Leftovers

• El País ☛ Sabine Hossenfelder, physicist: ‘If you trust the mathematics, we are immortal’

  Is there anything after death? What is the meaning of life? Are we just a bag of atoms? The scientist Sabine Hossenfelder, born in Frankfurt (Germany) 48 years ago, is convinced that if there is a branch of science capable of finding answers to humanity’s existential questions, it is physics. Specialized in theoretical physics and quantum gravity, Hossenfelder combines her research work with science communication (she is the creator of the YouTube channel Science without the gobbledygook). Her latest book, Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions (published in English in 2022, and out in Spanish this year) is aimed at “those who have not forgotten to ask the big questions and are not afraid of the answers.”

• The New Leaf Journal ☛ September 2024 at The New Leaf Journal

  I published 22 new articles in September. From outset, let us set aside my August 2024 review and short post on re-implementing our Guestbook, both of which focus more on site news than new ideas. With those set aside, I will break our other 20 new articles into topical categories.

• Lou Plummer ☛ An Appreciation Challenge - Spread the Love

  I also want to encourage everyone to make it easy for others to contact you—unless you’ve had some unfortunate experiences in the past. Consider getting a guestbook. If you need help, just ask! Add a link to your socials on your homepage, or set up an email address where people can reach out. Letterbird is a free and simple option to implement. If you take any of these steps and let me know, I’ll swing by, read your blog, and reach out through your preferred method.

• Jan Lukas Else ☛ IndieWeb Carnival: multilingualism in a global Web

  This blog, however, is written in both German and English. Some posts, like my monthly reviews, I write in both languages. Since I use my own blogging engine, I’ve even implemented functionality that allows me to link between the two versions.

• [Old] The Local DK ☛ J-Day: Denmark's start to the holiday season

  The day itself has been celebrated every year since 1990, although it has been moved around several times. From 1990-1998, it was the second Wednesday in November and the free beer didn’t arrive until 11.59pm. In 1999, it was moved to the first Friday of November at 8.59pm, in large part due to the number of young people who missed school after partying hard the night before. In 2009, it was moved to the last Friday in October, before settling on the first Friday of November in 2010.

• Kaiwen Wang ☛ Canvases versus Documents

  Ask yourself the following when designing a website.

  • Are you putting in features that are actually convincing to the customer, or are you just following what everyone else does?

  • Are you doing immersion/feelings or text/readability?

  The skill ceiling for a well-designed website is really high. It even goes into 3D. No need to go that high, but at least get the basics up to a minimum standard correct.

• Education

  • David L Farquhar ☛ Creative Computing launched October 1974

    Competing with Byte magazine was tough, even though Creative Computing actually beat Byte to market by several months. The only way a general purpose computing magazine could really do it was by taking a different angle. That was the secret of Creative Computing’s success.

  • [Old] Preston Thorpe ☛ How I got here - Inside thoughts

    One day, I woke up and looked around me, and had what can only be described as an epiphany. All of a sudden, all the conversations I would hear about drugs and war stories, all just sounded like absolute bullshit to me, and I was suddenly ashamed that I ever participated in it. From that point, I no longer felt like it was okay or normal that I was locked up in a cage, and the acceptance and self-identity as being a ‘criminal’ no longer felt like something I was okay with.

    When it was available to me, I enrolled in College through the University of Maine Augusta, and before classes even started, I was completely enthralled with the idea of learning how to program again (it had been 15 years since I had done some PHP/Perl + simple websites, so not a lot had left over). But wait.. Who else has an opportunity to spend 12+ hours a day learning something for years? With no other obligations or responsibilities? It all of a sudden clicked, that I would dedicate the remainder of my time to learning everything I could about computer science, and teaching myself software development. The next ~three years would be spent exactly this way, to the very day I write this. There is zero substitution for hard work, and I intend on continuing to use every moment of my remaining sentence to improve myself and my skills.

• Hardware

  • Linux Gizmos ☛ Ultra Slim Fanless Box PC Builds on Intel IOTG Alder Lake-N Processors

    The MS-1P17 Ultra Slim Fanless Box PC by MSI is powered by Intel Alder Lake-N processors, providing a low-power solution in three variants for different performance needs. Its fanless 25mm design is aimed at space-constrained installations, while two 2.5 GbE LAN ports deliver fast, reliable networking for demanding environments.

  • Standards/Consortia

    • IT Wire ☛ iTWire - Nokia expands Wi-Fi 7 portfolio with Beacon 19

      Finnish telecommunications vendor Nokia launched the Beacon 19, a new Wi-Fi 7 gateway that offers up to 19Gbps of Wi-Fi capacity to enable operators deliver faster [Internet] connection.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • CBC ☛ 2024-09-29 [Older] With market prices for coffee jumping, could that cup of java be a jolt to your wallet?

  • Robert Birming ☛ Writing as Meditation

    What I'm trying to say is that the "technique" isn't so important. The important thing is that it aligns with what suits us, whether it means sitting cross-legged or being out in the woods picking mushrooms.

• Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)

  • Massive Layoffs Sweep Big Tech: Data from September

    The month of September 2024 will be remembered for its historic number of layoffs all through Silicon Valley and beyond. As of September, the biggest companies like Meta and Google have made pivotal decisions in cutting jobs.

    At this point in time, thousands of workers from companies like Meta, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft have suddenly found themselves out of jobs. This decision marks a stark contrast to the seemingly unstoppable growth that has characterized the sector for the past decade.

    Now, the wave of layoffs seems to be at its peak and we’re wondering why. Let’s take a look at this mega-shift.

  • GeekWire ☛ Microsoft rebrands 343 Industries to Halo Studios, reveals new direction for ‘Halo’ franchise

    Today’s surprise announcement follows on news from last year that 343 Industries had been heavily impacted by Microsoft’s massive layoffs in January 2023, and faced a substantial internal reorganization as a result.

  • Omicron Limited ☛ 71% of Australian university staff are using AI. What are they using it for? What about those who aren't? [Ed: Just start calling everything "AI", then claim everyone uses it. Same as servers and "cloud".]

    But there has been no large-scale research on how university staff in Australia are using AI in their work.

    Our new study surveyed more than 3,000 academic and professional staff at Australian universities about how they are using generative AI.

  • El País ☛ How do I use AI? Eight real-world examples two years on from ChatGPT

    Apparently so. According to a study in August, 24% of American workers had used generative AI in the week they were interviewed. What’s more, one in 10 had used it daily.

  • Simon Willison ☛ SVG to JPG/PNG

    I built this using Claude 3.5 Sonnet, initially as an Artifact and later in a code editor since some of the features (loading an example image and downloading the result) cannot run in the sandboxed iframe Artifact environment.

  • Futurism ☛ Google Is Stuffing Annoying Ads Into Its Terrible AI Search Feature [Ed: Just calling what it did years ago "AI", even when it's not]

    Perhaps signaling its commitment to weaving its search engine with AI tech most of all, the company is also rolling out a separate product for mobile users called AI-organized Search results pages, which will be full-pages — right now limited to recipe searches — that are entirely populated with content curated by an AI.

  • US News And World Report ☛ Chinese Hackers Breached US Court Wiretap Systems, WSJ Reports

    Verizon Communications, AT&T and Lumen Technologies are among the telecoms companies whose networks were breached by the recently discovered intrusion, the newspaper said, citing people familiar with the matter.

• Security

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • Cory Dransfeldt ☛ Re-Googling

      Am I trading privacy for some convenience? Perhaps — but I can't help but think it's the pragmatic choice given the myriad friction points this choice avoids. It's being able to collaborate easier, manage video calls more simply, be a bit lazier with email, adopt more apps that integrate with each other and simply use popular tools and move on[6].

    • The Verge ☛ The best video doorbell cameras

      I’ve tested more than 30 video doorbells, and while there’s no one-size-fits-all — like a smartphone, it’s a personal choice — I have thoughts on which are the best of the best and which work well for specific use cases.

      My most important advice is that if you have existing doorbell wires, use them. Wired doorbells are generally cheaper, work better, and are more compact, so they tend to look nicer.

    • MB ☛ Apple Cash - Tap to Cash

      I got an iPhone notification this morning about a new feature available in iOS 18 called “Apple Cash Tap to Cash”

  • Confidentiality

    • IT Wire ☛ I visited the Cloudflare Wall of Entropy where lava lamps secure the Internet

      Cloudflare is on a mission to build a better Internet. And part of how it achieves this is through a wall of lava lamps. Yes, truly. This wall helps generate random numbers for cryptographic keys. It's the Wall of Entropy, and I ventured to CloudFlare HQ to take a look for myself.

    • The Cyber Show ☛ Seven for a secret never to be told

      Imagine that you come home late one night to discover, as you get to your house, that you lost your keys. You didn't trust a neighbour to keep a spare set, so you phone a locksmith.

      "Sorry", says the locksmith, "but your keys and locks are high-security. I can only make you a spare key if you show me proof that you live there."

      "Sure", you say, and then realise that all your documents are locked in the house. In fact the locks are so good and the house so strong that you're locked out for ever, now homeless. The house has to be demolished because nobody can get in.

      A paradox of security is that we don't always want it to be too good. At the same time, if there are any known back-doors, someone will discover and exploit it - always and without fail.

      Avoiding lock-out affects so many areas of technology. Manufacturers of IoT ("Internet of Things") devices want to make sure that customers who inevitably lose passwords for devices can get back into their toys.

• Defence/Aggression

  • VOA News ☛ 973 migrants cross Channel into UK on same day 4 die

    The figure for Saturday is the highest single-day number of migrants making the cross-Channel journey this year, surpassing the previous high of 882 set on June 18.

  • Copenhagen Post ☛ Denmark to bolster police resources after spate of Swedish [sic] terrorism

    Denmark’s government has said it is willing to increase police resources to combat the growing frequency of terrorist attacks by Swedish [sic] youths [sic] in Copenhagen.

  • India Times ☛ IAF quietly shooting down 'Chinese spy balloons' at high altitudes

    Chinese spy balloons, which are akin to huge unmanned airships and capable of sending "burst transmissions", are difficult to detect and intercept since they have low radar cross-sections and fly at very high altitudes.

  • CS Monitor ☛ Colorado judge receives threats after sentencing election denier official to prison

    A Colorado county courthouse has stepped up security after threats were made against staff and a judge who sentenced former county clerk Tina Peters to prison in a data breach scheme tied to denial of 2020 election results.

  • Axios ☛ States target social media companies over kids' health, safety

    Attorneys general of three states in less than a week revealed separate lawsuits against social media giants for their platforms' alleged harmful effects on children, including sextortion, addiction and privacy violations.

    Why it matters: Federal, state and local authorities have targeted Big Tech accountability over youth mental health concerns.

  • LRT ☛ Vilnius hosts 13th Free Russia Forum

    “We invite everyone who considers Putin’s regime to be illegitimate, the war he waged against Ukraine to be criminal, and who also unconditionally supports the territorial integrity of Ukraine,” they said in a statement.

    The forum will discuss “a unified, clear formula for Ukraine’s victory”, the divided Russian political émigré community, and anti-Putin resistance.

  • The Nation ☛ Immunity Doesn’t Apply to Trump for January 6

    That was the de facto motto of the whole unfounded assault on a free and fair election. As election officials in downtown Detroit continued to count ballots the day after the election, a group of GOP protesters, high on bogus “stop the steal” rhetoric, tried to break into the building and disrupt the count. An operative at the scene texted a Trump campaign official—whose identity is redacted in the filing, but who appears to be the campaign’s elections operations director, Mike Roman. That campaign official had initially parried an earlier text indicating that the counting was legitimate with the directive, “Find a reason it isn’t.” Now told that the confrontation could explode into another “Brooks Brothers riot”—the Roger Stone–orchestrated campaign op that stymied a critical recount effort in Florida after the 2000 election—the official replied, “Make them riot. Do it!!!”

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • JURIST ☛ Russia prosecutor seeks prison for US citizen accused of fighting for Ukraine

      A Russian prosecutor on Saturday requested a seven-year prison sentence for a 72-year-old US man accused of working as a mercenary for Ukraine, according to Interfax.

    • RFA ☛ Ukrainian missile attack kills 6 North Korean officers: report

      They were reportedly visiting the front lines as part of an ‘exchange of experience’ program.

    • RFERL ☛ Slovakia's Russia-Friendly PM To Meet Ukrainian Counterpart In Border City

      Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is due to meet his Ukrainian counterpart, Denys Shmyhal, in the Ukrainian border city of Uzhhorod on October 7.

    • RFERL ☛ Russian Prosecutors Seek 7-Year Sentence For U.S. Man Accused Of Fighting For Ukraine

      Russian prosecutors have asked for a seven-year sentence in the trial of a U.S. citizen accused of fighting as a mercenary in Ukraine against Russia, Russian news agencies reported on October 5.

    • RFERL ☛ In Kharkiv, Dutch Defense Chief Says Drone Aid, More F-16s Coming

      In a surprise visit to Kyiv and the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, Dutch Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans offered 400 million euros ($439 million) to aid Ukraine’s drone program and vowed that deliveries of additional Dutch F-16 fighter jets would arrive in the "coming months."

    • New York Times ☛ As War in Ukraine Drags On, Dogs Offer Comfort

      Dog ownership has surged over the past two years as people seek companionship. In Kyiv, Yorkies, poodles and bichons frisés now rule the streets.

    • LRT ☛ Indian photographer’s 7 years documenting Lithuania’s Visaginas

      Visaginas, a Lithuanian city built for the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant workers during the Soviet times, is one of the most curious places in the country to this day. Predominantly Russian speaking, the city is subject to various photo projects, one of which was carried out by Indian photographer Prashant Rana.

    • RFERL ☛ Russia Has Decided 'At Highest Level' To Remove Taliban From Terrorist List, TASS Reports

      Russia's Foreign Ministry said a decision to remove the Taliban from a list of terrorist organizations had been "taken at the highest level," the TASS state news agency reported.

    • New York Times ☛ Ship in Need of Repairs Has Explosive Cargo, but No Dock

      The MV Ruby has meandered around Europe’s northwestern coastline under a cloud of suspicion over its thousands of tons of Russian fertilizer.

    • NL Times ☛ 2024-09-29 [Older] As next NATO leader, Mark Rutte will enter a challenging political climate

• Environment

  • Vox ☛ 2024-09-26 [Older] Why Hurricane Helene is a wake-up call

  • Counter Punch ☛ 2024-09-27 [Older] Climate Week/NYC – Oh, Well!

  • CBC ☛ 2024-09-27 [Older] Basement-free buildings are better for the future climate

  • Bridge Michigan ☛ 2024-09-27 [Older] Michigan elections FAQ: Where Trump, Harris stand on climate, Great Lakes

  • Gizmodo ☛ 2024-09-27 [Older] Judge Throws the Book at Climate Activists Who Threw Soup on Van Gogh Painting

  • Vox ☛ 2024-10-03 [Older] Kids’ political concerns are surprisingly grownup

  • CBC ☛ 2024-09-29 [Older] These kids learn from the forest, as their teacher aims to weave climate education into more lessons

  • CBC ☛ 2024-09-30 [Older] Brazil's coast is eroding faster than ever, leaving homes in ruin

  • TruthOut ☛ 2024-09-30 [Older] Media Fails to Link Hurricane Helene to Fossil-Fueled Climate Change

  • TruthOut ☛ 2024-09-30 [Older] Analysis: Climate Crisis Increased Likelihood of Flooding From Storms in Europe

  • Vox ☛ 2024-10-01 [Older] What’s going on in Asheville? The devastating fallout from Hurricane Helene, explained.

  • Latvia ☛ 2024-10-01 [Older] Government approves general climate draft law for Latvia

  • Vox ☛ 2024-10-02 [Older] Your phones and computers rely on this remote mine in North Carolina. Helene just drowned it.

  • TruthOut ☛ 2024-10-02 [Older] As North Carolina Flooded, My Home State Turned From Climate Haven to Calamity

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-10-02 [Older] Shock of Deadly Floods Is a Reminder of Appalachia’s Risk From Violent Storms in a Warming Climate

  • HRW ☛ 2024-10-02 [Older] Indian Authorities Unlawfully Detain Himalaya Climate Activist

  • TruthOut ☛ 2024-10-02 [Older] Climate Groups Praise Walz’s Callout of Trump’s Big Oil Loyalties in VP Debate

  • University of Michigan ☛ 2024-10-03 [Older] New U-M research suggests carbon dioxide emissions from forest soil increasing as the climate warms

  • Copenhagen Post ☛ 2024-10-03 [Older] Leading Danish biomass company expands into France to provide green district-heating

  • New York Times ☛ Climate Change Is Scorching Stretches of the Amazon River in Brazil

    In one stretch in the Brazilian state of Amazonas, the river was 25 feet below the average for this time of year, according to the agency, which began collecting data in 1967.

    Parts of three of the Amazon River’s most important tributaries — major rivers in their own right, each spanning over 1,000 miles — have also fallen to historical lows.

  • Energy/Transportation

    • Counter Punch ☛ 2024-10-03 [Older] As Renewable Energy Demand Rises, Mining for Minerals in the Amazon is at a Critical Point

    • Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2024-10-02 [Older] Iran and Pakistan Forge Strategic Alliance for Energy and Trade Cooperation

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-10-03 [Older] Federal Grant Boosts Power Grid and Renewable Energy in Northern Maine

    • University of Michigan ☛ 2024-09-30 [Older] $3.6M grant aids research to unlock the power of waves

    • CBC ☛ 2024-09-26 [Older] 4 innovative Indigenous-led clean energy projects

    • CBC ☛ 2024-09-30 [Older] Solar-powered longhouses, low-impact hydro: These Indigenous leaders have energy solutions

    • New Yorker ☛ 2024-09-30 [Older] Doug Emhoff Takes His Gen X Energy on the Road

    • CBC ☛ How power-hungry AI could help fuel growth in alternative energy

      According to some estimates, the average ChatGPT query takes about 10 times more power than a Google search, and generating an image takes about as much as charging a smartphone.

      Depending where that power comes from, some warn the growth of AI could mean a massive spike in fossil fuel-related emissions. According to investment bank Goldman Sachs, carbon dioxide emissions from data centres could more than double between 2022 and 2030.

    • IT Wire ☛ IBM opens first Quantum Data Centre in Europe

      These systems are capable of performing computations beyond the brute-force simulation capabilities of classical computers.

    • Mere Civilian ☛ My first EV experience

      I drove over 500km and I charged the car once at my brother-in-law's place in New Zealand. Therefore, from my perspective, it's the first time where I paid zero dollars for travel on vacation.

• Finance

  • Pratik ☛ Crowdsourcing the Monetization of Social Media | Nerve Endings Firing Away

    It’s not the influencers that are the problem. You may not like most of them, but at least they were (for the most part) transparent about their product endorsements, and users accepted that. The real issue is the lack of transparency in other forms of user monetization.

    Instead, it was surreptitiously paying users to create high-engagement “content” (gosh! I hate that word). We saw this on Twitter, and it’s all that I see on Threads now.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-09-27 [Older] Tunisia court stripped of electoral power days before vote

  • Pro Publica ☛ A Georgia Election Rule Could Have Decisive Impact on 2024 Outcome

    An examination of a new election rule in Georgia passed by the state’s Republican-controlled election board suggests that local officials in just a handful of rural counties could exclude enough votes to affect the outcome of the presidential race.

    The rule was backed by national groups allied with former President Donald Trump. It gives county boards the power to investigate irregularities and exclude entire precincts from the vote totals they certify. Supporters of the rule, most of whom are Republicans, say it’s necessary to root out fraud. Critics, most of whom are Democrats, say it can be used as a tool to disenfranchise select buckets of voters.

  • Rolling Stone ☛ Internet Viciously Memes Elon Musk's Jumpy Trump Rally Appearance

    As Musk took the stage in an all-black MAGA cap and “Occupy Mars” t-shirt, he bounced up and down, launching countless memes as the internet mocked him — often on X (formerly Twitter), the social media site Musk purchased for $44 billion in 2022. Recently, Musk shared that the company is now valued at just $19 billion, a $25 billion decline.

    Critiques of Musk’s jumping technique pointed out just how awkward he looked as well as Trump’s visual disgust when Musk took the stage. As Rolling Stone reported in August, Trump thinks Musk is “weird,” “boring,” annoying and has mood swings. In 2022, Trump publicly called Musk “another bullshit artist.”

  • The Register UK ☛ Why Cisco reportedly wants in on CoreWeave's GPU cloud

    It goes without saying that if Cisco is willing to plow significant capital into CoreWeave, they're getting something out of the deal, likely in the form of a commitment to deploy their hardware and software stacks. Winning over CoreWeave would certainly go a long way to helping Switchzilla realize the $1 billion worth of AI product orders by the end of its 2025 fiscal year it's previously projected.

  • Tech Central (South Africa) ☛ Artificial intelligence is past its 'wonderment phase'

    The reason is that AI has now passed what tech blog The Media Copilot called its “wonderment phase”. Two years ago, we were amazed that ChatGPT, Dall-E and other generative AI systems were able to create coherent writing and realistic images from just a few words in a text prompt. But now AI needs to show that it can actually be productive. Since their introduction, the models driving these experiences have become much more powerful – and exponentially more expensive.

    Nevertheless, Google, NVidia, Microsoft and OpenAI recently met at the White House to discuss AI infrastructure, suggesting these companies are doubling down on the technology.

  • Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

    • The Cyber Show ☛ Radical disbelief and its causes

      Not with a bang but with a whimper. The "Western" world we know is rotting. The disease is "epistemic mistrust". Right now, it can't be cured. Its root is in the technology, systems and organisations we created to make life "easy".

      Dr. Kate Brown and I have been discussing AI and human attachment. In this article we consider societal disorganised attachment as a product of repeated epistemic trauma.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-09-27 [Older] Little remains of Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement 10 years on

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • VOA News ☛ Exiled media fight to keep Belarusian language alive

    Although Belarusian has been the country’s official language since Belarus declared independence from the former Soviet Union in 1991, there has been an ongoing process of Russification since President Alexander Lukashenko came to power in 1994.

• Civil Rights/Policing

  • IP Kat ☛ 2024-09-27 [Older] Belgian Constitutional Court refers 13 questions on DSM Directive to the CJEU

  • NYPost ☛ Yazidi girl Fawzia Amin Sido held by Hamas for 10 years is rescued in Gaza

    “Her story is a reminder of the brutality faced by Yazidi children, taken without a choice,” he wrote of the more than 6,000 Yazidis captured by ISIS in 2014, including many sold into sexual slavery or trained as child soldiers.

  • The Times Of Israel ☛ Israel rescues Yazidi woman from Gaza after her kidnapping by ISIS at age 11

    Israel’s foreign ministry said Sido was taken from her family in 2014 amid ISIS attacks on Yazidi communities in Iraq, as the terror organization known for its brutalities took control of vast swaths of the country. She was then sold off to a Gazan man who was visiting Iraq at the time. Israeli security forces recently extracted Sido and returned her home.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• IP Kat ☛ 2024-09-27 [Older] The Global Innovation Index (GII) 2024 [Ed: "Innovation"? Really? Measured how?]

• Digital Music News ☛ StubHub Refutes Oasis Fake Ticket Claims, Calls Out Ticketmaster

  Earlier this week, the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) took aim at secondary ticketing platforms – and urged congressional action – following an alleged wave of “fake” Oasis tickets. Now, one of the accused platforms is firing back and stirring an ugly war-of-words with Ticketmaster.

• Patents

  • Kangaroo Courts

    • IP Kat ☛ 2024-09-30 [Older] The General Court exceeded its jurisdiction … according to Advocate General Pikamäe

  • Software Patents

    • Don Marti ☛ Don Marti: links for 6 October 2024

      Intent IQ Has Patents For Ad Tech’s Most Basic Functions – And It’s Not Afraid To Use Them (Wait a minute. If Firefox is part of the Open Innovation Network’s GNU/Linux System definition, and Firefox has ads now, does that mean OIN covers this?) 🍿

• Trademarks

  • IP Kat ☛ 2024-09-29 [Older] Studio Ghibli v Ghibli: Partial Opposition to the Japanese anime studio’s EUTM

  • IP Kat ☛ 2024-09-30 [Older] EasyGroup given a hard time by English courts in trade mark infringement claims

  • Right of Publicity

    • VOA News ☛ In South Korea, deepfake porn wrecks women's lives, deepens gender conflict

      Many other South Korean women recently have come forward to share similar stories as South Korea grapples with a deluge of non-consensual, explicit deepfake videos and images that have become much more accessible and easier to create.

• Copyrights

  • IP Kat ☛ 2024-09-28 [Older] [Guest post] German court finds LAION’s copying of images non-infringing

  • Torrent Freak ☛ 'Modded Hardware' Defendant Denies Nintendo's Copyright Claims in Court

    The alleged operator of Modded Hardware has filed an answer to Nintendo's copyright complaint, denying any wrongdoing. The defendant, who represents himself in court, counters with a long list of affirmative defenses including fair use. The case will now move forward to the discovery process. Meanwhile, the Modded Hardware site has gone private.