Leftovers

• Hackaday ☛ A Fully Automatic British Breakfast: Ready While You Sleep

  What do you mean, the temporary breadboard setup went into production? (Credit: [Gregulations], YouTube)Among all the amazing technologies that were promised to us, there is one that is much more egregious than the lack of flying cars and real hovering hoverboards: the lack of fully automated breakfast-maker machines. Instead we find ourselves handling the same dumb appliances each morning as we make a healthy breakfast that we then have time to wolf down before rushing out of the door to still be a few minutes late for work. When [Greg] researched machines that could automatically prepare breakfast, he came up empty, which led him down the rabbit hole of the Autochef-9000.

• Hackaday ☛ Thrift Store CD Rack Turns Into Small Parts Storage Playground

  What in the world could an accessory for an obsolete audio medium possibly have to do with keeping all your unruly bits and pieces in order? First of all, we’re not sure the CD is quite dead yet; we’ve got about a thousand of them packed away somewhere, and we’re pretty sure they’ll be back in style again one of these days. Until then, though, the lowly CD rack might be just what you need to get your shop under control.

• Hackaday ☛ Creating A Numbers Station Of Your Very Own

  Numbers stations are a weird phenomenon where odd voices read out long strings of numbers or random codewords to the confusion of the vast majority of the listening audience. If you’ve ever wanted to build one of your own, you could follow the example of [AudioWanderer].

• Today I screwed up

  Earlier today I really "got out of the house" for the first time in a while and went to a Social Event with Real People. It was loud, and I was surrounded by people I don't really know, so I was pretty nervous. Though there was this one person who had caught my eye.

  I don't know them very well, but I recognize them because, for whatever reason, I seem to have an encyclopedic knowledge for faces. I suppose they're someone whose work I respect, and who I'd be interested in getting to know. And for whatever reason, near the end of the event, they walked up and started talking to me.

• 🔤SpellBinding: ABUORTG Wordo: TARDY

• Ruben Schade ☛ Watching Capture the Moment, Holofes 5

  Today’s Music Monday is all about the latest Hololive vtuber concert Capture the Moment.

  I’ll admit, it was bittersweet. Clara and I had won tickets in the limited lottery, which we were going to head to Japan for, then head over to Taipei for AsiaBSDCon. But bad life things happened, and we had to stay put.

• Science

  • The Conversation ☛ 2024-03-15 [Older] The mystery of consciousness shows there may be a limit to what science alone can achieve

• Education

  • [Old] The University of Chicago Press ☛ Brain Drain: The Mere Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity

    We propose that the mere presence of one’s own smartphone may induce “brain drain” by occupying limited-capacity cognitive resources for purposes of attentional control. Because the same finite pool of attentional resources supports both attentional control and other cognitive processes, resources recruited to inhibit automatic attention to one’s phone are made unavailable for other tasks, and performance on these tasks will suffer. We differentiate between the orientation and allocation of attention and argue that the mere presence of smartphones may reduce the availability of attentional resources even when consumers are successful at controlling the conscious orientation of attention.

  • Kansas Reflector ☛ If schools won’t ban kids’ cellphones, some lawmakers say, they will

    “Social media is often anti-social, and too much smartphone makes you stupid,” Lamont said in his State of the State address this year.

    In Utah, Republican Gov. Spencer Cox in January sent a letter to school leaders throughout the state urging them to get cellphones out of class.

    “Placing cellphones in backpacks or lockers during class time allows students to give their undivided attention to lessons, to fully participate in discussions and to build relationships with their peers,” Cox wrote in an opinion piece published in the Deseret News. “Our students deserve every advantage and removing cellphones from learning time is one proven way we can help our children succeed.”

  • Erik Dietrich ☛ Every Billable Hour is Amateur Hour

    Through the rest of the post, I’m going to draw a distinction between amateurishness at craft, and amateurishness at business. Understanding my premise hinges on understanding that someone (a technician, in particular) can simultaneously be a craft professional and a business amateur.

  • Lykolux ☛ After two onboardings

    I moved to another company for the first time in my life. So it’s my second onboarding and I saw common patterns between these two great companies. I’ve also been asked the question: what does exactly an onboarding involve?

  • YLE ☛ Researcher: Schools should demand more

    Avoiding studying is nothing new, Lakka pointed out. Smartphones, however, make it so much easier than it used to be.

    "We've all been distracted in class, but phones now are a source of long-term entertainment. How many of us would have decorated the margins of our notebooks or scratched our desks for very long?" Lakka asked.

    Lakka said that schools shouldn't only consider how phones can be used for learning, but also how they affect the overall atmosphere of the classroom.

    "I feel that we wouldn't lose much by giving up the phones," she said.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Silver lining: Tutoring the elderly is growing fast in China

    China's rapidly aging population is fuelling a promising and fast-growing market for companies providing recreational classes and activities for the elderly middle class, from yoga to African drumming and smartphone photography.

• Hardware

  • [Old] CardContact Systems GmbH ☛ Remote Key Attestation explained

    Remote Key Attestation is the mechanism by which a relying party can cryptographically verify that a public key is part of a key pair that was generated inside a trusted device. The relying party can be a certification authority, that wants to enforce a certain policy for storing key material.

    The SmartCard-HSM has supported key attestation from it’s very beginning. It does that by signing the public key using its Device Authentication Key as soon as the key pair is generated.

    Every SmartCard-HSM carries a Device Authentication Certificate, that is issued by the Device Issuer CA to bind the unique identity of the device to an unique Device Authentication key pair generated during production.

  • Ruben Schade ☛ Finally got my ultimate retro KVM setup working!

    It took almost a year of tinkering, buying parts, testing, configuring, fixing, cursing, and shouting with excitement, but I now have a KVM setup that finally works, across two decades of computer history from a Commodore VC-20 to a Dell Dimension Pentium III!

  • [Old] CSO ☛ 9 in 10 organizations have embraced zero-trust security globally

    Nearly 90% organizations have begun embracing zero-trust security, but many still have a long way to go, according to a report by multinational technology company Cisco. The report, based on a survey of 4,700 global information security professionals, found that 86.5% have started implementing some aspect of the zero-trust security model, but only 2% have mature deployments in place.

  • Tedium ☛ Digital Training Wheels

    Looking back at a bunch of toy electronics that may have latently inspired the tech that we use today. Might as well hook ’em young.

    For a moment, consider the evolutionary space between the original Game Boy and the iPad. Both defined the way kids would experience computers in a portable format, but were so defining that they kind of set the template for everyone else. But it was clear that the Game Boy was a mere plateau of technological advancement, which allowed some technological wiggle room. Meanwhile, the iPad was considered such a technological ideal that many companies just copied its basic design, killing off true evolution until, say, the Nintendo Switch. That leaves a gap of about 22 years in which handheld gadgets for kids were really freaking experimental and interesting. And with that in mind, today’s Tedium looks back in time at 10 portable electronic toys—some well-known, some obscure—that highlighted how creative toy-makers were when the canvas was completely open. (And we’re including commercials for each, because, hey, commercials!) Maybe you played with a few of these back in the day.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • Science Alert ☛ Deaths Linked to a Common Anxiety Drug Have Surged in The UK

  • New York Times ☛ When Medicaid Comes After the Family Home

    Federal law requires states to seek reimbursement from the assets, usually homes, of people who died after receiving benefits for long-term care.

  • CBC ☛ 2024-03-14 [Older] B.C. patients, doctors raise the alarm as breast cancer screening and diagnostic wait times climb

  • CBC ☛ 2024-03-14 [Older] Health Canada, Best Buy recall Insignia air fryers over potential fire risk

  • Science Alert ☛ Sugar-Free Gum May Have Surprising Health Benefits We Never Knew About

    The evidence is compelling.

  • CBC ☛ 2024-03-15 [Older] Airline must shell out $800 for seafood that spoiled in misplaced suitcase, small-claims court says

  • The Conversation ☛ 2024-03-14 [Older] Ghostbots: AI versions of deceased loved ones could be a serious threat to mental health

  • The Conversation ☛ 2024-03-13 [Older] It’s a myth that male animals are usually larger than females – new study

  • CBC ☛ 2024-03-15 [Older] She could have died from meningitis. Now this student wants more people to get vaccinated

  • CBC ☛ 2024-03-15 [Older] K-Fresh brand enoki mushrooms recalled due to possible Listeria contamination

  • The Conversation ☛ 2024-03-13 [Older] Redwood trees are growing almost as fast in the UK as their Californian cousins – new study

  • The Conversation ☛ 2024-03-11 [Older] A brief guide to birdwatching in the age of dinosaurs

  • Wouter Groeneveld ☛ We're Out Of Olive Oil

    In other words, what is the average olive oil consumption rate per capita (in Europe, since Europe produces 70% of the world’s olive oil)? The biggest bulk consumers are without surprise Mediterranean lands, with Greece leading the charge by far: Greece 16, Spain 13, Italy 11, Portugal 8. These numbers vary depending on the source: that was Statista’s, yet the International Olive Council came up with something similar, putting Cyprus in-between Italy and Portugal.

  • The Strategist ☛ Food security and national security: neither can be taken for granted

    Australia’s food security should not be taken for granted. The Covid-19 pandemic shows what can go wrong with it during seismic strategic challenges.

  • New York Times ☛ Haiti’s Hospitals Survived Cholera and Covid. Gangs Are Closing Them.

    Many hospitals in Haiti’s capital have been looted by gangs or abandoned by their staffs amid the violence. Some are open, but too dangerous for people in need of care to reach.

• Security

  • Integrity/Availability/Authenticity

    • CBC ☛ 2024-03-13 [Older] [Scammers] stole 100,000 of her Aeroplan points. She wants to warn others about how they did it

    • CBC ☛ 2024-03-13 [Older] Sharing sexual images without consent illegal in Canada since 2015. Recent case shows it's still a problem

    • CBC ☛ 2024-03-13 [Older] B.C. judge warns of 'tsunami' of Indigenous identity fraud cases

    • Internet Archive ☛ Digital archives: a time machine for the web

      At least that was the sixth reason until the New York Times revised it with a stealth edit. When you read the article today, choosing death as a solution to a debt burden has been replaced, but there’s no mention that this article was revised. The timestamp is still the day it was originally published.

      If not for Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, this discrepancy wouldn’t have been caught. The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the [Internet], and as such, it captured multiple previous versions.

      The [Internet] is constantly being revised in ways that allow history to be rewritten and a shared sense of truth to be questioned. With AI-generated disinformation, the potential to exert control over the future by rewriting the past has never been greater.

      This week we’re exploring how digital archives are crucial in developing a record of truth in an ever-changing web.

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-09 [Older] Italy to stop sending speed camera photos over privacy

    • The Age AU ☛ 2024-03-16 [Older] Apple must face lawsuit that says AirTags are used by stalkers to track victims

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-11 [Older] Airbnb Is Banning the Use of Indoor Security Cameras in the Platform's Listings Worldwide

    • CBC ☛ 2024-03-11 [Older] Airbnb to ban hosts from using indoor security cameras in rental properties

• Defence/Aggression

  • France24 ☛ Dozens killed as Israeli air strike hits shelter for displaced Gazans

    More than 30 people were killed in an air strike that hit a house sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza’s centrally located refugee camp Nuseirat, a spokesman for the Hamas-ruled territory’s health ministry said on Saturday. Israel’s security cabinet is set to meet Sunday to discuss the “mandate” of a delegation due to travel to Doha for talks on a truce in Gaza, the prime minister’s office said.

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-15 [Older] California Man Sentenced to Life for 'Boogaloo Movement' Killing of Federal Security Guard

  • New York Times ☛ The U.N. Reports More Than 24 Attacks on Gazans Waiting for Aid Since January

    The United Nations human rights office has not blamed any side for the attacks, including one on Thursday that Gazan health officials say killed 20.

  • New York Times ☛ First Sea-Borne Aid Reaches Gaza Amid Fears About Security and Malnutrition

    The 200 tons of food provided by a celebrity chef’s charity arrived as UNICEF said rising numbers of children in Gaza were facing food deprivation.

  • New York Times ☛ Was He Secretly Working for China? This Is What He Told Us.

    Di Sanh Duong openly said that some people might mistake him for a Chinese spy, but he maintained that he never did anything to hurt Australia.

  • New York Times ☛ Who Australia Caught When It Went Looking for Chinese Spies

    The first case tried under Australia’s foreign interference laws has raised tough questions about the breadth of the regulations.

  • Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2024-03-11 [Older] Saudi Arabia-Iran deal and the turmoil in the Middle East

  • ANF News ☛ 2024-03-13 [Older] New UN report on Syria: Turkey's attacks may amount to war crimes

  • New York Times ☛ What the Philippines Is Doing About South China Sea Tensions

    Escalating tensions in the South China Sea, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. says, are not only a regional issue, but a global one.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ After string of fatal incidents, Chinese coast guard steps up patrols around Taiwan’s Kinmen islands

    The Chinese coast guard on Friday said it would step up patrols around Taiwan’s Kinmen islands after a series of deadly fishing accidents, one of which led to bitter blame-trading between the two sides.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ 12 jailed for up to 7 years over 2019 storming of Hong Kong’s legislature

    Twelve Hong Kongers were jailed Saturday for up to seven years over the storming of the city’s legislature in 2019 at the height of pro-democracy protests that challenged the Beijing-backed government.

  • RFERL ☛ Several Troops Killed In Suicide Attack On Pakistan Military Post

    Pakistan says seven soldiers were killed and 17 wounded in a militant attack that targeted a sprawling army post in the volatile North Waziristan district near the Afghan border on March 16.

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-08 [Older] Red Sea crisis: German navy in the spotlight

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-12 [Older] Xenophobia or Security Precaution? Georgia Lawmakers Divided Over Limiting Foreign Land Ownership

  • Vox ☛ 2024-03-12 [Older] Trump just opened the door to Social Security cuts. Take him seriously.

  • TruthOut ☛ 2024-03-12 [Older] Trump Aides Do Damage Control on His Comments to “Cut” Social Security, Medicare

  • Gizmodo ☛ 2024-03-13 [Older] Wealthy Vlogger Ben Shapiro Calls Social Security a 'Ponzi Scheme,' Says Retirement Is 'Stupid'

  • Vox ☛ 2024-03-14 [Older] Is the US running out of Social Security?

  • The Hill ☛ Why the TikTok bill is constitutional

    The poster child for this bill is TikTok, which is owned by ByteDance, an affiliate of the Chinese government that literally has an internal Chinese Communist Party committee as part of its governance structure.

    The act is a no-brainer to resolve this issue, because it merely implements foreign ownership restrictions to enforce divestiture requirements at the app layer. It follows tried-and-true legal frameworks that America has implemented in a wide array of contexts. Indeed, the U.S. has applied foreign ownership restrictions for telecommunications services, broadcasters, banking, energy — the list goes on.

  • New York Times ☛ Khanna Explains Opposition to Fentanylware (TikTok) Bill While Senators Signal Openness

    The California Democrat Ro Khanna pointed to the need for a federal data privacy law, and a Democrat and a Republican in the Senate suggested sympathy for the calls to ban the app.

  • The Hill ☛ Ro Khanna says TikTok bill is not ‘actually addressing the issue’

    Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said the TikTok bill passed by the House last week is not “actually addressing the issue.”

    Khanna, who voted against the bill, argued on ABC’s “This Week” that while the two national security issues cited in the bill are “legitimate,” the legislation still does not address them. He said the two issues at hand are whether the data can get to a foreign government and whether the Chinese Communist Party has an influence on algorithms.

  • New York Times ☛ What Trump’s Fentanylware (TikTok) Flip-Flop Tells America

    On yet another issue, Trump sides with a foreign adversary over America.

  • New Yorker ☛ How Foreign Policy Became a Campaign Issue for 2024

    This year, looking at Gaza and Ukraine, what happens in the rest of the world seems to matter a bit more than usual to Americans.

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • New York Times ☛ Russia Says It Shot Down Ukrainian Drones, Debris Caused Oil Refinery Fire

      An oil refinery was set on fire in southern Russia and air defense forces shot down two drones flying toward Moscow, officials said, as Ukraine continued a flurry of attacks timed for the election.

    • Latvia ☛ Security Service continues to look at MEP Ždanoka's file

      The State Security Service (VDD) has opened a criminal case against Tatjana Ždanoka (Latvian Russian Union), a Member of the European Parliament, for alleged cooperation with Russian special services, LETA reports.

    • JURIST ☛ Latvia security service initiates criminal proceedings against European lawmaker over suspected collusion with Russian intelligence services

      Latvia’s State Security Service (VDD) was reported on Saturday to have initiated criminal proceedings against Tatjana Ždanoka, a European Parliament lawmaker (MEP) and Latvian citizen, on suspicion of cooperating with Russian intelligence and security services, according to local Latvian media outlets. 

    • JURIST ☛ Protests break out in Slovakia as government proposes overhaul of state media

      Thousands of people protested in Slovakia Friday against a plan by the government to dissolve state-funded media organization Radio and Television of Slovakia (RTVS) in favor of a plan opponents allege is part of increasing totalitarian and Russian influence in the government.

    • RFERL ☛ Apparent Fire-Bombing Disrupts Voting At Russian Consulate In Chisinau

      Voting for Russia's presidential election was disrupted at the Russian Consulate in Chisinau on March 17 after an apparent fire-bombing. Flames and smoke broke out in the consulate's courtyard.

    • RFERL ☛ Paris Olympics Could Feature Only 40 Russian Athletes, Says IOC's Coates

      International Olympic Committee (IOC) Vice President John Coates is unsure how many Russians will compete as neutral athletes at the Olympic Games in Paris this summer, but thinks reports that it might be as low as 40 could be close to the mark.

    • RFERL ☛ Georgia's South Ossetia Reportedly Discusses Possible Inclusion Into Russia

      South Ossetia, a breakaway region in Georgia, has discussed its possible inclusion into Russia with Moscow, Russian state-run news agency RIA Novosti reported, citing South Ossetia's parliament speaker.

    • teleSUR ☛ Russia Reports Massive Cyberattacks on Its Remote Voting System

      Cyberattacks on Moscow's information systems were traced to the United States and Britain.

    • teleSUR ☛ Russian Presidential Elections Enter Their Final Day

      The number of citizens authorized to vote is 112.3 million in Russian territory and 1.89 million abroad.

    • teleSUR ☛ Russia: 51.77% Turnout on Second Day of Elections

      More than 114 million Russian citizens are called to the polls in these elections.

    • JURIST ☛ UN report finds potential crime against humanity in Belarus

      The UN Human Rights Council released a report on Friday on the human rights situation in Belarus during and after the country’s presidential election in 2020. It concludes that the crime against humanity of persecution may have been committed in Belarus.

    • RFERL ☛ Putin Says He Agreed To Swap Navalny Days Before His Death

      Speaking after his landslide victory, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he had agreed to swap his fiercest critic, Alekesi Navalny, several days before he died in an Arctic prison last month.

    • New York Times ☛ Putin Breaks Silence on Navalny’s Death, Calling It an ‘Unfortunate Incident’

      The Russian leader claimed he had been ready to release Navalny in a prisoner swap when the opposition leader died last month at an Arctic penal colony.

    • New York Times ☛ Navalny’s Widow Votes in Berlin

      Yulia Navalnaya, who has vowed to carry on her husband’s work, waited in line for hours with voters outside of the Russian embassy.

    • New York Times ☛ Long Lines of Russian Voters Signal Discontent With Putin’s Tenure

      Many appeared to be heeding a call by the opposition to express frustration by showing up en masse at midday. “We don’t have any other options,” said one woman.

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-11 [Older] Ukraine Needs More Than a Billion Dollars to Rebuild Its Scientific Infrastructure, UN Agency Says

    • Meduza ☛ Over 75 people detained throughout Russia amid ‘Noon Against Putin’ election protest — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Russian woman reportedly blows off hand with firecracker at polling station — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ With Russia’s three-day voting done, Putin secures his fifth presidential term and 25th–31st years in power — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Vladimir Putin finally speaks Alexey Navalny’s name, comments on his death and planned prisoner swap — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Yulia Navalnaya writes ‘Navalny’ on ballot after waiting six hours to vote at Russian Embassy in Berlin — Meduza

    • France24 ☛ Putin is set to win a fifth term by a landslide of 87.8%, according to a Russian exit poll

      Russians crowded outside polling stations at noon Sunday on the last day of a presidential election, apparently heeding an opposition call to protest against President Vladimir Putin in a vote that offered them no real alternatives after he ruthlessly cracked down on dissent.

    • France24 ☛ Thousands turn out to vote at Russian embassy in Paris

      Russian nationals formed long queues outside Moscow’s embassy in Paris on Sunday to cast their vote on the final day of elections set to extend President Vladimir Putin’s rule.

    • JURIST ☛ Russia police detain several people protesting Putin amid presidential election

      Russian advocacy organization and human rights monitor OVD-Info and Russian online media Mediazona reported Sunday that 75 people in 17 cities were detained in connection with the “Noon Against Putin” protest, a movement organized by the Russian opposition calling for voters to cast their ballots against incumbent President Vladimir Putin at noon.

    • RFERL ☛ Putin Extends Rule With Landslide Victory In Tightly Controlled Vote

      Russian President Vladimir Putin has won a Kremlin-orchestrated election in a landslide, extending his long rule another six years as he seeks to demonstrate overwhelming popular support for his full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

    • teleSUR ☛ Venezuelan Government Congrats Putin's Victory In Elections

      Venezuela points out the audacity and wisdom with which Russia have been able to overcome the multidimensional attacks that Russia has suffered.

    • teleSUR ☛ Putin Wins Presidential Elections With Overwhelming Majority

      Also this is maybe the Vladimir Putin's most importan political victory, after winning.

    • teleSUR ☛ Ukrainian Attack Leaves One Dead and 11 Injured in Belgorod

      On Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of trying to sabotage the elections.

    • CS Monitor ☛ Kremlin aims for high voter turnout to legitimize Putin's war in Ukraine

      Despite the certainty of President Vladimir Putin's extended rule, Russian opposition has called on voters to head to the polls. The election that began Friday has no real alternatives to Mr. Putin, and no public criticism of him or his war in Ukraine.

    • New York Times ☛ Putin Wins Russian Presidential Election

      A rubber-stamp presidential election with no real competition allows Vladimir Putin to claim strong public support for his domestic dominance and the invasion of Ukraine.

    • New York Times ☛ Russians Know Putin Will Be Re-Elected, but Many Worry What Comes Next

      While there is little doubt about the vote’s outcome, there is concern that an emboldened President Putin may use a win to start a new war mobilization.

    • New York Times ☛ Rebellious Russians Stage Daring Attacks From Ukraine on Russian Soil

      The surprise attacks, timed to Russia’s election, are meant to undermine the sense of stability in Russia and divert the country’s military resources from Ukraine.

    • New York Times ☛ Monday Briefing: Putin Extends His Rule

      Also, new avenues to get aid into Gaza are not yet relieving hunger.

    • France24 ☛ Moldova's EU membership hinges on resisting influence of pro-Russian oligarchs

      Ever since the fall of the Soviet Union, the Republic of Moldova, a small country between Romania and Ukraine, has been grappling with the influence of oligarchs – rich businessmen with close links to power. Often pro-Russian and backed by the Kremlin, the main oligarchs have been convicted by Moldovan courts, but have fled the country.

    • RFERL ☛ Ukraine Launches Far-Ranging Drone Attacks Amid Russia's Presidential Vote

      The Russian Defense Ministry reported downing 35 Ukrainian drones overnight, including four in the Moscow region.

    • teleSUR ☛ Third Day in Russia's Elections With 73% Turnout

      The three-day election day has been calm despite destabilizing attempts by the West, cyber attacks, Ukrainian terrorist incursions into Russian territory.

    • teleSUR ☛ France Must Stop Sponsoring Terrorism, Zakharova Warns

      During recent weeks, President Macron has maintained contradictory positions regarding his country's involvement in the Ukrainian conflict.

    • teleSUR ☛ Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Oil Refinery in Krasnodar

      On Saturday, Russian authorities confirmed that its forces neutralized three U.S. Patriot air defense complexes in Ukraine.

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-15 [Older] Germany, France, Poland unite for Ukraine support strategy

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-15 [Older] Scholz: 'more arms for Ukraine' after Berlin trilateral meet

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-15 [Older] What makes Germany's Taurus missile a game-changer for Ukraine?

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-15 [Older] Ukrainian Authorities Launch Mass Evacuation in Northern Region

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-14 [Older] German lawmakers reject Taurus missiles for Ukraine — again

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-14 [Older] Germany stands firm: No Taurus missiles for Ukraine

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-14 [Older] No Taurus missiles for Ukraine, Germany decides

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-14 [Older] Ukraine updates: Rheinmetall plans Ukraine arms factories

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-14 [Older] EU's Borrell, in Washington, Says Outcome of Ukraine War Will Be Decided This Spring and Summer

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-13 [Older] Berlin police probe fire at Ukrainian refugee center

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-13 [Older] EU agrees to €5 billion boost in military aid for Ukraine

    • The Local DK ☛ 2024-03-13 [Older] Denmark earmarks 2.3 billion kroner for artillery to Ukraine

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-13 [Older] US Agency Asks DoD to Improve Data Accuracy of Military Equipment Sent to Ukraine

    • Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2024-03-12 [Older] France finds Baltic allies in its spat with Germany over Ukraine troop deployment

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-12 [Older] US to send 'emergency' military aid to Ukraine

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-12 [Older] EU Clears Path for 5 Billion Euro Ukraine Military Aid Boost

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-12 [Older] Missile Hits Apartment Buildings in Ukraine's Kryvyi Rih, 3 Dead, 38 Hurt

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-12 [Older] Turkey's Erdogan Warns Against Spreading Ukraine Conflict to NATO, Exacerbating War

    • Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2024-03-11 [Older] Sen. Mike Lee: NATO Can Have Ukraine or the USA—Not Both

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-11 [Older] Ukraine updates: Germany criticizes pope over 'white flag'

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-11 [Older] Ukraine's Zelenskiy Says Frontline Situation Better Than in Prior Three Months

    • Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2024-03-10 [Older] Emmanuel Todd Prophesies the Defeat of the West

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-10 [Older] How the Ukraine war is changing the global arms trade

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-10 [Older] Pope Francis criticized for Ukraine 'white flag' remarks

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-10 [Older] France's Macron Postpones Trip to Ukraine

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-10 [Older] Pope Francis' 'White Flag' Comment Is Met by Criticism From Ukraine and Its Allies

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-09 [Older] Ukraine updates: Poland won't rule out NATO force in Ukraine

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-09 [Older] War crimes in Ukraine: Why Germany is investigating

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-09 [Older] Poland's Foreign Minister Says the Presence of NATO Troops in Ukraine Is 'Not Unthinkable'

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-09 [Older] Pope Says Ukraine Should Have 'Courage of the White Flag' of Negotiations

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-09 [Older] Turkey, US Discuss Ukraine, Gaza, Ways to Improve Ties, Foreign Min Says

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-08 [Older] Germany: Mounting concern over Ukraine and Gaza

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-08 [Older] While Macron hints at troops in Ukraine, EU has bigger issues

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-08 [Older] Program That Brought Ukrainians to North Dakota Oil Fields Ends

• Environment

  • The Local DK ☛ 2024-03-15 [Older] Are Denmark's gas prices returning to pre-energy crisis level?

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-15 [Older] Energy Department Conditionally Approves $2.26 Billion Loan for Huge Lithium Mine in Nevada

  • Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2024-03-13 [Older] Greece Spearheads a Dynamic Energy Transition

  • Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2024-03-13 [Older] The EU’s Foreign Policy for a Low-Carbon and Energy-Secure Future

  • Bridge Michigan ☛ 2024-03-11 [Older] Lake Superior warming fast; push is on to cut energy at Pictured Rocks, parks

  • Vox ☛ 2024-03-08 [Older] Why New York is suing the world’s biggest meat company

  • TruthOut ☛ 2024-03-08 [Older] Climate Lawsuits Against Fossil Fuel Industry Now Move Closer to Trial

  • Vox ☛ 2024-03-08 [Older] Does climate change trigger earthquakes?

  • The Local SE ☛ 2024-03-11 [Older] Greta Thunberg blocks entrance to Swedish parliament in climate protest

  • Scheerpost ☛ 2024-03-10 [Older] “Fire Weather”: Big Oil’s Climate Conflagration

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-09 [Older] Climate Resilience Can Curb a Crisis in Homeowners’ Insurance

  • The Conversation ☛ 2024-03-08 [Older] Mass extinction: our fossil study reveals which types of species are most at risk from climate change

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-11 [Older] Europe could suffer 'catastrophic' climate risk, EU agency warns

  • Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2024-03-15 [Older] Turning Tides: Climate Change Watershed Prompts Reevaluation of Nuclear Energy and Deep-Sea Mining

  • The Age AU ☛ 2024-03-15 [Older] How Rupert Murdoch’s son-in-law solved crisis at family farm

  • CBC ☛ 2024-03-14 [Older] Climate change minister hits back at premiers over carbon price

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-14 [Older] Shell weakens 2030 climate targets

  • CBC ☛ 2024-03-13 [Older] What we can learn from Canada's record wildfire season, as a new one approaches

  • The Age AU ☛ 2024-03-13 [Older] Australia news LIVE: Deep discounts needed to drive EV sales; Australia needs to bolster climate targets to prevent coral reef loss

  • The Local DK ☛ 2024-03-13 [Older] 'Prepare for 3C rise': Europe warned it must do more to deal with climate crisis

  • Vox ☛ 2024-03-13 [Older] Are we breaking the Atlantic Ocean?

  • Vox ☛ 2024-03-12 [Older] Spring is here very early. That’s not good.

  • CBC ☛ 2024-03-11 [Older] B.C. winemakers rethinking industry after climate catastrophes

  • New York Times ☛ The Best Way to Find Out if We Can Cool the Planet

    High-stakes geoengineering science requires transparency and accountability to the public.

  • Energy/Transportation

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-10 [Older] Saudi oil giant Aramco's profits dip after record 2022

    • Gizmodo ☛ 2024-03-15 [Older] Investigators: Boeing Overwrote Security Footage Related to Jet Door That Blew Out

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-15 [Older] Germany: Airport security staff strike at smaller hubs

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-13 [Older] IEA: Fossil fuel sector methane emissions unacceptably high

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-13 [Older] Germany: Strikes at airports extended to Friday

    • CBC ☛ 2024-03-15 [Older] Alberta government releases no-go zone map for renewable power projects

    • The Conversation ☛ 2024-03-08 [Older] Flight MH370 is still missing after ten years – forensic experts explain what we know and why we haven’t found the plane

    • Project Censored ☛ 2024-03-15 [Older] Plan to Study Impacts of Offshore Wind Farm on East Coast Ecosystems

    • Hackaday ☛ Shôtarô Kaneda’s Motorcycle, For Real

      For fans of the iconic anime Akira, there’s only one way to traverse the mean streets of post-apocalyptic neo-Tokyo, and that’s the futuristic mount of motorcycle gang leader Shôtarô Kaneda. It’s a low-down feet-forward machine with, we’re told, “Ceramic double-rotor two-wheel drive,” which we’re guessing is some kind of hybrid electric drive with what sounds like a gas-turbine motor. Over the years, there have been a few different attempts to create a real version of Kaneda’s bike, and we’re pleased to see the latest from ヲタ工房「ポンちゃンネル」(Ota Kobo “Ponchanner”). It uses a twin-cylinder Kawasaki motor in an entirely custom-made frame, with dual single-sided swingarms front and rear and hub-centre steering.

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • Counter Punch ☛ 2024-03-08 [Older] Discarding Old Theories on the Path to Finding the First Humans Outside Africa

    • Science Alert ☛ Researchers Solve Mystery of The Sea Creature That Evolved Eyes All Over Its Shell

      Not once, but four times.

    • Gizmodo ☛ 2024-03-14 [Older] See the Captivating Winners of the British Wildlife Photography Awards Contest

    • Gizmodo ☛ 2024-03-13 [Older] This Photo Project Reveals Life with Pets While Experiencing Homelessness

    • The Conversation ☛ 2024-03-15 [Older] Elephant calves have been found buried – what does that mean?

    • Science Alert ☛ Birds Eat Poop A Lot, And Scientists Are Still Trying to Figure Out Why

      Mmm mmm mmm.

    • Science Alert ☛ Earth's Oldest Fossilized Forest Has Been Hiding Its Bizarre Trees For 390 Million Years

      Not like anything you'd see today.

  • Overpopulation

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-08 [Older] A Saudi Business Is Leaving Arizona Valley After It Was Targeted by the State Over Groundwater Use

    • Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2024-03-14 [Older] Towards Stunting Recovery Through Food Security, How Far Has Indonesia Progressed?

• Finance

  • YLE ☛ Rehn: Labour dispute causing extensive damage to Finnish economy

    The standoff between the government and the trade unions could also delay Finland's economic recovery, according to the Governor of the Bank of Finland Olli Rehn.

  • Amid studio closures and mass layoffs, one indie developer's pirate RPG just sold enough copies to fund a sequel: "it feels right when talented individuals can finally do what they love"

  • India Times ☛ The 7-minute meeting where IBM employees at two divisions were laid off

  • The Kent Stater ☛ Students discuss struggles with finding an internship

    According to Forbes, getting an internship is more competitive now than ever. Since the pandemic, layoffs have continued to rise affecting the amount of internships available.

  • Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2024-03-09 [Older] Union Gives a Close Look at the Historic Amazon Labor Union Win

  • Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2024-03-15 [Older] Shawn Fain: Workers Deserve More Time for Themselves

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-15 [Older] Apple to Pay $490 Million to Settle Allegations That It Misled Investors About IPhone Sales in China

  • CBC ☛ 2024-03-15 [Older] Canada's indie movie theatres say industry is in crisis

  • Engadget ☛ 2024-03-14 [Older] Whoops! Amazon served costly ads for products people couldn't actually buy

  • Gizmodo ☛ 2024-03-15 [Older] Facebook Marketplace Is a Surreal Nightmare. These Are the Most Unhinged Listings

  • CBC ☛ 2024-03-15 [Older] Hidden cameras capture bank employees misleading customers, pushing products that help sales targets

  • The Age AU ☛ 2024-03-10 [Older] Bank branch closures roll on as cash usage declines

  • Counter Punch ☛ 2024-03-12 [Older] The Public Bank That Wasn’t: New Jersey’s Excursion into Public Banking

  • Vox ☛ 2024-03-11 [Older] Want financial security in America? Better get married.

  • Tech Industry Layoffs Surge in 2023, Leaving Thousands Jobless – What’s Next for Displaced Workers

    The tech industry is facing a significant challenge as more and more companies are laying off employees, leaving many skilled professionals struggling to find new opportunities. The recent wave of layoffs has created a highly competitive job market, with job seekers facing tough competition and lower pay than before. Many individuals, like data scientist Allison Croisant and marketing expert Krysten Powers, are finding it difficult to secure new roles despite their years of experience in the field.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • Daniel Pocock ☛ Flashback 2003: Debian has always had a toxic culture

    People are estimating that Debian has spent over $200,000 paying women to be volunteers through Outreachy. At the end of their Outreachy programs, they all disappear. Would it be better to use this money to get advice about fixing the culture? The payments to women are an admission that Debian culture is bad and women won't have anything to do with it voluntarily.

    Despite everybody knowing the culture of the group is the root of all evil, they continue to look for scapegoats. If they can just punish one more person, everybody else will behave nicely, Debian will be "safe" and women will join.

    Here is an email from the debian-private (widely leaked) gossip network giving an insight into the culture in 2003. It looks a lot like the culture today. In 20 years, despite all the forced resignations and expulsions nothing really changed.

  • Tech Central (South Africa) ☛ Apple is looking more like Coca-Cola than a high-growth tech stock

    The problem isn’t so much that Apple has suddenly stopped growing, that’s been happening for a while — its revenue shrank in every quarter of its last fiscal year even as the stock was hitting records. The trouble is the company hasn’t shown anything on AI at a time when iPhones sales are sluggish and the company is facing mounting regulatory threats.

  • Hindustan Times ☛ Reddit IPO oversubscribed 5 times, $6.5 billion valuation within reach: Report

    While the oversubscription does not guarantee a strong performance in the stock market debut, it means the company is poised to at least reach its targeted price range of $31 to $34 per share when it prices the IPO in New York on Wednesday, the sources said.

  • JURIST ☛ US Supreme Court rules public officials can be sued for blocking users on social control media in some cases

    The US Supreme Court ruled Friday that public officials can be sued for blocking users on social control media if the official posts about state matters and is authorized to speak for the state.

  • Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ When is a Government Official’s Social Media a State Action?

    The case arose after James Freed, the city manager of Port Huron, Michigan, deleted comments and blocked a Port Huron citizen (Kevin Lindke) from commenting on Freed’s personal Facebook (Farcebook) page after Lindke used the forum to criticize the city’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Lindke sued Freed, arguing that Freed had violated his free speech rights by censoring him in a public forum.

  • RFA ☛ China's stability maintenance system kicks into high gear on ‘sensitive dates’

    On politically significant calendar dates, the authorities take pre-emptive action against potential troublemakers.

  • LRT ☛ Lithuania’s defence minister confirms resignation amid disagreements with PM

    Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė has confirmed that Defence Minister Arvydas Anušauskas is stepping down from the post. The government wants to do “more and faster” for Lithuania’s security, while Aušauskas says he was offered to swap posts with another politician.

  • JURIST ☛ Hong Kong Legislative Council waives notice requirement for second reading of local security bill

    Hong Kong’s Legislative Council waived the 12-day prior notice requirement under the Notice of Motions and Amendments to resume the second reading of the new local national security bill upon Hong Kong Secretary for Security Chris Tang’s request in a letter to the Legislative Council’s House Committee on Friday.

  • Green Party UK ☛ 2024-03-14 [Older] Greens react to government extremism definition

  • Green Party UK ☛ 2024-03-12 [Older] Greens respond to Frank Hester’s remarks on Diane Abbott

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-14 [Older] Erdogan's farewell? Turkey's leader hints at retirement

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-14 [Older] Will Turkey's Erdogan retire from politics?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-09 [Older] Turkey: Erdogan says March election his 'last'

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-08 [Older] RECOMMENDED — India's Supreme Court recently outlawed unlimited anonymous donations via 'electoral bonds,' but did it clean up political fundraising?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-13 [Older] India's Citizenship Amendment Act: Why is it controversial?

  • Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

    • Engadget ☛ 2024-03-14 [Older] The SEC accuses Elon Musk of trying to 'distort’ its investigation into his takeover of Twitter

    • Project Censored ☛ 2024-03-11 [Older] Deconstructing Media Propaganda and Framing, from War to the Unhoused

    • New York Times ☛ How Trump’s Allies Are Winning the War Over Disinformation

      Social media companies suspended Donald J. Trump, then the president, and many of his allies from the platforms they had used to spread misinformation about his defeat and whip up the attempt to overturn it. The Biden administration, Democrats in Congress and even some Republicans sought to do more to hold the companies accountable. Academic researchers wrestled with how to strengthen efforts to monitor false posts.

    • India Times ☛ Social media: WhatsApp, social media influencers emerge as go to campaign mediums as parties sound poll bugle

      As the country gears up for the world's biggest electoral exercise, messaging platforms like WhatsApp and social media influencers have emerged as the go to mediums for political parties to influence voter psychology, ad gurus and political analysts say. In the run-up to the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, political parties are extensively using social media to propagate their achievements and seek support from voters.

    • India Times ☛ ai tiktok: Monsters, asteroids, vampires: AI conspiracies flood TikTok

      From vampires and wendigos to killer asteroids, TikTok users are pumping out outlandish end-of-the-world conspiracy theories, researchers say, in yet another misinformation trend on a platform whose fate in the United States hangs in the balance.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • CBC ☛ 2024-03-13 [Older] YouTube blocks access to Fifth Estate story on killing of B.C. Sikh activist at India's demand

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-12 [Older] The New York Times Is Fighting off Wordle Look-Alikes With Copyright Takedown Notices

  • Project Censored ☛ 2024-03-11 [Older] Global Momentum of Censorship & Debunking Corporate Media

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-08 [Older] Hong Kong's New National Security Bill Includes Stiff Penalties and More Power to Suppress Dissent

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-08 [Older] Hong Kong unveils draft new national security law

  • 43% of Left-wing nerds support the ban of opposing political ideas

    Censorship of online discourse is a major point of disagreement between the political Left and Right.

    Tech organizations perceived as "Politically Left-leaning", tend to support the banning of ideas from Online publishing platforms (Social Media, YouTube, Forums, etc.) -- Mozilla's infamous declaration of "we need more than deplatforming" being one such example.

    On the flipside, most moves towards less censorship are regarded as being "Politically Right-leaning" -- a great example being Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter, and subsequent loosening of some censorship rules on the X / Twitter platform.

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ 2 British firms helped UK-based Hong Kong activists campaign, court hears in Jimmy Lai trial

    A key prosecution witness in the national security trial of media mogul Jimmy Lai has named two British public relations agencies as helping UK-based Hong Kong activists campaign and meet with politicians in the wake of the 2019 protests and unrest.

  • New York Times ☛ A Financial Crisis May Jeopardize Local News in Most of Atlantic Canada

    Much of the trouble with the two companies — which are commonly owned and whose holdings include The Chronicle Herald in Halifax and The Telegram in St. John’s, Newfoundland, as well as The Guardian in Charlottetown — is of their own making. They have either refused to cover, or paid very little, on 40 million Canadian dollars in debts over the past five years; they owe the government just under 5 million dollars in H.S.T.; and they have funded operations using employees’ pension money.

  • VOA News ☛ AFP Journalist Among 50 Detained at Kurdish Event in Turkey

    Yasar said she had been arrested and taken away in a police van after objecting to an "intrusive" and "brutal" body search.

    She and the others being held in her van were insulted by police, she said, who called them "pig droppings, terrorists, traitors."

    Two journalists from the Bianet news site who were filming the arrests said they were beaten and thrown to the ground by police.

• Civil Rights/Policing

  • India Times ☛ Uber: Uber pays $178 million to end legal fight with Australian taxi drivers

    Global rideshare giant Uber will pay 272 million Australian dollars ($178 million) to settle a long-running dispute with Australian taxi and hire car drivers who lost out when the company entered the Australian market.

    A class action against Uber had been expected to go to trial in the Supreme Court of Victoria on Monday, but Maurice Blackburn Lawyers - representing 8,000 taxi and hire car drivers - said the case will be dropped because Uber agreed to the financial settlement.

  • BIA Net ☛ 2024-03-12 [Older] ECtHR sentences Turkey for violation of right to a fair trial

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-08 [Older] Iran's women vow resistance against 'misogynistic' regime

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-15 [Older] LGBTQ+ in Africa: How the US far right whips up homophobia

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-08 [Older] Empathy: How to learn to feel more for other people

  • CBC ☛ 2024-03-15 [Older] Charge dropped against man Windsor police accused of organizing Ambassador Bridge blockade

  • Idiomdrottning ☛ 2024-03-12 [Older] How to become OK with woke

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-08 [Older] International Women's Day: What's happening around the world

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-15 [Older] African Internet Outage Was Caused by Subsea Cable Break, MainOne Says

  • APNIC ☛ The end of the (IPv4) world is not nigh... yet

    A recent update from CZ.NIC, the organization responsible for managing the Czech Republic’s ccTLD and involved in DNS software, Internet systems, and standards, discusses the recent decision by the Czech government to require the discontinuation of IPv4 within their jurisdiction.

    Is this the end of the IPv4 world as we know it? No, but it’s a good sign of change coming.

  • Tech Central (South Africa) ☛ African internet cables severed by seismic activity: preliminary analysis

    Ghana’s National Communications Authority said it held a meeting with the four subsea cable landing service providers — Africa Coast to Europe (Ace), MainOne, owned by data centre operator Equinix, South Atlantic 3 (Sat-3) and the West Africa Cable System (Wacs) — and mobile network operators.

    It said the service providers had located the approximate location of the damage and had made preparations to dispatch repair vessels.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• IP Kat ☛ 2024-03-11 [Older] [Guest Post] Tax Court of South Africa wrestles with “arm’s length” royalties rate for IP licenses [Ed: "IP" is a misnomer]

• Engadget ☛ 2024-03-08 [Older] Apple will make it easier for EU users to switch to Android and delete Safari

• US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-08 [Older] Apple Reverses Course and Clears Way for Epic Games to Set up Rival IPhone App Store in Europe

• Engadget ☛ 2024-03-08 [Older] Apple reinstates Epic's developer account two days after banning it

• Engadget ☛ 2024-03-11 [Older] The Morning After: Apple reinstates Fortnite creator's developer account after two-day ban

• Engadget ☛ 2024-03-14 [Older] Epic accuses Apple of flouting court order by charging for external links on iOS apps

• Engadget ☛ 2024-03-12 [Older] Apple will allow iOS apps to be distributed on websites in the EU

• Gizmodo ☛ 2024-03-08 [Older] Fortnite Boss Defeats a Bad Apple, Clears Path for Epic Games Store

• Patents

  • 2024-03-12 [Older] Pfizer Inc. v. Sanofi Pasteur Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2024)

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ China filed 25% more patents than the U.S. in 2023 — heavily sanctioned Huawei led all companies worldwide despite bans

    China-based entities led all other countries in terms of the total number of patents filed. The total number of international patent applications filed globally was 272,600 in 2023, down 1.8% from 2023, but China remained on top with 69,610 applications, easily outstripping the United States, which had 58,823.

    The WIPO determines the number of patent applications filed by an entity through its Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) system. PCT patents are filed by entities wishing to protect their inventions in multiple countries with a single international patent application. Some companies do not file for a PCT patent application with all of their inventions, so while the WIPO rankings are important, they may not reflect all the patent applications filed in all countries.

  • Kangaroo Courts

    • IP Kat ☛ 2024-03-15 [Older] [Guest post] Dramatic reversal in the CRISPR Broad Institute cases following G 1/22

  • Software Patents

    • 2024-03-14 [Older] Masimo Proves New Apple Watch Series 9 Units Still Have the Blood Oxygen Sensor

• Trademarks

  • IP Kat ☛ 2024-03-11 [Older] Puma v/ EUIPO: Posts on celebrity's social media accounts may constitute early disclosure of a registered design

  • IP Kat ☛ 2024-03-11 [Older] CJEU: The Paris Convention does not allow cross-IP priority claims

• Copyrights

  • CBC ☛ How a Silicon Valley trend is impacting an $8B Canadian farm industry

    But that can become a problem, he said, when digital locks are also used to stop one brand's products from working with another's.

    Canadians can't currently bypass those locks without potentially violating the Copyright Act — and that can carry a serious penalty.

    But change could be on the horizon.

    A bill that was passed in Parliament last year and is working its way through the Senate would alter the Copyright Act, making it legal to circumvent digital locks in the interest of interoperability.

  • [Old] Internet Archive ☛ Fair Use in Action at the Internet Archive

    As we celebrate Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week, we are reminded of all the ways these flexible copyright exceptions enable libraries to preserve materials and meet the needs of the communities they serve. Indeed, fair use is essential to the functioning of libraries, and underlies many of the ordinary library practices that we all take for granted. In this blog post, we wanted to describe a few of the ways the fair use doctrine has helped us build our library.

  • Torrent Freak ☛ LaLiga's Card-Sharing Piracy Fight Harmed By Misinformation & Confusion

    A piracy-related court order obtained by Spanish football league LaLiga should've been relatively easy to explain. Instead, it now sits at the heart of a controversy that began with misinformation and is now being fueled by mischaracterization and misinterpretation. Today we'll shine new light on the case and show why it has implications for every internet user in the country. That leads to the role of ISPs and whether internet users can rely on them to defend whatever privacy they have left.

  • Engadget ☛ 2024-03-12 [Older] Now it's NVIDIA being sued over AI copyright infringement

  • IP Kat ☛ 2024-03-15 [Older] [Guest Post] Complexities of audiovisual copyright claims in Nigeria: Ini Edo and Chinenye Nworah’s dispute over Shanty Town (Neflix)