Leftovers

• Standards/Consortia

  • ARRL ☛ Ham Radio Serving Southeast US Recovery Efforts

    In North Carolina, all official emergency radio communications are done through NC AUXCOMM. NC Division of Emergency Management Senior External Affairs Specialist Brian Haines says hams are deployed. “Amateur radio operators are working side by side with first responder communications personnel all over Western North Carolina. Needless to say, we are interested in highlighting all they are doing but at this point they are heavily involved in response efforts, which is where we need to focus,” he said.

  • The Register UK ☛ Cisco is abandoning the LoRaWAN space

    Switchzilla made this information public in a notice on its website announcing the end-of-sale and end-of-life dates for Cisco LoRaWAN. The last day customers will be able to order any affected products will be January 1, 2025, with all support ceasing by the end of the decade.

    The list includes Cisco's 800 MHz and 900 MHz LoRaWAN Gateways, plus associated products such as omni-directional antennas and software for the Gateways and Interface Modules.

• Science

  • Science Alert ☛ Stunningly Preserved Bones of Extinct Caribbean Monkey Found by Divers

    Lost for millennia.

  • Science Alert ☛ Our Moon May Have Been Stolen, And It's Not The Only Example We Know of

    "This opens a treasure trove of new questions."

  • Science Alert ☛ Some Filters Are Better Than Others at Removing Forever Chemicals From Your Water

    Boiling it won't work.

  • Science Alert ☛ Watch The Smallest Water Droplet Ever Seen Grow, Molecule by Molecule

    Where baby rain drops come from.

  • Science Alert ☛ Scientists Found a Cannabis Compound Inside a Totally Different Plant

    Hiding in plain sight!

  • Science Alert ☛ Pronouns Are Closely Linked to Names in Our Brains, Study Finds

    Down to the same neuron firing.

  • Science Alert ☛ Study Reveals How Much Exercise You Need Weekly To Control Your Blood Pressure

    You can do this.

  • Science Alert ☛ Could a 'Lucky Fish' Help Lift Your Iron? An Expert Explains.

    It's not so simple.

• Hardware

  • Hackaday ☛ Introducing The KanaChord Plus Keyboard カナコード・プラス・キーボード

    We love to watch your projects grow as much as you do. Really, we’re like proud grandparents around here. So it’s great to see that [Mac Cody] is back with the KanaChord Plus Keyboard, which supports an astounding 6,165 Kanji as well as 6,240 of the most common Japanese words that contain Kanji. This is all in addition to supporting the Kana characters, which make up the rest of Japanese writing (more on that in a minute).

  • Hackaday ☛ See The “Pause-and-Attach” Technique For 3D Printing In Action

    [3DPrintBunny] is someone who continually explores new techniques and designs in 3D printing, and her latest is one she calls “pause-and-attach”, which she demonstrates by printing a vase design with elements of the design splayed out onto the print bed.

  • Hackaday ☛ Memristors Are Cool, Radiation-resistant Memristors Even Moreso

    Space is a challenging environment for semiconductors, but researchers have shown that a specific type of memristor (the hafnium oxide memristor, to be exact) actually reacts quite usefully when exposed to gamma radiation. In fact, it’s even able to leverage this behavior as a way to measure radiation exposure. In essence, it’s able to act as both memory and a sensor.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • Off Guardian ☛ WATCH: Japan Rising

    The International Crisis Summit descended on Tokyo last week to warn about the new “replicon” self-amplifying mRNA vaccines that are about to be unleashed like a third atomic bomb upon the population of Japan.

  • New York Times ☛ Rwanda’s Doctors and Nurses Hit Hard by Deadly Marburg Virus

    The Health Ministry has reported that 80 percent of the infected are health care professionals.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ The fatal shooting of a man with mental illness shows Hong Kong police need a better response to such crises

    By Daisy Cheung The recent incident in North Point involving the death of a man with mental disorder at the hands of police responding to an emergency at his home is tragic, but unfortunately not uncommon worldwide.

  • France24 ☛ DR Congo begins mpox vaccination campaign in bid to curb outbreak

    The first vaccines were given to hospital staff on Saturday and more will be made available to members of the public who are most at risk on Monday, the health minister said. As Democratic Republic of Congo attempts to curb a deadly mpox epidemic, the country is still waiting for millions of vaccine doses to arrive from France, Japan and the US.

  • JURIST ☛ Texas attorney general sues Fentanylware (TikTok) for violating child privacy law

    The state of Texas on Thursday sued social control media platform Fentanylware (TikTok) for violating a Texas law enacted to protect children’s online privacy.

  • Medevel ☛ Google announces new changes to the short clips system! In an attempt to compete with TikTok

    Google announced that it will increase the duration of short clips on the YouTube platform (Shorts) to 3 minutes after it was one minute. Surveillance Giant Google revealed that its new decision will be implemented after October 15th.

• Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)

  • Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications

    • Matt Webb ☛ Ok hear me out iPhones should have a sense of shame (Interconnected)

      He was so nonchalant about the whole ignoring-the-safety-instructions thing. I wanted him to at least experience the tut of social disapproval before deciding to break the rules.

• Security

  • Integrity/Availability/Authenticity

    • CubicleNate ☛ Fight Flash Fraud | F3 Solid State Media Checker

      Flash Fraud is a real and it affects hundreds of millions… or thousands… well, I have no idea how many people it really effects, but I have been a bitten by either “Flash Fraud” or just bad media more than once which is exceptionally irritating. What is Flash Fraud?

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • New Yorker ☛ What Is Privacy For?

      We often want to keep some information to ourselves. But information itself may be the problem.

• Defence/Aggression

  • New York Times ☛ Israel Steps Up Attacks in Lebanon as Fighting Spreads

    With the region on edge about a possible Israeli retaliatory strike on Iran, U.S. Central Command hit targets in Yemen, and Israel ordered evacuations in Gaza.

  • New York Times ☛ Israel Strikes Across Lebanon as Attacks Expand

    Israel’s attacks against Hezbollah had largely been concentrated in the south and near Beirut. But Hamas, an ally of Hezbollah, said an Israeli strike in northern Lebanon had killed one of its commanders.

  • New York Times ☛ Michigan Father Dies in Israeli Airstrike in Lebanon, Family Says

    Kamel Ahmad Jawad, a U.S. citizen, was remembered by friends and relatives as someone who chose to stay behind to help others who couldn’t flee.

  • NYPost ☛ Heavy strikes shake Beirut as Israel expands Lebanon campaign

    Massive consecutive strikes hit Beirut's southern suburbs from late Saturday into Sunday, Reuters eyewitnesses said.

  • RFERL ☛ Israel Hits Hamas Leaders In Lebanon As World Awaits Potential 'Significant' Strike On Iran

    As the world awaits a potentially “significant” Israeli strike against Iran, fighting continued in and around Beirut and throughout Lebanon, with Tehran-backed militant groups acknowledging the deaths of additional leaders from the latest attacks.

  • Haaretz ☛ Al Jazeera Documentary Uses Israeli Soldiers' Social Media Footage to Accuse Them of War Crimes

    Names and identifying details of soldiers who served in Gaza are used in the film, alongside footage they posted of their own misconduct throughout the war. While many praised the documentary, some are calling out its producers for 'doxing' the soldiers

  • The Straits Times ☛ China, North Korea mark 75th anniversary of ties with vows of cooperation

    China is by far North Korea’s largest trading partner.

  • The Straits Times ☛ China and North Korea mark 75th anniversary of ties with vows of cooperation

    China is by far North Korea’s largest trading partner.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ 2 British men plead not guilty to spying for China

    Two men, including a former parliamentary researcher, pleaded not guilty at a London court on Friday to charges of spying for China. Christopher Cash, 29, and Christopher Berry, 32, were charged in April under the UK’s counter-espionage Official Secrets Act. Both denied the accusations during a hearing at the Old Bailey court.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Explainer: Hong Kong’s national security crackdown – month 51

    A Hong Kong court passed prison sentences on two journalists convicted of sedition in September, the 51st month since the Beijing-imposed national security law came into force. It was the first such case against media workers since Hong Kong’s return from British to Chinese rule in 1997.

  • France24 ☛ Ghana’s President Akufo-Addo says security in Sahel has ‘worsened’ since French troops left

    Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo said he hoped Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger would rejoin the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) regional bloc, in an interview with FRANCE 24. The decision of the military juntas in the three countries to withdraw from ECOWAS was a setback, and the security situation has worsened since the departure of French troops from the Sahel region last year, Akufo-Addo admitted.

  • Haaretz ☛ Why the West Still Backs Israel Despite a Year of War With Hamas and Hezbollah

    In the wake of October 7, few in Israel expected the 'window of legitimacy' to degrade Hamas would stay open for an entire year. But the West's calculations, dictated by pragmatic considerations and not footage of carnage in Gaza, don't mean a blank check for another year of war – in Gaza, Lebanon or Iran

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • New York Times ☛ Behind Trump’s Views on Ukraine: Putin’s Gambit and a Political Grudge

      The roots of Donald Trump’s animus toward Ukraine — an issue with profound consequences should he be elected again — can be found in a yearlong series of events spanning 2016 and 2017.

    • JURIST ☛ Ukraine teachers coerced to teach Russian propaganda in occupied territories

      Amnesty International on Friday raised concern about the ongoing coercion of Ukrainian teachers in Russian-occupied territories to teach the Russian-imposed curriculum to school-going children. The report portrays the resumption of schooling in the occupied territories as Russia’s attempt to justify its aggression by indoctrinating students with a propagandized curriculum.

    • LRT ☛ Ashes of Ukrainian soldier scattered in Lithuania: ‘May your soul always seek the light’

      Early morning fog marked the beginning of a ceremony to scatter the ashes of a Ukrainian soldier, 23-year-old Kostiantyn Yuzviuk. His ashes were taken by volunteers to places that he loved but never had a chance to visit. One of them was Lithuania.

    • RFERL ☛ Zelenskiy Prepares To Present 'Victory Plan' To Allies

      Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will present Kyiv’s “victory plan” during an upcoming meeting of Western allies in Germany.

    • RFERL ☛ Kyiv Says Russia Has Executed 93 Ukrainian POWs Since Start Of War

      Ukraine has documented evidence related to the execution of 93 Ukrainian prisoners of war, according to a law enforcement official tasked with investigating war crimes related to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

    • New York Times ☛ Ukraine’s Donbas Strategy: Retreat Slowly and Maximize Russian Losses

      The idea is to use rope-a-dope tactics, letting Russian forces pound away until they have exhausted themselves. It’s far from clear if the Ukrainian strategy will succeed.

• Environment

  • The Straits Times ☛ Magnitude 5.7 earthquake strikes Cook Strait, New Zealand region, GeoNet

    A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck near New Zealand's capital city of Wellington, government seismic monitor GeoNet said on Sunday, but initial reports indicated there were no injuries or significant damage.

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • RFA ☛ Mauritius clamps down on social control media 'whale-chasing' craze

      The island nation renews curbs amid a wave of tourists from China and Taiwan seeking photos in marine habitats.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • New York Times ☛ America Needs a President

    The sidelining of the White House in global crisis spots is a big red flag.

  • RFERL ☛ Moscow's Ambassador To U.S. Concludes Term, Returning Home

    Russian state-run news agencies TASS and Interfax on October 5 reported that Anatoly Antonov “is concluding” his stint as Russia’s ambassador to the United States and returning to his home country.

  • Craig Murray ☛ A Very Peculiar Triumph

    At the end of Julian Assange’s testimony before the Judicial Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, 95% of the entire room of 220 people rose in a standing ovation. The audience consisted of members of the Parliamentary Assembly, who are delegated members of their national parliaments, from all over Europe.

  • New York Times ☛ Tunisia’s Autocratic Leader Is Poised to Steamroll to Election Victory

    President Kais Saied, who has jailed opponents and consolidated power, is almost certain to win Sunday’s election in the North African country, the birthplace of the Arab Spring movement.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Malaysia’s PM Anwar reframes policies on class, shifting from racial lenses

    Taking from the ultra-rich and giving to the poor is what he hopes will win against Malay nationalist attacks.

  • Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

    • JURIST ☛ UN unveils new monitoring methodology to combat online hate speech

      The UN Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect unveiled a groundbreaking methodology aimed at monitoring social control media platforms on Friday. The initiative, backed by the UK Permanent Mission to the United Nations, marks a strategic effort to address hate speech while respecting international human rights standards.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • Weather?

    My sister asked me to share this with you. Oh, I get it, watch and see all the dead are now “democrats”. Nice of Facebook (Farcebook) to strip my video. What I did not tell her is Darpa controls the weather. This actually started to the best of my knowledge in the Vietnam War.

  • RFERL ☛ Pakistani Police Lock Down Islamabad As Ex-PM's Supporters Gather For Protest

    Islamabad appeared to be in lockdown mode on October 5 as supporters of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan sought to bypass police barricades and enter the Pakistani capital to demand his release.

• Civil Rights/Policing

  • France24 ☛ Janine Niépce photo exhibition puts women’s work – and emancipation – in the spotlight

    French photographer Janine Niépce was one of the country’s first female photojournalists. A new exhibition of her photos, some of which are being shown for the first time, looks at the rise of the working woman against the backdrop of the women’s rights movement in the second half of the twentieth century.

  • Licensing / Legal

    • International Business Times ☛ Read Before You Click 'Agree'! New Jersey Accident Victims Can't Sue Uber Due To UberEats Fine Print

      The McGintys attempted to sue Uber for a jury trial but were unsuccessful. An appellate court ruled they were bound by the arbitration agreement they had previously accepted when they agreed to Uber's updated terms and conditions.

      The agreement mentioned above applies to both Uber Eats and Uber ride services. The McGintys argued that their minor daughter had accidentally agreed to Uber Eats' terms of service while using Georgia's phone.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Patents

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ Bambu Lab lawsuit update: It’s not over

    New court documents have surfaced in the Bambu Lab v. Stratasys, Inc. case. Stratasys, the company that invented FDM 3D printing, is currently suing China-based Bambu Lab for patent monopoly infringement in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.