Leftovers

• India Times ☛ AWS, Microsoft Azure may reroute West Asia data centre workload to India

  Latency reflects the impact of distance on processing speed.

• Rolling Stone ☛ Country Joe McDonald: 'Woodstock Changed Everything'

  In 2019, Country Joe McDonald called into the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast to discuss the 50th anniversary of his career-making performance at Woodstock. In what turned out to be his final interview with Rolling Stone, he discussed his memories of the festival and much more. In the wake of McDonald’s death at age 84, here’s that full conversation, published here for the first time. (To hear the interview, press play below.)

• Rolling Stone ☛ Country Joe McDonald, Country Joe and the Fish Singer, Dead at 84

  Country Joe McDonald, singer for the psychedelic-folk band Country Joe and the Fish and songwriter of the anti-Vietnam War anthem “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag,” died Saturday at the age of 84.

• Andrew Hutchings ☛ AI Didn’t Destroy Your Company, Your Processes Did

  Many years ago, one of my first bosses told me about how they picked an offsite tape backup vendor. They went to the company’s site, asked to see a list of customers and said “ok, can you find the tape for this customer from 2 weeks ago?”. Surprisingly, not many could actually do it. This led to a mantra I’ve been telling people I’ve trained ever since: “you do not have a backup until it has actually been restore tested”.

• Career/Education

  • The Cyber Show ☛ The New Digital Literacy

    Once upon a time winning arguments was considered important. It's why rich and powerful people sent their children to good schools to learn rhetoric and debate. The ability not only to understand the world but to formulate and present a good account, a good argument, or spot obvious bullshit, are all empowering life-skills.

    That world is disappearing. We call it "post truth" or the "epistemic crisis". Reasoned arguments are being displaced by emotional assaults, partly due to modern politics, plummeting education and now the effects of "AI" which undermine reasoning.

    It is devastating because few of us have a naturally high emotional intelligence. It takes a long time and lots of human interaction to build emotional intelligence, yet children experience ever less exposure to reality.

  • Chris Aldrich ☛ Book Club: Yuval Noah Harari’s Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

    Coming up for the next few weeks, the Dan Allosso Book Club will focus on Harari, Yuval Noah. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI. New York: Random House, 2024.

• Hardware

  • Desktop/Laptop

    • Make Use Of ☛ 2026-03-02 [Older] I thought I needed a new laptop until I tried ChromeOS

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • The Conversation ☛ 2026-02-26 [Older] What the constant sound of modern life is doing to our minds

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-26 [Older] Young Europeans still drawn to tobacco — WHO report

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-26 [Older] New HIV drug may end multi-pill regimen for older people

  • CBC ☛ 2026-02-25 [Older] Relocated bison herd aims to bring food security to Métis in northern Alberta

• Proprietary

  • Jeffrey Paul ☛ 2026-02-28 [Older] Apple OSes Are Insecure By Design To Aid Surveillance

  • Make Tech Easier ☛ 2026-02-26 [Older] Why You Shouldn’t Trust Microsoft Edge’s VPN

  • Lee Peterson ☛ iOS 26 continues to leave accessibility behind (reduce transparency is broken)

    I forget how many times I’ve written about display settings on iOS and how turning on accessibility settings breaks the interface.

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) / LLM Slop / Plagiarism

    • Futurism ☛ Using AI to Do Your Taxes Is Likely to Backfire Spectacularly

      That, you might argue, defeats the point of using an automated tool in the first place. Your average joe uses overpriced tax software precisely because they don’t know the nitty gritty of the process. Software like TurboTax or TaxAct “is procedural, following ‘if-then’ logic built for mathematical precision,” Erik Brynjolfsson, a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, explained to the NYT — whereas large language models are prediction engines that “can be superhuman at many tasks yet fail at some that seem simpler to humans.”

    • Futurism ☛ OpenAI's Pivot Into Shopping Has Been a Disaster

      According to new reporting from The Information, the company is walking back its plan to allow users to buy products suggested by ChatGPT directly inside the chatbot. Now, the company will route users to a connected third-party app, where they can input payment information and finalize the purchase.

    • Futurism ☛ A Machine Learning Engineer Thought He Was Safe From AI Layoffs. Then He Got Some Depressing News

      Regardless of Dorsey’s real intentions, his latest decision to sack half of his company hit workers hard. That’s despite early warning signs, as one former Block machine learning engineer told Business Insider, that their tasks were slowly but surely being made redundant by the tech.

    • Vegard ☛ AI@home: Classifying images with Ollama – part six: More about locations – and even more prompt improvements – Vegards Blog

      In part five, I started on injecting info about the place the picture was taken into my classifier. I did this by taking the embedded GPS coordinates from an image and translate this to something more meaningful.

      I had two ways to translate this: [...]

    • Sean Conner ☛ A rather disorganized rant about LLMs

      I honestly don't know where to begin with this. I've been quiet for the past month (and that one post for February was posted earlier today) mainly because I just couldn't be bothered to post due to a general feeling of blahness. Early in the month, I received an email from Mark with a link to the article “AI Is Garbage and a Bubble (Please Learn This),” thinking it would be good material to blog about. It is, to me, but that's because I already feel this way about LLMs and is thus reinforcing my bubble. Unfortunately, I didn't have much to say about this other than “me too!”

    • Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti ☛ Skills are docs, and docs need tech writers

      Complaining about bad skills won’t make them go away, though, because the instinct behind them isn’t wrong; it’s the lack of writing expertise and editorial oversight that makes them dangerous. You solve this by claiming ownership.

    • Krebs On Security ☛ How AI Assistants are Moving the Security Goalposts

      “Nothing humbles you like telling your OpenClaw ‘confirm before acting’ and watching it speedrun deleting your inbox,” Yue said. “I couldn’t stop it from my phone. I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb.”

  • Social Control Media

    • Neritam ☛ Paying Attention: The Attention Economy

      Economics is the study of how scarce resources are allocated; whether that is housing, food, or money. However, in an era of endless amounts of information at the hands of our fingertips, what is the scarcity? Unlike the first three examples that can be empirically quantified and measured, our intangible yet extremely valuable attention is the limiting factor: we are in the age of the attention economy.

    • Nate ☛ A Technical Comparison of Distributed Social Media Protocols v3

      Hello, I’m back for round three of my social media protocol comparisons. I wrote v2 because of some mistakes on my part, although it’s been two years since writing it, and it’s become a bit out of date. It’s also a bit long, with a bunch of explainers and clutter right at the start of it, so for this round, I figured I’d get things up to date while shortening the text (or at least moving ramblings to footnotes) and move a lot of the explainers to the end.

    • Kyle Ford ☛ Bye, Doom!

      As I hear more and more people in my life share that they want to fully ditch social media, I’m obviously delighted.

      That said, I (shockingly) have some thoughts…

      First, for those going cold turkey and cutting it entirely out of their lives, just remember that “social media” is in no way the same as the wild, still-amazing overall Internet. Staying connected and informed remains more important than ever. Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.

• Security

  • Bloomberg ☛ 2026-03-02 [Older] Shutdown Stalls Compliance Plans for Cyber Breach Reporting Rule

  • 2026-03-02 [Older] Wisconsin k-12 district hit by weeklong outage

  • CISA

    • Covington & Burling LLP ☛ 2026-03-02 [Older] CISA Releases New Guidance on Assembling Multi-Disciplinary Insider Threat Management Teams

    • CISA ☛ 2026-02-26 [Older] Johnson Controls, Inc. Frick Controls Quantum HD

    • CISA ☛ 2026-02-26 [Older] Pelco, Inc. Sarix Pro 3 Series IP Cameras

    • CISA ☛ 2026-02-26 [Older] CloudCharge cloudcharge.se

    • CISA ☛ 2026-02-26 [Older] EV2GO ev2go.io

    • CISA ☛ 2026-02-26 [Older] Chargemap chargemap.com

    • CISA ☛ 2026-02-26 [Older] SWITCH EV swtchenergy.com

    • CISA ☛ 2026-02-26 [Older] EV Energy ev.energy

    • CISA ☛ 2026-02-26 [Older] Mobility46 mobility46.se

    • CISA ☛ 2026-02-26 [Older] Yokogawa CENTUM VP R6, R7

    • CISA ☛ 2026-02-26 [Older] Copeland XWEB and XWEB Pro

    • CISA ☛ 2026-02-25 [Older] CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

    • CISA ☛ 2026-02-25 [Older] CISA and Partners Release Guidance for Ongoing Global Exploitation of Cisco SD-WAN Systems

    • CISA ☛ 2026-02-24 [Older] CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

    • CISA ☛ 2026-02-24 [Older] InSAT MasterSCADA BUK-TS

    • CISA ☛ 2026-02-24 [Older] Schneider Electric EcoStruxure Building Operation Workstation

    • CISA ☛ 2026-02-24 [Older] Gardyn Home Kit

  • Integrity/Availability/Authenticity

    • Europol ☛ 2026-03-02 [Older] Project Compass: first operational results against The Com network

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • Covington & Burling LLP ☛ 2026-02-27 [Older] UK Court of Appeal Rules on the Concept of Personal Data in the Context of Data Security

    • TechCrunch ☛ 2026-03-02 [Older] Hacktivists claim to have hacked Homeland Security to release ICE contract data

    • India Times ☛ VPNs up, porn websites down as Australia brings in new online age-restrictions

      After becoming the first country to impose a nationwide ban on teenagers using social media last December, Australia joined Britain, France and dozens of U.S. states requiring websites which disseminate pornography to ‌verify users are ⁠over 18. ⁠App stores must also run age checks before allowing downloads of software labelled 18+.

    • Jacobin Magazine ☛ Is Palantir Under Contract to Surveil the Federal Workforce?

      Implementation of the White House’s return-to-office directive will be aided by the tech firm Palantir. It remains unclear why a spy-tech company should be tasked with things like “employee seat assignments.”

    • Nicolas Fränkel ☛ Pi-hole behind Tailscale

      Privacy, or more specifically digital privacy, is the ability to protect oneself from the constant data collection by legitimate companies and malicious actors alike when online. Given that going online represents the bulk nowadays, if not the entirety, of one’s activity on a digital system, it’s a constant battle. Moreover, some places are more or less inclined to protect their people’s privacy. I’m quite safe in the European Union, and my Californian friends enjoy a similar level of privacy by law.

    • Matthew Weber ☛ Discord Makes Me Sad

      And then Discord decided they needed to verify ages. I get that it wasn’t really their choice (even if they’re implementing it in places where those laws don’t reach), but it drove a lot of people off of the platfrom. Other niches probably didn’t notice as much a drop off, but Linux and FOSS enthusiasts are probably the type to care about this sort of thing.

      Since the announcement, I’ve noticed a lot less activity on my server. Some of them have moved to Matrix (which I’ve now bridged with Discord), but others are just staying away completely.

    • Louie Mantia ☛ Higher Prices for Foreign Tourists in Japan

      The only way these places could raise prices only for foreign tourists is if they become comfortable with selectively asking for IDs. And I think everyone would rather avoid even the mildest confrontation.

• Defence/Aggression

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-26 [Older] France pushes back against MAGA political meddling

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-24 [Older] China targets Japanese companies over 'remilitarization' concerns

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-25 [Older] Germany news: Bundestag passes major drone deal

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-25 [Older] Australia PM bomb threat linked to Chinese dance show

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-26 [Older] Sudan: Is Chad becoming more involved in conflict?

  • Marisa Kabas ☛ Why now is the time to be loudly anti-war

    Much like it’s taken some journalists years to admit that Donald Trump is indeed a fascist, so will others wait until we’re weeks, months or years into a war with Iran—or whichever countries he decides to target next—to say this needs to end. What would happen if, instead of waiting to see how this all plays out, we just say no, here and now. No waiting for the administration to get their story straight, no entertaining a million different justifications for why it’s actually worth all this death and destruction and money (Jesus Christ, the money!) What if those of us with a conscience and a modicum of influence just said no to war, regardless of oil prices, and before there are boots on the ground?

  • JURIST ☛ Indonesia bans social media for children under 16

    Indonesia announced on Friday a new policy banning social media and online platforms for children under the age of 16, aiming to protect youth from online abuse. Under the new regulation, existing accounts belonging to users under 16 will be deactivated starting March 28.

  • Spectator AU ☛ ‘Yes’ to ISIS brides, ‘no’ to the Iranian women’s football team...

    If only the Iranian women’s football team were ISIS brides, our government would have pulled out all stops to help them.

    But rather than help to establish a violent caliphate, the Iranian girls used their tour of Australia to quietly defy an Islamic regime.

  • The Zambian Observer ☛ Saudi Arabia Signs $5 Billion Deal with China for Local Drone Production

    Saudi Arabia has entered a major $5 billion agreement with China’s Aviation Industry Corporation (AVIC) to establish an assembly line for the Wing Loong-3 unmanned aerial vehicle in Jeddah.

• Transparency/Investigative Reporting

  • Terence Eden ☛ What’s the source of Einstein’s “citizen of the world” quip?

    I like digging through old archives and tracing my way through quotes. Here's a particularly good one from Albert Einstein which is often peppered around the Internet without any sources.

• Environment

  • Copenhagen Post ☛ 2026-02-26 [Older] Climate council: Denmark unlikely to meet 2030 emissions target

  • Scheerpost ☛ 2026-02-26 [Older] Militarism, Climate Chaos, and the New Fascism: A Conversation with Abby Martin

  • CPJ ☛ 2026-02-25 [Older] CPJ, rights groups urge Pakistan PM to address worsening press freedom climate

  • Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2026-02-25 [Older] Kathy Hochul Is Failing on Climate

  • Paste Media Group ☛ 2026-02-25 [Older] Major Candy Brands Are Switching From Actual Chocolate to ‘Chocolately Candy’ (Read: Brown Candle Wax)

  • Truthdig ☛ 2026-02-25 [Older] Supreme Court Will Hear Exxon’s Effort to Quash Climate Lawsuits

  • TruthOut ☛ 2026-02-24 [Older] Climate Crisis Will Intensify Strong Winter Storms, Climate Scientist Warns

  • Scheerpost ☛ 2026-02-23 [Older] Health and Climate Consequences of EPA’s Endangerment Finding Repeal ‘Cannot Be Overstated’

  • Michigan Advance ☛ Temporarily banning data centers draws more interest from state, local officials

    Lawmakers in at least 11 states — Georgia, Maryland, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont, Virginia and Wisconsin — have introduced legislation this session that would temporarily ban data centers, according to Good Jobs First, a watchdog group that focuses on economic development incentives.

  • Energy/Transportation

    • Gizmodo ☛ 2026-03-01 [Older] South Korean Police Lose Seized Crypto By Posting Password Online

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-26 [Older] Europe bags savings as America chases fossil‑fuel nostalgia

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-25 [Older] US states begin plugging into balcony solar

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-24 [Older] India: Seven killed in air ambulance plane crash

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-28 [Older] Bolivia: 15 killed in cargo plane crash near La Paz

    • Mississippi Journalism and Education Group ☛ Southaven Residents Fight xAI’s Plan for 41 Gas Turbines

      Directly in front of her property along the Mississippi-Tennessee border sits a tangle of massive power lines, an extension of the electrical grid operated by Memphis Light, Gas and Water.

      At the end of her street, a few hundred yards away from her bedroom, sprawls Colossus 2, the second data center built by Elon Musk’s company xAI to power his controversial AI chatbot, Grok. And less than two miles across the state line in Southaven, Mississippi, is an xAI-owned energy plant with over two-dozen towering gas turbines.

    • BIA Net ☛ 2026-03-02 [Older] Global energy geopolitics in the grip of Hormuz and Turkey

    • Copenhagen Post ☛ 2026-03-02 [Older] Energy Minister: LA nuclear proposal harms German ties

    • NL Times ☛ 2026-03-02 [Older] ING: Prolonged U.S.-Iran conflict could trigger major energy shock in eurozone

    • NL Times ☛ 2026-02-26 [Older] Household energy bills fall 2.5 percent to around €1,993 in 2026

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-26 [Older] The real economic impact of clean energy

    • HRW ☛ 2026-02-26 [Older] US ‘Energy Dominance Agenda’ Drives Indonesia Trade Deal

    • The Local SE ☛ 2026-02-26 [Older] 'Serious threat' to Nordic energy infrastructure reported in Sweden

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-25 [Older] Hungary's Orban accuses Kyiv of plotting energy disruption

    • Counter Punch ☛ 2026-02-24 [Older] The Innate and Inseparable Ties Between Nuclear Weapons and Energy

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2026-02-24 [Older] Putin Tells FSB to Better Protect Energy Sector, Warns Foes Against Pushing Moscow Too Far

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-23 [Older] China cashes in on clean energy as Cheeto Mussolini clings to coal

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-25 [Older] Is sustainable travel possible in times of mass tourism?

    • The Conversation ☛ 2026-02-26 [Older] The wonders of daisies: the buffet we walk on

    • The Conversation ☛ 2026-02-26 [Older] What makes a city beautiful? Here’s what ratings of thousands of urban landscapes reveal

    • The Conversation ☛ 2026-02-27 [Older] Thousands of dead puffins are washing up on Europe’s beaches – why it’s been such a dangerous winter for seabirds

    • The Conversation ☛ 2026-02-27 [Older] Freeing poached wildlife ‘safely’ is a dangerous myth – new study

  • Overpopulation

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-28 [Older] Germany is aging and shrinking much faster than expected

• Finance

  • The Age AU ☛ 2026-03-03 [Older] I can smell another financial crash coming, says former Goldman Sachs chief

  • Copenhagen Post ☛ 2026-02-26 [Older] In Denmark, just under one-third banks and payment companies have a strong overall reputation

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-27 [Older] Germany news: Strikes hit public transport across country

  • America Online ☛ Concerns raised 'months before' law firm collapsed

    The owners of a conveyancing firm caught up in the collapse of PM Law Ltd has alleged the group repeatedly failed to pay off client mortgages on time, blaming the delays on "bank errors" when questioned.

    Sheffield-based PM Law closed on 2 February, leaving hundreds of employees out of work and many clients stranded mid-transaction.

    Among the firms trading under the group umbrella was Angela Viney Conveyancing Services, whose owners say clients began reporting issues with mortgage redemption payments in September.

    The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) previously said it was investigating potential fraud at PM Law, including the misappropriation of client money. PM Law has not commented.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-27 [Older] UK Labour loses normally safe seat in blow to PM Starmer

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-26 [Older] Almost 8,000 migrants died or vanished on routes in 2025: UN

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-26 [Older] Bangladesh sees historic low of women in parliament

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-27 [Older] Is Afghanistan-Pakistan conflict the 'new normal?'

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-27 [Older] Afghan Taliban attacks met with Pakistani strikes on Kabul

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-28 [Older] Pakistan says hundreds of Afghan Taliban fighters killed

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-28 [Older] Pakistan says at 'open war' with Afghanistan after strikes

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-24 [Older] Security fears linger as Kenya set to open Somalia border

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-28 [Older] Iceland mulls joining the EU amid strained US relations

  • Counter Punch ☛ 2026-02-24 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini’s National Security Team: Dangerous and Dysfunctional

  • Futurism ☛ Jack Dorsey Defends Wearing "Love" Hat While Firing 4,000 Employees in Pivot to AI

    Was the “LOVE” hat was tone-deaf? That may seem a silly consideration compared to the broader concern of Dorsey eliminating around 40 percent of his company’s workforce, especially given his explanation that AI motivated the cuts.

  • Nick Heer ☛ The Central Lie of Prediction Markets

    This is just a way to gamble on current events, which is tragic and pathetic. We do not need to pretend these sites are anything more substantial than that.

  • James Randall ☛ Jensen Huang Is Training His Own Replacement

    I think this narrative is wrong, not because NVIDIA isn’t dominant today, it obviously is, but because the very things driving that dominance are simultaneously building the machinery of its decline. The key diversification that made NVIDIA what it is today is being undone, and what’s left is a company eating its own tail — and not just with circular financing: it’s a silicon ouroboros.

  • Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-26 [Older] Fact check: How to cut through Epstein files disinformation

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-24 [Older] German union urges Turkish envoy summons after DW reporter arrested

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-02-25 [Older] Journalist deaths reach new high in 2025 — CPJ

  • JURIST ☛ Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai will not appeal national security conviction

    “We can confirm we have clear and definitive instructions not to lodge an appeal against the conviction or sentence,” one of Lai’s lawyers told the HKFP. The lawyer declined to elaborate on the reason.

  • Hamilton Nolan ☛ Patrons of Journalism

    Advertising has always had an uneasy relationship with journalism. The uneasiness rises along with the rebelliousness of the journalists’ own self-image. Staid news operations can run all sorts of ads, secure in the sobriety of their own content; the alt-weeklies and underground papers and left wing rags and Playboy In Its Golden Age of Articles that fostered the freest writing and thinking attracted the ads for escort services and rock concerts and bong stores, businesses that would not be bothered if their ad ended up to a “fuck the police” essay.

    For anyone reading this, most of the journalism that you have consumed for your entire lifetime has been primarily supported by advertising money. The industry settled on the self-regulated idea of a “Chinese wall” between the business side and the editorial side of publications, a separation that can be enforced zealously or can degenerate into a polite fiction, depending on the scrupulousness of the editorial side itself. The journalists most attached to their own anti-establishmentism can bristle even at this reality. At Gawker, I recall an incident where we took a screenshot of an ad on our own site, and then published a post mocking it. This led to a panicked meeting with the ad department at which a new rule was created that said we shouldn’t, you know, do that. We were making enough money at the time to laugh about it.

• Civil Rights / Policing / Accessibility

  • The Age AU ☛ 2026-02-27 [Older] Weaponised incompetence is rife at work. Here’s how to shut it down

  • Counter Punch ☛ 2026-02-27 [Older] How To Build A Monster: The Man-Child Goblins Who Never Heard “No”

  • Off Guardian ☛ 2026-02-28 [Older] WATCH: How To Stand Your Ground – #SolutionsWatch

  • International Business Times ☛ 2026-02-24 [Older] YouTuber Accused of Stabbing Pregnant Girlfriend Offers 'GTA Livestream' as Murder Alibi

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2026-02-25 [Older] Woman Suing Meta, YouTube Over Social Media Addiction Takes the Stand at Trial

  • RFERL ☛ Then And Now: Life For Afghan Women Since The 2021 Taliban Takeover

    For many Afghan women, especially those in conservative rural areas of the country, little has changed since the Taliban seized power in the country. For others, life under hard-line Islamist rule today looks vastly different from the two decades the country spent under US and NATO intervention.

  • El País ☛ 1. Afghanistan: Forbidden women

    Tamanna lives in Afghanistan, the only country in the world where half of the population — women — are forbidden from almost everything: they cannot work, study, or take part in public life. Her life was upended when one of the very few job opportunities available to her — working for an NGO — disappeared due to funding cuts

  • Court House News ☛ International Women's Day is a celebration and a call to action. Here are things to know

    Officially recognized by the United Nations in 1977, International Women’s Day is commemorated in different ways and to varying degrees in places around the world. Protests are often political — and at times violent — rooted in women’s efforts to improve their rights as workers.

  • TruthOut ☛ These Women Exposed Prison Sexual Abuse. Now ICE Wants to Deport Them.

    Under the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act, survivors of sexual abuse and other gender-based violence are eligible for a U visa, which provides temporary immigration status and the possibility of permanent residence. For years, ICE policy had been to exercise discretion in deciding whether to detain or start removal proceedings against people with pending visas for victims of gender violence or who had family members in active military service. But the second Trump administration reversed those protections, leaving Cristal, along with countless others with pending visa applications, to face detention and deportation.

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • Sal ☛ The monthly bill I enjoy getting

    After all the shenanigans trying to get any sort of transparent pricing out of Xfinity, receiving a clean, $50 invoice — exactly $50 with no extra fees or bullshit — makes me happy. (At least slightly.) And this is for symmetrical gigabit Internet, no less. I was ready to pay Xfinity a lot more for less than half that speed.

• Digital Restrictions (DRM)

  • Anil Dash ☛ The Neo solves Apple’s embarrassment

    Apple has, in fact, sold a MacBook Air with an M1 chip at Walmart for years, which it has intermittently discounted to $499 at key times like Black Friday and Cyber Monday. The single-core performance of that laptop (meaning, how it works for most normal tasks that people do, like browsing the web or writing email or watching YouTube videos), is very nearly equivalent to the newly-released MacBook Neo.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Patents

  • IP Kat ☛ 2026-03-02 [Older] Otsuka seeks to appeal decision to deny PTEs for formulation patents in Australia

  • 2026-03-02 [Older] Why AI Will Not Take Over the World

  • 2026-02-26 [Older] CNIPA Issues Letter on Identity of Foreign Inventors

  • 2026-02-26 [Older] BioNTech Sues Moderna over mRNA Vaccine Technology

  • 2026-02-24 [Older] REGENEXBIO Inc. v. Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2026)