Leftovers

• Science

  • Science Alert ☛ Galaxy Caught Turning on Lights at Cosmic Dawn, Stunning Astronomers

    "We really shouldn't have found a galaxy like this."

  • Science Alert ☛ Did Life Ever Exist on Venus? Scientists Develop New Equation to Find Out.

    It's not impossible.

  • Science Alert ☛ Marmots Just Settled a 154-Year-Old Evolution Debate

    Among the most controversial ideas in biology.

• Hardware/Taiwan

  • The Straits Times ☛ Taiwan probes China chipmaker SMIC for allegedly poaching staff

    SMIC set up a branch in Taiwan posing as a Samoa-based company and tried to hire local talent.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Taiwan’s existential battle against Chinese spies

    Taiwan faces a growing existential threat from its own people spying for China, experts warn, as the government seeks to toughen measures to stop Beijing’s infiltration efforts and deter Taiwanese turncoats.

  • Hackaday ☛ How To Make A 13 Mm Hole With A 1/2″ Drill Bit

    As everyone knows, no matter how many drill bits one owns, one inevitably needs a size that isn’t on hand. Well, if you ever find yourself needing to drill a hole that’s precisely 13 mm, here’s a trick from [AvE] to keep in mind for doing it with a 1/2″ bit. It’s a hack that only works in certain circumstances, but hey, it just may come in handy some day.

  • Hackaday ☛ Math, Optimized: Sweden’s Maximal Multi-Divi

    Back in the early 1900s, before calculators lived in our pockets, crunching numbers was painstaking work. Adding machines existed, but they weren’t exactly convenient nor cheap. Enter Vilin Vinson and his Maximal Multi-Divi, a massive multiplication and division table that turned math into an industrialized process. Originally published in Sweden in the 1910’s, and refined over decades, his book was more than a reference. It was a modular calculating instrument, optimized for speed and efficiency. In this video, [Chris Staeker] tells all about this fascinating relic.

  • Ruben Schade ☛ Micro Four Nerds reviews the OM-3

    I love the people behind Digital Photography Review, but there’s something so infectious about the enthusiasm of Micro Four Nerds. This is someone who, increasingly like me, is swayed by qualitative things over specification sheets. Though as she points out, this camera is amazing at both.

  • Science Alert ☛ Quantum Teleportation Achieved Over Internet For The First Time

    "Nobody thought it was possible.”

  • Hackaday ☛ Make DIY Conductive, Biodegradable String Right In Your Kitchen

    [ombates] shares a step-by-step method for making a conductive bio-string from scratch, no fancy equipment required. She demonstrates using it to create a decorative top with touch-sensitive parts, controlling animations on an RGB LED pendant. To top it off, it’s even biodegradable!

  • Hackaday ☛ Pictures From A High Altitude Balloon

    How do you get images downlinked from 30 km up? Hams might guess SSTV — slow scan TV — and that’s the approach [desafloinventor] took. If you haven’t seen it before (no pun intended), SSTV is a way to send images over radio at a low frame rate. Usually, you get about 30 seconds to 2 minutes per frame.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • CS Monitor ☛ The world’s bananas are at risk. A volcanic island might protect them.

    Cavendish bananas are under threat from a fungus that has wiped out other varieties. The island of Tenerife may have the conditions to protect them.

  • New York Times ☛ Myanmar Earthquake Pushes a Hospital in Mandalay to Its Limits

    Patients had to lie on cardboard or directly on the concrete outside the main hospital in Mandalay. Even before the earthquake, the health care system in Myanmar was under stress.

  • New York Times ☛ Top FDA Vaccine Official Resigns, Citing Kennedy’s ‘Misinformation and Lies’

    Dr. Peter Marks, a veteran of the agency, wrote that undermining confidence in vaccines is irresponsible and a danger to public health.

  • The Straits Times ☛ PM Albanese starts Australia election campaign touting healthcare credentials

    It was the first full day of campaigning for a general election expected to have cost of living as a central issue.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hongkongers urged to remain vigilant as health authorities say 11-week winter flu season has ended

    Hong Kong’s health authorities have declared that the winter influenza season, that began in early January, “has come to an end.” However, they are urging residents to remain vigilant in anticipation of a flu season this summer.

  • Science Alert ☛ Pouring Coffee Into Your Rectum Isn't Worth The Risk, Says Expert

    Keep it in your cup.

  • Science Alert ☛ Exercise Boosts Brain Function Across All Ages, Massive Study Confirms

    Now with surprising options for activities!

  • Science Alert ☛ Reducing Your 'Bioenergetic Age' May Ward Off Alzheimer's, Study Finds

    Another reason to get more exercise.

  • Science Alert ☛ Eating Yoghurt Could Lower Your Risk of Bowel Cancer, Evidence Shows

    But why?

• Proprietary

  • Social Control Media

    • Mexico News Daily ☛ China vs. USA, embassy edition: Diplomats go head-to-head over e-commerce apps in Mexico

      Does Mexico have a Shein problem? That's the question that spawned a social control media spat between two foreign embassies.

• Security

  • CISA

    • CISA ☛ 2025-03-27 [Older] CISA Releases One Industrial Control Systems Advisory

    • CISA ☛ 2025-03-26 [Older] CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

    • CISA ☛ 2025-03-25 [Older] CISA Releases Four Industrial Control Systems Advisories

    • CISA ☛ 2025-03-25 [Older] ABB RMC-100

    • CISA ☛ 2025-03-25 [Older] Rockwell Automation Verve Asset Manager

    • CISA ☛ 2025-03-25 [Older] Rockwell Automation 440G TLS-Z

    • CISA ☛ 2025-03-25 [Older] Inaba Denki Sangyo CHOCO TEI WATCHER mini

    • CISA ☛ 2025-03-24 [Older] CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

  • Confidentiality

    • 2025-03-21 [Older] HHS’ Office for Civil Rights Settles HIPAA Security Rule Investigation with Health Fitness Corporation; $227k monetary penalty plus corrective action plan

    • 2025-03-20 [Older] Security Researcher Comments on HIPAA Security Rule

• Defence/Aggression

  • France24 ☛ 'Unwanted visit: How can Greenland welcome US VP with open arms' amid Convicted Felon's threats of annexation?

    US Vice President JD Vance is set to tour a US military base in Greenland, a visit viewed by Copenhagen and Nuuk as a provocation amid President The Insurrectionist's bid to annex the strategically-placed, resource-rich Danish territory. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective, FRANCE 24's Catalina Marchant De Abreu welcomes Professor Klaus Dodds, Author, Professor of Geopolitics and Executive Dean for the School of Life Sciences and Environment at Royal Holloway, and University lead for environmental sustainability.

  • The Local SE ☛ 2025-03-21 [Older] Swedish Migration Agency tightens up security checks for citizenship

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-03-21 [Older] Homeland Security Revokes Temporary Status for 532,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans

  • Vox ☛ 2025-03-21 [Older] Are Elon Musk’s China ties a national security risk?

  • JURIST ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man targets former FBI special counsel Mueller law firm in new executive order

    US President The Insurrectionist issued Thursday an executive order targeting big law firm WilmerHale for their employment of individuals involved in the Mueller special counsel investigation, employment practices, and the nature of the firm’s pro-bono work.

  • The Strategist ☛ The untold story of the 2009 defence white paper

    Prime minister Kevin Rudd released the 2009 defence white paper in May of that year.

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • New York Times ☛ Major Reform U.K. Donor Sold Weapons Parts to Russian Supplier

      The aerospace company H.R. Smith Group was an early backer of the party after Nigel Farage became leader. Reform has faced criticism over comments seen as supporting Moscow.

    • Meduza ☛ Nuum, we hardly knew ye What the end of another ‘YouTube killer’ reveals about Russia’s online video market — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Harvard scientist from Russia detained by ICE and fears political persecution if deported

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-20 [Older] EU's new security strategy aims to beef up bloc's defenses

    • Russia’s Putin says North Korea, China should join Ukraine ceasefire talks

      The remark came amid reports that preparations are under way for North Korean leader’s visit to Russia this year.

    • RFERL ☛ Russia, Ukraine Exchange Drone Strikes

      Russia and Ukraine exchanged drone strikes overnight, as Russian forces increased the intensity of attacks on the ground.

    • France24 ☛ Ukraine peace talks: Vladimir Putin is looking for 'a way of getting Zelensky out of the picture'

      Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed temporary UN-led governance in Ukraine to enable elections and peace talks, questioning President Zelensky's legitimacy. Ukraine dismissed the idea, while a summit led by France discussed deploying troops to support a future peace deal. Here's FRANCE 24's Philip Turle analysis on this issue.

    • France24 ☛ Putin calls for UN-run administration to oust Zelensky before peace talks can begin

      Russian President Vladimir Putin called on Friday for a UN-run "transitional" administration to oust Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and organise new elections, after which, he said, Russia could "begin negotiations" on a peace agreement.

    • Meduza ☛ Putin calls Trump’s Greenland ambitions serious and rooted in U.S. history — Meduza

    • Latvia ☛ Siliņa suggests name change for 'Coalition of the Willing'

      March 27 saw Latvian Prime Minister Evika Siliņa participating in a meeting with the leaders of the 'Coalition of the Willing' countries in support of Ukraine, organized by French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris.

    • Atlantic Council ☛ Nord Stream could divide Europe yet again

      Washington's potential reset with Moscow, amid Ukraine peace negotiations, has revived discussions on the future of Nord Stream 2. Whether the Convicted Felon administration would cede its LNG market in Europe to Russian pipeline exports remains to be seen. For Europe, however, reopening the pipeline would be a costly mistake.

    • France24 ☛ War and Peace-Talking: SignalGate, Turkey Protests, Ukraine’s truce stalls

      In a week that’s seen nightly demonstrations taking place in Turkey, the biggest unrest there in a decade. Mass street protests have taken place in the face of a heavy government crackdown, where large gatherings have been banned, social control media has been limited, and almost two thousand people have been arrested.

    • France24 ☛ 'We will need a European special envoy for Ukraine': Finnish President Alexander Stubb

      One of Ukraine's staunchest advocates in the EU and in NATO is Finland, which itself joined the Atlantic Alliance two years ago after decades of neutrality. We caught up with Finland’s President Alexander Stubb as he attended talks of the "coalition of the willing" hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris. Stubb gives us his perspective on European security and defence, NATO and of course the increasingly fractious relationship between the EU and the Convicted Felon administration, as the latter announces fresh tariffs on European imports.

    • RFERL ☛ Russian Drone Attack On Ukrainian City Of Dnipro Kills 4, Injures 19, Governor Says

      A Russian drone attack on the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro late on March 28 killed four people and sparked a large fire in a hotel and restaurant complex and multiple private homes, the regional governor said.

    • RFERL ☛ After New US Push, Ukraine Is Still Considering Minerals Deal

      The Ukrainian government said it is still considering a draft agreement from the United States on the country's minerals amid media reports Washington has changed the terms of the deal several times.

    • RFERL ☛ U.S. Temporarily Restores Funding For War Crimes Research On Abducted Ukrainian Children -- Report

      The United States has reportedly made a temporary reversal to cut a US-backed project to compile evidence of possible Russian war crimes related to the alleged abduction of Ukrainian children.

    • New York Times ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man Is Giving Europe Vertigo, and Not Just About Ukraine

      The split between Europe and the United States over how to end the war is exposing a new, disorienting reality for an alliance in trouble.

    • New York Times ☛ Ukraine Stages New Push Into Russia, Officials and Experts Say

      The small incursion targets the Belgorod region, according to Ukrainian officials, analysts of open-source intelligence and Russian military bloggers. The advance comes as cease-fire talks continue.

    • New York Times ☛ Reworked U.S.-Ukraine Minerals Deal Proposal: What to Know

      Officials in Kyiv say the country cannot possibly accept the proposal and that new negotiations would be needed. But they have not rejected it outright, which would anger the White House.

    • Meduza ☛ Zelensky: Russia preparing offensive in Sumy, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia

    • Meduza ☛ Trump delays shutdown of program tracking deportation of Ukrainian children

    • Meduza ☛ How Georgia is profiting from sanctions on Russia

    • Meduza ☛ ‘There won’t be any post-war period’: The Kremlin is reportedly exploring ways to ‘normalize’ life in Russia after a ceasefire. But some insiders say that’s wishful thinking. — Meduza

    • France24 ☛ 'We will fight until we win': Can Georgia escape Russia’s influence?

      For weeks, thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets, demanding a future free from Moscow’s influence. But as the country stands at a crossroads, the divide widens between those who see Georgia’s future in the European Union and those who believe its best path lies in maintaining ties with Russia.

• Environment

  • Energy/Transportation

    • France24 ☛ Musk's China conundrum: BYD eclipses Tesla for first time

      On this week's Access Asia, we focus on how MElon is targeting sweet spots in Asia with Tesla sales taking a hit in Europe and the United States. However, bad news for Tesla is good news for China's electric vehicle maker BYD. Meanwhile, questions continue to swirl over what conflicts of interest exist for billionaire MElon, who is advising US President The Insurrectionist during his second term in office.

    • Hackaday ☛ An Artificial Sun In A Manageable Size

      The sun is our planet’s source of natural illumination, and though we’ve mastered making artificial light sources, it remains extremely difficult to copy our nearby star. As if matching the intensity wasn’t enough, its spectral quality, collimation, and atmospheric scattering make it an special challenge. [Victor Poughon] has given it a go though, using a bank of LEDs and an interesting lens system.

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • The Straits Times ☛ South Korean village mourns leader and family killed trying to help others amid wildfires

      Found near their burnt-out car, he and his wife died on March 25 as deadly wildfires raged in the country.

    • The Straits Times ☛ South Korea firefighters deploy helicopters as wildfires reignite

      More than 2,900 homes in the region have been completely destroyed, and 29 victims have died.

    • The Straits Times ☛ South Korea contains main blazes in week-old wildfires

      The wildfires have killed at least 28 people.

    • The Straits Times ☛ Dog skinned alive in Malaysia dies after surgery

      The dog is believed to have died of internal bleeding or organ failure due to traumatic injuries.

• Finance

  • Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2025-03-21 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini’s Nominated Social Security Head Knows How to Cut

  • HSBC Layoffs: Investment bankers fired without bonuses due to THIS reason - Know details here

    In a bold move aimed at cutting costs, HSBC has laid off a group of investment bankers, leaving many shocked and angry.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • The Straits Times ☛ Will Anwar’s picks to head Malaysia’s key institutions restore his reformist stripes?

    The heads of the anti-graft agency, police and judiciary are due to retire in the coming months.

  • Bhutan’s refers to Tibet as Beijing-preferred ‘Xizang,’ sparking pushback

    Tibetan advocates say the term advances China’s efforts to erase Tibet’s identity

  • The Straits Times ☛ China’s Pooh-tin urges global CEOs to protect trade as Convicted Felon tariffs loom

    Beijing has struggled to dispel fears that a renewed trade war with Convicted Felon will further pinch growth.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Satellite images show fresh Chinese bomber deployment in South China Sea

    The deployment came ahead of US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth's visit to the Philippines.

  • The Straits Times ☛ China conducts military patrol in South China Sea, warns Philippines

    This comes as US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth was visiting the Philippines.

  • Hegseth: US committed to defense of Pacific territories against China

    Defense Secretary reiterates US committed to defense of its Pacific territories.

  • US to send advanced military hardware to Philippines

    During Manila visit, Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth reiterates U.S. support for Philippines’ territorial defense.

  • New York Times ☛ Hegseth Seeks to Reassure Allies on First Official Trip to Asia

    At his first stop in the Philippines, the U.S. defense secretary promised to strengthen deterrence against Chinese “threats” in the region. He also plans to visit Japan.

  • The Straits Times ☛ US Defence Secretary Hegseth reaffirms ‘ironclad commitment’ to the Philippines

    The meeting comes amid tension between the Philippines and China over disputed islands in the South China Sea.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • Uyghur rapper was imprisoned in China for ‘extremist’ lyrics, rights group says

    Yashar Shohret, a former White Paper protester, has been missing since his 2023 arrest.

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • APNIC ☛ APNIC EC consultation on by-law changes

    Two by-laws changes will be open for community consultation. Share your thoughts.

  • Internet Society ☛ All About Peering: What It Is, How It’s Done, and Why We Need It

    Peering is a fundamental part of how the Internet works. It allows networks to exchange traffic directly, reducing reliance on intermediaries. This improves performance, lowers costs, and increases network resilience.

  • Standards/Consortia

    • Lykolux ☛ Where to find blogs to follow?

      When I started I had few RSS feeds to follow. I found hard to find them! Quand j’ai commencé, j’avais peu de flux RSS. I had trouble finding the sites. You had to look for the orange icon. The icon is also disappearing more and more. Having an RSS feed reader for 3 blogs and 2 news sites works, but it’s a shame; especially when you want to follow more people or more news sources!

    • Jeff Geerling ☛ DIY PTP Grandmaster Clock with a Raspberry Pi

      The timing industry has many solutions for 'grandmaster' clocks, which take in highly accurate time from GPS, GNSS, or other atomic-clock-backed time sources, and distribute it to local networks with extreme precision—down to the nanosecond range—using PTP.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Trademarks

  • Digital Music News ☛ Lady Gaga Sued by Surf Company Over ‘Near Identical’ Mayhem Logo

    Surf brand Lost International sues Lady Gaga for using a logo on her new Mayhem merch they say is ‘near identical’ to their trademark. Lady Gaga is being sued by a California surf company that claims she infringed on their trademark with the Mayhem logos featured on her newest merch.

  • TTAB Blog ☛ TTABlog Test: Is KINGS ARMOR Confusable with UNDER ARMOUR for Clothing?

    Under Armour petitioned to cancel a registration for the mark KINGS ARMOR for various items of clothing, claiming a likelihood of confusion with its registered mark UNDER ARMOUR for overlapping products. Registrant Valiant Praize, appearing pro se, started out behind the 8-ball (or maybe under the 8-ball), since the goods are in-part identical and presumably travel through the same channels of trade to the same classes of consumers. But what about the marks? Are they confusable? Under Armour, Inc. v. Valiant Praize Productions LLC, Cancellation No. 92082443 (March 26, 2025) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Robert H. Coggins).