Links 30/11/2023: Rushing Patent Cases With Shorter Trial Scheme (STS), Sanctions Not Working
Contents
- Leftovers
- Science
- Education
- Hardware
- Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
- Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Security
- Defence/Aggression
- Transparency/State
- Environment
- Finance
- AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
- Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press
- Civil Rights/Policing
- Internet Policy/Net Neutrality
- Monopolies
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Leftovers
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Science
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Science Alert ☛ NASA Unveils Spectacular New View of The Mars Horizon
Breathtaking!
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Science Alert ☛ Could You Land a Plane? A Surprising Number of People Think They Can
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Science Alert ☛ Bad Night of Sleep? This 20-Minute Fix Can Do Wonders
Your brain will thank you.
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Science Alert ☛ Brain's Background Noise Could Explain Electroconvulsive Therapy's Success
A new direction.
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Science Alert ☛ Caffeine Could Have a Surprising Effect on The Brain's Ability to Learn
It's complicated.
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Science Alert ☛ Mystery Solved: We Finally Know Why The Milky Way Seems So Unique
Our galaxy is not like the others.
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Hackaday ☛ Noise Cancelling Isn’t As Easy As You’d Think
On the face of it, producing a set of noise cancelling headphones should be a relatively straightforward project. But as [Pete Lewis] found out, things are not always as they seem. The result is a deep dive into microphone specifications, through which most of us could probably learn something.
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Education
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New York Times ☛ Can U.S.-China Student Exchanges Survive Geopolitics?
The flow of students between the countries has been a mainstay of their relationship, even when ties have soured. Now these exchanges, too, are under threat.
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Breach Media ☛ Canada’s open secret: International students are here to be exploited
Minister Marc Miller said the quiet part loud: Big business needs international students for cheap labour
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Project Censored ☛ Being an Undocumented Teacher in America Comes With Undocumented Struggles
Sharing their undocumented status can have “political, personal, and professional implications” for these teachers, indicating the burden they face when trying to create an inclusive environment in the classroom. As Syeed and Rosas wrote, “Aspirations and resilience cannot overcome the failures of racist and inequitable systems that serve to marginalize immigrants and undermine educators.”
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Project Censored ☛ Idaho Schools Continue to Struggle to Secure Adequate Resources
Districts across the state of Idaho struggled to pass bonds needed for funding their school repairs due to a two-thirds voting requirement. Instead, lawmakers created the Public School Facilities Cooperative Funding Program, a $25 million dollar loan program intended to help the districts. However, the program proved to be difficult to use.
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Reason ☛ USC Censors Jewish Professor for Saying Hamas 'Should Be Killed'
The university is violating John Strauss's free speech rights.
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Hardware
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Tom's Hardware ☛ China could have access to the largest Hey Hi (AI) chips ever made, supercomputer with 54 million cores — US government investigates Cerebras' UAE-based partner
The CIA investigating whether a major Hey Hi (AI) cloud service provider, which uses Cerebras hardware, has major ties with China.
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Hackaday ☛ LED Ring Brings The Bling
We’ve seen our share of light-up jewelry over the years, but for some reason — probably power — it’s almost always earrings or necklaces. So when we saw [ROBO HUB]’s LED ring, we had to check it out. It involves a bit of behind-the-scenes action in the form of a battery holder that you palm, but the end effect is quite cool.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Germany vows to subsidize defective chip maker Intel and TSMC fabs despite budget crisis — billions in funding still in limbo
Germany vows to subsidize defective chip maker Intel and TSMC fabs despite a budget crisis, though defective chip maker Intel and Wolfspeed reportedly received firm fab funding commitments from the German government.
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Hackaday ☛ G-code Goes Binary With Proposed New Format
G-code is effective, easily edited, and nearly ubiquitous when it comes to anything CNC. The format has many strengths, but space efficiency isn’t one of them. In fact, when it comes to 3D printing in particular file sizes can get awfully large. Partly to address this, Prusa have proposed a new .bgcode binary G-code format. You can read the specification of the new (and optional) format here.
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The Next Platform ☛ AWS Adopts Arm V2 Cores For Expansive Graviton4 Server CPU
For more than a year, we have been expecting for Amazon Web Services to launch its Graviton4 processor for its homegrown servers at this year’s re:Invent, and lo and behold, chief executive officer Adam Selipsky rolled out the fourth generation in the Graviton CPU lineup – and the fifth iteration including last year’s overclocked Graviton3E processor aimed at HPC workloads – during his thrombosis-inducing keynote at the conference.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Nvidia RTX 4090 cards are reportedly being hoarded for sale to China by unscrupulous scalpers, which could inevitably drive prices up
Prices of Nvidia RTX 4090 cards have been shooting up lately, and there are photos reportedly showing piles of cards being purchased for sale to China by unscrupulous scalpers and traders.
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Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
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New York Times ☛ Jimmy Carter Emerges From Hospice Care for Rosalynn’s Memorial Service
“Come hell or high water, Jimmy Carter was going to use his inner resources to be there,” the presidential historian Douglas Brinkley said of Mr. Carter’s emerging from hospice care for his wife’s memorial service.
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New York Times ☛ Melania Trump and Other Living First Ladies Pay Tribute to Rosalynn Carter
United (mostly) in black, their differences were in the details.
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New York Times ☛ Rosalynn Carter’s Life in Photos
She rose to become the most politically active first lady since Eleanor Roosevelt. Yet her life began and ended dozens of miles from any interstate highway or even a stoplight.
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Silicon Angle ☛ UK study can’t find ‘smoking gun’ link between internet use and mental health
Researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute said in a study published today that they couldn’t find a “smoking gun” linking mental health harms and the use of online applications.
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Vice Media Group ☛ U.S. Soldiers Are Exposing Barracks Full of Mold, Bed Bugs, and Unsafe Food With a New App
Hots&Cots lets service members share photos of America's crumbling military housing.
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Stanford University ☛ Emotional support animals improve students’ mental health
Students on campus with emotional support animals find that they greatly improve their daily life and mental health.
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JURIST ☛ Texas Supreme Court hears oral arguments over abortion bans for medical emergencies
The Texas Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a case challenging abortion bans that prohibit the procedure in the instance of a medical emergency. In the case, State v. Zurawski, patients and physicians challenged the state’s abortion laws as it relates to pregnancy complications where the procedure may be necessary.
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The Kent Stater ☛ Biden campaign readies health care fight in latest attack on Trump
CNN — The Biden campaign is seizing on former President Donald Trump’s recent threat to repeal Obamacare, marking their latest effort to sound the alarm on the GOP frontrunner’s policy vision.
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RFA ☛ Wave of respiratory infections hits children in southern China
A school sends an entire class home for several days, citing flu-like illness and fever in one third of them.
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Science Alert ☛ New Swine Flu Strain Discovered in a Human in The UK For The First Time
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Federal News Network ☛ In Japan, civilian feds say health care crisis still isn’t fixed
Our readers in Japan respond to a recent Federal News Network interview with the director of the Defense Health Agency -- telling us the civilian employee health care crisis in that country is far from resolved.
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Latvia ☛ Hospitals report growing aggression toward medical workers in Latvia
Aggressive patients or their relatives is a daily occurrence, according to Latvian largest hospitals and emergency service. Physical or verbal attacks on medical personnel have always been experienced but in recent years they have become more frequent, so medical institutions raise the alarm: employees do not feel safe and are unable to do their job fully, Latvian Radio reported on November 29.
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The Straits Times ☛ China’s publicity blitz amid flu surge has done little to allay concerns
The moves came only after the World Health Organisation asked China for more details about the increase in cases.
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Reason ☛ Two 15-Year Sentences Illustrate the Ugly Interaction of Drug and Gun Laws
The Supreme Court mulls how to apply a mandatory minimum for gun possession by people convicted of drug felonies.
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Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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New York Times ☛ For Sports Illustrated, Report About Fake Authors Is Latest Stumble
The venerable magazine has experienced management upheaval and staff complaints in recent years. Now there’s a question over who wrote product reviews on its site.
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New Yorker ☛ How Moral Can Hey Hi (AI) Really Be? [Ed: Chatbots are NOT Hey Hi (AI)]
A year after Proprietary Chaffbot Company released ChatGPT, the chatbot is surprisingly good at parroting human values. It may be as ethical as it’s going to get.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Microsoft's 2023 ugly sweater lets you wear the famous backdoored Windows XP wallpaper
Microsoft's new ugly sweater for the holidays features the "Bliss" wallpaper from backdoored Windows XP
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Hackaday ☛ A Flasher Mac, 25 Years Later
Apple Macintosh computers of the 1990s came with a system ROM containing an Open Firmware implementation and the Mac Toolbox required to start the operating system. In many cases this was on a SIMM-like daughter board, and it would have been a true ROM that was unable to be reprogrammed. This is not the end of the story though, and [Doug Brown] set out on the trail of a Flash-based ROM module allowing the firmware on these machines to be updated.
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Security
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Privacy/Surveillance
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Techdirt ☛ NYPD Moves Towards Encrypting Radio Transmissions After Years Of Decrying Encryption Use By The General Public
New York City residents will, once again, be asked to foot the bill for NYPD efforts that solely benefit the nation’s largest police department. It’s not enough that they’ve been asked to spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year to bail out officers hit with civil rights lawsuits. It’s not enough that they’ve been asked to foot the bill for the NYPD’s repeated refusal to comply with public records laws.
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Defence/Aggression
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The Straits Times ☛ Airport baggage handler in South Korea indicted on 208 counts of luggage theft
The 41-year-old man was working at Incheon International Airport.
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The Straits Times ☛ South Korea clears taxi driver in death of passenger who jumped out of moving taxi
The Daegu District Court also cleared the 43-year-old driver of an SUV that hit the woman and killed her.
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ADF ☛ RSF Advances Give It Control Over Half of Sudan
After nearly eight months of fighting, Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) appears to be consolidating its control over the five states of the Darfur region along with parts of the capital, Khartoum.
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ADF ☛ Fears Grow That Violent History Could be Repeated in Darfur
Montessor Saddam was staying at a camp for displaced people in Sudan’s West Darfur region when members of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group attacked on November 2. Over the next three days, the RSF killed 1,300 people and wounded 2,000, local monitors told Al Jazeera. Another 310 were missing.
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RFA ☛ N Korea closes diplomatic missions in Bangladesh, DR Congo: reports
Pyongyang claims these shutdowns are a normal part of the business of sovereign nations.
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France24 ☛ Saudi capital Riyadh chosen to host World Expo 2023
The Saudi capital Riyadh on Tuesday won the right to host the 2030 World Expo, defeating rival bids from Italy and South Korea as well as overcoming objections from rights activists to take hold of another global mega-event.
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teleSUR ☛ Kenya: East African Bloc Forum to Discuss Forced Displacement
According to Mohamed Elduma, head of the social development unit of IGAD's Health and Social Development Division, the conference will help transform the refugee situation in the region.
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RFA ☛ Manila authorizes Christmas convoy to cheer up troops in South China Sea
The planned trip of 40 civilian boats comes amid rising territorial tensions between the Philippines and China.
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Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Chinese athletes as young as 7 undergo military training in Shanghai to ‘create iron army’
Shanghai, China Hundreds of athletes as young as seven are undergoing military training in Shanghai designed to instill discipline and “good fighting ability”, the Chinese city said. The athletes will “deeply study” the Chinese military’s “sense of standards and combat spirit”, Shanghai’s sports bureau said.
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Reason ☛ War on Pause
Plus: Disease in China, botched Reagan quotes, modern racial segregation, and more...
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Meduza ☛ Ramzan Kadyrov’s son who beat defenseless prisoner to oversee Chechen battalion — Meduza
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YLE ☛ Banned motorcycle gang suspected of continuing illegal activities
Police are investigating a major series of crime related to the activities of the now-defunct Cannonball motorcycle club.
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New York Times ☛ Israel-Hamas War: Talks in Qatar Focus on Extending Truce
Hamas is expected to release more hostages on Wednesday, the final day of the cease-fire. Top intelligence officials from the U.S. and Israel are meeting in Qatar.
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Reason ☛ Maryland Roommates File Lawsuit After Police Shot Their Dog During Alleged Illegal Home Search
Officers barged into their house without a warrant, shot their dog, and mocked them, a federal civil rights lawsuit says.
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New York Times ☛ As Congress Weighs Aid to Israel, Some Democrats Want Strings Attached
Democrats are clashing with each other and the Biden administration over whether to attach conditions, including measures to avoid civilian casualties, to a major infusion of security assistance.
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France24 ☛ Dozens killed in attack by armed groups in Burkina Faso, UN says
At least 40 civilians were killed in an attack on Sunday in Djibo, in northern Burkina Faso, the UN Human Rights Office said Tuesday.
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France24 ☛ Mali opens terror probe into jihadists, ethnic separatists amid deteriorating security
Mali's judiciary has announced an investigation into several ethnic separatists and Al-Qaeda-linked jihadist leaders for terrorism and money laundering, as security deteriorates in the country.
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YLE ☛ Finland closes entire eastern border for two weeks
"We don't accept any attempt to undermine our national security," said PM Petteri Orpo (NCP).
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RFA ☛ Post calls on wanted Hong Kong activist Nathan Law to return
The post, claiming to be penned by Law's brother, suggests family members are being 'held hostage,' observers say.
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Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong Kong 47: Who’s who in the landmark national security trial as closing arguments open
Hong Kong’s largest trial under Beijing’s sweeping national security law alleges that 47 defendants conspired to subvert state power by organising an unofficial primary election in July 2020. The defendants include dozens of politicians and activists — and even an ordinary voter.
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Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong Kong national security police charge man over wearing alleged ‘seditious’ shirt at airport
A 26-year-old man has been charged by national security police over allegedly wearing “seditious” clothes at Hong Kong’s international airport. According to a government statement issued on Wednesday, the man was arrested at the airport on Monday.
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JURIST ☛ UN report reveals surge in violence in Haiti rural central region
According to a UN report issued Tuesday, there has been a rise in gang violence in Haiti’s central rural region, an area previously considered safe from the increased instability in the country. The report includes a call for the urgent deployment of the multinational security support mission, as well as reinforcement of local police forces.
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The Straits Times ☛ Final debates begin in Hong Kong’s largest security trial
Defendants are charged with “conspiracy to subvert state power” over an unofficial primary election in 2020.
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The Straits Times ☛ Landmark Hong Kong national security case verdict expected in 3-4 months -judge
A landmark national security trial for 16 Hong Kong democracy activists entered its final stretch on Wednesday, with a verdict expected in early 2024, nearly two years after they charged with conspiracy to commit subversion.
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The Straits Times ☛ India forms committee to look into security concerns raised by US
India has set up a committee to look into security concerns raised by the United States, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday.
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Transparency/State
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American Oversight ☛ American Oversight Statement on Wisconsin Court Decision Regarding Secret Impeachment Panel Lawsuit
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Federal News Network ☛ Average security-clearance-processing speed, hits a speed bump
The federal government’s made huge progress in reducing security clearance processing times over the last several years. But there are some early signs of backsliding. As Federal News Network reported last week, the latest data shows top secret investigations took an average of 115 days in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023 – up from 84 days during the same period last year.
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Environment
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Energy/Transportation
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New York Times ☛ U.S. Debates How Much to Sever Electric Car Industry’s Ties to China
Some firms argue that a law aimed at popularizing electric vehicles risks turning the United States into an assembly shop for Chinese-made technology.
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YLE ☛ Turku shipyard completes construction of world’s largest cruise liner
The Icon of the Seas is due to set sail on its maiden voyage from Miami early next year.
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Wildlife/Nature
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The Straits Times ☛ ‘Elephants trampled on car doors, smashed windscreen’: Malaysian family recount escape from attack
They were worried the elephants would topple the car.
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Finance
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The Straits Times ☛ China's Nov factory activity likely contracted for second month
China's manufacturing activity likely contracted for a second consecutive month in November, a Reuters poll showed on Wednesday, keeping alive calls for further stimulus measures as factory owners struggle for orders both at home and abroad.
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Zimbabwe ☛ Zimstat says you need just US$20 a month to be considered not poor, doesn’t make sense
A few weeks ago we looked at Zimstat’s Labour Force Report for Q2 2023 which showed that 61% of Zimbabweans who are formally employed earn less than ZW$100,000 (US$12.66). That is a crazy stat but we all understand that, for the urban dweller at least, side hustles are supplementing that income.
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teleSUR ☛ Eurozone Economy to Stay Weak Through Year-End: ECB Chief
The ECB's future policy rates would be set at sufficiently restrictive levels for as long as necessary to meet its target of bringing inflation down to 2 percent.
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San Fancisco ☛ Broadcom to lay off over 1,200 Bay Area tech workers following $69B VMware deal
Barely a week after completing the $69 billion acquisition of the Palo Alto cloud computing company VMware, Broadcom has initiated the process of significant workforce reductions.
Reports indicate that over 2,000 employees overall are slated for job losses, with a focus on downsizing more than 1,200 roles considered redundant at VMware’s offices in Silicon Valley, according to a WARN notice submitted to the California Employment Development Department.
The initial separations are slated to take place on Jan. 26.
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Federal News Network ☛ Stamp prices increase for fifth time in three years
In today's Federal Newscast: Stamp prices will go up again, for the fifth time since 2021. A new IARPA program will try to expose perpetrators behind cyber attacks based on coding styles. And the Defense Department is seeking to update its acquisition regulations.
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AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
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The Straits Times ☛ China's top diplomat Wang Yi to visit Vietnam from Thursday: Sources
China's top diplomat Wang Yi will visit Vietnam from Thursday, two Vietnamese sources with knowledge of trip said on Wednesday.
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RFA ☛ Ruling party presidential candidate Lai Ching-te leads Taiwan poll
The failure of a "blue-white" alliance last week looks set to split the opposition vote.
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The Straits Times ☛ Myanmar ex-information minister jailed for incitement, sedition
Ye Htut was handed a 10-year sentence under two laws criminalising incitement against the military and sedition.
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BIA Net ☛ Where to reduce the state?
Liberals still advocate for the reduction of the state, but now they no longer emphasize freedoms and democracy. What is actually desired is to reduce the public services provided by the state. This means implementing the security state that liberals want.
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Techdirt ☛ Elon Musk’s Latest Round Of Bigoted Tweets Likely Cost ExTwitter $75 Million Over The Rest Of 2023
We keep pointing out just how incredible it is that Elon Musk is personally responsible for the destruction of so much of ExTwitter’s business model. Even if you believe that the company was too bloated, or that it’s business model needed to change, as you look at how the company is flailing, it can be tied back almost entirely to Elon Musk being a stupid, ignorant bigot on the platform that he bought.
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Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press
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BIA Net ☛ Journalist İsmail Arı acquitted in 'libel' case filed by former minister
Arı had covered a tender in which Mustafa Varank's cousin secured a contract.
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Press Gazette ☛ Qualified privilege defence to be tested in UK libel battle between two Pakistani broadcasters
A judge dismissed an application for summary judgment, saying the defence should be tested in court.
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Reason ☛ Court Denies Plaintiff Pseudonymity in #TheyLied Libel Suit Stemming from Alleged Stealthing by 17-Year-Old
From a decision last week by Judge Robert Pitman in DL v. JS (W.D. Tex.): Plaintiff dated ES from September 2021 to January 2022 when they were both in high school.
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Civil Rights/Policing
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The Straits Times ☛ China launches probe into surrogacy, fake paternity tests in Wuhan
The suspension comes amid several investigations related to the issuance of fake birth certificates in China.
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Techdirt ☛ Settlement Handed To 11-Year-Old Autistic Student Who Was Locked in A Cop Car For Hours, Hit With $25,000 Bail
The problem with putting cops in schools isn’t necessarily that there are never things that happen in schools that require a law enforcement response. (Unfortunately, a lot of those things are school shootings, which cops aren’t all that capable of responding to.)
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Internet Policy/Net Neutrality
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Techdirt ☛ FCC Moves Slowly To Update Definition Of Broadband To Something Still Pathetic
For decades, the FCC has maintained an arguably pathetic definition of “broadband,” allowing the telecom industry to under-deliver substandard access. And despite some new rhetoric from the agency under Biden, that doesn’t appear to be changing anytime soon.
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Monopolies
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Techdirt ☛ Meta Joins Google In Turning Its Back On The Open Web, And Embracing Unconstitutional Mandates That Pretend To ‘Protect The Children’
A month ago we wrote about Google effectively “pulling up the ladder” on the open internet by embracing age verification mandates as part of a regulatory approach to child safety. As we pointed out at the time, this is bizarre and stupid for a variety of reasons, but also not too surprising.
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Patents
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JUVE ☛ New cost-cap system for UK patent monopoly disputes to start in early 2024
The Civil Procedure Rules Committee (CPRC) has now approved a proposal for capping costs for patent monopoly cases in the Shorter Trial Scheme (STS). The proposal submitted by the Intellectual Property Lawyers’ Association (IPLA) adopts the current procedures for the STS, adding a single total cost cap of £500,000.
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Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ A Question of First Impression: What Happens When the PTAB Fails to Meet the Statutory Deadline for Issuing a Final Written Decision?
Section 326(a)(11) of Title 35 (the Patent Act) provides that the PTO “shall prescribe regulations… requiring that the final determination in any post-grant review be issued not later than 1 year after [institution],” and that the time can be extended by up to six months for good cause or in the case of joinder (emphasis added). On its face, the statute seems to establish a statutory deadline of 18 months from institution (one year plus the six-month extension) for the PTAB to issue its Final Written Decision in a post-grant review (“PGR”) proceeding.
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Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Prior Art as of the Effective Filing Date
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board recently designated as precedential a portion of its Penumbra v. RapidPulse decision in that provides important guidance on the use of a provisional patent monopoly application’s filing date for 102(a)(2) prior art under the America Invents Act. Penumbra, Inc. v. RapidPulse, Inc., IPR2021-01466, Paper 34 (March 10, 2023) (made precedential as to section II.E.3 on November 15, 2023). This is a pretty long post, but key takeaways are: (1) the PTAB expressly rejected the Federal Circuit’s pre-AIA Dynamic Drinkware rule (we’ll see how it goes on appeal); (2) when using a patent/publication as prior art based on an earlier provisional filing date, a petitioner now only needs to show the provisional describes the relied upon subject matter instead of requiring claims supported under §112; (3) this lowers the bar for leveraging provisionals as invalidating prior art before the PTAB (i.e., makes it easier to invalidate patents); however, (4) it remains
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Unified Patents ☛ Empire IP entity, Fleet Connect, wireless patent monopoly reexam granted
On November 20, 2023, two months after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding a substantial new question of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 7,058,040, owned and asserted by Fleet Connect Solutions, LLC, an NPE and entity of Empire IP. The ‘040 patent monopoly generally relates to minimizing RF channel interference in a device where two RF standards operate in the same frequency bands. The patent monopoly is being asserted against devices that have the ability to communicate using LTE, 802.11, or Bluetooth.
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Trademarks
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TTAB Blog ☛ CAFC Sends Back TTAB's "GET ORDAINED" Decision: Board Ignored Its Own Policy Regarding Waiver of Unargued Claims
Well, this is a strange one. The CAFC reversed the Board's decision sustaining an opposition to registration of GET ORDAINED for retail store services and ecclesiastical services, remanding the case for further consideration. The Board found the phrase so commonly used that consumers will not perceive it as a source indicator pointing uniquely to the applicant. Alternatively, the Board found the phrase to be merely descriptive and lacking secondary meaning. [TTABlogged here]. However, Opposer AMM had made no argument regarding applicant's retail store services, and so the court sent the case back to the TTAB to consider why the Board did not apply its usual waiver-of-argument policy with respect to those services. Universal Life Church Monastery Storehouse v. American Marriage Ministries, Appeal No. 2022-1744 (Fed. Cir. November 22, 2023).
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TTAB Blog ☛ Precedential No. 34: TTAB Dismisses Monster Energy's Section 2(d) Claim On Summary Judgment Due to DIssimilarity of Design Marks
Deeming the first DuPont factor to be dispositive, the Board granted Applicant Critical Role, LLC's motion for summary judgment, dismissing Opposer's Monster Energy's Section 2(d) claim. Monster alleged a likelihood of confusion between its registered "Claw" design mark for various goods and services, and applicant's "Circled MV" design mark for goods and services in eight classes. Monster's unchallenged dilution claim remains pending, since dilution may exist "regardless of the presence or absence of actual or likely confusion.” 15 U.S.C. Section 1043(c)(1). Monster Energy Company v. Critical Role, LLC, 2023 USPQ2d 1382 (TTAB 2023) [precedential].
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