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GNU/Linux

Audiocasts/Shows

=> ↺ Tux Digital ☛ This Week in Linux 232: Linux 6.5, Valve Proton, Future of Ubuntu, CIQ Sued & more Linux news!

• Welcome to This Week in Linux (232). This episode is jam-packed with stuff. It’s actually kind of ridiculous how much there’s in this episode.

=> ↺ WordPress ☛ WP Briefing: Episode 61: Community, Summit, all at Washington D.C.

• Join WordPress Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy as she discusses the latest from the Community Summit and her takeaways from the 2023 event in Washington, DC.

Applications

=> ↺ TecMint ☛ 9 Best Linux Console File Managers

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

• Web caches have become a vital mechanism for optimizing the amount of data that is delivered in a given period of time. Good web caches also help to minimise latency, serving pages as quickly as possible.

=> ↺ Lazy Docker: A User-Friendly CLI Tool for Docker Management

• Quick Overview If you need a lightweight alternative to Portainer, consider Lazy Docker. It’s a CLI Docker front-end that displays the list of running/stopped containers, images, volumes, and networks and allows you to check their logs, stats, env, config, and top.

Instructionals/Technical

=> ↺ Trend Oceans ☛ How to Fix Unmet dependencies Error During Package Installation or Upgrade

• While upgrading or installing any package, if you are getting an unmet dependencies error, you can resolve it with the given steps.

=> ↺ TecMint ☛ How to Install NFS Server and Client on RHEL-based Distributions

=> ↺ TecMint ☛ How to Install NFS Server and Client on Ubuntu 22.04

=> ↺ Linux Handbook ☛ Run a Bash Shell Script in Linux Command Line [Beginner's Tip]

• Running a bash shell script is quite simple. But you also get to learn about running them in the shell instead of subshell in this tutorial.

=> ↺ Net2 ☛ A Beginner’s Guide to Symbolic Links in Linux

• Symbolic links, also known as symlinks or soft links, are special files that point to another file or directory on your system. They are like shortcuts that allow you to access the target file or directory without having to specify the full path.

=> ↺ OSTechNix ☛ Command-not-found: Suggest Package Installation For Unavailable Commands In Linux

• The command-not-found utility is an useful utility that suggests you installation of packages when running an unavailable command in Linux.

=> ↺ Tom’s Hardware ☛ How to Use FreeCAD for 3D Printing

• Create 3D models, edit and repair meshes, and even generate G-code using FreeCAD.

=> ↺ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Wine Dev 8.15 Released, How to Install it in Ubuntu

• Wine, the popular software library to running Windows apps on Linux and macOS, announced a new development release one day ago. It’s Wine 8.15 that features TEXT print processor support, cycle collection support in MSHTML, and cross-process memory notifications in Wow64.

=> ↺ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ What is Linux?

• From humble origins to future aspirations, we spotlight the challenges and milestones that define Linux’s legacy, rooted firmly in the ethos of open-source collaboration.

=> ↺ Own HowTo ☛ How to install Steam on Ubuntu 23.04 Desktop

• If you’ve switched to Linux, and you are wondering if you can run Steam and play Steam games on your Linux machine..yes you can!

• All you have to do is Install Steam, download the game you like, and play it.

=> ↺ It’s FOSS ☛ Boot From a USB Drive in VirtualBox in Linux

• You can use a live Linux USB with virtual machines in VirtualBox. It saves you the annoyance of rebooting your host machine.

=> ↺ TecAdmin ☛ Where are the PostgreSQL Configuration Files

• When it comes to configuring and optimizing PostgreSQL, understanding the location and purpose of its configuration files is paramount. These files dictate how the PostgreSQL server operates, how it connects with client applications, and many other aspects of database behavior.

=> ↺ Red Hat ☛ How to use dynamic inventories in Ansible Automation

• Dynamic inventories in the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform revolutionize the way to manage infrastructure in the cloud. Instead of relying on static inventories that require manual updates when virtual machines (VMs) are launched, terminated, or replaced, dynamic inventories automatically discover and run VMs across any cloud provider. This means that when you delete an old VM and launch a new one, Ansible Automation Platform seamlessly adapts and performs actions on the updated infrastructure without requiring manual intervention.

• By harnessing dynamic inventories, the Ansible Automation Platform empowers cloud administrators and DevOps teams to effortlessly manage and orchestrate on-demand cloud resources. This article explores the power of dynamic inventories, focusing on their utilization with AWS as the cloud provider. While applicable to any cloud provider, we showcase seamless AWS infrastructure management using dynamic inventories. We will demonstrate how to create EC2 instances, fetching details with dynamic inventory and running scripts for system health insights. By following these examples, you’ll gain hands-on experience in effectively managing and monitoring your cloud infrastructure using dynamic inventories within the Ansible Automation Platform.

=> ↺ Kevin Norman ☛ Getting the mutant home server gaming in a VM

• This post is the second part in a series I am working on. See the first part here: Home Lab Upgrades: Why This Mutant Motherboard/CPU Combo Could Be the Perfect Solution)

• The biggest most exciting use case for me with my new home server was a virtualised gaming environment. I’ve always wanted a living room gaming PC, but didn’t want to have a PC just for that purpose. I’ve had a home server of some sort for the last couple years, usually running some Docker containers, and I always wondered if one day, I could run Windows in a VM, with a graphics card. I can confirm that, yes, it is possible, and it works absolutely great. Before I discuss how to set this up, Let’s discuss what it’s like.

=> ↺ Own HowTo ☛ How to fix bash: curl: command not found on Linux

• curl is a command line app that allows you to transfer data from your terminal. You can use curl for example to download an app.

=> ↺ LinuxTechi ☛ How to Assign Static IP Address on Debian 12

• In this blog post, we will show you how to assign static ip address on Debian 12. In the world of Linux, Debian remains one of the most popular distributions, known for its stability and versatility.

idroot

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

• In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Ntopng on Debian 12. In today’s digitally interconnected world, network monitoring has become an indispensable part of managing and securing your systems. Ntopng, a powerful open-source network monitoring tool, provides deep insights into your network traffic and helps you make informed decisions.

=> ↺ ID Root ☛ Differences Between Oracle JDK and OpenJDK

• Java, an omnipresent programming language in the software industry, has entrenched itself in countless applications and systems. When developing Java applications on Linux, one critical decision emerges: the choice of a Java Development Kit (JDK). Two prominent options stand before developers—Oracle JDK and OpenJDK.

WINE or Emulation

=> ↺ 9to5Linux ☛ DXVK 2.3 Improves Performance in Tomb Raider Anniversary and Fixes Many Bugs

• DXVK 2.3 is here almost four months after DXVK 2.2 to improve the presentation functionality by signaling frame latency events when an image is actually being presented, but only if the VK_KHR_present_wait Vulkan extension is supported and vertical synchronization is enabled. On Linux, this requires Gamescope.

• According to the release notes, this functionality is also used to more accurately report the number of frames that are actually being presented via DXGI frame statistics. Additionally, on systems where the VK_EXT_swapchain_maintenance1 Vulkan extension is supported, there’s no longer a need for recreating the Vulkan swap chain to enable and disable vertical synchronization.

Desktop Environments/WMs

K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt

=> ↺ Harald Sitter ☛ Debugging App Crashes on Windows [Ed: KDE wasting time and resources working for Microsoft]

• The other week the question came up how one can debug an application crash when the Windows Store crash tracking system is unable to produce a usable stack trace.

Distributions and Operating Systems

New Releases

=> ↺ Qubes OS 4.2.0-rc3 is available for testing

• We’re pleased to announce that the third release candidate (RC) for Qubes OS 4.2.0 is now available for testing. The ISO and associated verification files are available on the downloads page.

• We announced RC2 approximately one week ago. Normally, RC2 would have been tested for approximately five weeks before we announced RC3. However, RC2 contained several bugs (listed below), some of which prevented certain users from testing it. These bugs have been fixed in RC3. We’ve decided to release RC3 early, as an exception to our usual policy, in order to get these fixes out as quickly as possible so that more users can test 4.2 for longer before the eventual stable release.

PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva Family

=> ↺ PCLOS Official ☛ New Web Browser Updates Available

• chromium-ungoogled-browser-116.0.5845.110-1pclos2023.x86_64.rpmmicrosoft-edge-browser-116.0.1938.69-1pclos2023.x86_64.rpmvivaldi-browser-6.2.3105.45-1pclos2023.x86_64.rpmbrave-browser-1.57.57-1pclos2023.x86_64.rpmopera-browser-102.0.4880.29-1pclos2023.x86_64.rpmfirefox-117.0-1pclos2023.x86_64.rpmwaterfox-G-browser-5.1.12-1pclos2023.x86_64.rpm

SUSE/OpenSUSE

=> ↺ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 Public Beta is out!

• We are thrilled to announce the Public Beta of SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5! SLE Micro is an ultra-reliable, lightweight operating system purpose built for edge computing. Please check out our Product page to learn more, but for the beta program, please refer to our dedicated beta page.

Fedora Family / IBM

=> ↺ 9to5Linux ☛ Fedora Linux KDE Spin Is Switching to the Calamares Graphical Installer

• Fedora Asahi Remix is using Fedora Project’s KDE Spin as a base, featuring the KDE Plasma desktop environment. Right now, the Fedora KDE Spin is using the Anaconda installer, just like all the other Fedora Linux editions.

• According to the release notes, this functionality is also used to more accurately report the number of frames that are actually being presented via DXGI frame statistics. Additionally, on systems where the VK_EXT_swapchain_maintenance1 Vulkan extension is supported, there’s no longer a need for recreating the Vulkan swap chain to enable and disable vertical synchronization.

=> ↺ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora Community Blog: CPE Weekly update – Week 35 2023

• This is a weekly report from the CPE (Community Platform Engineering) Team. If you have any questions or feedback, please respond to this report or contact us on #redhat-cpe channel on libera.chat.

=> ↺ Fedora Magazine ☛ Fedora Magazine: Fedora libostree Post-Installation Setup, Modifications, and Tips and Tricks

• Fedora Linux’s libostree variants such as Fedora Silverblue (GNOME desktop environment) and Fedora Kinoite (KDE desktop environment) as well as Fedora Sericia (Sway window manager) are new variants of Fedora Linux that use the rpm-ostree command to perform atomic upgrades.

• Consider a normal Fedora Linux installation. During an upgrade, a package manager such as DNF grabs the packages, combines them then installs them on your system. A libostree or “image-based” OS, on the other hand, is an immutable system. It fetches the image and “layers” it on top of the current one during an upgrade, providing more robust and reliable system upgrades.

Canonical/Ubuntu Family

=> ↺ Sean Davis: Xubuntu Development Update September 2023

• September has arrived and cooler days are finally ahead of us in the northern hemisphere. Development on the 23.10 release, “Mantic Minotaur”, has been progressing nicely with numerous updates to report.

• Font updates made to the desktop-common seed on August 21 added the fonts-noto-color-emoji package to all Ubuntu flavors, including Xubuntu. This enables color emoji in any application using GTK 3 or 4. I&aposve written about color emoji in Xubuntu previously, in case you want to learn more.

=> ↺ Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu Blog: Efficiency redefined: Discover the power of software operators during Operator Day, co-located at KubeCon North America 2023

• As a devops engineer or SRE, you’re used to spending hours of your time making sure the applications you manage keep running as smoothly as when they were first deployed. What if you could codify all your operational knowledge so software can run it for you? That’s exactly what software operators are about. 

• Software operators encapsulate business logic in reusable software packages that automate every aspect of an application’s lifecycle. Today, they are crucial in the Kubernetes landscape, and an indispensable tool in every SRE / Devops engineer’s toolbox.  Canonical offers a toolkit to build software operators or charms, and an orchestration engine that enables their deployment, integration and lifecycle management, called Juju. 

Devices/Embedded

=> ↺ 8 Unbelievable Single Board Computer Linux for 2023

• Introducing the mind-blowing world of single board computers and Linux operating systems for the year 2023. Get ready to be amazed by the incredible potential and performance of these 8 unbelievable single board computer Linux variants. Whether you are a tech enthusiast, a hobbyist, or a professional seeking cutting-edge innovation, these remarkable devices are set to redefine the boundaries of what is possible. Discover the latest advancements in computing technology and explore the limitless possibilities that await in the realm of single board computer Linux. Don’t miss out on the chance to elevate your projects and experience the future of computing today. Welcome to the 8 Unbelievable Single Board Computer Linux for 2023.

Open Hardware/Modding

=> ↺ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Best Raspberry Pi HATs 2023: Expansion Boards for Every Project

• The Raspberry Pi HATs (Hardware Attached on Top) bring tons of extra functionality to your Pi. The best HATs allow you to build a retro gaming machine, develop an A.I., power a robot or just learn about programming.

=> ↺ Andrew Hutchings ☛ Amiga 1200: Fixing Boot Loop

• Over the weekend, the Amiga 1200 I restored picked up an interesting symptom. It started randomly rebooting, sometimes rebooting many times a minute. This is the diagnosis and repair.

=> ↺ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Best Stemma QT, Grove Add-Ons for Raspberry Pi and Arduino

• Stemma QT and Grove are solderless connections to connect a plethora of different sensors, displays and components to your Raspberry Pi, Arduino or ESP32. We show you the best that we have personally used in projects.

=> ↺ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Raspberry Pi Pico Solar Flower Follows The Light

• Hannu Hell has created a Raspberry Pi Pico-powered flower with solar panels that follows light sources using servo motors.

Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications

=> ↺ Red Pixels Ventures Ltd ☛ Google Photos to Get Support for Ultra HDR Image Format With Android 14: Report | Technology News

=> ↺ The Sun ☛ Android owners are about to snag a free upgrade that can help them avoid a £200 fine | The US Sun

=> ↺ Make Use Of ☛ How to Enable Grayscale Mode on Your Android Phone

=> ↺ Notebook Check ☛ Redmi K70: Upcoming Android flagship smartphone series backed to launch with upgraded rear cameras – NotebookCheck.net News

Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

SaaS/Back End/Databases

=> ↺ PostgreSQL ☛ pg_ivm 1.6 released

• IVM Development Group is pleased to announce the release of pg_ivm 1.6.

• Changes since the v1.5.1 release include:

• Add EXISTS clause support in IVM (Takuma Hoshiai)

• Correlated subqueries using EXISTS in WHERE clause are supported.

=> ↺ PostgreSQL ☛ pgvector 0.5.0 Released!

• pgvector, an open-source PostgreSQL extension that provides vector similarity search capabilities, has released v0.5.0. This latest version of pgvector adds a new index type, hnsw, builds using parallel workers for ivfflat index type, improves performance for distance operations, and more. For more information, please see the CHANGELOG for 0.5.0: [...]

Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra

=> ↺ LibreOffice project and community recap: August 2023

• Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… We started August by posting the full version of TDF’s Annual Report 2022.

Leftovers

Hardware

=> ↺ Linux Gizmos ☛ ASRock Industrial’s present 4×4 BOX 7040 Series mini PCs

• ASRock Industrial unveiled today two new fanned mini PCs powered by AMD Ryzen 7040U Series APU.

Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

=> ↺ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ 4 Hong Kong democrats’ bid for final appeal against Covid-related convictions rejected by top court

• Hong Kong’s top court has rejected four pro-democracy figures’ attempt to launch a final appeal against convictions linked to breaching Covid-19 social distancing rules during a Labour Day protest in 2020.

Security

=> ↺ Hacker News ☛ PoC Exploit Released for Critical VMware Aria’s SSH Auth Bypass Vulnerability [Ed: The issue here is not SSH but VMware (proprietary)]

• The flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-34039, is rated 9.8 out of a maximum of 10 for severity and has been described as a case of authentication bypass due to a lack of unique cryptographic key generation.

=> ↺ North Korean Malware Targets Windows, MacOS and Linux [Ed: They do not target the OS; they target gullible admins who install malware.]

• The VMConnect campaign, spotted in early August, consists of two dozen “malicious Python packages” posted on the openly accessible PyPI software repository, and after observing it for a few weeks ReversingLabs detected three more packages that belong to the VMConnect family.

=> ↺ Make Use Of ☛ How DEB Packages Are Backdoored and How to Detect It [Ed: Misleading title; the issue is malware, not how it is packaged]

• Did you know attackers can modify the scripts packaged in a DEB file to gain unauthorized access to your PC? Here’s how DEB packages are backdoored.

=> ↺ LWN ☛ Security updates for Monday

• Security updates have been issued by Debian (thunderbird), Fedora (firefox, kernel, kubernetes, and mediawiki), Mageia (openldap), SUSE (terraform), and Ubuntu (atftp, busybox, and thunderbird).

=> ↺ 3,20,000+ Patient Records From Ayush Jharkhand Gov. In Shared On Dark Web Hacking Forums

• • More than 3 lakh 20 thousand patient records containing their PII information and medical diagnosis. - 500 login credentials with multiple cleartext passwords as well. - Contact information of 737 people who used the contact us form - 472 records containing PII information of doctors - Database also has the PII information of 91 Doctors along with the information about where they are posted.

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=> ↺ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Intel Launches ‘Emergency’ Driver Update To Improve Stability In Starfield

• Intel has launched a new beta driver update for Arc Alchemist GPUs that fixes several stability issues with Starfield.

=> ↺ SANS ☛ Creating a YARA Rule to Detect Obfuscated Strings, (Mon, Sep 4th)

• I wrote a blog post “Quickpost: Analysis of PDF/ActiveMime Polyglot Maldocs” on how to analyse PDF/ActiveMime polyglot malicious document files and also developed a YARA rule to detect them.

Privacy/Surveillance

=> ↺ Federal News Network ☛ Northern Ireland police chief resigns after controversies including huge data breach

• Northern Ireland’s top police officer has resigned following a series of controversies that plagued the police force, including what he described as an “industrial scale” data breach. The Northern Ireland Policing Board confirmed that Simon Byrne has resigned as chief constable. Bryne has faced growing pressure to step down since personal data on all serving members of the police force were mistakenly published last month in response to a freedom of information request. The incident was particularly sensitive given the delicate security situation in Northern Ireland. In a statement Monday, Byrne said it was “time for someone new” to lead the force.

Defence/Aggression

Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

=> ↺ JURIST ☛ Belarus court delivers prison sentence to journalist accused of facilitating ‘extremist activities’

• A court in Gomel, a southeastern city in Belarus, sentenced journalist Larysa Schchyrakova to 3.5 years in prison and a fine of 3,700 rubles (US$1465) on Thursday.

=> ↺ France24 ☛ Zelensky discusses

=> ↺ Latvia ☛ Big tunnel under Latvian-Belarusian railway put into service

• In August, the first major infrastructure facility on the Latvian–Belarusian border – the 30-meter, 30-tonne metal tunnel – was commissioned, which will significantly facilitate border guarding along the Daugavpils-Polotsk railway line, said Renārs Griškevics, Chairman of the Board of State Real Estate (VNĪ) on September 4.

‘functioning’ of Black Sea grain corridor with MacronUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and French President Emmanuel Macron spoke Sunday, discussing the “functioning” of a Black Sea corridor set up by Kyiv for the safe navigation of ships after Moscow exited a landmark grain deal. The news comes after Romania’s defence ministry strongly condemned repeated Russian attacks on Ukraine’s Danube River infrastructure close to its border.      

=> ↺ RFA ☛ Solomon Islands says Australia to enlarge, extend security deployment

• Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare said “huge” security support is needed for the Pacific Games, national elections.

=> ↺ AntiWar ☛ The GOP Declares War on Mexico

• The 8 candidates for the Republican presidential nomination featured in the August 23 televised debate feuded on several issues, including U.S. aid to Ukraine and the future role of former president Donald Trump. 

=> ↺ Federal News Network ☛ Protesters in southern Syria smash statue as they mark 2015 assassination of anti-government leader

• Hundreds of angry protesters in southern Syrian have destroyed the statue of the country’s late president as they marked the 2015 assassination of a prominent anti-government Druze leader. The protests in the province of Sweida, where the Druze community represents the majority of the population, entered their third week on Monday. They were initially driven by surging inflation and the war-torn country’s spiraling economy but quickly shifted focus, with marchers calling for the fall of President Bashar Assad’s government. Sweida has largely stayed out of the fighting in Syria’s 12-year civil war, a conflict that has killed half a million people, wounded hundreds of thousands and left parts of the country destroyed.

=> ↺ LRT ☛ After Kyiv sacks MoD, his successor will have to rebuild contacts – Lithuania’s Anušauskas

• Ukraine’s new defence minister will need to make efforts to build relations with Western leaders, says Lithuanian Defence Minister Arvydas Anušauskas commenting on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s decision to replace his Ukrainian counterpart Oleksiy Reznikov.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Romania ‘Categorically’ Denies Russian Drones Detonated on Romanian Territory

• Romania’s Defense Ministry “categorically” denies reports that Russian drones fell and detonated on Romanian territory early on September 4.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Ukrainian Defense Minister Reznikov Submits Resignation Letter

• Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov has submitted his resignation, paving the way for Rustem Umerov, a Ukrainian politician of Crimean Tatar origin, to take his place.

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ Graft in Ukraine Military Spending Becomes a Headache

• The removal of the defense minister highlights the enduring challenge of corruption in Ukraine, which has emerged as a rare area of criticism of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s leadership.

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ Ukraine Arrests Oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky Amid Corruption Inquiry

• The detention of Ihor Kolomoisky came as Ukraine steps up efforts to punish graft and make its case for closer integration with the European Union.

=> ↺ NYPost ☛ Ukraine claims Russian kamikaze drones exploded in NATO member Romania

• Romania “categorically” denied the Russian drone strike inside its territory.

=> ↺ Federal News Network ☛ Russia’s Putin says there will be no new grain deal until the West meets his demands

• Russian President Vladimir Putin says a landmark deal that allowed Ukraine to export grain safely through the Black Sea amid the war won’t be restored until the West meets Moscow’s demands on its own agricultural exports. Putin’s remarks dashed hopes that his talks Monday with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan could revive the agreement.

=> ↺ Neritam ☛ Did Putin Have A Reasonable Choice To Invade Ukraine?

• Cornel West promise to ussr, nato will not expand. now 14 soviet countries are in nato. 2014 coup in ukraine. 14k people died to put a puppet government in keiv. 8 years of killing russians in Donbas .

=> ↺ France24 ☛ 🔴 Live: No new grain deal until West meets Russia’s demands, says Putin

• Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that the deal that allowed Ukraine to export grain safely through the Black Sea won’t be restored until the West meets Moscow’s demands to facilitate Russian agricultural exports. Putin made the statement after talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Russian port city of Sochi.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Erdogan Dismisses Alternatives To Grain Deal After Putin Meeting As Russian Drones Target Ukrainian Port

• Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said after a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin that Ankara is against alternative proposals to the Black Sea Grain Initiative that it brokered last year with the United Nations to ensure Ukrainian grain exports to countries that need them.

=> ↺ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Putin says he won’t renew the grain deal until the West meets his demands. The West says it has

• Ukraine and its Western allies have dismissed the Kremlin’s demands as a ploy to advance its own interests.

=> ↺ CS Monitor ☛ Putin dashes hopes of new Ukraine grain deal after talks with Erdoğan

• The Russian president says a deal that allowed Ukraine to export grain amid the war won’t be restored until the West meets Moscow’s demands on its own agricultural exports.

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ Russia-Ukraine War: Putin and Erdogan Meet, Showcasing Cooperation but Little Progress on Grain Deal

• Hours before the Russian and Turkish leaders met, Moscow’s forces attacked Ukraine’s southern Odesa region with drones, damaging grain infrastructure.

=> ↺ NYPost ☛ Ukraine replaces defense minister as Zelensky vows crackdown on wartime corruption

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced plans to replace his defense minister — a major administration shake-up coming just over a month after he vowed to crack down on wartime corruption.

=> ↺ France24 ☛ 🔴 Live: Zelensky discusses ‘functioning’ of Black Sea grain corridor with Macron

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and French President Emmanuel Macron spoke Sunday, discussing the “functioning” of a Black Sea corridor set up by Kyiv for the safe navigation of ships after Moscow exited a landmark grain deal.

=> ↺ JURIST ☛ Ukraine tycoon arrested for fraud and money laundering during anti-corruption investigation

• Ukraine’s main security agency, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), published a statement on Saturday handing criminal charges to Ihor Kolomoisky related to money laundering and fraud in his oil and gas holdings. Local news reported that the Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kyiv ordered Kolomoisky to be held until the end of October.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ ‘New Approaches Needed’: Zelenskiy To Replace Ukraine’s Defense Minister In Surprise Move

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said late on September 3 that he has decided to replace Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov with Rustem Umerov, a Ukrainian politician of Crimean Tatar origin, in a surprising move as Kyiv’s forces press on with their counteroffensive against Russia’s invasion.

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ Who Is Rustem Umerov, Zelensky’s Nominee for Ukraine’s Defense Minister?

• Though a member of an opposition political party, Mr. Umerov has taken on several critical roles for the Zelensky government since the Russian invasion last year.

=> ↺ Latvia ☛ Latvian alphabet series offered to Russian-speakers

• Our colleagues at the LSM Russian-language service have a new offering for Russian-speakers: a guide to Latvia old via the 33 letters of the Latvian alphabet.

=> ↺ Latvia ☛ Russia-backed hackers attack Latvian cyberspace

• Latvia’s national cyber-security agency, CERT.LV, said September 4 that “today several hacktivist groups supported by Russia are carrying out large-scale cyber attacks against institutions in the state, financial and healthcare sectors.”

=> ↺ Latvia ☛ Businesses claim lack of state support in exiting Russian market

• “Come get state aid and we will help you exit the Russian and Belarusian market” – such calls to entrepreneurs have publicly been heard from the Ministry of Economics. Entrepreneurs, on the other hand, are frustrated that the previous export refocusing aid program is already closing, but the new one has still not started, and the process of coordination is too slow, according to a Latvian Television report September 2.

=> ↺ Federal News Network ☛ Swedish citizen goes on trial on charges of collecting information for Russia

• The trial has opened in Stockholm of a Russia-born Swedish citizen charged with collecting information for the Russian military intelligence service GRU for almost a decade. Sergey Skvortsov is accused of “gross illegal intelligence activities against Sweden and against a foreign power,” according to prosecutor Henrik Olin. He identified the foreign power as the United States. The 60-year-old Skvortsov appeared Monday before the Stockholm District Court. Skvortsov was arrested in November together with his wife in a predawn operation in Nacka, outside Stockholm. She was later released without charge. Skvortsov denies any wrongdoing. It is the second trial in recent years of people accused of spying on Sweden for Russia.

=> ↺ LRT ☛ Lithuanian Badminton Federation opposes return of Russian, Belarusian athletes

• The Lithuanian Badminton Federation (LBF) has said it does not approve of the Badminton World Federation’s decision to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to return to international competitions from next February.

=> ↺ RFA ☛ Russia proposes joint naval drill with China, North Korea

• Defense chief raised the idea to the North in his recent visit, said South Korean spies.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Former Navalny Associate Says Family Attacked In Argentina, Warned To ‘Stay Away’ From Russia

• Russian opposition economist Maksim Mironov, a former associate of imprisoned opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, said his family was attacked in Buenos Aires when an unidentified man hit his wife in the face while she was walking their 10-month-old son and told her to “stay away” from Russia.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Russian Court In Novosibirsk Sentences Five Soldiers For Leaving Unit

• A Russian court in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk sentenced five soldiers to prison time for leaving their military units after being mobilized.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Russian-Swede On Trial Suspected Of Spying For Russia

• A Russian-Swede arrested last year in a dramatic dawn raid on his quiet suburban home goes on trial in Stockholm on September 4 accused of passing Western technology to Russia’s military.

Environment

Energy/Transportation

=> ↺ teleSUR ☛ Energy Security Platform is Presented at ASEAN Business Summit

• It could provide Russian energy companies with access to an additional US$170 billion economically orientated market⁠.

=> ↺ YLE ☛ Finland not planning to limit operations of Russia-based taxi firm Yango

• Finland’s Data Protection Ombudsman has temporarily ordered Yango to stop the transfer and processing of personal data of customer data from Finland to Russia.

=> ↺ Alan Pope ☛ Alan Pope: Using bimmer connected with my Mini

• tl;dr I own an BEV (Battery Electric Vehicle) BMW Mini. I previously wrote and talked about getting a ’takeout’ of my car charging data from BMW, and putting it into Axiom to answer some common questions from the ‘EV Curious’. I’m now getting ongoing data from the car, but I had to use 3rd party tools to do it.

Finance

=> ↺ Latvia ☛ Wage rise in Latvia not enough to cover price hikes, say economists

• Average wages in Latvia rose to EUR 1,114 net in Q2 of this year, but it still does not compensate for inflation and increases in various tariffs and prices, according to experts surveyed by Latvian Radio on September 4.

=> ↺ teleSUR ☛ Türkiye’s Annual Inflation Rate Climbs to 58.94 Pct in August

• Previously, the central bank announced an interest rate hike from 17.5 percent to 25 percent to control inflation.

=> ↺ Turkey’s official inflation rate rises over 10 points in a month in August

• The Central Bank had raised its year-end inflation forecast to 58% in July. Inflation has already exceeded this rate, having surged by 20 points in the past two months.

=> ↺ Forbes ☛ Big Companies—From CVS To Yellow Corp.—Laid Off More Than 65,000 This Summer

• More than 65,000 U.S. employees lost their jobs in major job cuts this summer, according to Forbes’ layoff tracker, as recession fears and economic uncertainty continued to prompt employers to re-adjust their head counts after more than 136,000 Americans were laid off in major layoffs over the first three months of the year (Forbes has been tracking the biggest layoffs this year).

=> ↺ HT Digital Streams Ltd ☛ ‘Return to Office’: Stark differences emerge across continents and cultures

• Companies, employees, and governments are still grappling with the changes to corporate life brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic. While Asian and European workers have largely returned to offices at a faster pace, their American counterparts are facing a range of policies.

=> ↺ Workers are Resisting Calls to Return to Offices

=> ↺ Consumer transaction volume fell 70% on Coinbase, troubling crypto – Business Insider

• Coinbase, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume, released its second-quarter earnings report on Thursday — and the results are less than favorable for crypto enthusiasts.

• Transaction volumes for consumers and institutions are down 70% and 54%, respectively, compared to Q2 2022.

AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

=> ↺ YLE ☛ Finns Party councillor resigns from party group following racist Facebook post

• Anna Koskela says she will continue to serve as an independent councillor, but will remain a member of the Finns Party.

=> ↺ Helsinki Times ☛ Anti-racism demonstration draws 11,000 people to central Helsinki

• AROUND 11,000 PEOPLE expressed their opposition to racism at a demonstration held in downtown Helsinki on Sunday, according to a joint estimate by police and the organisers.

• End the Silence!, the organiser of the demonstration, stated in a press release that the demonstration is an attempt to prompt the government and parliament to move from words to action in the fight against racism.

Censorship/Free Speech

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Iranian Professor Dismissed Amid Purge Ahead Of Amini’s Death Anniversary

• Behrouz Chamanara, a professor at Kurdistan University in western Iran, has been dismissed following a directive from the Ministry of Intelligence as officials continue to attack academics for their support of protests over the death of a young woman in police custody.

Civil Rights/Policing

=> ↺ OpenRightsGroup ☛ UK Online Safety Bill will mandate dangerous age verification for much of the web

• Under new age verification rules in the UK’s massive Online Safety Bill, all internet platforms with UK users will have to stop minors from accessing ‘harmful’ content, as defined by the UK Parliament.

=> ↺ France24 ☛ Far-right militants in Greece illegally ‘arrest’ migrants they blame for fires

• Two videos posted online on August 23 show Greek members of the extreme right illegally “arresting” migrants in Evros, a Greek region bordering Turkey. The footage shows the militants forcing one group of men to sit in the dirt. Another group of terrified migrants have been crammed into a trailer. While members of the far right have carried out this type of illegal arrest of migrants before, it is rare to have footage of it. The attackers accuse the migrants of being responsible for the widespread fires in the region. These militiamen feel empowered by the political context hostile to migrants, say our Observers.

=> ↺ Federal News Network ☛ UAW’s clash with Big 3 automakers shows off a more confrontational union as strike deadline looms

• A 46% pay raise. A 32-hour week with 40 hours of pay. A restoration of traditional pensions. The demands that a more combative United Auto Workers union has pressed on General Motors, Stellantis and Ford are edging it closer to a strike when its contract ends Sept. 14. The automakers, which are making billions in profits, have dismissed the UAW’s wish list. They argue that its demands are unrealistic at a time of fierce competition as the world shifts from internal combustion engines to electric vehicles. The wide gulf between the sides could mean a strike against one or more of the automakers, which could send already-inflated vehicle prices even higher.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Afghan Women On Hunger Strike In Germany To Protest Taliban’s ‘Gender Apartheid’

• A group of Afghan women’s rights activists have launched a hunger strike in Germany to protest against the policies of the ruling Taliban that limit the rights and freedoms of Afghan women.

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ A History of Labor Day

• President Grover Cleveland made it a national holiday in 1894, during a crisis over federal efforts to end a strike by railroad workers.

Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

=> ↺ APNIC ☛ The Internet Landscape of Japan

• Guest Post: An overview of current Internet operations in Japan.

Monopolies

Patents

=> ↺ JUVE ☛ Panel preview: The judges behind the UPC’s first major hearing [Ed: UPC is illegal and unconstitutional, but JUVE has received bribes to legitimise this crime and keep pushing this utterly absurd agency that shames the EU and helps the EPO spread its corruption]

• Tomorrow, US-based biotechnology company 10x Genomics is seeking a PI against NanoString’s CosMx Spatial Molecular Imager (SMI) instruments and CosMx reagents for RNA detection, over EP 4 108 782 B1. The PI was one of the first ever filed at the UPC (case ID: ACT_459746/2023 UPC_CFI_2/2023).

Copyrights

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ Folk Implosion Returns With ‘Music for Kids’

• Lou Barlow and John Davis made tracks for the 1995 cultural flashpoint. They split after a 1999 LP, but reunited during the pandemic, and made plans to release more songs.

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