Leftovers

• Hackaday ☛ Custom Hat Gives Vintage Mitutoyo Calipers A New Lease On Life

  Metrology fans are usually at least a little bit in love with Mitutoyo, and rightfully so. The Japanese company has been making precision measuring instruments for the better part of 100 years, and users appreciate their precision almost as much as the silky smooth feel of their tools. If you can afford it, a Mitutoyo caliper is quite an addition to your toolbox.

• Hackaday ☛ Sliding Shelves Supersize Storage

  Organizing things in your home or workshop is a constant battle for some of us. Until we have access to a Tardis or bag of holding, maybe the next best thing is a sliding shelf system.

• Hackaday ☛ Taco Bell To Bring Voice AI Ordering To Hundreds Of US Drive-Throughs

  Drive-throughs are a popular feature at fast-food places, where you can get some fast grub without even leaving your car. For the fast-food companies running them they are also a big focus of automation, with the ideal being a voice assistant that can take orders and pass them on to the (still human) staff. This probably in lieu of being able to make customers use the touch screens-equipped order kiosks that are common these days. Pushing for this drive-through automation change is now Taco Bell, or specifically the Yum Brands parent company.

• Science

  • Science Alert ☛ Grim Mystery of Ancient Egypt's 'Screaming' Mummy May Finally Be Solved

    Why does she look like that?

  • Science Alert ☛ Mysterious Antimatter Detection on ISS Sparks Radical New Theories

    Fire from the shadows.

• Hardware

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ Intel customer bemoans CPU RMA process — furious owner says defective chip maker Intel claims brand new Core i9-14900K chips purchased from Amazon and Micro Center are fake

    Intel says that a Reddit user's RMA claims were counterfeit products, threatening to destroy them if the user goes through with the returns. In the meantime, Micro Center and Amazon accepted the defective defective chip maker Intel chips and gave a refund despite the CPUs already falling out of the return window.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ China to achieve 'basic' self-sufficiency for chip fab tools this summer claims industry veteran

    Chinese chipmaking tools companies can now source many components from within China.

  • NYPost ☛ Biden-Harris wasted $8.5 billion in taxpayer money to lose 15,000 jobs at Intel

    Well, ladies and gentlemen: the chips are down — literally and figuratively.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ Intel's stock drops 30% overnight —company sheds $39 billion in market cap

    Intel capitalization drops by $39 billion overnight due to modest business outlook and a massive layoffs plan.

  • The Next Platform ☛ The Resurrection Of defective chip maker Intel Will Take More Than Three Days

    Intel’s second quarter is pretty much a carbon copy of the first three months of 2024 when it comes to revenues across its newly constituted groups, and with an operating loss that is twice as big.

  • Pakistan ☛ Intel Faces Biggest Stock Slump in 50 Years Amid Mass Layoffs

    The tech giant’s latest earnings report, which revealed a 1% drop in quarterly revenue to $12.83 billion, missing analyst forecasts of $12.94 billion, triggered the sell-off. Intel also announced significant job cuts, which contributed to the staggering stock decline.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • The Straits Times ☛ South Korea’s instant coffee giving the world a buzz

    It is enjoying a fresh surge in popularity, thanks to its appearances in popular K-dramas. 

  • University of Michigan ☛ U-M care gets top marks from national hospital rating system

    U-M Health's Ann Arbor-area hospitals and health centers have received the top ranking of five stars from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for quality, safety, timeliness and value.

  • Science Alert ☛ Most of The UK Predicted to Have Dental Disease by 2050, Study Finds

    But there's a way to avoid this.

  • Science Alert ☛ Sexually Transmitted Infections Are Rising in Older People, And This May Be Why

    A new explanation has surfaced.

  • New York Times ☛ Many of Gaza’s Medical Workers Have Been Detained or Killed

    Out of a prewar total of about 20,000 health workers, 500 have been killed in the war, according to the W.H.O., and more than 300 are in Israeli detention, Gaza’s health ministry says.

  • Reason ☛ Brickbat: What a Nice Idea!

    In the United Kingdom, a National Health Service survey found that 26 percent of people in Cheshire and Merseyside who tried to book a dental appointment in the last two years were unsuccessful, and 20 percent of Cheshire and Merseyside residents who did get to see a dentist rated the experience fairly or very poor,…

  • PHR ☛ 1000 Attacks on Health Care in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) Devastate Health System, Demand Accountability: PHR

    More than 1000 attacks have now been recorded on health workers, patients, hospitals, and other medical infrastructure in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) since October 7, 2023, more reported attacks on health care than any other conflict over a 10-month period on record, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) said today.

  • Federal News Network ☛ DoD plans to ‘right size’ its medical staff after years of cutbacks

    The number of TRICARE beneficiaries who get health care from military facilities is about half what it was 20 years ago. DoD now wants those patients back.

• Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)

  • New York Times ☛ Tech Companies to Keep Spending on Hey Hi (AI) Despite Worries of Slow Payoff [Ed: Deepening the losses the rally shares based on a complete lie]

    Big technology companies show no signs of slowing their spending on artificial intelligence, even though a payoff still looks a long way away.

  • [Repeat] Ruben Schade ☛ Can’t use /home on macOS

    macOS is a certified UNIX platform, and at times it has enough in common with other Unix-like OS to be useful. Every time I use a Windows machine, I get frustrated that I don’t have the same shell and utilities that macOS supports natively (and no, Cygwin and WSL don’t count).

    But… occasionally you’re reminded things are a bit different. The location of /home is the one that has always frustrated me, because it breaks certain config files, nor can I type them quickly.

  • The Register UK ☛ 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution

    The late great Dr Gary Kildall developed CP/M in his spare time from teaching at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. On the side, he was moonlighting for a small five-year-old tech startup called Intel, which was working on its second microprocessor, the eight-bit 8008. First, Kildall wrote a small programming language for the 8008, which he called PL/M (Programming Language for Microprocessors) in playful reference to IBM's PL/I. Lacking working 8008 hardware yet, he prototyped this on a DEC PDP-10.

  • Silicon Angle ☛ Wait, will generative Hey Hi (AI) really pay off? Inquiring investors want to know

    Amid a glut of funding for artificial intelligence companies, there’s understandably increasing concern among investors this past week, apparent in disappointment in the earnings results of a number of technology companies, whether all this will pay off.

  • ‘Microsoft Fired Me in 2005 and It Made Me Confront My Fears, Re-evaluate My Goals and Find More Aligned Path’: Scintillate CEO Kapil Kulshreshtha

  • ABP ☛ Just A Cheque And Shown The Door: Ex-Microsoft India Employee Reveals Sudden Layoff Experience

  • Security Week ☛ The European Union’s World-First Artificial Intelligence Rules Are Officially Taking Effect

    EU officials say the Artificial Intelligence Act will protect the “fundamental rights” of citizens while also encouraging investment and innovation in the booming Hey Hi (AI) industry.

  • NYPost ☛ Famous Criminal Bill Gates tell-all book claims Microsoft banned interns from being alone with ‘flirty’ mogul before divorce: ‘Kid in a candy store’

    Gates, who divorced his wife Melinda French Gates in the summer of 2021 after 27 years of marriage, is reported to have routinely cheated on her.

  • Jim Nielsen ☛ Deploying on Netlify with Apple’s Shortcuts

    Just a quick note on a personal workflow thing.

    I’ve written before about the many different ways I host my personal websites on Netlify.

    I’ve got a few websites that aren’t the traditional model of: commit to git, push, build triggers on Netlify, website goes live.

    Sometimes I want to manually trigger a site deploy — but I’m lazy and don’t want to open a browser, go to netlify.com, find my site in the UI, find the button to trigger a deploy, etc.

• Defence/Aggression

  • New York Times ☛ Why Some Young People in China Pretend to Be Birds [Ed: Social control media's impact]

    Some people in China flap and squawk on social control media as way of escaping hustle culture. We can explain.

  • RFA ☛ Philippines, US carry out ‘cooperative activity’ in South China Sea

    Meanwhile, Vietnamese and Philippine coast guards will soon hold first joint maritime drills.

  • RFA ☛ Protesters in US were attacked by Beijing-linked figures: report

    Anti-Xi protesters at last year’s APEC summit were harassed and assaulted to silence them, the report says.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Vietnam, Philippines coast guards to hold South China Sea training exercises of ‘profound political significance’

    A Vietnamese coast guard vessel is en route to the Philippines for joint training exercises, Hanoi said, the first such exchange between the countries in dispute with Beijing over the South China Sea.

  • Defence Web ☛ Joint military exercise between China, Mozambique and Tanzania underway

    The Chinese, Mozambican and Tanzanian militaries are currently holding the Peace Unity 2024 joint exercise in Tanzania, focussing on counter-terror military operations.

  • The Strategist ☛ China’s high stakes and deepfakes in the Philippines

    A covert social control media campaign operated by the Chinese government appears to be spreading a deepfake video seeking to undermine support for Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr, according to new research conducted by ASPI.

  • France24 ☛ Iran's regime ‘will not commit suicide’ to avenge death of Hamas chief Haniyeh

    Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Tehran on Wednesday in a strike blamed on Israel. Iran has promised to avenge his death, sparking fears of a broader regional conflict stemming from the Gaza war.

  • RFA ☛ India pledges $300m loan to boost Vietnam’s maritime security

    During Vietnamese PM Pham Minh Chinh’s visit to Delhi the two sides also launched a military software hub.

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • RFERL ☛ Member Of Russian Upper House Detained Over Alleged Plot To Kill His Business Partner

      Dmitry Savelyev, a member of the Russian parliament's upper chamber, was detained on August 2 on suspicion of involvement in a plot to kill his business partner.

    • RFERL ☛ Moldovan Official Accused Of Treason Placed In Preventive Custody

      A court in Moldova's capital, Chisinau, has ordered preventive custody for one of the two suspects detained on July 31 in a case of treason and conspiracy that has also led to the expulsion of a Russian diplomat.

    • RFERL ☛ Slain Chechen's Family Not Informed Of Deal To Exchange Hitman Krasikov

      The widow of the former Chechen field commander Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, who was shot dead in Berlin in late August 2019, said she and her family had not been informed about the plan to take her husband's killer out of a German prison and send him back to Russia as part of a prisoner swap.

    • RFERL ☛ EU Voices Concern, Asks Hungary For Clarifications On Plan To Ease Entry For Russians, Belarusians

      EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson has voiced concern about Hungary's recent decision to make it easier for Russian and Belarusian citizens to enter the country and asked Budapest for clarifications.

    • RFERL ☛ Gas Explosion Death Toll In Russia's Nizhny Tagil Rises To 6

      Emergency officials in the Urals city of Nizhny Tagil said on August 2 that three more bodies, including that of a child, were found amid the debris of a residential building that partially collapsed after a gas explosion, bringing the number of people killed in the accident to six.

    • RFERL ☛ Kurmasheva, Gershkovich, Whelan Back In U.S. After Prisoner Swap With Russia

      The plane carrying Alsu Kurmesheva, Evan Gershkovich, and Paul Whelan -- three of the 24 detainees involved in the largest prisoner exchange since the Cold War ended -- has landed at a U.S. Air Force base outside of Washington, D.C.

    • New York Times ☛ Russian Dissident Says He Was Traded Against His Will in Inmate Swap

      Ilya Yashin, a prominent opposition politician, said he appreciated his freedom, but told his jailers he did not want it if it meant going into exile.

    • New York Times ☛ Hundreds of Prisoners in Russia, Including Americans, Were Left Behind in Swap

      Hundreds of prisoners — including Americans and Russian political activists — are hoping for a diplomatic agreement that might secure their release.

    • New York Times ☛ Behind the Prisoner Swap: Spies, a Killer, Secret Messages and Unseen Diplomacy

      The negotiations that led to the prisoner swap and the freeing of Americans wrongfully held in Russia required patience and creativity, but gave both sides what they wanted most.

    • LRT ☛ Migration Department employee hides Russian citizenship, loses job and Lithuanian passport

      An employee of the Migration Department has concealed her Russian citizenship and lost both her Lithuanian passport and her job, the department announced on Friday.

    • France24 ☛ FSB and sleeper agents among the Russians freed in prisoner swap

      Members of Russia's Federal Security Service, or FSB, and sleeper agents living abroad were among those freed in a multinational prisoner swap on Thursday. The children of deep-cover agents posing as Argentinian expats in Slovenia were not even aware of their Russian heritage until they were transported to Moscow along with their parents, who were jailed for espionage in 2022.

    • Atlantic Council ☛ Turkey’s linchpin role in the Russia prisoner swap offers a lesson

      Turkey’s role in facilitating the prisoner swap that freed Evan Gershkovich demonstrates how Ankara’s diplomatic balancing act can be an asset to its Western allies.

    • The Strategist ☛ Korolev case suggests Australia isn’t immune from ideological spying

      It seems that espionage, specifically driven by ideology, is making a comeback—a motivation we in the West have naively considered a relic of the past, especially when directed against us.

    • Federal News Network ☛ Don’t forget the mostly unknown career feds behind the prisoner exchange

      The U.S. seems mighty imperfect these days, but would you trade it for the government in Russia, or Venezuela or China?

    • Latvia ☛ Russian DJ has the plug pulled on his Rīga performance

      Latvia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said August 2 it had added yet another Russian musical performer to its list of people who are not welcome in Latvia.

    • Meduza ☛ The battlefield options, advantages, and disadvantages for Russia and Ukraine in the months ahead — Meduza

    • RFERL ☛ Russian Court Issues Arrest Warrant In Absentia For Kremlin Critic

      Moscow's Lefortovo Court on August 1 issued an arrest warant in absentia on a charge of treason for lawyer Ilya Novikov, an outspoken Kremlin critic who has openly criticized Russia's full-scale aggression against Ukraine.

    • RFERL ☛ Ukraine Obtains Bodies Of 250 Soldiers Killed In Russian-Occupied Regions

      The bodies of 250 Ukrainian soldiers killed in action in Russian-occupied parts of the country have been handed over to the Ukrainian authorities, the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War reported in a message on Telegram on August 2.

    • RFERL ☛ Released Russian Activists Vow To Continue Fighting For A Free Russia

      Three of the Russian activists freed in a prisoner swap orchestrated by the United States and Russia thanked all those who helped secure their release and cautioned against believing that all Russians support the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

    • RFERL ☛ Belarusian Trampolinist Is First Neutral To Win Gold At Paris Olympics

      Ivan Litvinovich of Belarus has become the first athlete competing as a neutral at the Paris Olympics to win a gold medal. Litvinovich won the men's trampoline final on August 2.

    • LRT ☛ Drone training space opens in Vilnius

      A drone training space was opened in Vilnius on Friday as the importance of drones has emerged during Russia’s war against Ukraine.

    • New York Times ☛ Convicted Assassin Is Russian Security Agent, Kremlin Acknowledges

      Vadim Krasikov, who was returned to Russia in the big prisoner swap, received a hero’s welcome from President Putin, along with others who were freed.

    • New York Times ☛ How Aleksei Navalny’s Death Restored Evan Gershkovich’s Life

      The plan that freed the journalist was hatched long before he was arrested.

    • New York Times ☛ Germany Grapples With ‘Difficult Decision’ in Prisoner Swap

      By releasing a convicted assassin, Germany played a critical role in securing the freedom of 16 people held in Russia. But the decision has raised questions about political influence in legal cases.

    • LRT ☛ Lithuanian PM proposes replacing two ministers

      Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė on Friday submitted to President Gitanas Nausėda an updated composition of the new cabinet of ministers. She proposes to replace Agriculture Minister Kęstutis Navickas and Health Minister Arūnas Dulkys.

    • Atlantic Council ☛ As sixteen of Putin’s prisoners come home, don’t forget the millions of hostages who remain

      Thousands of Russians are sitting in Putin’s prisons. And over the years, he has successfully turned the whole country into a gulag.

• Environment

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ At least 30 dead after torrential rain in central China, dozens more missing

    Torrential rains in China have killed at least 30 people and left dozens more missing, state media said Thursday, as the country grinds through another summer of extreme weather. Confirmation of the deaths came the same day that weather authorities said July was China’s hottest month since records began six decades ago.

  • RFA ☛ North Korea refused China's rescue offer for Yalu River island residents

    Officials said Pyongyang was afraid residents would use the effort to try to escape to China permanently.

  • RFA ☛ Rising waters have ravaged rainy season crops throughout Asia

    Weeks’ worth of rain leaves homes, fields flooded in areas of China, Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos.

  • Energy/Transportation

    • Hackaday ☛ Better Battery Design Through Science

      Before the age of lithium batteries, any project needing to carry its own power had to rely on batteries that were much less energy-dense and affordable. In many ways, we take modern lithium technology for granted, and can easily put massive batteries in our projects by the standards of just a few decades ago. While the affordability of lithium batteries has certainly decreased the amount of energy we need to put in to our projects to properly size batteries, there’s still a lot of work to be done if you’re working on a bigger project or just want to get the maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of your DIY battery pack.

• Finance

  • RFA ☛ Starbucks sees plunging China sales as middle classes trim spending

    The company is hit by the economic downturn, as people seek out cheaper options amid widespread unemployment.

  • TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Vadnais Heights soccer charity found in violation of state laws, according to state attorney general

    The tax-exempt charity provided help for soccer players on the Minnesota Eclipse youth soccer team from 2017 to 2022. During that time only one board meeting was held, Ellison said.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Domestic workers’ rights advocates call on Hong Kong gov’t to mandate monthly ‘living wage’ of HK$6,300

    Migrant domestic workers rights’ advocates have met with Hong Kong government representatives to call for a “living wage” of HK$6,300 per month, plus food allowance of HK$2,700.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • New York Times ☛ Iceland’s New President Is a Feminist, and a Friend of Björk

    Though the president’s role is mostly ceremonial, Halla Tómasdóttir said that she would seek to raise “the right questions” and bring attention to critical health issues.

  • RFERL ☛ Kosovar President Involved In Security Incident At Airport In North Macedonia

    Kosovo has accused security staff at the airport in neighboring North Macedonia's capital of violating international practices after an incident during which President Vjosa Osmani refused to allow her mobile phone to go through a security check.

  • Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications

    • Los Angeles Times ☛ Tired of text spam from political fundraisers? Here's what to do

      The deluge led me to change tactics, and eventually the texts slowed to a trickle, more like the occasional mosquito bite than a nagging headache. But it took persistent action on my part to get to that point.

      Here’s a quick explanation of why you, too, might find yourself besieged by political texts and what you can do about them.

  • Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

    • France24 ☛ What fake news is being shared about US presidential candidate Kamala Harris?

      There have been a wide range of fake news stories circulating on social control media about US Vice President Kamala Harris since President Joe Biden withdrew his re-election bid on July 21 and endorsed her instead. Social media users have been circulating a photo that allegedly shows Harris next to the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Other posts feature Harris’ statements taken out of context or digitally altered videos.

    • Cloudbooklet ☛ Actress Meera Chopra Nude Video Leak is Hey Hi (AI) Generated DeepFake

      Uncover the details of Meera Chopra nude video leak and the implications for privacy and digital ethics.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • NYPost ☛ The FBI is back to meddling in free speech on social control media

    Associate Deputy Attorney General George. D. Turner issued a memo stating that the FBI "will resume regular meetings in the coming weeks with social control media companies to brief and discuss potential FMI threats involving the companies' platforms."

  • BIA Net ☛ Turkey blocks Instagram after Erdoğan aide’s criticism over ‘censorship’ on killed Hamas leader

    The president’s communications director criticized Instagram for censoring messages of condolences for the Hamas leader. Hours later, the internet authority blocked the platform without providing a specific reason.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Detained activist Chow Hang-tung launches legal bid after 4 ‘anti-authority’ books kept from her by prison dept.

    Detained Hong Kong activist Chow Hang-tung has filed a legal challenge after four books were kept from her by correctional services, including one on the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown, on the grounds that they “could provoke anti-authority sentiment.”

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • Press Gazette ☛ Sheffield Star fielded 110 complaints over reader letter about ‘brainwashed’ Palestine campaigners

    Newspaper admitted publishing the letter was a "grave error".

  • Press Gazette ☛ Swindon Town FC news site is test case for wider network of sports outlets

    The Moonraker hopes to generate paying subscribers and attract journalists to pay to launch their own versions.

  • Press Gazette ☛ Scotsman newsroom ‘angered’ by ‘severe’ cuts

    Lack of subscriptions growth reportedly given as reason for cuts.

  • Press Gazette ☛ News media job cuts 2024 tracked: Staff at CNN, LAist and BDG among latest affected

  • Press Gazette ☛ Digital advertising crossroads is time for ‘genuine rethink’ by publishers

    Advertisers can also do more to better support the publisher ecosystem.

• Civil Rights/Policing

  • New York Times ☛ Contestants on MrBeast’s ‘Beast Games’ Say They Were Hungry and Injured on Set

    The contestants in the internet star’s “Beast Games” expected outlandish challenges and signed contracts that acknowledged risks of serious injury and death. Still, few were prepared for the conditions on set.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Silicon Angle ☛ Justice Department reportedly investigating Nvidia’s Run:ai acquisition

  The U.S. Justice Department is reportedly scrutinizing Nvidia Corp.’s acquisition of startup Run:ai, which develops software for managing graphics card clusters.  Politico reported the probe on Thursday afternoon, citing people familiar with the matter.

• Patents

  • Patent Dispute Report: 2024 Mid-Year Report

    This post initially appeared on Unified Patents’ News and Views Blog. More analysis is available here.  Patent litigation in the United States showed an upward trend in the first half of 2024, with non-practicing entity (NPE) filings increasing significantly compared to the same period in 2023.

  • Unified Patents ☛ DynaIP entity, Cloud Systems HoldCo IP, IoT patent monopoly challenge instituted

    On July 12, 2024, four weeks after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 8,533,326, owned and asserted by Cloud Systems HoldCo IP, LLC, an NPE and DynaIP entity. 

  • Software Patents

    • Unified Patents ☛ Voice Tech open source patent monopoly affirmed invalid by Federal Circuit

      On August 1, 2024, the Federal Circuit affirmed the Patent Office's final decision confirming that all claims (1-8) of U.S. Patent 10,491,679 were unpatentable. Owned and asserted by Voice Tech Corp, the ’679 patent monopoly relates to voice-activated computing. The patent monopoly was asserted against Linux-based technology from Mycroft Hey Hi (AI) for using open source, voice-related features. This invalid patent has been blamed for the closure of Mycroft AI.

• Trademarks

  • TTAB Blog ☛ Precedential No. 16: "GABBY'S TABLE" Specimen Fails to Show Use of Mark for Recited On-Line Store Services

    The Board affirmed a refusal to register the mark GABBY'S TABLE for "Computerized on-line retail store services in the field of food, cooking utensils, cookware, culinary arts cookbooks, magazines and videos, and lifestyle books, magazines and videos" because the specimen of use showed that Applicant Gail Wiess "provides referrals of products for sale by third parties on their websites" and not the services recited in the application. In re Gail Weiss, Serial No. 88621608 (August 1, 2024) [precedential] (Opinion by Judge Peter W. Cataldo).

• Copyrights

  • Digital Music News ☛ Suno, Udio Fire Back Against RIAA Copyright Suits, Doubling Down on Fair Use and Soundalike Output Arguments

    AI-powered music-creation platforms Suno and Udio have officially fired back against the high-stakes copyright monopoly infringement lawsuits they’re facing from the major labels. Both defendants just recently took aim at the suits; Udio is being sued in a New York federal court, while Suno is facing a separate-but-similar action in Massachusetts.

  • NYPost ☛ Aerosmith retires from touring, says Steven Tyler’s voice can’t recover from injury

    So much for their farewell tour. After five decades together, the boys are saying goodbye to touring.

  • Zimbabwe ☛ DStv Warned Over Sports Rights. “The national team doesn’t belong to MultiChoice… For the poor we will declare war!”

    DStv received a “friendly warning” from South Africa’s new sports minister recently over broadcasting rights in the country.

  • New York Times ☛ Justin Timberlake, on Tour, Beams Into Sag Harbor to Plead Not Guilty

    The singer’s arrest and prosecution on a drunken-driving charge has drawn the curious to the Hamptons and supplied the internet with meme fodder.

  • Latvia ☛ Latvia plans to crack down on Internet [Copyrights issues]

    With new changes to the law, the National Electronic Mass Media Council (NEPLP) hopes to put an end to the theft of intellectual property in Latvia, head of NEPLP Ivars Āboliņš told Latvian Television in an interview on August 2.