Leftovers

• Science

  • Gizmodo ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Explore NASA's Best Photos of the Year

• Hardware

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] Why Japan is investing in semiconductors once more

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • Truthdig ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] How Development Banks Underwrote Fast Food’s Global Takeover

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] India spice maker says products safe after health concerns

  • CBC ☛ 2024-04-26 [Older] Nearly 23% of the Canadian population reported food insecurity in 2022

  • HRW ☛ 2024-04-26 [Older] African Governments Falling Short on Healthcare Funding

  • CBC ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] Sask. officials knew COVID-19 was spreading at an 'exponential' rate in 2021, but refused restrictions

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] COVID: Is Germany prepared for another pandemic?

  • Video ☛ Encouraging movement

    The C.D.C. has said there were no confirmed deaths related to myocarditis, but in fact there have been several accounts of deaths reported post-vaccination.

• Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)

  • 9to5Mac ☛ 2024-04-27 [Older] Widespread Problem Has Locked Many Out of Their Apple IDs

  • Gizmodo ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] Apple Vision Pro Gets a Reality Check

  • Gizmodo ☛ 2024-04-27 [Older] Apple Vision Pro Sales Slump, Robot Weapons Get Scarier, TikTok Ban Is Here and More

  • NL Times ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Mass claim case launched against Apple for deliberately slowing its iPhones

  • IP Kat ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] [Guest post] Generative AI, originality, and the potential role of contract in protecting unoriginal works

  • The Register UK ☛ Google to relocate some US jobs to India and Mexico

    Google announced the layoff of 200 of its core team professionals last week while moving some roles to India and Mexico, according to reports.

    Teams affected in the reorganization include IT technical units, a Python developer team, technical infrastructure, security foundation, app platforms, core developers and some roles in engineering. The cuts were also said to affect the governance and protected data group.

    "We intend to maintain our current global footprint while also expanding in high-growth global workforce locations so that we can operate closer to our partners and developer communities," wrote Asim Husain, vice president of Google Developer Ecosystem, in a reported email.

• Security

  • Integrity/Availability/Authenticity

    • CBC ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] Canadian banks need to do more to stop abusive e-transfers, survivors say

    • NL Times ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Sextortion suspect facing 6 years in jail for coercing minors to send nude photos

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] Spain: Court reopens investigation in Pegasus spying scandal

• Defence/Aggression

  • Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2024-04-27 [Older] Stoltenberg: Germany makes major contributions to our shared security

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-27 [Older] UN Security Council Concerned Over Imminent Attack in Sudan's North Darfur

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] Haiti's Government Scrambles to Impose Tight Security Measures as Council Inauguration Imminent

  • Defence Web ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] Terror deaths double in Niger

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] Massive Policing for Paris Olympics to Include Security Checks for Some of the Capital's Residents

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] Rwanda explained: From politics to human right to migration

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] Pessimistic young Germans turning to far right, says study

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-26 [Older] Private Security Firm Says Missile Fire Seen off the Yemen Coast in the Red Sea Near Crucial Strait

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-26 [Older] Missiles Sighted 15 Nautical Miles SW of Yemen's Mokha - Security Firm Ambrey

  • CBC ☛ 2024-04-26 [Older] RCMP's ability to defend national security is eroding, report warns

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] Israel: US plans to sanction an IDF unit

  • Counter Punch ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Twain’s Anti-Imperialism and the Boxer Uprising

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] 11 Inmates Face Charges Related to an Uprising at South Dakota Prison

  • NL Times ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] Turkey supports Rutte as next NATO Secretary-General: Report

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] Turkey Backs Rutte as Next NATO Chief, Ankara Official Says

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Against Saudi Arabia Over 2019 Navy Station Attack

  • Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] WEF special meeting in Saudi Arabia: Insights

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] Middle East updates: Blinken in Saudi Arabia on crisis tour

  • HRW ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] Lebanon: Stepped-Up Repression of Syrians

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-26 [Older] A Turkish Court Sentences a Syrian Woman to Life in Prison for a Bombing in Istanbul in 2022

  • Gizmodo ☛ 2024-04-26 [Older] Fight, Sell, or Shut Down: What's Next for TikTok?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-26 [Older] China's ByteDance denies plans to sell TikTok in US

  • International Business Times ☛ 2024-04-26 [Older] Chinese Students Are Attending 'TikTok School' To Learn How To Sell Clothes Abroad

  • Gizmodo ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] Do You Have a Constitutional Right to TikTok?

  • Gizmodo ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] The TikTok Ban Is Law. What Now?

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] Sale? Ban? What’s Next for TikTok – and its Users?

  • Gizmodo ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Biden Signs TikTok Ban Into Law, but His Campaign Will Continue Using It

  • Gizmodo ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] TikTok Divest-or-Ban Bill Passes in the Senate

  • CBC ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Why did the U.S. TikTok ban bill get packaged with foreign aid?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] TikTok vows legal fight after Biden signs sell-or-ban bill

  • Make Tech Easier ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Are you Worried About the Potential Sale of TikTok?

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Biden Just Signed a Bill That Could Ban TikTok. His Campaign Plans to Stay on the App Anyway

  • The Washington Post ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Senate Passes Bill to Force Sale of TikTok

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] TikTok Has Submitted Risk Assessment Report on TikTok Lite to EU

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] Senators Hope TikTok Will Remain in Business in US Under New Owner

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] US Sanctions Militant Leaders Over Hostages in West Africa

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] UK arrests 3 over Channel crossing deaths

  • CBC ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] Canada sanctions Iran's defence minister, others after missile attack on Israel

  • HRW ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] Can New African Union Genocide Envoy Curb Atrocities in Africa?

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] US to Pull Troops From Chad and Niger as the African Nations Question Its Counterterrorism Role

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Mali Says It Killed Extremist Commander Who Took Part in One of Worst Attacks on US Forces in Africa

  • TruthOut ☛ 2024-04-27 [Older] African Governments Are Increasingly Turning Against US Military Presence

  • Defence Web ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] No longer needed EU equipment gifted to Mozambican military

  • Defence Web ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Senior UN peacekeeping official meets SADC Executive Secretary

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] German far-right coup plot trial begins

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] Iran renews violent crackdown on women

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Afghanistan: Shooting attack on mosque kills 6

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Colombia: 9 soldiers killed in military helicopter crash

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Donald Trump fined $9,000 for defying gag order in hush money trial

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] London: Boy dies after man attacks people, police with sword

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Germany: Prosecutors charge 7 Islamist terror suspects

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Germany, UK boost defense ties after Berlin talks

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-28 [Older] Macron: Nuclear arms should be part of EU defense debate

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-28 [Older] Middle East updates: Video shows hostages alive in Gaza

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-27 [Older] Australians protest gender violence after knife attack

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-27 [Older] Portugal says no plans to pay colonial reparations

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-27 [Older] Myanmar: Civil war of 'many against many' tearing country up

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-27 [Older] Cambodia: 20 soldiers killed in army base blast

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] Sorbonne speech: Will Macron's European plea be heard?

    • Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] Macron Warns Europe: We face challenges of security, economy, and culture

    • Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Macron’s Sorbonne II speech: A Machiavellian Moment for Europe?

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] Evan Gershkovich: Appeal rejected by Moscow court

• Environment

  • Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] Climate Crisis; Protecting Human Security in a Changing World

  • CBC ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Ottawa's $8B climate fund failing to attract largest emitters, watchdog says

  • NL Times ☛ 2024-04-27 [Older] Amsterdam climate protest blocks A10 highway; Pro-Palestinian group blocks central road

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] China, US to Hold Climate Meetings in Washington in May

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-27 [Older] Hydropower: Can it hold up against climate change?

  • Scheerpost ☛ 2024-04-27 [Older] Dozens of Climate Activists Arrested at Citibank Headquarters in New York City During Earth Week

  • Counter Punch ☛ 2024-04-26 [Older] Indoor Air Quality Matters: COVID, Climate Change, and More

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-26 [Older] Climate phenomena: What are El Nino and La Nina?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-26 [Older] El Nino: climate phenomenon intensifies in East Africa

  • Vox ☛ 2024-04-26 [Older] The end of coral reefs as we know them

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-26 [Older] German private firms asked to pay up for climate protection

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] Martian Skies Over Athens? Greece's Capital Turns an Orange Hue With Dust Clouds From North Africa

  • CBC ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] Eerie, orange skies engulf Athens as dust clouds blow in from Africa

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] German Climate Activists Sentenced for Spraying Paint on Brandenburg Gate

  • TruthOut ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] South Korean High Court Hears First-Ever Youth Climate Case in Asia

  • CBC ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Coke, Pepsi top list in global count of plastic waste

  • TruthOut ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Climate Activists Blockade HQ of World’s Second-Largest Funder of Fossil Fuels

  • CBC ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] Dubai deluge likely made worse by warming world, scientists find

  • University of Michigan ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] Wege Lecturer says effective climate action is fueled by hope

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] Kenya flooding leaves dozens dead after dam collapse

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Shopping showdown — what's greener, plastic or paper?

  • CBC ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Peguis First Nation launches $1B flood damages lawsuit against feds, Manitoba and 2 municipalities

  • CBC ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] For First Nations in Alberta, drought only compounds existing water issues

  • Energy/Transportation

    • Gizmodo ☛ 2024-04-26 [Older] Saudi Arabia's Sci-Fi Megacity in the Desert Isn't Going Well

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Indonesia's Ruang volcano erupts again, closing airport

    • The Age AU ☛ 2024-05-01 [Older] Winds of change: New era for offshore energy industry set to blow in

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] Battery Firm LG Energy Solution Q1 Profit Plunges on Weak EV Sales

    • CBC ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Table set for Honda's massive bet on Canada's electric vehicle sector

    • CBC ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Former SNC-Lavalin executive sentenced to prison term in Montreal bridge bribery case

    • CBC ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] New truckers in Canada aren't being trained well enough. How do we fix that?

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Germany's energy transition: Can a new hydrogen scheme help?

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-28 [Older] Dubai reaches for the sky with massive airport expansion

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] Not enough charging points for electric cars in EU: ACEA

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Lufthansa sees 'turning point' after Q1 marred by strikes

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • Counter Punch ☛ 2024-04-26 [Older] How Banks and Investors are Fueling a Biodiversity Crisis

    • CBC ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Firefighters who lost homes to wildfire gear up for season ahead

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] Should the use of animals in sports be banned?

    • CBC ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] Caribou herds in B.C. and Alberta have grown nearly 50%, mostly due to wolf culls, study finds

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] London police recapture 2 horses on the run

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Germany: Camel leads circus animal breakout

    • CBC ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] Makeshift slaughterhouse in a residential garage points to growing concerns about illicit meat sales

  • Overpopulation

    • HRW ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] Africa’s High Teenage Pregnancy Rate Demands Strong Response

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] In Indian tech hub Bengaluru, water crisis gets political

• Finance

  • CBC ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Canadian economy grew 0.2% in February [Ed: How much lower than inflation? The cult or illusion of constant "growth" is not sustainable.]

  • CBC ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Canada is scaling back temporary foreign workers. Critics say the program needs an overhaul

  • CBC ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Federal public servants to return to the office 3 days a week this fall

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Germany's economy shows slight upturn, raising hopes

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Israeli economy moves toward normality despite the war

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Klimt painting sold at Austrian auction for €30 million

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] How important is the Commonwealth to Africa today?

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-27 [Older] It's 30 Years Since Apartheid Ended. South Africa's Celebrations Are Set Against Growing Discontent

  • The Age AU ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] WA news LIVE: Major Perth builder collapses; Rinehart takes swipe at Facebook

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] EU probes Facebook, Instagram over election disinformation

  • Vox ☛ 2024-04-26 [Older] Canada’s polite Trumpism

  • Netzpolitik ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Facebook und Instagram: EU-Kommission untersucht Desinformation und Drosselung politischer Inhalte

  • uni Emory ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] Emory’s Jews are disturbed by the content of the protests, even if we support free speech

  • The Age AU ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] Albanese's speech at the What Was She Wearing rally

  • NL Times ☛ 2024-04-26 [Older] Wilders does not want his speech at far right conference to cause a political problem

  • International Business Times ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Elon Musk Woes Continue: Meta Threads Poised to Overtake X

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] Scotland's Humza Yousaf quits as ruling-SNP first minister

  • Vox ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] Can Canada stave off populism?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] Congo President Tshisekedi: 'I want to give peace a chance'

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez says he will not resign

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Spain: PM Sanchez suspends public duties as wife probed

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] Economic hurdles of EU expansion into Eastern Europe

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] EU lawmakers approve overhaul of budget rules

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] US aid for Taiwan 'will only increase tensions,' China says

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] US top diplomat Blinken visits China for tough talks

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] China and India compete for influence in the Maldives

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • CPJ ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] European Parliament calls for repeal of Hong Kong security laws

  • ANF News ☛ 2024-04-27 [Older] Book by Gültan Kışanak banned in Turkey

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] Burkina Faso blocks DW website over massacre coverage

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] Why Burkina Faso is muzzling foreign media

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-28 [Older] Burkina Faso dismisses HRW massacre report as 'baseless'

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Iran: Rapper Toomaj Salehi sentenced to death, says lawyer

  • Gizmodo ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] Elon Musk Has a Point

  • Counter Punch ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] Censorship Wars: Elon Musk, Safety Commissioners and Violent Content

  • Project Censored ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] World Press Freedom Day: Independent Media, Social Justice, and the Vox Populi

  • Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2024-04-27 [Older] France’s Justice System Is Cracking Down on Israel’s Critics

  • Truthdig ☛ 2024-04-26 [Older] Salman Rushdie Confronts a World Where Free Speech Is No Longer Sacred

  • The Age AU ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] Bishop Mari Emmanuel's free speech defence of the attack video

  • Vox ☛ 2024-04-26 [Older] Student protests are testing US colleges’ commitment to free speech

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Pro-Palestinian US High School Students Accuse School of Censoring Speech

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] Did China cover up a swim team doping scandal? [Ed: Well, do not ask questions as headlines. Answer your own questions.]

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • TruthOut ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Photojournalist Violently Arrested at Texas Campus Protest Faces Felony Charge

  • BIA Net ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Union condemns crackdown on pro-Kurdish media in Turkey, Belgium

  • CPJ ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] Mass raid in Turkey jails 3 Kurdish reporters, others put under judicial control

  • CPJ ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] CPJ, MENA Rights Group file Urgent Action to UN on disappearance of Syrian journalist in Iraqi Kurdistan

  • Project Censored ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] The Importance of Independent Journalism in Fighting Censorship and Countering Corporate Media Propaganda

• Civil Rights/Policing

  • HRW ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] Saudi Arabia: Halt Executions of Child Offenders

  • CBC ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Manitoba war vet's request for D-DAY licence plate twice rejected by MPI before finally getting OK'd

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] Australia: PM Albanese says domestic violence is a 'crisis'

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] European Broadcasting Union (EBU) Diversity Conference in Reykjavik

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Germany arrests suspected members of Nigerian dating mafia

  • CBC ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Edmonton police seeing no further extortion of South Asian businesses as investigation continues

  • CBC ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] Ontario woman 'blindsided' as government questions her Canadian citizenship — 30 years later

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-28 [Older] Iraq: US, UK condemn bill criminalizing homosexuality

• Digital Restrictions (DRM)

  • Make Tech Easier ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] Spotify and Apple Still Tussling Over App Store Policy

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• 2024-04-23 [Older] FTC Bans Non-Compete Agreements

• IP Kat ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] [Guest Post] Italian Supreme Court finds plant breeder's contractual terms were contrary to public interest

• Patents

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] US Challenges 'Bogus' Patents on Ozempic and Other Drugs in Effort to Spur Competition

  • 2024-04-28 [Older] Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. v. Norwich Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2024)

  • 2024-04-25 [Older] Guest Post by Lolita Darden: PPAC’s Bold Strategy to Transform Patent Inclusion [Ed: Conflating "Patent" and "Inclusion" contributes to whitewashing of monopolies]

• Trademarks

  • IP Kat ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] [Guest post] A correct reading of the ‘Puma-Rihanna’ case (T-647/22) – Five steps to happiness