Links 14/11/2023: Free Speech Compromised, China Growing in Influence
Contents
- Leftovers
- Science
- Education
- Hardware
- Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
- Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Security
- Defence/Aggression
- Environment
- Finance
- AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
- Censorship/Free Speech
- Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press
- Civil Rights/Policing
- Internet Policy/Net Neutrality
- Digital Restrictions (DRM)
- Monopolies
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Leftovers
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Science
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Science Alert ☛ A Surprising Feature of IQ Has Actually Improved Over The Past 30 Years
This was unexpected.
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Education
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ACLU ☛ Test Your Knowledge: What Rights Do Students Have at School?
With another school year underway, it’s important to remember the legal protections that students possess both on and off campus. Though classrooms around the country are being constrained by attempts to censor what we can teach and learn, students still largely maintain the right to express themselves and their views in school. Quiz yourself below to learn the many rights that students have, and how these constitutional protections intersect with school policies.
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Hardware
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Hackaday ☛ JawnCon 0x0: A Strong Start With A Bright Future
Last month, I had the pleasure witnessing a birth. No, not of a child. What I’m talking about is something far rarer, though arguably, just as loud and danger fraught — the birth of a new hacker convention.
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Hong Kong Free Press ☛ China’s probe into Foxconn is ‘political’: Taiwan security chief
Taipei’s national security chief has said a Chinese tax probe into Taiwan tech giant Foxconn is “political”, as its billionaire founder Terry Gou is running for president of the democratically ruled island.
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Hackaday ☛ Watch Time Roll By On This Strange, Spiral Clock
[Build Some Stuff] created an unusual spiral clock that’s almost entirely made from laser-cut wood, even the curved and bendy parts.
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Hackaday ☛ 3D Printed Stamp Rollers
If you have an artistic bent, you might have seen self-inking stamp rollers. These are like rotary rubber stamps that leave a pattern as you roll across a page. [Becky] wanted a larger custom roller and turned to 3D printing to make it happen. The first prototype used a modified Sharpie. However, she soon moved to an unmodified acrylic marker that had a rectangular tip.
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Hackaday ☛ Using Nuclear Decay As Random Number Generator Source For An MCU
Although there are many ways to get a random number generator (RNG) set up on a microcontroller, it’s hard to argue with the sheer randomness of the various kinds of radiation zipping all around us from nuclear decay events. For [gbonacini] the purchase of a Geiger counter first in 2022 was the reason to tinker with using these as the source for an RNG, which simply runs a counter until a Geiger counter event occurs that ‘selects’ a number and the counter is reset to zero.
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Hackaday ☛ Hot Wheel Car Becomes 1/64 Scale Micro RC Car, Complete With Camera
If you enjoy watching skilled assembly of small mechanical systems with electronics to match, then make some time to watch [Max Imagination] transform a Hot Wheels car into a 1/64th scale RC car complete with video FPV video feed. To say the project took careful planning and assembly would be an understatement, and the results look great.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ TSMC Boosts CoWoS Production 20% to Meet Surging Demand
TSMC has acted to boost CoWoS monthly production capacity by 20% from the new year in response to a flood of orders from Nvidia, AMD, Apple, Broadcom, and Marvell.
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Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
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Pro Publica ☛ Many Worker Deaths and Injuries on Small Dairy Farms are Never Investigated by OSHA
When dairy workers die on farms across the country, the circumstances are often similar: They drown in manure lagoons, get crushed by skid steers, are trampled by cows.
But whether the government investigates their deaths depends on factors that advocates for worker safety say seem arbitrary: the state where they died, the size of the farm where they worked or whether they lived in employer-provided housing.
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Pro Publica ☛ Mississippi Says Jails Where People Await Psychiatric Treatment Must Meet Safety Standards. Just One Does.
Fourteen years ago, Mississippi legislators passed a law requiring county jails to be certified by the state if they held people awaiting court-ordered psychiatric treatment.
Today, just one jail in the state is certified.
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Pro Publica ☛ Columbia University to Set Up $100 Million Fund for Patients of Predator OB-GYN
In a stunning shift, Columbia University announced on Monday a sweeping series of changes to address the school’s failures to protect patients who were sexually assaulted by a Columbia doctor.
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Science Alert ☛ Sitting Down Is So Bad For You, Even Sleeping Is Better
You know you want to.
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New York Times ☛ ‘A Monster’: Super Meth and Other Drugs Push Crisis Beyond Opioids
Millions of U.S. drug users now are addicted to several substances, not just opioids like fentanyl and heroin. The shift is making treatment far more difficult.
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JURIST ☛ US Supreme Court declines to review solitary confinement inmate’s exercise depravation challenge
The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a case involving the denial of exercise time to an inmate in solitary confinement. The case centers around Michael Johnson, who was incarcerated at the Pontiac Correctional Center in Illinois.
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France24 ☛ French doctors vow to ‘disobey’ bill stripping undocumented migrants of healthcare rights
A push by France’s conservative-led Senate to strip undocumented migrants of their access to free healthcare has sparked a public outcry among workers across the medical profession, many of whom have pledged to ignore a measure they describe as an ethical, sanitary and financial aberration.
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The Kent Stater ☛ Kent Police’s cancer fund to honor and support local people fighting cancer
Kent Police are strutting around the city with beards this month to honor one of their own. Facial hair was, at one point, against law enforcement policy.
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Techdirt ☛ The US Healthcare Scam Illustrated In The Impossibility Of Getting A Bill For Five Stitches
Let’s just start off by noting that if you’re not in the US and you live anywhere with some form of single-payer/universal healthcare, we know. You don’t need to tell us. We know. The US healthcare system is a fucking mess.
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YLE ☛ Silja Serenade ferry returning to service after legionella bacteria cleanup
The Baltic ferry was taken out of service over the weekend after unusually high levels of bacteria were detected in its water system.
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Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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Silicon Angle ☛ Google takes legal action against scammers using fake Bard ads to spread malware
Google LLC launched a lawsuit today against fraudsters the company says is using the buzz around generative artificial intelligence to lure people into clicking on fake ads for its Bard chatbot.
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Reason ☛ Federal District Court (E.D. Tex.) Adding New Rules About Hey Hi (AI) Use by Lawyers and by Self-Represented Litigants
From General Order 23-11, effective Dec. 1, 2023, the new Local Rule CV-11(g): Litigants remain responsible for the accuracy and quality of legal documents produced with the assistance of technology (e.g., ChatGPT, Surveillance Giant Google Bard, Bing Hey Hi (AI) Chat, or generative artificial intelligence services). Litigants are cautioned that certain technologies may produce factually or legally inaccurate content.…
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Bryan Lunduke ☛ On Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub becoming an Hey Hi (AI) platform
Listen now (19 mins) | Lunduke's Big Tech Show - November 13th, 2023
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Bruce Schneier ☛ Ten Ways Hey Hi (AI) Will Change Democracy
Artificial intelligence will change so many aspects of society, largely in ways that we cannot conceive of yet. Democracy, and the systems of governance that surround it, will be no exception. In this short essay, I want to move beyond the “AI-generated disinformation” trope and speculate on some of the ways Hey Hi (AI) will change how democracy functions—in both large and small ways.
When I survey how artificial intelligence might upend different aspects of modern society, democracy included, I look at four different dimensions of change: speed, scale, scope, and sophistication. Look for places where changes in degree result in changes of kind. Those are where the societal upheavals will happen...
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Windows TCO
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IT Wire ☛ DP World resumes operations, nearly 5400 containers moved
Stevedore DP World Australia has resumed operations after a network attack brought operations to a halt on Friday, a statement from the company says.
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Security Week ☛ Operations at Major Australian Ports Significantly Disrupted by Cyberattack
A cyberattack on Australian shipping giant DP World, which may have been a ransomware attack, has resulted in serious disruptions at major ports.
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The Strategist ☛ Known unknowns: cyber insecurity troubles Australian lawmakers
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Security Week ☛ Yellen Says Ransomware Attack on China’s Biggest Bank Minimally Disrupted Treasury Market Trades
A ransomware attack that forced China’s biggest bank to take some systems offline only minimally disrupted the U.S. Treasury market.
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Security Week ☛ Dragos Says No Evidence of Breach After Ransomware Gang Claims Hack via Third Party
Dragos finds no evidence of a data breach after the BlackCat ransomware group claimed to have hacked the security firm via a third party.
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Security Week ☛ Ransomware Group RansomedVC Closes Shop
The ransomware and data extortion group RansomedVC announced plans to shut down the project and sell parts of its infrastructure.
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Security
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YLE ☛ Court orders Vastaamo suspect's continued detention
The trial into the suspected hacking of the psychotherapy centre's database involves over 22,000 victims, the highest number ever in a Finnish court case.
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Announcing Istio 1.19.4
This release note describes what’s different between Istio 1.19.3 and 1.19.4.
Improved
iptables
locking. The new implementation usesiptables
builtin lock waiting when needed, and disables locking entirely when not needed.Added gated flag
ISTIO_ENABLE_IPV4_OUTBOUND_LISTENER_FOR_IPV6_CLUSTERS
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Security Week ☛ Mr. Cooper Says Customer Data Compromised in Cyberattack
US mortgage giant Mr. Cooper announced that customer data was compromised in an October 31 cyberattack.
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Security Week ☛ 2.2 Million Impacted by Data Breach at McLaren Health Care
McLaren Health Care is informing roughly 2.2 million individuals of a data breach impacting their personal information.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ ChatGPT's New Code Interpreter Has Giant Security Hole, Allows Hackers to Steal Your Data
A new Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot feature lets you upload files full of data or code, but it also makes them vulnerable to exfiltration.
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SANS ☛ Noticing command and control channels by reviewing DNS protocols, (Mon, Nov 13th)
Malicious software pieces installed in computers call home. Some of them can be noticed because they perform DNS lookup and some of them initiates connection without DNS lookup. For this last option, this is abnormal and can be noticed by any Network Detection and Response (NDR) tool that reviews the network traffic by at least two weeks.
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Privacy/Surveillance
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Techdirt ☛ Senate Undercuts Section 702 Reform Efforts By Stapling Blanket Approval To A Must-Pass Budget Bill
The most serious opposition to extending Section 702 surveillance authorities since the immediate aftermath of the Snowden leaks came from a perhaps-unexpected source: House Republicans.
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Defence/Aggression
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France24 ☛ At least eight pro-Iran fighters killed in fresh US strikes on Syria
At least eight pro-Iran fighters were killed in US strikes on eastern Syria, a war monitor said Monday, after Washington carried out raids a day earlier in response to attacks on American forces.
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TruthOut ☛ Trump Allies Forming “Army” of Ideological Loyalists for 2025 Power Grab
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The Nation ☛ Give Peace a Chance
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The Straits Times ☛ Asia’s ageing soldiers force US allies to widen recruitment drive
In South Korea, for example, there has been talk of whether to conscript women as well.
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The Straits Times ☛ North Korea criticises G-7 as 'remnant of the Cold War'
G-7 can not represent the international community but protects a few countries' interests, said Mr Jo Chol Su.
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RFA ☛ N Korea slams G7, signals nuclear program to continue
The group ‘exacerbated the current international crisis,’ says the North’s foreign ministry official.
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Defence Web ☛ Cape Town hosts first “Turn to Busan” Korean War commemorative ceremony
In a heartfelt tribute to the South Africans who served and lost their lives under the United Nations flag during the 1950-53 Korean War, the inaugural Cape Town “Turn towards Busan” commemorative ceremony took place this past Saturday.
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RFA ☛ Thai govt considers bringing in Chinese cops to allay tourists’ safety fears
The plan could impinge on sovereignty, Thailand’s police chief warns.
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The Straits Times ☛ Thai police dismiss proposal to have Chinese policemen patrol tourist cities
A senior Thai police officer said the plan could not be implemented due to the restrictions to the country's security law.
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The Straits Times ☛ Tricky politics on menu for China's Pooh-tin at US business dinner
Top business leaders in the United States are expected to dine with Chinese President Pooh-tin Jinping in San Francisco on Wednesday as he seeks to court American companies and counter his country's recent struggles to entice foreign investment.
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New York Times ☛ Behind Public Assurances, Pooh-tin Jinping Has Spread Grim Views on U.S.
Speeches by the Chinese leader show how he was bracing for an intensifying rivalry with the United States from early in his rule.
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The Straits Times ☛ US Commerce chief Raimondo to meet Chinese counterpart Wang during Apec
The commerce chiefs of the United States and China will meet at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum this week, one of a series of cabinet-level engagements surrounding high-stakes talks between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Pooh-tin Jinping.
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Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Chinese leader Pooh-tin Jinping, US President Joe Biden to talk ‘global peace and development’ at summit, Beijing says
Chinese leader Pooh-tin Jinping and US President Joe Biden will discuss “global peace and development” at a summit this week in San Francisco, Beijing said on Monday.
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CS Monitor ☛ How US-China ties have crumbled – and where Pooh-tin and Biden could rebuild
U.S.-China ties have measurably and dramatically deteriorated in recent years. But this also presents an opportunity for growth – one both countries’ leaders feel a responsibility to act on.
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The Straits Times ☛ Taiwan doubts China’s Pooh-tin will have the ability to invade by 2027
Taiwan declined to pinpoint when an attack could happen.
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The Straits Times ☛ Taiwan working on one-on-one Biden meeting at Apec summit
Taiwan is working on securing a one-on-one meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden and the island's representative at this week's APEC summit in San Francisco, but there is no message planned for China, a senior Taiwanese official said.
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The Straits Times ☛ Phony news sites spreading pro-Beijing propaganda in S.Korea, says country’s spy service
South Korea’s spy service suspects Chinese agencies are behind the operation of fake websites posing as well-known South Korean news outlets to spread propaganda.
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RFERL ☛ EU Foreign Ministers Approve Expansion Of Border Monitoring Mission In Armenia
EU foreign ministers approved a proposal to expand the border-monitoring mission deployed in Armenia and activate discussions on visa liberalization with the South Caucasus country, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell said in Brussels on November 13.
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LRT ☛ Lithuania to check 800 foreigners with citizenship granted by exception
Lithuania’s Interior Ministry on Monday asked the country’s State Security Department (VSD) to check 800 foreigners who have Lithuanian citizenship granted by way of exception.
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Environment
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YLE ☛ EK joins other Nordic business groups in demanding clear EU climate policy
WWF Finland said that while it agrees that ambitious emission reductions will create economic growth, the business groups’ demands are insufficient.
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Energy/Transportation
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New York Times ☛ Laser Fusion Start-Ups Ignite the Quest for Boundless Energy
Companies are looking to commercialize advances made by federally supported research labs in the quest for boundless energy.
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Wildlife/Nature
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Science Alert ☛ Mind-Altering Cat Parasite May Trigger Frailty in Older People
One in ten Americans is infected.
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Science Alert ☛ Death of The World's Oldest Dog Could Teach Us a Few Things About Life
Thanks Bobi.
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Science Alert ☛ Animal Brains Are Being Altered by Climate Change. An Expert Explains.
Sink or swim.
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Overpopulation
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teleSUR ☛ Food Insecurity to Remain High in EA Until Early 2024, WFP
According to the WFP official data, some 62.6 million people were food insecure as of September, with four of the nine countries in the region -- Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan (among the worst affected by the global food crisis).
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Finance
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RFA ☛ China calls on businesses to join hands with state sector
The public-private 'franchise' partnerships could become a nationwide asset grab, analysts warn.
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YLE ☛ Etla: More common for Finnish companies to downsize than upscale
A report by the Research Institute of the Finnish Economy finds that strict regulations and the desire to avoid taking on too much debt are the main obstacles limiting business development.
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AntiWar ☛ No Janet, We Cannot Afford More Wars
Bloomberg Intelligence recently released an analysis showing that a year of interest payments on the national debt now exceeds one trillion dollars. This should have been a wake-up call to Congress and the Biden administration, but it was largely ignored.
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AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
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New York Times ☛ Donald Trump Jr. Testifies Family Properties Show His Father’s Brilliance
In his second appearance in court, Donald J. Trump’s eldest son testified that the company’s assets were extremely valuable. A judge has found their values were inflated.
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CS Monitor ☛ Trump’s NY fraud trial resumes, as Donald Trump Jr. takes the stand
Donald Trump Jr. is the first witness called to the stand by Donald Trump’s lawyers in the New York civil fraud trial. He said he never worked on the annual financial statements at the heart of New York Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit.
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New York Times ☛ House Blocks Snap Mayorkas Impeachment Vote as Inquiry Continues
A small group of Republicans joined Democrats in voting to defeat a motion by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia to immediately impeach the homeland security secretary.
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Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong Kong security chief rejects lawmaker’s idea for local security law to replace Beijing-imposed legislation
Hong Kong’ security chief Chris Tang has rejected a lawmaker’s suggestion for Article 23 – the city’s proposed national security legislation – to replace the Beijing-imposed national security law, saying that “vigilance” was still needed in peacetime.
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Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda
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New Yorker ☛ What the Doomsayers Get Wrong About Deepfakes
Experts have warned that utterly realistic A.I.-generated videos might wreak havoc through deception. What’s happened is troubling in a different way.
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Censorship/Free Speech
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Reason ☛ Court Strikes Down Ban on Town Employees Displaying "Thin Blue Line" Flag While on Town Property
A Springfield Township (Pennsylvania) resolution provides: [T]he Board of Commissioners of Springfield Township does, as a matter of respect and sensitivity to all the citizens of the Township, hereby prohibit the publicly visible display or use of any image which depicts the Thin Blue Line American Flag symbol...
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Reason ☛ Thai Public Broadcasting Service Removes Interview with Taiwan Foreign Minister, Allegedly at China's Behest
Taiwan News (Keoni Everington) reports: Foreign Minister Joseph Wu (吳釗燮) on Sunday (Nov. 12) mocked China's government for lecturing Thailand over freedom of the press following his interview on a Thai television station. Wu was interviewed by Thai Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) anchor Phongsathat Sukhaphong on Nov. 1 in Taipei...
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Techdirt ☛ New Israeli Law Makes Consuming ‘Terrorist’ Content A Criminal Offense
It’s amazing just how much war and conflict can change a country. On October 7th, Hamas blitzed Israel with an attack that was plainly barbaric. Yes, this is a conflict that has been simmering with occasional flashpoints for decades. No, neither side can even begin to claim it has entirely clean hands as a result of those decades of conflict. We can get the equivocating out of the way. October 7th was different, the worst single day of murder of the Jewish community since the Holocaust. And even in the immediate aftermath, those outside of Israel and those within knew that the attack was going to result in both an immediate reaction from Israel and longstanding changes within its borders. And those of us from America, or those that witnessed how our country reacted to 9/11, knew precisely how much danger this period of change represented.
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Chronicle Of Higher Education ☛ The Dangers of Donor Revolt
The Israel-Hamas war has empowered higher-ed benefactors. That's distressing.
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Reason ☛ Censorship Envy
One reason I broadly oppose governmental restrictions on the expression of ideas—even obviously bad, dangerous, and offensive ideas—is the phenomenon I call "censorship envy": The common reaction that, "If my neighbor gets to ban speech he reviles, why shouldn't I get to do the same?" [1.]
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Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press
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Techdirt ☛ Well, It Looks Like Pretty Much Every Government Agency Was Complicit In The Raid Of A Small Town Newspaper
Under the pretense of a computer crime investigation, the Marion County PD — led by then-Chief Gideon Cody — raided the offices of the Marion County Record, as well as the home of its 98-year-old co-owner, Joan Meyer. Joan Meyer died one day after the raid, one she strenuously objected to while her home was filled with law enforcement officers.
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RFERL ☛ Kyrgyz Journalist Questioned In Probe Of Jailed Activist
Kyrgyzstan's State Committee for National Security (UKMK) summoned and questioned journalist Kanyshai Mamyrkulova on November 13 in a probe of jailed opposition United Kyrgyzstan party member Zamirbek Shamshidin-uulu, who is accused of organizing mass unrest.
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Civil Rights/Policing
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Pro Publica ☛ Supreme Court Adopts Its First-Ever Ethics Code
The Supreme Court on Monday released a code of conduct governing the behavior of the country’s most powerful judges for the first time in its history. But experts said it was unclear if the new rules, which do not include any enforcement mechanism, would address the issues raised by recent revelations about justices’ ethics and conduct.
The nine-page code, with an accompanying five pages of commentary, was signed by all the sitting justices and covers everything from the acceptance of gifts, to recusal standards, to avoiding improper outside influence on the justices. The step followed months of reporting by ProPublica detailing undisclosed gifts to Supreme Court justices from wealthy political donors.
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teleSUR ☛ Italian Unions Prepare Strike Against PM Meloni
From Nov. 17 to Dec. 1, workers will carry out a staggered strike according to the region of the country.
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TruthOut ☛ Abortion Bans Are Undermining Efforts to Prevent Domestic Violence
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TruthOut ☛ As Cities Resist Affordable Housing, This Homeless Shelter Fought Back and Won
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TruthOut ☛ Indian Trade Unions Demand Modi Scrap Deal to Replace Palestinian Workers
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YLE ☛ Court convicts Finnish-Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygård on sexual assault charges
The six-week trial heard testimony from a total of five women, each of whom said Nygård attacked them in a private bedroom suite attached to his office in downtown Toronto.
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Techdirt ☛ Omegle Shuts Down After Facing Ruinous Lawsuits; This Won’t Magically Solve People Being Awful Online
Omegle has been a controversial service. While Chatroulette got all the attention as a service to randomly connect with video to others online, it grew fast and burned out fast. Omegle was basically the same service, but had a slower ramp up, and became quite popular over the last few years. Except that now Omegle is dead.
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Reason ☛ Illinois Youth Lockup Is 'No Place for Children,' According to ACLU Lawsuit
Children held in the Franklin County Juvenile Detention Center are routinely subjected to solitary confinement, inadequate meals, and filthy cells, according to legal documents.
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Internet Policy/Net Neutrality
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APNIC ☛ Event Wrap: PITA Strategy Forum 2023
Karla Skarda presented on Internet resilience at the Pita Strategy Forum 2023, held from 17 to 20 October 2023 in Suva, Fiji.
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Techdirt ☛ Streaming Sector Determined To Become Just As Shitty As 1990s Cable
Thanks to industry consolidation and saturated market growth, the streaming industry has started behaving much like the traditional cable giants they once disrupted. As with most industries suffering from “enshittification,” that generally means steadily worse service at higher prices as it tries to appease Wall Street’s demand for improved quarterly returns at any cost (even long term company health).
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Public Knowledge ☛ Public Knowledge Commends Biden Administration for Bold, New National Spectrum Strategy
New spectrum policy will help increase innovation, competition, and security in wireless technologies.
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Digital Restrictions (DRM)
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Digital Music News ☛ Investigative Report Links Spotify Carbon Credits Purchase to Forced Labor Camps in China
A new investigative report has linked a Spotify carbon credits purchase to forced labor camps in Xinjiang, China. Spotify’s possible connection to alleged forced labor, referring specifically to labor performed by Uyghur Muslims in the mentioned city, emerged in an in-depth piece from the Guardian today.
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Monopolies
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University of Michigan ☛ Amazon’s creeping monopoly
Amazon is the monopoly that companies dream of becoming. The company’s control over the e-commerce market is so large that avoiding it is difficult, especially for students who depend on the internet to buy everything from furniture to food to school supplies.
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Patents
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JUVE ☛ Dexcom and Bird & Bird overturn Abbott infringement claim in the UK
Dexcom and Abbott are currently going head-to-head over a number of patents covering their respective glucose monitoring devices, known as continuous glucose monitoring, or CGMs.
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Trademarks
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TTAB Blog ☛ Cancellation Attack on THE EDUCATION LAWYERS Flunks Genericness and Mere Descrpitiveness Tests
The Board denied a petition for cancellation of a registration for the mark THE EDUCATION LAWYERS for "legal services" [LAWYERS disclaimed] finding that Petitioner Montgomery Law failed to prove either genericness or mere descriptiveness by a preponderance of the evidence. Respondent Jacobson & John obtained its registration under Section 2(f) based only upon a declaration of at least five years of continuous and substantially exclusive use prior to making the statement. Montgomery Law LLC v. Jacobson & John LLP, Cancellation No. 92073600 (November 9, 2023) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Wendy Boldt Cohen).
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