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⦿ ChatGPT’s Decline is Continuing and New Studies Show That It Sucks (Pure Hype) | Techrights
⦿ IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 08, 2023 | Techrights
⦿ Canonical Already Behaving Like Microsoft Subsidiary (But No Takeover/Acquisition Announced) | Techrights
⦿ Microsoft is Breached Thoroughly and Widely, But the Mainstream Media Hardly Talks About That | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2023/08/09/chatgpt-pure-hype/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/09/irc-log-080823/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/09/microsoft-canonical-marketing/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/09/microsoft-security-dumpster-fire/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2023/08/09/gnu-linux-market-growth/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/09/joy-of-creative-effort/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/09/risk-of-proprietary-web-apps/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/09/wordpress-6-3-lionel-released/#comments
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✐ ChatGPT’s_Decline_is_Continuing_and_New_Studies_Show_That_It_Sucks_(Pure
Hype)⠀✐
Posted in Deception at 12:12 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Wasting Time With LLMs
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/llm-hype-vs-reality.webm
Summary: Microsoft’s months-long effort to distract from mass_layoffs with
something it calls “HEY HI” (AI) but_isn't may be coming to an end (facts
overcome perception management)
THE seemingly endless and paid-for hype in the media created a bubble;
companies rebranded as “HEY HI” (AI) to attain imaginary valuations, based on
products that did not exist or were falsely advertised. Now, months later, the
hype is gone and the bubble_is_imploding (ChatGPT is losing users at a rapid
rate).
ChatGPT was never impressive; it was just marketed as “impressive” by media
that got paid to say it was impressive, causing a sort of “fear of missing out”
(FOMO).
ChatGPT will probably never even get much of a mention next year. What about
other glorified “brands” from Microsoft/’Open’AI? Well, try to name one. Which
one other than ChatGPT? In terms of usage, it’s going down and down every
month. Right now it’s in the red again:
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇SimilarWeb_OpenAI⦈_
Way past its peak
As it turns out, based on research from Purdue, there’s_not_only_a
disinformation_issue_when_it_comes_to_text but also code. To quote:
The Purdue team analyzed ChatGPT’s answers to 517 Stack Overflow
questions to assess the correctness, consistency, comprehensiveness,
and conciseness of ChatGPT’s answers. The US academics also conducted
linguistic and sentiment analysis of the answers, and questioned a
dozen volunteer participants on the results generated by the model.
“Our analysis shows that 52 percent of ChatGPT answers are incorrect
and 77 percent are verbose,” the team’s paper concluded.
“Nonetheless, ChatGPT answers are still preferred 39.34 percent of
the time due to their comprehensiveness and well-articulated language
style.” Among the set of preferred ChatGPT answers, 77 percent were
wrong.
Well, that simple observation, and combined with the fact that it is plagiarism
as a service, should remind people not to bother with ChatGPT, both for
practical and legal reasons. Remember the_ongoing_class_action_lawsuit. █
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✐ Canonical_Already_Behaving_Like_Microsoft_Subsidiary_(But_No_Takeover/
Acquisition_Announced)⠀✐
Posted in Marketing, Microsoft, Ubuntu at 6:06 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Months ago: MS_(Mark_Shuttleworth)_as_a_Microsoft_Salesperson
This week (yesterday):
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on_Azure⦈_
Summary: Mark Shuttleworth’s Canonical is doing marketing for Microsoft; this
isn’t a company that will participate in any antitrust action against Microsoft
as Microsoft pays it not to
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.NET in Ubuntu and Chiseled Containers – Canonical & Microsoft
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Talks_About_That⠀✐
Posted in Deception, Microsoft, Security, Windows at 12:39 am by Dr. Roy
Schestowitz
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Microsoft Cracked
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http://techrights.org/videos/microrosft-megabreach.webm
Summary: The security dumpster fire known as Microsoft is rearing its ugly head
again and it’s time to talk about how the_media_has_helped_Microsoft_shift_the
blame
THREE years ago we published a long series about how Microsoft Windows was
killing a lot of people in_hospitals. We estimated that back then in 2020
Microsoft had killed far more than COVID-19 had killed and nothing has improved
since then.
“Microsoft prioritises back doors rather than security.”Our News Roundup (or
Daily Links) contained a lot of news about a wave of hospitals becoming
subjected to Windows breaches. In addition, Microsoft’s “clown computing”
turned out to be a circus, with crackers going in and out without even being
noticed. Microsoft refuses to talk about this (until the US government forces
it to, for the government too becomes a casualty), so the video above discusses
what happened, alluding also to Bruce_Schneier’s_latest_post_about_it. So even
a Microsoft apologist isn’t too impressed. There are a lot of layers to this
and it reminds us that Microsoft kills, even if not so directly. Microsoft
prioritises_back_doors_rather_than_security.
Do_we_want_our_GNU/Linux_and_BSD_booting_to_rely_on_such_a_company? Of course
not. We need protection from cybercriminals rather than reliance on criminals
like Matthew_J_Garrett, the Coke_Fly who’s doing bios. █
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Graphics_Stack
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o Debian_Family
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Devices/Embedded
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
# Mozilla
o Education
o Licensing_/_Legal
o Programming/Development
# Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh
* Leftovers
o Science
o Education
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI)
o Linux_Foundation
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
# Confidentiality
o Defence/Aggression
o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
# Wildlife/Nature
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Monopolies
# Software_Patents
# Trademarks
# Copyrights
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Graphics Stack⠀➾
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ NVIDIA_driver_535.98_now_available_for
Linux⠀⇛
NVIDIA GPU owners may want to go and grab some
updates as driver 535.98 is out now. This is a
pretty small release for their Production Branch,
which is suitable for everyone to install and use
containing a bunch of needed bug fixes.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Pi My Life Up ☛ Running_your_Raspberry_Pi_as_a_Wake-on-LAN
Server⠀⇛
While the Raspberry Pi does not support receiving
Wake-on-LAN packets, it is more than capable of
sending them.
There are various ways you can utilize this
functionality. In our network, we have a Raspberry
Pi set up to power back on a NAS after a power
outage has occurred. While both are plugged into a
UPS, it allows the more power-hungry NAS to safely
shut down and be powered back on when everything is
safe.
# ⚓ SusamPal ☛ Sorting_Lines_in_Emacs⠀⇛
In this post, we will look at some hands-on
experiments that demonstrate the various Emacs
commands that can be used to sort lines in
different ways. The Emacs documentation about
sorting text is available at GNU Emacs Manual:
Sorting Text. From within Emacs, this documentation
can be reached by typing M-: (info “(emacs)
Sorting”) RET. This post here is going to focus on
a subset of the commands documented there along
with examples that illustrate the behaviour of
these commands. After following the 12 experiments
presented below, you should get a fairly concrete
idea about how the various sorting commands
function.
# ⚓ Anton Zhiyanov ☛ Writing_a_package_manager⠀⇛
Needless to say, building a package manager is not
an easy task. In fact, Sam Boyer has written a
great article about the problems involved. So I
won’t going to dwell on it.
This article explains the design choices and
implementation details that allowed me to actually
build a working package manager in a couple of
weeks (mostly evenings and nights, to be honest). I
tried to leave out most of the SQLite specifics, so
hopefully you can apply this approach to any
package manager should you decide to build one.
# ⚓ Mat Duggan ☛ Adventures_in_IPv6_Part_2⠀⇛
As I discussed in Part 1 I’ve converted this site
over to pure IPv6. Well at least as pure as I could
get away with. I still have some problems though,
chief among them that I cannot send emails with the
Ghost CMS. I’ve switched from Mailgun to Scaleway
which does have IPv6 for their SMTP service.
# ⚓ Ubuntubuzz ☛ Install_FreeCAD_on_Ubuntu_–_An_Excellent
Software_for_Architects,_Manufacturers_and_Hobbyists⠀⇛
FreeCAD is a 2D and 3D computer aided design
software for architectural, mechanical and
technical drawings. Today, FreeCAD is used by
architects to draw house/building, manufacturers to
produce parts with CNC machines, as well as
hobbyists to create things with 3D printers. It is
licensed under GNU LGPL license and available
gratis on Ubuntu.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Yahoo News ☛ Linux_overtakes_Mac_as_Steam’s_second-most
used_OS,_and_it’s_all_thanks_to_the_Steam_Deck⠀⇛
Linux has surpassed macOS as the second-most used
operating system on Steam according to the latest
Steam Hardware & Software Survey from July. While
Linux remains a distant second place to top dog
Windows, it’s still seen a rapid increase in
adoption among Steam users almost entirely
attributable to the Linux-based Steam Deck.
As Ars Technica points out, the Deck’s SteamOS
version of Linux accounts for a whopping 42% of
reported Linux users on Steam, with Arch Linux
lagging far behind in second place at 7.94%
adoption. Windows still absolutely dominates the
overall field at 96.21% of users, with all versions
of Linux at 1.96% and macOS hanging out down at
1.84%.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Building_a_Retro_Linux_Gaming_Computer_Part
31:_The_Fear_of_Loss⠀⇛
Return to Part 1: Dumpster Diving
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Celebrate_the_end_of_Summer_with_this
Capcom_Steam_Sale⠀⇛
The summer season is coming to an end; students are
heading back to school and tech deals are popping
up from left to right. Capcom has seen fit to get
in on the season with the Capcom End of Summer
Steam Sale. With platforming legends like Mega Man
and entire Arcade Collections receiving deep
discounts.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Looks_like_Valve_will_sell_refurbished
Steam_Decks⠀⇛
UPDATE 18:15 UTC: this is now official see the
latest article.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ One_of_my_favourite_roguelikes_Jupiter_Hell
adds_modding_support⠀⇛
Oh hell! Time for another few runs then I think.
Jupiter Hell, one of my favourite roguelikes with
seriously slick movement design now has modding
support. ChaosForge team, the developer of Jupiter
Hell, gained recognition for creating Doom, the
Roguelike (known also as DRL.) They built the
Jupiter Hell as a spiritual successor to DRL.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ 83_of_the_top_100_most_played_Steam_games
work_on_Steam_Deck⠀⇛
Taking a look at the most-played games on Steam by
player-count, here’s how many of them should be
playable on Steam Deck and desktop Linux. Checking
via the Steam Deck Verified rating (either Verified
or Playable), and then the ProtonDB / Linux Native
rating for desktop Linux.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Now_official:_you_can_buy_a_refurbished
Steam_Deck_from_Valve⠀⇛
After it was leaked a bit too early, Valve have now
confirmed and put up all three Steam Deck models to
buy refurbished direct from the Steam store. On the
official main Steam Deck website, if you scroll
down a bit there’s a new link leading to the Valve
Certified Refurbished Steam Deck page where you can
order one.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Introducing_KRdp:_New_RDP_Library_for
Plasma_Wayland_Session⠀⇛
In an era where remote work has become the
norm and the need for seamless remote
computer control has intensified, the KDE
development team has devised a solution for
modern desktops and display server Wayland.
Enter KRdp, the cutting-edge RDP (Remote
Desktop Protocol) library designed to
revolutionize remote control of Plasma
Wayland sessions. With an innovative approach
leveraging existing technologies and focusing
on performance, KRdp is poised to reshape how
we interact with our remote computers.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ Debian_13_Will_Officially_Support_64-Bit_RISC-
V⠀⇛
I totally missed news that Debian has made RISC-V a
supported architecture – and somewhat selfishly I’m
hoping some of you missed it to so this post isn’t
so late it’s moot!
Debian 13 “Trixie” will be the first version of the
Linux distro to officially support 64-bit RISC-
V hardware. That “officially” is an important
qualifier; while it’s already possible to run
Debian on RISC-V hardware those efforts have
hitherto been “ports”.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Rolling-Release_Ubuntu-based_Rhino_Linux_Has
Landed⠀⇛
You might remember us covering last year that Rhino
Linux would be the successor of the now-defunct
‘Rolling Rhino Remix’.
After much waiting, its first stable release is
here!
Let’s dig in and see what Rhino Linux has to offer.
# ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ What_is_virtualization?_A_beginners’_guide.⠀⇛
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ [Old] Stephan van Rooij ☛ I_disconnected_our_smart_oven,
and_maybe_you_should_as_well⠀⇛
I really don’t like the fact that my oven connects
to China and Russia just to check if it has an
internet connection. If that is the only thing it’s
doing.
The support department isn’t very helpful as well,
they have no clue what I’m talking about and refuse
any help. Probably because there isn’t a hardware
malfunction.
# ⚓ Stacey on IoT ☛ How_to_take_the_first_step_toward_smart
energy_management⠀⇛
But for the average consumer, replacing an
electrical system is a lot more daunting than
swapping out a thermostat. So how should the
average person think about making their energy
infrastructure smart?
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Mixtile_opens_pre-orders_for_Core_3588E
starting_at_$109.00⠀⇛
Mixtile recently announced that their Core 3588E
SO-DIMM Rockchip-based modules are available to
preorder with an 18% discount for a limited time.
This embedded device can be configured with up to
16GB RAM + 128GB eMMC and it’s compatible with the
NVIDIA Jetson TX2 NX carrier boards.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Esar ☛ SIEG_SC4_Electronic_Lead_Screw⠀⇛
For anyone unfamiliar, a lathe usually has a chain
of gears linking the spindle/chuck to the lead
screw that drives the carriage backwards and
forwards along the bed. The gears can be changed to
alter how far the carriage moves for each rotation
of the spindle. For example, to cut the thread on
an M6 screw, the gears would be setup so that the
carriage moves 1mm for each rotation.
# ⚓ Frederico Bittencourt ☛ Playing_a_single_note_with_SDL2⠀⇛
I have successfully avoided sound programming for
all my programming life. Even when I tried making
games, sound was always an afterthought. However,
recently I got a new pair of headphones, and
wondered: “what makes sound good?”, or “how much of
the quality can be improved by hardware?”, and even
“what is the structure of a sound file?”. If you’re
looking for answers to all these questions — sorry,
you are in the wrong place. I don’t have them
(yet). But I can offer something equally fun: make
your computer play a note by writing less than 100
lines of C code.
# ⚓ Pi My Life Up ☛ Monitoring_a_UPS_with_NUT_on_the_Raspberry
Pi⠀⇛
NUT stands for Network UPS Tool and allows a device
like your Raspberry Pi to communicate with a UPS
and monitor it.
Best of all, NUT lets you broadcast UPS information
to other NUT clients. This server functionality
allows other systems to access your UPS information
and react accordingly.
# ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Nigerian_primary_school_students_built_a
music_player_from_discarded_parts⠀⇛
Zakariya dedicated nearly a full term (three
months) of extracurricular activity time to
achieving this remarkable success. Countless hours
were spent searching through bins and thrift stores
for discarded items. The team’s determination and
keen eye meant that they could identify speakers
that were still in working condition, despite being
discarded by others.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Easyeda2KiCad:_Never_Draw_A_Footprint_Again⠀⇛
What if I told you that you might never need to
draw a new footprint again? Such is my friend’s
impression of the tool that she’s shown me and I’m
about to show you in turn, having used this tool
for a few projects, I can’t really disagree!
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Hacker News ☛ New_Android_14_Security_Feature:_IT_Admins
Can_Now_Disable_2G_Networks⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Google’s_out_to_make_a_few_converts_with
new_Switch_to_Android_video_series⠀⇛
# ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ Google_Is_Turning_on_RCS_for_Most_Android
Phones⠀⇛
# ⚓ 6_Best_Fixes_for_Audio_Messages_Not_Working_in_Messages_App
on_Android_–_Guiding_Tech⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Google_details_how_Android_14_protects_against
cellular_attacks⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Android_14_could_stop_your_one-time
passwords_from_leaking⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# ⚓ Daniel Stenberg ☛ Mastering_the_curl_command_line⠀⇛
For the firs time ever, I am going to present a
single, very long, video class with the title shown
above.
This session will be streamed and recorded live on
August 31, starting at 16:00 UTC (18:00 CEST, 09:00
PDT) and is expected to take about two and a half
hours. Due to many uncertainties, the stream might
of course be longer even if the end recording might
get edited down a little.
# § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Thunderbird_115.1_Released_with_Bug
Fixes_&_UI_Buffs⠀⇛
To keep things ticking over nicely a
scheduled update to the open source email
client is rolling out. The update brings a
bunch of bug fixes to bear, plus a couple of
minor UI tweaks.
Thunderbird 115.1 hides the Quick Filter bar
by default. I think this gives the e-mail
client (in whatever layout you’re using) a
sleeker presentation. Still it’s only hidden
by default not removed; the Quick Filter bar
is still included and you can show/hide it
with a mouse click or a key press.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Hackers_prepare_to_take_on_a_satellite
at_DEF_CON⠀⇛
Flying somewhere high above the earth is a small
satellite that, for the next week, will be target
#1 for five teams of hackers at this year’s DEF CON
conference.
The annual Hack-A-Sat capture the flag (CTF)
competition held at Aerospace Village at the annual
DEF CON hacking conference in Las Vegas is the
first time an on-orbit satellite will test
contestants mettle while bringing together hackers
who don’t typically work on space systems.
o § Licensing / Legal⠀➾
# ⚓ eSecurity Planet ☛ SandboxAQ_Open_Sources_Cryptography
Management_Tool_for_Post-Quantum_Era⠀⇛
The AI and quantum spin-out from Alphabet uses the
Sandwich framework for the Cryptoservice module in
its SandboxAQ Security Suite, currently used by
several U.S. government agencies, global banks,
telcos, and tech companies. The framework is
designed to simplify cryptography management and
give developers greater observability and control.
“Modern cryptography management and cryptographic
agility are becoming increasingly more essential
for businesses of all sizes; however, there has
been a distinct lack of open-source tools for
developers to support these features,” Graham
Steel, head of product for the company’s Quantum
Security Group, said in a statement.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ The_Orb_Web_Desktop⠀⇛
[Hugo Leisink] is a programmer who contributes to
Open Source projects. In their spare time, they
have been developing a web-browser-based operating
system called Orb. It is available for the princely
sum of zero cheeseburgers and doesn’t need a high-
spec machine to run smoothly. The project is built
using PHP and Javascript, which allows it to run
efficiently on most desktop devices. There are a
number of apps included, which are again written in
a combination of PHP and js, together with a few
written using webasm.
# § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾
# ⚓ Julia Evans ☛ What_helps_people_get_comfortable_on
the_command_line?⠀⇛
I think there are two parts to getting
comfortable: motivation and resources. I’ll
start with a couple of motivations and then
list some resources.
a “killer app”
A few people mentioned a “killer command line
app” that motivated them to start spending
more time on the command line. For example:
[...]
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Alex Ewerlöf ☛ SLI:_Valid_vs_Total⠀⇛
Service level indicator guides the optimization. Valid
scopes that optimization.
o ⚓ El País ☛ Two_consecutive_solar_flares_send_potential_geomagnetic
storm_toward_Earth⠀⇛
In both cases, the flare emerged from the same sunspot,
cataloged as region 3386. Although sunspots are not the
same as flares, there is a relationship between the two
solar phenomena. More sunspots mean “more activity and a
higher probability of flares,” Consuelo Cid Tortuero, a
senior scientist at the Spanish National Service of Space
Meteorology, recently explained.
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Hacking_Fake_Food⠀⇛
Ever seen a restaurant where they display fake models of
the food on the menu? We never thought much about
how shokuhin sampuru — the Japanese name — were made
until we watched [Process X]’s video showing a 71-year-
old artist creating food models. We aren’t sure what we —
or you — would do with this information, but it is a
striking process, and there must be something you could
do with it. We suggest turning on the English captions,
but you’d probably enjoy watching the unusual
craftsmanship even with no words.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Ancient_Skull_Found_in_China_Is_Unlike_Any
Human_Seen_Before⠀⇛
An unexpected hybrid we never knew about.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Scientists_Connected_Old_Mice_to_Young
Mice,_And_It_Rejuvenated_Them⠀⇛
But the knife cuts both ways.
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvian_employers_request_incentives_for_workers’
education⠀⇛
On August 7, the Latvian Employers’ Confederation
(LDDK) sent an invitation to the Ministry of
Education and Science (IZM) to encourage changes
related to tax incentives available to the employer
to cover the higher education costs of the
employee.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Blazing_Fireball_Over_Australia_Was
Probably_Space_Junk,_Expert_Says⠀⇛
We didn’t see this one coming.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Scientists_Regrow_Retinal_Cells_in_The_Lab
Using_Nanotechnology⠀⇛
One day, this could help millions.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Our_Galaxy_Is_Home_to_Trillions_of_Worlds
Gone_Rogue⠀⇛
Astronomers have found that free-floating planets
far outnumber those bound to a host star.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ U.S._scientists_achieve_another_milestone_in
nuclear_fusion_energy⠀⇛
U.S. scientists at the federal Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory in California announced Sunday
that they achieved net energy gain in a nuclear
fusion_reaction for a second time — this time a
higher energy yield.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ How_Diamonds_Make_Their_Way_to_The
Surface⠀⇛
And where to find them.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ An_800-Year-Old_Math_Trick_Could_Be_The_Key
to_Navigating_The_Moon⠀⇛
The Moon isn’t as round as you think.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Ministry_encourages_financial_aid_to_Latvia’s
eastern_border_schools⠀⇛
The Ministry of Education and Science (IZM)
proposes to create a separate financial program,
along with the reform of the school network, to
support local governments and schools located at
the external borders of the European Union, the IZM
said in a statement on August 4.
# ⚓ Daniel Miessler ☛ High-Entropy_Writing⠀⇛
That pinged my brain super hard because I read a
full biography on Claude Shannon a couple of years
ago, and it went deep into his invention of
information theory. Here’s the basic idea.
# ⚓ The Hindu ☛ More_students_using_smartphones_for
entertainment_than_study:_survey⠀⇛
The survey revealed that 49.3% of students in rural
India have access to smartphones. However, among
the parents whose children have access to gadgets,
76.7% stated that their children primarily use
mobile phones to play video games.
Of the students with access to gadgets, 56.6% used
the devices for downloading and watching movies,
while 47.3% used them to download and listen to
music, the survey said. Only 34% use the gadgets
for study downloads, and 18% accessed online
learning via tutorials.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ The Drone Girl ☛ America_has_never_seen_a_drone_this_big⠀⇛
It’s 1,125 pounds. It’s been spraying pesticides
and other chemicals over farms in Central and South
America. And now, it’s coming to the U.S. That’s
the Pyka Pelican Spray craft — and it just became
the largest-ever, automated electric aircraft in
the U.S. to receive Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA) authorization for commercial operation.
# ⚓ The Drone Girl ☛ Serena_Williams’_gender_reveal_party_might
be_the_most_epic_drone_light_show_yet⠀⇛
The cost of a drone light show certainly varies
particularly based on the number of drones
involved. At one point Intel sold drone light shows
starting at $99,000, but easily topping $300,000
for shows involving more than 500 drones. Some
smaller, independent companies charge less though.
For example, Texas-based Verge Aero says its drone
shows usually cost between $50,000 to $200,000 for
a customized, outdoor drone light show.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ No_Need_To_Buy_A_Woodchipper_–_Build_One!⠀⇛
Polish YouTuber WorkshopFromScratch finally got fed
up with tripping over piles of garden detritus and
decided to have a go at building a woodchipper
(Video, embedded below). Since they had a ‘small’
1.5kW gearmotor just lying idle (as you do) it was
an obvious fit for a machine that needs torque
rather than supersonic speed. The video is a
fabulous 20-minute journey through the workshop
showing just about every conceivable metalworking
tool being used at some point.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ STM32_Oscilloscope_Uses_All_The_Features⠀⇛
[jgpeiro] is no slouch when it comes to building
small, affordable oscilloscopes out of common
microcontrollers. His most recent, based on an
RP2040 with two channels that ran at 100 MSps, put
it on the order of plenty of commercially-available
oscilloscopes at this sample rate but at a fraction
of the price. He wanted to improve on the design
though, making a smaller unit with a greatly
reduced bill-of-materials and with a more
streamlined design, so he came up with this STM32-
based oscilloscope.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Inside_The_PET_Keyboard⠀⇛
These days, you have a certain expectation for
computer keys on a keyboard. Of course, there are
variations and proponents of different mechanisms
and noise levels. However, back in the late part of
the 20th century, it was a different world.
Computers came with a bewildering and sometimes
befuddling array of keyboards. Since the IBM
Selectric was the king of typewriters, we assumed
the IBM PC keyboard would be spectacular, but it
wasn’t. The PC Jr was even worse! Atari
experimented with flat keyboards to save costs, and
many computers had keys more reminiscent of
calculator keys than you would imagine. The market
voted. In general, a keyboard that wasn’t really a
keyboard was the kiss of death for a computer. Case
in point: the Commodore PET with its infamous
chicklet keyboard, which gets a detailed
examination in a recent post from [Norbert
Landsteiner].
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Private_Equity_Takeover_of_Hospice_Care⠀⇛
Laure Fuerstenberg promised her husband, Leo, that
he wouldn’t die in pain. But when his organs
started failing, his hospice care providers were
nowhere to be found. The on-duty nurse had muted
her phone and missed 16 of Laure’s calls.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Scientists_Reveal_The_2_Best_Exercises_to
Lower_Blood_Pressure⠀⇛
It’s easy to get started at home.
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ How_We_Used_Machine_Learning_to_Look_Where
Ebola_May_Strike⠀⇛
The bright spots on the map struck us like a
lightning bolt.
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Inside_ProPublica’s_Machine_Learning_Model
for_Future_Ebola_Outbreaks⠀⇛
# ⚓ Bridge Michigan ☛ Michigan_‘river_walker’_program_warns
anglers_on_eating_contaminated_fish⠀⇛
He is part of a small army of volunteer “river
walkers,” who spend their days on the banks of
Michigan’s most polluted rivers, warning anglers of
the risks that come from eating contaminated fish
and advising them on how to fish safely.
“I believe that one of the things we can do is to
educate people about things in the environment that
can help protect their health,” Bridgforth said.
In a state where industrial pollution has tainted
the tissue of fish in waterways from metro Detroit
to the Upper Peninsula, they have their work cut
out for them.
# ⚓ Vox ☛ How_airplane_legroom_got_so_tight⠀⇛
Legroom is a precious commodity, and airlines are
aware of this. After all, there is a finite amount
of space on planes. In order to get the maximum
number of people on board, you have to either
innovate — for instance, by designing slimmer seats
— or you have to shrink the seat pitch. Airlines
have done both. Plus, they now give you the option
to spend some more money to upgrade for more
legroom, allowing you (and your wallet) to choose
how comfortable you want to be.
# ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ I_need_to_delete_Twitter⠀⇛
At some point, I got fed up with Instagram. I
couldn’t bring myself to care about any of it —
about the filtered lives of celebrities or people I
barely knew in high school. It’s a little amusing,
but I thought I was doing the very smart, very
adult thing by cutting down my screen time and
moving on. Now I know that what I really wanted was
just distance from my old self, the one that
existed within the borders of those three-by-three-
inch squares. She looked happy and healthy,
blissfully ignorant of what was to come. And I
couldn’t really remember what that felt like
anymore.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Google,_you’re_not_unleashing_‘unproven’
AI_medical_bots_on_hospital_patients,_yeah?⠀⇛
Med-PaLM 2 is based on Google’s large language
model PaLM 2, and is fine-tuned on medical
information. The system can generate written
answers in response to medical queries, summarize
documents, and retrieve data. Google introduced the
model in April, and said a select group of Google
Cloud customers were testing the software.
One of those testers is VHC Health, a hospital in
Virginia affiliated with the Mayo Clinic, according
to Senator Warner. In a letter to Google chief
Sundar Pichai, Warner said he was concerned that
generative AI raises “complex new questions and
risks” particularly when applied in the healthcare
industry.Google, you’re not unleashing ‘unproven’
AI medical bots on hospital patients, yeah?
# ⚓ ACLU ☛ Idaho_Wants_to_Jail_Professors_for_Teaching_About
Abortion⠀⇛
At Idaho’s public universities, professors who
teach, discuss, or write about abortion may now
face up to 14 years of imprisonment under Idaho’s
abortion censorship law, the No Public Funds for
Abortion Act (NPFAA). The law, which prohibits the
use of any public funds to “promote” or “counsel in
favor of abortion,” has shut down academic inquiry
about abortion — one of today’s most urgent social,
moral, and political issues — across university
classrooms and campuses in the state. Idaho’s
abortion censorship law works in tandem with anti-
abortion officials’ aggressive enforcement of the
state’s abortion laws — among the harshest in the
country — to silence speech advocating for abortion
access.
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ How_Social_Media_Apps_Could_Be_Fueling
Homicides_Among_Young_Americans⠀⇛
Violence prevention workers described feuds that
started on Instagram, Snapchat and other platforms
and erupted into real life with terrifying speed.
“When I was young and I would get into an argument
with somebody at school, the only people who knew
about it were me and the people at school,” said
James Timpson, a violence prevention worker in
Baltimore. “Not right now. Five hundred people know
about it before you even leave school. And then you
got this big war going on.”
o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾
# ⚓ Futurism ☛ The_Pope_Doubles_Down_on_AI_Concerns⠀⇛
Just weeks after the release of the Vatican’s
official guide to AI ethics — a surprising project
developed in collaboration with the very secular
folks over at Santa Clara University’s Markkula
Center for Applied Ethics — Pope Francis is making
his AI concerns clear once again, using this year’s
World Peace Day to issue a call for AI
responsibility and caution.
# ⚓ Futurism ☛ Revenge_of_the_Writers:_AI_Fiction_Analysis_Site
Toppled_by_Revolt⠀⇛
A new site, Prosecraft.io offered to lend a helping
hand to struggling writers, using AI algorithims to
analyze the text of thousands of books from their
favorite authors. On Monday, it was abruptly
shutdown by its creator.
It turns out — not surprisingly — that those
authors never got a say in letting their
copyrighted text get scraped wholesale, just to be
graded on meaningless criteria like “vividness” and
the use of passive voice.
# ⚓ Third Door Media LLC ☛ GPTBot:_OpenAI_releases_new_web
crawler⠀⇛
Robots.txt. You can use robots.txt to block GPTBot
from accessing your website, or parts of it. To
disallow GPTBot to access your site you can add
GPTBot to your site’s robots.txt: [...]
# ⚓ Krebs On Security ☛ Meet_the_Brains_Behind_the_Malware-
Friendly_AI_Chat_Service_‘WormGPT’⠀⇛
WormGPT, a private new chatbot service advertised
as a way to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to
write malicious software without all the pesky
prohibitions on such activity enforced by the likes
of ChatGPT and Google Bard, has started adding
restrictions of its own on how the service can be
used. Faced with customers trying to use WormGPT to
create ransomware and phishing scams, the 23-year-
old Portuguese programmer who created the project
now says his service is slowly morphing into “a
more controlled environment.”
# ⚓ [Repeat] Digital Music News ☛ Threads_Userbase_Shrinks
Dramatically_Following_Strong_Initial_Numbers_—_As_Top
Artists_Decide_Against_Signing_Up⠀⇛
After attracting a massive number of users out of
the gate, Meta’s Threads has reportedly experienced
a material community-size falloff. Meanwhile, more
than a few commercially prominent artists have thus
far decided against using the Twitter alternative.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ The_Fear_Of_AI_Just_Killed_A_Very_Useful_Tool⠀⇛
I do understand why so many people, especially
creative folks, are worried about AI and how it’s
used. The future is quite unknown, and things are
changing very rapidly, at a pace that can feel out
of control. However, when concern and worry about
new technologies and how they may impact things
morphs into mob-inspiring fear, dumb things happen.
I would much rather that when we look at new
things, we take a more realistic approach to them,
and look at ways we can keep the good parts of what
they provide, while looking for ways to mitigate
the downsides.
# § Windows TCO⠀➾
# ⚓ Krebs On Security ☛ Microsoft_Patch_Tuesday,_August
2023_Edition [Ed: Microsoft, where back doors -- not
security -- are the goals]⠀⇛
Microsoft Corp. today issued software updates
to plug more than 70 security holes in its
Windows operating systems and related
products, including multiple zero-day
vulnerabilities currently being exploited in
the wild.
o § Linux Foundation⠀➾
# ⚓ HPC Wire ☛ Flash_Memory_Summit_Highlights_SEF,_Linux
Foundation’s_Latest_Leap_in_Cloud_Storage_Tech⠀⇛
The Linux Foundation is excited to announce that
Software-Enabled Flash (SEF), an open source
project, will be showcased at the Flash Memory
Summit (FMS) in San Jose, California. This marks a
significant milestone in the evolution of flash
cloud storage, offering hyperscalers unprecedented
control over their flash-based storage
capabilities.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ EFF ☛ It’s_Summer_Security_Week_at_EFF⠀⇛
EFF’s activists, technologists, and lawyers fight
so you can use technology on your own terms.
Wrongheaded tech policies endanger your rights to
communicate privately and securely, and to express
yourself creatively on the web. But you’ll help
protect these rights for everyone when you become
an EFF supporter.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Another_round_of_speculative-execution
vulnerabilities⠀⇛
A series of patches has landed in the mainline
kernel, including one for gather data sampling
mitigation and one to disable the AVX extension on
CPUs where microcode mitigation is not available.
“”This is a *big* hammer. It is known to break
buggy userspace that uses incomplete, buggy AVX
enumeration.””
Not to be left out, AMD processors suffer from a
return-stack overflow vulnerability, again
exploitable via speculative execution; this patch,
also just merged, describes the problem and its
mitigation.
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ ‘Downfall’_vulnerability_leaves_billions
of_Intel_CPUs_at_risk⠀⇛
“When you have a vulnerability like this,
essentially this software-hardware contract is
broken, and the software can access physical memory
inside the hardware that was supposed to be
abstracted away from the user program,” Moghimi
told CyberScoop in an interview. “It violates a lot
of assumptions we make in general about operating
system security.”
The implications of the flaw are huge. Intel has
likely sold billions of processors that include the
vulnerability, which has existed since at least
2014. The flaw affects both personal and cloud
computers, and the vulnerability can likely be used
to break the isolation that ought to exist between
data belonging to users on a cloud computing
device.
# ⚓ Downfall_Attacks⠀⇛
Downfall attacks targets a critical weakness found
in billions of modern processors used in personal
and cloud computers. This vulnerability, identified
as CVE-2022-40982, enables a user to access and
steal data from other users who share the same
computer. For instance, a malicious app obtained
from an app store could use the Downfall attack to
steal sensitive information like passwords,
encryption keys, and private data such as banking
details, personal emails, and messages. Similarly,
in cloud computing environments, a malicious
customer could exploit the Downfall vulnerability
to steal data and credentials from other customers
who share the same cloud computer.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Tuesday⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by Debian
(libhtmlcleaner-java and thunderbird), Red Hat
(dbus, kernel, kernel-rt, kpatch-patch, and
thunderbird), Scientific Linux (thunderbird), SUSE
(chromium, gstreamer-plugins-bad, gstreamer-
plugins-base, gstreamer-plugins-good, gstreamer-
plugins-ugly, kernel-firmware, libqt5-qtbase,
libqt5-qtsvg, librsvg, pcre2, perl-Net-Netmask,
qt6-base, and thunderbird), and Ubuntu (firefox).
# ⚓ CyberRisk Alliance LLC ☛ Researchers_find_active_campaigns
exploiting_two_Kubernetes_misconfigurations⠀⇛
Aqua Security on Tuesday reported that at least 60%
of the Kubernetes clusters they researched were
breached and had an active campaign with deployed
malware and backdoors.
In a release Aug. 8, Aqua Nautilus researchers
explained that the exposures were caused by two
misconfigurations, which emphasized how known and
unknown misconfigurations are actively exploited in
the wild and can have harmful consequences to
corporate networks.
# ⚓ Outrage_at_massive_police_data_breach_that_saw_the_personal
details_of_more_than_10,000_PSNI_officers_and_staff
accidentally_published_online⠀⇛
Police in Northern Ireland have been involved in a
data breach ‘of monumental proportions’ affecting
thousands of officers and civilian staff.
The major breach reportedly involves names, ranks
and other personal data from employees of the
Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), but does
not involve the officers’ and civilians’ private
addresses, it is understood.
Containing the surnames of more than 10,000 staff,
the data was mistakenly divulged in response to a
Freedom of Information request and appears to cover
everyone within the service, from chief constable
Simon Byrne down.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Oregon_Sports_Medicine_allegedly_hit_by
8Base_threat_actors⠀⇛
The listing indicates that the data were downloaded
today and will be published on August 13
(presumably if there is no payment by then).
DataBreaches sent an inquiry to Oregon Sports
Medicine seeking confirmation or denial of the
claims and additional information but no reply was
received.
SOCRadar has a recent article on 8Base, a group
that has been around since 2022 but has seemingly
become more publicly active in recent months. The
Hacker News also provides coverage that includes
links to a number of articles about the group.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ New_PaperCut_Vulnerability_Allows_Remote
Code_Execution⠀⇛
A new vulnerability in the PaperCut MF/NG print
management software can be exploited for
unauthenticated, remote code execution.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ CISA_Unveils_Cybersecurity_Strategic_Plan
for_Next_3_Years⠀⇛
CISA has unveiled its Cybersecurity Strategic Plan
for the next 3 years, focusing on addressing
immediate threats, hardening the terrain, and
driving security.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Colorado_Department_of_Higher_Education
Discloses_Ransomware_Attack,_Data_Breach⠀⇛
Colorado Department of Higher Education targeted in
a ransomware attack that resulted in a data breach
impacting many students and teachers.
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ CISA:_Beware_of_the_malicious_boot_loader⠀⇛
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security
Agency has issued a call to action to beef up
security of a little-known but important piece of
software that can be found in every computer.
# ⚓ BBC ☛ PSNI:_Major_data_breach_identifies_thousands_of
officers_and_civilian_staff_–_BBC_News⠀⇛
A top officer apologises for the breach affecting
police and employees in Northern Ireland.
# ⚓ A_new_campaign_targets_Redis_servers,_this_time_the_malware
employed_in_the_attacks_is_a_new_variant_of_the_SkidMap
malware. [Ed: Patched a long time ago]⠀⇛
Skidmap is a piece of crypto-miner detected by
Trend Micro in September 2019 while it was
targeting Linux machines. The malicious code used
kernel-mode rootkits to evade detection, it differs
from similar miners because of the way it loads
malicious kernel modules.
Trustwave researchers spotted a new, improved, and
dangerous Skidmap variant, which was designed to
target a wide range of Linux distributions,
including Alibaba, Anolis, openEuler, EulerOS,
Steam, CentOS, RedHat, and Rock.
# ⚓ Hacker News ☛ New_SkidMap_Linux_Malware_Variant_Targeting
Vulnerable_Redis_Servers [Ed: The issue here is long-
unpatched Redis, not "Linux"]⠀⇛
“The malicious nature of this malware is to adapt
to the system on which it is executed,” Trustwave
security researcher Radoslaw Zdonczyk said in an
analysis published last week.
# ⚓ New_InstallAware_X16:_Build_16_Times_Faster,_macOS/Linux
Targets⠀⇛
InstallAware X16 launching on Friday this week
builds packages 16 (sixteen) times faster using its
new Parallel Build Engine, recompiles Windows
setups for macOS and Linux.
# ⚓ TechSpot ☛ Mozilla_VPN_client_security_on_Linux_is_broken
with_no_patch_in_sight⠀⇛
Mozilla VPN is a service offering security,
reliability, and speed on every device, “everywhere
you go.” However, if you use SUSE Linux, wherever
you go there’s a dangerous security flaw in the
service’s client putting everything at risk.
For the past few months, the Linux version of the
Mozilla VPN client has been affected by a dangerous
security issue within the software’s authentication
process. The bug could easily be exploited to do
very nasty things with the system and users’
accounts, but Mozilla still has to provide a proper
fix. The maximum embargo period of 90 days is over,
so the developers have now disclosed the full
details about the vulnerability.
# ⚓ JNS ☛ Cyberattack_shuts_down_Bnei_Brak_hospital’s
computers⠀⇛
Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Center in Bnei Brak was
hit by a cyberattack on Monday night, Israel’s
Health Ministry announced on Tuesday morning. The
hospital’s administrative computers were shut down
in what was described as a ransomware attack.
The ultra-Orthodox hospital, located east of Tel
Aviv, said medical equipment was not affected by
the attack and that patients are being treated. But
the ministry instructed that the center’s
outpatient clinics and imaging centers not accept
patients and that the public not go to its
emergency room until further notice.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China_drafts_rules_for_using
facial_recognition_data⠀⇛
Among other things, processing facial data
would require an individual’s consent.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘User_X_with_driver_Y_traveled_from_point_A
to_point_B’_Yandex_is_set_to_start_sharing_Yango_taxi
ride_data_with_the_FSB._Users_in_Israel,_Europe,_and
elsewhere_may_find_their_privacy_rights_compromised_by
Russia’s_new_surveillance_law._—_Meduza⠀⇛
Starting on September 1, 2023, the FSB will
gain round-the-clock access to user data
collected by Yango, a Yandex-owned ride-
hailing and delivery app also operating under
the brand name Yandex Go. The order that will
give Russia’s secret police extraordinary new
powers of surveillance has already been
signed by the country’s prime minister,
Mikhail Mishustin. It won’t be just the
residents of Russia who come within the scope
of surveillance, since Yango’s services are
also available in Israel, Europe, and a
number of other countries. Together with the
Finnish journalist Jussi Konttinen, Meduza’s
correspondents Svetlana Reiter and Denis
Dmitriev investigated how Yandex plans to
circumvent international data protection
laws, and who will be affected most by its
deepening cooperation with Russia’s system of
mass surveillance.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Google_fails_to_end_$5_billion_consumer
privacy_lawsuit⠀⇛
A U.S. judge rejected Google’s bid to dismiss
a lawsuit claiming it invaded the privacy of
millions of people by secretly tracking their
internet use.
U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers on
Monday said she could not find that users
consented to letting Google collect
information about what they viewed online
because the Alphabet unit never explicitly
told them it would.
# ⚓ BBC ☛ PSNI:_Major_data_breach_identifies_thousands_of
officers_and_civilian_staff⠀⇛
In response to a Freedom of Information (FoI)
request, the PSNI had shared names of all
police and civilian personnel, where they
were based and their roles.
The details were then published online,
before being removed.
Apologising to officers, Assistant Chief
Constable Chris Todd said the error was
“unacceptable”.
# ⚓ The Independent UK ☛ Fears_for_police_officers’
safety_after_catastrophic_data_breach_in_Northern
Ireland⠀⇛
This source data included the “surname,
initial, the rank or grade, the location and
the departments for each of our current
employees across the police service”, he
added, noting that every serving police
officer and member of police staff’s data has
been compromised.
The details were accidentally published on
the FoI directory, What Do They Know, for a
period of time before being taken down.
# ⚓ Belfast Telegraph ☛ PSNI_apologises_to_officers_and
civilian_staff_after_major_security_breach⠀⇛
The spreadsheet in question contained
standard statistical information on the
strength of the PSNI, with details of how
many officers it has at each rank.
However, a second tab in the spreadsheet
contained multiple entries in relation to
more than 10,000 individuals. For each
individual, there are 32 pieces of data
meaning that in total, there are about
345,000 pieces of data in the file.
The spreadsheet, which has been seen by the
Belfast Telegraph after we were alerted to it
by a relative of a serving officer, includes
each officer’s service number, their status,
their gender, their contract type, their last
name and initials, details of how much of the
week they work, and their rank.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Finland_suspends_transfer_of_Yango_taxi_data_to
Russia⠀⇛
Finland’s Data Protection Ombudsman has
ordered taxi service Yango, owned by Russian
tech giant Yandex, to stop the transfer to
and processing of personal customer data in
Russia.
The temporary order will enter into force on
1 September and will remain in force until
the end of November, according to a release
issued by the Ombudsman’s office on Tuesday.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Zoom_wants_to_train_its_AI_on_user_calls⠀⇛
But Zoom is now facing new backlash over this
policy, which surfaced over the past few days
on social media. In response, Smita Hashim,
Zoom’s chief product officer, wrote in a blog
post on Aug. 7 that while the company retains
the ability to manage its data and make
changes to its systems “without questions of
usage rights,” it won’t do so without user
permission.
Zoom promised to be transparent about how it
trains its models on “service generated
data,” but still insisted that it retains the
rights to use the data any way it wishes. The
company has also been unclear about what kind
of user generated data it exerts these rights
over. Zoom wants to have it both
ways—reassuring users that they are in
control while maintaining its rights in the
fine print.
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ U.K._election_admin_agency_breach
exposed_personal_information_of_tens_of_millions
voters⠀⇛
The [intruders] accessed copies of voter
registries which included the names and
addresses of any U.K. voters registered
between 2014 and 2022. The information
accessed by the hackers also included email
addresses among other information,
potentially putting information associated
with tens of millions people at risk. The
agency noted that “much” of the data is
already in the public domain, but that it “is
possible however that this data could be
combined with other data in the public
domain, such as that which individuals choose
to share themselves, to infer patterns of
[behavior] or to identify and profile
individuals.”
# ⚓ EDRI ☛ Meta_pledges_to_ask_EU_users_for_consent
before_showing_behavioural_ads⠀⇛
When scrolling through Facebook or Instagram,
users are automatically shown ads that the
platforms’ algorithms think they’ll be
interested in. This system only works thanks
to the processing of huge amounts of personal
data, which is supposed to increase the
number of clicks on an ad. The problem is
that, until now, users haven’t been asked for
their consent. That could change. In a
surprise announcement last Tuesday, Meta made
the long overdue promise to finally ask its
users for their consent before showing them
behavioral ads – at least if they live in the
European Union, EEA or Switzerland.
According to Meta, the change is due to a new
interpretation of the GDPR by the Irish Data
Protection Commission (DPC). Not only does
this statement leave open what this supposed
new interpretation is all about. It also
fails to mention that Meta has been involved
in a number of legal disputes over its
advertising business in the past five years –
resulting in multiple changes to the legal
basis for its use of personal in the space of
a year.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ WhatsApp_introduces_screen-sharing_on
video_calls⠀⇛
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the new
feature through a Facebook post and on his
Instagram channel. It will allow users to
share documents, photos, and even their
shopping cart with contacts on video calls.
# ⚓ EFF ☛ EFF_Launches_the_Tor_University_Challenge⠀⇛
Universities answering this call to defend
private access to an uncensored web will
receive prizes while helping millions of
people around the world and providing
students and faculty a vital learning
experience.
“Journalists, political and social activists,
attorneys, businesspeople, and other users
all over the world rely on Tor for
unfettered, unmonitored access to knowledge
and communications,” EFF Senior Staff
Technologist Cooper Quintin said. “Anonymous
speech always has been a pillar of democratic
society, letting us discuss anything without
fear of retribution. And facilitating this
discussion can be a great educational
opportunity for students and faculty alike.”
Made up of volunteer-run relays, the Tor
network allows human rights defenders and
organizations, at-risk communities, and
people experiencing online censorship or
government surveillance to browse the
unrestricted internet with as much privacy
and anonymity as possible. A Tor relay is a
computer that’s a part of the anonymization
process; a Tor bridge is a relay that’s not
publicly listed, in order to circumvent
censorship in countries that block IP
addresses of known relays.
# ⚓ EFF ☛ Announcing_the_Tor_University_Challenge⠀⇛
In 2011, we launched our first Tor Challenge,
which resulted in 549 new relays. By 2014,
after we launched our second Tor Challenge,
we had counted 1,635 new relays. This time
around, we’re focusing on getting more Tor
relays onto college campuses. Universities
are especially well-suited for Tor relays
because they often offer fast internet, have
lots of technical expertise available
(including professors, students, and IT
teams), and value freedom of expression.
Setting up a Tor relay on your college campus
will help make Tor faster and better, because
the more relays that exist, the better the
experience of using Tor gets for everyone.
Tor is a network and software package that
consists of two parts: a web browser you can
download to browse the internet, and a
volunteer network of computers that make the
Tor software work. Using Tor is as simple as
downloading the Tor Browser (give it a try
yourself, if you haven’t used Tor before,
it’s available for Windows, Mac, and Linux).
Browsing the web is a little slower than you
might be used to with Tor, but otherwise
works exactly like any other web browser. The
Tor Browser also gives you access to Tor
onion sites—hidden websites that provide end-
to-end encryption and anonymity—that help
circumvent censorship. EFF, along with
Certbot and our Surveillance Self-Defense
guides, are all available as Tor onions.
The second part is the volunteer-run network
of computers that anonymizes web traffic. Tor
protects your identity by hiding the source
and destination of your internet traffic,
which helps prevent anyone from knowing who
you are or what you’re looking at. Tor does
this by routing your web traffic through
“relays,” which, like the name implies,
receive the traffic and pass it along to the
next relay. Anyone can run a Tor relay on
just about any computer, but because relays
need a lot of bandwidth, it’s not always easy
(or possible) to do so. Universities often
don’t have the sorts of bandwidth limitations
the rest of us may contend with, so they’re a
good fit for relays.
# ⚓ EFF ☛ California’s_DELETE_Act_Protects_Us_From_Data
Brokers⠀⇛
Potential misuse of health data could lead to
real harms in harassment, discrimination, and
legal consequences for those seeking health
services in California, including
reproductive and gender affirming healthcare
data. And if information is sold to local,
state, or federal agencies, that puts our
Fourth Amendment rights at risk.
That’s why EFF is a proud supporter of S.B.
362, authored by California State Senator
Josh Becker. It allows people to easily and
efficiently make one request to delete their
personal information held by all data brokers
registered in California. It is also known as
the California Delete Act and is sponsored by
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse and Californians
for Consumer Privacy. It will improve
everyone’s privacy rights and make
California’s consumer privacy laws more user-
friendly.
Californians have a right to request that
companies delete information collected about
them. But, logistically speaking, this is
difficult. Because California’s privacy laws
require people to file requests with each
individual company that may have their
information, it can be an incredibly time-
consuming and tedious process. Furthermore,
because data brokers buy, sell, and exchange
information with so many companies (and each
other), it’s very hard for anyone to know if
a particular company has their information
and how to make a deletion request.
# § Confidentiality⠀➾
# ⚓ [Old] eSecurity Planet ☛ The_U.S._Is_Falling_Behind
on_Encryption_Standards_–_And_That’s_a_Global_Problem⠀⇛
Today we are almost three years into FIPS
140-3 submissions, and while we had a Covid
shutdown during some of that time, it doesn’t
explain why there have only been seven FIPS
140-3 validations as of last week, the last
one nearly six months ago (chart below), and
another 189 (and growing) in the validation
process. I doubt the vendor community is so
incompetent that they couldn’t comply with
the minor changes required to get products
validated. Add to this that both hardware and
software FIPS 140-2 products are likely gone,
as the last submission to FIPS 140-2 was
March 2022 and those products likely reached
end-of-life some time ago.
# ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ You_Can’t_Rush_Post-Quantum-
Computing_Cryptography_Standards⠀⇛
Yes, the process will take several years, and
you really don’t want to rush it. I wrote
this last year: [...]
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Robert Reich ☛ Is_Donald_Trump_a_Fascist?⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Letters_From_the_August_21/28,_2023,_Issue⠀⇛
P.E. Moskowitz’s article “America’s Suburbs Are
Breeding Grounds for Fascism” [June 26/July 3] is
an insightful, if still disheartening, addition to
the loudening discussions surrounding urban
planning in the United States, especially
concerning the suburbs.2
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ State_of_Montana_vs._TikTok_Escalates
as_Tech_Giants_Apple,_Amazon,_Google_Weigh_In⠀⇛
The two tech groups contain many of the same
corporate partners, including Amazon, Apple,
Google, Airbnb, StubHub, Lyft, and Meta. Chamber of
Progress also includes corporate partners like
Chime, Circle, DoorDash, Grubhub, Instacart, and
Uber. NetChoice contains association members like
AOL, Etsy, Hotels.com, Nextdoor, Paypal, Snap, X
(formerly Twitter), Yahoo, and TikTok.
After Montana sought to ban the short-form video
platform, which is owned by Chinese company
ByteDance, TikTok filed a lawsuit in May in an
effort to block the first-of-its-kind state ban
under the pretense that it violates the First
Amendment rights of the company and its users. A
hearing on TikTok’s request for a preliminary
injunction is set for October 12.
# ⚓ ADF ☛ Russia’s_Grain_Warfare_‘a_Stab_in_the_Back’_to
Africa⠀⇛
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky charged
Russian President Vladimir Putin with trying to
“weaponize hunger.”
African leaders pushed back against Putin more
forcefully than ever before.
“The decision by Russia to exit the Black Sea Grain
Initiative is a stab in the back at global food
security prices and disproportionately impacts
countries in the Horn of Africa already impacted by
drought,” Abraham Korir Sing’Oei, a senior foreign
ministry official from Kenya, tweeted on July 17.
# ⚓ NPR ☛ He_was_a_top_church_official_who_criticized_Trump._He
says_Christianity_is_in_crisis⠀⇛
Moore believes part of the problem is that “almost
every part of American life is tribalized and
factionalized,” and that has extended to the
church.
“I think if we’re going to get past the blood and
soil sorts of nationalism or all of the other kinds
of totalizing cultural identities, it’s going to
require rethinking what the church is,” he told
NPR.
# ⚓ Site36 ☛ EU_Commission_gifts_Egypt_patrol_boats_to_become_a
gatekeeper_for_migration,_following_Tunisian_model⠀⇛
The EU Commission wants to conclude a migration
defense agreement with Egypt and is upgrading the
country’s land and sea borders. However, hardly any
refugee boats leave from Egyptian shores for
Europe.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Corruption_reigns_supreme_in_Iran—and
it’s_getting_worse⠀⇛
Corruption has been a long-standing challenge in
Iran. Iranians have generally blamed foreign powers
as the source of corruption in their society.
During the nineteenth and early twentieth-century
Qajar period, they saw corruption as a byproduct of
the Great Game rivalry between the British and
Russians to exact favors from the royal court,
famously described in Morgan Shuster’s Strangling
of Persia. Russophiles and Anglophiles in high
places are said to have competed to advance the
interest of their patrons and were rewarded for
their service. Thereafter and until the 1979
revolution, the culprits became the United States
and capitalist imperialism.
Putting an end to foreign interests—as reflected in
the slogan of esteghlal or “independence”—and
creating a moral society were advocated as the
primary motivations of the 1979 revolution.
However, despite the dwindling foreign presence in
the nascent Islamic Republic post-1979, which
preached a more ethically centered society,
corruption has reached new heights and has been
ubiquitous from the first days of the regime. The
ever-increasing amounts of money and elaborate
schemes that routinely involve the closest regime
insiders dwarf any pre-1979 reports of corruption.
# ⚓ ADF ☛ Islamic_State_Group_in_Mozambique,_DRC_Increasing
Links⠀⇛
Two reports shed light on the growing connection
between Islamic State group affiliates in
Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
(DRC).
For the first time, the United Nations Group of
Experts on the DRC highlighted organizational links
between the insurgents in Mozambique’s northern
Cabo Delgado province and the Allied Democratic
Forces terror group based in the eastern DRC.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ 109-year-old_Tulsa_Massacre_Survivor_Becomes
Oldest_Woman_in_the_World_to_Release_a_Memoir⠀⇛
In “Don’t Let Them Bury My Story,” Viola Fletcher
recalls the horrific night in 1921 when America’s
“Black Wall Street” was burned to the ground.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Philippines_summons_Chinese_ambassador_over
water-cannoned_boats_in_South_China_Sea⠀⇛
Manila summoned Beijing’s envoy Monday after the
China Coast Guard blocked and water cannoned
Philippine vessels in the disputed South China Sea,
President Ferdinand Marcos said.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Video_Shows_China_Blasting_Water_Cannon_at
Philippines_Coast_Guard_Boat⠀⇛
The clash, in which a Chinese ship blocked 2
Philippine vessels, is the latest in a hotly
contested region of the South China Sea.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China-Philippines_dispute_over_grounded
warship_continues⠀⇛
The two countries have been in a long-running
dispute over the Second Thomas Shoal.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Tokyo_downplays_US_report_of_Chinese_military_hack_on
Japan⠀⇛
Hacking spree described as ‘deep’ and ‘persistent,’
compromising East Asian ally that harbors US
military bases.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Think-tank:_Indonesia’s_next_president_must_navigate
complicated_ties_with_China⠀⇛
Two of the three hopefuls for the top office in
ASEAN’s biggest country are pro-Beijing.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Philippines_summons_Chinese_envoy_over_water-cannon
incident_in_disputed_waters⠀⇛
Beijing, meanwhile, calls on Manila to stop using a
rusted out WWII era ship as a military outpost.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Xi_Remade_China’s_Military._Now_a_Purge
Threatens_its_Image.⠀⇛
Xi Jinping, China’s leader, set out to clean up the
military a decade ago. But now his crown jewel, the
missile force, is under a shadow.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ 78_Years_Ago_in_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki:_What
Oppenheimer_Wrought⠀⇛
The official U.S. bombing survey on what happened
in Hiroshima 78 years ago today.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ US/France_Threaten_Intervention_in_Resource-
Rich_Niger:_Fears_of_War_in_West_Africa⠀⇛
The US and France have threatened intervention to
re-install a pro-Western regime in Niger, which
produces uranium needed for nuclear energy, has
untapped oil reserves…
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Drone_hits_monastery_grounds_in_Russia’s_Kursk
region,_injuring_one_child_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Kursk regional governor Roman Starovoyt reported
that a kamikaze drone crashed on the grounds of the
Saint Nicholas Monastery in the village of Gornal
in the Sudzhansky district.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Head_of_self-proclaimed_‘DNR’_says_three_killed
during_heavy_shelling_in_Donetsk_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Three people were killed in Donetsk as a result of
heavy shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces,
reported the Russian-appointed head of the self-
proclaimed “Donetsk People’s Republic” (DNR) Denis
Pushilin.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Pakistan_Suspends_Anti-Polio_Drive_In_Two_Tribal
Districts⠀⇛
Pakistani authorities have suspended an anti-polio
drive in two volatile tribal districts of Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa Province after several police officers
refused to provide security to medical teams during
the door-to-door vaccination campaign.
# § War in Ukraine and Russia⠀➾
# ⚓ LRT ☛ After_Orthodox_pro-war_controversy,_Lithuania
moves_to_allow_deregistering_of_religious_groups⠀⇛
A group of Lithuanian MPs have registered
draft amendments allowing the courts to
deregister or liquidate a religious
organisation for national security reasons.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Putin_realized_there_wouldn’t_be_any
consequences’_What_Russia’s_elites_learned_from_the
2008_invasion_of_Georgia_—_Meduza⠀⇛
15 years ago, in August 2008, the Russian
military entered into open conflict with
Georgia. Moscow launched an offensive deep
into the country before securing a favorable
peace treaty and avoiding international
isolation. Meduza’s special correspondent
Andrey Pertsev spoke with officials who were
part of Moscow’s “power vertical” at the time
to learn how that invasion differed, in
Russian elites’ view, from the invasion of
Ukraine.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Oppenheimer_Opened_a_Door._We_Can_Close
It.⠀⇛
I wake up every day thinking about nuclear
weapons.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Siberian_village_re-dedicates_monument_to
soldiers_killed_in_Afghanistan_and_Chechnya_to
‘warriors_killed_in_local_wars_and_special_operation’_—
Meduza⠀⇛
The original plaque commemorating locals who
were killed in the wars in Afghanistan and
Chechnya has been removed from a monument
located in Kuytun, a village outside of the
Siberian city of Irkutsk.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Unknown_country_buys_50_decommissioned
Leopard_1_tanks_from_Belgium_for_Ukraine_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The first Leopard 1 tanks purchased from
Belgium by an unknown country have been sent
to Ukraine, reports Belgian publication
Business AM.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Zone_of_Fear’_A_Meduza_photo_report_on_the
territory_bordering_South_Ossetia_and_Abkhazia,
Georgia’s_Russian-occupied_regions_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Exactly 15 years ago, in August 2008, Russia
invaded Georgia — Russian troops took the
side of the “self-proclaimed republics of
Abkhazia and South Ossetia,” which were not
completely under Tbilisi’s de facto control.
The conflict only lasted five days — the
Russian army drove Georgian troops out of the
republics, achieved a favorable truce, and
avoided international isolation. Since then,
there has been a so-called “Zone of Fear” on
the border between Georgian-controlled
territory and the territory of occupied South
Ossetia and Abkhazia, where there are around
70 villages and ten thousand residents. At
Meduza’s request, photographer Vitaly
Malyshev traveled to the “Zone of Fear” with
volunteers from the Georgian project
Lifeline.ge to see what marks the 2008 war
has left on the area.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Italy_stops_issuing_‘golden_visas’_to
Russian,_Belarusian_nationals_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The authorities in Italy have stopped the
Investor Visa for Italy program for Russian
and Belarusian nationals. The program
provides residence permits in Italy in
exchange for investments in the country,
writes Italian publication Alreconomia.
o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Soldier_Who_Called_Out_Torture_in_Iraq_Is
Laid_to_Rest_at_Arlington_Cemetery⠀⇛
They came to pay respects to a paratrooper and
Special Forces officer who dared to challenge the
Army on its soldiers’ sustained abuse of Iraqi and
Afghan men in their custody. The ceremony also
offered a morning for his family and supporters to
reflect on what they regard as his unnecessary
death while awaiting care from the Department of
Veterans Affairs.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ Overpopulation ☛ Walk_the_talk:_the_world_needs_more_Gretas
and_fewer_Leonardos⠀⇛
This is an overpopulation blog, but its authors
have made it clear that overconsumption is a
problem too, and that the two are, as it is often
said, “two sides of the same coin”. Revisiting the
helpful geometric metaphor: just as it doesn’t make
sense to discuss whether height or width
contributes more to the area of a rectangle, so it
needs to be acknowledged that both per capita
consumption and human numbers are important in
determining total environmental impact. We can
debate whether it would be preferrable to have a
planet with more humans and a more modest average
lifestyle, or the reverse; I have myself made on
this blog the argument that countries can (and
perhaps should) choose to strive for a lower long-
term human population in order to enjoy a larger
share of resources per capita. Other species need
their fair share too, of course.
Right now, however, the situation is so dire that
we cannot afford to choose just one: both overall
population and overall consumption need to go down
– as quickly as possible – if humanity and the
biosphere are to stand a chance at all.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Illegal_mining_of_rare_earth_metals_surges_in
northern_Myanmar⠀⇛
An increase in the illegal mining of rare earth
metals in northern Myanmar is being driven by
demand from neighboring China for terbium and
dysprosium – elements that are used in the
production of electric vehicles, area residents and
environmental activists said.
The practice is rampant in Kachin state, where
successive governments have failed to regulate
mining for gold, jade and other rare metals for
generations. The number of unsanctioned operations
ballooned after the military’s Feb. 1, 2021,
takeover amid conflict between junta troops and
armed resistance forces in the region.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Amazon_nations_fail_to_agree_on_shared_goal_to
end_deforestation_at_summit_in_Brazil⠀⇛
Instead, the joint declaration issued on Tuesday in
the Brazilian city of Belem created an alliance for
combating forest destruction, with countries left
to pursue their own individual deforestation goals.
The failure of the eight Amazon countries to agree
on a pact to protect their own forests points to
the larger, global difficulties at forging an
agreement to combat climate change.
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ Paris_Olympics_swim_event_called_off_over
pollution_fears⠀⇛
Two other swimming events — a training session
Friday and Saturday’s women’s race — had already
been postponed due to water quality issues.
The World Aquatics statement referenced plans by
Paris Olympics organizers to improve water quality
in the Seine in the leadup to next year’s Games.
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Policy_memo:_How_the_US_and_EU_can
advance_the_green_transition_along_with_energy_and
resource_security⠀⇛
The US-EU Trade & Technology Council must
work to align climate efforts with
geoeconomic goals and leverage new
technologies to drive the green transition.
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ The_World_Is_Losing_Forests,_But_Some
Are_Actually_Growing_Larger⠀⇛
Forest fragmentation is a big problem.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ This_Massive_Viper_Has_The_Longest
Fangs_of_Any_Venomous_Snake_on_Earth⠀⇛
Once it bites, it won’t let go until its meal
is dead.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ A_naturally_occurring_bacteria_can_stop_the
malaria_parasite_right_in_a_mosquito’s_gut⠀⇛
The biggest hurdle in eradicating malaria is
that the parasite is highly_adaptable_and
resistant, and nascent_vaccines are only
partially_effective. Genetically-engineered
bacteria have long been touted as potential
malaria-enders but they’re complex to
develop.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ MWL ☛ Patreon_update:_I_got_paid,_mostly⠀⇛
Blaze Ward’s latest Milestone Publishing Newsletter
talks about the importance of owning your platform,
as greatly as possible. I mostly agree with it,
except for the part about moving to Shopify.
They’re an external vendor, they will enshittify. I
can do everything with Woocommerce and Bookfunnel
that Shopify can do, and Woo’s open code makes it
enshittification-resistant. I can replace
Bookfunnel if need be.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ More_than_100_arrests_in_West_African_[Internet]
scam_investigation,_says_Interpol⠀⇛
Between 15 and 29 May, 2.15 million euros were
frozen or seized, 103 people were arrested, 1,110
suspects were identified and 208 bank accounts were
blocked.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Ellen_Brown:_War_By_Other_Means:_Short_Selling
JPMorgan_Chase⠀⇛
When the FDIC put Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and
Signature Bank…
# ⚓ BBC ☛ Warning_UK_set_for_five_years_of_lost_economic_growth
–_BBC_News⠀⇛
The economy has been hit by Brexit, Covid and the
Ukraine war, a think tank says.
# ⚓ NBC ☛ Al’s_Formal_Wear_was_created_in_Fort_Worth;_Founder’s
daughter_‘shocked’_about_the_sudden_closures⠀⇛
Like many people, the news of Al’s Formal Wear
shutting its doors unexpectedly was shocking,
especially for the family whose father created the
brand in Fort Worth.
“I am very, very sad that the company is closing,”
said Rebecca Sankary Bodzy, whose father Al Sankary
started the business.
Her father, who was born and raised in Fort Worth,
started Al’s Formal Wear in 1952 on 311 Main St. in
downtown Fort Worth.
# ⚓ Al’s_Formal_Wear_Stores_Close_Abruptly,_Employees_Laid
Off⠀⇛
Employees of Al’s Formal Wear were left shocked and
jobless after an emergency Microsoft Teams meeting
on Saturday. During the meeting, they were informed
that all stores would be closed immediately.
Managers were instructed to notify customers to
pick up any ready orders, and employees were told
to remove their personal belongings from the
stores.
On Monday, the parent company of Al’s Formal Wear,
Dapper & Dashing, sent an email confirming the
layoffs and the permanent closure of the stores.
Employees reported being locked out of the company
email and computer system.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Byju’s_term_loan_gets_more_expensive;_MPL
lays_off_350_post_GST_hit⠀⇛
Settling the ongoing dispute over its $1.2 billion
term loan B (TLB) may prove to be more expensive
for Byju’s. The distressed edtech major may have to
cough up an additional $50-60 million to service
the increased interest rate it has offered to
finalise the new terms of the disputed TLB, sources
who have apparently calculated the additional
interest payout told ETtech.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ China_Pathfinder:_Will_sluggish_growth
trigger_green_shoots_of_reform?⠀⇛
While slow growth has caused the rhetoric around
Chinese economic reform to turn more practical
throughout Q2 2023, concrete actions have been
insufficient.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ As_China’s_Youth_Unemployment_Soars,
Pressure_on_Colleges_Grows⠀⇛
Under pressure from Beijing, Chinese schools have
been told to do more to secure jobs for students,
who are facing bleak prospects.
# ⚓ Forbes ☛ 2023_Layoff_Tracker:_Tyson_Foods,_Emergent
BioSolutions_Cut_Hundreds_Of_Jobs⠀⇛
Emergent BioSolutions, the producer of the opioid
overdose-combating nasal spray NARCAN, will cut 400
positions, the company announced Tuesday, while
Tyson Foods announced plans to close four
facilities, eliminating thousands of jobs—as
employers continue to reduce their headcounts well
into 2023 amid lingering recession fears (see
Forbes’ layoff tracker from the first quarter
here).
# ⚓ Dell_Technologies_says_‘some’_employees_leaving_company⠀⇛
# ⚓ Dell_laying_off_sales_staff,_adopting_partner-driven_market
strategy⠀⇛
Dell Technologies (Dell) is reducing the size of
its core sales teams as the tech giant adopts a new
partner-driven go-to market model.
According to news outlets, including CRN, the new
model will allow the company to pay its employees
“more to sell storage products through the
channel.”
“We don’t make these decisions lightly, and we’ll
support those impacted as they transition to their
next opportunity,” a Dell spokesperson told CRN.
# ⚓ Dell_Layoffs:_Dell_Technologies_to_Lay_Off_Employees_in
Sales_Teams_Amid_Partner-Driven_Market_Strategy⠀⇛
San Francisco, August 8: Dell Technologies will lay
off some members from its sales teams as part of a
new partner-driven market strategy. The company,
however, did not confirm if these layoffs are part
of or in addition to the 6,650 job cuts it
announced earlier this year. Dell, however,
confirmed that it “will cut jobs among its core
sales teams as it adopts a new partner-led model
that pays its direct sales force more to sell
storage products through the channel,” reports CRN.
“Some members of our sales team will leave the
company. We don’t make these decisions lightly, and
we’ll support those impacted as they transition to
their next opportunity,” a Dell spokesperson was
quoted as saying. “We’re always assessing our
business to remain competitive and ensure we’re set
up to deliver the best innovation, value and
service to our customers and partners,” the
spokesperson added. Microsoft Layoffs: Tech Giant
Reportedly Lays Off 1,000 Employees, Mostly in
Sales and Customer Service Teams in Fresh Round of
Job Cuts.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ National_World_launches_video_news_TV
channel_‘Shots!’_on_Freeview⠀⇛
The new channel draws together video shot by the
company’s reporters around the UK.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Western_Australia_to_overturn_2021
Aboriginal_heritage_protection_laws⠀⇛
August 08, 2023 1:40 PM
The state govt will restore and amend 1972
legislation to ensure protection of important
sites.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ India’s_high_court_draws_a_line_for_equality⠀⇛
Ethnic violence in the state of Manipur stirs new
demands for the safety and appreciation of women
and girls.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Following_Public_Outrage,_Bulgaria_Makes_Changes_In
Domestic_Violence_Legislation⠀⇛
The Bulgarian National Assembly on August 7
approved changes in the Criminal Code and the law
on protection from domestic violence following a
shocking case of abuse against an 18-year-old woman
that sparked mass protests.
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ Sweden_Quran_burnings:_How_the_Kremlin
benefits⠀⇛
El Gomati is very concerned by how effectively the
Kremlin — along with Islamist and radical right-
wing extremists — is instrumentalizing Quran
burnings to stir up anger and even violence against
Sweden both in the Muslim world, and, he fears,
perhaps among Muslims in Europe. “They feed on
these events and they use them,” he warned. “If
these events [are] not happening they don’t have
material to tell people to go and bomb yourself in
the middle of of Europe.”
# ⚓ Daniel Pocock ☛ Donald_Trump_&_FSFE_Matthias_Kirschner
election_denial⠀⇛
Last week’s decision to prosecute Donald Trump for
trying to overturn the result of the 2020 US
election reminded me of the dirty tricks in the
FSFE election process. In 2017, the FSFE Fellows
elected me as the Fellowship representative. The
German candidate, Florian Snow, came third out of
seven candidates. A few months later, Matthias
Kirschner used his position as president to appoint
Florian Snow as an unelected member of the General
Assembly. In other words, Kirchner gave Snow all
the same rights and powers as the person who had
earned those rights at the ballot box.
# ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ Media_Publishers_File_Flawed_Competition
Act_Application_Over_Meta_Blocking_News_Links_Due_to_Bill_C-
18⠀⇛
As the fallout from Bill C-18 continues, a
coalition of Canadian media outlets – News Media
Canada, the Canadian Association of Broadcasters,
and the CBC – have filed an application with the
Competition Bureau seeking an inquiry into Meta’s
decision to block news links in response to the
bill’s mandated payments for links approach. There
is unquestionably a need for greater competition
work with respect to Internet platforms, but a case
grounded in refusal to link is not the place to
start. Indeed, this complaint is exceptionally weak
as it misstates Bill C-18, implausibly claims that
Meta has substantial control over the news industry
in Canada, contradicts the government on the
choices presented by its legislation, and risks
creating a mandated requirement to link that could
result in other sectors forcing platforms to
display more contentious content.
# ⚓ [Repeat] DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ Today’s_Democrats_Are
Yesterday’s_Republicans._Bonus:_“Work,_Catholics,_and
Pensions.”⠀⇛
As a person who has an immigrant spouse (who
entered the United States legally and has always
been here legally), I have insights into the US
Immigration System and what the Democrat and
Republican position on the issue is.
# ⚓ Progressive Farmer DTN ☛ Ag_Equip_Repairs_Not_Limited_by
Law⠀⇛
Nothing in the Clean Air Act forbids farmers and
independent repair shops from making emissions and
other repairs to agriculture equipment, EPA
Administrator Michael Regan said in a letter to the
National Farmers Union on Aug. 4.
Equipment manufacturers often say the Clean Air Act
doesn’t allow farmers and independent repair shops
to repair emissions equipment, raising concerns
about liability for improper or even potentially
dangerous repairs.
Regan went a step further in telling the group the
Clean Air Act actually encourages such repairs.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ What_Might_Eugene_Debs_and_Donald_Trump
Share?⠀⇛
Donald J. Trump has been trampling presidential
precedents right and left as he slouches toward
Washington. Among them: the first indicted
candidate ever. Also: the first candidate who wants
to be president so he can pardon himself.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Let_Trump_Run⠀⇛
As Donald Trump continues to rack up criminal
charges, there is ongoing interest in addressing
the threat he poses to American democracy by
seeking to keep him off the ballot. One possible
means to this end that the prosecutorial choices of
special counsel Jack Smith have seemingly
foreclosed is to convict him of plotting an
insurrection, which would trigger the 14th
Amendment’s ban on letting those who “engage in
insurrection or rebellion” hold public office.
# § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ Lies,_Damn_Lies,_and_Generative
Artificial_Intelligence:_How_GAI_Automates
Disinformation_and_What_We_Should_Do_About_It⠀⇛
The recent explosion of generative AI brings
many potential benefits to society, but along
with these come just as many risks.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ New_History_Textbook_For_Russian_High_Schools
Includes_Propaganda_On_War_In_Ukraine⠀⇛
[...] The textbook contains a completely
rewritten history from 1970 to 2000, reducing
the general history section and expanding
parts about Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
[...]
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Two_Procedural_Orders_from_the_Trump_Media_&
Technology_Group_Libel_Lawsuit_Against_the_Washington_Post⠀⇛
The factual backstory (just a snippet), as
summarized in the Post’s notice of removal to
federal court: In its Complaint, Plaintiff asserts
a claim for defamation and a claim for conspiracy
to defame against the Post. Compl. at ¶¶ 21-32.
Plaintiff operates a social media platform called
“Truth Social.”
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ US_federal_judge_dismisses_Trump_counter-
defamation_lawsuit_against_E._Jean_Carroll⠀⇛
US District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan dismissed
former President Donald Trump’s counter-defamation
suit against author E. Jean Carroll on Monday.
Carroll has accused Trump of sexual assault, with a
jury finding that Trump did sexually assault
Carroll and defamed Carroll by accusing her of
lying.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Experts_say_Kremlin’s_censors_testing_new
restrictions_as_Russian_Internet_users_report_VPN_failures_—
Meduza⠀⇛
Since August 7, numerous Russian Internet users
have reported experiencing technical problems with
VPN services. The issues have affected customers of
mobile operators like MTS, MegaFon, Beeline, Tele2,
Yota, and Tinkoff Mobile, while VPNs on fixed line
providers like Rostelecom seem to be operating
fine, according to the site SecurityLab.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Judge_Dumps_Trump’s_Retaliatory_Defamation_Suit
Against_The_Winner_Of_A_Sexual_Abuse_Lawsuit_Against_Him⠀⇛
While I can comprehend the fact that Donald Trump
has access to money (even if it’s unlikely he’s
playing with house money at this point), I cannot
understand how he hasn’t been reduced to a pro se
litigant at this point. This man has a headful of
bad legal ideas and somehow — despite his regular
refusal to pay them for their services — still
finds lawyers willing to advocate on his behalf.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Federal_judge_throws_out_Trump’s_countersuit
against_writer_E._Jean_Carroll⠀⇛
A federal judge on Monday threw out a counter
defamation lawsuit former_President_Trump filed
against writer E. Jean Carroll after she won her
sexual_abuse_suit against him earlier this year.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Hong_Kong_government_reboots_injunction_bid_over
banned_anthem_‘Glory_to_Hong_Kong’⠀⇛
An injunction could mean the song is removed from
online platforms to prevent the city’s residents
from seeing it.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Anwar_govt_takes_flak_as_another
website_gets_blocked_ahead_of_state_polls⠀⇛
The UtusanTV site could not be accessed by users in
Malaysia since Monday morning.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Chinese_authorities_release_Tibetan_writer_following
four-year_prison_sentence⠀⇛
A Tibetan writer who wrote a book that criticized
Chinese rule in Tibet has been released from prison
after serving a four-year sentence for “creating
disorder among the public,” a Tibetan source told
Radio Free Asia.
# ⚓ The Scotsman ☛ In_Iran,_climate_change_is_becoming_a_matter
of_life_and_death_but_the_tyrannical_mullahs_respond_to
protests_with_deadly_force_–_Struan_Stevenson⠀⇛
The mullahs’ maladministration over four decades
has left Iran struggling with deforestation,
desertification, water scarcity and countless other
examples of environmental degradation. Climate
change is exacerbating these environmental issues
and turning them into a matter of life and death
for the Iranian population, now 85 million strong.
# ⚓ Project Censored ☛ Media_Freedom_Matters:_Exposing
International_News_Neglect,_Censorship,_and_Agenda_Cutting
Across_the_Globe_–_The_Project_Censored_Show⠀⇛
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Scores_Of_Media_Workers_Detained_In_Iran_In_Latest
Protests_Honored_On_Journalists’_Day⠀⇛
“Investigations indicate that over the past year
more than 100 journalists have been arrested.
Nevertheless, the flow of information continues
uninhibited, always finding its way, much like
water,” Montajabi said.
“This dark era persists, with the system’s main
agenda being the arrest, elimination, expulsion,
and now the recent trend of exiling journalists,”
Montajabi said.
# ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ High_Court_to_review_bulk_collection_of
journalists’_data_by_UK_law_enforcement⠀⇛
Liberty’s legal action also succeeded in arguing
that the act’s regime for sharing bulk personal
datasets with other states was unlawful under the
European Convention on Human Rights, which the UK
still follows despite Brexit.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Patrick_Lawrence:_Independent_Journalism_as_It
Was⠀⇛
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Critics_Rip_Private_Equity_Firm’s_Deal_to_Buy
Simon_&_Schuster_as_‘Dark_Day_for_Publishing’⠀⇛
“I guess all of corporate book publishing is
beholden to investors above all else but this
really makes it blatant,” said one literary
podcaster.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Parents_of_wanted_overseas_Hong_Kong
activist_Anna_Kwok_questioned_by_national_security_police_–
reports⠀⇛
Hong Kong national security police have taken the
parents of a wanted activist for questioning,
marking the latest move in authorities’
investigation of eight overseas pro-democracy
figures issued with arrest warrants and HK$1
million bounties. The parents of US-based Anna Kwok
were taken to a police station on Tuesday morning,
local media outlets reported.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Young_workers_in_Asia_shun_factory_jobs⠀⇛
Young people in Asiadon’t want to work in factories
anymore, and that has implications for global
consumers.
Driving the news:The Wall_Street_Journal_reports
that Asia is having a big problem staffing its
factories with younger workers.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_47:_Online_declaration
meant_to_show_‘will_for_resistance,’_activist_tells_national
security_trial⠀⇛
The purpose of an online declaration that called on
candidates to endorse the five demands advocated in
the 2019 extradition bill protests was to show
“will for resistance,” a Hong Kong activist has
said at a high-profile national security trial
relating to 47 pro-democracy figures.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Activist_or_terrorist?_How_Filipino
authorities_blur_the_line.⠀⇛
Who’s considered a terrorist in the Philippines?
The designation of activists and Indigenous leaders
as “terrorist individuals” has sparked calls to
revisit the country’s approach to domestic
security.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_authorities_issue_warning_over_phone
scammers_tricking_citizens_into_burning_down_enlistment
offices_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office and the
Interior Ministry have issued official warnings
about a new form of telephone fraud in which
Russians are pressured or tricked into setting fire
to military enlistment offices.
# ⚓ Zoom_Orders_Workers_Back_To_The_Office:_Is_This_The_End_Of
Work_From_Home?⠀⇛
In a significant departure from its previous stance
on remote work, Zoom, the trailblazing video
communications company, has directed its workforce
to return to the office. Once hailed for
championing remote work during the pandemic, Zoom’s
latest move raises questions about the
sustainability of remote work and echoes a broader
industry trend towards re-establishing in-person
work environments.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ My_Distaste_For_Your_Solution_Does_Not_Mean
Disregard_For_The_Problem⠀⇛
This keeps coming up in different contexts, so I
thought I might write a short (ha, as if I can
write short things!) blog post that I can point to
on various occasions. I spend a lot of time here on
Techdirt highlighting why your favorite solution to
(*waves hands*) some big societal problem won’t
work, and will probably make things worse.
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ University_of_Michigan_Threatens
Jobs_of_Striking_Graduate_Instructors⠀⇛
Union spokesman Amir Fleishmann called it an
“underhanded” tactic.
“We feel confident that it is not going to work,”
he told The Detroit News. “Our members are not
going to be scared by these threats the university
continues to make.”
# ⚓ Gannett ☛ University_of_Michigan_threatens_jobs_of_striking
graduate_instructors⠀⇛
It is the latest salvo in a labor dispute that’s
been ongoing since a strike by the Graduate
Employees’ Organization began in March, near the
end of spring term. The union negotiates on behalf
of more than 2,000 members, though not all walked
off the job.
Fall classes begin Aug. 28.
# ⚓ Digital First Media ☛ UM_threatens_to_replace_graduate
student_employees_who_strike_during_fall_semester⠀⇛
The University of Michigan is threatening to
replace 2,300 graduate student instructors and
staff assistants who continue to strike when the
fall semester begins later this month.
In an email sent Monday to graduate student
instructors and graduate student staff assistants,
Provost Laurie McCauley wrote that student
employees who participate in the work stoppage will
be subject to losing their post for the entire fall
semester.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Grindr_Tells_Unionizing_Workers:_Move
Across_The_Country_or_Be_Fired⠀⇛
Workers told Motherboard that the policy was first
announced on Thursday, during a previously
scheduled all-hands meeting, and that it was the
first time they had heard from management since the
unionization was announced.
“We announced our union on July 20 and then we
heard literally nothing from Grindr management
until Thursday, when they announced that we all had
two weeks to decide whether we were going to move
across the country or get fired,” said Quinn McGee,
a trust and safety product manager and organizer at
Grindr United CWA. “As soon as George [Arison,
Grindr’s CEO] stopped talking, one of my colleagues
began to ask a question about all of us suddenly
having to uproot our lives—and they cut the call.”
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Salesforce_to_face_court_over_claims_it
knowingly_assisted_sex_trafficking_website⠀⇛
In May last year, a trial court had barred [PDF]
the claim that the SaaS provider benefited from
Backpage.com’s venture that it knew, or should have
known, was engaged in illegal sex trafficking.
# ⚓ Society for Scholarly Publshing ☛ Thoreau_and_the_Office
Cubicle⠀⇛
Over the course of the past 12-18 months,
mainstream media has been reporting a tension
between employers and paid workers over appropriate
attitudes. Employers insists there must be in-
office time spent with colleagues to ensure
productivity and robust teams. The response from
workers has run a spectrum between the Great
Resistance and what the Huffington Post christened
the Great Regret. The BBC suggests that flexible
remote-work arrangements are a key job benefit to
the workforce. Most recently in June, a new book
from Princeton University Press refocused attention
on Thoreau’s consideration of earning one’s
livelihood and what makes the effort worthwhile.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Zoom,_which_thrived_on_the_remote_work
revolution,_wants_workers_back_in_the_office_part-time⠀⇛
Zoom, the video conferencing pioneer, is asking
employees who live within a 50-mile radius of its
offices to work onsite two days a week, a company
spokesperson confirmed in an email. The statement
said the company has decided that “a structured
hybrid approach – meaning employees that live near
an office need to be onsite two days a week to
interact with their teams – is most effective for
Zoom.”
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ I_Scream⠀⇛
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Despite_Promises_of_Reform,_Private_Prison
Companies_Still_Thriving_Under_Biden:_ACLU⠀⇛
“Three years into the Biden administration, the
number of people held in ICE detention continues to
grow, and private prison companies hold an
increasingly tight grip on the mass immigration …
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Post-‘Roe,’_It’s_More_Important_Than_Ever_We
Still_Fight_for_Procedural_Abortion⠀⇛
Procedural abortion is basic reproductive health
care that is safe, immediate and viable even past
the first trimester.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ A_Healthy_Regard_for_Workers’_Rights:_Fellows
at_the_NIH_Launch_a_Union_Drive⠀⇛
Matt Manion recalls the countless “closed-door
meetings” conducted with the door wide open so the
whole lab could hear their boss berate her workers,
tell them that they’re not good enough, that her
word alone can dictate their entire career.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Tennessee_Teen_Sues_School_For_Suspending_Him
After_He_Posted_Memes_Mocking_His_Principal⠀⇛
Students rights are limited on school grounds. But
they don’t cease to exist. And what they do off-
campus is subject to even fewer limitations.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Will_Abu_Ghraib_Torture_Victims_Finally_Get
Their_Day_in_Court?_CACI_Lawsuit_Will_Proceed_to_Trial⠀⇛
A federal lawsuit brought by Iraqi torture
survivors appears finally headed to trial after a
federal judge refused to dismiss the case last
week. The Iraqis are suing the U.S. military
contractor CACI, which provided interrogators at
Abu Ghraib, the notorious Iraqi prison where the
men were tortured by U.S. guards. The lawsuit,
which alleges CACI was complicit in that torture,
was first filed in 2008. Since then, CACI has
attempted 18 times to have the case dismissed.
Baher Azmy, legal director of the Center for
Constitutional Rights, which is representing the
torture survivors in the case, says the men
suffered a range of abuse including sexual
humiliation, beatings and more. “They’re all
suffering the aftereffects, psychological and
physical, of their time at Abu Ghraib,” he says.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “Broken_System”:_NYC_Says_It_Has_No_More
Room_for_Asylum_Seekers_as_Advocates_Demand_Long-Term
Shelter⠀⇛
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has announced a plan
to house as many as 2,000 asylum seekers at a tent
complex on Randalls Island in the East River. Tens
of thousands of asylum seekers have been sent to
New York since last year and must wait 150 days to
file for a work permit, leaving them no options to
make a stable living. As the Adams administration
claims the city has surpassed its ability to
shelter new arrivals, migrants have been stuck in
the city’s shelter system for months or repeatedly
been forced to sleep in the streets, including last
week when dozens waited outside Manhattan’s
Roosevelt Hotel for days, sleeping shoulder to
shoulder on the sidewalk, in hopes for a bed and
shelter. We speak with Murad Awawdeh, executive
director of the New York Immigration Coalition and
NYIC Action, who calls for an investment in public
resources and to support people as they move out of
the shelter system into permanent housing. “We want
to flip this on its head and actually support
people to get out as quickly as possible.”
# ⚓ EFF ☛ EFF_at_Las_Vegas_Hacker_Summer_Camp⠀⇛
As in past years, EFF staff attorneys will be
present to help support speakers and attendees. If
you have legal concerns regarding an upcoming talk
or sensitive infosec research that you are
conducting at any time, please email info@eff.org.
Outline the basic issues and we will do our best to
connect you with the resources you need. Read more
about EFF’s work defending, offering legal counsel,
and publicly advocating for technologists on our
Coders’ Rights Project page.
EFF staff members will be on hand in the expo areas
of all three conferences. You may encounter us in
the wild elsewhere, but we hope you stop by the EFF
tables talk to us about the latest in online
rights, get on our action alert list, or donate to
become an EFF member. We’ll also have our limited-
edition DEF CON 31 shirts available! These shirts
have a puzzle incorporated into the design. Try
your hand at cracking it!
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Will_Biden_Stop_Texas_from_Separating
Asylum-Seeking_Families_at_Border_Under_Operation_Lone
Star?⠀⇛
We get an update from the Texas border, where human
rights advocates are condemning Republican Governor
Greg Abbott’s “Operation Lone Star” for its human
rights abuses. Texas troopers have reportedly
separated over two dozen migrant families at the
U.S.-Mexico border in a major change of policy.
This comes amid a deadly heat wave and after the
first deaths linked to floating barrels wrapped in
razor wire that Abbott put in the Rio Grande to
block asylum seekers from crossing. “We’re calling
for an end to the use of all of these detractions
that are getting in the way of people being able to
seek protection,” says Marisa Limón Garza,
executive director of Las Americas Immigrant
Advocacy Center, which is based in El Paso, Texas.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Is_Biden_Risking_War_with_Iran_as_U.S.
Deploys_Marines_to_Guard_Commercial_Ships_in_the_Persian
Gulf?⠀⇛
In an escalation of tensions, the Biden
administration has deployed thousands of U.S.
Marines and sailors to the Middle East in order to
deter Iran from seizing oil tankers and other
commercial ships near the Strait of Hormuz. The
move comes after the Navy said Iran tried to seize
two commercial oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman last
month, after seizing dozens more since 2019. Iran
responded by equipping its Navy with drones and
missiles. “It’s really baffling to see why we’re
taking such immense risks that could bring the U.S.
into war for achieving things that are of little
value when it comes to peace and stability in the
region or U.S. interests in the region,” says Trita
Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy
Institute for Responsible Statecraft, who says the
Biden administration is risking a new war for
stronger relations with Saudi Arabia. He argues the
Biden administration has made critical mistakes in
its relations with Iran by continuing Trump
administration-era maximum-pressure sanctions.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Baptist_pastor_charged_with_spreading
‘disinformation’_about_Russian_army_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russian Baptist pastor Yury Spiko, the former vice
president of the Baptist World Alliance, has been
charged with spreading “disinformation” about the
Russian military, the Moscow branch of the Russian
Investigative Committee reported on Tuesday.
# ⚓ ACLU ☛ Don’t_Let_the_Math_Distract_You:_Together,_We_Can
Fight_Algorithmic_Injustice⠀⇛
Around the country, automated systems are being
used to inform crucial decisions about people’s
lives. These systems, often referred to as “risk
assessment tools,” are used to decide_whether
defendants_will_be_released_pretrial, whether to
investigate_allegations_of_child_neglect, to
predict which students_might_drop_out_of_high
school, and more.
The developers of these tools and government
agencies that use them often claim that risk
assessments will improve human decisions by using
data. But risk assessment tools (and the data used
to build them) are not just technical systems that
exist in isolation — they are inherently
intertwined with the policies and politics of the
systems in which they operate, and they can
reproduce the biasesof those systems.
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ FCC_Hits_Robocall_Scammers_With_$300_Million
Fine_That_Still_Somehow_Means_Nothing⠀⇛
Every six months or so the FCC announces it has
taken some major new step to thwart annoying
robocalls. Yet Americans still receive more than
4.5 billion such calls every month, the vast
majority of FCC fines are never collected, scammers
elude meaningful accountability, and the problem
persists.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Amazon_to_Meet_Regulators_as_U.S.
Considers_Possible_Antitrust_Suit⠀⇛
Amazon’s meetings with the Federal Trade
Commission, known as “last rites” meetings, are
typically a final step before the agency votes on
filing a lawsuit.
# ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ Private_equity_plunderers_want_to_buy_Simon
&_Schuster⠀⇛
When I was a baby writer, there were dozens of
large NY publishers. Today, there are five – and it
was almost four. A publishing sector with five
giant companies is bad news for writers (as Stephen
King said at the trial, the idea that PRH and S&S
would bid against each other for books was as
absurd as the idea that he and his wife would bid
against each other for their next family home).
But it’s also bad news for publishing workers, a
historically exploited and undervalued workforce
whose labor conditions have only declined as the
number of employers in the sector dwindled, leading
to mass resignations: [...]
# § Software Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ Mailing list ARChives ☛ OpenBSD_Misc:_Re:_Recognition
Of_Linux_LVMs⠀⇛
> [...] (and I wonder, parenthetically, why
FreeBSD and NetBSD are willing to support
ZFS, but OpenBSD is not).
Stuart already told you this:
“Not likely to happen.
Even if there was an implementation written,
patents are involved (use is granted via the
CDDL but that’s not an acceptable license for
OpenBSD).”
# § Trademarks⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Correction:_Our_National_Taco_Tuesday
Nightmare_Is_Over,_Except_In_New_Jersey⠀⇛
It appears I slightly exaggerated the state
of the Taco Tuesday trademark saga in my last
post. After decades of ridiculous bullying
coming from Taco John’s concerning the
trademark it somehow was granted on “Taco
Tuesday” — a term that is generic on its
face, became more generic over time, and is
also at least partially descriptive — Taco
Bell’s war on the trademark finally caused
Taco John’s to relinquish the trademark
entirely. And, in that post, I declared the
whole saga over.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_state_news_agency_applies_to
trademark_name_and_logo_of_Echo_of_Moscow_radio
station,_which_closed_under_government_pressure_last
year_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Russian state media group Rossiya
Segodnya (“Russia Today,” not to be confused
with the network RT) has applied to trademark
the brand Echo of Moscow, according to the
state news agency TASS.
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Warning:_TorrentFreak’s_Twitter_/_X
Account_Has_Been_Hijacked⠀⇛
Earlier today someone managed to hijack our
Twitter / X account. The original
@torrentfreak handle was deleted and the new
account now appears as @ethereumfdn with all
of our followers still attached. Obviously it
can’t be trusted.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Lead_YouTube_Content-ID_Scammer
Requests_Reduced_Prison_Sentence⠀⇛
By masquerading as legitimate music
rightsholders, two men managed to extract
over $23 million in revenue from YouTube’s
Content ID system. Both were arrested and
pleaded guilty. The first defendant was
previously sentenced to 70 months in prison.
The second defendant, who reportedly
initiated the scheme, now requests a lower
46-month term, promising to stay out of
trouble.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Judge_Gives_MindGeek_‘Pirate’_Domains
After_Porn_Pirate_Violates_Injunction⠀⇛
In 2022, MindGeek subsidiary MG Premium
prevailed in its legal battle against the
operator of Daftsex and several other pirate
sites. MG was awarded $32m in damages and
permission to seize domain names but to date,
nothing has been paid, and the sites are
still in business. Mindful that his
injunction is being ignored, a U.S. judge has
just held the persistent pirate in contempt
of court and declared MG Premium the new
owner of his pirate domains.
# ⚓ Stack Diary ☛ The_shady_world_of_Brave_selling
copyrighted_data_for_AI_training⠀⇛
As you may have noticed, I used the word
copyrighted for the title of this story. And
it’s not without reason. I think this story
could have been fairly decent even without
the copyright part, so before we get to the
nitty gritty stuff – I can 100% confirm that
Brave lets you ingest copyrighted material
through their Brave Search API,to which they
also assign you “rights”.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ How_to_identify_OpenAI’s_crawler
bot_to_stop_it_slurping_websites_for_training_data⠀⇛
OpenAI, the maker of machine learning models
trained on public web data, has published the
specifications for its web crawler so that
publishers and site owners can opt out of
having their content scraped.
The newly released technical document
describes how to identify OpenAI’s web
crawler GPTBot through its user agent token
and string, which get emitted by the
company’s software in the HTTP request header
sent to ask a server for a web page.
# ⚓ Society for Scholarly Publshing ☛ Will_Building_LLMs
Become_the_New_Revenue_Driver_for_Academic
Publishing?⠀⇛
Amid all of the excitement and trepidation
surrounding artificial intelligence (AI),
there is one big question for our industry
that seems to rise above the rest: Are
scholarly publishers primed to become the
critical content suppliers for the big
Generative AI companies such as OpenAI, AI21
Labs, NIVIDIA, and Anthropic?
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Disney_creates_task_force_to_explore_AI
and_cut_costs⠀⇛
As evidence of its interest, Disney has 11
current job openings seeking candidates with
expertise in artificial intelligence or
machine learning.
The positions touch virtually every corner of
the company – from Walt Disney Studios to the
company’s theme parks and engineering group,
Walt Disney Imagineering, to Disney-branded
television and the advertising team, which is
looking to build a “next-generation” AI-
powered ad system, according to the job ad
descriptions.
# ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ NYC_Symposium:_Generative_AI_&_the
Creativity_Cycle⠀⇛
Join Creative Commons in NYC on 13 September
2023 for a full-day symposium focused on the
intersection of generative artificial
intelligence, cultural heritage, and
contemporary creativity.
# ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ Surveying_the_Open_Climate_Data
Landscape⠀⇛
We started this project by asking a
fundamental question: “What climate data
exists, and what can I do with it?” To reach
an answer, we conducted a landscape analysis
to better understand the permissible uses of
existing large climate data sets. We surveyed
a range of organizations that provide climate
data on behalf of national, intergovernmental
and/or global populations and are both
publishers and sources of climate data. This
approach enabled us to assess the current
status of major sources of climate data and
propose practical ways in which it can be
shared more effectively. We hope this initial
analysis provides clarity to researchers,
policymakers, educators, civil society
organizations and advocates.
# ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ A_Special_Episode_of_the_Open
Culture_Voices_Series,_Part_2⠀⇛
In this Special Episode of the Open Culture
Voices series, CC hosts a conversation among
five open culture experts from around the
world:
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§ Contents⠀➾
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal/Opinions
o Technology_and_Free_Software
# Internet/Gemini
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾
# ⚓ Anarchists_on_the_Front_Line_Against_Russia’s_War⠀⇛
The St-lmier Congress marked the beginning of an
organized anarchist movement. The comrades who
gathered in St-lmier in 1872 drew up a strategy on
how to achieve federalism. Their plan was to
conduct an economic struggle outside the
institutions to take over the means of production
and collectivize them.
150 years later, many of us share the aim of a
society organized horizontally and from the bottom-
up, a direct or radical democracy made up of
federated collectives. The kind of strategy we need
to achieve these goals needs to be discussed. In a
world that is changing faster and faster and
propulsating us from a crisis to the next is making
it difficult for us to draw a plan according to
each new situation. Not having a plan in turn makes
it difficult to see the horizon of the society we
want to build and creates hopelessness and fatigue.
But violent crisis are creating breaches in the
system and opportunities for those who are prepared
to take them.
# ⚓ The_joy_of_creative_effort⠀⇛
Tonight’s performance was a complete and total
blast. The place was packed, and we were on our
game. There was much mouthing of lyrics, and a fair
amount of dancing. My vocal chords were poised for
productivity due to a three hour outing followed by
several days of rest, which has historically led to
above average prowess. The fact our bass player and
his sound guy did the majority of the sound system
setup and maintenance was glorious. They were happy
to help out given they were guests at what was
originally my and my wife’s gig.
# ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_ABTFKOC_Wordo:_MIDGE⠀⇛
o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾
# ⚓ Authenticate_the_SSH_servers_are_you_connecting_to⠀⇛
It’s common knowledge that SSH connections are
secure; however, they always had a flaw: when you
connect to a remote host for the first time, how
can you be sure it’s the right one and not a
tampered system?
SSH uses what we call TOFU (Trust On First Use),
when you connect to a remote server for the first
time, you have a key fingerprint displayed, and you
are asked if you want to trust it or not. Without
any other information, you can either blindly trust
it or deny it and not connect. If you trust it, the
key’s fingerprint is stored locally in the file
`known_hosts`, and if the remote server offers you
a different key later, you will be warned and the
connection will be forbidden because the server may
have been replaced by a malicious one.
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ makew0rld’s_“Bye,_Gemini”⠀⇛
I came to Gemini later than a lot of people,
emailing RTC’s admin to request an account
last November. It was part of my first (of
many) attempts to leave Twitter, my social
media drug of choice. I’d known about Gemini
for a while; left_adjoint told me about the
slow web, and Gemini, and the recent
resurgence of pubnixes. I didn’t act
immediately but I’m grateful for the
conversation. It was one of those things that
stuck with me, so that when I was thinking
about how everything was sort of going to
shit, I thought, okay, why not try something
_really_ different?
=> =============================================================================
World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal/Opinions
o Technology_and_Free_Software
# Internet/Gemini
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾
# ⚓ No_pedal_or_to_the_metal⠀⇛
Nice looking day on tap out the front with.
Occasional vehicles passing. Somehow odd to see
them in the school parking lot across the street.
I wish I could have found a way to stick with the
middle-school teaching stint I attempting a couple
years ago. My wife had the same kids for different
subjects, and I love when either of us is suddenly
remembering a specific student, their quirks,
wondering how they’re doing a couple years later,
what directions they’ll head post school.
# ⚓ Re:_On_a_Modern_Mental_Illness_(Prince_Trippy)⠀⇛
The Prince[1] recently wrote about the “modern
mental illness” of being overly-concerned
(neurotic) about online privacy. Maybe the same
extends to privacy in general, I don’t know… but I
think it mostly exhibits in the digital world.
I enjoyed the realization he came to: that it is
“an endless game,” full of players in various
strata, and that the pursuit of a cure is more-
than-usually vanity.
# ⚓ A_First_Step_into_Gardening⠀⇛
Our house has a fence running around most of the
property with a small open section left behind. One
corner of the fence has several vines and shrubs
that grow thick and tall. These were fairly well-
shaped when we moved in, but thanks to intense
sunlight and bountiful rain this summer, the shrubs
are growing rapidly.
I know nothing about gardening and plant care, but
I’m trying to learn as best I can. I can’t identify
the plants in the corner of the fence, but I can
see plainly that they’re overgrown and about to
consume the small space next to our shed.
# ⚓ Hello_world!⠀⇛
Right when I heard about geminispace I thought I am
going to write here about the things I do not want
anyone to read. Yes, it sounds kind of weird or
stupid (I do not know) but I am kind of “scared” or
“ashamed” to write things that my parents or
relatives can read.
# ⚓ Defending_a_village_against_raiders⠀⇛
There’s actually a pretty interesting example on
that page where the party splits. Some characters
are “resting”, presumably because their players
can’t make it to the next session. That session,
some other characters go and investigate a dungeon,
return and rest for a few days, go again, fight a
big monster and loot it. The session ends after the
big monster fight and the loot. The next session,
the players who didn’t participate are back and
decide to go to the same dungeon! At this point in
time, the big monster and all the loot is still
there. Now what? You can bend reality and say the
monster and loot just cannot be found because the
other group will have found it in the future, or
you can do what I do: force-extend their rest so
that whenever there’s a session, it is “now”. Once
the big monster is slain, there’s no adventuring in
the same dungeon at some point in the past. The
players have the choice to explain what else they
were doing in the days until “now”.
# ⚓ Calzonia⠀⇛
There is little point to letting a sourdough
starter pizza or calzone dough rise, especially if
the starter is short on yeast and long on lactic
acid bacteria, or the natural yeast somehow is not
the crazy mutant bread type. Also the dough is too
soft to use if you rotate the starter in the
morning and then want to cook the dough for dinner.
One might instead rotate the starter around dinner
time, let the dough “rise” for a bit, then shape it
and let it dry out overnight, but that’s not when I
rotate the starter. Instead, rotate the starter,
use all the excess with a suitable amount of flour
and some oil (or clarified butter) and salt for a
pretty dry dough, shape that out, and let it sit
somewhere maybe on a cutting board to dry out. This
makes it much easier to manipulate without tearing
or sticking to the cutting board when you want to
move it into the oven.
o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾
# ⚓ Can_You_Purchase_A_House_Without_Javascript_Or_Proprietary
Web_Apps?⠀⇛
I’m a free software advocate who tries to
compromise as little as possible with my
principles, by blocking JavaScript in my Web
browser, and by not using non-free Web apps, which
in most practical cases amounts to the same thing.
I also recently have been trying to purchase a
house. So, I have been in a position to test how
much of the process can be done without violating
these principles, and how difficult it is. If you
have no idea what I am talking about, please read
this [...]
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ Open_Offer:_I_Will_Host_Your_Domain⠀⇛
When you set up a domain, it will be hosted
on _both_ HTTP(s) and Gemini. So you can
interleave both html and gmi files in your
git repo, and it will all work out. Or you
can just leave off one or the other, if you
don’t care about one protocol.
Now for the offer: if you’re reading this,
just shoot me an email and I will give you
the passphrase which allows you to use the
instance. If you have always wanted to have a
personal website or gemini capsule on your
own domain, but hadn’t wanted to go through
the effort of setting up hosting, this is
your chance!
=> =============================================================================
World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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✐ Links_09/08/2023:_Indian_Defense_Services_Moving_to_GNU/Linux,_WordPress_6.3
“Lionel”_Released⠀✐
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Server
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
# GNOME_Desktop/GTK
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o SUSE/OpenSUSE
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
# Chromium
# Mozilla
o Content_Management_Systems_(CMS)
o Programming/Development
# Python
* Leftovers
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI)
o Linux_Foundation
o Security
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ No_More_Windows!_Indian_Defense_Services_are
Switching_to_Linux⠀⇛
In the past, we have seen governments trying to switch to
Linux for their administration needs. But, that usually
comes with its own set of challenges, ranging from
interoperability, all the way to training the end-users.
And as it turns out, the Indian government is all set to
take up that challenge once again by implementing an
internally developed Linux distro.
Allow me to take you through this endeavor.
o § Server⠀➾
# ⚓ Cloud_or_Local_Data?_Which_is_Right_for_Your_Cloud-Native
App?⠀⇛
Selecting where to store your cloud-native
application data—backend or frontend—is a critical
step in creating your overall data architecture.
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Tux Digital ☛ Destination_Linux_334:_Trying_To_Make_Open
Source_Illegal?!⠀⇛
On this episode of Destination Linux (334), we
discuss some trying to make make open source
illegal. No, we’re not making this up, there are
people who are pushing for this. Then we’re going
to give you some upbeat news about Zorin OS to make
up for the first topic.
# ⚓ 334:_Trying_To_Make_Open_Source_Illegal?!⠀⇛
FULL SHOW NOTES ►► https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/
destination-linux/dl-334/
# ⚓ Ubuntu_Podcast_from_the_UK_LoCo:_Big_Backup_Bonanza⠀⇛
Discussion of the various tools we use to backup
our important stuff.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ NetworkManager_1.44_Is_Out_with_a_New_“link”
Setting_and_New_Bond_Options⠀⇛
Highlights of the NetworkManager 1.44 release
include a new “link” setting that holds properties
related to the kernel link, such as tx-queue-
length, gso-max-size, gso-max-segments, and gro-
max-size, support for sending a DHCPv6 prefix
delegation hint through the ipv6.dhcp-pd-hint
connection property, and new bond options including
arp_missed_max, lacp_active, and ns_ip6_target.
Also new is a [keyfile].rename option in
NetworkManager.conf to allow you to force rename
profiles on disk when their name changes, the
initial-eps-bearer-configure and initial-eps-
bearer-apn properties in the GSM settings, as well
as a version-id argument in the Update2() D-Bus
call to protect against concurrent modifications of
profiles.
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 8_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Linux_Astrology
Software⠀⇛
This article highlights the best astrology software
that runs natively under Linux. There’s not a wide
selection of software available in this genre.
Nevertheless, there are some great astrology
applications listed below for anyone who wants to
try to improve his or her understanding of
themselves or others.
To provide an insight into the quality of software
that is available, we have compiled a list of 8 top
quality open source astrology applications.
Hopefully, there will be something of interest for
anyone interested in intuitive perception.
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 6_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_LDAP_Solutions⠀⇛
The main benefit of using an LDAP server is that
information for an entire organization can be
consolidated into a central repository. LDAP
supports Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport
Layer Security (TLS), so that sensitive data can be
protected. LDAP servers are used for a variety of
tasks including, but not limited to, user
authentication, machine authentication, user/system
groups, asset tracking, organization
representation, and application configuration
stores.
The chart below offers our recommendations. Only
free and open source software is eligible for
inclusion.
# ⚓ Víctor_Jáquez:_DMABuf_modifier_negotiation_in_GStreamer⠀⇛
It took almost a year of design and implementation
but finally the DMABuf modifier negotiation in
GStreamer is merged. Big kudos to all the people
involved but mostly to He_Junyan, who did the vast
majority of the code.
What’s a DMAbuf modifier?
DMABuf are the Linux kernel mechanism to share
buffers among different drivers or subsystems. A
particular case of DMABuf are the DRM PRIME buffers
which are buffers shared by the Display_Rendering
Manager_(DRM)_subsystem. They allowed sharing video
frames between devices with zero copy.
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 6_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Linux_FTP
Servers⠀⇛
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a time-honored
method of transferring files to and from a remote
network site.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ 24_Apps_and_Scripts_to_Download_YouTube_Videos
For_Free⠀⇛
There are many reasons why someone might want to
download YouTube videos.
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ How_to_Annotate_PDFs_in_Linux_[Beginner's
Guide]⠀⇛
You don’t need a dedicated PDF editor to add
comments and highlight text. Here’s how you can use
GNOME’s Document Viewer to annotate PDFs in Linux.
# ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PL/R_8.4.6_released⠀⇛
The PL/R team is proud to announce the release of
version 8.4.6
This release is mainly to fix some issues building
the code with version 16 of PostgreSQL and
releasing windows builds with R version 4.1.3 and
4.2.3
PL/R is a procedural language which allows you to
write PostgreSQL functions in R.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_LibreOffice_on_Debian_12⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
LibreOffice on Debian 12. For those of you who
didn’t know, LibreOffice offers a wide array of
productivity tools, including word processing,
spreadsheets, presentations, and more.
# ⚓ How_to_Install_Kali_Linux_on_a_USB_Drive⠀⇛
Have you ever wished you could carry your favorite
hacking toolkit with you wherever you go or travel?
# ⚓ How_to_Find_Files_Larger_or_Smaller_Than_a_Specific_Size_in
Linux⠀⇛
Being a Linux user, managing files and directories
efficiently is crucial, especially when dealing
with a large number of files.
# ⚓ How_to_Install_LAMP_(Apache,_MariaDB,_PHP)_on_Debian_12⠀⇛
Hello Debian users, are you looking to install the
widely used LAMP Stack on your system?
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_TeamViewer_on_Debian_12⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
TeamViewer on Debian 12. For those of you who
didn’t know, TeamViewer stands as a powerful remote
access and support software, enabling seamless
collaboration and efficient troubleshooting across
multiple devices and platforms.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_OBS_Studio_on_Debian_13/12/
11/10⠀⇛
OBS Studio, a leading open-source software, has
emerged as an indispensable tool for professionals
engaged in video recording and live streaming.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Kdenlive_on_Debian_13/12/11/
10⠀⇛
Kdenlive, an acronym for KDE Non-Linear Video
Editor, stands as one of the most robust and
versatile open-source video editing software
available today. Originating from the KDE
community, it offers a comprehensive suite of
editing tools suitable for both beginners and
professionals.
# ⚓ How_to_Get_Started_With_HuggingFace_and_AI_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛
With the current AI craze and it’s impact we want
to use the opportunity to explore how to get
started with playing around with some AI. /
blockquote>
# ⚓ Own HowTo ☛ How_to_install_and_use_Gnome_Screenshot_on
Linux_Mint⠀⇛
Gnome screenshot is an screenshot app that allows
you to take screenshots of your desktop.
Gnome screenshot is the default screenshot
application on Gnome. However, you can use Gnome
screenshot on other desktop environments too.
# ⚓ Vitux ☛ How_to_Install_Magento_on_Rocky_Linux⠀⇛
Magento is a free and one of the most widely used
PHP-based open-source eCommerce platforms that
allows you to quickly and easily set up eCommerce
websites and online shops.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_Etherpad_on_Debian_12⠀⇛
Etherpad is a collaborative and real-time text
editor for your team. It’s accessible from
anywhere, anytime, because Etherpad is a web-based
text editor.
# ⚓ Linux Journal ☛ How_to_Count_Files_in_a_Directory_in
Linux?⠀⇛
File counting in a directory is a common task that
many users might need to perform. It could be for
administrative purposes, understanding disk usage,
or organizing files in a systematic manner. Linux,
an open-source operating system known for its
powerful command-line interface, offers multiple
ways to accomplish this task. In this article,
we’ll explore various techniques to count files in
a directory, catering to both command-line
enthusiasts and those who prefer graphical
interfaces.
# ⚓ LinuxTuto ☛ How_to_Install_Strapi_with_Nginx_on_Debian_12⠀⇛
Strapi is a most advanced open source content
management system (CMS) designed to help developers
to build powerful API.
# ⚓ How_to_Reset_a_Forgotten_MySQL_Password_on_Linux⠀⇛
If you’re encountering the following error due to a
forgotten password for your MySQL database, rest
assured, you’ve come to the perfect destination for
assistance. Follow along with the article to learn
how to reset a forgotten MySQL password on Linux.
# ⚓ Understanding_Ext4_Disk_Layout,_Part_2⠀⇛
The second blog in a series of blogs tak Click to
Read More at Oracle Linux Kernel Development
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Refurbished_Steam_Decks_Available_Starting
at_$319⠀⇛
Valve is selling certified refurbished Steam Decks
on Steam, starting at $319. GameStop also has some
in stores exclusively for its Pro members.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ Qt ☛ KDE_+_Qt_Meetup_Berlin:_Aug_10th⠀⇛
# ⚓ GSoC’23_July_Report|_Further_Progress_on_the
Moderation_Tools_#5⠀⇛
I have summarized the entirety of
July’s work in a single blog post,
as I got quite busy with university
in the last few weeks 😢.
✐ Progress made on the Report
Moderation Tool⠀✐
I started with the Report
Moderation Tool’s further
implementation and managed to
implement almost all of the
features smoothly. However, I
encountered a problem with the
self-assigning and un-assigning of
reports, which caused the
application to crash with a
segmentation fault. After
dedicating hours to using gdb for
debugging, I eventually concluded
that the unexpected behavior was
likely due to my use of smart
pointers. It appeared that the
memory was being de-allocated
automatically when the object was
set to null, and while accessing
null when assigning the reports we
accessed a null address leading to
Tokodon crashing.
I reached out to the maintainers
for their help and review on how to
fix this issue. I was suggested to
try switching to using raw (normal)
pointers to address the problem. I
tried refactoring the code in a
similar way to resolve the issue.
However, the transition from smart
pointers to raw pointers proved to
be more challenging than I had
initially anticipated.
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Ubuntu_23.10_Adds_Option_to_Hide
Number_Badges_from_Left_Dock⠀⇛
Don’t like the green number badges on the
left (or bottom) dock app icons? Ubuntu 23.10
now has hidden option to show/hide it. The
next Ubuntu 23.10 has now introduced some
visible changes, such as enhanced tiling
window support, remove ‘minimal installation’
and drop some pre-installed applications.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ IPFire Official Blog ☛ IPFire_Location:_Improving_Precision_Using
Geofeeds⠀⇛
Geofeeds are new feature described in RFC 8805 which
allows to self-publish Geo location information in a
machine readable format for people who own their own IP
address space on the Internet. From now, we are parsing
this data for IPFire Location to further improve the
accuracy of our database – especially for large
distributed companies like cloud providers.
Although the standard is already a couple of years old,
it has not gained much adoption, yet. Maybe it doesn’t
need that, because not every Autonomous System on the
Internet has a complicated layout. Some are simply just
one rack in one data center and maybe have a mirror in a
different building in the same city. Some other networks
are larger and span across many countries. They also
change fast as they are growing and for geo location
algorithms to “learn” about those changes will take some
time.
o ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Sparkling_fresh_updates_to_Ubuntu,_Mint_and
Zorin_on_way⠀⇛
It seems to be kernel update season out there. The
current Ubuntu LTS gets a new kernel, Zorin OS 17 gets a
new point release – and Mint announces two updated
editions, coming really soon now.
It is very nearly one year since Ubuntu 22.04.1 was
released, and as long term support versions get
semiannual updates, release 22.04.3 is expected any day.
Once the next Ubuntu interim release appears, it’s normal
for the following minor–point-release of the LTS to get a
new kernel. So, six months after 22.04.1 and four months
after 22.10 “Kinetic Kudu”, the next point-version of
Jammy, Ubuntu 22.04.2, duly delivered kernel 5.19.
So, with 23.04 “Lunar Lobster” out for four months and
proving fairly stable on The Reg FOSS Desk’s kit, we were
expecting 22.04.3 any day now, including a second
Hardware Enablement update, including the kernel from
Lunar.
o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾
# ⚓ OpenSUSE ☛ Yeah!_Today_is_18_Years_of_openSUSE⠀⇛
Happy 18th Birthday to openSUSE! It’s that time of
the year once again where we will raise our virtual
glasses and celebrate the remarkable journey of
open-source innovation.
On August 9th, 2005, an announcement was made
during the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San
Francisco, giving birth to what we now know as the
openSUSE Project.
The now defunct company known as Novell unveiled
openSUSE to the technology world with excitement.
Riding on the heels of the success of Red Hat’s
announcement of Fedora, it was natural for Novell
to embrace the open-source movement and introduce
its own community-driven Linux distribution.
The journey of openSUSE officially began with the
release of beta versions of SUSE Linux 10.0 under
the banner of openSUSE.org. The first official
release under the openSUSE name was 10.2.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Fedora Magazine ☛ Fedora_Linux_Flatpak_cool_apps_to_try_for
August⠀⇛
This article introduces projects available in
Flathub with installation instructions.
Flathub is the place to get and distribute apps for
all of Linux. It is powered by Flatpak, allowing
Flathub apps to run on almost any Linux
distribution.
Please read “Getting started with Flatpak“. In
order to enable flathub as your flatpak provider,
use the instructions on the flatpak site.
# ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_Matrix_to
libera.chat_(IRC)_bridge_unavailable⠀⇛
The Fedora project has been moving to Matrix for
our interactive chat needs for a while, but we
wanted to make any such transition smooth and not
leave behind users that preferred IRC for whatever
reasons. When we setup Matrix rooms we also setup a
portal using the Matrix<->libera.chat IRC bridge.
This allows Matrix and IRC users to see the same
content and interact with each other. There have of
course been issues from time to time of dropped
messages, or clashes between the Matrix and IRC
cultures, but overall it’s been a great help to
keeping our community from fragmenting.
Unfortunately, issues with the bridge have reached
a point that libera.chat folks have asked for the
bridge to be taken down until it can be fixed up.
This happened at 2023-08-06 14UTC.
# ⚓ Madeline_Peck:_EDA_and_the_Three_Dwarves⠀⇛
What a long journey this coloring book has gone on!
This blog post has been sitting in my drafts for
over a year and I thought it was finally time to
publish it.
If you’re not aware of theprevious_coloring_books,
they have been a series of projects started by
Máirín Duffy and Dan Walsh to increase awareness
and convey a better understanding of different
technology.
For example, ‘The_Container_Coloring_Book:_Who’s
Afraid_of_the_Big_Bad_Wolf?’ is a coloring book
where the three little pigs teach you how to keep
the big bad wolf from blowing your container-based
applications down. The book covers security,
management, resource control, namespaces, and much
more that people should keep in mind when creating
their own applications with containers.
All of the past (and hopefully future coloring
books too!) are kept here at www.red.ht/coloring
# ⚓ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ CentOS_Alternatives:_Migrating
Workloads_From_CentOS_To_OpenSUSE_Leap_–_Automating_With
Ansible_Part_2⠀⇛
In this blog posts, we’ll dive into adapting your
Ansible code made for CentOS to openSUSE Leap,
ensuring seamless compatibility. In this first
part, we provided advice and a general introduction
to ease your way into the process. In this second
part, we’ll delve into practical examples of
troubleshooting and adapting existing roles.
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ The_State_of_Edge_Security_Report⠀⇛
Edge computing has grown from being a niche use
case in a handful of industries to offering a major
opportunity for enterprises across industries to
spread compute power around the world (or universe,
as in the case of workloads in space). Edge
computing slashes latency times by processing data
where the data is being collected, or when it might
otherwise be impossible to process because a
workload or piece of hardware is disconnected from
the network.
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Hardening_SSH_connections_to_managed
hosts_with_Red_Hat_Ansible_Automation_Platform⠀⇛
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is a platform
for implementing enterprise-wide automation, which
makes it an ideal tool for your security audits.
Security has many layers, but this article focuses
on mitigating SSH attacks on managed hosts. While
you can’t eliminate all security risks, you can
harden managed hosts to minimize some of them
(especially brute force attacks), and mitigate
others (by allowing SSH connections only from
authorized hosts, enforcing sudo, and so on).
# ⚓ Axios ☛ IBM_researchers_trick_AI_chatbots_into_helping_with
hacks⠀⇛
Tricking generative AI to help conduct scams and
cyberattacks doesn’t require much coding expertise,
new research shared exclusively with Axios warns.
# ⚓ Red Hat ☛ The_process_of_migrating_Java_applications⠀⇛
The migration process is cumbersome, to say the
least. The root cause for this can be associated
with the ambiguity about the differences that may
exist between two vantage points (i.e., origin and
destination). Hence in the absence of a
knowledgeable, tried, and tested roadmap, one
simply cannot identify the gaps that are to be
bridged while moving from origin to the
destination. Same goes for software migration. A
software migration process must factor in the
changes it expects to undergo while migrating
(i.e., downgrading, upgrading, or switching between
two different and/or compatible/incompatible
versions of the same or different brands). The key
to success for such a venture lies in knowing the
unknowns alongside their respective impact to its
surroundings. Only then can an effective list of
changes be identified and implemented.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Andrew Hutchings ☛ Amiga_4000_Restoration_x2:_Part_4⠀⇛
The Amiga 4000 #2 motherboard has been repaired
enough to almost boot correctly, but there is still
a problem. There appears to be a stuck bit on the
custom chips bus. Let’s continue with the
diagnosis. Finding The Problem We know that the
data line 6 to Paula is not working.
# ⚓ dwaves.de ☛ tested_on_–_official_way_–_alternative_way_–
busybox_way_–_argument_list_too_long⠀⇛
Debian runs well even on systems with as little as
512 MBytes of RAM.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Gadget Bridge ☛ How_to_block_YouTube_Ads_on_Android_TV
forever?⠀⇛
# ⚓ Digital Trends ☛ Samsung_Galaxy_Watch_6_review:_Android
smartwatch_perfection_|_Digital_Trends⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Authority ☛ Wallpaper_Wednesday:_Android_wallpapers
2023-08-02_–_Android_Authority⠀⇛
# ⚓ Geeky Gadgets ☛ Android_Zero_Trust_security_helps_protect
your_business_–_Geeky_Gadgets⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# § Chromium⠀➾
# ⚓ Google ☛ Smoothing_out_the_scrolling_experience_in
Chrome_on_Android⠀⇛
Big performance wins can be found by taking a
step back and tweaking what you already have.
# § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ Mozilla ☛ Hacks.Mozilla.Org:_Autogenerating_Rust-JS
bindings_with_UniFFI⠀⇛
I work on the Firefox sync team at Mozilla.
Four years ago, we wrote a blog_post
describing_our_strategy_to_ship_cross-
platform_Rust_components for syncing and
storage on all our platforms. The vision was
to consolidate the separate implementations
of features like history, logins, and syncing
that existed on Firefox Desktop, Android, and
iOS.
We would replace those implementations with a
core written in Rust and a set of hand-
written foreign language wrappers for each
platform: JavaScript for Desktop, Kotlin for
Android, and Swift for iOS.
Since then, we’ve learned some lessons and
had to modify our strategy. It turns out that
creating hand-written wrappers in multiple
languages is a huge time-sink. The wrappers
required a significant amount of time to
write, but more importantly, they were
responsible for many serious bugs.
o § Content Management Systems (CMS)⠀➾
# ⚓ WordPress ☛ WordPress_6.3_“Lionel”⠀⇛
WordPress 6.3 “Lionel” is here! Named after Lionel
Hampton, the prolific jazz musician and bandleader,
this release was made possible by over 650
contributors. Download WordPress 6.3 Lionel today.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ WordPress_6.3_“Lionel”_Released:_Here’s
What_New⠀⇛
WordPress, the world’s leading content management
system, has once again made waves in the digital
realm with its latest release – WordPress 6.3
“Lionel”.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Submit_Your_Packages_in_SCM/CI_Workflows⠀⇛
Over the past weeks we worked hard to make it
possible for you to create Submit Requests from
within an SCM/CI Workflow. Now you can automate
this step, making it easier to work with OBS in a
more SCM-centric way.
# ⚓ Dirk Eddelbuettel ☛ Dirk_Eddelbuettel:_dtts_0.1.1_on_CRAN:
Enhancements⠀⇛
Leonardo and I are happy to announce the release of
a first follow-up release 0.1.1 of our dtts package
which got to [CRAN][cran] in its initial upload
last year.
dtts builds upon our nanotime package as well as
the beloved data.table to bring high-performance
and high-resolution indexing at the nanosecond
level to data frames. dtts aims to bring the time-
series indexing versatility of xts (and zoo) to the
immense power of data.table while supporting
highest nanosecond resolution.
This release fixes a bug flagged by valgrind and
brings several internal enhancements.
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ Try,_Except,_Finally:_Mastering_Exception_Handling_in
Python⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_File_truncate()_Method⠀⇛
In Python, the “truncate()” method is used to
truncate or reduce the file size by taking
the specified bytes numbers as an argument.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Pandas_Weighted_Average⠀⇛
The “np.average()” method, the “User Defined”
function, and the “groupby” method are used
to determine the weighted average of the
Pandas DataFrame.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Pandas_Groupby_Average⠀⇛
In Python, the “groupby()” method is used
along with the “mean()” method to determine
the mean of single or multiple columns for
each group data.
# ⚓ Raise_the_Alarm:_Understanding_and_Using_‘Raise’_in
Python_Exceptions⠀⇛
# ⚓ Raise_Exception_from_Cause_in_Python:_A_Developer’s
Guide⠀⇛
Python is a high-level, general-purpose
programming language that has gained
popularity in recent years. It was initially
developed by Guido van Rossum in the late
1980s and was released to the public in 1991.
# ⚓ Creating_Custom_Exceptions_in_Python:_A_Step-by-Step
Tutorial⠀⇛
# ⚓ Python_Unveiled:_An_In-Depth_Examination_of
References⠀⇛
# ⚓ Garbage_Collection_in_Python:_A_Comprehensive_Guide⠀⇛
# ⚓ Dynamic_Typing_in_Python:_Flexibility_and_Efficiency
Combined⠀⇛
# ⚓ Mutable_&_Immutable_Objects_in_Python:_An_Essential
Distinction⠀⇛
# ⚓ Understanding_Python’s_‘is’_Operator:_Beyond
Equality⠀⇛
# ⚓ The_Significance_of_‘None’_in_Python_Programming⠀⇛
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Chris ☛ Fun_With_Watercolours⠀⇛
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Tiny_mini_PC_with_four_2.5Gbps_Ethernet
ports_ships_with_Intel_Processor_N100/N200_or_Core_i3-N305
CPU⠀⇛
The “M1 Pocket Mini Soft Router” is a tiny Intel
Alder Lake-N OEM mini PC with four 2.5Gbps Ethernet
ports that is powered by a Processor N100,
Processor N200, or Core i3-N305 CPU and sold by
various brands such as Kingnovy or Tuofudun Topton.
The pocket-sized computer comes with up to 16GB
DDR5 memory, up to 1TB NVMe SSD, and features HDMI
2.0 and DisplayPort USB-C video outputs, two USB
3.0 ports, as well as a microSD card slot and a
3.5mm audio jack.
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ DIN-Rail_mountable_industrial_4G_LTE_router
takes_9V_to_36V_DC_power_input⠀⇛
Waveshare WS-431E is an industrial-grade 4G LTE
router with three Ethernet ports, WiFi 4, wall and
DIN-Rail mounting options, and support for a wide
power input range between 9V and 36V DC. The router
is said to be based on two Qualcomm chips without
further details provided, support various VPN
protocols, and be suitable for networked medical
equipment, Smart Agriculture, Smart Cities, robots,
and security monitoring applications.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ ACLU ☛ Idaho_Wants_to_Jail_Professors_for_Teaching_About
Abortion⠀⇛
At Idaho’s public universities, professors who
teach, discuss, or write about abortion may now
face up to 14 years of imprisonment under Idaho’s
abortion censorship law, the No Public Funds for
Abortion Act (NPFAA). The law, which prohibits the
use of any public funds to “promote” or “counsel in
favor of abortion,” has shut down academic inquiry
about abortion — one of today’s most urgent social,
moral, and political issues — across university
classrooms and campuses in the state. Idaho’s
abortion censorship law works in tandem with anti-
abortion_officials’_aggressive_enforcement_of_the
state’s_abortion_laws — among the harshest in the
country — to silence speech advocating for abortion
access.
To avoid jail time as well as ruinous fines and
other penalties, professors across academic
disciplines have been forced to strip abortion-
related content from their curricula, instruction,
and scholarship or risk their livelihoods. A
philosophy professor at the University of Idaho
removed a module on human reproduction, which
introduced difficult ethical questions about
abortion, from a bioethics course. A political
science professor at the same university no longer
lectures on abortion public policy. And a social
work professor at Boise State University has
stopped assigning their own scholarship to their
students on how international ethics principles for
social workers undergird arguments made by abortion
rights advocates.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Abortion_rights_groups_claim_victory_in_Ohio
special_election⠀⇛
Ohio voters decisively rejected Issue_1, Tuesday’s
sole ballot item that sought to make it tougher to
amend_the_state_constitution, per AP.
o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Study_claims_Aust_tech_industry_largely_dependent
on_US_firms [Ed: Microsoft propaganda dressed up as a
"study"]⠀⇛
Commissioned by Microsoft and LinkedIn (which is
owned by Microsoft), the study was prepared by
consultancy firm Accenture.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ “I_care_about_authors”:_Fiction_analytics_platform
Prosecraft_folds_after_AI_backlash⠀⇛
British author Hari Kunzru posted a link to
prosecraft.io on X (formerly Twitter), alleging
that the website appears “to have stolen a lot of
books, trained an AI, and are now offering a
service based on that data.” /blockquote>
o § Linux Foundation⠀➾
# ⚓ Nephio_Community_Gains_Momentum_with_Release_1_to_Simplify
Cloud_Native_Network_Automation⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Foundation’s Site/Blog ☛ 3D_Graphics_and_Virtual
World_Industry_Welcomes_Alliance_for_OpenUSD_(AOUSD)⠀⇛
The exciting world of 3D graphics and virtual
world-building is witnessing a transformative shift
driven by the escalating demand for immersive
digital experiences. A trailblazing collaboration
was born in response to this burgeoning landscape –
the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD). Founded by Pixar,
Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, NVIDIA, and several general
members, AOUSD embodies a remarkable instance of
industry leaders uniting under an ethos of open
source collaboration to establish, develop, and
widen the reach of Pixar’s Universal Scene
Description technology (USD).
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ New_SkidMap_Malware_Attacking_Wide_Range_of_Linux
Distributions [Ed: Very misleading headline. This is not a
Linux issue, it's a Redis issue.]⠀⇛
According to recent reports, there have been
instances of threat actors using malware called
”SkidMap” to exploit vulnerable Redis systems.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ ICS_Patch_Tuesday:_Siemens_Fixes_7
Vulnerabilities_in_Ruggedcom_Products⠀⇛
ICS Patch Tuesday: Siemens releases a dozen
advisories covering over 30 vulnerabilities, but
Schneider Electric has only published one advisory.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Patch_Tuesday:_Adobe_Patches_30_Acrobat,
Reader_Vulns⠀⇛
Adobe rolls out a big batch of security updates to
fix at least 30 Acrobat and Reader vulnerabilities
affecting Windows and macOS users.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Rapid7_Announces_Layoffs,_Office_Closings
Under_Restructuring_Plan⠀⇛
Restructuring plan will result in an 18% reduction
in employee headcount and closing of some Rapid7
office locations.
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Rapid7_to_lay_off_18%_of_staff_amid_new
takeover_reports⠀⇛
Cybersecurity solutions provider Rapid7 Inc.
announced alongside its quarterly earnings report
today that it’s laying off staff amid reports that
it has received a takeover bid from a private
equity firm. In a filing with the U.S. Securities
and Exchange Commission, Rapid7 said it’s laying
off about 18% of its workforce…
# ⚓ The New Stack ☛ Secure_Your_Software_Supply_Chain_Through
Backstage [Ed: Linux Foundation-sponsored Linux Foundation
spam, written by Linux Foundation staff to promote fake
security and promote Microsoft talking points]⠀⇛
An internal developer portal can help you
consolidate and evolve your security strategy.
# ⚓ QSB-092:_Buffer_overrun_in_Linux_netback_driver_(XSA-432)⠀⇛
We have published Qubes_Security_Bulletin_092:
Buffer_overrun_in_Linux_netback_driver_(XSA-432).
The text of this QSB and its accompanying
cryptographic signatures are reproduced below. For
an explanation of this announcement and
instructions for authenticating this QSB, please
see the end of this announcement.
# ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Microsoft_Visual_Studio_Code_flaw_lets
extensions_steal_passwords⠀⇛
Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code (VS Code) code
editor and development environment contains a flaw
that allows malicious extensions to retrieve
authentication tokens stored in Windows, Linux, and
macOS credential managers.
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Microsoft_August_Patch_Tuesday_sees_less_fixes_in
the_pipeline⠀⇛
Satnam Narang, senior staff research engineer at
security firm Tenable, said fixes for 73 CVEs were
included in this month’s release, plus two
advisories: six rated critical, 67 rated important,
and two rated moderate.
“For August, Microsoft addressed one vulnerability
that was exploited in the wild as well as issued a
defence-in-depth update for a vulnerability
disclosed in the July 2023 Patch Tuesday,” he said.
“CVE-2023-38180, a denial of service vulnerability
in .NET and Visual Studio, was exploited in the
wild as a zero-day. Microsoft did not share
specific details about its exploitation.”
* ⚓ IT Jungle ☛ A_Decade_of_Data_Breaches:_Some_Things_Never_Change⠀⇛
Why did Willie Sutton rob banks? “Because that’s where the
money is,” he told a reporter. Fast forward to 2023, and data
is the new currency, so it’s not surprising that bad guys are
doing their best to steal it. While some techniques have
changed, many aspects of data theft have remained the same over
the years, according to the Verizon Data Breach Investigation
Report.
* ⚓ SANS ☛ Microsoft_August_2023_Patch_Tuesday,_(Tue,_Aug_8th)⠀⇛
This month we got patches for 88 vulnerabilities. Of these, 6
are critical, and 2 are already being exploited, according to
Microsoft.
* ⚓ Security Week ☛ Patch_Tuesday:_Microsoft_(Finally)_Patches_Exploited
Office_Zero-Days⠀⇛
Patch Tuesday: A month after confirming active exploitation of
Office code execution flaws, Microsoft has shipped patches for
multiple affected products.
* ⚓ IT Wire ☛ No_sign_of_fix_for_critical_Azure_flaw_on_Patch_Tuesday⠀⇛
Microsoft has made no mention of a critical security flaw in
its Azure cloud platform in its monthly issues of patches on
Tuesday, though the company claimed earlier this month that it
had completely fixed the issue.
* ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Microsoft_Office_update_breaks_actively_exploited
RCE_attack_chain⠀⇛
Microsoft released a defense-in-depth update for Microsoft
Office that prevents exploitation of a remote code execution
(RCE) vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-36884 that threat
actors have already leveraged in attacks.
* ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Microsoft_August_2023_Patch_Tuesday_warns_of_2
zero-days,_87_flaws⠀⇛
Today is Microsoft’s August 2023 Patch Tuesday, with security
updates for 87 flaws, including two actively exploited and
twenty-three remote code execution vulnerabilities.
* ⚓ Security Week ☛ Downfall:_New_Intel_CPU_Attack_Exposing_Sensitive
Information⠀⇛
Google researcher discloses the details of an Intel CPU attack
method named Downfall that may be remotely exploitable.
* ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Intel_‘Downfall’_Bug_Steals_Encryption_Keys,_Data_From
Years_of_CPUs⠀⇛
A Google researcher has found a speculative execution
vulnerability in several generations of Intel processors.
* ⚓ Security Week ☛ White_House_Holds_First-Ever_Summit_on_the_Ransomware
Crisis_Plaguing_the_Nation’s_Public_Schools⠀⇛
CISA will step up training for the K-12 sector and technology
providers, including Amazon Web Services and Cloudflare, will
offer grants and free software.
* ⚓ Security Week ☛ UK_Think_Tank_Proposes_Greater_Ransomware_Reporting
From_Cyberinsurance_to_Government⠀⇛
The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) examined the
relationship between cyberinsurance and ransomware, and
proposes greater reporting from victims to government, enforced
through insurance policies.
* ⚓ Security Week ☛ Horizon3_AI_Raises_$40_Million_to_Expand_Automated
Pentesting_Platform⠀⇛
Horizon3.ai, a provider of autonomous security testing
solutions, raised $40 million through a Series C funding round.
* ⚓ IT Wire ☛ UK_Electoral_Commission_discloses_network_breach_after_10
months⠀⇛
In a_statement, the agency, an independent body which oversees
elections and regulates political finance in the UK, said the
attackers appeared to have first gained access to its systems
in August 2021.
The attackers were able to gain access to the electoral
registers and to enable permissibility checks on political
donations, the agency said.
The details in the system at the time of the attack includes
names and addresses of those registered to vote between 2014
and 2022, as also names of registered overseas voters.
{loadposition sam08}Details of those registered anonymously
were not at risk, but the Commission’s email system was
accessible to the attackers.
* ⚓ Pen Test Partners ☛ Vulnerability_disclosure_in_aviation⠀⇛
We joined Boeing and United Airlines on a panel recently at the
RSA Conference to talk about vulnerability disclosure in the
aviation world.
* § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
o ⚓ Axios ☛ D.C._on_pace_for_most_homicides_in_two_decades⠀⇛
Data: MPD; Chart: Axios Visuals
Washington, D.C., is on pace to have the deadliest year in two decades after
starting the month of August with 16 homicides.
Driving the news: The violence led council member Trayon White, who represents
one of the most crime-ravaged parts of town, to suggest “it may be time to call
the National Guard to protect the children and innocent people.”
=> =============================================================================
* The District’s 161 homicides to date is a 28% increase over the same
period last year. That eclipses the number killed in all of 2018 and
follows back-to-back years of more than 200 homicides.
⚓ Quartz ☛ India_is_removing_all_Chinese_parts_from_its_military_drones⠀⇛
India is barring domestic manufacturers of military drones from using
Chinese-made parts over concerns about security vulnerabilities,
Reuters_reported_today (Aug. 8).
⚓ New York Times ☛ Biden_to_Restrict_Investments_in_China,_Citing_National
Security_Threats⠀⇛
The measure to clamp down on investments in certain industries deemed
to pose security risks, set to be issued Wednesday, appears likely to
open a new front in the U.S.-China economic conflict.
⚓ The Strategist ☛ Australia_needs_an_overarching_maritime_security_strategy⠀⇛
Maritime security is a term that can mean almost anything.
⚓ France24 ☛ ECOWAS_chairman_says_diplomacy_is_the_‘best_way_forward’_on_Niger
crisis⠀⇛
Nigerian President and current ECOWAS chair Bola Tinubu said on
Tuesday that diplomacy is the ‘best way forward’ to resolve the
crisis in coup-hit Niger. The statement came after the junta in
Niamey said it could not host a mission from the West African bloc
for security reasons. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken earlier
told FRANCE 24’s sister radio station RFI that diplomacy is the
‘preferred way’ to resolve the situation.
⚓ RFA ☛ Burmese_mark_anniversary_of_8888_uprising_with_protests_against
military_junta⠀⇛
The ruling regime tightened security and posted plainclothes officers
in cities and towns.
⚓ Federal News Network ☛ US_vows_to_keep_Syria’s_chemical_weapons_program_in_UN
spotlight_over_Russian_and_Chinese_opposition⠀⇛
The United States and its allies are vowing to keep Syria’s failure
to account for its chemical weapons program in the spotlight at the
U.N. Security Council every month despite opposition from Russia and
China. U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield told the council
Tuesday that Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government “has
repeatedly lied to the international community” and to investigators
from the international chemical weapons watchdog, which has confirmed
that it used these banned weapons on at least nine occasions. She
said the Biden administration will continue to demand a full
accounting from Syria. For the first time, Russia and China refused
to speak at the monthly meeting on the Syria chemical weapons issue,
saying they are repetitive.
⚓ RFERL ☛ Putin_Signs_Decree_Suspending_Double-Taxation_Treaties_With
‘Unfriendly’_Countries⠀⇛
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree suspending
double-taxation treaties with more than 30 countries that Russia has
deemed “unfriendly.”
⚓ RFERL ☛ Blinken_Wary_Of_Russia’s_Wagner_Taking_Advantage_Of_Instability_In
Niger⠀⇛
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has warned against Russia’s
Wagner mercenaries taking advantage of instability in Niger.
⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia_Joins_Iran_In_Criticizing_Western_Pressure_Over_Nuclear_Deal⠀⇛
Moscow has aligned itself with Tehran in rejecting sanctions on Iran
that remain in place despite the collapse of a deal intended to
restrain its nuclear program.
§ War in Ukraine⠀➾
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Prosecutors_Seek_Seven_Years_In_Prison_For_Russian_Anti-War
Activist⠀⇛
Prosecutors in Russia’s second-largest city, St. Petersburg,
asked a court on August 8 to convict and sentence anti-war
activist Olga Smirnova to seven years in prison on charge of
spreading fake news about the armed forces.
* ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ The_Coup_in_Niger_Is_About_Power._Russia_Will_Exploit
It.⠀⇛
The most exciting explanations for Niger’s upheaval are globe-
sweeping and probably wrong.
* ⚓ ADF ☛ Drones,_Wagner_Missiles_Help_RSF_Match_Sudanese_Army’s_Might⠀⇛
ADF STAFF Portable surface-to-air missiles from Russia’s
mercenary Wagner Group and weaponized drones are helping
Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) level the field in its
conflict against the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF). At the outset
of the conflict, both sides were closely matched in personnel.
But the SAF, armed with planes and heavy weaponry, was […]
The post Drones,_Wagner_Missiles_Help_RSF_Match_Sudanese_Army’s
Might appeared first on Africa_Defense_Forum.
* ⚓ Latvia ☛ Russian_drone_comes_to_Latvian_War_museum⠀⇛
The Latvian War Museum has received a testimony of the Russian
war in Ukraine – a Russian army’s unmanned aircraft “Orlan-10”,
which was neutralized by Ukrainian defenders. This drone is the
first exhibit that describes the era of drone wars in Latvian
museums, Latvian Television reported on August 8.
* ⚓ Latvia ☛ New_expert_to_be_sent_by_Latvia_to_EU_Ukraine_mission⠀⇛
At its meeting August 8, the Latvian Cabinet of Ministers
adopted a draft order on the participation of civilian expert
Arsenijs Mihejevs in the European Union Advisory Mission (EUAM)
for Civilian Security Sector Reform in Ukraine starting from 1
September this year.
* ⚓ AntiWar ☛ Ukraine,_NATO,_and_the_Polish_Problem⠀⇛
Poland has been one of the most assertive proponents of
Ukraine’s entry into NATO and of NATO’s escalating involvement
in the war, from providing tanks to providing fighter jets.
* ⚓ AntiWar ☛ Clearing_the_Fog_of_‘Unprovoked’_War⠀⇛
For the record: I was born in Ukraine, studied in Russia,
and worked in America as a laser fusion researcher and
Professor of Mathematics and Physics.
* ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Odesa_urgently_needs_an_air_defense_upgrade_as
Russia_escalates_airstrikes⠀⇛
Ukrainian Black Sea port Odesa has recently been hit by a
series of Russian air attacks that have caused devastation in
the city’s UNESCO-listed historic center and highlighted the
need for improved air defenses, writes Michael Bociurkiw.
* ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Klain_in_Kyiv_Independent_:_How_to_open_NATO’s_door
for_Ukraine⠀⇛
* ⚓ France24 ☛ 🔴_Live:_Russia_shoots_down_two_Ukrainian_drones_headed_for
Moscow,_mayor_says⠀⇛
Russian forces downed two combat drones headed for Moscow, the
city’s mayor said Wednesday, the latest in a surge of drone
attacks targeting the capital.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Ukraine_counteroffensive:_FRANCE_24_reports_on_an_artillery
brigade_on_the_front_line⠀⇛
As the Ukrainian army continues its counteroffensive, it’s
using weaponry provided by Western allies – but also old Soviet
equipment. FRANCE 24’s Emmanuelle Chaze reports from the
Donetsk region with the 59th artillery brigade.
* ⚓ JURIST ☛ US_to_help_Ukraine_and_ICC_investigate_Russia_war_crimes⠀⇛
US Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Monday that the
US Department of Justice (DOJ) will begin to help Ukraine with
its ongoing Russian war crime investigations and assist the
International Criminal Court (ICC).
* ⚓ LRT ☛ The_Georgian_fighters_who_went_to_Ukraine_to_finish_their_own
war⠀⇛
Davit Ratiani glanced up as the Russian military aircraft
buzzed across the skies of Georgia, clenching his fist in such
anger that his nails tore into his skin.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukraine_Cites_More_Russian_Shelling_Of_Cities,_Russia_Says
‘Thwarts’_Drone_Attack_On_Moscow⠀⇛
Ukrainian military officials on August 9 cited more than 30
frontline clashes amid counteroffensive operations in the past
24 hours, while Russia blamed Kyiv for what it said was a twin
drone attack targeting Moscow that it “thwarted” with no
casualties or damage to the capital.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Deal_Struck_To_Send_German-Made_Leopard_1_Tanks_From_Belgium_To
Ukraine⠀⇛
Dozens of secondhand Leopard 1 tanks that once belonged to
Belgium have been bought by another European country for
Ukrainian forces fighting Russia’s invasion, the arms trader
who did the deal said on August 8.
* ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ 18_Months_of_War_in_Ukraine⠀⇛
Images from recent weeks, showing a region reshaped by a year
and a half of war
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Self-Exiled_Chechen_Activist_Says_His_Relatives_Forced_To_Go_To
War_In_Ukraine⠀⇛
Self-exiled Chechen opposition activist Abubakar Yangulbayev
said on Telegram on August 7 that four of his relatives were
forcefully sent by Chechen authorities to serve in the Russian
armed forces in the war in Ukraine.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russian_Missile_Strikes_in_Pokrovsk,_Ukraine,_Kill_9
and_Wound_Dozens_More⠀⇛
Ukrainians say the explosions 37 minutes apart in Pokrovsk,
which killed at least nine people and injured 82 others, were a
“double tap” intended to kill rescuers responding to the first
strike.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ UK_Expands_Sanctions_List_to_Target_Russia’s_Weapons
Suppliers⠀⇛
New measures announced Tuesday will affect businesses in
Turkey, Dubai and Iran, as well as individuals that Britain
says have supplied weaponry or components needed to sustain
Russia’s war in Ukraine.
* ⚓ ADF ☛ Russia’s_Grain_Warfare_‘a_Stab_in_the_Back’_to_Africa⠀⇛
Dark clouds of fear gathered in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu,
after Russia’s recent decision to end its Black Sea grain deal.
Bakers, traders and hungry customers prepared for another surge
of pain as Russia’s war on Ukraine continues to affect Africa.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Explosion_Caused_By_Gas_Leak_Kills_Two_In_Residential_Building
In_Russia⠀⇛
Two people were killed and four others injured after an
explosion caused by a gas leak hit a five-story apartment block
in Russia’s southwestern city of Astrakhan, local emergency
officials said.
* § Environment⠀➾
o ⚓ Axios ☛ COVID,_climate_law_may_create_a_path_to_green_housing⠀⇛
The new climate law,combined with an urban real_estate
market_reshaped_by_COVID, brings an opportunity to boost
housing supply and cut emissions at the same time.
o § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ The_on-ramp_for_hydrogen:_The_natural
gas_network⠀⇛
This Global Energy Center report examines how
blending hydrogen into US gas pipelines can quickly
support demand growth for this key technology for
US decarbonization objectives. The report provides
recommendations for how policymakers can create a
favorable regulatory environment to overcome
technical obstacles to scaling up hydrogen
deployment.
o § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ Tedium ☛ Hot_Dive_Summer⠀⇛
In praise of Dave the Diver, the video game that
made me realize that harpooning sharks in the
middle of the ocean, then turning them into sushi,
is extremely fun.
* § Finance⠀➾
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Italy_Halts_Program_Offering_Russians,_Belarusians
Residency_For_Investment⠀⇛
Authorities in Italy have halted an investment program
for Russian and Belarusian citizens that offered
residency permits in exchange for large investments.
o ⚓ Axios ☛ Credit_card_debt_hits_$1_trillion⠀⇛
Data: Federal Reserve via FRED; Chart: Axios Visuals
U.S. credit_card_debthit $1 trillion for the first time toward the end of July,
but its share of U.S. gross domestic product is still lower than it was in
2010, or at the onset of the pandemic.
⚓ Online_tutor_service_Paper_Education_cuts_20%_of_corporate_staff⠀⇛
Paper Education (Paper) has reportedly scaled back its staffing
levels for the second time this year.
According to The Globe and Mail, the Montreal-based online tutor
service recently laid off 20 per cent of its corporate workforce.
Approximately 105 employees are affected by the reduction.
CEO Philip Cutler told The Globe in an interview that buying patterns
“are different than they were a year or two ago.”
⚓ Doximity_lays_off_10%_of_workforce,_stock_slides_as_company_downgrades
revenue_guidance⠀⇛
Doximity, a digital platform for medical professionals, cut its
workforce by 10%, or 100 employee positions, and downgraded its
revenue guidance as it faces economic pressures and slowing sales
among its pharmaceutical customers.
The company’s latest financial results in the quarter ending June 30
beat Wall Street expectations as it continued its streak of strong
revenue growth. Doximity also marked a major product milestone as it
continues to innovate with generative AI tools for providers. But the
good news was overshadowed by a major reduction in guidance as
management reduced its fiscal 2024 revenue target by $43 million at
the midpoint.
§ AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
* ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_47:_Activist_considered_quitting
primary_poll_over_‘broad_scope’_of_national_security_law,_court_hears⠀⇛
Hong Kong activist Owen Chow, one of the 47 pro-democracy
figures charged with conspiracy to commit subversion, has said
he had considered quitting an unofficial primary election due
to national security concerns but decided to press on because
he could not “abandon the crowd.”
* ⚓ [Repeat] Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Parents_of_wanted_overseas_Hong_Kong
activist_Anna_Kwok_questioned_by_national_security_police_–_reports⠀⇛
Hong Kong national security police have taken the parents of a
wanted activist for questioning, marking the latest move in
authorities’ investigation of eight overseas pro-democracy
figures issued with arrest warrants and HK$1 million bounties.
§ Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Court_In_Russia’s_Bashkortostan_Extends_Pretrial_Arrests_Of_Two
‘Neo-Communists’⠀⇛
The Supreme Court of Russia’s Republic of Bashkortostan on
August 7 extended until November 10 the pretrial arrests of
Yury Yefimov and Aleksei Dmitriyev, two members of a neo-
communist group known as the Marxist Circle.
* ⚓ Reason ☛ A_Ham-Handed_Bill_Attacks_the_First_Amendment_in_the_Name_of
Protecting_Minors_From_Online_Harm⠀⇛
The Kids Online Safety Act imposes an amorphous “duty of care”
that would compromise anonymous speech and restrict access to
constitutionally protected content.
§ Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
* ⚓ JURIST ☛ US_federal_judge_upholds_Ohio_school_district’s_gender-
inclusive_bathroom_policy⠀⇛
A US federal judge rejected a lawsuit on Monday brought by
parents and students of an Ohio school district that challenged
the school district’s bathroom policy. US District Judge
Michael Newman found that the Bethel Local School District’s
decision to establish a gender-inclusive bathroom policy did
not violate the parents’ and students’ US Constitutional
rights.
§ Monopolies⠀➾
* § Patents⠀➾
o ⚓ JUVE ☛ Generics_companies_score_a_win_against_Novartis_in_battle
over_fingolimod [Ed: JUVE, which promoted illegal things like UPC
for the giants (JUVE took bribes to do this), on patents that exist
just to increase prices]⠀⇛
For over a year, a fierce battle has raged across many
European countries over Novartis’ EP 2 959 894. The
second medical use patent covers a 0.5mg per day dosage
of active ingredient fingolimod, which forms the basis of
Novartis’ drug Gilenya. The product is used to treat
relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis.
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