Leftovers

• Science

  • Scheerpost ☛ 2026-05-05 [Older] Photographic Memory Is A Myth – Here’s What Research Really Says About Remembering

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-05-05 [Older] Germany: BioNTech shutting down COVID vaccine production entirely, 1,860 jobs at risk

• Proprietary / SaaS

  • Marcin Wichary ☛ 2026-05-05 [Older] Photoshop’s ‘Modern User Interface’ Sucks (and Doesn’t Feel Modern)

  • Social Control Media

    • International Business Times ☛ 2026-05-07 [Older] YouTuber Clavicular Faces Criminal Prosecution After 'Clout-Chasing' Video of Him Shooting Dead Alligator in Everglades

• Security

  • CISA

    • CISA ☛ 2026-05-08 [Older] CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

    • CISA ☛ 2026-05-07 [Older] CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

    • CISA ☛ 2026-05-07 [Older] MAXHUB Pivot Client Application

    • CISA ☛ 2026-05-06 [Older] CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

    • CISA ☛ 2026-05-05 [Older] Hitachi Energy PCM600

    • CISA ☛ 2026-05-05 [Older] ABB B&R PVI

    • CISA ☛ 2026-05-05 [Older] ABB B&R Automation Runtime

    • CISA ☛ 2026-05-05 [Older] ABB B&R Automation Studio

    • CISA ☛ 2026-05-05 [Older] Johnson Controls CEM AC2000

  • Integrity/Availability/Authenticity

    • International Business Times ☛ 2026-05-05 [Older] FBI Warns Of Bank Call Scam Draining Savings In Minutes — How Fraudsters Trick Victims

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • Project Censored ☛ 2026-05-06 [Older] Big Tech Exploits Gaps in California Student Data Privacy Protection

• Defence/Aggression

  • International Business Times ☛ 2026-05-07 [Older] IDF Soldier Photographed Desecrating a Virgin Mary Statue Weeks After Another Soldier Smashed a Jesus Statue Nearby

• Environment

  • Counter Punch ☛ 2026-05-11 [Older] The Air-Brushing of Climate Change

  • Counter Punch ☛ 2026-05-08 [Older] It’s the Climate Stupid

  • Vox ☛ 2026-05-08 [Older] “I’m disgusted to be a human”: What to do when you hate your own species

  • Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2026-05-07 [Older] Climate Action and Affordability Are Not Opposed

  • Vox ☛ 2026-05-07 [Older] Levees can no longer save New Orleans

  • Counter Punch ☛ 2026-05-06 [Older] Gangs and Climate Change, Born in the USA

  • The Conversation ☛ 2026-05-05 [Older] The ocean system that shapes Europe’s climate

  • Vox ☛ 2026-05-05 [Older] How a “super El Niño” could create record-breaking warming

  • Scheerpost ☛ 2026-05-03 [Older] Event With Links to Oil Industry Teaches Judges “Healthy Skepticism” of Climate Science

  • Energy/Transportation

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-05-06 [Older] What the Strait of Hormuz fuel crisis means for air travel

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-05-05 [Older] Malawi fuel crisis deepens as oil shortages spread

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-05-05 [Older] Here's why some cities are banning fossil fuel and meat ads

    • NL Times ☛ 2026-05-09 [Older] Green energy stocks outperform fossil fuels amid Iran war

    • Scheerpost ☛ 2026-05-04 [Older] This Was the Plan: UAE Exit From OPEC Marks Corporate Capture of Global Oil: As Conflict Destabilizes The Region, The Collapse Of Collective Control Hands Unprecedented Leverage To U.S. Power And Energy Giants

• Finance

  • Project Censored ☛ 2026-05-06 [Older] Alabama’s Under-Resourced Schools Lag Behind

  • Project Censored ☛ 2026-05-06 [Older] Families Struggling to Access Special Needs Care

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • Techdirt ☛ Trump’s $10 Billion IRS Lawsuit May Become a $1.7 Billion Slush Fund for MAGA’s Self-Proclaimed Victims

    But now ABC is reporting about another potential “settlement” (again, “settlement” is the wrong word — it’s Trump’s legal team negotiating with Trump’s DOJ, which is run by his former legal team. It’s one team negotiating with itself) which is just as egregious and corrupt: Trump would apparently agree to drop his case against the IRS in exchange for… a $1.7 billion slush fund of taxpayer money that he could dole out to his friends who whine to the government that they were “targeted” for retribution by a “weaponized” Biden administration.

  • Sightline Media Group ☛ Senators introduce bill to abolish military draft agency

    Congress later incorporated the rule change into the fiscal year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act. The shift from a system of self-registration to automation is set to take effect in December, with noncompliance constituting a felony offense.

  • Tedium ☛ BuzzFeed CEO Byron Allen? Sure, Why The Hell Not?

    Allen, The Biz Reaper himself, is not a deeply creative mind like Peretti is (if he was, Comics Unleashed would be a better show), but more of an old-school entertainer with business chops. But as strange as it sounds, that may be to BuzzFeed’s advantage. The company spent years treading water, attempting to shore itself up with acquisitions that only made things worse from a financial standpoint. (I will note that HuffPost was cofounded by Peretti, but it came with a lot of debt.)

  • Futurism ☛ Elon Musk's Attempts at AI Are Falling Apart

    Still, diagnosing Grok’s troubles on benchmarks alone may be a fool’s errand. As we’ve seen with those aforementioned Chinese models, the most popular AI model is not always the most powerful — sometimes, it really comes down to vibes.

  • Jamie Zawinski ☛ The Rust Evangelism Task Force has declared "ethics" to be out of scope

    No comment on this PR may mention the following topics: [...]

  • CoryDoctorow ☛ Pluralistic: No one wants a permanent gerontocracy (15 May 2026)

    Perhaps the most demoralizing part of Trumpismo is the fear that the people around you are so cruel and senseless that they approve of the violence, the racism, the pig-ignorant lies and rampant theft: [...]

  • Baldur Bjarnason ☛ The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born

    But the Hormuz crisis also delivered a second mortal blow to the US-controlled globalised market. You can’t remove 20% of the world’s energy output, not to mention a number of other essential commodities, without disastrous consequences. Two weeks would have been bad enough. Two months are a catastrophe. A whole summer would be unimaginable.

    Crises happen. As do strategic miscalculations. Even empires make mistakes. What sets the recent crises – Hormuz, tariffs, and Greenland – apart is how the US has used them as an opportunity to deliberately signal the end of its own empire. They first turned on their trading partners, then their allies in Europe, and then they delivered one of this century’s biggest economic and energy crises to their allies in Asia.

    Countries that were firmly embedded in the US-controlled global market are now buying oil with yuan and paying Iran for passage with cryptocurrencies. As electricity and fuel rationing begins, everybody knows that the US is to blame: the voters, the media, the politicians, and the wealthy. When people die, their nearest and dearest will blame Americans.

  • Dyne ☛ Community building at the edge of the Internet

    The problem is that Nostr is very new and thus its pioneers often face a cold-start problem: they generate a key, open a client, connect to a public relay, and are immediately hit with crypto spam and content they didn't sign up for.

  • CBC ☛ 2026-05-04 [Older] Exposing 'faceless' YouTubers pushing Canada to join the U.S.

  • International Business Times ☛ 2026-05-11 [Older] Sculptor Claims 'It Was a Clusterf**' After Demands to Sculpt Slimmer Cheeto Mussolini and Excise 'Turkey Neck'

  • BIA Net ☛ 2026-05-11 [Older] Exhibition marks 65th anniversary of Turkey-Germany labor agreement

  • Scheerpost ☛ 2026-05-08 [Older] ‘Highly Protected’: OPCW Confirms It Buried Critical Evidence In Syria Chemical Weapons Probe

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-05-06 [Older] Romania's government falls, far-right firewall crumbles

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-05-05 [Older] Romania's government collapses after Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan loses confidence vote

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-05-05 [Older] Decoding China: Beijing courts Europe amid US dysfunction

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2026-05-05 [Older] From India to Iran: How Hitler redefined 'Aryan' for the Nazis

  • Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

    • Science Alert ☛ Your Social Feed Is Buzzing With Health Advice. But Read This First. : ScienceAlert

      Researchers also looked at the social media profiles of 6,828 health and wellness influencers with at least 100,000 followers. Only about 4 in 10 list a background as a health professional.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • International Business Times ☛ 2026-05-10 [Older] Ex-DHS Chief Warns Donald Cheeto Mussolini 'Doomsday Book' Allows Censorship and Martial Law

  • Techdirt ☛ Let’s Help Children, Not Trial Lawyers

    The legal theory behind these cases tries to work around Section 230 by shifting the focus from user content to product design. Plaintiffs argue that features like infinite scroll or “like” buttons create harm independent of users’ personal content. It is a creative argument. It is also a slippery slope with no clear limiting principle.

    Once product design becomes the hook for liability, any widely used product becomes a target. Newspapers, magazines and even packaged goods design headlines with catchy taglines to capture attention. Platforms do the same with feeds, to deliver value to their users. Labeling these as “addictive” design shouldn’t be seen as a viable path to sidestepping Section 230.

    This shift also has broader economic consequences.

  • Copenhagen Post ☛ 2026-05-08 [Older] High Court: Drag queens protected by hate speech law

  • The Age AU ☛ 2026-05-06 [Older] Man charged with hate speech after neo-Nazi rally outside NSW Parliament House

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • Project Censored ☛ 2026-05-07 [Older] The Case for US Backing of Africa’s Investigative Press

• Civil Rights / Policing / Accessibility

  • TruthOut ☛ ICE Shot a Man in December. Now, Agents Can’t Get Their Stories Straight.

    ICE officials and officers have misled the public before about similar incidents. The agency did not respond to the Reformer’s request for comment.

  • Truthdig ☛ The Plot to Turn Back the Clock on Women’s Rights

    Even some of the foundation’s allies at The Atlantic winced publicly, but Heritage reportedly didn’t budge. This is what billionaire-funded Christian nationalism looks like in 2026, and it’s been the project, almost without interruption, ever since the Reagan Revolution

    Most Americans don’t know how the Heritage Foundation came to exist; I’ve been telling this story on the radio for more than two decades because it matters. In 1971, a tobacco lawyer named Lewis Powell wrote a confidential memo to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce arguing that the American “free enterprise system” was under attack from “the college campus, the pulpit, the media, the intellectual and literary journals, the arts and sciences, and from politicians.”

  • David Bushell ☛ Surveys will continue until diversity improves

    Some of us grow up but the industry doesn’t. These days I work remotely and don’t get out much but I get the impression little has changed. Certainly the online bro-culture amplifies the worst traits. Now we have LLMs built by and trained on that culture. Ain’t that wonderful.

    The State of surveys continue to report alarming numbers. Are they a fair representation of the industry? Do they help or hinder diversity?

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • APNIC ☛ APNIC and NNIX collaborate to strengthen RPKI and IPv6 deployment in China

    APNIC has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National (Hangzhou) Novel Internet Exchange (NNIX), marking an important step in advancing RPKI and IPv6 deployment in China and across the region.

  • Don Marti ☛ The two-class platform

    The web, though, is a two-class environment: a tolerable business class version for those with the right tools, and a mess for everyone else. About half the people say they have some kind of ad blocker, but in practice the fraction of web traffic that’s affected at all is below that, and the fraction that has full protection including search and YouTube advertising is a lot less. Reasonable people disagree on how to measure ad blocking, and it has only gotten harder to measure as the proportion of “AI” scraper bots goes up. A lot of those look realistic, and bots differ in their ad blocking behavior. Some want to load the ads for adfraud, while others just grab the content they need.

• Monopolies/Monopsonies

  • Digital Music News ☛ Ticketmaster Queue Controversy Erupts After Exec Weighs In

    “my top 5 horror movies: 1) ticketmaster 2) ticketmaster queues 3) ticketmaster prices 4) ticketmaster fees 5) not seeing my favorite artists live because of ticketmaster,” wrote the fed-up fan, who also seems to be a dedicated supporter of Olivia Rodrigo, Demi Lovato, Ariana Grande, and Sabrina Carpenter.

  • Patents

    • 2026-05-07 [Older] Hikma v. Amarin: The Amici Speak – Part III

    • 2026-05-06 [Older] Hikma v. Amarin: The Amici Speak – Part II

    • 2026-05-05 [Older] Hikma v. Amarin: The Amici Speak – Part I

    • Kangaroo Courts

      • IP Kat ☛ 2026-05-05 [Older] Patenting the use of medical devices (T 0941/24)

  • Trademarks

    • TTAB Blog ☛ 2026-05-05 [Older] Recommended Reading: Prof. Lisa P. Ramsey: Trademarks and Free Speech - Conflicts and Resolutions

    • Right of Publicity

      • Digital Music News ☛ Pete Townshend Partners with Primary Wave for NIL Rights

        Townshend will also have access to the company’s digital department to establish a footprint across social media channels, and has already begun building a presence amongst the company’s licensing and sync division who have been actively working with Townshend and the copyright owners of his catalog to place his songs across film and television.

      • The Verge ☛ YouTube is expanding its AI deepfake detection tool to all adult users

        The likeness detection feature uses a selfie-style scan of a person’s face to monitor YouTube for lookalikes. If there is a match, YouTube alerts the user; the person then has the option to request that YouTube remove the content. YouTube has said in the past that it has found the number of removal requests to be “very small.”

  • Copyrights

    • Digital Camera World ☛ I don’t care if Dua Lipa is already filthy rich – as a photographer, I’m glad she’s suing Samsung for millions over allegedly breaching copyright

      But, as a photographer, I certainly do care about the law of copyright and how vital it is to uphold – especially in a case involving someone as influential as a world-famous pop star.

      The way I see it, if Dua Lipa of all people can be crushed in civil court by a large company that apparently not only stole her image, but used it to make profit, then there’s no hope for any of us photographers safeguarding our work.

    • Torrent Freak ☛ Universal Wins Indian Court Order Against IMDb-Themed Pirate Streaming Sites

      A new ruling from the Delhi High Court targets various sites that exploit IMDb's website to streamline access to pirated content. This includes PlayIMDb, which redirects users to a pirated stream by adding the word "play" to an IMDb link. The order, requested by Universal, requires registrars and ISPs to block PlayIMDb, along with sixteen other domains, including the well-known vidsrc and moviesapi embed services.

    • Torrent Freak ☛ Real-Debrid's Renewed Piracy Crackdown Follows Corporate Restructuring (Updated)

      Real-Debrid, a popular streaming and download service, has started returning copyright-infringement errors on many cached torrents. The renewed crackdown began days after a corporate restructuring. A third-party source says that long-time subscribers have lost 50 to 70 percent of their libraries overnight, with the filter targeting popular keywords such as WEB-DL, AMZN, and [RARBG].