Leftovers

• Science / Mathematics / Computer Science

  • Hackaday ☛ Smelting Bog Ore As It Should Be Done

    Sometimes along comes a hack with a personal angle, and in a video showing Irish bog ore smelting, we find an appropriate follow up to a Hackaday expedition back in 2019. [Alec Steele] joined Irish Bloomery Iron, for a weekend with a medieval blast furnace.

  • John D Cook ☛ Navigation with only addition, subtraction, and tables

    It is true that if someone can add, subtract, and look-up numbers in a table of logarithms, they can effectively multiply. To find the product xy, they would look up the logarithms of x and y, add the results, then use the table in reverse to find what number has a logarithm equal to the sum.

• Career/Education

  • Kore Nordmann ☛ Visible Actions Are More Important than Speech

    I have sat in an all-hands where a manager gave a clear, well-delivered speech about some value the company supposedly held, and then sat in the smaller follow-up meeting an hour later where the same manager did exactly the opposite. You can guess which one the room believed. Not the speech. People take what you do as the real message and treat what you say as a label stuck on top of it, and when the label and the behaviour disagree, the behaviour wins every time.

    This follows directly from the fact that hierarchy exists. People watch those with power over them closely, because they have to. Your behaviour is the clearest signal they have about what actually gets rewarded and punished here, and they will calibrate on it and replicate it, no matter what the posters on the wall say.

  • Jeroen Sangers ☛ A goal only counts as a goal when you can force the outcome yourself, otherwise it is a dream

    The distinction is more than semantics. It shapes how motivation behaves. As long as you see a clear link between your effort and the result, intrinsic motivation holds up. Once that link breaks, a downward spiral begins: a weaker sense of control leads to less effort, less effort produces a worse result, and that result confirms the feeling of helplessness. A dream treated as a goal undermines the very motivation the goal was meant to spark.

• Hardware

  • Ruben Schade ☛ Troubleshooting a weird keyboard on a Pentium III

    Clara and I found this Pentium III motherboard and a collection of parts off the side of the road in Chatswood back in 2024. I put it into an Antec case from my father in law, and it’s gradually become my primary utility PC. I use it to test hard drives and expansion cards before I put them into my other machines, and I use its 5.25 and 3.5 disk drives for imaging and creating boot disks.

  • Chris Aldrich ☛ A visit to Helmut Schulze at Rees Electronics/Star Typewriter | Chris Aldrich

    If you’re looking for a really great refurbished machine, then this is the place to stop in and try out almost anything ever manufactured.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • Wired ☛ The Organization Fighting Ebola Has Never Been More Worried

    The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is on track to be the largest ever.

  • Bryce Wray ☛ Eight years, and done | BryceWray.com

    Any hardy souls who might still find usefulness in my existing posts can rest assured that the site itself will continue online for as long as I have the marbles to keep it there. On that note, please be aware that, some time ago, I quit worrying about trying to fix every little bit of past content, especially when it came to technical details that had changed over the years — I decided that the posts’ dates made it clear enough that, ahem, this crap is from the past.

• Proprietary / Vendor Lock-in / Malware

  • Nick Heer ☛ Apple: ‘Turn Off and Restrict Access to Apple Intelligence Features on Mac’

    Under MacOS Sonoma, pre-Apple Intelligence, system files consumed 18.4 GB in Ars Technica’s testing. Golden Gate is a whopping 42.9 GB. Not all of this disparity is Apple Intelligence models — on my Mac, the various model directories add up to about 18 GB, give or take — but on a lower-spec MacBook Neo, iMac, or Mac Mini, that means around one-sixth of the drive is consumed by the system. That is considerable.

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

    • Tech Central (South Africa) ☛ Rogue AI agents are already loose inside big companies

      Adam Ely, GM of AI security at Check Point Software Technologies, says that reading is too narrow: the same behaviour is already showing up inside ordinary companies running ordinary agents.

    • SBS ☛ Medicare hack alert went to inbox checked once a day and took five days to be escalated

      Government ministers have shared new details about the timeline of a Medicare breach by an OpenAI agent, revealing that OpenAI's notification of the hack was sent to an inbox checked once a day.

    • India Times ☛ Ex-Google safety chief warns AI could harm children more than social media did

      The founder of the trust and safety team at Alphabet's Google this week called for a slowdown in AI development, warning that the tech industry was repeating the same mistakes from the social media era, potentially causing even greater harm to children.

    • India Times ☛ AI [Internet] takeover: Worries about an AI [Internet] takeover gain new urgency among doomsday scenarios

      The world got a glimpse of the [Internet]'s vulnerability in 2024, when a faulty software update provided by a cybersecurity firm caused technological havoc worldwide, grounding flights, knocking down some financial companies and news outlets, and disrupting hospitals, small businesses and government offices. The breadth of the outages highlighted the dependence on just a few providers for key computing services.

      Two years later, Amodei in his warning said a botnet, or a network of AI bots linked together with malware, could potentially cause billions of dollars in damage. The scale of destruction could grow if AI becomes more powerful without guardrails, he said.

    • Tom's Hardware ☛ China's ByteDance gained access to over 2,000 Nvidia B200 chips through Norway data center — Singaporean subsidiary Spring contributed 73% of NScale's 2025 revenue

      UK-based “neocloud” Nscale built its business on a major deal with a ByteDance subsidiary named Spring, which accounted for $24 million of its $33 million annual revenue in 2025. This contract allowed Spring to access 2,304 Nvidia B200 chips at Nscale’s Glomfjord, Norway, data center. Even though the Financial Times reports that this was legal and exploited loopholes in the U.S.’s ongoing export controls against China, it still exposes the company to regulatory and reputational risk, especially as Washington continues to restrict Chinese access to its most advanced AI accelerators.

    • Nate Graham ☛ KDE and AI, and you, and me – Adventures in Linux and KDE

      Here’s a verifiable timeline of events:

      1. Several weeks ago, a KDE developer started a mailing list thread asking about how we should handle the flood of AI slop merge requests.

      2. Everyone agreed it was a problem, and that we don’t want that crap.

      3. There was less certainty about the best way to handle it socially.

      [...]

    • Michael Geist ☛ An AI Transparency Act for Canada: My Submission to the Government's AI Transparency Consultation

      The government’s consultation on AI transparency closed yesterday. My submission builds on appearances before the House of Commons Industry committee, the Senate Transport and Communications committee, and the Senate Social Affairs committee, and recommends an AI Transparency Act built on three pillars: mandatory public disclosure of AI corporate safety and escalation policies, an issue I raised in the aftermath of Tumbler Ridge, transparency on the works included in AI training data, and annual transparency reports on government and law enforcement demands for user data. It addresses each of the discussion paper’s five areas, including why Bill C-36 (the government’s privacy reform bill) is unlikely to facilitate better transparency in automated decision-making before at least 2030 and why Bill C-34’s synthetic content labelling obligation does not fully address the issue of identifying such content that can mislead. The full submission is posted below.

    • Colin Breck ☛ I Don’t Want to Read What You Didn’t Write

      A pattern I see is that people use AI to build something new, then they use AI to retrospectively summarize what they have already built into a design document. Reading a document like this isn’t just difficult—it is punishing. The design document is no longer a proposal to build consensus, bring people along with you, and refine ideas through slow, deliberate thinking—it is a summary made by a machine, in exhausting detail, without context or perspective. It is unreadable. Inhumane. The authors of these documents become impatient when people aren’t engaged, and it is hard not to be, because the thing they built is already working.[1]

    • David Revoy ☛ The Degraded Search Engine - David Revoy

    • Pivot to AI ☛ US nearly attacks Chinese ship based on AI hallucination

      That is, the analyst just chucked a pile of stuff into the magical truth machine and assumed whatever came out was obviously correct! And not just the chatbot making up a story that sounded important.

      Three senators have written to the Department of Defense, asking: what on earth?

      This happened because the US Department of Defense is fully chatbot brained and deep in military AI psychosis.

    • Computational Complexity ☛ Computational Complexity: The New STOC Rules for the AI Era

      Let's talk about these changes, which seem more designed to limit the deluge of AI generated papers.

      STOC 2027 submissions will not be anonymous; all listed authors must be human and are responsible for the submission.

      This reverses the move to removing authors' names that STOC made in 2023. I was never a fan of double blind reviewing and you need authors who can take responsibility for the submission.

    • KDE for People ☛ KDE for People

      KDE Should place a ban on Generative AI in Plasma and Plasma Components.

      Other parts of KDE should be considered too.

      This ban should be founded on a pro-people outlook to community, ethics and with respect for the work that has gone into KDE software and projects for decades.

      This isn't about figuring out the exact percentage of AI in any given commit, things will slip through. This is about signaling to the outside what kind of community KDE is, and keeping true to KDE's vision for the future; About privacy and control, but first and foremost about the people of KDE.

    • [Old] Buttondown LLC ☛ How to talk about "AI" without adding to the anthropomorphization

      In our op-ed for Tech Policy Press ("We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'"), we made the case against the anthropomorphizing language that makes it harder to have clear discussions of what so-called "AI" technologies actually do, and when and whether to use them. But these ways of speaking are deeply ingrained at this point, and it takes work carve new conversational and writing habits. That work involves at least three steps: [...]

    • No Sloptober ☛ No Sloptober

      This October we challenge you to abstain from LLM based tools entirely. Think of this as a fast for your mind! This is not a judgement of others, but a personal challenge to you.

      Nuance is hard (if not impossible on the [Internet]), and so is balance.

    • Yle ☛ Strong newspaper readership continues in Finland, survey shows

      For the very first time, the survey asked about people's views on artificial intelligence use in the media. The vast majority (91%) said they would like to know when media content [sic] is created with AI.

  • Social Control Media

    • NL Times ☛ 8 in 10 people aged 16-34 say smartphone use harms their everyday life

      For 79 percent - eight in ten- the hours they spend scrolling have a negative effect on them. Fifty-one percent lost concentration and productivity, while 40 percent reported losing sleep and 32 percent reported losing the ability to relax.

    • Dan Sinker ☛ What If We Just Stopped?

      Because logging in after a while away, it was painfully clear just how broken it all was. All the things that made social media so vital a decade or two ago have fallen apart, replaced by algorithms, engagement hacks, and endless, bottomless, screaming.

      We're in a cycle of constant outrage (which is not to downplay how actually outrageous the time we're living in is), pushed by the insatiable need for engagement that has been stoked by algorithms and the misaligned incentive structures that have emerged in the last few years that need people to stay mad bro to keep the dollars flowing.

  • Windows TCO / Windows Bot Nets

    • The Record ☛ Ryuk ransomware operator gets 2-year sentence after extorting victims for $1.2 million

      Prosecutors accused Vardanyan of being a core member of the Ryuk ransomware gang, noting in court documents that he and his co-conspirators launched over 2,400 ransomware attacks on victims around the world, including state and local municipalities.

    • Scoop News Group ☛ Ryuk ransomware operator sentenced to 2 years in prison

      A 35-year-old Armenian national was sentenced to two years in prison for his involvement in a series of Ryuk ransomware attacks while living in Ukraine and Russia in 2019 and 2020, the Justice Department said Tuesday.

• Security

  • Integrity/Availability/Authenticity

    • Dark Reading ☛ GitLab Email Addresses Can Be Weaponized for Supply Chain Attacks

      But GitLab email addresses each contain a non-expiring token that provides broad access to an organization's resources — and not just the project in which an individual user is working. And if that address itself is publicly exposed, an attacker could abuse it for supply chain attacks without needing actual access to the account.

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • Bhaskar English ☛ WhatsApp Bringing Third-Party AI Agents to iPhones | Privacy Alert

      WhatsApp is reportedly opening its platform to third-party agents, allowing developers to create services that users can access through the messaging app. According to WABetaInfo, the feature has been spotted in the WhatsApp beta for iOS 26.37.10.70, available through TestFlight.

    • The Record ☛ UK regulator to investigate Pornhub parent company for alleged age verification failings

      In May, Pornhub began using a new age assurance process to verify some users’ ages, according to an Ofcom press release. The new method relies on signals from Apple that suggest under 18s in the UK “may have completed Apple’s age checks,” the press release said.

• Defence/Aggression

  • The Kyiv Independent ☛ There are no elections in Russia, only theater

    The piece fundamentally questioned the practice, starting with the headline: "Why the Russians Bother With Elections." The piece highlighted absurdities ("The ballot needs no "X," it can be put in the box as printed, without further effort.”) and emphasized that, despite appearance, the exercise was a complete sham.

  • SBS ☛ Melbourne man accused of spreading propaganda for Islamic State group arrested

    The scale of extremist material the man was accused of spreading put him among the top propagandists on the encrypted messaging platform he used, AFP acting assistant commissioner Paula Hudson said.

    "The material allegedly shared by this man glorified acts of extreme violence and promoted a terrorist organisation, spreading a hateful ideology that's designed to radicalise others," Hudson said.

  • Paul Krugman ☛ It’s “Underwear on the Outside” Time

    Most reporting on Trump’s speech emphasized either his belligerence — his rejection of global cooperation — or the fact that almost everything he said was a lie. But isn’t the bigger story the fact that the leader of what used to be the world’s most powerful nation — I say “used to be” because America’s power is collapsing before our eyes — has clearly and undeniably lost his mind?

    [...]

    There is a straight line from Koch Brothers money, allied with segregationists and religious fundamentalists, that runs through the Federalist Society and the Roberts Supreme Court, through the MAGA-fied Republican Party, through the crypto-industry and the tech-broligarchy, that leads to Trump. And it will take a single-minded, fearless and incorruptible new generation of Democrats to defeat this many-headed hydra.

• Transparency/Investigative Reporting

  • Pro Publica ☛ ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe

    The ProPublica story revealed that the FBI had been circling the senator, her top aides and a pro-Collins super PAC in recent years, asking questions about their relationship with Navatek. Since returning to office, President Donald Trump fired or pushed out most of the federal agents and lawyers investigating high-profile federal corruption matters, including those working on the Kao case. The dismissals ended the corruption review, which was in its early stages.

    After the story published, Collins and her campaign denied any wrongdoing in numerous media appearances. Some of the statements made by Collins and her representatives are not accurate.

• Environment

  • Bhaskar English ☛ AI Data Centre Environmental Impact; Global Protests & Restrictions

    As the AI boom accelerates, companies are building these facilities at an unprecedented pace. But the expansion is increasingly running into resistance from communities and governments concerned about electricity demand, water consumption, pollution, noise, and who ultimately pays for the supporting infrastructure.

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • The Hindu ☛ Elephant calf swept away in Teesta rescued by fishermen, reunited with mother

      The calf was crossing the river near the barrage when the strong currents swept it away from the herd. Its rescue was captured on camera

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • India Times ☛ Microsoft plans $10 billion-plus Gulf investment with focus on resilience

    It could not provide a breakdown of the planned investment by country or specific project, Smith said, citing factors including security.

  • International Business Times ☛ Amazon Cut 30,000 Jobs But Now It Wants Laid-Off AI Workers Back as It Battles Google and OpenAI for Talent

    The outreach follows several rounds of job cuts in 2026 that eliminated more than 30,000 positions across the company. Recruiters working inside Amazon's AI agent organisation have led the push as the firm races against rivals such as Google, OpenAI, Meta and Anthropic for workers with specialised AI skills.

  • Pete Brown ☛ Maybe you should read all the way to the end of the story…

    I find it at least encouraging that we now finally seem to be getting a lot of coverage and public discussion about the outlandish and unhinged theories underpinning the delusional aspirations of Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs. Would it have been better to be talking about this en masse three or four years ago? Sure, but I’m hoping this is a case of late being better than never.

  • Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

    • Truthdig ☛ Pete Hegseth Wants to Be President

      Hegseth’s replacement press corps — who dutifully signed his loyalty oath that binds them to report only information “authorized” by the government — hailed from right-wing propaganda outlets like One America News, Gateway Pundit and LindellTV, which is “MyPillow Guy” Mike Lindell’s pet project.

      Among the newbies was Jennica Pounds, a Utah influencer known as DataRepublican, who three months after receiving her press pass would transition from covering the Pentagon to working for it — while still posting regularly. “What Pounds didn’t reveal as she grew her social media presence was that she was secretly working at the Department of Defense,” Will Sommer reported for the Bulwark: [...]

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • Meduza ☛ ‘I was literally in prison.’ Owner of Lady Gaga fan account with 480,000 followers returns as reports identify him as a Belarusian protest prisoner.

    The owner of a Lady Gaga fan account on X said he had been offline for two years because he was arrested in early 2024 “for protesting against the government” and sentenced to two years in prison.

  • Walled Culture ☛ How copyright is being abused to censor Albania’s Flamingo Revolution

    Against the background of those recurrent copyright topics, it is interesting to see a less familiar issue crop up recently. It concerns large-scale protests taking place in Albania. They were triggered by revelations that Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law, planned luxury tourism developments in two important Albanian natural habitats. One of them, the Vjosa–Narta wetland ecosystem, is the home of flamingos. This has led to the mass protests being given the name the Flamingo Revolution.

  • CPJ ☛ DRC journalist arrested on allegations of defaming musician Fally Ipupa

    “DRC authorities must immediately and unconditionally release journalist Virginie Manganga, decriminalize defamation, and join the growing community of African nations that have already done so,” said CPJ Africa Director Angela Quintal. “Detaining two journalists on criminal defamation and false news charges in a single week highlights how the DRC is escalating pressure on the media.”

  • 404 Media ☛ Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Quietly Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting

    Mia Hyder had never attended a public meeting before when she showed up to the city council meeting in Springfield, Missouri. After briefly speaking at a podium during a public comment period, she was arrested and dragged away in handcuffs.

    “Hello, my name is Mylie Hyder. I’m a Springfield, Missouri constituent, and I’m here to oppose the usage of ALPR cameras, most commonly made by Flock Safety. These cameras are not just surveillance,” Hyder started.

    “I’m sorry ma’am,” Springfield Mayor Jeff Schrag said. Her mic was cut. A cop approached her at the podium.

    Hyder held up both of her middle fingers while continuing to speak: “They are an invasion of our privacy,” she said.

    The cop said, “You’re under arrest,” grabbed her arms, and pulled her out of the room. “I can do this all night. I get paid by the hour,” the cop added.

  • Ken Klippenstein ☛ Feds Target AI Critics As “Foreign Agents”

    This week, in little-noticed remarks by President Trump and Justice Department warning, the administration declared war on protestors and opponents of AI, threatening “criminal liability” if they “further the propaganda or other goals of a foreign power.”

    While that sounds like some modern day Tokyo Rose shilling for Beijing, with orders coming in over shortwave radio, the actual targets are just normal people who have no idea they are part of the government’s latest national security mirage.

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • Robert Reich ☛ Now, CNN

    Collins then repeated her question twice while Trump ignored her.

    CNN’s days of asking hard questions of Trump may be coming to an end anyway, now that California Attorney General Rob Bonta has allowed Trump lapdog billionaire Larry Ellison and son David to take over CNN.

  • El País ☛ David Ellison’s final maneuver to become the new king of Hollywood

    David Ellison is the product of two passions: his mother’s love of cinema and his father’s taste for risk. He is also the founder of Skydance, the small film production company that in less than two years has swallowed up two industry giants—Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery—to create one of the world’s largest entertainment and communications empires, one with a vast film catalogue, news networks such as CBS and CNN; a constellation of TV channels including MTV, Nickelodeon, TCM, Discovery and TNT; and streaming platforms like HBO and Paramount+.

  • FPF ☛ The CNN “independence board” is a worthless, First Amendment nightmare

    The following can be attributed to Freedom of the Press Foundation Chief of Advocacy Seth Stern:

    “A Paramount-appointed editorial independence board for CNN and CBS is worthless. The fish rots from the head, and this particular fish is headed by a compromised oligarch with a history of throwing journalists under the bus to advance his business interests.”

  • ABC ☛ 'Blatant violation' of rights: News outlets file lawsuit over Trump ban

    In a joint statement on Monday, the three news outlets said the lawsuit aims to "protect our First Amendment rights and defend the principle that the government does not decide what the press reports or publishes."

    "Without notice or process, the White House revoked our journalists' credentials because it objected to our reporting. Left unchallenged, this threatens press freedom and the public's right to independent journalism free from government interference," the statement said.

  • NPR ☛ A journalist once barred from the White House says this media ban is different

    Acosta rejected the idea that journalists should think of coverage as positive or negative, saying their job is to report news that matters to the public. He said Trump's objections, "by and large," are to being fact-checked.

    "Do we just allow truth to become lies and lies to become truth," Acosta asked, "or are we there to provide sort of a safety valve for the American people to make sure they're getting fair, accurate information at all times, no matter who's in charge, without fear or favor?"

  • Deadline ☛ Trump Insists White House Ban On CNN, MS Now Is Constitutional

    After Trump banned the three outlets on Friday, CNN, Politico and MS NOW jointly sued the president and top staffers, claiming violations of the First and Fifth amendments.

    “This ban could not be a more direct assault on the First Amendment nor a more blatant violation of our most fundamental constitutional principles,” their lawsuit stated.

  • ABC ☛ CNN, MS NOW, Politico to sue Trump admin over White House access

    Monday's lawsuit is expected to cite a 1977 ruling in which the full D.C. Circuit found that the White House cannot arbitrarily deny a journalist a press pass without due process.

    "As the D.C. Circuit has long held, the interest that members of the press have in their White House hard passes is 'protected by the first amendment' and 'undoubtedly qualifies as liberty which may not be denied without due process of law under the fifth amendment,'" the attorneys wrote, according to the court papers shared by Politico.

• Civil Rights / Policing / Accessibility

  • Sal ☛ Added :visited colors

    I was amused to see Kev’s post because I had the same experience and realization recently. It dawned on me as I was perusing some big list of links that it really is helpful to have a visual indicator of which ones I’ve already clicked.

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • Meduza ☛ Russia weighs charging heavy 5G users for international data as part of its VPN crackdown. For now, the country’s 5G is Android-only.

    The fee could take effect on October 1, the BBC Russian Service said. However, a source at one of Russia’s “Big Four” mobile operators — MTS, Beeline, MegaFon, and T2 — said neither the effective date nor the amount has been set.

  • Press Gazette ☛ Fifth of News UK website traffic was 'non-human' in past six months

    Parent company News Corp is following what chief executive Robert Thomson has described as a “woo and sue” strategy, meaning “we’d like you to be our partner, but if you’re stealing our stuff we are going to sue you”. News Corp has AI licensing deals with OpenAI and Meta but is suing Perplexity.

    Jackson said News UK has now moved to an “allow list” so only things they chose to specify were allowed to scrape their sites. But he said this was still “not really nuanced and sophisticated enough”.

    News UK is now using bot protection software Netacea which Jackson said “basically looks for bot traffic and decides which bots it’s going to block and which isn’t”.

  • [Old] Mashbean ☛ Measuring Taiwan’s Mobile Slowdown with OONI in Taipei

    Taiwan’s mobile-network throttling drill ended at 15:00 on 13 August 2026. At this Taiwan Mobile 4G observation point in Taipei, download still measured 55.2 kbit/s at 15:08, and the streaming test beginning at 15:10 timed out.

    A complete retest at 17:47 measured 30.1 Mbit/s down and completed the streaming, Tor, and Snowflake tests. The observation indicates that the slowdown persisted beyond the announced end and that usable transfer capacity returned later.

    This report covers one SIM, one observation point, and several measurement times. It cannot represent all of Taipei or establish the exact recovery time.

• Monopolies/Monopsonies

  • Wired ☛ The Pope’s AI Guy Is Worried About ‘Cartel’ Behavior Among Big Labs

    Paolo Benanti tells WIRED that hysteria over whether godlike AI could destroy humanity is distracting from the need for public debate about how to govern the technology.

  • France24 ☛ Holy regulation? Pope in Paris to press case for 'disarming' AI - The Debate

    Perhaps part of the answer lies with Leo’s first stop - UNESCO - where he’ll speak about artificial intelligence in what’s billed as the follow up to his Spring encyclical on the issue. As panelists in this studio repeated just last week, machines per se are not taking over. But the happy few who control the most powerful AI tools have amassed outsized power. The existential threats posed by technology, are they a matter of faith, sanctity of life, morals? And what does the world’s largest organized religion bring to the table?

  • Copyrights

    • Torrent Freak ☛ Pirate Site Must Face Chinese Streaming Giant Tencent in U.S. Court, Judge Rules

      China's biggest streaming companies are using U.S. courts to take down pirate sites, and a Florida judge just made that path easier. Overruling a magistrate's recommendation, the court ruled that the Chinese-language pirate site Olevod, which is run by a Spanish company, must answer Tencent's lawsuit in Florida.