Leftovers

• Vox ☛ 2026-08-10 [Older] How to staycation better

• Robert Birming ☛ What should you blog about?

  Don't fear the publish button.

• Protesilaos Stavrou ☛ Hierarchy in the extended family

  As such friends and neighbours become de facto relatives and are treated as equals. There is a sense of togetherness and belonging, which builds solidity at the social level. I have experienced all of this before and am eager to contribute to it at the earliest opportunity. No matter the state of technology and how sophisticated we think we are, the ancient traditions remain ever-relevant.

• Protesilaos Stavrou ☛ Criticism and the Internet friend

  A friend sometimes says nothing. Their deeds do the talking. You know that for as long as I can, I shall. And I will be there to inspire you to reach your highest peak. Why? Because I care about you in particular.

• James G ☛ Inspiration from physical artefacts

  I have three books about art that aren’t textbooks: a book of Monet’s work, Mini Louvre, and a book made for the Art of Manga exhibition that the de Young Museum in San Francisco held. For the latter book, I didn’t go to the exhibition but it looked so cool that I knew I wanted to have a physical artefact I could read. The print quality is delightful, and I have greatly enjoyed looking through and reading it. The book hasn't inspired me in a specific way, but it did satisfy my curiosity, and I love that it is there on my shelf whenever I want to learn a bit more about manga design.

• James G ☛ Surf by Stanley Cursiter

  The National Gallery of Scotland has a temporary exhibition of Stanley Cursiter’s artwork going on at the moment. Cursiter was both an artist and keeper (which I understand to be like a curator), later director, of the National Gallery of Scotland. The exhibition, in one of the side rooms to the main hall, is filled with a selection of works throughout his career.

• Jack Baty ☛ Reconfiguring my backups

  I've been sort of half-assing my Linux backups for a while now. I finally decided to fix them.

  My backups were a combination of rsync to a Hetzner Storage Box and Pika backups to an external drive. Each setup did different things, and there was no documentation. Testing the backups was a random and incomplete process that was too much work so I never did it. Rsync is easy and fast, but using the --delete option means that if I accidentally delete something and the backup runs, it's gone. Basically, my backup "system" was riddled with gaps and potential problems. Rather than tweak that, I borrowed ideas from My backup strategy 2026, by Michael Harley and started over.

• Zach Flower ☛ Let's Get Digital

  But all that new furniture looks so bare, doesn't it? Can't have an entertainment center without a television, can't have a dresser without clothes to fill it, or a desk without a computer, printer, and files; all those empty drawers, cabinets, cupboards, nooks, and crannies just need to be filled with things.

  And then, one day, you move, and the process starts all over.

• Dan MacKinlay ☛ Ergodicity economics

  An optionality-flavoured variant of economic decision theory (Peters 2019).

  A system is ergodic if averaging an observable across many parallel trajectories at a single moment gives the same answer as averaging it along one trajectory over time — i.e., “many people now” and “one person across many years” agree.

• [Old] Christian Hollinger ☛ More random home lab things I've recently learned | Christian Hollinger

  From my series of "Christian's Home Lab adventures", here's some more things I've recently learned / discovered and figured are worth sharing: NVMe SSDs on a Raspberry PI, ARM64 adventures, more zfs troubles, and some cool tools you should try.

• Science / Mathematics / Computer Science

  • Wired ☛ Astronomers Discover the Existence of a Black Hole Star

    These clues led scientists to the black hole star hypothesis. At the center of MoM-BH*-1, there would be a black hole devouring matter and releasing enormous amounts of energy. Surrounding it, a massive gas envelope. The energy would pass through that gas before escaping into space and, in the process, would acquire some of the characteristics we would normally expect to find in starlight.

  • Hackaday ☛ R-Selecting Tiny Probes To Shotgun Into Saturn’s Rings

    The concept is pretty simple: the rings are a horrifying mess of dust, debris, and ice bits of all sizes that represent almost certain death for a spacecraft. By launching 10,000 femtosatellites, those odds of almost certain death become an almost certainty that one or more will make it through with precious data. In the immortal words of Lord Farquhar, “Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make.” With Cassini, NASA would never consider such a sacrifice. With itty-bity femtosatellites, it starts to make sense. We’ve been saying for years that the future of space is tiny, but these sacrificial probes would make even modern cubesats and picosatellites look big.

  • Ben Joffe ☛ A faster way to calculate the day-of-the-week

    Converting a day-count ("rata-die") to the day-of-the-week (“weekday”) sounds like it should be so trivial, that there's almost nothing to say about it. But, as it turns out, when we look under the hood, this is a surprisingly complex problem.

    Throughout this article I will present a range of really fast functions to solve this problem, tuned for different use cases (throughput vs latency, different platforms etc.). Each outperforms existing solutions, and many have a latency of just a single multiplication plus two cycles. A surprising result is presented: the weekday can be computed in ISO format ([1‥7] instead of [0‥6]), with the exact same instructions, just with tweaked constants (and zero speed penalty).

  • [Old] Rowan Merewood ☛ Fractious (deep) | rowan.fyi

    Now, in my defence this was back in the day when you’d actually try to understand an algorithm rather than just asking a robot to write it for you. I’m not entirely sure what was happening here, but I was encouraged nonetheless because there’s clearly some relationship with the Mandelbrot set in the shape. A bit more studying and the next version was a huge leap forward: [...]

• Career/Education

  • The Nation ☛ Adjuncting Until the End of Time

    Universities now have more adjuncts than tenured and tenure-track professors combined. The conditions are unsustainable—for professors and students alike.

  • LabX Media Group ☛ The First Career Conversation Every PhD Student Deserves

    The implicit assumption within universities is that if you learn how to conduct excellent research, the career will take care of itself. But anyone who has spent time behind the laboratory bench knows this is a myth. And by the time they finally decode the unwritten rules of the game, many of their most important career decisions have already been made.

  • International Business Times ☛ Tennessee 'Teacher of the Year' Resigns After District Yields to Parent Over Failing Grade

    During her address, she asked what happens when children 'lie, cheat and cry their way through school'. She alleged district officials altered grades to satisfy a parent who had allegedly harassed more than 30 teachers.

  • Josh Lospinoso ☛ The Room Was Out of Air

    I can usually tell when a room has run out of air.

    The vents may still be moving. The water glasses may be full. The agenda may be crisp enough to suggest adult civilization has arrived in printed form. But the actual oxygen has gone somewhere else. It leaves when a title begins doing work that a person has not earned. It leaves when someone lower in rank starts editing a true sentence before it reaches the table. It leaves when the room agrees, quietly and all at once, that the subject is no longer what is true but who may say what without cost. Nobody announces this, which is part of the ugliness.

  • Computational Complexity ☛ Computational Complexity: IIT is the canary in the coalmine (Do our younger readers know what that means? Do we have younger readers?)

    Lance has posted about his, and around 160 others, being laid off from IIT here.(IIT stands for Illinois Institute of Technology which is where Lance was employed.)

    Hence I looked into what is happening at IIT to see if there is a lesson for us all.

  • NPR ☛ You have more free time than you think. Don't believe it? Try a time audit

    She realized that how she wanted to spend her time and how she was really spending it "were very much misaligned," she says. "I did not see enough of a reflection of things that brought me joy and contentment."

  • NPR ☛ The Taliban has taken a terrible toll on the education of girls -- and boys as well

    Before the Taliban returned to power five years ago — on August 15, 2021 — Mubariz remembered his public school as friendly and relatively open. Students studied English, science, mathematics, biology and literature alongside religious subjects. They could speak in class, share their opinions and ask questions. The school was not perfect, he said, but it felt safe and focused on learning.

    Mubariz, 19, says after the Taliban takeover, that atmosphere slowly disappeared.

    "Many people believe that only girls' education is affected," Mubariz said. "But boys are also facing a serious education crisis."

  • ACM ☛ People of ACM - Russ Cox

    Russ Cox is a Distinguished Engineer at Google. He was a leading figure in the development of the Go programming language and environment working with co-creators Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson, and serving as technical lead for over a decade. Before Go, he created Google Code Search, which provided regular-expression-based search over the world’s open-source code and led to the widely used RE2 regular expression library. He is on the editorial board for ACM Queue, a magazine for practicing software engineers.

• Hardware

  • Hackaday ☛ Another Radio On A Chip Design

    It used to be a rite of passage to build some sort of AM radio receiver. Many people started with a crystal radio, of course, but you’d graduate to maybe a TRF or superhet design. FM radio projects were not as common, because demodulating an FM signal was harder, as was making things work in the 100 MHz range. These days, though, you can get everything on a chip like the TEA5767, and [turtushig22-blip] has an open design that uses that device on a breakout board, a display, a knob, and an external amplifier. An ESP-32 pulls it together. You can see two videos about the project below.

• Proprietary / Vendor Lock-in / Malware

  • Xbox Spent a Decade Buying Games to Give Away. It Just Stopped

    In 2024, Microsoft gave away roughly $300M of Call of Duty in sales it chose not to make, by putting the year's biggest game on Game Pass the day it launched, instead of charging $70 for it. That figure comes from a person familiar with the matter who spoke to Bloomberg, and it covers one game in one year on Microsoft's own consoles and PC. PlayStation, which sold the game the ordinary way, took 82% of Black Ops 6 sales. This was the strategy, executed deliberately, on the theory that enough new subscribers would arrive to cover what the giveaway cost. They did not.

  • Xbox Elite 3 leak highlights company's biggest drawback compared to PlayStation

    It’s 2026, and Xbox is still relying on batteries to power its controllers, and keep in mind these premium ones cost upwards of $100.

  • Techdirt ☛ Dev Kills Cloud Version Of Game On Switch, Offers Discount To Rebuy It For Switch 2

    But, man, if you think it’s bad for a developer or publisher to not make good on refunds of a purchased game it shut down, wait until you get a load of Cold Iron Studios, which recently shutdown the cloud-only version of Aliens: Fireteam Elite on the Nintendo Switch.

  • Sam Smith ☛ Paperless cloud backups

    I chose to use Dropbox for my backups, because I have a lot of space available from sending invites years ago, and I have it synced onto my laptop which then gives me an additional backup there too. The methods below could also easily be applied to other cloud storage solutions.

  • Ars Technica ☛ PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider

    After its cloud storage provider went defunct, a PBS affiliate decided to sue a data center provider to regain access to 50TB of TV shows, videos, and other data dating back 70 years.

    As reported this week by Current, a trade newspaper covering public broadcasting, St. Louis affiliate Nine PBS filed a lawsuit against Iron Mountain Data Centers on July 28, seeking access to the data. In the litigation filed in Denver District Court, Nine PBS says that its cloud storage provider, Open Source Storage (OSS), used one of Iron Mountain’s Denver data centers to store the channel’s data. However, OSS is being unresponsive, and Nine PBS says Iron Mountain has refused to release its data.

  • [Old] IT News AU ☛ Zoom meetings weakly encrypted and get keys from China

    Technical analysis of how the very popular video conferencing app encrypts meeting data has found significant weaknesses and dubious practices, leading researchers to warn governments and others who need confidentiality to be protected not to use the software.

  • [Old] Citizen Lab ☛ FAQ on Zoom Security Issues

    Since the publication of our report, there has been a wide range of responses to our research from the media, public, and Zoom itself. This document provides answers to frequently asked questions and addresses some inaccurate framings of our research.

  • So-Called 'Artificial Intelligence' ('AI') / LLM Slop / Plagiarism

    • The Economist ☛ 2026-08-12 [Older] The Economist: ‘How to Spot AI Writing’

    • The Verge ☛ OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team

      This is the latest change at the company, which has been in upheaval as it heads towards what is expected to be a massive IPO. Over the last few years, it’s slowly torn down its more reach-led model, dissolving its AGI readiness and superalignment teams. Ethics lead Chloé Bakalar, Chief Futurist Josh Achiam, and head of safety Johannes Heidecke have all also left recently, leading some critics like Jan Leike, who resigned from OpenAI in 2024, to tell FT that the company was ignoring safety in favor of creating “shiny products.”

    • Nolan Lawson ☛ You can just choose how many bugs you want now | Read the Tea Leaves

      As many have noted, it doesn’t seem like the overall polish of software has increased since AI coding became a thing. If anything, there is just more junk and shovelware out there, of dubious quality. I think this demonstrates that, although our ability to find new bugs has skyrocketed, our overall tolerance for bugs has not changed. There are still plenty of winds blowing in the opposite direction: [...]

    • Martin Alderson ☛ How I think about reducing AI costs

      I've heard from a lot of readers that reducing this cost is becoming a hot topic internally.

      So, here's how I think about this problem at a high level.

    • Jamie Zawinski ☛ Do Not Talk To Me About "AI"

      These are unlikely to change any minds, but they will definitely shorten some incredibly tedious conversations at the bar.

    • Fabio Akita ☛ Understanding Anthropic's AI Watermark: How to Beat It

      The spark added up three ingredients: mandatory, global reach, and no opt-out. The mark can’t be switched off and applies outside Europe too. A wave of Claude Max subscribers canceled citing control and authorship of their own material.

      The fear is concrete, professional and academic. Drafting with Claude and signing the result as your own becomes a liability if, down the road, a detector points at “went through AI”. Anthropic answered with a post insisting the mark preserves reading, meaning, and quality, only signaling processing. Not everyone bought it.

    • John Gruber ☛ Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing

      My error was believing Anthropic that their system wouldn’t adulterate and corrupt the semantics of the text their models generate. That is in fact exactly what they plan to do. I should have my head examined for believing a single word of a document titled “How Claude Marks AI-Generated Content” that doesn’t explain, at all, how Claude marks (or will mark) AI-generated content.

  • Social Control Media

    • International Business Times ☛ 'Bluesky Is Down Again!' Furious Users Flood Outage Tracker as Social Media App Suffers Major Disruption

      The disruption appeared to gather pace around 10.37am EDT, when reports on outage tracker Downdetector began to climb. By 11.41am on 16 August, the site was showing more than 2,000 complaints linked to Bluesky not working. User reports suggest the problem is not confined to a single region, with mentions of the UK, Portugal and Canada alongside multiple parts of the US.

    • Manton Reece ☛ Manton Reece - What to do about X

      I think we’re entering a new phase for X as a platform. It’s a good time to reflect on what that means and how the open web and IndieWeb communities should respond. I would break down the various phases roughly like this: [...]

    • Hamilton Nolan ☛ Labor, Creators, and What's Next: Speaking With Katie Gatti Tassin and rayne fisher-quann

      How do people earn a living on Substack? What does it mean to be a worker when you’re an independent “creator?” What could organizing look like in this weird, disparate media paradigm? I got a chance to talk about labor in the creator economy with two outstanding writers on Substack: rayne fisher-quann, who writes at internet princess, and Katie Gatti Tassin, who runs Money With Katie and cohosts the Diabolical Lies podcast.

      This is the first Substack Live I’ve hosted at How Things Work. It’s also a product of the work of a group of fellow writers on this platform who have been discussing these issues for months now. More than 800 people watched the conversation live, and you can watch the video above. We hope to be hosting more conversations like this with other writers in coming months—you can follow thesubclub.substack.com to stay informed about future talks and organizing efforts. A full transcript is below. Feedback is welcomed. The first step towards solidarity is talking to each other.

    • Don Marti ☛ How Meta will fail at prediction markets

      Meta bought Instagram and Whatsapp, and continues to grow as part of the advertising duopoly, but making new consumer-facing stuff, not so much. Open Compute Project was a huge success inside the IT department, but nobody has their hardware at home. The interesting part here isn’t that Meta is going to fail at prediction markets, it’s how they’re going to fail.

    • Christian Heilmann ☛ Anti-Social Media

      Currently I am on a half diet of social media as I am still locked out of X and by now I really don’t mind any more. Social media is dead and has been weaponised into a distraction, propaganda and rage discourse machine. I wished it weren’t that way, but we truly and thoroughly allowed the “social” web to become a dumpster fire that fuels hate, distrust and confusion. The goal is not shared experiences or creativity, the goal is to keep people glued to the screens and pissed off enough so they comment on other people being wrong on the internets using pre-made memes, AI slop and sound bites.

    • Owl Owl OÜ ☛ What Is Mastodon?

      Mastodon takes the social network apart into smaller pieces: operators, communities, rules, and software that agree on a shared protocol.

• Security

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • SQ Magazine ☛ SafePal Data Breach Exposes 39,798 Customers' Data

      SafePal said the flaw sat in the order tracking function of a plug-in tied to customer order information, and under certain conditions it let one customer see another customer’s order details without authorization. The company fixed the issue after discovery and added extra security measures, though it hasn’t said what those measures involve.

      SafePal has not disclosed how the flaw was found or how long it was exploitable before the fix, gaps that leave the full timeline of unauthorized access unclear. “No evidence has been found that the incident itself compromised access to SafePal wallets or funds,” the company said in its blog post disclosing the security update.

• Defence/Aggression

  • TruthOut ☛ How a Billionaire Is Using His Fortune to Reshape the Democratic Party

    Three years later, Mandel, 70, is the largest bankroller of a nascent political machine promising to “redefine” the Democratic Party after its disastrous performance in the 2024 election. Rather than keeping to closed-door fundraising events, as he’s done in the past, Mandel has adopted a newly assertive approach as a mega-donor.

  • International Business Times ☛ US Navy Sailor Exposes Alleged Filthy Conditions Living Aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln After 250 Days at Sea

    The allegations circulating online describe conditions that would be difficult for any crew to endure, let alone sailors working long shifts aboard a carrier engaged in sustained military operations. Reports have highlighted problems involving food, plumbing, hygiene supplies and access to basic comforts.

  • RAIR Foundation ☛ BREAKING: Michigan Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed to Appear with Cleric Who Praised Hitler’s ‘Qur’anically Correct’ Genocide of the Jews (Video)

    Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is scheduled to speak at the Muslim Brotherhood-linked ISNA convention in Detroit alongside Pakistani cleric Tariq Masood, who in a 2024 lecture praised Hitler’s view of the Jews as “Qur’anically correct” and justified the Holocaust by saying Hitler “did the right thing.”

• Environment

  • CBC ☛ 2026-08-07 [Older] Canadians' climate change concerns rebound amid wildfire season

  • NL Times ☛ 2026-08-08 [Older] Video: Police arrest 45 climate activists after A12 blockade in The Hague

  • TruthOut ☛ 2026-08-11 [Older] Federal Court Dismisses Youth Climate Lawsuit Challenging Cheeto Mussolini Executive Orders

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-08-11 [Older] Disrupted monsoons force India to face climate threat

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-08-11 [Older] How one German city plans to challenge climate extremes

  • TruthOut ☛ 2026-08-10 [Older] Forget Climate Doomerism. We Know What We Must Do to Protect the Planet.

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-08-10 [Older] How climate change is reshaping Africa's malaria risk

  • Counter Punch ☛ 2026-08-09 [Older] Why Write About Climate Change?

  • The Age AU ☛ 2026-08-09 [Older] Ready or not: How can we prepare for a hostile climate?

  • The Age AU ☛ 2026-08-09 [Older] Climate: things are going to get ugly

  • Energy/Transportation

    • International Business Times ☛ 2026-08-11 [Older] Octopus Energy Solar Eclipse Warning Explains How Britain Could Lose up to 1.3 Gigawatts of Power

    • TruthOut ☛ 2026-08-06 [Older] Juliana Leon Died in a Climate-Linked Heat Wave. Her Daughter Is Suing Big Oil.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • Silicon Angle ☛ Stripe reportedly finalizes deal to buy AI model router OpenRouter for more than $7B

    The company’s pitch is that one integration outlives any single model. A customer writes to OpenRouter once, then swaps between OpenAI Group PBC, Anthropic PBC or a cheaper open-weight alternative without touching the code, with the router picking on cost, speed or which provider happens to be up. It takes a cut of about 5% of the inference spend passing through it and says it has roughly 8 million users.

  • International Business Times ☛ 'Operation Epstein Fury': US Servicemen in Persian Gulf Allegedly Scrawl Provocative Graffiti on Aircraft

    To support his account of low morale, Parsi shared a message he said he received from a deployed serviceman. The individual claimed that what people in the media fail to understand when comparing past conflicts to this current one is that this operation has no morale behind it.

  • Predrag Gruevski ☛ Protecting the Rust standard library from accidental breakage

    Accidental breakage can happen in any codebase. The Rust standard library isn't magically exempt from this — so it too now uses cargo-semver-checks to prevent accidental breakage. Here's why this took months of work by multiple Rustaceans, dozens of pull requests, and 15,000+ lines of code across the Rust repo, cargo-semver-checks, and its component libraries.

  • No One's Happy ☛ When the Shortage is the Strategy

    In 2026, with reducing regulations, rampant collusion, lack of competition, and direct evidence (the pandemic) that corporations can gouge consumers without concern, we are in a dire circumstance that has caused goods to increase in cost 3x (or more) in 6 years. It’s truly unprecedented, and in my opinion, everyone should be aware of the specifics. Because even if you are one of the fortunate that are still able to afford your quality of life, there are things you can do for those that are closer to not being able to.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • The Gray Zone ☛ Exclusive: Palestine Action facing new rigged ‘terrorism’ trials

    In their attack on the direct action group, authorities clearly aim to neutralize one of the most effective mechanism that British citizens have for obstructing the machinery of genocide which grinds away on their soil, with the protection of their government. In modern Britain, there’s no telling what forms of political activism will be categorized as “terrorism” next.

  • International Business Times ☛ TikTok Wipes Dearborn Islam Documentary After 230K Likes: Creator Stripped of Earnings and Threatened With Permanent Ban

    The social media platform began deleting a series of investigative videos critical of Islam this week, citing internal community guidelines. The enforcement also affected separate footage from independent journalist James O'Keefe in Minnesota that alleged election vulnerabilities.

• Civil Rights / Policing / Accessibility

  • The Verge ☛ Amazon is trying to crush class-action suits before they get started

    On Friday, Amazon customers received an email alerting them to an update to the site’s terms and conditions. Most notably, it stated that disputes would now be resolved through arbitration and said users agree to a class action waiver.

    Amazon framed this as a “fast and efficient” way to resolve issues, but it notably would prevent customers from seeking the involvement of a judge or jury in most circumstances. Customers can still take Amazon to small claims court in certain circumstances, though payouts are often limited to a few thousand dollars.

  • Jamie Zawinski ☛ The Orwellian Company Behind ICE's New Electric Shock Gloves

    We can only hope that these lead to an epidemic of ICE goons accidentally burning their own dicks off.

  • Mother Jones ☛ The Orwellian Company Behind ICE’s New Electric Shock Gloves – Mother Jones

    “In today’s society, you know, everybody’s filming everything, everybody has a cell phone,” Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But “the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars.”

    The gloves, manufactured by a company called Compliant Technologies, have been used by police, sheriffs, jail wardens, and even school resource officers for years. They’ve been described by groups like Amnesty International as “readily misused for torture.” And this week, ICE published a plan to order $20 million worth of them.

  • Jerusalem Post ☛ Half of Afghan women rarely leave home as Taliban restrictions deepen, UN agency says

    "Half a decade after the Taliban takeover in August 2021, Afghanistan has systematically dismantled the rights of half its population, making it a global outlier with no parallel in the modern world," UN Women said in a statement.

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ UNESCO: 2.4 million girls barred from school in Afghanistan

    Around 2.4 million girls in Afghanistan have been denied access to secondary education since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, UNESCO said Tuesday.

    The figure has risen by about 200,000 since last year and could reach nearly four million by 2030 if the ban remains in place.

  • UNESCO ☛ Five years on: Keeping learning alive for girls and women in Afghanistan

    UNESCO remains committed to ensuring that Afghan girls and women can continue to learn, develop skills, and pursue opportunities for the future, despite the ongoing ban on girls’ access to secondary and higher education. Through community-based literacy, skills development, and psychosocial support programmes, UNESCO is keeping learning pathways open and helping women and girls strengthen their resilience and livelihoods.

• Monopolies/Monopsonies

  • Patents

    • 2026-08-12 [Older] Amici Address Section 1498 Scope in Moderna COVID-19 Infringement Appeal: In Favor of Affirmance

    • IP Kat ☛ 2026-08-10 [Older] AI in the patent industry: Beware the MCP Trojan horse

    • IP Kat ☛ 2026-08-07 [Older] Claim construction checkpoints: Application as filed versus granted patent (T 0715/24)

  • Copyrights

    • Torrent Freak ☛ Researchers Hunt Telegram Pirates with AI Tool, Flag Hundreds of Channels

      A new academic study offers a detailed look inside Telegram's video piracy ecosystem, spotting more than 19,000 pirated titles linked in posts that were viewed more than 4 billion times. The researchers built an AI-powered tool that can spot pirate channels and bots, which were reported to Telegram and shared with major rightsholders. The takedown effort produced results but was far from flawless.