This week we didn’t get so many news and releases. Still, we got some interesting ones about some of the new features of the upcoming Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur) and KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment.
On top of that, I warn you about the end of life of Linux kernel 6.2 and inform you about the new abilities of Xfce’s default screenshot utility. Check out the hottest news of this week and access all the distro and package downloads in 9to5Linux’s Linux weekly roundup for May 21st, 2023, below.
25:15 – This episode is dedicated to the memory of Jim Kloss, whom I interviewed on the show in 2016. Jim was one of my dearest friends, a mentor in life, and a wonderful human being. Recorded late one evening wandering around a park in Sydney.
HTTP Strict Transport Security, commonly referred to as HSTS, is an integral component in the arsenal of any tech-savvy server administrator aiming to enhance server security. In essence, HSTS is a policy mechanism that commands web browsers to interact with the server exclusively over HTTPS, thereby eliminating the possibility of any unencrypted HTTP requests.
In the world of Linux, Fedora is a highly popular distribution because of its focus on innovation, community involvement, and incorporation of new technologies. One such technology is DNF, the next-generation package management system for Fedora. DNF (Dandified Yum) is a software package manager that installs, updates, and removes packages on RPM-based Linux distributions.
Software Center is a graphical store app on the Ubuntu Linux system to install various open-source and free applications with one click.
Welcome to the universe of Ubuntu Budgie, a user-friendly Linux distribution based on Ubuntu that employs the Budgie desktop environment. Ubuntu Budgie combines the stability and efficiency of Ubuntu with the innovative and sleek interface of the Budgie desktop, resulting in a powerful, flexible, and visually pleasing computing platform.
In my view, the primary threat this form of Kerberos protects you from is untrusted single-user machines that claim the user has logged in to them when the user hasn't. If you trust the machines, you can trust their claims of what user they're acting on behalf of. If you don't trust a machine and people log into it, it's game over for every user that logs into the machine; the machine acquires access to their Kerberos information and can now make whatever NFS requests in their name that it wants to. If you can't trust a multi-user machine, you shouldn't allow people to log into it. So the primary threat you're protecting against is an untrusted machine operated by user A claiming that it's actually acting on behalf of user B, when user B has never touched the machine.
Between 2023-05-15 and 2023-05-21 there were 138 new games validated for the Steam Deck. We use numerous criteria to create this best Steam Deck Games list, such as popularity, ranking, and more.
We are proud to announce that the migration to Git packaging succeeded!
We are pleased to announce that Infomaniak has committed to sponsor DebConf23 as a Platinum Sponsor.
In my blog series about restoring the Schneider EuroPC I mentioned that I wanted to test the parallel port using something special. The special thing was an LPT DAC to play MOD files. The first supplier for this let me down, but the second one has arrived, so here is a video using it!
This month, EDATEC launched an industrial embedded computer built around the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. The CM4 Industrial comes with two RJ45 ports, a 4G/LTE module, certified 2.4/5.8G dual-band Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and support for external antennas.
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to connect and use Raspberry PI with e-ink display, for Raspberry PI computer boards. I'm not
I explained the concepts and theory behind Data Residency in a previous post. It’s time to get our hands dirty and implement it in a simple demo.
Week highlights: Blender 3.6 beta is out, MLT gets more 10-bit video support, VGC Illustration gets UI update and new tools, DrMr sampler gets a new life in a fork.
The GIMP team is meeting live this week somewhere in the EU, for the first time since 2019.
Hello All,
We're happy to announce the release of v1.15 of pgmetrics. Changes since the v1.14 release include:
- New: support for Pgpool 4.x and above. Read more here
- Support for PgBouncer 1.18, 1.19.
- Updated dependencies.
- Performance improvement that drastically reduces the number of queries that pgmetrics makes for databases with large numbers of tables (thanks to Michaà â Albrycht).
- Various bug fixes.
What is Pgpool-II?
Pgpool-II is a tool to add useful features to PostgreSQL, including:
- connection pooling
- load balancing
- automatic failover and more.
The Carolina Code Conference is a welcoming and community-driven “polyglot” conference that’s set to take place in beautiful downtown Greenville, SC on Saturday August 19th, 2023 in the Greenville ONE building. This conference, which returns for the first time since 2019, invites coders of all experience levels to attend, plug into the development community, share their experiences and have a great time as well.
This document describes an upate to the behaviour of Porter-Duff compositing operators in R graphics.
Last week I had to talk my colleagues through the architecture of an R project that we’ve been working on for a while.
I am excited to announce stories.js, a HTML component that you can add to your website to create web stories.
The reports of the death of automotive AM radio may have been greatly exaggerated. Regular readers will recall us harping on the issue of automakers planning to exclude AM from the infotainment systems in their latest offerings, which doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense given the reach of AM radio and its importance in public emergencies. US lawmakers apparently agree with that position, having now introduced a bipartisan bill to require AM radios in cars. The “AM for Every Vehicle Act” will direct the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration to draw up regulations requiring every vehicle operating on US highways to be able to receive AM broadcasts without additional fees or subscriptions. That last bit is clever, since it prevents automakers from charging monthly fees as they do for heated seats and other niceties. It’s just a bill now, of course, and stands about as much chance of becoming law as anything else that makes sense does, so we’re not holding our breath on this one. But at least someone recognizes that AM radio still has a valid use case.
The news of TCP's demise in the data centre have been greatly exaggerated.
TLS, byte by byte performs an unusual and interesting function: it fetches itself over HTTPS, and provides a complete annotation of what’s going on in the process, one byte at a time. Visit the site and give the button a click to watch it happen, it’s neat!
It was not immediately clear what prompted the rush at Cuscatlán Stadium in the capital. President Nayib Bukele vowed to conduct a thorough investigation.
Most parents have heard a familiar story. Their lovely child comes up, having seen a celebrity rocking out with a funny $20 toy from the 80s, and asks for it. Of course, you reply, it’s just 20 dollars. However, a quick scan through eBay reveals that everyone else’s kid has also been asking for this obscure toy for a school event, which now costs around $700. [Ben] found himself in that exact position and made a crucial off-hand comment, “I bet I could make one of those.” That was how his hectic journey into the world of toy reproduction began.
At the end of his reply, in a separate paragraph, he added a but: once the drummer hits those cymbals, you won’t be able to tell the difference.
I didn’t buy the pickups. But not only that. In the years since reading this last paragraph, I turned it over in my mind so many times that it morphed from a comment about guitar gear into something I turn to on a regular basis.
When the Spanish colonized the Southeast Asian archipelago, they instructed Filipinos to use the Latin alphabet, and Baybayin, the written component of Tagalog, the national language of the Philippines, fell out of use. But over the past two decades, young people, artists and many among the Filipino diaspora are looking to re-establish a sense of cultural pride, and they have started a movement to bring it back to life.
Latvia and Estonia will jointly purchase anti-air defense systems IRIS-T, creating a new “Livonia Shield” for Latvian and Estonian airspace protection, Latvian Defense Minister Ināra Murniece (National Alliance) and Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur€ said at a press conference Sunday, May 21.
It took firefighters more than seven hours to get the inferno under control.
This is the post I never thought I would have to make. I am also writing this post on behalf of SoylentNews PBC, the legal owner of SoylentNews, and not as a member of the staff or the community.
SoylentNews is going to shut down operations on June 30th.
This wasn't an easy decision to come to, and it's ultimately the culmination of a lot of factors, some which were in my control, and some that weren't. A large part boils down to critical maintenance to the site not properly being performed for a very long time. To pay back the mountain of technical debt we've built up, it would require relaunching the site from scratch.
I'll discuss this more in depth below, but I can't personally justify the time any more, especially due to the negative impact that SN is having on my personal life.
Before we shut down, at least for the foreseeable future, I'm going to outline the situation as I see it, my own personal responsibility, and what happens next.
In a joint statement released Saturday, international leaders at this weekend’s G-7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan called for the development of international standards that will govern new technologies, particularly artificial intelligence.
Simply staggering!
This is really incredible.
Now that's cell service.
The “mathematical equivalent to the FBI’s voluminous fingerprint files” turns 50 this year, with 362,765 entries (and counting).
KAUST engineers have found a way to create a True Random Number Generator (TRNG) in a printable, inkjet form that promises groundbreaking energy efficiency.
Rather than getting distracted by moral panics over ‘screen-time’, this approach requires politicians to engage in more complicated conversations around the quality of what is being done on these screens. Rather than knee-jerk decisions to ‘ban’ devices, this approach involves a prolonged commitment to supporting students and teachers make informed choices over when it might be appropriate to be using technology, and when it might not.
University professors have railed against the rising corporatisation of Australia’s universities. Mass redundancies, lack of accountability and diminishing quality of eduction are just some of the issues, as vice-chancellors turn the focus to the gigantic market for Indian students. Michael Sainsbury reports.
Barely weeks into the academic year, in early March, ten of Australia’s stupendously remunerated university vice-chancellors, and a phalanx of advisers, left their campuses to take an all expenses paid trip with Education Minister Jason Clare to India.
On Thursday, Cynthia Peeples, board director for League of Women Voters of Ohio and Honesty for Ohio Education founding director presented on the state of education in Ohio at a meeting at Kent State Social Services.
For many outside observers like myself,€ Lotta Edholm’s€ recent announcement€ that the Swedish government intends to pull back from Skolverket’s much heralded€ digitaliseringsstrategi€ comes as something of a surprise. That said, recently-elected governments are often keen to roll-back policies that they inherit from their predecessors.
In a move that has a significant part of the internet flashing back to the innocent days of 2001 when Intel launched its Itanium architecture as a replacement for the then 32-bit only x86 architecture – before it getting bludgeoned by AMD’s competing x86_64 architecture – Intel has now released a whitepaper with associated X86-S specification that seeks to probe the community’s thoughts on it essentially removing all pre-x86_64 features out of x86 CPUs.
Believe it or not, building a tiny compiler from scratch can be as fun as it is accessible. [James Smith] demonstrates by making a tiny compiler for an extremely simple programming language, and showing off a hello world.
Robots are cool. Everyone knows it, and [Eater NY] highlights a coffee shop with a robotic server opening in Brooklyn. While robots able to prepare and serve drinks or food is not new, it isn’t every day a brick-and-mortar café with a robot behind the counter opens up. But expensive automation isn’t the only puzzle piece needed to make a location work.
China's government told operators of "critical information infrastructure" to stop buying Micron Technology's products Sunday and claimed the U.S. chipmaker threatened national security.
Driving the news: The Cyberspace Administration of China's claims that a U.S. Commerce Department spokesperson in a statement to media Sunday evening said had "no basis in fact" followed a security review of the Idaho-based firm.
Many analysts see the move as retaliation for Washington’s efforts to cut off China’s access to high-end chips.
China has stepped up a feud with Washington over security by telling users of computer equipment deemed sensitive to stop buying products from the biggest U.S. memory chipmaker, Micron Technology Inc. The country's cyberspace agency says Micron products have unspecified “serious network security risks” that threaten China’s information infrastructure and affect national security
Micron products will be shunned by Chinese IT infrastructure businesses as they "pose a major security risk," concluded a state review.
International Business Machines Corp. today announced a new 10-year, $100 million initiative with the University of Tokyo and the University of Chicago to develop a quantum-centric supercomputer powered by 100,000 qubits.
That’s according to IQAir’s Air Quality and Pollution City Ranking, which is updated hourly, the air pollution advocacy organization explains. It’s important to note that while Denver currently is among the top 5 for unhealthy air, it will likely drop back down once the aforementioned smoke disappears. As of Friday evening, Denver placed fourth on the list. Earlier in the day, it was ranked third.
Financial conflicts of interest (COIs) have long been recognized as a problem in science and medicine, and, over the last decade or so, increasing efforts have been made to minimize the potential bias caused by COIs. For the most part, rather than banning gifts and payments from big pharma, the approach has been transparency, with journals, conference organizers, and the like requiring disclosure of such payments received and the federal government tallying how much physicians have received from pharma and publishing the payments in the form of a searchable database. (As an aside, I searched for my name, and all that came up was a Florida optometrist with the same name. I was relieved that the database accurately reflected my knowledge that I have not received any payments from industry.) Unfortunately, as I’ve lamented from time to time, a depressing number of my fellow physicians seem to think themselves “above it all” in that they deny that COIs affect them, even though research is very clear that even small gifts can affect decision-making. Physicians are human, as much as we might like to think ourselves as better (or at least able to resist subconscious influences to which humans are prone) and thus just as susceptible to influence as anyone else, be it through financial or social incentives, no matter how much some of us might portray ourselves as medical monks, immune from base considerations of finance and human influence.
In the mid-1990s, Maine’s lawmakers and health officials made a pivotal decision to reduce the state’s reliance on nursing homes, a move intended to redirect elderly residents toward“more homelike, less institutional” alternatives.
The policy change, enacted in 1993 amid a severe budget crunch, helped spark a dramatic transformation of the elder care system in Maine, where 21.7% of the population is 65 or older — the highest percentage in the country.
When forgetting to take medication on time can lead to a bad day or night, having a helper to keep you on track can greatly improve your life. [M. Bindhammer] faces this scenario every day, so he built his own robotic pill dispenser.
"Researchers make a new breakthrough: an herbal pain reliever", proclaimed Hirado.hu, the flagship news service of Hungary's public media, in an article published on June 8thââ¬Â¯2022. News of Herbapirin Rapid swept through half of the Hungarian media: following the aforementioned article a few other newspapers reported on the supplement, and a couple of days later they were followed by several other sites, from Világgazdaság to Origo and Magyar Nemzet. All the articles are essentially identical word for word, i.e. said newspapers likely reproduced the distributor's press release without any changes (incidentally, Telex did not receive such a release).
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. Britain’s “astonishing” rise in heart problems Three days ago Sky News reports a story on a 50% increase irregular heart beats in the UK, …
Kit Knightly A new study from Northwestern University has concluded that the majority of “Covid19” patients put on ventilators were actually killed by bacterial pneumonia, not the alleged virus. You can read that paper here.
The Ministry of Health has prepared proposals to organize the hospital network, including a plan to exclude surgeons and anesthesiologists from 24-hour reception, reports Latvian Television's broadcast De Facto on May 21.
An atypical case has been detected.
Smoke from Canada's wildfires has drifted across the border and prompted air quality alerts across multiple U.S. states over the weekend.
Why it matters: Wildfire smoke poses a threat to people's health even when hundreds of miles from the fire sites because of its harmful microscopic particles, studies show.
The risk is not the same for everyone.
Next step: human studies.
Before Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman checked himself in to a hospital for clinical depression in February, he used to walk the halls of the Senate stone-faced and dressed in formal suits. These days, he’s back to wearing the hoodies and gym shorts he was known for before he became a senator. People close to Fetterman say his more relaxed style is a reflection of the progress he's made after six weeks of inpatient treatment for clinical depression. He was treated with medication and fitted for hearing aids for hearing loss that had made it harder for him to communicate. His hospitalization came less than a year after he had a stroke during his Senate campaign.
Does talk therapy work? It’s complicated.
Users had taken to Twitter and other platforms on Sunday afternoon to note that Meta Platform Inc.’s social media app had stopped functioning. It appeared to have gone down sometime around 3 p.m. PT.
A spokesperson for Instagram parent company Meta acknowledged the issue in a statement to The Verge, saying, “We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing Instagram. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and we apologize for any inconvenience.”
According to the outage tracker DownDetector, the first reports of trouble started a few minutes after 6PM ET before spiking to over 175,000 reports at its peak, but by 7:30PM ET, the issue had been resolved, and it’s working again.
In an email to The Verge after the outage, Meta spokesperson Dave Arnold said, “Earlier today, a technical issue caused some people to have trouble accessing Instagram. We resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted, and we’re sorry for any disruption this has caused.”
Cybercriminals are using residential IP addresses in business email compromise (BEC) attacks to make them seem locally generated and evade detection, Microsoft says.
The number of reported BEC attacks is constantly increasing, with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) receiving close to 22,000 BEC complaints in 2022 (PDF), with losses totaling over $2.7 billion.
As part of a BEC attack, cybercriminals use compromised or spoofed email addresses to send fraudulent requests for wire transfers to employees in charge of making or authorizing payments. The fraudsters request payments to be made to bank accounts they control.
The federal government recently revealed that at least 50 U.S. government personnel working in 10 foreign countries have had their mobile devices hacked by unknown persons who employed software known as "zero-click."
IBM’s Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) put out a notice on Wednesday, May 17, to inform the Power Systems installed base that there is a very serious security vulnerability in the PowerVM hypervisor. You can see the PSIRT notice at this link and the Security Bulletin: This Power System firmware update is being released to address CVE 2023-30438 at this link.
The FBI repeatedly misused a surveillance tool in searching for foreign intelligence to use in cases pertaining to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and 2020 racial justice protests, according to an April 2022 court order publicly released Friday.
The order, which was released by the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, is significantly redacted but reveals thousands of violations of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which allows the federal government to collect communications between certain targeted foreign individuals outside the U.S.
Hong Kong police have suggested that schools install CCTV cameras on campus to enhance security and prevent crime. A new police website called SafeCity.HK lists “school security tips” included the fitting of CCTV cameras to monitor corridors, staircases, reception areas and classrooms.
Wyoming’s new crop of lawmakers seems intent on stripping us of our autonomy and our ability to make decisions for ourselves.
Tunisia’s Kaouther Ben Hania joined early frontrunners for the Palme d’Or in Cannes with her haunting “Four Daughters”, about the decision by a group of teenage girls to join the jihad in Syria. Meanwhile, Africa’s “Cannes moment” continued with the timely screening of Sudanese drama “Goodbye Julia”, whose director spoke to FRANCE 24 about the bittersweet experience of attending the world’s premier film festival while his home country is at war.
The truce is the first to be signed by both sides. It followed weeks of talks in Saudi Arabia between representatives of the two rival generals vying for power in the northeast African nation.
For thousands of Afghans, the American withdrawal from Kabul was just the beginning of a long, dangerous search for safety.
The next independent review of Australia’s intelligence community received welcome funding in this month’s federal budget.
You might expect such acts of benevolence to become less frequent as personal risk increases, but this does not appear to be the case. In terrorist attacks, there are often reports of astonishing selflessness, despite life-threatening danger.
A building in Moscow that contains, among other things, a military enlistment office caught on fire on Monday morning, according to Russian state media.
On May 21, Russia’s federal television stations opened their morning newscasts with reports about Bakhmut, which, they announced, had come under full Russian control. The stories followed the Russian Defense Ministry’s announcement that Bakhmut had been captured. On May 20, Wagner Group founder Evgeny Prigozhin announced that his troops had captured Bakhmut, but at that point Russian state television reports were silent on the topic. The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, meanwhile, insist that the fight for Bakhmut continues. Meduza briefly summarizes what Russian television propaganda had to say about Bakhmut.
The authorities in Volgograd arrested local resident Nikita Zhuravel on suspicion of setting a Quran on fire on camera in front of a mosque, reports the Investigative Committee.
Russia’s Investigative Committee filed in absentia charges against Karim A. A. Khan, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), and Rosario Salvatore Aitala, an ICC judge, who issued a warrant for Vladimir Putin’s arrest in March.
Berlin police have opened an investigation into the alleged poisoning of two participants in a conference of Russian opposition leaders, which was organized by Mikhail Khodarkovsky in the German capital in late April.
In spite of the fact that two juries and Judge Anthony Trenga acquitted Michael Sussmann and Igor Danchenko, in his report, John Durham repeats his allegation that they lied. To do so, he misrepresents the evidence submitted in both cases.
The latest investigation into the charges that Donald Trump’s campaign worked in concert with the Russian government exposes a cynical collaboration between Trump opponents and the FBI.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky says Russian forces have not captured the city of Bakhmut, in the Donetsk region, where a fierce battle has raged for months. Zelensky spoke at a press conference in Hiroshima, in Japan, where he is attending the G7 summit.
The right is often misconstrued as anti-war. In reality, it wants to wage its war on American soil—against people whose Americanness it won’t recognize.
European Commission Statement Hiroshima, 21 May 2023 Nobody wants peace more than the Ukrainians themselves. But a just peace that does not reward the aggressor, who invaded in the middle of the night.
China is protesting over 'hype around China-related issues' at the G-7 summit over the weekend.
China on Saturday expressed “strong dissatisfaction” with a communique issued by G7 leaders that took aim at Beijing on issues including the South China Sea, human rights and alleged interference in their democracies.
US President Joe Biden said Sunday that ties between Washington and Beijing should thaw "very shortly", after the United States shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon this year.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has huddled with some of his biggest backers as the Group of Seven summit closed in Hiroshima. Zelenskyy is building momentum for his country’s war effort even as Russia claimed a battlefield victory that was quickly disputed by Ukraine. The Ukrainian leader’s in-person appearance in his trademark olive drab underscored the centrality of the war for the G7 bloc of rich democracies. It also stole much of the limelight from other priorities, including security challenges in Asia and outreach to the developing world, that the leaders focused on at the three-day gathering. Hosting Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says the G7 is committed to “strong backing for Ukraine from every possible dimension.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s participation in the Group of Seven summit is making some atomic bomb survivors feel the visit is overshadowing their pursuit of nuclear abolishment. Zelenskyy needs to bolster international support to take back Russian-seized territory in the war that began last year, and he is seeking more lethal weaponry from the G7 economic powers. Atomic bombing survivors say Zelenskyy’s inclusion at the summit, where discussion is expected to focus on more provisions of weapons, doesn’t fit Hiroshima’s pacifist identity and sends the wrong message.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russian forces are not occupying Bakhmut. Zelenskyy's comments on Sunday at the Group of Seven summit in Japan cast doubt on Moscow's insistence that the eastern Ukrainian city had fallen. Zelenskyy said that “Bakhmut is not occupied by the Russian Federation as of today.” The fog of war made it impossible to confirm the situation on the ground in the invasion’s longest battle. And a series of comments from Ukrainian and Russian officials added confusion to the matter. Zelenskyy’s response in English to a question earlier at the summit about the status of Bakhmut suggested that he believed the city had fallen to Russian forces and he offered solemn words about its fate.
Western officials who salivate over the prospect of inflicting a decisive, humiliating defeat on Russia in its war with Ukraine remain oblivious to the dangers entailed in that scenario.
Tens of thousands of Moldovans rallied on Sunday to demand European Union membership for their country, whose bid to join the bloc has been accelerated by the war in neighbouring Ukraine.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky compared Bakhmut's "total destruction" after months of continuous battles and shelling to the Japanese city of Hiroshima after the nuclear strike of 1945. This comes following conflicting reports on the status of Bakhmut, as Russia claimed having taken the city while Ukraine denied it had fallen.€ Follow our blog to see how the day's events unfolded. All times are Paris time (GMT+2).
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is set to preoccupy European Union foreign ministers on May 22 at a meeting in Brussels with new sanctions under discussion.
The leaders of South Korea and Germany have pledged more cooperation in building stable supply chains and addressing the challenges posed by nuclear-armed North Korea
Reference to disciple who betrayed Jesus persists in atheist country that has tried to stamp out Christianity
Bulgarian protesters, some carrying Russian flags, vandalized a building in the capital, Sofia, that houses European Union officials as they called for their government to halt aid to Ukraine.
Russia’s Federal Security Service has detained a 19-year-old resident of Chechnya who sought to flee to Kazakhstan after he faced potential criminal charges for his unwillingness to serve in Ukraine.
Russia claims it has taken full control of Bakhmut, the epicenter of the war in eastern Ukraine over the past several months, in what would be Moscow’s first major victory since last summer.
A three-day Group of Seven meeting focused on support for Ukraine’s war effort, security challenges in Asia, and outreach to the developing world.
Small, fast-moving U.S. tech firms are using the war in Ukraine to demonstrate a new generation of military systems but face the challenge of selling them to a risk-averse Defense Department.
Military analysts say that if Moscow continues to send reinforcements to defend the city, that could weaken Russian forces’ ability to hold off a broader counteroffensive that Ukraine has been planning.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday rejected Russia's claim that it had fully captured the eastern Ukrainian city of Bahkmut.
Why it matters: Western officials and others have said Bakhmut offers little strategic importance, but the city — and who controls it — has taken on symbolic meaning after nearly a year of fighting and heavy losses on both sides. The city has also been largely destroyed.
Estonia and Latvia are jointly planning to acquire German air defense systems for the protection of the airspace of the two NATO nations in what would be the biggest defense cooperation deal between the Baltic neighbors that border Russia, the Estonian and Latvian defense ministers said on Sunday. € According to the provisional deal, deliveries of the medium-range IRIS-T SLM air defense system - manufactured by weapons maker Diehl Defence of Germany - could begin next year and the systems be operational in 2025. The value of the deal and detailed information about the numbers of the system weren’t disclosed as talks with the supplier are still ongoing, defense ministries of the two countries said.
Capturing Bakhmut would be Russia’s most significant territorial gain in Ukraine since last summer, but its ability to hold the city or advance further is in question.
While it “wouldn’t be fair” to compare Hiroshima to what is happening in his country, Ukraine’s president said the city’s atomic bomb museum offered grim echoes of fresh devastation.
Latvia is fighting to counter the spread of Moscow's disinformation. Given its large Russian-speaking community, this is a tough task.
Ukraine’s sizable contingent of fighter jets come with a few problems. President Volodymyr Zelensky said F-16s would “greatly enhance our army in the sky.”
The need for control of the nation’s airspace is one of the war’s largely untold stories.
Tens of thousands of people rallied in the Moldovan capital in support of closer ties to the European Union, as Moldova's pro-European government continues struggles with political crosscurrents from Russia.
German police said they were investigating sudden, unexplained illnesses suffered by a Russian opposition activist and a Russian journalist who attended a conference in Berlin in April.
President Volodomyr Zelensky of Ukraine received vows of resolute support and promises of further weapons shipments even as Russian forces claimed to have seized the war-torn city of Bakhmut.
This summer's search for the remains of Finnish soldiers in Russia has been called off.
Peter Baker thought his naive observation about the way that Putin uses sanctions to foster divisions in the US was worth giving Russia an opportunity to claim that January 6 defendants were really just persecuted dissidents.
Among the 500 people singled out for travel and financial restrictions were Americans seen as adversaries by former President Donald J. Trump.
Estonia and Latvia are jointly planning to acquire German air defense systems for the protection of the airspace of the two NATO nations in what would be the biggest defense cooperation deal between the Baltic neighbors that border Russia, the Estonian and Latvian defense ministers said on Sunday
A delegation of six African leaders set to hold talks with Kyiv and Moscow aim to “initiate a peace process” but also broach the thorny issue of how a heavily-sanctioned Russia can be paid for the fertilizer exports Africa desperately needs, a key mediator in the talks said
An extremist Israeli Cabinet minister has visited a sensitive Jerusalem holy site at a time of heightened tensions with the Palestinians. The visit by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Sunday, his second known visit since becoming a member of Israel’s most right-leaning government ever, drew condemnations from the Palestinians and neighboring Jordan and Egypt. The visit comes days after Israelis marked Jerusalem Day, which celebrates Israel’s capturing of east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war. Flag-waving nationalists marched through the main Palestinian thoroughfare in Jerusalem’s Old City, some singing racist anti-Arab chants, while hundreds of Jews visited the sensitive hilltop shrine.
The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has extended a rare media invitation to one of its training sites in southern Lebanon, where its forces staged a simulated military exercise
The United States is scheduled to sign a new security pact with Papua New Guinea as the U.S. continues to jostle with China for influence in the Pacific
Papua New Guinea will sign a defence pact with the United States on Monday, as it hosts Washington's top diplomat and India's prime minister for separate talks that will focus on China's rising influence.
So, a serious reexamination of this case must begin by setting out the evidence that led the jury to convict, including the many facts elided by Syed’s advocates. That is what Part I of this two-part essay will do. Serial used first names for the main figures in the case (most of whom were teenagers when the crime was committed), and in what follows, I’ll do the same. Shorter documents will be linked to in whole, while citations from longer documents will be identified by the .pdf page number (e.g., “39p”).
Few observers would have objected had a remorseful Adnan been released on parole after 23 years of excellent prison conduct. Instead, he was freed based on his own false claims and the biased media coverage they generated. Hae Min Lee’s surviving family have had to watch as her murderer is feted as a folk hero and victim-protagonist of a story in which she has been marginalized. Many of those who celebrated Adnan’s release still have no idea how strong the evidence against him was. Even so, they donated money, wrote letters and op-eds, and denounced the supposed cruelty and injustice of the system that convicted him. They were all deceived.
There is hope, though. A century ago, US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis called sunlight “the best of disinfectants.” Before the Internet, readers and viewers had no way of judging wrongful-conviction stories except by visiting the court archives, tracking down witnesses, and spending a small fortune to copy case files. The Internet has changed this. It can expose both genuine injustices and manufactured ones. When a flawed or biased documentary gains enough traction, it will now be dissected by an online audience. Already, there are books and podcasts and documentaries (also of varying quality) rebutting the arguments made in famous true-crime documentaries, to say nothing of blogs and Internet forums where, in addition to white-knuckle rants, there are analyses far more penetrating and plausible than anything Netflix or HBO has produced.
As we begin the second year of “In Real Time,” the future doesn’t look very promising. Almost one-third of U.S. states have plunged into one-party authoritarian rule, and many are gripped by hostility to any form of climate action. Over the past year, voters and activists across the nation have managed to slow the anti-democratic slide, but nothing has altered the federal government’s stolid inaction when it comes to fossil fuels. And greenhouse gas emissions keep rising.
Forecasters said the storm is strengthening as it approaches the Mariana Islands, with sustained winds of 80 miles per hour.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni donned wellington boots and visited flooded homes in northeast Italy Sunday, after returning early from the G7 summit in Japan following floods which left 14 people dead.
European Commission Press release Brussels, 21 May 2023 Following a new request for assistance from Italy, the EU has mobilised offers of pumping equipment from Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, France, Poland, Romania...
"Europe is warming fast."
Last year in Berlin, the great Kenyan long-distance runner Eliud Kipchoge broke the world marathon record, clocking 02:01:09 and beating his previous time by 30 seconds.
The Colorado Supreme Court is weighing in on whether members of the public can access waters that traverse private lands — by evaluating the case of Roger Hill, who claims he was pelted by rocks for doing so more than a decade ago.
Hill, an 81-year-old Colorado Springs resident, filed a lawsuit in 2018 against landowners Mark Warsewa and Linda Joseph, arguing that they had “no right to exclude him from his favorite fishing spot” which is located on their property near the south-central Colorado town of Cotopaxi.
Animal rights activists have gathered in Madrid to protest plans for the construction of a large-scale octopus farm. They said Sunday that there are no laws in the country or the European Union to guarantee the welfare of octopuses in captivity. The farm is scheduled to be built next year in Spain's Canary Islands. Protesters showed concern for jailing these solitary clever animals in pools. But the company behind the project claims their scientific research guarantees the welfare of the octopuses whose meat is considered a delicacy in many countries.
What’s Next for Earth is a participative art project on Instagram that invites artists to respond to a bi-monthly topic, reflecting on the human predicament.
The Centre for Public Integrity has published analysis of political donations and government contract work for Big 4 firms EY, KPMG, Deloitte and PwC. What’s the scam?
The scam is legalised corruption on an industrial scale, a $1.4b a year scale. In Booming Business for Big Four Comes At a High Cost, the Centre has issued a tight bit of analysis but nothing we haven’t been rabbiting on about for years: rising donations, surging income from the outsourcing of government.
Lyft and Uber have opposed the legislation, threatening to reduce operations or leave the state if it is enacted.
The Federal Reserve will make only modest progress in its fight against inflation for the rest of this year, even while keeping its benchmark interest rate at a 16-year high, a group of business economists predict in a new survey
The government will unveil the draft legislation for consultation late in 2023.
The streaming era has placed new burdens on actors to tape themselves, and an oft-forgotten clause in the SAG contract states that actors should be compensated for this work.
Under an $8.8 billion transportation package approved by the Senate and House on Sunday, Minnesota’s gas tax would be indexed to the rate of inflation.
In a statement released on Friday, the NBN Co said its SAU Variation proposal committed the company to publishing a new three-year rolling Pricing Roadmap by 1 May every year.
The limit Congress imposes is dumb, but Biden can’t just wave it away.
Discussions aimed at avoiding a default have bogged down as Republicans press their demand for spending caps, work requirements for public benefit programs and other proposals in exchange.
Asian stocks and Wall Street futures struggled on Monday as US debt ceiling negotiations approached crunch time after stalling last week, while lingering banking fears and fresh geopolitical worries also capped sentiment.
Bankers are better behaved when they work from home and engage in an astonishing amount of financial misconduct when they work from the office. That's the message from a new paper examining misconduct reports at a top-5 UK bank.
By the numbers: The researchers looked at misconduct reports filed on 162 traders working during lockdown, between March 2020 and March 2021.
President Joe Biden says Republicans in the U.S. House must move off their “extreme positions” on the now-stalled talks over raising America’s debt limit. He says there'll be no agreement to avert a catastrophic default only on their terms. In an effort to get negotiations back on track, Biden plans to call U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy from Air Force One on the way back to Washington after a Group of Seven summit in Japan. World leaders at the gathering expressed concern about the dire global ramifications if the United States were to be unable to meet its financial obligations. Biden told reporters: “I’m hoping that Speaker McCarthy is just waiting to negotiate with me when I get home."
President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) will meet Monday to continue debt ceiling negotiations.
Divorces among people aged 60-69 rose from 2000 to 2020, according to Statistics Finland.
Another round of debt talks has wrapped up at the U.S. Capitol. White House and House Republican staff met for 2 1/2 hours Sunday evening. President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy plan to meet Monday in search of a deal to avert an economy-wrecking federal default. They are upbeat about a possible debt ceiling compromise as Washington races to raise America’s borrowing limit before the funds could be depleted early next month. The leaders spoke by phone Sunday while president was returning home from Japan. McCarthy told reporters at the Capitol that the call was “productive.” Biden back in Washington said it “went well.”
Digital business transformation expert and erstwhile COBOL programmer Kamales Lardi has spent a lot of time in the tech industry, including consulting with large corporates and SMEs who are going through a process of making cuts.
But mass layoffs are hitting mid-career tech pros and harming the businesses who make them, she told The Register in an interview last week, implying the current trend of mass layoffs is a logical misstep.
Amid the season of layoffs, Vineet Nayar, former CEO of HCL and now Founder and Chairman of Sampark Foundation, delves into the reasons behind the phenomenon and provides valuable advice for employees and leaders on navigating these challenging times.
Formerly praised for its stability and good governance, Ghana has been facing a severe economic crisis since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine. To prevent Accra from defaulting on its debt, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday approved a $3 billion loan in exchange for austerity measures.
US President Joe Biden has called the latest Republican offer in talks on lifting the government’s debt ceiling “unacceptable” but says he would be willing to cut spending together with tax adjustments to reach a deal. Before leaving Hiroshima, Japan, after a meeting of G7 leaders, Biden suggested some Republicans in Congress were willing to […]
The president, during a press conference in Japan, said he was looking at invoking the 14th Amendment to clear the impasse but was uncertain it could be done in time.
We expose the fiendish frauds which could trip up even the most careful of internet users - find out what they are so you don't get caught out
It seemed to be an almost irresistible honey-pot. Imagine being able to look up the REDACTED bill of a pop-star. Or your neighbour. Or your no-good cheating ex. Or... you get the idea. It's no wonder that countless people felt compelled to risk their own jobs.
Training had some effect. We repeatedly warned what would happen if you were caught. We patiently explained how every interaction was logged. But that wasn't enough. Some people forgot. Or thought they could outsmart us. Or had a human moment of fragility and slipped.
She’s among the countless content creators in the state who will be impacted when the bill, SB 419, goes into effect in January 2024. The legislation makes it illegal for app stores to give users the option to download TikTok and for the company to operate within the state. Violations of a ban include every time a user is offered the ability to download the app. Each violation could carry a $10,000 penalty. Enforcement would be handled by the Montana Justice Department.
The ban is already facing a legal battle — on Wednesday, a group of five TikTokers sued the state, arguing the law is an unconstitutional violation of free speech rights.
After Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signed a TikTok ban into law—it now has its first legal challenge. The ban doesn’t go into effect until January 1, but the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine have already filed a suit calling it unconstitutional.
Vote counting is underway in East Timor’s parliamentary election with two former independence fighters considered for the post of prime minister. Two main political parties _ the incumbent Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor, or Fretilin, and the opposition National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction, or CNRT _ are believed to be in a close race for the 65-seat National Parliament. No parties have formed any pre-election coalitions, but analysts said the CNRT, a party led by former prime minister and independence leader Xanana Gusmao, is favored to win following a successful presidential campaign in 2022 that saw its candidate, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos-Horta, back in office.
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Rudy Giuliani’s admirers in the mainstream press hailed him as “America’s mayor.” Giuliani, in those days, had a reputation for being a moderate Republican who had no problem making bipartisan deals with Democrats.
Globally, potential innocence has long outweighed potential guilt. That philosophy of justice may not be one that the majority of Americans endorse.
A senior police officer who investigated Brittany Higgins’ rape allegation will front an independent inquiry into how the justice system responded to her case.€ The inquiry was set up by the ACT government after accusations by police and prosecutors about each other’s conduct during the high-profile investigation and trial.
Emmanuel Macron on Sunday made a brief but symbolic visit to Mongolia, the first by a French president to the country nestled between China and Russia that is of growing strategic interest in the West.
Russia’s deputy minister for science and higher education died on May 20 during a return flight from Cuba, where he was participating in meetings as part of a government delegation, RBK reported.
Georgian activists disrupted a wedding reception that was reportedly attended by the daughter of Russia’s foreign minister outside the capital, Tbilisi.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Foreign Ministry on Sunday dismissed the G7 summit in Japan's Hiroshima as a "politicised" event that it said had...
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has touched down in Australia after three days of meetings with world leaders in Japan on the sidelines of the G7 summit.
Conservative groups that have targeted and won majorities on local boards and commissions across the United States over the past couple years are now pressing agendas that include election distrust, skepticism of government and a desire to have religion play a greater role in public decision-making. The consequences are becoming apparent in places such as Sumner County, Tennessee, where a local Constitutional Republicans group won a majority last year on the county commission. Members have waged a political war on fellow Republicans they view as insufficiently conservative and are feuding with the county’s election commission in ways that could affect preparations for the 2024 presidential election.
The N.A.A.C.P. urged people to consider Florida’s policies on diversity and race under Gov. Ron DeSantis when thinking of traveling there.
The executive hosted sessions about race and being a white woman that were titled “Don’t Call Me Karen,” prompting an employee uproar.
This week marks a milestone for African American Republicans in politics: Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), the only Black Republican in the Senate, will formally launch his presidential campaign in North Charleston, South Carolina, on Monday.
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Residents of Sudan's capital again awoke to heavy clashes Sunday morning just hours after rival generals agreed to an upcoming one-week ceasefire amid ongoing talks in Saudi Arabia.
A Taiwanese taekwondo athlete who waved a Chinese flag after winning a bronze at the Asia-Pacific Masters Games (APMG) in South Korea was not officially registered with Taiwan’s team, the Sports Administration said Saturday (May 20).
The Indonesian government should support the national Press Council’s efforts to protect university media outlets and mediate their disputes with school authorities, Human Rights Watch said today. On May 22, 2023, more than 150 college journalists will begin a week-long conference in Solo, Central Java, to discuss intimidation, attacks, and forced closures of university media, and the need for government action.
“Student journalists in Indonesia face abuses ranging from intimidation and censorship to defamation charges and newsroom shutdowns, and they have been left defenseless in this onslaught against press freedom,” said Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “The government and Press Council need to expose this media crisis and act to protect and support these student journalists.”
The Los Angeles Press Club recently announced the finalists for its 65th annual Southern California Journalism Awards naming€ ScheerPost staff and contributors as finalists in nine categories.
A Hong Kong man who claimed to be covering a protest in 2019 as a photojournalist has been convicted of taking part in a riot after the judge ruled that his testimony was “not credible.” He was among the 13 defendants found guilty in court on Saturday.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has taken a tough line on migrants as he turns around the country’s economy. It’s a trade-off that voters and the European Union seem more than willing to abide.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s New Democracy party did not win enough votes to form a one-party government. But he appeared to rule out talks to form a coalition, setting the stage for a second vote in weeks.
The U.S. ambassador has enthusiastically embraced his host country. But critics say he has overstepped diplomatic bounds with his advocacy on equality.
University students who were taken into custody because they hung photos critiquing the inability of the government during the February 6 earthquakes were subjected to naked search torture.
Major tech companies including Meta, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Oracle, along with scores of smaller companies such as Twitter and Snap, have spent the last year trying to combat slowing growth and rising interest rates with layoffs of hundreds of thousands of tech workers. Many of those same workers spent the last several months looking for new positions, only for rejections to meet them.
The alternative search engine startup Neeva Inc. has announced that it’s shutting down its consumer product, just three days after reports emerged that it’s holding talks with Snowflake Inc. and Databricks Inc. about a potential acquisition. In a blog post on Saturday, Neeva co-founders Sridhar Ramaswamy and Vivek Raghunathan said “building search engines is hard.”
After building a reputation as the galaxy's most resilient torrent site, The Pirate Bay is now the most blocked torrent site on the internet. More than a decade ago an explosion of Pirate Bay proxy sites helped to break through the blockades, but how are they doing today? As rightsholders commit to the long haul, is the hydra still fighting fit in 2023?
In a tweet on May 17, Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil described the ticket resale prices as “outrageous”.
Music copyright is complicated — and takedowns, penalties, and lawsuits for copyright infringement are all too common. But 99% of takedowns, penalties, and lawsuits related to copyright violations can be avoided, according to a leading music licensing expert EasySong.
The rapper is one of Finland's most popular artists.