Leftovers

• Science / Mathematics / Computer Science

  • New Yorker ☛ Seeing the Dark Side of the Moon on NASA’s Artemis II Mission

    The commander of Artemis II, Reid Wiseman, on travelling farther from Earth than any humans have gone.

  • Science Alert ☛ Scientists Rule Out a Worst-Case Climate Scenario, But We're Not Off The Hook

    What's an RCP, anyway?

  • Science Alert ☛ Aging Mice Became Stronger When Scientists Boosted One Protein

    A secret to aging gracefully?

  • Science Alert ☛ [Slop Ponzi scheme] Could Soon Use More Water Than Humanity Drinks, UN Report Warns

    This may follow a 19th-century paradox.

  • Science Alert ☛ Newly Discovered Microbe Turns Into a Cannibalistic 'Supergiant'

    A tiny organism with a terrifying hidden form.

  • Science Alert ☛ Should You Try Lymphatic Drainage? Here's What Science Says

    Does it even work?

• Career/Education

  • BIA Net ☛ İstanbul Italian High School teachers end four-month strike with victory

    Local teachers went on strike because they were paid several times less than their Italian colleagues and subjected to poorer working conditions.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • Science Alert ☛ Cutting Back 1 Amino Acid Increased The Lifespan of Mice Up to 33%

    Intriguing...

  • Science Alert ☛ A Breakthrough Drug Just Achieved The 'Impossible' For Pancreatic Cancer

    An expert in clinical trials explains.

• Proprietary / SaaS

  • New York Times ☛ Reid Hoffman to Leave Microsoft’s Board of Directors

    The Microsoft's Surveillance Arm LinkedIn co-founder was a key bridge to Microsoft’s relationship with OpenAI, but he also came with some baggage.

  • So-Called 'Artificial Intelligence' ('AI') / LLM Slop / Plagiarism

    • Futurism ☛ While Google’s CEO Pumps Up AI, Its Actual Employees Are Disgusted by It

      If an onslaught of anti-AI memes they're sharing are anything to go by, Surveillance Giant Google employees are fed up with the tech.

    • Futurism ☛ New York Times Roasted for “Profiling” the “AI-Generated Actress” Tilly Northwood

      "She's giving oxygen to this cruel and demeaning fever dream of the anti-art oligarchy."

    • BIA Net ☛ In the shadow of the intelligent machine: the construction of the obedient mind

      The difference between using artificial intelligence as a tool and quietly handing over the task of thinking to it is as much a matter of individual attention as it is a matter of political stance.

    • Futurism ☛ Anthropic Scared, Calls for Global Freeze on Hey Hi (AI) Advances [Ed: Hype, debt, losses, needs bailout]

      We've heard this one before.

• Linux Foundation

  • Linux Foundation's Site/Blog ☛ Linux Foundation Announces the Intent to Launch the Tokenomics Foundation to Establish Open Standards for AI Cost Management [Ed: Microsoft's openwashing, misusing the Linux Mark]

• Security

  • Integrity/Availability/Authenticity

    • The Straits Times ☛ China to inspect eyeglasses to stop students cheating at gaokao exam

      Proctors will pay particular attention to the size and shape of candidates’ glasses.

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Chinese spies pose as recruiters to glean state secrets, Five Eyes alliance warns

      Chinese spies are posing as job recruiters to trick staff in western governments into disclosing sensitive information, the Five Eyes alliance of security agencies has warned.

• Defence/Aggression

  • France24 ☛ French diplomat in Mali sentenced to 20 years in prison for 'undermining state security'

    A court in Mali has sentenced a French intelligence agent with diplomatic status to 20 years in prison for “undermining state security”, judicial sources said Friday, in a ruling that further strains already fraught relations between the West African junta-led state and its former colonial ruler France.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Why Pooh-tin Jinping is going to North Korea to court Kim Jong Un

    He is expected to use the two-day summit to project a united front between the allies against the West.

  • The Straits Times ☛ North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits naval vessel: Report

    He stressed the need to enhance naval capabilities to deter a nuclear war.

  • The Straits Times ☛ China’s Pooh-tin to visit North Korea on June 8 to 9 in first visit since 2019

    Beijing has long been North Korea’s primary backer.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Chinese leader Pooh-tin to visit North Korea next week

    Chinese President Pooh-tin Jinping will visit North Korea next week, state media said Friday, his first trip abroad this year after hosting a series of leaders as Beijing asserts itself as a global diplomatic superpower.

  • The Straits Times ☛ South Korea, US agree to accelerate nuclear cooperation discussions

    This follows consultations this week on plans for Seoul’s acquisition of nuclear-powered submarines.

  • The Straits Times ☛ China’s military says it tracked Dutch frigate in Taiwan Strait

    Beijing last week said the HNLMS De Ruyter illegally intruded into the Paracel Islands archipelago.

  • The Straits Times ☛ US approves $1.94 billion sale of maritime helicopters to New Zealand

    New Zealand is deploying across East Asia in support of the West amid China’s rapid military rise.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Taiwan, China coast guards in renewed stand-off at top of South China Sea

    The incident took place near the Pratas Islands, which is seen by some security experts as vulnerable to Chinese attack.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Japan overhauls post-war intelligence system amid rising security threats

    The move comes as its adversaries wage sophisticated “grey-zone” operations.

  • RFERL ☛ US, Iran Exchange Military Strikes, Further Imperiling Shaky Cease-Fire

    As the US-Israeli war with Iran continues to impact and shape the region, journalists from RFE/RL's Central Newsroom and Iranian service, Radio Farda, deliver ongoing updates and analysis.

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • New York Times ☛ Europe Needs New Military Alliance to Defend Itself, Italy Says

      Guido Crosetto, Italy’s defense minister, said in an interview that European nations should forge a new joint defense system and take greater responsibility for their own security.

• Transparency/Investigative Reporting

  • American Oversight ☛ Janice Johnston Resigns from Georgia Election Board After Years of Election Denialism, Attacks on Transparency

    Our suit against Johnston and the State Election Board led to new safeguards requiring board members to properly preserve public records of official actions.

• Environment

  • JURIST ☛ Climate pledges will fail without human rights protections, rights group warns

    Amnesty International on Friday urged states attending the June Climate Meetings in Bonn, Germany, to turn existing climate commitments into a concrete, rights-centered action plan ahead of the COP31 summit in Antalya, Türkiye, this November.

• Finance

  • Federal News Network ☛ When it comes to inflation, playing it safe isn’t always the safest investment move

    "If you're looking for a long retirement don't pay off the mortgage early, invest that money. Everybody can have an outside investment account," said Art Stein.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Overtaken by Hong Kong in global wealth management, Swiss keep cool

    Though Hong Kong has overtaken Switzerland as the number one in cross-border wealth management, rather than enter panic mode, Swiss banks seem unruffled — feeling it bolsters the case against looming tighter banking regulations.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • The Straits Times ☛ South Korean PM says ‘every measure’ will be taken to delve into ballot shortage

    During local and parliamentary by-elections on June 3, 14 polling stations ran out of ballot paper.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Thousands demand South Korea vote re-run after ballot shortage

    A vote-counting centre in Seoul saw over 6,000 people protesting into the night on June 5.

  • The Straits Times ☛ New Zealand to raise lawmakers’ travel ban directly with China, PM Luxon says

    New Zealand and China have maintained a largely stable relationship in recent years.

  • CS Monitor ☛ In Convicted Felon’s second term, financial gain has become a defining feature

    The Forrest Dump family’s wealth has surged over the 19 months since The Insurrectionist’s election. The circumstances are revealing how, on personal-finance matters, a president might be constrained less by laws than by norms that are vulnerable to testing.

  • The Straits Times ☛ South Korea election chief quits over ballot paper shortages

    A panel of outside experts would be set up to investigate the cause of the mishap.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong Kong gov’t seeks to overturn ex-legislator’s acquittal over deleting protest photos

    The Department of Justice (DoJ) has sought to overturn former pro-democracy lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting’s acquittal on a charge of perverting the course of justice related to an incident during the 2019 protests and unrest.

  • New York Times ☛ Ye Concerts Have Been Canceled Across Europe. Why Not in the Netherlands?

    Lawmakers and Jewish groups lodged protests over the rapper’s history of antisemitism. But those sensitivities ran headlong into the Netherlands’ robust free speech protections.

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • Press Gazette ☛ European publishers seek £552m+ from Surveillance Giant Google claiming ad market abuse

    Small publishers enabled to take on Surveillance Giant Google for damages via group claim.

• Monopolies/Monopsonies

  • Patents

    • Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ What the Verdict Might Have Said: Jury Black Boxes in Ollnova v. ecobee

      In Ollnova v. ecobee, the Federal Circuit vacated a patent monopoly verdict over jury unanimity and a defective Alice step two charge on the abstract idea.

    • Unified Patents ☛ Equitable IP entity, Induction Devices, EMV chip patent monopoly challenged

      On May 29, 2026, Unified filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 8,370,543, owned and asserted by Induction Devices LLC, an NPE and entity of Equitable IP Corporation. The ‘543 patent monopoly relates to synchronization of communication between devices operating in different clock or time domains, especially a processor accessing memory on a different clock.

    • Kangaroo Courts

      • JUVE ☛ Dehns expands patent monopoly litigation practice with former Marks & Clerk partner [Ed: UPC spam]

        Lawyer Graham Burnett-Hall (56) comes from UK law firm Shoosmiths, which he joined two years ago. At the full service firm, he advised on a variety of IP matters, including transactional, commercial and litigation. For example, he was involved in a case for Brightwake against BSN at the UPC.