Mirantis, the company that bought Docker Enterprise in 2019 and several releases later renamed it Mirantis Kubernetes Engine, announced on Thursday the release of k0s 1.27, the company’s own branded (but still open source) version of Kubernetes. As the release number implies, this new release adds compatibility with Kubernetes 1.27, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship project’s latest and greatest. It includes some improvements and bug fixes as well.
First up in the news, Linux Kernel 6.3 Officially Released, blendOS 2 supports Android, new Vivaldi out, new Opera One Dev Release, GIMP completes GTK3 rewrite, QEMU drops 32-bit, Ryzens are burning, Proton launches a password app, Jetpack Announces the end of twitter auto-sharing, and Red Hat lays of 4% due to high profits...
OpenBSD 7.3 released, Accelerating Datacenter Energy Efficiency by Leveraging FreeBSD as Your Server OS, install Cinnamon as a Desktop environment, xmonad FreeBSD set up from scratch, Burgr books in your terminal, and more
This week, Linux Out Loud chats about alternative career paths. Welcome to episode 61 of Linux Out Loud. We fired up our mics, connected those headphones as we searched the community for themes to expound upon. We kept the banter friendly, the conversation somewhat on topic, and had fun doing it.
Most of us know that using complex (cOm_Pl3X) passwords is good security but coming up with passwords to satisfy the demands of pernickety signup forms can be effort.
This article spotlights alternative tools to grep.
grep is a useful command to search for matching patterns in a file. If you are a system admin who needs to scrape through log files or a developer trying to find matches in a code file, grep is a powerful command to use.
This article spotlights alternative tools to cat.
cat derives its name from concatenation and provides other nifty options too. For example, it can be be used to write contents to a file by typing them from the terminal itself.
Enterprising users will appreciate you can display the contents of a file using the shell builtin read.
Spotify for Linux user? You'll notice that the desktop app looks a little different next time you open it. The music streaming service, which recently passed 515 million monthly active users, rolled out a redesign of its desktop app on Windows and macOS last week. That revamp is now hitting the official Spotify for Linux client — though it appears to be a server-side change rather than a client update.
Hello everyone,
The fourth release candidate for 23.1.0 is now available.
If you find any issues, please report them here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/new
The next release candidate is expected in one week, on May 10th.
Cheers, Eric
Lavapipe: Dragged Into The Future
Some time ago I teased a new Mesa project that involved both features and perf. At last, it’s time to unveil the goods: a complete rewrite of all descriptor handling in Lavapipe thanks to one of RADV’s raytracing tamers, Konstantin Seurer.
It’s a feature that’s been confounding developers and users everywhere for years, but thanks to Konstantin’s tireless efforts over the past ETOOLONG, at last everyone will have the features they crave.
Reah: Face the Unknown, the first supported game of the V-Cruise engine, is ready for public testing!
Created in 1998 by Detalion and published by LK Avalon, this 3D-rendered panoramic first-person adventure has you travel to a strange desert world to unravel its secrets.
ScummVM currently supports the CD, DVD, and digital English releases (with subtitles in Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, and Spanish). If you’re aware of any other versions, please contact us.
To play any of these supported releases, you will need a daily development build. If you encounter any issues, please submit them to the issue tracker!
Last year, Okular, KDE's advanced document reader, became the first software product ever to receive the Blue Angel eco-label. This certification recognises Okular as having a sustainable software design.
The certification process involves measuring the power consumption of the software executing repetitive actions that simulate human use. For Okular's certification, this was done using scripts written in Actiona. At KDE Eco, we also tried to use the GUI tool Actiona to make these tests, but it was not flexible enough because it required adding a simple action to open a window, entering a click location, validating your input, and so on. This process was very tedious. We then developed a Python tool based on xdotool and called it KdeEcoTest, which was able to record any user action and translate it into text script. The advantage of using text-based scripts over creating GUI actions is that it is much quicker and you can easily copy/paste/modify any interesting part of the test. This is much more efficient time-wise, but it was not enough.
GL.iNet Spitz AX, also known as GL-X3000NR, is a compact 5G NR WiFi 6 router running OpenWrt 21.02 on a MediaTek Filogic 820 (TM7981A) dual-core Cortex-A53 processor coupled with 512MB DDR4 and 8GB eMMC flash, as well 2.5GbE and GbE interfaces, and a USB 2.0 port.
The company sent us a Spitz AX router for evaluation, and in the first part of the review, we’ll go through the specifications, and do an unboxing and a teardown, before connecting it for a first boot.
The system runs OpenWrt 21.02 with Linux 5.4. Note there are two Spitz AX (GL-X3000) routers: the GL-X3000NR with 5G NR connectivity as reviewed on CNX Software, and the GL-X3000C16 with 4G LTE connectivity only.
We hope that you had a good Easter.
We are introducing a final update to our existing Kodi v19.5 release to improve stability and give users that wish to stay on this version of Kodi for some time an improved stable and supported platform.
The OpenWrt community is proud to announce the newest stable release of the OpenWrt 22.03 stable version series. It fixes security issues, improves device support, and brings a few bug fixes.
SUSE South Africa hosted its first Partner Summit of the year in Johannesburg. The event generated a lot of interest from both existing and new partners.
A while back AWS introduced UEFI support for specific instance types. Then in March of 2023 AWS enabled hybrid-boot for AMIs and in addition to the memory encryption that has already been supported in EC2, AWS announced the support of attestation, also known as SEV-SNP recently.
Ubuntu 23.04 comes with a small selection of (largely lobster themed) wallpapers out of the box. The choice is neither vast nor varied so you may find yourself looking for some additional ones to liven up your desktop.
Well, one fast and easy way to quickly add more high-quality wallpapers to Ubuntu is to install the gnome-backgrounds package. This is available in the Ubuntu repos, though you’ll need to install it using the command line as Ubuntu Software doesn’t show a result for it).
This package contains the “official” GNOME wallpaper which you’ll have seen in blog posts, videos, and screenshots recently. I absolutely love it. I think it is one of the best “default” wallpapers of any OS, Linux or otherwise. It’s neutral without being bland; and visually interesting without being distracting.
We're excited to announce the release of two new widgets to the Arduino IoT Cloud: the Value Selector and Value Dropdown Widgets.
If you’re not a woodworker, you might not have heard of the “45-degree rule.” It goes like this: a clamp exerts a force that radiates out across a triangular region of the wood that forms a right angle — 45 degrees on each side of the clamp’s point of contact. So, to ensure that force is applied as evenly as possible across the entire glue joint, clamps should be spaced so that these force triangles overlap. It’s a handy rule, especially for the woodworker looking to justify the purchase of more clamps; you can never have too many clamps. But is it valid?
It’s a common refrain among bloggers and video creators that retrocomputing as a hobby has never been easier, thanks to the modern Internet. It’s true to an extent, from the explosion in hobbyist hardware replacements, to scans of available documentation, to the sheer size of retrocomputing communities that can offer help.
But I’d caution anyone entering from thinking it’ll be easy. Even leaving aside the increasing failure rate of old components, two of the biggest challenges remain documentation and drivers. These are less of an issue if you’re using popular hardware with limited numbers of SKUs, like a Commodore 64 or an Apple IIc. But if you have an ISA modem in a generic PC clone? Not so much.
Whenever you enter a URL into a system, it must be parsed and validated. It is a surprisingly challenging task: it may require hundreds of nanoseconds and possibly over a thousand cycles to parse a typical URL. We can use URL parsing as a reasonable benchmark of a system performance.
Arti is our ongoing project to create a next-generation Tor client in Rust. Now we're announcing the latest release, Arti 1.1.4.
For this month and the next, our efforts are divided between onion services and work on a new RPC API (a successor to C Tor's "control port") that will give applications a safe and powerful way to work with Arti without having to write their code in Rust or link Arti as a library (unless they want to).
Mastodon has been around since 2016, but not until recently has it emerged as a popular alternative to Twitter. Like Firefox, Mastodon is open-sourced, so it’s built on a foundation of transparency and accessibility to all. It’s also decentralized, which means it’s powered by different communities and doesn’t answer to one entity or a bunch of stakeholders.€
Mattermost expands its open-source technology to€ enable security conscious organizations to better integrate generative AI.
Ubuntu 18.04 is ending soon and Debian 12 is coming soon. And the puzzles make a comeback on It's FOSS but with a twist.
Currently in Alpha testing, Pulse Browser is a minimalist browser for Windows, Linux, and macOS that focuses on delivering a smooth, streamlined user experience while providing built-in tools for improving privacy and security.
Based on Firefox but with removed telemetry, it seeks to fill a gap between browsers firmly focused on security on the one hand and those relying on fewer features but a faster and more pleasant browsing experience on the other.
Furthermore, some internal Firefox components have been replaced with better open-source alternatives to the developers’ views.
LibreOffice 7.5.3 Community, the third minor release of the LibreOffice 7.5 line, the volunteer-supported free office suite for desktop productivity, is available from https://www.libreoffice.org/download for Windows (Intel/AMD and ARM processors), macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel processors), and Linux [1].
A description of new features of LibreOffice 7.5 is available in the Release Notes [2].
Based on the distinctive features of the LibreOffice Technology platform for personal productivity on desktop, mobile and cloud, LibreOffice 7.5 provides a large number of improvements and new features targeted at users sharing documents with MS Office or migrating from MS Office. These users should check new releases of LibreOffice on a regular basis, as the progress is so fast, that each new version improves dramatically over the previous one.
LibreOffice 7.5.3 is here about five weeks after LibreOffice 7.5.2 and brings another batch of bug fixes to those who already managed to upgrade their GNU/Linux system to the LibreOffice 7.5 series.
In numbers, LibreOffice 7.5.3 address a total of 119 bugs that have been reported by users or discovered by LibreOffice developers. For more details about these bug fixes, you should check out the RC1 and RC2 changelogs.
Learn how to use web scraping in R! Join our workshop on Intermediate Web Scraping and API Harvesting using R which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series.€
This is the April 2023 update for Niepce. Between outages caused by an unseasonbly ice storm, squirrels chewing cable, I discovered how painful is being off the grid. This is not the excuse, just the events that lead to downtime and April not being very productive.
The importer moved a little bit forward. I tried to use the brand new "sort by date" importer tool, that is used to test and exercise the logic. The improved importer address a few long standing issues, including not using libgphoto2 for USB Mass Storage, including flash card readers. This was a shortcut I had taken and the result was suboptimal. The new approach is to use libgphoto2 to find the device, and then switch to pure filesystem operations. That was issue 26.
As part of our Op-Amp Challenge we’re seeing a wide diversity of entries showcasing the seemingly endless capabilities of these extremely versatile parts. Another one comes from [Joseph Thomas], who when faced with the need to measure the properties of an automotive spark plug, came up with a precision peak detector to hold on to the energy level used when firing it.
I think you dropped something ...
This is a stick up!
Double the resolution.
Drawing closer to first light.
Professors Maria Carmen Lemos and Robert Sellers are among the 2023 inductees into the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest distinctions for a scientist or engineer in the United States.
This is what fate has in store for us.
The astronomer and physicist Julieta Fierro Gossman has dedicated her working life to the stars, and has been recognized in Mexico and abroad.
When I was a junior in college, I studied abroad for a semester in Rome. I only managed to make one Italian friend, a charming boy with a winsome smile who, when he focused his attention on you, made you feel like you were at the center of the world. Needless to say, I had a crush on him. He did not have a crush back, but we spent a lot of time wandering Rome’s cobblestoned streets and sitting on the graffitied embankment of the Tiber River. On one of those occasions, he admitted something: He had read Mein Kampf and found it interesting. He knew what Hitler had done was wrong but was intrigued by the book nonetheless.1
Eighth-grade history and civics test scores in the US fell to the lowest level on record last year, in line with broad post-pandemic declines in math scores and reading comprehension.
Eighth grade students in the United States are scoring lower in history and civics, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Schools have focused more on reading and math post-pandemic, but that has resulted in lower scores elsewhere.
U.S. history scores among the nation's eighth graders plummeted in 2022, new assessment results known as the Nation's Report Card show.
The big picture: The history scores, which are the lowest ever recorded since the assessment began in 1994, plus civics scores seeing their first-ever decline underscore the pandemic's prolonged effects on students.
When it comes to the “build versus buy” question, “buy” almost always wins. The amount of time you have to put into building something is rarely justified, especially with a world of options available at the click of a mouse.
What if you could run Mac OS on a Nintendo Wii game console? That’s probably not a thought that has occurred to many Wii owners or Mac OS users, but that is no excuse not to give it a try, as [Michael] handily demonstrates in a recent video by running Mac OS 9 on a Nintendo’s legendary console. The first major issue is what anyone who has ever tried to put a Hackintosh together knows: just because a target system runs the same CPU architecture can you necessarily install Mac OS (or OS X) for Intel x86 on any Intel x86 system. The same is true for the Wii with its PowerPC CPU and running Mac OS 9 for PowerPC on it.
LoRa is a communications method that allows for long range radio contacts to be made using typically low-powered devices. This shouldn’t be surprising given that LoRa is short for “long range” which typically involves distances on the order of a few kilometers. However, a group of students are taking the “long range” moniker to the extreme by attempting to send and receive a signal with a total path of around 768,000 kilometers by using some specialized equipment to bounce a LoRa signal off of the moon and receive it back on Earth.
For those of us who are a little older, the 90s seem like they were just a few years ago. The younger folks might think that the 90s were ancient history though, and they might be right as we’ve been hearing more bands like Pearl Jam and The Offspring playing on the classic rock stations lately. Another example of how long ago the 90s were is taking a look at the technological progress that has happened since then through the lens of things like this webcam from 1999, presuming you load up this custom user space driver from [benjojo].
Launched in 1977, the Voyager 1 and 2 space probes have been operating non-stop for over 45 years, making their way from Earth to our solar system’s outer planets and beyond. Courtesy of the radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) which provided 470 W at launch, they are able to function in the darkness of Deep Space as well as they did within the confines of our Sun-lit solar system. Yet as nothing in the Universe is really infinite, so too do these RTGs wear out over time, both from natural decay of their radioactive source and from the degradation of the thermocouples.
I’ve started mounting my various upscalers and video converters to the back of my old monitor to save space, but it didn’t do much to reduce cable clutter. So I ordered the shortest VGA cable I could find.
I was surprised at how thin it was when it arrived. The RS232 cable I inherited from dad’s old modem that I use for CGA on my Am386 and Commodore 128 is thicker! I suppose being an analogue cable, it didn’t need as much shielding for such a short distance.
Every year, more than 20,000 pregnancies in the U.S. end in a stillbirth, the death of an expected child at 20 weeks or more of pregnancy. Research shows as many as 1 in 4 stillbirths may be preventable. We interviewed dozens of parents of stillborn children who said their health care providers did not tell them about risk factors or explain what to watch for while pregnant. They said they felt blindsided by what followed. They did not have the information needed to make critical decisions about what happened with their baby’s body, about what additional testing could have been done to help determine what caused the stillbirth, or about how to navigate the process of requesting important stillbirth documents.
This guide is meant to help fill the void of information on stillbirths. It’s based on more than 150 conversations with parents, health care providers, researchers and other medical experts.
“In order to fully recover, we must first recover the society that has made us sick.”
Agents from Brazil's Federal Police on Wednesday raided the home of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro as part of an investigation into whether the far-right leader forged his Covid-19 vaccination certificate so he could travel to the United States.
The mental resilience of children and youth has been put to the test due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing war in Ukraine. The consequences have included disruptive behavior, marginalization, distress, and decreased sense of belonging. Anu Liljeström, Director of the Department of Education and Culture, explains that preventing the marginalization of children and youth was a key priority last year, as well as supporting their mental, physical, and social well-being, and their ability to cope with crisis.
Chronic pain is not just a result of car accidents and workplace injuries but is also linked to troubled childhoods, loneliness, job insecurity and a hundred other pressures on working families.
Recent comments by former COVID-19 adviser Anthony Fauci contradict what public health officials told us during the pandemic.
This gives hope.
The only trace left of her.
This is the third Report launch event I have attended. Every year, the situation is worse.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is sweeping the world. It is transforming every walk of life and raising in the process major ethical concerns for society and the future of humanity. ChatGPT, which is dominating social media, is an AI-powered chatbot developed by OpenAI. It is a subset of machine learning and relies on what is called Large Language Models that can generate human-like responses. The potential application for such technology is indeed enormous, which is why there are already calls to regulate AI like ChatGPT.
Along with the threats to journalists' safety that watchdog groups have documented for years, the 2023 World Press Freedom Index on Wednesday warned that the rapidly growing artificial intelligence and fake content industries are endangering the livelihoods of journalists around the world and cutting down on people's ability to access fact-based news.
There has recently been incredible progress in artificial intelligence (AI), due mainly to the advances in developing large language models (LLMs).
Tools like ChatGPT are famously capable of producing everything from computer code to poetry, with impressive accuracy and sophistication.
But here’s one thing that generative AI is not capable of doing, at least not anytime soon: Helping to solve cloud spending woes. It would be nice if figuring out how to cost-optimize your cloud were as simple as asking an AI engine for tips, but that’s not happening—not because generative AI technologies aren’t impressive (they are) but because AI tools currently lack the ability to understand feedback loops and nuanced business context.
The company posted revenue of $1.51 billion in the quarter ended March 31, compared with analysts' estimate of $1.43 billion, according to Refinitiv data.
Losses to mobile banking fraud have risen by 16%, but there are steps that banks
and customers can take to make life harder for criminals
Court says insurers must pay Merck for losses related to the Russia-linked NotPetya cyberattack.
When attackers design malicious documents, one of their challenges is to make the potential victim confident to perform dangerous actions: click on a link, disable a security feature, etc. The best example is probably VBA macros in Microsoft Office documents.
Prosecutors say Denis Kulkov earned at least $18 million in Bitcoin through his service that checked the status of stolen credit cards.
Vulnerabilities in Netgear network management system allow attackers to retrieve cleartext passwords and escalate privileges.
Google has added passkeys support to Google accounts on all major platforms as part of the company’s passwordless sign-in efforts.
A use-after-free vulnerability (CVE-2023-1829) has been discovered in the Linux Kernel traffic control index filter (tcindex). It was discovered that the tcindex_delete function does not properly deactivate filters in case of a perfect hashes while deleting the underlying structure, which can later lead to double freeing the structure.
Facebook parent Meta warned that hackers are using the promise of generative artificial intelligence like ChatGPT to trick people into installing malware on devices.
Chrome 113 was released to the stable channel with 15 security fixes, including 10 that address vulnerabilities reported by external researchers.
We’ve all read the headlines about spectacular data breaches and other security incidents, and the impact that they have had on the victim organisations. From LastPass to SolarWinds, “data security” seems to be the phrase on the lips of every CTO these days. And in some ways there’s no place more vulnerable to attack than a big data environment like a data lake.
From the vault
Data intensive systems have been the target of countless attacks. Some of the most memorable technical exploits include Log4Shell, Heartbleed and ShellShock.
Money can’t buy you everything. Not even the kind of money that’s apparently infinite, if our current federal deficit is any indication.
Children's advocacy and government watchdog groups on Wednesday welcomed the Federal Trade Commission's push to implement new protections for youth users of Meta products including Facebook in response to the company allegedly violating a 2020 privacy order.
A global coalition of more than 40 companies and digital rights groups on Wednesday urged governments around the world to publicly vow to "protect encryption and ensure a free and open internet."
Six dozen civil society groups, journalists, and experts marked World Press Freedom Day on Wednesday with a joint call for "all governments to implement an immediate moratorium on the export, sale, transfer, servicing, and use of digital surveillance technologies, as well as a ban on abusive commercial spyware technology and its vendors."
This would be the third time the agency has ordered the company to accept new privacy terms.
Citing privacy failings€ by the tech giant, regulators proposed€ to stop sites like Instagram and Facebook€ from€ profiting off the data of users under 18.
Data from Chartbeat and Similarweb shows how news publisher Facebook traffic has fallen.
The Pentagon missed red flags identifying Airman Jack Teixeira as a security risk.
Twenty years ago, President George W. Bush landed in a twin-engine Navy jet on an aircraft carrier, strode across the deck in a bulky flight suit and proceeded to give a televised victory speech under a huge red-white-and-blue banner announcing "Mission Accomplished."
Maritime Autonomous Vehicles (MAVs) have fast become an essential component of the modern maritime security scene and may operate underwater, on the surface, or in the air—though the latter are commonly referred to as drones.
The assailant had two pistols, four Molotov cocktails and detailed plans, the police said. A security guard was also killed.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said a teenage boy accused of killing eight fellow students and a security guard at a school in Belgrade will be placed in a psychiatric clinic in the Serbian capital.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has hailed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for achieving "victory" in the country's 12-year-long civil war.
"Syrian-Iranian relations are rich in content, experiences and vision because they have been constant and stable even in difficult times," the Syrian President€ said.
Texas authorities have arrested the suspect in last week’s mass shooting in the town of Cleveland and are charging him with five counts of murder. Police say Francisco Oropesa killed five neighbors in the home next door, including a 9-year-old child, after the family asked him to stop firing his AR-15-style rifle in his yard because it was keeping a baby awake. Texas Governor Greg Abbott drew backlash after the shooting for referring to the victims as “illegal immigrants,” for which he later apologized. “His goal is to dehumanize people,” Texas state Senator Roland Gutierrez says of Abbott, adding that the governor has done nothing to stem gun violence and easy access to weapons. “Republican policies across this country have led to a very loose gun policy that allows just about anybody, and certainly in Texas, to go find a weapon like an AR-15 with impunity.”
On April 2, an explosion in a St. Petersburg cafe killed pro-Kremlin war blogger Vladlen Tatarsky and injured around 40 other people. The blast occurred shortly after Daria Trepova handed Tatarsky a small bust of himself, which investigators believe was packed with radio-controlled explosives. The authorities arrested Trepova the following day, after searching her mother’s home and interrogating the woman. Trepova and some of her close associates insist that, though she is against the war in Ukraine, she was framed as Tatarsky’s killer. From pre-trial detention, Trepova wrote to the publication Rotonda. Meduza is publishing an abridged English-language translation of her message.
The Kremlin’s press service reported Wednesday that two Ukrainian drones tried to carry out an attack on Vladimir Putin’s residence in the Kremlin on Tuesday night.
Russia’s Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against Russian actor Alexey Panin on charges that he publicly justified terrorism, TASS reports. If found guilty, he could face up to seven years in prison.
Alexey Moskalev, who is accused of “discrediting” the Russian army and who was arrested in Belarus after fleeing house arrest, has been extradited to Russia and remanded to pre-trial detention in Smolensk. Vladimir Bilienko, a lawyer with the human rights organization OVD Info, reported Moskalev’s whereabouts after meeting with him.
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General reported that the Russian army had shelled Kherson on the morning of May 3. The shelling killed 18 people and injured 46 others, including two children, across the Kherson region.
Russian Security Council Deputy Chair Dmitry Medvedev took to Telegram on Wednesday to call for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to be “physically eliminated” in the wake of the purported Ukrainian drone attack on the Kremlin.
Zelensky spokesman Serhii Nykyforov said in a statement that Ukraine does not attack other countries.
Kherson Governor Oleksandr Prokudin announced on Facebook that a public safety lockdown will be imposed in Kherson from 8 p.m. on Friday, May 5 to 6 a.m. on Monday, May 8.
The Kremlin’s press service€ reported€ Wednesday that two Ukrainian drones tried to carry out an attack on Vladimir Putin’s residence in the Kremlin on Tuesday night.
The Telegram channel Baza reported Wednesday that the Ukrainian military carried out a drone attack on an airbase in Russia’s Bryansk region the previous night.
Russia carried out a wave of drone attacks against Ukraine on the night of May 2–3, Ukraine’s Air Force Command reported.
From the ashes of a world war that killed 80 million people and reduced great cities to smoking rubble, America rose like a Titan of Greek legend, unharmed and armed with extraordinary military and economic power, to govern the globe. During four years of combat against the Axis leaders in Berlin and Tokyo that raged across the planet, America’s wartime commanders—George Marshall in Washington, Dwight D. Eisenhower in Europe, and Chester Nimitz in the Pacific—knew that their main strategic objective was to gain control over the vast Eurasian landmass. Whether you’re talking about desert warfare in North Africa, the D-Day landing at Normandy, bloody battles on the Burma-India border, or the island-hopping campaign across the Pacific, the Allied strategy in World War II involved constricting the reach of the Axis powers globally and then wresting that very continent from their grasp.
The following is based on a speech—entitled “17th Strategy Conference of the Cooperation for Peace: Our Security Can Only Work Together: Ukraine, Russia, and Europe in a Multipolar World”—delivered in Hamburg, Germany on April 28 to Germany’s largest annual peace conference.
The conflict is domestic, regional and international. Western media have been exaggerating the role of the Wagner Group and all but omitting the influence of U.S. allies in the region.
Fourteen months of increasingly tough trade restrictions have not brought the Russian economy to its knees, nor have they forced the end of its war in Ukraine.
The Baltic countries and Poland will work on a joint declaration supporting Ukraine's accession to NATO, Saeima Speaker Edvards Smiltēns (United List) said after a meeting with his Estonian counterpart Lauri Hussar in Riga on Wednesday, reported the LETA newswire.
The€ United Nations pressed€ Sudan's warring factions€ on Wednesday to guarantee safe passage of humanitarian aid after six trucks were looted and air strikes in the capital€ undermined a supposed truce.
A Sudanese student waiting to be evacuated by Saudi Arabia counted himself as one of the lucky ones: Born in the kingdom and holding a residency permit, he could board a rescue ship.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) announced on Wednesday the temporary suspension of its food assistance to the Tigray region of€ Ethiopia.
Many areas across East Africa have in recent years experienced both severe droughts and heavy rainfalls that killed many and damaged property and crops.
Torrential rains caused flooding in western and northern Rwanda, killing at least 129 people, a public broadcaster said Wednesday.
The landslide happened at around 1am on Thursday.
Researchers with Microsoft, AWS and the Scalable Parallel Computing Laboratory in Zurich have published research that throws some doubt over how soon quantum computers will achieve advantage over their classical counterparts.
The world is changing. In fact, it has been undergoing seismic change that long preceded the Russian-Ukraine war, and the recent US-Chinese tensions in the Taiwan Strait. In fact, the US debacle in Iraq and the Middle East, and the humiliating retreat from Afghanistan were only signs of the decline in US power.
Ukrainians are inspired by Finland's record of resisting Russian imperial aggression and encouraged by the country's recent accession to NATO, writes the head of Ukraine's Office of the President, Andriy Yermak.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is visiting The Hague on Thursday and will meet the leadership of the International Criminal Court, which has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, his spokesman said..
Russia launched another wave of drone attacks overnight across Ukraine, but most were repelled by Ukrainian air defenses, the military said on May 4, a day after more than 20 civilians were killed by Iranian-made Shaheds..
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said a decision by the European Union to allocate hundreds of millions of euros for the purchase and production of ammunition and missiles for Ukraine is a step that Kyiv has been waiting for.
Russian former Formula One driver Nikita Mazepin is fighting British sanctions imposed following the invasion of Ukraine in a bid to resurrect his racing career.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said his country did not attack Moscow or Russian President Vladimir Putin, denying Russia's claim that Ukraine was behind an alleged overnight drone attack aimed at hitting Putin's residence inside the Kremlin.
Fire, damaging explosions on railways, and a drone attack targeting a military airport have been reported in two Russian regions close to Ukraine, Krasnodar and Bryansk.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is expected to speak in the Netherlands on May 4, the Dutch government said.
Despite what happened, the military parade on Red Square will go ahead as planned, Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov said.
Ukraine has denied any connection to the incident and said Russia was planning its own terror attack.
MINISTER OF DEFENCE Antti Kaikkonen (Centre) on Wednesday assured that Finland will continue supporting Ukraine uninterrupted even if the coalition formation negotiations drag into June.
Kaikkonen stated on YLE A-studio that the caretaker government has looked into the question with the Chancellor of Justice, concluding that decisions on additional aid packages can be made as long as the approach remains unchanged.
An exhibit has opened in New Hampshire detailing the war in Ukraine through the eyes of eight Ukrainian artists
Russia is unlikely to face backlash over its war in Ukraine from Central Asian foreign ministers and instead could flex its influence at their regional meeting Friday
The President of Ukraine was speaking at a press conference in Helsinki on Wednesday as he made a surprise visit to Finland to attend a meeting of Nordic Prime Ministers.
Russia accused Ukraine of launching drones at the Kremlin aimed at killing President Vladimir V. Putin. The Ukrainian president denied the claim, and officials in Kyiv warned that Russia could use it to launch “a large-scale terrorist provocation.”
Russia said Ukraine had launched a drone attack, which Kyiv vehemently denied, accusing Russia of manufacturing a pretext for escalation.
The Ukrainian president has long urged that Vladimir Putin and others be held to account under international law.
The Ukrainian president flatly denied that his country was behind any drone attack on the Kremlin.
The Ukrainian president has made few overseas trips since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Since Francis made cryptic reference to a Vatican peace effort, the suggestion has elicited denial or bewilderment by war’s protagonists.
The Hoover Institution’s screening of the 1922 film told the history of America aiding Soviet Russians during the 1922 famine. The film is a testament to the power of art in shaping public perspectives, writes Liu.
The Kremlin press service said Wednesday that Kyiv had deployed drones to the Kremlin the night prior in an attempt to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin. Two unmanned aerial vehicles were aimed at the Kremlin.
Kim Sengupta thought the Russian government is otherwise unlikely to release the Wall Street Journal reporter.
Russia is deploying 75 year old tanks to the battlefield and coming up with unique plans to counter the modern ones NATO is sending to the battlefield.
Rival factions are jockeying for power as the country navigates a crisis with no clear way out.
A record number of Russians have appeared in London's Commercial Courts over the last year, despite the war...
The explosions were separated by about 15 minutes and one caused a brief fire.
The Russian president resides at various heavily guarded locations and travels frequently between Moscow and a compound in an elite suburb miles away.
"When members have access to classified information, we should not be trading in the stock market on it," said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. "It's really that simple."
Governments show time and again they won’t deliver adequate climate solutions of their own accord. If the world is ever going to get serious on climate, it will be because a mass movement of citizen action insists on it.€
Except, no such mobilisation of citizens yet exists across the global north. Accordingly, nothing like sufficient bottom-up pressure exists to hold governments accountable for inadequate climate pledges, let alone policies commensurate with climate science.
"The world should prepare."
The World Meteorological Organization reports increased odds that El Niño, the global weather pattern often tied to intense heat, will arrive by fall.
In a speech, Sultan al-Jaber, the Emirati official presiding over this year’s climate summit, spoke of emissions cuts, but experts also cited ambiguity in his statements.
Opponents say development of the gas basin would generate as much as an additional 89 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions annually.
The Conservatives deployed anti-ULEZ adverts on Facebook in March and April that were seen on more than three million occasions, DeSmog research has found.€
The party has engaged in a concerted online campaign against the expansion of London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ), which has been the subject of more than a quarter (28.4 percent) of the 88 adverts that were launched during this period.
Activists from Mexico are decrying the plan as a prime example of “colonial extractivism.”
A pseudonymous leftist Twitter account won $1 million from crypto investor Balaji Srinivasan over a bet on US inflation.
A swarm of Iranian fast-craft vessels surrounded the Niovi, a Panama-flagged oil tanker crossing the Strait of Hormuz, at dawn on Wednesday (May 3), steering it towards Iranian waters. It was the second ship Iran has seized in the past week, and the latest escalation in tensions between the US and Iran.
Iran has seized a Panama-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, the second such capture by Tehran in recent days. That's according to the U.S. Navy. The Mideast-based 5th Fleet identified the vessel taken as the Niovi. It said Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard seized the ship on Wednesday. The Navy published pictures of small Guard vessels surrounding the tanker. Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency acknowledged that the Guard seized the vessel, but offered no motive. Last week, Iran seized an oil tanker carrying crude for Chevron amid wider tensions between Tehran and the United States over its nuclear program.
Around six million tonnes of low-emissions electrolysis hydrogen is projected to be used in refineries in 2030, according to a new IEA World Energy Outlook special report.
Leading Stanford researchers came together at Energy Solutions Week to discuss solutions for energy transition and current technology development trends. The event was invite-only.
ENAG reports that Turkey's inflation rate remains in triple digits. Despite DðSK's win in a lawsuit against the suspension, the official statistical institute continues to withhold the publication of its inflation basket.
The journalists say their wages have eroded due to the high inflation in Turkey, demanding improved wages.
Global stock markets have sagged while the Japanese yen has risen in reaction to the Fed’s policy statement and signs of stress at another US regional bank, spurring investors to price in a pivot rather than just a pause in rate rises.
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a quarter percentage point on Wednesday, marking the 10th consecutive move in an aggressive hiking campaign that began a year ago to cool inflation.
Why it matters: As the banking system shows renewed signs of stress, the central bank gave its strongest signal yet that it could pause its series of rate increases.
The collapse of the Zimdollar has led to some interesting phenomena in Zimbabwe. The population prefers the US dollar but cannot bring themselves to bank said USD. This means when it comes time to transfer money, Zimbabweans cannot turn to banks.
Banks should pass on the latest interest rate hike to savers without delay, the treasurer says. Jim Chalmers has urged banks to apply the cash rate increase to deposit accounts as quickly as they are passing them on to borrowers.
The Latvian central bank (Latvijas banka, LB) said May 3 it will put another special coin on sale on May 11. This time the theme is the much-loved poet€ Imants Ziedonis (3€ May 1933–27€ February 2013).
Ten lawmakers including progressive Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders implored the Federal Reserve to impose a pause on interest rate hikes during its Wednesday meeting, warning that further financial tightening in the name of fighting inflation would risk a brutal, job-killing recession.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has warned Congress that the United States could run out of money to pay its bills by June 1 unless lawmakers raise the debt ceiling. House Republicans last week narrowly passed a bill to raise the debt ceiling, but only in exchange for sweeping spending cuts to numerous programs, including student debt relief, food assistance, Medicaid and renewable energy. Democrats, meanwhile, are pushing for a vote to raise the debt ceiling without imposing cuts, even as the constitutionality of the debt ceiling has been questioned by some legal scholars. For more on the debt ceiling, recent bank failures and other economic news, we speak with James Galbraith, economist and professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
Government subsidies for fossil fuel companies have hit records again – more money than is spent on Australia’s army. What’s the scam?
The scam is, in gas particularly, the winners are mostly foreign-owned multinational companies. The scam is also that these companies are enjoying soaring profits and most of them are serious tax avoiders.
The trouble that brought Heather Brown to Tire Town Auto Service in Picayune, Mississippi, had started with a shake as she drove down the interstate. The tires she relied on to guide her gold 2014 Nissan Rogue and grip the asphalt when she braked seemed to shift and bounce unpredictably. The 29-year-old single mom had purchased the used SUV in early 2022, and when she brought it to a dealership, a mechanic diagnosed a condition that was potentially dangerous for Brown and her 10-year-old son: The steel cords in all four of her tires were separating.
Brown replaced two of the tires in July and tried to save for the other two. But inflation kept eating away at her paycheck from her $14.31-an-hour job at a nursing home. So, needing the tires and with Christmas on the way, she took out a personal loan and pulled up to Tire Town on a drizzly Saturday morning in late November.
As workers in a range of industries across the United States demanded fair pay and benefits last year—and in several cases, were forced to strike as companies refused to meet those demands—median compensation for the top chief executives rose to a record-breaking $22.3 million.
The argument at the center of Republican officials' case against President Joe Biden's student debt cancellation plan is "categorically false," according to an explosive new report released Tuesday by the Roosevelt Institute and the Debt Collective.
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Lloyd Doggett on Wednesday led nearly three dozen progressive members of Congress in demanding an end to the Investor-State Dispute Settlement system, a key feature of corporate-managed trade agreements signed, and often initiated, by the United States.
More than 250,000 aged care workers are in for a record 15 per cent pay rise under a€ $11.3 billion boost in the federal budget.
New data released today by Crunchbase Inc. finds that global venture capital funding continued to decline in April as broader macroeconomic issues, 40-year-high interest rates and the war in Ukraine continue to disrupt global markets.
The US Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by another 25 basis points on May 3. Left unsaid, however, was whether the Fed is done hiking yet.
The Federal Reserve has raised interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point and signalled it may pause further increases, giving officials time to assess the fall-out from recent bank failures, wait on the resolution of a political stand-off over the US debt ceiling and monitor the course of inflation.
Asian stock markets are mostly higher after the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark lending rate again to cool inflation and said it isn’t sure what may come next
The Federal Reserve raised key interest rates by a quarter percentage point. The Wednesday announcement offered little indication that the Fed’s rate hikes have made significant progress toward the goal of cooling the economy, the job market, and inflation.
Senate Republicans are deeply skeptical of Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s estimate that the U.S. will not be able to pay its bills as early as June 1 if Congress does not raise the debt ceiling.
Why it matters: A firm deadline can be a forcing mechanism in any negotiations, especially on Capitol Hill. But deadlines only work if all the parties actually believe that they are real.
The Twitter co-founder has posted prolifically on two new social networks, Nostr and Bluesky, which he also backed financially.
TikTok’s U.S. Head of Safety and Trust is leaving the company on May 12, according to reports. Eric Han’s departure comes as TikTok grapples with a potential government ban. Eric Han led the safety teams for TikTok in the US for years.
In a since-deleted Facebook post, the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats accused NCP leader Petteri Orpo of pandering to the far right.
Tanya Chan, former legislator and former barrister, has been€ censured by the disciplinary committee of the Bar Association€ for “bringing the profession into disrepute” in two speeches made in 2014 to pro-democracy Umbrella Movement protesters.
The exodus of Hongkongers does not impact the city’s salaries tax revenue, said Hong Kong’s financial chief Paul Chan on Wednesday. Meanwhile, this year’s budget was passed by the “patriots-only” legislature with only one abstention.
Boris Zimin, one of the key donors to Alexey Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, says he is about to reduce the amount of his regular contributions to the organization.
The imprisoned opposition politician Alexey Navalny writes that the penal colony management has come up with a new way to make his prison life intolerable. Every evening, Vladimir Putin’s recorded speeches sound, at top volume, from loudspeakers throughout the building and in the penal cell that has become Navalny’s regular dwelling-place.
Joe Biden will very probably be re-elected. No incumbent President has ever lost a primary (though it should be remembered the current primary system is younger than me). Only one sitting President has ever not been selected by their party to stand again, and that was knocking on two hundred years ago.
Three conservative Supreme Court justices are now embroiled in a growing ethics scandal about their personal and financial connections. Recent reporting has revealed that Justice Neil Gorsuch sold property he co-owned to the head of a major law firm that has since had many cases before the court, Justice Clarence Thomas failed to disclose lavish gifts and payments from billionaire and conservative activist Harlan Crow, and the wife of Chief Justice John Roberts was paid over $10 million in commissions as a job recruiter placing lawyers at elite law firms. Legal experts and lawmakers are increasingly pushing for ethics reform on the high court, with the Senate Judiciary Committee holding a hearing on the issue on Tuesday. “Because they don’t have an ethics code, you don’t know whether they’re doing things in an above-board way,” says Vox senior correspondent Ian Millhiser. He also discusses growing frustration that California Senator Dianne Feinstein has not resigned her seat amid a prolonged absence from the Senate due to illness, which is stopping Democrats from confirming federal judges.
We’re getting into the warmer seasons, which means AAA games are coming up for release dates. It also means that leaks of content, or sometimes the entire games, for those AAA games are coming out as well. We just talked about several leaks coming out for Nintendo’s latest Zelda title. And now, right on the cusp of Bethesda’s release of the much anticipated Redfall, the publisher is very busy trying to nuke every bit of leaked content it can sniff out on the internet. Including, briefly, images of Redfall appearing on its own official Twitter account.
I really thought I’d written my last words on Tucker Carlson. Last week, after Fox fired him, I told him not to let the door hit him in the ass. But the New York Times article exposing a racist Carlson text, and suggesting that it’s what got him fired, demands at least a little context.
Over the last few months we’d been wondering if it was worth pulling Techdirt posting from Twitter altogether, but had been too busy with other stuff to make a decision, and now it looks like Twitter has made the decision for us. Last week, Automattic informed us that Elon Musk was demanding a ridiculous amount of money to continue allowing its Jetpack service to use the API to enable WordPress sites to automatically post to Twitter. Automattic publicly announced this week that it would not pay, and that WordPress sites would no longer be able to automatically post to Twitter.
It’s truly incredible what a childish person Elon Musk can be. As you’ll recall, he thought it was the funniest thing in the world to misleadingly label NPR as “state affiliated media,” a label that had been previously reserved for media organizations that were voices of the state, rather than independent. He did it because one of his nonsense peddler followers made some joke about NPR being state-affiliated media, and in typical Elon fashion, rather than looking into any of this or understanding the reasons why the “state-affiliated media” labels existed, thought it would put NPR in its place to put the label on them as well.
In 2005, the US Postal Service (USPS) began to get into the crowdsourcing business. For a fee, anyone could create custom stamps that could be sold through the government’s approved stamp portal (Stamps.com), provided they survived a cursory review by inattentive public servants.
In his new book, “Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan To Pillage America,” Brendan Ballou, a federal prosecutor who served as Special Counsel for Private Equity in the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, outlines the dangers of a trillion-dollar industry that hardly anyone understands. He explains how Americans can fight their harmful practices.
In Philadelphia’s first mayoral race since crime spiked during the coronavirus pandemic, the crowded Democratic field is trying to make public safety a campaign cornerstone
For the real story of the dueling leadership styles of the Republican Party, look to the courts. As former president Donald Trump battles criminal and civil charges stemming from a payoff to a porn star and an alleged rape, his closest potential rival for the GOP presidential nomination is mounting a legal counteroffensive against Disney. Florida Governor Ron Desantis has clashed against the corporation over its dissent from his plan to program anti-LGBQT+ bigotry into Florida’s public schools, a fight that has rapidly escalated. The Sunshine State’s newly instituted Central Florida Central Tourism District Board of Supervisors—a handpicked panel of DeSantis cronies that includes a pastor who once took to YouTube to suggest that drinking water could turn people gay—convened an emergency meeting to vote unanimously on Monday to sue Disney. The vote was a response to a suit filed last week by the Magic Kingdom’s legal team claiming that the DeSantis administration’s threatened suspension of a long-standing tax abatement for the company was a retaliatory violation of the company’s First Amendment protections after it had protested DeSantis’s “Don’t Say Gay” legislation.
KOSA’s burdens will affect adults, too, who will likely face hurdles to accessing legal content online as a result of the bill.
A Canadian lawmaker on Wednesday called for Ottawa to expel a Chinese diplomat accused of having sought to intimidate him and his family in Hong Kong over the MP’s criticisms of Beijing.
Former President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against The New York Times over a 2018 investigative series into his family’s wealth and tax practices was dismissed by a state judge. The lawsuit accused the Times and three of its investigative reporters of relentlessly seeking out his estranged niece, Mary Trump, as a source of information and convincing her to turn over confidential documents. The Times and its reporters on Wednesday succeeded in getting a judge to dismiss the claims against them. Trump attorney Alina Habba said “we will weigh our client’s options.”
A Minsk court has sentenced Roman Protasevich, the former head of the Telegram channel Nexta, to eight years in prison, according to the Belarusian news agency Belta.
A similar statement about the climate of fear fueled by prosecuting Assange has been made by Rebecca Vincent, the director of operations and international campaigns for Reporters Without Borders (RSF).“If the U.S. government is successful in securing Assange’s extradition and prosecuting him for his contributions to public interest reporting, the same precedent could be applied to any journalist anywhere,” Vincent contended. “The possible implications of this case simply cannot be understated; it is the very future of journalism and press freedom that is at stake.”This year, Blinken will€ participate€ in a “moderated conversation on the state of press freedom worldwide” with Washington Post columnist David Ignatius.
Press freedom in India has taken a turn for the worse, according to the World Press Freedom Index.
President Biden opened his speech at Saturday night’s White House Correspondents Dinner with an urgent appeal for the release of imprisoned journalists—and for increased global recognition of the vital importance of robust protections for a free press.
This is a talk Chris Hedges gave in New York City at rally calling for the immediate release of Julian Assange on World Press Freedom Day.
President Biden opened his speech at Saturday night’s White House Correspondents Dinner with an urgent appeal for the release of imprisoned journalists—and for increased global recognition of the vital importance of robust protections for a free press.
Sometimes lawmakers write legislation that would do the opposite of its stated goal. Nowhere is this more evident than in two recent bills—one introduced at the state level and another in the U.S. Congress—that are supposedly designed to “save local news.”
If we can’t figure out a way to pay local reporters then, as a country, we’re only left with that many more blind spots to where the bull is happening. You hear about all these newsrooms getting cuts. That’s every article that Tamara has been sending me the […]
I’ve been a Black person in this country for 44 years. There is very little about racism that still surprises me. Indeed, being able to anticipate what racist white folks will do next is an essential survival skill: “Surprise” is a luxury I cannot afford when I am so often the only Black person in a room.
Legal experts told The Nation it’s not illegal. But that didn’t stop one guard from moving a woman to extreme isolation after sharing sexual health information.
More than a dozen activists were arrested late Wednesday after occupying part of Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' office to protest his "fascist agenda," especially his support for a new anti-immigrant bill.
The mayor of Casper, Wyoming, is apologizing for a Facebook post some say evoked last year's arson attack that delayed opening an abortion clinic
This week, as the EU Parliament gets ready to vote on the AI Act, we are urging members of Parliament to protect people’s rights in this landmark legislation. We are putting forward our recommendations to lawmakers on protecting journalists from all kinds of surveillance through the European Media Freedom Act.
Among other digital rights updates, read about how Irish and French Parliamentarians have become the latest voices to sound the alarm against monitoring of people’s messages in the proposed Child Sexual Abuse Regulation.
Three McDonald’s franchisees in Kentucky were fined for violating federal child labor laws.
The United States has noted "with disappointment" Turkey's announcement that it would suspend Armenian airline overflight permission, a U.S. State Department spokesman said on May 3.
Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor played a greater role than previously known in handing the highly contentious 2000 presidential election to George W. Bush, a document released Tuesday by the Library of Congress revealed.
In recent months, stories of rideshare drivers and delivery workers carjacked, robbed, or even killed on the job have made headlines around the country. Now, growing research shows that there is an all-out, racialized safety crisis in app-based work.
The defendants in the case allegedly targeted people in weaker positions, including the intoxicated and defenceless, as well as members of various minority groups, police say.
Hollywood writers are on their first strike in 15 years to demand better pay and job security, now threatened by streaming services. Some scripted productions have paused, and with no resolution in sight, the situation is likely to drag on.
Yesterday evening the US union the Writers’ Guild of America went on strike. The most immediate impact of this is that all the late-night “comedy” talk shows – Colbert, Fallon, Kimmel, Meyers – have gone on hiatus.
Iranian authorities have begun imposing fines and denying entry to public transport, airports and hospitals to women who refuse to wear the hijab. Police have closed cafés, restaurants and shopping malls where customers do not wear the Islamic hijab to force shop owners to make the headscarf compulsory for women. These are the latest efforts by religious authorities in Iran to try to enforce Islamic dress codes after months of protests brought them down. Iranian women, however, say this crackdown will not stop them from fighting for social freedoms.
Treaty 9 nations are countering the province’s plans with a bold vision of shared land management
There are all sorts of anti-internet bills making the rounds lately, and one of the many on the docket and apparently set to move quickly is the Cooper Davis Act, which aims to create a mandatory reporting rule for websites where promotion of the sale of illegal drugs may occur. As with basically any law named after someone, the details of what happened to that individual are, in fact, tragic:
The US has always had a fairly pathetic definition of “broadband.”
His Honour Judge Hacon handed down judgment in AutoStore v Ocado on 30 March 2023.€ The case was atypical in that it had a split trial: the first part of the trial considered whether AutoStore’s patents (EP 794 and EP 027) were rendered invalid by prior disclosures made in Russia...
European Commission Press release Brussels, 03 May 2023 The Commission welcomes the provisional political agreement reached by the European Parliament and Council on a new Regulation to protect the intellectual property for craft and industrial products that rely on the originality and authenticity of traditional skills from their regions.
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b) requires that fraud or mistake be pled with particularity.
People whose business models are threatened by strong post-grant review and improved patent quality continue to assert that non-practicing entities (NPEs) and the patent troll narrative is a myth or a fabrication of big tech companies. And yet, a new report by Hightech Solutions reaffirms what has long been known to be true [...]
A new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, was added seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 9,854,207, owned by Sotat, LLC, an NPE. The ‘207 patent generally relates to a mobile device in communication with a server, where the server is adapted for receiving surveillance data that is transferred electronically from a surveillance area. The patent is currently being asserted against Resideo, Canary Connect, Vivint, and Wyze Labs.
The contest will expire on June 30, 2023. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.
On April 27, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 6,744,818, owned by DigiMedia Tech, LLC, an NPE and an IP Investments Group entity. The ‘818 patent relates generally to processing, encoding, and compressing frames of video images using visual perception and compression thresholds, and is relevant to our content zone.
So far this year, the percentage of Section 2(d) affirmances is lower than the historical average of about 90%. Here are three more refusals on appeal. At least one was reversed. How do you think these three cases came out? [Results in first comment].
Ghana attained its independence in 1957, prior to that the country was colonized by a number of European countries like the Portuguese, Danish, British and others.
The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) launched a new awareness campaign today hoping to educate kids on the risks of using the internet. The government's decision to call the campaign "CyberFlix" is utterly bewildering. Not only does the campaign now share the same name as one of the most recognized movie piracy apps, but the first few pages of Google results only return piracy-related results, at least some of which lead to malware.
Z-Library proudly bills itself as “the world’s largest library." The pirate site still flourishes today despite the fact that two Russians, who are allegedly connected to the site, were arrested in Argentina last year on behalf of the United States. The criminal case has yet to get started but there is some movement as both defendants are now represented by U.S. attorneys.
As generative AI is taking the social media world by storm with song mashups, TikTok is looking to disclose content that has been AI-generated.€ A new€ report€ from The Information suggests TikTok is internally working on a tool to allow content creators to disclose whether content was made using generative AI.
As the Marvin Gaye copyright infringement trial against Ed Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud” continues, Sheeran has some choice words about a musicologist who testified against him last week. Ed Sheeran is none too pleased with a musicologist who testified against him in the Marvin Gaye copyright infringement trial.
ByteDance pinned its hopes of creating a rival to Spotify or Apple Music with Resso, beginning in emerging markets. Now it’s cutting access to its free tier on May 11. The music streaming service launched in India, Brazil, and Indonesia as a way to get a foot in the door.
Those who sipped or sniffed ether and chloroform in the 19th century experienced a range of effects from these repurposed anaesthetics, including preternatural mental clarity, psychological hauntings, and slippages of space and time. Mike Jay explores how the powerful solvents shaped the writings of Guy de Maupassant and Jean Lorrain — psychonauts who opened the door to an invisible dimension of mind and suffered Promethean consequences.