Leftovers

• IP Kat ☛ 2025-03-25 [Older] How many lawyers does it take to change a light bulb?

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-21 [Older] Venezuela rejects US crime gang accusations as slur

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-22 [Older] Philippines: Foreign hikers saved after days-long search

• Science

  • France24 ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man's 'sustained campaign of attacks on US universities & science will take years to recover from'

    In a major upheaval, the US Department of Health and Human Services, led by Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, will lay off 10,000 workers and shut down entire agencies, including ones that oversee billions of dollars in funds for addiction services and community health centers across the country. For in-depth analysis amd a deeper perspective, FRANCE 24's Yinka Oyetade welcomes Martin McKee. Professor of European Public Health. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

  • America Online ☛ Trump administration aims to gut EPA science office, threatening hundreds of RTP jobs

    The Environmental Protection Agency intends to dissolve its scientific research division, called the Office of Research and Development, according to documents reviewed by Democrats on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.

    Under the plans, which Democratic staff on the science committee shared with The News & Observer, 50% to 75% of the office’s 1,540 positions would be eliminated, with remaining staff reassigned to other divisions.

    The Office of Research and Development, or ORD, lists 11 locations across the country, including a significant presence at the EPA campus in Research Triangle Park. “A lot of people are panicked,” said Holly Wilson, president of American Federation of Government Employees Local 3347, which represents about 1,000 EPA employees in the Triangle. “Disappointed, frustrated, scared.”

  • Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2025-03-21 [Older] Mars time machine: researchers create virtual model to decode Red Planet’s climate evolution

• Career/Education

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-21 [Older] Columbia University to change policies under Cheeto Mussolini pressure

• Hardware

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ Nvidia's 50-series laptop launch looks bumpy: slipping ship dates, game crashes, and delayed review units

    Nvidia's RTX 50-series "Blackwell" GPU launch for laptops has been rocky, with delays and driver issues.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • Pro Publica ☛ The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations

    Leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered staff this week not to release their experts’ assessment that found the risk of catching measles is high in areas near outbreaks where vaccination rates are lagging, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica.

    In an aborted plan to roll out the news, the agency would have emphasized the importance of vaccinating people against the highly contagious and potentially deadly disease that has spread to 19 states, the records show.

  • International Business Times ☛ 2025-03-26 [Older] Heartbroken Mum Blames Energy Drinks For Fitness-loving Daughter's Fatal Heart Attack At 28

  • Pro Publica ☛ Did You Work on a Terminated NIH Grant? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You.

    We’re a team of reporters at ProPublica, a nonprofit news organization that holds powerful institutions accountable. We’re trying to learn more about how researchers and academics are being affected by the Trump administration terminating grants at the National Institutes of Health.

    We would like to learn more about what the canceled research aimed to achieve and what has been lost due to the funding cut. Your insights can help us ensure our reporting is comprehensive and captures the real life impact of the current administration’s policies.

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-21 [Older] Crucial mRNA vaccine research at risk in the US

• Proprietary

  • Social Control Media

    • New York Times ☛ Blackstone Considers Small Investment in TikTok

      The private equity giant is considering investing as the video app works to follow a law that requires it to separate from its Chinese owner, ByteDance, by next week.

• Security

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • MIT Technology Review ☛ How a bankruptcy judge can stop a genetic privacy disaster

      Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A tech company accumulates a ton of user data, hoping to figure out a business model later. That business model never arrives, the company goes under, and the data is in the wind.

    • Silicon Angle ☛ Google pays $100M to settle class-action lawsuit over advertising practices

      Google LLC has agreed to pay $100 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that was filed in 2011 by customers of its AdWords advertising service. Reuters reported the development today, citing documents submitted to a federal court in San Jose, California, late Thursday.

    • Ruben Schade ☛ Everyone deserves security and privacy

      Last year when I was the Main Character™ in GNU/Linux social control media for suggesting some people need to run Windows, a common reply was that switching to GNU/Linux rendered that point invalid. I wanted to ask those people if it was appropriate for them to be operating their smartphone or computer while intoxicated or under the influence of something harder, but I blocked them instead.

      The experience was valuable for me in another way though, because it hit on an issue I see time and time again. I’ll let @evacide elucidate better than I ever could:

      If there is one leap that the infosec community consistently fails to make, it is this: people who are not like me, who have different needs and priorities, who have less time or are less technical, STILL DESERVE PRIVACY AND SECURITY.

    • Don Marti ☛ Don Marti: More money and better stuff for people in the UK

      Some good news last week: Meta settles UK ‘right to object to ad-tracking’ lawsuit by agreeing not to track plaintiff. Tanya O’Carroll, in the UK, has settled a case with Meta, and the company must stop using her data for ad targeting when she uses its services. It’s not a change for everyone, though, since the settlement is just for one person. O’Carroll said she is unable to disclose full details of the tracking-free access Meta will be providing in her case but she confirmed that she will not have to pay Meta.

      The Open Rights Group now has a Meta opt-out page that anyone in the UK can use to do an opt out under the UK GDPR.

  • Confidentiality

    • New York Times ☛ The Tech Behind Signalgate + Dwarkesh Patel’s ‘Scaling Era’ + Is Hey Hi (AI) Making Our Listeners Dumb?

      “The group chats are popping off at the highest levels of government.”

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-03-26 [Older] In Their Own Words: Cheeto Mussolini Officials Shrugging off Signal Leak Once Decried Clinton's Server

• Defence/Aggression

  • New York Times ☛ F.B.I. Agents in Southeast Asia Paid for Sex While Police Stood By, Watchdog Says

    Solicitation of prostitutes took place over several years even as employees were training to combat human trafficking, according to a document released to The Times in a lawsuit.

  • New York Times ☛ Andrew Tate’s Ex-Girlfriend, Brianna Stern, Sues Him, Alleging Sexual Assault

    Brianna Stern of Los Angeles accused Andrew Tate of beating and choking her while they were in a relationship, according to a complaint. Mr. Tate, through his lawyers, denied her allegations.

  • New York Times ☛ Kristi Noem’s Rolex at El Salvador Prison Draws Attention

    Kristi Noem’s trip to a prison in El Salvador drew social control media attention for the homeland security secretary’s choice to wear a gold Rolex in such a setting.

  • Defence Web ☛ 2025-03-24 [Older] Hijacked Yemeni-flagged fishing boat released by Somali pirates

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-21 [Older] Are Yemen's Houthis, US heading for war?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-21 [Older] Austrian police arrest 15 over wave of LGBTQ hate attacks

  • Defence Web ☛ 2025-03-27 [Older] Indian Navy to hold multinational exercise with African nations in April

  • Defence Web ☛ 2025-03-25 [Older] Over 300 arrests as African nations crack down on cybercrime

  • Defence Web ☛ 2025-03-24 [Older] Anatomy of SADC’s failure in eastern DRC

  • Defence Web ☛ 2025-03-24 [Older] Mozambican military receives final batch of European-funded equipment

  • Defence Web ☛ 2025-03-24 [Older] What France loses by closing its military bases in Africa

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-25 [Older] Turkey: Who is Erdogan's popular rival Ekrem Imamoglu?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-25 [Older] Turkey: Ekrem Imamoglu is among tens of thousands of political prisoners

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-24 [Older] Turkey updates: More than 1,100 detained in mass protests

  • Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2025-03-24 [Older] Turkey’s Authoritarian Turn

  • BIA Net ☛ 2025-03-21 [Older] Turkey’s main opposition party calls emergency congress to 'prevent government takeover'

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-21 [Older] Turkey's Erdogan says he 'won't give in' amid protests

  • BIA Net ☛ 2025-03-20 [Older] Explained: The broader context behind Turkey’s crackdown on İstanbul mayor

  • ANF News ☛ 2025-03-27 [Older] Besê Hozat: Fascism and oppression in Kurdistan have spread all over Turkey

  • TruthOut ☛ 2025-03-24 [Older] Mass Protests in Turkey After Cheeto Mussolini Ally Erdoğan Imprisons Political Rival

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-23 [Older] Turkey: Large crowds rally as Imamoglu appears in court

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-23 [Older] Turkey updates: Court remands Imamoglu on corruption charge

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-03-23 [Older] Turkey Jails Istanbul Mayor Before Trial, Stoking Opposition Anger

  • BIA Net ☛ 2025-03-22 [Older] İmamoğlu protests: Dozens detained in morning raids across Turkey

  • Scheerpost ☛ 2025-03-25 [Older] Popular Fury Grows in Turkey Against Tyrannical Erdoğan Emboldened by Cheeto Mussolini

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-25 [Older] EU faces balancing act over Turkey ties

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-27 [Older] Turkey: 1,900 protesters detained after Imamoglu's arrest

  • Truthdig ☛ 2025-03-25 [Older] Turkey’s Autocratic Descent Serves as a Warning for the U.S.

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-26 [Older] Renewed Israeli strikes in Syria stoke fear of escalation

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-03-21 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini Administration Monitoring Actions of Syria's New Rulers, State Dept Says

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-03-26 [Older] Syria Is at a Crossroads: It Can Return to Violence or Transition to Peace, Says UN Envoy

  • BIA Net ☛ 2025-03-25 [Older] ‘It's a recipe for one-man rule’: Syria’s new constitution shatters hopes

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-25 [Older] Syria's dictator is gone, but his drug dealers are still busy

  • HRW ☛ 2025-03-25 [Older] Syria: Constitutional Declaration Risks Endangering Rights

  • ANF News ☛ 2025-03-24 [Older] Mûna Yûsif: Syrian interim government's draft constitution ignores the role of women

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-23 [Older] Zimbabwe March 31 uprising: Will it succeed?

  • France24 ☛ From Paris, Joseph Aoun condemns the Israeli strikes on Lebanon

    While in France, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, welcomed by Emmanuel Macron, condemned the Israeli strikes on Lebanon. French President Emmanuel Macron said that there was no activity justifying Israel's strikes on Hezbollah in Lebanon on Friday and that he would call U.S. President The Insurrectionist and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the attacks. Carys Garland has the details from the Elysées Palace.

  • France24 ☛ Lebanon: the ceasefire 'appears to be still on' despite Israeli strikes

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned of strikes against any threats in Lebanon following Israel's first attack on southern Beirut since the November ceasefire with Hezbollah. FRANCE 24's Noga Tarnopolsky noted that the ceasefire 'appears to be still on' despite the escalation.

  • New York Times ☛ Israel Launches Airstrikes Near Beirut For First Time Since Cease-fire

    The attack in the southern outskirts of the Lebanese capital, an area where Hezbollah holds sway, followed rocket fire toward northern Israel.

  • Media Watch: online users target Taiwan with rumors about its military

    Some falsely claim that Taiwan is conscripting citizens in preparation for a war with China.

  • France24 ☛ Sudan’s army reclaims the capital Khartoum as RSF militia ‘loses steam’

    The Sudanese army wrested back full control over Khartoum after nearly two years of civil war, capping a weeklong offensive against the paramilitary RSF. The capture of Khartoum marks a turning point in the conflict which clearly shows the RSF’s inability to manage their conquered territories, says Marc Lavergne, a researcher and Sudan expert.

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-21 [Older] Poland, Baltic states back away from land mine treaty

• Environment

  • France24 ☛ In pictures: Devastation after 'mass casualty' quake strikes Myanmar, Thailand

    A massive earthquake struck Myanmar and Thailand on Friday killing scores, injuring hundreds more and causing widespread damage to buildings and infrastructure. A state of emergency was declared in six regions in Myanmar while rescuers in Bangkok were frantically searching for 117 people still missing in the rubble of a collapsed 30-storey tower.

  • France24 ☛ 7.7-magnitude earthquake strikes Myanmar, strongly felt in Thailand

    ​A powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar near Mandalay on Friday, causing widespread devastation.The tremors were strongly felt in neighboring Thailand, including Bangkok, from where these people recount their experiences.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Over 153 killed as powerful quake strikes Myanmar, sows panic in Bangkok and Hanoi

    A US government analysis projects thousands of deaths and severe economic loss.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ First deaths confirmed as ‘mass casualty’ quake hits Myanmar, Thailand

    By Sebastien Berger and Hla Hla Htay with Thanaporn Promyamyai in Bangkok and Montira Rungjirajittranon in Chiang Mai A massive earthquake on Friday turned a major hospital in Myanmar’s capital into a “mass casualty area”, while at least three people were killed and dozens trapped in neighbouring Thailand when a skyscraper collapsed.

  • PHOTOS: From Bangkok to Mandalay, scenes of destruction from a deadly quake

    Dozens are killed in central Myanmar as buildings collapse. A high-rise under construction fell in Bangkok.

  • New York Times ☛ In Photos: An Earthquake Rocks Myanmar and Thailand

    The 7.7-magnitude quake caused widespread damage in a country already in chaos because of civil war.

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-27 [Older] Just Stop Oil to end disruptive climate protests

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-03-27 [Older] NIH Ends Funding for the Effects of Climate Change on Health

  • TruthOut ☛ 2025-03-26 [Older] NIH Will No Longer Fund Research on the Health Effects of Climate Change

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-25 [Older] Climate change making heart disease worse among Australians

  • Bridge Michigan ☛ 2025-03-26 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini's 'green bank' freeze puts Michigan climate, housing efforts in limbo

  • Counter Punch ☛ 2025-03-26 [Older] Climate Realpolitik: Review of “What’s Left” by Malcolm Harris

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-26 [Older] Scholz: US risks missing economic gains from climate action

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-03-26 [Older] Climate Change and Overfishing Threaten Vietnam’s Ancient Tradition of Making Fish Sauce

  • Bridge Michigan ☛ 2025-03-24 [Older] Study: Algae blooms on cold Lake Superior reveal impact of climate change

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-25 [Older] Is Brazil abandoning its climate promises?

  • Counter Punch ☛ 2025-03-24 [Older] Senator Whitehouse’s Climate Crisis/Property Insurance/RE Collapse Scenario

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-25 [Older] COP30 countdown: Leaders urge stronger climate action

  • Counter Punch ☛ 2025-03-21 [Older] Take Telsa Down: A Billionaire Was Never Going to Stop Climate Change

  • The Local SE ☛ 2025-03-21 [Older] Swedish climate experts say 'emissions increased due to political decisions'

  • Energy/Transportation

    • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ CK Hutchison’s Panama ports deal: Between business decision and national security

      I generally hesitate to say anything about what appears in the Chinese-language press, because it reaches me only second-hand, and in translation. But recent commentaries in Ta Kung Pao have me puzzled. I do not participate in controversies about China, for or against.

    • NL Times ☛ 2025-03-26 [Older] Mass claim against energy sector after Vattenfall are found guilty of illegal price hike

    • TruthOut ☛ 2025-03-23 [Older] Billionaires Advance Fossil Fuels at “Energy Super Bowl” in Houston

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-03-22 [Older] UK Government Orders Probe Into Heathrow Shutdown That Sparked Concern Over Energy Resilience

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-21 [Older] Heathrow Airport: The impact of a major shutdown

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-21 [Older] Heathrow Airport flights resume after fire cut power

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-03-22 [Older] Australia Budget to Dole Out Energy Bill Relief as General Election Looms

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • Science Alert ☛ Ginormous Claws Found in The Gobi Desert Belong to a Never-Before-Seen Species

      "Pretty unexpected."

    • CBC ☛ 2025-03-25 [Older] Those wild Canada goose-bald eagle fight photos continue to give chills — as an ice sculpture

• Finance

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong Kong customs seize 145kg of suspected gold bars worth HK$110 million from Japan-bound air cargo

    Hong Kong customs officers have announced the seizure of 145 kilograms of suspected gold bars, worth around HK$110 million, in a Japan-bound air cargo, breaking the record for the largest bust of its kind.

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-03-24 [Older] US Treasury Department Prepares to Streamline Banking Regulators, Semafor Reports

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-21 [Older] How Nigeria lost its textile market to Chinese imports

  • The Age AU ☛ 2025-03-24 [Older] More borrowers are ditching their bank as refinancing rate picks up

  • TruthOut ☛ 2025-03-25 [Older] USPS’s Louis DeJoy Resigns as Banks “Salivate” Over Musk Goal of Privatization

  • Vox ☛ 2025-03-26 [Older] Why it still takes days for banks to give you your money

  • The Age AU ☛ 2025-03-27 [Older] ASX falls as banks, tech stocks decline; Reject Shop soars on takeover bid

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-21 [Older] How will Germany spend its €1 trillion loans?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-21 [Older] Germany: Upper house signs off on landmark debt reform plan

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-22 [Older] US bans ex-Argentine president Fernandez de Kirchner over graft allegations

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong Kong slams UK for ‘hypocrisy’ as report highlights ‘transnational repression’

    Hong Kong has slammed the United Kingdom over a twice-yearly report that raised concerns about “transnational repression,” published after the city issued arrest warrants for UK-based pro-democracy activists last December.

  • New Yorker ☛ Senator Chris Murphy: “This Is How Democracy Dies—Everybody Just Gets Scared”

    The Forrest Dump Administration is moving to prevent fair elections in 2026, the Connecticut Democrat says. “It won’t matter if we’re more popular than them.”

  • Pro Publica ☛ How Elon Musk, George Soros and Other Billionaires Are Shaping the Most Expensive Court Race in U.S. History

    Ten years ago, when Wisconsin lawmakers approved a bill to allow unlimited spending in state elections, only one Republican voted no.

    “I just thought big money was an evil, a curse on our politics,” former state Sen. Robert Cowles said recently of his 2015 decision to buck his party.

  • Federal News Network ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man signs executive order to end collective bargaining at agencies involved with national security

    President The Insurrectionist moved Thursday to end collective bargaining with federal labor unions in agencies with national security missions across the federal government, citing authority granted him under a 1978 law.

  • JURIST ☛ National Jury of Elections of Peru announces deadlines for resignations of public officials ahead of 2026 elections

    Peru’s National Jury of Elections (JNE) on Tuesday issued deadlines for high-ranking officials to resign in order to run for office in the 2026 General Elections. JNE issued a series of resolutions to address potential challenges that may arise due to a surplus of General Election candidates.

  • Federal News Network ☛ Agencies seek ‘legal certainty’ from court to bar many feds from collective bargaining

    The lawsuit states collective bargaining agreements with federal employees are a “serious impediment to effective agency operations and national security."

  • JURIST ☛ New York county clerk refuses $100K Texas judgment against doctor in abortion lawsuit

    The acting clerk of Ulster County, New York rejected on Thursday to file a $100,000 judgment against a doctor who is accused of unlawfully providing abortion-inducing drugs to a Texas woman.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • New York Times ☛ Myanmar’s Internet Censorship Limits Information About Earthquake

    Since 2021, the ruling military junta has severely restricted the internet and cut access to social control media, digitally isolating the country.

  • Mint Press News ☛ Israeli Lawsuits Target Americans: A New Threat to the First Amendment Under Convicted Felon

    A wave of lawsuits filed by Israeli plaintiffs against pro-Palestinian Americans is setting the stage for Convicted Felon-backed legislation that could criminalize dissent and silence opposition to Israeli policies.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Explainer: Hong Kong’s national security crackdown – month 57

    In the third month of 2025, Hong Kong’s apex court handed down landmark rulings: quashing the convictions of three Tiananmen vigil activists and upholding jailed activist Tam Tak-chi’s conviction and prison term.

  • BIA Net ☛ 2025-03-21 [Older] Turkey lifts social media restrictions after İstanbul mayor’s arrest while dozens detained over posts

  • BIA Net ☛ 2025-03-22 [Older] X restricts access to activist accounts in Turkey amid İmamoğlu protests

  • NL Times ☛ 2025-03-26 [Older] Marjolein Faber to press charges for photo of her with Hitler mustache at demonstration

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • JURIST ☛ Serbia targets Balkan investigative journalists with Pegasus spyware: report

    Amnesty International reported Thursday that the Serbian authorities employed Pegasus spyware against two investigative journalists in February 2025. Both journalists, from Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN), have a research focus on state-sponsored corruption. Both Serbian journalists received a Viber text on February 14 from an unknown number.

  • Press Gazette ☛ Two LBC News launch presenters to leave after five years

    Lisa Aziz and Martin Stanford to say goodbye to radio station.

  • Press Gazette ☛ Showbiz editors say newsroom culture will change post Millie Bobby Brown ‘bullying’ video

    Senior editors from Mail, Mirror and Sun say body-shaming of female celebs in media is wrong.

  • RFERL ☛ RFE/RL Continues Lawsuit As It Awaits Funds; Judge Blocks Dismantling Of VOA

    Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is continuing legal action against the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) to secure the release of congressionally appropriated funding, it said in a statement on March 28.

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-24 [Older] Africa's press freedom hit hard by VOA shutdown, US aid cuts

  • BIA Net ☛ 2025-03-24 [Older] Turkey detains journalists covering protests in house raids

  • BIA Net ☛ 2025-03-27 [Older] BBC journalist Mark Lowen deported from Turkey after covering protests

  • ANF News ☛ 2025-03-27 [Older] BBC correspondent Mark Lowen deported from Turkey for covering the ongoing protests

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-03-24 [Older] Turkey Detains Journalists as Protests Grow Over the Jailing of Key Erdogan Rival

  • ANF News ☛ 2025-03-27 [Older] Hundreds of writers and academics in Turkey call for "democracy alliance"

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-03-24 [Older] Turkey Opposition Seeks Boycott of Pro-Erdogan Media Over Failure to Cover Protests

  • CPJ ☛ 2025-03-20 [Older] Brazilian reporter’s personal information, photos leaked following investigative work

• Civil Rights/Policing

  • Pro Publica ☛ A North Carolina Political Power Grab Disrupted Funding for Sexual Abuse Survivors

    For years, North Carolina’s Republican-majority Legislature has taken steps big and small to wrench power from Democratic governors and the agencies under their control.

    One move that didn’t get much attention — tucked into a 628-page budget bill four years ago — was to direct $15 million in funding for sexual assault victims away from Democratic-led agencies that had long overseen such money. The money instead would be funneled through the North Carolina Human Trafficking Commission, an obscure group that’s part of the state’s GOP-helmed courts system.

  • France24 ☛ Why violence against women is a men's issue

    In this special edition, we focus on misogyny especially among boys and young men as the DRM spreader Netflix series, "Adolescence," has gone viral. The harrowing British drama, about a young boy accused of killing a female classmate, has garnered rave reviews for its performances and storyline. Yet its most important legacy could be kick-starting societal change, and opening up a conversation about toxic masculinity. Also Annette Young talks to Dr Jackson Katz, a specialist in gender violence and whose book entitled "Every Man: Why Violence Against Women is a Men's Issue" has just been published.

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • APNIC ☛ IPv6 penetration in Nepal

    Guest Post: The current status, progress, challenges, and future outlook of IPv6 in Nepal.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• IP Kat ☛ 2025-03-27 [Older] UPOV welcomes its 80th member: Nigeria

• Patents

  • JUVE ☛ Heckler & Koch assault rifle patent monopoly upheld as Europe scales up defence

    The dispute between Heckler & Koch and its competitor C.G. Haenel began years ago in more peaceful times, when the German Armed Forces primarily served as a deterrent. Amid current global political developments, the German government and its European partners are now considering extensive rearmament programmes.

  • Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Statutory Text vs. Precedent: Analyzing the AIA’s On-Sale Bar for Secret Processes in Celanese v. ITC

    The pending cert petition in Celanese v. ITC asks whether the sale of products made using a secret process triggers the on-sale bar post-AIA.  In my view, the case sets up a fundamental tension between a straight reading of the statutory text and longstanding precedent.  My bet is on the precedent.

    Although Congress has repeatedly tinkered with U.S. patent monopoly law over the past several decades, the America Invents Act of 2011 was clearly the most dramatic rewriting of  the law since 1952. The fundamental change to Section 102 was the transition from first-to-invent to first-to-file.   In addition, the law was amended throughout to focus on the "claimed invention" rather than simply the "invention." 

  • Counter Punch ☛ 2025-03-25 [Older] Patent Monopolies: the Biggest Tax No One’s Heard Of

  • 2025-03-25 [Older] Newman v. Moore -- Down to a "Battle of the Experts"? [Ed: A patent maximalist and senile?]

  • Software Patents

    • IP Kat ☛ 2025-03-26 [Older] G 2/21 applied to software inventions (T 0687/22) [Ed: Well, software patents are illegal, but the kangaroo courts of the EPO still debate this as if there's any room for leeway]