyle Langvardt.