Leftovers

• Science

  • Science Alert ☛ Breakthrough: Scientists Create 'Universal' Kidney To Match Any Blood Type

    "The first time we've seen this play out in a human model."

  • Science Alert ☛ Misophonia Linked to Difficulty in Switching Emotional Focus

    Does chewing enrage you?

  • Science Alert ☛ Here's What Starship's Successful 11th Test Means For NASA's Moon Mission

    The timeline may be "significantly challenged."

  • Science Alert ☛ Strange Red Rocks in Australia Are Preserving Fossils in Stunning Detail

    Rewriting the rules on where we should look for fossils.

  • Science Alert ☛ X-Rays Reveal Betelgeuse's Companion Is Something Astronomers Didn't Expect

    Betelgeuse Betelgeuse.

  • Science Alert ☛ Lead Exposure May Have Given Ancient Humans an Edge Over Neanderthals

    Neanderthals would've hated lead paint.

• Hardware

  • CNX Software ☛ nRF9160-based Minew MTB04 5G IoT shipping label offers GPS, LTE-M/NB-IoT, 360-day battery life

    Minew’s MTB04 5G shipping label is a durable, disposable smart IoT tracking label designed for global logistics and real-time asset monitoring. Built on Nordic’s nRF9160 SiP and compatible with nRF9151 for satellite communication, it supports GPS and 5G-ready NB-IoT/LTE-M connectivity for worldwide shipment tracking. Its ultra-thin, IP67-rated, and “peel-and-stick” design makes it stick on parcels, containers, or trucks for high-value or sensitive cargo monitoring. The label integrates multiple sensors for ambient light, movement, tilt, tamper, and optional temperature detection, enabling shipment condition monitoring and security alerts.

  • Hackaday ☛ Printing An Air-Powered Integrated Circuit For Squishy Robots

    There’s no rule that says that logic circuits must always use electrically conductive materials, which is why you can use water, air or even purely mechanical means to implement logic circuits. When it comes to [soiboi soft]’s squishy robots, it thus makes sense to turn the typical semiconductor control circuitry into an air-powered version as much as possible.

  • Hackaday ☛ Keep That Engine Running, With A Gassifier

    Every now and then in histories of the 20th’s century’s earlier years, you will see pictures of cars and commercial vehicles equipped with bulky drums, contraptions to make their fuel from waste wood. These are portable gas generators known as gasifiers, and to show how they work there’s [Greenhill Forge] with a build video.

  • Hackaday ☛ Rubik’s WOWCube: What Really Makes A Toy?

    If there ever was a toy that enjoys universal appeal and recognition, the humble Rubik’s Cube definitely is on the list. Invented in 1974 by sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik with originally the name of Magic Cube, it features a three-by-three grid of colored surfaces and an internal mechanism which allows for each of these individual sections of each cube face to be moved to any other face. This makes the goal of returning each face to its original single color into a challenge, one which has both intrigued and vexed many generations over the decades. Maybe you’ve seen one?

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • The Straits Times ☛ Indonesia’s Central Java sets up free meals hotlines after widespread poisoning

    Since its January launch, the free meals programme has been plagued by a series of food safety incidents.

  • The Straits Times ☛ 20kg of ketamine found on South Korea’s Jeju beach

    The maritime police plan to investigate possible links to an international drug cartel.

  • The Straits Times ☛ China says ‘no winners’ in trade war after US cooking oil threat

    Tensions between the two have eased since early 2025, but a truce struck by the leaders remains shaky.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ China says ‘no winners’ in trade war after US cooking oil threat

    China said on Wednesday that trade wars had “no winners”, after US President The Insurrectionist warned that the United States could stop buying cooking oil from the country. Convicted Felon issued the threat Tuesday after slamming Beijing’s halt of US soybean purchases as an “economically hostile act”.

  • France24 ☛ China, US stuck in cycle of trade disputes and truces, trade specialist says

    US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent slammed Beijing's rare earth export curbs Wednesday as "China versus the world" as trade tensions mount. Speaking on FRANCE 24, Gavin Bade, trade specialist at the Wall Street Journal, explains that the US and China seem to be in a cycle of conflicts and truces on trade and 'each and every time this happens there's more risk to the global economy, more uncertainty for businesses and more wild rides for the stock market'.

  • Science Alert ☛ Autism Is More Than One Condition, Study of Over 45,000 People Finds

    "There is no one cause of autism."

  • Science Alert ☛ New Alzheimer's Treatment Clears Plaques From Brains of Mice Within Hours

    Opening gates to the brain.

  • Science Alert ☛ Lifting Weights Could Change Your Gut Microbiome Within Weeks

    Building your body from the inside out.

  • Science Alert ☛ Study Reveals The Surprising Age at Which Your Brain Reaches Its Peak

    A peak, not a countdown.

  • Science Alert ☛ The Stem Cell Secrets of This Tiny Worm Could Help Unlock Human Regeneration

    Show us your ways, little worm.

  • Science Alert ☛ Scientists Discovered an Amazing Practical Use For Coffee Ground Waste

    We shouldn't throw it out.

• Proprietary

  • The Straits Times ☛ Apple’s Cook vows to boost investment in China, ministry says

    China would continue to foster a good business environment for foreign firms, including Apple.

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) / LLM Slop / Plagiarism

    • Futurism ☛ Researchers Find It’s Shockingly Easy to Cause Hey Hi (AI) to Lose Its Mind by Posting Poisoned Documents Online

      "Poisoning attacks may be more feasible than previously believed."

    • Futurism ☛ Gavin Newsom Vetoes Bill to Protect Kids From Predatory AI

      "Clearly, Governor Newsom was under tremendous pressure from the Big Tech Lobby to veto this landmark legislation."

    • Futurism ☛ The Economics of Running an Hey Hi (AI) Company Are Disastrous

      Everybody is losing copious amounts of money on AI. But will there be any winners?

    • Futurism ☛ Lawyer Gets Caught Using Hey Hi (AI) in Court, Responds in the Worst Possible Way

      Not making a great case for yourself, pal.

    • Futurism ☛ International Polling Shows Fear of Hey Hi (AI) Across the World

      It's not just the US.

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  • Windows TCO / Windows Bot Nets

    • Silicon Angle ☛ Whisper 2FA kit steals Abusive Monopolist Microsoft 365 credentials and MFA tokens in real time

      A new report released today by cloud cybersecurity firm Barracuda Networks Inc. details a rapidly evolving phishing-as-a-service kit dubbed Whisper 2FA that’s designed to steal Abusive Monopolist Microsoft 365 credentials and multifactor authentication tokens in real time.

    • Security Week ☛ Microsoft Patches 173 Vulnerabilities, Including Exploited backdoored Windows Flaws

      The tech giant has rolled out fixes for 173 CVEs, including five critical-severity security defects.

• Security

  • Integrity/Availability/Authenticity

    • The Straits Times ☛ South Korea bars travel to parts of Cambodia, says 1,000 Koreans working in scam centres

      South Korea will send a special team to Cambodia to discuss cases of fake jobs and scam centres.

    • South Korea issues travel ban after nationals trapped in Cambodia scam centers

      More than 1,000 believed among 200,000 people of various nationalities involved in scam compounds.

    • WhichUK ☛ 'I was fleeced by a rogue builder I found on Facebook'

      Find out how to spot and avoid scam traders

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • The Straits Times ☛ 80,000 register for smoother Singapore travel using Malaysia’s QR code system

      During this pilot phase, the current MyBorderPass and QR code system will remain operational.

    • The Straits Times ☛ Malaysia’s education ministry to prioritise CCTV installation in schools with recent bullying cases

      The ministry said RM3 million (S$924,981) has been allocated in 2025 for the installation of CCTV systems in 200 dormitories.

    • AccessNow ☛ The U.S. has reactivated its Paragon contract  — and it should alarm everyone

      On September 1, 2025, media reported that U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was lifting a stop work order that had paused a $2 million USD contract with spyware vendor

• Defence/Aggression

  • JURIST ☛ US federal judge finds Convicted Felon administration violated court order on FEMA grants

    US District Judge William E. Smith of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island ruled Tuesday that the Convicted Felon administration violated its previous order requiring the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to remove certain conditions for states to accept Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) grants.

  • JURIST ☛ Rights group condemns Morocco security forces’ violent response to youth-led protests

    Human Rights Watch condemned on Wednesday Moroccan security forces’ use of excessive force to disperse crowds calling for better education, health care, and jobs, raising concerns over human rights violations during mass youth-led demonstrations demanding sweeping reforms to public services.

  • France24 ☛ On island off North Korea, 'broken-hearted' refugees cling to reunification hopes

    Elderly North Korean refugees in the South, separated from their families since the war, continue to live with deep sorrow and longing. On a border island just kilometres from their former homes, they hold on to the fading hope of reunification

  • The Straits Times ☛ Malaysian authorities blame social control media after fatal stabbing of schoolgirl shocks nation

    Selangor police said the two students had no contact with each other before the stabbing.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Suspect in Malaysia school stabbing secretly admired female victim, handwritten note discovered

    A female student from a secondary school in Bandar Utama died after a male student allegedly stabbed her.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Malaysia school stabbing: Handwritten note found on suspect alludes to love, revenge, anger

    The note also revealed an obsession with online games, some of them violent.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Malaysia school stabbing: ‘I was terrified when he entered our class holding the knife’

    The Malaysian police have confirmed that a 14-year-old boy fatally stabbed a 16-year-old schoolmate.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Malaysia urges public to refrain from sharing photos of victim in school stabbing incident

    Malaysia’s Cabinet will discuss the incident and the use of social control media among children and teenagers, said PM Anwar.

  • New York Times ☛ China’s Own Immigration Backlash

    The response to a new visa for skilled foreign workers has caught even the Chinese government by surprise.

  • New York Times ☛ London Became a Global Hub for Phone Theft. Now We Know Why.

    About 80,000 phones were stolen in the British capital last year. The police are finally discovering where many of them went.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Explainer-What is Britain's China spying case about?

    The British government has come under sustained criticism after a prosecution against two men accused of spying for China collapsed last month, with critics saying it was because of fears of upsetting Beijing.

  • The Straits Times ☛ China seeks stronger ties with France in strategic dialogue

    BEIJING - China expressed willingness to strengthen high-level exchanges with France in a strategic dialogue between Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and France's presidential diplomatic adviser, according to a foreign ministry statement on Thursday.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ ASML is prepared for China's rare-earth export controls — finance head says company has stock thanks to long lead times

    ASML's finance head, Roger Dassen, said the company has sufficient rare-earth reserves to keep production running despite China's new export-control regime that kicks in on December 1 and can halt shipments of rare earth materials across the world.

  • New York Times ☛ U.S. to Take Control of More Companies as China’s Rare Earth Dominance Grows

    Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said China’s dominance of rare earths calls for a more assertive American industrial policy.

  • Atlantic Council ☛ Solving the US military’s gallium dilemma requires turning trash into treasure

    The metal gallium plays an outsized role in US war readiness—and China controls most of its supply. As geopolitical competition deepens, the United States needs a new playbook to fix this vulnerability.

  • New York Times ☛ With Tariff Threat and Trade Controls, China and U.S. Renew Game of Chicken

    Xi Jinping’s need to project strength before a crucial meeting of Communist Party leaders may help explain why Beijing announced new rare earth controls.

  • The Straits Times ☛ What China’s bounty for 18 Taiwan military officers says about Beijing’s calculations

    The wanted notice is the latest of several that China has issued to up pressure on the Taiwanese through legal means.

  • Atlantic Council ☛ What Taiwan can learn from China’s gray-zone actions against the Philippines

    China uses different tactics for different aims: slow but persistent maritime incursions off the coast of the Philippines and high-speed aerial harassment in Taiwanese airspace. But Manila’s responses offer useful lessons for Taipei. A new study of the Philippines’ experience shows what Taiwan can do to create limits on Chinese action without triggering open conflict.

  • The Straits Times ☛ ‘I’m from Taiwan’ badge emerges in South Korea amid anti-China sentiment

    As of Aug, 1 in 3 tourists to South Korea were Chinese, according to government data.

  • France24 ☛ France accuses Hamas of summary executions after ceasefire

    France on Wednesday accused Palestinian militant group Hamas of carrying out "summary executions" in Gaza after a ceasefire with Israel. Hamas has published a video showing the shooting of eight blindfolded and kneeling suspects, branding them "collaborators and outlaws".

  • France24 ☛ Top French court upholds ban threatening Marine Le Pen’s 2027 candidacy

    France’s highest court on Wednesday rejected an appeal by far-right leader Marine Le Pen, dealing a major setback to her efforts to overturn a sentence that could bar her from running in the 2027 presidential election. Le Pen was handed a four-year prison sentence, including two years to serve, a €100,000 fine and a five-year ban from public office over a party funds misuse case.

  • New York Times ☛ Spies, Burgers and Bombs: After a New War, Old Wounds Resurface in Tehran

    A deep sense of unease has gripped Iran since American and Israeli airstrikes in June, but on a recent visit to the capital, we found that many Iranians seemed to be just trying to get by.

  • France24 ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man approves CIA activities in Venezuela, Maduro denounces 'coup attempts'

    President The Insurrectionist confirmed Wednesday that he had authorised covert CIA operations in Venezuela, significantly intensifying US pressure on President Nicolás Maduro's government. Convicted Felon also revealed he was considering launching strikes against Venezuelan drug cartels on land, following a series of deadly maritime operations targeting alleged narcotics-smuggling vessels. The developments have raised alarms in Congress, with lawmakers warning of the growing risk of a broader conflict.

  • New York Times ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela

    The development comes as the U.S. military is drawing up options for Hell Toupée to consider, including possible strikes inside the country.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Pakistan, Afghanistan agree to temporary truce after fresh fighting, airstrike

    Both say the truce was reached at the request of the other.

  • RFERL ☛ Pakistan Carries Out Air Strikes In Afghanistan As Fresh Fighting Erupts

    Pakistan has carried out air strikes in Afghanistan’s southern province of Kandahar, locals told RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi, as fresh fighting erupted between the neighbors.

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • Latvia ☛ Tougher security checks in force on third-country travellers in Latvia

      Since Sunday, 12 October, third-country citizens entering the Schengen area for short stays of up to 90 days are subject to more thorough checks. The aim of this stricter security check is to prevent illegal migration and strengthen security in the EU, Latvian Television reports on 14 October.

• Environment

  • Energy/Transportation

    • New York Times ☛ Judge Throws Out Children’s Lawsuit Against Convicted Felon’s Energy Policies

      The group had challenged the president’s executive orders as unconstitutional. A judge “reluctantly” said the suit was too broad in scope.

    • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong Kong passes bill to regulate ride-hailing platforms under licensing regime

      Hong Kong’s legislature has passed a bill that outlines a long-awaited framework to regulate ride-hailing services in the city under a licensing regime.

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • New York Times ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man’s Tariff Fight With China Means Trouble for a Vast Wilderness in Brazil

      Brazilian farmers are lobbying to roll back deforestation restrictions in order to sell more soybeans to the huge Chinese market.

• Finance

  • Federal News Network ☛ Social Security cost-of-living increase announcement delayed by government shutdown

    Originally scheduled for Wednesday, the 2024 Social Security COLA announcement will now be Oct. 24.

  • Federal News Network ☛ DOGE’s arrival at Social Security sparked chaos and missed a chance for real reform

    "There's a real brain drain that's happened there that I think they're still grappling with," said Eli Hager.

  • JURIST ☛ Switzerland court rules 20 billion Credit bonds write-off unlawful

    The Federal Administrative Court of Switzerland ruled on Tuesday that writing off 16.5 billion Swiss francs ($20.53 billion USD) in Credit Suisse bonds was unlawful, calling into question the government’s approach to handling banking crises.  Credit Suisse, a global Swiss bank, collapsed back in March of 2023, triggering a response from FinMA [...]

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ S&P 500 companies totalling $20 trillion in market cap have medium-to-high Hey Hi (AI) exposure — concerns of an impending bubble collapse extend to almost half of the index

    Investors are keeping a close eye on potential signs of the Hey Hi (AI) industry reaching the point of bursting its inflated bubble, as it's revealed that almost half of all the largest companies on the S&P 500 have medium-to-high exposure to AI. The risks associated with the industry collapsing under its own weight are greater than ever.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • The Straits Times ☛ South Korea's Supreme Court partially overturns ruling on SK chief's $1 billion divorce settlement

    South Korea's Supreme Court partially overturned on Thursday a previous ruling on SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won's divorce and division of property after the businessman had contested an order for him to pay the country's largest divorce settlement.

  • The Straits Times ☛ South Korean shaman admits delivering Chanel bags, jewellery to ex-first lady’s aide

    Assistant special counsel Park Sang-jin said it amounted to the manipulation of state affairs.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Explainer-China's Communist Party holds a plenum on its next five-year plan. What does it mean?

    The elite Central Committee of China's ruling Communist Party will hold a closed-door meeting from Monday to Thursday to discuss, among other things, the country's 15th five-year development plan.

  • The Straits Times ☛ China raises age limits for civil servants as part of campaign against ageism

    China has increased the maximum hiring age from 35 to 38 for some civil service positions.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Chinese Premier Li Qiang to visit Singapore to mark 35 years of diplomatic ties

    It is the first trip to Singapore by China’s No. 2 official in seven years.

  • Marcy Wheeler ☛ France’s Political Crisis: Sebastian Lecornu Goes All In

    Yesterday, French Prime Minister Sebastian Lecornu gave the speech of his life. Tomorrow, he’ll find out if it worked. Something shifted in French politics, while Macron was off arm wrestling with Convicted Felon in Egypt. Lecornu, self-proclaimed Macron’s warrior monk earlier this week, claimed to be independent of Macron. And surprisingly enough, it might be true.

  • Marcy Wheeler ☛ The Fascist Dragnet To Avenge Charlie Kirk’s Honor

    It's bad enough that the State Department using free speech about Charlie Kirk to exclude purported visa holders. It's still worse that two of six claimed accounts don't do what State accuses. But the dragnet they must have used to get this far is pure fascism.

  • New York Times ☛ Supreme Court Appears Skeptical of Key Provision of Voting Rights Act

    In a dispute over a Louisiana voting map, the justices grappled with whether there should be a time limit on using race as a factor in carving up voting districts.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • It's FOSS ☛ Telegram, Please Learn Who's a Threat and Who's Not

    Our Telegram community got deleted without an explanation.

  • New York Times ☛ Meta Removes Facebook (Farcebook) Group That Shared Information on ICE Agents

    The Facebook (Farcebook) page was taken down for “violating our policies against coordinated harm,” according to Meta.

  • The Straits Times ☛ French artist cries foul over censorship of nude mural near Bangkok’s red-light district

    The mural featured a central human figure surrounded by botanical and avian elements.

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • Press Gazette ☛ Los Angeles Times reveals $50m loss as it seeks $500m investment

    More than half of Los Angeles Times revenue still came from print in 2024.

  • Press Gazette ☛ Newspaper ABCs: Express weekday circulation drops below 100,000

  • JURIST ☛ Press group confirms release of flotilla journalists following Israel detention

    The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) confirmed Tuesday that Israel released 14 journalists who had been arrested while reporting from the Conscience, a ship in the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC). According to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and CPJ, Israeli authorities arrested the journalists on October 8 near the Suez Canal.

• Civil Rights/Policing

  • ACLU ☛ Louisiana’s Black Voting Power is on the Line in Redistricting Fight

    When Louisiana finally won a second-majority Black district in 2024, I felt a weight lift from my shoulders. For decades, Black voters like me knew that having only one voting district where we could be heard was not enough to reflect a third of the state’s population. So when the state gained a second seat, I thought of those who fought tirelessly before me, and never received this fair representation. But with joy comes caution一 this fight is far from over.

    I’ve been a member of the team advocating for a fair congressional map in Louisiana since 2022. Now, the state’s current congressional map is in jeopardy. This time, a group of “non-African-American” voters have challenged the map that includes two majority-Black districts.

  • New York Times ☛ A Photographer Captures Jewish Life Before and After the Holocaust

    Edward Serotta created an archive of 1,230 in-depth interviews with Holocaust survivors about how they lived, both before and after. “Every one of them comes with a story,” he said.

  • EDRI ☛ Consultation response to the European Commission’s call for evidence on the Digital Omnibus

    The European Commission launched a call for evidence on the forthcoming “Digital Omnibus” initiative, which is expected to be presented around the 19 November 2025. The package is framed as an effort to “simplify” the EU’s digital policy framework, but the EDRi network warn that it risks dismantling key protections that uphold fundamental rights in the digital age.

  • EDRI ☛ Shielding democracy in the aigital age: Foundations of digital democracy analysis

    The INNOVADE digital democracy webinar explores how digitalisation is reshaping political participation, communication, and governance. As democracies face growing challenges from misinformation and algorithmic politics, the event will discuss how digital tools can strengthen civic engagement and democratic resilience.

  • JURIST ☛ Canada’s Bill C-12 condemned over failure to address human rights concerns

    A broad coalition of civil liberties, data privacy, refugee, migrants rights and gender justice organizations denounced the Canadian government’s introduction of Bill C-12 on Wednesday, asserting that it fails to resolve the human rights and refugee protection issues in the controversial Bill C-2. The organizations are led by Amnesty International.

  • Michael Geist ☛ Senate Bill Would Grant Government Regulatory Power to Mandate Age Verification For Search, Social Media and Hey Hi (AI) Services Accompanied By Threat of Court Ordered Blocking of Lawful Content

    The return of mandated age verification legislation in the Senate - formerly Bill S-210 and now S-209 - has been working its way through a Senate committee with a wide range of witnesses appearing over the past two weeks.

  • France24 ☛ Greek MPs to vote on 13-hour workday bill amidst mass strike

    In Greece, workers went on strike to protest a controversial labour reform bill that would introduce a 13-hour workday. Deputies are set to vote on the draft law, which is expected to pass, on October 15, 2025. Nearly 10,000 workers took to the streets in Athens in a general strike that has disrupted public services, including transport, schools, courts and hospitals.

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • APNIC ☛ [Podcast] Geolocation and Starlink

    Geoff Huston discusses the problem of Geolocation and Starlink, with mis-attribution of traffic to economies an increasing concern.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Patents

  • How Attorney Firms are Benefiting from an Australian Patent Examination Backlog

    The Australian patent monopoly attorney profession has been undergoing a significant structural shift over the past decade.  The listing of IPH Ltd in November 2014, and its subsequent series of acquisitions and mergers has created a dominant force controlling multiple major firms, while QANTM IP (QIP)  -- which was originally publicly listed , but now owned by private equity – has become established as a second consolidated group.  These ownership changes were expected to generate economies of scale and competitive advantages, yet the data tells a more complex story.  Independent firms – those remaining outside the IPH and QIP consolidated groups – have been steadily gaining share.  The latest data, presented here, indicates that independent firms have collectively lifted their new application filings from under 9,500 in FY2016 to nearly 15,000 in FY2025, while IPH's filings declined from over 14,000 to under 10,000 over the same period.

  • Unified Patents ☛ Another Wilus Wi-Fi patent monopoly challenge instituted

    On October 14, 2025, seven weeks after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 10,931,396, owned and asserted by Wilus Institute of Standards & Technology, Inc., an entity of Good Day to Invent, Inc.

  • Unified Patents ☛ Unified files amicus in support of clarification of after-arising technology in Fed. Cir.

    On October 1, 2025, Unified filed an amicus brief in MSN Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation (Case No. 25-225). This brief relates to when after-arising technology may be used to assess compliance with 35 U.S.C. § 112.

  • Software Patents

    • JUVE ☛ Celonis hits back with new patent monopoly suits against SAP in Munich

      Since mid-2025, the two parties have been battling over ERP software in various courts. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is the integrated management of main business processes, often in real time and mediated by software and technology.

• Trademarks

  • TTAB Blog ☛ SHIPPERCOPILOT Merely Descriptive of Hey Hi (AI) Software Services for Facilitating Shipping, Says TTAB

    The Board upheld a Section 2(e)(1) refusal to register the proposed mark SHIPPERCOPILOT (in standard charcter form), finding it to be merely descriptive of "artificial intelligence as a service (AIAAS) services featuring software using artificial intelligence (AI) for facilitating radio frequency identification (RFID), warehouse management, shipping, picking, packing, transfer of stock, storing of goods, planning, workflow optimization, tracking, alerts, inventory monitoring, outbound and inbound delivery, parcel tracking, and parcel tracing in the logistics industry." As usual, Applicant Eshipjet Software argued that the mark is at most suggestive, but the Board didn't buy it. In re Eshipjet Software Inc., Serial No. 98708838 (October 7, 2025) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Mark Lebow).

• Copyrights

  • Digital Music News ☛ Rod Wave Claps Back With Counterclaim In $27 Million Touring Lawsuit — And Plans New Dates Starting In December

    Rod Wave fires back at a lawsuit alleging he owes $27 million in advances from the tour he cancelled over scheduling and production issues.

  • Public Domain Review ☛ The Nature of the Beast: Charles le Brun’s Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)

    Illustrations of supposed physiognomic affinities between humans and animals.

• Gemini* and Gopher

  • Personal/Opinions

    • 🔤SpellBinding — ILNOTYU Wordo: INLET

    • Christina's October 5 questions

      Beans, always beans. Garbanzos in hummus, on salad, in curry. Red beans with cajun sausage. Black beans with sweet potatoes and peanut butter in burritos with cilantro. Black eye peas with okra and canned tomato, or with salty crispy paprika'd forest mushrooms and kale. Mung beans, adzuki beans, navy beans, beans, beans, beans.

      I soak them overnight, pressure cook with kombu seaweed and a bay leaf, then put the prepped beans in mason jars in the icebox to use in the next 3-4 days.

  • Politics and World Events

    • Israel / ˈɪz ˈri əl / (re. Alex Schroder)

      making a post like that, even here in the Internet underground takes a lot of courage. the genocide in Gaza is a difficult topic to understand and a difficult topic to discus without people bringing their baggage with them and running roughshod over you with opinions and assumptions. it's a minefield that invites enemies and costs you friends.

      [...]

      I like to wheel around the quote that WOPR, the supercomputer from the film Wargames was right; "the only winning move is not to play" - but without having a record of playing, a record of reaching stalemate ad-infinitum and the time to reflect on those records, WOPR would have continued the game against themself forever.