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Desktop

=> ↺ The future of Chromebooks: Security is still a priority

• For many, the announcement of Android apps running on Chromebooks — and other Chrome OS powered devices like Chromebases and Chromeboxes — was a highlight from Google I/O 2016. All of us here agree, and we’re ready for the first developer builds so we can give it a spin.

Server

=> ↺ Linux Leader Bdale Garbee Touts Potential of HPE’s Newest Open Source Project

• The Machine page of HPE explained, “The Machine puts the data first. Instead of processors, we put memory at the core of what we call “Memory-Driven Computing.” Memory-Driven Computing collapses the memory and storage into one vast pool of memory called universal memory. To connect the memory and processing power, we’re using advanced photonic fabric. Using light instead of electricity is key to rapidly accessing any part of the massive memory pool while using much less energy.”

Kernel Space

=> ↺ Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator: Gustavo Gómez Morales

• I started using Linux in 1996. The idea of an open source operating system, where it’s possible to access and customize a lot of things, amazed me.

=> ↺ Linux 4.6.2

• I’m announcing the release of the 4.6.2 kernel.

• All users of the 4.6 kernel series must upgrade.

• The updated 4.6.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-4.6.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser:

• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-st…

• thanks,

• greg k-h

=> ↺ Linux 4.5.7

=> ↺ Linux 4.4.13

=> ↺ Linux 3.14.72

=> ↺ Linux Kernel 4.6.2 Released with Numerous MIPS Enhancements, EXT4 and XFS Fixes

=> ↺ Linux Kernel 4.4.13 LTS Has Multiple XFS and MIPS Improvements, Updated Drivers

=> ↺ Linux Kernel 3.14.72 LTS Arrives as a Small Update with EXT4, MIPS and XFS Fixes

=> ↺ Linux Kernel 4.5.7 Is the Last in the Series, Users Urged to Move to Kernel 4.6

=> ↺ 2016 Open Source Jobs Report

• The 2016 Open Source Jobs Report is now available! Partnering again with Dice, we went beyond Linux and received feedback from nearly 5,000 open source professionals to examine employment trends.

Applications

Instructionals/Technical

=> ↺ How to install a Linux Virtual Machine

=> ↺ New Course From The Linux Foundation and OpenDaylight Project Makes Open Networking Training More Accessible

=> ↺ Fedy – Tweak your Fedora & (Hassle Free Software installation)

Games

=> ↺ The GOG summer sale has begun, tons on sale, get buying

=> ↺ Take a look at the new world being made for Albion Online, the Linux MMO

• Albion Online is a pretty great start for a Linux-native MMO, but one of the problems has been the rather plain looking map. The developers are working on a bigger and more varied map and did a video to highlight the work.

=> ↺ Captain Forever Remix, spaceship building and combat meets Lego now fully released

=> ↺ Blacksea Odyssey is now fully released, go harpoon something and rip it apart

• Nothing more satisfying than harpooning a colossal creature and pulling off its limbs is there? It’s not exactly easy though, there’s creatures of all shapes and sizes wanting to eat you.

=> ↺ Hybrid Beasts adds Linux support for its beta

• The cutesy artillery game has added Linux support in its ongoing beta test. Development apparently still has a ways to go which makes this early support extra nice.

=> ↺ Star Vikings, a new puzzle and RPG title from the Chroma Squad developers announced

=> ↺ Looks like the Linux version of Beyond Flesh and Blood is postponed for a while

• Fans of shooting stuff up with mechs will have to wait a while to play this action game on Linux. The developer has explained why this Early Access game isn’t yet ready for penguin enjoyment.

Desktop Environments/WMs

K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt

=> ↺ Announcing The Qt Automotive Suite

• Today we announce the launch of the first generation of the Qt Automotive Suite.

• The idea for the Qt Automotive Suite was born when The Qt Company, Pelagicore and KDAB sat down and shared their experiences of projects using Qt for In-vehicle Infotainment (IVI). With cumulative experience from over 20 automotive projects it was noted how Qt is really well suited to the needs of building IVIs and Instrument Clusters, that there were already millions of vehicles on the road with Qt inside, and that there were a lot of ongoing projects. There was though a feeling that things could be even better, that there were still a few things holding back the industry, contributing to the sense that shipped IVI systems could be built faster, cheaper and with a higher quality.

=> ↺ Qt Automotive Suite Announced

=> ↺ Qt 5.6.1 Released

• Qt 5.6.1 has been released today. Since Qt 5.6 is long-term supported for three years, there will still be more patch releases to come. While the patch releases do not bring new features, they do contain security fixes, error corrections and general improvements. The New Qt Creator 4.0.1 is included in the Qt 5.6.1 offline installer packages.

=> ↺ Qt 5.6.1 Now Available

Distributions

New Releases

=> ↺ NetOS, NetOS Enterprise and NetOS Education Released as Chrome OS Alternatives

• Roberto J. Dohnert, CEO of Black Lab Software (PC/OpenSystems LLC), the company behind the Black Lab Linux operating system series, informs Softpedia today about the general availability of the NetOS, NetOS Enterprise, and NetOS Education OSes.

=> ↺ NetOS, NetOS Enterprise and NetOS Education Released

• Today PC/OpenSystems LLC is proud to announce the release of our NetOS line of network operating systems. The development team has been working for over a year and a half, honing our cloud based offerings to the cutting edge, bringing the very latest-and-greatest to our faithful customers. As the computing world continues to migrate towards that model, PC/OpenSystems LLC decided that it was time for us to position ourselves in the vanguard of cloud-focused Linux.

Screenshots/Screencasts

=> ↺ Linux Mint 18 Beta Screenshot Tour

=> ↺ Linux Lite 3.0 Screencast and Screenshots

PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva Family

=> ↺ PCLinuxOS 64 2016.06 LXDE Community Edition Out Now with Linux Kernel 4.4.11 LTS

• We introduced you last week to the PCLinuxOS 64 2016.06 MATE Edition, and the other day to the PCLinuxOS 64 2016.06 Xfce Community Edition, and now the time has come for you to make acquaintance with the LXDE flavor of PCLinuxOS.

• PCLinuxOS 64 2016.06 LXDE Community Edition was launched earlier this month, created by a PCLinuxOS community user and tester who goes by the name Ika, the same one that brought us the PCLinuxOS 64 2016.06 Xfce Community Edition operating system.

Red Hat Family

=> ↺ Red Hat releases open source decision framework

=> ↺ Red Hat Releases the Open Decision Framework to Spur Transparent and Inclusive Leadership

=> ↺ Red Hat Software Collections 2.2 and Developer Toolset 4.1 Officially Released

• Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, was proud to announce the general availability of its Red Hat Software Collection 2.2 and Red Hat Developer Toolset 4.1.

Finance

=> ↺ Sustainable Growth Advisers LP Increased Red Hat INC (NYSE:RHT) by $53.97 Million as Shares Declined

=> ↺ Buy, Sell Or Hold Rating For Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT)?

=> ↺ Insiders are Gradually Decreasing Positions in Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT)

Fedora

=> ↺ Distributors ponder a systemd change

• Linux users tend to pride themselves on their position at the leading edge of a fast-moving development community. But, in truth, much of what we do is rooted in many decades of Unix tradition, and we tend to get grumpy when young developers show up and start changing things around. A recent change of default in systemd represents such a change and the kind of response that it brings out; as a result, Linux distributors are going to have to make a decision on whether they should preserve the way things have always worked or make a change that, while potentially disruptive to users, is arguably a step toward more predictable, controllable, and secure behavior.

=> ↺ Release validation testing in Fedora

• If you’re looking for a way to contribute to Fedora, what about release validation testing? Completing test cases is a quick way to get started. Every release of Fedora that you download and use is tested by the Fedora QA team according to the Release Validation Test Plan. Each test compose of the Alpha, Beta, and Final Fedora releases is tested to see if it meets specific release criteria for that release. This post will walk you through the steps of getting set up, performing the release validation tests, and reporting them to the test matrix.

Debian Family

=> ↺ Debian GNU/Linux 7.11 “Wheezy” and GNU/Linux 8.5 “Jessie” Released

• The Debian Project has made the final maintenance release version, Debian GNU/Linux 7.11 available for download. This is the eleventh release in the series and will be the last maintenance release in the stable Debian GNU/Linux 7 “Wheezy” operating system. The update is available for download to all the users of the Debian GNU/Linux 7 “Wheezy” OS. The Debian Project took to twitter to announce the availability of this download.

Derivatives

Canonical/Ubuntu

=> ↺ Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) Will Be Powered By Linux Kernel 4.8

• The development the Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) operating system is starting to take off slowly at the Canonical’s headquarters, and today we have some excellent news for our Ubuntu readers.

=> ↺ Canonical Releases Snapcraft 2.10 Snaps Creator with Support for ZIP Files, More

• Today, June 9, 2016, Canonical has pushed a new major milestone of the Snapcraft tool for the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system, version 2.10, which users can use to package their apps as Snaps.

=> ↺ Do Sony Vaios Dream of Ubuntu MATE?

• But that was then and this is now. Enfeebled beyond practicality in its current condition, I gave the old machine a choice: take its place among the other dusty monuments to obsolescence in my office closet, or volunteer for a potentially revitalizing project that could ensure its most exciting days were yet to come. Admittedly, it wasn’t enthusiastic about either option, but that was hardly a surprise. It had been ages since it could muster enthusiasm about anything. I aimed to turn that situation around with the power of Linux!

Devices/Embedded

=> ↺ MIPS VM tech lets routers stay open despite new FCC rules

• The open source prpl Foundation, which was established in 2014 by MIPS IP vendor Imagination Technologies and other companies, has proposed a way for router companies to let their U.S. customers upload Linux distributions such as OpenWrt without running afoul of a new FCC ruling that went into effect June 2. The virtualization security solution, called prplSecurity, is built around the open source L4Re hypervisor, optimized to run on Imagination’s MIPS Warrior-P processors. PrplSecurity, which will be formally announced June 9, separates and secures WiFi functions from general router functions with the help of secure OpenWrt, WiFi, and third-party VMs…

Phones

Android

=> ↺ The best budget Android phones you can buy right now [June 2016]

• There are new smartphones hitting the market constantly, but which is the best buy when you’re trying to save a buck or two (or hundred)? We’ve seen some great launches this year and we’re only expecting more over the coming weeks, but for now, let’s go over the best budget Android smartphones you can go pick up today…

=> ↺ Why does an Android keyboard need to see your camera and log files – and why does it phone home to China?

• Security biz Pentest is sounding alarms after it found an Android app it says has been downloaded 50 millions times despite being “little more than malware.”

• UK-based Pentest said a whitepaper study [PDF] of the popular Flash Keyboard found that the Android app is “abusing” OS permissions, inserting potentially malicious ads, and tracking user behavior, then sending data to servers in China.

=> ↺ Google focuses on hardware components in this month’s Android patches

=> ↺ Android N may usher in a new era of smartphone security

=> ↺ BlackBerry reportedly “really struggling” in Android market

• BlackBerry is reportedly having some issues in its transition to Android. A report from CNET quotes a “high-level executive” at AT&T as saying “The BlackBerry Priv is really struggling.”

=> ↺ Xiaomi Mi Max To Be Available In India

• As we know that Xiaomi has launched its new phone in India in May 2016. We all know about the Xiaomi devices and so far this Chinese company has done a tremendous job in making smartphones and some wearable technology. We have used Xiaomi devices and they run very well and the best part of buying and using Xiaomi devices is that they are really cheap. Well, don’t be negative when I say Cheap because I used that word because of the cost of the device and that has nothing to do with the overall quality and functionality of the device. They have been doing it for a while now and they are matured in this business and now they make really good device those can be compared with flagship devices made by some giants such has Samsung, Apple, Microsoft, Sony and others.

=> ↺ Five ways Google can make the Chrome browser and Android work closer together

=> ↺ Android Marshmallow adoption passes 10% after 8 months

=> ↺ Android Marshmallow Finally Hits 10% Adoption

=> ↺ Android Marshmallow Adoption Barely Passes 10 Percent Mark, 8 Months In

=> ↺ Android in prisons: Meet the man who put Galaxy Tab S2s in Rikers Island

=> ↺ The best Android phones you can buy [June 2016]

=> ↺ Samsung Galaxy Owners Report Lock Issues With Android Marshmallow: Hold Off From That Update For Now

=> ↺ Snapchat For Android Gets Significant UI Update, Overhauls Stories, Discover, Adds Navigation Bar

=> ↺ This phone case lets an iPhone run Android

=> ↺ Galaxy Note 6: Not expected to launch with Android N

=> ↺ A Bunch Of Jeopardy Nerds Have Never Heard Of Android Or Marshmallow

=> ↺ How to back up Android for free: Back up your phone or tablet – back up photos, video, app data, contacts and more

=> ↺ For Sony, Android 6.0’s Doze Mode Marks a Battery Life Regression

=> ↺ Android N Update: New Features & Tweaks For Google’s 2016 Android Update

=> ↺ Get ready for Google’s proprietary Android. It’s coming – analyst

=> ↺ Paranoid Android 2016 hits the scene with slew of new features and improvements

=> ↺ Asus ZenFone Max ZC550KL Gets Android Marshmallow Update

=> ↺ Android N vs Android 6.0 Marshmallow: What’s New

Free Software/Open Source

=> ↺ 7 Open Source DevOps Products and Their Channel Impact

• We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: the DevOps mode of software development is fast becoming one of the new big forces in the channel. Here’s a look at some of the key projects and products in the open source DevOps space, and an explanation of how each one will change the way organizations create and VARs integrate software.

=> ↺ 3 open source alternatives to MATLAB

• Fortunately, there are many great open source alternatives. Depending on exactly what your objective is, you may find one or another to more aptly fit your specific needs. Here are three to consider:

=> ↺ Open source tools enable professional photography

• I find it sad that most people don’t realize how many options there are for photography software on Linux. While most Linux users are aware of GIMP, their knowledge beyond that is sorely limited. Surprising to many is the fact that professional photography on Linux is such a serious business that there are even closed source proprietary programs that are developed and sold to run on Linux.

• The ability to work with RAW files from a camera is a must for professional and amateur photographers alike. While this initially may seem like a very specific niche where the options would be limited, the open source philosophy has helped create many options. Darktable, Lightzone, Shotwell, RawTherapee, digiKam, Photivo, UFRaw, and Fotoxx are all open source options that a Linux user can choose from.

=> ↺ Fiorano ESB Goes Open Source

• The Fiorano Open Source ESB is available at:

• http://www.fiorano.com/products/open-source-esb/fiorano-esb/

• https://github.com/FioranoSoftware/FioranoESB

Events

=> ↺ Tokyo – Automotive Linux Summit

• AGL.automotiveITThe Linux Foundation, which promotes the general adoption of the open-source operating system, will host the Automotive Linux Summit in Tokyo July 13-14.

• The conference will bring together a range of automotive engineers, Linux experts, business executives and open-source licensing and compliance specialists.

Web Browsers

Mozilla

=> ↺ Firefox 47

=> ↺ Firefox 48 Expected To Finally Enable Electrolysis By Default

• With Firefox 47 having been released, attention is now turning to Firefox 48 with what’s said to be the largest change ever shipped in Firefox.

SaaS/Back End

=> ↺ ODPi: Test Less, Build More Applications With Hadoop

• According to Alan Gates, co-founder of Hortonworks and ODPi member, that’s the issue the Open Data Platform initiative (ODPi) is here to solve: create a single test specification that works across all Hadoop distributions so developers can get back to creating innovative applications and end users can get back to making money, or curing cancer, or sending people into space.

=> ↺ Databricks Community Edition Out for Everyone Now, Includes Spark Training

• Earlier this year, Databricks came out with the beta release of Databricks Community Edition, a free version of its cloud-based Spark platform. Since then, Spark has been commanding everyone’s attention, and now Databricks, which is the company founded by the team that created Apache Spark, has announced the General Availability of Databricks Community Edition (DCE), a free version of the just-in-time data platform built on top of Apache Spark, at Spark Summit 2016.

=> ↺ IBM and Other Tech Titans Raise Commitments to Apache Spark

Pseudo-Open Source (Openwashing)

=> ↺ Why Amazon Lambda could be the worst thing to happen to open source

• In a quest for productivity, developers may opt for APIs over source code. The convenience of the cloud could trump the freedom of choice that comes with open source.

=> ↺ VMware Unveils New Version of Integrated OpenStack Product

=> ↺ Microsoft Open-Sources Edge’s WebGL Implementation

=> ↺ Microsoft, Google cosy up in the Skia lodge: 2D lib added to build tools

=> ↺ WhiteSource Releases Tool to Evaluate Security of Open Source Components

=> ↺ not a nice firm

Funding

=> ↺ Midokura raises $20M Series B round for its network virtualization platform

• Network virtualization specialist Midokura today announced it has raised a $20 million Series B round with participation from Japanese fintech company Simplex and existing investors like Allen Miner and the Innovation Network Corporation of Japan. With this round, Midokura’s total funding has now hit $44 million.

Openness/Sharing/Collaboration

Open Access/Content

=> ↺ Professor, publisher clash over stance on open-source education

• In a growing climate of “publish or perish” for university faculty members, forfeiting a publishing opportunity is a unique and strong stance in any discipline. Add that to the recent news of shrinking opportunities for faculty positions in liberal arts disciplines, and Jhangiani’s position seems even bolder.

Open Hardware/Modding

=> ↺ FarmBot Open Source CNC Farming Robot (video)

• If like me you are lacking green fingers but would like to be able to grow your own vegetables you may be interested in a new open source CNC farming robot that has been created using Arduino hardware and awesome programming, called FarmBot.

Leftovers

Hardware

=> ↺ AMD Zen Reportedly Delayed Until Early Next Year

• According to reports, AMD’s Zen processors have been delayed until the start of the next year and it’s also affecting Intel’s Kabylake launch.

• While we were looking for AMD’s much anticipated Zen processors were expected to launch by the end of Q3 according to information from AMD just recently, now it’s believed that Zen might not be shipping until January 2017.

Security

=> ↺ University gives in to $20,000 ransomware demand

• Calgary officials agreed to pay the ransom but it will take some time for the encryption keys to be used on all of the university’s infected machines, of which there are over 100. The process is time-consuming and it is not yet known if the keys will even work.

=> ↺ University of Calgary pays hackers $20,000 after ransomware attack

• A chain of hospitals in Washington, D.C., was hit in March, while a Los Angeles medical centre shelled out $17,000 earlier this year to hackers following a ransomware attack.

=> ↺ Unintended Consequences Of Slavery In IT

• Obviously many use That Other OS for valid purposes but few would do so if this incident was on their radar. There are hundreds of such malwares. How many times will the university pay up for permission to use the hardware they own? They’ve already likely paid Intel double the value for their chips, M$, even more for permission to use Intel’s chips and now a steady stream of cyber-criminals.

=> ↺ Mikko Hypponen: Real Hackers Don’t Wear Hoodies (Cybercrime is Big Business)

• I’ll be discussing these topics, and how they apply to open source systems and to service providers further in my keynote (“Complexity: The enemy of Security”) at the OPNFV Summit in Berlin on June 22-23. See you in Berlin!

=> ↺ Your mobile phone account could be hijacked by an identity thief

• A few weeks ago an unknown person walked into a mobile phone store, claimed to be me, asked to upgrade my mobile phones, and walked out with two brand new iPhones assigned to my telephone numbers. My phones immediately stopped receiving calls, and I was left with a large bill and the anxiety and fear of financial injury that spring from identity theft. This post describes my experiences as a victim of ID theft, explains the growing problem of phone account hijacking, and suggests ways consumers and mobile phone carriers can help combat these scams.

=> ↺ Password Re-user? Get Ready to Get Busy

• In the wake of megabreaches at some of the Internet’s most-recognized destinations, don’t be surprised if you receive password reset requests from numerous companies that didn’t experience a breach: Some big name companies — including Facebook and Netflix — are in the habit of combing through huge data leak troves for credentials that match those of their customers and then forcing a password reset for those users.

=> ↺ Belgium tops list of nations most vulnerable to hacking

• A new “heat map of the internet” has revealed the countries most vulnerable to hacking attacks, by scanning the entire internet for servers with their front doors wide open.

=> ↺ Australia fourth most vulnerable nation to hacking: study

• Australia ranks fourth among the countries most vulnerable to hacking attacks, according to a study by penetration testing and information security form Rapid7.

• Belgium tops the list, followed by Tajikistan and Samoa.

• The company compiled what it calls a “heat map” of the Internet, looking for servers that had exposed ports that could be compromised.

=> ↺ University pays almost $16,000 to recover crucial data held hostage

• Canada’s University of Calgary paid almost $16,000 ($20,000 Canadian, ~£10,800) to recover crucial data that has been held hostage for more than a week by crypto ransomware attackers.

• The ransom was disclosed on Wednesday morning in a statement issued by University of Calgary officials. It said university IT personnel had made progress in isolating the unnamed ransomware infection and restoring affected parts of the university network. It went on to warn that there’s no guarantee paying the controversial ransom will lead to the lost data being recovered.

Defence/Aggression

=> ↺ Assange: Rasmussen Became NATO Chief After Secret Deal With Turkey, US

• Ex-Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen became NATO secretary general in 2009 in exchange for a secret deal with Turkey and the United States to close the Kurdish Roj TV satellite broadcaster operating in Denmark, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Tuesday.

=> ↺ It’s Still Remarkably Easy For Criminals To Buy Guns On Facebook

• The ban, implemented in January, prohibits the private, person-to-person sales of guns, but allows gun clubs and licensed dealers to continue to operate Facebook and Instagram accounts. As Vocativ reported in February, the ban didn’t stop the online sale of guns, it just moved several online firearm marketplaces to other social media websites. Now, it appears private marketplaces on Facebook are still flourishing and in many cases do not appear to be adhering to the social network’s gun policy.

=> ↺ Netanyahu vows ‘decisive’ response to Tel Aviv attack

• Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday vowed a “decisive” response to Wednesday’s deadly terror attack in Tel Aviv, and said Israel’s security services would track down any who may have aided the shooters.

• Netanyahu, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman and Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan visited the Sarona Market in central Tel Aviv, site of Wednesday night’s shooting attack, following an emergency briefing at IDF headquarters, according to a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office.

=> ↺ UK Illegally Harasses Russian Submarine Engaged in Lawful Passage of English Channel

• Contrary to Article 44 of the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea, to which the UK and Russia are both party, the UK has engaged in extensive illegal harassment of a Russian naval submarine engaged in fully lawful transit of the Dover Strait.

• A Russian naval vessel en route between the Baltic and Black Seas is fully and specifically entitled under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea Articles 37 and 38 to the right of passage through the strait. This is in addition to the general right of passage through the territorial sea at Article 17. The Russian navy was in full compliance with the provision at Article 20 that, while in territorial waters, the submarine must be on the surface and displaying its flag, and in compliance with Articles 29 to 32 on warships.

• Not only does the Russian Navy have every right to sail through the Dover strait on passage, it has been exercising that right – along with many other navies – for over a hundred years. The decision of the British government now to employ military harassment and threat is not only illegal, it is a gross and entirely deliberate act of provocation designed to sour international relations and disturb the atmosphere of world peace.

=> ↺ Newly released records cast doubt on FBI claims about its actions in Cambridge days after marathon bombings

• Newly released Cambridge Police Department records cast doubt on FBI claims about its agents’ activities in Cambridge in the critical hours before the Tsarnaev brothers allegedly shot and killed MIT police officer Sean Collier, carjacked another man, and engaged in a spectacular firefight with police officers in a quiet suburban residential neighborhood in Watertown. The new records provide additional backdrop to rumors among local law enforcement that the FBI has greatly misrepresented the truth about its knowledge of and relationship to the elder brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

=> ↺ After a Deadly Attack in Tel Aviv, Police Are Urged to Execute a Captive Suspect

• The civilian’s demand for the immediate, extrajudicial killing of the suspected gunman by officers echoes a similar call heard on another Tel Aviv street in March, when a police volunteer shot a Palestinian suspected of killing an American tourist, after he had already been wounded and immobilized.

=> ↺ Calling Out Drone War as a War Crime

• Night and day, U.S. “pilots” sit in cushioned chairs near Las Vegas, commanding drones on the other side of the planet, tracking and killing people, what retired Col. Ann Wright and other activists call a war crime, writes Dennis J Bernstein.

=> ↺ Democrats Are Now the Aggressive War Party

• For nearly a half century – since late in the Vietnam War – the Democrats have been the less warlike of the two parties, but that has flipped with the choice of war hawk Hillary Clinton, writes Robert Parry.

=> ↺ FBI is “Cooking Up” Cases Against Muslims

• “A 2014 study, “Inventing Terrorists: the Lawfare of Preventive Prosecution” by Project Salam and the National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms, found that almost every domestic terrorist plot from 2001 to 2010 was in some way cooked up or assisted (and eventually ‘busted’) by the FBI. The report analyzed about 400 domestic terror cases and found only that only four cases were initiated or driven without the encouragement of the bureau.

Environment/Energy/Wildlife/Nature

=> ↺ Anti-Fracking Momentum Grows with Another People’s Victory in California

• Notching another victory for the growing national anti-fracking movement, voters in Butte County, California on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a measure that bans the controversial oil and gas drilling process in their communities.

• Measure E won with 71 percent of the vote, making Butte the fourth California county to pass such a measure, following Mendocino, San Benito, and Santa Cruz counties, and adding to the growing list of states and municipalities across the nation that have come out against fracking.

• Agriculture is the top industry in Butte County, which sits just north of Sacramento. Proponents of the measure argued that threatening the aquifers with toxic fracking chemicals would destroy the “lifeblood” of the local economy.

Finance

=> ↺ Coalition may add clause to Japan trade deal that lets foreign companies sue Australia

• The Turnbull government is considering adding a controversial provision to the Japan-Australia free-trade agreement that would allow foreign corporations to sue the Australian government.

• It has been negotiating with Japan’s government about the plan but no conclusion has been reached.

• The provision is called an “investor state dispute settlement” (ISDS).

• ISDS provisions allow foreign corporations to sue the Australian government in an international tribunal if they think the government has introduced or changed laws that significantly hurt their interests.

AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

=> ↺ How California is being stolen from Sanders right now

• There are a mind-blowing 4.2 million voters in California registered NPP – and they share a love for sunshine and Bernie Sanders. According to the reliable Golden State poll, among NPP voters, Sen. Sanders whoops Sec. Hillary Clinton by a stunning 40 percentage points.

• [...]

• On the other team, registered Democrats prefer Clinton by a YUGE 30 points. NPP’s can vote in the Democratic primary, so, the California primary comes down to a fight between D’s and NPP’s.

• And there’s the rub. In some counties like Los Angeles, it’s not easy for an NPP to claim their right vote in the Democratic primary – and in other counties, nearly impossible.

• Example: In Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, if you don’t say the magic words, “I want a Democratic crossover ballot,” you are automatically given a ballot without the presidential race. And ready for this, if an NPP voter asks the poll worker, “How do I get to vote in the Democratic party primary, they are instructed to say that, “NPP voters can’t get Democratic ballots.” They are ordered not to breathe a word that the voter can get a “crossover” ballot that includes the presidential race.

• I’m not kidding. This is from the official Election Officer Training Manual page 49:

• “A No Party Preference voter will need to request a crossover ballot from the Roster Index Officer. (Do not offer them a crossover ballot if they do not ask).”

=> ↺ Sanders Campaign Prepares For Run As An Independent

• A quiet burst of activity from the Sanders campaign seems to all but guarantee that Sanders will run as an independent this election cycle. All across the country Sanders’ core infrastructure of volunteers and paid staff are mobilizing to collect signatures and perform necessary paperwork to get him on the general election ballots in the states.

• Officials highly placed within the Sanders campaign remain evasive and deny that the senator plans, at this time, to run as an independent. Bernie’s campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, has stated time and time again that they intend to go all the way to the convention and make the case that Sanders should be the Democratic nominee for the 2016 general election. But the Sanders campaign is actively engaging in activities, within the states, that have no other purpose besides putting Sanders in the position of being able to run as an independent candidate against Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

=> ↺ J’Accuse! WikiLeaks Founder Assange Claims Google Has Deal With Clinton

• Moreover, the Internet giant Google is heavily integrated with the US establishment and is allying with the US exceptionalism campaign, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Tuesday.

• “Google is heavily integrated with Washington power, at personal level and at business level… Google which has increasing control over the distribution channels… is intensely allying itself US exceptionalism,” Assange added.

• Speaking about about Hillary Clinton as presumptive presidential nominee from the US Democrat party Assange said that she “seemingly” wants to start wars, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Tuesday.

=> ↺ Clinton tech aide asks court to keep immunity deal secret

• A former technology adviser to Hillary Clinton is seeking to keep under wraps an immunity deal the aide reached with the Justice Department in its investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of state.

• A lawyer for Bryan Pagliano submitted a sealed motion and exhibits to U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan Tuesday afternoon, less than two hours before the 5 p.m. deadline Sullivan set for the filing of Pagliano’s immunity agreement.

• A legal memorandum filed publicly Tuesday confirms for the first time that Pagliano reached such an immunity agreement, and lays out arguments for why he should still be able to assert his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in a Freedom of Information Act suit a conservative group, Judicial Watch, is pursuing over Clinton’s email set-up.

=> ↺ Depoliticizing Anti-Trump Protests Plays Into Right-Wing Narrative

• Like all movements in the fascism family, Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is based on an ethnonationalist fear that impure elements within our borders (Muslims, Mexicans, “welfare thugs” and other powerless people) will fatally corrode this great nation if they’re not purged. A roundup by the Southern Poverty Law Center indicates that white nationalists are celebrating Trump as the savior for whom they’ve waited so long. Their hopes are captured in a popular neo-Nazi edit of the movie 300, which shows Trump rambling about globalism before kicking President Obama down a well shaft. The message: Emperor Trump will save white America (the one true America) from the hordes.

=> ↺ Thank You Bernie

• Sharing the bittersweet aftermath of Clinton’s likely victory, Bernie supporters have flooded the hashtag #ThankYouBernie with heartfelt thanks for a remarkable campaign by a man who’s already spent 50 years fighting to give a voice to the voiceless. They’ve thanked him for ignoring the experts, taking on the Democratic establishment, and fighting like hell; for recognizing black and poor and Palestinian lives; for newly inspiring the young and not-so-young who’d years back gave up on being inspired, but who now vow to keep on fighting; for being humble, gracious, tireless despite the denial and condescension of most mainstream media; for “accepting misfits, radicals, rabble-rousers and rappers into the inner circle of your campaign”; for speaking the truth, doing what’s right, staying on track, giving a damn. One meme circulating: “Do no harm, but take no shit.” May he, and we, prevail.f

=> ↺ Hillary Clinton’s State Department Gave South Sudan’s Military a Pass for Its Child Soldiers

• I met a few of them in the town of Pibor last year. These battle-tested veterans had just completed two or three years of military service. They told me about the rigors of a soldier’s life, about toting AK-47s, about the circumstances that led them to take up arms. In the United States, not one of these soldiers would have met the age requirements to enlist in the Army. None were older than 16.

=> ↺ Mainstream Media Didn’t Hold Back in Headlines About Clinton and Sanders

• If you were one of millions of Americans who went to the polls Tuesday night in the hope of putting Bernie Sanders in the White House, you were probably disappointed with the outcome of the most recent round of primaries. But supporters of Hillary Clinton were likely thrilled, and it seems that much of the mainstream media joined in on the revelry.

• Amid the onslaught of news coverage surrounding Clinton’s victories, perhaps the media was simply trying to engage readers with gripping headlines. But in an election season that has already seen complaints of media bias against Sanders, several of Tuesday night’s top headlines seemed to bask in Sanders’ defeat.

=> ↺ Jill Stein to Bernie Sanders: Join the Green Party Ticket (Video)

• Stein also pushed back on the notion that introducing a viable third-party element into the presidential contest at this stage would represent another “spoiler” situation that would boost presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump’s chances of taking over the White House. In other words, although a ballot featuring Trump’s and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s names may induce déjà vu for many voters, this isn’t a repeat of the 2000 election, when Green Party candidate Ralph Nader was branded a fatal distraction by Democratic contender Al Gore’s supporters.

• “Let me just say that ‘spoiler’ presumes that democracy is bad and that choices are bad,” Stein said. “And actually what’s really different from 2000 is that voters are saying, ‘Screw the system. Throw it under the bus!’ And not only the system but the candidates … and people are clamoring for independent parties and independent candidates and more voices and more choices.”

=> ↺ Why Clinton Has Already Lost Wisconsin

• The desultory, divided, and demoralized state Democratic party held its annual convention over the past weekend in Green Bay, home of the Packers. Bernie Sanders had won the state handily, and the Superdelegates went right along with the Clinton team anyway. Why would they concern themselves with the popular vote, the mass rallies, and the contrast to Hillary’s appearance in small venues or (in Madison) by-invitation-only events?

Censorship/Free Speech

=> ↺ Facebook Is Flagging/Banning Accounts For Posting An Admittedly Strange Children’s Book Illustration

• And this is why Facebook should get out of the morality business to every last degree possible. An article about a hilarious, but innocent, educational illustration is being flagged, users are being hassled about their other photos on the site, and some folks are even getting banned. Because? Well, because it appears that Facebook moderators have the same perverse baseline psyche as the rest of us, resulting in an image of a man and a horse being compared physiologically becoming suspected horse-man-porn. And the article pointing out what it actually is is the one that got flagged. That’s as much of a failure of this sort of thing as we could hope for.

=> ↺ Taking This Photo Would Be Illegal in Utah

• Another day, another factory farm with disgusting conditions and inhumane treatment. On Tuesday, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) released details on an undercover investigation of a factory egg farm in Maine where dead chickens were left to rot until they mummified, and 4 million birds were each kept in cages smaller in area than a sheet of paper.

• But in some parts of the country, the agricultural sector is successfully campaigning for laws that would make it illegal to publicly expose these kind of conditions, and even snapping the photo at the top of this post would be against the law.

• Photos and videos show conditions on the egg farm that Paul Shapiro, HSUS’s vice president of farm animal protection, called “hideously cruel and inhumane.” Chickens are shown living in cramped cages, sometimes injured and caught on rusty wire and unable to reach food or water, and sometimes surrounded by excrement, dead birds, or poisoned rodents.

=> ↺ SABC defends ban on reading newspaper headlines on-air

• THE South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has responded to criticism that its banning of reading newspaper headlines on-air is a form of censorship.

=> ↺ Netflix Blocks IPv6 Tunnels Over Geo-Unblocking Fears

• After taking action against people using VPNs and proxies, Netflix is engaged in enhanced efforts to stop users accessing geo-blocked content. According to several reports, Netflix is now blocking users who use IPv4 to IPv6 tunnel brokers, even when doing so legitimately.

=> ↺ Russian internet watchdog blacklists Vice.com over shoplifting propaganda

• The state media and internet watchdog Roskomnadzor has put the popular international news site Vice.com on the list of banned internet resources after a court in Siberia recognized one of the outlet’s articles as propaganda of shoplifting.

=> ↺ Vice faces censorship from media watchdog in Russia

=> ↺ Russian Media Watchdog Blacklists Three-year-old Web Article as ‘Promoting Shoplifting’

• Russian media watchdog Roskomnadzor has blacklisted an online Vice Magazine article from November 2012 on grounds that it “promotes shoplifting.”

• Roskomnadzor announced the move on their page on Russian social media site VKontakte, citing a court decision from the Siberian city of Tobolsk in December 2015. The court ruled that the article contained information that encouraged readers to engage in theft.

• The article is now listed in the Roskomnadzor’s registry of websites and pages which are illegal to distribute in Russia. In the social media post, the organization urged any witnesses to such illegal distribution to contact law enforcement authorities.

=> ↺ Another Entity Thinks A Random Bundle Of URLs Is A Legitimate DMCA Takedown Request

• Copyright as censorship is one thing. Copyright as blundering, drunken bull in the DMCA china shop is another. We’ve seen this before: sloppy algorithms generating DMCA notices targeting not only possibly infringing content, but also the rights holders’ own websites, listings as IMDb, critics’ reviews — basically anything that might have the copyrighted content’s name in the URL.

• Now, there’s this, uncovered by TorrentFreak: some thing calling itself “Copyright UNIVERSAL” (but not apparently related at all to Universal Pictures) has issued a string of colossal failures in DMCA notice form.

=> ↺ Defiant Hlaudi defends SABC ‘censorship’

• SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng has again jumped to the defence of the embattled public broadcaster’s editorial policy, saying that their decisions to halt the use of protest footage and can long-running SAfm programme The Editors is not tantamount to censorship.

=> ↺ Dozens in Russia imprisoned for social media likes, reposts

=> ↺ It’s time to quit tiptoeing around China’s rights record

=> ↺ Why Wang Yi felt free to throw a hissy fit

=> ↺ Chinese envoy warns airing human-rights issues a threat to closer ties

=> ↺ Don’t cave on China relations

=> ↺ Lancome slammed for cancelling concert by pro-democracy singer

=> ↺ Former Montrealer Denise Ho’s cancelled concert sparks protests in Hong Kong

=> ↺ Lancome Shuts Hong Kong Stores Amid Accusations of Censorship

=> ↺ ‘We are all Denise Ho’: Lawmakers and activists protest against Lancôme ‘censorship’, urge boycott

=> ↺ Bollywood filmmaker challenges censoring of drug-a

=> ↺ Bollywood producer takes censorship row to court in India

=> ↺ Bollywood stands up to censorship

• Shahid Kapur said: “If the youth don’t have the right to know that drugs are bad, it is a clear assault on freedom of expression.”

=> ↺ Indian filmmakers go to court over censorship row

=> ↺ You can never ever suggest a cut for a film: Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra on Censor Board reforms

=> ↺ Udta Punjab vs CBFC: Censorship in India needs reforms, says Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra

=> ↺ Big B bats for certification rather than censorship (Third Lead)

• “I hope we can devise a system where there is certification rather than censorship,” he said.

Privacy/Surveillance

=> ↺ NSA’s Curious Goal-Post Moving on Snowden’s Complaints

• In our piece on NSA’s response to requests for records of Edward Snowden’s complaints, Jason Leopold and I reported that a senior NSA official apologized to Admiral Mike Rogers for providing insufficient context about Snowden’s contacts with oversight entities before Snowden’s email to OGC got released on May 29, 2014. (See PDF 6 for the email and response as they got publicly released.) More importantly, we reported that the apology — written after several days of fact-checking — included at least one clear error. After we pointed that out to the intelligence community and asked questions for clarification, the NSA significantly moved the goalposts on its claims about whether Snowden had raised concerns, denying that Snowden had talked to the top three NSA officials rather than lower level ones. Here’s why I think that’s significant.

=> ↺ Former CIA, NSA Director Michael Hayden to Speak at AAPEX 2016

=> ↺ U.K. Commons Passes Controversial ‘Snooper’s Charter’ Bill

• The U.K. House of Commons on Tuesday passed a controversial bill giving spy agencies the power to engage in bulk surveillance and computer hacking.

=> ↺ UK Parliament Ignores Concerns; Moves Snooper’s Charter Forward

• This isn’t necessarily a huge surprise, but the UK’s House of Commons overwhelmingly voted in support of the Snooper’s Charter, officially known as the Investigatory Powers Bill. As we’ve discussed, this is a dangerous bill that will give the UK government significantly more surveillance powers (or, in many cases, will “authorize” things that the UK government has already been doing on dubious legal authority), with little to no real oversight. And despite people being upset about it, it still was approved by a vote of 444 to 69. And, yes, the current version of the bill still asks for backdoors to encryption, but leaves a vague exemption if a company claims that it would not be feasible or would be too expensive. That’s better than the alternative, but it’s still a step in the wrong direction. The bill still needs to be considered by the House of Lords, but it’s disappointing that the House of Commons seemed so willing to cave to demands for more surveillance powers.

=> ↺ This is how the National Crime Agency thinks your internet connection records will look if the Snooper’s Charter passes into law

• The National Crime Agency gave a briefing to press yesterday about how it believed investigatory powers are necessary for the organisation to perform its role, and how it would like internet communication information to be displayed.

• Speaking to the press at a briefing yesterday, the same day the controversial Investigatory Powers Bill – or Snooper’s Charter – continued its journey into UK law, the National Crime Agency (NCA) laid out how it wants the internet connection records (ICR) of suspects it’s investigating to look, should the bill pass.

• The NCA is responsible for investigating organised crime like human, weapon and drug trafficking; cyber crime; economic crime and plays an increasingly important role in investigating terrorism.

=> ↺ The New York Times Is Preparing to Step Up Its War on Ad Blockers

• Like most online publishers, the New York Times is fighting an ongoing guerrilla war against ad blocking, a phenomenon that a recent study said could lead to more than $35 billion in losses for media companies by 2020. NYT chief executive Mark Thompson now says he is even considering what amounts to a nuclear option: Banning users with ad blockers completely.

=> ↺ Google To Deprecate SSLv3, RC4 in Gmail IMAP/POP Clients

• Google said that it will initiate on June 16 a gradual deprecation of SSLv3 and RC4 for Gmail IMAP/POP mail clients.

• Both the crypto protocols cipher are notoriously unsafe and are being phased out in big chunks of the Internet. Google, for its part, had already announced in May that it would no longer support SSLv3 and RC4 connections for Gmail SMTP.

=> ↺ The Troubling Metadata Sharing Program That Was Just Revealed in the UK

• For years, and in secret, UK law enforcement agencies have had access to metadata collected by the country’s powerful signals intelligence agency GCHQ.

• The fact this power has only been revealed now raises serious questions around government transparency, especially while Home Secretary Theresa May and others are pushing a controversial surveillance law on the premise that law enforcement need greater visibility into criminals using the internet.

• Through a program called MILKWHITE, revealed on Tuesday in Snowden documents published by The Intercept, the Metropolitan Police, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and more have been able to dig through GCHQ’s intercepts for things such as IP addresses.

• According to The Intercept, MILKWHITE stretches all the way back to September 2009, and may include information on British calls, emails and browsing data. (It’s not totally clear what amount or exact type of data has been provided to law enforcement—The Intercept suggests it was collected by GCHQ’s tapping of undersea cables).

=> ↺ Snowden and the NSA Gets Curiouser and Curiouser

• However, the NSA maintained then and still maintains that it could find only one email message from Snowden that touched on the subject.

• Snowden did much more than send a single email warning, Vice found.

• He had an in-person interaction with one of the people who responded to his email, for example. The NSA, the administration and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., all made efforts to discredit him, the FOIA documents revealed.

• After releasing the documents to Vice, the NSA posted them to its website, along with a reaffirmation of its original position.

=> ↺ VICE’s Vice: Snowden Scoop Promises Fire, Doesn’t Even Muster Smoke

• Over the weekend, VICE published a story entitled “Exclusive: Snowden Tried to Tell NSA About Surveillance Concerns, Documents Reveal.” If you haven’t read it, don’t bother. By its incendiary headline, the story—the product of documents released as part of a FOIA lawsuit—would purport to be an outright validation of Edward Snowden’s claims that he repeatedly tried to raise surveillance concerns with NSA officials but was ignored. But as journalist Mike Sacks put it, the story is “thousands of words promising fire and there’s not even any smoke.”

=> ↺ Watch the Full Episode: ‘State of Surveillance’ with Edward Snowden and Shane Smith

• The full episode of VICE on HBO’s ‘State of Surveillance’ is available to stream for free on VICE News.

• When NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden leaked details of massive government surveillance programs in 2013, he ignited a raging debate over digital privacy and security. That debate came to a head this year, when Apple refused an FBI court order to access the iPhone of alleged San Bernardino Terrorist Syed Farook. Meanwhile, journalists and activists are under increasing attack from foreign agents. To find out the government’s real capabilities, and whether any of us can truly protect our sensitive information, VICE founder Shane Smith heads to Moscow to meet the man who started the conversation, Edward Snowden.

=> ↺ Muhammad Ali Was a Victim of Illegal NSA Surveillance

• With the recent passing of the boxer considered by many to be “the greatest of all time,” the world has stopped to reflect upon his legacy outside of the ring. It was no secret that Ali was just as outspoken about his political and religious beliefs as he was about his opinions of his boxing opponents. At the height of his career, the man formerly known as Cassius Clay spoke out against U.S. War in Vietnam and became a conscientious objector to the draft.

• Because of his actions that he took because of his commitment to his Islamic faith, the U.S. government jailed him for draft evasion. In response to requests for explanation of his actions, the world heavyweight champ said, “Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?”

=> ↺ Forty-One Secret Service Employees Punished For Illegally Accessing Congressman’s Private Data In Hopes Of Discrediting Him

• When Rep. Jason Chaffetz began asking the Secret Service about its string of high-profile failures, agents were quick to respond… with attempts to undermine the Congressman’s credibility. Eighteen minutes after the hearings started, Secret Service agents — dozens of them — began poring through his 2003 Secret Service application in hopes of finding a few skeletons in his previously-vetted closet.

• Even Secret Service Assistant Director Ed Lowery got in on the illegal fun, suggesting via email that “some information [Chaffetz] finds embarrassing needs to get out.” Information did get out, but it had no effect on Chaffetz’s reputation. The only people embarassed were the Secret Service and DHS head Jeh Johnson, who was forced to apologize on its behalf.

• Johnson’s press release, detailing the results of the DHS’s investigation of the incident, shows dozens were questioned about this violation of the Privacy Act. Better yet, it shows dozens were punished for their misconduct.

=> ↺ Almost three quarters don’t know powers of Bill which will ‘end online privacy and put our personal security at risk’

=> ↺ Snoopers’ Charter: ‘Independent’ reviewer worked at GCHQ

• A SUPPOSED independent reviewer for the Snoopers’ Charter worked at UK spy agency GCHQ for five years.

• MPs have already voted in favour of a third reading of the Investigatory Powers Bill, by a margin of 444 to 69, despite a huge backlash from people and pressure groups who want to see the bill shredded and never spoken of again.

• David Anderson QC, an independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, has condemned the bill and has now started a new review.

• “I will be asking whether the government has established a robust operational case for the bulk powers it says it needs, and examining whether similar results could have been reached by other, less intrusive, means,” he said.

=> ↺ FBI claimed Petraeus shared ‘top secret’ info with reporters

• The investigation that led CIA Director David Petraeus to resign and ultimately plead guilty to a criminal charge of mishandling classified information also uncovered evidence that he discussed highly classified information with journalists, according to a court document obtained Tuesday by POLITICO.

• Requesting a search warrant for Petraeus’ Arlington, Virginia home in 2013, an FBI agent told a federal magistrate the agency had two audio recordings in which the retired four-star Army general spoke with reporters about matters that authorities believed were “top secret.”

=> ↺ Snowden Docs Show GCHQ, MI5 To Be All Haystack, No Needle

• “Collect it all,” they said. “You can’t find needles without haystacks,” they proclaimed. “The more you know,” they rainbowed. All well and good, except the NSA, GCHQ, et al. appear to have far more in common with the protagonists of “Hoarding: Buried Alive” than with effective, finely-tuned terrorism-fighting machines.

• [...]

• This isn’t just an MI5 problem. And it’s not just a bulk surveillance problem. GCHQ uses the same “data broker” — a program called PRESTON, run by the National Technical Assistance Center, which is supposed to act as a go-between for intelligence agencies in order to prevent the siloing of data. But it doesn’t work. It has prevented agencies from walling each other off, but the info firehose is still too much for agencies to handle — even with more-targeted surveillance.

• Targeted collections fare little better than the bulk collections, in terms of needle location. The following chart shows how much data goes unutilized in cases where suspects are known and targeted with individualized warrants.

=> ↺ ZeroNet: An Open Source, Decentralized, And Anonymous Internet-like Network

• We have already discussed BitTorrent’s new Project Maelstrom which has the potential to change the way we interact with the Internet. When BitTorrent first announced Project Maelstrom, somewhere back in December 2014, a bunch of open source developers started a project called ZeroNet — an open alternative of Project Maelstrom.

Civil Rights/Policing

=> ↺ Senator Jeff Sessions Looks To Blast A Giant Hole In The 4th Amendment For ‘Emergency’ Response

• Yesterday we wrote about an already troubling attempt by Senator John Cornyn to attach a dangerous amendment to the Senate’s ECPA reform bill that would massively expand what kinds of electronic communications the FBI has access to (as we noted, the FBI already pretends it has access to this very info, so really this law would be papering over the FBI’s illegal collection of this info). But there’s another amendment, put forth by Senator Jeff Sessions, that is just as, if not more, troubling. It’s basically creating a massive loophole in the 4th Amendment, saying that any and all basic oversight can be tossed out the second the FBI declares the situation to be an “emergency.”

=> ↺ Russia Imprisoning Dozens Of Social Media Critics For ‘Hate Speech’

• We just wrote about the big social media companies agreeing to quickly take down content for “hate speech” in the EU, and warned about how problematic this was. The definition of “hate speech” matters quite a bit, and we’ve pointed out in the past how “hate speech” laws frequently morph into a tool for government censorship. So perhaps it should be no surprise at all that just around the same time that Google, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft agreed to start censoring “hate speech” in the EU, we get another story from the Associated Press about how Russia is using its own hate speech laws to imprison dozens of critics who mocked the government on social media.

=> ↺ The death of due process

• Suppose someone is accused of rape, or some other horrifying crime. If the accusation is true then the perpetrator should go to jail. If the accusation is false then the source of this false accusation should pay for this slander. Clearly someone has broken the law.

• A lynch mob forms to punish the alleged rapist by whatever means possible. A second lynch mob forms to punish the accuser, the alleged slanderer, again by whatever means possible. These mobs are full of angry people who want to be judges and juries and executioners. The members of the first lynch mob dismiss the possibility that the accusation is false. The members of the second lynch mob dismiss the possibility that the accusation is true.

• Evidently many of these people are wrong: accidentally or maliciously deceived. At the same time all of these people are convinced that they know who deserves punishment.

=> ↺ Jacob Appelbaum statement

• In the past few days, a calculated and targeted attack has been launched to spread vicious and spurious allegations against me. Given the way these accusations have been handled, I had little choice but to resign from my position as an advocate at the Tor Project and devote my full attention to completing my doctoral work on cryptography at the Technical University of Eindhoven.

• Vague rumors and smear campaigns against me are nothing new. As a longtime public advocate for free speech and a secure internet, there have been plenty of attempts to undermine my work over the years.

• Now, however, these unsubstantiated and unfounded attacks have become so aggressive that I feel it’s necessary to set the record straight. Not only have I been the target of a fake website in my name that has falsely accused me of serious crimes, but I have also received death threats (including a Twitter handle entitled ‘TimeToDieJake’).

• I think it’s extremely damaging to the community that these character-assassination tactics are being deployed, especially given their ugly history of being used against fellow members of the LGBT community. It pains me to watch the community to which I’ve dedicated so much of my life engage in such self-destructive behavior. Nonetheless, I am prepared to use legal channels, if necessary, to defend my reputation from these libelous accusations.

=> ↺ Statement on Jacob Appelbaum

• In light of the allegations that have been made, Jacob Appelbaum is no longer a member of our outside volunteer technical advisory board. We hope that the serious accusations made against him, and his denial of them, are resolved as fairly and as expeditiously as possible.

=> ↺ Community 2.0

• The accused, Jacob Appelbaum, is a friend of mine, and I was quite surprised of the accusations.

• [...]

• As for the people being accused, we also need to understand that they could end up being innocent. We need to understand that they could also end up being guilty – but that they still have rights even if so. To a fair trial for instance. It’s important that we keep our heads cool and don’t fuel fires just because we want revenge. We should use that energy to support victims and to do what the tech community does best in other circumstances: rip up the old code and reimplement new code with the new experience you have. Let’s make a community version 2.0 – now for everyone and with exception handlers for the things we miss.

=> ↺ British police accused of helping to train Saudi ‘torturers’

• British police are teaching Saudi Arabian officers skills that could lead to the torture and execution of pro-democracy activists, a charity has warned.

• Personnel from the Arab kingdom’s interior ministry have been trained in detective work and high-tech forensics as a money-maker for the College of Policing, according to Reprieve, which has branded the programme “scandalous”.

• The anti-death penalty campaigning charity said an internal document showed the long-running partnership had continued despite a brutal crackdown by the regime following the 2011 Arab Spring that led to the torture of dozens of young protesters who were sentenced to death.

=> ↺ OHP Uses New Device To Seize Money Used During The Commission Of A Crime

• You may have heard of civil asset forfeiture.

• That’s where police can seize your property and cash without first proving you committed a crime; without a warrant and without arresting you, as long as they suspect that your property is somehow tied to a crime.

• Now, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol has a device that also allows them to seize money in your bank account or on prepaid cards.

=> ↺ Pakistani mother burns daughter to death in latest shocking ‘honour killing’ case

• A Pakistani mother has been arrested on suspicion of burning her 16-year-old daughter alive for marrying without family consent in the latest so-called “honour killing” to shock the country.

• Perveen Bibi, tied her daughter, Zeenat, to a bed, doused her with fuel and then set fire to her in Lahore, police said.

=> ↺ How Corrupt America Is

• The best reporting on the depth of America’s dictatorship is probably that being done by Atlanta Georgia’s NBC-affiliated, Gannett-owned, TV Channel “11 Alive”, WXIA television, “The Investigators” series of local investigative news reports, which show, up close and at a cellularly detailed level, the way things actually work in today’s America. Although it’s only local, it displays what meets the legal standards of the US federal government in actually any state in the union; so, it exposes the character of the US government, such that what’s shown to be true here, meets America’s standard for ‘democracy’, or else the federal government isn’t enforcing federal laws against it (which is the same thing as its meeting the federal government’s standards).

• The links to three of these local TV news reports will be provided, along with a summary of each of the videos; and then the broader context will be provided, which ties the local picture in with the national, and then the resulting international, picture. So, this will be like a zoom-lens view, starting with three selected close-ups, and then broadening the view to wide-angle, showing the context in terms of which what’s happening in that fine detail (those close-up views) makes sense.

• The central video will be the second of the three, which deals with the impact that the national organization called ALEC plays in creating the entire situation in the US, and which ties the Georgia-state reality in with the reality of the US federal government.

=> ↺ FBI Comes After the 4th Amendment

• While Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are battling in their final round in the Democratic primaries and Donald Trump is arguing that Clinton should be in prison for failing to safeguard state secrets while she was secretary of state, the same FBI that is diligently investigating her is quietly and perniciously seeking to cut more holes in the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution.

=> ↺ Pushing for Humane Immigration Reform

• The treatment of America’s 11 million undocumented immigrants has been a political football…

=> ↺ Newseum Honors Slain Journalists, Then Hosts Israeli Official Who Justified Killing Some

• The Newseum — a private Washington, D.C.-based museum dedicated to exhibits and events about the free press — began the week on Monday by rededicating its Journalists Memorial, which honors reporters who died in the line of fire.

• The next day, it hosted a discussion on the use of social media in war featuring a retired Israeli military official, Lt. Col. Avital Leibovich, who in 2012 justified the targeted killing of Palestinian journalists whose names appear on that memorial.

• Leibovich, who now works as the director of the American Jewish Committee’s Israel office, used her time on stage to essentially reprise her role as a spokesperson for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), using slides and videos to show how the IDF is trying to rebut what she called a biased image of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the Western media and Palestinians.

=> ↺ BuzzFeed Terminates Ad Deal With Republican Party Over Trump

• BuzzFeed has terminated a deal with the Republican National Committee to run political advertisements in the fall, the company’s CEO, Jonah Peretti, informed employees Monday morning.

• In an email, Peretti cited Donald Trump’s rhetoric and campaign promises as the reason for the decision to terminate the buy, worth $1.3 million according to a source who spoke with Politico.

• “Earlier today, BuzzFeed informed the RNC that we would not accept Trump for President ads and that we would be terminating our agreement with them,” Peretti said. “The Trump campaign is directly opposed to the freedoms of our employees in the United States and around the world and in some cases, such as his proposed ban on international travel for Muslims, would make it impossible for our employees to do their jobs.”

=> ↺ BuzzFeed Dumps Ad Deal With Republican National Committee Over Donald Trump

=> ↺ Native American Tribe Fights To Stop Texas From Auctioning Off Its Sacred Objects

• An upcoming auction in Texas intends to sell over 100 Native American items — including ceremonial pipes that are deeply sacred to the Oglala Sioux and guns that were used in the Massacre at Wounded Knee — over the objections of tribes who say it’s disrespectful.

• Attorneys for the Dallas-based Heritage Auctions say they can legally proceed with the sale. But the Oglala Sioux tribe intends to file an affidavit to prevent the sale of the ceremonial pipes.

• “These are our items, these are our laws,” Trina Lone Hill, the historic preservation officer for the Oglala Sioux Tribe, told ThinkProgress.

Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

=> ↺ Jesse Jackson Likens FCC Cable Box Reform Plan To ‘Snarling Dogs, Water Hoses And Church Bombings’

• Back in February the FCC voted to open up the captive cable set top box market to competition, potentially opening the door to better, cheaper hardware, but also putting an end to the $21 billion the cable industry makes annually in set top box rental fees. Shortly thereafter the cable industry responded by pushing an absolute torrent of misleading editorials in newspapers and in websites nationwide. Some of these editorials claim set top box competition will result in privacy, security, or piracy Armageddon. Most try to claim set top box competition is some kind of nefarious plan by Google to freeload on cable’s “amazing history of innovation.”

=> ↺ World Wide Web Creator Tim Berners-Lee Wants To Reinvent The Web

• Disappointed by the current state of the web, the World Wide Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee wishes to reinvent the web and make some amends. He feels that due to increased surveillance and barricades, the internet has deviated from its true purpose. “We don’t have a technology problem, we have a social problem,” Berners-Lee say pointing out the problem.

Brexit

=> ↺ Brexit: Gov’t UK voter registration site dies at worst possible moment [Updated]

• A government website used by British citizens to register to vote spectacularly failed at a key moment on Tuesday night—50,000 potential voters scrambled to log in at the same time during a major debate on the upcoming EU referendum.

• Brits had until midnight on June 7 to register to vote in the referendum. The government said that more than half a million people had added themselves to the electoral register on Tuesday. However, the number of people who attempted to access the site during the debate led to it falling over roughly an hour before the deadline for votes kicked in.

=> ↺ Nigel Farage spokesperson admits claim ’5,000 jihadi fighters have come to the EU’ isn’t true

• During last night’s EU referendum debate on ITV, Farage said: “[The boss of Europol] said that the migrant policy – and by the way these are not refugees, they are mostly economic – over the last year, sparked by Angela Merkel last year, led to up to 5,000 jihadis coming to the European Union in the space of the last 15 months.”

=> ↺ Nigel Farage destroyed by audience member in EU debate after telling woman to ‘calm down a little bit’

• Nigel Farage was blasted by a TV audience member after he told a woman to ‘calm down a little bit’ during an intense debate on the EU referendum .

• A woman grilled the UKIP leader about his views on the German sex attacks earlier this year.

• She questioned him about his comments that remaining in the EU could lead to similar attacks in the UK.

Intellectual Monopolies

Trademarks

=> ↺ Can a foreign trade mark really trump a local one in Uganda?

• A High Court trade mark judgment suggests that a foreign trade mark registration entitles the owner to registration of that trade mark in Uganda, despite conflicting Ugandan registrations. The decision shines a spotlight on the Paris Convention, some unusual provisions of the Ugandan Trademarks Act, and the East African Community, as Chris Walters explains

Copyrights

=> ↺ Growing Coalition Opposes California Exerting Copyright Over Public Records

• California’s A.B. 2880 will give government agencies the power to put copyright restrictions on their work. That means state bureaucrats will be able to wrap their reports, research, e-mails, and even videos of public meetings in onerous legal restrictions, backed by federal lawsuits and six-figure penalties. The bill would change California from one of the most open state governments to one of the least open. EFF opposed the bill and explained its dangers to the State Assembly.

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