Leftovers

• Hardware

  • Hackaday ☛ Double The Sensors, Double The Fun, With 2-in-1 Panoramic Camera

    When film all came in rolls, it was fairly easy to play with the frame of the image. Companies like Hasselblad (and many others) made camera backs that would expose longer strips of 35 mm film to create stunning panoramic images in one single shot. [snappiness] wanted to bring that style of camera into the digital age, and ended up with a 2-in-1 Sony-based frankencamera.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ Linus Torvalds still uses an AMD RX 580 from 2017 — also ditches Fashion Company Apple Silicon for an defective chip maker Intel laptop

    Linux creator Linus Torvalds still uses an AMD RX 580 and an defective chip maker Intel laptop for kernel development, as revealed through a bug report involving DSC on his ASUS 5K monitor. His deliberate use of modest, open-friendly hardware subtly pushes back against Hey Hi (AI) hype and proprietary bloat.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Chikungunya fever poses ‘medium to high risk’ of local transmission, warns Hong Kong health official

    The mosquito-borne chikungunya fever poses a “medium to high risk” of local transmission in Hong Kong, as thousands of cases were reported in the neighbouring Guangdong province, a city health official has warned.

  • Breast milk deliveries from Michigan prison benefit babies with moms behind bars

    Breast milk is going mobile at Michigan’s only women’s prison with a new $500,000 delivery program to babies of incarcerated moms.

  • NYPost ☛ How a low-key change to your hands can warn of advanced lung cancer

    Aug. 1 is World Lung Cancer Day, an annual observance dedicated to raising awareness about the deadly disease.

  • Latvia ☛ Interim head of Latvian Medical Association chosen

    A board meeting of the Latvian Medical Association (LĀB) on Tuesday, July 29th, decided to appoint LĀB Vice-President Māris Pļaviņš as the acting president of the association.

  • Thibault Martin: TIL that Micro habits can bring you down

    You don't need trauma to be depressed. A lot of people don't know why they are depressed, and think they have no reason to be depressed. Emma McAdam believes this is due to micro habits building up negativity, that outweigh the positive in people's lives and make them feel depressed.

• Defence/Aggression

  • Pro Publica ☛ Trump DOJ Halted Major Civil Rights Lawsuits in Louisiana, South Carolina

    The Trump administration has halted litigation aimed at stopping civil rights abuses of prisoners in Louisiana and mentally ill people living in South Carolina group homes.

    The Biden administration filed lawsuits against the two states in December after Department of Justice investigations concluded that they had failed to fix violations despite years of warnings.

  • In Los Angeles, a terrified immigrant sits inside a truck as a masked man swings a baton, shattering his window.

    We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself.

  • NYPost ☛ ‘Despicable’ terrorist who bragged about helping Osama bin Laden plan 9/11 could be free in days

    Haroon Aswat, 50, is set to be released from the secure psychiatric hospital unit where he's currently locked up after he completes mental health treatment.

  • The Straits Times ☛ 20 hospitals in Thailand impacted by Thai-Cambodia border conflict; 9 closed

    139 community health centres have also been affected, with 128 fully closed and 11 partially closed.

  • Brother: Walmart attack suspect a danger for years, ‘fell through cracks every time’

    A man charged with stabbing 11 people at Walmart had a history of schizophrenia, violence and incarceration. ‘It’s been an absolute nightmare,’ says his brother. Advocates say Michigan needs to do more.

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • LRT ☛ Lithuanian authorities raid company linked to prime minister’s family – media

      Lithuanian financial crime investigators conducted a raid Thursday at the offices of Dankora, a company tied to Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas’ sister-in-law, as part of a probe into alleged misuse of European Union subsidies, the news outlet 15min.lt reported, citing law enforcement sources.

    • Meduza ☛ Derk Sauer, pioneering Dutch journalist and Moscow Times founder, dies at 72 — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Russian veteran turned city council chairman caught on video threatening constituent: ‘I’ll smash your face’ — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ A ‘zoo’ of IT infrastructure: How Aeroflot’s slow-moving transition to Russian-made software left it wide open to hackers — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ ‘A step towards war’: Russia’s ex-President Dmitry Medvedev gets to nuclear threats in record time in latest social media dust-up with Trump — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Amid U.S. tariff threat, India tells state refiners to find alternatives to Russian oil — Bloomberg — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ A fortress under threat A year after reaching Pokrovsk, Russian forces appear ready to launch a full assault — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Kyiv death toll hits 28 as rescue workers recover 10 more bodies from apartment building struck by Russian missile — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Trump says U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff will travel to Russia soon — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Russian defense contractor charged with embezzling billions of rubles by supplying makeshift body armor to the military — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Ukrainian parliament passes Zelensky’s bill restoring anti-corruption agencies’ independence — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Suit up Ex-army chief and U.K. Ambassador Valerii Zaluzhnyi strikes a pose for Vogue Ukraine — and gets Russian propagandists talking — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Russian state media runs op-ed titled ‘No One Should Remain Alive in Ukraine’ — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Putin signs law penalizing online searches for content deemed ‘extremist’ by Russian authorities — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ U.S. reports secret talks with ‘Putin’s top people’ but no progress toward peace in Ukraine — Meduza

• Environment

  • Energy/Transportation

    • Hackaday ☛ Railway Time: Why France’s Railways Ran Five Minutes Behind

      With us chafing at time zones and daylight saving time (DST) these days, it can be easy to forget how much more confusing things were in the late 19th century. Back then few areas had synchronized their clocks to something like Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) or other standards like London time or Paris time, with everyone instead running on local time determined by as solar time. This created a massive headache for the railways, as they somehow had to make their time schedules work across what were effectively hundreds of tiny time zones while ensuring that passengers got on their train on time.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • New York Times ☛ Art Spiegelman, John Waters and Other Banned Artists on How Censorship Changed Them

    Nine artists on how American censorship changed their work and their lives.

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • New York Times ☛ E.U. Did Not Retain Texts Sought by Journalists on Covid Vaccine Deal

    The European Union acknowledged for the first time that a top official reviewed the messages, but said it had no duty to keep them, despite intense interest.

  • Meduza ☛ Find it out, write it down, get it out there. Leonid Bershidsky remembers pioneering journalist Derk Sauer — Meduza

  • BIA Net ☛ Court extends detention of journalist Ercüment Akdeniz in 'terrorism' case

    Akdeniz remains two suspects in detention in an investigation into the Peoples' Democratic Congress.

• Civil Rights/Policing

  • BIA Net ☛ Erdoğan 'postpones' mine workers' strike, bringing his tally to 22

    The president cited national security concerns for the move.

  • Hackaday ☛ When Online Safety Means Surrendering Your ID, What Can You Do?

    A universal feature of traveling Europe as a Hackaday scribe is that when you sit in a hackerspace in another country and proclaim how nice a place it all is, the denizens will respond pessimistically with how dreadful their country really is. My stock response is to say “Hold my beer” and recount the antics of British politicians, but the truth is, the grass is always greener on the other side.

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • APNIC ☛ RIR Governance Document consultation summary report and next steps

    The NRO NC has completed its qualitative analysis and summary of the community responses received on the RIR Governance Document.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Patents

  • Unified Patents ☛ $4,000 awarded for Key Patent Innovations entity, Malikie Innovations, video streaming patents prior art

    Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $4,000 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by Malikie Innovations Limited, an NPE and entity of Key Patent Innovations. The patents generally relate to various video streaming and media delivery technologies.

    We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on these patents. The ongoing contests are open to anyone, and include tens of thousands of dollars in rewards available for helping the industry to challenge NPE patents of questionable validity by finding and submitting prior art in the contests.

• Copyrights

  • Public Domain Review ☛ Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscura

    Centuries before photography froze the world into neat frames, scientists, poets, and artists streamed transient images into dark interior spaces with the help of a camera obscura. Julie Park explores the early modern fascination with this quasi-spiritual technology and the magic, melancholy, and dream-like experiences it produced.

  • Mexico News Daily ☛ Mexican photographer Rodrigo Moya, who famously photographed Che Guevara, dies at 91

    Part photojournalist and part street photographer, the naturalized Mexicn citizen captured some of the most significant events of the turbulent history of Latin America in the mid-20th century.