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GNU/Linux

Kernel Space

=> ↺ WCCF Tech ☛ AMD To Enhance “OverDrive” GPU Overclocking Features For Linux Users

• AMD Plans to Integrate Several New Controls On OverDrive Overclocking Tool, Allowing Linux Users to Maximize RDNA GPU Performance

• AMD’s OverDrive feature has been on Linux for quite some time now, but when it comes to the overclocking capabilities, the feature is much inferior compared to its Windows counterpart. However, the AMD OverDrive might get an upgrade on Linux, given that Team Red is dedicated to improving its resources on the platform.

Applications

=> ↺ Linux Links ☛ 7 Best Free and Open Source Linux Web Caches

• This type of software is primarily used by Internet Service Providers (ISPs), backbone providers, large intranets and enterprises. Web caches are very versatile, and are used in a number of different systems such as search engines, web proxies, and forward caches.

• In this article, we feature the best software that caches web content, optimizing and cleaning the network traffic. The ratings chart below gives our verdict. Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion. Hopefully, there will be something of interest here for anyone who needs to reduce bandwidth usage, improve latency, and minimise server load.

Instructionals/Technical

=> ↺ HowTo Geek ☛ How to See All Devices on Your Network With nmap on Linux

• It isn’t as intuitive as a user interface, but it is more powerful.

=> ↺ HowTo Geek ☛ How to Add a User to the sudoers File in Linux

• Giving superpowers to the worthy.

=> ↺ The New Stack ☛ Dive: A Simple App for Viewing the Contents of a Docker Image

• Have you ever wanted to know the pieces that comprised a Docker image, without having to build a complete Software

=> ↺ 2023-08-25 [Older] Beginner’s Guide: How to Install Node.js on Ubuntu Step by Step

Games

=> ↺ Hackaday ☛ Restoring A 45 Year Old Video Game

• When we say vintage video game, some of you may think of the likes of Lemmings, Mario or maybe even Donkey Kong but the game that [Vintage Apparatus] restored is slightly older and much more minimalist, using an LED matrix and some 7-segment displays rather than this newfangled color CRT thing.

Distributions and Operating Systems

Fedora Family / IBM

=> ↺ InfoWorld ☛ Follow the cloud money [Ed: Almost all the articles in this site are nowadays by Mac Asay because his employer at the time paid the site to do this; that's just utterly ridiculous. 75% of the latest InfoWorld articles are Asay and they disclosed that his pieces were sponsored by his employer, so IDG was basically selling site space. To the "Proprietary Cartel" profiteers (those with the cabal of monopolies), Open Source "winning" just means being consumed or hijacked by them.]

• However, rather than kick OpenELA for being a tired resurrection of UnitedLinux, it’s worth looking deeper into when collective open source efforts do work. Why will OpenELA fail but Kubernetes didn’t? What about OpenTF, an effort to reverse HashiCorp’s decision to change its license for Terraform to the Business Software License (BSL)? The key in each case is to follow the money, especially the cloud money.

Debian Family

=> ↺ Gunnar Wolf ☛ 2023-08-27 [Older] Gunnar Wolf: Interested in adopting the RPi images for Debian?

Open Hardware/Modding

=> ↺ SparkFun Electronics ☛ 2023-08-30 [Older] Experiential Robotics Platform (XRP) Hardware Kit: Getting Started

=> ↺ SparkFun Electronics ☛ 2023-08-28 [Older] Send Sensor Data to AWS All In Under 15 Minutes

=> ↺ SparkFun Electronics ☛ 2023-08-25 [Older] We’ll Take an Environmental Combo Meal, Please!

Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications

=> ↺ Android Authority ☛ I love the idea of Live Caption on Android, but don’t use it

=> ↺ Indian Express ☛ OnePlus reportedly working on affordable Android tablet, may offer cellular connectivity | Technology News – The Indian Express

=> ↺ SlashGear ☛ 5 Of The Fastest Android Launchers To Speed Up Your Phone

=> ↺ SlashGear ☛ 11 Essential Google Lens Hacks Every Android User Needs To Know

Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

Web Browsers/Web Servers

Mozilla

=> ↺ The Register UK ☛ With version 117, Firefox finally speaks Chrome’s translation language

• The latest version of the flagship FOSS browser is out, and it’s picked up one of the main features for which we keep Chrome around.

• The Firefox version 117 feature list might not look all that impressive, but it does have a big-ticket feature that may tempt people back: automatic translation. The snag is it’s disabled by default in the release version, and you’ll have to manually enable it. Although it was enabled in the betas, Mozilla has decided to go for a staged rollout and not enable it for everyone until Firefox 118 in six weeks or so.

• The new feature is integrated, privacy-respecting machine translation between multiple languages. This was already possible in older versions, but it needed an extension, and that had two side effects. One is that the extension hooked deep into the core of the browser in ways that Mozilla wasn’t comfortable about, and the other is that once your text had been sent out to a third-party website, it could be snooped upon – but the victims of any snooping would blame the browser, even if it wasn’t the browser’s fault.

Programming/Development

=> ↺ University of Toronto ☛ 2023-08-28 [Older] Link: quoting strings and breaking strings across multiple lines in YAML

=> ↺ University of Toronto ☛ 2023-08-28 [Older] YAML is an okay enough configuration file format

Perl / Raku

=> ↺ Perl ☛ 2023-08-31 [Older] This week in PSC (114)

=> ↺ Perl ☛ 2023-08-28 [Older] Outdated perl utility txt2html migration

=> ↺ Perl ☛ 2023-08-27 [Older] The Hidden Power of Prototypes

Leftovers

=> ↺ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-08-30 [Older] Legs Have Finally Come to Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse

Science

=> ↺ Hackaday ☛ Better Noise Reduction With Science

• Most noise-blocking headphones fall into two categories: they use some kind of material to absorb or scatter noise, or they use active cancellation that creates a signal to oppose the noise signal. As you’ve probably noticed, both of these approaches have limitations. Now, Swiss scientists think they have a new method that will work better. In Nature Communications, they describe a noise cancellation system that moves air by using ionization instead of a conventional transducer.

=> ↺ Hackaday ☛ Making Electricity At The South Pole

• In case you’ve ever wondered how the South Pole research stations are powered, then a recent blog post, South Pole Electrical Infrastructure by anonymous IT engineer [brr] is for you. Among the many issues covered, let’s look at how the electricity is made and, spoiler alert, how the specially formulated AN8 fuel blend is transported to the generators.

=> ↺ The Conversation ☛ 2023-08-30 [Older] India has landed on the Moon: here’s what the political and economic gains are

Education

=> ↺ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-09-01 [Older] Alabama Lawmaker’s Assistant Charged in Scheme to Misuse Grant Money

Hardware

=> ↺ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Intel’s NUC Is Now Officially Part of the Asus Product Lineup

• Asus reveals NUC product lineup.

Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

=> ↺ 2023-08-30 [Older] Almost 4 Years After COVID-19′s Breakout We’re Seeing 1,000+ Additional Deaths Per Week in the UK

=> ↺ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-08-31 [Older] Canada’s Public Health Care System Faces Encroachment by Privatizing Profiteers

=> ↺ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-08-28 [Older] Fukushima water: Japan complains about Chinese crank calls

=> ↺ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-08-28 [Older] Japan: Fukushima water release worries local community

Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)

=> ↺ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-08-31 [Older] A New Facebook Setting Tells Meta Not to Use Your Data for AI

=> ↺ IP Kat ☛ 2023-08-31 [Older] UK Science, Innovation and Technology Committee Report on AI

Linux Foundation

=> ↺ SJVN ☛ A New Take on Software Code Security: The Open Source Consumption Manifesto [Ed: IBM+GAFAM trying to control what Free software you are using]

• Open source is a blessing. It’s also a curse when we don’t take its security seriously. Now, the OpenSSF wants us all to take a long, hard look at how we consume and secure open-source software.

• Decades ago, Eric S. Raymond, one of open-source’s founders, famously coined Linus’s Law: “Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.” Makes you feel warm and fuzzy about open-source security, doesn’t it? There’s a corollary, though. For Linus’s Law to work, you need expert eyeballs hunting and hands fixing bugs. Recently, we’ve been forced to realize we’ve been flopping at enforcing the law. The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), with its new working group proclamation, the Open Source Consumption Manifesto (OSCM), wants to prosecute it.

Security

=> ↺ SJVN ☛ Clouds vs cryptominers [Ed: Clown computing never improved security; it is a marketing ploy]

• Cryptojackers knew long ago that stealing cloud resources for cryptomining is far more profitable than paying for their own cryptomining rigs. For example, cloud security company Sysdig recently found that TeamTNT, a notorious cryptojacking group, mined over $8,100 worth of cryptocurrency from hijacked cloud infrastructure at a cost to their victims of more than $430,000. TeamTNT made a buck at a cost to their targets of $53.

• Ouch.

• It gets much worse, according to other analyses. According to the Google Cybersecurity Action Team (GCAT) September 2022 Threat Horizons Report, a staggering 65% of cloud accounts compromised suffered cryptocurrency mining. A single attack can inflict unauthorized compute costs of hundreds of thousands of dollars within mere days.

=> ↺ Computing UK ☛ How to attract and retain cloud experts [Ed: Just system admins with a buzzowrd; also some memorised webappls/GUIs]

• The rapid evolution of technology has led to the widespread adoption of cloud computing, transforming the way businesses operate and deliver services [...]

=> ↺ Computer Weekly ☛ The quantum threat: Implications for the Internet of Things

• The Security Think Tank assesses the state of encryption technology, exploring topics such as cryptographic techniques, data-masking, the legal ramifications of end-to-end encryption, and the impact of quantum

=> ↺ Computer Weekly ☛ Sandworm attacks Ukraine with Infamous Chisel malware | Computer Weekly

• The UK and its allies have attributed a novel malware campaign against Ukrainian state targets to the Russian intelligence-backed Sandworm APT

=> ↺ TechTarget ☛ Types of ransomware and a timeline of attack examples [Ed: Predominantly a Windows problem]

• There are eight main types of ransomware but hundreds of examples of ransomware strains. Learn how the ransomware types work, and review notable ransomware attacks and variants.

=> ↺ TechTarget ☛ Mandiant reveals new backdoors used in Barracuda ESG attacks

• Further investigations show threat actors were prepared for Barracuda Networks’ remediation efforts, including an action notice to replace all compromised devices.

=> ↺ NL Times ☛ 2023-08-30 [Older] International operation dismantles Qakbot malware, 22 servers seized in the Netherlands

=> ↺ TechCrunch ☛ Maker of ‘smart’ chastity cage left users’ emails, passwords, and locations exposed

• A company that makes a chastity device for people with a penis that can be controlled by a partner over the internet exposed users’ email addresses, plaintext passwords, home addresses and IP addresses, and — in some cases — GPS coordinates, due to several flaws in its servers, according to a security researcher.

• The researcher, who asked to remain anonymous because he wanted to separate his professional life from the kink-related work he does, said he gained access to a database containing records of more than 10,000 users, thanks to two vulnerabilities. The researcher said he exploited the bugs to see what data he could get access to. He also reached out to the company on June 17 alerting them of the issues in an attempt to get them to fix the vulnerabilities and protect their users’ data, according to a screenshot of the email he sent and shared with TechCrunch.

• As of publication, the company has yet to fix the vulnerabilities, and did not respond to repeated requests for comment from TechCrunch.

=> ↺ Data Breaches ☛ Kudos to North Mississippi Health Services for fast detection and disruption of attack

• In a website notice dated September 1, NMHS explains that on July 3, they discovered unauthorized access through an employee’s email account after a phishing email was unintentionally opened.

• “Our Security Operation Committee (SOC) promptly shut down the system, ending the unauthorized access within 17 minutes. Upon investigation, it was determined some of the employee’s emails, which may have included attachments, were potentially accessed.,” they write.

=> ↺ Data Breaches ☛ Update: Leak site with plastic surgery patients’ data and sexually explicit videos removed

• In July, DataBreaches reported a data breach involving the plastic surgery practice of Gary Motykie, M.D. The incident, which appeared to be a hack with an extortion demand, had been reported to the Maine Attorney General’s Office, but an upset patient had also contacted NBC News in Los Angeles to reveal that a leak site had been created that was exposing nude photos of named patients with their full medical records. The identity of the attackers was not revealed, but the leak site included what appeared to be personal and explicit sex videos and pictures involving Dr. Motykie. Other videos, also sensitive and explicit in content, appeared to involve Dr. Motykie’s brother and the brother’s girlfriend in private moments.

=> ↺ Data Breaches ☛ Pizza Hut Australia customer data hacked; ShinyHunters claims to have more than 1 million customers’ information

• This has not been a great year for Australian citizens whose personal information has been compromised in a number of cyberattacks. Although DataBreaches regrets being the bearer of more bad news for them, more than one million customers of Pizza Hut Australia appear to have had their data acquired by ShinyHunters.

• According to “Shiny” (@shinycorp), the group gained access 1-2 months ago via Amazon Web Services (AWS) using multiple entry points. They claim to have exfiltrated more than 30 million records with customers’ orders as well as information on more than 1 million customers.

• Shiny states that they were never detected during the attack.

Integrity/Availability/Authenticity

=> ↺ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-08-28 [Older] UK air traffic control ‘technical issue’ causes delays

Privacy/Surveillance

=> ↺ IP Kat ☛ 2023-08-25 [Older] Data science needs law: reflections on the experiences of data scientists working in Africa

=> ↺ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-08-31 [Older] Elon’s Twitter Is Coming for Your Biometric Data and Employment History

=> ↺ International Business Times ☛ 2023-08-29 [Older] ‘Bring back Twitter’: Elon Musk gets heckled at video game tournament

=> ↺ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-08-28 [Older] ‘Bring Back Twitter!’ Elon Gets Booed at Video Game Tournament

=> ↺ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-08-29 [Older] X, Formerly Twitter, Back up After Outage – Downdetector

Defence/Aggression

=> ↺ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-08-26 [Older] Far-Right Political Violence Is on the Rise in Germany

=> ↺ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-08-29 [Older] Syria protests: New revolution or economic issue?

=> ↺ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-08-27 [Older] Syrians are rising up against Assad, and this time things could be different

=> ↺ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-08-30 [Older] The Countries That Helped Devastate Yemen Must Take Responsibility for Its Reconstruction

=> ↺ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-08-26 [Older] Under Justin Trudeau, Canada Is Abetting Saudi Arabia’s War Crimes in Yemen

=> ↺ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-08-31 [Older] Border Massacres: The Saudi Ethiopian Migrant Killings

=> ↺ Truthdig ☛ 2023-08-29 [Older] A Decade After Learning the Wrong Lesson in Syria

=> ↺ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-08-28 [Older] Jordan Downs Drone From Syria in Third Incident This Month

=> ↺ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-08-31 [Older] EU reckons with Africa policy after wave of coups

=> ↺ The Age AU ☛ 2023-08-26 [Older] The end of empire almost upended our careers (don’t tell the editor)

=> ↺ Scheerpost ☛ 2023-08-31 [Older] Another Regime in ‘French West Africa’ Is Toppled

=> ↺ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-08-31 [Older] Drone attacks are ‘a huge change’ in warfare, expert says

=> ↺ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-08-31 [Older] EU ministers back sanctions against Niger coup leaders

Environment

=> ↺ NL Times ☛ 2023-09-01 [Older] The Hague bans climate activists from A12 highway, Malieveld ahead of planned protests

=> ↺ NL Times ☛ 2023-08-31 [Older] Petition against Wopke Hoekstra’s new EU climate job signed 27,500 times in 24 hours

=> ↺ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-08-31 [Older] African Climate Summit Seeks to Shift Focus to Finance From Floods, Famine

=> ↺ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-08-31 [Older] Factbox-What to Watch at Africa’s First Climate Summit

=> ↺ Vox ☛ 2023-08-31 [Older] There’s been a shift in how we think about climate change

=> ↺ NL Times ☛ 2023-08-30 [Older] President Von der Leyen backs Hoekstra as new EU climate commissioner

=> ↺ CBC ☛ 2023-08-30 [Older] Climate change turbo-charged Idalia’s intensity. The rest of hurricane season may be just as rough

=> ↺ The Local SE ☛ 2023-08-30 [Older] Climate crisis: ’90 percent’ of Europe’s ski resorts face critical snow shortages

=> ↺ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-08-30 [Older] Biden Says Climate Crisis Is Undeniable After Hurricane Idalia Damage

=> ↺ Vox ☛ 2023-08-30 [Older] What could cause a malaria comeback in the US — and what could stop it

=> ↺ Vox ☛ 2023-08-30 [Older] How Louisiana — one of the nation’s wettest states — caught on fire

=> ↺ Vox ☛ 2023-08-30 [Older] Why Hurricane Idalia is so dangerous, explained in 7 maps

=> ↺ Vox ☛ 2023-08-30 [Older] Burning Man’s climate protesters have a point

=> ↺ The Kent Stater ☛ 2023-08-29 [Older] Local online business strives to fight climate change with tree-planting mission

=> ↺ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-08-29 [Older] Burning Trees for Energy is Not a Climate Solution

=> ↺ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-08-29 [Older] Is Wastewater an Answer for Adapting to Climate Change?

=> ↺ Truthdig ☛ 2023-08-29 [Older] What Climate Democracy Looks Like

=> ↺ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-08-29 [Older] Tribal Ranger Draws Weapon on Climate Activists Blocking Road to Burning Man; Conduct Under Review

=> ↺ Truthdig ☛ 2023-08-28 [Older] Neocolonialism: Pillaging the Earth for the ‘Climate’

=> ↺ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-08-27 [Older] Brazil’s Climate Financing Challenges and Potential Solutions

=> ↺ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-08-26 [Older] Awaiting Climate Commitments from Indonesia’s Next President

=> ↺ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-08-26 [Older] ‘We’re All Maui’: Climate Change Tests Emergency Alert Systems Across US

=> ↺ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-08-26 [Older] Canadian Minister Makes Rare China Trip for Talks on Climate, Biodiversity

=> ↺ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-08-25 [Older] The Climate Crisis Goes to Court; Youth Prevails

=> ↺ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-08-25 [Older] Dutch foreign minister named new EU climate czar candidate

=> ↺ Vox ☛ 2023-08-25 [Older] This summer is giving us a glimpse at the dangerous future of work

=> ↺ Truthdig ☛ 2023-08-24 [Older] Climate Denial on Full Display at First Republican Debate

Energy/Transportation

=> ↺ TechTarget ☛ Top 9 blockchain platforms to consider in 2023

• Get the lowdown on the major features, differentiators, strengths and weaknesses of the blockchain platforms getting the most buzz — and real-world deployments.

=> ↺ Bridge Michigan ☛ 2023-08-30 [Older] Whitmer pushes clean energy, paid leave in Michigan; offers few specifics

2023-08-29 [Older] Challenging the Global North’s Clean Energy Transition

=> ↺ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-08-29 [Older] $5.6 Million Bid for One Offshore Tract Marks Modest Start for Gulf of Mexico Wind Energy

=> ↺ Bridge Michigan ☛ 2023-08-28 [Older] After local pushback, Michigan Dems seek state oversight of green energy

=> ↺ 2023-08-25 [Older] Danes save 10 percent on energy consumption during summer

=> ↺ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-08-25 [Older] Energy Interests and Environmentalists Fight Biden Oil Lease Plan From Different Sides

=> ↺ Scheerpost ☛ 2023-08-28 [Older] ‘Historic and Wonderful’: Ecuadorians Reject Oil Drilling in Precious Amazon Region

=> ↺ Green Party UK ☛ 2023-08-25 [Older] Urgent need for home insulation programme for poorest to start before winter

Wildlife/Nature

=> ↺ The Conversation ☛ 2023-08-25 [Older] Are big cats prowling the UK? What science tells us

=> ↺ Green Party UK ☛ 2023-08-29 [Older] Scrapping ‘nutrient neutrality’ rules could lead to the ecological collapse of our waterways warn Greens

Finance

=> ↺ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Mainland Chinese flock to Hong Kong for higher interest rates, financial security, amid growing economic woes

• After a journey of hundreds of miles from Henan province in north-central China, Wong arrived at a Tsim Sha Tsui branch of the Bank of China Hong Kong (BOCHK) at 5.30 am.

=> ↺ RFA ☛ Myanmar’s post-coup economy comes crumbling down

• Junta leaders are blaming saboteurs and speculators for inflation and devaluation caused by their mismanagement.

=> ↺ The Straits Times ☛ New Zealand opposition launches bid to unseat Labour government

• National Party pledged to reduce inflation and boost the economy if it wins the October election.

=> ↺ Helsinki Times ☛ Finnair benefited almost €475m from tax exemptions in 2022, says report

• FINNAIR benefited almost 475 million euros from tax exemptions granted to air travel in 2022, reveals a report by Transport & Environment, a Brussels-based umbrella organisation for non-profits promoting sustainable transport in Europe.

• T&E in July published a study that compares the taxes airlines paid to the taxes they would have had to pay if air travel did not enjoy the tax exemptions it currently does.

=> ↺ The Age AU ☛ 2023-08-31 [Older] More than $4 billion in super funds fail APRA’s performance test

=> ↺ Scheerpost ☛ 2023-08-31 [Older] Ellen Brown: More Banks to Fail? Not in North Dakota

=> ↺ The Age AU ☛ 2023-08-30 [Older] ASIC warns banks to not drop the ball on stressed borrowers

=> ↺ CBC ☛ 2023-08-28 [Older] Jerome Powell’s Jackson Hole speech highlights central bank’s uphill battle to rein in inflation

=> ↺ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-09-01 [Older] Bolsonaro Stays Silent in Police Probe of Undeclared Saudi, Bahrain Jewelry Gifts

=> ↺ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-08-31 [Older] The BRICS Expansion Isn’t the End of the World Order — or the End of the World

=> ↺ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-08-30 [Older] Canada Feels Like a House of Cards Waiting to Collapse

=> ↺ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-08-25 [Older] German economy stagnates in second quarter

=> ↺ CBC ☛ 2023-08-31 [Older] Toronto-area Metro workers ratify new deal after month-long strike

=> ↺ Breach Media ☛ 2023-08-29 [Older] Precarious work took over the economy—but workers are fighting back

=> ↺ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-08-31 [Older] Eurozone inflation remains unchanged in August

AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

=> ↺ Reason ☛ District Court in Florida Concludes Voters Lack Standing to Challenge Trump’s Eligibility

• A lawsuit to keep Donald Trump off the Florida primary ballot fails.

=> ↺ The Straits Times ☛ Australia says it will send more police to Solomon Islands, extend mission

• September 03, 2023 10:14 AM

• Australia said on Sunday it would send additional police to the Solomon Islands to boost security for the Pacific Games in November, keeping them there until June to assist with a general election.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Kyrgyz Opposition Lawmaker Detained Over Role In 2009 Border Deal

• Kyrgyz opposition lawmaker Adakhan Madumarov was detained on September 2 over his role in signing a Kyrgyz-Tajik border deal in 2009 when he led the country’s Security Council, his defense lawyer said.

=> ↺ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-08-25 [Older] France: Nicolas Sarkozy to face trial in 2025 over Libya

=> ↺ The Conversation ☛ 2023-08-29 [Older] X users will need protection after the ‘block’ feature is removed – here’s why businesses are better than people at moderating negative comments

Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

=> ↺ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-08-29 [Older] Meta Discovers Its Biggest Misinfo Campaign Yet

=> ↺ The Conversation ☛ 2023-08-30 [Older] How folk remedies can fuel misinformation

Censorship/Free Speech

=> ↺ Reason ☛ “Strangers on the Internet” Podcast Ep. 42: Dilan Esper on Joshua Wright’s Defamation Lawsuit

• A seasoned litigator dissects the defamation complaint that Josh made against two of his alleged victims

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ Ban Online Porn for Kids

• A Supreme Court ruling from the early days of the internet is woefully out of date.

=> ↺ 2023-08-30 [Older] Turkey blocks access to Voice of America’s Turkish website

=> ↺ HRW ☛ 2023-08-29 [Older] Saudi Arabia: Man Sentenced to Death for Tweets

=> ↺ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-08-25 [Older] The Tampa Five: An Assault on Free Speech

=> ↺ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-08-25 [Older] Jordan: Cybercrime law slams free speech as criminal content

=> ↺ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-08-26 [Older] I Was Smeared as an Antisemite for Criticizing Israel’s Occupation of Palestine

=> ↺ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-08-31 [Older] Meta’s Supreme Court Is Investigating a Nazi Squidward Meme on Instagram

=> ↺ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-08-30 [Older] Meta Rejects Recommendation to Suspend Former Cambodia PM From Facebook

=> ↺ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-08-29 [Older] Facebook Rejects Its Own Supreme Court’s Order to Ban Cambodia’s Ex-Prime Minister

=> ↺ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-08-29 [Older] Facebook Userbase Is Apparently Unbothered by Canadian News Ban

Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

=> ↺ 2023-08-25 [Older] Sputnik Turkey journalists continue strike on ninth day

Civil Rights/Policing

=> ↺ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-08-29 [Older] US: Biden condemns racism on 60th anniversary of MLK speech

=> ↺ Scheerpost ☛ 2023-08-28 [Older] 60 Years Since MLK Jr.’s Historic ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech

=> ↺ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-08-26 [Older] Sixty Years After King’s ‘Dream’ Speech, Thousands Gather in Washington

=> ↺ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-08-29 [Older] Amazon CEO Tells Workers: Return to Office or ‘It’s Probably Not Going to Work Out for You’

=> ↺ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-08-29 [Older] Indoor Workers Need Protection From the Heat, Too

=> ↺ The Age AU ☛ 2023-08-27 [Older] What the Voice vote has in common with Martin Luther King’s famous speech

=> ↺ The Conversation ☛ 2023-08-29 [Older] How our female athletes feel forced to choose between a ‘strong’ or ‘feminine’ look

=> ↺ The Conversation ☛ 2023-08-29 [Older] Women still feel like they aren’t listened to when they give birth – here’s what could help change things

Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

=> ↺ University of Toronto ☛ 2023-08-30 [Older] Experiencing the increase in web bandwidth usage for myself

=> ↺ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-08-25 [Older] What impact will the EU’s Digital Services Act have?

Monopolies

Patents

=> ↺ 2023-08-31 In re Cellect (Fed. Cir. 2023)

=> ↺ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-08-30 [Older] EU SEP Regulation and potential rate-setting cartels: soft law and conflicting rules are not enough to eliminate serious risks in different jurisdictions

=> ↺ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-08-30 [Older] New Mercedes-Benz statement: despite Avanci 5G license, EU should enact regulation on standard-essential patents in accordance with DG GROW’s legislative proposal

=> ↺ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-08-29 [Older] European Commission’s DG GROW takes inconsistent positions on majority voting in standard-essential patent policy context: DG GROW-commissioned researcher voices criticism [Ed: Microsoft Florian picking on regulators who are nowhere as corrupt as the companies he shills for]

=> ↺ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-08-29 [Older] European Commission’s DG GROW takes inconsistent positions on majority voting in standard-essential patent policy context: DG GROW-commissioned researcher voices criticism [Ed: Microsoft Florian picking on regulators who are nowhere as corrupt as the companies he shills for]

=> ↺ 2023-08-28 [Older] CVC Files Response and Reply Brief in Interference No. 106,115 Appeal [Ed: Patenting life itself]

=> ↺ 2023-08-25 [Older] FDA Approves Sandoz Biosimilar for Tysabri®

=> ↺ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-08-25 [Older] Long-term patent cross-license announced by Ericsson and Huawei: emphasis on respect for IP, balance, and cooperation on standards [Ed: Well, cross-licensing means leaving small companies out of the market; it's a failure of the patent system to give proper incentives to innovate]

=> ↺ IP Kat ☛ 2023-08-30 [Older] Make no bones about it: The “credibility test” has no place in the novelty assessment of second medical use claims (T 0558/20)

Trademarks

=> ↺ IP Kat ☛ 2023-08-28 [Older] The conceptual comparison – To be or not to be neglected?

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=> ↺ Techdirt ☛ Sigh: Rockstar Goes Right Back To Its War On Mods

• Well, that was quick. We had just been discussing the encouraging news that Rockstar had scooped up Cfx.re, a community dedicated to roleplaying within GTA and Red Dead Redemption games, as well as several mods made within that community. The only thing that made this newsworthy at all is that Rockstar has had an awful reputation when it comes to modding communities for its games. In that post, I highlighted the welcome change of the embrace of these mods and wondered aloud if this meant there had been a culture shift at Rockstar towards embracing more of these communities.

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