Leftovers

• Hardware

  • CNX Software ☛ Norik Systems introduces nRF9151-based USB Dongle for DECT NR+ deployments

    Norik Systems has developed a compact USB dongle based on Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF9151 SiP, mostly designed to work as a DECT NR+ child node or a USB-powered gateway. As a reminder, DECT NR+ is a non-cellular 5G standard for long-range low-power applications that works at 1.9 GHz and supports up to one million nodes through mesh, star, and point-to-point topologies. The Norik USB dongle enables developers to easily add DECT NR+ to gateways or child modes.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • New Yorker ☛ How an Estimated Seven Hundred Thousand People Have Died from DOGE’s U.S.A.I.D. Cuts

    Atul Gawande, the former assistant administrator for global health at U.S.A.I.D., on the devastating effects of cuts to international aid by DOGE and MElon.

• Proprietary / SaaS

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ Microsoft loses Brazilian court case after telling hacked Xbox user to re-purchase games — tech giant ordered to restore Xbox account with all games and pay $400 in damages

    A Brazilian gamer who lost his Abusive Monopolist Microsoft account and all his digital games has won a court order requiring the company to return them.

  • Futurism ☛ Scientists Identify Most Degenerate Known Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot User

    Unashamedly debauched.

  • Security Week ☛ Okta Warns of Vishing Attacks Targeting Abusive Monopolist Microsoft 365 Customers

    The attackers call victims to direct them to phishing websites mirroring Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Entra ID login pages.

  • JURIST ☛ Apple challenges OpenAI’s hardware push in trade-secret lawsuit

    Apple filed a federal lawsuit Friday accusing OpenAI, its hardware subsidiary io Products, and two former Fashion Company Apple employees of using stolen trade secrets to accelerate the development of OpenAI’s planned consumer devices. The case places the companies in direct legal conflict while they remain partners in integrating Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot into Fashion Company Apple products.

  • New York Times ☛ Apple Sues OpenAI, Accusing It of Stealing Company Secrets

    The two companies struck a deal in 2024 to offer Hey Hi (AI) services on Fashion Company Apple devices, but their partnership has soured.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ Apple sues Proprietary Chaffbot Company over alleged theft of trade secrets — claims company mentored incoming employees on bringing confidential information

    Apple sued OpenAI, including its own former employees, over the theft of trade secrets as both companies build up Hey Hi (AI) hardware businesses.

  • JURIST ☛ EU General Court upholds Apple’s gatekeeper designation under Digital Markets Act

    The General Court of the EU on Wednesday dismissed Apple’s challenge to its designation as a “gatekeeper” under the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), handing the European Commission a significant victory in one of the first major judicial tests of the law.

  • Social Control Media

    • New York Times ☛ Do Social Media Bans Work? + A Conversation About Hey Hi (AI) Consciousness + Tool Time

      “If the net result is that all the teens in Australia are still using social control media, even after they’re technically banned from doing it, why are we doing any of this?”

  • Windows TCO / Windows Bot Nets

    • Jupiter Broadcasting ☛ The backdoored Windows Fingerprint | The Launch 🚀 74

      A Scattered Spider arrest reveals how a VPN wasn't enough when backdoored Windows device telemetry helped investigators connect the dots.

    • Security Week ☛ Ghost Accounts Abuse Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub API in Mass Recon Campaign

      Multiple campaigns are using ghost accounts to map Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub organizations, including their repositories and members.

• Linux Foundation

  • InfoQ ☛ 'Linux' Foundation Launches Akrites to Protect Critical Open Source Software from AI-Powered Threats

    The 'Linux' Foundation has launched Akrites, a new industry-wide initiative aimed at defending the world's most critical open source software against a rapidly evolving generation of AI-enabled cyber threats.

    By Craig Risi

• Security

  • SANS ☛ Wireshark 4.6.7 Released, (Sat, Jul 11th)

    Wireshark release 4.6.7 fixes 12 vulnerabilities and 16 bugs.

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • Digital Music News ☛ Meta’s Newest Hey Hi (AI) Tool Is Using Your Instagram Photos Without Permission

      Meta has launched a new Hey Hi (AI) generator, available for free through the Meta Hey Hi (AI) app, as well as on Instagram Stories and WhatsApp. It’s already a problem. On Tuesday, Meta announced the launch of its new Hey Hi (AI) image generator, Muse Image, built by its dedicated Hey Hi (AI) unit, Meta Superintelligence Labs.

    • Futurism ☛ Palantir Insiders Disgusted by Company’s Leadership

      "An absolute internal meltdown."

• Defence/Aggression

  • New York Times ☛ Israel Investigating After Photo of Stripped and Bound Detainee Is Shared

    The Israeli military confirmed the authenticity of the photo, which circulated widely after it was shared by a Palestinian activist. Israeli rights groups said it depicted a war crime.

  • JURIST ☛ UN Syria inquiry urges investigation and accountability for detainees

    A UN Syria inquiry on Wednesday called on the international community to address Syria’s detainee and human rights crisis, which has persisted even after the downfall of the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad, pressing the new authorities to account for thousands still missing, ensure fair trials [...]

  • JURIST ☛ UN rights office urges Sri Lanka to investigate deadly prison violence amid torture allegations

    The UN Human Rights Office on Friday urged Sri Lankan authorities to conduct a prompt, independent and transparent investigation into recent incidents of prison violence following deadly clashes and allegations of torture involving transferred inmates.

  • New York Times ☛ Videos Shed Light on Pursuit Before ICE Killing in Houston

    Surveillance footage obtained by The Times shows ICE agents driving aggressively in unmarked vehicles, but the moment of the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo remains murky.

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • New York Times ☛ Inside the Secret Factory That Supplies Ukraine’s War Drones

      With its mass-produced and inexpensive Hey Hi (AI) powered war machines, the German start-up Helsing SE illustrates a profound shift in military spending.

    • RFERL ☛ Russian Ballistic Missiles Wreak Havoc As Zelenskyy Urges US To Speed Patriot Licenses

      Russian ultra-fast ballistic missiles continued to create havoc in Ukrainian cities, combining with drones and guided bombs to kill at least six people in the latest attacks, prompting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to urge Western allies to speed delivery of air defense weaponry.

    • France24 ☛ Overnight Russian missile and drone strikes on Ukraine kill eight, officials say

      Russian attacks on Ukraine killed eight people, including a child, and wounded dozens more, according to local officials on Saturday. Moscow launched more than 120 drones and 12 missiles during the night, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, putting his country's air defence system under strain.

    • New York Times ☛ How Putin Turned Japan Into a Den of Spies

      Operating out of a Tokyo high-rise, a military intelligence unit finds the high-tech equipment that Russia needs to wage war.

    • The Straits Times ☛ How Russia’s Putin turned Japan into a den of spies

      Japan’s weak espionage laws and flourishing high-tech industry have made it a crucial piece of the Russian war effort.

• Environment

  • Energy/Transportation

    • France24 ☛ An islandwide blackout strikes Cuba for the second time this week

      An islandwide blackout struck Cuba on Friday for the second time this week as the nation of nearly 10 million people grapples with a crumbling power grid and fuel shortages stemming from a U.S. energy blockade.

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • France24 ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man administration subpoenas New York Times journalists over Air Force One story

    The New York Times said on Saturday that the US Department of Justice had ​ordered several of its journalists to testify before a federal grand jury after they reported on security concerns involving The Insurrectionist's new Qatari-donated Air Force One.

  • BIA Net ☛ Turkey's media regulator tells broadcasters how to cover NATO summit in new directive

    According to law, it is not among RTÜK's duties to to decide how journalists will report on a topic or from which perspective a public debate will be conducted.

  • New York Times ☛ White House Directed Patel to Oversee Investigation Involving Times Reporting

    The F.B.I. director spent about eight hours at the White House Friday focused on the effort, which led to the subpoenaing of several Times reporters who wrote about the security of Air Force One.

• Civil Rights / Policing / Accessibility

  • JURIST ☛ UN decries life imprisonment sentence against human rights activist in Pakistan

    UN experts on Wednesday condemned the sentencing of Pakistani human rights defender Mahrang Baloch to two terms of life imprisonment by a court in Quetta, describing it as a “travesty” of justice.

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • APNIC ☛ [Podcast] Testing RSSAC 028 DNS root server name choices

    A measurement study of how the DNS bootstrap priming query behaves when the root servers are renamed and DNSSEC signatures are added.

  • APNIC ☛ Join the next listening session on increasing diversity in APNIC community leadership

    The APNIC Executive Council (EC) is seeking community input to better understand barriers affecting diversity in community leadership and EC candidacy. These insights will inform future initiatives to support a broader leadership pipeline.

  • APNIC ☛ ASPA at APNIC: Strengthening BGP path validation

    With support now available in MyAPNIC and the Registry Hey Hi (AI) APNIC Members can publish ASPAs to help detect route leaks and strengthen the integrity of Internet routing.

  • APNIC ☛ ROA adoption barriers to practical planning tools: Reflections from Hey Hi (AI) 57

    Guest Post: Even operators with strong BGP knowledge tend to create ROAs infrequently and may lack deep familiarity with their behaviour. ROOTBEER helps operators understand what to consider when creating ROAs.

  • APNIC ☛ APNIC Publishes Submission to Malaysia Public Consultation

    APNIC's submission to the Malaysia Communications and

    Multimedia Commission (MCMC) is now available.

• Monopolies/Monopsonies

  • Trademarks

    • The Straits Times ☛ When Goliath sues David: China’s trademark wars test public sympathy

      While lawyers say enforcement is legitimate, there is growing public sympathy for defendants seen as underdogs.

  • Copyrights

    • Tom's Hardware ☛ Future Nostalgia Project asks retro hoarders to ‘Copy That Floppy!’ — flips the early 1990s anti-piracy campaign on its head to encourage budding archivists

      Flipping the infamous early 1990s anti-piracy campaign messaging on its head, the Future Nostalgia Project is asking retro hoarders to Copy That Floppy!