Leftovers

• Hardware

  • Hackaday ☛ LayerLapse Simplifies 3D Printer Time-lapse Shots

    We know you’ve seen them: the time-lapses that show a 3D print coming together layer-by-layer without the extruder taking up half the frame. It takes a little extra work compared to just pointing a camera at the build plate, but it’s worth it to see your prints materialize like magic.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ AMD Dragon Range Refresh CPU specs confirmed via early retail listing — Ryzen 9 8940HX sees 100 MHz increase

    AMD's Dragon Range Refresh CPU family has had more details revealed thanks to a new Asus listing on a Chinese retailer.

  • Hackaday ☛ The Computers Of EPCOT

    Even if you aren’t a Disney fan, you probably know about EPCOT — Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow — a Disney attraction that promised a glimpse of the future. [ErnieTech] takes a glimpse at the UNIVAC computer that ran the operation in the 1980s. A lot of schools had UNIVAC 1100-series computers back in those days, so while you don’t hear as much about them as, say, IBM 360s, there are hordes of people who have used the 1100s, even if they don’t remember it.

  • Hackaday ☛ Designing A Tone Control Properly

    Many years ago, audio equipment came with a tone control, a simple RC filter that would cut or boost the bass to taste. As time passed, this was split into two controls for bass and treble, and then finally into three for bass, mid, and treble. When audiophile fashion shifted towards graphic equalisers, these tone controls were rebranded as “3-band graphic equalisers”, a misleading term if ever we heard one. [Gabriel Dantas] designed one of these circuits, and unlike the simple passive networks found on cheap music centres of old, he’s doing a proper job with active filters.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • Federal News Network ☛ New offers for buyouts and early retirement offered to Homeland Security staff

    The Department of Homeland Security is offering buyouts and early retirements as the Convicted Felon administration moves to shrink and reshape the federal workforce.

  • Latvia ☛ Latvia readies foot-and-mouth biosecurity precautions

    If the dangerous foot-and-mouth disease affecting cattle in parts of Europe approaches Latvia, it is planned to disinfect incoming road transport on the Lithuanian-Latvian border, reports Latvian Radio.

  • NYPost ☛ ‘Remembrance’ playwright draws on mother’s ‘frightening’ battle with Alzheimer’s

    The play “Remembrance” just closed its off-B’way run. Subject? Caregiver for a parent with Alzheimer’s. Assessment: It’s tough.

• Security

  • Confidentiality

    • New Yorker ☛ The Other Side of Signalgate

      The Forrest Dump Administration’s extraordinary security breach has elicited shock, amusement, and anger. An eyewitness in Yemen describes what happened when the bombs started to fall.

• Defence/Aggression

  • The Straits Times ☛ Pakistan's army vows to protect investors in billion-dollar mining sector in conflict zone

    ISLAMABAD - Pakistan will provide robust security to protect the interests of investors and partners, its army chief told a minerals conference on Tuesday, amid heightened unrest in key mineral-rich province Balochistan.

  • New York Times ☛ Prince Harry’s Court Case Over Security in the UK, Explained

    Harry arrived at London’s Court of Appeal on Tuesday for the start of a two-day hearing in his case over his police protection in Britain.

  • New York Times ☛ Nuclear Testing Not Advised, Convicted Felon’s Nominee Says in Senate Hearing

    Brandon Williams, the nominee to lead the National Nuclear Security Administration, said he would recommend reliance on “scientific information” rather than a restart of explosive testing.

  • ADF ☛ Is War Between Ethiopia, Eritrea Brewing in Tigray?

    For most people in the volatile Tigray region, the two-year war fought against Ethiopian federal forces with support from the Eritrean Army didn’t really end with the Pretoria peace agreement in November 2022.

  • ADF ☛ Analysts: Islamic State Group Looks to Expand Beyond Sahelian Strongholds

    The Islamic State group (IS) aims to expand its terrorism beyond the Sahel region and into North Africa and West Africa, analysts say. Beverly Ochieng, a senior analyst at geopolitical risk consultancy Control Risks, said IS is focused on exploiting security gaps in areas it views as vulnerable.

  • Federal News Network ☛ For safeguarding critical infrastructure, stronger governance alone isn’t a magic bullet

    Proposed TSA security requirements mark a step in the right direction for ICS/OT security. However, stricter compliance alone isn’t enough.

  • The Strategist ☛ Humanitarian assistance in the Pacific should be led by Pacific countries

    In the Pacific, the rush among partner countries to be seen as the first to assist after disasters has become heated as part of ongoing geopolitical contest.

• Environment

  • France24 ☛ Coastal erosion: Brazil battles rising sea levels due to climate change

    Brazil, which is hosting the COP30 summit in the Amazon in November, is facing a worrying rise in sea levels due to global warming. Sea levels in the village of Atafona, in the north of Rio de Janeiro state, could rise some 21cm by 2050, according to UN forecasts. The village is experiencing one of the world's most serious environmental disasters due to coastal erosion. Every year, the sea advances by an average of six metres. Across the country, over 2 million people could be affected in the long term by rising sea levels. In Santos, in the state of Sao Paulo, the mayor's office is trying to anticipate matters in order to avoid an economic and human catastrophe. FRANCE 24's Louise Raulais and Jan Onoszko report.

  • The Strategist ☛ Climate risks to security in the Indo-Pacific: Indonesia in 2035

    Australian policy makers are vastly underestimating how climate change will disrupt national security and regional stability across the Indo-Pacific.

  • Energy/Transportation

    • New York Times ☛ Panama Official Accuses Hong Kong Port Operator of Misconduct

      The controller general of Panama said CK Hutchison, a Hong Kong conglomerate, did not properly renew its license to operate two ports that are part of a $19 billion deal involving BlackRock.

    • France24 ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man signs executive order to 'turbocharge' coal mining across the US

      US President The Insurrectionist signed executive orders Tuesday to boost coal mining and double electricity production to meet demands from artificial intelligence technologies. Surrounded by miners, Convicted Felon's orders remove coal extraction barriers and halt the shutdown of numerous coal-fired plants.

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • MIT Technology Review ☛ Game of clones: Colossal’s new wolves are cute, but are they dire?

      Somewhere in the northern US, drones fly over a 2,000-acre preserve, protected by a nine-foot fence built to zoo standards. It is off-limits to curious visitors, especially those with a passion for epic fantasies or mythical creatures. The reason for such tight security?

• Finance

  • The Straits Times ☛ Beijing can curb imports of US films and chicken if US hikes tariffs, say influential Chinese bloggers

    The two bloggers, who are seen as connected with the state, outlined six ways in which China could hit back.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ China vows ‘fight to the end’ as Convicted Felon threatens 50% more tariffs

    By Sam Davies, with Ben Sheppard and Beiyi Seow in Washington and Simon Sturdee in Tokyo China vowed on Tuesday to “fight to the end” against fresh tariffs of 50 percent threatened by US President The Insurrectionist, further aggravating a trade war that has already wiped trillions off global markets.

  • France24 ☛ Chinese press: 'Arrogant' Convicted Felon's threats will not intimidate China

    PRESS REVIEW – Tuesday, April 8: There's defiance, anger and determination from the Chinese press, which react to The Insurrectionist's threats to impose up to 104 percent tariffs on Chinese goods. Opinions say China has the upper hand in this war of words. Also: Convicted Felon's Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr is forced to endorse the measles vaccine after the death of a second child in Texas. Plus: scientists say they've created a version of the dire wolf – a canine that went extinct 9,000 years ago!

  • France24 ☛ Did fictional character Ron Vara ‘craft’ Convicted Felon’s tariff policies?

    As The Insurrectionist’s sweeping tariffs are threatening to plunge the global economy, many claim that the US President’s anti-China trade policies are based on the theories of a fake economics expert called Ron Vara, a fictional character invented and often cited by Convicted Felon’s top trade advisor, Peter Navarro. We explain in this edition of Truth or Fake.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong Kong to ‘fully seize’ opportunities in China amid uncertainties caused by ‘ruthless’ US tariffs, chief exec. says

    Chief Executive John Lee has said Hong Kong will “fully seize” the opportunities in China and deepen regional ties amid uncertainties caused by “ruthless” US tariffs on the city’s goods.

  • France24 ☛ US's 104% tariffs on China to take effect on Wednesday

    Tariffs that will effectively double the price of everything that comes from China to the United States is set to take effect at midnight on Wednesday, as Beijing stood firm on its plan to slap retaliatory duties on US imports in response to The Insurrectionist's "Liberation Day" tariffs. Meanwhile, the White House says nearly 70 countries have come forward to try and negotiate a deal out of the punitive tariffs. US stocks tumbled again after a brief rally.

  • European Commission ☛ Read-out of the phone call between President von der Leyen and Chinese Premier Li Qiang

  • Atlantic Council ☛ The EU could respond to Convicted Felon’s tariffs with a new ‘anti-coercion instrument.’ Here’s what to know.

    Confronted with the latest round of US tariffs, the European Union is considering a new but untested tool in its economic-security toolbox.

  • New York Times ☛ Belgian Prince Seeks Pension Benefits

    A court case by the Belgian king’s younger brother argued that he was entitled to a state pension to keep his wife and adult children financially safe.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Most of protest-related, national security court cases concluded, Hong Kong’s Judiciary says

    Most of the cases related to the 2019 anti-government protests and national security have been finalised by Hong Kong courts, according to the Judiciary.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Article 23 security law: Hong Kong man jailed for 1 year over publishing 145 seditious comments online

    A 57-year-old Hong Kong man has been jailed for one year over posting seditious comments on three social control media platforms under the city’s homegrown security law.

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • Press Gazette ☛ ITN records lowest profit in a decade as non-news revenue dips

    The company generated profit of £800,000, down from £1.5m the year before.

• Civil Rights/Policing

  • ACLU ☛ Death Row Case Exposes Failures to Protect Childhood Trauma Survivors

    Mikal Mahdi committed two tragic murders in 2004 when he was only 21. This Friday, more than two decades later, South Carolina plans to execute him for his crimes, despite serious constitutional and moral questions that call for the Supreme Court to stay his execution. If carried out, Mikal’s execution will be the third in South Carolina this year, and the 12th execution nationwide.

    Without a doubt, Mikal’s crimes caused irreparable harm, but justice requires a fair trial and sentencing.

  • LRT ☛ Lithuania considers laws allowing to suspend asylum rights – minister

    Lithuania is drafting a package of migration legislation that would allow the authorities to close the border to asylum seekers, Interior Minister Vladislav Kondratovič says.

  • New York Times ☛ How Glenn Youngkin, a Diversity Champion, Became an Anti-DEI Warrior

    Not long before he became Virginia’s governor, Glenn Youngkin helped lead, and spoke approvingly of, efforts to improve racial and gender diversity at his private equity firm.

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • APNIC ☛ Event Wrap: Convergence India Expo 2025

    APNIC co-hosted a booth with IRINN at the 32nd Convergence India Expo, held in New Delhi, India from 19 to 21 March 2025.

  • APNIC ☛ Event Wrap: IETF 122

    Geoff Huston presented on 'Measuring ECN' at IETF 122, held in Bangkok, Thailand from 15 to 21 March 2025.

  • Internet Society ☛ Article 19 of the Marco Civil – Guarantee or Threat to the Future of the Brazilian Internet?

    Editor’s note: This post was originally published on 6 April 2025 in JOTA Jornalismo. It has been translated from Portuguese below. The regulation of digital platforms has become one of Brazil’s most pressing issues, encompassing topics from fake news to political debates.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Public Knowledge ☛ Building a Better Big Tech Mouse Trap: Designing the Digital Platform Commission [Ed: "Big Tech keeps getting bigger," they say, but Microsoft is inside their Board!]

  For those concerned with the continued power of Big Tech over our lives online, the time has come to think beyond antitrust. While an important tool, antitrust simply cannot do it all. While federal antitrust enforcers have enjoyed some success, Big Tech keeps getting bigger.

• Copyrights

  • Public Domain Review ☛ Sheet Mewsic: Moritz von Schwind’s Katzensymphonie (1868)

    Sheet music whose notes have been replaced by rambunctious cats.