Leftovers

• Ruben Schade ☛ The tech is coming/it’s inevitable/etc

  Max Langenkamp:

  We deform the world according to our expectations. When this happens, we call it a ‘self-fulfilling prophecy’. The world is more deeply filled with self-fulfilling prophecies than we recognize, so we should be very careful about our ‘prophecies’, lest they crowd out visions of the future we want.

• Standards/Consortia

  • APNIC ☛ DNSSEC and PQC: The practical impact of increased TCP in DNS

    In many of the proposed PQC signing algorithms, the signature size is relatively large compared with the ECDSA signature size of 64 bytes, which is the current standard in DNSSEC. For example, Falcon-512, a promising PQC alternative, has a signature size of 666 bytes. DNS messages are sent over UDP by default and are recommended not to be larger than 1,232 bytes, based on an MTU of 1,280 bytes. If multiple Falcon signatures need to be included in a single DNS response, the message exceeds the recommended size limit.

  • Kevin Boone ☛ This site is now webmention-aware

    ‘Webmention’ is a standardized way for owners of websites or blogs to tell one another that a link has been posted from one article to another. You’d typically send a webmention because you’ve posted something in response to another person’s page or blog entry, and you want that person to know you have.

  • Feld ☛ Using nsnotifyd with a PowerDNS Secondary

    The nsnotifyd tool is a neat little utility that can be used for automating tasks when a DNS zone changes. It listens for a NOTIFY message from a DNS server and then you can choose to use a custom script to do things like send alerts or backup the zone for your domain. I use it to automate issuing an AXFR to get a dump of a zone and then commit it to a git repo so I have a reliable history of all DNS changes that have happened to my zones.

  • Brandon Li ☛ Rendering the Visible Spectrum

    What’s the best way to display a rainbow on a computer? I first started thinking about this question after I noticed that many popular depictions of the visible spectrum of light that I found on the internet didn’t seem quite right. If I go on google and search up images of the visible spectrum, this is the first result that appears: 1

• Science

  • Science Alert ☛ Major Review on Intermittent Fasting Finds Little Evidence For Weight Loss

    Not all it's cracked up to be.

  • Science Alert ☛ X-Ray Blaze Could Be First Glimpse of a Black Hole Shredding a White Dwarf

    Caught in the act.

  • Science Alert ☛ Glaciers Can Suddenly And Dangerously Surge Up to 60 Meters a Day

    Gives new meaning to "a glacial pace."

• Hardware

  • CubicleNate ☛ Protect Your Framework Laptop 13 | Why Bumpers Matter

    The Framework Laptop 13 protective bumper, developed for enhanced durability, is now available for purchase. Initially designed for black, it has expanded to seven color options in varying materials. After positive feedback, the creator began selling these bumpers online, aiming to protect laptops from daily wear and tear while enjoying customization.

  • GamingOnLinux ☛ Prepare for HDD availability trouble as they're getting sold out too | GamingOnLinux

    Component shortages are increasing thanks to the AI boom, and if you were thinking you could fall back on traditional HDDs - you would be wrong.

  • Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications

    • [Repeat] Tom's Hardware ☛ High-end Android phones are now powerful enough to emulate the PC version of Cyberpunk 2077 — YouTuber gets 2020's hottest PC game running at playable frame rates on Red Magic 11 Pro

      The idea of running Cyberpunk 2077 on a smartphone would have been ludicrous when the game first came out in 2020. Fast forward six years, and now that idea has become a reality. Handheld and SFF specialist ETA Prime on YouTube has made it happen with gaming phone running the PC version of Cyberpunk 2077 at 30 to 40 FPS in emulation.

    • MacRumors ☛ Apple Begins Testing End-to-End Encryption for RCS Messages in iOS 26.4 Beta

      Apple has been working with the GSM Association to implement E2EE for ‌RCS‌ messages. iMessage, the messaging protocol for sending texts between iPhones, has long supported end-to-end encryption. ‌RCS‌ messages between Android devices have also featured E2EE, but there was no full encryption for Android to iPhone (or vice versa) communications. With the addition of E2EE for ‌RCS‌, messages between ‌iPhone‌ users and Android users will eventually be just as secure as iMessage.

    • Joel Chrono ☛ Setting up phones is a nightmare

      Some thoughts about my experience getting my parents' new devices up and running, and how bad it keeps getting today.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • New Yorker ☛ Why Some People Thrive on Four Hours of Sleep

    Short sleepers, who make up less than one per cent of the population, spend significantly less time snoozing without any apparent health consequences.

  • Federal News Network ☛ NIH’s Bhattacharya will also run the CDC while Convicted Felon administration looks for a permanent director

    Bhattacharya will be the third leader of the embattled CDC, the nation's top public health agency, during President The Insurrectionist’s second term.

  • The Straits Times ☛ No more fainting spells: Cat gets pacemaker implant in milestone for Thai animal healthcare

    The eight-year-old female shorthair named Pepsi, had been collapsing as many as four times a day pre-procedure.

  • Science Alert ☛ Humans Are Still Evolving Before Our Eyes on The Tibetan Plateau

    "This is a case of ongoing natural selection."

  • Science Alert ☛ Scientists Want to Intercept Cancer Decades Before It Develops. Here's How.

    It's a radical plan, but regulators say proceed carefully.

  • Federal News Network ☛ Millions of people can’t understand life-or-death weather alerts: GAO

    "It has to be a well-coordinated approach. One of the challenges is multiple agencies are involved...everyone has to be on the same page," Cardell Johnson said.

  • Robert Kadlec: The Man Behind Convicted Felon’s Biowarfare Policy

    Robert Kadlec, a veteran of biowarfare with longstanding connections to the National Security State and corrupt government contractors as well as controversial Covid-19 policies, has now become the head of counterproliferation policy at the Department of War.

• Proprietary

  • Notebook Check ☛ 10 Chambers announces massive layoffs as Den of Wolves development continues

    Founded in 2015 by the developers of Payday and Payday 2, 10 Chambers Collective is a game development studio based in Sweden that developed the popular co-op horror shooter, GTFO. The co-op horror FPS was well received by gamers, earning a Very Positive rating and garnering over 54,000 positive reviews on Steam. In December of 2023, the studio announced its latest title in development, an FPS heist game, set in a Cyberpunk-esque world with gameplay reminiscent of Payday. The project was titled Den of Wolves.

    Revealed at The Game Awards 2023, through a new trailer, Den of Wolves is a fps co-op Heist game, set in the near future where Mega Corporations compete with each other in games of espionage and sabotage. According to the studio, players will need extreme coordination to pull off the heists or missions, aided by a whole load of futuristic gadgets and weapons.

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) / LLM Slop / Plagiarism

    • Tom's Hardware ☛ Over 80% of companies report no productivity gains from Hey Hi (AI) so far despite billions in investment, survey suggests — 6,000 executives also reveal 1/3 of leaders use AI, but only for 90 minutes a week

      A survey of 6,000 executives reveals a significant productivity disconnect, where 80% of firms report no measurable improvement to operations with the use of AI, while a third of senior leaders only use the technology themselves for just 1.5 hours per week.

    • Futurism ☛ Realtor Uses AI, Accidentally Posts Photo of Rental Property With Demonic Figure Emerging From Mirror

      "Genuinely the worst possible thing to scroll past before I fall asleep."

    • Futurism ☛ Unity Says It Has a New Product That Cooks Up Entire Games Using AI

      You'll be able to "prompt full casual games into existence," apparently.

    • Futurism ☛ Oxford Researcher Warns That Hey Hi (AI) Is Heading for a Hindenburg-Style Disaster

      "It was a dead technology from that point on."

  • Social Control Media

    • Latvia ☛ Don't walk on ice to Mangaļsala shipwreck

      The ice along the coast is not uniform, warns the Rīga Municipal Police, so it is prohibited to go to the shipwreck in Mangaļsala. Social media shows photos and videos of residents walking on the ice to view the wreck in the Baltic Sea ice reserve zone, where movement is prohibited, Latvian Television reported on 17th February.

    • France24 ☛ Gabon suspends access to social control media amid teachers' strike

      In tonight's edition, Gabon suspends major social control media platforms, including Facebook (Farcebook) and TikTok, amid an anti-government teachers’ strike. Also, Brent Bozell, Convicted Felon’s controversial pick for US ambassador, arrives in South Africa. And we head to the Sambadrome, where Rio Carnival comes to a dazzling close, celebrating African roots in a pulsating festival of culture and joy.

• Security

  • Confidentiality

    • Trail of Bits ☛ Carelessness versus craftsmanship in cryptography

      Two popular AES libraries, aes-js and pyaes, “helpfully” provide a default IV in their AES-CTR Hey Hi (AI) leading to a large number of key/IV reuse bugs. These bugs potentially affect thousands of downstream projects. When we shared one of these bugs with an affected vendor, strongSwan, the maintainer provided a model response for security vendors. The aes-js/pyaes maintainer, on the other hand, has taken a more… cavalier approach.

      Trail of Bits doesn’t usually make a point of publicly calling out specific products as unsafe. Our motto is that we don’t just fix bugs—we fix software. We do better by the world when we work to address systemic threats, not individual bugs. That’s why we work to provide static analysis tools, auditing tools, and documentation for folks looking to implement cryptographic software. When you improve systems, you improve software.

      But sometimes, a single bug in a piece of software has an outsized impact on the cryptography ecosystem, and we need to address it.

    • Building a Secret with Math: The Diffie-Hellman Guide

      The Variables To start a handshake, we need two public numbers that everyone knows: Base (g): 2 Modulus (p): 19 Step 1: The Private Secrets Two parties, Alice and Shiva, choose secret numbers (Private Keys).

    • Tom's Hardware ☛ Lenovo denies allegations of transferring data to China — class action lawsuit alleges company uses trackers to expose American behavioral data to ‘foreign adversaries’

      A lawsuit says that Lenovo is tracking Americans visiting its website and exporting all the information to its Chinese servers.

• Defence/Aggression

  • The Straits Times ☛ South Korean civilians sent drones to North 4 times after Lee became president, harming ties: Seoul

    Drones crashed on two occasions in North Korea, according to investigations.

  • The Straits Times ☛ North Korea flexes nuclear-capable rocket launcher ahead of key congress

    Mr Kim Jong Un is expected to detail the next phase in North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme in the coming days.

  • France24 ☛ North Korea's Kim Jon-Un unveils nuclear-capable rocket system

    North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has unveiled a large array of nuclear-capable rocket launchers ahead of a rare congress of the ruling Workers’ Party, signalling the next stage of the country’s nuclear weapons programme.

  • France24 ☛ How the killing of a French far-right activist sparked an online manhunt

    The killing of 23-year-old French nationalist Quentin Deranque, on the sidelines of a protest in Lyon, has heightened tensions between far-right and far-left groups ahead of next month’s municipal elections. Before any arrests were made, online users claimed to have identified five suspects, leading to the circulation of their personal details. But the internet sleuths got at least one case wrong: a woman identified as Blandine B., who was not even in France on the day of the killing. In this episode of Truth or Fake, Maya-Anaïs Yataghène also examines how a photo of the wrong person ended up being used in tributes to the victim.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Australia rejects foreign threats after claim of China interference

    This comes after a media report alleged Chinese police had pressured food delivery riders in Australia.

  • The Straits Times ☛ How China plans to dominate global trade long after Convicted Felon

    China sees an opening to turn President The Insurrectionist's tariffs to its advantage by reshaping global trade in ways that would insulate its $19 trillion economy from U.S. pressure far into the future.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Beijing slams US appointment of Tibetan rights envoy

    China accused the United States of “using Tibet-related issues to interfere in China’s internal affairs”.

  • Futurism ☛ Skeptic Builds “Havana Syndrome”-Style Device, Tests It on Himself, Suffers Grim Consequences

    One-shotted by the brain scrambler.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Australia to ban citizen from returning to country under rarely-used terror laws

    34 Australians were briefly freed on Feb 16 before returning to Damascus for holding inadequate paperwork.

  • New York Times ☛ South Sudan Appoints Dead Man to Election Panel, as Political Crisis Grows

    The government of President Salva Kiir has been accused of gross incompetence, as fighting between rebels and security forces pushes toward the capital.

  • New York Times ☛ Israel’s Actions Questioned at Security Council Meeting

    Amid criticism over the board’s structure and broad mandate, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. defended the board, saying “a new way” was needed to address the situation in Gaza.

  • New York Times ☛ As Convicted Felon Weighs Possible Iran Strikes, U.S. Military Moves Into Place

    Hell Toupée has given no indication that he has made a decision about how to proceed, as diplomatic talks continue.

  • France24 ☛ White House urges Iran to strike deal as Convicted Felon renews military threat

    The White House warned Iran it would be “wise” to reach a deal with the United States, as President The Insurrectionist again raised the prospect of military action amid renewed, Oman-mediated talks. The remarks come as tensions remain high following recent protests and a fragile diplomatic push between Tehran and Washington.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Timeline: Over 60 Hong Kong civil society groups disband following the onset of the security law

    Updated February 2026 After Beijing’s national security law for Hong Kong came into force in 2020, over 60 organisations -including unions, churches, media groups, and political parties – have disbanded.

  • The Strategist ☛ Bookshelf: A European leader speaks out

    Alexander Stubb has had a busy two years.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ US says will match alleged Chinese low-yield nuclear tests

    The United States is ready to carry out low-yield nuclear tests to match alleged secret explosions by China and Russia, ending a decades-old moratorium, a senior official said Tuesday.

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • New York Times ☛ Russia’s Exile From World Sports Will End Next Month at Paralympics

      Six Russian athletes and four Belarusians will be allowed to represent their nations, officials said. The decision could pave the way for a Russian team to compete at the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles.

    • New York Times ☛ Russia Celebrated Him. Now He’s Accused of Having Troops Shoot Themselves.

      A lieutenant colonel is on trial after being accused of skimming payments for battlefield injuries. He denies the specifics of Russia’s accusation but acknowledges engaging in a payouts scheme.

    • LRT ☛ Lithuania slams Russians, Belarusians competing under own flags in Paralympic Games

      The Lithuanian Paralympic Committee on Wednesday strongly condemned a decision to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete under their national flags at this year’s Winter Paralympic Games in Italy.

    • New York Times ☛ The Behind the Scenes Search for Compromise on Territory in Ukraine Talks

      The latest round of talks ended with no indication of progress, but negotiators are bargaining over who will control land in eastern Ukraine if they reach a settlement.

    • RFERL ☛ Witkoff Cites 'Meaningful Progress' On First Day Of US-Brokered Talks Between Russia, Ukraine

      Ukrainian and Russian negotiators were set to meet for the latest round of US-brokered peace talks following another round of Russian overnight strikes on targets across Ukraine with hundreds of drones and missiles.

    • RFERL ☛ EU Quizzes Ukraine On Timeline For Repair Of Druzhba Oil Pipeline

      A European Commission spokeswoman on February 17 confirmed that Brussels was in touch with Ukraine regarding the Druzhba pipeline that has been damaged since late January, preventing Russian oil from flowing to Hungary and Slovakia.

    • RFERL ☛ Zelenskyy Says 'Progress' In Military Talks In Geneva, Political Talks 'Not Easy'

      A second day of talks between Russia and Ukraine have broken up after around two hours in Geneva, Switzerland, with officials from both countries saying negotiations were "difficult."

    • LRT ☛ EU unveils strategy to bolster Eastern border regions, including Lithuania

      The European Commission on Wednesday adopted a comprehensive strategy to boost support for European Union eastern member states bordering Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, including Lithuania.

    • France24 ☛ Humanitarian situation in Ukraine 'the worst it's ever been', IFRC says

      Speaking with FRANCE 24's Mark Owen, Scott Craig, Senior Communications Officer at the IFRC, explains that the humanitarian situation in Ukraine 'it's the worst it's ever been' and organisations working on the ground in Ukraine face a funding challenge as 'international support for humanitarian funding in Ukraine is dwindling'.

    • France24 ☛ Ukraine's officials to boycott Paralympics over Russian flag decision

      Ukrainian officials will boycott the Paralympic Winter Games, Kyiv said on Wednesday, after the International Paralympic Committee allowed Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete under their national flag. The EU's sports commissioner Glenn Micallef said he would also skip the opening ceremony. FRANCE 24's Camille Corcoran reports.

    • Defence Web ☛ Could Africa’s youth bulge help fill Europe’s military ranks?

      In November 2025, Ukraine’s foreign minister Andrii Sybiha said over 1 400 African nationals from around 36 countries were fighting [...]

    • European Commission ☛ Factsheet: Communication on EU's Eastern Regions Bordering Russia, Belarus and Ukraine

    • European Commission ☛ Commission supports the EU's eastern regions bordering Russia, Belarus and Ukraine

      The European Commission has adopted a comprehensive strategy to step up support for the EU eastern regions bordering Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. Strengthening the prosperity and resilience of these regions is not only an expression of EU solidarity in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but also a strategic investment in Europe's security, competitiveness, and future stability.

    • France24 ☛ Fighting for Convicted Felon's attention? Russia, Ukraine in rival bids to sway US mediators

      Call it speed dating diplomacy. In Geneva, real estate magnate Steve Witkoff playing lead U-S negotiator with Iran in one room while in another acting as broker for the hard bargaining between Russia and Ukraine. We’ll ask how the Ukranians feel about it, especially when the mediator’s boss piles on fresh pressure on them. And what about the Kremlin's envoy this time, a revisionist historian who spouts the greater Russia line of Vladimir Putin?

    • LRT ☛ Lithuania submits evidence to UN aviation body over Belarus balloons

      Lithuania has submitted evidence to the International Civil Aviation Organization over repeated airspace violations caused by smuggling balloons launched from Belarus, Prime Minister Inga Ruginienė said Wednesday.

• Environment

  • Energy/Transportation

    • New York Times ☛ Shipwreck Found at the Bottom of Lake Michigan After Nearly 150 Years

      The steamer Lac La Belle, which was carrying passengers and cargo, sank in a storm in 1872. Eight people died when one of its lifeboats capsized.

    • The Straits Times ☛ Japan to ban in-flight use of power banks from April

      The ban will extend to charging smartphones via onboard power outlets.

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • Mexico News Daily ☛ US authorities return 11 Mexican parrots seized at border

      Protections in Mexico go further for parrots and related birds, such as macaws, cockatoos, amazons and lovebirds, forbidding their removal from the wild except for scientific purposes.

    • Science Alert ☛ Surprise Shark Caught on Camera in an Unexpected Place

      “And it’s not even a little one either. It’s a hunk of a shark.”

    • Science Alert ☛ Giant Gravity Anomaly Under Antarctica Is Getting Stronger, Scientists Reveal

      Drums in the deep.

    • Science Alert ☛ Deer Create Mysterious Ultraviolet Signals That Glow in Forests

      It's the first time we've ever seen this.

• Finance

  • Federal News Network ☛ Feds and retirees face fresh uncertainty amid resurgent instability

    "This is really stepping back closer to the spoils system...politically based enforcement of laws, politically based provision of services," John Hatton said.

  • Scripps Media Inc ☛ CoStar layoffs hit Richmond -- again

    CoStar Group has conducted another round of layoffs at its downtown Richmond headquarters, impacting workers on the company's Homes.com platform, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the company's actions. The exact number of affected employees is not yet known.

    A CoStar Group spokesperson said the company was deploying advanced AI technologies designed to make the company more money, streamline processes, and improve the customer experience.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • New York Times ☛ Texas Congressman’s Aide Told Co-Worker of Affair Before Killing Herself

    The co-worker, who no longer works for Representative Tony Gonzales, shared screenshots of the text exchange with The New York Times. Mr. Gonzales accused his Republican primary challenger of being behind the revelation.

  • NYPost ☛ Texas woman arrested for allegedly helping bedridden ex-husband’s suicide — after taking advice from ‘right to die’ nonprofit

    Cheffo was a former teacher with "a passion for fitness" whose life was turned on its head after he experienced debilitating side effects while taking a prescribed antibacterial drug.

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • The Straits Times ☛ Extra! Extra! News from N. Korea now more freely available but are S. Koreans reading it?

    The easing of curbs is part of a broader approach by the South to allow public access to North Korean materials.

  • Press Gazette ☛ Irish Times journalism now fully funded by subscribers

    Editor Ruadhán Mac Cormaic says title has learned 'how to make organisation of this scale sustainable'.

• Civil Rights / Policing / Accessibility

  • JURIST ☛ UN experts criticize Ireland police use of “less-lethal” weapons at protests

    UN experts on Wednesday expressed their disapproval of the National Police of the Irish Republic’s (Gardaí) acquisition and use of less-lethal weapons such as “double-strength pepper spray” and tasers for crowd control. >

  • EDRI ☛ European Commission’s plans will lead to worse regulations

    EDRi is deeply concerned that the European Commission’s current plans to amend the Better Regulation framework will lead to worse lawmaking, not better. In its submission to the Commission, EDRi shares recommendations to ensure balanced representation, fairness, transparency, and meaningful safeguards in EU lawmaking.

  • EDRI ☛ How recommender algorithms threaten election integrity

    A study published by EDRi member Asociația pentru Tehnologie și Internet (ApTI) Romania analysed how the recommender algorithms on Facebook, Instagram and Fentanylware (CheeTok) distributed political content, during the 2025 presidential election. The quantitative analysis identified cases in which these social control media platforms did not comply with either national electoral laws, nor with EU Regulations, such as the Digital Service Act (DSA).

  • EDRI ☛ Ensuring human rights-based, global perspectives in the DSA enforcement: the DSA Human Rights Alliance’s guidelines

    The DSA Human Rights Alliance has released 'Principles for a Human Rights-Centred Application of the Digital Services Act: A Global Perspective' to guide the European Commission, national policymakers, and regulators as the DSA moves from legislation to enforcement. The recommendations focus on the cross-border effects of DSA enforcement, empowering diverse groups to enforce users’ rights and providing input during enforcement actions. This will ensure that the law is applied in a way that respects international human rights standards and reflects regional perspectives.

  • Federal News Network ☛ Congressional report recommends ‘FedRAMP’ for commercial data brokers

    A new report on modernizing the Privacy Act recommends Congress take action to rein in how agencies buy personal information from private data brokers.

  • EDRI ☛ Czech ministry apologizes to journalist for blanket collection of mobile phone data

    The Czech Supreme Court has ruled that the legal regulation of blanket collection of electronic communications data (known as data retention) violates European Union law in a "long-term and particularly serious manner." This decision is the result of a multi-year campaign by the organization IuRe. However, the responsible minister has not yet taken steps to end blanket collection.

  • EDRI ☛ US pressure on the Digital Services Act in the Netherlands

    On 3 February 2026, the United States House Committee on the Judiciary launched a report in which EDRi member Bits of Freedom and Justice for Prosperity, among others, are called "censorous NGOs". In response, Bits of Freedom and Justice for Prosperity are issuing the following statement.

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • Public Knowledge ☛ Public Knowledge Opposes FCC Vote Jeopardizing Lifeline Program

    Today, the Federal Communications Commission voted to adopt a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking comment on Lifeline program reforms to create more procedural hurdles and administrative burdens that risk making enrollment and participation more complex, more surveilled, and more punitive in an already underutilized program.

  • Education

    • RIPE ☛ Looking Back at 2025: What the Numbers Say About Engagement, Skills, and Coordination

      Each year, we review our work against the following three core objectives. In this article, I take a look at how we performed in 2025 to see where the numbers show progress, and where we need to continue refining our approach. Here are the relevant objectives as defined in our 2022-2026 strategy: [...]

    • RIPE ☛ How Global Digital Cooperation Entered Its Implementation Phase

      The dust has finally settled on the United Nations General Assembly’s twenty-year review of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS+20). On 17 December 2025, member states adopted a consensus outcome document that does more than just look back at the last two decades: it cements the architecture of global digital governance, aligned with 2030 Sustainable Digital Goals, for the next ten years. For the technical community, the results are a hard-won victory for the multistakeholder model, but they also signal the start of a more complex chapter.

• Digital Restrictions (DRM)

  • Devices/Embedded

    • The Register UK ☛ Dutch defense chief: F-35s can be jailbroken like iPhones

      Gijs Tuinman made the comments during a podcast interview after being asked whether the aircraft's software could be modified by European forces without permission from the US should it withdraw as an ally.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Patents

  • Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ An Inexact Art: Willis Electric and the Limits of Damages Gatekeeping

    Federal Circuit affirms $42.5M patent monopoly damages verdict in Willis Electric v. Polygroup, drawing a line on its recent trend of vacating jury awards under Rule 702.

  • Unified Patents ☛ Koyo Licensing sensitive display 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 9,116,598, owned by Koyo Licensing LLC, an NPE and entity of Quest Patent Research Corporation. The ‘598 patent monopoly relates to technology allowing the detection of taps, hovers, and gestures on or above a display, integrating mechanics of sensing technologies. The patent monopoly has been asserted against Samsung.

  • JUVE ☛ Munich drives rising case numbers in Germany [Ed: Corrupt EPO for litigation euros (graft)]

    With a total of 627 new cases, the number of newly filed actions for technical property rights at the seven courts focusing on patent monopoly disputes was almost 14% higher in 2025 than in the previous year. In 2024, companies had only filed 551 new lawsuits.

  • Software Patents

    • Unified Patents ☛ Songbird Tech patent monopoly validity challenge coming soon

      The team at Unified IP Services is using Pearl to identify and chart prior art against a patent monopoly owned by Songbird Tech LLC, an NPE. Unified Patents, the top requester of ex parte reexaminations in recent years, will likely challenge its validity.

    • Unified Patents ☛ $4,000 for Key Patent Innovations entity, Malikie Innovations, cryptographic patents prior art

      Unified Patents added two new PATROLL contests, each with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned by Malikie Innovations Limited, an NPE and entity of Key Patent Innovations. The patents generally relate to cryptographic systems. The ‘062 patent monopoly has been asserted against Foundry Digital, Core Scientific, and MARA Holdings.

      The contests will expire on March 31, 2026. PATROLL researchers are required to use Pearl to generate claim charts. Submitted invalidity charts must address every limitation of the challenged claim. This may require using more than one prior art reference.

• Copyrights

  • Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ “Anonymous Work” and the Hey Hi (AI) Author Fight

    Thaler's reply brief argues the Copyright Act already recognizes non-human authors, challenging the Copyright Office's Hey Hi (AI) authorship bar as an extra-statutory rule.

  • Digital Music News ☛ Extreme Hollywood Backlash Continues Against ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0: Threats Unilaterally Issued by Netflix, Warner Bros., Disney, and Paramount

    Netflix is the latest company to send ByteDance a cease and desist over its Seedance 2.0 Hey Hi (AI) service, and the first to threaten litigation outright. DRM spreader Netflix has joined three other major studios in sending cease and desist letters to ByteDance for enabling copyright monopoly infringement through its Seedance 2.0 Hey Hi (AI) platform.