Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

• Programming/Development

  • Brian Callahan ☛ 2024-03-06: FreeBSD has a(nother) new C compiler: defective chip maker Intel oneAPI DPC++/C++

    A walkthrough to get defective chip maker Intel oneAPI DPC++/C++ to output native binaries for FreeBSD

  • Rlang ☛ How to Add New Level to Factor in R

    Introduction
    As an R programmer, working with categorical data is a common task, and factors (a data type in R) are used to represent categorical variables.

  • KDAB ☛ Introducing: KDSPDSetup

    KDAB’s newest open-source library is now publicly available: KDSPDSetup! KDSPDSetup is a small library written in modern C++ (≥ 20) that initializes objects from the spdlog library by reading a toml configuration file. This makes setting up loggers more convenient and results in cleaner-looking code.

  • Qt ☛ Qt for Android Automotive 6.5.5 is released

    The latest release of Qt for Android Automotive (QtAA) is out, based on Qt 6.5.5 with more than 490 bug fixes, security updates, and other improvements to the top of the Qt 6.5.4 release.

Leftovers

• Pro Publica ☛ A Utah Cleft Palate Team Says Its Approach Is Innovative. Others Disagree.

  Returning to his home state of Utah, where more babies are born with cleft lip and palate than is typical, Dr. Devan Griner made plans to open his own practice, joining the small cohort of plastic surgeons nationwide who treat the condition.

• Ruben Schade ☛ If you can, it must be inevitable and excusable

  jwz on Mastodon:

  This is essentially the argument that there’s nothing wrong with doxxing someone if you found their home address through public records, and furthermore there would be nothing wrong with building a tool to automate that.

  It’s the nerd disease of: just because it’s possible or even legal doesn’t make it right.

• Licensing / Legal

  • RTL ☛ Charges dropped in 'Hotel California' theft trial

    However, closing the case on Wednesday morning, a judge said that a new 6,000-page cache of emails -- previously not disclosed to the court -- cast doubt over the prosecution.

  • The Drone Girl ☛ March 16 Remote ID deadline looms: are you ready for Remote ID? - The Drone Girl

    The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Remote ID rule, which mandates most drones to broadcast their unique identification and location information, is nearly upon us. With the compliance deadline set for March 16, 2024, drone pilots need to ensure their flights are in line with the new regulations.

    March 16? What about Sept. 16, 2023? The September date was initially supposed to be the Remote ID enforcement date. That meant that drone pilots would need to be Remote ID compliant under the FAA’s rule by that September date. But that deadline was too much too soon for even the most law-abiding of drone pilots for a number of reasons including that remote ID modules had been largely out of stock. Given that, the FAA announced a Remote ID extension back in September 2023, giving pilots another roughly six months to get their gear in check.

    And now, with an array of Remote ID modules for sale and firmware and software updates made, it’s more realistic for drone operators to get compliant. And as of next Saturday, flying within compliance is the law.

    Here’s what you need to know ahead of next week’s Remote ID enforcement deadline: [...]

• Science

  • Science Alert ☛ Startling Exception Discovered to 200-Year-Old Law of Physics

    We have to rethink this!

  • Steinar H Gunderson ☛ Steinar H. Gunderson: Reverse Amdahl's Law

    Everybody working in performance knows Amdahl's law, and it is usually framed as a negative result; if you optimize (in most formulations, parallelize) a part of an operation, you gain diminishing results after a while. (When optimizing a given fraction p of the total time T by a speedup factor s, the new time taken is (1-p)T + pT/s.)

  • Science Alert ☛ A Universal Antivenom For Snake Bites Is Closer Than Ever to Reality

    A unique antibody emerges from 50 billion possibilities.

• Education

  • Pro Publica ☛ Liberty University Hit With Record Fines for Failing to Handle Complaints of Sexual Assault, Other Crimes

    The federal Department of Education has announced a historic $14 million fine against Liberty University for failing to properly handle reports of sexual assault and other campus safety isssues.

    Universities are required by law to support victims of violence. The Education Department found that the Christian evangelical Liberty University had fundamentally failed to do so. Sexual assault victims were “punished for violating the student code of conduct,” the report concluded, “while their assailants were left unpunished.”

  • New York Times ☛ The School Issues We’re Battling Over Aren’t the Ones That Matter

    What’s worse than censoring a book? Kids not being able to read it anyway.

• Hardware

  • Hackaday ☛ The 1970s Computer: A Slice Of Computing

    What do the HP-1000 and the DEC VAX 11/730 have in common with the video games Tempest and Battlezone? More than you might think. All of those machines, along with many others from that time period, used AM2900-family bit slice CPUs.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • The hypervaccinated man who should be dead (according to antivaxxers)

    It is an article of faith among antivaxxers that vaccines are harmful—deadly, even—and a corollary to that article of faith is that more vaccines must be even more harmful and deadly. According to antivaxxers, this assessment applies to all vaccines to one degree or another, but particularly to COVID-19 vaccines. Antivaxxers portray these new vaccines as uniquely harmful and dangerous, so deadly, in fact, that antivaxxers blame them for a nonexistent epidemic of people who “died suddenly.” Antivaxxers attribute these deaths to the vaccines, whether there is a close temporal relationship between vaccination and death or not, whether there is even a plausible link between vaccination and the sudden death or not. So, you’d think that a man “hypervaccinated” with an estimated 217 doses of COVID-19 vaccines should be dead, right? At least, if you believe that the vaccines are so deadly, then surely someone that “hypervaccinated” must either be dead or in horrendous health, thanks to the toxic brew (as portrayed by antivaxxers) in the COVID-19 vaccines.

  • New York Times ☛ Dr. Anthony Epstein, Pathologist Who Discovered Epstein-Barr Virus, Dies at 102

    His groundbreaking research, which he performed with Yvonne Barr, his doctoral student, uncovered the first virus capable of causing cancer in humans.

  • New York Times ☛ One Twin Was Hurt, the Other Was Not. Their Adult Mental Health Diverged.

    A large study of “discordant twins,” in which only one suffered abuse or neglect, adds to evidence linking childhood trauma to adult illness.

  • teleSUR ☛ Cholera Vaccination Expanded in Zimbabwe

    The Ministry of Health and Child Care will continue to monitor and supervise religious gatherings and funerals, as well as to intensify risk communication and community engagement.

  • The Kent Stater ☛ OPINION: Laughter is the best medicine: Fact or farce?

    Laughter holds the secret to better health and improved quality of life. Here’s why. We’ve all heard the saying: laughter is the best medicine.

  • Latvia ☛ Flu epidemic still steady in Latvia

    The incidence of influenza is stable in Latvia, according to data from Disease Prevention and Control Center (SPKC) published on March .

  • Science Alert ☛ Plastic Found Inside More Than 50% of Plaques From Clogged Arteries

    This could be bad for heart health.

  • British Police and COVID-19 Inquiry Amid Excess Deaths

  • France24 ☛ US urges North Korea to open its borders to aid workers

    The United States on Tuesday encouraged reclusive North Korea to open its borders to humanitarian workers and ease some of the world's strictest Covid-era restrictions.

  • New York Times ☛ He Had 217 Covid Shots Without Side Effects, Study Finds [Ed: Wall Street Times trying to fight back against suspicions that the COVID-19 jabs did more harm than good. Uses a dataset of one person to make a scientific case? Wall Street Times idolises a man who knows nothing about health and about vaccines, just to "make a point"; this isn't how vaccines work. It's like that old line, my grandpa smoked and lived to be 100, therefore smoking cannot possibly be bad for health.]

    Media accounts of a German man’s extreme vaccination history spurred researchers to analyze his immune responses.

  • YLE ☛ Staffing agencies poaching doctors from Finland's public sector

    Companies providing temporary staffing have been recruiting physicians from the public sector and selling their time back to the same employers at higher prices.

• Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)

  • Off Guardian ☛ The Ministry of Hey Hi (AI) Truth

    Remember HAL, the homicidal Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic Computer from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey? Well, if you haven’t had the pleasure yet, let me introduce you to Gemini, Google’s “multimodal large language model.”

  • New York Times ☛ Chinese National Accused of Stealing Hey Hi (AI) Secrets From Google

    Linwei Ding, a Chinese national, was arrested in California and accused of uploading hundreds of files to the clown.

  • New York Times ☛ OpenAI Says Elon Musk Tried to Merge It With Tesla

    In its first public comment since Mr. Musk sued the artificial intelligence lab, Proprietary Chaffbot Company claims he tried to commercialize its operations years ago.

  • The Kent Stater ☛ OpenAI publishes Elon Musk’s emails. ‘We’re sad that it’s come to this’

    Proprietary Chaffbot Company fired back at Elon Musk, who sued the Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot company last week for chasing profit and diverging from its original, nonprofit mission.

  • Silicon Angle ☛ OpenAI hits back at Elon Musk, saying he supported its for-profit ambitions

    ChatGPT creator Proprietary Chaffbot Company has hit back at Elon Musk, who is suing the company for chasing profits and forsaking its original, nonprofit mission of developing artificial intelligence to benefit all of humanity. In a blog post Tuesday night, Proprietary Chaffbot Company published a number of partly redacted emails sent from Musk to company officials.

• Security

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • EDRI ☛ The privacy saga with Norwegian Social Service continues

      We promised you an update to Janne Cecilie Thorenfeldt’s case taking the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) on the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Since EDRi member Elektronisk Forpost Norge (EFN) reported about the massive GDPR violations of the Service, here is what happened.

    • Techdirt ☛ Malicious Compliance: End Of Stop And Frisk Just Led To Chicago Cops Hassling More Drivers

      The gracious leeway of the Terry stop — as set down by the Supreme Court’s 1968 decision — gave a lot a law enforcement agencies a permission slip for suspicionless stops of pedestrians. Random people got braced, patted down, aggressively questioned, and otherwise hassled.

    • Meduza ☛ ‘These wonderful cameras’: Leaked documents reveal the Kremlin’s plan for a secretive government agency to build a nationwide surveillance network — Meduza

    • EFF ☛ Privacy First and Competition

      Whether you’re worried about kids’ mental health, or tech’s relationship to journalism, or spying by foreign adversaries, or reproductive rights, or AI deepfakes, or nonconsensual pornography, you’re worried about a problem rooted in the primitive, deplorable state of American privacy law.

      It’s really impossible to overstate how bad the state of federal privacy law is in America. The last time the USA got a big, muscular, broadly applicable new consumer privacy law, the year was 1988, and the law was targeted at video-store clerks who leaked your VHS rental history.

      It’s been a minute. America is long overdue for a strong, comprehensive privacy law. 

    • ACLU ☛ Communities Should Reject Surveillance Products Whose Makers Won't Allow Them to be Independently Evaluated

      American communities are being confronted by a lot of new police technology these days, a lot of which involves surveillance or otherwise raises the question: “Are we as a community comfortable with our police deploying this new technology?” A critical question when addressing such concerns is: “Does it even work, and if so, how well?” It’s hard for communities, their political leaders, and their police departments to know what to buy if they don’t know what works and to what degree.

    • Bruce Schneier ☛ Surveillance through Push Notifications

      The Washington Post is reporting on the FBI’s increasing use of push notification data—”push tokens”—to identify people. The police can request this data from companies like Fashion Company Apple and Surveillance Giant Google without a warrant.

      The investigative technique goes back years. Court orders that were issued in 2019 to Fashion Company Apple and Surveillance Giant Google demanded that the companies hand over information on accounts identified by push tokens linked to alleged supporters of the Islamic State terrorist group.

    • New York Times ☛ The Youths Have Spoken: Wallets Are Uncool. Go Digital. [Ed: No, they are not given choices, so they are led to assume this is "normal"]

      A wallet-free lifestyle relying on your phone is attainable, but it requires preparation and some compromise.

    • OpenRightsGroup ☛ Interview with the Director of Phantom Parrot

      Kate Stonehill, Director of Phantom Parrot. Phantom Parrot unravels a secret British government surveillance programme, and follows human rights activist Muhammad Rabbani as he is prosecuted under terror laws for refusing to hand over the passwords to his electronic devices, unveiling unsettling questions about the rule of law, modern espionage and digital privacy.

• Defence/Aggression

  • The Straits Times ☛ China steps up grey-zone warfare to exhaust Taiwan, defence report says

    March 07, 2024 9:41 AM
    
    

    Taipei said Beijing aims to make the areas around the island "saturated" with balloons, drones and civilian boats.

  • The Straits Times ☛ US has a wrong perception of China, says foreign minister

    The U.S. continues to hold the wrong perception of China and has yet to fulfill its promises despite some progress since presidents Joe Biden and Pooh-tin Jinping met last November, China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Thursday.

  • Democracy Now ☛ Unanimous? Supreme Court Ruling Leaving Trump on Ballot Reveals Split Among Justices

    We look at Monday’s unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruling that states do not have the authority to remove Donald Trump from the ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment with Slate senior writer Mark Joseph Stern, who calls the decision a “disaster” that appears tailor-made to let Trump avoid accountability for the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. He says despite the superficial unanimity of the 9-0 ruling, it was closer to a 5-4 split, with the five conservative justices who wrote the majority opinion raising additional barriers to keeping insurrectionists from public office.

  • ACLU ☛ Despair and Resignation Are Not A Strategy: How to Fight Back In A Second Trump Term.

    Many polls suggest if the presidential election were held today, Donald Trump could return to the White House. Fears of irreparable threats to our democracy and freedoms are neither abstract nor hyperbolic.

    We must believe Trump when he reveals his authoritarian plans for a second term and take these threats seriously. He has made clear he intends to deploy the military to crush protests; activate state national guards to deport millions of immigrants; build on his legacy of gutting reproductive freedoms by implementing a nationwide abortion ban; create a police state in which anyone who he views as an “enemy” is surveilled and our law enforcement are further empowered to use lethal force; and undermine the integrity of our elections.

  • New York Times ☛ Fact-Checking Donald Trump’s Super Tuesday Speech

    After racking up a series of wins that cleared the field, former President Donald J. Trump moved to a general election message. Here’s a fact check.

  • Democracy Now ☛ Super Tuesday: Biden, Trump Head to Rematch; Schiff Helps Garvey Place in CA; AIPAC Suffers Setback

    On Super Tuesday, millions of voters cast ballots in primaries across the United States, and we look at key contests in California, North Carolina, Arizona and elsewhere with American Prospect executive editor David Dayen. He says the California race to fill the seat of the late Senator Dianne Feinstein highlighted the ideological fight inside the Democratic Party, with centrist Congressmember Adam Schiff successfully boxing out his more progressive rivals by spending millions to elevate the profile of Republican candidate Steve Garvey. Both men are now headed to the general election, where Schiff is all but certain to win. “It was quite successful,” Dayen says of Schiff’s strategy.

  • New Yorker ☛ The Mood at Mar-a-Lago on Super Tuesday

    Benjamin Wallace-Wells on the difficult choice facing a “cynical electorate” and Antonia Hitchens on a sombre Donald Trump after a decisive victory in the Republican primaries.

  • New York Times ☛ In Gaza, Truce Talks Evoke Tangle of Emotions

    “It’s a form of psychological torture,” said one man in Rafah. “It’s unbearable. We’re told one day that the war is ending and then the opposite the next day.”

  • AntiWar ☛ The Torturers’ Poor Memories

    As the pre-trial hearings in the case of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and others who are charged with masterminding the 9/11 attacks proceed at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, the government continues to stumble with its own witnesses.

  • The Straits Times ☛ North Korean leader Kim Jong Un orders heightened war preparations, KCNA says

    North Korea has been irked by the annual US-South Korea joint military drills.

  • RFA ☛ North Korean political prisoners forced to work at nuke sites: escapee

    It marks the first defector testimony on political prisoners’ forced labor at nuclear sites, says Seoul think tank.

  • NYPost ☛ North Korea’s Kim Jong Un calls for stronger war fighting capabilities against US, South Korea: ‘Overwhelming force’

    North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for greater war fighting capabilities against the United States and South Korea.

  • New York Times ☛ What Happened to MH370? What We Know About the Malaysia Airlines Flight.

    The disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines flight has remained one of the greatest aviation mysteries of all time. A new search may begin soon.

  • RFA ☛ Report criticizes Malaysia on ‘abusive’ immigration detention centers

    The home minister challenged Human Right Watch’s findings about overcrowding and treatment of children.

  • Atlantic Council ☛ China’s Law of the Sea in the Middle East

    Isaac Kardon joins us as we dive deep into the activities of China's People's Liberation Army Navy in international and MENA waters. We'll also explore China's ambitions in global waters, ranging from deep-sea mining to infrastructure development with dual-use functionality to achieve civil-military integration.

  • RFA ☛ Philippine president alarmed by Chinese attack in South China Sea

    Water cannons injured four people on ship carrying supplies to Ayungin Shoal outpost.

  • RFA ☛ Tibetans underrepresented in Chinese leadership: report

    One reason is China’s ‘lack of trust and confidence in the Tibetan people,’ it says.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ South China Sea: Incidents involving Philippine, Chinese vessels ‘the worst’ in 2 years, Manila says

    Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos said Wednesday that he sees Chinese actions in the South China Sea with “great alarm”, after recent confrontations described by a Filipino military commander as “the worst” in two years.

  • Atlantic Council ☛ A year ago, Beijing brokered an Iran-Saudi deal. How does détente look today?

    Tehran and Riyadh saw dialogue as the only viable way to reduce tensions, and realized that further escalating hostilities would not advance either’s national interest. 

  • YLE ☛ Police in Turku investigating dozens of threatening notes

    Notes containing various kinds of threats have been left in private mailboxes in several parts of Turku.

  • YLE ☛ Military exercise apparently disrupts weather satellite images from Lapland

    The Finnish Air Force is taking part in an ongoing military exercise in the northern parts of Finland, Sweden and Norway.

  • YLE ☛ Embassy workers file harassment complaints about Finland's Ambassador to Canada

    A total of four letters of complaints have been filed with the foreign ministry about the matter.

  • Defence Web ☛ Sudan Armed Forces are on a path to self-destruction – risking state collapse

    It is now 10 months since the outbreak of civil war in Sudan in April 2023, pitting the Sudan Armed Forces against the Rapid Support Forces, a powerful paramilitary group. The war, which erupted after relations between the two wings of Sudan’s security apparatus broke down, rapidly spread beyond the capital, Khartoum.

  • The Strategist ☛ Security cooperation steps up with Japanese F-35 access to Australia

    The development in August last year attracted little attention, but it represented a significant step forward in the strategic relationship between Japan and Australia.

  • The Strategist ☛ Reflections on the First Gulf War, 1990–1991

    The catalyst for the Gulf War was the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on 1 August 1990. After condemning the invasion and demanding Iraq’s withdrawal, the UN Security Council imposed economic sanctions.

  • Federal News Network ☛ Get ready for that proposed rule on defense contractor cybersecurity

    The Defense Department recently issued proposed rules for its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Program (CMMC).

  • Latvia ☛ Latvia's defense industry to hand out annual awards

    March 6 sees the Federation of Security and Defence Industries of Latvia (DAIF Latvia) handing out its annual awards to companies and research institutions that have made a significant contribution to safety and security on a national and international scale in 2023.

  • France24 ☛ 🔴Live: Several killed in Houthi missile attack on ship in Red Sea

    A missile attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on a cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden killed two of its crew members and forced survivors to abandon the vessel on Wednesday, authorities said, in the first fatal strike in a campaign of assaults by the group over Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza. The attack came as Hamas said it would continue working for a ceasefire with Israel despite the absence of Israeli negotiators at the latest round of talks in Cairo.

  • The Straits Times ☛ U.S. military says it conducted strikes against two unmanned aerial vehicles in Yemen

    March 07, 2024 9:56 AM
    
    

    The U.S. military said on Wednesday that it carried out strikes against two unmanned aerial vehicles in a Houthi-controlled area of Yemen that "presented an imminent threat to merchant vessels and U.S. Navy ships in the region."

  • RFA ☛ US lawmakers introduce latest Fentanylware (TikTok) ban bill

    A Senate bill was also approved that would ban Chinese biotech firms accused of harvesting Americans’ DNA data.

  • Silicon Angle ☛ Bipartisan bill could see Fentanylware (TikTok) banned in US if it doesn’t split with China

    House Republicans and Democrats have banded together to introduce a bill that will require the Chinese tech giant ByteDance Inc. to sell its popular video-sharing Fentanylware (TikTok) app or face a ban in the U.S. For years now, Fentanylware (TikTok) has faced scrutiny in the U.S. from all sides of government.

  • Reason ☛ Dear Government: Stop Trying To Make Fentanylware (TikTok) Bans Happen [Ed: Koch think tank worsens the issue by misidentifying what's at stake]

    A new bill would ban Fentanylware (TikTok) and give the president power to declare other social control media apps off limits.

  • Techdirt ☛ Peoria Police Put Out Recruiting Poster Telling Recruits To Come Play ‘Call Of Duty’ In Real Life

    Whatever your thoughts on policing in general in America, I would hope it would be largely uncontroversial to state that a huge percentage of Americans believe that police are generally over-militarized and at least slightly a little too trigger happy, especially when it comes to engaging minority communities. If you somehow think that there isn’t at least a perception problem among the public here, then you probably don’t need to keep reading the rest of this post, because it’s not going to make sense to you.

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • Meduza ☛ ‘A necessary evil’: Navalny’s mother’s resolve was the deciding factor in the Russian authorities’ decision to allow a funeral, Meduza’s sources say — Meduza

    • Stanford University ☛ ‘His legacy lives on’: Stanford community mourns Alexei Navalny

      The Stanford community mourned the death of Alexei Navalny, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent domestic critic, with a White Plaza memorial and CREES event.

    • France24 ☛ Navalny's widow calls on Russians to stage election day protest against Putin

      The widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said on Wednesday the scale of public support for him since his death was proof that his cause lived on, and called for a massive election day protest against President Vladimir Putin.

    • RFERL ☛ 'If They Kill Me It Changes Nothing,' Navalny Said In Unreleased 2020 Interview

      Aleksei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who died in prison last month, predicted in previously unpublished testimony in 2020 and released on March 6 that his death would change "nothing" and other people would stand in his place.

    • Meduza ☛ Ukrainian blogger living in Spain says he was targeted in assassination attempt — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Moscow man arrested for trying to set fire to home of weapons engineer, says scammers impersonating police talked him into it — Meduza

    • New York Times ☛ Ukraine’s First Lady Declines State of the Union Invitation

      Olena Zelenska’s office cited a scheduling conflict. The Russian opposition figure Yulia Navalnaya also declined an invitation.

    • New York Times ☛ Russians Flock to Navalny’s Grave as They Grapple With His Legacy

      The loss of the optimism in the face of oppression espoused by Aleksei Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, has hit many Russians hard. Now, as one mourner said, “I don’t have any vision of the future.”

    • RFERL ☛ Putin Holds Meeting With Atomic Watchdog Chief In Sochi Amid Renewed Shelling Near Occupied Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Plant

      Russian President Vladimir Putin met with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi on March 6 amid tensions over Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant, which has been occupied by Russian forces.

    • The Kent Stater ☛ Russian missile strikes near Zelensky and Greek PM’s convoy in Odesa

      CNN — A Russian missile that killed five people in the Black Sea port city of Odesa on Wednesday landed just 500 meters from a convoy carrying Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, a source said.

    • France24 ☛ Ukraine's Odesa rocked by deadly blast during visit by Zelensky and Greek PM

      A deadly Russian missile strike Wednesday on the Ukrainian port city of Odesa appeared to land near President Volodymyr Zelensky and the visiting Greek prime minister, who described the “intense” moment of the attack

    • France24 ☛ ‘Good not to stand alone’: Swedish, Finnish troops get first taste of NATO drills

      NATO’s "Nordic Response" military drills are currently taking place in the icy north of Norway, Sweden and Finland and, for the first time, troops from Finland are taking part as full members of the military alliance. Alongside them are soldiers from Sweden, itself on the verge of joining NATO. Both countries have recently ended decades-long policies of non-alignment following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.

    • RFERL ☛ Czechs Snub Cabinet Meeting With Slovakia On Ukraine Rift

      The Czech government said on March 6 that it would not hold joint meetings with the Slovak cabinet in the coming months as their views on aid to Ukraine diverged.

    • RFERL ☛ Germany To Join Czech Initiative To Procure Ammunition For Ukraine

      Germany will support the Czech initiative to procure hundreds of thousands of artillery shells for Ukraine with a sum in millions of euros that would run to three digits, government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit said in Berlin on March 6.

    • RFERL ☛ Ukraine Is Regrouping Forces, Aiming For New Counteroffensive 'This Year,' Says Ground Commander

      The commander of Ukraine’s ground forces said Kyiv is aiming to conduct a counteroffensive in 2024, even as the outmanned and outgunned military has faced criticism for a perceived lack of progress during its drive against invading Russian troops over the past six months.

    • RFERL ☛ Zelenskiy Says He And Visiting Greek PM Witnessed Russian Missile Strike On Odesa

      Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he and visiting Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis witnessed a deadly Russian missile attack on March 6 while visiting the Black Sea port city of Odesa.

    • RFERL ☛ Election Official In Russian-Occupied Ukraine Killed By Car Bomb

      A car bomb killed a woman who was a member of the Moscow-installed local election commission in the Russian-occupied city of Berdyansk in Ukraine's eastern Zaporizhzhya region on March 6.

    • RFERL ☛ RusNews Journalist Sentenced To 7 Years Over Ukraine War Coverage

      A court in the city of Korolyov near Moscow on March 6 sentenced journalist Roman Ivanov to seven years in prison on a charge of distributing false information about Russia's military.

    • New York Times ☛ Ukraine’s Retreat From Avdiivka Under Russia’s Harrowing Attacks

      The fall of the city, when it came in mid-February, was brutal and fast. Soldiers fought for their lives. Many did not make it.

    • New York Times ☛ Russia Strikes Odesa, Ukraine, During Zelensky and Greek Prime Minister’s Visit

      Neither man was hurt, and it was unclear whether the Russian Army was targeting them.

    • Latvia ☛ Latvian Armed Forces urge public not to share dubious information

      A statement issued by the National Armed Forces (NBS) on March 6 calls on the Latvian public not to disseminate messages that could help Russian propaganda.

    • Latvia ☛ Latvian government approves EUR 300m eastern border defense plan

      On Tuesday, March 5, the Latvian Cabinet of Ministers approved a Defense Ministry plan for the military strengthening and installation of 'anti-mobility' measures along the eastern border to deter any military aggression from Russia or Belarus.

    • Atlantic Council ☛ NATO enlargement at twenty-five: How we got there and what it achieved

      Two and a half decades after Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic joined NATO, their membership continues to protect them from Russian aggression.

    • RFERL ☛ Paralympics Organizers Bar Russians And Belarusians From Opening And Closing Ceremonies In Paris

      Russian and Belarusian athletes have been barred from marching in this year's Paralympics opening ceremony in Paris, even if they are approved to compete as neutrals.

    • RFERL ☛ Ex-FSB Officer Deported From Poland Gets Colony Term In Russia On Libel Charge

      A court in Russia's North Caucasus region of Daghestan has sentenced Emran Navruzbekov, a former officer of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), to three years and three months in a colony settlement on a libel charge.

    • RFERL ☛ German Defense Minister To Inspect NATO Troops On Norway's Border With Russia

      German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius is in Norway to get a firsthand look at NATO operations on Norway's border with Russia.

    • RFERL ☛ Armenia Officially Asks Moscow To Remove Russian Border Troops From Yerevan Airport

      Armenia said it has sent an official request to Moscow asking it to remove Russian border troops from the Zvartnots international airport in the country's capital as Yerevan continues to distance itself from Moscow amid a souring of bilateral relations.

    • RFERL ☛ Russia Places Self-Exiled Kremlin Critic Kasparov On 'Terrorists And Extremists' Registry

      Russia has labeled Garry Kasparov, the self-exiled opposition politician and a co-founder of the Free Russia Forum, on its register of “terrorists and extremists” for undisclosed reasons, an action generally used by the Kremlin to crack down on political opponents.

    • RFERL ☛ France To Sign Defense Deal With Moldova Amid Warnings Of Russian Interference Ahead Of Elections, Referendum

      French President Emmanuel Macron and his Moldovan counterpart, Maia Sandu, are due to sign a defense pact, the Elysee Palace said on March 6, amid warnings that Russia is seeking to destabilize the southeastern European nation ahead of presidential elections and a plebiscite on membership in the European Union later this year.

    • RFERL ☛ Another Russian Gets Lengthy Prison Term For Throwing Molotov Cocktail At Recruitment Center

      A military court in the Siberian city of Chita on March 6 sentenced a resident of the Zabaikalye region to 11 years in prison for throwing a Molotov cocktail at a military recruitment center.

    • teleSUR ☛ US and NATO Intensify Military Activities in the Arctic: Russia

      The Alliance has embarked on a course towards the militarization of the region, Russian ambassador Korchunov said.

    • The Straits Times ☛ China to foster new cooperation and consolidate friendship with Russia

      China is willing to work with Russia to foster new drivers of cooperation and consolidate friendship, foreign minister Wang Yi told a news conference on the sidelines of an annual parliament meeting in Beijing.

    • Ruben Schade ☛ The Guardian is wrong about my Ukrainian friends

      I link to The Guardian semi-regularly here, but they’re not immune from publishing codswallop. I’d know; have you read some of what I write?

      Simon Jenkins writes poignant articles about public health, and I thoroughly enjoyed his history book on the Celts. But then he turns around and sneezes this into my RSS reader:

    • Atlantic Council ☛ The Ukraine-Turkey defense partnership with the potential to transform Black Sea and Euro-Atlantic security

      An expanded defense partnership between Ukraine and Turkey has great potential to secure the Black Sea and help bolster NATO's efforts in the region.

• Environment

  • Science Alert ☛ Radical Plan to Stop 'Doomsday Glacier' Melting to Cost $50 Billion

    A prototype is already being built.

  • Energy/Transportation

    • Hackaday ☛ How Powerful Should An Electric Bike Be? The UK Is Asking

      As electric drives sweep their way to dominance in the automotive world, there’s another transport sector in which their is also continuing apace. Electric-assisted bicycles preserve the feeling of riding a bike as you always have, along with an electric motor to effortlessly power the rider over hill and dale. European electric two-wheelers are limited to a legal top speed of about 15 miles per hour and a 250 watt motor, but in a post-Brexit dash for independence the British government are asking whether that power should be increased to 500 watts.

    • Hackaday ☛ Harvard Claims Breakthrough In Anode Behavior Of Solid State Lithium Batteries

      One of the biggest issues facing the solid-state lithium-based batteries we all depend upon is of the performance of the anode; the transport of lithium ions and minimization of dendrite formation are critical problems and are responsible for charge/discharge rates and cell longevity. A team of researchers at Harvard have demonstrated a method for using a so-called constriction-susceptible structure on a silicon anode material in order to promote direct metal lithium deposition, as opposed to the predominant alloying reaction. After the initial silicon-lithium alloy layer is formed, subsequent layers are pure lithium. Micrometre-scale silicon particles at the anode constrain the lithiation process (i.e. during charging) where free lithium ions are pushed by the charge current towards the anode area. Because the silicon particles are so small, there is limited surface area for alloying to occur, so direct metal plating of lithium is preferred, but crucially it happens in a very uniform manner and thus does not tend to promote the formation of damaging metal dendrites.

    • DeSmog ☛ Why the Oil and Chemical Lobby Is Taking Aim at New York’s Plastic Waste Bill

      Last week at the New York State Capitol, more than 300 advocates joined lawmakers for a rally to urge the passage of a landmark waste reduction bill that proponents say is the best piece of legislation in the country aimed at lessening plastic trash. The bill is gaining fast momentum — but lobbyists for major oil and chemical companies want to make sure it doesn’t cross the finish line.

    • LRT ☛ Lithuania’s LTG Link starts selling train tickets via Surveillance Giant Google Maps

      LTG Link, the passenger transport arm of Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, LTG), has started selling train tickets via Surveillance Giant Google Maps, the company said on Wednesday.

    • MIT Technology Review ☛ Chinese EVs have entered center stage in US-China tensions

      This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. So far, electric vehicles have mostly been discussed in the US through a scientific, economic, or environmental lens. But all of a sudden, they have become highly political.

    • European Commission ☛ Commission approves €3 billion Romanian State aid scheme to support onshore wind and solar photovoltaic installations to foster the transition to a net-zero economy

      European Commission Press release Brussels, 06 Mar 2024 The European Commission has approved a €3 billion (RON 15.22 billion) Romanian scheme to support installations producing electricity from onshore wind and solar photovoltaic to foster the transition towards a net-zero economy, in line with the Green Deal Industrial Plan.

    • Ruben Schade ☛ Ideas on why the 757 was retired

      The Boeing 757 is a gorgeous plane, one of my all-time favourite conventional aircraft designs alongside the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar. I had a giant model of one hanging from my bedroom ceiling as a kid, complete with its Boeing blue and red livery. When I used to carry a sketchbook at school and doodle my own skylines, ocean liners, and aircraft designs, many of mine ended up resembling the 757. The planes, not the ocean liners. I wish I still had those.

      Boeing abruptly retired the aircraft in 2004, with the closest “replacement” being the larger 737 variants which couldn’t match its versatility, performance, comfort, or range. Or plug doors. Or control systems. I love the cute 737s designs of yore, but the MAX has demonstrated this tired design is well past its prime. Unlike the 757, sadly enough.

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • Science Alert ☛ Eerie New Worm Species Found Slithering in Ocean's Darkest Depths

      A wonder in the darkness.

    • Science Alert ☛ Breakthrough: Model Organs Built With Cells From Living Fetuses

      A biological first.

    • Science Alert ☛ We Aren't Living in a New 'Human' Age, Geologists Say

      An expert explains why.

  • Overpopulation

    • The Straits Times ☛ More Chinese women choose singlehood amid record youth unemployment, economic downturn

      China’s single population aged over 15 hit a record 239 million in 2021, according to official data.

• Finance

  • Techdirt ☛ Twitter’s Former Top Execs All Sue Elon Over Missing Severance

    It might not be the smartest idea to have Walter Isaacson trailing you and taking notes on your everyday moves when one of those moves is trying to breach the contract the top execs of the social media company you just overpaid for on a whim.

  • RFA ☛ China says upgrade, trade-in policy creates billion-dollar market

    GDP goal of 5% is achievable as economy recovers and shows new results, says state planner.

  • YLE ☛ One-in-four consumers' finances 'very tight', survey finds

    The biggest financial impact respondents cited was the rise in food prices.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong Kong’s anti-graft watchdog charges 5 over alleged plot to help 2 inmates receive reduced sentences

    Five people have been charged in Hong Kong for perversion of justice and money laundering, including a man who allegedly received HK$1.5 million to stage crimes when he was on remand so that two fellow detainees could tip off the police in exchange for shorter sentence in their separate cases.

  • YLE ☛ SAK labour federation launches more strikes next week

    Trade unions are organising new political walkouts starting Monday. Most of the nation's exports will be halted for up to two weeks.

  • teleSUR ☛ Junior Doctors in Northern Ireland Strike Over Pay

    "No doctor wants to strike but we feel we have been left with no choice but to stand up for ourselves," said Fiona Griffin.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • New York Times ☛ Biden Promised Calm After Trump Chaos, but the World Has Not Cooperated

    Inflation, an explosion of migration at the border and wars in Europe and the Middle East have created a sense of instability that polls show have eroded his support.

  • New York Times ☛ Big American Tech Profits From Chinese Ad Spending Spree

    Temu, Shein, and streaming and gaming apps looking to break into the U.S. market are spending huge sums to get their wares in front of American consumers.

  • The Straits Times ☛ China’s ambassadors urge top advisory body to engage more with foreign media

    This would help with the government's efforts to “tell China’s story well”.

  • The Straits Times ☛ China to offer visa-free travel to travellers from six countries

    China will offer visa-free travel to nationals from Switzerland, Ireland, Hungary, Australia, Belgium and Luxemborg from March 14, foreign minister Wang Yi said on Thursday. REUTERS

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ China’s foreign minister Wang Yi to face questions from media on Thursday

    China’s foreign minister will face questions from the media on Thursday, state media announced, as the country’s largest annual political gathering continues in Beijing.

  • BIA Net ☛ DEM Party: '54,000 voters transferred to the Kurdish provinces'

    DEM Party's co-mayoral candidate for Ankara Metropolitan Municipality, Öztürk Türkdoğan, stated that 54,000 irregular voters have been newly registered in Kurdish cities, with a significant portion of them being security personnel.

  • New York Times ☛ Haiti Gangs Press Prime Minister to Step Down

    The power struggle in Haiti is raising pressure on the United States to ease tensions while casting doubt on plans for a Kenyan-led security mission.

  • France24 ☛ UN Security Council raises alarm over 'critical' situation in Haiti

    The UN Security Council expressed its concern over the deteriorating situation in violence-gripped Haiti on Wednesday, as Washington ramped up pressure on absent Prime Minister Ariel Henry to secure a political settlement.

  • France24 ☛ Gang warfare plunges Haiti's capital into crisis

    Sunday's major prison break in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, in which gangs allowed thousands of inmates to escape, has plunged the country even deeper into chaos. Authorities declared a state of emergency and curfew in the capital, 80 percent of which is controlled by criminal gangs. Since the shock assassination of President Jovenel Moise in 2021, the country has been mired in a political crisis, which has in turn led to a security and humanitarian disaster. Amid a brutal turf war between gangs, more than 13 people are killed every day.

  • New York Times ☛ Republicans’ Dilemma on Mayorkas Impeachment: When to Take the Loss

    House Republicans rushed to impeach the homeland security secretary but are taking their time delivering the charges to the Senate, where a trial is likely to be over before it begins — or yield a quick acquittal.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • EDRI ☛ Meta must act: stop the systematic censorship of Palestinian voices

    Meta’s continuous censorship of Palestine-related content in times of war is a systematic issue that the tech giant must immediately address. Access Now’s new report, It’s not a glitch: how Meta systematically censors Palestinian voices, delves into how the company silences the voices of Palestinians and those advocating for their rights on Facebook (Farcebook) and Instagram.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong Kong considers extending detention period of arrestees to up to 14 days in national security cases

    The Hong Kong government has said it was considering giving police a new power to detain those arrested under a proposed new security law for up to 14 days.

  • France24 ☛ Iran cyber police target 'un-Islamic' stores on Instagram

    Authorities in Iran are cracking down on small businesses that sell “un-Islamic” clothing and other products on social control media, notably Instagram. Owners of Instagram businesses say they have been contacted by the Islamic Republic’s cyber police, who take control of their pages, replacing images of their products with messages saying the pages have been closed for reasons of “#IslamicHijab” or that, “According to a court order, this page has been shut down”.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ ‘No intention of banning social control media,’ Hong Kong officials say, as public suggestions presented to legislature

    Hong Kong officials have pushed back against public suggestions that some popular social control media platforms and messaging apps should be “banned” under a proposed new security legislation, saying they had “absolutely no intention” in doing so.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Hong Kong judges dismiss appeal in sedition case for pro-democracy radio host

    
    
    

    Three Hong Kong High Court judges on Thursday rejected an appeal by prominent pro-democracy activist Tam Tak-chi against his conviction and 40 month sentence for 11 sedition charges that his lawyer had argued was a disproportionate restriction on freedom of speech.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Pro-democracy DJ Tam Tak-chi loses bid to appeal ‘seditious’ speech conviction and jail term

    Pro-democracy DJ Tam Tak-chi has lost a bid to appeal his conviction and 40-month sentence under the city’s colonial-era sedition law, in a case that promises to have far-reaching ramifications for Hong Kong’s legal landscape.

  • Reason ☛ Your Local DMV May Have No Sense of Humor

    Censorship of 2,872 Pennsylvania license plates raises free speech questions.

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • FAIR ☛ ‘We Need to Separate Capitalism and Journalism’

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Ex-Apple Daily editorial writer penned op-eds aligned with Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai’s views, court hears

    A former Apple Daily editorial writer penned opinion pieces expressing pro-democracy views in line with those held by the newspaper’s founder, detained media mogul Jimmy Lai, a landmark national security trial has heard.

• Civil Rights/Policing

  • EDRI ☛ EDRi-gram, 06 March 2024

    On 17 February, one of the landmark digital laws, the Digital Services Act, in the European Union came fully into force. Now, you've got a whole bunch of fantastic online rights at your fingertips. But don't worry, we've got your back! Our friends at Bits of Freedom have whipped up a shiny new website packed with easy-peasy actions to help you understand and flex those digital rights muscles like a pro.

  • EDRI ☛ Bits of Freedom launches campaign on DSA user rights

    EDRi member in the Netherlands Bits of Freedom has launched a campaign to bring attention to user rights addressed by the European Union's new digital law, the Digital Services Act. On the brand new website, that engages civil society, you can find guidelines on how to enforce your own platform rights.

  • NYPost ☛ Protesters blame Chancellor Banks for allowing ‘openly accepted’ antisemitism in NYC schools: ‘Done nothing’

    “Chancellor Banks enough is enough. We need answers ... Is it incompetence, is it Jew hatred? I think it's a little bit of both, but we need answers.”

  • YLE ☛ Wednesday's papers: Labour market standoff, Finnair wraps up weigh-ins, answers about scabies

    The Finnish newspaper press is doubtful that upcoming union-government talks will ease tensions in the labour market.

  • JURIST ☛ US appeals court dismisses DRC child labor case against Tesla, other tech companies

    The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit dismissed a child labor case Tuesday against technology companies and refused to hold them accountable for their alleged support of the use of children in cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

  • Reason ☛ D.C. Circuit Rejects Conflict Mineral Suit Against Fashion Company Apple and Other Tech Companies

    Former cobalt miners cannot sue manufacturers for acquiring rare metals in relevant markets.

  • ACLU ☛ Supreme Court Signals that Institutions Can Keep Designing Programs to Foster Diversity, After Affirmative Action Ruling

    Since the Supreme Court struck down longstanding affirmative action admissions policies this past summer in SFFA v. Harvard/UNC, institutions from a variety of sectors have grappled with how to stay true to their commitments to equal opportunity in light of the court’s ruling. But this week, the Supreme Court did something noteworthy: it refused to hear a challenge to a high school admissions policy designed to eliminate unfair barriers for students of color. In doing so, the justices sent a signal that institutions can continue to find innovative ways to ensure equal opportunity for all within the parameters of their relatively narrow decision on affirmative action.

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • Techdirt ☛ Republicans Kill Popular FCC Program That Made Broadband Affordable For The Poor

    The FCC’s Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), part of the 2021 infrastructure bill, currently provides 23+ million low-income Americans a $30 broadband discount every month. While it didn’t get much hype, that’s a big deal in a country where broadband affordability is a massive obstacle to adoption due to muted competition and high service prices.

  • Hackaday ☛ Dial-Up Is Still, Just Barely, A Thing

    In an era dominated by broadband and wireless cellular networks, it might come as a surprise to many that dial-up internet services still exist in the United States. This persistence is not a mere relic of nostalgia — but a testament to the diverse and uneven nature of internet infrastructure across the country.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Techdirt ☛ Apple Doth Protest Too Much Regarding EU Antitrust Fine; But It’s A Weird Thing To Do Just As The DMA Is Taking Effect

  It’s no secret that I’m often skeptical of antitrust actions, many of which feel like bureaucrats doing a “general punishment” for disliking a successful company, rather than an actual response to abusive, anti-competitive behavior by a large company. However, that does not mean that there is no place for antitrust enforcement. It’s just that it should be in response to actual evidence of companies abusing their market position to make anti-competitive moves in an unfair manner.

• CS Monitor ☛ Congress talks big game about reining in Big Tech. Europe is doing it.

  The European Union’s Digital Markets Act goes into effect March 7, forcing tech companies to show choices of search engines and where to download apps, as well as increased personal data privacy. Europe has been a global leader in reining in tech giants.

• Public Knowledge ☛ Apple Retaliates Against Epic for Criticizing Its Policies, Blocking Competition in the EU

  Epic Games announces that Fashion Company Apple has terminated the company's Epic Games Sweden developer account.

• New York Times ☛ Apple Cancels Epic Games’ Developer Account in Europe

  The move tests the European Union’s new tech competition law, which was designed to allow competing app stores.

• University of Michigan ☛ I quit tech for a week and escaped the Fashion Company Apple panopticon

  Admittedly, I’m not the most representative subject for a no-tech experiment.  My screen time (to find it, I unlocked my phone, promptly forgot what I was doing, and went to messages instead, twice) averaged three hours per day pre experiment.

• Patents

  • JUVE ☛ Former Gowling IP head joins Trevisan & Cuonzo in Milan [Ed: Pure spam/ad disguised as news]

    Renowned senior IP practitioner Gordon Harris is to leave Gowling WLG for an of counsel position at Italian firm, Trevisan & Cuonzo. Harris, who has been at Gowling for 41 years, will be located in the UK with frequent trips to the firm’s Milan office.

  • JUVE ☛ Video: JUVE Patent’s France ranking 2024 [Ed: Those are not rankings. Those are ads. JUVE takes money from some of these companies to lie for them, to spam for them, to even promote illegal things for them.]

    In JUVE Patent’s France ranking 2024, co-editor Christina Schulze and journalist Konstanze Richter present the latest developments in the French patent monopoly market.

  • JUVE ☛ Top filing and litigation firms in France 2024 [Ed: JUVE lies as a business model and makes fake rankings that are just ads]

  • JUVE ☛ Top litigation firms in France 2024 [Ed: Pure ads. This is how they try to make money, deceiving people.]

  • JUVE ☛ Top filing firms in France 2024

  • Unified Patents ☛ IQar automotive patent monopoly prior art found

    Unified is pleased to announce prior art has been found on U.S. Patent 10,882,399, owned by IQar, Inc., an NPE. The ‘399 patent monopoly generally relates to power management in vehicle engines and has been asserted against Tesla.

    We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on this patent. The ongoing contests are open to anyone, and include tens of thousands of dollars in rewards available for helping the industry to challenge NPE patents of questionable validity by finding and submitting prior art in the contests.

  • Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ No Contradiction ⇒ No Indefiniteness

    The Federal Circuit recently issued a decision in Maxell, Ltd. v. Amperex Technology Limited, No. 2023-1194 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 6, 2024), reversing Judge Alan Albright’s finding that certain claims of Maxell’s patent monopoly covering rechargeable lithium-ion battery indefinite under 35 U.S.C. § 112, ¶ 2 (112(b)). U.S. Patent No. 9,077,035.

    The case provides important cover for patent monopoly prosecutors who inelegantly add narrowed limitations from the dependent claims into the independent claims without rewriting or deleting the corresponding broader element descriptions already there.

• Trademarks

  • TTAB Blog ☛ TTABlog Test: Which of These Three Section 2(d) Oppositions Was/Were Dismissed?

    A TTAB judge once said to me that one can predict the outcome of a Section 2(d) case about 95 percent of the time just by looking at the marks and the involved goods and/or services. Here are three Section 2(d) oppositions recently decided by the TTAB. At least one of the oppositions was dismissed. How do you think these three came out? [Answers in first comment.]

• Copyrights

  • Digital Music News ☛ NMPA’s Twitter/X Copyright Suit Moves Forward on Contributory Infringement Grounds Following Partial Dismissal

    The National Music Publishers’ Association’s copyright monopoly infringement lawsuit against Twitter/X is proceeding, though the presiding judge has partially granted the social-media company’s dismissal motion. Judge Aleta Trauger just recently ruled on the defendant business’s motion to dismiss, which had been submitted back in August of 2023.

  • Public Domain Review ☛ Maria Sibylla Merian’s Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (1705)

    Set of spectacular engravings of insects and their floral abodes — one of the first natural histories of Suriname.

  • Press Gazette ☛ UK publishers should be ready for Facebook (Farcebook) to switch off news altogether

    Why recent events in Australia mean UK publishers should prepare to lose news on Facebook.

  • Digital Music News ☛ Live Nation Explains ‘The Truth About Ticket Prices’ Amid Continued Complaints and Regulatory Scrutiny

    Weeks after reporting record fiscal-year revenue – and as it grapples with an intensifying Justice Department investigation – Live Nation has penned a lengthy breakdown of the perceived “truth about ticket prices.”