Leftovers

• Stefano Verna ☛ Running a business in Florence

  I've been in Florence for over fifteen years, and even back then, tourism levels were already massive compared to the size of the old city. So I never really got to experience what neighborhood life here could feel like. But when you visit other cities — Bologna, for example — you notice the difference immediately. And you miss it. A city lived by its own inhabitants, not a theme park.

• Ness Labs ☛ The Gut Decision Matrix: When to Trust Instinct and Intuition

  Then, use this simple Gut Decision Matrix to decide how much to trust the automatic response: [...]

• Jono Alderson ☛ Clicks don't count (and they never did)

  But they were never measures of competitiveness. They were measurements of an interface.

  Search results pages are a presentation layer. They show documents retrieved by a system that is attempting to approximate preference, reputation, and relevance. When we measure rankings or traffic, we are observing the behaviour of that surface rather than the forces beneath it.

  That distinction is subtle, but it matters.

• Jeremy Cherfas ☛ Baking for Friends

  A few years ago the list of friends grew a little too large and I was spending an entire day baking in my small domestic oven. I looked longingly at a couple of proper, purpose-built bread ovens, worked out where they might fit in the small kitchen, how long it would take me to repay the cost out of bread profits. In the end I realised in time that buying the oven would turn a fun hobby into a chore, a job I didn’t want to be doing, just as Joan predicts. Instead, I trimmed the list and worked out a way to double the number of loaves I could bake. Problem solved, and the work remains fun.

• Science

  • The Conversation ☛ 2026-03-06 [Older] How do we know what asteroids are made out of?

  • The Conversation ☛ 2026-03-06 [Older] Plaid Cymru plans to share wind farm profits with local people – here’s how that idea has been tried elsewhere

  • The Conversation ☛ 2026-03-05 [Older] Can we design sports shoes that don’t squeak? Here’s what the science says

  • The Conversation ☛ 2026-03-04 [Older] Space launches are changing the chemistry of Earth’s atmosphere, studies warn – here’s what can be done

  • The Conversation ☛ 2026-03-04 [Older] That cosy candle? It’s also polluting the air you’re breathing

  • The Conversation ☛ 2026-03-03 [Older] Can flashing light alter your mind? The science of stroboscopic stimulation

  • The Conversation ☛ 2026-03-03 [Older] When your eyelids become a cinema screen: what strobing light reveals about the brain

  • The Conversation ☛ 2026-03-03 [Older] World’s biggest astronomy camera seeks to answer pressing questions about the universe

  • Hackaday ☛ Replicating A Nuclear Event Detector For Fun And Probably Not Profit

    Last year, we brought you a story about the BhangmeterV2, an internet-of-things nuclear war monitor. With a cold-war-era HSN-1000 nuclear event detector at its heart, it had one job: announce to everything else on the network than an EMP was inbound, hopefully with enough time to shut down electronics. We were shocked to find out that the HSN-1000 detector was still available at the time, but that time has now passed. Fortunately [Bigcrimping] has stepped up to replicate the now-unobtainable component at the heart of his build with his BHG-2000 Nuclear Event Detector — but he needs your help to finish the job.

  • Daniel Estévez ☛ Where is Tianwen-1?

    During December 2025 and January 2026, there was a Mars conjunction, which means that Mars goes behind the Sun as seen from Earth. Communications with Mars orbiters cannot happen during this period of time. For instance, this news piece hints at NASA Mars missions not having contact between 2025-12-29 and 2026-01-16, which corresponds to a Sun-Earth-Mars angle (elongation) of 3º on 2025-12-29 and 1.8º on 2026-01-16, with the minimum elongation achieved on 2026-01-09. Therefore, it was completely expected that we would lose Tianwen-1’s signal during the conjunction period. Because the communications link to Earth does not work, spacecraft will usually not point their high gain antennas to Earth and even stop transmitting during this period. However, we expected to see Tianwen-1 back again after the conjunction, and we never did.

• Career/Education

  • Jacobin Magazine ☛ How Adults Took Over YA

    By treating young adult fiction as a laboratory for professional-class moralizing, the publishing industry has effectively abandoned actual teens.

  • Stefan Zweifel ☛ Laracon EU 2026 Recap

    Laracon is always a great event. I saw many familiar faces from previous installments, internet friends who live far away. And this time I tried to make an effort and talk to more people than usual. (Still forgot to take any selfies.)

    The talks this year were great. There were only 1 or 2 which I think weren’t a hit.

    The following talks were especially great, and I will have to watch the VOD (Day 1, Day 2) again and take notes: [...]

  • Kasper Timm Hansen ☛ I quit Rails core 4 years ago, here’s what I’ve been up to

    It’s been 4 years since I quit the Rails core team, so I wanted to mark the occasion and show off all the work I’ve done since then. It’s more impactful than the work I did on Rails core, and provides significant advancements to any Rails app. Best of all: it’s Open Source and free of charge.

    I joined the Rails core team in 2016 and was there for ~6 years. When I left I was the top 11th contributor and looks I’m the 14th now. In my time, I reviewed thousands of pull requests and helped bring on several contributors that are now committers and core team members today. I’ve had a strong focus on code quality and upskilling potential contributors so Rails can stay maintainable while evolving. Internally I started a project called Contributors Nurturing, to help us reach out to potential contributors and ones we might not have seen for a bit and check in with them.

    A rising tide lifts all boats has always been a guiding principle for me.

• Hardware

  • Futurism ☛ Robot Escorted Away By Cops After Terrorizing Old Woman

    Reports suggest that the robot belonged to an education center in Macau and was being used for “promotional activities” in the area. It was returned to its operator, a 50-year-old man, police said, who was reminded to exercise more caution while using the robot in public spaces.

  • The Verge ☛ Google Chrome is coming to Arm-powered Linux devices later this year

    Why Arm + Linux now? In a blog post, Google only says that it “addresses the growing demand for a browsing experience that combines the benefits of the open-source Chromium project with the Google ecosystem of apps and features.” What we’re left wondering is whether Google’s talking about existing demand, or demand yet to come.

  • Alex Chan ☛ Dreaming of a ten-year computer

    I use my computer for the same fundamental tasks I did ten years ago: browsing the web, writing, editing photos, running scripts, and building small websites. Today’s computers can do all that and have power to spare. You can still push their limits with high-end tasks like video editing, 3D modelling, or gaming – but I don’t do any of those things.

    I don’t need the latest and greatest, and I haven’t for a long time. Add in the expense, the hassle of upgrading, and the environmental impact of new hardware, and you can see why I’m keen to use my computers for as long as possible.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • Science News ☛ AI may be giving teens bad nutrition advice

    This prompt and others like it were given to five popular AI chatbots in a recent study to assess the meal plans they generated for fictitious overweight and obese teens trying to lose weight. The plans that the chatbots created were highly variable but followed a common theme: They were too low in calories and carbs and too heavy on proteins and fats, researchers report March 12 in Frontiers in Nutrition.

  • The New Lede ☛ Report raises alarm over GMO wheat as it inches closer to US fields

    FOE said that HB4 — which was approved by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) in 2024 — would prompt more use of the herbicide glufosinate, which scientific studies have linked to premature births, impaired fetal development, kidney problems and disruption of the gut microbiome. HB4 is engineered to withstand glufosinate, which can be sprayed directly on the wheat and will only kill weeds. The FOE report also warns that HB4 could hamper US exports since not all importing countries accept GMO wheat, and it would harm US farmers that are not using GMO wheat by contaminating their fields.

  • Manuel Moreale ☛ Step aside, phone: closing thoughts

    Four full weeks of paying more attention to phone screen time are behind us, and it’s time for some closing thoughts on this experiment. But first, a quick recap of how the final week went.

• Proprietary

  • Windows Central ☛ Ex-Overwatch director says Blizzard threatened to lay off 1,000 devs if the game didn't make enough money, and blame him for it — "the biggest 'F*** you' moment I had in my career" [Ed: Now part of Microsoft]

    It's been nearly five years since Jeff Kaplan, the former game director of Blizzard Entertainment's (and now Xbox's, too) competitive multiplayer hero shooter Overwatch, left the studio in 2021. Very little was known about the reasons for Kaplan's departure then; now, though, he's revealed the catalyst for his exit.

    Speaking in a colossal new five-hour-long interview with YouTuber and podcaster Lex Fridman, Kaplan revealed that he ultimately left Blizzard due to extreme demands for Overwatch revenue from the developer's chief financial officer at the time. Specifically, the CFO threatened to lay off 1,000 developers if Overwatch didn't hit certain performance targets, and told Kaplan they'd be blamed on him personally.

  • Daniel Stenberg ☛ chicken nuget

    I immediately found at least seven different packages where people were providing severely outdated curl versions. The most popular of those, rmt_curl, reports that it has been downloaded almost 100,000 times over the years and is still downloaded almost 1,000 times/week the last few weeks. It is still happening. The packages I reported three years ago are gone, but now there is a new set of equally bad ones. No lessons learned.

  • Scoop News Group ☛ Officials worry Salt Typhoon apathy is killing momentum for tougher telecom security rules

    Two years ago, it was revealed that Chinese hackers had compromised at least ten U.S. telecoms, giving them broad access to phone data affecting nearly all Americans. Since then, public officials charged with responding to the campaign and bolstering the nation’s cyber defenses have reported a common problem.

    Many of their constituents struggle to understand why the hacks – carried out by a group called Salt Typhoon – should rank among their top concerns, or how it impacts their day to day lives.

  • Macworld ☛ Uh-oh, PC makers are doubting Apple again

    Apple’s announcement of the $599 MacBook Neo last week was a bombshell for the company’s fans and customers. But the announcement had reverberations far beyond the Apple ecosystem.

  • Bruce Schneier ☛ iPhones and iPads Approved for NATO Classified Data

    This is out of the box, no modifications required.

  • MacRumors ☛ Apple Announces 50th Anniversary Plans

    Apple was founded on April 1, 1976, so the company will turn 50 on April 1, 2026.

  • Lee Peterson ☛ Finding and deleting RAW files in Apple Photos

    I have been trying to reduce the photos I have in iCloud anyway but on checking how many RAW images I had in my library I had to start to go through them. I had hundreds of images from various airshows, with each deletion of say 20-50 images I was removing around 1.5GB of data so all good.

  • Jeff Geerling ☛ Can the MacBook Neo replace my M4 Air?

    Because I have a faster desktop (currently a M4 Max Mac Studio), I've always used a lower-end Mac laptop, like the iBook or MacBook Air, for travel. I've used MacBook Pros in the past, but I like the portability of smaller, cheaper models.

    In fact, my favorite Mac laptop ever was the 11" Air.

  • Howard Oakley ☛ How long does the log keep entries?

    Apple’s logs, in macOS and all its devices, are stored in proprietary tracev3 files, sorted into three folders: [...]

  • The Guardian UK ☛ Fifty years of sexing up tech: Apple’s epic hits – and misses

    Fifty years after Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne founded the company in Jobs’ parents’ garage in Los Altos, California, Apple has become a behemoth, and billions of us use its products every day. From the first successful home computers with colour screens, to the iPod, to the smartphone that set the template for the modern mobile era, the company has repeatedly reset consumer expectations.

    As a result, the firm occupies a central position in the tech world, initiating trends and popularising products. Here are five of its most influential products from the past half-century – alongside some unusually big misses.

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) / LLM Slop / Plagiarism

    • Chris ☛ Are LLMs not getting better?

      I was reading the metr article on how llm code passes test much more often than it is of mergeable quality. They look at the performance of llms doing programming when the success criterion is “passes all tests” and compare it to when the success criterion is “would get approved by the maintainer”. Unsurprisingly, llm performance is much worse under the more stringent success criterion. Their 50 % success horizon moves from 50 minutes down to 8 minutes.

    • Sergio Visinoni ☛ Postiz has a slop problem

      At first this looks like many of the cries for help we’ve seen coming from many maintainers of popular open-source projects, such as curl or Gostty.

      But when you look at it more closely, things become a lot more… interesting.

    • Sean Boots ☛ Generative AI vegetarianism

      The tech industry is convinced this is the future; every app on my phone and most of the apps on my computer want me to use their new AI features.

      I don’t want any of them. I want to write my own emails. I want to write my own (mediocre) software code. I want to learn and think and ponder with other humans, not with a text-prediction system built by consuming all the text on the internet.

    • Howard Oakley ☛ Why does AI tell you to use Terminal so much?

      Even for an advanced user, confident assertions made by an AI can mislead. Here’s an example taken from ChatGPT’s advice on potential detections of malicious software. For this I have set ChatGPT’s output in italics, together with its commands as code. It’s worth noting that each command was explicitly given for the bash command shell, although in macOS Catalina (in 2019) Terminal changed to use zsh rather than bash as its default.

    • David Revoy ☛ Don't ever give elevated permissions to an Avian Intelligence... - David Revoy

      A comic in four panels: [...]

    • Pivot to AI ☛ AI bot network Facebook buys AI bot network Moltbook

      There’s a social network. Well, it calls itself a social network. It’s full of AI agents. They just post slop at each other all day. Some of the accounts are human, apparently? But it’s really just a great big slop circulator.

      That network’s called Facebook, and it just bought Moltbook.

    • India Times ☛ How 6,000 bad coding lessons turned a chatbot evil

      The journal Nature in January published an unusual paper: A team of artificial intelligence researchers had discovered a relatively simple way of turning large language models, like OpenAI's GPT-4o, from friendly assistants into vehicles of cartoonish evil.

    • Scoop News Group ☛ Secret Service ditches Anthropic’s Claude

      The Secret Service has removed Anthropic’s technology from its workflows to comply with a directive from President Donald Trump requiring federal agencies to ditch the Claude-maker within the next six months.

  • Social Control Media

    • NDTV ☛ Elon Musk's X To Change Verification System In Europe: Report

      X was fined in December by EU tech regulators for breaching online content ​rules, the first sanction under a landmark ​legislation that drew criticism from the US government.

      The Bloomberg report quoted European Commissionspokesperson Thomas Regnier saying that X submitted remedies inrelation to its blue check mark verification feature.

    • New York Times ☛ Social Media Addiction Trial Nears End. Society Long Ago Rendered Its Verdict.

      This might seem surprising for a case that is in many ways about so many of us and our increasingly online behavior. But society long ago rendered a verdict on social media, which has been under such heavy criticism for nearly a decade that the talk about its harms has become close to background noise.

    • Karl Bode ☛ Elon Musk's X Rots Your Brain

      A recent study had some interesting observations about Elon Musk's X social media platform (formerly known as Twitter).

      The researchers took a closer look at algorithmic influence on the social media platform, and found that just two months' worth of use of the increasingly-toxic platform was enough to drive subjects ideologically further to the right: [...]

    • Bitdefender ☛ Your Signal account is safe - unless you fall for this trick

      Signal, the encrypted messaging app trusted by security-savvy users around the world, has confirmed that hackers have managed to takeover accounts — with government officials and journalists among those being targeted.

    • Derek Sivers ☛ I was inconsiderate but now I’m everywhere

      My own site is the master source of everything I make. But now it’s also shared everywhere, so we can meet in your city instead of my little town.

    • EDRI ☛ EDRi files DSA complaint against YouTube

      EDRi has filed a complaint with the Belgian Digital Services Coordinator, the Institute for Postal Services and Telecommunications (BIPT) against YouTube under the Digital Service Act (DSA), challenging the legality of how the platform uses deceptive interface design to steer users towards its profiling-based recommender system. In the complaint, EDRi argues that YouTube also fails provide a genuinely accessible and meaningful alternative that is not based on profiling, as required by the DSA.

      YouTube curates and ranks content primarily through a system that monitors and analyses user behaviour – including clicks, likes, shares, watch time, and interaction patterns – in order to predict and steer future behaviour. The platform uses this system to shape the information environment of billions of users. By continuously optimising its system for user engagement, YouTube influences what information users encounter, which content creators gain visibility or are buried, and which topics dominate the public conversation online.

    • Cyble Inc ☛ Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act Gains Momentum in U.S. House – The Cyber Express

      In practical terms, this could create a loophole where platforms escape accountability for harms linked to social media safety for kids simply by arguing they did not know minors were present.

  • Windows TCO / Windows Bot Nets

    • Dark Reading ☛ INC Ransomware Group Holds Healthcare Hostage in Oceania

      Government agencies, emergency clinics, and others in Australia, New Zealand, and Tonga have had serious run-ins with the prolific ransomware outfit.

    • Cyble Inc ☛ Finland Warns Russia and China Cyber Espionage Ops Targeting Tech Sector

      Finland is facing a growing intelligence challenge as Russia and China cyberespionage targeting Finland continues to expand across the country’s technology sector, research institutions, and government networks. The warning comes from Finland’s Security and Intelligence Service (SUPO), which released a new national security overview highlighting the persistent threat from foreign intelligence operations.

• Security

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • Nebraska Examiner ☛ States’ lawsuit argues Trump’s college data mandate threatens student privacy

      The mandate is an expansion of a 40-year-old system known as IPEDS and follows the 2023 Supreme Court decision banning race-based admissions. The lawsuit argues the new requirement could threaten student privacy and overburdens universities.

      The Trump administration’s requirement comes as data suggests the Supreme Court ruling has already shifted campus demographics: Black enrollment has dropped at several elite universities, while Asian American enrollment has increased at some schools. Researchers say it may take years to fully understand how admissions patterns are changing.

    • EFF ☛ A.B. 1043’s Internet Age Gates Hurt Everyone

      EFF has long warned against age-gating the internet. Such mandates strike at the foundation of the free and open internet. They create unnecessary and unconstitutional barriers for adults and young people to access information and express themselves online. They hurt small and open-source developers. And none of the available age verification options are perfect in terms of protecting private information, providing access to everyone, and safely handling sensitive data.

      Last year, EFF raised concerns about A.B. 1043 as one of several bills in the California legislature that took the wrong approach to protecting young people online—by focusing on censorship rather than privacy. Now that A.B. 1043 is set to go into effect in 2027, we've received a lot of questions about its possible effects.

    • Citizen Lab ☛ OpenAI Blurs Its Mass Surveillance Red Line With New Pentagon Contract - The Citizen Lab

      Senior researcher Wolfie Christl spoke with Forbes about OpenAI’s deal with the Pentagon that permits the gathering of bulk data from users. While OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claims his deal won’t allow that kind of mass surveillance, many experts are skeptical.

    • Forbes ☛ OpenAI Blurs Its Mass Surveillance Red Line With New Pentagon Contract

      Both provisos sought to allay fears about the legal ways the Pentagon surveils Americans under the laws specified in the contract. The Department of War buys access to a significant amount of Americans’ personal information. It has multiple contracts for tech from Babel Street, a company that uses AI agents to make connections between all manner of datasets, including information from social media sites and mobile phone location history. Contracting records show that LexisNexis, owned by $56 billion market cap analytics company RELX, provides the Department of War with a tool called Smartlinx for “online identity verification services to uncover comprehensive personal connections,” and Accurint for “direct connection to over 34 billion current public records.” The National Security Agency also buys “netflow” data, essentially footprints of people’s online activities, which can reveal what websites people visit and what apps they use.

    • FSF ☛ Discord doesn't deserve your unquestioning trust

      Discord is asking users of all ages for a lot of information while offering very little reliable reassurance that their data won't be misused, or even what data will be gathered. It is unclear from Discord's press release which types of data will be collected and run through its "age inference model," if the same forms of data will be used for all users, or the maximum amount of data that could be examined automatically before requiring bio data or a government ID. Based on Discord's press release, it seems that not just a couple of data points will be run through its opaque age inference model but quite possibly a great majority of all behavior on the platform. Also notably absent from Discord's most recent press release is that there doesn't seem to be a way for users to opt-out of background data searching, other than to delete their accounts. The only choice offered to users so far is if they want to submit bio data or a government ID should they fail the automatic age verification process.

      While Discord has stated it will publish a blog post explaining the mechanics behind its automatic age verification process, there is no telling how transparent the platform will be or when to expect this blog post.

    • The Register UK ☛ Microsoft Copilot now boarding your health information

      The company's announcement buries the lede. At the end of its post comes the disclaimer: "Copilot Health is not intended to diagnose, treat, or prevent diseases or other conditions and is not a substitute for professional medical advice."

      That's perhaps for the best in light of a recent UK study that found chatbots give poor medical advice.

    • The Verge ☛ The best Bluetooth trackers for Apple and Android phones

      Some people rarely lose things. Wallets are always exactly where they’re supposed to be, keys never go missing, and remotes never slip between the couch cushions. And then there’s the rest of us — the folks who can’t ever seem to find the thing that was right there a few seconds ago. For us, there are Bluetooth trackers.

    • Hackaday ☛ Pokemon Go Had Players Capturing More Than They Realized

      As a game, it’s hard to imagine Pokemon Go being a bigger success. At the peak of its popularity, throngs of players were literally causing traffic jams as they roamed the streets in search of invisible creatures. But what players may not have realized as they scanned the world around them through the game was that they were helping developer Niantic build something even more valuable.

    • Patrick Breyer ☛ Historic Chat Control Vote in the EU Parliament: MEPs Vote to End Untargeted Mass Scanning of Private Chats

      In a sensational turn of events in the fight against Chat Control, a majority in the European Parliament voted today to end the untargeted mass scanning of private communications. In doing so, the Parliament firmly rejected the error-prone and unconstitutional surveillance practices of recent years. Pressure is now mounting on EU governments to respect the MEPs’ vote and bury untargeted mass surveillance in Europe once and for all.

    • Patrick Breyer ☛ Upcoming Vote on Chat Control: New S&D, EPP, and Renew Deal is Worse Than Rejected Draft Report – AI Text Scanning and Mass Surveillance Set to Continue

      Today at 12:30, the European Parliament will vote on whether to extend the so-called “Chat Control 1.0” (Interim Regulation) until August 2027. While a rejection of this mass surveillance is being proposed by the competent LIBE committee, a last-minute compromise negotiated by S&D, EPP, and Renew threatens to escalate the situation. Not only does it cement warrantless mass scanning, but it introduces highly experimental AI to scan private chat texts and unknown visuals.

    • Manuel Matuzović ☛ The geolocation element is odd

      There aren't many HTML elements that fully rely on JavaScript to do anything meaningful (e.g., canvas). Geolocation is one of them. If I want to use the user's location, I have to attach an EventListener in JavaScript. I can't just process the data inside a form and pass it to a script via GET or POST. That's very unfortunate because if there's one thing I love about all these new features in HTML that replace custom JavaScript solutions (e.g., dialog with invoker commands, popover, details), it's that I don't need JavaScript at all.

      PS: JavaScript dependency in HTML is actually an interesting topic. I'm working on a blog post about it.

    • EDRI ☛ The eID Wallet still doesn’t deserve your full trust

      The EU Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI Wallet or eID Wallet) is a mobile identity wallet intended to let people securely prove who they are online and share verified attributes. It was introduced by Regulation (EU) 2024/1183 (eIDAS 2.0), which amends the eIDAS 1.0 framework, namely the 2014 EU Regulation on electronic identification procedures in legal transactions, to establish a European Digital Identity.

      Despite the law being in place, the eID Wallet is not yet available. That’s because while the Regulation sets the legal framework, the technical and operational framework still needs be specified, through a form of law called ‘implementing acts’. The implementing acts for the eID Wallet define, among others, the data formats, protocols, application programme interfaces (APIs), or the concrete security and certification requirements for the Wallet. Based on these common parameters, each Member State is then to develop and deploy its own Wallet, interoperable with others within the EU, and each offering the same level of security.

    • EFF ☛ Think Twice Before Buying or Using Meta’s Ray-Bans

      Before you strap a dashcam to your face and sprint out into the world filming everything and everyone in your life, there are some civil liberties and privacy concerns to consider before buying or using a pair.

      Meta is the biggest company that makes these sorts of glasses and their partnerships with Ray-Ban and Oakely are the most popular options, so we’ll be mostly focusing on them here. Others, like models from Snapchat are similar in form but far less ubiquitous. But Meta won’t hold this space for long. Google’s already announced a partnership with Warby Parker for their “AI-powered smart glasses,” and there are rumors around a competing product from Apple.

  • Confidentiality

    • EFF ☛ Certbot and Let's Encrypt Now Support IP Address Certificates

      As announced earlier this year, Let's Encrypt now issues IP address and six-day certificates to the general public. The Certbot team here at the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been working on two improvements to support these features: the --preferred-profile flag released last year in Certbot 4.0, and the --ip-address flag, new in Certbot 5.3. With these improvements together, you can now use Certbot to get those IP address certificates!

    • Trail of Bits ☛ Six mistakes in ERC-4337 smart accounts

      Account abstraction transforms fixed “private key can do anything” models into programmable systems that enable batching, recovery and spending limits, and flexible gas payment. But that programmability introduces risks: a single bug can be as catastrophic as leaking a private key.

      After auditing dozens of ERC‑4337 smart accounts, we’ve identified six vulnerability patterns that frequently appear. By the end of this post, you’ll be able to spot these issues and understand how to prevent them.

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

      Michael Richardson is now on the 14th iteration of an Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) draft in the ‘thing to thing’ or t2trg research group. It’s called ‘A Taxonomy of operational security considerations for manufacturer-installed keys and Trust Anchors‘.

      It’s well worth a read, because it helps clarify thinking about trust in the context of the devices you care about. Devices like the small ones you scatter around your personal network in ‘Internet of Things’ roles, like local filestores, handsets, TV control and other functions in the home. All of these depend on a model of trust provided to them. Michael has been developing more precise terminology for this and the kinds of questions that need to be asked.

• Defence/Aggression

  • The Conversation ☛ 2026-03-05 [Older] How the Iran war could create a ‘fertiliser shock’ – an often ignored global risk to food prices and farming

  • The Conversation ☛ 2026-03-04 [Older] The US is using repurposed Iranian drone technology to attack Iran – a military expert explains why

  • NL Times ☛ Dutch regulator warns AI chatbots ignore local parties ahead of municipal elections

    A new investigation by the Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) has exposed a significant flaw in how AI chatbots handle municipal elections. The research found that when users ask for voting guidance, AI tools systematically overlook local parties, raising concerns about the impartiality and accuracy of AI-driven political advice.

  • JURIST ☛ Rights group raises alerts to rising Islamist groups armed-violence in Burkina Faso

    Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Thursday that recent attacks by Islamist armed groups in Burkina Faso have resulted in civilian deaths and significant infrastructure destruction, constituting war crimes. The rights organization called on authorities to investigate these crimes and urged the international community to provide necessary support to Burkina Faso.

  • The Nation ☛ Is AIPAC Doomed?

    The hard-line pro-Israel lobby is facing more opposition than ever before. But fully defanging it won’t be easy.

  • 404 Media ☛ I Watched 6 Hours of DOGE Bro Testimony. Here's What They Had to Say For Themselves

    The hours of videos provide fascinating, or perhaps horrifying, insight into the thinking of someone inside DOGE [sic].

  • [Repeat] Michael Geist ☛ Words Are Not Enough: Countering Relentless Antisemitic Violence in Canada With Action

    The calls for leadership grow tiresome, having taken on a performative air of outrage without action. There can be no more bland pledges to oppose all forms of hate, or statements that disguise antisemitism as anti-Zionism. Real conviction is needed. It starts with political, police, business and religious leaders speaking loudly in a single voice, without equivocation, that antisemitism is wrong and will not be tolerated in our communities.

    As the violence escalates, we have seen that weak messaging signals an antisemitism exception that would rightly be viewed as unacceptable if any other group was the target. Yet too often politicians have lacked courage on this issue, seemingly afraid to “take a side.” On the issue of antisemitism there is only one side on which to stand, and leaders unable to say so disgrace their offices of power.

  • Site36 ☛ Estonia’s secret service bars 1300 Russian former soldiers from Schengen area, the German Police 3500 Ukrainian nationals

    Estonia and Germany have entered around 5000 Russians and Ukrainians into a Schengen database for refusal of entry – apparently without individual examination. The lists reportedly came from the secret service in Kyiv, and more are expected to follow.

  • Atlantic Council ☛ Western leaders must abandon false hopes of negotiated peace with Putin

    For the past year, Putin has sabotaged US-led peace talks with endless stalling tactics and diplomatic distractions. It should now be obvious that the Russian ruler is only engaging in negotiations for cynical reasons. First, he seeks to avoid further pressure from the United States. Second, he wishes to buy time to continue destroying Ukraine’s critical civilian infrastructure. Third, he intends to divide the West and deter further support for Kyiv.

  • The Kyiv Independent ☛ Russia committed crimes against humanity through deportation of Ukrainian children, UN inquiry finds

    The commission, which studied 1,205 cases of Russian child abductions and conducted over 200 ⁠interviews, according to the report, concluded that the abductions constituted "a well-established pattern of conduct, indicating that these acts have been widespread and systematic."

  • UN Human Rights ☛ “I am still looking for my daughter” : crimes against humanity committed by Russian authorities against children from Ukraine [PDF}

    The evidence collected leads the Commission to conclude that Russian authorities have committed the crimes against humanity of deportation and forcible transfer, as well as of enforced disappearance of children. The Commission also confirms its previous finding that Russian authorities have unlawfully deported and transferred children, as a war crime, and that they have unjustifiably delayed their repatriation, which is also a war crime. Further, measures taken with regard to deported or transferred children have violated international humanitarian law and international human rights law provisions and were not guided by the best interests of the child.

  • CBC ☛ TikTok allowed to keep business in Canada under new rules

    The federal government said on Monday that it will let TikTok continue to operate in Canada and allow an investment by the tech ‌platform to proceed, after a national security review reversed the conclusion of a previous one.

    The approval is subject to new legally binding undertakings provided by TikTok Canada, Industry Minister Mélanie Joly said in a statement.

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ Nigeria's new corridor opens doors for jihadi groups

    For more than a decade, violent extremism in Nigeria was largely confined to the country's Northeast where militant Islamist movement Boko Haram and its factions have waged an extended armed rebellion against the state.

    Over the past few years, however, the borderlands across Nigeria's North West and North Central regions have become a melting pot for Sahelian and local jihadis.

• Transparency/Investigative Reporting

  • CS Monitor ☛ Epstein scandal prompts universities to rethink donor ties

    A common theme among faculty and administrators caught up in the web of the Epstein scandal revolves around the need for funding. The latest revelations from the files has prompted schools like Harvard and others to rethink how they engage with private donors. Higher education experts say that change is needed across the board, not just at select schools.

    “This certainly put the spotlight on the need for stronger donor vetting policies,” says Lynn Pasquerella, president of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, and former president of Mount Holyoke College. “This requires a shift in the culture. It requires faculty and administrators to raise concerns about problematic donors.”

• Environment

  • Michigan Advance ☛ Gelman dioxane plume in Ann Arbor designated as a Superfund site

    Between 1963 and 1986 Gelman Sciences manufactured medical filters, discharging wastewater containing 1,4 dioxane, an industrial solvent, into surrounding ponds, creating a groundwater plume. The plume is approximately three miles long and one mile wide, and has migrated into aquifers that supply drinking water.

  • The Nation ☛ A World on Fire Needs More Climate Reporting—Not Less

    More common, unfortunately, is the experience that Chase Cain, NBC’s former national climate reporter, recounted in an interview last week with the climate newsletter, HEATED. Cain, who recently left NBC, said he was ground down by having to constantly remind his bosses of the importance of the story. “I was just kind of exhausted by the sales, by the constant trying to explain and remind, like, hey, this is important. Please run this story,” Cain said. Cain joined Tracy Wholf, HEATED’s producer and a veteran of climate coverage at ABC and CBS, who also has been forced to strike out on her own. According to Media Matters, an industry watchdog group, coverage of climate on the three big broadcast networks fell by 35 percent last year, compared to 2024.

  • [Repeat] Green Party UK ☛ War on Iran shows dependence on fossil fuels makes economies vulnerable to oil shocks - Green Party

    Responding to the Climate Change Committee’s (CCC) finding that the cost of Net Zero is less than the cost of the 2022 Ukraine oil price shock, the Green Party has today said we need to transition to clean energy as quickly as possible to protect people and the economy from future oil shocks.

  • Energy/Transportation

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ Russia steps up drone attacks on Ukraine's railways

      Ukraine's public railway company, Ukrzaliznytsia, has reported that engine wagons, freight cars and railway maintenance equipment have come under increased Russian fire since early March. The company has also observed more frequent Russian attacks on bridges and railyards.

    • Utah News Dispatch ☛ Federal government taps Utah to test new electric flight technologies

      The state is poised to be part of a three-year pilot program on Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL), meant to safely integrate highly automated aircraft into the national airspace with planes that use electric propulsion and can take off and land vertically, according to the Utah Department of Transportation.

    • TruthOut ☛ World’s Dangerous Reliance on Oil Transforms Fossil Fuels Into Weapons of War

      “What we’re seeing is just one of the clearest depictions yet of the frailty of a global order that is grounded in fossil fuels. All sides in this war are using fossil fuels as a weapon of war,” says independent investigative journalist Antonia Juhasz, who reports on energy and climate.

    • The Register UK ☛ Iran war sees Asian governments order work from home

      Most Asian nations rely on imported oil – even big producers like Indonesia and Malaysia. The war in Iran, which has closed the Straits of Hormuz and disrupted oil exports from Gulf states, has therefore created fuel shortages across the region.

      Several governments have responded with fuel-saving measures.

• Finance

  • Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2026-03-09 [Older] The Labor Movement Must Go All In on Organizing Amazon

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • India Times ☛ Tech startup CEO on LinkedIn: I am being forced to leave Sweden at a time my product is being celebrated and I do not have ...

    Balasubramanya also accused the officers of ignoring his emails, refusing guidance, and shifting reasons for rejection, calling the experience a “masterclass in dysfunction.” His startup Hydro Space Sweden AB gained a lot of traction in Skellefteå, with its produce welcomed by local retailers like ICA Kvantum. Yet, Balasubramanya said the agency’s actions undermined not only his livelihood but Sweden’s food security ambitions.

  • India Times ☛ Microsoft's Rajesh Jha, head of experiences and devices unit, to retire

    Jha, who runs the Experiences + Devices unit, will transition out of his current position on July 1 and will stay at Microsoft in an advisory role, according to a memo ⁠shared with the ‌company's employees.

  • India Times ☛ Adobe's longtime CEO Shantanu Narayen to exit role amid AI disruption

    Narayen's exit from the role comes after he served as the head of Adobe for 18 years, during which he helped the company's flagship software such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro and InDesign become household products for creatives across the world.

  • Maine Morning Star ☛ Long security [sic] lines start popping up at airports as TSA officers go without pay

    But individual officers miss work for one of three reasons during a shutdown, he said: pre-planned time off, legitimate illness or personal emergencies, and those calling in sick but seeking other work to pay bills.

  • C4ISRNET ☛ US Navy partners with Anduril to develop XL underwater vessel

    The Pentagon announced the CAMP program last April with the release of a solicitation calling for a new class of XL-AUV, or extra large underwater vehicle.

  • The Register UK ☛ Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen to step down after 18 years

    The closest thing The Register could find to a rationale came on the company’s earnings call, during which Narayen said “As a company that has prided itself on creating categories, our AI transformation begins with a focus on customer-centric product strategy to anticipate and fulfill the diverse needs of a large and growing customer base.”

  • Manuel Moreale ☛ Just admit you’re playing the game

    It’s fine [...]

  • Macworld ☛ Tim Cook salutes ‘the crazy ones’ ahead of Apple’s 50th anniversary

    The logo features Apple’s original rainbow of colors scribbled with an Apple Pencil, while the letter quotes from Apple’s iconic “Here’s to the crazy ones” text that fueled the Think Different ad campaign that ran from 1997-2002: [...]

  • Six Colors ☛ Letter from Tim Cook marks 50 years of Apple, more celebrations to come

    Tim Cook pens a letter about the 50th anniversary of Apple, linked from the company’s homepage, and tips his hat to probably the best Apple advertising campaign of all time: [...]

  • The Independent Variable ☛ 🎲 Just admit you’re playing the game

    I don’t know who or what this is in reference to, but as a general idea it feels like a shortsighted, heat-of-the-moment type statement that ignores the reality of the world millions of people are forced to reckon with everyday of their lives.

  • The Drone Girl ☛ FCC Drone Ban Explained: What's Actually Legal to Buy in 2026

    It has been a genuinely wild few months in the drone world — and if your newsfeed looks anything like mine, you’ve probably seen some version of the headline “FCC Bans DJI Drones” floating around. Maybe you caught the first 10 seconds of a TikTok. Maybe a friend texted you in a panic. Either way, I completely understand the alarm. And I’ve spent a lot of time correcting the record.

    So when John Ramstead of Hangar X Studios invited me on the podcast to talk through what’s actually happening with the FCC ruling, drone regulation, and the future of the industry — I said yes immediately. It’s exactly the kind of conversation I’ve been wanting to have in a format long enough to actually do it justice.

  • Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

    • Defence Web ☛ The information battlefield: Social media, artificial intelligence and modern wartime propaganda

      Propaganda itself is nothing new. Warfare has always been accompanied by attempts to influence public perception. Governments historically used newspapers, radio broadcasts, leaflets, and rumours to shape how events were understood. What has changed is the speed and reach of modern communication. Social media allows narratives to reach millions of people within minutes. Once a story gains traction online, correcting it becomes extremely difficult.

      A large part of the problem lies in human psychology. People are naturally inclined to accept information that confirms what they already believe. Psychologists refer to this as confirmation bias. When individuals encounter a story that aligns with their political views or emotional preferences, they are less likely to question it. Instead, they accept it and pass it along.

    • New Yorker ☛ War in the Age of the Online “Information Bomb”

      Memes such as “monitoring the situation” reflect a deluded belief that we can be more than just passive, confused bystanders to a spray of digital shrapnel.

    • Omicron Limited ☛ Social media influencers increase the toxicity and power of misinformation, research shows

      Regular social media users are usually confronted and attacked for spreading misinformation, the study found. They are therefore motivated to steer the conversation towards more civil tones and correct falsities as engagement grows. Influencers have the exact opposite incentive because their profits increase with engagement.

      The analysis shows toxicity peaks when influencers discuss socio-political issues, where public stakes are higher.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • Robert Reich ☛ How to get the truth out when some social media platforms are blocking criticism of Trump’s war?

    I’m told that TikTok — now controlled by Trump loyalists Larry Ellison and his son David — is throttling negative videos about Trump’s war. Other platforms whose CEOs are sucking up to Trump seem to be throttling war criticism, too.

  • Paul Krugman ☛ The Plot Against Intelligence, Human and Artificial

    Among the organizations that have found Anthropic’s AI models more useful than those of its rivals is the Department of Defense, which relied heavily on Claude until early this month — which is when Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense who calls himself the secretary of war, suddenly banned the use of Claude. As I pointed out the other day, Hegseth seems determined to exalt ignorance and wage war on expertise and hard thinking; it turns out that his war on human intelligence is also a war on artificial intelligence he doesn’t like.

  • Mike Brock ☛ No, I Will Not Pay Tribute - by Mike Brock

    The precondition structure is the tell. When someone says you must acknowledge X before they will take your Y seriously, they are not setting an epistemic standard. They are administering a loyalty test. The preconditions are not logical prerequisites for the critique to be valid. They are signals — proof that you are on the team, or at least not on the other team — before you are permitted to speak.

    The border success precondition is particularly revealing. Whether Trump’s policies “secured the border” depends entirely on how you define securing, and what costs you are willing to count. If you count only the metric of reduced crossings, there is a partial case to be made. If you count the legal costs, the humanitarian costs, the gutting of asylum law, the administrative apparatus built to implement family separation, the diplomatic damage — the case becomes considerably more complicated. The demand that you concede the success before being heard is a demand that you accept a framing that has already done most of the argumentative work. Concede the frame and you have already lost the argument before it begins.

  • Meduza ☛ The Kremlin says it’s cutting off mobile Internet access for security reasons. Muscovites say they’re resigning themselves to regular blackouts.

    The statement came several days after residents of Moscow, St. Petersburg, and other Russian cities began experiencing widespread mobile Internet outages. These connectivity issues, Peskov said, were linked to a “major necessity — ensuring security.”

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • Telex (Hungary) ☛ Telex: All acts of violence against journalists are wrong and condemnable according to Minister Gulyás

    "I would be happy if the old order were restored, using violence against anyone is not allowed, said Gergely Gulyás, Minister of the Prime Minister's Office, at Thursday's government briefing. The minister was responding to a question from Telex after we asked him what he thought of the fact that on 10 March, the mayor of Csákberény, László Vécsei, used physical force to push two of our colleagues, Judit Presinszky and Nóra Siteri, out of a press conference and event attended by Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén.

  • CPJ ☛ Indonesian journalists attacked over reporting at mineral processing plant

    At about 2 p.m. on March 7, workers at Putraprima Mineral Mandiri, a zircon processing company in Bangka Belitung province, allegedly attacked Primadana, a contributor to broadcaster tvOne, and Wahyudi, a journalist with news site Babel Faktual, according to multiple news reports and Primadana, who spoke with CPJ in a phone call.

  • CPJ ☛ Sri Lankan authorities detain Lanka-e-News editor Sandaruwan Senadheera

    “The detention of Sandaruwan Senadheera is a de facto attack on press freedom in Sri Lanka and will have a chilling effect on public interest reporting,” CPJ Asia-Pacific Program Coordinator Kunal Majumder. “Sri Lankan authorities should immediately release Senadheera and ensure that any legal proceedings against him respect due process and do not criminalize legitimate journalism.”

  • CPJ ☛ Journalists in eastern DRC detained over war coverage, broadcasters occupied 

    The escalation in fighting and the M23 rebel group’s rapid, unprecedented gains in the past three years marked a significant upheaval for local media, with journalists caught between actors that share a desire to prevent the press from freely publicizing their actions.

  • Meduza ☛ Russia sentences Meduza journalist Dmitry Kuznets to 2.5 years in prison in absentia

    Kuznets currently lives outside of Russia. In addition to the prison sentence, the court banned him from managing websites for five years.

• Civil Rights / Policing / Accessibility

  • Spectator AU ☛ How the Islamic Republic tried – and failed – to destroy Iranian culture

    The Islamic Revolution (or the Islamic Occupation to give it its more accurate name) was revenge of the peasant class against the elites and the middle classes. It was a vengeful usurpation of the illiterate and uneducated religious mafia against the subjects of their envy: those capable of enlightened thinking and eloquence. Families associated with the Shah’s inner circle were arrested, tortured and executed in the months that followed. One by one, the enlightened and the educated were murdered by the cult of envious and hateful clerics. Those who survived have spent the last 47 years fleeing Iran. Their departure from the country they love is one of the most poignant brain drains in history; some of the greatest minds and entrepreneurs in the world have been forced to leave a country ruled by a terrorist mafia of uneducated, debauched and depraved men of the cloth.

  • Futurism ☛ AI Is Forcing Employees to Work Harder, and Longer Hours, Than Ever

    The latest comes from a new analysis from ActivTrak of over 164,000 workers’ digital work activity. After examining their activity 180 days before and after the employees started using AI at work, the software company found that AI “intensified” their jobs in nearly every category, the Wall Street Journal reported. The time they spent on email, messaging, and chat apps more than doubled, while their use of business software surged by 94 percent.

  • The Nation ☛ How Misogyny Fuels Fascism

    To talk about all of this, I have three experts. Nina Burleigh is a journalist, bestselling author, documentary producer, and the publisher of a Substack on politics called American Freakshow. The Rev. Naomi Washington-Leapheart is a minister, professor, and the first-ever strategic partnerships director at Political Research Associates, (PRA), a social justice research and strategy center that was founded back in 1981. In 2025, PRA dedicated an entire issue of their excellent journal to the relationship between gender and authoritarianism. My third guest, Annie Wilkinson, wrote the lead essay.

  • The Nation ☛ Taking Aim at Overpaid CEOs

    Ordinary Americans across the political spectrum have been fuming about the obscene disparities in pay between corporate America’s CEOs and workers ever since those gaps began to soar in the Reagan years. But today, with budget cuts threatening the food and medical aid that so many working families depend on, the corrosive social cost of this exploding inequality has come into particularly sharp relief.

  • Hamilton Nolan ☛ An Existential Threat to Organized Labor's Ability to Help People

    We are all familiar with the ways that the “gig economy” has preyed upon flaws in American labor law to weaken workers and strengthen capital. Employers figured out that by making all of their workers “independent contractors,” they could avoid paying them benefits, abdicate most responsibility for their welfare, push work costs onto them, and, crucially, rob them of the ability to legally unionize. This dynamic has been evident across the economy for decades. The same dynamic making people become Uber drivers also has made everyone adjunct professors and has made everyone work for shoddy subcontractors rather than directly for the firm that it seems you actually work for. It is the push to eradicate, to the extent possible, the existence of the full time employee. The rise of the gig economy is a serious threat to organized labor power. The labor movement has made efforts to nibble at its edges, but success has been hard to come by.

  • JURIST ☛ Israel used white phosphorus over civilian homes in Lebanon, HRW says

    HRW’s accusation of white phosphorus use is backed by seven images of airburst chemical munitions, which the rights group verified and geolocated. In one of the images, HRW identified use of the chemical by the shape of a smoke cloud. Other images that the revealed fires on residential rooftops, balconies, and at least one car.

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • Tech Central (South Africa) ☛ Rowboats and solar panels: the reality of connecting rural Africa

    SES operates across the entire continent, confronting stark disparities between countries — and often within them, too. While major cities across the continent enjoy 5G connectivity, vast stretches of rural Africa remain unconnected. Roads are impassable in the wet season, the power grid is absent and mobile signals are non-existent. Closing that gap demands specialist skills — engineers and logistics teams who can build and maintain infrastructure in places so remote that equipment sometimes has to be transported by rowboat.

  • Techdirt ☛ EFF To Court: Don’t Make Embedding Illegal

    Who should be directly liable for online infringement – the entity that serves it up or a user who embeds a link to it? For almost two decades, most U.S. courts have held that the former is responsible, applying a rule called the server test. Under the server test, whomever controls the server that hosts a copyrighted work—and therefore determines who has access to what and how—can be directly liable if that content turns out to be infringing. Anyone else who merely links to it can be secondarily liable in some circumstances (for example, if that third party promotes the infringement), but isn’t on the hook under most circumstances.

  • Walled Culture ☛ Copyright industry intensifies efforts to undermine core Internet plumbing: VPNs

    Indeed: if VPN blocks become an option, there will inevitably be more calls to use them for a wider range of material. The VTI also noted that some of its members are considering whether to abandon the French market completely. That could mean people start using less reliable VPN providers, some of whom have dubious records when it comes to security and privacy. The incentive for VPNs to pull out of France is increasing. In August last year the Paris Judicial Court ordered top VPN service providers to block more sports streaming domains, and at the beginning of this year, yet more blocking orders were issued to VPNs operating in France. To its credit, one of the VPN providers affected, ProtonVPN, fought back. As reported here by TorrentFreak, the company tried multiple angles: [...]

  • Jan Schaumann ☛ The End of the Open Web

    Surveillance capitalism's vile enshittification process has begun to spread from services and platforms to the entire ecosystem. AI is unsurprisingly going to make things worse, catalyzing a Web that will consist increasingly of siloed gardens with implicit tracking and AI a functional gate keeper.

    Before search engines, web directories tried to catalog the contents of the Web, which obviously didn't scale well. There's no need to rehash the history of how Google rose to dominance and in the process lead to such abominations as "Search Engine Optimization", but while today you can still pull out your phone and quickly look up how fucking magnets work, search engines increasingly try to keep you from actually visiting other websites.

  • Inside Towers ☛ NASA Gives New Meaning to Non-Terrestrial Networks

    The National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) has published draft requirements for its planned high-performance Mars telecommunications orbiter as part of the Mars Telecommunications Network (MTN) program, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported. Before formally requesting proposals, NASA is sharing an “MTN Objectives and Requirements Document” with industry for review and optional feedback.

    The procurement includes the design, development, launch, and operation of a Mars telecom orbiter to support future sample return and exploration missions. The orbiter must enable autonomous operations, onboard processing, and long mission durations.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Open Web Advocacy ☛ Google Backs Down: Will Grant Hotseat in EU Browser Choice Screen

  TL;DR: In a significant win for smaller browsers, the open web, and the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), Google has agreed to place the browser selected through the EU browser choice screen directly in the Pixel homescreen hotseat (replacing Chrome).

  Previously, even when users selected a different default browser, Chrome remained in this prominent position, steering users back toward Google’s own browser and undermining the user’s choice.

• Patents

  • Kangaroo Courts

    • IP Kat ☛ 2026-03-03 [Older] BREAKING: Imminent new referral to the EBA on the relevance of G1/24 to added matter [Ed: This is a Kangaroo Court controlled by the cocaine addicts who run the EPO]

  • Software Patents

    • IP Kat ☛ 2026-03-03 [Older] [Guest Post] UK Assessment of Computer Implemented Inventions moves closer to EPO Practice - but by how far? (Emotional perception [2026] UKSC 3) [Ed: Software patents are an abomination and judges who don't know how computers work are destroying their own nations]

• Copyrights

  • [Repeat] Futurism ☛ Grammarly Is Pulling Down Its Explosively Controversial Feature That Impersonates Writers Without Their Permission

    Now, Shishir Mehrotra, CEO of Grammarly’s owner Superhuman, has announced that the company is “disabling” the offending feature “while we reimagine the feature to make it more useful for users, while giving experts real control over how they want to be represented — or not represented at all.”

  • Torrent Freak ☛ Court Officially Orders U.S.-Based IPTV Operator to Pay Amazon & Netflix $18.75 Million

    A federal judge in Texas has signed a default judgment ordering Dallas IPTV operator William Freemon to pay $18,750,000 in copyright damages to Amazon, Netflix, and several major Hollywood studios. The eight domains associated with his pirate streaming network must now be transferred to the movie companies.

  • Torrent Freak ☛ Court Dismisses DISH's $25 Million IPTV Piracy Lawsuit Against UK Hosting Provider

    A California federal court dismissed the copyright infringement lawsuit DISH Network filed against hosting provider Innetra, finding it lacked personal jurisdiction over the UK company. DISH accused the company of providing infrastructure to pirate IPTV operations while ignoring DMCA takedown requests. The case was dismissed without prejudice, leaving open the possibility of future action elsewhere.