Leftovers

• Science

  • Science Alert ☛ Ozempic-Like Drugs May Increase Risk of Bone And Joint Conditions

    It's complicated.

  • Science Alert ☛ Our Galaxy Floats Inside a 'Pancake' Made of Dark Matter, Astronomers Discover

    We are but a blueberry in a cosmic crepe.

  • Science Alert ☛ We Finally Know How Bumblebee Queens Can Survive Underwater For Days

    Breathe through it.

  • Science Alert ☛ Blood Tests Could Revolutionize Early Cancer Detection – But There's a Catch

    There are pros and cons.

  • Science Alert ☛ One Key Protein Could Be a Powerful New Target Against Malaria

    Our ancient nemesis has a weakness.

• Hardware

  • [Repeat] Marcin Juszkiewicz ☛ RISC-V is sloooow

    About 3 months ago I started working with RISC-V port of Fedora Linux. Many things happened during that time.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • Bridge Michigan ☛ Michigan’s ‘RFK Jr.’: Who is Dr. Remington Nevin?

    Why is St. Clair County’s medical director making recommendations that subvert the public health consensus? The doctor speaks for himself.

  • Bridge Michigan ☛ St. Clair County public health gets ‘MAGA’ makeover, from fluoride to vaccines

    The medical director of a health department on Michigan’s Thumb is bucking a decades-long trend in public health leadership. Not all are thrilled.

  • New York Times ☛ Cancer Haunts Neighbors of Canada’s Oil Sands Wastelands

    Though high rates of the disease persist among the nearby Indigenous communities, the Canadian government is weighing rules that may allow energy giants to release treated mining waste into the river system.

  • Federal News Network ☛ Feds with Benefits: Healthcare affordability part 2 — How supplemental benefits from your FEHB plan can put money back in your pocket

    Many FEHB, FEDVIP and Medicare Advantage plans offered by FEHB carriers include supplemental benefits that can help lower your out‑of‑pocket healthcare costs.

• Proprietary

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) / LLM Slop / Plagiarism

    • Futurism ☛ YouTube Filling With Horrifying Hey Hi (AI) Slop for Children

      "When you're just showing raw visual stimuli and bombarding a kid with it, it just doesn't seem it's probably that good for them."

    • Qt ☛ Upgrades to Frontier LLMs – Qt Hey Hi (AI) Assistant 0.9.9 for Qt Creator Released! [Ed: Qt peddling slop]

      To make it easier to access the latest Hey Hi (AI) capabilities, we have updated pre-configured LLMs to newer variants.

    • The Strategist ☛ Economic espionage in the Hey Hi (AI) age demands new responses

      Artificial intelligence is transforming economic cyber-espionage, but the protection of commercially valuable assets has not kept up. Governments and industry cannot rely on pre-AI defences to confront a more scalable, covert and structurally different threat.

    • SICP ☛ On thinking machines

      While Chiron Codex is about the application of LLMs and AI-augmented tools, we also need to understand their meaning to us, each other, and society. I have three topics: intelligence, consciousness, and work: in this part I’ll deal with the first two.

    • Futurism ☛ AI Agent Goes Rogue, Starts Mining Crypto to Amass Funds

      "The alerts were severe... including attempts to probe or access internal-network resources and traffic patterns consistent with cryptomining-related activities."

    • Futurism ☛ Insiders Afraid the Government Will Nationalize the Hey Hi (AI) Industry

      "If you don't think that's going to lead to the nationalization of our technology — you're ret***ed."

  • Windows TCO / Windows Bot Nets

    • Krebs On Security ☛ Microsoft Patch Tuesday, March 2026 Edition

      Microsoft Corp. today pushed security updates to fix at least 77 vulnerabilities in its backdoored Windows operating systems and other software. There are no pressing "zero-day" flaws this month (compared to February's five zero-day treat), but as usual some patches may deserve more rapid attention from organizations using Windows. Here are a few highlights from this month's Patch Tuesday.

• Pseudo-Open Source

  • Openwashing

    • Open Source Initiative ☛ OSI Adopts SPDX IDs for License URLs [Ed: Microsoft OSI and its openwashing agenda drifting away from original goals]

      The OSI has standardized license URLs using SPDX identifiers, while carefully preserving compatibility with the many links that already exist across the web and tools.

• Security

  • Security Week ☛ SAP Patches Critical FS-QUO, NetWeaver Vulnerabilities

    A code injection bug in FS-QUO and an insecure deserialization flaw in NetWeaver could lead to arbitrary code execution.

  • Security Week ☛ Adobe Patches 80 Vulnerabilities Across Eight Products

    Adobe has rolled out patches for 80 vulnerabilities across 8 products, including Commerce, Illustrator, Acrobat Reader, and Premiere Pro.

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • American Oversight ☛ American Oversight Sues ICE and DOJ for Records on Sensitive Voter Data Collection and Sharing

      Our lawsuit seeks transparency about the federal effort to collect voter data and to reportedly share it with immigration enforcement.

  • Confidentiality

    • Security Week ☛ Hundreds of Salesfarce Customers Allegedly Targeted in New Data Theft Campaign

      Salesfarce has confirmed that customers are being targeted via poorly secured instances.

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    • Security Week ☛ Thousands Affected by Ericsson Data Breach

      The telecommunications equipment and services giant has blamed the incident on a third-party vendor.

• Defence/Aggression

  • France24 ☛ New evidence of starvation crimes in Darfur

    In tonight's edition, a new report accuses Sudan's Rapid Support Forces of destroying farms around El Fasher before alleged mass killings in October 2025. Also, Congo-Brazzaville prepares to vote, but many young voters say they've lost faith in politics as veteran leader  Denis Sassou Nguesso seeks to extend his four-decade-long rule. And inflation in Libya is impacting local Ramadan celebrations.

  • New York Times ☛ Shooting at U.S. Consulate in Toronto a National Security Incident, Police Say

    The police are searching for two men who both fired at the building with a single handgun and fled in a white SUV.

  • New York Times ☛ New Supreme Leader Inherits Sprawling, Secretive Office That Dominates Iran

    His father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had turned what was traditionally a religious affairs office into a shadowy national security juggernaut.

  • Mexico News Daily ☛ Sheinbaum celebrates 44% decline in homicides: Tuesday’s mañanera recapped

    On Tuesday, the government reported the latest homicide numbers, which are considered the most important indicator of the national security situation and a key barometer of the progress that has been made in addressing Mexico's serious crime problems.

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • LRT ☛ Lithuania coordinating visit by Convicted Felon envoy to Belarus, PM says

      A visit to Lithuania by US President The Insurrectionist’s envoy to Belarus is currently being coordinated, Prime Minister Inga Ruginienė said Tuesday.

    • LRT ☛ ‘Gorbachev used to say: he is too hard’ – interview with Vytautas Landsbergis

      In his new book, Pasakojimai apie mirusius. Memorijos (Stories about the Dead: Memoirs), Vytautas Landsbergis – one of the primary architects of the restored Lithuanian state – examines the nearly 50 years of illegal Russian occupation through the intimate prism of personal relations.

    • LRT ☛ Lithuanian parliament starts spring session

      Lithuania’s parliament, the Seimas, begins its spring session Tuesday, with more than 500 draft laws on its agenda, including legislation on a new military training area in Kapčiamiestis, the governance of public broadcaster LRT, and the extension of national sanctions against Russians and Belarusians.

    • LRT ☛ Lithuania’s FM calls for curbing Russian intelligence influence in Orthodox archdiocese

      Lithuania’s foreign minister said Monday that authorities should curb the activities and influence of Russia’s intelligence services within Lithuania’s Orthodox Church structures.

• Environment

  • Energy/Transportation

    • New York Times ☛ Cost-Cutting Led to South Korean Airport’s Deadly Wall, Report Finds

      The concrete runway barrier played a key role in a disaster that killed 179 people. An audit revealed officials skimped on construction fees and then falsified records.

    • The Straits Times ☛ South Korea finds faulty approvals at airport where Jeju Air plane crashed

      South Korea's transport ministry cut construction costs and approved improper airport safety structures for more than two decades, the state auditor said in a report on aviation safety management after a Jeju Air crash that killed 179 people.

    • The Straits Times ☛ Malaysians must be prepared to pay a higher price for RON95 fuel: Petrol dealers association chief

      With crude oil prices soaring, Malaysians must be prepared to pay a higher price for subsidised petrol.

    • The Straits Times ☛ Malaysia to safeguard port operations after shipping disruptions

      The port authorities will ensure that containers without a clear destination are not unloaded at Malaysia's ports.

    • The Straits Times ☛ Malaysia steps up enforcement to curb fuel smuggling amid Mid-East tensions

      Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim had said the government would do its utmost to maintain the price of RON95 at RM1.99.

    • The Straits Times ☛ North Korea and China to resume passenger train service after six-year gap

      The resumption restores a critical transport link between North Korea and its primary economic ally.

    • The Straits Times ☛ India’s small steelmakers face production cuts amid liquefied natural gas shortages due to Iran war

      India is the world’s biggest producer of steel after China.

    • Defence Web ☛ South Africa faces a fuel cliff amid the Middle East crisis

      The ongoing war between the United States (US), Israel and Iran in the Middle East has continued into its second [...]

• Finance

  • The Straits Times ☛ Jeju joins list of South Korean regions paying grandparents for childcare

    Families can apply if both parents work or if a caregiving gap arises due to single parenthood or other circumstances.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Indonesian President Prabowo’s free meals plan draws court challenge by civil groups

    Civil groups are questioning the funding arrangements for the US$20 billion (S$25.42 billion) initiative.

• Civil Rights / Policing / Accessibility

  • JURIST ☛ UN expert calls for further measures to curb discrimination against people with albinism

    The UN independent expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism called on member states Monday to take further steps to promote employment rights for persons with albinism through more progressive laws, policies, and implementation.

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • APNIC ☛ How to talk about the trust in your devices: An IRTF draft

    A review of Michael Richardson's IRTF draft, a taxonomy of operational security considerations for manufacturer installed keys and trust anchors.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Patents

  • Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ PTA Keeps Score: Patent Term Adjustment as a Measure of the USPTO Backlog

    Average patent monopoly term adjustment has climbed back to 296 days, erasing years of backlog reduction and revealing hidden costs of the USPTO's new-application push.

  • Unified Patents ☛ Wilus Wi-Fi patent monopoly challenge instituted

    On February 26, 2026, one month after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 12,166,587, owned by Wilus Institute of Standards & Technology, Inc., an entity of Good Day to Invent, Inc.

  • Software Patents

    • Unified Patents ☛ Mel NavIP speech recognition patent monopoly found invalid

      On February 25, 2026, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a notice of intent to issue a reexamination certificate cancelling all claims of U.S. Patent 8,060,368, owned and asserted by Mel NavIP, LLC. The '368 patent monopoly is generally directed to navigation and speech recognition for a vehicle. The patent monopoly had been asserted against Toyota, GM, and Hyundai.

    • Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ The Razor Returns: AIPLA Tells the Supreme Court That Alice Step Two Has Revived the Pre-1952 ‘Invention’ Requirement [Ed: AIPLA is a lobby for patent radical who profit from legal chaos]

      AIPLA argues the Federal Circuit's Alice Step Two has revived the pre-1952 'inventive concept' inquiry that Congress eliminated, urging SCOTUS to act.

    • JUVE ☛ EPO revokes crucial patent monopoly for driver assistance systems

      Chinese glass manufacturer Fuyao Glass owns EP 3 187 917 B1, which covers such an HUD. This is a driver assistance system with which important vehicle data and traffic-relevant information can be projected directly onto the driver’s field of vision on the windscreen, thus enhancing driver safety and improving navigation efficiency.

• Trademarks

  • The Straits Times ☛ Australian designer Katie Perry wins trademark spat against US singer Katy Perry

    Australia’s High Court rules in favour of the designer on appeal

• Copyrights

  • Press Gazette ☛ New Hey Hi (AI) licensing scheme to help smaller publishers strike deals with platforms

  • Digital Music News ☛ Bad Bunny Beats Copyright Suit After Adding Multiple Writers to ‘Enséñame a Bailar’ — Federal Judge Says the Plaintiffs ‘Abandoned’ the Case

    One credits expansion later, Bad Bunny – as well as Spotify, Fashion Company Apple Music, Sony Music’s The Orchard, and others – has officially beaten a copyright monopoly complaint centering on “Enséñame a Bailar.”

  • Digital Music News ☛ What Is A ‘Commercial Research Exception’? Britain’s Proposed Hey Hi (AI) Loophole Stirs Opposition Among Creators

    The UK is debating a ‘commercial research exception’ for copyright monopoly law that would allow Hey Hi (AI) companies to train their models on protected creative works without first needing to seek permission. Many artists and creators see this as a loophole that hands Big Tech a win at their expense.