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GNU/Linux

=> ↺ Linux Links ☛ Linux Around The World: Columbia

• We cover user groups that are running in Columbia. This article forms part of our Linux Around The World series.

Server

=> ↺ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ Choice Happens: Why Mixed Platform IT Environments Foster Resilience and Freedom of Choice

• In the fast-paced and ever-evolving world of technology, businesses face a crucial decision – whether to adopt a single-platform IT strategy or embrace the potential benefits of mixed platform environments.

Audiocasts/Shows

=> ↺ Origin Of Slackware: Oldest Surviving Linux Distro

• Recently Slackware the oldest surviving Linux distro turned 30 years old so I thought what better time to look back and the origin of this legendary distro and see how we got here.

Instructionals/Technical

=> ↺ ID Root ☛ How To Install Stremio on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

• In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Stremio on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Stremio, a feature-rich media streaming application, has gained immense popularity for its extensive collection of movies, TV shows, series, and channels. With Stremio’s extensive library and user-friendly interface, you can enjoy a seamless entertainment experience.

=> ↺ ID Root ☛ How To Install Xfce Desktop on Debian 12

• In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Xfce Desktop on Debian 12. In the vast landscape of Linux desktop environments, XFCE stands out as a reliable, lightweight, and customizable option. Debian 12, renowned for its stability and performance, makes an ideal host for XFCE.

=> ↺ Linux Capable ☛ How to Install VSCodium on Pop!_OS

• In the realm of integrated development environments (IDEs), VSCodium offers a compelling alternative to Visual Studio Code (VS Code). While both IDEs seem similar, they diverge on key aspects that could impact a developer’s choice. Primarily, VSCodium is an open-source version of VS Code that removes telemetry and tracking, providing a privacy-focused alternative.

=> ↺ Jussi Pakkanen ☛ Jussi Pakkanen: Creating a PDF/X-3 document with CapyPDF

• The original motivation for creating CapyPDF was understanding how fully color managed and print-ready PDF files are actually put together. A reasonable measure of this would be being able to generate fully spec conforming PDF/X-3 files. Most of the building blocks were already there so this was mostly a question of exposing all that in Python and adding the missing bits.

=> ↺ Linux Capable ☛ How to Install Budgie Desktop on Fedora 38/37/36 Linux

• The Budgie Desktop Environment has made significant strides in the realm of desktop interfaces, gaining popularity for its blend of efficiency, intuitiveness, and elegant design. Compatible with a variety of operating systems, Budgie presents a modern, yet straightforward computing approach.

=> ↺ Linux Capable ☛ How to Install Nvidia Drivers on AlmaLinux 9/8

• Nvidia drivers represent the forefront of graphics processing technology, providing robust and advanced features that ensure optimum performance for various applications, from video gaming and editing to scientific computing and AI research.

=> ↺ OSNote ☛ How to Setup Zabbix and integrate it to Grafana

• Zabbix is an open-source monitoring tool for network services, hardware, servers, and applications. Designed to track and monitor the status of your system and servers. Zabbix supports many database systems – including MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and IBM DB2  – to store data. Zabbix backend is written in C, and the frontend is written in PHP.

=> ↺ Own HowTo ☛ How to install Virtualbox on Arch Linux

• Virtualbox can be installed on Arch Linux via pacman, which is the default package manager for Arch Linux, and via yay, which is an AUR helper that you can use to download packages from the AUR repository.

=> ↺ Java Installation on Linux with Hands-on Examples

• Java is a prominent high-level programming language like C/C++, that can be used in various domains, such as web development, Android app development, the internet of things (IoT), cloud-based applications, game development, and more.

=> ↺ OSTechNix ☛ How To Restrict Su Command To Authorized Users In Linux

• Learn how to restrict the use of the su command to only authorized users. This will help to protect your system from unauthorized access.

=> ↺ TecAdmin ☛ Practical examples of “expr” command in Linux

• Bash is a powerful shell scripting language that provides a wide range of commands for various operations. One of the most important commands in Bash is the “expr” command, which is used for performing basic arithmetic operations and string manipulation.

=> ↺ University of Toronto ☛ When we take things out of service, I should write up how they worked

• I’ve come to think that might be a mistake, since there have been more than a one or two times when we’ve wanted to look back to see how we did something in the past. Now, I think that when we take some significant system out of service, we should strongly consider doing an an ‘end of service how it worked’ writeup. We should do this right after the system goes out of service, while we still vividly remember all of the details of how it worked, but at the same time it’s not going to change (because it’s out of service, which is the drawback of writing ‘how it works’ documentation while something is in service (ask me how I know)).

=> ↺ HowTo Forge ☛ How to Install OpenLDAP Server on AlmaLinux 9

• OpenLDAP is a software implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). OpenLDAP is free and open-source software with its BSD-style license called OpenLDAP Public License. Its command-line drive LDAP software is available on most Linux distributions such as CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE, and many more.

=> ↺ 37signals LLC ☛ Don’t lose your unreasonable sense of urgency

• So don’t give up. Every company needs to have someone asking why we can’t launch next Monday instead of next month. Willing to accept and underwrite the risks needed to make it happen. And with a stomach for occasionally being wrong, eating the loss, but keep playing.

=> ↺ Jim Nielsen ☛ Domain Sins of My Youth

• The point is, many of my side projects could’ve been a subdomain of my personal domain, e.g. instead of:

• sideprojet.com

• I could’ve done:

• sideproject.jim-nielsen.com

• Sure, it’s not as cool as the top-level domain, but it’s way cheaper over time.

• This is a lesson I wish I knew 15 years ago.

=> ↺ [Repeat] Ruben Schade ☛ FPS and resolutions we’re used to

• Fast-forward to 2023, and I love 60 FPS (or 59.94, or whatever it is). You get so much more information and clarity, especially from streamers who are typing on a console or playing a game. It makes intuitive sense in that context, given we’re used to 60+ FPS on our monitors. But I’ll even watch live action at that framerate and appreciate the extra level of detail.

=> ↺ RIPE ☛ RIS Beaconing – Shining a Light on BGP Dynamics

• RIS is a widely used public route collector project that provides a better view of Internet routing. One thing that makes RIS unique is that it inserts observable patterns of activity into BGP through a process called beaconing. We take a look at RIS beacons and ask how to make space for more.

=> ↺ SANS ☛ Shodan’s API For The (Recon) Win!

• Ever been on a call with a client, and had that “I need a full set of nmap results for that host in 5 seconds” moment? Like when you’re trying to scope out the size of a project (maybe a pentest project) and if you just had the list of open ports you’d have an answer other than “I’ll call you back”, because nmap will take 10 minutes?

• Well Shodan has you covered, but even that takes a login. Shodan has you even better covered with their API! First, get your API key, you’ll find it in your account page.

WINE or Emulation

=> ↺ WINE Project (Official) ☛ WineHQ – Wine Announcement – The Wine development release 8.13 is now available.

=> ↺ WINE Project (Official) ☛ The future of WineConf

• Folks,

• As you may have noticed, we haven’t been making any plans for WineConf this year. Jeremy has been busy preparing his retirement, and I haven’t been pushing it either, mostly because I’m not convinced that we want to continue the traditional WineConf model.

• Even though we skipped a few years because of the pandemic, attendance at last year’s WineConf wasn’t great. We also suggested meeting at FOSDEM in February, like we did in previous years, but essentially no one showed up.

• So I’m wondering whether there is still enough interest for a traditional WineConf, or whether we should try a different approach, to maybe capture some of the recent excitement around gaming and downstream uses of Wine in general.

• I’d like to hear your thoughts. Should we do a Proton conference, or join some kind of gaming-related event? Do people even want to travel to conferences anymore? What kind of event would you be interested in, particularly those of you who don’t show up to the traditional WineConf?

Games

=> ↺ GamingOnLinux ☛ Valve releases Proton 8.0-3 for Linux and Steam Deck

• Proton 8.0-3 is out now, bringing with it improved compatibility for Windows games on Linux desktop and Steam Deck. Here’s all you need to know.

=> ↺ GamingOnLinux ☛ ΔV: Rings of Saturn is a game for real space nerds – out now

• ΔV: Rings of Saturn from developer Kodera Software is a physics-based hard-science mining sim, and the 1.0 release is out now. It comes with full Native Linux support and it runs quite well on Steam Deck too.

=> ↺ GamingOnLinux ☛ JSAUX launch their Steam Deck RGB backplate and RGB Docking Station

• Love a bit of colour in your gaming life? JSAUX have two new releases ready to order today with the RGB Docking Station and the RGB transparent backplate for Steam Deck.

=> ↺ GamingOnLinux ☛ FACEMINER is a retro dystopian narrative-driven A.I. management sim

• Ready to go back to the 90s? Keep an eye on FACEMINER, a simulation game about AI, surveillance and mass biometric data harvesting set in 1999.

=> ↺ GamingOnLinux ☛ Steam Stealth Fest launches July 24th

• Who said that? Did you see something? The Steam Stealth Fest is getting ready to jump out at you on July 24th – so prepare you wallet. 

=> ↺ GamingOnLinux ☛ GE-Proton 8-7 released bringing back AMD FSR support

• The compatibility layer GE-Proton version 8-7 has been released, bringing with it the return of AMD FSR support. This is more useful for desktop Linux (or desktop mode on Steam Deck), since the Steam Deck’s main Gaming Mode has AMD FSR built into the performance options.

=> ↺ GamingOnLinux ☛ Voxel Doom II releasing August 1st

• Ready for more retro action? Voxel Doom II (a mod made with GZDoom) is releasing August 1st, giving you fully 3D voxel-based models for a second helping of Doom. The first one was quite a highlight for the Doom modding community and Voxel Doom II looks like plenty more of the same goodness.

=> ↺ Is Activision Blizzard Preparing To Pull Out Of Esports? – playcrazygame.com/australia

• There are concerns that Activision Blizzard may be preparing for a mass exodus and pull out of the esports world. These fears come after a wave of layoffs and targeted activity that suggests the shutdown of certain esports leagues the company operates. It appears that around fifty employees have been affected so far, but it is speculated that more layoffs are on the horizon as things potentially continue to ramp down.

Desktop Environments/WMs

K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt

=> ↺ Kdenlive ☛ Kdenlive 23.04.3 released

• Kdenlive 23.04.3 is out with many fixes to recent regressions and usability improvements to the audio mixer levels display and subtitle widget on smaller screens.

=> ↺ Dolphin at Akademy 2023

• I am returning from akademy and I had a great time, meeting new people or people I had already worked with online.

• In particular I was very happy to meet Felix, my fellow dolphin co-maintainer. We get along very well together, this will only make our dolphin work more pleasant and efficient.

Distributions and Operating Systems

BSD

=> ↺ FreeBSD ☛ Top Ten Reasons to Upgrade to FreeBSD 13.2

• Seems like there are two types of people in the world when it comes to upgrading software. The folks who upgrade the minute the new version is released and the folks who keep putting it off until they absolutely have to. Honestly, I probably fall in the latter category but when it comes to FreeBSD, upgrading to the latest release provides you with better security, more features and just generally a smoother experience. The FreeBSD 13.2 release came out in April and for those of you who have not yet upgraded, we created a top ten list of reasons to upgrade today.

Fedora Family / IBM

=> ↺ Red Hat Official ☛ Why should I standardize my operating system?

• “Was it yum?”

• “Maybe it was apt-get.”

• “Oh wait, no… What operating system am I using again?!”

• Sound familiar to anyone? As a systems administrator, supporting Windows, Unix and Linux systems wasn’t uncommon. Not to mention, I would be faced with running Ubuntu, CentOS Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and those weird appliance distros that loosely represented a distribution. Then don’t get me started on the various major versions that would be in production at any one time!

Canonical/Ubuntu Family

=> ↺ ZDNet ☛ Linux Mint 21.2: Your new and improved Linux desktop for the next three years

• This long-term-support version of Linux Mint is a great Linux desktop for both beginners and experts.

Devices/Embedded

=> ↺ Gizmodo ☛ Satellites Are Lagging Years Behind on Cybersecurity

• The research, led by Ruhr University Bochum Ph.D. student Johannes Willbold, discovered multiple vulnerabilities and a lack of simple protections in three research satellites. In general, the researchers say the space domain has lagged behind security research by about ten years. That lack of up-to-date security can carry heavy costs. In theory, the researchers say bad actors could potentially exploit vulnerabilities to seize full control of a satellite and send it crashing into others causing a violent chain reaction of space debris.

=> ↺ Hackaday ☛ Restored Amiga 500 Is Blue – And Glows In The Dark

• Few things are as satisfying to watch as a good retrocomputer restoration project – we’re always happy to see someone bring a rusty old Commodore, Apple or Atari back to life. The goal is typically to get the machine as close to its original state as possible, except for perhaps a few non-intrusive mods like memory upgrades. [Drygol] however, had already done this so many times that he thought it was time to take a different route for once, and apply some creativity to an old Amiga 500 case. Originalists may shudder, but we quite like his funky blue-and-yellow A500 mod.

=> ↺ Hackaday ☛ Sand Drawing Plotter Runs On ESP32

• Humans have always drawn lines in the sand, whether it’s to communicate a plan of attack or to indicate metaphorically a very real boundary. It’s also something we do just for the aesthetic pleasure, and this plotter from [aidenvigue] is great at performing in just that role.

Open Hardware/Modding

=> ↺ SparkFun Electronics ☛ 20 Years of SparkFun, 20 Years of Couch Collecting

• This week we’ve got no new products for you! So, we decided to give you all a casual Friday on the blog and take you around HQ. As you may know, we’re celebrating 20 years of SparkFun this year! Throughout all those years, a collection of couches has accumulated in our HQ, and we wanted to test them all out to see where the best couch in the building is.

• So the Communications Team grabbed our limited edition Elektor Magazines and set out to settle the age old question at SparkFun – which couch is the best couch? We’ll each be rating them in our area of expertise. Come along for the ride!

=> ↺ 51 Raspberry Pi Projects That Teach Robotics and Electronics

• Looking for a fun and interactive way to teach your students about technology and programming? Step into the exciting world of Raspberry Pi projects, where students can learn practical innovations for real-world situations while having a blast!

Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications

=> ↺ Giz China ☛ How to Fix Crashing Apps on Android: A Complete Guide – Gizchina.com

=> ↺ Gizmo China ☛ Xiaomi Pad 6 Review: The Best Value in Android Space

=> ↺ Android Police ☛ Latest Smart Launcher update brings themed icons to any Android phone

=> ↺ WCCF Tech ☛ Project Q Leaked Pictures Show the Handheld Is Running Android

Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

=> ↺ Unicorn Media ☛ Bad News for Open Source: EU Committee Approves the Cyber Resilience Act

• On Wednesday the European Union approved a draft of the Cyber Resilience Act, which is supposed to make software safer. Many open-sourcers, however, think this passage is bad news and claim that, as written, the act would stymie open source development. The good news is that this approval doesn’t make the act law — not yet, anyway.

• What’s happened so far is that the draft legislation has been approved by the EU’s Industry, Research, and Energy Committee (ITRE). From here, the proposal moves into what the EU calls the “trilogue” phase, where it gets discussed with the EU Parliament in advance of a vote.

Web Browsers/Web Servers

Mozilla

=> ↺ Thunderbird ☛ Mozilla Thunderbird: ThunderCast Podcast #3: Behind The Scenes Of Supernova

• Hello Thunderbird family, and welcome back to a long-overdue episode of the ThunderCast! Ryan, Alex, and Jason get together to talk about the new features and improvements in Thunderbird 115 “Supernova.” But they also share WHY those features were developed, and what’s being worked on right now.

• Plus, Ryan shares some breaking news about the future of the Thunderbird Project! It’s a casual, informative, behind-the-scenes chat.

=> ↺ Mozilla ☛ Support.Mozilla.Org: What’s up with SUMO – Q2 2023

• Hi everybody,

• Today is literally my last day before I’m leaving for my maternity leave for the next 3 months. It’s a mixed feeling. I’m excited to stepping up and experience new things in my life, but also nervous at the same time since I’ve never been away from work this long before. I love being in the community with shared values and passion and I’m lucky to do that as part of my job. Many of you have inspired me in many ways and it never failed to reignite my excitement whenever I get bored with my professional routine. I can’t thank you enough for your continues support to Mozilla throughout this whole time and I don’t have any doubts that you’ll be holding on the forth just fine without me since you’ll be in a good hand.

SaaS/Back End/Databases

=> ↺ Buttondown ☛ Queryability and the Sublime Mediocrity of SQL

• Most of the time you won’t be using either model, because you’ll be storing your data in a SQL database and representing authorships as a many-to-many table: [...]

Education

=> ↺ Rlang ☛ Preparing Data for Modeling Using the Recipes R Package workshop

• Join our workshop on Preparing Data for Modeling Using the Recipes R Package, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series!

FSF

=> ↺ FSF ☛ FSF Blogs: Help us get twenty-five more associate members by July 28

• We are rebooting the current member drive with an extension goal to gain twenty-five new members by July 28. For those who join as new members during this time, we have a fancy genuine wood GNU sticker to reward you for supporting the FSF.

=> ↺ LibreBoot ☛ ASUS KGPE-D16, KCMA-D8 and KFSN4-DRE re-added to Libreboot

Programming/Development

=> ↺ CER ☛ Putting a Teaspoon of Programming into Other Subjects (May 2023 Communications of the ACM): About Teaspoon Languages

• In May, my students and I published a paper in Communications of the ACM, “Putting a Teaspoon of Programming into Other Subjects” (see link here) about our work with teaspoon languages.

=> ↺ Jay Little ☛ Tech Team Dead Weight a.k.a. Lutz

• In every single case: The worst part is that everybody on the team knows Lutz is useless yet we are all powerless to do anything about it. Lutz was clearly under performing in their very first month of employment. If I had the power, I’d have fired Lutz after a few months, because I do believe in at least offering somebody a path to redemption before letting them go. That of course would’ve required me to give them a heart-to-heart talk (likely more than one) and basically lay down an ultimatum which I would then have to let play out.

=> ↺ Earthly ☛ Rust Concurrency Patterns for Parallel Programming

• Concurrency gives programs the capability to execute multiple tasks simultaneously, enabling enhanced efficiency and responsiveness. It allows programs to take full advantage of modern hardware with multiple cores and processors.

• In this guide, developers who are new to Rust will learn all about concurrency and how to use it. This article assumes you have basic programming knowledge but are new to Rust and its unique features.

=> ↺ Medevel ☛ Cosmos: Build Your Own Personal Cloud and Self-host App Manager

• Cosmos is a unique self-hosted platform that provides a secure and private environment for running server applications. With built-in privacy features, it provides a secure gateway to your application, guaranteeing the safety of your data and user information.

Python

=> ↺ Medevel ☛ Mastering Data Manipulation with Python: A Comprehensive Guide to Reading and Writing Text, CSV, and JSON Files

• In the ever-expanding world of data-driven decision-making, Python is a powerful tool, providing developers and data enthusiasts with many libraries and functions for manipulating data files.

Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh

=> ↺ University of Toronto ☛ Command hashing in Unix shells is probably no longer worth it

• Once upon a time, Unix computers were slow, system calls were slow, Unix kernels only cached simple things, RAM was small relative to the size of directories, $PATH often contained many directories, and your filesystems were on slow spinning rust. In that environment, 4.2 BSD’s csh(1) introduced a feature where it would maintain an internal map (a ‘hash’) from command names like ‘make’ to the full path it had found for them in your $PATH. rather than search through $PATH each time. This csh feature is command hashing, and it was copied into (some) later shells, including Bash, so that they all cached the file path of commands.

JS

=> ↺ Medevel ☛ 19 Open-source Next.js Extensions and Plugins To Enrich Your App

• Next.js is a React-based web development framework that allows developers to build server-side rendered React applications.

=> ↺ Medevel ☛ Taxonomy Open Source Full-Stack App with Next13

• An open source application built using the new router, server components and everything new in Next.js 13.

=> ↺ Medevel ☛ 36 Next.js Templates and Starters For Full-stack Development and SaaS Apps

• Next.js is a popular React framework that simplifies the process of building server-side rendered React applications. It provides a standardized structure for building React applications, along with features such as automatic code splitting, server-side rendering, and static site generation.

Leftovers

Science

=> ↺ Hackaday ☛ Creating A Joule-Thomson Cryocooler And A Little Bit Of History At Home

• The fun part about crycoolers is that there are so many different and exciting ways to make stuff cold, based on a wide variety of physics. This is why after first exploring the Stirling/GM cycle and vapor-compression to create a cryocooler that could liquefy nitrogen with, [Hyperspace Pirate] is exploring a Joule-Thomson cooler, which is also misspelled as ‘Joule-Thompson’ by those who don’t mind take some liberties with history. Either way, the advantage of the adiabatic Joule-Thomson effect is that it is significantly simpler than the other methods — having been invented in the 19th century and used for the earliest forms of refrigeration.

Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

=> ↺ CS Monitor ☛ Farmers face floods, lost crops, and too little time to replant

• When torrential rains swept through the Northeast, farmers in the region – particularly in Vermont – were dealt a devastating blow at the worst possible time. Plants were too early to harvest, and it’s too late to replant in the remaining growing season.

Security

=> ↺ Krebs On Security ☛ Few Fortune 100 Firms List Security Pros in Their Executive Ranks

• Many things have changed since 2018, such as the names of the companies in the Fortune 100 list. But one aspect of that vaunted list that hasn’t shifted much since is that very few of these companies list any security professionals within their top executive ranks.

=> ↺ IT Wire ☛ Tech lead of Google-owned virus database apologises for leak

• Three days after reports of the Google-owned VirusTotal database leaking subscriber information surfaced, its tech lead Emiliano Martinez has apologised for the incident.

=> ↺ IT Wire ☛ Danger from Microsoft Azure breach still remains, warns Wiz researcher

• New York-based cloud security firm Wiz has warned companies and organisations affected by the recent Microsoft Azure breach that the impact of the intrusion may be much wider than reported, and could affect applications beyond those claimed by Microsoft to be impacted.

Privacy/Surveillance

=> ↺ Techdirt ☛ Apple Says It Will Exit The UK Market If Government Passes Update To Investigatory Powers Act

• Apple fought the law and — contrary to the song lyrics — it won. Years later, Apple decided it would get ahead of the law enforcement curve by attempting to engage in client-side scanning of iPhone users’ content. That worked out less well for Apple, which (at least momentarily) decided making governments happy was more important than protecting its customers.

Defence/Aggression

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ William Majcher, Retired R.C.M.P. Officer, Charged With Spying for China

• The officer was also charged under Canada’s Security of Information Act with helping Beijing “identify and intimidate’’ an individual.

Environment

=> ↺ YLE ☛ Finland sending 50 firefighters to Portugal for expected blazes

• Climate change-related forest fires are also in store for Finland, and Finnish rescue workers want to learn how to fight them, according to a rescue department chief.

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ How to Fight Canada’s Wildfires in the Era of Climate Change

• Canada’s record-breaking wildfire season shows the need to shift from suppressing fires to preventing them as fires become more difficult to combat.

=> ↺ Scheerpost ☛ How Suing the US Government Can Empower the Climate Movement

• As the youth-led climate lawsuit Juliana v. United States heads to trial, plaintiff Nathan Baring discusses the important role legal action can play within a movement.

Energy/Transportation

=> ↺ DeSmog ☛ This Database Exposes the Client Conflicts of More Than 1,500 Big Oil Lobbyists

• As lawsuits mount against the fossil fuel sector for decades of sowing climate disinformation, the  PR and ad agencies, banks, institutional investors, and law firms that work with the industry are also facing increased scrutiny.

• F Minus, a new group focused on the industry’s army of lobbyists, has released a searchable database revealing that many also work with clients who support – or say they support – strong action to slow climate change.

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ Japan Is Trying to Use Ammonia to Make Coal Cleaner

• Japan says that by blending ammonia with coal in its boilers, it can make coal less damaging to the planet. But the technology faces many hurdles.

Finance

=> ↺ RFA ☛ Hong Kongers line up for hours at Shenzhen bank branches to withdraw their money

• Long waits come amid concerns about the Chinese economy and liquidity of banking system.

=> ↺ Axios ☛ Old houses now cost as much as new houses

• Here’s a remarkable little snapshot of the state of U.S. home prices.

• Driving the news: New data shows the median price for an existing single-family home — as opposed to a newly built one — stood at $416,000 in June.

=> ↺ Michael West Media ☛ Robodebt prosecutions loom after ‘gross betrayal’

• Senior personnel behind the unlawful robodebt scheme will be referred for civil and criminal prosecution as a royal commissioner lashes the “dishonesty and collusion” behind the program.

• Former Queensland chief justice Catherine Holmes on Friday handed a 990-page report containing 57 recommendations to Governor-General David Hurley.

=> ↺ Michael West Media ☛ Robodebt figures to face civil and criminal prosecution

• Senior public servants will be referred for civil and criminal prosecution over the unlawful robodebt scheme.

• Royal commissioner Catherine Holmes on Friday handed a 990-page report containing 57 recommendations to Governor-General David Hurley.

AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

=> ↺ Michael West Media ☛ Top jockey charged by stewards over ‘white powder’ pics

• Top jockey Jamie Kah has been charged by racing stewards after becoming embroiled in an alleged white powder scandal.

• Racing Victoria issued one charge each against Jamie Kah and Ruby McIntyre after a probe into pictures of the pair and greyhound trainer Jacob Biddell. 

=> ↺ Ruben Schade ☛ What if the Brits French’d their royal family?

• If the stories are to be believed about the royals receiving a large pay rise in the UK’s current economic climate, the timing does strike me as especially cynical. But then, royals are supposed to laud over their indentured subjects, right?

Censorship/Free Speech

=> ↺ The Straits Times ☛ Barbie movie delayed in Pakistan province over ‘objectionable content’

• The Punjab Film Censor Board did not clarify what content was “objectionable”, nor why.

Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

=> ↺ Michael West Media ☛ High-profile journalists to appear in Lehrmann case

• Top Australian journalists Peter FitzSimons and Laura Tingle have been called to appear in court, amid an ongoing legal battle between Bruce Lehrmann and key segments of the media.

• Subpoenas have been filed for the pair to appear before the Federal Court, likely later this year.

Civil Rights/Policing

=> ↺ Axios ☛ Kamala Harris slams Florida’s new Black history standards

• Vice President Kamala Harris condemned Florida’s new Black history standards on Friday, saying “extremists” in the state are pushing “propaganda to our children.”

• Why it matters: Harris’ speech sharply contrasts the Biden administration with several Republican presidential candidates, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who have made fights over education central to their platforms.

Monopolies

Patents

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ How Gilead Profited by Slow-Walking a Promising H.I.V. Therapy

• Gilead delayed a new version of a drug, allowing it to extend the patent life of a blockbuster line of medications, internal documents show.

=> ↺ Proposed Multiple Petition Reforms Far Exceed the Problem’s Scope

• When the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) released its Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) related to America Invents Act trial proceedings in April, the agency noted that it is “considering additional measures to address the concerns raised by repeated validity challenges to patent claims (potentially resulting in conflicting outcomes and overburdening patent owners).”

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