Leftovers

• Ricky Hatton's legacy will 'live on' as tributes pour in for champion boxer

• Ricky Hatton dies aged 46: British boxing great and former world champion dies | Boxing News | Sky Sports

  "I am deeply saddened to hear about the passing of Ricky Hatton. He was not only a great fighter inside the ring but also a brave and kind man in life. We shared unforgettable moments in boxing history and I will always honour the respect and sportsmanship he showed," Pacquiao said.

• Hackaday ☛ How To Make A Simple MOSFET Tester

  Over on YouTube our hacker [VIP Love Secretary] shows us how to make a simple MOSFET tester.

• Ruben Schade ☛ #SciArtSeptember: Fractal

  This most recent prompt for #SciArtSeptember is perhaps the perfect example of what people think of when they hear data visualisation or scientific art. They’re endlessly fascinating. See what I did there? Because fractals are… hey, shaddup.

  Fractals were among the first things I saw our first family computer render. I can still vividly remember my dad showing me what I later realised was a demo disk to show the capabilities of our new (though very pedestrian!) Trident ISA VGA card. One of them had a photo of a cola can drawn line by line on the screen, which was amazing after only ever seeing a blinking DOS prompt or basic DOS games beforehand. The other was what I realised later was a Mandelbrot fractal generator. I’ve yet to find that demo disk ever again, but if I do, I’ll have to share it here. I spent an embarrassing amount of my childhood staring at that 14-inch CRT watching the machine draw and re-draw that art.

• Ruben Schade ☛ #SciArtSeptember: Motif

  The next #SciArtSeptember prompt takes us back to something a bit more fun and interesting after yesterday’s escapades: motif!

  One thing that’s struck me about retrocomputers is just how much better they were at specific things, which is made only more impressive by the fact they were doing it with a fraction of the system resources we’re flush with today. Sure, they weren’t expected to do as much, but I’d argue I’ve been no more productive in whatever the most recent Office for Mac version is, and Office 97 on my backdoored Windows 98 machine. Heck, Lotus SmartSuite Millennium Edition feels like a high-water mark in that regard.

  I’ve read retrospectives that the 1990s were a dark period for personal computing, owing to the dominance of one specific vendor hailing from Washington state in the US. I disagree; the 1990s were the golden period for desktop interface design. We had NeXT, BeOS, the 95/98/2000 era of Windows, and the Platinum interface of Mac OS.

• Ruben Schade ☛ Australian three bedroom apartments

  Jonathan Barrett wrote an article for The Guardian this weekend describing the relative dearth of large apartments in Australia, and contrasted this to how people live in Europe. I agree with his thoughts, and experienced it personally last year.

  When Clara and I started looking for a home to buy, we had no doubt in our minds that it would be an apartment. Even if we preferred houses, they’re a dead end in a housing market as unaffordable as Australia’s. You know it’s bad when friends moved to places like New York in the Biden-era because it was cheaper. Readers in places like Canada, New Zealand, and parts of California likely know this pressure too.

• Hackaday ☛ Send Images To Your Terminal With Rich Pixels

  [darrenburns]’ Rich Pixels is a library for sending colorful images to a terminal. Give it an image, and it’ll dump it to your terminal in full color. While it also supports ASCII art, the cool part is how it makes it so easy to display an arbitrary image — a pixel-art rendition of it, anyway — in a terminal window.

• Hackaday ☛ Aussie Researchers Say They Can Bring The Iron Age To Mars

  Every school child can tell you these days that Mars is red because it’s rusty. The silicate rock of the martian crust and regolith is very rich in iron oxide. Now Australian researchers at CSIRO and Swinburn University claim they know how to break that iron loose.

• Science

  • Science Alert ☛ This Week in Science: Possible Signs of Life on Mars, Bluey Benefits, And More!

    Our weekly roundup of science news.

  • Science Alert ☛ Mysterious Rings at The Bottom of The Ocean Reveal a Toxic Secret

    A chemical graveyard.

  • Science Alert ☛ Injured Cells Can 'Vomit' Waste to Boost Healing, Study Finds

    But it may come at a cost.

• Hardware

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ Corsair lost a lawsuit over advertising XMP memory speeds, and you could get paid — the settlement covers U.S. purchases between 2018 and 2025 for overclocked kits

    The gap between memory speed marketing and JEDEC reality landed Corsair in a class-action lawsuit back in 2022—one that is currently accepting applications for payouts from the settlement.

  • Hackaday ☛ 3D Modeling With Paper As An Alternative To 3D Printing

    Although these days it would seem that everyone and their pets are running 3D printers to churn out all the models and gadgets that their hearts desire, a more traditional approach to creating physical 3D models is in the form of paper models. These use designs printed on paper sheets that are cut out and assembled using basic glue, but creating these designs is much easier these days, as [Arvin Poddar] demonstrates in a recent article.

  • Hackaday ☛ From Paper To Pixels: A DIY Digital Barograph

    A barograph is a device that graphs a barometer’s readings over time, revealing trends that can predict whether stormy weather is approaching or sunny skies are on the way. This DIY Digital Barograph, created by [mircmk], offers a modern twist on a classic technology.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • New York Times ☛ Extreme Heat Spurs New Laws Aimed at Protecting Workers Worldwide

    Governments around the world are enacting measures to try to protect workers from the dangers of heat stress. They’re barely keeping up with the risks.

  • Science Alert ☛ Most People Develop Diverticulosis in Their Gut by Age 80 … So What Is It?

    Is it bad?

  • Science Alert ☛ Muscle Cramps Have a Surprise Cause We Never Realized, Study Suggests

    It's not what we thought.

  • Science Alert ☛ A Single Data Point at Age 7 Could Predict How Long You'll Live

    The impact of childhood health.

  • Science Alert ☛ Cancer Misinformation Exploits The Way You Think. Here's How.

    Understanding these tactics can help make you immune to them.

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-04 [Older] US: Florida to abolish all vaccine mandates

• Proprietary

  • XDA ☛ 6 ways WSL2 replaced virtual machines in most of my workflows [Ed: Windows and back doors are the wrong approach; it costs nothing to even set up a virtual machine]

    If you've ever had to work in a Linux environment, but still needed quick access to Windows-based tools and features, it's likely you've turned to virtual machines. They were (and still are, in some ways) a great way to create a bridge between the two operating systems, but have been largely replaced by Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux. WSL2 is Microsoft's attempt to develop an extremely lightweight way to run Linux within a Windows environment, and it has largely trounced my need for bulky virtual machines.

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) / LLM Slop / Plagiarism

    • Rlang ☛ Paper in a prompt creating a first draft in one prompt

  • Social Control Media

    • The Straits Times ☛ USTR Greer to attend talks with Chinese officials in Madrid on trade, TikTok

      U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer will attend a new round of talks with Chinese officials due to start on Sunday in Madrid on trade and other economic issues including a Wednesday deadline for Fentanylware (TikTok) to divest its U.S. assets, a USTR official said on Saturday.

• Security

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications

      • Dark Reading ☛ French Advisory Sheds Light on Apple Spyware Activity

        France's computer emergency response team (CERT-FR) published an advisory Thursday that shed more light on recent spyware attacks against Apple users. CERT-FR, which is operated by ANSSI, the country's national cybersecurity agency, said it was aware of four such notifications from Apple this year, including the latest, issued Sept. 3.

        "Receiving a notification means that at least one of the devices linked to the iCloud account has been targeted and is potentially compromised," the CERT-FR advisory said, adding that spyware programs like Pegasus, Predator, Graphite, and Triangulation are "particularly sophisticated and difficult to detect."

• Defence/Aggression

  • New York Times ☛ Erika Kirk, Charlie Kirk’s Widow, Grieves Publicly, Melding Personal and Political

    Ms. Kirk has played a key role in her husband’s movement. Speaking at Turning Point USA headquarters and on social control media, she pledged his work would continue.

  • New York Times ☛ After Charlie Kirk Killing, Suspect Joked That His ‘Doppelganger’ Did It

    Before he was arrested on suspicion of carrying out the assassination, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson sent friends messages showing that he was closely following news about the killing.

  • France24 ☛ Who is the suspect arrested for Charlie Kirk's assassination?

    The family of the young Utah man accused of shooting Charlie Kirk told authorities he had recently become “more political” and recounted a dinner table conversation where they discussed whether the conservative activist was spreading hate. Tyler James Robinson, 22, of Washington, Utah, was arrested on suspicion of aggravated murder, felony discharge of a firearm causing serious bodily harm, and obstruction of justice, all felonies, according to a probable cause statement filed in court and released Friday. A judge ordered that he be held without bail.

  • France24 ☛ Israel hostages forum says Qatar air strikes show Netanyahu is an obstacle to ending Gaza war

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday claimed that killing Hamas's leadership in Qatar, which Israel tried and failed to do in an unprecedented air strike on the US ally on Tuesday, would remove the main obstacle to ending the war in Gaza. But Israel's own Hostages and Missing Families Forum said the attack was yet another example of Netanyahu sabotaging prospective peace deals.

  • New York Times ☛ Rubio Heads to a Defiant Israel After Qatar Strike

    The diplomat will consult with Israeli officials about their coming military offensive in Gaza City, as Hell Toupée’s efforts to end the Gaza war appear stalled.

  • France24 ☛ Arab-Muslim summit: Qatar responding to Israeli attack with 'unexpected nuance'

    Qatar announced Saturday that it will host a summit of Arab and Muslim leaders to condemn Israel’s strike on Hamas officials in Doha and express solidarity with the Gulf state. Despite strongly criticizing the airstrikes, Qatar responded with “unexpected nuance”, affirming that it will continue its role as a mediator in the Gaza conflict, FRANCE 24’s Noga Tarnopolsky said, reporting from Jerusalem.

  • CS Monitor ☛ Israel steps up strikes on Gaza City. Residents have few options to flee.

    Israel has intensified airstrikes in Gaza City as part of an offensive to take over the city, which Israel claims is Hamas' last stronghold.

  • France24 ☛ IDF cautions Netanyahu over Gaza invasion as airstrikes kill dozens

    A barrage of airstrikes killed at least 32 people across Gaza City as Israel escalated its military campaign and urged residents to evacuate, medical staff reported Saturday. Meanwhile, the IDF issued their strongest warning yet to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, cautioning that a ground assault on Gaza City could result in the deaths of Israeli hostages, FRANCE 24's Noga Tarnopolsky said, reporting from Jerusalem.

  • France24 ☛ Israeli airstrikes kill dozens amid expanding offensive in Gaza

    Israeli airstrikes killed at least 32 people across Gaza City amid Israel's expanding offensive. While Gazans are urged to evacuate, many say they don't know where to go as there are no safe zones in the enclave.

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-04 [Older] Will Germany change course on sanctioning Israel over Gaza?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-09-03 [Older] Were Polish troops in Nazi's military traitors or victims?

  • The Straits Times ☛ Myanmar air strike kills at least 19 high school students, says armed group

    A junta warplane reportedly dropped two 500-pound bombs on a high school as students slept.

  • New York Times ☛ Far-Right Rally in London Draws Huge Crowd and a Counterprotest

    The divisive anti-immigrant agitator Tommy Robinson organized what he said was a free-speech festival for his supporters.

  • The Straits Times ☛ China’s military warns Philippines against provocations in South China Sea

    BEIJING - China’s military said on Sunday it had conducted "routine" patrols in the South China Sea and warned the Philippines against any provocations, according to a spokesperson for the Southern Theater Command.

  • The Straits Times ☛ China’s military warns Philippines against provocations in South China Sea

    It said it had conducted "routine" patrols in the South China Sea.

  • The Straits Times ☛ India’s Modimir calls for peace in Manipur, launches development projects

    He had faced criticism for his government’s failure to ensure order and security in Manipur.

  • RFERL ☛ Militants Kill 12 Pakistani Soldiers In South Waziristan Attack

    At least 12 Pakistani soldiers were killed and four others injured in an attack by Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militant group in the Bar area of South Waziristan on September 13, according to the Pakistani military.

  • France24 ☛ Assassinated MAGA youth leader's rhetoric inspired followers, enraged critics

    Conservative activist Charlie Kirk, known for his incendiary rhetoric on LGBTQ rights, race, and immigration, was fatally shot at a Utah university shortly after making a controversial comment about transgender people and mass shootings. While his organisation, Turning Point USA, inspired a large youth movement aligned with MAGA politics, his inflammatory views drew both fierce loyalty and widespread condemnation.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ China condemns US, British warships sailing through Taiwan Strait

    China has condemned the passage of US and British warships through the Taiwan Strait, shortly after announcing its new aircraft carrier had transited through the sensitive waterway.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Australia to invest $10.2 billion in nuclear submarine shipyard

    The Aukus pact aims to provide Australia with these submarines to counter China’s ambitions.

  • New York Times ☛ The Electrician Who Escaped China Only to Be Deported From America

    Tao was not a Chinese dissident, just an ordinary worker who wanted freedom. Deportation did not stop him from trying again.

  • The Straits Times ☛ China starts probes targeting US semiconductor sector

    The Ministry of Commerce kicked off an investigation into US moves against the Chinese chip sector.

  • The Straits Times ☛ North Korean leader’s sister warns against US joint drills

    South Korea, Japan and the US will conduct annual defensive drills called "Freedom Edge" starting on Sept 15.

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • New York Times ☛ As Sabotage in Europe Mounts, So Do Calls to Retaliate Against Russia

      Drones in Poland and GPS jamming attributed to Russia have intensified a debate over whether the West should impose stiffer penalties for such “hybrid warfare.”

    • RFERL ☛ Ukraine Hits Oil Facilities Inside Russia In Bid To Reduce Kremlin’s 'Ability To Fight’

      Ukraine struck deep inside Russia, with drones hitting a major oil refinery 1,400 kilometers from the front lines, while neighboring Romania reported a violation of its airspace by a Russian drone -- days after fellow NATO member Poland said Russian projectiles struck its territory.

    • RFERL ☛ Quiet Night In Ukraine As Zelenskyy Jokes US Envoy Protects Kyiv

      Ukraine experienced a relatively calm night but Russian forces still carried out limited attacks with drones and guided bombs, Ukrainian officials said on September 13.

    • RFERL ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man Urges NATO To Stop Buying Russian Oil, Impose Tariffs On China

      US President The Insurrectionist issued a forceful call for all NATO members to halt their purchases of Russian oil, saying that such a move would help end the deadly conflict in Ukraine.

    • RFERL ☛ Ukraine Hits Oil Facility Deep Inside Russia, Seeks To Reduce Kremlin’s 'Ability To Fight’

      Ukraine struck deep inside Russia, with drones hitting a major oil refinery 1,400 kilometers from the front lines, while neighboring Romania reported a violation of its airspace by a Russian drone -- days after fellow NATO member Poland said Russian projectiles struck its territory.

    • France24 ☛ NATO bulks up defences on eastern flank after Russian drone incursion

      NATO said Friday it's bulking up its defensive posture on its eastern flank bordering Belarus, Russia and Ukraine with new equipment to deter potential Russian aggression following an incursion by Russian drones into Polish territory. The alliance's supreme commander in Europe said a new operation, dubbed Eastern Sentry, will add equipment from France, Denmark, Germany and the UK to its existing air and ground-based defenses.

    • France24 ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man calls all NATO countries to stop buying Russian oil and slap tariffs on China

      US President The Insurrectionist on Saturday urged all NATO countries to stop buying oil from Russia and impose their own tariffs of 50 to 100 percent on China until the end of the Ukraine war. NATO members Turkey, Hungary and Slovakia all continue to purchase oil from Russia.

    • France24 ☛ Ukraine hits one of Russia's largest oil refining complexes with explosive drone attack

      Kyiv's military intelligence agency on Saturday confirmed that a Ukrainian drone struck one of Russia's largest oil refineries roughly 1,400 kilometres from the Ukraine border. Russian official Radiy Khabirov said that the attack had caused minor damage to the refinery.

    • France24 ☛ Romania says a drone breached its airspace during Russian strikes on Ukraine

      Romania scrambled two F-16 fighter jets on Saturday after detecting a drone that had breached its airspace during a Russian attack on neighbouring Ukraine, the country's defence ministry said. The statement stressed that the drone had not flown over populated areas and had not posed a risk to the population's safety.

    • France24 ☛ Ukraine hits one of Russia's largest oil refining complexes with explosive drone attack

      Kyiv's military intelligence agency on Saturday confirmed that a Ukrainian drone struck one of Russia's largest oil refineries roughly 1,400 kilometres from the Ukraine border. Russian official Radiy Khabirov said that the attack had caused minor damage to the refinery.

• Environment

  • The Straits Times ☛ Family escapes catastrophic mud flood in Sabah

    The mud flood came after daily rains and thunderstorms that hit various parts of the Malaysian state.

  • Energy/Transportation

    • Hackaday ☛ Keep Reading, Keep Watching

      I’ve been flying quadcopters a fair bit lately, and trying to learn some new tricks also means crashing them, which inevitably means repairing them. Last weekend, I was working on some wiring that had gotten caught and ripped a pad off of the controller PCB. It wasn’t so bad, because there was a large SMT capacitor nearby, and I could just piggyback on that, but the problem was how to re-route the wires to avoid this happening again.

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • Science Alert ☛ Ocean Water Could Soon Have a Shocking Effect on Sharks' Teeth

      Do they make dentures for sharks?

• Finance

  • International Business Times ☛ 2025-09-05 [Older] McDonald's Declares War on Tipping Culture as It Quits US Restaurant Association: 'Pay Your Staff Properly!'

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • JURIST ☛ Missouri state Senate passes redistricting effort that adds Republican congressional seat

    Missouri’s state Senate passed a bill on Friday aimed at redistricting a Democrat-held federal congressional seat for Kansas City and turning it into a Republican-leaning seat.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Revving it up: Can Malaysia’s PAS bid to appear cool result in ‘green wave’ repeat?

    Observers note the lack of concrete policies to alleviate young voters’ concerns.

  • New York Times ☛ Mass Firing of Probationary Federal Employees Was Illegal, Judge Rules

    Months have passed since the lawsuit was filed, and many of the fired employees have moved on, the judge noted.

  • Zimbabwe ☛ Albania’s ‘AI minister’ shows how tech could clean up procurement in Zimbabwe [Ed: Calling politicians after grift and Ponzi schemes is a very bad sign]

    Albania has just done something no other country has tried: it “appointed” an artificial intelligence as a cabinet minister. >

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ China’s Great Firewall suffers its biggest leak ever as 500GB of source code and docs spill online — censorship tool has been sold to three different countries

    Chinese censorship suffered a significant breach on September 11, when researchers confirmed that more than 500GB of internal documents had been dumped online.

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • New York Times ☛ NPR and PBS Must Transform After Convicted Felon’s Cuts Cripple Broadcasters

    Radio and television stations, facing enormous budget holes, are pleading with NPR and PBS to lower their fees as they examine whether to drop national programming altogether.

• Civil Rights/Policing

  • France24 ☛ The Bright Side: Iraq's Yazidis rediscover their lost history in photos found in a museum archive

    Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have been scouring the university's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology to create a visual archive of Iraq's Yazidi communities from photos left behind from excavations carried out in the 1930s.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ ‘Armour’ for young minds: Children’s book on ethnic minority women challenges biases, promotes inclusion

    Professor Puja Kapai vividly remembered her years as a primary school student in Hong Kong in the late 1980s, especially what would happen almost every day during Chinese class. Kapai, an associate professor of law at the University of Hong Kong, is a third-generation Hong Konger of Indian descent.

  • JURIST ☛ US DOJ sues Uber for allegedly discriminating against disabled customers

    The US Department of Justice on Thursday filed a lawsuit against Uber Technologies Inc., claiming the company has engaged in discriminatory practices against clients with disabilities. The lawsuit was filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California and alleges that Uber violated Title III of the Americans with Disability Act (ADA).

  • JURIST ☛ UN reports North Korea human rights worsened over past decade

    North Korea’s human rights situation has deteriorated over the past decade, with capital punishment broadened and increasingly enforced for offenses such as distributing foreign media, according to a new assessment published Friday by the UN Human Rights Office for the Human Rights Council.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• IP Kat ☛ 2025-09-04 [Older] [Guest post] Revisiting the Sylvanian Family Drama: settled and silenced (forever)?

• Patents

  • Kangaroo Courts

    • IP Kat ☛ 2025-09-07 [Older] UPC Court of Appeal confirms "lowered" test for imminent infringement in Boehringer Ingelheim v Zentiva PI appeal [Ed: UPC is totally illegal, but this blog became complicit in this illegality by now]

• Trademarks

  • IP Kat ☛ 2025-09-09 [Older] Silence is golden – or at least does not affect trade mark rights

  • Right of Publicity

    • IP Kat ☛ 2025-09-09 [Older] [Guest post] Digital replicas of the dead: a growing trend, a missing legal framework