I never wanted to use Linux on my desktop or laptop, but in the hands of a dedicated developer, it becomes an amazing operating system.
Half of my problems with Windows have to do with its lackluster support for controllers, and if it wants to be the gaming operating system, it needs to be better in this regard. If SteamOS was officially released for PCs, I'd definitely switch to it for my Steam Machine. If I didn't depend on my desktop for my job, I might even put SteamOS on it too (with the right accessories, of course).
But it doesn't just have to be about gaming or even other focused experiences for PC hardware. I still hold out hope that one day, some company will make a Linux distro that does what Windows does but better, especially if it's anything like the Steam Deck vs the ROG Ally. It doesn't even need to be free; Windows isn't free, and I don't expect contributors to an open-source project to do it for free either. Linux is a powerful operating system with the potential to replace Windows, but only in the hands of an organization with a vision and resources.
Bootlin is really happy to welcome another engineer in its team: Thomas Richard, who joined us on July 3, 2023 (missing a participation to the Embedded Linux Conference Europe by just one week!). Thomas graduated from INSA Toulouse in 2015, and then started his embedded software engineer career at Kontron...
The latest version of the Linux kernel is ready for brave users to give it a try.
"Mind mapping", brainstorming, planning, whatever you want to call them, these tools are useful to present ideas and plans visually.
Many years ago, the Vym mind-mapping tool was builtin, I think that it was for Quirky Linux, can't recall exactly. It is a Qt-based app, and now that EasyOS has the Qt5 libraries, at least some of them, builtin, decided to have another look at Vym, consider whether to have it builtin, or at least offered in the package repository.
In the ever-evolving world of web technology, security is of utmost importance. It’s crucial to ensure that your web server is secure, not only for your peace of mind but also for the trust and safety of your users.
Graylog is a free and open-source log-management platform for capturing, storing, and enabling real-time analysis of your data and logs. In this guide, we'll go over the installation of Graylog as a Centralized Log Management System on AlmaLinux 9 server.
The sudo command is a fundamental tool in the Linux environment, allowing users to execute commands with root or elevated privileges. However, you might encounter the sudo: command not found error.
Introducing the latest innovation from the Linux community, Linux Kernel 6.4. This release signals a significant step forward in terms of performance improvements, hardware support, and kernel architecture enhancements. Notably, this guide will cater to the AlmaLinux community, delineating the process of installing Linux Kernel 6.4 on AlmaLinux using the ELREPO.
OpenEMR is an open-source electronic health record and medical practice management tool. It is Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) certified. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install OpenEMR software on a server running Ubuntu 22.04.
It must have to do with the popularity of modern messaging apps and the way in which these apps organize conversational communication...
Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code (IaC) software tool that allows you to build, change, and version infrastructure safely and efficiently. It can manage popular service providers and custom in-house solutions. This article provides a step-by-step guide on how to install Terraform on Ubuntu 22.04 and 20.04 using PPA (Personal Package Archive).
I need to write a driver for a device that does not exist yet. So, I am going to use the Linux kernel tooling fro ACPI to create the illusion that the device exists. Here is how.
Distrobox is a tool that allows you to create containers of any Linux distro on your system.
Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a desktop sharing protocol allowing you to remotely control a computer using VNC client software. VNC is working on GUI (Graphical User Interface) environments. It transmits movements of your mouse and keyboard input over the network using the Remote Frame Buffer (RFB) protocol.
In the world of software development, Java is a widely used programming language. It’s crucial to know the version of Java installed on your Linux system for compatibility and debugging purposes. This guide will walk you through the process of checking your Java version using the command line in Linux.
Kubernetes homelab migration to the latest version of Rocky Linux. The Upgrade Plan We are going to upgrade our Kubernetes homelab nodes from Rocky 8 to Rocky 9. We have a cluster of six nodes, three control planes and three worker nodes, all of which are KVM guests running Rocky 8.
For those hate Snap but prefer Flatpak, there’s now a script to automatically remove all the snap apps installed on your system, and install them back as Flatpak in Debian and Ubuntu. It’s Unsnap, a free and open-source script written by Alan Pope and some other contributors.
Python, a versatile and widely-used programming language, offers a plethora of features that make it a favorite among developers. One such feature is pip, a standard package manager that allows Python users to install and manage additional libraries and dependencies not included in the standard Python library.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Vue.Js on Fedora 38. For those of you who didn’t know, ue.js has emerged as one of the most popular JavaScript frameworks for building user interfaces. Its simplicity, versatility, and reactive nature make it a preferred choice for developers worldwide.
The Wine development release 8.12 is now available.
What's new in this release: - Initial support for painting windows in the Wayland driver. - Command stream performance improvements in WineD3D. - Various bug fixes.
The source is available at:
https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/8.x/wine-8.12.tar.xz
Binary packages for various distributions will be available from:
https://www.winehq.org/download
You will find documentation on https://www.winehq.org/documentation
You can also get the current source directly from the git repository. Check https://www.winehq.org/git for details.
Wine is available thanks to the work of many people. See the file AUTHORS in the distribution for the complete list.
Just noticed on Twitter that Komodo is advertising the fact that the Steam Deck will have another event at a physical store – but this time in Kyoto, Japan, and just for this weekend.
We have covered before the fact that there were apparently some slight revisions of the hardware for the Steam Deck internals – and it looks like this is not the end...
KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.108.0.
KDE Frameworks are 83 addon libraries to Qt which provide a wide variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well tested libraries with friendly licensing terms. For an introduction see the KDE Frameworks release announcement.
This release is part of a series of planned monthly releases making improvements available to developers in a quick and predictable manner.
KDE Frameworks 5.108 is here to fix a Plasma desktop crash that occurred when closing all running apps with a middle click on their Task Manager icons, address a major regression causing a symlink’s target to be moved or copied instead of the link itself, and fix an issue where editing files using kio-admin changes the file permissions.
This new KDE Frameworks release also improves support for the JPEG XL (JXL) image format in the KImageFormats, which provides additional image format plugins for QtGui, by adding support for the libjxl 0.9 library, while dropping support for the old 0.6.1 version.
blendOS is an immutable distro that aims to replace all Linux distributions. We recently covered it with its previous version. The project is led by Rudra Saraswat, the lead developer of Ubuntu Unity. Its development has been progressing at a good pace.
With a recent announcement, they have introduced a new release equipped with many improvements, bringing blendOS closer to its goal.
Let's take a look at what's in store with this release.
The Q4OS team has released the highly anticipated Q4OS 5.2 version, codenamed 'Aquarius', as a long-term support (LTS) edition. This latest release comes with the powerful Debian 12 "Bookworm" base and features the Plasma 5.27.5 desktop environment, with the Trinity 14.1.1 desktop available as an option.
Raspberry Digital Signage 19.0 released Raspberry Digital Signage is an operating system designed for digital signage installations on the Raspberry Pi: it displays a full-screen browser view restricted to a specified resource. It shows web resources from Internet, local network or local folders (so you can use the Pi itself as the source webserver).
Quansheng UV-K5, an inexpensive walkie-talkie/multiband radio that works in the 50 MHz to 600 MHz bands, has gotten an experimental firmware from the community that expands the range to 18 MHz to 1300 MHz, the maximum limits of the Beken BK4819 chip it is based on. The device is popular enough in the ham radio community that an unofficial blog has been created for it. The author explains that UV-K5 is better than other typical Chinese radios with “intuitive controls although the naming is a bit cryptic, and a nice crisp display”. He goes on to explain how to flash the firmware and reminds users they do this at their own risk in case they brick the device or break any regulations.
It may look like Firefox development is stalled and frozen but nothing could be further from the truth. 22 300 patches landed in Firefox Mercurial repository since new year and we keep hacking
Let’s look what’s new in Firefox on Linux and what could be interesting for Fedora users.
Comma-separated values (CSV) files are a universal format for storing tabular data. They are simple text files that use specific structuring to arrange tabular data. Because it’s a plain text format, it’s naturally language-independent and can be imported and exported by various software.
Python, as an incredibly versatile language, offers several ways to manipulate strings and paths. A frequent necessity in programming is to extract the file name from a full file path. Whether you are handling user uploads or manipulating files on the server, this skill is incredibly useful.
Home to many art treasures, Milan’s Biblioteca Ambrosiana has preserved an extraordinary collection of Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings—now showcased in an American exhibition.
As a kid, I was told that one day I would lose my sight. Recently, I went to a residential school for the blind, where I learned to live without it.
STMicroelectronics VL53L7CX is the latest FlightSense multi-zone Time-of-Flight (ToF) distance sensor from the company with the main highlight between its camera-like 90€° diagonal field of view, derived from a 60€° x 60€° field of view… This is a significant improvement over the 61€° diagonal field of view of the previous generation ToF sensors such as the VL53L8 or VL53L5CP,€ and the wider field-of-view is said to bring “lifelike situational awareness” to applications like home automation, computers, house appliances, robots, and industrial equipment with full-privacy since ToF sensors do not capture photos or videos like traditional cameras.
A recently declassified intelligence community report on the origin of COVID-19 has taken a benign view of biosafety training that took place at a government lab in Wuhan, China, in November 2019, not long before the pandemic began there.
The safety training for staff at the Wuhan Institute of Virology was an aspect of an interim report by the Republican oversight staff of a Senate committee that last year concluded the pandemic was “more likely than not, the result of a research-related incident.” Last October, ProPublica and Vanity Fair delved into the inner workings of the team that produced that interim report and some outside experts’ views of its findings.
Given the often hyperbolic tone, it might be tempting (and correct) to dismiss much of this as the usual moral panic new technologies provoke, or self-interested hype. But there are legitimate concerns in the mix, too, that may require some rules of the road. If so, policymakers should answer some important questions before crafting or passing on those rules. As always, the devil is in the details, and EFF is here to help you sort through them to identify solid strategies and potential collateral damage.€
First, policymakers should be asking whether the new legislation is both necessary and properly focused. Generative AI is a category of general-purpose tools with many valuable uses. For every image that displaces a potential low-dollar commission for a working artist, there are countless more that don’t displace anyone’s living—images created by people expressing themselves or adding art to projects that would simply not have been illustrated. Remember: the major impact of automated translation technology wasn’t displacing translators—it was the creation of free and simple ways to read tweets and webpages in other languages when a person would otherwise not know what was being said.ââ¬Â¯€
Sometimes we don’t need a new law— we just need to do a better job with the ones we already€ have
Niantic, the company that developed Pokémon Go, has announced major organizational changes, including layoffs, game closures, and the closure of its studio in Los Angeles. Niantic CEO John Hanke shared this information in an email posted on the company’s website. These modifications are intended to draw the company’s attention, especially to the development and maintenance of their golden egg-laying goose, Pokémon Go.
Pokémon Go is approaching its seventh anniversary and is still extremely relevant. According to Sensor Tower data released in June 2022, the game generated about billion dollars in annual revenue. However, Niantic has struggled to reclaim the huge success it has had with Pokémon Go with other projects, such as games based on Harry Potter, Catan, and four other titles that suffered last year’s layoffs. Other companies have not had much success in this genre either; Microsoft has shut down Minecraft Earth and CD Projekt Red will officially shut down its augmented reality game in The Witcher series on June 30th.
Anant Maheshwari, a distinguished leader in the technology industry, recently announced his resignation from the position of Microsoft India president. According to the Economic Times report on July 7, he expressed his decision to explore new avenues and interests.
Chief operating officer Irina Ghose has been promoted as managing director of India. Maheshwari, who joined Microsoft in 2016 after serving at HoneyWell and McKinsey & Company, steered the tech giant growing across the spectrum, be it workplace productivity, skilling and local innovation at scale in India. “We can confirm that Anant has decided to leave Microsoft to pursue a role outside the company,” a Microsoft spokesperson said.
There has been rejig among top-level executives. As per reports, the company’s COO Irina Ghose has been promoted to managing director of India. It has over 20,000 employees across 10 cities in the country.
Weekly cybersecurity news roundup that provides a summary of noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar for the week of July 3, 2023.
Potentially serious vulnerabilities discovered by researchers in a PiiGAB product could expose industrial organizations to remote hacker attacks.
When the marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com learned in July 2015 that hackers were threatening to publish data stolen from 37 million users, the company’s then-CEO Noel Biderman was quick to point the finger at an unnamed former contractor. But as a new documentary series on Hulu reveals [SPOILER ALERT!], there was just one problem with that theory: Their top suspect had killed himself more than a year before the hackers began publishing stolen user data.
Facing ransomware zero-days, Progress Software will release regular service packs to help customers mitigate critical security flaws.
In May 2023, Iran-linked cyberespionage group Charming Kitten targeted a US-based think tank with new macOS malware.
SwSec 5D framework aims to provide a roadmap for secure software development, and its use would help improve security in the software supply chain.
Exploit code will soon become available for a critical vulnerability in the Linux kernel that a security researcher discovered and reported in mid-June. Dubbed StackRot (CVE-2023-3269), this bug impacts the Linux kernel 6.1 through 6.4. The data structure for managing virtual memory spaces in the Linux kernel handles a particular memory management function in a manner that results in use-after-free-by-RCU (UAFBR) issues. The security researcher who discovered StackRot, Ruihan Li, describes the exploit for StackRot as likely the first to successfully exploit a UAFBR bug.
A type confusion issue that may have been actively exploited has been identified in the WebKitGTK web engine (CVE-2023-32439). With a low attack complexity and a high confidentiality, integrity and availability impact, this vulnerability has received a National Vulnerability Database severity rating of High.
Two applications hosted on Google Play, with over 1.5 million combined downloads, were caught sending user data to servers in China.
Cyble has discovered more than 130,000 Photovoltaic monitoring and diagnostic solutions exposed to the internet.
Former contractor employee charged with hacking for accessing the systems of a water treatment facility in California to delete critical software.
The lawyer representing the family of Jeffrey Epstein is accusing the federal Bureau of Prisons of allegedly violating the law by releasing confidential medical information about the billionaire pervert who died in their custody, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned.
Tarak Mahdi, a Tunisian Member of Parliament,€ live-streamed and published the aftermath of the shocking events between a Tunisian man and three others, who he said were sub-Saharan migrants in the city of Sfax.€ The footage filmed by the assailants and residents shows the outbreak of violence. The police then picked up many of the migrants and abandoned them in the desert.
On June 13, the Atlantic Council’s Iran Strategy Project hosted a virtual event, “The Mechanisms of Corruption in Iran” to discuss the nature of corruption and sanctions in Iran as well as the social, economic, and political implications of these issues.
Bruce Stubbs explores the barriers impeding the US Navy’s approach to strategy development and force planning and offers recommendations for reform.
Tunisian security forces in Sfax have rounded up hundreds of people from sub-Saharan Africa, including children, and dropped them in a no man’s land between the Tunisian and Libyan border, where they remain trapped with neither food nor water. These forced deportations carried out by the security services come against a backdrop of heightened anti-migrant rhetoric and violence that broke out in Sfax the night of July 3. Our team spoke to a man from the Ivory Coast who said that some people had died and more than 300 people are trapped at the border in terrible conditions.
In the three years since Beijing imposed a national security law in Hong Kong, the city has experienced untold changes.
The Hong Kong Police Force released statements on Wednesday and Thursday announcing the arrest of a total of five people for suspected contravention of the National Security Law.
Hong Kong barrister Lawrence Lau, one of the 47 pro-democracy figures charged with conspiring to commit subversion, has testified that he never received WhatsApp messages from the organisers of an unofficial legislative primary poll because he “did not like [the] software.”
Four militants attacked a police station and killed two security officers in southeastern Iran, state TV reported on July 8.
In the name of security, Israel has fought Hamas again and again in Gaza. Now, a large Israeli incursion targeting popular young militants in Jenin seems to be paving the way only for more clashes.
The U.S. Treasury Secretary says she seeks to protect ‘national security’ and reestablish communications.
At stake in Vilnius is not only the security of Sweden and the Alliance as a whole, but NATO’s open-door credibility.
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Vilnius is carefully preparing to host the NATO summit next week. However, this will not be the first such event in the Baltics, as NATO leaders flocked to Latvia’s capital 17 years ago. Riga imposed strict restrictions and security measures during the summit, but Latvians were given two days off to make their life easier.
United States President Joe Biden told Chinese President Xi Jinping after his meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin to “be careful” because Beijing relies on Western investment, according to excerpts from an interview with CNN.
“I said: This is not a threat. This is an observation,” Biden said.
Which Russian weather satellite has the name Meteor 2? According to [saveitforparts], pretty much all of them. He showed how to grab images from an earlier satellite with the same name a while back. That satellite, though, met with some kind of disaster, so he’s posted a new video about reading data from the new Meteor 2 and you can watch it below.
Lviv mayor Andriy Sadovyi says the death toll from the Russian missile strike on his city has risen to 10 people.
The Belarusian Defense Ministry showed journalists from CNN, AP, and Russian news agency TASS a camp in the Mogilev region, near the city of Osipovichi, which Belarus authorities have reportedly offered to Wagner Group.
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has signed a decree that will grant the Federal Security Service (FSB) 24-hour remote access to the databases of taxi service providers included in the government’s registry of “organizers of information dissemination” beginning on September 1.
Two weeks after the Wagner mercenary group’s rebellion against Russian military leadership, its fate is as murky as ever — as is the purpose of a newly revived military base in Belarus.
The Biden administration and the family of the Wall Street Journal reporter take note of his reaching 100 days in jail.
Six people were killed in a blast at an explosives factory in the central Russian region of Samara, TASS reported, citing emergency services.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has inspected troops and overseen the training of newly formed units made up of contracted servicemen, his ministry said on July 8.
The public broadcast of police raids on Wagner Group head Yevgeny Prigozhin’s home and office are an obvious attack on the mercenary’s cherished reputation as a straight-talking patriot fighting against corruption – and, experts say, a warning to anyone else who might challenge President Vladimir Putin’s rule.
Host and Nonresident Senior Fellow Alia Brahimi speaks with renowned Russia expert Mark Galeotti about the Wagner Group rebellion and what it means for Putin and beyond.
Professor Jackson Lears warns the Ukraine war has wrought “the ultimate technocratic fantasy: a winnable nuclear war.”
The forthcoming NATO Summit in Vilnius on July 11-12 seems already infected by a strange policy fatalism, writes Tony Kevin.
On the night of July 7, Russia launched 18 Shahed-136/131 drones at Ukraine, 12 of which were shot down by air defense forces, according to the Ukrainian Air Force Command.
At least 240 Russian military personnel, including several high-ranking officers, were killed during the first month of Ukraine’s counteroffensive, according to new data collected by volunteers and journalists from Mediazona and BBC News Russia.
On June 24, two 16-year-olds, Tigran Ohannisian and Mykyta Khanhanov, were killed in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Berdyansk. For months, occupation authorities had been harassing the teenagers, accusing them of being “pro-Ukrainian terrorists.” Shortly before his death, Tigran recorded a video that ends with the words “Glory to Ukraine.” The exact circumstances of the boys’ deaths are unclear; their families have not been allowed to see their bodies. This week, BBC’s Russian and Ukrainian services released an in-depth overview of what we know about the situation. Meduza summarizes their reporting.
U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan has confirmed that Washington will send cluster munitions to Ukraine.
The U.S. will send cluster munitions to aid Ukraine's war effort for the first time, the Department of Defense announced Friday.
Here’s a guide to why this type of weapon is controversial and widely banned — and why Kyiv wants it.
The Sky Shield initiative is aimed at strengthening Europe’s air defenses to deal with threats highlighted by Russia’s assault on Ukraine.
Some lawmakers questioned how the United States could maintain the moral high ground while supplying Ukraine with weapons that could harm civilians. Republicans cheered the move.
Often jobless or languishing in low-skilled posts, doctors who fled Russia’s invasion are forced to confront a difficult dilemma: see their skills go unused, or return to a country at war.
On the war’s 500th day, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine shared a video of himself visiting Snake Island, which has become a symbol of his country’s fight.
More than a year after Ukrainian forces wrested back Bucha from Russian troops, the town is physically transformed. But so much remains unresolved.
Many of cluster boms fail to detonate, creating a long-term security problem for civilians.
The Ukrainian counteroffensive has bogged down and soldiers have been able to do little to counter Russia's firepower. At next week's NATO summit, the West must decide how much a victory over Putin is worth and finally get serious about delivering urgently needed weapons systems.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, on July 7 that Kyiv deserved to join NATO but also urged it to enter peace talks with Moscow.
Experts with the UN’s nuclear watchdog are pushing for more access to the rooftops of two reactors at the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, where the Ukrainian military says Russian forces have planted explosives.
The United Nations has confirmed the deaths of 9,177 civilians in Ukraine as a result of Russia’s full-scale invasion.
The United States will provide cluster munitions to Ukraine to fulfill its request to obtain the weapons for use only in defense of its territory.
Russian forces targeted the Ukrainian city of Kryviy Rih in an overnight drone attack, wounding at least one person and damaging several buildings and vehicles, local officials said early on July 8.
On the eve of next week's NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told FRANCE 24 he was confident an agreement could be forged to bring Ukraine closer to NATO. In addition to providing practical support and creating a Ukraine-NATO council, he said that a text was being drafted to chart a way forward for Ukraine's future membership in the Atlantic Alliance.
The United States announced Friday that it will provide cluster munitions to Ukraine for the first time as Kyiv's forces push ahead with a counteroffensive against Russian forces. Follow our live blog to see how the day's events unfolded. All times are Paris time (GMT+2).
Russia has requested a new meeting of the UN Security Council for July 11 to discuss last September's explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines, a senior Russian diplomat at the United Nations said on Saturday. Russia has unsuccessfully demanded access to investigations by Sweden and other countries into the blasts, which severely damaged the pipelines connecting Russia and Germany under the Baltic Sea.
Allegations of a supposedly US and Ukraine-planned false flag operation on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant spread across social media ahead of the NATO Summit.
Ukraine's defense doctrine will define the country's future and must reflect unique Ukrainian combat experience while making the most of domestic capabilities, writes Ukraine's Minister of Defense Oleksii Reznikov.
President Joe Biden has decided to provide cluster munitions to Ukraine for the war against Russia, even though the United Nations urges the warring countries to avoid using them. The decision was announced Friday. Biden says it was a “difficult decision” but “the Ukrainians are running out of ammunition” and the cluster bombs should provide a temporary fix. There are widespread concerns about civilian casualties from cluster bombs. But the Pentagon says the munitions it will provide to Ukraine have a reduced “dud rate.” That means fewer of the unexploded rounds that can result in unintended civilian deaths. Cluster bombs open in the air to hit multiple targets at once.
Kerry will become the third member of President Joe Biden’s cabinet to travel to Beijing in a month.
The United States and China, as the world’s two largest economies, must work together to combat the “existential threat” of climate change, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has told Chinese government officials and climate experts.
During a visit to Beijing, where she met with Chinese Premier Li Qiang, Yellen said previous co-operation on climate change between the US and China had made possible global breakthroughs such as the 2015 Paris Agreement.
Janet Yellen, the Treasury secretary, said China, the largest emitter of greenhouse gases, can have “greater impact” tackling climate change by working with other nations.
A damning new database reveals thousands of lobbyists are working for fossil fuel companies at the same time they represent hundreds of cities, universities, tech companies and even environmental groups that claim to be taking steps to address the climate crisis. We speak with The Guardian's environmental reporter Oliver Milman. “It's clear that the wielding of political power and influence is far more important to them than staying true to any kind of ideals of distancing themselves fully from the fossil fuel industry,” says Milman.
This week unprecedented temperatures driven by climate change shattered heat records around the world. More records could be broken soon, as scientists say 2023 is set to be one of the warmest years in the history of planet Earth. “We can’t stop global warming at this point,” says Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org. “All we can do is try to stop it short of the place where it cuts civilizations off at the knees.” McKibben says these temperatures are the “inevitable result” of fossil fuel use, criticizes politicians for their simultaneous embrace of renewable energy and fossil fuels, and calls on activists to disrupt the status quo: “This is the last of these moments we’re going to have when the world is summoned to action by events and when there’s still time to make at least some difference in the question of how hot it ultimately gets.”
Federal police and the anti-corruption watchdog are considering civil and criminal evidence following a damning report into the robodebt scheme.
More than 100€ ministers, advisers, public servants and contractors gave evidence in the royal commission, which tabled its report in federal parliament on Friday.
Opposition leader Peter Dutton claims the Robodebt royal commission was politicised from the very beginning and apologised to people impacted by the illegal debt collection scheme.
On Friday it was revealed federal police and the anti-corruption watchdog are considering civil and criminal evidence against certain unnamed individuals.
Between 2014 and 2022, the number of individuals placed in jobs by Ã°à žKUR exceeded the total population growth, employment growth, and the increase in "insured employment" in Turkey.
A growing number of doctors from Turkey are seeking opportunities abroad, largely due to poor working conditions in the country's healthcare system.
The UK High Court of Justice held Thursday that the Cabinet Office must hand over all documents Covid-19 Inquiry chair Baroness Heather Hallett requests, including former prime minister Boris Johnson’s diaries and WhatsApp messages. The Cabinet Office launched a judicial review case against Hallett’s request last week.
In September 2020, the Hopi Tribe’s four-decade effort to secure its right to water culminated in a court proceeding. The outcome would determine how much water the arid reservation would receive over the next century and whether that amount would be enough for the tribe to pursue its economic ambitions. Under rules unique to Arizona, the tribe would have to justify how it would use every drop it wanted.
The monthslong ordeal in Arizona’s Superior Court unfolded in video calls over shaky internet connections.
Since at least a decade ago, human rights institutions have acknowledged the enabling potential of the internet to realize a range of human rights. Digital technologies have been incredibly transformative tools for allowing people to speak out against arbitrary acts of public and private powers, empowering the expression of historically vulnerable, marginalized and silenced groups, catalyzing civic organization and participation, and facilitating innovative ways to collectively build and share knowledge. Since then, the right to seek, receive, and impart information has enabled the exercise of other rights and strengthened the internet ecosystem, but not without backlashes and critical challenges.
The current discussion about platform regulation in Brazil, both in the draft bill known as “PL 2630”€ and in constitutional cases pending in the country’s Supreme Court, demonstrates that much effort is going into addressing these challenges, but also shows that proper responses are not simple to craft. We should be able to tailor these responses safeguarding the positive potential of digital technologies and the essential role freedom of expression, including access to information, plays in preserving democratic societies.
Police say no charges will be filed following a brief investigation of the altercation involving pop star Britney Spears, San Antonio Spurs rookie Victor Wembanyama and a member of the player’s security team. Spears said she was struck by a security guard as she tried to approach Wembanyama near a restaurant in a Las Vegas casino complex on Wednesday night. Wembanyama said a person, who he later found out was Spears, grabbed him from behind. Spears filed a police report, alleging battery. But police say surveillance video shows Spears inadvertently hit herself in the face after her hand was pushed off Wembanyama.
The ongoing saga that is Microsoft’s attempt to purchase Activision Blizzard continues! As a brief review of the scoreboard will show: the EU has approved the purchase, the UK’s CMA has blocked it and Microsoft has appealed that decision, and the lawsuit brought by the FTC in the States is currently in the pretrial phase. Last we checked in on the FTC suit, Sony’s Jim Ryan gave a deposition in which he claimed that if the purchase was allowed, that Sony might not share information about any future consoles with Microsoft-owned developers like Activision Blizzard out of fear that Microsoft would use that information, critical to giving developers information needed to make games for those future consoles, in ways that Sony wouldn’t like. In that post, I made clear that this was a bad look for Sony, which has several first-party titles on the Xbox, given its anticompetitive nature in a lawsuit that the FTC is bringing on grounds of the merger being anti-competition.
A new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, was added seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 10,171,433, owned by Pacid Technologies, an NPE. The ‘433 patent generally relates to a security application for a computing device, such as a mobile phone, that allows generation of a secret according to unique user input or credentials. The patent has been asserted against Gemalto and Bank of America.
The contest will expire on August 30, 2023.
The European Patent Office has nullified EP 2 233 127, belonging to German pharmaceutical company Stada, following multiple parties filing oppositions against the patent.
The Board reversed a Section 2(e)(2) refusal to register the mark CASINOLA for downloadable game software and related retail store services featuring gaming goods. The Board found that the primary significance of CASINOLA is "the geographical place known as LA, i.e., the City of Los Angeles, California and the highly descriptive term CASINO." However, the USPTO failed to prove that applicant's goods will originate there of that consumers will associate applicant's goods or services with that geographic location. In re Casinola LLC, Serial Nos. 90115759 and 90115777 (July 5, 2023) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Peter W. Cataldo).
There's one thing I so far miss about my old job. I sort of expected to but I'm still a little surprised by it.
My old job was on my university campus about a 20 minute walk from where I lived. My new job is a 20 minute drive, and even though it's the same amount of travel time I'm missing the old commute a lot more.
It is getting harder and harder to find simple devices that just do their job _without_ a spying app, remotes, rechargeable batteries, USB ports, WIFI, and extremely annoying flashing lights.
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Yesterday I spent hours trying to by a simple auxilliary speaker for a TV for an elderly hard-of-hearing woman. Simple requirements: plugs into headphone jack; has simple controls (on/off, volume). Deal-breakers: all of the above-listed anti-features.
I've ranted a lot about lithium batteries, but if you missed it... A lithium battery is an incendiary device just waiting for an opportunity to burn down your house and kill you. A malfunction in the charger -- or a cheap charger without a malfunction will overheat a lithium battery to the point of ignition. A puncture will set of a fireworks show you will not soon forget. A lithium fire is almost impossible to put out. And if you look where it comes from and the impact on our planet, you will probably side with me.
Many devices don't even need batteries. But once there is a battery which cannot be removed, you will be buying a new device after 100-200 charging cycles.
Is there anything more telling in the news than news media's recurring use of the presumptuous phrase "here's what you need to know" in headlines?
This is ksh working as intended. The "." or dot builtin performs a PATH search and a .profile file has not been found in any PATH directory. Someone thought that a PATH search was the correct thing for the dot builtin to do, so here we are.
This post goes over how I shaped up the first version of the compiler. The main criteria for version 1 were, the compiler should be able to compile its own source code, and also be bootstrappable by the compiler written in assembly. Each version of the compiler is kept in its own branch, so you can find the latest update for version 1 in the v1 branch, though I am going to mainly reference how the source code looked like at tag "v1.0"...
* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.