Leftovers

• Science

  • Hackaday ☛ TekaSketch: Where Etch A Sketch Meets Graph Theory

    The Etch A Sketch was never supposed to meet a Raspberry Pi, a camera, or a mathematical algorithm, but here we are. [Tekavou]’s Teka-Cam and TekaSketch are a two-part hack that transforms real photos into quite stunning, line-drawn Etch A Sketch art. Where turning the knobs only results in wobbly doodles, this machine plots out every curve and contour better than your fingertips ever could.

  • Science Alert ☛ Huntington's Breakthrough May Not Be The Success It Seems, Expert Cautions

    Time will tell.

  • Science Alert ☛ 6,100-Qubit Processor Shatters Quantum Computing Record

    A huge leap forward.

  • Science Alert ☛ Vast Anomaly in Earth's Gravity Field Signals Shifts Deep Beneath The Surface

    Maybe it was something it ate.

  • Science Alert ☛ Your Blood Type Affects Your Risk of an Early Stroke, Study Reveals

    It's important to know.

  • Science Alert ☛ Unusual Crater in The North Sea Result of a Cosmic Collision, Study Confirms

    "A real 'needle-in-a-haystack' effort."

  • Science Alert ☛ New Alzheimer's Treatment Slows Decline, But Comes at a High Cost

    Here's how it works.

  • Science Alert ☛ Our Asteroid Belt Is Slowly Disappearing. A New Study Reveals Its Fate.

    Going, going ...

• Career/Education

  • Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications

    • TecMint ☛ 7 Best Udemy Android Development Courses in 2025

      Originally written in Java, Android has grown to become the world’s most widely used mobile operating system since its initial release in September 2008. The latest stable version is Android 16, with developers now testing the corresponding tools and features for cutting-edge apps.

• Hardware

  • Hackaday ☛ Lumafield Shows Why Your Cheap 18650 Cells Are Terrible

    Lithium-ion cells deliver very high energy densities compared to many other battery technologies, but they bring with them a danger of fire or explosion if they are misused. We’re mostly aware of the battery conditioning requirements to ensure cells stay in a safe condition, but how much do we know about the construction of the cells as a factor? [Lumafield] is an industrial imaging company, and to demonstrate their expertise, they’ve subjected a large number of 18650 cells from different brands to a CT scan.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • New York Times ☛ Health Department Moves to Block Harvard From Future Research Grants

    The White House and Harvard University have struggled to negotiate an end to their monthslong dispute over the administration’s campaign to expunge “woke” ideology from campuses.

  • Latvia ☛ Organ transplant postal stamp issued in Latvia

    Latvian Postal Service and Pauls Stradiņš Clinical University Hospital (PSKUS) are dedicating a unique stamp and envelope to the topic of organ transplantation in order to raise public debate on the issue and call for saving lives, the Postal Service said in a release.

  • Latvia ☛ Latvia has a high rate of heart disease

    Latvia has one of the highest rates of heart disease among the regions of the European Union, according to Eurostat data published September 29th to mark World Heart Day.

  • Science Alert ☛ Signs of Rheumatoid Arthritis Uncovered Years Before Symptoms Appear

    The silent stage.

  • New York Times ☛ A Fox News Host Had a Baby and a Double Mastectomy. Viewers Had Opinions.

    Kat Timpf got pregnant, got breast cancer, then got back to work on the political comedy show “Gutfeld!” — all as a culture war brews over ambition, motherhood and women’s health.

  • Science Alert ☛ Vaping Increases Your Risk of Prediabetes, Study Suggests

    "A hidden peril."

  • Science Alert ☛ Tattoos May Not Save You From Getting Skin Cancer After All

    Here's why.

  • New York Times ☛ Octopuses Invade English Coast, ‘Eating Anything in Their Path’

    The highly intelligent cephalopods filled fishing nets and gobbled up crabs and lobsters in Devon and Cornwall this summer.

  • Bridge Michigan ☛ Cannabis group plots lawsuit over new Michigan weed tax plan

    Top Michigan marijuana trade group weighs lawsuit over proposed 24% wholesale tax integral to state budget deal. At issue: Whether lawmakers are amending a voter-approved legalization law.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Video of Hong Kong hotpot diners trying to take home raw ingredients goes viral

    The video has garnered over 2.4 million views since it was uploaded on Facebook (Farcebook) on Sept 27.

  • France24 ☛ Eggs, zoos and tech at the heart of France's food waste revolution

    Every year, the world throws away 1 billion tonnes of food and households are responsible for 60 percent of it. As we mark the International Day of Awareness of Food Waste, FRANCE 24 is looking at solutions to curb the problem. Ordinary citizens, businesses and even zoos have found surprising ways to save food. We take a closer look in this edition of Down to Earth.

• Proprietary

  • MJ Fransen ☛ Notational Velocity on OS X Mavericks

    Notational Velocity on OS X Mavericks

    The Linkdump No 74 on 82MHz had a nice introduction to the blogpost Getting Ready for the Winter. Part 1, Switching Technology on the blog Minutes To Midnight by Simone Silvestroni.

  • Dedoimedo ☛ Windows 10 ESU for EEA still not good enough

    You take my self, you take my self control. Behold, a wee article discussing the change in terms of use of backdoored Windows 10 ESU for users in the EEA region, including remaining requirement for Abusive Monopolist Microsoft account, current and future implications of its use, TPM functionality and security paradox, hardware and software control, other considerations, and more. This ought to be fun, but in a really sad way.

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) / LLM Slop / Plagiarism

    • Hackaday ☛ Macintosh System 7 Ported To X86 With LLM Help

      You can use large language models for all sorts of things these days, from writing terrible college papers to bungling legal cases. Or, you can employ them to more interesting ends, such as porting Macintosh System 7 to the x86 architecture, like [Kelsi Davis] did.

• Security

• Defence/Aggression

  • FAIR ☛ ‘Kristi Noem Is Actually Claiming Videotaping DHS Officers Is Violent’: CounterSpin interview with Matthew Cunningham-Cook on criminalizing witness

    Janine Jackson interviewed writer and researcher Matthew Cunningham-Cook about criminalizing witness for the September 19, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.

  • CS Monitor ☛ Hyundai raid in Georgia tests respect at the heart of US-Korea relations

    The raid by U.S. immigration agents on a Hyundai factory in Georgia has done more than short-term financial damage. It has amplified South Korean frustration with its American ally.

  • The Straits Times ☛ South Korea, US to hold business visa talks on Sept 30, says Seoul

    South Korea is unable to pay $451 billion for an investment package as part of a deal to cut tariffs.

  • The Straits Times ☛ South Korea begins visa-free entry for Chinese tourist groups, scheme to run until June 2026

    The last time South Korea offered similar visa-free entry was from December 2017 to March 2018.

  • The Straits Times ☛ China’s new K visa beckons foreign tech talent as US hikes H-1B fee

    Despite its promise, the K visa, which launches on Oct 1, faces hurdles.

  • The Straits Times ☛ China pushes US to ‘oppose’ Taiwan independence in major shift

    Language defining the US relationship with Taiwan has long been a sensitive subject.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Japan protests against China’s ocean research in exclusive economic zone

    Tokyo and Beijing face a territorial dispute over a group of Japanese-administered islands in the East China Sea.

  • The Straits Times ☛ China sentences 16 Myanmar-linked gang members to death

    The family-run criminal gang had killed 14 people, including those who tried to escape or disobeyed its management.

  • Futurism ☛ Space Force Says It’ll Prioritize Buying Lots of Weapons Over Ones That Work Properly

    "Space acquisition is one of the most intricate professions, and it can take years to master."

  • France24 ☛ Serbia arrests 11 accused of stirring Jewish-Muslim hate in France, Germany

    Serbian police have arrested 11 people over hate-motivated acts in France and Germany, including defacing Jewish sites and placing pigs' heads near mosques, authorities said Monday. A twelfth suspect, "currently on the run", is accused of training the group nationals on "the instructions of a foreign intelligence service", the Interior Ministry said in a statement, without specifying their nationality. FRANCE 24's Monte Francis reports.

  • France24 ☛ Serbia police arrest 11 people for placing pig heads outside French mosques

    Police in Serbia on Monday arrested 11 people suspected of leaving pig heads outside several mosques in and around Paris earlier this month and defacing a Holocaust memorial. The interior ministry accused the suspects of "inciting hatred", citing the involvement of a "foreign intelligence service".

  • The Straits Times ☛ Myanmar army razed Rohingya villages to build security outposts, UN-backed report says

    Some 1.3 million Rohingya refugees now live in densely packed camps in Bangladesh.

  • JURIST ☛ Rights group urges UN to authorize a mission to address violence in Haiti

    Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on the UN Security Council on Friday to authorize an international mission to address the escalating violence in Haiti, stating the mission be adequately funded, staffed, and anchored in strong human rights safeguards.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Singapore denies entry to Hong Kong’s wanted democracy activist Nathan Law, citing ‘national interests’

    Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Nathan Law has been denied entry to Singapore after he arrived in the country on Saturday, with the city-state citing “national interests” as the reason. The Financial Times first reported on Law’s denial of entry to Singapore on Monday.

  • JURIST ☛ Rights group warns Convicted Felon memo on political violence poses risk to democracy

    US President The Insurrectionist’s September 25 memorandum directing federal agencies to investigate what it describes as a nationwide conspiracy to foment political violence constitutes a serious threat to human rights and democratic institutions, Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned on Friday.

  • Atlantic Council ☛ Drug cartels are adopting cutting-edge drone technology. Here’s how the US must adapt.

    Mexican cartels are apparently learning from Ukraine’s defense against Russia and twisting Kyiv’s example to their own illicit purposes.

  • New York Times ☛ Explaining the G.O.P.’s Misleading Talking Point on the Looming Shutdown

    Republicans have been falsely asserting that Democrats are shutting down the government to fund free health care for unauthorized immigrants.

  • Federal News Network ☛ Congressional leaders leave White House meeting without deal to avoid government shutdown

    Democratic congressional leaders have left a White House meeting without a deal with President The Insurrectionist and Republicans to avoid a government shutdown. Convicted Felon is making it clear he has no intention to negotiate on Democrats’ current terms. Democrats are insisting on action to extend health care benefits, but Republicans are refusing to compromise. If government funding legislation is not passed by Congress and signed by Convicted Felon on Tuesday night, many government offices will be temporarily shuttered and nonexempt federal employees will be furloughed.

  • France24 ☛ US government shutdown imminent after Convicted Felon meets with Democrats

    Vice President JD Vance announced on Monday that the US government was "headed to a shutdown", unless an agreement is reached between Republicans and Democrats in Congress. Dihydroxyacetone Man and Democrats remain in a budget stand-off, with health care tax breaks at the centre of the dispute.

  • The Straits Times ☛ North Korea tells UN: We will never give up nuclear programme

    It said doing so would be "tantamount to demanding it to surrender sovereignty".

  • The Straits Times ☛ South Korea’s Lee, outgoing Japan PM Ishiba hold talks on better ties, US trade deals

    The Japanese Prime Minister is expected to meet the South Korean President in Busan.

  • The Straits Times ☛ North Korea to further strengthen ties with China, says foreign minister

    The countries are traditional allies but their relationship has been complex and strained at times.

  • The Straits Times ☛ North Korea to further strengthen ties with China, foreign minister says

    The countries are traditional allies but their relationship has been complex and strained at times.

  • New York Times ☛ Peace Broker, Arms Supplier: China’s Dual Roles in a Deadly Conflict

    China urged Cambodia and Thailand to end their border war in July. But weeks earlier, it had sent rockets and artillery shells to Cambodia, Thai intelligence documents show.

  • The Straits Times ☛ India’s uneven refugee policy plays favourites

    This and recent immigration laws weaponise executive power to exclude people based on religion, say critics.

  • New York Times ☛ Denmark Bans Civilian Drone Flights Ahead of Major E.U. Summit

    A spate of recent drone sightings near airports in Denmark and Norway has amplified security concerns in Europe.

  • New York Times ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man Administration Will Deploy 100 National Guard Troops to Illinois

    The Department of Homeland Security requested the deployment over the objections of state officials, including Gov. JB Pritzker, a Democrat.

  • The Straits Times ☛ The missiles threatening Taiwan

    China is transforming parts of its east coast into a platform for potential missile strikes against Taiwan.

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • LRT ☛ Lithuania picks 23 hospitals to be prepared for wartime and crisis response

      Lithuania’s Health Ministry has designated 23 hospitals across the country to be prepared to operate in extreme situations and potential wartime conditions, Health Minister Marija Jakubauskienė has announced.

    • Meduza ☛ Putin signs law finalizing Russia’s withdrawal from European anti-torture convention — Meduza

    • European Commission ☛ Speech of Commissioner Marta Kos meeting the Council of National Minorities in Uzhhorod, Ukraine

    • Latvia ☛ Still no buyers for 'Moscow House' in central Rīga

      More than a year and a half ago, the state took over the building at 7 Marijas Street in Riga, popularly known as Moscow House, by a special law. Politicians wanted to auction the property and donate the money to Ukraine. But no buyer has been found, reports Latvian Television's De Facto on Sunday, 29 September.

    • The Strategist ☛ Ukraine’s lesson for Taiwan: build big, cheap and numerous cruise missiles

      The best thing about Ukraine’s new Flamingo, a 6-tonne fiberglass monstrosity with a secondhand turbofan engine, basic guidance and a pair of old gravity bombs for a warhead, is that it’s cheap.

    • Atlantic Council ☛ Dispatch from Kyiv: Why so many Americans support—and should continue to support—Ukraine

      On a recent trip to Kyiv, a former US ambassador to Ukraine shares what he has heard from Americans, including anger at Russian atrocities and a hope in Ukrainian success.

    • France24 ☛ 'A large defeat' for Moscow: Moldovan pro-EU party victorious despite Russian attempts to sway vote

      Moldova's ruling party on Monday hailed its key election victory that keeps the ex-Soviet country on a pro-EU path despite what the government and its allies said was a massive attempt by Russia to sway the vote. Speaking on FRANCE 24, Boris Najman, Associate Professor of Economy at University Paris EST Créteil and Former Advisor to the Ukrainian Government, says that the result represents a large defeat for Moscow.

    • LRT ☛ Lithuanian central bank chief: Seizing frozen Russian assets would not undermine the euro

      Europe should not overreact to the idea of confiscating frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine, Lithuania’s central bank governor and European Central Bank Governing Council member Gediminas Šimkus said in an interview with Politico.

    • LRT ☛ Prosecutors seek four-year jail term for Ukrainian over Vilnius Ikea arson attack

      Prosecutor in Lithuania has requested a four-year prison sentence for Ukrainian national Daniil Bardadim over an arson attack at the Ikea store in Vilnius last year.

    • RFERL ☛ Massive Russian Air Barrage On Ukraine Kills 4, Including Child

      Russia launched hundreds of drones and several dozens missiles early on September 28 in a massive air attack on Ukraine, killing at least four people including a 12-year-old girl in Kyiv and inflicting damage to civilian infrastructure.

    • Meduza ☛ Russian drone strike in Ukraine’s Sumy region kills family of four in their home — Meduza

    • New York Times ☛ Ukraine and Russia Blame Each Other for Power Cut at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant

      The Zaporizhzhia site in southeastern Ukraine has lacked external power to cool its reactors for five days. Kyiv says Moscow has manufactured the crisis.

    • Security Week ☛ Dutch Teens Arrested for Allegedly Helping Russian Hackers

      One of the two 17-year-old boys allegedly walked by law enforcement and embassy offices carrying a Wi-Fi sniffer.

    • Atlantic Council ☛ Moldova’s pro-EU ruling party won despite Russian interference. Now what?

      Moldova’s pro-Western ruling party has won a parliamentary majority. Our experts share their perspectives on what’s next for the country’s path to European Union accession.

    • France24 ☛ Pro-Russians allege ballot fraud in Moldova election

      In the wake of Moldova's election, which saw the ruling pro-Western party clinch a solid victory, some online are widely circulating footage they allege is proof voter fraud on the part of the ruling party. But as France 24's Charlotte Hughes explains, there are many elements in the footage which cast doubt upon its authenticity.

    • France24 ☛ Polar bears move into abandoned Soviet research station

      🐻‍❄️ Polar bears have taken over an abandoned Soviet research station on Kolyuchin Island in Russia’s far northeast.

      📸 Drone footage shows the bears roaming empty buildings, lounging in the Arctic sun and even snapping at the camera.

    • RFERL ☛ Moldovan Pro-Europe Ruling Party Celebrates Strong Win In Crucial Parliamentary Elections

      The pro-Europe ruling party of Moldova hailed its major victory over the Russia-friendly opposition in weekend parliamentary elections, a win that will keep the small, impoverished nationon a European path instead of drifting back toward the Kremlin.

    • Tom's Hardware ☛ 'Moscow military spy ship' seen mapping and surveilling NATO undersea cables — 'She’s following cable lines and pipelines, making stops. We are monitoring her very closely

      A new report documents how a Russian military spy ship has been tracked surveilling and mapping undersea cables in Europe's Atlantic coastline.

    • New York Times ☛ Moldova Moves Toward Europe, but Russian Tug of War Persists

      Moldova’s pro-European party held onto its absolute majority in Parliament in national elections, but it still has a long road into the European Union.

    • New York Times ☛ Russian Meddling Fails to Swing a Pivotal Election in Europe

      Moldova’s pro-European party was set for a majority in Parliament, in a vote widely seen as a showdown between Europe and Russia.

    • The Straits Times ☛ Medvedev warns Europe of the nuclear danger of war with Russia

      MOSCOW - Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday that Europe could not afford a war against Russia but that if its leaders made the mistake of triggering one then it could escalate into a conflict with weapons of mass destruction.

    • Meduza ☛ Russia’s favorite scam The Kremlin’s proposed ‘anti-fraud’ laws mean fewer freedoms, more surveillance, and a free pass to hack its enemies — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Russian banker transferred South Carolina mansion to ex-wife days before U.S. sanctions hit, investigation finds — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Russian deputy governor resigns and volunteers for army, only to be arrested hours later for embezzlement — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Occupation authorities impose gasoline rationing in Crimea — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ ‘A sense of gloom’: What a declassified CIA report reveals about popular sentiment in the late USSR when, like today, a former KGB official was in power — Meduza

    • LRT ☛ Hundred-percent airspace security impossible, says Lithuanian defence chief

      Lithuania plans to spend €500 million on additional air defence systems in the coming years, but the head of the military warned Monday that even these upgrades would not guarantee 100% protection of the country’s airspace.

• Environment

  • Energy/Transportation

    • France24 ☛ China: World's highest bridge opens to traffic

      🇨🇳 World's highest bridge opens to traffic

      🌉 The world's highest bridge opened to traffic in China, capping an engineering feat three years in the making and snatching the record from another bridge in the same province.

      ⛰️ The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge towers 625 metres (2,051 feet) above a river and vast gorge in the country's rugged southern province of Guizhou, also home to the 565-metre Beipanjiang Bridge that is now the world's second highest.

    • Hackaday ☛ Driving A Laser At 200 Volts For Nanoseconds

      If there’s one lesson to be learned from [Aled Cuda]’s pulsed laser driver, it’s that you can treat the current limits on electronic components as a suggestion if the current duration is measured in nanoseconds.

    • The Straits Times ☛ South Korea scrambles to restore digital services after data centre fire

      The authorities said 62 systems were restored, out of 647 affected by the fire on Sept 26.

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • The Revelator ☛ Incredible Journeys: Migratory Sharks on the Move

    • Futurism ☛ Experts Alarmed as Jellyfish Spawn in Freshwater Lakes

      Watch your toes.

  • Overpopulation

    • The Straits Times ☛ India plans mega-dam to counter China water fears

      The project comes as China presses ahead with the US$167 billion (S$216 billion) Yaxia project upstream of Riew.

• Finance

  • The Straits Times ☛ South Korea’s 4½-day work week plan stirs business backlash

    The plan aims to boost work-life balance, but firms fear competitiveness will slip.

  • Federal News Network ☛ IRS shutdown plan keeps employees working days after funding lapse

    The Forrest Dump administration is relying more heavily on Inflation Reduction Act funds to keep the IRS open, compared to what the Biden administration proposed.

  • New York Times ☛ Canada Post Strike: What to Know

    Postal workers walked off the job to protest cost-cutting measures ordered by the government that are likely to lead to major job losses.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • JURIST ☛ Human Rights Watch warns new China law threatens minority protections

    Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Sunday warned that recent Chinese legislation may lead to repression of ethnic minorities and expand ideological control beyond the country’s borders. The new legislation prioritizes Mandarin Chinese dominance.

  • The Straits Times ☛ China to hold key political meeting in late October over country’s direction for next 5 years

    It has battled sluggish economic growth, high youth unemployment and more since the start of the ongoing five-year plan.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ China sentences former agricultural minister to death with reprieve

    China’s former agricultural minister was sentenced to death on Sunday on corruption charges, with a two-year reprieve, a court statement said. Tang Renjian accepted cash and property bribes totalling more than 268 million yuan (US$38 million) between 2007 and 2024, the People’s Court of Changchun in northeast Jilin province said in a statement.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Chinese court sentences 16 Myanmar-linked gang members to death

    A Chinese court sentenced to death on Monday 16 members of a family-run criminal gang that established deadly scam centres in Myanmar’s Kokang region on the border with China, among other crimes.

  • Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

    • ‘This is fake’ — How North Korea uses Hey Hi (AI) and deepfakes as a weapon

      Their targets? Officials, journalists, human-rights activists, and researchers.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • New York Times ☛ Afghanistan Has Nationwide Internet Blackout, Monitors Say

    The shutdown came two weeks after the ruling Taliban cut off the internet in half a dozen provinces, saying they wanted to prevent “immoral acts.”

  • The Straits Times ☛ Nationwide communications blackout hits Afghanistan: AFP journalists

    Afhanistan’s Taliban authorities began a crackdown on internet access earlier in September.

  • AccessNow ☛ Nigeria: Civil society demands answers to social control media takedown requests

    We, the undersigned civil society organisations, write to express our concerns regarding the letters from Nigeria's Department of State Services (DSS) to X Corp and Meta, respectively, demanding the immediate removal of certain posts deemed critical of the Nigerian President. 

• Civil Rights/Policing

  • The Straits Times ☛ Youth, driven by social anger, make up half of arrests for public threats in South Korea

    The public intimidation law criminalises threats, often made online, to harm the public or unspecified groups.

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • The Straits Times ☛ Virtual idols draw real-world crowds as Japan’s VTuber market soars

    VTubers are virtual YouTubers performing through animated avatars.

  • Hackaday ☛ YouTube… Over Dial Up

    In the days of yore, computers would scream strange sounds as they spoke with each other over phone lines. Of course, this is dial up, the predecessor to modern internet technology, offering laughable speeds compared to modern connections. But what if dial up had more to offer? Perhaps it could even stream a YouTube video. That’s what the folks over at The Serial Port set out to find out.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Patents

  • Not Just Tech: Battling Patent Trolls in the Healthcare Industry

    Critics of efforts to mitigate patent monopoly troll abuse often make claims that patent monopoly troll concerns are overblown, or that the whole concept is a tech industry fabrication.

  • Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Thanks for Your Input: Federal Circuit Ignores USPTO’s §101 Framework (Again)

    In Rideshare Displays, Inc. v. Lyft, Inc., No. 2023-2033 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 29, 2025) (nonprecedential), the Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB determination that claims directed to vehicle identification systems for ridesharing services were unpatentable for obviousness, but reversed the Board’s grant of Rideshare’s motion to amend substitute claims. Judge Hughes, writing for the panel, held that the substitute claims were directed to patent-ineligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101 because they merely used technology as a tool to improve user experience rather than improving computer functionality itself.

  • JUVE ☛ Bayer and Regeneron secure PI against Formycon concerning Eylea

    Regeneron and Bayer are embroiled in a global battle against several generic companies over their ophthalmic drug Eylea. Along with Xarelto, it is one of Bayer’s most important revenue drivers and is used to treat neovascular (wet) age-related macular degeneration and diabetic macular oedema.

  • Software Patents

    • CAFC Affirms Obviousness of Vehicle ID Claims, Finds Substitute Claims Ineligible Under Section 101

      Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a ruling in Rideshare Displays, Inc. v. Squires affirming decisions by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) that Rideshare’s patent monopoly claims to systems and methods of vehicle identification were obvious over prior art. The Federal Circuit’s decision also reversed the PTAB’s partial grant of Rideshare’s motions to amend, finding the substitute claims’ subject matter did not provide a technological solution rendering the claims patent-eligible at Step Two of the Alice/Mayo patent monopoly eligibility framework.

    • Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Director Squires Takes Aim § 101 Rejections [Ed: Software Patents boosted by patent trolls-connected Cheeto appointee]

      In a striking early display of directorial authority, newly sworn-in Under Secretary of Commerce and USPTO Director John Squires has vacated a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decision that had entered a new ground of rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 101 against DeepMind Technologies' machine learning patent monopoly application. The September 26, 2025 decision in Ex parte Desjardins, Appeal 2024-000567, Application 16/319,040, represents one of Director Squires' first substantive actions since taking office one week ago and offers yet another clear signal that Section 101 reform is building steam. SquiresPTABDecision.

• Trademarks

  • TTAB Blog ☛ TTAB Grants Summary Judgment Motion, Tossing Out Genericness, Section 2(b), and Fraud Claims

    The Board granted Respondent UCRP's motion for summary judgment, tossing out Petitioner Coalition's three claims: genericness, violation of Section 2(b) [insignia of the United States], and fraud, in connection with the logo mark shown below for "maintaining a registry of motor carriers, motor private carriers, brokers, freight forwarders, and leasing companies engaged in interstate transportation" [UNIFIED CARRIER REGISTRATION PLAN disclaimed]. The Board's decision was a mere six-pages long, which makes one wonder: WYHPFC? Small Business In Transportation Coalition, Inc. v. Unified Carrier Registration Plan, Cancellation No. 92083760 (September 25, 2025) [not precedential].

• Copyrights

  • Heather J Meeker ☛ Amicus Brief in Thomson Reuters v. Ross

    I am excited to announce that I filed an amicus brief in this case (about which I wrote a while ago). The case is on interlocutory appeal to the Third Circuit on topics of protectability of legal headnotes under copyright, and fair use of legal headnotes in Hey Hi (AI) training. My brief is focused on protectability.

  • JUVE ☛ Munich hears first ever case over licences for generative Hey Hi (AI) in GEMA vs OpenAI

    For once, patents are not infringed in this dispute, but rather the copyrights of music creators such as Kristina Bach, Rolf Zuckowski, Reinhard Mey, Inga Humpe, Tommi Eckart, Ulf Sommer, and Peter Plate. According to GEMA, they and their music publishers are supporting a lawsuit by the German collecting society against OpenAI.

  • Digital Music News ☛ Japan and China’s Recording Industries Dwarf That of South Korea, Latest Data Reveals

    Despite the endless coverage and hype surrounding the rise of K-pop, Japan and China still dwarf South Korea in terms of recording industry size. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years, you’re probably aware by now of the rise of South Korean pop music and culture as a global phenomenon.

  • Digital Music News ☛ More Than 75 Chicago Musicians Remove Their Music from Spotify—Twin Peaks, The Curls, AVANTIST, & More

    A growing group of independent musicians in Chicago is removing their music from Spotify—following other artists who have pulled out. The open letter cites grave concerns about data privacy and the platform’s proliferation of unlabeled artificial intelligence (AI) music. The action comes as Seattle musicians did the same earlier this month.

  • Digital Music News ☛ Major Labels Submit Amended Infringement Complaint Against Udio — Redaction-Heavy Filing Calls Out ‘The Illegal Scraping of Copyrighted Sound Recordings from YouTube’

    Let the amended copyright monopoly complaints continue: The major labels have updated their infringement suit against Uncharted Labs, the company behind Hey Hi (AI) music generator Udio. The RIAA-corralled plaintiffs just recently fired off their proposed amended complaint against Udio, about one week after unveiling a retooled action against Suno.