Leftovers

• Abhijith PA: abhijithpa.me to abhijithpa.in

  I let go my domain abhijithpa.me. It was getting expensive and I don’t fancy that anymore. I never actually purchased this domain but came with a package offer. I then kept it for couple of years.

• Hackaday ☛ Thumb Nuts For Not A Lot

  Sometimes it’s the most straightforward of hacks which are also the most satisfying, and so it is that we’d like to draw your attention to [mikeandmertle]’s PVC thumb nuts. They provide a cheap an easy to make way to create thumb-tightenable nuts for your projects.

• Hackaday ☛ 2024 Business Card Challenge: NoiseCard Judges The Sound Around You

  Let’s face it: even with the rise of the electric car, the world is a noisy place. And it seems like it has only gotten worse in recent years. But how can we easily quantify the noise around us and know whether it is considered an unhealthy decibel level?

• Science

  • Science Alert ☛ Mathematicians Accidentally Found a New Way to Represent Pi

  • New York Times ☛ Piping Up at the Gates of Dawn

    Astronomers have found the earliest and most distant galaxy yet.

  • France24 ☛ China and France launch satellite to better understand the universe

    A French-Chinese satellite blasted off Saturday on a hunt for the mightiest explosions in the universe, in a notable example of cooperation between a Western power and the Asian giant.

  • The Conversation ☛ 2024-06-21 [Older] The first chemist in history may have been a female perfumer - here’s how the science of scents has changed since

  • The Conversation ☛ 2024-06-18 [Older] How glacier algae are challenging the way we think about evolution

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-18 [Older] Astronomers witness black hole awakening for the first time

• Education

  • HRW ☛ 2024-06-15 [Older] Africa: Accelerate Free Education for All

• Hardware

  • CNX Software ☛ Luckfox Pico Ultra micro development board features MIPI CSI, WiFi 6, Ethernet, PoE, GPIO headers, and more

    The Luckfox Pico Ultra is a Rockchip RV1106-based GNU/Linux micro development board with a MIPI CSI port, an Ethernet port, and a 0.5 Tops NPU to run Hey Hi (AI) and image processing applications. Additionally, it features a speaker header, RGB LED header, GPIO, UART, SPI, I2C, USB, and much more. Waveshare also offers a “W” version of the Pico Ultra with built-in 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2. If you want to add PoE support, you can connect to the board with a separate PoE module.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ Microsoft shelves its underwater data center — Project Natick had fewer server failures compared to servers on land [Ed: VAPOURWARE! Hype! Distraction.]

    Although Abusive Monopolist Microsoft quietly discontinued 'Project Natick,' its undersea data center returned excellent results. Throughout the experiment, 0.7% of servers failed, compared to 5.9% on land.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ Smuggler busted with 596 defective chip maker Intel Xeon CPUs valued at $1.5 million — trafficker faces seven-year jailtime and over $256K fine

    Hong Kong Customs intercepted the smuggling of $1.5 million in defective chip maker Intel Xeon processors in secret compartments of a private car.

  • Hackaday ☛ In Future, Printer Documents You

    [Jason Dookeran] reminded us of something we don’t like to think about. Your printer probably adds barely noticeable dots to everything you print. It does it on purpose, so that if you print something naughty, the good guys can figure out what printer it came from. This is the machine identification code and it has been around since the days that the US government feared that color copiers would allow wholesale counterfiting.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-19 [Older] Japan: Deadly flesh-eating bacteria infections on the rise

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-18 [Older] Bird flu? Swine flu? A guide to H5N1 viruses and beyond

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-20 [Older] Regular walking can reduce back pain recurrence, study finds

  • CBC ☛ 2024-06-18 [Older] Ontario court approves sales process for Red Lobster Canada

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-21 [Older] Why are young Japanese moving away from agriculture sector?

  • Gregory Hammond ☛ Let’s go back to having events online

    Pre-2020, almost every event was in-person, that was the default. When COVID-19 hit, it forced every event online, and when it was declared “over”, practically every event went back to in-person.

  • Science Alert ☛ Watching The Olympics Could Actually Influence How Much You Eat

    This is so weird!

  • Science Alert ☛ Earliest Biological Signals of Autism Found in Mini-Brains Experiment

    An embryonic origin identified.

  • New York Times ☛ U.S.D.A. Avocado Inspectors Will Start Returning to Mexican Packing Plants

    The inspections in Michoacán, the Mexican state responsible for most avocado exports to the U.S., were suspended last weekend because of security concerns.

  • The Conversation ☛ 2024-06-20 [Older] Dopamine: brain chemical helps us understand other people – raising hopes for new treatments

  • The Conversation ☛ 2024-06-21 [Older] Bipolar disorder: we’ve pinpointed the brain areas which drive mood bias

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-17 [Older] US: Maryland governor pardons 175,000 marijuana convictions

  • CBC ☛ 2024-06-17 [Older] Maryland just issued 175,000 pot pardons. Can Canada do the same?

• Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)

  • The Conversation ☛ 2024-06-19 [Older] People are worried about the media using [LLMs] for stories of consequence, but less so for sports and entertainment

  • IP Kat ☛ 2024-06-16 [Older] From conceptual art to AI: On the Druet/Cattelan dispute and authorship of works made by someone other than the “author”

  • Gizmodo ☛ 2024-06-18 [Older] Don’t Expect a Next-Gen Apple Vision Pro Anytime Soon [Ed: It was a massive failure]

  • Financial Times ☛ 2024-06-18 [Older] Apple set to be first Big Tech group to face charges under EU digital law

  • 2024-06-17 [Older] Japan enacts law to curb Apple, Google's app dominance

  • Gizmodo ☛ 2024-06-17 [Older] Apple Pay Later Is Dead, Your Debt Is Not

  • CBC ☛ 2024-06-18 [Older] Stellantis recalls nearly 1.2M vehicles to fix software glitch that disables rear camera

  • Hackaday ☛ Uncovering ChatGPT Usage In Academic Papers Through Excess Vocabulary

    That students these days love to use ChatGPT for assistance with reports and other writing tasks is hardly a secret, but in academics it’s becoming ever more prevalent as well. This raises the question of whether ChatGPT-assisted academic writings can be distinguished somehow. According to [Dmitry Kobak] and colleagues this is the case, with a strong sign of ChatGPT use being the presence of a lot of flowery excess vocabulary in the text. As detailed in their prepublication paper, the frequency of certain style words is a remarkable change in the used vocabulary of the published works examined.

  • Metro UK ☛ Video games peaked in the Xbox 360 era and it was all downhill from there – Reader’s Feature

    Nostalgia is, as they say, a hell of a drug. It hits everyone eventually and seems to destroy all sense of perspective and reason. I am fully aware of this and that there’s probably nothing you can do about it. Knowing all that I have become fully convinced that the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 was the pinnacle of gaming and even though last gen was good I think it’s clear now that it was laying the foundation for the mess we find ourselves in now.

  • India Times ☛ Bengaluru startup fires 80% staff, layoffs at Facebook-parent, US sues Adobe, and more top tech news of the week

    ReshaMandi lays off 80% of its staff due to funding issues, Meta's Reality Labs goes under restructuring, a US lawsuit against Adobe over subscription practices, ongoing GST discussions for online gaming in India, Google's Gemini app launch in Indian languages, and more. Read the top tech news of the week.

• Security

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • Gizmodo ☛ 2024-06-21 [Older] Would You Pay Amazon $10 a Month for an AI-Infused Alexa?

    • CBC ☛ 2024-06-17 [Older] LCBO surprised by Ontario cancelling pilot to scan customer IDs at northern stores, exec emails show

    • CBC ☛ 2024-06-17 [Older] 'They follow us everywhere': Canadian citizens accuse Algeria of spying, intimidation at home

• Defence/Aggression

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-16 [Older] Political 'red lines': Useful deterrent, or dangerous talk?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-16 [Older] Poland, Baltics step up border controls amid migrant crisis

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-17 [Older] German rescue group: 10 migrants found dead in Mediterranean

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-17 [Older] Poland upset after Germans return Afghan migrants

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-19 [Older] For World Refugee Day, 9 charts that explore displacement

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-16 [Older] Germany: Man wielding hammer in Hamburg shot by police

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-16 [Older] Germany's Lufthansa eyes defense sector

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ U.S. bans Kaspersky and hands out sanctions to execs — 100 days until class-leading antivirus ban takes effect

    Antivirus company Kaspersky Labs and several subsidiaries were banned from U.S. operations on Thursday, and customers had 100 days to find an alternative. The U.S. also sanctioned 12 executives.

  • New Yorker ☛ The Supreme Court Steps Back from the Brink on Guns

    A new ruling upholds a law barring those under certain domestic-violence restraining orders from possessing firearms—but the Court’s stance on gun laws remains trapped in ambiguity.

  • New York Times ☛ Middle East Crisis: Israeli Airstrikes Hit Gaza City; Casualties Are Reported

    The Israeli military said fighter jets had targeted “Hamas military infrastructure” at two sites. Gazan authorities reported multiple dead and said people were trapped under rubble.

  • France24 ☛ Tens of thousands of Israelis rally against Netanyahu's government

    Tens of thousands of protesters waving Israeli flags and chanting slogans against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government rallied in Tel Aviv Saturday, demanding new elections and the return of hostages held in Gaza. Follow our live blog for all the latest developments.

  • France24 ☛ Dozens killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza City neighbourhoods

    Health officials in Gaza said Israeli air strikes on Saturday killed at least 24 people in the territory's north, a day after the International Committee of the Red Cross said 22 people were killed in shelling that damaged its office.

  • JURIST ☛ China issues guidelines introducing severe criminal penalties for supporting ‘Taiwan independence’

    China introduced on Friday the death penalty for “particularly serious” cases involving supporters of Taiwanese independence. The new judicial guidelines outline severe punishments for activities deemed as fragmenting the country or inciting secession.

  • JURIST ☛ Philippines decides against invoking mutual defense treaty with US amid South China Sea dispute

    The Philippines announced Friday that it does not intend to invoke its mutual defense treaty with the US following an incident captured on video where the Chinese coast guard allegedly boarded two Philippine navy boats, with a Philippine sailor sustaining serious injuries.

  • The Age AU ☛ 2024-06-22 [Older] Two Westmead security guards stabbed amid spike in hospital assaults

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-06-21 [Older] GOP Convention Security Will Allow Guns Within Outer Perimeter, Sets Parade Route for Demonstrators

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-06-17 [Older] Authorities Across US Grapple With a Rash of Violence in Final Days of Spring

  • The Age AU ☛ 2024-06-19 [Older] Australia news LIVE: Coalition unveils nuclear power plant sites; Melbourne MP’s office vandalised in ‘escalation’ of attacks

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-15 [Older] Germany: Officials decry racist attack on young girls

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-06-17 [Older] US Suspends Avocado, Mango Inspections in Mexican State on Security Concerns

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-21 [Older] Germany arrests 3 suspected foreign spies

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-21 [Older] Germany: Far-right AfD's gains driving immigration debate

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-21 [Older] Neutral Cyprus rattled by Hezbollah threat

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-21 [Older] US Supreme Court upholds gun ban for domestic abusers

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-21 [Older] Yemen sees little hope for end to war in 2024

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-19 [Older] Sudan siege bears hallmarks of brutal Darfur war

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-18 [Older] Number of civilians killed in wars soars in 2023 — UN report

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-18 [Older] Chad government reports fire, explosions at ammunition depot

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-18 [Older] Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer on German Vogue cover

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-19 [Older] Swiss museum to sell Monet bought from Jew who fled Nazis

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • RFA ☛ What was Vietnam thinking, welcoming Putin?

      Dubious decision-making in Hanoi suggests the ‘securocrat’ faction is calling the shots.

    • New York Times ☛ Putin Came to Asia to Disrupt, and He Succeeded

      His embrace of North Korea and deal making with Vietnam injected more potential threats into a region already strained by Taiwan tensions and South China Sea clashes.

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-18 [Older] North Korea: Why is Kim Jong Un eager to welcome Putin?

    • France24 ☛ Russia slams Kharkiv residential building in deadly guided bomb attack

      Russia bombed a residential building in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Saturday, killing three people and wounding almost 40, as it stepped up  renewed hostilities.

    • France24 ☛ How Ukraine boosts its morale with football

      Football is an intrinsic part of life in certain parts of Ukraine. On mornings when there are no air raids, kids play football outside the Kharkiv Metalist stadium. A group of national guardsmen in Kharkiv recently gathered to watch Ukraine play against Slovakia at Euro 2024. FRANCE 24's correspondent in Ukraine, Gulliver Cragg, reports on how Ukrainians are keeping hope alive through football.

    • RFERL ☛ Kazakh Authorities Say Suspect Arrested In Attempt In Kyiv On Activist's Life

      One of two suspects wanted in connection with the attempted murder in Kyiv of Kazakh opposition activist and journalist Aidos Sadyqov was arrested by Kazakh authorities after turning himself in, Kazakhstan's Prosecutor-General's Office said on June 22.

    • RFERL ☛ Russia Adds Director Roman Kachanov, Others To 'Foreign Agent' List

      Russia's Justice Ministry has added prominent film director Roman Kachanov to the "foreign agent" list, the ministry's website said. Kachanov has condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

    • RFERL ☛ Kyiv Reports 'Massive' Attack Targeting Energy Infrastructure; 3 Killed In Kharkiv

      Ukraine's Energy Ministry and the national grid operator Ukrenerho say the country's battered energy infrastructure was targeted again in a large-scale Russian missile and drone attack early on June 22.

    • CS Monitor ☛ Seeing success on northeast front, Ukraine wants to use US long-range missiles

      The decision weeks ago to allow U.S.-supplied weapons to be used for limited strikes slowed Russia's momentum. But Ukrainian officials say they can't do much more until restrictions are lifted on the use of U.S.-provided long-range guided missiles.

    • RFERL ☛ Ex-Marine Paul Whelan Urges U.S. To Step Up Efforts To Free Him From Russian Prison

      Former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan has asked the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden to step up pressure on Russia to secure his release and that of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich.

    • RFERL ☛ Russia Prosecutes Artists, Historian For Alleged 'Foreign Agent' Violations

      Moscow's Prosecutor-General's Office has demanded that Russia's Investigative Committee open criminal cases against three women who have been on placed on the "foreign agent" register.

    • RFERL ☛ Former Regional Governor In Russia Released After Serving 8-Year Term

      The former governor of Russia's Kirov region, Nikita Belykh, was released from prison on June 21 after serving an eight-year prison term on a bribe-taking charge that he has rejected.

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-18 [Older] Putin arrives in North Korea for first visit in 24 years

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-18 [Older] South China Sea: Why are Vietnam-China tensions flaring?

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-19 [Older] More countries to reach NATO's 2% defense spending goal

    • CBC ☛ 2024-06-18 [Older] Rising economic indicators pushing Canada further from NATO spending target, MPs hear

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-19 [Older] US approves sale of arms, drones to Taiwan

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-19 [Older] US Defense Cooperation Agreement: Sweden gives green light

• Environment

  • New York Times ☛ After Hajj Deaths, Egypt Suspends 16 Companies

    The action against 16 tour companies came as governments look into whether many travelers were not properly registered to make the journey into the desert.

  • TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ State department of health urges private well users to prepare for impact of flooding

    If floodwater reaches the well, have it professionally inspected and decontaminated, officials said.

  • TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Minnesota Department of Health urges private well users to prepare for impact of flooding

    If floodwater reaches the well, have it professionally inspected and decontaminated, officials said.

  • TruthOut ☛ 2024-06-15 [Older] GOP Attorneys General Seeking to Block Climate Lawsuits Are Funded by Big Oil

  • The Age AU ☛ 2024-06-16 [Older] Climate is too serious to be obstructed by politics

  • Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2024-06-16 [Older] The Role of ESG in Mitigating Climate Change

  • Vox ☛ 2024-06-17 [Older] This number can measure how dangerous a heat wave is for you

  • Gizmodo ☛ 2024-06-17 [Older] The Hotter It Gets, the Harder It Is to Find Your Words

  • CBC ☛ 2024-06-18 [Older] Extreme heat days are overheating schools more often — and experts say it needs our attention

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-19 [Older] Stonehenge sprayed with paint by environmental protesters

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-18 [Older] Central America: Torrential rains kill several people

  • Energy/Transportation

    • CBC ☛ 2024-06-21 [Older] Quebec taxi drivers awarded $143M in class-action ruling

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-06-19 [Older] Australian Opposition Puts Nation's First Nuclear Power Plants in Its Energy Plan Ahead of Elections

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-06-19 [Older] U.S. Senate Passes Bill to Support Advanced Nuclear Energy Deployment

    • Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2024-06-18 [Older] ADB Signs $50 Million Commitment to Accelerate Energy Transition in Asia and the Pacific

    • Counter Punch ☛ 2024-06-18 [Older] Home-Energy Trading: A Coming Utopia or Dystopia?

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-06-18 [Older] Chinese Premier Focuses on Critical Minerals and Clean Energy During Australian Visit

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-16 [Older] Europe needs a green power grid. What's holding it back?

    • Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2024-06-17 [Older] Cross-Continental Energy Collaborations: Bangladesh’s Partnerships with Italy, France, UK and the EU

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-21 [Older] Balkan countries suffer blackouts amid major heatwave

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-17 [Older] 6 things to know about electric vs combustion cars

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-20 [Older] Ecuador struck by power outage, transmission line blamed

    • CBC ☛ 2024-06-17 [Older] Alberta's last coal plant has powered down and is not expected to burn another lump

    • CBC ☛ 2024-06-18 [Older] Emissions cap not possible without oil, gas production cuts, Deloitte concludes

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-21 [Older] Can we stop invasive species by eating them?

    • Science Alert ☛ Cosmic Shrapnel That Killed The Mammoth Is Buried Deep, Scientists Claim

      But did it really happen?

    • New York Times ☛ Are We Loving Our Pets to Death?

      Pet owners are treating their animal charges ever more like humans. But that isn’t good for pets, or for us, many experts argue.

    • Vox ☛ 2024-06-18 [Older] There’s a secret wildlife wonderland hidden in the US — and it’s in danger

    • CBC ☛ 2024-06-19 [Older] Churchill Falls, N.L., residents ordered to evacuate as wildfire grows out of control

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-21 [Older] Deadly wildfires hit areas of southeastern Turkey

    • BIA Net ☛ 2024-06-20 [Older] Wildfires erupt in four cities in western Turkey

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-06-17 [Older] Brazil's Lula Demands Faster Action Against Organized Crime in the Amazon

    • CBC ☛ 2024-06-16 [Older] New signs warning of great white sharks in the works for some N.S. beaches

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-17 [Older] EU ministers approve contested Nature Restoration Law

    • CBC ☛ 2024-06-16 [Older] Wildfire reaches edge of Fort Good Hope, N.W.T., no structures damaged as of Sunday morning

    • CBC ☛ 2024-06-17 [Older] N.W.T. outlines wildfire emergency supports for displaced residents

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-20 [Older] Endangered Iberian lynx population 'rebounding'

    • CBC ☛ 2024-06-19 [Older] Feds delay closure of B.C.'s open-net salmon farms until 2029

  • Overpopulation

    • CBC ☛ 2024-06-17 [Older] Calgary Stampede will go on as planned amid water crisis

• Finance

  • CBC ☛ 2024-06-20 [Older] Lawyer couple accused of stealing millions from more than a dozen homebuyers

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-19 [Older] EU rebukes France, Italy and others over excessive debt

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-18 [Older] Austria: Citizens' group decides fate of heiress' fortune

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-21 [Older] UK's richest family get jail terms for exploiting staff

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-21 [Older] German house and apartment prices drop further

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-21 [Older] Greece introduces the six-day work week

  • CBC ☛ 2024-06-20 [Older] The Bank of Canada's growing list of worries

  • CBC ☛ 2024-06-21 [Older] The wage gap for women in Canada's tech sector is only getting worse: report

  • CBC ☛ 2024-06-20 [Older] WestJet mechanics' strike averted, airline and union say

  • CBC ☛ 2024-06-18 [Older] WestJet mechanics hit airline with 72-hour strike notice

  • CBC ☛ 2024-06-19 [Older] Thousands affected after WestJet cancels flights in anticipation of mechanics strike

  • CBC ☛ 2024-06-16 [Older] LCBO workers vote 97% in favour of strike, union says

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-06-18 [Older] Amazon Aggregator Thrasio Emerges From Bankruptcy, Appoints New CEO

  • BIA Net ☛ 2024-06-21 [Older] Turkey ranked as most affordable country in Europe for consumer goods and services

  • BIA Net ☛ 2024-06-20 [Older] Turkey to hike departure fee 19 times in new austerity push, according to draft law

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-21 [Older] Germany's Habeck in China to talk tariffs

  • CBC ☛ 2024-06-21 [Older] Will Canada join the U.S. in a tariff battle against Chinese EV imports?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-20 [Older] Turkey to impose tariffs on all Chinese cars

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • Reason ☛ Can an Amicus Ask the Supreme Court to Overrule a Case Where the Parties Don't?

    The ACLU successfully asked the Court to reverse Wolf v. Colorado in Mapp v. Ohio.

  • New Yorker ☛ What to Expect from the Biden-Trump Debate, with the Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin

    “If anybody’s wondering whether debates matter,” Evan Osnos says, “the truth is that the history on this is pretty eloquent, which is that they do matter in very tight contests.”

  • Gizmodo ☛ 2024-06-21 [Older] Elon Permits Advertisers to Un-F*ck Themselves

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-17 [Older] EU leaders discuss Commission jobs in post-election summit

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-17 [Older] Afghanistan: What happens to single moms under Taliban rule?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-17 [Older] Chemnitz: A stronghold of Germany's far-right AfD

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-17 [Older] 'Democracy didn't fall from the sky,' says German Foreign Minister Baerbock in Bonn

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-21 [Older] Milei EU trip: snubbed in Spain, low-key in Berlin

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-20 [Older] Germany's Habeck navigates delicate China mission

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-20 [Older] Germany to examine asylum processing in third countries

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-20 [Older] US: Louisiana moves to put Ten Commandments in classrooms

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-19 [Older] China changes names of Uyghur villages, says report

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-19 [Older] Thailand: Has Thaksin's influence been curtailed?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-19 [Older] Vacations and job opportunities in peril as Macedonians wait for new passports

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • Reason ☛ What are the Limits on Faculty Speech?

    My response to Harvard's Dean Lawrence Bobo

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-18 [Older] Gaza protest response: Germany faces free speech dilemma

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-17 [Older] Why is China targeting #MeToo activists?

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Wall St Journal’s Selina Cheng takes helm at Journalists Assoc. as 2 committee nominees seek withdrawal

    The Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) voted in a new Executive Committee (ExCom) and chair on Saturday, with the Wall Street Journal’s Selina Cheng taking the helm as Channel C’s Ronson Chan stood down as chair.

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-06-17 [Older] Los Angeles Will Pay $300,000 to Settle a Lawsuit Against Journalist Over Undercover Police Photos

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-16 [Older] DW's Global Media Forum 2024: Media industry under pressure

• Civil Rights/Policing

  • JURIST ☛ Amnesty International warns of wave of regressive laws targeting civil society in Americas

    Amnesty International on Friday raised alarm regarding a wave of legal initiatives across the Americas that threaten to curtail the activities of civil society organizations. These measures, currently under consideration in Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela, pose severe risks to the promotion and defense of human rights in the region.

  • New Yorker ☛ “Green Border” Confronts the Horror and Heroism of the Refugee Crisis

    With pulse-pounding sweep and moral fury, the veteran Polish director Agnieszka Holland turns her camera on injustice at the Polish-Belarusian border.

  • Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2024-06-21 [Older] Amazon Labor Union Has Voted to Affiliate With the Teamsters

  • Scheerpost ☛ 2024-06-20 [Older] Amazon Workers Affiliate with the Teamsters, Next Up Electing Top Officers

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-06-18 [Older] California Fines Amazon Nearly $6M, Alleging Illegal Work Quotas at 2 Warehouses

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-16 [Older] Brazil: Thousands protest bill tightening abortion ban

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-21 [Older] Namibia: Major win for LGTBQ+ community

  • CBC ☛ 2024-06-19 [Older] Video shows neighbours making anti-Asian remarks toward Ottawa family

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-06-20 [Older] German lawmaker deletes post on football players' skin color

• Digital Restrictions (DRM)

  • New York Times ☛ The Future of Netflix, Amazon and Other Streaming Services

    Who will survive? Die? Thrive? And how? We talked to nearly a dozen top media executives and asked them to predict what lies ahead.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• IP Kat ☛ 2024-06-21 [Older] CJEU stands by country-of-origin principle for online service providers

• IP Kat ☛ 2024-06-20 [Older] Fresco removal might amount to moral rights infringement

• Trademarks

  • CBC ☛ 2024-06-16 [Older] 'My trademark is my accent': Acadians embracing their brand of French

  • IP Kat ☛ 2024-06-17 [Older] Who is the queen of fruits?

  • IP Kat ☛ 2024-06-18 [Older] [Guest post] 2004, 2007, 2014, 2024 – Four lives for the Crocs design?

  • IP Kat ☛ 2024-06-21 [Older] [Guest post] Animated designs – revisited under current and future EU design law

• Copyrights

  • IP Kat ☛ 2024-06-19 [Older] Time's Up! Warner Chappell Music, Inc. v. Nealy and the Discovery Rule Saga