Leftovers

• JURIST ☛ Mexico Neuvo León governor promises to compensate election stage collapse victims

  Governor Samuel Garcia of the northern Mexico State Nuevo León took to X (formerly Twitter) to express condolences to the victims and their families in an election stage tragedy on Friday.

• Hackaday ☛ 2024 Business Card Challenge: Adding Some Refinement To Breadboard Power Supplies

  For small electronics projects, prototyping a design on a breadboard is a must to iron out kinks in the design and ensure everything works properly before a final version is created. The power supply for the breadboard is often overlooked, with newcomers to electronics sometimes using a 9V battery and regulator or a cheap USB supply to get a quick 5V source. We might eventually move on to hacking together an ATX power supply, or the more affluent among us might spring for a variable, regulated bench supply, but this power supply built specifically for breadboards might thread the needle for this use case much better than other options.

• Hackaday ☛ Hunting For Part Numbers: Analyzing The Buck Converter On Mini 560 Modules

  Some of us may have recently stumbled over these mysterious ‘Mini 560’ synchronous buck converter modules at various e-shopping websites. These little modules claim to take in 7-20 VDC and output whatever voltage they’re configured for (e.g., 5 VDC). What IC is used on these modules? Since the IC on these modules has had its markings laser-etched away, answering that particular question is a tedious sleuthing job. Fortunately, [MisterHW] has done the legwork for us already, with a detailed write-up.

• Hardware

  • Hackaday ☛ So What’s All This HaLow Long-Range WiFi About Then?

    We’re all used to wireless networking, but if there’s one thing the ubiquitous WiFi on 2.4 or 5 GHz lacks, it’s range. Inside buildings, it will be stopped in its tracks by anything more than a mediocre wall, and outside, it can be difficult to connect at any useful rate more than a few tens of metres away without resorting to directional antennas and hope. Technologies such as LoRa provide a much longer range at the expense of minuscule bandwidth, but beyond that, there has been little joy. As [Andreas Spiess] points out in a recent video though, this is about to change, as devices using the so-called HaLow or IEEE 802.11ah protocol are starting to edge into the realm of affordability.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ Chinese chip industry leader asks companies to focus on building innovations using mature nodes

    Ye Tianchun of the China Semiconductor Industry Association and the China Integrated Circuit Innovation Alliance says that tech companies should forge their own path instead of following top tech companies in research and innovation.

  • Hackaday ☛ Weird Old Stereo Accessories

    Some people trick out their cars. Some, their computers. There are even people who max out their audio systems, although back in 1979, there was more of that going on, probably, than today where you discresionary income is split so many ways. Case in point: [Alan Cross] remembers how excited he was to get the Radio Shack catalog that year. He was working at a grocery store, saved his money, and — over time — picked up a haul ranging from an equalizer to a strobe light.

  • Hackaday ☛ How Do You Fill The 1N34 Void?

    The germanium point contact diode, and almost every semiconductor device using germanium, is now obsolete. There was a time when almost every television or radio would have contained one or two of them, but the world has moved on from both analogue broadcasting and discrete analogue electronics in its lower-frequency RF circuitry. [TSBrownie] is taking a look at alternatives to the venerable 1N34A point-contact diode in one of the few places a point-contact diode makes sense, the crystal radio.

  • Tedium ☛ Macroplastics

    Discussing the invention of HDPE, one of the best plastics around, and how it evolved from Hula Hoops to milk crates to plastic lumber.

  • CNX Software ☛ ADT-Link UT3G USB4 to PCIe adapter can drive an NVIDIA RTX4090 GPU

    DFrobot has recently listed the ADT-Link UT3G USB4 to PCIe x16 eGPU adapter featuring a PCIe Gen 4.0 x4 slot with 40 Gbps of bandwidth on their website. The module not only supports USB4, but it’s also compatible with Thunderbolt 3 and Thunderbolt 4 standers, meaning it can work with SBCs and mini PCs like the LattePanda Mu, V600 Alder Lake Mini PC, GEEKOM A7, and many others.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • RFA ☛ Malaysian fishermen want govt to crack down on Vietnamese encroachers

    Fishers say their squid stock is diminishing because of foreigners entering territorial waters.

  • New York Times ☛ Even as Violent Crime Drops, Lawlessness Rises as a 2024 Election Issue

    In most cities, rates of homicide and violent assault are down significantly from pandemic-era highs. But property crimes have risen, fueling voter anxiety.

  • CBC ☛ 2024-05-22 [Older] Decades after Canada's tainted blood inquiry, the U.K. grapples with its own

  • Bridge Michigan ☛ 2024-05-23 [Older] Opinion | Locally grown food strengthens our nation’s security and resilience

• Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)

  • Hackaday ☛ ICQ Will Shut Down On June 26 This Year

    In many ways, ICQ has always been a bit of a curiosity. It was one of the first major instant messenger clients of the 1990s. It saw broad uptake alongside the likes of AOL Instant Messenger and MSN Messenger. Yet, it outlasted both of them despite not being attached to an industrial juggernaut like AOL or Microsoft. After 27 years, however, it seems that the last petal will drop, with the shutdown of ICQ announced on the ICQ website for June 26, 2024.

  • MacRumors ☛ 2024-05-21 [Older] iOS 17.5.1 Includes Fix for Bug That Resurfaced Deleted Photos

  • 9to5Mac ☛ 2024-05-24 ‘Apple Elaborates on iOS 17.5 Bug That Resurfaced Deleted Photos

• Pseudo-Open Source

  • Openwashing

    • OMG Ubuntu ☛ Microsoft Gives Its Open-Source Developer Font Major Update [Ed: omgubuntu keeps shilling and openwashing Microsoft. Nothing else to cover, Joey?]

      Cascadia Code is an open-source monospaced font made by Abusive Monopolist Microsoft first released in 2020 and serves as the default typeface for the official backdoored Windows Terminal app.

    • DragonFly BSD Digest ☛ Lazy Reading for 2024/05/26

      No theme this week, but some neat history items. Modern cactus. Winamp goes open source.  (via) Non-Euclidean Doom: what happens to a game when pi is not 3.14159.  (via) Next NYCBUG meeting: June 5th.

• Security

  • Integrity/Availability/Authenticity

    • WhichUK ☛ What to do if your laptop gets stolen

      Make security a priority to help avoid a data-breach disaster if your laptop is

      stolen

• Defence/Aggression

  • Michael Geist ☛ Why Months of Jewish Discrimination and the Normalization of Antisemitism on University Campuses Must Stop

    This weekend, two people approached a Jewish girls elementary school in Toronto and fired multiple gun shots. There was no one present at the school at the time, but the shooting will only heighten the fears of a Canadian Jewish community that has now experienced multiple shootings at schools and community centres, attacks on students, and vandalism at Jewish businesses and homes.

  • JURIST ☛ France court sentences high-ranking Syria officials for crimes against humanity and war crimes

    Paris Criminal Court sentenced Friday in absentia three high ranking Syrian officials to life for complicity in crimes against humanity and war crimes, reported the International Federation for Human Rights.

  • JURIST ☛ Taiwan president calls for cooperation following days of China military drills

    Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te called on China to work with the island to ensure regional stability on Sunday, following two days of Chinese war games near the island. The call for cooperation came amidst growing aggression towards Taiwan in recent days, with China undertaking two days of military drills surrounding Taiwan over the weekend.

  • JURIST ☛ North Korea accuses US and South Korea of border reconnaissance and threatens response

    North Korea’s defense ministry accused the US and South Korea on Saturday of intensifying border reconnaissance activities and threatened military action, according to state media Voice of Korea and Korean Central News Agency. In a press statement, Kim Kang Il, vice president of North Korea’s defense ministry, protested against “hostile air espionage” by the US. >

  • The Straits Times ☛ North Korea plans to launch satellite rocket between May 27 and June 4, Japan Coast Guard says

    North Korea's satellite launch using ballistic missile technology would be in violation of UN resolutions.

  • NYPost ☛ Japan says North Korea will launch a military spy satellite by June 3

    Japan said Monday that North Korea has informed it of a plan to launch a satellite by June 3, an apparent effort to put its second military spy satellite into orbit.

  • The Straits Times ☛ China’s Premier Li Qiang to hold rare summit with US-allied South Korea, Japan

    The meeting aims to revive trade and security dialogues hampered by global tensions.

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-05-20 [Older] Taiwan spooked by China's expanded state secrets law

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-05-20 [Older] How will Taiwan's new leader shape relations with China?

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-05-19 [Older] Taiwan's New President to Extend Goodwill to China in Inauguration Speech

  • Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2024-05-17 [Older] UC Workers Are Poised to Strike for Palestine and for Free Speech

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-05-20 [Older] Taiwan: New president takes office amid rising China threat

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-05-20 [Older] Spain demands apology from Argentina's Milei

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-05-22 [Older] Ecuador's Noboa Declares New Security State of Emergency

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • RFERL ☛ In Rare Foreign Foray, Putin Arrives In Uzbekistan For 2-Day Visit

      Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived on May 26 in Uzbekistan, where he was met at the Tashkent airport by President Shavkat Mirziyoev amid reports some Western nations are trying to pull Central Asian nations away from Russia’s sphere of influence.

    • France24 ☛ Death toll rises in Russian strike on crowded DIY store in Ukraine’s Kharkiv

      A Russian strike on a crowded DIY hardware store in Kharkiv killed 14 people and wounded dozens more, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday morning, the death toll rising as the country's second-largest city reeled from two attacks a day earlier.

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-05-20 [Older] Ukraine's Kyivstar Allocated $90 Million to Deal With Cyberattack Aftermath

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-05-23 [Older] G7 Officials Play Down Expectations on Details of Loan for Ukraine

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-05-23 [Older] US Preparing $275 Million Weapons Package for Ukraine, Officials Say

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-05-21 [Older] Ukraine updates: Baerbock says aid delay 'jeopardizes' fight

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-05-20 [Older] Drone Startup Neros Raises Funding From Sequoia, Eyes Supplies to Ukraine, US Military

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-05-20 [Older] Exclusive-Western Aid to Ukraine Too Slow, Risks From U.S. Election Limited, Zelenskiy Says

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-05-19 [Older] Can Ukraine's Zelenskyy stay in power without an election?

• Environment

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-05-18 [Older] Houston Area Grapples With Heat, Power Cuts After Major Storms

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • BIA Net ☛ 2024-05-23 [Older] Turkey plans to euthanize stray dogs: 'Fascism needs enmity towards animals'

• Finance

  • TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Real World Economics: The old-fashioned politics of consensus is dead

    After more than 200 years of success, American constitutional government is broken. Our economy has serious faults and will never be healthy until we mend our government. We must restore the effective functioning it had over its first two centuries.

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-05-20 [Older] Post-Brexit trade border controls to cost UK $6 billion

  • International Business Times ☛ 2024-05-21 [Older] Del Monte Sells $395 Luxury Pineapple While Americans Struggle From Credit Card Debt To Buy Groceries

  • TruthOut ☛ 2024-05-24 [Older] From New York to LA, Housing Insecurity Is Undermining Immigrant Students

  • Counter Punch ☛ 2024-05-22 [Older] Social Security: Productivity Growth and the Scary Stories About Rising Retiree to Worker Ratios

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-05-20 [Older] India elections: Race reaches a divided New Delhi

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-05-20 [Older] India election: Voting continues amid severe heat wave

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-05-20 [Older] Dominican Republic election: Incumbent president in the lead

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-05-21 [Older] Torturers deployed as UN peacekeepers

  • BIA Net ☛ 2024-05-21 [Older] Dersim: How the name of a city was banned in Turkey

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-05-21 [Older] Thailand: Activist's death intensifies calls for reform

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-05-21 [Older] Thailand: How far has democracy come since 2014 coup?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-05-21 [Older] Toni Kroos: The visionary who felt he had to leave Germany

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-05-21 [Older] New Caledonia: Australia, NZ send planes to rescue stranded tourists

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • CBC ☛ 2024-05-22 [Older] Philanthropist who gave $30M to U Manitoba condemns 'hateful' valedictory speech, university for allowing it

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-05-19 [Older] The Israel-Hamas War Is Testing Whether Campuses Are Sacrosanct Places for Speech and Protest

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • CPJ ☛ 2024-05-22 [Older] CPJ, partners call on ICJ to order unimpeded media access to Gaza following South Africa’s urgent request

• Civil Rights/Policing

  • New York Times ☛ Peru’s New Rule on Transgender Health Care Draws Backlash

    Government officials say the regulation was intended to expand mental health care access for transgender people. Activists say it will increase discrimination.

  • France24 ☛ Tunisia’s President Saied reshuffles cabinet after wave of arrests

    Tunisia's president abruptly replaced the interior and social affairs ministers Saturday night in a surprise cabinet reshuffle following a wave of arrests that has raised fresh fears for the health of the young democracy.

  • TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Stillwater prison on lockdown after assault on corrections officers, officials say

    The incident began when a prisoner attacked a corrections officer at a housing unit security post, officials said.

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-05-21 [Older] New Jersey State Police 'Never Meaningfully Grappled' With Discriminatory Practices, Official Finds

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • APNIC ☛ Event Wrap: TWNOG 5.0

    Sunny Chendi gave an APNIC policy update at TWNOG 5.0 in Taipei on 26 April 2024.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Patents

  • Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ WIPO Adopts Treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources, and Associated Traditional Knowledge [Ed: WIPO is corrupt and it fronts for corrupt oligarchs, this is posturing]

    For many years, there have been concerns about “biopiracy” – the misappropriation of genetic resources (GR) and traditional knowledge (TK) from indigenous peoples and local communities, often in developing countries. Biopiracy involves researchers or companies obtaining GR or TK, using it to develop commercial products like medicines, and obtaining patents without adequately compensating or getting permission from the original TK/GR holders.

  • International Business Times ☛ 2024-05-22 [Older] Apple Patent Hints At Foldable iPhone With Self-healing Screen

  • Gizmodo ☛ 2024-05-21 [Older] Apple Patents a Foldable iPhone With ‘Self-Healing’ Screen