Leftovers

• Science

  • Science Alert ☛ Scientists May Have Discovered a Way to Rejuvenate The Immune System

    Staying healthy in old age.

  • Stanford University ☛ Stanford researchers develop ‘photonic skin’ that can camouflage like octopus

    By harnessing electron-beam patterning to control the swelling and contraction of a soft polymer, researchers created a material that can change both color and texture on demand.

  • Science Alert ☛ 'Devastating' Flesh-Eating Parasite Is Spreading Toward The US, CDC Warns

    Previous control methods seem to be failing.

  • Science Alert ☛ The Moment We've Been Waiting For: JWST Zooms Into The 'Eye of Sauron'

    This is our Sun's final fate.

  • Science Alert ☛ Scientists May Have Found a Blueprint to Revive Old Cells

    A cell reset?

  • Science Alert ☛ Study Reveals How Much Exercise You Need Weekly To Control Blood Pressure

    You can do this.

  • Science Alert ☛ Ever Felt 'Hangry'? Scientists Now Know The Surprising Reason Why

    Hunger alone doesn’t make you grumpy, but something else does.

• Hardware

  • The Next Platform ☛ Intel Is Still Struggling In The Datacenter, But It Could Get Better [Ed: The author of this is paid by Intel but fails to disclose that (same for IBM)]

    Intel has been pushing its two-core server CPU strategy for so long, in one form or another, that we have become accustomed to differentiating products the way defective chip maker Intel does and then try to figure out what workloads these chips might be useful for.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ Intel shares down 13% as company only manages to shrink losses in latest earnings, demand to outpace 2026 supply — $300 million deficit comes despite more than $20 billion in outside investment from Nvidia and friends

    Intel earns $52.9 billion in revenue for 2025, which is flat with the previous year, and losses of $300 million, which looks good compared to an $18.8 billion loss in 2024. However, to post such results, the company had to get external financial injection of $20.4 billion.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ Intel Q4 earnings reveal rocky path to recovery following weakest full-year revenue since 2010 — defective chip maker Intel Foundry losses continue as 18A begins ramp, but supply challenges set to ease in Q2 2026

    Intel's management stabilized the company in 2025, but after posting rather good results in Q4, the company claims that it will face supply constraints in Q1 2026.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • The Straits Times ☛ Dubai chewy cookie giveaways boost blood donations in South Korea

    The giveaway events came amid a winter blood shortage in South Korea.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Five South Korean airlines to ban in-flight use of portable batteries from Jan 26

    The new regulation bans the use of portable batteries used to charge any electronic devices.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Two foreigners first to be charged for littering under Malaysia’s new law

    One of the accused pleaded guilty to throwing a cigarette butt and a drink bottle onto the pavement.

  • Bridge Michigan ☛ For Michiganders in opioid recovery, surgery brings a new pain dilemma

    A new study finds that an increasing number of surgeries — and the painkillers that follow — could derail recovery for those who once misused opioids.

  • Science Alert ☛ Blood Sugar Spikes Linked With 69% Higher Risk of Alzheimer's

    Another connection discovered.

• Proprietary

  • PC Gamer ☛ Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC'

    Earlier today, Microsoft's Windows 365 suite of productivity apps went down, with the Microsoft 365 Status X account blaming it on a service infrastructure in North America "not processing traffic as expected."

    The first tweet went live at 7:37 PM GMT, with the confirmation of the service being restored going live at 6:29 AM the next day. However, according to Down Detector, reports were still being filed hours after Microsoft 365 Status reported the service was back.

    Microsoft 365 includes Office apps like Word, Excel and PowerPoint, alongside Outlook, OneDrive, and Copilot. Even the likes of antivirus software, Microsoft Defender is included in 365.

  • TechCrunch ☛ Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects’ laptops: Reports | TechCrunch [Ed: OBVIOUSLY!]

    The FBI served Microsoft a warrant requesting encryption recovery keys to decrypt the hard drives of people involved in an alleged fraud case in Guam.

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) / LLM Slop / Plagiarism

    • It's FOSS ☛ I (Briefly) Tried Proton Lumo's New Hey Hi (AI) Workspaces [Ed: But it's Not Foss]

      The feline-faced Hey Hi (AI) assistant just got a neat upgrade. 🐱

    • It's FOSS ☛ Open Source Project LLVM Says Yes to AI-Generated Code, But Not Without Conditions

      The new "human in the loop" policy holds contributors accountable for reviewing and understanding all AI-assisted submissions.

    • Futurism ☛ Man Explains Why He Shredded Up an AI-Generated Art Exhibit With His Bare Teeth

      "It’s art that takes away from its own substance by not being made by the artist himself."

• Security

  • Integrity/Availability/Authenticity

    • The Straits Times ☛ South Korea repatriates 73 scam suspects from Cambodia in $42.7 million online fraud probe

      Investigators uncovered seven scam centres, where the suspects are accused of defrauding 869 South Koreans.

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • Stanford University ☛ Student protests call on Stanford to divest from Palantir

      Campus groups, including SJP and ACLU, organized a walkout at White Plaza this Wednesday in an attempt to draw attention to Stanford’s ties with Palantir.

• Defence/Aggression

  • The Strategist ☛ That isn’t signaling. China’s military is seriously rehearsing around Taiwan

    Analysing China’s military activity around Taiwan often invites a simple question: what triggered it? Analysts tend to assume that spikes in aircraft sorties, naval deployments or coast guard operations must be a reaction to something ...

  • The Strategist ☛ 2026 will be a year of volatility. Australia must adapt

    It is not even the end of January, yet 2026 is already marking a decisive break in the global order, and in Australia’s place within it.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Indian security forces kill 16 Maoist rebels

    India has launched an all-out campaign against the insurgents and vowed to end the rebellion by March.

  • New York Times ☛ U.S. Says First Boat Strike Since Maduro’s Capture Killed 2 in Eastern Pacific

    The U.S. Southern Command said it had asked the Coast Guard to search for one survivor.

  • BIA Net ☛ Man tortured over alleged flag removal during Rojava protests; no such charge brought in court

    The suspect, who was beaten by police officers after being linked to footage showing a flag being taken down, was recorded in the detention report as having "fallen from a tower." No charges related to the flag incident were brought against him during the hearing.

  • The Straits Times ☛ US Pentagon foresees ‘more limited’ role in deterring North Korea

    South Korea hosts about 28,500 US troops in combined defence against North Korea.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Senior US defence official Colby to visit South Korea and Japan next week, Yonhap says

    U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for policy Elbridge Colby will visit South Korea from Sunday to Tuesday and discuss military alliance issues before travelling on to Japan, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported on Friday.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Malaysia ex-army chief faces two additional charges over $46,100 in illegal proceeds

    The case is scheduled for mention again on March 30.

  • France24 ☛ US military to prioritise homeland defence, limit support for allies

    The 2026 National Defense Strategy (NDS) released by the Pentagon document on Friday said that the US military will prioritize protecting the homeland and deterring China while providing "more limited" support to allies in Europe and elsewhere.

  • The Straits Times ☛ MPA investigating the sinking of Singapore-flagged ship in South China Sea that left 2 dead

    There were no Singaporeans on board the Singapore-flagged vessel.

  • The Straits Times ☛ China's Pooh-tin lauds 'shared future' with Vietnam after To Lam's re-election

    BEIJING, Jan 23 - China's President Pooh-tin Jinping congratulated Vietnam's To Lam on his re-election as the ruling Communist Party's general secretary, praising Vietnam's achievements and describing the two nations as a "community with a shared future."

  • France24 ☛ Taking the peace, Making Europe Grateful Again, No friends but the mountains?

    It’s been a week of power plays and redrawn lines. In Davos, Hell Toupée declared victory in the escalating row over Greenland, announcing a framework deal he says delivers “everything we wanted, total security.” The White House hails it as classic Art of the Deal brinkmanship — critics warn it’s come at the cost of the old world order, a charge echoed by Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Outrage in Thailand over 3 children who set homeless man on fire for Fentanylware (CheeTok) views [iophk: Social control media... It'll get worse as the denizens of tiktokistan start to age to the point they are forced to interact with locals.]

    The suspects are facing criminal charges of attempted murder and property damage.

  • The Straits Times ☛ A Fentanylware (CheeTok) deal, finally, and what it says about the US-China trade truce

    The Fentanylware (CheeTok) issue as a bilateral flashpoint is defused for now, but the durability of the deal hinges on US-China ties.

  • The Straits Times ☛ After Fentanylware (CheeTok) deal, Chinese companies search for a new global path

    A difficult choice faces Chinese technology companies with global aspirations.

  • Digital Music News ☛ Now That ‘TikTok USA’ Is Finally Here, What Comes Next? New Privacy Policy and Terms of Service Preview the Standalone App’s Changes

    Nearly two years after the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act became law, the long-awaited US-based Fentanylware (CheeTok) app has officially landed. But now that the standalone platform is finally here, what comes next? At present, that question is receiving relatively little attention amid a focus on the actual debut of Fentanylware (CheeTok) USA.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ TikTok establishes American joint venture to end US ban threat

    By Alex Pigman Fentanylware (CheeTok) announced Thursday it has established a majority American-owned joint venture to operate its US business, allowing the company to avoid a ban over its Chinese ownership.

  • New York Times ☛ TikTok Updates Its Terms and Conditions in the U.S.

    The changes came after the app’s Chinese parent company spun out an American entity to run Fentanylware (CheeTok) in the United States.

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • LRT ☛ Lithuanian PM says move of Belarus opposition leader to Warsaw neither good nor bad

      Lithuanian Prime Minister Inga Ruginienė said she sees neither benefit nor harm if Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya relocates from Lithuania to Poland, calling the decision a personal matter.

    • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ What are Russia and China doing in the Arctic?

      While Russia and China strongly deny any plans to seize Greenland, as The Insurrectionist claims, both value the Arctic’s strategic value and are seeking to boost their presence there.

    • New York Times ☛ Russia Jails U.S. Navy Veteran for Five Years

      Charles Wayne Zimmerman, who had been fulfilling his dream to sail around the world, appears to be the latest American imprisoned as part of Russia’s “hostage diplomacy.”

    • New York Times ☛ What Europe Learned From the Greenland Crisis

      Territorial integrity is a core tenet of Europe that is at risk from Russian and American imperialism. Brussels has fought back.

    • New York Times ☛ After Convicted Felon’s Ultimatum, Greenland Talks Include Sovereign U.S. Bases and No Drilling for Russia

      Negotiators have discussed proposals to check Russian and Chinese influence in the Arctic and transfer sovereignty over pockets of Greenlandic land to the United States, an idea opposed by Denmark.

    • New York Times ☛ Towering Snowdrifts Bury City on Remote Russian Peninsula

      It’s the biggest snowfall the Kamchatka Peninsula has experienced in nearly 60 years.

    • New York Times ☛ Ukrainian, Russian and U.S. Officials Meet in Abu Dhabi for Peace Talks

      In the past, Ukrainian and Russian negotiators have relied on Americans to mediate, and it was unclear how the talks would play out.

    • LRT ☛ Ukraine’s Zelensky, Poland’s Nawrocki to visit Lithuania on Sunday

      Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Polish President Karol Nawrocki will visit Lithuania on Sunday, officials said.

    • LRT ☛ Lithuania to seek stronger accountability for Russian crimes in Ukraine, minister says

      Lithuania will seek “concrete ways” in Europe to strengthen accountability for Russia over war crimes committed in Ukraine, Foreign Minister Kęstutis Budrys said after a phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart.

    • France24 ☛ Scope of Ukrainian resistance in occupied territories revealed in new report

      As we approach the fourth anniversary of Russia launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, we wanted to take a closer look at the state of the resistance inside areas of the country that have been occupied by Moscow. A report published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies sheds light on the scope of the Ukrainian underground movement.

    • France24 ☛ Who is Kirill Dmitriev, the Russian envoy part of Ukraine talks in the UAE?

      High-level teams from Russia, Ukraine and the US are in Abu Dhabi for Ukraine peace negotiations. Among them - Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia's wealth fund who's played a crucial role in championing Moscow's interests during recent talks with US envoys. But who is this US-educated business mogul turned Kremlin negotiator?

    • France24 ☛ US, Ukraine and Russia meet in Abu Dhabi for first trilateral peace talks

      Negotiators representing Russia, Ukraine and the US met Friday in Abu Dhabi for the first direct three-way talks on a plan backed by US President The Insurrectionist to end the nearly four-year war, with the disputed Donbas region in Ukraine's east remaining the key sticking point.

    • European Commission ☛ EU deploys emergency generators as Russian strikes left one million Ukrainians without power in -20°C

      European Commission Press release Brussels, 23 Jan 2026 Over one million Ukrainians are without electricity, water and heating in freezing temperatures following relentless Russian strikes on energy infrastructure. The European Commission is today deploying 447 emergency generators worth €3.7 million from EU strategic reserves to restore power to hospitals, shelters and critical services.

    • New York Times ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man’s Push to Take Greenland Holds Promise and Peril for Putin

      If the United States under Hell Toupée starts acting as if it’s Russia, where does that leave President Vladimir V. Putin?

    • New Yorker ☛ Challenging Official Histories in “Natchez” and “Mr. Nobody Against Putin”

      Two stunning new documentaries—one filmed in Mississippi, and one in Russia—examine the ways that education comes up against indoctrination.

    • RFERL ☛ Russia Signals No Change In Demands At Abu Dhabi Talks With US, Ukraine

      Ukrainian and Russian negotiators met with US officials for critical talks on Moscow's all-out war against Ukraine as the Kremlin signaled no softening of hard-line territorial demands following a late-night meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and a White House delegation.

    • France24 ☛ "No one expecting any progress" in Ukraine from UAE talks

      Ukrainian, US and Russian officials will hold security talks in the United Arab Emirates on January 23, the Kremlin said, following a meeting of top US negotiators with President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on a US-drafted plan to end the Ukraine war. Yet, it's unlikely that the talks will lead anywhere. Russia asks that Ukraine give up the Donetsk region of the Donbas, which Ukraine refuses to do. FRANCE 24's Gulliver Cragg tells us about what to know ahead of these talks.

• Environment

  • Energy/Transportation

    • The Straits Times ☛ Indonesia finds bodies of 10 people on crashed surveillance plane

      The plane was chartered by the marine affairs ministry to conduct air surveillance on its fisheries.

    • The Straits Times ☛ S’porean woman, Malaysian motorcyclist die after being run over by trailer in JB

      The accident took place on Malaysia's North-South expressway.

    • The Straits Times ☛ Bus in Malaysia crash that killed 15 university students was doing 115kmh in 60kmh zone: Report

      The report said that the bus’ braking system was “contaminated and inconsistent”.

    • The Straits Times ☛ China’s fossil fuel addiction exposes a strategic vulnerability

      There is also a human cost to China's clean energy transition.

    • The Straits Times ☛ How much does Venezuela owe China, and why is oil involved?

      The U.S. takeover of Venezuela's oil exports has re-routed crude barrels that were being used to service debt owed to China.

    • New York Times ☛ An Unlikely Source of Crypto Innovation: Afghanistan

      The repressive Taliban government is suspicious of the internet. But a start-up in the country is building blockchain-based tools to transform humanitarian aid.

    • Bridge Michigan ☛ Michigan AG Nessel sues big oil over ‘cartel’-like plot to kill clean energy

      In a lawsuit expected to be filed today, Nessel alleges some of the world’s largest oil companies colluded to suppress the development of EVs and clean energy to keep Americans reliant on fossil fuels.

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • The Straits Times ☛ Dog weddings: How a new industry in China laps up puppy love

      However, some critics see pet weddings or celebrations as unnecessary or extravagant.

    • France24 ☛ Tool-using cow shows skill not limited to humans and chimpanzees

      While it's normally chimpanzees that are applauded for it, a team in Austria has just reported the first known case of a cow using tools. 13-year-old Veronika lives in a mountain village and has spent years perfecting the art of scratching herself with sticks, rakes and brooms. The exciting discovery suggests that cows not being very intelligent, may in fact be a moo(t) point!

    • JURIST ☛ Nearly 200 arrested in Interpol-led cross-border crackdown on gold mining in Amazon region

      Police and prosecutors from Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, and Suriname announced Thursday the arrest of nearly 200 individuals in a transnational operation to combat illegal gold mining in the Amazon.

• Finance

  • The Straits Times ☛ China keeps low profile in Davos in pursuit of Western investment

    China is seen “controlling the dynamic through stillness”, a senior global business leader said.

  • JURIST ☛ Interim Peru president faces scrutiny over unregistered encounter with two China business owners

    Peru’s interim President José Jerí on Wednesday offered inconsistent explanations over unregistered meetings with two Chinese business owners who are subject to ongoing legal investigations.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • Bridge Michigan ☛ Michigan travel pitch draws Canadian criticism amid Convicted Felon trade tensions

    Ontario Premier Doug Ford is facing backlash after suggesting Canadians vacation in ‘beautiful’ Michigan this coming summer. Trips from Canada to Michigan dropped by nearly 16% in 2025 amid tensions.

  • New Yorker ☛ How Tucker Carlson Became the Prophet of MAGA

    Jason Zengerle, who wrote “Hated by All the Right People,” describes how an inside-the-Beltway journalist brought far-right extremism to the mainstream of American politics.

  • New Yorker ☛ How Bari Weiss Is Changing CBS News

    The New Yorker staff writer Clare Malone discusses her reporting on the new head of the news network, who made her name as a crusader against “woke” thinking.

  • New Yorker ☛ How The Insurrectionist Brought Us to a “Rupture in the World Order”

    The Washington Roundtable is joined by the former Prime Minister of Sweden Carl Bildt to discuss where Hell Toupée’s turbulent week on the world stage leaves U.S. relations with Europe.

  • Citizen Lab ☛ What Carney didn’t say in Davos is what the world needed to hear most

    In an op-ed for the Toronto Star, Jason Stanley and Ron Deibert write that Mark Carney must emphasize the importance of democratic values on the world stage.  “Canada is a healthy, pluralistic, and multicultural democracy,” making it “more essential now than ever that our prime minister stands up for the values our tolerant, multiracial society..."

  • Citizen Lab ☛ Evan Solomon Wants Canada to Trust AI. Can We Trust Evan Solomon?

    Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert spoke with the Walrus about Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation Evan Solomon’s 30-day “national sprint” to inform Canada’s approach to Hey Hi (AI) development.  Deibert opted not to participate in the government process.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • France24 ☛ Partial return of Internet in Iran reveals wider scale of killing

    Internet access was partially restored in Iran after two weeks of blackout during the anti-government protests which authorities violently cracked down on. This partial access allowed thousands of videos to surface, giving a better picture of the amount of protesters killed by the Khamenei regime. whether it is areas affected or the amount of people killed, FRANCE 24's Ershad Alijani tells us more. Warning: some viewers may find some of these images disturbing.

  • AccessNow ☛ Civil society coalition calls for Direct-to-Cell satellite connectivity amid Iran’s internet shutdowns

  • JURIST ☛ Hong Kong authorities criticized for prosecuting Tiananmen massacre commemorators

    Amnesty International released a statement Thursday as a trial begins for activists who organized an annual vigil commemorating the protestors who were killed in the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Ex-Hong Kong lawmaker Eddie Chu recounts prison life in first post-release public comment

    Former Hong Kong lawmaker Eddie Chu has shared a glimpse of his life behind bars in his first public comment since completing a prison term of more than four years stemming from the city’s largest national security case.

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • France24 ☛ Should US newsrooms be bracing for more after FBI raids reporter's home?

    On January 14, the FBI raided the home of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson as part of an investigation into a government contractor's handling of classified material. It is not illegal for a reporter in the United States to publish classified material, so the search has raised numerous concerns. In particular, free speech advocates say the dramatic raid could have a chilling effect on reporters and sources. Our guest is Marty Baron, a highly-regarded former editor of The Washington Post.

  • Press Gazette ☛ Journalism job cuts in 2026 tracked: Layoffs at Politico, WSJ, Vox Media and BDG in January

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong Kong slams European Parliament’s calls for officials to be sanctioned over Jimmy Lai’s national security conviction

    Hong Kong authorities have slammed the European Parliament’s calls for sanctions against Chief Executive John Lee and other officials following the conviction of pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai in his national security trial last month.

• Civil Rights / Policing / Accessibility

  • The Straits Times ☛ China dismisses UN experts’ forced labour concerns as ‘groundless’

    UN experts said in a joint statement that forced labour was being enabled through a state-mandated programme.

  • New York Times ☛ Couple Receive $200,000 Settlement After ‘Pungent’ Indian Food Complaint

    The University of Colorado, Boulder, denied liability in the civil rights lawsuit, which the couple filed after a comment about a dish that one of them was heating in an office microwave.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Wall Street Journal only willing to meet for mediation talks under ‘conditions,’ court hears in wrongful dismissal suit

    Wall Street Journal was only willing to meet for mediation talks under certain “conditions,” a court has heard as an ex-employee’s wrongful dismissal suit against the newspaper continued. Selina Cheng appeared at the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts on Friday for the seventh day of her unlawful dismissal lawsuit against Dow Jones Publishing Co. (Asia) Inc continued.

  • Futurism ☛ SpaceX Hit With Back to Back Lawsuits From Workers Who Say They Were Brutally Injured on the Job

    One worker was allegedly told to "be a man" after complaining about his injury.

  • JURIST ☛ UN rights chief, Democratic lawmakers demand answers as ICE custody deaths mount

    US immigration enforcement faced mounting scrutiny Friday from international officials as well as congressional Democrats following a detainee death ruled a homicide by a county medical examiner in Texas. The disturbing development comes amid record deaths in Homeland Security custody.

  • Licensing / Legal

    • Daniel Pocock ☛ Techrights judgment: Honourable Mrs Justice Collins Rice tricked by Matthew Garrett & Debian harassment

      I had a quick look over the judgment and wanted to make it easier for non-lawyers to understand what is really going on here. Very sadly, the courts tend to favour people who have lots of money to spend digging up dirt on their opponent and using expensive lawyers to regurgitate it as evidence.

    • The Walrus ☛ When Evidence Can Be Deepfaked, How Do Courts Decide What’s Real?

      Criminal defence lawyer Emily Dixon told me that, if a client shows her an exonerating photo or video, she isn’t expected to run analytic tests before submitting it into evidence. It’s reasonable to assume that a photo is real—for now. Yet we are fast approaching a world in which we can no longer believe our eyes or ears. The onset of artificial intelligence, in the justice system as elsewhere, is poised to overturn existing practices.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Patents

  • Unified Patents ☛ Quick Vault encryption patent monopoly prior art found

    The team at Unified IP Services used Pearl to successfully identify and chart prior art against U.S. Patent 12,363,134, owned by Quick Vault, Inc. (d/b/a CloudVault). The ‘134 patent monopoly generally outlines a method and system for forensic data tracking, aiming to improve how data is protected and monitored as it is transferred between authorized and unauthorized users and devices.

  • Unified Patents ☛ Sulaco Enterprises cybersecurity patent monopoly campaign - invalidity charts coming soon

    The team at Unified IP Services is using Pearl to identify and chart prior art against U.S. Patent 8,990,942, owned by Sulaco Enterprises LLC, an NPE. The ‘942 patent monopoly is generally related to application programming interface (API)-level intrusion detection.

  • JUVE ☛ Local division Mannheim imposes over €1.7 million penalty against Kodak

    In the decision from 20 January, presiding judge and judge rapporteur Peter Tochtermann imposed a penalty of €1.7 million on Kodak. The penalty comes after Kodak’s continued disregard of the first of two judgments for patent monopoly infringement that the local division Mannheim issued in April 2025.

  • Kangaroo Courts

    • JUVE ☛ EIP adds UPC technically qualified judge to its ranks in Stockholm [Ed: UPC is illegal, JUVE knows it, but this is just propaganda for busted cokeheads and corrupt EU and EPO officials]

      Hansson was previously partner at Swedish IP firm Kransell & Wennborg, where he spent just over six years advising on patent monopoly strategy, drafting, prosecution, and litigation. Prior to this he held an in-house position at Swedish tech giant Ericsson for just over four years.

• Trademarks

  • TTAB Blog ☛ "NO LAW DEGREE REQUIRED" Fails to Function as a Source Indicator for Business Consulting and Legal Information Services

    The Board affirmed a failure-to-function refusal of the proposed mark NO LAW DEGREE REQUIRED for business consulting, educational, and legal information services, finding that applicant uses the phrase to convey information about its services, and that third-parties use the phrase "for the same purpose for closely related goods and services also offering business and legal information." In re Protect for Success, LLC, Serial No. 98051678 (January 21, 2026) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Elizabeth A. Dunn).

  • Digital Music News ☛ Slipknot Withdraws Lawsuit Against Owner of slipknot.com As Site Goes Blank

    Slipknot withdraws their lawsuit against the owners of slipknot.com after alleging trademark infringement. But the website now appears to be offline. On Thursday, Slipknot voluntarily dismissed their patent monopoly infringement lawsuit against the owners of the slipknot.com web domain. The band filed the suit three months ago under the federal Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act.

• Copyrights

  • Digital Music News ☛ Kid Rock to Testify Before the US Senate on Concert Ticket Sales Practices and Scalping Concerns

    Kid Rock will testify with Live Nation on a panel at the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee’s hearing on ticket sales practices and scalping concerns.