Links 25/03/2024: Response to Terror Attack in Russia (137+ Dead) and UK Banking Sector Turns to Cannabis
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Leftovers
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Hackaday ☛ Interactive Cake Takes Your Picture
[Abigail] is a confectionery roboticist, and [Hazal] is a developer advocate at a robotics company. The two met recently and decided to collaborate on a smart cake, with amusing results.
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Hackaday ☛ It’s Never Been Easier To Build A WiFi-Controlled RC Car
Today, wireless-enabled microcontrollers are everywhere and can be had for just a few bucks. You can use them to build all kinds of connected projects more cheaply than ever before. [ROBO HUB] demonstrates this well with an incredibly simple WiFi-controlled RC car build.
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Science
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Reason ☛ Photo: A Private Moon Landing
Odysseus became the first private spacecraft to have a successful soft moon landing—kind of.
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Reason ☛ European Union's Hey Hi (AI) Law Will Heavily Regulate a Technology Lawmakers Don't Understand
And in the process, it will stifle innovation and competition.
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LRT ☛ Lithuanian photographer captured giant comet approaching Earth once every 71 years
An unusually large comet is making an appearance in the sky this spring, a once-in-seven-decades phenomenon that delights professional and amateur astronomers.
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The Conversation ☛ 2024-03-18 [Older] Space tourists and crew suffer high radiation risks – regulation is needed to protect them
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The Conversation ☛ 2024-03-19 [Older] Smart rings’ ultra-precise movement tracking take wearable technology to the next level
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The Conversation ☛ 2024-03-20 [Older] How a balloon-borne experiment can do the job of the Hubble space telescope
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Hardware
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CubicleNate ☛ Wall Mount Glasses Holder
I enjoy using my 3D printer to create things that are small quality of life improvements. One of my ambitions is to no longer have a full-on junk drawer and where everything has a place and a place for everything.
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Hackaday ☛ Clever E-Ink Driver Does 32 Levels Of Grey, Avoids Update Flicker, And More
There’s a lot to like about E-Ink displays, and you might be about to like them even more with [antirez]’s MicroPython driver for the Badger 2040 (or any display based on the UC8151 / IL0373) because it brings all kinds of useful features to your next project.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Chinese smuggler tried to slip 44 tattered RX 580 GPUs through customs
The customs officers of the Shangai Pudong International Airport confiscated 44 graphics cards from a smuggler who tried to pass through the green channel, hoping to evade any charges or laws prohibiting such large imports.
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WCCF Tech ☛ Intel - AMD CPUs Blocked By China: No Government PC To Use Chips From US Companies
The Chinese government has blocked the use of Intel and AMD CPUs into government computers, creating new hostilities in the tech industry.
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Hackaday ☛ New Pens For Old Plotters
Finding consumables is an ever-present problem facing anyone working with old computer hardware. Many of these devices ceased manufacture decades ago and what old stock remains is invariably degraded by time. [Retrohax] has encountered it with the pens for an Atari plotter, a machine that uses an ALPS mechanism that appears in more than one 1980s machine. The original pens had dried out beyond the ability to refill, so he takes us through the process of finding replacements.
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Hackaday ☛ Tiny Signal Generator Revealed
There was a time when test equipment was big and heavy. Those days are gone, and [Kiss Analog] shows us the inside of a Uni-T UTG962E arbitrary waveform generator. The device is truly tiny. You might think this is due to the dense packing of the circuit board. However, one board is packed but the other board seems to have a high degree of integration on one IC. You can check out the video below.
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TerraMaster Unveils TOS 6 Beta: A Groundbreaking NAS Operating System
TerraMaster, a leading provider of innovative storage solutions for home and business users, has announced the release of TOS 6 Beta [...]
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Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
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Off Guardian ☛ Lockdown’s Fourth Birthday
Today marks four years to the day since the UK went into “lockdown” for the first time. What an exciting time that was, right? With the pan-banging and the curve-flattening and the Spirit of the Blitz living on. Good times.
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New York Times ☛ First He Came for Cancel Culture. Now He Wants to Cancel Smartphones
The N.Y.U. professor Jonathan Haidt became a favorite in Silicon Valley for his work on what he called the “coddling” of young people. Now, he has an idea for fixing Gen Z.
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Neil Selwyn ☛ There is a growing trend for governments declaring nationwide phone ‘bans’ across school systems, but …
*Completely* banning phones from schools is a conservative, reactionary response which says more about the frailties of our current school systems which are based around controlling, nudging, and mistrusting young people (and their teachers).
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-21 [Older] Content Creators Worry About Miseducation in a World Without TikTok
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Denis Rancourt on COVID-19: No virus, just psychological stress
I’ve written before about how germ theory denial is a constant thread in the antivax movement. As scientifically unjustifiable as it is to claim that pathogenic microbes are not the cause of infectious diseases, you can probably see how it makes a sort of warped sense for antivaxxers to be attracted to such denial, if only for the simple reason that if microbes don’t cause disease then vaccines are obviously unnecessary and can thus only cause harm. Germ theory denial, however, doesn’t just undergird a significant chunk of antivax beliefs; it is a general underlying component behind much of alternative medicine as well—and has been for a long time. There is, however, a rather odd form of germ theory denial that doesn’t actually deny that there are infectious diseases. Rather, it denies the existence of viruses specifically.
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Security
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Privacy/Surveillance
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JURIST ☛ Kenya demands Fentanylware (TikTok) abide by national privacy regulations
Kenya’s Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki told the Public Petitions Committee of the National Assembly that the National Security Council (NSC) is coping with the threats posed by social control media platforms particularly the app TikTok. Fentanylware (TikTok) is a short-form online video platform owned by Chinese Internet company ByteDance, rapidly gaining worldwide popularity in recent years.
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Defence/Aggression
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Hong Kong Free Press ☛ South China Sea: Philippines says China attacked supply vessel with water cannon
The Philippines said the China Coast Guard blocked a Filipino supply vessel and damaged it with water cannon on Saturday, causing injuries near a reef off the Southeast Asian country. The Philippine military released video of what it said was a nearly hour-long attack off Second Thomas Shoal in the contested South China Sea, where […]
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The Conversation ☛ 2024-03-21 [Older] US election: turning off TikTok is a big risk for the Democrats [Ed: TikTok lets elections be controlled by Beijing, so how is this headline true?]
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-20 [Older] TikTok for sale: Who can buy it and how much will it cost?
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-20 [Older] 2 Japanese Men Die in River Near Washington State Waterfall Made Popular on TikTok
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-16 [Older] Mnuchin’s Interest in TikTok and Distressed NY Bank Echoes His Pre-Trump Investment Playbook
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Gizmodo ☛ 2024-03-19 [Older] Viral Movie Posters of The Land Before Time Remake From Disney Are Totally Fake
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Gizmodo ☛ 2024-03-18 [Older] Congressman Apologizes After Voting for TikTok Ban, Would Like the Yelling to Stop
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-18 [Older] US Officials to Brief Senators Wednesday on Threats Posed by TikTok, Aide Says
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Engadget ☛ 2024-03-16 [Older] Engadget Podcast: Why is the US trying to ban TikTok again?
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-16 [Older] TikTok Creators Warn of Economic Impact if App Sees Ban, Call It a Vital Space for the Marginalized
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Counter Punch ☛ 2024-03-15 [Older] Prejudicial Bans: Congress Tosses over TikTok
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EFF ☛ 2024-03-15 [Older] 5 Questions to Ask Before Backing the TikTok Ban
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Engadget ☛ 2024-03-15 [Older] The Morning After: TikTok bans and Airbnb cams
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Truthdig ☛ 2024-03-15 [Older] House Vote to Ban TikTok Risks Renewed Cold War With China
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-21 [Older] Canada Says Hong Kong's New Security Law Does Not Safeguard Human Rights
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-21 [Older] US Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas Says Texas Immigration Law Is Unconstitutional
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Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2024-03-20 [Older] The Logic of China’s global security initiative – seeking for common security
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Scheerpost ☛ 2024-03-20 [Older] Can the UN Security Council Finally Wrap Its Mind Around Haiti? It’s Trying
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Counter Punch ☛ 2024-03-20 [Older] Predictable Outcomes: Australia, the National Security Committee, and invading Iraq
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Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-22 [Older] Sweden joining NATO bolsters Baltic Sea security — Billstrom
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RFERL ☛ Taliban Strongly Condemns Moscow Concert Hall Attack
Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have issued a stark condemnation of the March 22 attack on a Moscow concert venue that left at least 115 dead and wounded more than 100 others.
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CS Monitor ☛ Islamic State group claims Moscow attack as death toll rises to 133
The U.S. says it has evidence backing up the claim that an Islamic State group affiliate carried out the attack on a Moscow concert hall.
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New York Times ☛ ISIS-K, Group Tied to Moscow Attack, Has Grown Bolder and More Violent
The militant group violently opposes the Taliban leaders of Afghanistan, where it is based. It is increasingly targeting foreign foes.
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New York Times ☛ Names of the Victims Killed in the Moscow Concert Attack Begin to Emerge
Those lost include mothers, fathers, an amateur hockey player and many others.
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New York Times ☛ Gunmen Kill 60 at Concert Hall Outside Moscow, State Media Reports
The Islamic State claimed the attack, the deadliest in the Moscow region in more than a decade.
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New York Times ☛ Moscow Concert Hall Photos: Deadly Attack and Fire at Crocus City Hall
Images show the scene of what could be the deadliest attack in Russia in decades. Multiple gunmen killed at least 133 people in an assault in the capital’s outskirts.
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New York Times ☛ What We Know About the Moscow Concert Hall Attack
The assault on a popular concert hall was the deadliest act of terrorism in the Russian capital in more than a decade.
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New York Times ☛ ISIS-K, Blamed in Moscow Attack, Has Hit at Taliban’s Russia Links
Islamic State Khorasan, or ISIS-K, previously attacked Russia’s embassy in Kabul and has produced floods of anti-Kremlin propaganda.
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New York Times ☛ Piknik, a longtime Russian rock band, is now at the center of a tragedy.
The group was set to play the first of two sold-out concerts when gunmen opened fire at Crocus City Hall.
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New York Times ☛ Slovakia Presidential Election 2024: What You Need to Know
Ivan Korcok, a veteran diplomat hostile to the Kremlin, and Peter Pellegrini, a Russia-friendly politician allied with Slovakia’s populist prime minister, will face each other in a runoff.
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YLE ☛ Stubb, Orpo express shock, condolences over Moscow attack
Finland’s president and premier expressed sympathy for the victims and their loved ones – but not Russia’s leadership.
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JURIST ☛ Russia security services report 11 detained following Moscow music hall attack that killed 133
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) reported on Saturday that security services detained 11 people in connection with the ISIS-claimed attack on the Crocus City Hall music venue on the outskirts of Moscow that killed at least 133. The FSB added that four who directly participated in the attack were among the detained.
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France24 ☛ Russia observes national day of mourning after Moscow concert hall massacre
Russia will observe a national day of mourning on Sunday after a massacre in a Moscow concert hall that killed more than 130 people, the deadliest attack in Europe to have been claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group.
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teleSUR ☛ Death Toll From Terrorist Attack in Russia Rises to 133
Until now 11 mercenaries have been arrested.
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New York Times ☛ Russia Arrests 4 Suspects in Moscow Attack as Death Toll Climbs to 133
As the Islamic State claimed responsibility, President Vladimir V. Putin vowed to “identify and punish” those responsible and tried to implicate Ukraine.
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New York Times ☛ Deadly Moscow Attack Shatters Putin’s Security Promise to Russian People
The tragedy outside Moscow is a blow to a leader riding an aura of confidence only days after a stage-managed election victory.
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teleSUR ☛ Vladimir Putin Declares March 22 as National Mourning Day
The death toll in the terrorist attack is 133, making the attack the worst of the last years in the nation.
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RFERL ☛ Ukrainian Denials Of Involvement Sharpen After Attack On Russian Concert
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and other Ukrainian officials on March 23 furiously denied any role by their country in the devastating attack on a Moscow-area concert hall a day earlier that killed at least 143 people and was claimed by the militant group Islamic State (IS).
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JURIST ☛ EU imposes sanctions on Russia for Alexei Navalny’s death
The European Council on Friday imposed sanctions on Russian officials and entities linked to the death of Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny. The sanctions were introduced under the EU’s current Global Human Rights Sanction Regime, including an asset freeze, prohibitions on the provision of funds or economic resources, and a travel ban to the EU.
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France24 ☛ Zelensky says Putin seeking to ‘shift the blame’ for Moscow attack onto Kyiv
Russian authorities arrested four men suspected of carrying out the attack on a suburban Moscow concert hall that killed at least 133 people, President Vladimir Putin said Saturday in an address to the nation, claiming that the suspects were captured while fleeing to Ukraine. Kyiv strongly denied any involvement in the deadly attack, for which the Islamic State group's Afghan affiliate claimed responsibility. Read our blog to see how the day's events unfolded.
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France24 ☛ Moscow concert hall attack: What we know so far
The suburban Moscow concert hall where gunmen opened fire on concertgoers was a smoldering ruin on Saturday as the death toll in the attack surpassed 130 and Russia's President Vladimir Putin claimed the four assailants were captured while fleeing to Ukraine. Kyiv strongly denied any involvement in Friday's assault, for which the Islamic State (IS) group's Afghan affiliate has claimed responsibility.
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New York Times ☛ Putin Tries to Link Moscow Concert Hall Attack to Ukraine
American officials, who have assessed that a branch of the Islamic State was responsible, have voiced concern that the Russian leader could seek to falsely blame Ukraine.
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New York Times ☛ Moscow Concert Hall Shooting: Death Toll Rises to 133 in Moscow Concert Hall Attack
President Vladimir V. Putin vowed to punish those responsible for the assault, one of the deadliest in Russia in decades. U.S. officials have attributed the attack to ISIS-K, a branch of the Islamic State that has been active in Iran and Afghanistan.
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RFERL ☛ Gunmen Kill Dozens Of Russian Concertgoers In Attack Claimed By Islamic State
Russian authorities said at least 62 people were killed and more than 100 injured after gunmen opened fire at the Crocus City Hall concert venue in Krasnogorsk, near Moscow, on March 22 in an attack reportedly claimed by the Islamic State militant group.
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RFERL ☛ Russia Says 4 Foreign Suspects Detained As Death Toll From Concert Attack Reaches 133
Rescuers pulled more bodies from the rubble of a Moscow-region concert hall as the toll from a deadly attack on the venue reached 133 and security officials said four suspected gunmen had been detained in connection with Russia’s worst terrorist violence in nearly two decades.
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RFERL ☛ In Belarus, One-Fourth Of 'Political' Criminal Cases Were About Lukashenka Insults
One-quarter of the 5,012 criminal cases that were brought by Belarusian authorities in 2023 under a handful of articles to suppress political speech and activities concerned alleged insults against longtime leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka, according to an analysis of police data.
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RFERL ☛ Russian Soyuz Rocket With 3 Aboard Blasts Off To Space Station
A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying three astronauts blasted off en route to the International Space Station, two days after its launch was aborted seconds before takeoff.
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RFERL ☛ Russia's Foreign Ministry Says Spanish Reporter Denied Visa Was Invited To Stay
Russia's Foreign Ministry says it issued the necessary documents for a Spanish journalist to stay in the country although the reporter claims he was forced to leave because his visa was not renewed.
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France24 ☛ Russia says it captured Ukrainian frontline village west of Bakhmut
Russia on Saturday claimed a new territorial victory over Ukrainian forces struggling to find weapons and troops while the two sides staged deadly new aerial attacks on each other.
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France24 ☛ At least two dead, oil refinery on fire after Ukrainian drone attacks in Russia
Multiple air attacks on the Russian border region of Belgorod adjoining Ukraine on Saturday killed two people and injured at least seven, the governor said.
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France24 ☛ Slovakia votes for president amid deep split over Ukraine war
Slovakians began voting on Saturday in the first round of a presidential election pitting the Russia-leaning ruling camp against a pro-Ukraine candidate.
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RFERL ☛ Ukrainian Strikes Kill 2, Hit Russian Oil Refinery, Officials Say
Officials in two Russian regions bordering Ukraine say Ukrainian drones have killed two people and hit an oil refinery, setting it on fire.
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New York Times ☛ Inside the Battle for a Bunker in Avdiivka, Ukraine
A struggle for a position held by Ukrainian forces in the eastern city of Avdiivka underlines how the conflict is increasingly being fought in close-quarter combat.
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New York Times ☛ Ukraine Rejects Russian Speculation That It Had Role in Attack
Kyiv has accused Russia of falsely suggesting it was to blame for the terrorist attack in Moscow and of using the assault to escalate the fighting in Ukraine.
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New York Times ☛ Russia Has Seen Several Major Attacks in Recent Decades
The concert hall massacre near Moscow raised Russian memories of other attacks, most related to the wars against Chechen separatists in the 1990s and 2000s that helped enable the rise of Vladimir V. Putin.
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-19 [Older] German soldier charged with Russia spying
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Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2024-03-19 [Older] Is Russia A Threat to NATO?
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-19 [Older] Russia's Putin Says He Will Consider China for His First Trip in New Term
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-19 [Older] Russia, Ukraine Report Air Attacks in Border Areas
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Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2024-03-18 [Older] Russia Validates its Partnership with Republic of Congo
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-18 [Older] Putin's power play: Russia makes geopolitical pivot to Asia
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-18 [Older] Ukraine updates: Russia altering Crimean identity — Amnesty
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-18 [Older] Vladimir Putin's reelection: What's in store for Russia?
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-18 [Older] Russia's Delegation Led by Vice Culture Minister Arrives in North Korea, KCNA Says
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-18 [Older] Takeaways From the Predictable Russian Election That Gave Putin Another 6 Years in Power
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Vox ☛ 2024-03-18 [Older] Putin’s reelection puts him in a class of Russia’s longest-ruling autocrats
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-17 [Older] Russia: Opposition calls on voters to protest against Putin
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-17 [Older] Ukraine updates: Russia's Belgorod hit again amid election
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-16 [Older] Ukraine updates: Belgorod says new attack amid Russia vote
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-16 [Older] Putin Is Expected to Win Russia's 'Sham' Presidential Election
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-16 [Older] Latvia Starts Criminal Proceedings Against an EU Parliament Lawmaker Suspected of Spying for Russia
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-16 [Older] Russia Says Ukrainian Shelling Killed 2 in a Border City While It Thwarted an Incursion
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-16 [Older] Russians Cast Ballots in an Election Preordained to Extend President Vladimir Putin's Rule
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-16 [Older] Russian War Exiles Bring Banyas and Blinis to Buenos Aires
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-16 [Older] Russia's FSB Detains Suspected Ukraine Agent Planning Railway Attack-TASS
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-16 [Older] Russia Will Be Asked for Ceasefire During Olympics, Macron Tells Ukraine Interviewer
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-16 [Older] Two Killed in Shelling of Russian Border City Belgorod, Governor Says
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-16 [Older] Russia Accuses Kyiv of Election Sabotage, Medvedev Warns 'Traitors'
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-16 [Older] Firefighters Take Hours to Put Out Russian Refinery Blaze After Ukraine Drone Strike
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-18 [Older] US Senator Graham Says Ukraine Aid Depends on Conditions, Domestic Issues
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Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2024-03-18 [Older] The US Isn’t Properly Tracking Its Weapons Supply in Ukraine
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-18 [Older] Ukraine aid, Hamas sanctions top EU foreign ministers agenda
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-18 [Older] Out of Money, Pentagon Chief Looks to Convince Allies of Commitment to Ukraine
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CPJ ☛ 2024-03-18 [Older] Poland detains 4 Ukrainian journalists reporting at the border
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-20 [Older] Germany won't accept Putin-dictated Ukraine peace — Scholz
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-20 [Older] Ukraine: EU plans more tariff-free trade, but with limits
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-20 [Older] Ukraine updates: Presence of foreign troops 'open secret'
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-20 [Older] EU Reaches Interim Deal to Extend Tariff-Free Ukrainian Agricultural Imports
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-20 [Older] Dutch Providing Ukraine With F-16 Ammunition, Drones, Minister Says
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-20 [Older] U.S. Military Aid Package 'Will Get to Ukraine', Jake Sullivan Says on Kyiv Trip
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Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2024-03-19 [Older] France and Baltics are ready to invade Ukraine
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NL Times ☛ 2024-03-19 [Older] Court: Netherlands cannot deport third-country nationals who arrived from Ukraine
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CBC ☛ 2024-03-19 [Older] Senate passes updated Canada-Ukraine free trade agreement without support of Tories
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-19 [Older] Ukraine updates: US won't let Kyiv fail, Pentagon chief says
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The Age AU ☛ 2024-03-19 [Older] Australia news LIVE: Reserve Bank to decide on interest rates; Call for Gazans to receive same visas as Ukrainians after Putin invasion
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The Local SE ☛ 2024-03-19 [Older] Ukraine's ambassador to Sweden criticises 'deeply offensive' TV brothel joke
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NL Times ☛ 2024-03-21 [Older] Dutch F-16s to fly over Ukraine this fall; Netherlands also gifting €350M in bombs, drones
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-21 [Older] IMF Board Okays $880 Million Loan Payment for Ukraine, Sees War Winding Down in '24
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Meduza ☛ A rising death toll, a possible court decision, and a nationwide day of mourning Latest updates on Russia’s deadliest terrorist attack since Beslan — Meduza
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Meduza ☛ ISIS-affiliated media publish graphic body-cam footage from Moscow terrorist attack — Meduza
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Environment
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Wildlife/Nature
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Science Alert ☛ There Was Once a Different Kind of Dolphin in The Amazon, And It Was a Giant
Not what paleontologists expected.
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Finance
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-21 [Older] Yellen Would Welcome US Legislation to Aid Cannabis Banking Access
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Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2024-03-16 [Older] Banks Want to Protect Their Most Predatory Junk Fee
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AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
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New York Times ☛ If Your Demographics Can Predict Your Politics, Are They Really Yours?
Demography often determines what you believe.
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New York Times ☛ Indiana Law Requires Professors to Promote ‘Intellectual Diversity’ or Face Penalties
Faculty members in public universities could be disciplined or fired, even those with tenure, if they are found to fall short of the new requirements.
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Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda
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The Conversation ☛ 2024-03-19 [Older] Deepfakes are still new, but 2024 could be the year they have an impact on elections [Ed: Nope, "Deepfakes" are not new, the term is new. Disinformation comes from many articles about "disinformation".]
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Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press
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The Dissenter ☛ The Wall Street Journal's Scoop On Assange Plea Deal Discussions
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Press Gazette ☛ University of Kent to close Centre for Journalism
The CfJ, which itself is profitable, will close once its existing students finish their courses to enable the sale of the building that is its home to “help fill a massive hole” in the wider university’s finances.
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Civil Rights/Policing
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The Hill ☛ Minneapolis just called Uber’s bluff — other cities must follow their lead
The companies had publicly threatened to abandon the city if the minimum wage law passed, claiming that paying drivers more would force them to steeply jack up fares. This sets up a showdown over the future of the gig economy: Will Uber get away with using threats — that our research finds are not grounded in fact — so they can continue paying poverty wages while giving billions to Wall Street, or will more and more cities stand with drivers and set a new route for the industry?
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John Gruber ☛ Harrison Bergeron [PDF]
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VOA News ☛ Taliban Chief Defends Islamic Criminal Justice System, Including Stoning Women for Adultery
He criticized Western human rights values and women's freedoms, saying Taliban religious scholars would persistently resist the West and its form of democracy in Afghanistan. "Thanks to these scholars, such a democracy was evicted from this land," the Taliban leader said.
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VOA News ☛ Chinese Pastor Released After 7 Years in Prison, Unable to Get ID
According to Cao, police said they would help his mother update the hukou. It was only later that he found out in updating her registration that they removed his name.
Cao never took American citizenship because of his calling, spending his time between the two countries. He had kept his U.S. permanent residency throughout this time, though he says that's not accepted as an ID in China.
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Los Angeles Times ☛ Long Beach Post layoffs hit striking staffers
The Long Beach Media Guild announced Friday that at least 60% of the bargaining unit received layoff notices shortly after newsroom employees moved to unionize and went on strike to protest the impending cuts.
The unit, which is seeking voluntary recognition from its employer, the Long Beach Journalism Initiative, said that nine of its members were laid off, while three surviving members remain on strike. The entire Long Beach Post staff was reduced from 17 to eight, said a source close to the nonprofit who was not authorized to comment.
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Internet Policy/Net Neutrality
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APNIC ☛ Delay Tolerant Networking performance
The subject of Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN) has been under active investigation in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) even before the earliest concepts of the IETF Delay-Tolerant Networking Architecture were published as RFC 4838 in April 2007.
The work then progressed to the point that the IETF formed a DTN working group, which now produces DTN standards for the Internet. Most notably, the DTN Bundle Protocol (RFC 9171) defines a ‘bundle’ as the atomic unit of transfer for a DTN protocol stack layer below the application layer. DTN bundles are often quite large (for example, 100KB, 1MB or even more) and associated with bulk transfer, in contrast to the much smaller Internet Protocol (IP) ‘packet’ more commonly associated with interactive Internet communications.
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Engadget ☛ 2024-03-21 [Older] Justice Department files antitrust lawsuit against Apple over its infamous 'walled garden'
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Reason ☛ How the Government Almost Killed the Apple
...and how the free market is saving it.
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Tech Central (South Africa) ☛ Regulators target Big Tech
Big Tech is facing its biggest challenge in decades as antitrust regulators on both sides of the Atlantic crack down on alleged anticompetitive practices that could result in breakup orders to Apple and Google, a first for the industry.
That in turn could inspire watchdogs around the world to pile on, as evidenced in the growing number of antitrust probes in various countries following the opening of EU and US cases. Since AT&T was broken up exactly 40 years ago, no company has faced the possibility of a regulator-led breakup in the US until now.
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Wired ☛ The Apple Antitrust Case and the ‘Stigma’ of the Green Bubble
Back in 2022 at the annual Code Conference, where tech luminaries submit to onstage interviews, an audience member asked Apple CEO Tim Cook for some tech support. “I can’t send my mom certain videos,” he said; she used an Android device, which means she can't access Apple’s iMessage. Cook’s now-infamous response: “Buy your mom an iPhone.”
Cook’s remark and Apple’s recent decision to block the third-party app Beeper from bridging the Android-to-iMessage interoperability chasm are two of the many examples of allegedly monopolistic behavior cited in the US government’s antitrust suit against Apple. Central to the case is Apple’s practice of “locking in” iPhone customers by undermining competing apps, using its proprietary messaging protocol as glue, and generally making it challenging for people to switch to other phones.
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India Times ☛ apple: How Europe's regulatory battle with Apple could signal what's to come for American consumers
It'll likely take years before the U.S. government's massive antitrust lawsuit against Apple is resolved - but the iPhone maker's troubles with European regulators offer a glimpse of what changes American customers may see down the line.
The U.S. lawsuit seeks to stop Apple from undermining technologies that compete with its own apps in areas such as streaming, messaging and digital payments. The Department of Justice also wants to prevent the tech giant from building language into its contracts with developers, accessory makers and consumers that lets it obtain or keep a monopoly.
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Copyrights
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2024-03-18 [Older] The New York Times Calls Out OpenAI on Its Motion to Dismiss
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IP Kat ☛ 2024-03-16 [Older] French court confirms copyright protection for "Tam Tam" stool
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IP Kat ☛ 2024-03-17 [Older] Weekend read: The (many) copyright questions in Kate Middleton’s Mother’s Day manipulated image
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Torrent Freak ☛ Football Boss Praises 'Historical' Blocking Order as Initial Anti-Piracy Push Backfires
Pirate sites and services are popular around the world and Ecuador is no exception. The boss of football league LigaPro has been very vocal on the anti-piracy front and recently announced a 'historical' site-blocking order. While these new measures are likely to have some effect, the decision to out a popular pirate IPTV service backfired recently.
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teleSUR ☛ Judge Bans Telegram App in Spain
The judge’s order stems from a complaint filed by Mediaset, Antena 3 and Movistar in which they accused the application of hosting without permission audiovisual content of these epresas protected by copyright.
Pedraz directed an order to telecommunications operators and Internet access authorized to operate in Spain to proceed to the suspension of resources associated with Telegram, within three hours.
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CBC ☛ 2024-03-18 [Older] Banksy's newest mural highlights cropped tree, drawing crowds who see environmental message
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Monopolies/Monopsonies
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