𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Thursday, August 19, 2021 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Fri 20 Aug 02:39:50 BST 2021 Created by Dr. Roy Schestowitz (𝚛𝚘𝚢 (at) 𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚣 (dot) 𝚌𝚘𝚖) Full hyperlinks for navigation omitted but are fully available in the originals The corresponding HTML versions are at 𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈 Latest in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒕𝒙𝒕 and older bulletins can be found at 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒕𝒙𝒕-𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 Full IPFS index in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒊𝒑𝒇𝒔 and as plain text in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒊𝒑𝒇𝒔/𝒕𝒙𝒕 Gemini index for the day: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/08/19/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmYPuxGxUuA2otUfB7HDtRmTpivWTUWAabpcpCcCWUjDPe QmTWNbUkuvdmDn7t3Fk2bJVTcpy7AaW5viHLRpUMPZqPmN QmYLHQ18BUjsoqQrYh2hfAARNThKQwcJMPEWNrHSRDqpbJ QmNSNxDGf8uW24qwfnLjXrvXVvHmUMuSgb1HJu756yHhud QmRS9PeWnJkwSM9uFwhXg9oWnWvAdJYnqn5BvY4mFwyNtW Qmeww9N1YnQ2Znw5A9zRvL5cLmS649Q6VCiDCx91X2ZJqo QmZG8SsTJ2EBg5zMrWS4NdoMh7QZt2TnLqG82m3jgLsAZd QmUBS5HzGuXErkfDwpHxMKeu8if7jt5YH6ph1UrqNMz1B4 QmSWfDrRGYcLy39sAw1ufjzyZqmJSUhgxqCS1mGSB3cgvL QmNxGTwQ4Jqei88THW4dMGEZoRKbJsm6pBPtpAahou3GQi QmXBU6oKqgN1Lsd8vCX9iBHiUi66fm8iL3uXsJgyh4LH33 QmW2EY2r5wFnfosCfi1BSdBM7GSdTj92HYk4q7e3g7b9WR QmSkz4YGj3vTuC8Q6t7fPmQkSbvtThba65AHUjyotSbHLW QmWZ187KL1KiuWZ2T69aUFqaDmvDMVo7e6ALsQCK58yNP1 QmY1VJmnrgnvD1UeZntn4kd7Q7Jkehp6eqZHBkGEiqnTdi QmaFyToU47jF5UkU2CTtva1HKGz8X6fJ9MiRnoN9EVF2PR QmfBw8KjEL4jUBLnCDfDMTME9vkCdKPKjn6wFninkuMEkV QmPdYmkA2hjyfyb9e14JCR2pZHcisLHLdZcWJARrrMyhgf Qmb89E6YUPLiH43tv6JNBD4QzFumg2nk2gABmYEbbPv2KP QmXVwu1HjvyJZ3HSFKoFGkBp26Y9G8sfvY6NBAe4KoK6Kp QmTLQpRMfp5Xuv2kMCWwSjxTme9kskdKXqZpqfxd5zsmov ╒═══════════════════ 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐗 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⦿ Naming and Shaming ’Captured’ Publications That Knowingly and Intentionally Published Fake News About the EU’s Unified Patent Court So Far This Week | Techrights ⦿ [Meme] IBM’s Quiet Announcement of Layoffs This Thursday (’Bloodbath’ in IBM’s Marketing/PR Division) | Techrights ⦿ IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 18, 2021 | Techrights ⦿ Another Relocation Impending | Techrights ⦿ Team UPC Should be Taken to Court by Clients (for Misleading Them, Only for Personal Gain) | Techrights ⦿ Flashback: Team UPC in 2014 Saying UPC Would Start Next Year (2015) | Techrights ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): http://techrights.org/2021/08/19/captured-media-telling-lies/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/08/19/ibm-deep-cuts/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/08/19/irc-log-180821/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/08/19/server-relocation/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/08/19/upc-lies-for-profit/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/08/19/wouter-pors-on-upc-2015/#comments ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): http://techrights.org/2021/08/19/carbonui/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/08/19/libreoffice-7-2-community/#comments ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 63 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/08/19/captured-media-telling-lies/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/08/19/captured-media-telling-lies/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.19.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Naming_and_Shaming_‘Captured’_Publications_That_Knowingly_and_Intentionally Published_Fake_News_About_the_EU’s_Unified_Patent_Court_So_Far_This_Week⠀✐ Posted in Europe, Patents at 12:58 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum 255925d918a4e291846569da19ab47f9 http://techrights.org/videos/team-upc-faking-reality.webm Summary: The lies of Team UPC went too far and even mouthpieces of EPO management are seemingly dissenting now, refusing to accept the latest “official” lies (which Team UPC is plastering all over headlines in sites under its control, or the_"captured"_media) THE “fake news” extravaganza has not yet ended. We wrote more than we had planned about this subject [1, 2] and even today, as recently as hours ago, they still disseminate their lies in yet more sites (now_it’s_Mondaq). To name and shame the liars from Mayer Brown, their names are “Christoph J. Crützen (Frankfurt am Main), Benjamin Beck (Frankfurt am Main), Maximilian Kücking (Frankfurt am Main) and Dr. Ulrich Worm (Frankfurt am Main)” (people who lie to your face because of their financial agenda). “It’s patently untrue that Germany ratified the UPCA and it’s extremely improbable that there will be unitary patents next summer.”This is even worse than the torrent_of_lies that the EPO publishes in its Web site. Benoît Battistelli and António_Campinos never falsely claimed that Germany had ratified. It’s patently untrue that Germany ratified the UPCA and it’s extremely improbable that there will be unitary patents next summer. “The funny thing is that even a propaganda mill of Team UPC is reluctant to go ahead with this lie…”The video above speaks about the “Law Society of Ireland Gazette” publishing something entitled “Judges to be hired as unified patent court kicks off in mid-’22″; this headline was later (today) changed to “EU’s Unified_Patent_Court_to_kick_off_in_mid-2022“ and it is basically a false statement like many_we_saw_in_past_years. The funny thing is that even a propaganda_mill_of_Team_UPC is reluctant to go ahead with this lie, as per this post_from_several_hours_ago. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 120 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/08/19/ibm-deep-cuts/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/08/19/ibm-deep-cuts/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.19.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ [Meme]_IBM’s_Quiet_Announcement_of_Layoffs_This_Thursday_(‘Bloodbath’_in IBM’s_Marketing/PR_Division)⠀✐ Posted in IBM, Marketing at 7:23 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz IBM is still bleeding to death 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Big_Blue;_No_clue⦈_ IBM: Let’s use our PR people to hide the layoffs of many of our PR people Summary: The media would not mention it or barely mention this, but insiders report very large cuts at IBM (rumoured for over a week already) 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Another_Relocation_Impending⠀✐ Posted in Site_News at 12:30 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Elevator going down⦈ A heads-up regarding down-time Summary: The datacentre of our server will change soon; expect some downtime (Gemini and IPFS unaffected) SOME time soon the physical server of Techrights will need to be moved from one datacentre to another (the current datacentre is shutting down for good). Nothing will change, except perhaps some IP addresses, and duration of downtime is expected to be a couple of hours. In that period of time the_IRC_network will also be down (same physical machine), but it will be back online at around the same time as the site. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Machine shut-down⦈ In terms of uptime, we haven’t done too badly. 126 days since the last downtime. So, in summary, if some time this coming month there’s a long downtime, then it is likely intentional and scheduled. Given sufficient leeway or advance notice, we might even give a heads-up before the server starts its journey. The downside with such things may be, if you post a message about a site going offline and immediately (or shortly) after that the site does go offline, who’s actually going to see that message? 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fake ‘news’ for Team UPC along with Kluwer Patent Blog; this is part_of_a_pattern_that_has_lasted_nearly_a_decade and they’re basically fronting for a cabal of self-serving law firms, lying to politicians and misleading the general public (to the detriment of constitutions, laws, and public interest) AS we noted here last_night, there’s an ongoing “campaign of disinformation by Team UPC” (not the same as misinformation). We also mentioned it earlier_on_the same_day. Are these people on the same drugs (or bottles) as Benoît_Battistelli and António_Campinos? Are they as intellectually corrupt as EPO management? How far will they go? I mean, look at all the comments here and here; they’re fooling nobody but themselves, albeit perhaps their target audience is politicians and law-makers, who barely understand patents and would believe anything a ‘suit’ tells them (many politicians are themselves ‘suits’ from law firms). Like judges who decide to give_patents_to_"Hey_Hi"_(AI) or fail to comprehend that software_patents are basically a monopoly_on_mathematics_or organised_logic… “…being lawyers, clients might also be in a position to sue them for it (and win in court if malicious intent can be proven in a courtroom).”We didn’t wish to do any more articles (or videos) about the UPC, but it’s just astounding what they’re resorting to — or the level they stoop down to — over there at Team UPC lala-land, helped by Joff Wild and his EPO-sponsored propaganda mill. This is the second time in less than a week that IAM’s operatives do this, both times behind a paywall (maybe to shelter themselves from critics and fact- checking). I keep getting utterly baffled whenever their headlines show up in my RSS reader; as I put it last night when I saw IAM’s latest output, “they’ve now entered a mode/mindset of just publishing loads of false headlines, hoping this can magically lead to the outcome they want (violating constitutions). There should be regulation against such propaganda campaigns.” I know that’s a slippery slope (using the law against deliberate lying), but in this case their goal is to undermine the law and abolish constitutions. By flinging many lies at the wall, hoping that something will stick somewhere. When actual law firms (not publishers) falsely herald ratification by Germany it is a pretty big deal; being lawyers, clients might also be in a position to sue them for it (and win in court if malicious intent can be proven in a courtroom). Suing lawyers isn’t easy, especially when they are manipulative liars with deep pockets and connections within the legal system, which begets arrogance if not Hubris. There’s tons of cross-pollination there and money can buy outcomes. My longstanding theory that these pseudonymous_blog_posts or by-proxy lies are intended, at least in part, as ‘insurance’ against lawsuits or reputational accountability. 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⚓ Apple_Doesn’t_Accept_The_GPL,_Or_Do_They??_–_Invidious⠀⇛ Both the Mac App Store and iOS store have an interesting history with the GPL and the FSF for obvious reasons the FSF doesn’t like Apple but can you use GPL licenses like GPLv2 and GPLv3 on the iOS stores. The answer isn’t that simple. # ⚓ FLOSS_Weekly_643:_Open_Source_Hiring_Trends_–_Open_Source Training⠀⇛ Clyde Seepersad of the Linux Foundation joins FLOSS Weekly to discuss trends in hiring, training, diversity, the massive demand, as well as the need for both old and new school approaches across every open source code base. Remember when open source was a new thing no company cared about? Now it’s something nearly every enterprise can’t do without. As a result, demand for talent and training is increasing. Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb discuss on FLOSS Weekly. # ⚓ CarbonUI⠀⇛ Today we are looking at CarbonUI. It comes with Linux Kernel 5.13, based on Arch, KDE 5.22, and uses about 1GB of ram when idling. Enjoy! # ⚓ CarbonUI_Run_Through_–_Invidious⠀⇛ In this video, we are looking at CarbonUI. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux_5.13.12⠀⇛ I'm announcing the release of the 5.13.12 kernel. All users of the 5.13 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 5.13.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ stable/linux-stable.git linux-5.13.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/ linux-s... thanks, greg k-h # ⚓ Linux_5.10.60⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux_5.4.142⠀⇛ # ⚓ Intel_Posts_Linux_Patches_Bringing_Up_DisplayPort_2.0_–_DG2 Alchemist_To_Support_DP_2.0⠀⇛ It looks like 2022 is when we will start seeing DisplayPort 2.0 hardware broadly available… It was just earlier this week I wrote about AMD working on DisplayPort 2.0 for their open-source Radeon Linux driver and now coincidentally today Intel has begun their open-source Linux graphics driver enablement for DP 2.0. # § LWN⠀➾ # ⚓ The_edge-triggered_misunderstanding⠀⇛ The Android 12 beta release first appeared in May of this year. As is almost obligatory, this release features “the biggest design change in Android’s history”; what’s an Android release without requiring users to relearn everything? That historical event was not meant to include one change that many beta testers are noticing, though: a kernel regression that breaks a significant number of apps. This problem has just been fixed, but it makes a good example of why preventing regressions can be so hard and how the kernel project responds to them when they do happen. Back in late 2019, David Howells made some changes to the pipe code to address a couple of problems. Unfortunately, that work caused the sort of regression that the kernel community finds most unacceptable: it slowed down (or even hung) kernel builds. After an extensive discussion, an unfortunate interaction with the GNU make job server was identified and a a fix by Linus Torvalds was applied that made the problem go away. The 5.5 kernel was released shortly afterward, kernel builds sped back up, and the problem was deemed to have been solved. # ⚓ memfd_secret()_in_5.14⠀⇛ The memfd_secret() system call has, in one form or another, been covered here since February 2020. In the beginning, it was a flag to memfd_create(), but its functionality was later moved to a separate system call. There have been many changes during this feature’s development, but its core purpose remains the same: allow a user-space process to create a range of memory that is inaccessible to anybody else — kernel included. That memory can be used to store cryptographic keys or any other data that must not be exposed to others. This new system call was finally merged for the upcoming 5.14 release; what follows is a look at the form this call will take in the mainline kernel. # ⚓ Hardening_virtio⠀⇛ Traditionally, in virtualized environments, the host is trusted by its guests, and must protect itself from potentially malicious guests. With initiatives like confidential computing, this rule is extended in the other direction: the guest no longer trusts the host. This change of paradigm requires adding boundary defenses in places where there have been none before. Recently, Andi Kleen submitted a patch set attempting to add the needed protections in virtio. The discussion that resulted from this patch set highlighted the need to secure virtio for a wider range of use cases. Virtio offers a standardized interface for a number of device types (such as network or block devices). With virtio, the guest runs a simplified, common driver, and the host handles the connection to the real underlying device. The communication between the virtio device (host side) and the driver (guest side) happens using data structures called virtqueues, which are typically memory buffers, though the actual implementation depends on the bus used. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ 6_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Replacements_for_ls⠀⇛ The Command Line Interface (CLI) is a way of interacting with your computer. To harness all the power of Linux, it’s highly recommended mastering the interface. It’s true the CLI is often perceived as a barrier for users migrating to Linux, particularly if they’re grown up using GUI software exclusively. While Linux rarely forces anyone to use the CLI, some tasks are better suited to this method of interaction, offering inducements like superior scripting opportunities, remote access, and being far more frugal with a computer’s resources. ls is a command to list computer files. ls is specified by POSIX and the Single UNIX Specification. When invoked without any arguments, ls lists the files in the current working directory. The GNU Core Utilities or coreutils is a package of GNU software containing implementations for many of the basic tools, such as cat, ls, and rm, which are used on Unix-like operating systems. # ⚓ Htop_–_An_Interactive_Process_Viewer_for_Linux⠀⇛ This article is the continuation of our Linux system monitoring series, today we’re talking about the most popular monitoring tool called htop, which is just reached version 3.0.5 and comes with some cool new features. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ How_to_Install_Debian_11_on_VirtualBox⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we learn how to install Debian 11 on VirtualBox. VirtualBox is open-source cross- platform virtualization software that allows running multiple guest operating systems. Debian 11 comes with multiple Desktop environments such as Gnome, KDE, LXDE, LXQT, Mate, Xfce, and Cinnamon. Let’s install Debian 11 on VirtualBox with Gnome Desktop Environment. # ⚓ Download_Only_Audio_in_MP3_Format_With_youtube-dl_[Quick Tip]⠀⇛ youtube-dl is a versatile command line tool for downloading videos from YouTube and many other websites. I use it for making back up of my own YouTube videos. By default, you use youtube-dl for downloading videos. How about extracting only the audio with youtubde-dl? That’s very simple actually. Let me show you the steps. # ⚓ Asking_nicely_for_root_command_execution_(and_getting_it)⠀⇛ Suffice it to say, if you work someplace with enough machines, there’s probably some way for you to get root on all of them if you can hit them with a handful of packets. I’ve seen it happen far too many times at enough companies to expect things to stay secure. I’m not talking about buffer overflows and stuff like that, although those exist too. I mean just straight up asking a service to please run a command for you (as root), and it gladly complies. # ⚓ How_to_install_the_Substance_Launcher_by_Adobe_on_a Chromebook⠀⇛ Today we are looking at how to install the Substance Launcher by Adobe on a Chromebook. Please follow the video/audio guide as a tutorial where we explain the process step by step and use the commands below. # ⚓ How_to_Install_and_Use_Ack_Command_in_Linux_with_Examples⠀⇛ The Linux operating system allows you to search both directory structures and directory files for specific text string matches. A common tool that aids us in achieving these directory searches is a grep (global regular expression print) command. The grep’s use of regular expressions makes it possible to initiate any string pattern search towards a matching textual output on the command line. # ⚓ How_to_disable_core_dumps_in_Linux_including_systemd_– nixCraft⠀⇛ Core dumps created for diagnosing and debugging errors in Linux apps. They are also known as memory dump, crash dump, system dump, or ABEND dump. However, core dumps may contain sensitive info—for example, passwords, user data such as PAN, SSN, or encryption keys. Hence, we must disable them on production Linux servers. This page explains how to prevent the Linux system from creating core dumps when using older init or systemd. # ⚓ cat_command_in_Linux_/_Unix_with_Examples⠀⇛ I am a new Linux and Unix system user. How do I use cat command on Linux or Unix-like operating systems? Can you provide basic examples and syntax usage for cat command? The cat (short for concatenate) command is one of the most frequently used flexible commands on Linux, Apple Mac OS X, Unix, *BSD (FreeBSD / OpenBSD / NetBSD) operating systems. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Video_Games,_Once_Demonized,_More_Regularly_Utilized_For Positive_Health_Benefits⠀⇛ For decades now, video games have been largely demonized by a certain segment of the population that probably were annoyed when great evils like jazz music and chess were also demonized. Video games, say this group, make kids lazy and fat, degrade social skills, keep them from going outside and hitting each other with sticks or something, and also make them all violent school shooters. That many of these same charges were levied on such horrible activities as chess, Dungeons & Dragons, or any of the other moral panics we kicked off appears to be lost on most everyone. Video games are evil, full stop. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Summer_2021⠀⇛ I didn’t give up or go away: two Calamares releases happened at the beginning of august, some KDE Frameworks MRs of mine landed, and then my family did get on a bicycle and see some of the countryside. # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ MATE_1.26_Desktop_Released_With_Some_Wayland_Support, Other_Improvements_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ After one and a half years in development of MATE 1.26 as a fork of the GNOME 2 desktop components, this release is now available with initial Wayland support and more. # ⚓ MATE_1.26_Desktop_Environment_Released_with_Initial Wayland_Support,_Updated_Apps⠀⇛ The biggest change of the MATE 1.26 release is the implementation of initial support for the Wayland display server, which is currently available for the Atril document viewer, Pluma text editor, Terminal terminal emulator, and System Monitor apps, as well as some other components of the desktop environment. Wayland is slowly becoming the norm for many popular GNU/Linux distributions, and it’s great to see more and more desktop environments and apps supporting it. MATE is the latest to add Wayland support, and the new version will probably be included by default in the upcoming Ubuntu MATE 21.10 (Impish Indri) release. # ⚓ GSoC_21:_Final_report [Ed: Why outsource a GSoC blog to Microsoft proprietary software when you already, as part of the project, use a self-hosted GitLab instance? Mentors should explain to students that GitHub is freedom's enemy.]⠀⇛ This is my last GSoC blog post. And the purpose of writing this blog post is to share the work I have completed during the past 10 weeks of Google Summer of Code 2021. o § Distributions⠀➾ # ⚓ KaOS_2021.08⠀⇛ It is with great pleasure to present to you the August release of a new stable ISO. Biggest news for this release are major changes in the aesthetics. The Midna theme has been redone, this includes a uniform look for SDDM and lockscreen with a (darker) transparent sidebar, cleaner splash-screen, and darker logout look. The application menu has moved from the long-used cascading menu option to the all-new Application Launcher introduced with Plasma 5.22. About eighteen months ago, KaOS set out to overhaul all the Calamares view modules into QML, this has now been just about completed (just one left, the partitioning module). This release adds another two new QML converted modules, the Users and Summary pages. It took a while, but now some other distributions are starting to use the KaOS converted modules too. The QML move gives Calamares a much more modern and uniform look with the other KaOS QML applications. # ⚓ KaOS_Linux_2021.08_Released_with_Fresh_New_Look,_KDE_Gear 21.08_with_Plasma_Mobile_Apps⠀⇛ KaOS Linux 2021.08 is a special release for this rolling-release distribution because it’s the first in a very long time to ship with a fresh new look and feel. The new look consists of a revamped desktop theme that includes a uniform look for the SDDM login screen and the lock screen with a darker transparent sidebar, a cleaner boot splash screen, as well as a darker logout look. In addition, KaOS Linux’s unique look of the KDE Plasma desktop environment has been enriched with the brand-new Applications Launcher introduced in the latest KDE Plasma 5.22 desktop environment series, replacing the cascading menu that was used for a long time now. # ⚓ Google_Fuchsia_OS_is_already_a_reality_and_the_Google_Nest Hub_begin_to_update_to_this_software⠀⇛ Google has finally decided to launch Fuchsia OS in all its glory. Today has been the designated day for the new operating system to reach all Google Nest Hubs. Fuchsia OS has been mentioned for several years for no other purpose than to raise questions. Google commented that this operating system would reach their devices and at first it was believed that it would replace Android as we know it. # § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ Arch_Linux-based_Manjaro_21.1.0_‘Pahvo’_now_available with_GNOME,_Xfce,_and_KDE_Plasma⠀⇛ Manjaro is one of the most popular Linux- based desktop operating systems these days, and it’s not hard to see why. The distribution is based on the rock-solid Arch, but unlike that distro, Manjaro is very easy to install and use. In other words, it has all the benefits of Arch, but without the hassles and headaches. This makes it a great choice for both Linux experts and beginners. Heck, it will even be used as the OS on an upcoming E-ink tablet. Today, Manjaro 21.1.0 “Pahvo” becomes available for download. The Linux kernel used is version 5.13 and there are a trio of desktop environment options — Xfce (4.16), GNOME (40), and KDE Plasma (5.22). While all three DEs are great, the Xfce Edition is the primary focus with this particular operating system. # ⚓ Zorin_OS_16_Released_with_Stunning_New_Look_and_Array of_Updates⠀⇛ The team announced the release of brand new Zorin OS 16, bringing some much-needed improvements and updates. We round up the release in this post. # § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾ # ⚓ Cluster_tooling_updates_and_more_in_Red_Hat OpenShift’s_Web_Terminal_Operator_1.3_|_Red_Hat Developer⠀⇛ The Web Terminal Operator in Red Hat OpenShift provides a web terminal with common cluster tooling pre-installed. The operator gives you the power and flexibility to work with your product directly through the OpenShift web console, eliminating the need to have all your tooling installed locally. This article is an overview of the new features introduced in Web Terminal Operator 1.3. These improvements include depending on the newly released DevWorkspace Operator, adding support for saving your home directory, and updating our tooling to be compatible with OpenShift 4.8. # ⚓ How_to_improve_data_literacy:_5_best_practices⠀⇛ Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson once said, “Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions to tomorrow’s problems flow.” The same can be said for data literacy. It unlocks the answers to business problems and holds the key to business success. But despite the fact that data literacy is now a required skill at many organizations, a data literacy survey by Accenture found that only 21 percent of 9,000 employees were confident in their data literacy skills. Data literacy involves the ability to read and analyze data and find meaning and patterns in the information, statistics, and charts. It also includes molding and cleaning data to make it easier to process. And perhaps most importantly, it means understanding how to articulate and share what the data shows, enabling people to act upon it with confidence and make better decisions. # § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Incremental_improvements_in_Linux_Mint_20.2⠀⇛ Linux Mint 20.2 “Uma” was released in Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce editions on July 8. This new version of the popular desktop- oriented distribution has several improvements, including changes to the Update Manager, a new “Sticky Notes” app, a bulk file-renaming tool, improved file search, and better memory management in Cinnamon. Mint 20.2 is a long-term support (LTS) release that will receive security updates until 2025. Mint releases come in multiple editions, each of which uses a different desktop environment: Cinnamon, which is based on GNOME 3 and developed by the Linux Mint project, MATE, which is a continuation of GNOME 2, and the Xfce lightweight desktop. This has been the case since the release of Mint 19 “Tara” in June 2018, which dropped the KDE edition. The Cinnamon edition is the most popular. Cinnamon is best for mid- to high-end computers; netbooks and other devices with limited resources may do better with MATE or Xfce. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Banana_Pi_BPI-M2S_Amlogic_A311D_SBC_comes_with_dual_GbE, HDMI_&_MIPI_interfaces⠀⇛ There’s at least one more Amlogic A311D SBC coming our way with Banana Pi BPI-M2S equipped with 4GB RAM, 16GB eMMC flash, as well as two Gigabit Ethernet ports, combines with video interfaces that include HDMI, MIPI DSI & CSI, as well as two USB ports. This news comes just a few after we wrote about Geniatech DB10 AI development board based on Amlogic A311D hexa-core Cortex-A73/A53 processor and noted there were few platforms based on the SoC, apart from Khadas VIM3 SBC, and a few others. # § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ IoT_gets_a_machine_learning_boost,_from_edge_to cloud⠀⇛ # ⚓ I_made_a_custom_ceiling_mount_for_my_camera⠀⇛ I stopped looking at dedicated camera mounting arms and truss systems once I realized they’d cost at least a couple hundred dollars—and the low end of the price range includes the weaker systems that I wouldn’t trust with my $1000 camera rig! Having mounted many TVs before, I realized TV ceiling mounts are cheap, sturdy, and available darn near everywhere. I bought this VideoSecu ceiling TV mount for $37, and decided there must be a way I could hack together some sort of rigid mounting plate for it, with a platform for the camera and a tripod screw underneath. o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # ⚓ Why_You_Should_Care_about_Open_Source_Software…⠀⇛ So you might ask what has that to do with Open Source software? The answer is easy and short: it is a matter of freedom. The freedom to choose and to participate. It is a matter of right for personal privacy. Would you choose dictatorship or oligarchy over democracy? I guess you would not! So why in your digital life? # ⚓ Denmark_[has]_begun_working_on_a_guide_on_the_use_of_open source_within_the_public_sector⠀⇛ There is currently no common guidance that public authorities in Denmark can rely on when it comes to using Open Source. As the EU has pointed to increased use of Open Source as an obvious path to increased trust and transparency between authorities and citizens. Work has begun creating a practical guide on Open Source. A guide that must include best practice, advice and recommendations as well as an overview of requirements and existing Open Source software. # § Events⠀➾ # ⚓ “The_kernel_report”_online,_August_26⠀⇛ As part of the ramp-up to the 2021 Linux Plumbers Conference, LWN editor Jonathan Corbet will be presenting a version of “The kernel report” at 9:00AM US/Mountain time (15:00 UTC) on Thursday, August 26. Registration for LPC is not required; all are welcome for an update on the state of kernel development and a perspective on 30 years of the Linux kernel. Please come for an interesting discussion and to help the LPC crew stress-test the 2021 infrastructure. # § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾ # ⚓ LibreOffice_7.2_Office_Suite_Is_Now_Available_for Download,_This_Is_What’s_New⠀⇛ More than six months in the works, LibreOffice 7.2 is here as a major update with numerous new features and improvements across all core components, such as Writer, Calc, Chart, Math, Base, Impress & Draw. Again, we’re talking here about LibreOffice 7.2 Community, the volunteer-supported free office suite for desktop productivity. Highlights of the LibreOffice 7.2 release include a new command popup HUD (“Heads-up display”) to search for and execute actions, a new LibreOffice Dark theme, Fontwork panel in the Sidebar, scrollable style picker in the NotebookBar UI, a new list view for the templates dialog, native support for Apple M1 chips, and a built-in “Xray”-like UNO object inspector. # ⚓ LibreOffice_7.2_Released_with_Major_Performance Improvements,_New_HUD_Tool⠀⇛ ”Over 60% of code commits for the brand new version […] are focused on interoperability with Microsoft’s proprietary file formats,” The Document Foundation say of the update, the first major release since February. Reading and writing to Microsoft Office file formats, like .docx and .pptx remains a key ask of this open source office suite, and something its millions of users rely on daily. Every entry in LibreOffice suite gains speed improvements with this uplift, with Calc’s opening and scrolling through large .xlsx files a notable highlight. # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Jamie_McClelland:_Anyone_still_using_gitweb?⠀⇛ It seems like the self-hosting git world has all moved to gitlab or gitea. For a number of reasons not worth enumerating, I’m still running gitolite and recently decided I wanted to checkout my code via https using gitweb. I got through most of the installation and configuration without trouble (I could browse via the web and see all my repositories). But, when I tried to git clone using the https address I got a fatal “not found” error. It seems that gitweb, out of the box, allows for easy web-browsing of git repositories but needs some extra work if you want to clone over https. Specifically, you need to use git-http-backend. # ⚓ Git_2.33_Released_with_New_Optional_Merge_Strategy Named_‘merge-ort’⠀⇛ Git 2.33 has been released. It mainly dealt with bug fixes and a new strategy for carrying out merges. For those unfamiliar, a merge strategy is the mechanism used to combine code from multiple versions of the same codebase. To merge two branches, Git currently uses the command, which was first written as an external Python script and then rewritten in C – merge-recursive. Git 2.33 brings a new merge strategy called merge-ort. Preparation work for a new merge strategy backend is now on its final stretch. Merge- ort is pitched as a complete re-write of the currently used recursive approach, that is meant to fix issues in areas like correctness, and performance. It has been rewritten from scratch with the same concepts of recursion and rename-detection. # ⚓ Steinar_H._Gunderson:_plocate_1.1.9_released⠀⇛ I’ve just released version 1.1.9 of plocate. It adds support for the -e (–existing) option from mlocate, since I needed it and it’s nice to be complete. # § Perl/Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ Perl_&_Raku:_Best_frenemies⠀⇛ Although the two lan­guages aren’t source-​compatible, the Inline::Perl5 mod­ule does enable Raku devel­op­ers to run Perl code and use Perl mod­ules with­in Raku, You can even sub­class Perl class­es in Raku and call Raku meth­ods from Perl code. I hadn’t real­ized until recent­ly that the Perl sup­port was so strong in Raku despite them being so dif­fer­ent, and so I thought I’d take the oppor­tu­ni­ty to write some sam­ple code in both lan­guages to bet­ter under­stand the Raku way of doing things. Rather than a sim­ple ​“Hello World” pro­gram, I decid­ed to write a sim­ple syn­di­cat­ed news read­er. The Raku mod­ules direc­to­ry didn’t appear to have any­thing com­pa­ra­ble to Perl’s WWW::Mechanize and XML::RSS mod­ules, so this seemed like a great way to test Perl-​Raku interoperability. o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ # ⚓ It’s_Time_to_Retire_the_CSV⠀⇛ Another big drawback of CSV is its almost complete lack of metadata. While a human can often intuit what a file contains by looking at it, it’s much harder for software to do that without being given a lot of hints. Some variants of CSV (including RFC-4180) allow for the first row to be optionally used as a header, but few variants explicitly identify headers, leaving the parser either to be told there are headers or to try to make an educated guess. A column’s data type is even more difficult to determine automatically. Values in CSVs are just sequences of characters. They might represent more complex types, but there’s no way for a parser to know that type information just from looking at the file. # ⚓ Vulkan_SC_1.0_Coming_For_“Safety_Critical”_Graphics_/ Compute⠀⇛ It’s been over two years since The Khronos Group acknowledged they were working on safety critical Vulkan and now finally the 1.0 release is approaching for this graphics/compute interface suitable for safety critical systems. Khronos had maintained OpenGL SC as a safety critical subset of the OpenGL API for use in avionics, military equipment, medical devices, and other environments demanding stringent standards around safety. OpenGL SC though was last updated five years ago when OpenGL SC 2.0 was released. Moving forward, Vulkan SC is coming for next- generation safety critical systems for not only graphics but also compute. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ The_New_Variant⠀⇛ o ⚓ Sandi_Tan’s_Magical_Americana⠀⇛ The world is made up of movers and shakers, on the one hand, the filmmaker and writer Sandi Tan once observed, and on the other, shirkers: those on the fringes of adult life who shrink from conventional responsibility and instead commit themselves to their dreams. This pleasure in shrinking from life is what framed Tan’s Netflix documentary Shirkers (2018), which tells the story of the teenage Tan’s foiled attempt in the early 1990s to make a film (also called Shirkers) with her friends one summer in Singapore. The documentary features the adult Tan looking back on her experiences. It captures the joyous rush of a fearless adolescence in which making art was the ultimate, glorious form of escape. o ⚓ The_Disappearance_of_the_Natural_Death⠀⇛ One day the vet asked, “Why are you waiting?” I listened. Quinby, rescued 19 years earlier, had always been such a cheery character. It was sad to see discomfort overtake that joy. o ⚓ Instagram,_Facebook_Remove_Comments_From_Lizzo’s_Account_After Singer’s_Tearful_Video⠀⇛ The removed comments are those that go against Facebook’s and Instagram’s rules against hate speech and harassment, the spokesperson said. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Quoth_an_“integrative”_functional_medicine_doc:_“I’m_not_a quack,_I’m_an_early_adopter”⠀⇛ I thought I’d take a brief break from COVID-19 blogging just for today in order to return to a frequent topic from before the pandemic: so-called “integrative” medicine (with a dash of “functional medicine”). You remember “integrative medicine” and “functional medicine,” don’t you? I used to write about them a lot before the pandemic, particularly in the context of what I like to call “quackademic medicine,” in which rank pseudoscience and quackery like naturopathy (which, remember, always includes homeopathy) have insinuated themselves into academic medical centers as though they had the same level of scientific support behind them as even conventional medicine modalities with the weakest scientific support. Three years ago, my co- blogger at my not-so-super-secret other blog wrote a post about how “integrative medicine” is attracting so many bad apples with its “integration” of quackery with medicine that even prominent integrative docs like Dr. Melinda Ring noticed and recently felt compelled to write a defense of their newly created specialty, blaming a “lack of training” for the bad apples. Unfortunately, as Jann Bellamy noted at the time, that was not the problem. The rejection of science- based medicine and “integration” of quackery into “integrative medicine” were. It turns out that Dr. Ring noticed this article recently and wrote a post for KevinMD entitled, I’m called anti-science. I’m just an early adopter. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Stanley_Aronowitz,_Who_Taught_Us_Teaching_Must_Be Political,_Has_Passed⠀⇛ # ⚓ For_Stanley_Aronowitz⠀⇛ # ⚓ What_Is_College_Really_Worth?⠀⇛ For the last decade and a half, I’ve been teaching ethics to undergraduates. Now—admittedly, a little late to the party—I’ve started seriously questioning my own ethics. I’ve begun to wonder just what it means to be a participant, however minor, in the pyramid scheme that higher education has become in the years since I went to college. o § Health/Nutrition⠀➾ # ⚓ As_Covid-19_Cases_Rise,_Global_Task_Force_Lays_Out_How_to Avert_Future_Pandemics⠀⇛ With Covid-19 cases on the rise around the world, a Harvard-led task force on Wednesday released a new report detailing how strengthening healthcare systems, investing in conservation, and improving agricultural practices can help prevent more pandemics. “Covid-19 once again reminds us of how interconnected our ecosystem is.”—Dr. Yewande Alimi, task force # ⚓ How_the_Pandemic_Changed_Young_People’s_Relationship_to Substances⠀⇛ With no parties, no sporting events, and with bars closed or at limited capacity, many of the social avenues for young people to drink and use other drugs were largely extinguished at the beginning of the pandemic. According to a study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, while the percentage of users decreased during lockdown, the frequency of alcohol use amongst adolescents actually increased. Boredom and isolation led both heavy and social-users to use substances more routinely, with around 49 percent of adolescents engaging in solitary substance use, and 56 percent of young adults reported symptoms of anxiety and/or depressive disorders. Eventually, some reached a point where they had to seriously reevaluate their relationship with substances—whether it’s alcohol, weed, or other drugs. # ⚓ WHO_Decries_Vaccine_Inequity_as_a_‘Shame_on_All_Humanity’ as_US_Moves_Ahead_With_Boosters⠀⇛ As the Biden administration announced Wednesday that the U.S. will begin administering coronavirus vaccine boosters next month, the World Health Organization slammed rich countries for prioritizing third shots for their populations while billions of people across the world still lack access to a single dose. “Strong national leadership would be to fully commit to vaccine equity and global solidarity, which would save lives and slow variants down.”—Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO # ⚓ War,_Herbicides_and_Moral_Disengagement⠀⇛ On August 10, 1961, the United States, several years before it actually sent troops, started poisoning the forests and crops of Vietnam with herbicides. The purpose: to deprive our declared enemy, the commies of Ho Chi Minh, of food and ground cover that allowed them to trek from North to South. It was called, innocuously, Operation Ranch Hand. Agent Orange, the most powerful of the herbicides used in Operation Ranch Hand, contained dioxin, one of the most toxic substances on the planet. We dropped 20 million gallons of this and other herbicides on Vietnam, contaminating 7,000 square miles of its forests. Half a century later, we are fully aware of the consequences of this strategic decision, not just for the Vietnamese, the Laotians, the Cambodians, but also for many American troops: hundreds of thousands of deaths and debilitating illnesses, horrific birth defects, unending hell. # ⚓ Documents_of_the_Revolution:_Unpublished_Che_Guevara Letters⠀⇛ Che Guevara was my father, and in his letters he reveals himself candidly, spontaneously, so reading them is a fascinating way to really get to know him. I Embrace You with All My Revolutionary Fervor, Letters 1947–1967, is the first-ever collection of his letters in English, or in any language, and most of them stand out for their candor and historical impact. Here is one he wrote to an esteemed fellow Argentine, the writer Ernesto Sábato, and one to Fidel Castro of March 26, 1965, in which he analyzes the situation in Cuba and shares his thoughts about errors in the approach to political economy, the budgetary finance system, the internal functioning of the newly formed Communist Party, and a range of other issues. Che urges Fidel to consider the importance of political consciousness in the challenge of creating a new society, explaining that the new human being will emerge in the process of transforming Cuba’s economy.1This text has been excerpted from I Embrace You With All My Revolutionary Fervor: Letters, 1947–1967, by Che Guevara (Seven Stories Press, Fall 2021). # ⚓ Lawmakers_Demand_Answers_From_FDA_on_Timeline_of_Covid Vaccines_for_Kids_Under_12⠀⇛ As millions of children in the U.S. return to schools amid a nationwide surge in coronavirus cases, 108 members of Congress sent a letter Tuesday calling on the Food and Drug Administration to urgently clarify when caregivers can expect Covid-19 vaccines to be approved for children between the ages of two and 11. While the FDA expanded the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to include individuals from ages 12 to 15 in May, children under 12 remain ineligible to receive any Covid-19 vaccination. # ⚓ Army_Corps_Orders_Environmental_Review_of_Proposed_Formosa Plastics_Plant_in_Louisiana’s_‘Cancer_Alley’⠀⇛ The Formosa Sunshine Project in St. James Parish, Louisiana, will undergo a full formal environmental review, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced in a memorandum issued today and posted on Twitter. The decision deals a significant blow to the proposed multi-billion dollar plastics manufacturing site that would be located in the Gulf Coast region, potentially setting the project’s timetable back significantly. Stay up to date with DeSmog news and alerts # ⚓ I’m_a_Louisiana_Pediatric_Surgeon_Watching_Kids_Suffer_From COVID._This_Is_Real.⠀⇛ # ⚓ Despite_Rising_COVID-19_Cases_in_Children,_Louisiana Parents_Push_Back_Against_the_Governor’s_Mask_Mandate⠀⇛ Louisiana remains the number one state in the country for new COVID diagnoses per capita, according to the latest data released on August 16. Louisiana’s Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards warned that while the state’s dubious distinction has led to an upswing in people getting vaccinated, it is doing little to quell push-back against a temporary mask mandate he put in place on August 4 that includes mask requirements in public schools.He added that the majority of people hospitalized and dying from COVID-19 across the state were not vaccinated.The state’s Republican Attorney General Jeff Landry meanwhile continues to push back against the governor’s latest regulations put in place to stem rising COVID cases while hospital officials say the state’s healthcare system is on the verge of being overwhelmed.  The Baton Rouge Advocate reported that Landry advised his employees in an email that they could use state laws to claim either a religious or philosophical objection to the mask mandate for students — and to a vaccine if one is required.  Stay up to date with DeSmog news and alerts # ⚓ Audit_Confirms_That_a_Program_for_Brain-Damaged_Kids Arbitrarily_Denied_Claims_and_Overspent_on_Perks⠀⇛ Florida’s embattled compensation program for children who suffer brain damage at birth arbitrarily denied claims, failed to adequately describe rights and benefits in a parents’ handbook, and failed to explain its decisions to parents, according to a report released Tuesday by the state Auditor General. The report validated many of the findings of a series of stories this year by the Miami Herald and ProPublica about Florida’s Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association, or NICA. The report came less than two months after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a sweeping bill reforming the program. The Auditor General is an independent financial watchdog who reports to both chambers of the Florida Legislature. # ⚓ Has_Your_School_Had_a_COVID_Outbreak?_Is_Your_District Following_CDC_Guidelines?_Help_Us_Report.⠀⇛ As the hypercontagious Delta variant sweeps across the country, children are returning to school, leaving many families concerned about safety precautions in the classroom and fueling a heated debate about how far schools should go to keep young kids safe. Should students be required to wear masks? Should classrooms be socially distanced? Should contract tracing be carried out for potential cases? And if parents remain uncomfortable, should districts allow their children to learn virtually? We want to hear how policies impact the health and safety of students. We hope to stay in touch with parents, educators and other concerned adults over the course of the semester as the situation evolves. If there is a COVID-19 outbreak in your community, please share your experience. We plan to follow cases as they unfold, and we need you to guide us to virus hotspots by filling out our questionnaire. # ⚓ ‘Long_Overdue’:_EPA_Bans_All_Food_Uses_of_Neurotoxic Pesticide_Chlorpyrifos⠀⇛ Public health experts and labor rights advocates celebrated Wednesday after the Biden administration announced that it “will stop the use of the pesticide chlorpyrifos on all food to better protect human health, particularly that of children and farmworkers,” following decades of demands for government intervention spurred by safety concerns. “Years of backtracking put the health of countless children and farmworkers at risk by negligently and intentionally overlooking the harms of a terrible pesticide.”—Anne Katten, CRLA Foundation # ⚓ Lambda_Variant_Raises_Dire_Concerns_About_the_Pandemic’s Future_Trajectory⠀⇛ # ⚓ Reporter_Gets_Death_Threats_After_DeSantis_Press_Sec. Tweets_Attacks_Against_Him⠀⇛ # ⚓ Florida_Moves_Closer_to_Punishing_Districts_Defying DeSantis’s_Ban_on_Mask_Rules⠀⇛ # ⚓ TX_School_District_Includes_Masks_in_Dress_Code_to_Sidestep Abbott’s_Mandate_Ban⠀⇛ # ⚓ TX_Governor_Gets_Rare_COVID_Treatment_While_Banning_Mask and_Vaccine_Mandates⠀⇛ # ⚓ Finding_Loophole_in_Abbott’s_Mask_Mandate_Ban,_Texas_School Board_Adds_Face_Coverings_to_Dress_Code⠀⇛ Students and school staff in Paris, Texas will be required to wear face coverings starting Thursday despite Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s attempt to ban mask mandates, following a school board vote in favor of using a loophole to protect public health: the board voted on Tuesday to include mask- wearing in the district’s dress code.  # ⚓ Texas_Governor_Greg_Abbott_Tests_Positive_for_Coronavirus After_Banning_Mask_&_Vaccine_Mandates⠀⇛ Texas Governor Greg Abbott has tested positive for the coronavirus, just one day after he attended a packed indoor Republican event in Dallas, where he and most attendees were unmasked. Abbott, who said he was not showing symptoms of COVID-19, imposed a statewide ban on vaccine and mask mandates last month, though a judge later blocked the ban on mask mandates. Abbott has also tried to blame immigrants for the spread of COVID-19 in Texas and issued an executive order last month instructing state troopers to stop any vehicle suspected of transporting migrants “who pose a risk of carrying COVID-19.” Abbott’s rhetoric is “simply shifting blame” from his own policies to migrants, says Manoj Govindaiah, the director of policy and government affairs at Texas-based RAICES, the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services. “Public health officials roundly agree that migrants are not necessarily bringing in COVID in any higher numbers than anyone else,” says Govindaiah. # ⚓ Why_People_Who_Brush_Still_Get_Cavities⠀⇛ But in the past decade or so, scientists sequenced the DNA from ancient dental plaque and figured out that something else in our mouths was changing at the same time as our dental health. Turns out, there are specific strains of bacteria — streptococcus mutans, in particular — that are more common in mouths with cavities. And as human diets changed and cavities became more common, those bacteria started taking over our mouths. Our modern communities of oral bacteria are less diverse than our ancestors’ were, and they’re dominated by these cavity-causing strains. Increasingly, scientists are thinking of cavities as a microbiome problem. The advice you got as a kid — brush your teeth, floss, eat less candy — is still important. But it’s becoming more clear that the types of bacteria inhabiting your mouth matter, too. Some people do all the oral hygiene stuff right and still get cavities because of the bacteria living in their mouths. Which presents a question: If the types of bacteria in your mouth can make you more prone to cavities, could you fix your teeth by getting different bacteria? # ⚓ This_deadly_‘kissing_bug’_has_been_mostly_ignored._It shouldn’t_be,_this_author_says.⠀⇛ While many people may never have heard of Chagas in the U.S., about 8 million people in Mexico, Central America and South America have it, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and it kills more than 10,000 people a year. o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Judge_Says_Voting_Machine_Company_Can_Continue_To_Sue Trump’s_Buddies_Over_Bogus_Election_Fraud_Claims⠀⇛ A federal judge has said Dominion’s lawsuit against a former Trump lawyer can move forward. Sidney Powell — the self-proclaimed “Kraken” — was supposed to storm into federal courts and present irrefutable evidence President Joe Biden’s position as president had been fraudulently obtained. # ⚓ T-Mobile:_Breach_Exposed_SSN/DOB_of_40M+_People⠀⇛ # ⚓ T-Mobile_[Cracked]_for_5th_Time_in_4_Years_in_Latest Breach;_Nearly_50_Million_Affected⠀⇛ “We have no indication that the data contained in the stolen files included any customer financial information, credit card information, debit or other payment information,” the statement said, though it continued, “Some of the data accessed did include customers’ first and last names, date of birth, SSN, and driver’s license/ID information for a subset of current and former postpay customers and prospective T- Mobile customers.” # § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Kaspersky_Hybrid_Cloud_Security_enhances protection_for_Linux_and_delivers_security management_as_a_service [Ed: SecurityBrief Australia reprints spammy trash for snakeoil peddler whose proprietary software poses more risk than whatever it claims to tackle]⠀⇛ # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Germany:_Bavaria_upgrades_police_aerial surveillance⠀⇛ The Bavarian government is stepping up police video surveillance. In addition to aerial observation and mobile camera vans, the interior minister announces research into facial, behavioural and pattern recognition. # ⚓ Germany:_Further_step_towards_the introduction_of_„Cell_Broadcast“⠀⇛ So far, German authorities can only notify mobile phones of an impending disaster if their owners have registered beforehand. Soon it will be possible to warn all phones within a certain radius. It is questionable who will decide whether to send such a message. # ⚓ Will_Privacy_Activist_Max_Schrems’_New Legal_Action_Against_Facebook_at_EU’s Highest_Court_Prove_to_Be_His_Most Important_Yet?⠀⇛ His first victory was also one of the most far-reaching. In 2015, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the region’s highest court, struck down the Safe Harbour framework that allowed personal data of EU citizens to flow to the US. Given the huge volume of that traffic, this had the US and EU scrambling to draw up a replacement, which was dubbed Privacy Shield. But Schrems once more went to court, and once more won when the CJEU struck down Safe Harbour’s replacement in 2020. # ⚓ Proof_of_vaccination_in_a_tap?_Smartphone developers_want_to_make_it_that_easy⠀⇛ Google, Apple and Samsung have all recently announced plans to offer a feature that readily calls up a QR code that can be scanned to quickly verify a user’s vaccination status. Samsung, which manufactures Galaxy smartphones, announced Wednesday that it is partnering with the Commons Project, developers of one of a number of vaccine passport smartphone apps. # ⚓ Apple’s_Double_Agent⠀⇛ On Twitter and in Discord channels for the loosely defined Apple “internal” community that trades leaked information and stolen prototypes, he advertised leaked apps, manuals, and stolen devices for sale. But unbeknownst to other members in the community, he shared with Apple personal information of people who sold stolen iPhone prototypes from China, Apple employees who leaked information online, journalists who had relationships with leakers and sellers, and anything that he thought the company would find interesting and worth investigating. Andrey Shumeyko, also known as YRH04E and JVHResearch online, decided to share his story because he felt that Apple took advantage of him and should have compensated him for providing the company this information. # ⚓ Digital_Slaves:_how_Big_Tech_tracks_us for_profit⠀⇛ Do you ever feel like your phone knows too much? That it’s reading your mind, listening to you? You have just passed by a museum, then soon after, ads for the museum’s new exhibition flash up on your phone. You didn’t search for the museum or talk about it to anyone, you just happened to be nearby. You are not paranoid or delusional; you are simply witnessing the tip of the iceberg in targeted advertising, a lucrative business built on the use – or misuse – of our minds, time, and data without our consent. Welcome to surveillance-based advertising. # ⚓ Afghans_scramble_to_delete_digital history,_evade_biometrics⠀⇛ After years of a push to digitise databases in the country, and introduce digital identity cards and biometrics for voting, activists warn these technologies can be used to target and attack vulnerable groups. “We understand that the Taliban is now likely to have access to various biometric databases and equipment in Afghanistan,” the Human Rights First group wrote on Twitter on Monday. “This technology is likely to include access to a database with fingerprints and iris scans, and include facial recognition technology,” the group added. # ⚓ No_need_to_swap_data_for_drinks,_says privacy_body⠀⇛ “I think it’s too easy to upload an app and straight away put your name, email address, payment details in, without actually understanding fully where that information may be shared and why it’s being used,” said Suzanne Gordon, director of data protection at the ICO. “Ultimately this is your data, it’s your personal information and you need to be confident when you’re handing it over and the reasons why.” # ⚓ Scanning_“private”_content⠀⇛ Child pornography and other types of sexual abuse of children are unquestionably heinous crimes; those who participate in them should be caught and severely punished. But some recent efforts to combat these scourges have gone a good ways down the path toward a kind of AI-driven digital panopticon that will invade the privacy of everyone in order to try to catch people who are violating laws prohibiting those activities. It is thus no surprise that privacy advocates are up in arms about an Apple plan to scan iPhone messages and an EU measure to allow companies to scan private messages, both looking for “child sexual abuse material” (CSAM). As with many things of this nature, there are concerns about the collateral damage that these efforts will cause—not to mention the slippery slope that is being created. iPhone scanning Apple’s move to scan iPhone data has received more press. It would check for image hashes that match known CSAM material; the database of hashes will be provided by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). It will also scan photos that are sent or received in its messaging app to try to detect sexually explicit photos to or from children’s phones. Both of those scans will be done on the user’s phone, which will effectively break the end-to-end encryption that Apple has touted for its messaging app over the years. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Why_Mozambique_invited_foreign_troops_to_fight_its jihadists⠀⇛ The danger is that a narrow focus on the gas project does not address the root causes of the conflict. So long as the people of Cabo Delgado see few benefits from the development of local natural resources, and see a state unable to provide health care, education, jobs and security, grievances will fester. Last year Mr Nyusi announced a new northern development agency. But some worry it is just a sop to donors. # ⚓ The_Taliban_Take_Kabul⠀⇛ In departing and leaving stranded colleagues to their fate, the bookish Ghani, preferring pen to gun, had time to leave a message on Facebook.  One could never accuse the man of having wells of courage. He reflected on either facing armed Taliban fighters or leaving his beloved country.  In order to avoid immolating Kabul, which “would have been a big human disaster”, he chose a hasty exit. Only a few days prior, on August 11, Ghani had flown to Mazar-i-Sharif, in the company of the blood lusty Uzbek Dostum, supposedly to hold the fort against the Taliban with another warlord, the ethnic Tajik Atta Muhammad Noor.  Noor had pledged in June to mobilise the citizenry of Balkh province to fight the Taliban.  “God forbid, the fall of Balkh,” he declared at the time, “means the fall of the north and the fall of the north means the fall of Afghanistan.” # ⚓ Ex-Official_Matthew_Hoh,_Who_Resigned_over_Afghan_War,_Says U.S._Mistakes_Helped_Taliban_Gain_Power⠀⇛ “The only thing more tragic than what’s happened to the Afghan people is that in a few days America will have forgotten Afghanistan again,” says Matthew Hoh, a disabled combat veteran and former State Department official stationed in Afghanistan’s Zabul province who resigned in 2009 to protest the Obama administration’s escalation of the War in Afghanistan. He says much of the U.S. media coverage has been filled with “complete lies and fabrications,” despite decades of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan. “You see the same people who’ve been wrong about this war trotted out over and over again,” says Hoh, a senior fellow with the Center for International Policy. # ⚓ Cable_Anchors_on_the_Afghan_Withdrawel⠀⇛ And that in achieving all this it lost 2372 soldiers, and its allies lost 1147 soldiers? Is it not a waste? Experts like former DHS secretary Juliette Kayyem appear on CNN and try to explain. Asked why the Afghan “national” forces have performed so poorly, she asks whether “corruption” was responsible, or “lack of pay.” Secretary of State Tony Blinken keeps reiterating that the Afghans have been well trained for 20 years and they have to want their freedom enough to fight for it. One feels that in the end Afghans will be blamed for their inability to take directions, unwillingness to accept U.S. tutelage, intrinsic religious conservatism and xenophobia. Blinken’s spin is: we won the war when we achieved “our one overriding purpose” in crushing al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. That was always the motive—not the remaking of Afghanistan. But the war continued long after this goal was obtained in mid-December 2001; the U.N. estimates over 5000 civilian casualties in that war just in the first five months of this year. But according to Blinken, these last two decades of war have been mere spin- offs of that purpose realized early on. # ⚓ “There_is_No_Military_Solution.”_Time_to_Get_Real_About It.⠀⇛ While giving lip service to the idea that there was no military solution, the U.S. fought a 20-year war which directly killed approximately 241,000 people and cost a mindboggling $2.261 trillion. Do we need more proof to see the failure of war? # ⚓ Vietnam_Redux⠀⇛ There may be no helicopters on the roof of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul as there were Hueys on an apartment house roof in Saigon in April 1975 evacuating diplomats and endangered Vietnamese. But we’re cutting and running again. Another defeat for an American war. The U.S. withdrawal from Kabul is hurried, helter- skelter, far from orderly and dignified as American officials make their way in a frenzy from their embassy to the airport, where U.S. military protect them from the advancing Taliban. The insurgents reportedly entered through Kabul’s four main gates Sunday. # ⚓ There_Goes_the_Neighborhood:_Pakistan_Is_Uneasy_Over_the Taliban’s_Return⠀⇛ Islamabad—How did it go so badly wrong? In all the column inches that have been devoted to answering this question, the one theme that has remained more or less constant is the mendacity and aloofness of the Pakistani state, which is being blamed in the West for the resurgence of the Taliban. In Pakistan itself, however, there is little in the way of political consensus. Since the fall of Kabul on Sunday evening, politicians and officials of all different stripes have contributed to a cacophony of different perspectives. # ⚓ Why_Many_Veterans_Terminate_Their_Souls⠀⇛ Once veterans realize they were Molested for Profit, this profound truth assassinates their core belief system. Some people call this trauma Moral Injury. But, it is far worse. The Fatherland who sent them to war is evil. It is called Political Incest. It is a raping of their souls. The word Trust is reduced to nothingness. Psychologically, everything is Betrayal. Wasted… The veteran feels like a stranger in a strange land. Who am I? Where did I come from that made me so sick? The magnitude of my soul sickness is equal to the depth of my Silence. W A R = Wealthy Are Richer Unless the veteran bears witness and confronts the Liars, the Sherman’s will continue to march to the sea. # ⚓ Opinion_|_Decades_of_Disaster:_Biden_Is_Right_to_End_the War_in_Afghanistan⠀⇛ The scenes from Afghanistan are heartrending. # ⚓ Progressive_Caucus_Urges_US_Diplomacy_With_Taliban⠀⇛ # ⚓ Advocates_Urge_Biden_to_Move_Faster_to_Resettle_Afghan Refugees⠀⇛ # ⚓ Advocates_Call_on_Biden_Admin_to_Move_Faster_on_Resettling Afghan_Refugees⠀⇛ President Joe Biden has allocated $500 million in new funds for relocating Afghan refugees following the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan. The U.S. had already vowed to help evacuate over 80,000 Afghan civilians who qualify for special immigrant visas and face possible retribution from the Taliban, such as translators and interpreters for the U.S. military or NATO, but critics say the Biden administration needs to move faster and expand refugee resettlement from the country. There is already a backlog of more than 17,000 Afghan nationals and 53,000 of their family members awaiting visa approval. “This entire backlog and this delay in evacuating people could have been handled very differently,” says Manoj Govindaiah, the director of policy and government affairs at RAICES, which has resettled more than 600 Afghan refugees since 2017, including 116 this year alone –– among them, 79 children, and a family of 10 just last night. “Trump announced in February of 2020 that he was going to be withdrawing all troops from Afghanistan,” Govindaiah notes. “At that moment, we’ve known that this day is coming and these people are vulnerable.” # ⚓ US_Urged_to_Aid_Afghan_Journalists_Seeking_Safe_Passage Amid_Reports_of_Taliban_Beatings⠀⇛ As hundreds of Afghan journalists attempt to flee Afghanistan amid the Taliban’s reconquest of their nation, two U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday joined international press freedom advocates in calling on the United States to do more to ensure the safety of media workers, and for the Taliban to honor their vow to not harm them. Reports Wednesday of Afghan journalists being assaulted by Taliban fighters amid deadly repression of dissent heightened the sense of alarm inside and outside Afghanistan. # ⚓ Opinion_|_The_Taliban_Surrendered_in_2001⠀⇛ At a U.S. Special Forces camp near Kandahar, Afghanistan, on December 5, 2001, the Taliban offered an unconditional surrender. Furthermore, they would disband and disarm: a military force would no longer exist.  # ⚓ ‘Twenty_Years_of_War_Have_Failed’:_Progressive_Caucus_Urges US_Diplomacy_With_Taliban⠀⇛ Condemning U.S. military action in Afghanistan as an abject and deadly failure, the Congressional Progressive Caucus on Tuesday pressed the Biden administration to engage in diplomacy with the emerging Taliban government and provide as much humanitarian aid as possible to the countless civilians devastated by the past two decades of war. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), chair of the CPC, reiterated her caucus’ support for the ongoing withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan as the Biden administration faces criticism from Republicans and members of his own party over how the exit has unfolded. # ⚓ “People_Are_Thirsty_for_Peace”:_Afghans_Wary_of_Taliban_as Group_Vows_to_Uphold_Rights⠀⇛ We go to Kabul for an update as the Taliban moves to secure control of Afghanistan. The group said Tuesday former government officials will not face retribution and that the rights of women and journalists will be upheld. The Taliban’s rhetoric and the relatively restrained behavior of its fighters in Kabul are starkly different from how the group governed Afghanistan after seizing power in 1996, when it imposed draconian restrictions on everyday life. Despite the Taliban’s pledges, many women across Afghanistan have not left their homes since the Taliban seized control over the weekend and as thousands of people attempt to catch flights out of the country. “The Afghan people would like to know where this road now leads,” says Bilal Sarwary, an Afghan journalist based in Kabul. “People are thirsty for a political settlement. People are thirsty for peace.” # ⚓ Taliban_kill_protesters_who_tried_to_raise_Afghan_flag⠀⇛ Taliban militants shot dead at least three people in three cities after protesters pulled down the group’s banner and raised the Afghan national flag in its place, in an early show of defiance to their rule. Witnesses said more than a dozen were also wounded after gunmen dispersed the protest in the eastern city of Jalalabad on Wednesday. # ⚓ Outside_the_wire⠀⇛ When the US entered Afghanistan, local DJs were hired to help with the war effort. And when the American military pulled out, they abandoned those voices, leaving many of them for dead. # ⚓ Taliban_Violently_Disperse_Protest_After_Vowing_No Retribution⠀⇛ The Taliban are continuing to consolidate power in Afghanistan amid reports of violence against protesters in the eastern part of the country, a day after the Islamist group announced the “war is over” and there would be no retribution.  Witnesses say Taliban insurgents fired into the air and beat people with batons in the city of Jalalabad, where a group of demonstrators tried to take down a Taliban flag and replace it with the Afghan national flag Wednesday.  At least three people were killed and many other injured. The Taliban did not comment on the matter. # ⚓ CNN_reporter_in_Afghanistan:_‘No_way’_civilians_can_get past_Taliban⠀⇛ CNN chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward delivered harrowing reporting Wednesday from the ground in Kabul, where she said Taliban fighters have taken control of the area outside the city’s airport, leaving “no way” for Afghans looking to escape the country. “It’s very hectic, we’re about 200 yards from the entrance to the Kabul airport,” Ward said with gunshots ringing out in the background of her live report. “There are Taliban protesters around … we have seen them and heard them firing on the crowds to try and disperse them.” Ward said there are lines snaking for miles outside the airport filled with people “waiting, trying desperately to get out of the country.” # ⚓ What_is_Sharia_law?_What_does_it_mean_for_women_in Afghanistan?⠀⇛ Sharia is Islam’s legal system. It is derived from the Koran, Islam’s holy book, and the Sunnah and Hadith – the deeds and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad. Where an answer cannot be derived directly from these, religious scholars may give rulings as guidance on a particular topic or question. # ⚓ An_Afghanistan_Apportionment⠀⇛ Two decades of American sacrifice was too few years for them. 2, 448 American military deaths (plus 20,149 wounded in action, hundreds of thousands with unseen wounds, plus 3,846 US contractor deaths) was not enough blood and tragedy for them. # ⚓ The_Choice_Facing_Afghans:_Do_a_Deal_With_the_Taliban_or Flee⠀⇛ The Afghan government agreed at the weekend on a transitional government, which will avoid a direct Taliban military assault on the capital, allowing a peaceful transfer of power. At the start of this transition, at least, it may be in the interests of the Taliban to show a moderate face and not stir up opposition at home or abroad by public executions and beatings. As Afghans see it, President Donald Trump began a series of one-sided deals favouring the Taliban in 2020, an approach confirmed by President Joe Biden in his speech on 14 April this year. He declared that the final American pull-out would be completed by the 20th anniversary of 9/11, come what may. o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ There’s_a_Growing_Backlash_Against_Tech’s_Infamous_Secrecy. Why_Now?⠀⇛ “How Silicon Valley’s Tech Giants Use NDAs to Create a Culture of Silence,” stated a Business Insider piece on July 27, 2021. “To understand how Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) have come to form the backbone of Silicon Valley’s culture of secrecy,” explained Matt Drange, “Insider reviewed 36 agreements shared by tech workers.” It showed how management mistakes and misconduct hide in the silence of those NDAs. “The secrecy is by design … leaving the true extent of wrongdoing in the workplace a mystery.” o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Climate_Change_is_a_Public_Health_Emergency⠀⇛ According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 2020 was Earth’s second hottest for the past 140 years. Furthermore, 19 of the warmest years on record have occurred since 2000. There has been a considerable impact of these increasing global warming trends on people of all ages. Annual deaths as a result of climate change are estimated in 150,000 by the World Health Organization (WHO). Between 2030 and 2050, this number could be as high as 250,000 additional deaths. Most of those deaths will be due to heat stress, and to malnutrition, malaria and intestinal and respiratory infections, particularly in children from developing countries. # ⚓ Hotter_water_leaves_smaller_and_less_mobile_fish⠀⇛ The catch with warming oceans is that there’ll be less of a catch. Smaller and less mobile fish will leave less to eat. # ⚓ Where_Best_to_Ride_Out_the_Climate_Apocalypse?_The Billionaires’_Bunker_Fantasies_Go_Mainstream⠀⇛ Those beliefs are not inbuilt, of course. How could they be? We are not born with pre-loaded software like a computer – even if our mental “hardware” may shape what kind of information we are capable of processing and how we process it. And whatever we may imagine, our belief system is not really self-generated, dictated by life- experiences. It isn’t only real-world events that determine our values and views. Events and experiences are interpreted and given meaning by those beliefs and values. Which is why it is quite possible – common, in fact – for us to hold contradictory beliefs at the same time: like worrying about the threat posed to our children’s future from climate change, while supporting political systems committed to building more roads and runways. # ⚓ How_Politicians_and_Lobby_Groups_Tried_—_And_Failed_—_To Co-opt_Legitimate_Concerns_Over_Low_Traffic_Neighbourhoods⠀⇛ # ⚓ Dozens_of_Democrats_to_Biden:_Revoke_Permits_for_Line_3 Pipeline⠀⇛ A bicameral group of Democratic lawmakers this week joined Indigenous leaders, healthcare professionals, and environmentalists in calling on the Biden administration to revoke federal permits for the construction of Line 3, a pipeline project that would have the equivalent climate impact of 50 new coal-fired power plants. In a letter sent to President Joe Biden on Monday and obtained by HuffPost Wednesday, eight Democratic senators and nearly two dozen House members rebuked the administration for standing behind the tar sands project, which was approved during the tenure of former President Donald Trump. # ⚓ ‘The_World_Is_Watching’:_Indigenous_Critics_of_Line_3_Meet With_UN_Human_Rights_Expert⠀⇛ Indigenous women who are leading the fight against Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands pipeline met virtually with a United Nations expert on Tuesday to discuss human rights abuses of those who have joined the movement opposing the polluting project. “The Biden administration has turned a blind eye, so we hope that international attention can protect the rights of our people and the water we all depend on.”—Winona LaDuke, Honor the Earth # ⚓ Opinion_|_Dangerous_Thinking:_Carbon_Capture_Technology Won’t_Solve_Our_Emissions_Problems⠀⇛ The world is processing the dire warnings in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report: We are on a path to see global temperature rise to surpass the 2-degree threshold, bringing more intense heat waves, droughts, and sea-level rise—unless we shift rapidly away from fossil fuels. And the climate movement is grappling with both a sense of urgency and profound disappointment with the Biden administration. It was bad enough that the administration backed a bipartisan infrastructure proposal that jettisoned many key clean energy provisions, but it’s even worse that the infrastructure plan includes billions of dollars in new fossil fuel subsidies. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Opinion_|_From_Soil_to_Society:_A_Systems_Approach_to Change⠀⇛ Soil scientist E. Britt Moore drives home the foundational nature of soil to his undergraduate students with an etymology lesson. Human, he tells them, comes from the Latin humus, or soil. Adam is from the Hebrew adamah, meaning ground. Regardless of whether you believe God creating the first human from clay is mythology, says Moore, “societies before us understood an intimate connection between people and soil.”  # ⚓ Gnomes_and_Chimps⠀⇛ Before humans, animals existed without destroying the entire world. It may be tempting, in this way, to view humans as exceptional. However, most of us don’t have much control of the world we are destroying. As a result, many of us are making myths to explain our present conditions. In an age like this we should turn to linguist Noam Chomsky for wisdom. Mr. Chomsky sees the fake news era going back to the very companies that are condemning it now: “Huge amounts of capital are expended every year to try to undermine markets… by creating uninformed consumers making irrational choices; and driving them to consumerism – which atomises [society] – rather than serious things. That’s what ought to be taught in economics courses: massive efforts by the business community to undermine markets.” # ⚓ Meditations_on_Loving_the_Land⠀⇛ Watch a newborn bison calf lie in the grass on a warm spring day. It’s pure bliss. She has every reason to love that warm green ground.We call it ground, earth, soil, dirt, mud, rock, land, terra firma. It’s no coincidence that English speakers call both the planet and the soil Earth. To the Lakota people, Earth is Uncí Maká – Mother Earth. North America is Turtle Island, symbolized by an animal that lives very close to the earth. Earth is represented by Kéya, turtle- patient, peaceful, long lived. # ⚓ Yurok_Youth_Ask_Secretary_of_Interior_Deb_Haaland About_State_of_North_Coast_Salmon,_Climate_Crisis⠀⇛ 10-year-old Repoy Lowry explained why he decided to ask the Secretary of Interior about the North Coast rivers. “I felt like I was doing something important for my community, the fish, and the earth,” Repoy said. K’nek’nek’ Lowry said it was “very exciting” to meet the first Native American Secretary of Interior. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Opinion_|_Supplemental_Security_Income:_Let’s_Strengthen_It and_Make_History!⠀⇛ Democrats will make history in their upcoming reconciliation legislation. The $3.5 trillion package will likely include landmark improvements in the health and wellbeing of the American people. # ⚓ Freezing_Afghanistan’s_Wealth:_US_Scrambles_to_Hit_Hard with_“Soft”_Power⠀⇛ In keeping with President Joe Biden’s pledge to withdraw from America’s 20-year war in one of the poorest countries on earth, the U.S. government has yet to present any plan for future relations with Afghanistan, as it is reportedly scrambling to freeze Kabul’s wealth for fears of it falling into the hands of the Taliban. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Progressive_Democrat_Morgan_Harper_Launches_Campaign Against_Rep._Tim_Ryan_for_Ohio_Senate_Seat⠀⇛ Progressive Democrat Morgan Harper on Wednesday formally announced the launch of her race to fill the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring GOP Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio.  Her campaign represents a progressive challenge to Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan, who launched his campaign for the Senate seat in April. # ⚓ GOP_State_Officials_Take_Step_Toward_Overseeing_Elections in_Georgia’s_Heavily_Democratic_Fulton_County⠀⇛ “It is not surprising that the Republican- controlled General Assembly has targeted Fulton County, Georgia’s largest county and home to the greatest number of voters of color in the state.”—Fair Fight Action # ⚓ Texas_Supreme_Court_Says_Dems_Who_Fled_State_to_Block_Voter Suppression_Package_Can_Be_Arrested⠀⇛ If any of the dozens of Texas House Democrats who fled Austin last month to prevent right-wing lawmakers from passing a sweeping voter suppression package refuse to present themselves at the state Capitol, they can be arrested and forcibly taken into the lower chamber, the Lone Star State’s all- Republican Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. Last week, as Common Dreams reported, the Texas high court voided Travis County District Judge Brad Urrutia’s temporary restraining order prohibiting the arrest of Democratic lawmakers whose extended absences have made it impossible for the GOP- controlled state House to reach the quorum necessary to advance its anti-voter legislation. # ⚓ ‘A_Big_Win’:_USPS_Must_Turn_Over_Docs_About_DeJoy’s Potential_Conflicts_of_Interest⠀⇛ A leading government ethics watchdog on Wednesday cheered a federal judge’s ruling ordering the United States Postal Service to hand over documents concerning potential conflicts of interest involving embattled Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. U.S. District Judge John D. Bates on Tuesday granted Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) a full summary judgment (pdf) and ordered the United States Postal Service (USPS) to give the advocacy group seven documents it requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). # ⚓ Devin_Nunes’_Deposition_Goes_Off_The_Rails,_As_He_Keeps Suing_(And_Actually_Gets_A_Minor_Victory_In_One_Suit)⠀⇛ It’s getting difficult to keep up with all of the many lawsuits involving Devin Nunes and his family against the media — and that statement alone should raise your eyebrows quite high. As someone who has sworn to protect the Constitution (which includes the 1st Amendment), Nunes seems very interested in using the judicial system repeatedly to intimidate and silence critical reporting from the press. This post will cover three separate lawsuits (out of a much longer list of lawsuits) in which things happened this month. First off, he’s filed yet another lawsuit, this time against NBC Universal over claims that Rachel Maddow made defamatory remarks about him. He’s suing in Texas, which seems like an odd choice for many reasons. After all, he’s a Congressional Representative from California. NBC is based in New York. Many of his previous lawsuits have been in Virginia. Honestly, the complaint makes the most half-hearted attempt to explain why Texas is the proper venue, stating “MSNBC is at home in Texas.” What does that even mean? MSNBC is based in New York. # ⚓ In_Praise_of_Joe_Biden⠀⇛ I don’t like Joe Biden. I think his working class shtick is as phony as a street corner Rolex. He’s a liar. He’s a corporate sycophant. He’s a masher creep around women and girls. And he’s kind of an asshole in general (I know, takes one to know one). His political record is one long disaster. But . . . . . . Joe Biden did not fuck up with Afghanistan. He made the cleanest getaway possible, and this was altogether the right thing to do, no matter the fallout. There was no other way. For twenty years, we’ve been “turning the corner” in Afghanistan. It may not have occurred to many Americans — immersed as we are in militarism and American exceptionalism — that the American/NATO presence in Afghanistan was making things worse for Afghanis and more dangerous for the world. # ⚓ Mike_Lindell_lashes_out_as_cyber_expert_demands_$5M_reward for_debunking_election_data⠀⇛ Lindell has long claimed to be in possession of a large set of network data from the 2020 election, saved as packet captures, or .pcap files. He’s even claimed that it contained every vote cast last November. Not so, says Alderson. It took roughly 45 minutes for him to see that the data given to him and the dozens of other experts in attendance was bunk — not only did it fail to prove anything about the accuracy of the 2020 election, but the files weren’t even in the right format. # ⚓ Serbian_president_dares_Twitter_to_delete_his_account⠀⇛ Twitter defines state-affiliated media as “outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and/or control over production and distribution. Accounts belonging to state-affiliated media entities, their editors-in- chief, and/or their senior staff may be labeled.” # ⚓ Serbian_president_challenges_Twitter:_‘Delete_my account!’⠀⇛ Vucic, a former ultranationalist, has kept a tight grip on Serbia’s mass media since he came to power 10 years ago. Serbia’s pro-government outlets, including the state TV, regularly blast the few remaining independent media in Serbia, claiming they are controlled by corrupt opposition figures or Western embassies. # ⚓ The_Taliban_wants_the_world_to_think_they’ve_changed._But have_they?⠀⇛ While the Taliban — run by a supreme leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, and three deputies, Mawlavi Yaqoob, son of Mullah Omar, Sirajuddin Haqqani, leader of the powerful Haqqani militant network, and Abdul Ghani Baradar, who heads the Taliban’s political office in Doha — now control three- quarters of Afghanistan, their capacity to govern is unclear. “They have zero experience,” Obaidullah Baheer, a lecturer at the American University in Afghanistan, told the BBC World Service. o § Misinformation/Disinformation⠀➾ # ⚓ Algeria:_The_forest_fires_that_led_to_an_artist’s lynching⠀⇛ On the same day, Interior Minister Kamel Beldjoud visited Tizi Ouzou, telling reporters the fires had been caused by “criminals filled with hatred against our country”. According to BBC Monitoring, neither officials nor the country’s main media outlets have mentioned climate change as a cause of the fires, or as a reason for their vast spread. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Content_Moderation_Case_Study:_BoingBoing_Begins Disemvoweling_The_Trolls_(2007)⠀⇛ Summary: One of the challenges for any website that allows for user content — no matter the size of the website — is how to deal with trollish behavior. There are a variety of options available, including just deleting such comments, but one option that got attention in the mid-2000s was the idea of disemvoweling: literally removing the vowels from any comment deemed trollish. This was something of an update on concept of merely “splatting out” letters (i.e., replacing certain letters with ‘*’ to make them less searchable and to create some level of disassociation from the initial word). # ⚓ Appeals_Court_Says_Iowa’s_Ag-Gag_Law_Is_About_50_Percent Constitutional⠀⇛ Opacity efforts backed by industries that would rather not allow the public to see how their food is really made have been mounted in several states, hoping to criminalize things like corporate whistleblowing or investigative journalism. Of course, these legislative efforts generally make no mention of these terms, hiding their true intent behind claims of seeking to protect businesses from “bioterrorism” or “trespassing.” # ⚓ Freedom_of_Speech_According_to_the_Gospel_of_Koch⠀⇛ This annual publication, also known as the “worst colleges for free speech in America” list, is a must-have guide for every parent concerned that her or his child’s “conservative” views may not be respected at a particular higher education institution. Says Zimmerman about the survey results: “At most colleges and universities, we pretend like that never happened. We need to get our own house in order, but we still have our heads in the sand. US colleges and universities better get their act together, or else.” # ⚓ A_new_report_is_accusing_Apple’s_engraving_service_of censoring_political_phrases_in_its_China,_Hong_Kong,_and Taiwan_stores⠀⇛ A team of researchers at the University of Toronto have accused Apple’s engraving service of censoring references to landmark political events and activist movements in its Chinese, Hong Kong, and Taiwan stores. By keying in thousands of phrases into the company’s engraving service in its local websites, researchers at the human rights and technology research group CitizenLab found that a whopping 1,045 keywords were blocked by Apple’s engraving service in mainland China. In addition, Apple’s services blocked 542 keywords in Hong Kong and 397 in Taiwan. # ⚓ Apple_applied_list_of_terms_censored_in_China_to_Taiwan_& Hong_Kong⠀⇛ In China, about 43% of all censored keywords — about 458 — refer to the country’s political system, the ruling Communist Party, senior Party or government officials, and dissidents. According to Citizen Lab, 174 of those keywords apply in Hong Kong, and 29 apply in Taiwan. # ⚓ Engrave_Danger:_An_Analysis_of_Apple_Engraving_Censorship across_Six_Regions⠀⇛ This report investigates Apple’s content control of its product engravings, a feature Apple provides when ordering some of its products to print messages on their exteriors. While we found that there exists no publicly accessible document or guideline outlining what rules and limitations applied to consumers’ personalized engravings on Apple products, there has been some previous reporting on Apple’s content control of product engravings. Journalists recently reported that certain words are prohibited from being engraved on Apple’s AirTags. According to the article, while offensive language such as “SLUT” or “FUCK” are filtered, “NAZI” is allowed to be engraved on Apple products. Previous news coverage looking at iPad engravings suggested that Apple restricted certain mainland Chinese political words from appearing on its products in Hong Kong or mainland China, but it was unclear what or how many keywords were censored in the Chinese market. A recent report by China Digital Times has documented several blocked keywords on Apple’s new AirTag products. # ⚓ Cambodian_court_jails_union_leader_for_two_years_over border_comments⠀⇛ “The court’s decision to sentence Rong Chhun today is a threat to younger generations… to stop thinking about the nation’s problems and social issues,” Ouk Chhayavy, president of the Cambodia Independent Teachers’ Association, told reporters outside the court. # ⚓ How_LGBTQ+_Content_is_Censored_Under_the_Guise_of_“Sexually Explicit”⠀⇛ As always, some groups will be subject to potentially more harm than others. One of the features of Apple’s new plan is designed to provide notifications to minor iPhone users who are enrolled in a Family Plan when they either receive or attempt to send a photo via iMessage that Apple’s machine learning classifier defines as “sexually explicit.” If the minor child is under 13 years of age and chooses to send or receive the content, their parent will be notified and the image saved to the parental controls section of their phone for the parent to view later. Children between 13-17 will also receive a warning, but the parent will not be notified. While this feature is intended to protect children from abuse, Apple doesn’t seem to have considered the ways in which it could enable abuse. This new feature assumes that parents are benevolent protectors, but for many children, that isn’t the case: parents can also be the abuser, or may have more traditional or restrictive ideas of acceptable exploration than their children. While it’s understandable to want to protect children from abuse, using machine learning classifiers to decide what is or is not sexual in nature may very well result in children being shamed or discouraged from seeking out information about their sexuality. As Apple’s product FAQ explains, the feature will use on-device machine learning to determine which content is sexually explicit—machine learning that is proprietary and not open to public or even civil society review. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ The_NLRB_Says_Amazon_Cheated_in_the_Bessemer_Union Election._What_Happens_Next?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Massachusetts_Police_Can_Easily_Seize_Your_Money._The_DA_of One_County_Makes_It_Nearly_Impossible_to_Get_It_Back.⠀⇛ Devantee Jones-Bernier was spending an afternoon at a friend’s apartment in Worcester, Massachusetts, when police banged on the door, looking for drugs. They found marijuana in the unit, where several people had gathered, but not on the 21-year-old college student. Police took his iPhone and $95 in cash. The district attorney’s office charged him and seven others in May 2014 with drug offenses, but later dismissed them against Jones-Bernier and all but one person. Despite that, law enforcement officials held onto his money and phone. # ⚓ From_pay_to_visibility,_bosses_have_ways_to_get_remote workers_back⠀⇛ The impact of Covid-19 on where, when and how America works has been no less than seismic. For some, it was a silver lining: no commute, lower expenses for everything from driving to dry cleaning and more time with family. With proximity less of a priority, many migrated from cities to suburbs in search of homes big enough to accommodate remote work and school. Initially, employees encouraged the shift, using technology to mimic in-person connectivity and reassuring customers, shareholders and lenders that they could remain productive and profitable in spite of the upheaval. # ⚓ Protest_Song_Of_The_Week:_‘Who’_By_Georgia_English⠀⇛ The following post originally appeared at Ongoing History of Protest Music.Georgia English is a Nashville-based singer-songwriter, who recently put out a poignant album “Pain and Power.” This collection of tunes could be considered a musical journal that chronicles English’s experiences of overcoming trauma. The release also includes a companion illustrative book that is meant to complement the tunes’ weighty messages. For the album, English combines the personal with the political, featuring insights on collective healing and pointed social commentary on tracks like “America,” “Statue of Jesus,” and “Who,” that examine America’s systemic ills.English bemoans modern-day issues on “Who,” such as disunity, fake news, babies in cages, and “all lives matter” while at the same time reminding listeners that none of this is new.“Could it be a broken system. Or did we design it this way?” English ponders.There is often discussion about how to fix a broken system. But maybe the question we should be asking is, how do we dismantle and rebuild? Listen to “Who” on Georgia English’s album “Pain and Power”: o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ California_Regulators_Say_T-Mobile_Lied_To_Gain_Sprint Merger_Approval⠀⇛ To gain regulatory approval for its $26 billion merger with Sprint, T-Mobile made numerous promises. One was that the deal would immediately create jobs (there’ve been 5,000 layoffs so far). Another was that the company would work closely with Dish Network to help them build a fourth wireless network that would replace Sprint, theoretically “fixing” the reduction in competition the deal created. As predicted, that plan isn’t working out well either. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ UPC_set_to_be_operational_by_mid-2022,_according_to latest_official_forecast [Ed: IAM_is_the_latest_to write_utterly_fake_‘news’_for_Team_UPC; they’ve now entered a mode/mindset of just publishing loads of false headlines, hoping this can magically lead to the outcome they want (violating constitutions). There should be regulation against such propaganda campaigns.]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Expert_evidence_keeps_RAFT_buoyant_in_strawman_patent opposition⠀⇛ Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) v Cytec Industries Inc. [2021] APO 27 In a recent decision of the Australian Patent Office, Cytec Industries Inc. successfully defended its Australian Patent Application No. 2014370386 against all grounds of opposition.1 The decision highlights some key aspects of Australian patent oppositions, including the emphasis placed on expert evidence by the Patent Office when deciding on grounds such as inventive step, and the importance of formulating a clear position supported by the evidence in hearing submissions. Griffith Hack were involved in the latter stages of CSIRO v Cytec, handling preparation of submissions and hearing strategy on behalf of Cytec. [...] Alongside preparation of evidence, a key facet of opposition practice is the ability to set out a party’s case strongly in written and oral submissions, and to anticipate and respond to arguments made by the other side. The main ground of opposition pressed at the hearing in CSIRO v Cytec was lack of inventive step. The Delegate agreed with Cytec’s position that the problem solved by the invention was the provision of PAN polymer suitable for use in producing carbon fibre, and having a low polydispersity and high molecular weight, preferring that to the opponent’s alternative problem of producing PAN polymer with low polydispersity.4 # ⚓ Opinion_|_Profiteering_From_Vaccine_Inequity:_A_Crime Against_Humanity?⠀⇛ Early in the pandemic, Pfizer announced an intention to profit from its covid-19 vaccine.1 In the first three months of 2021, Pfizer’s vaccine brought in $3.5bn (£2.5bn; €3bn) in revenue and hundreds of millions in profit.2 Other companies are also making exceptional profits from covid-19. Moderna, which received public funding to develop its covid-19 vaccine, will earn several billion dollars from vaccine sales.3 Even Astra Zeneca, with its acclaimed “non-profit” model, will receive billions in revenue and is free to raise the price once itconsiders the pandemic to be over. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ RCN_Faces_Yet_Another_Piracy_Lawsuit,_Now_With_a_Site Blocking_Demand⠀⇛ A group of movie companies is continuing its legal quest against US Internet providers. A few days ago they sued Internet provider RCN for failing to take action against allegedly pirating subscribers. The movie outfits request millions of dollars in damages, a three-strikes policy against infringers, and pirate site blocking measures. # ⚓ Telegram_Copyright_Lawsuits_Pressure_Messenger_To Install_Anti-Piracy_System⠀⇛ Russia’s largest publisher has filed copyright infringement lawsuits against Telegram for allowing pirated copies of Stephen King and Dmitry Glukhovsky books to be distributed via the platform. The cited aim is to have Telegram blocked in Russia but according to the anti-piracy group involved in the action, the introduction of fingerprinting technology is preferred. # ⚓ Court_Orders_Injunction_Against_RomUniverse_To Permanently_Shut_Down,_Destroy_Nintendo_ROMs⠀⇛ What a ride for RomUniverse and its owner, Matthew Storman. By way of background, 2019 saw Nintendo start an all out assault on ROM sites, websites where users could download ROMs of old Nintendo games to play on emulators. When the company set its eyes on RomUniverse, Storman attempted to crowdfund a legal defense, which failed, only to represent himself in court and make a lame argument that somehow first sale doctrine allowed him to commit mass copyright infringement. When that all failed miserably and RomUniverse lost in court, Storman was ordered to pay $2.1 million in damages in monthly $50 installments. He failed to make even those payments. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3561 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.19.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Links_19/8/2021:_LibreOffice_7.2_Community_and_Best_in_Kali_Linux⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 11:33 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Distributions o Devices/Embedded * Free_Software/Open_Source * Leftovers * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Linux_Link_Tech_Show_Episode_918⠀⇛ cloud services, arcade games, workload identity # ⚓ BSDNow_416:_netcat_printing⠀⇛ OpenZFS snapshots, OpenSUSE on Bastille, printing with netcat, new opnsense 21.1.8 released, new pfsense plus software available, and more. # ⚓ Bad_Voltage_3×34:_The_Days_To_Come_Will_Be_Filled⠀⇛ o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ AMD_To_Optimize_C3_Entry_On_Linux_By_Finally_Skipping_The Cache_Flush⠀⇛ A minor optimization was posted by an AMD engineer on Wednesday for the Linux kernel. The optimization posted is around the ACPI C3 power state handling on Linux for AMD processors. Right now when a CPU core enters the C3 power sleep state, its cache is flushed even though the cache may be shared with CPU cores that are not in the sleep state. As the AMD patch notes, “this will cause performance drop for the cores which share some caches.” # ⚓ DevC_–_Linus_Torvalds_“Nothing_better_than_C”⠀⇛ # ⚓ Custom_CPU/GPU_Fan_Curve_Support_For_Some_ASUS_Laptops_On Linux_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ Independent developer Luke Jones continues making good progress on improving the “ASUS-WMI” driver for better ASUS laptop support on Linux. Luke recently worked on eGPU/dGPU toggling and panel overdrive support for higher-end ASUS laptops on Linux while now he’s been working on custom fan curve support. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Best_Kali_Linux_tools⠀⇛ Kali Linux installation comes with a pre- configuration of system tools that meet the above- stated three objectives. This Linux distribution does not limit itself to these pre-installed system tools, as you are free to install and use as many as you like from its repository. This article is for users that have installed Kali Linux and are trying to familiarize themselves with the operating system. It is also a good starting point for users that have thought of using Kali Linux but need more information before making this transition. Since Kali Linux tools fall into several categories, this article guide gives the best Kali Linux tools. These tools relate to the use of the Kali Linux operating system as a penetration testing environment. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Check_free_disk_space_in_Linux_with_ncdu_|_Opensource.com⠀⇛ Computer users tend to amass a lot of data over the years, whether it’s important personal projects, digital photos, videos, music, or code repositories. While hard drives tend to be pretty big these days, sometimes you have to step back and take stock of what you’re actually storing on your drives. The classic Linux commands df and du are quick ways to gain insight about what’s on your drive, and they provide a reliable report that’s easy to parse and process. That’s great for scripting and processing, but the human brain doesn’t always respond well to hundreds of lines of raw data. In recognition of this, the ncdu command aims to provide an interactive report about the space you’re using on your hard drive. # ⚓ A_sysadmin’s_guide_to_setting_up_collaboration_with Mattermost_|_Enable_Sysadmin⠀⇛ Good collaboration is often a key contributing factor in high-performing teams. Collaboration is the process of working together towards a common goal, with teams working as one towards a common purpose, adapting as needed by using the available resources. Providing the right tools to facilitate collaboration can mean the difference between an efficient and an inefficient workplace. In the open source and closed source spheres, you’ll find an abundance of collaboration tools. Some offer up a no-frills platform with the basics of instant messaging and voice calling. Others take it a step further and throw in video conferencing, custom plugins, continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) integrations, bot accounts, and more. Choosing a collaboration suite that is both open source and hosted on premises provides a number of advantages for sysadmins. Open source software often comes with the convenience of faster innovation, improved security, and more flexibility. Having the option to host a solution in-house instead of being forced onto a cloud-based solution can also be a huge plus for some companies, especially those with strict security policies. # ⚓ GNU_Linux_–_what_to_do_–_if_there_is_no_vi_and_no_less_– nano_can_do_both⠀⇛ in theory yes, nano can replace vi and less, but in reality, it faults on large amount of data-files- streams # ⚓ Install_MongoDB_Using_Vagrant_In_Linux_–_OSTechNix⠀⇛ Vagrant is an open source software that provides a clean, easy to configure, reproducible, and portable development environment. Using Vagrant, we can easily and quickly build and maintain different virtual software development environments. In this guide, we will see how to install mongoDB using Vagrant in Linux operating system. # ⚓ How_to_Install_WordPress_Ubuntu_Using_LAMP_Stack⠀⇛ For those who cannot afford the hustles of developing websites from scratch, there are now several content management systems (CMSs) such as WordPress that you can take advantage of to set up blogs as well as complete websites with a few clicks. WordPress is a powerful, free, and open-source, highly pluggable, and customizable CMS that is being used by millions around the world to run blogs and fully functional websites. # ⚓ Set_up_KVM_&&_Cockpit_WEB_Console_on_Debian_Bullseye_(11)⠀⇛ o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ SDL2_Lands_Long-Sought_Geometry_Render_API_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ While not making it for last week’s SDL 2.0.16 release, merged on Wednesday to the SDL2 development code is an “SDL_GeometryRender” interface that stems from feature requests going back nearly a decade for this graphics API independent triangle rendering API. Going back to 2012 was a bug report about desiring the ability with SDL to be able to render polygons with an SDL-defined API. And then in 2013 was a patch about adding a SDL_RenderGeometry interface that at the time allowed geometry rendering with OpenGL / OpenGL ES (ES2). # ⚓ Godot_Engine_–_Dev_snapshot:_Godot_3.4_beta_4⠀⇛ The upcoming Godot 3.4 release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 development branch (see our release policy for details on the various Godot versions). This beta 4 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. If you already reviewed the changelog for the previous beta, you can skip right to the differences between beta 3 and beta 4. # ⚓ Splitgate_to_remain_in_Open_Beta_‘for_the_foreseeable future’,_adds_2v2_Ranked_mode_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ 1047 Games have announced that due to the explosion in popularity that Splitgate, the FPS with portals will see the current Open Beta extended with no end date. They also recently announced that Splitgate has officially seen more than 10 million downloads, with server capacity being increased once again to cope with the rush of players flowing in to see what the fuss is about. 1047 also teased that there will be a “significant announcement” for players at this month’s Gamescom 2021 which begins on August 24. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Upgrade_Maui_Apps_in_Nitrux_1.5.1⠀⇛ A few days ago, we released version 2.0.0 of MauiKit and the Maui Applications. These updates will be present in the next distribution release (end of August); however, continue reading if you’d like to try them before then. # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ MATE_1.26_is_out_now_with_big_changes_like_initial Wayland_support⠀⇛ The MATE desktop environment version 1.26 has released after 18 months of development and excitingly adds some more Wayland support to various parts of the stack. MATE is the continuation of the classic GNOME 2, before the GNOME team completely changed the way the desktop works. “The theme for this release has been adding new functionality to the MATE Desktop while maintaining the look and feel that we all know and love. While all the added features are surely quite exciting we also did not forget to do tons of bugfixing, modernising the code base and optimizing the performance.” – the MATE team. One of the big additions is the bring up of Wayland support for Atril, System Monitor, Pluma, Terminal and other components of the Desktop. There’s also updates to Calculator and Terminal so they can now be built with the Meson build system. o § Distributions⠀➾ # ⚓ Download_10_Beautiful_Wallpapers_for_Your_Ubuntu_Desktop [Ed: Yes, the most important decision you will ever make in your life is the choice of photograph that's on your desktop today...]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Best_Linux_Distro_For_Machine_Learning [Ed: The very inane premise that what matters here isn't the application/s you use but the underlying distro (most distros are largely the same, except wallpapers, default software etc.)]⠀⇛ # § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ KaOS_2021.08_Ships_with_a_Better_and_More_Controlled KDE_Desktop⠀⇛ Being one of the best KDE focused Linux distros, KaOS has launched the new version KaOS 2021.08 with an updated package base and appearance changes. KaOS is a KDE Plasma focused, rolling release distribution primarily built upon Arch Linux tools for packaging and package management. KaOS doesn’t identify itself as an Arch-based distro. It is built from scratch, builds its own kernel and packages, and hosts its own repositories. KaOS comes with the XFS filesystem as default. The distro provides only KDE’s Plasma Desktop Environment, as the developers believe this is the best desktop environment, along with the toolkit it is built upon, Qt. # ⚓ KaOS_2021.08_Release_Focuses_on_Visual_Changes_and Package_Updates_–_It’s_FOSS_News⠀⇛ The built-from-scratch Linux distribution KaOS — which uses KDE, Qt, and pacman as a package manager, has finally received its fifth update this year. This article will highlight the significant changes that have been brought to the distribution. Let us get to know about what this new release brings! [...] The default Midna theme has been given a slightly different look, which can be easily noticed from the boot-up to the logout screen. This includes a darker look for the logout screen, combined with a transparent sidebar for the lockscreen and SDDM, and a minimal look for the splash screen. The icon themes have also been customized accordingly for both the light and dark versions of the theme. The desktop environment is now based on Plasma 5.22.4 and the latest Frameworks 5.85.0; both are built on Qt 5.15.2+. # ⚓ BlackArch_Linux:_Distribution_with_security_focus available_in_version_2021.09.01 [Ed: Automated translation from German]⠀⇛ The BlackArch Linux team has released a new version of its Arch-based distribution for security experts and savvy hobbyists. BlackArch 09/01/2021 comes with an updated Linux kernel (5.13.10), revised installer, updated tools, packages and menus as well as some new plugins for the text editor Vim. Above all, however, the already extensive collection of tools supplied has been increased again: With more than 130 new additions, it now includes over 2700 tools for vulnerability searches, IT forensics and the like. # § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾ # ⚓ IBM’s_Red_Hat_cloud_play_is_‘doing_fine,’_but_analyst sees_bigger_challenges⠀⇛ IBM is playing a game of catch-up when it comes to its focus on hybrid cloud, said Lisa Ellis, senior equity analyst at MoffettNathanson, in an interview with CNBC’s ‘TechCheck’ reporters this week. “It’s a little bit like trying to turn the Titanic,” Ellis described. “It’s a very small piece in a much broader portfolio of IBM, much of which is in structural decline and being negatively impacted by the cloud.” Enterprises are still headed in the direction of private cloud, Ellis noted. # ⚓ A_guide_to_understanding_your_team’s_implicit_values and_needs_|_Opensource.com⠀⇛ Culture matters in open organizations. But “culture” seems like such a large, complicated concept to address. How can we help open organization teams better understand it? One solution might come from Michele J. Gelfand, author of Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: Tight and Loose Cultures and the Secret Signals That Direct Our Lives. Gelfand organizes all countries and cultures into two very simple groups: those with “tight” cultures and those with “loose” ones. Then she explains the characteristics and social norms of both, offering their relative strengths and weaknesses. By studying both, one might overcome the divisions and conflicts that separate people in and across teams, organizations, and countries. # § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Kiwix_returns_in_Debian_Bullseye⠀⇛ The latest version of the Debian distro, 11.0 aka Bullseye, was released last week and after a long absence, includes Kiwix! Previously in Debian 10/Buster, we only had the underlying C/C++ libraries available. If you’re not familiar with it, Kiwix is an offline content reader, providing Wikipedia, Gutenberg, TED talks, and more in ZIM (.zim) files that can be downloaded and viewed entirely offline. You can get the entire text of the English Wikipedia in less than 100GB. apt install kiwix will get you a graphical desktop application that allows you to download and read ZIMs. apt install kiwix- tools installs kiwix-serve (among others), which serves ZIM files over an HTTP server. # ⚓ SparkyLinux_6.0_“Po_Tolo”_Released_Based_on_Debian GNU/Linux_11_“Bullseye”⠀⇛ Dubbed “Po Tolo,” SparkyLinux 6.0 is fully compatible with the software repositories of the recently released Debian GNU/Linux 11 “Bullseye” operating system and includes up- to-date packages that were pushed as of August 16th, 2021, along with the long-term supported Linux 5.10 LTS kernel series. Of course, that’s not the only thing new in the SparkyLinux 6.0 release, which also features an updated and improved Calamares graphical installer, native support for exFAT filesystems with the use of the exfatprogs utility for managing exFAT formatted partitions, and extended driverless printing to USB devices support with the new ipp-usb package, which is also included in Debian Bullseye. # ⚓ Sparky_6.0_“Po_Tolo”⠀⇛ Sparky 6.0 “Po Tolo” has been released. It is based on and fully compatible with Debian 11 “Bullseye”. # § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntu_21.10_Likely_Sticking_To_The_GNOME_40_Desktop –_Phoronix⠀⇛ While Ubuntu normally ships with the very latest GNOME desktop version issued just before release time, with Ubuntu 21.04 they stuck to GNOME 3.38 rather than punting early to GNOME 40. In the Ubuntu 21.10 development packages they since migrated to GNOME 40 but now it looks like they will be sticking to that and not pulling ahead to the near-final GNOME 41. GNOME 41 will be out in September (as usual) as the latest half-year update to this open- source desktop. Especially being one cycle ahead of an LTS release, normally Ubuntu’s desktop would very much be on the latest and greatest GNOME version at the time, but that doesn’t look like it will be the case for Ubuntu 21.10. # ⚓ Canonical_+_DFI_Pair_Up_For_An_“Industrial_Pi” Powered_By_AMD_&_Ubuntu_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ Many will recall DFI motherboards from close to two decades ago for their wildly colored “LANParty” motherboards but in recent years the company has been focusing on IoT and industrial hardware where, of course, Linux has much relevance. DFI and Canonical today announced an AMD-powered Ubuntu-loaded “industrial Pi” single board computer. # ⚓ Canonical_and_DFI_launch_the_first_Ubuntu_certified AMD-based_“Industrial_Pi”_|_Ubuntu⠀⇛ Canonical and DFI announce that the GHF51 and EC90A-GH, have been certified, based on the latest AMD- based platform. Both offer improved performance, a smaller footprint, and full access to open-source software with Ubuntu and Ubuntu Core. These are part of the first wave of products that passed the Ubuntu IoT hardware certification. Small footprint, better performance The GHF51 is positioned as the “Industrial Pi”, making it the first ultra-mini industrial motherboard powered by high- performance AMD Ryzen™ R1000 Processors. The EC90A-GH is a mini fanless embedded system holding an unprecedented processing throughput despite its size. This “industrial Pi” defines a new level of balance between performance and cost-effectiveness. Its expandability brings a versatility adapted for industrial application development, edge computing, AI vision, and more. The Ubuntu certification gives access to a rich open- source software ecosystem and equips developers with a platform for AIoT innovation. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Tiger_Canyon_Porcoolpine_fanless_Tiger_Lake_NUC_announced for_$679_and_up_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ Simply NUC “Tiger Canyon Porcoolpine” is a fanless Intel NUC offered with a choice of Tiger Lake UP3 processors, notably Core i3-1115G4, Core i5-1135G7, and Core i7-1165G7, and equivalent vPro parts when available. The mini PC comes with up to 64GB DDR4, NVMe & SATA storage, a Thunderbolt 4 port, two HDMI 2.0b ports, 2.5 GbE networking, and optional Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.1, as well as a DB9 serial port for industrial applications, for example, to connect a barcode scanner. # ⚓ Lantronix_empowers_innovation_of_next-gen_intelligent solutions,_including_advanced_robotics,_AI-enabled_drones,_AI processing_gateways_and_more⠀⇛ Lantronix Inc. (NASDAQ: LTRX), a global provider of secure turnkey solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT) and Remote Environment Management (REM) offering Software as a Service (SaaS), connectivity services, engineering services and intelligent hardware, today announced its new ultra-compact Open-Q™ 5165RB System on Module (SOM). Lantronix’s Open-Q™ 5165RB SOM features multiple specialized processing cores for powerful AI processing, image and graphics processing and audio processing. # § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Chrome_is_working_to_support_one_of_Android_12′s_best features⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_opens_Android_12_Beta_4_feedback_survey_for Pixel_–_9to5Google⠀⇛ # ⚓ List_Of_Motorola_Devices_Getting_Android_12_Update: Is_Yours_On_The_List⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_is_taking_away_the_hottest_feature_of_Android Auto_in_Android_12_–_Times_of_India⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_delete_apps_on_Android_|_Laptop_Mag⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_schedule_text_messages_on_your_Android_phone using_Google_Messages_|_Technology_News,The_Indian Express⠀⇛ # ⚓ The_AYN_Odin_is_an_Android-based_handheld_with_up_to Snapdragon_845_SoC,_8_GB_of_RAM_and_128_GB_of_storage_– NotebookCheck.net_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ Hulu’s_one_of_the_few_companies_that_remembers Android_has_widgets⠀⇛ # ⚓ Accessibility_Features_on_Android_Phones_|_Guide_& Explanation⠀⇛ # ⚓ Flubot_scam_on_Android_phones_claiming_large_number of_victims_in_Australia_|_7NEWS⠀⇛ # ⚓ Sony_32W830_Android_Smart_TV_Review:_Strictly_For Premium_Users_–_Gizbot_Reviews⠀⇛ o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # § Web Browsers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ This_Week_in_Rust_404⠀⇛ # ⚓ Support.Mozilla.Org:_What’s_up_with_SUMO_– August_2021⠀⇛ Summer is here. Despite the current situation of the world, I hope you can still enjoy a bit of sunshine and the breezing air wherever you are. And while vacations are planned, SUMO is still busy with lots of projects and releases. So let’s get the recap started! # ⚓ 9_Firefox_Addons_to_Protect_Your_Online_Privacy –_Make_Tech_Easier⠀⇛ Our modern browsers are much better than their ancestors at protecting us from vulnerabilities and online dangers, but the big ones aren’t always so great when it comes to caring for your privacy. Firefox is one of the better browsers in this regard, with some decent anti-tracking features, but you may still need to get some add-ons to shore up those privacy defenses. The following add-ons for the Firefox browser can help with that. Here are some of our favorites that will block all the online nonsense you don’t want any part of. # § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾ # ⚓ LibreOffice_7.2_Community_is_strong_on interoperability⠀⇛ LibreOffice 7.2 Community, the new major release of the volunteer-supported free office suite for desktop productivity, is available from https://www.libreoffice.org/ download. Based on the LibreOffice Technology platform for personal productivity on desktop, mobile and cloud, it provides a large number of interoperability improvements with Microsoft’s proprietary file formats. In addition, LibreOffice 7.2 Community offers numerous performance improvements in handling large files, opening certain DOCX and XLSX files, managing font caching, and opening presentations and drawings that contain large images. There are also drawing speed improvements when using the Skia back-end that was introduced with LibreOffice 7.1. # ⚓ LibreOffice_7.2_Community_Released_For_This_Leading Open-Source_Office_Suite_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ LibreOffice 7.2 Community is out today as the newest version of this widely-used, open- source, cross-platform office suite. LibreOffice 7.2 Community (yes, their new branding, rather than the former “Personal Edition” attempt) is the latest feature release with much work on improving interoperability with Microsoft Office file formats. In addition to better handling Microsoft Office files like faster opening of DOCX documents, LibreOffice 7.2 Community brings a command pop-up / heads-up display (HUD), initial GTK4 toolkit support, the ability to compile to WebAssembly, font caching for faster rendering, Calc spreadsheet performance improvements, and dropping its OpenGL-based drawing code in favor of routing all the code through Skia. # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ StartTLS_in_LDAP_—_Firstyear’s_blog-a-log⠀⇛ LDAP as a protocol is a binary protocol which uses ASN.1 BER encoded structures to communicate between a client and server, to query directory information (ie users, groups, locations, etc). When this was created there was little consideration to security with regard to person-in-the-middle attacks (aka mitm: meddler in the middle, interception). As LDAP has become used not just as a directory service for accessing information, but now as an authentication and authorisation system it’s important that the content of these communications is secure from tampering or observation. # ⚓ Short_option_parsing_using_getopt_in_C_| Opensource.com⠀⇛ Writing a C program to process files is easy when you already know what files you’ll operate on and what actions to take. If you “hard code” the filename into your program, or if your program is coded to do things only one way, then your program will always know what to do. But you can make your program much more flexible if it can respond to the user every time the program runs. Let your user tell your program what files to use or how to do things differently. And for that, you need to read the command line. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Charlize_Theron_says_apathy_is_the_greatest_enemy_of_positive change⠀⇛ Issues around gender inequality and social injustices affect us all as a result of our interconnectedness as human beings – and are consequences of the decisions made by previous generations. This is the opinion of Oscar- winning and globally acclaimed, South African-born actress, Charlize Theron. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Intel_Architecture_Day_2021_&_The_Linux_State⠀⇛ Intel this week hosted a virtual Architecture Day where they talked up their latest efforts from Alder Lake and Sapphire Rapids to their next- generation discrete graphics capabilities as well as other new offerings around IPUs and more. Here are the highlights from Intel Architecture Day 2021 and with a particular focus from our Linux angle. o § Health/Nutrition⠀➾ # ⚓ Oninappropriate_reactions_to_COVID19_–_Charlie’s_Diary⠀⇛ Which is why I get angry when I read about governments holding back vaccine doses for research, or refusing to waive licensing fees for poorer countries. The virus has no personality and no intent towards you. The virus merely replicated and destroys human cells. Yours, mine, anybody’s. The virus doesn’t care about your politics or your business model or how office closures are hitting your rental income. o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Microsoft_is_making_it_harder_to_switch_default browsers_in_Windows_11⠀⇛ # § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Security_updates_for_Thursday⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by CentOS (exiv2, firefox, and thunderbird), Fedora (libsndfile, python-docx, and xscreensaver), openSUSE (haproxy), and SUSE (haproxy). o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Why_a_clear_Intellectual_Property_strategy_is_critical_to securing_venture_capital_funding [Ed: Clouding patents in the buzzword that's 'IP' simply distracts from what's really going on; those aren't properties at all]⠀⇛ Intellectual property (IP) is not an end in itself. Nobody ever needed IP to make, market or sell a product or service and, in fact, many businesses compete in the market on the basis of price, service and quality without ever registering or enforcing any intellectual property right. # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ PTAB_Denies_Patent_Owner’s_Last-Minute_Discovery Request [Ed: If your patent is fake, does it matter who's challenging it at all? Seems like excuses and evasive tactics... and also, "owner" isn't the right term]⠀⇛ In Unified Patents, LLC f/k/a Unified Patents Inc. v. Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (IPR2021-00827), the PTAB denied a patent owner’s request to file a motion for additional discovery into any real parties-in-interest. Here, the Patent Owner requested a telephone conference with regard to seeking discovery on the issue of real parties-in-interest. With regard to timing, the Patent Owner’s preliminary response, in which the Patent Owner would (and did) make the assertion that Petitioner failed to identify all real parties-in-interest, was due the following day. The Board said that there “could have been no reasonable expectation that a telephone conference call would be arranged, a motion for additional discovery be authorized and filed, an opposition to the motion be filed, a reply to the opposition be filed, and a decision be made on that motion all within a single business day, much less obtaining the information requested and making use of that information within the same business day.” # ⚓ NLS_Pharmaceutics_Announces_Notice_of_Allowance_for U.S._Patent_Application_Covering_its_Proprietary Mazindol_Formulation⠀⇛ NLS Pharmaceutics Ltd. (NASDAQ: NLSP)(NASDAQ: NLSPW) (“NLS” or the “Company”), a Swiss clinical-stage pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of innovative therapies for patients with rare and complex central nervous system disorders, announces that it has received a Notice of Allowance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) for patent application No. 16/083,131. When the patent issues, it will cover oral formulations containing immediate- release and sustained-release layers of mazindol and their use in the treatment of attention deficit disorders (ADD or ADHD), related deficit of alertness or decline in vigilance, or excessive daytime sleepiness (e.g., narcolepsy, idiopathic hypersomnia). A Notice of Allowance is issued after the USPTO makes a determination that a patent should be granted from an application. The patent, which is expected to be issued in the fourth quarter of 2021, will have a term that expires no earlier than March 2037. Based on its current clinical development plans to obtain regulatory approval, NLS would promptly list the patent in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations, or Orange Book if it receives market approval. # ⚓ ‘Extend_patent_bar_to_design_practitioners’,_say academics [Ed: This is older, but watch how they hijack feminism to promote patent extremism, trying to broaden scope_of_patents because of something about “women”]⠀⇛ # ⚓ FOSS_Patents:_Munich_I_Regional_Court’s_third_patent litigation_division_commenced_its_operation_on_Monday, first_administrative_decisions_are_already_known⠀⇛ As the Landgericht München I (Munich I Regional Court) announced in late June, its new patent litigation division started its work on Monday (August 16, 2021). It’s the court’s 44. Zivilkammer (44th Civil Chamber). The new civil chamber’s Presiding Judge–Judge Dr. Georg Werner–was already known at the time. Today I learned that his deputy will be Judge Dr. Anne-Kristin Fricke, who joined the 21st Civil Chamber (Presiding Judge: Judge Tobias Pichlmaier) a couple of years ago and was available to help out the 7th Civil Chamber (Presiding Judge: Judge Dr. Matthias Zigann) as well with her background in antitrust law. Presiding Judge Dr. Werner’s second side judge will be Judge Dr. Franziska Greiner-Wittner. According to the web page of a book she wrote, she studied in Munich and clerkships also took her to Hamburg and Jakarta. In 2015, Judge Dr. Greiner-Wittner was a visiting researcher at George Washington University. With a view to intradistrict assignment, one needs to consider that the new division is initially operating at 50% of the regular capacity. From this one can infer that the 44th Civil Chamber will get approximately 20% of the total patent caseload in Munich, while either of the other two divisions will handle 40% of cases. # ⚓ EU’s_Unified_Patent_Court_to_kick_off_in_mid-2022 [Ed: And yet another complete_lie_as_a_headline from “Law Society of Ireland Gazette”; the headline used to be “Judges to be hired as unified patent court kicks off in mid-’22″; they also gave no chance for referendum on this issue, so this feels like a dishonest coup]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Opinion:_UPC_up_and_running_in_mid-2022_–_really? [Ed: Even a propaganda mill of Team UPC is dissenting now. The_lies_went_too_far.]⠀⇛ Supporters of the Unified Patent Court would have watched with pleasure last week as reports emerged that Germany had formally ratified the UPC Agreement, bringing another chapter in this epic thriller to a close. It came after two rounds of constitutional complaints threatened to put the brakes on the project, which was signed in Brussels eight and a half long years ago. Now, the stage seems set for a smooth transition to making the project a reality, at least according to the UPC preparatory committee. In its latest update yesterday, August 18, the committee said the UPC is likely to come into force in mid-2022. Yes, that’s right: just one year from now. # ⚓ Patent_Office_Updates_You_Need_to_Know [Ed: Besieged courts]⠀⇛ The European Patent Office (EPO) has announced that the Boards of Appeal have revised some of their measures for the arrangement and conduct of oral proceedings: self tests are strongly recommended and new rules on access to the buildings for vaccinated and recovered people are in place. More information here. # ⚓ Can_Artificial_Intelligence_be_an_Inventor_under Patent_Law? [Ed: The answer to this headline is a resounding “no!” (unless you turn to petty patent offices that don’t_understand_patents and want more publicity/attention)]⠀⇛ In this era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, advances in artificial intelligence (“AI”) has resulted in AI capable of generating inventions that are novel and inventive. The question becomes whether these AI generated inventions can be protected under the current patent law framework. A recent development in Australian jurisprudence takes a step toward clarifying the applicability of patent law on AI generated inventions. The Federal Court of Australia recently held in Thaler v Commissioner of Patents [2012] FC 879 (“the Thaler case”) that an AI system can be named as an inventor in a patent application. # ⚓ Apple_must_face_Apple_Watch_patent_infringement lawsuit:_US_court⠀⇛ San Francisco: Tech giant Apple must face a patent infringement lawsuit alleging that it cribbed heart rate sensor technology for the Apple Watch, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled. The original lawsuit, lodged against Apple in 2018, alleged that the Apple Watch’s heart rate measurement technology infringed on multiple patents owned by Omni MedSci Inc. Apple moved to dismiss the lawsuit, only to be denied by a US District Court. Apple appealed that decision, which brought the case to the Federal Circuit. # ⚓ Teva_Pharmaceuticals_Int’l_GmbH_v._Eli_Lilly_&_Co., Eli_Lilly_&_Co._v._Teva_Pharmaceuticals_Int’l_GmbH,_and Teva_Pharmaceuticals_Int’l_GmbH_v._Eli_Lilly_&_Co._ (Fed._Cir._2021) [Ed: Realising that the USPTO is still granting loads of fake patents]⠀⇛ The Federal Circuit issued three decisions on Monday relating to Eli Lilly & Co’s. challenge in separate inter partes review proceedings on obviousness grounds of nine patents licensed by Teva Pharmaceuticals Int’l, with disparate results. The patents were related to humanized monoclonal antibodies immunologically specific for calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP), for treatment of “all forms of vascular headache, including migraines”; each party marketed a product for this purpose (Teva’s AJOVY® and Lilly’s Emgality®). The appeals clustered separate but related IPR proceedings that the Board had combined for oral argument. In the first of these (as considered here), Eli Lilly & Co. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals Int’l GmbH, Lilly appealed the Board’s decision that it had failed to show that challenged claims 1, 3, 4, 8–17, 19, 20, and 24–31 of U.S. Patent No. 8,586,045, claims 1–18 of U.S. Patent No. 9,884,907, and claims 1–18 of U.S. Patent No. 9,884,908 were obvious. Representative claims from each patent are: # ⚓ Preparatory_Committee_estimates_UPC_may_open_around mid-2022 [Ed: More ofthis_utterly_misleading_talking point]⠀⇛ # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Not_yet_tired_of_linking_and_copyright?_More_on_the CJEU_decision_in_VG-Bild_Kunst⠀⇛ Earlier this year, The IPKat reported on the judgment of the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in VG Bild-Kunst, C-392/19, an important case concerning contractual restrictions to linking under EU copyright law (on that occasion, I also updated my linking table: see here). [...] Readers interested in this area of copyright may find a more extensive analysis of the implications of the decision in this recent contribution of mine entitled Linking and Copyright in the Shade of VG Bild-Kunst and available – for the time being – on SSRN. Later this year, it will be published by Common Market Law Review. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 4793 ➮ Generation completed at 02:40, i.e. 48 seconds to (re)generate ⟲