Leftovers

• Cory Dransfeldt ☛ A short list of tech security tips when traveling

  If flying, power off all of your devices when going through security.

• Andy Bell ☛ Functional custom elements the easy way

  When you need a sprinkling of JavaScript on your web page, there is no better answer than Custom Elements (or Web Components). You get a lot of “framework goodies” for free, built in to the language, and you don’t need to include any frameworks that bloat your web page size into the hundreds of kilobytes, or even megabytes.

• Sightline Media Group ☛ Beetle Bailey turns 75: the Army’s lovable slacker marches on

  Sept. 4 marks the strip’s 75th anniversary, a milestone few comics have ever reached. For the Walker family, it is both a celebration of their father’s creation and a continuation of a legacy that has outlived the man who drew it for more than six decades. Mort Walker died in 2018, but his sons Greg, Brian and Neal have kept the strip alive, publishing new gags every day in newspapers and online through Comics Kingdom and King Features Syndicate.

• Guy LeCharles Gonzalez ☛ Five Things: September 4, 2025

  My wife thinks I’ve been banging the “AI sucks” drum a little too hard and was worried about me jeopardizing my future employment prospects. I reminded her that I basically became unemployable back in my outspoken DBW days, and it’s been downhill ever since! If my stance on AI is a dealbreaker for someone, they probably haven’t known me very long. Nevertheless, there’s no AI in this one, partly because there’s nothing new to say about how and why it sucks.

• Fortra LLC ☛ FBI warns seniors are being targeted in three-phase Phantom Hacker scams

  What makes a "Phantom Hacker" scam different from the typical tech support scam, is that it adds additional layers, where scammers pose as not just support staff but also as bank workers, and even government representatives, in an attempt to engender more trust from the victim and ultimately steal a large amount of money.

  The scam, as IC3 explains it, works like this.

• Science

  • The Conversation ☛ 2025-09-03 [Older] Mars has a solid core, resolving a longstanding planetary mystery — new study

  • Omicron Limited ☛ Open-source computational tool sheds light on 'wiggly' proteins

    Now, research published in the journal Science and led by WashU Medicine's Alex Holehouse, an assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, describes a computational method his team developed to help predict how intrinsically disordered proteins will behave.

    The tool analyzes the chemical interactions of the proteins' building blocks, called amino acids, and predicts which bits of the disordered protein will be attractive or repulsive for other molecules in the body. By predicting based on chemistry alone, the approach allows scientists to model interactions even in the absence of a defined 3D structure.

  • The Telegraph UK ☛ Graham Linehan accuser ‘is disgraced transgender police officer’

    Watson has a well-documented history of calling on police forces to pursue criminal investigations of campaigners who are sceptical of the belief that self-identification, and not biological sex, determines what a man or woman is.

  • Omicron Limited ☛ Rare Iron Age ingot found in Sweden sheds light on ancient Baltic networks

    "What is new in this study is that we went a step further, and by combining the obtained data with known historical and archaeological information, we managed to propose a historical context, for both the unique Särdal plano-convex ingot and the rod ingots from the Iława Lakeland area in northeastern Poland.

• Career/Education

  • American Library Association ☛ ALA Leads Libraries, Museums, Cultural Institutions, and Nation’s Largest Cultural Worker Union Urging Federal Court to Block Administration's Efforts to Dismantle the Nation’s Cultural and Educational Infrastructure

    The American Library Association (ALA) led a coalition of leading library, museum, and cultural organizations, and the nation’s largest labor union of cultural workers, represented by Democracy Forward and Miner, Barnhill & Galland, P.C. in filing a friend-of-the-court brief today in Rhode Island v. Trump, urging the First Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold an injunction against the Trump-Vance administration’s unlawful attempt to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) through an Executive Order. The case is parallel to ALA’s own challenge to the dismantling of IMLS, filed by Democracy Forward on behalf of ALA and AFSCME on April 7, 2025. Groups signing the amicus brief emphasized that the administration’s refusal to spend congressionally appropriated funds undermines vital public services and threatens communities nationwide.

  • Robert Birming ☛ Too many balls in the air

    There’s no right or wrong in this. Some people get bored if they only do one thing, others get stressed if they try to do several. I definitely fall into the latter category, and I felt a sting of it today.

• Hardware

  • Deccan Chronicle ☛ OpenAI to Launch its First AI Chip in 2026 With Broadcom: Report

    Reuters could not immediately verify the report. OpenAI and Broadcom did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment after regular business hours.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • The Conversation ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] What exactly are you eating? The nutritional ‘dark matter’ in your food

  • The Conversation ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] The tyranny of front gardens: we cut and trim them out of social pressure, not pleasure

  • The Atlantic ☛ Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children

    The state’s elimination of vaccine mandates is a courageous first step toward decluttering itself of any excess kids.

  • Vox ☛ Vox scoop: RFK Jr. and Trump silenced a groundbreaking report on cancer and alcohol

    “The thing that the alcohol industry fears more than increased taxes is increased knowledge about the risks associated with drinking alcohol, particularly around cancer,” Mike Marshall, CEO of a group dedicated to reducing alcohol’s harms called the Alcohol Policy Alliance, who was not involved with the study, told me. “Like the tobacco industry, like the opioid industry, they are working hard to prevent the American people from gaining the knowledge that they need to make the best decisions for themselves.”

• Proprietary

  • The Record ☛ Chess.com says 4,500 people had data stolen during June breach

    In breach notifications submitted to regulators in Maine and Vermont, Chess.com explained that 4,541 people had personal information exposed to hackers who breached an unnamed file transfer application between June 5 and June 18.

    The incident was discovered by Chess.com on June 19 and federal law enforcement was immediately notified of the cyberattack.

  • Darren Goossens ☛ Installing Discord on Debian

    Now, Shift+Alt+d will launch Discord. It will also be in your menus, if you like that sort of thing.

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) / LLM Slop / Plagiarism

    • Macworld ☛ Report: Apple is building an AI-powered web search for Siri

      The tool, dubbed “World Knowledge Answers” internally, is not a large-scale LLM (Large Language Model) chatbot, but rather relies on web crawling, search, and an LLM to provide answers from the web. According to the report, the system is meant to launch in spring 2026 as part of the big Siri overhaul, and would compete with ChatGPT, Google’s AI search answers, and Perplexity when it comes to getting up-to-date information from the web. Apple may later bring the same system to Safari and Spotlight on the Mac.

    • Marcy Wheeler ☛ What We Talk About When We Talk About AI (Part Four)

      Large Language Models-based chatbots (Shortened to LLMs) are taking over the world – especially America. This process has been controversial, to say the least. Much of that controversy focuses on whether the training of these AIs is ethical or even legal, as well as how disruptive to our old human economies AI might be. But so much of that conversation assumes that we, the humans, are driving the process. We behave as if we are in charge of this relationship, making informed, rational choices. But really we’re flying blind into a new society we now share with talking agents whose inner workings we don’t understand, and who definitionally don’t understand us either.

      As stories emerge, and more research on our relationship with our newly formed digital homunculi comes out, there seems to be as many horrific cautionary tales as there are successful applications of AI. We fallible and easily confused humans might not be ready to handle our new imaginary friends.

    • Futurism ☛ The AI Industry Has a Dirty Secret

      As detailed in a study published in the Journal of Marketing earlier this year, an international team of researchers found that the AI's biggest fans tend to be the people with the shallowest familiarity with it.

      "Contrary to expectations revealed in four surveys, cross-country data and six additional studies find that people with lower AI literacy are typically more receptive to AI," they wrote, proposing that "people with lower AI literacy are more likely to perceive AI as magical and experience feelings of awe in the face of AI's execution of tasks that seem to require uniquely human attributes."

    • Digital Music News ☛ Anthrax Becomes the Latest Victim of 'AI Slop' on Streaming

      And as many know, there’s more to those uploads’ changes than longer durations and relative quality improvements.

      For now – and with Spotify willing to pause new releases on AI “artist” profiles benefiting from too much momentum for comfort – the playbook appears to revolve around putting fake songs on real acts’ pages, scoring pre-takedown streams, and repeating.

      Of course, the most readily available solution is banning AI audio altogether – or, at a minimum, tagging the relevant media accordingly before isolating it from proper music made by professionals.

      But to state the obvious, this outcome isn’t yet a reality; Deezer is seemingly alone in leading the AI-tagging charge. As such, the focus naturally shifts to who exactly is pocketing royalties with artificial intelligence works plastered on actual artists’ pages.

    • Quanta Magazine ☛ ‘World Models,’ an Old Idea in AI, Mount a Comeback

      It helps to know where the whole idea started. In 1943, a dozen years before the term “artificial intelligence” was coined, a 29-year-old Scottish psychologist named Kenneth Craik published an influential monograph in which he mused that “if the organism carries a ‘small-scale model’ of external reality … within its head, it is able to try out various alternatives, conclude which is the best of them … and in every way to react in a much fuller, safer, and more competent manner.” Craik’s notion of a mental model or simulation presaged the “cognitive revolution” that transformed psychology in the 1950s and still rules the cognitive sciences today. What’s more, it directly linked cognition with computation: Craik considered the “power to parallel or model external events” to be “the fundamental feature” of both “neural machinery” and “calculating machines.”

    • SBS ☛ Government announces new restrictions on deepfake AI abuse

      Wells said the Albanese government "will use every lever at their disposal to restrict access to nudification and undetectable online stalking apps and keep Australians safer from the serious harms they cause".

      The government did not specify a timeframe for when the restrictions will take effect, but has committed to working with the industry to enforce them.

    • Bruce Schneier ☛ Generative AI as a Cybercrime Assistant

      Read the whole Anthropic essay. They discovered North Koreans using Claude to commit remote-worker fraud, and a cybercriminal using Claude “to develop, market, and distribute several variants of ransomware, each with advanced evasion capabilities, encryption, and anti-recovery mechanisms.”

    • Futurism ☛ Shein Caught Using CEO Killer Luigi Mangione as a Male "Mommy And Me" Model

      Now, the Chinese-founded and Singapore-based online megaretailer is again under scrutiny due to a product listing whose model looks a lot like Luigi Mangione, the 20-something alleged assassin of United HealthCare CEO Brian Thompson last December.

      First spotted and tweeted out by Pop Crave, a massively popular X account that has become something of a news wire for the social media set, the fast fashion site's use of Mangione's likeness led to immediate derision online.

    • Futurism ☛ Scientists Just Found Something Dark About People With AI Girlfriends and Boyfriends

      Based on an survey that asked 2,989 respondents, the researchers found that nearly one in five people overall — and a full quarter of young adults aged 18 to 29 — had already used a romance-simulating AI chatbot.

      Along with that large proportion of Americans who've experimented with AI companions, the BYU researchers also learned that seven percent of the survey respondents admitted to masturbating when chatting with AI companions, and an additional 13 percent copped to watching AI-generated porn. Men were reportedly much more likely to watch AI porn than women, and younger adults were more than twice as likely as older to engage with AI generally — as well as to say they prefer AI over a real human relationship.

    • EPIC ☛ Does Meta Care About User Safety? Its Turn Away From Humans to AI for Risk Assessments Says No – EPIC – Electronic Privacy Information Center

      Unmitigated risks in technology and services, by Meta alone, have inflicted serious harm on individuals, especially children, to communities, and to society at large. To only name a handful of the most egregious examples: (i) Meta released users’ personal data to third parties without user consent for voter profiling and targeting, culminating in the Cambridge Analytica scandal in 2016; (ii) Meta targeted weight-loss content at teens with depression, low self-esteem, and eating disorders; and (iii) Meta admitted that it facilitated the violence and ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the Myanmar military against the Rohingya people by refusing to engage in responsible platform moderation in 2017 despite repeated warnings.

  • Social Control Media

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] Egypt Rounds up Teenaged TikTokkers in Crackdown on Social Control Media

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] Malaysia Summons TikTok Management Over Delays in Tackling Fake News, Report Says

    • International Business Times ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] Mexican TikToker Esmeralda Ferrer Garibay and Family Executed After Flaunting Luxury Life With 'Narco' Spouse

    • The Conversation ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] Eight seconds and dropping? How to make the most of short attention spans

    • Kivikakk ☛ 2025-09-01 [Older] how to leave lobste.rs for good in 3 easy steps

  • Windows TCO / Windows Bot Nets

    • The Register UK ☛ New China-aligned crew poisons Windows servers for SEO fraud

      GhostRedirector uses a variety of custom tools, including two never-seen-before pieces of malware that the researchers dubbed Rungan, which is a passive C++ backdoor, and Gamshen, a malicious Internet Information Services (IIS) trojan that manipulates Google search results for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) fraud.

    • The Record ☛ Texas sues PowerSchool for breach exposing the data of students and teachers

      Attorney General Ken Paxton alleges that PowerSchool violated state laws pertaining to deceptive trade practices and identity theft protection by deceiving customers about the strength of its security protocols and for its failure to protect users' data.

      PowerSchool, based in California, provides cloud service for K-12 schools and says it is used by 18,000 school districts or individual schools. About 6,500 of those clients were impacted by the December 2024 hack.

    • The Record ☛ Ukraine’s cyber chief on Russian hackers’ shifting tactics, US cyber aid

      According to Potii, the number of “critical” cyberattacks — large-scale operations aimed at paralyzing key infrastructure — has decreased compared to the early months of the war, a change he attributes to Ukraine’s stronger defenses and the higher costs of mounting such operations.

• Security

  • CISA

    • CISA ☛ 2025-09-03 [Older] CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

    • CISA ☛ 2025-09-03 [Older] CISA, NSA, and Global Partners Release a Shared Vision of Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) Guidance

    • CISA ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

    • CISA ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] CISA Releases Four Industrial Control Systems Advisories

    • CISA ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] Delta Electronics EIP Builder

    • CISA ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] Fuji Electric FRENIC-Loader 4

    • CISA ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] SunPower PVS6

    • CISA ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

  • Integrity/Availability/Authenticity

    • SBS ☛ Simon's $500 gift card purchase led to an 'astonishing' discovery

      Dean posted a video to social media earlier this week, explaining how he discovered a security issue with the gift card.

      He said he bought two cards, each valued at $500, so he could earn extra points from a reward scheme at Woolworths. But he was only able to redeem one of the cards on the website and received an error message from The Card Network site, prompting him to call customer service.

    • [Old] Adrian Stoll ☛ Authentication vs Authorization

      Authentication and authorization are confusable because they are related yet distinct concepts and share “auth” and “tion” as a prefix and suffix. Authentication is verifying someone is who they say they are while authorization is checking someone is entitled to do what they are attempting. Consider making withdrawals from a bank as a concrete example and what goes wrong when authentication and authorization are not applied together.

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • The Register UK ☛ Sainsbury's eyes up shoplifters with live facial recognition [Ed: You shop online, they spy on you. You shop offline, they still do.]

      Sainsbury's, Britain's second-largest supermarket chain, has caught the attention of privacy campaigners by launching an eight-week trial of live facial recognition (LFR) tech in two of its stores to curb shoplifting.

      A survey of the grocer's customers in July indicated a majority support for the use of LFR to protect staff and customers, it said, with 63 percent saying it would help to identify repeat offenders.

    • The Register UK ☛ Huawei counts cost of Western bans as UK business withers

      Huawei's business in Britain has dwindled in the half-decade since the UK acquiesced to demands from the US to ban the Chinese networking giant from local telco networks.

      In its latest profit and loss accounts for the year ended December 31, 2024, Huawei Technologies UK generated just £188.2 million ($159.6 million) in revenues versus £1.26 billion ($1.7 billion) in 2019. Sales peaked in the prior year at £1.28 billion.

    • Tech Central (South Africa) ☛ Google dodges bullet in major antitrust ruling

      The ruling results from a five-year legal battle between one of the world’s most profitable companies and the US, where antitrust regulators and lawmakers have long questioned Big Tech’s market domination. Mehta ruled last year that Google holds an illegal monopoly in online search and related advertising.

    • The Conversation ☛ Google avoids being dismantled after US court battle – and it’s down to the rise of AI

      Google must share certain data with “qualified competitors” as deemed by the court. This will include parts of its search index, Google’s inventory of web content. Judge Mehta will allow Google to continue paying companies like Apple and Samsung to distribute of its search engine on devices and browsers. But he will bar Google from maintaining exclusive contracts.

    • The Record ☛ Google hit with $425 million verdict in privacy class action suit

      A federal jury on Wednesday awarded plaintiffs suing Google $425 million in damages, holding that by collecting the data of users who had switched off an app activity tracking feature the tech giant invaded the privacy of millions.

      A class of 98 million people had alleged that Google for eight years collected, saved and used data extracted from their mobile devices in violation of its own privacy policy.

    • Cyble Inc ☛ Google Slapped With $381 Million Fine In France Over Gmail Ads, Cookie Consent Missteps

      The EU’s privacy framework is crystal clear on this matter. Consent has to be freely given, informed, and unambiguous. Google’s setup, CNIL said, fell short. This marks the third time the regulator has sanctioned Google for cookie-related violations, after €100 million in 2020 and €150 million in 2021. The repeated fines suggest a deeper friction between Google’s ad business model and Europe’s stricter privacy guardrails.

    • NYOB ☛ noyb WIN: French DPA fines Google €325 million for “Spam Emails” in Gmail

      More than three years ago, noyb had filed a complaint against Google for sending unsolicited advertising emails directly to the inboxes of Gmail users. Contrary to EU law, the company never asked the people concerned for their consent. That's how the competent data protection authority sees it, too: Today, the CNIL has issued a decision siding with noyb – and fined Google €325 million.

    • NYOB ☛ EU-US Data Transfers: First Reaction on "Latombe" Case

      General Court massively departs from CJEU rulings. The protections under the new deal are almost 1:1 a copy/paste of the previous deals that the CJEU found to be unlawful in Schrems I and Schrems II. In some elements the protections are even worse than in the older Executive Order that were not sufficient for the CJEU. It is therefore surprising that the General Court would issue a different decision on the 3rd version of the EU-US deal compared to the previous two versions.

    • EFF ☛ From Libraries to Schools: Why Organizations Should Install Privacy Badger

      ​​In an era of pervasive online surveillance, organizations have an important role to play in protecting their communities’ privacy. Millions of people browse the web on computers provided by their schools, libraries, and employers. By default, popular browsers on these computers leave people exposed to hidden trackers.

      Organizations can enhance privacy and security on their devices by installing Privacy Badger, EFF’s free, open source browser extension that automatically blocks trackers. Privacy Badger is already used by millions to fight online surveillance and take back control of their data.

    • La Quadature Du Net ☛ In France, the eternal return of facial recognition

      Last May, the French government launched a working group aimed at legalizing real-time facial recognition. Far from being a surprise, this announcement is part of a series of proposals put forward by state officials, along with industrial and scientific players. We publish this op-ed by Félix Tréguer, adapted from a text originally published on AOC, where he argues that facial recognition is incompatible with democratic forms of life.

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ Google must share search data with competitors, judge rules

      A US court ruled the company must share certain information with rival companies to increase competition. Google said the move could result in its rivals having access to its technology.

    • India Times ☛ Record French fines for Google and Shein over cookies

      The two groups, each with tens of millions of users in France, received two of the heaviest penalties ever imposed by the CNIL watchdog: €150 million ($175 million) for Shein and €325 million for Google.

      Both firms failed to secure users' free and informed consent before setting advertising cookies on their browsers, the authority found in a decision the companies can still appeal.

    • India Times ☛ Google must pay $425 million in class action over privacy, jury rules

      The verdict comes after a trial in the federal court in San Francisco over allegations that Google over an eight-year period accessed users' mobile devices to collect, save, and use their data, violating privacy assurances under its Web & App Activity setting.

      The users had been seeking more than $31 billion in damages.

• Defence/Aggression

  • ADF ☛ Islamic State Takes Advantage of DRC Crisis to Expands Its Reach

    According to an analysis by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Dataset, IS-CAP is active largely in the DRC’s northeastern Ituri province and the northern parts of North Kivu province, both of which border Uganda, where the group originated in the 1990s. IS-CAP and M23 overlap in the territory between the North Kivu communities of Lubero and Butembo.

    While M23 has political goals and attacks both civilian and military targets, IS-CAP’s goal is to establish an Islamic state governed under Sharia law, known as a caliphate.

  • Nepal ☛ Govt warns unregistered social media platforms to comply by midnight or face shutdown « Khabarhub

    Last Thursday, the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology issued a notice instructing all unregistered platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter (X), LinkedIn, YouTube, Google, and Gmail, to complete registration within seven days. The ultimatum expires today.

  • CPJ ☛ Nepal orders ban on major social media platforms

    On Thursday, Nepal’s Ministry of Communication and Information Technology directed the Nepal Telecommunications Authority to immediately shut down access to platforms that had failed to heed an August 25 Cabinet directive requiring foreign social media and online streaming platforms to register within seven days.

  • The Atlantic ☛ The MAGA Influencers Rehabilitating Hitler

    Why does a potent portion of the American right seek to rehabilitate Hitler? The Nazi apologetics are partly an attention-seeking attempt at provocation—an effort to signal iconoclasm by transgressing one of society’s few remaining taboos. But there is more to the story than that. Carlson and his fellow travelers on the far right correctly identify the Second World War as a pivot point in America’s understanding of itself and its attitude toward its Jewish citizens. The country learned hard lessons from the Nazi Holocaust about the catastrophic consequences of conspiratorial prejudice. Today, a growing constituency on the right wants the nation to unlearn them.

  • Tech Central (South Africa) ☛ From Trump to TikTok: how digital platforms bend the rules of politics

    Digital platforms fragment public discourse while amplifying cynicism, distrust and rage-driven engagement.

  • The Dissenter ☛ 'Off To Jail': Gaza Aid Whistleblower Arrested For Interrupting Senate Hearing

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • Insight Hungary ☛ Polish FM calls out Szijjártó: "Looks like you're playing for the other team"

      "Looks like you're playing for the other team, Peter," Radosław Sikorski said on X. 

      Looks like you are playing for the other team, Peter @FM_Szijjarto. pic.twitter.com/eBHbreIAyc

      The Polish foreign minister criticized his Hungarian counterpart for traveling to Beijing to watch the parade marking the 80th anniversary of China's victory in World War II from the Tiananmen Square tribune. Twenty-six heads of state attended the military parade at Xi Jinping's invitation, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, and, from Europe, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico and Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić.

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-03 [Older] Sanchez meets Starmer in London, to discuss Ukraine and Gaza

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-03 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini Says He Plans to Hold Talks on Ukraine in Coming Days

    • Vox ☛ 2025-09-03 [Older] Why the Ukraine war is so hard to end

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] Did EU commissioner oversell plan to send troops to Ukraine?

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] Ukraine updates: Seoul says 2,000 North Korean troops killed

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] Finland's Stubb Eyes Progress on US-Backed Ukraine Security Plans

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] Former Ukraine Parliament Speaker Laid to Rest After Assassination

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-01 [Older] Ukraine updates: EU drafting 'precise' plans to send troops

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-01 [Older] Erdogan Tells Putin That Turkey Is Working for Fair, Lasting Peace in Ukraine

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-01 [Older] After Talks With Xi and Modi, Putin Says NATO Enlargement Has to Be Addressed for Ukraine Peace

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-31 [Older] What now? EU brainstorms new ways to back Ukraine

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-31 [Older] Belize Bulk Carrier Damaged in Blast in Black Sea Near Ukraine's Odesa, Sources Say

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-31 [Older] German Leader Says Peace Cannot Come at Ukraine's Expense

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-31 [Older] Germany's Merz Expects Ukraine War to Last a Long Time

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-31 [Older] Kremlin Says Europe Is Hindering Cheeto Mussolini's Peace Efforts on Ukraine

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-31 [Older] Ukraine's Zelenskiy Says Suspect Arrested in Murder of Former Parliamentary Speaker Parubiy

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-31 [Older] Von Der Leyen Says Europe Is Drawing up 'Precise' Plans to Send Troops to Ukraine, FT Reports

    • Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2025-08-30 [Older] In Poland, Austerity Targets Ukrainian Refugees

    • NL Times ☛ 2025-08-30 [Older] Ukrainian President meets GroenLinks-PvdA politician Timmermans to discuss defense

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-30 [Older] Will young Ukrainians return with borders open again?

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-30 [Older] Ukrainian Former Parliamentary Speaker Parubiy Shot Dead in Lviv

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-30 [Older] Modi Reaffirms India's Support for Ukraine Peace Settlement During Call With Zelenskiy

    • Counter Punch ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] Self-Determination for Ukraine, Not a Deal Between Cheeto Mussolini, Putin, and European Leaders

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] EU supports military training in Ukraine

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] Ukraine updates: EU supports military training in Ukraine

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] What's fueling recent tension between Ukraine and Hungary?

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] 'Broad Support' in EU for Military Training in Ukraine After Truce, Kallas Says

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] US Approves Potential Sale of Starlink Services, Patriot Equipment to Ukraine

    • TruthOut ☛ 2025-08-28 [Older] Leftist Vermont Rep Tanya Vyhovsky Toured Ukraine. Here’s What She Learned.

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-03 [Older] Timeline: Russia-Ukraine peace talks fail to materialize

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-03 [Older] Ukraine updates: Russia criticizes Merz's Putin remarks

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-03 [Older] Analysis-As Cheeto Mussolini Chills US-India Ties, Modi Warms to China and Russia

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-03 [Older] North Korea's Kim Vows Full Support for Russia, Discusses Partnership With Putin

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-03 [Older] Russia Says It Captures 'About Half' of Ukrainian City Kupiansk, Kyiv Denies Report

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] Putin hails 'unprecedented' Russia-China ties

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] Would Ukrainians give Russia the Donbas to end the war?

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] China Offers Visa-Free Travel to Russia Citizens on Trial Basis

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] German Authorities Warn People Against Becoming 'Disposable Agents' for Russia

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] Germany's Merz to Suggest Geneva as Venue for Ukraine-Russia Ceasefire Talks

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] NATO Says It Is Working to Counter Russia's GPS Jamming After Interference With EU Leader's Plane

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] Putin Says Russia Doesn't Oppose Ukraine Joining the EU

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] Putin Says Cheeto Mussolini Administration Is Listening to Russia's Arguments on Ukraine War

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] Ukrainian Drone Attack Forces Hundreds to Evacuate Homes in Russian City

    • Vox ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] Are America’s four main adversaries really in cahoots?

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-01 [Older] Car plows into Russian consulate gate in Sydney

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-01 [Older] EU chief plane hit by suspected Russian GPS jamming

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-01 [Older] Ukraine's Drone Attack Sparks Brief Fire at Krasnodar Power Substation, Russia Says

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-01 [Older] China's Xi, Russia's Putin Share Vision for New Global Order at Security Forum

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-01 [Older] EU Head Von Der Leyen's Plane Landing on Sunday Hit by Suspected Russian GPS Interference, FT Says

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-01 [Older] Modi and Putin Meet on Summit Sidelines as India Faces Steep US Tariff Over Russian Oil Imports

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-01 [Older] Modi Says Russia and India Stand Together Even in Difficult Times

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-09-01 [Older] Ukraine Suspects Russia Involved in Killing of Former Parliamentary Speaker, Says Police Chief

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-31 [Older] Russia's Putin Arrives in China's Tianjin for Security Summit

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-31 [Older] Man Arrested for Crashing Car Into Russian Consulate in Sydney

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-31 [Older] Russia Downed 112 Ukrainian Drones in Past 24 Hours, Interfax Says

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-31 [Older] Ukraine Vows to Retaliate After Russian Attacks on Power Sector

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-31 [Older] Ukraine Plans New Strikes Deep Into Russia, Zelenskiy Says

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-30 [Older] Russia launches 'massive attack' on Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-30 [Older] Ukraine updates: Russia launches 'massive attack' on Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-30 [Older] EU's Kallas Says Russia Won't Get Frozen Assets Back Without Paying Reparations

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-30 [Older] Germany's Merz: Ukraine Allies Must Ensure Russia Can No Longer Economically Wage War

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-30 [Older] Russian Attack on Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Kills One, Injures 24, Governor Says

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-30 [Older] Russian Drone and Missile Attack on Southern Ukraine Kills 1 and Wounds Dozens

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-30 [Older] Russia Notes Non-Stop Offensive on Front Line, Ukraine Military Points to Own Successes

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-30 [Older] Ukraine's Military Says It Struck Two Russian Oil Refineries Overnight

    • Counter Punch ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] Russia’s Foreign Minister Cites NATO Expansion as Cause of Ukraine War

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] Dissident Belarusian sports official thought to be in Russia

    • The Local SE ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] Sweden summons Russian ambassador over deadly Kyiv attack

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] Rodion Shchedrin, the Celebrated Russian Composer, Has Died at Age 92

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] Austria Brings Criminal Case Against Ex-Official Accused of Spying for Russia

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] North Korea Leader Kim Promises 'Beautiful Life' for Families of 'Martyrs' Killed in Russia

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] Outraged Over Russian Strike on Kyiv, European Defense Leaders Pledge Pressure to End the War

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] Zelenskyy Seeks Talks With Cheeto Mussolini and European Leaders on Slow Progress of Peace Efforts With Russia

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] Putin Lambasts Trade Sanctions on Eve of Visit to China

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] Russia Condemns European Move to Reimpose UN Sanctions on Iran Over Nuclear Programme

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] Russian Defence Minister Says His Forces Have Sped up Rate of Their Advance in Ukraine

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] Russia Says Macron Crossed Line of Decency by Calling Putin 'An Ogre'

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] Russia Says Western Proposals on Ukraine's Security Are 'One-Sided' and Dangerous

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2025-08-29 [Older] US Tells UN: Russian Strikes on Ukraine Cast Doubt on Its Desire for Peace

    • CPJ ☛ 2025-08-28 [Older] Russia’s repression record

• Transparency/Investigative Reporting

  • Nebraska Examiner ☛ ‘Congress must choose’: Epstein survivors demand vote to release case files

    An unusually large crowd gathered outside the U.S. House to hear from the women, who described emotional manipulation and physical coercion, beginning as early as age 14 in some cases, at the hands of Epstein and convicted co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell.

  • International Business Times ☛ Epstein Survivors Just Announced They Will Be Making Their Own Abuser List - When Will It Be Released?

    This initiative stems from frustration over the US Justice Department's July 2025 memo, which denied the existence of any official 'client list' and reaffirmed Epstein's suicide, a stance survivors say ignores testimonies suggesting a broader network.

    Official data from the House Oversight Committee shows over 33,295 pages of Epstein-related files were released on 2 September 2025. However 97% of those documents were already public, highlighting ongoing transparency gaps.

  • BoingBoing ☛ Epstein survivors demand DOJ files release in Capitol testimony

    Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) and Ro Khanna (D-California) are leading a bipartisan effort to force a House vote on legislation compelling the DOJ to disclose additional Epstein files. While the House Oversight Committee released over 33,000 pages Tuesday night, Massie criticized the documents as "so redacted as to be useless."

• Environment

  • Vox ☛ How many farms does the US really have?

    Around half of America’s farms make little to no money and produce little to no food, but they’re often lumped in with the country’s largest and most polluting farms — a verbal sleight of hand that is rarely questioned and provides political cover for the biggest polluters to continue business as usual.

  • Smithsonian Magazine ☛ Restoring Bison to Yellowstone Has 'Reawakened' the Ecosystem as the Large Animals Migrate, Study Suggests

    Researchers looked at the impacts of large, migrating bison herds on Yellowstone’s landscape and found that the animals play a key role in the nitrogen cycle. As the herd travels about 1,000 miles each year, moving back and forth along a 50-mile migration route, the animals increase the amount of microbes in the soil. In turn, these microbes increase the amount of nitrogen for plants, improving their nutritious value by up to 150 percent. The findings were published in the journal Science on August 28.

    “Humans have been applying dung as a fertilizer for millennia, so we know it’s an important fertilizer. Bison are a restoration story, and allowing their grazing in places like Yellowstone provides a ‘reawakening’ of the landscape,” study co-author Bill Hamilton, an ecologist at Washington and Lee University, tells Madison Dapcevich at Outside.

  • Energy/Transportation

    • H2 View ☛ Polish rail operator launches trials of PESA-built hydrogen locomotive

      The SM42-6Dn train is powered by two Ballard 85kW fuel cells, paired with battery technology. The locomotive passed preliminary operational testing in Bydgoszcz, Poland, in 2022.

      It was first operated yesterday (September 3) on the Jelenia Góra to Karpacz route, located near the Czech border.

    • Tom's Hardware ☛ German motorists facing ‘plague’ of electric car charger cable thefts – 70 charging points a day being gutted to sell for copper scrap

      Golem shared a statement from the CEO of a charging station manufacturer. Philipp Senoner, CEO of Alpitronic, told the German tech publication that “70 cables were cut a day.” The news site also heard from a spokesperson representing Germany's largest fast-charging network operator, EnBW, who complained that 2025 is the worst year yet, with criminals repeatedly cutting and making off with these copper-laden cables.

    • Renewable Energy World ☛ Ann Arbor residents plan ballot initiative to dump DTE and begin shifting city toward public power

      A group of Ann Arbor residents are taking the first steps toward removing DTE Energy as their electrical provider and creating a public electric utility board.

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • The Revelator ☛ Saving Okefenokee

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • Security Week ☛ US, Allies Push for SBOMs to Bolster Cybersecurity

    The shared vision of SBOM guidance (PDF) provides information on the advantages of implementing SBOM generation, analysis, and sharing into security processes and practices, arguing that SBOM adoption improves security and reduces risks and costs.

    By providing details on the provenance and security of software and its components, modules, and libraries, SBOMs help organizations understand and address security risks in the software supply chain, the authoring agencies say.

  • Linuxiac ☛ Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC (1976–78) Goes Open Source under MIT License [Ed: Dumpster code?]

    In 1977, Commodore paid $25,000 for the rights to bundle the interpreter with its systems, a move that helped establish BASIC as the entry point for a generation of programmers.

  • The Verge ☛ Dia and Arc maker The Browser Company is being acquired by Atlassian

    The acquisition is mostly about Dia, which launched in June. Dia is a mix of web browser and chatbot, with a built-in way to chat with your tabs but also do things across apps. Open up three spreadsheets in three tabs and Dia can move data between them; log into your Gmail and Dia can tell you what’s next on the calendar. Anything with a URL immediately becomes data available to Dia and its AI models. For a company like Atlassian, which makes a whole suite of work apps — the popular project-tracker Jira, the note-taking app Confluence, plus Trello, Loom, and more — a way to stitch them all together seems obviously compelling.

  • Michael Tsai ☛ Atlassian Acquires The Browser Company

  • The New Stack ☛ Microsoft's Rust Bet: From Blue Screens to Safer Code

    During his keynote at RustConf 2025 this week, entitled “From Blue Screens to Orange Crabs: Microsoft’s Rusty Revolution,” Mark Russinovich, Microsoft’s Azure CTO, described the situation as being like “an underground oil repository that is leaking oil up a few drops at a time, just consistently.”

  • India Times ☛ Swedish fintech Klarna eyes $1.27 billion raise via long-awaited IPO

    Swedish firm Klarna said on Tuesday it was aiming for a U.S. listing valuing the company at up to $14 billion, as it seeks to capitalize on renewed investor interest in high-growth fintech startups after an extended lull.

  • AJ Bourg ☛ Society

    This is why I get so irritated at the nonsense of libertarians who say tAxATiON iS tHEfT. Look, I don’t like paying taxes either and I do it as begrudgingly as anyone else. However, I have seen plenty of countries that don’t have strong institutions that protect commerce and protect the rule of law — and I benefit greatly from our form of government. The ultra rich benefit even more, and I don’t think it’s unreasonable for them to pay a bit more to keep the lights on in court rooms, police stations, and military bases.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • The Atlantic ☛ Graham Linehan's Arrest Demonstrates Europe’s Free-Speech Problem

    Assuming that Linehan’s account is correct, then his arrest is totalitarian, absurd, and a waste of police time. It is also symptomatic of a wider chill on free speech in Europe, where the selective deployment of laws over hate speech, offense, and incitement has turned the police into the enforcers of progressive values and given them enormous discretionary power.

  • The Nation ☛ An Open Letter to Our Students: Universities Do Not Deserve You

    But there are those who are opposed to granting you this right. The most obvious case is those who seek to censor knowledge. They do so because this right gives you access to books that can teach you just how often learning—not always from books, often through connection with one another—inspires people to fight for a better world. To quote Assata Shakur, “No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them.”

  • Freedom From Religion Foundation ☛ FFRF urges global action for Moroccan activist given 30 months for ‘blasphemous’ T-shirt

    Ibtissame “Betty” Lachgar, an atheist psychologist and co-founder of the Mouvement Alternatif pour les Libertés Individuelles (MALI), was arrested for posting a photo of herself wearing a T-shirt reading “Allah is lesbian.” She was put on trial for “insulting Islam.”

  • CPJ ☛ Imprisoned for telling the truth: A Q&A with Iranian-American journalist Reza Valizadeh’s brother 

    According to CPJ research, at least 16 journalists were imprisoned in Iran in 2024 for their work and at least 96 journalists have been arrested by the regime since Mahsa (Jina) Amini’s death in September 2022. Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman, died in custody after morality police detained her for allegedly wearing her headscarf “improperly.” She fell into a coma after allegedly being beaten by police; she later died of her injuries.

  • Garry Kasparov ☛ Britain Does, In Fact, Have a Free Speech Crisis

    Distasteful and offensive, absolutely, but it’s hard to argue his words are criminal. And it’s difficult to take the charges leveled by British law enforcement seriously given how wide a net they’ve cast in punishing speech. Those arrested for wrongthink in recent years range from nativist trolls to left-wing pro-Palestinian activists. Linehan is particularly well known, but thousands more have been arrested for speaking out of turn.

    Yes, thousands.

    More than 30 arrests over social media posts every single day—about 12,000 each year. The situation has gotten so out of control that Mark Rowley, the chief of London’s Metropolitan Police, has called for the British government to update or clarify its speech laws. The police, Rowley correctly points out, cannot be arbiters of culture war debates.

  • Pivot to AI ☛ OpenAI is using legal threats to harass its critics

    Instead, Altman is using his billions to harass people. Because he can.

    That’s a scorched earth litigation approach. The only reason for OpenAI to do this is to try to frighten everyone into shutting up. So I would suggest saying it all louder.

  • BoingBoing ☛ Alberta's book ban backfires as librarians remove dystopian classics

    Ah yes, the old "we all know what we mean" trick — deliberately imprecise language used by every despot to let them do whatever they want.

  • New Statesman ☛ Why Graham Linehan’s freedom of speech matters

    Yet when the 57-year-old Irishman touched down at Heathrow Airport yesterday (1 September 2025), he was detained. The Metropolitan Police said a man was arrested by the MPS Aviation Unit, then taken to hospital, then bailed “pending further investigation”. Linehan and his team supplied their story on his Substack. Linehan was confronted by five officers, had a panic attack and had to go to hospital because of his blood pressure. He said his arrest was for three April X posts about challenging “a trans-identified male” in “a female-only space”. After release, he said, he was instructed “not to go on Twitter”.

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • CPJ ☛ Russian court jails Ukrainian journalist Heorhiy Levchenko for 16 years

    “After capturing Ukrainian journalist Heorhiy Levchenko two years ago in retaliation for his brave reporting on the war from the occupied territories, Russian forces have now sentenced him to 16 years in jail in yet another example of their ruthless treatment of independent media,” said Gulnoza Said, CPJ’s Europe and Central Asia program coordinator. “Russian authorities should immediately release Levchenko and all other Ukrainian journalists.”

  • Press Gazette ☛ How to spot AI-written copy: Tips from journalists and PRs

    People in the public relations industry told Press Gazette that many clients now turn to ChatGPT to write commentary and preventing this, and advising clients against doing so, has become a part of their job.

    Press Gazette has previously highlighted how apparently AI-generated content is increasingly making it into mainstream publications with our Reality Wars investigations.

• Civil Rights/Policing

  • BoingBoing ☛ Don’t cross a U.S. border without a “perfect burner phone”

    Under Trump 2.0, phone searches at the U.S. border have surged, and Customs and Border Protection agents are targeting everyone from liberal protestors and lawyers who represent said protestors to journalists and basically anyone else who doesn't praise Dear Leader. No matter who you are, if CBP wants to confiscate your phone, they can. This is where burner phones come in.

  • Rebecca Williams ☛ Burner Phone 101

    Hosted by the Brooklyn Public Library, this Burner Phone 101 workshop introduced participants to phone-related risk modeling, privacy-protective smartphone practices, the full spectrum of burner phone options, and when to leave phones behind entirely.

    In August 2025, I hosted a Burner Phone 101 Workshop at the Brooklyn Public Library. Below is a summary of the workshop with key points in bold and additional resources that participants helped crowdsource.

  • CS Monitor ☛ Armed troops in US streets? For many, Trump makes that seem normal.

    When President Donald Trump rolled out the National Guard in Washington, many Americans saw it as a controversial and highly unusual step for a nation that has long barred the use of the military for domestic peacekeeping on U.S. streets.

  • Vox ☛ “No tax on tips”: The list of eligible jobs is here

    It invites gaming that will erode the tax base. Trump’s policy encourages plumbers, electricians, and various other workers to offer customers a discount rate, if they’re willing to pay in “tips.” Of course, this sort of tax avoidance is not formally condoned. But it will be extremely difficult to police (especially given the president’s defunding of IRS enforcement).

    It entrenches a fundamentally inefficient and inequitable approach to compensation. Standardized wages provide workers with predictable incomes and protection against discrimination. Yet Trump’s policy is likely to encourage employers to shift more roles into tipped categories, so as to capture its tax advantages. This will yield an economy in which more workers’ pay is contingent on the generosity of their patrons (and liable to fall below the federal minimum wage).

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ Argentina couple under house arrest over Nazi-looted art

    Authorities then carried out new raids on Monday to find the painting, officials said, at homes linked to Kadgien and the couple's relatives, where investigators found two other paintings presumably dating back to the 1800s.

    Patricia Kadgien and her husband were ordered to remain under house arrest for 72 hours starting Monday and will be questioned for obstructing the investigation to locate the painting, officials said.

  • Jamie Zawinski ☛ Waymo Dance Party

    Oh no, are they trying to "harm the technology"? Is that related to "criminal contempt of business model"?

  • Idiomdrottning ☛ Digital minimalism, 1978

    In digital minimalism I’m always like “could people in 1978 do this?” Could they send letters and place calls? Then it’s okay that I use the digital equivalent of that. Were they always reachable? Nope. So then it’s okay that I walk away from internet sometimes. Could they listen to headphones? Maybe not audio books on tape then outside of the home (no walkman yet), but certainly pocket radios. Could they read on the train? Yes, but, slow media like books and comics. No reco algos. Were there discussion forums? Yes, in magazines, you could write in, but a lot of it was hobby clubs or study circles in real life.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• India Times ☛ Microsoft set to dodge EU fine with offer to unbundle teams

  The decision — expected to be rubber stamped in the coming weeks — is likely to mark a respite in fraught EU-US relations following President Donald Trump’s recent attacks on Brussels’ crackdown on Silicon Valley. The European Commission had previously warned Microsoft that its abuse of market power since 2019 gave Teams an unfair advantage over rivals.

• Nick Heer ☛ U.S. Judge Issues Remedies in Google Antitrust Case

  This conclusion ultimately seems as though Mehta is doing something, yet Google has to change very little. It is difficult for me to believe this will be disruptive to Google’s search monopoly. Again, as with the years-ago hesitancy to impose serious conditions on Microsoft or break it up, Google will probably emerge as an even stronger force while technically complying with a ruling finding its monopoly illegal.

• India Times ☛ Google adtech fine on hold as EU awaits lower US car duties, sources say

  EU antitrust regulators have delayed fining Alphabet's Google over its adtech business, while waiting for the United States to cut tariffs on European cars as part of a trade deal, three people with knowledge of the matter said on Tuesday.

• Michael Tsai ☛ Google Search Remedies

• Jérôme Marin ☛ Google dodges harsh remedies

  Google feared the worst. But the Mountain View giant, found guilty last year of abusing its dominant position in online search, has been spared the most severe remedies by Judge Amit Mehta. Not only will it avoid being forced to spin off Chrome, it will also be allowed to continue signing commercial agreements, including its lucrative deal with Apple. Both practices cement Google’s near-monopoly in search, where it commands a 90% market share.

• Digital Music News ☛ Radiohead is Going On Tour—But Fans Must Pre-Register

  Radiohead announces a run of 20 shows across five European cities. To help curb bots and scalpers, fans must first pre-register to purchase tickets.

• Patents

  • IP Kat ☛ 2025-09-02 [Older] No take-backs for Thaler on AI inventorship claim

  • Kangaroo Courts

    • IP Kat ☛ 2025-09-01 [Older] No claim interpretation summersaults for the EPO (T 2027/23)

• Trademarks

  • Wired ☛ Neuralink’s Bid to Trademark ‘Telepathy’ and ‘Telekinesis’ Faces Legal Issues

    If Berry is successful in registering Telepathy, Neuralink could be sued if the company continues to use it.

• Copyrights

  • IP Kat ☛ 2025-09-01 [Older] To block or not to block, that is the question – German Supreme Court on ad-blockers