Leftovers

• Audiocasts/Shows

  • [Repeat] Ruben Schade ☛ Rubenerd Show 434: The toastrack episode

    37:37 – A feedback episode, reading comments about the show from Adam, Alistair, and Abdullah. Discussing my favourite personal shows that are still going (Into Your Head, The Overnightscape Underground), task management (Getting Things Done™, the spark to get something started), 1980s British retrocomputers (Spectrums, Amstrads, Orics, and Acorns), coffee (my own snobbery, instant coffee, how supermarkets sell it), and what constitutes a mathematics coprocessor! Recorded late September 2026.

  • David Smith ☛ Re-Developing Perspective

    So I’m dusting off Developing Perspective. I don’t have fixed plans yet for the format or frequency, but I feel like I have something to say, and I want a venue to explore what it is now like to be an indie app developer. My first episode back is called Pivotal. It wrestles through why being an indie app developer right now feels so “pivotal”, in both senses of the word. There’s the constant, week-by-week change in our tools and workflows, and there’s the bigger structural shift in what it even means to “make” apps.

• Science / Mathematics / Computer Science

  • Science Alert ☛ Physicists Quantum-Entangled a Levitating Speck of Glass With Light at Room Temperature

    Because of course they did.

  • Science Alert ☛ Revolutionary Feathered Dinosaur Discovery in China Suggests Flight Evolved Multiple Times

    This is going to ruffle some feathers...

  • Science Alert ☛ Physicists Find a Superconductor That 'Breaks' The Symmetry of Time – A First For Its Kind

    (sakkmesterke/iStock/Getty Images Plus)

    What is happening?

  • Science Alert ☛ A Vast Hole Almost The Size of Portugal Opened Up in Antarctica's Winter Sea Ice. Now We Know Why.

    An unprecedented gap in Antarctic sea ice.

  • Science Alert ☛ High Blood Pressure May Be Quietly Destroying Your Cartilage, Scientists Find

    A double hit on the joints.

• Career/Education

  • France24 ☛ Cameroon govt announces payments as teachers strike continues

    In Cameroon, the start of the academic year for Universities, scheduled for October 5, may not take place. This is as a result of an indefinite strike launched by SYNES, the National Union of Higher Education Teachers. Teachers are demanding the payment of 16 billion CFA francs in academic bonuses, equivalent to nearly 24 million euros.

  • International Business Times ☛ Cornell 7 Defendant Gillio Lopes Confronted Over Jane Doe Case as He Says 'There's a Reason for That' and Refuses to Explain

    A Cornell student confronted Gillio Lopes, who is named in a civil sexual assault lawsuit, as New York Attorney General Letitia James takes over a reopened criminal investigation.

  • New York Times ☛ Chi Phi Members Accused in Cornell Sex Assault Lawsuit Give Varying Accounts of Night

    Their accounts, detailed in hundreds of pages of investigative files obtained by The New York Times, were disjointed and sometimes contradictory. All the men denied any wrongdoing.

• Hardware

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ Sony released the first CD audio player on this day in 1982

    Sony launched the world’s first CD player on this day in 1982, kickstarting the compact disc digital audio era.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • New York Times ☛ How Did Christa Pike Survive Two Lethal Injections of Pentobarbital?

    A catheter carrying the drug may not have delivered the doses to Ms. Pike’s bloodstream, experts said. The drug itself may have been degraded.

  • Science Alert ☛ Eating Alone Can Literally Change How Your Body Metabolizes Glucose

    We are social creatures.

  • Science Alert ☛ One of The World's Most Used Drugs May Lower Dementia Risk – But There's a Catch

    It's not for everyone.

  • Science Alert ☛ A Hidden Compound in 'Healthy' Plant-Based Foods May Be Fueling Gut Inflammation

    You may have never heard of it.

  • Science Alert ☛ Nine Patients Received a Personalized Kidney Cancer Vaccine. None Had a Recurrence.

    Encouraging early results.

• Proprietary / Vendor Lock-in / Malware

  • Qt ☛ Qt Creator 21 Beta released

    We are happy to announce the release of Qt Creator 21 Beta!

  • Qt ☛ Implementing Tracepoints in Qt Applications using Qt Creator 21

    Sometimes, as a developer, you need to find out why your application is misbehaving. The usual advice is to add tracing or use a profiler.

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

    • Futurism ☛ It’s Looking Possible That Kapo-berg Is Accidentally Committing Corporate Suicide

      "The largest misallocation of capital in history."

    • Digital Music News ☛ Spotify, Amazon Music, Merlin, Empire, Downtown, Distrokid, Meta, Others Join the DOJ In Recommending Prison Time for Streaming Fraudster Michael Smith

      Ahead of Michael Smith’s October 6th sentencing, the Music Fights Fraud Alliance (MFFA) has submitted a letter to the court arguing for a significant sentence to deter future abuse.

    • Futurism ☛ Top BillBC Director Says He’s Been Reviewing a Fully AI-Generated Episode of “Doctor Who” and It’s “Pretty Good”

      Just what the franchise needs: an injection of Hey Hi (AI) slop.

    • Stanford University ☛ UGS introduces motion to protect student identities amid Hey Hi (AI) controversy

      Following R&DE's use of generative AI, UGS put forth efforts to ensure student privacy.

    • WhichUK ☛ How to remove Hey Hi (AI) from your life

      AI is becoming increasingly tricky to avoid, but you may not want or use the features it offers. Find out how to switch off or limit Hey Hi (AI) on Android, Fashion Company Apple devices, and backdoored Windows computers

    • The Strategist ☛ AI could worsen radicalisation of young Australians. Help parliament understand

      Prime Minister Anthony Albanese used his address to the United Nations General Assembly to make an important point about artificial intelligence: the world needs to cooperate and get ahead of the risks of AI.

    • Futurism ☛ These Strongly Appear to Be the Old Tweets of That Anthropic Employee Who Quit Citing Risks to Humankind and They Are… Pretty Bizarre

      That's... not what we were expecting.

    • Silicon Angle ☛ OpenAI dismisses three safety researchers accused of sharing confidential material

      OpenAI Group PBC today confirmed it has dismissed three researchers it says mishandled sensitive company information. According to The Wall Street Journal, the three were safety researchers who allegedly shared confidential material with a third-party artificial intelligence safety organization.

    • Futurism ☛ Man Facing Up to Three Years in Prison After Sharing Hey Hi (AI) Slop That Leads to Mass Panic

      Careful about sharing Hey Hi (AI) slop!

    • Futurism ☛ The Hey Hi (AI) Industry Has a Major Problem: Most People Aren’t Freaks Who Want an Hey Hi (AI) Agent Running Their Whole Life

      AI companies have done next to nothing to earn their trust.

  • Social Control Media

    • RFERL ☛ Tbilisi Rebukes Iranian Envoy Over Social Media Post On Canonized Georgian Queen

      Georgia's Foreign Ministry has summoned Iran's ambassador after he announced plans to publish his own research into Queen Ketevan. The 17th-century monarch was tortured and executed in Persia, and the Georgian Orthodox Church venerates her as a saint.

• Security

  • Integrity/Availability/Authenticity

    • Scoop News Group ☛ Slop policy circles targeted in China-linked phishing operation

      Cybersecurity firm Proofpoint said TA419 impersonated officials and Hey Hi (AI) industry figures in an effort to gain access to cloud accounts held by U.S. think tank, university and legal-sector experts.

    • Security Week ☛ Treasury Blacklists Most-Wanted ATM Malware Developer and His Network

      The US government continues its crackdown on Tren de Aragua over its ATM jackpotting scheme.

• Defence/Aggression

  • JURIST ☛ UNICEF says one in five Lebanese children going hungry amid conflict

    The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) released a new report Wednesday finding that more than one in five households surveyed in Lebanon said their children went to bed hungry in the two weeks before interviews conducted in July.

  • Federal News Network ☛ Twenty-five years after 9/11, researchers are still discovering health effects among first responders

    "We see differences 25 years later between those who were using or not the PPEs. We see that in these types of brain imaging..." said Dr. Roberto Lucchini.

  • The Straits Times ☛ South Koreans’ distrust of North Korea reaches record high: Survey

    The poll found that 83.3% feel that the North Korean regime does not want reunification, also a record high.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Myanmar ships with returnees from Malaysia enter home waters, state media says

    Nearly 1,500 Myanmar nationals sent back from Malaysia aboard navy ships are expected to reach the war-torn country's commercial hub of Yangon within days, state media reported on Friday, despite warnings from the United Nations and rights groups that the returnees could be at risk amid a raging civil war.

  • The Straits Times ☛ First new F-16V fighter jets to arrive in Taiwan to bolster defences against China

    This comes amid growing concern in Taiwan about the Convicted Felon administration’s commitment to arming Taipei.

  • RFERL ☛ Kyrgyz Activist Gets 2 Years For Criticizing Growing Chinese Presence

    The Lenin District Court in Bishkek found activist and politician Mavlyan Askarbekov guilty and sentenced to two years in prison on offenses related to a law on incitement of racial, ethnic, national, religious, or interregional hatred, a verdict he called "absurd."

  • New York Times ☛ Israeli Politicians Trade Barbs Over FlyDubai Attack

    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s campaign for a coming election was already dominated by discussion of the policy, military and intelligence failures leading up to the Hamas-led attacks on Oct. 7, 2023.

  • France24 ☛ UK police arrest dual UK-Iranian national over Fairford air base incident

    British police on Thursday arrested a British-Iranian dual national in connection with the security incident at the Fairford airbase Wednesday. Five other men initially arrested over the incidence were later released without charge on bail.

  • France24 ☛ Sheer devastation: '80 percent of Gazan infrastructure has been destroyed'

    New images posted this week by Surveillance Giant Google Maps show the utter destruction in Gaza. It's been estimated that 61 tonnes of rubble need to be cleared – that's 20 times the amount of rubble generated in all wars across the world over the last 18 years.

  • France24 ☛ Migration deal: 'Really a scheme around political diplomacy between UK & France in post-Brexit era'

    Erin Ogunkeye is pleased to welcome Parvati Nair, Professor of Hispanic, Cultural and Migration Studies at Queen Mary University of London. She sees the UK-France migration agreement as a small but revealing element of a much wider post-Brexit relationship, in which questions of migration are intertwined with diplomacy, security, intelligence and surveillance. She warns that the scheme risks trivialising a complex human plight it into deterrence and a numbers game. She argues humans have always moved, and migration can profoundly enrich societies. The challenge is to build systems that recognise both national sovereignty and human dignity.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Pakistani airstrikes kill nine in Afghanistan, Taliban say

    KABUL, Oct 1 - Pakistani airstrikes on Afghanistan hit three houses on Thursday, killing nine people, the Afghan Taliban government said, while Islamabad said the strikes killed 22 \"terrorists\" after targeting their hideouts.

  • RFERL ☛ Pakistan Targets Afghan Border Regions With Another Round Of Air Strikes

    Pakistan carried out a round of air strikes on October 1 on two Afghan provinces near the border based on "credible evidence" of militant activity in the area.

  • New York Times ☛ FlyDubai Under Scrutiny After Cockpit Attack

    The United Arab Emirates has said it is leading the investigation into the episode, and FlyDubai’s service between Dubai and Tel Aviv has been suspended.

  • RFERL ☛ Oil Exports Find A Way Past Iranian Attacks, But Refinery Bottleneck Persists

    Exports of crude oil from the Middle East hit their highest level in September since the war with Iran began, reinforcing a trend of increased supplies despite Iranian attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, according to analysis of shipping and commodity market data by industry observers.

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • New York Times ☛ A Front Line at the Border: How Russia Uses Migrants as Weapons Against Europe

      The scheme is part of Russia’s larger strategy for sowing discord in the West, if more subtle than other recent operations blamed on the Kremlin.

    • RFERL ☛ Latvian Defense Minister Says Russia's Hybrid Attacks, Not Nuclear Rhetoric, Are The Main Concern

      Latvia’s defense minister has played down any immediate danger after Russia’s latest nuclear warning to NATO over Kaliningrad.

    • Latvia ☛ Couple in Latvia suspected of spying for Russia

      In June this year, the State Security Service (VDD), in cooperation with the Military Intelligence and Security Service (MIDD), detained a couple on suspicion of illegally gathering information about Latvia’s defence sector on behalf of the Russian military intelligence service (GRU), the VDD said on October 1.

    • Latvia ☛ Latvian parliament broadens Russian food ban

      On Thursday, October 1, the Saeima decided in its final reading on urgent amendments to the Agriculture and Rural Development Law, which provide for expanding the ban on importing products of Russian and Belarusian origin, applying it not only to agricultural goods and animal feed, but also to food products.

    • Latvia ☛ Saeima rules that LSM can write in Russian only on specific occasions

      On Latvian Public Media (LSM), content in Russian will only be permitted in exceptional circumstances, in the event of a state of emergency, or for the specific purpose of countering disinformation. This was decided by the Saeima on Thursday, 1 October.

    • The Straits Times ☛ South Korea's Lee threatens action against Ukraine over transfer of North Koreans

      South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Friday threatened unspecified measures against Ukraine unless Kyiv acknowledged a confidentiality agreement that Seoul says covered the transfer of two captured North Korean soldiers and issued an apology.

    • France24 ☛ Live: Russia hits Kyiv’s Southern Bridge as Moscow continues to pound capital

      Russian airstrikes hit Kyiv’s Southern Bridge, the city’s mayor said on Friday. Russia also targeted a school and apartment buildings in the capital, killing at least one person. Ukraine, meanwhile, launched an overnight drone attack on the Russian city of Volgograd, targeting industrial facilities. Follow our liveblog for all the latest developments on the war in Ukraine.

    • New York Times ☛ Russia to Sharply Increase War Spending and Cut Social Programs

      Both sides are finding it increasingly difficult to finance the conflict in Ukraine. Russia’s 2027 budget envisions more debt, higher taxes and lower social benefits.

    • New York Times ☛ My Friend Is a Draft Dodger in Ukraine. He’s Not a Coward.

      In the Ukraine war, bravery has turned into a cliché masking profound social and economic injustices.

    • New York Times ☛ Russia Is Planning Its Most Powerful Blow Yet to Try to Freeze Ukraine

      Ukraine showed European partners what it said were intercepted Russian plans to cut off major cities from power, heat and water this winter.

    • The Straits Times ☛ South Korea warns ‘further measures’ if Ukraine refuses public apology

      Seoul said confidentiality was key to protecting the POWs’ relatives from repercussions in North Korea.

    • The Straits Times ☛ South Korea's Lee threatens action against Ukraine over transfer of North Korean soldiers

      South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Friday threatened unspecified measures against Ukraine unless Kyiv acknowledged what Seoul says was a confidentiality agreement covering the transfer of two captured North Korean soldiers and apologises.

    • Tom's Hardware ☛ Russian missile strikes take out popular piracy websites

      Over the last week, there have been reports that the Russian military has started targeting Ukraine's datacenters. As one commenter put it, "DDoS now means Direct Destruction of Servers."

    • European Commission ☛ Joint statement by the European Commission and Ukraine

    • LRT ☛ Putin envoy praises Lithuanian PM for toning down ‘Russian attack’ warnings

      Russian President Vladimir Putin’s special envoy Kirill Dmitriev on Thursday praised Lithuanian Prime Minister Mindaugas Sinkevičius’ comments that there is no evidence Russia is preparing an attack on NATO, calling the remarks “unusually wise”.

• Environment

  • The Straits Times ☛ Nepal floods: One of 55 missing Malaysians confirmed alive, reunited with family

    The individual was a Chinese Malaysian and among the solo travellers who went missing.

  • Energy/Transportation

    • Latvia ☛ Latvian central bank issues more crypto licences

      On 30 September, the Supervision Committee of Latvijas Banka, the Latvian central bank, decided to issue a licence for the provision of crypto-asset services and a licence to operate as a payment institution to a company called Noah LV.

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • The Straits Times ☛ Shark! Busan’s latest viral sensation raises a climate question

      Rare shark sighting signals changes in South Korea’s marine ecosystem driven by warming seas.

  • Overpopulation

    • The Straits Times ☛ South Korea’s centenarian population grows over 30% in 4 years

      Women outnumber men roughly 5 to 1 among the country’s centenarians.

• Finance

  • France24 ☛ France’s purchasing power crisis: Navigating the pinch

    With looming elections and a draft budget that aims to address a €305.7bn financing requirement, French households are increasingly in the red. Will wages ever manage to outpace energy inflation?

  • New York Times ☛ Amazon Settles Lawsuit Over Claims of Slow Deliveries to Low-Income Areas

    The tech giant will refund $7.25 million in Prime membership fees to affected customers and pay an additional $1 million to settle the suit brought by the District of Columbia.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • BIA Net ☛ Turkey bans online censorship monitor’s X account

    The ban comes amid an ongoing wave of censorship that saw hundreds of social control media accounts blocked in recent weeks.

  • BIA Net ☛ bianet editor, other journalists targeted in new social control media censorship wave

    Six journalists' X accounts have been banned by court orders.

  • LRT ☛ Kasparov says US, Lithuanian intelligence warned life ‘in danger’

    Kremlin critic and chess legend Garry Kasparov said Thursday that US and Lithuanian security services had told him and his ally that their lives were in danger and urged them to take security precautions.

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • Press Gazette ☛ Local newspaper where Harold Evans began closes after 171 years in print

    Tameside Reporter to move staff to sister titles with online news set to continue.

  • New York Times ☛ Hong Kong Journalist Arrested After Covering Gathering Linked to 2019 Protests

    The national security police detained Tang Ho-wing, founder of the independent outlet Boom News, according to local media and watchdog groups.

  • Press Gazette ☛ What I’ve learned: Dropping out of school at 17 was turning point for Irish News editor

    Editor-in-chief of Irish News shares his insights on a career of editing news sites.

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • Internet Society ☛ Why Internet Infrastructure Decisions Rarely Stay Localized

    Even narrow policy and commercial choices can have ripple effects that shape what people can access, how information moves, and who gets to participate online.

  • APNIC ☛ Is RPKI becoming harmful to BGP stability?

    Guest Post: Could the growing deployment of RPKI become a threat to routing stability? This study analyses more than 11 years of RPKI and BGP data, measuring how much routing activity can be associated with RPKI-related changes.

• Monopolies/Monopsonies

  • Patents

    • Tom's Hardware ☛ Micron lawsuit claims Chinese memory maker YMTC poached its engineers, then sued it using its own stolen tech

      Micron files a lawsuit against Yangtze Memory, claims that some of the patents which YMTC uses against Micron in various courts were granted to former YMTC engineers who took crucial know-how from Micron and took it to YMTC.

    • Unified Patents ☛ Another Wilus Wi-Fi patent monopoly challenge granted

      On September 30, 2026, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 10,651,992, owned by Wilus Institute of Standards & Technology, Inc., an entity of Good Day to Invent, Inc. This overcame Wilus’s Pre-Order Paper seeking denial. The '992 patent monopoly relates to a wireless communication method for coexistence between a legacy wireless communication terminal and a non-legacy wireless communication terminal in a wireless communication environment.

    • Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Ease Is Not Necessity: Third Circuit Affirms No Fair Use in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS

      Third Circuit affirms no fair use in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS: intermediate copying requires necessity, and generative Hey Hi (AI) is left for another case.

    • Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Clear but Impossible: Satius v. Samsung Moves Inoperable Claims from Indefiniteness to Enablement

      Satius v. Samsung: a claim reciting an impossible alternative is definite, but the Federal Circuit holds it invalid for lack of enablement under Amgen.

    • Kangaroo Courts

      • JUVE ☛ A&O Shearman poaches DLA partner [Ed: Lade aged 41 changes jobs, this is considered newsworthy? Seems more like UPC propaganda from the usual culprit.]

        Constanze Krenz (41) was the most prominent figure in DLA Piper’s European patent monopoly practice. Following a number of departures, she had steered the practice into the new UPC era and established a strong presence at the new court.

    • Software Patents

      • Tom's Hardware ☛ AI's chipmaking frontier may face patent monopoly infringement hurdles as autonomous tools take over

        Can Hey Hi (AI) outsmart the ingenuity of human thinking and design? If so, what does that mean for proprietary IP? We explore the tools, and the potential pitfalls.

  • Copyrights

    • Digital Music News ☛ Did Olivia Dean Plagiarize Bill Withers’ Classic ‘Just the Two of Us’? Welcome to the Latest Industry Lawsuit

      Bill Withers’ catalog owner Mattie Music Group sues UMG over Olivia Dean’s “I’ve Seen It,” alleging it plagiarizes Withers’ classic hit, “Just the Two of Us.”

    • Digital Music News ☛ Attorney Tony Buzbee to Face $25 Million Defamation Suit Stemming from Ugly Court Battle with Jay-Z

      Attorney Tony Buzbee could face a $25 million defamation suit filed by an attorney he accused of turning former clients against him during his legal brawl with Jay-Z.

    • Press Gazette ☛ Penske Hey Hi (AI) Overviews lawsuit dismissed because ‘no formal bargain’ struck with Google [Ed: Plagiarism is Ok if you call it "training"]

      Publishers 'voluntarily acceded' to zero price for Surveillance Giant Google crawling, judge finds.

    • Creative Commons ☛ What We Heard From the Creative Commons Community

      What does it mean to be part of the CC community today? It’s a question we ask ourselves regularly at CC—and one we recently brought directly to our community through our annual Community Survey. This year, 62 community members from 23 countries shared their experiences, priorities, ideas, and hopes for the future of the Commons.