Leftovers

• Science

  • The Conversation ☛ 2025-05-01 [Older] How we discovered specific brain cells that enable intelligent behaviour

  • The Conversation ☛ 2025-04-29 [Older] What magic reveals about the brain – and how magicians sometimes fool themselves

  • The Conversation ☛ 2025-04-28 [Older] A robot that you ride like a horse is being developed. It will stretch current limits of engineering

  • The Conversation ☛ 2025-04-25 [Older] How human connections shaped the spread of farming among ancient communities

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-25 [Older] Ancient noblewoman's 5000-year-old remains found in Peru

  • Wired ☛ The Phony Physics of Star Wars Are a Blast

    What scientific things in Star Wars are just not scientific? I'm going to go over some of the more interesting ideas, but don’t get me wrong. I'm using these errors as a way to talk about science, but I don't think they need to be fixed. A more realistic Star Wars would probably be boring. Read on, you’ll see what I mean.

• Career/Education

  • Alabama Reflector ☛ Technologists welcome executive order on AI in schools but say more detail is needed

    A task force made up of members from various federal departments — like the Departments of Agriculture, Education, Energy and Labor, as well as the directors of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the National Science Foundation and other federal agency representatives — will be developing the program over the next 120 days.

• Hardware

  • The Conversation ☛ 2025-04-29 [Older] How the UK’s microchip industry is bouncing back after a quarter of a century

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-25 [Older] UK studies link contaminated air to cognitive decline

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-26 [Older] Why is cocaine flooding Germany?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-28 [Older] Brazilian study links ultraprocessed foods to early death

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-29 [Older] US study links everyday plastics to heart disease

  • Michigan Advance ☛ Florida bees hard at work in Michigan cherry orchards • Michigan Advance

    And the honeybees Peterson is setting up in northern Michigan are actually from Florida.

    Commercial honeybees are considered livestock by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and shipping colonies to different crops around the country is a common practice. For instance, hundreds of thousands of colonies were sent to California’s almond orchards in 2017.

• Proprietary

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-05-01 [Older] Amazon Cloud Revenue, Income Forecast Disappoint, Shares Slide [Ed: Clown computing as a bubble]

  • The Register UK ☛ Passkeys are now the standard for new Microsoft accounts

    Redmond’s not just playing with words as the company has also decided that all new Microsoft accounts will use passkeys by default. Passkeys, which involve the use of biometric identification like a fingerprint or face scan, PIN, and the like, will be the de facto new way to set up an account, and existing Microsoft users are being encouraged to visit their account settings page to delete their passwords and start using passkeys.

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) / LLM Slop / Plagiarism

    • University of Toronto ☛ LLMs ('AI') are coming for our jobs whether or not they work

      The current LLM craze is also coming for the jobs of system administrators for the same reason; we're overhead, just like internal development at (most) non-tech companies. In most non-tech organizations, both internal development and system administration is something similar to janitorial services; you have to have it because otherwise your organization falls over, but you don't like it and you're happy to spend as little on it as possible. And, unfortunately, we have a long history in technology that shows the long term results don't matter for the people making short term decisions about how many people to hire and who.

      (Are they eating their seed corn? Well, they probably don't think it matters to them, and anyway that's a collective problem, which 'the market' is generally bad at solving.)

    • Dhole Moments ☛ Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI - Dhole Moments

      It’s becoming increasingly apparent that one of the reasons why tech companies are so enthusiastic about shoving AI into every product and service is that they fundamentally do not understand why people dislike AI.

      I will elaborate.

    • Leon Mika ☛ The Alluring Trap Of Tying Your Fortunes To AI

      This trap is obvious when you think about it for a few minutes. But it really hit home when I was tinkering with a logo design in ChatGPT and getting nowhere. I don’t possess the skills needed to produce such a logo myself, and I couldn’t get the LLM to change it the way that I wanted. So I either need to keep asking it to make corrections — “no, make it larger still” — or just accept it as what it is.

    • Pivot to AI ☛ Duolingo replaces its contractors with AI, courses with slop

      Duolingo has been firing its contractors for AI slop for a while now. They told shareholders in 2023 that generative AI let them “create new content dramatically faster.” The company laid off 10% of its contractors around the end of 2023.

      Users are not happy. LinkedIn comments include how “the quality has lowered considerably compared to before, with more bad translations and awkward grammar,” “I learn languages to connect with people, not employ AI,” and “AI-first means customers last.”

    • Vox ☛ New study finds self-driving cars safer than human drivers

      In a peer-reviewed study that is set to be published in the journal Traffic Injury Prevention, Waymo analyzed the safety performance of its autonomous vehicles over the course of 56.7 million miles driven in Austin, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and San Francisco — all without a human safety driver present to take the wheel in an emergency. They then compared that data to human driving safety over the same number of miles driven on the same kind of roads.

      The results of the study, almost certainly the biggest and most comprehensive research on self-driving car safety yet released, are striking.

    • [Repeat] Dan Langille ☛ Implement Anubis to give the bots a harder time

      This is how I explain adding in Anubis to others. There is a more detailed example, with Nginx configuration below.

      [...]

      But wait, you told it localhost – this is a FreeBSD jail, plain, vanilla. That’s what you get. For production, I will move this to something like 127.0.0.24:8923 on lo1.

    • 404 Media ☛ Mr. Deepfakes, the Biggest Deepfake Porn Site on the Internet, Says It’s Shutting Down for Good

      The biggest site for nonconsensual deepfake porn on the internet says it’s shutting down and not coming back.

    • Futurism ☛ Worldcon Is Getting Eviscerated for Using AI to Select Panelists

      Not even the beloved World Science Fiction Convention, often known affectionately as Worldcon, is immune to the AI takeover. Worldcon is the longest running sci-fi gathering on the planet, starting in 1939 and doling out the influential Hugo Awards to literary heavyweights ranging from Kurt Vonnegut to Ursula K. Le Guin.

      But now the gathering has hit a huge snafu that sounds, frankly, like the plot of a Hugo-winning tale: in a statement about the planning for Seattle Worldcon 2025 later this summer, convention organizers admitted they turned to a large language model (LLM) to select which panelists to program.

  • Social Control Media

    • India Times ☛ Trump posts AI-generated photo of himself as pope

      The irreverent posting drew instant outrage on X, including from Republicans against Trump, a group that describes itself as "pro-democracy conservative Republicans fighting Trump & Trumpism." The group reposted the image, calling it "a blatant insult to Catholics and a mockery of their faith".

    • India Times ☛ New York cardinal says Trump AI pope image 'wasn't good'

      The White House then reposted it on its official X account.

    • Troy Patterson ☛ Thoughts on BlueSky

      Several leaders who I follow have provided differing opinions on BlueSky.

  • Windows TCO / Windows Bot Nets

    • Tech Central (South Africa) ☛ UK to warn companies that cybersecurity must be 'absolute priority'

      The UK will warn companies to treat cybersecurity as an "absolute priority" in the wake of attacks on retailers.

• Security

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-29 [Older] How secure is the critical infrastructure in Germany?

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • CBC ☛ 2025-04-25 [Older] She only learned her privacy had been breached by filing an access to information request

    • The Register UK ☛ Sam Altman's World brings biometric eyeball scans to US

      Unsurprisingly, regulators around the world have raised concerns about this whole idea of an upstart collecting and storing people's biometric data. South Korea fined the startup over $800,000 for privacy violations. Hong Kong ordered it to cease operations entirely, and Germany, Kenya, and Spain have initiated various legal actions against the firm.​

  • Confidentiality

    • 404 Media ☛ The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked

      The hack shows that an app gathering messages of the highest ranking officials in the government—Waltz’s chats on the app include recipients that appear to be Marco Rubio, Tulsi Gabbard, and JD Vance—contained serious vulnerabilities that allowed a hacker to trivially access the archived chats of some people who used the same tool. The hacker has not obtained the messages of cabinet members, Waltz, and people he spoke to, but the hack shows that the archived chat logs are not end-to-end encrypted between the modified version of the messaging app and the ultimate archive destination controlled by the TeleMessage customer.

• Defence/Aggression

  • La Prensa ☛ Shipwreck in the Southern Caribbean of Nicaragua reveals that illegal immigration through the country continues

    The source pointed out that the facilitation of irregular migration is part of the “hybrid war” waged by countries adversarial to the United States in the Latin American region, using migration as a weapon against the U.S.

    The expert stated that this route has not been disrupted because it has not attracted much attention from the United States.

  • India Times ☛ Trump says would extend TikTok deadline if there is still no deal

    Trump said he had a "sweet spot" for the app after it helped him win over young voters in the 2024 presidential election, adding, "TikTok is - it's very interesting, but it will be protected." One source close to ByteDance's US investors said last month that work on the prospective deal continues ahead of the June 19 deadline, but the White House and Beijing would need to resolve the tariff dispute first.

  • India Times ☛ China denies accessing data after TikTok hit with huge EU fine

    TikTok is a division of Chinese tech company ByteDance. But since its European headquarters is in Dublin, Ireland's Data Protection Commission is the lead regulator in Europe for the platform.

    The company has faced scrutiny in many countries over national security concerns that user data could be accessed by the Chinese government and worries the platform could spread misinformation.

    Several countries have banned the platform for varying periods, including Pakistan, Nepal, and France in the territory of New Caledonia.

  • The Atlantic ☛ Trump Is Destroying the DOJ

    His attack on the institution is threefold: He is using the mechanisms of justice to go after political opponents; he is using those same mechanisms to reward allies; and he is eliminating internal opposition within the department. Each incident making up this pattern is appalling; together, they amount to the decimation of a crucial institution.

    Investigations should be based on facts and the law, not politics. Yet Trump has made punishing political opposition the hallmark of his investigative efforts. The DOJ’s independence from political influence, long a symbol of its probity (remember how scandalous it was that Bill Clinton had a brief meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch?), is now nonexistent.

  • Rolling Stone ☛ Naomi Klein Interview: Trump, Musk, Pandemic Rage, and Climate Denial

    Rolling Stone reached out to Klein for a conversation about Trump’s unique shock doctrine — as well as his administration’s confounding war on science and basic research. Klein is a professor at the University of British Columbia where she directs the Centre for Climate Justice. (You can almost forget she’s not American until you hear the pop of a hard ‘a’ when she says “against.”) Klein also offered her views on the recent Canadian election, and the legacy of Pope Francis, who invited her in 2015 to participate in the launch of his encyclical calling for a shared reverence of the glories of our Earth.

    The following transcript has been edited for length and clarity.

  • Deccan Chronicle ☛ Google to Allow Children Under 13 to Use Its Gemini AI

    Tech giant Google is reportedly planning to allow children under 13 — whose parents use Google’s Family Link parental controls — to access its Gemini AI chatbot.

  • The Telegraph UK ☛ Illegal migrants flock to Britain for ‘easy money’ food delivery jobs

    The couriers, many of whom are banned from working because of their immigration status, are then wiring cash back home to cover the cost of loans that were used to pay criminal gangs for small boat trips across the English Channel.

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-25 [Older] What's at stake as India-Pakistan tensions rise in Kashmir

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-25 [Older] Pahalgam attack: India, Pakistan trade fire across LoC

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-25 [Older] Key militant groups in the Kashmir insurgency

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-27 [Older] India, Pakistan swap fire for third day after Kashmir attack

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-28 [Older] India-Pakistan tensions: US, China urge de-escalation

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-28 [Older] Kashmir: An all-out India-Pakistan war is unlikely

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-29 [Older] India planning 'military strike,' Pakistan minister says

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-25 [Older] US Republican George Santos gets 7 years prison for fraud

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-25 [Older] FBI arrests judge for 'obstruction' in immigration process

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-25 [Older] China set to lift sanctions on MEPs in EU 'charm offensive'

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-26 [Older] Iran port explosion: Number of casualties on the rise

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-27 [Older] Iran port blast: Rising death toll, number of casualties

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-29 [Older] Why doesn't Europe buy gas from Iran?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-26 [Older] Iran-US nuclear talks: What you need to know

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-26 [Older] Germany: Thousands protest police shooting of Black man

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-26 [Older] Germany: Thousands stage populist protests, counter-rallies

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-26 [Older] Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre takes own life

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-27 [Older] Car ramming attacks: Why do they keep happening?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-28 [Older] Vancouver: 11 killed after car plows into crowd at festival

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-27 [Older] Vancouver: 9 killed after car plows into crowd at festival

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-27 [Older] SIPRI arms report: New record in global military spending

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-27 [Older] Greenland PM says island not a 'piece of property' for sale

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-28 [Older] Houthi rebels say US strike killed dozens in migrant center

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-29 [Older] Yemen: US fighting costly battle against the Houthis

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-29 [Older] Will Germany renege on pledges to take in Afghans?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-29 [Older] Vietnam War 50 years on: How it changed perception of war

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-29 [Older] Hong Kong releases 4 jailed opposition members

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-29 [Older] EU top court rules Malta's 'golden passport' scheme illegal

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-29 [Older] Germany: Former AfD aide arrested on suspicion of espionage

• Transparency/Investigative Reporting

  • Lusaka ZM ☛ Zambia : We Learnt About New Cyber Law Through the US Embassy

    On April 8, 2025, President Hakainde Hichilema signed the Cyber Crime and Cyber Security bills into law. Yet, more than a week later, many Zambians remained unaware of the new legislation. Surprisingly, it was the United States Embassy in Zambia that first informed the public about the law’s implications.

  • TruthOut ☛ Waltz Reportedly Archived Signal Messages on Israeli Intelligence-Linked App

    However, as some journalists noted, a banner at the bottom of the screen showed that Waltz was using a companion app made by a firm called TeleMessage, which allows users to archive messages on Signal, where users can use settings to auto erase messages. This may be Waltz’s answer to attorneys suing the United States over officials like Waltz seemingly using Signal to discuss sensitive military and other top-level information to evade requirements for government records to be archived.

• Environment

  • Futurism ☛ Electric Car Battery Mining Operation Allegedly Hid Evidence It Was Leaching Dangerous Chemical Into Water System

    One of the common misconceptions about electric vehicles is that they're a net positive for the environment. While EVs are almost certainly better for the planet than gas-powered ones, they still have a substantial impact because of factors like battery manufacturing and coal-generated electricity.

    Mining the precious metals needed to build high-tech EV batteries is especially rough on the environment — and the people living nearby — as one nickel extraction operation has shown.

  • Jacobin Magazine ☛ To Rebuild Post-Fire, Los Angeles Should Look to Singapore

    Months after the fires, Los Angeles is beginning to rebuild, but current proposals don’t address the city’s long-standing housing issues. LA should emulate Singapore, which took a devastating fire as a cue to revolutionize its housing market.

  • Los Angeles Times ☛ FEMA didn't test for toxic substances in the soil after Eaton, Palisades fires

    Testing also revealed elevated levels of arsenic, lead and mercury in the yards of three homes that survived the Eaton fire — although these homeowners did not have the benefit of a federal cleanup.

    These results — along with historical data from previous fires — suggest that there could be more than a thousand ostensibly remediated properties still containing toxic substances in the regions ravaged by the fires in January.

  • Energy/Transportation

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-28 [Older] Is driving becoming a luxury in Germany?

    • India Times ☛ Britain to bar consumers from borrowing to buy [cryptocurrency] under new regime

      Britain plans to ban credit card purchases of [cryptocurrency] and tighten access to [cryptocurrency] lending, aiming to protect retail investors as it brings the sector under formal regulation. The FCA warns of risks, proposing credit checks, investment tests, and clearer rules for staking and borrowing.

    • Deccan Chronicle ☛ French Police Free Kidnapped Father Of [Cryptocurrency]-Millionaire

      "The victim appears to be the father of a man who made his fortune in cryptocurrencies, with the crime involving a ransom demand," the prosecutors' statement said.

    • RTL ☛ Ransom demand in the millions: Kidnapped father of [cryptocurrency]-millionaire freed in French police raid

      That victim, David Balland, had co-founded a [cryptocurrency] firm, Ledger, valued at more than $1.0 billion.

    • Futurism ☛ Small Towns Are Rising Up Against AI Data Centers

      "Hyper scale data centers bring few benefits to communities," claims Peaceful Peculiar, a grassroots campaign that successfully repelled a Diode Ventures data center in Peculiar, Missouri. "Dozens of communities around the nation severely struggle from the presence of data centers. It's only about maximizing their profits, so they choose properties as close as possible to a large power supply."

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-29 [Older] Italy's appetite for wood fuels Albanian forest crisis

    • The Conversation ☛ 2025-04-30 [Older] How dandelions conquered concrete to bring nature back to cities

    • The Conversation ☛ 2025-04-30 [Older] Our ape cousins show us empathy has deep evolutionary roots – new research

    • The Conversation ☛ 2025-04-28 [Older] Why whale urine is so important to life in the sea

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-26 [Older] Can the world's oldest tree standing in Chile survive 'progress'?

• Finance

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-29 [Older] 100 days of Cheeto Mussolini: US recession looms as bold promises burst

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-25 [Older] Can Germany ditch its 1 and 2-cent coins? [Ed: Penalising people who reject spying any time they pay]

  • [Repeat] Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-24 [Older] Germany expects zero growth in 2025, blames Cheeto Mussolini tariffs

  • Counter Punch ☛ 2025-04-29 [Older] The Tax Debate: What’s In it for Jeff Bezos and Amazon CEO Andrew Jassy

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-04-28 [Older] Exclusive-Some Amazon Sellers Are Pulling Out of Prime Day Amid Cheeto Mussolini Tariffs

  • TruthOut ☛ 2025-04-30 [Older] Italy Shows How Amazon Can Be Forced to Bargain: Shut Down Its Distribution

  • CBC ☛ 2025-04-25 [Older] Liquidation begins at remaining Hudson's Bay stores, including Toronto flagship

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-30 [Older] US economy shrinks by unexpected 0.3%

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • India Times ☛ Anthropic to buy back employee shares at $61.5 billion valuation: The Information

    The buyback programme comes at a time when many late-stage startups are struggling to balance valuations with internal morale, especially in sectors not experiencing the same capital influx as generative AI.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • Scheerpost ☛ 2025-04-30 [Older] Amazon Won’t Display Tariff Costs After Cheeto Mussolini Whines to Bezos

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-04-30 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini’s Tussle With Amazon Reveals Tariff Vulnerability

  • TruthOut ☛ 2025-04-29 [Older] Amazon Bends to Cheeto Mussolini, Denies It Planned to Post US Tariff Costs on Website

  • Tim Bray ☛ Censoring Social Media

    In mid-April we learned about Bluesky censoring accounts as demanded by the government of Türkiye. While I haven’t seen coverage of who the account-holders were and what they said, the action followed on protests against Turkish autocrat Erdoğan for ordering the arrest of an opposition leader — typical behavior by a thin-skinned Führer-wannabe. This essay concerns how we might think about censorship, its mechanics, and how the ecosystems built around ActivityPub and ATproto can implement and/or fight it.

  • Deccan Chronicle ☛ Trump Re-ups His Threat To Strip Harvard's Tax-Exempt Status

    He's underscoring that pledge even as federal law prohibits senior members of the executive branch from asking the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or an investigation. The White House has said any IRS actions will be conducted independently of the president.

  • TruthOut ☛ Midwest Activists Challenge Anti-Boycott Laws in Fight for Free Speech

    “It’s a very dangerous experiment in speech restriction and the ability to peacefully protest,” said Sheri Maali, a member of the Illinois Coalition for Human Rights.

    “First they came for the companies, now they’re directly coming to students and faculties on college campuses”, she continued. “So it’s a slippery slope.”

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-26 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini’s attacks on media tests US First Amendment press freedom

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-29 [Older] Germany: Police probe death of author Alexandra Fröhlich

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-30 [Older] Murder mystery: Who was best-selling author Alexandra Fröhlich?

  • RFERL ☛ World Press Freedom Day: Georgia's Media Crackdown Has Journalists 'Counting Our Last Months'

    Four reporters from RFE/RL's Georgian Service are among those who have been fined, often receiving notifications of the penalties by text message.

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ Nicaragua leaves UNESCO after exiled newspaper wins award

    Nicaragua has withdrawn from the United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization after UNESCO acknowledged the exiled La Prensa newspaper as part of the organization's press freedom awards.

  • [Old] Deutsche Welle ☛ Staff of Nicaragua newspaper La Prensa newspaper flee abroad

    The online edition of Nicaragua's oldest newspaper La Prensa on Thursday said its journalists, photographers and other staff had left the country for fear of being jailed

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    It follows a pre-election clampdown that saw dozens arrested last year, including La Prensa director Juan Lorenzo Holmann Chamorro and seven would-be presidential candidates.

  • TruthOut ☛ Reporters Without Borders Sounds Alarm on US Press Freedom Under Trump

    The U.S. fell from 55th to 57th place on RSF’s World Press Freedom Index, marking the second straight year that the situation in the country which lists freedom of the press first in its Bill of Rights has been classified as “problematic.” The report comes ahead of World Press Freedom Day on May 3.

    The U.S. has been trending downward on RSF’s index since 2013, when it ranked 32nd in global press freedom. A decade later, it had fallen to 45th place before plunging to 55th place last year amid Trump’s attacks on the media.

  • BoingBoing ☛ Trump executive order demands end to NPR and PBS funding

    Watching conservatives set out to destroy public broadcasting is a tragedy. But I see today that NPR and PBS are spending significant resources on fawning profiles of far-right activists such as Steve Bannon and Chris Rufo. To love your executioners is to admit you're already dead—it was the last line in the book, after all. But they're still going to kill you.

  • Corporation for Public Broadcasting ☛ Press Release | Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order on Public Media

    “CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the President’s authority. Congress directly authorized and funded CPB to be a private nonprofit corporation wholly independent of the federal government.

• Civil Rights/Policing

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-29 [Older] Vietnam War: How protest music fueled a movement

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-04-29 [Older] Amnesty International warns global human rights are at risk

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Patents

  • IP Kat ☛ 2025-04-29 [Older] [Guest Post] Appeals from the IPEC - costs, fairness and submarines [Ed: A "submarines" is an understatement]

  • Kangaroo Courts

    • IP Kat ☛ 2025-04-25 [Older] Fordham 32 (Post 2): Judicial Landscape, the UPC and BSH v Electrolux [Ed: UPC is illegal and this event is run by Microsoft et al to sell monopolies as a "law"]

• Trademarks

  • IP Kat ☛ 2025-04-27 [Older] Is it deceptive to use a designer’s name in a trade mark if the designer is no longer with the company?

  • IP Kat ☛ 2025-04-30 [Older] On the use of GIs as ingredients: the aftertaste of Champagner Sorbet

  • IP Kat ☛ 2025-04-30 [Older] EUIPO rules in favour of Mercedes-Benz in radiator grille EUTM appeal (R 2316/2024-1) [Ed: EUIPO and its tribunals are extremely corrupt, it's EU corruption that EU is unwilling to investigate]

• Copyrights

  • IP Kat ☛ 2025-04-26 [Older] Paws off! New licensing terms for IPKat content

  • Torrent Freak ☛ Twitch Blocked For Piracy as LaLiga & ISPs Prioritize Football Over Everything

    twitch-ball Attempts to significantly downplay the scale of the piracy problems faced by major European football leagues, are simply at odds with the facts on the ground.

    They’re also just as unhelpful as the staggering annual loss estimates spouted by rightsholders.

  • Nick Heer ☛ Publisher Opt-Outs Affected Half of Google’s A.I. Training

    Half. Half of the data Google uses to train its A.I. models was removed when publishers were made aware they could opt out. That does not mean the other half have affirmatively opted in, of course, but it means at least half of publishers do not approve of Google’s desire to absorb their corpus of information without payment and with scant credit.