Links 22/08/2024: Tension Around Taiwan and South China Sea, Automobile Market's Oversupply
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Leftovers
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Ruben Schade ☛ “Your experience with $FOO” spam
I’ve noticed more people trying to engage by sending spam in the form of a question. Then, when they inevitably don’t get a response, they’ll send a follow-up with another question:
It would be great to chat about your pipeline. We work with many game studios, maybe we can learn from each other?
Are you using Perforce? What do you like about it, what not?
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AccessNow ☛ The Ministry of Digital Affairs welcomes RightsCon to Taiwan
The Ministry of Digital Affairs, Taiwan, witnessed by Vice Premier Cheng Li-chiun of Executive Yuan, signed a Letter of Intent with Access Now.
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New York Times ☛ A Woman’s Family Reported Her Missing. Her Body Was in Hospital Storage, Lawsuit Says.
Jessie Peterson, 31, died at a hospital in April 2023. Her family members, who filed a missing persons report, were not told that she had died until a year later, according to a negligence lawsuit.
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Standards/Consortia
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Paul Boyd ☛ What is UDP? - pboyd.io
If you’ve heard anything about UDP, you’ve probably heard it described as connectionless and unreliable. That’s true, but it’s like describing Elon Musk as a wingless human: technically accurate, yet completely unhelpful. We usually define things by what they are, not what they aren’t. So, what’s UDP? Well, not much, it turns out. You can read RFC 768 for yourself, but to summarize, UDP is layered on IP and adds port numbers: [...]
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Zimbabwe ☛ Google says disable 2G on your phone and yet Zim mobile operators still rely on 2G to an extent
So, the march towards 5G continues and I’m properly whelmed by it now, as you should be too. The reality is that 4G/LTE will remain important in Zimbabwe for the foreseeable future, and even 3G will still be relevant.
However, we have no business being dependent on 2G/Edge and yet we still are, to an extent.
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Hackaday ☛ Supercon 2023: Soft Actuators As Assistive Tech
When we think of assistive prostheses or braces, we often think of hard and rigid contraptions. After all, it wasn’t that long ago that prosthetic limbs were still being made out of wood. Even devices made of more modern materials tend to have a robotic quality that inevitably limits their dexterity. However, advancements in soft robotics could allow for assistive devices that more closely mimic their organic counterparts.
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Licensing / Legal
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VOA News ☛ Shein sues Temu over copyright infringements as legal feud heats up
Online fast-fashion giant Shein has filed another lawsuit against competitor Temu, accusing the China-founded shopping platform of stealing its designs, copying its product images and engaging in other types of fraud.
The complaint filed in a Washington federal court this week alleges that Temu, which has grown in popularity in the United States, has subsidized its low prices by encouraging sellers to offer counterfeited items, stolen designs and substandard products.
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Axios ☛ Disney+ lawsuit: How Americans signed away their right to take a company to court
Disney denied any wrongdoing and argued that Piccolo had waived his right to sue twice when he signed up for a Disney+ streaming account in 2019 and when he used the Disney World website in 2023, according to a court filing from the company. "This argument borders on the surreal," per Piccolo's court filing.
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Science
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New York Times ☛ A ‘Speedy Little Star’ May Be on Course to Escape Our Galaxy
The so-called hypervelocity object, which is either a low-mass star or a brown dwarf, is traveling through the Milky Way at around a million miles an hour.
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MIT Technology Review ☛ A new system lets robots sense human touch without artificial skin
Even the most capable robots aren’t great at sensing human touch; you typically need a computer science degree or at least a tablet to interact with them effectively. That may change, thanks to robots that can now sense and interpret touch without being covered in high-tech artificial skin.
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Science Alert ☛ Streetlights Could Be Causing Insects to Starve, Scientists Warn
This might impact entire ecosystems.
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Science Alert ☛ Your Nose Can Reveal Serious Hidden Health Issues
Don't ignore it like your brain does.
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Hardware
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Tom's Hardware ☛ AMD updates Zen 5 Ryzen 9000 benchmark comparisons to defective chip maker Intel chips — details 'Admin' boost coming to backdoored Windows 11, chipset driver fix
AMD penned a blog post today to clarify Zen 5's gaming performance after withering criticism in the wake of its turbulent Ryzen 9000 launch.
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Hackaday ☛ Farewell Magnetic Stripe
For decades, the magnetic stripe has been ubiquitous on everything from credit cards to tickets to ID badges. But the BBC reports — unsurprisingly — that the mag stripe’s days are numbered. Between smartphones, QR codes, and RFID, there’s just less demand for the venerable technology.
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CNX Software ☛ xMEMS XMC-2400 is a 1mm-thin solid-state micro cooling fan-on-a-chip for ultrathin devices and SSDs
xMEMS Labs XMC-2400 is a vibration-free, solid-state micro cooling fan-on-a-chip that’s just 1mm thin and designed to cool the processor, other chips, and batteries on space-constraints devices such as smartphones, tablets, extended reality headsets, laptops, as well as SSDs. The XMC-2400 can deliver up to 39cc/sec airflow and up to 1,000Pa back pressure per instance while remaining inaudible and only consuming an estimated 30mW.
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Hackaday ☛ The First Mass Produced DRAM Of The Soviet Union
Although the benefits of semiconductor technology were undeniable during the second half the 20th century, there was a clear divide between the two sides of the Iron Curtain. Whilst the First World had access to top-of-the-line semiconductor foundries and engineers, the Second World was having to get by with scraps. Unable to keep up with the frantic pace of the USA’s developments in particular, the USSR saw itself reduced to copying Western designs and smuggling in machinery where possible. A good example of this is the USSR’s first mass-produced dynamic RAM (DRAM), the 565RU1, as detailed by [The CPUShack Museum].
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Hackaday ☛ Tiny ’90s Laptop Gets Modern Power
The laptop to have here in the 2020s varies depending on who you ask, perhaps a Framework, or maybe a ThinkPad. Back in the 1990s the answer might have included a now-forgotten contender, because in that decade Toshiba made a range of legendarily tough chunky grey machines. Of these the smallest was the Libretto, a paperback book sized clamshell design which was an object of desire. It’s one of these that [Robert’s Retro] has upgraded to use USB-C power instead of the original power brick.
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Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
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BIA Net ☛ Turkey’s health minister rules out extra Mpox measures for African students
No Mpox cases have been detected in Turkey yet, the minister has emphasized.
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Latvia ☛ Latvenergo pledges to donate to cancer patients
Latvenergo has pledged to donate funds to pay for medicines needed by oncology patients, the charity organization "Ziedot.lv" confirmed to Latvian Television on August 19.
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RFA ☛ American drug firms accused of clinical trials in Uyghur region
US lawmakers say biopharmaceutical companies are conducting medical testing in China’s Xinjiang.
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Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Beijing launches probe into dairy products from EU after bloc announces 5-year tariffs on Chinese EVs
By Matthew Walsh Beijing on Wednesday launched a probe into EU subsidies of some dairy products imported into China, the day after the bloc said it planned to impose five-year import duties of up to 36 percent on Chinese electric vehicles.
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New York Times ☛ Congress Presses Health Insurance Regulators on ‘Troubling’ Billing Tactics
Lawmakers are zeroing in on MultiPlan, a firm that has helped insurers cut payments while sometimes leaving patients with large bills.
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Science Alert ☛ Here Are All The Reasons Why You Should Enjoy Your Cup of Coffee
In moderation, of course.
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Mexico News Daily ☛ Government reinforces security in Michoacán to protect lime producers
Growers and packers say increased security is a temporary solution, demanding more robust action from authorities against extortion.
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Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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Major Hayden ☛ Rub some Hey Hi (AI) on it
Author’s note: This post is all about my personal thoughts on artificial intelligence (AI) and they don’t represent the views of any employer or group.
You can’t escape the clutches of Hey Hi (AI) lately.
It’s in my smartphone nestled next to my text messages. It’s in my work chats. It’s reading my Spanish in Duolingo. It’s in my photo albums retouching my images.
Sometimes we know that there’s Hey Hi (AI) involved in something and sometimes we don’t.
However, it seems like so many are in a rush to implement some kind of Hey Hi (AI) offering without a full idea of why they’re doing it.
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Security
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Integrity/Availability/Authenticity
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WhichUK ☛ Which? Shorts podcast: how to stop phishing attacks on your own computer
We look at the clever ways that scammers are trying to get hold of our information by hacking into our computers at home.
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Defence/Aggression
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CS Monitor ☛ How China-Philippines tensions are bringing South China Sea conflict to new brink
China’s expansions in the South China Sea are shifting power dynamics in the valuable, disputed waterways, complicating efforts to maintain peace.
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RFA ☛ China’s ‘growing authoritarianism’ won’t stop with Taiwan: Lai Ching-te
Taiwan’s president also warned of Beijing’s ‘military expansionism’.
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Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Taiwan is ‘not only target’ of pressure from China, island’s leader Lai Ching-te says
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te warned Wednesday that China’s “growing authoritarianism will not stop with” the island and urged democratic countries to unite to curb its expansion. China claims Taiwan as part of its territory, and a senior Chinese Communist Party official said Tuesday that Beijing was confident of “complete reunification” with the island.
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RFA ☛ Taiwan denies entry to asylum-seeking Chinese dissident writer
Deng Liting and her family are denied entry, leaving the democratic island less than 24 hours after jumping plane.
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Atlantic Council ☛ How quickly can Taiwan integrate US weapon systems? Speed is essential to help deter China.
To better prepare Taiwan to defend itself, the United States needs more transparency into Taipei’s weapons integration challenges.
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RFA ☛ China’s Pooh-tin pledges closer ties with Fiji for ‘ocean of peace’
Sitiveni Rabuka is the latest Pacific island leader to visit Beijing in recent months.
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New York Times ☛ Middle East Crisis: Israel and Hezbollah Exchange Strikes Amid Fears of Escalation
The Israeli military said it had hit weapons facilities, prompting Hezbollah to target an Israeli base, as tit-for-tat strikes continued across the Lebanese border.
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New York Times ☛ Israel and Hezbollah Trade Cross-Border Strikes
The strikes, in eastern Lebanon and the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, underscored how months of talks have failed to stop either the war in Gaza or the related conflict along the Lebanese border.
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RFA ☛ Ads on Facebook, Fentanylware (TikTok) target Lao women for marriage with Chinese men
The ads promise money, gold and a new phone – but the government warned of trafficking risk.
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RFA ☛ Lao and Chinese security forces raid call centers in the Golden Triangle
All centers in the Chinese-run special economic zone face a Sunday deadline to shut down their operations.
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Defence Web ☛ Tunisia looks to buy more Archangel boats from the US
The US State Department has approved a $110 million sale to Tunisia of additional 65 foot Archangel boats manufactured by Washington-based SAFE Boats International.
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Defence Web ☛ Border guards nab man with 34 passports
A routine inspection by Border Management Authority (BMA) border guards at the busy Lebombo port of entry (PoE) this week netted no less than 34 passports in possession of a single person.
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Atlantic Council ☛ Negah Angha: It’s crucial to understand and listen to diverse MENA voices
The Iranian-American foreign policy and national security expert was interviewed by our MENASource editor to discuss her views on Middle East policy, social movements, and where the region is heading.
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Bruce Schneier ☛ Story of an Undercover CIA Agent who Penetrated Al Qaeda
Rolling Stone has a long investigative story (non-paywalled version here) about a CIA agent who spent years posing as an Islamic radical.
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Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine
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RFERL ☛ German Chancellor Visits Moldova For Talks On Ukraine, EU Enlargement, And Bilateral Relations
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told Moldovan President Maia Sandu and Prime Minister Dorin Recean in a meeting in Chisinsau on August 21 that Berlin will remain the biggest European supporter of Ukraine.
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RFERL ☛ Ukrainian Lawmakers Ratify Rome Statute, The ICC's Founding Treaty
Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, on August 21 ratified the Rome Statute, the founding treaty of the International Criminal Court (ICC), lawmakers Yaroslav Zheleznyak and Oleksiy Honcharenko reported.
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New York Times ☛ Russia Seeks to Turn Humbling Incursion Into Military Gains
Two weeks after Ukraine launched its surprise attack, Russian forces have recovered from the initial shock and are trying to use the expanding war to their battlefield advantage.
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New York Times ☛ Russia Said It Repelled a Large Ukrainian Drone Attack as Offensive Advances
The attack came as Kyiv presses on with a cross-border offensive into western Russia that has rattled the Kremlin.
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New York Times ☛ Thursday Briefing: Russia Says Ukraine Aimed Drones at Moscow
Plus, China’s “road-trip auntie.”
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Meduza ☛ ‘Heads will roll’: Sources say Russian officials’ corruption and negligence made Ukraine’s incursion possible — and now they fear the consequences — Meduza
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Meduza ☛ Kremlin officials think Ukraine’s Kursk incursion could continue for months — and they want to convince Russians this is the ‘new normal’ — Meduza
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Latvia ☛ Anti-mobility obstacles continue to be placed along Latvian border
The defense sector continues to work on strengthening Latvia's eastern border and implementing the anti-mobility plan. Together with Colonel Andris Rieksts of the National Armed Forces (NBS), Latvian Radio walked through the area on the side of the A13 highway, near Kārsava, about 10 kilometers from the Latvian-Russian border.
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LRT ☛ Lithuanian citizen detained in Russia for spying, didn’t ask for assistance – ministry
Lithuania’s Foreign Ministry has confirmed that Aleksandr Poliackov, a Lithuanian citizen, has been arrested in Russia on espionage charges but has not requested legal assistance.
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RFERL ☛ Russian Ex-Deputy Defense Minister Held On Corruption Charges Loses Appeal
A former Russian defense official held in pretrial detention on corruption charges will remain behind bars, a Moscow court decided on August 21.
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RFERL ☛ Kyrgyz Banks Suspend Transactions To Major Russian Banks
The Keremet Bank in Kyrgyzstan said on August 20 it suspended money transactions to several major Russian banks. Last week, another bank in the Central Asian nation, MBank, made a similar statement.
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New York Times ☛ Wilmer Puello-Mota, Ex-U.S. Airman Charged With Child Pornography, Appears in Russian Video
“I don’t consider myself a traitor,” said Wilmer Puello-Mota, who has enlisted in the Russian military.
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Meduza ☛ Why Russia’s state censor is full of baloney when it blames ‘DDoS attacks’ for widespread disruptions to social network access — Meduza
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RFERL ☛ Belarusian Embassy In Yerevan Pelted With Eggs And Tomatoes After Lukashenka Statements
Protesters in Yerevan pelted the Belarusian Embassy with eggs and other produce and demanded that diplomatic ties with Minsk be cut over statements made by authoritarian leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka about Armenia's shift westward.
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RFERL ☛ RFE/RL Journalist Andrey Kuznechyk Marks 1,000 Days In Belarusian Prison
Journalist Andrey Kuznechyk of RFE/RL's Belarusian Service, known locally as Radio Svaboda, on August 21, marked the 1,000th day in prison on charges, he, his employer, and human rights organizations call politically motivated.
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RFERL ☛ Russia Postpones Local Elections In Districts Under Ukrainian Armed Forces' Control
The Russian Central Election Commission (TsIK) said on August 21 that it postponed local elections scheduled for September in seven districts of the Kursk region, parts of which have been under the control of Ukrainian armed forces since early August.
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RFERL ☛ Russia Says Head Of UN Atomic Watchdog To Visit Kursk Nuclear Plant
Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has confirmed he is ready to visit the Kursk nuclear power plant in Russia at the end of August, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on August 21.
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RFERL ☛ Russian Opposition Politician Dmitry Gudkov Sentenced To 8 Years In Absentia
A Russian court on August 21 sentenced exiled opposition politician and former parliamentary deputy Dmitry Gudkov to eight years in prison in absentia for his criticism of Russia's military offensive in Ukraine.
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RFERL ☛ Zelenskiy Says Solution Needed For Loan Secured By Frozen Russian Assets
Ukraine needs a real mechanism that will enable the use of Russia's frozen assets to work for the country in the coming months, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.
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RFERL ☛ Ukraine Reports Intense Fighting Near Pokrovsk As Russian Forces Press For Breakthrough
Ukraine's military said its forces came under repeated attack on August 21 around the town of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region, where Russian forces are pressing for a breakthrough.
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LRT ☛ Lithuania extends Ukrainian refugees’ protection for a year
The Lithuanian cabinet on Wednesday extended temporary residence permits for war refugees from Ukraine for another year.
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JURIST ☛ Ukraine parliament approves ban on religious organisations tied to Russia
Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Ukrainian parliament, approved the Law on Amendments to Certain Laws of Ukraine on the Activities of Religious Organizations in Ukraine (No. 8371), which bans religious organisations affiliated with Russia in Ukraine on Tuesday.
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France24 ☛ 🔴 Live: Ukraine says it hit pontoon bridges in Kursk offensive as Russia claims Donbas gains
Ukraine said on Wednesday it had destroyed Russian pontoon bridges with US-made weapons to defend its incursion into Russia's Kursk region as Moscow claimed its forces had halted Kyiv's advance in the region and gained ground in eastern Ukraine.
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France24 ☛ Humanity, not sympathy: How Ukraine treats Russian POWs in its 'exchange fund'
Ukraine’s surprise attack on the Kursk region in Russia has allowed the country’s forces to take hundreds of enemy prisoners, who Kyiv hopes to exchange for Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) held in Russia. Our special correspondent was able to speak with several of these Russian POWs in the prison where they are being held in Ukraine.
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The Strategist ☛ Territorial integrity is the base of European security
Since 2014, Russia has brazenly violated Ukraine’s territorial integrity with incursions, illegal annexations and a full-scale invasion. And now Ukraine is violating Russia’s territorial integrity with its own incursion into the Kursk region.
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The Straits Times ☛ Russia-China partnership ‘yielding results’, Putin says
The two sides agreed to optimise trade structure, grow bilateral trade volume and promote development of e-commerce.
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Atlantic Council ☛ Invasion? What invasion? Putin is downplaying Ukraine’s Kursk offensive
Vladimir Putin's efforts to downplay Ukraine's invasion of Russia have severely dented his strongman image and make a mockery of the West's escalation fears, writes Peter Dickinson.
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Environment
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Energy/Transportation
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Defence Web ☛ Chinese satellite tracking ship Yuan Wang 7 visiting Durban
Over the years people observing the ship movements at the port of Durban have become used to seeing the impressive Chinese tracking ships of the Yuan Wang class arriving in port for a visit lasting several days.
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Defence Web ☛ Chinese hospital ship on goodwill visit to Cape Town
A Chinese PLA Navy hospital ship, Peace Ark, has sailed from Maputo and can be expected to arrive in Cape Town on Thursday 22 August for a goodwill visit to South Africa’s ‘Mother City’.
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Atlantic Council ☛ McCue co-authors chapter in edited volume on US and Indian approaches to nuclear security challenges
On August 13, 2024, Forward Defense Visiting Senior Fellow Lieutenant Colonel James McCue co-authored a chapter in a new book published by Springer titled The Challenges of Nuclear Security: U.S. and Indian Perspectives.
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Latvia ☛ New car market in Latvia sees oversupply
After the pandemic and the Russian war crises, the new car market has finally recovered and there is even an oversupply of cars on the market. But Latvians are buying fewer and fewer new cars, Latvian Radio reported on August 21.
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Finance
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Breach Media ☛ Montreal’s model for resisting culture vulture capitalism
Toronto’s arts scene is cratering under the imperatives of corporate profit.
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BIA Net ☛ Diyarbakır farmers say 'interest rates more lucrative than agriculture'
"The economy minister says they will reduce inflation. Are they planning to do this by impoverishing farmers?” says a farmer.
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LRT ☛ Germany’s Commerzbank to open office in Lithuania by end of year
Commerzbank, one of Germany’s largest banks, will open its representative office in Lithuania in December, the bank announced on Wednesday.
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AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
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New Yorker ☛ How the Harris Campaign Beat Trump at Being Online
Trump has always drawn ideas from the darker corners of the Internet, but his new opponent has found a different kind of traction by embracing the Web’s native formats.
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CS Monitor ☛ Michelle Obama raised a big tent – and brought down the house – at the DNC
Michelle Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with a speech that went beyond the “Yes, we can!” of yesteryear, our cultural commentator writes.
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New York Times ☛ Democrats Use the Convention to Try to Define Trump as a Self-Interested Fraud
Speeches and videos seek to shrink Donald Trump in order to rise above him, as Kamala Harris and her allies work to minimize him and disengage from him.
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New York Times ☛ Michelle Obama Absolutely Takes Apart Donald Trump
No doublespeak, no metaphors — just straight talk.
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New York Times ☛ ‘Keyboard Warriors’ Who Stoked UK Riots Test the Limits of Free Speech
As hundreds of people appear in court for their role in recent anti-immigrant riots in Britain, several are accused of fueling disorder through online posts, raising questions about the limits of free speech.
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Off Guardian ☛ Fascism 2.0 – The changing face of social control media censorship
Facebook make only about £34 a year from the average customer in the UK – a little under £3 a month (and that’s before costs) so clearly there is no head-room or motivation, for a human level of customer service or attention.
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Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda
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TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Company that sent Hey Hi (AI) calls mimicking Joe Biden to New Hampshire voters agrees to pay $1 million fine
By NICK PERRY MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — A company that sent deceptive calls to New Hampshire voters using artificial intelligence to mimic President Joe Biden’s voice agreed Wednesday to pay a $1 million fine, federal regulators said.
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Censorship/Free Speech
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RFERL ☛ Kyrgyz Activist Loses Appeal Against Prison Term Handed Down Over Facebook (Farcebook) Post
Kyrgyzstan's Supreme Court on August 21 rejected an appeal filed by activist Kanykei Aranova against a 42-month prison term she was handed in June over a Facebook (Farcebook) post.
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Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press
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Press Gazette ☛ Evening Standard ‘legend’ Diane Chanteau: ‘Bold, brash, brilliant and ballsy’
Chanteau left journalism after the closure of the London Evening News and practised criminal law.
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Press Gazette ☛ Weekly Evening Standard to be distributed on Thursdays as ‘The London Standard’
The last edition of the Evening Standard will be distributed on Thursday 19 September.
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Press Gazette ☛ Independent local publisher The Lincolnite closes with nine jobs lost
Attempts to "secure the future of the business" have failed.
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Civil Rights/Policing
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RFERL ☛ Romanian Police Search Tate Brothers' Residence In Fresh Human Trafficking Case
Romanian investigators carried out four fresh searches on August 21 at residences of divisive Internet influencer Andrew Tate, 37, and his brother Tristan, 36, who are awaiting trial on charges of human trafficking, rape, and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women.
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Patents
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Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Deference to District Courts: Federal Circuit’s New Approach to Venue Transfer Petitions
In a recent order, the Federal Circuit denied Apple’s petition for a writ of mandamus seeking yet again to transfer a patent monopoly infringement case from the Western District of Texas (Judge Albright) to the Northern District of California. In re Fashion Company Apple Inc., 24-129 (Fed. Cir. 2024).
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Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Emphasizing Context in Claim Construction
In Neonode Smartphone LLC v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the Federal Circuit has reversed Judge Albright’s holding that claims of Neonode’s US8095879 are invalid as indefinite. No. 2023-2304 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 20, 2024) (non-precedential). The appellate panel concluded that Albright failed to properly consider the full context of the intrinsic record, particularly the prosecution history.
The ‘879 patent monopoly describes a touch-sensitive interface where functions are activated by a multi-step operation involving touching a representation of a function and then gliding away from it. Disputed claim 1 is directed to software for making this happen. In patent monopoly speak, this is claimed as a “non-transitory computer readable medium storing a computer program with computer program code …”
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Kangaroo Courts
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JUVE ☛ UPC Court of Appeal says Ireland is not a contracting member state [Ed: UPC is illegal and not constitutional; these sites that got funded by the litigation 'industry' are willing to ignore it and lie about it still]
The Court of Appeal has temporarily suspended a PI with effect for Ireland. In late June, the local division The Hague issued two opposing rulings in the dispute over continuous glucose-monitoring devices (CGM) between market leader Abbott and the Chinese newcomer SiBio and the latter’s distribution partner Umedwings.
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Trademarks
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TTAB Blog ☛ TTAB Reverses Section 2(d) Refusal of NAMASTE COUTURE BY APRIL STOLF over NAMASTE for Jewelry
The Board reversed a Section 2(d) refusal of the mark NAMASTE COUTURE BY APRIL STOLF, finding confusion unlikely with the registered mark NAMASTE, both for jewelry. The Board found the registered mark to be weak in view of numerous third-party uses, and the two marks more dissimilar than similar. However, it upheld the Office's requirement that the applicant disclaim the word COUTURE. In re Namaste Couture LLC, Serial No. 97652794 (August 19, 2024) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Peter W. Cataldo).
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Copyrights
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Digital Music News ☛ Kakaobank Acquires 15% Stake in PLAM Owner Naivy for $680,000
South Korea’s Kakaobank acquires a 15% stake in music streaming startup PLAM owner Naivy for $680,000. South Korea’s largest online-only bank, Kakaobank, has acquired a 15% stake in financial technology startup Naivy, in a deal worth $680,000 (908 million KRW.)
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Federal News Network ☛ A first snippet of the implications of artificial intelligence when it comes to copyright monopoly law
The U.S. Copyright Office has just produced the first report on AI, which addresses deepfakes.
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Monopolies/Monopsonies
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