During my two dozen years of writing about open source and reviewing hundreds of Linux distributions, I have developed a keen interest in Linux offerings that break out of the traditional Linux operating system molds. More often than not, the most interesting and innovative Linux versions are in a growing category of independent distros.
Two examples are relatively new Linux distributions that come with much potential. Both Carbon and Blend Linux are unique in what their developers represent.
Over the years, I have used and extensively reviewed many Linux distros developed by large companies, vast volunteer communities, and single developers. Often, the most interesting come from independent or unaffiliated Linux builders.
These include distros such as PCLinuxOS, Tiny Core Linux, Slackware Linux, 4MLinux, KaOS, Linux From Scratch, Solus, MakuluLinux, and NixOS. One of my all-time favorites is Puppy Linux and a group of close cousin distros that embellish its look and feel.
Mesa 23.1 comes with support for several new Vulkan extensions for the Radeon Vulkan driver (RADV) for AMD Radeon GPUs. These include VK_EXT_pipeline_library_group_handles, VK_EXT_image_sliced_view_of_3d (GFX10+), VK_KHR_map_memory2, VK_EXT_discard_rectangles version 2, VK_EXT_graphics_pipeline_library, VK_KHR_fragment_shading_rate (GFX11), and VK_EXT_mesh_shader.
In addition, the Radeon Vulkan driver now supports the fullyCoveredFragmentShaderInputVariable and primitiveUnderestimation implementations on GFX9+, the extendedDynamicState3ColorBlendEquation implementation, as well as RGP support on GFX11.
Mixxx 2.3.5 is here a little over two months after Mixxx 2.3.4 to make the Beat FX section for the Pioneer DDJ-400 controller more intuitive, make the use of pregain optional on the Hercules P32 DJ controller instead of the dry/wet knob, and fix sound output via WDM-KS on Windows systems for the Numark Mixtrack Pro FX DJ controller.
Linux users will be happy to learn that this release improves the full-screen experience on desktops that don’t use global menubars, shows a warning when the audio thread is not scheduled with real-time policy, and fixes the wrong waveform background color on various GNU/Linux distributions, such as Fedora Linux 37.
This article spotlights an alternative tool to sysctl. It's part of our Alternatives to popular CLI tools series.
Hashing is the process of passing data through a formula that produces a condensed fixed-value representation, called a hash value.
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Red Hat Device Edge€ is a new solution that delivers a lightweight enterprise-ready Kubernetes distribution called MicroShift combined with an edge-optimized operating system built from Red Hat Enterprise Linux€ (RHEL).
This article will guide you through the process of building your own customized Red Hat Device Edge images, from setting up the necessary building infrastructure to deploying the image on a device or virtual machine.
This tutorial will also show you a way to manage edge devices using supported tooling such as Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform€ in a pull-based model. This approach simplifies management and more accurately emulates real-life edge device connectivity.
In the daily use of a modern system like Linux, it is normal to want to have applications of all kinds to show the strength of the operating system. Many people use LaTeX, and therefore applications like KLatexFormula become necessary.
XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is a widely used format for data exchange and storage, offering a flexible and human-readable structure. Parsing XML files on Linux can be achieved through a variety of tools and programming languages, each with its unique features and benefits.
Learn two ways to install PyGame Python Module on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy or 20.04 Focal using the command line through APT or PIP package manager. Pygame is a Python module created for developers to create games and multimedia applications.
This tutorial shows how to automatically mount external disk partitions on startup of Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, and most other Linux. I bought a new SSD recently. Now, I have 2 solid-state drives (SSDs) connected on my computer. Ubuntu 22.04 is installed on one SSD drive, while another one contains VirtualBox Virtual Machine files.
On Thursday Google announced the list of participants accepted for this year's Google Summer of Code and we are happy to report that 5 contributors have been accepted to work on various parts of the ScummVM project this summer.
Ankush Dutt will work on an automated system for packaging freeware games with ScummVM for various platforms. The project includes two main objectives: help create standalone game packages bundled with ScummVM, and implement a new mechanism to let users download and install freeware games directly from the ScummVM launcher. You can follow the progress for this task on Ankush’s GSoC blog.
Tuesday, 9 May 2023. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5, versioned 5.27.5.
Plasma 5.27 was released in February 2023 with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience.
GUADEC 2023 is one of the most anticipated Linux events this year for GNOME users and developers from all over the world. It’s a gathering where people share knowledge and discuss the new features and changes of the next major release of the GNOME desktop environment, as well as related projects.
Similar to last year’s GUADEC event, GUADEC 2023 will offer a hybrid model where attendees can join in person or online. No matter if you will attend the event in person or remotely, you will have to register your presence.
GNOME is among the most respected and widely used desktop environments within the Linux fraternity. Every new release is like a breath of fresh air, bringing plenty of updates to look forward to.
GNOME 44 was released in March 2023, and it makes your desktop more appealing with its slew of new features. If you are ready to upgrade your GNOME version to 44, here are a few top features of GNOME 44 you should know about.
Hi, everyone!
I’m Pedro Sader Azevedo, a Computer Engineering student at Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) in Brazil. In the next few months I’ll be working as a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) intern to integrate the functionality of GNOME Network Displays into GNOME Settings, with the guidance of Felipe Borges, Claudio Wunder, Jonas Ãâ¦dahl, and Anupam Kumar.
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During the pandemic, when every aspect of life was moved to the digital realm, I learned about Free Software and was won over by its principled stance on technology. I decided to take back my computing and became a user (and vocal advocate) of GNU/Linux!
I absolutely love extensions, in general. I remember being blown away every time I found a notably extensible software, from Firefox add-ons in my early days of surfing the web to Neovim plugins in my latest coding endeavors.
This is why, once I started using GNU/Linux, I was amazed by GNOME Shell extensions. Being able to customize the appearance and behavior of my desktop environment as easily as used to with VS Code extensions was unimaginable coming from Windows and I loved every bit of it.
Since then, I’ve been a GNOME Shell extension fanatic and only upgraded my workstation when all extensions were made compatible with the latest version of GNOME. The addition of an upgrade assistant to Extension Manager made the wait easier, though not shorter.
Alpine Linux is known for its minimalistic approach, making it ideal for deployment in containerized environments, virtual machines, and embedded systems.
At the same time, while it is not a typical desktop-centric Linux distribution, thanks to its lightweight system’s design, it offers excellent choices for users seeking a sleek and fast desktop experience.
Undertaking the cloud migration of SAP S/4HANA can be difficult and face various challenges: both planned and unplanned downtime can stall business continuity and result in significant loss, and very often, a major outage is the result of accumulated minor issues that could have been identified and remediated in early stage.
With SUSE Linux Enterprise you’re not just using one of the most secure platforms available, you’re joining a community of innovators who are transforming the world. The next release of SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE), currently available in beta, is optimized to host workloads across the widest range of environments.€
Every March, we commemorate the achievements and progress in the struggle for gender equality. And on March 8th, the world joined hands to celebrateââ¬Â¯International Women’s Day.ââ¬Â¯This year, we honor the past, present, and future of women and their vital roles within society.
In just a few weeks, SUSE Manager 4.3.6 will be available for you to download!€ While this is not a major release, plenty of new features come with it. There are many reasons to upgrade to this new release as soon as possible.€
Coming six months after Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 is here to introduce support for 64k page sizes for Arm architecture to make it possible to deploy the operating system on more hardware and maximize the performance of large data set workloads, expanded capabilities of system roles to let you automate even more management tasks, as well as enhancements to Podman, Red Hat’s tool for developing, managing and running containers on Linux platforms.
The new Red Hat Enterprise Linux system role for Podman included with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 release enables administrators to automate configurations for their specific needs and environments without requiring knowledge of the command line. In addition, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 updates several other system roles enabling automation of SQL Server/Active Directory authentication, support for SQL Server 2022, and Always-On availability group support.
The Flathub website now has an option to filter out non-free software. Building on (excellent) redesign earlier this year, the refreshed Flathub website continues to improve.
According to the Fedora Wiki, Fedora Onyx is being considered for acceptance. This spin makes use of the same foundation technology found in other immutable versions – such as Fedora Silverblue, Fedora Kinoite, and Fedora Sericea – and is built for those who are looking for the immutability and atomic features that rpm-ostree provides.
Fedora Onyx will use the Budgie desktop environment and, according to the Wiki, has a target release of Fedora Linux 39.
For those who don't know, an immutable operating system is one that ensures the core of the OS cannot be changed and are typically used for testing and container-based software development. Immutable operating systems focus on security and tend to be future-proof.
I have been using libvirt on CentOS + ZFS for my home lab for somewhere around a decade now.€ For the last several years, I have been trying off and on to switch to some kind of hyperconverged infrastructure, usually oVirt + a clustered storage solution (Ceph, Gluster).€ For various reasons, I've never quite managed to get all the pieces to work together correctly.
So, imagine how happy I was to hear about Harvester a while back.
This is the latest in our monthly series summarizing the past month on the Community Blog. Please leave a comment below to let us know what you think.
Trust is a word and a concept that is on my mind lately. Trust is an idea that permeates all levels of our waking consciousness, and impacts how we build connections and relationships with other human beings. It is something impossible to ignore, yet it is ironically hard to define and pin down. Beyond what is written in a dictionary, what is trust? What does trust look like? What does trust feel like? Anyone who works in “community work” knows that trust is often the fundamental tie between community leadership and community members. A leader wants to be trusted by the people whom they represent, and a person wants to trust their leaders to represent them fairly and accurately.
The 7th update of Sparky 6 - 6.7 is out.
Open standards and collaboration are strategic to both hardware and software across industries and geographies. In the last decade, open source and open standards have reshaped our world. RISC-V is the most prolific and open Instruction Set Architecture in history, which has led the hardware community to embrace open standards and collaboration at this level.
This open Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) is enabling a new era of processor innovation through open-standard collaboration with rapid industry-wide adoption. To become the industry standard ISA across computing, the RISC-V ISA enables software and hardware design freedom on architecture. The architecture can be applied to a broad range of processors, from low-end microcontrollers to high-end server-grade processors.
Canonical worked with StarFive’s engineering team to create an optimised version of the latest Ubuntu release for use on the VisionFive 2.
This single-board computer (SBC) boasts greater performance than the company’s first-generation model (which Ubuntu announced support for last year) thanks, in part, to the inclusion of an integrated GPU – which makes it the first RISC-V board in the world to offer one.
FriendlyELEC NanoPC-T6 is a feature-rich Rockchip RK3588 SBC with up to 16GB LPDDR4X RAM, 256GB eMMC flash, two HDMI 2.1 output ports, one HDMI 2.0 input port, dual 2.5GbE, two M.2 PCIe socket for storage or wireless, a mini PCIe socket and microSIM slot for 4G LTE connectivity, and more. The new NanoPC-T6 single board computer offered many more interfaces than the recent NanoPi R6S or R6C board based on the Rockchip RK3588S with fewer I/Os.
The challenge Personal safety is a growing concern in a variety of settings: from high-risk jobs where HSE managers must guarantee workers’ security to the increasingly common work and study choices that drive family and friends far apart, sometimes leading to more isolated lives.
About 5 years ago Mozilla shipped Firefox Quantum, an upgrade that included significant performance improvements for most Firefox users. Unfortunately, Firefox Quantum didn’t improve performance for people who use screen readers and other assistive technology. In some ways, our screen reader performance actually regressed with the architecture changes that Quantum delivered.
The Firefox accessibility engineers remedied much of that performance regression in the late Twenty-Teens, but by 2020 they’d done all they could to keep up. Continued investment in the old architecture simply wasn’t going to be enough to maintain a competitive browser so we began planning a re-write, which became a project called Cache the World. This upgrade changes the way things work in Firefox’s accessibility code so that screen readers and other assistive technologies have fast access to the content they need.
Today, with the release of Firefox 113, those improvements are available to all Firefox users on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android.
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The Thunderbird email-client project has put out a report describing its financial situation in 2022.
Version 113.0 of the Firefox browser is out. Changes include improved picture-in-picture support, blocking of third-party cookies in private windows, some accessibility improvements, and more. ""A 13-year-old feature request was fulfilled and Firefox now supports files being drag-and-dropped directly from Microsoft Outlook"".
MariaDB plc€ today said it will make its Xpand distributed database management system available to PostgreSQL users in addition to its own customer base. “Our vision is to take databases to new heights of scale and resilience, in any cloud at a fraction of the cost of competitors,” said Chief Executive Michael Howard, in a statement.
Yes, our YouTube channel has just gone over the 3 million views mark. Great stuff! We’d like to say a special thanks to community members who’ve contributed great work, such as the Indonesian community for the “New Features” videos (major LibreOffice releases), and Harald B. in the German community for his tutorials.
After 3 betas and 3 release candidates, Julia version 1.9 has finally(!) been released. We would like to thank all the contributors to this release and all the testers that helped with finding regressions and issues in the pre-releases. Without you, this release would not have been possible.
Version 1.9 of the Julia language has been released. Notable changes include improved caching of native code, faster load times via a "package extensions" mechanism, better memory-usage introspection, and more.
Finding the right keyword in a search among thousand of lines of CSS, JavaScript, HTML code can be dreadful. There are solutions.
I was searching for
navigator.userAgenton the NYTimes website. All developer tools have search features. In Safari Web Inspector, Command€ +€ Shift€ +€ F will start the search tab.The matched results for
userAgentareuserAgentbut also: [...]
This will be in the next release of EasyOS. Source with patches and build scripts:
https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/source/kernel/5.15.x/5.15.110-20230509/
While at the 2023 Plasma Sprint at the Tuxedo Computers office in Augsburg, Germany, I created a patch to add
ButtonSegment,SegmentedControlandSegmentSeparatorto Qt Quick Controls 6.6: https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtdeclarative/+/476564
Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) is a paradigm that allows developers to design software using the concept of objects, which can contain data and methods. Java is one of the most popular programming languages that fully supports O
In a previous post on async closures, I concluded that the best way to support async closures was with an
asynctrait combinator. I’ve had a few conversations since the post and I want to share some additional thoughts. In particular, this post dives into what it would take to make async functions matchable with a type likeimpl FnMut() -> impl Future<Output = bool>. This takes us down some interesting roads, in particular the distinction between giving and lending traits; it turns out that the closure traits specifically are a bit of a special case in turns of what we can do backwards compatibly, due to their special syntax. on!Goal
Let me cut to the chase. This article lays out a way that we could support a notation like this: [..,]
What does it take to create unity? An amateur choir in Minneapolis fosters opportunities to connect – and spread joy.
Fundamental changes are coming.
Australia can be a clever and wealthy country if it sets a national research and development target and steps up science funding. The Tech Council of Australia said the 2023/24 federal budget€ takes important steps to address the big challenges facing the country, including skills shortages, growing new industries and jobs, and strengthening cyber security.
With greater awareness and urgency around the climate crisis and the impact of energy consumption, 140 countries have announced or are considering net zero targets, covering close to 90% of global emissions. These efforts will collectively support the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions. Additionally, the number of large cities with net zero targets has…
Schools opened yesterday and I know that you parents out there are a little light in your wallets. Thank you for your service, you are financing the future of this nation, keep paying that school fees.
Amid concerns about end-of-semester grade reporting due to striking graduate student instructors, an "overwhelming majority" of grades for U-M's winter term have been submitted.
Argentine public universities are free, but the low graduation rates have experts asking if higher education can be both inclusive and high quality.
Over 10,000 Chinese chip developers closed up shop during the past two years, as the investment bubble crash and global semiconductor downturn hit hard.
Millions of Australians are set to benefit from cost-of-living relief, free GP visits and lower than expected power prices. Treasurer Jim Chalmers promised the relief measures would not worsen already high inflation, treading a delicate balance while handing down his second budget.
The beds will be installed on its ultra-long Auckland-New York and Auckland-Chicago routes in 2024.
"...the vaccines for MR were imported into Libya during the last week..."
In 2008, just 10% of koalas tested in northern South Wales were positive for chlamydia. Now 80% have been infected, according to Mathew Crowther, a conservation biologist who monitors the population.
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) welcomes the American College of Emergency Physicians’ (ACEP) new public statement that “ACEP does not recognize the use of the term ‘excited delirium’ and its use in clinical settings.”
I watched my 30-year-old garden slowly choke from the exhaust of cars and two-wheelers as people went to and from the economic behemoth that the Hitech City located in Hyderabad had become.
Last weekend, in some places in Latvia, the temperature at night dropped to -7 C.€ Many berry and fruit farms confirmed€ even 80%-90% yield losses. The industry association€ plans to turn to the Ministry of Agriculture for assistance, Zemgale Television reported on May 8.
LinkedIn has announced layoffs in its sales, operations, and support department. The move by the Microsoft-owned company comes amid a weakening global economic outlook and a drop in demand. Some employees have already started receiving termination letter.
LinkedIn is everybody's favorite work-oriented social network, where we go to brag about our achievements in this weird, pacified, and ingenuine way we think employers might find to be professional and potentially desirable. Sadly, it seems some of LinkedIn's own employees may also be heading to the service to job hunt in the near term.
As part of Microsoft's cost-cutting measures for the year, its social network LinkedIn is shedding approximately 700 staff from its 20,000-strong team. In a note shared (opens in new tab) on LinkedIn itself, CEO Ryan Roslansky outlined the firm's "need" to cut costs and streamline, echoing phrasing used by many other tech companies in recent months, describing a challenging "macroeconomic environment." A big part of the restructuring effort is to wind down operations in China, owing to "fierce" competition from local rivals. LinkedIn will instead focus on helping firms hiring in China from outside of China, according to the note, while closing its local teams for marketing, operations, and development.
LinkedIn, the social media network owned by Microsoft Corp that focuses on business professionals, said on Monday it would cut 716 jobs as demand wavers, while also shutting down its China-focused job application.
LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky described the layoffs as a hard decision to address a rapidly changing business landscape. As part of the job cuts, the company is ending its Global Business Organization. The existing Product and Engineering teams at LinkedIn will be the company's replacement for that organization.
Microsoft, LinkedIn’s owner, had already pulled the flagship networking site from China in 2021, leaving only a stripped-down app that catered to job seekers.
Ubisoft could see layoffs of up to 60 employees at two different offices, as part of an organizational shift. Both the North Carolina and Newcastle locations are impacted.
Microsoft warns that two Iranian state-sponsored groups have adopted exploits targeting a recently patched PaperCut vulnerability.
The company said in a note to the ASX that the breach had not affected its customer-facing SaaS platform as it was not connected to the Microsoft 365 system.
In the statement, TechnologyOne said it had "acted with urgency to investigate the issue, including initiation of its cyber response strategy, appointing third party experts, and isolating affected systems".
Siemens and Schneider Electric’s Patch Tuesday advisories for May 2023 address a few dozen vulnerabilities found in their products.
Adobe has patched more than a dozen vulnerabilities, including critical code execution flaws, in its Substance 3D Painter product.
Shares in Rapid7 Inc. fell slightly in late trading today despite the cybersecurity solutions provider reporting an earnings and revenue beat in its most recent quarter.
As some as you may know, MSI suffered a data breach which leaked a huge amount of source code, documentation and low-level firmware PRIVATE KEYS. This is super bad as it now allows anyone to sign a random firmware image and install it as an official MSI firmware. It’s even more super bad than that, as the certificates leaked seem to be the
KeyManifestkeys, which actually control the layer below SecureBoot, this little-documented and even less well understood thing called BootGuard. I’ll not overplay the impact here, but there is basically no firmware security on most modern MSI hardware now. We already detect the leaked test keys from Lenovo and notify the user via the HSI test failure and I think we should do the same thing for MSI devices too. I’ve not downloaded the leak for obvious reasons, and I don’t think the KM hashes would be easy to find either.
A public exploit targeting building automation systems brings KNX security back into the spotlight, with Schneider Electric releasing a security bulletin.
Now more than ever, people, developers, and businesses alike consider PHP a dying language and that it might have no place in the IT/Dev World. However, PHP is one of the most popular programming languages still in use today. It is used by millions of websites, roughly around 80% of all websites, including some of the biggest names on the internet. PHP still dominates server-side web development whilst still being flexible and adaptable to a developers needs.
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (java-11-openjdk-portable and rubygem-redcarpet), Red Hat (autotrace, bind, buildah, butane, conmon, containernetworking-plugins, curl, device-mapper-multipath, dhcp, edk2, emacs, fence-agents, freeradius, freerdp, frr, fwupd, gdk-pixbuf2, git, git-lfs, golang-github-cpuguy83-md2man, grafana, grafana-pcp, gstreamer1-plugins-good, Image Builder, jackson, kernel, kernel-rt, krb5, libarchive, libguestfs-winsupport, libreswan, libtiff, libtpms, lua, mysql, net-snmp, openssh, openssl, pcs, php:8.1, pki-core, podman, poppler, postgresql-jdbc, python-mako, qemu-kvm, samba, skopeo, sysstat, tigervnc, toolbox, unbound, webkit2gtk3, wireshark, xorg-x11-server, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), SUSE (cfengine, cfengine-masterfiles, go1.19, go1.20, libfastjson, python-cryptography, and python-ujson), and Ubuntu (mysql-5.7).
Security updates have been issued by Debian (emacs), Fedora (chromium, community-mysql, and LibRaw), Red Hat (nodejs nodejs-nodemon, nodejs:18, and webkit2gtk3), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (amazon-ssm-agent, conmon, distribution, docker-distribution, google-cloud-sap-agent, ignition, kernel, ntp, prometheus-ha_cluster_exporter, protobuf-c, python-cryptography, runc, and shim), and Ubuntu (ceph, freetype, and node-css-what).
A U.K. citizen pleaded guilty today in New York to his role in cyberstalking and multiple schemes that involve computer hacking, including the July 2020 hack of Twitter.
Joseph James O’Connor, aka PlugwalkJoe, 23, was extradited from Spain on April 26.
“O’Connor’s criminal activities were flagrant and malicious, and his conduct impacted multiple people’s lives. He harassed, threatened, and extorted his victims, causing substantial emotional harm,” said Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr. of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “Like many criminal actors, O’Connor tried to stay anonymous by using a computer to hide behind stealth accounts and aliases from outside the United States. But this plea shows that our investigators and prosecutors will identify, locate, and bring to justice such criminals to ensure they face the consequences for their crimes.”
“O’Connor has left an impressive trail of destruction in the wake of his wave of criminality,” said U.S. Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey for the Northern District of California. “This case serves as a warning that the reach of the law is long, and criminals anywhere who use computers to commit crimes may end up facing the consequences of their actions in places they did not anticipate.”
The Justice Department today announced the completion of a court-authorized operation, code-named MEDUSA, to disrupt a global peer-to-peer network of computers compromised by sophisticated malware, called “Snake”, that the U.S. Government attributes to a unit within Center 16 of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB). For nearly 20 years, this unit, referred to in court documents as “Turla,” has used versions of the Snake malware to steal sensitive documents from hundreds of computer systems in at least 50 countries, which have belonged to North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member governments, journalists, and other targets of interest to the Russian Federation. After stealing these documents, Turla exfiltrated them through a covert network of unwitting Snake-compromised computers in the United States and around the world.
This month we got patches for 49 vulnerabilities. Of these, 6 are critical, and 2 are already being exploited, according to Microsoft.
The Western Digital online store is still closed and planned to reopen about 6 weeks after the March cyber attack.
Yet another app failure was a reminder of how dependent we’ve become on our phones to tell us when the sun is shining. Here are some options if it happens again.
You probably have spent most of the day toggling your phone’s airplane mode or restarting it to get it to work. Well, you are not alone. Econet is facing some system challenges that are affecting its services. Seems like data is one of those services that is still up and running.
On 8 May 2023, the Committee of Inquiry of the European Parliament investigating the use of Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware (PEGA) adopted its final report and recommendation, after 14 months of hearings, studies and fact-finding missions.
The EDRi network and partners have advocated for the EU to ban biometric mass surveillance for over three years through the Reclaim Your Face campaign. On May 11, their call may turn into reality as Members of the European Parliament’s internal markets (IMCO) and civil liberties (LIBE) Committees vote on the AI Act.
"You beeped for us," one of Vada Stevens' daughters declared. "What do you need?"
The Finnish Food Authority says it hopes every one of Finland's estimated 800,000 canine residents will be registered in the system by the end of this year.
The case relates to a 2018 ruling by Finland's Supreme Administrative Court that the Jehovah's Witnesses door-to-door practice of gathering people's personal information was illegal without their prior consent.
Last week, FBI officials boasted that in 2022 their agents had spied on only 120,000 Americans without search warrants! Under the Constitution, that number should be ZERO. This revelation is supposed to give members of Congress comfort that the folks we have hired to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution are in fact doing so.
Alima never again expects to live in her Burkina Faso home. Standing near a refugee settlement in Ghana, she can see her native hamlet over a dry riverbed. Alima said she left with her children last year after gunmen raided their settlement and killed two watchmen.
Battles between Sudan’s rival military leaders spread from Khartoum, the nation’s capital, to Darfur in late April, sparking concerns that a decades-old conflict in the western desert region may be reignited. Darfur attracted worldwide attention around 2003, when a rebel group took on the Sudanese government, alleging that it discriminated against non-Arabs.
When longtime Sudanese ruler Omar Al-Bashir stepped down in the face of a popular uprising, there was hope that a new era was beginning.
Erdogan held a phone call with Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.
An especially damaging development in the history of U.S. foreign policy was President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s promulgation of the domino theory. Adoption of its assumptions led directly to America’s disastrous military intervention in Vietnam. Although the simplistic doctrine was widely ridiculed after the Vietnam debacle, it has continued to have its adherents.
Early in the morning, fighter jets flew above€ Khartoum and the RSF fired anti-aircraft guns in response.
One area the United States completely ignores is Iran's growing influence on the African continent and the need to formulate a policy that will work to limit Tehran’s freedom of action there.
China ordered a Canadian diplomat in Shanghai to leave after Ottawa expelled a Chinese official who had been accused of gathering information on a Canadian lawmaker.
Beijing vows to ‘fight back resolutely and forcefully’ but denies that its diplomat intimidated a politician.
China said Tuesday it was expelling Canada’s consul in Shanghai in a tit-for-tat move after Ottawa said it was sending home a Chinese diplomat accused of trying to intimidate a Canadian lawmaker critical of Beijing.
More young men side with pro-democracy values, reducing the number of troops for the ruling military.
A survey by business lobby Eva found that support for the European Union has even increased among voters of the Eurosceptic Finns Party.
Musk has a history of engaging with right-wing conspiracies, and his reaction to the mass shooting in Allen, Texas continues the trend.
China€ on Tuesday expelled a Canadian diplomat in Shanghai in a tit-for-tat after Ottawa told a Toronto-based Chinese diplomat to leave the country, escalating already tense bilateral relations amid concerns about Chinese influence in Canada.
Canada's government on Monday expelled a Chinese diplomat who was accused of trying to intimidate a lawmaker who had sponsored a motion that declared Beijing's treatment of Muslim Uyghurs as a genocide.
Driving the news: Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly in a statement announced the government had declared the Toronto-based diplomat Zhao Wei "persona non grata." Hours later, Beijing took retaliatory measures.
Two worshippers participating in an annual Jewish pilgrimage to a renowned Tunisian synagogue and two members of the security services were shot dead Tuesday in an attack carried out by a police officer, the interior ministry said.
The latest Citizen's Pulse survey is the first to measure people's trust in Nato and the European Union.
Originally posted at TomDispatch. In late March, I was taken aback by a news story about a drone attack on American troops at a joint base with Kurdish forces in Syria. Though five U.S. soldiers were wounded, there was only one death and, as Eric Schmitt reported in the New York Times,
Saudi€ Arabia€ will reopen its diplomatic mission in Syria, the€ Saudi€ foreign ministry said on Tuesday, nearly a decade after diplomatic ties were cut and two days after Syria was readmitted into the Arab League.
The United States and Britain are voicing dissatisfaction with the weekend decision by the Arab League to re-instate Syria as a member
After 18 years and three multinational peace missions, Somalia is getting ready to take full control of its own security.
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides will leave his post this summer after nearly two years in Jerusalem, two U.S. officials told Axios.
Why it matters: Nides announced his departure at a time when the Netanyahu government's controversial judicial overhaul continues to complicate the U.S.-Israel relationship. President Biden still hasn't invited Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House — more than four months after the Israeli leader was sworn in.
Israeli strikes on Gaza Tuesday killed at least 13 Palestinians, including eight civilians and three senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) commanders, according to Palestinian officials.
Why it matters: It's the biggest Israeli military operation in Gaza since last August when Israeli forces conducted a wave of air strikes against the PIJ group. Tuesday's strikes will likely lead to a wider escalation.
At least three of the dead were leaders in Islamic Jihad, the group said. Officials reported that at least 10 civilians, including children, were killed in the strikes, which Israel said had hit the planners of attacks.
A brief guide to the armed group that saw three leaders killed in Israeli airstrikes early Tuesday.
A series of Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday killed three Islamic Jihad militant group leaders and 12 other people, with both sides bracing for an escalation.
Our experts share their insights on the prospects for escalation and what it all means for Iran, Saudi Arabia, and other regional players.
Tajikistan has asked member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to establish an independent agency to combat drug trafficking from Afghanistan.
Kouri Richins wrote a children’s book to help her three sons process their father’s sudden death, she said. Prosecutors said this week that she poisoned him with a lethal dose of fentanyl.
Edward Bronstein, 38, repeatedly yelled, “I can’t breathe,” as officers restrained him during the March 31, 2020, encounter.
The Biden administration seeks better compensation for travelers affected by airline delays and cancellations in a further strengthening of air passengers’ protections.
On April 24, 2023, the Atlantic Council’s Iraq Initiative convened a hybrid panel discussion to examine Iraq’s current economic and energy landscape, and their future trajectory.
A federal agency is proposing a nearly $3.4 million fine for an energy company over a 2021 oil pipeline spill that fouled Southern California beaches
Australia is to invest $2bn in a Hydrogen Headstart programme as it aims to become a renewable energy ‘superpower’.
U.S. nuclear regulators have issued a license for a multibillion-dollar complex in New Mexico to temporarily store tons of spent fuel from commercial nuclear power plants around the nation
More than two-thirds (69%) of Germans rate green hydrogen as Europe’s energy source of the future, according to a recent thyssenkrupp nucera survey.
THE STRENGTHS of Finland in nuclear and renewable energy provide the country a solid foundation for reaching its ambitious climate goals, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).
The IEA on Friday urged Finland in its quinquennial country report to accelerate the adoption of wind and solar energy, and diversify both industry and transport away from their reliance on oil and natural gas.
Move over, lithium—there’s a new battery chemistry in town. Lithium is currently the ruler of the battery world, a key ingredient in the batteries that power phones, electric vehicles, and even store energy on the electrical grid. But as concerns about the battery supply chain swell, scientists are looking for ways to cut down on…
Saudi Aramco announced a 19% drop in quarterly profits compared to the same period in 2022, largely thanks to lower global oil prices. It’s the first year-over-year dip for the company since 2020.
Evacuees in rural Alberta have no sense of when they will be able to return home or if their houses still stand.
Horses, donkeys and mules can be a lifeline for families living in the countryside, but there haven’t always been vets around to treat them.
The migration of the white-fronted geese is currently underway in Finland, as reported by the Finnish Meteorological Institute. The past week has seen an influx of these geese, with the largest group of 20,000 birds spotted in Parikkala Island. The numbers of migrating birds have been relatively small so far, with the highest count being less than 5,000 at any given location. The birds are expected to continue their migration in the coming days.
During "seal season", or the time of the presence of baby seals on beaches coming to an end, three seal pups have been rescued in the territory of Latvia, according to information on May 9 by the Nature Conservation Agency (DAP).
The UN’s latest State of the World Population 2023 report deepens its denouncement of population concerns. While it commendably emphasizes women’s reproductive rights, it neglects the role an excessive and growing population plays in driving global ecological degradation and overlooks the many ways overpopulation can undermine poor people’s rights to safety and security.
Microsoft Corp will not raise salaries for full-time employees this year and is reducing budget for bonuses and stock awards, Insider reported on Wednesday, citing an internal email by CEO Satya Nadella.
Microsoft said it won’t raise salaries for full-time employees this year, the latest sign of tech companies’ belt-tightening amid concerns about a slowing economy.
Microsoft Corp will not raise salaries for full-time employees this year and is reducing budget for bonuses and stock awards, Insider reported on Wednesday, citing an internal email by CEO Satya Nadella.
The tech giant did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
Microsoft is making more cuts to its workforce.
The company is slashing 158 jobs in Washington state, where it is headquartered, according to a new filing with the state Employment Security Department (ESD).
The layoffs are not part of the 10,000 global layoffs announced by Microsoft on Jan. 18.
“Organizational and workforce adjustments are a necessary and regular part of managing our business,” a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement. “We will continue to prioritize and invest in strategic growth areas for our future and in support of our customers and partners.”
For years, Microsoft has been seen as the adult in the room when it comes to Big Tech excess. But its veneer of responsibility is starting to wear thin.
Lawmakers are starting discussions on the debt limit, weeks before a critical deadline.
"If it continues like this, then we can say goodbye to the welfare state," said PM-elect Petteri Orpo (NCP).
Maryland’s highest court has reversed a ruling by a lower court that the state’s first-in-the-nation tax on digital advertising was unconstitutional. In a ruling released Tuesday, the Supreme Court of Maryland said the lower court lacked jurisdiction over the case because the plaintiffs failed to exhaust administrative remedies. In an order, Justice Matthew Fader, the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, remanded the case back to Anne Arundel County Circuit Court with directions to dismiss its action for reasons that will be stated in a later opinion. The four-page order does not make any ruling on the constitutionality of the law.
Shares of GlobalFoundries Inc. dropped more than 9% today after it posted better-than-expected first-quarter earnings but missed projections with its guidance. The chipmaker also announced a leadership team reshuffle. GlobalFoundries has appointed former Amazon Web Services Inc. executive Tim Stone as chief financial officer and Niels Anderskouv as chief business officer.
Amplitude Inc.€ fell in after-hours trading today after the behavior-tracking firm said its second-quarter revenue would be lower than what analysts expected.
Critics of industrial policy worry that state intervention in business would involve a government in “picking winners and losers,” leading to poorly allocated resources and gross market inefficiencies.
Twilio Inc. shares plunged in late trading today after the communications tools provider said it expects revenue to be somewhat lower than expected by analysts in its second quarter.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) emerged from a Tuesday meeting with President Biden and other congressional leaders at the White House railing against Biden’s continued insistence on a clean debt ceiling increase.
Yes, but: Despite saying there was no “new movement” in the meeting with congressional leaders, McCarthy said they plan to sit down again later this week.
President Joe Biden says he and congressional leaders had a “productive” meeting Tuesday on trying to raise the nation’s debt limit. No agreement was reached, but they will meet again Friday to try to avert the risk in weeks of an unprecedented government default. Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said after meeting with Biden and other Democrats that he "didn’t see any new movement” toward ending the months-long impasse over raising the nation’s borrowing limit. McCarthy stopped short of guaranteeing there would be no default, simply saying he was doing everything he could.
In their first meeting in three months, the president and House speaker remained at loggerheads over the debt ceiling and spending cuts. But they agreed to meet again.
The severe poverty and climate crisis the world is suffering should be a moment for us to completely reassess the way our political and social structure is formed. That's the view of€ Daniel Chandler, an economist and philosopher based at the London School of Economics. His new book "Free and Equal:€ What Would a Fair Society Look Like?" makes the case for a new progressive liberalism with suggestions such as free childcare for all, no fee-paying elitist schools and higher taxes to spread wealth more evenly. The author spoke to us in Perspective.
The Lithuanian parliament has voted in favour of the government’s proposal to introduce a “temporary solidarity contribution” payable by all banks and credit institutions, a levy that is expected to raise over 400 million euros amid soaring banking profits.
The committee consists of 17 members and includes Paris Club creditors.
The Supreme Court struck down recent elements of the controversial reform package, saying it passed due to a "perversion of democratic rules."
Mexico's inflation rate decreased to 6.25% in April, just shy of analysts' predictions but enough that Banxico may keep interest rates steady.
Democracy can make our future better if it allowed to thrive.
“There are instruments so dangerous to the rights of the nation and which place them so totally at the mercy of their governors that those governors, whether legislative or executive, should be restrained from keeping such instruments on foot but in well-defined cases. Such an instrument is a standing army.”
>Hong Kong welcomes overseas government leaders, Chief Executive John Lee has said, as the city saw its first visit from a UK minister in five years.
This year’s presidential and parliamentary elections on 14 May mark one of the most critical moments for Turkey in the past 100 years.
Muharrem Ince is best remembered outside Turkey for his spirited campaign against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2018's presidential polls. Ahead of May 14 elections, Turkey’s six main opposition parties have united behind Kemal Kilicdaroglu – and Ince’s candidacy threatens to split the anti-Erdogan vote.
Recep Tayyip Erdoßan has ruled Turkey for over 20 years. Now, there is a real chance he could be defeated in Sunday's election. A journey to disappointed supporters, companies suffering under the beleaguered economy – and to the man who could oust the eternal president.
Erdogan, who was elected Turkish president in 2014, will seek another term at the presidential and parliamentary elections on May 14.
The presidential election will be a tight race between two of four candidates: incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu.
About 128,000 people are behind bars for drug-related crimes in Turkey, accounting for about one-third of the country's prison population.
Staunch supporters of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan still like his tough-guy rhetoric and critiques of the West and see no viable alternative, though he has been accused of mismanaging the economy.
An administrative fine had been imposed on Amnesty Turkey for allegedly failing to inform the government before using funds from other countries.
Ankara has reportedly rejected some of the observers sent by the OECD Parliamentary Network.
They’ve gone on for years and they raise serious questions about accountability at the Supreme Court.
Trump liable and on the hook for $5 million; Santos' goose may be cooked by the feds; McCarthy's mooked us by threatening the economy. What else should we talk about?
The first-term Republican congressman’s extensive lies on the campaign trail and questionable financial dealings were the focus of criminal and ethical inquiries.
Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) has responded to multiple reports Tuesday that he faces federal charges for criminal offenses.
The former prime minister, who was ousted last year, was arrested on corruptions charges.
Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan was arrested and dragged from court Tuesday as he appeared to face charges in multiple graft cases, a dramatic escalation of political tensions that sparked violent demonstrations by his angry supporters in several major cities.
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has been arrested and appeared in a court in Islamabad, to face charges in multiple graft cases, said officials from his party. Mr. Khan claims the calls for his arrest are politically motivated by opponents.
Government officials alleged Khan and his wife received land as a bribe through a charitable trust.
Mobile broadband has been suspended in Pakistan amid protests in major cities following the arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan.
Mr. Khan, a former cricket star, has staged a comeback since being ousted, openly challenging the powerful military. His detention raises fears of mass protests.
In response to a writer’s accusation of sexual assault, nine jurors in Manhattan finally held Donald Trump accountable.
Trump was found guilty by a Manhattan jury of sexually abusing magazine writer E. Jean Carroll.
Jurors have reached a verdict in E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit against former President Donald Trump. They found him liable for sexual abuse and awarded Ms. Carroll $5 million, but they rejected her claim of rape.
The ex-president must pay Ms. Carroll $5 million. More than a dozen women have accused Mr. Trump of sexual misconduct, but this civil case was the only one tested before a jury.
A federal judge presiding over the lawsuit against the former president walked jurors through each variety of wrongdoing, explaining their precise definitions.
Also, protests in Pakistan after the arrest of Imran Khan.
Donald Trump has been found liable for sexual abuse and defamation.
A video with nearly 5 million views on Twitter shows a robot collapsing to the ground after putting away some boxes. According to those who shared the post, the robot collapsed after a "long day's work" which caused it to deactivate itself from exhaustion. However, the scene actually took place during a four-day demonstration during which the manufacturer hoped to show the product's "99% success rate". The robot fell down several times during the demonstration.
Mr Chris Tang said the piece contained “groundless remarks” about a statue commemorating Tiananmen Square protesters
Messaging app Telegram warned Tuesday that "democracy is under attack in Brazil," the latest salvo by tech companies opposed to a bill seeking to stem disinformation online.
NetBlocks metrics confirm the disruption of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube on multiple internet providers in Pakistan on Tuesday 9 May 2023.
This blog post is a bit of light relief from the usual. A relative was talking about investment agents disappearing with all your money, which reminded me of a comedy skit from the late-80s to early-90s.
The Australian TV show was "Fast Forward" and two comedians Steve Vizard and Peter Moon did skits in which they were doing TV ads. In one series of skits, they were Indian carpet salesmen, in another they were investment advisors. I remembered a line from the latter, Peter Moon saying "We will look after your money like it is our own".
The state objected to content on topics like the Black Lives Matter movement, socialism and why some citizens ‘take a knee’ during the national anthem.
Successive internet shutdowns were imposed in the entire State of Manipur for five days. We have written to the Chairperson of the Review Committee, to review the order and consider on a day-to-day basis whether the internet suspension needs to continue.
France's Interior Minister Gérald€ Darmanin said Tuesday he had asked local prefects to ban ultra-right-wing demonstrations after coming under criticism for allowing hundreds of far-right activists dressed in black to march through Paris at the weekend.
Hong Kong transport news site Transit Jam has ceased operations, its owner announced on Tuesday, making it the latest outlet to disappear in the wake of the security law. The closure came days after its founder was targeted in the state-run press.
>Recording a meeting of Hong Kong pro-democracy figures without their permission was not an intrusion of privacy, an anonymous witness for the prosecution has said during a high-profile trial relating to 47 democrats under the Beijing-imposed national security law.
Fifteen people taken into custody over violence against Ekrem ðmamoßlu's public meeting in Erzurum were released.
NBCUniversal is finalizing a settlement with CNBC senior international correspondent Hadley Gamble, sources tell Axios.
Some Afghan women employed by the United Nations have been detained, harassed, and had restrictions placed on their movements since being banned by the Taliban from working for the world body, the UN said on May 9.
The Kurdish politician convicted of "terror" crimes says she was tortured while being transferred from one prison to another.
Mexico was never a “migration nation” like the U.S. But American policy written during the pandemic has forced Mexicans to rethink their obligations to migrants.
Lao dissidents living abroad have been harshly punished after returning to the country.
Indonesia touts regional bloc as key to peace amid criticism over inaction on post-coup crisis in member-state.
Candlelight Party’s Rong Chhun would have gone head-to-head with Prime Minister Hun Sen.
The group claims responsibility for three deaths after a months-long lull.
“Dances With Wolves” actor Nathan Chasing Horse is asking the Nevada Supreme Court to dismiss his sweeping sexual abuse indictment in state court. The 46-year-old is charged with 18 felonies accusing him of sexually abusing Indigenous women and girls for more than a decade. Chasing Horse and lawyers argue that his accusers wanted to have sex with him. His appeal filed Tuesday marks his latest attempt to end the case after a Nevada judge upheld Chasing Horse’s indictment last month. The judge ruled that prosecutors presented enough evidence for a reasonable grand jury to return an indictment on charges of sexual assault, kidnapping and child abuse. Chasing Horse's trial was set to start May 1 but has been put on hold indefinitely while he appeals.
APNIC hosted a booth and conducted IPv6 training at the PCTA Convention 2023, held in Boracay, Philippines from 10 to 14 April 2023.
There’s a world of wholesome drama out there in strangers’ social media content, if you know where to look. You don’t even need to post yourself.
In the case against Sandoz and Teva, the UK Court of Appeal has confirmed the invalidation of a Bristol-Myers Squibb patent for apixaban. This follows an appeal against High Court proceedings, which took place last year. Proceedings are also ongoing in the Netherlands and Ireland. In April 2022, the court invalidated EP 14 27 415...
On May 4, 2023, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged claims in an IPR filed by Unified against U.S. Patent 11,208,029, owned and asserted by Torchlight Technologies LLC, an NPE. The '029 patent is directed to a headlight system that increases light in a direction of road curvature.
On May 8, 2023, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 7,903,608, owned and asserted by Bandspeed, LLC, an NPE. The ‘608 patent is generally directed to communication devices for adaptive frequency-hopping based on channel performance.
In Bonito Boats, Inc. v. Thunder Craft Boats, Inc., the Supreme Court addressed the issue of state laws that provide additional patent-like rights. The Court held that a Florida law prohibiting the use of a direct molding process to duplicate unpatented boat hulls was preempted by federal patent law. The Court reasoned that the Florida law conflicted with the “carefully crafted” goals of the federal patent system.
Ticketmaster and concert promoter OCESA face a significant class action lawsuit spearheaded by Mexico’s Office of the Federal Prosecutor for the Consumer, PROFECO. Mexico’s federal agency PROFECO has€ announced€ that a Mexico City judge admitted a class action lawsuit against Ticketmaster and concert promoter OCESA.
