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GNU/Linux

=> ↺ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-06-04 [Older] Linux Weekly Roundup #238

=> ↺ 9to5Linux ☛ 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: June 11th, 2023

• This week was full of awesome releases, starting with the long-anticipated Debian 12 “Bookworm” and openSUSE Leap 15.5 operating system, and continuing with the Firefox 114 web browser, Cinnamon 5.8 desktop environment, as well as new KDE Frameworks and KDE Gear releases for KDE fans.

• On top of that, I give you a first look at the new features in the upcoming Firefox 115 web browser, Thunderbird 115 email client, and blendOS 3 immutable distribution. Read the hottest news of this week and get access to all the distro and package downloads in 9to5Linux’s Linux weekly roundup for June 11th, 2023, below.

Audiocasts/Shows

=> ↺ The TLLTS Podcast ☛ 2023-06-08 [Older] The Linux Link Tech Show Episode 1007

=> ↺ 2023-06-07 [Older] FLOSS Weekly 735: FLOSS Without Borders – Ahmed Sobeh, Open Source in Developing Countries

=> ↺ 2023-06-11 [Older] Debian 12 “Net Install” Installation Walkthrough

=> ↺ 2023-06-11 [Older] Debian 12 – The First 12 Things You Should Do After Installation!

=> ↺ 2023-06-11 [Older] Debian 12 “Bookworm” is the Best Release of Debian. Ever.

=> ↺ 2023-06-10 [Older] Arrested for using Linux, Windows 11 loses users, Better FOSS Firmware – Linux & Open Source News

=> ↺ 2023-06-10 [Older] Debian 12 First Look | The Biggest Linux Release of the Year! (2023)

=> ↺ 2023-06-10 [Older] Linux Package Distribution Model Is Changing

=> ↺ 2023-06-09 [Older] Diablo 4 debuts on Steam Deck as Linux market share reaches all-time high due to SteamOS!

=> ↺ 2023-06-09 [Older] How to install Viber on MX Linux 21.3

=> ↺ 2023-06-09 [Older] Installation and First Look of Garuda MATE Edition

=> ↺ 2023-06-08 [Older] How to install FlightGear on MX Linux 21.3

=> ↺ 2023-06-08 [Older] Truth Behind Ballmer And “Linux Is A Cancer”

=> ↺ 2023-06-08 [Older] 10 Ways to Use the Neofetch Command in Linux

=> ↺ 2023-06-08 [Older] How to install Intellij Idea Community on MX Linux 21.3

=> ↺ 2023-06-08 [Older] DEBIAN 12: more relevant than ever as a Linux desktop

=> ↺ 2023-06-07 [Older] Netdata – A Free (and Powerful) Monitoring Solution for your Linux Servers (Full Review)

=> ↺ 2023-06-07 [Older] Netdata Overview and Getting Started Guide

=> ↺ 2023-06-07 [Older] Red Hat Unalives LibreOffice RPM From RHEL & Fedora

=> ↺ 2023-06-06 [Older] 15 LINUX FACTS that your loved ones will never tire hearing about

=> ↺ 2023-06-06 [Older] Transferring files with the scp Command (Linux Crash Course Series)

=> ↺ 2023-06-06 [Older] QMMP Is A Modern Cross Platform Winamp Alternative

=> ↺ 2023-06-06 [Older] Ubuntu Snap Desktop Is Canonical’s Final Form

=> ↺ 2023-06-05 [Older] Legacy Linux Apps Are A Dotfile Nightmare

=> ↺ 2023-06-05 [Older] How to install the Vivaldi browser on MX Linux 21.3

=> ↺ 2023-06-04 [Older] How to install Lightworks on MX Linux 21.3

=> ↺ 2023-06-04 [Older] Maybe Linux Isn’t Really About Choice

=> ↺ 2023-06-04 [Older] Brave Browser And Search Engine Keep Getting Better

Kernel Space

=> ↺ Linux mailing lists ☛ Linux 6.4-rc6

Instructionals/Technical

=> ↺ Effective Linux Process Management: How Processes Work

• Linux is a powerful and flexible operating system that comes with a strong process management system that lets users handle and make the best use of their system’s resources. System stability, security, and efficiency depend on knowing how processes work and being able to manage them well. This blog post will go into the details of Linux process management, talking about important ideas and methods. We will also look at how process management fits into the larger subject of Linux permission escalation.

=> ↺ Pocket Lint ☛ How to delete or uninstall any app on your Chromebook [Ed: Better delete the whole OS and put proper GNU/Linux on it instead]

=> ↺ University of Toronto ☛ The potential risks of using (Open)ZFS On Linux with at least NFS

• With a convention NFS server filesystem stack, such as ext4 on LVM on software RAID, everything is in the kernel and you can ask kernel people for help, report issues you see, and so on. If something is going wrong that creates sub-par performance, the kernel people will probably want to fix it. But (Open)ZFS On Linux is outside the kernel, so Linux kernel people have little reason to particularly help out and ZoL people may not have the capabilities to dig into the kernel NFS and disk IO stacks to understand what’s going on (it’s a bit out of scope), and even if a problem can be identified there may not be any good fix. One reason for this is that the actual code of ZFS On Linux is also mostly Solaris/Illumos code, which creates a mismatch between the kernel and ZFS (one of the areas where this is still quite visible is memory issues with ZFS’s ARC).

=> ↺ Manuel Matuzovic ☛ CSS! CSS! CSS!

• After the first day, I was chatting about CSS in a bar with some friends. Stephan said it’s great that browsers are shipping so many new features, but we need people to use them in real projects, share their experiences in talks and articles, and show the world what CSS is capable of.

• I agree because most of us still need to understand how groundbreaking some of these additions to the language are. That can only change if we’re curious and experiment, share what we’ve learned, and discuss it, but it’s not enough to rely on people like Stephanie Eckles, Ahmad Shadeed, Michelle Barker, Adam Argyle, Bramus Van Damme, Una Kravets, or Kevin Powell to do that. Especially with CSS-Tricks dying slowly*, we need more people to give CSS a stage.

• We also agreed that we need more people to push CSS to its limits and explore what else we can get from Grid, custom properties, :has(), container queries, etc., beyond the obvious use cases.

=> ↺ Matt Rickard ☛ The Last Innings of Web 2.0

• But interoperability has evolved. There are a magnitude (or two) more programmers in the world who want to use APIs to interact with a platform. Platform changes and product sunsetting highlight the stress points of these Web 2.0 companies where users realize they can’t take their data with them.

=> ↺ OSTechNix ☛ How To Install Debian 12 Bookworm [A Step-by-Step Guide]

• Welcome to this comprehensive guide on installing Debian 12, the latest release codenamed Bookworm! Debian 12 brings a multitude of enhancements, including updated software packages, improved hardware support, and increased stability. This step-by-step tutorial will walk you through the steps to install Debian 12 bookworm, ensuring a smooth and successful setup of Debian 12 on your system. Let’s dive in and get Debian 12 up and running on your machine!

• Wondering what’s new in Debian 12 bookworm edition? Refer our Debian 12 Release Notes guide in the link below. [...]

=> ↺ IT Tavern ☛ Getting started with tcpdump

• In this blog post, I assume that tcpdump is already installed since the installation method can vary from system to system, and basic Linux and CLI skills already exist. I’ll try to keep it as short as possible while providing all the necessary information.

=> ↺ TecMint ☛ 8 Mysterious Uses of (!) Operator in Linux Commands

• The ‘!’ symbol or operator in Linux can be used as a Logical Negation operator as well as to fetch commands from history with tweaks or to run previously executed commands with modification.

• Most of the following Linux commands usage with ‘!’ symbol can vary between different shells. While the examples I provided are commonly used in the bash shell, some other Linux shells may have different implementations or may not support certain uses of the ‘!’ symbol at all.

=> ↺ TecMint ☛ IPTraf-ng – A Console-Based Network Monitoring Tool

• IPTraf-ng is a console-based Linux network statistics monitoring program that shows information about IP traffic, which includes information such as:

• The IPTraf-ng utility can be used to find out the type of traffic on your network, and what kind of service is the most heavily used on what systems, among others.

=> ↺ LinuxTechi ☛ How to Install Debian 12 (Bookworm) Step-by-Step

=> ↺ LinuxTechi ☛ How to Upgrade Debian 11 to Debian 12 (Bookworm) via CLI

=> ↺ Make Use Of ☛ 2023-06-08 [Older] How to Manage Your Docker Containers Easily With lazydocker

=> ↺ Make Use Of ☛ 2023-06-05 [Older] Want to Try Kali Linux? Here’s How to Install It in VirtualBox

=> ↺ TechTarget ☛ Kubernetes networking 101: Best practices and challenges

• Before jumping into the landscape of CNI plugins for Kubernetes, it’s important to understand the basic elements of Kubernetes networking. Follow this guide to get started.

=> ↺ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-06-09 How to install Viber on MX Linux 21.3

=> ↺ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-06-08 [Older] How to install FlightGear on MX Linux 21.3

=> ↺ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-06-08 [Older] How to install Intellij Idea Community on MX Linux 21.3

=> ↺ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-06-05 [Older] How to install the Vivaldi browser on MX Linux 21.3

=> ↺ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-06-04 [Older] How to install Lightworks on MX Linux 21.3

=> ↺ Make Use Of ☛ 2023-06-10 [Older] How to Fix the VMware "Sound Device ID Out of Range" Error on Linux

Games

=> ↺ Hackaday ☛ Hyundai Is Doomed: Porting The 1993 Classic To A Hyundai Head Unit

• In the natural order of the world, porting DOOM to any newly unlocked computing system is an absolute given. This a rule which [greenluigi1] understands all too well, leading to presumably the first Hyundai to be equipped with this all-time classic on its infotainment system. This follows hot on the trail of re-hacking said infotainment system and a gaggle of basic apps being developed for and run on said head unit (being the part of the infotainment system on the front dashboard). Although it is a Linux-based system, this doesn’t mean that you can just recompile DOOM for it, mostly because of the rather proprietary system environment.

Distributions and Operating Systems

Reviews

=> ↺ Distro Watch ☛ Review: openSUSE 15.5 Leap

• This release of openSUSE is relatively tame, it’s a minor evolution from the previous 15.4 version from last year. Which is to be expected, this release is supposed to offer minor improvements and bug fixes, not exciting new features. In other words, this release does what it says on the label.

• Of note, I think it’s worth pointing out both Discover and System Settings work better on openSUSE than most other distributions I’ve tried recently. Both were more stable and performed faster. In fact, the entire Plasma experience feels a little more responsive on openSUSE than on most other distributions I’ve tried recently.

New Releases

=> ↺ OSTechNix ☛ Debian 12 Bookworm Released! Debian 12 ‘Bookworm’: A Look at the Freshly Released OS

• After a development period spanning 1 year, 9 months, and 28 days, the Debian project is thrilled to announce the release of its new stable version, Debian 12, codenamed “bookworm” on June 10, 2023. Yes! Debian 12 ‘Bookworm’ has been officially released and is available to download!

• Thanks to the combined efforts of the Debian Security and the Debian Long Term Support teams, Debian 12 “bookworm” will be supported for the next 5 years.

• Debian 12 ‘Bookworm’ succeeds the stable series Debian 11 ‘Bullseye’, which was previously released in 2019.

=> ↺ IPFire Official Blog ☛ IPFire 2.27 – Core Update 175 released

• Finally, the next update, IPFire 2.27 – Core Update 175, has been released! It updates OpenSSL to the 3.1 branch, features a kernel update as well as a large number of package updates and a variety of bug fixes.

• Before we start talking about the changes in detail, we would like to ask for your support. This update has taken a lot of effort to put together and we can’t do it without you. So please, if you can, donate to the project helping us to put more resources to bring you more and better updates. It is very much appreciated by all of us here!

=> ↺ Ultramarine Linux 38 Sets Sail

• Ultramarine Linux 38 (Tortuga) is here! Let’s take a peek at what’s new.

=> ↺ Proxmox VE 8.0 (beta) released!

• #1 We are pleased to announce the first beta release of Proxmox Virtual Environment 8.0! The 8.x family is based on the great Debian 12 “Bookworm” and comes with a 6.2 kernel, QEMU 8.0.2, LXC 5.0.2, OpenZFS 2.1.11.

• Note: The current release of Proxmox Virtual Environment 8.0 is a beta version. If you test or upgrade, make sure to first create backups of your data. We recommend Proxmox Backup Server to do so.

BSD

=> ↺ DragonFly BSD Digest ☛ HAMMER2 and offline actions

• You can now clean up, grow, and destroy HAMMER2 volumes, even when they are not mounted. [...]

Debian Family

=> ↺ Liliputing ☛ Debian 12 “bookworm” released with Linux kernel 6.1 and a new non-free firmware repository

• Debian is one of the oldest GNU/Linux distributions, and it continues to serve as the foundation for many other Linux-based operating systems including Ubuntu, Kali, MX, and the Raspberry Pi OS, among others.

• The operating system is also known for emphasizing stability over flashy new features, and it can take a long time for new releases to arrive. Case in point: Debian 12 “bookworm” is now available, after nearly 20 months of development.

=> ↺ Slashdot ☛ 2023-06-11 Debian 12 ‘Bookworm’ Released

=> ↺ DebugPoint ☛ 10 Things to Do After Installing Debian 12 “Bookworm”

• Iam sure you have already installed Debian 12 Bookworm or planning to upgrade. Debian 12 was released on June 10, 2023, after more than a year of development. It brings the latest packages, upgrades and replaces some key modules as well.

• If you use Debian on your laptops or desktops, here are a few steps you might want to do after installing or upgrading to Debian 12.

Devices/Embedded

=> ↺ CNX Software ☛ Tiny STM32MP135 system-on-module comes with up to 512MB RAM, 256MB NAND flash or 4GB eMMC flash

• MYiR provides a Linux 5.15 BSP for the module with the source code for all drivers, U-boot, and Linux, as well as two root file systems built with the Yocto project: a core image without GUI, and a full-features image.

• The company also designed the MYD-YF13X development board as an evaluation platform for the MYC-YF13X CPU module. The carrier board brings out two Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, RS232, RS485, and CAN bus interfaces, USB 2.0 host and OTG interfaces, a mini PCIe socket for 4G LTE USB modules, as well as an LCD interface, a camera interface, an audio jack, as well as extension headers.

Open Hardware/Modding

=> ↺ Herman Õunapuu ☛ How I blew up my backup server (Valve pls fix)

• After trying to recover the backup server and giving up as soon as I found that I cannot log in as root or use sudo, I gave up on doing that over the network and decided to get physical acccess to the server. One reinstall and Ansible run later, the server is okay again.

Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications

=> ↺ Gadget Bridge ☛ Top 7 ways to fix a corrupted Android SD card

=> ↺ Android Police ☛ How to use wireless ADB on your Android phone or tablet

=> ↺ Android Authority ☛ How to share your Android screen on any device – Android Authority

=> ↺ SlashGear ☛ How To Change The Brightness On Your Android Phone

=> ↺ Android Central ☛ How to change the audio output on Android | Android Central

=> ↺ The Sun ☛ Android users warned over bank raiding ‘copycat’ apps – but there’s four ways you can protect yourself | The US Sun

=> ↺ Make Use Of ☛ Why Most Android Manufacturers Are Building Their Own Ecosystem

=> ↺ Tom’s Guide ☛ Android 14 Beta adds a handy feature to make your battery last longer | Tom’s Guide

=> ↺ GSM Arena ☛ vivo X90 gets May 2023 Android security patch and camera optimizations with new software update – comments

=> ↺ Make Use Of ☛ The 6 Best Cricket Games for iPhone and Android

=> ↺ 9to5Google ☛ Every Google app with an Android tablet UI [Updated]

=> ↺ Sportskeeda ☛ GTA San Andreas APK + OBB download links for Android: Real mobile game or fake?

=> ↺ XDA ☛ New Battery Saver feature in Android 14 Beta 3 could further extend battery life on Pixels

Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

FSF

=> ↺ Support Stallman ☛ A Call to The Community from Chrystalleni Loizidou

• by Chrystalleni Loizidou – June 2023

• There is clear dissonance between the person described in the attacks against Richard Stallman’s character, and the Richard Stallman I know and have been in conversation with for the last 5 years. There is an error here that is harmful not only to him as an individual (I am deeply saddened by this, what a phenomenon to experience, what strange times we live in) but is also harmful more broadly: it is a distraction from what he stands for and the work we must do to reverse the hold of exploitative technologies on the future of humanity.

• I call on fellow feminists not to get carried away by aggressive and divisive defamation campaigns, and to focus our energy against oppression where it is really played out: in the collusion of the non-free technology industry with the edu-war-health industrial complex and the expansion of its domination to nearly all aspects of life. Let wise, kind and meaningful activism prevail.

• Chrystalleni Loizidou, PhD. Organiser of the Free/Libre Technologies, Arts and the Commons Unconference, an event with keynotes by Richard Stallman and Silvia Federici, University of Nicosia, Cyprus, 2019.

FSFE

=> ↺ FSFE ☛ 2023-06-06 [Older] Germany: dPhoenix on the road to failure?

=> ↺ FSFE ☛ 2023-06-06 [Older] AI Act and Interoperability +++ Router Freedom Survey +++ Podcasts, YH4F & Ada

Programming/Development

Perl / Raku

=> ↺ Perl ☛ 2023-06-09 This Week in PSC (109)

=> ↺ Perl ☛ 2023-06-08 Perl Weekly Challenge 220: Squareful Arrays

=> ↺ Perl ☛ 2023-06-06 [Older] MooseX::Extended versus the debugger

=> ↺ Perl ☛ 2023-06-05 [Older] Perl Weekly Challenge 220: Common Characters

=> ↺ Olaf Alders ☛ 2023-06-05 [Older] Using Docker to Fix a Perl 5.37 Test Failure

=> ↺ Perl ☛ 2023-06-04 [Older] Perl Weekly Challenge #219 – Squaring Up

Leftovers

=> ↺ CBC ☛ Is map-reading a lost art? In an era of GPS, here’s what map fans say we’re losing

• In many ways, maps are more embedded in our day-to-day lives than they’ve ever been, he said, noting how much we all use GPS, satellite view and google maps. And in cartography, they tend to use geographical information systems — databases that produce dynamic maps. Online and dynamic maps are still maps, even if you can’t hold them.

• “It would be very much like saying that because we no longer use film cameras, we’re not doing photography anymore. In fact, we’re doing more photography,” Bevan said.

• “For sure, the map is still there, but the medium has certainly profoundly changed.”

=> ↺ Michael West Media ☛ Former premier shares national stage with comedy legend

• An “emperor” who transformed an Australian state and a dame who delighted global audiences for decades are together in lights for the King’s Birthday Honours List.

• Former West Australian Liberal premier Colin Barnett and legendary late comedian Barry Humphries are among 1191 Australians recognised.

=> ↺ Michael West Media ☛ Soccer star and musical pioneer help women make history

• Women are at the heart of the King’s Birthday Honours list for the first time in its history.

• From artists to scientists and ex-politicians, more than 1000 Australians have been recognised, with women making up more than 50 per cent of appointments.

=> ↺ Hackaday ☛ The First Search Engines, Built By Librarians

• Before the Internet became the advertisement generator we know and love today, interspersed with interesting information here and there, it was originally a network of computers largely among various universities. This was even before the world-wide web and HTML which means that the people using these proto-networks, mostly researchers and other academics, had to build things we might take for granted from the ground up. One of those was one of the first search engines, built by the librarians who were cataloging all of the research in their universities, and using their relatively primitive computer networks to store and retrieve all of this information.

Education

=> ↺ Gannett ☛ ‘Unabomber’ Theodore Kaczynski’s ties to University of Michigan continued into prison term

• In 1999, U-M’s Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library announced it had reached an exclusive agreement to receive Kaczynski’s prison correspondence. “A 5-foot stack of hundreds of letters written by people around the world to Kaczynski and his responses to some of the letters” were delivered to the library in fall 1999 after two years of negotiations, a university spokesperson said. Kaczynski agreed to provide the letters at no charge.

• Kaczynski also tried to donate the writings left in his Montana cabin to the university, but a 2004 federal court ruling said Kaczynski had “no right to donate his writings” and that the government legally possesses the papers on behalf of Kaczynski’s victims.

Hardware

=> ↺ NPR ☛ To rebuild Notre Dame’s fire-ravaged roof, carpenters use centuries-old techniques

• At Ateliers Perrault, a 250-year-old carpentry company in France’s Loire Valley — one of the two chosen to restore the roof — you don’t hear the whirring of electric saws. It’s the chopping of axes that resounds as craftsmen transform oak trees into long, rectangular beams by hand.

• Carpenter Joseph Canuel explains.

• “We made cathedral roofs well before saws and sawmills existed, and this is how it worked,” he says. “You got the wood in the nearby forest like we’re doing. And sure, we could easily cut these logs into two boards, but keeping the wood fibers the whole length of the beam gives it more resistance.”

=> ↺ The Telegraph UK ☛ The secret driving every tech innovation in history… porn

• It won’t be the first time pornography has been a key driver of sales of new technology. Throughout history, the adult entertainment business has been an engine for tech innovations – from camcorders to videocams, paywalls to better broadband speeds. Nevertheless, it poses an awkward question for Apple: is pornography the key to the future of a company that prides itself on its family-friendly image?

• The importance of porn to the success of new technologies was a phenomenon observed by the US commentator John Tierney in 1994, the early days of the world wide web. “Sex has had a peculiarly creative impact on communications,” Tierney wrote. “Sometimes the erotic has been a force driving technological innovation; virtually always, from Stone Age sculpture to computer bulletin boards, it has been one of the first uses for a new medium.”

=> ↺ Hackaday ☛ Modern Brownie Camera Talks SD And WiFi

• If you’re at all into nostalgic cameras, you’ve certainly seen the old Brownie from Kodak. They were everywhere, and feature an iconic look. [JGJMatt] couldn’t help but notice that you could easily find old ones at a good price, but finding and developing No. 117 film these days can be challenging. But thanks to a little 3D printing, you can install an ESP32 camera inside and wind up with a modern but retro-stylish camera. The new old camera will work with a memory card or send data over WiFi.

=> ↺ Hackaday ☛ The Time Machine Mk. 8 Is A Sleek Smartwatch With Retro Styling

• The primary purpose of a wristwatch is to tell the time, which pretty much any watch does perfectly fine. It’s in the aesthetics, as well as features other than time-telling, where a watchmaker can really make their product stand out from the rest. Watchmaker and electronic artist [Eric Min] focused on those two areas when he designed the Time Machine Mk.8, which combines exquisite design with simple, offline smartwatch functionality.

=> ↺ Hackaday ☛ A Peek Inside A 747 Fuel Gauge

• It isn’t that often that we civilians get the chance to closely examine the fantastic internals that make up the modern marvels of avionic engineering. Luckily for us, [Glen] got his hands on a 747 fuel gauge and tore it down for our benefit. Not only does he tear it down, but he also builds a controller to display values.

Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

=> ↺ The Conversation ☛ 2023-06-09 [Older] Why understanding how spiders spin silk may hold clues for treating Alzheimer’s disease

=> ↺ US News And World Report ☛ The Great Grift: How Billions in COVID-19 Relief Aid Was Stolen or Wasted

• An Associated Press analysis found that fraudsters potentially stole more than $280 billion in COVID-19 relief funding; another $123 billion was wasted or misspent. Combined, the loss represents 10% of the $4.2 trillion the U.S. government has so far disbursed in COVID relief aid.

=> ↺ Connor Tumbleson ☛ Superfund Sites

• So for those unaware Superfund is the informal term of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA). This in basic English means the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may identify and clean up contaminated sites – while finding and forcing the associated party to pay or clean it up themselves.

• So lets turn back the clock and see why this started and some of the big reasons it began.

=> ↺ Neritam ☛ Survival of the richest

• Elon Musk, one of the world’s richest men, paid a ‘true tax rate’ of just over 3% from 2014 to 2018. Aber Christine, a market trader in Northern Uganda who sells rice, flour and soya, makes $80 a month in profit. She pays a tax rate of 40%.

=> ↺ The Straits Times ☛ China’s Covid-positive test rate jumped to 40% in May, neared end-2022 peak

• The country also reported 164 deaths in May among those who contracted Covid-19, out of 2,777 severe infections.

=> ↺ Latvia ☛ Part of social security could go to health insurance in Latvia

• In the future, part of social security contributions to the state budget could be paid into a person’s health insurance, Latvian Television reported on June 11.

=> ↺ Steve Kirsch: From anti-COVID vaccine to irredeemably bonkers antivax

• One consistent theme that I’ve been harping on since COVID-19 vaccines were granted emergency use authorization (EUA) by the FDA in December 2020, thus sparking a tsunami of antivaccine conspiracy mongering far beyond anything seen before the pandemic, it’s that everything old is new again in terms of the claims made by antivaxxers spreading misinformation. Basically, very old antivax tropes were rapidly repurposed to be wielded against the new COVID-19 vaccines, examples including:

=> ↺ Hackaday ☛ Characterizing Singular Atoms Using X-Ray Spectroscopy And Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

• Scanning Tunneling Microscopes (STMs) are amazing tools which can manipulate singular atoms, but they cannot characterize these atoms as they act only on the outer electron shell. Meanwhile X-ray spectroscopy is a great tool for characterizing materials, but has so far been unable to scale down to singular atoms. This is where a recent study (paywalled, see summary article) by Tolulope M. Ajayi and colleagues demonstrates how both STM and X-rays can be combined in order to characterize singular atoms.

Proprietary

=> ↺ Business Insider ☛ A Microsoft worker who successfully unionized sees a ‘wave of labor organizing that will take over the country.’

• That’s according to Skylar Hinnant, a senior QA tester at Microsoft’s ZeniMax, who supported a successful union campaign at the gaming unit of the software giant.

=> ↺ International Business Times ☛ 2023-06-07 [Older] British Cybersecurity Agency urges vigilance as major companies fall victim to software hack

=> ↺ Silicon Angle ☛ Twitter reportedly refusing to pay Google Cloud bills

• The report comes from Platformer, which said today that Twitter recently refused to pay Google Cloud ahead of its June 30 cloud contract renewal data. Back in 2018, Twitter signed a $1 billion multiyear contract to host some of its services on Google Cloud, but is now said to be rushing to move those services back onto its own, on-premises data center infrastructure before the contract expires.

• However, Platformer says the effort is running behind schedule, and could lead to some of its moderation tools, such as Smyte, which Twitter acquired in 2018, going offline.

=> ↺ ABC ☛ Russian [crackers] claim responsibility for theft of data from Australian bond broker FIIG

• Russian cybercriminal group AlphV, also known as BlackCat, has claimed responsibility for the attack, posting to the dark web what appears to be evidence of drivers licences, passports and reports stolen from the broker.

Security

=> ↺ Vox ☛ 2023-06-08 [Older] How a carmaker’s mistake created the ultimate internet challenge

=> ↺ CISA ☛ 2023-06-08 [Older] VMware Releases Security Update for Aria Operations for Networks

=> ↺ CISA ☛ 2023-06-08 [Older] VMware Releases Security Update for Aria Operations for Networks

=> ↺ CISA ☛ 2023-06-08 [Older] CISA Releases Two Industrial Control Systems Advisories

=> ↺ CISA ☛ 2023-06-08 [Older] Atlas Copco Power Focus 6000

=> ↺ CISA ☛ 2023-06-08 [Older] ​Sensormatic Electronics Illustra Pro Gen 4

=> ↺ CISA ☛ 2023-06-07 [Older] CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

=> ↺ CISA ☛ 2023-06-07 [Older] CISA and FBI Release #StopRansomware: CL0P Ransomware Gang Exploits MOVEit Vulnerability

=> ↺ CISA ☛ 2023-06-06 [Older] CISA and Partners Release Joint Guide to Securing Remote Access Software

=> ↺ CISA ☛ 2023-06-06 [Older] CISA Releases Two Industrial Control Systems Advisories

=> ↺ CISA ☛ 2023-06-06 [Older] Delta Electronics CNCSoft-B DOPSoft

=> ↺ CISA ☛ 2023-06-06 [Older] Mitsubishi Electric MELSEC iQ-R Series/iQ-F Series

=> ↺ CISA ☛ 2023-06-05 [Older] CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

=> ↺ Computer Weekly ☛ Bishop Fox’s Vinnie Liu talks offensive security skills

• There is growing demand for offensive security testing, but it needs a multi-layered skillset that can be hard to quantify. Bishop Fox’s CEO and co-founder explains why and some potential mitigation strategies

=> ↺ Data Breaches ☛ Singapore regulator decision reminds entities of duty to monitor vendors

• On May 11, the Singapore Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) issued a decision involving Kingsforce Management Services Pte Ltd.

• On January 31, 2022, the firm had notified the PDPC that on or about December 27, 2021, data from its jobseeker database had been seen for sale on RAIDForums. According to the decision released by the PDPC, that database held approximately 54,900 jobseeker datasets, comprising name, address, email address, telephone number, date of birth, job qualifications, last and expected salary, highest qualification, and other data related to job searches.

• Outdated website coding technology, with critical vulnerabilities, was determined by external investigators to be the cause of the Incident.

=> ↺ Two arrested following warrants as part of cyber investigation

• Two people have been arrested in connection with an investigation into cyber offences following warrants executed yesterday (8/6).

• A 28-year-old man and a 23-year-old woman, both from Camarthenshire, were arrested after South East Regional Organised Crime Unit (SEROCU) officers carried out warrants at addresses in Bletchley, Buckinghamshire and Newcastle Emlyn, Wales.

=> ↺ Bleeping Computer ☛ Ukrainian hackers take down service provider for Russian banks

• A group of Ukrainian hackers known as the Cyber.Anarchy.Squad claimed an attack that took down Russian telecom provider Infotel JSC on Thursday evening.

• Among other things, Moscow-based Infotel provides connectivity services between the Russian Central Bank and other Russian banks, online stores, and credit institutions.

Defence/Aggression

=> ↺ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-06-08 [Older] No, Arms Dealers Don’t Count as “Environmentally and Socially Responsible” Investments

=> ↺ The Conversation ☛ 2023-06-09 [Older] The microchip industry would implode if China invaded Taiwan, and it would affect everyone

=> ↺ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-06-09 [Older] How to Blow up a Pipeline: An Interview with Director Daniel Goldhaber

=> ↺ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-06-06 [Older] South Korea hopes to win UN Security Council seat

=> ↺ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-06-05 [Older] EU eyes greater Asia security role amid China tensions

=> ↺ International Business Times ☛ 2023-06-05 [Older] British ministers attend IISS Shangri-La Dialogue to promote security in the Indo-Pacific

=> ↺ Gannett ☛ People with Nazi flags, signs supporting Florida Gov. DeSantis gathered outside Disney World

• Multiple people waved red and black flags with swastikas, and at least one person held a poster of DeSantis, according to photos and videos circulating on social media and obtained by USA Today.

=> ↺ The Straits Times ☛ North Korea’s Kim vows to ‘hold hands’ with Putin for strategic cooperation

• Kim made the pledge in a message to Putin marking Russia’s National Day.

=> ↺ teleSUR ☛ UN Chief Condemns Attack on Peacekeepers in Mali

• “…attacks targeting United Nations peacekeepers may constitute war crimes under international law…”

War in Ukraine

=> ↺ Scheerpost ☛ J4S: WaPo Nord Stream, Ukraine and Nuclear War (w/ Ray McGovern)

• Joining co-hosts Max Jones and Diego Ramos this week is Ray McGovern.

=> ↺ Meduza ☛ Two drones crash in Russia’s Kaluga region — Meduza

• On June 11, two drones crashed in Russia’s Kaluga region, reported the region’s governor Vladislav Shapsha.

=> ↺ Meduza ☛ Ukrainian military reports liberating village of Blahodatne in Donetsk region — Meduza

• The village of Blahodatne in the Donetsk region has been liberated by the 68th Separate Jaeger Brigade “Oleksa Dovbush” and other units of Ukraine’s Armed Forces.

=> ↺ Meduza ☛ Explosion reported on railway tracks in Crimea — Meduza

• In Crimea’s Kirovske region, railway traffic was suspended after damage to the railway tracks, reported Sergey Aksyonov, the Kremlin-appointed governor of annexed Crimea. According to him, there were no casualties.

=> ↺ Meduza ☛ Catastrophe in Kherson Ukraine’s rescue operations and the aftermath of the Kakhovka dam disaster. In photos. — Meduza

• Since the Kakhovka dam collapsed on June 6, Ukraine has been working to rescue residents from flooded parts of Ukraine’s Kherson and Mykolaiv regions. More than 70 settlements and thousands of homes are estimated to be located downstream from the Kakhovka HPP. Thousands of local residents have already been evacuated. According to reports by both the Ukrainian authorities and the Russian occupation authorities, at least 13 people have died in the flooding. Volunteers who have evacuated residents from Russian-occupied territory estimate that the number of dead is actually much higher. The dam breach has also caused an ecological catastrophe, which could lead to (or may have already led to) a mass death of animals.

=> ↺ Meduza ☛ Russia places flooded city of Hola Prystan under quarantine — Meduza

• Russian forces have decided to place the flooded city of Hola Prystan under quarantine, Ukrainian volunteers told Meduza. The city is located in the part of the Kherson region controlled by Russia.

=> ↺ Meduza ☛ Russian forces attack evacuation boat in Kherson, killing three and injuring at least 20 — Meduza

• The Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak said that the Russian military fired at a boat evacuating civilians from the Russian-controlled left bank of the Dnipro River in the Kherson region. According to Yermak, the civilians were able to reach the city of Kherson, which is controlled by Ukrainian forces.

=> ↺ YLE ☛ Finland, Nato allies monitor Russian air activity in the Finnish Gulf

• Several Russian planes flew over the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland this week, according to the UK’s Royal Air Force (RAF).

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ U.S. Citizen Detained In Moscow On Drug Charges

• A Moscow court has detained a U.S. citizen on charges of drug trafficking, Russian media reported.

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ Wagner Founder Rebuffs Order Requiring Contract With Russia’s Defense Ministry

• Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the founder of the private military force, said he would not comply with an order that would require it to sign a formal contract with Russia’s defense ministry by July 1.

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ A U.S. Citizen Has Been Arrested in Russia, State Department Says

• The man, Michael Travis Leake, has been accused of drug trafficking, according to Russian state media.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Pakistan Receives First Ever Russian Crude Oil As Moscow Seeks New Energy Markets

• Pakistan has received its first ever cargo of Russian crude oil as Moscow seeks out new markets in Asia amid Western sanctions.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ NATO Begins Unprecedented Air Drill In ‘Show Of Strength’

• NATO will begin the largest air-force-deployment exercise in Europe in the alliance’s history on June 12 in a display of unity toward partners and potential threats such as Russia.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Pakistan PM Says First Discounted Russian Crude-Oil Cargo Arrives In Karachi

• Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif says the first cargo of discounted Russian crude oil arranged under a new deal struck between Islamabad and Moscow has arrived in Karachi.

=> ↺ NYPost ☛ German Shepherd wounded on front lines in Ukraine gets new start with Hungarian police

• A German Shepherd who was severely wounded during a rocket attack on the front lines in Ukraine is starting a new life working with a Hungarian police department.

=> ↺ Atlantic Council ☛ Russia’s failing Ukraine invasion is exposing Putin’s many weaknesses

• Vladimir Putin’s disastrous invasion of Ukraine is exposing all of his personal weaknesses as a ruler and casting an unforgiving light on the extensive damage he has done to Russia, writes Anders Åslund.

=> ↺ Atlantic Council ☛ Ukraine’s counteroffensive will likely create new reintegration challenges

• If Ukraine’s summer counteroffensive is successful, Kyiv will be faced with the significant challenge of reintegrating communities that have lived under Russian occupation for extended periods, writes Lesia Dubenko.

=> ↺ France24 ☛ 🔴 Live: NATO to begin largest-ever European air drill in ‘show of strength’

• NATO will launch its largest-ever aerial drill in Europe on Monday, coordinated by Germany, in a show of unity from the military alliance against potential threats – notably from Russia. Ukraine said on Sunday it had made territorial advances on three villages in its southeast, marking the first liberated settlements since its military launched a counteroffensive this past week. Follow our live blog for the latest updates on the war in Ukraine. All times are Paris time (GMT+2).

=> ↺ France24 ☛ Why the Red Cross’ crisis is causing aid groups to rethink their financing

• The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) last month announced it would lay off nearly 10 percent of its global staff and roll back dozens of its operations across the world. Although the ICRC’s crisis can partly be blamed on the war in Ukraine and resulting inflation, it also reflects a much more worrying problem plaguing the world’s humanitarian aid groups: with the world more in need of humanitarian action than ever before, donations are failing to keep up with demand.

=> ↺ JURIST ☛ UN officials: Ukraine dam destruction severely worsens humanitarian crisis

• The United Nations secretary general for humanitarian affairs said in a series of UN reports on Friday that Ukraine’s humanitarian crisis has been made severely worse by the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant’s destruction.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Ukraine Says It Retook Two Villages As Counteroffensive Gathers Steam

• Ukrainian forces claim to have retaken two villages in the Donetsk region as a days-old counteroffensive to push Russian forces out of the country gathers steam.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Wagner Chief Refuses To Obey Decree In Latest Spat With Russian Defense Minister

• Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the notorious Wagner mercenary group, said he will not obey a new Russian Defense Ministry decree obliging all volunteer formations to sign a contract directly with the ministry in his latest spat with the nation’s military leadership.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Russian Tourists Avoid Crimea Once Again As War Takes Toll On Local Economy

• Russian tourists are expected to skip Crimea for the second year in a row as Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine takes its toll on the Black Sea peninsula’s economy.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ France Warns Iran On Drone Deliveries To Russia

• French President Emmanuel Macron warned Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi on June 10 about the consequences of delivering drones to Russia,

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ Ukraine Claims First Gains, if Slight, in Counteroffensive

• Three small settlements in the eastern region of Donetsk have been taken back from Russian occupiers, Ukrainian officials say.

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ Ukraine Dam Destruction Threatens Those Upstream, Too

• A disaster unfolds in slow motion after an explosion destroyed the dam at the Kakhovka Reservoir, emptying its waters and threatening livelihoods and crucial industries.

=> ↺ JURIST ☛ Iceland suspends Moscow embassy and requests Russia limit Reykjavik embassy

• The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iceland announced on Friday that it will suspend operations of its embassy in Moscow starting August 1, 2023.

=> ↺ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-06-09 [Older] Ukraine updates: Zelenskyy calls for Russia to be held accountable

=> ↺ Engadget ☛ 2023-06-09 [Older] DOJ charges Russian nationals with laundering bitcoin in 2011 Mt. Gox hack

=> ↺ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-06-03 [Older] Russian wineries maintain production despite EU sanctions

=> ↺ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-06-04 [Older] Sanctions against Russia like a “tiger without fangs”

=> ↺ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-06-05 [Older] Ukraine updates: Russia says attack in Donetsk thwarted

=> ↺ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-06-05 [Older] Russian TV and radio stations hacked with fake Putin message

=> ↺ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-06-05 [Older] Pistorius: Russian arms for India not in German interests

=> ↺ CNN ☛ 2023-06-05 [Older] Russian authorities detain suspect over St. Petersburg cafe blast

=> ↺ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-06-05 [Older] The China-Central Asia Summit Downsizes Russian Role in the Region

=> ↺ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-06-06 [Older] South Korea scrambles jets after Russia, China incursion

=> ↺ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-06-06 [Older] Judges slam Russia over Navalny poisoning probe failings

=> ↺ Vox ☛ 2023-06-07 [Older] What to know about the major dam destruction in Ukraine

=> ↺ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-06-07 [Older] Cologne court fines pro-Russia Ukrainian in Germany

=> ↺ HRW ☛ 2023-06-07 [Older] Top Russian Human Rights Defender on Trial

=> ↺ CBC ☛ 2023-06-09 [Older] Putin claims Russia is heading off Ukraine’s counteroffensive, but little evidence to show advance is failing

=> ↺ CNN ☛ 2023-06-07 [Older] Russian authorities detain suspect over St. Petersburg cafe blast

=> ↺ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-06-07 [Older] How Russia’s War in Ukraine Has Created A War on Nature and Killed Environmental Policy Reforms

=> ↺ Vox ☛ 2023-06-08 [Older] Why the Ukraine dam destruction is a massive disaster — now and in the future

=> ↺ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-06-08 [Older] Polish militants join armored assaults into Russian Territory

=> ↺ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-06-08 [Older] Conflict, Migration and Demography in Russia and Its Border Regions

=> ↺ Truthdig ☛ 2023-06-08 [Older] Fighting the Patriarchy in Mother Russia

=> ↺ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-06-09 [Older] Cuba Counts On Russia’s Economic Support

=> ↺ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-06-09 [Older] Saudi-Russian concord at OPEC+

=> ↺ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-06-09 [Older] South Africa Values its Relations with Russia and BRICS

=> ↺ Vox ☛ 2023-06-10 [Older] A guide to understanding the Ukrainian counteroffensive

=> ↺ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-06-10 [Older] Kherson flooded: Rescues continue under Russian fire

=> ↺ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-06-10 [Older] Why the Rest of the World Has Not Aligned with the West Against Russia

=> ↺ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-06-10 [Older] Why the Rest of the World Has Not Aligned with the West Against Russia

=> ↺ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-06-10 [Older] Kherson flooded: Rescues continue under Russian fire

=> ↺ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-06-11 [Older] Russia-Africa Cooperation Still Faces Policy Approach and Financing Challenges

=> ↺ CPJ ☛ 2023-06-09 [Older] Ukraine journalists say opaque accreditation process hampers war coverage

=> ↺ NL Times ☛ 2023-06-11 [Older] Hundreds of Ukrainian refugees arrive in the Netherlands per week, but influx levels off

=> ↺ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-06-10 [Older] Kakhovka Dam breach: The partners assigned Ukraine the role of a “kamikaze” country

=> ↺ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-06-10 [Older] White House anxiously watches Ukraine’s counteroffensive -Biden’s reputation at stake

=> ↺ NL Times ☛ 2023-06-10 [Older] Amsterdam museum must return Crimean art treasures to Ukraine, Supreme Court rules

=> ↺ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-06-09 [Older] How US weapons firms influence the Ukraine debate

=> ↺ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-06-09 [Older] Russo-Ukrainian War and the Indigenous Arctic Population’s Human Security

=> ↺ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-06-09 [Older] A War Long Wanted: Diplomatic Malpractice in Ukraine

=> ↺ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-06-09 [Older] Annals of the Ukraine War: Year Two

=> ↺ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-06-09 [Older] Volodia Artiukh on the Ukraine War

=> ↺ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-06-09 [Older] Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia power plant is not at risk for now

=> ↺ International Business Times ☛ 2023-06-09 [Older] Ukraine dam collapse may poison Black Sea, affect the world, claims Zelenskiy

=> ↺ The Local SE ☛ 2023-06-09 [Older] Ukrainian soldiers trained at secret locations in Sweden

Transparency/Investigative Reporting

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ What Donald Trump and Reality Winner Have in Common

• Perhaps the most famous defendant sent to prison by federal prosecutors with violating the Espionage Act while Mr. Trump was president is Reality Winner, an Air Force veteran who was working for a military contractor when, not long after Mr. Trump became president, she printed out a single classified document, took it home and mailed it to the news website The Intercept. The report, which was classified top secret, stated that Russian hackers had gained access to voter registration rolls during the 2016 election. She was charged by federal prosecutors with a violation of the Espionage Act and, after pleading guilty to a single count of unauthorized transmission of national defense information, was sentenced to 63 months in prison.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ False Info, Faked Documents Disqualify A Chinese Company From Building A Tunnel In Bosnia

• A Chinese company was disqualified from participating in a major infrastructure project in Bosnia-Herzegovina after it submitted false documents and incorrect information in its bid to build a key tunnel in the country’s mountainous south.

• Autoceste — the state highway company that vetted contracts for the project — told RFE/RL’s Balkan Service that the Gezhouba Group submitted incorrect and doctored documents in its offer to construct the 11-kilometer Prenj tunnel, a crucial part in the construction of a new highway across the Balkan country of some 3.48 million people.

Environment

=> ↺ Foreign Policy ☛ Ukrainians Are Accusing Russia of Ecocide. What Does That Mean?

• “Brutal ecocide,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky tweeted on Tuesday in reference to the explosion, also calling it an act of “Russian aggression,” a “war crime,” and “an act of terrorism.” Ukraine’s prosecutor’s office has launched an ecocide probe into the effects of the dam’s destruction, and climate activist Greta Thunberg is using the same term to describe the event. This is not the first time Ukrainians have used the term to describe Russian actions: Ecocide gained traction earlier this year when Ukraine hosted a panel on “prosecuting environmental war crimes” at the United for Justice conference in March.

=> ↺ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-06-08 [Older] New York air pollution: How to protect yourself from smoke

=> ↺ Engadget ☛ 2023-06-07 [Older] How to build a box fan air filter to escape the Canada wildfire smoke

=> ↺ Engadget ☛ 2023-06-07 [Older] How to understand the Air Quality Index

=> ↺ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-06-11 [Older] Germany records 580 offenses committed by climate activist group

=> ↺ The Age AU ☛ 2023-06-11 [Older] Greta Thunberg’s school climate strikes come to an end after 251 weeks

=> ↺ Scheerpost ☛ Chris Hedges: Requiem for Our Species

• The effects of the climate crisis intrude with increasing regularity into our lives and yet we do not act. We are as paralyzed as past civilizations were when facing catastrophic destruction.

Energy/Transportation

=> ↺ Quartz ☛ [Cryptocurrency]‘s insecurity complex

• This past week, the SEC filed lawsuits against Binance and Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world by volume. In considerable part, the SEC’s actions against Coinbase hinge what on cryptocurrencies actually are. Gensler has frequently said that the vast majority of cryptocurrencies are, in fact, unregulated securities that his agency should have authority over. Accordingly, the SEC has accused Binance and Coinbase of operating illegally as unregistered brokers, exchanges, and clearinghouses for securities.

Wildlife/Nature

=> ↺ The Conversation ☛ 2023-06-08 [Older] Crocodile’s ‘virgin birth’ is a first for science’s history books

=> ↺ CBC ☛ 2023-06-11 [Older] Children ate cassava flour, berries during 40 days in Amazon jungle after plane crash

=> ↺ The Telegraph UK ☛ ‘I made a pilgrimage to see Britain’s greatest trees – all 2,700 of them’

• Martin Hügi is a man on a pilgrimage – he is walking from Land’s End to John O’Groats, visiting (at least) 2,700 trees on the Ancient Tree Inventory (ATI) – on the way. He’s just turned 50 and the somewhat indirect route he is taking – which spans 2,077 miles – took a year to plan.

• Over the past 10,000 years the world has lost half of its forest, and most of that went in the previous century. The UK is relatively rich in ancient trees, but, says Hügi, we take them for granted and they are not well enough protected, if at all.

Finance

=> ↺ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-06-08 [Older] Former JPMorgan Executive Staley Rejects Bank’s Jeffrey Epstein Accusations

=> ↺ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-06-09 [Older] Turkey’s Erdogan appoints Wall Street veteran to head central bank

=> ↺ Michael West Media ☛ Housing affordability, access, top concerns amid crisis

• Finding adequate housing is one of the top challenges for disadvantaged Australians as concerns about affordability highlight a backward trend for the nation’s most disadvantaged.

• Getting access to shelter with basic utilities has become harder in most states and territories except Victoria, with Tasmania, Queensland and South Australia ranking lowest on the latest social progress index in terms of shelter.

AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

=> ↺ Green Party UK ☛ 2023-06-09 [Older] Greens call for tighter windfall tax on oil and gas companies

=> ↺ Green Party UK ☛ 2023-06-08 [Older] Caroline Lucas will not re-stand in next General Election – Green Party statement

=> ↺ ANF News ☛ 2023-06-10 [Older] Influence of intelligence in Turkey’s foreign policy

=> ↺ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-06-07 [Older] View Turkey’s Life Following the 2023 Elections

=> ↺ Hindustan Times ☛ Who is Alexander Soros? George Soros hands over $25 billion empire to his ‘more political’ son

• Billionaire investor and liberal donor George Soros has handed over his multi-billion-dollar foundation to his son, Alexander Soros, who will now run his father’s philanthropic enterprise. Back in 1992, the now 92-year-old financier notably made $1 billion after betting against the British pound and “breaking the Bank of England.” He had previously claimed he does not wish to hand over his Open Society Foundations (OSF) to any of his five children.

=> ↺ Michael West Media ☛ George Soros cedes control of empire to a younger son

• Billionaire investor turned philanthropist George Soros is reportedly ceding control of his empire to a younger son, Alexander Soros.

• Soros’ $US25 billion ($A37 billion) in business holdings include his nonprofit Open Society Foundations, which is active in more than 120 countries.

=> ↺ Axios ☛ Trump’s survive-the-unsurvivable plan

• Never in the history of American politics has one man survived and even thrived off more terrible news than Donald Trump.

• Why it matters: The former president has racked up impeachments, investigations, and indictments at a pace never seen in America. Yet he persists — and often comes out stronger.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Montenegro’s Europe Now Movement Wins Snap Vote, According To Preliminary Results

• Montenegro’s Europe Now Movement (PES) won 25.7 percent of votes in a snap election on June 11, according to preliminary results communicated by the Center for Monitoring and Research (CEMI) pollster on the basis of a projection of results from a sample of polling stations.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Montenegro’s Europe Now Movement Expected To Win Snap Vote, Polling Shows

• Montenegro’s Europe Now Movement (PES) won 25.5 percent of votes in a snap election on June 11, the Center for Monitoring and Research (CEMI) pollster said on the basis of a projection of results from a sample of polling stations.

Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

=> ↺ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-06-07 [Older] Ex-ByteDance Exec Claims TikTok Gave Communist Party ‘God User’ Status

=> ↺ Engadget ☛ 2023-06-07 [Older] NYC sues Hyundai for negligence in wake of TikTok car thefts

=> ↺ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-06-06 [Older] EU Demands Facebook, TikTok, and Google Start Labeling AI Content to Fight Deepfakes

=> ↺ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-06-06 [Older] YouTube ‘Reckless’ to Stop Policing False Claims on Election Fraud -Biden Campaign

=> ↺ Meta Plans Big For AI But Employees’ Confidence In Mark Zuckerberg’s Leadership Is Declining: Survey

• An internal survey conducted by the Meta revealed that only 26 per cent of employees who responded have faith in the leadership.

=> ↺ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-06-09 [Older] Philly Cops Fired Over Offensive Facebook Posts Can Pursue First Amendment Claim, Court Rules

=> ↺ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-06-06 [Older] Facebook’s Supreme Court Receives an Appeal Every 24 Seconds

=> ↺ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-06-06 [Older] Watch Mark Get Zucked to the Mat in Recent Jiu-Jitsu Match

=> ↺ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-06-06 [Older] Recalled Pillows Linked to 10 Infant Deaths Still Being Sold on Facebook Marketplace, US Agency Says

=> ↺ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-06-05 [Older] Instagram Bans, Unbans Facebook Critic, and It Won’t Say Why

=> ↺ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-06-05 [Older] Do You Have Video of Mark Zuckerberg Getting Choked Out?

=> ↺ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-06-08 [Older] Los Angeles County DA’s Office Quits Twitter Due to Barrage of ‘Vicious’ Homophobic Attacks

=> ↺ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-06-05 [Older] Linda Yaccarino Takes Over Hot Mess Twitter as Ad Revenue Plunges

=> ↺ CBC ☛ 2023-06-09 [Older] After oil exec named COP28 president, fake accounts rally to his defence

Censorship/Free Speech

=> ↺ International Business Times ☛ 2023-06-05 [Older] UK Government appoints Director for Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ Their Reports About a Woman’s Death Set Off a Revolt. Iran Put Them on Trial.

• The protests, which lasted for months, have long since fizzled, dispelled by a violent government crackdown that killed at least 573 people, according to human rights groups. But for many of those involved, an official reckoning goes on: The authorities have executed seven protesters, and at least eight more are on death row. At least 95 journalists have been arrested, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

=> ↺ Faculty Focus ☛ The Censored and the Curious: Using Banned Books to Foster Connections and Critical Thinking in Freshmen

• Freshmen often have not yet decided what their major would be, nor should they! Having an opportunity to explore interests without yet being pigeonholed into one discipline can be an important and sometimes life-altering experience. Our class, “Banned Books and School Policy,” related to education, of course, but also touched on sociology, political science, history, English literature, religion, and public policy. This allowed students with varied interests to hear each other interact in a way they might not again get the chance to. When a history major and a religious studies major read the same homework assignment, they bring different perspectives to the reading, and therefore illuminate the subsequent class discussions that benefit from heterogeneous viewpoints.

=> ↺ SCMP ☛ Hot Topics: Hong Kong public libraries are clearing shelves of sensitive books – here’s why some are worried

• The Post checked with 29 stores and found that books about Tiananmen Square crackdown were not available

• Libraries’ action to remove titles that may violate national security law has caused fear among readers and the publishing industry

Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ Newspapers Printed Unabomber’s Manifesto in 1995. It’s Still Fiercely Debated.

• The manifesto provided critical clues to his identity, and six months and two weeks later, the Unabomber — Theodore Kaczynski, who died in a federal prison cell on Saturday — was captured. But to many in the profession, acceding to Mr. Kaczynski’s demands set a terrible precedent, undermining journalistic independence and doing the bidding of law enforcement.

Civil Rights/Policing

=> ↺ Salon ☛ AI and the threat of “human extinction”: What are the tech-bros worried about? It’s not you and me

• What should you make of it? A full dissection of the issue — showing, for example, that such statements distract from the many serious harms that AI companies have already caused — would require more time and space than I have here. For now, it’s worth taking a closer look at what exactly the word “extinction” means, because the sort of extinction that some notable signatories believe we must avoid at all costs isn’t what most people have in mind when they hear the word.

• Understanding this is a two-step process. First, we need to make sense of what’s behind this statement. The short answer concerns a cluster of ideologies that Dr. Timnit Gebru and I have called the “TESCREAL bundle.” The term is admittedly clunky, but the concept couldn’t be more important, because this bundle of overlapping movements and ideologies has become hugely influential among the tech elite. And since society is being shaped in profound ways by the unilateral decisions of these unelected oligarchs, the bundle is thus having a huge impact on the world more generally.

=> ↺ LRT ☛ Estonia may become first Baltic country to legalise same-sex marriage. Interview with president of Estonian parliament

• Estonia may become the first Baltic country to legalise same-sex marriages. According to Lauri Hussar, the newly elected president of the parliament, the changes are the result of a more united country. In an exclusive interview with LRT, Hussar discusses the same-sex legalisation law, the future of digital Estonia, and Russia;s threats to the Baltic states.

Monopolies

Patents

=> ↺ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-06-07 [Older] Sisvel announces standard-essential patent license agreement with Microsoft covering 5G-capable Surface devices: first (known) ‘blue chip’ licensee of new program

=> ↺ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-06-08 [Older] Intellectual Ventures sues Volvo over patents on day of infringement notice, points Western District of Texas to overlap with General Motors litigation [Ed: Microsoft shill (Florian) on Microsoft’s troll Intellectual Ventures]

=> ↺ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-06-08 [Older] Intellectual Ventures sues Volvo over patents on day of infringement notice, points Western District of Texas to overlap with General Motors litigation [Ed: Microsoft shill (Florian) on Microsoft’s troll Intellectual Ventures]

=> ↺ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-06-08 [Older] Intellectual Ventures sues Volvo over patents on day of infringement notice, points Western District of Texas to overlap with General Motors litigation [Ed: Microsoft shill (Florian) on Microsoft’s troll Intellectual Ventures]

=> ↺ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-06-07 [Older] Nokia obtained patent injunctions against 12 German resellers of OPPO, OnePlus devices: Mannheim Regional Court [Ed: Microsoft shill (Florian) again Microsoft’s troll/patent proxy Nokia]

=> ↺ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-06-07 [Older] Nokia obtained patent injunctions against 12 German resellers of OPPO, OnePlus devices: Mannheim Regional Court [Ed: Microsoft shill (Florian) again Microsoft’s troll/patent proxy Nokia]

=> ↺ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-06-07 [Older] Nokia obtained patent injunctions against 12 German resellers of OPPO, OnePlus devices: Mannheim Regional Court [Ed: Microsoft shill (Florian) again Microsoft’s troll/patent proxy Nokia]

=> ↺ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-06-06 [Older] Smartphone maker vivo exits German market after Nokia starts enforcement of standard-essential patent injunction [Ed: Legacy of Microsoft proxies]

=> ↺ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-06-04 [Older] EU-only SEP register can’t serve as basis for global FRAND determinations: proposed EU regulation on standard-essential patents suffers from incongruent provisions [Ed: More Microsoft lobbying from him]

=> ↺ 2023-06-11 [Older] USPTO Program on Relationship between IP and Climate Change Innovation [Ed: Grotesque greenwashing of monopolies]

=> ↺ 2023-06-11 [Older] USPTO WE Event on Addressing Global Challenges

=> ↺ 2023-06-11 [Older] Webinar on Attracting and Winning New Clients [Ed: Monopoly front groups shilling their "services" ]

Trademarks

=> ↺ IP Kat ☛ 2023-06-05 [Older] Shape trade marks: Italian Supreme Court confirms that Tic Tac box shape is a yes

Copyrights

=> ↺ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Plagiarism Engine: Google’s Content-Swiping AI Could Break the Internet

• Even worse, the answers in Google’s SGE boxes are frequently plagiarized, often word-for-word, from the related links. Depending on what you search for, you may find a paragraph taken from just one source or get a whole bunch of sentences and factoids from different articles mashed together into a plagiarism stew.

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