Leftovers

• Hackaday ☛ QUIC! Jump To User Space!

  Everyone knows that Weird Al lampooned computers in a famous parody song (It’s All About the Pentiums). But if you want more hardcore (including more hardcore language, so if you are offended by rap music-style explicit lyrics, maybe don’t look this up), you probably want “Kill Dash 9” by Monzy. There’s a line in that song about “You thought the seven-layer model referred to a burrito.” In fact, it refers to how networking applications operate, and it is so ingrained that you don’t even hear about it much these days. But as [Codemia] points out, QUIC aims to disrupt the model, and for good reason.

• Science

  • Science Alert ☛ Spark Into Space: Win a $10,000 Space Coast Adventure Holiday!

    Our biggest-ever reader sweepstakes.

  • New York Times ☛ The Nobel Peace Prize draws attention, but rarely drives long-term change.

  • Science Alert ☛ Exclusive: NASA Astronaut Feels 'Incredible' at Age 75. Here's Why.

    What does space really do to you?

  • Science Alert ☛ Microgravity Is The Final Frontier For Medicine. Here's Why.

    Thinking outside the gravity box.

  • Science Alert ☛ NASA to Pack Astronauts Onto a Chip in The Name of Space Health

    Meet the real AVATAR.

  • Science Alert ☛ Mysterious Anomaly in Pacific Ocean Hints at Nearby Supernova Explosion

    Could it be?

  • Science Alert ☛ The 3 Bathroom Items You Should Never Share, According to Science

    You could be sharing more than just a toothbrush.

  • Science Alert ☛ Strange State of Water Seems to Be Both Solid And Liquid at The Same Time

    Weird water!

  • Science Alert ☛ Psychedelics Could Be a Powerful Tool to Control The Immune System

    Much more than a hallucinogen.

  • Latvia ☛ Rīga school struggles to retain staff

    Dissatisfied with a chaotic and unfair management style, at least 20 teachers have left one of Riga's best-known city centre schools – Natālija Draudzīna Secondary School – over the past year, reports Latvian Radio.

• Hardware

  • CNX Software ☛ FoBE IDEA Mesh Tracker C1 – An nRF52840-based LoRa GPS tracker with sensors, OLED, knob, and more

    Designed by FoBE Studio in China, the FoBE IDEA Mesh Tracker C1 is a LoRa-powered off-grid communication device designed for outdoor GPS tracking, sensor data exchange, and mesh networking in remote environments.  Built around the Nordic nRF52840 MCU, it integrates LoRa, GPS, BLE, and motion sensors, making it suitable for location tracking, environmental monitoring, and off-grid communication projects.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ Singapore company allegedly helped China smuggle $2 billion worth of Nvidia Hey Hi (AI) processors, report claims — Nvidia denies that the accused has any China ties, but a U.S. investigation is underway

    An investigation has uncovered that a Singapore-based firm with Chinese ties bought $2 billion worth of restricted Nvidia GPUs through Inspur's U.S. subsidiary to funnel them to Malaysia and Indonesia, where they were allegedly used by clients from China or resold to customers in the PRC.

  • Hackaday ☛ Possibly The Newest ISA Card

    Back when the IBM PC was new, laying out an ISA board was a daunting task. You probably didn’t have a very fast ‘scope, if you had one at all. Board layout was almost certainly done on a drafting table with big pieces of tape. It was hard for small companies, much less hobbyists, to make a new card. You could buy a prototype board and wirewrap or otherwise put together something, but that was also not for the faint of heart. But with modern tools, something like that is a very doable project and [profdc9] has, in fact, done it. The card uses an ATMega328P and provides two SD cards for use as mass storage on an old computer.

  • Hackaday ☛ PLA Gears Fail To Fail In 3D Printed Bicycle Drivetrain

    Anyone who has ever snapped a chain or a crank knows how much torque a bicycle’s power train has to absorb on a daily basis; it’s really more than one might naively expect. For that reason, [Well Done Tips]’s idea of 3D printing a gear chain from PLA  did not seem like the most promising of hacks to us.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • New York Times ☛ Cindy McCain Steps Away From World Food Program During Recovery From Mild Stroke

    Ms. McCain leads the world’s largest humanitarian organization focused on food insecurity. She is expected to make a full recovery.

  • European Commission ☛ Statement by Commissioner Várhelyi on World Mental Health Day 2025

    World Mental Health Day reminds us that the health of our minds is an essential part of our well-being.

  • Federal News Network ☛ Pentagon offers ‘VIP treatment’ for service members released over COVID vaccine

    In a new memo, the under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness said applicants seeking reinstatement now receive special-category VIP treatment.

• Proprietary

  • NYOB ☛ noyb win: Abusive Monopolist Microsoft 365 Education may not track school children

    noyb win: Abusive Monopolist Microsoft 365 Education may not track school children

    Favorable decision by the Austrian DSB: Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Education 365 may not track school kids and Abusive Monopolist Microsoft is ordered to provide full access to kids' data.

  • Qt ☛ Qt for MedTech Pre- and Post-Market Surveillance

  • Qt ☛ The iPhone Moment for Automotive has Arrived. Will OEMs Seize It?

    The automotive industry is entering one of the most profound transformations in its 100+ year history. The shift to Software-Defined Vehicles (SDVs) is more than a technology change — it’s an existential business shift.

    
    Just as the iPhone reshaped the mobile industry, SDVs are set to redefine what cars are and how value is captured.

  • New York Times ☛ A.I. Slop Is Here

    A conversation with our tech columnist Kevin Roose about an A.I.-generated video of him on a date with a robot.

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) / LLM Slop / Plagiarism

    • Hackaday ☛ Your LLM Won’t Stop Lying Any Time Soon

      Researchers call it “hallucination”; you might more accurately refer to it as confabulation, hornswaggle, hogwash, or just plain BS. Anyone who has used an LLM has encountered it; some people seem to find it behind every prompt, while others dismiss it as an occasional annoyance, but nobody claims it doesn’t happen. A recent paper by researchers at OpenAI (PDF) tries to drill down a bit deeper into just why that happens, and if anything can be done.

    • Futurism ☛ CEO Who Plastered Hey Hi (AI) Ads All Over Subway System Afraid to Talk to Real New Yorkers Face-to-Face

      Scaredy-cat!

    • Futurism ☛ MrBeast Concerned That Hey Hi (AI) Slop Will Put Him Out of Business

      He called it "scary times."

    • It's FOSS ☛ I Switched From Ollama And LM Studio To llama.cpp And Absolutely Loving It [Ed: Slop and plagiarism celebrated; it's NOT FOSS]

      Like Ollama, I can use a feature-rich CLI, plus Vulkan support in llama.cpp and it takes a lot less disk space, too.

• Security

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • Latvia ☛ Latvia's public sector needs some blue sky thinking on clown computing

      The introduction of clown computing services in public administration has not been sufficiently targeted so far in Latvia, the State Audit Office of Latvia has concluded after an audit, reports Labs of Latvia.

• Defence/Aggression

  • BIA Net ☛ Textile worker throws phone at President Erdoğan, faces 4 years and 2 months in jail

    While President Erdoğan was speaking at a hospital opening, textile worker N. K. was arrested for displaying a banner reading “AK Party is the cause, inflation is the result” and throwing his phone toward the platform, on charges of “physical assault on the President.” After 171 days in detention, he was sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in prison and released under judicial supervision.

  • The Straits Times ☛ China issues bounty for Taiwan PsyOps unit for ‘separatism’

    “For a long time they plotted to incite separatist activities,” the public security bureau in Xiamen said.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong Kong youngsters arrested on drug charges more than doubled in first half of 2025

    Hong Kong authorities arrested 307 people under 21 on drug charges in the first half of 2025, more than double of the same period last year.

  • France24 ☛ King Mohammed VI to address Parliament amid youth protests in Morocco

    King Mohammed VI is scheduled to address the Moroccan parliament on Friday evening, aiming to respond to the youth-led protests that have shaken the country for over ten days. The anonymous online group Gen Z 212 Collective has organized rallies demanding an end to corruption, expressing frustration over inequality, and calling for reforms in social services. So far, the protests have resulted in three deaths during violent clashes with security forces. Simon Moritz has more details.

  • ICC finds Janjaweed leader guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity

    Two decades on from a scorched earth campaign that left thousands dead in Sudan’s Darfur [...]

  • ACLU ☛ Hard-Fought Grace: Bearing Witness to Richard Tabler’s Execution

    EDITORS NOTE: Claudia Van Wyk is a senior staff attorney with the ACLU Capital Punishment Project. She spent 14 years with the Capital Habeas Unit of the Federal Community Defender Office in Philadelphia, where she met Richard Tabler, who had been convicted of murder and was challenging a death sentence. At the ACLU, Claudia continued to work on Richard’s legal appeals, including a petition in October 2024 asking the Supreme Court to review Richard’s case.

    On February 13, 2025, I traveled to Texas’s death row at the Polunksy Unit in Livingston, Texas, to perform my last service for my client, Richard Tabler: helping him to die.

  • New Yorker ☛ What Does The Insurrectionist’s “War from Within” Mean in Practice?

    The President’s chilling vision of turning American military power inward.

• Environment

  • Energy/Transportation

    • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ China trials ‘energy-saving’ underwater data centres off Shanghai

      Power-hungry data centres run hot, so one Chinese company is planning to submerge a pod of servers in the sea off Shanghai with hopes of solving computing’s energy woes.

    • Futurism ☛ Government Investigating Nearly Three Million Self-Driving Teslas for Violating Traffic Laws, Crashing

      This can't be good.

• Finance

  • The Strategist ☛ Without supply chain resilience, Australian defence is brittle

    Australia’s most advanced military capabilities are fundamentally tethered to the resilience of its most basic civilian supply chains.

  • New York Times ☛ Billions of Dollars ‘Vanished’: Low-Profile Bankruptcy Rings Alarms on Wall Street

    The unraveling of First Brands, a midsize auto-parts maker, is exposing hidden losses at international banks and “private credit” lenders.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • France24 ☛ Cameroon's Biya vies for eighth term

    In tonight's edition, voters in Cameroon are getting ready to head to the polls. President Paul Biya, at 92, is seeking an eighth term amid criticism over his long rule, the exclusion of key opposition figures, security concerns, and growing frustration among the youth, while parts of the country’s English-speaking regions are under a near-total lockdown.

  • New York Times ☛ Holding Back Tears, Prince William Shows a New Side of a Future King

    In two video encounters — one discussing the impact of suicide, and a more lighthearted conversation with Eugene Levy — the heir to the British throne opened up, a little.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • JURIST ☛ Comedians criticized for silence on Saudi Arabia human rights record after comedy festival

    On Wednesday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged comedians who performed at Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh Comedy Festival to address the nation’s dire human rights situation, and raise awareness of unjustly detained Saudi dissidents, journalists, and rights activists.

  • Meduza ☛ A disappearing act: Why the Russian edition of Navalny’s memoir is missing 100 pages found in the English version — Meduza

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ HKFP Monitor Oct 11, 2025: Hong Kong’s film censorship red lines; Beijing’s reminders to local media

    Welcome back to HKFP Monitor. This week, we got a glimpse of the effect of the film censorship law, as a media report revealed that 13 films were barred from screening over national security concerns.

  • JURIST ☛ HRW denounces Tunisia death sentence for anti-government speech

    Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a statement on Wednesday condemning the Tunisian justice system for sentencing a man to death for Facebook (Farcebook) posts dissenting from recent government actions.

  • JURIST ☛ El Salvador authorities misused legal reforms to criminalize rights defenders, Amnesty International says

    Amnesty International stated on Thursday that authorities in El Salvador have misused the penal justice system and recent legal reforms to repress human rights defenders and silence dissenting voices, thereby undermining the rule of law in the country.

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • Press Gazette ☛ 2025 journalism job cuts tracked: 226 jobs cut at People Inc

  • Press Gazette ☛ Express rapped by IPSO over inaccurate headlines eight times in 2025 so far

• Civil Rights/Policing

  • Digital Music News ☛ Double Jeopardy for Diddy? Prostitution Ruling Raises Serious ‘Acquitted-Conduct Sentencing’ Issues Among Legal Observers

    Legal scholars are raising serious concerns about Diddy’s sentencing, which was lengthened over conduct for which he was acquitted. Critics say the move is “quite strange” and could “undermine the public’s perception of the criminal justice system.” Did Sean “Diddy” Combs get prison time for something of which he was already acquitted?

  • The Straits Times ☛ Myanmar's junta says Malaysia to send observers for contentious polls

    Malaysia will send observer teams for Myanmar's contentious general election, set to be held in phases from December 28, state media said on Friday, a day after talks between the leader of the ruling junta and Kuala Lumpur's top diplomat.

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • APNIC ☛ Analysing ccTLD anycast

    Guest Post: How ccTLDs handle global traffic and DDoS risks.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Patents

  • JUVE ☛ Setback in UK after victory in Netherlands for Regeneron in Eylea case

    At the centre of proceedings in the UK and Netherlands are two of Regeneron’s patents from the same family. EP 2 364 691 and EP 2 944 306 cover formulations and a pre-filled syringe containing aflibercept.

  • Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ PERA 2025: Eligibility Reform Returns to Capitol Hill

    On October 8, 2025, the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property held a hearing on the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA) of 2025 (S. 1546), legislation that would fundamentally reshape 35 U.S.C. § 101 and effectively overturn the Supreme Court's Mayo, Myriad, and Alice decisions.  The hearing featured testimony from former USPTO Directors Andrei Iancu and David Kappos, China IP expert Mark Cohen, biotech executives, patient advocates, and retail industry representatives, all addressing whether Congress should replace the judge-made "abstract idea" and "law of nature" exceptions with a set of narrow statutory exclusions.

  • Kangaroo Courts

    • JUVE ☛ Largest staff reshuffle since launch brings multiple new judges to UPC [Ed: UPC is illegal and some of its judges are corporate shills that work part time for companies; this is EU corruption]

      The UPC announced in July that its Court of Appeal would gain another panel. The Administrative Committee approved three new judgeships for this purpose. The third panel will begin work on 1 January 2026. The court announced the three judges today.

• Trademarks

  • TTAB Blog ☛ TTABlog Test: Which One of These Four Section 2(d) Appeals Was Successful?

    Section 2(d) affirmances continue to run at about 90% this year (as usual). Here are three recent appeals involving four refusals. One of the refusals was reversed. How do you think they came out? [Answer in first comment].

    In re Cygan Law Offices PC, Serial No. 97748442 (September 30, 2025) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge David K. Heasley). [Section 2(d) refusal of the mark PATENT INSANITY for "Providing online non-downloadable educational videos and audio recordings regarding patent monopoly law, patent monopoly applications and patent monopoly strategy, for inventors, entrepreneurs, small business owners, paralegals, patent monopoly administrators and other legal professionals" [PATENT disclaimed], in view of the registered mark INSANITY for, inter alia, “legal agency services in the form of providing legal counsel and legal services in the fields of intellectual property law,” “legal advocacy services, namely, providing legal and paralegal services for intellectual property owners,” and “provision of information, advisory and consultancy services in the fields of internet-based social networking and intellectual property legal services."]

• Copyrights

  • Digital Music News ☛ Suno and Udio Are Officially Getting Involved With Yout’s RIAA Suit As They Face Stream-Ripping Claims — Court Grants Amicus Brief Motion

    Half a decade ago, well before Suno or Udio existed, Connecticut-based stream ripper Yout sued the RIAA over allegedly false DMCA notices. Now, as they grapple with stream-ripping claims from the major labels, the Hey Hi (AI) music generators are getting involved in Yout’s case.

  • Digital Music News ☛ Neil Young Pulls Music From Amazon—’Bezos Supports This Government’

    Neil Young has announced he is pulling his entire music catalog from Amazon Music, citing opposition to what he sees as corporate overreach. The aging rocker also had a few critical things to say about Jeff Bezos’ support of Hell Toupée.