Leftovers

• Jakub Steiner ☛ Jakub Steiner: Innit

  I've been doing weeklybeats 2026 almost entirely on the Dirtywave M8 -- often on a Sunday night, in bed, on an actual hw. This was before Tim went and elevated a hardware abstraction layer into a proper iOS App (which I still very much recommend). This particular tune though, "Innit", is an oddity for me: it lives on the Analog Four, a box I got from a friend ages ago for an absolutely irresistible price.

• Science / Mathematics / Computer Science

  • Science Alert ☛ Earth May Be Harboring a Hidden Stash of Water, Up to 1,800 Miles Below The Surface

    A breakthrough in the mystery.

  • Science Alert ☛ A 3-Year-Old's Metastatic Cancer Disappeared After Two Doses of Experimental Therapy

    This could save lives.

  • Science Alert ☛ Breakthrough: Scientists Just Teleported an Image Across 100 Quantum Channels at Once

    A new record.

• Hardware

  • CNX Software ☛ Morse Micro Wi-Fi HaLow USB adapters add 802.11ah connectivity to PCs and routers

    Last year, we saw Morse Micro introduce the MM8108 Wi-Fi HaLow (802.11ah) SoC with up to 43.33 Mbps throughput, along with an MM8108-RD09 USB dongle reference design, for which we had virtually no details at the time. Morse Micro has now released USB-A and USB-C Wi-Fi HaLow adapters based on that reference design. The adapters let PCs and routers connect to 802.11ah networks through USB without a dedicated expansion card and feature an external SMA antenna delivering up to 26 dBm transmit power.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • Futurism ☛ Laptop Toasts Boy

    But boy is okay.

  • Science Alert ☛ Scientists Identify The 'Doomsday' Seeds That Could Last The Longest

    Some not-so-great news for the diet of the future...

• Proprietary / Vendor Lock-in / Malware

  • Social Control Media

    • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hyrox apologises for allowing race to continue after athlete soils herself

      The Hyrox athletics franchise has apologised for allowing an athlete to complete an event in Beijing despite soiling herself midway through, causing an outcry on social control media.

• Pseudo-Open Source

  • Openwashing

    • PR Newswire ☛ Open Secure AI Alliance Joins the Linux Foundation to Build a Shared, Open Defense Stack for the AI Era [Ed: Openwashing a pyramid scheme that harms security by misusing the brand "Linux"]

• Security

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • New York Times ☛ A.I. Queries From Abroad Raise Fears of a Biological Weapons Race

      Today’s chatbots aren’t likely to help lone actors invent a deadly pathogen, experts say. But newer models, trained in biology, may need stronger safeguards.

    • New York Times ☛ Inside Moscow’s High-Tech Surveillance Turn

      From facial-recognition payments at checkout to autonomous delivery robots on the sidewalks, Moscow is rapidly transforming into a high-tech city. But this seamless convenience comes at a cost: an expanding web of citizen surveillance. Our reporter Ivan Nechepurenko reports from Moscow.

    • New York Times ☛ The New Moscow: A Digital Utopia Doubling as a Surveillance Trap

      Cutting-edge technologies have reshaped the Russian capital, making it safer, more convenient — and more closely watched.

    • AccessNow ☛ From surveillance to governance: recentering human rights in the UN Hey Hi (AI) plagiarism agenda

      Hybrid Side Event during UNGA81 High-Level Week

  • Confidentiality

    • AccessNow ☛ The EU must act now to protect privacy and encryption from Canada’s overreaching Bill C-22

      Access Now, alongside several European civil society organisations, are urging Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, European Union commissioners, and members of the European Parliament to push for changes to Canada’s Bill-C22, the Lawful Access Act.

      The post The EU must act now to protect privacy and encryption from Canada’s overreaching Bill C-22 appeared first on Access Now.

• Defence/Aggression

  • France24 ☛ ‘We did what we had to do’: 25 years on, 9/11 first responder reflects on duty, survival and family

    Jean-Emile Jammine is pleased to welcome LaZetta Duncan, Retired NYPD Detective, 9/11 First Responder. Duncan remembers Ground Zero not as a historical event frozen in time, but as living history whose consequences continue to unfold and evolve 25 years on. Her testimony traces a striking progression: from the confusion and urgency of the attacks, rescue and recovery, to the grim transformation of gathering human remains and evidence inside a burning toxic apocalyptic crime scene. And we now learn of the overwhelming health consequences borne by responders despite repeated assurances that the air quality posed no health threat.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Selangor school stabbing: Malaysian teen, 15, acquitted on grounds of insanity

    A psychiatric evaluation found that the boy has schizophrenia.

  • Press Gazette ☛ ‘Calling out genocide’: Why reporter left ITV News to help launch Zeteo UK

    Shehab Khan explains why joining progressive newsbrand's UK launch was "breath of fresh air".

  • France24 ☛ US Space Force confirms weapons deployed in space for first time

    The US Space Force has confirmed for the first time that Washington has weapons deployed in orbit, as the United States, China and Russia expand military capabilities in space. The disclosure highlights a growing focus on controlling the space domain and protecting satellites vital to military communications, surveillance and navigation.

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • Latvia ☛ De Facto: Russian oligarch Aven's Latvian passport looks safe for now

      The long-running controversy regarding whether Russian oligarch Petr Aven should be allowed to hold a Latvian passport is still ongoing, reported Latvian Television's De Facto investigative show on September 13th.

    • New York Times ☛ Russian Strike on Train Station Near Ukraine-Poland Border Seen as Warning to Kyiv’s Allies

      The attack on Ukraine’s rail network, which connects the country to the West, was a jab at Europe, officials said.

    • RFERL ☛ Zelenskyy Pushes For Quick Removal Of Ukraine's Prosecutor-General Amid New Scandal

      Ukraine's parliament is expected to vote on the resignation of the prosecutor general on September 15 after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged his quick removal amid rising tensions over a series of high-profile anti-corruption investigations.

    • RFERL ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man Says Russia, Ukraine Agree To Halt Strikes On Energy Targets

      US President The Insurrectionist has said that Russia and Ukraine have agreed not to target each other’s energy facilities, a day after he criticized Kyiv for hitting Russian oil refineries.

    • RFERL ☛ Russia-Iran Sanctions Bill Could Reach Convicted Felon’s Desk Within Days, Says Congressman

      The US House of Representatives could take up a sweeping Russia and Iran sanctions bill as soon as September 15, Republican Congressman Joe Wilson of South Carolina told RFE/RL.

    • France24 ☛ Russian strike on train "terror knocking on EU's door'

      The Kremlin said on Monday it would keep striking targets across the "whole" of Ukraine, when asked about a rare drone attack on the Polish border that has rattled Warsaw and its European allies. NATO-member Poland said on Sunday that Russia had hit a railway locomotive inside Ukraine, about two kilometres (one mile) from their shared border, just days after Kyiv said it had hit a crossing at its border with Moldova.

    • France24 ☛ Zelensky says Ukraine ready to de-escalate if Russia halts strikes

      Ukraine is ready to halt attacks on Russian energy infrastructure if Moscow does the same, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday, after US President The Insurrectionist announced an apparent agreement between the two sides. Kyiv also warned that intensifying Russian strikes on Ukraine’s rail network are worsening each week.

    • LRT ☛ Lithuania investigates unidentified object that crossed airspace from Belarus

      Lithuanian authorities are investigating an unidentified object, likely a stray drone, that crossed 60 to 70 kilometres through the country’s airspace early Sunday. Meanwhile, an air alert that was issued Sunday afternoon in eastern areas of the country was probably triggered by birds.

    • LRT ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man envoy for Belarus visits Lithuania to discuss political prisoners

      The Insurrectionist’s special envoy for Belarus, John Coale, is visiting Lithuania on Monday and met with Foreign Minister Kęstutis Budrys, Lithuania’s Foreign Ministry said.

    • The Straits Times ☛ North Korea’s Kim vows to expand ties with Russia, backs victory in ‘sacred war’

      The North Korean leader said Pyongyang’s government had a firm will to broaden cooperation with Russia.

    • LRT ☛ Poland says suspected Russian drone found on Baltic coast

      A suspected Russian military drone was found near a beach on Poland’s Baltic Sea coast, Polish Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said Monday.

    • France24 ☛ Leaders urge EU to expand Arctic presence amid Russia 'threat'

      Twelve European countries on Monday called for the European Union to step up its presence in the Arctic, as melting ice opens new maritime routes while growing tensions with Russia and the United States increasingly put the region in the geopolitical spotlight.

    • New York Times ☛ Russian Businessman With Putin Ties Paid for The Insurrectionist Jr.’s Wedding Party

      The payments, totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars, represented an extraordinary flouting of ethical norms for an American president’s family member.

• Environment

  • The Straits Times ☛ Weeks after the Nepal-China flood disaster, families of the missing hold out hope

    Relatives continue to seek information through the authorities and technology.

  • Energy/Transportation

    • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Beijing to ban drone possession, citing security

      Beijing will ban the possession of drones within city limits under new rules from November, further tightening regulations that already prohibited the sale of the devices.

    • New York Times ☛ Amazon Suspends Flights With Airline Whose Plane Crashed in Miami

      The online retailer said it would “pause” its relationship with 21 Air, the cargo airline operating a Boeing 767 that overshot a runway in Miami.

    • New York Times ☛ More Than 120 Are Unaccounted For After Ferry Sinks in Indonesia

      At least six people were killed and more than 100 rescued after the vessel sank in the Java Sea on Sunday, the authorities said.

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • The Straits Times ☛ China’s taste for donkey spurs an unlikely trade with Pakistan

      Donkeys' hides are used to make ejiao, a highly valued ingredient in traditional Chinese medicine.

    • Science Alert ☛ Scientists Find First Adult T. Rex Trackway – And The Footprints Are Human-Sized

      We've finally tracked a Tyrannosaurus rex.

    • The Straits Times ☛ Sabah Parks mulls over hefty fine and lawsuit against Croat rescued on Mount Kinabalu

      The 46-year-old man is still under police detention while being treated in a private hospital.

    • Science Alert ☛ CERN Detects Quantum Entanglement in Particles Born From The Higgs Boson

      Spooky action in the LHC.

• Finance

  • The Straits Times ☛ South Korea’s Lee hits new approval low as housing discontent grows

    In a survey, 63.3 per cent of respondents said they disapprove of Lee's performance.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ Micron offers Taiwan employees $31,650 cash bonus as unions threaten strike over Hey Hi (AI) windfall — workers reject record payout package, demand 15% profit-sharing plan

    Micron is offering Taiwan employees a NT$1 million cash bonus, but unions have rejected the package and are demanding permanent profit sharing as strike talks continue.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Malaysia said to seize another three containers bound for Israel

    The containers were detained in mid-August and have not been released as authorities investigate their contents.

  • The Straits Times ☛ China’s factories rev up but slower consumption fuels concerns

    Industrial output grew 5.2 per cent in August from 2025.

  • New York Times ☛ Architects of Japan’s Easy-Money Policies Are Changing Their Minds

    As the Bank of Japan weighs another rate increase on Friday, a divide over how Japan should confront inflation is widening.

  • Futurism ☛ Amazon Has Become Pathetically Reliant on Food Stamps to Power Its Empire

    "These are families that are really barely able to make ends meet, and yet they are working, and they are working a lot."

  • Pyongyang subway ticket price nearly triples

    International students were surprised by the fare hike, but said that exchange rate makes it "almost nothing."

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • The Straits Times ☛ China’s new tech and national security exit rules take effect

    Citizens who return to China after committing illegal acts abroad that harm national interests face exit bans.

  • New York Times ☛ Whistle-Blower: Federal Agents May Have Broken State Laws in Search For Voter Fraud

    Agents expressed concern about being directed by top Homeland Security leaders to use private information to look up voter records in state databases.

  • The Straits Times ☛ China’s new tech, national security exit rules take effect

    Citizens who return to China after committing illegal acts abroad that harm national interests face exit bans.

  • Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

    • France24 ☛ Yemen: Fact-checking videos claiming to show Houthi rebel attacks

      A video claiming to show Houthi rebels ambushing Saudi-backed mercenaries has racked up major views on X. But the FRANCE 24 Observers found it is actually footage of 2024 Houthi military drills. The clip was edited with football commentary and blurred flags, which originally show Israel, the UK and US, not Saudi Arabia. Other viral videos falsely linked to Houthi attacks on a Saudi Aramco refinery were also traced to unrelated fires in Texas and Russia. Vedika Bahl fact-checks in Truth or Fake.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • BIA Net ☛ Turkey's LGBTI+ crackdown draws condemnation from rights groups, politicians

    "No one's family is under threat; we are the ones under threat."

  • New York Times ☛ She Bashed the Government on a Private Call. Then She Was Detained for Months

    Racial and political tensions have flared in Trinidad and Tobago after members of an ethnic minority were accused of an assassination plot based on a private phone call.

  • Digital Music News ☛ Macklemore Nixed from Ed Sheeran’s Tour Following Politically Driven Set; Rapper Blames Robert Kraft for the Removal

    Macklemore has been dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour following his controversial “free Palestine” performance during his opening set on September 4th. Earlier this month, Macklemore made headlines for his controversial “free Palestine” speech during his opening set for Ed Sheeran’s show at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on September 4th.

• Civil Rights / Policing / Accessibility

  • The Straits Times ☛ Indian government pushes wider roll-out of polarising civil code

    The move is expected to stoke concern among minority Muslims.

  • Federal News Network ☛ When doing your job isn’t a defense: What feds need to know about professional liability insurance

    This episode of Fed Thread explores what happens when the government’s interests and yours stop being aligned.

• Monopolies/Monopsonies

  • Patents

    • Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ When R&D Counts as a Domestic Industry

      Apple asks the Supreme Court whether R&D counts as labor or capital under the ITC's domestic industry test, plus the ITC's tariff-era origins.

    • Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Advisory Only: PTAB Judges Join Examiner Appeal Conferences

      A Sept. 10 USPTO notice lets PTAB judges advise examiners at pre-appeal and appeal conferences. What changed, the recusal gap, and PTA effects.

    • JUVE ☛ InterDigital seeks €101.7 million in damages from Disney at Munich court

      InterDigital has filed a claim for damages at the Munich Regional Court against Disney, seeking €101.7 million for the infringement of EP 2 132 923 (case ID: 7 O 8870/26). The patent monopoly covers high dynamic range (HDR) technology used to enhance picture quality in video streaming.

    • Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Shield and Sword: Sovereign Immunity, Discovery, and Rule 19 After TexasLDPC v. Broadcom

      Federal Circuit reverses in TexasLDPC v. Broadcom: Rule 19 is not a discovery tool, and Texas A&M is not a required party to its licensee's suit.

    • Unified Patents ☛ 214 Companies from Diverse Industries Urge Adoption of Rule Requiring Disclosure of Third-Party Litigation Funding Agreements to Parties

      214 companies – in a significant demonstration of support – are urging the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules (the Advisory Committee) to adopt a uniform Federal Rule of Civil Procedure (FRCP) requiring the disclosure of TPLF agreements to parties in federal civil cases nationwide. The companies include large and small businesses spanning a wide variety of industries, including food and agriculture, technology, healthcare, insurance, financial services, energy, transportation, logistics, automotive, aerospace, retail, hospitality, and manufacturing.

  • Copyrights

    • Digital Music News ☛ Promoter’s Payout Ruling Upheld Over Cancellation of Robbie Williams Concert

      Australian Grand Prix organizers failed to overturn a music promoter’s payout ruling over the cancellation of a Robbie Williams concert during COVID.