Leftovers

• Eric Bailey ☛ A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it

  The bold first sentence is revisited now that the reader has completed learning about the concept being discussed. A subsequent sentence explicitly ties the nuance the rest of the content discusses to the overall point.

• Spectator AU ☛ Is it any wonder people don’t send letters?

  This week we see the price of a second-class stamp go up 4p to 91p and first-class stamps increase by 10p to £1.80. I am the twit who was looking elsewhere when this was announced, and so didn’t do the obvious thing and buy a couple of books of stamps in advance. So now, like everyone else, I shall have to think hard before splurging on a first class stamp – which has more than doubled in price in the past six years, and has increased by 137 per cent through eight separate rises. Second-class stamps have gone up six times. Meanwhile, a lucky 77 per cent of customers actually get the next day delivery they paid for, something Kretinsky was a little coy about when he appeared before Liam Byrne’s Select Committee last week.

• Sergio Visinoni ☛ Handling unreasonable expectations

  Comparing an established company with hundreds of employees and a newborn greenfield startup with a handful of people can be extremely misleading. Especially if, like in this case, you wish to attribute the difference in results to a single cause, such as a perceived sub-optimal adoption of AI tools.

• Mark Hysted ☛ things I might dump in 2026 - april update

  In late 2025 I put together a list of things I would dump in 2026. Three months of the year are done, so how have I been getting on? A mixed bag: [...]

• Mario Zechner ☛ I've sold out

  OSS weekends and vacations will continue to be a thing until we've figured out a different type of bottleneck that helps us deal with the influx of agent-generated slop. Once we've onboarded some trustworthy individuals as contributors, they may get less frequent. At the moment I still don't trust anyone, as everyone is just slinging their clanker without a lot of thought.

• Kenneth Reitz ☛ Sixty Thousand Images and Nowhere to Put Them

  Photography taught me that constraints foster creativity — an insight that became the foundation of my software design philosophy. It taught me that the best tool is the one you have with you, that composition matters more than resolution, that the decisive moment is the one you experience yourself rather than the one stolen from your eye by a mirror. These lessons live in everything I build.

• Dave Johnston ☛ Blackholing My Email

  24 years later, and my dad’s BT Internet account is still around. Out of curiosity, I tried to log in and see if I could find the current state of dv@btinternet.com - but that functionality was removed some years ago, and it’s not possible to create new inboxes anymore. I tried sending an email to it - and got a regular “User unknown” reply back, indicating that at some point the blackhole was removed, and the account simply became non-existent.

  I’d be curious to know if it is still receiving any email worms all these years later.

• Licensing / Legal

  • FSF ☛ Relicensing versus license compatibility

    Relicensing and license compatibility are two important aspects of how licensing works in the free software community. This article explains both concepts, what they have in common, and how they differ.

• Science

  • New York Times ☛ NASA Flew by the Moon, but Behind the Scenes, Its Science Is a Chaotic Mess

    Without science, the stunning images of Earth from space are only pretty pictures.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ China intensifies efforts to poach semiconductor talent from Taiwan, claims report — international restrictions motivate illicit efforts to obtain talent and equipment

    Taiwan's National Security Bureau claims that China is intensifying efforts to steal semiconductor process technologies and other chip-related know-how from Taiwan as international restrictions get more severe.

  • International Business Times ☛ NASA Deaths: Is There A Conspiracy Targeting Scientists With UFO Secrets?

    A growing cluster of unexplained NASA deaths and disappearances in the United States has revived claims of a shadowy campaign against scientists with access to UFO secrets and advanced missile technology, after a ninth expert, research scientist Michael David Hicks, was confirmed dead in California in July 2023, aged 59.

  • Futurism ☛ We're In Utter Disbelief About the Photos the Moon Astronauts Just Sent Back

    The Orion capsule’s exterior camera, which is attached to the spacecraft’s solar array wings, snapped an equally impressive shot of the total solar eclipse, as seen in this eerie photo.

  • Science Alert ☛ Two Supermassive Black Holes May Be on The Very Brink of Collision

    They could collide in your lifetime.

  • Science Alert ☛ New Simulations Reveal How Earth's Strongest Ocean Current Got Started

    With strong implications for the future.

  • Science Alert ☛ Scientists Think Our Eyes Began as a Single Eye on Top of The Head

    The eyes have it.

  • Science Alert ☛ Alzheimer's Risk Gene Alters Brain Activity Early – But It May Be Reversible

    APOE4, we meet again.

  • Science Alert ☛ This Simple Viral Trick May Make Push-Ups More Comfortable For Women

    Just a basic position change.

  • Science Alert ☛ Alien Megastructures May Be Physically Feasible, a New Study Suggests

    We might even be able to detect them.

  • Science Alert ☛ Scientists Discovered a 'Yellow Brick Road' at The Bottom of The Ocean

    Where does it lead?

  • Science Alert ☛ One Type of Dream Could Make Your Sleep Feel More Restful, Study Finds

    Dreams may be sleep protectors.

• Career/Education

  • Jacobin Magazine ☛ Movements Need the Critical Thinking That AI Destroys

    Millions of people are now asking chatbots to summarize books, draft emails, and even explain political events to them. But what looks from one perspective like a productivity revolution may also be something more discomfiting: the quiet outsourcing of judgment itself.

    Writers on artificial intelligence have long claimed that it poses an existential risk because, for example, it may become so powerful that it turns against human beings. But AI may create a different kind of existential risk, as philosopher Nir Eisikovits notes — not in the apocalyptic sense often imagined but in relation to the question of what it means to be human. One of the most underestimated dangers of these systems lies in the growing tendency for users to delegate the task of forming judgments to the algorithmic outputs of chatbots, thereby risking the gradual erosion of our capacity for independent thought.

  • Robert Birming ☛ It is what it isn't

    The reality is that we usually have the power to change our lives. We just have to stop pretending that we don't.

  • Ness Labs ☛ The Illusion of Clarity: How to Test Whether you Really Understand Something

    So I decided to run an experiment: I would write 100 short articles in 100 weekdays based on my studies, trying to turn a concept from neuroscience into something practical people could apply in everyday life.

    But something unexpected happened. Every time I sat down and needed to actually explain a concept – really explain it, step by step, in plain language – I’d hit a wall. What I thought was knowledge didn’t survive the simple test of having to put it into my own words.

    This exercise forced me to confront what I’ve come to call the illusion of clarity: the confident feeling that you understand something, when in reality your grasp is full of gaps you’ve never noticed.

  • Anil Dash ☛ Actually, people love to work hard

    As has often been documented, the hoary chestnut of saying “nobody wants to work anymore” dates back decades, if not centuries, and it’s never been true in all those years of deletion. It is, firstly, a tactic that bosses use for negging workers in a vain attempt to try to drive down wages (and to successfully get media to blame people for their own underemployment), but it also serves as an effective demonstration of just how little society understand about what actually motivates people.

  • Anil Dash ☛ When the crisis comes

    The topic of crisis has been on my mind again as I’ve been looking at the work of some friends who are the most fluent experts on the topic of crisis that I know, prompted by the release of Marina Nitze, Mikey Dickerson and Matthew Weaver's new book, Crisis Engineering.

  • Brad Frost ☛ An update on life and work

    I’ve gone a lot of hard and scary experiences that’s made me deeply value stability. After enduring varied traumas, I really turned on the afterburners to make up for being ripped away from my own life and to rebuild a sense of forward momentum. That translated into a real drive to earn money to feed my family, which I’m sure is an instinct that we all share.

    I’ve been head down grinding for over 13 years, and I’ve been able to reflect and came to a realization.

  • Alexandra Wolfe ☛ Q&A with Steph Broadribb

    The first question has to be, how did a girl from Birmingham (in the UK) end up training as a bounty hunter, in the US?

  • The Guardian UK ☛ ‘I see it as trafficking’: the brutal reality of life as a foreign student in the UK

    Universities in Britain rely on overseas applicants paying full fees, which has given rise to some unscrupulous recruiters and left many hopefuls and their families deep in debt

• Hardware

  • PC World ☛ I upgraded to OLED and now every other monitor feels broken

    But during last Black Friday I finally pulled the trigger. I got in at a price that worked for me, and now I work and game on a 32-inch, QD-OLED, 4K, 240Hz monitor that is every bit as good as I hoped, and more. It’s not perfect, but I do wish I’d bought it sooner.

  • Hackaday ☛ Dodging A 60-Year-Old Design Flaw In Your RAM

    Modern computers use dynamic RAM, a technology that allows very compact bits in return for having to refresh for about 400 nanoseconds every 3-4 microseconds. But what if you couldn’t afford even such a tiny holdup? [LaurieWired] goes into excruciating detail about how to avoid this delay.

  • Austin White ☛ My First Apple Computer

    Many people have been writing about the first 50 years of Apple and their first experiences with the computers. My first computer technically was a Commodore 64 and I would use it to type in some programs from a computer magazine and run them. But I did not feel like I was learning how to use the computer even though I was. There was nothing wrong with it but it did not click for me.

  • Akseli Lahtinen ☛ Testing physical notebooks

    My brains are weird. I used to be interested in all kinds of e-ink devices.. But here I am very excited about physical, paper notebook.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • Bridge Michigan ☛ Watch: Bridge reporters talk youth mental health outsourcing on WJR

    Bridge Michigan reporters join WJR’s Kevin Dietz to discuss the results of an investigation into why Michigan children are increasingly sent out-of-state for mental health treatment.

  • Bridge Michigan ☛ Prosecutor: Health park founder ‘enriched himself’ with state grant

    In a Wednesday hearing, prosecutors alleged former legislative aide David Coker used money intended for a Clare health park to pay off vehicle loans and buy precious metals.

  • Federal News Network ☛ Surprise new element in DOGE’s Medicaid experiment: Taxpayers vs. health care fraud

    "This is not the first time that this type of crowdsourcing has ultimately come about through release of federal data sets," John Barry said.

  • Latvia ☛ Signatures collected for state-funded glucose monitors in Latvia

    More than 10,000 signatures have been collected on the "Manabalss.lv" initiative portal to cover the cost of glucose monitoring sensors for patients with type 1 diabetes. This means that the initiative will be submitted to the Saeima for consideration, Latvian Television reported on 8th February.

  • Futurism ☛ Student Dies When Hospital Has No ICU Doctors, Calls One on Videochat Who Pronounces Him Dead Remotely, Lawsuit Claims

    Rather than receiving traditional care, however, Hylton was unwittingly plunged into a cold experiment in using remote work to offset hospital staffing shortages, which could be a grim portent in an age of AI automation. During the late hours he was admitted to the ICU, there were no on-hand ICU intensivists — the term for doctors that specialize in providing critical care — the suit alleges. Instead, the wing outsourced this to a “tele-ICU” service, which relies on off-site intensivists.

    No on-site physician assessed Hylton for hours, despite his rapidly deteriorating condition. A hospitalist — a doctor that provides general medical care for in-patients but doesn’t specialize in critical care — was assigned to Hylton, but allegedly never saw him.

  • Hackaday ☛ 2001: An Air Quality Odyssey

    Called the PAL 8000 by its creator [Arnov], this uses a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 at its core which monitors a volatile organic compound (VOC) sensor to take air quality measurements. The device features a custom 3D printed enclosure with glowing LEDs and plays contextual audio responses based on air quality levels, completing the HAL 9000 theme. The project also includes a local web dashboard which reports on its data, allowing users to see information in real time rather than relying on HAL’s voice reports alone.

  • Kenneth Reitz ☛ Why I Stopped Doing Ayahuasca and Started Paying Attention

    About a decade ago, I drank ayahuasca in a ceremony. I'd been on a trajectory toward it for a while — years of psychedelics taken with what I told myself were spiritual intentions, a growing involvement with the local hippie scene, the crystal crowd, the singing bowl crowd. Ayahuasca felt like the summit. The ultimate experience. The thing that would crack something open inside me and let the light pour in.

    It cracked something open, all right. Just not the way I expected.

• Proprietary

  • Qt ☛ What's New in the Qt GRPC library in 6.11

    Qt 6.11 brings a set of meaningful improvements to the Qt GRPC library, focusing on stability, safety, performance, and new capabilities that make building gRPC™ based applications in Qt more powerful and productive.

  • Qt ☛ Qt for Android Automotive 6.8.7 is released

    The latest patch release for Android Automotive 6.8.7 was just released. This release is based on Qt LTS 6.8.7 with around 500 bug fixes, security updates, and other improvements done to Qt base. There are no additional Qt for Android Automotive features delivered.

  • Michael Tsai ☛ Adobe Modifies Your Hosts File for Their Analytics

    Sure enough, my /etc/hosts contains: [...]

  • OS News ☛ Adobe secretly modifies your hosts file for the stupidest reason – OSnews

    At what point does a commercial software suite become malware?

  • Dave DeGraw ☛ Nintendo announces 3DS successor '3DS Plus'

    Originally launched in 2004 - nearly 22 years ago - the Nintendo DS redefined handheld gaming and became the company’s best-selling console of all time, only recently surpassed in 2025 by the console/portable hybrid Nintendo Switch.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ Russian state hackers are hijacking TP-Link and MicroTik routers to steal Outlook credentials, cybersecurity center warns — APT28 group targets DNS and redirects traffic to attacker-controlled servers

    Traffic is being redirected through attacker-controlled servers.

  • Dedoimedo ☛ MacOS Pages - A decent-ish, somewhat confusing office tool

    Practically, there are solutions and alternatives. Like say LibreOffice or OnlyOffice. Both offer some level of Office format compatibility, good but not perfect. Then, you could also perhaps set up a virtual machine with Windows running inside it, and then install Office yonder, but that can be costly, and besides, you may not want to give Microsoft your money, especially if they nudged you out of their ecosystem with the likes of Windows 11, as I mentioned in my Macbook review earlier. For that same reason, you may also not want to buy an Office license for Mac, huh! CrossOver is another option. All right, so what about Pages, Mac's native office tool?

  • YLE ☛ Supo: Russia may be [breaching] your router

    Supo said the effort focused on TP-Link branded routers that had been infiltrated by the GRU and remained unpatched for the security flaw CVE-2023-50224.

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) / LLM Slop / Plagiarism

    • The Straits Times ☛ AI-generated doctors in health ads must be labelled: S. Korean govt

      Current guidelines have no provisions covering AI-generated characters.

    • Futurism ☛ ChatGPT Is Sending People Into Obsessive Spirals of Hypochondria

      "It just sent me around on this crazy Ferris wheel of emotion and fear."

    • New York Times ☛ Federal Court Denies Anthropic’s Motion to Lift ‘Supply Chain Risk’ Label

      The ruling was a setback for the artificial intelligence start-up in its battle with the Defense Department over the use of Hey Hi (AI) in warfare.

    • Silicon Angle ☛ Appeals court rejects Anthropic’s bid to block Pentagon blacklisting

      A federal appeals court in Washington DC today rejected Anthropic PBC’s request for a stay in its lawsuit against the Department of Defense. A panel of three judges said the artificial intelligence company had failed to meet the strict requirements for an emergency stay in the case.

    • Futurism ☛ Microsoft Mocked for Terms of Service That Admit Copilot Is for "Entertainment Purposes Only"

      That’s despite Microsoft admitting in its own Copilot terms of service that the AI shouldn’t be relied upon for virtually any important work.

      “Copilot is for entertainment purposes only,” the lengthy document reads. “It can make mistakes, and it may not work as intended. Don’t rely on Copilot for important advice. Use Copilot at your own risk.”

    • Futurism ☛ Anthropic Warns That "Reckless" Claude Mythos Escaped a Sandbox Environment During Testing

      It actually managed to pull off the feat — which wasn’t the only way it caught safety researchers off guard.

      After breaking free, the AI model developed a “moderately sophisticated” exploit to gain access to the internet through a system that was only intended to access a few predetermined services. From there, it notified the human researcher about its escape.

    • Wired ☛ The US Army Is Building Its Own Chatbot for Combat

      The Pentagon has ramped up its efforts to incorporate AI into military systems over the past two years, but Victor is a rare example of the military building AI for itself. The project shows how keen the US military is to master the nuts and bolts of AI—and how the technology may be poised to transform daily life for many troops.

    • The Verge ☛ The AI RAM shortage is also driving up SSD prices

      According to price trends from PC Part Picker, NVMe SSD prices began ticking upward in December 2025, with prices on 256GB to 4TB SSDs now double or triple what they were just a few months ago, and continuing to climb.

    • Sean Conner ☛ “Being called out by an LLM” was not on my Bingo card

      (I'm quoting the entire thing first, to preserve it in case it's taken down—the Internet doesn't forget, and second, because copyright of LLM output is considered Public Domain per current court precedence. It's still an open question if LLMs can lobby Congress to change the law.)

      In reading this, I can see how easy it could be to fall to AI pyschosis. I had to remind myself that this isn't a thinking being, it's statisical output. It's not intelligent. If it could remember past its own context window, and learn from past mistakes and not make them, then maybe, maybe, I might conceed that this has intelligence. But it even admits that it does not fully remember: [...]

    • Mandy Brown ☛ Don’t be an ass

      This is a handy set of guidelines for using AI at work, acknowledging that if you toss unexamined AI-output onto your colleagues for review, they will not thank you for it.

    • Futurism ☛ Wall Street Journal Editor-in-Chief Instructs Staff to Welcome AI Sloplords

      In an email obtained by Semafor, Tucker congratulated a Fortune editor for being a likeminded individual embracing AI, and was so impressed by the magazine’s AI efforts that she forced her underlings to read about them.

    • Futurism ☛ College Students Losing Ability to Participate in Class Discussions Because They Offloaded Their Thinking to AI

      It’s well known that students from grade schools to the big universities are increasingly outsourcing their thinking to large language models (LLMs). The consequences are already measurable: elementary students are losing cognitive skills, leading them to tank their exams.

    • The Nation ☛ As AI Breathes Down Our Necks, It’s Time for a Luddite Renaissance

      But there’s no shame in being a Luddite—or, to be more precise, in being an heir to the Luddite tradition of refusing to accept the adoption of new technologies simply because capitalists decide to impose them on workers.

    • The Nation ☛ What We Need to Ask Ourselves About AI

      • The rise of an unaccountable global oligarchy. The richest people on Earth—Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg—are not investing trillions in these technologies out of generosity. They want more wealth and power. Can democracy survive when a handful of multibillionaires wield unprecedented influence over the economic and political life of our nation?

    • Press Gazette ☛ Le Monde CEO urges publishers to sign AI partnerships

      The French daily newspaper and website has seen a “significant amount of new revenue” including via conversions to paid subscriptions after signing three AI partnership agreements.

    • Digital Camera World ☛ The AI boom is making your memory cards more expensive – and Lexar doesn't bank on that changing any time soon | Digital Camera World

      The access was genuine and the hospitality generous. But the most useful conversation of the whole trip wasn't in any of the polished presentation rooms. It came during a press conference, when I asked Lexar's representatives about memory card pricing, and why it isn't going the way anyone buying camera storage would like.

    • Hackaday ☛ Are We Surrendering Our Thinking To Machines?

      Cognitive surrender is, in short, exactly what [Herbert] was warning of: giving over your thinking to machines. In the study, people were asked a series of questions, and — except for the necessary “brain-only” control group — given access to a rigged LLM to help them answer. It was rigged in that it would give wrong answers 50% of the time, which while higher than most LLMs, only a difference in degree, not in kind. Hallucination is unavoidable; here it was just made controllably frequent for the sake of the study.

    • Wouter Groeneveld ☛ A Commentary On GenAI Inspected Through Different Lenses

      The amount of concerning reports related to generative AI is rising at an alrming rate, yet all we do is make ourselves more dependent on the brand new technology. Why? It’s not just that we’re lazy—we are!—there are many more variables involved. As part of my quest to try and understand what the heck is going on and what is becoming of one of my prime professional fields: software engineering, I read and read and read. And then I read and read and read. And then I became disappointed and depressed.

      I see colleagues jumping the gun, others being more prudent. I see industry discovering there’s yet another buck to be made. I see students forgoing learning at all. I wanted to try to form my own judgement of genAI in its modern form by looking at it from four different viewpoints: that of the software engineer, that of the teacher, that of the creativity researcher, and that of the concerned civilian living in this capitalist world.. References can be found at the end of this article.

  • Social Control Media

    • Mike Brock ☛ Show Your Face

      The way you know that social media is not a serious place to discuss the course of human civilization is this: most of the people discussing it will not put their name on what they say.

      I want to sit with that for a moment, because I think it is more diagnostic than it first appears.

    • Android Police ☛ YouTube is making ads harder to skip yet again

      Unless you pay for YouTube Premium (or Premium Lite), your experience on the app will be flooded with ads. That's a compromise that most people are willing to make in return for the ability to watch content from their favorite creators. At the same time, YouTube continues to find ways to show more ads to free users, while simultaneously making them harder to skip.

    • EFF ☛ Digital Hopes, Real Power: How the Arab Spring Fueled a Global Surveillance Boom

      For activists, journalists, and everyday users, that means now living with a constant threat: the phone in your pocket, the platforms you organize on, and the systems you rely on for safety and connection can be weaponized at the flip of a switch. A global surveillance industry has treated repression by many MENA governments as a growth opportunity, and the tactics refined there now shape digital authoritarianism worldwide. This essay traces how that shift unfolded: security agencies upgraded older systems of repression with new surveillance tools and permanent monitoring infrastructure; cybercrime laws and mercenary spyware markets turned digital control into standard operating procedure; and biometrics, facial recognition, and ‘smart city’ projects laid the groundwork for AI‑driven surveillance that now shapes protests, borders, and everyday life far beyond the region.

• Privatisation/Privateering

  • Federal News Network ☛ TSA budget cuts jobs in privatization push

    TSA’s fiscal 2027 budget justification shows the agency would cut roughly 8,400 positions out of 61,000 at the agency, representing about a 14% decrease in the TSA workforce compared to the 2026 budget. The documents show the request would reduce TSA’s budget for personnel costs by about $529 million.

    But TSA would re-direct most of that funding, approximately $477 million, toward its Screening Partnership Program. Under the SPP, the agency contracts with private companies to run screening operations at select airports.

  • Pro Publica ☛ As the Federal Government Rushes Toward AI, Here Are Three Cautionary Tales

    Then: In the early 2020s, a series of cyberattacks linked to Russia, China and Iran left the federal government reeling. The Biden administration called on major tech companies to help the U.S. bolster its defenses. In response, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella pledged to give the government $150 million in technical services to help upgrade its digital security. It also offered a “free” security upgrade for government customers.

    Now: Last year, the Trump administration announced a raft of agreements with tech companies that were meant to help federal agencies “purchase enterprise AI tools at government-friendly pricing.” Agencies could use OpenAI’s ChatGPT for $1. Google’s Gemini for 47 cents. Grok by xAI for 42 cents. The administration hoped that the low-cost pricing would make it “easier for federal teams to acquire powerful AI capabilities … to enhance mission delivery and operational efficiency.”

• Linux Foundation

  • OpenSSF (Linux Foundation) ☛ OpenSSF Tech Talk Recap: Securing Agentic AI

    At our recent Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) Tech Talk, experts from Microsoft, Thread AI, Canonical, and the OpenSSF AI/ML Security Working Group joined forces to dismantle the "black box" of Hey Hi (AI) security.

• Security

  • Integrity/Availability/Authenticity

    • Security Week ☛ FBI: Cybercrime Losses Neared $21 Billion in 2025

      The FBI received over 1 million complaints of malicious activity in 2025, with investment, BEC, and tech support scams causing the highest losses.

    • The Record ☛ Breach exposes sensitive LAPD files stored in city attorney system

      Under California law, police records are generally considered confidential.

      The Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • Michael Geist ☛ Could Bill C-22 Make Canadians Less Safe? The Systemic Vulnerability Gap in Canada’s New Surveillance Law

      The lawful access debate in Canada has to date focused on privacy concerns such as access to subscriber information, mandatory metadata retention, and international production orders.

    • Papers Please ☛ When you fly, you fly with ICE

      The TSA has exempted Secure Flight records of domestic air travel from the provisions of the Privacy Act that would normally entitle each traveler to obtain, on request, an “accounting of disclosures” showing what information about them was disclosed by the TSA to which other agencies or third parties. So there is no way for you to find out whether the TSA has provided ICE with your air travel plans, so that ICE can arrange an unwelcoming party for you at the airport on departure or arrival or while changing planes. You have to assume that ICE has the details of all of your planned air travel in the U.S.

    • The Record ☛ Passport numbers for more than 300,000 leaked during December Eurail data breach

      Eurail B.V. is based in the Netherlands and is owned by over 35 European railway and ferry companies, offering travelers specific passes that can be used to traverse Europe’s rail system.

      In a statement to Recorded Future News, the company declined to share details related to the incident but said data was copied after [intruders] breached Eurail systems on December 26.

    • 404 Media ☛ Wildlife Conservation Police Are Searching Thousands of Flock Cameras for ICE

      Police with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission are able to do these lookups for ICE because in August, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis enrolled nearly 800 of its officers in 287(g), a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) program that gives state and local police certain immigration enforcement powers. DeSantis has essentially turned many state police into an extension of ICE: “Florida is setting the example for states in combating illegal immigration and working with the Trump Administration to restore the rule of law,” DeSantis said in a press release announcing the move. “By allowing our state agents and law enforcement officers to be trained and approved by ICE, Florida will now have more enforcement personnel deputized to assist federal partners. That means deportations can be carried out more efficiently, making our communities safer as illegal aliens are removed.”

    • Site36 ☛ Use of facial recognition for suspect identification rises sharply among German police | Matthias Monroy

      German authorities also used the police facial recognition system GES significantly more often again last year. By far the most frequent users are the criminal investigation departments at federal and state level, with 313,500 searches – in 2024 there were still 121,000. The Federal Police used the system around 30,000 times, which also represents an increase of about half compared to the previous year.

    • The Record ☛ National security veterans warn against delays in FISA 702 reauthorization

      The missive, obtained by Recorded Future News, arrives days before policymakers return from recess next week and aim for a quick extension Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for another 18 months. It allows the National Security Agency to intercept the communications of foreign espionage or terrorism suspects that transit through U.S. telecom and internet companies.

      Members have just days before the statute expires on April 20.

    • Terence Eden ☛ Did WordPress VIP leak my phone number?

      Not only did they have my email address, they also had a copy of one of my phone numbers. I asked them where they got it from and they said: [...]

    • NPR ☛ ICE acknowledges it is using powerful spyware

      His letter, dated April 1, was a belated response to an October inquiry from three Democratic members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform expressing concern about the agency's potential use of the spyware Graphite, which was created by an Israeli company, Paragon Solutions.

    • The Guardian UK ☛ Meta employee in London accused of downloading 30,000 private Facebook images

      According to court papers seen by the Press Association, police say he “is alleged to have accessed and downloaded approximately 30,000 private images belonging to Facebook users whilst working for Meta”.

      “It is alleged that he created a script designed to circumvent Meta’s internal detection systems, allowing him to do so.”

  • Confidentiality

    • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong Kong police arrest man suspected of stealing 56,000 Hospital Authority patients’ personal data

      Hong Kong police have arrested a man suspected of stealing the personal data of more than 56,000 patients from a Hospital Authority (HA) computer system. On Wednesday, police identified the 30-year-old suspect as an employee of a systems maintenance contractor hired by the HA. He is accused of downloading patient data without authorisation.

    • Citizen Lab ☛ Submission to the UN Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries

      The Citizen Lab submitted recommendations to the UN Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries.

    • TechCrunch ☛ Developer of VeraCrypt encryption software says Windows users may face boot-up issues after Microsoft locked his account | TechCrunch

      The developer of the popular file encryption software VeraCrypt says Microsoft has blocked access to the account he used for sending updates to Windows users, and warned that anyone who encrypts their PCs with his software may soon face issues accessing their computers.

      VeraCrypt developer Mounir Idrassi said in an online post on March 30 that Microsoft “terminated the account I have used for years to sign Windows drivers and the bootloader,” and said he received no explanation or ability to appeal the decision.

    • Sourceforge ☛ VeraCrypt / Forums / General Discussion: Project Update

      I have encountered some challenges but the most serious one is that Microsoft terminated the account I have used for years to sign Windows drivers and the bootloader. You can see below a screenshot of the message shown when I tried to sign in.

      Microsoft did not send me any emails or prior warnings. I have received no explanation for the termination and their message indicates that no appeal is possible.

      I have tried to contact Microsoft through various channels but I have only received automated replies and bots. I was unable to reach a human.

      This termination impacts my work beyond VeraCrypt and has consequences for my daily job.

      Currently I'm out of options.

    • Tor ☛ A Server That Forgets: Exploring Stateless Relays | The Tor Project

      Tor exists because we want to shield internet users from unwanted surveillance. The network is designed so that no single operator or server can reconstruct who is talking to whom. Journalists, activists, and whistleblowers depend on that holding up. A relay that can be seized and its contents handed over erodes the very trust the system depends on. And that's a problem we want to solve.

      In this post we explore how a stateless, diskless operating system can improve relay security, from firmware to user space, with a focus on software integrity and physical attack resistance. This work comes from the experience of Osservatorio Nessuno running exit relays in Italy. Managing relays varies greatly depending on context, technical capability, budget, and jurisdiction. We hope to stimulate discussion rather than propose a single model.

    • The Register UK ☛ SG-41 cipher machine recreated online with 3D model

      Martin Gillow's 3D recreation lets users explore would-be Enigma successor's mechanics and enciphering logic online

• Defence/Aggression

  • NYPost ☛ Popular YouTuber among 3 arrested after shouting, ‘He has a gun!’ in packed movie theater for online clout

    The YouTuber "Fique," who has 1.27 million subscribers, posted a video of himself and a bumbling crew barging into theaters at Landmark Cinemas and screaming "he has a gun!"

  • CS Monitor ☛ In Lebanon, history gnaws at Israelis: Has force alone brought security?

    Unaffected so far by the U.S.-Iran ceasefire, the battle to disarm Hezbollah in Lebanon has been shaping up to be a main focus of Israelis, renewing the debate: Can force alone deliver security, or does the absence of a political strategy risk open-ended conflict?

  • Security Week ☛ Shaky Ceasefire Unlikely to Stop Cyberattacks From Iran-Linked Hackers for Long

    Hackers vowed to revive its efforts against America when the time was right — demonstrating how digital warfare has become ingrained in military conflict.

  • Marcy Wheeler ☛ Hegseth, the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, and Mark Twain

    After listening to Secretary of Excursions Pete Hegseth give his Iran war briefing this morning, I said good bye to my post-Easter week of relaxation in which I catch up on all the sleep I lost last week. Thank God for Monty Python and Mark Twain.

  • New York Times ☛ Martin Gugino, Activist Shoved by Buffalo Police at 2020 Protest, Dies

    Mr. Gugino, 81, had filed a lawsuit in 2021 against the city of Buffalo and members of its police force after officers fractured his skull at a Black Lives Matter protest.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Military service draws men in Thailand as sluggish economy squeezes job prospects

    Voluntary enlistment in the South-east Asian nation has climbed steadily over the past five years.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Birds not missiles should fly in the skies, Taiwan opposition leader says in China

    Ms Cheng Li-wun's visit comes at a time when Beijing has stepped up military pressure against Taiwan.

  • The Strategist ☛ Old enemies meet in Beijing as China promotes its influence in Taiwan

    Meetings between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Taiwan’s Kuomintang (KMT) are now routine, no longer tentative or discreet but frequent and increasingly public.

  • Japan’s combat role in Philippines war games signals shift in regional strategy

    Expanded ‘Balikatan’ combat drills are a sign of deeper South China Sea defense coordination, experts say.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Afghanistan, Pakistan agree to avoid escalation: China

    Islamabad has accused Afghanistan of harbouring militants responsible for cross-border attacks.

  • Mike Brock ☛ Dear Journalists: You Are Dismantling Democracy and You Should Be Ashamed

    Not the complicity of enthusiasm. The complicity of cowardice — of people who have so thoroughly internalized the frame that the executive’s stated intentions constitute reality that they can no longer see the law as a binding constraint rather than a political variable. The complicity of a professional class that has decided, whether consciously or not, that their access, their relationships, their place in the conversation, matters more than the simple act of telling people what the law says.

    You are not reporting on a democracy. You are normalizing its dismemberment. And you are doing it one sanewashed headline at a time.

  • El País ☛ All democracies are perishable: Hitler’s rise to power as a warning about the present

    Hitler wasn’t elected by universal suffrage; he was elected by members of a powerful and irresponsible elite. His party lacked an absolute majority, was clearly declining in the polls, and, moreover, the president appointed the chancellor. It was a conscious decision by people with enormous power — political, media, and economic — who believed it was the best solution to combat a hypothetical Bolshevik revolution and who, moreover, didn’t believe in democracy, but rather in the power of elites and their own interests. “Weimar is such a vivid story that it awakens the dead and never ceases to raise questions in Germany, and indeed in all democracies facing their own mortality,” writes Chapoutot. “If the Great War made it clear that civilizations are mortal, the end of the Weimar Republic demonstrated that democracy, too, is perishable.” Nothing guarantees that the new irresponsible individuals who roam freely in the West won’t once again destroy our freedoms. That is why it is so important to focus on the years that led the world to catastrophe, on those individuals who took democracy away from their citizens.

  • Bhaskar English ☛ Meta & YouTubes Dopamine Design: Teen Mental Health Crisis

    The part of the brain that helps in making decisions and maintaining self-control, according to neuroscience, is not fully developed during adolescence. In such a situation, likes, comments, and continuous scrolling on social media increase dopamine in the brain (a feeling of happiness). This pushes them towards an addiction similar to drugs. As a result, serious risks like depression, anxiety, inferiority complex about their appearance, and suicide are increasing among teenagers.

  • India Times ☛ Greece to ban social media for under-15s from 2027, PM says

    The Greek prime minister said he had spoken with many ⁠parents who ‌reported that their children do not sleep well, become anxious easily and spend ⁠long hours on their phones. Other countries like Slovenia, Britain, Austria and Spain ​have also ​said that they are working on similar bans ‌after Australia became ​the first ​country in ⁠the world to block access to ​children under 16.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ Bain Capital's data center unit removes disgraced tenant suspected of smuggling Nvidia GPUs to China — Megaspeed previously alleged to have spent roughly $2 billion on AI processors for illicit distribution

    Bain Capital's Bridge Data Centers (BDC) has terminated its contract with Megaspeed International at its Malaysian site after the U.S. government began a probe into whether Megaspeed smuggled restricted Nvidia AI accelerators to China. The company reallocated 68.4 MW of its power capacity from Megaspeed to cloud provider Zenplayer, reports Bloomberg.

  • Stuart Breckenridge ☛ A Decisive Victory

    You have to wonder what the military objectives were.

  • Site36 ☛ Little-noticed new law now requires German men under 45 to get military clearance before going abroad

    The “Frankfurter Rundschau” has taken a closer look at the Military Service Modernisation Act and drawn attention to a provision that apparently almost no one had read: any male person who has reached the age of 17 and wishes to leave Germany for longer than a quarter of a year has, since 1 January 2026, been required to seek approval from the relevant Bundeswehr career centre. The rule applies to all men up to the age of 45, regardless of whether they have ever had or will ever have any contact with the Bundeswehr.

  • Site36 ☛ For 13 years, 4 German governments have turned a blind eye to the US using Ramstein for its wars of aggression

    Three reports commissioned by the Bundestag are unequivocal: the US attacks on Iran violate international law – and by tolerating Ramstein, Germany may be complicit.

  • Mike Brock ☛ The Window

    JD Vance is coordinating with the Kremlin in plain sight — working back-channels to preserve Viktor Orbán’s position, serving as the visible American node in what can only be described as a fascist international operating without embarrassment or disguise.

    And the people whose job it is to sound the alarm — the columnists, the institutionalists, the former officials, the serious responsible voices of the establishment center — are debating whether this represents a departure from norms.

    It is not a departure from norms. It is the destination. This is where the road went. And the road was always going here.

  • Reuters ☛ Greece to ban social media for under-15s from 2027, PM says

    An opinion poll by ALCO published in February showed about 80% of those surveyed approved of a ban. The Greek government has already outlawed mobile phones in schools ​and set up parental control platforms to limit teenagers' screen time.

  • Le Monde ☛ Greece announces social media ban for under 15-year-olds

    Mitsotakis said he used social media to make the announcement so he could address teenagers and children directly: "I know that some of your are going to be angry. (...) Our aim is not to keep you away from technology but to combat addiction to certain applications that harms your innocence and your freedom," he said. "Science is clear: when a child is in front of screens for hours, their brain does not rest."

  • The Independent UK ☛ Social media ban for under-15s in European country confirmed amid rising anxiety fears

    Greece will ban social media access for children under the age of 15 from 1 January 2027, as announced by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

  • The Walrus ☛ Why Your Credit Card Is a National Security Threat

    Every Visa and Mastercard purchase runs through a US network that can be weaponized against Canada

  • RFA ☛ PNG-Australia defense treaty creates jobs, risks amid rising China influence

    Six months after Papua New Guinea and Australia signed a bilateral defense treaty, public opinion in PNG remains divided, with some telling Radio Free Asia that they like that the pact creates opportunities for youth, and others saying that they worry about potentially being drawn into a larger conflict between the West and China.

  • The Straits Times ☛ South Korea to push for the release of ships in the Strait of Hormuz

    There are 26 South Korean-flagged vessels stranded in the Strait of Hormuz.

  • The Straits Times ☛ North Korea unveils cluster-bomb missile, electronic warfare capability

    The tests came as North Korea reiterated its characterisation of South Korea as a “hostile enemy”.

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • Latvia ☛ Latvia and Ukraine deepening cooperation on cybersecurity

      Strengthening existing cooperation between Latvia and Ukraine, Minister of Defence Andris Sprūds and the Head of the State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine Oleksandr Potii have signed a letter of intent on cooperation that could lead to the establishment of a regional cybersecurity center in Ukraine, reports Labs of Latvia.

    • France24 ☛ France plans 36 billion euro boost to rearmament, nuclear deterrent expansion

      France plans to ⁠add a further 36 ​billion euros to its defence spending between now and 2030 under an updated military planning law that expands its nuclear ​arsenal and boosts missile and drone stocks. The increase reflects mounting security pressures from wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and growing uncertainty over U.S. commitments to NATO under President ​The Insurrectionist. FRANCE 24's Luke Shrago reports.

    • CS Monitor ☛ Orbán says Ukraine is mistreating its Hungarian minority. It’s not that simple.

      On the border with Hungary, Ukraine’s Zakarpattia region sits at the center of tensions between Kyiv and Budapest over language and cultural rights.

    • LRT ☛ Lithuanian minister to send deputy to Ukraine after failure to answer Crimea question

      Health Minister Marija Jakubauskienė said on Tuesday she planned to send her new deputy, Arnomedas Galdikas, to work in Ukraine following public backlash over his comments about Crimea.

    • Citizen Lab ☛ A Cat-and-Mouse Game of Russian Internet Restrictions and Evasion

      Senior researcher Ksenia Ermoshina spoke to the New York Times about how Russians may start acquiescing to the limits imposed by state censorship.

    • Latvia ☛ New list of companies trading with Russia and Belarus likely to be published

      The Latvian Ministry of Finance (FM) said on April 8th it supports the proposal of Prime Minister Evika Siliņa proposal to publish a list of Latvian companies that continue to trade with aggressor states Russia and Belarus.

    • H2 View ☛ Bulgarian firm to supply 2MW electrolyser to Ukraine for Germany-bound hydrogen

      Bulgarian alkaline electrolyser manufacturer Hydrogenera will install a 2MW system at a Ukrainian project aiming to supply green hydrogen to industrial customers in Germany.

    • Security Week ☛ US Disrupts Russian Espionage Operation Involving Hacked Routers and DNS Hijacking

      The APT28 threat group exploited vulnerable TP-Link and MikroTik routers to conduct adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks.

    • LRT ☛ Lithuania moves emergency stockpiles away from Belarus border

      Warehouses holding emergency stockpiles of food, fuel and other goods will be relocated away from the Belarusian border by 2027, Lithuania’s National Crisis Management Centre (NKVC) said on Wednesday

    • LRT ☛ Lithuania parliament committee backs Kapčiamiestis training ground

      Lithuania’s parliament national security and defence approved plans on Wednesday to establish a new military training ground in Kapčiamiestis.

• Environment

  • European Commission ☛ Speech by Commissioner Kadis at the “Climate Action in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East: Regional Cooperation Empowered by Science and Innovation” Conference

  • Energy/Transportation

    • H2 View ☛ China’s Guofuhee lands Morocco electrolyser deal and domestic refuelling order

      Chinese hydrogen technology company Jiangsu Guofu Hydrogen Energy Equipment (Guofuhee) will deploy 20MW of electrolysers in Morocco and five refuelling stations in China, under two deals totalling nearly $11m.

    • H2 View ☛ China’s BriHyNergy plans 1GW overseas electrolyser expansion after capital raise

      Chinese electrolyser maker BriHyNergy plans to build 1GW of manufacturing capacity in Europe and South America after raising funds in a Pre-B round.

    • The Straits Times ☛ NASA’s lunar success sharpens focus on China’s 2030 crewed landing goal

      A major hurdle for Beijing will be proving a new lunar mission architecture within the next four years.

    • The Straits Times ☛ Panama asks China for respect after ship detentions tied to ports ruling

      Panama's top diplomat on Wednesday said a rise in inspections and detentions of Panama-flagged vessels in China stemmed from a Panama court ruling against Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison and asked China to respect its sovereign affairs.

    • Tom's Hardware ☛ British cryptographer Adam Back is the secret creator of Bitcoin, claims new report — Back refutes investigation, says parallels to Satoshi are just a coincidence

      The hunt for Satoshi Nakamoto has circled back to a likely candidate, Adam Back, thanks to a New York Times article that draws striking parallels between the two. Back denies being Satoshi, saying it's all just a coincidence and confirmation bias on behalf of the reporter. The 40-page-long investigation goes over decades of evidence to try to prove otherwise.

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • Mexico News Daily ☛ A win for whales in their suit against huge vessels in the Gulf of California

      The novel lawsuit, with Gulf of California whales serving as the plaintiffs, is based on the principle that whales are equally entitled to a safe and liveable habitat as human beings.

    • The Straits Times ☛ Escaped wolf forces school closure in South Korea

      The male wolf had escaped from a zoo at a theme park in Daejeon.

    • The Straits Times ☛ Malaysians suddenly cannot find Farm Fresh milk easily – and it has nothing to do with cows

      From milk to shampoo, a plastic squeeze has sent ripples across Malaysia.

• Finance

  • Mexico News Daily ☛ One country is winning the US-China trade war: Mexico

    U.S. Census Bureau data shows that Mexico has benefited from an escalation of the U.S.-China trade war during U.S. President The Insurrectionist's second term, as well as increased U.S. protectionism against Canada.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • New Yorker ☛ Pam Bondi Fails to Make Her Case

    Bondi’s tenure at the Justice Department was marked by incompetence. But her effort to remake it in The Insurrectionist’s image was “a tragic success,” the contributing writer Ruth Marcus says.

  • Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

    • Futurism ☛ Analysis Finds That Google’s Hey Hi (AI) Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization

      This is catastrophic.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ All Hong Kong restaurant licences to have national security clauses by September – minister

    All Hong Kong restaurant licences will include national security clauses from September, Secretary for Environment and Ecology Tse Chin-wan has said. Tse made the remarks on Tuesday, nearly a year after the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) introduced the provisions for restaurant licence renewals in May.

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • Press Gazette ☛ Times ‘fewer, better stories’ strategy leads to run of audience growth

    'Paper of record' has seen page views go up as total story count went down.

  • LRT ☛ Protest against LRT politicisation to be held outside parliament

    A protest against changes to the Lithuanian public broadcaster will be held outside the parliament at 18:00 on Wednesday.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong Kong independent media outlet says reporters ‘harassed’ and ‘stalked’

    A Hong Kong independent media outlet has said its journalists have been targeted by harassing text messages and “stalked” by unknown individuals, the latest in a series of intimidations against the city’s press since 2024.

  • AccessNow ☛ Hack-for-hire: new report investigates hacking campaign against Egyptian journalists

    A new report  by Access Now’s Digital Security Helpline, Espionage for repression: forensic analysis of a cross-border hack-for-hire campaign targeting civil society in MENA, exposes a hack-for-hire campaign targeting two prominent Egyptian journalists and government critics, Mostafa Al-A’sar and Ahmed Eltantawy, through a series of spear-phishing attacks. 

  • AccessNow ☛ Espionage for repression: hack-for-hire phishing campaign targets civil society in MENA

    A new investigation by Access Now’s Digital Security Helpline has exposed a hack-for-hire campaign targeting two prominent Egyptian journalists and government critics, Mostafa Al-A’sar and Ahmed Eltantawy, through a series of spear-phishing attacks.

• Digital Restrictions (DRM)

  • Digital Music News ☛ Italian Court Deems DRM spreader Netflix Price Hikes Illegal, Orders Immediate Rollbacks and Refunds

    An Italian court has ruled that DRM spreader Netflix illegally raised monthly subscriber rates without providing a valid reason to consumers, and now it must pay. An Italian court in Rome has ruled that DRM spreader Netflix price hikes from 2017 to 2024 are illegal, and subscribers are entitled to a refund.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ A brief history of Denuvo DRM and the new hypervisor bypass — inside the cat-and-mouse game between Denuvo and the piracy scene

    A brief history of Denuvo DRM and the new hypervisor bypass.

  • Digital Music News ☛ Patreon Podcasters Earned $629 Million In 2025, Platform Reveals

    Podcasts are having a major boom on Patreon, generating $629 million in revenue on the direct-to-fan platform in 2025. If you thought Spotify was out of its element in pushing to expand into podcasting, you’d be sorely mistaken.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Patents

  • Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ X Marks the … Stick Figure? Federal Circuit Says One DuPont Factor Can Outweigh All Others

    Federal Circuit affirms no likelihood of confusion between cigar maker's X marks and vape company's stick figure design, holding mark dissimilarity alone can be dispositive.

  • Kangaroo Courts

    • JUVE ☛ Dyson wins another PI in hair-styler fight against Dreame [Ed: Trying embargo using patent monopolies]

      Once again, the Hamburg local division under presiding judge Sabine Klepsch has prohibited Chinese manufacturer Dreame from distributing certain hair styling devices in the UPC territory and Spain by means of a preliminary injunction.

  • Software Patents

    • Federal Circuit Affirms PTAB Decision Finding Information Exchange Patent Application Claim Ineligible Under Section 101

      The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a decision Tuesday in In re Brian McFadden affirming a decision of the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). The CAFC determined that the PTAB correctly found claim 14 of Brian David McFadden’s patent monopoly application directed to ineligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101.

• Policy

  • Public Knowledge ☛ On the White House Hey Hi (AI) Framework (If You Could Call It That)

    While the Convicted Felon administration's National Hey Hi (AI) Framework offers some principles that sound sympathetic at a high level, it fails to offer any real mechanisms for accountability or oversight.

  • Public Knowledge ☛ Emerging Tech Event Series

    Emerging Tech remains a signature event bringing together public interest advocates, policymakers, and companies to discuss the promise, pitfalls, and policy implications of cutting-edge tech.

• Copyrights

  • Digital Music News ☛ Apple-Backed Gamma Disputes Disappointing Kanye West ‘Bully’ First-Week Album Sales Figures

    Gamma is now disputing somewhat underwhelming first-week album sales figures for Ye’s ‘Bully’ on the heels of the cancellation of Wireless Fest. The album struggled to top 150,000 ‘album equivalent’ units despite an ultra-expensive rollout campaign.

  • Digital Music News ☛ Industry Mogul David Geffen Quietly Settles Nasty Divorce Battle

    Billionaire music mogul David Geffen finally settles his highly publicized divorce with model David Armstrong, 50 years his junior. David Geffen has finally settled his highly contentious divorce with the much-younger model and former go-go dancer David Armstrong.

  • Digital Music News ☛ Supreme Court’s Cox v. Sony Decision Disrupts Another ISP Legal Battle — And Prompts Changes in Music Publishers’ Anthropic Complaint

    Another ISP legal battle has been disrupted by the Supreme Court’s Cox v. Sony decision. Now, the major labels and Altice have jointly moved to pause their years-old copyright monopoly dispute. The litigating labels and Altice (which currently operates as Optimum Communications) just recently asked the court for a response-deadline extension.

  • Public Domain Review ☛ Songs from the Commons: A Q&A with Simon Close about the Public Song Project

    The creator of WNYC's Public Song Project on creativity, copyright, and the public domain.