Links 19/01/2024: Unified Patents Targets Software Patents of Intellectual Ventures
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Leftovers
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Hackaday ☛ Tech In Plain Sight: Windshield Frit
You probably see a frit every day and don’t even notice it. What is it? You know the black band around your car’s windshield? That’s a frit (which, by the way, can also mean ingredients used in making glass) or, sometimes, a frit band. What’s more, it probably fades out using a series of dots like a halftone image, right? Think that’s just for aesthetics? Think again.
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Kev Quirk ☛ The Sandman: Act II
Enter the Dreaming again as the blockbuster audio adaptation of “the greatest epic in the history of comic books” continues in The Sandman: Act II. James McAvoy returns to voice Morpheus, the Lord of Dreams, in this sequel to the number-one New York Times audio best seller. Journey into a world of myths, imagination, and terror based on the best-selling DC comic books and graphic novels written by Neil Gaiman (returning as the Narrator), and lose yourself in another groundbreaking, immersive drama adapted and directed by the award-winning audio master Dirk Maggs.
In the absolutely packed Act II, the dark fantasy resumes and the Sandman expands into the French Revolution, ancient Rome, 19th-century San Francisco, eighth-century Baghdad, and beyond. New and familiar characters abound, voiced by a bright mix of performers, including Kat Dennings, Regé-Jean Page, Emma Corrin, Michael Sheen, Kristen Schaal, Brian Cox, John Lithgow, Jeffrey Wright, and so many more, including fan-favorite narrators Simon Vance and Ray Porter. -
CS Monitor ☛ Boston scholar finds new Louisa May Alcott writings under pseudonym
Northeastern University literary scholar Max Chapnick has discovered stories written by Louisa May Alcott for Massachusetts newspapers under a different name. The early stories paint a picture of a burgeoning writer experimenting with form and genre.
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Andy Wingo: nombrilliant, actually
Today, a middle-aged note: when you are young, unless you been failed by The System, you enjoy a radiant confidence: everything you say burns with rightness and righteousness, that the world Actually Is This Way, You See, and if you think about it, it Actually Should Be This Other Specific Way. This is how you get the fervent young communists and Scala enthusiasts and ecologists and Ayn Randians. The ideas are so right that you become an evangelist, a prophet, a truth-speaker; a youtuber, perhaps.
Then, with luck, you meet the world: you build, you organize, you invest, you double down. And in that doubling, the ideas waver, tremble, resonate, imperceptibly at first, reinforced in some ways, impeded in others. The world works in specific ways, too, and you don’t really know them in the beginning: not in the bones, anyway. The unknowns become known, enumerate themselves, dragons everywhere; and in the end, what can you say about them? Do you stand in a spot that can see anything at all? Report, observe, yes; analyze, maybe, eventually; prophesize, never. Not any more.
And then, years later, you are still here.
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Reason ☛ Matt Welch: What's Wrong With Populism?
Matt Welch discusses the Iowa caucus results, the 2024 election, and the resurgence of "libertarian populism" on the latest episode of Just Asking Questions.
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New Yorker ☛ The Case for Criticism
In the age of Goodreads and Letterboxd, with nearly every aspect of the cultural landscape up for review by professional writers and superfans alike, The New Yorker’s critics consider their vocation—and why it matters.
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Science
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New York Times ☛ Astrobotic’s Peregrine Moon Lander Burns Up in Earth’s Atmosphere
The Astrobotic Peregrine spacecraft launched last week for a lunar landing, but a propulsion malfunction left it unable to complete its mission.
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Science Alert ☛ 45,000-Year-Old Tools And Bones Reveal Earliest Evidence of Homo Sapiens in Eastern Asia
"A captivating story of early human migration."
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Science Alert ☛ Crippled US Spacecraft Burns Up in Fiery Return to Earth
It wasn't meant to be like this.
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Science Alert ☛ Scientists Discover Alarming Evidence Global Warning Is Accelerating
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Hackaday ☛ Crippled Peregrine Lander To Make Fiery Return Home
Within a few hours of this post going live, Astrobotic’s Peregrine spacecraft is expected to burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere — a disappointing end to a mission that was supposed to put the first US lander on the Moon since the Apollo program ended in 1972.
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Science Alert ☛ A Massive Amount of Water Ice Has Been Found on Mars, Lurking Beneath The Equator
Not such a dry old dustball after all.
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Education
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RFA ☛ China's ruling party takes direct control of country's universities
Presidents' offices are being merged with embedded party committees to form a 'unified' leadership for higher education.
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Hardware
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Hackaday ☛ Deep Dive Into 3D Printing Nozzles
[Lost in Tech] set out to examine a variety of 3D printing nozzles. Before he got there, though, he found some issues. In particular, he found that his current crop of printers don’t take the standard E3D or MK8 nozzles. So, instead, he decided to examine various nozzles under the microscope.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Intel's German fab will be most advanced in the world and make 1.5nm chips, CEO says
Intel's CEO expects Magdeburg fab to be the most advanced fab in the world when it comes online.
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IT Wire ☛ TSMC announces further delays expected for 3nm Arizona plant
The world's biggest manufacturer of semiconductors has been hit by a further delay to a planned US$40 billion (A$60.85 billion) factory in Arizona, with the plant now due to come on stream only in 2027 or 2028.
Bloomberg reported that the plant, to manufacture 3nm chips and the second announced by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company in the US state, was hit by the level of US Government subsidies.
TSMC chairman Mark Liu told the company's earnings conference in Taipei on Thursday: "Our overseas decisions are based on customer needs and the necessary level of government subsidy, or support.”
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Hackaday ☛ Predicting The A-Bomb: The Cartmill Affair
There’s an upcoming movie, Argyle, about an author whose spy novels are a little too accurate, and she becomes a target of a real-life spy game. We haven’t seen the movie, but it made us think of a similar espionage caper from 1944 involving science fiction author Cleve Cartmill. The whole thing played out in the pages of Astounding magazine (now Analog) and involved several other science fiction luminaries ranging from John W. Campbell to Isaac Asimov. It is a great story about how science is — well, science — and no amount of secrecy or legislation can hide it.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Asus confirms the end of the NUC Extreme lineup - NUC 13 Extreme is the last of its kind
With the announcement of ROG NUC, it looked very likely that Asus would discontinue the NUC Extreme Lineup. Asus also makes prebuilt gaming systems.
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OMG Ubuntu ☛ AYANEO’s New NES-Style Mini PC: Pretty, and Pretty Powerful [Ed: It says "though their custom AYAENO software is Windows-only"... Joey marketed Microsoft Windows trash as "Linux"; OMG!ThisDeviceRunsWINDOWSButICanInstallUbuntuOnIt]
Remember the AYANEO mini PC I wrote about last year? You know, the one that looked like a classic Macintosh, ran backdoored Windows 11, and was advertised as being Ubuntu-friendly? Well, forget it. —Wait, you already had? Savage!
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Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
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Science Alert ☛ What Happens When You Quit Caffeine? An Expert Explains The Hidden Benefits.
Here’s what the science says.
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Reason ☛ Third Circuit: No Pseudonymity for Challenge to Health System's "Tracking Pixel" System
Plaintiff argued (with no opposition from the defendant), Proceeding under a pseudonym is appropriate in this appeal because the facts of the underlying case directly relate to Plaintiff's sensitive health information.
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New York Times ☛ Kona Coffee Lawsuit: How Science Helped Farmers Look for Counterfeit Beans
A testing method borrowed from geology helped farmers sue a slew of stores selling supposed “Kona” coffee.
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CS Monitor ☛ Why lawmakers are trying to block trading on a meatpacking company
U.S. and U.K. lawmakers are trying to stop the world’s largest meatpacking company from being listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Their concern: deforestation in the Amazon.
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Mexico News Daily ☛ Could the psychedelic brew ayahuasca be good for your mental health?
Ayahuasca use is soaring in popularity as a people seek alternative treatments for some mental health conditions and addiction.
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Latvia ☛ Hospital struggles to cope with winter injuries
With the weather conditions, the number of patients injured on slippery pavements have tripled over the past week, Rīga 2nd Hospital reported January 18.
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BIA Net ☛ 'Ministry of Health should disclose what is happening in Akkuyu'
We discussed the worker fatalities at the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant construction with Dr. Nasır Nesanır, the President of the Mersin Chamber of Physicians, and Osman Koçak, the Spokesperson for the Mersin Anti-Nuclear Platform.
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The Strategist ☛ How China’s push to genetically modify more beans could reshape the global agriculture trade
China’s recent decision to expand the pilot planting of genetically modified soybeans has the potential to reshape the global soybean trade.
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Reason ☛ DeSantis Repeats Lie That Booster Shots Make You More Likely To Get COVID
Evidence actually shows that vaccinated people are less likely to be hospitalized or die of the infection.
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New York Times ☛ Chinese Scientists Shared Coronavirus Data with US Before Pandemic
Newly released documents indicate that a U.S. genetic database had received the sequence of the coronavirus two weeks before it was made public by others.
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Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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Hong Kong Free Press ☛ China’s Pooh-tin Jinping wants UN at heart of Hey Hi (AI) governance, says UN chief
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday Chinese President Pooh-tin Jinping told him he wants the United Nations to be at the centre of talks on Hey Hi (AI) governance.
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Security
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Integrity/Availability/Authenticity
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MWL ☛ 30: The Expected Heat Death of the Universe
Grinding hard on Run Your Own Mail Server. Modern DKIM uses 2048-bit keys. With current mathematical understanding, they are not brute-force breakable before the expected heat death of the universe. Modern cryptographic algorithms don’t fall to brute force, however.
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Privacy/Surveillance
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Confidentiality
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Defence Web ☛ Fortifying defence: Encryption’s crucial role in protecting data confidentiality
In an era where online transactions have become pervasive, the defence and other industries face unprecedented challenges in securing sensitive and confidential data. With essential activities like online banking, e-commerce, and investment relying heavily on technology, the volume of financial transactions has escalated, elevating the importance of ensuring the security of these exchanges.
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Defence/Aggression
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RFA ☛ Only 3% of Taiwanese see themselves as primarily Chinese: US survey
A new poll by Pew Research Center found two thirds of adults consider themselves primarily Taiwanese.
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RFA ☛ Chinese police hold dissident who pledged allegiance to Taiwan
Liu Ermu made the pledge in protest at the quashing of a complaint against police by a local court.
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YLE ☛ Finland's eastern border may get more temporary barriers
While a project continues to construct around 200km of fencing at key border points, it is likely that more temporary barriers will be built to prevent illegal crossings.
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RFA ☛ Chinese drones may pose security risks, US agencies warn
The widespread use of drones in critical infrastructure is a potential threat, the FBI says.
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New York Times ☛ Houthis’ Leader Says a Clash With the U.S. Will Strengthen Militia Group
Abdul-Malik al-Houthi said in a televised speech that the Houthis had always emerged stronger from confrontations with their enemies.
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RFA ☛ Beatings and torture persist in Myanmar’s notorious Obo prison
Many inmates need hospitalization, and some are put in solitary confinement for more than 2 years.
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New York Times ☛ Pakistan Retaliates With Strikes Inside Iran as Tensions Boil
The exchange of attacks came as the upheaval sweeping the Middle East threatened to expand.
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New York Times ☛ Friday Briefing: Pakistan Retaliates With Strikes in Iran
Also, corruption accusations in Singapore.
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The Straits Times ☛ Calls for calm after Iran, Pakistan trade strikes on militants
January 19, 2024 3:31 AM
The rare military action across the porous border between the heavily armed neighbours has further stoked tensions already enflamed by the Israel-Hamas war.
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France24 ☛ Baluchistan, a restive border region at heart of Iran-Pakistan strikes
Baluchistan is a restive region shared by Iran and Pakistan where security forces on both sides of the border have for years battled militant groups – but which now risks being the subject of escalating tensions between the neighbours.
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Atlantic Council ☛ Experts react: What’s really going on with Pakistan and Iran exchanging attacks?
Pakistan just conducted airstrikes in southeastern Iran, two days after Iran used missiles and drones to strike western Pakistan. Atlantic Council experts explain what’s going on.
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teleSUR ☛ Pakistan Conducts Air Strike Inside Iran
The Pakistani attacks targeted hideouts used by the Balochistan Liberation Army and the Balochistan Liberation Front.
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The Straits Times ☛ North Korea conducts test of underwater nuclear weapons system
North Korea has nuclear-capable underwater attack drones.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Memory chip production at risk as North Korea ramps up threats against South Korea, which produces 71% of global memory supply, 51% of NAND for SSDs
North Korea has signaled that it intends to trash its decades-long constitutional commitment to pursue a peaceful unification with the South and reframe it as enemy number one, raising concerns about the vulnerability of the world's most prolofic memory makers.
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RFA ☛ N Korea tests ‘underwater nuclear system’ to counter allies
Pyongyang said it was responding to maritime drills by the US, S Korea and Japan.
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Environment
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Energy/Transportation
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CS Monitor ☛ Out in the cold: Frigid temps stall commute for EV drivers
Subzero temperatures across the central U.S. are taking a toll on drivers – and their electric vehicles. Though reduced battery capacity and impaired charging can make for a tricky commute, there are short-term fixes and systemic solutions in the works.
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teleSUR ☛ Global Oil Demand To Grow in the Next Two Years: OPEC
It will be driven by nearly 1.7-million-bpd growth in non-OECD countries, mostly in China.
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YLE ☛ Power firms: High spot prices prompt customer contract switches
The fewer spot price customers there are, the less people will restrict usage on days when the prices are high. That could raise prices on days when demand and supply are not in balance.
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Finance
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New York Times ☛ China’s Economy Is in Serious Trouble [Ed: New York Times projecting while the Chinese economy grows and the US economy collapses]
And President Xi’s leadership is only part of the problem.
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BIA Net ☛ Metal workers secure 98% increase in wages
Just two days before the strike, the Metal Industrialists' Union accepted the demands of the workers. According to the agreement reached for the 2023-2025 Group Collective Labor Agreement, naked hourly wages received a 98% increase in the first 6 months and a 30% increase in the second 6 months.
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Tedium ☛ Out With The Pitchforks
What Condé Nast did to Pitchfork this week is a travesty, and worse, it deeply misunderstands the publication Pitchfork was becoming.
It was a small change in the midst of a day of bigger changes, but it accented it ever so succinctly: Yesterday was the first day I ever ran into a registration wall on Pitchfork, a site I’ve read basically every day since I was in college.
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AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
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CS Monitor ☛ Chinese people lift a dark curtain
Reaction to Taiwan’s election and other steps by citizens in China hint at a hunger for accurate information and accountability.
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The Straits Times ☛ Steady, reliable, humorous: Liu Jianchao seen as China’s clear choice for next foreign minister
January 19, 2024 12:00 PM
The career diplomat has extensive experience, having served as ambassador to the Philippines and Indonesia.
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YLE ☛ Finland ends development co-operation with four countries, cuts 1bn euros in aid budget
The governing coalition has committed to cutting a billion euros in development aid spending.
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The Straits Times ☛ Red Sea crisis pressures China's exporters as shipping delays, costs mount
For Chinese businessman Han Changming, disruptions to Red Sea freight are threatening the survival of his trading company in the eastern province of Fujian.
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New York Times ☛ Will The Supreme Court Upend How Government Works?
The justices should leave it to federal agencies to resolve ambiguities Congress creates when it writes laws those agencies enforce.
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Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong Kong engineering firm fined HK$420,000 over falling screen at Mirror concert that crushed dancers
A Hong Kong engineering firm involved in a freak accident that saw a screen fall plummet onto a stage at boyband Mirror’s concert in 2022 has been fined HK$420,000 for violating safety laws.
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New York Times ☛ House G.O.P. Winds Down Mayorkas Impeachment Without His Public Testimony
House Republicans are racing to charge the homeland security secretary without his in-person testimony or evidence of impeachable offenses.
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Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda
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JURIST ☛ Human rights organization raises concerns over Senegal’s disinformation law
International human rights organization Article 19 raised concerns on Wednesday over Senegal’s law against disinformation as a threat to freedom of speech and expression. These apprehensions arose ahead of the upcoming elections in the West African country on February 25.
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APNIC ☛ The LLM misinformation problem I was not expecting
Guest Post: Vetting Hey Hi (AI) LLM content in education and infosec requires a new best practice.
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Jon Chiappetta: It Is Getting Harder And Harder To Find Good Quality Products And Services
Rant: Back in the pre-2000’s era, if you wanted to find out which product or service was of a given quality (low, mid, high) – you would have to reach out to the experts in society to help guide your research and information.
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Censorship/Free Speech
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JURIST ☛ Malaysia charges filmmakers with blasphemy, drawing condemnation from human rights groups
Two filmmakers of a film banned in Malaysia were charged on Wednesday with “hurting religious feelings” due to the contents of their film. Nine human rights organizations have condemned the criminal charges as breaches of the right to freedom of opinion and expression. The film, Mentega Terbang, debuted at a film festival in 2021.
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JURIST ☛ US appeals court upholds injunction against Texas law censoring ‘sexually explicit’ school books
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled on Wednesday that Texas legislation aimed at restricting or banning “sexually explicit” books in public school libraries likely violates the Constitution, affirming a lower court’s injunction against it.
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JURIST ☛ India Supreme Court restrains politician and Hindu organization in a plea against hate speech
The Supreme Court of India issued a restraining order on Wednesday against T. Raja Singh, a political leader and Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) affiliated with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), as well as the Hindu Janajagruti Samiti organization, prohibiting them from engaging in incitement to violence or hate speech during their proposed rallies.
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Edri (Old)
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EDRI ☛ European Commission discusses “Going Dark”: Behind closed doors
EDRi and 20 organisations call on the High Level Group on Access to Data for Effective Law Enforcement for greater transparency and participation of all stakeholders.
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EDRI ☛ The right to pay in cash? Approaches of European countries mapped
The Czech organisation Iuridicum Remedium (IuRe), an EDRi member, has been working for several years on the issue of digital exclusion, which also concerns payment in cash. They discovered that People in the Czech Republic who prefer to pay in cash have been facing problems using some services.
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EDRI ☛ Portugal: New data retention law fails at the Constitutional court; Parliament will try for a third time
The Portuguese Constitutional Court has declared a new data retention law proposal to be unconstitutional.
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EDRI ☛ The EU Media Freedom Act’s suspension period for content moderation will harm users
In December 2023, the European Parliament and Member States’ representatives negotiated a controversial special status for media outlets in the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA): their content cannot be removed from big tech platforms for up to 24 hours, even when it violates community standards intended to protect users.
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EDRI ☛ Winter Congress 2024
Digitale Gesellschaft hosts from 1st to 2. March 2024 to the seventh winter congress in the Casinotheater in Winterthur. From Friday evening and on Saturday, topics related to information technology, digitalisation and their impact on our society will be covered in various lectures and workshops.
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EDRI ☛ Glitter Meetup
GMs is a place for digital rights defenders to share regional and projects updates, ask questions, share expertise with each other, secure support and resources and, most importantly, connect with other digital rights defenders from all over the world.
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EDRI ☛ 2023 Tech Prom
At Tech Prom you will learn more about CDT, discuss trends in tech policy, and network with policymakers, educators, civil society advocates, government representatives, corporate partners, and the interested public.
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EDRI ☛ EDRi-gram, 12 July 2023
In this EDRigram, you can read about the ongoing efforts in the EU and the UK to protect encryption and keep the safety and integrity of everyone’s private communications intact. You can also read about what EU’s plans to digitise travel documents could mean for you – more convenient travelling or more discrimination?
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EDRI ☛ Is this the most criticised draft EU law of all time?
An unprecedentedly broad range of stakeholders have raised concerns that despite its important aims, the measures proposed in the draft EU Child Sexual Abuse Regulation are fundamentally incompatible with human rights.
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EDRI ☛ Voluntary detection measures still on the table for the CSA Regulation
Whilst the draft EU CSA Regulation is intended to replace current voluntary scanning of people's communications with mandatory detection orders, lawmakers in the Council and Parliament are actively considering supplementing this with "voluntary detection orders". However, our analysis finds that voluntary measures would require a legal basis in the CSA Regulation, which would likely fall foul of the Court of Justice. Content warning: contains discussions of child sexual abuse and child sexual abuse material
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Civil Rights/Policing
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Reason ☛ Hair Sample That Put a Man in Prison Turned Out to Be Dog Hair
From bite marks to shaken babies, the Center for Integrity in Forensic Sciences is debunking bad science.
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France24 ☛ French police protest highlights threat of strike action during Paris Olympics
Hundreds of police officers protested across France on Thursday to press their claim for extra pay during this year's Paris Olympics, underlining the threat of strikes and disruption to the Games.
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YLE ☛ Industrial Union calls new strikes in campaign against labour market reforms
Strikes are set to expand significantly in the coming months as unions oppose government changes in the labour market.
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Bruce Schneier ☛ Canadian Citizen Gets Phone Back from Police
After 175 million failed password guesses, a judge rules that the Canadian police must return a suspect’s phone.
[Judge] Carter said the investigation can continue without the phones, and he noted that Ottawa police have made a formal request to obtain more data from Google.
“This strikes me as a potentially more fruitful avenue of investigation than using brute force to enter the phones,” he said.
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Vice Media Group ☛ Filming Your Remote Layoff Is the Hottest Dystopian Trend (for A Very Good Reason)
People who posted their layoff are flooded with DMs from others saying they feel less alone. Experts say the videos hold "isolated" bosses accountable.
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Internet Policy/Net Neutrality
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New York Times ☛ Gaza’s Phone and Internet Service Is Down for a Seventh Day
It is the longest blackout since the start of the war, according to the strip’s main communications company, which says it is unable to make repairs amid the fighting.
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Digital Music News ☛ Web3 Superfan Monetization Startup TRAX Announces Nearly $3 Million ‘Decentralized Funding Round’
Web3 superfan platform TRAX has announced a nearly $3 million “decentralized funding round.” UK-based TRAX, which bills itself specifically as “a content aggregator and social marketplace helping artists build a digital space for” diehard supporters, just recently unveiled the $2.9 million raise.
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Patents
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Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Federal Circuit Upholds PTAB’s Obviousness Finding and Joinder Decision in CyWee v. ZTE Smartphone Patent Case
The Federal Circuit recently affirmed a ruling by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) in an inter partes review (IPR) filed by ZTE and joined by LG, finding claims of CyWee Group’s U.S. Patent No. 8,441,438 unpatentable as obvious. CyWee Group v. ZTE, No. 21-1855 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 18, 2024). The ’438 patent monopoly claims 3D motion-tracking technology for handheld devices like smartphones. The appeal included both IPR procedural issues and substantive patent monopoly law issues. In siding with the PTAB, the Federal Circuit rejected CyWee’s argument that the Board should not have allowed LG to oppose CyWee’s motion to amend its claims. The court also affirmed the Board’s finding that the proposed amended claims would have been obvious over the prior art.
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Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Federal Circuit Rejects Another PTAB-Bias Appeal
New Vision sued Bally Gaming and others in Nevada District Court, alleging infringement of two patents. US7451987 and US7325806. The claims are directed to a card game – such as blackjack – that allows for a bonus wager based upon a combination of cards from two or more dealt hands.
The accused infringers petitioned for covered business method review (CBM) back in 2018. Back in 2020, the PTAB invalidated all the claims for lack of eligibility — a holding that has been in limbo for a while post-Arthrex. And, the Federal Circuit here has finally affirmed the PTAB ruling.
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Kangaroo Courts
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Bristows’ intervention marks 100th decision by the Unified Patent Court [Ed: Unified Patent Court is illegal and unconstitutional. The thugs and liars from Bristows participated a lot in the crime is trying to bring this kangaroo 'court' about.]
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JUVE ☛ UK invalidates two patents apiece for Abbott and Dexcom in vast CGM battle [Ed: A "parallel proceedings at the UPC and the EPO" means kangaroo fake 'court' and a real common court; the patent system in Europe has fully and openly embraced corruption and capture of courts
Medical device companies Dexcom and Abbott are currently going head-to-head over multiple patents covering their respective glucose monitoring devices, known as continuous glucose monitoring or CGMs. The dispute spans several countries, among them the UK, Spain, and Germany, as well as parallel proceedings at the UPC and the EPO.
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Software Patents
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Unified Patents ☛ IV's PTAB rehearing request denied
On January 16, 2024, Intellectual Ventures’s request for rehearing of IPR2022-00429 was denied by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). The IPR was filed against U.S. Patent 9,291,475 on February 10, 2022, was instituted on August 11, 2022, and received a final written decision holding all claims invalid on February 9, 2023.
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Trademarks
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TTAB Blog ☛ In 2023, How Often Did the TTAB Affirm Section 2(e)(1) Mere Descriptiveness/Disclaimer Refusals?
By my count, in 2023 the Board issued final decisions in 60 appeals from Section 2(e)(1) mere descriptiveness refusals or from disclaimer requirements based on mere descriptiveness. The Board affirmed 56 of the refusals and reversed four.
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Copyrights
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Silicon Angle ☛ New nonprofit to certify Hey Hi (AI) models that only use copyrighted training data with permission
A new nonprofit will issue certifications to artificial intelligence companies that don’t include copyrighted materials in their training datasets unless they obtain permission to do so. The organization, Fairly Trained, launched today.
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Digital Music News ☛ Ice Spice Slapped with Copyright Infringement Suit Over ‘In Ha Mood’
Ice Spice is hit with a copyright monopoly infringement lawsuit over ‘In Ha Mood,’ by a Brooklyn rapper who says the song is ‘strikingly similar’ to his earlier track — which she and her producer allegedly had plenty of opportunities to have heard.
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Gemini* and Gopher
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Personal/Opinions
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🔤SpellBinding — EFTKLOI Wordo: PUPI
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Kimbap
Last night I had kimbap for dinner. I didn't feel like cooking rice, so ramen or kimbap is a great way to get a quick meal in. Of course, I don't eat like this often.
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#Lore24 - Day 19 - On Crystal Sphere Distance
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Ageless, sexless, omnipresent
When I was in my first year, I did an introductory course on gender and women's studies. For a while, I strongly suspected this (or maybe philosophy) would be my minor. There's a lot to be said about the interrelationship between gender and technology. It's something that fascinated me when I was in high school and still figuring things out, though I came at it from a slightly different angle at the time.
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2024-01-18
Let's talk about cars for a bit. A lot of states here in the US just came out of an arctic blast where we experienced a few days of extremely cold weather.
One interesting news story that popped up was just how poorly electric cars and their associated electric charging infrastructure performed during the extremely cold conditions. Yes even Tesla supercharging stations didn't fare that well in places like Chicago.
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Technology and Free Software
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Saying something is ‘bugged’ is a serious accusation
In recent years i've noticed a trend for people (including some native speakers of English!) - to say that a piece of software is ‘bugged’ - by which they mean, “has a bug, or bugs”.
i struggle with this, because for most of my life, ‘bugged’ has referred to something being under surveillance via surveillance equipment - for example, “The room was bugged by the intelligence service”. So what i (and many other people) would instead say is something like “This piece of software is buggy” (or perhaps just “This is software”, because the amount of software that doesn't contain bugs is vanishingly small[a], which i say as a dev myself).
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Internet/Gemini
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Get ready to hamsterization! NEW theme
I have baked a new theme here, the appearance is for Windows 95. You can download it for free. I'm interested in constructive criticism from you. made in the tradition of HTML4.
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Monopolies/Monopsonies
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* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.