Leftovers

• Matt Webb ☛ Speaking is quick, listening is slow (Interconnected)

  Thank goodness voice computing is finally happening. Now we can work on making it good.

• Aman Mittal ☛ Slash pages you need for your blog

  The pages outside /blog can matter just as much as your posts. Slash pages like /now, /about, and /uses show readers who you are beyond your writing.

• Science

  • Omicron Limited ☛ Bronze Age mines in Spain may explain origin of Scandinavian bronze

    The background to the survey lies in previous research within Maritime Encounters and several research/archaeology projects led by Professor Johan Ling at the University of Gothenburg. Through lead isotope and chemical analyses of Scandinavian Bronze Age artifacts, researchers have previously demonstrated that much of the metal likely originated in southwestern Spain.

  • Science Alert ☛ Trapping Anyons in a Single Dimension May Reveal New Types of Particle

    No way out.

  • Science Alert ☛ A Migraine Is Not Just a Headache: The 4 Distinct Stages Explained

    It starts with a warning.

• Career/Education

  • The Straits Times ☛ South Korea seeks to phase out school uniforms

    Concerns are growing over high school uniform expenses that can reach over S$526.90.

  • [Old] Ivan Turkovic ☛ The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers

    When I look back at the history of software, one pattern emerges with remarkable consistency: the promise to simplify software creation, to make it cheaper, and ultimately to eliminate the need for programmers altogether. This is not a new idea. It has been the driving ambition of our industry since the 1960s. And while each generation believes they are witnessing something unprecedented, they are actually participating in a cycle that has repeated itself for over six decades.

    Today, as large language models generate code and AI assistants pair-program with developers, we hear familiar refrains: programming as we know it is ending, software development will be democratized, and soon anyone will be able to build complex systems without writing a single line of code. These claims deserve scrutiny, not because they are entirely wrong, but because they echo promises made in 1959, in 1973, in 1985, and in 2015. Understanding this history is essential for anyone trying to make sense of where we actually are and where we might be going.

• Hardware

  • Ruben Schade ☛ BILLY bookshelves as a retro motherboard “rack”

    I discovered recently that IKEA’s BILLY bookshelf units are deep enough to hold my Baby AT and Micro ATX motherboard builds! Here’s a tiny view into one such shelf, showing the Melbourne i486 alongside my QDI 486: [...]

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2026-02-23 [Older] Women Suffer Heart Attacks Too. Understanding Risks, Symptoms and How to Save Yourself

  • Futurism ☛ Lab-Grown Brains Growing More Powerful

    "The capacity for adaptive computation is intrinsic to cortical tissue itself."

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ ‘Unofficial’ talks on plastic pollution treaty to begin in Japan

    Delegates from around 20 countries will hold three days of “informal” talks in Japan from Sunday aimed at salvaging efforts towards a landmark global treaty on plastic pollution. Supposedly final talks in South Korea in 2024 towards an agreement failed, and a renewed effort in Geneva last August likewise collapsed in overtime.

  • Science Alert ☛ Rare Genetic Disease Discovered in Ancient Skeletal Embrace From The Ice Age

    A heart-wrenching family tableau.

  • Science Alert ☛ Cutting Back on Sugary Drinks May Have Mental Health Benefits For Teens

    A healthy way to ease anxiety.

  • Science Alert ☛ Giant Study Reveals The Secret to Heart Health, And It's Not Low-Carb or Low-Fat

    There's another factor that may matter more.

• Proprietary

  • Wired ☛ Hacked Prayer App Sends ‘Surrender’ Messages to Iranians Amid Israeli and US Strikes

    Cybersecurity analysts confirmed that BadeSabah users had received notifications around the time of the strikes, but have not been able to identify the source of the hack. “At this point, we genuinely do not know who is behind them, whether it was Israel or other anti-government Iranian groups,” says Narges Keshavarznia, digital rights researcher at the Miaan Group, adding that no hacker group has claimed credit.

    “Attribution in cases like this is always complex, and it’s still too early to draw conclusions.”

  • Doc Searls ☛ Down and Running

    I hit a storage crisis yesterday when I needed to copy a lot of fresh photos to my laptop’s hard drive, and it was clear that I would soon run out of room there.

  • Baldur Bjarnason ☛ Objects not data: a photography and illustration print experiment

    How often have you lost access to something you loved because the only copy you had was behind a cloud or streaming subscription somewhere?

    You pay companies and people monthly subscriptions for years, but what are you left with when it’s all said and done?

    Nothing.

  • Wired ☛ Anthropic Hits Back After US Military Labels It a ‘Supply Chain Risk’

    Anthropic says it would be “legally unsound” for the Pentagon to blacklist its technology after talks over military use of its artificial intelligence models broke down.

  • Notebook Check ☛ Xbox console executive says she left team after refusing to wear bathrobe at GDC hotel

    Laura Fryer, who helped launch the first Xbox console, has recounted a disturbing encounter during the 2004 GDC. In a hotel room with another executive, she denied a request to wear a bathrobe. After pressured to leave her position, Phil Spencer invited her to join his publishing team at Microsoft.

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) / LLM Slop / Plagiarism

    • Los Angeles Times ☛ A new generation of delivery robots is coming to L.A., built bigger and stronger

      Dubbed Coco 2, the next-gen bots have upgraded cameras and front-facing lidar, a laser-based sensor used in self-driving cars. They will use hardware built by Nvidia, the Santa Clara-based artificial intelligence chip giant.

    • Jacobin Magazine ☛ Is AI Coming for Our Jobs?

      In this episode of the Jacobin Radio podcast Confronting Capitalism, Vivek Chibber and Melissa Naschek discuss the history of automation, the effects of technology on employment and wages, and why socialists should want to harness AI to create human flourishing.

      Confronting Capitalism with Vivek Chibber is produced by Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy and published by Jacobin. You can listen to the full episode here. This transcript has been edited for clarity.

    • The Register UK ☛ PCs, phones to get more boring, expensive in 2026

      IDC said that the worsening memory market has caused its outlook to deteriorate just since December. The analysts are penciling in a decline in the PC market of 11.3 percent in 2026 – about 26 percent worse than they had guessed in December – and a decline in the smartphone market of 12.9 percent, which is more than double the 5.2 percent drop they predicted as a worst-case scenario just two months back.

    • Simon Willison ☛ Interactive explanations - Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison's Weblog

      When we lose track of how code written by our agents works we take on cognitive debt.

      For a lot of things this doesn't matter: if the code fetches some data from a database and outputs it as JSON the implementation details are likely simple enough that we don't need to care. We can try out the new feature and make a very solid guess at how it works, then glance over the code to be sure.

    • Karl Bartel ☛ Can We Make Simpler Software With LLMs?

      As intended, the result is small and simple compared to similar projects: a 52KB HTML file, a 47KB Python file, a 62-line Makefile and no trace of the npm ecosystem. The really interesting part will be to see how maintainable this is over a longer time frame. But I'm optimistic that at least some of the approaches are genuinely good ideas (e.g. letting the LLM check against clig.dev and comparing with similar projects).

      I might have created something technically better if I wrote it by hand, but realistically, I just would not have written it at all. And when most people use LLMs to quickly generate vast amounts of code, it is nice to see that you can also use them to generate less in some cases.

    • John J Hoare ☛ Here’s the Thing: – Dirty Feed

      And if you don’t buy that, then how about this: altering your writing style based on all this is silly, because in three years – perhaps less – the language models will avoid those all these tics anyway, in favour of fresh ones. I’m not wasting my time chasing what the latest AI engines are up to. I’m too busy writing.

      No, I’m not going to stop using dashes either. Sod off.

    • Anil Dash ☛ A Cookie for Dario? — Anthropic and selling death

      A big tech headline this week is Anthropic (makers of Claude, widely regarded as one of the best LLM platforms) resisting Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s calls to modify their platform in order to enable it to support his commission of war crimes. As has become clear this week, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has declined to do so. The administration couches the request as an attempt to use the technology for “lawful purposes”, but given that they’ve also described their recent crimes as legal, this is obviously not a description that can be trusted.

    • Pivot to AI ☛ Copilot: insecure and unhelpful — but oh, those influencers!

      The Department for Work and Pensions ran their own Copilot trial. They only saved 19 minutes a day. Copilot is still in place across UK government.

      But this is enterprise software-as-a-service! Making the sale means winning hearts and minds!

    • BoingBoing ☛ Pope tells priests to stop using AI to write their sermons

      Forget stochastic parrots: how about periphrastic priests? Pope Leo XIV, in an address in Rome, warned Catholic clergy against using AI to pad out their sermons: "To give a true homily is to share faith," Leo said. "[machines] will never be able to share faith."

    • HTMX ☛ htmx ~ Yes, and...

      I explain that, if they don’t write the code, they will not be able to effectively read the code. The ability to read code is certainly going to be valuable, maybe more valuable, in an AI-based coding future.

    • Futurism ☛ Creator of Claude Code Fears This Could Be the Last Year That Software Engineers Are Employable

      "It's going to be painful for a lot of people."

    • Futurism ☛ Uber Employees Have Created an Hey Hi (AI) Clone of Its CEO

      We wonder if they can tell the difference.

• Entrapment (Microsoft GitHub)

  • Miguel Grinberg ☛ LLM Use in the Python Source Code

    There is a trick that is spreading through social media. If you block the claude user on GitHub, then each time you visit a GitHub repository that has commits by this user you get a banner at the top alerting you of the user's participation. It's an easy way to spot projects that have started to rely on coding agents, in this case on Claude Code specifically.

• Security

  • Security Week ☛ Canadian Tire Data Breach Impacts 38 Million Accounts

    Names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, and encrypted passwords were compromised in the attack.

  • Krebs On Security ☛ Who is the Kimwolf Botmaster “Dort”?

    In early January 2026, KrebsOnSecurity revealed how a security researcher disclosed a vulnerability that was used to assemble Kimwolf, the world's largest and most disruptive botnet. Since then, the person in control of Kimwolf -- who goes by the handle "Dort" -- has coordinated a barrage of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), doxing and email flooding attacks against the researcher and this author, and more recently caused a SWAT team to be sent to the researcher's home. This post examines what is knowable about Dort based on public information.

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • JURIST ☛ South Korea conditionally approves Google’s high-precision map data export

      South Korea’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) announced Friday that the government has conditionally approved a request by Surveillance Giant Google to export 1:5,000 scale high-precision digital map data overseas, resolving a policy dispute that has persisted since 2007, according to local media sources.

    • Los Angeles Times ☛ He saw an abandoned trailer. Then, he uncovered a surveillance network on California’s border

      Cordero, 44, has found dozens of these cameras hidden in trailers and construction barrels on border roads around San Diego and Imperial counties: one on Old Highway 80 near Jacumba Hot Springs; another outside the Golden Acorn Casino in Campo; another along Interstate 8 toward In-Ko-Pah Gorge.

      They started showing up after California granted permits to the Border Patrol and other federal agencies to place license plate readers on state highways in the last months of the Biden administration. Now as many as 40 are feeding information into Trump administration databases as the Democratic-led state chafes over the federal government’s massive deportation program.

    • California ☛ Bill Text - AB-1043 Age verification signals: software applications and online services.

      Existing law generally provides protections for minors on the internet, including the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act that, among other things, requires a business that provides an online service, product, or feature likely to be accessed by children to do certain things, including estimate the age of child users with a reasonable level of certainty appropriate to the risks that arise from the data management practices of the business or apply the privacy and data protections afforded to children to all consumers and prohibits an online service, product, or feature from, among other things, using dark patterns to lead or encourage children to provide personal information beyond what is reasonably expected to provide that online service, product, or feature or to forego privacy protections. This bill, beginning January 1, 2027, would require, among other things related to age verification with respect to software applications, an operating system provider, as defined, to provide an accessible interface at account setup that requires an account holder, as defined, to indicate the birth date, age, or both, of the user of that device for the purpose of providing a signal regarding the user’s age bracket to applications available in a covered application store and to provide a developer, as defined, who has requested a signal with respect to a particular user with a digital signal via a reasonably consistent real-time application programming interface regarding whether a user is in any of several age brackets, as prescribed. The bill would require a developer to request a signal with respect to a particular user from an operating system provider or a covered application store when the application is downloaded and launched.

• Defence/Aggression

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ Ramadan school activities spark secularism debate in Turkey

    The incident has reignited a longstanding debate: In Turkey, education policy has become a battleground over secularism, religion and the identity of the state. The latest flashpoint is a directive issued by the Ministry of National Education on February 12, which outlines Ramadan-themed activities for schools nationwide.

  • Pro Publica ☛ At Summit, Election Deniers Press for Trump to Take Over Midterms

    According to videos, photos and social media posts reviewed by ProPublica, the meeting’s participants included Kurt Olsen, a White House lawyer charged with reinvestigating the 2020 election, and Heather Honey, the Department of Homeland Security official in charge of election integrity. The event was convened by Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser, and attended by Cleta Mitchell, who directs the Election Integrity Network, a group that has spread false claims about election fraud and noncitizen voting.

  • The Record ☛ EU lawmakers propose that youth under 16 be barred from social media without parental consent

    European lawmakers on Thursday approved an opinion proposing that youth under 16 not be allowed to access social media platforms without parental consent.

  • Mike Brock ☛ On this Illegal War

    I protest it on behalf of the Constitution of the United States.

  • Vox ☛ American democracy: How to stop a would-be dictator like Trump

    That means the survival of democracy depends, to an extent not fully appreciated, on perceptions and narratives. In three recent countries where a democracy survived an incumbent government bent on destroying it — Brazil, South Korea, and Poland — the belief among elites, the public, and the opposition that democracy was at stake played a critical role in motivating pushback.

    For the United States to make it out of its own crisis, we need to take this lesson to heart: not marginalize discussion of Trump’s threat to democracy, but bring it to the fore.

  • Scheerpost ☛ 2026-02-23 [Older] Pentagon Can’t Even Figure Out How to Spend the Extra $500 Billion More Trumpfare

  • France24 ☛ Explosions heard in Kabul as Afghan forces open fire at Pakistani aircraft

    An explosion and bursts of gunfire were heard in central Kabul on Sunday as the Taliban government said Afghan forces were responding to a new incursion by Pakistani aircraft. The unrest follows months of cross-border clashes that intensified on Thursday after Afghanistan launched a frontier offensive, prompting Pakistani retaliatory strikes.

  • New York Times ☛ No Clear Endgame in the Conflict Between Afghanistan and Pakistan

    Pakistan’s airstrikes in Afghanistan showed its overwhelming superiority in conventional warfare, but the Taliban have refined a lethal repertoire of guerrilla tactics.

  • The Straits Times ☛ S. Korea’s Lee hopes to improve ties with Japan for ‘friendly new world’

    He also emphasised the importance of harmony in North-east Asia.

  • The Straits Times ☛ South Korea calls for resuming dialogue with North

    North Korean leader Kim Jong Un last week dashed hopes of a diplomatic thaw with Seoul.

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • New York Times ☛ In Ukraine, a Community of ‘Simple Believers’ Shuns the Modern World

      The Christians known as viruiuchi prostaky see electricity, cars, higher education and much else as distractions from what really matters.

    • Former Green presidential candidate attending Ukrainian community event at Dnipro Ukrainian Cultural Center on Saturday

      Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for President in 2020, will be participating in the “Believe in Ukraine 2026” commemorative event marking the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Saturday, February 28 at the Dnipro Ukrainian Cultural Center, 562 Genesee St, Buffalo, NY, 14204.

• Transparency/Investigative Reporting

  • Dark Reading ☛ The Case for Why Better Breach Transparency Matters

    Cybersecurity experts are calling for a major shift in how companies handle data breaches and security failures, arguing that greater transparency and specific detail disclosure about how and why they occur is essential if the industry hopes to effectively reduce cyber-risk.

    At the upcoming RSAC Conference, threat research experts Adam Shostack and Adrian Sanabria will make the case for greater incident transparency and the need for structured feedback loops in cybersecurity, in a session aptly titled "A Failure Is a Terrible Thing to Waste: The Case for Breach Transparency," scheduled for Monday, March 23.

• Environment

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ 'Unofficial' talks on plastic pollution treaty to begin in Japan

    A Japanese environment ministry official said that the “informal” closed-door meeting among “working-level officials” through Tuesday was not expected to result in any official announcement.

    “Japan is in a position of pushing for progress on the issue, and so is hosting the meeting,” the official told AFP without wishing to be named.

  • The Conversation ☛ 2026-02-17 [Older] Why coping with heavy rain in Scotland’s whisky country shows how to save water for the summer

  • Energy/Transportation

    • Tom's Hardware ☛ Two suspects arrested over theft of $1.5 million in Bitcoin stolen from police custody in outrageous blunder — Korean cops left virtual assets stored with a third party, who handed over recovery key to hacker

      The authorities found out about the theft of 22 BTC from the Gangnam Police Station during the investigation of another case of missing Bitcoin from government custody.

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • The Conversation ☛ 2026-02-19 [Older] Endangered marine life is being caught in fishing nets, but it doesn’t need to be

    • The Conversation ☛ 2026-02-20 [Older] Crocuses are blooming early – here’s what this means for nature

    • The Conversation ☛ 2026-02-23 [Older] DNA study uncovers continental origins of Britain’s bronze age population

    • The Conversation ☛ 2026-02-23 [Older] Molecules found in Martian rock hint at ancient life – new study

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • JURIST ☛ US Justice Department sues 5 additional states over voter roll production

    The US Department of Justice stated on Thursday that it has filed lawsuits against Utah, Oklahoma, Kentucky, West Virginia, and New Jersey for not providing voter registration records. The department has previously sued 24 states and the District of Columbia for allegedly refusing to cooperate with such record production.

  • France24 ☛ US hails progress on Haiti's anti-gang force, but elections face steep hurdles

    US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday that progress had been made in assembling an international anti-gang force for Haiti, raising hopes that improved security could allow long-delayed elections to go ahead this year. Yet with armed groups controlling much of the capital, the prospect of a credible vote remains uncertain.

  • The Guardian UK ☛ Yanis Varoufakis calls prosecution after admitting taking ecstasy 40 years ago ‘ridiculous’

    “My ridiculous prosecution must be seen within the wider, west-wide surge of an insidious new form of fascism,” he wrote on X, highlighting what he claimed was the appointment of “neo-fascists” to top posts in the centre-right Greek government.

  • Futurism ☛ Jack Dorsey Lays Off 4,000 Employees After Move to AI

    “So you over-hired, overbuilt, and now you’re celebrating efficiency while people lost jobs,” one poster replied under Dorsey’s post. “Must be nice to treat human beings like spreadsheet errors.”

    All in all, it’s probably cold comfort for the thousands of workers who’ll soon be out of the job. AI might not be replacing them, but it makes a trendy excuse for the likes of Dorsey.

  • The Register UK ☛ DEF CON hackers 'fed up with government,' Jake Braun says

    Braun was one of the creators of the first-ever Voting Machine Hacking Village at DEF CON in 2017 and served as a homeland security and cyber advisor to the Obama and Biden administrations. He also co-founded the Franklin project, named for Benjamin Franklin, who founded America's first volunteer fire department and published the annual Poor Richard's Almanack – an eclectic collection of useful facts and other musings.

    The Franklin project, which launched at DEF CON in 2024, enlists hackers to secure critical infrastructure, and 350 people signed up that year to donate their time and talent to securing water facilities.

  • Tim Bray ☛ Kansas and AI

    The predicted prosperity failed to happen. The state government’s revenue plunged and it had to dig deep into rainy-day reserves just to keep the doors open. There were brutal cuts to policing, road repair, and schools. Also a nasty feedback loop: As the state’s fiscal position worsened, its credit rating fell and interest rates rose, leading to yet more brutal austerity measures.

    Another result was that affluent Kansans made out like bandits; the cost of running the state was substantially transferred to the less financially fortunate.

  • The Independent Variable ☛ 🤖 OpenAI Reaches A.I. Agreement With Defense Dept. After Anthropic Clash

    From one liar to another—so you know it has to be true. They somehow have the same principles as Anthropic, but magically came to an agreement despite those principles being the only thing killing the Anthropic agreement. More likely, OpenAI has been chomping at the bit to get at that military industrial complex complex money so there’s actual some money coming in that they can point at for their investors to oooh and ahhh at and continue to pretend they are somehow worth over $700 million.

  • ZeroHedge ☛ OpenAI Secures Record $110 Billion Funding Round Backed By Amazon, Nvidia, & SoftBank

    Breaking down funding numbers by strategic investors: [...]

  • The PHP Foundation ☛ Welcoming Elizabeth Barron as the New Executive Director of The PHP Foundation — The PHP Foundation — Supporting, Advancing, and Developing the PHP Language

    As previously announced, founding Executive Director Roman Pronskiy is transitioning to focus on his growing role at JetBrains, while continuing to serve on the Board of Directors. Roman will work closely with Elizabeth to ensure a smooth handover.

  • Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

    • New York Times ☛ False and outdated videos circulated online after the Iran strikes.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • [Repeat] Bruce Schneier ☛ Why Tehran’s Two-Tiered Internet Is So Dangerous

    Iran is slowly emerging from the most severe communications blackout in its history and one of the longest in the world. Triggered as part of January’s government crackdown against citizen protests nationwide, the regime implemented an internet shutdown that transcends the standard definition of internet censorship. This was not merely blocking social media or foreign websites; it was a total communications shutdown.

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • BIA Net ☛ Two journalists detained over live stream of Turkey’s İncirlik Airbase amid Iran strikes

    Prosecutors have launched an investigation into the livestreams, which they say pose a danger to state security.

  • BIA Net ☛ Two journalists detained over live stream of Turkey’s İncirlik Airbase amid Iran strikes

    ANKA news agency is reportedly the among the targets of the investigation, as it broadcast a nearly 90-minute livestream titled "Operational activity at İncirlik Air Base," capturing movements at the strategic facility that hosts a significant US and NATO presence.

• Civil Rights / Policing / Accessibility

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ UN rights chief slams China’s failure to improve Uyghur rights

    The UN rights chief criticised China on Friday for not doing more to improve the rights situation in the Xinjiang region, four years after a damning report by his office demanded action.

  • Los Angeles Times ☛ Two convicted of stalking ICE agent during L.A. immigration protests

    The case stemmed from an incident when the three women — who have all been regularly involved in protests against the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration actions in Southern California — followed an unmarked government vehicle as it drove away from the downtown Los Angeles federal detention center on Aug. 28, 2025.

    Some supporters in the gallery said during the week that this case was a test of the limits of protest against the Trump administration. While following ICE and Border Patrol agents to enforcement sites has become a common protest tactic in L.A. and other cities, the case seemed to be the first instance of protesters confronting a federal agent at their home.

  • Licensing / Legal

    • Deccan Chronicle ☛ When Algorithms Decide Sentences and Fly Planes: The Growing Debate Over AI Liability

      That question becomes important when human instinct clashes with system recommendation. “In the initial stages, it has to be a joint process between the human and the AI.” Over time, if validation builds, pilots may be instructed to follow system guidance. Regulators would stand as gatekeepers, and liability would rest across authorities, airlines and manufacturers.

    • Lee Peterson ☛ Pebble’s warranty period is a problem

      What – 30 days!

      This should be a red flag, not to their confidence of the hardware reliability but to their plans for long term support. You spend over £200 and it breaks on day 31, your’e out of luck.

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • RFERL ☛ Iran Plunged Into Digital Darkness As Internet Blocked Amid US, Israeli Air Strikes

    Iran has been plunged into a "near-total" internet blackout as the United States and Israel carry out a massive, coordinated aerial bombing campaign across the country.

• Digital Restrictions (DRM)

  • GreyCoder ☛ Libro.Fm: An Audiobook Service Where Your Own The Audio Files (DRM-Free) - GreyCoder

    Libro.fm is a DRM‑free audiobook service that lets you actually own your audio files.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• CoryDoctorow ☛ Pluralistic: California can stop Larry Ellison from buying Warners

  From the start, it was clear that Warners would be sucked dry and discarded, but the Trump 2024 election turned the looting of Warners' corpse into a high-stakes political drama.

  On the one hand, you had Netflix, who wanted to buy Warners and use them to make good movies, but also to kill off movie theaters forever by blocking theatrical distribution of Warners' products.

• Patents

  • Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Five Petitions, Five Denials: The Federal Circuit’s Mandamus Wall Grows Higher

    Federal Circuit denies five more IPR mandamus petitions, rejecting settled expectations, assignor estoppel, and time-to-trial challenges.