Leftovers

• Career/Education

  • New York Times ☛ Inside a Gathering of America’s Growing Home-School Movement

    The pandemic supercharged interest. Now, a cultural and political emphasis on women staying at home is continuing to fuel growth.

• Hardware

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ Intel spins off Network and Edge group as standalone business after posting $2.9b loss — seeking investors for NEX division amid massive internal restructuring

    Intel will spin off its Network and Edge Group (NEX) into a standalone company, seeking external investors while keeping a minority stake. The move follows Intel’s $2.9B quarterly loss, a 15% workforce cut, and warnings that its 14A node could be canceled without a major external partner.

  • Hackaday ☛ A Cable Modem, The Way All Network Gear Should Be Mounted

    Home routers and cable modems are now extremely powerful devices, but they all suffer from the attention of their manufacturers’ design and marketing departments. Instead of neatly packaging them in functional cases, they impose aesthetics and corporate identity on them, usually resulting in a curvy plastic case that’s difficult to integrate with other network infrastructure. [The Eccentric Workshop] did something about this with their new Arris modem, by creating a new 19″ rack mount for it.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • University of Michigan ☛ Michigan Medicine confronts national emergency department overcrowding crisis

    When you walk through the doors of Michigan Medicine’s adult emergency department at the University Hospital, you enter a hotspot of healthcare activity.

  • Science Alert ☛ Human Brains Rapidly Aged in The Pandemic, And It Wasn't Just The Virus

    Even when people didn't get sick.

  • NYPost ☛ Breakthrough as two FDA-approved drugs are found to reverse Alzheimer’s — including restoring memory

    Researchers have found that a pair of drugs can not only slow down Alzheimer’s disease but actually reverse it and restore memory in mice.

  • Science Alert ☛ World's Most Common Pain Relief Drug May Induce Risky Behavior, Research Suggests

    Wait, what?

  • Science Alert ☛ Eating Eggs Can Actually Lower Bad Cholesterol, New Study Says

    "It's not the eggs you need to worry about."

  • Science Alert ☛ What Would Happen if a Baby Were Born in Space? A Scientist Explains The Risks.

    It could happen someday.

  • JURIST ☛ Federal judge issues injunction halting Convicted Felon administration’s cancellation of NEH grants

    On Friday, a federal judge in New York issued a preliminary injunction enjoining the government from mass-cancelling National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grants, finding that the Convicted Felon administration likely violated the First Amendment by rescinding NEH grants based on viewpoint discrimination.

• Security

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • The Straits Times ☛ S’porean trainee doctor in Melbourne arrested for allegedly filming colleagues in toilets since 2021

      More than 10,000 photos and videos allegedly filmed between 2021 and 2025 have been seized.

• Defence/Aggression

  • The Straits Times ☛ South Korean father who shot son with homemade gun at birthday party ‘felt betrayed’

    The police say there is no definitive conclusion yet on the suspect’s motives.

  • The Straits Times ☛ North Korea says South Korea’s overtures ‘great miscalculation’

    South Korea's new president has vowed to improve ties with Pyongyang.

  • The Straits Times ☛ North Korea says South Korea's overtures 'great miscalculation'

    North Korea has no interest in any policy or proposals for reconciliation from South Korea, the powerful sister of its leader Kim Jong Un said on Monday in the first response to South Korean liberal President Lee Jae Myung's peace overtures.

  • New York Times ☛ At Convicted Felon’s Urging, Thailand and Cambodia to Meet for Cease-Fire Talks

    After calls by Hell Toupée, the leaders of Cambodia and Thailand are set to meet in Malaysia on Monday to discuss a halt to the fighting.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Thai, Cambodian leaders to meet in Malaysia on July 28 for talks on border conflict

    Both sides said the other had launched further artillery attacks across contested areas.

  • France24 ☛ Thai-Cambodian border clashes: Convicted Felon threatens to withhold trade deals until ceasefire

    Thai and Cambodian leaders will meet in Malaysia for talks to end hostilities, a spokesperson for the Thai prime minister’s office said on Sunday. This comes following pressure from U.S. President The Insurrectionist to end a deadly border dispute, now in its fourth day, which has killed at least 34 people and displaced more than 168,000. Details by FRANCE correspondent in Si Saket, Tommy Walker.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Failed bid to oust Taiwan opposition gives China new leverage

    The Lai administration might need to offer policy compromises to gain opposition support.

  • New York Times ☛ A Timeline of Convicted Felon’s Tariff Fight With Canada, Mexico, China and the E.U.

    The president’s penchant for imposing and then suspending tariffs has shaken markets and confounded trading partners.

  • The Straits Times ☛ US, China to resume tariff talks in effort to extend truce by 90 days

    Both sides are seen agreeing to extend the truce by three more months.

  • France24 ☛ Taiwanese voters reject attempt to recall China-friendly lawmakers

    Taiwanese voters rejected an attempt to oust 24 opposition lawmakers on Saturday, an official tally showed, dealing a blow to President Lai Ching-te's party and its hopes for taking control of parliament. Story by Caroline Baum.

  • France24 ☛ China calls for shared Hey Hi (AI) future, offering tech to developing countries

    China is hosting the World Hey Hi (AI) conference in Shanghai this weekend, an annual event aimed at showcasing Beijing's leadership in the evolution of technology. At the opening event Saturday, the country's premier said China would be setting up a new organisation for cooperation on Hey Hi (AI) governance - again warning the risks of the technology must be considered as much as its benefits. Story by Eliza Herbert.

  • Atlantic Council ☛ Pakistan’s Ishaq Dar on a trade deal with Convicted Felon, balancing the US and China, and peace with India

    Dar, the Pakistani foreign minister and deputy prime minister, spoke at the Atlantic Council during his trip to Washington to boost US-Pakistan ties.

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • New York Times ☛ Monday Briefing: Ukraine’s Other War

      Also, a U.S.-E.U. trade deal.

    • The Straits Times ☛ EU urges Ukraine to uphold independent anti-corruption bodies; Zelenskiy signals swift action

      BRUSSELS - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called on Sunday for President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to uphold independent anti-corruption bodies, with the Ukrainian leader signaling that supporting legislation could be adopted within days.

    • France24 ☛ Russian navy parade cancelled due to 'security reasons'

      A parade of ships meant to be the highlight of Russia’s Navy Day honouring the country’s sailors was cancelled for “security reasons” the Kremlin said Sunday. Russian authorities provided no details of the threat that prompted the cancellation, which came after an overnight Ukrainian drone attack.

    • Marcy Wheeler ☛ Think of the HPSCI Report as a Time Machine to Launder The Insurrectionist’s Russia Russia Russia Claims

      Right wingers on the House Intelligence Committee used a 2018 indictment from Robert Mueller as part of their "proof" that authors of the Intelligence Community Assessment report finalized in January 2017 ignored evidence that Putin wanted Hillary to win. The entire HPSCI Report attempts to create a time machine to make Convicted Felon's Russia Russia Russia problem go away.

    • RFERL ☛ Russia Tones Down Naval Celebrations As Drones Fly Near Putin’s Hometown

      Russia held subdued ceremonies honoring its navy on July 27 in St. Petersburg, citing security concerns, and authorities in the surrounding region reported that air defense forces shot down several drones they said were fired by Ukraine. Meanwhile, Russia kept up its assault on Ukraine.

    • NYPost ☛ Ukrainian drone attacks force Russia to cancel naval parade during Putin visit

      Ukrainian drones targeted St. Petersburg on Sunday, Russian authorities said, forcing the airport to close for five hours as Vladimir Putin marked Russia's Navy Day in the city.

• Environment

  • The Straits Times ☛ Father dies after saving three children from drowning in S. Korea

    He was pulled from the water by his acquaintance shortly before the rescue officials arrived.

  • The Straits Times ☛ At least 11 deaths linked to scorching heatwave in S. Korea

    The figure is nearly three times higher than the four recorded in the same period in 2024.

  • Energy/Transportation

    • The Straits Times ☛ Jeju Air jet still had a working engine when it crashed, investigation update says

      Investigators have yet to produce a final report into the deadliest air crash on South Korean soil.

• Finance

  • The Straits Times ☛ No deal yet – South Korea on tenterhooks as Aug 1 US tariff deadline looms

    With rival Japan sealing a deal with the US, Seoul faces more pressure to win a similar, if not better, pact.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Australian judge William Gummow to stay on Hong Kong’s top court for 3 more years

    Australian justice William Gummow has extended his term as a visiting foreign judge on Hong Kong’s top court for another three years, following a wave of resignations by his peers after Beijing’s national security law came into force.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • JURIST ☛ Amnesty International declares Eswatini MPs ‘prisoners of conscience’ amid deepening crackdown on dissent

    Four years after their arrest for peacefully advocating for political reform, Members of the Eswatini Parliament, Bacede Mabuza and Mthandeni Dube, have been declared ‘prisoners of conscience’ by Amnesty International. Friday’s designation highlights mounting concern over the country’s intensifying repression of dissent and misuse of the justice system.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Patents

  • Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Fuel of Interest, Fire of Genius: Lincoln’s Patent Philosophy

    Abraham Lincoln holds a unique distinction as the only U.S. President to hold a patent. U.S. Patent No. 6469, granted in 1849, covered a device for lifting riverboats over shallow waters using bellows and air chambers. Lincoln also litigated patents in his role as a lawyer.  His experience with the patent monopoly system informed what would become one of the most quoted aphorisms in intellectual property law, delivered during Lincoln’s largely forgettable 1858 lecture on “Discoveries and Inventions.”