Leftovers

• Hackaday ☛ Flow Visualization With Schlieren Photography

  The word “Schlieren” is German, and translates roughly to “streaks”. What is streaky photography, and why might you want to use it in a project? And where did this funny term come from?

• Niall Murphy ☛ From infra to product and tooling to product: a journey

  I've been reflecting recently on the journey from infra/SRE to product/service owner, and my lessons - expected and not - along the way.

• Science

  • Hackaday ☛ A Constant-Fraction Discriminator For Sub-Nanosecond Timing

    Detecting a signal pulse is usually basic electronics, but you start to find more complications when you need to time the signal’s arrival in the picoseconds domain. These include the time-walk effect: if your circuit compares the input with a set threshold, a stronger signal will cross the threshold faster than a weaker signal arriving at the same time, so stronger signals seem to arrive faster. A constant-fraction discriminator solves this by triggering at a constant fraction of the signal pulse, and [Michael Wiebusch] recently presented a hacker-friendly implementation of the design (open-access paper).

  • Hackaday ☛ Understanding Linear Regression

    Although [Vitor Fróis] is explaining linear regression because it relates to machine learning, the post and, indeed, the topic have wide applications in many things that we do with electronics and computers. It is one way to use independent variables to predict dependent variables, and, in its simplest form, it is based on nothing more than a straight line.

• Hardware

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ After projecting losses of $1.5 billion, AMD CEO Lisa Su calls for a balance between export controls and national security

    Following an $800 million inventory charge due to U.S. export controls, AMD CEO Lisa Su echoed Nvidia's warnings that restricting access to the Chinese market could undermine American leadership in Hey Hi (AI) by enabling rival ecosystems.

  • Hackaday ☛ Edison Phonograph Plays The Cylinders

    You might be old enough to remember record platters, but you probably aren’t old enough to remember when records were cylinders. The Edison Blue Amberol records came out in 1912 and were far superior to the earlier wax cylinders. If you had one today, how could you play it? Easy. Just build [Palingenesis’] record player. You can even hear it do its thing in the video below.

  • Hackaday ☛ DIY Driving Simulator Pedals

    In the driving simulator community, setups can quickly grow ever more complicated and expensive, all in the quest for fidelity. For [CNCDan], rather than buy pedals off the shelf, he opted to build his own.

  • Hackaday ☛ The Owon HDS160 Reviewed

    These days, if you are in the market for a capable digital voltmeter, you might as well consider getting one with an oscilloscope built-in. One choice is the Owon HDS160, which [Kerry Wong] covers in the video below. The model is very similar to the HDS120, but the multimeter in the HDS160 has more counts–60,000 vs 20,000 as you might expect from the model number.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ Nvidia reportedly halts RTX 5090D deliveries in China — undelivered orders canceled, GPU ban speculated

    Nvidia reportedly cancelled the sales of the RTX 5090D in China.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ Nvidia celebrates dumping of Biden-era Hey Hi (AI) chip export rules — simpler new policy promised [Ed: There is no such thing as Hey Hi (AI) chips. It's just some buzzwords-decorated bunch of GPUs with another market]

    The Forrest Dump administration plans to scrap the Biden-era Hey Hi (AI) Diffusion Rule that restricted Hey Hi (AI) chip exports to most countries, replacing it with a simpler, negotiation-driven policy that maintains tough controls on China but opens doors for bilateral deals.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ Former SK hynix employee transferred advanced chip packaging technologies to Huawei

    A former SK Hynix employee has been charged with stealing wafer bonding and image sensor technologies to secure a job at Huawei’s HiSilicon, raising alarm over tech IP leaks to China.

  • Hackaday ☛ Let The Wookie Win With This DIY Holochess Table

    If you have seen Star Wars, you know what is being referenced here. Holochess appeared as a diversion built into the Millennium Falcon in the very first movie, way back in 1977. While not quite as iconic a use of simulated holograms as tiny Princess Leia begging for hope, it evidently struck a chord with [Maker Mac70], given the impressive effort he’s evidently gone through to re-create the game table from the film.

  • CNX Software ☛ MIPI C-PHY v3.0 released with 18-Wirestate mode encoding increasing the per-lane performance by up to 35 percent

    The MIPI Alliance has recently released the MIPI C-PHY v3.0 specification, defining the physical layer for connecting cameras and displays. The main change in MIPI C-PHY Version 3.0 is the addition of an 18-Wirestate mode encoding option – instead of the 6-Wirestate mode encoding used in previous versions – that increases the maximum performance of a C-PHY lane by approximately 30 to 35 percent.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • Federal News Network ☛ Over 11,000 VA health care employees apply to leave, but ‘very few’ eligible for separation incentives

    According to an internal dashboard, the Veterans Health Administration has about 63,000 more employees than it did in FY 2019.

  • Science Alert ☛ Scientists Discover Genetic Mutation Linked to Needing Less Sleep

    New potential for future sleep treatments.

  • Science Alert ☛ Psychedelics May 'Reset' Brain Cells in Mood And Immune Disorders

    This could open up a whole new world of treatments.

  • Science Alert ☛ Ultra-Rare 'Asian Unicorn' Has Genome Sequenced, And It Could Mean Everything

    A last-ditch chance for survival.

  • Science Alert ☛ DNA Reveals Surprising Twist About Christopher Columbus

    Could the conspiracy theories be true?

  • Pro Publica ☛ Democrats Blast Trump Plan to Shrink Veterans Affairs Staff

    Democratic House members on Thursday blasted the Trump administration’s moves to shrink the Department of Veterans Affairs and demanded more transparency from its leaders after a ProPublica investigation revealed widespread disruptions across the agency’s health care system.

    “There are real-life dangerous impacts for veterans,” said Rep. Chris Deluzio of Pennsylvania, citing the news organization’s work.

• Proprietary

  • Standards/Consortia

    • Nikita Lapkov ☛ I switched from GMail and nobody died

      After reading another horror story of how a person was locked out of their Google account, I decided to pull the switch. My goal was to switch my calendar and email to another provider as well as use my domain for the email address.

    • Linuxiac ☛ Node.js 24 Drops MSVC, Embraces ClangCL on Windows

      Node.js 24 is here with V8 13.6 engine, npm 11, global URLPattern, and ClangCL support on Windows.

• Security

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • The Straits Times ☛ Tourists visiting Malaysia can now sign up for Touch ’n Go eWallet to make QR payments

      Visitors registered with the eWallet app will be able to top up their balance using credit or debit cards.

  • Confidentiality

    • Marcy Wheeler ☛ Nit-picks: The White House’s Stealth April 8 Archive of “Parts” of the Houthi Signal Chat

      In the latest filings in the Signal chat lawsuit, the government reveals that the White House Counsel attempted to make a "consolidated" version of the Signal chat destroyed by Convicted Felon's cabinet members, but still only managed to preserve "parts" of the chat.

    • Digital Music News ☛ iHeartMedia Faces Class Action Lawsuit After Major Data Breach

      A recent class action lawsuit filed in New York’s Southern District Court has put iHeartMedia under scrutiny after a cyberattack in December 2024. The data breach allowed hackers to exfiltrate sensitive information that iHeartMedia did not keep secure including social security numbers, financial account details, and health insurance data.

    • New York Times ☛ No Phones, No Internet: The Vote for a New Pope Is Held in Extreme Secrecy

• Defence/Aggression

  • Latvia ☛ Latvian universities to share defence innovation funding

    The Latvian government has approved funding for the defence pre-acceleration programme to be allocated to the Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies, the University of Latvia, Riga Stradiņš University, and Riga Technical University, reports Labs of Latvia.

  • New York Times ☛ Denmark Outraged by Report of Increased Spying in Greenland

    Officials summoned the American ambassador to express its displeasure after the Convicted Felon Administration was said be ratcheting up surveillance.

  • New York Times ☛ Intelligence Agencies Increase Focus on Greenland, U.S. Officials Say

    A growing number of reports about the island have been included in information circulated in the executive branch and Congress, officials said.

  • The Strategist ☛ US Defense Secretary cancels Women, Peace and Security programs

    Last week, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced the cancellation of his department’s Women, Peace and Security (WPS) program. In doing so, he ignored the well-established overlap of insecurity and gender inequality.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Pakistan’s US ambassador says India, Pakistan have had contact at national security level

    The envoy said the responsibility to de-escalate tensions between the two countries lay with India.

  • France24 ☛ France marks 80 years since Victory Day

    France marks 80 years since Victory Day, commemorating the end of WWII in Europe. Celebrations at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris will include tributes to veterans and a speech by President Macron, as Liza Kaminov reports.

  • New York Times ☛ The Pentagon’s Culture Wars Strike West Point

    A Jan. 29 order from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth led to canceled classes, book bans and an argument about American greatness.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Key military, diplomatic escalations in troubled India-Pakistan ties since 1999

    The nuclear-armed rivals have fought three wars in the past.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Pakistan hails role of Chinese jets in repelling India strikes

    China is a major backer of Pakistan and its biggest supplier of weapons.

  • The Straits Times ☛ US imposes Iran-related sanctions on third China ‘teapot’ refinery, ports

    The Forrest Dump administration is stepping up efforts to cut off Iran's export revenue, to pressure Tehran into a nuclear deal.

  • The Straits Times ☛ ST Picks: Tariffs, trade and talks - Can China and the US come to a consensus?

  • Hong Kong removes protection against land reclamation in Victoria Harbor

    Lawmakers amend a 1997 law that had given court protection to the iconic waterway, now giving more power to the exe

  • France24 ☛ Poland to train 100,000 military volunteers annually by 2027

    Poland has announced plans to provide military training for all volunteers, aiming to train 100,000 people annually by 2027. The move is part of the country's effort to strengthen its defence capabilities amid growing security concerns in the region. FRANCE 24's Gulliver Cragg and Adrien Sarlat went to meet young Poles in the middle of their training.

  • Defence Web ☛ Tightening the legal noose for rhino poachers

    South Africa’s Forestry, Fisheries and Environment Minister, Dion George, plans to make rhino poaching related bail applications more difficult as part of strengthening the national assault on this natural heritage component.

  • Defence Web ☛ ISS seminar hears DR Congo is quasi-state lacking internal legitimacy

    Troubled Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which has had a peacekeeping presence in one form or another since 1999, needs years of dialogue and consultation if it is to become a nation state in the fullest sense of the concept.

  • Scoop News Group ☛ Sen. Murphy: Convicted Felon administration has ‘illegally gutted funding for cybersecurity’

    He’s the latest Democrat who sits on an appropriations panel to sharply criticize CISA personnel reductions and proposed funding cuts.

  • The Strategist ☛ It’s a wrap: NT Defence Week 2025

    Australia’s future security will be decided as much in Darwin as in Canberra. NT Defence Week 2025 made that reality unmistakably clear [...]

  • The Straits Times ☛ North Korea leader oversees missile test simulating nuclear counterstrikes

    The test was designed to ensure the rapid response posture to counter the sensitive regional military climate.

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • Meduza ☛ No Russian drone strikes reported on first night of Putin’s declared three-day truce, but Ukraine reports guided bomb strikes on Sumy region — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Ukraine reportedly orders troops to fire only in response to Russian attacks during Putin's declared ceasefire — Meduza

    • Latvia ☛ Braže: More sanctions against Russia required

      More support for Ukraine and more sanctions against Russia and its supporters are required, Latvia's Foreign Minister Baiba Braže said on 8th May at the 'Gymnich meeting' of EU foreign ministers in Poland.

    • Atlantic Council ☛ Full transcript: The 2025 Distinguished Leadership Awards recognize leaders reshaping the global landscape

      On May 8, the Atlantic Council honored five visionary leaders along with heroes from Ukraine's fight against Russian aggression.

    • Atlantic Council ☛ Russia’s coming summer offensive could be deadliest of the entire war

      As the US-led peace initiative continues to falter, the unfolding summer campaigning season in Ukraine promises to be among the bloodiest of the entire war, writes Mykola Bielieskov.

    • LRT ☛ Lithuania’s Seimas vows to never recognise Russia’s claim to Ukrainian territories

      The Lithuanian parliament, Seimas, has passed a resolution declaring it will not recognise Russia’s claims to seized Ukrainian territories.

    • New York Times ☛ Russia’s Victory Day Parade: What to Know.

      A huge parade in the Russian capital to celebrate the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, attended by leaders of more than 20 countries, comes amid faltering attempts to end the war in Ukraine.

    • New York Times ☛ Russia’s Military Show of Strength Masks Economic and Diplomatic Cracks

      The annual Moscow parade marking victory over Nazi Germany is expected to be the largest in years, with world leaders in attendance, as the Kremlin tries to link that triumph to the war in Ukraine.

    • New York Times ☛ Victory Day in Russian-Occupied Ukraine: A Muted Celebration

      Events to mark the holiday in the occupied territories seem to be an effort to show Russian control of land it has captured.

    • Meduza ☛ Trump and Zelensky hold phone call after Ukraine ratifies minerals deal with U.S. — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Ukrainian parliament ratifies minerals deal with U.S. — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Back to the polls Romania canceled its presidential vote after an upset win sparked fears of Russian influence. But the new frontrunner may be no better for Ukraine. — Meduza

    • Latvia ☛ Baltics close airspace to those travelling to Russian parade

      The three Baltic States – Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania – have denied airspace access to foreign dignitaries travelling to Moscow for Russia’s 9 May so-called 'Victory Day' celebrations.

    • Meduza ☛ Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to skip Russia's Victory Day parade — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ FSB reports sharp drop in North Korean arrivals to Russia — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ ‘People simply didn’t know how else to save themselves’: Meduza journalist Lilia Yapparova reports on how Russian soldiers and civilians buy their way out of going to war — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ 'Please close the window': Dystopian clip shows drone in Kazakhstan stopping residents from watching Victory Day parade from their apartment — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Lithuanian parliament votes to withdraw from landmine ban treaty — Meduza

    • LRT ☛ Lithuania has ‘plan B’ if US pulls out of Europe – president

      Should the United States decide to pull its military forces from Europe, Lithuania will rely for its security on Germany, says President Gitanas Nausėda.

• Transparency/Investigative Reporting

  • Mexico News Daily ☛ Chiapas midwives denounce laws limiting access to birth certificates

    Chiapas midwives say the new National Midwifery Registry and NOM-020 rules undermine traditional practices and hinder newborn birth registration.

• Environment

  • The Straits Times ☛ Australia's Woodside confronts protests, investor anger at annual meet

    Climate change activists blew whistles and shouted on Thursday as they disrupted Australian gas producer Woodside Energy's annual general meeting, heckling Chief Executive Meg O’Neill and forcing several suspensions.

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • Science Alert ☛ Interactive Map Reveals Ocean Pathways Vital For 109 Species

      "This is really critical."

  • Overpopulation

    • Science Alert ☛ 28 Most Populous US Cities Are Sinking, New Survey Finds

      A concerning downward trend.

• Finance

  • The Straits Times ☛ New lifts, pipes, cafes: China doubles down on urban upgrades to buck ‘consumption downgrade’

    In 2024, China started more than 60,000 urban renewal projects, up from 53,000 in 2023.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Japan fair trade watchdog warns Tokyo hotels over information-sharing as room prices soar

    Hotel prices around the country have soared in recent months amid labour shortages and stubborn inflation.

  • Mexico News Daily ☛ Inflation on the rise as Mexico anticipates another interest rate cut

    A 50 basis point cut is still on the table after inflation stayed within the national bank's target range in April.

  • New York Times ☛ ‘Wildly Inappropriate Behavior’: Real Estate Group Is Accused of Cover-ups

    The Appraisal Institute faces concerns that one of its leaders has a history of harassing women and that it did not disclose that some certification exams were incorrectly scored.

  • New York Times ☛ Musk-Tied Investor Clashes With One of World’s Biggest Asset Managers

    A lawsuit accuses Brookfield Asset Management of fraud, attempted bribery and improperly limiting investments in one of MElon’s companies.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • The Straits Times ☛ Time running out for S. Korea’s ruling party to finalise its candidate for presidential polls

    S. Korea's ruling party is mired in infighting over which candidate to endorse for the presidential race.

  • The Straits Times ☛ South Korean presidential front runner says US risks isolation with tariffs

    The policy threatened to increase inflation and undermine US national credibility, said Lee Jae-myung.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Chinese premier Li Qiang to visit Malaysia for key Asean-Gulf summit, say sources

    Trade is expected to be high on the agenda.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Acid attack case on Malaysian national footballer Faisal Halim classified as ‘no further action’

    The player's lawyers said he is "very disappointed with the outcome".

  • The Straits Times ☛ South Korean politicians use ‘mukbang’, YouTube livestreaming to engage voters

    The trend offers a glimpse into the politicians’ lives after work or at the political battleground.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • New York Times ☛ A Year Ago, Columbia Security Was Hands-Off at a Protest. Not This Time.

    When demonstrators occupied the university’s main library on Wednesday, campus security forces intervened aggressively. The occupation ended with arrests hours later.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Father of wanted Hong Kong activist Anna Kwok denied bail on nat. sec grounds

    The father of wanted activist Anna Kwok has been denied bail on national security grounds after he was charged last week with attempting to handle financial assets of an “absconder.” Kwok Yin-sang, 68, was brought to the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts on Thursday morning to review his bail status before Chief Magistrate Victor So.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong Kong man jailed for 1 year over ‘seditious’ online posts targeting police, judges, gov’t

    A Hong Kong man has been jailed for one year after he pleaded guilty to publishing over 100 Facebook (Farcebook) posts that the court said incited hatred against police, judges, and the government.

  • The Straits Times ☛ India tells X to block over 8,000 accounts

    X said it was reluctantly complying with what it described as government-imposed “censorship.”

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • The Straits Times ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man to raise Hong Kong Jimmy Lai case in China trade talks

    U.S. President The Insurrectionist has said he would raise the case of jailed Hong Kong activist and former media tycoon Jimmy Lai as "part of the negotiation" with China over trade and tariffs, a move that could further stoke tensions with Beijing.

  • Press Gazette ☛ ‘Search is going off a cliff’: CNN, BillBC and Economist chiefs on future of news

    Mark Thompson, Deborah Turness and Zanny Minton Bedoes all spoke at the Sir Harry Summit.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ HKFP’s investigative reporting nominated for prestigious SOPA award

    A Hong Kong Free Press investigation has been nominated for a prestigious Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) award. HKFP’s 2024 probe into Hong Kong’s role in illegal deforestation of the Amazon rainforest was a joint investigation by Mercedes Hutton and Repórter Brasil.

  • JURIST ☛ Press advocacy group urges Italy to investigate spyware attacks on journalists

    The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) alerted the public on Tuesday of a second case of spyware attack on a journalist and urged Italian authorities to investigate. CPJ’s Europe representative, Attila Mong, criticized the targeting of journalists and categorized it as “a pattern of surveillance aimed at intimidating and silencing investigative reporting”.

  • Press Gazette ☛ Why the Financial Times has gone long with video

    Global head of video Veronica Kan-Dapaah says guiding principle is adding value for FT subscribers.

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • MWL ☛ 88: The Same Bucket

    The garbage truck that exploded outside my house means I am karmically bound to share a piece of the networking book. Authoritative nameservers contain the information for one or more specific domains. I run authoritative DNS servers for my domains, such as mwl.io and prohibitionorcs.com.

  • APNIC ☛ Certificate lifetimes are getting shorter, and that’s a good thing!

    Digicert now issues 47-day certificates, while Let’s Encrypt has dropped to just six. What’s behind the shift?

  • APNIC ☛ Event Wrap: Local APIGA Taiwan 2025

    Joyce Chen presented on the APNIC PDP at APIGA Taiwan, held in Taipei from 19 to 20 April 2025.

  • SANS ☛ No Internet Access 'SSH to the Rescue', (Thu, May 8th)

    This quick diary is a perfect example of why I love GNU/Linux (or UNIX in general) operating system.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Digital Music News ☛ Apple Asks the Court to Halt App Store Overhaul Amid Successful Epic Games Appeal

  Apple has requested the US District Court in Northern California pause enforcement of the new App Store rules after its recent loss to Epic Games. Fashion Company Apple has asked for a stay on the court’s injunction, in an emergency motion filed on Wednesday.

• Patents

  • Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Throwing Out the Jury: How the Federal Circuit’s ‘Particularized Testimony’ Rule Further Threatens the Doctrine of Equivalents

    The Supreme Court recently received a petition for certiorari from NexStep, Inc., challenging a Federal Circuit decision that epitomizes a four-decades-long trend of restricting the doctrine of equivalents (DOE). The petition in NexStep, Inc. v. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC (No. 24-1137), presents a fundamental question: Has the Federal Circuit improperly shackled the doctrine of equivalents with rigid, formulaic requirements contrary to Supreme Court precedent?  More particularly, the petition asks: "Whether a patentee must in every case present 'particularized testimony and linking argument' to establish infringement under the doctrine of equivalents."

  • Unified Patents ☛ Dominion Harbor entity, Arlington Technologies, networking patent monopoly prior art found

    Unified is pleased to announce prior art has been found on U.S. Patent 9,507,015, owned by Arlington Technologies LLC, an NPE and entity of Dominion Harbor Group. The ‘015 patent monopoly relates to determining proximity to an external device through luminance measurement and comparison to a threshold.

  • JUVE ☛ ToolGen and Vertex focus battle over CRISPR/Cas therapy Casgevy in Europe

    Biotech companies have fought over CRISPR/Cas patents for years, primarily at patent monopoly offices around the world. Now the technology has reached civil courts. Months ago, Korean biotech company ToolGen announced it would file patent monopoly infringement suits against Vertex. ToolGen is targeting the first therapy using CRISPR/Cas technology.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ Baidu developing AI-driven animal to human translator – Dr Doolittle plans revealed in patent monopoly application

    Animal owners seeking a deeper understanding of their beloved Fido or Tiddles have new hope after a recently filed patent monopoly from Chinese search giant Baidu was unearthed.

  • Pro Publica ☛ Why Is Cancer Drug Revlimid So Expensive?

    The pain jolted me awake. It was barely dawn, a misty February morning in 2023. My side felt as if I’d been stabbed.

    I had been dealing with pain for weeks — a bothersome ache that felt like a bad runner’s cramp. But now it was so intense I had to brace myself against the wall to stand up.

• Trademarks

  • TTAB Blog ☛ CAFC Affirms TTAB: US SPACE FORCE Falsely Suggests a Connection with the United States

    The CAFC upheld the Board's decision [TTABlogged here] affirming a Section 2(a) refusal to register the proposed mark US SPACE FORCE for a variety of goods in ten classes, including license plate frames, umbrellas, pillows, and toy spacecraft. The Board found that the mark falsely suggests a connection with the U.S. Space Force, a branch of the U.S. Armed Forces and a U.S. governmental institution. The CAFC ruled that the mark falsely suggested a connection with the United States (not just the Space Force), since the U.S. Space Force is an instrumentality of the United States. In re Thomas D. Foster, APC, Appeal No. 2023-1527 (May 7, 2025) [precedential]

• Copyrights

  • Digital Music News ☛ Warner Music Posts Q1 2025 Revenue Dip Amid U.S. Declines, ‘Market Share Loss in China’

    Warner Music Group (WMG) has reported another quarterly revenue slip – this time for 2025’s opening three months, when the major label suffered a “market share loss in China.” WMG posted its financials for 2025’s first quarter (the fiscal second quarter) this morning, pointing to about $1.48 billion in overall revenue.

  • Digital Music News ☛ Universal Music Calls Drake a Hypocrite as Ugly Defamation Lawsuit Drags On—UMG Dismisses Latest Action as ‘Legal Blather’ and Full of ‘Wild Conspiracies’

    Universal Music Group has motioned to dismiss Drake’s amended defamation lawsuit. The label calls the action ‘legal blather’ and insists the nature of rap battles would forever be changed should the lawsuit proceed.