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GNU/Linux

Audiocasts/Shows

=> ↺ Open Source Security (Audio Show) ☛ Free Software Security Podcast Episode 392 – Curl and the calamity of CVE

• Josh and Kurt talk about why CVE is making the news lately. Things are not well in the CVE program, and it’s not looking like anything will get fixed anytime soon. Josh and Kurt have a unique set of knowledge around CVE.

Kernel Space

=> ↺ 9to5Linux ☛ Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.6 Release Candidate

• It’s been two weeks since the release of Linux kernel 6.5, which means that the merge window for Linux kernel 6.6 is now officially closed and the first Release Candidate is now available for download for early adopters, developers, and everyone else who wants to get an early taste of the next major Linux release.

• Linux kernel 6.6 will come with many new features and improved hardware support, as expected from a new kernel series. Some highlights include new Intel IVSC MEI drivers, a new firmware-attributes driver for changing BIOS settings from within Linux on HP devices, charger mode, middle fan and eGPU settings support for ASUS devices, and keyboard backlight control support for more Lenovo IdeaPad devices.

=> ↺ LWN ☛ Linux 6.6-rc1

=> ↺ LWN ☛ Kernel prepatch 6.6-rc1

Applications

=> ↺ TechRepublic ☛ 8 Best Network Monitoring Tools for 2023

• The best network monitoring tools include Zabbix, Datadog and Cacti.

Instructionals/Technical

=> ↺ Make Use Of ☛ 8 Essential Docker Commands for Beginners

• Docker containers collect app configurations into units that can run seamlessly across environments.

• Docker provides a variety of commands to run its operations. You can use these commands to easily create, run, stop, remove, and manage Docker containers.

=> ↺ XDA ☛ How to install Chrome on Ubuntu

• Google Chrome is one of the most popular web browsers, and you can use it on Ubuntu, too by installing it with a few simple clicks

=> ↺ Trend Oceans ☛ How to Fix Package is in a Very Bad Inconsistent State Error?

• Stuck in a situation where you are not able to remove packages from your system due to an inconsistent state error, then let me guide you through the steps to resolve this issue.

• While working on the terminal, you may get into several types of errors, like unmet dependencies, when the package is not able to find the dependencies for the required application and fails to install it.

• Like this error, there is one more error: “package is in a very bad inconsistent”.

=> ↺ OSTechNix ☛ How to Configure Network Bonding or Teaming on RHEL

• Bonding is a Linux kernel feature that allows multiple network interfaces (such as ens192, ens224) to be aggregated into a single virtual network interface called channel bonding (bond0). It increases the throughput and provide redundancy.

• Network bonding supports 7 modes and you can configure it based on your requirements. Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP – Mode 4 (802.3ad)) mode is widely used because it supports link aggregation and redundancy.

=> ↺ ID Root ☛ How to Use ping Command on Linux

• In the intricate web of interconnected devices that form the modern digital landscape, network connectivity is the lifeblood. From sending an email to streaming your favorite shows, virtually everything relies on the uninterrupted flow of data across the vast expanse of the internet.

Distributions and Operating Systems

Reviews

=> ↺ Distro Watch ☛ Review: SDesk 2023.08.12

• When I’m evaluating projects I tend to keep two questions in mind. One is whether the distribution accomplishes its goal. This is tricky to decide in SDesk’s case because the distribution doesn’t appear to have a specific goal or niche. The distribution seems to be aiming to be an ultra-modern, desktop-oriented, Arch-based project. However, it doesn’t seem to set itself apart from the other approximately twenty Arch-based desktop distributions which do the same thing. Most of them run cutting-edge packages, use the Calamares installer, and a fairly small set of default applications. SDesk mostly does the same thing, but has more rough edges when it comes to the live media and default settings.

• In other words I believe SDesk accomplishes its goal, but has a ways to go before it will feel polished and on par with other distributions in the same category.

• The other main criteria I look at is how well the operating suits my needs. Can I fire it up and just start working? Is it easy to get the software I want? Do I pause and disable annoying notifications and animations? The more the experience becomes seamless for me, making me forget about the operating system while I work, the happier I am. SDesk was the opposite of seamless in my trial.

• Some of the issues, I suspect, were hardware related. The regular crashing in the virtual machine and the lock-ups on my laptop, for example, were probably just unfortunate driver/compatibility issues. Other users likely won’t encounter the same problems when it comes to maintaining a stable GNOME session.

• However, there were other problems which kept showing up during my trial. GNOME Classic offered decent performance, but GNOME Shell did not and both were unusually heavy desktop environments. Apart from Ubuntu running GNOME and ZFS, I haven’t seen memory stats this high before on a Linux distribution. Having the software centre not work with the underlying, native package manager was annoying and possibly a security concern.

• There were lesser issues, like the installer demanding a complex password when most installers are content to let the user determine their own level of password security. Having the GNOME X11 session on the live media not work was another concern, especially when some users still have trouble running Wayland sessions, depending on their hardware.

• SDesk is young, it hasn’t had time to mature yet. Hopefully it does and sorts out some of the issues, adds more documentation, provides checksums for its media, and polishes the live media. For now, I’d say it’s not yet ready to compete with other Arch-based desktop distributions, but perhaps a future release will catch up with the rest of the pack.

Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications

=> ↺ SamMobile ☛ Galaxy A25 5G spotted featuring Exynos 1280 and Android 14 – SamMobile

=> ↺ SamMobile ☛ Galaxy A54 getting Android 14 (One UI 6.0) beta update in the UK – SamMobile

=> ↺ Make Use Of ☛ How to Improve Your Hearing Using an Android Phone

=> ↺ SlashGear ☛ How To Fake Your GPS Location On Android

=> ↺ Giz China ☛ How to Block Invasive Ads on Google Chrome for Android

Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

=> ↺ IT Pro Today ☛ Are We Approaching the End of Open Source?

• New threats to open source emerge, casting doubts about its long-term future.

Openness/Sharing/Collaboration

Open Access/Content

=> ↺ CS Monitor ☛ Knowledge sharers: Guatemalan farms, tech firms mapping illegal fishing

• Progress roundup: In Guatemala, farmers go to school to teach each other. And tech firms are cooperating on open-source maps to spot illegal fishing.

Programming/Development

=> ↺ [Old] Mike Blumenkrantz: Mayor Of Compilertown

• As every one of my big brained readers knows, zink runs on top of vulkan. As you also know, vulkan uses spirv for its shaders. This means, in general, compiler-y stuff in zink tries to stay as close to spirv mechanics as possible.

=> ↺ Trail Of Bits ☛ [Old] The future of Clang-based tooling

• By Peter Goodman Clang is a marvelous compiler; it’s a compiler’s compiler! But it isn’t a toolsmith’s compiler. As a toolsmith, my ideal compiler would be an open book, allowing me to get to everywhere from anywhere.

=> ↺ [Old] James G ☛ A Visual Introduction to VisionScript

• I am working on a new programming language called VisionScript. VisionScript gives you the power to build computer vision applications in a few lines of code, or through a drag and drop interface. Count objects in an image in three lines of code. Remove all the faces in an image with four lines of code. Read a QR code in three lines of code. Classify an image in three lines of code. VisionScript is designed to be as concise as possible.

=> ↺ Rlang ☛ Four Filters for Functional (Programming) Friends

• I’m part of a local Functional Programming Meetup group which hosts talks, but also coordinates social meetings where we discuss all sorts of FP-related topics including Haskell and other languages.

=> ↺ Nikhil Marathe ☛ Working through Gossip Glomers in Racket

• Gossip Glomers is a series of distributed systems programming challenges from Fly.io. It uses Maelstrom, a platform for describing test workloads that can run your programs as distributed systems nodes. Maelstrom workloads can provide inputs to these nodes (as if they are arriving over a network), inject delays and partitions and then check that your system still satisfies the invariants of each challenge.

=> ↺ Rlang ☛ Exploring the Power of the curve() Function in R

• In the vast world of R programming, there are numerous functions that provide powerful capabilities for data visualization and analysis.

=> ↺ [Old] TechRepublic ☛ TIOBE Index News (August 2023): Programming Language Julia Makes a Strong Showing

• Explore the programming language Julia, which is suited to machine learning applications, and other details of the most popular languages today.

=> ↺ [Old] Rlang ☛ The intersect() function in R

• Welcome to another exciting blog post where we delve into the world of R programming. Today, we’ll be discussing the intersect() function, a handy tool that helps us find the common elements shared between two or more vectors in R.

=> ↺ Rlang ☛ Unveiling Data Distribution Patterns with stripchart() in R

• Data visualization is a powerful tool that allows us to uncover patterns and insights within datasets. One such tool in the R programming arsenal is the stripchart() function.

=> ↺ James G ☛ How minimal is too minimal? Brainstorming syntax for VisionScript

• Yesterday evening I was thinking about syntax for VisionScript, the programming language on which I am working. My goal is to make the syntax as intuitive as possible while retaining a clear structure. As an aside, VisionScript got to the front-page of Hacker News (HN). I was humbled, excited; indeed, elated. Thank you for being so amazing, HN community! If you haven’t seen it, check out the demo for the language.

=> ↺ Evan Hahn ☛ “JavaScript and the farmer emoji”: my talk at the Chicago JavaScript Meetup

• It’s about Unicode, JavaScript, and the farmer emoji.

=> ↺ TechRepublic ☛ Watsonx Code Assistant Adds COBOL-to-Java Translations on IBM Z

• Generative AI comes to mainframe application modernization with a model trained on more than 80 code languages and 1.5 trillion tokens of data.

=> ↺ Rlang ☛ making the next meeting more productive

• One of the students’ requests I almost invariably reject is code debugging (and they are warned about it from the start).

=> ↺ Mastering DNSwalk: A Powerful Zone Transfer Tool

• Overview of dnswalk dnswalk is a DNS debugger.

=> ↺ [Old] KDAB ☛ KDAB Training Day before Qt World Summit 2023

• The KDAB Training Day will be back in Berlin on November 27th this year, right before the annual Qt World Summit, which will happen November 28-29th.

=> ↺ Rlang ☛ Insights on R Package Quality and Validation for Clinical Trials

• Moving away from proprietary languages, Roche has made a notable decision to freeze their legacy macros library. With great enthusiasm, they now embrace R as the primary framework for evidence generation in late-stage clinical trials, and they remain open to exploring additional open-source languages in this evolving landscape.

=> ↺ Rlang ☛ Exploring Multivariate Data with Principal Component Analysis (PCA) Biplot in R

• When it comes to analyzing multivariate data, Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a powerful technique that can help us uncover hidden patterns, reduce dimensionality, and gain valuable insights.

=> ↺ [Old] Jon Udell ☛ A new series on LLM-assisted coding

• In the 20th episode of my Mastodon series I pivoted to a new topic: LLM-assisted coding. After three posts in the new series, it got picked up by The New Stack.

=> ↺ MJ Fransen ☛ Migrate notes in Emacs from Deft to Denote

• Deft for Emacs is a mode for quickly browsing, filtering, and editing directories of plain text notes.

• Deft applies auto saving, so changes are committed to disk automagically.

• I have been using Deft for personal notes. All my notes in Deft are in org mode format. Most notes are just plain text, without links or any other fancy stuff.

• I do use two to three levels of headers, and sometimes bullets.

• Deft offers some methods to search in your notes, but I have not used that often. Just browsing the file names in the directory is most of the time enough to find what I am looking for.

• Deft starts with a buffer listing the notes, sorted by last modified date. The most recent modified file is shown on top of the list, the oldest modified file at the bottom. This feature of Deft I like most.

Perl / Raku

=> ↺ Rakulang ☛ rakudoweekly 2023.35 October Conferencing

• It’s official! The Third Online Raku Conference will be held on 28 October 2023. Please register your presentation before 15 October! And/or get your online ticket, not only for immediate interactive access, but also to support this event!

=> ↺ Rakulang ☛ 2023.36 Slimline September

• The Exercism people published a video about programming languages with terse, concise syntax, and the Raku Programming Language is one of them! If you don’t want too look at the whole hour-long video, these are the Raku related bits: Steve’s Corner Steve Roe continued their personal journey along the Raku path with “Drax on Jupyter“.

=> ↺ Rakulang ☛ 2023.34 September Exercism

• Mienaikage would like your support in promoting the Raku Programming Language on exercism.org, as Raku will be one of the featured languages in “Slimline September”. Seems like an excellent opportunity to help get more Rakoons!

=> ↺ [Old] Rakulang ☛ 2023.32 RakuDoc Gamma

• Richard Hainsworth has started the third stage of revising the POD6 standard to the new RakuDoc standard: RakuDoc revision open to comment. This invites anybody, both inside and outside of the Raku Community, to comment on the proposed definition of RakuDoc, either to the blog post, on /r/rakulang or in the associated problem solving issue.

=> ↺ [Old] Rakulang ☛ 2023.30 MoreVids

• Since last week, some Raku Programming Language related videos of lightning talks from TPRC 2023 have become available: All other videos are also available, or course.

=> ↺ [Old] Rakulang ☛ 2023.28 Composition

• Vadim Belman provided an extensive introduction into Type and Object Composition in the Raku Programming Language.

=> ↺ Rakulang ☛ 2023.33 Gremlin Time

• Hillel Wayne published a blog post called “Raku: A Language for Gremlins – By Gremlins, For Gremlins™” in which they describe how they are at a loss of how to describe the Raku Programming Language, but would like it to succeed!

Leftovers

Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

=> ↺ Latvia ☛ Latvian hospitals say state-given funds are far from enough

• The government this week allocated €41.3 million to address the emergency financial situation in the health sector. Of that amount, €15 million has been allocated to hospitals. This will be only a small payoff for the treatment of patients in severe condition, Jevgēņijs Kalējs, head of the hospital association, told Latvian Radio on September 7.

=> ↺ Scoop News Group ☛ Cyber professionals say industry urgently needs to confront mental health crisis

• There’s a growing awareness about mental health across the industry, but many professionals told CyberScoop it’s not enough.

=> ↺ YLE ☛ Finland’s largest wellbeing county begins restructuring talks affecting 20,000 workers

• The regional healthcare provider in Pirkanmaa faces a deficit of 95 million euros this year, with negotiations expected to lead to the loss of up to 500 jobs.

=> ↺ EDRI ☛ Imposter Syndrome in Activism: How Do We Cope? The Wellbeing Monthly Workshops Series

• This session is part of The Wellbeing Monthly, a monthly virtual workshop will be led by diverse mental health professionals, and will focus on psychoeducation and coping mechanisms on diverse topics including anxiety and fear, guilt and survivors guilt, defeat and hopelessness, trauma, and burnout and stress.

=> ↺ NYPost ☛ Irish parents take action on smartphones amid soaring concerns over children’s mental health

• Ireland’s health minister has argued for a nationwide version of Greystones’ policy.

=> ↺ Helsinki Times ☛ Reducing mobile phone use aims for better brain health at Arabia primary school

• Arabian Primary School in Helsinki has initiated a pilot collaboration with the National Brain Health Program coordinated by the Brain Association (Aivoliitto), the Central Union for Child Welfare (Lastensuojelun Keskusliitto), and the University of Eastern Finland. The aim of this partnership is to support students’ well-being and brain health, including the reduction of mobile phone usage.

=> ↺ LRT ☛ Untreated postnatal depression leads to tragedies in Lithuania

• Officials continue to investigate the circumstances of the drowning of two girls in the Neris River. Their mother was reportedly behaving inappropriately and is suspected of murder. As similar cases are on the rise in Lithuania, the Health Ministry promises more help for women suffering from postnatal depression.

=> ↺ teleSUR ☛ Toxic Air Created by Maui Wildfire to Affect Health for Years

• Wildfire ash can irritate the eyes, nose, and skin, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

=> ↺ Latvia ☛ Daugavpils hospital warns of impending bankruptcy

• Daugavpils Regional Hospital again raises alarm about money shortages. At the beginning of the year, when the hospital first warned of impending bankruptcy, it was estimated to lack €10 million this year. “Tightening the belt” and receiving aid from the country have reduced the figure to €7.6 million. The largest shareholder – the municipality – is concerned about the hospital nearing insolvency, Latvian Television reported September 4.

=> ↺ Helsinki Times ☛ People at risk of suicide not receiving adequate care

• MIELI ry’s helpline callers are facing increasingly severe situations, with more people dialing 112. While the number of suicides in Finland has halved since the economic downturn in the 1990s, the country still has the highest suicide rate in the Nordic region, with approximately 750 suicides annually.

• Suicidal thoughts have become more prevalent, as evidenced by the extensive “Terve Suomi” population study conducted by the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) in 2023.

=> ↺ YLE ☛ More young women in Finland getting breast reductions

• The Body Mass Index (BMI) thresholds for surgery vary depending on healthcare region.

=> ↺ The WHO endorses quackery…even homeopathy!

• The World Health Organization concluded its First WHO Traditional Medicine Global Summit ten days ago. The conference was co-hosted by the Indian government and held in Gandhinagar, India, where the WHO had set up a Global Centre for Traditional Medicine, with help from $250 million from the Indian government. Unfortunately, as we have long lamented, the WHO has long had a penchant for promoting “traditional medicine,” particularly Traditional Chinese Medicine but also Ayurveda and others, as “evidence-based” and worthy of being “integrated” with science-based medicine, and this conference is just one more example of how far down that road the WHO has gone. To get an idea of how this meeting is being described and promoted by its stakeholders, I refer you to a statement by the Indian government released on August 17, the first day of the summit:

=> ↺ YLE ☛ THL: Childhood obesity linked to parents’ socioeconomic status

• Growing up in a low-income household in Finland increases a child’s likelihood of being overweight or obese, according to a new study by the Finnish institute for health and welfare.

=> ↺ Protest march in Hatay against water outages

• The earthquake survivors in Dursunlu neighborhood in Defne, Hatay say that there is no water in their neighborhood, and that people are forced to live under unhealthy conditions. “The shortage of water, combined with the increase in temperature, could expose the neighborhood to an outbreak,” they say.

=> ↺ Science Alert ☛ Acne-Causing Bacteria May Actually Be Vital For Healthy Skin, Expert Says

• They’re just trying to help.

=> ↺ Helsinki Times ☛ Study reveals link between healthier eating habits and enhanced cognitive development in children

• A comprehensive study conducted by researchers at the University of Eastern Finland has unveiled a noteworthy association between children’s dietary patterns, leisure activities, and cognitive development. The study’s findings suggest that children who adopt healthier eating habits, read more frequently, and engage in structured sports tend to exhibit enhanced reasoning skills during the initial years of schooling.

=> ↺ Kev Quirk ☛ Fat Boy at 40?

=> ↺ teleSUR ☛ Austrian Legislator Slams Japan’s Nuke Wastewater Decision

• “The contaminated wastewater in the global water cycle endangers our environment and the health of humans and animals,” Litschauer said.

=> ↺ teleSUR ☛ Africa: Unep Urges Solutions for Monitoring Air Pollution

• The UNEP official noted that even though household air pollution is declining, it still accounts for 60 percent of all air pollution-related deaths across Africa where polluting fuels such as charcoal and kerosene are prevalent.

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ Covid Hero or ‘Lockdown Ron’? DeSantis and Trump Renew Pandemic Politics

• The Florida governor has recently highlighted his state’s response to the coronavirus in hopes of striking some distance from Donald Trump.

=> ↺ NYPost ☛ NYPD overtime to be cut to help pay for migrant crisis — even as crime remains higher than before COVID

• Mayor Eric Adams’ budget director, Jacques Jiha, has told the city’s four uniformed agencies – police, fire, sanitation and corrections — to come up with plans to slash their OT costs.

=> ↺ Off Guardian ☛ How do we Reach the Brainwashed?

• You may recall that, during the thick of it in 2020-2021, Covidians were immune—no, that’s not the right metaphor—they were allergic to facts. They did not respond well even to the common sense statement that, since the C0Vld-19 shots hadn’t been through long-term trials, it might be unwise to take one.

Security

=> ↺ Associated Press ☛ Russian man with Kremlin ties gets 9 years in US prison for hacking and insider trading scheme

• A wealthy Russian businessman with ties to the Kremlin was sentenced Thursday to nine years in prison for his role in a nearly $100 million stock market cheating scheme that relied on secret earnings information stolen through the hacking of U.S. computer networks.

• Vladislav Klyushin, who ran a Moscow-based information technology company that did work for the highest levels of the Russian government, was convicted in February of charges including wire fraud and securities fraud after a two-week trial in federal court in Boston.

=> ↺ Massive ransomware attack on Sri Lanka’s state email domain

• All Government offices using the “gov.lk” email domain, including the Cabinet Office, have lost data from May 17 to August 26, 2023, after a massive ransomware attack, the Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) has confirmed.

• The virus could have affected around 5,000 email addresses, ICTA CEO Mahesh Perera said, admitting that there was no offline backup for around two-and-a-half month’s worth of data.

=> ↺ Unix Men ☛ Why Open Source Operating Systems Are Utilised by Hackers the Most?

• The popularity of open source operating systems (OS) is evident in various tech circles. However, it’s intriguing to note how they particularly resonate with the hacker community. Let’s delve deeper into the reasons why hackers find open source OSs to be their platform of choice.

Privacy/Surveillance

=> ↺ The Straits Times ☛ India’s personal data protection law welcomed but concerns raised over state surveillance

• The Act gives individuals the legal power to deny or grant approval for the use of their personal data.

=> ↺ Reason ☛ FBI Made ‘Inappropriate Use’ of Foreign Surveillance Program To Spy on Americans

• A White House panel says the FBI’s internal control over Section 702 databases are “insufficient to ensure compliance and earn the public’s trust.”

=> ↺ Off Guardian ☛ How the Government Weaponizes Surveillance to Silence Its Critics

• “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.”

=> ↺ EDRI ☛ Warnings from the UK: 24/7 racialised GPS surveillance

• Campaigners assembled outside Capita PLC’s Annual General Meeting in the City of London on Thursday 11 May are contesting the outsourcing company’s £114m contract to deliver 24/7 GPS monitoring services, used by the Home Office to surveil people without British citizenship.

=> ↺ EDRI ☛ Digital rights for civil society and civil society for digital rights: how surveillance technologies shrink civic spaces

• Digital technology has transformed civic spaces – online and offline. In our digital societies, characterised by injustice and power imbalances, technology contributes to shrinking civic spaces. And to defend civic spaces against surveillance, we need strong and resourced civil society organisations and movements.

=> ↺ Quartz ☛ New York police will use drones to monitor backyard parties this weekend, spurring privacy concerns

=> ↺ Off Guardian ☛ We’re All Suspects Under the Government’s Precrime Program

• “There is now the capacity to make tyranny total in America.” James Bamford, journalist We’re all being targeted now. We’re all guilty until proven innocent now.

=> ↺ Privacy International ☛ Civil society calls on EU to protect people’s rights in the AI Act ‘trilogue’ negotiations

=> ↺ Reason ☛ Massachusetts Considers Ban on Sale of Phone Location Data

• Abortion and privacy activists join over concerns that cell phones track our movements.

=> ↺ JURIST ☛ EU grants data transfer pact to US following tightening of US data protection standards

• The European Commission issued an adequacy decision on Monday regarding data transfers to the US. The decision means that the US has officially adopted an adequate data protection standard for the EU to participate in the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.

=> ↺ European Commission ☛ Data Protection: European Commission adopts new adequacy decision for safe and trusted EU-US data flows

• European Commission Press release Brussels, 10 Jul 2023 Today, the European Commission adopted its adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework.

=> ↺ European Commission ☛ Questions & Answers: EU-US Data Privacy Framework

• European Commission Questions and answers Brussels, 10 Jul 2023 On 10 July, the European Commission adopted its adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework.

=> ↺ European Commission ☛ EU-US Data Privacy Framework

• European Commission Factsheet Brussels, 10 Jul 2023 EU-US Data Privacy Framework EU-US Data Privacy Framework EU-US Data Privacy Framework

=> ↺ Scoop News Group ☛ EU adopts more robust data privacy agreement with US

• The decision provides some reassurance to US tech companies that have been in the EU’s crosshairs since Privacy Shield lapsed.

=> ↺ Scoop News Group ☛ Signal’s Meredith Whittaker: Breaking encryption while preserving privacy is ‘magical thinking’

• The Signal president spoke with CyberScoop about AI, encryption and the growing threat to privacy.

=> ↺ EDRI ☛ EU Parliament’s position on Directive combatting gender-based violence a step in the right direction, with some misses on protecting privacy

• Last week, the European Parliament agreed to their final position on the directive on combatting violence against women and domestic violence. While the overall outcome is a positive step towards safeguarding the rights of women and LGBTQ+ people online, the EU failed once again to account for encryption as a key tool to protect the privacy of threatened groups.

=> ↺ Silicon Angle ☛ Smarter shopping carts are coming but usability and privacy concerns loom

• A new version of the smarter shopping cart will be coming to a nearby market this fall. Thanks to various partnerships and technological innovations of Instacart Inc., the latest embodiment of what the company calls Caper Carts will be able to track purchases while shoppers navigate through the aisles.

=> ↺ Privacy International ☛ Submission to the UN Secretary General’s Report on the Human Rights of Migrants

=> ↺ JURIST ☛ India government introduces new digital privacy bill despite opposition concerns

• The Government of India introduced a new digital privacy bill in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of India’s Parliament, on Thursday after withdrawing a similar privacy bill last year. The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill,

=> ↺ [Old] CS Monitor ☛ An American nod to European privacy

• A deal on trans-Atlantic transfers of information emphasizes individual agency to control personal data.

=> ↺ Reason ☛ U.K. Government Finally Admits It Can’t Scan for Child Porn Without Violating Everybody’s Privacy

• A surveillance authority in the country’s troubling Online Safety Bill won’t be enforced, officials say. But for how long?

=> ↺ Scoop News Group ☛ UK lawmakers back down on encryption-busting ‘spy clause’

• Privacy experts warn that it still leaves the door open in the future for the UK to pursue encryption-breaking technologies.

=> ↺ Reason ☛ Protecting Kids on Social Media Act Cloaks Attack on Privacy Behind Concern for Children

• There are already people responsible for regulating children’s online activity: parents and guardians.

=> ↺ JURIST ☛ Kenya High Court halts Worldcoin data processing amid privacy concerns

• A high court in Nairobi on Saturday issued a directive ordering cryptocurrency project Worldcoin and its partners to halt the processing of any new biometric data in Kenya until a pending case against the company is formally heard and adjudicated.

=> ↺ Off Guardian ☛ WATCH: Take Back Our Tech – #SolutionsWatch

• Ramiro Romani of TakeBackOurTech.org and AbovePhone.com joins James Corbett on the latest edition of SolutionsWatch to discuss technology: what it is, how it works, and how we can make it work for us. They discuss how governments and big tech corporations are collaborating to undermine our rights to privacy, free expression…

=> ↺ Privacy International ☛ Submission to the OHCHR on the rights of persons with disabilities

=> ↺ JURIST ☛ UK technology secretary supports controversial online safety bill despite privacy concerns

• UK Secretary of State for Technology, Michelle Donelan MP, told the BBC on Thursday that she was still supported part of the Online Safety Bill that would require social media apps to access private messaging features. The state goal of these provision is to protect children and vulnerable people from harmful online content.

=> ↺ JURIST ☛ Norway data protection authority to fine Meta amid legal challenge

• Norwegian data protection agency Datatilsynet told Reuters on Monday that Meta will be fined 1 million kroner per day starting from August 14 if it does not comply with the agency’s requests.

=> ↺ Reason ☛ New Zealand Keeps Doxxing Registered Gun Owners

• The events expose an underappreciated downside to government registries: In addition to civil liberties concerns, so much information in a concentrated database is a potential privacy nightmare.

=> ↺ JURIST ☛ Kenya government suspends Worldcoin cryptosystem operations amidst investigations into privacy and legality

• The Kenyan government halted all Worldcoin-related activities on Wednesday while it conducted a thorough inquiry into the project’s legality and data protection practices.

=> ↺ [Old] Privacy International ☛ PI response to UK Government consultation on Technical Capabilities Notices

=> ↺ [Old] Scoop News Group ☛ Legislation preventing data broker sales to government agencies moves forward

• The bill may ultimately be included in a larger surveillance reform package aimed at reforming Section 702.

=> ↺ Vice Media Group ☛ [Old] Amazon Told Drivers Not to Worry About In-Van Surveillance Cameras. Now Footage Is Leaking Online

• Numerous posts on Reddit show surveillance videos of drivers’ actions on the road, but such recordings haven’t been posted so frequently before.

=> ↺ [Old] JURIST ☛ France lawmakers pass bill allowing remote surveillance despite civil liberties concerns

• The French National Assembly adopted a justice reform bill on Tuesday that would allow law enforcement to remotely activate devices’ cameras, microphones and location services for investigations of terrorism, organized crime or crimes punishable by five or more years in prison.

=> ↺ [Old] Reason ☛ Biden’s Flip-Flop on Warrantless Surveillance

• Plus: Montanans challenge ban on drag story hour, Arizona approves birth control without a prescription, and more…

Defence/Aggression

=> ↺ The Straits Times ☛ US B-1B bomber deployed for joint military drills with South Korea

• A U.S. B-1B bomber joined military drills by the United States and South Korea on Wednesday, the 10th such flight by an American bomber this year as the allies have stepped up responses to threats from North Korea.

=> ↺ France24 ☛ French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire speaks with FRANCE 24 from the G20 in India

• In an interview with FRANCE 24′s François Picard on the sidelines of the G20 in India, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said, “We have been pushing really hard with President Macron to have Africa around the table.” For Le Maire, the inclusion of the African Union was the major achievement of the G20, since the African countries have been the most hit by the Covid crisis, the war in Ukraine and the rise of inflation.

Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

=> ↺ Federal News Network ☛ Russian strikes on Ukraine kill 2 foreign aid workers and target Kyiv

• Two foreign aid workers have reportedly been killed in eastern Ukraine when Russian shelling hit a van carrying a team of four working with a Ukrainian NGO. The Road to Relief NGO identified one of the dead volunteers as Canadian Anthony Ihnat, while Spanish authorities said that 32-year-old Emma Igual had also been killed. Elsewhere, the head of Kyiv’s military administration said “over two dozen drones” launched by Russia were shot down early on Sunday, with debris scattering across the capital and wounding at least one person.

=> ↺ France24 ☛ G20 summit closes with Russia, Brazil and India boasting success

• Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrapped up Sunday a G20 summit that played down deep divisions over the war in Ukraine and climate change, but gave him a moment in the diplomatic spotlight.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Russian Torture Of Ukrainians Systemic, State-Endorsed Policy, UN Expert Says

• A UN expert said Russian torture of Ukrainians is so widespread that it is clearly a systematic, state-endorsed policy.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Russia Reports Sabotage Attempts At Polling Stations In Occupied Ukraine Amid ‘Sham’ Election

• Russian authorities on September 10 reported multiple attempts to sabotage voting in local elections taking place in occupied areas of Ukraine.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Excluding Russia From Grain Deal Talks Will Not Be Sustainable, Erdogan Says

• Any initiative to revive the Black Sea grain deal that isolates Russia is not likely to be sustainable, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a press briefing after the conclusion of the G20 summit in New Delhi.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Two Foreign Aid Workers Killed In Ukraine As Russian Drones Target Kyiv

• Two foreign aid workers were killed and two others wounded in eastern Ukraine, officials said on September 10, hours after at least one person was injured in fresh Russian air strikes on the capital, Kyiv.

=> ↺ YLE ☛ Satellite images: New buildings appear at Russian military bases near Finnish border

• Satellite images obtained by Yle show that Russia has erected large new buildings at military bases near the Finnish border. Meanwhile, more equipment has been transferred from Petrozavodsk for the war against Ukraine.

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ Wang Fang Criticized for Mariupol Performance

• The singer Wang Fang drew criticism after she performed “Katyusha,” a Soviet-era patriotic song, at the ruins of a theater in Mariupol.

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ Russia Targets Ukraine’s Capital With Barrage of Drones

• The attack, which Ukraine said it had foiled, is the latest in a campaign apparently intended to destroy infrastructure and demoralize the local population.

=> ↺ Atlantic Council ☛ Experts react: Did India’s G20 just crack the code for diplomatic consensus?

• The Russian and Chinese leaders were not at the summit, but that did not stop the Group of Twenty leaders from approving an eighty-three-paragraph declaration that added the African Union to the group.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Israeli Spy Chief Says Iran’s Attempts To Supply Russia With Missiles ‘Foiled’

• The head of Israel’s intelligence agency said on September 10 that Iran’s attempts to supply Russia with missiles had been foiled, The Times of Israel reported.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Russia’s Regions Boost Spending By Half On Security Services, Police Amid Growing Repression

• Russia’s regions have ramped up spending this year on national security and law enforcement as the state intensifies its crackdown on any form of dissent amid a failing war, according to a new report.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Russian Trade Said To Be Surging, Approaching Prewar Levels, Despite Sweeping Sanctions

• Trade at Russia’s three largest ports has been surging and is approaching prewar levels despite sweeping sanctions by the Group of Seven (G7) leading economies, according to a new report.

=> ↺ YLE ☛ Häkkänen: Construction at nearby Russian military sites not a threat to Finland

• The defence minister said that new construction at Russian military sites near the border do not pose a threat to Finland. Häkkänen was responding to a report by Yle on Sunday showing new buildings at two nearby Russian army sites.

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ Viktor Bout, Russia’s ‘Merchant of Death,’ Turns to Politics

• The convicted arms trafficker Viktor A. Bout hasn’t much flair for retail politicking, but his celebrity may compensate for that in regional elections.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Brazil Says Putin Would Not Be Arrested At 2024 G20 Meeting

• Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on September 9 that Russian leader Vladimir Putin would not be arrested in Brazil if he attended the Group of 20 (G20) meeting of major economies in Rio de Janeiro next year.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Putin Wants Release Of Hitman In Exchange For U.S. Prisoners Held In Russia, WSJ Says

• President Vladimir Putin wants the release of a Russian special-forces hitman convicted of murder in Germany in exchange for U.S. prisoners such as Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, the newspaper reported, citing Western officials.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Guard At One Of Putin’s Palaces Flees To Ecuador, Criticizes War And Kremlin Leader

• A guard at one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s residences in occupied Crimea has fled to Ecuador, calling the Kremlin leader a war criminal.

Environment

Energy/Transportation

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ As Teens Take to E-Bikes, Parents Ask: Is This Freedom or Danger?

• Across the country, parents are expressing a mix of enthusiasm, contrition and uncertainty about the trendy mode of transportation.

=> ↺ YLE ☛ Finland becomes a European leader in heat pump adoption

• According to the European Heat Pump Association, the popularity of the low-emission devices has been spurred by climate concerns and Russia’s attack on Ukraine.

Finance

=> ↺ [Old] YLE ☛ Survey: Worker shortage holding back Finnish firms’ growth [Ed: Shortage in pay? Deficit in working conditions? Does Yle intentionally promote nonsense?]

• Around 80 percent of the firms said they increasingly use perks like hybrid working arrangements and bonuses to keep workers onboard.

AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

=> ↺ Twitter Downloads, Usage Sinks Under Elon Musk Ownership

• The platform, renamed X, is seeing a steady decline in usage as Elon Musk continues to alter its function and tone.

Censorship/Free Speech

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Uzbek Blogger Known For Criticism Of President Mirziyoev Goes On Trial

• The Mirobod district court in Tashkent started the trial of Uzbek investigative blogger Abduqodir Mominov, who is known for his criticism of President Shavkat Mirziyoev, on charges of extortion, bribery, violation of privacy, and violation of regulations for trade and providing services.

Monopolies

Copyrights

=> ↺ Digital Music News ☛ Ghostwriter Returns with Travis Scott & 21 Savage Bootleg AI Mash-Up

• Ghostwriter—the anonymous creator behind the Drake/The Weeknd mash-up—is back with another bootleg AI creation. This one features Travis Scott and 21 Savage. The creator posted the mash-up to TikTok, featuring Travis Scott and 21 Savage rapping together on a track titled “Whiplash.”

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